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‘Volume 26——Number1 %,

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Williams Lake, B.C., Thursday, January 2, 1958

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News Highlights.
(OTHER year has drawn to a close, and looking By Railway Tracks

< A back on the news stories
D of 1957,
po of events that went to make up ae =
a istory in the community. Here are some ef the
ighlights of the local news in 1957. :

JANUARY
15 a.m. on Christmas Day.

Recommendation from towa| “ wast

ae day, 1956 .~ : : s found by P,

shoo! principals that a new nign {2% 1298 > - Canadian Legion | who inmediaely. Votined ae
School site be secured near the|home. Pivst. meeting wy ne POOLE: oe
eo me. First meeting in the ot :
= TE Was made to the Sohooi| building was held in November | gan teem, evidence
Board and later resulted in| following Day |ateon
wBereage being bought for this|P*7de

‘purpose _ ee
ane - -. Mrs. Peter Aucoin, | JULY by the decensed’s body. was a

0 Mile House, who was| Bntrics at all-time high i sealed bottle of liquor, -|
aes igh in the| ~~ iquor, an empt>|§
Q ly burned in a house fire|“Z2N! Stampede. For, third liquor: bottle and another boitle
wo months previously éar, Dave Perry takes 1 half full.
a » Dassed | ,, ’s best all-
Hiway in boapital. Canon Rs re cowboy award... Mixe It. is ‘understood that Mr
Foe aa -S./feelings greeted the appearance Moore leayes behind a son aged

, former principal of im-| this month 17 Hi B

manuel Colle of parking meters|!%- He had-been separted trom
ma Be, Saskatoon, con-|J0ns town streets . . . Dis- his wife for five years.
aes bishop of the diocese eteueycd visitor wasi His Tax
Te Bho grr |e fronts Laces, rete

a ospi Ambassador to Cai
nity ward was the se eas ipl pees Ae
Mr. and Mrs. Charlie Jonnson,|{© "2S MS. Bob Kelt who did
‘of Alkali Lake... Dxeter arms, | ‘2 "Ck this month on the local
Tnodern hotel at 100 Mile Wi gourse:
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New Budd ae

Ee New Budd cars, known | AUGUST

ae bee pears (0 into} Fire gutted Twiltght nodge.

eee See Tag stopping place at
° y ae La Hach i
Siasers he .. . Lack of in-

oe ee made terest prompted decision to age
< mati rding | ths ri r. i
ee a e Cariboo Fall Pair this year,

Son ofixn old Cariboo family,
James Wesley Moore, 45 of}
Williams Lake, was found dead
by the P.G.B. tracks in town at

= dias) |
e death of his wife Christmas| He

indi-
that death was due to
Tee

fe pe , exposure or
@ combination of the two: Iound

ay man in Willia

hauling contracto:
certain death 24
truck accident.

enquiry into the eause of death
will be held, R.C.M.P. report.

Shell distributors and
a half of coffee,

George Milliken
Passes At Coast

George Milliken, ym

i , well-known
former Williams Lake resident,
passed away at 9:40 a.m. on New

Year's Day! in
‘s g Shaughness:
Hospital, Vancouver. 2

The heavy vehicle was wind-

a USCAPES FROM PLUNGING TRUCK
es eaeon the cab of one of his trucks is Elto:
eee aan oo EEC OTs who miraculously
De t ife December 23 i
plunged off the highway into the Fe ce

— Tribune photo

Was completed in: two hou

a and Elton had just lookea
rough his rear vision mirror
at a car behind to see if th

faster vehicle w:
ante
him, tole

X-rayed,

There was no

: t past
As his eyes adjusted to the

Woman Stabbed In Figh ie eta 28 Se of
On Chilcotin Indian Reserve

Mrs. Cecilia Stump, 37,

Mfrom shock and,
bruises.

alsh resigns| happened in Quesnel,

service here.

‘Pallier Thomas, nerovea | dent of this area, since it serves

pioneer missionary of the Carj.| 2° <Btire Cariboo,

“eo, dies in Edmonton in his |SHPTEMBER

Both year... Members of| W. ©.
liams| Lake Curling Club :

Q was important to tes Tene

. aya Sago he en-
ag | tered Shaughnessy. He was 71

years old. =

‘Born in Belfast, Ireland

Be , Ireland, Mr.

