Williams Lake Tribune NEWS EXCHANGE OF THE CARIBOO Felker, G. a. Volume 20 — Number 46. Kd WILLIAMS LAKE, B.C. Thursday, November 20, 1952 = Single copy 10c. $2.50 per year. UNUSUAL CHARGE PIT LAMPING CASE COMING. UP An unusual Game Act case came up in court here Monday and was re- manded until next Monday. The case involves a Quesnel man, Gutsay Schneider who is charged with “while hunting game did un- lawfully have a light in his pos sion.” He entered a plea of not zuilty and was released on $1000 bail. The offense with -which he is charged, commonly known as ‘pit Jemping,’ rarely appears in court be cause of the difficulty of proving the charge. The incident around which the ease here revolves, is alleged to have occurred near (Macalister on the night of November 9. Two lawyers have been retained ‘by the accused and it is thought a third will appear on behalf of the Game Department. Commissioner Wants Building Permit Evasion Crackdown ci i > Tony was on one of his favorite hobby horses at last Friday’s village meet- ing when he again posed-the question of “when is the village going to crack down on people who fail to take out building permits?”’. Two alteration jobs being carried out in town without benefit of per- mits as called for by the building by-law, caused the latest upheaval and resulted in strong letters being sent to the owners involved. Enforcement of this section of the building by-law is a job the village is going to be forced to carry. out sooner or later, but so far the com- missioners haye shown little inclin- ation to do njore than grumble. ee ve contractors and ow the requirements. In the past yeu at least one major construction job was completed without plains Leing submitted to the commission for ap- proval and the same thing occurred with seyeral major alteration jobs. Commissioner Borkowski has Pointed out the fact that this state of affairs results in owners coniem- plating construction adopting the at- titude of “why should I get out prop- er plans and apply for a permit when others get away without them The building by-law calls for the necessity of a permit being taken ont for any work exceeding $25 in value. Duplicate sets of plans must be made out and submitted with the applica- tion of permit. ‘This is done of course to make sure the contemplated con- struction will be carried out accord- ing to the other provision of the by- law. Penalties are provided for fail- ure to comply with the by-law. COW MOOSE OPENED FOR LAST WEEK OF HUNTING SEASON Cow moose will be open in the In Restauranis “| operated in conjunction with 4 res- Cariboo and Lillooet electoral dis- tricts for the last week of the hunt- ing season, according to an Order-in- Council recently approved. ; Under the regulations covering, ‘Moose,’ the regulations are now amended to read ‘Cows, over one year of age, in those portions of the Cariboo and Lillooet Electoral Dis- tricts situate and lying to the west of the Fraser River between the main Chilcotin and Chilanko Rivers and Tatla Lake on the north and the 51st parallel of north latitude on the south, November 24 to November 30. In those portions of the Cariboo and Lillooet Electoral Districts sivaute and lying to the east of the Ira River and south of Quesnel Miver, Quesnel Lake and the East rm thereof, and in the Kamloops Ele: toral District situate and lying, to the north of the main line of tne Canadian Pacifie Railway (except Wells-Gray Provincial Park) and in that portion of the Salmon Arm Electoral District situate and lying to the west of Adams River, Little Shuswap Lake and the South Thomp- son River, November. 24th to 20th.” Under the heading “Throughout the Province—Big Game,” the 7ol- Jowing amendment in the vegula- (Continued on back page) Board Favors Sale of Liquor E. G. ,Tony’ Woodland, charter president of the local branch of ‘the Canadian Legion is shown at the right unveiling the simple rock cairn in front of War Memorial Hospitel during the Rememberance Day cere- monies. In the background are mem- The Board of Trade went on re-| pers of the Legion branch and thé} cord us being in favour of the sale] Women’s Auxiliary to the Legion. of liquor by the. glass in restaurants} — onowing the unveiling ceremony, or dining rooms or at cocktail ‘bars| yepresentatives of fown reautzu. lions laid wreaths around the cairn taurant or dining room, when the] geiow Patrol Leader Allan MeIntosh members formulated) a brief for] or the ist Williams Lake Scott presentation to the Liquor Inquiry] pyoop salutes after