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36; No. 89
Prince George, B.C., MONDAY, Ntaph to pay homage ;ir:dead.
.iiiiiHito arrangements are
completed for the parade
evice by the; Canadian tLeg-
iniiiiittce in charge: of ar-
,.t,m.-, and President Jack
11,';,.: issued ah appeal for all
�rviir
ed
Poppy Day Successful
The public generously support-the Canadian Legion Ladies
At Planing Mills
Plants Will Seek Court Injunctions
Operations at three city planing mills were halted by picketing members of the International Woodworkers of America thfs morning and the mills are applying for injunctions. According to on-the-scene re- .-----------�------------------------��
ports north of the C.N.R. tracks
\u i V n u llul"na to put men to work this morning
in the planing mill area there was WJL hnt ',�,��,..,��� f.,u ���..*_
whether members' Auxiliary annual Poppy Day Sat-Itlie Legion or not, to be present �jTe'inn occasion.
will assemble at
re-
urday, an executive member ported this morning. i
rlers will assemble at Sne extended thanks-to all who! i building at 10 aan. and assisted in. the sale of poppies and ;iI l():,30 a.m. to the public for its support. J
A report on proceeds will be 'published in Thursday's Citizen.1 Moiicy received from the annual sale Ss^ used-to aid veterans and veterans' families who are in need ! of help.
in.ii to the cenotaph will [led.by the Canadian Legion ami this year will feature Lpresence of 75 members of the States Air Force. on parade will be 150 Air ami Cadettesj 30 Boy i ; ami more than 40 Girl s; as well as a 12-man from the Rocky >rs, and a party of seven: the RC'MP detachment. < he procession will proceed to jcity hall by way of Fifth Ave-.Hrunswick Street, Third Ave-anil George Street in time to irve the traditional twp-minu}e
no violence as pickets stopped about 20 men from working at the three mills.
Headquarters of the Northern Interior Lumbermen's Association said the mills will apply for injunctions to prevent the pickets from interfering with workmen.
Only city planing mill known to be operating after the pickets' action this morning was Rustad Bros. Ltd., first local firm to obtain an injunction against picket-I ing.
�Rustad Bro.s., a non-certified [ plant, was not .operating at the time the strike hit due to a recent fire.-
The njant was rebuilt and one planer went into operation last week. Another one is expected to start up within a few days.
were not contemplating full operation.
The official said that a few men were employed to pile lumber and carry out overhauls on some equipment.
Most of the planing mills in the city, he stated, would require a week rif preparatory work before they could commence production.
Moist, Mild Weather Mountain ror Lity Tomorrow
The threatening arctic air mass north of the city has moved back, the weather office reports, and Prince George can look forward to a few days of moist, mild weather.
Clouds and showers is the fore-
�iht. This will lie followed by cast for today and Tuesday, with Indian of "Last Post" and the little - change in temperature. levint,' -of flags and standards. Winds will be light. Predicted j
The new National Film Board headquarters to be built scon in Montreal will look like this when completed. The $6,000,000. building, subject of a hot debate between Ottmva civic officials
and the government over its removal to the metropolis, will house the most modern film studios on the continent.
Stranded Superfort Will Take Off Today
Biggest plane ever to land at Prince George airport will
tlic layiiiL i'; and the
0 Canada" will pre- overnight low is. 35, with a high probably leave here sometime this afternoon, Prince George
of wreaths by representatives
Tuesday of 45.
"various civie groups.
flic hif,'!i school choir will sing Valiant-Hearts," during jthe
|ing of wreaths.
v. T. l�. R. Allen, Legion dain. assisted by Revs. Gord-
I Mil...!'!i and Allen Kenney
II he in charge of the service, Viim which a number'of favor-I vvartlme hymns will be sung. \{w the singing of "God Save
i" the parade will march if. i .the assembly point for � George Thorpe, par-
' Thieves Take Half-Ton Truck From City Home
Thieves took a ltf49 Chevrolet half-ton truck early Sunday morn-, ing.
The truck, owned by Roy �Lashmar, was parked behind his homo at 101 Burden. Mr. Lashmar said the truck, which he has owned for about a year, was taken between 1 and 3 a.m. �
The RCMP were notified. Mr. Lashmar is a service salesman tit Shields Motor Products Ltd.
