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Prince George Citizen
An Independent Semi-Weekly Newspaper � oted to the Interest of Central and Northern British Columbia
Vol. 34, No: 45
Prince Geon 3 '.C, MONDAY, June 11, 1951
$3.00 per year
per copy
Mayor Flies Ea& For Defence Talks
New Wrj>rld Rotary Leader
City Growing In Importance As War Target
Prince George's Mayor, Garvin Dezell, boarded a Canadian Pacific Airlines plane here on Saturday bound for London, Ontario, and conferences with representatives of the Department of National Defence regarding plans for civic protection in the event of a Third World War.
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The Mayor will, join in civil defense talks with Maj. Gen Y. W. Wo'rthingsorv the Dominion's top planner in this field, along with mayors and representatives from all leading municipalities throughout Canada.
URGED TO GO
/ Mayor Dezell told The Citizen that he was at first reluctant to make such a long trip at a time when certain civic improvement projects were just getting into high gear for the summer, but had consented at the urging of a
dual capacity as Mayor of Prince George and as a member of the executive of the Union of B. C. Municipalities.
"I personally think these talks may be very vital from the stand-
j point of civil defense," the Mayor said, "and it is high time that steps be taken to lay a foundation for future action in the event
' that hostilities commence."
CITY VULNERABLE
| He said he considered Prince ! George a highly vulnerable point
had consented at the urging of a
number of aldermen and leading 'from th,e P�int of view of
city businessmen. He will sit in on the talks in a
fn/on Man Here To Plan kganization Of North
First steps by the Conodion Congress of Labor (GO) to aonize thousands of construction workers and expond the ership in the lumber industry in North-Central B.C., is ig place this week as Dan Radford, president of the 50,000 ember B.C. Federation of Lobor, works out of Prince George king things over.
Using the city, and the local office of the International Joodworkers of-Amerjca, os headquarters, AAf. Radford has de trips to the Alcan project, west of Vanderhoof, and to : St. James. . '
remain here until Wed-day when ho returns to Van-uver to set the wheels of organ-labor rolling northwards. r. Radford is also regional ctor of organization for B.C. JtheCCL.
l"lt is in the best interests of �ervbody in this country to get e workers properly organized," said in a press interview. |In the company of Mike Se-a. international organizer here the 1WA, Mr. Radford pre-Icted that the membership in Interior lumber industry �ould leap from 2000 to 4000 wn the CCL-sponsored organ-Ption drive gets under way
prst Warning of an increase in [ion organizational work in this -ict came a few weeks ago n the R.c. executive of the . voted funds for a campaign J-xpansion of membership. �K HERE Radford
on the road to the Nechako dam-site yesterday.
Construction, men throughout the north will be urged to join the CCL-affiliated Amalgamated Building and Construction Worker's Union. F.G. AND HART CREWS
Organizers will ultimately work the P.G.E. railway construction camps between here and Quesnel, and will work also at the Hart Highway camps of\he W. C.'Ar-. (See UNION MEN, Poge 12)
Firefighters Avert Blast
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A calamitous explosion narrowly averted by city firemen this morning when they doused flames which crept up one wall of a solvent-storage vault at the rear of Royal Cleaners, 1222 Third Avenue.
V Cau&e of the blaze is not known.
As firemen arrived on the scene shortly, after 10 a.m., tendrils of smoke and small flames were travelling up a narrow space between the outside wall of the vault and the wall of the adjacent Karl Anderson Building.
Inside the vault was stored a number of cleaning-solvent containers, the contents of which are highly explosive.
and added that the city's importance as a target for enemy action is increasing every day.
"This is one of the handicaps of the rapid growth and progress which the city is at present enjoying." His Worship went on.
"The junction of the P.G.E. and the C.N.R. here and the near-completion of the Hart Highway make this city a veritable crossroads for transportation in the north, and therefore a very important point to protect."
The Mayor will be gone about a week, and upon his return will report to the City Council on the steps being taken for the defense of important Canadian municipalities.
Board Recommends Columbia Wage Pact
VICTORIA, June 11, � A Conciliation Board majority report
released Saturday states loggers of The Columbia Cellulose Company employed in the Terrace district should be given the same pay and working conditions as provided in the coast contract of the International Woodworkers of America.
The'recommendation covers all employees of the company in logging, booming, making up of rafts ,and river transportation of logs within a radius of 300 miles from Prince Rupert.
Company representatives claimed operations east of tho Cascades should be covered by the northern interior contract.
The majority recommendation was made by Paul B. Paine, chairman of the Conciliation Board, and Union representative Joseph Morris.
James A. MacDonald, company representative, recommended the adoption of conditions of the interior contract which became effective September 1, 1950, between Northern Interior Lumbermen's Ass. and the loggers.
