Prince An Independent Weekly Newspaper Devoted to the Interest of Central and Northern British Columbio "32; No. 38 Prince George, B.C., Thursday, September 22, 1949 10c per Copy; $3.00 a Year luspended Sentence 'or Nchring Youth ibs Stable Says Imployment Head. Employment in Prince George , stili m a stable condition, with jmply just meeting demand, said William Forrester, Unemployment Commission manager today. He stated that alternate good Ind bad weather spells were caus-ng some unsettlement at smaller dills but that shut-downs in most aSes were only for a few wet lays at a time. Meanwhile, frem Regional U. I. tS. offices in Vancouver, comes �ord from Wm. McKlnstry, reg-onal superintendent of National Employment Service, who advis-BC. workers against migra-|ion to the Lakes District, where hey have found winter eiriploy-nent during past years. Mr. McKinstry said this week that this year is different and that while there are Job openings at Port William and Port \rthur, there is a sufficient local labour force to meet all expected demands. Commenting on the situation here, Mr. Forrester said that although he expected a shortage of pome types of skilled workers, nrairle harvest workers return-R to the district would make up an adequate labour force for all jforseoahle needs. iseball Play-offs Start Tomorrow Baseball playoffs will commence tomorrow evening, weather per-niUintj. asTollartfS 'rneefTIfhliaFs \w the first of a three-game series. On Sunday, the same two teams Iwill meet here at 11 a.m., with West Lake and Quesnel meeting 1:30 and 4:00 in the other semifinal round. If third games are necessary they will be played on the following Wednesday with iPollards and West Lake aespec-jtlvely being the visiting teams. On Sunday. October 2, finals will played, with three games if necessary, being played. If Quesnel is in the final, the games will played in the southern town. riMRARH IN Meanwhile news from last night's ball clashes at Willow River, between their home team and Hmbars, brings settlement to the question of which will be the fourth team in the play-offs. Timbars clung to their narrow ginning margin over Red Sox in t games last night by losing the first 5 to 0 and winning the second panic 2-0. Hurling Timbars to their win ^ ith a single hitter was substitute Pitcher Howie Sugden. Mlight Saving |fnds Saturday l*aciflc Standard Time begins �n Saturday. On Saturday, at midnight; you put your clock ''�ick to li o'clock. This will give you an extra hour in bed. Wesley Nehring, "' 14 year old youth charged last month with theft of a car belonging to D. H. Fawcett, pleaded guilty to the charge before Judge J. A. McGuire in county court on Monday and was sentenced to two years suspended sentence. This means that if he behaves himself, he will not serve the sentence. No charges for escaping from custody of city police on August 16 were laid. Nehring was arrested August 7 near Banff in the company of Con-ley Hall, age 17, who was sentenced to two years imprisonment two weeks ago. Defense counsel, William Ferry, pointed out the boy's age and said he had got into bad company. Nehring was ordered into the custody of his uncle, Paul Schlit, for the two year period. He must pay $350 for damage to Mr. Fawcett's car and court costs. His uncle was ordered to post a S500 bond and his father a SI,000 bond for the youth's good behaviour. The fee for court costs and damages will be deducted from his wages at his uncle's mill where he will be employed. Fax Sale Sees Heavy Buying More than 5,400 acres of land changed hands at the Provincial Government tax sale held in the Government Building here yester day. Some $2,000 in bids and back taxes were paid for the property, .much of whieh will- probably return to its original owners. The land comprised 40 parcels and was sold by auction to the highest bidder. Most active buyers at the sale were real estate operators redeeming land for owners who had let the land come up for auction as a means of gaining full title. All lands sold yesterday may be redeemed by the original owner upon payment of taxes plus twelve per cent within one year. Frost Resistant Alfalfa Grown Development of a new frost-resistant alfalfa after experiments going back for many years, was announced this week in Vancouver. Behind the experiments are two leading scientists of the University of British Columbia. The new alfalfa has already been grown successfully in the Peace River area. Many orders for the seed have been received from other parts of Canada and from the States. The new alfalfa will enable this crop to be grown in many areas where it has not been grown before. Hatch, New JCC Chief R. C. (Ron) Hatch, popular city transfer operator, was last night elected president of the Prince George Junior Chamber of Commerce at their annual meeting held in the Club Cafe. He succeeds Rudy Kaser, school vice-principal, who moves into the past presidents' club of the Jay-cees. Declining nomination for the top executive position were: Adam Ralph Moffat. Gordon Sales and Barone, Father A. MacDonald, Arthur Bater. New executives of the civic group are as' follows: Hilliard Clare, first vice-president; Arthur Bater, second vice-president; and directors F. E. Brinkworth, Dr. John Mclnnis, Gordon Sales and Father A. MacDonald. Two films were shown at the annual meeting, one of which brought smiles to many lips. Op ening scenes revealed technicolor views of Prince George. The film '"�Highway