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An Independent Semi-Weekly Newspaper Devoted to the Interest of Central and Northern British Columbia
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Prince George, B.C., MONDAY, June 4, 1951
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IeSTMINSTER, June 4
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e penalty was an-'i e was one of the,, < ms ever sentenced �. British Columbia
if the girl was found i in a.pasture near ; docs testified her | caused by asphyxia.
Department
i m Department of has vetoed plans it- of Prince George he preseni location | il Department, is ig sites at Fourth :1 Fifth and Quebec : gw federal government 1 to hpusc greatly enlarg- j )ffia!' facilities for this
tip at a Ro.tary Club lun-Friday, Norrie Stanley, fispector, of Vancouver, nt post-office build-tally inadequate for the mail handled in Prince |nd intimated that some juld be expected on a, ling within a short time/ ipossible to accurately jmmunity's future post-Iremehts, Mr.. Stanley city's post-office bulld-st meted I? years ago, eyed at that time to' be for the next 30 years. Prinro George will, con-Fgro'w nt its j)resent fast question which would e taken into considera-ins for new premises. sales. nnt population, ieciding factor when iri-I facilities are being
Itnnloy said there '"was felihood of a letter carxier-?ing established here, at til the city had grown �However, letter arc being erected soon at points throughout the |al anad business areas. pod that Fifth Avenue is than Fourth Avo., Hey said this probably taken into considera-is department when de->n the location of new
Former City Ice Star Dies
'-/: Central B.C. hockey fans and players of a few years ago were shocked to leqrn of the death Thursday of Walter Nehring, 43,in Vancouver General Hospital after a brief illness.
Probably the best hockey player developed in this country, Walter wore a Prince George sweater for all his active caieer, except for a brief spell with Nelson Maple Leafs. For 15 years his cork-screw rushes and spectacular defensive tactics thrilled the thousands of spectators in rinks-between Williams Lake and. Smithers. . One of the cleanest players to don a hockey uniform, he was admired by both his team mates, opposing players, and a. multitude of fans and friends.
He was an outstanding star on the/Prince George team which captured the Coy Cup in 1927-. He is survived by his mother, I Mrs. E. Nehrihg, at Ferndale; a - [brother, Ralph, and three sisters, "Miss Winnifred Nehring of Los Angeles, and Mrs. A. Truesdell of I Winnifred, Montana, and Mrs. I. Boweles of Vancouver.
Interment, was in Ocean View Cemetery, Vancouver.
Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Nehring and Paul Schlitt travelled to Vancouver for the funeral.
Eostbound C.N.R. freight traffic through Prince George will probably/ bo substantially increased next year following completion of the new /dissolving pulp mill (above) of Columbia Cellulose Company, Limited, / near Prince Rupert, and announcement of plans made by Canadian Chemicals Company Ltd. to begin 'construction of a plant in Edmonton for the production of pctro-chomicah.
Both Canadian companies are affiliates of the powerful Celanese Corporation of America. The Edmonton plant would utilize port of the Prince Rupert milt's annual production of 70,000 tons of high alpha cellulate�sufficient raw materiel to produce more than 200,000,000 pounds of acetate yams and staple fibres.
The first producer of chemical fibres to construct its own pulp mill, Celanese Corporation also will utilize output of this mill in connection with recently announced plans for expansion of textile; plastics and chemical operations in the United States and other.. Countries.
Output of the Prince Rupert mill will result in an estimated 75 per cent~ expansion of the supply of dissolving pulp for acetate yarns, and will equal 15 per cent of all the pulp consumed by the entire U.S. rayon industry last year. /
Columbia Cellulose has the first forestry management Kcenc* ever -granted by the British Columbia government, assigning cutting rights on timber sufficient to supply the mill's present requirements indefinitofy.
Carsonls^Hart High way Deadline
s Doubts Of Experts Here
Construction Men Say SeprNl5 Date Impossible
/ A recent statement by Works MinisterE. C. Carson concerning the opening of the Hart Highway not later than Sep ^ fd
at t^
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tember 15, is being taken with a "grain of salt^bv qualified construction men/ reports toJThe Citizen disclosed thisweek.
