msmmm INSIDE . CLASSIFIED .................... Page 10 COMICS.......................... Pa9e 11 EDITORIAL .................... Poge 2 WOMEN'S, SOCIAL ........ Page 7 SPORTS ........................ Pgs. 4, 5 DIAL LO4-2441 'WE A TH"B-R Cloudy wirh scattered showers, little change fn temperature, winds light. Low tonight and high tomorrow, 32 and 45. Vpl. 2; No. 63 PRINCE GEORGE, BRITISH COLUMBIA, MONDAY, MARCH 31, 1958 PRICE 7 CENTS BY CARRIER 35c PER WEEK PART OF seven-member RCAF- Search and Rescue Squadron crew which flew here through- severe icing conditions early Sunday in bid to save city baby's life helps load the child aboard Canso amphibian at Prince George Airport. At left is Nursing Sister M. Kerr and at lower right is city physician Dr. Jack Kray- � enho'ff. Flight Lieutenant M. W. Utas looks on. , �Citizen Photo PAIR BORN WITH RH FACTOR Triple Mercy Saves Two. One Dies . A.ncwly-bom child was rushed to Vancouver aboard an R.C.A.R mercy flight and a McBride woman was brought to Prince George for emergency medical treatment this week-end. The child was born in Prince George ;ind District Hospital with an KH blood condition and was put aboard the Canso aircraft hero at .'J:'M a.m. Sunday. By strange coincidence it. was one of two babies which were born hero with the same critical blood factor. The. second infant died while awaiting transporta- tion to VuncquvcT. in the second mercy mission, Pacific Western Airlines Capt. Jim Lopaschuck brought a critically-ill woman here shortly after noon Saturday from McBride. She has been identified only as Mrs. Aran Dord. ANSWKKS REQUEST The RCAF Ground Observer iway Will Bypass Golf Course Department of Highways engineers are today conducting studies to relocate the route of a $2,500,000 bypass highway where it once would have divided the curling club from the golf course. Regional engineer R. S. Cun-liffe said the route, designed to circumvent the ^downtown and residential areas of Prince George, will definitely not bisect the recreational aroa near the curling rink. The earlier plan had raised the wrath of golfers who feared they would have to cross the four-lane highway to reach the greens. However, Cunliffe does not know if the contract will be let this year for Jhe construction of the actual highway Avhich �would link new bridges over the Fraser and Is'ediako rivers, pro- Funeral Held For Mrs. Nellie Wagner Funeral services for a former Giscome resident, Mrs. Nellie Wagner, � Who died suddenly at the age of 49; were held Friday from St. Michael's and All Angels Church. Mrs. Wagner who lived "with her husband Harry and two children at .110 Burden St. died in Prince George it District Hospital on March 24. Besides her husband, she is survived by two daughters, Mrs. S. Rommel, Giscome, Sally at home, and one son, Harold, at home. She was an active member of the Women's Auxiliary to the Canadian Legion of women's auxiliary at St. Michael's Church and at knox ynited Church. vldlng a by-pass route between the Cariboo and Hart Highway's. The route is planned to cross the Fraser River at South Fort George and the Neehako half a mile north of the present span. Contractors started work last spring on the Ncchako crossing and are expected to return to Prince George in a couple of weeks to complete the undertaking. A final revision in the 1958 budget is expected by the highways department before tenders are called: for projects this summer. Plans are for the highway to bo. built along Central St. A Calgary firm, Assiniboia Construction Company, was awarded the contract last year for the construction of $832,000 Neehako bridge. the Corps detachment in Prince George received u request from Dr. T. J. Agnew at 11:20 p.m. Saturday for- emergency air transportation to Vancouver for the infant child. Officers here made immediate contact with Search and Rescue officials in Vancouver who agreed to undertake the mission. The RCAF crew Avas ready to leave Vancouver at midnight but severe icing conditions over the mountains in the lower B.C. interior prevented them from taking off. TRIED AGAIN They tried again at f5 a.m. but decided that weather conditions in the upper atmosphere were? so unfavorable that a Canso was the only suitable aircraft in which to make the flight. The aircraft left Vancouver at 7 a.m. and arrived here at 9:30. The baby was in Vancou ver by noon Monday. Gift Of Beavers Given To Nehru NEW DELHI (AP) � Two Canadian beavers became part of Prime Minister Nehru's household today. The gifts or the Granby, Que., zoo, they were formally presented to Nehru at his house by Canadian High Commissioner Chester A. Rcnning. The beavers leave tonight for a Himalayan hill station- and during the winter will become residents of the zoo at Luck-now, capital of Nehru's home province of Uttar Pradesh. Load Limits Pared On Highway Trucks Road restrictions go into effect today which will cut ln:ul limits down to half on some routes in the Prince George area. � Department of Highways announced this morning loads arc restricted to 50 per cent of tin' gross axle loading west of here on the Northern Traiis-I'rovinriul highway. Further restrictions went into effect on the Hart and Carilioo highways and some tributary roads have been entirely prohibited to loaded trucks and buses. Highways engineer Kay S. Cuiiliffe said night frosts should not be construed us aiding breakup conditions. "The light frosts only freeze