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for half-day Monday closing gets

Move seen as preliminary
to ultimate all-day closing

In the near future the retail merchant: Vi
; ure S$ of Wil-
liams Lake may officially observe half-day Monday
closing, and unofficially be closed for the entire day.

Single Copy 10c — $8 per year

first reading

Following the original repre-——___
sentation of the Retail Mer-
chants’ Association for all-day
Monday closing, village council
ascertained that legally this
governing body could not enact
or enforce all-day closing, al-
though they could switch the
half-day holiday if the mer-
chants so desired.

centre, the man had said that
when Monday closing started
percentage of merchants in
favor was about 60 to 40, but
that now 99 percent of the
merchants were. solidly behind
all-day Monday closing.

First reading of the neces-
sary amendment does not mean
that Monday half-day closing is

Last night a second petition
from the merchants asked for

a foregone conclusion. Thr
the change of the half-day clos-|readings are necessary and
ing from Wednesday to Monday.| final approval of the Depart-

At the same time they asked for
Permission to stay open untilltne meantime, if enough oppo-
pom. on Fridays. In the} sition was marshalled ‘among
breakdown of member votes, it] merchants against the move, the

was shown that 15 were in|entire question would have to
favor of the switch to Monday|he reconsidered.
and eight against. :

ment of Municipal Affairs. In

TRAFFIC DELAY ON HIGHWAY

Williams Lake isn’t the only place in the Cariboo
where traffic is being delayed because of construc-
tion. Out on the broad stretches of the Cariboo
Highway south of here contractors are working on a
63-mile stretch of seal coating. As the crews move
down one side, one-way traffic is maintained. This
necessitates a wait of up to 25 minutes until a pilot
car takes your line through.

As a result of the petition,
council gave first reading to an
{amending bylaw that would

1 gr change the present regulations
in th on’ : ing By-
| S t | | ny e town's Early Closing By

Discussion around the council
table brought out. information
that in North Kamloops all-day
Monday closing had started in

Water system
__ —contaminated

Village commission is advis-
ing Williams Lake residents this
week of water contamination in

‘Three children
found abandoned
during Stampede

5

According to Al Smedley, the
Aquatic Society now has all the
logs and all the planed ends

over the logs were with a merchant from that
i one They were the Indian children.|!

en advertisement in The to build about eight 12-foot/a similar manner, with council] Of all the children lost ana
Tribune. floats for the public beach. there approving the half-day |found on the crowded Stampede
- Discussing the situation with | Some of these logs had been| holiday and merchants under a| grounds during this year’s in-
*< Commissioner Tony Borkowski, ho er move ma a jtaken to the beach already and“ gentlemen's agreement” not! tense activities, three were
Frise Ge Shatce or thsi villace | of course, boys being bi took | opening up Monday morning. |stranded altogether, according
water supply, The Tribune was _ |the logs out into the water to} Acting chairman Tony Bor-|to reports received trom the
iold that the amount of con- j bay e log-rolling contests. Aiter | kowski said that in conversation | RCMP office today.
tefination varies in various to improve cemetery |the tun w: f
: ¥ PEGs a Ge @ 1

parts of the town but nowhere| f ut thet Tats, | es an

si u ything . hich meant that they had to ware =F Eo sadore ry of the Sod 3
ages EA eee sae spring | Each time a new commissioner is handed the | be rou . vouuee S ° ‘i [Creek Reserve. A girl aged sl
Satie problem. has. arisen job ot looking ater the town's parks, ch and Pp ude mall girl dies | es Hoy of three or four and :

ee & cemeter, s rally w g to admit after an (a pool to be made in the form ja sirl aged seven were found by SOMETHING
with, Se aa oY] examination of his charges that the last named vil- of a wood fence which will en § ° |two RCMP constables on the MEEEELN GEO /SMELM ABOUT
gram,” Commissioner Bor! lage asset presents a hopeless task. close shallow water up to a OD ospita jTuesday of Stampede looking] Says 14-year-old Doris Syvertsen of Williams Lake

explained. When we shut} oo ee depth of about three feet. Th iv ry lost and miserable on the, aS She sits astride the bike she won this week in the