Although officials of W. C. Ar-nelt~Company, Hart contractors, refused to comment on the Minister's statement made last week at Williams Lake, the consensus of opinion among men who know the project is that "it cannot te done."
At present about 30 miles of the section of the road south of the Parsnip River is impassable to passenger cars, and about 12
[otection In Unity1 rappers* Message
Coll
>er, president of the B.C. Registered Trappers' ition, told almost 100 trappers of the northern zone at "inuai convention here Friday that the fur trapping must become unified, must protect its fur resources, |sf acquaint the public with its activities.
& that the Trappers1 As-
f] �r�,> � ,___ ..:__ to accept the steel trap, as the
best method of trapping . until such a time as a better trap is invented.
He described a meeting in Albany with the national president of the S.P.C.A., Ralph Conway, in which the latter agreed with him that the solving of the trap problem had better be TeTCIri the "hands of_the trappersv
Commissioner Cunningham
congratulated Mr. -Olds on his work in trying to develop a more humane animal trap and said he himself had encountered some trouble with the S.P.C.A. on this subject.
Elaborating
a long way ^surmounting, many of wems faced by registered but that still more must in order to gain fair �r their labors, and a e that their means of 1 would continue undis-[oy either a lack, of fur or pressure froms.uch-Uu.' -S.p.c.A,. or -the As-for the Protection of lrmg Animals.
heard also from president of the Ted Pappas, man-sion of Western Canad-*uj Auctions Ltd., and James C. Cunning-5-C. Game Depart-
zone.
in
of
on statements
made by Mr. Collier regarding a special $25 license fee levied by the Department of Lands and Forests on trappers whose lines
getting the S.P.C.A. (S<*? PROTECTION, Page 12)
:ted.
miles of this is unconstruct
Construction crews working oh the northern' section are about 12 miles north of the river and are reported to be in what engineers term "pretty rough country.""
The north crew is at present making sidehill -cuts along the southeast face of a mountain that gradually leads them down to the bank of the Parsnip.
About the last six miles of their route lies in comparatively low land where clay abounds. This clay, if wet, could stall their operations and cut back their schedule considerably. BRIDGE "
In addition, the highway cannot bo considered open until the Parsnip has been spanned by a fiOO-foot-long bridge, contracts for parts of which are to be let later this week.
No materials for the bridge are yet on hand, but Arnett Company crews are doing their best to complete some kind of a road to the river vso that materials can be moved from Prince George to the bridge-site.
It is anticipated by men on the job that a wooden trestle will bo thrown up from which to construct the steel and concrete structure which is eventually�tor span the river. _ Specifications bridge call for
Look-Out Men Take To Lofty Perches
Seventeen look-out men have taken to their """mountain-peak perches for the summer in -the Fort -George Forest District, a I lengthiy'^nferW": on Hhe"'mat
Afcan Ready To Acquire Lake Land
E. A. Clark, an official of the Aluminum Company of Canada, Announced last week his company .will ,,,co-oper,at'e in every way 1 with the 70 residents of Ootsa Lake and Wistaria settlements, south of Burns Lako. whose
property will.....be. flooded when
the huge water reservoir in that region is filled.
REDS, RAIN SLOW OFFENSIVE
TOKYO, June 4 (CP) � Allied troops ground north along most of the Korean front Sunday despite stubborn Communist' resistance and drenching spring downpours.
A United Nations army, env ploying air support and artillery .fire to clear the way, hacked nearly three miles forward on. the east-central front and gained in the centre.
While Lt.-Gen. James Van Fleet, commander of the Eighth. Army, had announced the pursuit phase of the U.N. offensive is over, he apparently had no intention of yielding the initiative to a still dangerous foe.
He said the Allies "will continue to destroy military objectives in North Korea before they can be used in an aggressive mission against the Eighth Army..
Edmonton Firm ieeks Timber, Mill
Representatives or one' of Al-
erta's largest wholesale lumber
net builders' supply firms were
in McBride and Prince George
last week to investigate sites for
forest branch this week.
official declared
Mr. Clark advised II. C. Steele, ja lai'Se m_illin'� operation or pos-TT^N7ToF~OTnineca, during ' a ' slb?.V"~to acquire an established
plant.
