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Volume 26 — Number 5

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Town Planer Mill Starts Up
Under New Ownership

OOD news in local industrial circles this week is
the fact that the planing mill of Wright Lumber
(1954) Ltd., has commenced operation again under

new ownership.

The company has been taken
over by the Ketcham family,
operators of Two-Mile Planing
Mill at Quesnel for ‘the past
three years. The local opera-

tion will be handled as a
Separate company with Sam
Ketcham as manager. For the

time being, the name of Wright
Lumber (1954) Ltd., will be re-
tained, but this will be changed
at a later date.

“The planer and gangsaw
operations are present being
operated on a single shift with
nine men employed. Production
is around 70,000 feet a shift.

Aim of the company is to
work up to a maintained pro-
gram of woods and mill produ:
a year
from limits on the west side of
the Fraser. Rough lumber will
also be purchased from indepen-
dent producers,

Five amills are operating at
present on the limits, one south
of Hanceville and four in the
Riske Creek area. Should the
Jumber market strengthen, addi-

Three Hospitalized
After Mill
Accidents

Three men were admitted to
War Memorial. Hospital over the
past week as a result of mill
accidents in various parts of the
district.

Terry Nicholson, 28-year-old
logger with Vie Byczek's mill,
broke a bone in his left ankle
yesterday at work. He was try-
ing to rol] a log while canting
when the hook slipped, causing

vil;

7 4
accident occurred on
night shift just after midnight.
Mr. Byczek brought him in to
hospital.

Joseph Kita broke an ankle
pone in a mill accident last
Wednesday. He was bucking
on a landing when a 30-inch
heavy log rolled from a stack
on to his left leg.

He ig employed hy Clayton
Grossley’s mill at Tyee Lake.

Clayton Heidt, canter with
P, G. Borser’s Swedish mill at
e Butte, sustained a badly
bruised left knee last Thursday
when a log rolled on to his leg.
He was taken to War Memorial
Hospital by foreman Adolph
Skog. *

tioudf mills may be put into
operation.

Wright Lumber is located just
outside of town in the Glendale
area. It has been closed for a
number of months.

Criticize Condition
Of Former Hall

A decision was unanimously
taken by village councillors last
night to condemn the old Parish
Hall unles it is brought up to
proper standards of appearance
by June 1.

The hall, which was bought
and moved from Third Avenue
by Prince George Movers, is
standing .on the lower end of
Mackenzie Avenue south of the
Imperial and Shell Oil plans.

Skidder Burns

A timber skidder valued at
simately $18,000 rolled oif
ad and was badly gutted
when it caught fire last week.
The incident took place on the
Cedar Creek road four miles
south of Likely. The vehicle,
owned by Lockhart. Brothers,
was being driven by John Lock-
hart at the time. No one was
hurt.

WEATHER

With just occasional breaks,
January continues its mild way
in the Gentral Cariboo.

Here are the minimum and
maximum readings at the air-
port for the past week.

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DOOMED TO DLE
Queenie, three-year-old dog owned by Jim Milliken.
of Williams Lake, is doomed to be destroyed unless
her owner can find her a home at. the coast or any
place where there is litile or no game. Queenie was
one of the two dogs which recently chased a deer
on to the ice at the lake, The other dog was shot
the same day. « — Tribune photo.

Thursday, Jan: 23 _ 34 37
Friday 28 33
Saturds; © 25 Po
Monday 13-38
‘Tuesday © -—_-____ 35 45

This morning at eight o'clock
it was 30 above,

Truck Overturns

A North West Telephone
{ruck driven by Angus W. Fet-
tis, of Sea Island, slid of the
highway on ice half a mile
south of 150 Mile House last
Wednesday and overturned. °

No one was hurt, but the
truck suffered about~$250 worth
of damage. The truck was
travelling north from the coast

to the Peace District at the
time,

PIPING IN THE HAGGIS

Feature of last Friday’s Burn’s Night dance, organ_
YA ized by the Canadian Legion in Williams Lake, was

the historic custom of “ piping in the haggis.”

Jim

Duthie obliged on the pipes while further color was

added to the ceremony by Cheryl Getz and Caro)

Ringwood,

who danced the highland fling.

The

girls were specially trained for the occasion by Mrs,

Bill Christie, sr.

