THE TRIBUNE, WILLIAMS LAKE, B.C.

Thursday, Deeember 15, 1935.

PDIP ORTATS
Approval Not Indicated

‘With both present incumbents going down to de-
feat in last week’s civic election, indication would
appear to be that the elecorate has not approved the
Program carried out — or not carried out — by the
village commission last year.

major fumble of the
year was the failure to provide more land for residen-
Last June the Planning was
carried out, but six months later the two interested
parties had still not threshed out the scheme over the
council table to a point where taxpayers could see any
hope for land relief in the near future.

Although those who turned out to the poles showed
they wanted a change, the percentage total left a
lot to be desired in civic responsibility. Over sixty per-
cent of those elegible to cast ballots indicated by their
absence that they couldn’t care less if the Village had
good, bad or indifferent government. It is always diffi-
cult to understand how citizens can so freely _criticmize
men who give up many hours a week to look after their
community affairs and then refuse to spend ten minutes
of their own time once a year to walk into a polling
station and indicate their approval or disapproval of
the candidates with a simple “X”,

We iin A Standard

This symbol, which we added to
our masthead this week, may not be too
familiar yet to most of our readers,
Bomie~of our advertisers might not.
_Pecognize it.

“The hexagon displayed here is the
insigne of the Audit Bureau of Circu-
lations, a voluntary, co-operative as-
sociation of over 3,450 advertisers, advertising agencies
and publishers of newspaper, magazines, business and
farm publications. Since 1914, these buyers and sell-
ers of advertising have worked together in setting up
and maintaining standards for measuring the circula-
tions of newspapers and periodicals.

Periodically, A.B:C. auditors visit the office of each
publisher member to Anspect:his records. The findings
of these auditors are embodied in the A.B.C. audit
report. The figures in these reports are the exact mea-
surement of a publication — an index of the amount of
readership and popularity of a newspaper.

In this respect, the A.B.C. symbol is in a very real
sense the subscribers’ brand on this newpaper. Since
the bureau audits only paid circulation, its reports
accurately measure the number of subscribers and
street purchasers who havelindicated, by Payment of
@ Specified sum of money, their interest in our news-
paper.

“To the advertiser, this symbol has a well-recog-
nized significance. It tells him that the circulation
records and practices of this newspaper are wide open
to the auditors of the bureau, who check the publish-
er’s claims and make public, through the audit report.
the amount of circulation we have and the precise
terms and conditions under which those subscriptions
and street sales are obtained.

It assures him, too, that this newspaper stays in
business by virtue of a demonstrated demand from its
readers.

Our recent election to membership in the Audit
Bureau of Circulations is an event of which we are
justly proud. We have measured up to the stringent
requiremens for membership; our circulation records
and practices have qualified under the Bureau’s rigid
standards,

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Sign Your Letters

Every once in a while one of our readers gets
worked up enough about a subject to pull out paper
and pen and write a “letter to the editor.” We are
always glad to have these expressions of opinion, but
too often they are consigned to-a wastepaper basket
because the writer overlooked the requirement of a
signature. We have stressed this point before. If a
reader wishes to remain anonymous, his or her name
will not appear in the published letter, but we insist
that the original letter be signed by the person
writing it. ‘

Even a signature does not guarantee publication.
If the contents of a letter are, in our opinion, libelous
or slanderous, the epistle will also go the waste
basket road. =

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The Cracker

Barrel Forum

LOOKS AT

The Moran Dam

This week the boys got down
the following question “Supposin
Dam is built to the detriment o:

River salmon run, what have we lost?”
Looking back we find that several appli-

cations for permission to develop
tric power within
refused. This has resulted in an
able loss, comprised of Capital
assets, taxes (direct and indi-
rect) pay-rolls and so forth. The
total must have reached stagger-
ing proportions. This has been
done to preserve an industry
whose estimated gross earnin
at full retail value. when s:
able, is now around $50 millions
and employs some eighteen thou-
sand persons.

The cost of constructing a
Dam of the magnitude now pro-
Posed on the Fraser would cost
many times the annual earnings
of the salmon run. Directly and
indirectly would engage a
great many more persons. On
top of that must he reckoned the
cost of erecting and operating
the steel mill it is proposed to
work in conjunction with the
dam. Its ultimate value to this
province is totally beyond com-
putation at this juncture.

IN STUDYING ITS EFFECTS
upon the district of Cariboo ir
will be found it would transform

Power would become too insist-

acres of fertile bench lands in
the Fraser and Thompson water-
sheds by providing cheap power
for pumping irrigation water on-
to them. Every twenty-acre unit
would maintain a family in re:
sonable circumstance _ thereby
providing gainful employment
for many thousands of persons
and would produce vast quanti-
ties of food, as these lands lend
themselves to a wide diversity
of farming.

