THE WILLIAMS LAKE TRIBUNE Wednesday, September 23, 1959 peddlers. Two women hide their faces and another stares glumly ahead after Toronto police conducted a mass raid on drug pushers and addicts which netted 31 suspected “Wadya think this is, a roadshow?” one of these women snapped at a reporter. L The first meeting of the Wil- iams Lake District Teachers’ Association was highlighted by plans course to be given here during 1959-1960. for the UBC winter This brings to a climax two years of negotiation-and plan- ning president, with her through District Superintendent Mr. the Department Williams with which bring first course on the part of the past Mrs. J. Huckvale, committees working Douglas Chamberlain, to of Extension. Lake is now in line other interior points to university professors higher education. The to be given here PLANS FOR WINTER COURSE LAID AT TEACHERS’ MEETING will be Speech 416 and will be applicable to either secondary or elementary education de- grees. The lecturer will be Dr. Read Campbell, who has on —campus classes, and will guide the local students through the same content and number of hours as those at the univer- sity. With the newly installed ex- ecutive presiding, the well- attended meeting made some tentative plans for In-Service Training as well. Prexy Frank Toporchak outlined some of the details of an excellent short course in mathematics which will be provided this term as well as a seminar in Speech and Drama in preparation for festival work. He noted with satisfaction that, of the 96 teaching positions in the dis- trict, more than formerly are filled by vertificated teachers. The following members have accepted positions of responsi- bility on the WLDTA executive for 1959-1960: past president, Mrs. J. Huckvale; president, Frank Toporchak; vice presi- dent, Allen Macmillen; secret- ary, Ken Kingwell; treasurer, Cyril Murray; councillors, A. Macmillen and T. Beams; mem- bers-at-large, Mrs. J. Striegler and Mrs. I. Clarke; personnel and agreements, Mrs. F. Armes; programme and _ in-service training, Mrs. J. Huckvale; social, Miss Pat Edwards; public relations, Mrs. Wm. Sharpe. The next regular tieeting of the WLDTA will’ be during the Fall Teachers’ Convention at Prince George on October 23. “Last chance meeting of High School P-TA next week “Williams Lake High School P-TA will be dis- said association president Fred Waterhouse, “unless new persons are avail- able to take office at the annual meeting.” * ee solved next Monday,” In a statement to The Tribune he said that the High School P-TA ltad been a failure ever since it split away from the Elemetary School. “It seems that parents have not quite the same interest in the welfare of their children by the time they reach the high school stage and the novelty.of school has worn off. Certainly the children themselves are less concerned with having their parents attend P-TA meetings. The’ smaller fry will go home and plaintively ask mom why she isn’t going to not flourishing mending thriving body. ship. will live [the P-TA meetings. happen with high school students,” he asserted. “I think there should be a parent-teachers’ sociation and I am not recom- that the senior and junior schools combine to ensure that the high school have a What is desper- ately needed, however, is leader- The high school P-TA needs the services of an aggres- sive woman as president, and breathe throughout the year and who has time to constantly organize and persuade others to help with the work. Such a person has not been forthcoming.” “Last year a few of worked well together and put on four attractive meetings. they were badly attended, how- ever, and a measurement of the good which our association did for the welfare of the high school students was infinitesi- mal. When we asked all the parents and teachers of the high school by letter to join the organization, we had only two replies. Accordingly, the organization will cease next Monday unless a new group show their faces at the meeting. “We need that aggressive woman,” he concluded. us This does as- Mr. and Mrs. V. Treixeira of Nanaimo, are visiting with their daughter and son-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. Les Langley. who P-TA Toronto Telegram LETTER TO THE EDITOR The Editor The Williams Lake Tribune Dear Sir—One of the ablest Canadian businessmen once re- marked if he could find an em- ployee that was right in his judgement more than 60 per cent of the time he would do all in his power never to lose his services. Our village commissioners have been right in their re commendations and decisions far more than 60 per cent of the time; but if they continue their new regulated business policy, which is now in effect, those local and district store customers that see this new move as one of non-appreciation of their business, will not re member the commissioners’ past good decisions and recommenda- tions. Just what are the advantages? For ev vantage they can namie;—twe effected customers can name twice as many dis- advantages. Here are a few of them. By the stores being closed from Saturday at 6:00 p.m. to Tuesday at 9:00 