Volume 23 — Number 50.

Williams Lake Tribune ~

NEWS EXCHANGE OF THE CARIBOO

Bechtel Announces
Pipeline Contracts
et to Four Firms,

ontracts covering construc-
of the $1500,000,000 na-
gas pipeline along its com-
length from the Peace
er area to the coast have
een announced by Canadian
Bechtel Ltd., construction agents

contracts have been
¢ warded to four companies list-
‘ed here in what is believed to be
the geographical sequence of
‘their contract areas.
Starting at the northern end
-of the line, they are: Dutton-
Williams Bros. Ltd., of Calgary;
Canadian Bechtel Ltd., Vancou-

~ yer; R, A. Conyes Construction

Co., San Pablo, Calif.; and Man-
nix Ltd., of Calgary.

Dutton-Williams will lay 12
miles of pipe between Taylor
Flat on the Peace River to
Azouzetta Lake. Construction
camps are being established near
the confitence of the Peace and
Pine rivers.

It was also announced that an

$8,000,000 processing plant will
be established in the Pouce
Coupe area. The plant will re-
eoyer 300. tons of sulphur daily
_ from thematural gas.
S Initial work in the four sec-
fons will involve clearing and

of danger.

Three-year-old Michael Bulbrook of Hamilton, Ont., has a
friend in need in the person of P.C. Vie Zwlerewich. ‘The constable
Was one of three Hamilton officers who donated rare “O"-type
blood which saved the boy’s life when his blood clotted in hospital.
Nurses joined in the celebration when Michael was pronounced out

to
Kiwanian Herb Gardner showed
comic-films and shots of the Grey
Cup parade as a program wind-
up.»

WILLIAMS LAKRB, B.C. Thursday, December 22, 1955.

Help Sanita

- Children of Kiwanis Club

members Tuesday night reversed
the usual procedure of Christ-
mas Tree programs
presents to Santa Claus,

and gave
The presents are ju turn giy-

where
ivanian

The youngsters were treated
ice cream and ,candies and

THE WEATHER

The best the weatherman
could deal out to us in the past
week was a high of zero that
Was reached on two days, and
the worst oceurred Sunday when
thermometers in town registered
lows from 32 to 40 depending
on location. The zero daytime
highs were registered last Thurs-
day and yesterday. i:

Here are the reading
airport from 8:30 a.m. to
daily, except Sunday:

at the
5 p.m.

min max~
Friday, Dee. 16 -22 -10
Saturday 21 -12
Monday 16 +7
Tuesday -6 5
Wednesday = 0
This morning at 8:30 the

reading was —6,

—Centrel Press Caandian

First Hockey Game Next Tuesday

It's hockey time again in the

Cariboo, -with the opening game
of the North Central
slated for Williams Lake next
Tuesday afternoon,

League

The opener will see the Ques-

nel Kangaroos and our own
Stampeders in action.
On the home’ front, hockey

elub directors claim the Stam-
peders will ice as good a team
as they have ever had. Strength

grading of the rigt y.
Pipe for the northern end
the line js expected to be deliv-
‘ered early in January at railhead

yia.Bdamonton.

“ ‘Phe €50-mile pipeline is de-
signed to handle.a capacity flow
Of 660,000,000 cubic feet of na-
tura] gas daily to the Lower
Mainland and to the U.S. Pacific
Northwest via a feeder line at

ges i

aa been Set at early 1957.

Amended Figures
On Chilcotin
Hospital Donation

In last week's issue we refer-
red to a donation to the War
Memorial. sfospital fund from

_ the old Chileotin, Hospital asso-

— ciation. This amount was given

ap $562.00.

Actually the amount should
have read $363.00. The $562
was the total ¢ collections made
at a local bank and turned over
in the seme period. Duke Mar-
tin, secretary of the Chilcotin
fund, points out that the dona-
tion to War Memorial was half
of the total amount remaining

_ in their fund. The other half was
forwarded at the same time as
a-grant to the Canadian Red
Cross “Association who operates
the Outpost Hospital at Alexis
Creek.

