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Vol. 35; No. 58
Prince George, B.C., THURSDAY/July 24, 1952
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Gets Two Years In Pen
PRINCE RUPERT, July 24  ~Alf red Wilson was sentenced to two years in B.C. penitentiary here yesterday for the July 6 beating and robbing of a Hazeitpn miner.
Robbed of $20 in cash and injured by the accused was Evan Borstad. Wilson was sentenced in County Court.
HIDDEN LAKE BLAZE
$180 In Heroin Found
First concrete evidence of narcotic traffic here was bared >y Royal Canadian Mounted Police this week when a quantity of illicit heroin was found on a city street.
Although
This picture, taken by a Citizen photographer from a Central Airways seaplane, shows where a roaring forest fire completely demolished a mill in the Hidden Lake blaze which 10 days ago was ripping through 2000 acres of timber a few miles northwest of  here.  . Four families  were  left  home-
less and at least $40,000 worth of mill machinery and buildings were destroyed in the fire, termed by forest officials one of the worst'this season.- The fire is reported still smouldering in isolated patches today, but it is reported licked by forest men.
W/7/ Operate Soon
Edmonton Man Takes Over South Fort^Packing Plant
A dream long held/by local stock-raisers ... to have a modern, efficient packing plant here . . . will become reality in a mpnth to six^eeks' time according to an Edmonton man who is backing-tne project.                         :                    "*       !
Sara Tenbaum, an Albertan who Plete modernization of facilities. has sperit^aif his life in the packing .business, said today he has completed arrangements for the pu-rchase of the former Interior �'Farm Products plant at South Fort George and will get it into operation almost immediately.
Mr. Tenbaum has replaced the cooling system in the plant and early this week he took delivery on more than $20,000 worth of modern machinery for deep-freezing and processing.
Once regarded as a "white elephant", the South Fort plant will be killing and processing all the animals it can handle soon, the A.!bertan said.
He stated that local stock would be purchased wherever ajidwhen-ev.er possible, b7ut adftecTthat he lias made arrangements to bring on-lhe-hoof caule here from the prairies if taeai supply is not adequate,  . '
The^riew firm will be known as/fhe  Cariboo  Meat  Packing --Company and will,be licensed to sell its products anywhere in British Columbia.
Mr. Tenbaum said that all in^, filiations currently being made at the plant and all future operations will be under the surveillance of the Provincial Department of Health.
He said he believed Prince George was too big a city to accept anything but the best and the most sanitary in food supplies.
Prevailing market prices will bo paid for all local stock purchased and weighing will be done on scales regularly inspected by the provincial weights and measures branch.
Mr. Tenbaum formerly owned and operated a small packing Plant in Calgary,jmOeforejtha^ was at Brooks, Alberta. .
His latest venture will start with seven employees and staff increases will keep pace with expansion.
The plant will be available for custom killing, butchering and curing and its own products will include sausage, cured meats, beef, pork, veal and lamb.
Cariboo Meat Packing Company will cater to local as well as out-jside markets, but will not sell inter^provincially.
I A renovation project currently under way at.the plant includes Painting, of. the exterior 'and interior of all buildings and corn-
The new,owner said that at the moment he could not determine what the final cost of putting the plant injo operation would be.
He said he is willing to discuss purchase of local stock with any farmers at any time and may be
reached at his South Fort George headquarters.
Fence   Foreman  Awaits Return Of Nail Keg
A keg qf nails worth almost $20 disappeafed from Prince George's faingfounds last night where a .crew, of carpenters under Eric Morel 1 is erecting a seven-foot board fence for the Fall Fair Association.
Mr. Morell said he received a report of the theft from a couple who were parked nearby in a car and added that he would not lay charges if the keg is returned.
He said the couple had given him a description of the vehicle in which the keg was carted away
Paving Jobs Here, Hearing Completion
Paving   of George   road
the   South ' Fort and   Winchester
Narcof/cs Traffic
suspected for some time, the R.C.M.P. find this week "was the first definite evidence bared that narcotics are sold here.
A police official told The Citizen that a rubber pouch containing eighteen capsules of heroin was found near Brunswick Street and First Avenue only a- few feet from where a vagrancy arrest had been made a. short time earlier.
The official said the heroin found here was worth about $180 on the illegal market and was probably of poor quality. He said analysis of the contents of the capsules was made by a police laboratory in Vancouver.      \   .
The capsules, shown to a reporter by- police, are little bigger than the head of a match and are white in color.
Narcotic "pushers", generally hide the seed-like "pills" in rubber finger-stalls so that in the event of arrest, they can be easily swallowed.
Police say the capsules sell for about $10 here, compared with a price of about $6 in Vancouver and $3 in Montreal.
Addicts generally put the capsules in a spoon with some water, heat it with a match, draw it into a home-made syringe made from a medicine-dropper, and a hypodermic needle, and jab it into a vein in their arms.
When a needle was not available, addicts have been known to break the^ end of the glass dropper in a jagged point and jab it right into the vein.
