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An Independent Semi-Weekly Newspaper Devoted to the Interest of Central ond N � em British Columbia
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No. 31
Prince George, B.C., MONDAY, APRIL 23, 1951
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UNMEN AT URGE; OLICE COMB CITY
ion Valley Pair Robbed At Gun Point
[Police are on the alert throughout the entire province orning for two men w*k> held up and robbed a Salmon couple on Saturday afternoon.
at gun-point, robbed, and bound to kitchen chairs k
I Mr. and Mrs. Charles . their son Ronnie.
two gunmen are described [lows: 21 to 23 years of age, jig grey fedora hats, one grey jacket, other wearing
tely beaded belt and hunt-[knife. Both of medium
and medium complexion. ne of going to press the two ire still at large and are be-. to be still in the vicinity. I are armed with rifles and itgun and may be driving a
Jeep auto stolen from Mr.
jy family told police this
jg that they were awakening'the night by their dog Dg and going to the win-
iaw two men in the back They may have been the pair.
and Mrs. Parker had just |ied to their Salmon Valley Saturday afternoon after
ig the day in Prince On their way into town iiad seen two men heading [on the Hart Highway who iiey were on their way to bn Creek.
fas the same two men* who a shotgun at the couple ithey returned home at [6:40 p.m.
Parker had gone to the i>m to hang up her coat [a strange man emerged the room pointing a heavy jin at her.
second man took care of
and the pair went out the door.
They cut the wiring on Mr. Parker's car so that their victims could not give chase.
Royal Canadian Mounted Police vehicles travelled over 300 miles during the week-end but found no definite indications of which way the pair headed.
Mr. Parker worked his hands loose within 10 minutes after the two gunmen fled and drove Into Prince George to report the holdup.
Police as far south as the United States border have been alerted and have posted look-outs.
Although the jeep stolen by the pair has not been recovered, it is believed they have probably abandoned it. Mr. Parker declared that the vehicle has no muffler and is in poor condition.
"I do not think it will go very far," Mr. Parker told police.
Police Scarred In Beer Parlor Brawl
Three Royal Canadian Police constables are nursing black eyes, cut faces and swollen jaws here this morning after breaking up V free-for-all and arresting three men at the Columbus Hotel, 1250 Third Avenue, at noon on Saturday.
In jail are John and George McDonald, two youthful loggers, and a third man Henry Durocher. The trio are charged with assaulting a police officer.
Police here were notified of an "argument" in the beer parlor of the Columbus Hotel at about noon on Saturday and upon going to investigate, found two men stripped to the waist and a considerable amount of broken furniture. Damage to hotel furniture was considerable.
The trio will appear for preliminary hearing today.
Police grappled with the three and finally forced them into a waiting vehicle to be driven to jail.
U.I.C. Men Say Best Break-Up In Years
Prince George district has had the best spring break-up from an employment point of view in many years, an Unemployment Insurance Commission official declared this week.
Irvine Moss, manager of the U.I.C. office here, stated that there are only about 600 claims on file from jobless persons at present, compared with about 1100 in previous years.
He said he thought this week saw the peak of spring unem-
Severn's Resignation Widens labor Party Rift
London, April 23 �- Lobor Minister Aneurin (NYE) Bevan, fiery left-winger, split with Prime Minister Artlee on the new budget and resigned from the cabinet.
His action probably means a new general election soon and a contest with the more moderate Attlee for the leadership of the Labor Party.
Bevan, eloquent former Welsh coal miner with ambitions to be Prime Minister, objected to budget provisions charging patients
arker as he was lighting a. half the cost of false teeth and i the kitchen stove. j spectacles which they formerly
and Mrs. Parker, and their received free under Britain's Na-} son, Ronnie were told to tional Health Service. But he the kitchen table. The gun-.pitched his resignation on a Bed them securely to chairs broader issue�including the pro-^nsacked the house. j posed huge military expenditures.
one point one of the armed Another cabinet member, Har-
said to the trussed Parker� old Wilson, president of the It was too bad we had to' Board of Trade, may announce n you> j his resignation today.
two youths searched all Wilson, a 35-year-old Oxford ine House for the keys to a graduate, visited Attlee Sunday *na removed Mr. Parker's night, but neither would discuss
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Wilson had decided to quit his post.
Today, reliable sources said Wilson had already resigned, but he refused to,.comment. He failed to show up for a cabinet meeting today.
War Minister John Strachey, who is not in the top-level cabinet, is believed to be considering his position.
FUMES DESTROY ISLAND HOME
An Island couple and thejr, baby fled from their burning house on Saturday and watched flames totally consume the three room building.
Burned out were Mr. and Mrs. William Birnie whose house north of First Avenue on the Island is today level with the ground.
