Williams Lake Tribune ~ —

NEWS EXCHANGE OF THE CARIBOO

Volume 23 — Number 24.

WILLIAMS LAKE, B.C. Thursday, June 16, 1955.

Single copy 10c. $2.50 per year,

To Investigate Move Of Through
Truck Traffic From Oliver Street

-Possibility of moving heavy truck through traffic off Oliver

Street will be explored by
Tuesday night’s meeting. -—*

Suggestion arose from a* discus-
sion on the old question of bringing
the Assize Court back to Williams
Lake. Village solicitor Lee Skipp told
the meeting that recommendations
of the Cariboo Bar Association and
local orgnizations appeared to -he
having some effect, since the At-
ttorney-General’s department was now
asking for a general report of fac’
ties here. He pointed out however
ithat although the facilities of the
government building had been im-
proved, the objection to the noise of
‘trucks along Oliver Street would be
mas valid today as it was when the
Assizes were first moved. -

This opinion touched off a general
discussion that showed the commis-
sioners favouring re-routing truck
traffic from the main street if it was
at all possible. Concensus was that

commissioners as a

result of
Not being too certain of their
ground in discussing

concerning Oliver Street,
also an arteriar highway
missioners approved a suggestion to
contact District Engineer Jim Pom-

which is

eroy to hear any recommendations

the Department of Highway might
have on the problem.

If through truck traffic is moved
off Oliver, the next question will he
be, “What streets will become ar-
teries for this type of traffic?’

Quesnel Golfers
Win Weekend Match

Quesnel golfers arrived at the “lake
last Sunday with a strong 14-man
aggregation to defeat the locals on

regulations

the com-

_ Student Story Entry

the thundering of trucks up and
down the street was not only a head-
ache to visting jurists but was an-
noying to citizens at all times. The
safety factor was also considered,

a lowball and aggregate point sys-
tem by a score of 6-2. The Quesnel
juniors were victorious too againsi
their local counterparts, by a 4-2

with the feeling being that switch- margin.
over of the trucking route would re- Fran Hughes, new government
duce the present traffic hazard. agent. at Quesnel, shot sizzling

Scores. of 38 and 33 on his first ap-
pearance on the local course to win
the low score. Runher-up was team
mate J. Lazzarin turning in 77 for
18 holes.

In the junior division Boyce Crap-
pelle of Williams Lake had the low
score of 83 and Eddie Wear of Ques-
nel was runner-up,

Places High In Contest

Local student Myrtle MacKenzie
was One of. three rnnners-up in the
recent short story contest sponsored
by the MeMillan Club, according to
@ report from Mrs. D. Stevenson.

Mrs. Stevenson said the judges had
commented that the four top stories
Were extremely close in. point valu-~
ation, The contest was epen to stu-
dents throughout British Columbia. j

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Street Litter Sparks
Argument At Board

News of other students passed on f. ° [
y Mrs. Stevenson was that the three 0 f Trade_Meeting ay
jee

high school graduates last year who
enrolled at the University of British
Columbia have all passed their first
year. They are Blizabeth Deane, |
Marvin Scott and Elizabeth Steven-
son.

| 1é any thoroughfare had come up
for discussion at last week’s Board
of Trade meeting, it should have been
the Horsefly Road, but instead it

the side streets in general.

Four members of the Horsefly
committee of the hoard attended the
dinner meeting, principally to talk
over the internal organization of the
parent hody and its healthy rural
cfispring, but fiery Dr. D. J. Millar
of the visiting delegation couldn't

Drug Case Trial Set

Case of the three Vancouver per-
sous who are charged with posses-
sien of drugs following a seizure of
heroin here last week will come up
in police court next Tuesday,

Death Calls Former
Fort Fraser Resident

Mrs. Amelia Ann Tittemore, long
time resident of the Port Fraser dis-
trict of British Columbia, who had
lived here for’the past two years
passed away suddenly at her home
Saturday morning.

Mrs. Tittemore was born in Liver-

Gardner told the meeting that on a
recent trip-to the coast a Fraser Val-
ley man had said he thought Wil-
liams Lake was a dirty town. This
was an opinion Mr, Gardner said he
was forced to agree with, but one
thing he could think of that woula
help create another impression was
to have the merchants along Oliver
Street clean up in front of their
laces of business,

Dr. Millar jumped into the diseus-
‘ion by offering the opinion that the

pool, England in 1881 and came to
Quebec as a child with her family.
There she married Seymour Vincent
Tittemore, and the couple came to

‘ionetrs were asleep in our
town — that oiling of the streets
Would cut down on the dust and re-
sult in a cleaner effect.

