Give Prince George the 'green Light' T� S PROVINCIAL LIBRARY Open Tomorrow At Fire Hall, 8 a.m. To 8 p.m. ~~ * New Buildings Hit. Miiiion-Doiiar Clip itizen Largest Circulation of Any Semi-Weekly Newspaper in British Columbia Vol. 35; No. 77 Prince George, B.C., THURSDAY, October 2, 1952 $4.00 per year 5$ per copy Mayor Appeals For 'Yes' Vote On the eve of balloting on the biggest money by-laws ever placed before the people of Prince George/ His Worship Mayor Dezell issued fhe following letter to city property owners. After careful consideration, the three by-laws and the referendum were prepared for submission to you by your City Council. It is the duty of your Council to act as a directorate and to manage your city affairs-in a businesslike way. This, I believe, has been done in the past and is being done today. I therefore do not 'hesitate to ask you to support the by-laws and the referendum at the poll tomorrow. The rate of increase of construction and the resultant increase in the values of our assessment rolls demands the increase proposed in all services, but it also assures all of us that the burden of taxation can be spread over a greater number and thus will not cause an additional burden to be borne by those, who have -already assisted in the establishment of the present services. It is most difficult to assess the actual benefits that may be derived from the extension of services, but it is safe to say that the overall benefit to the city as a whole will be tremendous. Therefore I urge you, in all sincerity, to support the suggestions and efforts of your Council as presented. MAYOR GARVIN DEZELL. Councillors United On Improvement Needs Only one of the three proposed money by-laws which will go before city electors here tomorrow is of a non self-liquidating nature and the increased assessment resulting from new buildings in the city will more than take care of its cost, His Worship Mayor Dezell told radio listeners Tuesday. His Moose Hunter Lost In West Lake Bush A 27-year-old transient is lost on a hunting expedition today about 25 miles southwest of Prince^George near West Lake. j-------:-----------r-------:------------------ Royal Canadian Mounted Police are mounting a search party to penetrate the densirwilderness at the south end of West Lake in quest of Roland Godreau who has not been seen since Wednesday afternoon. Godreau, with a companion, Felix Lerocque, entered the bush around the south end of the lake yesterday on a moose hunting expendition. According to Lerocque, who came back to Prince George last night, the two split up yesterday afternoon to increase their chances of finding game. When Lerocque finally emerged from the bush late yesterday Godreau was nowhere to be seen. Lerocque fired shots to attract his companion's attention, and he told police he thought he heard two shots in answer. Police say the shots may have been from the guns of other hunt-j..ers in the vicinity. Godreau is registered at a city j hotel but his home address is not [known. City Lumberman Died Sunday Night Word was received here this [week of the death in hospital at Sask., Monday night of Henry Meiers, well known in ponce George lumber circles. I In failing health for more than year, Mr. Meiers was a patient Prince George Hospital on e occasions, being discharged June. Later he underwent a jor operation in Saskatoon general Hospital. After convalesces here, he returned to the pralr-es several weeks ago. I An American by birth, Mr. Mei-F* canie to Prince George four ears ago and for a time operated sawmill at West Lake. Later . as a lumber buyer for ans R�ine Planing Mill Ltd. wmember of Prince George iSi f ? Ciub> ne was a keen *nd 'in player who took an active "Zest !n a11 Phases of tourna-a'id club play. f � Meiers, who was 62 years iertiv 1S survived by his wife, ina, who resides on Ross Cres-r ,'�,?, dauehters 'here, Elean-�"irs. Hans Roine; and. a Nving In Prince Rupert. Meiers, West Lake saw owner. is a brother. SANITARIAN GETS TOP JAYCEE POST An almost completely new slate of officers was elected to the executive of the Prince George Junior Chamber of Commerce on Tuesday night headed by Len Hiebert, Cariboo Health Unit sanitary inspector, as president. Mr. Hiebert, who has been active in Junior Chamber affairs here for some time, succeeds P'rank Brinkworth, who now becomes a member of the past presi- dents' club. John Springall, chief account- ant for Ferguson Lake Sawmills, was elected first vice-president, and AJex McNeil, accountant at Caine Lumber Company, was elected second vice-president. Directors for the coming year .will be Alf Strom, Strom Lumber Company; Bruce Lamb, Lamb Sawmills Ltd.; Gordon Fowler, provincial veterinarian; Bob Leck-ie, Radio Station CKPG announcer. MAYOR ' GARVIN DEZELL who today issued an earnest appeal for endorsement of the three improvement by-laws and the city extension bylaw at the polls tomorrow. "These proposals are? all essential to the city's present and future growth," the' mayor said on the eve of balloting. Prince George Man Heads School Trustees A signal' tribute was paid' a Prince George man long identified with school administration in this district when Harold A. (Ham) Moffat was elected president of B.C. School Trustees' Association at their annual meeting in New Westminster on Tuesday. Also at the meeting were Jack Nicholson, chairman of School District 57, and John Nilson, a member of the board. J..Reeve of Victoria arid Arthur Turner of Rossland were