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Citizens and Police Co-operate in
Program for Youth

By
Roy Thorsen

Tt is posstble here that Game Warden William I. Fenton of Clinton
(centre standing) was checking to see if youngsters Billy and Chuck
Wilkinson (on horseback) had licenses for their airguns—but not
likely. Picture was snapped at the Flying-U Guest Ranch in the
Cariboo and includes other personalities: Stanley Miller, Vancouver
lawyer, on the left; ranch owner Charlie Wilkinson, mounted; ranch

Constable L. G. Smith here gives pre-game advice to members of

one of his younger-generation hockey teams. “They are good

players and keep in there fighting to the finish,” said the officer,
juvenile program leader in Clinton area.

foreman Jake Reinerston and Constable Leonard G. Smith, B.C. ne sk

Police, Clinton area.

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TWENTIETH EDITION

“THERE IS no juvenile delin-

quency in Clinton and area!”’

That happy condition in the ranks
of the younger generation in that
area came from Constable Leonard
G. Smith of the Clinton detachment
of the B.C. Provincial Police .
and a talk with residents of the
famous town of the Cariboo gold-
rush days, placed the credit largely
on the shoulders of the officer as the
guiding influence and main push.

A family man himself, Const.
Smith took over his duties in the
Clinton zone about three years ago.
Like a lot of youth-conscious mem-
bers of the great provincial law force,
the young officer immediately set
about putting a program into oper-
ation that would absorb the interest
and enthusiasm of the young sons
and daughters of Clinton area folks
to keep them out of the “juvenile
delinquency” ranks.

“He’s done a marvellous job and
deserves great credit for his unceasing

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efforts,’ declared white-maned Char-
lie Wilkinson, colorful owner of the
large Flying U guest dude ranch, 15
miles in from the 70-Mile House,
while the writer was a guest there
in August.

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keeping youths’ minds active in the

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