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Willams Lake Tribune

NEWS EXCHANGE OF THE CARIBOO

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Volume 23 — Number 20.

WILLIAMS LAKE, B.C. Thursday, May 19, 1955

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Kamloops Firm Low Bidder On Sewer

Local Cadets Show Promise At Annual Inspection

Townspeople who attended the first annual inspection of

the Williams Lake Cadet Corps

Monday night were impressed

by the appearnce of the boys, both on the parade square and in their field demonstration work.

The entire parade was handled py | eadet NCO’s. Cadet Cpl. Ernie Smal- lenberg took the corps through the entire inspection drill and Cadet Cpl. Ken Brandly carried out . dressing the ranks for inspection order. Botn boys showed their thorough ground- ing in the manual and gave their word of command crisply.

Following the march-past in front of inspecting officers Lieut. Colonel J. A. McGowan, commanding officer of the Rocky Moutain Rangers, the boys were drawn up for the awards announcements.

Col. MeGowan called Cadet Cpl. Smalleberg forward and told him that he had done a splendid job of handling the parade and presented him with his sergeant’s stripes. Go- ing on, the inspecting officer said that he was satisfied that all of the cadets of the unit were good but that there was one who had put his heart into the movement and a result was little bit better than the rest. As the best all-round cadet, Col. MeGowan said he was proud io present Set. Smallenberg with a trophy for his achievement. The award, he said, was made in consultation with the corps instructors.

Speaking to the boys, Col. Mec- Gowan said they were not doing any- thing in the cadet corps for the Roe- ky Moutain Rangers or for him as commanding officer. but for them- selves and their country.

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He said the oportunity came once, When ven aré-young, to take udvan- tage of cadet training, which is net aimed at making the boys soldiers but good citizens. Of the traiuing, he said it taught hoys to walk like a man, not to slouch around. The range training they receive, he said, was not to enable them to be better hunters but to give them training that would be valuable if the need ever arose to protect home and country.

He added his personal thanks to the St. Joseph's Mission fife and bugle hand that provided the martial music for the parade.

Major C. B. Macqueen, chief in- structor of the corps, announced the folowing award winners in the an- nual classification shoot: Marksmen - Cadets G. Fairley, B. Levens, Cdt. Cpl. BE. Smallenberg, Cat. a. Des- chene, Cdt. L/Cpl. T. Baker. Cat. s. Robinson, Cdt. L/Cpl. EB. Kozuki. First Class Shot - Cats. R. Olson, W. MeDonald, J. O’Dell, Cat. Cpl. K. Brandly. Cat jy, R Bishop, G. Harding and R. Lee Qualified - Cdts. A. McIntosh and R. Ashley.

Cadets

who missed their marks-

i Local Couple Escape Injury In Accident

Mr. and Mrs. Frank Barter es- caped- with bruises when the ear i which they were riding went off th road near Clinton last Sunday.The who Were on the start of a veek’s vaeation, were driving Mrs. Barter’s brother and sis- | nlaw, Mr. and Mrs. V. Dangault | of Vancouver. Only Passenger sus- injuries was Mr. Dangault, auctured his collar bone.

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Fire Damage Confined To Light Plant Walls

t minute check by manager Len Smith resulted in early detection of a fire in the building housing the lighting plant of Twilight Lodge, When Mr. Smith went ont to. the plant around 12:30 am. he discoy- ered smoke billowing out of the walls round the exhaust pipe. He immeai- ately put in a call to Lae La Hache for the fire brigade there and within 15 minutes they were at the head of nd were bringing the laze under control. Damage was confineg to the walls of the building, which ig located about 50 feet from the lodge itself, Estimate of damage is $150,

man badges will have another chance to qualify.

Following the inspection and march past, the cadets were dismiss- ed to assemble their equipment and in the intermission Brother McDon- ald led his boys’ band through x series of drills as the played familiar marches. They received a sustained round of applause when they con- cluded their numbers.

Back on the field, the cadets set up field telephone sets in the four corners of the elementary school playground, demonstrating cable laying. They then went through rifle safety procedure.

With Col. McGowan on the inspec- tion trip was Lieut. G. Hobbs, cadet training officer and Staff! Sgt. Lam- bert.

12 Teams Enter Big Ball Tourney At Lac La Hache

Twelve teams from centres rang- ing from Vernon to Prince George wilt be taking part in the big invita- tional softball tournament at Lac La Hache over the holiday weekend.

