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Volume 19 — Number 30.

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‘ Thursday, July 26, 1951.

Single copy 10e, $2.50 per year.

BOND MARKET MAY EFFECE PROGRAM

Board To Proceed With School Vocational Plan

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Although the financial situation May stall school con- Struction plans as incorporated in By-Law No. 3, the school board is prepared to carry on the vocational part of the new program as far as limited facilities will permi Miss Averill Cropps, a graduate of: the University of British Columbia in Home Economies, wil] teach the new class starting this September. Indus- trial arts will be handled by Leslie E. Cantell, who comes to this district with 18 years of experience in Van- couver schools behind him. It is hoped to start a typing class by em- ploying an English teacher with the qualifications to teach | typing as well, So far this position

WOMAN EDITG

Local Curler ‘Enjoys Summer Spiel

The Quesnel curling rink, which | Was strengthened by the inclusion of jlocal stalwart Tony Woodland, won three and lost four of their games in this year’s big midsummer bonspiel |- at- Nelson.

Mrs, Cather’ and_ publisher Elora, Ont, Clark Me

ine Marston, editor of the Express of receives the Joseph’ T% i Qh

R WINS TROPHY

CABINS SOLD

Announcement was made yesterday by B. Brundage of the sale of Elmer's Cabins, local auto court, to George Felker. The business, located on Third Avenue, is more familiarly known as the Green Cabins:

LIMITED WATER SYSTEM ASSURED FOR SUB-DIVISION

Five property-owners in the new

Mr. Brundage/has owned the auto| subdivision assured court for the past five years. He also| w; .operates the Western Pole Yard, business that he will continue to o erate from his new home in Hope.

WATER SYSTEM — ; OWN WAY

Commissioners were pleased with ne information -provided by Village lerk E. EH. Gibbon~ Tuesday. night nat there was enough money in the ater account to pay off the annual

themselves of ater Tuesday night when they made ®| their final proposition te the Village P| Commission. Spokesman for the group was F. G. G. Woodland, who Said the five were willing to pri sdvance water limited system; with the vitin2e put ting up the necessary cash balance The proposed line would Sixth Avenue from the Hi far as the lane; down alonz to ‘ther lane running between Sixth and Seventh and up-to Yorston. After the commissioners had taken

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—Central Press. Canadian in, towns of 1,500 and under, judged the best in Canada. D. R, Wilson, fepresenting the Canadian Weekly

has not been filled. The school board “will meet next

week with a representative of the De-

partment of Education to see just

what can be done on their proposed

program.

‘Since the bylaw

Mr. Woodland, who returned at the end of the week, said the popular summer bonspiel lived” up to his greatest expectations.

Although the temperature stood at 90 outside, the arena itself was a cool- passed, trustees|ish 36. The outsidé heat did interfere

J trophy annually to the weekly newspapers: Ei

TAR ALMOST CLAIMS CALF

-made the md payment’ of $4500 without. re-

ourse to general revenue.

heir pencils out and figured the cost “o within the neighborhood of $2500 ‘o complete the work, the proposition was accepted.

Pap presentation, a

Last year village finances were ‘imped when commissioners had to ig imto general revenue for $1800 > make up the payment. A series of veaks in the mains had used up any

There is a considerable amount of “dead” line on this first extension as the lots facing the highway from

Sees eee! THE WEATHER

Bax. Min.

have been casting anxious glances at|with the curling however, as the 4] Thursday, July 19... 58 51 urplus that might have been in the| Sixth on are serviced already, but the fate of the bond issues of other|rinks had to start in the early morn-| A€d road building to the hazards off| Friday 64 49 | water account. once the pipe is laid, it will reach into Sehool boatds in the province ‘that|ing and break during mid-day when ‘UCcessfully raising stock in this |. Saturday 4 58 Next major job to be done with the|*B€ centre of the sub-division, and have not been picked up by bond/the ice got soft; returning to their | Modern age. ij] Monday 65 | | water system is the replacement of the|2@ditional lengths of iain can be houses except at heavy discounts.|/games at night. = Down at 100 Mile J. R. Scott almost,{. Tuesday 67 old pipe from Third Avenue to the |#@4°4 that will produce revenue from ‘The latest attempt was made by 2] ‘Three thousand roses inside the |!St one of his calves in an unusual Wednesday 83 65 old water tower. each lot as homes go up. In the mean- coast board last week. Bonds bearing |arena and a thousand boxes of straw. | cident that was directly attributs||It seems that Williams Lake and time, people who have purchased lots four percent were offered on the mar-| berries on display added to the oad | ble to the recent road surfacingé-Vancouver have reversed their > within reasonable distance of the j ket without one firm bid being re«/scene of curlers sweepinp their rocks | WOT that has. been going on along-} usual weather conditions. While C bl main will be able to lay temporary ReeAS +A amiasumnies the highway there, if |we are enjoying warm weather in- onsta le Runs Into one-inch water lines at reasonable Of the vaeancies on the acadenile| The Cariboo rink consisted of Goo,| At that time one of the trucks | tapecce ore several rainstorms 5 2 staff, one more has been Alled in the| Turner, skip; Mr. Woodland, thira;|@U™Ped a load of tar into the bush at | in ne past week the Vancouver Tourist Camera Trap Figuring the line will cost $2500 elementary grades of the “lake school | Seth Reid, second; and Gordon Pear: |e side of the road and the hot weas, people are suffering a continued to lay, the village can expect this to

