ssioixalism 9 . Highway mishap destroys auto Sloped hazard fin;

ONE-HALF HOUR before the shot was taken, the 78 Mercury Marquis shown
here was in mint condition. Depreciation in this case was instantaneous and
Says businessman
Nobody likes sidewalks
more than Art Perry, as long
as they're properly constructed
and finished off in a
professional way.
But Perry has run afoul of
town council, and the "lack of
expertise" of its public works
department, he claims, is
continuing unabated.
Perry was critical of the
"amateur" approach in sidewalk
design recently after a
New
ramp
slated
Quesnel's handicapped
will soon be able to take
advantage of a new wheelchair
ramp in the town
post office, thanks to federal
government funding.
Construction of the ramp
is slated for completion
September 30. The Ministry
of Public Works will
finance the project.
Council originally proposed
the idea to Kamloops-
Cariboo MP Len Marchand
on May 10.
'That's pretty quick response
coming from a
federal government body,"
noted Mayor John Panagrot
during the August 29
city council meeting.
paving project next to his St.
Laurent motel caused many
cars entering his business to
scrape the sidewalk.
In open council, he requested
that town works crews
make the necessary alterations.
However, council turned
him down, saying it would
make any further alterations
only at his expense.
"What we need is a town
engineer. They continue to
lack expertise at city hall. It
looks very amateur. They just
don't have any proper planners
at cityi hall," said Perry.
He explained he was not
critical of the paving job
"which is very good, but the
design of the job. Had they
known where the grade was
going to be, they would have
done a much better job."
Perry pointed out that
there are no concrete gutters
in town, and that pavement is
placed directly against the
curb.
"I'm not saying Max (works
superintendent Max Helzel)
isn't doing as good a job as he
can, but I.think the department
takes on jobs that
should really be an engineer's
job.
"In many instances, the
best use of the tax dollars isn't
being made. There are books
and books on sidewalk design.
Let's choose a design and
apply it to Quesnel."
Proper planning in the
works department, said Perry,
will save taxpayers money.
Highway mishap
destroys auto
A Calgary man totalled his
'76 Mercury Marquis on .August
30 when he was in
collision with a '69 Chev
pick-up attempting to make a
left-hand turn into the Dale
Lake Service station, seven
miles south of Quesnel.
The driver of the car,
Benjamin Haw kin of Calgary
and a passenger, Alice Vernier,
of Vancouver, sustained
only minor injuries in the
accident.
According to RCMP, the
Chevrolet camper-truck, driven
by Roy Turk of Marysville,
Washington, had decided
to proceed farther south
after oncoming traffic had
prevented it from making a
left-hand turn into the service
station.
Turk and his wife, the sole
occupants of the truck were
both unhurt while damage to
their vehicle consisted of a
crushed camper box.
RCMP report that the
Mei cury left 22 metres of skid
marks before hitting the
pick-up and estimate Hawkin
"was doing the speed limit or
close to it" at the time of the
accident.
"Charges are pending, they
added.
The Washington couple
were on their way home from
a vacation in Ketchikan, Alaska,
when the accident occurred.
"Often, they use wood in
the sidewalk expansion joints,
for instance. I'm not so sure
that's good. But then, I'm not
an engineer."
"When a sidewalk section
has to be replaced, they
continue to use the old
methods, resulting in far from
a first-class job."
As far as the sidewalk
outside his own business is
concerned, Perry has no immediate
plans.
"Perhaps at some future
date if and when I change the
entrance. That would be the
proper time. The guys did as
good as they could, but they
did a patch job. It illustrates
the lack of planning."
He was concerned that
future sidewalk construction
in town would not enhance
any new adjacent building.
"As nice and expensive a
building as Martindale is
putting up (the new building
in the 300 block Reid Street),
it will probably be fronted by
an amateurish sidewalk, built
at his expense. I think this
would be a shame, since his
building would be an asset to
the community," Perry added.
