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Thursday, September 99, 1888

Williams Lake Tribune
Establishea 1931 Clive Stangoe, Editor
Published every Thursday at Williams Lake, B.C.
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Cattle Sale Time Again

The fall season is really with us. Along with the nippy
north wind comes Cattle Sale time, and next week we’ll be
right in the middle of that famous event.

With most of the haying behind them, ranchers of the
district will again flock to see what the buyers are offering
for the product of the ranges. Here too will be visitors from
every part of the province and points outsidé of British Col-
umbia who are interested in the beef industry. Aside from the
actual sale, we know they will enjoy the activities this year
as they have in the past. Traditionally Cattle Sale Week is a
time of social affairs that carry on to the dawn.

Williams Lake is proud of its association with the beef
eattle industry and the welcome mat is always out to visitors
during the industry’s show week.

Good Showing All Around

THe women of thé Hospital Auxiliary are to be commend-
ed for the workmanlike manner in which they carried out their
“Porchlight Parade” Monday night. The fact that they were
financially successful in their efforts is a tribute to the private
citizens of the town, who contributed to the hospital building
fund. The canvassers of course met with some rebuffs, but on
the whole townspeople gave what they felt they could spare,
and that was all that was asked.

When the new addition is opened around the end of next
month, those who have contributed in any way to the furd
drive will feel a true sense of ownership and accomplishment
in the additional hospital service they will find available.

Let The Damming Commence

Once again the question of damming Buttle Lake is in
the news. Due to the united strength of the conservationists
and the writing talent on the side of the proponents of “leaving
nature as it is,” the struggle against the government’s inten-
tion to dam this lake for power has twice blown this tiny
Vancouver Island problem into public stature far greater than
its importance. Most of us had never heard of Buttle Lake
before the fight, and certainly most of us will never see the
place. =

Looking at the economic side of the question, here is
what the Comox District Free Press has to sa

We have said it before and we shall say it again: If the
B.C. Power Commission wants to improve the power supply
to this island, present and future, and the damming of lakes
will provide the necessary water storage then the body should
be encouraged to do so in the best way possibie.

If the damming up of island lakes will provide the water,
then let the damming be carried out.

Already there is danger of brownouts. Not long ago auxil-
iary sources of power were put to use to step up, at great public
expense, the power supplies.

Although the immediate power problem is of some goncerr
to us, we are even more concerned With the more remote future.
If we cannot tell the world that we have sufficient power for
our needs this year, what are we to say about the future?
Certainly nothing that will encourage industrialists, large or
small, to inject the stimulus of more industry into the island’s
system. a

Ideals are all very well. It is nice to hear men from eastern
Canada encourage Victoria to become Canada’s centre of
culture and forget about big industries; it is nice to hear talk
of conservation of game and scenery.

We would like to see more culture, more game and un-
spoiled scenery but we don’t want to see any of these on an
empty stomach. :

What the island needs for its future development and
Progress --- and we might just as well go backwards as stand
still while the rest of the province marches ahead --- is more
power,

More industry and more prosperity will benefit everybody
whose life is bound up on the island and will have a much
greater and further reaching effect on more people than
conservation will.

Not long ago a man from the Fraser Valley wrote a letter
to a daily newspaper urging the blocking of the damming
plan. We don’t know if he has ever been on the island to enjoy
the benefits of conservation or if he ever will. But we do feel
that there must be many who oppose the damming of Buttle
or who will oppose it who will never enter the Buttle Lake
area to enjoy what they are fighting for.

But there are thousands of people who make their homes
and their livings on the island who will.benefit by the pro-
duction of more power.

Editors Urged To Be Vigilant

Five hundred editors from across Canada meeting last
week in Vancouver were urged to devote greater attention
through their editorial pages to the costs of government.

W. H. Cranston, editor of The Midland (Ont.) Free Press
Herald, told the weekly editors that the total tax incomes of
local, provincial and federal governments in Canada was
eyivalent to almost $1,500 per fully employed person.

