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\oft Market Not Yet Evident District Sawlog Figures
Local Mills Up 28 Percent In April
Sawlog cut in the Prince George part of the Fort George [rest District reflected no softening of the lumber market Inng April when it showed a 28 percent increase over the
Prince George, B.C., MONDAY, June. 15, 1953
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jure for the some month last year. Prince George cut, how-was the only one of the contributing districts which i show decreased production ,' April.
log cut for the entire Fort urge District dropped during |n! by four per cent, the first : this year-that 1952 monthly res-have not been exceeded. �spite the slight drop, total log cut for the district during first five months of the B.C. c-t Branch year is still well r last year's corresponding
Trade Board Meets Tomorrow Night
Monthly meeting of Prince George Board of Trade will be held tomorrow (Tuesday) in the McDonald Hotel banquet-room, commencing at 7 p.m.
As there are several important items of business to be discussed, President Norman Napier is expecting a large turnout of. members.
Housi g Scheme
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|The five months figure here tliis year is 289,101,706 bard fret compared with 248,-[4,774 board feet last year, a iost of 16 per cent. mil cut in the Prince George over the sameperiod is 210,-T71 board feet, or 75 per cent the district total. For Prince jrge, this represents an in-so over the 170,000,000 board |t cut up to this time a year >f 2,'i per cent.
e'snel area mills have cut 34,-
1,935 hoard feet to .date this
in- representing an increase over
year of 14 per cent. Peace
Irer Mills with 48,771,018 board
|t have increased their annual
>yer last year by 20 per cent.'
ie Quesnel area has contribut-
fll per cent of the record total
up to the end of April and
re River .mills have contribute
[11 percent.
Prince George mills cut 18,110,-
hoard feet during April and
isnel mills 3,476,904 board feet.
the Peace River area sealers
iasure'd a total cu't of only 1,-
),.'M1 board feet compared
|ili over three million feet dur-
thc same month last year. If present softened market con-Uons continue long enough to freflected in the-monthly-Fort prge sawlog cut at all, they will Ely not show up until the June Ik1 is available in about CO days 6c.
[ash Victim Fights lending Policeman
25-year-old former Williams � iiuin is under police guard medical observation in Prince prgo & District Hospital today wowing an incident on Saturday (lit .it the scene of an automo-accident. ";
jlice claimed today that Real
Robei ts, a transient, had
rged swinging from his wreck-
fcar at the corner of Bruns-
Ck Street and Sixth Avenue
|cn police arrived to investl-
' Is said to have struck one |j;il Canadian Mounted Police 'able on the nose before he knocked cold and taken to 'ital. Roberts is under mental pcrvation by physicians today.' ice investigating the acci-said that Roberts swung on the minute ;they arrived on> _^pne_.and_that-a-woman- who i with Roberts in the peked car also fought with fm. -
toherts car had'.collided with partialJy demolished a power-pole at the .Brunswick and li intersection, suffering an Jinated $-100 damage, "lice state that charges will-bo (aid against Roberts until results of the medical observa-are made known.
CITY POLICE CARS INCAPABLE OF CHASING 'LEADFOOT' DRIVERS
25 M.P.H. Top Speed For One Vehicle
- Royal Canadian Mounted Police here using vehicles attached to the city detachment would be incapable today of chasing and catching a speeding kiddy-car let alone some of
the city's leadfooted drivers. --------1-------------------
A Citizen reporter who last [down to around 16 miles for each Wednesday watched cars speed- � shift and some of this portion ing with impunity up Third Ave- must be used for transporting
nue late in the afternoon decided to investigate the cause later in the week and this, in his own words, is what he found.
"I went down to the R.C.M.P.
prisoners, going to and from gas and other official busi-
stations ness.'
"Although the sergeant didn't say so, I could figure that this
city detachment- headquarters' meant each .shift would have less Thursday afternoon and inspected than 10 miles mileage with which
the two cars with which the men of the detachment are expected to enforce traffic regulations.
''The first one I looked at was a four-year-old showing 75,000
to carry out normal duties and cover traffic on more than 30 miles of city streets.
"The sergeant said, there would
business coupe. be no point in getting the city miles on the to authorize more mileage at speedometer and the front wheels present because the cars them-of it were slewed in like the ex- selves are not in fit condition to
absorb it.
