BENNETTS BLUNDERS Wenner Gren liy 1950 with two strikes on him as an cmpirc buililcr Premier Bennett looked more like an incompetent and a buffoon than a statesman He badly needed a big new gimmick At a meeting with the Swedish financier Axel Wenner Grcn in the summer of 1930 he got one Wenner Grcn master of a dozen international cartels including the Swedish armament trust war lime collaborator with the Nazis and salesman of weapons to Hitler said he would finance a vast resources empite in and around the Rocky Moun Mountain ¬ tain Trench In return Dennett never fussy about whom he did businoss with gave him the right to survey and the option to develop 40000 square miles of territory in BC Wenner Grcn was an old hand at offering to build empires for naive but hungry politicians for a price he would disclose after he had them well committed Dy the time his scout Gundcrson came along with Bennett in tow he had discarded several recent schemes that didnt work out including A 100 million industrial program in Mexico a resources empire in Southern Rhodesia an inter international ¬ national rail and road network from Alaska to Panama a revolutionary transit system in New York The Swedish wizard also had several empire building deals cooking in South America Bennett took his bait hook line and sinker and soon had the rafters ringing all over the province with loud claims about the wonders he and Wenner Grcn would work in BC As usual with Bennett the big notion became the reality Huge power plants metallurgical electro chemical uranium aluminum works were already thrusting their way through the lop soil and would spring up like mushrooms Wenner Grcn would fill the Trench witli Swedish workmen It would be a fairyland of neon lights hurdy gurdies and happy or perhaps slap happy citizens The Vancouver newspapers their critical faculties fast asleep beat the drum with big headlines Bennett to build billion dollar empire The toothpaste smile gleamed from thousands of telephone poles The air waves crackled with big boom talk No bucket shop salesman of worth worthless ¬ less stock ever put on a bigger show than Bennett Like a strip tease artist Wenner Grcn continued to reveal his charms bit by bit He would set up a sort of charity trust ana plough back all the profits in BC He would build a monorail He unveiled the model in Stockholm himself Premier Bennett eyes shining or perhaps just glazed over thought he had it made Monday The great disillusionment Statement attacks mayor for declining invitation Mrs T R Doyd president of Thursday when he explained the Cottonwood Island Commun ity Club today attacked Mayor Garvin Tczell for declining her invitation to attend a film shown Thursday night on railroad safety In a statement to The Citizen she said Mr Dczcll made il plain he was not coming to see the picture show in the Cotton Cottonwood ¬ wood Island School because he hates the sight of blood The picture show would have done him some good just to show him how little children have to die just because of a 10 bill Referring to the mayors statement that residents will have to accept inconveniences since they live outside the juris jurisdiction ¬ diction of tho city she stated True enough people dont have to live heie but they dont make 10000 a year to live up to the Joneses because they went on relief According to a letter Mrs Bojd has from Highways Min Minister ¬ ister P A Gaglardi a pedes pedestrian ¬ trian overpass at tho CNR tracks is the responsibility of the city Mr Dezell denied this U seems the Conservatives are having a meeting tonight at 8 in the Legion auditorium while at the same timo The Citizen Itav a shindig in tho adjoining boa id room So Tory gal Friday Eunice Roy bays1 this morning If our party fizzles can I join jours The answer is es yes yes Anybody looked at the Van Vancouver ¬ couver phono book lately Its fun Upon looking up the BC EUstrle one finds it listed al that the island is outside the city limits Plans for a discussion of the islands access problem sched scheduled ¬ uled to follow the film fell through when only eight adults attended However three residents ex expressed ¬ pressed the opinion that tho primary necessity is for a legal access load not a pedestrian overpass They said there is no road to the island which docs not pass through private property There is one public crossing of the CNR tracks but the same road also crosses a private bridge They said it is impossible to get insurance on vehicles while they arc on private property They also commented on the rough surface of the existing road and said a grader should be brought in to level the ruts The film and talk given by CNR safety supervisor John McLean pointed out to childien and parents the dangers of crossing unregulated tracks Now hear thl LS right but with