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Volume 27 — Number 34

Williams Lake, B.C., Wedn

esday, August 26, 1959

Single Copy 10c — $3 per year

Red tape still
snarls hospital
planning

Some

Only fair that users pay
better share of road costs,
speaker tells local meeting

definite information
$ ; ; on progress of the proposed
‘ With a couple of major exceptions, truckers | new hospital at Williams Lake
in the Cariboo have little to complain about in the being sought in Victoria
rate of fees and load restrictions as set forth in the |'his week by War Memorial
regulations under the new department of commer- Adininistrator” Hugh
cial transport i
§ port, Jack Ritson of Quesnel told a small plans for the new
urnout of truckers last Wednesday. structure have been approved
Mr. Ritson, who is president by the Hospital Insurance Ser-
of the Cariboo—PGE Lumber| lumber might be within  the| Vice, latest hold-up has been the
Manufacturers Association, based| S'S load weight but be over-|study of | proposed operating
3 ‘ | Weight on the rear axle. The| budget. is budget has to be
his r k g
“is remarks on a taeeting held in| oyvious solution of lengthening| Projected over several years,
the Okanagan between represent-| the wheelbase wouldn’t work|although past history has shown
atives of the independent truck-| because the vehicles couldn’t|that such surveys are practic-
ers lumber operators and Liye| make the hills in winter. ally useless in a period of con-

tinually
labor costs.

Although
locally have

Wicks, transport Tish
his deputy, Jack Bowering.

At the meeting, Mr. Ritson
fd the officials’ made it per-
“fectly clearthat the new act was
passed with only one object—to
make those who use the provin-
ce’s highways most, pay a greater
share of the cost of construction
and upkeep.

minister and equipment and

WAIT FOR SCALES

Until weight scales are instal-|
led here, it is impossible for the
truckers to determine exactly
the inequity that will be present-
ed in this case, and any repre:
entations will have to await this
information.

interested officials
made no public
comment on the progress of
negotiations with the govern-
ment department it known
tha concern is being felt about
these ‘delays in preliminary
planning. Entire project, when
finally approved, must still go
to the people in the way of a
money bylaw.

In the meantime overcrowd-
ing at War Memorial Hospital
still the rule—a situation that
has in the past shocked Hosp-
ital Insurance Service people
who have toured the institution.

is

Because of the small turnout
Wednesday night, it was decided
to hold another meeting on Sun-
day, August 29 to discuss the

Under present licensing rates,
it was shown that less than 42
percent of the cost of maintain-| formation of a district truckers’
ing the roads was being con-|@ssociation. The meeting will be
Teuuted by. tie Toad users |held in the afternoon at War
!Memorial Arena. Provisional
REVISIONS MADE |chairman at Wednesday's meet-|

As a result of the represent-| ing was Tom Madison.

cencwt <tc’! Two seriously injured
as car plunges off road

certain revisions already had
ben made in the original regul-
Three youths were injureji, two of them
Seriously, when their car lost a wheel and plunged to

ations. For example, logging
trucks crossing highways will]

the bottom of a 50-foot embankmpnt last Saturday
oni the Quespel sh.

fees on all asphalt and con-|
Wayne , 19

rete highways, but no publiet
roughiares or roads will be in-
Overload and

basis,

‘
uer-

the
a broke
He
tor

oversize or fisie of Mari
river

th

respect to Y
the minimum fee for
group will not be exceeded.
stead of each c ig being
sidered a mile (on the basis o!

and

i Car runs into =
« house at Glendale

beeu sent to Vancouver
vanced treatment.

Don Tay

also from

trip, this would be two miles Marquerite, sustained back in-
trip) each return trip will “be ‘A car smashed down a power|iuries while Richard Blair, 19,
considered one-tenth of a mile| pole and ended up by crashing|McLeese Lake, received head
no matter how many highways|into the front of a Glendale) imjuries and tacial lacerations.
they cross during each return|pome early last Sunday morning] Both were passengers in the
journey. |when the driver lost control of| 'FORt of the car.

. |his vehicle. The vehicle plunged through
Bec cede truckers are| Richard Mitchell, 20, Williams! (he air for about 100 feet be-

fore landing on a fence at the

Lake, was hospitalized with head .
bottom of

oing to be caught on the greatly ; ;
ae . and facial lacerations as a result

the embankment and

i d licence fee structure - ing over six
ee to their pup trait.|Of Bis car going out of control rolling over six times to end up
a a and leaving the road. Mitchell|’" Some trees in 7 overturned

: was travelling north through| Position. It is believed that

the front wheel came off causing
the car to shoot off the high-
way. The missing wheel has
not yet been found; other parts
of the wreckage are scattered
over a wide area.

Due to winter road conditions,
trailers cannot be used for lum-
ber hauling for six or seven
months of the year and the fee
is on an annual basis. Mr. Rit-
son said an appeal had been
made to have a refundable
system set up so that the oper-
ator could obtain the portion of
the fee back for the months he
cannot operate his trailer.