"Finally the car shuddered its way through the gears and we
tremities of a seven-toed sloth. I asked a police official about it and he said it could not be put on the
road. It has been up for replacement for some weeks now but no replacement has come.
"Then we looked at the other ear, a three-year-old sedan showing ample evidence of the 70,000 miles registered in_ the speedometer. NOT OVER 25 M.P.H.
"Inside the car I found a typewritten notice pinned to the sun-visor saying that no member of the detachment was to push the decrepit vehicle over 25 m.p.h. under any circumstances. Handy thing to have for chasing speed-era �� � � �
"Then with a police sergeant I climbed into the sedan and we drove to an intersection along Third Avenue within a block of where a fatal accident took place less than three weeks ago.
"This car � is equipped with radio but it is very difficult to hear the radio over the rattles of the car itself. You can hear the electrical ignition of the car over the radio though; it makes a high-pitched whine.
"I asked the sergeant why the car could not be pushed over 25 m.p.h. and he told me the front end had a very bad "shimmy" in it. He said no major repairs could be done because the car is up for replacement. AVERAGE SPEED 40 _"We watched the intersection and pulled in behind a building. We watched over 150 cars going in both directions along" this 30 m.p.h. strip of Third Avenue and the sergeant agreed with me that the average speed was around 40 m.p.h.
"A few ears passed at an estimated 60 to 65 m.p.h. Only a hand; ful were assuredly within the speed limit. We watched two near accidents at our intersection, one bfWhich could have involved four cars.
"We were powerless to chase the speeders but I saw the sergeant write licence numbers down when they could be readily seen on speeding cars.
"I asked the sergeant if the speeders could be properly checked when both cars are replaced.
" 'That will depend,' he replied. 'You see, the city pays us for 3200 car miles per month. This boils
lesnel Teams Split Even
bx Scuttie Vanderhoof
returned to the police station my lesson on why speeders don't get
caught plete."
was more or less com-
Over icrsf Hurdle
A start on construction of over $150,000 worth of veterans homes here this season is now,assured, a Canadian Legion
official announced today.
A Legion vice-president and member of the three-man allot-up
parcels of land among veterans on Friday, said that construction of some of the homes may start in a little over 30 days.
Nineteen veterans were alloted building sites of 1.6 acres each on Friday when preliminaries for the Veteran's Land Act project were finalized.
Next step in the project is for the individual veterans to file house plans with V.L.A. officials for the final approval.
After paying down payments totalling $18,000 on Friday, the veterans became, owners of the home sites south of the city and became entitled to housing loans of up to $6000.
Under the Veterans Land Act the new owners of the former Crown land may build their own homes, contract them out or build thorn by day labor. It is expected average cost of the houses will be around $8000.
Veterans who appeared before
Bruce Nichols, Milton D. Warren, A. N. Morris, H. D. Ward, H. G. Wallace, R. E. Lonsdale, Peter Wiens, Howard J. Ockenden, Marc Miller, Jack Bond, S. R. Maka-rehko, G. I, Wolfe, C. N.-Houde, j D. O. Whyte, J. Stelmock and George Fennings.
Each made a 10 per cent down payment as well an returning whatever amount of re-establishment credits they had drawn since the war.
Presiding over the allotment board Friday was Col. D. V. Hol-j man, V.L.A. district supervisor,
the allotment board here Friday were given their choice of sites out of the 30-acre parcel available for the project- on basis of order of application.
Early applicants for V.L.A. benefits here were given first choice and later applicants chose from whatever sites were left.
Successful applicants in the
who. accompanied applicants to their new home-sites at the close of the board's business.
Each applicant chose the actual site for his home on the plots of ground and stakes were driven giving the exact location for water services.
Col. Holman advised veterans participating in the project to choose house plans which are approved either by the V.L.A., by the National Housing Association or by the Central Mortgage and Housing Corporation. � He said loan applications ac-made j companied by such plans would n the be processed and approved in about 30 days time, while unap-proved plans might take from two to three months to be pro-' cessed. ' !
Also on the allotment board was J. P*Martin, local representa-
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Serving Patrons
City Compiles Evidence Of Bylqw Flouting
City of Prince George will lake legal action against own-' ers of three residential area stores which are alleged to have flouted the city closing bylaw here yesterday by remaining open.
