Thursday, January 17, 1957 - the Quesnel & District Museum and ...

Tournament Season
Starts Here Sunday
TOURNAMENT time is rolling
around for local badminton
players v/ho start off their busy
Beatty Motors Ltd.
OPEN 8 a.m. to 11 p.m.
D A I L Y
EXCEPT SUNDAY
Complete Repair Service
playing host to a visiting team • Club president Art Guthrie
from Williams Lake. Play gets reports that the club house is
under way at 1:30 p.m. at the nearing completion. The studding
N E W C O M M E R C I A L LOOP OPENS
High School gym. and roof joists are all in place
The 'Lake team is reported to and the only thing left to be done
be smaller than in past years, is to place the sheathing on the
A l l - S t a r s T r i m ' L a k e C a g e r s
but that is not taken to mean it walls and roof. There wiU be Two basketball games were featured at the high school gym who either were or still are
can be considered weaker. The work bees on the project regu- last Saturday night with the first being the introduction of the on the All-Star team while
club from the south has the rep- isrly and anyone interested in newly organized commercial league as Plywood took on Mer- the Plywood players had only
utation of being able to come iielping is asked t'D get in touch ehants before a crowd that was made up of more players waitin., two who had played since
t'jrough when the clups are down, with Mr. Guthrie at 278K. , • xv ri i.u • c *u i rx i • L L i
1 their turn on the floor than paymg fans. , they left high school compe-
on llie slil l i l l l . .
• Classes for beginners in the
art of moving downhill at dazzling
speed on a pair of tricky,
nnrrow skiis are progressing well
under instructor Riiss Cross, who
has more than 35 pupils in all
age groups turning out for instr­
• An
, ,
open invitation
.
has
...
been
, The
—
game was more remmiscent of
-
lumor
-
schoolers
. .
than
-
ol tition.
extended any visitors wishing to . 1 1 , i ,1 i - j- e ,t •
go to the ski hill lo watch activ- senior ball and the score was ample mdication of this with the Merchants started fast,
ities there. They are advised that final count standing at 38 points for Merchants while Plywood
the best and easiest way to reach only managed a scant 19.
racking up a total of 10 points
the hill is by way of the Johnston There was actually very tiun for the Merchant crew
before they were scored upon
sub-division approach. The ent­
and had the quarter score
little in the way of conipeti- as they were mainly players
rance through Pradine sub-div­
14-5. Half time score of 26-9
ision is a one-way road with a
very small turn-around at its
and three quarter score of
32-1.5 go far in indicating the
way the game went as far as
good basketball is concerned.
Phil Punt was high man
.•""'f'^.i for the winners with 10 points
and was closely followed by
Page 6 . CARIBOO OBSERVER Thursday, January 17, 1957 Oave Watt with 8, Dou^
uction. He ask.s that any others tci-minus.
interested contact him by phoning
190M. ADDITIONL SPORTS - PAGE 3
D A N C E
Every Saturday Nite
L e g i o n H a l l
9:30 p.m. to 1:00 a.m.
MODERN
OLDTIME
and
WESTERN SWING
^ I Johnson 8, Albert Johnston
' R O O S P i c k M a n a g e r , C o a c h » ^orry Aker,na„ 4, John
ONE OF QUESNEL'S wellknown
hockey players was chosen as
1957 coach for the Kangaroos and
his running mate in the position
of team manager will be Ed Mc-
Aneely, local manager" for Kelly
Douglas Ltd.
While there is little need to
outline the career of Alex, former
hard-hitting defensemaii on
the Kangaroos, it might be well
to trace the puck history of the
new manager who started his
hockey career as a school boy
on midget and junior teams in
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^ L E W S U L L I V A N M O T O R S L T D > •
W O M E I ' S , M S & i i m I M
Haynian 2 and John Kuzek 0.
his home town of Humbolt Sask. plywoods it was Ger-
From Humbolt he went to Will- r j n i. « •« n
cox, Sask.. where he played jun- '.v Glassford fa, Bob Redly 6,
ior hockey with Notre Dame Coll- Van Foster 5, Maurie Johannege
and from where he moved son 2, Tom Boyes, Keith Byinto
senior ranks with the Trail ers, Ivor Lund and Vem Jo-
Smokc-Eaters. hannson.