Principal and that of Miss E. M. Gos

lead. ther of the past week turned it into!

drought. RCMP Constable M. Stevens found|%e Written off in five years by the

with the appointment of Miss Vivian | Son, Bales. a

LAKE AND PRINCE

a soft, gooey mess, es = This was where the inquisitive calf

stepped into the picture and into the

' Several transfers have taken place | in the District,

The Third Avenue Billiards. league|the tar.

Creek has resulted in the transfer of leading team in the Prince George| Not without some difficulty he was

PLANT A REALITY

himself receiving more attention than| imcteased taxes that will result from a Visiting Hollywood star the other|Present proposed home _ building. day when he escorted a group of| With the expected additional con.

far. In the ensuing struggle to escape AFTER 20 YEARS : siruetion on this line, the write-off D. A. Kayll. former teacher in the the animal only worked itself into| eee Sas ~ can be carried out in as little a f Williams Lake school, will move to SPLIT BALL HONORS a worse predicament and when it MEAT CURING gC mous we usually see our Motn-| joo, orcs, | > Mab round val te awe ee F ies in their working uniforms, when

they are onescort duty they take|, The digger that has just completed their dress uniforms out and step on| te ditch for the sewer line behind

Oliver Street will be hired to handle

the plane looking their smartest

E, H Redekop from Big Cree as | sortpain Joop, split a double-header /Pulled free and after a thorough witl 2 Ee Ser Pavey sTovreres Upparentiy TH c

fram) MelsrumiCrpek~ Toles! in ahe first game to. take an 14/ worse for

there are more students available jcem- victory, but were edged out of the

the Meldrum Greek school in “résumed.| second 9-8.

ber, classes there will not ‘sppointed to| ‘The opener was a nip and tuck game NO VERDICT YET 'HERE SUNDAY

wm. Kyle has .beenewly established |for the first two innings, ,unti] Frank Superior School at Lac La Hache.| (Casey) Latin pounded out a homer Arthur F. Smith will teach at the jn the third that brought in two tallies Roe Lake~Bridge Lake Superlor for the locals. School. Prince was held scoreless until the i . Smith will teach at|top of the fifth, when they registered eee a at Big Lake,|two to tie the score, They dropped the| No verdict has been hnded do. : which is being reopened this Septem-|lead again to the ake in the bottom|by the Coroner's jury investigating ber. Mrs, J. M. Kennedy will take over | of the inning allowing one more run,|the death of Michael R. Farrel, 2°4 the 150 Mile school and Miss D.|A double by Woodland in the sixth | year-old employee of the Pacific Great Eastern Railway, who found dead in a company bunkhouse jhere Sunday night. His body was |found on a cot and at his feet lay a 806 Springfield rifle. Death had been a shot through

Bis experie!

down

Goudal the one at Chimney Creek.|brought Bogle and Smetanuk in for was

‘The 150 Mile school will hold primary |two more. classes, as will the one at Chimney| The Lake boys were hot now and Creek. which is being reopened pend-|went on in the seventh to add three ing construction of Skyline school. on a home run drive hy Bogle. Prince

Other teachers appointed to district | Picked up twe in the top of the eighth

: but were still left trailing 84. schools are Miss Julia Myrtle to Mio-

= Dixon to Glencoe, Deid-| Several errors on the part of the

eee iske Creek: Mise Billiard men in the eighth contribut- A ae ae ae and ©@ to three counters picked up by Aen ee is soe : | The visitors were held Miss K. Roaf to Big _

instantaneous from bis head,

Farrél, whose home |couver, had been here six months with the railroad company. He was last seen at 10 pm, Sunday night going

was in Vun+

Lake Batters.

modern curing plant on his property at the lake.

left Vancouver to come to the Cari- boo with the idea of establishing a ‘curing and smoke house. But he pick- ed the wrong part of the province |for the Carboo was mainly cattle country, and there wasn't a hog being |taised anywhere,

