MUDDY WATER PROBLEM LICKED BY BIG BASIN _,� � Next spring for the first time In the city's-- recent history householders will find clear water running from their taps and not the muddy liquid which in the past has accompanied the spring run-off period. Elimination of the heavy ,sedi-rent content, of the water will be made possible By a settling basin nearing completion this �week at the west end of First Avenue. Started last spring, but abandoned whenTiigh water made further work impossible, the million j Dillon basin will be in operation this' winter and henceforth. The basin-jvqrks- on the principle that water is cleansed when i forced to flow through gravel and ! "permitted to stand awhile before Water .pumped.into the city's .mains from the basin will have flowed in by seepfhg through a minimum of 30 feet of fine gravel. . Seepage into the basin will be at the rate of about 300 gallons a minute. At present Prince George householders and businesses use approximately 800 gallons of water a.minute" ' , � City Engineer Charles East said this week that about 320 feet of a 380- foot steely main connecting die basin witnSthe pumphouse has now been laidX. The pipe is 24 inches in dia-i?ieier and is galvanized, to pre-venPcori-osion. The lineNyill be i cated ^six feet below iheHevel of the Xochako River bottom^ According to "Mr. East, the filler action of the gravel will largely eliminate any contamination of the city water source. The basin will be 300 feet long, 50 feet wide and 10 feet deep at low water level. Largest Circulation of Any Semi okly Newspaper in British Columbia Vol. 35; No. 87 Prince George, B.C., THURSDAY, November 6, 1952 $4.00 per year 5^ per/copy Avalanche of Votes For New White House Tenant Sawlog Production Over Half Billion I Fort George Forest District sawmills have^cijt over a half billion feet of sawlogs so far this year, the/latest B.C. Forest Branch statistics reveal. * . �:-----~/~------------;------------- Muddy Roads Force Sawlog production throughout the three areas' making up the Fort George District is up an, even 40 per cent over what it w^s at this time a year ago. Tcrtal so far this year is 548,565,99J/board feet. ,/ \ Production during/September of 47,106,876 board/feet showed an j increase of 42/per cent over the ; figure for/September of 1951 ' when 33<570,072 board feet was cut. / Tie production in the district �also increased during September this year from 5775 pieces in 1951 to 17,751 pieces. Tie mijls have .produced 15,584 pieces thus far in 1952 compared with 132,245 pieces 'up to this time in 1951. Sawmills adjacent to Prince George scaled 29,2,41,611 board feet during the month of Septem- iy Sawmills To Close Temperatures above normal for early November have persisted throughout Central B.C. Bush in which has led to the shutting down of a�number of mill operations which will not be resumed until heavy frosts have Hardened the 'access roads. Starting at 8:10 a.m. on Sunday, November 2, the first snow of the winter started falling in the Prince George area. One hour later the precipitation had totalled 1.3 inches. However, instruments at the Dominion meteorological station had registered traces of snow at Work Train Orders Said Key To Cause Of Finmore Wreck GENERAL" DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER on January 20 nexrSyill become the first^tfepublican president of the . United States an 20 years. May's Shop Yields Loot To Thieves Over S100 worth of merchandise was stolen last night from May's Shop. 421 George Street, by thieves who tried one and then another method of entry b; ).re getting inside the store. The break-in wtis discovered by Landslide Win Eisenhower ber, an.increase in production of 7:18 a.m. and 3:05 p.m. on Friday, October 31." Snow was not discernible in Prince George on that date. The Cariboo experienced the first snow of the season early last week, while the hills bordering the Hart Highway in the Peace River district were sprinkled with flakes about the middle of October. 200 per cent with a-total of 15,-635,363 board feet. Peace River mills � showed a drop | in production during September from 2,273,931 board feet a year ago to 2,229,902 feet this year.1 In the first "10 months of the 1952 Forest Branch yea�J|vmills adjacent to Prince George iiave scaled 291,453,172 board feet,) an increase of almost nine per cent over production during the first 10 months of 195. Quesnel mills with a 1952 10-month total of 209,117,807 board feet shows an increase of about 175 per cent over last year's total A Canadian National Railways train wreck which took place 47 miles west of Prince George late last month takingthe life of one roads are in a muddy condition, J-crew member^aiid hospitalizing four others was caused by a misinterpretation of orders governing the work train involved in the smash, according to reports received by The Citizen. Efforts to obtain locally a statement on the cause of the wreck from C.N.R. officials have met with no success. The railroad has not yet released details., of the crash which took, the life of John Kowal. age 63. . within a short distance of where the same^ two trains collided a short time before. An inquest into Kowal's death opened here some days ago but was adjourned