r. PRINCE VOL. 16. NO. 33 New Road Work Depends on Fate of Loan Request PRINCE GEOtlGE, B. C. THURSDAY, AUGUST 16, 1934 Five Cents Hon. F.H. McPherson, Minister of Public Works Pays First - Visit To District MAKES COMPLETE TOUR Highway Program Must be Cut to Maintenance if Advance Is Not Secured Hon F N McPherson,. minister of oublic' works, arrived in the city on Sunday evening's train, accompanied bv A L Carruther-r. inspector of bridges The minister is making a visit to every section of the province to familiarize himself wi'h local conditions. He has just completed a visit io the Peace River �-section, and when he gets back to Victoria will have covered all the readily accessible sections of the province. Mr. McPherson confirms to some exent the press reports of a heavy crop of wheat and oats in the Peace River district, and says the outlook for itie farmers in that area is much brighter than it has been for a number of years. They not only have the crop but have the promise of a good price for their grain. This year they are figurii�g on 70 cen's or better, for their wheat at the rail in the Peace River, where formerly they had to be content with a price as low as 15 cen b, and general conditions should be vastly improved. Hon. Mr. McPhLTSon spent the greater part of Monday in making motor trips to points within easy reach of the city, and was accompanied by Hon. H. G. Perry, the rspresen ative of he ddatrici i He intimates new highway construction throughout the province this season will depe-.d upon the success Premier Pa tullo has with the Ottawa government in his request for a loan for public works. If this request is granted there will be money available for new work, and a program has been mapped out and something will be done in the ma'ter of the ex-'ension of the highway epstward from | this city. Without the federr.1 loan there is little prospect for new work. Mr .McPherson says he Ls he first minister of public works to en'er * pon a new year with no loan for highway "instruction, all of the money .voted being designed for maintenance, and his present mission is to decide where maintenance is mes: needed and to make the money available go as far as possible. Mr. McPherson ana Mr. Carruthers left for Vanderhoof on Monday afternoon accompanied by J. W. Miens, resident engineer, and on their return will proceed south on a visit to the Cariboo ridine. Public Utilities Aid the City in Palling Through Light and Water Services Yield Substantial Surpluses for/ First Half of Year TAX COLLECTIONS DROP CORONER'S JURY ASKS ^ INSPECTION OF VITAL CREEK TUNNEL The fatality at the Vital Creek min-inz property, in which the miners Robert Fornasa and Steve Cernek lost 'heir Jives on the morning of July 31. presents one of the difficulties of efficient supervision of mining operations in out of the way places. From the evidence presented at the coroner's inquestf the two miners were vorking in the face of a 1200-foot tunnel when a cave-in occurred, and they were dead before they could be pxtrioated. The. tunnel in queslon 10 feet wide and 6 feet hi?h and was driven in a damp gravel from which ft is said Hhe water is continually dripping. In the opinion of Lee Dolan. who wps in charge of the mine at the time of the fata lit v. a water pocket t�s�s the primary cause of the accident. It Is realized efficient insoection of mining workings ir> isolated parts of (the province could only be secured at a nractcally prohibitive cost, and a ^'lrict enforcemenf. of regulations for the safety of miners would floubtless close down a number of development nrojects of which great expectations ore entertained. Even wi'h the closest of supervision accidents occur, though in the absence of supervision thev admittedly may be more frequent. Doubtless tine greatest factor in fa-ralities such as occurred at Vital Creek is the willingnes of men to take chances. If a tunel has not caved for a week there is a tendency to assume it, never will cave: