THE TRIBUNE, WILLIAMS LAKE,

B.C,

Wednesday, January 22, 1998

[ EDITORIALS
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URNOUT at last week’s banquet of the Board of
Trade was disappointingly low when we remember
that seven or eight years ago the annual affair
attracted double the number that sat down Friday
night—and in those days the population of the town
was a third of its present size.

This lack of interest in the board, particularly
in its business sessions, has been evident for some
time now, and it is difficult to assess the reason. As
incoming president Felix Nicholson states, ours is a
thriving district that reflects the enthusiasm and drive
of its businessmen. Yet the Board of Trade fails to
interest them in becoming working members,
although they would readily agree that a healthy
trade group can do probably more for the community
in the way of economic service than any other type
of organization.

Because of its scope of field, with a basic empha-
sis on community needs, the board can be all things
to all men. Through its channels, better services,
better planing, more industry can be secured, because
a strong Board of Trade is the reflection of the
opinion of the firms and individuals who have a large
dollar investment in the town concerned.

Williams Lake is a town with a future. If you
subscribe to that theory you owe it to yourself as a
partner in the plans of expansion to be an active
member of the Board of Trade. It is the best medium
a community has to “sell itself.”

If Criticism’s Due —Let’s Have It

EH are happy to note that our local educationalists
are taking the lead in ‘explaining ” the policies
behind modern classroom procedure to a public that
is growing most concerned about the subject in this
“sputnik age.’

A program prepared for the elementary school
P-TA this week sought to provide the answers to
Such questions as: “Is there competition in the
school? ’”- “Can Mary read as well as children of 30
years ago?”

Now we have the top adminstrators, plus a com-
mitte of townspeople, laying plans for an Education
Week program that will carry this idea even farther.

This is all to the good, since the story of educa-
tion is one that needs appraisal. We would be even
happier though if we felt that the educators would
step out of the ‘explaining’ stage and hand out a
few critical comments on the system. We do not be-
lieve for one moment that these educators are
entirely certain all educational policies are the right
ones. In fact, in personal conversation we have
heard them discourse to the contrary. Why not do it in
public? If, for example, the policy of pushing all the
students, like sheep, through each grade is resulting
in.g lowering of standards—let’s hear about it.

We have long felt that the educational system
suffers most from the fact that public critical appraisal
is not indulged in by those who know its failings
best—the person at the front of the classroom.

It Will Keep

— In the Chilliwack Progress

PANADIAN oil producers are setting up a great

clamor, in which governments have joined, be-
cause the United States is reducing oil imports from
this country.

The assertion is made that unless we can sell our
oil to the U.S., the incentive to find new supplies will
be lost.

In this, as in the Wenner Gren deal in northern
B.C., everyone seems to be in an unholy haste to
divest ourselves of our assets. Oil lying beneath the
prairie flat lands isn’t going to deteriorate because
it is’nt pumped into the U.S. The Rocky Mountain
trench won’t disappear overnight and neither will its
minerals, forests and water power.

These assets are for most purposes, permanent.
As water power, timber, minerals and oil become
exhausted in other parts of the world—including the
United States—it is reasonable to assume that our
supplies will become more valuable. It is true that
until thee things are made use of, they won’t con-
tribute anything to the country or the people.

But why the great hurry to sell them?
something Canada has lots of—along with

Time is
water,

-minerals and oil.

They will keep for a few years longer.

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January 20, 1957
District agriculturist M. J.

ERS OF THEIR KIND wHew

turnoff to Quesnel... A further

‘ls iad SPonts

on Monday night, one of the
new Budd cars arrived in town
Jon the inaugural run of the
[Cariboo Dayliner service . . .
| Cold weather seems to be on
|the wane, with the mercury
rising from 45 below to 20

way tral

S(ANDING NEAR BASRA, IRAQ,

I arrived home the other
night to find my wife nearly
helpless with laughter.

“Calm down,” 1° said.
“ Nothing is as funny as that.’

She stared at me for a
moment, and broke into a louder
storm of giggles. Had someone
Pinned a humorous sign to my
coat?

“All right, eatech your breath,”

I urged, “Now, wha so
amusing?

“You,” she managed to choke
out.

“Don’t tell me that after all

these years you have just
learned what a comic figure I
am?”"

“ Knew it all the time,
gasped. “ But now, it’

—and she pointed to four se!
exercise books, which I recog-
nized with horror.

“So you've found my diary,”
I said, and lunged toward her.

She grabbed the books and
danced away, still quivering
with mirth. “T've read it
through,” she said.

“Never mind the nasty
smirk,’’ I ordered her. ‘‘I was
only in my teens, when I wrote
ghase entries. I know—they're

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pompous.”
“I laughed so hard I nearly
choked,’ my wife said. “I had

to get a drink of water. Let me
read this bit about the glorious
colors of the sunset.”

