illiams Jake Tribune NEWS EXCHANGE OF THE CARIBOO 12-52 Felker, Geo. Volume 20 — Number 4. WILLIAMS LAKR, B.C. Single copy 10c, $2:50 per year. OF THIS AND THAT. Prince George, that frigid centre to the north, is capable of turning out as many rumours as a barrack room. 3 Latest one to come to our-atten=- tion was a “report” appearing in The Citizen that Williams Lake was con- sidering dropping out of the Central B.C. Hockey League. Toundation for the rumour evidently is the fact that our Stampeders took the very short end of a couple of games last week- end. . The report continues — “Stam- -peders wiihdrew from league play “-two years ago when the going got too tough for them and crowds fail- _.ed to materialize to watch them drop ‘games by ‘top-heavy margins.” i gem is interesting too. Seems to me two years ago the league fell through because the mercury did the sameé in the thermometer. Tks sea~ -son ended with Prince owing a game to the "lake to be played here. Of course the weather around January of that year was a little rugged. It was around 50 below here and every- one knows the temperature is always about 10 degrees colder at Prince George — so we could understand tne team’s inability to get mobiie. _fhe other “report” from Prince found its way into @ coast daily last weelr and raised micre of a getuddie here. than that American congress- man’s plan to annex .Canada. The news story dealt with the sta- mina required in the North Central -22¢e of sedatives, and who is upt to game a dance will be held to try and League to play in ar outdoor rink in Teturn the aid of good Samaritans!raise enough funds to wipe off the Heart Cathearal,, 40 below Weather. We'll lay odds tha: Williams Lake Ver cheques in exchange for services noon a second game will be played has the finest arena of any commun- ity its size in the province. And as one outraged citizen huffed “Prince . George should talk. if one of those pillars gave way in that rat irap they call an arena the whole thing would ¥ collapse.’” ~ And just for the record, when the Prince George team arrived at the end of their 140 mile trek Saturday the temperature was a balmy 30 bore. LIFE OF A FIREMAN Couldn't say I would blame. fire- man Joe Phillipson if the next time the alarm sounded he stood his This little gadget was one of the hold in. medievai times. On display and mastei of the home (they were - =probably until it was time for her HOW TIMES HAVE CHANGED! items of furniture in many a house- show displeasure with his wife. He locked her in this convenient gadget THE WEATHER ‘ Min. Max. | a Friday, Jan. 18°... 20 3% Saturday Monday Tuesday Wednesday z “Temperature at the a.m. today was —10°. airport at 9 Low for the week registered on the PGE thermometer was Wednesday morning. Mrs, Susan Maxwel Dies At Kamloops ‘Mrs. Susan Agnes Maxwell, well- cotin, Centra) Press Canadian ‘Ot 72 years. Born in West Swanzey, New, Hamp- shire, Mrs. Maxwell in Vienna, it shows how the lord called nusbands then, too) used to to prepare dinner, Worthless Cheques ‘Repay Samaritans Who Aid Traveller Police are currently on the look- out at the coast for a 34-year-old Montreal man who is suffering ex- treme pain if he hasn't the assisté| who help him by handing over rub- or cash. | The man hit Williams Lake Mon- ;@ay in the course of his travels trom Prince Rupert to the coast, ard lett| three cheques as momentos oi his. isit. Hi Coming in on the bus from Ques-| ne] that day, he fainted on hoard, and| was taken to War Memorial Hospital on arrival in town. There. he was, given a sadative to relieve the pain of a stone in the urinal tract, and > told Dr. Avery he had beer taking| treatment at Prince George for three weeks and was on his way to the coast. The man was suffering from ground and“waited for the.truck ‘the condition stated aud’ Svobably. reach him. 2 One evening about a month ago the siren’ started “wailing and Joe piled into his sweaters and ran the long four or five blocks from his home to the fireball. Clamboring aboard the fire truck he rode the back again. The fire was just around the corner from his jmeeded the type of sedative every, four hours. i | He stayed overnight at tne hos- pital and left the next day by plane for Kamloops, but before gcing he left a cheque in payment for the hospital, cashed a small one fur four dollars at a local bank and a third one at a local business house for home. {about $30. Last night it happened again. | The siren sounded and Joe made the round trip. once under hjs own power and once by car. The cause of the alarm — a burning bulldozer — was behind Bill Christie's house, and that's about halt a block from Joe’s home. Glad to note our Canadian dollar has reached parity with*its American