_ NEWS EXCHANGE OF THE CARIBOO illiams Lake Tribune — Number 16. Volume WILLIAMS LAKE, B.C. Thursday, April 21, 1 Single copy 10c. $2.50 per year. ~The Weather Clear sunny skies brought a feel- ing of spring to the air this week although last Sunday many rural peints had from two to four inches of snow, which will prolong the break-up in the bush. e Here are the reading at the airpgrid for the past week, excluding Sunday: min max Friday, April 15 32 43 Saturday 38 45 Monday 82 55 Tuesday 81 55 Wednesday 387 53 he reading at 8 o’clock this morn- ing was 37, Alterations To Hotel Roof Carried Out The Maple Leaf Hotel is gstting a spring facedifting job. Workmen Started this week tearing off the gable roof on the older section of the hotel preparatry to constructing a “flat roof. : ae Work will also entail re-stuccoing the familiar building and installa- tion of awnings. Manager Benny Abbott. states that extensive interior alteration work is also being contemplated. ALCOHOL INDICATOR degrees of drunkenness of participants, maby who thought they could “handle their liquor” couldn't. TESTS DEFLATE « THOSE WHO CAN “HANDLE THEIR LIQUOR” —Centra} Press Canadian In the interest of science, four dozen university students, school teachers, salesmen. pdlicemen and forest rangers became methodi- eally drunk and the Ontario government picked up the cheque. The experiment, in Foronto, extended over four months and its Purpose was to test a new type of alccho! indicator, the Breath- alyzer, which the investigators hope will give police a foolproof method of testing drunkenness, particularly in traffic eases Here Dr. J. K. W. Ferguson, the host at the experimenta! cocktail parties, ve shows calibrations or the Breathalyzer indicating the progressive e tests proved that HBARING ADJOURNED A WEEK An adjourniaent of a week has been granted for the preliminary hearing of Garnet Marks, William Sound and John Spurrell, who face charges of robbery with violence. The-hearing was originally schedul- ed-for April 20. WORK UNDERWAY ON MAJOR STORE ALTERATION Work started Tuesday on a major alteration job to the local branch of Oyerwaitea Stores that -will make it ie-of the finest retail food outlets in the Interior. ‘Phe present store, which runs 38 feet from the street will be extended to a total depth of 60 feet and a ware house another 60 feet in depth will be-built at the rear. Front of the store will be.renovat- edJand faced with aluminum and fixtures, and display cases will he included in the job. One of these fixtures will be a refrigerated fruit ard vegetable display stand that will extend 22 feet along one wall. A meat department will also be added tothe store's present facilities. John Anderson stlates First Injections of Polio Vaccine Given This Week First injections of Salk polio vaccine to district children were administered by Publi and Betty Hopkins Monday in Some 68 Grade 1 children and those who will be entering schoo? mext September received the injec- tions. Similar clinics are being held in the rural schools and the program got underway yesterday. At present only children who have been previously registered with the consent of their parents are receiy- Health nurses Mary Kartner Williams Lake. Dr. H. M. Brown, public health director states that the method of Biving three injections fairly close together will be followed to give a higher degree of protection during the summer months. The second: in- jections in the series will be siven t week and the third will be nes the Ce HtiON success of the Salk vaccine, te have been a great number of 4nquiries about the availabilty of the vaccine,, public health officials have been unable to cope with more than those registered because only suffi- cient supplies of the vaccine to handle the number had been ordered. Fraser Pleads Guilty To Garage B & E Royal Canadian Mounted Police here have been informed that Colin Fraser, wanted in connection. with breaking and entering Williams Lake Motors February 12, has plead- ed guilty to a B & Rand thett charge in the case and will be tried in Van- couyer. - Fraser was apprehended at the coast on another charge. Police here were agreeable to having the Wil- liams Lake charge heard at Van- couver when a guilty plea was en- tered They have not heard on the disposition of the case yet INFLUENTIAL VOICE —Central Press Canadian: Second most influential man in British politics now that Sir Winston Churchill has retired is Richard A. Butler, chancellor of the exchequer. He is regarded by many as being as powerful a voice in the Conservative party as Sir Anthony Eden, the syeek of May 24vh; Brown étates.that it may be possible to give a booster shot around Christmas that would height- en the degree of effectiveness of the vaccine possibly to 100° percent. 