Former City Couple's Daughter Buried Friday
Arne Mclntosh, 12-year-old daughter of Constable and Mrs. Arnold Mclntosh of Hazelton and formerly of Prince George, died in Bulkley Valley District Hospital, Smithers, last Wednesday.
Besides her parents she is survived by two brothers, Colin and Paul, and a sister, Heather.
ROTARIANS who gathered for their international session at Atlantic City, N.J., recently have re-elected a number of the old officers. In the photo above Frank E. Spain, (left) of Birmingham, Ala., an attorney, newly elected president of Rotary International, receives the gavel from Arthur Lagueux, of Quebec City. retiring president.
Straith Here Today To Discuss Schools
Hon. W. T. Straith, B.C. Minister of Education, will arrive here today for conferences with the School District Number 57 board of trustees and the executive of the Prince George Liberal Association.
The minister will make no public address here and will leave tomorrow for Wells where he has a speaking engagement.
The Minister, in talks with the school board, will attempt to
reconcile trustees with the Education Department's 1951 austerity program.
He will be shown around local schools and driven out to West
Lake for an inspection of the rural school there.
H. A. Moffat, chairman of the i board of trustees, said that he would not press the Minister for reconsideration of the proposed new half million dollar high school.
"That is a part of our long range plan and at present the Department of Education is not considering anything but urgent projects," Mr. Moffat stated.
Later today the Minister will confer with Liberal Association executive members.
Unheeded Warning Costs Road Worker His Life
District Man Dies After Crushed By Tractor
Michael Tadich, a middle-aged bush foreman who was seriously injured last Wednesday when he became entangled with the tracks of a moving diesel tractor, died Thursday after-noon-from severe internal injuries. Evidence brought out at a coroner's inquest Friday night revealed that Tadich would be still alive had he heeded the advice of a youthful tractor operator, George Hoggen.
Hoggen told -the six-man coroner's jury that he .and Tadich had had
day and Tuesday, with occasional
light rain today. Rain is expected in the Bulkley Valley section again Tuesday evening, with little change in temperature and light winds. Low tonight and high tomorrow expected at Prince
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Mrs. Harrison tossed both children down to him from the second storey but Mark was already badly burned and died in hospital six hours later.
Harrison then ran to get a ladder to rescue his wife. When he returned the whole wall of the house was a mass of flames. His wife had disappeared. She had been overcome by smoke and had fallen inside the window.
been doing roadwork and headed back to camp for lunch when the fatal accident occurred. Tadich was the foreman on the job.
On the return to the camp the foreman climbed onto the frame of the tractor to get a ride. Hog-j George 52 and 66. gen asked him to get int"��,^.ropper was found and,; last night after being lost four days in dense forest east of by j Woodpecker. His discovery climaxed an intensive three-
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versed the tractor a short distance until he was free.
Hoggen told the jury that he saw Tadich get up from the track, move clear, and then fall to the ground.
He rushed to the camp for aid and the injured man was loaded onto a truck to be brought to town. Medical testimony given at the inquest showed that the injured man was badly mangled by the tracks internally. Investigation at the scene of the accident showed-that the lower part of his body had been forced through a four-inch space between the track and the frame.
The jury brought in an open verdict of accidental death.
Jurors were J. O. Hern, F. R. OUinger, N. G. Cheer, D. Palum-bo, T. M. Watson and W. Trites.
groups'of neighbors.
Walter Helndisch, old age pensioner, is on his way by ambulance to Prince George and District Hospital today following his four day ordeal in the woods. He was near death when found, it is reported.
About 20 R.C.M.P. officers formed search parties yesterday and combed the woods in the Wooecker area without re.�nlt.
At time of going to press it is not known who found the ailing man.
Facts surrounding the man's disappearance are still sketchy but it is believed he left his cabin Thursday to go fishing. He may have suffered a heart attick on his return journey.
B.C. Aero Club Head Speaks Here Tonight
A second meeting to renew interest in private flying here wilt
take place in the McDonald Hotel tonight at S p.m.
Guest speaker at the meeting of former flying men and would-wlll be
Persons who know him find it hard to believe that he was actually lost, due to his intimate I be pilots will be Ben Valerie, knowledge of the area in which j president of the B.C. Aero Club. he was found. ^Ir- Valerie has been asked by
As a trapper in his younger a number of city flying enthusi-days, Heindisch travelled all through the Woodpecker country.
A police car and an ambulance left for the area in which Heindisch was found early this morning. He was located about three quarters of a mile from a little; _used road and police intend using a stretcher to bring him out.
Heindisch'lived alone in a cabin near the Kirkhoff farm at Camp Creek and is an old-age-pension recipient.
asts to operate an instructional unit out of Prince George Airport.
The unit would operate as a part of the Aero Club's activities and would eliminate the necessity of a local flying group purchasing their own aircraft and incurring other major financial responsibilities.
It is not known here whether or not Mr. Valerie has decided to accede to the local group's request.
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