Meanwhile, public works
chairman Albert Johnston
occurred when the Calgary-owned car rear-ended a camper-truck by the Dale
Lake Service station, seven miles south of town on Highway 97.
ssioixalism 9.
said it was the conventional
practice to put wood in the
expansion joints.
"A tar substance is much
much expensive. The wood
does eventually rot but dirt
will fill in the cracks sufficiently
and replace the wood,"
Johnston said.
'The design is fairly similar
to such places as Prince
George and Williams Lake,
since the climate is about the
same."
Sidewalks of QuesneL.boon ar bane?
He explained that it's a case
of "straight economics" in
using the present sidewalk
design.
Paving against the curb is
also a matter of lower cost,
said Johnston, "but we slope
the pavement and use the
gutter to drain away the
water."
He said the only change
contemplated at the present
Cont'd, page 2
Former arena manager
Norm Kjemhus cited a communications
breakdown compounded
by several mistaken
"assumptions" as the chief
reason town and arena maintenance
officials were caught
by surprise August 17, when
the Quesnel Civic Arena chiller
failed to clear a routine
inspection.
In a letter to the August 29
council meeting, Kjemhus informed
the town that when
boiler inspector John Heidelbach
told him "certain improvements
had to be made"
two years ago, he advised the
inspector that a Mr. Perigo of
Northern Refrigeration Limited,
who was performing routine
chiller maintenance at the
time, would meet with Heidelbach
to discuss the changes.
When Perigo reported to
him that he had done so, "I
assumed he had made the
required repairs," Kjemhus
stated in his letter.
Since Heidelbach, who had
stated his intention to reinspect
the arena several
weeks after the repairs were
to be made, never did return,
Kjemhus said he further "
assumed that all was in
order."
"Certainly if the situation
were as dangerous as we are
,npw_ made to believe, I am
sure the inspector would have
returned to inspect the plant
prior to start-up that fall,"
Kjemhus added.
In response to reports
indicating that the refrigeration
plant had never been
inspected or repairs made to
bring it up to regulation
requirements, Kjemhus forwarded
an invoice to the town
demonstrating the completion
of extensive repairs totalling
$2,700 to both the compressors
and refrigeration equipment
during July, 1974.
As early as last summer,
Airport
vehicle
removed
Quesnel airport no longer
has a foam fire truck capable
of handling major aircraft
fires.
It was moved to Williams
Lake more than a year ago
when Pacific Western Airlines
decided that the decreasing
volume of traffic at the
town airport no longer supported
the justification for the
emergency services vehicle
stationed there.
Neither the town nor local
fire officials were informed at
the time.
It wasn't until assistant fire
chief Ray Beaulieu paid a visit
to the airport to replenish a
number of borrowed foam
units that the fire department
first discovered the absence of
the emergency vehicle.
During informal discussion
with various aldermen, it was
eventually brought to the
attention of the town, and city
councillors received official
confirmation of the fact from
PWA in a letter during the
August 29 council meeting.
Aid. John Kushniryk questioned
the extent of the
airport traffic decrease.
"I wonder where they get
their statistics," he queried.
After commenting on the
Cranbrook air disaster Mayor
John Panagrot termed the
vehicle's removal as "quite
serious", noting that the town
should have been informed.
The mayor admitted that
council was "flying blind"
since they weren't aware of
the Department of Transport
safety standards but resolved
to contact ;he Airport Advisory
Board for further discussion
on the matter.
KJEMHUS
..."assumptions"
the former arena manager
noted, a major overhaul of
arena compressors was undertaken.
"I think it has been a
practice that each summer the
compressors have been overhauled
to some degree and
never that I can recall did the
refrigeration maintenance
people ever suggest that the
chiller should be inspected,"
Kjemhus said.
He noted that local officals
depend upon the refrigeration
experts and the Boiler Inspection
Branch to point out. what
should be done in the way of
preventive maintenance."
When the brine in the
chiller froze two years ago
and the end casings had to be
removed, Kjemhus said he
was informed by Northern
Refrigeration that " the lines
inside of the chiller appeared
to be in good condition."