tho notation See BC Hdro and Power Author Authority ¬ ity Wondering about possible can candidates ¬ didates for the civic election Theres a rumble the anti Sun day sport group has a couple of hopefuls up their sleeves And also speaking of the un unexpected ¬ expected the rumble vine has it that Ray Williston is going to drop a bombshell here Sept 28 if he ever comes back to town Some of the most colorful railway rolling stock around our town isnt parked niar the CN or lGE railroads Its m thts basements of railroad modelers a happy breed of hobbyists who usually start from scratch to built scale model equipment tracks sidings in fact every thing a prototype railway would have and equally as in intricate ¬ tricate One such modeler is Jim Stilt an ardent enthusiast who has adopted tho railroad as his hobby for the last four years COOLER jO J Tomorrow m Prince George Bulkley Valley and the Cariboo will be cloudy and cooler wih a few showers Low tonight and high Satur Saturday ¬ day in Prince George and Smithers 40 and 55 Quesnel 45 and CO Peace River will be cloudy with a few morning showers and a sunny afternoon Little change in temperature is an anticipated ¬ ticipated Low tonight and high Satur Saturday ¬ day at Grande Prairie 45 and C5 LAST 24 HOURS Mi Lo Pre Prince George G2 40 Terrace 57 48 01 Smithers 50 47 Quesnel 61 43 Williams Lake C5 42 Kamloops 75 47 Fort Nelson G3 34 Fort St John 61 4G Dawson Creek G4 30 44 Evans William Robert farmerv Nechako 45 George Emily hswf Nechako 46 George Frank farmer Nechako 47 George Steve laborer Vanderhoof 48 George Veronica hswf Box 114 Vanderhoof iWmwygTWMlJc luWef Hoehahe George Maurice elkohallic res -closest barS 5lj 0hHf3rice heuookeeft Vndnmw 51 John Celena Antoine hswf Nechako 52 John Felix Peter farmer Nechako 53 John Lazare Peter logger Nechako Just in case you didnt believe that item in this comer yesterday about tho Omineca voters list drag your eyeballs to the picture above IN THE CITIZEN Building page -- -- 9 Church notices 6 Classified 10 11 Comics 12 Coming events District 2 Editorial 7 Sports 4 lies secretary of Prince George Railroad Modelers ami Histerioal Association and has more than 300 tied up in such things as 100 feet cf track two CN diesel C500s four steam switcher engines freight cars from Swift Refrigerator Union Pacific Chesapeake and Ohio Wa Wabash ¬ bash Pennslvvania Southern Pacific Great Notthern and Burlington There are street lamps teles graph poles and rail signals all functional and all io hima ture One of the highlights of Mr KAMLOOPS CP Margaret Ma Murray outspoken news newspaper ¬ paper editor convulsed audi enco and candidates alike Thursday night as she spoke in support of E Davie Fulton Mrs Murray known as Ma to thousands of B Cs interior and north brought down the house I think its damned nice of you to sit up there anl listen to me said tho 76-year-old publisher of the Bridge River and Lillooet News The crowd of GOO obviously had not hcaul anything like it Mr Fulton seeking election in this constituency and Premier Duff Roblin of Mani Manitoba ¬ toba here to suppoiL him sat alternately chuckling and iok ing as Mrs Murray rambled on Her remaiks mostly concern concerned ¬ ed Social Credit Piemier W A C Bennett and his noitlicrn f cace River project The piemier is the first die tator we ever had in Canada It is time for him to go said Mu Murray breaking into tears Please God he never gets the chance to burden us with the greatest White Elephant Elephantine ¬ ine Peace project In British Columbia She said the Peace River area hej- former home or many years and once the scene fr U l Sj ttu Phone LOgan 4 2441 Vol 7 No 184 The only daily newspaper serving Cenlral British Columbia PRINCE GEORGE BRITISH COlUMBIA FRIDAY SEPTEMBER 20 1963 MINUTE DETAILS GET ATTENTION FROM MODELER JIM STITT MODELLING BECOMING POPULAR HERE A basement full PCs outdraw Socreds In battle of giants KAMLOOPS Special corres correspondent ¬ pondent Tho Conservative team of Davie Fulton and Duff Roblin out drew Socreds Attorney-General Robert Bonner and Highways Minister Phil Gaglardi in a crucial round of tho battle of the- giants here Thursday night Mr Fulton who is trying to unseat Mr Gaglardi spoke at an election rally attended by GOO persons in a high school auditorium Mr Bonner speaking on be- AND 600 LISTENED of her temporary embrace to the Social Credit party was full of alternate sources of energy Yet none of these has pro produced ¬ duced any secondary industry for the Peace River country What have wo got she shouted Not a bloody secondary in industry ¬ dustry except tho sulphur we take out of the gas Of Mr Gaglardi she said Hes a nice little guy Hes the only one of them with a sense of humor Itlzn of rolling stock Stitts figure eight construc construction ¬ tion of tracks