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An Independent Semi-Weakly Nawipaper Oeroled to Hk lnt�,e>t of Cent! \    4 Northern Briti.h Columbia
No. 24
Prince George, B.C., THURSDAY, March 2S �    >1
$3,00 per year       5^ per copy
Fines levied Up To $200
Flagrant violations by local truckers of half-load resrric-ons on oil district roods were reported this week by the Public /orks Department who have now applied full restriction on
his
police court this week 16 ,ers pleaded guilty to over-ading their vehicles.
� driver, Charles Bird, was $200 by Magistrate G. H. tt when he pleaded guilty second offense within re-it months.
Checks   -Assistant Com-nlsskmer C. RivetfcCarnac, offtc-t commanding the Royal Can-
lan Mounted Police in Saskat-
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^!^ apppuited to  RC.M.P. forces in Brit-
Columbia and will leave fon
coast April 2.
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so that 17 large construction units can be transported to where work will recommence.
Meanwhile, Provincial Govern* ment officials are stating that the road will be through to Dawson Creek this season.
No word has yet been received concerning construction of the Parsnip River Bridge, but competent observers state tenders will probably be called fcr scan.
Tile bridge must be 600 feet long, and heavy winter ice conditions call for a design embody-ing few piers.
Hiring of men for work on the highway this season now awaits end of the break-up period.
Gunmen Get $6,500
VANCOUVER. March 29 (CP) �Four gUnmen grabbed $6,500 from the Fourth and Alma Street branch of the Bank of Montreal Wednesday, using two stolen cars and one change of clothes in their escape.
Fleeing in the first car, they changed clothes, ditched the car and disappeared in second one. It, too, was later found abandoned.
� came to the assistance of two fire-stricken families in the vicinity of Prince George.
Mrs. Gordon Wood, chairman of the local Red Cross disaster relief committee, announced that bedding, towels and clothing had been teent into Salmon Valley where Nelson DeGrasse and his mother had been rendered homeless by a recent fire.
On St. Patrick's day, the Peter Meise family, eight miles south of Prince George on the Quesnel highway, lost their home in a blaze which nearly claimed the life of one of their two young children. The fire started in the attic and   was first   noticed    by
HOSPITAL ISSUE SPLITS COALITION
British Columbia's Coalition Government is under a barrage of demands today that it resign. Its recent amendments to the Hospitol Insurance Act are the main target of attack.
To further complicate the poli-1 tical  scene,  a sharp  division of|,JCT. .     . opinion    among    Liberal     Party IwhIeh al]eeedly ranks exists today.
In an exclusive Prince George; Citizen - Vancouver   Sun*     state- | ment, Harry G. Perry, president of the B.C. Liberal  Association, yesterday branded    Liberals    in the provincial cabinet as  "inexperienced'   and   weak-kneed.'1
He termed "very .deplorable" the actions of the cabinet in pushing through Bill 15 embodying the hospital scheme amendments, in the face of protests from all over the province.
Prominent in demands for the government's resignation was the Vancouver Trades and Labor Council who scored recent labor legislation.
Much of the dissension within the Liberal Party is between the federal and provincial associations,  political observers say.
George Crulckshank, M.P. (Fraser Valley) said in a speech on Tuesday that Premier Byron Johnson was not physically capable of running another" ejection. He recommended- that the provincial Liberals draft James Sinclair M.P. as their next leader. Mr! Sinclair is probably best known in Northern B.C. for his stand against P.G.E. extension.
Mr. Perry delcared here in face of the mounting crisis that he would call a meeting of officers of  the   Provincial   Liberal   Asso-
at    the   coast called upon the
Coalition government to resign, I
do feel that the situation caused
(See HOSPITAL   ISSUE, Poge 8)
'Pay As You Enter' Ne�v Hospitol Plan
Effective April l, all patients admitted to Prince George and District Hospital will be required to pay $25 in advance to cover the co-insurance charge of $2.50 a day, Roy Hunter, hospital administrator, said today.
If the patient is discharged before ten days, he will be gWen ft refund, Mr. Hunter added.
In cases where the patient is unable to make the $25 payment, his physician will be asked to certify that it is an emergency case and that the patient requires immediate hospital care.
British Columbia Hospital Insurance Service has announced* that on and after April 1 emergency service given within 24 hours for accidental injury or minor surgery, and which cannot be provided In a doctor's office, may be secured from a hospital However, to prevent abuse, a fee of $2 will be charged which must be paid in advance.
The introduction of co-insur> ance by the B.C.H.I.S. means that any person entering a hospital on or after April 1, and receiving-tospital benefits, must pay a portion of his bill direct to the hospital.
Maximum possible bill, for any one year for any citizen or fam-ly group is limited to co-insurance charge of ten days, Charges will be proportionate to the fltrv-ces rendered, contingent upom the daily rate paid to the hospital.
Many Attend Rites For Richard Allen
Funeral rites for the late Richard Allen, long-time city resident, were held on Tuesday afternoon, in the presence of a large crowd-Rev. C. Silva White conducted I the service in St. Michael's Ang-I lican church at 2 p.m.
