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Prince George, B.C., Thursday, July 30, 1942
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news British Pledge to invade Continent
mcil to Submit School Bylaw
[payers Must Raise Issue Two-Thirds of [Estimated Cost
rge City Council will to the ratepayers to fesue bonds for
jieet the city's share of ir-ior-senior high school at $58,000.
i, K.C., city solicitor, to draft the bylaw, was taken by the City iday night on receipt of Ion from the trustees of
ird.
leeting the previous Fri-Mrs. E. M. Boyle moved, I Trustee A, M. Patterson, itects' estimated cost (and coste of furnishing ig the building be sent and that the council submit a bylaw to the
)ST $58,000
litects' estimate of con-
cts was $52,000. Equip-hirnishings are $6,000 ex-
a total of $58,000. trincial Government will
it of 40 per cent of con-
>ts. Jon of Mayor Patterson
it, the architects' esfcim-year, was not within
of present prices. Local i have never seen the plans ktions to give an estimate. Jfications have yet been om the#archit/este to prb-
on which local contract
Press Ottawa to Remove Last Jap From Vital Area
(Special to The Citizen) OTTAWA, July 30 (BUP)�-British Columbia members of Parliament last night called upon the Dominion Government for immediate removal of the Japanese still remaining in protected areas of the province.
Provoking the new debate on the problem, Howard Green, Conservative, Vancouver South, demanded the government stop "passing the buck" and take over evacuation of Japs from the B.C. Security Commission. Grote Stirling, Conservative, Yale, backing up Green, declared immediate removal may be good for the Japs themselves, declaring "there might be a riot in Vancouver and 50 of the Japanese killed."
Labor Minister Humphrey Mitchell replied that the present policy on Japanese is essential if the Japs are to be used in any productive capacity, adding, "At this stage I think we've got to follow through with the policy already adopted."
Crews to Tackle Fires on Nation And Dore Rivers
froi also said the Schooi
The elements continue to favor Forestry Department officials In
ye at the oast-of the; their bat-tie- -with fires througihout FV>rt George district.
No fires are causing much trouble, not yet made application! but close watch is being kept on truction Control Advisory j them all.
Officials are investigating a lightning strike reported during Tuesday night's storm by the McBride forestry lookout station. The strike is
for permission to build. d.vised to do so. -{aldermen said the board st make application for
to build before asking the
15 miles up the Dore River.
(submit a cylaw. In the Dome Creek area crews are
Alex Moffat observed i still mopping up, with the fires per-Jylaw for $37,500 was pass- | sisting in the patches of cedar snags.
Fire is still burning on the mountain by Purden Lake. It is under-observation.
New fires are reported on Nation River. 200 miles north of this city. A crew of men may be flown In to fight this latest outbreak.
found-to be insufficient, I would be held responsible.
uterson explained he had i School Board to get plans ([cations, the cost of which
ould bear to the event of
not being built. He said the board to obtain in ions and apply for per-
build. .
rs $4o,ooo
pidermen were of the opin-:tors would not bid until overnment permission for
onstruction had been ob-
J. N. Keller said the
*ty lay witii the School he was prepared to tttove ?ity submit a byliw for ie extra $2,500 ovfer the ted by the board was to
^f cost of selling bonds and �n the open market. of tiie council opposed
J the amount and voted to
j$37.500 bylaw, - ;
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Rental [ol Cases in City
applications for rental the city are now before Control Committee, pre-Fby Judge J. o. Wilson. Frdusco, proprietor, of the Ptel, and George Pruderate, pfthe Europe Hotel, are Emission to increase their 25 cento a day by reason tiproved the accommoda-J guests. -----�o----
Clearing Up J Fire Loss
-While clearing up foi-rire at Bend, Leonard Nuredbyapieceoftim-1 ap McBride undergoing �* injuries to Ms back,
George Hartley Dies Following Spinal Injury
George Hartley, old time resident of Salmon Valley, passed away on Tuesday in Prince George Hospital.
He had suffered a spinal injury bhe previous Friday when thrown from a load of hay as tihe horses drawing the load bolted.
