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Williams Lake,

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Wednesday, February 19, 1958 12 PAGES

Woman

Sp

Held

On

Dies of Injuries
Suffered When
Struck by Snag

7, Gerald (Gerry)
21, Canim Lake logger, died in
War Memorial Hospital Sunday,
as a result of injuries suffered
last Friday in a bush accident.

Phe young man, who worked
for Robinson’s Sawmill,
falling in the bush when a snag
dropped and struck him on the
head, He suffered a fractured
skull.

Son of Mr. and Mrs. G. M.
Folland, of Penticton and Sica-
mous, Gerald had worked in the
Forest Grove district for the past
three years.

was

He is survived by his‘parents,
seyen brothers, Cecil (Chase),
Wilbur (Fort St. James), Wil-
liam (Giscombe),
yoous), Ray (Geraldton, Ont.),
Donglas (Vancouver), Oliver
4®orest Grove three sisters,

John (Sica-

"Mrs. R. (Dean) Bauer (Pentic-
fon), Mrs. R.

(Frances) Gard-
mer (Vancouver), and Miss
Helen Folland (Vancouver).

Funeral services were held
this week in Kamloops. An in-
quest will be held into the
accident.

‘Closed’ Meeting
Clauses in Act

“Pwo sections in oe Municipal
Act dealing * plosed ”
meetings of ae government
bodies, will be studied py the
Board of Trade’s civic affairs
committee as the result of 9
esident’s comment that they
constituted a threat to our
democratic way of life.

he sections were criticized in
@ letter by Jack Brackenbury,
whe felt they should be changed.

Section 1¢1 of the Act reads:
‘vBhe yegular meetings of the
Counejl sha} be epen to the pub-
He and no person shall he ex-
eluded, except for improper
gonduct. If, in the opinion of
the Council, the public interests
go require, it may exclude from
@ special meeting:

(a) Persons. other than

jembers and officers;

{>) Persons other than

members.””

"Phat part of Section 174 deal-
jag with the same principle
reads: “(1) The minutes of the

its
or
its

* proceedings of the Council shall

be legibly recorded in a minute-
book. The minutes shall he
certified as correct by the Clerk
and shall be signed by the
Mayor, Reeve, Chairman, or
-pther member presiding at such
qeeting or at the next meeting
at which they are adopted, and,
with the exception of the min-
utes of a special meeting from
which persons mentioned in
Glayses (a) or (b) of Section
164 were excluded, the said
minutes shall be open for the
inspection of any person. +.”

Some depate was entertained
on the principle involved, but
the members decided a commi
stee-shonld first study the impli-
ations and bring their findings
Cg a later general meeting.
Speaking, briefly on the point
raised by the letter, Chairman
said his own
opinion was that civie bodies
should not have the right to
hold closed meetings.

PRACTURES HIP

Bertie Morton, 71, of Williams
Lake, fractured his left hip
when he fell on the ice while
crossing the foot of Oliver
Street last Friday afternoon. He
had just been visiting his
prother, Jesse, who is in hospj-
tal. Mr. Morton was helped by
two young men who wére stand-
ing by. They called a taxi and
took him to hospital, where he
ig comfortable.

Pollana, |

= a

Shown here looking over
volumes of the Encycloy

to right) Mrs. Donald

diana at the Publie Library are (left

VALUABLE ADDI

ON
the first two president;
paedia Cana- | dent; and M

(See story tl

McKay, past

$250 Raised in
Bottle Drive

Just over $250 was raised by
firemen last Wednesday in the
pottle drive they handled gs 4
starter in their year's drive for
funds for the War Memorial
Arena ice plant. project.

The firemen collected 500

“| dozen beck bottles, THU cases of
pop hotties and $50 in cash

Heayy snow that fell the

night before gmpered the

volunteers in their town-wide

canvass, and daylight ran out

before complete coverage could
be made.

Narrow Escape As
‘Cat’ Overturns

Ken Cameron, foreman of
J and W Logging, had a narrow
escape Monday when the “cat”
he was driving overturned on tap
of him,

He was hauyling logs down a
steep hillside at the time, about
12 miles north-east gf Williams
Lake. The logs started to slide,
crashed into the 15-ton tractor
and pushed it sideways on the
steep grade, causing it to com-
pletely overturn.

