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Volume 24 —— Number ros WILLIAMS LAKE, Bc. Thursday,

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THE WEATHER

After hovering around

International
Scene Subject
Of Dinner Speaker

“The international scene —
the challenge of 1956” will be
the title of the address to be giv.
en by Professor Geoffrey Davies
at the annuallinstallation dinner
of the Williams Lake & District
Bard of Trade next Wednesday,

Professor Davies, who is a lec-
turer with the Department of

yesterday, with the
forecast for milder weather.

of air have been lying.

x REE History and International | between O-am. and 5 p.m.
ROS ee Studies at the University of | daily. eee
LOSES, British Columbia is well quali- : max min

Be x fied to give the type of adaress| Friday, Jan. 6 1-1

Re he has chosen, He holds a B. Saturday —5 0

and M.A. from Cambridge Uni-| Monday See

versity and his career: has in-| Tuesday lee

cluded five years with the Unitea| Wednesday 5 14

Kingdom Commonwealth Rela-
tions Office, where he acted as
assistant private secretary to thé
Secretary of State for Common-
Wealth Relations. He has taught
at Queen's University ana the
universities of Alberta and Cali-
fornia. He has also acted as an
instructor at the Royal Military
College, Sandhurst ana during
the war served with an armour-
ed car regiment,

The annual dinner ts
held at the Elks Hali next
nesday night.

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ROR : oo DUMP QUESNEL

Lumbemen Top
Team in League

Prinee George Lumbermen
broke out in front of the Central
B.C. iesgue race last night when
they handed Quesnel Kangaroos
a 5-3 defeat.

—Centra! Press Canadian
according to the long-range forecast, but Eastern
Canada is promised lower temperatures and
greater than average snowfall.

Pett Ms GEE de'etaa owt
Ranchers Voice Opposition |Greenall Named
To School Referendum Board Chairman

Western Canada appears to be favored by
the weatherman during the next few weeks.
Above-normal temperatures will prevail there,

being
Wed-

the
zero mark since last Friday, the
mercury finally started to climb
immediate

Unusual aspect of the weather
Picture locally for the past two
weeks is the fact that higher
Points in the district have been
enjoying milder weather than
the valleys, where cold pockets

Hére are the readings at the
airport for the past week, taken

Reading this morning at 8:30

irport Project Here Out To Tender

Bids Close January 20

Good news for the economy of the t i S
tained in the i ord ae

Tenders close with the depart-
ment of transport, Ottawa, on
January 20,

Estimate’ of the value of the

work to be done has been said

to run in excess of $750,000. a
Townspeople Pay 00. as eal
Respects to Late
Gordon Blackwell

way, 7000 ft. by 200 ft., a park-
ing area with connecting taxi-
way, and an access road.

ment’s estimates for preliminary
clearing work. Not much devel-

Actual construction ‘work <will
mark the culmination of several
The service was conducted by| Years’ effort by the local Board
Rev. J. Colelough, who referred] °f Trade and the Village Com-
to the businessman as a man| Mission.

with a friendly smile for every-
one and one who was an out-
standing youth worker.

Canadian Legion branch chap-
Inin Frank Lee formed legion-
slres present at the front of the
church and calied for a minute’s
silence in respect of the former

Seventy-five: persons attended

William Greenall, serving his
first year as a school trustee,

Pa : ae
— = lous by-laws were
—

To Force Tax Showdown

Most serious blow toe
and a quarter dollar
month’ was the
omens Association in putting the 300-member

the likelihood of the million
school referendum passing this

move has been made. When \pre-
x

All of these rising produstion | maintenance:

was named chairman of District

| 2 School Board ata meeting ot Discussed At P-TA

the board Tuesday,

year is A. E. Levens of
liams Lake.
Committee chairmen
were: Cecil Henry, Big
Mes.

Wil-

named
Creek,

yight

$ eo
a leassaciation made no move to| anticipated even if they fail S
place itSsif on record as being | materialize because of an early
opposed_ break-up, are heing faced by the

Gibbons, Horsefly, dormitory. E.

Greenlee of Canim Lake will fill
out the finance committee with

Vice-chairman for the coming

the chairman and vice-chairman.

