— One Stampede Record Broken Hall Rental Decision Results In Flare-up A lot of extemely dry tinder was prepared several weeks gao when the Village Commissioners decided to levy a flat ae NEWS EXCHANGE illiams Lake Tribune OF THE CARIBOO Volume 20 — Number 24. WILLIAMS LAKE, B.C. Thursday, June 12, 1952. Single copy 10c, $2.50 pér vear. charge for rental of the Village man Alastair Mackenzie applied the match when he criticized the wisdom of the decision. When the proposal was first ap- proved, Mr. Mackenzie was in Cali- fornia and-his first intimation of the rental policy came Tuesday night when Village Clerk E. H. Gibbon brought forward the names of organ- izations using the hall in the past month that had already heen billed. hese accounts were presented be- cause the commissioners lad agreed that in certain cases the rental fee of $5 per meeting would be refunded according to the nature of the meet- ing. The other three commissioners Present, Stan Goad, T. A. Borkowski and M. F. Johnson, took issue with the chairman on his remarks and stood firm on their original decision. Authorizing his prerogative as chairman however, Mr. Mackenzie foreed a yote6n each account that had been issued the month previous- ly, and the meeting made ouly one refund, to the Fire Department. Charged were the Board of Trade, Seftba!l Club, Rod and Gun Club and the local Social Credit organizution. Although he stated that he did not believe that a charge should be levied for use of the hall at all, Mr. Macken- zie was particularly emphatic in say ing he did not think the rent should be made against organizations that were contributing toward the -com- munity’s welfare. . €ontacted this morning for his re- action to the decision, Board of Trade President Bert Roberts said Tre thought it was unfortdante tuat “the commissioners had adopted this attitude towards community organ- izations. He pointed out that the taxpayers had buiit the hall in the first place and that several of the groups using the hall had offered to help in maintaining it. The Board of Trade supplied most of the chairs in the hall and Firemen have offered to paint the interiof if the materials were supplied. = Commissioner John Anderson, who was not present at Tuesday night’s meeting, said the next morn- ing when he was questioued that he believed the first suggestion that had been put before the Commis- sioners of a nominal charge of $2 per meeting would have been suf- ficient. PERMITS * hall and Tuesday night Chair- B.C. Government Backs Gas Line VICTORIA — Provincial govern- ment support of the application of the West Coast Transmission Com- pany to the Board of ‘Transport Com- missioners in Ottawa for permission to construct a natural gas pipe line from Alberta and the Peace River district through Pine Pass and through Central British Columbia was given in a teiegram by Premier Byron Johnson. The West Coast.Pransmission Com- pany’s application involves the ex- pediture of more than $100,000,000 on a pipe line that would first ser- vice British Columbia before servic- ing areas in the Pacific Northwest. It will likewise enable gas wells in the British Columbia Peace River area to utilize the piping: facilities So that wells brought in in- that dis- trict have a ready market. The tele- sent to the Commissioners “On behalf of the Government of British Columbia I wish to express our support. of the application of West Coast Transmission Company to transmit natural gas from Alberta and the Peace River district of B.C. through the Pine Pass and the In- terior of B.C. to the Lower Mainland and the Pacific Northwest gene‘aliy. .| “Prust that representuiiuns we are herewith making will be giy- en serious Consideration by you ard your fellow commissioners when ar- riving at your decision. PARTIES WIND UP CAMPAIGNS Progressive-Conservative and, Lib- eral parties wound up their cam- 5 ELECTION DAY This is the day the citizens of the province vote to decide who they want to run their affairs in the next legislature, although it is possible that no one will know for sure what the decision will be for nearly a mouth. Only the ‘1° choices will be counted after the polls close at. 8 o'clock tonight, and only those candidates who secure more num- ber(‘1” votes than all of their op- ponents put together will be de- clared elected. 