Quesnel Lumbermen Sweep Doubleheader
Quesnel Lumbermen defeated Yanderhoof Cubs In both ends of a baseball doubleheader at Quea-nel yesterday afternoon.
Scheduled games between Willow River Bed Sox and West Lake Loggers here on Sunday were called off on account of muddy grounds.
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Vol. 35; No. 49
Prince George, B.C., MONDAY, June 23, 1952
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Municipal Electric Workers Get 12 Percent Wage Hike
Negotiators for municipally employed members of the International 'Brotherhood of Electrical Workers here Thursday night accepted contract terms which this year will bring only the 12 percent increase offered by City Council in January.
Main gain made by the 'union <-----------�--:---�
over the original offer is that the j km** m lif|i|�4tLI ;ame contract next year would |T||{\a | WIN I ON
PASSES SUDDENLY
contract next year would consolidate the raise into a 24 per cent increase.
As finally agreed to by union .spokesmen and City Council, the new contract calls for a 24 pur cent increase in wages for electrical workers for the last .six months of the current year.
Death came suddenly to a well-known Prince George woman Friday when Mrs. Thoma3 (Marge) Winton, Ross Crescent,
.,., passed away from what is bpliev-
The raise will not be retroactive ed to have been a sudden heart to January 1 when the 1951 com \ ^fta^^ tract expired.
Since that time, the city's elec-
! attack.
In apparently good health, Mrs.
Winton returned from playing
trical workers have been getting cards inthe early hours of Fri. the same wage they got last year. | day Sne was discovered dead on Early this year Council raised Frlday afternoon, by Mrs. Carl city wages generally by 12 per cent, but electrical workers turn-
Wedemeyer, owner of the house
where the Winton family occupied ed down the offer and countered tne upstairs suite, with a demand for a 60 cent-an- j Mrs Winton is'survived by her hour boost. 'husband and one son, Douglas, in
The Council's bargain for a 24; Prince George, and two other per cent raise starting July 1 will � sons, John in Georgia, U.S.A., and tiring the men the same overall | Murray in Vancouver, amount they would-have gained! The remains were sent to Van-by accepting the city's January J couver on Saturday, accompanied offer. I "by a family friend Bill Morris.
Despite the apparent similarity, Mr winton" and son Douglas .also the new contract will give the (lGft for Vancouver Saturday, union a stronger point to start, /unerai services will be held their bargaining from next year. \ tomOrrow from Harron Brothers
If they can negotiate a repeat funeral norae in the coast city, contract for 1953, they will have gained a 24 per cent raise in wages.
Linemen's wages will go from $1.61-an-hour to $2-an-hour on July 1 and other categories will rise accordingly on a 24 per cent basis.
Land Clearing Unit Busy In District
B.C. iSbveriinient land clearing unit has been working in this district since May 20 and the crew have about a month's work lined up.
The unit, consisting of breaking and land clearing equipment with two bulldozers,, was In tfye Pine-view area last week, and it is hoped that sufficient applications will be received to keep the crew busy for the balance of the season. ,
If'enough applications are received to excavate for dug-outs, suitable equipment will be brought ill
Farmers are requested to file applications for rent of the equipment welt, In* advance so that schedules may be drawn up to avoid costly transfers of equipment. '�"
City Woman Chairs W.I. Convention
Mrs. G. A. Lund of Prince George, retiring district president, was in the chair for the annual convention of Women's Institutes, District "C", which took place at McBride June 19 and 20.
Mrs. W. R. Munro wascityr delegate to the meet. ' rWvlricIal ''superintendent ' 6T Women's Institutes Mrs. Stella Gummow was guest speaker, and a number of resolutions were passed. .
Entertainment included enjoyable trips to Lamming, Mills and to Dunster.
New district president elected at the convention is Mrs. J. Sargent of Dunster, with Mrs. G. T. Holdway of McBride, vice-president. '
Mrs. A. Dickson of Vanderhoof was named secretary and new directors are.Mrs. J. Andros of Vanderhoof and Mrs. A. Birchard of Prince George.
Houston Man In Vancouver Death Leap
VANCOUVER, June 23 (CP) � Hugo Fremean, 60, cf Houston, B.C., plunged 200 feet to his death Sunday from Lion's Gate Bridge spanning the .entrance to Vancouver harbor.
