illiaams | _ NEWS EXCHANGE OF THE CARIBOO ake Tribune .. Volume 23 — Number 36. WILLIAMS LAKE, B.G. Thursday, September 15, 195 Single copy 10¢. $2.60 per year. Six Drown As Boat ‘September in the Cariboo country, when ing dogs as the sheep are herded from the high lands to winter pasture, Photo: B.C, Govt. Travel Bureau, Victoria, higway travellers are fascinated by the work-= Work To Start Immediately On Major Addition To Town Hotel Construction of a $159,000 addition to the Lakeview Hotel will start next week, according to R. (Randy) Brunner, new manager of the well-known Railway Avenue establish- ment. Contract price for the three-storey siructure is $119.000 and the work will be done by a New Westminster contracting firm, Ward & Son Ltd. Estimated time of completion is four months, Library Group Wants Site For Building Members of the Williams Lake Publie Library Association are pre- pared to put up their own building, if they can find a site for it, village large lounges for men and women. The other two floors will’ contain a total of 25 rooms, each one with individual bath. At the rear of the main floor will be a new laundry set-up for the entire hotel. — ~ ie ete lock Huilding” will ject of a combined) library, mu: were told Tuesday night by a spokesmn for a library association delegation, q Speaking for the group, Mrg. A. .Halleran said the asSociation “was not pulling out of the original pro- ile but since there wis 107E¢i- The addition will stretch al ~=—Reilway Avenue from the present hotel, occupying the space where the old bus depot was torn down this spring. The main floor will hous: the town’s third beer parlour, with Wrestling Show Had Added Excitement — Two men caused unscheduled ex- citement in front of the Gayland Shows’ wrestling tent Saturday night in their eagerness to get into the act. Z The men were determined to get inside and take on the show's wrest- lers, but were prevented by. workers and spectators A fight broke out there and then and was broken up by police. In court Monday on charges of creating a disturbance, William Kel- ly and Raymond Klassen were each fined $50 and costs or 2 months in defult. Klassen was fined $50 and costs or 2 months in default in a second charge of resisting arrest. The fines were paid. $2500 Damage To Truck | As It Careens Off Road Damage estimated at $2500 were incurred Monday afternoon when a loaded lumber truck, driven by Charles Allen, went out of control on the hill on the Cariboo Highway leading down to the “Y" just out- side of town, Allen and a passenger, Mrs. E. Kenneal, both jumped from the cab of the heavily loaded truck as the brakes failed on the vehicle. The driver only suffered lacerations and Mrs. Kennely was taken to hospital suffering from shock. The truck ran off the highway. Forestry Hearings Postponed To Oct. In a late news flash today it was announced that the hearings of the Sloan Commission on forest manage- ment licenses slated to be held in the Central Interior next week had been postponed. : It is understood that the hearings in this part of the province will now be held during the first week of October. The hearing in Williams: Lake was slated for September 20 and 21. jneasure 6& feet along Railway with a depth of 48 feet. Mr. Brunner took over active man- agement recently from_former man- ager Jack Klassen. He is a share- holder in the company. Before com- ing to Williams Lake Mr. Brunner lived at Haney, where he was manager of the Legion club in the Fraser Valley centre for the past year and a half. Garage Granted. Permit For Building Addition One commercial bulding permit was granted hy commissioners Tues- night to Williams Lake Motors Ltd., for construction of an addi- tion to the rear of their garage, mea- suring 40'x66’. Value of the work is placed at $8,000 and the con- tracting firm is Overton Bros. Residential permits were issued to Otto Tetzloft and D. K. Thews. Application for a permit to con- struct an addition to the premises of J. L. Wilson & Sons Ltd., was re- fused pending receipt of plans that would include a floor and a fire es- cape from living quarters upstairs. Floor in the proposed addition was gravel, Business licenses were issued ¢o Taylor-Broughton Motor Rebuild, J. A. Simser of Cariboo Accounting, and Foster & Galbraith, used car sales, Town Zoning Plan In Storage Here That zoning plan of the town pre- pared by a Vancouver firm of en- gineers for the Pacific Great Rast- ern Railway has been reposing tn the safe at the Vilage office for the past month, but nothing has been done yet about formal approval of the scheme. The plan was sent along for study by the commssioners, with the’ un- derstanding that PGE general man- ager R. P. (Paddy) Bowman would be on the scene shortly to discuss it with the board. That’s the situa- tion now. Whatever the ultimate dis posal of the plan is, it has come too late in the year to be of any ma- terial value in 1955. Whatever is projected will affect the 1956 bujld- ‘dence of activity of the plan at pres ent, something else had to be under- taken to provide