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Wednesday, March 412, 1958

‘cHE TRIBUNE, WILLIAMS LAKE, B.¢.

Second Section Page 7

THERE'S G

Gold is where you find it

it by the side of a road so much the better,

This drilling rig, operated by
probing for gold on

Sh ego
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the outskirts of Van-

OLD IN THOS.

and if you find

Roy Watson, is

E VANCOUVER HILLS

couver, B.C., on the Upper Levels highway.
B.C. and Yukon Chamber of Mines, after ex:
amining samples, say the ore is of good qual-
ity but the showing is small.

One of the greatest delights of
the young sweats of the Last
‘Great Unpleasantness
‘out to their elder counterparts
‘that the First World War was
sstrictly a bow and arrow affair.

-I. wonder how many of the
cyoung sweats know that the bow
sand arrow was actually used in
World War II, and to good
effect.

Around about 1942, Com-
mando units were planning a
maid in the Boulogne area to
determine the nature of. the
enemy's beach defences. There
Was one snag. The German
sentries were posted on the tops
of banks and high sand dunes.

enough to-silence them by a}
knife attack. *

Then, said someone, why not
try a lowly bow and arrow? It
was a crazy idea but a long-
shot one. A well-known and
trusted archery firm was given
the assignment of manufactur
the dis-

The bow makers advised using
:ash bows as being more reliable
sthan steel. The arrows were
forged from the finest hollow
‘steel -shafts with hardened
points, and feathered. The grip
.of the bow was notched and
acted as the sights of a rifle.
“The finest flax was used for the

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The Commandos settled down
to ‘their specialized training.

They practiced shooting from a

crouched position at silhouette
targets by night to assimilate
the conditions under which they
would attack.

The raid took place’ in 1943,
and-was a great success, The
bowmen formeFa spearhead and
quickly bagged the German sen-
tries, who fell in their tracks,
not knowing what hit them. I
am told that in one case an
arrow passed clean through the
body of one German sentry at
50 yards.,

Tronical, wasn’t it, with
scientists racking their brains to
design‘ new weapons,
despised bow and arrow should
wind up doing the job.

Or could it be that the Com-
mandos who shot their arrows
at Boulogne were direct descend-
doughty English
fought at Crecy

knows?

that the

Changes Made
In Tel Company
Personnel

Changes in B.C. Telephone
Company personnel affecting
this area were announced last
week. =
W. G. Manley, Kamloops, the
district commercial and traffic
manager, has had Williams Lake
and Quesnel added to his <terri-
tory. At the same time, C. J.
O'Connor, former Prince George
district plant manager, moves to
Kamloops in the shuffle which
places all parts of the system
south of Prince George in the
Kamloops district.

Dave Greenwood, who acted
as commercial and traffic mana-
ger at Prince George after mov-
ing north from Quesnel more
than a year ago, has been trans-
ferred to the Chilliwack district.

Yale To Ignore Stage Coach Trip

By A. C. Milliken
In Hope Standard

At a-recent meeting of the
Yale Centennial Committee, it
was’ unaniniously decided that
the community ignore the much
advertised Victoria to Barker-
yille mail stage, on the grounds
that it is a falsification of the
records. There never was-any
such stage run, although the
paid advertisement is apparently
designed to give that impression.
As a matter of fact, there was
not a road between New West-
minster and Yale until 1876,
nine years after the inauguration
of the stage.

The Yale-Barkerville stage
operated from 1864 until the
completion of the railroad in
1886. The southern terminus
was at Yale, where connections
were made with the steamboats.
From 1886 to the advent of the
automobile, this stage operated
between Ashcroft and Barker-
ville.

The thought was also ex-
pressed that the thousands of
dollars being spent on this hoax
could have been put to a much
better purpose if used to help
some of the smaller communi-
ties which, in their day, played
an important part in the history
of the province, such as Yale,
Ashcroft or Barkerville, where
the population today is so small
that the per capita grant does
not permit a very
undertaking.

Yale, in particular, is desery-
ing of some special attention to
commemorate its past. It was
at Yale where British law might
justifiably be said to have beon
established on the main-
land of British Columbia. On
June 6, 1858, six months prior
to_the official date we are cele-
brating, Governor Douglas issued
a proclamation appointing three
of the first public officers—
Richard Hicks, Revenue Officer
and Assistant Commissioner of
Crown Lands at Yale; George
Perrier, Justice of the Peace at
Hills Bar, and Travillot usually
styled Captain, Revenue Officer
and Assistant Land Commis-
sioner at Lytton. Two con-
stables were also appointed, one
at Yale and one at Hills Bar.

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‘ambitious | -

In September, 1858, a proc-
lamation was uttered and posted
at Hope, appointing three com-
missioners. constituting a Crim-
inal Court, to try William King
for murder (the first murder
trial on the mainland of British
Columbia).

Yale was also the scene of
the Yale convention held in
1868. Space does not permit
details, suffice to say that the
37 resolutions passed at this
convention assumed an impor-
tant place in the history of
British Columbia,

Forest Grove News

MARCH 5 was a big day for
some of the Women's Institute
members when they climbed
aboard the bus as the school
children. alighted from school
and journeyed to the ranch
home of Mrs. G. Duke, for their
regular monthly meeting. A de-
licious cup of coffee was served
by the hostess on arrival. The
day was spent at quilting and
when the business was completed
the ladies enjoyed a dinner and
then started the long journey
back to their homes. It was
decided to hold a St. Patrick's
Day dance in the Community
Hall on March 15. The April
meeting will be held at the
home of Mrs. B. Scott.

JOHN MATULA had the mis-
fortune to break a leg on March
while canting in the Wilcox

rs. Gwen Felker broke her
on Mareh 1, when she

arm
slipped and fell on the icy road.

MRS. NORA WELPTON and
children are spending a couple

of week: holiday with Mrs.
Welpton’s parents at Agassiz.

Fires Outside
Village Limits

Ltd. in last week’s paper caused
eyebrows to be raised

the village boundary and beyond
the scope of the local fire fighters
who were not summoned in
either case.

During 1968, the C.P.R. will

in the | Place in operation 122 new diesel

Williams Lake Volunteer Fire |!ocomotives.

Brigade. It described two re-
cent fires in the town in which
everything was lost.

Actually, they were outside

In a decade, British Colum-
bia’s population has increased
nearly 40 percent.

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