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Citizen
An Independent Semi-Weekly Newspaper Devoted to the Interest of Central � J Northern British Columbia
Ho. 58
Prince George, B.C., MONDAY, July 30, 1951
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CAMP-BOUND CADETS LEAVE PRINCE GEORGE
C.B.C. Airways Gets $1,000,000 Contract
From Vancouver it was learned today that a con-tract which will yield an estimated $1,000,000 this year has been awarded Central B. C. Airways by the Morrison-Knudson Company of Canada. According to latest information, the contract will necessitate the addition of six planes to the airline's present 15-plane fleet and will result in the line's main office being
moved to Prince George from Kamloops. Central B. C. Airwavs
planes
are currently flying dail}" trips between Vancouver and Kemano Bay. site of the Aluminum Company's planned power plant.
The big contract awarded the airline will be for transportation of personnel and equipment from main bases in the Central and Northern Interior to actual construction sites.
Capt. Russ Baker, veteran district pilot and principal of the line, will arrive here this week to complete details for complying with the contract.
Another Central B.C. Airways official arrived last week to make arrangements for moving the main office of the line to Prince George.
Central B. C. Airways now
have planes based at Burns Lake
I and Terrace for handling* trans-
I portation to and from various
phases of the Alcan development.
Above, a group of excited Cadets are shown in tneir private sleeping car enroute to Abbotsford, �where they will spend two weeks in training camp. Seated left is Sfu Gen ton looking a trifle homesick already. Next to him is Corporal Shorty Shaw, whfe on the right Stuart Gustafson tests a Pullman mattress, probably reflecting that it isn't as soft as the one at home. In tfie next seat are Walter
Webster, Ted Allen and Bruce Miller. Mugging in the background ik Johnny Warner.
Below, Squadron Commander Johnny Watt, who was unable to make- the trip, turns the detachment over to Sergeant Irving Mann at the C.N.R. station shortly before ths Abbotsford-bound Cadets started on the long train ride.
� Photos Courtesy of Bancroft's Kamero Kraft
New Rental Buy ins Curbs Effective Next Wednesday
Loopholes in consumer credit regulations have boon plugged by Finance Minister Abbott, according to The Vancouver Province.
New regulations issued ThursA jky prevent buyers from avoid; jjig bis cash down payments by subterfuge of appearing to poods such as cars and refrigerator.?,
The rules prevent a merchant n>m renting a washing machine or other article for some months. : and then accepting the accumu-'�" rental as a down payment 011 Purchase outright. T|U1>K-1NS COUNTED
The changes, effective Aug. 1 J ^t affect down payments or ue maximum period of credit.
i'y merchant [welcome the W that permits trade-ins to ^counted as part of the down i jraent. Previously this was per-
pnie only jn Car purchase.' -orm-:,nn ,eas o, ca w.u
o be atfectod by the new rule, gators of fleet-lease plants be-ls mor i eovornmenfs intention SSSS'-to-preyent the use of �schemes^a.meansof
with no third party entering for the purpose of financing the transaction.
Where the hirer has already paid the equivalent of the cash price of the goods in rent, there will be no change in the rental terms.
On contracts which are affected and where the rental payments required by the regulations are higher than normal, the rental payments may be reduced once the equivalent of the cash price has been paid.
Sent n<� required;
down
'R ('Alt
N-wniOt�w� order says trade"
of.the wa- owed t0 form Part on an tSf U,m down Payment lNnpo "f goods after Aug.
motor Perjn,
affecting goods exempted from the in the case of a ^hich has been the 'Y of the seller The sale of such !?iclfi now wUl be ox 11 �t is a private deal mc roller and buyer
BUFFER DISPUTE STALLS PARLEY
U.N. HEADQUARTERS. Korea July 30 (CP)�Communist attempts to inject fresh issues "with political overtones" were firmly rejected by Allied cease-fire negotiators Sunday in a .third-day deadlock over where to fix a buffer zone.
The fourteenth meeting is scheduled for Monday at Kaesong with the hot. issue of a buffer zone still uppermost. Communists insist a 12 Ml -mile-wide demilitarized zone he created in a 14-mile-wide belt along the 38th Parallel �the old political division between North and South Korea.
According to authoritative information, the U. N. delegation has refused to accede to this Rod demand on the ground that withdrawal from the present front--generally well north of the parallel�would be a political matter.
