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THE TRIBUNE, WILLIAMS LAEE, B.@.

Williams Lake Tribune

Established 1931 Clive Stangoe, Editor

Published every Thursday at Williams Lake, B.C,

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Come To The Fair

It’s Fall Fair time again in Williams Lake.

Up at the arena the displays and exhibits that make up the annual show are wai: ing for public inspection now that the afternoon judging has been completed. And this is where the rest of us can help the Fair Association. Sometime tonight or to-morrow take time off to attend the Fair, you’ll find the exhibits are well worth looking over. As a showcase of the district’s agricultural and horticultural products, the Fair performs a valuable community purpose. We should support the efforts of those persons who make its appearance possible,

A Holiday Spot |

= “The Cariboo is the place to go-for your holiday”. That’s the sound advice we have glibly handed out to friends and acquaintances at the coast ever since we chose these parts to make our home, but up until this year We neyer took the advice ourselves. 5 Well. that situation has changed. This year we took our short vacation righ here in the Cariboo, and we have been congratulating ourselves on our decision ever since. Our country may not have all the excitement that the cities lay claim to, but for a relaxing, “do what you want to do when you wanf to” type of existence, right next to the finesf scenery in the world, we’ll take our little corner of the province. It may not have the ‘broadening’ effect on your person- ality that they say travelling has, but you’ll come back to the old grind feeling like a million dollars physically.

“Agin The Government” (The Kelowna Courier)

On Monday British Columbia again maintained jits normal attitude of being “agin -the government.” Only three times in nine elections since 1911 has this province elected a majority of members to the winning party. As the country goes, this province goes the opposite,

As a result of Monday’s vote, British Columbia’s effective representation at Ottawa will be drastically weakened. The numerical strength having the ear of the powers-that-be has been reduced and in the process such doughty B.C. fighters as George Cruickshank of Fraser Valley have;disappeared. The Okanagan may well regret the defeat of Mr. Cruickshank és he was a tower of strength in parlikment and cauéus for the Okanagan fruit industry. He carried the story to jnner councils where the local opposition member could not pene- trate.

In British Columbia, the most interesting side-light of the election was the manner in which the normally-Conserva- tive vote fled from its traditional home to join Johnny-come lately Social Credit. In riding after riding the Pro Con candidate made a pitiful showing.

While it is too early, as this is written, to have a vote breakdown available, it would appear that federally as pro- vincially, Mr. Bennett has captured the Conservative vote in this province. The Conservatives can see not a single ray of sunshine in the results on a national or a provincial basis. . . or indeed on an Okanagan basis.

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Thursday, August 27, 1958

_ From the Files of the Tribune

ONE YEAR AGO

August 28, 1952

visitor to Williams Lake and viewed the progress being made on the yil- year's Fall Fair The local Board ot record of Trade sent a motion to the Annual

ae tng reet— The entries in thi dngessireet slumped from

1200 to 800, but quality remained} Convention of the Canadian Cnama

high. Winner of the grand aggre-|)er of Commerce urging the Cana- gate in the vegetable section waslaian Government to actively co- Charles Place of Dog Creek, and s

Fi : i operate with and assist any Ameri- winner in the flower section was : z Mrs. Claude Pigeon. Mrs, Wm,|¢82 group interested in, and pre- Dingwall of Lac La Hache took the| pared to, compiete the P.G.E.— The

grand aggregate award in the home| Cariboo Cattlemen’s fail cattle and

ccoking division, and Mrs. EB, iull sule is expected to exceed all Jodmell in the fancy work entries—| cords this year as prices are now Sid Pigeon won the major| igh and a shortage of hay is expect-

in the Gladiolus Show pby|¢d this full— Alen Smallenberg won

Ja new 1948 Monaren sedan at an

Abbotsford drawing— A daughter was born to Mr. and Mrs. Mel May- field of Alkali Lake—

taking six firsts and one second, and the Grand Champion award Hundreds of amateur prospectors converged on Timothy Mountain in the Lac La Hache area on the heels of a rumoured “strike” of a rare metal, Beryllium— Only four per- sons were on hand at the first meet-

TEN YEARS AGO August 27, 1943

“Auntie” Lena Bell, one of the

ing to hear the story of the Credit Union movement, and a second meeting was called— 400 students will start back to school next week and with the completion of\the new additicn to the former Elen school} and the dormitory b) a lot of changes will be noted Bar bara McKenzie became the bride of Marcel Joseph Poirier— }

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FIVE YEARS aco | August 26, 1948 Purchase of the Gerald Blenkinsop ranch at Big Creek was announced this week by Cariboo Land and Cat- tle Company— Hon. E. C. Garson, Minister of Public Works, was a

Letter to the Editor

Vancouver, B.C., July 25, 1953

Editor, The Tribune, Williams Lake, B.C,

Dear Sir:

I am not sure if this letter is being addressed to the proper people, ; however, I am asking you to extend

our sincere thanks to the people re- sponsible for the lovely dinner we had at the Elks Hall on our recent visit to your wonderful country,

I would like to apologise for being late for the dinner which was set for 12:30 p.m., and we did not arrive | until well after 2:00 p.m.

