filliams Lake Tribune

Volume 25 — Number 36

14 PAGES

‘Williams Li

ake, B.C., Thu

rsday, September 5, 1957

TWO SECTIONS

Term Opens With Usual
Headache for Teachers, Board

CHOOL bells rang thro
day as the pew term

ughout District 27 yester-
got underway, but in the

general confusion that surrounds the event, little

information is available
registration figures.~ z
Toughest job was probably
that facing town elementary
school principal Ron Friesen,
where overcrowding last year
forced the adoption of a shift
system. During the day
schedule for classes was drawn
up once, discarded when it was
unworkable, and redrawn again.
Registration at 440 students
at this school is about the same
as it was at the end of Septem-
ber last yenr. Some six classes
are on an § a.m. to 12:30 shift,
three on regular, and four on
12:30 to 5 pm. “Columbus Hall
and a room in the High School
are being utilized, with negotia-

FOR DROWNING VICTRAL

Memorial Service
_ At Lac La Hache

" Memorial serice for the late
Reg. Sinclair of Vancouver, who
was drowned in Lac La Hache
November 29, 1956, will be held
-on the property of I. G. Forbes,
122.4 Mile, on Saturday Sep-
tember 7, at 2:30: p.m. The ser-
vice will be arranged by St. An-
drews United Church.

Reg. Sinclair lost his life
while skating on the lake ice
with two companions. While
crossing a bay, the ice gave way,
plunging him into the icy water,
he thin ice surrounding the
Spot prevented rescuers from
Teaching the young man before

og creas ian eo:elve RB otis
Hold on the ice euse nails

trom view.

- ling

from the rural areas on
rau esa eee eas

tions going on for a third out-
side room.” x

The school board is moving to
have three pre-fab units on the
school grounds by the end of
this month. With these units
and the use of the three outside
rooms, shift classes should be
thing of the past. z
|NO SCHOOL

As the term opened, 16 child-
rent at Dempsey Lake found
themselves without a school.
The board was informed Tues-
day that a building that had
been donated last year tor a
classroom would not be ayailable
this-term: Unless other arrange-
ments are made, the students
will have to take correspondence
courses, .

The teacher situation improves
steadily. One teacher is neéded
at Glencoe, one at Big Creek and
one at Horsefly and Alexis Creek,
Two primary teachers are still
needed in town and a commerce
teacher at the High School.

At Alexis Creek, residents
were able to open their school
when two married women, both
former teachers, offered to carry
on with classes until a perma-
nent teacher could be appointed:

New pre-fab schools for Riske
Creek East and West will leave
Vancouver next weekend, At Big

ring:
title to the land.

Quesnel Growers Capture
Major Glad Show Awards

awards in the popular
week.

Grand aggregate award went
to W. R. Young, of Alexandria,
a member of the Quesnel Gladi-
olus Society, who piled up 29.
points with seyen firsts, two
seconds and four thirds, He was
six points ahead of local grower
Wessnrcornrecnrnnrneronooeoeen

New Premises
For Police Court

Stipendiary Magistrate C. H.
Poston has been informed by
the attorney-general's depart-
ment that alterations will be
carried out shortly in the
Federal Building to provide for
a magistrate’s office.

Buch a room in which to hold
court for ‘the everyday police
court cases, has been needed for
a long time. At present the

eee growers made

a clean sweep of the major
Gladiolus Show here last _

Les Pigeon and nine points up
on the third place, Mrs. M.
McRae, also of Quesnel.

Grand champion spike award
went to Mrs. Jeanne Prestie, of
Quesnel, for her spike of Aristo-
erat. Mrs. Prestie also won the
reserve award with a, spike of
Heirloom.

Dr. Frank Avery, of Quesnel,
a consistent exhibitor here since
the show first started seven
years ago, won the “best three-
spike award with his Atlantic
entries.

Best basket of glads in the
show was entered by W. R.
Young, the grand. aggregate
winner. g

There were 228 individual
entries in the glad show this

six-year-old sister, Donna,
school for the first time

- START OF 4
Billy Frizzy, aged 10, brought his=

they are pictured above with Skyline’
School principal Mrs, Frank Armes a8

to enrol: at.
Wednesday.

BIG ADVENTURE
she takes down registration details of
the new pupil.
live at the far end ofthe bus line on
the Springhouse Road.

The Frizzy children

— Tribune Photo.

