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Citizen
An Independent Weekly Newspaper Davoted to the Interests of Central and Northern British Columbia
No. 15
Prince George, B.C., Thursday, April 11,   1946
#2.00 a Year
ast Expansion In ed Cross Program
Affording Free Plasma For All Canadian   Hospitals   in   Future
jl aroused conference of Red Cross workers was stirred inesday [^ outside criticism of costs involved in flying emer-
supplies from Vancouver as reported on by Mrs. Carl >rt president of the local branch, Red Cross Society, and ther emphasized by Mrs. W. R. McKenzie, northern repre-stive, as essential to welfare of the family. ' (air  freight)  meant the
$45
re between the family get-� help as quickly as possible or inK to await  train  transportation it was money well spent," 'the stand taken by Col. C. A. t  provincial commissioner, challenging the implication of fecessary expense, Col. Scott de-bed how emergency supplies are ^in readiness to answer any sud-"call such as experienced here week.
|e recalled the terrifying ^xper-te of four sisters at Smithers who to jump from their blazing jie, and that the Red Cross as-ed one in 'obtaining furniture as
as clothing.
|\Vc have flown sulfa drugs from ntreal to Newfoundland by char-ng a plane. That's the vision I Lt to set across to you�that we te," he declared. (VNTDS IN READINESS
an emergency such as a family
dered homeless   or   destitute oy
destroying  all belongings, the
i Cross stands by in readiness to
I immediate help, including four
[(See RED CROSS Page Pour)
COL. O. A. SOOTT, provincial commissioner, announced Wednesday vast plans in the making for peacetime pursuits of the Canadian Red Cross Society, during the first regional conference of Northern B.C. branches here.
! Millenium
\tariled City Council Mates 'Tax Us' Plea
IV'e want to be taxed," was a plea i ;i startled City Council hastily
ermined was due to self-interest not the millenium, on Monday.
ild. Thomas S. Carmichael reas-
bd colleagues   that    they heard
�ht when he advanced a proposal i a group of bicycle owners that
lists Le licensed in Prince George.
It's the wish of the owners that have a bylaw," he said, explain-that there has been an "epidemic
stolen bicycles."
tie   licences    should    be    big lugh to nab those who ride along
pwalks," advocated    Aid.    J.  N.
. Frank Clark concurred with Keller's   sentiments,    adding lore should be a little money made
h. G. Fraser, city clerk, interjec-
j^a further licencing "headache." "* alluded to garages selling saw-equipment   and   to   sawmill
fcipment houses selling trucks.
general   discussion  followed   reding a means of assessing per-
Js who vrival drugstores." - was decided to table both issues
&il toward July 15 when licencing
[visions  can   be   undertaken  in diness for 1947.
�ards of Trade leetins in City
regional Board of Trade con-n<* is planned for Prince George ��l .May  15,  and  it is expected' � the president of the Canadian nmoers   of   Commerce,   Gordon Fbhutt.   of Hamilton.   Ont. will end.
Jeld officers of the Dominion or-im ion also will be in attendance. here Mr. Cockshutt will visit �f  trade  along  the  C.N.R.
Love in Bloom Too Discordant
Winter remained in the hearts of City Fathers over reports Monday of spring, eternal spring, in dogdom.
Canines in Prince George may have contributed $345.75 last year to civic coffers but, in the absence of an available dog-catcher, court action will be resorted to, it was decided, to curb manifestations of spring, beautiful spring.
"We must make an example," declared Aid. Prank Clark, prodding colleagues to unanimously approve of a warning in The G'itizeneto-dog owners to restrain their pets.
anning Early Wrete Work  P
!!*1*11* lald ^ a Rotary  corr.mittee toward early pour-
lTT f0r the �un� Pool
 �*��?!?chUdren'8 play-
Strect           Avenue at Vancou-
 Jack ** R**- chairman, to pro-
*    nd further  grounds.

City Nurses Aid Dutch Sisterhood
Food is not scarce in Holland only "very monotonous."