but when the slip comes the unfortunate miner too often has no chance for escape. Nothing has been said as to the na'ure of the Mmebring in the long tunnel on the Vital Creek property, but the coroner's jury felt called upon to recommend that an inspection be made of the tunnel. JAMJyS McCOOK RETURNS FROM VISIT TO TWO BROTHERS PROPERTY iOHN S. LABATT OF FAMOUS BREWERY OF LONDON IS KIDNAPPED London. Aug. 14�The kidnapping racket has broken cut in Canadian territory. This morn.rig John S. La-bat . head of London's million dollai brewery was kidnapped and is being held for $150,000 ransom. The kidnapping; was establ'shed when the mws-ing man's automobilejvas found parked near St. Joseph's hospital with a �ote pinned inside in which the de-mond was mrde for the immedia e payment of the ransom. ------------o------------ Louis and Mrs. LeBourda's. of Q nel. passed through Prince George thi week onytheir way to Port St. Jame-, where Mr. LeBourdais hopes "o ab^^h '?be 8*morj-itierc for ano'ther of his bear stories. Mi jo- d. M. MacKay, M. L. A. for Quesnel, makes th&. announcement Attomev-General SI"an has acreed to designate Williams Lake and Quesnel as alternate assize towns in <the town most, convenient for the trial of the cases.' HARRY^IFTON'S ESTATE VALUED ATj #500,000 ??1^' AuS- 1&�The estate of f�? lattHarrv slfton has Heen en ered ml iP1?Me at $5�0.f00. The w:dow is made he beneficiary and on her death n Passes to their sen. James McCook. of the Calgary Al-bertan, has returned from an inspection of the gold property under development by the Twu Brothers Com-panv. of Calgary, some 350 miles north of Port St. James as the crow flies. There has been more or less mystery surrounding the Two Brothers operations, but they appear to have been exceptionally well found. There has been a crew of twenty men employed for some time in preparatory work north of the Sustat Pars, six m'le^ from a lake which hps been named Two Bro*hers. The equipment a'* the camp includes a sawmill, a staMorrar*' J engine and a caterpillar tractor. It i"-. � the intention of the ccmp^nv to work \ 'he property wi*h n drag-line scraper. I but. the equipment has not yet been ! moved in. The Two Brothers companv has besn ooerating p. fleet of three plr.nes. One machine Ls operated from Fort S\ James to Taklp. Landing, half-way up T->kla Lake, and from 'his point two other planes bridge the distance frr-rp TM-id i andin of minins operations a' rr'i\r\r, Landinc- th*> company has established a broadcasting and receiving station, which enables i*: to keen Takla Landing before being, turned over to the planes, being carried bv water from Fort St. James v* Takln Landimr. I", will be interesting to learn what Mr. McCook has to say of the gold possibilities of the proper'v when he gets back to Calgary where the money Ls being found for the venture. It i-> easily the best found company operating in this section of the province iind it is to be hoped the property will justify the expenditures being made upon it". ------------o�--------- ENTERPRISING BRITISH BISCUIT MAKER PULLS ADVERTISING STUNT I endon, Aug. 14�An enterprising British blccujt maker piulcvl a t;o:.d priveH'sing stunt a few days nu:o when the king wao-"offici."."ly orjonine th? Mersey tunnel in the presence of an immense company. He sent a piano in'o the air from which \v?s -showered a lot of ndvertisins: relative *o the quality of his biscuits, much to the annoyance of the Lord Mayor of Liverpool and the city officials; but everyone learned abouf. the biscui's. Tlie latest development came today when the biscuit maker sent h's apologies to the lord mayor for stealing the -how. and along wi ih it a cheque for $25,000. Even nk. that it. is conceded the biscuit maker got the worth of his monev. Relief Requirements Continue to Put Heavy Strain Upon Municipal Finance W. G. Fraser, city Measurer, has prepared a cash statement of the municipality''? operations for the first half of the year, which was the