Heroin sold here probably enters Canada at Vancouver and passes through Vancouver's elaborate illegal narcotics market be-
Street and Central Avenue is all .but complete, a paving crew official said this week, and a start was made yesterday spreading asphalt on Victoria Street.
Charles Symonds, ' superinten dent of the Provincial Department! of Public Works paving crew, 1 fore finding its way here, said that the surfacing of Victoria     In.    Vancouver     meanwhile, Street and its extension along the RCMP yesterday arrested seven
more persons�five men and two women �� in � their unrelenting crackdown on Vancouver's underworld narcotics traffic.
Northern Trans-Provincial Highway route as far as Prince George cemetery should take little more than a week if fine weather, prevails.
When finishing touches are put on the three projects in" and around the city, the paving crew j will commence work on the Cariboo Highway paving project com-cencing at the east end of the Fraser River Bridge here.
Once started on the highway job, the crew should make about a mile a day during fine weather,
with the disclosure of "pushers" selling or giving narcotics to juveniles.
At the same time, Patficia Bag-stad, a 19-year-old pregnant seamstress, was committed for trial on a charge of selling a substance represented as a drug to a juvenile. She was the third person committed for trial on such a charge.
The seven arrested, including a 22-year-old waitress, are charged with illegal possession of drugs, i rolling again.
OIL PIPELINE MOW COVERS 56 MILES
EDMONTON, July 24 (CP>�Canadian Bechtel Ltd. Wednesday reported that 56 miles of high-test pipe line has-been built between Edmonton and Vancouver.
Officials of the company,� agents for the owner corporation, said construction suffered a setback because of the United States steel strike.
But indications were that three work crews in the interior of British Columbia Would be able to continue operating into September, when it is hoped steel will be
Active Community Worker Lost In Mrs. James* Death
Members of many local organizations for community service join relatives and friends to mourn the sudden death early Tuesday morning of Mrs. W. H. (Jimmy) James.
Although she had been in in-, different health, Mrs. James had been carrying-on many activities but was taken suddenly ill Monday night and her passing came a few hours later in Prince George and District Hospital. .
Funeral services will take.place tomorrow at 3 p.m. from- St. Michael's Anglican Church, Fifth Avenue.
In addition to her husband and son David, en route here from H.M.C.S.   Cornwallis   in   Nova Scotia, Mrs. James is survived by j a number of sisters and brothers.
These include Mrs. H. Wilcox, London, England; Mrs. John Robinson, Mrs. John Christian and Mrs. Quentin Lindsay, all of Vancouver; Thomas Pope in London, Ernest Pope, Kenya Colony, Africa, and Cyril Pope, Vancouver. -
and her husband came to Canada after World War I, settling in Prince George 26 years ago.
Prominent in a great many activities during her quarter-century here, Mrs. James was at- the time of her death   treasurer of the (See MRS. JAMES;' Page 8)
Born -Christine' Alice Pope in
The crackdown started June 26 'England 56 years ago, Mrs. James
and that he had since identified it. the superintendent stated.
Hart Reports 'Exaggerated' Says Well Known City Mart
Road reports oh the Hart Highway have been greatly exaggerated lately according to a well known city businessman who drove to.Dawson Creek Saturday and back to Prince George on
Tuesday.
Gordon Nicol, president of Gordon Nicol Ltd. made the two-way trip in a standard Pontiaa sedan using ordinary tires and said he encountered no difficulty. � Last-Saturday^ he.Jeft^Prinjce George arotind 8 a.m. and arrived in Dawson Creek in the;afternoon after stopping to extricate two American cars from mud-holes.
One of these, he said, had deliberately driven into a set of wheel ruts close to two feet deep, and the other was bogged down on a soft shoulder while trying to pass the first one:
"There is no reason why a person should get stuck if he knows how to drive and uses a little common sense," Mr. Nicol told The Citizen on his return.
He said there were long stretch-
has yet been laid, and he cautioned drivers to drive over these carefully when theyxare wet.
"If you drive on these stretches as you would drive oriNslippery ice you should have no trouble," Mr. Nicol stated.'
He did not use tire chains on his car at all during the trip as others have done, but loaned them to one U.S. driver who was afraid' to go further without them.
Coming back, he said, he trailed an Automobile Association field car which was using tire chains on a dry gravel surface.
Corroborating Mr. Nicol's statements were two Alberta men and their wives, who made the trip over the highway In pouring rain early this week.
S. T. Brown of Valley view, Alberta,  a ^highway  maintenance
Coast Mills Make First Bid For Eastern lumber Markets
First inroads into "^ other load.
In 1914 he got his first job on bridge construction when the steel bridge' at the east end of First Avenue was started, and a short time later he enlisted in the Canadian Army, and was sent overseas. He saw action in tevery ; major battle in which Canadian units participated, including Vimy Ridge and Ypres.
After   four   years   and   nine
months in France, he returned to
Canada and started with the Pro-
(See JAMES BAKER, Page 5)
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