Mr. Cameron crawled oyt him-
self and was taken to town
where he received a medical
examination. He bruised both
shoulders, his left elbow and
Tight_knee, and had’ a slight
abrasion on the head. is
fepling quite recovered today.

The " cat,” which was righted
by a second machine horrowed
from Allfir Lumber, was only
slightly damaged.

He is|

First Volumes
Encyclopaedia

Library.
volume set that is being
the Richardson Centur

Williams Lake is honored
ing chosen for th
Uons, as only a limited numl
of librar’ 2

Apparent reason: fpr the village
being umong those selected is}
due to visits here of Darry!
Simpson, sales manager tor|
epercionaetis Canadiana, and
R.L. , libraries comm |
sfon punerinteadant in Victoria.
It seems that the men were im-
pressed with the library organ-
ization and its work on behalf of
the local community, |

Produetion of the million!
dollar projéct was started five |
years ago by the Grolier Society
Some 800. leading Canadian
writers, scholars and scientist
have contributed manuscript
covering every field imaginable.

The combined efforts of
thousands of people have gon®
into the production of 10,00
separate entries, and more thai |

THRER GAME:

‘Youngsters Take
Over at Arena

The town’s younger hocke
Players provided a full Dill of
fare at the arena last Sunday
afternoon.

In the eight and ‘hine-year-old

/grouping, the Maple’ Leal. Hotel |
team and Mackenzies hattled to
a 1-1 dray. Allfir, pee wees
blanked the Elks 3-0. |
Feature game saw the
ing midgets from Lac La Hache
take a narrow 4-3
Wiliams Lake.

visit-|

win over

Won't Curtail

Possibility

that the cut in
Cariboo Health Unit staff would
remain as a permanent arrange-
ment had town and district or-

ganizations and
flooding Victoria with protests
last week.

In town, the protest move was

Health Service

and immediately moved

ascertain the facts of the situa-
tion. He also passed on the
assurance of the department

individuals |that the health service will not

be curtailed. i

sparked by the Cariboo District | INSPECTING RESERVES
Nurses” sociation, under their ne

energetic president, Mrs. A. Indian Agent Bill Christie
Kallaur, Fourteen organiza-|left yesterday on a three-day
tions added their weight to the/trip to Anahim Lake, accom-
protest. panied by Mr. W. McGregorm

Mrs

| tenee

|handed

supervisor of Indian agencies for
B.C. and Dr. J. D. Galbraith

Last " phursday, Mrs. Kallaur
received a wire from Hon. Eric

Alfred Kail, pr
Les Langley, librarian.
his page).—Tribune photo

of Canadian
At Library

IRST two volumes of Encyclopaedia Canadiana,
an all-Canadian reference work that fills a long-
felt need, can now be seen at Williams Lake Public
The advance volumes are part ofa 10-
presented to the lit
Fund.

rary by

paedin in exmtente

Canadian scene. so. exten-

sively, and it is considered the

|foremost of the Canadian refer-

ence books of today,

The fund representing the 7 reli: {
ee M 2 a | Suaday night after an alarm had ae phe ey. hearine ot
volumes commemorates he been placed. Fortunately, the the charge 8 held, pending col-
100th anniversary of James lection of evidence in the case.

Richardson and Sons Limited.

They will present a total of 3825
complete sets
paedia to selected libraries in all
10

provinces.

‘Mild Weather

Cancels Hockey

Return of mild weather, with

| water running down the streets

ilustrations,—-No other

treats

of the encyclo-

Christmas Post
Office Closure
Aired

A problem of mail service

that raised some controversy in] Bowe,
town at Christmas time was! fraca
aired again at last week's Board
Ae ones qostine A second man, Frank Whity,
of Stone Reserve, is in good
The local office closed for 2| condition at War Memorial

half. day December 24, and com-
plaints to the hoard yesulted in
the group appealing to the dis-
trict superviser at Vancouver.
Instructions finally came
through to open the post office,
but not until the afternoon was
, | over.

