Williams Lake Tribune NEWS EXCHANG E OF THE CARIBOO Volume 22 -- Number 9. | WILLIAMS LAKE, B.C. Thursday March 4, 1954, Single copy 10c. $2.50 per. year. Curlers Bo Well In Kamloops. ’Spiel From the last report received from Kamloops, two rinks with Williams Lake players on them were=doing4Jumber truckers. well in the big bonspiel in that centre. Tom McDougall, who passed through Kamloops Tuesday, said that both rinks had won two and lost one. game up to that time. One rink, skipped by local club president Fred Graham, is made up entirely of Williams Lake men, in- eluding Bob Carson, Herb Gardner and Ken Rife. The other rink has two ‘lake players, Tony Woodland and Dime Herbert. The other two players are Kamloops men, Putchard and Abel. Back at home the deciding game for the Central Service Trophy was played Jast night, with Owen Kerley’s rink defeating Vic Imhoff. - B. OF T. HEAD Photo by Blackwell’. Pictures here is James Shaw, man- ager of the Lakeview Hotel, who was recently elected president of the Wil- liams Lake and District Board of Wrage. Mr Siew and others of the incoming executive will be installed in office at the annual Board of Trade banquet, March 24. Frank Armes New Manager’ Of Local Wholesale Office Frank Armes, well-known former district resident, has been appointed Williams Lake manager of Interior | Wholesale Distributors and Interior Freightways, according to an an- nouncement Monday by company head Wilber Hannah. Mr. Armes has been associated in the past with the ranching industry having been manager of Circle S ranch at Dog Creek for 17 years prior to leaving that position in 1950. He then went to the Merrit country as manager of Nicola Lake Stock Farms Ltd for two years, and for the past year he was interested in the lumber business at Forest Grove. Mill Accident Claims Life Of Newcomer A former Sskatchewan man, Ab- raham Classen, 38, lost his life yes- terday afternoon in an accident at the St. Jean Bros Sawmill about six and a half miles from town. Classen, who has only been here a few months, was married. His body" New Road Scales Catching Violators . Operation of the new road scales on the Cariboo Highway is causing consternation in the ranks of the The scale was operated for the first time February 18, with 38 trucks being @hecked. Only seven of these were ,within the legal limit, but no summonses were issued. Feb- vuary 22 another check was made and six summonses were issued, all to truckers with loads more than 4000 pounds in excess of the limit, d all to men who had been over tne le four days hefore. wb Two Lumber Men Fined For Failure To Purchase UIC Stamps Two small lumber operators were fined in police court Tuesday for failing to pay Unemployment Insur- ance contributions. Both men, Winston Robert Louttit and Vincent Norman Coombs were fined $25 and costs and ordered to pay UIC arrears. In Louttit’s case this amounted to $196.34 Coombs’ arrears amounted to $13.41. Louttit had failed to obtain ance books from previous employees or to buy unemployment insurance stamps during their employment with him. Coombs not only failed to obtain and stamp insurance book: but also failed to keep~adequate time records. As a result his overdue con- Lributions were estimated at 3 per- cent of gross wages paid. In the case of failing to affix stamps, the employer is given three days from the time of written de- ‘mand to have this done, and if this demand is not carried out, the charge is laid. : insu: and | R For © from left are: Bill returned te paste the same team exhibition games before icsing to Gaa set their ears “burning.” The Canadians, who won 10 st Team in Central Press Canadian This quartet of pucksters is en rsuté*to Stockholm to join forces with the Toronto Lyndaursts, Canada’ representat've in the world hockey championships wisel begin ir Steeiholim Feb. 26. Thé four, Tom Jamies urger. The jnananes who were set aus by a Swedish team 5- Don Lockhart and Eric 12-3 affer Swedish pr repo. the Swedes, were referred to as a “nopcless gang” by one newspaper. Girl Jail Escapee Captured Here Sharp eyes of Jack Dye, manager of the Ranch Hotel, aided police list Thursday in apprehending a girl who had escaped from Prince George jail two days before. The girl, Dolores Reynolds, was one of a party of three who made the 1 break. Description of all three girls was circulated throughout the Cariboo and loca: police went the rounds of business houses passing on the description. Thursday, Mr. Dye police to say there was a Six Months On False Pretences Charge George Norman Smith, 40, of De- roche, B.C.. sentenced to six months in jail when he pleaded guilty in police court Monday to a charge was of securing groceries under false pre- tenses. Smith, who has been employed for the past two summers as a cook for a crew working in the district for the Water Rights Department, ordered groceries Saturday afternoon from Western, Rife & Pigeon. The