Referendum To Be

Highlights of next Tuesday's
meeting of the local Parent-
Teachers Association Will be a
round-table discussion on the
fortheoming scliool referendum.
Speakers will be /school in-
Sh
Chairman’ will be Les. Langley.

The meeting is held in the
fhigh school auditorium at § p.m.

night when Quesne! again comes
Wor pra a e

The decision has of course,
little to do with the actual ref-
erendum itself. The moye has
been made with the hope that
such action may bring to the
Provincial government in a fore-
ful manner that some relief must
be forthcoming in the land tax
burden. -

There is nothing new about
the expression of opposition to
the land tax method of financ-
ing a part of educational costs,
but besides the fact thtat no ac-
tion has been forthcoming from
Previous representations, there
are several economic factors
prevalent in the industry today
that haye brought home to
ranchers more forcibly than ever
that a halt must be called on
additional tax costs.

SECOND SEASON BLOW

That old enemy of those who
make their living on the land,
the weatherman, is for the se-
cond year in a row upping pro-
duction costs alarmingly.

In 1954 there was no hay crop
to speak of in some areas, and
in others while an open fall aid-
ed cutting, the crop itself was!
of inferior quality. This, and a
late spring in 1955, made sup-
plemental feeding necessary.
This past fall and” winter, con-
ditions were slightly different
but the end result has been ie|
same.

In many sections of this part
of the Cariboo, rustling, or feed-
ing off the land, stopper when
the first part of the long winter
started in November. Add to
this the fact that although there
Was in general a good hay crop,
because of another wet summer
in some areas the hay was of
Poor quality again, and you have
another season of heavy supple-
mental feeding.

HAY STOCKS SLIM

As far as hay itself is con-
cerned, it is assumed that a
rancher is fairly safe for feed-
ing supply if he still has half
his crop left by the 1st of Feb-
ruary. This year most ranchers
had reached the half-way mark
on their hay stocks by the 1st
of January. If there isn’t an
early break-up, hay stocks in
some cases will be exhausted,
and there is a point to remem-
ber that the price of hay right
now is as high as it was in
March of lgst year,

assessing the merchantable tim-

sessed in 1955 at $160 — the

|was assessed in 1955

Parcel 3, containing 160 acres,

rancher at a time when there is
being recorded a steady drop in
the price of beef, particularly of
range animals in the face of
competition’ trom grain finished
stock,
NEW TAX

There is another unexpected
cost that the rancher is being
saddled with for the first time
this year. It is a taxation cost,
and it has no relation to his in-
dustry,

Last summer government em-
ployees were out in the district

ber on farm lands, with the re-
suit that most ranchers have

Of Forgery

when he pleaded guilty to a
charge of forgery. Nugent, who

Only bid secured for comple-
tion of one of the unfinished
Classrooms in the high school
addition was one for $2,714 from
David Howrie Ltd. of Vernon.
The bid was accepted.

Clearing Starts
On Pipeline Job -

Fort St, John— Dr. Charles
Hetherington, vice-president of
West Coast Transmission Co.,
was on hand at nearby Taylor
Flats Monday as bulldozers he-
gan clearing the first 120 miles
of the natural gas pipeline from
Alberta’s Peace River district.

Dr.  Heatherington, accom-
panied by seven members of the
Prince George board of trade,
by R. A. Kelley at|also inspected the Pacific Pet-

Two Months On Charge

John Joseph.Nugent was sen-
tenced to two months imprison-
ment in police court this week

was

now received notices
raising the overall assessed val-
ue of some of the land parcels
tremendously,

One local rancher has provid-
ed comparative figures of assess-

Soda Creek, issued two $10] roleums reduction plant site at

theques on his employer’s ac- Taylor Plats before returning to
count.

Piince George,

OPERATION MOOSEHORN ON WAY

ed value for 1955 and 1956 on
three parcels of his land. Parcel
1, containing 95 acres, was as-

1956 assessment is $1,405.00.
Parcel 2, containing 80 acres,
at $130
and jumped in 1956 to $2,020.

was assessed at $350 in 1955

and at a thumping $4,935.00 in
1956.

(continued on page 8)

Pipeline Work
Starts at Merritt

First work on the natural gas

Pipeline to be carried on in the} ni,

southern Interior got underway
eight miles south of Merritt
yesterday.