Since the outside of the
chDler is covered with insulation
a rusting of the outside
would not be evident unless
the insulation were removed,
Kjemhus pointed out.
"To my knowledge this
insulation has never been
removed from the time it was
installed some 20 years ago,"
he concluded.
During the ensuing discussion
in city council chambers
Aid. Gloria Lazzarin said she
found it "very hard" to
understand why Heidelbach
hadn't come up with a 'permit
to operate' two years ago
when he last inspected the
arena facilities.
Mayor John Panagrot
agreed noting that the chiller
passed the insurance inspec­
tion this year and has never
failed to do so in years past.
"You don't hear everybody
screaming every time GM
recalls cars that don't pass the
federal inspection," the mayor
added.
Panagrot concluded by emphasizing
that "anything recommended
by the boiler
inspector has always been
done."
"It's not anything we intentionally
overlooked," he said.
Sloped
hazard
fin;
While the new downtown
sloped sidewalks designed to
facilitate wheelchair traffic
may be just dandy for the
handicapped at least one local
resident says they're a hazard
to ambulatory pedestrians.
In a letter to the August 29
city council meeting, Margaret
Thompson credited the
tampered walkway with causing
her to fall and break her
ankle while she walked from
Spencer Dickie Drugs to the
Bank of Nova Scotia on
August 18.
"I am now is a cast for at
least six weeks, unable to go
to work," she wrote.
Thompson took issue with
the city engineer's design of
the sloped corners maintaining
they were "too steep and
sudden with no warning" and
asked that the town compensate
her for her "losses and
injuries."
Mayor John Panagrot told
the assembled aldermen that
the issue was something he
was certainly going to look at
and added that Thompson
deserved a reply.
Aid. Albert Johnston wanted
to know if any other
residents had experienced
similar difficulties and was
informed that Thompson was
the first.
A motion to write the
woman conveying council's
concern over her plight and
informing her that the town's
insurance underwriters would
soon be in touch with her was
passed.
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Women 10
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Church 12
Farm 13
Sports. 15-17
Fashion pages 18,19
Community 20
Television 21
Comics 22
Classifieds 23-27
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NOTHING TO BE 'FRAID OF, says Nkole Chalmers, 14 months, as she gets the [gentle]
treatment from community nurse Eileen Kosior. In top photo, Nicole's inoculation will cover
djptheria, tetanus and polio while below, her weight is monitored. Also in top photo is Nicole's
mother, Mrs. Shirley Chalmers.
Land parcels auctioned
Environment Minister Jim
Nielsen said that an agricul-
Two days
The truckers arrived in
Quesnel early, judging from
an April 26, 1913 advertisement
inserted in the Observer
by Herb Blair.
"Notice. I am starting Monday,
April 28, to operate fast
freight trucks between Ashcroft
and Soda Creek (175
miles). Time—.two days to
Soda Creek, in favorable
weather. Capacity, four tons
per load."
tural Crown land auction held
in Fort St. John on August 15,
resulted in all 18 parcels being
sold.
Nielsen said the properties
had firm prices attached and
the auction allowed the public
to compete for the properties
with bonus bidding. The high-'
est bonus bid for each parcel
was accepted.
The successful bonus bids
ranged from $100 to $5700
with an average bid of $1900.
The total bonus money collected
was $32,325.00 for a total
acreage of 7937 acres.
When the lease conditions
are fulfilled by the purchaser,
the land may be sold to them
FOR ALL CUSTOM CUTTING OF
FREEZER MEAT
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for prices ranging from $28.72
to $51.62 per acre for a total of
$289,665.00 for the eighteen
parcels.
The minister said that these
auctions follow the new government
policy which encourages
the development of agricultural
land in the northern
sector of the province.
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Motorist
escapes
injury
A North Vancouver woman
manged to walk away unhurt
after flipping her car into the
ditch approximately 25 kms.
north of town on Highway 97.
A 16-year-old juvenile passenger
from Chilliwack sustained
minor injuries in the
accident.
Debbie Froese, 24, of North
Vancouver, was driving north
towards Prince George, police
report when she lost control
of her '76 Honda Civic and
entered the southbound lane.