Jbycees Want Full Turnout Tomorrow
All Junior Chamber of Commerce members are urged to turn "out to the regular monthly dinner meeting tomorrow night in the Prince George hotel cafe.
Important business will be discussed, including last-minute plans tor the July 1 celebration and ripening of the Parsnip River bridge.
Vanderhoof*s Birds, Planes May Be Lost
Vanderhoof s vast migratory bird sanctuary and its seaplane landing base will become things of the past when the Nechako Dam job is completed unless a spillway dam is constructed near the town, Vanderhoof Board of Trade has
decided.
At a meeting of the board held last week, a decision was made to remind the Aluminum Company of Canada, whose Nechako installation will block off most of the river's flow past Vanderhoof, of Its statements to the effect that company policy is to leave every community in better condition than they found it.
The board will attempt, through the aluminum company, to have a spillway dam constructed downstream from the Vanderhoof Nechako Bridge so that enough water can be backed up to maintain existing levels in the bird sanctuary and at the seaplane harbor.
Man Killed When Plane Strikes Car
CAMPBELL RIVER, B.C. June 23 (CP)�A light plane coming in for a landing.at the airfield here Saturday night clipped a parked car and cartwheeled across the field.
Richard Lusk, 25, died Sunday in hospital from his injuries.
Eric Going, pilot, and Ella Steele, third occupant of the four-seater plane, were seriously injured.
The plane, ' owned by British Columbia Airlines, was demolished.
1952 GRADUATING CLASS of the Prince George Junior-Senior High School took o moment out from their busy graduation program to pose tor photographer Wally West.
From left to right. Back Row�John Bowie, Clifford Dezell, Gary Woyant Mort Smole, Audrey John, Marjorie Chorney, Ted Church, Calvin Jess, Clyde Smaaslet, Pat Amett.
Second Row�Oscar Swanky, Anund Ha men, Walter Stalest, Gary Cleland, Ruth Hansen, Reba Dolgieisn, Cecil Storey, Erie Black, David Riley, Harvey King. ;'-'�'�"'
Third Row�Naida Schultx, Florence Yargeau, Camilla Plett, Sylvia Moore, Eve Prudenta, Betty Aitchison, Pat Wardale, Joyce MacDonald, June Cannon, Pat Kirschke.
. Front Row�Jo Srefono, Marjorie Goodrich, Maureen Lancaster, Doreen Van Koughnett, Supervising Principal Jack Beech, Home-room teacher Harley Robertson, Barbara Howard, Nora-Jean Wilson, Maxine Riggs. Mining from the picture is John Paveluk.
by WAtLY WEST.
West Laker Again Offers lair Award
A septuagenarian enthusiast for Prince George's fall fair is A unified plan for official opening of the Pacific Great again doing his ':bit" to stimulate Eastern Railway extension and the Hart Highway will be drawn interest and entries in the annual
exhibition, i
Civic Committee Formed For Planning P.G.E., Hart Opening
Jim Fyfe of West Lake is of-
up and implemented by a special civic committee of 22, it was
decided at a special meeting of interested parties at City Hall 'fering twcT speciaf�prizes^of" ten
on Friday.
, The committee will consist of
His Worship Mayor Garvin Dezell, six aldermen, and five members from each of the following: Prince George Board of Trade, Junior Chamber of Commerce, and Business and Professional Women's Club.
The committee will not deal with an unofficial opening of the Hart Highway proposed for July 1 by the Prince George Board of Trade and the Cariboo-Okanagan Trail Association. -
Among problems to be faced by the committee will be accommodation of hundreds of visitors, entertainment of officials, allocation of expenditure of a $2500 government grant received by the city to help defray celebration expenses, incorporation of exhibition cars in the inaugural train, and entertainment * for the city and district populace.
First meeting of the group which will plan and integrate all the activities will be on Thursday evening. By that time it is expected each faction making up the central committee will have mapped out their own projects
� dollars each for the 1952 Agricul for incorporation into an overall tural and IndustrIal Association
plan.
show, secretary Mrs. R. B. Carter
* Date of the official opening of announced today.
both the P.G.E. and Hart Highway has not yet been determined,' ;�"'� r/lc- wllv. at "vcr 'u *&% but committee members are aim- of *& is an actlve farmer� raised ing at a tentative date in September. ' Members
of the committees representing the Trade Board,
Mr. Fyfe, who at over 70 years
the money for the prizes from I the sale of a prime mink pelt. The awards will go to the best
collection of garden vegetables
jaycees
Biz-Profs have not grown on a lot in the city and
yet been named. First duty of the t0 tne best exhibit of farm pro-group next Thursday will be to dtace, garden section.
appoint a chairman.