laying his wreath. ‘Commission: In the background is shown part of The debate on the liquor question! «6 Mission Boys Band who led the proved to be a long one as individual] parade. members expressed their varying opinions. However everyone agreed that sales outlets for liquor by the 5 imbedded in it. The one facing the camera in this picture is inscribed with the dates of the Second World War and the one on the opposite side ss should be tied to the sale of meals. The resulting motion passed unanimously. Embodied in the motion is a liie that suggests that sale of liquor not be allowed over a coffee bar. board agreed that sale of these two items should be extended to include any grocery store, provided beer sale in sneh a store be restricted to, 3 only. | Referring to the clement of safe ty on town streets, Ray Hargreaves sponsored a motion that would ask the Public Works Department tea consider widening Oliver Street oD: posite the Sunnyside Hotel in order to eliminate a blind spot on the curve in the road at that point. Cut- ting down the hill on Railway Avenne near the Power Commission plant, will also be requested. ‘The a The cairn has two bronze plates, CAIRN HONOURING WAR DEAD UNVEILED. Dears: the dates of the First World | War Photos by Blackwell's board feels that by removing the top off this grade and building up the hollow in the road below the hill, another street hazard would be re- moved, Hospital Expenditures Must Be Kept Down, Administrator Warns Hospital expenditures will have to be kept to a minimum if the insti- tution is to wind up the year on the right side of the ledger, alministra- tor Walt Thomas warned board mem-| Plies for the leatherwork conrse,” bers at their meeting last Friday. Stated Mr. Cantell, Industrial Arts Heayy increase in hospital occu- who had been committee pancy with a corresponding jump in| onairman in charge of arranging the drug and food purchases is believed io be the main contributing factor to finencial headache. Estimates of oc-}| The idea of sponsoring the cours- cupaney prepared last year for the| eS Was suggested to the organization Hospital Insurance Service aliowéd| after a number of enquiries had beeu for a 52 per cent monthly average.| made about the possibility of having In Oetober the oceupancy was 76 per| night classes here, and was followed cent of capacity and the actual] by a great deal of work on the part monthly average for the year so far|of Mr. Cantell. He obtained permis- is 65 per cent. The service will be ask-| Sion from the School Board, then ed for permission for the difference] filed the necessary papers with Vic- in a@viual oceupancy over the esti-| tori mated figure. This heavy occupancy is also caus- For Night Class which were offered recently. to Williams ake According to 2 sport’ as “There was only one reply in ans- wer to the advertisement offering a course in woodworking, and two re- teacher courses. ‘We were lucky to receive permis- sion from Victoria so late in the ing placement problems iv the llos-| year,” Mr. Cantell said, ‘many small pital. Overflow from women's wards} towns were turned down.” Require- haye to be placed in the men’s wards| ments are that classes start the first and vice Versa from time to time.| week in October and end the last So far the staff has managed to avoid | week of March. Membership must be a situation that developed during the past few years in many provincial hospitals when patients had to be VOTERS’ LIST placed in the corridors. The board is preparing plans for a small isolation ward for the hos- NOW POSTED pital which will be readied’ in. time for presentation to the Hospital In-| The official posting of the voters’ surance Service with the annual es-|ijst at the Village Hall indicates timalen: that civie election time is just about here again. If you think you have the qualifi- cations for voting, it would pay to visit the hell and check the list. if your name does not appear amon? the 289 listed, you have the right to ask for its inclusion at the annual Court of Revision. This will be held at the village hall November 8 p.m. Three commissioners’ seats hecome vacant this year. Chairman Ala Mackenzie’s three-year term comes to an end as does that of Stan Goad and John Anderson. 