After proceeding in that
lane for a short distance the
car then careened back across
the road and rolled into the
ditch, landing on its roof.
Police say charges are
pending.
Sidewalks
From page 1
time is to alter driveway
entrance designs.
"I think we'll go to a
rounded corner and a longer
slope across the sidewalk
entrance."
As to a full-time municipal
engineer, Johnston said the
town couldn't justify it at the
moment.
"We just can't afford it yet
on a full-time basis. We just
don't do that much engineering.
Willis, Cunliffe, Tait
engineers do any work that
needs engineering on a contract
basis. If the restructure
referendum had been held and
had passed, there would probably
have been good reason.
As time goes on, however, we
will be going to be using more
consultants."
RONNY
COX
ALLADIN and his
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4 - QUESNEL CARIBOO OBSERVER. WEDNESDAY SEPTEMBER 6. 1978
But lots of time left
overs universal forces
To carry on from where I
left off last week, I have to
believe that those universal
forces, which cause
lakes to fill up and dry into
meadows seem totally unconcerned
with man's welfare
and his environment.
They have used beaver's
dam building instincts to
repair some of the havoc
wrought by glacial action
during the last ice age, but
it doesn't seem to be a
planned thing anymore
that one can believe that a
bolt of lightening striking a
certain tree was a planned
thing.
They seem to be following
a pattern and although
their behavior today is
less violent than it was
during the ice age, they are
still active and their long
term results, will be just as
harmful to the environment,
because now, after
this brief period of warmth
and growth, they threaten
us with a period of drying
and scorching and baking,
ushering in the future.
The goings-on in that
area seem to boil down to
climatic changes. For about
20 thousand years after
the Tertiary period had
ended, the northern hemisphere
from latitude 30
degrees N. to the north
pole, lay in the grip of cold
so intense that huge sheets
of ice a mile and more thick
accumulated and not a
living thing (not even
Robert Service's "ice worms")
could survive.
What causes those changes,
no one knows. All
scientists know is that a
5% increase or decrease in
. the energy radiated by the
suns rays can start or stop
an ice age; Geological records
tell us that most of the
drastic epochs of the past
were caused by climatic
changes, so we have good
reason to believe that the
same forces will affect our
future.
Since we are not too
. good at prophesying, let's
examine those records and
see if they can tell us
anything.
For thousands of years,
evaporation of the warmer
sea waters continued, only
to return to earth in snow.
As it piled up, sheer
weight compressed it into
ice.
The force of gravity, not
to be thwarted, slowly,
relentlessly pulled it toward
the center of the earth.
Down the inclines towards
lower levels it slid, digging,
gouging, grinding ,
away mountain tops and
dumping the debris in
riverbeds and lakes and
valleys.
Then, after 20 thousand
years, the climate softened.
A warming and drying
trend swept across the
land. The ice started mel­
The Queen
What? Do away with
Queen Elizabeth II as
the Queen of Canada?
And supported no less
by such an august body
as the Canadian Bar Association,
whose mem-
.bers' livelihood depends
directly on the "royal"
assent given to legislation
and laws they are
sworn to uphold?
The legal beagles' jaws
were set aflutter last
week when the proposal
to replace the Queen as
head of state was one of
133 various proposals
suggested in a constitutional
report presented
at the association's annual
meeting.
When Vancouver law-
The Cariboo Observer
welcomes and encourages
Letters-to-the-Editor as a ,
forum for opinion on contemporary
issues. However,
we reserve the right
to edit letters for reasons
of poor taate, length, or
legal jeopardy. Though we
blem with which Canada
faces today.
Should the Queen be
abolished and, say, a
Quebecker be appointed
by a political process,
English - speaking and
western Canada will continue
to be alienated.
Pick a westerner, and
the remainder of Canada
will claim lack of representation.
But the Queen is an
outside, independent fi 1
gure, and as much as she
is a Canadian figure, her
continuing presence is
beyond political reproach.
