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Volume 21 -- Number 33.

WILLIAMS LAKE, B.C. Thursday, August 27, 1953

Single copy 10c. $2.50 per year.

Pictured above are members of the
Dawson Creek Pipe Band, who stopped here
last Sunday on a tour of British Columbia
and Washington State. Back row: (J to r)
Bert Lillico, Norman Taylor,
Crea, W. Simpson, J. A. Logan and Dave

Bruce Mc-
Price and W.

Spittal, Second row:
J. Smith, Slim Millward, Drum-Sgt. Harry
Noakes, Doug Mason, A. N. Other and Bruce
Harper (treas.) Front row: Pipe-Major Chris
Smith, Emil Laloge.

W. V. Joyce (pres.),

Not shown are Ken
Fraser.

Around Town

ahs and Mrs. H. J. Poole and
“aaugher Joan made a quick business
trip to Vancouver to visit with iheir
parents this week.

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Mr. and Mrs. R. Steele and sons
are visiting, with Mrs. Steele’s par-
ents, Mr. and Mrs. Claude Barber.
They will be leaving for their new
home in Vancouver around the end
of the month,

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Mrs. Stan Sloan is visiting in Van-
eouver.

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Fred Bass returned home Wed-
nesday following a three-weeks’
business trip to Eastern Canada.
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Mr. and Mrs. W. J. MceNaughtan
of Vancouver are visiting this week
with Dr. and Mrs. S. N. Wood. Visit-
ing last week were their son and
daughter-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. David
Wood of Kingston, Ont., and Mrs. R.
Bryson of Vancouver.

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Visiting Mr. and Mrs. C. Stangoe
pre the latter’s mother, Mrs. EB.
Ward, and Mrs. M. Atkinson, both of
New Westminster.

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.Visitors at the home of Mr. and
Mrs. S. McBurnie recently were the
former's brother and sister-in-law,
Mr. and Mrs. Frank McBurnie of
Vancouver, and his mother, Mrs.
Clara MeBurnie of Westview.
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Mr. K. Malesku of Regina has bee
visiting the past week with his son
and daughter-in-law, Mr. and Mrs.
Steve Malesku, «

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Mr. and Mrs Robert Guy and fam-
ily of Burnaby are visiting the Mit-
chells of Ochiltree and Mrs. Guy's
father, K. Stewart of Williams Lake.

Commitied To Trial
On Theft Charge

Louis Dafoe, Vancouver, was com-
iitted to trial by a higher court ‘Tue-
sday when he appeared at a prelim-
inary hearing in po.ice court here on
a charge of breaking and entering
and theft of a barograph from the
Builion Mine at Likeiy.

The theft of the barograph, one of
a number of items taken from the
mine property, occurred June 16 and
police have been conducting an in-
investigation ever since to

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wind up the case.
Dafoe was taken into custody at

Abbotsford July 16 but so far police
nave bad no success in tracing the
man believed to have been his accom-
plice. The man js known as Ed Haw-
Jey or ‘Holley’, and a warrant has
has beep issued for his arrest. ,

Sewer System Plans Still

Under Study

By Board

Although a lot of preliminary survey work has been
completed for the proposed sewer system for Williams Lake.
the project is still far from being presented in its final form

to the ratepayers. z
Tuesday night a voluminous brief
on the subject was presented to the
ssi by a repres
of the firm of Associated Engineering
Services Ltd., and although the town
fathers expressed thems<lves as being
pleased with the type of job being
done, the fact remains- that in its
present state the sysem would cost
just too much money.

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All villages are restricted to tho
amount of money they can borrow,
based on assessment revenues, and
with water bylaw bonds still outstand-
ing, Williams Lake is a far ery from
being in a position to borrow the
$130,000 needed to swing the sewer
system for the entire village.

