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Vol. 35; No. 56
Prince George, fJ.C, THURSDAY, J>i%
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FOREST FIRE ENGULF MILLS, DESTROYS HOME
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Damage at ty/o sawmill installations about 23 miles northwest of here is estimated at around $40,000 and ot least four families are homeless as a result of a forest fire which billowed up beside an open mill burner Monday afternoon.
the blaze
Although control today,
70 men
is under are still
battling to keep it contained by fire-guards and six tractors are on the job.
Prince George residents got their first news of the fire late Monday afternoon when huge billows of dirty brown smoke all but blotted out the sky to the north of the city.
Destroyed by the fire with all
ings lost by the mill-owner. Mrs. Welssbrod wept when her husband brought word that all was gone.
Mr. Weissbrod was just getting
into production again
his mill
after an earlier fire had forced
him to find a new location.
Disaster relief committee of the Prince George branch of the Canadian Red Cross Society is caring
of its adjacent buildings was Hen-1 for four families left homeless by dricks Brothers Sawmill, a $20,-'the blaze and a special order to 000 installation which had closed j have extra bedding flown here down" at noon on the day the ; was filled yesterday by yancou.-
blaze started because officials of (he firm helieved adjacent woods conditions too hazardous to continue operations.
Houses, outbuildings and three horses were lost at Spencer Lake Sawmills owned by J. Weissbrod.
Mr. Weissbrod moved his fami-' away from the mill and then
ver Red Cross officials.
The fire started from an open burner at Hobart's Sawmill around 2:4f> p.m. on Monday only a few minutes after a B.C. Forest Branch air patrol had coVered the area and found it safe.
It was first reported by the Pilot Mountain lookout and an
liberals Make In Quebec E!e
QUEBEC, July 17 (CPi Union Nationale government terday was re-elected for Its ih\rd
consecutive term with breaking 1948 majority
eturned to .salvage household of- J immediate air patrol covered the
i e
fects only to find that the blaze had already attacked the outbuildings.
A brand new washing machine was among the personal belong-
45 Men, 3 Women On List Of MLA's
Five political represented in
legislature at the next session when 45 men and three women will watch a precarious Social Credit government take over the reins of administration.
Here is the complete list of MLA's:
SOCIAL CREDIT
W. A. C. Bennett, South Qkan-
agan
Ralph Chetwynd, Cariboo Ken Kiernan, ChilliWack Irvine Corbett, Yale
C. W. Parker, Peace River P. A. Gaglardi, Kamloops R. O. Newton, -Columbia Lew King, Fort George
R. E. Sommers, Rossland-Trail Cyril Shelford, Omineca Harry Francis,, Similkameen , Lyle Wicks, Dewdney J. A. Reid, Salmon Arm Hugh'Shantz, North Okanagan W. D. Black, Nelson-Creston, Bert Price, Vancouver Burrard Eric Martin, Vancouver Burrard Mrs. Tilly Rolston, Vancouver
Point Grey Thomas Irwin, Delta
C.C.F.
Harold Winch, Vancouver East Rae Eddie, New Westminster Vincent Segur, Revelstoke Anthony Gargrave, Mackenzie Frank Calder, Atlin Leo Nlmsick, Cranbrook George Hills, Prince Rupert Robert Strachan, Cowiehan-
Newcastle
John Squire, Albernl Frank Mitchell, Esquimau Frank Snowseli, Saanich E. E. Winch, Burnaby Rupert Haggen, Grand Forks Randolph Harding, .Kaslo-
Slocan
Mrs. Laura Jamieson, Vancouver Centre W. C. Moore, Cpmox Arthur Turner, Vancouver East James Bury, Vancouver Centre
LIBERAL
".Archie Gibbs* Oak Bay. E. T. Kenney, Skeena Mrs. Nancy Hodges, Victoria
D. J. Proudfoot, Victoria W.T. Straith, Victoria
M. E. Sowden, North Vancouver-
CONSERVATIVE
Dr. Larry Giovando, Nanaimo
E. C. Carson, Lillooet George C. Miller, Vancouver
Point Grey
A. Reg MacDougall, Q.C, Vancouver Point Grey
LABOR
Tom Uphill, Fernle
parties will be
the provincial j ofa'mUe'wid'e!
area.