Giant bulldozers, graders,
trucks and clearing equipment
of the Coynes Construction Com-
pany are on the job and clear-
ing has already begun. Digging

will get underway as soon as
weather permits,
Twenty-two miles south of

that point a sub-contracting firm
to Coynes, the Sovereign Con-
struction Company bringing
in equipment to a place called
Glenwalker, a small stop on the
CPR Cogquihalla line.

The section of the pipeline be-
ing constructed by these firms
will run from Glenwater to a
point 30 miles south of Quesnel

of 220 vehicles when it left Fort

chorage, Alaska. The convoy car-
ried about 1200 soldiers of the
U.S.
combat team

reached Prince George Saturday
night. Most of the stragglers are
si
exhibition’s second’ echelon.

Big U.S. Military Convoy

The two teams were tied up
in the league standings with 3
wins apiece prior to last night's
game.

Down at the bottom of the
loop ladder are the Stampeders
and Vanderhoot with a single
win each and three losses,

Next league fixture for the
Stamps will he next Wednesday

home ice until the weekend of
February 4 and 5. *: i
Tomorrow night. the Stamps
meet a Senior B Kamloops team
in an exhibition tilt at the arena.

airforce man.

Among the congregation were
members of the junior Pontiac
hockey team that Mr. Blackwell
had assisted in coaching and
managing for the past three sea-
sons.

As the service was being con-
ducted, stores in. town closed as
a mark of respect.
=St_the hockey.

president. of | they -Cerftral
Hockey League; talled-tor & min
ute’s silence in-respect of ama

} With: an engraved wallet-from

a farewell party Saturday night
for former station agent George
Mableson, who retired last week-
end after 46 years railroading.

The party was sponsored by
the Order of Railroad Tele-
graphers, of which Mr, Mable-
son is a past local chairman.
Among the guests yw,

W. A. Stewart, traffic superin-
tendent, as tterson

Mr, Mableson’ wasp

the ORT, that was filled by a

who was prominent in minor
league hockey circles:

By-Passes Town On Way North

Williams Lake residents had little chance to see
the scope of one of the largest peace-time military
manoeuvers undertaken in the Pacific North-west as
“Operation Moosehorn”’ swung by the town on its way
to Alaska early Saturday morning.

The original convoy consisted ;y———HH—____
Occupants were unhurt.

The convoy was split into
three sections, an advance party,
first echelon and second echelon.
Both echelons remain about 180
miles apart and get on the road
at 1 a.m. each day,

Most vehicles in the convoy
are big personnel carriers pull-
ing pup trailers. The latter con-
tain the gear of men in the pad-
ded rear of the trucks. The en-
tire convoy took on $100 gallons
of gas at-100 Mile House, 6000
gallons at Quesnel and about
8000 gallons at Mile 99 on the
Hart Highway. 7

Accident frequency is expect-
ed to diminish north of Dawson
Creek when the men get their
first two-day rest.

Operation Moosehorn is a
dual-purpose exercise designed
to prove or disprove the feasa-
bility of such a troop move-
ment over Highway 97 and the
Alaska Highway. Alaskan forces

Lewis, Washington on the first
leg of a 1300-mile trip to An-

Sixth Army regimental

200 of the ve-
to have

Fewer than
cles were reported

still trying to catch upto the

First mix-up in the operation
came outside of Williams Lake
when some 20 trucks and jeeps
got behind the main convoy and
took the highway entrance to
town instead of following the
cut-off. Several more went astray
at Quesnel when they made a
wrong turn and proceeded out
the road to Cinema.

Most serious accident so far
occurred between 160 Mile
House, where the exhibition biy-

ouaced overnight, and here. Alare the “enemy” and Operation
jeep rolled over three times Moosehorn is expected to halt
down a 50-foot embankment,! an “invasion” from the north.

Lumbermen Hand Stamps
Two Defeats On Weekend

Double trouble hit the Stampeders over
end when the Prince George Lumbermen came to town | son.

the week

and administered two defeats over the locals by de-
cisive margins of 7-3 and 8-2.

Stamps found their trouble in
playing came in double doses
too. Keeping up a fast and furi-
ous assault on the Prince net
for a good part of the playing
time in both games, they just
couldn’t click when it came to
the necessary pay-off shot. On
the other hand, their own net-
minder had a couple of off-days.

