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NEWS EXCHANGE OF THE CARIBOO

Felker, G.

Lake Tribune ©

Volume 20 — Number 47

WILLIAMS LAKH, B.C. Thursday, November 27, 1952

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COMMISSIONERS

Photos by Blackwell's

IN THE NEWS

ONE WILI.

AND TWO WON'T. village commissioners shown above whose seats become vacant this year, signified his intention of running December 11. Commissioner Stan Goad, right,

stand age

in

ouly one has for election | has stated he

Cemniissioner

commissioners,

Of the three’| has served two years on the board and will

for nomination. Chairman of

Alastair Mackenzie, centre, will not run this year, as has John Anderson.

Interest Again Shown In Formation of Historical Society

Eighteen people interested in the preservation of historical data on our district were on hand Monday

- night to spark the re-organization of

an historical- society in Williams Lake.

Henry Windt, who came to the Quesnel district in 1901, was named president of the group. Arthur Had- dock, another old-timer in the Cari- boo, was named first vice-president and Alex Smith was elected second vice-president. Honorary president is Judge Henry Castilou and honor- ary patron is Dr. A. H. Bayne.

“Tt was ier to the officers elected to brifig iz recommendations at the next meeting for persolis to fill the remaining oifices.

Before the actual mecting got un-

_derway, Mr: Windt outlined some of

the work of the Quesnel branch of the Cariboo Historical Society and the work that he thought a local group could carry out.

The Quesnel society has restored the ‘Blessing’ grave on the Quesnel- Wells road, which is a point of his- torical interest. The members are

Sewer Levy May Be Split Three Ways

Commissioners are still for the best method, or methods, to raise the necessary money fov the proposed Williams Lake sewer § tem, |

At present the commi examining the method that wa: by Penticton which was actually combination of three. Penticton first levied a straight land tax charge 10 lay the necessary mains and disposal beds.- Then a charge was made to each user, being 50 cents an outlet with a minimum annual charge of

looming

5. : Although the local commission likes the Penticton set-up, there is still some doubt as to whether a village has the right to make the charge for connection through an im- provement ta:

When this question is settled the way will be clear to preparing the py-law for presentation to the rate-

~payers. STREET RECEPTACLES

Commissioners at their meeting quesday night gave approval to a request from the local branch of the Business and Professional Women's club that the group be allowed w provide waste street receptacles for installation at the main street cor ners in town. The only proviso made py the commissioners was that the yeceptacles be of a design acceptable to the commission.

SUB-DIVISION

‘Work of grading the streets in the

sub-division was started

new PGE this week. has been set aside by the railway company to grade and gravel the streets and provide culverts. In ad-|

‘A total of around $6800!

currently examining the old ‘McIn- nes House’ near Macalister with a view to restoring it. Mr. Windt said that it was in this house that Mrs. Annie Huston was born. Mrs. Huston is the mother of Claude Huston of Williams Lake.

The chairman said it was this kind of work that he would like to see the local group undertake, as well as gathering material for eventual pub- lication. There are many old-timers in the district who could contribute much to the society’s meeting pro- gramp, Mr. Windt told te prospee- tive members.

He went onkto. say that nip ihe valuable historical materi the Cariboo had

ou been lost but that there was still timé to record ’a lot of the Cariboo’s colorful past. Com-

menting on little known facts, M Windt said he doubted whether many of his listeners knew that once Bella Coola produced its own,money and guaranteed its value as far south as the 70 Mile.

DIARIES

Following the election of officers, Mr. Windt read some extracts from old diaries that he had in his poses- sion. One set had been carefully kept by W. D. Moses, a negro barber of Barkerville that recorded events in that town around the 1860’s and

70’s. In one of these an entry made x June,

5, noted’ that the first

nee in the Cariboo had come off the presses. The newspaper was called the Cariboo Sentinel.

Reading from a diary kept by Johnny Stevenson, one-time govern- ment collector and assessor in Ques- ndt gave a few coinments on the Federal election of 1888. Mr. Stevenson also acted as returing of- ficer for the huge Federal electoral district that stretched from Barker- yille to Boston Bar and he had care- fully recorded the number of votes at every point. In the election a total of 297 votes were cast. Mr. Bernard eived 117 votes to‘un- t the previous Member, Bob Me- Leese. Mr. McLeese was the grand- father of Miss Jessie Foster of Williams Lake.

The members of the new society agreed to hold monthly meetings and Mr. Windt promised an interesting program for the December meeting. The public will be invited to each meeting to hear something of the history of the Cariboo.

Hospital Telephone Number Changes

War Memorial Hospital is now on a private telephone line

Previously the hospital was on a party line with Avery Clinic, but be- cause of inability of the hospital staff to get a call out this week dur- ing an emergency, the Board asked the local telephone office to put the institution on a private line.

