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PRINCE GEORGE
Ho. 50
Thursday, December 15, 1938.
Prince    George, B. C.
Prince George Now Licensed As Airport
Permission Gr^ed~by Council
j-  put Up Decorative_____
Lighting on Streets
, thp re,��  frc-m   Vanderhoof;   discovered
LOCAL CHINAMAN
ON MISSING LIST
The local Chinese resident.:- have beer scouring .he uiy -.ad country-; side for the past week on a fruitless search for an aged Oriental. Woo Hing, believed by police to.be mentally derainged.
Hing was released from the city jail last Saturday and "was placed in the hands of his_JriendS- for^safekeep'ing,. but on Tuesday he suddenly disappeared and no trace has yet been found of him. Local Chinese have offered a reward of $50 for his discovery, dead or alive.
Police said that while Woo was serving his three months on a bootlegging conviction, he "acted queerly." He is aged about 55, walks slowly and with a shuffling gait, and is said to have a "far-away" look.
MONKMAN PASS ROAD BUILDERS EULOGISED
News of the saga of Monkman Pass is no^ confined to British Columbia or even North America. In a recent issue of the English "Nottingham Post," given to the Citizen by Mrs. R. A. Richards of Central, an article eulogizing the courage of the pioneers appears.
A new road is being driven through the Rockies, says the Post, and is being paid for by the 85,000 residents in the Peace River area of Alberta. It will link their land to the Pacific coast and give them a new outlet for their products.
Without any assistance from governments or any outside source, they raised a public subscription fund using such means as dances, shows and whist drives and now the are carving through the great barrier from Rio Grande in Alberta to Prince George in British  Columbia.
HIS WORSHIP MAYOR A. ML PATTERSON
Prince George Candidates Win Acclamation
Mayor, Aldermen., and School
Trustees  Unopposed  in
Election
NOTED YUKON PILOT
HAS   NEW   PLANE
Everett Wasson, pioneer aeroplane pilot of the Yukon and Alaska, who nas many mercy tlights in ihe far north to his credit, landed at Prince George airport Saturday last flying a new Bellanca "Airbus." He started for Whitehorse after refuelling bu- was forced to return. On. Sunday he made a_second_attempt__to_get__though_tp^
Wihitehorse by a direct course, but was agaifi forced to return.
On Monday he decided to fly the United Air Transport route by way of Port St. John, Fort Nelson, Lower Post and Wa.son Lake and got through to his destination without difficulty. The Bellanca is a new plane which Pilot Wasson picked up after it was flown to Seattle from the factory at Newcastle, Delaware. The machine has accommodation for two pilots and 13 passengers, being one of the largest ships operating in Northern Canada. It is owned and will be operated by The White Pass and Yukon Railway on its various air routes dut of White-horse in the north land.
NEW   YEAR'S   EVE  BALL
Elks' Hamper Fund To Assist Santa Claus
Order Will Endeavor to Bring Christmas Cheer to Underprivileged Families
Wltb.. the hope of bringing Christmas cheer to every home in Prince George and vicinity where througn adversity, sickness or lack of work, there would be little chance of any special fare for the festive season, the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, Iiodge No. 122. are again making preparations for their annual distribution of Christmas hampers.
Through concerts and dances a good s art has already been made and any help by way of donations to this worthy cause will be greatly appreciated by the Brother Bills. The fund at present stands as follows for which the Elks are deeply grateful to the donors:
Previously acknowledged ....$ 62.95 Good Cheer Club. Central .. 10.UU Canadian Legion Women's
Auxiliary    ..............................   20.00
Dr. R. W. Alward ..................     2.00
Proceds  Elks'   Charity  ball   69.00
Total to date ..........................$163.93
Prince George's 1939 civic elections were all by acclamation on Monday last.
Mayor A. M. Patterson was re-elected mayor for his thirteenth consecutive term, Monday's election being the tenth by acclamation. Previous to his first election to the mayoralty he had served on the city council for six consecutive years as alderman, during five of which he was chairman of the fin-I ance committee. With eighteen conse-j cutive years service on the council Mr. ! Patterson  probably    holds    the  long j service  record    in    British  Columbia | municipalities  for similar positions.
W. H. Crocker, J. N. Keller and C. C  Reid were  re-elected by  acclamation for two year terms as aldermen. Elected to the school board by acclamation were A. M. Patterson, W. L. Armstrong and Frank OSark. also for i two year terms.
