Se enn Hudson of Charoltte Lake Williams Lake Tribune NEWS EXCHANGE OF THE CARIBOO 325t elker e Volume 19 -- Number 89. WILLIAMS LAKE, B.C. Thursday, October 4, 1951. Single copy 10c, $2.50 per year. FIFTY ATTEND FIRST ANNUAL GAME BANQUET Fifty sportsmen and game officials sat down last night to the Williams Lake Rod and Gun Club's first annual.) banquet last night in the Elks Hall. Moose, venison, grouse, goose and trout were the featured entree at this first game banquet, which inaugurates a custom here that is followed by other game clubs’ throughout the province and is one of the best ways to bring sportmen together, according to prin. cipa) speaker Game Commissioner James Cunningham. The lack of support given to the Rod and Gun Club by local sportmen was scored by the guest speaker as deplor- able in a town which he linked with Kamloops as forming two hubs of some of the province's finest hunting country. Only about six men were carrying the load in game club work here and that which is carried out in conjunc- tion with other clubs through the Game Council. “If we in the Game Department act on the recommendations of your club, tf] from George Renner, who was After All The Board of Trade’s official census of Williams Lake two years ago has gained support Census Enumerator for the of- ficial census this summer. According to Mr. Renner, the Board figures are closer to being correct for the town than the official census for the following reasons: The 912 referred to (official census) are permanent resi- dents with homes within the official boundaries of the incor- porated village. In addition there are 260 persons living . Permanently outside the limits of town, being more heavily con- centrated along the lakeshore and near the airport. The oificial census also fails to take into ac- count the large number of per- Sons working at Williams Lake who have families or homes in other communities and are enumerated at those areas. it’s your own fault if they don't meet | with your approval. The time to make your opinions felt is al the game club meetings.” Very few persons were missed, if any, Mr. Renner states, but he would estimate the official count of persons residing in tis at 1220. It is more important than ever for sportsmen and those who make their living from visiting hunt- ers to take an active interest in game work, the Commissioner said. There Were 15,000 more licenes issued this year than in 1950. Rod and Gun Club President Ed Follis welcomed sportsmen and their guests to the first annual banquet. The dinner followed the Cariboo Annual Trap Shoot which was held in the afternoon, and Mr. Follis announc- ed th. winner, Herb Gardner. A new trophy, donated by Smedley & Sharpe Ltd, was up for competition this year and Mr. Follis said the 1950 champion Manuel Rottacker, would have his Lodge, Bob Breadner of Tsuniah Zodge, Dr. A. H, Bayne of Hinterland Lodge, Game Wardens Leo Jobin and Ken Walmsley from Alexis Creek and local club vice-president Ken Rife. Herb Gardner. who is the local rep- resentative on the Game Council spoke briefly on provincial work, stressing the fact that in gamie convention pro- ceedings, Williams Lake with a small membership had the same voice as that of the large Vancouver clubs. Following the banquet, Commission- er Cunningham showed films on wild- life, After a closure of about ten years, Watlayoko school will reopen within the next week, according to Inspector W. J. Mouat. MONDAY HOLIDAY Monday is Thanksgiving. All stores an places of busi ness will observe the legal holi- day. Stores will open Wednesday morning as usual, and will ob- serve the holiday closing. They Weren't Lost | arson ONLY SEVEN SOMBETE: Gardner Wins Cariboo Trap Shoot In spite of the downpour, seven seatter-gun enthusiasts were on hand at the Stampede grounds to compete} in the second annual Cariboo Chan Pionship Trap Shoot yesterday after. noon. In the main event Herb Gardner and Chick Hudson came out of their} first round tied up with 17 birds each out of a possible 25. Five shots were al: lowed for the deciding round with Gardner scoring a possible to Hud- son's two. Gardner also took the second event, snipe shooting, with 8 out of ten, again’ edging out Hudson, this time by one bird. Lawrence Jones of Horsefly took the third event, a “miss and out” con- test, and teamed up with Bd Follis to win a partnership competition. Chick Hudson, who, in his first