At the lawyers' convention,
delegates generally
took a negative
yer Douglas Brown says view of the Brown pro
that to reject the Queen posal, according to reas
head of state is to ports, and many felt,
affirm a faith in the perhaps peevishly, that
Canadian people, does it to endorse it would be
mean, conversely, that too radical for such an
to accept the Queen is to influential group.
have no faith in the Mr. Justice Kenneth
Canadian people? MacKay of Montreal
Or does it mean that was quoted as opposing
Mr. Brown is simply the proposal, since the
eyeing some future poli­ Queen is a symbol of
tical office for himself? unity, Well said.
One of the 12 lawyer In recent times, both
authors of the report, in Canada and in her
Brown appears to be native Britain, the Que­
searching for some volen and the cost of mainatile
issue to catapult taining her presence and
him into the political status has come under
arena.
scrutiny and criticism.
Pie maintained that But the cost of re­
Governors-General from placing her with a "polit­
Vincent Massey to the ical hack", as some des­
present, by the circribe any new appointcumstance
of their roee, has never really
ots, did not support the been tallied, for the pro­
notion that Canadians bable reason that the
were eternally depen­ cost is probably without
dent on Britain. end.
Abolishing the role of Until a viable alter­
the Queen as symbolic native has been deter­
head of state in Canada mined, the Queen, em­
will not in any way dimbodying real and syminish
our real need for an bolic value, remains sol­
independent figure who idly as hands-down win­
will in many ways solve ner in the unity sweep­
the prickly unity prostakes. Letters welcome 71
encourage correspondents
to sign their letters, use of
a non-de-plume is permitted.
Without exception,
however, no letter will be
published unless accompanied
by your name,
address, and telephone
number.
I am determined my children shall be brought
up in their father's religion, if they can find out
what it is. --Charles Lamb
ting at the southernmost
edge first, creeping forward,
uncovering the land
century by century, leaving
a tundra-like terrain.
As the edge moved northward
and the permafrost
thawed, the tundra dried
into prairies and finally a
dense forest grew up. .,
." After about 10 thousand
years, the belt of earth
from the 40th to the 60th
parallel. N. had emerged
from under the ice. During,
that period of time, from
"about 3,000 B.C. to the
present that belt of space,
the temperate zone, has
been basking in warmth
and humidity enjoying fertile
land and forests and
abundant wild > life, navigable
streams and rippling
lakes.
A veritable paradise indeed,
but lest we feel to
complacent, just to the
north, of us are reminders
of those severe times...tundra
and permafrost and in
Greenland, ice caps. Relics
of what has been.
To the south of us then,
indications of what the
future may hold, where the
drying trend has held sway
for the last 10,000 years
are arid, deserts.
Not all lakes are beavermade.
During the runoff
period, except for the few
man-made lakes, the melt-
Backwoods
\er
Earl Baity
ing glaciers caused most of
the bigger lakes throughout
the land. Even . the
Great Lakes of Eastern
Canada are remnants of
bigger lakes which formed
at the border . of the
Wisconsin Ice sheet.
Even the bigger lakes
are undergoing a filling-in
process, but due to their
great size and depths, the
action is hardly noticeable.
What is noticeable is that
they are getting smaller,
drying up.
Just how long this drying
trend will continue
nobody knows, but if it
doesn't change reasonably
soon, we are in for trouble.
The truth of that statement
can be found in all the
great deserts of the earth.
•„ The Sahara in north Africa,
the Gobi in China and
the desert region of the
southern and western United
States.
Those deserts at one
time were all fertile lands
with medium-warm, humid
climates with a lush floral
growth and a population of
wildlife, not too different
than the ones we have in
our area now. The Congo
Basin in Africa was at one
time fDled with water.
Even Death Valley in
south-eastern Californa,
was once a lake. Lake
Manly, they call it now. It
was 140 miles long, from 5
to 15 miles wide and 600
feet deep. It has long since
dried up, evaporated, leaving
a bed of salt...and the
hottest spot on the North
American Continent The
Great Salt Lake in Utah
and Lake Chad in Africa
were 10 times bigger at
one time than they are
now.