cousin. Now al] we need is to have it worth a dollar over here. | —Clive Stangoe. Nearing Kamloops on the plane he again fainted and a doctor wis on kand to meet him when he landed. From there he continued on his way to Victoria to eventually disappear He was able to escape detection be-}| cause of the time necessary to clear, the cheques, which were drawn on a Montreal bank. Police are withholding formal charges pending arrival oi the cheques in question. Wired informa- tion from the Montreal bank stated “no such account.”” i at Highland Valley, near Ashcroft. She left tle original home ranch at Baskethall To Fore This Weekend to the Knolls and at fliat time bought a ranch at Cherry Creek, She moved The town’s forgotten men, the to Higrland Valley last summer. Hen Elks basketball team, will again oc- husband predeceased her cupy the centre of the sports stage ago. this weekend when they take on a} She leaves to mourn her passing visiting Prince George club. | be 8 p.m. Saturday night. After the United States. € Requiem mass was held at Sacred Kamloops Wed- club’s present deficit. Sunday after- nesday. ss between the clubs. hoth men’s games will be played senior girls’ clubs from the t centres. Last weekend the Elks senior girl: | travelled to Wells where both teams Prelimmaries tu » FIREMEN ANSWER CALL TO BURNING 'DOZER Firemen were called out last night b: w [suffered defeats at‘the hands of the t© extinguish a burning bulldozer home clubs. behind the Indian Agent's office, The Elks dropped their Saturday Mat caught fire when the operator game 44-32 and the Sunday ult by WS heating the machine up. 42-33. The girls were beaten 26-15, Jhe Machine, which is owned by Sohesseriee aos Ge Pe a suffered’ lit tle Hamage\ and the Iaze had been practically doused by men throwing e snow. on it. Firemen finished the job Residential Bldg. ; Figures Show Strong : Gain Last Year with an extinguisher. 7 Sess Building figures for 1951 in Wil- liams Lake showed a slight gain over the previous year, according to a check with the amount of permits issued. Last year new building values and, Sindle’ has turned up in town ac- additions stood at $110,880, com-|®Tding to police reports. pared to $104,630 in 1950. | Prospective victim of the swind- A big increase was registered for Jers was Dr. A. H. Bayne, who playea residential building. Eighteen per- along to the extent of securing a fist- mits were issued for a vatue of ful of neat printing in the form of $89,400. Commercial permits totalled newspaper clippings | and alleged $21,480. Of the latter, the largest Mexican court records, before turn- single permit issued was that the information over to the loéal Williams Lake Motors Limited chment of the RCMP. a garage permit amounting to) This is how the swindle works, $11,000. The writer of the original contact Residential permit values in 1950 letter identifies himself by the lettor totalled $34,870 with commercial -P’ and states he is a former banker permits valued at $69,760. |now imprisoned in a Mexicau jail Mexican Prisoner Swindle Attempt Made In Town Former Mail Carrier Has Seen A Lot Of Changes. :-'0:%,2-- The last oad of mail that came up 150 Mile and the following sprinz) lowed, from the PGE station in Pigeon’s Tranfer truck as the old year drew to a close contained abeut 200 bags and behind the whee! was a man who could look hack on over 30 years of meeting the train°to the days when two or three bags of mail the maximum load and it was moved with a wheeihbarrow in summer and on a child’s hand sleigh in the winter months. The mén was Claude Pigeon, who’ came to Williams Lake from the old home ranch at Dog Creek about the| time when our town was little more than a promise, and stayed to build his own home, start in business, and watch the promise become a reauity. Because the mail contract, which he took over in July, 1931. wasn’t all that grew, and with his hauling and excavating business, Clande had a hand literslly in building the foun-| dations of the growing town. “it was back in 1920 that Claude! decided to leave ranching, after a promised job fell through, and start | in a business that was at least close to the work ‘he knew. That’s why he started a hauling business — hecause horses were still the main ‘means of transportation—and he knew horses. | The winter of 1920 he spent at the, hauling Inmber from the railroad. moved into Williams Lake, where he purchased the livery stable owned hy the late Herbert Spencer. The barn held 40 head and was one of three in town, Another was located where the present Liquor Store is and a third down Railway Avenue where the road cuts off across the tracks towards the creel. There was no town to speak of. Two hotels watered to men driving