additional space. It was the association’s intention she said, to put up an inexpensive quick-lock type of building. If ana when the library-museum project was undertaken, the library group would sell the structure and pay its share of the cost of the main build: ing. Commissioners pointed out that. outside of the park area, the village only owns the lots the village hall is on and one lot on Seventh Avenue reserved for a future sewer pumping station. However, it was suggested that the library group might put the building on the small park site he- low the hospital, which has already been sappproved as a site for the eventual library-museum structure. The library association was advised to bring their building plan and plot plan to a specia meeting next Tues- day for further consideration. Fire Destroys Mill In Horsefly Area Fire of undetermined origin com- pletely destroyed the sawmill of Petruk Sawmill on 108 Mile road in the Horsefly area about four o’clock Tuesday morning. Along. with the sawmill, about 16M feet of lumber was lost. The planer was saved: Except for partial coverage on the power unit, no in- surance was carried. The owners, William and Metro Petruk will re- build. The mill, which normally cuts between 6 and 8M daily, is located about seven miles from Horsefly. There is a possibility that the fire was started from a flying spark from the mill burner. Druggist Expected Back In Store Next Week Bruce Magoifin, vice-chairman of War Memorial Hospital board is ex- Pected to be back at his*store in another week. Mr. Magoffin has heen confined to hospital since going in for an emergency appendectomy September 2. L ig store must have a registered pharmacist on duty “ing season, at all times, ‘BoardOfTrade Stands Behind Forestry Brief After considerable discussion on the role of the Board of Trade in taking sides. in the current forest management dispute, representatives of the Horsefly committee won support of their brief against the establishment of such licences at the parent meeting last Thursday. body's Horsefly committee secretary Don- ald K. Peters told the meeting that stion affects everyone in this it was particularly Lake because while lumbering is carried out by small independent operators there will be more money spent in the trading centre. To empha: e the rowth of the industry in his own area Mr. Peters said that when the brief was first made qut in October 1954, there were eleven truck? hau lumber from Horsefly and now there are 45. Also at the meeting from the Horse- fly. group were Mr. and Mrs. I. Hubbard. Much of the discussion involved the status of the two. organization Although everyone is a member ¢ the William Lake & District Board of Trade, the Morsefly committee, a strong group with over 50 members is almost autonomous. It has its own elected chairman and secretary, but all decsions are supposed to he ap- proved by the main council before and action is taken. Mr. Peters claimed that in several instances let- ters had been forwarded to Williams Lake and his committee had never received any notification of their disposition. - At times tempers Jecame a Qithe ir i ting wound up with everyone in fayour of retaining the present relationship between the board and its king-sized committee. f The brief referred to will be pre- sented to the Sloan Commission when it holds hearings here next week. Tribune Editor Named OCTA Director Tribune editor Clive Stangoe was named a director of the Okanogan- Cariboo Trail Association at the group’s recent annual meeting at Prince George. He replaces Bob Blair, former director for Williams Lake. Directors of the association a named from each major centre ong Highway 97 from Weed, California to Dawson Creek. There are 13 Can- adian centres represented and 17 United States communities. Reporting to the annual meeting president Alex Lowie of Princ George stated that, according to fiz ures prepared by the Wenatchee Chamber of Commerce, the total of persons travelling nérth and south over the horder at Osoyoos from May to September jumped from 291 in 19 52,304 for the to 352 period in 1954. To the end of August this year, it is estimated that more than 400,000 persons crossed the border on Highway 97. same finally apsizes On Canim Lake Six persons, including two small children, lost their lives in the waters of Canim Lake drowning accident in the prov The tragedy occurred when their small motorboat capsized during a sudden storm that sprang up from the northwest. * Victims are Mrs. Emily Field, wife of Canim Lake sawmill operat- or Lyle (Don) Field, long time resi- dents of the Canim Lake and 100 Mile areas; their two children, Fred, aged three, and a baby boy, eight Escapes Serious Injury As Car Flips Over On Highway Paul Dube of Williams Lake nar- rowly escaped serious injury yes: terday afternoon when his late model car went out of control on the high- way near 141 Mile and turned over. According to police, Dube was travelling south and was going into the first part of an “S’ turn when his car started to go off the road on. the left hand