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‘Smell Wasn't Caused By Real Thing

Town» residents who thought
they could smell natural gas in
the air last night were close in
their guess, but the Inland
Gas Company lines weren’t
filled with the real thing.

Natural gas is odorless, but
@ strong odorant is inixed ygith
it as a saiety factor. This
odorant has other uses as well,
however, and one of these is to
aid in location of a leak in
line following installation.

Once a system of lines is in-
Stalled, the pipes are put under
100 pounds of air pressure for
24 hours. Re gulations allow
a two-pound drop in pressure
during this period, and a recent
test of the town system showed
a 2% pound drop. In order to
find the fault, the pressure was
being built up again yesterday
with a quantity of the liquid
odorant added.  ~

In the meantime, the company
was awaiting permission from
the Department of Highways to
install one small section of pipe
across a town street. The
approval came through just as
the pressure was being built up,
and it was decided to hold of
on the testing work until. the
single pipe section could be laid
and then test the entire system.

With this decision, pressure
was taken off the line and the
odorant released into the atmos-
phere about seven o'clock last
night. In its liquid form, the

Church Dedication
Date Wrong

In the story last week on the
re-dedication of St. Peter's
Anglican Church, the date was
given as September 27. This
Was incorrect. The ceremonies
will be held Saturday, September
21, with special services being
held the following day.

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CCF CANDIDATE

Candidate for the CCF
Party in the September 9

by-election is — Jack
Wasyliw, of Quesnel.

odorant is particularly powerful.
Its closest counterpart for
strength in nature is the odorant
given of by skunks. A bit
spilled on your hands will just
have to wear off before the odor
leaves.

Curling Rink

“Plans Approved

Plans for a three-sheet curl-
ing rink for the Williams Lake
Curling Club Were approved by
commissioners last night.

The new rink, which will be
equipped with an artificial ice
plant, will be located at the end
of Borland Street on the edge
of the golf course. The plans
show a quonset-style structure
utilizing glue laminated arches
for support and sheathed with
aluminium, The main part of
the building measures 186 x 50
feet with an allowance of 31 feet
of the length of the structure
for club rooms, A mezzanine
floor is provided for and this
will be finished later as a club
lounge with view windows over
the ice surface. é

Part of the building cost,
estimated at $25,000 with equip-
ment, has been raised by sale
of memberships. Arrangements
are now being made for financ-
ing the balance required. In
the meantime the 12 ‘trusses for
the structure have been ordered
and excavation. work will
commence immediately,

Car Taken From
Used Car Lot

The used car lot of Williams
Lake Motors was again the tar-
get of thieves Monday night.
Taken from the lot was. a
1950 Chevrolet co Tt is got

z -
cecrred, since the xehicle
not jaissed until the following

morning. ?

Bridge Location
Crews Coming

A department of highways
bridge location crew is expected
to arrive here shortly to under-
take the location of a site for a
new suspension bridge over the
Fraser,

Just when such a bridge is to
be considered in government
planning is still a question mark,
but the presence of location men
indicates the project is one-that
is being kept in mind.

Problem is to find suitable
bridge approaches on either side
of the river at a point where
there is not the necessity of an-
other Sheep Creek bill.

| their way, down the pipe clean

LOCAL
CADET
AT PNE

Bern Perreton, 15,
of 610 Squadron,
Williams Lake, is ™
a member of the F
cadet
eur-

crack air
drill team
rently attending
the PNE at Van-
The
squadron partici-
pates in the daily
lowering
ceremony held at ff
the main grand-
stand. Sixty-four §
cadets from across fe
Canada are mem-§
bers of the pukker
drill squad. Bern
is the son of Mr. ff
and Mrs. M. Per-

couver.

ensign

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ROAD UNDERMINED IN MISHAP.

