| Thursday, March 19, 1958. THE TRIBUNE, WILLIAMS LAKE. B.C. Page 3 THE DENTAL OFFICE OF DR. A. H. BAYNE AVERY CLINIC, WILLIAMS LAKE ae will be closed until April 20th SEE US! For Your Spring BUILDING REQUIREMENTS WE CARRY A COMPLETE LINE OF Builders’ Hardware, Nails, Cement, Roofing and building papers, wallboard, paints, sash and doors, plywood, mouldings, bricks, flue liner, chimney blocks, tile pipe, lumber of all kinds. H. J. Gardner & Sons Ltd. YOUR BUILDING SUPPLY DEALER General Excavation Work M&R (MARGETTS & ROTTACKER) - Excavating -Irrigation Ditches- - General Bulldozing Work For estimates on your excavating work telephone Bill Margetts, 150-Mile House tion wor Gardiner Boulthee Named President of B.C. Hereford Association C. Gardiner Boultbee of Bridye Lake was elected president at the annual meeting of the B.C. Hereford Association held in Kamloops last week. Named vice-president was Bert Erickson of Earlscourt Farms. Mat Hassen Jr, was re-elected secretary. Named directors were Williain Dingwall of Lac La Hache, Len Wood of Armstrong, J. G. Lyster of Arm strong, Lloyd Shook of Louis Creek, Fred Day of Westsyde, Tom Wilson, of Vinsulla and Dan L. Lee of Hance- ville. “ E. P. Orcutt, livestock specialist from Montana State \College and grader of the 35th Annual Provincial Bull Sale and Fat Stock Show, was the featured speaker. ~ During the meeting D. A. Andrew of Calgary, secretary of the Cana- dian Hereford Association, presented a resume of the highlights of the annual Canadian Hereford Associa- tion meeting held at Guelph, Ontario. A brief talk was given by V. B. Bl- lison of Oyama, first vice-president of the Canadian Hereford Associa- tion and representative of the B.C. 150 Mile News H. DUNAWAY was a recent visit- or to Caldwell, Idaho, having been called by the illness of his father. The first of the year he was called home by the serious illness of his mother. MRS. C. J. ZIRNHELT and daugh- ter Margaret are visting relatives in Vancouver for a couple of weeks. MR. and MRS. J. McPHAIL and family spent the weekend at Seton Lake. MR. and MRS. H. DUNAWAY took in the Bull Sale at Kamloops. CONGRATULATIONS to Miss Alice Fraser who is one of the lucky girls to win a trip to the Coronation. I'm sure everyone wishes they were in her shoes. SPRING must be here. Anyway the surveyors have been working through here the past week surveying the road. They are staying at the 150 Hotel. MISS WINNIE WESTWICK. is helping at the Hotel. 4 i BENNET and WHITE Goulethe | start work on the new school at St. Joseph’s Mission. MRS. O’DELL left Friday night to attend the funeral of her brother at ‘| Langley Prairie. RALPH TURNEY was home over the weekend. He is logging for the M & C Co. out at Miocene. RALPH RODGER won the first prize for the crib in the Williams Lake Hospital card tournament. Last year Mrs. Rodger won ladies’ first. 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FRIDAY the 13th was an unlucky day for Jim Mackie of Mackie and Monette Logging Co., Ltd. Jim was loading logs when a log slipped and jammed against his leg. At first it was thought that Mr. Mackie was badly hurt. He was rushed to Kam- loops hospital with nurse Jean Haines of the Outpost Hospital in attendance. There Dr. Wallace took charge. Nurse Haines reports tha Jim had a fractured left leg and will be home in a few days. MRS. HORACE WOODROW ar- rived home from Ashcroft hospital Thursday, March 12. With her was a seven pound baby girl, Alberta Jean. BERT BROWN was in Vancouver a VANCOUVER STARTS NEW. FAIR BUILDINGS hibition were mechanized. when —Central Press Caffadian ‘Sod-turning ceremonies at Vancouver's Pacific National Ex- Lieut.