William HvCorning Dies In Hospital
Vancouver, an Wn
at noon Friday, which started
to Shiugh- l a year ago for returned early this
eHe enlisted in the Seventh Can-Jan Battalion at Vancouver in Jo 4 and had a long record of
v ^service. Following his C he was employed as a itf and bookkeeper, com.
J to Wnce George six years II. He operated a cafe on George sfreet and later was employed by Pr nee George Sawmills where he Offered a severe back in jury In
fall
a Deceased was a member of the Canadian Legion, and w*i^ keenly interested in baseball, ijockey, and curling, being a former mem-Sr of Prince George Curlin*
01 He i> survirw! by hi* wtfe, who went to Vancouver recently; three brothers, Jack ot Priam George- Merrill and Farrfe of Vancouver; a sister In Calgary and a sister In California-Last rites will be held in Vancouver on Tuesday.
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Gebrge Citizen
An Independent Semi-Weekly Newspaper Devotee ^ . |nfWft of Central and Northern British Columbia
Vol. 34; No. 18
Prince George, B.< � ON DAY, March 5, 1951
$3.00 per year 5^ P�r copy
LUMBER MARKS SMASHED AGAIN
February Production Mark Is Greatest Ever
This year bids fair to set another all-time lumber production record for the district if early figures released today by the Forest Department are any Indication. Amount of lumber cut to date this year is more than three times as much as was cut in the same period during the lost record year and the February log billing of 44,252,923 board feet is only a few thousand less than the all-time record for one month.
Statistics show that more lum-; year; or almost 10 per cent of the her was cut in the district in entire provincial lumber cut for January and February than ever j 1949.
'Bay Manager Leaves For Hometown P�$f
Laurie G. Hobson, manager of the Hudson's Bay Company store here for the past 10 months. Will leave Prince George on Thursday to assume management of the rompany's store in Yorkton, Saskatchewan.
Mr. Hodson expressed regret
j
before for that period and thej Broken down Into the three two month total represents the main areas of production in the greatest 60 day cut on record. Prince George forest district, the Present total cut stands at 83,- forest branch figures show that 157,021 board feet, compared with' local mills scaled 35,000,000 board
34,500,000 last year.
!feet in February, Quesnel 3,500,-
Some lumbermen are astonish-. 000 feet and Peace River 5,500,-ed themselves at the new marks! 000 feet.
being set. One operator said this j The local cut 'last year in Feb-week he had never seen so many i ruary was 14,500,000 feet records broken in the lumber in-1 Irvine Moss, manager of the dustry in any one place in his \ Unemployment Insurance Com-
life.
The February billing of 44,-000,009 ft compares with a 17,-900,000 foot blllinfi: � year ago, awl is bo* far from equalling the entire year's production figure of 53,000,000 feet IS year*'ago. It is confidently believed that
the March scale will show a com*
mission's Prince George office, declared today that "lumber operators in the district are vying with each other � to obtain the services of competent woods and
j mill workers.
I He said that shortages exist in several lumber worker classlfica-
I tions. �
He deemed the shortages a re-
isult of the all-out efforts of the
S
least partly tempered by the fact that Yorkton Is his home town. The yorkton store is about
ihrce times the sfee of the local store, he said.
Act amendments permitting an increase in lumber truck loads.
new production mark co-with an announcement by
ducUo�
operations.
resulting from the recent fire.**
With Mr. Hodson will go his wife and two small children.
Succeeding Mr. Hodson as manager of the local branch of the Day will be Jack McArthur, who has been transferred here from the N'analmo store.
Mr. McArthur arrived In Prince Georjre by plane last Wednesday with his wife and two children.
'BAY m FOR ME DEPARTMENT
Prompt and efficient action on
woods workers.
The labor shortage here i� �*� peoiaUjr notable 4hke to the fact that �nemployment is greater in the whole of B.C. than in any other province at the present tine.
On the basis of production figures set here so far, some observers are predicting that the district may ship more than 400,000,-000 board feet of lumber this
Local Youth Faces Posesston Charge
, Kenneth M. McLaughlln, 24-year-old city youth, will appear in police court here tomorrow facing a charge of retaining stol-
en property.
McLaughlln
was arrested last
week as he completed a 15 day sentence imposed on him at Van-derhoof two weeks earlier.
He is charged here with possession of a stolen jacket valued at $25.
