SNIPER'S EFFORTS NOT APPRECIATED
� successful efforts of a youthful marksman to "shoot down" a publicity balloon fastened to the provincial Government Building here earlier this week are not being looked on with enthusiasm by the blood donor committee of the Red Cross Society.
A second balloon, bearing the emblem of the Red Cross Society, has been hoisted and committee members are hoping the frustrated air gunner will curb his ambitions or waver in his accuracy.
The balloon is flying to remind hundreds of city residents of their date with the donor clinic in the C.C.F. Hall on September 9 and 10.
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Socreds Slash Amusement Tax
A reduction in the provincial amusement tax from .17^ to 5 per cent was announced in Vic toria yesterday by Premier W. A. ('. Bennett.
The new rate chiefly affects moving picture theatres.
Exemptions for church functions and charity events ^will remain in force.
Kamloops Chinese Faces Murder Trial
KAMLOOPS, Aug. 21 (CP) � Kosabiiro Masuda, 56-year-old Japanese handyman, charged with the shotgun slaying of his 17-year-old daughter, Mrs. John I!ing, Wednesday was committed for trial in a higher court.
Mrs. Bing, wife of a Chinese taxi driver and mother of a three-week-old son, died in hospital here August 7 half an hour after a shotgun had been fired through her bedroom window.
Foiling Tree Kills '�� Forest Fire Fighter
BEATON, B.C. Aug. 21 (CP) � A tree felled by flames Wednesday struck and killed logging operator John Ribalkin of Beaton^ as he fought a 100-acre forest fire in southeastern British ColumDia.
Ribalkin, 49-year-old father of two children, was one-off 90 men battling a fire in the Comap-pleux River district, 23 miles northeast of tbi� lakeshore community.
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Fraser Bridge Work Hearing Completion
Construction of a 20-year traffic deck" on the south side of the Fraser River Bridge here should be completed by the middle of next month, W. A. McCaffery, president of the contracting firm bearing his name, said today. About 20 men are employed on
the project and more than half the length of the timber portion of the new deck will be laid by the end of this week. "
Cost of the job, including a two-inch asphalt surface, will be about $65,000:
Close to a quarter million feet of creosoted coast fir and nearly three tons of nails will have been used.
Mr. McCaffery said the new deck will be superior in everyway to the old one.
Maximum* strength and rigidity is being given the new deck by making it from edge-up two-by-fours laid parallel to the line of traffic.
New expansion plates between spans will greatly reduce the un-symphonic "clackety-clack" which has accompanied traffic across the 2600-foot bridge for years^/
The construction chief stated
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prince George and district resl-/nents will enjoy cooler weather tomorrow, according "to the local weatherman. Cloudy skies and showers are expected in the afternoon, with light winds. Low and high temperatures expected 45 and 68.
Liberals Scouting For New B.C. Chief
VICTORIA, Aug. 21 (CP) � A British Columbia Liberal Party convention is expected to be call-yeu soon after the party's advisory council meets in Vancouver during the second week in September.
It was learned Wednesday that top Liberal strategists are anxious to gather and plot the party's future course of action.
They say the convention would be called immediately If there were some good 'candidates for leadership.
.Mentioned prominently as possible leaders have been Chief Justice Gordon McG. Sloan, University of B.C. President Norman MacKenzie, James Sinclair. M.P. and Arthur Laing, M.P. but none has signified a willingness to seek the leadership.
Coast Firm Low Bidders On City School Contracts
Bennetj, & White Construction Co. Ltd., Vancouver, were low bidders on a half million dollars' worth of school construction here, H. A. Moffat, chairman of the school board's building committee, declared this morning..
He said a report on the bids, opened in the Vancouver office of the board's architect Tuesday, would be presented to the board
an early date. The Vancouver
construction
couver construction firm bid on both the $400,000 Con-naught Elementary School project as well as the $150,000 High School extension.