The city council is now composed of:
Mayor
A. M. Patterson.                                 j
1                         Aldermen
W. L. Armstrong, W. H. Crocker. J. j ; N. Keller. W. R. Munro. C. C. Reid ! i and Fred D. Taylor.
City Hall Staff I     W. G. Fraser, city clerk.
P. E. Wilson. K.C.. city solicitor. | J. Mackenzie. superintendent j public works.
C. E. Freeman, city electrician.
Dave Williams, clerk.____
George Gibbons, clerk.
School Board
Dr. H. J. Hocking, W. R. Munro. W. L. Armstrong. Frank Clark and A. M. Fatterson.
Next in importance to the Armistice Day Remembrance services in the activities of the Army & Navy Veterans is the annual New Year's Eve ball. This year special favors, noise makers, novelty caps to add to the gaiety of the occasion are being obtained. As is usual practically the entire community is reserving the evening for the pleasure of joining the veterans in bidding farewell to the old year and ushering in 1939. Special music and refreshments of a high order are being arranged for to heighten the evening's enjoyment.
Legislature Prorogued On Friday Last
House Voted Seventy-Five Acts
__and_Xwerity-Nine  Millions _
For Supplies
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TEAM AND CAR COLLIDE
Harold W. Ponsford of Fort Fraser was charged under the Highway Act before R. J. Steel. J.P.. at Fort Fraser, with driving a team of horses and a vehicle after sundown without a light An auto collided with Ponsford's rig but without any very serious damage being done to the te3m^ auto or drivers. Ponsford was found guilty and given one month suspended sentence on his own recognizance in the sum of $25.
U.A.T. Orders New Aeroplane For North Run
Modern    11-Place    Ship    with
Cruking Speed of 140 Miles
per Hour
Word received at the Prince George offices of the United Air Transport from Grant McConnachie, president of the company, states that he has ordered a new 11-place aeroplane for the Whitehorse run and that it is expected delivery will take place around January 1.
The new ship will have a cruising speed of 140. miles an hour, will be " with a modern heating radio,    and
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 this  in-between    seasn year when wheels, pontoons nnd skiis are all in use the pilots and air en-
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C.C.F. Member Wins Mayoralty In Vancouver
Dr. Lyle'Telford Beat G. C. Miller by Over Eight Hundred Votes
Vancouver. Dec. 15: (Special)�Upsetting all calculations of the "wise ones" in Vancouver. Dr. Lyle Telford. C.CJF. member for Vancouver fcast riding in the provincial legislature, defeated five opponents Wednesday to win the mayoralty election in Vancouver.
Dr. Telford received 15,704 votes; George C. Miller received 14,859, and Nelson Spencer, 8.388.
Mayor Andrew McGavin of Victoria was re-elected by a vote more than double that of his nearest opponent. Aid. James Adam. McGavin polled 60 per cent of the total mayoralty votes cast,
Mayoi-s in 22 cities and reeves in 18 municipalities were elec ed throughout the province by acclamation. Eleven cities and municipalities returned their entire slate by acclamation. Elections are being held in many municipalities    throughout   the   pro-
vince today.
TWO HOTELS FOR VANDERHOOF
Robert Reid, old time business man of Vanderhoof has taken out a per-mit for the erection of a modern hotel on Lots 7 and 8, Block 4. Map 1375, on Burrprd avenue, Vanderhoof. This hotcT will be up to date in every way to ? commodate the travelling public and people of the district. Mr. Reid is now making arrangements to commence work on the building of this new structure, which will be done by local labor.
Court Action Taken in Nukko Lake Shooting
Jack McMasters    Charged with
Unlawfully Causing Grevious
Bodily Harm
Arising from a shooting accident which occurred at Nukko Lake on Friday, November 4, 1938, Jack McMasters, farmer, was brought before Stipendiary Magistrale George Milburn. Monday. December 12, and bound over in bonds of $5D0 to appear on December 21 for committal.
David Franklin Allan, farmer, had been shooting along- the shores of Nukko Lake, while McMasters in another shooting party was in a boar, on the lake. Along abcu: dusk Allan came out on the shores of the lakt where the shoreline . was somewhat obscured by a rank growth of reeds. Seeing movement there McMasters fired a shot from his rifle at the moving object and the bullet hit Allan in i the wrist shatterin one of the bones j of his arm, also shattering thn metal j part of his shotgun he was carrying under his arm. and piece.s of the meial penetrated his chest and lung?.