VOTING MONDAY

PINLAYS

CRITICIZES

Less On Voters
List This Year

Unless percentage - wise the
vote is heavier, there, will be
a smaller turn-out at the polls
tor the Cariboo by-election Mon-
day than there was in last year's
general election.

Reason for this is the fact
that there is a noticeable drop
in_the number of people on the
voters’ lists, Total of the list
piled

Charges Bennett Running

°

One-Man Show At Victoria

REMISR BENNETT is

=P

operating a one-man show

in Victoria,” Progressive Conservative Leader

Deane Finlayson told a small audience in Williams

Lake this -week.
to control the destinies of

No single man should endeavour

every man and woman in

a whole province and it was, therefore, imperative

to eléct a new member

critical side of the house,
already eayys all-pow
Siti erchmion as Seas tet

to the legislature to the
rather -than boosting an
erful government, poet

i

ing compared to 8,445 last fall|

—a difference of 684.

Quesnel lost 266 voters, down
to 2,303 from the 1956 figure
of 2,569. Wells dropped 110
from 456 to 346, Fawn polling
station in the south dropped
from 257 to 174, and Forest
Grove is down to 182 from 227.
Majority of the remaining polls
show little change. 100 Mile
House only dropped seven
names and Williams Lake was
one of the several to show an
inerease, but only of five. The
town total stands at 1,048.

Election machinery goes into
action this week with the hold-
ing of advance polls. Thé ad-
vance poll here will be held in
the Elks Hall from 1 p.m. to 9
p.m., Thursday, Friday and Sat-
urday.

Regular voting on Monday
will also be held in the Elks
Hall with the poll opening at
8 p.m., and closing at § p.m.

Results will be tabulated’ by
The Tribune as soon as they
are made available. For infor-
mation on the progressive vote.
Monday evening telephone. 231.

British Columbia today: has led)
to a feeling of -ovér-con fidence
on the part of the government
where. they feel they ‘can do no
wrong and need consult nobody
about anything. This was in-
stanced inthe last session where
the government decided to alter
the Municipal Act. Municipal
officials thougliout the province
believed that any major altera-
tion would require participation
by themselves in which they
would be consulted and asked
for advice, Instead,.an act was
pushed through the legislature
consisting of a thick book with
900 scetions which would affect
every individual in the province.
So much inefficiency resulted
that the whole thing has now to
be revised.
DON'T NEED ADVICE
Similar behaviour had
aroused the bitterest controver-
sies with mining interests. The
government introduced com-
ple! without
warning and threw ‘@ whole in-
dustry into confusion. “ They
don't think they need advice,”
Mr. Finlayson said. He strongly
d his point by quoting

year, showing an
enthusiasm in the growing of
these beautiful bulbs.

custom is for the magistrate to

temporarily- take over the
R.C.M.P. sergeant’s office and
desk to sit in judgement on

accused persons.

Judge of the show again this
jyear was Harry Turnbull, of
| Lillooet.

(For the detailed prize list
see Page Three).

All's Well With B.C. Says Mr. Bennett

Delivering a provincia
speech last Thursday night

1 “state of the nation”
here, Premier W. A. C. Ben-

nett was at his beaming best as he touched on almost
every issue of the day, to convince his listeners that all
was well under Social Credit.

Some 130 town and district
people were on hand to hear the
premier, including a couple of
hecklers. Most persistent among
the latter was hotelman Benny
Abbott, but the premier conldn't
have run across @ more amiable
one,.and the repartee between
platform and bleachers set the
pace for an informal plattorm
delivery that agreed with’ the
gentleman from Kelowna,

To give a general outline of
British  Columbia’s financial
position, Mr. Bennett referrea to
an independent report prepareq
recently by the United States
financial house of Morgan, Stan-
ley & Company, dealing with
poth the Pacific Great Hastern

Railway Company and the prov-|

ince itself.

he company report said the|

PGE had ben transformed into
a modern, efficient railway. It
went on to state that debenture
of this company payable in U.S.
dollars were suitable for inclu-
sion in conservative investment
plans.

The report stated that the
proince’s greatest assets are its
natural resources, which are
owned by the province, and that
B.C.’s economic growth value
has increased 40 per cent in the
past four years.