3 In ridings where this majority is not obtained, candidates and the public will have to wait 21 days for the absentee votes to come in before the second and subsequent counts are made. In Williams Lake a heavy poll is being registered today. Clerks have been handling a steady stream of local voters from the time the Polls opened up to the last time they were checked at 3 p.m. The expected heavy absentee poll had alsy materiulized and tive boxes were in use to hundle these yoters, SECOND DRUG STORE TO OPEN The impossible happened. Anuouncement was maae Tuesday] the opcuiig or ine Zolu annua. that a second drug stove witl open évon in Williams Lake. years the Staiapede uas never ‘Bruce Magowin of Vancouver has by vain. er Mage urrangements to estabusa his| Provably because the circumstance. business in temporary quarters in'es were so unusual, the well-oiled the Cariboo Saddlery building and! orgamzation rapidly took on rust as Bians on opening around July 15.| the pelting rain continued this morn- ‘Ihe new busmess wili be known as! ing and no decision was forthcomng| the Williams Lake vharmacy. until 2 p.m. ven then there was a lot Mr. Magoulin, wuo is 42 yeurs old,’ ct doubt as to the best course of ac-| 4s a graduate of the University of! tion to follow but it was linally de- Brush Columbia and has been as-| aaed to brave the elements and fe] Socwied with tne seaorth Phar-| Stampeae got underway at 3:30. macy in Vancouver since 1946. He] Along with the record-breaking jojuea this bri after serving for five weather conaitions, the entry list! Qua a halt years overseas with the showed another type of record had Royal Canagian Army Medical Corps.| veeu broken. Last year’s entry in the dle was assouiuted in te vancouyer| saaale broae event of 62 riders was pusiness with Bert Tyson, rorier| upped two to v4. Bareback brone eu- Q@luggist in Williams Lake. Lies Jumped trom 3Y last year to 62 Mr. Magoffin is married and has| ror tais year’s show. two daughters. His wife, whom he] at their meeung last night, the married overseas, served with the| cowboys named Len Honey or Wash- itoyal Naval Service auring we war.| ington stare and Bob Jamieson of ‘The town’s Lew aruggist has been! princeton as arena judges. here since Monday making contacts] sere to open tne sampede is J. A, with other businessmen and leaves] Kenneay, general-manager ot the Pa- for Vancouver at the end of the week| cuic Great Eastern Railway. to wind up his affairs there. Biggest snafu of the Stampede so Rural Students Major Sports A Janet Wilcox of Forest Grove and Clarence Hooker of Horsefly topped senior student athletes at the District 27 school sports day here yesterday. Ja award for the girls with 11 poi with 12 points. By taking the grand aggregate in » the district meet Janet reversed the results of last week’s competition in the southern zone sports when bi = ard Sue en aggregate. lions Josie tied for top place in os girls’ 15 and over division with Kay Halleran of Williams Lake, both girls obtaining nine points. Other high scores in the individual age groups were as follows: Boys 11 & 12 — Bill Dunbar, For- est Grove, 9; Boys 13-14 — Clarence Hooker, Horsefly 12; 15 and over — Cameron Kennedy, F.G., 11%. Girls 11 & 12 — Helen Faessler, Bridge Lake, 9; 13-14 — Janet Wilcox, 12. paigns this week with meetings in Williams Lake. Whether the wet weather or Stampede preparations | contributed attendance at both meet-! ings was poor considering the calibre of speakers that were on hand. Tuesday night Davie Fulton, MP Cariboo, spoke in support of Pro-Con! vandidate Ken Thil and last Building permits for ré were approved for J. D. Smedley, M. Stacey, W. T. Christie and Ralph Lincoln, APPRAISING SYSTEM night the featured speaker at a Lib- eral rally was Senator Gray Turgeon, who represents the Cariboo Federal riding in the Senate. Both speakers confined their talks to the provincial scene and the plat- forms offered by other parties. At last night’s Liberal meeting Telephone Survey Party In Town Officials of the B.C. Telephone Company were in town this week in| the course of carrying out a survey | of the Dominion Government's tele- phone system in British Columbia. { This survey follows a recent an- nouncemet by the goverment tbat it wishes to place its B.C. telephone! and telegraph system in the