Page 2 THE PART WE PLAYED The visit of Princess Margaret to Williams Lake will be remembered with pride for years to come by all.who were fortunate enough to see the Queen’s brilliant young sister. é. We were proud of her very presence, this small person with tthe regal grace who charmed all- who saw her, and particularly those fortunate enough to come in close contact with her personality. ‘We can be proud of the fact that our little com- munity was given the honor of showing her a gener- ous time sample of Cariboo hospitality and entertain- ment. But most of all, we can be proud that Williams Lake ‘came through” on both counts, to make her stop one of the highlights of her tour in this Centen- nial year. : Those of us who stood on the sidelines owe a deep vote of thanks to members of the Stamnede Association, the Riding Club, the Centennial Commit- tee, and individual citizens who contributed so much in time, effort and imagination to make the special show the success it was. We are earning a reputation as a town that pro- vides “something different” for visitors on special occasions. Last Friday’s presentation proved that it is well deserved. THAT DISCRIMINATION CHARGE In a recent news story from Quesnel, Cariboo M.L.A. Bill Speare charged “rank discrimination” was evident in the treatment of Indians. His statement followed an incident concerning the body of a Nazko Indian child who died of burns in'a Vancouver hospital. The Indian Affairs Depart- ment had notified the father to the effect that the child was being buried in Vancouver as a cheaper alternative to shipping the body home. Mr. Speare is quoted as saying he had never heard of anything so callous, and that the only reason the family was treated this way was because they are Indian. Now because Federal civil servants, even in the Indian Affairs Department are not likely to come out in public and do battle with elected representatives, we dug a little deeper into the department’s rulings and here is what we found. In their instructions as laid down by statute, the department is allowed to incur the cost of the burial of indigent persons. At the coast a simple burial costs $140. At a result there is no money provided for transportation of the body. However, if the family. wants to put up the cost of shipment and embalming, it will be done. In the casé of the Nazko child, the department paid for having the,child flown to a Vancouver hos- pital, and paid fgr medical treatment, ifcluding the cost of special nurses for eight days. : On the child’s death, the family was informed sthat burial would be held in North Vancouver, unless the cost of transporting the body to Quesnel was guaranteed. 5s Now this situation is not peculiar to the Indian Affairs Department or to Indians. If an-indigent white person dies, the provincial Welfare Department will bury the person and stand the cost. But they will not foot the bill to ship the body to another part of the province. If such a policy is “rank discrimination” it is one that discriminates not against race, but against finan- cial ‘position. We think Mr. Speare should decide what wind- mill he is tilting with. THE OLD ORDER PASSETH The old order passeth. Once the telenhone opera- tor was the fountain of all information in our small town. Or at least a good deal that was topical. If the Stampeders were playing in Quesnel and you wanted to know the score at half-time you just - asked the operator. We can remember a woman once ealling a friend and after the telephone had rung several times with no answer, the operator cut in to pass on the information that Mrs. was over at Mrs. ’s playing bridge. She probably knew who was winning too. Of course that easy informality had to go with the increase in population and resulting heavier load on the switchboard. But we still reached for the tele- Phone to verify the time when the office clock stopped. Now this service has been discontinued. The last time we asked the correct time we were informed that “we aren’t allowed to divulge that information.” We realize that in the interests of efficiency such edicts are eventually necessary, but we felt a distinct regret that this has to be. SCOTT'S SS Se ONE YEAR AGO July 24, 1957 The first length of the 4-inch natural gas pipe in Williams Lake was laid on 5th Avenue south of Oliver Street — The main highways to Horsefly. Likely and the Chileotin have kept in good shape in spite of the sustained rainfall over the last few weeks—The once-in- a-lifetime