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VO “SECTIONS Williams Lake, B.C., uicdnceday March 12, 1958 1

8 PAGES

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A STICK-IN-THE-MUD

After an exciting morning flight (see story Page
8), the plane from Puntzi got stuck in the mud in
front of the C.P.A. Office last Friday and had to be

towed out by pickup.

— Tribune photo

HEALTH CENTRE PLANNING PROCEEDS

Architects from the office of
Joycelin Briggs, Prince George.
will meet with Kiwanians F:
day night to “discuss plans for
the proposed SER Centre -in
Williams Lake.

Reporting. to the  weeldly
Jnuncheon meeting Tuesd: con)-
mittee chairman Fred ‘Water-
diguse stated he had heen given
eyery assurance that the P.G.B.
Railway Company would sell the
let on the corner of third
Avenue and Borland Street for
the site. The property now has
the old ey lank on it.

Price would not he as low as

Mr. Waterhouse attended the
yillage council meeting iater the

_Same day and asked the, village

were asking
He pointed out

for the jand.
that the Health Centre would be
a considerable asset to the vil-
Jage and that the village would
mot be called on to pay for the

construction. The councillors
agreed jo pay for the land.

up and it is hoped to have can-
struction underway by May.

Tree Over Power
Line Causes
Failure in Town

Two power failures in town
Monday were attributable
directly to the same cause.

Because of possible danger
from falling trees, it has been
decided to-widen the power line
right-of-way from here to
Quesnel, ang work started Mon-
day mornin: s 2

In the lat@ afternoon, a faller
dropped a tyee across the line
causing an outage. The load was
picked up by the town plant and
it was decided to leave the
generators

in-

‘stand after the cou!

power | **

until morning. About 7:15 p.m.
hough, the governor on une of-
the units failed and a number
of circuits were again without
power. A telephone call was
made to Quesnel to throw in the
power from the plant there, and

Working drawing will be made |this was done shortly_ after.

ATTEMPTED MURDER CHARGE

Stone Reserve Woman

Committed

For Trial

Christine Quilt, 27-yeay-old Indian woman, of
the Stone Reserve, 20 miles south-east of Alexis

Creek, will stand trial at

the assizes in June on a

charge of attempted murder,

Order of committal for trial
was made Monday afternoon
following the preliminary hear-
ing of the charge hefore Magis-
trate C. H. Poston,

Evidence of witnesses revealed
that trouble started at a dance
on the reserve on New Year’
Bve.

The Crown's principal witness,
Cecilia Stump, who suffered
knife wounds that\night, finally
tgld her story frox i

cleared.

She told the court that be-
tween 7 and § p.m., Mrs. Quilt
began kicking her in the legs
as soon as she saw me.” She
id she grabbed Mrs. Quilt and
threw her down. Then Mrs.
Stump left the dance and went
to a Mrs, Seymour's house.
Also there were Mr: and Mrs.
Willie George and Mrs. Francis
Haynes, her sister. The witness
said she stayed there a aie

One of Williams Lake’s top badmin-
ton players is team captain Barpara
‘e in action during
the annual Cariboo Club Championship
Miss Gardner won

three matches out of three in partner-

Gardner, shown he

play last weekend.

FOLLOW

NG THROUGH

events, and

tournament
tion.

ship with Ralph Woodland in the mixed

teamed up with Nor

Carson, dropped one match in three in
the ladies’ doubles.

For story of the
see Page 38, First
— Tribune plioee

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To Start Construction on New
Telephone Office This Summer

Construction of a new office
building in Williams Lake for
the B.C. telephone Company js
expected to get underway this
according to a com-
ial.

Architects: are
drawing wp plans for the build-
ing, which will be designed to
house switching equipment
“necessary to bring automatic
dial servicé to local subscribers
in 1960,

presently |

Site of the new building will,

he on Third Avenue, just of

iver Street. The property was
purchased from Drs, Atwood and
Ringwood.

{v3 ILLAGE MAP READIED

map of the Village of
Williams Lake will be available
in about three weeks’ time.

|The map, at a scale of 1-inch
|to 200 feet, will define the vil-
lage boundary, and show street

ew

names and lot numbers. It will
include the new airport sub-
division. |

interest Growing
In Local Teen-Town

Some 30 youngsters in W
liams Lake have shown on inter- |
est in the formation of a
“ teen-town.”

One meeting has been held
and as a result of this organiza-
tion attempt, an approach has
been made to the Kiwanis Club
for adult sponsorship.

Members of the service club
agreed in principle to the spon-
sorship Tuesday, but left details
up to Norton Olsson and his
youth services committee.

| really going to kill me

-would have punctured. the

| Witne:

loeal

and then went ont and around
the side of the building. She
said Mrs. Quilt came at her with

a stick and she made Mrs.
Quilt’s nose bleed. Then she
took the woman inside and

helped clean her

“CUTTING ME"
Asked if she had seen Ped-

lick Quilt, Mrs. Stump said she

had stayed at his house for a
mn

up,

ka whi she
testified, came Jom ‘behind and
struck her with’ 2 knife. She
said she fell to the ground and
Christine was standing over her
“cutting me.” Willie Quilt
came out and attempted to take
away the knife.

