Page 2 3 EDITORIALS A Word To The Motorist T’S “back to school” time ih the district again, and a reminder of this fact is always in order for the motorist. After two months of driving without the necessity to observe the zone speed limit restrictions Passing schools, it takes a little conscious effort at first to remember that these buildings are again hives of classroom activities. ¥ The need for drivers to be alert through the early weeks of school term is Particularly important. School children have been on holiday, and the lessons in traffic safety that teachers have drilled into them through the previous terms have been blunted with lack of repetition. There are also those all- important first graders. Out in the world for the first time, these little boys and girls will make many errors in observance of the rules of traffic safety. They will eventually learn the necessity of ‘these rules, Mr. Motorist, but in the meantime assume that the moral onus is almost entirely on you. - School starts next Wednesday. It is an important date on the calendar for both students and drivers. Support Needed eS 1958 version of the Fall Fair, which will occupy the arena this Friday, will be a pale reftection of the shows of former years, but it can be a lot of fi just the same. e Balance between. success and failure rests with the townspeople. If they support the flower show by entering exhibits in as many classes as they can, and if they patronize the one-day show, it will be a success. This type of support is necessary if we have any hope at all in the future of building up the Fall Fair to its Prominence of seven years ago. Choice Of A Project LSEWHERE is this week's paper is a notice of a public meeting called by the local Centennial Committee. Purpose of the meeting is to Officially settle on a project for Williams Lake for the 1958 Centennial The subject is one that has stirred a mild tempest in the community teacup for some time now, and it should settle the matter once and for all. If you have any ideas on the subject; if you’re interested in what Centennial project Williams Lake should back, or if you’re just curious—turn ont on September 5. ¥ j } 5 ee * All Civil Sévants? ‘ — In Letter Retiew Y the year 2069, everybody in the U.S. may be B working for the government. This is the startling conclusion of Monthly Letter, publication of the First National City Bank of New York, which points out that during the last 25 years the civilian labor force has grown at the rate of 1.2 per cent a year com- pounded, while total government civilian employment has expanded at the rate of 3.2 per cent compounded. Projecting these trends into the future, Monthly Letter finds that by 2069 government bureaucracy will have engulfed the entire civilian labor force, In Canada, where government payroll has been expanding at even faster clip, fate of bureaucracy may the lot of every Canadian even sooner. ‘DID YOU KNOW... That we give the best car deals in town. That our Used Cars carry a GUARANTEE. That We Stand Behind our Products and “After We Sell — We Serve.” Come To Us With Confidence Beath Motors (W.L.) Ltd. Your Automotive Headquartters PHONE 312 ———~ SCHEDULE “Contolaylea DAILY SERVICE ; SOUTHBOUND—Leaves Prince George at 7 a.m. NORTHBOUND—Heaves Nth. Vancouver at 8 a.m. Southbound Schedule Northbound 7:00am. Ly. Prince George —. Ar. 12:30 a.m. Ly. Quesnel - _. . Ly. Williams Lake Ly. Clinton . Ar. Ar. North Vancouver . Ly. Reclining Lounge Seats View Windows Reserved Seats available with Steward Service and Complimentary Meals FOR RESERVATIONS AND TICKETS: water, coke, replacing it with booze, || (barring the temperence group, aground, the local populace os THE TRIBUNE. WILLIAMS WE fs 28105 fe = = = SS - a ~~ a SCOTT'S SCRAP B , RE E The 13 brmiation ip through Fer TO wa reeen | Trg the Files of The Tribune [Suse #, won 3 OSCULATE, & ES i & F ONE YEAR aco dragging operations on Horse dion — eee oe September 6, 1955 lovall power plant . . . George Atmstrong has, sold his drug store to M. EB. Brandly. TWENTY ¥y ARS AGO August 26, 1937 | Lake for the hody of Lioya G. With the enrohnent of some| M¢Latehy. who is missing 1,900 school children in District and » presumed drowned . . 22 Sit system Was hed'to be) Direntors: of “War _ Menoridi Put into operation. igh: dis-| Hospital have been advised trict schools have closed because | that the institution will-receive Griloek Of teachers |= Lack ota Federal’ Government grant of|, W"m-Johnson, of alkali ceevee ih almost “alli divisions | $12,000 towards the cost or |L@Ke: waseenesea president of Fesulled! {h' the Cariboo Wall Pair | construction of the. new wing... |‘R@ B.C. Livestock xchange... being the poorest showing Since | Fred M. Wells, 96, veteran pros-| “O" ets have been reccived to the tevivelolvthie snausl ewair| peetor; sdmatiines called tne |Ut 120 carloads of Christmas six years ago... Half a million |“Father of the Cari diea | "ees In the district, whien will dollars worth’ of machinery and) in Vancouver. He is crediteq}™°4> employment for 125 men pavipment will be’ on Gisplay| with bringing more mines iato|i™ tle qstene ee A-new build- Henibicce or the Lumbermen's|oroduction in B.