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Phureday, February v, 1658,

| EDITORIALS

A Sign of Weakness

To responsible citizens, whether they were work-
ing for or against the school referendum, the most dis-

appointing aspect of the voti

at the polls. Here was a question that, because of cir-
merited a maximum amount of publicity,
possessing the right to cast

cumstances,
but the majority of those
a ballot stayed at home.

ng was the small turnout

S-OTT'S SCRAP BGOK

By R J. SCOTT

ZA50r Ee MED 1K The U.S,

Nature Scrapbook

By Bill Myring

Taming the Wild

Domesticated animals and
Plants can be controlled becauss
they require man-rmace condi-
tions and careful tending. But
when a wild species is introduc-
ed into an area where it never
lived before, there is no telling
What may happen: either it will

New York. Carp, introduced as

a food fish in the 70's and sold
for $80 per pair, haye become a
nuisance in streams and lakes
all over the country.

Why Does a Fish Jump?

There are a number of reasons
why a ‘fish jumps: to escape an
enemy, to hurdle barriers (ex-
ample — salmon on waterfalls)
to rid itself of bothersome hooks
or external parasites, to capture
food, and at times, to play. Tar-

“Established 1931
Clive Stangoe, Bditor

Williams Lake Tribune

Published every Thursday at
Williams Lake, B.C., by the
Tribune Publishing Co.
Subscription: per year $2.60
Outside Canadu $3.00

Here is an example of the weakness of a democ- KEYWAY, multiply and spread like wild-|pon and salmon are the best Advertising rates on application
Tacy that Professor Davies referred to in his talk to HAE IM ONE YEAR WouLD fire or it will soon disappear. If| known jumpers, and they haye| Authorized as Second Class Mail
the Board of Trade on international affairs. It may RARE BO SEE AE NOES DARECER it spreads, it may prey upon|been known to leap as high as| bY the Post Office Department,
| seem far-fetched to look to the results of a vote in a| Butane 2 : some native species, or crowd it| ten feet. - Rat
Small corner of this country of ours and see therein a SUB oF A Mes out, or interbreed with them, or
threat to our democratic government, but it is there. a BIRDS infect it with serious new dis- .
The greatest threat to the principle of responsible} KEYWAY, Move eases and parasites. These Letters to The Editor
government is an apathetic attitude on the part of its| (agar wears things happened when people
citizens, and the pattern is all too prevalent when it BARS Tay ANH MEW cena, WALKING began to import foreign kinds of
comes time to make a decision on local, provincial or| SHEL NYS. | crntists cReaten BECAUSE. wildlite. Williams Lake, B.C.,; holdings, buying out Richards.
federal matters. fa Ait ae The nightingale and the sky- January 31, 1956./1m 1927 he bought the Hillcrest
It is too bad that we native-born Canadians can’t ARMICALE- 1-055, 4HEY CAN lark disappeared but the Eng-|The Bditor, Ranch from Briston, and in 1928
= t; 'Z BEAWIEN WHE) R) JUDGE DISTANCE i : il :
all have the opportunity of talking to the thousands WHEN SEEING OBJECTS Ush sparrow, brought here in| The Tribune. the McRae place from Humph-
of displaced persons who have completed their five- ae Sot TH ONLY ONE EYE AT AIMED the 1850's to control Insect pests, | Dear Sir: ries, These were the last major
‘year domicile qualification and are being called up aaa spread so fast that by 1875 it] after reading the story of the additions to his ranch, and from
before judges throughout the land to proudly accept had crossed the continent. Simi-| late Charlie Moon in last week’s|1930 he invested in property in
the responsibility of citizenship. Th C k larly the starling has increased | issue, we thought’ we would Williams Lake,
To these people it is taken as an honour to be e rac er Barrel Forum enormously and become a pest|write to give you some more Charlie Moon was a devoted

“accepted on equal terms; to

be an integral part of a

since 1890 when 60 of them

facts on the life of this pioneer

father to his family, and the

society that believes the four freedoms are qualities to By/A. ds Deinkell : Were released in Central Park, | rancaer. finest friend a man could have.
practice in everyday living not just to preach about. Se When Charlie first came to the|T¥e was always ready to lend a
They have, in many cases, experienced the alternative LOOKS AT a few stores. That it had been|Cariboo in 1888, he first worked helping hand to anyone and he