The request was made yesterday and this afternoon it had been com- plied with. New number for the

dition to this amount will be the cost nurse's desk is 13-R-1 and for the [hospital office is 13-R-2,

ef laying water mains,

New Switchhoards To Be Installed At Telephone Office

Work on Installation of two new switchboards will probably get un- derway next week at the local tele- phone office.

The two 120-line boards are of English manufacture and will permit eventual establishment of increased telephone service for Williams Lake. At present the new switchboards will not afford much relief for local sub- scribers however. New lines will also be necessary before added services can be installed.

Considerable alteration work will be necessary in the telephone=. office

Xmas Tree Contract Handled In Record Time By Town Firm

Wilbur Hannah, husting head of Interior Wholesale Distributors Ltd., has just completed what he describ- @s as the ‘toughest contract he has ever handled,’ and it had nothing to do with fruit and vegetables.

Offered a rush job to supply 13 ears of Christmas trees for the David MeNair Company of Vancouver, Wil- bur took it on and finished his con- tract -by the deadline date of Novem- ber 23.

The trees came from Hanceville and were loaded on trucks at that point and taken to: Ashcroft where the hoxcars were spotted. In order to handle the job 11 men were hired Pbesides the contract cutters and four diucks were used; two of them big diesel units.

_The diesel trucks handled eround 675 bundles of trees and the smallez trucks 500. Average bundle contains four trees.

The waiting boxcars at Ashcroft presented a financial challenge to the contractor to make his dead- line. Spotted there for transit over United States lines, a $400 bond bad to be posted on each car and was subject to forfeit if the shipments weren’t made in the specified time. The trees were being shipped to To- peka, Kansas, and to Missouri.

The trucks were practically work- ing around the clock to make the 200-mile trip to Ashcroft, delivering enough trees to load a car every second day~

In all about 52,000 trees were in- cluded in the total order meant a value to this district of some $22,000.

The other major shipment of trees

shipment. The

‘|from this district was one df five

| ears out of Soda Creek, taken by the

to make room for the

Hotert ¢

With the nomination day

fied his intention’ of running on the Village Commission.

Chairman of the present board, Alastair Mackenzie and Commission- er John Anderson. have stated that they will not offer their names this year.

Chairman Mackenzie has served on the board for six years and has stated he would like to take a rest from the

duties of commissioner. Pressure of business is forcing Commissioner An- derson to step out of the civic field after seven years on the board. He also has served as chairman. Mr. Anderson decided not to run last year and made a last-minute change in his decision when it became apparent that there. were not enough candi- dates to force an election.

businessmen acted in town have declin- ed to consider the possibility of their running for the village board.

Former commissioner C. H.

Various who have

been cont

Pos-

‘Locals Drop Hoop ‘Series On Weekend

the type of opposition the running

With ‘lake Elks hoop squad is ,into in their league there seems lit- |tle hope that they can get out of their cellar spot in the three regular games left to play.

On the weekend Quesnel hoopsters handed the locals two rough set-

backs at the Elks Hall. Saturday the visitors came out on top of a 75-32 ‘score and the next day they ran up

89 points with the Elks only secur- ing 39.

_ The local girls took two losses as well from their visiting counterpurts, but stayed a lot closer to their rivals. Saturday night Quesnel was only able to eke out a 31-28 win and went on to take Sunday's by a score of 45-34. In the latter game the ‘lake squad provided their usual effective oppo- sition until Kay Halloran and Edna Irvine were banished from the floor with five fouls each. Without the strength of these players the team’s play fell off badly.

for civic election only a week

away, Commissioner Stan Goad is the only man who has signi-

for one of the three vacancies ton said this morning that he had inot made up’ his mind yet whether he would allow his name to stand. The board’s two sitting members are Commisioners M. F. Johnson and T. A. Borkowski

NEW GARAGE OPENS DOORS FOR BUSINESS

Building and equipment delays have plagued the Neufeld brothers since they started construction of their new garage here in May, but the company is finally open for busi- ness this week.

Operated by Henry and John Neu- feld, who were formerly in the gar- age business at Wells, the new iirm handles Imperial Oil products and has been appointed Ford and Mon- arch car dealers. The garage is located just inside the village limits on Oliver Street, close to the Stam- pede ground entrance,

Local Man Director In

New Mining

Venture

Returning from the Kootenays last week, local business- man Bert Lloyd announced that negotiations and transfers have been completed in the acquiring of the Yankee Girl and Dundee mines at Ymir, B.C., as well as adjoining claims. Ymir is located between Trail and Nelson.

These adjoining mines were oper- ated in the early days as gold mines only the previous operators discard- ing the lead-zine content because of the lack of markets. Rising labour costs gradually made it impossible for the mines to operate profitably as gold was then worth only $20 an ounce.

In 1929 Stobey-Furlong commenc- ed driving a mile long tunnel trom the other side of the mountain to tap the ore body eight hundred feet be- low its developed levels. After driv ing 3200 feet they became enmeshed in legal difficulties and were forced to-abandon the project. During the ensuing years, titles to the proper- ties became lost in a maze of legal entanglements with some of the prop- erty going through the Escheats Act.