Milliken came to Can fore

y ada

Ae (Bin) Speare, Social|the frst World War. ee

redit candidate, wins Cariboo! Serving with the London.

4 of the; make a:

Anahi *, . nN arrest very shortly.

ee un ake indian Reserve,| Mrs. Stump has a Aveeno

seat in by-electi Ontario| V°S #¢mitted to: War Mem son and a bab gai

a atta by-election held to select{fire department when he joined |H#0Spital. New Year’ ona by three weeks old:
cessor for the previous in-|the armed forces in 1915. ars

straigh ve
Sui adie ee ight over the almost sheer

Six Months

wife and four ms Lake to be with his

left. at

: : eee eae
Aiter the analyst’s report, an F 7 oe x d was sent down ‘to ensure

ground as the Plane. came in,
‘The return trip-to Williams Lake

rs and

Bilton went straight to Wan
Memorial Hospital, where he was

bones

f the| broken but he was still suffering

of course,

x 2 multiple stab drop.
Un okt eee cumbent, the late Hon. Raiph| He i fe and
a i ly in Di - Sas is Survived by on i 2
hee ecem-| Chetwynd . . . First. frost of the|Jim Milliken, and a a: fe son, /slashes. She was stabNed eight own Celeb, Elton will never know what =.
season nips flowers on night of| Mrs. Steve Malesicu. eae times in the head, nec! sea é@ es happened in the next few sec- For ¢ “Tha
eae 17... Kiwanis Cinb|lams Lake. 3 Wi larms and hands, She it is, ons, but whatever it was meant art eft
Sor : piaiiencanae: s to undertake constrne-| _Muner: see will boson | Conditions 2 5 aa merece etmeen Utell
triet, following approval in dle | e Tne Is January 1, = a Pe for him, “He can only of Tua
2rineioe) = for town will be Instal-j@ian Legion will Ve ges i i ee Forest is. ele ssume that he Was thug eae
r jwnjuuim sheathing pn | arrangements. ss x te = — <i aie eded north with the
Sospita! ate : sc Han i p jee Tee one & pe» |eventually abandoning tt
story this — mon’ ‘ pictoualserene: Sere E nan Wine Hie"could oiby le atill with |eveucuslly.. abandoning, tu use
Jumber industry predicted little New Year's Day." “Yehse FJinn Legion vilicials report 150|hands over his head until the north of Quesnel. _ Quesnel

had heen ‘staying on
recently, ~

hope fer better market condi-
tions in 19! | prediction that
was later proyed correct. At
year's end, lumbering was still
‘in a depressed situation.

MARCH

‘Mrs, “Blizabeth Mackenzle,|circles was the purchase. ©
wie of pioneer fown merchant|Prandly’s Drug Stove by the
Roderick Mackenzie, passes at|coast chain of Cunningham's ..-
const. Ailing himself at the|The big annual cattle sale (one
time, Mr. Mackenzie never’ fully |of four sales this year) handled
Focovered “his health, and chelover 2,000 head, Dut prices
passed away in late April . . .|followed the general trend of 2
Village tax rate raised five mills, |soft beef -market-
jumping rate to 20 mills .. -| NOVEMBER :
District engineer Jim Pomeroy| are Lane, 8-year-old boy

©] attended their first purty in their}
new home.

avalanche caused: by the truck
had ceased.

Natural gas was turned on in
town mains for the first time
early this month and another

Mrs. Jack Kirk ts tn War) Motive for the fight i
Sree Scervice was, mvalablentuy pce Hospital with a broken) own and R-C.MP.

residents of Williams Lake leg, following an aceident while at
Hockey Und),

i «© |skating on Williams Lake yes-
jor change in town business |® E
MERE sinew |terday. An accomplished skater,
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Mild weather prevei\d the
making of ice at Quesnel and

Mrs. Kirk believes she caught
Williams Lake in time for the| While ice is being built up at

“police repoit thére were no| He began to clamber back up mation!) about the -yehirle;

t to| accidents over the eyenir the hill and eventually found

—— that he had been thrown clear
4 about 60 feet from the top.

ay This Weekend ‘craitingonim on the road. was |cR aves Put Our for Durand.