Bennett & White will be no strangers to Prince George building circles if they are awarded the contracts. It was the firm Which built Prince George's present post �tnce, as well as the First Avenue station of the C.N.R. ..
No decision has yet been made on when construction"will start, Hit contractors will be asked to have the two major buildings in lh city's school expansion pro- completed for the start of the school year in September of 1953. ' �
Telephone, Telegraph Service Criticized
A resolution asking the C.N.R. Telegraphs and North-West Telephone Co. to improve their service at Prince George was approved at the Associated Boards of Trade convention at Smithers today.
According to delegate Harry Kennedy, there are times in Prince George and neighboring towns when it is impossible to get messages out by telephone or telegraph even in an emergency.
Last week when a fire occurred at Giscome the mill operator was forced to drive to Prince George to give the alarm because he could not raise the telephone operator.
He blamed the wire setup, not the operator, for the failure.
He said the millman had tried for three hours to get a telephone connection to Prince George without success.
Resolutions calling for road improvements east and south of Prince George were also endorsed.
Soaring Costs Hit Lumbermen
Because of high production costs, lumbermen in the interior have come to a point where they have no money to plough back into the industry, ert Leboe, president of Northern Interior Lumbermen's Association, told Associated Boards of Trade delegates at Smithers yesterday.
He said many small operators may be forced out of business by de-m�nds for higher wages.
He said -he was speaking for himself in stating that employers and employees should get together in an educational program to enlighten e�ch other on mutual problems.
He criticized' the Forestry Department for failure to take precautions areas where streams could be dammed -to accumulate water to fight bush fires. . '
that installation of redtand green traffic lights to control flow of cars and trucks over the north deck during the current project has turned out to be a marked success.
Not only is it more economical than the former method of placing flag-waving men at each end, of the bridge, it is more effici because "a traffic light ^ argue back," quipped Mr./McCaf-fery.
He said traffic had/co-operated well, despite a few^frantic drivers who from time/to time place an impatient foot on the throttle and try to make the other side before oncoming traffic blocks their"
^Should the project be completed by September 15 as Mr. McCaffery " anticipates, it will have taken about two weeks less than was at first predicted.
Recount Impossible In Vancouver Riding
VANCOUVER,.Aug. 21 (CP) � County Court Judge J. A. Mc-Geer Wednesday ruled against recount of ballots cast in Vancou-ver-Burrard riding in the June 12 British Columbia general- election.
C.C.F. asked for a recount' after Social Credit candidate Bert Priee edged out C.C,F. candidate Grant MacNeil by 246 votes.
Judge McGeer/in dismissing the recount application said: "The difficulty Ijere is the impossibility of conducting a recount when there/has not been a compliance witft the Elections Act in sealing, ^packaging and endorsing the ballots. You cannot get the ballots back where they belong."
If the C.C.F. had won on a recount in Vancouver-Burrdrd they would have held 19 seats in the Legislature to Social Credit's" 18.
C.C.F.. however, plans/further action to .obtain a recount in Van-couver-Burrard. /^
C.C.F. leader Harold Winch said the Social Credit government has been asked/to take cabinet action under Section 148 of the Election Act. /This section permits the Lieutenant-Governor to remove contradictions and impediments in the Act.
Gasline Gangs Plod Pine Pass
Survey Of Prince George-Ddwson Creek Carrier Route Started Tuesday
Led, by a veteran of similar projects in the oil and gas fields of Texas and Oklahoma, two survey crews started Tuesday driving location stakes east and west of the Pine Pass for a 900-mile pipeline to carry natural gas from the Peace River and north-western Alberta to consumers in Central B.C., Okanagan and"Fraser valleys and lower mainland.
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Wood S&, Huey of Vancouver, I the Hart Highway section.
ABANDONED HERE
In a nondescript crib in fhe nursery of Prince George and District Hospital today lies a two-weeks-old baby, unaware of the fact he bears the shortest name in the annals of the hospital's history. His name is simply "X". .
"\ Another thing'he is unaware of is that his parents have aban doned him.