pending testimony T)f witnesses still in the* hospital. According to information received by The Citizen, a 'freight train eastbound, Number 932, was on time and held priority through its orders over the ditcher train which it struck. NEW YORK, Nov. 6 (OP)�"We Like Ike." Americans said so Tuesday -with an outpouring, of votes for^the same period. Royal Canadian Mounted''Police stunning in its immensity. They weren't so sure-^abouf the constables shortly after 3 a.m. men they put into Congress to pass the laws Eisenhower hopes is morning. / : X �.fo enQct ��----^------�- Thieves who/broke mto the gy ^ ^^ ^ J^^ij House of Representatives .with trickling in,. Gen. Dwight D. Republicants there- butnumber- Peace River area mills $how an increase of around six per cent jn their year's total thus far of 47,995,012. " . store and sweaters took/three Indian wool iHe'cfto eainTntrv^v Eisenhlnver' had" been 'elected the>g Democrats by an "extremely nto a hallway which 34th "President with the greatest fl�� h"f �,.wahi* �.-mn May's shop with an number of votes ever accorded- a candidate in the United States. lects itjacent store. Finding the inside doors heavily barred after breaking a pane �t glass in the outer door, the i'ohbers smashed in a rear window 'i^the women's and children's vear store and unfastened a atclw ' A trail of blood led through the ;'r'!e and_^soveral pair of child->e"!s uridervyiafr were also sp'at-'�'i'(i with bloM.?'' wripreTprpprietora say no cash taken but they have y\a( yet (ock* is thin but workable margin. . That made' Eisenhower's ^triumph, widely viewed as a victory^ He will-have a Republican Con- for Eisenhower, the man, rather grass behind him when he takes than tfte Republican party as January 20. But the marg- such, complete. An administration at odds, with Congress could do little to- heal the disunity so (See EfSENHOWER, Page 5) ap- ^-Cloudy And Cold Cloudy and cold sums up the weather forecast for the remainder of today and for Friday, with occasional showers of rain or wet show predicted tonight. Southerly winds of 15 m.p.h., expected this afternoon should drop to light, and lowland high temperatures read 25 ands40 degrees.4 S Stolen TrucJ^May.Have Been GekAway Vehicle A gray/light delivery truck stolen &W a downtown late garage week and recovered by Canadian Mounted Police a prance from the city since may have been the vehicle used in tne armecj hold-up of ^Qch.ie's Service Station on the "art Highway Iqfit Friday. Police state the truck was stolen a short time before the ' "old-up took place "and that it "�* 'ho desriptidh of the get-away emcle given police by the serv- � �s station attendant. . � in was close. r . Eisenhower left *by plane yesterday for a ten-day rest in Au-_____________ eusta, Florida, after confirming to President Truman his campaign Commission Hears Local VieWS pledge to go to Korea to try to end the warfare there. Truman sent a telegram offering him the use of the presidential plane, Independence, ' but the general Replied a military service transport plane would be satisfactory. He gave no indication of the ^H^UceVted^another TrumaJ Pritish Columbia's three-man liquor enquiry commission offer to have a representative sit i sitting in the Provincial Government Building here on Tuesday in on discussions of the budget j niQntf heard a Social Credit Constituency Council Committee Traffic Crackdown Starts EIGHTEEN PAY VISIT TO $2 WINDOW BUT NONE COME AWAY BIG WINNERS Eighteen persons have so far paid, $2 fines at City Hall for infractions of traffic laws since a police crackdown and enforcement of the new municipal traffic by-law got'under way Monday. . Offences ranged from overtime parking in one-hour zones to parking too far from the curb and jaywalking. Persons given traffic tickets have the alternative of paying $2 at City Hal-1 or being summonsed and, if found guilty, payings fine and costs. An R.C.M.P. official said here Government Bixrs Urged By Social Credit Group Here today that two to three men are being used for traffic law enforcement. Overtime parkers are being-nabbed by the old chalk-stick method whereby a constable marks a tire on a. vehicle and then returns an hour later to.see if it is still there. Meanwhile, new one-hour parking signs -are being readied for installation. City Engineer Charles East that about 50 steel-standard-type signs have been completed and will be up in a few days. The signs are mounted on steel posts whicTi will be sunk into concrete curbs. TnTee signs will be located on each side of each block where' one-hour parking i.s in effect. nigfr$ head y to be presented at the next ses-! d d by L ,|_ .Kjng M.L.A:, advocate government-owned sion of Congress. ' � us y -. . . . .. . . ^ Z sion of Congres Before leaving for the. south, Eisenhower had received congratulatory messages from Governor Adlai E. Stevenson of Illinois, his Democrat opponent, and Truman. As counting of a record number of votes neared an end, Eisenhower's Republican Party -had squeaked through in the Senate. It was somewhat better in the and operated bars be set up throughout. B.C. The sitting here was the first Building Permits Near $2,000,000 for fen Months Prince George's phenomenal 1952 building boom loomed j-v'2r larger this week as