Letters received recently from two Dutch nurses in Amsterdam by Fort George Chapter, Registered Nurses' Association of B.C., told of food conditions in that country and gratefully acknowledged receipt of food parcels sent by city nurses.
At a recent chapter meeting, Aid. Frank Clark was guest speaker.1 He gave an outline of parliamentary procedure as it applied to the nurses' organization and similar groups.
Mrs. Mabel Brolin, chapter president, will be delegate to the annual meeting of the R.N.A. of B.C. in Victoria April 26 and 27. Recommendations were made by district nurses to be presented to the con-
Wary Bulldog Sends Woman t6 Hospital
v>^ dog's devotion resulted Sunday in Mrs. Joseph Martin sustaining a laceration of her left hand sustained when she was attacked by the bulldog of Mrs. Bruce G. Parker upon entering the house through the kitchen door without knocking.
According to reports to B.C. Police, the animal reopened an injury she suffered recently when her hand was caught in a wringer.
Mrs. Martin was reported today as recovering in Prince George Hospital.    '
Burned Out Family Aided By Red Cross
Rendered homeless when fire razed their three-storey dwelling on Tabor Creek about 6 a.m. Tuesday week, Mr. and Mrs. John Schlitt and their six children were recipients Saturday of six cartons of emergency supplies sent by C.P.A. from the provincial Red Cross Society.
The family was asleep when Mrs. Schlitt arose and lit the heater on the main floor of their farm home about 6 a.m. Ten minutes later the house was in flames.
Mrs. Schlitt escaped by a ladder] from a second-storey window, handing her year-old daughter, Dolores, to her husband; and their three sons, Fred, 16; Herbert, .11, and Daniel, seven, and their daughter, Evelyn, 14, escaped from the third storey by breaking a window and lowering themselves to a lean-to.
All personal effects, with exception of one blanket, were destroyed.
The family, which moved to the district from Reglna a year ago, moved to the home of Mr. Schlitt's brother, Paul, across Tabor Creek, where a fourth son, Joseph, had stayed overnight.
Gus Lund, advised of the destitute family, notified Mrs. liund who in turn contacted Mrs. Carl Ewert, president of Prince George branch, Red Cross Society.
Mrs. W. R. McKenzie, northern representative on the provincial executive of the Red Cross, sent a telegram to Col. C. A. Scott, commissioner, who despatched the six cartons of much needed clothing on Saturday.
Meantime, advice of the family's plight reached members of the local Elks' Lodge No. 122. Members donated $25 on Thursday at their lodge meeting.
Residents of Cranbrook district, gathered up supplies of gifts on Saturday to assist the family.
'�"Words cannot   express    our ap-
| preclation to the many friends who
came to our help, for it has inspired
us with new hope," exclaimed   Mr.
Schlitt, on Monday to The Citizen.
"It is difficult to express our heartfelt thanks to the Red Cross for flying up clothes and bedding from Vancouver. It was not only a help for the present but a replacement of many things we lost.
"My wife and I were surprised to get so many good things from the Fled Cross," he said, "but their help and that of the many people who �were so kind with their sympathy and assistance has given us courage to start again."
MRS. L. DeSATGE, home nursing director, asked Wednesday for a wave of new enthusiasm and an appreciation of civilian needs demanding from Red Cross workers an equal measure of their splendid wartime achievements.
Many Entries For Festiva
$992,000 Building Prospects in City Awaiting Materials
"Give Us the Goods and We'll Meet the Jobs,    Peacetime   Cry
With a backlog of $992,000 construction work ahead for Prince George if plans of local builders materialize, a fight against alleged buck-passing by Ottawa is shaping up, accord-
"��]ing to Mayor Jack Nicholson.
STUDYING BIDS
Lowest tender opened Monday in Victoria for the provincial library building was that submitted by Dezell & Son of Ques-nel and with others Is the subject of study, according to word received today.