Even the suggestion of lopping off
the new sub-division; the line along
Fourth Avenue from the sub-division
boundary to the Hospital; Third
Avenue from the sub-division to Proe-
tor, and Borland between Fourth and|
Third avenues, would still be over the
amount the villlage can borrow. This
would bring the cost down to around
$100,000.

This yardstick of borrowing power

can be overlooked in certain instances!
though, by consent of the Department |
of Municipal Affairs, and this is an-
other thought the commissioners wil]
have to digest. If the system can be
made to look attractive enough in a
financial way, there is always the
possibility that permission for
cyeased borrowing power can be ob-

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obtained.

Even at the figure of $130,000 for
the entire system, the engineering
firm has worked out a balance sheet
that shows the system should start to
show a small profit after its second
year of operation.

Under the entire village plan, the

lines would not service Oliver Street |
from Railway to Fifth Avenue, iat
Street from Oliver to Yorston or Sec-
ond Avenue from Oliver to Yorston.
These parts would he serviced by the!
present effluent drain lines which
would be tied into the central sewer
system. Lots on Oliver between Sec- |
ond and Third Avenue and that part
of Second Avene not able to nook |
up to the effluent lines, would prob-
ably be serviced by a special line
crossing the lots on Oliver Street at}
the rear, and then travelling down
Second to Yorston. This suggestion,
which was made by one of the comm-
issioners, would entail receiving per-
mission from some property owners

for ap-easement forthe line, _

The engineering fjrm recommends
thar tie sy¥iem be financed by a TOOL
frontage assessment of 15 cents per
front foot per year, and a sewer char-
ge of $3 a month for domestic users
The service charge for commercial
establishments would be proportion-
ately higher.

Under these suggested rates, a
property owner with a 50 foot lot
fronting on the sewer line, would pay
$7.50 a year on the frontage charge
and $36 a year for use of the sewer.

lf the owner has no building on the
property, the 15 cent per foot charge
would still apply. This is felt-to be
justified since the value of the prop-
erty immediately increases following
installation of sewers.

Commissioners will study the prob-
lem again at u special meeting next
week, and every attempt will be made
to have the project in its final form
for presentation to the ratepayers
this winter.

Accidental Death
Verdict Returned

A verdict of accidental death was
returned by a coroner's jury August
19 inquiring into the death of Robert
Sam, Soda Creek Indian, whose body
was found at the foot of a 75-foot
embankment August 16.

The jury found that the man came
to his death as the result of the fall
down the embankment and recom-
mended that a fence be erected by the
owner or owners of the property
between the PGE railway lines and
the face of the clay bank.

According to the testimony given at
the inquest, the victim was last seen
around 11 pm the night before his
body was discovered. He had been
drinking, and at that time was obser-
ved staggering around in the vicinity

'of the embankment.

Allen Smallenberg was jury fore-
may and other members were: Byron

Bellamy, Robert Pennington, Chas.
Aitken, Robert Moore and Edward
Waddington.

MRS. EVELYN HALE and Mrs.
R. Hale of Vancouver entertained at
tea at the Northern Lights Lodge last
Friday afternoon for Mrs. Jack Allan
of Likely and Mrs. Willoughby of

| Lafayette, California,

Dawson Creek
Pipers Stage Show -

Although a mix-up in dates spoiled
any opportunity of advance publicity
there was a good turnout of towns-
people last Sunday evening to hear a
short street band concert given by the
Dawson Creek Pipe Band.

The kilted ambassadors from the
northern centre stopped here on their
way to Vancouvver and an appearance
at the Pa¢ifie National Exhibition

The trip will take eleven days and
has fs its main objective added pub-
licity for Dawson Creek and the Peace
River country. 3

The jaunt will also take in other
provincial and Washington State
centres.

This Friday the band will fulfill an
engagement at McNeil Island State
Prison in Washington, where the chiet
warden has extended an invitation to
pay to the 2000 inmates.

