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font US. Bomber Into Runway
Prince George, B.C., THURSDAY, November 6, 1593
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Spectacular Landing of Crippled Craft City Airport At Noon Yesterday
most Prince George residents were calmly sitting to their midday meal yesterday, Prince George Airport idols were anxiously sweating out an emergency landing of ippled American Air Force Superfortress a few miles away.
biggest ever
hl,._M. plane.
U(i here, winged low over the |a|,ink of 'hi-1 Fraser-River V motor out, its tense crew ith apprehension at the sfwest runway coming
�at them. L craft idfcd' fe
acked hard a few
inside the airport lurched to the left, yawed nd screeched to a stop with ptnan 500- yards to.go and two .fly, ii.nn the sliding halt.
Iv had the crew enierg-� ,,.,�,,',!�. huge ft. 29 bomber, Ivini; si�hs of relief, when it ,,lj. >tiirt.<(l settling into the runway.
lodav h.-ince George Airport runway in use as a
fll of ;i ..construction project one .!n. yesterday the untler-fiaiie �f 'lie huge, craft had : throtiidv the runway and a j into the mound, leavy timbers and hydraulic ivci-o put- under jacking
tts beneath the planes' wing enlay in an effort to keep the >cl> from penetrating farther. I'ntil :i special Night is nia(ly the auxiliary last
lie Fire Victim Improved State
pttie Harbara Godwin,
N when her parents' home
destroyed last Saturday, is1 irovim.'. Prince George and �fact Hospital 'authorities re-
tlite morn ing. J I
huge craft to swerve left a short distance from where it first touched down.
Afraid, to apply additional power to check the skid because it would, only increase his speed, Lieut. Brim stamped hard on the (See AIRPLANE, Poge '3)
!
! the first count.
The assault took place at a Twentieth Avenue home on September 7.
Decaire apparently enjoyed permission to enter the house.
Victim of the assault was Mrs, Mary Hubensky, a housewife.
Big New Veterans' Housing Project Announced By Legion
Second Development Seen For 38 Homes
Canadian Legion officials today announced plans for a second Veteran's Land Act Development here which would d/warf the present 19-unit project which' is nearing comple-
tion directly south of the city, r ~ Legion president Jack Bo'nd - mence
construction, should be
ago.
Persons tbuilding homes under
told a Citizen reporter that pro-'complete bv next spring when it vincial land for the new project is intended I building ' will get has been made available and that1 underway. I I the Department of - Veteran's AT-j Loca, .infercst in v.L-vrb~uTkf ! fairs and the Legion already have ing was s-parketl by the Canadian badly preliminary planning underway;. Legion^liere little over a' year for an additional 3Sj.lwelljngsr~~"7 Mr. Bond said tlfat the Legion has more than 70 V.L.A. applications on and thi
six-year-old girl, daughter asked to, fill out questionnaires Olrs. Leonard Godwin, before the .'!S new sites are allotted. � .'.'-. _ �.._ ( Several of the Veterans' homes
�amp explosion^tsmjd the in the present development-will j ....
n home seven miles^vcest be occupied before, Christ mas find �llUQ s Dm< -met I.;ikpr - ^-Lmbst \yi 11 be completed before
^�sister Dolores, 3, was also\si- '
^tl in the fire, but her con-f Alrea-d&a contract has been let '" Wils n>" serious. ,� . 'to a cityvbarjstruction firm for
Jo the new do-
re than ,u v.u.a... appnea-,. , r , $ ;ooo
n hand from_. local, veterans ; � h v
at all applicants will be havp rpllI1.11Pl, lo .(lle oovornmeiit
sorifltrsjjurhs to the face, |!>, chest and lefcs^when a gas
have returned to the government any gratuities which they have drawn.
Veterans can build their own homos or apply the loans on -a
[he flnsli fire "completely des- \ bwildiag a roacT pl;il,l the family's belongi^yeloptrfent site.
ody of Former City Man ound In Victoria Garage
Body of Cyril Percy Silva-White, retired minister, and mer Prince George insurance salesman, was found Satur-
Sell-Arrest Victim
( ........,5 _,�,...,_. . Gets Year In Jail
�\ benefit dance -will be | The new site is dlreciHy^south One of. the neatest police coups �" Nukko Lake for the fam- of the former one and coVerjTjn. the Interior's history came to "it 'I'he Red. Cross has [ close to 60 acres. ]>>
Upon comp]etion-*of the investigation he was driviiiRsto Vand-�erhoof when he found a car ~ap? parently abandoned beside the road:- '�*%*� �
Making a casual examination of around (lie car, the corp-miss register Unable to wait for the owner
ln tr>e garage of hts home in Victoria.
