ee nea were = Volume 25 — Number 38 Williams Lake, B.C., Wednesday, September 14 PAGES 18, 1957 i oe Single Copy 10c;, $3.00 per year Elderly Hunter Lost For Six Hours Saturday Paul Niquedet, sr., of Williams Lake, was lost for six hours last Saturday night in the Dugan Lake district on the Horsefly road. Mr. Niquidet, who is 73, was out hunting with Pete Friesen 28 the time. They were return- ing from hunting when “Mr. Friesen suggested he ould hurry on ahead and bring back the trtitk, When he returned down the track with the truck, Mr, Niguiget had apparently taken a wrong turning and was nowhere to be seen. Mr. Triesen immediately in- formed R.CM.P. and Niquidet’s family and a search was instituted. Mr. Niquidet, however, managed to locate the Horsefly road himself eyentu- ally and was brought into Wil- liams Lake by some Vancouver hunters when the search party were recalled, High School Should Be Ready For 59 Term _ It is anticipated that eonstruc- tion on the Junior-Senior High Sehool at Williams Lake will Start in April, 1958, according to the school board, with the building being ready for oceu- pancy for the beginning of the 1959 school term. Sketch plans are now being drawn and working drawings should be ready early in the new The new airport runway Lake stretches away into Standing in the foreground at left is W. Holdsworth, : STRAIGHT AS six miles out of Williams , the distance for 7,000 feet. nearer completion resident engivieer for the project, which is a step Year Extension Granted On Big Airport Job Ee new airport six miles north of Williams Lake oe a step nearer completion with 75 per cent of ms Steves complsted: Scheduled to be finished ° ugust this year, the j ; cs E : 5 roje WAU EEER ea ES a by wet weather and ah aetetibion 0 e€ contr ¥ Hee tractors for August 31 next The job will be finished long before then, haweyer, if eyery- thing goes according to ~ plan, stated resident engineey for the Department of Public Works, W. Holdsworth, in an interview last week, : Sot SS Sad el long “buttons” “at each end of conerete. Reason for the con- crete is the necessity for a harder surface to w..hstand the tremendous heat given off by jets during initial warm-up be- fore take off. It is also a better surface to keep clean of surplus oil, Built on a plateau, the tre- mendous project was literally hacked out of thick natural bush to produce a runway cap- able of utilization by the big- gest Jet airliners. PECIAL SOIL TESTS Extent of the planning neces- —Tribune photo. sary for a job of this kind is Hold Course ‘At Lac La Hache Lae La Hache will be-the site jin 1958 of the sirst provincial course for Cubmasters ever to be held in Cariboo, according to an announcement this by Joe Turner, morning field commis- sioner of the Boy Scouts’ Asso- ciation. Each summer the provincial association conducts one-week courses for cubmasters, scout- masters and rover crew leaders. The courses are invaluable in providing the latest in practical year. training methods. - SPEAKS © HISTORY TO KIWANIS TLLIAMS LAKB'S natur will be ready for use i Town System Ready for Gas al gas distribution Syste ut actual~ na few days, “turn-on” of gas into the system has not been announced by Inland Gas Company sen, local company repre-~ i i ae Tee nc TES according to Frank Mogen: sentative. Mr. Mogensen made the state- ment Tuesday during a short) question period that followed a talk given to the Kiwanis Club. | Speaking on the history of| development of gas and gas dis- tribution systems, Mr. Mogensen said natural gas was known 3,000 years ago, and used by the ancient Persians for lighting of an ‘eternal flame”? used in re- ligious ceremonies. The Chinese were the first of the early races to make commer- cial use of natural gas, piping it to the sea through bamboo tubes to be used im the reclaiming of salt from sea water by evapora~ tion. The Chinese, though, had discovered a use for gas and then eventually discarded it, long be- fore other civilizations found gas a useful element. Because of problems of trans mitting the gas, its general use wwas not developed until modern times. high. next development, but thes°| 40¢q in charge of the local were-only suitable for use Under | 5 os cn ment. low pressure. STEEL PIPE USED Natural gas finally came into with the local for Shown here are the new a Lake Blementary Scho are: Miss S. B. Crighton, head oifice, its own With the production of endless welded steel pipe that will carry the gas under press- ures in excess of 1,100 pounds. it is the number one fuel in the United States today, Mr. Mogen- sen stated, and it rapidly ap- proaching that peak in Canada. Natural gas in Western Canada is produced from wells to 13,000 feet in depth, and is piped to central gathering | officials from 5,000 points through systems. One