hole in one was played on the Williams Lake golf course by Mrs. Bob Kelt— Improved facilities at the public beach will commence this week with the opening of the new concession stand—Extension of its 63,000-volt transmission line from Williams Lake, 41 miles southward to Lac La Hache was announced July 19 by B.C ; Power ‘Commission—Sad news for sports fishermen was the announcement of the closing of the Atnarko River near Bella Coola from Stuie upstream un- til October 15 FIVE YEARS AGO July. 30, 1953 Constable Bob Turnbull of the Alexis Creek R.C.M.P. de- tachment was flown into Tsacha Lake to assist in a search for Frank Peters, nineteen-year- old Indian youth who has been missing for about ten days dur- ing a round-up of horses—Real estate values in the village cemetery went up Tuesday when commissioners approved an increase in the price of cle plots from $5 to $10— 26 head were on offer at the local yards when the buyers were on hand for the first sale date of the fall season — Ou TEN YEARS AGO 1948 July 2: A pioneer mining man British Columbia is gone with the death of Archibald C. Knight of Likely. He came to the Cariboo in 1892 where he purchased from the Chinese the property later to become fam- ous as the Bullion Mine—Wil- liams Lake will only be on a branch line of the P.G.E. if American interest take the rail- way over, according to a story See.us for your farm PETROLEUM NEEDS | Standard farm petroleum products—the most complete Jine in the West—can ~ solve a wide variety of your problems. Specially designed to meet all require- ments and backed by constant research to keep pace with today’s exacting demands, Standard Oil products guarantee effi- cient and economical operation. For any Standard Oil product, call BOB BLAIR, Mackenzie Avenue, Williams -Lake, B.C, THE TRISUHE, WILLiams LARE, 8.6. : ITORIAL PAGE FAME, NAMELY, WWE BRITSB mreansisfa doo camonizat Bo wie Seno PAPAL BULLS PROTHONOTARY, River in the Lillooet-Bridge News—The Williams Lake Fire Department held its fourth an- nual regatta with-John Gibbon winning the cup for the grand aggregate with six first prizes. TWENTY YEARS AGO July 23, 1938 The hot winds of last week- end fanned the forest fires into a serious problem. Every avail- able man has been taken out to light fires while Duke Martin of Alexis Creek is reported to have his men out fighting a fire that is threatening his property — Due to light runs the Chilcotin River will be closed to salmon fishing after the first of Aug- ust. This will work a great haidship ‘orf the Chilcotin In- diet We ~ Co¥ton is now operating a book store near the University in’ Vancouver—The cry ‘On to Williams Lake’ will echo throughout Bella Coola as ranchers from Kleena K!eene to Anahim Lake begin a six mile gut of road construction at their own expense. WILLIAMS LAKE TRIBUNE Established 1931 Editor’ Clive Stangoe Ru S Published every Wednesday at Williams Lake, B.C., by the Cariboo Press Limited. Subscription. per year $3.00 Outside Canada... $4.00 Advertising rates on application Authorized ag Second Class Mail by the Post Office The young man who walked into the office several weeks ago was a worried individual, and he could hardly wait to start unloading the cause of his woes. Seems he had graduated from Grade 2 to Grade 3, and when the paper published the bass lists, there he was still in the same class. aS ee To set the record straight he came in to see the editor, armed with his re- port card and three young friends to bear witness to the fact that he had indeed graduated to Grade 3. What seemed to wor- Ty-him far more than going up the educational ladder Was the effect at home. “I'll be in trouble with my mom if she thinks I really didn’t pass”. he said. Well, setting the record straight wasn’t quite as easy as sitting down at a typewriter and making a correction. A check of our copy showed the young man in question and five of his classmates appeared in . the “promoted to Grade 2” list from the principal’s office. Both Principal and vice-principal have left the district and the class teacher is at the coast attending summer school. Fin- ally Mrs. Bill Sharpe offered to trace the thing down and a day later authority was issued to move the six names from th. Grade 2 list to Grade 3. = * * * Except that the fellow con- cerned would neyer have been in Williams Lake but for the Royal tour, this story has little to do with the visit of Princess Margaret, but we enjoyed the incident. We had several of the press