Vice-Admiral C. Turner Toy. Chief U.N. delegate at the Kao-song armistice talks, insists his delegation is empowered to act on military matters only.
Compromise Possible In Iranian Oil Dispute
TEHRAN". July 30 (CP)�Iranian government officials are optimistic today over prospects for re-opening the oil talks with Britain on terms sent from London Sunday by the United States negotiator. W. Averell Harriman. Iranian cabinet sources said Iran has replied favorably to Britain's terms for reopening negotiations.
Premier Mohammed Mossadegh's son-in-law. Matt in Daftari, a member of the parliament's joint oil board said there was a "spirit of conciliation" at the special cabinet-board meeting that considered British terms relayed by Harriman.
Unconfirmed reports said Mossadegh's cabinet is willing to discuss "additions" to the oil nationalization law that would water down some drastic phases the British objected to.
Five Drowned In East
ST. GEDEON, Que. July 30 (CP) �Five persons were drowned Sunday when they apparently stepped into a hole while playing in a lake in this north-eastern Quebec municipality.
Top Alcan Officials Converge On Terrace
George G. Vincent of Aluminum Company of Canada Limited and Ross Beasely of Associated Screen News, Edmonton, were in Prince George on Friday.
The two men were enroute to Terrace by plane to attend a gathering of top Alcan officials, including the president, to be held Saturday.
Progress at the Tahtsa Lake tunnel job and the Nechako dam site is reported to be going ahead on schedule, with good weather favoring the progress of the work.
The Royal Bank of Canada has inaugurated a banking service at the Nechako River dam site. Bank employees from Burns Lake, accompanied by a member of the R.C.M.P., were flown in last week, and it is the intention to nave the service available for two days following each pay day The banking service includes savings, deposits and withdraw als.
Alaska Trip Halted Here
Most surprised and disappointed couple in Prince George last Friday was an American couple who arrived here by car enroute to visit their son stationed with the U. S. Army at Fairbanks, Alaska.
Oscar Bushman, a plumber from Portland, Oregon, and his wife had left two days previously for Alaska, intending to travel by way of the Cariboo, Hart and Alaska highways. A map appearing in a Portland newspaper this summer had indicated that the-Hart Highway was completed or passable, and the Bushmans had not thought to check before leaving.
"We were certainly floored when one of your garagemen told us we couldn't get through,"' said the American. "And the-worst of it is I have only ten days holidays."
The middle-acred couple left for the south but were undecided whether to hurry north by way of the Big Bend Highway and Edmonton. But a large box of home-cooked victuals intended for their soldier son was still intact in the back seat of their well-loaded car.
Commonwealth Troops Form United Division
WESTERN FRONT, Korea, July 30 (CP)�The first Commonwealth division in history became operational Saturday.
Believed to be one of the most powerful in the world, it is made up of troops from Canada, Britain, Australia, New Zealand and India. In a simple ceremony on the parade ground Lt.-Gen. James A. Van Fleet, Eighth Army commander, and Divisional- Chief Maj. Gen. J. H. Cassels broke out the flags under which the new formation will fight.
The Canadian 25th Infantry Brigade, recruited especially for service with United Nations forces, is the Canadian part of the new division.
Harf Highway Rain Alibi 'Ridiculous'Say Newsmen
Sourceless News Story Scoffed At Locally
Construction men here are scoffing at a news story carried recently in a Vencauver newspaper in which it was stated that September 15 deadline for opening the Hart Highway would be postponed due to wet weather.
The "deadline" mentioned in the story was one set a few weeks ago by Hon. E. C. Carson, Minister of Public Works, during a
speech at Williams Lake.
The Vancouver paper quoted
Anglicans Stocking Pantry For New Padre
As a practical gesture of welcome, St. Michael's Memorial Anglican church is holding a "pantry shower" for the parish's new rector and his wife.
Donations of canned goods to stock the new incumbent's lard-
[er should be left at H. H. Doug-
jlas' store, not later than Tues-
i day.
j The minister, Rev. T.. D. R. Allen and his wife are expected in
! Prince George on Thursday from Kamloops, where he has been working for the past month. Prior to that Rev. Allen was in charge of a parish at Moose Jaw.
no source for its information that rains had seriously delayed work on the road in recent weeks, but the story was datelined "Prince George."
