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EVoiune 1 NG er E. WILLIAMS LAKE, B.C./'Thursday, February 2, 1956.
4,

|P.ax, SHOWS OPERATING PROFIT

More Money For Village In New
Provincial Budget Formula

fs An additional $1,822 will accrue to Williams Lake
THE WEATHER

MAINLY FOR AMBULANCE EQUIPMENT -
Ambulance Turns Over Funds
To War Memorial Hospital

A donation of $1,116.54 to War Memorial Hospital
Was made Tuesday night at the final meeting of the
~Williams Lake Ambulance Society.
" The society, formed for the}
express purpose of raising money |ice, it was decided it was not
for the purchase and operation} necessary to have another am-
of an ambulance for the district, | bulance in operation.
has surrendered its certificate of

CAN‘T FLY, EVEN WITH STARDUST

as a result of the increase in grants-in-aid to local goy-
C. Bennet in his
budget speech to the legislature yesterday. g

penditure, hospital insurance
Sunday night, and Williams Lake and for municipalities with pop-

incorporation. With the estab-
lishment of a private ambulance
service by Chet Leavitt in con-
junction with his funeral serv-

Only stipulation made to the
donation, which includes all_the
cash assets of the society, is
that two-thirds of the amount be
used to purchase needed ambu-
lance i such equip-

Lumbermen Take
Two Going Away

ment for the use of the hospital
to be made available to the am-
bulance operator at any time
required

The general membership ex-
pressed their thanks to those
who donated to the fund, and
and those who had

jams Lake
are still low men in the Central
B.C. League standing following
their loss of two straight games
to Lumbermen on the weekend.

The high flying Prince George
club won 10-0 and 9-1 over the
still short-handed locals, who
didn’t have their recently added
Player-strength from ‘the south
for the series.

"Flu also hit the travellers.
Several of the players caught
the bug and Gary Hutchinson
had to sit out.the Sunday game.
Helping out Sunday was former
het minder Fred Hutchinson,
who was jolinny-on-the-spot to
take a pass In front of the Lum-
bermen net and pick up the
Stamps’ lone counter.

Saturday’s game saw the home
club roll up. half.of their points
when Stamp piayers were sitting
in the sin bin.. Walter Richard-
Son was waved off twice, once
for kicking the puck at the goal
and once for roughness. Each
time the Lumbermen forced the
issue and picked up. two goals.
When Rocky Richardson . was
serving two minutes another

volnteered to work with the
ambulance when the service was
provided. Volunteer drivers had
come mainly from the Fire
partment, although several p
vate citizens had also put the:
names on file. The local Regis-
tered Nurses Association chap-
ter had offered to provide nurses
for trips their help was required
on.

The meeting also tendered
thanks to the executive of the
Rociety, president Ralph Wood-
jand, secretary Cece Rhodes
and treasurer Frank Lee.

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Juveniles Lose Two
Games To Clinton.

Ieing a short-handed team last
weekend for their yisit to Clin-
ton, the local juveniles lost both
games, by scores of 11-7 and
5-4. The boys travel again to the
southerm centre this weekend
for another two-game serfes.:-__|

Incidentally, the youngsters
are travelling under a new name

counter was slammed home.

Stamp management promises
this weekend series at the arena
against the Vanderhoof Bears
will see the locals going all out.
On hand will be the Pigeon
brothers, Bruce Pollard and Roy
Boseo from Clinton to bolster
the line-up.

The games are important
mainly for deciding the play-off
spots. If the locals win both fix-
tures they play Lumbermen in
the semis. If they lose one or?
lose both, they play-off against
Quesnel, the league's second
Place club. Going into the week
end series the Bears have 5
points and the Stamps 3.

At a league executive meeting
at Prince on Sunday, Ron Camp-
bell, the Vanderhoof referee
who took a swing at Stamp play-
er Al Hooker in a game at the
northern centre, was barred for
lite from refereeing games in
the league. E

Another hockey footnote con-
cerns the Kamloops Senior B
Baleos, the club that played an
exhibition game here several
weeks ago and dumped the
Stamps 9-4. Last Saturday,

(continued on page 8)

how. Formerly the Pontiacs, the
club is being sponsored now by
Borkowski’s Menswear and will
be known as Borkowski’s Ju-
veniles. New green and white
Sweaters arrived this week and
the boys will be wearing them
for the first time on the week
end.

