An Independent Semi-Weekly Newspaper Devoted to
Interest of Central
}6; No. 64
Prince George, B.C., THURSDAY, August 13, 1953
^keeper's Defence Rests Challenge Of City Bylaw
jrdict To Be Handed Down Next Week
Jefence of a city food store proprietor against a charge
Ie unlawfully remained open on a Sunday rests on four points, city barrister Frank S. Perry told Police Court 3y before he and Prosecutor P. E.Wilson Q.C. were asked nit written argument.
Perry said he would base rnce of 1). R. Knight,, pro-\,( Central Store,-on the ion that fa) the bylaw which lie is being prose-i< ultra vires, or illegal; prosecutjon failed to pre-irlence of an infraction of aw. and (c) the defendant. ,. holder of a provincial Bouse and therefor subject �inrial and not municipal
defence charge that the if closing bylaw for food s ultra vires was based in inn two points; (a) that nt conform to the petition h it was purportedly i hat it mentions^fo'od 5ecific-fid butch-tty with the ljp<5vincial statutes, first point, Mr. provincial law as ,, a- regulatory bylaw j officials declared
a petition of vendors rn'i with the wording of It it ion. He pointed to dis-ios between the wording five-year-old petition on day's bylaw is based and ,v itself: :\<;i:s term
Perry also contended that provincial laws and other
fciility bylaws refer to classes such, as butcher shops, lores etc., the city's by-
lifers only to food stores
counsel said: "Just because the city comes here with a purple paper, signed by the city clerk and the mayor is no reason why you ! must conform to: it. The law was! beyond their powers."
In rebuttal, Mr. Wilson .poin ed out that under the provi regulatory act, the city caj or regulate any class j
Attacking the evidence, Mr. Perry said that provincial statutes define "open forbusiness" as be-!
(See STOREKEEPERS, Page 5)
point in the presenta-h argument, Mr. Perry the "absolute and complain" with which the lily treated a recent ftom food store propriet-
|Jd t)in magistrate: "When
I people in high authority
people with that kind of
tin'ii you must examine
le matter."
;i copy of the shop clos-in his hand, defence
[Police Plane Finds Body Near Quesnel
Air search for the body of Vancouver mining man at a small lake 30 miles northeast of Ques nel was successful on Tuesday, Royal Canadian Mounted Police here today. ;
The body located from a low-flying R.C.M.P. plane was that of 2fi-year-old Russell McDonald, an official of a Hay Lake placer development.
McDonald had not been seen since July 18 when he had left the mining company's base camp by boat to ferry two employees to the opposite side of the lake. , He took the two men across the lake but never returned.
Dragging operations were carried out by R.C.M.P. personnel but no traces, of the man were found.
Finally a police plane which had been called to the area to aid in the search for a missing prospector near Barkerville was flown to the lake and a low sweep was made.
R.C.M.P. men aboard, the plane spotted a floating object and upon landing found it to be McDonald's body.
The dead man's wife was staying at the base camp at the time her husband disappeared.
000,000 Pipeline Will �ply Fuel To Alaska
pTAWA�Defence forces in strategic Alaska and north-
Jn Canada, will be fed oil and gasoline through a pipeline
|built immediately by the United States, partly over the
"Trail of '98." '�---------------:-----------
on the $40,000,000 fuel ssing through northwest-ritish Columbia and the over sections of the turn ientury gold-rush trail, y will start this year. Ter-wili be at Haines,' near y. Alaska, on the Pacific and Fairbanks, Alaska, of the defence arch that towards Asiatic Russia, one-third of the line will �d. mostly in Canadian and the rest will be jroqnd. The eight-inch line 11ion_ "low the Haines cut-off, a Jad from the Alaska High-Haines Junction, where i end northwestward along' I defence artery. I
!S here said U.S. Army]
gets a right-of-way through the Canadian section for a minimum of 20 years. The B.C. Government makes certain crown-owned lands available for the project and the Canadian Government,"on behalf of the Yukon, makes similar arrangements for the Yukon sections.
How much fuel the line will bo able to carry is variable in quantity since capacity of the pipeline depends on the type of fuel transmitted, temperatures in the area, and the number of pumping sta-
Oil
into
tankers will bring the fuel Haines, about 450 miles of the Queen Charlotte
Islands at the head of an inlet
called Lynn Canal.
Performing one of his last official duties as a member of parliament for Cariboo, George M.-Murray is seen here trowel in hand placing the cornerstone of the new Prince George Federal Building with the help of provincial Liberal leader Arthur Laing. The ceremony was carried out last week just a few days before the people of Cariboo replaced Mr. Murray with Social Credit's B. R. Leboe.