¢. than anv{it& hae beens erected on the’ pebibitions <= Theihomerot Mil other peraon Body “or 8 / Quesnel man, Ruffell Coulter, 39, | (0° @nd Pair Association for A oi” Baseeann PLAYER 'S ASURE fy was destroyed by fire. . .| was discovered hanging trom a|‘!® housing of purebred stock. COMI VEN ee £8 e RYING “Stead. SEC R.C.M-P. officers from 100 Mile] roe on 8 downtown street by| TWENTY-FIVE YEARS aco SE AHE AME “flo RUN FROM. SI nPyi A ND 1S FOUR SECON House are still carrying ont high school janitor Bill Lowden. August 25, 1932 ron : 25, 1932 AX AIRPLANE. ARAVEL WHILE EATING DINNER “7 About £80 MILES. FIVE YEARS AGO It has been learned that the August 28, 1952 sovernment definitely has no in- SS oe tter To T Bee A Letter To The Four hundred children start|‘emtion of accepting the proposal back to local schools next week |°! the Kidd business men’s com- Editor anti es mittee that the Operations of the THE CRACKER BARREL FORUM aottniee tate 2 ee in Prospectors converged on| tire sytem be junked... peat: Sh P coeutie ME Timothy Mountain in Lac La|TP¥nderstorms and heavy raing [enention of the executive of] tache to stake their claims for ve held up haying in the Dog he Cariboo Branch 94 of the the rare metal beryllium. How-, C'@ek district for the past week, Canadian Legion B.E.S.L., ever, exhaustive tests showed Quesnel, B.C., that our name| ry ; ; @ ore did not contai Serra has been used in the present | miner’ or fontan the! Williams Tale Tribune Established 1931 by-election campaign to the det- Clive Stangoe, Editor BRANCH REFUTES way . .. Hundreds of amateur |?-%-E: cease immediately and the y A. J. Drinkell LOOKS AT— The Cost of Living And Inflation dee cost of living has reached a new high in Canada and the U.S.A, TEN YEARS AGO August 26, 1947 riment of one of the candidates. | While the Canadian Legion does not participate In election cam- Paigns, as it is not their policy| Jt has been decided to leave < ; to become involved in polities, | "he eee, Charles Shiverick on D é : ‘4 they do believe in fair play to | he ice slope of Mount Serra, in z i Fes hee ae tine it was |hand, agricultural exports point|an We Wore been informea|the Chileotin, where he was| Published every Wednesday eer mgteck in oth countries/out that of every §4 the house-| cacy the rumour’ is circulating | Killed last month . . . An im-| at Williams Lake, B.C., by the creating farm prices largely |wite spendstoday at the super. that W. C. Speare quit his post |CTet8e Of $5 bounty on timber Tribune Publishing’ Co. offset the increasing. costs of|market, at least $1 goes for as president of our branch. This|lves and--cougars was an-] Subscription: per year $3.00 other goods and services. Now,|/foods she didn’t demand andfrumour is entirely false. wil{2°UNced by the provincial goy.| Outside Canada $4°00 however, food prices are showing|were not even available before] was twice elected president of | e’mment Word has been] 4 ing Rates on Application 2 decided upward trend and the Word War II. One economist] Cariboo Branch 94 and votn |erelved that Bishop Jennings, | Authorized OS Guana Class Mail Prospect of halting the rise in}insists it is simply a case of times he completed his term of |! Kamloops, will make a Con. m0 ae oe the near future is none toojliving higher on the hog. An- office and did not stand for re-| bright. s other says it is a case of spiral election the following year, as Periodically some person or inflation—the cost of living this is the policy of our branch Sroup demands an enquiry into| pushing up the cost of living. unless extraordinary cireum- the disparity between prices | The consensus of optniotil stances intervane. Both tithes crs) the farmer and those charged|seems to be that as rising food| he completed his term of office in the stores. Some excerpts| prices are primarily a result of] to the satisfaction of meetings of | from a review published ‘es marketing costs, it can- the branch. ‘Trusting this will | : Newarresh "may prove of clarify this unfounded rumour. int crest oO readers, 2 Cariboo Branch 94 “The average salaried worker Canadian Legion BEB S.L. now pays $28 more per year for Per H. J. FRASER, inflationary trend is reversed and there is little prospect of that “happening in the near futures food than he did a year ago. Presiche Who gets the _increase?