Another comment on the same
subject comes from long-time
Chilcotin resident T. P. Morgan,
now of .Williams Lake, who
writes that the news Item gives
a misleading impression as to
the origin of the now Red Cross
Hospital at Alexis Creek. States
Mr. Morgan:

“T may say that the hospital
at Alexis Creek was functioning
long before the Hed Cross took
it‘over, and Dr. Wright was the
first doctor to enter into the pic-
ture of the first hospital at Al-
exis Creek, It was run for many
years by voluntary subscription
from the public and a small
grant from the Indian Depart-
ment. The original hospital was
given to the Red Cross and ta-
ken over by the Red Cross in
1949 when it was opened after
reconstruction of the building.”’

“I want to make it clear that
there was a hospital at Alexis
Creek long before the Red Cross
had anything to do with it, and
moreover the old hospital build-
ing and site and a lot of equip-
ment, including an iron lung,
was given to the Red Cross by
the residents of the Chileotin
/district. We still have to thank
the Grahams for donating the
building site and also for accom-
modating by boarding Dr.

Wright while the hospital was

| Gate for completion

It will cost slightly mi

sidered by commissi
in the year.
In the maipg@generai business

leences-are,pp 50 percent. That
is, it will fow cost $7.50 for
every six mionth period compar-
ed to- $5 previous.

in the general reiail grouping
where narrower classifications
are noticed than formerly. The
by-law stipulates that a retail
merchant dealing in any one of
the 23 classifications enumerat-
ed, shall pay $7.50 for one ana
$2.50 for each of the other dis-
tinctive classes that he sell:

Provided that any _ business
which includes not less than five
distinct lines, shall constitute a
department store and pay a li-
cence of $20 for every six
months,

An additional licencing class
inthe by-law is for delivery
trucks. Any business using a de-
livery truck of up to 2-ton in
weight shall pay $5.00 for the
period for the first vehicle and
$2.50 for each additional one.
There are higher rates for high-
er weight classifications,

Here are some of the more
common rate classifications un-
der the new by-law that do not
fall under the general $7.50
rate.

Vehicles for hire — $7.50 for
one vehicle, $7.50 for each ad-
ditional one. Second-hand auto-
mobile dealers - $30.00. New
automobile dealers - $20.00.
Banks $50.00. Theatres, amuse-
ment parks, rinks or other plac-
es of amusement, seating capa-
city of not more than 249 -
$20.00; capacity of 250 but not
over 500 - $25.00; seating ca-

Thieves Busy
At New Mills

Two thefts from mills on the
new industrial trackage site
north of town have heen report-
éd to police in the last couple of
weeks,

Thieves drove up to the new
mill of Western Skagit and made
of with a new 1-1% H.-P. vari-
drive U.S. engine. At the new
plant of Chileotin Lumber, a
line-up of six batteries used to
start the planer was looted and

being built at Alexis Creek.”

four batteries stolen.

New Year Will See Business
Rates Up In Williams Lake

ore to operate a business in

Williams Lake in the New Year,

licence rates as set up in* a new
iy

One of the major changes is|$

according to. the

nates by-law now

nspector of Municipalities
ti ifect. +

and loan 7
fessional mei
contractor - $10
- $10.00; insurance agent aaaéa|
> $15.00 extra.
-00, Restaurant, capacity of
up to 20 - $7.50
ditional ten seats or pari there-
of - $2.50. Mail order business -| 1
$50.00. Hotels,
fice buildings and rooming hous-
es, (for every person
more than two individual rooms,
or available for letting) for each

a
=00.