The aircraft arrived at the scene less than an hour after the blaze had started and already it covered three acres.and was burning fiercely.
Employees from all mills in the j area were closing in towards it within a short time but strong winds came up and the blaze roared across open slashed areas and ultimately, covered a swath three miles long by three quarters
record rf 62'. in
the 92 seat legislature mUceci by 28.
Liberals, winners in only eijjftt seats in 19-18, almost tripled t'.eir strength, by electing 23 number:;. They gained 15 seats fro'�i VJu!on Xationale and one from th-a Nationalist candidate, but fost tbe .seat of Gaspe-North to LT!-ior.i Ni-tionale. Premier Duplessi.* who, at 62, is celebrating 25 years i7, noli-tics, Avon 68 seats 'compa red v/ftti S2 in 1948.
Duplessis and all but -:hr �?�-.� of his 20 cabinet ministers were ra-electcd. Liberal leader Ot-or^os Lapalme, was defeated in his home constituency of Jelie-l~ in his first bid for a seat in 'he legislature.
Another blow to Liberals! '.as .the death of -Henri Groulx shortly after he had retained Mon-treal-Outremont for the party: Gr ulx Was minister of health in Quen bee's Liberal govern merit Ovm 1939 to .1944 .
At 4:30 p.m. Monday the Forest Branch was notified of--a second fire a few miles east of the first and 40 men and a number of machines were rushed to fight it. The second fire was caused by a spnrk from the open burner of Northwest Interior Lumber Company Ltd., which luckily escaped damage.
Also undamaged in the holocausts was the Hobart Mill from which the main fire is said to have got its start.
Firefighters have been equipped (See FOREST FIRES, Page 5)
C.N.R., P.G.E. lit ft On Interchange fee
Tentative verbal arrangements between the Pacific Great Eastern Railway and the C.N.R. hnvu !>*en reached for interchange ?aor-ary P.G.E. terminus on the �;ast side of the C.N.R. bridge noire
The interchange track was completed almost a year ago a I the east end of the bridge but it. n ust be approved by the board before it can be officially used.
Coast Millmen's Marker Loss Will Hurt Here Tod
It is a "foregone conclusion" that loss of overseas markets by B.C. coast lumbermen will adversely affect northern .ii*?rior lumber markets, a prominent local operator commented yes'.er-
day.
No effect has yet been felt by district lumbermen, however, due at least in part to the current woodworkers' strike at the coast, another prominent mill man said.
Recent news reports widely publicized at the coast indicated that Baltic and Russian lumber prices, along with freight ratea from those countries, have suddenly plummetted as much as 30 per cent.
As a ^result, timber importers in the UnitedtKingdom, formerly some of coastal B.C.'s best customers, will fill the rest of their
Chevies In Top Place In Softball League
� Chevies chalked up an 11-7 win over the Army Friday night to move into top place in the city soft ball league, one game ahead of Billiards.
Also on the double header program, Airport beat CNR.
Bill "Hoagy" Carmlchael slammed out two home runs for Legion Monday night to help them beat Army. Billiards beat Airport 9-5, at the Airport to put them in a tie with Chevies for first place.
In Tuesday's double game. Six Mile beat Central B.C. Airways 11-7 and Legion gals took Civies 20-11 to place them one game behind the top Airways team., ,
year's quota from the ntarer, cheaper markets�which il.-o do not require scarce British dollars. Formerly, the Scandinavian ar "1 Russian prices were sky-rm^i but drastic cuts have beeti made to regain lost customers, d
g
"B.C. coast producers compete with the new h h
caj.not
p prices
offered by the northern European timbermen," a Prince Georje operator declared, "and will be forced to look for new markets, I nside the dollar area.
"These must apparently t1 the markets in Eastern Canada arid United States which havr: been supplied largely until npw by northern interior mills.
"The probable effect on murkets for local lumber is obviou?. What we do not know is how ^ooti it will be felt."
