Parade, Rodeo, Races Thrill Frontier Crowd

              " A L M 8 " pleaded George Fisher from his seat In the centre of the Memjorlal Centre
Rotunda. George, as an Indian beggar, gave an inkling of the costumes decor and
plain downright fun provided by the Recreation Board's "Slavr Market" fast Frf«
day evening. — Times' photo. '
Parade, Rodeo, Races
Thrill Frontier Crowd
With places ot business re­naming
open not as many
pectators as usual were able
o attend the rodeo events
leld here on Monday after-loon,
but nevertheless a
arge crowd was present to
•ee the 84 professional com
>etitors ride, rope and s.teei
vrestle in a t h r i l l i n g perfor
nance.
One accident marred the
ifternoon, when Gid Gar-
Under lead the procession.
stead of Veteran, Alberta,
was injured in the final event,
the brahrria bull riding, and
was taken to hospital by
Snodgrass' ambulance. He is
reported to have suffered a
fractured leg.
Les Johnson of Omaha,
Wash., and Duane Bruce
of Calgary, divided first
money in the saddle bronc
riding, tieing with- scores of
177. Leo Brown of G a r plac­ed
second with a score of 172
and Rocky Rockabar of Med­icine
Hat third with 17ft
George Myren of Vking
took top place in theiare-back
horse riding wffh a
'score of 168. closely foolltlooWw'e d
Dy Bob Duce of Granum and
Cody Morris of Black Dia­mond
who each scored 167
points.
Leo Brown of Czar took
top money in the nrahma
bullridin?.
The steer wrestlvig was
won by Stan Weatherley of
Ponoka in a time of 4.9, fol­lowed
by Gerald Dosch. Card-ston,
in 5.5; ;Stan Walker.
Lethbridge. 6.4, and Bud
Butterfield, Ponoka, 7 fiat.
Bud Van Cleve of Taber
had the best calf roping time
of 13.5 for first place money,
followed by George Suteliff,
Millarville, 16.2; Dick Hav­ens,
Madden, 17-1; J im Glad­stone,
Cardston. 18; E. Co?h-lan,
Stavely, 19.4; and Stan
Weagierley. 19.8.
Judges for the rodeo events
were William Jackson and
Brian Butterfield with War­ren
Cooper the announcer.
Pari-mutuel booths were
kept busy during the Twi­light
races with the six
events attracting consider­able
interest.
Little Damage lit b ire at Citizens Lumber
L'rnie Leigh and Wayne
Smith of Citizens Lumber
Yard are two salwarts of the
Volunteer Fire Brigade who
have attended many alarms,
in High River but Sunday
noon firemen Leigh hardly
expected to answer the call
of the siren and find the con­flagration
I nhis own lumber
Yard.
The alarm was turned in
shortly before noon by Ernie
Brisks who saw the blane
from hi." yard. Mr. I/eigh had
been at the yard a short time
before and everything ap­peared
normal.
The fire, of unknown <M-i<jin
mm
occurred in trie forr: >r office
now being used a= tempor­ary
headquarters b; the De­partment
of Hlghw ; s Tews
working near Hi?' River.
Damage" was lir.u ed. and
the building will continue to
be used as an office and later
as a storeroom *
Some documents of the
Highway Department were
charred, as* were old paners
belonerintr to the Lumber
Yard which were intended to
be thrown out.
Fireman Smith who was
enlovinq; his dav off w i t h at
excursion on* of town. m'*s
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