subjec1- of a number of interrogations at the meeting of the city council en Monday evening. While the statement covers only cash transactions it gives a fair inright to the civic finances. Relief disbursements by the citv fo~ ihe six months are shown a* $20,977.86, but of this total the municipal relief cp^es amounted to but ?7,099.90. The other heads of expenditure were single women $448.35; translen s with dependents, $1,950.05: and single homeless men classified as fit and unfit, with respective expenditures of 58,-655.81 and &:)823.75. Of these amoun's the provincial government re .urns two-thirds <*" the strictly municipal i;:.-bursemenfs. trd all of the o^hcr disbursement. In the accoun 'in?: with the provincial government it is ^.own fo be owine $2,166.56 on account of May relief disbursements and $2,974.99 on account of June disbursements. As at June 30 -h the city is shown to be owing the bank $9,000. At the beginning of the year the bank indebtedness stood at $13,000. Additional borrowings brought this up to $28.-000. but repayments of $19,000 had reduced the amount to $9,000 as at June 30th. Cash receipts for the six months are shown at $85,599.75 inclusive of $404.65 cash on hand at the beginning of the year. Tax collections are shown at $27,291.57, or a falling off as compared wi^h the same period in 1933 of $2,142.25. The electric light service surplus is jriven at. $4,005.12, or a little less than $500 short or the surplus for the firs' six months cf 1933. The comparison for the last six mon^h of the year will probabi.v be less favorable due to heavy repair charges. The wa er-work.s surplus is made favorable, being returned at S4.369.81. the first time it has exceeded the surplus of the lighting uMlity. The gain under this heading for the six months as compared with 1933 is $2,596.85. and is due to the reduced amount of debenture interest. The water service is s ill very much in the red. as for several years the ra*es collected were considerably short of the interest and sinking fund charges. Now that these have been �rea ily reduced the service will soon pay itself out. unless substantial replacements � have to oe made in the mains. All things consideivd the �statement of the elecric lighf and power service is highly satisfactory. Rates and on-nection fees collections for the six months held up to $15,916.30. against j which there were operating cog^s of �9 4^8.04 and leaving en opera ing profit of $6,448.26. When debenture interest and sinking fund requirements of $2,443.14 had been set aside the surplus was brought out at $4,005.12. For the waterworks service rates and connec',ion fers were retuned at $7.-64p.75. The r.dminfctation charge was | given at $2,607.94 to show an operating I profit oi $5,034.81. Against this pro- | vision was madr* for SfiG'vOO for deben- I ture interest but none for sinking j funds, to show 'he surplus of $4,369.81. There were forty-nine names on the municipal relief list Tor the month of ; July ent ailing a disbursement of $1.-158.50. Seasonal vro.-x has not been : sufficient to offset the aciion of the, provincial government in increasing, relief allowances. Tne amount re- j quired for relief may remain stationary i for the rest of the rummer, but a sub- i �3tan4ial advance may be expected dur-ing the winter. The finance committee recommend- ' ed the payment of accounts amounting ! to $3,820.35. Display of Bloom I Hydro Commission at Flower Show of Ontario is Not Very Pleasing; Being Ousted Horticultural Society Scored an Premier Hepburn Simply Weed- Instant Success With Its Initial Exhibition ing Out Highly Paid Favorites of Henry Governent Some 260 Exhibits were Entered Commission has Been of Great to Fill Nearly Every Class Aid in Building tip Indus- on the Prize List tries of Province The first summer flower show in the | Toronto, Aug. 11�Interest in Prehistory of Prince George was present- ^ mier Hepburn's retrenchmen J pro-ed in. the ballroom, of the Prince i gram centers