When, in gas line construction they are stopped by
work, a “pig catcher” fails to|plug known asa “ pig
eatch a “pig,” a chunk of the
nearby countryside usually dis-
appears,

This happened about 9:30 a.m,
Monday on the big main pipeline

failed and the plug went sailing
out the end-of the pipe with the
near the junction of the Moun-| pressure built-up shooting water

tain House road and the Cariboo
Highway. The resulting gush of
water, under terrific pressure,
undermined a section of the
Mountain House road
To. get back to *

out with terrific, force,
injured in the mis-
re-routed on

a
a
1S
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struction language,

Berore anus seins of ie
line, sections, sémetimes us lone ?
as 20 miles, are cleaned out by
the use of “pigs.” ‘There are
about four feet long and ‘re-
mble enlarged dumbells. They
are forced through the line by
air and water pressure and on

improved Weather

With the “advent of better
weather, road work throughout
the district will he stepped up,|”
according to District Engineer
Don Cullen.

Major job just completed near
town was the re-gravelling of the
Smedleyville road for a distance
of some two miles.

On the Likely road work is
continuing on improving the

off all seale and dirt. Normally

Ranchers Will Hay

If the sunny weather that
finally came our way this week
continues, ranchers in the area

WM alendisthelr Labor Dearly piacas: grades. on thie sii /
weekend in the hay fields. jens aes 3
With the éontingal wet were as Steep ate 12 Dsh cent
¢ and relocation Work will reduce
Weather this summer, many| ine average to five per cent: T

ranchers have b unable to 7 ¢
el ¢ been t Drainage and widening of the

move machines on to tame hay
meadows and most swamp
meadows are under water.

Beaver Valley road is underway
which should greatly improve
the connecting link between the

Arena Shows Surplus For Year’s Operation

N operating profit of $2,

298.61 for the year ended

June 30 was realized by the War Memorial Arena

Society, according to the

financial statement pre-

sented to Monday night’s meeting of the group.

The society has now paid off
all trade bills still outstanding
in connection with the construc-
tion of the building and has no
other indebtedness, but the|
$20,100.00 in 20-year bonds that
are repayable in 1969

Repair work to the arena roof
being con-|

and walls are now
sidered and bids are being
secured on the roof work.

Additional gravel is being placed |
on the main arena ground sur-|
face and in the curling rink te}
leve] the surfaces. |

A good part of Monday night’s
meeting was given over to dis |
cussion of future use of the
curling rink area. Up to last
season it was rented by the
Williams Lake Curling Club, but
that organization is now plan-
ning a new rink,

Consideration is heing given
to operating it as a curling rink
to accommodate mixed rinks
and possibly high schoo] student
rinks. Another suggestion put
forward was to put-ice on the
surface and use that section of
the arena as a skating area for
youngsters. It was felt that this
suggestion might result in more
time being available to hockey.
teams for practice in the main
area.
cett, 16

understood that the

Mountain Rangers (Militia)
might be interested in the space
on a year-round basis, and there
is also a suggestion that it be
used as a rifile range.

All aspects of the problem
will be gone into by the execu-
live and a decision may be
reached at next month’s meeting.

[ta detailed financial statement

of the arena operation will be
found on Page Six, Second

| Section).

Service Club
Seeks Park Site

At the request of the Williams

Lake Kiwanis Club, Village
Commissioners will ask the
Pacific Great Eastern Railway

Company to make the land now
used as a ball park near the golf
course available for development
as a public park and playground.
The service club has been
contemplating such a project for
some time now, but the question
of site has delayed the formation
of any definite plans.
Representing? the club at the
commission meeting was Wes
Atcheson, who is on 2 committee
to investigate project material.

Lik and Horsefly roads.

out on the Horsefly Lake road
In the south part of the di
triet, velling of the fonr|In

[the 100 Mile-Rose Lake road| (1

°
New Officers jwill be undertaken, as will |
° | gravelling he Forest Grove-|
For Air Cadet 2uctncts Zeer ore
and Hawkins lakes.
Squadron

Work is continuing on the
Two new officers were named

block

building measures 88 by §

The

miles of reconstructed section of | Biven birth to her 22nd

15 li

Will Publish
Next Thursday

S next: Monday is a pub-

lic holiday, the ney
issue of The ‘Tribune y
be published on Thursday,
September 5, instead of the
normal Wednesday publish-
ing day.

