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Town Workers

A request from the outside,
‘Village Workers for a 20 percent |°

inerease in salaries has been_ap-
Proved by the Village Council.

The workers made their re-
quest Tuesday night and council
agreed that their wages were
probably low in comparison to
those paid by other municipali-
ties.

Two men whose salaries were
$275 a month will go up to $325
just short of what a full 20 per-
cent raise would make. The
meter policeman’s salary jumps
from $240 to $275.

Two Injured In
Car Accident

Jimmy Weatherby, driver for
Malkin’s Limited, was hurt in an
accidént late last Thursday when

his car turned over twice and |

left the road on the Cariboo
Highway just south of the Sugar
Cane turn-off. He sustained
-concussion, a cut left eye,
bruises. and numerous abra-
sions, and is still recovering in
Wer Memorial Hospital. Also
John

Suffered ‘s fractured collar bone.
Hdassen has been released trom
hospital.

According to R.C.M.P. reports
‘Weatherby's car was proceeding
south at the time. Parked off
the road on his right was a car
‘owned by Frank McNeil, of 141
Mile. Facing the opposite way
and Parked off the road was a
MeNeil and the truck!
conversation:

The latter swerved as his
Jights picked up the parked car
and he Jost control, running off
the highway on his own side’
and then swerving back and
turning over twice before end~
ing upside down at the other
side of the road. Damage to
the car amounted to about
42,000. The windshield popped
out of jis frame anf was found
on the grass intact.

Dr. Arthur Campbell hurried
to the scene of the accident and
rendered medical attention.

Area Volunteer.
Worker Wins First

Prize In Draw

Mrs. Cliff McIntosh was the
‘winner of the refrigerator
Offered as first prize in the first
‘drawing held this year by
the Williams Lake Fire Depart-
ment in support of the artificial
jee fund tor War Memorial
Arena,

It was appropriate that this
quiet community worker should
be among the first prize winners
‘Ever since the arena opened in
1949, Mrs. McIntosh has been a
member of the unofficial
women’s auxiliary to ibe society
‘and has worked innumerable
mights and afternoons during the
jhockey. seasons in the arena
akitehen.

Other prize winners in the
draw made last Wednesday
were: Mrs. Weirtz, second prize
(chesterfield); James Chatham,
160 Mile, third (rife); Harry
Robinson, fourth, (camera): and
Miss Iris Blair, fifth (grocery
hamper).

Forced Off Road

George Dahl, of Smedleyvile,
had a lucky escape Easter Mon-
day when he left the road on
his way from town, hit a rock
and damaged the pickup he was
@riving to the tune of about
$1,000. He reports that he was
forced off the road by an on-
coming vehicle which drove on
after the accident.

Dahl suffered slight shock and
‘ais wife was bruised as @ result
of the accident.

} considerably

jranches and mills on the west

~ portation over

at Soda Creek is
Ferry operator

Williams Lake,.B.C., Thursday,

CONNECT
, During the winter and early spring months, trans-
the Fraser River
limited to’ this small aerial ferry.

April 10, 1958

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G LINK
Joe Opu

i here with*an. unidentified
passenger,

— Tribune photo

ont is shown

“Ts it safe?” were

In* case any reader should
think the ‘latent dangers of
little \ consequence, he or she
should, visit! “ the cage” whieh
transports provisions and people
acroas ube Fraser at Soda Creek
corde the winter months.
andi ue the ed)
splines ‘drop looking out at «
cable which stretches 1,000 feet
to the far side of the river and
seems} to be! hundreds of fee
above the swirling, muddy. river
below, the journey by cable car
cannot be tajcen lightly, partieu-
larly ‘when (pressed by an 11-
year-old son who insists that
“iM.be fun.”

The cage, as the little box of
tricks on this page is called, is
powered by a. five. h.p. Briggs
and Stratton motor, although it
was yowered by hand from 1936
ntl sthe motor

55-5
Joe Coumont, ines operator of

this fiimsy transportation,.“ is
used) to, visitors, and good
naturedly answered \ aij] “the

questions about his unwsual-job-
He commented that it was a far
cry from {| the modern » contri-

adequatély.y

60-HOUR WREK
Joe works a 60-hour week of,
this comparatively lonely vi
and says that he gets all kind
of ‘loads? to transport’ across
from calves fo cougars . ..4 the
latter after ee shave passed’ on,
of @ourse), Joeis\ relieved on

Of 3 PFE

installationin }+

vanees of «the atomic age, but):
that it served its purpose fairly

Ferry Seems Frail Link
With West Side of Fraser

— BY FRED WATERHOUS

the first thoughts that

yentered my ihead when I was invited to take a ride
‘on the tiny ferry at Soda Creek last Sunday.

side of the Fraser acrosstfrom
Soda Creek, although a constant
user is Joe's seven-year-old son,
Francis. He is the eldest of
three boys and he crosses each

|. day.to attend Soda Creek School.

