george citizen Vol. 23, No. 2 , \ rince George, B.C., Thursday, January 11, 1940 #2.00 a Year 1940 City Council Starts Year With Three New Men Committees Struck and .Routine Business Occupies First Regular Meeting Following the statutory meeting on January 2, the Prince George 1940 city Gounoil 'held its first business meeting on Monday evening last" with Mayor A. M. Patterson presiding. Aldermen present were H. J. Hocking, J. N. Keller. A. B. MJoffat,' W. R. Munxo, C. C. Reid and W. J. Pitman, the newly elected members being H. J. Hocking, A. B. Moffat and W. J. Pitman. Standing -committees for 1940 are as follows: Finance Committee � J. N. Keller (chairman), W. R. Munro, C. C. Reid. Fire and Water Committee � A. B. Moffat (chairman), H. J. Hocking, W. J. Pitman. Light and Power Committee�W. R. Munro (chairman), C. C. Reid, J. N. Keller. Housing, Rink, Athletic Park and Atheltic Hall Committee�H. J. Hocking (chairman), A. B. Moffat, W. J. Pitman. Public Works Committee�C.C.Reid (chairman), J. N. Keller, W. R. Munro. Health Committee � W. J. Pitman (chairman), H. J. Hocking, A. B. Moflat. Representative on Hospital Board� W. J. Pitman. Mayor Patterson is ex-officio member of all standing committees. A motion arranged for the council to meet on the second and fourth Mondays of each month during 1940. The finance committee submitted accounts totalling $2,448.33 and on motion of Alderman A. B. Moffat, seconded by Alderman H. J. Hocking, were ordered paid. Tony Dallas appeared before the new council and asked permission to move an additional shack on his two lots situated south of the city hall. Alderman Reid stated that in his opinion Dallas already nad too many shacks on the property. On the representation of Alderman Held it was decided to investigate the matter further before giving or withholding the requested per-* mission and a committee will report back to the next meeting of the council. Three applications for relief were considered and the, applicants were granted -temporary assistance. - �^� The prasraeSitf of the Prince Oeorge branch of the Red Cross Society asked the councillors to provide quarters for the society to hold its meetings and caaTy on.-its community work in connection with the war. On motion of Alderman C. C. Reid, seconded -by Alderman H; J. Hocking, the council agreed to arrange with the Army & 'Navy Veterans to aikw the Prince George branch of the Red Cross Society to use the Legion Hall for its meeting purposes and other activities for the diiration of the war. ^-By-law No. 424, being the annual loan by-law arranging for financing at the bonk ^against tax collections, was reconsidered: and finally passed, as also was By-law 425 arranging for payment of the mayor's and aldermen's indemnity for the ensuing year, after wliicli the council adjourned until January 22. SKATING BEG/v% IN PRINCE GEORGE'S NEW ICE ARENA LAST NIGHT Annual Meeting of Red Cross Jan. 26 The first annual meeting of Prince George branoh of the Red Cross Society will take pace in the Legion Hall, corner of Fifth avenue and Quebec street, on Friday evening, January 26. All members are requested by the present executive to be present as the election of officers for the ensuing year will take place and the financial state-mesnt of the branch will be presented by the retiring officers. The arrangements made oy the city council at its meeting on Monday evening last whereby the Legion Hall is made available to the Red Cross Society for the duration of the war, rent free, will provide the society with ample accommodation for meetings no matter bow large, and also provide space for carrying out any community or war work undertaken by the local branch. ARMY LEADERS WILL VISIT PRINCE GEQRGE Brigadier and Mrs. Gillingnam, new. divisional commanders of the Salvation Army for northern British Columbia and Alaska, plan to make their first visit to Prince George this coming week-end, arriving on Saturday, January 13, from the west. These officers have succeeded Brigadier and Mrs. Car-ruthers who (have been" transferred to Regina headquarters. Brigadier and Mrs. Gilingham are widely known in the West, navlng spent several years in Vancouver and Calgary. They will be conducting their first (meeting in the Salvation Army Hall here ,o�i Saturday at 8 p.m., and will also conduct Sunday services. Mrs. Gil-Ungjham will address a special women's meeting onv Monday at 3 pfm. and the final gathering will be held on Monday night at 8 pjn. �* ' Hi '��� � . '.' -'Jv � * 1 �' 1 nSSnkP si m BIB 1 �Kill IHBSSBlllSraiHS Si �in Hi HE* 11113 �^^^^ TOonrTTn^rnTMiTiT 11111 BBwP�v:j1 wbmpIeSwSBBI BIBbBo rcy,':>*�t^SzaHBMBI �^ C Jj^fcJTTu vi rf ii�� 4:.-i�.".>.