The most frightening
indications are that all
those deserts are spreading
out, particularly northward,
encroaching into other
fertile lands, even crowding
the rain forests closer
to the seas.
What causes those dry­
ing trends is not known.
Geological records show
that through the ages,
there have been short
intervals when the pattern
would change. But the
overall picture has always
been one of drastic change
from one extreme to the
other, then back again.
If the present pattern
doesn't change ahead of
time, our temperate zone
will in time become arid
desert, and what the already
arid lands, which are
some 10,000 years further
advanced in this drying-out
business will be like, no,
one knows. Burned out and
completely bereft of any
form of life like the sands
of Mars maybe.
Fortunately, there • is
still a tremendous area of
the earth's surface lying
above the 60th parallel yet
to be defrosted, room
enough actually, to take
, care of a great part of the
temperate zone's population.
A word of warning here.
Lest this start a stampede •
toward the Artie circle,
don't be in a hurry, to start
investing in real estate up
in the land of the midnight
sun. There is plenty of
time...5 or 6 thousand
years at least.
By that time we probably
will have blown ourselves
up anyway.
S c h o o l ' s h a c k in
Be very careful of 'new' youngsters
School's back in this week,
motorists, and you'll have to
share the morning roads once
again.
Remember there will be
many small children on the
streets and crossing at intersections
— many of whom
have never been to school
before.
They will be excited and
may not pay full attention to
their feet so be extra cautious.
Leave for work a little
earlier than usual and carefully
observe school zone speed
limits of 30 km/h.
It is advised that parents
not drive their children to or
from school. (
The reason is that each
driving parent adds to traffic
congestion around school buil­
dings, and presents an unnecessary
hazard to the little
ones. This advice applies
especially to inclement days.
Automobiles manoeuvering
to drop young passengers
create confusing traffic patterns
in school areas, sometimes
contributing to serious
accidents. Children running
haphazardly across traffic
lanes to enter and leave the
family car are exposed to
great danger.
Instead teach them safe
walking - and for rainy days
supply them with good-fitting,
light-coloured raincoats and
rain hats.
Parents should walk with
their children the first few
days of school, and meet them
afterwards. Leave in plenty of
time, so they don't have to
hurry, but can learn to walk
safely.
If there is a school bus
available, walk with them to
the bus stop and for a few
days meet them at the stop as
they arrive home. Shortly
they will want to walk to
school or to the bus "alone" ~
which may mean with friends,
but without an adult.
Point out to Lhe youngsters
also why the chosen route is
best, and why alternate
routes are less desirable,
though they might be shorter.
Wherever possible choose
controlled intersections for
the child to cross.
At crossings with traffic
signals, explain the meaning
of the red-yellow-green sequence,
and teach children to
start across only at the
beginning of the green signal.
Teach them to watch carefully
for turning cars and explain
that the signal is only an aid to
safe crossing. Children should
still look in all directions
before and during crossing.
In the same way children
must learn to watch for the
green light, they should learn
to watch for the "go" signal
given by a traffic officer, adult
crossing guard or school safety
patrol and to stay at the
curb until the sign is given.
Explain to your child that
the older youngster is a friend
who is there to help watch for
a safe time to cross. The
parent should himself demonstrate
respect by observing
directions of the patrol member.
Some streets children must
cross may be unguarded.
Teach them to look in all
directions before stepping off
the curb and to proceed only
when there is a good break in
traffic. Ask them to walk,
never run, across the street.
Worth a try
Since no news is good news, as the saying goes,
perhaps it is good news that no advertisements for
arena concession tenders have yet appeared.
Even at the best of times, the Quesnel Civic arena
operation can stand infusion of some outside,
non-taxpaying income.
The concession operation hit the low skids earlier
this summer when the health inspector restricted
the sale of products to factory-packaged items.
Though the aim of a town-operated concession is
not to put too much of a dent in the annual operating
deficit, which last year amounted to about $65,000,
it will help a great deal more than the nominal rent
did in past years.