of life under a dictatorship
how precious are the rights

~ democracy.
Not the least of these rights is that of making our

—=~—

individual decisions by secret

regime, and they know
enjoyed by citizens in a

ballot, whether the ques—

tion is one of a money by-law or the selection of gov-

ernment representatives. Bu

t like all rights under a

“democracy, it it imposes a responsibility that of exer-

cising our franchise. If we ca

8 tablishment and regaled us with an account -
Teponsibilities, we are courting the danger of losing| of the visit at our last hold-forth. It seems At this juncture Tony emerg-| Ranch as it came to be famillar-
our privileges as well. he hadn’t been in Tony's place ed from out back with justifiable |1y known. MOVING?
° since he broke one of the shafts Hee mae tal ore wae pride pointed out first one new| Mr. and Mrs, Drummond went : °
on his spectacles and that was | /8Peclor to the P.G.B. "hat/imnovation and then another.|to England in 1898 and one of : 2
Ru ed Times-Ru ed N Non away back — well — it was | “id the old Please Go Rasy pant) There is even a well-appointed | the writers (R. C. Cotton) went If you aye moving:
Og gg long time ago. with a wateh inspector? Even! pooth to which the young lov-| with Charlie for six months of anywhere in Canada.
WNophistry of the chtils industry. of aweatern| ‘When HE wot inside ok this| eacisat eee Pav oe may retire to select hele gn-|that year, I then bought out contact
7 occasion be was beginning to ae gement or wedding ring in|Drummond and Charlie worked
Canada will be complete without the story of Charles rie: He had “absentmindediy |* Clock couldn't Intorin pros-|ietsurely manner and in seriet | for me for a year. He left then SMITH
Moon, whose passing removed one more of the handful strayed into the wrong store put | PCUY® Passengers (he train Was} privacy. This, of course, is quite | for the old country and return-
of men left to remember the emergence of the Cariboo there was Mrs, Woodland sure| “Week late already. Neverthe-lin “keeping ‘with "the eareful/ed with his family in 1902. Transfer & Storaze
as an important ranching country. aoneli amilineiy sndutrine at. | Jess Tony's weekly ad: in The] planning evident through. After! He started ranching for him- oe
The years around the turn of the century were ter bis health. There: was also a| 17ibume continued to inform us| the old chap finished recounting | self that year, buying Deer Park Fully Equipped
Tugged times for those men who chose to build a place remarkable variety of merchan-|°!,t2@ #PPoitment. | is reactions we all seemed|Ranch and the Davis Meadows
for themselves in a country that was still a frontier. dise very conveniently displayed | 72°” Be Temembered when thé| agreeed there is nothing more| trom young Davis. In 1914 he Padded Van
The ones who survived in the business of ranching in show cases all shiny ani store was moved to its present! gratitying than to see old firms] bought the Sheep Creek Ranch E
possessed a combination of sound judgment, faith in bright. Somghow the display |/0c#ton With its dignified new/ana old friends continuing to/from Meldrum and a year later
the future, and just plain “guts.” windows seemed different, too;|{T02t amd display “ windows| piace dignity and service ahead bought the Murdoch Cross Phone 57-R-2
Such a man was Charlie Moon. That he lent his Rich Sandon than ais eeitema tastefully in keeping with busi- of monetary considerations and| Ranch. In 1921 he added the QUESNEL, BC.
Ress conducted on the inside.| peing rewarded for so doing. Meldrum Creek Ranch to his

ability of, organization to the.formation of the fore-
runner of the Cariboo Cattleyien's Association, is an-
other example of his worth

Cattlemen today are quick tol appreciate the value of
organizations such as the C.C.A., but in earlier days
it took a lot of spade work to convince these individu-
alists that in co-operation lay their strength of the

future.

The name of Charlie Moon will long be remem-

bered in the Cariboo.

n’t, as citizens, accept our

0 his adopted country.

US. Tax

: The governors of the Canadian Tax Foundation
are nominated each year by the Canadian Bar Associ-
ation and the Canadian Institute of Chartered Account-

es Less

ants. The Canadian Tax foundation, therefor, should
be an independent organization eschewing bias for or

against government. A rather valuable annual publi-

cation, entitled The National
version of the federal budget

Finances, is a truncated

plus some further inform-
ation. But its worth is materially reduced by the fact

that tables reassert an annual claim in Ottawa that

Canadian income taxes are 1

to residents of the United States. In giving rates at

ower than those applying

for a particular gift item one
walked into Tony Woodland’s J.

bered them but then he thought
everyshing was a far cry from
the ffrst modest little store Tony.
occupied lowed down the street.

There was not a great deal to
Williams Lake in those days.
The old boy says he remembers
when it was first opened. A lot
of people wondered what was
wrong with the man’s head
opening up a watch repair shop.
Why: hadn’t Grassie repaired
Cariboo watches since the begin-
ning of time?
WHY AN INSPECTOR?