C. K, Alexander arid Arden
teiy that Alcan is establishing an
office at Ootsa Lake to make it Rytz of the Imperial Lumber Co., All summer long the men will j convenient for residents affected j Edmonton, spent Thursday in spend a lonely vigil staring TouTJTo' discuss individual problems Prince George to interview For-across oceans of evergreens,., with ! and all matters pertaining to the estry Department officials and only occasional snatches of ex- transfer
cite'ment when a grey tendril of smoke tells them that all in their
of the property to be , obtain informa'tion on B.C.'s for-flooded. j estryj management plan.
He stated that if residents co-! Mr- Alexander said he was
territory is not well. j operated by arranging to make j amazed at the tremendous stands
Their only contact with\ the [ titles available immediately, fi-1 j of timber along the C.N.R. and outside world will be their two- nancial settlements could be ar-
for the final two piers in
mid-stream, composed of about
2500 yards of concrete.
about 500
way radio sets which keep them in daily contact with district headquarters in Prince George.
Only new look-out this year is one near I,I,ixon which is getting a department try-out.
The new Ilixon look-out covers
ranged within a few weeks.
Roof Fire Quelled
City firemen rushed to the home of Mr. and Mrs. A. H. McCabe,
within easy hauling distance of the railway, and predicted that, cutting would be on an increasingly larger scale.
Mr. Alexander's firm operates .'57 retail lumber yards in Alberta and last year they exported 40,-
510 Montreal St., at. noon today,' qoo.OOo' board feet'from that pro-
where a roof fire did about $50
territory to the north and east up, damage. A faulty chimney is be the I Fraser River, and is hoped Ueved to have caused the blaze. to-be the solution for early dis- Mr. and Mrs..McCabe were iifeent' J.C.C. MEETING
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covery of fires in the area
, a
fvveen Hixpn Creek and Prince: a neighbor.
George. ; ,: ^_____
No development will be made at the Ilixon look-out, site until it has proved itself successful.
and the alarm was turned in by
Sabotage Suspected In Million-Dollar Fire
OTTAWA. June -1 (CP)�A spectacular oil-fed fire, punctuated by "a~lTelTes~of~exrrlr)3-ions, this week-end destroyed a lau-toot iong~sec--tion of the army's big central ordnance depot, the second largest in Eastern Canada. Damage is estimated at $1,000,000.
Meanwhile, about 500 large! The fire raged out of control piles must be moved to the bridge for.five hours Saturday night and site on which to put up the tern- early Sunday almost in the heart
porary trestle. These will be
moved in by
trailer as soon as a serviceable route to the site can be carved out of the wilderness.
An Arnett Company official (See HART HIGHWAY, Poge 7)
j of the capital.
Military and fire officials said the cause of the blaze has not been determined. They began a "thorough investigation" which includes the possibility of sabotage.
TOMORROW NIGHT
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Ten Airmen Killed /members are reminded of the
NEW BOSTON, Tex., June / specjial meeting to be held in the (CP)�Lightning . exploded a C4>2 Cariboo Health./ Clinic tomorrow "Flying Boxcar" over this-city . night at. 8:00 p.m. $
Sunday and 10 crew members i . Agenda will include committee rode to their deaths in its flam- j clinics and/a general session to ing wreckage. ' discups July 1 celebrations.
Fraser River Lake May Yield 1,500,000 H.P.
SHALATH, B.C., June 4 (CP)�A big hydroelectric power site on the Fraser River is being studied by B.C. engineers. The project would call for a dam several hundred feet high in a deep chasm of the Fraser at Moron, 26 miles north of Lillooet.
It would develop 1,500,000 horsepower.
Works Minister Carson, accompanying a Vancouver Boer* of Trade parry, said Saturday engineers are studying th* potentialities of the Fraser at Moron. If, constructed, the dam woaM form an immense lake, backing up the Fraser River to Quesnet.