She J HMIoHEES who. bad" ‘been | eee OnE SES supe

several newcomers from distant | following.

fields bolstering the line-up. “He seemed surprised to see} He was sentenced to

with the vehicle and its ow

her skate in a crack in the ice.
scheduled opening games of the] the local arena, the Stamps have up and we never did get round) indeterminate prison in

eather eal North Central hockey: loop last} heen getting their legs in shape
F H lid weeltend, so association directors |on the lake ice.
or Oil jays moved tlie entire schedule ahead

one week.

don’t know who he was or where | Prison Farm.
he came from,” Elton told our
reporter.

R.C.M.P. contacted the Williams
Lake-detachment, seeking infor-

An

R.C.MP. constable was familiar

mer

and following investigations a

He
in

Prince George on December 23.

six

me and scared. I was all shaken | months definite and nine months

the

to exchanging names so I still| young offenders’ unit at Oakalla

Weather over the festive holi- : iil be i 5 taki
leaves for Kamloops post and/ som the Buffalo-Creek district, | qq. ae zp ouese tts F nye Be, co Opening games Rete will be |yyyURES FOOT ON TRAIN The motorist was taking Elton To Produce Cow
js replaced by Donald R. Cullen. | . wy; 1 ys this year was ideal, with) this saturday night and Sunday towards Boston Bar when they
P y awarded a parchment scroll by ae
APRIL the Royal Humane Society for enough ice outdoors for skatin | ag¢eynoon with “ Vanderhoot| Charles Fawee(t 31-year-old |met the southbound T and

parties and enough snow for Bears tne
sleighing. v

Although the mercury stood 2 | ciampeders travel to Quesnel
30 above Christmas Day, a ray

iting club. trainman, of Willi

his heroic rescue of his brother
|from the creek last spring and
the rescue of another lad from
the same waters in 1954 ... -

Hon. Ralph Talbot Chetwyn,
minister of agriculture and
fisheries and M.L.A. for Cariboo,

da

when he slipped on the ice | crashed yehicle might be lying
while dismounting from a P.G.B.

on the railway track below,

jana the following weekend 10

H
° °
ms Lake, |truek driven by Glen Roddick, At C T |
ednesday the loca} | Jacerated his left foot last Fri-| of Vancouver. Fearing that the oming ra ut

One of the most unusual exhi-
pits to. be produced in a court

dies in Victoria hospital . - - wind was blowing. This di : cnaine at Exeter. As he slipped | Elton and Glen went back to the } 2
5 chool Tru store. Prince George 8 case here will feature the trial
eB bape Soervites as| The same: Board of Se down at night ’and the tempera adantia ince George his vas struck by the car|scene of the accident and Glen
Twenty-five years’ service *5) tees for District 27 will nota [08 set Incidentally the Prince Geors | nis foot was struck by the car|scene of th accident and Glen| Cy" aygrolaPatenaude, Horsefy
ee oats Rae a tose. Three: trustees, |" ps cpen-tall Lumbermen are no more, The | following the engine. climbed down the hill. He found |Of STON St greed with
tion of Claude Huston. New pace alee eatlce Ree Wi Gane Spe nwen tal with little snow Qj) is now known the | weett was brought up|the truck a total wreck 300 feet ener;
over EY! ey Eg

chief Sid Pigeon takes :
duties ... W. J. (Walt) Thomas, bons and Mrs. S. Malesku,
resigns as administrator of War turned by representatives.

has contributed to produce + monawks, the old name being | to Memorial
clear ice surface on the lak | jy oq in favor of the new label. |taxi in the cave of the firs’ aid
Over the holidays hundreds ©” Granevine gossip has it Uhat the attendant from Ainsworth’s

lond
side which had stopped-it hurt-

the owner.

py|below lying on a-flat piece of unlawfully and _ fraudulently
jutting out from the bi-| Keeping in his possession a” cow
7 and.calf without the consent of

Memorial Hospital. New admin-|pnceEMBER skaters have been enjoying th \ionawKs have all the ingre- ptaner mill. He is r ¢ com-|ling to the steel rails lower

jstrator, Hugh Lousley, took) 4 4  porkowski and Bob Car- winter sport along both sides ©” ajanis for a strong club, with fortably. jdown. The Crown prosecutor hes in-
over duties later in year . = -|<on win seats on village coun- the lake. | Phe evo men returned to| dicated that he will produce the
Gale of St. Peter’s Church prov-| i) Chairman Herb Gardner re- Sunday night the mereury Roston Bar where a message|CoW as an exhibit. The animal
erty in town to Western, Rite| ‘aimed py acclamation... Power|slipped to its lowest point, in ARTHUR MEIGHEN VIGOROUS AT 83 see sent. through to Mrs, | Will probably be tethered outside

and Pigeon announéed. Church). syed on in town from new the valley this year, dipping to
was later moved to new site On|. 7<mission line from Quemel| Just above zero. BY Monday

Blliott. Meanwhile Elton, who the court house and the court
was badly bruised and feeling] inspect it during the course of

‘Mrport Hill and construclion on |" “Targe turnout marks open-| might the mercury started to rise the effects of shock, went to bea |the trial.