The teams will be competing for a total of $750 in prize money, di- vided into three prizes. Winning lub will also take thé annual tourn- ament trophy. i

The games will start at 9 o'clock s morning and will continue through the two days. Here is the schedule: sUNDAY—

(1) 9 a.m. Vernon Aces vs Rut- land Rovers (2) 11 a.m. Kamloops Plaza Hotel vs Prince George Air- force (918th Squadron). (3) 1 p.m. Lac La Hache vs Louis Creek. (4) 3. p.m. Williams Lake Power Glides ys Prince George Shields Motors. (5) 5 p.m. Puntzi Airforce vs For- est Grove. (6) 7 p.m. 100 Mile vs Quesnel.

MONDAY—

10 a.m. winners of draws 1 and 2. 12 noon winners of draws 3 and 4. 2 p.m. winners of draws 5 and 6. At 4 p.m a draw will be made to choose the semi-finalists among the three teams still in the tournament and 6 p.m. the winners of the game. wil! play the team that drew the bye.

The program includes a show on Sunday and the annual tournament dance getting underway at Sunday midnight.

Hospital Pound Day Successful

Another succesful Pound Day has n recorded by the Hospital Aux- iliary with donations of food amount- ing to $175 turned in. Cash dona- tions came to $30.00 with a further $14.05 realized on the tea and $82.51 on the rafile.

Winner of the hamper of tood was Mrs. A. Redford, while Mrs. F. Bass won the set of doilies, and W. Serack of 150 Mile won the surprise gift of china.

The first hot day of summer con- tributed greatly to the success of the afternoon tea as visitors to the nurses’ residence were able to sit at tables on the lawn in the warm sun- shine.

Acting as serviteurs under conven- er, Mrs. P. Jorgensen were Mrs. K. Cameron, Mrs. J. Pomeroy, Mrs 4 McKay and Mrs T. Larson. in the absence of president Mrs. Stewart Smith who was ill was Mrs. C. Stangoe.

Receiving donations at the nurses” residence was Mrs. E. Gaspard, while Mrs. R. Court accepted gifts at the hospital.

With the tea being held at the nurses residence, only a handful of People took advantage of the oppor- tunity of insecting the hospital.

Telkwa Experts To Assist At Barbecue

Something new that is bound to prove popular with visitors to the Stampede this year has been added to the show in the form of an out- door beef barbecue.

While the Kiwanis Club is spon- soring the event the actual barhbecuc will come to us through the active co-operation of the good people of Telkwa, a small town near Smithers.

Tie-in came when the service club was investigating the possibilities of a barbecue and was provided with

the information by former Burns

Lake resident Dick Moquin that such an annual event had been held in Telkwa for the past 50 years or so. The club decided to go for the idea but only if they could arrange to have one of the men who has been in charge of the Telkwa barbecu2 on hand for the beef extravaganza ere.

A telephone call to Telkwa Tues- day afternoon clinched the deal.

Clarence Bussinger, unoffici ‘mayor of Telkwa’ said he’d he happy to line up the needed expert and

would likely make the trip himself. If the two men come they will be the guests of the Kiwanis Club during the show.

Tentative plans call for running the barbecue two days, on July 1 and 2. The quarters of beef will be low- ored into the barbecue pit Thursday night at a special ceremony and volunteers will keep the fires burn- ing and the beef turning all night and into the next day for the first serving.

Horsefly Road Agdin Draws

Trade Board Fire

Word that only $15,000 in special project money would be available for the Horsefly road this year. prompted the Horsefly Committee of the Wil- liams Lake & District Board of Trade several weeks ago to compose a sizz- ling telegram to “Hon. Phil Gaglardi, Minister of Highways, on the subject.

The wordy telegram found its way first to the council of the parent body and there was carefully edited before being forwarded to Victoria.

Last Thursday the gereral meet- ing of the board heard the answering letter from the Minister and the mem- bers got just about as wrath about the situation as the Horsefly resi- dents had been. Mr. Gaglardi’s briet answer was said to be nothing but a

“prush-off,” in fact one member said it was “‘an insult to our inteligence.”