of a water supply for any; Our cemetery is a disgrace. | will aid swimming instruction) %28*t Louise Lucier, four-|hill overlooking the grounds | Malkin’s Rooster. Booster contest advertising their !
length of time, the water|Over the years it has been al-|also leave something to go to- for _ besianers “and “make jp Fearold daughter of Mr. and) 0), . | latest brand of coffee. A bike a week will be won i
lodged in that particular pipe|lowed to deteriorate to the ex- wards a cemetery care fund, [Of ‘he Deanlels tn’ MAES I vis Atcide Lucier from 100|,.0 ue eathered mat they had) quring July. With Doris is Al Ulveland, manager
contaminates slightly and mixes|tent that there is little to/He also suggested that council “ier oF lies vent ean Mile House, died in War Memo-| °°" there since the previous/ of WH. Malkin’s Williams Lake branch. \
with the new onrush of water|choose in visual appreciation|could set up a cemetery board,| “V5 S000 85 “he saulpmed! Git Lil Hospital at 9:45 am. on 0” swithont food ‘or attentions!
‘hen the valves are turned on|between it and the village|who would act as permament Pe Bad, the aquatic group hopes y/o ayy, They took the kiddies to War |
veain. It ie mot at all serious, [dump. | trustees and operate the ceme-|'® a'@g the bottom of the beach Memorial Hospital where they

but we felt it our duty to advise
that all water be boiled for the
next two weeks.”

Commenting on progress of
the big water construction de-
velopment, the commissioner
said that within a week all
ditches in town should be filled
in except’ for the one leading
from Third and Oliver leading
out to the lake.

He said the contractors had
been somewhat hampered with
things beyond their control.
Heavy rain had caved in seve-
ral of the water ditches, neces-
sitating redigging. Unknown
mains had been discovered
which were not to be found on
any village record and progress
had been slowed down by lack
of valves in the old system.

A feature of the new system
will be six-inch hydrants in the
downtown area. They were
formerly four-inch patterns.
The new larger type will im-
prove fire-fighting facilities im-
measurably with their greater
volume and pressure of water.
This will also feed two hydrants
quickly without having to shut
off the hydrant to fit a second
hose, as was the case with the
older models.

Approve $54,000
in home building

A total of $54,000 in residen-
tial building applications were
approved by commissioners last
night.

Individual permits were
issued to Mr. and Mrs. 0.
Walker, $20,000; Mr. and Mrs
F. A. Goertzen, $12,000; Mr.
and Mrs. Currie, $12,000; and
H. J. Gender, $10,000.

A $12,000 permit was ap-

proved on application of Shell
Oil Company to install under-
ground tanks and a pumping
station at the airport. The
School Board was issued a per-
mit to build a $6,000 pre-fab/
addition to the board office,
and one to F. B. Bass Ltd., for
an office valued at $4,000.

“| Michel

Attempts have been made in
the past to restify the situation,
but so formidable is the job of
sorting out old records, finding
long-lost graves and landscaping
the parcel of ground, that suc-
ceeding commissioners and at
times groups of citizens who
have volunteered their services,
have become discouraged to the
point of giving up the job as

hopeless.
This year another attempt
will be made. The commis-

sioner in charge is Ralph Wood-
land, and -he told the council
last night that he had just been
informed that cemeteries in
British Columbia now come
under the Public Utilities
Commission. An inspector from
this body visited town recently
and made some suggestions to
be followed in improving the
situation here.

For one thing, the village is
selling plots too cheaply to pro-
vide any adequate care of the
land. Practice in other muni-
cipalities is to charge a price

Four trades
licences OK'd,
‘three deferred

licences in town were approved
by commissioners last night and
three applications deferred.

Approved were licences for
Perreten, wholesale
meat; D. A. Winger, bricklaying
contractor; Brian Higgins, Raw-
leigh dealer; and Wanda Miel-

nick and Irene Henderson,
florist shop.

Deferred were applications
by John W. Scott, Ford House-
hola Appliances, Vancouver,
agent; C. L. Archambault, con-
tractor; and F. W. Lindsay,
Quesnel, publishing Northern
Pictorial.

tery fund under village author-
| ity.