1t is\believed to be from 60 to 80 per cent effective by the present method, with the effectiveness varying in combatting the three known types of polio. Most prevalent type in British Columbia is type 1, accord- ing to Dr. Brown, and this is the type that the vaccine is not as effect- ive on. Golfers Name Officers For 1955 E. G. ‘Tony’ Woodland was re- elected president of the Williams Lake Golf & Country Club at the group's annual meeting last night. Others named to the executive were Ken Rife, vice-president; Gor- don Rowan, secretary - treasurer: Tcm Larson, captain; Bill Margetts, vice-captain, and Bert Levens, chair- man of th greens committee. Honorary presidents are Hon. Ralph Chetivynd and Roderick Mac- kenzie. The club will hold a work bee Sunday repairing fences andi giving the club house a coat of paint. Funeral Director Service Established A funeral director business has heen opened this week by Chet Lea- vitt, former secretary of the Cattle- men’s Association, who at one time also acted as an agent here for a Kamloops mortuary. In conjunction with this business, Mr. Leavitt is also operating an am. bulance service until.such time as the Ambulance Society’~ obtains enouh funds to- purchase a vehicle. For the service, Mr. Leavitt has pur- chased a new ranch-style vehicle equipped with stretcher. Until May 1st when he will be op- erating from a home he intends to rent, Mr, Leavitt’s ambulance m allied through the medical clini y ic Mr. Leavitt's new venture fills a definite need in the community. For the better part of a year there has been no funeral director resident here since L, Webber discontinued his service. TRANSPORT COMPANY DONATES Up last week on business, Harry Taylor of the well-known firm of T & H Cariboo Transport came around to the hospital with a $50 cheque from his company as a donation to the building fund. BIG LAKE RANCH PURCHASED James Wannop of 150 Mile has purchased the Big Lake Ranch form- erly owned by Mr. and Mrs. Harold Cripps. He plans on opening a ser- vice station and general store as well. Mr. and Mrs. Cripps have moved to their smaller ranch on the shores of Big Lak ry Mere Student Pilots On Their Own Four more student pilots amonz the group currently taking flying lessons at the local airport have soloed. These include Hank Neufeld, Joe Gillis, Ken Huston and Wilf Hodgson. Monday night three ex-airforce members of the flying club and three students with the necessary hours wrote the examinations laid down by the Department of Transport. There are 16 students taking fly- nig lessons and the three ex-airforee men are taking a brush-vp course. Arriving here this week to a in instructing is M Gielen Dixon, a noted pilot. Instructor Fred Le- Grice will be leaving within the next two weeks to carry out crop dusting work for the firm of Skyway Air Services. that plans call for the opening of the store in its new form on June 23 Value of construction work is placed at $20,000 with approxi- mately $10,000 worth of store fixtures. Handling the building construc- tion is the firm of Klassen & Born. of Vancouver. = Curlers May Offer To Buy Quarters (Otter to make an outright pur- chase of the part of the War Mem- oriul Arena used by the curling club (344 Authorizedby w special meeting of the curlers Tuesday night. The offer will be made to the bond- holders: threugh the arena associa- tion. By the Offer the curling club would agree to pay $7500.00 for the part of the building they now use, pay- able over 15 years at $500 a year plus interest at five percent. If the deal was agreed to, the curling club would probably give ac- tive consideration to adding two| more sheets and installing an arti- ficial ice plant. A flock of geese estimated at well over a hundred was seen flying north Tuesday. This morning Heather Mouat phoned from Lakeside to tell us there were three swans on the lake. So Gone from the town’s main streets, at least for a while, are the clouds of swirling dust, thanks to our local Fire Brigade. The firemen spent half a day hosing down the pavement. Widely Known River Boat Captain Dies At Cariboo lost another of its colorful oldtimers last Friday with the death of Donald Arthur “Cap” Foster, 80, one of the few remaining riverboat skippers, who passed away in Ques- nel Hospital after an illness of sev- eral week Funeral service was held from St. Andrew’s United Church in Quesnel at 2 p.m, on Tuesday, with Rev. D. W. Perrie officiating. Interment took place in the old Quesnel Cemetery. Captain Foster was the father of Mrs. Les Pigeon, government agent at Williams Lake, who was married in Seattle Saturday. When friends were able to contact them Mr. and Mrs. Pigeon rushed back to Ques- nel and stayed there until today. Widely known throughout the Cariboo from Asheroft through to Prince George, Master Mariner Fos- ter had been resident of the area since 1898. a eee AIRLINE BUSY Williams Lake is contributing to the heavy air travel on Canadian Pa- cific Airlines daily ce through here. Agent Al Stewart reports thar from April 6 to 20 some 79 passen- gers were boarded here for {ij either worth or south, ights Quesnel Born at Pictou Landing, N.S., in 1875, he first came to B.C. in 1895 and spent two years on the coast as a tug boat operator and for a time served on a freight and passenger run between the mainland and Van- couver Island. In 1908 he moved to the Cariboo an assumed command of the river steamer “Charlotte” operating north from Soda Creek to Quesnel. During the next 25 years he be- came a familiar figure along the river as he served