Members of the Prince George Fire Department turned up at the scene of the blaze and helped to keep the flames from spreading to two nearby houses. City fire department were prevented from fighting the blaze on an all-out scale by provincial fire marshall's regulations which deny non-city residents the use of municipal fire fighting equipment.
ployment with about 1200 work ers idle.
Already a few orders have started coming in from district sawmills and it is expected that the orders will increase over the next two weeks.
"Much of the unemployment slack," Mr. Moss said, "has been taken up by large construction companies."
He named Mannl.v Construction Company at Vanderhoof and Jaknieson Construction Co., at Prince George as the biggest employers daring break-up this year. ,
So far, Mannix Construction das taken on about 250 district workers and Jamleson Construction has hired about one-third of that amount.
Mr. Moss said that the Alcan dam contractors have almost exhausted the Vanderhoof labor supply.
Jamieson Construction Company, having completed most of their grade work, were able to start ^ hiring much earlier this* year*as track-laying does not require such firm ground conditions.
The employment officials said that W. C. Arnett Company, Hart Highway contractors, have not commenced hiring yet but that May 1 should * see them getting under way.
A carpenter shortage is anticipate by job men this summer due to an increase In local construction and to the needs of the Alcan contractors.
Mr. Moss predicted that skilled equipment operators would also be at a premium.
WEST LAKE MILL LOSES PLANER
Third major mill fire in this district in little more than a week took place on Friday afternoon When a ?30,000 blaze razed, the planer of West Lake Sawmills.
The fire broke out near the ceiling of the building while work was in progress but all efforts to extinguish the rapidly spreading flames were without avail.
Police state that defective wiring may have been the cause of the fire.
Other nearby buildings" were saved by the crew of mill workers who fought for more than an hour to save the big mill.
The blaze was the third to level a mill building within the past 10 days. First was the sawmill of Shelley Sawmills Ltd., followed by destruction of a planer owned by the Allen Lumber Co. Ltd. Damage caused by all three fires totals more than $150,000.
Nice Search For Stolen Automobile
Royal Canadian Mounted Police here this morning are on the lookout for a car stolen from 850 Calgary Street either late last night or early this morning. �, The car, owned by E. M. Gord on, a"BX. Government employee-is a'black 1949 Chevrolet business coupe.
One theory is that the car was stolen by two armed gunmen who held up a Salmon River couple on Saturday evening. A jeep stolen by the gunmen from a Salmon Valley farm has not yet been recovered.
PaulWieland Died Sunday
Funeral services will be held from Knox United Church at 2 p.m. Wednesday for the late Paul Wieland, well-known old timer who died in Prince George and District Hospital on Sunday following a stroke which he suffered on Friday.
Mr. Wieland, who was 72 years of age, was born in Germany and came to Canada in 1910. He moved to this district in 1914, where he was in the butcher business in GIscome, and then moved into Prince George.
He conducted a meat market on George Street, later moving to Third Avenue, where W. R. Monroe- joined him ln partnership. Mr. Wieland retired from the business in 1946. His favorite hobby was woodworking.
He is survived by his wife and. one daughter, Clara.
Rev. Gordon G. McL. Booth-royd will conduct the last rites.
Jury Choice Easier Through New Law
Work of impanelling a jury for the opening of the spring asstee of the Supreme Court in Prince eorge early next month has been considerably lessened, Sheriff Ar-~ nold Davis declared this week*, through recent legislation which restricts authority to grant jury exemptions to judges of the Su-. preme Court.
Formerly exemptions could be granted by a County Court judge. Sheriff Davis said his job has been made a great deal more dif-icult in the past through the granting of exemptions, and he aelieves that inasmuch as there is no judge of the Supreme Court resident here, exemptions will not be so frequent.
Harold Assman Better, Expected Back Tuesday
Alderman Harold Assman, who has made a remarkable recovery from a severe kidney ailment iJwring the past week, ts expected home oh tomorrow's plane from Shaughnessy Hospital, Vancouver where he has been undergoing treatment since April 3.
Only a week ago Alderman Ass-man's condition was still critical, but he suddenly began to improve and, although not completely returned to health, is up and about.
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Higher Freight Rates Sought By Railways
OTTAWA, April 23 OCR�Railways today asked for a new freight-rate increase of 14 percent�about' $64,000,000 a year� but offered to ease its impact on shipments of some basic commodities.
The rate is sought to cover the cost of the 40-hour work week starting June 1. It also will cover higher material costs and some wage increases besides one obtained by the main body of employees through last year's general strike. "
Commodities exempted from the full effect of the proposed higher rates would be livestock, lumber, pulpwood, apples, sand, gravel and stone. Increases on ,,.. � ��� ......them would be limited by the
laice whateverfdsllara-and-cents ceiling regard-I less of how far hauled.