order wasn’t questioned, since Smith had previously done the buying for the camp. The only trouble with his Sat- urday purchase spree was that be no longer employed by the de- partment. According to police, Smith’s next move after the purchase was to hire Joe Bush to pick up his purchases and deliver them into the country in Bush's truck. ‘They first went to the 150 Mile House and when Smith ask- ed him to drive on to 100 Mile, Bush became suspicous and insisted on driving back to town. Once back to town the two men separted and Bush telephoned Sid Western, a partner in the grocery firm. He in turn con- tacted police, but by this time Smith was already in the RCMP office be- ing questioned. The police had been was will be shipped to the home of lis watching the accused all evening wife’s parents at Abbotsford for and suspected him of being up 10 burial. something when it was heard he was According to police reports, the | trying to sell a quantity of groceries. accident occurred about 2:15 p.m. when one of the mill owners, Einar St. Jean, was unloading logs on the skidway. One of the last logs off the truck rolled down the pile and pounced on to the mill saw carriage, striking Classen on the back. The victim was employed as a sawyer. He was rushed to Williams Lake Hos- pital for treatment, but died there at 5:30 p.m. An inguest into the accident will be held. J Mock Air Raids Due This Weekend There will activity in the sky over this area this probably be a lot of weekend. Weather permitting, the RCAF is staging the largest air exercise of il “enemy” kind as large numbers of aircraft will attack targets in the B.C. Bank Employee Promoted Fro. ana tower afaintana. Bank of Montreal staff niember | Ea Anderson has been promoted to the position of a countant of the Hotel branch, Vancouver. Mr. Anderson came to the Willi- ams Lake branch just over .two; years ago from Bralorne. He will) pe succeeded by L, C, Barl of Kim- berly. . Movement of the aircraft will he | watched by 5000 pairs of eyes'in the stant to the ac-/| form of the civilian Ground Observer bank’s Vancouver | Corps. Phone wires will be hot to the | Ground Observer Cérps Filter Centre at 1363 Howe Street, Vancouver, which is the hub of all this activity. From here fighters will be scrambled and sent out to intercept the mar- “ein ute te) Nez purtouranswer= ing $0 the description of one-vf the escapees and police took her into custody. Under questioning she ad- mitted her identity and was returned to Prince George. The other two escapees eluded searchers for 300 miles and were finally picked up Wednesday night m Hope, The girl captured here was serving a six-months sentence for Former ‘Lake Boy In Coast Puck Game There was no representative from Cariboo in famed ‘old-timers’ hockey game at Vancouver Monday night, BSt Willams Lake hada grown product burning the home- up the ice in the program opener squads showed their stuff. Paul Mai Mrs. Alastair Squamish, ‘the teams. Seems the youn. eS TSE skating Atound the Forum when le was approached by several stranger who wanted to know if he was from | Vancouver and if he had played hoc- key. After watching Paul for ‘some time, they approached him again and asked if he would play im one of the Peewee teams Monday night. The following night he turned out for practice and they took his name to enzie, son ot Mr. and Mackenzie, was selected for one of vagrancy. play next year in the league. When the Fowler family Lake they brought not one but Most of us have become familiar diteh digging ma- which has been with the yellow chine of Del Fowler, used extensively in town since last snmmer. Next to him is his brother Leo, who will be operating a ready- mix conerete business, and farther along the highway is the headquar- ters of Power Construction, which is operated by another brother, Mil- lard, and the father of this enterpris- ing family, Willard Fowler. The ready-mix concrete business will be in operation in time for spring construction. Work has been completed on bunkers and weighing apparatus for cement and gravel and several days ago a new concrete mixer k mounting arrived from the . The mixer will handle four yards of concrete and can operate in a radius of 50 miles generally, al- though it can be sent out 75 miles. The concrete business will be lim- ited to straight construction pouri jobs. They do not expect to go into concrete culvert and pipe casting yet, although they have the torms for this work. Power Construction is mainly in- terested in small road building pro- jects. In the past the operators handl- ed a lot of forestry department road building work in W: ington. A considerable capital investment is represented in the equipment the family owns. There are two shovels, two ‘cats’ and half a dozen trucks, including a big 10-ton unit with trailer that can be used for custom hauling. There is also the travelling | ready-mix unit. Besides