Cabinet Minister Fulton
visits his constituency

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Williams Lake, B.C., Wednesday, October 28; 1959

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hown on this page on “A
day in the life of a Cabinet

‘New
be op

Minister.”

As plans were made
broken!) for our local membe
Davie Fulton, it became much

more true to life than had been|
anticipated. A visit to Williams |
Lake was to have lasted a whole

day Tuesday followed by a day
in the Chilcotin, Wednesday |
Then Prime Minister Diefen.

baker called an important cabinet

meeting for Wednesday which
justice minister Fulton had to
attend. Plane schedules would

enable him to visit Williams Lake
up to 2:15 p.m., only on Tuesday.

Plans were altered accordingly.
Then word came through that
CPA could not land on the water-
logged airport at Williams Lake.
A Chilgotin Airw:
chartered to get
Kamloops to pick up CPA Tues-

9 tigar . day afternoon. In the middle
ae . ‘ cigarette as Justicé oe nis visit to Wifliams Lake
Minister Davie Fulton listens to feed problems posed tuesday morning, however, Kam.

by Cattlemen’s
aw

Association president Huston Dun-
(centre) and association director Hugh Corn-
wall,

loops airport was declared “out.”

New plans were envisaged to
have him flown direct to Van-
couver by charter plane to catch
the transcontinental service.
Vancouver airport was also de-
clared “out” to the charter plane.

Tom Larson,

manager

Finally, our local air service] Of the B of M branch
took Mr. Fulton to Quesnel to! here, who will leave
pick up CPA. His planned] soon to take over the
schedule was cut back further.

bank's Kitimat branch.
He did not meet with the village

commission. He did get to the
Kiwanis meeting, though, and
gave a “before luncheon” speech,
but had to leave hurriedly with-
out any food.

Bank manager
will take, over
Kitimat branch

Bridge contract
still pending

Contract for
S| over the Fraser
|not been awarded as yet, a fele-|OVer the
| Phene check with the Department | branch.
of Highways in Victoria revealed
this morning.

Low pidder of. 14) firms) that}
[figured fhe bridge job was

the new bridge

bank's main Kitimat

There has.been no official word
of Mr. Lafson’s' succéssor here.

3 4
The popular bankér came here

\ Const couver With ajfrom Gibons and has been
bi \lthough prob-|treméiy active in commitinity
able contractor for the job, the|fairs. He has served as_presi-

9:45 A.M.—Lignum’s manager Gordon Bruc

is seen actual

here describing the grim situation of the big planer joorreval from the finance de. iced Rules of ine meee
mill fire in September when a large number of local “The next three lowest bidders|the lodge. He is active in the
men were unavoidably unemployed as a result. jon the project were Norden Con-|atfairs of St. Peter's Anglican

| struction & J. W. Stewart Ltd.,/Church and is district comimiss-

$196,000; Howden Construction ioner of the Central Cariboo

Co. Let.. $222,505, and Ben Ginter | District of the Boy Scouts’ Associ-
| Construction $236,203. ation.

FEDERAL GOVERNMENT UPS
GRANTS TO PROVINCE

During a speech to Williams

ral government is now giving to
Lake Kiwanis Club terday,|the provinces since the Consery-
Minister of Justice Davie Fulton|ative government took office in
pointed out the considerable in-| 1957.

se in monies which the fede-

|

is

Move to block
_ mill construction
| turned down

Move by

ident Jack Brackenbury
u building application of Lignum
Ltd. held up by village council
has failed

In 1957-58, provincial contri-
butions totalled 28 million dol-
lars. This has risen, he said, to
over 61 million dollars for 1959-
60

| “It is interesting to note that
the federal government now
contributes 50 per cent of the
hospital insurance contributions
for this province, amounting
a total for the current year
20,400,000

of

Mackenzie Avenue re-|
to have
| re

10 A.M.—A visit to the RCMP office where Corporal- |
in-charge Dan Thompson lets his boss have a talk
on the newly-installed radio to one of the roaming

patrol car:

porter after the

| eral contributions to the
|

to the hospital insui
the larg

porary unit, pending a move in
the spring to new trackage
farther out of town.

will be made to provincial high-
Mr, Brackenbury had written | ways and transportation.

to the village and to the inspector

Tom Larson, for the past six
years manager of the local branch
of the Bank of Montreal, will be
River here has | leaving within two weeks to take

‘°\'The Tribune this week that h

Mr. Fulton was asked by our | or
meeting | from
where the remainder of the fed-| would be forthcoming.