PIPERS PLAY

On a recent trip to Dawson Creek,
local Board of Trade president Bert
Roberts was informed of the forth-
coming trip and offered the facilities
of he trade group to
stop. unfortunately at that time the
date for the engagement here was set
for August 30. This was subsequently
changed to a week earlier, and alth-
ough the band officials said they sent
a telegram and a letter to the boaré
here, Mr. Roberts said that he never
received the information.

His first intimation that the band
was.a week ahead came at 5 p.m. Sun-
day when he was informed that they
were just outside of town waiting for
instructions from the Board. Mr.Rob-
erts went out to meet them and arr-
anged accommodation and put a loud-
“speXtr-on the streets to draw an|
audjence:

he band presents an outstanding |
exajnple of the civic pride of Dawson
Creek residents. The group is spon-
sored by the Dawson Creek Senior
Chamber of Commerce and each
member of the band was outfitted at
a cost of $500 each by public sub-
scription. Trip to the coast was. fin-
anced in the same manner, and plans
are already being made to send the
band on a trip right over H’ghway 97-
Cariboo Highway - Hart Highway
from Weed, California back to their
home.

publicize the’ other tender was received from F.W.

shows. Specialists in their field:

More entries. are on display this
year than last. There are a total of
1200 entries in the fair's divisions,
compared to 800 in 1952 and just
even with 1951's record list.

Official judge of the show is S.
Preston, supervising agriculturisi
from Prince George, who has just
returned from judging at the PNB.
He handled the vegetables and field
crop divisions here and was assisted

Pipe Replacement
Contract Awarded

Contract for the replacement of
approximately 1100 feet of water
main along Railway Avenue was
awarded to the local firm of Cariboo
Electric and Plumbing by commiss-
ioners at their meeting this week,

The successful tender quoted a
price of $3 a foot for the work. One

Burgess for a total sum of $3300..
Work on the project will not comm-
ence until the village coffers have
been repientished by payment from
the Pacific Great Bastern Railway
company for work done by the village
on the new sub-division.
Trades Licence
Commissioners approved the grant-
ing of a trades licence to Christopher
Agnew to operate a retail novelty
shop in town,

‘Local Glad Growers
Win at Coast Show

Local growers made a credible
showing with their entries in the Van-|
couver Gladiolus Show two weeks ago. !

Les Pigeon won a second with his
spike in the orange class against 16
other blooms. Mrs. Tommy Mart's
entry in the smoky class also won a
second, in an entry list of 11 spikes.

All other entries from Willams
Lake were runners-up in their indi-
vidual classes,

Hospital Staff R

staff salary increase at their

Because the salary increase ques-
tion has been under consideration for
some time, the board decided to make
the staff salary increases retroactive
to July ist.

Under the new schedule, the basic
salary {or nurses will be $210 a month
up $10 over the previous schedule,
Nurses aides’ basic salary wi 1 be $116
a month, up $5 .

At the same time, the charge for
room and board for nurses ‘living in’
will remain the same as before, $35 a
month, Kitchen staff members

will

Boost Retroactive To July Ist

Directors of War Memorial Hospital approved a general

result in a jump of $1260 a year in operational costs,

eceives Salary

meeting August 14 that will

The directors have stipulated,
however that in cases of exceptional
circumstances, visiting other than
during the usual hours may be ap-
proved at the discretion of the hos-
pital matron or of *the nurse in
charge of the floor,

Janitor Bill Foreman, formerly an
orderly with the Penticton hospital
has commenced his duties as care-
taker of the local institution. Mr.
Foreman replaces Peter Malesku,
who resigned at the end of July,

receive a boost varying from $5 to $10
a month.
VISITING HOURS

At the suggestion of local doctor:
the directors agreed to a general cur.
tailment in the length of visting
periods at the hospital.

In the future, visiting hours will
be restricted to from 2
30 in the afternoon and from 7:0¢ |
lock to 8:30 in the evening. Pre-!
viously both afternoon and evening
Visiting periods were of two hour
duration.