chiefly upon the On-George hotel en Wednesday under the j tario Hydro Commisjaon. The com-auspices of the recently formed hor 3- j mission was formed some thirty years cultural society, and in the opinion j ago, since which time it has become of all who patronized it the show was one of the largest power under akings an outstanding success. The bal'room j in the world, supplying two-thirdu of of the hotel proved an excellent place j the power needs of the province of for ihe holding of the show, as it i Ontario. permitted the flowers to be displayed ! Ts charges for domestic current to the best possible advantage. It � range from Oj) cents per kilowatt hour was a wonderiul showing when the i in Ottawa (said to bj among the low-doors were opened at 2 o'clcck. and the ! est In the world) to 2.1 cen's in Peter-officers and members of the lzcal as- ! borough, and, for commercial current, sociation consider themselves fu ly j from 1.1 to 2.4 cents. Its rates are corn-repaid for the efforts made to ensure i puted en ccsts of opera'ion plus main-success. ' ' tenance, transmission, interest charges There were approximately fifty ex- | renewal charges, sinking fund re-hibitors, and in all some 260 exhibits i serves ad other usual items, were entered and were artistically i In tn& reorganization, Mr. Hepburn grouped, a very p'eas'ng background j dismissed the commission's chief en-being furnished with exceptional floral . gineer and its solicitor, I. B. Lucas and displays entered for decorattive pur- j P- A. Gaby, and notified forty-nine pores only. There were ro ca h prizes o.^her officials receiving from $5,000 offered for the initial flower show. I to $12,000 that their continued employ-and at the start it was thought this ! men* would be discussed on new therms, might cause a slackening of the in- . He stopped work on a new $1,400,000 sevest on the part of intending ex- I headquarters for the commission and MW-ors, but this did not prove to be}Wn^ed that means would be sought to the case Instead the interest of the > terminate -some of the contracts for members of the society In floral cul- j power supply placed by the commis-tfure proved so infectious that addi- i sion with private concerns. He dis-tional tables had to be requisitioned as { misled the three-man commission, the exhibits came pouring in. As the consisting of R. J. Cooke. minister ;ing without portfolio in the Henry cabinet; C A. Maguire. a former mayor of Toronto, and Senator Meighen. a former prime minister or Canada. Then he made a two-man board consisting of S ewart Lyon. former editor of The Toronto Globe and a ve.eran advocate of public ownership, and Attorney General Arthur Roebuck. There is no suggestion that Premier Hepburn is at all unfriendly to ;!he power commission, as it is generally admired Ontario has been particularly fortunate in fts big [vo-.ver venture, bn1 it is realized a nunver of fat jobs result of Wednesday's show it can be asserted the local horticultural �iocie'.y is well on its way. It demonstrated fully the possibilities cf floral culture in the city, and the willingness f lovers of flowers to lay tribute upon their gardens to ensure the success of a show without thought of pecuniary reward. In addition � being subject 3d to much more crMdsin for his suspension of the Henry government's public works program than for any action -aken with the personnel of the hydro commission. It has been openly staged he has enown more consideration for the holders of provincial bends in this feature of his new d�al than he has shown for rhe men who would have benefitted by the continuation of the work. The bankers of the country have now become the target of the new premier. He is de-interest from ame Ls not forthcoming to raise such money as the province requires- in the New York market. bv Mrs. M. Morgan; and the special offered by the show ccmm!tte\ for 'ho bes* bouquet of garden flowers by children under 14 years, was won by Alice Homewood. Flowers