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1958 Alberta Snap Shots

   
  George Wesley

George Wesley at home on the ranch.
(Photo courtesy Art Olyslager)

 

  George with his boys

Brack Bailey (left), George Wesley and Ed Carrier.  (Photo courtesy Brack Bailey)
 

 

Branding at the ranch

John Robertson (top left) watches the branding operation at the ranch. (Photo courtesy Art Olyslager)

Art Olyslager

Unloading grain at the ranch.  That's farmhand Art Olyslager taking a breather. (Photo courtesy Art Olyslager)
 

 

Brack Bailey

Brack Bailey prepares for a turn at the dish. (Photo courtesy Brack Bailey)

Hubbard & Duncan

(Above)   Two major stars from the Medicine Hat victory in the Lethbridge Rotary Tournament - Ron Hubbard (left) and Lynn Duncan (right).

(Right)  The Lethbridge Herald gives Johnny Vaselenak the star treatment.  May 31, 1958

The New Club Cafe

Vulcan, 1958.  The New Club Cafe 
(Photo courtesy Jack Altman)

John Vaselenak

 

     
              Wesley vs Watson   Don Kuodis

(Left)   Newspaper promotion for the All-Star Game.  George Wesley's defending champion Granum White Sox dropped a 4-2 decision to the Harry Watson managed Southern Alberta Baseball League All-Stars.  (Lethbridge Herald, July 3, 1958)

(Right)   Lefthander Don Kuodis, out of Chicago, pitched three outstanding games for Lethbridge before joining Lloydminster of the Western Canada League.  Kuodis, a brilliant high school pitcher, later signed with the White Sox.


Lee Dobyns & George WesleyMedicine Hat manager Lee Dobyns (second from left) receives congratulations from George Wesley, the Lethbridge manager for the Superiors win over Wesley's Granum White Sox, 8-5, in the final of the Lethbridge Rotary Tournament.  Tourney chairman Frank Gimmell is at the far left and Rotary Club president John Black is at the far right.  (Lethbridge Herald)

 

Warriors meet

 

 

Lethbridge Warrior captain Clarence Yanosik (second from right) meets Medicine Hat manager Lee Dobyns (second from left) at home plate.  Lynn Duncan of the Superiors is at the far left, Frank Amaya of the Warriors, far right. Superiors moved to within a game of Lethbridge in the standings with a 5-2 victory.

 

Phil and Don Risinger


 

Two of the key members of the
Medicine Hat Superiors, brothers
Phil (left) and Don (right) Risinger.

Below - Granum, Alberta in 1958.
Note the string of elevators on the
edge of town.  The photo is from the
Granum History site by the elementary
school students at Granum School.


 

Vulcan, Alberta, 1958

 

     

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