-Gov. Clarence Wallace, seated, dedicated three new $1 400,000 buildings being erected on the exhibition grounds. PNE President J..S. C. Moffitt and Van- couver’s Mayor Fred Hume were onlookers as his honor took the giant caterpillar over the sites of the new B.C. building, Electrical building, and Manufacturers’ building, all three of which are ex- pected fo be completed in time for this year’s fair. for a few days on business. Don Eden of Watch Lake was driving the school bus while Bert was away. MISS EDYTH WINTERINGHAM arrived in Lone Butte Monday morn- ing. THE Optimist Club met at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Jack DeVries Saturday evening. Next meeting will be at Perey Willard’s on Saturday, March 21. Prices Off Sharply at Stock Show and Sale at Kamloops aa At both the fat stock sale and the bull sale the following day last week at Kamloops, prices were down steeply from those of a year ago. The 408 head~of butcher cattle offered brought only $82,905, which was less than 235 head brought in 1952, a total of $88,037. Average price per head last year was $362 against $203-at the 1953 sale. Carload averaged 20.26 gents per pound’ “against last years” 33.45. ers: have also arrived t¢/Groups of five-head averaged 20.90 cents against 35.82. Spares averaged 19.27 against 35.10. Open singles and boys’ and girls’ singles averaged 24.31 against the 1962 all-time high of 41.60. Breeders of the province’s herd- sires todk the same price set-back last Thursday. Average price for Hereford buiis was only $610 per head, against the $952 average in 1952. The show's champion, entered by Felix Mabel of Westwold, topped tie sale with $2000 paid by Douglas Lake Cattle Company. The reserve champion, bred by J. G. Lyster, strong, brought $1050 from Bill Studdert of Gang Ranch. The other ‘A’ bulls, according to the new grading system used for the first time this year, went for the fol- lowing prices: Entry of Thomas Jackson, Salmon Arm, $850; entry of Henry Rottacker, Vernon, $1150; entry of Fred E. Dey of Westsyde, $800; entry of A. F. Trewitt, Oyama, 700; entry of BX Ranch, Vernon, GRADING In explaining the grading system at the start of the show, bull judge E. P. Oreutt of Bozeman, Montana, said ‘‘We are not judging one bull against another, but are judging the' animal against the ideal standard.” The grades were broken into sev- en classifications: A plus, A, A minus; B plus, B, B minus, and C plus bulls. Any bulls grading below | C plus were ruled out of the show. “I don’t expect any A pluses or ” said Mr. Oreutt, who is a stock specialist at Montana State College “Those gradings are given to the top bulls in North America. I do, how- ever, expect four or five A minuse: Of the 141 entries, sir were awarded. DOULAS LAKE WINS Douglas Lake Cattle Company wou both the champion and reserve cham- pion carlots and the champion group of 5 on the opening day of the stock show. Hereford steer displayed by Len| Wood & Son was named Grand, Champion of the show in the judg-| ing of the halter classes of market. cattle and was later sold for 56 cents! a@ pound. The Reserve Champion, owned by Mrs. W. J. Taylor of Monte Lake, brought 31 cents. Prices for the champion commer- cial classes were as follows: Carlots, heavy class, 1. Nicola Stock farms, brought 30; 2. F. DeLeeuw & Sons, brought 2 Barlscourt, brought 20.00. Carlots, light class, 1. Douglas Lake, brought 23.50; 2. Douglas Lake, brought 22.20; 3. Bostock Ranch, brought 20.10. Groups of 5, heavy class — 1. B. M, Hall, brought 22.0032. DeLeeuw & Sons, brought 20.8043. DeLeeuw & Sons brought 20.80. ight class — 1. Douglas Lake; brought 24.00; 22 J. W. Lander, brought 25.00; 3. Dan Lee, Hanceville, brought 22.25. District rancher Dan Lee won first prize with his steer entered in light individual class (900 to 1010 Jbs.), and the animal brought 28.00 in the sale. Other firsts in the single classes brought 26.00 and 28.00. Anotaer district rancher, R. A. ‘Pudge’ Moon, received 19.00 for a carlot of steers. Biggest buyers at the sale were Canada Safeway, Swift Canadian, Burns & Co., Pacific Meat, Alberta Meat and Salmon Arm Meat companies. The few American visitors at the sale kept their hands in their pock- ets. Reg Hook, who brought two U.S. cattlemen to the sale said his clients saw no bargains in relation to the current market. Canada Packers,! Canadian naval aviation has two squadrons of fighters; two of anti- submarine aircraft, a training air group and a helicopter flight. Seven Royal Canadian Navy de- stroyers served in Korean waters during the first two years of the war, three of them completing two full tours of duty. 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