of his ear . was
been sealed with
10 engine
'"'"� and the.crevices, under 'lorn- ]lat|
lail(l P.'ipc.. . ' '"'Uiest- was ordered. jv. Cmon Eric Munn conduct-K'vale funeral Tuesday In i-'niMhiis Church, Victoria, Wy cremation. �"!� '� N'anaimo,' Mr. White 1 in Prince George early 'JUolmr. ip-17 to take up an E*?�mtn| as pastor of St. Micti-p'cait Church. Accompan-1, v-lrs- Whitcrand two child-tcC; t;ilno fyt>'T> Sherbrookc. � rvin 'V rc ho was curate in ucrs Church. '- -�on.�h after His an.lvaUherc
lllo S ish�P of Cariboo. �� ' - " graduate in arts and " ? Ajiglieait TheologL-tn u- ^ailc�uvcr, and prc-nis Sherbrooko appoint-
Like Gift From Santa Is City's New Fire Engine
Looking much like an oversize Christmas gift as it nestled inside a special boxcar, Prince George's pew $12,800 fire
truck arrived this week. ~tt~-~
will be used, but the Number One And to Fire Chief August Dorn- .machine, an ancient but still serv-
bieuer, "whose eyes take on ,a special sparkle every time he gets within feet of the glittering machine, it is better than a Christmas present.
Specially equipped to meet with
iceable pump and ladder truck, will be retired to the sidelines. City officials say that they have not yet decided fate of the 'ancient fire-lighting vehicle but there will not be room, for it in the fire hall
emergencies in remote parts of after Uie newtruck moves i"n."
the city where water service is
not yet available, the machine will
carry 500 gallons of water and'
more than 150 gallons of chemical'
extinguishing fluids. !
The new fire engine is complete to the..:last. detail and came,,Avith. such equipment as special alurhl-
num-allov ladders, a complexity. , , , ., �.�,..,
or hose'nozzles, flashlights, fire I here: branded as "ridiculous" to-axes, portable fire extinguishers, &�' > cIai111 h>' southern interior special tools, and even a chrom-' ^.N' ..oJ^i;mo^....ni^..Pn1!^ iuni-pkited crowbar.
Already minted on the eng-rne hood of the \iachine in fancyBgi.lt
Union Denies Picket Export To Kamloops
A^ppoftesman for the* International Woodworkers of America
high unemployment insurance officials is that employees, of operations which were not members of. the ' Northern Interior Lumbermen's Association are not strikers and are entitled to full benefits.
Officially, the strike Is between the International Woodworkers of America and the association.
Non-association mills which closed down are legally not strikebound.. Most df them closed because they produced only rough lumber which could not be marketed* until it was dressed at a planing mill. Most planing mills in the area are struck and are not buying rough lumber.
Unemployment insurance officials were unable to give an exact number of employees which �will receive benefits as a result of the ruling, but they said "several hundred" would be involved.
They also disclosed that the number of persons officially registered as seeking employment is almost twice what it was at this time a year ago.
Last year at this . time 'there were 646 official job-seekers, today there are 1238.
lettering w?^ the inscription J \ "City of Prin'eq George."
Unlike okKstyle /ire engines, the new /nachine: is equipped with a cafl) for the protection of the driver anrj part of the crew;
More than '300 feet of hose came with the truck andjiis. ex tension-type Jadders" will�'� reach mr�g_-thttiv GfTfeet. �
Fire Chief Dornbierer said the newest piece of equipment will not be considered to be in service until sometime next week "after
representative of the manufacturer has acquainted members'of
the Prince George Fire -Department with its intricate innards.-'
Kuilt as a fire engine by Bickle-Seagraye Ltd., Woodstock, Ontario, the basis of the machine is a special Genera] Motors Corporation chassis, engine, drive-unit and cab. ' �
The city's Number- Two machine, nin International pump and adder model purchased from War Assets Corporation at. the close of World War II. will continue to answer most o.r the fire calls in the more settled part of the cilyfcwhere water is available.
When necessary both engines
George strikers have been sent io picket Kamloops mills.
Said Howard Webb, business for Local .1-12-1, Prince "We have not sent anybody to Iviimloops and so far as I know there is no need to send anybody."
He stated tliaJjLAWt-?riioT].W.A. policy -to-e:q5orTpickets to other s^ I areas, |xcept in rare cases whe're-1 violence occurred, and that Kamloops and the remainder of the southern, interior would bo'capable of supplying its own pickets.
He charged that the statement of the southern operators was a distortion of truth -which probably resulted from the fact that a few union members frc"i Prince George went to the southern Interior .looking for work after the strike started bore. When the south struck a short time later, these men probably became pickets.