hands of commercial communication -com- two interesting speakers also on the piatform were two full-blooded In- dian brothers from Comox, Dan and Frank Attu. Dan is vice-president of the North American Brotherhood and also vice- president of the Comox-Alberni Lib- eral association. Both men have been active in securing rights for the In- dians in British Columpia and tnroughout tie Dominion, Frank Attu stated that the enlightened ap- proach to the Indian question in nies because of the industrial ex-| British Columbia had resulted in an| ee z inciien Soe cee | ansion currently underway in some | increased attendance of ‘Indian stu. | 2 dents in the high schools, which a vhich it serves. = apeas! would ultimately better the condi- The company’s sur ey of the tele- quirements will cover the’ Uons among the native people. Where zone meets were elegible { enter the| Butte; Clarence Hooker; phone re} hysicai plant and also the commer- 4 Year ago only nine students were ate of the various’ Yegisiered in B.C., Mr. Attu said, \there were now a thousand enrolled. areas. | cial potentialities The government-owned system,| Amother speaker at the Liberal hich includes both telephone aud Meeting was rommy Wilson, Vinsul- = vice. extends. Uhrough 1® Wuclier, presiaent of the 1:C. telegraph s : the Cariboo area to central B.C. and west to the coast. It also includes the Sechelt Peninsula, certain islinds between Vancouver Island and the mainland, the upper part of the east | coast of Vancouver Island and much Beet Cuule Growers Association. Absent from last uight’s meeting Was Liberal candidate angus Mac- Lean, who was called to the coast Monday to be with his sister who is seriously in, of the west coust of Vancouver So ee Island RANCH ON HORSEELY Ko.AD Ie is expected that next week 2’ soup 10 americans y engineers 1rom the Cana- party of engin Hl |. The Elliott ranch on the Horsefly Road about 20 miles east of Walliams i-| Lake, was sold last week t | interests, Gian National Railway Company be in town conducting a siuaild yey of the systems telegraph 1c tes for their company. 0 Amer.can The South Cariboo athletes col- jected enough points to give them a healthy margin. in the inter-zone competition. They topped their near- est competitor from the» Williams Lake area by almost 20 points. Cariboo South, ‘representing For- est Grove, Lae La Hache, Bridg Lake amd Lone Butte schools — 83% points. Williams Lake zone (Williams Lake, Big Like, Dog Creek, Glencoe, 150 Mie, Soda Creek) — 65 points. Horsfly Road zone (Horsefly, Beaver Valey, Rose Lake, Miocene, Likely) — :7 points. | Chilcotin zone (Big Creel, Riske Creek, Alexis Creek, Cheacut) — 4% points. In the school relay race Williams Lake edged out Forest Gove with Lac La Hache and Horsefly finishing in third and fourth places A boys and girls mixed softball gane which closed the day's sports exiled with Williams Lake and Forst Grove Geadlocked at 9-9 at the en, of seven innings. The central meet yesterday was the culmination of a seria of local zone meets that have een held throughout the district armg the past two weeks. Senior aaletes col- lecting three points or beter at the competitions yesterday. | Following the sports, reeshments by members of the Orgr or the Koyal Purple in the ElksHall. Girls 11 - 12. High Jump: Helen Faessler, Bridge Lake; Judy Saund's, Alexis Creek; L. Smith, W.L. Running Broad Jump: Flen Faes- jsler. Marlene Gardner, Wei Lyme] cenneay ks, Horsefiy; Bishop, W.L. &Peter , tied; Omar Crosina, Standing Broad Jump: are Har-| wijian | amia, W.L.; Helen Fae Bail Throw: Cameron Kenned: Lynne | Bishop & Judy Saunders, td. Ball Throw: Marlene sardner; | Lynne Bishop; rorest Grove, 50-yard Dash: Donna Vidland, First order of the day was issued from the Stampede Oftice with the Olficials agreeing that it it was still iaining by 11:30 a.m., the parade would be called off until Friday morning. This was countermanded by committee chairman Bill Sharpe, who called the parade for 12:30 rain or| shine. With the hands of the clock’ nearing one the word came out again that the parade was off but this be-| gan to lack some conviction when the sound of the Mission Boys Band/ Girls 18 - 14 was heard approaching the main Brian K. deP. Chance of Douglas Lake, J. W. Lauder and Gerard Goichon, both of Quiichena, repre- senting