An Independent Weekly Newspaper Devoted to the Interests of Central and Northern British Columbia
No.
Prince George, B.C., Thursd&y, August 10, 1944
$2.00
bofs Injure Kin Of Local Man Car Gashes First Through Trip
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Of Skeena Highway Made By Officials
/tiraculously Escape jnder Wreckage Of
lath streaking like a comet above the Englis^^efiannel in i of flying bombs struck close to relatiye^of C.'H, Wis-I in Kent, where his brother, William^Wisenden, and fa-cre buried in the wreckage of^their home. Thejr-rnaid and ?s were killed.
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of strength and deter-
abouHf. --"Thank you very, very much for
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NOTE- ThCquiet | thought ^you would like to hear
led courage borne, by those 5m thls^war is a very vital
'exemplified In the" VDUr Parcelv My it's good to get a ,� remarkable>tefter, ' real frult cafce- and the noodle
�^nt oriT� hir-fl. soups are delicious, d throughout.as it-is oy a. � --
-^We mustn t grumble as we have - never-^wanted for food yet during I this war; "still we could do with a Fisenden, secretary of Prince few luxuries arttacies. Hospital Society, received a "I know my 'boy^as I �. li� �-: �aphically describing the In-rom his sister. Mrs. Harold ; who reassuringly states:
you have thought of us ho "Robots."�well, don t we can stand it. ulri rather have these than Is of 1940-41, and can assure here, get very excited and j he danger when one of our, are after a "Robot." old Will (their brother) ^go't j r bad the other week. His1 lad a direct hit at 1 ajn. j 11 of them were in bed.
buried under the � e except one son. who was,
them, used to, love coming here for their leaves�one made his nomej here so much that he still writes^us' every week.
"Oh! Won't it be good to get this job finished."
Edna and Colin were in-; he maid and their two dogs' le the house is a complete" They haven't anything ex- j eir night clothes, had two broken ribs and an I
left arm, Colin sustained a< ed hip! but all are out of j
now, although confined to I >wed" house.
saved Will's Hie. e could only move one
but managed to make a o Will and, by fanning the ross this small hole, caused ir U> circulate�and so al-im to breath.
-��that is only ohe^case out Ireds; their worse sorrow is e. the maid, who had been em for 20 years and like one
own.
all be glad when they are h to go right away from Robots"�hello! Here comes" �can hear the guns in the
they get it down�yes. there p big bang. Thank goodness one for.
etlmes.l wish we were miles' t others I'm glad we are here e to help others. �? I still go to bed and don't to get up, as we may as well
while'we can; and really we t as safe as anywhere else
more comfortable, ss you would liketo .see these j* night glowing across the th the gunfire and Shells ; everywhere7. Makes a pretty
though ^ncanny. Hope I
bored you with this. Just,
Our Subscribers Read the Citizen
That advertising in The Citizen gives a businessman a large target to aim ' at was proven by Blair's when Norman Radley and Harold c\ Brown opened their mall this week.
One query for merchandise was directed all the way from Irma, Alberta, in the central part of that province.
Above which a slight delay In receiving a shipment on schedule proved, by the number of customers who entered the store, that timeliness in advertising pays�that customers respond.
OPTE. WTLT.TARD G. CANADAY, wEo^fas recently reported wounded In action^overseas, accord ing^tc j word receivedTby^his motherTMrs. E. Wesener of Sovrt^FjSrtT George. He is formerly of Hixon^3reek.
William Mutz Drowned Off River Sandbar
After nearly a week of fruitless search alon? banks of the Praser River as far south as Fraser River i scribed as a miraculous escape, from
Injured Two
Two persons are In Prince George Hospital and two autos were demolished in three auto accidents during the week. INJURED
Mrs. George McCormick* severely lacerated right knee, cat on forehead and numerous .. braises.
Joseph Deveau, minor cats and abrasions.
The sedan in^.which Mrs. McCor- i mick was ^driving home alone at 2:15 sum. Sunday was virtually wrecked in collision with the rear' end of an army lorry driven by Pte. i K. G. Unland, who was just getti into gear after having stopped^to pick up two soldiers bound^for barracks.
The accidentpct-urred on Central j Avenue jusfc^south of the Wayside j Inn. Const. A. Demmon assisting u�) rushing Mrs. McCormick to hospital. I ^Skidding in loose gravel on the; edge of the road on the straight-of-! way just beyond the left turn to-ward the airport, a sedan driven by \ Frederick H. Kemp rolled over twice, 4>eing completely wrecked about 4:30J prh>Taiesday.
Kemp escaped with minor scratches, Joseph Deveaju^sustalned minor cuts and abrasions f"an4 Bob Rigler of Chief Lake required^inedical treatment for a cut on his scalp^ Constables Harry McKenney and Tom Maxwell assisted the injured. The three experienced what is de-
TERRApE�Not.only was history written Fpklay but the ''go-aheajl^signal was given tor offlcal o\itzm*r%^brhinion Street.
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gnnjl a graphic account of � �?� an explosioiKpff the
Prance, in which two-were cludi AB Grant, white are missing, including KUlnm. D.S.C., of Van- craft disintegrated in black, explosion-torn .shrapnel and. debris
vengeance
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Law of Quebec City, who savr the enemy, conf used by the speed of 'the nttnek fire on their own ships/which j led the Canadians to retire, leaving the Germans t*> fight among themselves.