Gts0.9 (OF yo Com

— Tribune photo,

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Loaded Transport Plenge 5

Off Highway Near Town

YING twisted and grotesque like some prehistoric
L monster after a death stru e, a huge over-
turned produée truck proved the great topic of con-
versation in#@Williams Lake yesterda
The 72,000-1b. capacity truck!
slid O€ fhe highway and topplea| the road pointing tewards the
over the bank at the Quesn 41 | Quesnel highway. The trailer
turnoff at 4 a.m., ending up up-| !#en must have slipped sideways

side down. No one was|over the bank and the cab
parionsiyanart. |tipped backwards and flipped
i. over. I knew no more until

Arthur Kendall, 49-year-old/] foun myself lying. on the

driver, told his’ story fo our re=| poof of the inside of the cab.”
porter this morning of how th| sient of the cab when he came
accident happened as he saw i .|

*|to inspect it in daylight must
He was In ninth gear (10th ger a t about have turned driver
is high on these big jobs) avd) }engail sick with the thought
was going up the slight gradien-| 4; what might have

towards the “Y" from th» a. the top of the c
south and intending to tur: was crushed flat down on to the
right to Quesnel. As he a°- steering wheel
proached the turn and the - ee
ing signs came into view, | iSo--in Tite: cab: wos BES Rie
touched his brakes, which he! driver Matt Budinsky, who was
worked with perfection all t* > sleeping in the bunk which is a
way up from the coast. Tl feature on long-haul vehicles.
eab and trailer started to Jac.-\ 1). new othing_about the
nife. “I immediately took » sd haa
ceident until he found Wise)
foot off the brake, steered into" tthe arden
|the skid and: straightened out {climbing out o| ; i
| i i d. The next few minute
jthe vehicle. The action had P ised a8. ‘the “tw
| vere all confused as th
taken me to the left of the road Were all contushl Ae ee ee
and I felt it was too late to men colle ow. Rendall iad
consider making the right turn ah, wo ihe. jolie
iso I gunned the throttle as soon hy plekuy
| where he reported the

;as T was on a straight path and

leftward , trend towards the
bank. “Next thing T knew, the
eab and trailer jacknifed agai

but this time the opposite ¥
The cab was horizontal acro:

LOADED WITH PRODU

owned by Mer

Limited,

pound

destined for Malkin
ze. The

pounds of

The truck

of produce

Geo

Prince
shout 7
rd

hat

also

Loses Port of Finger

used for jon

be

| Lawrence Rumley, — eight-| purposes. Some of the prodne:
year-old son of Mr. and Mrs_| bas been housed in
Ruésell Rumley, of Horsefly, house and some taken by le
took a piece off the first rier direct to Prince Geor
of his left hand in an a 4 lot of the load was stolen,
Monday afternoon. He was|driver Kendall — complained.)
‘chopping kindling for the fi People wer un ashame
the time when a misdirected | driving up im Ca nd pickups
blow hit his finger. g whole crates “ un
The young fellow wa: /4 groercies 1 have
brought in to War Memoria’ |” ard anything like it
Hospital by his mother and i Kendall said he has been

quite cheerful.

lendeavoured to go to- dent, He was then

wards the entrance to Williams to #0 1 War ee ecune t for
” 5 ye recvived treatment for |

pale he said. ere eg vient hand. He also

| The momentum proved (00 cyiereq chest and shoulder

great on the slippery surface jy ujses Budinsky had a slight

and the whole unit continued its }.4;¢6 on one should

driving commercially since 1929. |

Meat Firm Goes
Out Of Retail
Business

In a move designed to facili-

tate expansion into the whole-
sale mneat field, the well-known
local firm) of Cariboo Cola
Storage Ltd. will go out~Of the
retail business in a change
effective February 15.

C. F. (Bert) Roberts, firm:

manager, told the Tribune this
week that his company. would
retain the present building on
Oliver Street, but would lease
the major part of it. The cold
storage lockers will be removed,
but one freezer will be main-
tained in the building and space
for a cuttingsroom retained
a distrintion outlet to: whole-
sale customers.

Freezer equipment will be
moved out to the firm’s slaughter
house, and ‘it planned to
operate a
with this operation. Mr.
5: emphasized thst th
would not be without
freeze T
work w
for Cutting
service Tor
freezes will

feed lot in conjunction
Rob-
town
quick

rvices,
lobe carried out a:
and

his

wrapping
of deep

What part of the town building
that is being leased will be used
by Tony’s Leather Shop. Tony
Borkowski, owner of the latter
business, states a move date is
indefinite since considerable
alteration work has to be done
on the Cold Storage building be-

fore it will be ready for
occupancy.

:
Jailed For

ces

Contributing

Donald Mervin Lohman, of
Quesnel, was given six months

definite and 12 months indeter-
minate prison sentence Satur-
gay arising out of an ingident
[fuking plise the nlzat ofyan-
j Wary 18.

He was charged with con-
tributing to the delinquency of
a 12-year-old girl.

The girl has been committed
to the Gi Industrial School
for incorrigibility.

