Official Costs Higher
r ast and Northern Interior mills are not competing on ~Je markers and lumberproductibn costs are lower here nm the Coast. These were- the two main points of a
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Prince George, B.C., MONDAY, August 31, 1953
Paving Crew Busy
U.I-
Ms must compete rke svifh another lustry whose pro
that it
luce a
\\vb)>. -'business agent � v |,H-a! here, refuted ' ,.,,ri!!ly made by of-� iu. Northern Interior ,.'�_ Association. . '- ' .', ,!,',. operators own j,.,, as stating at con-' '.jj.inas that "markets Work of laying,a 20-foot hot-ilh- product are differ- mix hard ' surface on Burden 1 Street from First Avenue (Dur-
, ,-omark made by ham StreeU to Tenth Avenue : "' ' mm to the ef- Cariboo Street) started this morn; ing and will be carried forward as rapidly as weather permits.
Tht street was recently given Mr Webb a la:vor of crushed gravel and a Takes' 15V& coatinS of oil and, despite frer thousand feet qucnt rains last week, is in excellent condition to receive the new surface. .
It. is expected the next street to. be hard surfaced will- be Winchester Street between Laurier
Crescent and Carney Street (Fras-average. $7.91 er Avenuej
Work has started last week on the continuation of a 54-inch concrete sidewalk from.Prince Rupert Street along Third Avenue and Laurier Crescent to Cariboo Street near the city hospital.
The walk is being laid on a ny local improvement basis with the city paying one-third of. the ,cost and,' in the case of corner lots, two-thirds- of the side frontage cost. The walk will cost about $3
hut the differen-,i-t and Interior i.- cost to ��S.22.48
� sputh;
1 that
,id feet and in only $6.83. witement by an at "the union imomic Tight to :es here corres-in Coast opera-ib said, rk is being per-comparable and here is as high
Mr w'el
thai
X.I.L.A. claim i hold our produc-ihis year we are iced right off the h said, "spruce inly prices of lum-� increased' since ixlworkers in this >i.l a wage increase. ,i- fir, cedar, hem-- have decreased. nl spruCe lumber e first fi\*e months �in over the same ir find shipments
a foot.
Settlement Near In Milk Control Dispute
VICTORIA, Aug. 31 (CP)�British Columbia's decontrol issue will be decided in~the first two weeks of September.
Agriculture Minister Kenneth Kiernan said he expects
licity for the Hart Highway and
the maintenance of the road, and
$4.00 per year
per copy
28 Planes Still Seek Clue To Missing New Mexico Craft
Four American and two Canadian multi-engined aircraft bored west out of Princ-3 George at dawn this morning as the search for a missing New Mexico plane, its millionaire pilot and his family, entered its fourteenth day.
Good weather prevailed in the search area this morning and locally based aircraft will comb the area between Terrace and Smithers where a number of-re-i ports have been received of a low-flying plane being sighted on | Dawson Creek Pipe Band will the day ElHs Hall's DeHaviland make an effort to dodge rain-Dove became lost. i storms here tomorrow when they
Squadron Leader W. B. Fee, make their second ilocal appear-searchmaster in the Prince George ance in recent weeks. , to Terrace area, said here this | A short time ago the band's ef-morning that some of the reports�- forts to offer a pipe concert here may have stemmed from sightings ; were cancelled out by rain.
a Canadian Pacific Airlines
The band, 1G strong, will play
About 80 persons, including members of the Junior Chamber of Commerce from Dawson Creek and Prince George, assembled last Sunday at Honeymoon Creek, 110 miles north of this city, for a combination business and social gathering.
Purpose of ..the mooting was to
plane, but he added that all re- here Tuesday on its way back to ports are being traced. Dawson Creek following a publi-
So far the four American Alba- � city tour which took it to towns tross planes, a Canadian Canso' in the Lower Mainland and and Dakota, all under Squadro'n j Northwestern United States. Leader Fee's command, have} Purpose of the band's tour was flown almost 200 hours searching to publicise the Hart Highway as
local Jaycees on their return to the city were of the opinion the meeting had been of considerable value to both communities.