The firm’s planer mill burned PTOvince are directed. He saidjof the large Indian population)
down last month and an appli-| ‘hat they are spread over a wide|could be obtained, he said he had
cation is on file to install a tem-|4iversity of channels, but next/no doubt that this, on top of the
voce service| paring of estimates, would bring
est contribution of over |the district's share of the project
$20,000,000 for the eurrent year|down two and one half mills.

airport should ~
erational soon

Further Federal
hospital grant

Addressing the Kiwanis luncheon Tuesday,
Minister of Justice Davie Fulton said that in the
short time he had been in Williams Lake, he had
found universal interest regarding the problems in
connection with the proposed new hospital and the
new airport for Williams Lake.
“The Federal government has

already approved a construction
grant for the new hospital am-
ounting to $140,000,” he told the
meeting,

“Since then, your hospital
board has applied for a further
grant through Indian Affairs in
respect of the Indian population
who use your hospital,” he said.
Mr. Fulton then went on to ex-
Plain that a further grant of this
nature was not normal unless
special patient days for the
Indians exceeded 15 per cent. A
survey has shown that Indian
patient days do, in fact, exceed
15 per cent in the Williams Lake
area and accordingly a further
grant would be forthcoming.

10:45 A.Mi—A tough problem is thoroughy aired as
hospital board chairman Alex Scott and adminis-

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in the district that it had not
been completed.

“TI have been in touch with the
Deportment of Transport,” he ex-
plained, “and it seems to me that
they had a leisurely take-over
from the old airport to the new
in mind. They had not reckoned
with unusual adverse weather
conditions which have made your
old airport unserviceable so often
this fall.”

Mr. Fulton told the meeting
that the department responsible
in Vancouver were now cabling
Ottawa to get the airport into
action as soon as possible. As
far as he could see the department
of transport would be running
the airport with a man from Ter-
race and other personnel from
Dog Creek, and would be supply-
ing the necessary machine: The
department felt they would prob-
ably ask for local help during
heavy snowfall.

At this stage, Mr. Fulton haa‘
to close his address and dash off |
for wis “plane counections to.

trator Hugh Lousley show their representative plans
for the badly needed new hospital.

IRRITATION JUSTIFIABLE
“I cannot give you the precise
figure right now but it is being
Worked out and should be known
very shortly,” the Minister prom-
ised.
Turning to the completion of
the new airport to make it ser-
viceable Mr. Fulton adnitttea that!

12 NOON—Village chairman Herb Gardner awaits
a decision on what Mr. Fulton will try to do regard-
ing the new Williams Lake Airport. The Minister
promised his full co-operation for quick action.

for hospital project

Any slight hope that more money in the w:
of provincial government grants might be for
coming for the new
disspelled by Health

| ay
th-
Williams Lake Hospital was

Minister Eric Martin last

Thursday when he met with a delegation from this
area. |
The delegation, consisting of |the original plans would be 9

Alex Scott, Doug Stevenson, Hugh |™ills and improvement district
Cornwall, administrator Hugh j directors felt the taxpayers could
jLousely, and Gordon Truster | OMY handle around six mills.
|from 100 Mile House, were told | Any hope of bringing the 100
bluntly by the minister that there | Mile House into the Central Cai
boo Hospital District seems faint
Only recourse open to the hospi-| 1 the first place such a move
tal board now is to get costs;OWld mean a delay of another
down to within a figure that the/*°8F 48 Property owners of both
hospital improvement — district |#®*S Voted on the question. And
directors will agree to take to the|S'nc® it would cost 100 Mile
| people. district taxpayers more to come
| To this end, the hospital boara | it on the combined district than
|meets tonight with their areni-|i Would on their own 20 or 30
|tects in an eftort to shave build-| ed Project, there is considerable
ling estimates. This may result|40Ubt that ther would go along
in the nurses’ home being drop-| With any merger.

