soot Sys ctemapaalatinaa lel allel - Villiam NEWS EXCHANGE OF THE CARIBOO gs Lake Tribune ewer’ Volume 21 - Number 26. WILLIAMS LAKE, B.C. Thursday, July 2, 1953. Single copy 10c. $2.50 per year. Fire Again Damage. Railway Avenue Stryre For the second time in 18 months, these firm firemen were called out last night.to | battle a blaze at the building on Railway Avenue that houses Greyhound Bus Depot. A rough estimate of the damagé is Placed at $5000 and includes dam- age to the building and to belong. ings of several persons occupying living quarters in the structure. The building is owned by Lakeview Hotel Ltd., ana is insured. The fire broke out shortly after eight o'clock in a room of Mrs. C ‘Thompson’s apartment on the ground’ floor. The appartment was unoccu- pied at the time, but Pulver, v t damaged by Weane® ‘#5 not di fire. the cae Wo"seal firemen brought "Nelson, a visitor who watehe ttle. A man of «4 years of sno looks back on 56 years § in fire fighting work, includl) years as a fire inspection. ™ one of the best organized he ha in action. In Head-orrash Fe : our men are izar Memorial The fire had already engulfed a dresser and was elimb- ing up the wall. Miss Pulver rushed to the back of the building and woke up Doug Hutchinson, one of two men who occupied a rear room ___ Greyhound agent Mrs! Gordon Gibbons turned in the alarm and as ape dreines arrived on the scene, the The iG a solid hold on one corner epee cae. Snder Brace of the building. Two hoses wore ° Lansley Prairie; G.ge miller, brought tto play and in a- matter, PUSe2e Miller, and Rq paren of minutes any danger of the build. | all of Lae La Hae! ing =béing entirely’ gutted had hospital following gaq-on crash on the Cariboo Hiigy about a mile north of Lac yyache that occurred around midyt Tucsdey. Dr. H. K. Atwood 3, r 4 yr at all four are doing well, ** ® half of the building containin, and shoulder as well az bjs ig one ises. The main apartment and several single |°t™s suffered cuts and serations|he noticed smoke issuing from the}}ie Bambricle ups living rooms. Cause of the blaze | ‘© {h® face and legs. has not been determined. Weber, Miss Roberta Olson Charles Sampson. and Blenkinsop. was damaged ably by smoke and water. es 81, 1952 a fire that start Sas ea ed in the walls of the upstairs apart |_| i ment; caused damage estimated Shee Be at $2500 to the same building. ee As far as business is concerned, the Greyhound Depot and Williams! consider-lcar was badly damaged. der. the coast, is now staying: at Lake Taxi office will continue in! months He sa: operation. The half of the buildin on the wonaa a Most severely injured y wr. wil-| Lorne Manuel, with several young passed, The fire was confined to the |! WO suffered a disloieg eliow |boys, was crossing the grounds on the _ According to police reps, there Others rooming in the main floor peepee no information ened yet of the building include onthe cause of the.acci ee =I Mts Sally [Bone nionelin ie eae ee the three Lac La Hache~m occu-|tins from a nearby tap and throwing One bedroom of the second flocr oka other car, which wa driven | the water on the wall. suite occupied by Mrs, Margaret|Y George Miller. Bruce’s ys he's feeling fine\ind Local Contractor Gets Perfect Crib Hand Roy Nelson who, with Mrs. Nelson has just returned from a trip to the south of the province, tells of sitting in on a crib game in Revelstoke with former Williams Lake resident Ray Blliott. and holding a perfect ‘22"}roads kept many people trom town hand. and surrounding districts from mak- His host had just been discussing ing the trip. the fact that he had never seen such} A program of straight a hand in all his years of playing, novelty races and exhibition num- when Roy was dealt the Jack of|'Ders, all done with trained horses, hearts and three fives. The five of|ave many of the spectators some- hearts turned up on the deck. An{thing new in the way of outdoor inveterate crib player; it@was thefentertainment. = thira time that Roy has hela a, 294 The program opened with @ fult Wee parade on horseback, halting in ‘front of the rail as the Cariboo Ramblers orchestra played ‘O, Can- Second Fire Starts At Stampede Grounds ada.’ Master of ceremonies for the day was C. F. ‘Bert’ Roberts of Wil- Townspeople were startled dure ing the battle to save the Greyhound jiams Lake. Winners of the events were as fol depot building Wednesday when the siren on top of the firehall started | 1, |BIG CREEK HOLDS FIRST GYMKHANA An estimated crowd of 300 tcok in the first annual Gymkhana at Big Creek on Dominion Day. Reports of heavy rains and had racing, ted’s horse, Tom Wilson up; 2 Phyllis Watt, owner up; 3. Cecil, Wenry, owner up. Saddling race — Duane Witte; 2, Tom Wilson; No Change In Cariboo Election Pictu _ A heavy absentee ballot the first count picture in Caribo The absentee vote went Chetwynd 348; MeConnell 149; Malcolm 121 and*Boultbee 43. This brought the final count fig- ures to Chetwynd 2722; McConnell 992; Malcolm 1049; Boultbee 508. Mr. Chetwynd wound up with 86 votes more than the necessary 59 per cent plus one of the total count. In the 1952 election his margin was 95 votes. > The absentee vote was much heav- ier than last year when 529 of these votes were recorded. Spoiled ballots Bridge Lake Stampede Yows: 220 yd. flat race — 1. W. Max- to wail for a second time. 35 Percy Jeff. Packing race — 1, The new fire was a small one that!Jonhn Siebert and Jim Bonner, 2, started in the deserted first aid room Duane Witte and Cecil Henry. under the Stampede ground chute;* Gretna Green race a ae Witte and Veera Bonner; ‘bert and Rosalie Church; 3, T. Wil- con and Phyllis Bambrick. 