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Vol. 36; No. 17
Prince George, B.C., MONDAY, March 2, 1953
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Zero  Temperature Expected   Tonight
Curlers and skaters got good news from the weatherman to-day. The mercury will dip to the zer6 mark tonight with a high of 30 predicted for, tomorrow.
Skies will be cloudy for the next couple of days.
Forsey, Sugden Balk Stampeders
Vanderhoof Bears Cop Hockey Title
WILLIAMS LAKE�Playing a clever  brand of  hockey, Vanderhoof Bears took two straight wins over Williams Lake j Stampeders at the weekend to emerge as 1952-53 champions of the Central B.C. League.    Scores were 5-2 and 6-2.
The. edge for the northern squad was provided by the stout defence of Howie Sugden and Jack Forsey. The two veterans broke the hearts of the Stamp forwards as they broke up play after play.
Saturday night more than 600 home town fans saw the locals turn in one of their poorer efforts of the season as Vanderhoof kept control of the play from For-sey's opening goal at the five-minute mark.
Sugden provided a two-goal margin two minutes later and the Stamps, were unable to close the gap.
Ken Silver, Steele and Holmes scored singles, with Forsey adding another to his total.* Camponi and Burchholtz scored for the -Stamps.
Sunday's game produced some of the best hockey seen in the
taliate in the middle frame but took the lead again early in the � third when McNiven went down ' in the goal mouth aiter making. a hard save and Steele lifted the | rebound over him.                        j
With ten minutes remaining, a three-man rush by Holmes, Smith-ers and Trask widened the  gap with Holmes getting the counter. I The locals put four forwards in ' to try and get the necessary goals . but the strategy failed to pay off I and the Bears collected two more, Forsey and Silver fattening their season goal totals.
Saturday night McNiven handled 19 shots and Wall 15. Sunday shots were 18 and 19.
HENRY C. HEAL
Reds Not A Menace Says Alcan Official
VANCOUVER, March 2 (CP) � league this" yeaTas "both "teams I Aluminum Company    of Canada
kept up a killing pace for the en tire 60 minutes.
Up to the half-way mark of the final frame the game and the title were in doubt but the breaks finally went Vanderhoof's way. Ken Silver picked off the opening goal with half a minute of play gone and Steele added a second 12 minutes later.
Late in the period the Stamps finally -made one of their rushes pay off and Burchholtz knotted the score jusr'as the'secpmi period got under way.
The Bears were unable to re-
City Man Fined $50 For Unpenned Dogs
Had Special Canine  Door On  House
First  local conviction under the
Contagious Diseases Act regulations in force here came late last week when a Central Fort George man was sentenced to pay a $50 fine or spend the next 15 days in jail for leaving his dogs at large.
Oliva Major, a Central Fort George resident, elected to pay the fine after he had told Stipendiary Magistrate G-. H. Hallett he did not know that his dogs should have been penned up or otherwise confined.
Rotarians Entertain District Governor
In preparation for a district conference next month in Taco-ma, Wash., Henry C. (Harry) Heal, governor of District 151, Rotary International, attended two meetings of Prince George Rotary Club on Friday.
At the noon luncheon meeting, Mr. Heal gave an interesting account of his recent tour of Alaska, during which he visited eight clubs in 32 days. His itinerary included Nome, the continent's most northerly Rotary centre, Kodiak, Fairbanks, Juneau and other coastal communities where he watched Eskimo kyaks being propelled by shiny new outboard motors.
He said Rotarians in Alaska have been responsible for the introduction of travelling libraries which have been a boon to the widely scattered settlements in the territory, many of.which are isolated for months.
Other Rotary projects in Alaska include- construction ofc --playgrounds and swimming pools.
On Friday evening Governor Heal conferred with President Charlie East and the directors and committee heads at a club assembly following a dinner in the Prince George Hotel Cafe.
Mr. Heal has already visited 58 of  the  60  clubs  in  his  district,
j which   stretches   from   Chehalis,
I Wash., to Nome.
|    Accompanied by a party of local
| Rotarians, he spent the week-end
rabies-inspired  Animal   ?f Burns Lake, and later will visit
clubs at Smithers and Prince Rupert. % He  is  accompanied  by Henry
has no knowledge of Moscow-directed Communist activity at its $550,000,000 power and aluminum project at Kitimat.
"It is all news to us here," said P. E. Radley, company executive. "We have no evidence of Red activity. Our company has had an amazingly small amount of labor strife."
Pat Walsh, Quebec labor leader Avho has resigned from a number of Communist-front organizations, claimed Friday.... the Reds had sabotage plans for plants in B.C., including the aluminum project.                                 r~
Sawmill Man Wounded In Mysterious Shooting
City Twins Will  Have Different  Birthdays
Twin boys were born to Mr. and Mrs. ian Danvers of this city at Prince George and District Hospital last Thursday and. Friday.
But it wasn't two pair of twins. One of the little boys was born Thursday and the second one arrived Friday. The twins were the only babies to arrive at the hospital in the past few days.