as master of such well-known paddle wheelers as the “B.C. Express,” the “Rounder,” the “Circle W,’? the ‘ finally the “Quesnel.” The “Quesnel” was the last of the stern wheelers to operate on the! river and on the first trip under Cap-! tain Foster, the vessel was wrecked | in Prince George Canyon when it/ w impossible to raise sufficient | steam to get steerage way against the swirling current. Though the| “Quesnel” was a complete loss when it broke in two on the canyon rocks, the entire cargo was saved. With the close of river-boating Captain Foster became a mail carrier when he secured a contract to carry (continued on nack page) hileoten” and | |: the mail by road between Quesnel | 7 = 38.8 MILES PAVING TO BE DONE Area Road Allotment Same As Last Year District road maintenance money for the South Cariboo this year is the same as that voted in-1954, $187,000, accord- ing to Divisional Engineer Chas. Grigg. Only $49,000 has been allocated this year for special project work, an amount that is down considerably from the past several years now that the Mountain House cut-off-highway has been completed. Of this money, $10,000 is for the Horsefly Road, $5000 for’ Beaver Valley, $29,000. for roads in the Bridge Lake, Canim Lake, Lone Butte area, and $5000 for widening Final School Tax Picture Mill rate in School District 27 in 1955, based on final apportionment of the 1955 school budget will be approximately 15.75 or 14.85 plus -90 for collection charges, according to a rélease from the office of the secretary-treasurer's office this week. Total estimate for 1955 plus the 1954 operating deficit of $14,188 is $565,451.00. To provide for this is $28,334 aneous revenue; $49,105 capital funds carried forward fram 1954, and goverment grants of $391,209.00. The district tax’ will amount to $45,623 from the basi¢ levy of 7 mills, and $51,180 for the district share of the capital portion and unapproved costs. The final 1955 assessed values for the district amount to $6,517.- 623.00. euts along the Cariboo Highway be- low 100 Mile. e Biggest chunk of money that wil! be spent on roads in this distric be for the 38.8 miles of pavi will be done on the Cariboo High- way. This will include the 150 Mile- Williams Lake section; part of the Mountain House cut-off io be com- pleted, and on to the end of recon- struction at Macalister. Also included in this work is re- capping of Oliver Street and Rail- way Avenue in Williams Lake. It is doubtful if the work will be under- taken along Railway though since this will be the route of the main trunk line Df the sewer system. Hospital Proposal Nearly Finalized Directors of War Memorial Hos- pital feel the proposed addition is nearing its final planning stage. At a meeting Tuesday night proposals of the planning department of B.C. H.LS. were agreed to with slight amendments. Dr. J. B. Ringwood, medical stait member of the building comfittee, left today for Victoria with the re- vision to reach what is hoped will be a final agreement on the struc- ture. PROFIT PROM LAST ¥B: VERS SHOW $300 Siampede Due To Poor Attendance The annual organizational meeting for the Stampede amounted to a social chat last night with only seven interested souls on hand. Decision was to hold another meeting next Monday night in the Village Hall with the hope of spark- ing a little more enthusiasm. Discussion last night centred arund the idea of turning over any profit made at the 1955 show to the War Memorial Hospital and the Memorial Arena rather than salting it away in the Stampede kitty, whieh at the nfoment shows a healthy bal- ance of $1,229.92. Consensus was that more interest might be shown by townspeople if the profit was ea marked for (a specific community project. According to a financial statement passed around last night, last year’s a CELEBRATES 90th BIRTHDAY Congratulations to old-timer George Gill, who yesterday passed his 90th milestone and is still yery active. Mr, Gill up to last year acted as poll clerk for the civil elections: show came through with a slim profit of $30.45. High items on the revenue side were $4,441.01 for ground admissions and $1,782.80 from concessions. Of these latter, 23 came from the Blks dances, 3473.4 from the Jaycee, and food concession receipts of $306.83 and from the ‘softball club and Catholic Women’s League respective ly. Donations to the show amounted 58$6.80-and race horse entry tees were $205.25. On the expenditure side $1,871.00 was given as rage prize mone: 392 fees which are turned back as pi money), and $117.50 parade prizes Stock rent, transporting cattle and feed ran up to $1,371.00. Other larg- er expense amounts were for arena, 90 as arena prizes (above entry wages $578.00; advertising and printing $ $195.70; ain insurance $124.00; admission markers -and gatemen Wells ban@- $252.40; oifice ex $169.11; amusement tax $496.33, O/S J. E. Ford of Sydney en NADIAN SEAMAN AND FRIEND N.S, makes a friend during a to the Valley of the Thousand Hills, near Durban, —Centrat Press Canadian t O/S Ford Was among a party from HMCS Quebec that toured the valley while his ship was at Durban on her eu: Africa, rent training cruise to South Meeting Postponed —