So he gave up the idea of a curing plant and started a butcher shop, |which he eventually gave up for a dairy (the present Primrose Dairy) and truck gardening, finally winding |up back in a local butcher shop. | But the

came to Williams Lake, but the genial|plane in Vaneouver and turned over OP ex-butcher shop prdprietor, ex-dairy-|his prisoner to the waiting authori- RANKS NEAR T man realized his long-standing am-|ties than all American tourists at the TRANCE FXA 5 ee IN EN M Seema, most jot them badssedreled | hans Depa iment of Panestions in vain for a Mountie dressed the way : vital part in the education of so many trade and the embarrassed Constable! inaren in this part of the sountry, Stevens had: to ‘spend the ‘next few i interesting to note that Geotes neighbors: schooling up to Grade Ten by this method, came within one mark this year of topping the province in the FIRE SITUATION He made an average of 96.1 percent, UNDER CONTROL the highest being 96.9. George will be remembered by many ed a grand champion animal in 1945 at the Williams Lake show: and dur- original plan hadn’t been| Scattered thunder storms again re-|ing his years of calf work took his sulted in a rash of small forest fires in the Williams Lake district this

s& 2 years to Set mito the pusindss/the Centre of Attraction. ~ | “DISTRICT STUDENT 7 intended to establish when ‘he first No sooner had he stepped off the F - aes bition last week when he opened aj T/TPOFt converged on him with their correspondence courses playing a It was back in 1932 that Mr. Roberts! Mountie should be for the tourist minutes: “posing: for <“our’ southern’ vo chag of 199 ‘Mile! who tsk is entire entrance IN DISTRICT FORESTS for his work in calf clubs. He exhibit- entirely discarded and last winter Mr, share of trophies for showmanship

a kitchen for “cooking head cheese

z ' A : ie hig ¢ a d judging. : scoreless in the ninth, leaving the | owaras the bunkhouse Roberts quit his job and started on an Still “to. Be: Alles vate vacanciss 25 jocais’ victorious negdless of! their [°° : lice reports, his | 2i8 small plant, aveele. He has been attending the Oak Bay ; Forest Grove. Canim Lake East, and Bae According to po lee ep Murray,| ‘The plant consists of three parts;| Concentrated in the Quesnel, Horse- High: School, Victoria, for the past Dog Créek. ~ | sEconD GAME : nedy.. vas’ found! ‘by Jeck Murtay, fly Lake area, none of the. fires cov-|inree years and will go on to the

night watchman about 10:15 p.m.

Columbia this

Accommodation in town is again)

In the second tilt Latin again got presenting a problem to the School

the Lake off to a keen start, when he 18 picked the first ball across the plate

being sought for two single women

and making sausages; a cold storage Not much : u n : |chamber where fresh and processed here. He was a quiet, reserved youth. | ring his| Me#ts are held, and the smoke room, One hobby he had was preparing his|

is known about Farrel

ered more than an acre of ground, and they are all well under control. Twenty men have been fighting the fires, hampered in most cases by the

University of British fall. He is the son of Mr and Mrs.

| F.G. Forbes.

| Board. Boarding accommodation

jand slapped it out for a home run. | The early tally of the locals however, did not discourage the Billiard men who came out of the second inning

j which is mainly taken up with a large

i s for rifle cartridges, and it own loads Ea rifle teh = the rifle Metal chamber that holds 500 pounds is believed the single s of pork. Smoke is supplied by a saw- dust burner that handles only hard-|Ted

and a home or apartment for Mr Cantell and his family,

extremely dense forest growth. 1 Out in the Chilcotin district, Ranger | Gibbs “reports that scattered

BEEF MARKET

that took his life contained an extra-

heavy charge such as others found in

with two runs, leading the game for wood sawdust to impart a prized Showers this past week have cased Demand was somewhat better than LE HONORED the fist 'timein the days a cendboand; box: nearby “smoke flavour” to the hams and the critical fre situation considerably. test week for the 250 head offerea COUP The locals again surged in front in| The victims parents, Mr. and Mrs. 5.05, All of the widely scattered Ores inlat' gre er pe fob, head offered F vhen E el, flew Williams Lake* | ie i 7 : a : ON SILVER WEDDING the fourth when Ed Patenaude poled! A. R. Farrel, flew into Williams Mr. Roberts has adopted the latest |that district are now under control.! Goon yards in Vancouver Monday. ou

method of curing hams, known as the The largest one, which burned over |The following are the prices bid. |“artery pumping” method. For :

with this modern method, the curing smouldering. ae Pickle is pumped through an artery; The fires in the Chilcotin are all,

in the ham and is uniformly distribut- | West of Alexis Creek and are believed

it a home run with the bases loaded.) Tuesday and the body was flown out i z sam ight for

Mr. and Mrs. Gordon Gibbons were | ( le and _ Lake to 1 the same night fo

honored at a surprise party on the) hurlers. pitched one game apiece). | burial.

