Pedestrian Slips On tee, Breaks Arm
An elderly man narrowly escaped death or serious injury Tuesday when he slipped on the ice while crossing the street and fell into the path of an oncoming truck.
Joseph Dragich, 65, was treated at Prince George and District Hospital for a fractured arm.
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Prince George, B.C., THURSDAY, January 31, 1952
Embarrassing Moment for Egyptian Police
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An operation intended to catch guerrillas who have been sniplrwr British troops in the controversial Canal Zone area for months past resulted in the taking into custody of 150 armed Egyptian police after Grenadier and Coldstfeam Guards cordoned off Tel-el-Keblr and the contiguous
village of El-Hamada recently. Some of the policemen, hands clasped on heads, are shown being escorted to a detention point by armed guards. British troops now have undertaken a house-to-house search for lurking guerrillas and ammunition caches.
RealJEsfrate' Man Faces $736 Forgery Count
New Charge Against Attempted Suicide Accused
A charge of forgery involving a cheque in the amount'of $736 has been laid against a city businessman who was returned here last week to face an attempted suicide count.
P. E. Robertson, proprietor *f Robertson's Agencies, 1182 Third
Avenue, was remanded on the new count after appearing before Magistrate P. J. Moron tm the attempted suicide charge on Sat-urday.
According > to information read from the forgery indictment, Rob-
Big Tie Order Aids Interior Timber men :,
VANCOUVER, Jan. 31 �� � Interior sawmills will � benefit most from a $2,000,000 order for railroad ties to-be shipped to
ertson forged a signature on a j Pakistan, it was reported here � cheque made On the account of Wednesday. Martin MerjerJk Sawmills, SheL-ley, a client of the accused man.
Robertson was remanded eight
The order, announced by Trade
Minister Howe, calls for of about 400,000 ties. Interior mills will
days or sooner on both counts i welcome the order as they have and date for his preliminary hear- 'been hard hit by loss of sales in
the United States market.
Ties take about 36 board feet of material and will, sell for an estimated $4 each, and probably $5 each creosoted.
ing has not been set. So far the accused has not
set by Magistrate Moran on Saturday and he is being held in the Prince George Provincial Jail.
January Sets Snow Record
All-time record snowfall for the month of January has just been set here the local weather office revealed this morning. , Tremendous total of 40.2 inches of the soft white stuff has fallen over the city and district, compared to the previous high figure, set in 1946, of a mere 27.7 inches. ' .,.,.- ^ ..-._- .�..,
"�"""The month's record1" hi"npt''-'ttt the 5V final stone by Inspectof tjatty wobbled aiid skidded into the circles to leave his rink with a two-count
Other members of the winning rink are Constables Ronald Winn, Douglas Kitson and Norman Sharpe.
Score by ends: ,
Batty 013110 103 1 1-12 Ottem 10 0 0 0 3 0 10 0 0-5 HUDSON'S BAY , The handsome Hudson's BaV trophy will repose on the mantle of a SmiUiers home for the next year as the result of Dick Heggie's 14-9 win over a Prince George rink led by Jim Willson.. Willson was leading 7-4 in the sixth when Heggie piled up five and three ends to go out in front to stay.
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Heggie's rink consisted of Palmer and Oscar Peterson and Lyle Knight.
Lumbermen, Bears Here At Week-end
Prince George Lumbermen will meet Vanderhoof Bears here at the week-end, in a North-Central Hockey League double-header, while Quesnel Kangaroos and Williams Lake Stampeders battle out a similar series c>n southern Ice.
Lumbermen and Kangaroos are tied for top place in the league with Bears .second and Stampeders trailing.
The pee-wee games start at 7:30 p.m. Saturday and 1:30 p.m. Sunday. Senior games are at 8:30 p.m. Saturday and 2:30 p.m. Sunday.
Me & Me Building Tenders Close Today
Selected bids are being invited for the erection in Prince George of a new warehouse and office building for the well known wholesale hardware firm of McLennan, McFeely & Prior Ltd., of Vancouver.
Tenders close at noon today with McCarter & Nairne, Vancouver architects.
All trades are to be included in the general contract.
Three Vancouver firms have been invited to figure on the job, T
They are Dawson & Hall Dominion Construction Co., and Hastings Construction Co. Ltd.
One and perhaps two Prince George concerns have also been asked to tender.
Contract will icall for the erection of a one-storey concrete block and mill construction builds ing measuring 80 by 114 feet. It will be situated on a 162 by 200-foot site at First Avenue and Queen Street
Lady Curlers Pray For Cold Snap Before Sunday
Praying for a cold snap that will get the soggy, chewed
LabiiesT6uriHng
Hoping to geV fhefr fouriti
annual bonspiel under way Sunday�but it all depends on tte
Trial Opens For Hold-Up Accused
Willson had moved into (See 8ONSPIEL, Page 5)
the
Increase Close To $100,000
Hm� Hinta N�w Frtjflit Rot* Hikes
VArKOUVI*�rWW�*y b# � new OppMtiricw for higher freight rates by Canada's railways was seen Wedneseiey^M a comment here by Donald Gordon, pretidant ef the Canadian National Railways.
