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THE i. ae LAKE. B.C.

Pat Tyrrell, formerly on the stait|
of the local public works office says
in a letter to Tom Denny that he will)
be leaving the department February |

Ist to take a position as secretary-
manager of the Victoria Elks Club.
Pat was transferred to the PWD of-
fice in the capital city last spring.

Around Town

—OLIVER THEATRE—

June Haver -
va

Comedy and News

Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday — December 29, 30, 31

William Lundigan

in
“LOVE NEST”

Thursday, Friday, Saturday —
Clifton Webb -

in
“ELOPEMENT”’

anuary 1, 2, 3

Anne Francis

Shows start at 8:30 p.m.

Thurs., Fri., Sat., this week -
Gene Kelly, Donald O’Connor in “Singing in the Rain”

Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Singer and
family will spend Christmas at Van-
couver with Mrs. Singer’s mother.

——o:

Mr. and Mrs. Robert Telford have
left for Vancouver where they will
be joined by Ernest Telford, who is

States for a couple’ of -weeks,
=
Joe Stolb, shoe repairman at
Tony's Leather Shop was entertain-
ed Saturday prior to departure for
Kelowna to spend the winter months.
oS
The name of A. A. ‘Bob’ Court
was included in the latest examina-
tion results posted by the Institute
of Chartered Accountants of B.C., as
having passed his supplementals in
final accountancy. Mr. Court is witli
the local office of Crawford & Rick-

Indian Veteran Dies
At Sugar Cane

veteran of the last war died sudden-
ly in a cabin on ‘Sugar Cane reserve
yesterday afternoon.

alone
found by his brother about 3.30 and
died half an hour later. He had cor-

flying down from Yellowknife. Aj-|plained of feeling ill over the week-
ter spending Christmas with rejs-|end. Death was due to natural
tives they will motor to the United | causes.

Dormitory Holds
First Xmas Party

Christmas party December 16.

guests,

which was served by the boys of the
dorm.

Garnet Squinahan, 30-year-oid

A single man, Mr. Squinahan was
in the cabin when he was

The schoo] dormitory held its first

The students, together with a few

enjoyed a turkey dinner

Following a short period of

ard, chartered a:

ccountants.

poe a

Mr. Duane Witte passed through |
town on his way to Big Creek, with
a Brahman heifer on the back of nis

carol singing, ‘Santa Claus’ appear-|
ed on the scene with gifts for every-|
one. A dance wound up the evening's!
program with music supplied by Mr. /
jana Mrs. L. Cantell, Jack Woods and ,
Pete Papoy, =

To You..

allow us to extend to you

our

most hearty

good

wishes for your happiness

at

throughout

New Year.

z from

The management
of

the

Christmastide

and
coming

2
and staff

H. J. GARDNER

EG. WOODLAND & 80

Watchmakers and Jewellers

The animal was purchased at
Washington, and came origin-
from the Fisher Ranch in Cali-
fornia.- Mr." Witte states this is the
first heifer of the Brahman species,
to be brought into the Chilcotin,
es

Local businessman Frank Lee,

was seen around town last week for

left last Tuesday to return to her
home in Merritt to live. ty

OPERATOR HONOURED

Mr. and Mrs. Doug Mallette enter-| t)

tained December 10th in. honor
of Mr. and Mrs. S. H. Patenaude’s
44th wedding annifersary, and also
on the occasion of Mr. Patenaude’s
retirement from the Government
Telegraph Service at 47 years’ ser-
vice. th

Guests included Mr. and Mrs. C.
Barber, Mr. and Mrs. T. Denny, Mr.
and Mrs. T. Mart, Mrs. O. Hargray:
Mr. and Mrs. J. Anderson.

$2000 which were turned over to the
insurance service. Directors haye ap-
pealed to the service to honour these
the first time since he was confined Rai

to bed six weeks ago. put so far no indication has been
Si Ups a aS veceived as to the final decision.

Miss Jackie Bailie, who formerly] On top of this the hospital has

worked for the district agriculturist|a fairly heavy amount in accounts

and has been secretary of the Fair| receivable owed by patients who

Association for the past two years.|were not covered by B.C.H.LS.

These are the hospital's responsibili-

as though the problem of collection
will increase in the coming year.~

th
ON RETIREMENT two question marks above could spell

loss.

Columbia Hospital’s Association has
been called for January 5 in Van-
couver
decision to freeze hospital rates at

Christmas to formulate policy in the
matter
ficial representative will
the provincial

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EDITH AND

The season of hope and good
cheer is at hand, and to friends
and neighbors we send our

sincere greetings. 5

JOHN BORKOWSKI

THE WALK-RITE

counts under a clause in the aet,

to collect and with a hike in ward
tes for this type of patient it loos

On paper the hospital came
rough 1952 in good shape, but ine

e difference between profit and

A special meeting of the British

to discuss the government

1952 level.

Local directors will meet after

and decide whether an of-
be sent to

meeting.

Premiers Want
Boundaries of B.C.,
Alta:, Pushed North

EDMONTON — The premiers of
Alberta and British Columbia have
agreed on the “desirability” of push-
ing their boundaries northward
some 0 miles. aS
A meeting of Premier Bennett of
B.C. and Alberta’s Premier Manning
Saturday brought together for the
first time the heads of Canada’s two
Social Credit governments. They also
decided:

To press for a new deal in the al-

vertisement is not published or disp.aye
Board or by the Government of Bi

Bended
From -
Finest
imported
Rums ass

wy the Liquor Control
ish Columbia

J| THE WEATHER

location of responsibilities and taxa-

tion fields between the federal and

Brandly’

s Drug Store

AND

The Vogue

provincial governments.

To make a joint submission to
Ottawa urging construction of a 277-
mile rail link between the B.C.-owned |
Pacific Great Eastern and the Nor-|
thern Alberta railways. This would
give the Peace River Region, strad-
dling the north, of both provinces, a
direct outlet to the Pacific coast.

To promote the orderly develop-
ment of natural gas resources in the
two provinces.

To simplify procedures in the
cases of pensioners moving between
Alberta and B,C.

(In Vancouver it was learned the
premiers early in the New Year will
lay the case for the $100 million ex:
tension of the PGE to Dawson Creek
before the Federal government.)

(Finance Minister Binar Gunder-
son said when he arrived back in
Vancouver: “It was a very successful
conference, and we got down to a lot
of business along practical lines."’)

| Min. Max.
Thurs., Dee. 18 .. 25 27
Friday 24 29
Saturday 15 25
Monday 18 3
Tuesday... 24 28
Last night was the coldést

we have had in some time now,
the official recorded tempera-
ture reading at the airpért at S
o'clock this morning was 13
above.

; Sid

FROM

Ken

and Staff

Les

WESTERN, RIFE AND PIGEON