3 Date for the civic election, if one is necessary with the nomination of four candidates, will be December 11. Nominations will be held Decein- ber 4. LEGION PRESIDENT... ce see HISTORICAL MEETING Photo by Blackwell’s/ An attempt will be made again Cere Rhodes, a former Flight Monday night to form a historical president of the local Canadiau called for this Friday but had to be Legion Branch at the annual meet- cancelled, Place will be the village possibility of lengthening the lunch| sential pedestrian dress. ing held November 11th. “hall, Night classes in woodwork, Association meeting Tuesday evdaing. uienant in the RCAP, was elected society here. The meeting was first, Lack of Response Blamed Failure metalwork and leatherwork the public for the first time in ill be dfojiyed due to lack of response, cell to the Bareyo tee schers | Vat least ten but not more than fit- teen. STUDY GROUPS An organizational meeting of mem- bers interested in Handicrafts will be underway next week with Mrs. R. Friesen offering instruction in various arts. Another group interested in a study of the High School prog will start meeting with J. Phillipson. principal after the first of the yi MOVIES Mrs. L. Deschene as head of a dele- gation which approached the Oliver gave an interesting report. In reply to the request for better quality pictures, Sid Western, theatre owner, explained that he must accept 24 poor quality pictures in order t get one good picture but he hoped to make a better deal when his pres- lent contract expires at the end of December. With regard to the late starting of the show, Mr. Western said it was impossible for himself and his pro- jectionist to get home from their day-time jobs and get prepared any sooner. The delegation which complained of eye-strain in children being fore- ed to sit near the front, were told that this measure was to control them, but anyone was at liberty Lo move hack if so affected The request for matinees was turned down for the present as the cost was prohibitive. MBERTINGS After some discussion it decid- ed that all meetings would be held in the new schoo! in future. An informative and interesting program followed with members giv- en the chance of asking questions of the teaching stam andj or the meet- as a whole through mes tion box.” the most pertinent the P-TA sponsor candi- dates for School Board?” which re- solved in the meeting endorsing ‘the idea of the organization pushing for better attendance at representatives’ meetings. It was to be named as one of the projects for next year on the high school program, mar of report ecards, should sarcasm used in the schoolroom, what time should school dances end, and the | nour — among others. Theatre with a number of requests, | Other questions asked information| Brought into court Wednesday | ated where it is, Mr. Sportsmen Enjoy Annual Game Banquet Last Night Eighty sportsmen took in the second annual game banquet of the Williams Lake Rod and Gun Club last night at the Elks Hall Among the guest speakers were|evening by Herb Gardner, who said hyee men who-haye contributed tothe organization would fold up com- pletely unless sportsmen took enough interest in it to turn out to regular meetings. From the number of quest Sunningham was of course one of| that were thrown his way following a the trio and: the other two werc| talk by Game Department biologist Judge Henry Castillou, first president | Pat Martin of Kamloops there is a of the provincial fish and game as-|lot of interest in the biologists’ the- sociation and Dr. A.-H. Bayne, the|0ry of 4 cow moose season. Mr. Mar- iecond provincial president. tin used graphs to explain why 4t w ‘With the presence of these men at|their belief that the only way to the head table, at least their contri-|™aintain a healthy moose population jution to the program of speakers| Was to cut sharply into it now in eaned heavily on reminiscing about |der to secure a proper food }al- he early work of. the commission |#2¢e- ‘nd game clubs with the emphasis) Other men who spoke briefly were seing placed on anecdotes about|Game Warden Leo Jobin and Bill vach other. Their talks proved high-| Fenton of Clinton. y \entertainiie: Introduced to the meeting were Each man sounded a warning to/tWo newcomers to the district who adividual game clubs to keep their| have been active in fish and game clup mberships up and maintain an ac-| WO"K in other parts of the province “ive interest in game matters in the|PTior to moving to the Cariboo. One province. This warning was pointea|°f these was 8. J. Ross of Twilight directly at the local club later in the| Lodge and a former president of tho Victoria game club, and the other was J. Nordgren. owner of Lone Butte Aufo Camp, a former Hope game club member. During the banquet Jack Smedley presented Herb