~ $15.00,
Although exact figures
not been worked out,

result in well over $1000 annual
revenue to the village. h

<a
~pPreaded” guilty”
intent to endanger the_life of

ay ra
"Sl Josephine Isnardy by shooting a
Real State |

+ for each ad-|garet Mexander
gain access

auto camps, of-| Being
obtained the rifle and fired |P2 back again.
letting | through the door, then swinging|Len Arrance who missed last
the butt of the rifle she broke|S€ason with the "Roos are re-
several windows. In an attempt | Ported ba
Toom, §100. Pool halls - $10.00|to quiet the
for one table and $2.50 for each | threw
extra one. Wholesale merchant| when this was done the rifle was

Indian Woman Gets
Two Months for
Shooting Affray

Final disposition of a case

4

‘of

famet Atexan
“to “a “charge

22 rifle at Mrs. Isnardy.
The accused was sentenced to

Manufacturer -|(¥o months in jail .

Accerding to evidence, Mar-
was trying to
to Mrs. Isnardy’s
home on the night in question.
refused admittance, she

woman, someone
a blanket over head, but

her arm and chest.

has been added this season by
the arrival of two players from
West Summerland, forwards a
Hooker and Bill Alres. A third
Player may also come our way
from the same club.

In the coaching spot this year
ig “Rocky” Richardson, former
coach
merland club Hooker and Aires
played with, who turned
stellar
all last season,

Speedy Frank Latin is putting
his skates back on this year, and
last season Stampeder stalwarts
Gary Hutchinson, Reg Norberg,
Carl Buehholtz, Ramsay Blair,
Fred Hutehinsan and Doug Nor-
berg will be back in uniform.
Former juniors Walter Richard-
son and Dick. Curtis are on the
club Wne-up, as is Fred Vedan,
who player junior hockey here

of the same West Sum-

in a

performance on the ice

ers Back. ‘hree other
nS the club are
John Berijard, who is signed on
yas spare goalie; Larry Therrien
and Al Hromek are also on the
club lineup. Hromek was form-
erly with Prince George club.
Although last reports. from
Quesne} indicated that serious
practice wouldn't start there un-
til this week, it seems probable
that we will see Leo Del Buch-
hia, Boh Young, Jed Campbell,
Billy Keen, Irv Filack, Al Blair,
Norm Gronskei and Johnny Kop-
Don Gale and

‘Kk on the ice,

Bill Campbell is definitely
hanging up his skates this year
"tis reported. Coaching duties

and although
botht say they will stick strictly

they are both signed up
with the club.

Village Clerk E. H. Gibbon

Value of building permits is-
sued during 1955 reached a re-
cord total of $774,263.00, up
$229,903.00 above the previous
top year of 1953.

Here are tthe totals in com-
parison for the past three years:

1953 __ _ _ $544,360.00
1954 _ = — $383,600.00
1955 — _ — — $774,263.00

This year’s residential build-
ing reached a record high of
$312,055.00, almost equal to the
total figures of 1954. Commer-
cial’ construction accounted for
$462,208.00. Some of the larger
individual figures in the com-
mercial total were Lakeview Ho-
tel addition $115,000.00; adai-
tion to high school $84,000.00;
addition to hospital $29,000.00;
Cariboo Oil Distributors plant
$30,000.00; addition to Over-
waitea $15,000.00.

Not included in the above fig-
ares on construction is the cost

More People
Mailed Early
This Year

More people have been. heed-
ing the Postal Department's
“early mailing’ admonition this
year according to postmaster
Cece Rhodes. As a result, the
local post office has passed its
peak rush and with extra-clerks
mail sorting is up to normal

“or the past #wo weeks the

incoming sacks of
mail daily. Peak day saw 160
sacks dumped on the floor. Num-
ber of two-cent stamps sold dur-
ing the month of December
amounted to 70,000.

Building Figures Hit
Record Peak In 1955

Williams Lake is winding up the busiest building
year in its history, according to figures released by

Single Copy 10. $2.50 per year.

this week.

of the village sewer system. To-
tal cost figures on this will run
in the neighborhood of $146,-
000.00.