Public Works Told To 'Lay Off' Truckers
Citizen Informant Alleges 'Pressure'
According to a reliable informant, pressure has been brought to bear during the past 48 hours to force the Prince George Branch of the Provincial Public Works Department to abandon a drive against truck overloading on district roads.
1 in charge of construe-1 i�
can tenders for^the pipe Last Rites Saturday
two '
km- materials in about two The'aim Is to get prelimin-j>i'k completed before snow �' halt in the mountainous Big drive for construction next spring, but no target the operating line was Heed.
secret negotiations , ex-over last year, reaching agreement between Canada U.S; announced simultan-Wednesday in Washing-Ottawa.
For Three Month Child
Funeral services will be held Saturday morning for the three-month-old baby of Mr. and Mrs. Murray Kornaga of Central Fort George, which passed away Tuesday.
The last rites will be conducted from Assman's Funeral Chapel.
Bud Prockiev was the winner of the cushion raffled by the Van Bow Softball Club. Winning ticket ��'. the agreement, the U.S.' was No. 483.
yor Not Amused By 2 Bill For Power
�is Worship Mayor Garvin Dezell doesn't -Ii1c&- Prince � s high power rates any more than anybody else does. lc fc>ld that to a "fringe" area delegation of Would-be on Monday night.
y ng.
he Mayor's innermost- feelings orTthe cost of power in
George slipped out when a "fringe" home-owner com-
of having paid a $17 monthly power bill about a year
'ell, my friend," said His Worship, "my bill last month $32 and I didn't like that very much either."
Mayor's remark brought laughter from the delega-pd fellow city council members.
A public works official here this morning would neither deny or. confirm the report.
According to The Citizen's informant, a .-drive against overloading which got underway%la-u Saturday was to coritinue yesterday but was called off at the last minute.
Arrangements had . allegedly been made by the Provincial Public Works Department to stop a number of trucks on roads leading into the city.
The arrangements were rescinded at the last minute after a person "in high, authority" had advised the department, to lay'off.
Contacted this morning, District Engineer Frank Laronde refused to discuss the case.
He said the department could i make , no comment until I). D. j Godfrey, divisional engineer, re-] turns to the city on Monday from a trip to the west. "The alleged pressure was brought to. bear only a few days after public works officials and Royal Canadian Mounted Police constables had found 22 out of 2fJ trucks overloaded in a number of spot checks.
Royal Canadian Mounted Police /today confirmed the fact that they
had been prepared to go ahead with more spot checks of trucks yesterday at the request of of the Public Works Department and that they had called off the checks at the request of the same department.
Dally Road Reports
Travellers over the Hart Highway will be able to receive accurate, up-to-the-minute information on the condition of the north road from now on following a new arrangement by the Prince George Board of Trade.
Latest report on the Hart highway states the road from Prince George to'Dawson Creek is in good cohdition.
Several miles of road are under construction near Commotion Creek, but this is dry and quite passable.
Graders have' been over the highway from DawscJrT Creek to Edmonton and recent dry weather lias helped.tff bring this section of road into good condition for travel.^/'
MountieY Plane Finds Lost Prospector Near Barkerville
Weary, hungry, but stili on his feet, a Quesnel prospector lost for eight days, in forbidding country north of barkerville was sighted by a Royal Canadian Mounted Police search plane Tuesday and today he is back in civilization again, hard-
Still suffering from the ships he endured while wandering aimlessly through almost impenetrable bush near Crescent Lake without either a supply of food or a gun is William Peterson. \
Hope for Peterson's safety' was beginning to wane early this week and it was thought he might have been either killed or injured by wild animals' while he tried to make his way back to the camp he shared with a companion.
R.C.M.P. colled a police piano into the search as a last'resort and they found the man not very far from where he was last seen eight days before by his companion, Sigmund Hartnesso.
Peterson had existed on a diet of berries during his long vigil in the woods.
A search party made up of three R.C.M.P. constables, an ex-policeman and a B.C. game war-
around Crescent Lake without
Peterson was an experienced bushma.n but he was unfamiliar with the ('resent Lake district.
He became Ios1 ' early this month when he and his companion decided to take different routes back to camp from a point north of the lake whore they had been panning for gold.
Hartnesso had told police that the last time he had seen Peterson the 5<>-yca'r-old prospector had been panning beside a shallo'w stream.
Truck Overloading Seas ii Charged
Charges have been laid against ] 1 owners or operators of trucks in the Prince George district following a surprise move by the Provincial Public Works Department and the Royal Canadian Mounted Police last Saturday.
The 11 face charges pf overloading their vehicles.
Works officials earlier this week disclosed that 22 trucks out of 29 checked were found to be carrying loads in excess of those permitted under the B.C. Highways Act."