Then he recalled the guffaws
which greeted Tony’s first pride-
ful announcement that he had

An Old Firm with
A Modern Outlook

When in town a short time ago questing

of the boys
ewellery es-

Next cafe ano prideful an-
noungement—aA }change of styl-
ing—Htencefort! it would be
known as BH. G. Woodland and
Son. Ralph/had reached matur-
ity and joined the firm. And then
the old chap say “and there I
stood in the middle of a whole
lot more changes and I must
say when I saw this beautifully
laid out store I felt a glow of
pleasure at the thought that one
of the oldest established em-
Poriums could still display the
same faith and vigor as charac-
terized it when it first opened
for business in the midst of a
number of shacks surrounding

From the Files

of The Tribune

ONE YEAR AGO
February 3, 1955
Formation of The Williams

various levels of income for the United States, a foot-|Lake Flying Club was under-
note directs attention to the fact that in addition to

federal taxes there are state i
30 states and in several mun
note does not say is that the
Payer has numerous deductio:

ncome taxes in more than
icipalities. What the foot-
United States income tax
ms which are not allowed

in Canada. He never pays taxes on taxes or taxes on

interest. He can deduct storm
Most important of all,

damage to his own home.
a man and wife in the

United States may file a joint return, dividing the

family income evenly.

This is not allowed in Canada. According to the

taken with 12 members attend-
ing. Lloyd Keene of 150 Mile
was named president— Fred
Graham lost the Mackenzie Chal-
lenge Trophy to Tom Larson in
curling, after having successfully
defended it twelve times— Bert
Lloyd, managing director of
Chilcotin Airways Ltd. purchas-
ed two aircraft while in Califor-
nia— Forty lumber operators
met to form the South Cariboo
Lumbrmen’s Association— 200

women pulled the sleigh in 30
| betow zero weather over wind-
swept Becher’s prairie— Ex-
postmaster Harold Richardson
was honored for his long service
at the Board of Trade banquet—

TEN YEARS AGO
Februar;

G. S. Burton will take over
the duties as manager of th B.C.
Power Commission from H. A.
Newcomen who is being trans-
ferred to Campbell River— Les-
lie Pigeon, Roy Woodland and
Joe Smith have all arrived home
from overseas— 4

able to meet competition, to con-
tinue growing and improving in
keeping with the town’s progress
it seemed tangible evidence the
firm was supplying merchandise
and services of high order and
was being rewarded to an extent
that made these changes pos-
sible.”

for Eddie Drummond at Deer
Park Ranch. When Drummond
went broke, Charlie then work-
ed for Baumont and Mortimer
Drummond, a partnership that
dissolved in 1897. Following the
split, Charlie went to work for
Mortimer Drummond at Riske
Creek Ranch, or the Cotton

donated generously to charitable
organizations. %

Thank you very much, Mr.
Editor, for placing this letter in
Your paper.

Yours very truly,

f

TEN YEARS
FROM NOW?

What will be the value of Canada’s production
of goods and services? How large will our
population be? How will the nation’s

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How will we stack up .

Tax Foundation’s booklet the married taxpayer with
an income of 60° an “ut devendents would i
; 1
pay $450. If a joint return of man and wife were al- COE nerd een the
lowed the tax would be $65 on $2,500 or $130 in all. St. Andrew's United Church,
Bera ee is eonsidiered too, trivial for the Tax held for the Srat tinié in the
a F 4

In 1952 there came to light the details of the in- eae eaten ae Ba aE
come tax paid by Vice-President Nixon in 1951. A char- horn sheep that were transport.
ered accountant examining this return on the basis of ed. from ‘Jack Mooii's Deer: Park
Canadian rates, allowances and deductions discovered Tangh. are: Waihi plised on cin
that if Mr. Nixon had been living in Canada in 1951 500-acre Seechane re Oreetin
on the same income, his tax would have been 57 per Stats In ‘an attempt 10. restore
cent more than the tax he actually had to pay in the the bikhorae fo. colintty the
United States. Canadian taxpayers should know these 3 ° ie

7 ; were once native of— A fire
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and similar facts—The Printed Word. brigad 6 Been formed’ at ‘100:

Mile House with 19 members
signed up at th first meeting—
Highteen parents and teachers
attended the organizational
meeting of the Skyline Parent-
Teachers Association at the new
elmentary sehool—

economy stack up in the years ahead?
‘These questions interest every Canadian.
This month's B of M Business Review
attempts to answer them for you by analyzing
Canada’s development in the first ten
postwar years and by outlining the main
deatures of further growth in the decade ahead.
The B of M Business Review is an
authoritative monthly publication. . .
each issue contains a detailed survey of
nudian economy,

of national business
L reports on each,

| region of the country.

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TWENTY YEARS AGO
Snauary 30, 1936
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