Wednesday, June 24, 1959

THE WILLIAMS LAKE TRIBUNE

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Mr. W. G. Frazer Grant, president of the Toronto Humane

society announced sadly that Toronto will have no dog hero-
of-the-year award this year as no one has applied. City .dogs
are becoming softies, blase and spunkless. He’s too busy taking

DOGS TOO BUSY BEING PRETTY TO BE HEROES

tranquilizers, sleeping pills and beauty baths to act like the
loyal pal of old. Dogs are being bred smaller for city living
and is now pampered with special foods and fancy clothes.
Above at left is a pansie in ringlets while at right a couple of
Pampered poodles dressed up for an afternoon stroll.

Famed ranch
sold to chain
store head

The Great Bar 111
Ranch, the famous Doug-
las Lake spread a few
miles from Merritt, has
been sold for 2 reported
33,000,000.

Lieutenant Governor Frank
Ross and Colonel Victor Spencer
have sold the ranch to Charles
E. Woodward, head of the
Woodward's. department store
chain.

The Douglas Lake ranch,
with its 14,000 héad of cattle,
167,000 acres of deeded land
and another 350,000 acres of
government leased range, em-
braces an area half the size of
the Fraser Valley. The ranch
employs 100 people.

Ross and Spencer bought the
Tanch from the William Curtis
Ward estate in 1950.

To the new owner, ranching
is no novelty. His maternal
grandfather,, Wynn - Johnson,
once owned the large Alkali
Lake ranch, and his mother,
Mrs. W. C. Woodward, is ker-
self running a very snccessful

Education commissions of
three provinces to meet

British Columbia’s Royal
Commission on Education will
hold joint meetings with simi-
Jar commissions for Alberta and
Manitoba in Banif on July 2, 3
and 4.

Dean S. N. F. Chart, chair-
man of the B.C. commission,
said the purpose of the meetings
was to exchange views on educa-
tion in the three provinces and
to discuss problems of common
interest.

“We have no intention ot
impairing provincial autonnomy
in education matters or of mi:
mizing the distinctve features
of educaton in the three prov-
inces,” Dean Chant said.

He added that the question
of uniformity of education in
the three provinces would also

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chambers of commerce, boards
of trade, service clubs, farmers’
institutes, parent-teacher asso-
ciations, religious organizations
and high school and university
students.

The material in each brief re-
ceived by the commission is be-
ing classified and research is
being carried out by a team of
10 headed by Professor Edro
Signori, of the University of B.C.
psychology department.

“The purpose of the research
is to find factual support for

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some of the claims made in the

briefs," acording to Dr. Signori.
He added that persons with
special knowledge in certain

fields are being called in to deal
with research problems.

The commission has also sent

be discussed by the commission-| five questionnaires to ene
ers: | groups throughout the/provins
Dean Chant said the forth-|T™

coming meetings would be the
third time that the three com-
missions have met together. “On
each ocasion we have exchanged
information which we found to
be very helpful,” he said.

B.C.’s Royal Commission,
which was established in Jan-
uary, 1958, recently completed
its public hearings. They visi-
ted 32 centres throughou: B.C.
and received more than 350
briefs.

The briefs came from boards
of school trustees, teachers’ as-

sociations, civic organizations,

teachers.

Members of the B.C. Commis-
sion are: Dean Chant,
man; John Liersch, vice-pre
dent of the Powell River Com-
pany; and R. P. Walrod, mana-
ger of B.C. Tree Fruits Ltd., of
Kelowna.

Miss Doreen Spence of Cres-
ton is visiting with her brother
and sister-in-law, Mr. and Mrs.
Gordon Spence.

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three storeys while worl
The 35-foot plunge took M

THREE-STOREY FALL ERASES MEMORY .

Jack Beemer, 37, a steel rigger from Hamilton, Ont.,
on a constructicn job Ap.
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not recognize his children. He seems to recall his wife but his
two little daughters, Sandy, six and Colleen, four, shown above,
are strangers. Doctors say recovery will take many month.

cattle operation on the shores
of Saanich Inlet.

Col. Spencer has three other
ranches—the Earlscourt, the
Pavilion and the Circle S$ at
Dog Creek.

The original Douglas Lake
ranch syndicate was formed in
1872 by a young Kamloops
rancher, J. B. Greaves, who per-
suaded a number of Victoria
businessmen there would be
money selling beef to CPR con-
struction crews.

