NEWS EXCHANGE GF THE CARIBOO

illiams Lake Tribune

Volume 20 — Number 23.

WILLIAMS LAKE, B.C. Thursday, June 5, 1952.

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Candidates for Election in Caribor Constituency June}? Trappers Oppose Biologisis’

Angus Machean Ken Thibaudeau

LIBERAL CONSERVATIVE

These three items: — the extension of the PGE to Prince George: re- construction of the Cariboo Highway and the Quésnel Hydro Project were the major issues affecting the con- stituency when he went to Victoria in 1949, Mr. MacLean stated, ana he had worked steadily .on all three during his term of office.

Maclean Gives Reason For Railway Vote

Angus Macean cast his vote dur- ing the last session against the im- mediate extension of

ver because he felt the resolution that was placed before the Railway committee by E. C. Carson was dust @ political maneuver to embarrass the government, the sitting member told a gathering of 20 persons at a

received better wage Liberal meeting Tuesday night. :

and I hope they never have former scale, it

seales, to back to their must be remembered that 65 percent once dia | Of the cost of the service is charsed|

“For three years’? Mr, MacLean stated, “I advocated the extension of the railroad, and nev. either Carson or Herbert Anscomp] @ainst labour,” tr. MacLean said. Taise their voicgs in support.” | Aabption “of

Pheu, whe Syeaic~ continned. gal CA soon as Coiitibn broke up; ‘tnese: (two men Were loudest in their de-

elps inner pes by iW out of the hospitals, the speaker ; Claimed. “T voted for _co-insurance*

midnds t6 4 vg i eis eee purpose tension. : and should be done away with. Bight Following the committee's meet-| hundred delegates agreed with this

ing with P-G-E. general manager J.| viewpoint at the convention, and it A. Kennedy and chief engineer Wm. ig writien into the Libefal manifesto - Stewart, Mr. Carson pressed for ac- ‘that co-insurance be abolished,” Mr. ceptance of their recommendations» MacLean said.

of%an immediate start on the exter=

sion. Saying that he knew Mr. Gm- son was not concerned with getting

the railroad built but only in = Sthiool Patrol Boys litical implications of the move, | — : Nr. Macteon Given Crests, Praise

Mr. MacLean said tis had influenc- The hope that more training in

ed his ‘decision. “In 1949 Premier Johnson prom- ised only to complete the railroad to | traffic work might be given to Sehoo!| Prince George. When the railway! Patrol boys by local RCMP ones from Squamish to Vancouver is com-| next fall was expressed by school| pleted, it will be done by a Liberal) principal J. Phillipson and Village dc Geaica Commissioner 1. A, Borkowski at Sag ee eee een took te Patrol’s annual Iuuchen last ie eee ee enjaet Rriday. 5 See SP acie Wise br gia: boys who ave mem- the later ald have spent| bers.of the patrol attended the lunch- BE ee en hy Hic heas | SOM RE EERO toy ae work more oe ee a _ «| and the official thanks of the Village es ae Bate witloma: Bes Oe 2) Ba ee Mr. Carson informed me that he ex- The Village Commissioners want 5 d the highway to be completed | $oU to know that we appreciate the pectes he his Sad: we| Work that you boys are doing,” Mr. ey aie Garcon BORO WER arsleal eee one may ee al auth the ex-| PE the means of saving some child's did not help me at ell yl oe ‘Vite and that is the gauge ot their ee importance.” Tle-wint on to say that he would appreach the local detach- ment of the RCMP with a view to ob- taining tlie, services of a Constable to train the new patrol next fall. Mr, Phillipson thanked the Vil- laze Comm'ssioners for their interest and added that he thought. police help with: the patrol would be doubly important next ‘term because with the shift of Blementary and High schools, younger boys. would be tak- ing the patrol over in September. Patrol boys present were Phillip Mayileld, Lewis MacDonald, Waddie Kozuki, Roy Morris gud Izadore Me- Dougall. Frank Purjue was unable Yo attend,

‘engion of the highway,” Mac-

Lean stated. Since the Hon. B. T) Kenney has taken over this department, follow- , ing the collapse of Coalition, Mr. MacLean sdid that more money had been made availablefor maintenance -—that 19 miles. of highway will be reconstructed this year,2nd $05,000 has been set aside for reconstruction work south of Quésnel. Sections of the highway tliat do not uecd re- locating Will” be hard topped as will 8 section 20 Miles soith of Prince

George. = : The building of a gas pipe-line through the Cariboo will probably result in cheaper power than could be obtained from the proposed hydro development project on the North

Fork of the Quesnel River, Mr. Mac-

CHARTERED KSCQUNTANT FIRM OPENS OFFI

to: get the government to give the| 4 Vancouver firm of charter&@ AG: i an ject | Countants, Rickard, Crawford to the hydro projet!

i ' i neh and how the plans had been‘Swiiched | COMpany, has established a ba

= offiee in Williams Lake. rk when the Interna- | ° a 3 toithe Nonaeu aed od o-|~. The office of the firm in town will tional Salmon Commision raise eee ee jections to damming.the main chan-)@ i the Borkowski Builaing andy 5 2 (Continued on pack page)

Ron Riley pire as 3 Ralph Chetwynd Cor.