com- ‘petitive shoot here, came close to tak- Bursary Awarded To Local Student By 0.0.R.P. Chapter: Award of a Bursary amounting ta $50 to Miss Norma MacDonald, now attending the University of British Columbia, has been announced hy the local chapter of the Order of the Royal Purple. With the bursary cheque will also go an identification bracelet suitably engraved. The er. will. be an ani Jone ind will be Awarded under the®llow- ing conditien: 1. To a student with satleraliary academic standing and who shows ap- titude and intertst, 2, To a student whose intenion is to continue his or her education after completing High School, either at University, Business College or Techni- cal Sckool, or for furthering their education in any way, 8. To a student whom it would help financially, 4. To a student who has compieted High School, 5. To @ student who is a son or daughter of a member of the Elks or the 0.0.RP, Miss MacDonald, the daughter of Mr, and Mrs, A, MacDonald of Wil liams Lake is the first girl to graduate from Williams Lake High School and enter UBC. She is taking an Arts course The O.0.R-P. has arranged 1o send the cheque and identification bracelet to Lady Dean of the No. 1 Lodge in Vancouver, who will see that they are presented to Miss MacDonald, jing home the silverware, is a partner in the new Charlotte Lake Lodge. A former New Westminster man, Chuck-| has had a lot of experience in trap shooting, Competing in the Cariboo Cham: Pionship shoot besides those mention- ed were Dr, L. E. Avery, Ken Rife, and Jack Smedley, Missing from the roster. was last year’s champion, Manuel Rottacker, 7 ~ iLac La Hache Seeks Scores Hon. E. C. Carson Better Mail Service A more adequate mail service is the aim of residents of Lac La Hache, who are currently getting each organiza “on in the area to add their weight, to the demand. Besides this organizational support. Mrs. P. W. Ogden is drafting a peti- ion that will be signed by everyone in'the district interested, At present the only service Lac La Hache has is that provided by the GE twice weelly. First class mail earried on the Greyhound is picked up at Ashcroft and the first point it is dropped off is Williams Lake. Fer Annual € [First stockfis expected to one coming frum Big Creek. C up the big 450-1 -head herd, With 1800 head expected for the] sale, equal tolast year's, and a record number of animals in the Bull Sale | Cariboo Cattlemen's Association offi- cials are working hard at the maze of detail that has to he shaped up for the sale, ‘Ray Pigeon again heads the hard- working staff in his capacity as Sale manger and is res}ionsible for the succesful operation of the show. Added to the ordinary problems, the com- mittee is also trying to find time to paint the outside of the auction sale ring before sale time, Swamped under the reams of forms necessary for the sale is association secretary Willie Crosina, who faces his first sale this year in his new job, which also includes the work of being the official dispenser of information to cattlemen and visitors, Although the first judging of com- : WORLD'S LARGEST ALUMINUM SMELTER WILL BE BUILT IN B. leas é —— Sta estas ene The most important ining to abs pen @ province of British Co- jumbia banana coming of the| ranseontinental railroads is new| $580.0 100.000 Aluminum Co. of ada project which is now under way at Ki A_ 200-mile front cS pe of| aluminum shelter in the world t2e| seen t udded virgin northland is! commonwea:th's biggest earthen Ootea Fiver from a cable c men‘and. a million orth | diy aleap a fos. ane Ne city w a 50,000 people largest To power se Calder. —Centrai Press Canadian being~thrown across the er n an engineer with Alcan. js en measuring the flow of the Plans Near Completion annual Feeder Cattle and Bull Trail drives are already coverging on the town, the largest Piltz, Dick Church, W. Bambrick and Scallon Bros, will make eee Hle Sale Prive Satttday for thee 14th Sale next week, attle from the ranches of Gus. mercial and breeding classes doesn't take place until next Wednesday af- ternoon, the work of men like Field- man Cliff Overton, and directors Hugh Cornwall and Mel Mayfield will start Saturday with the weighing and pen- ning of stock. Tuesday mofning the sale officially opens at 8:30 with Hon. Harry Bow- man, Minister of Agriculture again doing thé honours. The auction sale will get underway 2 half-hour later and the Buil Sale holds the spotlight