>' THE BUTLDING, of frame construction, local lumber, has a frontage of 100 feet on Sixth avenue and 216 feet on Quebec street. The roof is supported by a Teco split-ring timber truss, the beams being fabricated of coast fir, and all beams have a clearance of twenty-five feet above the ice surface. Ladies' and gentlemen's dressing rooms are provided on the fft'st floor on either side of the main entrance, while_ upstairs are dressing rooms for the hockey players. Also on the second floor above the entrance, a balcony provides space for a band. The playing surface is lighted- by ifour rows of eight individual 300-candlepower electric lights. These are hung fifteen feet above the ice surface. The ice surface is 184 feet long and 180 i'eet wide. It is surrounded by a five- ioot playing board wan of V-joint per- fectlty rounded at all corners. Completely surrounding the playing surface is a ten-foot spectators' gallery which includes a penalty booth and time-keeper's booth. �Photo by courtesy H. H. D>uglas. Masquerade Carnival To Officially Open Rink Friday, January 19, Set For Big Event�Hockey Tournament on Saturday and Sunday Between Prince George and Wells Teams For Elsey Challenge Cup With the interior of Prince George's^nection with the rental of these cos- magnificent ice arena richly festooned In gay bunting and colored electric lights; .the^J brig ice George Boys' Band playing stirring music, and hundreds of skaters weaving in and out on the. ice in all the colorful gaiety of masquerade, the^ official grand opening will take place on Friday night, January 19. Make-believe princesses will meet their Prince Ohannihgs, kings will mingle with peasants, pierrots "will be pir-oueting .around queens, witches. Turks, toreadors, negroes, gypsies, Mephistos, tumes at a very nominal figure. Ivor Guest has obtained a catalogue from anJEdmonton flnm showing a^wide setectiOQ -o _ rented for a nominal sum, including for ladies: Allies, Miss America, ballet dancers, Bohemian girls, butterflies, bellhops, bopeeps, Clecpatrias, geisha girls, Egpytians. early Victorians, Irish colleens, Hawaiian, sheperdesses. Joan of Arc, Indian squaws, Scotch lassies, witches, Peter Pans, and countless other choices. For men there are Arabs, admirals, beefeaters. Captain Kidd, Circus clowns and many other rspre-1 cavalier, Chinese mandarins, convicts. sentations will all be there in tueir gay j clowns, Dick Turpin, gypsies, monkey trappings. The grand masquerade carnival is to followed on Saturday'and. Sunday by a hockey tournament,in which Wells and Prince George hockey clubs will play two games foii the Elsey Cup, total goals to count. Masqueraders will compete for prizes toy the best dressed lady, best dressed man, best dressed boy, best dressed girl, 16 yeari and under in both cases; best comic costume for both men and women i and for boys and girls under 16 years of age; most original costume, open to all; best home-made costume, and best rented costume. - Only those in costume and masks will be allowed on the ice from 8 to 9 pm Immediately after the judging is finished and the awards made, prizes will be competed for in a sesries of races as follows: Boys' race, 12 years and under. Girls' race, 12 years and under. Boys' race, 16 years and under. "\ Girls' race, 16 years and under. A one-undle open speed racing event Sfor the championship of Cariboo is expected to bring out the fastest skaters in the district and tne prize will be a cup donated by A. B. Moffat. There will also be a special prize for the best exhibition of fancy skating In which the performer may be either a man or woman. Every effort is to be made to make the carnival one of the outstanding events in the history of the city. With a new rink equal to'the best in British Columbia in size of skating surface, the-construction of which is a credit to Prince George's community co-operation, it is almost a duty of every able-bodied citizen to- lend their support and patronage to this opening occasion either as a performer or spectator. To those skaters who have not the knack of fabricating masqueraed costumes or cannot find the time necessary to do so, provision has been made by the committee for obtaining ready-mate outfits. Miss Ann Peck of the Prince George public school teaching staff has kindly �proffered the use on a rental basis of � splendid range of costumes comprising sixteen courtiers for toys and girls from 12 to 14 years, ten gmomes lor boys from 10 to 12 years, and single costumes representing a prince, a king, a jester, and a guard. Miss Peck may be seen at King George school in con- suits. Jews, kings, monks, pirates, rubes, sailors, Uncle Sam, vikings, toreodors, Weiland. Royal Cleaners, H. H. Douglas, R. Gundersori, Whn. Bexon, H. Goodwin. Owen Dupre, Prince George Drug, W. R. Munro, Albert Johnson, Johnny Clones, Ernie Thompson, Gordon Wood, G. B. Williaims, Prince George Grill and Shasta Cafe. In next week's issue of the Citizen the complete program and prizes for each event will be published. ----------�o------------- Junior Hockey On Saturday - Sunday A capacity crowd of merry skaters and spectators attended tne first skating ,<5ession held in.Prince George's iiew ice palace last night. Manager Harry Thacker provided a good sneet of ice and the skaters enjoyed the expansive ice surface to their fill. WQiile the official opening of the rink does not take place until Friday, January 19, skating sessions will be held regularly in the interval. On Saturday next at 8 p.m. the Wells junior hockey team will play tne Princ? George juioiors and again on Sunday the same two teams tange for the second game. There will be skating sessions follow- Cariboo-Omineca Mines Preparing For Good Season New and Old Properties W3l Expand Development and Production Program Since the outbreak of the war the Citizen has called attention in a series of articles to the possibilities in tiie Prince George district of producing metals particularly required for war purposes. That the information drawing attention to the mining resources hereabouts is getting widespread publicity is attested by the following story published in the Toronto Star, January 6, inp which Canada's ability to provide metals to the Allies is stressed. The paragraph below is taken from the Star article and is a rewrite of the Citizen's previously published information: "Since the Allies went to war, Prince George has become the hub of fche new mining activity in central B.C., with work going forward on properties containing tungsten, cinnabar, molybdenum, antimony and 'manganese. The first shipment of tungsten concentrates from the Columbia property on Hardscrabble Creek, near Wells, passed through that town in the beginning of October, and , there will be more and increasingly ; more through the winter months.