Little "X" entered a swift transition of environment on downtown street early Tuesday evening when he left the arms of his unknown mother and became a ward of the public.
He was found by an astounded traveller, Joe Coleman of Ladner, when the latter returned to his parked car outside the MacDon aid Hotel on George Street.
Coleman turned the child over to police who in turn turned it over to hospital authorities, and the mystery of Little. "X" was well on its way.
Hospital-, authorities said the bright-eyed', happy little youngster had been well cared for since its birth a short two weeks ago. �
"X" was dressed as most babies
Convention Chairman [ensures Absentees
Seven resolutions had been disposed of before the Wednesday meeting of the Associated Boards of Trade of Central B.CNat Smithers.
Only one, demanding establishment of a full time, customs and immigration office at Terrace airport, was defeated.
The Terrace resolution brought complaints from.delegates against lack of information on the subject. They wanted to know the cost of establishing the office and the "amount; 6f business that would be handled.
A large number of visitors attended the sessions, including Frank Bird and E. J. Irwin of the B.C.-Automobile Association, Vancouver, and L. G. Ekroyd, B.C. representative of the Canadian Chamber of Commerce.
President Walter J. Burns welcomed the delegates, and after Secretary Duncan Kerr had read numerous letters and telegrams of regret from those unable to attend, Mr. Burns remarked: "It would be better if these people would send themselves instead of
his age are dressed, and was bundled up'Hn a baby blanket when found.
There was no note pinned to his clothing to explain the act of his parents in abandoning him, and despite two days of detective work by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, the mystery of the outcast tot's identity is as deep as ever.
A check is being made of all Interior Hospitals in an effort to determine where the child might have been born, and doctors are being contacted as a follow up to the only clue left with the baby which might enable identification.
The clue consists of two bottles of an infants vitamin drops. On the surface the bottles might appear to be two of many thousands sold across drug store counters, but- these two are different:
They are the particular kind of bottles which are passed out by pharmaceutical companies to physicians as manufacturers' samples.
Doctors frequently pass these sample doses on to their patients, especially the needier ones, and so police are trying to find the good hearted doctor who helped out "X's" mother in her time of need.
Not the only mystery attached
Canadian affiliate of an internationally known firm of engineers land surveyors with head offices in Munro, Louisianna.
They have been engaged by Westcoast Transmission Company to plot the entire gasline route in this province.
The location crews, mostly Canadians with a sprinkling of Amer<_ ician technicians, are based 20 miles east of the Parsnip River in bunk-houses formerly occupied by employees of the Arnett Construction Co., contractors on the Hart Highway. HIGHEST ELEVATION
�From that point, highest elevation on the entire northern route, the men will traverse the wild and undulating^ bush country west to the Parsnip River and east to Little Prairie where later a tent camp will be established to survey the northern end of the line.
Tt is anticipated the pipeline, which will be buried approximately five feet when construction starts, will closely parallel the 273-mile Hart Highway to Prince George, although minor deviations may be necessitated by the mountainous terrain in the Pine Pass region*. ''TOUGHEST1'
"This is the toughest country I've worked over in 30 years,' said Joe Atkinson, veteran pipe line location engineer.
Aided by aerial photographs of the projected route taken six weeks ago, field crews will remain in the northern area until early winter. They will then move to the Fraser Valley and return in the spring to complete
Engineers estimate the entire project will cost $112,000,000.
Belief that sufficient gas can be found in northern B.C. to take care of this province's needs was strengthened last week with an announcement by Pacific Petroleums Ltd. that a new and significant discovery had been made in the Port St. John field. A test gave a gas flow of 2,500,-000 cubic feet a day.
West Coast Transmission has a license from Alberta to export gas to B.C. but its application to the Board of Transport Commissioners at Ottawa is still being stud-, ied. r
Experienced gasline operators have stated that gas could be piped to Prince George by late 1954 if the line was started next year.