A 27-year-old district sawmill operator lies in Prince George Hospital today in "fairly good" condition suffering from a gunshot wound mysteriously acquired early last Thursday, morning.
Suffering from a bullet wound in the neck and cheek, is Dennis Kemp, a part owner of Kemp & Gabrielson Sawmills in the Chief Lake area.
Kemp was admitted to hospital shortly after dawn on Thursday when he was rushed to Prince George by his partner, Gabrielson.
Police stood guard over the injured man for two days but the guard has now been lifted.
A Royal Canadian Mounted Police official connected with the case said today that foul play is not suspected.
Kemp, his ability to talk impaired by the damage done when a 9 mm slug tore through one side of his face just below the right eye and out the other side near his neck, first said he had been shot through the roof of the cabin he was in.
Police say that he and his wife were in bed at the time of the shooting. His wife was awakened by the shot and found her hus band badly injured.
A 9 mm Luger automatic pistol was found on the cabin floor on Kemp's side of the bed.
Police questioning of the injured man has been hampered by the nature of the wound and the full story of how the incident occurred is not yet known. .
Red  Cross  Opens Fund   Drive Today
Opening guns in the annual Red Cross drive for funds will be fired in Prince George today.
Canvassers are ready to blanket the city and outlying areas. However, sickness has riddled the canvassers' ranks and a few more are needed. Interested persons are asked to' contact Mrs. R. B. Carter or Mrs. N. Woodhead.
Canvassing will take only one or two afternoons.
Socred 'Comic Opera1 Menaces Development Here, Says M.P.
Government May Sell Post Office Building
George Murray, M.P., Cariboo, arrived in Prince George by CPA, remained here two days and proceeded back to Ottawa and the session of the House of Commons, via  Fort  St.  John  and* Dawson
Creek. At Quesnel he addressed the annual meeting of the North Cariboo   Farmers'   Co-operative.
Mr. Murray said that he came to British Columbia on a confidential mission and would report
Huge Copper-Rich Deposit Staked In Northern Wild
Police testifying against the accused told a lurid tale of three times visiting Major's house and encountering "about 10 dogs."
They said' the house was equipped with a special swing-ing window- so that the pack of canines could come or go at will.
An RCMP constable said that three attempts had been made to serve Major with a summons and that on each visit a number' of dogs had either entered or emerged from the special entrance. They said the snow surrounding the house was littered with dog tracks.
On the third visit to the house they found Major home and he admitted the canines were hla own.
Handing down sentence, Magistrate Hallett said he could not accept, a defence based on ignorance of the law.
Although the conviction Friday was the first registered here since the rabies quarantine went into effect several weeks ago, it Is not liable to be the last
A number of residents who had penned up their dogs during the early days of the quarantine had released control of \ their pets "when they found themselves a decided minority.
Today there are almost as many dogs as ever pacing city streets "untended by their owners.
Jukes, past president of Belling-ham Rotary Club.
PRINCE RUPERT, March 2 (CP)-r-Three mining men returning from a helicopter expedition into the mountains of northern British Columbia say they and a rival group have staked claims on a fabulously rich copper deposit.
The trio reported Saturday they have staked 72 claims on an ice-covered 7,000 foot peak known as Leduc Glacier for Frobisher Ltd. and "an amalgamation of other large eastern mining intei*-i ests."
They told of what they describ-
NO   SIGNS   MEAN   NO  City Girk  Sweep  Hoop  Series
FINE FOR PARKING pme River H.S. Puck Squad
Hands Wince'Double Meat
One hour parking signs must be apparent in any city block! where a summons for overpark-ing   is   issued,   a   city   police
Prince George Sawdusrers,  a  high  school   hockey team
magistrate ruled this morning wnjch played its first games of the season here Saturday and when he handed down the first. sunday after only three practices, gave stiff opposition to the dismissal of a summons for, Dawson Creek Penguins but dropped both ends of a double-this offence.                              ! header 7-2 and 7-4.
Norman Abernathy, a proyin-j A Prince George High School cial civil servant, pleaded not'girls- basketball team, however, guilty to overpaying on Bruns- plucked a double win from their wick Street between Third Ave-; serieg against a Dawson Creek nue and Fourth Avenue on Feb- j teartlj defeating the visitors 54-21 ruary 27.
Abernathy, presenting his own defense and testifying on his own behalf, said that there were no signs in the area restricting parkr ing to 60 minutes.
He said he was not aware that 60-minute pprking was in effect in the block his car was in when it was ticketed by a police constable.              �   ' �
Police witnesses claimed there was a sign in the area and city prosecutor P. E. Wilson Q.C. asked if the accused had not seen the posts on which the signs were to be erected.
The block in which Abernathy's car was ticketed was recently stripped of its one-hour parking signs by vandals.
Abernathy pointed out to Magistrate P. J. Moran ttta't the city parking by-law reads that one-hour parking shall be in effect (See PARKING, Page 5)
and 28-22.,
Dawson Creek went into an early lead Saturday night in Civic Arena with goals by Han-sen, Bell and Dill, while Sawdusters went scoreless.
