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Vol. 5; No. 128
PRINCE GEORGE, BRITISH COLUMBIA, MONDAY, JULY 3, 1961
7c a Copy
BY CAWURB H.SO per Montb
It Rained But...
MAN CHARGED
for
\UKOKA IV,
k. was crown-
oor ceremony
Mayor Dick
of Keldwna.
ACK \\ n .in ii| yen I
;� Bob Buchn-Herb Uradc.
HI'C I '
SPORTS HIGHLIGHTS
Maple second
Riug[e wins consecutive
baseball tournament year.
here
Bob Buchanan wins in a row in ca
*;
Herb
race.
it
Brade make it two
Youthful Alan Pretty captures Simon Eraser Day qpen golf tournament. (See Pages 5 and 6.)
NO iNQUZST PLANNED
SUN VALLEY, Idaho (AIM � Novelist Ernest Hemingway, a literary giant who ranked with the greatest of his age, died of a shotgun blast in the head
Sunday at the age of (>2.
His wife, Mary, awakened by a shot from the double-barrelled gun, found the body clad J in pyjamas just off the living i room of their secluded house.
.TERRACE OOP) � A police j "Mr. Hemingway accidentally tracking clog was flown in Sun- j killed himself while cleaning a clay to search for a commercial ' gun this morning at 7:30 a.m.," fisherman who has mysterious- she said In a brief statement ly disappeared. read lo reporters by a family
Lief Husay, 35, of Terrace, friend. She was then taken to was returning from Prince Ru- j a hospital and given a sedative, pert where he had been repair- Coroner Ray McGolclrick said his boat. His car was found ; il was "a self-inflicted wound" abandoned on t;ie weekend on j that could have been accidental .he highway, 38 miles west of , or otherwise. He said no inquest Terrace. j is planned unless something
Mr. Husay, married with four | new develops, children, is believed to have jecn carrying a considerable
A Prince George.woman was in "serious" condition in hospital today suffering multiple injuries and a man had been eharged with her assault.
Bern ice Olson, about j 40, was rushed to hospital latL1 Saturday after she sustained head lacerations, a broken jaw and several broken ribs.
Charged with assnult causing bodily harm in connection with the: incident is Larry Durell, whom police described as the injured woman's common-law husband;
Dtirell, a carpenter who lias lived here 11 months, was remanded without pica for eight days when lie appeared in magistrate's court today. Bail was set at $3,000.
DEFENCE M I N ISTER IIARKNESS said today that Canada will provide up to 30 officers to help train officers and technicians of the Ghanaian armed forces. The �minister said in a statement that the Canadian officers were requested by President Nkrumha of Ghana.
VSEEKEND
amount of money. Police would lot say how mucln
FORECAST
Sunny, except cloudy in northern sections. Little change in temperature. Winds light except southwest 15 at times in northern sections. Low tonight and high Tuesday at Prince George and S;nithers, 45 and 65; at Quesncl, 45 and 70.
Peace Hiver
Sunny with occasional cloudy intervals. Scattered late aft'jr-noon and evening showers. Little change in temperature. Winds southwest 15. Low lo-night and .high tomorrow at Grande Prairie, 45 and 75. Last "11 Hours
Hi Lo Prec. .08
.03
I.ICliNC'i; SOUGHT OTTAWA (CP) � Harrison Airways Ltd. has applied for a licence to operate an air service from Harrison Hot Springs to logging camps on Harrison Lake.
The board lias set July 31 as deadline for representations on application.
TO QUESTION WIDOW
Sheriff Frank Hewitt said authorities planned to talk with Mrs. Hemingway today if a doctor permits.
Hemingway's, violent ..death
amid the mountains and hunl-
J ing grounds he loved shocked
' the literary world. There were
expressions of profound regret
from President Kennedy to his
1 plain Idaho neighbors.
To Hemingway, this was
j home�a quiet retreat far from
; the turbulent world or Fare-
! well to Anns, Across the River
| and Into the Trees, For Whom
the Bell Tolls. The bearded
Nobel and Pulitzer Prize win-
i ner, author of the brilliant Old
.Man and the Sea, was working
< on a new major novel and a
.book ol reminiscences of. his
j youth.
SEEMED DISTRESSED
Uul .some of tthe people he
A 26-ycar-old New Westminster man was jailed a total of 24 days after he pleaded guilty lo impaired driving following a mishap Saturday which sent two men to hospital with minor injuries.
