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An Independent   Semi-Weekly   Newspaper   Devoted   to   the       Inter
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Prince George, B.C., THURSDAY, September 10, 1953
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\eed 500 More Donors ire For Travelling Clinic
At least .500 more pledge cards must be signed during the week if Prince George is to meet a commitment to provide feed Cross blood donors clinic with  1000 pints of blood
Nechako Rise Too Lafe For City Mill
year.
in the blood, donor has been waning in urge, said John Morri-Ichiiirinan of the local panel, t'ar'tecl out this morning on (>n;il canvass to aid his help-ectting .r)00 more signatures
2   cards   have   aU
fhougli
 signed, by those will-
Advance notice of the opening of spillway gates at the mouth of the Cheslatra River west  of  Prince  George would
:           been a boon to the only
lt ](.;i at the CCF Hall, Fourth
e, for three days, Sept. 22-
rier Man's Death ;d An Accident
|(h of a city vouth in Prince
Ltd., had peavied the last log off a   sandbar  and   herded  into  the
For hunters whose eyesight is failing, the positive method of determining whether a moose is bull or cow is demonstrated by Cliff Kilpatrick of Burns Lake. Mr. Kilpatrick, one of the Interior's outstanding authorities on game fishing and a keen outdoorsman, is actually seen petting a tame moose en the streets of Van-derhoof. The animal, which attached itself to a Vanderhoof district family,- was in the custom of accompanying its mistress on shopping tours of the Nechako Valley town and waited patiently outside each store.
Public Reminded Of Buckhorn Sanctuary
Membership of the Northern Interior Lumbermen's" Association has unanimously rejected that part of a conciliation board award handed down late last week which would grant lumber workers a six cents an hour wage increase and three annual statutory holidays with pay.
R. J. Gallagher, secretary manager of the N.I.L.A., made the announcement to the press yesterday.
\Said he: "It should be apparent to everyone that the, lumber industry in^this area faces one of � District hunters are reminded the most critical situations yet to by British Columbia Game Branch confront it. With markets becom- officers today that Buckhorn ing more and more depressed, not Lake and the area surrounding it only is it necessary to maintain has been declared a wildfowl the present cost level, but  labor  sanctuary.
must take a realistic attitude if I Existence of the sanctuary industry as a whole is to survive southeast of Prince. George has the present economic situation." -I been gazetted and the ground has
In the past, Gallagher went on, ! been posted.
much  money has been spent by \    Although   shooting   restrictions , operators on plant improvements   in   the  area   apply  to   migratory to meet greater reductions in the   wildfowl, the text of the law ac-price of  lumber without cutting   tually makes it impossible to leg. i wages, which  has  done much to   ally shoot any other type of ganie I secure the position of labor.         | on the ground or to shoot at all,
He said that freight increases within   the   past  30  days   have
"dealt a severe blow to the industry."
A larger volume of production   law> and  il
'WeWon'tBe BluffingAgain' Says I.W.A. Organizer Here
millpond adjacent to The Island.
Ira Lamb, a principal in the company, told The Citizen his firm would likely abandon river driving next year as a result of the lowered level of the Nechako River brought about by completion of the Kenney Dam.
He said that cost of driving the           Officials of the International Woodworkers of America
river  with  about a  million  and   said today in the face of rejection by the Northern Interior a half aboard feet of logs this year �! Lumbermen's Association of a conciliation board award made
just  about   double  what it has been in previous years.
last week that strike action here is "very probable."
"The condition of the river now
&  District  Hospital  late . just takes all the profit out of the � a   few veek following  a  freak  in-  operation," the millman went on.   known
The statement was made only .
hours   after   it   became   they   claimed,   adding   that   the
Job-Seekers Double Within U Months
is now more important than ever , before for survival  and  to  meet ' tl.'ar-v the increasing economic demands   "ivds-being forced on the industry, the N.I.L.A.' official asserted.  � "Improvement      in      facilities
for that matter.
According to the wording, disturbing the wildfowl in the sanctuary  is  an  offense  against the be  impossible
to shoot at anything in the sanc-without    disturbing    the
Game officials set Buckhorn Lake aside as a refuge not because, it  offers  an   abundance  of  wild-
which   has  taken   place   will  be  fo%V   ffed: ^because � can be needed    to-   come    through    the   "f fteglc reStin& Place  for tho
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squeeze of higher wages and low-! er  prices.   Where  lumber  prices
Ducks,  geese and swans  have seen there this year
To be over-optimistic at this time would be grossly unfair to labor.
