Wednesday.

THE WILLIAMS

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Bridge, highway
topic of meetings

The Fraser River bridge and
the Chilcotin highway « figured
Drominently in two metings held
in the west
though
nature
ents of t
Plaints off

Bill Spear
small meting
ville home
noon that P
of highways,
district

last week and al-
little word of a remedial
was forthcoming, resid-
ne area got a lot of com-
their chests.
M.L.A told
at Dan Lee’s Hance-
last Thursday
aglardi, minis
uld come to the
sometime in
future to discuss the various
sites for the proposed bridge
The minister is said to be wait-
ing for the final reports from
his engineers showing relative
costs between the Sheep Creek,
Meldrum Creek. and Chimney
Creek sites.

Attending this meeting were
representatives of the Williams
Lake Board of Trade, the Cariboo

a

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Fra: Dignan, form’
Sees 2 er
Williams Lake resident
who was drowned near
Victoria Sunday.

One.

+ “Forecast changes

in Indi A Cattlemen’s Association and
lumbermen.

a CALGARY Immigration
Minister Ellen Fairclough said
last Friday changes in the Ind-

= tended another public meeting
at Puntzi School, attended by

some 46 residents.

ian Act will likely result from| Spokesmen for the residents
her current tour of Western claimed there was a waste of
Canada reservations. public funds on maintenance

Rough grade droads hav

W SUB-DIVISION SITE

e made their appearance

on airport hill, site of the new PGE sub-division.

Picture was taken from

airport side of the sub-

THROW SOME LIGHT ON YOUR
: BUSINESS . . .

division, looking towards the lake. House-in the
right foreground is at the top of Johnston Street.
Twenty-three of the lots belong to the village now.

She said that during her visits
she has made a study of Indian
housing and education problems,
.as.well as having a look at the
administration of the Indian Act.

“Much of the housing is def-
initely poor. Without wishing to
press the Indians faster than
they wish to go, much can be

done to help them in this field.”
Sy Mrs. Fairclough arrived in
‘“s-Calgary Thursday from Edmon-
ton where she toured several
northern Alberta reservation.
She plans to continue her study
in British Columbia before re-

work on the Chileotin Highway.
When the situation was complet-
ely aired, blame for the condit-
ion of the road seemed to focus
on the fact that the local depart-
ment of highways district only
has two graders, a loader and a
truck to maintain roads in the
entire Chilcotin. The meeting
passed a resolution demanding
more equipment for the area.

There was some indication
from the meeting that Chilcotin
residents may form an associat-
ion to give them more strength
in seeking remedies for future

First Lodge of locomotive
engineers on the PGE receives
charter at Williams Lake

History was made last week in Williams Lake
when a charter was granted to the Brotherhood of
Locomotive Engineers Lodge No. 105, Cariboo Divi-

turning to Ottawa. problems.

sion—first lodge on the P.

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Broken windows at Skyline School along with other
damage by vandals has amounted to between four
and five hundred dollars. Since parents and others
are paying for the damage through their taxes, a
few judicious enquiries on everybody’s part might
bring the culprits to light, or at least prevent further
shameful damage

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| the 17 guests present

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More telephone
lines at 100 Mile

A surge of general business
at 100 Mile House in the Cari-
boo area is reported by the B.C.
Telephone Company.

More than two miles of tele-
phone cable from 100 Mile
House to an industrial area

centred on Exeter Station will
be placed by the company. In-
dividual business lines will be
installed, and margin for
future growth will be provided.

a

Honored at shower

Gail Buchanan
of honour at a_ bridal
held Monday evening,
home of Mrs. C. A.
On arrival the bride-
presented with a
lovely corsage made by one of
the guests. A beautifully de-
corated clothes basket held
gnits for Miss Buchanan from
Dainty re-
the

Miss
guest
shower
at the
Smedley
elect

was

freshments were served by

hostess, featuring a cake for the

guest of honour. Miss Buch-
anan’s wedding will take place
September 5

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| sentation of a brass-bound gavel

was |

acific Great Eastern Rail-
way.

awaited dream come true.

on the B.C-owned railway

chief engineer, spoke to the as-
sembly on “unity inthe cab”
now that both engineers and
firemen are members of the same
union. He also recounted inter-
esting facts of early days in rail-
roading around the 1880’s when
the wage for engineers, or driv-
ers as they were called then, was
$2.85 per hundred: miles and no
matter if it took 40 hours to
make a short run due to slides or
breakdowns, the wage stayed on
the milage basis.