Miss J* McLeod Leaves Position
Resignation of Miss Jean McLieod from the teaching staff of the high school was accepted by the Prince George School Board Friday night. A letter expressing the board's appreciation of Miss McLeod's services will be forwarded to her.
Trustees took further steps to fill staff vacancies and will announce the names of newly appointed teachers next week.
The City will be asked to submit the light bills each month to ' the board.
A supply of new text books was ordered.
Guilty of Stealing Hospital Bedspreads
Magistrate P. J. Moran in City Police Court Wednesday found William Cuslunan guilty of stealing bedspreads, under the value of $25, from the Prince George "Hospital.
The magistrate deferred sentence till August 5.
Cushman entered a plea of not guilty.
Court Fines in City Increase
City court fines and costs soared to a new height in June, totalling $359.75.
,An increase in the number of fines for drunkenness was noted in the Police Department's June report to the City, Council Monday night.
Value of property reported stolen during the montfli was $1,760, of which $1,700 was recovered toy the police
Insurance Off
ice is
The Unemployment Insurance Commission has opened its Central British Columbia office in Prince George, and William L. Forrester of this city has been appointed minager.
Temporary quarters are on the third floor of the Provincial Build-Ing. The office will be moved in two months to permanent quarters.
Mr. Forrester will not assume his new duties till relieved by the B.C. Game Department by arrangement. CARRIES ON
"In the meantime I am carrying on at taie office," explained Ted Parkinson, travelling supervisor for the commission, who announced the appointment and opening of the office here.
The local office will transact all business connected wifch tfoe Unemployment Insurance Commission which has to do with insurance, payment of benefits, claims for benefits, registration of applicants for work, replacement of applicants in various jobs, and arranging of orders for Jobs.
"By. the National Selective Service Act ruling, everyone, male or female, between 16 and 70 years, must obtain a permit from our offices to go to work," said Mr. Parkinson. There are only one or two exceptions, such as casual labor of three days and under. Application must be made witihin three days of going to work."
The local office is the headquarters for an ejrtensive territory running west to Endako, east to the Alberta boundary, south to Williams Lake,and north to the Yukon boundary. WAR VETERAN
Mr. Forrester is known throughout central and northern British Columbia, and has had farming, logging and mining expedience,' fitting him well for his new work. Since December 1, 1932, he has been a game warden here for the Provincial Game Department. Prior to coming to this city he was engaged in farming in Che Peace River Block, He was born at Ymir, near Nelson, B.C.
Mr. Forrester is a veteran of the First Great War. At the tjge of 15 he joined the 47th (New Westminster) Battalion in the early days of the war as a bugler.
He is married and has one daughter.
Increases \Cripps Says Plans Too
^ecretwe for Commons;
for Russians
Millmen
While no official statement has been made to the press by either the Regional War Labor Board at Vancouver or mill operators, it is understood permission was granted operators in Fort George district to give a wage increase to employees.
EttgjLoyees of Eagle Dake Sawmills at Giscome, Sinclair Spruce Lumber Co. mills at Sinclair Mills, and Alexander Sawmills at Prince George walked off the job at the first of June when an application for wage increases was rejected by the Regional War Labor Board.
Following meetings between mill operators and the labor board at Vancouver, and meetings between operators arid employees, the men returned to work awaiting result of appeals to Ottawa.
The increase asked for was 5 cents an hour in the basic wage scale and a bonus of 5 cents an hour.
Killer and Bank Robbers Hunted By Coast 'Police
(Special to The Citizen)
VANCOUVER, July 30 (BUP)� Vancouver city's greatest manhunt is still under way as policestrove to solve two major crimes.
Every available policeman and de-leclive was thrown into the search for two armed banftlts who held up and robbed a branch of the Bank of Montreal yesterday of $66,000, and for the killer of Mrs. Alexia Sloan.
The bank has offered a reward for information leading to the capture of the bandits. .
Police are engaged in a hunt for two men who escaped from the city jail yesterday.
Calvary Church Opens Aug. 9
Work on the new Calvary Church, Quebec Street at Fourth Avenue, is being pushed, and it will be opened officially on Sunday, August 9, at 2:30 p.m.
A speaker, Orchestra and special music have been arranged for the opening services.
