‘WAGGON WHEEL’ DANCE DIARY
Wed. 8th & Thurs 9th  January, dance to the beat of BYRON HUNTE’S TRIO.  No Cover Charge.
Saturday 11th January- Dance to TOM CHARLES & THE SYNCOPATORS B.G.’s Most popular dance orchestra . Cover Charge $1.00 per person.
Waggon Wheel Murray and Carmichael Streets. (Guiana Graphic: January 8, 1964)

‘Barney’ does well at Kneller Hall
SERGEANT ‘Barney’ Small of the B.G Police Force Band, who is undergoing a student bandmaster’s course at the Royal Military School of Music, Kneller Hall, England, was recently awarded three prizes for outstanding performances.
Sergeant Small has qualified as an associate of the Royal College of Music, and at the ‘Prize Day’ held recently, he was presented with the following awards:
A bronze medal and a cheque for $25.20 for obtaining second place in the Somerville Prize for Military Band Arranging; a silver plaque and cheque for $24 for obtaining first place in the Fred Mortimer Memorial Competition for the best arrangement for brass band; and a cheque for $28.20 for winning the Professor’s Prize award to the student gaining the most marks on secondary instruments.
Sergeant Small is expected back in Guiana some time in April this year.
(Guiana Graphic: January 9, 1964)

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(Guiana Graphic: January 26, 1964)

B.G. ranch among biggest in the world
B.G’s  Dadanawa Ranch is the subject of an 11-page article in the February issue of the Geographical Magazine, the leading magazine of its kind in Britain.
The article is accompanied by maps and photographs.
The Magazine’s coloured cover shows cowboys rounding up longhorns on the ranch.
The author of the article, Mr. Stanley E. Brock, Manager of the Dadanawa Ranch, points out that more than half the cattle population of B.G. grazes on the ranch.
With a current herd of 27,000 spread out over 3,000 square miles, the ranch is among the largest single unit area ranches in the world.
(Guiana Graphic: February 7, 1964)

A man’s challenge puzzles magistrate
A CITY man walked into the Drysdale Street home of a woman with whom he was friendly at 1:30 o’clock one morning in October last year, and met a man whose hand he shook and said: “Come downstairs and the better man wins.”
But the man, 28-year-old city labourer, Neville Stoute did not accept the challenge.
Instead, the Court heard, a row and a scuffle began between Edgar Smith and the woman, Norma, over an attempt to eject Stoute.
Smith alleged that Stoute, who was defended by Mr. W. MacWilliams, wounded him with a knife.
But Mr. MacWilliams pointed out to the Magistrate that the woman, Norma, was the mother of Stoute’s two children, and that Smith was injured by a windowpane during the scuffle.
Magistrate Dhan Jhappan dismissed the case after remarking that he was puzzled as to why Smith had challenged Stoute by saying: “Come downstairs and the better man wins.”
(Guiana Graphic:  February 14, 1964)

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(Guiana Graphic: February 16, 1964)

Another attempt at Roraima
ONE OF Guiana’s most ardent adventurers is again planning to make a trip into the interior.
Mr. Ram Ramlakhan, of Half Mile, Wismar, Wismar Hill is finalizing plans to make another attempt at climbing Mount Roraima.
This, he says, is the supreme attempt, since he and his companion were forced to abandon the previous trip after reaching the height of 6,000 feet.
His equipment will consist of the bare necessities – hunting knife, cutlass and hammock – but he will also walk with a camera with which he intends to take pictures of wildlife to show to members of the Wild Life Club he intends to form on his return.
If his trip is successful, Ramlakhan plans to explore the upper reaches of the Corentyne, a region of which he knows very little.
(Guiana Graphic: February 23, 1964)

Alert ‘loco’ driver saves woman
THE ALERTNESS of a locomotive driver prevented a tragedy on the East Coast of Demerara railway track when a 30-year-old mother of three was alleged to have thrown herself on the track when the Mahaica-Georgetown trail was approaching Non Pariel.
Shortly after the train was brought to a standstill a few yards from the prostrate woman, the Police arrived and took her into custody.
The Police said that the woman gave her name as Isha Ishmael of Non Pariel.
(Guiana Graphic: March 19, 1964)

‘My brother shot me in the chest’
JAMES Melville Harte, testifying in the Rupununi shooting case yesterday, told Mr. Justice Arthur Chung and a mixed Jury that he was shot in the chest by his brother, Elmo, while they were preparing to sign an agreement for shares in the business at Pirara Ranch, Rupununi  on December 15, 1962.
James resumed giving evidence after the Judge had ruled that evidence of previous threats by Elmo Harte were admissible.
In the dock was Elmo Harte, on a four-count indictment charging him with wounding James Harte with intent to murder him – and also with discharging a loaded firearm at another brother, Benjamin Harte, with intent to do him grievous bodily harm.
Wounding with intent and being in possession of a firearm with intent to endanger life were the other two charges.
(Guiana Graphic: March 19, 1964)

(Clifford Stanley can be reached to discuss any of the foregoing articles at cliffantony@gmail.com or by telephone: 657-2043)