Williams Lake Tribune NEWS EXCHANGE OF THE CARIBOO Volume 20. — Number 25. WILLIAMS LAKE, B.C. Thursday, June 19, 1952. Single copy 10c, $2.50 per vear. Election App Top Entries In Flat Races Lovers of the aré finding that the Stampede drawing better entries than ever each year and last week was no exception. Up from Vernon again was Vern ~ Anderson with two new horses. One of these, Galmar Devl, stretched all out to win the feature race of the day. | * e tually had won 12 points, edging Janet out by one point. . the 1 mile Cariboo Derby. His’ other entry, Roman Devil, won the 6 fur- long Cariboo Stakes and the 6 fur- long Chileo Ranch Stakes. Donald Brent of Penticton arrived with two horses, Farhem ad Saloptic. The for- mer took two séconds, one in the Cariboo Derby and the other in the Cariboo Stakes, and Saloptic won the 6 furlong Circle S Derby and came second in the Chileo Ranch Stakes. Two Vancouver horses: one owned by Hector McKenzie now of Williams Lake, and the other by Mrs. H. Cald- well of Vancouver, were in the day's money. McKenzie’s Tuscar was third in fast company in the Cariboo Stakes and Mrs. Caldwell’s Rock Steady was fourth in the Cariboo Derby. Several of the horses that Benny Abbott brought up from Vancouver two years ago’and auctioned oi were also up front. Doug Petrowitz had jockey trouble with his Blue Light- ning and the horse was scratched from two races. Owner Petrowitz fin- ally got a new rider for the ‘Circle S Derby though and his entry came in second. Mrs. Pulver’s Lucky Rollie won the % mile Williams Lake Stakes and the Rankin entry of Sar- acee took third in the same race. Scotty Frizpi had trouble finding entries from hi the familia the stables, jockeys for Springhouse Shinglebolt and his purchase of last tm ‘h: fe) takes and Chief Okanagan came third in the Circle S Derby. At th¢"Most of the seneduled rac- ing, the association yielded to a re- quest for a boys and girls race and six entries started in this 4 mile event. Besides the cash prizes from the association, Peter Barker donat- ed a belt to the winner. First in this event was Gwen Pulver; second, was Myrtle McKenzie and third, Gordon McKenzie. The Mountain Race, held on the second day, provided its usual spec- tacular finish. Because of the new highway construction the race was shortened considerably, but it still looks dangerous and takes an experi- enced rider to come plunging down it safely. Pierre Squinahan, who came in second last year beat out the favour- ed Gilbert Harry on his big gre: Pierre just about missed the race too, and had to run his horse part way up the mountain to catch the entries who had preceded him. Gil- bert’s grey looked good until the horses hit the track. It came thun- dering out of the bush well in the lead but once on the level track it faded before Squinahan’s 1 ighter entry. In third place was Louis Bates and Antoine Billie was fourth. Only bad hitch in Saturday’s rac- ing wan the first event, the 4% mile Open. Because of a mix-up in start- ing, the track flag man didn't lower his flag and the judges called it ‘no race.’ This event was run off again later in the afternoon. Detailed results of the races are as follows: (where one or two en- tries are listed, the race only had one more entry on the track), ¥% Mile Open — Ist, Sage Queen, owner Bil] Twan; 2nd, Galmar Devil, ard, Joker McCue, owner O, An- derson. = Chileg Ranch Stakes (6 furlong): “Sport of Kings” is Josie, Not Janet, —Wins Sport Award We have been advised by the offi- cials responsible for the compilation of points at last week's Central School Sports meet that an error was made in the first count giving Janet Wilcox of Forest Grove the high gi aggregate award for her 11 point to- tal. Her sister, Josie, who was listed SET UP COMMITTER Trade Group Will Travel To Horsefly A week from today members of the local Board of Trade will travel to Horsefly to establish the first rural committee of the Williams Lake and District Board of Trade. the Southern Zone meet three weeks ago when she captured the high ag- gregate award, and it also marks the has held the high aggregate for the The suggestion was first advanced this past winter by board president Bert Roberts, who promised the cen- tral board would make jaunts to coun- (ry points this summer with the idea of making the “District” part of the board’s name something more than a word. It is thought that when the