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To Mr. Cahill
the granting of a charter to a
lodge on the P.G.E. was a long

years of service.

Featured speaker of the even-
ing was W.H. Sharp, chairman of
the B.C. legislative board of the
brotherhood, who dealt with the

Until the present, the engineers
have

The evening program was . fac :
broken into two parts, the first | been served by Lodge 320, Van-|history of the union. (A com- Publishers of The Williams Lake Tribune
being a general meeting of the|Couver. Some 135 men are af-|plete report of Mr. Sharp’s ad- 2
lodge, followed by a banquet,| fected by this change. The new 1 be carried in next|f| Phone 56 P.O. Box 490
Engineers from North Van-| edge will be affiliated with the ue)
couver, Squamish, Lillooet, Wil-| Vancouver’ lodge.
liams Lake and Prince George| There were many members

attended, as well as visiting en-
gineers from Kamloops and Van-
couver.

A tentative slate of officers was
an

named with election to be

is John Aléx-

gineer of B. of L.E., opened the
meeting and later presented the
framed charter’ to chief enginer
Alexander.

Presentations included a farge
antique hand-bound Bible, re-
ported to be 150 years old, don-
ated to the new lodge by chief |
engineer A. Robertson of Lodge
32, Vancouver. Wiliam Sharp,
Lodge 320, B.C. Legislative
board representative, made pre-

|from the Vancouver lodge.

Trevor Scott of Williams Lake
had the honour of being the
|first member initiated following
the granting of the charter.

|S. Leyeock, general chairman
lof the Cariboo Division, thanked
|the many out-of-town visitors

| who assisted in the formation of |
| the new lodge. |

Oldest union

W. Sharp, chairman of the leg-
islative board of the union, said
that the Pacific Great Eastern

Railway is the third largest in
North America and that the B.
of L.B. is the oldest union in

North America, being founded in
| 1868 in Detroit with 12 members.
The first chartered lodge in B.C.
|was at Kamloops, registered in
the year 1886.

C. T. McLennan, legislative re-
presenative of Prince George, ex-
tended best wishes and said he
hoped to see the railroad extend

into the far north. ,

Two veteran engineers
tending were Andrew Steel, Wil-
liams Lake, retired 1950, and Joe
Cahill, Lillooet, who boasts 40

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who were unable to attend the
meeting as they were either ‘out
on a run” or “on shift” in some

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other way u keep the railroad

Other visitors from outside
lodges inclfided J. S. Claridge,

Northwood Gard

Wm. Perfqtic, Vancouver; |

ander, engineer E. Rueger,
chaplain Stewart McLeod. Local] Coleman, ,Vancouver; J. e
chairman is Douglas Beaman| Kamloops; John Waugh, e {
land general chairman is Steve| 821; J.W. Low, Kamloops; L.H.|
Leycock of North Vancouver.|Rowe, Kamloops; T. Mackinost,,
Jemy Dadge ts Ledge Suide Brigce George, ON FIRST AVENUE OPPOSITE THE LIQUOR STORE
7 Local members attending in-
Presentations cluded D.R. Millar, S. McLeod, * WEDDING BOUQUETS * WREATHS * PLANTS
John Marshall, Lodge 88, Mon-|Farnest Derody, M. Fechko, L. + CORSAGES & CUT FLOWERS
treal, assistant grand chief en-|5o.16 p Deschene, all of Wil , .

liams Lake, Mel Hunt, Edward
Wilcox and Alan Rae of Lillooet,
T. Leidenius and Ernie Thomas
of Prince George.

Flowers for all Occasions

Banquet follows Principals

The banquet following the sath
meeting was attended by 65 mem- Mrs. W. M. Mielnik and Mrs. I. G. A. Henderson
bers of the lodge and their wives. — PHONE 404

John Marshall, assistant grand

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