Hospital, following treatment for
a knife wound ‘in the upper
cheat,

According to police, six people
were at the Becher house the
night of the shooting. Besides
the accused, the deceased and
the injured man, they included
Donald Woodward, of Williams
Lake, Ernest Hance, of Alexis
Creek, and Mrs. Theresa George,
of Stone Reserve:

The old Becher place, a

In a subsequent letter of ex-
planation, the Vancouver
official said instructions had
gone out to give clerks a half
day, but this had heen in-
tended: tor internal office pro-|famous stopping place on the
cedure, not to curtail service to|Chileotin Road in the early days,
the publle, is now on the River Ranch,

Postmaster Cece Rhodes told|headquarters of which jg 24
the meeting he objected to the|miles trom Riske Oreek. Mrs.
board going over his head in the|Sam, her husband, Dave, and
matter. If the board had con-|Mrs. George have been living in
tacted him directly, he said, the/the house, wintering cattle tor
office would haye been opened. |the ranch. Mr. Sam was not at
President Felix Nicholson ex-|the house the night of the
plained to Mr. Rhodes that the |Shooting.
board representative had tried] The fatal shooting occurred
at the same time to contact him|@bout 4 am. although
but-had been: unable to do so.|Police were ‘not notified until
He sald the board appreciated |SHortly after cight, Mr. Hance
the co-operation that has always | V2/Ked from the Becher place to
heen extended in the past by Mr.|J04ns0n's Store at Riske Creek

and had the call placed, Whity

Rhodes, and hoped this spirit 1 h
would continue to exist in the|2S brought in for medical
future. attention when police arrived.

Bowe is believed to huve died

instantly. He way shot by a .22

calibre rife,

Later in the morning, police

apprehended Mrs. Sam in the
Becher yard as she was feedin

= ies : ve

Firemen Delayed
reordiy

Murder Charge

Young Man Loses Life
in Riske Creek Shooting

CHARGE of murder has been laid against Mrs.
| Celestine Sam, of Stone Reserve, in connection
with the death early Sunday morni:

of Harvey

23, of Springhouse, who was shot during a
s at the old Becher House at Riske Creek.

Board of Trade
Chairmen Named

A full
chairmen

slate of committee
for this year was
named at last Thursday’s Board
of Trade meeting by president
Felix Nicholson.

The chairmen are: R. M.
Blair, membership and publi-
city; Hapold Edmonds, agricul-
Wire; Alf Smallenberg,
tainment; Elmer
trdde and industry;
kowski, civic and
affairs; Stewart Smith, lumber
ing; Tom Larson, programs:
Tom Wale, telephone and roads:
Jim Carson, tourist
ment,

enter
Carswell,
Joe Bor~

national

develop-

Fashion Show
Date -Set

The Kiwanis annual spring
fashion show and tea, one of the
town’s most popular social func-
tions, will be staged Wednesday,
March 26, it was announced at

| A coroner’s jury was) im-
panelled and viewed the body
the same day. The jury will
likely be dismissed in view of
the murder charge being laid.

Jt may be about a month be-

Garbled

A mix-up in directions delayed
firemen from reaching the home
of Mr. and Mrs. Dan Rottacker

Tuesday's luncheon meeti
will he Bob Court.

Don Brown was elected
treasurer of the club, replacing

Tony Borkowski, who asked to
he relieved of the office because
he already holds two committee

acrid smoke that filled the house

chairman posts.

had come from a pot of meat
left on the stove, and no hard-

FOUR-YEAR-OLD WAS SAFE AT NEIGHBOR’S

Mother Fights

ship was worked by the time
loss in responding to the call,

Mrs. Rottacker had gone to
church and then on to a friend's
home that evening, and Mr.
Rottacker had gone up to the
curling rink. The meat was
left on the stove with a byrner
a

3

Mr. Rottacker arrived home
after 11 and clouds of smoke
billowed out as he opened the

s Al z
door. He managed to make his out three: "o'clock,

‘S.
Marty,

yesterda as resull e A Alla SI

yesterday, h resulted in the way inside and phoned in the Nan Bush put her son,

hockey game scheduled between - A sara |tO bed, carefully shut off the
alarm, but When directions were | ©

Quesnel and the Stampeders kitchen stove and then went

tonight being cancelled.

officials

hape to get

relayed on ta the fire depart-
ment the street name Was
wrong and the engine, after one

outside to chop kindling and
take some rubbish to the back

; of the lot. She wa ide U
oi underway this| Unsuccessful trip around town, fe; dot, Lgavas. outside the
5 house about 20 minutes when
weekend, and if the weather] was brought back to the hall to| | O°” ekg smoke coming
2 | awai her instructions. ke s
tightens up, the third place | await fort nstru iikough! the deers. aiid faaied
mps will play first place ——_——_—_——|to the bedroom window to

Prince George Mohawks here

Saturday and Sunday.

