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NEWS EXCHANGE OF THE CARIBOO

Volume 24 — Number 34. - WILLIAMS LAKE, B.C. Thursday, August 30, 1956. Single copy 10c. ‘32.50 per year

~ Town Welcomes First P.G.E. Train

EE Its A Holdup |. a Down The Rat Trap

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Doing a little arm twisting to emphasize the words “you're under arrest,” deputy shertifs “Bill fare that listed sucii drinks as ‘Cariboo Calamity” and “PGI Slow-
~Sharpe and Bert Roberts start leading ‘off Premier Bennett and Railway Minister Chetwynd

ball” — and of course, girls. Queen of the dive was the “woman
! to the stagecoach. In the background Tom Madison is watching PGE manager Einar Gunderson. « known as Lou,” Mrs Ed Baker, shown here perched on the bar
} Premier ae holds one Be the ‘‘Wanted”’ posters. = : Z alongside bartender fom Hawker, That's Tribune editor Clive

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Ec. Now A Bunch Of The Boys... ; * A Noose Is-Ha

: These pictures of the local
celebration markjng the
inaugural tun of the PGE
over its Squamish-North -
‘Vancouver extension, were

q taken by Fred Waterhouse
of The Tribune staff.

Originally scheduled to
arrive here Tuesday after-
; noon, the train was delay-
ed by a rock slide north
of Horseshoe Bay for 22
hours — didn’t arrive in
Williams Lake until 8:00
a.m. Wednesday. Change ~
definitely affected size of
crowd. watching arrival,
but not the enthusiasm,

For complete story see
Page Three.

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++. Were whooping it up. I

n this case the “boys” are Premier Bennett, Binar Gunderson and. Ralph Chet- A hangman’s noose is handy for
wynd. Those popular Rat Trap girls are from right to left Mrs. Ken Rife, Mrs. Baker, Mrs. Bill Margetts, other things, as Mr. Chetwynd
Mrs. Jim Blair, and just about out of the picture. Mrs. Mars Poirier. The Rat Trap Saloon wasn’t the most discovers as he holds Mrs. Blair on

modern saloon, but it was certainly a popular spot with the hundreds of train visitors, the steps of the train,

“You P.G.E. Varmints Are Charged... .” So Long — It Was A Good Party

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i i i g ri f g ” These promine: men bantered with ti lookers from the rear of the special train as
With their heads in the noose, these three culprits hear the charges from hangman. “Woody mt men bantered with the onlookers fro D
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aking it unsafe Tor cove or comiara to seep the tas wate peeks, wha ant USERS ei ourny tars bee ohign i auceney. eset bel
making it unsafe for cows or cowboys to sleep on the Tight-of-way. Deputies Madison, Sharpe almost lost Lou and bartender Hawker as they were taken north by exhuberant visitors,
and. Roberts are in the background, On the wall €an be seen two of the “wanted” posters, They finally had the emergency

cord yanked near Lignum’s mill and walked back,