The1-home-bound flotilla was intercepted by E-Boats, closed immediately and as Law said "In'-ten
son of
Mr. and Mrs. S. J. Wium, Summit Lake Road, has been killed In action according to advice received by his parents, who have another son sen-ing in Italy and one in the Navy.--Gpl. Wium was born in Wynyard. Sask. educated there and in Humble. Sask.; enlisted February, 1941, in Saskatoon, and went overseas in June of the same year.
Four brothers and one sister reside with their parents on a farm five miles from Prince George. They came here two years ago from' Saskatchewan.
Cpl. Wium was with a reconnaissance unit.
MISSING
Almost a month to the day they rejoiced at word another son, Flying Officer Hans' Braathen, aboard an aircraft missing after glider-towing operations in France, hnd turned up safely and uninjured, Mr. and Mrs. E. H. Braathen, Sixth Avenue re-
with disconcerting swift- j ceived a. despatch that Flying Of--' ficer Harold Braathen 28, Ls reported 1 missing on active service.
"Your son," they were advised. i 'and the entirV crew of his aircraft. j failed to returnvto their base after j taking^off to carry but bombing op-I orations." He was educated in In-vormere High School rind enlisted nearly four years ago. That he may have landed in one-
Veteran Editor Peace
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DAWSON CREEK^-O, S. Kitchen, who published the Peace River Block News for 15 years, has retired
minutes of fast-moving action one! as the oldest owner and publisher mj my territory and might be a prison-
of the E-Boats burst into flames. the Peace River .country, and the other two-ran- for cover." I r.nd B.C.
Mr. kitchen, with W. C. Pratt,
\AJHeinkel violently rocked the flo- !
Alberta! er-of-war or even be en route Ihome like his brother managed to do is a hojie held to by the family during
tilla holed
ith near bomb ; hits . but was . Oerlikon fire and limped
off, affording a breather until > third formatioftsof E-Boats and R-Boaft was tnckled^trid driven off.
George Grant, whose death occurred In June, was bornHn Prince George and secured most of catlori fi�% before Joining the ^ Lieut; Grant \a with a tank corps unit overseas.
first published, the Herald at Gropd. Prairie in 1913 until 1917 when he became associated with George Dun-carr>present publisher of the Herald Tribune, until 1927 when he re-linguished hislnterest. Mr. Kitchen
in May, publishedr Block ^e
^0, installed, a plant and t Rolla the PeacejRiver until April. 1932, when where the paper has continuously. .
tne period'Trf^incertainty.
"Have - some" souvenirs," was the laconic message of Hans, in writing that "There's nothing much to say about the war."'
"Seems hard to believe its nearly three years since I left school," he muses, "wonder If I'll ever be able to settle down to it again."
"rralklhf it ow, both Harold (See CLYSPAIjTIES, page 8>
Commissioned
LIEUT. HENRY C. MILLER, son of Mrs. Ed Hipsely. Central Fort George, and a graduate of Baron B.fng High School, recently became an officer after having been a cadet. Elsewhere The Citizrn features the occasion".
LUTHERAN CHURCH TO WELCOME NEW PASTORiJ
Installation services for Rev. J. F. Hennig,' scheduled to arrive in Prince George on Friday evening or. Saturday njprning, will be cdn'ctucted fn Cnnnaught, Hill Lutheran Church on Sunday at 11 a.m., with meeting of the full congregation slated for 3 p.m.
Due to family illness. Rov. A. J. Mueller now of-Edmonton, is unable to attend and officiate. ' It is understood the officiating pastor will'be either Rev. Raedeke of CalRivry or Rev. Meyer of Edmonton. ,
While manpower shortages eased i from the June level of 450 to de-I mands for 350 men and 30 women in ; July ,the need for millworkers is still acute in Prince George selective service office jurisdiction.
Requests for employees come principally from millowners and mining 1 cperators, W. L. Forrester, local ! manager, stated today.
Output from many of the 55 mills adjacent to Prince George has been reduced and. the balance of 61 other mills'in the area include operations that have actually been halted by� inability to secure workers.
Some millownprs have alleviated the situationi by engaging Japanese, there now- b^lng 54 employed.
Qn his. annual inspection trip to -the jurisdiction controlled* by Mr. Forrester. William McKinstry, regional superintendent, employment and selective service branch of the federal department of labor, conferred Tuesday with lumbermen regarding the labor problem.
The operators concur that the movement out of B.C. of men bound for the harvests .on the Prairies has$ materially effected their production schedules.
Tho solution they-suggest fs to re-cbcrnize the pressing need to ret i In men by a --"freezing" directive or to grant exlfei'5p�rmlts � from Prairie provinces to those who in past, years �approximating 300 men or more�r came seasonally, after harvests were in. to work through the winter here. Before leaving for Vancouver. Mr. McKinstry. who is completing a tour of British Columbia, announced that �Jurisdiction of the local selectire service office has been extended west from -Endako to include Burns LnJcr nnd south below Quesnel to jn-! dude Kersley.