“It may be difficult generally for weekly publishers and
editors to analyze and prescribe for tax bills on a large scale,
but most of the symptoms are present in local government and
we believe newspapers, as journals not only of new and
opinions but of research, have a responsibility to probe deep
into the problem,” Mr. Crantson said. J

“The extent of indirect taxation and of pass-along grants
which has characterized all levels of government in recent
years has destroyed in no small degree the clear buyer-seller
relationship which, at one time, marked the provision of public
services to the electorate. Now it is most difficult to isolate
costs of particular government functions and, theréfore,
properly evaluate them.”

Mr. Cranston might have added that provincial and fed-
eral governments have delegated so many of their constitu-
tional duties to boards and commissions, and have set up such
confusing bookkeeping systems, that valid criticism is the
work of a chartered accountant or a full-time student of politi-
eal economy. Few weekly editors fall into these categories.

—Prince George Citizen.

THH TRIBUNE, WILLIAMS LARS, 5.6,

The Gracker Barrel Forum

By A. J.

Drinkell

Ever since the Minister of Bduca-
tion announced a change of ‘policy
inyolving a little more homework for
certain grades and the imposition of
corporal punishment in some in-
stances, there has been a constant
stream of letters to the editors pro
and eon — mostly con.

It is understandable that many of
the protesting epistles are being
penned by irate students. None of us
particularly relish being paddled on
that portion of the torso which rests
on the chair seat, ggg
and few welcome
additiona) chores.
But the amount
of additional
work permitted
does not strike us
as being exces:
ive and certainly
not so iniquitous
as to call forth f :
the anguished lamentations emitted
by these voluble pupils. We are in-
clined to think most of them require
a little profitalbe employment for
their leisure hours, particularly dur-
ing the long winter evenings.

We know of no greater dividend
producer than a well developed mind.
We know of no greater source ol
happiness than the ability to discip-
line one's-self. We hear so much
nowadays about the bad old days ot
education when teachers supposedly
belaboure their pupils unmercitully
tor the most trivial offenses. We just
cannot. bring ourselves to believe
one half of it

Most of the boys went to school
during that awful era and all of us
will confess that more often than
not we deserved any punishinent
meted out to us. Most of us agree
many of these stories are circulated
by folks having little real knowledge
of schoo} life fifty or more years ago;
others savour of a desire to play the
martyr role on the part of the story-
teller.

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Just to listen to them makes one
wonder how in the world those ter-
rible teachers managed to give such
an excellent educational grounding
lo the ill-treated youngsters. Having
experienced six on each hand with the
cane and a like amount across the
backside, while bent over the prin-
cipal’s knee, we must confess
cannot all ever feeling any gems
of knowledge trickling into our
brain cells during the process, which
disproves the theory they drove it
into us with a club. It must have
been imparted hy other means.

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By far the more terrifying aspect
of those occasions was the anticipa-
ion of a further working over when
Papa found out we had been unruly
in school. Parental sympathy was en-
lirely lacking at that time. It is even
more surprising how we learned to
respect those overbearing teachers,
many of whom taught in the same
school for many years, and strange
to say, that respect deepens in ret-
rospect.

It would he idle to say we did not
try to needle them or that at times
We were not deliberatey provoking
but we certainly never tied one in i
chair and then dangled him out of
an upper storey window as was re-
cently done at a school in B.C. We
believe that such a disrespectful at-
titude can only come about through
an appalling lack of discipline, much
of it due to the absurd restrictions
placed upon the teacher by a bunen
of erack-brained reformers.

It is not a bit before time the offi-
cial attitude toward the enforcement
of discilpine has undergone some
change, and those parents who 30
loudly condemn the change are cer-
tainly not helping their offspring in
any way. They would be far better
engaged reading the riot act to them,|
than of penning moaning epistles to
the editors.

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Nature Scrapbook .. .