440 ye. yace — 1, Bruce Watt's horse, Char- 2, Bruce Watt’s seats. way to see the downtown fire when Horse, owner up; horse, owner up. Charlie Bambrick; 2, Walt Bliss; 3 Phyllis Bambrick. Musical chalrs — 1. Bruce Watt, Duane Witte. Bend- ing race — 1, Bruce Watt's norse, éwner up; 2, Dick Church’s horse, J. Siebert up; 3, Duane Witte, owner structure. He ran up to Neufeld’s Garage at the top of the hill to send in the alarm and then returned to fight the fire. The boys managed to put it out by filling empty tobacco ft is believed this fire was started night before and smouldering below the first aid room floor. C. Bambrick up; 3, Watt's liorse, Bruce Watt’s horse, owner up. cond. Stake race winner was Bill Ss Thread the needle — 1, John Lyon z i cheepl th ¢ again - Porothy Wilson, daughter of Mr.|and Mary Roberts; 2, Don Warde a ope wil ‘ribbs g vi r i 5 tt and 2 and Mrs. Bert Wilson, formerly of|and Jennie Ross; 3, Al Burnett and)", ine highlights of the Williams Lake, has won a . P-TA, Zorine Ross- est grade twelve graduate in igver- or Stake Race championsh tae en Senool. Ey ‘a mackenzie Trophy, wast Bruce Watt. Second ‘was J. Si : Korean Veterans On Replaced in Korea by ‘‘A’ Sauad- photographed just prior to their de-)R.-C. Openshaw, > ron, “B” Squadron of the Lord |parture. They are, left to right, front Strathcona Horse arrived back home |row: L/Cpl. J. Hambling. Giscome in Ganada two weeks ago following |Tpr. I. M.. Marko, Vanderhoof; Tpr. 13 months service overseas A. C. Rande, Golden; rear row. Tpr. Shown here are some of the Brit-|J. F. Anderson, Dawson Creek; L’ ish Columbia members‘ of the unit,|Cpl. D. L, Henry, Cranbrook; py, in Dick Church’s hors Leave fas Duane Witte. gressive Conservative party, showed P An exhibition square dance and|UP at Bridge Lake and addressed the ame of broom ‘polo wound up the|¢rowds briefly from. the judge: afternoon program. In the evening a dance was held. well ‘up. 660 yd. race — 1, B. Watt's liovse, Phyllis Bambrick up; 2, B- he main event of the day, the Ic~ attended i Winners Listed Best all round cowboy at the July 1st Stampede at Bridge Lake was Percy Minniebarriet, who won a first and. a fourth in the main arena Don Eden. ents. j while pits % e and third |Drew, leader of the Federal Pro- stand, events. Prize winners in the main event were: Saddle brone riding — Ist,, Slim Howie; 2, Bill Copeland; 3, Red Allison; 4, Minniebarriet. Bare back — 1, Joe Bob; 2, Dave Perry. Steer riding — 1, Dave Wright: 2, Robert Bob; 3, Gilbert Bowe. Calf roping — 1, Percy Minniebarriet; 2, Winner of the cowboy race was Perey Huculak with Len Cribbs se- |Stampede; had nothing to do with . Taking a little >: ~» his vigorous}campaiga schedule in’ the west, Hon! George zt re As Absentees Counted of 660 votes failed to change o as Hon. Ralph Chetwynd held on to hiis necessary majority gained on election day, June 9. in the 1953 absentee amounted to 34 and spoiled in the ’52 count were 85. Returning officer E. G. Woodland and his staff worked from 9:30 ‘Tues- day morning until 6 p.m. checking and counting the and counting the vote. Actual count- ing of the ballots didn’t take long, but before the ballot envelopes were opened each voter had to be check- ed with the voters list. In some cases voters had omitted their polling stations entirely or had given the wrong one and the entire Cariboo list had to be checked. Some ballots were ruled out be- fore they even reached the: ballot box as deputy returning officers had either failed to sign the declaration on the envelope themselves, or failed to have the voter sign them. Voters spoiled their ballots byl marking them contrary to the regu- lations. Some had placed and X be- side their first choice, 2 X’s beside their second choice and so on; others placed single X’s beside two or more candidates’ names; several used check marks instead of X’s or the numeral 1. In three cases, deputy returning officers had sent on ballots belong- ing to other ridings. One had the Kamloops candidates listed, the second Vancouver Centre candidates and the third was intended for a Vancouver Island riding. KAMLOOPS BAND SCORES HE A capacity audience was on hand Saturday night at the Elks Hall to hear the 40-piece City of Kamloops Band give an outstanding concert. The applause that greeted every number offered by the band