Grant Extension
Of Move Order

An extensionto March 31 has
been granted to Ike

by village
commisioners to move the
shacks being used as a bus de-
pot at present.

The order called for removal
of the small buildings by Janu-
ary 31.

Greyhound officials W. J. An-
derson and R. Lahore appeared
before commissioners Tuesday
night to ask for the extension.
They told the commissioners
that three trips to Williams
Lake during the past month had
failed to turn up any available
quarters for a depot.

Man Held In Connection With
100 Mile Break-In And Theft

George Henry Arnault, form-
erly of Edmonton, is being hela
by police in connection with a
break-in of Herb Anld’s service
station at 100 Mile House last
Friday and the theft of a truck
in the same community, 2

Arnault appeared hefore Mag-
istrate M. G. Marks at 100 Mile
on a charge of breaking and en-
tering with intent and theft, ana

Specimens Displayed

A specimen display case, re
centiy completed, is now in-
stalled in the main corridor of
the High School to show speci
mens of the Leo Jobin Museum
of Natural History. Specimens
are changed weekly. Bulk of the
museum specimens will have to
wait more classroom accommo-
-dation before they can be prop-

his case was remanded until
February 6.

The till was broken into at
the service station and the office
drawers were ransacked, but
they contained no cash. Nothing
else of yalue was taken.

The same morning a truck
owned by Walter Barber was
stolen from outside his apart-
ment and was later recovered
overturned at the 140 Mile. Ar-
nault was arrested the same day
by police in Williams Lake on
information supplied by Barber,
who had come here to check on
repair work. for his vehicle.

Police believe the accused
man may have-been given a lift
in a car from 140 Mile to Wil-
Hams Laks, and ask if anyone
aid pick up a man in the vicin-
ity around 6 o'clock in the
Morning in question to supply
the information to the nearest

erly displayed.

RCMp detachment,

through the air just like Peter

forehead.

When Johnny Borysiuk, four, of Barrie,
“Peter Pan” on télevision, he saw no reason’ w

him with stardust and then procee
his living room sofa. That's why

enveal Press Canadian

Ont.

Rates for Sewer Didn't Take Long

By Commissioners

Townspeople are getting their
annual expense on the recently-
completed sewer system piece-
meal. .

First charge issued was the
foot frontage tax of 20 cents a
foot on property extending along
the sewer line, whether the
owner of the parcel is hooked
up to the system or not.

Sul to come is the monthly
rental charge, which will be bill-
ed out on a quarterly basis.

Tuesday night commissioners
gave third reading to the sewer
by-law, including the schedule
of rental rates. The by-law now
goes to Victorja for final approy-
al. “ i
Tere -is~a run@own--ot_ the.
rates: 4
Homes — $2 monthly; homes
with additional suites (with
plumbing facilities) - §1 each
suite; banks $2; banks with
living quarters attached $3; pool
rooms and theatres $3; garages
$5; court houses, licenced clubs,
Office buildings, cocktail Lars
| $5; Federal building ¢10; laun-
dry $5; business offices $3;
rooming houses, up to 10 rooms
$5, up to 20 rooms $7.50; ho-
tels - up to 20 rooms $7.50, 20
to 50 rooms $15, over 50 rooms
$25, beer parlor $10 extra; auto
courts, apartments and suites $2
Per unit; schools $2 per class-
Toom; dormitories $5; church
halls ‘$3; stores with cold stor-
age facilities $3.

Last Respects Paid
Late Chas. Moon

St. Peter's church was crowd-
ed to the doors last Friday af-
ternoon as town and country
People came to pay their last
respects to the late Charlie
Moon.

Following the church service,
which was conducted by Rev. G.
Fielder and lay reader Tom
Beames, members of Masonic
Lodge No. 113, A.F. & A. M.
formed up outside the church to
march in the funeral cortege to
Williams Lake ceremony for the
commital services,

Pallbearers “were Dan Lee,
Herb Gardner, Claude Barber,
Joe Howe, Erwin Brandly,

Claude Huston. Honorary pall-
bearers were Roderick Macken-

zie Robert Beauchamp, R. C.
Cotton, George Gill and Phil
Coxon.