An appropriation was secured in 1945 by the Hon. Harry G. Perry, then minister of education, but Dominion authorities would not allow a construction permit at that time.
With compilation still under way by the Prince George and District Drama and Music Association of 290 entries received for the forthcoming Music-Drama Festival in May, a total of 1290 children are expected to be heard at the second annual competition in the Junior-Senior High School.
Close to 480 rural school pupils from 21 schools have entered the festival.
Music and drama committees under the respective chairmanship of Miss K. Collins and Aid. Thomas S. Carmichael are actively consolidating the entries into a program being integrated by Sergt. George H. Clark, president, and chairman of the program committee.
Ailing, Pioneer Boatbuilder Dies
John Duncan, 61, a veteran of the Great War, who was born in Scotland on February 2, 1885, and who was known throughout the north, was stricken Tuesday at 6 p.m. by a heart seizure and died on the way in from Summit Lake.
Mr. Duncan served in France with the 3rd Pioneers and in England with the C.A.M.C before returning to Canada where he was in the automotive business with R. F. Cor-less Sr. for seven years in. Prince George.
� He became shop foreman for Prince George Motors Ltd. in 1938 but due to failing health had spent the past nine years with ft. F. Cor-less Jr. nt Sumigit Lake building boats for use on the Crooked River and northern waterways.
A brother in New York has been advised of his passing.
Assman Funeral Chapel has charge of funeral arrangements.
Funeral services will be held in the chapel on Saturday, at 2 p.m.
Man Perishes As Hostel Destroyed
PRINCE RUPERT�Wilhelm Bert Johansen, 55, paralytic, perished in flames which razed the Eventide Home about nine o'clock this morning and led to five inmates of the civic hostel being admitted to Prince Rupert Hospital suffering from burns and shock.
So sudden was the outbreak that occupants leaped from second storey windows and two pioneers, helping Johansen toward a doorway, were forced to flee as the aged man collapsed.
The hostel occupied an old tenement known as the Dyer Apartments and sheltered 10 inmates, who were rushed to temporary shelters or to hospital.
The blaze is believed to have originated from an overheated stove.
Labor and other organizations had recently agitated to fc�ve better quarters provided for the old men and several thousand dollars has been raised.
Battle Strategy Prepared For Northern Woods
The three-day annual conference of forest officers in Fort George Forest District got under way Monday with 30 men from the field, the local district office and Victoria office in attendance at sessions on forest management, protection and general administration problems.
With many problems presented by the mushroom growth of many small sawmills, a review in detail of the Sloan report was made, the meeting being particularly timely in view of the recent presentation of the Sloan report in Victoria.
The need for a better understanding of problems in forest management and silviculture in relation to the timber industry was emphasized by Mickey Pogue, assistant forester from Victoria.
He reported on his silvicultural studies of last summer which con-finned the fact that a fire through a residual stand left after logging set the next rotation back at least 40 years. INTERIM REPORT
A further highlight of the meeting was the interim report of Dr. J. Bier, Dominion pathologist, on last summer's work on balsam rot in the Fort George district.
Fire protection problems occupied considerable time, for two out of the three days, and advantage was taken of the opportunity to discuss common problems by the field staff in view of proximity of the annual spring hazard.
A closing banquet was held on Wednesday in the Prince George Cafe where the principal nddress was given by C. C. Ternan, assistant chief forester. Walter E. Gilbert gave a talk on northern flying and B.C. Forest Service films were shown.
While no official advice has been received regarding an order-In-councll making municipal councils arbiters of what constitutes essential construction, Mayor Jack Nicholson plans to fight the move.
"Anything we build here in Prince George is essential," he heatedly remarked when asked by The Citizen what stand he has regards the City Council becoming an arbiter of "non-essential" projects,
From a survey undertaken of potential building projects under way or proposed it has been determined that close to $492,030 in business construction and $503,000 in i home building is contingent upon materials being available.
The acute shortage of material* has led to agitation toward Prince George having more supplies diverted to this area to meet the demand for housing and expansion of present building premises.