Mr. Fyfe also donated two spec-
HART ROAD FINE
ial prizes here.
for last year's fair
Good Progress On New B. ol M. Office
Work on the Bank of Montreal's new Prince.George office at the corner of Third Avenue and Quebec Street is proceeding satisfactorily, according to A. P. Andersen, contractor.
Workmen are now removing the heavy wooden forms from the 27rfoot outside walls of reinforced concrete and it is expected that in two weeks work will be advanced to the point where a start can be made on the stone exterior.
Of massive construction, the new one-storey structure is designed to provide better banking facilities for B of M's customers.
Comments on the new building have been very favorable and it is reported that, when completed, the new office will be one of the finest, branch banks in the pro-Ivince. I
MOTORISTS REPORT Negotiations May Brighten
Province's Strike Picture"
Youth Discovered Ransacking Car .
Found guilty of theft from a car parked on George Street, a 19-year-old Prince George youth was fined $10 and costs by Magis
"The road is wonderful," declared Prince George .residents Mr. and Mrs. Harry Elsie and Mr. and Mrs. Charlie Tuscher, follow-,
ing a drive up the Hart Highway j VANCOUVER, June 23 (CP) -and over the newly-completec} British Columbia's 32,000 striking Parsnip River bridge yesterday. ! woodworkers decided Saturday
policy committee's action today.
Two hours after the I.W.A. decision, United Fishermen and Al-
About 25 cars from the city night to stay on strike; 6,000 fish- lied Workers Union said salmon made the northward trip Sunday,' ermen who had threatened to fishermen had voted 78 per cent they reported. iquit Sunday instead decided to in favor of postponing their
The Elsie-Tuscher party travell- postpone their walkout at least j strike deadline until July 19.
ed ten miles beyond the tempor- until July 19.
ary wooden structure over thei Tne snap-crackle-pop chain "of
Parsnip, just finished by contract
ors.
events in B.C.'s economy-crippling
Cars Collide On Vanderhoof Highway
Six persons had a narrow escape from serious injuries late
trate P. J. Moran in Police Court Saturday night when a car carry-
this morning.
ling five vanderhoof baseball
Connelly Hall was apprehended i players collided with a light de-Sunday afternoon while rifling a !nvery trUCk driven by Fred Boyt car owned by Len Archibald Ajon tne vanderhoof Highway 20 quantity of cigarettes was taken miles west of Prince George.
from the car.
Warmer With Showers
The ball players were enroute to Quesnel for a scheduled game there Sunday, while Mr. Boyt was
Cloudy skies and scattered j returning to the Half-Way House showers Tuesday are expected to from Prince George, follow today's brief, spell of sun- Both vehicles sustained heavy shine, according to the weather-, front end damage, man. , Shortly after the accident some-
Forecast predicts warmer lone stole a spare tire and Him weather with light winds. from Mr. Boyt's truck.
labor tangle went off in this order during the week-end.
The Provincial Labor Relations Board asked lumber workers to go back to work. Negotiations* would then be resumed with the operators. If no agreement was reached, a government-supervised strike vote would be held July 16.
Forest Industrial Relations Ltd.,
But the union said the vote also showed 83 per cent of the fishermen are prepared to strike July 19 unless the canners agree to a settlement providing prices at least as high as last year's.
Homer Stevens, union secretary-treasurer, said that unless canners withdraw1 their proposal to cut prices, fishermen will stay in part after July 19.
Fisheries Association of B.C. said it is gratified the fishermen agreed to its price offer for sock-
bargaining unit for 162 coast op- eye but that its offer on other erators, accepted the proposal, species is "the absolute maximum Operators had maintained since:under present conditions." the strike began a week ago they Meanwhile, 4,000 carpenters could not bargain while the work-'and painters, on strike or.locked
ers are carrying on an "illegal" strike.
Policy committee of the International Woodworkers of America rejected the . Labor Relation Board's back-to-work formula and union members will vote on the
out, said they are willing to accept Mayor Fred Hume's offer to mediate their dispute. Their waa no immediate, comment from contractors. The dispute has tied iip scores of major building projects in seven coast cities.