32; No. 37
Prince Geofae Citizen
An Independent Weekly Newspaper Devoted to the Interest of Centrol and Northern British Columbia
Prince George, B.C., Thursday, September 15, 1949
10c per Copy; $3.00 a Year
GE Calls For Bids rom City Southward
PREMIER MAKES FLYING VISIT HERE A5 ENGINEERS FLOCK IN WITH MAPS
Tenders For Section to Red Rock To Be Submitted by Next Week-end
True to his word, Premier Byron "Boss" Johnson called liisweek for tenders to build the Pacific Great Eastern Railway lOm Prince George to Red Rock�and followed it up with a (ersonal visit to Prince George.
The Premier, accompanied by Mrs. Johnson, arrived here esterday and immediately went out again in the Summit Lake
irection.
Premier Johnson told The Citi-�n he was in this part of the
orkl on a holiday.
�I took the opportunity of injecting work on the P.G.E. ex-�nsion beyond Quesnel," he said. he Premier got right up to the Dttonwood Canyon along the new rade and expressed pleasure at ie speed at which the contract as being carried out.
The Premier also drove up to jjmmit Lake, lunching at Gaugh's tipper Club. He then went on long the Hart Highway to the 1st construction camp.
TRAIN OFF RAILS AT TINTAGEL
A freight train was derailed on the C.N.R. last night between Tin-tagel and Burns Lake, but there were no injuries.
A rock slide caused the derail-
ment. Passengers
leaving here for
Prince Rupert by this morning's train will be transferred by car from Burns Lake to Tintagel.
"Arnett & Company are doing good job on the highway," he bmmented. He expressed his amazement at
!ie magnificence of the scenery ong the Hart Highway and said �thought it would be a vast mag-!l for tourists.
He looked extremely well and ft Prince George this morning, xompanied by Mrs. Johnson. The extension from Prince eorge, it is understood, will cross ie Fraser by the Canadian Na-onal bridge and then follow the ver bank for three miles. After lat it will use partly a new grade v\ partly the old road bed. NGINEERS
The Prince George Hotel was jsv yesterday as engineers with aps arrived and packed their ggage in the lobby. Tenders must be in Victoria by an on Friday of next week. hey call for construction from file 65 north of Quesnel to Mile ��5 which is Prince George, or '�5 miles in all.
Contracts have already been warded Campbell-Bennett Ltd. of aneouver for two stretches from Jcsnel to the north. They are to | completed by June 30 of next iar.
When the contract for the new-t section from Prince George is t. more than half the railway ill have been placed under con-act by the government.
Williams Lake 'inter Killed
A Cariboo Highway accident on ?nday took the life of 23-year-old F D. Renner, Williams Lake "lnter. and injured three com-imons. The car in .which they e riding careened off the road '' Twilight Lodge, 35 miles inoast of Williams Lake. George Renner, father of the 11 youth, attended the accident V his own newspaper, The Wil-Uke Tribune.
Local Firms Fail To Get Garvin Canyon Contract
Prince George contractors who submitted bids failed to qualify for the Garvin Canyon fill job, which was awarded this week to Monarch Construction Company, Vancouver.
Contract price was 831,500. Monarch Construction Company, understood to be a firm of ex-servicemen, is at present crushing gravel at Woodpecker to put approximately 600 yards per mile gravel surface on the Woodpecker-Prince George road. They are a comparatively new outfit but in a short time have acquired prominence, especially for their work on the Praser River dykes. 65,000 YARDS OP EARTH
The Garvin Creek contract calls for shifting of approximately 65.-000 cubic yards of earth to fill the canyon, which was formerly spanned by a high trestle bridge.
It is considered to he a "plum" of a job from a contractor's point of view, because the fill material is conveniently located and the soil easy to push downhill into the canyon.
The contractors, it is understood, hope to have it done within a month, but speedy execution and profit or loss on the contract depends on weather conditions. If there is heavy rain or snow falls, the job will be much more difficult, and may even be dangerous.