of these centres Continued on Page Bight First Section | ~ Former RCMP. ‘Sergeant Leaves |iast Thursday to make First attempts’ to use it)/home in Salmon Arm. in North America saw oak shells used for pipelines, but loss was Cast iron lines were the estry office. Reins. ol. indicated by the fact that the Department of Public Works The runway proper stretches for a full 7,000 feet and is 200 a start on a major part Plans on the structure are being revised and new tenders will be called within two weeks, In the meantime, the schoal board has not released the figures on the first tender call, in fairness to the competing contractors. In news of other building pro- jects, the Big Lake School undertaken us soon as arrangements have been work on will be made to clear the new s e. Also waiting on site clearing is Beaver Valley, school where a leacherage will be new and fications are now ready for Glen~ Pdale (Smedleyville) school and tenders will be ‘called early in October. Mr. and Mrs. Joe Howe left their The family moved here six years ago when Mr. Howe, then a sergeant in the R.C.M.P., was throughout School He retired from|this week revealed. the force three years ago and since then has been working| tered fo: Sat sa - NEW MEMBERS OF ELEMEN ppointments to: Williams From. left to right they Neufe)d, Mrs. B. Mandell, Miss ay Mrs. E. F, Simser, Miss W. B. Apps, Mrs. gE: er decision to erect three pre-fab units in the town elemen- tary school grounds to tempor eit pelieye overcrowding has |now been changed. |The units |will be erected at Glendale, a move that will also save the To Convention from District 27 Seven trustees and education will y attend the annual convention of) chilly wind blov is at|the B.C. School Trustees at Vic-| main clear, however, Tenders Too High On Second School Project Out To Bid Beaene figures again higher than architect’s estimates prevented District 27 trustees making of their building program when tenders were opened last an 3 week on K s addition to 100 Mile School. See cost of transporting the children into town. . Erection of pre-fab. units at Bast and West Riske Creek is now underway. Streets To Be Oiled Winter may be just around the corner, but in the meantime fall winds are whipping clouds of dust down yillage streets. Compiaints prompted cor night to. appro: feet’ in width. There is a further 200 foot strip running down each side which eventually will be grassed over and provide landing facilities for smaller {eraft, | BIG FIGURES Statistics regarding material removed and put on the airport reach. almost astronomical pro-. Portions. Half a million cubie yards of earth have been moy- ed, of which approximately 125,- 000 cubie yards came from the runway itself. This provided the 200 foot wide trench 35 inches deep which was filled with 372,- employs a special soils testing laboratory on the site to produce a perfect mix in the production of the most durable asphalt sur- face possible. Drainage alone provide fur- :|ther figures of interest in that there are six miles of , drain pipes laid of 8, 10 and 12-inch diameters, Although it looks perfectly level, the runway has a slight dip in it. At its highest point it is 3,084 feet above sea level. The lowest point is 3,070 feet above sea level. While a four- teen foot difference sounds con- 000 tons of gravel. It is- this part of the task which is now almost finished. Although the Weather has proved a number one bogey, the Paana| gravelling job was made easier SS eae Shown here is Dr. G, D. M. Keityls, director the Cari i coe pe ee by the discovery of local gravel i 0 |pits by works —superi the post earlier this | Jim Fenton. coe eee summer, Dr. *Keti : : major task when the First Frost Nips Gardens Fi night killea the garde | | At 7:30 unofficial town \reading ¥ above and other as much as six degrees of frost in the ear! yesterday ng. Jin the air showing frost of the season last Snore delicate |DOSsible project—Tribune plants in exposed areas of town reports muiested that mere was L@QION To Build First nip of winter was felt with a Skies re-| home for the local brane A ee S — was in Williams Lake inal 5. Rael 5. gravelp is—con feet in length with 800 foot liams Lake to ‘discuss siderable, it is negligible in a 7,000 foot runway. K New Agriculturist. Roger Fry, son of Mrs. Eva Lockwood,. of. Williams> Lake, has been appointed district agri- culturist at Quesnel: “Mi. Fry with directors bt the local Kiwanis Cltb the IZED MEET 65 AT ORGA problems involved in th health setting uv a nett) Alawy Elementa sidering the scheme as a photo 5,000 STRUCTUR y RS, STEWART SMITH of the newly- Home immediately turnout of 65 parents and Former president Mrs. L. Construction of a $25,000| Langley acted as chairman of the h of the; meeting until the installation of the new officers, and