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THE TRIBUNE, WILLIAMS LAKE, B.C.

Thursday, August-18, 1953.

Williams Lake Tribune

Established 1931 Clive Stangoe, Editor

Published every Thursday at Williams Lake, B.C. By The Tribune Publishing Co.

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Employment Office Needed

We notice the Unemployment Insurance Commission is contemplating the establishment of an employment oflice in Quesnel. This is_a commendable, if somewhat delayed move on their part, and one we would like to see made in the direc- tion of Williams Lake as well.

As the distribution hub of a large part of the sprawling Cariboo, it is only natural that persons seeking advice on employment possibilities should gravitate to this centre. But more often than not, they look in vain for such information. Our office receives its fair share of these inquiries and probably we pass out the same advice that other businessmen are giv- .ing. If the person is looking for employment on a ranch, we send him to the Cariboo Cattlemen’s office; if he is looking for sawmill work we name several of the larger mills that he can contact direct. For other types of work, we can only go on what individual requirements we have heard voiced by others. And likely as not, we will hear of someone desperately in need of a good worker a day or so after we have been talking to someone equally interested in obtaining employment.

"The only logical answer is a local employment office to channel all types of requirements and job-seeking applicants through. It would be money well spent for this wealthy government commission to render: a real service to this part of the Interior by opening such an office in Williams Lake.

Danger on the Streets

As a result of Monday evening’s roof fire at the power plant, commission chairman Alastair Mackenzie has expressed concern about the reckless manner in which citizens with automobiles careened down the streets to get a ringside seat.

The alarm sounded at just the right time to insure a good turnout. The evening meal was over and everybody had the free time to jump in the family gas buggy and take off after the fire engine. Street corners were jammed in a matter of minutes by cars carrying firemen, cars carrying sightseers and bicycles carrying that part of the younger generation who haven’t graduated yet to gasoline propulsion. In between the speeding vehicles, other children on foot dashed unheeded to the call of the siren.

It all added. to the excitement, but it also added to the danger of the moment. There were no lives at stake as far as the actual fire was concerned but along the streets there were several instances of hairbreadth escapes from death or injury.

Mr. Mackenzie is quite right in expressing concern over the situation. Motorists will Have to be convined that the gound of the fire siren doesn’t give/them any right to throw vermal driving caution to the wind. If it takes the example of 4 stiff fine meted out to several offenders, the resulting safety factor would be more than worth it.

* Nothing Too Good?

Action of school trustees last week in throwing out requi- sitions for expensive power tools for the high school industrial arts course is one that will be endorsed by most taxpayers in the school district.

As noted in a Courier news story last week, the trustees refused to buy an electric machine for polishing wood and metal (cost - $110) and a power hacksaw (cost - $180.).

One wonders, as trustee A. J. Abbott did, if present-day students are not equipped with sufficient elbow grease to polish wood and metal by hand, and to use an ordinary hack saw instead of an expensive power hack saw.

Perhaps we are wrong, but we are under the impression that the purpose of the industrial arts course is to turn out young fellows who are not at a loss, in later life, to do ordinary repair jobs around the house, and perhaps be able to do a little woodworking and metalworking. Surely instruction in} the use of hammer and saw, plane; levels and other small too!s of the trade would suffice for this purpose.

If, on the other hand, it is the intention of the schools to turn out full-fledged artisans in the woodworking and metal- working trades, it is perhaps a fair question to ask where alJ these artisans are to get jobs after they have graduated.

Similarly, with the home economics. course, we wonder if the school authorities are doing the right thing in providing first-class, modern, and expensive home appliances for the girls to “learn on.’’ Such items as modern electric stoves, kitchen units, sewing machines, pressure cookers, steam irons and the like -- these are thing which most of us take years to accumulate. They are certainly not things which the ordinary young girl graduating from high school can look forward to owning immediately after she gets married.

If she is taught the fundamentals of cooking and dress- making, using simple equipment, neither she nor the school authorities need worry about her ability to use the more costly appliances ...if and when her husband is able to afford them.

“Nothing is too good for our youngsters’ has long been the battle cry of so-called “progressive” educationalists.

It is a phrase which would sound a lot better if it had “within the limits of the taxpayers’ pocketbooks” tacked on to the end of it.---Campbell River Courier.

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In a recent issue of the Family Herald we came across an editorial which expressed the following thought: “No one ever won any plowing matches by substituting a green horse in the furrow and put- ting ned horse up ow the land.” It is quite evident the elect- ors echoed that sentiment when re- turning the Liberal government of Mr. St. Laurent to power.