Seedy Salmon

A French scientist has done a lot
of work in calculating fish speeds,
but most of his findings relate to the
normal speeds of fish, rather than to
their absolute maximum speeds. He
found pike, dog-fish, salmon, stur-
geon, tunny and blue shark to be
among the fastest of fish, and some
typical speeds he recorded are:
salmon 11 m.p.h.;
and . blue shark, all
them normal, rather than emergency
speeds. Salmonehave attracted more
speed investigators than any other
fish, anda French expert who coax-
ed fish along a specially built track
in the River Vienne found the sal-
mon an easy first, at about 18 m.p.h.
The highest recorded speed for a
salmon is 25 m.p.h., although some
authorities claim that it has been
known to swim even faster. All fish
speeds, by the way, should be regard-
ed against the world speed record

for a human swimmer, which is 4.01
m.p-h. It is not very tomfortable to
now that even the lumbering octo-
Dus travels along at 4 m.p.h.

Reason tor Game Laws

Several groups of birds are valu-
able to man as food, and for the pur-
poses of sport, and so are given
carefully protection. Ducks, geese,
Wilson’s snipe, grouse, pheasants,-
quail, and partridge come under this
category. Many of these birds are
valuable also as insect and weed de-
Stroyers, which is another reason
for their protecticn.

Wise laws to protect game birds
have been passed by both the Fed-
eral and the Provincial governments,
and these have helped in preserving
the sport of hunting. a a

Lightning has accounted for over
4,000 fires in the last decade and

abut 320 were of unknown origin.

ONE YEAR AGO
September 30, 1954

More than double the amount of
cattle were sold through the Cariboo
Cattlemen’s Association in the month
of September this year than for the
corresponding period in’ 1953
Thieves who ransacked Mackenies
store did an estimated $1000 dam-
age and escaped with a smal] amount
of cash— Over 165 people witnessed
the formal presentation of the V
liams Lake Kiwanis Club Charter to
president Felix Nicholson— Fight-
ing water and muddy road condi-
tions mill operation production has
been cut 40 per cent— Local high
school students took three out of
four title spots in hasebajl play
against central interior centres——
For the first time the annual meet-
ing of the Historical Society was held
in Williams Lake with seventeen
delegates from northern branches
being present— Gilbert Forbes of
Lac La Hache has a ‘nice patch of
strawberries just ripening— Game
department men released 15,000
fingerlings in Chimney Lake— Lac
La Hache residents have shelved the
idea of organizing a fire-fighting
service for the present, owing to a
very poor turn-out at the meeting—

FIVE YEARS AGO
October 5, 1950

Eleven horses are expected this
week by Benny Abbott which he

hopes will give horse racing a shot
in the arm— Trail drives are ap-
proaching town from all points for
thé annual feeder and cattle sale—
A plan to establish a toll-free tele-
phone service around Williams Lake
has been forwarded to Ottawa for
approva] -by D. ©. Schubert, govern-
ment telephone divisional superin-
tendent— Sacred Heart Hall, whieh
has been erected entirely by volun-
teer labour, is nearing completion—
Wrecking crews are busy demolish-
ing the old PGE water tower on
Railway Avenue— People gathered
to pay their last respects to John Har-
greaves, Jong time Cariboo resident.

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He had been a resident of the Cari-
boo for fifty years— Market prices
for cattle were unsettled as the Can-
adian dollar was turned loose to find
its value on the world markets—
Mackenzies Ltd., ended more’ than a
decade of by ness in Wells last week
when they closed their branch store
— The dangerous job of levelling
Siwash Bridge hill in Chilcotin area

is being undertaken by Harold
Stuart— Primrose Dairy has install-
ed a vapour-type pasteurizer and add-
ed ten head of purebred Jerseys to
its hera—

TEN YEARS AGO
October 4, 1945

The newly erected Famous Cate
and Bakery will open its doors this
week— Mr. and Mrs. EB. G. Wood-
land have received news that their
son Ralph is expected home after
four years overseas— Hugh Corn-
wa]l has heen named assistant man-
ager of the Cariboo Cattlemen's
sociation— _

‘ARS AGO
September 26, 1935.

A large crowd attended a meeting
to hear John A. Fraser speaker for
the evening. He is Cariboo member
and an old-timer in the Cariboo, hay-
ing come to Cariboo in 1891— Mr.
and Mrs. J. Adams of, Alexis Creek
have taken over Cariboo Lake Lodge
— 11). jars of goffee advertised for
45e¢ each.

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