S.C. Cabinet Ministers To Contest By-Elections
VANCOUVER, Aug. 2 (CP) � Premier W. A. C. Bennett said Wednesday night he intends to hold by-elections before the next session of the British Columbia Legislature in hopes "of gaining seats for two non-member cabinet �ministers". *
The Premier did not indicate what seats would be opened for Attorney - General Robert W. Bonner and Finance Minister Einar Gunderson. /Neither of the men was among 19 Social Credit members elected in B.C.'s June 12 election. They did not' contest seats and were chosen because none of the elected members had suitable qualifications for the posts.
Fish Survey At Local Lakes May Improve Anglers' Luck
If fishing in district lakes should get even better than it
s already within the next few years most of the credit can go
to the B.C. Game Branch and two student biologists employed
yy them.
An intense study of fish species, feed resources, water temperatures, oxygen contents and depths
has just been completed here by two. Clinton' U.B.C. students, Richard Fyfe and Walter Sheppe.
Five district lakes were chosen for complete surveys. They were Cluculz,- West, Graveyard, Ness and Heart.
Purpose of the survey is to de-
fish from each lake and stomach contents of the fish have been examined. �
Depths of other lakes tested were, West Lake 50 feet, Grave-
to the case is the child's identity. termine what, if anything, can be
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Another mystery, and perhaps an equally pressing one, is the problem of who is responsible for the costs of his hospital care.
The Welfare Branch of the Department .of Health and Welfare las stated that the child does not come under its jurisdiction.
Hospital authorities do not be-ieve the Hospital Insurance Service can pay the costs because there is no way of knowing
done to improve fishing in� local lakes.
Neither Fyfe nor Sheppe would state which of the five lakes they survej^ed would bring the most "bountiful" return to anglersif recommendations evolving from the survey are carried out, but both seemed confident that many things might be done.
Probably the most important
.vhether his parents were paid up single item, they conceded, would
members of the service.
At present costs are being accepted by the hospital until either he child's identity has been uncovered or some government agency steps in to fill the financial breach.
Meanwhile, dressed in a cotton aospital garment and cared for by
their regrets. I think they then I nurses deeply touched by his pre
would have a much better appreciation of the needs of the north country."
"A land airport must come soon to Prince Rupert," a representative of Canadian Pacific Airlines told the-gathering on a resolution from the coast city. -
dicament, Little "X" sleeps happily in childish ignorance of the fact that his status is somewhat different from that of the other children around him in the nursery. He doesn't know that two days ago he was Prince George's most unwanted baby.
be elimination of coarse fish such as squaws, suckers, shiners'etc.
The two biologists shattered at least one myth during their two week stay here.
They found that the "fabulous" maximum depth of Cluculz Lake is a modest 201 feet. Many a summer cabin owner will protest this and the myth that the lake is "bottomless" in one place will probably still persist.
No less than 11 different species of fish were taken from Cluculz
Lake and it is known that at least 13 different species "exist there. Samples
yard 41 feet, Heart 31 feet.
Ness 60 feet and
Mrs. Hatch Tops Driving Contest
Long driving competition which was the feature of "Ladies Day" on the Prince George Golf and Country Club links last Friday was won by Mrs. Connie Hatch.
Second prizewinner was Mrs. Jim Fieldhouse. A two-ball foursome followed the special contest, and members wound up the afternoon with an enjoyable tea at the clubhouse.
Tomorrow will again be Ladies �Day on the local course, and following, play, which commences at 1:30 pirn., Mrs. George Hallett will be hostess for tea.
Fifth Polio Death Recorded In Vancouver
Fifth polio death of 1952 was recorded this week by metropolitan health officials.
The .victim, a 27 year old New Westminster man, was admitted to hospital at the coast last week.
Four new cases, three of them in the Kimberley area, broke out in B.C. over the weekend.
have been taken
There have now been 107- cases �25 around Kimberley�and Id deaths this year in B.C. Vancou-of ver has had 22 cases.