SOCIAL CREDIT

Theory On Moose Season

Even with tbe help of the brilliant ming of Dr. Ian MeT. Cowan, professor of Zoology at the University of British Col- umbia, Game Department biologists were unable to break down opposition to the suggested “hornless’ moose season when they spoke to a meeting of registered trappers here Monday atternoon. | = After the meeting had heard the the Commission accepted the oppos.- opening remarks of association pres- tion viewpoint and the moose dis- ident Erie Collier and the arguments’ appeared as the bioiosisis cau wilt of the biologists and Game Com- happen without cutting into the pop- respousipility would Game Department — “but the fault will be yours,”

Obviously annoyed that for the second time in three days the|lier claimed, that he had penned a vote had gone against the depart-|Tecent editorial in The Tribune on

It had also been hinted, Mr. Col-

many parts, Mr. Collier stated.

ee

| e | ment (at Alexis Creek vote was| the subject. If all thes things were

OW man in S$ ii argo; Mr. Cunningham said that if| true, he would have to be « man of ees eae EE ca

May Be Lifted In Sept.

“We have every reason to believe that the Unitea States embargo on Canadian cattle Will be lifted early in September” Hon. Harry Bowman, Minister of Agriculture, stated when he addressed a Liberal meeting here Tuesday night.

Speaking on ~ Bowman said he had been in very|;., ‘ close touch with the problem of iesop: sae eee poo ae ing foot and mouth disease out ot 3 the province since it was first diag- nosed. B

There were several reasons for the long delay from November to Febru. ary in properly diagnosing the out- break near Regina. In the first place

“The tourist trade is something we should cherish, with its annual worth of $60 million dollars, but I think we should sive people who live here the kind of roads they should liave, then expand to attract tour- ist travel. I don’t think we should Put all our money into roads for | douriéts who only use them a_tuit | timg’ each year." >

4S Contina pantie |

Zs —, a. ge 7 the meantime we can say we a : e@ were mort fortunate, “me seater | SOE PY qiong said, inasmneh as from the time the

disease broke out until it was diag- nosed, meat was shipped to Vancou- ver and all over the world.

Mr. Collier said he did think the biologists should be preparcd to

Big Inning Wins Game For Firemen

A big sixth inning brought victory oe - are eating themsely. to eee ae last night when they| ang home? And if tHe hunters an aowned the No. 2 squad 11-5 to give p, vat 4 lave to wait until i them their second straight win in mal’s horns to aia ee a cown ball. : aS ‘ ; OUS damage to livestock 3 Up to the end of the fifth i* was! ATTACKS. in =e unyone’s game with the score tightly | “tt4OKS ORAL knotted at 1-1. Two errors on the! ee Commissioner part of the No. 2 big hits started the Firemen away ip the sixth

Tribune, which he claimed was ‘mis- The editorial stated that

s the question liad not ve bats they had added ten runs to Put] on the floor of the ee es f eS rovincia!

them well in f; ae in front, <= game convention. Mr. Cunningham ‘ opposition ‘built up fou tans stated, and thiswas not true. The

in the sixth and sevenen*b : ; EDR ES da, | SRC HCE Biba Gy thé agenas but the editorial inferr€@¢ askea that

$2_dan), Spea missioners were at -variance- with

BES er the biologists. “This isn’t so,” he

The British Columbia embargo on shipments from the east was placed purely for reasons of health, . Mr. Bowman stated. Some people thought it was for economic rea- sons, but the Minister said a .quick survey made at the time of the em-

Draws Large Audience :

biologists and value their conwribu- tion to game management.” A man who is little known iff this part of the country, although recognized as one of the oiutstanding speakers in the House of Commons, out-drew all other political meetings here so far when he addressed 192 people in the Plks Hall Tuesday night on the principles of Social Credit..

With regard to Mr. Collier's jcharge that he had been accused of writing the editorial, Mr. Cunningham |said he did not think anyone had in- sinuated this, and if Mr. Collier had felt that he (Mr. Cunningham) had made such an insinuation he was

'and Edmonton to accept only speci-

bareo proved this to be an untrue] Small in stature, Rev. B. G. Han- Tumour when it was found there! sell, campaign leader for the B.C. were only 1200 head of cattle in the! election, makes up for any shortage province sufficiently finished for‘in height by his dynamic Platform market, which would do us approxi-'manner and his very evident belief mately two. days. {in the Social Credit movement.