In making the
that the visiting hours be s
doctors say that the move would be
in the best interest of the patients, |
This is particularly true of the ev
ning visiting period, when a certain
amount of time is required by the
staff to make the patients comfort-
able for the night after the visitors
have left the hospital,

recommendation
ortened, |

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Ne Sign Found
Of Missing Man

have still been unable to
clue to the where-
;tbouts of Sam Brown, local business
|man who last seen at a Van-
couver hotel June 29.

Police in other centres of the
country have been circularized with
information on Mr. Brown’s descrip-
| Gon. It is thought that he might be
suffering from amnesia, since he
once had a similar attack of loss of
| memory of short duration.

Police
uncover any

Mrs. Ben Richards and Mrs. Bill
Sloan arrived home Wednesday trom
Edmonton where they attended the
funeral of their father, Mr. J. B. Nel-
son, who passed away in that city
(August 19 and was buried August

Fall Fair Entry List Up

Competition is getting closer each year as the Cariboo
Fall Fair develops, a check with judges at the opening day

s, these men are quick to com-

ment on the improvement of entry quality, and this trend is
noticeable as well to the casual observer’

by Urban Guichon, former district
agriculturist at Kamloops and now
manager of Alkali Lake Ranch.

Back this year to judge the flower
sections was Bob Wilson, govern-
ment borticulturist from Kamloops,
who admitted the competition shown
at this year’s fair had presented him
with some of his hardest decisions.

Harvey Turnbull of Lillooet, an
oustanding gladiolus| expert handl-
ed the glad show here for his se-
cond season and commented that in
this class too it was evident that
exhibitors were entering more out-
standing blooms.

Miss I. Cross of the University of
British Columbia Extension staif.
judged the needlework and home
cooking divisions.

First Fires Controlled
In Quesnel Lake Areu

Electrical storms caused a rash of
fires last week in the Quesnel Lake-
Horsefly areas, annual trouble spots
in this part of the Cariboo.

There were 18 fires altogether in
the new ranger district formed this
year which takes in the two lakes.
The fires were mostly small ‘spot’
blazes, and Forestry men swung into
action immediately with small crews
to controlthem, About 45 men were
engaged in the work,and with most of
the fires under control, heavy rains
at the week’s end made the situation
much easier.

Fires on the upper reaches of Ques-
nel Lake will be more readily handled
now with the completion of a road
from Horsefly to the junction of the
north and east arms of Quesnel Lake.
The road is 23 miles long and last
week the first forestry vehicle went
over the new route.”

Wot Hepp-:

Dear Reader: As you have
been telehoning us and drop-
ping in every now and then
Since our alleged publication
day, it could be said that you
are interested in the reason
behind the non-appearance of
The Tribune — or to use the
idiom of the day — “wot
hoppen?””

Well, as our back shop
foreman and linotype operator
Jim Stitt was finishing out his
annual holidays, his “some-
what decrepit macline was
left to the tender mercies of
the remainder of the staff. To
put it mildly, the machine re-
fused to co-operate. We gave it
every attention. On several oc-
easions we sat up all night
with it. We took its internal
workings apart and put them
together again, but still it was
a fight to get the mechanical
rf mule into production.

Since we're so late with this
issue, you will probably have
a little trouble reconciling the
‘todays and yesterdays’ that
appear in thé stories. We can
only counsel you to read the
news stories as though it ac-
tually is publishing day of
August 27.

And now to get on with the
next issue.

Police Court’ News

Theft of two sheets and a comforter
from a room in the Williams Lake
Cafe resulted in a fine of $50 and costs
being levied in police court Monday
on Henry Unger.

The theft occured last Saturday
bight and the same eve: & police
found the objects in a car the man
been a passenger in.

Alfred Lafontaine was fined $200
and e¢osts or three months in default
on a charge of supplying liquor to aa

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