His commercial hockey was
cut short by the war, but he kept In the final game of the
on with the game. pla>ing with night, Quesnel All-Stars tiltservice
teams in Red Deer and ^jt^ Williams Lake All-
^^uT-^^^'l
well larded with major
f"^"^
leaguers
Stars
.
with
.0 •
the
r
final score
e
be-
in the services. ^"S -^^-42 m favour of Ques-
Following the war he went into nel.
pro hockey on Uie coast, playing
with Vancouver Canucks and the this game, WUiams
Oakland Oaks prior to his retire- Lake was in close contention
ment in 1948 when he joined the for the full first half as they
Kelly Douglas staff. held the local team to a knot-
His move to Quesnel and ac- ted score at 10-all at the marceptance
of the post of manager (..^j. played fair ball.
with the Quesnel team brings a ,^ *u„^„„ 1 u„i*
wealth of knowledge and exper- , I" /^f second half, after
ience to the squad that should "ley had caught theu: thu-a
help the team over many rough or fourth wind, the Quesnel
spots during the season ahead, players started to move into
a lead and didn't look back
Skiers Teach
i'roni then on.
Pete Bulatovich was the
First A i d Too
high
team,
scorer for the
even though he
local
felt
that his services were
taught at the Quesnel ski hill.
Ken Mcl-.aughlin has taken on
cessary during the last
unnequarthe
task of teaching any persons ter of play, as he hooped 12
interested the art of safety and points making the difference
fii-st aid to the injured through between the two teams,
the medium of a ski rescue pat- players on both teams ap
peared quite competent while
Main purpose of the first aid in the middle of the floor pasand
safety instiniction is to see ^ing the ball from one to the
that anv per.wns miured on the
hrll Will be immediatelv looked other and attempting to set
after b>' qualified persons, but ^'P ^heu- offences but, once
the group, when organized fully, they got set for a shot, they
could serve in a multitude of jobs, seemed to lose all track ol
Not the least of these would be fj^e basket and, if they did
in searching out and aiding hun- -^-^ ^j^^ ^^^^^ to
ters, hikers and disaster victims , , ^ t rr
during the long winter months ^^now how to work off the
when the only possible trans-^ backboards,
portation to the scene of an ac- In gaining their 37 points
cident would be the narrow up- Quesnel had Bulatovitch with
turned boards. 12, Punt 6, A. Johnston 6.
Plans are already laid by the Glassford 4, Haymian 3, Watt
club executive to have one of the 2, D. Johnson 2, Kuzek 2,
patrol on duty during the full Rjlgy, Akerman.
time that the ski hill is in use
on regularly scheduled days.
A l l W i n t e r F o o t w e a r t o r t h e F a m i l y
S a l e C o m m e n c e s
S A T U R D A Y
J A N U A R Y 1 9 i h
• S . N . W I L L I A M S & c
R E F U N D S
N O E X C H A N G E
For Williams Lake it was
Smith 6, Evans 5, Moffat 4.
Charest 4, Dueck 3, StaU 2,
Taylor.
T O C A L RINKS ENTER
PENTICTON SPIEL
TWO Quesnel rinks left town
last week-end for Penticton
where they are presently engaged
in trying to come out
winners in a bonspiel in the
Okanagan town.
Members of the local foursomes
are Lloyd Harper, Bill
WiUis, Ken Thibaudeau and
Gordon Hartnett; Gordon
Pearson, Frank Burns, George
Allen and Al Salloum.
The 'spiel star-ted last Sunday
and will continue on
through the week with the
finals expected to be held
this Sunday.
C L O S E D
W E D N E S D A Y S
We will be closed
EACH WEDNESDAY
All other days it will be
ofir aim to give the best
service possible.
Open From
7:00 a.m. to 11:00 p.m.
D E W D R O P INN
Carson Ave.