Webb added th.'.t Mike Sckora, former union' organizer here, was in Kamloops but not as a picket.
Guide Survives Battle With Grizzly
FORT ST. JOHN', B.C. (CP)�A
�w^cin British Columbia .big
nncv"guide survived * a hand-to-
claw baftl^S^ith a giant grizzly
bear, but"only TitH^mse his oppon-
Two New Injunctions Against IWA Pickets
Two more injunctions against International Woodworkers of America picketing have been handed clown by the British Columbia Supreme Court within the past 24 hours. The injunctions protect certain parts of the Penny. Lumber Company operation and Prince George Planing Mills Ltd. The Penny company's injunction' forces the union to abandon picketing of the logging camp and of about a quarter million dollars worth of ,log's which are in the Fraser River ready for driving.
Fred Fieber, l.W.A. vice-president and the key 'union man in the strike picture here, told The Citizen this morning, "we do not consider the injunctions as a serious problem. We are always faced with injunctions."
He said picketing wpuld. continue wherever such action is lawful.
Fieber refused to comment on what steps, if any. are being taken to'unravel a'situation which arose j,in obtaining only here over a..week ngo when the Canadian National Railways took the attitude that any pickets crossing or standing on railroad property would be considered as trespassers.
Pickets Halt Lumber Truck On Way Here
International Woodworkers of America pickets stopped, and took possession of a truck load of lumber on the Cariboo Highway 'a short distance from the city yesterday but the truck and its load was released by the union this morning.
According to reports, the lumber was being brought /here" by the truck's driver to build a garage for his own car.
An l.W.A. official confirmed the story this morning adding that all.lumber will be stopped unless it is covered by a union permit.
He explained that this is necessary to' prevent the wholesale' movement of lumber from strikebound operations.
'Until�we know -where�it�has-come from we have no alternative but to halt its movement," a union man added.
Royal Canadian Mounted Police said that no complaint against the pickets' action was laid by the driver of the truck.
Weather Balks Efforts To Probe Bomber Wreck
SMITHERS (CP)�U.S. Air Force personnel have abandoned until spring an attempt to, probe the wreckage of a B:36 bomber which crashed three years ago north of here.
Six feet of snow covering the wreck has forced investigators to withdraw from the area' for the third time this year.
Icing conditions were encountered by a helicopter used to lift,, airmen into rugged mountain country where the wreck is located.
The wreck was sighted by the RCAF two months ago.
Police Warn People Burglars Active
Royal Canadian Mounted Pollcp today issued a warning to Prince George merchants and household-' ers emphasizing that particular attention should be paid to the security of doors and windows when buildings are left vacant.
The warning came hard on the heels of a series of break-ins the most recent of which was at a downtown warehouse last night.
The warehouse, owned by Karl Anderson and used chiefly for beer storage, yielded thieVes a �rlflei and a bottle of whiskey.
On Tuesday night thieves entered the Associated Medical Clinic at Sixth Avenue and Quebec Street, probably in a vain search for narcotics. No narcotics are kept in the. building and nothing was taken. Thieves resorted to careful removal of a window-pane and its replacement while they were inside so that patrolling police would see nothing unusual at the theft scene.
Police declined to disclose the location of a third break-in which took place on Monday night.
In addition to the three business premises, thieves have visited a.number of homes in the residential areas but have-succeeded mall sums of money.;
A favorite nick of housebreakers, police warned: is to telephone a home before attempting to enter it to �ascertain whether or not there is anybody home.
The-thefts arc-under police in-vestigat ion.
Comox MLA To Speak Here Tomorrow
A public -meeting will be held, in the CCF Hall Friday night to be addressed by'William C. Moore, C^V member of the Legislature for. Comox. who was elected in l!)-r)2 and re-elected this year.
A navy veteran. Mr. -Moore ha,^ been active in many community organizations" and was ejected a city alderman in C'omgx''lnst year.
A printer by trade; ho has been active in the International Typographical Union.
The :H)-year-old MLA is married and has two children._ ^
ent was
Leqsh Calli'son told hi? here after being treated
j!k
story
irierit was rector of the church at Grand Forks, B.C. i
He was an organist before on-' tering the Anglican ministry. In 1938-30 he. did a year's resident Nashotah!
post-graduate study at around the car; the
in church music.
"T^'awM 1931 he retired from of the vehicle to return, the police-the ministiy. and later was cm- man removed a vital part of the ploved as a salesman by the insurance firm of Charles K-.C'rans-ton Ltd, Last. .March he left foi Victoria to accept a similar position in that city.
cars ignition system and returned, to headquarters.
ilourke's arrest came a short time later when he burst into the police office complaining in right-
Ho*"isVsurvived by his wife, a cous indignation that his car had ughter," Dorothy*'.and a son,-been broken into and tampered i both with
daughter M
orothy*.
in Victoria: a broth-, with.
