man Elected n Coalition landslide ,hn Mclnnis Beaten By 116 Votes in Heavy Poll Premier Johnson's Government Has 40 Seats in NeW House Compared With 36 Previously INTERIOR GOES ALL COALITION In a local walkover, Harry Bowman,.Coalition candidate, the Fort George riding from John Mclnnis last night by , of 2968 to 1952 �� a majority of 1016. Two small 5 Beaverley and Lucerne are still to come. reflected the general landslide in favor of Coali- throughout the Province. For a third time, the British Columbia Coalition Govern-nt is back in office, defeating a CCF bid for power. At the close of ballot-counting early today, Premier Byron Inson's administration had elected 40 members and the six. Labor and Independent will each hold one seat in 48-seat house. In the Cariboo riding, Angus McLean (Coalition), beat :holas Bird (CCF. At Atlin, Kamloops, Lillooer, Omineca, [ce River, Prince Rupert, Skeena, the Coalition candidates I in. Byron "Boss" Johnson is in at New Westminster; Herbert comb at Oak Bay. Harry Bowman's majority so far of 1016 compares with for John Mclnnis at the 1945 election. Detailed election results for the Fort George riding are ^n in the next column, while full election results for the are given below: The electors rejected the socialistic program of the CCF. and the Coalition returns to the 22nd Legislature with an increased majority. Four hours after the polls closed, the Coalition had elected 39 members, Including its two leaders, Premier Byron Johnson and Finance .Minister Herbert Ans-comb. The complete slate of nine cabinet ministers was re-elected. CCF. Leader Harold E. Winch and four of his party members, including his father, veteran E. E. Winch, were re-elected, but their House membership�11 In the last Lgisfature�has been cut six-members. The atmosphere in the Coalition Committee rooms in the Pru-dente Building \vas*tense as the (See LANDSLIDE, Page 5) 1AT THEY SAID ... SKY BOWMAN: am very much delighted the ivsults. bas exceeded my fondest cctations. am particularly proud to made such a good win In ace George. lost of the credit for this sac-sful torn of events is due to excellent campaign commit-and particularly the ladies. 1 to thank all my sup* and hope that those voted against me will join i ns in endeavoring to make d particularly Prince riding a progressive stituency. I McINNIS: want to thank all those supported me," said John jlnnLs, in a special interview "The Citizen." "The trend favor of Coalition seems gen- My best wishes to the member and I hope the P'e do their best to support ohn Mclnnis then phoned | successful candidate at the committee rooms and atulated him. ' PERRY: Naturally I am delighted at magnificent showing made [>ar candidate in Port George the confidence shown in I < oalition government. 1 am convinced that this con- "�* wHlagain.be demonBtra-m snpport of the candidate k Federal Government, ill receive, in my opinion, pmative as well as Liberal W against the Socialist Bidate. PREMIER *% today, Premier By-Johnson said: TPl0 of BrItl8h Co- have turned their any social polls.1 fad THIS ISSUE Rov'n9 Reporter ...... Editor 605 Pipeline LiSrs ...... 2 ...... 8 ...... 12 ...... 13 ...... 15 ...... 16 .... 19 20,21 Prince George Citizen An Independent Weekly Newspaper Devoted to the Interest- of Central and Northern British Columbia Vol. 32; No. 24 PRINCE GEORGE, B.C., THURSDAY, JUNE 16, 1949 10c per Copy; $3.00 a Year WEATHE R FORECAST: Clear today, northerly wind 15. Cool with high today at Prince George 65P. Highest temperature for the week was on last Thursday with 70.fi F. Lowest was yesterday with 29.4F. Fort George Results Albreda Aleza Lake Beaverley Chief Lake Crescent Lake Croydon Dewey Dome Creek Dunster Ferndale Fin lay Forks Giscome Goat River Hansard Hutton Mills . Isle Pierre Lamming Mills Leboe Mills Loos .......... Longworth ............ Lucerne ............... McBride McLeod Lake ........ Mount Robson ...... Mud River............ Newlands ............... Penny............... Pinevievv No. 2 Prince George Red Pass Reid Lake Salmon Valley ..... Shelley . Summit Lake Sinclair Mills South Fort George Stone Creek Tete Jaune Valemount Willow River Woodpecker Upper Fraser West Lake Advance TOTALS Bowman 5 23 2G . C 12 11 31 29 23 2 109 4 3 4 12 47 28 11 3 . 201 . 27 5 Mclnnis 1 31 35 12 13 5 24 -41 16 3 71 4 5 2 24 0 6 28 THE WINNER! 