Leading up to a plug for So-
cred candidate Bill Speare, the
Premier said the old parties had
looked at the Interior of the
Province in the same way they

IMPAIRED CHARGE

Anthony. Herbert Harris, 25,
of Williams Lake, was charged
with impaired driving at 1 a.m.
Monday, He pleaded guilty and

was fined $50 and costs.

much about it. Some of the
criticism levelled at his govern-
ment today is, he charged, based
on the fact that for the first
time a government is being led
by an Interior premior (Premier
Bennett represents Kelowna).
Mr. Bennett. asserted that is why
his party is placing so much

emphasis on the importance of
the Cariboo by-election, to tind
out if the Interior approves of
their policies,

Continued on Page 3

—
IMPAIRED DRIVING
Chr

= it
stopher Steve Patterson,

21, of Williams Lake, was
charged last Frida with im-
paired driving in Williams Lake.
He was fined $50 and costs, He

was also charged for driving a

|car on August 14 while under

suspension. He pleaded guilty |

-and was fined $25 and haq his
Would have looked at the in-,driving privileges suspended fo
terlor of Africa — and knew ae|two months,

3)

a Social Credit candidate in the
Burnaby by-election who told a
meeting that another Socred
member would be better opposi-
tion for the constituency than
an official opposition member
because the Socred caucus were
capable of ironing out
poinion on any

quite
differences of
subject.

“Mr. Bennett has become
a one-man show,” Mr.
son continued, “that any
criticism made of him results in

‘smear,’ and if the
are critical he tells them
‘carping’. He said
Bennett should learn
m of any politi-
cal party is the inestimable right
of the individual and the main-
stay of the democratic tsystem,
. the sanctity of

they
that Mr. ne
that open critic!

are

protecting
parliament.

deyil

is immater!

that

the tact
remains

bad."

the principle is

People are becoming some-
what the premier’s
roseate dreams of the future of
this

weary of
vast empire,
those whose
ened. They saw little tuture in
having to depend on the whims
and fancies of mammoth corpor-
ations for their bread and
butter.

Even the Russians were seeing
the folly of their giant collec
lives where individual enterprise
Was Stiffled and nullified, Mr.

particularly

jobs were threat-

Finlayson affirmed. Today they
are having to revise their ideas.
But here in British Columbia

the tendency was to go the other
way and give way to big money
and Di control

Socreds Have
Ways of Dem
According To L

Principal objection Vii
finds with
his belief.
democracy, i
The personable, _ 40-year-old
lawyer, who was labelled’ the
“Liberal giant - killer” because.
of his defeat of Binar Gunder-
son in 1953, explained the rea-
Soning behind his chirge whpn|
le addressed an audience of 55
Tuesday night at the Elks Hall:

Mr. Gregory outlined the case
of the discharging or two perm-
anent officers of the legislature
last spring, the sergeant-at-arme

ang the law clerk, who were re-
moved fr9m office hy order-in-
conncll priar to the session

opening,
According to the Constitution
Act, only the legislature itself
can appoint its permanent of-
ficers, except when a yacancy
occurs during sessions, and then
such appointment myst be rati-
fied by the legislature, Mr. Gre-
Bory objected ta the method of
discharging the men, stating -at
the time that the effect of the
order-in-council rescinding a
legislative appointment would be
tantamount to surrendering to
the Queen the supremacy of
parliament,

Next move of the Premier was
to change the order of business
in appointing the successors to
the discharged officials, the
speaker stated. Normally this
type of business waits the open-
ing of the Legislature by the
Lieutenant - Governor, but the
Premier pushed through the ap-
bointment and the ratification
first, while the yice-regal party
(ed outside. 5

Cl

The Island member said his
listeners would remember the
Jack Zueco case. The sick miner
was trying to establish recogni-
tion by the Workmen’s Compen-
sation Board of his lung trouble
jas silicosis, and his wife and
|children sat on the steps-of the
|Legislative Buildings until the
|minister promised to do some-
thing. “He has done nothing
yet,” the speaker charged

Mr. Gregory outlined the act
that governs cases of this na-
ture, whereby aman disputing a
\claim judgment of the WCB, has
|the opportunity to pick one of
list ‘of specialists to review
|his case and offer an independ-
Jent opinion. This was done and

a

[the specialist -said=Zu wo. had
silicosis. The WB’ W@gla not
|Accept the opinion, se

| The resulting

aygeun, in the

Officials Pleased With Co

HE combined flower and gl
T Arena failed to draw nea
regular fair of former years,

with the results
General feeling among
officials was that the effort to

keep public interest in fair
work alive by s a much
smaller show achieved its
purpose,

Grand aggregate award in the
general flower show was won
this year by Mrs. C. Stangoe,
familiar to Tribune readers as
' Trene.”” She collected 18
points to take the award, just

First School Work
Tenders Too High

Tenders on the first project
provided for under District 27’s
spring referendum were opened
y y and were too high to
letting the job.