� Those' already charged in connection with the Saturday checkup are G. Rahn, B. R. Leboe, Ferguson Lake Sawmills, J. Mort-son, Crescent Lake Sawmills, Caine Brothers, Buckhorn Lake Sawmill, D. Adams, Tabor Creek Sawmills, George Siemoris and Hobarts Sawmill.
ariboo Tumbles Into Socred Column
Bert Leboe Leads Sitting Member By 409 Votes;-CCF Trailing
Cariboo riding will be represented in Canada's twenty-second Parliament by a 44-year-old retired lumberman and supporter of the Social Credit party, Bert R. Leboe of Prince
George.
BERT LEBOE
Council Still Sitting Tight On Gas Franchise Situation
Westcoast Affiliate Would Make Survey
Prince George City Council Monday night reaffirmed its previous decision not to encourage any single company to believe it will be given a natural gas distribution franchise here. The topic arose for the second
.time within a month, with the personal appearance before the council of C. Smith, .Vancouver official of Inland Natural ,Gas Company.
A short time ago Mr. Smith's company applied to the city for consent to take a gas' survey here contingent upoy the city' placing a franchise application before the municipal electorate in a referendum.
At the time the city tabled In-and Natural Gas Company's application. MODIFY KKQLKST
Appearing before the city council on Monday, Mr. Smith offered to modify the company's request to a simple application for consent to make the survey.
His Worship Mayor Dezell, speaking for the council, told the company's representative that the city will not act' on a gas franchise until actual costs of gas are known.
"We have two other applications,"..the Mayor said, "and until something is done on the cost we will do nothing."
Referring to a previous talk here with an Inland Natural Gas company engineer, the Mayor added: "If you are talking a price of a dollar like Mr. Nix then we are not talking ,on the same plane."
Mr. Smith said that Prince George gas users would not pay any more than those in Portland providing the "load factor" is comparable.
He explained the "load factor"
With only eight of the 138 polls still to be heard from at: noon today, Mr. Leboe is leading the incumbent Liberal, George M. Murray of Fort St. John, by 409 votes, and a former M.P., William Irvine of the CCF by 1162 votes.
Although fine weather prevailed throughout the big Cariboo riding for Monday's election, only abouti 52 per cent of the voters went to the polls. Voting was heavier in the larger centres Where party organization was "tight", but in some of the smaller centres where organization was negligible or non-existent, more than 65 per cent of the registered voters failed to cast their ballots.
Mr. Leboe led the poll at three of the six largest centres in the riding, Dawson Creek-, McBride and Quesnel, while the Liberal candidate finished in front at Prince George, Vanderhoof and Fort St. John.
Mr. 'Murray led in the early counting, but returns from McBride, Lamming Mills, Crescent Spur and other centres close to Mr. Leboe's former home sent the Social Credit candidate to the front, and three hours after the polls closed he was leading by �nearly 300 votes.
Dawson Creek, which was expected to fall into the Liberal column; added considerably to the Social Credit lead, and the CW also showed surprising strength in the Peace River. Main support for the-Liberals came from'Prince George oikI polls in the provincial riding* of Omineca, won by. a Social Credit candidate in the recent B.C. election.
Mi-. Irvine, who won the seat for the CVV in 1944, trailed from the outset, although he was favored at many polls where Social Credit or Liberal majorities were expected, especially in the northern sections of the riding. He got OR mane votes than Mr. Murray at Dawson Creek where unexpected Social Credit strength was displayed. He .also finished
as a balance between winter and
summer use and not as a volume | second at Vanderhoof, which gave
price discount system. | Mr. Murray a majority of 137 over ,
M.r. Smith then asked th,p eou.n-1 th,e winning candidate, cil if they had any objection to] Mr. Leboe, who disposed of h.'.s Inland Natural Gas Company con-, Crescent Spur lumber interests ducting a survey here with no to his *r>n. Wilfred, last Septem-stririgs attached. ^ ber and moved to Prince George,
He was told the cifv had no ob- conducted an energetic campaign (See GAS FRANCHrSE, Page~3) J (See ELECTION^ Page. 3) -
HOW THE CARIBOO VOTED
CCF. 25 6 9
33 15 4
Aleza Lake.............
Alexandria East ......
Alexandria West ....
Arras ......................
Baldonnel ................
Beaton River Airport
Beaverly ...................'. II
Belle View.................. 6
Bear Flat.................... 2
Bessborough .............. 23
Blueberry ..................I. 7
Briar Ridge................ 18
Barkerville................... 3
Bouchie Lake ............ 9
Chmelyk ..................... 19
Cinema ....... .............., 10
ColemaVi Creek.......... 8
Cottonwood................ 5
Cecil Lake.................'.. 23
Charlie Lake .............. 17
Castle Rock ............. 5
Central Fort George .. 74
Chief Lake.................. 32
Crescent Spur ............ 6
Croydon ...................... 3 .