Yea pihe. journey Soda.
Créekx J8 qweli worth a nee It
it isolated and other than a
small Indian reserve seen on the
way down to the river, there
appears to be little habitation.
Which makes it all the more
remarkajle when you consider
that it was the sailing stage for |
the old-time river
north to Prince George, and, as
Centennial stories will tell you.
the actual site of ship building

was constructed.

boats plying |

yard where one of the yessels|

Ice On Lake -
: Moves Out Early

As expected,
| Lake went out early this year
| ater a mild winter. Officially
move was on Tuesday, April 8.
By Wednesday,
had cleared the lake completely
of jee,

Permits Issued

Three | residential’ buildin
permits were aproved by Village
Council Tues night. The
permits Were issued to J, Weirtz,
Don Hill und John Goldie.

‘Two business licences were is-
sued, one to George Carlson for
sale of wood products and the
other to Paul Niguidet for con-
tracting.

ice on Williams

a warm wind

This is 13 days earlier than
last year and, in fact, the earl-

To Drill Test
Lut § jest the ice has disappeared for
Well oon at least five years.~ In 1956,

pul Cguncil ‘Tuesday de- i gut_on april. 26,
ed fio proveed” immediately bs ihe vivo protata Seen
With tést drilling on the airport aa ae Ree
in an attempt to secure an al- : =
ternative water supply for the
village.

Decision has heen postponed
| for several weeks due to absence
| of several members of the coun-
ei] on each meeting night.

recorded
| day.

Not in evidence this year was

April

ice sweeps. Plenty
asked about

the usual organizers never got

the anriual

of people it, but

Drilling of the test hole is|/around to running the draw.
jexpected to run to around! perhaps the winter had been so
$4,000. It could take another]. i oe
$2,000 or §2,500 to “prove " | Hd that they felt it was likely

lthe water supp
onwards.

Sundays and at *ollday lithes Dy
Leroy Gallant. ‘Loa
‘500 pounds, including two pers
sons, and-the ferryvis apen for
free trafisporiation each day
from 7 a.m.‘to YZ noon,'1 p.m. £0
5.00, and 6.00 until 7.00.
The cable ear stops: around:

jis sufficiently good to launch and
use the ferry scow itself, which
Joes the crossing mntil @bout
October. The scow, of course, is
bigger and
take a load of 10 tons.

The ferry serves the yarious

Over 300 Entries /
In Music Festival

‘Over 200. entyies have been:

April 18 and 1

A time ae tor the two-|
day program will be prepared |
for publication next’ week.

Most Williams Lai. |

i entrants
will be judged the ie day of
fhe festival, With out-of-town

|

entrants) ge Saturday,

“limit t /

May or when’ ever the weather|

wil]

Teceived for the Central Cariboo /
Music aed to be staged on fi

PROUD

first prize in
the Wiliams
Memorial Ai

Winner of
ducted by
wid of Was

shown iexe looking over the fridge that was top

prize oa the list.

FATHER PASSES

Fred Knight, father of Mrs.
Adolph, of Williams Lake,
passed away westerday at his
home in Regina, Saskatchewan.

j a a
to go any minute from January

MAY SEEK COURT INJUNCTION

Private Citizen Squares off

With Mill in Noise Dispute

There is every indieation that a long-standing
feud between a private citizen and the firm of Lig-
num Ltd. may erupt iato a court action as the
former seeks to restrain the lumber company from
working night shifts,
dgek Brackenbury, P.G,p.| Close -to town, and he thought
locomotive engineer, who has|the company would probably
lodged a number of complaints |PFefer to have been firthur out.
about Industrial noise in the|® Pointed out, though, that
past, appeared Tyesday night |8ck in 1948, when Lignum was
before the Village Council to} ®St#blished, that was the only
present -his arguments. place available. He said you

Mr. Brackenbury, who lives |CoU/dn't”blame the commission~
in the same block’ at the planer |¢S Of the day for allowing the
mill office, stated he was seeking|™41_ to locate that close to
to have the mill curtail its|tOW since it was the first major
operations to the hours of 7 a.m. |P@¥Foll that had been established
to 6 p.m., maintaining there | Hee
shepld be pease and quiet at| Mr. Brackenbury had built a
night. In support of his com-|Small house on the back of his
plaint, which apparently ‘cites|lot in 1947 and was living in it
the mill as Violating the village|the next year, Several years
nuisance law, Mr. Brackenbury |@80 he put the foundations in
had a petition signed by nine/for his future home and last
Residents af the vicinity. The|Year started construction.
Petition, in essence, called forlepconn pRrrnON
curtailment of the mill opera-
tion to daily hours mentioned| The complainant — seemed
previously and that the company |S¥?Prised- when another peti-
be restrained from operating on| ‘im Was presented at the meet-
Sundays or statutory holidays. |™8-_ This one stated the under-

