��dependent Semi^Weekly Newspaper Devoted to the Interest of Central and Northerr/iritish, Columb �a 63 Prince George, B.C., MONDAY, August 10, 1953 $4.00, per year 5^ per copy [0,000 Up In Smoke Fires Take Mills fire of unknown origin early Friday morning completely ed Venture Sawmill's installation north of Prince causing damage estimated at $30,000. s ih'c second sawmill to �-------------��----------;------------- roved by fire within a few � . #������ Tenders Called Here For Addition To Telephone Building in the week the Dewey ".Cornell Sawmills was de- a $10,000 blaze. Canadian Mounted Police ations into both blazes determine with certainty -.of the fires. Venture.' Sawmili blaze Frl-liave been caused by a strike, Sawmill fire started Tenders have been called for construction of an addition to Northwest Telephone Company's investigators switchboard building here as part of a $60,000 city telephone ex-pansion plan announced by comp- �ulldihg in which the mills any officials some weeks ago. nil was housed J./A local company spokesman s-?es to the Venture fire sai(J today that the addition wiH | the mill was half destroy- be the same s,ze as the ent re the blaze was seen. I hnilriinir niriunoH af Pnnki, a,,q_ 'cnture mill, owned and by Tod Schmidt, presi-thC Northern Interior linen's* Association, was cutting 20,000 board The Cornell mill could feet per day. jne'e on the Venture mill building situated at Fourth Avenue and Quebec Street. Without equipment, the building will cost around $10,000. Completion of the frame addition to the present building wil more than double the switchboarc facilities." ���>- nnn � , .1 f . : Today's 500 lines will be in $25,000, but the Cor-' creaged tQ 1200 Uneg and man >n was only covered ^ party services will be converted to private numbers. Construction of. the building will be completed before winter and it is expected that most of the rest of the $60,000 improvemen program here will have been ac complished by that time. Tuture Miss America? Dyees of Cornel Sawmills blaze for six hour* in Jsrfol effort to keep flames spreading to the nearby irriel mill is owned by onovich and Paul Kup-if Prince George. ERECTS 50 STREET SIGNS ers in Prince George and Mobile Service For Arthritis Patients ^,The Special Committee on Arthritis and Rheumatism of the B.C. Medical Association has ap proved in principle the provision Brs'ons who have so u grasp of the city's stem of street nam-|l)o aided in their municl-by approximately li'th of directional signs :>nc key routs last week. lJSlneer Charles East said )itSTON, B.C.�A nirie-months-old Indian boy was found.dead by a near this southeastern British Columbia village Saturday and were chorged with manslaughter. ie boy, George BosiI, wos found by on R.C.M.P. dog "Wolf." 0 VC)ungster hod been missing since August 1, but his disappearance reported by the parents, Mr. and Mrs. Isaac Basil, until Thursday, 's "believed the boy died from exposure. � City Hall To Observe Five-Day Work Week In keeping with current trends, City Hall employees will this week begin ar five:day week. City Hall will now be open from 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m., Mondays through Fridays, and will be clos-. ed Saturday mornings, beginning this Saturday. 3 This is the same day that city banks begin their five-day closed-Saturday week. Provincial civil servants started their five-day Work week at the beginning of.the month. Last Saturday was the last Saturday morning at work for both bank and City Hall employees. City banks will remain open extra time on Friday afternoons to^,a& commodate customers who _n6rrh-ally bank on Saturdays./''^ Curvaceous KATHY ARCHIBALD, of Kelowna, B.C., who1 won the title Miss Canada is wearing the sea nymph swim suit she will wear in the final Miss. America competitions^ Atlantic City, N.J.. in September. 'Operation Mtesf Lake' Kills Millions Of Coarse Fish hy Officials Astounded At Size Of Bag One of the most important steps taken so far to restore sport fishing at West Lake to its once prolific level has been called a success by British Columbia Game Branch officials who placed the kill of coarse fish at a poisoning station Thursday afternoon as "in the millions." Inspector Walter Gill, who was I� in charge of the poisoning pro- j gram, said it was unbelievable the' number of coarse fish fry killed In" Thursday's drive :to extermin: ate all species which prey"on or compete With trout. Approximately 60 ppunds of powerful rotenone poison were dumped into a slough and creek which feeds into the lake. It was an all-day job for game | was disclosed this morning by an official* due to the number of j official of the Royal Canadian beaver dams-which had to be Mounted Police, destroyed so the poisoned waters Samples of the specie of poppy Police Investigate City Poppy Crop For Opium Variety Discovery of plants believed to be opium poppies growing here Cloudless Cariboo May See Record Vote Cast Voting in Canada's general election got off to a flying,-start in Prince George and surrounding communities at/9 o'clock this morning as bright sunlight lay over the district from a cloudless sky. I ��-----------------------7-^--------- With perfect weather forecast among the LiberaliVin office for throughout the entire Cariboo rid- the past 18 years/the Progressive ing and with this year's greatly Conservatives/;6fficial opposition, nld ti lit d d h s/; pp enlarged voting list, a record and the minority C.C.F. Party, number of people may trek to the j The �dgfal Credit party, have polls in this constituency. ' noL enough candidates in the field Rural voting will probably be l0 ,f