Upshot of the hot discussion, which included reminders that Hon. Ralph Chetwynd had stated last year that in 1955 there would be some work done on the road by cont was formation of a commitee of J Cade, Herly Gardner and Marold Ed- munds to compose a strong letter pointing out critical condition of Horsefly and Beaver Valley roads and suggesting that the minister of high- ways come up and inspect them him- self. TOWN ZONING

Need for a zoning by-law in town was discussed and it was decided to Tequest the Village Comm to have one drawn up and pass The hoard’s committee formed for investigation into the lack of land in the village was instructed to work with the commissioners on zoning problems. GOLD COMMISSION

Decision of the move the gold commissioners’ from Barkerville and Williams Lake to Quesnel had resulted in the local trade group sending letters of pro- test to the Premier and Hon. R. Som- mers. Letters in answer pointed out that Quesnel was in a 2zie lo- cation as a mining area, and consoli- dation of the Quesnel and Cariboo mining divisions would result in con- siderable economy. It was also stated that a local record office would still

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offices

be retained at Willams Lake, so the! meeting decided to accept the move

without any more protest.

The Weather

That warm weather we were look- ing for arrived this week and gar- dening went into full swing.

Here are the ‘temperature reads igs at the airport.

Min Max Friday, May 18 40 56 “Saturday 42 66 Monday 45 79 { Tuesday 55 68 “Wednesday ~~ oe Td

This morning at 8 o'clock it was 49 above.

Four Equipment Companies To Take Part In Field Day

Four local equipment companies will take part in the agricultural field day slated for Saturday afternoon in the stockyard grounds. The com- panies are: Cariboo Truck & Equip- ment, Beath Motors (Williams Lake), MeKay Equipment and J. L. Wilson & Sons. ;

The field day will open at 1:39 with presidents of the Carihoo Cat- tlemen’s Association and Board of Trade, Mel Moon and Tom Larson taking part.

At 1:45 ploughing will get under way with John Deere equipment and Ken May, Department of Agriculture engineer will comment. At 2:15 all equipment will be used for plough- ing; Massey-Ferguson, McCormick-

Deering and Ford being added. This will be followed by headlands plough- ing, double discing, fertilizer spread- ing, with commentary by Mr. May and supervising agriculturist G. A.

test with two teams competing, one under R. A. Moon with Massey-Fer- gusson post hold digger and the other under Hugh Cornwall with a Ford digger. Tom Willis and Bern- ard Guichon will be judges. Prizes for the eyent have been donated by the CCA and equipment dealers.

Annual meeting of the Cariboo Cattlemén’s Association will be held Friday afternoon in Columbus Hall and the following morning there will be a meeting of the B.C. Live Stock Producers Co-op. Friday evening the Board of Trade is sponsoring a social evening for the ranchers with films being shown.

Project

Village Receives Premium Bid On By-law Debentures

Low bidder on the installation of a sewer system for Williams Lake, and probable contractor for the projeet was

Interior Contracting Company

$103,437.62.

The other -four contracting firms quoting were grouped closely to- gether with prices all around $120,- 000.

Here are the prices received at the opening of tenders Tuesday night. Each tender contained two figures, one for crossing the PGE tracks with the main pipe by tunnel and the other by the open ditch method.

Interior Contracting - $103,457.62 ($103,507.23) Christien & Allan - $120,238.70 ($123,707.95); Baynes, Manning Ltd., $120,582.49 ($122, 802.49); Dawson, Wade - $120,653.- 80 ($120,715.80); Manning Ltd. - $120,635.80" ($121,074.70). g

The bids were taken to the coast following the opening by officials of Associated Egineers for tabulation and final recommedation.

Even using the low figure though, the overall cost of the project will be almost $10.000 more than the orig- inal estimate made two years ago,

Added to the $109,437.62 is the cost of the pipe $27,415.00 (con- tractors figures on digging, laying and back filling and construction of the large septic tanks), and the en- gineers’ fee of approximately $11,- 000.00. This brings the total up to $141.852.00.

Youngster Pulled From Chilly Waters of Lake

Barly. and-unintention£i dip in the still chilly waters of Williams Lake was taken Sunday by school princi- pal Ron Friesen and his six-year-old son David.

A group of townspeople were vy iting at the Claude Hustons’ lakeside home and David was playing around the wharf while his dad was out ia a boat nearby fishing. From the boat Mr. Friesen suddenly noticed the boy lose his balance and plunge into the water. He; in turn, took to the water too and headed for his struggling son, but before he got to the wharf Jim Stitt rushed down from a van- tage point on the bank and helped the youngster to safety.

Hospital Building Fund Campaign Opens Officially

Official drive for funds for the proposed addition to War

Memorial Hospital will get

underway Friday, directors

fecided at their meeting last week.

It is estimated that the commun- ity’s share will be in the neighbor- hood of $12,000, although this figure have to definite until actual tenders on the

will remain somewhat in- work are received and word is forth- coming on whether the Federal goy- ernment will give a grant to the work.