Willie then half dragged her
into the house and put her be-

jside the sove, leaving to go for

help.
Mrs. Stump testified
Christine came back

that
nd was
and her
sister tried to take the knife
away from the woman.
MANY WOUNDS

Medical testimony given hy
Dr. R. H. Praser revealed the
of the knife attack had
one cut behind the ear extending |
the full length of the skull,
flesh cut on the right shoulder, |
one higher up that eut into the}
muscle, one on the right hand |
and one about two inches deep
in the left chest. She had also
five euts to the left apm, He
said the most serious was the
one on the upper right shoulder
that had come close to the
jugular vein, and the one on
the chest. If the latter had heen
an eighth of an inch deeper, it
lun

The woman lay behind the
stove in the cabin until police
were summoned from Alexis
Creek at 1:15 p.m, the next

es testified there

“some drinking ” on the re

that night. Two witnue:

testified that Mrs. Quilt appe:

drunk and Mrs. Stump sober.

| Appearing for the Crown was
M

defence.

cipal ranger

of the District Forester at
The ranger districts con-

cerned are Horsefly, 100 Mile
House, Alexis Creek and Wil-

tiams Lake,
In 1956, the four districts
produced an estimated

4,000,000 wvoard feet, com-

pared with 260.500,000 in 195
In dollars and cents, the total

value of this production in 1957

was $13,285,000, down over
five and a half million dollars
from the 1956 figure of
$19,154,000.

Total wages in the forest in-
dustry were estimated at
$5,300,000, down just over a
million dollars from the 1956
figure of $6,500,000,

Christmas tree production
showed an increase last year,
with appr ely ° 155,000

Estimated lumber production in the four prin-
districts of the central
Cariboo was down 53,500,000 board feet last year
from 1956, according to figures compiled by the office

Lumber Production
Down $51% Mi

and south

Kamloops.

Company Leases

To Village

Successful end of years of
trying to get the Stampede
grounds under the direct control
of the village came with the an-
nouncement last night that a
lease has been negotiated with
the Pacific Great Eastern Rail-
way Company.

Just how much of the land is
invalved is not known, Prepa
ation of lease papers will in-
elude correct legal boundaries.

The. lease is for 20 years at
a noniinal price of $1 a year.

trees shipped at a value of
$54,000. The figures for 1956
were 145,000 trees valued at
$51,000. ‘

Little variation is shown in
the number of mills and planers
in operation for the two years,
except in Williams Lake, where
there were $7 sawmills operat-
ing last year compared with 120
in 1956. A reverse trend was
mills, with 14
compared

councils have
negotiated with the railway
company in the past to have the
Stampede grounds turned over
to the village. It had always
been hoped that this would be

an outright grant of the
property.
Faced with the necessity of

considerable outlay of money to |
improve the grounds, the Stam-
pede Association has been p’

ing the matter of the_ Aine
‘obtaining-some legal responsibil-

ity over optrot ofthe area,

Laying Groundwork

A re-vamped Hospital
District
will start immediately on plans

Im-

provement committee

for a canvass of the landowners
in the areas adjacent to Wil-
liams Lake.

Last night a nucleus of an
eventual 20-man committee met
to formulate a plan of pro-
cedure,

Their first move was to elect

a chairman replacing Alex Scott,
now chairman of the hospital

board.

Ken Cameron, a forme?
director, has assumed
this office. Secretary is Mrs.
Harold Me!

Official
been

boundaries have now
fay the im-
provement di and take in
all of School District 82 (Chil-
votin) and all of School District
27, with the exception of the

Permits Issued

Williams Lake Village Coun
cil passed the following building
permits at their regular meeting

last night: C. S. Cooper, dwell-
ing house ($7,000), Seventh Day
Adventists Hall, E,  Boxeur
dwelling house ($8,000), G
Carlson, carpenters’. shop and

office ($6,000) and Stedman’-
Store, internal alterations tc
stor

Re-vamped Hospital District Committee

for Early Canvass

southern portion. The south
boundary line is at the 127 Mile
House.

‘or purposes of the canvass,
the large district will be split
into 20 zones. From the central
committee, one person will be
in charge of the canvass in each
zone. It is planned to hold a
public meeting in each zone
priar to the individual canvass.

Preliminary work will include
printing forms necessary for the
canvass and preparation of lists
of property owners in each

Stampede Grounds

CHAIRMAN
Chairman of the board of
directors of War Memo-
rial Hospital for the
current year is Alex
Scott, named recently by
the Hospital Society to
his first term in office,

«

zone.

— Tribune photo

Passes at Coqualeetza_

enny—West,” a... well-known
member of the PTkatcha band,
@ied -in Codpaserza
last Thursday 8t the age of 67

Her body was’ brought up Satur-
day and taken to Anahim Lake

for burial.
She- is survived by her hus-
band, Charlie West, a former

chief, two sons, Lassis West and
Piere West, and a daughter, Mrs.
Maddie Jack,

Leaving for Terrace
Bill Christie, jr.,
with the B.C. Power Commi:

operator
ion

leaves here next week for Ter-
race, where he has been trans-
ferred. Mr. Christie has been
with the commission for nearly
10 years.

Ranger District
Horsetly .........
100 Mile House
Alexis Creek ........
Williams Lake ...

Horsefly ......
100 Mile House
Alexis Creek .

Wiliams Lake

Comparative Lumber Figures

For comparative purposes,
the number of sawmills and planer mills operating
in the years 1956 and 1957,
The latter figures are given in thousand cubic feet,

here are sho

mn

and their volume

1957
21 5 4,980
115 12 22,010
28 1,420
87 14 15,860
31
1956
13
8
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Big event in elementary school is the *
held during Education Week.

mothers are sitting in on

A
MOTHERS GO TO SCHOOL

open house’
Here a group of proud
the studies of the primary

class at Williams Lake Elementary.
this were repeated throughout District 27 schools.

Scenes like

— Tribune photo,

Hospital es