As well, it will mean that arena operations are
run by the arena management, and hopefully, will
be much more responsive to any improvements
suggested by patrons.
Concessions are an important adjunct to any
arena operation, and when the taxpayer may stand
to benefit, it is worth the try.
In Quesnel, it appears that private enterprise has
struck out at the arena. Let's see what public
enterprise can do.
L o o k i n g B a c k
From our Files
10 YEARS AGO
September 5, 1968
A 20-year-old Mullinger, Sask., man was accidentally shot
and critically wounded as he sat watching television in a Hixon
motel unit.
Leonard Giesbricht was subsequently rushed to G.R1'Baker
Memorial Hospital for emergency surgery after the shooting.
The accident occurred at about 7:00,p.m. on a Saturday while
Giesbricht, who worked at-a sawmill in the Hixon area, sat
watching television with his two brothers.
In an adjoining motel unit an 18-year-old Hixon youth, just
back from a hunting trip was checking a 30-30 Winchester rifle
he borrowed prior to returning it to its owner.
He was attempting to set the hammer on the gun to a safe
setting when the rifle went off sending a shell through the wall
of the motel and into Giesbricht's chest.
Giesbricht survived the incident.
The body of Leland "Lee" Compton Hess, a 54-year-old
placer miner who fell into the Quesnel River while attempting
to cross on a cable car August 22, was recovered.
His body was seen floating in the river about 2:00 p.m.
between the new and old Quesnel river bridges.
RCMP and river boat crews recovered his body near the old
bridge.
Alex Fraser, mayor of Quesnel, also served as interim
Cariboo Regional District board chairman for a short period
that year.
Monthly permits issued for construction in the city totalled
only $21,760, a $201,000 drop from the August 1967 figure of
$222,760.
Cumulative total for the year was reported at $259,460
compared to $1,094,654 for the same period last year.
Permits were issued during August for a store, a suite, one
addition, one porch, a garage and two tool sheds.
20 YEARS AGO
September 4, 1958
A West Quesnel man escaped serious injury when his flat
deck lumber truck collided with a PGE diesel engine at a level
crossing on Two Mile Flat..
Arthur Schmidt had dropped a load of lumber at Brownmiller
place and was heading back to pick up another load when his
truck was struck by a PGE engine returning late to the Quesnel
yards. '
The drawbar of the engine crashed into the truck hood just
ahead of the cab, ripping the motor free of its mounts and
twisting the frame beyond repair. The truck was then dragged
20 feet before it was pushed approximately 100 feet to one side,
an occurrence that saved Schmidt's life.
Damage to the diesel locomotive consisted of a broken
footplate and twisted handrails on the front of the train.
Energy conservation certainly wasn't one of the major
concerns of local residents in 1958 as witnessed by this little
piece of advice that ran in that week's edition of the Observer:
"Suggestion to merchants: Leave store window lights on even
though stores are closed. Passersby enjoy window shopping
and may be attracted back when you are open. Too, it helps
brighten Main."
30 YEARS AGO
September 8, 1948
"Old boys just don't have it anymore," proclaimed ah
Observer headline preceding this amusing anecdote.
"If you happened to hear something on Sunday evening that
sounded more like a soft pop than a clap of thunder you most
likely heard the old-timers folding up against the gals in the
softball extravaganza that was played out on the local pasture
before a near capacity crowd that was on the verge of hysteric's
when the shades of night drew a kindly curtain over the ribtickling
show." ' ;
"Led by Rollie "Slugger" Wilson, the old-timers got their
powder wet and failed to,produce the expected explosion."
It was a definite contrast, the Observer reported, to the
ladies performance who "upped and smacked the sorry males"
for a 22-10 win.
"The ladies showed they can run bases like they argue," the
Observer added. "It cinched their win."
The point was amply illustrated by the following observation.
"There was little use heading to first if that sack was already
occupied so an enterprising miss would streak to third thereby
crossing up the staid old-timers to no end."
However it would appear the game was fixed from the start.