As evs. one named variety�P. W. Homewood 1st, Mrs. C. C. Reid, 2nd. Asters, six blooms in vase�Mrs. G. S. Wood 1st. Mrs. G. G. Wilson 2nd. An'errihinium. eicht spikes�Mrs. Phyllis Harre't 1st, P. W.; Homewood 2nd. E. F. Little 3rd. Belli.s Perenn's�W. Lahgmuir 1st. Mrs. E. Hilton 2nd. Mrs. R. R. Anderson :^rd. Clarkic, ten sprays�Mrs. G. S. Wood Ls . Mrs. Lillian HaycKm 2nd. Mrs. R B. Carter 3rd. REV. A. U. dePENCIER WILL SERVE AS ACTING PRIMATE OF CANADA New Westminster. Aug. 11�Word lias been received he:e hat Most Rev. A. U. dePencier. of this ci y. will serve as acting Primate of Canada unf'.l the eeneral synod meeting of the Chi'rch of England Ls held in Montreal next. month. He succeeds Most Rev. C. L. Worrell, -who died In hospital in Halifax on Friday nigh) following a lengthy illness' Most Rev. C. L. Worrell was selected to his high office by the general syn-x n Septemb?r 23rd, 1932, when hew as in his 79th yea r. ------------o------------ Calendula, six blooms�Mrs. Lillian j CLAJM ONTARIO HYDRO avdcn 1st. Mickey Brown 2nd. MADE CQSTLY SWITCH MR. AND MRS. ALFRED JASPER KILLED IN AN AUTO COLLISION Kitchener. Aug. 14�Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Jasuer, of S'ratford, died here today as the outcome of their automobile being in collision with rjicther car. Their two grand children are in a serious condition. "The judges of the exhibits were Mr-. Harry Bowman. Miss Jean Sar-peant andH. S. French, district agriculturist. Their awards follow: Much credit is due to the officers of the horticultural society for the niccess which attended the - initial f'ower show and the Indies who assisted them. Til? officers are S. E. Marling, preiden'.; Percy Homewood, vice-president; Fred C. Saunders. secretary: Elmer F. Little, treasurer; and R B. Carter, chairman of the show j committee. ------------o------------ W. L. Armstrong and Harry Bowman will represent the Prince George obard of trade at the annual c~nven- J ti^n of the Northern B. C. boards Which opens in Prince Rupert on j Tuesday. --------�o------------ Preparations are being completed for a big celebattion here on Labor � Day. the committees are gradually \ building thing? up for a f ne show, and ; will report their findings to a special j meeting this evenng. Ha-vdc Canterbury Bells, single, three sprays _Mis. D. Peterson 1st. Mrs. William Simmons ?nd. CotiLiUiria. eigh* blooms�P. W. Homewood 1st", Mrs. W. Simmcns 2nd. Cosmos, one bouquet�Mrs. G. S. Wood 1st. Mr.s. R. B. Carter 2nd. David Fraser 3rd. Dahlias, three blooms any varie 'y� Mrs. A. M. Patterson l*t. Mrs. Paul j�of. ?nd. Mrs. G. G. Wilson 3rd. Dahlias, pom poms�.Mrs. Paul Jacot, 1st, Mrs. A. M. Pa'terson 2nd. Delphiniums, any number of spikes� Mrs. M. L. Renwick 1st. S. E. Mar- IN POWER SITES Torn'o. Aug. 14�Ter*fvin� before he royal commission investigating the conduct of 'he Ontario Hydro CommJs-� ion. T?. T. Jrffrcy. chHf munlelrjsl engineer, said the commlssoin had $e-iected their enginesr's preference for |V\e power development en Mississauga river as the power supply point for Northern On trio and switched 'o the Abitibi Canyon development in April MARKET MAY BE FOUND -TvIrs. M. Morgan \ 1st, Mrs. William Simmons 2nd. Mrs. | FOR CANADIAN HAY C. C. Reid 3rd. _____ Digitalis (foxglove)�S. E. Marling ls!. Mrs. W. Simmons 2nd. Gbdetias�P. W. Homewood 1st. Gaillardia�Mrs. E. Hilton 1st, Mrs. Paul Jacot 2nd. Mickey Brown 3rd. Gladiolas�William Coop 1st. Mrs. R. B. Carter 2nd. E. F. Little 3rd. Gladiolus, three spikes of primulinus �Mrs. R. B. Carter ls\ E. O. W. Ty-ner 2nd. C. H. Wisenden 3rd. � Continued on Page Six") Washington Aug. 15�It is announced today that Canaaa may be dra^ii upon to find hay for live .ct^ck in 'the drought-cHcken areas ~>n he western sta.tes vith a view to saving the feed in the eastern states for the stock moved from 'he drought sections. ----------o----------- Jacob Le:th leaves en Saturday for WLnnioec where he will rpend a v'acut:�::��. of three weeks.