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Vol. 36; No. 32
Prince George, B.C., THURSDAY, April 23, 1953
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Relief Seen Tuesday
Parsnip Span Swept Away
Hart Traffic Now At Standstill
Worst fears of the Provincial Public Works Department were realized within the post 48 hours when ice jams at first threatened and then demolished the temporary bridge over the Parsnip River on the Hart Highway. y/ *
Traffic over the John Hart Road came to a complete standstill around noon yesterday when/an ice-flow exerting
hundreds of tons pressure, carried away the centre span of the pile bridge.
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First indications that movement over the Parsnip might come to a sudden standstill came, on Tuesday liight as first moving ice bore d�\vhxon the frail piles of the wooden bridge. Before dawn two of the pile supports had been cut away and �raffic came to a temporary halt. An emergency crew managed to make temporary repairs early yesterday and a few vehicles made a hazardous crossing before noon. Shortly after 12 o'clock a light truck nudged its way out onto � he threatened structure but was forced to beat a hasty retreat when the pressure of ice against the, bridge suddenly ^ caught the center span and whirled it downstream.
Today contractors on the project are installing a temporary deck over the steel and concrete permanent bridge so that traffic movement can be resumed.
Fears , that spring break-up along the Parsnip River might demolish the pile bridge were first ^pressed some months ago.
D. D. Godfrey, divisional Public Works Department engineer
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Moving Through City
^ 11 ^1�rS�$1 Trainloads Of Wheat
operations to get the perorarient bridge into operation xSaid that traffic over the river/may be re. sumed'on Tuesday:
He stated tt*at efforts to re ^ the temporary bridge have ioned by the contract-'they, can concentrate on the new span for traf-
$80,000 Gas Station Denied Permit For 24-Hour Operation
Northway Esso Opens For Business Today
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.An $80,000 super-service gasoline station which opened
today at the corner of First Avenue and George Street and which was intended to offer 24-hour facilities to motorists will
Dezell, Bennett To Talk School Costs
His Worship Mayor Garvin Dezell will fly To Victoria Tuesday where he has an appointment to discuss Prince George's school cost burden with Premier W. A. C. Bennett.
The mayor will be accompanied by Alderman T. S. Carmichael and city clerk D. T. Williams.
Mayor Dezell requested the appointment this week a short time after city council had given initial readings to a school-cost-inspired, record tax levy.
In a brief statement on his impending conference with the premier the mayor said he intended merely to lay the facts be-fore the highest provincial authority.
be restricted to a standard iO-'hour day like most other city j " Last vear tne mayor won a sup-stations, it was learned this morning. I P^mentary municipal grant of
G. D. Bryant, a director of the,>'"~ ;----'
firm which owns and operates; capital, it said to have the great-Northway Esso Service, said to-! est underground fuel storage capa- �
$20,000 after a similar trek to the capital.
for an operation.
FACES OPERATION � British Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden's 1 doctors said he was suffering from j chronic inflammation of the gall bladder. The foreign office said he
The prolonged strike of elevate! had to cancel visits to Turkey, or onerators at VanoouvPi- has � Greece and Italy to enter hospital
Ul OpcldlOIb dl NdllCOUVei ndS , fnt, an nnoratinn
brought a big spurt to- grain shipments over the Red Pass-Prince Rupert line of the CNR.-
Every week trainloads of prairie grain are moving through Prince George consigned to the Prince Rupert elevator which is experiencing its busiest time since shipping was resumed 18 months ago after 10 years of idleness.
day that Prince George Automo-' I bile Dealers' Association this week declined hi.s.firni permission I to operate the new installation I on an around-the-clock basis.
''This -came as quite a blow to us," said Mr. Bryant, who is also president of Bryant Motors Ltd. at Fifth and George Street.
Ho s;�id the entire installation of the Northway development was designed for 24-hour service and that the enterprise will probably operate at -a loss on a 10-hour schedule.
city of any service station north \ of Vancouver. |
Another unique feature of the (See GAS STATION, Page 4)
Last week-end three deep-sea freighters were waiting to load wheat at Prince Rupert.
The first cargo of wheat this year, and the biggest ever loaded at the Prince Rupert terminal� 369,600 bushels�left a, week ago aboard the Lamyra of Panama registry.;
Early this week. two Japanese
vessels were tied at the elevator
' dock waiting to be lined and
loaded. Anchored in the harbor
! was the Greek vessel Kaparia, -
Some 17,000 bushels of barley-are still in the elevator, while 300 carloads of wheat are waiting to be unloaded.
Grainhandlers at Prince Rupert are |non-union civil service employees of the federal government.
