Red Cross Campaign Reaches $1600 Mark
Canvassers have collected approximately, $1600 for the Red Cross, with the drive a week and a half old.
Objective for Prince George dis-trict is $4500, and executive of i he drive are confident they will reach it.
The figure collected so far does not include any reports from out-lying districts, and includes only three of the more than 50 mills to he canvassed.
Canvassing is-being undertaken (in 40 districts. Chairman of the [drive is W. G. MacLean, and co-chairman Mrs. N. Woodhead.
{Cold Snap Delays IRoad Restrictions
Truckers oh all roads except |the Cariboo Highway will get a Ifew more days respite before re-[st fictions on hauling blankets all [routes through the district.
Provincial Public Works engineer D. D. Godfrey said today tiat no more restrictions will be laced on roads until the current cold snap ends.
'1 rather expect that we may
i e to enact restrictions on the Northern Trans-Provincial High-iway next Monday," the engineer said.
Condition of the highway in the Vanderhoof district was de? :ribed as very bad due to the y thaws and in some places Ihe gravelled surface has been cut by car and truck wheels to a Pepth of eight inches.
Mr. Godfrey said that at the same time load and speed limits ire placed on the Vanderhoof-'rince George section, restrictions kvill also be placed on that portion of the Northern Trans-Pro-/incial east of this city.
So far the Hart Highway has lot shown signs of breaking up, Mr. Godfrey said, and. it is expected that hauling will be permitted over its length beyond the Jate when the Trans-Provincial t route is restricted.
Regardless of whether colder temperatures prevail for some jime, the engineer added, restrictions will not be lifted from the Cariboo Highway.
"No amount of frost will protect the paved portions of this
vg will have to do some tempor^ iry patching before restrictions jtre lifted this year," Mr. Godfrey
Itated.
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Landed Here Today
Super Value Stores Want Building Site
Retail Grocery Proposed At Victoria, Fourth
Confirmation of reports that Super Value Stores Ltd., a subsiduary of Kelly Douglas & Co., Ltd., intends to enter the grocery retailing business here shortly was received at City Hall Monday night when an application was made to rezone part of the south side of Block 130 at Victoria Street and Fourth Avenue for purposes of light industry. The south side of the block is
Wth a puff of blue smoke as its wheels slapped the runway here shortly before noon today, Canadian Pacific Airlines' first northern service Convair completed the southern leg of a familiarization flight designed to prepare crews and airport employees with the new C.P.A. service which starts officially on
Monday. The big Convair hit speeds of just under 300 m.p.h. on its way here and cut the time of the Vancouver-Prince George flight by one hour. The new planes feature fully pressurized cabins for 40 passengers. Captain of the Convair today was C. McNeal, of Vancouver, and co-pilot was R. Goldie.
New Hospital Here Must Involve Entire Rural District
Committee Set Up To Spark Enthusiasm
If a new hospital is Jo be built in Prince George it must be built with the help of the district's rural residents and must not be solely a municipal project. This was the concensus of opinion expressed last night at the annual meeting of the Prince* George and District Hospital Society.
Close to 20 persons attended the meeting and heard Mayor Garvin Dezell say that the City of prince George would pay its share towards a new hospital but
tail Officials At leering Tonight
Regular monthly meeting of the Prince George Board of Trade [rill be held in the McDonald Ho-
at 7 o'clock tonight. Two representatives of the Pacific Great Eastern Railway and officials of the Great North-rn Railway will attend the din-meeting as guests of the aard.
The chairman of the transpor-committee of the Dawson reek Chamber of Commerce will be present.
would not bear the entire brunt of local financing.
Discussion of the new hospital topic came after Prank Clark, chairman of the hospital board of management, said in his annual j report: "Your board now recommends, to the hospital society "that steps be taken to build a new and up-to-date hospital to accommodate at least 120 patients and to be so -constructed that additions can be made at a minimum of cost when such additions are necessary." TOO COSTLY
Earlier in his report Mr. Clark told the meeting of the shortcomings of the present hospital buildings and said the institution Vhas now reached the stage where it is too costly to maintain."
Business of getting interest in a new hospital underway here will -fall into the hands of a special committee set up at last night's meeting.
The committee will consist of a member of the city council, a
member of the hospital board, a member of the hospital's medical staff, one member of the hospital society and a representative from the ladies' auxiliary to the hospital.
The committee will meet with the board of management next Tuesday to plan its first'moves.
Actual discussion of the hew Hospital topic centered* on a reso- i nited.
City Firemen Make Shortest Call
Prince George's fire department made its shortest emergency call on record shortly after noon on Tuesday when flames broke out in a municipal equipment garage jnst a few feet from the fire hall.
Firemen quickly extinguished a blaze in a grader garage after about $200 damage had been done to the interior of the building.
According to city officials the fire started when oily rags lying close to a large space-heater ig-
currently zoned for multiple
dwelling and the north side is
i zoned for general retail.
' A Vancouver real-estate firm,
; acting as agents for the big gro-
j eery chain, said that Super Value
! holds options on Lots 13, 14, 15,
17 and 18 subject to rezoning, and
is negotiating for options on lots
19 and 20. The firm already owns
Lot 16.
A rough sketch of the Super Value development tendered with the rezoning application showed a 60 by 100 foot store located at Victoria Street and Fourth Avenue, surrounded by a large paved free-parking area.
Prince George's Town Planning Commission will study the application and recommend its acceptance or rejection to the City Council.
Flames spread rapidly through the building due to a gas and oil- soaked floor.
�even Lawyers We In Hoff uwmill Blaze Litigation
,;rnaj}e..by board; member j '.There was no equipment in the Gordon Wood" cltiy druggist, to garage when the fife'broke'out. the effect that the society go on record as recommending a new hospital and appoint a committee to get the project underway, j COST $1,800,000
Alderman William Ferry, city council appointee to the hospital board, said that in a recent con-! versation with a noted B.C. architect he had been told that a 120-bed hospital might be built j here for around $1,800,000. He said this might be a trifle low but that it was a figure to work on. j
Of this amount, he continued, j the Dominion Government would i put up $120,000, the provincial j
ance might come' from special
Funeral Services For Wilfred Blanchette
Funeral services for Wilfred Blanchette, 57, who died in hospital Sunday following a short illness, will be held from the Sacred Heart Church at 10:30 a.m. Friday under the auspices of the Canadian Legion.
Mr. Blanchette was born in
Montreal and. had*. resided te since rast*"*fall,~ coming from "Ed monton. He is survived by a bro ther in Edmonton, and a brother and sister in the east.
Legislature Hears Appeals For Highways In North
VICTORIA, March 12 (CP)�The Legislature Tuesday sang the song of the open' road.
Twenty-four members rose during consideration of public works
I VANCOUVER, March 12 (CP)�
five-man Court of Appeal Wed-
esday resumed its hearing of an
ppeal of Lipsett Engine and
[anufacturing Company Limited
rom a judgment totalling $150,-
as the result of a fire which
estroyed a .mill at Prince George
fore than four years ago.
Seven laywers, including four
"jeens Counsel, are appearing
the case which has already
?n hefore the Appellate Court
' five days in Victoria arid pro-
Pises to go to the Supreme Court
? Canada.
[The judgments appealed from fe for $125*,653 for Trans-Canada Products Company, Ltd. operator of mill and for $25,-J for the estate of the late Chris ^Hoff, mlllowner.
are six volumes totalling pages of evidence and ex-which were before Mr. ?f_Uce Clyne when he tried the