lfHV". Aras produced &n is distributed under the auspice of the Provincial Travel Bureau. "Highway 16" was thought by many to be the finest short movie ever made of the scenic beauties, hunting grounds and sport fishing possibilities in northern B.C. Second film to be shown was "Operation Musk-ox", the chronicled events of a mechanized Canadian Army expedition through the Northwest Territories to the Arctic wastes. Children Show The Way To Get The Cash In Mile Of Pennies Drive The Weather Sunny today with fog patches n the valleys, clearing rapidly luring the morning. Little change n temperature. Winds light. High in Prince George today, 56. Highest temperature for the week was on Saturday with 57.7. Lowest was on Monday with 27.8. Kids Raise $257 In Few Hours Of Fast Work on Third Ave. Shoppers Groups of eager children, who besieged shoppers with the cry "pennies for the Givic Centre", raised $257.20 on Saturday. The mile of pennies which they collected, stretched along the sidewalk on each side of Third Avenue from the Northern Hardware to the Bank of Nova Scotia. Starting at 9 o'clock and working continuously until 3:30 p.m., the kids collected just about every cent in town, asking in all the stores and restaurants as well as waylaying pedestrians. Entirely their idea, the cam-;iign was organized with four aptains and started out with bout 18 or 19 on each team. How-ver, the teams were soon consid-irably swelled -with children from 11 over town coming down to el p. Names of the captains are: Don IcLeoci, whose team collected the iggest amount of $82.73, Billy oss who captained the second �inning team with 2 total of $71,-19, Dicky Baxer and Garth DeWitt ho worked on a two-shift basis "The Egg and I" has an appreciative audience in these blind readers who are listening to Berry MacDonald's best seller by means of the Talking Book. Talking Books are recorded versions of printed books read by trained speakers, and the library of The Canadian National Institute for the Blind is well stocked with both Braille and Talking Books. These are all available to the readers without charge, and special record players are loaned or supplied at cost. The funds contributed by this community to the Institute's annual campaign will be used to serve Wind people in many ways, including the expansion of its library service. 'YOUR POWER PUNT GOOD' SAYS EXPERT Gerald A. Vandervoort, chief operating engineer of the B.C. Power Commission, who left Prince George yesterday, thinks Prince George has a very good power plant. Mr. Vandervoort spent some days here in company with W. G. Fraser, city clerk, and John Stewart, city electrical superintendent, appraising the city's power plant in case the city decides to sell out to the Power Commission. Have You One Of These Lucky Numbers? Lucky numbers on the pamphlets droped by plane on Saturday afternoon entitling the holder to Si.00 each arc as follows: 27. 126, 39, 417. 578, 1M, G25, 1026, 1201, 1449, 1821. 2027. 21 IS. 2267. 2333, 2617, 2941, 3446, 926. 3562. 3721, 4213, 4653, 4912, 4821. Pipe Steals Female Pipe, Pays $6.50 Frederick S. Pipe, of Williams Lake, was found guilty of stealing = female pipe and ordered to pay $6.50 costs in Williams Lake Police court on Sunday. Constable Stevens gave evidence that he found the female end of a piece of missing pipe near Pipe's home. A witness was John E. Follis, superintendent for the company which was putting ir> the pipeline for Williams Lake. Mr. Follis said he was loying water-pipe when he saw Pipe pick up a piece of pipe. Later he came bock to look at the pipe lir>e and found the piece of Pipe missing. He said thot^no person, including Pipe had permission lo take away pipe. Edward Gibbons, Williams Lake village clerk, said the village had bought pipe similar to the pipe Pipe was alleged to have taken for a woter pipe. Value of pipe purchased was 92.4c per foot. Value of pipe stolen would be about $5. He never had given permission to any person to take any water pipe nor had Pipe been given permission to take any of the pipe. Frederick Stewart Pipe declared that he asked workmen on the pipe line if there was any old pipe around. A workman po.nted *� a piece of pipe and said he could take it if no one saw him doing it. He later picked up the piece of the pipe as he wanted it for an extension to the pipe of an exhaust pipe. He said the plant has been well maintained and paid a special tribute to the cooling system at one plant put in by a former engineer which, he said, was unique in his experience and highly efficient. "The plant" said the visitor, "is now approaching the limit of Its capabilities, but the city in purchasing it at the price they did obtained a very good buy." MOKE NEEDED If tin' Power Commission were to buy the plant, he said they would no doubl shortly find it necessary to install additional equipment and there was plenty of room for doing so. The aim of the Power Commission ho said, was to increase consumption by reducing rates, thus bringing the time nearer when hydro power could be used to advantage. It was the Commission's experience, he said, that consumption went up tremendously as rates were decreased. Mr. Vandervoort came to British Columbia from Ontario four years ago and said he is always impressed by the immense potentialities of Rritish Columbia. "The opportunities here are tremendous," he said." and I see no redson why the province once it has cheap power, should not develop just as