_. Williams Lake Tribune NEWS EXCHANGE OF THE CARIBOO cos > o® oh) 40> WILLIAMS LAKE, B.C. Thursday, December 15, 1955. Volume 238 — Number 49- Single Copy 10. $2.50 per year, _ Voters Eloke New Men for Ci - - - AND THE WING IS OPENED a Ses Trade Group Returns Larson as President Tom Larson, manager of the local branch of the Bank of Montreal was named president of the Williams Lake and District Board of Trade at the group’s annual meeting last Thursday night. Also returned for a ao vice-president Paul second Tom Madison, Bert Roberts and Bill Sharpe for their work and to those who, by their donations or effort, entry a success. Special letters and souvenirs will go to indi- viduals singled out by the com- term was Jorgenson. New secretary for the coming year is P. C. Glenister and joe Borkowski was re-elected treas- urer. Two new posts were cre helped tq make the See ee eee erene: TOBY: ice for. special. commeian. Woodland was named to the] tion. DPR p ca Loumon seetond! Vite | “Greenwead, 1.0. Tal president and Al Stewart was officlal who spoke to ‘the board named associate secretary. later said at this point that he Directors are Jack Cade ’/had been delegated by the Ques- Stewart Smith, Sid Western, nel Board of Trade ‘to extend Tom Hawker, Herb Gardner, that group’s thanks to the local board for the valuable publicity gained for the Cariboo by enter- ing the stage coach and outrid- ersin the parade. Following the reading of a letter from district forester L. F. Swannell on the proposed sale of the large area of diseased timber south of town, the board named Herb Gardner and Paul Jorgenson to work with lumber committee chairman Stewart Smith in seeking a clearer pic- ture of what is netually to be the Forest Service policy on the timber, - Feliz Nicholson, Tom Madison and Tom Humble. Mr. Larson thanked the board for their support and assured the members that an active year was being planned out. The board listened to a report from the Grey Cup parade entry committee and moved a vote of thanks to committee members SERVES AGAIN BACK TO THE QUESTION of securing more land for com- mercial and residential develop- ment in town the board approv- ed a suggestion to ask R. F, Bowman, general manager of the Pacific Great Eastern Railway Company for immediate action on making the 1. To the same vein, a motion was approved asking the village commissioners to give consider- ation to extending the present boundaries of the village. The proposed public access grounds on the east end of the lake that was in the news two years ago again came up and the “I declare this wing of War Memorial Hospital open,” with these words Stan Goad, chair- man of the Village Commission, eut the ribbon separating the new wing from the main corri- dor of the old hospital building at the opening ceremonies De- cember 4. Lookingt on is hos- Dital board chairman Clive Stan- |, goe. At left: looking past the view- ing window of the nursery in the new wing, in the background can be seen the maternity Ayard. The corridor doors seen In the Jeft background lead to the case room. To reduce danger of cross infection, . this section 1s kept 36 ff mi. the i Bursary Winner Opens Own Shop in Vancouver Members of the local Order of the Royal Purple will be inter- ested in knowing that Miss Dor- othy Devore of Forest Grove, who was awarded the lodge’s scholarship bursary in 1953, has just opened her new heauty shop on West Broadway, Vancouver. Wind Knocks Out Wire and Phone Service Sunday All telegraph service and long distance telephone circuits south from Williams Lake were knock- ed out late Sunday night when a north-west wind knocked down a snag about ten miles north of Clinton, taking out five lines. The total outage occurred about five to 12 Sunday night. Crews were on the job at day- break the following morning and all cireults Were restored by 1:45 p.m. TRADES LICENCES Possibly indicative of the wea- ther, commissioners approved two applications for fuel dealers Tuesday night Licences were is- sued to Manuel & Waechter and W. K. Fisher. Another licence for retail sales was issued to D. R. James. Hunters Had Better Success in 1955 Records trom the Game De- Partment’s checking station at Cache Creek show that hunters travelling to the Interior were more successful this year than last. Although the number ot hunters was the same in the two seasons, the moose kill was Up 31 percent in 1955 over AS5e and the deer icill up 19.pex ures for the two Years: Here are the. comparative fg- Moose - (1954) butts “1,415: cows. 354 ~ahotal 1769. (4955) Tom Larson, who was named | village commission will be asked President for a second term of|to join the board in requesting the Williamst Lake and District|/that this Board of Trade, year. be developed next| (1955) bucks! 