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Vol. 21, No. 10.
Thursday, March 10th, 1938.
Prince George, B. C.
Prince
Prince George Monkman Pass Assoc. Report
Committee States Membership
85 aiuj Subscriptions #360
Up to Tuesday Night
The committee appointed at Saturday night's public meeting to canvass /for members for the Prince George 'branch of tne Monkman Pass Highway .Association met in the Prince George hotel on Tuesday evening and repor-tea a total memtoeiship up to that 'time of 85 for the newly formed association, and that 'total cash subscrip-ttions at that time amounted to $360, �being an average of $4.23 per member. Canvass for members is continuing, and many additional sums have already been promised. It is confidently expected that by the time the next meeting is called the membership \vill have increased to upwards of 150.
Membership cards are being printed and will be issued to each subscriber, detailing the amount paid in, and will �serve as a receipt,as well as a membership card.
Messrs. Brooks and Murphy representing respectively the original Monkman Pass Highway Association and the newly formed B. C. Peace River Block Association, left Wednesday morning for Vancouver and Victoria by car and will start the ball lolling at Quesnel, Williams Lake and �Ashcroft on their way south for the formation of branches at those points, completing the organization on their �return trip.
On their arrival in Prince George �on their return from Vancouver and J Victoria and points along the Cariboo "Highway, Messrs. Brooks and Murphy will attend the first general meeting of the newly formed Prince George branch of the'Monkman Pass Highway Association and report the results ; of their southerly trip. At this meet-'ing a detailed program of action for ! the immediate future will be outlined; The present temporary executive committee is made up of W.U. PitmanV chairman; Martin S. Caine, secretary-treasurer; Dr. C. Ewert, John Mclnnis and Charles Gow.
The list of members, Monkman Pass Highway Association, Prince George branch, as at Tuesday night's meeting, is as follows: Mayor A, M. Patterson. Mrs. A. M Patterson. C. Gow, Dave McDonald, Dr. C. Ewert, J. Clones. T. M. Watson. John Mclnnis, Dick Oorless jr., Fred Bunton, A.^P.' miaeTsen, Gordon Wood, J. W. Mlers, M. E. McEachren, W. McMorris, W. L. Hueftes. J. A. Boyd, Paul Wieland, �A. Biederman, Walter Flynn, R. Blackburn, A. McB. Younc. W. Hughes, V. Morgan, B. Parker, Geo. B. Williams, Fred Taylor, H. G. Perry, W. J. ;Pitman, Mrs.- W. J. Pitman; Wan. -Hanson. Ernie Thompson,v Karl Anderson. I. B. Guest. W. R. Munro. I. B. Baird. T. A. Griffith. W. K. McKenzie, Mrs. M. Paschal, W. Bexon, F. J. Sheerer, F. O. Smith, Prince George Citizen, J. Leith, K. Irwin, George Smith. M. C. Wiggins, C. ,C. Reid, Ted Knlbfos, J. Izowsky, K. Houghtaling, 'J. Nicholson, J. Keller, Martin Zevo-vitch, G. Mason, J. Jardine, Dr. E. J. Lyon, prince George Drug Co., Nor-HheTt Hardware.' James Scobt, Wilson & Wilson, Dr. H, J. Hocking, Frank 'Green, G. Prudente. J. C. Kelly. Percy 'Homewood, E. F. Little, Sam Sulyma, T,. Z'mmarro. Dr. J. G. McArthur, D. G. Fraser. J. D. Corning, J. C. McKenzie. W. G. Fraser, Nechako Bakery, Wm. Allen, F. C. Sounders, W. L. 'Armstrong, John Burns, Oscar Gus-'tafson. Harold Assman, Peter Kosic, George Kolias, J. Gillis. Levi Graham, John Gaul, Mrs. J. Gaul, M. S. Caine.
movementToFunited air transport planes
Plane Makes Trip From Dawson Creek To Prince George Through Monk-man Pass in VA Hours
Pilot Charlie Tweed made the round trip to Vancouver on the regular �weekly flight-last Sunday. Delayed at Dawson Creek on Saturday on the trip down from Fort St. John, the Wane did not arrive here early enough Saturday afternoon to oontinue on down to the coast, laying over till 7:30 Sunday morning. The round trip was "made and the plane landed back In Prince George from Vancouver at 4:30 P.m. An interesting sidelight on this |quick transportation was the bringing of a letter which was written in 'the Grosyenor Hotel at 11:30 a.m. on Sunday and delivered at the Prince peorge hotel to the addressee at 4:35 P-m. Pilot Tweed will take the regular Saturday trip this week to Vancouver returning Sunday noon. Three passengers were booked for the iilp
Jhe tlme of going to press. ,. .Ted Field, senior pilot of the United -Air Transport, arrived in Prince 'Continued on Page Eight)
PRINCE GEORGE FROM EAST SIDE OF FRASER RIVER
Association Is Formed To Assist Project
Delegates from Pouce Coupe
and Wembley Explain Aims
and Show Views
Prin.ce George�natural .gateway to the Peace Rivet Block�showing br River over which traffic will flow to and from the vafet. country to the people clamoring for an outlet to the Pacific seaboard.
idge across the mighty Fraser north and east with its 90,000
LUMBERMEN HOLD
ANNUAL MEETING
Members of the Northern Interior Lumbermen's Association held their 'annual meeting in the office of the �secretary, J. O. Wilson on Tuesday.