Airport officials said earlier today.
The plane, a huge Boeing Superfortress which landed here last week after an engine failure while on a flight from Hamilton Field in California, drew an estimated 2000 spectators after it became helplessly .stranded when it sank through- the�surface of a main runway. j
Ray Williston To Talk On Legislature Here
Fort George M.L.A. Ray [ liston will address a public ! ing tomorrow night in the
Wil-
Elks
lotelmen See Few iquor Outlets Here
Prince George is not likely to become infested with hole-hc-wall bars and cocktail lounges as a result of recent nges in British Columbia's liquor laws, a cross-section of
horelmen agreed this week.
Ratepayers' Group To
Hear Civic Candidates
� ts.M -w ]caves ,he safety of concrete
The forthcoming civic elections! s,-lb>. ,)t u>- ond. ofthe runway
foprletors of three of the city's; k.t known hotels wore in agree-|rit.tbat there will probably not more than .two drink-by-the-tUeVs in *the city not inline .liio facilities at present were discussed at the executive i^'l*' at the Canadian Le>tfon. meeting of the Prince George i pliaU taMes,the. fact that'thiTgov- Ratepayers Association held j lent will strictly regulate" the Thursday night at the Club Cafe dining room. |
Members decided to recommend that candidates for.mayor for alderman get � in touch with;, executive members or appear at the next executive meeting.
. , -,,1 This will be hold Tuesday night
citj hotelkeeper said he! � . t he CRlb Cafe (lining
W there might be only one
� in tlu. city and his opinion ^general mcc^ of lhe as. n^ne^;ouldprobaby,soda^n.will
Two tires on the huge plane's undercarriage blew out when it was braked to a violent stop and new ones were flown here from a United States Air Force Base on Saturday*
The tires were replaced yesterday .jind the craft was moved off the runway so that repairs to the asphalt surface could' commence.
Patching of two large holes in the. runway where the . plane's undercarriage sank more than a foot in depth are being carried;1 out by Department of Transport workers today.
Repairs to one of the . B.2!)vs powerful engines commenced yesterday and continued today. 1 -According to�>airport officials a recurrence of the runway failure on. take-off 'is extremely unlikely:
They explained that a.*'long as the huge plane keeps moving once' it leaves the safety of concrete
Hall.'
! The topic will be highlights of tine last, sitting of _the legislative assembly. The meeting will get underway at 8 p.m.
MOTOR DEALERS TO CONTINUE CREDIT
The question of credit to car owners during the current lumber tie-up with its resultant depression .on economy, Was discussed at a meeting of the Prince George Motor Dealers last Thursday. '
Dealers were unanimous in the decision ' that the convenience of credit to customers who had respected credit privileges in the past will still be extended to these customers, in spite of the strike.
Local motor dealers will extend credit privileges to their present customers on the basis of the account being paid not later.than the 15th of. the month following purchases, dealers announced.' . A)l past due accounts will automatically be transferred to a cash basis.
C.C.F. Member
Out At Socreds Here
Recent amendments to 'British Columbia's Liquor Act which were intended to promote^'commonsense" drinking have been completely nullified.by the Social Credit Government's 10 percent tax on drinks by the glass, Bill Moore, C.C.F. M.L.A. for Comox'told an enthusiastic public meeting here Friday night.1/
CONCIUATiON MAN RETURNS TO COAST AFTER TALKS HERE
Robert Forgie, one of the B.C. Labor Relations Board's The Rustad firm obtained a per- top conciliation officers, will
manent injunction for the dura-
granted to Quesnel plants.
Approximately 300 pickets were on duty in the planing mill area today and picket captains were screening occupants of all cars entering the Eone.
A Royal Canadian Mounted Police patrol car cruised through the area at intervals but there were no incidents between police and strikers.
A spokesman for the Northern Interior Lumbermen's Association
return to Vancouver from here today after having had talks with both sides in the lumber industry's. labor~dispute.
Forgie remained close-mouthed concerning the part he is playing in ah attempt to reach a settlement but he told a Citizen reporter that his efforts would continue in Vancouver.
He said that Vancouver would be the scene of any developments which materialize.