“Don’t rub it in,” I pleaded.

“And about that girl, and
how you were glad she would
talk to you, because you didn’t
have the nerve to start talking
to her. Ha! Ha!”

“Happy that you found it
entertaining,” I said. She went
on for-a little while, drawing
attention to various — richly

Canimahood News

CURLY GRANBERG left by
train Saturday night from Kam-
loops for Vancouver, to be ad-
mitted to Vancouver General
Hospital for continued treat-

ment. He has made favorable
progress and continues in good
spirits.

MR. AND MRS. James Mackie
spent last weekend in Kamloops,
as did Mrs. B. H. McNeil, Mrs.
Bob Uhrig and Miss Donna Mc-
Neil.

DR. AND MRS. A. G. Nais-
mith left last week for farther
south,

MR. AND MRS. Harry Russell

returned home last week to
Alexis Creek.
ANDREW ERICKSON _ re-

cently of Watch Lake, is now
sawyer for McNeil Sawmill.

Letter to the Editor

DEBT TO MEDICAL PROPLE
SHOULD BE PAID

Dear Sir—There are many in
this hospital district who, like
myself, owe their continued
existence to the dedicated skill

and care of the doctors and
nurses at War Memorial
Hospital

We can acknowledge our debt
by getting solidly behind the
drive for a new hospital. ‘The!
entire staff is doing a magnifi-
cent job despite the most a
couraging handicaps. The least
we can do in return is to

provide them with something
jlike adequate facilitie:
There are difficulties in the

way, but they can be overcome.
The need is urgent

BLN
| Williams Lake,

O'DELL. |

ALL ABOARD

with G. E. Mortimore

humorous passages.

Then
nostalgi

I rambled through the spidery|Funeral was conducted in Wil-

lines.

of self-reproach in the journal | Pioneer r
—I berated my self for neglect-
ing to study
keep the diary regularly.

There were numerous
tions to do better,

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From the Files of The Tribune

servic
couver and Williams Lake . . .
The stork made 80 trips to the}snow . . .
War Memorial Hospital in 1947,| this
Walsh announced that he has | Pringing 49 boys and 31 girls.

building of a fence around the
$900,000 for work on the big 2iPort to prevent cattle froin

Cariboo Highway through the
Canyon,

5-HL GIRL Wi i fay
Reais AG ee ie Williams Lake airport has been Staying on the runway . . .
ARES ie Pet ae authorized by the federal gov-
mere ENC na fens, ermment . . . at seven o'clock Fraser

; Christm

as, ha:

Through most of the section it
is wide enough only for one-

ffic.

TWENTY-FIVE YEARS AGO

January 26, 1933

arty

travelling to Cottonwood, were
four days and nights on the
road between Clinton ard the
Van-/100 Mile House, when their cars
failed to get through the deep
Jack Chow returned
week after spending 12
Pot roast

e between

months in China...

VERAL ARE kee. WA Can ony ‘ONE -SURVIVES, tendered his resignation from | TWENTY YEARS AGO of beef advertised at 8c a lb.
the department .. . Purchase of | se = 4, =
aes '
PENNY, a larger road grader for the| January 27, 1938 :
AN ENGLISH village w: approved by the} é WILLIAMS LAKE
SNE Ow commissioners . . . The new! Thomas Oliver, 68, of Soda EIBUNE
PENNY, mereury vapor lights are mak- C™eeK, was found dead in his qT :
us Kent ing their appearance along bin, with a discharged rifle aeteueeeaeee
PENNY, Oliver Street, with plans to ing nearby The town
MSU AES, extend them as far as the “ y" Commissioners approved _ the Editor= Clive Stangoo

closed since

s been re-opened.| published every Wednesday at

Williams Lake, B.C., by the
Cariboo Press Limited:

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‘Advertising rares‘on See j

FIVE YEARS AGO

January 29, 1953

| Teachers’ in Williams Lake

| School District 27 were granted
I felt}an increase of $100 a year by
arbitration board...

I read the diary.
creeping upon me as| the

There was a great deal|liams Lake for Ray Hamilton,
ident of the Lac La
Hache district . . . For the first
nd for failing to/time in this district,
|Department men are spreading
esolu- | Volt bait by air to cut down the
followed. Hy beans) population in the back
. Heavy rain brought
g to 40 above
lin the Horsefly district . 31
ive Per cent reduction in
fees lo be charged B.C.
men using Crown ranges ha:
announced by the proy!
al government.

And 1 wished that
had been more entries

|
like | TEN YEARS AGO

iliar object perceived |
i Janua
wat What I saw |
awkward youth who| Cariboo led the
too much about himself | inthe number of cattle shipped

not pay enough atten-/during 1947, with a total of
1 head. Next highest was
| the Kamloops area, where 21,5

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Game | NORTHBOUND—Leaves Nth. Vancouver at 8 a.m.
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