Not brought up at the Okan-
agan meeting was a local com-
plaint raised on the question of
overweight on rear axles. It|have beeni ssued to some 33
was pointed out that short wheel-| drivers who have ignored in-
base trucks carrying foot fraction notices.

Glendale at about 2 a.m. Sunday
when the mishap occurred.

Mr. and Mrs. Joe Kerber came
home from the movies to find an
automobile embedded in the front
wall of their home. A tow truck
was on hand and the wreck was
removed.

Just previously the boys had
stopped at McLeese Lake to
gas up and they were on their
to the drive-in theatre in
Williams Lake when the near
fatal accident occurred. Vict-
ims were admitted to War Mem-
orial Hospital late that night.

The crash vehicle was total-
ly wrecked and has been left at
| the scene of the accident.

VIOLATORS SUMMONSED

In another periodic crack-
down on violators of the village
parking regulations, summonses

NEAR FATAL ACCIDENT
bottom of a 50-foot embankment.

Two

Three youths had a close brush with _ Two
death when this car r took off from the seriously

Cariboo Highway and plunged to the

of the young men were
injured in the accident.

This party of young peo

“Letter Home.” The

large circulation English

Netherlands when this picture

WINDMILLS FOR BACKDROP

ple have become familiar Scene is near Rotterdam.

to readers of The Tribune through Sylvia Baker’s

group were touring the
was taken for the
magazine Woman’s Own.

Of the three girls holding

the map, Sylvia. Baker is the one closest to the

camera.
is second from the right.

The other Williams Lake girl, Janet Kelt,

— Photo by Hans Akkeradijik, Rotterdam

LEAVING

Mrs. Alice Mart, well-
known resident of Wil-
liams Lake, who leaves
this week to make her
home in Victoria. (See
story Page 3, Second
Section).

No heurs at all

| in_thi§, town

major

in if closing hours

law coming ‘t
dep

radical as is'being in the Koot-

t month,

the ture

isn’t nearly

enay town of Castlegar.

Commissioners of that village
adopted a suggestion that their
| present bylaw be thrown out
jentirely “thus enabling i

Since the Municipal Act re-|

at
| quires that stores close one half

day a week, this motion was
changed to recommend a new

bylaw providing for this.
Otherwise the regulations are
wide open.

Spokesman behind the move

| said non-enforcement of closing
in adjacent territories

of

hours
can to development

lead
i areas outside the

New RCMP chief
for Kamloops
sub-division

New officer-in-charge of the
RCMP Kamloops  Sub-division,
which stretches north-south

from Wiliams Lake to Kelowna
and east to the Alberta border,
is Superintendent J. B. Harris, a
veteran of 28 with the
force.

years

Supt. Harris joined the Royal
Canadian Mounted Police in 1931
and served eight years before
joining the army in 1939 and
going overseas. Returning in
1945 he went to North Battleford
where the following he be-
came oificer in cha of the
sub-division, In 1948 he was
transferred to Winnipeg and two
years later to Nelson.

ear

From there is was Calgary in
1954, and then a training division
in Ottawa in 1957, where he was
until transfered here.

His birth place is @ small
centre called Charlton in
northern Ontario

“It hardly
explains. “I saw it last year
for the first time since I was
five.””

Married, Supt. Harris has a

12-year-old son.

Supt. Harri replaces Supt.
R. W. Wonnacott, who has left
tor a year’s special training at

Kingston Military College.

|e with a consequent 1

revenue to the y
He said it was discriminatory
|for adjacent territories and

| villages to have different hours.

| New resident
dies in hospital

Death claimed the life of
new resident in the William
Lake area when Mrs, William
Green died of a heart condition
last Saturday morning.

William Green
Dorothy came

a|

his wite
here about a
month and a half ago from
Haney. Mrs. Green was admit-
ted to War Memorial Hospital
July 31 and she passed away
at 11:58 a.m, Saturday.

and

She is survived by her hus-
band and four children who
live miles out on Dog
Creek road.

two

Man dies on

|
\
o fhe most dnuSual’ tramic)fat-, Iving

town street

there asleep when driver

Nothing but rain
- weather's lousy

The weather is lousy.
Which is as good a way as
any to describe the cold,
rainy days we have been

experiencing the past week.
CPA agent Al Stewart, who
unofficially makes periodic rain
checks at the airport, re-
ports that from five o'clock
yesterday until noon today an
inch and a half of rain fell.

Here are the minimum,
maximum readings made at
the airport for the past
week, taken between the
hours of § am. and 5 p.m.
Thursday, Aug. 20 42 74
Friday _

Saturday __
Monday,
Tuesday

This

o'clock

is for continued showers.

Award contract
for new Bank
of Commerce

Contract for construction of
the new branch of the Canadian
Bank of Commerce in Williams
Lake has been awarded to C.J.
Oliver Ltd., Vancouver.