City Clerk D. T. Williams de-clared this morning that he gathered evidence yesterday which he is prepared to submit before a
order of which they chose home-1 tive of the colonization depart sites were W. A. Urquhart, Arvid S. Westman, A. L. Murray, L.
Three High School Students Enter Kinsmen Queen Contest
Names of three city candidates have already been entered in the Kinsmen sponsored contest to choose "Miss Fort George" on July 1, a spokesman for the city Kinsmen Club said today."~
The candidates are Mary Douglas and Pa* Gankw of Prince George, and Shirley Campbell of Salmon Valley.
All three girls are students at .the Prince George High School..
Winner of the local queen contest will win an expense-paid trip to the Pacific National Exhibition and a chance to compete in the "Miss P.X.E." contest there, as well as a wardrobe for the trip and other prizes.
The queen contest has been put on a^district-wide basis this year, and six rural communities as well as a number of city organizations have been . asked to sponsor entrants.
The district sponsors include Pineview, Summit Lake, Willow River, Shelley, Giscome and Aleza Lake.
The Fort George queen will be crowned on July .1 as part of the Dominion Day program arranged by the city Kinsmen.
Girls entering the "Miss PNE" preliminary must be 17 years old but must not have reached the age of 22 by August 31, 1953' They
must be single, and have the equivalent to one year in high school.
Application forms, found in the Citizen, should be filled in and mailed to Box 11 The Citizen.
Deadline for applications is June 15.
magistrate.
As The Citizen went to press today the city clerk was going through the formalities preparatory to laying the charges. COUNCIL ACTION
Strict enforcement of the city's hours of closing bylaw was scheduled to start on Saturday as the result of a stormy city council committee session. last Monday at which Alderman Eugene Gabriele represented the views of downtown food store owners.
Council agreed to enforce the-present law pending the possibility of an amendment to it.
A warning carried in last Thursday's Citizen was designetU-to give notice of impending enforcement. -^Jp until Thursday many of the residential area food stores remained open as long as they pleased.
Mr. Williams .yesterday made n tour of the residential area him! ;ill�'fje.
Second prize winner of an all wool blanket was Mrs. Ken Range who held ticket 168P.
Tommy Richardson won a rayon table cloth as fourth prize, with, ticket 193G.
A CCM joy rider went to Richard Lamb as fifth prize winner with ticket 2811).
A Kraft Foods hamper was also won at the bazaar by Mrs. Elsie O'Connor. She held ticket 3781.
Ancient B.C. Statute Blocks Negotiations
wick Street, now known as Pine Street. �- -�<- � - - � �-
Each of the,veteran's sites within the development is approximately 5(56 feet east and west and 180 feet north and south.
Veteran's Land Act officals have-made application to purchase an adjacent -10 acres immediately south of the present development j to accommodate a second project.
.The court room In the Provin-.
cial Government taxed to capacity
the o,
' buil'clliig.. was Friday night
4 Nabbed, $10,000Recovered After Liquor Store Break-In
PRINCE RUPERT, June 15 (CP)�Four men were taken into custody by RCMP here early Sunday less than three hours after they allegedly carted awoy a safe containing $10,000 from the government liquor store.
The men were picked up 33 miles east of here, near the highway To~ Terrace. Less than a mile away police found a battered safe on the banks of the Skeena River. Another small unopened safe was buried in the ground nearby. ' �
RCMP officials said all of the loot was recovered.
Thieves broke Into the liquor store,, described as one of the- largest in the province, by cutting out a ventilator on ,the roof.
They made no attempt to open the safe in the building but forced open a loading platform door and took it out to a waiting truck.
The speeding truck was noticed by a police patrol which gave chase after the break-in was discovered.
when E. P. O'Connor, general secretary of the B.C. Government Employees Association, outlined negotiations of the past year-to secure arbitration rights fof'Pro-vincial Government employees.
Mr. O'Connor told his audience the Provincial Executive had directed thai all resolutions passed at the last annual convention be held in abeyance in order that some method of regulated bargaining procedure might be obtained lor almost 10,000 men and women in tile government service.