the surface water and don't go any deeper," he stilted. Chetwynd To Get Automatic Phone Service Shortly Chetwynd is to receive automatic telephone service within the next two months. This announcement was made here/ today by C. J. McLean, manager of Northwest Telephone Company, who said that Chetwynd has previously been without any form of telecommunication facilities. "The new system will link the community with major telephone systems throughout North America," he said. Novel feature of the automatic system will be a trailer, fully equipped with complex dial machinery, which the company will establish as the Chetwynd central office. Site for the trailer will be decided in the r\ear future. The trailer instrallation will be replaced by a pormanent,central office at lat'er date. Buljjanin Heads Soviet Banking MOSCOW (AP) � Premier Nikita Khrushchev today appointed former premier Nikolai, Bulganin head of the Soviet state bank and announced most of Blilganin's old cabinet members and key executives had been retained. USSIA Carpenters Work Late To Build Polling Booths Carpenters worked overtime to erect the polling booths in the Civic Centre today. Because of a championship badminton tournament which continued until midnight last night, �workmen were unable to make a start on the cubicles until nearly 1 a.m. Distrnct returning officer reports that the carpenters were still at it at 5 a.m. when he made his last check. The "booths were completed well in advance of the opening at- 8 a.m. however. Sun Sets Scene For Record Vote A record vote was forecast in Prince George today as bright sunshine and the still warm ait of springtime lured voters out-of-doors and to the polls. By noon well over 1,500 vot ers, enthused by one of the hottest election races in years, trooped to the Civic Centre.pol ling booths. , , A total-of 5,748 city residents are entitled to vote. It is anticipated � that close to 60 per cent of the total vote will be cast before the poll? close at 6 p.m. The city voting district is' broken- down into 20 urban districts, and voters are classified according to jrii.stclcts1 insteadhd.f alphubeticaily..' 1 �_*�.- �Jw � , Meanwhile In Friday's advance poll a total of about .'i0 persons voted according to returning officer Jackson Barber. All day today as the nation goes to the polls all liquor stores, beer parlors, cocktail bars and private clubs will remain closed. The fate of 831 candidates Thieves Blow Safe In Vanderhoof VANDUKHOOF Thieves made off with only $50 cash after blowing a safe in the cooler of a local meat store early today. The vandals apparently entered Hawker's Meat Market by using a puss key, police said, and took the vault into the meat cooler before blowing it. No arrests have been made in connection with, the incident. Cpl. D.' G. Williams, officer Whoops, She Does It Again NEW ORLEANS (AP) � Whooping crane Josephine did it again. She produced her second egg of the season Sunday night. Superintendent George Douglass of Audubon Park and bird curator 'William Belnap watched from a nearby roof. The neAy avocado-sized prize aroused speculation that the world's captive whooping crane population may be hiked to seven by April 29. Josephine became famous last year when she produced two eggs and the whoopcr chicks survived. in charge of the Vanderhoof detachment of the RCMP, said no cheques were missing in the theft. Hawkers Meat Market is located in Vandcrhoof's main street. Police said the safe door was blown entirely free of the hinge and lock fixtures, apparently with the use of nitroglycerine. RCMP detachments throughout this part of the province have been alerted over the robbery. competing for the 265 seats in Canada's 24th Parliament will be known tonight when some 44,000 ballot boxes are opened. Sunny skies predicted for most parts of Canada may bring a record vote. A peak !),lu"5,U8(> Canadians ate eligible to vote In the first March election in IS years. Last year's June election brought a record 6,099,532 votes, about. 74 per cent of the total eligible. Polls open across the country at 8 a.m. and close at G p.m., local standard time. There's a difference of bVi hours in time zones between Newfoundland and the Yukon where ballota are counted last. " "� '�" ThcbiiEf tiucjstJon 16- whether- TTime^ Minister Dicfenbnker, 62, will get a stronger hand for his minority Progressive Conservative government or give way to Lester B., Pearson, 60, the new Liberal leader.. Voting last June 10 ended 22 years of Liberal government. The Conservatives, Liberals and the GCF arc the only parties with enough candidates to form a government. The Conservatives and Liberals each have a full 2(i.r>; the CCF 1G0; Social Credit S2; others 50, including IS Labor-Progressive Communist candidates, eight more than a year ago. Identify Sought Of Headless Corpse HULL, Que. (CP) � The headless, handless body of a youth was found in woodlands near Montebello, Que.', about 15 miles east of here, Quebec provincial police said Sunday night. Police were seeking identification of the youth whose age was estimated at between 17 and 20. No further details were immediately available here. Regardless Of Western Plans MOSCOW (CP) � Russia today announced she will test no more nuclear weapons, declaring an immediate suspension regardless of Western plans for further tests. The announcement was made to.a joint session of Ihe Soviet parliament, the Supreme