The Provincial government will make a grant of 50 percent of the building costs and a third of equip- ment cost.

Blueprints of the proposal were fowarded to Victoria Tuesday and as soon as final approval of these is giv- en by BCHIS, tenders will be called.

Directors are hopeful of collecting more than.is necessary for the build- eaten

Trio Sprouting Beards For Show

telling into the spirit of the Old West for the Stampede prompted three local men to lay a light wager on their ability to grow beards, and what is probably harder, to stand the ribbing until July 1st.

Bill Kohnke, Geoff Place and Dr. Lloyd Bothamley are sporting the beginnings of hairy master- pieces as they go into the second week. Whether the custom is catch- ing among other residents remains to be seen,

ing and standard equipment. The hespital’s Autoclave sterilizing ma- chine is on its last Jegs and the in- stitution’s share of the cost of a new one would run around $1700. At the same time added work that will be imposed on the present kitchen prompted directors to allow for the purchase of a new commercial range.

The hospital building fund now stands at $5,325. Most of this amount has been donated by organizations and individuals since last November.

In the drive for funds, director Bill Kohke will look after the lumber industry of the area; director Hugh Cornwall will approach cattlemen, and a three man committee of direct- ors Felix Nicholson, Alf Eagle and Bill Kohnke will approach town businessmen. Directors Clive Stan- goe and Fred Bass will look after a 1 names committee Director Ken Cameron will co-ordinate plans with the ladies auxiliary

mmunity groups in the district will be invited to ke part in their own areas and hospital directors will visit any of the centres intere: in hearing more of the project.

Both banks in town will bave offi- cial fund receipt books and will ac- ate donations on behalf of pital.

Last donation to come in before the drive opened was from the Chim- ney Creek and Springhonse Live- stock Association for $100.

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of Kamloops. The low bid was

To pay for this is $132,000 raised by bond issue and a healthy premium quoted by the top tendering bonding house of $2,706.00. In the sewer building fund also is an amount of $5,040.00, representing 144 sewer connection fees prepaid by property owners. The contractors’ figures in- elude an amount for connecting ap- proximately 220 users.

Balance left is $2,100.00, and the village should have another couple of thousand dollars to handle any extras that might materialize.

Theoretically this should be forth- coming by the balance of the prop- erty owners who have failed to come forward with their $35 connection fees. At present there are'175 sewer connection applications on hand at the village office but 31 have not been accompanied by the $35 fee, and there are many who have not even filled in the application who will eventaully hook up to the system. BRIGHT BOND PICTURE

Brightest part of the picture was the preminm bid for the 20 year de- bentures bearing 334 percent in- terest.

Top bid was submitted by Gaird- ner & Co. Ltd., of 102.05.

The other ten companies submit- ting bids were: Thos. Read & Co. Ltd., 101.183; Odlum Brown Invest- ments Ltd., 101.585; Baquitable Se- curties of Canada Ltd., 101.548; James Richardson & Sons 101.80; sberton Securities 101.4 ze

According to bids on municipal bond issues in Canada last month, the ones secured by Williams Lake were very good. It was only topped by one bid last month of 103.475 for a series of short term debentures of- fered by an Ontario centre bearing 4 percent. The city of Saskatoon re- ceived 100.13 for 20 year bonds bearing interest at 314, 3% and 4 percent.

'Glides Take Trimming

Hopes for Williams Lake Power Glides in the Lac La Hache tourna- ment look slight if Sunday evening's game here was any criterion of their chances. The locals took on Lae La Hache and came out on the short end ofa17-2 shellacking. ,

Main Stampede Parade July Ist

Directors of the Stampede agreed last night to a suggestion from the parade committee that the main par- ade of the show be held on the ond day, to give visitors here for the Dominion Day holiday a chance to see it.

On opening day a parade of con- testants will be held along the streets and something hig in the way of a grand opening at the grounds is on

the agenda. Last year’s laughable wheelbarrow “baby ra along the streets will be again sponsored by

Wiliams Lake Taxi and will be held the morning of June 30

Something wild and wooly is being planned for the morning of the third day of the show to keep spectators in the spirit of the Stampede.

Back for the second year Will ha the Wells Boys and Girls Band. This year the popular group will mareh in the big parade and a band concert is planned the night prior to opening day.

Back on the program of eveninz entertainment after i couple of years will be Felix Kohnke is in Vancouver now lining up talent for the shows, which may he held on two or three nights,

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Mr. and Mrs. Bill Pulver are le: ing Monday to make their home near Vernon where they haye purehased acreage.,

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