15 37 115 1709 14 31 2S 30 2 32 88 19 24 34 70 14 23 10 44 2968 113 5 4 8 24 30 69: 1042 3 12 9 25 4 4G G7 28 23 27 4S 12 2 7 8 1952 Mortgage Company Starts Agency Here Yorkshire Sayings ond Loan Association, One of the Oldest Companies in the Business, Appoints P. E. Robertson Agent One of the most concrete signs yet afforded that Prince George is a town with a big future was given this week when P. E. "Pat" Robertson of Robertson Agencies announced that a mortgage company is to establish itself here. The company is the Yorkshire EDITORIAL: M.L.A. Elect In Harry Bowman, Fort George riding has a very fine M..L.A.-elect. Some people prophesy that he will soon be Minis- j ter of Agriculture. Minister ,of Agriculture or not, Harry j Pollards Bowman is a man who knows Prince George and the Interior, understands the problems, especially of the farmer, on whose support he rightly counted and who has more than a passing interest in the city itself. . He won a clean fight on the Coalition ticket and licked nobody's boots to do it. He refused before more than one I Slaying of Indian audience to bind himself to do this or that, as a condition of their vote. "I will do. my besf" was all he would Timbars Downed 7-2 By West Lake West Lake Loggers continued their winning ways last night in a baseball league fixture when they downed Timbars 7-2. Play was held up for severaJ m|nutes in the third inning when a miniature cloudburst occurred. Owing to a wet ball, following resumption of plaA', several errors were made by both sides, but big Hugh Glazier, pitched shutout ball for the winners until relieved at the beginning of the seventh by Alan Bigelow. Al was nicked for two runs in the three frames he worked. Bruce Harvey started for Timbars but some loose fielding and a few solid base knocks accounted for all the Loggers' scoring in the third and fifth innings. Reynolds replaced him in the seventh and held his opponents scoreless. SHOUT SCORE: H R B West Lake 004 030 000�7 9 7 Timbars 000 000 200�2 7 7 Batteries: Glazier, Bigelow (7) and Doyle. Gerein (G); Harvey, Reynolds (7) and Mentanko. AT GISCOME 010 020 131�3 12 3 Giscome 000 400 000�1 6 4 v Batteries: Schnepf, Glutz; Stru-thers, Granley. company Savings and Loan Association, one of the most solid and oldest companies in the business in the world. Mr. Robertson is their agent here. Simultaneously Robertson Agencies have received the agency for the same company's insurance business, this branch of the company being known, as Yorkshire and Pacific Securities, Ltd. The Yorkshire Savings and Loan Association, with head office in Seymour Street, Vancou ver, is the first mortgage com pany to establish Ltself in Prince George. NOTE BY EDITOR: The benefits of a mortgag company here are incalculable, will mean loans for householdei far below present current rates o interest and is the best � soJution offered yet to Prince George's housing problem. It may portend a spurt in housing construction and a consider able easing of credit and renta situations. Mortgages for housing have hitherto had to be arranged through private Individuals as the banks do not handle mortgages. Now this will all be altered and Prince George residents may expect to enjoy the same or nearly the same facilities for loans on houses, constructed or to be constructed, as are current in Vancouver. Police Probe Knife it is all that any honest candidate can receiving promise and, in fact, promise. (^ '� We in Prince George are good democrats, as the very substantial vote shows and Harry will not take it amiss if our interest extends beyond election day. Our best wishes are, like our sincere congratulations, with him. It would be unfair to congratulate Harry Bowman on his well-deserved success without a tributes two other men of high political standing in Prince George ana1 District. We refer to Harry Perry, who so gallantly stood down at the last moment and who, as a pillar of Liberalism, gave his wholehearted and weighty support to the Coalition candidate. We also refer to John Mclnnis. It was his misfortune and not his fault that he represented Fort George riding for four Government to which he was opposed. John Mclnn.s years in a fought a good fight for his political views in Parliament and a clean fight against Harry Bowman. The experienced war horse that he is, he will not take his defeat to heart. As a business man with considerable interests in this city he is now in a position to devote more of his time to the very essente.a trade wheh he practices and both he and Prince George will be the gainers. We are now all set for four years. Look out, Victoria! 