the following day. Judges for the show this year are Dr. S. N. Wood, ef the Faculty of Ag- riculture, UBC, and Russel Philips, salesman for ‘the B.C. Livestock Pro- ducers Co-operative, who acted in the sale capacity last year, Every year the accommodation prob- lem in town gets a little worse. Hotel reservations, or accommodation in tourist resorts nearby are impossible to get. The association hopes to ease the situation with the two sleeping cars they have rented from the Pacilic Great Eastern. The cars will be locat ed in the PGE yards and will be avail able by Tuesday night. Thursday night will be the annual Cattlemens Banguet which will be held in the Elks Hall. Tickets will be on sale as usua) at both banks and at And as usual, townspeople will help out the big sale with equally big nights of entertainment. There will be two nights of wrestling at the Elks Hall featuring three grunt and groan expérts from the the coast cireuit and a fourth who is first in home-town popularity — Bill Kohnke.! Wednesday night Kohnke wresltes| Tarzan Zimba with Logger Jack Mc- Donald and Johnny Valentine meeting in the second feature match. Thursday night the winners of the previous two events clash and the second feature will be a team tag match with the four wrestlers taking part. But there’s more on the inside! Three nights of dancing will also be staged in the hall. Wednesday night is billed as the Cowboys’ Canter, Thurs | day as the Stockmen's Dance, and Friday of course is the never-forgotten Klondyke Night. It is billed as| “Famous Throughout The West” and no one who experiences the affair will argue the point, Pressure Groups Claims Actions Cut Into Moneys Available For Roads When he wasn’t busily defending his government's program of road building and general policy, Hon, E. C. Carson, Minister of Public Works, paused long enough to label the con- dition of the Cariboo Highway as “damnable” and point an accusing finger at “pressure groups” sniping at his appropriations, when he addressed members of the Board of Trade and later spoke to a public meeting here Tuesday. Speaking to the Board in the after- noon, the Minister said it had been suggested that the government had forgotten the north, which he stated was not true; and that the govern- ment had not earried out their once projected plans — which he agreed was partly true, Two chief factors had interferred with thé progression of the original highway plans; inflationary costs and she pressure groups. Speaking on the former, Mr, Carson sikened the government's projects to a person planning’on building his own house. With spiralling costs, there is a vast difference between the estimate of today and the final building costs of tomorrow, and sometimes your-own plans have to be altered to keep the overall cost within your budget, On the subject of pressure groups though, the Minister gave his listeners the impression that this was the real crux of the problem. These groups are continually lobby- ing for more hospitals, more _schoals and expanded social services, Mr, Car- son claimed: and the result when the pressure became great enough is mare money forthcoming from the public purse and usually found in the Depart men of Public Werke’ appropriations + ) there is no concentrated pres: ap cca on government to combat these grows by demanding moré money for public works, the speaker stated. and went on to give what he believed was the solution to this, The demands should come from the people and particularly through the Boards of Trade. Not on a parochial basis. but the Boards acting on a pro- vincial level through the Associated Boards of Trade. “Tg the Boards of Trade are not pre- pared to band together to demand more money for highway expenditures then you can be prepared to watch Department of Public Works approp- riations suffer each year.” Mr. Carson stated. On the subject that was closest to his listeners, the Minister said, “I’m with you one hundred percent for driv- ing this highway north — you are not gatisfled with the present road and I am not either.” Wary of making any further prom- ises, even though he claimed his pre- vious ones had always been made “conditional upon the ability of the government to borrow money,” Mr. Carson said his department would recommend further construction next year of the Cariboo Highway Besides completely new construc- tion, there is between 40 and 50 miles of the highway from