Rain forced the gathering to take shelter in an abandoned construction camp most'of the time, but a number from Prince George
British infantyy
for the missing aircraft.
Meanwhile, northern B.C. forest fires are providing false clues in i the search for a private plane'
Jaycees recently forwarded a ship- carrying a New Mexico oilman,
t RCAF id i V S
co-ordinate the activities of the took a sight-seeing trip farther
Milk Board's recommendation
�ts'the BC ! two clubs in matters concerning north during the afternoon, jnd'ation by' Prince George, Dawson Creek and Eight members from 1
Prince
Sept. 8 An announcement will be1 Ul� Peace River district. Main George were wearing the tradi-
j item under discussion was pub- lional fur headgear of the Brigade
made soon after.
Recommendations will be a- result of the recent public hearings before the board.
the shortest and best route to Alaska.
The band will arrive here at 11 a.m. on Tuesday and after playing in front of the city hall,
ment of bear skins, to London to the RCAF said in Vancouver Sat- weather, permitting, members will � be fashioned into new busbies for urday. be guests of the Prince George
the Guards, and have undertaken' An RCAF spokesman said sev-[ Board of Trade at a luncheon in to supply 50 skins every year. { eral civilians have spotted fires j the McDonald Hotel.
Left to right: Hilliard Clare, and reported them as possibly the : Derek Gerdes, Graeme Clark, Art burning wreckage of a DeHavil-Bell, Jack Mitchell, Tom Clark, land Dove in which oilman Ellis Frank Reidl, Don Phillips, Dan . Hall, his wife, two daughters and
Warne.
it�r cent.
irti ning to see that the \. admits record production. last reported month shows, ;� ceni of production was i'cfj out. There is not much er lying in the yards at this
e 1AV A. i.� asking for a wage ast.'.Iniv ut IS-cents-an-hour ell as, n. union shop clause increased holiday benefits. nctliation hoard meetings are underway ;it Vancouver! praters representatives are port of fire coming from a house ting the hold-jtbe-llne-attittide jn the 1400 block, -but they.-be-no wage .increase or other, lieve their informant was fopled ?act benefits.
False Alarm Interrupts Firemen's Sunday Rest j
Prince George Fire Department' sped to the 1400 Block Sixth Avenue shortly after 9 p.m. last night onlj' to find that they were answering a false alarm.
Fire department officials said they had received a telephone" re-
1 by a reflection on a window.
$100,000 Theatre Program !?a[fe! ??/bJ T�( Already Underway Here
rfcrrio-U.S. Gas Deal Raises ipes For Pipeline From North
I Patrick Hibben, teen-aged friend, �Craftsman Photographers, disappeared two weeks ago during a flight from Alaska to Bell-irigham, Wash-.
Each of the forest fire "clues" has been investigated by some of the 28 U.S. and Canadian service aircraft engaged in the search, the RCAF said.
Called Oil By Club
Test run of Prince George Ath-
Work Started On Drive-In Installation
A $100,000" theatre construction and improvement program for this city was announced hece .today by H. G. Stevenson,, president of Trans-West Theatres, owners of the Strape and Prinpsss in Prjince George,
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sthictlon- of a 500-car drive-in flrst drive.in. thGatres in B.C. so
The Air Force said search by
letic Club's barrel derby schedul- pianes of tne RC.AF> USAF and
ed for 2 p.m. yesterday was called \y.S. Coast Guard will continue
off, according to club officials, be- "at leagt another week." cause it would give some ticket E J; c m r and w p c
hnvprs an mlvnntnrro nuor tVir>oo 1 .�� � �.*'�� ~-"�v<-
of Albuquerque, New Mexico and George T. Abell of Midland, Texas arrived here t Saturday in ^A Cutter's twin-engine Beechcfaft
an
time of the Nechako to Bridge trip beforehand.