district committees are chosen, these groups will in turn have representu- lion on the central board executive. At Horsefly Harry Brown is in charge of arrangements for the meet- ing next Thursday. Having missed the regular meet- ing this month because of the Stam pede, the local board will hold u spe: cial meeting next Wednesday in the Village Hail to finalize arrangements ‘Tor the Horsefly trip, in third place with nine points, ac- Josie thus repeated her effort a -econd year that this young athlete cntire district. WRESTLING CARD DRAWS WELL HERE Wrestling promoter Pred Cardwell van take a well-earned how for the wrestling card he presented at .the _- LEADS POLL —Photo by Blackwell's ears Certain For Chetwynd ‘Leads Combined Total Vote booming part of the province next Legislature. With 52 out of 53 polls heard from, Mr. Chetwynd leads his closest op- ponent, Liberal Angus MacLean by a thumping margin of 1563 votes. His total of 2428 gives him at this moment a clear majority of 264 over the combined totals of his other three opponents and would be sufficient to concede his election except for the heavy absentee poll. According to Returning Officer George Renner, there are appr: mately 500 Cariboo riding ballots in this poll. This is where the outside ‘Well out in front in the provin- chance comes in. If these votes were eialelection race in Cariboo, Ralph to go almost solidly MacLeau, the Chetwynd, Social Credit candidate, second step of the transferable sys- seelis assured of election on the first count, 2 tem would be necessary. That is, the ballots now given to the candidate [in last place would be used, with War Memorial Arena Friday and Saturday. The matches Saturday night were particularly well received by the town's grunt and groan fans, with a newcomer tothe local scene, Cal Roberts, getting a big share of the cheers. Roberts, a well-built lad from Mesa, Arizona, and State champion in 1949, proved himself to he an outstanding exponent of the sport. Fast with his holds and breaks he is also a ring actor S ability. r whose ring antics belie his woe Years, gave his usual demonstration of mastery, including the Indiau Death Lock, which he used once to subdue Felix Kohnke. It was Felix’s first appearance in the local ring since his tour of England, and he | showed a wealth of improvement in ‘his ring strategy. The fourth star on the bill was tricky Bill Kohnke. ' Friday night Bill jstarted the night’s show 'Kohnke gaining. the decision with two out of three falls. Felix and the Chief wound up the card, but spoiled their appearance when they insisted on doing most of their wrestling out- side the ring and sometimes into the first row of the ringside seats. Saturday night Bill Kohnke took on the Chief and Felix and Roberts met in two 20-minute matches with no falls being scored. The program wound up with the Kohnkes taking on Thunderbird and Roberts in an Australian tag team match that brought the house down. The Kohn- kes succeeded in gaining the two-fall Gecision at the expense of Roberts. POWER COMMISSION MANAGER TO MOVE TO QUESNEL POST “Jack Dobie, manager of the B.C. Power Commission plant here for the past five years, has received word that he will be transferred to the Com- mission’s Quesnel office in the same capacity on July 28. Mr. Dobie will replace Quesnel manager G. S. Burton, who is being transferred to Golden. Mr. Burton was stationed here prior to Mr. Do-! bie’s appointment, The loca] Board of Trade will miss Roman Devil, Saloptic, Tuscar. Alkali Lake Stakes (1 mile, Cari- boo bred): Flash, owner Rankin, Williams Lake Stakes (3 mile): Lucky Rollie, Chief Okanagau, and Saracee. Cariboo Stakes (6 furlong): man Devil, Fairhem, Tuscar, Shingle- bolt. Cattlemen’s Derby (34 mile, Cari- boo bred): Sage Queen, Talsuma, owner Jimmy Thomas. Cirele S Derby (6 furlong): Sal-| optic, Blue Lightning, Chief Okan- agan. Indian Derby (1 mile): Spitfire, owner Anthony Joe; Dolores, owner the past two years to handle the ex-| people and visitors | (continued on back page) aS the present manager. A member of the executive for the past two years Mr. Dobie was-one of the board’s hardest working members. Dobie does not know who will |be replacing him in Williams Lake. | general manager of the Pacific Great Ro- At present Basil Gale, a recent grad-) Eastern Railway. declared the 1952 i | vate in electrical engineering from; the University of British