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Assault Charge
Dismissed In Court .

Douglas Richard Hilsden of
Keithley Creek was acquitted in
police court Saturday on a
charge of common assault.

Charge arose from an incident
near Keithley Creek January 25.
Mrs. Tom Kinvig, who drives
the mail truck to that centre,
laid a complaint that Hilsden
had threatened her with a knife,
In making a decision the court
found there was lack of suffici-
ent evidence. Hilsden was de-
fended by C. F, MacLean.

-|System Approved |For This Letter

The Postal’ Department can
take a bow on this story relating
to speed delivery.

Tony Borkowski tells us his
sister-in-law at Selkirk, Mani-
toba, about ten miles out of
Winnipeg, wrote a letter to Mrs.
Borkowski the other day and re-
marked that she was hurrying
to catch the rural mailman at
11:15 in the morning.. The Win-
nipeg post office date stamp
showed the letter was’ sorted at
p.m. the same day, and the
letter arrived inthe Williams
Lake post office at 11 o'clock
the next morning, just under 24
hours after the letter was pick-
ed up at Selkirk.

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Customers Slug

Waitress, Escape
With $17 in Cash

Police are still on the lookout
for two young men who enter-
ed the 112 Mile Coffee Shop
Sunday afternoon, slugged the
wife of the owner and escaped
with §17 in cash.

According to Mrs. Len Krebs,
she was alone in the coffee shop
around 4 p.m. when the two
young men came in and ordered
a coke and a cup of coffee.
When she turned to get cream
for the customer, oné of the men
struck her on the head and
knocked her unconscious. When
she came to and discovered the
open till, she flagged down a
passing motorist who relayed
the information to the RCMP at
100 Mile House.

IMPAIRED DRIVING

Mare Labonte of Lone Butte
was fined $50 and costs in police
court at 100 Mile House Mon-
day on a charge of impaired
driving.

Ransacking
Employer's Home
Brings Jail Term

Going into their employer's
home, drinking his liquor and
ransacking the place in general
earned short jail sentences for
two men in police court this
week.

Charged with breaking and
entering, Arthur Joe Rosette
and Raymond Rosette, were giy-
ep three months and two months
respectively.

Their employer, district mill-
man Fred Westwi came into
town the other day and in his
absence the two men went in,
drank some liquor and proceed-
ed to have a bit of a party, ran-
sacking the home in the process.
After they were through they
left the property, taking with
them a horse and saddle owned
by Mr. Westwick. At St. Jo-
Seph’s Mission they left th
horse in charge of Mr. West
Wick’s brother before proceeding
on their way,

cury dropped to around 36 be-
low and by

Monday’s low temperatures with
the mercury standing at 5 below
this morning.

Here are the readings taken
at the airport during the past
week between the hours of 8:30
a.m. and 5 p.m.

Friday, Jan. 27
Saturday
Monday
Tuesday
Wednesday

Woodland Rink
Knocked Out of
Zone Playdowns

| Tony Woodiand’s local Con-
soils entry was knocked out of
the zone playdowns at Quesnel
last weekend, but will travel to
Victoria anyway on Sunday to
take part in open bonspiel play.

The stnong Lloyd Harper rink
of Quesnel

ulation up to 3,500 persons the

on the old 1951 census. This
placed Williams Lake’s popula-
tion at 911.

The budget address revealed
that economic activity during
1955 surpassed all previous re-

prospects warrant the assump-
tion that 1956 will prove still
better.

The public accounts for the
year ending March 31, 1956,
showed a net increase in all pro-
vincial assets of $26,253,000
and an increase in excess aasets
over Uabilities of $50,394,000.
During that year there had been
collected close to $199,000,000
in revenue which, after provid-
ing for debt charges, general ex-

Cloudy Skies fo
Groundheg Day

Today is Groundhog Day, ana

went through last | locally the little animal's predic-

Sunday’s play without a loss to| tion would depend on how early
win the right to represent the|it arises.

zone,

Hanper du
Prince George 11-7.

a close 7-6 victory over Foreman.