The new bank, which will be
located at the corner of Oliver
Street and Second Avenue, will
consist of a two-story structure
with partial basement, concrete
Dlock and brick exterior walls
and frame interior. Banking
hall is on the main floor and an
apartment for the bank staff
is situated on the upper floor.
Staff room secs and storage
space are provi
Wasement.

—

on High School exam

ality of the! Year, ey Sorc Unrau, not secing she
ping Tadian was rud“aver| SeeDiNe nen, cEmsec inte oe
jvehicle and started backing
on First Avenue,| into the warehouse.
of North Cariboo! Dyal wheels of the
warehouse |truck rolled over the man’s
is Adolph Johnson, 42.) chest crushing him to death.

@ Alkali Lake reserve.
Johnson evident! crawled
|under the parked truck and was

Johnson died within ten minutes

of the accident which
Jabout 5 p.m.

happened

Interest in helping handicapped

children shown at meeting

| Executive Director of the

Children, Mrs. W.
day night to assist and advise

liams Lake district.

A lot of interest was shown
by the people who turned out to
the meeting, which included
three sets of parents, local
school principals, people from the
health centre and social welfare
groups. The prime objective of
these people is to form a chapter
of the association and start a
school of special instruction for
the youngsters.

A survey in this area shows
that there are over hali-a-dozen
handicapped children who could
atiend such a school. This is
more than enough required to
jstart a school and receive aid
from the Department of Educat-
j tion as some chapters have begun
ith only two chidlren.

A chapter was recently formed
[in Quesnel which brought the
|total number of chapters in B.C.
|to 42. In all these schools there
Jare about youngsters re-
jeeiving instruction. Mrs. Goepel
|said that there are just about as
many again who are not able to
attend: such lessons.

Any parents or other persons
[who are interested in helping a
|local chapter of the Association
|tor Handicapped Children get
organized may receive further
|information by contacting Miss
rn at Williams Lake

Hospitalized

Hospitalized with back injuries
was retired man Thomas Patton
who was helping his son to build
a house in Glendale when “the

© | scaffolding collapsed and he fell
m

to the ground hurting his back.
The incident happened five 0°
clock Monday afternoon.

In Williams Lake hospital re-
ceiving treatment for a sprained

back is Ivan Classen who works
for Gardner and Sons. Classen
sprained his back Monday

while lifting a bag of cement.

Centre. Your support
| will be appreciated.
|

Ranchers
father dies

Henry Von Riedemann, father
of district rancher Mario Riede-
mann, passed away.August 19
fat his Vancouver home. He
was in his 89th year.

Requiem Mass was celebrat-
ed at St.’ Francis Church, Van-
couver, on August 22

Association for Handicapped

A. Goepel, was on hand at a meeting Mon-

local people who are interested

in forming a chapter to aid handicapped children in the Wil-

DIRECTOR ATTENDS

LOCAL MEETING
Mrs. W. A. Goepel,
ecutive director of the

ex-

B.C, Association for
handicapped children,
who spoke Monday to a
group interested in
starting a branch in
Williams Lake.

18-year-old dies
in accident

Edgar Paquette, approximate
age 18, was killed in a logging
at Canim Lake last
Thursday morning. Details of
how the mishap occurred are
being withheld until after the

accident

inquest which will take place
September 1, at 100 Mile
House. Funeral was held Mon-{"
day.

percentages

Percentage of sucessful cand!
dates writing government depart-
mental examinations in Grades
eleven and twelve at Williams
Lake High was comparable to
the year before, according to
principal Tom Beams.

Passing percentage figures in
each subject this year, with 1958
figures in parentheses, were:

English 40, 70% (75), English
40 Lit, 70% (70), English 91,
100% (80), Social Studies, 60%
(60), Geography 91, 50% (70),
Math 30, 100%, (70, Math 91,

||75% (90), Biology 91, 70% (not

offered), Physics 91, 90% (100).
A total of 41 candidates wrogé
departmentals, and six completed

ments.

Skull fractured
when hit by truck

An Alexis Creek Indian
Andrew Hunlin, 29, is in Mem-
orial Hospital with a fractured
skull as a result of an accident
in which he was hit by a truck

is not known.

Police court items

“Not guilty,” was the plea of-
fered by Phillip Benastick to a
charge of impaired driving in
police court this week, but how-
ever, police evidence brought
Magistrate CH. Poston to a de

the truck involved

was fined $50.

Ronald Palmer paid out $50
for using purple gas on the high-
way.

Five other violations of the
Molge Vehicle Act were dealt

in court. These were
charges of failing to stop at a
stop sign and driving without
insurance and impaired driving.

Twenty cases of intoxication
went before the magistrate since
last Wednesday.

Water for Williams Lake
village system is now being
taken from a deeper part of the
lake. New intake line was
hooked up early last week. Line
‘itself was sunk im the lake last
winter.

Sunday afternoon. Accident
happened at Alexis Creek -
around four o'clock. Driver of

cision of guilty and Benastick _

ak

the university program require- “