22, 23 Here comes Fort George! B.C. Police today' are reported to be making preparations for a trip from Prince George to Bear Lake to investigate' the alleged murder of William Dennis, an Indian. Unconfirmed reports from-Hear Lake indicate that Dennis1 body was discovered recently bearing five knife wounds. A fellow Indian, it is'rumored, has confessed to the slaying, which is believed to have taken place on April 8. Police here refuse to comment on the case. DUSTIEST CORNER? "The corner of Fourth Avenue and Quebec Street is the dustiest spot In town,'1 at least so said sign painter Cyril Dupre In a letter to the city council on Monday night, asking for the second time to have the corner oiled and the dust laid. Mayor Jack Nicholson recalled having instructed the City Engineer to see to the corner some time ago but added that there was a great deal of work going on in the city which prevented it from Merchants Seek Closing By-Law A petition asking the city to nact a bylaw calling for Wednes-ay closing of all stores from the beginning of July until the end of August was presented to the city ouncil on Monday night by a ity merchants committee. City olicitor P. E. Wilson pointed out to council that certain investigations would have to be made before a law could be finally passed. Mayor Jack Nicholson pointed out that the bylaw conld be introduced then but that if necessary it could be dropped if investigations proved it unfeas-able. The. law will effect all stores not covered under thy food store bylaw, it is expected. POSSIBLE HITCH One possible hitch to the proceedings is that a certain number of proprietors Jn each line of business must agree to the law or else that type of business fs excepted. It was reported at the meeting that at least two of some 25 stores approached had refused to sign the petition. Investigations are being made. Giscome Man Has Narrow Escape Martin W. Craft. Giscome. narrowly escaped death or injury on Sunday afternoon when his yellow light delivery truck plunged over a bank on the airport hill of the Cariboo highway. The accident occurred when his truck collided with the. ear of I). J. Tossoff, Prince George, who was proceed ing in the same direction us the Crxift vehicle. B.C. Police explained that Craft started to pass Tossoff's car on the hill about a quarter mile from the steel bridge when Tossoff tinned into a side road forcing the light delivery over the bank. No injuries were sustained in the two car accident. JAMIESON SUPPORTS GEORGE MURRAY At on e of the largest meetings ever held In Dawson Creek, on Tuesday, Thomas Jamieson, who had received the unanamous nom ination of the Cariboo Federal Progressive Conservatives but withdrew, was on the platform supporting George Murray. $200,000 Blaze in Lytton One-third of Lytton town was wiped out in a spectacular blaze costing $*00,000 on Monday. Two of the town's main business blocks, containing two large general stores, warehouses, living quarters, drugstore and restaurant were levelled to the ground, this is the fourth time the his- Ooctor Warns of Minor Whooping Cough Wave Cariboo Health Clinic Director, Dr. T. H. Patterson, revealed this week that in addition) to a virus epidemic, popularly known as strep throat," a minor wave of whooping cough was spreading hroughout the district. 20 CASES Dr. Patterson stated that there were known to be approximately 20 cases throughout the district, and he advised parents of children who have had a series of whooping cough vaccine injec-ions. to bring them for "booster" doses, to their physicians or to he Health Unit. He also stated that children who lave received no whooping cough njections should be given them. The epidemic of so-called "strep hroat" has attracted- great atten-lon in Vancouver and on the radio. 'See also page 18). The Vancouver "NeSvs Herald" yesterday stated that 1,000 people were suffering. It added that the population of Prince1 George was 2,027! SET MATTRESS ON FIRE A minor blaze last Friday at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Leo Prodeahl, 1410 Montreal Street, was attributed by Fire Chief D. G. Fraser to their three year old son's preoccupation with matches. The blaze which broke out at 8 a.m. sent the city fire department rushing to the. scene only to find that Mr. Prodeahl had quenched a flaming mattress with the garden hose. With the'exception of the bed and mattress, little damage was done, the Fire Department reports. being attended to right away. toric town has been hit by fire. At midday yesterday Martin Caine was offering 5-3 on Harry Bowman.