Soviet by Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko. Premier Nikita Khrushchev earlier announced his new cabinet' list, leaving virtually unchanged the team which governed under ex-premier Nikolai Bulganin, whom Khrushchev replaced last. week. Gromyko remains foreign minister and Anastas Mikoyan a first deputy premier. Khrushchev added that Bulganin will become chairman of the'state bank, a post he held for several years before the wtar. The Supreme Soviet approved Khrushchev's cabinet list. DANGER TO ECONOMIES In his announcement of the suspension of nuclear tests, Gromyko criticized the United States and Britain for being unwilling to agree to a ban on nuclear weapons. He said it is Russia's aim to reach an agreement with other powers on an "unconditional ban of all types of atomic and hydrogen weapons, the ending of their production and complete destruction of existing stocks with appropriate control." Gromyko said one could not fail to perceive that some leaders in the West, particularly in the U.S., see in the stopping of atomic weapon tests a danger to the economies of the Western countries. Any danger to the Western economies, he added, lay not in the stopping of nuclear tests or an end to the armaments race but in the militlzalion at present gripping the whole of the economies of countries belonging to the Atlantic bloc. KUKTIIEIt MEASURES _. Gromyko said: "The Council of Ministers proposed that as a first step the Soviet Union unilaterally cease conducting tests of all forms of nuclear weapons in the hope that Britain and the U.S. will join." if other powers do not follow the Soviet example and continue testing, the Soviet Union will have to take further measures for its own security, he said. h Gromyko's statement was (See "RUSSIANS HALT" Page 2) . c.*. .-.' Meg In Royal Row LONDON (AP) �Rumors flew today that the Queen gave Princess Margaret a royal dressing down for seeing Peter Townsend last week. But as usual with rumored royal rows, nobody who really knows, is talking. AH that is known publicly about Sunday's two-hour meeting between the royal sisters is this: Looking pale and worried, Margaret returned from a weekend visit to Germany after gaily dancing all night with officers of a British regiment o.C which she is coloncl-in-chief. WHISKED TO QASTLE A car was driven up to the plane ramp at the London airport to avoid newspaper men. Margaret was driven straightaway to Windsor Castle to see the Queen. There was no doubt that the sisters ralked about. the now-famous tea date at which Mar- garet again ^pw the ex-RAF hero she renounced in 1955 because he was divorced. M o s t London newspapers which have palace sources told of Sunday's meeting between! the two sisters, but reports of> what they talked about probably" are speculation. ITKI-IT OVKK I'LHIiKTrV "People close to the royal1 family," reports The Daily Herald, "say the Queen is cross be-' cause the meeting took place while she was out of the country on a state visit to Holland." The Dally Sketch says the Queen was primarily upset over the "world publicity" given the reunion. The tabloid adds: "Public reaction all over the woi'ld is believed to have led to the decision that there will be no more meeting. But the princess will be of course be ready . to raise the matter again whenever she wishes." 4,500 'Phones Automatic In Less Than Two Minuftes Prince George had a new telephone system in less than a minute and thirty seconds on Sunday morning. That minute and a half, however, was the culmination of .years of plamiing and actual Hard -work � from drawing board to completed building, from engineering drawings to whirring automatic switches. STUICKEX LOOKS About 4,500 new automatic telephones came into use at cut-over time, 2 a.m. Sunday, but for approximately 25 seconds after the switch, stricken looks came over the faces of the men in charge. . According to one veteran telephone man, it was the first- conversion that ho remembered where there was no one using the dial phones at cut-over time. The dead silence of the switches caused sinking hearts until the first call went through, and the men knew the 81,000,000 installation was okay. In charge of the operation was Bill Rickson, cutover coordinator, who gave the order that killed the old office at 1:57 a.ui. By l:58J/fe, the ne\V system �was working; catching off guard many of those waiting to be the first caller as the announced time was 2va.m. INTO ACTION Immediately after the cut, technicians -swung into action, testing each line to-, see that the dial tone was present. Later in the morning, battery of'girls started to call all telephones in the exchange to see that they were ringing properly. Biggest problem for the new system was the inexperience (See "4500 PHONES" Page 2) THREE MINUTES TO TWO on Sunday morning, and a new telephone system' sprang into life for Prince George. Bill - Rickson, cutover supervisor, is shown above giving the order to "pull heat coils" which killed the old manual. exchange. Seconds later he ordered men with large shears to cut "jumper wires" and then pull "blocking tools" and the new system was officially in service. i.. � . BACKED BY a mass of intricate dial switching equipment in the new telephone office, Jack Carbutt, news, editor of CKPG, interviews Fred Moonen, right, public relations officer for the telephone company, during the switch-over to dials early Sunday morning.