One contractor is at the coast negotiating to secure materials sufficient to meet National Housing Act requirements.
At least 15 potential homeowner* are prepared to start construction immediately materials are in sight. On the basis of 100 properties sold recently, it is anticipated that full housing needs will entail an outlay of $500,000. The standard used is the basic cost of new homes in Prince George approximating $5000.
Tenders closed  in Victoria Monday for a provincial library build-(See BACKLOG, Pnge Three)
Lutheran Pastor Returns to City
Rev. John F. Hennig and family, including a son born on February 16 in Oklahoma, where they have spent the past three months, returned to Prince George on Tuesday much improved in health
He will conduct divine services "n Connaught Hill Lutheran Church on Sunday at 11 a.m. Sunday School will meet at 10 a.m.
Salvation Army Expands Activities in Northland
Capt. Frank Watson of the Salvation Army has been advised that a new division has been created for Central and Northern B.C.
This district, comprising all territory from the Alberta border to Prince Rupert along the CNR. line and extending as far south as Williams Lake, was formerly under the direction of Vancouver headquarters..
Brigadier J. T. Gillingham of Windsor, Ont., has been appointed as divisional   commander   nnd will
Air Charters Changing From Winter Ssa
� Central B.C. Airways wound up its winter flying season by a charter flight on Wednesday Irom Prince Georb- to Finluy Forks with Mrfp. Donahue and her infant daughter shortly setTup his "off ice In (Prmce | who hnd P^viouslv been flown out
Rupert.
The brigadier, prior to going east in 1944, was in charge of the tfork in Alaska and Northern B.C.
The new arrangement will go into effect immediately, Capt. Watson has been advised, and will allow for expansion of the Salvation Army work into new fields, as well as give further opportunity for further development of the well established missionary centres amongst Indians in the Skeena River district.
for medical attention.
Captain    Russ Uaker,    flying the company's speedy 3eechcraft, took off again with Waltsr Gilbert, this ! morning f�n route to Edmonton.
In Edmonton they wll] check the progress of construction of the company's u.onev, Bellanca "Skyrocket" freighters and then continue on to Moose Jaw, Sask., to take delivery of a twin-engiiier   Cessna   "Crane.
City Approves $5000 Garbage Pick-up System
Contrasting with the despatch with which a recommendation of Aid. Frank Clark for a $12,000 ditcher to scoop out ditches for water mains and sewers was approved. City Council debated at length Monday over purchase of a truck, sanitary collector nnd snow-plow attachment, valued at $5000.
Bids from local concerns precipitated discussion as to means of garbage collection in Prince George.
Aid. Thomas S. Carmichael reported that Bill Kluss, who returned here a week ago from Shaughnessy Military Hospital, favored contracting for a garbage collection, or that the city supply the truck and let a contract for the collection of garbage or that the city operate the truck and hire someone.
His decision was sought last meeting.
Aid. Carmichael submitted the city could save $2000 annually by, buying the equipment needed and hiring someone to operate it, on the basis of the city deriving $4200 to $4500 revenue. He submittei it would entail a general acrouxit of $1GOO
Revenue would be derived from a charge of 25 cents to householders, $1 minimum to businesses and $3 from restaurants on year-round operation which would entail, he said, stress being laid In a bylaw on dry refuse in  winter  months.
Aid. Fred Hale, seconded by Aid. Carmichael, moved that $5000 be approved toward the project, which colleagues endorsed.
The bid favored by aldermen aggregated $4347.01 for a three-ton chassis and cab and sanitary collector, the balance of the sum allocated representing the tentative cost of a snowplow' attachment intended to clear, lanes in winter months.
. Mr. Kluss will be advised to contact the city r.uperintendent and that he v.ill be fiven first opportunity when the equipment arrives. He had earlier   this    year approached
the CitauCouncil . eran wnh a view garbage and had consideration.
s a returned vet-to collecting city been    promised