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THE TRIBUNE, WILLIAMS LAKE, B.C.

‘Thursday, August 11, 1955

Dog Creek News

MR. AND MRS. SEALOCK and family, Calgary were recent visitors ‘with Mrs. Sealock’s father, J. S. Place.

MRS. SAM SAUL JOHN is now a patient in Coqualeetza Hospital, Sardis. Letters received by her friends indicate both she and Mrs. Blizabeth Sampson are making sat- isfactory progress and quite at home in their new surroundings.

VISITING the Circle S. as week- end guest of Col: Victor Spencer were Mr. and Mrs. S. D. Bechtel and Miss Barbara Bechtel, Oakland, Calif.; also Mrs. Paul L. Davis and son Paul Jr., San Jose. The party travelled by private plane, one of three Lodestars owned and operated by The Bechtel Corp., San Francisco. Piloting the plane was A. R. Roden wth Verne Shrewsbury as co-pilot. On Sunday the plane was placed at the disposal of the ranch employees for a flight over the surrounding territory. The Charles Place were amongst the guests invited to make the flight.

GOOD progress is being made with haying operations now the weather is behaving more season- ably.

TO COMMAND RCN’s FIRST HELICOPTER ANTI-SUB UNIT

—Centrsl Press Canadian

The Royal pauedian: Navy has announced that ‘Cmdr. (P) George H. Matowe of Saskatoon, Sask., will comman first helicopter anti. peubmar ine unit of the RCN. The u be based at HMCS Shearwater, the navy’s

Heu- tenant-commander served with the RCAF between

helicopter pilot in the United States, and was one of the original pilots in the Utility Helicopter squadron at Shear- water.

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D. H. Greenwood, newly appoint- ed B. C. Telephone Company district commercial and traffic supervisor for the northern district, will make his headquarters in Quesnel in the near future. Mr: Greenwood. has been appointed as a result of con- tinuing expansion of the northern district. He has been in the Com- pany’s Nelson commercial depart- ment for the past five years. W. R. Graham, former district manager, will now be able to devote his whole time to plant duties, with title ot district plant manager.

Gibson Forecasts Road From Squamish To Chilcotin

Vancouver — A new road will be built from Squamish through Pem- berton to Bridge River and on into Chileotin country, ex-MLA Gordon Gibson is convinced.

And he’s prepared to convince the people of Lillooet and the Govern- ment of B. C., too.

To prove his oft-claimed point that this is the hest possible route for a road to Lillooet he traveled the trail by jeep, horseback and by foot.

“At present a lot of towns in the in the Chilcotin are reachable only by the Cariboo Highway if you're driving a car”, said Mr. Gibson.

“This route, which I am convine- ed is the route of a highway some- time soon, will cut a couple of hun- dred miles from the trip’.

“It was an easy trip, even the way we did it”, he said.

“I was wearing only a pair of Ox- fords and didn’t have any trouble”.

He also said they couldn’t have picked worse weather,

“We were soaked in our blankets every night’, he said.

A sidelight to the journey was a stopover at Pemberton for an Indian sports day.

“I entered the horse racing event as the heaviest jockey in the Com- monwealth”, said Mr. Gibson.

“I weighed in, with saddle, at 309 pounds—and I managed to come in third out of 10 riders”.

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student entering the Williams Junior-Senior High School during the 1955-56 term will be required to pay Fees as follows:

Text book rental - grades 7, 8 9 - grades 10, 11, 12

Parents are urged to see that students come the first day of school (September 5) with the necessary money in order that text books may

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Tourist Association Formed To Build Travel On interior Route

Each year in the news columns of Interior newspapers stories are car- ried on the activities of the Okana- gan - Cariboo Trail Association Three times in the past four years the group has sponsored a caravan along varying lengths of the ‘trail’, , and one of these extend- ed from Weed, California to Daw- son Creek. *

To fill in on the history of the association, that is dedicated to building up the tourist traffi¢ along the Interior route, these notes are printed tor the information of our readers.

Back in the early twenties, R. G. Rutherford of Kelowna and Ray Clarke of Wenatchee decided some- thing should be done to encourage the then increasing motor traffic to use the old fur trade route up and down the Okanagan valley. They agreed that a group should be form- ed with a two-fold objective: to en- courage traffic-to the area, and work for the improvement of the north- southroad.

Support was sought from hot and motel operators, garages, ser ice stations and restaurants, as these were considered the traveller: mediate contacts in any community A group was organized encompass- ing the area from Kamloops to We- natehee. At first it was more or less a friendship group, to- exchange ideas and by word of mouth to send travellers to hotels ete, along the way.

The group was later registered in both British Columbia and the State of Washington.

The association was inactive dur- ing the war as travel was restricted, but later Wenatchee called a meet- ing at Omak, which was attended by a group from Kelowna. It soon be- came apparent that the great pool of tourist business was in Californi and that to take advantage of this, the group should be extended south- ward, and steps were taken to in- terest Yakima, Klamath Falls and

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south to Weed, California where Highway 97 commences. Similarly realized that the great drav ing card tor the U. S! tourist is Alas- ka and to capitalize on this, the as- riation drew in members as far|

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97, both in Ganada and in the Unitea

It was instrumental in the| re-designation of the highway from| the Border to Dawson Creek. It has been active in pressing for the re. building of the highway in B. C. ana| has been influential in this regard. The same applies to both Washing- | ton and Oregon. The prestige of the, OCTA in governmental circles’ is in-j dicated in that on at least two ocea- sions the asociation has been asked to participate officially in the open- ing ceremonies of two sections new highway in B. 0.

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