Work Underway
On Major Stere
Construction

Work started Monday on moy-
ing dirt off the site of the new
store to be oceupied by Western,
Rife.and Pigeon, on the corner

Third

Street.
Plans for the modern concrete

pelonyon: Wiliams by commissioners last night.|®! over the prairie Provinces
Pee RC G. and L, Carlson Ltd. are oe Sec pearkicy tag onsar Se es
pHote: oe “Re) Chamberlain emphasized that
coutractors and the valuation, | the work. of looking for addi-
excluding “extensive blacktop |tional teachers to ©
work, is set at $70,000, The|District 27 staff is still going

The building crews will con-
Z centrate first on the large park-
“pe ow ° Wiyeug |”
Pig Catcher” Fails To Catch “Pig” <=;
cars. This will be graded and
levelled and blacktop put on this
fall.

which will hold 1

The work will

grocery

Patrick Chelsea

Mrs.

ives Birth
0 22nd Child

+ The simple announcement
Tribune birth column last
week of a son to Mr. and Mrs. |
Patrick Chelsea, of Alkali Lake,

Gravelling is also being earriea | WOWG not reveal the interesting Wins $1 500
‘ | ri
|

| story behind it.

Mrs. Chelsea is a 40
dian mother who has

jer family includes one set

ins),

The former Anatasia Charlie,
and her | contest.
ake up what
is regarded by the Indian Affairs] ularly welcome to the Hustons,
the | who last winter lost their home
largest families in the agency.” |in a fire.

was maried in 1
ng children 1

ice here as “one of

Avenue and Oliver | on

structure were approy

9 feet.

be pushed
along as fast as possible so the
well-known
move in by Christmas. The new | thers
store will be one of the Tom-
boy chain.

firm can

year-old |

“ln Contest

be filled shortly after the

Inspector Doug Chamberlain
states the situation this fall is
just about “ average" as far as
new staff problems have been in
recent years. He is particularly
pleased with the quality of the
teachers who have joined Dis-
trict 27 this year.

Because of the general short-
age of teachers, Mr. Chamberlain
believes a predominantly rural
district like this will always
have difficulty in making place-
ments in any quantity until the
third week in August. How-
ever, he feels: the building pro-
gram that has been embarked
this year will help im-
|measurably m the future.

In seeking staff replacements,
ea |the board this year advertised

on,
UP TO RESIDENTS
Accommodation still poses a
00|problem in certain centres and
in the case of 100 Mile House,
where three teachers are still
needed, Mr. Chamberlain states
the onus of the problem. rests
with the residents themselves.
If Parent-Teacher groups and
interested in education
would make an effort to find
suitable accommodation for
|teachers, the inspector feels
|there would be no trouble. in
securing replacements. He said
the accommodation problem at
1100 Mile House defeats every

pete

bem@iools needing teachers are:
Adbzis Creek, Big Greek, Beaver
Ailey, Dempsey Lake —Horsefty
2), Wiliams Lake Elementary
i and Williams Lake Wigh
| $ehool (commercial teacher).
APPOINTMENTS

Recerit appointments or trans-
fers within the district include:
Fred Manchure to Dog Creek,
formerly at New Denver, B.C.;
J. Nimmo to 100 Mile, formerly
at Big Creek; Mrs. J. Nimmo to
Forest Grove; Mrs. Donna Mc-
Kinley to Miocene, formerly
from Slocan City, B.C.; Mrs. B.
Goff to Riske Creek East, for-
merly at Erickson, B.C.; Mrs.
W. Phillips to Riske Creek
West, formerly at Crescent Spur,
B.C.; Mrs. P. Law to new class-
room at Bridge Lake Superior,
formerly at Canim Lake East;
Mrs. Alice Carbert to the inter-
mediate grades at Horsefiy,
formerly at Enderby; Mrs, M.
PORATED LS

in

ot| Mrs. Doug Huston of Soda
|Creek was the winner of $1,500
cash in a recent coast newspaper

The cash windfall was partie-

Still 12 Teachers Short
But Officials Optimistic

LTHOUGH still short 12 teachers for District 27
schools, local education officials are optimistic
about the situation and anticipate all vacancies will

school term starts.