Suspects Flown East To Face Hearings
TORONTO, April 23 (CP)�Two
here! said at that time that main- Ontario provincial police officers tenance of traffic over the river would be a touch-and-go proposition during the spring. Progress on" =the permanent otner Harry Duguid.
flew to Vancouver Wednesday to bring back two wanted men, one of them Henry Seguin and the
bridge started to lag late last year when crews encountered difficulty .driving the coffer-dam forms ie steel bridge's maiirpiers;� WherfHhey were finally driven
a series otHeaks in dams delay- bank manager,,,He faces a murder ed pouring of concrete and weeks cnarge in the slaying of Leonard were wasted in trying to pump Hurd of Maxville, Ont. asing.
City, Province May Split Fringe Taxes
Disposition of 1953 taxes from privately owned property and improvements in the "fringe" area
W. G. Fraser Hamed Returning Officer
William G. Fraser, retired former city clerk for the City of Prince George, has been appointed returning officer for the Fort George Electoral District in the forthcoming provincial election which is to be held on June 9.
Mr. Fraser was returning of-
. , i � i -r j ficer at the last provincial elec-
| rested ot his home on Tuesday. tion here when a complete enum-
Cily Man Charged In Cluculz Cabin Theft
A South Fort George truck driver, Arthur .Brooks, was ar-
He said members of the dealers' |.evening and charged in con-' eration was made, association voted down an applica-, tio jth |arae.sca|e ioot. I twb v�Sr �* tion to keep the station open | nection witn a large scale loor-,
around the clock and gave asf
This year, as an economy measure, full enumeration is not. taking place. Instead, new voters their reason a statement that such , cabins which took place during must register of their own accord
of Cluculz Lake-Summer
service would be in excess of the . .i winter present needs.
Such action, he added, was tak- Royal Canadian Mounted Police en in spite of the fact that one said today they had recovered city service'station operates open-, most of-the property which was . , lv cm: a 24-hour basis in defiance reported stolen from a number of
about to be taken in as part of. Qf the dealers astoclation anrt a cabins belonging to Prince George
municipal bylaw. I residents.
the City of Prince George will be a topic of discussion between the Provincial Government authorities and city officials in Victoria next week.
So far the subject of taxes in the area to be annexed has riot been a part of negotiations between the city : id the province.
City Hall officials hope that the Provincial Government will divide the lax take on a proportionate
Northway Esso Service, built I Among the items recovered are and operated by Northway Serv-1 a chesterfield, a bed, chairs and a ice Ltd., a firm backed by locaT ..quantity of cutlery. * .
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is believed to be owned by B.C. Spruce Sales Ltd., a city firm which maintains a summer residence at the lake.
The goods were siezed by police at the time Brooks was arrested. Ti/ie fluculz Lake cabins were
Police Seek Tiny Mail Robbers Here
Royal Canadian Mounted Police
basis governed by the number of j are today on the trail of a gang systematically looted last Decem-inonths remaining in the tax year ; Of pint-sized "desperadoes" who ber and it was known at the time after the city takes formal posses- J on Tuesday opened a mail pick- j that the thieves used a truck to
sion of the area.
This amount may be reduced by the amount of taxes still owing on fringe property much the same as a person purchasing a business pays for accounts receivable, a city authority explained.
j up box and thus committed the carry their haul away.
It is now believed that a truck
serious offense of tampering with
the Queen's mails. j actually belpngin
Police sped to the scene of the of one of the cabins was used in mail box looting at Third Avenue 'lie theft.
Street shortly
Tuesdav and
City Garageman New Lions Club Prexy
Neale Unruh, parts manager for Fred Walls and Son Ltd., city automobile dealers, was elected president of the Prince George Lions Club at the nomination and election meeting held here- Tues- j uritTer 10 years of age
�water- -out-of- -the-pier
Finally .engineers�� cleVised method of plugging the Je the last pier was po�re-r-Striking workers indicated Wednesday they would reject the latest proposal of grain companies to arbitrate issues in the 67-day walkout at five elevators but hope continued for early settlement of the strike.
Operators of elevators "offered a proposal to submit all differences to arbitration. Previously they restricted the arbitration offer to the wage question.
Three Nominated This Week
Duguid is a suspected bank robber and jail escapee.
Lord Archibald Nye lo Lay Federal Building Cornerstone
Cornerstone of Prince George's half million doiiar new up in Prince George while their Dominion Government Building at the corner of Fifth Avenue
City postmaster Walter Mullig-an-lold The-Citizen today-that-alL inail from the box has been recovered and that damage to it is negligible.
What mystifies the postmaster is how the youngsters got into the box. He said the contractor who picks up the mail has stated the box was definitely locked after the 'previous t'imu H had been emptied. The lock on the door "of the box bears no signs of havih been tampered with.
Fort George Political Bosses Grease Up Election Machines
lQid'by LOTd
to retreat
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their cars to Jasper, or await commissioner for the United Kingdom at Ottawa completion of the-deck on the: Word that Lord. Archibald new bridge. '. | would, formally trowel "the cor-
More cars have been forced to nerstone . into place came today turn back to Dawson Creek from from George Murray M.P., a re-
the north bank of the river.