The bridge, which the fill will replace, was built by Jim Burke, who is now with Arnett Construction Co. on the Hart Highway, with Jimmy Baker as assistant foreman. It was demolished recently by Jimmy Baker and crew.
Work preparatory to the fill has been completed by the Depart-
ment of Public Works. The culvert job was described by Hon. E. C. Carson, Minister of Public Works, on a recent visit to Prince George as "the finest piece of work he had seen this year." CULVERT
A 48-inch culvert pipe has been placed at the bottom of the canyon for drainage. The pipe is laid on a base block and cradle, which rests on piling.- About 136 piles were driven. The concrete base block is 266 feet long and contains 7000 pounds of steel reinforcing.
Approximate weight of each four-foot length of culvert pipe is 3,620 pounds. The work was under the supervision of Jimmy Baker and was completed two weeks ahead of schedule. It was the only public works job moving when, owing to rain, everything else was at a standstill.
Dezell Honored At Convention
Alderman Garvin Dezell was one of eight people elected to the
$6,000 Piece of' Paper
MAYOR JACK NICHOLSON receives the deeds for the Rotary Children's playground from "Bill" Rooby, Rotary Club president.
�Photo by Wally West.
Rotary Playground Made Over To City
Ivor Guest Provides Reminiscent Touch To Ceremony In Prince George Hotel
The $6,000 Prince George Rotary playground for children,
possession of the car shortly ter wards.
in af-
executive of the
LTnion of Victoria
B.C.
last
Municipalities week.
The convention was attended by 178 delegates from alb parts of the province, of whom 10 were nominated for office. Mr. Dezell's election is considered an honor for Prince George.
The convention, he said, yielded information which will be of great use in the city administration.
Herb Willies Saves Civic Centre Fireworks in Stand-up Fight
Herb Wilkes, Civic Outre campaign organizer, Ii.nl a 10-minute stand-up light with a "tough guy" who was intent on blowing himself up and spoiling the Centre fireworks show at the weekend. The incident occurred at C'res-
Jung Ronner, a popular base-; cent Shows when the Civic Centre 1 hockey player, is also
Men
by his mother and two and Patricia.
;9�on ''Get Together" fanned For Friday
toj Prince George branch of an Legion No. 43 " have Le aranBements to hold a getter for paid-up Legion mem-an� one guest on September
ere win be music and enter-J�nL for everyone. Comrade e Drinkv "Venor.
a magnificent display which well compensated them for their patience.
Glowing crimson torches and honking horns heralded the Civic Centre torchlight parade on Saturday night.
A snake-like stream (if cars, led by the police car wound through the Millar Addition, starting fi'om
drive got off to a good start, collecting 10 per cent of the proceeds by arrangement with Crescent Shows proprieter, Mr. Meierhoff.
The tough guy got into the tent, where the fireworks were stored and was trying to fire the cartons with a cigarette lighter.
He objected when told to scram j and Herb, to save his own life j and the fireworks, had to tackle him.
The Civic Centre firework display was three-quarters of an hour late. This was because at the
vater was appointed last moment a Crescent Shows man refused to put on the fire-
e monthly meeting, held on I works, thinking the crowd would
I -K-ii* -------- ���?�.. tney na(1 seen
y eeting held on !
Comrade wj Seaton" *ift away after urged members to do-!them-
blooarrel somewhere." XK.1KLV LOST
They nearly losl the barrel in he Giscome Rapids. When the }'arrel got to Shelley they had to nove fast to keep up with it.
"It was a lone; time getting from Shelley to Prince George." said VIr. Guest, "but it eventually got ere after we had fished it out f the back eddies."
Bill Ranby performed the offi-ial handing-over ceremony, when he presented the deeds of the land to Mayor Jack Nicholson,
"It gives me proat pleasure to hand over the Rotary playground to the city," he said. WAR YEARS
"We have been a long time building tliis playground. This executive and myself cannot take all the glory. It actually started during the ppresidency of Dr. Carl Ewert, whom you all know.