"The  big question  today,"  he-and"potato^lejfds^n^.the'Srlbt went on,   is whether or not labor  and to other bodies of water
economists,  who operate  from a I                        '____.______.
different rule-book than business economists,     will  tell  labor   this
 dinner Meetinq Tonight
0' Board Of Trode'
that  the operators   had   strike  vote should.be completed   and district is about double today shap at Red Rock two . -He said his firm had maintain- [unanimously rejected  the award , about: two months earlier than it   wnat it was a year ag0 if lhe num.
Unemployment in Prince George   or can get regardless of markets." !     First  Board  of  Trade- meeting
earlier was ruled accidental  ed a four-man crew on the river
oroners jury.here on Tues-  for about two months this year
�veiling.;   . �                            j hauling  logs off  the  bars     and
is George Loch, age 21, a ' clearing jams.
|rnirr1or driver who receiv-j     About  half of the million  and
ensive brain and skull in-   a half feet went aground some-
when the drive chain of his' where    at    least    once    between
e.gave.way striking him  Prince George and the company's
1 tho heaci-                               I logging camp 25 miles upstream.
wa* employed   by   Scott I          ._____________________
Door Company     at the the accident.
heel to Prince- George hos-he lived about 36 hours. [is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Loch,    1704    Seventeeth le, Prince George.
ig School Under Here This Week
'�inch flying school of .Sky-
ir .Services, Langley Prair-
under way here late yes-
with an initial enrollment
ftudents.
Chinese Shellfire Kills
Six British Soilort                  -
" HONG KONG, Sept. 10 jfear, has been slated 1 getting time off from   for late, winter or' early spring,
pPloyment during the day i�l them to do so when the
f'-V arises.
Folk Society officials state.
A bazaar is on the agenda for members of Rebekah Lodge who meeting of all stu-   hold   their  first  meeting of  the Pvo�ild be held in the near j fall   season  tonight  in   the  Odd-arrangements   are! fellows Hall.
Annual   fall  bazaar,   organized by members of the-Royal Purple GOLF                 is � slated   for   early   November.
l0|s nf last Fridav's Snoons Members of tne R�yal P^P1!? * Marj Inglis, The s^ver ' raisedK some f70 during, the sum-is. \v-,,.,i TLTf.._. .  .;     .?...'   mnr bv stacrine dicetv bank Dro-
 angemen rr a meeting place.
 Mj Inglis  the silver i
 Ward Houghtallntr   the   mer by stagin^ Piegy bank pro nougntaimg, the|jectS      ,n  wh,ch   membera- spli
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members' split
into different groups, baked cakes and cookies and passed them on to    others who "paid"
(DERHOOF BOUNDARIES EXTENDED  MORE THAN DOUBLED
u total of 220 acres the "'   Winderhoof  now  em-
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 trlple the
 and copy of the rdi authorizing the acr r� bcen received at Effice' The documents
 the
s     �f application did not L   surprise to the Com-f �> ^ matter was taken Ro r ria by Chalrman of hii   �^missioners Floyd
S the.Dept. of Munici-ln connection  with the
ago lT';"ystem severaI f�- At that Ume he was
given reason to believe no objection would be encountered.
Under the letters patent the newr village boundaries extend westward from.a pojnt near the top of the Prince George hill, and three blocks.south of the former boundary. From the same point on the Prince George hill the line runs northward along the line dividing sections" 9 and 10, through Bob Creasey's farm property, ta boat landing on the Nechako river to junction of Stoney Creek and the river. No extension was made to the west.
Of the present total of 617 acres comprising the Village of Vanderhoof there 550 acres of land, and 67 acres of water.
for the baking by contributing to a special club piggy bank.
The lodge will hold its first, meeting of the season* on Septenv ber 14 in the Elks Hall.
Six Mile Lake is scheduled meeting place for meinbers,.of the Business and Professional Women's Club when they hold their first seasonal gatherings on September 17.   ,.
�At that-iime, Nancy Jermyn, provincial president of Biz Profs, will present an official charter to the local club.
Eastern Star plan their next meeting in the Elks Hall on September 21.
Local   sorority   chapters   also
have a full season of activity planned. Next meeting of Alpha Eta is planned for September IG at the home of member Ruth Han-sen, and members also have ttyeir rushing season in full swing.
Forms of Literature will be the theme taken by Tau Chapter when they meet at the home of Edith Thorsness on September 14. ' Sigma Chapter continued the sixth program in their happiness book at their last meeting, held yesterday at the home of president -Mi'si Gladys Friend. Mrs. Nancy Love is program chairman.
was in 1952.
ber of persons registered as job-
Mr. Sekora said that last year seekers with the Unemployment the operators had "bluffed" the Insurance Commission here is 'a union and the conciliation board   true indication.
from the start of negotiations.