Clayhurst ................... 25
Coal River.................. 8
Dewey...................... 7
Dome Creek .............. 8
Dunster..................... 32
Dawson Creek ............ 533
Doe River .................. 50
East Pine................... 2 '
Engen........................ 7
Erinlea......................... 1 6
Farmington '................ 25
Fellers Height ............ 3,
Fort Fraser ................. 43
Fort Grahame ............ ' 0
Ferndale .................... 27
Fort St. James ............ 49
Fraser Lak'e ................ 19
Finmore.................... 2 �
Finlay Forks ................ 0
Fll Ck 0
y
Farrell Creek ........'...... 0
Fort St. John ........ 138
Fort St. John Airport . 20
Germanson Landing .. 3
Giscome ...................... 54
Gold Bar .................. 0
Ground Birch ............. 21
Hays .......................... 4
Hansard..................... 8
Hutton........................ 3
Hixon.................'....... 21
Hydraulic .................... 2
� Hulatt .........-...-.:.......... 11
(Hudson Hope............ 14
|| P
The missing man's progress j |s|e Pierre 20
through the bush .was hampered , Kelly Lake 16
Kilkeran .'......::..... 34
Keithley Creek............. 2
Kersley ___....:.......... ' 23
Lower Post................. 9
Lejac ......... .... 0
by the. fact that he-wore only light shoes.
With the aid of searchers who were directed to the place where he was spotted by the plane, Peterson made his wiry early Tues-
day, to Crescent Lake from where
den had combed the country he was flown to Quesnel.
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Lamming Mills Little Prairie
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288 47
2 55
5 18
9 19
2 45
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53
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50 25
Lib.
21
10
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29
22
12
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24
24
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2 18 10 18. 21
8
81
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26 22
3 14 15 467 19 13 10
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58 25 22 100 54 10
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311 46
4 64
6
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12
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6 17 53
9
9
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CCF. S.C. Lib.
Longworth 16 2 6
Lucerne.................. 3 11 2
Likely 29 18 12
Marguerite 1 28 16
McBride ................" ... 70 159 88
Manspn Creek .......� 5 6 5
Mapes .......i............; . 13 15 21
McLeod Lake ............ 13 14 11
Mount Robson ......... ... 0 . 3 5
Mud River 13 11 6
Moose Heights ......... 2 26 . 3
Mile 201 ............... .;. 13 � 12 5
Mile 292 Summit ... ' 1 10 3
Moberley Lake 0 12 12
Montney ... 59 40 9
Muncho Lake 4 7 14
Murdale . , 14 9 14
North Pine '.___ .:. 33 '22 18
Nazko ........:......... 4 5 3
Nechako .:.-.'........ ... .:. 8-. 10 22
Nithi River ............ .. 10 0 5
Newlands ....... ....... ... 31 11 14
North Nechako ...... ... 20 35 32
North Rolla ........ ... 31 2 . 7
Pine View ......... : 14 14 14
Penny ................... ... 25 20 33
Pine View ...... .. 62 65 65
Prince George . 761 964 1122
Prince George Airport 19 15 27
Pouce Coupe . ... 33 109 72
Progress ...... ;.. 17 20 16
Quesnel ......... .. 343 514 475
Rolla ..;. 85 11 41
Red Pass ...... 8 17 5
Reid Lake : ... 13 27 15
Rose Prairie ..... ... 32 38. , 36
Salmon Valley ......... ... 19 15 19
Stuart River ......... 7 1 5
Shelley ;........... ..'. 16 10 34
Sinclair Mills 68 19 20
Summit Lake.......... ... 20 26 37
South Fort George . ... 71 77 89
Stone Creek ........ ... 32 36 19
Stanley ...."......... 3 1 2
Strathnaver ..... . 14 11 . 7
Shearerdale ............. 18 2 9
Sweet Water 9 6 7
Sunrise Valley 14 ~ 16 4
Sunset Prairie ......... ... 28 7 14
Tete Jaune 6 18 16
Taylor' ..............:...' ... 20 18 22
Tomsla'ke ...' 43 1 .22
Tupper Greek .;?....... ... 26 27 26
Two River ... 19 22 14
Upper Cutbank 2 9 7
Valemont ..... 12 55 16
Vandehoof ...,. .->. .. 153 107 244
Westeraaard .. 0 8 5
Willow'Valley ..... .. 21 18 5
Wells.................. .: 80 121 96
West Lak� 12 37 21
Willow River . ........ . 42 47 41
Woodpecker . ...: ... 7 5 12
TOTALS . 4212 5374 4965