Mr. Qerdoa in an Interview discas�d the general railway situation and noted (hat materiel*. Mar and other casts are still rising "and there is no other way we can obtain reve.ee/' Ha tahl that railway freight rates had ri"� far less than other things in general.
Mr. Gordon ecM be expects the Kitimet-Terrace C.N.K. link for the big >lui�iM� Cossaany �# Canada will be completed by 195S.
Council Faces $561,000 School Budget Friday
City's Share Would Be $220,000 This Year
Prince George City Council will be faced with a proposed
school district budget of $561,000 when they meet with school
board representatives in^he City HaH tomorrow night.
The proposed budget is the
largest on record for this district and is almost $100,000 greater than last year's.
On the basis of a report from Victoria that the city will bear 62.35 per cent of school costs here this year after government grants have been deducted, the municipal portion will be $220,-000. This figure is about $60,000 higher than last year.
|f the city gets the same SS and MA tax returns from the provincial government which It got last year, municipal coffers will have to disgorge $153,000 out of current revenue to meet the proposed budget. I Last year the city was required
to put up $93,000 out of current revenue.
Tomorrow night's meeting between the Council and the board may see some reduction in the budget as a result of bargaining, but it is hot expected that the reduction would be a substantial one. � -. \
If the Council refuses to meet its share of the proposed budget,
both pute
sides in the resulting dis-can request an arbitration
board be set up to hand down a final ruling.
The arbitration board would consist of one city appointee,,one school district appointee and one government appointee. Their decision would be binding.
weatherman.
-With- two or three rinks due ' here from Smithers and one from Vanderhoof along with some 34 local rinks entered some exciting i | competition is expected for the
fine collection of- handsome tro- j An Indian woman who is al-phies awaiting the start of play, leged to have threatened an eld-One or more rinks from the erly Chinese laundryman here on high school here are also expect- j January 4 with a Jethal-looking ed to enter. I toy pistol was ordered examined
If the ice is in condition, pre-'bv doctors yesterday as her case liminaries with local rinks par-j�Pened in County Court.
iday' Accused is Patricia Inyallie,
evening, with draws at 7 and 9'formerly of Fort St. James, who
demanded money .at pistol point from Lum Kum Yuen at the tetter's. O.K. Laundry on George Street.
The case was adjourned 1 today by County Court Judge E. D. Woodburn.
Police arrested the woman only shortly after the Chinese was threatened at gun-point and told "I'll fix you" when he refused to Topping the list of awards is hand over any cash, the handsome Construction Tro- j Police later recovered a toy phy, donated last year by W. E. pistol which they described at Robertson Construction Co. Ltd.,;the time as "the most realistic" Willson Construction Company they had ever seen, and Summit Contractors Ltd. j Indian Affairs Department rep-Richly gold-plated, the trophy resentatives are on hand for the bears the figure of a feminine trial.
curler in action and is adorned j -------------
with two miniature marble curl-! ing stones.
Last year's winner of the Con-' struction Trophy was a rink skipped by Mrs. Signe Thome.
The Wilson Trophy, captured VANCOUVER, Jan. 31 (CD � last year by Mrs. Hans Roine's PIans for a new poiiticaI party in rink, the Alward Cup, presently British Columbia were unfolded held by Mrs. Jim Adams rink here Wednesday night. , and the Johnson Cup, taken in Announcement that the Chris-1951 by Mrs. W. Gustafson's rink tian DemOcratic Party has filed
p.m.
Monday will see all rinks, including visitors, competing with first draw at 8 a.m. Trophies, prizes and special vards were set up yesterday in a window display in Allan and Hawthorne's ladies' wear store, at Fourth and George Sts. CONSTRUCTION TROPHY
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are also on display.
Also new in 1951 was the handsome statuette-type trophy donated by W. J. Beck Accounting Service for the winning visiting rink. A Smithers quartette skipped by Miss Gladys Peto carried it away in the last contest.
Exhibited in the ladies' wear store window ds well are the many attractive individual trophies and prizes for the ranners-up and special classes.
Following the city ladies' bonspiel, the local feminine curling club is expecting to send two rinks to Kamloops* for the 'spiel there, and later, one will travel south to Nelson to curl in the events in that centre.
application for a charter under the Societies Act made by James Cederberg, executive member, and F. V. Peters, corresponding secretary, both of North Vancouver.
They said in a press release the party is open for membership to everybody "who believes to Christian principles and is witting to apply them to the social, economic and political sphere of B.C."
"We believe in private initiative and highest. development of the individual, which can only come by multiple ownership, management and control by as many people as possible," th� release said.