a.m. You are favoring the mail order and catalogue houses. You are throwing more of your business to the Itinerants. You are making it easier for new Mobile Business vehicles to increase their sales to those of your district customers that may need purchases within that 48 hours. You are encouraging new Mobile competition, (Incident- ally the last new one seen working 50 miles north of our town was a Mobile refrigerator meat truck). You are inconsistent with your correct policy of informing your customers to not patronize such peddlars and house to house salesmen. You ask us, namely, your af- fected customers, to play the game with you, which we cer- tainly are anxious to do, but to retain our goodwill, you should show us a little more consider- ation and rescind your present one sided store closing Bylaw. You are aware there are many of your town customers that only buy from day to day; either from habit,or who look forward to their daily healthy walk down town, or because they have no Frigidaire, or because they have | A —Sncliltlgy storase space, oF the ar- t.- of welcome unexpected guests and other reasons in- cluding wanting their perishable purebases fresh daily. ‘A very large number of our out-of-town customers livelihood and work is so subject to the climatic elements, such as rain, mud, heat and intense cold, they cai not take time out and go td town on just the days it suits you to have them come. And f to a considerable extent, if it yh * yas not for such customers, Williams Lake would not be the wonderful town it is today. 'AMl stores or firms or busi- nesse’s that give best satisfack ory service to all of their cust- omers are the most prosperous; { yet your attitude now apparently “ js to lay down a dictatorial policy that will not create the goodwill you should enjoy. ‘Did any of the business firms ‘take in as much revenue during the week commencing Septem- ber 14, as their weekly average prior to that date. If not, ther Rancher sees closing hours ~ bylaw as retrograde move should not consider it to be a mere co-incidence. Some of us go to town. when we have the opportunity and urge, and. we may not have the same urge to go to town the next day. The more people in your town daily and only walking your main streets creates business. Who is benefiting when you make Monday business as dead as Sunday business? Our Board of Trade recently tightly complained about the C.N. Telegraph being closed from Saturday afternoon t Monday morning. Why? Be- cause there are occasions when it is necessary to use such ser- vices during those closed hours, partly for business reasons and to prevent and avoid costly de- lays. . And yet as your present By- law applies, a farmef with a sick animal could not} purchase the drugs between those longer closed hours, that He knows would save his animal, s If one of your children or any one of your family took sick suddenly or had an accident or even a cut or a burn and you did not requite a doctor, y could not lessen such suffer: without someone breaking the law. Sickness or accidents in PEARS PEACHES 15-02. Human Beings and Animals is no respecter of dates. Farmers, your customers, must take every advantage of the weather. A machine can break asteasily on Sunday as any day. Yet we now have to wait until| Tuesday morning before we can| buy the hardware or parts from your stores or other firms | With improved roads and} better transportation enabling| your district customers to g0/ to Williams Lake more quickly | or to other towns; you have taken a si backwards with | such a Bylaw, because some of | that business will be diverted elsewhere. | Can you' call this new Bylaw anything else but a deterrent] to business and a disregard for a lot of your customers? Some have said that all day Monday closing is working well in Vernon. Does such a com- parison cover the Wiliams Lake district? There are small towns large towns and supermarkets within a radius of 30 miles of Vernon where town and coun- try shoppers can purchase their requirements on Monday. Williams Lake and district is big. The town serves a larger area than any Okanagan city. The proportionate rural popu- lation depending on service from the Wiliams Lake firms is far greater than practically any other town in B.C. Such a vital and far reaching Bylaw should have been decided by a Plebiscite, not by some of the business firms. True, your Bylaw legal, but is it just? Our Village Commissioners are broad minded unselfish men. They can prove to all of those people vitally affected that they are bigger men by changing their minds at once and have such retrograde laws rescinded, until at least, the town and country people af- fected have had an opportunity to vote on it and may be Thanks, SOUPS DOG FOOD NAPKINS LYNN PINK SALMON NESCAFE... MEAT SPREADS CUT WAX BEANS PORK & BEANS BIG SHOT 18 Pints ... VALLEY CLARITA Sliced, 28-oz. ... CLOVER LEAF Halves . PURITAN 314-02. MALKIN’S 15-02. ... MALKIN’S 15-02, ... HEINZ Assorted. 5 in cello bag . DR. BALLARDS 15-02. ..... seeeeeees SCOTTIES 400's, Pink, yellow, white .... 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