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______ Prlnce George, B.C., THURSDAY, October AS, 1953
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dcLEAN (right;, publisher of the*"Kelowna Courier, and retiring president of the Okan-Conboo Trail Association, congratulates his successor, Don Miller of Wenatch.ee, Wash., banquet Oct. 3 in Komloops which wound up a two-day meeting of the association. Alex Bowie of Prince George, Canadian vice-president, was banquet chairman.
|ity Has Strings On iolf Club Land Deal
Months of discussion and argument came to an end ar
Hail Tuesday night when city council finally agreed to,
iiit Pr:nce George Golf & Country Club to purchase city-
sd lend tin which part of its course is located for $20 an
nf Hie city-owned land, �:. \vjll lie contingent upon ctfiidi tions.
The' rich must ('diminish Mr least* on a much lai'g-I pirn1 nl' cit.v-owiit'd land [unit to ilit> course'
The city will reserve the
lit In buy the land, back from
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liy the Roiieral public.
nmci] action came Mp:i-vvii l; a receipt of a i'e-�liii'Ai from the dub for ili cision oh the matter, as chairman of a special
0 which was set up to ) Hip milt' elub, Alder-
Ciinnichael recommend- �
1 the property required nl) under the conditions
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V'council earlier was anxious :ilc down the. land needs of Inb,nn the ground that the1 �'y (.insists of valuable in-
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ment, he stated, the club will, be forced to relocate one green and part of a [airway.
His committee, which included Alderman R. W. Hilton and Alderman William Ferry, was unanimous on all points of the proposed deal with the club except for the width of Jhe 2200 foot strip of Lot 81S0.
CUT WIDTH
, He said they had favored re-duclhgrthe'~widtb to ;?(>'O feet, but pointed out that this would necessitate relocation of one entire fairway and disruption of plans for construction of another nine holes.
Alderman Carrie Jane Gray said she thought there was some question of whether the city could legally sell the land at the low figure of $20 an acre, but she was assured by His Worship Mayor Dezell that this was not the case.
The Mayor pointed out that any (See GOLF CLUB,'Pagc 5)
Local Firms Bid
Six firms, including three already at work in or around Prince George, have so far taken out sets of plans for installation of a large-capacity powerline from Prince George to the east bank of the Fraser River.
The line, to be .paid for by the provincial government and sup; plied with*power by the City of Prince George, may cost more than $50,000 � to complete.
It will serve as a source of power for the Pacific Great Eastern Railway Company and, ultimately, for the proposed provincial jail wjhich will be built near the P.G.E. yards.
Firms which have taken out plans for construction of the. line include Jiimieson Construction Company, Bennet & White: Construction Company, and Dominion Construction Company, all now at work on other projects here, as well as Parkinson Elec trie. Quesnel; Peterson Electri cal Construction Co., Vancouver
Independents In Fear Of NILA Reprisals: Fieber
Fear of reprisals from membership of the Northern Interior Lumbermen's Association is preventing a number of small independent sawmills in this area from signing interim work contracts with the striking International Woodworkers of America; union vice-president Fred Fieber declared this morning. > �---------------------------=----------------------
Drivers, Police Target Of Miffed Alderman
Prince George, has the worst drivers in British Columbia and possibly the worst police force, Alderman Carrie Jane Gray charged at a city council meeting Tuesday.
Mrs. Gray also charged that,.' ~------------------------��^
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Fieber said that the union had been told by a number of owners of silch mills that they would willingly sign contracts with the l.W.A. in order to keep working but for fear that larger operations in the N.I.L.A. upon whom small mills depend as buyers of rough lumber would discriminate against them after an industrywide settlement is reached. WORK STOPPED
Reporting on the strijyerwhich is now nearing the^cmse of its third week, Fieber said union pickets had^ encountered 'scab" labor at one mill this week and had forced operations to a halt. , He said about seven men had been found strip-piling lumber at a planing mill near Prince George and that pickets had run them off the property.
The scene took place under tho watchful eyes of the R.C.M.P. but police did not interfere.
Another-mill, located near Willow River, was closed down this week by union officials when they found it operating as usual witn a crew of 12 men.
Fieber left Prince George todays for Vancouver and the helfd offices of the l.W.A. there/He will return to the city �fi Saturday. /
Town Mget Admission To Be By Ticket Only
The Prince George IJtisiness and 1'ro.fe.ssional Women's Club, sponsors of the forthcoming appearance of the Town Meeting in Canada hr.6aticast, today issued a reminder that, admission will be by^tfeket only. ... �^ The coast-io-coast broadcast will be held in the High School Auditorium at 9 p.m. Sunday.
Topic will be "Hydro Development- versus Fisheries." Speakers for both sides are lining up their arguments and an Informative and lively evening is- promised. Speakers will be Mrs. R. B. Carter. Alderman Reg. Hilton, Harry L'offiax and Charles Cranston. /
Tickets are $1 each ancl^fKiy be purchased from any lrfernber of the club, or from rT/H. Douglas Co., Prince Geor-ge Agencies, Northern Hardware or members, of the Board.01 Trade, Junior 1 .