Naturally this didn’t sit too well

Fort Fraser in 1918. They lived

with the comissioners present and
Mr. Gardner pointed out that an oil-
ing program had° heen considered
but it was useless to start until next
year since the streets were all going
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iLac La Hache
Resident Passes

Funeral services will be conducted
tomorrow at Lae La Hache for Wal-
ter Plaxton, 34, who passed away in
War Memorial Hospital June.14 after

‘there, and for a period around Wells,
up to two years ago when they came
here to make their home near their
and

daughter and son-in-law,
Mrs.-Tom Hawk
the United Church
here. 5
She is survived besides her hu
band and Mrs. Hawker, by another
daughter, Mrs. R. Burr of Fort
Fraser. Three grand children and
three great grandchildren also sur-
vive.

Funeral services” were conducted
from St. Andrew’s United Church by
Rey. J. R. Colclough Monday after-
moon. with interment jn Williams
Lake cemetery. Leavitt's Punera) Di-
rectors weré in charge of ‘arrage-
ments.

Pallbearers were Dr. g. Wood,
Fred Kozuki, Charlie Roberts, ma.
dis Gaspard, Sr., Bud Barlow and
Duncan Herber

Lac La Hache Dance
Saturday For Hospital

Proceeds from 2 dance to be staged
this Saturday night at Lac La Hache
will go to War Memorial Hospitat
building fund. z

The dance is under the sponsor-
ship of Lac La Hache Community

Club,

Ladies’ Guild

a short illness,

Born in Manitoba, Mr. Plaxton
has lived in Lae La Hache for the
Past seven years and was employed
by the Public Works Dep

He leaves to mourn hi: p:
Katherine, and thre
Jury, Carol and Linda. Also
Purviving are his mother, Mrs. Frank
Plaxton of Vancouve: ; three bro-
thers, Harvey and Frank, Vietori:
Charles New Brunswick; seven s
ters, Mrs. Smith, Williams Lake, Mr:
McConnell, Ontario, Mr Lewis,
Banff, Mrs. Hodgkinson, Vancouver,
Mrs. Hensen and Mrs. Reynolds, Vie-
teria, Mrs, Callos, Port Alberni.

Rey. J. RL Colelough will conduct
the service*at Lac La ‘Hache.

$266 Collected For
Hospital At Likely :

Over 65 residents of the Likely
aren attended a dance at the home ut
M and Mrs. Bill C Jast Satu
day in aid of War Menrorial Hospital
building fund. Donations were mad.
in lieu of admission and $266 was
collected,

Mrs. C. W. Speed
community effort.

Fined $100 As Result
Of Fatal Accident

arranged

uary had its sequel in police
Tuesday when Samuel. Ielix Archie
of Canim Lake was fined. $100 and
costs when he was found guilty on a
charge of criminal negligence.

The accident occurred about 7 p.m.
on the night of January 9 about 3
miles south of 150 Mile House. Steve
Daniels, driver of an old model car
was either parked or moving v
slowly along the highway
truck driven by Archie ploughed into
the rear of the vehicle. Daniels was
thrown out of his car and killed in
the accident.

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A fatal highway accident last soa Number Of Charges

court |

when a

You Can Drink
The Water Unboiled

Those residents who have
been patiently

Fight On Among Local :
Garages Over Closing Hour

Fi public move in a fight that has been shaping up
among local garages over hours of business Was made at the
Village commissioners’ meeting Tuesday night.

Trouble stems from a move some
time go by Beath Motors (Williams
Lake) Ltd., to keep their service
station open 24 hours a day and all
day Sunday. Lined up solidly against
what they feel is an infracton of the
present by-law are the other service
stations and garages.

In a letter to the commissioners,
signed by the other outlets in the
village, the statement is made that
| for some years the garages have al-
ternated in staying open each night
until 11 o'clock and on Sundays. Ii
goes on to quote the by-law covering
this practice and cites the offender
as Beath Motors (Williams Lake)
Ltd. It goes on to ask the hoard to
take steps to protect the interests of
the signers and in the interests of the
public. presumably by restraining the

rdin
E. H. Gibbon, an expert from
Khe Seattle firm that installs
S arrived yesterday
put the equipment back
in working order.

Daily hours are limited to 7:30 a.m,
to 9 pm: ‘

There are now two outlets staying
open 24 hours daily, including Sun-
days. Both of these are owned by
Beath Motors (Williams Lake) Ltd.

Commissioners took 2 look at the
thorny problem and decided to hold
over any decision on action until a
full representation of commission-
ers is on hand. Commissioner Gard-
ner was absent Tuesday night,

First ‘Public Mischief’
Charge Laid Here

First person locally to he charged

Laid Following
‘Accidents Last Week

Four men appeared in police court
this week on charges arising out cf
two, separate accidents that were re-
ported the week previous.