“ » store for]: * ; sae 1 ain. : ‘

ae ees caer aes eee er Sag | (" ee Beste fe kad ane |, OBE 9f the ehiet arguments at
: e Nex rtunate link in the imi =

pleted by year end. J aND IN GENERAL the recent preliminary hearing

r lot °

May , {There were, of course, a 10 P Ch
Outstanding suecess scored in| of more general circumstances in Ossession arge

i year’s s, For example, |~

he staging of the first Centra) the year’s news. site
pea Festival.  Six|the weather. We sloshed our way Leo Paul Matton, district
hundred children take part ‘in|through as rainy a‘ spring ani| logging contractor, will appear}
even’ Record crowds attend |Summer as any on record, and| before magistrate C. H. Poston |

Ranch, was available when Mrs.|\oc¢ was plainly diScernabl
|Elliott got the message about

volunteered to fiy down to|set yet.

am of events was that Haley| o¢ ine case was that an identify-
['ayeoek, pilot for the Chileo|‘o¢ prand mark on the animal's

e.

er husband. He immediately] Date of the trial has not been

then enjoyed an open fall, Along| January 11 on a charge of ha
with outher communities, we ex-|ing stolen goods in his posses:
perienced an epidemic of ‘flu — sion.

‘eve May| whether Asian or otherwise we| The goods in question are two|
Pe ees es wover quite determined. News of|power saws that were stolen
Queet.~ > = 72490.000 referen:|tbe launching of Russia's Spl from Koivisto's_saw shop in
auroras oa “ty tor needed | nik kept everyone sky gazing at| Williams Lake last September.
dum to enn wight for awhile, with Uie usual| Matton bought two saws: from |
school expenditures. number of reports coming in gp] eve men who wanted rendy cash,
IU “objects” in the heavens. and subsequently re-sold them.

Over 200 visitors come to

town for the provincial BIks : :

i rie Fulton
vention .- - B. Davie y B b A
ceneives 9,817 votes in federal ew ears Ci] rrives

jon, The popular M.P. was ,
clectiramed ‘Minister of Justice First baby to afrive at War Memorial
ae ‘-Conser-| Hospital this year was a baby daughter to Mr.

May 24 celebrations at various |
district communities. At Horsefly
Terry Jean Yelland was selected

Young Man Found Dying

George Evans, 20, was found (a.m.

| nousehold. the Cariboo Highway
| ‘The young man had stayed up| Mountain House road, abou
latter his parents had gone to|miles north of here.

s to the career of Rt. Hon
inister of Canada, were

Tribute t i
\s asm. the rifle snot was heard.|dent was single.

in Kitchen Of Parents’ Home

parents’ home Christmas morn- George Evans, sr., is at Deep

| ving in the kitchen of his| The home of Mr. and Mrs.
|ing after a shot had aroused the|Creek, near the intersection of

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\bed the night before, and about The victim of the tragic acci-

i ew Progressiv! Pia) a Parliament and business men at a testimonial dint = vas found alone in the kit-| A coroner's jury v:
ae government . . . Joseph and Mrs. William MeLuckie, of 150 Mile House. | oie. Mini ‘enbaker, right, said thal “po poe ith a a citile waside itm body. Seine * ee at Bovine
ee ckie i t Onward Ranch. | over him from bis utterances. bh | che 222 - x

i t sentenced 10 Mr. MecLuckie is foreman a R a discov a hy 23 lp i ix A
Clemine Keqals shonment. £07 The little girl arrived at 7:30 this morning qualities and the sheer magic of us words.” Though 83, Mr | Rushed to War Memorial Hep Day and the inquest was
four yeaTs ee ae with] and tippea the scales at 11 pounds 8 ounces. Meighen spoke wilh vigor and clarily. | tal, he passed away at 11:30 jadjourned until January 8,

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