We are not sure that the Cana- lian Beet Growers are going tp re- main enamoured, for long, of this furrow horse. We are informed the cabinet has rejected the request of he beef producers to investigate the beef packing industry. That looks

as though the weeds are still goine to clutter

up the field of thought as

= related to the

S matter of better markets for our farm products. At the moment the reason for the refusal is not clear but in view of the lad- adaisical man- S ner in which they enquired into bread, rubber, paper and spectacles, we may as- sume the packer barons loom too large in the government stereoscope, and that it is too much to hope the minister of agriculture will put aside his dislike for the British and get down to honest to goodness hargain-

people who refuse to atcept his wares at prices their public cannor afford, even though they had the dollars with wiich to pay for them, but we cannot understand the elect- ed representatives of the Canadian people having to approach any seg- ment of our industrial activity with quaking knees and cowed mien. That is deiinitely no role for the government of a country that is des- tined in the not too distant future to become the hub of the Common{

wealth of Nations — a common- wealth that will ultimately engulf the U . and all Nato countries.

lt is time now for a little realistic

thinking in respect to the better listribution of our primary pro- ducts. The harvest of sales of “hard goods" cannot continue long with-

out the assistance of a healthy ag- viculture. For Mr. St. Lauernt et al

y they can do nothing is pure We know full well they cannot settle these vexing matters all by themselves but they can bestir themselves to press for an easier convertability of Sterling in terms of Canadian dollars. :

To revert to the question of in- vestigating the beef packing indus- try we would point out this is a mat- ter of vital intereg to every Cana- dian consumer and should the gov- ernment refuse to change its atti- tude then the beef producers really must put on a campaign to enlist the support of the vast army of con-

of the Combines Act which is long! overdue.

The volume of support accorded | the CCF party should he surlicient | sign this is no time to ignore the; vbvious facts. The return of the! Liberals should be accepted by them as a desire of the people for an earl: | eure of the ills that are plaguing us, and slowing down progress by a,

seasoned group of parliamentarians. The most serious of these ailments, undoubtedly, is a hardening of the arteries of trade with other coun- tries. It is up to the government to get its hands from under Its posterior and put tnem to the plow. We want to see some prize winning plowing while we.still have the seasoned horse in the furrow.

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From the Files of the Tribune

ONE YEAR AGO ent candidate for the Cariboo gave

August 14, 1952 jan address at Soda Creek— A busy

This week ninety men are battling week at the local hospital - five boys in the Quesnel Lake area to control and one girl were born. Sons were

sumers and thus force the hands of their representatives. They should also press for a thorough revision

six forest fires. All but one are bern to Mr. and Mrs. H. Jefferson, termed “under control.” 48 men Big Lake; Mr. and Msr. Stuart Cum- were conscripted from Williams mings, Williams Lake; Mr. and Mrs.

Lake— A fire started up the outside Brown-John, Horsefi

wall of the new dormitory now un- L. Houseman, 100 Mile House and der constrduction, but was quickly Mr. and Mrs. Harry Obee, 154 Mile brought under control— Construc- House. A daughter was born to Mr.

tion work has commenced on a new chureh in town for the P 1 Assemblies of Canada— Beat Jean Hughes and Martin Mateiew Latin were united in marriz Patricia Cecil Murphy became the bride of Thomas John Hodgson—

and Mrs. “Beesley, Williams Lake—

the rest of the

off from world as the Chimney Creek bridge

ally cut was closed for repairs. One of the four cables holding the structure collapsed as a result of overloading with a cattle drive from Chile? Ranch— Construction started on a new auto court, owned by George M. Pohl, located on the main highway coming into town, just east of the Avery Clinice— John Gibbon took two second place honors and one third in the Interior Championships at Kelowna regatta— Mrs. H. G. Lockwood was appointed assistant matron of War Memorial Hospital— ),000 of prize Cattle were shipped from Williams Lake and the Onward this week— There will be an acute shortage of butter in Williams Lake, the creamery supplying Mackenzies Ltd wired that they were ceasing all

Phone shipments to the Cariboo— 60 tons of dredging equipment arrived here| INTERTOR WHOLESALE DISTRIBUTORS

for Cariboo Metals Limited at Likely Sons were born to Mr. and Mrs

Williams Lake, B.C.

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Used Car Values

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1949 Plymouth Suburban nice clean car .. $1795.00

1952 Plymouth Sedan low milage $2200.00

SPECIALS

1938 Buick Sedan $240.00 a good car ... . $465.00

1937 Nash Sedan good transportation

TRUCK VALUES.

1951 Chev. Panel first class shape $1295.00

1940 Ford Sedan as is, Where is .

1937 Fargo Pickup real value . a. $325.00

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TEN YEARS AGO

August 12, 1943 Floyd Lee Miller, known through- out the Cariboo at “Little Joe the Wrangler” was killed in a car ac- cident on the Bridge Lake road— New radio service from the relay transmitters installed in the Cariboo commences tomorrow— The Lake Motors, which was owned and oper- ated by Geo. Wall and Geo. Lus- combe, is now under the manage- ment of Nick and Pun Quesnel— The Post Office has undergone a overhaul and was given a co— Sgt. Sid Pigeon and

complete

Sgt were in Williams Lake on short furloughs— Ollie Karlander and William Ogden of Lae La Hache were united in Mar- were born to Mr. and rowston and to Mr.

August 10, prospectors in the Canim viet, Har Curtis and Joe | have disappeared and it is, believed that they ed in the yapids— Williams Lake defeated Quesnel in a baseball game here - lo-| cal batteries were English and De- zell— Rodk, Mackenzie, Independ- |

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