Old-timer pitcher Gene Krause frankly admitted that he had
accepted a pay-off after visiting second basewoman "Batty
Grable" gave him the old "come up and see me sometime" line.
After that, the paper observed, Krause found himself quite
unconsciously firing the ball at Grable's knees "which rattled
the poor old chucker considerably."
His fellow teammates, however, were no less dexterous.
Oldtimber Les Walker was all set to bag a fly in his homburg
when he apparently remembered the price tag it once carried -.as
a result the galls got a homer.
Nevertheless the fellows remained undaunted and oldtimber
Ray Wallace was reported to be organizing an exhibition game
against the Dodgers for Christmas.
"He figures the lads will have an edge on snowshoes," the
Observer surmised.
Starting line up for the Dodgers match was said to include
Old-timers Harry "Horrible" Harrison, Rollie "Slugger 1
'
Wilson, Pete "Beanball" Pavich, Ted "Breathless" Reynolds,
Terry "Butterfingers" Theriault, Les "The Hat" Walker,
Russell"Glass-arm" McDougall, Bill "Sergeant-Major" Hassler
and Gene "Spitball" Krause.
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Editor's Mailbag
'Princess' relates pa
JL
Dear Sir:
My sincere thanks to the
B.C. Interior Loggers Association,
Quesnel Branch, for
making it all possible.
It was a once-in-a-lifetime
experience. A pageant such as
this is very important because
of the questions asked and I
was very proud to have the
answers of our town.
Also thanks to Mayor John
Panagrot and town council for
the encouraging telegram and
beautiful flowers. It really
gave me a boost to know that
the town was really behind
me.
The flowers and telegrams
from friends and family were
also greatly appreciated. I
can't stress how happy I was
just to know you all were
thinking of me.
. To tell a bit about the B.C.
Interior Pageant I attended
on August 26 and 27, it was
quite a bit different than our
Miss Quesnel Pageant.
On the first evening, there
•was a press conference. This
is where the ten contestants
answer questions in front of
the reporters. Questions were
asked of myself, of hobbies, of
dreams, of plans for the
future.
Also, questions were asked
such as who gives you the
support in finances, clothing,
transportation, planning and
training for such an event.
Each contestant was asked
if her town council gave her
the support she felt she
needed, or whether it was
strictly a private organization.
Those were only a few
questions asked.
We had to give a threeto-five
minute speech about
our town or about oneself. I
gave mine on the town, r
starting at historical events
and ending it by telling of our
main industry, recreation and
tourist attractions.
Private interviews with the
judges came next. Each contestant
spent 20 minutes
asking questions. Modeling
was done around the pool at
the Town and Country Inn.
First modeled was white
shorts and white top and then
the evening gown and parade.
At this same time we answer
a question by one of the other
contestants.
• The new Miss B.C. Interior
title was won by Gina Federicko,
Grand Forks First
Princess 1977; first runnerup,
Lee Fraser, Prince George
Queen Aurora XIX 1977; and
second runner-up Kim Ward,
Cranbrook's Sweetheart of
Sam Steele Days 1976-77.
I can't stress what an
honour it was for me to run
Thanks
or the
help
Dear Sir,
; The residents of the Fraser
Village for senior citizens
would like to thank all those
people of Quesnel for their
generous help in patronizing
our bazaar and sale. '
'. Sheila Hfll won the Afghan;
C. Halliday, cushion; Betty
Klossen, Mens' socks; the
door prize was won by F.
Tessier.
• Evelyn Isnardy
For the Residents
for the Miss Interior playdowns
for the Miss Canadian
Pageant. I really hope next
year, Miss Quesnel Tammy
Zadorozny will consider this
same event, and I hope the
town also will consider helping
out in every way possible.
Tm very proud of my town
and the people who have
made it what it is today.
During my year as Miss
Quesnel, First Princess, and
running for Miss B.C. Interior,
I've learned to always
have time to listen and be
warm with many smiles.
This advice I give everyone.
I think it's important and will
always help in my life to be
happy.
Holly Garvin
Quesnel, B.C.
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