/” No government, apparently,! Quesnel, B.C. Actually only $4 trickles down to| wis’ tofintroduce the drastic Ee the farmer. Marketing 2 ¢ at" armer. t gps La es. aky to pegene absorb the balance. “The mida~rhey p#efer ito experimeng with man points out that the $24 Se | tight U not all hisf fault. Ametican| panac: ted a = ee J‘S, Housing ¢ mayi.slhw it ; t : a consumers xiust bear part of the| down } it. Mar’ et K 9} blame because they insist on| Ther a danger of ; ey : better cuts of beef, fancier}it expfnding until it bursts it- (B.C. grades of vegetables, ready|self. The devastating effects of mixes, tin-foil wrapping and|the resultant depression are too thore pre-cooking. On the other | dire to contemplate. ews Letter) Rate of house-building in the United States is nearest single factor to being a key to B.C. lumber industry's near term : future. After dropping to a six- A L L A B 0 A R D year low of 933,000 (adjusted annual rate) in Maren, v.s.| be housing starts in May and June : Were approximately on the} A BARGE loaded with 10,000 about the tricks the white resi-|11700:000-a-vear rate, There is ; no noteworthy change in the cases of beer and wine struck| dents of Klemtu cannery had to|tight mortgage money situation, Vancotiver Bock -in Milbanke |... to conceal fiers everyday |which is aggravated by the Sound while’ under tow from] sic? cone Police. The | steadily rising cost of building, Seattle to Juneau. now estimated to be increasing at five per cent a year or more. | Vacant houses available for pur. quence nobody there was allowed | chase in the U.S. are about un- to posses liquor. The rule was| changed with a year ago, but P, Mortimere cannery at that time stood on he ‘crew “managed to: Deaeh: Traian tend, and a8 a. xonges the barge near a place called Klemtu, which stands on (be- lieve it or not) Swindle Island. those available for rental are . down about 17 per cent. This One load of rum was delivered | tact could generate increasi ,, fenforced. What the towboat men didn’t realize was that they had put the barge aground near an Indian| by boat to the cannery. How to demand for housing, considering | got around. At nightfall there] carried it past the policemen. was a subdued sound of oars and paddles, and many small craft converged upon the cargo car- rier, which lay in a few feet of| bottles, by pouring out half the struction industry On another’ occasion, they|awards are still running from three to fiive per cent above a year ago. contract village. get it out? The boys sealed the | that the vacancy rate for rental is ts . y;housing is now considerably : Yord of the cargo mystery|stuf in salmon cans, coolly y Word o: go my: under two per cent, H. PHONE 184 Fifras . This advertisement is not published or displ concealed their spirits in coke | Liquor Control Board or by the Government of British Columbia a The events that followed were | 4d recapping the bottles. On remarkably similar to those por-|tOP of each case they put a row trayed jn the movie “ Tight] Of bottles that contained nothing Little Island,” except that in| but coke. place of the hardy Celts of the] Wien a poligemun came in sefeenplay, the local drama|carcning for liquor, they gave feslured some: native: €ond.WbO) nin a narmiesawbottle. of coke Were Just as.stalwart and: Just} put arank rum-sid:coke. them< aa: thirsty. selves. Later, the cannery mpuny bought the land from [the Indian jlegal at confessed to the policeman how | they had made a chump of him.| A deplorable crowd. The boats arrived empty, but they went away loaded. The people were loaded, too. Pretty soon all the folk of the village, from youths to grandfathers I suppose), were rolling drunk. The story abouta hoard of liquor being cast up by the sea| is a recurrent one, in fact and | fiction. Before “ Tight Little Island ""— called ‘ Whisky Galore " in Britain — there were | several references in literature | to such alcoholic treasure trove. During the time the barge was managed to sneak off with some 500 cases of wine and beer. Then a salvage crew patched the barge and got her moving again. The fun was over. This happened last November, In intriguing thought is the To my knowledge the story] Possibility that caches of liquor See your lecal agent PACIFIC GREAT EASTERN RAILWAY __| never got in the newspapers.|!rom rum-running days are still My informant is a truthful per-| buried somewhere about the son who was a witness. Other-|islands of the southern B.C. wise I might be sceptical about|¢oast. Rum-runners were as the whole thing. thick as water-fleas here during | the great American thirst. Such | PAST THE FORCE [¢aches could exist. But enough The same informant told me|of this unpleasant subject.