over those
Fraser
tre a,short distance south\of equipped :ity and the addition of a 100-^. Th�> ni-ni
will
theatre
the city and the addition of a ioo>^ Tne projectfoll tower
seat balcony in the Princess The-1 erected this year.
atre at Third Avenue and Van-j ,."\o, ' , , it . ,
�.,.,�,, q,,.�ot i Mr. SjLevenson said that the
couvei aueei. , (heatre ^
Construction on both projects e(J wjth is already underway, said Mr. |
Cutters twinengine Beechcfaft ti
Don McEachnie, a spokesman COnsult with pilots of planes bas for the club, said the planned ed at prince George airport dur | trial was discussed by planners of ing an intensive air search for
l^'CO.UVER.'Aug 31 (CP) � hat United States will (jo ahead" for an Al-fural gas pipeline to the fie Northwest before the end ear was indicated by a f business men here, prediction results from an in Friday of the U.S. Federal Commission in granting f�v Consumers- Gas " Ontario to bring natural gas intb the ?�>� The company has
been seeking permission for four years.
Feeling in Vancouver was.that the FPC action points, the way to a" big "swap" of natural gas, in which the next step will be approval of Westcoast .Transmission Pipe Line's application to pipe gas from Alberta to B.C., Washington State and Oregon/,
The line would run a. few miles east of Prince George and serve other communities in the B.C. Interior.
Stevenson.
The theatre operator, said that pi(cnlng and outdoor "checkers, much- of the actual construction
connected with the drive-in the-, atre will be completed this fall land that it will open early-next
i Champs
De ' the derby and discarded after had already been announced.
"We want everybody to have
ultimately bei equipp-) an!equal chance at the $700 prijse a recreation area for money which will go to the children and such entertainment ticket-holders who estimate the facilities for adults^as horse shoe elapsed time of the barrel's trip
' most accurately," he said. |
The barrel will be dropped into the Nechako River at the First Avenue bridge on September 7 and its elapsed time will end when
Ellis Hall, his wife, two daugh ters, and 17-year-old Patrick Hib ben.
A DeHavilland Dove plane " (See 28 PLANES, Page 4)
1 War Prisoners ieacH Vancouver
VANCOUVER, Aug. 31 (CP) � Eleven Canadian prisoners-of-war vho want to forget "it ever hap-encd." arrived here Saturday rom Tokyo, quiet and matter-of-act about their life in Chinese amps. .
A number of the men were re-uctant to talk, about their exper-ences.
The arrival was by far the largest of returning Canadian POW's so far, and was headed by 2nd Lieut. C. G. Owen of North Vancouver, whose slim., blonde wife wailed at the aircraft ramp with their'twd's'niaiV children.
Arriving with the soldiers was Bill Boss, veteran Canadian Press war correspondent who has reported the Korean fighting and armistice scene since the first contingent of Canadians was sent to the Far East. �
spring. rR.IX.CESS
About 835,000 of the total expenditure being made by Trans-West Theatres will go into mod- giasSGS. ernization of the Princess Block. I
The drive-in theatre too Avill be equipped to show cinemascope pictures when both films and equipment for that medium become available.
The cinemascope process uses a wide screen and does not require viewers to wear
Besides the balcony, a new
It incorporates four
Patter Of Little Feet Soon For New Connaught School
Despite the initial shock caused by a $450,000 price tag,
(till1 Distance Clf tlle barrel's run is' prjnce George's new Connaught Elementary School is one of 11 ' ^Proceeds'of the "derby will be'.the most economically built in British Columbia, thinks H. R. sound- turned over to the Kinsmen Club1 Moffat, chairman of the building committee for. the board of
the-current flashes It beneath the C.N.R. .steel bridge over the Fraser River.