through to the Chil- cotin and Dog Creek. Mackenzies store was up and a buteher shoy- and dance hall stood beside it. Along the | tracks were several company 1uild- ings and the Bank of Montr | erated from a tent. It was 1921 that the Bank moved its 150 Mile House branch into town an.l put up a building. | FIRST HOME The present Pigeon home on Rail- way was the first one built in the new townsite. Lumber was bought from a nearby mill and cost the builder $16 a thousand. | Then came the fire of 1921 aud the little group of buildings on Ratl- way was levelled. All that stood in the vicinity above Railway was the Pigeon home and the three barns. Pigeon’s hauling and transfer was employed jn the rebuilding tnat fol- | under a three year sentence for bank- | ruptey. He requests the heip of the addres- currency that he had the fore- sight to hide away in a sec com- |partment of a trunk deposited in uw U.S. customs hou = The letter goes on to say that as soon as the addressee has received undeniable evidence it will be neces- ‘sary for him to travel to Mexico. City jand pay the expenses incurred in con- nection with the prisoner's proce: so the embargo on his suitcase can be excavating basements ane When horses were completely re- placed by trucks Claude moved with the times and secured an oi] agency The load has been shared iu recent years with his son Sid, coming into the business. And during all this time Claude has met the early morning wain. Twice a week up to seven years ago and three times a week since. mune Wa eaten ce lifted, one of which contains the bag- a nee bas Neen: ra a acl i gage check necessary to reedeem the he top Stnee 1921s, NOW the? Vaiuawie thunk: Ih exchange’ -the Bit-thetr ‘schedule right-on tee nose. aerator de to deceive one rd of but Claude remembers when the ne 459,000. The pideonier statés he name “Please Go Easy” suited the is in charge of the prison school and Cariboo's vail link perfectly, and thus able to mail letters, schedules were something no one de-; p, Bayne answered the first let- pendedon. ‘And How ‘Wis. modern ter to see what would come of if ana diesel replaces the old stea:n loco- 3 second one arrived trom Mexico motives, but Claude speaks of the month. signed Luis 3. Petit passing of the latter with the same giving explicit instructions: of wistfulness as one imagines he noted how to secure the suitcase. the disappearance of the matched — Acegrdinz to this letter, the ‘hank- teams he loved so well. ng sentenced: to. th er’ The mail contract will be taken sineq an additional sum and over by someone else now. Claude court costs. Should the having given it up at the end of the pe paid, the could would year, but he has cll he can handle cuyitease, containing the customs looking after his oil business. And check and family jewellery — and if he has a few minutes to spare on «by would be los The fine and a sunny day he hasn’t far to go to costs totalled $9.800 which the bene- talk over the old days with another factor was to bring in cash. ofl man, Bob Blair, who also knew, Also enclosed a newspaper the road and the town “when,” | (Continued on back pages 5 was One case of the ‘Mexican prisoner i Stamps Effort Too Weak For Strong Prince Club There wasn’t a person in town who wasn’t ready to admit after the Stamps’ hopeless effort against Prince George Lum- | bermen on the weekend that what Williams Lake needs it we are going to continue to chal hockey is a good coach. Stacked up running aggregation like the Prince club, the locals, although they ex- pended a lot of effort in the process, turned in a weak show of opposition ! as they took a 16-1 drubbing Satur day night and went down again Sun- day 11-5, Fans had a good indication in the’ | ine and ran up a 4-0 lead before the 20 minutes was up. Playing a smooth way. x By the end of the second frame to 9-0 and they added two mere in the third before the locals retaliated ‘with their lone effort of the night. the kid line of Huston, Blair and Doug Norberg finally made one of passed out to Blair. With McNiven coming out of the net to join in the |scramble. Blair slipped the puck to Huston who flipped it in. But that was the only bright spot for the ‘lake as the. visitors went on to run their lead-up another 5 count- ers before the final whistle. SUNDAY Looking for a repeat of Saturay’s rout’ fans who were on hand for the | game the following day were agree- ‘ably surprised when the Stamps held | their own up to the middle of the second period and were up on top most of the time. Penalties proved expensive fcr the i isitors il) the first frame. At the six f minute mark Warren drew a genalty for charging Buchholtz,-and while he was cooling his heels for the pre- scribed two minutes, veteran Wilf