"The operators said that a drop of a few cents in the price of lumber would mean that a large part of the industry would have to shut down. Well the. price' dropped and there wan not much changer' said the organizer;
He said the union was in. ex-
As at August 31 this year, 297 men and 95 women were registered as seeking employment, compared with 120 men and 63 women on the same date a year ago.
Although Unemployment Insurance officials are quick to point out there is not necessarily ,any fixed connection between^ t*� rmfmber of job seekers and the total number  of  unemployed  in
cellent condition to withstand any  tne    district, labor observers  in pressure placed  upon  it  by. em-  private     industry    consider    the
ifcI figure a reliable indication.
"Irvine , Moss,   manager   of. the immission's    office    here,    said
ployers.
Asked if the fact that less than a half of Northern Interior lum-berworkers are members of the tni.s week that the trend to' in-I.W.A. might not make a strike creased unemployment is about difficult, Mr. Webb pointed outjtwo weeks earlier than it was a that 90 per cent of lumber ship-year ago.
ments out of the district are union I He said a number of mills controlled and he pointed out that | u'hich operated last summer are railroad unions would co-operate dormant at present, others have with  the I.W.A. in  the event 6f   shut down.
Gallagher    said    the    N.I.L.A.   of lhe fa" aml winter season will
membership feels it is meeting labor "more than half way" in agreeing to renew last year's contract in view of falling markets and the uncertain outlook.
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Young Drowning Victim!Burns Lake-:
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Buried  At  Rites Today
Funeral services were held in Shelley today for drowning victim David John Gagnon. - Body of the i 1-year-old boy was recovered from the Fraser last Saturdaj'. "An intensive search was conducted for the boy when
be held tonight in the' McDonald Hotel, starting with a dinner at 7 p.m.
President Norman Napier and other delegates will review business conducted at the Associated Boards of -.Trade convention at ind other important be reviewed.
All  members are urged to attend this meeting..
Funeral-Rites We For George Loch
Funeral services.were- held here Wednesday for George  Loch, 21,
he failed to return lfbme on Au-1 who   died  in_ Prince  George and gust 19.                                            /District  Hospital  last   Friday fol-"
An   employee  of  Shelley-Saw-Mowing-a Woods accident", mills discovered the boy's body in \    Mr. Loch j.<; the son of Mr. and the river. .                                         Mrs.  R. J.  Loch' of this city.  lie
was born in Nippo.wan, Sask., and had lived here for two years.
,The funeral was held at '2 p.Yn.." in Knpx United Church with Key. GoHlpn McLaren officiating. Ass-were  in
Susan  Hampson Rites To Be  Held On Friday
Susan Hampson will be,, buried ' man's .Funeral  Chajjel funeral (services  fr
strike action.
He said that more than ever before in the past, Coast locals of the I.AV.A. are in active support of the Interior locals.
Two reasons given by operators   United Church  at 3 p.m
are excessive rain and inability to sell stocks on hand.
The employment manager de: scrih'ed present labor conditions here as  "no. overall  shortage  of
This  he said  was  because  In-1 workers," but  he added that the terioi" working   conditions   were , demand for men is still brisk in
a number of skilled categories.�
Three Injured When Car Hits Guard Rail
TERRACE, Sept. 10 (CP)�/Three persons are in hospital with serious injuries as the result of a highway accident about "18 miles southwest of here Monday night.
Hospital officials today reported the condition of Len Jackson, 35, who suffered multiple injuries, was grave and little hope was held for his recovery. His parents, Air. and Mrs. W. M. Jackson, received leg and pelvis fractures. Their condition was fair. All are residents, of Terrace.
RCMP said the car carrying four adults and three children struck a guard rail about one mile east of Shames on Highway 16.         .         .        �
Driver of the car and other passengers'were not immediately identified^
having   an   increasing- effect- on men- in the Coast industry.
"More and more Coast operations are looking to the Interior as a future site of operations and the men from the Coast who will man them will J)e subject to Interior wages."   -
Mr. Webb, said that the Coast locals of the I.W.A. would actively support the Interior locals with both men and money df-necessary.
He said that railroad unions had in the past offered their cooperation when a strike threat loomed here and that he has every reason to believe they will do so again.
Mr. Sekora pointed out that if the operators force the issue to a showdown by refusing to reconsider the conciliation award, the union will revert to its original demands of 18 cents an hour and a union shop.
"We. were far from satisfied with the award of the conciliation board, but we were prepared to submit it to our membership in the interests of settling this dispute amicably," he said.
He said that final decision to strike over the issue when and if a strike vote is taken and passed will come from the district policy committee.
"But I do not believe,'' he added, "that the union will stand for rejection of the award of a government board two years running."
He said operators had pulled a "bluff" last year and that their success had encouraged them to try it again.