Rey. Hansell opened his address by asserting that Social Credit was not essentially a political party but a way of life — a movement that ! becomes a great crusade to free peo- ‘ple trom economic bondage.

Referring to the growth cf the movement into a political party in Alberta, the speaker stated that it was never the. intention that movement should be brought into politics, but when the followers of

The problem or itis Gepartment | was to see that no cattle entered the Province until they could he sure that stock could be obtained that had No contact with the disease or in any way might become infected. In the meantime, Mr. Bowman said, stock were getting short and finally his department’s vets went to Calgary

fled cattle from particular points for immediate slaughter.

These restrictions were later mod_| i. Aberhart were unable to con- ified as control of the disease was|YiNCe their elected representatives that the monetary reforms recom-

affected.

“We believe we have taken every precaution to protect our herds,” the Minister said.

“For 36 years we have had a Lib- eral government or Liberal-led gov- ernment in British Columbia and|Columbia Socreds would find their during that time our province has ;Diggest battle would come after they grown from fifth to third place in| Were in power, with opposition pro- Canada in economic worth and | Vided by the great financial powers

uid, ‘want to enslave you.’

mended by the movement were sound, they had to name their can- Gidates and were swept into power. UNABLE TO ACT

Mr. Hansell warned that British

wrong.

In speaking of game preservation, the commissioner said the only way that game problems could be settled was by scientific study and that the department has the finest staff of biologists in Canada. “You may not agree with them — but someday you will,” he stated.

COWAN SPEAKS

Making the main address on the question of adoption of a cow moose season, Dr. Cowan prefaced his re- marks by emphasizing that this sol- ution to the problem of overgrazing was not new, but was established Practise in 38 out of the 48 states be- low the border.

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that the same thing had happened to any legislation that touched money, and that finally the provincial govern- ment, in the depths of the depression had slapped a moratorium on all debts, to save the people from bank- ruptey.

“It was not fair,” Mr. Hansell stated, but it accomplished its pur- pose. He went on to say that some people took advantage of the act, and people with small means that had invested their savings in loans lost out. But when times got better

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Political Meetings Here Getting Hot

The political meetings in town are starting to generate a lot of heat.

Tuesday night’s Social Credit . meeting was almost broken up when| §f@f@g Cheiwynd sparks showered down from a smouldering hole in the ceiling of “The Social Credit movement is the Elks Hall. Fortunately, before | Sweeping the province because in the

Present Government An Unpopular One,

rowth of population,” the Ministe: , that, he stated in speaking on development of ; The troubles that Alberta had in B.C. 5 when Aberhart tried to put the

We are committed to the extension principles of Social Credit into eifect of the PGE to the Peace River and were outlined by the speaker in show- 'o Vancouver as soon as funds are ing the nature of this opposition available, be sald. Mr. Johnson has Before passage of the Credit of stated that he will finish the rail oad Alberta act which would lay the to the Peace first and construct an foupdation-for introduction of Social assembly dock at Squamish to hau-—C¥edit principles, Mr. Hansell said dle the bottleneck there, the late Prime Minister Mackenzie

“Our Premier has shown that King was asked what his attitude when he makes a promise he intends towards the legislation would be to keep it,” Mr. Bowman asserted. “He said that it was Alberta's prob- “During the past/three years you lem and he would give them a free have seen more gf the election prom: band in their credit experiments, ises filled thaw“ever hefore.” ! the speaker charged.

Mr. Bowman said he was discour- | What actually happened was that aged over the road question. Wehave he disallowed this lezislation. “Who

not, he said had the consideration told him to? — there is a power in the north that we should have ™0re poweriul than government,” he stated.

had. He went on to say that he be- Neved We have sacrificed road huild- |

Mr. Hansell went on to ysvint out

the audience noticed the small fire, minds of the people something has ‘several Firemen at the back of the Sone wrong — they haven't been hall had quietly gone up into the given the type of government they attic with a fire extinguisher and Wanted,” stated Ralph Cherwynd, the smouldering Donnaconna was the party's Cariboo candidaze, in making his first public appearance in Williams Lake Tuesday night.

The speaker went on to say that he was afraid that a form of dic- tatorship had crept into government that we hadn't recognized. This was emphasized, he stated, in examples he had experienced during this cam- Paign when several people had said they would vote for him but coula not come to his meetings or actively support him because they, or some member of their family ‘worked fo; the government.’

“Something has crept into our way of life that must be smashed,” he

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soon controlled.

The fire was caused by one of the big reflectors having Leen removed ond the 500-watt bulb left touching the ceiling. This had been doue Sat- urday night to let down decorations for the Jaycee party and as the main hall lights were not in use, it had not occurred to those responsibie the danger that would result when the bulb was on.

The interruption came during Rev. E. G. Hansell’s talk and he | broke off for several minutes while | the audience watched the firemen |@ouse the last sparks, before con- | tinuing Lis speech,