Chamber of/Commerce or Canad-t mittee meeting on the first Ian Legiox I day of each month.
drivers were among the traffic offenders and said she had witnessed a police car' speed* through a, pedestrian crossing .zone only a few days ago.
"Why is-Prince George the only i city where cars can whip through stop signs, slow signs and pedestrian crossings?" .
She said that^at the lower.-Con-riaught Hill pedestrian zone most cars actually speed ujj-a's.they approach it in order^to get up the hill without changing gears.
AskcIO,ooo in taxes and' use the auditorium this year dye
nue" towards completing the building. ' �
Efforts to get all stages of the deal complete baye been going on since last December when city ratepayers overwhelmingly voted U) have the City assume civic centre ownership.
Mayor Dezell pointed out that once the roof is on, work on the inside can continue during winter months and a temporary heating system can be installed so the building can be put to use.
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an agreement which would bind the incoming council next year.
At the suggestion of Alderman T. S. Carmichael, chairman of. public works, the city's offer w;is modified to include only'promise 'of a recommendation to next year's council that the -10-hour week be extended. |
Faced with the L'B.E.W,, members refusal on Tuesday. Alderman Carmichael saill: "1 can't understand them not accepting thai" offer."
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The .committee will set-up an information centre, for new Canadians to create a feeling of friendship and good feeling for all new-comers to the area. "i President of the committee is Cy Weslaway," and advisor is George Hallett. Members of the committee are Marguerite Haga and Marjorie Bridges. i " The committee plans to set up headquarters? ii-flJie immigration office *qf Tom Drage when it is completed, and there will be a member there at special times of the week, .to be, arranged at a later date, to give out data anrl piairaphlets which will aid newcomers in deciding to establish here, and methods of doing so. f i Second major topic of' disciis-sion at the meeting was the Folk Festival, which, will be held here, next spring. �
I, Members were instructed to form coniniitteep for the various countries to be represented. I Countries will include Franco, Australia. Italy, Switzerland, Japan. Hungary, Scotland, Ireland, Holland, England,.Germany, Xoi Way, Sweden, Denmark, China, Ukrainian, Spain, indies, Greece and the Canadian Indian. /
Others may also be^mchuled in the festival.
the city detachment of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police to report to the council once monthly. Alderman T. S. Carmichael suggested that the police official in charge of the detachment be-required to report at a council com- \ street Illumination on Fifth Moii- Ut' between. Cam �Streets at the
Otto Leboe, ratepayers spokesman, said that early darkness during the winter months would be. a serious hazard t<> safety of students from Central School, a short distance away.
He said that a student traffic patrol would- be operating along Fifth Avenue and lives of patrol members would-be endangered by luck or adequate illumination. Mr. Leboe ' said he believed illumination was a, "pro-
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mise" made by the city when it was attempting to. induce fringe residents to join with the municipality.
Member of a well known Cen- He ^'id <-"� "promises" were tral B.C. Family, Mrs. Christina 'Probably not in writing." Geddes � died on Monday at Red 1 Mayor Dezell replied, that no Deer, Alberta, where she had been ' such promises had been made and visiting her son, Arnold. 1 he pointed out that parts of the
Her husband, George QeUrtes, 1 older section-of the city still are predeceased her in Prince George riot equipped, with street lights, in 10-15. I "Ami .don't forget," said Hi.^
i, Kemains- >vi|j ;nri\e here b.\� train Friday morning and tho funeral will take place tlie same day with services-at K'noxJ/niti-rl Church, at 2 p.m., Rev. voordon j MfLriren ofTichitini,1. / " PtillbeareTi's Will be^AI Het.lieiv. iiiginn, Jv;in Boyck/Jioy White, ' Willicim Jamiesoil/aid Terry and E, AbriUjafnscJiij/v , � �X'
Besides her/son in Ttorl Dc'i1. Mrs. Gcdiles/js nurvived by another sorK Clinton, prominent Prince Qvpyge lumbef'jiian, an'tl five TiKandsoris.
W'orsliip, �'thai we have horn 13 yofirs dovolopiny itlie downtown' ly �four months out
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nrea :ind 'there."
He added, hpwe/v city will ]>i-(>li.-il)|_\- make souk street li^'Iii installations b'oi'orc wimer and that Ihe uivji su;.;�est-fl by the . ratep:iyors spokes man �uuls" for the area for some an assignment, of a lease on Crown j which snaked the line across Hit so far without sue-' land adjacent to the centre. When ! mountains and lush valley lands. I tlils is granted by the Department
'Jic city's budget con- � of Lands, it can be presented to the Department of municipal af-
End _of the journey came at dusk after, an inspection of the Kamloops pumping station and a
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^nected Sych a tax. split. I sideration to the city's applica-J ing modern $15,000 three-bedroom Vor disclosed tli.it n nvn'Hnn tn t.'ikp over the building
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icil fw'!ln.ovy nrca hecause the fairs who will then give (a) con
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tion to- take over the building . been ordered from the Prince George Civic or :u!in� would be done Centre Association and officers <>f Hie Prince George Hoard of Trade here last Brig. Love, commander of the night.