To many of us this was out first| trip up into your beautiful country and we r y enjjoyed every minute of it. The scenery was grand how- ever it was made successful due, to the large crowd that turned out to see our Little Leaguers play ball. It was a grand day and I was nappy that the boys were able to play the bang up game that they did. I believe the people of Williams Lake really enjoyed seeing the small boys play as they did, some said it was the first

time th had a Little League team in action. Maybe some up in your community would like to obtain

some information in regard to form- ing your own Little League for next if so, write to,

Little League Raseball, Ine., 120 West Fourth Street, Williamsport, Pa., U.S.A. They will he most happy to sena you all the materia) you will require in the formation of your own league. In ‘closing may I again on behalf

of all the boys, say thanks a million folks for a wonderful weekend, I

Vancouver (Union.Pier) Mon., Wed., and Fri. Ly. 9:30 a.m. Williams Lake Tue., Thur., and Sat. Ly. 5:50 am. Quesnel Tue., Thur., and Sat. Ar. 9:00 am, Prince George Tue., Thur., and Sat. Ar, 1:30 p.m. Prince George Tee. Thur., and Sat. Ly. 3:00 p.m. Quesnel Tue. Thur., and Sat. Ly. 7:30 p.m, Williams Lake Wed., Fri, and Sun. Ly. 11:30 p.m. Vancouver (Union Pier) Tue., Thur.,and Sat. Ar, 6:30 p.m.

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remain,

H. R. Matehes, President,

Junior Futurity Club,

last few remaining of the early pio- neer white women of the district, passed away at War Memorial Hos- pital— The Minister of Labour an- nounced the call to military service} ot married men ages 27 to 30 imelu- ‘sive, and of all men 4yho reach the age of 18 this year— Ple. M. C. Ross, younger son of Mr. and Mrs. M. D. Ross of Meldrum Creek, was wound- ed in the battle for Sicily— The Spanish Creek gold mining property | is being investigated and tested by an engineer from F, W. Smith, field tuan for the Prudential Trust Co—

YEARS AGO + 1933

DWENTY August

Williams Lake held a barbeque and open house for members of the Vancouver Board of Trade Sxcur- sion Party— Darkness and failure to see the lake’s surface resulted in a plane crash here -when Barney, Boe attempted a landing. He was bringing in an injured man, George Finlayson of Likely, to the hospital. he cockpit submerged in six feet of ater and Mr. Boe had to dive three times to extricate the injured man who was strapped to the plane— A party of eastern engineers are going into the Peace River country to esti- mate the cost of proposed construc- tion of the P.G.E. into that district — More than fifty persons attended a meeting in the interests of the

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The Cracker Barrel Forum

By A. J. Drinkell

The boys were ali set to discuss the $13 millions profit, (before taxes) made by Canada Packers Ltd. during their last fiscal year when our old friend, Chief Sit-in-the.Jug, stepped into the arena to announce he hada couple of beeves he wanted to toss around.

It soon trans- pired it was no bullfight he had in mind. A few weeks ago when discussing the la- bour question, as it effects the ranchers, we suggested a desir- able Source of local help was being avidly wooed by the fruit growers of Washngton State who were offering free bus rides and other inducements. The chief wishes it to be clearly under- stood it is no fault of theirs if they are going to Wenatchee Valley and other parts of Uncle Sam’s domain to pick fruit. According to him there are only two communities left in Cariboo where the ranchers still hire Indian labour, so, says he, the braves and their women-folk must wander further afield for their wherewithal to replenish the larder and preserve tranquility in the tee- pees.

We assured the chief we were not blaming his people for accepting a good bus ride and higher wages. We were simply deploring the fact the ranchers could not afford the kind of wages being paid in other types of business. If Uncle Sam can pay more We see no reason why they should refuse it. However, we still think Mr. Rancher should get enough for his livestock to warrant meeting competitive wage scales. It Was quite a surprise to learn tha‘ new ranch owners are not like the old timers insofar as hiring local

help is concerned. We suggested it was probably due to the fact the newcomers do not look so kindly as the old timers upon Sundays that last 48 or 72 hours when there is much work to be done, a:d they may not understand the :.ecd of their whole haying crew quit-ing for a week in the middle of laying to attend the funeral of som» person who cannot possibly be rela 2d to the whole shebang. It is just a matter of time, and getting accus.omed to such things.

BECOME SELF-RELIAN¢

In any case we hone. ly believe that in the long run this new order of things will prove more of a boon than a detriment to the braves. The moré they scatter around and the larger their sphere of activity grows, the more’ self-reliant they will be- come and when the B.C. Govern- ment implements its avowed inten- tion to permit them to purchase land they will be hetter fitted to make full use of all the advantages such a plan holds for them.

The chief's second beef proved a little beyond our power to dispose of as it posed an entirely new angle in local parking problems. Hitherto we had deemed Vancouver to ve the only place where the manner in which parking regulations are en- forced proves ‘extremely yexing t out of town shoppers and tourists. Imagine our surprise when the chief advised us our own Cowtown em- ploys methods that are even more irksome. Says Sit-in-the-Jug: “We hitch up the team to the Benneti wagon and go to town to buy gro- ceries and one thing or another but Williams Lake people are not satis- fied with our shopping. Of course, in the evening we hobble our horses and in the morning we look and look but no horses. We walk and walk till moccasins about wore out but

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