Mr. Woodland asked, and re-,
ceived, permission to approach |
ministers of the major town|
churches and groups that have
special sections in the cemetery |
to seek volunteers for such a_
board. He will report to a later |
meeting on the results of his
survey.

and eliminate all weeds. The)
weeds are particularly bad this
year, they hinder swimming and
are actually dangerous. |
The village has given much
aid to the beach improvement
program in the form of finan-
cial assistance. The Top Teen |
group has also been helpful in
obtaining old floats and offering
their services for the construc-
tion of floats and the pool.

The little girl was admitted
to the hospital at 9 p.m. Sun-
day. She was bleeding inter-
nally and suttering convulsions
at the tite of her death next

morning.
An inquest was opened yes-
terday morning and was

adjourned until August 5, when
it will re-open at 8 p.m. at the
Court House. Wes Atchison is
foreman of the jury.

were fed and the youngest was
kept in for further care and
observation.

Meanwhile, the father was
found in town and the two elder
children turned over to him.
Harry claimed that he had left
the kiddies in the care of their
elder sister who had dis-
appeared.

The children have no mother.

Application

for local

radio station approved

Application by Radio Station CKCQ to estab-
lish a “‘satellite”’ station in Williams Lake was

approved yesterday in Ottawa by the Board of
—

Broadcast Governors.
Dennis Reid, manager of

PROPOSED TOW

The above map prepared by George Atamanenko
shows a plan of the current Williams Lake Kiwanis
project—a playground for the community.
at the junction of Proctor and Fourth, the work
should be completed by next summer.

Located

It will com-

“PROPOSED PLAYGROUND

PLAYGROUND

prise a regulation little le

face tennis court, a kiddies’ playground with swings,
wading pool and slides, ete.

set aside for a picnic area
that a large size checker

ague ball park, a hard sur-

There will be a corner
and it is also contemplated
board will be constructed. ~

CKCQ, who before the
board, said the new station
would give better service to
Williams Lake and 100 Mile
House districts.

Commenting on the board's
decision, James Ritchie, presi-
dent of Cariboo Broadcasters
Ltd., said that equipment will
be ordered shortly and con-
struction will start as soon as
possible. The station will be of
250-watt strength operating on
1240 kilocycles.

Site of the transmitter will
be on PGE property at the west
end of the lake. It will con-
sist of a single tower 150 feet
in height. Studio and offices
will be located in downtown
Williams Lake.

Although the parent station
and the “satellite” wil carry
identical programs, a number of
shows and public service feat-
ures will originate from the Wil-
liams Lake studio.

Depending on the availability
of equipment, it is expected that
the new station will be in opera-
tion in the late fall. *

New office for
school inspector

A new office for the School
Board Inspector is being added
to the present office on the old
elementary school grounds.

The addition is being con-
structed from a prefab school-
room taken from the Forest
Grove school. Doug Chamber-
lain, who is district inspector,
will move into the new Office at
the end of this month when he
must vacate the office he is
now using.

Police court items

A $75 fine was handed out
to Felix Stump of Hanceville
for his second impaired driving
charge this year.

A Soda Creek man, Albert
Sellers, was also fined $75 on
the same charge.

Stanley Ned appeared before
the magistrate on two offences
and was given a $75 fine for
impaired driving and a $50 fine
for driving without a driver’s
licence, Ned was given 14 days
in default on each charge to run
consecutively.

Lawrence Charles Ogden, Lac
La Hache, went to court for ob-
structing an officer in the course
of his duty and was fined $50.

A second appearance in court
on the same charge of driving
on a suspended licence was
made by Ronald Michel who was
fined $50.

A 20-year-old girl was found
guilty of drinking beer in a
beer parlor. Sophie George, the
offender, was warned of this
offence earlier this month. The
second time she was caught the
girl was arrested and fined $50.

Driving without any insur-
ance while his licence was under
suspension, Lawrence Erward
was senteced to two months in
jail.

Harold Hartwig paid out $50
for impaired driving.

Four other traffic violators
appeared in court through the
week. Three of them were for
driving commercial vehicles
while the driver did not have
a ‘Class ©” licence. The other
charge was a yiolation of
licence restriction.

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