Aftermath of the freak accident
involving a logging truck and cabin

on the highway were chagges against
“Natale Gigliotti, driver of the grader
hauling the eabin, of having no li.

Archie testifled that he had noi|cence plate on the machine and no

noticed the car
100 feet from it

an unsuccessful attempt to

judged.”

Students’ Adult
Award Goes To
Mr. And Mrs. Jobin

This year's school
award, made annually to the cltizen
who, in the opinion of the students
themselves ¢ontributed most during
the past twelve months to the schoo}

student body, was. a dual award
made Ti to Mr. and Mrs.
Leo Jobin.

Miss Barbara Gardner,

president
of the retiring Students’ Council, |
thanked the well-known couple on
behalf of the students of the school
when she made the presentation.

Mr. and Mrs. Jobin have presented
the school with a number of exhibits
of wildlife for their proposed mu-
seum, and Mr. Jobin has in the past
given a number of lectures to the
classes on wildlife.

Mr. and Mrs. Jobin leave early!

resist sniping at the village fathers, | 2€Xt month to make their home in
Tiff started when Commissioner | the Okanagan.

Telephone Service
Knocked Out By Truck

Telephone service was knocked,
out in Williams Lake Saturday night
when a piece of mill equipment on
a truck caught wires leading from
the telephone office across Railway
Avenue and tore them out.

The accident also resulted In a
pole being snapped off and falling
on a parked car,

The truck, owned by E. Holland
Was driven by Patrick George Damel,
and was transporting a lumber
loader.

All telephone circuits both in and
out of town were knocked out and
three men were sent from Quesnel to
assist in restoring services, Six repair
men were engaged in the job. To)
lines were bac re the follow-
ing night. Yesterday afternoon all
but two circuits had been restored
and district repair man W. B, Bell-
mond said this morning that normal

in ser

been on his holidays

Bellmond had
and returned to work Monday.

No Pollution Near
Water Intake At Lake

A survey by sanitation men of the
Public Health Unit
is no evidence of pollution of the

trom septic tanks within a mile
side of wiler supply in-
take, according to ler 10 the vil-
lage from W. G. Fyvie, sani
inspector.

Village Clerk E. H. Gibbon stated
Tuesday night that further investi-
gation at the head of the lake by the

sanitary engineers has revealed a|
pollution source from drainage froin
the Indian residential schoo),
this, he understood, was being taken
up with the Indian Affairs Depart-

ment.

and

ahead until he was|-chauffeur’s licence. He was fined $25
and then he made|ion the first count and $10 on the}
swing |'second.
clear. As he put it “I guess I mis-]:Mannix and O'Sullivan Paving |

‘Power Commission

Robert Gordon Rennie of,

‘was fined $25 for hiring a driver
without a chauffeur’s licence. Dave
Adair, driver of the logging truck,
was charged with driving without
due care and attention and was fined
$10 and costs.

Another charge of @riving withont
due care and “attention was laid
against Dennis Adolph as a result
of an accident on the Springhouse

citizenship | Road June.6, and he was fined $10

and costs.

Commercial Permits,
Sites Approved

Two commercial building permits

were granted Tuesday by commi

sioners. One of these was for a major
addition to the high school valued az
$84,000 and the other for a
addition to the rear of the store of
E. G. Woodland & Son with a value
of $1500.

Presentation of sketches of the
work recently completed on the
Maple Leaf Hotel brought a pit of
hheated debate. Three weeks ago the
work was well underway and com-
Oners authorized issuance of a
“stop work” order until plans. were
received and a permit issued. Com-
missioner Eagle, who is also building
inspector, affixed the stop order, anu
when workmen went back on the job
couple of days later, he checked
with the management and found
them in possession of a permit, which
he had been imformed, had. been is-
sued by the village clerk,

Mr. Gibbon sald the sketches had

small

garage in question.

The-by-law covering hours was
first passed in. 1936 and an amend-
ment in 1947 states in effect that
garages will stay open on alternate
holidays and Sundays on a schedule
to be agreed upon among themselves.

Purchases System

icement for the purchase of
d 100 Mile Honse
ethieal system by the
B.C. Power Commission was made
last week in Victoria.

When final arrangements for the

under a new section of the criminal
code of Canada of “effecting a public
mischief” was fined $50 and costs
in police court last week.

The ew section makes it an of-
fense for anyone to give false in-
formation with the purpose of swing-
ing suspicion way from himself, and
thus putting police to extra time and
effort chasing down false informa=
tion.