is a mountain bore tunnel bringing the trains onto three bridges A panel of switches controls the cntira complex While everything is design designed ¬ ed for accident free operation ccKlsionu do happen Head on crashes arc unknown as all equipment rins in the sama direction but a rear end smash docs happen if tha engineer isnt en the ball at the panel of controls TberO are about a dozen model railroaders -inv Prince George and it was natural for the group to form a club Headed by Harry Schimm modelers meet monthly in tho basement of tho Civic Centre and hold a work night and shop talk session every Wtxl nsday at 8 pm Members decided long ago to rcljln the friendly informal atmosphere and say it Is a good place for thaso starting in the hobby to get a good idea of what kind of pleasures lay ahead for tho winter Next week is a cleanup ses session ¬ sion foyr the track and prcpar eion for the track after a timmer layoff and prepara preparation ¬ tion for an operating night half of Mr Gaglardi had an for simultaneous development audcnce of 80 Premier Duff Roblin of Mani Manitoba ¬ toba spoke in support of Mr Fulton His address took the form of a personal testimonial And there was a maverick in the midst of the Kamloops cam campaigningMa ¬ paigningMa Murray 76-year-old Liberal and onetime Social Creditcr who is for Davie Fulton in this election Development of power re resources ¬ sources m BC was the domin dominant ¬ ant isibiie Social Credit policy is tray has her chance too tf tlie Columbia and Peace Rivers while tho Conservatives say the Peace should be delayed and priority given to the Colum Columbia ¬ bia Mr Fultn said ithat secret reports on the Peace River rroject reports ho claimed the government is hiding iihow it is an economic mon monstrosity ¬ strosity and should bo stopped now We will make theso reports public unless they are burned he said There will bo a great file burning when there is a change of government Mr Bonner said Mr Fultons statement that he would halt the Peace River work could be likened to King Canutes at attempt ¬ tempt to stop the tides Halting the project would mean throw ing away 23 million to 25 mil lion He said the Conservative elec election ¬ tion campaign is being directed from outsids tha province and Ihs is something that should be the concern of everjone Mr Roblm said there is a tendency in provincial politics to put the provinco first and things Canadian almost nowhere at all Mr Fulton a man wlio fol followed ¬ lowed his conscience would never loso sight of tho national course said the Manitoba pre premier ¬ mier PEARSON WOULD UNITE UN FORCE Investigation of tho problem I was started Thursday night at a meeting cf the chamber s- agri agriculture ¬ culture committee along with representatives cf farming d a I r ying poultrymen super supermarkets ¬ markets and senior government agricultural departments A four member subcommittee of Roy Yip Del Sproxton Cuhck Lcesi ard Robjn Webster was stnick to study tho subject and brirrg in recommendations with within ¬ in one month The meeting was called to dis discuss ¬ cuss the known fact that locally produced agricultural products such as milk eggs vegetables and poultry and suah by products a si ico cream and bakery output arc not being bought to full extent because supermarkets and chain stores in the Prince Georga area aro bringing in similar products from the Fraser Valley EMPHASIS ON MILK Theme of discussion was that locally - produced agricultural products should be sold to the fullest extent before merchants resort to selling Imports from other areas Special emphasis was placed on milk sales The meeting was told that if no outside milk was brought hero local dairy farms would bo quite able to supply the mtiretrince George UI1U UlMIlLlt HIUrKUL Opinions were expressed that supermarkets and chain 6torcs here fail to give adequate dis play space and prominence to local products and instead tend to feature their own company imports and brandl lines while shoving local brands into in- inccmspicuous positions SOME FAULT HERE A poultryman reported that at tho present moment there is no problam in the local egg indus industry ¬ try He said egg producers arc able to sell their total output but added that if imports arc increased a problem will un undoubtedly ¬ doubtedly bo created The meeting also heard sug suggestions ¬ gestions that part of the fault for tho sales problem lies with local producers for not prac practicing ¬ ticing modern merchandising and promotional techniques S II 10 per Monti e a topy bt cAnRren PROBE STARTED Moves to push local products to be studied Tbc problem of locally produced agricultural pro products ¬ ducts being outsold in Prince George by imports from the Fraser Valley will be studied by a special committee of the chamber of commerce