Starting August 9, this interde-nomi nation church will hold services each night, excepting Monday, commencing at 8 o'clock.
Miss Esbher Miller, who has been training as n nurse at the Vancou-vef~~General Hospital, has returned to the city for a holiday. �
Will Review War Veterans
War veterans of Prince George, with full decorations, will be reviewed by Brigadier Martin at a garden party being given by Mr. and Mrs. George Bond at their home on the Oaohe next Wednesday at 6 p.m.
All veterans are invited to attend at 5:50 p;m. to parade in.charge of Ken Matheson.
Refreshments for the veterans, their wives and visitors will be served on the verandah and lawn.
Nazis Make New Gains South of Rostov; Launch an All-Out Attack on Stalingrad; R.A.F. Showers Bombs on Saarbruecken.
BRITISH UNITED PRESS � THURSDAY, JULY 3O
(Special to The Citizen.)
LONDON�Sir Stafford Cripps, Lord Privy Seal in the War Cabinet, renewed Britain's pledge she intends to invade the Continent. Cripps told the House of Commons the government cannot make known its military intentions even in Commons secret sessions, but says there are military intentions. ~>
MOSCOW�Premier Stalin today ordered every soldier and every officer in the Red Army to stand and fight to the death. The army newspaper. Red Star quotes the premier ay follows: "Not one step back. The execution of this task means the preservation of our country, the destruction of the "hated enemy and a guarantee of victory."
The Russians announce new German advances south of Rostov, but front-line dispatches say big Soviet guns, massed for miles inside the bend of the River Don, are mowing down reinforced hordes of Nazi infantry and tanks.
Nazi Industrial Centre Hit Hard
LONDON�R.A.F. bombers attacked Saarbruecken in the third major raid in four night on German cities. Tens of thousands of incendiary missiles and hundreds of high explosive bombs were rained down on coal tipples, blast furnaces and steel mills in the Saar Valley. The Air Ministry says large forces took part, but only nine planes were lost.
Saarbruecken is the second war centre � assaulted since the promise to destroy German cities one by one.
AN EAST COAST BRITISH PORT�The R.A.F. is in the air again today. Three gigantic explosions across the Channel signal new British attacks on German-occupied territory. The explosions .came well inland from the Calais ;a Six students of Prince George High
released the names of 10 pupils who passed the June University entrance examinations. The successful' students are:
Winnifred Joyce Alexander.
Ariel Alice Carmichael.
Roy Rqckwell :Cleland.
Gene l� Hadley.
Walter Joseph Mutz.
Donald Gladwyn Newton.
Barbara Olds.
Nanoy Mary A. Pitman.
Richard Charles Saunders,
Julian Augustine Thorsness.
Three pupils who took the Bible examinations all passed.
School received their hfeh school graduation diplomas. They are:
John Hein.
Kendall Quinn.
Raymond Carpenter.
LJssie Jorgensen.
Noreen Patterson.
Charged with failing to report for forestry v/ork as an alternative for military service, a Mud Rivet man in dis^Fict police court Wednesday was remanded by Stipendiary Magistrate George Milburn till Saturday morning.
Shows Gratitude For Red Cross
The prompt response of Prince George branch, Canadian Red Cross Society, i� the call for assistance recently from the Bend fire sufferers has brought special recognition from John W. Evans of Penny.
He wrote the following letter to Mayor A. M. Patterson, chairman of the Red Cross campaign committee:
Dear Sir: n Herewith is $6 in remembrance
of your*contribution for suffer-,
ers in the fire at Bend. I enclose my membership card
which I would ask you to return
with receipt for the endlosed
donatiom
!
LJV.C. Ronald Munro is home on furlough. He has been stationed at Clinton, Ontario.
Asking City be Recognized as Vulnerable Area
Application to have Prince George officially recognized as a vulnerable area is being made by the ARP committee in Prince George to R. 1^ Maitland, attorney-general. ~
District and deputy district wardens decided on this action Monday night while discussing the growing importance of this city.
; At the meeting arrangements were made for the distribution of stirrup pumps, respirators, signal whistles, ateel helmets, flashlights and new instruction books to the wiydens.
Bell Heath of Snowshoe was a; business visitor here at the weekend.