Mr, Brackenbury said that a|SiSned did not object to the mill
motor that was being overhauled | Perating on a three-shift basi
in the mill yard had been|224 the noise did not bother
operated on Sundays without a|tem, There were 24 signatures
muffler and allowing this noise |°™

Looking at the petition, Mv.

to be created with: a disgrace in

his opinion, Brackenbury commented on the
fact that several of the signa-

COURT INJUNCTION tures belonged to men Saree

He said he had written to the|toy tigaum,

Inspector of Municipalities, ask- 2

ing him to look over the situa-| Th council agreed to con-

tion. The inspector hadn't done | ie" the complaint atter seek-

so but had suggested the com- ing an opinion from their own

plainant could seek a court in| counsel, and will probably give

junction if he felt something an answer within two weeks.

should Re done,

E}ackenbury said he had
Spates in this matter |
and his’advice had been to bring
the situation to the attention of
the Village Council first.

Chairman Gardner asked the
complainant if he had con-
sidered that the night shift shut-
down, if requested, would mean
that some 15 men would be out
of work, and that directly and
indirectly many more would be
affected. He said the P.G.E.
nd the trucks travelling
Mackenzie Avenue were just as
much to blame in being respons-
ible for noise in the area.’ Mr.
Brackenbury said the continual
whining of the’ planers was a
much harder noise to bear.

The chairman said it. was
apparent now the mill was not
in a good position, being too|.

WES ATCHISON
Wes Atchison has been

month in the case of Individual
a month to commercial users in

| The new rate proposal is con-

tained in an application being
|made by the company to the
| Transport Commissioners of

| Canada.

To give some Idea of what the
rate increase will mean to Wil-
liams Lake subscribers, if ap-
proved, the following list gives
the proposed rates and the
present rate (in brackets) tor
the various classes.

Business individual, $6.90
($5.25); business multi-party,
4 ); residential indi-
vidual, $3.10 ($°.60); residen-
tial two-p: $3.10 ($2.60);
esidential, + ($2.30).

In addition, extension rates
would rise 9 flat five cents,
business cornection charges
would go fro a $5.30 to $6.50;
residential connection charges

would go trom §3 to $4.50;
mo nd change charges would
go from $2.70 to $3.50. There

would be a general rise in long
distance rates, although person-
to-person calls would Jump more
than station-to-station rates.

In making the application,
the company stats the proposed

: 7 |rate changes throughout the
WINNER |provinee would provide addi-
the first draw being con- | tional annual revenue totalling
Lake Fire Department in | $6,460,000. This, it is stated, |

, Was Mrs. Cliff McIntosh, |is necessary in order that the |
company may earn its full divi-

dend requirements in 1968. It!

— Tribune phota

Telephone Rates Would Rise Here
‘lf Proposed Company Tariff OK'd

Telephone rate jumps in Williams Lake from 60 cents a

the B.C. Telephone Company's application for rate increases.

appointed general mana-
ger of the automotive
firm of. Beath
(Williams Lake)
Employed as
manager of Wil liams
Lake Motors until this
appointment, Mr, Atchi-
son has had widespread
experience in the auto-
motive field. For more
than 20 years he was
with Nash Motors in
Vancouver, and was ser-
vice manager there from
1941 to 1954, He is an
associate member of the
Society of Automotive
Engineers.

— Tribune photo

Cariboo Players Starry
In Kootenay Title Play

Several of the Cariboo’s top ranking badminton
players turned in outstanding performances last
week when they invaded the southern part-of the
province to compete for the first time in the Koot-
enay Championships at Nelson.

Ralph Woodland, of the toeal| Soy ainy o
club, and Don Currie, of sy yyn pe
Quesnel, advanced in their men's| ). 77 Of Kamloops, to enter

the fina Phe’ iaihiaone. pate
doubles attempt right up to the hold the Kiwis seers pair
» , Salmon Arm

residential subscribers to $1.55
the sume class are proposed in

is pointed out that the. com-
pany must raise millions of dol-
lars in new capital each year to
keep pace with B.C.'s growth,
and it is essential that earnings
be sufficient to attract the
necessary money by paying a
fair return to investors.

Dalin and Bil

semi-finals, before bowing out ;

to Bert Fergus and” Marna |#d Okanagan men's doubles

Creighton, of Vancouver, 15-8, | UUS

17-18, 18-8. Fergus’ ana}. I the mixed doubles, Wood-

Creighton went on to win the|!@8d and Barb Gardner also
advanced to the semis before

championsbip. Fergus is fourth | 24
ranking Canadian singles player |g downed by Jean Stringer,
of Penticton,

and holds the mixed double: and Bert Fergus,
provineial crown. Creighton is| 15-10, 15-7. The victors event-
a former B.C. junior champion. | ually emerged as winners in the

finals. On their way to the top,

In their first game, the Cari-
boo pair won three matches,

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