In this case the man, Joseph Cun=
ningham,-reported his car stolen
from in front of hishome May 24. He
said he found_the vehicle down the
highway the next morning with the
front bashed in and several items
stolen. :

Subsequent investigation revealed
that Cunni had gone off the

purchase have been , the
Crown-owned utility will serve about
70 customers initially, and will make
any necessary improvements to the
system. << ar “ ca

The Power Commission is gradual-
ly meving up the entire length of
the Cariboo Highway. From owner-
ship of the Quesnel and Williams
Lake systems, the commission pur-
chased the Clinton plant and is cur-
rently working under a partnership
agreement with the City of Prince
George which has its own utility.

Purchase of the 100 Mile House
system has been rumoured for sev-
eral months prior to the announce-
ments

Grader In Accident Was
Not Government Owned

Our apologies to the local Depart-
ment of Highways for wrongly stat-
ing in our news story last week on
the logging truck-cabin highway
crash that the grader towing the
cabin belonged to them.

The grader in question belonged
to Mannix-O'Sullivan Paving com-
pany, not the department,

road while driving the car-himself,
and the charge was laid under the
new section,

Says B.C. Aviation
Council Behind Airport

Ernie Eve, well-known manager of

jog Creek airport was hack in town
this week, back on the job for the
first time since sufferng a heart at-
tack last January.
' Speaking to the Kiwanis Club
Tuesday, Ernie had a word to say
about the proposed airport here.
Seems at the annual conference of
the B.C. Aviation Council in May,
Mr. Eve, who is a director of the
council, brought up the matter of our
airport and the confertnce went on
record as pledging every support to
furthering thé project.

The pioneer airman said those at-
tending the conference heard such
items as authorative belief that “fly.
ing saucers” were no figments of
imagination, and that an aircraft
company is experimenting with a
runabout type of craft that is as easy
to operate as riding bieye

been brought in and payment made
for the permit, but he believed he
had only issued a receipt for the
money —®not a permit. However,

Over 300 Attend Awards Day

Commissioner Eagle was sure it was
a permit he had seen, and there the
matter was allowed to drop.

(Under the building aw, per-
mits are issued only after approval
by a meeting of commissioners.)

W. B. Matthews, pastor of the lo-
cal congregation of Jehovah’s Wit-
ne: appeared hefore the commis-
sioners to obtain approval for a site
for a proposed Kingdom Hall. Site is
on Second Avenue, just off the cor-
ner of Cameron Street, Approval for
the site was granted.

Another site approval was forth-
coming on the controversial lot on
Third Avenue that last month was
in the news when C & § Tire Service
failed to get the green light on a
proposed commercial building ther
This time the proposal was for erec-
lion of a building to house medical
olfices, presented by Drs. H. K
wood and J. B. Ringwood
quest Was accompanied by the
number of tures of resi-
the
con-

ses.

favour of
project commissioners

curred.

Anchim Stampede Dates |

Dates of the popular Anahim Stam-
pede in the western reaches of the
Chileotin have heen set at July 7, §
and 9,

Of Williams Lake High School

Over 300 students and parents attended the annual high

school Awards Day c2
afternoon.

Awards were presetena to top stu-

dents in 14 divisions of scholastic
and athletic achievement. This mark-

gram has heen separated from the
graduation exercises. The latter will
be held in the sthool
year along with the annual gradua-
tion banquet.
Top proficiency awards.
by the Bank of Montreal trophies
were won this year by grade twelve
students Ruth Schoonover and Dan
Burns,

The inter-house shield was won
year by House Two, Marlene
rdner aptain, accepting

the Borkowski Shield.

this
¢

house

ts awards by
followin

achiev
went to the
Grade Vi,

Johnson;
Grad
XU, T

pin

Grade

School donated to
those students who have contributed
the most in
school went 2
Marjorie Beaulieu

ara Bryce and
Publication Club
pins Went to Myrtle Mackenzie and

ed the first year the awards day pro-

uditorium this

symboliz-

remonies at the Elk Hall Jast Friday
nee oe SAE SLT

ck Bass. A mathematical asso-
ciation ward given for ‘the first time
went to John Rankin,
Commerce pins and scrolls went
to Lorna Gardner, Barbara Bryce,
Carole Sloan, Beverly Hawker and
Marjorie Mikkelsen, members of the
first graduating class from the school
of commerce course. In presenting a
top \typing award to Miss Bryce,
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Anahim Lake Store
Destroyed By Fire

Anahim, La store and post
fice, owned by Ike Sing,
pletely destroyed by
morning.

It is not known how the fire start-
ed. but by § o'clock, wh it was
fi » it had a strog hold on
the building. Neighbors prevented
the flames from spreading to nearbr
cabins by dousing the structur
with water. It is understood that
about half the fire loss Was covered
by insurance,

was com-
fire on Monday

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