Ped and some changes made in : .

vvpoad chairman aves sot cot) FED Hamel will
resign from
village council

e

thought the board would know

within the néxt month whether
not the extra $100,000 grant
the Federal government

Commissioner Fred Hamel an-

nounced at council meeting last

night his intention to resign ef-

tective November 30.

Mr. Hamel has one more year
to serve of a two-year term. He
gave as his reason for resigning
the fact that he expects to be out
of town a great deal next year.

This leaves four vacancies on

12:20 P.M.—A luncheon speech to the Kiwanis Club.

Everybody had lunch except Mr. Fulton. He had to

go without in order to take a local plane from Wil-

liams Lake to catch up with other aircraft connec-

tions in order to be at a cabinet meeting in Ottawa
this morning.

If this extra money, (because

|

It
that

was previously estimated |

the district's share under

of municipalities objecting to the
Proposal on the grounds that the
location conflicted with the pre
sent village zoning bylaw and the
operation with Times for the varieus con-
ance bylaw. |tests being sponsored this year

In the inspector's written opin-| for Hallowe'en have
on the matter, he could not} nounced by

the village nuis-| |

| been an-

| ion the joint committee

‘Times set for Halloween fun

the board. Chairman Herb
Gardner, and commissioners Tony
Borkowski and Bob Carson com-
plete their terms of office this
will? then be served retresh-|Year. Commissioner Carson will |
ments. definitely not run in November, |
All funds collected from the and the other two officials have| ©
sale of the shell-out tickets wil] |Mt Signified their intention yet.

|
ree with the first objection, /of the Elks Lodge and Order of |go to the Cerebral Palsy Fund. ~ "Hamels reser ned by
since he believed the mill was/the Royal Purple | Following the refreshments tilled at the reeeine ne ee op le
in an authorized zone. He su | The Hallowe'en cosiume con-| enjoyed by the older children, afer a separate browne election | 6) LLG:
that the village niusance|test for all children of pre-| fireworks display will be touched | sess te ten Mel 8
bylaw be ammended to give the|school age and those in grades) off by firemen on the hill south ee a DEINE ASCOT | gercmncsnenn =
| village powers to restrict hours|one, two er three will lake place | of town. j tained from Victoria. ‘ :
| [of operation of enterprises where|at the Elks Mall bet o Bs Another eroup ot tren — Fe
hese hours constituted a dis-|and 7:30 p.w, Treats will be/ will be oui on a a M d |
turbanes, Commissioners will] provided for the children, jact Hallowe'en, These children an injure
[consider the proposal of amend-| In the meantime, the shell-out| will be collecting food and) Injured in a car accident last
ment at a special meeting. jcampaign and contest for child-| elothing for those in need. They | Saturday _ Right was Herman
ren in grades four, five and six}are known as the “ helping) Sellars, from Soda Creek Re-
— 1 will be going on between 6:00/ hands” and will be chaperoned | serve. |
} Lac at chene arrived/and 7:45 p.m. The shetlout| by adults , 7 | Swerving to miss an obstacle] oe Se
— _ home last night after completing tickets whieh have been sold by| This solicitation, whieh bas /on the Quesnel highway 18 miles) 41 P.ML—after an intensive four hours in Williams
:20 A.M.—Mr. Fulton is seen here admiring a | 11.02 years with the Ré the children over the past week] the permission of local authori- |north of Williams Lak couse Lake, Mr. Rulton climbs aboard Chileotin Airways
ater knitted by local Indians as he confers with | pys, hene, son of Mr. will then be collected. Children] t is Sponsored by billie Sellers’ car to Fall oft a e road.| seaplane, hungry but smiling, ona journey which
— rt nt heads, Bill Christie Ed Deschene, was t |must rturn with their tickets to| Lake Seventh-Day Adventist |He suffered a broken left leg | Will keep him in the air the rest of the day and all
ot Mon ature [lofty and Postmaster Cece Rhod at Rivers, Manitoba the Elks Hall by 5 p.m. They. Welfare Society la result |
ndian Affair a

that night.