Solution could be a long range publicity and pro promotion ¬ motion campaign to induce residents of this area to buy more local products BC Hydro rate cut predicted A BC Hydro spokesman said today he has no knowledge of any pending reduction in power rates despite a predic prediction ¬ tion by NDP Leader Robert Strachan there would be one within a week Dr Gordon Shrum and Dr Hugh Kecnlcysidc co directors of BC Hydro were out of Van Vancouver ¬ couver and could not be reached for comment The spokesman in a telephone interview from his Vancouver office said only that he was not aware of any planned re duction in the near future Mr Strachan predicted in Terrace Thursday night that a cut in rates will be announced within a week in a desperate attempt to woo voters Schmidt quits job as coach The Prince George Mohawks are without a coach today and manager George Merrick says thcluh will have to starts looking around Willie Schmidt Thursday quit the post and its expected hell take over Printc Georges junior team Missing hunter makes way out BURNS LAKE Correspond Correspondent ¬ ent Mclvin Levitt a hunter from San Jose Calif walked out of the bush near here Thurs Thursday ¬ day after he had been lost for 30 hours He was in a party of six American hunters which split up after they shot a bear Mr Levitt became lost when walk walking ¬ ing out of the bush by himself He finally made his way to the CNR tracks after hearing a train An air search had started for him BC Hydro calls tenders for new office building BC Hydro and Power Authority announced today it has called for tenders for tho construtcion of a new office building in Princo George The office to be located oni the corner of Fifth and Bruns wick and will replace the existing district office at 1288 Fourth Architects Allen and Hug gins of Vernon have been re retained ¬ tained by the BC Hydro for ha design and construction supervision of the building Tinders are expeoted to ba called within two weeks Tho building with about 4000 square feet of office space will feature glulam bsam construction with ex exterior ¬ terior field stone facing Other significant features of tho building include air condition conditioning ¬ ing throughout modem clcc ifc ic haing and up-to-dato interior and exterior lighting Bill Best BC Hvdro dis district ¬ trict manager here said tho new facilities are required to meet the rapidly increasing volume of hi toss in the Prince George area We plan to construct a building that will bo a credit io tho community he said and a building that will dem demonstrate ¬ onstrate the modern and effi efficient ¬ cient use of electricity Mr Best continued We hope to have the building undjr construction in October and completed as soon as pos possible ¬ sible in 1964 Kennedy sees pause in cold war UNITED NATIONS CP President Kennedy said today the world may have reached a pause in the cold war He suggested it be dramatized by a US Sovict expedition to the moon with the two countries pooling research and experi experience ¬ ence in space Kennedy said tho negotiation of a limited nuclear test ban treaty which he predicted would win overwhelming en endorsement ¬ dorsement fiom the US Sen Senate ¬ ate next week could piove the start of a long and fruitful journey tow aid pe iccu And it misiit be followed by a joint American Soviet effort to place the first humans on the moon not as the represen representatives ¬ tatives of a single nation but the representatives of all humanity In his address prepared for delivery to the 18lh General Assembly Kennedy also called for steps toward disarmament and a broader test ban aboli abolition ¬ tion of racial and religious dis discrimination ¬ crimination everywhere and new efforts to strengthen the United Nations as an instrument of international co operation Kennedy strongly supported Canadian Iiime Minister Pear sons proposals for strengthen strengthening ¬ ing the UN peace - keeping forces Mr Pearson said Thursday Canada would be proud to in itiatc steps aimed at pooling of international units for United Nations peace keeping duties anywhere in the world Speaking to the general as assembly ¬ sembly in a 35 minute speech which leceived warm applause he said that Canada has recent recently ¬ ly given the UN secretariat de detailed ¬ tailed information on what more Canada could do for peace or police action under the UN flag There was a dramatic hush in the bluc andgold chamber when Pearson listed some of the 14 countries in which Canadians have served on UN duty He said We have been associated with many states and in many places far from CanaJa in Kashmir in Palestine in Gaza and Sinai in Lebanon in The Congo in West New Guinea and Yemen This is the assembly of op poitunityt Pearson said Wo can make it if we will the asenibly of action for peace