(Canyon Road —

Closed to All
Traffic

Heavy snows and slides caused
closure of the Fraser Canyon
road today, according to an an-
nouncement from the local De-
partment of Highways office.

The canyon route will be
closed for at least four and pos-
sibly seven days. :

Ten inches of wet snow is be-
lieved the cause of most of the
trouble. A report from a driver
of one transport truck who just
managed to bull his way through
the heavy snow said it took him
from § p.m. to 5 a.m. today to

travel ten tiles through ‘the
worst of it.
The same driver reported

there were about 200 vehicles
Stranded at Boston Bar,

Department of Highways
crews are working on a 24-hour’
basis to keep tlle Hope-Prince-
ton route open. Here too, heayy
snows haye caused the danger of
slides at different points. Motor-
ists who have to travel to the
coast by car are warned to take
chains with them.

The canyon: tie-up caused pro-

*) duction difficulties ai Phe ‘Trix’

bume. A rush order-.of news=
print was on the transport that
finally managed to make the
rugged trip hours late. As a
consequence We are about. half
our newsprint short for the last
run of today’s. paper. Remainder
will be run to-morrow morning.

Will Ask P-TA to Suggest =

Names for School

The Williams Lake Parent-
Teacher Association will be ask-
ed present names to the
School Board for the three va-
cant town area representatives,
trustees decided at a meeting

to

accidentally discharged. The bul-| will be handled ly Alex Ritson | Yesterday.
have|let struck Mary Alexander, mo-|and Alex Kuly,
it is esti-| ther of the woman wielding the
mated that the new by-law will Tifle, and she w:

The names submitted, if ap-
proved for appointment by the

as rushed to hos-|to directing activities trom the| Department of Education, will in
pietl suffering from a wound to|bench,

turn be placed before the dis-
trict area representatives at

Jim Stitt

Uwe Koehnsen

Mrs. K. Devore

Percy Willard

Mrs. Veera Bonner

wi
from

us who

sh
all of
produce

your hometown newspaper.

May this be th

Christmas your fami

e very merriest

ly has ever enjoyed

Irene and Clive Stangoe

Edie B.

aker

Jim Blliott

District. Reporters

Mrs. R. McLeod
Mrs. J. R. Scott
Mrs. Laura McNeil

Mrs. R. Wise
J. R. Ross
Mrs. E. B. Johnson

Mrs. Gerry Bracewell

Mr

A. J. Drinkeli

George Fielder

Mrs. Enid Wright

rs. Gwen Walmsley

Representatives

their meeting in- March. Selec-
tion will be made from the can-
didates for the vacant town trus-
tee seat.

A request from the P-TA’to
have-board members take’ part
in a panel discussion on the
forthcoming: referendum was
turneddown in favour of- a
“question and ~ answer perio:
The board will suggest that-the
P-TA forward a-list of questions
to,the board in advance ,of the
meeting and trustees will attend
to give the answers and also to
handle any questions from. the
floor.

Trustees approved establish-
ment of temporary elementary

classrooms at Lac La Hache and
Williams Lake provided. teach-
ers can be obtained.

E. G. Woodland has been ap-
pointed returning officer for the
forthcoming school referendum.

E. A. (Bert) Levens has been
appointed temporary chairman
of the school board. With six
new trustees, general feeling of
the board was that election of a
permanent chairman should be
postponed until the trustees had
a chance to work together and
get to know each other,

Transportation
Schedules Good

All the modes of travel in and
out of Williams Lake are travel-
ling on schedule as they carry
heavy loads of passengers at
holiday time,

The heavy canyon snows de-
layed this morning’s north-
bound Greyhound by about four
hours, but the big busses are
now travelling via the Hope-
Princeton. The Pacific Great
Eastern Railway has ploughs
moving on the line and trains
are right on schedule. CP Air-
lines reports heavy traffic and
schedules being maintained,