» Suspended
Sentence

A 12
the posting of
surety
in judgment

on
dolla
down

$1,000

week by Magistrate C, H. Poston
in the case of Leo Paul Matton,
who was charged with posses:
sion of stolen property

ge
saws that were stolen last Set

months suspended sen-
a | play
bond, was
last

rge concerned two power

rescue her son.

In the meantime, Wilf Hodg-

‘The new Prince George arena son, of Hodgson Bros, Trans-
wasn't ready for playing last port, was driving down the Lill
| weekend, and what was to have when he noticed the smoke.
been an arenmopening game Parking his truck, he ran to the
between _ the “Mohaw and house and got there in time to
Stamps was played instead on a find Mrs. Bush climbing through
poorly lighted’ open rink. the window. He dragged her

out, and when the frantic

Scores of the two games were mother struck him, he pushed
\2 and 10-8 for the home her aside and tried to get into
Mohawks. |the room himself. Choking

clouds of smoke drove him back,
convinced if the boy was inside
|he had already suffocated.
Neighbors had now rushed up
and one of them assured Mrs.
Bush the boy was safe. When
|his mother was out, he had got
Jout of bed and run next door to

Relief over the safety of their
— child has softened the blow of
COMPANY the material loss suffered by Mr.
Shown here is G. C. |and Mrs. Bush. The estimate
-| (Clift) Swanson, presi- | ‘heir loss at $10,000, Furnish-

dent of Swanson Equip- |i# Im their home were all new.
ent of Swanson Equip- | 6p their property two and a half

HEADS EQUIPMENT

ment Ltd., new agent for
International Harvester

miles out of town on the Chil-

} cotin Road, the couple have five

ember Irom Koivisto Sales and
zone medicai a

|other smal] rental units besides

Martin, Minister of Health and
stating that all in their
done to obtain
ther nurse for

supery!

sor from
Coqualeetza Hospital, Sardis
Object of the trip. is 10
spect the living and health con-
the local unit ditions of Indians living at dis-
William Speare, MLS. had|tant points trom
teen tbe recipient of protests | amenities,

Welfare,
power would be
the services of ano’

civilized

Matton later pur,

and then resold them.

ad judgment was reserved un

| til last Wednesday,

@ the saws from two men

was heard two weeks ago

trucks and farm equip-
ment in Williams Lake.
Mr. Swanson comes from
Chilliwack, where for
-| years he operated his
' own-machine shop,

|the house they were living in.
|They had just placed insurance
jon all the other units, but bad
jnot got around to insuring their

§ Dot known how the fire

To Reach Son

Through Blazing Home

LAMES engulfed a Chilcotin Road home last Pri.

day afternoon as a distraught mother fought to

enter by a bedroom window to save her four-year-old
son, whom she thought was trapped inside.

started. Besides the kitchen
range, there was an oil heater
in the louse.

Unusual coincidence was
brought to the attention of Mr:
Bush the following morning
when she went to town for the
mail. There was a letter from
her twin sister, Mrs. L. Silves,
of Bellingham, Washington. The
letter started out by assuring
Mrs, Bush that the Silves family
were all fine, although they had
just gone through the experience
of having their home burn’ to
the ground.

Last Rites Held
For Fred Bare

Funeral services. were con-
ducted last Friday from St.
Andrew's United Church for
Frederick Bare, 69, who passed
away in hospital February 10.

Mr. Bare is survived by his
wife, Margaret; three sons,
Hugh, Quesnel, and John and
Fred, Williams Lake; one

|daughter, Mrs. H. Simpson, of
Riondel, B.C.; and seven grand-
children.

Born at Riding Mountain,
Manitoba, Mr. Bare ranched for
many years in Saskatchewan.
He resided at Lone Butte for
several years before moving to
Williams Lake in 1955. He was
a veteran of the First World
War.

Palbearers at the service were
Brit Gillette, Doug Beaman,
Allen Blatr, Ivan Julsrud, Bruce
Minchin and William Holtom,