Matters of general interest to the spruce lumber industry were discussed, �particularly in regard to the "possibility of extending markets, and the ^proposed changes downwards of the 'United States tariff.
Among those coming to town for the meeting were Messrs. R. Spurr of vs' and Girts' Baby Beef competition.
Monday. Mnr^h 21 will witness the 1ur��rn? of *1n�cles and bulls in the r"O'T3n>^ rr^uos of five. Also as n snpc^al f^twe at two. the new Vmiv^cr v^li '-e ^fficiallv onened, invitation* beirie e^ndsd to Hon. K. C. rnontinurvd on ms? rouri
G. MURRAY, M. L. A. WANTS P.G.E. FINISHED
Addressing the Williams Lake Board of Trade recently George Murray, M.L.A., Idllooet, urged the building of the P. G. E. railway through TPrince George to the Peace River as a military necessity to ensure food supplies in case the port of Vancouver �were under attack.
Following a recent trip to the Orient where he witnessed the bombing " of 'Shanghai, Mr. Murray stated that in the event of war with the Japanese the two rail lines at Lytton would immediately be cut. "The P. G. E., if rm up and for the next two veeks the friends of the three candidates intend to put on an intensive campaign.
From the published records the votes apoear to be coming in slow, but the wise ones know that there are many thousands of votes being held in reserve until later in the contest.
Ow'ns; to the social calendar being vrYy full this' week no public events are scheduled for the next few days in aid of the candidates.
The sending as at 5 p.m. yesterday is bs follows. w
CeVa Goheen ................................8500 -
Audrev Houghtaling ..................7750
Beatrice Baxter ..........................4500
As the proceeds of this contest go to t.\io c-'-errd rink fund it is certain that many boosters for trie new rink "�T ccme forward with support for their favorite candidate in the next two weeks.
By a standing vote a representative gatheiing of some 60 Prince George business men unanimously took the plunge Saturday evening last into a road construction program that will, on completion, make Prince George the gateway to the Pacific coast and one of the main distributing centers in British Columbia for upwards of 100,-000 prosperous people living in the Peace River area of Alberta and British Columbia.
The occasion was a meeting held in the Prince George Hotel ballroom to decide whether the citizens of Prince Georg� would join with the original Monkman Pass Highway Association of western Alberta, and the recently formed Dawson Creek, B.C. branch known as the B. C. Peace River Block Monkman Pass Highway Association, in building 130 miles of road to give the people of that country an outlet to the Pacific coast by the shortest and least costly route through the Monkman Pass and on via Prince George down the Cariboo Highway to Vancouver!
Wdthot a dissenting voice and with an enthusiasm that augurs absolute success, the nucleus of an organization was decided on in the appointment of a strong committee consisting of Mayor A. "M. Patterson, Dr. C. Ewert, John Mclnnis, W. J. Pitman and Martin S. Caine "to complete details and call a meeting at a later date to elect permanent officers. A membership list was opened and $116 in membership fees collected before the meeting dispersed. Mayor A. M. Pa+e^on acted as chairman of the meeting.
Out of the northeast on Saturday afternoon by United Air Transport plane flying over-.the Monkman Pass came two delegates to Prince George imbued with a fanatic enthusiasm for their cause similar to that of the Crusaders cf centuries ago. They w�re Carl Brooks, representing the original Monkman Pa^s Highway Association, and Frank Murphy of Pouce Coupe, representing the newly formed B. C. Peace River Block Monkman Pass Highway Association, and they brought a message, backed by lantern-^lide views of the work accomplished and the route to be followed, that carried conviction and won the unanimous support of Prince George business interests.
Mr. Murphy in a short address explained that in 1936 citizens of the Alberta section of the Peace River area around Wembley, Grande. Prairie and Beaver Lodge got tired waiting for the fulfillment of promises made time and again for the past twenty-five years by railway presidents and succeeding premiers of the Dominion of Canada and the provinces of Alberta and Brij/ tish Columbia, and decided to start^on building the road by community effort. Sir Henry Thornton had definitely promised that when the crop ot the area amounted to eleven million biishels 'of wheat a railway would be built, but when his attention was called to one crop of twenty-three million bushels shortly after, the only response was that the railway had no money to build new roads. For the,last seven or eight years a highway had been mooted to go through one of the four passes�Peace. Pine, Wapiti and Monkman. All these passes had been surveyed, and reports published*by the Dominion government, the C. N. R. and C. P. R. The Monkman Pass was traversed in 1922 by Alex Monkman, and he reported it to the authorities as the lowest and easiest construction possibility through the Rocky Mountains. Subsequent surveys by engineers for the C. P. R. and C. N. R. substantiated Mr. Monkman's traverse, and it is along the line of these surveys, stated Mr. Murphy, that the proposed highway is being built.
Continuing, Mi*. Murphy explained that in the Alberta section of the Peace River area there are between 75,000 and 77,000 people. In the B. C. Peace River Block there are 11.000 people, and. they have despaired, after 25 years of waiting, of railway companies or governmental action. In May 1937, they decided to go ahead on their own. Discarded tents from ths Alberta government road camus were borrowed. Citizens of the three towns donated tools, stores and volnntirv labor and a sum of money slightly less i)im\ S30C1. .co that a start was made, and they Ml owed the survey of "a Mr. To^ec n nilwRv surveyor, ai>d came ou+ pt. Aicvza T^ake. Suhseou^nt investigation, however, decided them in favor of comins: out at Hansard with the '�^nMnuod en Page Fcmr>