Local correspondents for the two main Vancouver newspapers disclaimed all knowledge of the story and termed it "ridiculo
An official of , W. C. Arn Company, Hart Highway contractors, refused to comment on the dispatch, but added that the current construction season is as good as last year's, which, he said, was the best enjoyed on thi� job thus far.
Men on the job state that work is progressing as planned, and that equipment will be moved north across the Parsnip River within the next 10 days to start work on the far side.
It is believed that passenger cars may be able to reach the Parsnip River by the end of this
Douk' Leader's Death May Lead To Trouble
VANCOUVER, July 30 (CP) � Fear of new Doukhobor violence fire raids and bombings came last night following the quiet death aturday of Michael (The Archangel) Verigin.
The burly 68-year-old leader
iied following an operation in a
hospital here surrounded by
members of his strange religious
I sect. He died of pneumonia.
Observers expressed fear his death would bring a factional battle and renewal of violence in the Kootenay Doukhobor colonies when time comes for selection of a new "Archangel."
men looked as-official opening
week.
Construction kance at the deadline set by Carson at Williams Lake and now are wondering who was responsible for the recent story alleging wet weather was stalling progress on the job
Murders, Suicide Wipes Ouf Family
, NEW HAMBURG. Ont., July 30
j (CP)�A 30-year-old farmer fatally
shot his wife and two children
through the head Saturday and
ended his own life with the same
JUNEAU, Alaska, July 30 (CP) �Twenty planes pressed the search today for a Korean airlift plane missing since July 21 on the Alaska coast with 38 aboard.
Greatest activity is south of a point where the pilot made his last report from the Tokyo-bound plane. Searchers are following up a report from the town of Craig where a large plane was heard over that village the night the plane vanished.
New Bacteriologist Joins Health Unit
New bacteriologist with the Cariboo Health Unit, Miss Eileen Evans arrived from Vancouver last week to take up her duties here.
Miss Evans is a recent graduate of the University of British Columbia, Cariboo Unit post being her first.
Miss Rosemary Bell-Irving, who-has been filling the bacteriologist position in the local unit for the past four months, left by Friday-afternoon's plane for Vancouver, where she will join the staff of the Provincial ' Health Department's Laboratory Division, after a short holiday.
To say farewell to Miss Bell-Irving and welcome Miss Evans and Miss Shirley Bradford, who recently joined the unit as a public health nurse, the staff entertained at an informal party at the cottage of Mr. and Mrs. Harry E. Watson. Six-Mile Lake, last Thursday evening.
Ferry Sinks, 4 Dead
EDMUNDSTON, N.B. July 30 � A small cable ferry carrying: more than 25 persons sank in Lake Caron, Sunday as hundreds watched an annual regatta: Police said four are dead and four missing.
VISITING BROTHERS AFTER 31 YEARS
Sunny Tomorrow
Prince Georgers may expect another hot sunny day tomorrow, according to the weatherman. Light winds are predicted with little change in temperature. Low tonight and high tomorrow at Prince George, 45 and 75.
Father of Thomas S. Payne, junior, of Pineview, Thomas S. Payne of Northampton. England. is at present in this district in the course of a trip to visit five brothers in Canada whom he has not seen for 31 years.
With Mr. Payne in his travels, which will take three months, are his sister, Mrs. A. Smith and , youngest brother Aubrey Payne,
22-ealibre rifle. [also from England. The Payne
A bread-man making his rural brothers in Canada are in widely rounds found the bodies of Wil-1 separated parts, one being in Ot-bert Gofton. his wife, Clara. 35, |.tawa, one in Vancouver, two at and Cecil, 7, and Dolores. 5, when : Red Rock and one at Pineview. he called at the big stone farm- j "Canada needs lots more young house to make a delivery. Police- married couples with the ambi-said the sTiootings climaxed long-,tion to build up the country." standing domestic difficulties. 'says Mr. Thomas Payne, senior.
"You have room for millions more people over here."
He is impressed by the good crops produced in the Prince George area in spite of the dry weather and says that this area has great farming possibilities. "The soil must t)e a good moisture-retaining clay," he considers.
He wishes that he could take a few tons of our wood and timber back to England with him.
Continued rationing is the main problem in life in Britain at present, the visitors say. They get enough to eat but the lack of variety is depressing. Otherwise, however, conditions in the old country are pretty good.