City Workers Reject Raise
JAMES BLAIN
Chrlc omttide workers Friday
� wof am*
the part of the Prince George ! '������ eft* hem the Prime* George City Council and hove �sfce4 Fire Department In extinguishing ��* of � leruwmt cendUoriwi officer.
the $20 000 Hudson's Bay Oomp- j The offer from City Council Included o 74* cent an how wage iaotase
"laze three weeks ago for lower chmificoHont. o 5 coat en hour human for higher
anv
lti0Mrn rewa�� this week I S T don*tlon of a valuable studio lounge to the dormitory of
ePartment b of.
ond recIostiNcoiiOM of some workert to higher poid positions.
DwmJl by civic workers included on acro�s-the-board wage Increase4
Aldermen were surprised et the Hot refutel of Hie union to further
zone manager wrote Fire Chief
minimum.
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he was officials
firemen who bad blaze would get indiv-of th
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BIG FOUR PARLEY NOW IN PROGRESS
PARIS, March 5 (CP)�The western powers and JRussia met here today in an llth-hour'attempt to resolve their differences by diplomacy.
The western leaders expected to know the prospects for further negotiations within 24 hours. Officially they will try to agree on an agenda for a later conference in Washington of the Big Four foreign ministers.
Capt Russ Baker Due In Vanderh'i With Anson 5
The new Anson 5 purchased by Central B.C. Airways Ltd. for use on the Prince George-Terrace air service run has arrived in Kam-toops and will be flown north this week by Capt Baker.
Franchise to operate the new service had not been received by the Central B.C. Airways early this week. However, the new plane to be used on the run will be held hi readiness at Prince George for the inaugural flight the moment franchise is granted
Airport School is among the district schools celebrating Education Week, which begins today, with special features.
.Miss Diane Levinson, teacher at the Airport, and her pupils are holding Open House ox\ Wednesday afternoon for all parents and friends.
Lumbermen Win Af Whitehorse
Prince George Lumbermen defeated Whitehorse Merchants 5-5 In a closely-fought puck battle at the northern city on Saturday night according to a communication received here yesterday, but at time of going to press, no results from the Sunday game have been forthcoming.
Lumbermen are delayed in the north by bad weather which has grounded all air transport
A.A.'s Founder To Speak In Vancouver
The founder of Alcoholics Anonymous, the man who is known to over 150,000 members of the organization as Bill W.r will address a public meeting In Vancouver on March 24.
Exhibition Gardens has been engaged to accommodate the large attendance expected, because this will be the only public appearance of the speaker north of San Francisco or west of Toronto. For that reason large numbers from points hi Washington and throughout British Columbia are planning to attend.
There are approximately 2500 members In the various groups of Alcoholics Anonymous in British Columbia.
Scout Commissioner Will Reside Here
The Provincial Commissioner of the Boy Scouts Association in British Columbia, T. W. S. Parsons, O.B.E., of Victoria, has announced the appointment � James Blain as field commissioner on the provincial headquarters ftoff with duties commencing March 1.
After a period of special training at provincial headquarters in Vancouver and Canadian Headquarters in Ottawa, Mr. Blain will take up residence at Prince George about August 1 from which point he will cover the Cariboo, central and northern B.C. and the Yukon.
The phenomenal growth of Scouting in British Columbia to its present strength of 14,135 boys and leaders has required that the former staff of two fiek commissioners be enlarged to three. Mr. Blain will take on a portion of the province previous ly covered by Field Commissioner J. L. Watson in order that the movement may be further strengthened and extended. In addition. Mr. Blain will undertake a field trip once annually by plane covering the scattered groups in the North West Territories for Canadian headquarters.
Scouter Blain is a native British Columbian, born in Vancouver and educated, in Burnaby where he now resides. Until recently he was an employee of the B.C. Electric Co. of New Westminster.
Mr. Blain was first Cub in the 1st Burnaby Pack in 1935 and later a Scout in the 1st Burnaby Troop. Since 1�43 he has held successively posts as assistant scoutmaster, scoutmaster and Dis-
City Rental Agents Would Keep Curbs
Although some real estate pressure groups are urging both the federal and provincial governments to drop rent controls when the present restrictions expire April 30, most Prince George realtors are solidly behind the rent ceiling scheme.
A Citizen survey of city real. anced," he went on. estate agents revealed this week) While endorsing the control that most think it would be a I program, most city agents agreed
mistake to abandon controls and permit rents to find their own leveL
that many landlords are not getting what they should for housing accommodation.
The realtors contacted appro v- m One agent said he belle vetted of Prime Minister St Laur-i rents are too low in most cases. ent's recent statement that the! "The present controls provide-
federal government might re-enter the rent field if provincial governments fail to take it up when present control cease.
Said one well known
measures
local
a great deal of protection for the tenant, but practically none for the owner," he said.