Before the establishment of the latest. company, two miaing inen: Bert Goodridge. and Ralph Sostad spent months getting the properties consolidated so that mining opera- tions on both could be handled under a single company.

APPOINTED VENDORS

The new company will be known as Yankee-Dundee Mines Ltd.. with an authorized capital of four million dollars. Capital for initial develop-

HEADS LEGIO:

W.A.

Photo by Blackwell’s

Mrs. Imhoff Heads Legion Auxiliary

Mrs. V. Imhoff was elected presi- dent of the Ladies’ Auxiliary to the Canadian Legion at their annual meeting Friday. She succeeds Mrs. F. B. Bass.

Other officers named were 1st vice- president, Mrs. E. Blackwell; 2nd i president, Mrs. A. E. Levens; Mrs. J. Blair; treasurer, G. Gibbons; standard-bearer, J. Stitt. Executive members named were Mrs. F. Mellish, Mrs. S$. Pigeon and Mrs. C. Pigeon.

A committee was named to take of decorating a tree for the children’s ward at the hospital and providing gifts for the small inmates. Another committee will look after supplying hampers for the needy.

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It Happened This Way...

To one member of the Parent-Teachers Association

the group's monthly meeting proved educational in an

unusual way.

During a question and

part to the discu

a Friday night.

dawning understanding

“Something has been final remark on the subje

of school dances was being discussed with the e on what time these affairs should end. Contributing her ion a mother ventured the opinion that the dances went on too late, students had to attend school the following day.

Somewhat puzzled by Phillipson said he didn’t think the argument applied in this case since the school dances were always held on

answer period the pro>lem emphasis

particularly when the

the remark, Principal J>

“But aren't some student dances held during the week?” the mother queried.

She was assured by other teachers and parents too that this was not the case ame over her fa

and suddenly a light of

put over on me,” was her

1: . Doubtless the school dance question was re-opened when she

reached home,

ment work has been placed in the pany by the directors themsel

Ata later date the first issue of shares will be offered to the public at 25 cents a share to provide $175,000 for development work. The firm of F. B. Bass Ltd., has been appointed as vendors for the northern area.

The company proposes to set up a mill complete with sink-float plant and zine circuit as soon as develop- ment work has been completed. Size of the mill is tentatively set at 200 tons daily with a sink-fioat plant capacity of 400 tons daily.

Average grade of the ore is $15 per ton in gold-silver with a combin- ed metals conteht of 7 per cent. pro- ducing a combined value of $22 per ton. Average mining and milling costs throughout the province run at about $12.50 a ton. Preliminary fig- gures indicate a gross value of ten and a half million dollars above the level of the extension of the mile-long tunnel, with a large potential in the unexplored areas.

DIRECTORS

Directors of the new company are Mr. Goodridge, Mr. Sostad, Len Bel- liveau, Les. Jamieson and Mr. Lloyd. The first three are well known in mining circles having been instru- mental in respectively developing the Copper Ridge Mine near Topley, the Estella Mine in the Kootenays and the Gray Rock Mine in Bridge River. Mr. Jamieson is a well known Van- couver businessman, and Bert Lloyd is well known loeally as a partner in

tion work in Northern British Colum- bia prior to going into his bresent business. The aged years as a mining man were spent with thé Canadian arm of Kennecott Copper Corporation.

When questicned on the future possibilities of the property, both Fred Bass and Mr. Lloyd were most enthusiastic. They pointed out that the trend in financial circles was to- ward a considerable raise in the pri of gold while the outcome of tie United States election would indicate. a strengthening of the metals mar- ket. They also pointed out that the

new company was starting out with.

a saving of several thousand dollars, owing to the amount of development work already done and the proximity of the property to the town of Ymir, which obviated the need of construct- ing a large camp.

School Opening Set For Dec. 4

Dr. F. T. Fairey, Deputy Minister of Education will officially open the new addition to the Wijliams Lake High School and the dormitory build- ing at special ceremonies December 4th, it has been announcedsby the School Board Office.

The buildings will be thrown open to the public at 2 pm, that day for to the public at 2 p.m. that day for ies are scheduled for 3 p.m. The Parent-Teachers’ Association will sponsor a tea at the school commenc- ing at four o'clock.

It was originally intended to have the Hon. Tillie Rolston, Ministcr of Education open the school buildings, but the pressure of officiating at simi- lar ceremonies this fall throughout the province has resulted in the Min- ister being forced to cancel similar engagements for the time being,

Cache Creek Issues Cow Moose Figures

According to a check made with Cache Creek game station last night, up to eight o’clock $5 cow moose had been taken out since the week sea- son for these animals opened Monday.

Tuesday 400 cars passed through ~

the station with cow moose checked. Altogether this season 959 moose have been taken through Cache Creek,