Columbia, | is working with him and will take, his place when he goes on holidays July 2. The move to Quesnel will represent a substantial promotion for Mr. Do-| bie, as the Commission plant there has been enlarged several times in| panded industries in that centre, of no mean Roberts was the only new face in the ring. The other three wrestlers vere well known to local faus. Chief cress rful* Indian id led the advisability of trying to run Despite Rain, Stampede May Show Slight Profit Despite a sag in gate receipts due to rain on the opening day, Stampede Association officials are fairly certain from their preliminary check that this year’s show finally made the black side ofthe ledger after two yearsof running at a deficit. Although the gate dropped from other sources of income were up —! t turned over $104 last year as ils 202 poueent rental based on net receipts,| this year proaddiskernng et. sociation. Two other food conc sions are yet to be heard from but the Jaycee money-raiser turned over $125 compared to last year’s $50. Something new in receipts and badly needed because of the gate drop, was the $500 rental paid by the midwa ar this scurce turned over $310. A big help too was the $650 donated by town business- men and $525 from the ranchers. And the Stampede continues grow. This year with 64 entries, the sad- dle brone event became the heaviest event in point of entries than any other show in Canada — topping the Calgary Stampede. Another heavy entry of more than 60 was recorded in the bareback event. The cowboys received $3373 in prize money and a further $1100 was given for purses in the flat racing. to chi ne LR pies “aisthe ee night staff busy until morning Siand was supplied with 90 dozen hot: dogs at ten o'clock, ran out of dogs and buns at 2 a.m. and then had to peel the cellophane off another 15 pounds of weiners and serve these as “hot dogs in a cup.” The supplies were reinforced from those the Elks Hall,. but by morning every- thing had been disposed of. he wrest in da Saturday night was a good ex, crowds on th the ap | ample of th Detailed enni: $3137 last year to $2746 this year, ‘Nights in the Cariboo” and took in tling shows uptown, th particularly those on the grounds. dances, and finally wound up at house The Canadian Legion hooth, which Senees Or on ile sfeund® to’ see the: mee. with left at results of arena events will be found on page 5. Court Busy With 92 Drunk Cases RCMP officers were kept busy dur- ing Stampede, prove. There were before arges as court ords: 92 up on drunk Magistrate J.D. Smedley, 12 white men and the re- BEST ALL-ROUND Best All Around Cowboy-this year was Dave Perry of Cache Creek, who made up his total with a first in men’s steer riding and second in the calf roping. His total number of points was actually bettered by Slim | that were quictly home, charged once and after brought off the streets could navigate successfully. or mainder Indians. . wynd 316. Except for the differ Th’s does n t incinje the number ul 7 cierdace: corted to thy road “repeats'’ who were that were until the fu the Dorin, a recent addition to our com-} latter examples, one Indian was back munity, who earned $301 for second in custody four times dur the money in the saddle bronc event, | celebration: $100 for third place in the calf rop-| | Four additional constables were ing. To be elegible for the best all| brought in to maintain law and or around award you must be entered in der, but even with° an augmenteé four major events though, and Slim was only entered in two. Slim is the new fieldman for the Cariboo Cattlemen’s Association and is a former winner of the all around award at the now defunct Kamloops show. OPEN SHOW After a long delay Thursday after- noon while Stampede officials debat- off the events scheduled for that af- ternoon, the arena was finally disked in preparation and J. A. Kennedy, Stampede underway. Despite the steady drizzle. die hard fans watched the events from the grandstand and saw a good brand of bucking as the quality of stock | the staff, the men wer, the clock in » serve a lot of credit for the w carried out th working around ances and de- y they in: duties. The Cari t of turning With 5 for the liquor plebi ‘yes’ and 1207 ‘no liquor Change Approved, Daylight Saving Rejected boo follow the pro d the trend of e in voting overwhelmingly in favour of ihe sale| of liquor by the gla is still predominant but showed it rural riding down daylight saving. polls reportir voted was better than average. Oniy one Latest returns through tlre prov- horse fell that afternoon due to slip-| ince (incomplete) s a Liquor by pery condition of the arena. the glass with 1 and Like every other Stampede, towns-| 102.671 ‘no.’ Dayl Saving (in- got into the,;Complete) was 136,216 « and spirit of the slogan “Four Wild| 117,290 ‘no,’ they! the second choice on these votes being distributed among the other three. There were several surprises In the election in this riding. Probably the least of these, but still a surprise. was the heavy vote that was accorded Mr. Chetwynd. Backed by a group that had only been organized a mat- ter of three weeks before the elec- tion, it was thought that his chances of making the first count were doubt- full. At the other extreme, the weak- ness of the support accorded Pro- -gressive-Conservative candidate Ken ‘Thibaudeau. Even in, his home town of Quesnel he was shaded by Mac- e Of Opponents By 264 Although there is an outside chance of possibly 30 to 1 that he won’t be elected on the first count, from every indica- tion it appears that the Cariboo has put its faith in the ability of Ralph Chetwynd, Social Credit candidate, to give this adequate representation in the | The Results Here is the Cariboo Riding standing election with only one poll to be heard trom and the ab- sentee vote to be accounted for. in the Provincial Chetwynd, S.C. —.2428 MacLean, L. — 865 Thibaudeau, P.C. — 696 Riley, C.C.F. — 603 Mr. Chekwynd drew his greatest sup- port from Williams Lake. Here he obtained just over 57 percent of the total vote; at both Quesnel and Wells he received just over 50 percent of the total. The absentee vote-in the riding, which holds the answer to the ques- tion of whether Chetwynd is the next Cariboo MLA. on the first count, will not be tabulated until July 3. BLSEWHERE Elsewhere in the province, the el- ection picture remains even more obscure. Z According to the latest bulletins, only three candidates have been de- clared elected. Harold Witch, CCK ieader i aeet id. = #@an and Wasa SCF candidate Ron Riley. This latter candidate also showed surprising strength. With no evi- dence of campaign funds at his dis- posal, and waging an almost one-man campaign in most of thé riding, he still collected a healthy total of the non-Social Credit vote. Only one polling station remains | to be heard from. Big Creek was un- able to phone in results because lines were out and the count is not expect- ed to reach Williams Lake until to- night. Despite rain throughout most ot the riding, the vote was fairly good. There are 8000 names on the voters list and a total of 4592 votes were cast, with at least another 500 vot- ing absentee, and 111 other persons included with those whose ballots were rejected. The final outcome of the election | began to show its trend early Thurs- day night. An hour and a half after poll closing time, with 18 polls heard from, the vote stood at MacLean 113, Thibaudeau 93, Riley 22, and Chet-| in figures, this ratio remained as each polling station was heard from. | Of the three centres of population, , Quesnel, Williams Lake and Wells, two are Social Credit men; Ken Kierman of Chilliwack and W. A. C. Bennett of South Okanagan. Winch is the only one of the three party leaders in the election who is sure of his seat in the Legislature. Liberal Premier Byron Jobnson has only a three-vote lead over CCF candidate Rae Eddie in New West- minster at the end of the first count and Conservative leader Herbert Anscomb is trailing $12 votes behind Liberal Archie Gibbs in Oak Bay. Surprise of the election was the strength shown by the CCF party, which had theoretically been “writ- ten. off” by most old-line supporters as a serious threat. Besides the three seats mentioned, the CCF candidates are leading in 20 ridings; Social Credit in 12, Liberals 9, Conserva- fites 3 and Labor 1. With the Conservative candidates trailing in many ridings, their sec- ond choice is the cause for much speculation. Did those who voted No. 1 for the Conservatives, “plump”? That is, did they only show one choice, or did they give their sécond choice to one of the non-socialist Parties? On this question will hinge the power in the next Legislature. Detailed election results will found on page 5. be | | i | ! 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