“THE WILLIAMS LA KE TRIBUI ~Vélume 27 — Number 40 Williams Lake, B.C., Wednesday, October 7, 1959 “Single Copy 10¢ — $3 per year Hours of cold, hehind change wet work over to town's main water line Last Friday valve was turned and the moving through the new 12 Parallels tie highway out to ' Publish Thursday Next Monday, October 12, be- ing a public holiday, next issue of The Tribune will be published on Thursday instead of Wed- nesday, normal publishing day. ¥ Flying school 7 fe 14 I 0 = Fass for medical examinations. Amere may be held here this fall The possibilities of a flying school being conducted in Wil- liams Lake this fall seem to be Promising. The B.C. Aero Club offered to run a satellite school between Williams Lake and Quesnel if the local clubs could muster at least ten students. A meeting was held last night and a list of 16 names of prospective student pilots was drawn up from | ‘this area. There will probably be ore from Quesnel but no word s been received from there as et. Thursday a special meeting s to be held for those wishing take the flying lessons to ar; The Williams Lake Flying ee plane is nearing comple- tion. eau major peters have been ing painted. Thé jocal club is hoping to put on an air show next sua and a special feature of sky diving will take place. Word was received from Vancouver S Diying Club that they would like! to put on a jumping display at Williams Lake if an air show was held. Four infractions under game act There have been four infrac- tions of the game laws so far this hunting season. Herbert Keehn paid out a total of $65 in fines when he appeared in police court on three charges made by the game office. Keehn was charged for having deer meat in his possession which was taken from an animal that was less than one year old. Fine for this offence was $35. The carcass in question was without a tag and all evidence of the animal’s sex had been removed. These two violations cost $15 each. The meat and two rifles were confis- cated. Three other hunters were guilty of having loaded weapons in their cars and each was fined morning at 10 minutes to eight, a town's water supply began the pumphouse on the lake. work in dark, cold and wet circumstances as a small crew cut the existing main and hook- ed up to the 12-incher. The point of junction is just below the highway, directly op- posite the water tank on the hill, At this point a 10-inch steel main from the pump house three-quarters of a mile away joined the old wood-stave line into town, a line that for years has been causing trouble with continual leaks. SWITCH-OVER AT MIDNIGHT At midnight Thursday, George Robertson, superintendent of Abjlene Construction, and two fit- ters, Rolf Waesche and Charlie Elhers, prepared to make the switch from the existing line to the new 12-inch pipe. First of all a valve on the town side of the existing pipe was closed, and then a valve on the feed pipe to the water tower was shut off. This left only the water lying in the ten-inch pipe from the junction point back to the pumping station. But for most of this way the line dips in at an angle to the Point of junction, with no way to shut off, and the weight of this water pretented a bit of a prob- t sektion out of the ten-inch pipe before effecting a junction. Up on the bank a suction pump was in readiness to keep the hole eek of water. PUMP TURNED ON After about half an hour of cut- ting the water started to spray out of two cuts in the line and the pump was turned on. From here on the crew had only to wait until the water drained from the line and then take the section out and hook up to the ch pipe. Then the pump quit, and the plans of operation came to an abrupt halt as the water level climbed in the hole and all hands gathered around the tempermental gas engine. The struggle with the engine went into the small hours of the morning before it could be persuaded to start and the hole pumped out. Eventually the project got underway again and the change- over was accomplished at 10 to eight, considerably longer than an estimated three hours from mid- night that the village had figured on. Welfare ‘super’ ten dollars. Two impaired driving charges| ‘were passed through court this a $100 to Clarence paid out a licence: Michel also Francis Sammy depart- 0 for impai * Kiwanis: nominate!’ slate of officer Kiwanis nominated o directors for 1960 at lar meeting Tuesday. New president will be Norton| Olsson. Other officials are C. D. Stevenson and G. W. Atchinson— cepresidents; Bob Lywood— treasurer; and seven directors— Frank Armes, Robin Blair, Merv Clarke, Bob Court, Bill Harding, Al Montford and Alf Smailen- berg. Following the business of the meeting Anglican minister Ed Wallace entertained the members with a talk on his career as mini- their regu. | 5 for driving without)” moved to Chilliwack Bill Teichroeb, supervisor of the) department of social welfare for this district, has been promoted to lar position in Chilliwack. Stationed at Quesnel, Mr. Teich- jreeb has been in this district for rs and came to know Lake well Williams The local welfare office in Wil-|@ shat a} ene Sap | 2-inch steel main that - But behind the simple action of turning a valve were hours of ya quarter of a mile be Well below the level of the Cariboo Highway, these men worked through Thursday night last week to hook up the new 12-inch main water line. In the top picture two workmen are shown Starting one of two cuts to remove a section of the existing 10-inch line. This was joined to the 10-inch “dog leg” shown at the right, which was already hooked into one of the big valves at lower right. From this point into town the line is 12 inches in diameter. Man in centre is Paul Walker, of the engineering firm of Walker and Weber. In the lower picture, Charlie Ehlers (in background) and partner Rolf Waesche get well soaked as they cut through the 10-inch line and water sprays out. When the suction pump failed water finally rose to the top of the valves at the right. LOCAL BUSINE TODEATH FROM SSMAN FALLS HOTEL WINDOW Tragedy occurred Monday at 4 p.m. when local businessman Gordon McLeod fell to his death from a ninth floor window of the Georgia Hotel in Van- couver. He was ‘the owner of Sidcom Airways Ltd., an enterprising venture which started earlier this year on the Cariboo Highway alongside the lake, three miles south of town. | An air charter service and motel were opened July 1 and a cafe. was first op at the beginning of last month. “Just how Mr, McLeod came to to his death has not been ascer- tained but his wife, Ruth and older son, Gordon, aged 22, left for Vancouver yesterday by CPA. Born in Nova Scotia in 1897, Mr. McLeod came out to the west early in life and as a boy took up banking in the Yukon. He stayed - in the business for about 15 years and became something of a busi- mess expert, being often called upon to assist firms which found in difficulty. Washington men found by search party in ‘copter J. H. England, 77 year old hunt- er from Winlock, Washington, was lost in the bush over last weekend at Fly Lake, 30 miles north-east ot 100 Mile House. ; He was last seen in the area with his son on Saturday after- noon. RCMP were informed the man was missing Monday morn- ing and immediately instituted a search utilising a helicopter. t Just before 1930 he moved south to Vancouver and owned a small chain of bakeries there and in Victoria known as the Window Bakeries. McLeod's next business venture was chain saws and he took: on the Titan saw agency for the whole of British Columbia. ‘The family were living in Lad- ner, B.C. when Mr. McLeod de- cided to try a-new enterprise in the Cariboo where he’ had made contacts through the saw, business. Early this spring saw land being cleared down the lake side and it soon became known that a new business was to be estab- shed. : : Mr. MeLeod was a, man who believed in’ quality and every- ‘The search, continued Tuesday when observers in the whirly bird spotted the missing men about 2 o'clock in the afternoon about Hunter spots mysterious Object hurtling through sky A search crew of the Ground Observer Corps is in the Big Creek country today following up the sighting of a mysterious object in the sky by a local resident last Sunday morning. ut on a moose hunting trip]. 2 ° 8 ing hidden from Sunday near Fletcher Lake, < om view by an- ° . other hill. Time was between Ron Taylor was resting on a]Q°0O MO at aan small hill wnen he heard a . noise behind him “like a duck] Mr. Taylor said the object coming in to land.” But the|Was a dark color, between a hunter got a shock when the|Prown and a black “duck came swooshing over.| There have been several in- Ron said the object looked like | stances in the district and prov- a shell casing, between five and!ince of flying objects being lio feet long and about two or| sighted A news item from three feet in diameter. It was) Morsefly this week reports the travelling at a terrific speed, / sighting of such an object last possibly 400 or 500 miles an hour, and at an altitude of from Dr Jim Duthie egional 500 to 1,000 feet supervisor of the Ground Obser- —— r Corps that people see- The hunter had a good fe caeets in the sky report chance te observe the flying ob- he occurre s to their local ject, since he saw it broadside ees dis- by ani the a he as it passed appeared in said it was about re be- in si Father of nine We do do well in-national competition