occasion of their 25th wedding anni-/ Prince hurler Dickson retaliated In] Pye coroner's jury invesigating the

versaty, Friday, July 18th. the next frame when he picked up’ gcymstances. the body and

curing '3000 acres at Eagle Lake, is stil! Goa: Grass: Steers; 80 to 32; com-

mon to medium, 27 to 29.50; stockers and feeders, 29 to 31; good grass heif- ers, 28 to 29; common to medium, 20

view

f the Elks and one of Ed’s “sucker” balls that had ene Monday. The enquiry was 44 through ji to have been caused mainly by 2750: dairy tv 5 26: heif ‘Over 50 members of the sc ough the meat. This method | to 27.50; dairy type. 24 to 26; heifery Royal Purple lodges attended the sent several of his teammates down son gajourned, with no date set for replaces the old one whereby the |campers. cows, 27 to 28; good cows, 25 to 26.50; social evening held in the Elks club siwnging and drove it out to deep ine next sitting. |meat was immersed in a barrel of common to medium, 23 to 24.50; dairy

|centre for a homer that gave the vis-

| brine until the liquid had slowly pene- Pre- itors two runs, |

room for the popular couple. rie . a |Fourth Birthday type, 23.50 to 25; canners and cutters, 5 | trated Constable’s Father = =

were

Mr. and Mrs. Gibbons the meat. The old method Celebrated Tuesday 17 to 21; good bulls, 30 to 32; common sented with a case of silver flatware The pakke squad Same out oF ae | a month to cure the ham, al ‘ ta plethaay: part t medium, 26 to 29.50; good veal in Exquisite pattern as a memento of fifth leading 7 vue were: “Una ae —_ é * process which is now done in ten), A delightful ee ai KiARSRe ase. calves, 33 to 37; common to mediura, the occasion, They wefe married In hold the visitors down as they gradn- Dies in Victoria days, celebrated the fourth birthday 2h Aer SL

ally added their score and the eighth (Bonnie) Deschene,

peg ieve eee Customers can be assured expert is handling their Charlie Roberts learned his trade in |Deschene. Ice cream, cake and candy England as a youth and followed it) Were served to her tweny-two young most of his life. During the ten years friends and neighbors.

he operated on Granville Street prior| Those attending were Boyce and to coming here, he cured hams and Lillian Crapelle, George and Robert

that an/@ay of Yvonne

inster, Rel meats, |Second daughter of Mr. and Mrs, Ed.

the district for six years.

inning wound up with the game tied

Funeral services were conducted in at 88,

i i Victoria July 19 for Herbert Bewlay ane eee ee Stevens, father of Constable M. Stev- hein, €n5 of Williams Lake, who died sud-

q enly July 15 in his 7ist

No Issue Next Week

the ninth, Prince went to bat the game well within first two batters collected singles ani

FUNERAL SERVICES HELD FOR INFANT

reach,

ar. Mr.

Stevens

‘ war velekans Thi Hb issue of Th i vere conducted | 5 A double war ve - 3 ere will be no issue of The Funeral services were i Saag on base for a teammate hee served in the Boer War and First bacon for most of the better cafes im Paul, Mrs. Doug Mallette and her ‘DHbune next: wack: Epom aise Sacrente Cpu’ fee eee UEUIA Mean the eat, War, Ha vecdived a full pen tig downtown Vancouver area jebildren Ronnie, Linda, Janice and) Po. ale 4 afternoon for the infant son of Mr.’ important run, A triple by first on noha ‘woulda ie dante hw sed ae Gary; Mrs, Slan Robinson with | he low for staff holidays, we f Chileo 3 i vas all that was Si e iecicies eae Ee 3 ed ere: Marjorie. i will be closing down our plant and Mrs, Wm. Olafson o baseman Henning was al Tb: Waves ta ihousr’ tion to thé public to drive Saughters Merjorie and Marion, Alan : P Mills. Rev. J. Colclough conducted peeded to wind up the ball game. ; Site Greaa his premises any. thme, tg{Mclntosh, Brian Todd. Dorrie Rigby; |] from July 28 to August 6, : : vo his Joving wife, one son, s ses any ° Ss the service. Le eee recat “filme the: two. bis ovine their curiosity on how hams “leide, Rosanne and Theresa Des- | Next issue of the ‘Tribune will allbearers were Archie Pinchbeck, teams have met. Two weeks ago at in England. oa wo Fictoria » “jchene and maternal grandmother, | be Thursday. August 9. = Constable Stevens flew to Victor’

i db cure Leonard James, Leonard Carolan and Prince their double-header was split and bacon are cured

| Airs. L, M. Goffin, | Fred Lieberie. ) With a victory apiece.

to attend his father’s funeral, | 4