elected vice-president and' second vice-president respectively, while Dr. W. B. McKechnie of Armstrong was renamed honorary vice-president. Education Minister Tilly Rols-ton is honorary president. speech was the opening salvo of the Council's brief campaign to get the three money bylaws, totalling $550,000, and a city enlargement referendum, passed by the people. Implementation of the city's $250,000. waterworks program must take place if increased insurance rates are not to be levied on Prince George owners. His Worship said that many features of the waterworks program are being demanded by the provincial fire marshal's office. "The fire marshal's office is most instrumental in setting the fire insurance rates in your houses and business premises, and it was only due to my personal assurance that the system would be improved that the rates have remained the same during this year." Touching on the $175,000 power system by-law, His Worship went on, "we are endeavoring to expand this operation to the extent that there will be no necessity to worry about sufficient electricity to supply the ordinary needs of everyone, and to avoid any such near-tragedy as we had last year at Christmas time." Only by-law which would necessitate the borrowing o money which for purposes of re payment must be borne by direc taxation is the street issue. '�'You are all aware of the men ace and rnjusance caused by dus duVing\ the summer months,". Hi Worship continued. "The Cpunci has endeavored to mitigate this distressing problem by the appii cation of oil, but this is a tempor ary measure only and at the same time it is very costly. We are (See COUNCIL/ Page 5) Arrives Here October 23 Governor-General Starts Tour Of Western Canada OTTAWA, Oct. 2�Governor-General Vincent Massey leaves today on his first official visit to western Canada since his appointment as Canada's first native-born representative of the crown. The Governor-General's itinerary calls for a 40-minute stopover at Prince George on Thursday Liberal Setbacks Arouse Talk of Election Next Yeai (Special to The Citizen) OTTAWA, Oct. 2 (CP)�A wave of speculation hit Parliament Hill following the Progressive Con-, servative sweep that ended 17 years of Liberal government in New Brunswick. The consensus was that the federal Liberal party, in the wake of six consecutive setbacks in provincial fields, will look more carefully to its laurels in the next federal election. One question was whether the New Brunswick defeat will have any bearing on the date of the federal election. For one thing. Mr. St. Laurent will attend a meeting of Commonwealth prime ministers in London in November. A winter election is almost unheard of in this country and by next spring prominent, members of-all parties will be making plans to attend the June 2 coronation of Queen Elizabeth. VOTE LATE IN 1953 Life of the present Parliment, elected in 1949, runs until Aug. 25, 1954. There has been speculat-(See LIBERALS, Page 4) Seals Vacated For Cabinet Ministers EDGEWATER, B.C. Oct: 2 (CP) �R. O. Newton, Social Credit member for Columbia, announced Wednesday night at a meeting attended by Premier W. A. C. Bennett that he is resigning his seat in the British Columbia Legislature. Attorney-General Robert Bon-ner, who doesn't hold a seat, was immediately nominated to contest the riding for the Social Credit in one of two by-elections which will be held to fill vacancies in the 48-seat house. Mr. Newton's resignation was the second move of a Social Credit manoeuvre to find seats for its two non-member cabinet ministers Bonner and Finance Minister Einar Gunderson. Monday night at Keremeos, Rev. Harry Francis announced he was resigning his Similkameen seat and in that riding Mr. Gund-erscn has been named as Social Credit candidate. evening, October 23. He will be greeted by Mayor Garvin Dezell and a representative group of leading citizens at the CNR station. His trip of more than a month calls for plane, train, boat and automobile travel to visit 30 cities and towns in the West. It begins with a flight to Winnipeg and winds up here Nov. 9 after covering more than 7,500 miles. �During his tour, Mr. Massey will attend a round qf receptions and dinners, make several speeches, tour western industrial plants, review troops and be initiated as honorary chief of an Indian tribe. From Oct. 17 to 19, the Governor-General will spend a private holiday at Qualicum, near Victoria. He boards the Sioux again to visit the coast towns of Friend ly Cove and MacKenzfe Rock. The Sioux will carry the viceregal party to Prince Rupert. After a visit there, the party again boards . the train for the Prince George visit. Fair Prizes On Way To 500 Winners Today Some 500 letters went into the mail here this morning with contents* sure to please their recipients-�prizewinners in the recent fall fair .here. Prince George Agricultural and Industrial Association secretary Mrs'. R. B. Carter, who handled the enormous job of forwarding the prize cheques, ranging from 50 cents to near �100, stated that' all are now in the mail. Total of 2,055 entries were put in this year's fair, by 887 exhibitors, ranging in age from four years to some 80 years, and $1,-488.75 prize money is now on its, way to the winners. Alderman Is New Election Official Thomas S. Carmichael, owner of the real estate agency bearing his own name at 1464 Third Avenue and a city alderman, has been appointed Dominion Government returning officer for the sprawling Cariboo