The union officials said that a ballot among the membership on whether the conciliation award should be. accepted, and on whether a strike vote should be applied for if the operators reject it, has met with an almost 100 per cent affirmative reception so far.
Results of the complete balloting should be available in a few days, he added, and no time will be wasted'in getting a .strike vote underway if the membership calls for one.
with   Rev.   Gordon   McLaren   officiating.
Mrs. Hampson was killed in an automobile accident near Williams Lake last Saturday. She
and    three    children    in Georger
n     Knox ( charge of arrangements.
. Friday, i     .Mr._Loch Sr.' and his son c;i
Off TheWires Today
(Canadian Press�Thursday, September   10,' 1^953)
Action Imminent On Transportation Issues           '
OTTAWA�The cobinet probably will act September 17- on two major transportation issues before it,. Prime Minister St. Laurent soid Wednesday.
They are decisions on anappeol from the latest general freight rate increose and on an application that would break the trans-continentol monopoly of Trans-Canada Air Lines.
Crew Safe As Helicopter Crashes In Canyon
VANCOUVER�The three-year-old crash of a United . Stotes B-36 strategic bomber, which took five lives, almost claimed three more Tuesday when an investigating helicopter crashed in the rugged Fraser Canyon.
The wreck was found only last week and the helicopter was returning from the scene, near Smithers, when its gear box jammed, forcing it down near an Indian cabin.    No one was injured.
B.C. Gives $1,000 For Greek Earthquake Fund
VICTORIA�Premier W. A. C. Bennett today officially launched a fund raising drive for the relief of the Greek Ionian Islands,- stricken with disastrous eorthquakes recently.
The premier presented Gus Chrisos, chairman of the-Greek earthquake relief fund with o cheque  for  $1,000 on behalf, of  British Columbia.
Wholesale Arrests Of Doukhobors Last- Night
NELSON�Police Wednesday night cracked down on nude demonstrating redical Doukhobors, arresting 148 men and women and breoking up the   recently-established  tent  villoge   of  Polatko.
The mass arrests, carried out at the police-barricaded tent village situated on the outskirts of Perry Siding, 29 miles northwest of here, were carried out with military-like precision by some 40 R.C.M.P. officers patrolling  the strife-ridden  area.
The prisoners�71 women and 77 men�were put aboard a special train for Vancouver.
Police said Doukhobors offered no resistance, but paraded about in the nude.
Lawyers Favor 48-Hour Strike Notice
QUEBEC�The industrial relations committee of the Canadian Bar Association said Wednesday labor laws should require a 48-hour strike or lockout notice  in  labor disputes.                            �    .
Federal Workers Here Start Five-Day Week       .
OTTAWA�The government has put the bulk of its office workers on a year-round, five-day week and promised a similar step in the next few months for operating staffs.      ,�'                                      .
The change from the present 5^2-day week affects about 60,000'out of  the estimated  85,000  office  workers  employed  by  the  government.
�Among th western cities affected � by the five-day, week are Prince Rupert ond Prince George.         �    1 .    �
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from Saskatchewan two years ago, and were joined by Mrs. Loch two months ago.
The youth     was  injured  in  a logging accident 'at Red Rock on
survived  by  her  husband,   Paul, j September "2,  and  was  taken  to Prince : hospital, but .failed.lo_regaih consciousness.
He had studied first year university.
Prince George  Entry Winner At PNE Show
Mrs. C. Whitmore of. Prince George was a winner in the home arts section of the Pacific Nation-" al Exhibition which ended an 11-day run at Vancouver on Labor Day after breaking all attendance marks.
Home arts entries were received from many parts of Canada.
Mrs. Whit more was first in the class for baby's knitted dress. "
Funeral  Services  Foe Mabel  Peters  Friday
Funeral services will be held at 1-50 p.m. Friday for Mrs. Mabel Peters, wife of William peters.
Mrs. Peters died in Edmonton, and the remains were brought here today for funeral services. The funeral will be held from Assman's Chapel, with Rev. T. D. R. officiating.
No  Nechako  Chronicle Published  This Week
Norman Korr, publisher of Nechako Chronicle, at Vanderhoo'C haw announced that thcre^-wlTl be no paper this Saturday.
Sir. Kerr'plans-to take a short vacation. Publication of the newspaper will resume the following week.
Dick Plett Feted By Fellow Bank Employees
Tiic staff of the Bank'-of Nova Scotia were entertained at the home of manager. .Iledli-y Millar and Mrs. Millar Wednesday*'even-ing" in honor of Dick Plctt..
Mr. I'I<:H leaves Friday to join the staff ;i"i >..r !t:mk'-: ni;iin branch in Vancouver. At presentation' was made to Mr. Plett on behalf <}f the staif.
This \vilLbe the-first transfer in the. bank for th<% Pririce George resident.               .'