"Our next president, George | Williams, followed by Alex Mof-fat. Harold Assman, Jack Ratledge and Hubert King, assisted by their able executive, carried on With the. good work.
"During the war years we had difficulty in procuring equipment for the playground. SITE FACTOKS
"You hear criticism from time to time of the site of the playground, but you all realize that (See PLAYGROUND, Page 4)
Youthful Car Thieves Get Two Years in 'Pen'
Judge J. A. McGeer Suggests They Might Learn a Useful Trade There
Two Prince George youths, aged 16 and 17, got penitentiary sentences of two years and three months and two years
respectively in County Court before Judge J
Friday last.
One of the youths was 16-year-old William Robert Boxall, who pleaded guilty to stealing a car belonging to A. X. Morris on August 21 and a watch from Henry Fedoruk on August 22. His extra three months' sentence runs concurrently with the two-year, sentence.
The other was Con ley Hall, aged 17, who stole D. H. Fawcett's car
A. McGeer on
on August 6.
In passing sentence.. Judge McGeer told the boys that in the penitentiary they would have an opportunity of learning a trade, which micht help them to lead a useful life after discharge.
A third youth concerned in the stealing of Mr. Fawcett's car,
anil
is car
drive around the Crescents back to the carnival ground! Hartley Fawcett made hi outstanding by the addition of a j Council bundle of fuel-oil soaked rags at- '' tached to the end of a Ion;:; pole m front of the car hood.. The rags blazed so fiercely thai at one point the flames had to be quenched slightly with a bucket of water.
On Monday, the house-to-house canvass committees got down to formulate their plans in the basement of the Prudente Building, kindly placed at their disposal by
i George Prudente.
j Herb Wilkes told them that Wii-low River, Woodpecker, Giscome
1 and numerous communities, much smaller than Prince George, had community halls, thereby shaming Prince Geq
stands remanded until Monday next, as reported in fast week's "Citizen."
Judge McGeer. it is understood, went to exceptional trouble before sentencing Boxall and Hall. He interviewed the boys on several occasions both at the hotel where he was staying and in the judge's chambers to get at the root of their delinquency.
The boys showed no concern at the sentence imposed.
Council Declines Army Camp Bldgs,
The City has been offered many of the Army Headquarters Camp buildings at prices in some cases representing five per cent of their value, but it will not buy any of them.
It Is hoped, nevertheless, to give some ol the tenants, who have expressed their desire to buy, the opportunity to do so and the rnat-
the Arena, turned down Con-naught Hill, up George Street and Third Avenue, and turning down Vancouver Street proceeded t�
j ter will be discussed by the City with the Canadian Legion.
City Clerk W. G. Fraser read a letter from the War Assets Corporation on Monday, in reply to one written by the Council expressing the City's wish to turn back the buildings, detailing the buildings and offering them to the City at stated prices. HELD UP
The offer is conditional on the buildings being removed from their present sites, unless the purchasers can also buy the ground beneath them, and the sites there-
If we want UH |gg|i gathering
of any size weS3 "S 80 out to
Six-Mile Lake.1***!
"Even in Mafe mm the little
place from w"uhB| SBne, which
has 27 families^! afcised $25,-
000 for a canm^ff Kii."
He urged alflr Ifivho were
going away or ^g Mrr. leaving
(SeSe Herb Vjjm Hftige 20)
after being levelled.
Mayor Jack Nicholson said the Council was not interested in buying, but he understood certain tenants hoped to purchase.
Alderman Garvin Dezell suggested that the matter be held up until Monday for discussion with the Canadian Legion so that any of their members interested micht be familiarized with the situation; This was unanimously- assented to.
No Frost
Overcast, intermittent rain beginning this afternoon. Cloudy with occasional showers Friday. Winds light, continuing cool. Low tonight 42, high tomorrow 58.
High for the week was on last Thursday with 77.2. low was oft Sunday with 17.fi.
IN THIS ISSUE
Editorials, Roving Reporter 2
Classified Ads a
Children's Page it
McBride Paae i*
Women's Pages 15, 16, 17
Sports . ...