constituency. Mr. Carmichael, whose appointment was confirmed by Ottawa yesterday, succeeds city barrister Frank S. Perry in the election job. Duties of the returning officer include establishment of polling stations, distribution of ballots, appointment of polling clerks and deputy returning officers, as well as administration of the Elections Act. It is believed that the next Federal election will take place around this time next year. If residential and industrial construction continues at the present pace, building permits authorizing more than $1,000,000 worth of inew buildings will have been issued at Prince George City Hall by the end of the year. Up until the end of August building permits totalled $815,-575, or an average of more than $100,000 a month. The August total was $167,300 which compares with $193,250 for the same month last year. In 1951, buildings worth more than $1,557,550 were 'Startsd in Prince George, a figure exceeded by only four other cities in B.C. While figures for this year are running well hehind the record 1951 totals, City Hall officials believe this can be /accounted for to sorrie"extent by.the fact that suitable building sites are becoming scarce in the city. They advance this as one reason why Prince George voters should get behind the expansion referendum on which a vote will be taken at the Fire Hall tomorrow (Friday). Terrace Celebration Honors Oldtimers TERRACE, Oct. "2 (CP)�Celebration of the second anniversary of Terrace's incorporation concluded Wednesday night with a banquet at which district oldtimers were guests of honor. * Presentations were made to George Little, founder of Terrace, who first arrived in 1905; E. T. Kenney, M.L.A. for S4ceena, who came to Terrace in 1911, and Emil Haugland, chairman of the vililage council, who has served for 20 years. 20-Year Sentence For Indian Slayer His massive head bowed, 39-year-old Peter Francois Dennis, convicted of manslaughter in connection with the August 2 death of William Austin, this afternoon heard Mr, Justice J. O. Wilson pass sentence of 20 years in the penitentiary upon him. Expaining his sentence to the � accused and before the court, Mr. I Justice Wilson said that man-. slaughter represented criminal I killing short of murder. j "But," he went on in the hush-, ed courtroom, "it is as little j short of murder as any crime in my experience." Denis, a look of solemn shock written across his face, stood resolutely in the prisoner's box until a red-coated policeman touched him on the arm and led him away. Sentenced to three years for wounding with attempt to maim was Stephen George., Joseph, 24-year-old Stoney Creek Indian who was convicted in assize court late last week. Leo Gagnon, a 54-year-old district logger convicted of" carnal knowledge, with a 13-year-old girl. and with indecent assault, was sentenced to six years in the penitentiary on the first count and six months, to run concurrently, on the second. Airplane Passenger Seeks Lost Suitcase A Tahtsa Lake woman is anxi- ous: to recover _a small suitcase . quantiti � which fell from a car between ?�- maJ�ha,, ofrjf_, Prince George airport and the Fraser River seaplane base on August 14. It contained articles of great personal value but of no importance to the finder. The suitcase is of black and white tweed material and had a blue tag with the owner's name. Anyone knowing the wherea- Agriculture Minister fas East Road Need A highway connection between here and McBridc is an economic necessity, Kenneth Kernan, B.C.'s Social Credit Minister of Agriculture, remarked to party -officials here (Wing a brief visit Monday. Mr. Kernan, in a conversation with Lew L. King, M.L.A. for this constituency, said he is looking for a highway market outlet for McBride agricultural products. He said the McBride area was capable of extensive agricultural development but that proper marketing facilities are lacking. ,Mr. King pointed out that cattle shipments to Prince George from McBride are nof economically feasible because the cattle raising industry there is not yet of a proportion to deal exclusively in carload lots. "These farmers should be able to truck a half dozen head to market in Prince George rather than be forced to hold back their stock so it can be shipped in the legislature member stated. Mr. Kernan visited the provincial Department of Agriculture's offices here and also the recently re-opened South Fort George plant of Cariboo Meat Packing Co. He left here by plane at the end of his three-hour visit and said he will be back again shortly to go into the agricultural needs bouts of this luggage should write i of this district more thoroughly. Death Sentence For Vancouver Slayer Miss Claire LeBlanc, Morrison-Knudson Co., West Tahtsa, B.C., via Burns Lake. Old-Age Pensioner Juried Here Today Last rites were held at Sacred Heart Church this morning for Charles Napoleon Lepage, an 80-year-old pensioner who died in Prince George Hospital on Monday following a lengthy illness. He is survived by his widow, who lives on Third Ave. East. Interment took place in Prince George cemetery. VANCOUVER. Oct. 2 (CP) � Alexander Viatkin. 24, was convicted of murder Wednesday night in the cafe washroom d.eath here June 14 of Joseph Hyland. Mr. Justice J. M. Coady sentenced Viatkin to be hanged Jan. 8. The death penalty was ordered shortly after a guilty verdict was brought in by an assize court jury which deliberated three hours. The prosecution said robbery was the motive for the slaying.