Two tenders were received for

Mr, Finlayson then attacked
the Bennett government for
their support of big money in-

He said they had pro

supporters of gigantic
lions to the detriment of
smaller outfits and the common
man. “I must remind every]
man and woman at this election
that the Socred government has
put a parcel of land under re-
serve for the Wenner Gren cor- |
poration equal in size to the}
total area of Denmark, Holland}
and Belgium. Whether Wenner |
Gren proves to ve a saint or a|

the construction of a single
classroom addition to Skyline
School, one from Van Buren
Construction Co, Lid.,  Van-
couver, for $21,410.00. and the
other from Hilmar Wolf, Wil-
liams Lake, for $23,928.91, The

a
ge rooms as well

plan also calls for a principal's
office and stor:
room.
ion in the referendum
for this building, based ox
tect’s estimate, was $1
Schoo) trustees will study the
problem before muk
cision on any alternate proposal.

ed Show
ee at the

adiolus SYxv
mf, omg#is the
well# pleased

rly as Rola ze
but -offfilaly Were
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!edging out Mrs. George Renner's
17-point total. Third was Mrs.
jR. A. Moon, with 14 points.

Besides the flower and
| gladiolus sections, displays were
shown by the Cariboo Cerami
Clubg andthe
Pottery Club, as well as a fine
exhibit of work by students of
the Cariboo Residential School
Two automotive firms showed
|cars and household appliances,
jand heating units were shown by
|Mackenzies Ltd., and Cariboo
|Home Furnishings. Gordon Cole
exhibited chain saws and out-
board motors.

Williams Lake |

Single Copy 10¢; $3.00 per year

Forgotten
ocracy

iberal Speaker

house was brought to a
an opposition
ave bound the
like this, Wi

chead by
bill that woula

WCB in cases
ith only one excep-
tion, those governm at Members
present in the house voted
against the measure. The excep-
tion was Ominega M.L.A. Cyril
Shelford,

The speaker pointed to the
Move of the Federal Liberal
government in invoking closure
of the pipeline debate as one
that probably contributed to ita
downfall. Yet, he asserted, this
move Was not made until 16
ae of debate had been allow-
ed. * s

At Victoria when a move was
made to turn the Cassiar Road
dispute question over the the
mines committee for study, the

CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE
FIRST SECTION

Taxi Business
Changes Hands

Announcement was made this
week of a change of ownership
in Williams Lake Taxi,

Purchasing the business from
Bill Edwards is Vancouyer man
Hugh Lambe. The change was
effective September 1,

Mr. Edwards first bought into
the taxi firm in 1948, in part-
nership. with Curly Russell. Joe

Edwards partnershi
til 1954 when Mr.
came sole owner. :

A native of Vancouver, Mr.
Lambe is married and has three
children. Following oveerseas
service in the army, he went
into business as a manufactur-
er's agent. His interest in the
Cariboo stems from the fact that
another local businessman, Bob
Court; a longtime friend of Mr.
Lambe's, moved to Williams
Lake. Through visits with the
Court's, Mr. Lambe came to like
the town and district, and de-

Jasted’ un-
Edwards be-

cided to establish here.

Mr. Edwards states his plans
for the immediate, future have
not been finalized.

| Roses

“The Kiwanis Club had its
| bingo game in operation as well|
as a dart game, and the War
Memorial Arena Society had a
refreshment booth in operation.

(For detailed prize list of |
flower show see Page Six).

lye
Kille
Di Thomas, of Sugar Cane)

R
juries

died as a result of in-
hay’
accident on a farm in the Lae

er

sustained in a

La Hache district yesterda.

nae a severe back injury and
| Passed away at 150 Mile House)
| while being taken to War Memo:

) Hospital. No details of the
accident available
| morning.

were this

d While Haying F

BUSINESS CHANGE

Bill Edwards, top, who
has been a principal of
Wiliams Lake Taxi-Com-
pany since 1948; this
week announced sale of
the firm to Hugh
Lambe, shown at bot-
tom, “
—Tribune Photos