Thomas Haines was jailed 14 days on the impaired driving charge and fined $50 or 10 days consecutive for having no driver's license. He was not granted time to pay tho fine.
His car struck another about seven miles south of the city inflicting damage estimated at $100. lie later turned the car over near the airport injuring passengers William Eggleton and Douglas Hogg. Both were in "good" condition in hospital today.
Haines' car was impounded. Its damage was ' estimated at $3001
More than 50 persons were arrested in Prince George and surrounding district during the weekend, with liquor offences providing the RCMP with the busiest weekend in more than a year.
Some 38 men and seven women were charged with being drunk in a public place.
T h r e e others uvre charged with impaired (hiving.
An ' IU '.VI I' spokesman described the holiday weekend as "lively in liquor of fences" but fairly quiet in respect |o t:r:jui-_. iii a 1 offences. �
Skin Divers Searching For Missing Youngster
PRINCETON 'Oi � Skin divers .searched the Siinilka-mcen River today for a North Vancouver boy missing since Saturday. Police believe Stephen Jure, 1, was drowned after lie wandered away from his parents on a camping trip.
Prince George 63 44
Terrace 72 52
Smithers 71 42
Qucsnel GO 46
Williams Lake 07 42
Kami oops 82 48
Fort St. John 69 53
Dawson Creek G8 52
Now Hear This...
The B.C. Liquor Board seems ; tory was bis wife most excited determined to make itself, and j about'.' The 25 buck one, natch
mil suum "I iuiu uuuj/iv iic , . ., , i - i .... Best loser in the Simon
knew around here thought he ^province, the laughing stock ^^^SliSfwSS
of Canada and its latest edict (,ay was Alderman Charlie provides proof jl is well on its Graham, who still grinned hap-way. Tho board h;is ordered pily as he shot a'211f^4I'rirused
seemed a bit distressed and traced it to the recent cancer death of actor Gary Cooper, his close friend and local hunting companion who portrayed Hemingway heroes in the films.
"They're both in the b a r n now," Mrs. Cooper commented when she heard of the death. OiiCL- Hemingway told Cooper he wasn't feeling well, and the late actor replied: "1 bet I'll beat you to tho barn." Cooper died in May.
Hemingway, son of a physician, was born in Oak Park, 111., July 21, 1809, married four times and had three sons.
Labalt's Breweries to remove their name from the Labatt's trophy which is presented annually to the winner of the Simon fraser golf tournament . . . You never can tell a bout women, as the old saw goes. And Bob Buchanan will probably agree. lied just won $500 as his share of the $1,000 .Simon Fraser Brigade canoe race top pri/c, and Inter Saturday he also won a $2f) minor award for a lucky sweepstakes ticket on � ho same race. So which vic-
to it." he chortled
(h\l driving a little bug with licence 422-877 might know what she's doing but it's a miracle if anyone cl.se does. She pulled up to Victoria on Fourth Friday and stopped � the only thing she did right. She thereupon proceeded to turn on Hi" signals for a right turn, put her arm out of the window to Indicate a left turn, and roared out into Hi" heavy traffic: straight through on Fourth without making cither turn . . .
MANY EVENTS CANCELLED
lain cliased inosl Slnioii |)nj rctithilicM since lliclt* in Fraser Day festivities Indoors I option In H)*>8.
in she Coliseum before on.Iyinclctl ii
500 people.
i!ic ceremony,
Saturday when 11 pelted down Plnnl "}Re}in'A., of lV c?m'\ m** Jiu'v rl;Uk was crown- After Icavlnp the coronation
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In the afternoon. . lne-rain "hunt. Main liwimnwe Du* l'�>Mn*>n u| Kelowna, pul>h lvllllv ,,,,�.,,,,,�.. �, ,,�.
I: only lasted iihoui an hour I taken oui I > the committee1 in win stifflolei�l lo ' .�'� tlitj u.i. �nl,\ foi between ii und )' urk ond drive hoi'ug events In n Satintljy. iin iho Colitjiuiiii while nthcrti Washed out by Hie rain weir
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we were hit Financial!} by Hkj. tr;ry demonstrations ol pura i"'"- ""''" ' omela] appearance LVH- a!J(.]1(Jl.,| |,y Bl] estlmuted ruin," Simon Pro or lu.v Com- Muite dropping,vsky diving ami u| Queen Aumi-.i hi. Laurcen rM lu,n|)ll, mltteo chnirman Hnrj Loder the horseahoc plteiUna tourn- Shiith, and her prlnccsaen,
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