,' in West Vancouver, I ;fThe accused pleaded guilty A , ia charge of theft and not guilty
|SSS; of the.to a charge of breaking and en
He wK pa|SSS
KIwanisTlub and the t-'trnlc and tcring A stay of proceedings was Prilic" GoorSc~Rotary- Clubs. . entered on the second count.
pital ut Dawson Creek fp'r^Tmpve than 20 wounds inflie4o'(l by the grizzly's teeth.
He said'he wap spying out game for a group of millionaire sportsmen from the United States when he encountered n female grizzly and one cub. far back from" base camp.
Unarmed, the guide attempted to frighten "the bear by shouting. The animal continued to advance and he hit it .with a rock.
Callison and the hear slid down the steep side of a mountain, with the cub rolling behind. The grjzz-ly could not get footing, but chewed Callison's hand and bit his legs.'
Finally the. combatants tumbled over a cliff and landed together. The fall winded the grizzly and she gave up the fight.: -. , .
"That bear carried too much lard)" .Callison said. ''If she had been on a diet, 1 wouldn't be here to telj the story."
City Voters List 65 Percent Bigger
Prince George voters list will carry (55 per cent more names this year as a result of the U)fi3 annexation plan and the normal increase in population of a growing city.
� .Preliminary figures on" the! number of voters eligible to. cast-j ballots ih tin j pal elections �Hall this
j There will be , approximately 2SSS names on the list this year comp.ircd with 1752: names last December.
As usual., there will be three classifkrations of voters, owners. liconsc^rrFvliJors and householders. I Properly ow-uers arc automatically included asT^voters. licence-holders must have regTsreued with [ the city by October 31 and nouse-holders must have lived here aT least one year and have paid a $2 road tax by that date.
Court of revision to '..hoar ap-peals resulting from the ncw^y compiled voters list will be held at City Hall on November 1(>.
Qualifications for public office are'as follows; mnyorality candi-1 dates; mUst be British subjects 21 years of age or over and have been registered owners during the previous six months of land and improvements, or land or improvements, assessed at not less than $1000 on which there is no financial encumbrance. Alder-manic candidates must have simi-! lar qualifications except that the j assessed value of property may not be.less than �500. '
Off The WiresToday
(Canadian Press�Thursday, Novcp-ib'cr 5, 1953)
Lagging Heads Warned U.S.'Swinging To Socialism
SEATTLE�A Portland business man koynotcd the 44th annual Pacific Logging Congress Wcdnesday^vith the assertion that business men should do more to help turn the fiat ion back from socialism.:
Ernest G. Swigert told 2,000 industry representatives in attendance: "Your power in- your own communities is uncalculablc, if you'll only use it. We lost this country at the grass roots, and that is where we arc going<'fo have to (get it back."
Swigert cited* as an example^ of what he called! attempted expansion of socialistic government, the proposed Columbia Valley Authority. He.said it was defeated in Congress, not by Republicans, but by southern Dcrrio-crots.
"If Columbio Vallcv Authority were in effect today you�wouldn't be able to log your own property or thot of anyone else, without a revocable permit from some bureaucrat," he said.
Court Decision Stalls Merger Of Big Lumber Firms
SAN FRANCISCO�Crown Zcllcrbach Corp. reported Wednesday it has acquired 96 percent of the shores of Canadian Western Lumber Co. of Vancouver, B.C., but will refrain from any further � acquisition until on applicable Canadian law is clarified^
Zellerbach offered to exchange one share of stock for three shares of Canadian Western. This was last summer. The offer /was so successful that in. September the company elected to acquire the remaining shares of Canadian Western. '
An odverse decision in another case hv the Supreme Court of Canad. caused the company to postpone any further acquisition pending clarificc tion of the Canadian law.
Both Sides 'Digging' In Korea Says Army Chief
VANCOUVER�Maj. Gen. Michael Wcit, retiring commander of the 1st Commonwealth division in Korea, arrived hcic Wcdncsdo'y night on a 14-day visit to the United States and Canada. -%,;
He-was scheduled to take off-today for Edmonton, where he vifill meet Maj. Gen. Chris Volkes, head of Western Command.
He said the position in Korea today is "one of a military impasse." ' "We and the Chinamen arc looking at each other over three or four thousand yards of gaps and-we're both digging in as deep a's we can."
"The 'lost three months of the truce period have been as tough on �,h'e soldiers as any of the fighting," he said.