McDonald
formerly

to Lac La Wache,
at Rose Lake (now
closed); EB. A. Loadman to
handle agriculture courses at
Williams Lake High; Mrs. Load-
man, to primary grade at
Williams Lake Elementary. Mr.
and Mrs. Loadman come to this
district trom England.

Your Opportunity
To Be Informed

Citizens are usually, and cor-
rectly, advised to be ‘informed
voters,” and as far as Williams
Lake and district residents are
concerned, the opportunity is
being presented during the next
week by at least three parties
that have announced town speak-

complete |ing engagements.

Tomorrow night, Premier
W. A. C. Bennett, Hon. Ray
Williston and Social Credit can-
didate W. C. Speare will-be at
the Elks Hall.

Friday night, Bob Strachan,
fiery leader of the CCF opposi-
tion, will speak at Columbus
Hall, along with CCF candidate
Jack Wasyliw.

Next Tuesday, in a switch
from an earlier announced Sep-
tember 5 date, G. F. T. Gregory,
Liberal M.L.A.° from Victoria,
and Hugh McGivern, New West-
minster ‘Liberal Association
president, will speak at the Elks
Hall, as will candidate Felix
Kohuke. =

hibitors Do
Well At Outside’
Gladiolus Shows

Indication of the typeof top
quality spikes that will be on
display at the Gladiolus Show
here Friday night can be gained
by studying the results of out-
side shows.

In the big PNE gladiolus sec-
tion, local exhibitor Mrs. §,
Leith won first prize in the best
three spike classes of size 100
to 200 with her Bopeep minia-
tures. She also won a special
award for this entry. :

Two other first prize winners
were Mrs. A. Kallaur with her
spike of Atom variety in the 200
class, and Mrs. M. Fairley with
her three spike entry of Im-
pressario. Judge Henry Castil-
lou took second place in the size
400-500 class with Sparkling
Byes, and Mrs. Kallaur took a
third place in the three-spike
class with her Fire Opal speci-
mens.

In the Quesnel Gladiolus
Show last- weekend, Judge Cas-
tillow picked of the grand
aggregate award,

Other local exhibitors won in
this show, but a detailed list of
winners has not been received.

Dog Creek road in the Carlon | oft
{bill area

to the 610 (Cariboo) Air Cadet

Squadron last night when the

sponsorin: committee accepted
the postings of Al Stewart as
the new adjutant and John
Brandon, recent Indian Agent
assistant, as the new chief in-
structor,

A change of time for the
Weekly parades of the Squadron
Was announced. It will be)
changed from Monday to Weda-
nesday night.

A change in time for the
sponsoring committee meetings
is also anticipated when the
group meets for their annual
Meeting and election of officers
on Sept. 12.

C.0. J. Duthie gave a fine re-
port on the RCAC summer
camp at Chilliwack which was
attended by 15 local Air Cadets.

Two new members were wel-
comed. They were Miss R. Kitch |
and Mrs. C. Zirnhelt is the first
member who has a son in the
cadets. It is hoped more pay-|
ents will be encouraged to as-
sist on the sponsoring commit:|
tee to help built a
squadron,

Although science has
j mated some of the
strong)

elimi-

work and delay, staking clai:
for mineral deposits

risk, guess- | affair. Lac la Ron:

s | Sas!
is, still aione

hrilling,

atchewan 1s the

every-man-for-himself | this
in Northern | when prospectors were allowed|right, staker Jim Brady works

scene of
of the biggest staking rushes

TECHNOLOGY DOESN’T ELIMINATE EXCITEMENT OF STAKE RUSH

year. It started recently) rea

their first glimpse of the first] spe

overnment-sponsored geophysi-| claim