- From jFort St. James monthly shipments of i antimony are going to the outside mar-I kets. Pinchi Lake, near there, is at. the i moment one of the most important spots in the province, for the Consolidated Mining and Smelting Company, of Trail, is diamond drilling a body of cinnabar ore there, a successful operation during the last twelve months and one, -which if carried through to completion, of paramount importance to the Allies.11 The diamond drilling campaign referred to has been completed with tJhe result that the company is now arranging for the installation of a mercury refinery on the property. Geprge Washington, Highlanders. In- i"S e^ch hockey game. dians, highwaymen, Irishman and many j others. A good supply of masks is avaiable at various city stores, and elaborate w gs for both women and men may be obtained through Ivor Guest. Those desiring to rent costumes from Edmonton should call at Mr. Guest's store and make their choice not later than Saturday, January 13, at 2 pjn.. otherwise the extra expense of a wire to Edmonton will have to be added to Bert McCorkell, manager of Germ-ansen Mines, Limited, operating one of the largest hydraulic placer mines in British Columbia, is busily engaged in i supervising the transportation of supplies into the property on Germansen Creek near Manson, so as to be ready to resume hydraulicliing rbout Apiil 15 next. During the past season twelve miles jof new ditch was completed which will j bring 200 cubic feet of water per seoond jto the monitors when work begins. A : minimum force of fifty men will be (employed at the start and add-tional I help will be required as the season's jwork advances. Mr. McCorkell antici-I pates moving between one and one and a half million yards of gravel dudng the summer months. Ke also proposes to utilize a drag line dredge on the operation. An electric power installation is also to be made which will facilitate pumping operations and provide electric lighting for 24-hour shifts. tine rental. That the rink opening will be one of bhe most popular winter sports' events of Prince George is -attested by the unanimity with which businessmen are supporting the efforts of the committee in. charge of details. The prizes are valuable and well worth an effort to win. The donations so far and the donors are as hereunder: Ladies' velvet overshoes, men's zipper overshoes, Ben Baird; ladies' purse, Miss Mary Snell; Arrow shirt, A^M. Patterson; flashlight, L B. Guest; silk stockings, Evie's Shoppe; billfold, H. H. Douglas ^-pullover sweater, Hughes & Drake; gold cuff links, J. O. Kelly; pair wool gloves, Mrs. Austin; chocolates, Paschals. Jack Nicholson is providing two prizes for boys' ^and girls' events. Up to the time of going to press cash donations had been received from Paul Mike Kluss Dies Suddenly Monday Mike Kluss, a resident of this city since 1911. died suddenly from a heart attack in his home last Monday night at 11:30 o'clock. Mr. Kluss was 50 years of age and up to the time of his death was employed by the Canadian I National Railways as a machinist's helper. A native of Russia, he came to Canada twenty-nine years a^o and moved to Prince George in 1911. He enlisted here in 1915 and served overseas with the 102nd Battalion from 1916 to 1919. was wounded twice, and returned to Prince George after being discharged from the army. He leaves to mourn his loss, his wife and three children, one boy and two girls. The funeral was held today, January 11, at 2:30 p.m. from the Knox United Church, while the Army & Navy Veterans. Prince-George branch, were in charge of the services at the graveside, the trariall arangements being in the hands of Assman's Funeral Chapel. . Pallbearers were J. Ross, J. Bateanan, Robert Pooley, W. Tuffil, W. McKenzie and Frank Fletcher. Log Scale For 1939 Shows Slight Increase Over The Previous Year The official scale of sawlogs for the| figures, sawlogs and poles showing the month of December, 1939, shows totals in excess of 1938, but in -all other com modities the December figures are less than the same month for 1938. However, the totals of all timber products largest gains. For the first time in a number of years Christmas trees appear in the export list, some 8000 trees having been shipped from tihis territory this season. The figures just released for 1039, except cord-wood and fence i by District Forester B. D. Greggor. with posts, are slightly in advance of 19381 parative 1938 figures are as hereunder: Commodities December Total to Date December Total to Date 1939 Sawlogs ;.................................... 1,171,