Greaves began picking up
land around Douglas Lake and
in 1885 the original ranch home
of Lawrence Guichon was swept
into the merger. During the
next few years he bought up a
dozen pre-emptions from origin-
al settlers including that of
John Douglas, after whom the
lake was named.

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RAFFERTY-BARTINDALE RITES

Cultus Lake wedding
of interest to Cariboo

Of intereststo the Cariboo was the wedding Sat-
urday at the Cultus Lake Memorial Church of
Naomi Grace Bartindale, only daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. T. H. Bartindale of Cultus Lake, to Thomas
Rafferty, only son of Mr. Thomas Rafferty and the
late Mrs. Rafferty of Riske Creek. Rev. R. M. Good-
all officiated at the double-ring ceremony at 7 p.m.
before the altar graced with baskets of lovely gar-
den flowers.

Given in marriage by her
father, the bride chose a beauti-
ful dress of stiff white opaque
rayon in waltz-length styled in
princess lines with insets of
pleats in the full skirt. The

along with the bride’s parents.

The bridal table was covered
with ® beautiful white linen and
lace cloth hand-made by the
bride’s great-grandmother and

centred with a three-tier wed-
ding cake made by the bride's
aunt, Mrs. C. B. Bradwin.

It was flanked with wh
candles in silver candelabra.
Serviteurs were Miss Felicity
Rafferty, the groom’s sister from
Riske Creek, Miss Shirley Cuth-
bertson, Mrs. Joan Griffiths,
Miss Donna Enoch and Miss
Sylvia Stevens.

The toast to the bride was
proposed by.Mr. A. W. Kipp of
Cultus Lake.

For their trip to Riske Creek
where they will make their
home, the bride changed into a
beige linen suit with lightning
blue hat and gloves, black pat-
ent shoes and purse with a cor-
sage of deep pink roses.

strapless bodice was topped with
a lace jacket with lilypoint
sleeves, and her chapel veil of
illusion net misted from a prin-
cess cap of dainty flowers. She
carried a bouquet of blue del-
phinium and deep pink roses.
Her only jewellery was a 55-
year-old locket, borrowed from
her mother.

As bridesmaid, Miss Karen
Kipp of Cultus Lake -hose a
short length formal of white
nylon flocked with orange with
the ‘full. skirt caught up with a
large bow in front and the at-
tractive square neckline of the
bodice outlined in bright orange.
She wore an orange feather in
her hair and carried a bouquet
of white carnations.

RAenemenetaonatl

Don Skel-
with Mr.
Mr. Jack
the bride,

Best man was Mr.
ton of Chilliwack,
Lloyd Orrange and
Bartindale, uncle of
acting as ushers.

During the signing of the reg-
ister, Miss Sandra Browning of
West Vancouver sang “O Per-
fect Love.” Organist was Miss
Violet Lancaster of Cultus Lake.

Garden flowers, white and
pink streamers -and. bells dec-
orated the First Baptist Church
Hall in Chilliwack for the re-
ception which followed. Mr.

and Mrs. R. A. Moon of Williams E
Lake assisted in receiving the petroleum
guests on behalf of the groom, weede

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mer’s memory and now he does

Race car driver
loses car

Stock car racing driver Fred
Seibert discovered rather be-
latedly Sunday that when he had
been burning up the track at
Quesnel Saturday ‘night, some-
one had been burning up the
pavement with his own car.
Seibert left his car Saturday
at Elton Elliott's garage and
then drove up with friends to
the Quesnel races. He didn't
get around to picking up his
own car until noon the follow-
ing day and it was then he dis-
covered the theft,

Police later found the car at
Hickson, north of Quesnel. It
had rolled over and about $1000
worth of damage done in the
smash-up.

Lawyers meeting
in Nanaimo

NANAIMO—Between 150 and
200 lawyers from al! parts of
the province wii! converge on
Nanaimo this week for the an-
nual meetings of the Law
Society.

The Law Society and the Bar
Association are two separate
organizations. Membership in
the Law Society is mandatory
for every practising lawyer in
the province, but membership
in the Bar Association is volun-

MORE INTEREST SHOWN

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Williams Lake Public Library Association

NOTICE

From July 1, 1959, to August 31, we will be

summer

library hours will be Friday afternoon 2:00

evening,

There is a convenient book slot under the

left-hand window, where overdue books may
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recently.

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