Somewhat belatedly we're etting around to patting our litorial back around The Tribune. Backin July, winners of the Better Newspaper Competitions among Canadian weeklies were announced. This announce- ment, of the top three papers in each class, is followed by a detailed list sent to all com- petitors. We didn't receive one, and finally had to write for the information—so, as we say, somewhat belatedly, here is where your hometown news- paper stood this year. In the circulation class of . |the man’s death was caused by In presentation of pictures We) broken neck were in a three-way tie fOr) Freqay Gilpin’s nine children third place; in editorial page) ,anee in age from 14 to 28. competition we placed fifth and) Funeral services for under typography, make-up and) cegseq will be held at judges|Creek. An inquest has been or- | dered general impression, placed us in fifth position. killed wile riding Killed las 1,000 to 2,000, with 56 entries accident a across Canada, The Tribune Freddy Gilpin, 59, father of nine placed fourth in the be l children round competition headed by| Gilpin and his wife were rid- the three prize-winners, Peace ing double when the hor: River (Alta.) Gazette, Mordon reared and evidently the saddle (Man.) Times and Kindersley |cinch broke, both riders were (Sask.) Clarion, Points were thrown to the ground and the 74.1, 73.9, 73.7 and our fourth animal fell over backwards on 71.3. top of them, It is believed that) This “ firsts” marked duction to the coming win- week two frigid the intro- ter season. Monday night the tempera- ture droppode to a low of 22 above at the Repeater Station at 150 Mile House, B-R-R-RI IT'S COLD OUTSIDE and although this was about eight degrees lower than Wil- iams Lake, in town the re- sults were the same, with all plants in exposed parts of the gardens frozen, This morn- ing there was a light skiff of snow in the valley. 15 miles from their original lo- cation. They were hopelessly, lost and would yriets | Dates of Cariboo. music festival set Cariboo Music dnd Drama Festi- val have been tentatively not have lasted another Saat nt that the elderly man night§\p : the ‘bush after three set at] owns thing bought for the business had to be good from the sign outside the door to the cooking utensils in the kitchen behind the scenes. Both he and his wife took a personal part in developing the venture, son Gordon flew the Seat Plane while, the younger son, RJiaged 19 aiso helped with “any Fork Wat had gabe done Lett to mourn besides his wid- ow ROth and the two boys are a married daughter, Mrs. R. Foley ving in Vancouver, Washington. and two brothers, Charles and /Don. Charles is 2 QC and is Tentative dates for next year's | searemte of the Yukon Consoli- dated Gold Corporation while Don Don McLeod Motors on April 7, 8 and 9 by the executive} Kingsway, Vancouver. of the Festival Commitee which met Monday evening at the home of president Gil Mundell. A “workshop” for teachers and anyone else interested in the Fest- ival music will be conducted by Miss E. Sheppard, musical direc- tor from Kamloops, on November The committee will try to ob- tain awards or shields for Grades Three and Four for choral speak- ing, as the other grades all have some award for the top entrant. Three resignations marked this first meeting of the new 1960 Festival C i Mrs. T. Lar-| i High school P-TA fo try again Williams Lake Junior-Senior High School P-TA will meet again next Tuesday to endeavor to keep the organization in being. At the annual meeting held last week it was feared lack of support would result in the dissolution of the association. There were son resigned as vice-president, and Mrs. R. Rodgers was elected to fill the position. Mrs. A Knull resigned as corresponding secret- ary and Mrs. G. Cormier: as con- venor for the lunches. These Positions have not been filled as yet. members present to carry on the business of the meet- ing. Every High School parent and teacher will be notified by letter of next week’s meeting and teach- ers will be on hand to meet socially with the parents after the meeting. | | | | | day night. TO PROMOTE FOREST SAFETY by Finning Tractor Company, First meeting of a new Forest Safety Committee to organize a continuing safety competition among dis- trict lumber operators under guidance of the Work- men’s Compensation Board, was held last Wednes- Members of the committee are shown above with the handsome safety trophy presented front, are Sam Ketchum, (Finning representative), (committee chairman), From left to right, Gordon Bruce, Bill Moore Pete Basaraba, Alex Scott Bill Kohnke, Vic Imhoff... Rear are Cliff McIntosh, R. D. McHachnie (WCB in-. spector), Smith Curwen and Joe VandeVanter.