It would make possile |
utilization of the vast wealt™
minerals and pulp-wood 1;
behind those bench lands wh5
in turn, would attract a va
of subsidiary industries. It wou

this province

to debating
g the Moran
ft the Fraser

p hydro-elec-
have been

undetermin- ‘
ermin. Drinkell

sible then we must face the situ-
ation realistically and decide
wherein lies our best future
course. In our opinion it would
be folly to sacrifice projects
worth many, many the
value ofthe salmon rin.

time

It would be equally foolish to
be lured into a state of exuber-
ant optimism by the dangling
carrot of atomic energy. -Many
years will elapse before we can

count upon having sufficient
atomic plants to meet our needs
for power. Wirst’ consideration
will be given to areas having no
other available source of cheap
power— and rightly so. Most
prominent amongst our “Have

Not" provinces are those econ-
omy is based largely upon fish-
ing. It seems to us the vital
Question confronting us is “Can
we afford to forgo our own de-
velopment indefinitely in order
to sustain the Wr
mon run.’ Our s
finite “NO.” We
trict Board of Trade is keeping
a close eye on the trend of

ser River sal-

SCOTT'S SCRAP. BOOK
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By RJ SCOTT

JACTITATION,
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JACTITATION,
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WHA wine THe
WORLD POPULATION
BE BY 4HE END oF
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AN ESTIMAfED
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Letters to The Editor

WANT PERMIT
SYSTEM FOR FIREWORKS
December 8, 1955.
The Rditor,
The Tribune,
Williams Lake, B.C.

or Sei Wa Ager

lation making it unlawful for
anyone to discharge or explode
fireworks of any description ex-
cept by special permit.

This is a subject which is im-

Dear Sir:
Re FIREWORKS
A letter, copy of which is en-
closed, has today been forward-
ed to the Attorney-General on
the above subject, and hope that
the Government will pass legis-

terests the whole Pravince; con-
sequently I am forwarding the
letter to you in the hope that
you will spare some of your val-

Sincerely yours,
Harry Duker,

z = President.
of The Tribune Metropolitan Communities
Council, 5851 West Boulevard,

am

The first snowfall of the
son fell leavin.
ering— The village’s proposed
$132,000 sewer by-law passed
with a thumping margin of ap-
proval— Tom Larson was elect-

ed president of the Board of
Trade— Guy Levesque lost his
co Fe fell into one of the

tanks at the new Royal-
Bs bulk storage plant— Com-
essibners have approved the in-
Zallation of fixe street corner
sub-division

z djients in the, new,
give much ‘needed. net, ovemlooging ede
our \filage*® “livestotx industry. oun na sche

Brefiy, its impact upon the Cari-
boo economy would be stupend-
ous.

During the debate it was
Pointed out that the prosperity
now being enjoyed through the
lumbering industry will not be
sustained much longer. due to a
petering out of mercantile tim-
ber in all but one or two areas.
The numerous people now en-
gaged in that industry will be
looking for other fields of en-
deavour. Many will not wish to
leave the district — we can ill-
afford to see any of them de-
part. That situation at once pre-
sents challenge and imposes a
responsibility to see those other
fields of endeavour are available
when required. The Moran Dam
is our best assurance of dis-
charging that responsibility.

IT HAS LONG BEEN obvious
the demand for the develop-
ment of our latent water-

ent to be lightly brushed aside.
We are very much in favour of

preserving the salmon run if it

can be accomplished in conjunc-
tion with other developments,
but, should that prove impos-

for your money A
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Control Board or hy the Pr

turned as president ‘ofthe His-
torical Society— The Bank of
Commerce opens ‘their new
building at 100 Mile on Decem-
ber 20, with Don Mars as man-
ager— Miss Whiteside, matron
of the outpost hospital at Alexis
Creek for the past three years
is leaving for England—

FIVE YEARS AGO
December 21, 1950
Commissioner C. H. Poston
has been appointed a Stipendi-
ary Magistrate for the County of
Cariboo— An
persons crowed in the Elks Hall
to wateh the annual Christmas
Concert put on} by the school
children from primary grades to
junior high— R.|M. “Bob’ Blair
Was elected president of the Wil-
liams Lake Board of Trade—
Over 68 percent of the voters
went to the polls in this week’s
civic election— Fog caused the
first major upset to the time
schedule of CP Airlines with the
plane unable to land at Williams
Lake— Residents at 150 Mile
House report pussy willows are
well out— Curling is off to a
good start with over $0 paid up

the Liquor

ished or displayed hy
rovinee of British Columbia

Vancouver 13, B.C. =
The Honourable R. W. Bonner,

members— Louis Hedlund, aged

82 of TatlaLake was found
about half a mile from his eabin QC. ML.A., :
dead from a bullet wound. His |Attorney-Generaliof B.C.,

2815 Murray Drive,
Victoria,. B.C.
Dear Mr. Bonner:

rifle was found beside him—

TEN YEARS AGO
December 20, 1945

A = At the last meeting of our
The War Memorial Hospital| counci! a motion Was’ pabeed
announced thdt-themmonth of No-|.cJcine: the, ‘proving Govern:

vember showed a sharp increase
with $1 percent occupancy. Miss
Anne Catonio, assistant matron
at the hospital for the past two
and a half years has left for her
home in Saskatchewan in pre-
pargsion for heri marriage later
this) month—
TWENTY YEARS AGO
December 12, 1035

Oliver Handy of Somerset,
England, took over the Little
Dog Creek property, known as
the Meeson place. Mr. Handy is
the former owner of Boyd
Ranch— Two members of the

ment to have the discharging
and exploding of fireworks of
any description banned in the
Province except by special per-
mit for display purposes.-

This motion was passe after,
much deliberation ithe past
and as a result of careful study
of all types of fireworks so easily
getting into the wrong hands on
special occasions.

I was instructed to send this
information to you for the con-
sideration of the Provincial Gov-
ernment,

Sincerely yours,
Harry Duker,
President.

RCMP arrived last week to be
stationed here permanently—

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