He indicated that under the "Interpretation Act" the government in office did not feet obligated to recognize its employees in the
light
workers in indu.s-
same try.
This statute wa,s placed on the books at the instigation of some of the earliest parliamentarians in t-he history of the province and was "practically copied from the old British Statute of Westminster. Although outmoded in this day and age it still offers an official barrier where gqyernment emploj-ees seek consideration as
"human beings'.' and wish to lm-�pTdVte'' .cbh'dltibh s tt! rmplbyrneftt, as well as morale and efficiency in order to make government service a "career rather than just a job."
Mr. O'Connor -stressed that no request for. wage increases had been made, although wage schedules were not in line with those paid in industry.
Patronage was introduced by Mr. O'Connor as one of the eA'ils I in government service not yet completely eliminated. Recent cases mentioned in the press were discussed and followed up later in the question period.
The entire promotional policy is upset when "patroiicige" is used to fill vacancies which are^ normally advertised either province-wide or in the branch or department affected, the speaker said.
E, A. dough was chairman of the meeting.
Refreshments were served and Mr. O'Connor answered many individual and personal questions.
Ho left by car Saturday afternoon for Vanderhoof where he hold ;i meeting before proceeding west to Prince Rupert stopping at interviewing points.
�'s going to stop the ram-Red Sox? plat's the sixty-four dollar |sUo'n facing the five other . 'is In the Prince George and P>*ict Baseball League today ?i; the Wjllow River squad, last Jr's champions, went to Vand-|oof yesterday and humbled the Tlv Hears to the tune of 20--1 I 0-3.
[hey were the ninth and tenth
ght wins for the league Iead-
undefeated since last mid-
'd Lord, Vanderhoof pitcher, the victim of the Sox big in the first game, grooving c run halls to Ted Church, Delano, Leo Robinson, Ken rmid and Andy- Kuchurian. Church was the winning ther.
lecond game was a little closer, ]>0URh. Howie Martin had the under control all the way to Jim Silver's round-trip Mike Church and Willie
McDermid homered for the winners.
"Slim" Graham was on the mound for the Bears, who sank to the bottom of league standings.
At Quesnel on Sunday the two local teams split, even in their first official meetings of the" season.
Earl Newsome of the Clippers and the Lumbermen's Lloyd Cornish staged a, pitching duel in the opening tilt, withtthe Clippers gaining a o~l verdict.
It was a different story in the final game, as the Lumbermen, with Eddie Gage on the mound, climbed all over the Clippers for a decisive 23-8 triumph. Losing pitcher was Jim Swaine.
STANDINGS
"W 8 5 3
Willow River P.G. Merchants p.G. Athletics Quesnel Clippers 3 Quesnel L'mbrmn 3 Vanderhoof .2
L Aver.
0 1000
3. 625
5 375
5 375
5 375
6 250
FORTY PUPILS who watched Connaught elementary school being razed to the ground in ah early morning fire two years ago will start to attend Prince George Junior-Senior High School next September.
But the young graduates are not very happy about it.
' First, they'll never have the opportunity to attend the fine new school now under construction near their hoines and, second, ly, they'll be saying farewell to their favorite teacher, Ron Brent. Last year the students circulated a petition to have Mr. Brent return for his third term at ihe school.
Since the fire the Grade 6 boys and girls have been attending .shift classes in very crowded quarters at the High School Annex.
Front Row (Left to right). � Sandra Jack, Mary Lawyer, Lynda Nash, Maye Bird, Lyla Mahon, Mr. Brent, Joan Clements, Doreen
Balaski, Alice Griffin, Naomi Esau, Mavitj Owens.
Middle Row�Martin Blackburn, Michael Watt, Joan Olsen, Carol Bater, Cynthia Foxcroft, Bonnie Baines, Grace Bjarnson, Teresa Elgert, Lorraine Solnik, 'Jean Mounklcy, Carl Loland, Garry Wray.
Back Row�Eric Allen, Donald Hanson, Harold Wade, Donald Krenri, John Kennedy, Fred Ceal, Kevin Smale, Laurie Gray, Harland Viberg-, Buddy Shaw, Keith White, Keith. Almgren, Leslie Bricker, Gary Dlnsmore. �
Missing � Sharlene Trombley, Lynne Xicol, Zchna Lemp.
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