indicated S Cpl. Neil MacDonald of the Signal] how much the program was enjoyed. and Tp R. J. G. Lioyd, Williams Lake. Only noticeable change in Tpr. Lloyd mee this picture w: taken jis the disappearance of his RAS style moustache. (National Defence Photo) vas bound to clear expenses. Th through local insurance B. Bass Ltd., vas on hand with ce to judge if the poli If the in: rument collected a tend pany would have paid off. As it was, no rain fell. Rain or shine the Big Creek stov | Corps has returned from a year’s ser- officials had taken out rain insur-|ceived by his sister, Mrs. V. Imhoff. ance for the day at a cost of $33 for] After a 60-day leave, he is transfer-| portraying a violinist’s progress from 00 policy. The policy was issued agent F. and salesman Ed Foltis ain measuring y paid off. of an inch of rain during a ten bour period of the day insured, the com- Band conductor Archie McMurdo e|vice in Korea, acrording to word re-| varied the program by giving severa! violin solos. One novelty number, ring to the Mechanical Corps and will receive further training in the east. Cpl. MacDonald served with the DCOR’s in World War II and was a prisoner-of-war for nine months. the beginner stage to concert play- ing, he dedicated to local dentist Dr. A. H. Bayne, a former member, of Interior bands. Watson L. Francis of Kamloops, ‘ who has played a prominent part in an musical stage work for years, gave Miss Iris Blair of Kamloops, left|seyeral vocal solos that were well- Tuesday after a ten-day visit with her | received. parents, Mr. and Mrs. R. M. Blair, Prior to-the main concert, the band led a parade of local and visit- sweet Margarine contest was pre orial Society Friday night. The w $1,000 went to the Kiwanis Club a) the western section going to Fernie Westminster, B.c. of Swifts Ltd Scott of New manager for effort. “You standing job co-operation to each wonderful, and w there were no more us was i Vice-president Owen Kerley, whe of president Claude Huston, tribute to their committee of Brother William member of the Oblate Fathers, who has been farm Joseph’s M away last Saturday at War Memorial Hospital. Local Organization Wins Second Prize In Big Contest A Cheque for $250, second prize Stitt, Mrs. in the western section of the recent sented to officials of the War Mem- ern section is comprised of Manitoba, Saskatchewan, Alberta Penticton, with first prize of $500 in In presenting the cheque, W. R. district commended the local group for their y did an out- in Williams Lake, es- paid 2 J. Holloman, aljant instructor at St. ission since 1919, passei!salesman for the ing Elks up the main street to War Memorial Hospital, where Alfred Smallenberg, Exalted Ruler of the local lodge placed a wreath on the Cenotaph. Local Dentist Passes B.C. Exam Dr. John W. James was one of 2¢ persons who were named Saturda; as successful candidates in dentists’ C. Huston ana Mrs. -F. Matheson who worked so hard 0: the contest. ‘‘We also wish to extend our thanks to the businessmen and people of town, particularly to the clerks in stores who co-operated sv ably in saving us the job of colle.t- and British Columbia, and all of |ing carton ends,” stated Mr. Kerley.| examinations set by the council of the prizes in this section came to] A further cheque for $169.79 has} the College of Dental Surgeons of B.C. towns. Top Canadian prize of} been received by the Society for the] pc, t]12,800 carton ends which aceom- panied their entry, and for a further 5000 sent later. The contest was judged on the number of carton ends sent in, plus ,|a 50-word essay on local promotion of the contest. According to Swifts’ representatives, the contest’ was judged primarily on promotion so that small centres could compete with larger towns. ‘The local group had advertisers in The Tribune back the product, and during intermiston at the hovkey games Jackie Curtis and Joan Ham- mel, dressed in adorable crepe-paper stumes, advertised the contest. Accompanying Mr. Scott at the presentation ceremony were J. F. Ward of New Westminster, assis: to the district manager; F. Upton, manager of the Kamloops branch; W. Zenowski of Kamloops. Williams Lake area; and A, R. McKenzie, relief alesman from Kamloops, Dr. James, whose home is in Mio- cene, was forced to discontinue his newly established practice here this spring when his permit from the col- lege was ruled invalid. A qualified dental surgeon in the United States, he had been practising on a permit issued by the college pending writing his British Columbia examinations. Dr. James has stated that he will re-open his office shortly. Race Results Errors Two errors were made in the pub- lished list of flat racing winners in last week’s issue. The 1 mile Lumbermen’s Derby was won by Mrs. Pulver’s Lucky Rol- ly with Spike Hannah up, not Lee Pap as was reported.-Third place in the Alkali Lake States was listed as Lucky Rolly and should have heen Cinnabar, owned by Phillip Bros., Soda Creek, 0 accepted the cheque in the absence