All agreed that new rent controls would probably be a popular-move as far as the general population was concerned.
agent, "I think that with the housing situation the way it is, rent controls are the best thing we can hava"
He qualified his approval of controls .by the statement that he thought some more ready scheme for readjustment of cell-ings should be included in any new plan.
"While I think that the interests of the average man are best served by these controls, I do believe that many landlords have been severely handicapped."
He said that owners of certain
housing units established at a $25, Tobiasen, 1721 Seventh, a month rental in 1940, and still { The latter chimney blaze
Firemen Numbed By Severe Cold
City firemen braved' sub-sese temperatures combined with a strong north wind yesterday to extinguish two chimney fires cm Seventh Avenue. .
First call came shortly after I p. m. from the home of Curly-Cattle, Seventh and Dominion, and the second came from T. B.
re-
being rented at that figure, are {quired a second visit whe� confronted by similar units built i flames burst out in the flue
last night-Fire Chief August Dornbierer said today that firemen
since 1940 with rents of twice or
three times as much.
"I think we must have rent control but I also think it must.' numbed by the biting cold and bo handled in an equitable man-j strong winds but that none ner," another agent said. sustained frostbite.
"I am afraid of what might hap-1 ~------------------------
pen in some places if they are' lifted."
He said that in Prince George, where housing is at a premium,
trict scoutmaster Burnaby district.
in the South
Legionnaire's Will Hold Annual Meeting Tonight1
Annual meeting of the Prince George branch, Canadian Legion, will be held tonight in the Legion Hall starting at 8 o'clock when a new slate of officers will be elected for the ensuing year.
William Bexon and Tom Hay have been nominated for the presidency to succeed A. J. 'Slim* Lenehan.
Several important matters will be brought before the meeting, and a good turnout of members is requested.
Trade Board Wants N. Vancouver Link
Prince George Board of Trade
loaned support last week to a' east developed early Sunday move to have the Pacific Great morning, and by 9 a.m. gusts up
DEATH TAKES FRANK PAYNE
� Death took another city old-timer last Friday when Frank. Payne, age 65, passed away after-a long illness.
Mr. Payne came here with the railroad in 1910 and went into chicken farming when his work with the railroad ceased.
After that he was employed)
STE ANNE, Man. March 5 (CP) about 15 years as a blacksmith^ �A 16-hour fire Saturday injured helper at the C.N.R. roundhouse-five persons and destroyed the under D. G. Fraser, present city Redemptorist Fathers Monastery, assessor.
lifting of controls would bring haotic rent increases. "I think we should keep controls until the demand and the commodity are more-or-less bal-
$175,000 Fire Rages Manitoba Monastery
here, causing an estimated property loss of $175,000.
Fire broke out in the three-storey brick building shortlv after noon on Saturday. It was believed started by a short-circuit in the second storey office of Father J. Blanchette.
He was laid off from his roundhouse job at the beginning of the depression and from that time until now worked at odd Jobs throughout the city. He resided! at the Cache.
Funeral services have not yet been arranged.
60-Mile Blizzard Lashes Central B.C.
A howling blinard swept cut teletype service into Prince across Central B.C. Sunday, trap- George, but repairs are expected ping motorists, temporarily iso- soon.
lating some communities and disrupting telegraph service.
Drifting snow blocked some roads leading Into Prince George and snowplows are working steadily to get traffic back to normal this morning
Heavy winds from the north-
Eastern Railroad's south t terminus hi North Vancouver/
A resolution urging the provincial government to' proceed with construction of the line from Squamish through West Vancouver was presented to the meeting by Dr. R. W. Alward and unanimously approved.
The resolution urged that the government should not let local matters, (at West Vancouver) take precedence over the province-wide importance of the southward extension.
to 60 miles an hour were reported. Many trees were blown across highways, adding to the difficulties of motorists who were combatting high drifts.
Winds averaged 40 miles an hour throughout Sunday with a minimum of 9 below zero recorded
Snowplows moved over the Smithers division of the Canad-'an National Railways yesterday and traffic Is back to normal today.
A break in the line at Hansard
From Vancouver it is reported snow sifted and drifted toward an unprecedented stranglehold on a sizeable chunk of British Columbia in the heaviest snowfall in 30 years.
A record minimum temperature for northern B.C. is expected! after the storm clouds lift, probably today.
More than a foot of snow has fallen in Vancouver since Saturday.
High winds at Fort St. John on Saturday night forced cancellation of the northbound C. P. A. plane from Prince George. It grounded here atl Sunday, taking: off late this, morning. On the return flight the plane will brine back the Prince George hockey-team which played a week-end series at Whitehorse.
All other C.P.A. flights are running on normal schedule.