Lac La Hache to Prince George that could be paved with very little base work, would also be recommended TO LET TENDER Tenders for the 9.92 miles from Lac La Hache north would be let as soon as he returned to Victoria if every- thing was in order, Mr. Carson said. This brought up the sore subject of the Minister's promise made here this May that work would be started before the end of June Challenged with this, the speaker said the work had depended upon the government’s ability to borrow money in New York, and negotiations for the loans dragged on all summer. More money might be available next year because the heavy expenditures for the Southern-Provincial and Hart Highways would not be necessary with the work on those major projects practically finished, NOT SLIGHTED But the Minister reminded his audi- ence that in spite of the present year's curtailed budget, the Department of Public Works has spent $2.675,000 for new road construction north of Cache Creek, a fair share of the $6,700,000 allocated for the entire province. In addition to this 40 miles of road north of Cache Creek was paved with the. Provincial total ‘standing at 280 miles. “If that is slighting the North, I can’t see it,” Mr. Carson stated. At the afternoon meeting. Board of Trade Director Harold Edmunds took the government to task for its work on. the highway. Claiming that the people were fed up with the Sales Tax. five ycar licence plan and the Hospital“Insurance Ser- vice, Mr Edmunds said the people were going to be so incensed over the road question unless something was immediately that they would not re- tur the. governménts présent mez bers. DICTATORIAL ATTITUDE “They have carried on in a dicta- torial attitude too long,” Mr. Eamunds stated, “and they have just about come to the end of their tether.” ‘The only way the speaker could see out for the government was to borrow vast sums of money and embark om a road building spree throughout the province. Answering Mr. Edmunds, the Min- ister said he couldn't see how the government could possibly borrow any more than they were now without bankrupting the province. “We are borrowing now in tremen- dous quantities, and it is only possible because British Columbia enjoys the confidence of investors,” he said. To illustrate the difficulties any gov- erning body had in securing funds on the open market. Mr. Carson pointed out that the city of Alberni could only sell its municipal bonds at a discount of $15 on the hundred. In the evening, speaking to about 75 persons in the Elks Hall, Mr, Car- son went over the government's road Program in a more general sense will when local conditions were again yrought up. reiterated his statements which made to the Board of Trade. Speaking from the floor, Fred Bass said,he knew that Mr. Carson had done a job, but to let him Three’ Stolen Cars Recovered Here RCMP constables have recovered three stolen cars in this area in the past two weeks., A Ford sedan, stolen from H. W. Dunbar, Ashcroft garage owner, was found Tuesday about’ 4%% afiles north of Soda Creek, left on the edge of 2 bank with a damaged front wheel and broken brake rod. The car was stolen in Ashcroft Saturday night. A shotgun and rifle were missing when the car was recovered. The car stolen from Railway Aven- ue September 16 was recovered near Sugar Cane on the 22nd and returned to owner Richard Toews. 150 Mile. The third car, which was stolen September 29 from in front of the Ranch Hotel, was recovered slightly damaged the following morning in a ditch on the Stampede grounds. Mr. and Mrs. Stew. Smith ieft ne- cently for Prince Rupert, where the former is going to join his mother, get away without criticism was wrong. He reminded the Minister of his prom- ise in 1948 of tieing in towards Clinton and then going steadily north. Mr. Bass said the Minister had kept his word until last year, but in the inter- vening time no new construction on the road had been carried out and even maintenace had been neglected. “We were let down,” he stated. “We have fallen behind in our pro- ram because of factors beyond tive control of your government,” the Min- ister replied. THE WEATHER Min. Max. Thursday, Sept. 27... 25° 43° FIday veces 88 49 Saturday . nes 44 55 Monday 4460 Tuesday 43 60 Wednesday on... 49°34 Weather has been considerably milder this week, with a few scat- tered rainshowers, Heavy fog has been hovering over the town in early morning and evenings.