Pallbearers vere R. lft Anderson, R. Pooley, William Bellow P. Monkley, C. Olds. Jr., and William Webster.
Interment was in Prince George-cemetery.                         �      j
HARRY   G.   PERRY
. . . criticises Cabinet
'Pars' Gain Ground
TOKYO,  March  29 (CP>�Princess   Patricia's   Canadian    Light Infantry and Australians forded rushing  streams   and   scrambled! over hills soggy with three days: of rain to roll up sizeable gainer on   the   muddy   central   Korean. ront today.  The Common wealth. forces racked up gains in ruggedr country   12   miles  south  of  the 38th parallel.
Mrrf. Meise when burning paper'ciatio" in  Victoria next week to.
started to fall from the ceiling, Clothing for the    couple    and their family was dispatched im-mediately from   Prince   George, while Vancouver headquarters of the Red Cross forwarded bedding i and other^upplies;�
Volunteer canvassers and individual subscribers have boosted the district fund this week as follows:                                          j
Mrs. C. Pyfe and Mrs. P. Ham-1 See WEATHER  SICKNESS, Pooe 24)
consMer a date for the holding of'an advisory council meeting.
His full statement to The Citizen is as follows:
"While I have seen no reports
City 'Nimrod' Finds Bunny Hunting Good
Rabbit hunting, a little-practic-*
ed sport in this country, proved j fruitful   for   one   city   "nimrod" _      L            {over the Blaster week-end accord-
Reds T�Ht Tough            lmg to'Ruby Douglas  of   H.   H.
TOKYO. March 29 (CP>�Com-  Doughs' & Co.
munlst    China    today    spurned      The bunny is question was not
eneral    MacArthur's   offer   to  however one of the furry variety,
talk  peace  in  Korea.     Chinese  �ut was made from milk choco-
WILL BUILD POUND
Council Barks Back At City Dog Problem
Dog Catcher Appointed For Month   .
Prince George is literally "going to the dogs" according to Moyor Garvin Dezeil who on Tuesday night informed Crrjr Council that^fhecityTTK3y~soorir&gcoro~overrun~vrith corwnes if some method of control is not adopted. The   Mayor   said   that   when
broadcast heard in Tokyo called late and stood more than 20
MacArthur peace bid of last Sat- ches high.
urday impertinent, insulting and]
'worth only a single ,laugh."    It
said    "the entire Chinese people
will fight unrelentingly until the
aggressor   is   completely   driven
from Korea."
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For most of last week it attracted, .much attention. from sweet-toothed youngsters in the display window of the Douglas store but on Saturday it was "liberated."
Miss Douglas said that store of* ficials were astounded to find the king-size chocolate bunny missing from its accustomed place in
NEW YORK, March 29 (CP)�'the window and a check of the Two" men and a woman were con- day's receipts revealed that it had vlcted today of passing wartime, not been purchased, atomic secrets to Russia in the j "I cannot think how anybody first atom spy trial in the United could have concealed such a large States. The jury returned a ver- j object and made off with it, but diet after seven hours and eight- that   Is   what  happened,"   Miss
Atom Spies Gustty
een minutes' deliberation. The convicted defendants, who could receive the death penalty, are Julius Rosenberg, 34,, electrical engineer, ffls wife, Ethel, 35, and radar expert Morton Sobell, 33.
Douglas said today.
The bunny weighed more than two pounds and its former "masters" are hoping that it may prove too much for the stomach of the well-rewarded huntsman.
B. C. Police were administering law and order here about 100 dogs a year were exterminated, but that the R.C.M.P. are not interested in dog control and the canine population is rising at an alarming rate.
"We were just holding our own when 100 a year were being exterminated and if things go on the way they are at present we could be swamped in a few years."
The Mayor's statements conjured up visions in aldermen's minds of leagues of dogs controlling city streets and tax-payers afraid to leave their houses unarmed. * The Mayor cited one  recent dog-pack episode in front of the post office when some 50 people were prevented  from  entering the bnildinpr by a fighting, mill-Ing scrabble of some SO to 30 voracious honnds. To combat the menace, Council lost little time in approving preparation of a by-law barring unleashed dogs from public streets, setting up a city pound, and appointing  a  full-time  dog-catcher poundkeeper-exterminator   for   a 30-day period.
Under tentative provisions of the law, all dogs found running loose on city streets are liable to
be  picked up by the city's      �
catcher and they will be kept at
(See COUNCU.   BARKS, Pbge 17)
'Oh Where, Oh Where Has My Owner Gone'
A 9moW and offectJooot� gotdeo-browr> coclcer sponiei bos met o crisis; in his Mfe in Princo George.    He is lost-.
This come to light t+trs monrv-ing y/hen officiofs of the Prince Geonge Women's Jott totophon-ed The Citizen editoriaf rooms with o to-fe of woe.          ,
. The spaniel, orV opporentiy �Well bred onimoJ, has been* hanging oround the joi+ for some days now ond appeors to be most unhappy over his plight. Jail authorities have token* pity on it to dote and hove fed it a few times but if someone does not cloim it soon it wiM be turned over to the police ond urtlm-otely destroyed.
The dog is distinguished by a lode of upper teeth.