front will be constructed on the tracks anci four amplifiers behind of Prince George for their, swim- trustees of School District Number 57. Vancouver Street side of the -thf curved screen so that sound ming pop] project, building embodving modern store- a^uall-v folIowsf the s�ur�e fr�m I, Ticket� on ,th? bal>J'?l derby may
which it emanates as a character be purchased from any Athletii
-aJumot* JWo oi lhe thoroughbreds,: which have helped make **-"U. lfa I"?18 ^ world's richest racing empire. At top. M"�. tai^^PUonarsire of some of the ereatwtjriainw.ln
ft^ wfi EDDIE
e Westo � nroSt
.- Calumet's farm near Lexington. Ky. nner of two $100,000 purses for Calumet on this spring, appears in the winner's circle. JtCARO is in the saddle, with trainer BEN Warren" wJ1?^ LUCIIXK MAKKEY, Calumet owner and widow ren Wrieht, ai the steed's head- . � . �
and
fronts and utilizing an abundance of chrome trim.
. Contractor on the balcony construction and' modernization project at the Princess Theatre is Dezell Construction Ltd., Prince George.
.The new section will contain logo accommodation only and will include modern foam-rubber seats.
CINEMASCOPE
Size of the candy bar will be increased and provision is being made to install cinemascope projection methods when the equipment becomes available.
"The cinemascope development provides a curved screen about three times as wide as present .screens and will mean a viewing surface of about- 360 square feet when it is installed at the Princess Theatre. Equipment has already been ordered by the company but. it is not expected to be in operation here for at least a year. So far, only one movie, "The Robe" has been photographed by cinemascope methods.
Both heating and cooling systems in the Princess Theatre are being revamped for greater comfort in the current improvement project. imiVFMN THEATRE
Trans-West's drive-in theatre will be located'on a 27-acre site immediately south of the � pld municipal airport on the Vander-hoof Highway.
It will cover 10 acres of the site and will incorporate, a 60 by 60-foot screen!
Individual loudspeakers will be installed for each car and elevation, of car-ramps, will be such that all viewers will have' unrestricted vision of the.screen.
A two-storey building towards the rear of the installation will house the drive-in theatre's projector. . .
Newest type of large projection lense wil be installed so that the
or action crosses the screen. ,
Cost of installing cinemascope facilities in a theatre is about $15,-000.
Angiicaii Church Is Newly Decorated
Rev. T. D. R. Allen of St.Mich-ael's Anglican Church had a
Club member or Kinsman.
SIX SONS CARRY FATHER'S CASKET
McBride citizens were shocked to hear of the sudden death of Dennis Callaghan, 50, on Aug 23 of a heart attack. He had boon a . resident of McBride for ten years pleasant home-coming awaiting and was we]] known "and highly
Approximately. 700 students
from grade one through to grade creased steam to that side while six will be moving into the stark- at the same time maintaining only ly modern school just south of a comfortable temperature oh the the main part of the city .on Sep-' sheltered side. tember S. j Windows .throughout are set
Awaiting Ihem will be a start- into profile-type frames and glaz-lirig building which represents, ing is double with an air-space be-the modern trend in educational twee.n. design and which is as far. remov-j A spacious auditorium a ed from the traditional country ant| a half jn height' has schoolhouse as the 1053 sedfln is from the 1020 flivver. � The new Connaught school is different from the outside in. In place of the usua
him when he returned from holi-1 respected.
day last week. j Mr< Cajlaghari was born at
During his absence the interior i Lindsay, Ontario, in 1894. of the church had been decorated j He "marrje(j Elizabeth Curten in an attractive color. scheme.! a]Sf) of Lindsay and thov had French blue, wheat and soft twelve children, eleven of 'whom brown have been blended in the are_ stil] uving. Four daughters.
I or clapboard is a strikingly mod-' ern exterior finish of .taupe-grey
decor.
The two side walls are'in wheat
Sr. Lucille of the Convent at Castor, Alta: ' Mrs. A. Rheaume,
and the wall'on which the cross Youngstown,. Alta.; M*rs. C. Setter
is situated is a soft brown to
of Kelowna; Mrs. J. Martini
blend with it The fourth wall is Prince George: and seven sons;,
'Lawrence of Quesnel; William of Wainwright, Alta.: George with
a soft French blue.