The city youngsters, coached by Jack Beech, drew first blood in the middle frame as Carnell, an up and coming junior who wore the colors of Prince George Lumbermen at the season's close, scooped a shot into the northerner's mesh off a pass from Eric Dornblerer.
McNabb scored unassisted for the Creek squad for Dawson's only second period point.
Leading 4-1 going into the third, Dawson Creek launched a series of power plays which netted them three goals off the sticks of Han-sen, Schilds and Bell.
Carnell, grabbing a loose puck near the Dawson blue, raced in to score unassisted to give Saw-(See HIGH SCHOOL, Page 5)
HITS 'POT OF GOLD' ON HART HIGHWAY
Stanley S. Shiels, a district truck driver, drove smack into a 'pot of gold' on the "Hart Highway 17 miles north of here last week when his loaded lumber truck ended the life of a 100 pound female wolf.
At current bounty prices the minor collision, which did no damage to the truck, netted the driver a cool $24.
Shiels had rounded a bend on the highway just north of Salmon Valley when he saw six shadowy forms on the road.
He manoeuvred his heavy truck towards the pack, which he immediately recognized to be timber wolves, and managed to get one beneath his wheels.
He told game officials he would have been able to get three more if his vehicle had not*been so heavily loaded that its acceleration was reduced.
ed as a claim-staking race with Grariby Consolidated Mining, Smelting and Power Co. Ltd., Granby taking out claims on the remaining quarter of the Leduc deposit.
Frobisher Ltd. is the big exploration and development company which proposes to carry out a giant power development in a 17,000-square-mile area along the B.C.-Yukon border.
The reported copper strike is to the south of this area in the rugged Alaska-B.C. borderland territory. Its location was given as about 25 miles northwest of Premier, the nearest settlement. This puts it about 137 miles north of Prince Rupert.
The deposit is described as being in a zone 4,000 feet long and 100 feet wide running through the hill to an unknown depth.
Assays showed the deposit to run from 2 to 5 per cent copper per 100 feet. Traces of gold and lead were also found.
to colleagues on the present situation at Victoria.
.'Eastern Canada has the opinion that Victoria is staging a Gilbert and Sullivan comic opera," Mr. Murray said. "The party rivalry in British Columbia is making front page headlines. Our interest at Ottawa is indeed a serious one, since provincial-federal tax agreements are likely to be under review. We are now in a running battle with Premier Du-plessls, of Quebec. The new government at Victoria has served notice that'they will demand of Ottawa a brand new deal financially.         v....
"There is grave danger that northern development may be held up for many years as a result of the newly defined B.C. policy," Mr. Murray said. "Ottawa was ready to vote a cash subsidy to (See COMIC OPERA, Page, 8)
Four Arrested After Fight With Police
Four men were arrested here Saturday night following a Don-nybrook with police on an upper floor of a city hotel.
Facing charges of assaulting peace officers . and obstructing during   an   arrest   are   Richard
Anglehart,  Felix  Larocque,  Ted Grade five and six Choir of Con-Plouffe and Martin Cormier.
According to police reports the fight broke out after a constable had been struck by one of the occupants of a hotel room when he had gone there to investigate a complaint that there were too many men in the room.
Police state that eight men, all
EDUCATION WEEK PROGRAM AT HIGH SCHOOL THURSDAY
A highlight of Education Week in Prince George will be a special evening program at the High School Thursday.
Children from all city schools Will take part in the program, which gets underway at 8 p.m. with "O Canada" by the High School Band. RHYTHM BAND
A. Embleton of the high school will make the opening remarks. First item on the program will be the Rhythm Band of Con-naught School, under the direction of Miss Jean Urquha'rt.
The Grades three and four choir of Connaught School will then perform under the direction of Miss M. Craker.
Miss Jean "Wallace will direct the Grade five Tonette Band of King George V, followed by the Central School Choir of Grades four, five and six, directed by John Wiens.
Other performers will include the Grade four and five Tonette Band of South Fort George, directed   by   Ralph   Gardner,   and
naught School, under Ron Brent.
Miss Elsie Wellsby will direct the Connaught  Caper Club,  and Al  Horrocks,     the   High  School Band. PANEL
A  panel  discussion  on  youth problems will have as participants
Miss    Shirley health  nurse;
Bradford, Miss   Kay
public Smart,
occupants of the room, attacked | social worker; Constable Von two police constables and attempt- j Hagen of the RCMP and Miss ed\ to prevent an arrest.                 Barbara Lang 6f the High School
Of the four arrested, one faces Staff.   Chairman   will   be   Jack two charges of assault,  another. Beech.
faces a charge of assault and the, A playlet will be presented by remaining two face charges of ob- the High School Drama Group, structing a police officer. They Entitled "Fat King Melon," it will appear in magistrate's court will be directed by Miss Margaret today.                          ' �             I Hatton.