Only time the Stamps were out
in front in Saturday night’s
game was in the first half of the
opening period. At 5:15 the
score board blossomed out for
the first time when Vedan, Eyre
and Hooker figured on a three-
way play with Hooker doing the
honours. Ron Backman knotted
up the score at 15:15, and from
then on the Lumbermen never
looked back. Minutes later Ness
slapped a loose puck goal-wise
from just inside the blue line
and Hutchinson missed when he
kicked at the rubber. Two more
before the whistle ended the
period and Prince was on the
end of a safe 4-1 lead.

The second period was out-
standing by virtue of its dual
penalties. Latin and Therres
were banished for roughness and
the two were hardly hack on the
ice when MeDowell and Eyres
were handed two-minute penal-
ties. Near the period end Byres
and Smetanuk were waved off

for high sticking. Both teams
icked up a goal in the 20 min-
utes with amp counter be
ing seored by Hooker,

The fast final period saw the
Stamps close the gap to two

goals when Doug Norberg car-
ried the puck in behind the
Lumbermen net and then work-
ed it around to the front cor-
ner. Stampeder power plays to
catch up to the leaders backfired
when the visitors took advantage
of the open play to score twice
more,

NDAY GAME

Sunday was just more of the
same as far as the fans were
concerned. Although the stamps
skated hard and carried a great
deal of the play, they were dog-
ged by the same troubles of Sat-
urday night.

The visitors ran up a 4-1 lead
in the opening period and put
themselves well-out of reach in
the second frame with three
more counters. One of these was
a shot fired from centre ice by
Yates that Hutchinson failed to
stop. Half of the final period
went by before the Stamps add-
ed their second goal, with Rich-
ardson scoring on a long shot
trom the corner.

su

The Stamps missed the sery-
ices of Ramsay Blair for the two

gam: The rangy defenceman
wrenched his shoulder in last
week's game at Quesnel.

Quesnel Again Has
Hospital Problem

The school referendum that
will be presented this month is
only one example of how diffi-
cult it is to keep up with ser-
vices in. a boom area like the
Cariboo.

Up in Quesne’

» Where the re-
cently completed Baker Mem-
orial Hospital opened after
years of planning and over a
year in construction, there is a
hospital accommodation prob-
lem again.

Yesterday the first prospective
Patient was turned away be-
cause of lack of even emergency
space. The 53-bed hospital has
had an average of 60 patients in
it since shortly after it opened
last month,

money gift from employees and

Wallet was presented by Ted.

‘Tiechman,
ORT.
Guests were at the party from’
Pemberton, Lone Butte, Lillooet,
Quesnel and Prince George. Af.
ter the hockey game several lo-
cal residents Came in to bid
farewell to Mr, and Mrs. Mable-

local chairman of the

Highlight of the party was a
telegram to Mr. Mableson from
Hon. Ralph Chetwynd, minister
of railways, wishing him happi-
ness in his retirement.

Mrs. Stan Goad and Mrs. Guy
Marcy looked after refreshments,
and after the party Ben Abbott
extended an invitation to the
Mablesons to stay at his hotel
as his personal guests until they
left this week for Edmonton.

At another farewell party Fri-
day night, Mr. Mableson was
honoured by members of the
local Kiwanis Club. Herb Gard-
mer made a presentation of a
wallet to the retiring station
agent.

A. B. (BUFF) HAMILTON
se _

Member of Pioneer
Family Passes

Alfred Bernard (Buff) Ham-
ilton, grandson of Gavin Hamil.
ton, Hudson’s Bay Company
factor, and son of the late
Charles Hamilton of Lae La
Hache, passed away in War
Memorial Hospital December 29
at the age of 66 years. He was
born at 150 Mile House.

He leaves to mourn his pass-
ing his wife, Tiney, son Edgar,
one brother, George of Vancou-
ver, two sisters, Bella of Mont-
real and Mrs. Rose- Williams of
Lac La Hache.

Funeral services were con=
ducted by Rey. J. Colelough,
Pallbearers were Bordie Felker,
John Felker, Cliff Bagle, Bill
Downie, Archie McDougal and
William Dixon.

FINED FOR KEEPING GAME

Charged with keeping game
without a permit, R. A. Kelley
of Soda Creek was fined $100 in
Police court this week,

of