The charge ag-ainst McMasers is that he "Friday. November 4. 1938. at Nukko Lake in the County of Cariboo being then and there in charge of a certain weapon which in the absence of precaution and care might endanger human life, and being then and there under legal duty to take reasonable precaution against and use reasonable care tc avoid danger to human life, unlawfully omitted without lawful excuse to perform such duty and thereby then and there did unlawfully cause grevious bodily injury to Donald Flranklin Allan."
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Talk on Value Of Personality By Ken Gaple
The second session of the nineteenth legislature of British Columbia was prorogued at 9 p.m. Friday, December. 9 by Lieutenant Governor E. W. Hamber, after seven weeks of sittings. A total of 75 acts were passed and total supply votes amounted to $29,766,592.
One of the last actions of the legislature was to go on record as favoring both Dominion and provincial government sweepstakes in Canada, where one-qu3rter of the proceeds are set aside for hospitalization purposes. On the Legal Professions Act ihe wording, which H. G. Perry, M.L.A., Fort George, strenuously objected to last week, which would have debarred real estate agents from dealing with certain classes of real estate and other property, was struck out.
Several divisions were called for on various enactments during the day but the government was sustained in all cases. Final enactments included third readings for bills to amend the water, legal professions, and municipal acts, and a re-opened and further amended bill to authorize provincial control .over civic loans under the Federal Municipal Improvements Act.
In the dying hours of the legislature members made their annual drive, for a flat rate licence fee for all passenger cars, stating provincial revenues would be increased thereby, but the government turned down ihe proposal.
On each member's desk was a Christmas box of holly a gift from one of the Victoria members.. Relieved from the seven weeks' strain and pressure of double and triple daily sittings the house gave itself up to the usual battle with discarded sessional papers after prorogation.
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POLICE  CAR IN   COLLISION
B. C. Constable George Bradley and Game Warden P. Brown of Vanderhoof. while driving home' from Prince George on Friday morning 2asi  were  ' in collision with a truck belonging to the Prince Georg-e Sawmills on Peden Hi]]. The truck got out of � control on account  of the  icy  condition of  the road and crashed into the police car, -slightly damaging a  front wheel and fender.  Game    Warden    Brown  sustained the only .injury of the accident when  his  head    hit    the  windshield with  sufficient   force   to  shat.er   the windshield glass.
Monkman Pass Highway Fund Gets Good Boost
What Is
"Don't    Worry    About They Say About You,' Lecturer's Advice.
Do you want to be charming? Do you want to make people like you?
Kenneth Caple told an audience in Elks' Hall last night "how to do it" in the course cf an address on "The Psychology of a Wholesome Personality." Mr. Caple is the head of the short course' classes of the U .B. C. department of extension and is at present heading a school in session at Woodpecker.
"A fine personality, more than money, prestige or position. Is the best thing you can have," Mr. Caple said.
How do we get a well rounded personality? Part of our personality is the result of heredify so we can't do much about that, but by facing situations, eradicating fear, acquiring seil-confidence, joining a small democratic discussion group, taking direct action, (Continued on Page Four)
Dance    in    Princess    Ballroom
Draws Happy Gathering
Friday Evening
One hundred and thirty dollars was realized from the dance sponsored by the Prince George branch Monkman Pass Highway Association Friday, December 9. The affair, a gratifying success, w^as one of fifty similar dances held throughout the Peace River area in aid of the road project, and it is presumed some 5000 people were dancing at the same time.
Hard-workin secretary of the local association Martin Caine spoke briefly to thank those who had made the dance a success. Particular thanks were ex. ended to Levi Graham who donated the Princess Ballroom, the Rhythm Rascals, Junior Chamber of Commerce and the following merchants who donated, refreshments: Prince George Bakery, Nechako Bakery, Interior Creamery, Centralia Dairy. Sterling Food Markets, Norili West Produce Co., Paul Wieland, Wm. Bexon, Crystal Market, C. C. Reid, G. B. Williams,. Overwaitea Co., and the Northern Hardware. Appreciation to thejCitizen was also expressed.
Mr. Caine expressed regrei at the impossibility of tuning in station CFPG at Grand Prairie for the Peace River dance music,
"We earnestly hope that we and the thousands in the Peace River will soon be able to drive cars over the Monkman Pass Highway to Prince George." Mr. Caine said.
The proceeds of the dance will be used to square up accounts of the Prince George branch Monkman Pass Highway Association incurred on that part of the road opened up during the summer and fall from Hansard north to the McGregor River, and will just about put the local branch in the position of starting off the new year with a clean slate financially.