Northwest Highway Route, said- The meeting was not public and army, engineers/are carrying "'out proceedings have not been fully a 20-year improvement and main-, disclosed. �
tenance plan along the old Alaska ' According to Alvx Bowie, a Highway, ' . I vice-president of the trade board
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I early get.-toget,her between employers and union to settle the Northern Interior's lumber strike, tlie board is acting only to promote mediation and "will not set itself iip as a referee."
Fred Fieber, l.W.A. vice-president, said today, that he had been j given the opportunity of laying . the union's case before the Board of Trade and had received a polite and sympathetic hearing.
Howie said the" trade board will make public no particulars of tlie j attempt to promote mediation until after the employers have I been heard from .
There'll Be No Dust Here This Weekend
Don't put your raincoat and rubbers away, because there is little chaitge expected in the weather picture here for the next two days.
But it. woirthc as moist as Prince Rupert, where p.55 inches of rain fell in a. 21-hour period early .this week, flooding many store and home basements.
Today's clouds' will continue Friday, coupled with yidely-scat-icrcd showers. Temperatures will remain about the same, and winds will be-light. Predicted overnight low is 3S, with a high Friday of 52.
Addition Brings More otel Accommodation
This morning workmen started tearing down the boarding in front-of the-large new addition to the Prince George Hotel to reveal one of the most imposing build-, ings, in the city and one of the largest, hotel structures north of Vancouver.
The addition will contain .">! modern guest iwinis; sample rooms, ball-room and banquet hall,
A portion of the ground floor fronting on George Street will be occupied by a brunch of the Dominion Bank, and these quarters are expected to be ready about November I .">.
Construction schedules call fnr completion of the hotel addition before the end of the vear.
Kike Sekcra Said To Be Leaving District
An unconfirmed but reliable re-p<>; t received here today states that Mike Sekora; burly organizer for the International Woodworkers of America here since LD5Q. will not return to Prince George following conclusion of the union's international convention now underway in Vancouver. ."'Union sources here would, neither confirm nor deny the report. 'Sekora, who lia> been prpiVilri-
!;en.1 in union affairs here since
� his arrival! 7s chairman of the
! present union strike committee. .
j He left here for Vancouver last wpek to at&nd the l.W.A. c'dn-
! vent ion,
1 Before coining here he organized the l.W.A.-'s strength In the
I Kainloops area.
Acconling to reports, he will be transferred to another.'part or~thp province.
WHAT! NO STRIP TEASE?
VICTORIA. Oct. IT. (CP)�.British Columbia "s election c^mpaiens will be lively affairs fro.nl now nil...
A change in Ihe Elections Act permits political parties to arouse party spirit and political interest with banners". Hags and campaign buttons.
Party managers will be permitted to hire hands, dancers anil practically any type of entertainment in good taste.
Off The Wires Today
Queen's Husband Will Be Late-Arrival At Games
VANCOUVER�-Duke of Edinburgh (will be unob'c to open the British Empire Games here July 3 I although he will watch many events being run oH, Stan Smith,"general chairman of the games society, said here Wednesday. I
Just back from talks in Ottawa, Mr. Smith reported the Duke's itinerary to the society at o dinner meeting. � ,
"I was informed that Prince' Philip's visit to Australia and his part in the opening of parliament ceremonies will make it impossible -for him to leave j for Canada before July 29," Mr. Smith said. "Naturally I, along with everyone else, am disappointed. But I'm pleased-that he will be here for the greater port of the games." .
Insanity Plea Wins Acquital For Nanaimo Man
NANAIMO�A verdict of not guilty because of. insanity was returned by an A&siie Court jury here Wednesday in the trial of Douglas Winter Cook,,.27, charged with the murder of his.father in 1949.
Mr. Justice A. D. � MacFarlonc ordered Cook to be, field in close custody at Oaka'lo prison pending the wishes of the Licutcnont-Govcrnor.
The murder charge was laid against Cook this year upon his" release from Esscndale Mental Hospital where He spent the last four years.
Doukhobar Gets Stiff Sentence On Explosives Charge
NELSON�-Nick Evdokimoff "Rcbcm.Son oF Freedom" Doukhobor- Wed-, ncsdoy was sentenced to the maximum of 14 years and scyen years concurrently following his conviction on two charges of illegal possession of explosives.
Evdokimoff was charged with possessing explosives with intent to cause property. damage and with being in possession of an explosive substance under suspicious circumstances.
An Assjue Court jury took 70 -minutes to reach o verdict before sentence was passed by Mr. Justice A. M. Manson. Evdokimoff was convicted in 1949 on a charge of conspiring to burn a school at Robson, BiC, and was released. ; .