quickly as Washington State, -which, three decades ago, was largely undeveloped." Mr. Vandervoort, who has left (See POWER PLANT, Page 5) Strike Danger Averted Among Interior Loggers All dang-sr of a strike in the Interior logging industry is past. Complete agreement between workers and operators was reached at a meeting held in the city on Saturday. the Wage rates are to remain same, with 97Vi c an hour for common labour, as at present. The operators withdrew their demands for a wage reduction and board increase and aiso left standing various clauses in the previous agreement, especially as regards time allowed off for union delegates. In Prince George for the negotiations on behalf of the men were George "Mitchell, secretary of the B.C. District I.W.A., Tom Rrad-ley, first vice president, D. E. Mc-Shane, organiser and Y. Sato of the Giscome local. AMICABLE Mr. Bradley said: "We came to an amicable settlement with the operators. The agreement will be based mainly on the status quo. Other clauses in the agreement remain the same as last year except for a new clause dealing with board and lodging, whereby the board will br set at $2.00 per day. "Where a lower rnte is in effect, it will remain so. "The agreement will he placed before the membership for acceptance or rejection. The recommendation of the exectutlve will he that they accept it. "All amendments to the original .contract on both sides have been withdrawn. All other clauses in the original agreement remain In effect. fJOOD RESPONSE Local I.W.A. officials have al-�cady called on men in many mills and are receiving a response unanimously in favor of accepting the agreement, reported Mr Bradley. � C H. Webb, of local 1�424, will attend the I.W.A. annual international convention next week, which will formulate policy for the coming year. The Canadian Congress of Labour "will be represented. The C.C.L. convention, following the Fire Claims Child's Life The one-year old son of Mr. ond Mrs. Malcolm Mc-Leod was burned to death when their house was destroyed by fire at Salmon Valley yesterday afternoon. Traffic Count To Prove Road Priority Here A sum (if $125 was made avail able by the Board of Trade at their dinner mooting in the j prince'. George Hotel on Monday in obtain an accurate road traffic count for the purpose of backing their program for improved roads in this district. The road count will implement information being gathered by the board to further convince provincial government officials of the necessity of highway con- . Ntruction here. During a recent visit of E. C. Carson, Minister of Public Works, it was intimated that the government would not change plans for present highway improvement projects unless it is clearly shown that some other project has a definite priority. In addition to the road count, Charles Albins, Trade Board president, called for a brief, giving authentic figures concerning local commercial traffic and government income from sale of bus and truck licenses in this area. The brief is fntended to prove One boy, Fml I'aquette, decided to free-lance in the mile of pennies campaign. He got a box from somewhere and stationed himself outside the Liquor Store. ..He collected, entirely by himself, the sum of $21.76! with their team and collected $45.12 and Raymond Cardinal and his team who achieved $35.90 New Westminster Trade Board visitors were astounded, at XJie. Prince George kiddles' effort a�& 'toolc a^ifectfrnT'^^oftg' "trSfflP selves amounting to $52.90 which they insisted be included in the mile of pennies fund. They also suggested a slogan "If the kfds can do this, the adults can do better.'" County Court Judge J. A. Mc-Geer also donated $25 to be included in the mile of pennies fund. Herb Wilkes and son, Mrs. T. Richardson and son, Mr. and Mrs. Fini Hutchinson and daughter and several others spent many hours n headquarters counting, rolling ind wrapping the coins. rr I.W.A. international opens on October 3. convention, I that a priority op^foad funds is called for in the Cariboo. 'Wake Up, P.G. Says Fred Brown The Rotary Club heard its most uitspoken address'of the year on vriday when Fred Brown, past Senator of the Gyro Club, said this :ity must look to cleaning up and providing more tourist facilities, or it may miss the boat. "You talk about highways, the :\G.E. and other expensive pro-ects for the Government to do," le said, "but if tourists flocked in omorrow, what would you do vith them? 'Even the Hon. K. <\ Carson, .�Minister of Public Works, had (o sleep in an an to court on a recent visit to Prince George because there was no hotel accommodation available.'' "1 know of nowhere in the province where the possibilities of levelopment are ;>^ f_rreat as here," le said. "The Government is spending huge sums on the P.G.E. and on the Mart Highway and anticipates ^spending still more on the Quesnel hydro project. A good part of British Columbia's budget is spent right in this district. TOURISTS '"What would you (to if you had the Hart Highway coming through here tomorrow. Where would you put the tourists? "Is it not time to start taking care of your own house and to get your own house in order?" � "There are people here right now from California who cannot get a place In which to stay. "You can go from Cache Creek through to Prince Rupert and you have great difficulty finding at auto court in which to stay. "There Is a hotel in Burns Lake which is a credit to any large citj (See WAKE UP, Page 5)