9828; does 797 - bulls 1,74 ows 578 ‘otal 2323. (954) vucks 1,519; does 6. -“total 1955. total 2325. Telephone Crews Busy in Town Crews of the B,C. Telephone Company have completed the in- stallation of two new positions of switchboard im the central office here, bringing, the num- ber of boards =ow in use to four. A further project to pro- vide outside plant; facilities is ‘expected to be completed short- ly. This latter job .will increase facilities in the area hetween Cameron and Yorston Street, east of Railway Avenue. Cable that contains over 200 miles of wire will be placed as a part of the $16,000 job, Together the prajects will pro- vide facilities for held applica- tions, reduce the number ct par- ties on some lines, and take care of future demands’ for telephone service for a considerable period. A large $42,000 Jong distance project in this area Is in pyo- gress and Is expected to he com- pleted by the end of the year. Additional and hetter facilities have been provided between Williams Lake and Keithley Creek, and Williams Lake and Horsefly. Work is continuing on the line between here and 150 Mile House. By the.time the job is finished, 97 miles of copper and 47 miles of iron wire will have been placed? Stores , Annowis Christmas Week - Hou 4 poll BF siSréein town taker this morning, ‘indicates that those handling groceries will ob- serve the same hours in the week between Christmas and New Years, but shoppers will note a diversity of opinion among other retail outlets. All stores will be closed Mon- day and Tuesday, December 26 and 27. Grocery stores will re- main open all day Wednesday of that week. Several of the other stores will stay open half a day Wednesday, one indicated they would stay open all day, one large store will be closed the ict The warm air from the south- west that “had been bringing us milder temperatures was sup- planted Sunday night by a cold air mass from the north. From the high thirties Sunday after- noon, the mercury dropped to the night. Cloud cover last night brought higher readings this morning to the well below zero in area, Here are the readings at the airport for the past week be- tween the hours of 8:30 a.m. and 5 p.m. min max Friday, Dee, 9 19°35 Saturday 30 35 € 20 13 41 Wednesday 24 ~9 This morning at 8:30 the reading was. 6 below. Bae ema Hospital Receives ‘Large Donations War Memorial Hospital build- ing fund took a jump this past week with several outstanding donations, ; From Col. Victor Spencer, well-known owner of Circle $ Ranch at Dog Creek, came a ne For $t600- From. the ~otin came a donation of 62, representing a fund once at build a hospital —nmject was Red. Cross Sociéty constructed an Outpost Hospital tkere that has served the area satisfactorily. an an- onymous donor also from the S este evel ¥-onipleted, the Chileotin sent in $100, and a second donation’ of $150 from senior local businessman Roder- ick Mackenzie. The wrestling show last Friday netted the tuna $200. Head Field Carswell, the board, Both men will serve for the next two years, Defeated in their attempt to retain office were present in- cumbents Herb Gardner and M. F. Johnson, Mr. Gardner was 11 votes behind Mr. Carswell. The five candidates for the two seats on the board -were Placed exactly the way their names appeared on thé ballot. Here are-the standings: Anderson 84 Carswell 79 Gardner 68 Johnson 55 W. H. Sharpe 32 Slightly less than 40 percent of the eligible yoters cast their ballot on election day. There were 165 casting a vote out of a “possible” 424. Only six ballots were spoilea out of the 165, which was quite low considering the confusion over the question of - whether there were two or three yvacan- Gies to fill. Original intention had been to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Commissioner Borakowski at the same time, but a ruling from Victoria said this would have to be done at a separate bye-elec- tion. Returning officer Tony Wood= land and poll clerk Mrs. Tom Mart warned the voters to only mgrk-two choices, dnt the-shoile ed ones had marked three. Sitting commissioners at the first meeting in January will be Stan Goad, présent chairman, Alf Eagle and commissioners- elect Anderson and Carswell. The fifth man will not be known until after the by-election. Commissioners Tuesday night set the close for nominees. for the bye-election for noon, Thurs- ‘Phone Compa first three days of the week, and one offered the opinion that if business was good their store would stay open half a day on the Wednesday. No stores are observing any evening hours next week. Nor- mal.hours of business will be observed all week. Pleads Guilty to Attempted Rape Charge at Prince Prince George— A 30-year- old native confessed his guilt to a charge of attempted rape in police court here last week. Stanley Dick, 30, of Williams Lake was sentenced to one year imprisonment for the ati a 35-year-old city woman, Maximum sentence Dick could have received was 10 years im- prisonment. The brutal assault took place behind the Connaught Hotel, Second Avenue, hetween 2 and 5 o’clock on the morning of Wednesday, October 26. The woman, a mother of three