<> Volume 27 — Number 18 THE WI —=, ~— LLIAMS L —_——___—_—. = —T nwo 6 Ae AKE TRIBU} Williams Lake, B.C., Wednesday May 6, 1959 Single Copy 10c — $3 per year Lumber production value soared | Lumber production figures compared For comparative purposes, the chart below and 1957. The first column shows the nw sawmills, the second the number of Diener nee and the final column the producti rOxi vee B ion (approximate) ; 1958 Quesnel Lake 28 6 Lac La Hache 89 14 Williams Lake 80 17 Stum Lake 9 —= 178,000 Taseko Lake 7 me 110,000 2138 20 3,121,904 6 i 1957 - uesnel Lake 21 5 288.8 Lac La Hache 115 2 1.276.580 Williams Lake 87 12 919,000 Chilcotin 28 = 82/360 255 81 2,566,780 Two town’firms target for thieves in past week Thieves struck at two town business establish- ments in the past week, in the first break-ins to be reported here for a number of months. Last Tuesday the office of the; Imperial Esso bulk plant was broken into and a recently in- Former druggist | box contained $3,700 in anekiiae: leaves town none of which is negotiable, and Erwin Brandly, who has been a small-amount of cash. Last night the department associated with Cf Doawall Lid. the past year, left on store of Mackenzies Ltd. was the the weekend to take up his new target “for thieves. | @intrance Was guiidd by bredktd a wWin- dow at the side of the building. duties as head pharmacist at the | /00t included watches, suitcases Royal Inland Hospital, Kam-| £02: ‘isarettes and some loose 100s. . Manager Doug Steven- Mr. and Mrs, Brandly owned and operated their drug store ‘in Williams Lake for 14 years (now Cunninghams) and are son estimates the value of the loss at between $400 and $500. well-known throughout the dis- trict. fo: In the case of the bulk plant break-in, entrance was gained through an office window. The fireproof box was forced from a : wall titi and ie offi Mrs. Brandly has sold her in-| Yall partition and he omice terest in Blackwell’s to her part-|"@2sacked. ks premises were also gone ner, Mrs. E. Ewing, but will not be joining her husband for few weeks yet. through but nothing was taken. Police are investigating both cases. Only one body recovered with death car The death car in which a woman and two 192-year-oid girls lost their lives at Mar- guerite a week la® Sunday was recovered from the depihs of the Fraser River last Wednesday morning approximately 100 yards downstream from the Mac- alister Ferry from which is iad plunged. It contained one body —that of Yvette Fay Felton. The bodies of Mrs. Josephine Lay- cock, 48, and her daughter, Sharon, have not been found as yet. I Dragging for the car com- menced on the Monday following the tragedy and by nightfall it was suspected that the car was resting in a 30-foot deep hole south of the ferry. The following day special ‘appling hooks measuring three feet across were brought into Iplay to drag the suspected area. It was evening before anything definite came to light when one of the huge barbs snagged onto something solid and came up with the molding and rubber gasket from the rear window of a car. By Wednesday morning four lines had been fastened to the car and shortly before noon it was tediously dragged from the swirling depths to disclose the answer on the minds of several dozen silent spectators. _ ur 4 Osegr “Liyregpk, arijer