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.., THE TRIBUNE, WILLIAMS LAKE, Be pee She ae

[ EDITORIALS System Might Confuse

{= long-overdue plan of street naming and house

numbering in Williams Lake moved a little closer to becoming a reality last week when the Board of Trade presented_a map to the commission showing the disposition of numbers for every lot in town.

Before these numbers are allocated to the property owners however, the commissioners must complete their part of the plan by erecting the street corner posts bearing the names of the streets and avenues.

Getting back to the numbering plan, there is one aspect of it that we believe could, in itself, lead to some confusion.

Seeking to accommodate any possible future needs, the committee in charge of the numbering has allocated four numbers to each lot in the town. In commercial areas Particularly, the growth of any town is followed by a breaking up of normal sized lots into plots of ground that just has room on it for the business houses located there. When this happens where a normal numbering system is in effect, we find buildings labelled. 234% or 284A.

The policy advanced of allowing four numbers to each lot would certainly avoid this sort of eventuality, and we are in agreement with the theory within the commercial zones of the town. But we fail to see the necessity of this course of-action being followed in the residential or single-dwelling zones.

In looking for a residence by number, people are used to assuming that 431 is followed by 433 on one side of the street, unless there is a vacant lot in be- tween. We believe the fact that 431 will be followed by 439 on the streets of Williams Lake will be un- necessarily confusing the problem,

Which number is allocated to the present owner of a house on any town lot? Take the man whose lot has numbers 431, 433, 435, 487. Presumably there would have to be some order in this allocating, such as each house now being given the first in the ‘series. But what if the house is located tight against the side of the lot away from the 400-block corner? If the lot was ever sub-divided it is not likely he would move the-building, so it should be given either the number 435 or 437.

For years to come, the present single dwelling zones will remain as such, and we think it would be a wiser plan to have house 431 followed by house 433.

We need a numbering plan badly in Williams Lake, and the committee of the Board of Trade that has spent a great deal of time on the project are to be complimented on their. acceptan of civic responsi- bility. Our object in criticizing a part of the plan is done with the thought that all of the aspects should be considered,

Get The P.G.E. Story Across

OTING that the Pacific Great Eastern Railway is N receiving nothing but “ bad press’ in the news- Papers these days, the Editor of the Lillooet News suggests the time has come for the government- owned line to do something about mending fences in a public relations way.

We are quite in agreement with the thought, in fact it is one we expressed several years ago.

Basic purpose of a public relations staff is not, as is sometimes supposed, to spend their employer’s money in promoting the gentlemen of the press by throwing large parties, or,"to give another viewpoint, of getting as much free advertising into the news columns of the daily and weekly press as possible, The purpose of such a staff is to get the story be- hind the operations of the company across to the public. A wide-awake public relations department will ensure that the company’s side of a noteworthy event is given concisely and quickly. It provides a source of information that, in the case of the P.G.E., is prae-

tically non-existent today.

The railway company at present employs the services of one public relations firm on a consultant basis, but this is proving little better than the pre- vious hit-and-miss methods of getting the railroad’s story across.

The establishment of a public relations depart- ment would prove a worthwhile investment for the Py

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The dread Asiatic ‘fin best-publicized the Black Death. reached here,

is the| wrong with the boys but stomach sinee|ache, foot-rot and other minor It hasn't even

epidemic ils that sailors piek up in tropi- but it is already | cal seaports.

jostling sex, larceny, murder and

: The U.S. Navy, the U.S. Afr other vital topics for space on

| Force and missionaries return-

Page 1. = 5 ing on furlough were reported When someone in B.C.|ai various times to be carrying actually catches the dread|"fiu’ “Macteria’ among their

Asiatle ‘flu, the newspapers will/souvenirs, But they all let us Yellow fever, small-

heat,

probably issue special souvenir down, too- editions to promote the disease. pox, hives, prickly Asiatic ’flu, no.

yes. which is handling the

I don’t agent

know press

Asiatic] So we are still waiting. Mean-

‘flu campaign, but whoever he is while, the news services are

the Liberals had better hire him sending out descriptions of for the next election. Asiatie ‘flu, so that we will recognize it when it does get

Building the popularity of the Liberal Party would be a hara|€"@, and give it the honorable

job, but 2 man who can win|W@l€ome that a visiting vip

From the Files ae oe |

Williams ike went ail out yesterday morning 10. celebiate the arrival of the first Pacific

Great Eastern Railway train from North Vancouver . . . Law- son Sugden, resident game biologist, has received his

Master of Science degree in game management at the University of Utah . Felix Kohnke, local lumberman, will carry the Liberal banner in the forth- coming provincial election ¢ Beaver Valley old-timer Gavin Hamilton visited Fort St. James centennial: He was born at the Fort and had not seen it for 78 years... A construction crew is building a road from Cance Creek Mountain to the Churn Creek suspension bridge. The area will be logged and the Products floated downstream to New Westminster... Empire

Valley Cattle Co. Ranch, owned

- Robertson, of Little River, has been sold to Clarence Bryson, of Merritt.