side. The driver held it on the road but the car careened over the road; off the road bed and back on the main surface again. It finally flipped over and skidded alone its top for quite a ways, coming to rest just five feet short of a 35-foot embankment. Fred Hinsche, owner of the 141 Mile Ranch, went to Dube’s assist- ance and summoned police and an ambulance. The car was almost to- tally wrecked. Dube was driving alone at the time of. the accident. Dube was taken to hospital where he was found to have escaped with painful cuts and bruises. As part of their contribution to- wards the cost of the new addition to the hospital, a “porehlighr parade” will be carfied out later this month by members of the Hospital Auxliary. The town will be blocked off in sections, and a one-night can- vas will be staged by the women. Heading the committee in charge of the arrangements is Mrs. Harold McKay. She will be assisted by Mrs. F. Nicohlson, Mrs. R. Court and Mrs E- Peterson. The purchase of an aluminum fo- ment steamer for the hospital was authorized at the meeting last Thurs- dzy, and the cost of supplying a number of “seuifies” for bedroom slippers will be investigated. The purchasing of linens for the hospital which has been handled by Power Will Be Off For An Hour Sunday A power interruption affecting all of Williams Lake will occur Sunday, September 18 from 6 a.m. to 7 a.m. The hour-long shut down will al- low power house operators to complete routine maintenance of switchboards before winter. THOUSANDS OF PEACHES LEFT TO RO T Bee BS —Central Press Canadian Ontario peaches are being thrown in garbage dumps as un- usual at the me time es the carly alone, an estimated 15,U00 baskets were left to rot. carded while still firm, chil they were di: eather conditions nave caused the late varieties to mature At St. Catherines, in this one dump And. since ) raided the heap in- Stead of raiding farmers’ orchards, Sunday in the summer's worst ince. weeks old; Ralph Ajas, 31, and his wife Doreen, 23, who had lived in the district for about a year; Wil- liam Campbell, 18, brother of Mrs. Ajas. The fatal accident was discovered Sunday morning when an overturn- ed boat was seen fioating near’ the “public landing on Haskett Bay. Mrs. Fern Olson first saw the boat and found a box of baby’s clothes and a woman’s shoe washed up on the beach. She then ran to tell-ler neighbor, Edward Higgins, who pulled the boat in and continued to search tha beach. He came upon the body of a woman and notified assistant forest tanger C. A. Gaglardi, who radioed police at 100 Mile. - Police contacted Victoria for divers to assist in locating the bodies of the other victims, and three Navy trogmen were flown to the scene, Hon. George Drew Will Speak Here Hon. George Drew, opposition leader in the House of Commons, will visit Williams Lake September 27 in the course of a tour of western Canada. Mr. Drew will address a public meeting in the Elks Hall while he is here. Accompanying the Progressiye- Conservative leader Will be Dayio Fulton, M.P., and Gardner Boultbee. president of the Kamloops riding federal Pyro-Con associations. © ee ee Auxiliary Members To Conduct “Porchlight Parade” To Raise Money For Hospital the Auxiliary in co-operation with the matron for a number of years, will now be turned over entirely to the matron. It was felt this would be a more efficient measure as there is a definite loss of time between meetings before the orders can be given to the members for approval. The annual tag day at Catfle Sale October 7th will be again undertak- en by the members. Welcomed to the meetings were new members Mrs. A. Wells and Mrs. A. Kahl. Preblems Still Arise Over Airport Site Two small triangular - shaped pieces of land containing just over 18 acres, continue to stand in the of’ finalization of the new air- bort site boundries above Williams Lake. One stickler is the lands regula- tions, which equire the purchaser (the village) of the parcels to build access roads into them before the tile deeds can be registerd. In this case the roads would serve no pur- pose since the piece of land would become part of the airport Tunway, and at the far end of the runway from any buildings for Offices or Personnel that are proposed. The other is a question of pur- chase price. Commissioners under- stood that the owner of the land, J. P. Croan. would sell the parcels for $10 an acre, but negotiations now reveal that he wants $20 an acre and a further §300 for the timber on the land. Way out of the first problem would be to have the village purchasg the land and then have the Federal Government expropriate it Village solicitor Lee Skipp is writ= ing lo the Land Registry office and the Department of Transport to seek all information possible on the problem. Commissioners were informed last week by transport officials that there is no likelihood that any major work will be done on the airport site until next spring anyway. ae am iat: RAIN SETTLES DUST First rain in weeks fel) Tuesday night when a heayy downpour solved the problem of dusty streets teme porarily,