explained how the existing group had been a|Canadian Legion will get under- immediately, according to way of the Williams Lake Elementary meeting held in the Annex Tuesday night. A record ry School P-TA Names Slate of Officers was elected first. president formed Parent-Teacher Association School “at’ the teachers attended. follows: Programme, Mrs. T. Larson and’ H. Bell; member- ship, Mrs. F. Graham, Mrs. W. Weatherill, Mrs. A. Routley; hospitality, Mrs. W. Sharpe; Mrs. toria this’ month. Convention) continuation of the sunny days dates are September 23, 24, 25-|we have enjoyed for the past|an announcement trom the build-| disbanded last June as it was : ae, cae ein weds Past Ving committee. felt that sGhool'and the students |Plamt) Mrs.R. Moora;. socte), Attending ill be ebolreien 2) ; ; ine olers are being called to-|could be better served with a|Mrs. F. Hamel, tts. H. Cripps, Greenies, Uriistees Mrs. $.[ Official high at the “alrport) ee ee ctrnetion of a _ bette! Sea Atgeaiiit; Ristoneay Malesku, Doug Stevenson, Mrs.| lust week was above on Sep-|@ay for construction of the 40 x -TA of its own. raat M. Gibbon and Mrs. A. B tember 14. Readings aren't |S0 frame building, which will) — senool principal Ron Friesen . = inspector Doug Chamberlain and) taken on Sundays but it was|be located on the Legion prop-|raie jt was very apt that the| Dues were set at 75¢ 2 year, poard secretary Lloyd Yorkston.| probably close to SO. erty the new Mackenzie} gyst meeting of the new group |and meetings will be held on the : : saeie should be held in the annex, | third Tuesday in each month. At_ their meeting Monday| wnich was actually the first Right “Lesion members hel@ al ye cai in qwanliama:Lalte, with a| 4: Vole “ot thanks, 10; MRS: in totaT school enrolment figur a check with the There were 1,854 pupils |year’s term, 77 CHOOL STA H. Richardson, M Miss R. Ford, Mrs. B. Enrolment Figures Show There was no phenomenal rise | total figure 7 the beginning of th more than the| with than before. at the end of June. Although the overall jot .|me is | having f FF Loadman, J. 0- Kirk. —Tribune photo. Slight Rise figure :|nas remained constant, shifting poakd: slice population during the sum- resulted in some centres ‘ay more children to cope 2. Reece, Mrs. W. Broughton, full discussion on the advisabil- ity of discarding a more elabor- ate design that carried a price estimate of $75,000 in favor of staff of one teacher. now 35 teachers fake alone, he said. Following an introduction 0: the simplifi The smaller design chosen is a copy of the plan used by the Cloverdale branch in rebuilding their home following a. fire las year. ber: that stitute parent working for th |development of the child to th best of his ability.” IMPAIRED DRIVING Merril Hilde, 26, of was char: William Prince Geor week with impaired driving. tf ea | teacher. speed, weaving acro: R.C.M.P. evening the spotted the ca F: | checked him |R. Court | Hilde \ 0 and cos! | Knull; line centre ye chase Committee was set up was fined Car Stripped While Accident ‘Victim Recovering In Hospital minor Howard Robert C of|cracked jawbone, |euts and bruise 1415 Rupert Street, Vancouver, : | The car, which incurred $3 ran off Friday | vty or damages, \night north of Macalister w wr its wheels and other ace during the the road last of tWO: sories His iod Mr. © thrown |in War Memorial Hospital. was not insured. blinded by the oncoming vehicles. car | pe overturned and be Mr. Craig was out, sutiered a the new teachers to the meni-|membe , Mr. Friesen went on to say a teacher is really a sub- corresponding secretary, and| Mrs. G. Rowand; treasurer, Mrs. as|Maxine Mack and had. alread: facial was stripped There are | Langley for the time she has de- in ‘Wen Eons votes to the P-TA and the wel fare of the children of this dis- | trict was endorsed by the ‘Visitor Succumbs e He Pl . x that the object of the P-TA is 0 Hl i g T p tat ame obseet of ove P58 On unting int so that the parent's job will be r, and so will that of a ln The Chilcotin Frank Carpine, an American ae “eat 5 leaving| Other officers elected were , : Be aa, een Tenying | wresigent, H. A, Buchanan; [im his late fifties, died near LOR On Ne eee ioe Ye ecording secretary, Mrs. A.|Alexis Creek Friday night from a heart condition. He was on a hunting trip ac- companied by Indian guide shot one moose which had bi prought into Williams Lake for storage. The men returned Friday and Mr. Carpine awoke during the night and complained of feeling x He died shortly afterwards. Magistrate Rene Hance conduc- ted a coroner's inquiry and an autopsy Saturday night dis- closed the fact that the hunter |died from a heart condition. 50 es- four-day | g was recovering | ir. Carpine is believed to be It| survived by a wife and family, Jin his home town of Seattle,