Latest prototype of Chance Voiught Aircraft's swept-back vino Cuttass, the F7U-3 rocn off She deck of a U.S. Navy carrier for tl'.e wiK Mue yonder. Security regulations cloak performance of the ..tailless *win-jeS lighter, but it was designed to out-fly and out-fight any (ftner vwsrWer-boseJ fighter in the world. While unsuited to the present carrier equipment of the Royal Canadian Navy, it wan omorg the aircraft recently studied by the R.C.N. The Cutlass is manufactured by a division o tfte lodge officials who attempt rd to enter the bflrning-buildJ-r la an effort to save document*
Mr. Nicol will also be president of the- new company which will handle the Buick, Pontiac, G.M.C. line and which wii! probably be named Nicol Motors Ltd.
The company, to be incorporated for $100,000, will set up headquarters in the building at Second Avenue and Dominion Street formerly occupied by Cariboo Motors and by Kallweit Auto Body Repairs.
The tie\v agency becomes effective on August 1, Mr. Nicol said, and the Buick, Pontiac, G.M.C. products will be handled by the present agent, Roger Motor Products Ltd., until that date. .
Mr. Nicol said that extensive renovations to the building where the ?ip\V company. Will be set up are on the drawing boards now, and that he does not expect tbe firm will actually be in business until around the middle of Au-1 gust.
A complete stock of General Motors Corporation parts for all G.M. products will be carried by the company and a British American Oil Company gas and oil agency will be operated in conjunction with it.
A staff of 12 employees will be required to operate the agency.
Prior to starting the equipment firm of, which he is now president. Mr. Nicol was connected with W. M. Motors Ltd., a General Motors agency which was the forerunner of Roger Motor Products Ltd. �*
Heroic Priest Wai Out From B.C. Cra
PENTICTON, B.C., July 17 � Painfully' cut and bruist Roman Catholic priest hiker, miles across rugged hest-shiRV ing hills yesterday to repoi and another priest had bee" jurec' when their plane err? ori a mountain slope laf.e Me
Father Vincent Myrich oi troit could only mumbJe ''<� ~i have a glass of water," 'wht reached an RCAF station at rnerland 10 miles north of h(\
Finally he was able to that Father. J. Lavoie, aiso oi troit. who receivea\ a br> ankle and other injuries in' crash, was awaiting help ?r, crackup scene.
He said tbe plane crashed < miles from Penticton on, a �� mountain slope, it fell a i'ev/ utes after take off from P' expected 'to bring out Father' voie today.
I
Hart Truck Awaits New
Two Slaughter Plants To Operate Here Soon
Two slaughterhouses will be put into operation here in the near future.
John Gosse, manager of Gosse Cold Storage said this morning he expects to complete a $G500 slaughter,;plant two m'iles across the Nechako River, in about three �weeks.
The 28 x 36 building, which is being constructed by Mr. Gosse and his staff, will handle 12 head of beef a day.
Mr, Gosse said the slaughterhouse will enable him to handle 3 larger volume of meat at a lower price.
In addition to the slaughter facilities, pens will be constructed at the plant for keeping stock, he said.
At the same time, A. P. Andersen stated today, he has sold the Interior Farm Products slaughterhouse and packing plant in South' Fort George to an Edmonton man who Will arrive in a few days to put the building into operation.
VICTORIA, (CP) � Futur trucking over the John ] Highway will be decided by , ers of the incoming governs
A proclamation bill was pi, on the statute books in 194" ing the Pacific Great '�?,: Railway a 20-year franehi^ -passengers and freight set b3r motor vehicle between P> George and Dawson Creek. � LOADS RESTRICTED
The legislation has never : proclaimed as law, however
Meanwhile, the Public \JW Commission controls truckir: granting permits only to �jj-ors who directly .supply jtf.t. and industry . bleated alor,;j highway.
At present the Public V. '� Department has a load "iitr! five tons on trucks uskstf highway because of 4i<-^ weather conditions. Foi':' nearly ree weeks r? h rain, pu' ;c works bfi^'Jfclw afraid excessive loads v/;;.'U the new road >o pieces. Officials say they hoi triction win only be it Government decision use of the highway ir. i ed to come ursUl al way has b-een offk open tc traffic The road v/as vno?i\:\