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Leafs Win Cup In Overtime Thriller
TORONTO, April 23 (CR�Slap-shot specialist Bill Barilko Saturday night broke up one of the most closely-fought finals In the 58-year history of hockey's Stanley Cup. He whacked in a goal after two minutes and 52 seconds of a sudden-death overtime to give Toronto Maple Leafs a 3-2 victory in, the game and a 4-1 con^ quest of Montreal Canadiens in the best-of-seven series.
The defenceman's decisive score sent 14,577 fans into a delirious frenzy. It climaxed a come back drive by the Leafs who twice tied up the score�the second time with 32 seconds left in the regulation 60 minutes of play to send the game into extra time, just like the other four games In the series.
New $500,000 High School Will Accommodate Over 400 Students
Preliminary plans for Prince George's proposed new half-million dollar high school have been received by District Number 57 school board and are now being studied before final plans are drawn up and estimates asked for.
The huge new building will a'c-v commodate about 400 students ilar to that built onto Connaught
and will be staffed by about 20 teachers.
It will be standard construction throughout and will probably be finished in stucco, similar to the present high school. - Location of the school is on the west side of Renwick Crescent on property already partially owned by the school board. Tne new building will face the present high school across the playground.
Architects for the structure are Gardiner & Thornton, Vancouver.
Of two-storey construction, the new school will be on three lov-els, with the boiler room and in-
dustrial arts room ground floor level. Ground floor will
below the
contain a
Sunny Tomorrow
Sunny Tuesday, says the weatherman, and a little warmer, winds light Low temperature to Prince George tonight 25, high tomorrow. 66.
large laboratory, an agricultural and science room, a spacious library, five administrative offices, a big auditorium and gymnasium completely equipped with stage
School a year ago. It will contain five classrooms, offices and teachers' rooms.
The addition measures 86 feet by 40 feet and is two storeys tall.
Plans for both buildings must be reviewed by the board and estimates must be on hand before the by-laws can be drawn up. Construction will probably not start until late summer.
MacArthur Dismissal Brightens Peace Hope
HASWELL, Durham, England, April 23 (CP)� Defence Minister Emanuel Shinweli said Sunday the removal of Gen. Douglas Mac-1 Arthur gives the United Nations I and representatives of the Chinese Communist government a
new chance to negotiate peace in Korea.
But he added: "I regret the Peiplng (Red Chinese) govern-
facilities, a cafeteria, kitchen, ment is not more, responsive to showers and lavatories, dressing suggestions that have been made rooms and a health room. I to negotiate peace in Korea."
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a large domestic science work- flreman LoS*S Life room and classroom, and six big . _ , 0.
general-purpose classrooms. The If) tQtnontOn Diaze building will be ISO feet long by, EDMONTON, April 23 �CP>�A 157 feet wide. devastating general alarm fire in
Completely equipped, it will downtown Edmonton early Sun-cbst the city and district about day took the,life of one city fire-$500,000. It will be financed by
bond Issue if and when the bonds are approved by the public in bylaw form.
Also on hand at the school board offices are plans for a $50,000 addition to Central Fort George School.
The new addition will be sim-
xnan and caused ^damage estimated at more than $400,000.
The blaze gutted the two-storey brick and steel Crescent Furniture Building. Dead is W. D. Bo-wen, about 44. He was one of the first firefighters on the scene and 'apparently became trapped on the second storey.
Tripple Murder Leads To Trapper's Arrest
FORT RESOLUTION, N.W.T., April 23 (CP)�A 23-year-old Indian trapper was arrested Saturday and charged with killing a mother and two of her three children in their isolated shack. "
Victor Beaulieu was arraigned on a murder charge in court before Mr. Justice R. H. Botten. No plea was taken and the case was adjourned until next Saturday.
The bullet-riddleft body of Mrs. Mary Norn, her dairghter, Dorothy, 10, and a son, Ernie, five, was found in the cabin Wednesday. Fort Resolution is on the south shore of Great Slave Lake, about 500 air miles north of Edmonton.
Reds Start Spring Push
1 TOKYO, April 23 (CP)�The long-' expected Chinese Communist spring offensive smashed into United Nations lines across a wide front in Korea Sunday and pressed on Monday.
The Chinese, attacking from the northwest, drove over the Imjin River on a 15-mile front. A field dispatch, reported they were heavily engaged with Allied forces at daybreak Monday.
One sector of the Allied front cracked in the first onslaught Sunday night. Field dispatches reported a gap�on the central front northwest of the Hwa* chon dam�appeared plugged by midnight.
The big counter-offensive followed intensive Red artillery and tnortar barrages on the western and central fronts Sunday.