Several lop-sided scores were| cloudy
registered. In the first game Har-| partial clearing brougnt tle sun

Generally the morning was
until around 10:30 when

per defeated Woodiand {0-8 and! out fora short wifile.
ed Hance Hoine ory: SoRer
Jom Fore-|.tion, if the groundhos seés ‘his
man of Wells also downed Roine|shadow when. he comes out to
15-1, but lost out to Woodland | look the situation over February
16-1-Roine came back to defeat|2, were in for six weeks more
Woodland 16-3 and Harper won| of winter,

According “to the old sojersti=

Maybe spring is just
around the corner.

C.CA. Directors To Take
Tax Problem To Cabinet

Follow-up of last week’s defeat of the school ref-

erendum here was the decision last Friday by directors

of the Cariboo Cattlemen’s

Association to send a dele-

gation to Victaria to meet government leaders and ask

for immediate relief of the

Date of the meeting has still
not been set. Directors are await-
ing word trom Hon. Ralph Chet-
wynd, who is attempting to ar-
range an audience with the en-
tire cabinet. Ministers have heen
busy the early part of this week
with budget work.

At the same time the C.C.A.
directors approached the school
board with the offer that the
association would support a
school by-law to provide the
minimum capital requirements
for one year only, provided the
Victoria delegates receive the
assurance of the government
that steps will be taken this year
to lighten the burden of school

land tax burden.

a es ee eee
taxes on the land by returning
to the district for school pur-
poses a greater part of the rev-
enue which is received from this
district.

Trustees, who also met Fri-
day to work on their budget.
had no comments on the propos-
al. Being mainly concerned at
the time with the operating ‘por-
tion of the budget, they were un-
able to supply any figures of
what a minimum capital expen-
diture for one year would be.
They meet next Tuesday to con-
sider the capital portion of the
budget.

-durction

and capital out of income, left
a net revenue surplus of $15,-
550,000.

~~
_The direct debt of tie prov=
ince on December 31, 1955
showed that the gross amount
outstanding was $214,847,000,
but that after deducting self.
liquidating debts and provincial
sinking funds, the net debt
amounted to $125,938,000 with
the result ttat the net debt
showed a decrease of $13,432.00
during 1955, and a reduction of
$65,154,000 since February 15,
1952.

RAILWAY PROFIT

The minister’s address gave
an outline of the Pacific Great
Eastern Railway extensions
south and north. The Vancouver
extension will cost $10,500,000.
The northern extension is in pro-
gress and construction contracts
amounting to some $9,800,000
have been let to.cover construc-

George. Total length of this ex-
tension is approximately. 259

Traffic operations on the rail-
way during 1955 were 74 per

jcent greater than for 1953, and

even taking into account the ex-
Penditure of $300,000 to repair
flood damage, the company
showed a profit during 1955 of
$769,000. S

The minister,announced a re-

equal to one-third and the pro-
posal to earmark all revenues
accruing from this tax to hos-
pital construction.

DEVELOPMENT ROADS

The budget shows that gross
cost of contemplated capital
works this year will involve an
outlay of $80,108,000 or $38,-
028,000 more than during the
current year, and that of this
increase $37,480,000 is for ar-
terial roads and bridges, forest
development roads and Inining
roads,

Mr. Bennett said that the time
had come when the province was
being called on to open its vast
storehouse of natural resources
for the benefit of the nation and
to meet world demands. The
budget proposals contain large
approriations for main access
means to forest and mining re-
sources,, for the conservation
and regeneration of forests, for
the improvement and expansion
of agriculture (for which an in-
crease of $542,900 or 45% is
provided), and adequate com-
munication means for the pro-

ducer, distributor ‘and people
generally,

In his closing remarks the
Premier said his government’s
estimates reflected cautious op-

| timism.

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Norma: and

temperatures wil

normal
prevail over
all of Canada for the next 30

days, according ,olthe igpe tance
weather chart, Moderate snow-
fall is expected. “And the cold,

BELOW
NORMAL
CE Jacksonville =
id weather thot fas afflicted

‘lorida fur the past few weeks

jis expected to continue.

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