corps in the office getting “background” information, and this representative of the Lon- don Express went from that subject to ‘how are English emigrants doing in Williams fLake”. Sinde we are ¢loaded with talent from the other side of the water, we invited him into the back shop to have a chat with several of our more recent arrivals, In the course of the discus- sion he switched to the tour and admitted it was geiting to be a bit of a bore after five weeks. We suggested we might arrange a change of pace by having him accepted for fire duty out at Quesnel Lake. This started a new trend of thought and he was interested, but ob- viously dubious, when we said the Forest Service had the right to commandeer any body for duty. Result was we telephoned Ranger Jack Cawston, who kindly swung up the street to give the visitor the real dope. (He had been collecting 40 men the day before for this fire). As Jack came in the shop I in- KOIVISTO SALES & SERVICE LIMITED Ne fPa \ WHEN | GAIO THE MODEL RA WAS FAST MEANT £aS7/ 4 “Fast” is only half the story! This totally new RA is the world’s first chain saw to offer unit construction for strength and durability . instunt parts access . . - featur now at With 24” Attachments $235.00 ‘Test this great, lightweight Model RA \ap-of!”” hood for and scores more exclusive JEL PIONEER INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING LIMITED vi /AMCOUVER, CANADA troduced. him to the newsman as one who might like to have a- brief sojourn at Ques nel Lake. The visitor hastened to say that he had been consider- ing ‘volunteering’. At this point Sack brought his summons : book out-of his pock- et and cheerfully said “Oh, you - don’t have to volunteer’’, Faced with the uncomfortable fact that we hadn't been pulling his leg the newsman looked a little worried about the possib- ity. He did leave with a lot of information on what rights the Service has in an eniergency and why it was necessary at times to exert them. Later in the afternoon he told me he had filed a story on the sub- dect. * * * It is gradually becoming rec- ognized around our house that nothing is to be planned on Monday night that might re- quire the presence of Father, On this night he retires to a corner and laboriously types out a column and the editorials. “But this Monday it was dif- ferent. There was a circus in town, and the coaxing began very early in the evening. Fin- ally he broke down and the family went to see the “big top”. Now I understand why they only have to’stay in town one night. The second night no one would have any money lett. ~The psychology used in pry | ing ‘one loose from his dollar bills (they don’t deal in any. thing less) is amazing. Outside the big show stands the ticket booth but there is no mention anywhere of how much the tar- iff Is. Result is the whole fam- Clive. _Siangoe dly is practically inside before father discovers the horrible truth. By this time he is faced with two alternatives. Either he can pay up like a bie fellow, or he can pull his wildly o} jecting children right out of the gates of wonderland. He pays. Feeling like a real sport you shepherd the family down the length of canvas shrouded pas- Sage to the. tent itself, give up your tickets and’ prepare to en- Joy yourself. But wait. The line ahead is jammed around an- Other ticket booth, and you discover that in order ‘to take any seat down the entire length of the tent you have to fork out some more cash. The alter- native is a group of.rush seats at the far end, about a city Dlock from the performers, You pay. Now the show should begin. but first they are giving some- thing away, and for a. mere quarter you could purchase a bag of confection brand new to the market. Each one con- tained’a prize, with the em- Phasis on a few in the dollar value bracket, like watches at $12.50 and electric skillets at $29.75. The only thing they didn’t contain in quantity was candy. The one we looked at had five items that resembled marshmallows. The show finally started, and it was quite enjoyable, but part way along we had another pause while the announcer broke the sad news (he refer- red to it as an outstanding offer) that for another 50¢ one could stay after the main show and see another “‘concert”. This seemed vaguely sinced. the acts consisted of knife throwing, escape acts, and bull whip artistry. We finally left the circus, having spent $7.00 for having the temerity to enter one tent. 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