Hockey Game
Cancelled

Continued mild’ weather has
resulted in cancellation of to-
night's scheduled hockey game
here between Quesnel Kangaroos
and the Stampeders,

Prince George Mohawks are
supposed to come to town this
weekend for a two-game series,
but it will be another case of
“weather permitting.”

Last weekend, the Mohawk:
defeated the ‘Roos 6-3 Satur
jday night, and then suffered a
iff 7-3 setback. the following

BOAT FOUND ON MAHOOD LAKE

HEP waters of Mahood

e

Stock Case

Norman W, Mclean, of Lone
Butte, will appear in police
court at 100° Mile “House, Ieb-
roary 20. im the preliminary
hearing of a ease in which he
charged with being in pos-
session of stolen cattle,

is in

He is the second man to ap-
pear in connection with the
ease, Last Weduesday, Gordon
Orville MeNolty was sentenced
o 18 months’ imprisonment on

Charges were lat following
discovery in Vancouver feed lots
of three head of catile owned
by Lone Butte district ranchers.

Missing Camp Caretaker
Believed Drowned

‘Lake in Wells Gray Park

are believed to hide the fate of a missing camp
caretaker who was last seen January 9.

Second Person.

On that day, the man visited
Mahood Lake Lodge for supplies
and then set out in his boat to
return down the lake to the
camp.

Ranger C. KE. Gaglardi went
down the lake on January 24,
to see the caretaker, but found
no trace of him at the camp.
There. were no tracks in the
snow that had fallen several
days before.

Conducting an extensive
search of the lakeshore, Ranger
Gaglardi found the-man’s up-
turned boat floating about a
mile and a half from the camp,
but there was no sign of the
supplies that were purchased
earlier in the month.

Since then, another search of
the lake has been carried out
by an R.C.M.P. officer from 100
Mile House, and Ranger Gag-
jardi, withaut any trace of a
body belug found.

Name of the caretaker is be:
Ing withheld pending - notifica-
tion of next-of-ikin. %

N
A Week an outstanding

system generally can be
up by a 16-member town
Newspaper, radio, display
windows and public meetin
will be used in the week-long
program from March 2 to 8.
Radio time will be used in
conjunction with educational
oliciais 2 “Qnesnel~ Station
CKCQ ing offered’ time to the
two centres as a public service.
Tentative program as arranged
Sunday night, calls for an intro-
duction to Education Week talk
to be given by a Quesnel educa-
tor on Sunday, March 2. Mon-
day night a comparison of the
present liberal type of educa-
tion as opposed to a strictly
utilitarian system will originate
in Williams Lake. Tuesday, two
Quesnel students will give their
opinions of the educational
system and a reply to this will
come the following night from a
Williams Lake teacher. It is
hoped to tape a typical high
school class session for the
Thursday night time, and Friday
night a Williams Lake speaker
will discuss ‘Education for
leisure time.” Wind-up Satur-
day will be a summation of the
week's efforts.

The local Ministerial Associa-
tion will be approached to have

sermon topics on March 2,
slanted towards education if at
all possible.

| afternoon.

Merchants will be asked to

Local Education Week
Program Ambitious Effor

ambitious program designed to make Education

medium through which a-

broader public understanding of the educational

achieved, has been drawn
committee.

provide store window space for
the setting up of displays of
class work at all school levels.

Two big evening public meet-
thgs are being planned for the
week.. One of: these will feature

(a noted educator trom the coast.

The other will take the form of
a panel discussion on all aspects
of education, and people will be
asked to submit questions to
the planning committee for use
at that time.

Elementary schools will hold
their usual “open house” one
afternoon of the week to give
the public the opportunity of
seeing classes in session.

Chairman of the*Education
Week committee is Dr. Arthur
Campbell, and secretary is Mrs.
Gordon Adair.

Impaired Fine

Harry Norman Hatha, a B.C.
Power Commission _ employee,
was found at 11 p.m. Monday
lying beside his car, “which was
stuck in a snowbaak

Following a complaint lodged
with R.C.M.P., the man was
arrested and charged with im-
paired driving. He pleaded
guilty and was fined $100 and
costs. *

|
| There was no dispute on
Stampeder forward Walter

flicks the puck into the net d

Vanderhoof
Pla

|

| :
| efforts of
1

Roberts,

» A (Oprecese Unrfs fare.

HE

r Richardson

H
marked the first goal |

\
4

ay
SHOOTS
goal as

th
assist going
on the two.

pite the

goalie Jim

X—HE SCORES
in Saturday

with the
For story

night’s game,
to Al Camponi.
-game series see Page 7.

— Tribune photo