children, was accosted by the man on the corner of Second Avenue and George Street earlier that day. Following a lengthy verbal exchange, the attacker dragged her to a secluded spot behind the hotel and assaulted her. The wothan struggled with Dick and finally escaped and fled to a George Street cafe where she telephoned the police. Police then organized a full- scale search for the assailant and he was found later in the same section of the city. Dick is a member of the Al- Eali Indian Band which lives in _\the vicinity of Service Officia Although the British pany realizes the telephon good, it is carrying out an traffic supervisor for this trade last Thursday night. Mr. Greenwood that the past year from his sprawling Lae La Hache to Terrace, the company said in company district from had spent a million and A half dollars in improving facilities. “We feel we have gone a long way in the past six months,” he said, “and we expect to go even farthe Chiet re for the fact that telephone service in Williams Lake-is still not good lies In the fact that in an expanding town 2 lot of people, particularly busi- ness houses, have veen demand- ing service and faced with the alternative of trying to give this service or holding back until improvement work had provided additional facilities, the com- pany chose the former policy, Mr. Greenwood sald. The numn- ber of telephone calls placed in a month through the local ex- change has almost doubled since last spring. However, the work of adding cable and town lines and install- ing additionsl switchboard fa- Best Moose Season Buster Hamilton, owner of Ten-ee-ah Camp, north-east of Lac La Hache, reports he has just completed his best hunting season on record. Of 54 hunters he took out this season, 51 got their moose, 43 bulls and § cows. It was nine head better than the previous season high the situation, David H. Greenwood, commercial and ny Improving I Tells Board Columbia Telephone Com- j e service here is still not active program to remedy district, told the board of ee cililes is already showing re- sults and will give marked im- provement to service in the ver: near future, the speaker assert. ed. Completion of this work will mean that the majority of town residential telephone users will not have to share their lines with as many other parties as has been the case in the past, He estimated that there would be no lines having more than six or seven subscribers on them. In the case of business telephone subscribers, most of these would have their own pri- vate lines, He also sald that more of the Subscribers adjacent to town would be taken off the present toll rating and placed under the town system. The headache of ‘‘discon- uects,”” of trying to get the op- erator back in making a series of calls, will likely be with us for some time. Mr. Greenwood said thet new equipment would €asé the problem, but he would Hol say that it wouid eliminate it. Z Also under the category of a “leading question,” that receiy- ed no offer of comment was ‘a question on when we could ex- pect a dial telephone system to be installed. Board president Tom Larson thanked Mr. Greenwood for his interest in coming down to speak to the group and anewer questions on the telephone ser- recorded at the camp. vice. vic Positions THE WEATHER |Anderson, Carswell in Election John Anderson, a former chairman of the village commission, headed the poll honours last Thursday. Five votes behind him was. Al. who was making a second bid to serve on in the race for civic eee day, January 5. The election will be held the following Thursday, January 12, Retiring commissioner Tony Borkowski was appointed re- turning officer for the bye-elec- tion. The two new -commissfoners are well-known businessmen in town. Mr. Anderson is manager of the local Overwaitea -store and served fer seven years on the village board. Mr. Carswell is the owner of C & § Tire Ser- vice and has lived in Williams Lake for-the past two years. He is active in the fire brigade, board of trade and Kiwanis. COMMISSIONERS ELECT Jobn Anderson Al Carswell —photos by Balckwell’s Style Change Made This Week's issue Of The Tribune Readers will notice several changes in this week’s issue of The Tribune. As far as appearance is con- cerned, the principal change is from a six-column to a seven- column format. In order to do this the outside page margin has been cut down and the col- umns are narrower. The new column width is one that is spreading from daily newspaper use to the weekly field. Installation of a new Intertype typesetting machine has not al- tered the type face of the bulix of reading matter, since the same type moulds are bing used as before. The new machine however sets much of our head- line type now, and this face is slightly different than ‘the one used formerly. Another change this week is the appearance of the Audit Bureau of Circulation insigne on our masthead. Further comment on this is carried in the editorial columns.