these larger | fuders, items, the construction branch equip- Former Washington Farily Will Operate Three Enterprises! decided to move to Williams three business enterprises with them. Stretclied along the highway above the lake you can see the homes of the members of this former Okanogan Washing- ton family and also pieces of equipment used in their work. ment includes a full, chine shop with outfits. Willard has constructed a machine shop during the winter months and when everything is in ‘operation a full time mechanic will probably be hired Absent from the local picture yet is Millard, who is winding up several construction jobs in Okano: Mr. Fowler, sr., says the got into the family's blood throug gh assocation with a ranch they purehas- ed at Horsefly some eight years ago. Every fall, he sz he found it hard- er to return below the border, and finally he suggested to his sons that they sell out and move north. The sons took a month off and toured up the Cariboo highway as far communites around Prince George, and their decision was to pick Wil- liams Lake as a centre of operations mainly because of its stable economy That's why we have the Fowlers with us today, and they won't be just content to Williams Lake grow, intend to take zn active part in its building. DAYLIGHT SAVING STARTS APRIL 25 Time will be- in British equipped ma- portable welding as the they ving April Clocks will go back Time Sunday ber 26, Switch to di for the summer months was ap- proved by order-in-council Monday. to Pacific Septem- ight Standard time as two Peewee |? now of! ter went Gand > he Company. The relay stations are built high on hills, one of which is at an alti- tude of over 4500 feet. Construc- tion of the access roads and station buildings has been completed and equipment is being installed. Several talking circuits to Prince George will be available shortly. The Kamloops circuits and the bal- ance of the Prince George circuits will supplement existing-pole. lines. | From Vancouver to Prince George lis a distance of over 500 miles. | From Vancouver to Ashcroft the two radio chains will use the same buildings. At Ashcroft the chains will separate. One will head north |to Prince George and the other will go eastward to Kamloops. Microwave is used for the first link from Vancouver to a station on Sumas Mountain, but all other links Education Week Program Announced A full program for school visitors bas been arranged by the staff and student body of Williams Lake Jun- ior-Senior and Elementary schools next Week. The occasion is the ob- servance of Education Week across Canada, : yonis will, be tonen ai thé elementary school with invited to attend regular between 9 a.m. and noon. | The regular school program will be followed with the exception of a break between 10:30 and 11 a.m. when the students will serve coffee to the visitors. High school and dormitory “open house” will be observed the after- noon of the same day. In addition to regular class work the students are sponsoring a “parent quiz”. Follow- ing their visit to the school, parents and other visitors are invited to the dormitory by the matron, . Boyce, for afternoon tea. Wednesday afternoon between 1 and 3 o’elock, students of the junior- senior high school will stage an in- door track meet at the Elks Hall. The meet wll see the four houses of the leo] competing against each other. ‘Thu night a mother and daughter, father and son evening will be held in the junior-senior high ol commencing at § p.m. Visitors will be given an insight into the work done in home economics, indus- tral arts and commercial classes, with students carrying out some projects. house” arents SES Radio-Tel Beams Will Provide Better Long-Distance Service Radiotelephone beams that leap from hill to hill, through the Fraser Canyon and the Cariboo country, shortly provide more long distance telephone circuits from Vancouver to Prince George and Kamloops. important project involving the construction of 13 radio- velephone stations costing over $1,500,000, was announced by W. S. Pipes, general manager of the North-west Telephone Company. This company is building the two chains and will use them in conjunction with the British up will News of this Columbia Telephone are what is known as “very high fre- quency” or V.H.F. Frequency mod- ulation (F.M.) is being-.employed. Due to the characteristics of this type of communication, the conyer- gations are private. “These will be the longest V.H.F. chains in North America, so far as we are aware,” said B. R. Tupper, manager and chief engineer of the North-west ~Telephone Company. “We are using V.H.F. rather than microwave, almost exclusively, cause the rugged nature of the British Columbia terrain makes it difficult to get an unobstructed beam from one radio station to another as required by microwave. Very High Frequency. will function despite scme topographical obstacles, and natural obstacles