Moore found himself on the way to scoring when he picked up a loose puck well behind two optimistic de- fencemen. The lead was stretched to two a minute later when Latin was handed a pass by Ulveland. a new- jcomer to the local lineup, and slip- |ped the puck past a surprised Me- ven. ‘The next ‘lake offensive play back- jfired when Bennet picked up a loose puck and stickhandled his way past lone defenseman Bogle to score the visitors’ first tally. A minute later the score was tied up on a Prince of- | fensiye: : The Latin-Ulveland-Norquay line again evened things up with Latin getting the counter on Ulveland’s pass with Prince a man short. Forsey tied up the knot again on an .un- SW PRESIDENT . N. | 1 —Photo Blackwell's C. F. ‘Bert’ Roberts, well-known former Riske Creek resident and now a member of the firm of Cari- boo Cold Storage Lrd.. will head the destinies of Williams Lake and Dis- trict Board of Trade in 1952. RECULAR MEETING OF COMMISSIONERS CANCELLED Regular meeting of the Board ‘ot Village Commissioners on Tuesday of this week was postponed until Fr’ day owing +o the absence of Chair- man A. B. Mackenzie who is in Van couy against a smoothly - lenge the northern centres in assisted play and Favero put t visitors in tront with seconds of play remaining. The Stamps kept within range for the last time at the 12-minue mark of the second period when Ulveland scored on a double Latin-Norquay assist. Camponi put the Lumbermen known former resident of the Chil-|ifirst period of how Saturday night’s ™ the lead again at the 15-minute- died in Kamloops hospital game was going to end up when the ™&rk and before tne period was out Saturday, January 19th at the age: Lumbermen took over the play-mak- {the visitors were four up. The Lumbermen continued to stretch their lead in the finai period. came to this passing game that showed the result >uildimg their total up to 11 before Province to reside in the Chilcotin of Jack Forsey’s coaching, the visit- the locals retaliated. With 15 sec- 36 years ago. At the time of her ors were never in trouble as they °@4S to go Gibbon followed the play death she was residing on he: ranch kept control of the puck most of the i240 the corner, gained pos @ssien jnd passed out to Blair who made the final marker. Chezacut four years ago after selling the Lumbermen lead had stre‘-hed SHOTS ON GOAL In Saturday's game ‘lake goalie Hutchinson had 26 shots on his goal to McNiven’s 16. Sunday Mitungham ten years Playing their usual hustling game, had 30 shots directed at him and MeNiven 22, Williams Lake two sons, Phillip and John, both of their r-shes pay off when Norberg Saturday's Game Game time for the first tray will AShcroft, and three sisters in the|took the puck into the corner and, Goal A. Pen. 1 | Huston _. Norberg, D. . x Ela © Blair 1 Hutchinson. G. 3 4 Sunday's Game Norquay Moore 1 Ulveland Lg Latin 2 Gibbon 1 Blair 1 ‘Speoue i HAS STRONG RINK FOR PRINCE ’SPIEL In his fifteen years of play at the Prince George bonspiel, local skip Tony Woodland will be taking his strongest rink yet to the annual clas- sic this weekend in search of the Kelly Cup. The veteran skip will draw from Hazelton for his third man, Bobbie Carson. Mike Boulton of Vancouver will play second and John Holland, jonly other local man will play lead. In previous years Tony has made up a rink of mostly local men, taking one or two ‘green’ players along to give them bonspiel experience, but this time he is going after the top award in earnest. 2 It is estimated from 65 to 70 rinks will particiate in Prince’s 32nd an- nual ‘spiel. Entries are expected from Smithers, Vernon, Prince Ru- pert, Burns Lake, Quesnel, Kam- loops and Fort St. John. Department States More Highway Work Considered First hint that the Department of Public Works is considering 2 fur- ther extension of reconstruction work on the Cariboo Highway for inclusion in this year’s budget, was contained in a letter from former minister of public works EB. C. Car son to the Prince George Beurd of Trade. In his letter, Mr, Carson stated that a considerable mileage of the road between the end of pavement at | Lac La Hach and Prince George is | being considered by the department for paving in 19 The letter was in answer to one from the Board charging the depart- ment’s modernization of highways has largely taken place in the mos* heavily populated areas, a charge that was categorally denieq by the minister. On the suggestion by the Board jthat B.C. borrow the Money to de- velop more modern highways in that area, Mr. Carson replied that “the matter of borrowing capita) funds is limited by ability to pay. He stated that construction of the Cariboo Highway is “proceeding within the limits of our present bor- rowing.”