The wood was painted with'
cream, which was then wiped the R.C~A.F. "in France- Patrick, off, leaving a silver finish. The Bernard. Arthur and Maurice of which is of striated
torey been
built into the northeast corner of the building and is situated so that adjacent classrooms will double as changing rooms when its stage is in use. OFFICKS
Ingenious use of the auditorium siding and peac colored stucco. ' (.oiIinu extended towards the Long vertical columns putting from Qf thp ;,(.hoo, nas permLU0(i
the construction of one huge classroom which can ho divided into two by a movable plastic partition .which slides on ceiling rails-.
Spacious offices for the principal, his office staff and . the teachers have been included on the ground floor', as well as large
out from the front of the build-
unbvpken surface over 200^-fcet long and an abundance /if glass, gives the structure�an/airy ap-
vestibule,
plywood, was given the same
treatment.
The decorating was done j by George and -Irving Toombs.
Rev. and Mrs. Allen were away three Aveeks, and visited the southern part of the province before driving to Moose Jaw, Sask.
Blood. Donor Group Meets Tuesday Night
Members of the city blood team which is gathering pledges for the Blood Donors Clinic will meet tomorrow night to check on progress they are making.
The meeting will be held in the City Hall at S p.m. - � ~
Prince George has been asked to donate 1000 pints of blood when the Clinic comes to the city on September 22, 23, and 24.
Pledges so far have been com.
McBride.
He had 20 grandchildren; also four brothers, Steve, Neil, Frank and Thomas and one sister, Mrs. F. Curten, all living in Lindsay:
The funeral wag held Thursday morning from St. Patrick's R.C. church . and interment was in McBride cemetery.
Requiem High Mass was "celebrated by Rev. Fr. O'Reilly, who also conducted the service at. the grave.
Pallbearers were his six sons, Patrick, Lawrence. Bernard, William, Arthur and Maurice.
Interior of the building is finished in greens and rusts, with natural wood panelling prevailing in the corridors and all trim wasiirooms
Each classroom
picture will be thrown a distance ing ih well, officials of the blood holiday before returning to the
of 700 feet. It will be one of the. committee stale.
Layout of the building is far from traditional. CUPBOARDS
Two main entrances lead right into the corridors without the usual cloakrooms to block traffic, and special coat-cupboards have been built into each of the school's IS classrooms.
These cupboards are a revelation in themselves. Air is drawn into them at the, bottom by the school's air conditioning system and exits, aftei'i giving a (Irving action to the ^clothes within, at the top.
. Heating is fully automatic with two coal-fired stoker-fed furnaces generating live steam for distrlbu-Postmaster Wallace Mulligan-! tfpn through the continuous-type last week travelled to KaniloopS radiators which are located stva-to attend the 1.8th annual confer-j tegically under all classroom win-ence of the B.C. branch of the, dows.
Canadian Postmasters Association. | Each room in the school is Mrs. Mulligan accompanied him.! equipped with a heat thermostat Following the meeting Mr. and which operates independently of Mrs. Mulligan will take a short thermostats in the other rooms.
A cold wind on one side of the building will thus result in in-
equipped with hot and cold running water and a fully equipped room for visiting nurses and health pffic--lals has been incorporated.
The school will have a staff of 20 and will actually accommodate 720 students without crowding.
It took eight construction time
months actual and was built
by Bennett & White Construction Company of Vancouver.
Architects on the school were Gardner & Thornton* of Vancouver.
Principal of the new Connaught Elementary School .will Re Harry Thompson, formerly principal of the school's, ill-fated predecessor which burned to the ground over
a vcar ago.
Today school is
the new Connaught missing only some lin-
city.
oleum before it is ready for the Fall influx of students.
Its grounds will be fully landscaped and winding concrete sidewalks will lead to it through a wooded glade which forms part of the site on which it is built. .
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