Social Credit, C.C.F. Select Candidates
VANCOUVER April 23 '(CP) � Cabine ministers .Robert Bonner and Mrs. Tilly Rolston and insurance salesman Tom Bate nominated Tuesday night to carry the Social Credit banner in Vancouver-Point Grey in,the coming provincial election.
Unanimous support was given �e nominations of the attorney-general and education minister, ?nd Mr. Bate also won the nomination -without a fight.
�n the same night, Arnold webster, new provincial leader of ine CCF, was nominated along jVtn Ath T
Arthur Turner to contest ancouver East riding.
cent visitor here.
The cornerstone will be laid at the northeast corner of the building and the ceremony will be attended by civic and Board of Trade officials.
Sowed Businessmen Name Delegates
Businessman's Prince George
group Social
of the Credit
(League met in the Club Cafe on Sir Archibald and Lady Nye; Monday night and after hearing
will arrive here from Vander-hoof on May '1 � accompanied by Robert Howe, Indian Department representative at Vanderhoof.
From Vanderhoof the distinguished Britons will be taken for a drive to Fort< St. James and will head east for Prince George on the following morning.
From here the party will proceed to Quesnel and Barkerville and will fly from Quesnel to Vancouver.
Exact time of arrival of the couple in Prince George is not vet known.
a brief address by Lew L. King M.L.A., elected delegates to attend the Socred nominating convention, scheduled for Saturday in the Eagles Hall.
Appointed were Charles Gabri-ele, Elmer Nelson, J. Bowell and John Morrison.
Alternates are Ray Williston, E. Morrell and J. Adkins.
B. R. Leboe, advice-president of the British Columbia Social Credit League and a Socred organizer, gave a short talk on policies and aims of the provincial body.
After Truck Crash
Herbert Turner, a 2(1 year old l'aller, is in only fair condition in Prince George and District Hospital this morning as a resujt of injuries he l'eceived when his truck plowed' into a telegraph pole at the west end of First Average on Tuesday night.
Turner is suffering from a fractured skull and broken neck.
Miraculously unhurt in the spectacular crash in which Turner was injured was G. A. Miller of Prince George. -
Turner, an employee of Northern Spruce Ltd. was on his way into Prince George from the Hart Highway when his light.truck went out of control and struck the pole.
Police say that the vehicle the two men were riding in is almost a total wreck.
The injured man, a resident of Central Fort George, was rushed to Hospital immediately after the crash.
DAYLIGHT SAVING STARTS SUNDAY
-Clock hands will be pushed ahead one hour at midnight Saturday as daylight saving time goes into effect on Sunday, April 26, giving gardeners and golfers, an extra sixty minutes to indulge in their favorite hobby.
Canadian National Railways. Canadian Pacific Airlines and Greyhound Bus Lines will continue to operate on standard time.
Northern Stages who operate the city bus service, will go on the new fast time, commencing Monday morning.
Daylight saving remains in effect until Sunday, September 27.
With the selection of a C.C.F. candidate at. a party convention today and the nominating conventions of twq political parties billed for Prince George this weekend, the. almost dormant election campaign in Fort George riding will quickly roll into high soar, according to political observers here.
Fort George Liberal Association will select their standard-bearer at a convention which will get 'under w;iy in the Kik> Hall at S p.m. on Friday]
Qn "�'Saturday evening. Social Credit delegates from practically every polling centre in the riding will assemble in the Eagles-Hall to'decide on a party candidate-for the June 9 election.
Mayor Garvin Dezell will probably allow his name to go before the Liberal convention, and it is expected he will be strongly supported by the Prince George delegates.
At present there'is no definite indication that he will be opposed, although it is known that a prominent party member* has put out tentative feelers for support at the convention. If nominated it is likely he would get strong backing from country delegates.
L. L. King, who defeated the Liberal's Harry Bowman at the election last June in a surprising; upset, will probably be renomin-j ated at the Socred nomination. But if street reports now going the rounds have any foundation
in fact he will be opposed by at' tures tomorrow, the weatherman least one and probably two re- \ says. . cruits to the Social Credit banner. 1 Winds will be light. Predicted:
One of the names most promin-: low for tonight is 25, with high (See POLITICAL BOSSES, Page 4) Friday of 55
Aleza Lake Woman Wins Food Mixer
Mrs. Dorothy Purdue of Aleza Lake has a new electric food mixer, a reward for submitting a name for the Great Gildersleeve's. dog in a national contest conducted by the manufacturers of a well known brand of margarine.
Main prizes went to eastern entrants, but a number of B.C. contestants, including Mrs. Purdue, were awarded�food mixers.
The Weather
-Today's clouds will give way to clear skies and colder tempera-