FIVE YEARS AGO August 21, 1952 Two American tourists had a narrow escape from death when their private aircraft struck a high ridge after taking off from Horsefly Lake. When H. Hughes heard the plane banking he realized they were in trouble and went to the assistance of the in- jured men . . . Father Mori principal of St. Joseph's Mis- sion fer the past seven years, left for North Vancouver to he- come principal of St. Paul's Indian School . . . Lack of rain

of The Tribune

me The village received $4895.13 last year .... A ntw schooi is beiag built at Likely

to replace the one lost by fire in June. TWENTY YEARS aGo August 19, 1937. * Mr. Ward, etomologist, has been working in the district for the past week, announced

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that the grasshopper plague is under control. The poison bait is proving effective and the grasshoppers will die before they can lay eggs for next year's hatching . - . 480 acres deeded fand, 25 cultivated, 25 wild hay, all fenced, a two-storey house, ouildings and creek, all tor

corrals,’ good $850... An Los into

American Angeles

couple from

who were flying

Likely, were foreed down at 100

Wednesday, August 21, ~ 237

Letter to the Editor

Dear Sir — The problem of accommodation for teachers has always been a source of concern to the members of the School Lake

This year there will have been 17 vacancies filled in the High School and Elementary . School

made. Due to the co-operation of homeowners in the village, suitable housing has been found to satisfy requests from incom-

and room and board:

On behalf of the School Board, I would like to take this oppor- tunity to thank the residents who have made it Possible to accommodate the new teachers, Comfortable living quarters do

district and consideration of this fact by homeowners willing to provide living quarters will do much to relieve the teacher shortage in the future.

Mile by a blinding. snowstorm. TWENTY-FIVE YEARS AGO August 18, 1932

Ideal weather at Dog Creek;

has proved a boon for hay-| makers and the cucumbers and tomatoes are rapidly ripening

- + + A party passed through town from Revelstoke on their way to Quesnel and stated they have averaged 43 miles an hour on the trip . . . Williams Lake ranchers marketed 240 head of cate on a strong market which brought four cents for choice weights with top cows two and a quarter. “This quarter better than last y

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is increasing the fire hazard in the Quesnel Lake area. Over 200 firefighters are now fighting eight major fires from Beaver Valley to the north arm of Quesnel Lake, where the fire has burned over 3,000 acres... For the first time in many years, hay has been stacked in the Bridge

friends for the Asiatic ‘flu bug|(Very Important Disease) de-

might just manage it. serves.

Lake area without even a shower of rain.

School District No. 27. G. L. YORKSTON, Secretary-Treasurer,

Williams Lake Tribune Established 1931 ‘ Clive Stangoe, Editor

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ing teachers for suites, homes:

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No use complaining that the dread Asiatic "flu sneaked up on us. Scarcely a day passes with- out a warning that some ship is bound for a Canadian port

It is hard to identify. For one thing, it feels exactly like the commonplace native “fu that Aaguat 21, 1047

srows right here in B.C. You] Actual construction has get a chill; then a temperature] started of the fishway on the

THN YEARS AGO

of 102 Gr so; sore throat, cough and headache; maybe, sore ¥ou'll feel bad for four

loaded with germs from hatch to bilge, or a flight of infected albatrosses or a school of sick | mus whales ig steadily movidg to-bor five Pyws.. The. ARisn't often: Wards us; or a delegation’ is ‘on| fatal. GQ to bed and stay there its way from Singapore to pre-| for a’ while,

sent a silken swab of ‘flu germs ® In fact, the doctors say, to the mayor. res A Asiatic ‘flu is no more severe Without exception, to my|than ordinary ‘flu. The symp-

knowledge, every single bulletin] toms are the same. The treat- about the dread Asiatic "flu has| ment is the-same. The only way turned out to be a false alarm. | You can tell you have the dread

| Asiatic ‘flu is to get a labora-

There seemed some hope for] to tose.

a time that the cruiser H.M.C.S, Ontario was bringing home a shipment of Asiatic “flu, but|is the same as North, American after a few days, er fallen| ‘flu, what’s the advantage of naval information officers had to| having it? I think I'll stay with announce that there was nothing| the home-made product.

Come to think, if Asiatic "fu

north side of the Chilcotin River at Farewell Canyon. No fishing

by the Indians is allowed this|~

year af Farewell Canyon, and in. allowed within 25 feet of a fish- way... As high as 10 degrees of frost has been reported in town, with the official thermo- meter registermg 33 degrees... Mr. Metcalf, a young Horsefly district prospector, was found by Stan Noakes, forest ranger, on thé shores of Quesnel, injured after having been attacked by a grizzly. He suffered a severely injured foot and unkle before killing the animal... The muni- cipalities’ share of motor licence fees for the fiscal year is more than doubled in schedule pay-

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