the Nicola. Frank X. Richter of Keremeos and John Ure of Kaleden, represent- ing the Southern Interior. Karl Freding of Princeton, repre- senting the Princeton area. A. Swenson of Ladner, represent= ing the Lower Mainland and Vap- couver Island areas. = Loid Martin Cecil of 100 Miie House, Melvin Mayfield of Wiliiame Lake, Duke Martin of Alexis Creek, and R. A. Moon of Williams Lake, '|Yepresenting the Cariboo District. ena Peres STORE HOURS Hours adopted, for stores in town by the Retail Merchants Association during Stampede are as follow. Thursday and Friday Open 8:30 a.m. to 1:00 pm. Closed = 1:00 p.m. to 5:00 pau. Open 5:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. Saturday Open 8:30 am. to $:00 p.m. FOREST GROVE RANCH SOLD The ranch of Bob Forbes at Forest Grove has been sold to Mr. and Mrs. Fred Hunt of Prince George,. wha formerly owned a dairy ranch in the Langley district. The Forbes ranch contains 500 acres of deeded land. The deal was handled by Jack Esler of F, B. Bass Ltd. 'We Visit The Carnival’s Boss dort, W.L.; in Beckman; K . . Pee Ts Melvin Beckman; Ken! pots not kia ourselves. The carni-) When vaudeville «slumped, the . val that has come to town to run in| youn, ici: Va ready for Ball Throw: Melvin Beckman; ninjyoung magician was ready fora Bill Dunbar, Robert Chapel wn | conjunction with the Stampede will id rr ‘apelle, LL. have more verbal brickbats thrown 60-yard Dash: Bill Dunbar; Ken! .’° i i ‘sd . , at it than compliment: . Ti Felker; Robert Chapelle. Peet eee run by a person who is interested | Boys 13 - 14 only in gouging the innocent specta- High Jump: Clarence Hooker.| tors out of their honest dollars by Horsefly; Nap Bourelle, Horsefly; dishonest means (or so the sfories Clarence Walker, Horsefi will go). Running Broad Jum But let's take a look at this hard- Lewis Mac- change, having done some studying on the angles of making a living with travelling carnivals. He had watched a magician with a sia 4 poor exhibition of sleight-of-nana, but making a lot of sales with an in. ferior gadget. This was the secret of the success of a side-siow magician, Low nedy, F.G. Jim Kelly, Glencoe; Ron Odiun, F. Maurene tawlord, | nedy; Peter Nadin; Jim Keuy. eron Kennedy; Gilbert Walters, W.L Donald, W.L.; Jack Brown, ¥.G.; hearted character, Clarence Hooker. His name is Martin B. Arthur, a Ball Throw: Bob Bentley, Lone Nap Bour- elle, 75-yard Dash: Clarence Hooker + were served to the visitir students | Frank Sarrazin, Horsefly; Lewis Mac- Donald. 100-yard Dash: Clarence Hooker; rrank Sarrazi MacDonald. Boys 15 and over High Jump: Lewis Eggleston, W.| -+ Peter Nadin, F.¢.; Cameron Ken-| Lewi Running Broad Jump: Cameron G. Ken- 100-yard Dash: Cameron 220-yard Dash: Peter Nadin; Cam- | career in show business, because he the young man discovered. The ma- gician received a nominal salary of $25 but was allowed to keep the pro- fit trom his sales. Mr. Arthur took up the game and found that instead of $175 a week in vaudeville he was now making $300 a week, Then he made another discovery. The man who, owned the side-show shared in the profits, so he decided 10 combine his act with the responsi- bilities of side-show ownership. Here again he looked the field over and took on an attraction that consisted mainly of snakes — tor the simple reason that the stars demanded uo salary. Personable sort of fellow who once lutored university students who seemed destined to flunk their Eng- lish courses, and although he claims to have drifted tar afield trom an adequate command of the English tanguage, his vocabulary belies the statement and he has no trace of the American twang or drawl that we have come to associate with our neighbors from across the line. And in those university days he was also putting a Lobby of his to use —the practice of magic. By filling dates with clubs and organizations ue was also paying his way through university. However it was his hobby and not his studies that Jed to his eventual Ana so this young man’s climb continued and he built up his car- nival, which at one time provided the skid-road amusements for the P.N.B. He then took a flyer in circuses and built his business up until it was Second only to Ringling Bros., but (Continued on page 8) started to foliow the vaudeville cir- cyits as a professional magician, BS