Gardner with the Cariboo Trap Shooting championship trophy, which Herb has held for two years. Following the banquet Commis- sioner Cunningham showed a film on a trip he made last summer from Vancouver to Dawson Creek. Others adding to the entertainment program were Maurice Bourgeois and Phil Coxon. Ed Follis, president of the local club was toastmaster. he work of game clubs and game management since the early 20's 10 this province. Commissioner Jim Ons Local Power Plant Nears Maximum Power Capacity It's a case of ‘so near and yet so far’ for Basil Gale, manager of the local B.C, Power Commission plant here as he worries about the ability of the present motors to supply enough power to handle the town’s winter electrical load this winter. As every bit of machinery is work- ing in the plant, Including an old Pairbanks-Morse that hgs-scen_bet- lar gos, cued ouside we door a COROO Secreds _ a Sretssoopes nee See tet is - i 5 ? Name Officers able of producing as much power ugain as the present peak production of the plant. J. M. MecKelvie of Wells was The town is presently demanding] named president of the Cariboo So- a peak of around 600 Kilowatts,| cial Credit group at a meeting in with an anticipated demand of 700| Wells last Wednesday. hen cold weather strikes. With] J. G. ‘Tony’ Woodland was named bit of machinery working the] 1st vice-president of the group with capacity of the plant now is 800| Richard Gook and J. Jowsey of iilowatts, a fact that does not leave| Quesnel being n ed second and nuch of a margin in case of break-|third vi presidents respectively, down : Secretary-treasurer is Frank Hen- Mr. Gale does not know’when the|nessey of Wells. | Commission's installation erews will] Seventeen resolutions from the be here to set up the big Cooper-| meeting’ were forwarded to the pro- |Besserman, which is capable of pro-| vincial convention. !ducing 800 Kilowatts. At present the The meeting sent a letter of regret crews are_at Quesnel and he hopes|to Harold Edmunds of Macalister that, they will be moving down here|who was unable to accept office in immediately they have completed!the group because of continued their work there. ‘illness, Pedestrian Leaves Clothes Behind Gets Month For Brief Walk There was nothing unusual about{early morning walk, the accused Tuesday morning. The weather ‘wae | cau only say that it had never hap- typically chilly and thé few people on| pened before and he couldn’t under- the streets about 9:30 were going| stand what had come over him. along minding their own business.| Constable Lon Godfrey, who ap- Up in the police station a visiting|peared for the Crown, stressed tne government inspector looked out} seriousness of the man's actions and over practically deserted Ifrss| the embarrassment that covld have Avenue. resulted had women been on the Then the normal street scene visu-| street. As it happened it is believed ally exploded. that only about three peopie actually Down the avenue a naked mau| Witnessed the one-man nude parade came running towards Oliver Street| The constable said the man had not and on to the Maple Leaf Hotel. The been drunk when taken into custody. inspector managed to splutter out an alarm and the police office jumped FretBiven Be at acer ces RANCHER TO FIGHT dividualist. He caught up with his PARK DECISION jan im one of the hotel bathroom with a tub of cold water partially drawn Frank Sutton whose ranch home estigation showed! adjoins the land recently set aside William Johnson, had left|for the use Of the public on the 1 room above the Williams Lake|south end of Williams Lake has in- Cafe, a block and a half away trom| dieatea that he will fight the park the Maple Leaf, and hud decided to decision. go down to the latter establishment) Holder of the lease on ihe 1 i to have a bath. The proprietor of the| the past, Mr. Sutton did not discover eafe tried to persuade him to put} until last week that the park site some clothes on but he brushed| Was on his lease hold. aside the suggestion and took oit| Bitter with the Board of ‘Trade in the freezing morning air. for recommending the park be situ= Sutton sought afternoon on a charge of indecent) support of the Cariboo Cattlemen's exposure, he was sentenced to one ciation at this group’s meeting month in jail for his brief lapse of; Friday. The association declined to thought on-the requirements of es-| take sides in a difference of opinion between Mr. Sutton and the Board (Continued on back page) Subsequent inv the man, Queried as to his reason for the pa