— Williams Lake Tri NEWS EXCHANGE OF THE CARIBOO bune “ eo 5 cua ae 40> January 12, 1956. Volume 24 —— Number ros WILLIAMS LAKE, Bc. Thursday, Single copy 10c. $2.50 per year. Major A ABOVE, BELOW, NEAR NORMAL. TAKE YOUR CHOICE 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. KY eek Cae was 15 above. OCOR ; e g AUS e ™ TESNE 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