He has not abandoned hope of
said that, firms which attempted a settlement in the near future. -
Union Will Ask Premier To Intervene In Strike
CCL unionists will ask Premier Bennett and Labor Minster Lyle NA/icks to step into the current interior lumber strike. This was decided at a meeting
)f the joint strike committee of the B.C. Federation of-Labor andJ Vancouver Labor Council ,,-last Thursday, in Vancouver* when speakers 'charged thafoperators are trying to break the Internail Wdk
tional Woodworkers of America
members on how to counteract illegal action by the union.'1
Premier Bennett'and Mr. "Wicks "\vill be asked by the unionists to:
"Inform the ILMA it must cease such propaganda.
union.
1WA: Moiris
district president ,loe supported his charge union busting with what he said I was- a photostatic copy of instrue-j tions for anti-strike action sent I by the Interior Lumber .Manufae- j Hirers' Association to operators
"Request the department of labor to hold a full investigation of ] activities of ILMA to destroy j workers' rights to Join a union. '�Have the minister of labor tier IL'MA representatives to ' bargain in good faith,.*' I The medfinu also decided t<> ask
Mr. Moore said that the 10 per eunt/tax was not in; the liquor act amendments and that the
| government introduced it as a J ^surprise move so that opposition
"f outlets in any area, |ro" than two outlets � would ''"lily be unprofitable for their due to the high invest-scossary to meet liquor act Indards. w .
�. .�.�,, , , Huciuu.w>yiii^uc held later in the
-.rare oi all the business avail- qmhi ^% tentative U>tc of
I November 20 being sot.
���ml that In talks with pro-1 prospective civic candidates 1 liquor officials he had ,\y\\\ be allowed the opportunity ;il)|i' to find out little cpn'-'Tto address the meeting. !R future, administration of, -filc meeting will then decide ?�� provisions .in Ahe act. which candidates to support-in *K t'XjfKKTAIN "� j the December election,
toy do not-even know, he I1- whether' a vote would have I11*-' taken among the populace before a drink-by-the-glass is issued.
s where the provincial li-lebiscite resulted in a "wet" r may not b6 the scene..of a r'nl expression of public opin-
| g
it will not break through thefSs- J ^surprise move so that opposition
parties would have little time to prepare a defence against it.
Ho said the bottle'-under-the-taJile style of drinking will be perpetuated because the addition Ioorr charged that ir buildings, had
P.G. Brothers Launch Plan To Stabilize Produce Market
I.
'As the initial .step in a move to bring some degree of {stability ( and profit to the growing and . marketing of vegetables in the
conducted., among fanners^ Prince George and MpBVide
' WMKiiod in anticipation ofv-Fort Gnorge district, two young Ia'l Lounge installations but brothers have constructed storage '""'' ' " ^ filed application ' space for 150 tons of potatoes, tur-
! nips, carrots and other root crops.
;j!f: licenses;
y jhrco hotelmen contacted' oi\ their 18-acre garden plot^Cn l>�| that it is very unlikely i the outskirts of.. Souj.h^ Fort )">' will have a single cock- George. ,
Fred arid .TaelC Cunningham, RCAF veterans, harvested 90 tons
months, of certain parts of
will take -some be spring before approved for, Prince
nn.V licenses~al e
will first inspect determine how advisable in
iicn throughout B.C.. Bht" until allr'amifi-tne, amendments to the, one proprietor stat-
hotel proprietors .?.V be April before any
area.
met-
of potatoes and 25 tons of turnips this year, and these avJ�! he care-fully* graded before being marketed ;� in paper bags holding 25
brand name "Ncchako." -
Next year the brothers, who moved to* Prince George early this year, plan to enlarge the storage. packing and grading facilities for all types of vegetables, and to contract for crops grown within trucking distance of Prince George and move these onto the local market in an orderly manner after Uiey have been washed, graded and packaged.
Decision to expand operations was reached following a survey
Later theJVwo market gardeners will insWTstorage space for poul-will also beat" the "Ne-
-cfiako" brand.
" With a year-round supply of choice vegetables ami ^poultry readily. � accessible, to Prince George food wholesalers, the Cunninghams intend to eliminate to degree the-necessity of-im A
porting theie food items from Al< bcrta and southern B.C.�provide a profitable outlet for the produce _oj_..EorLJOcorRo: farms, and make tfic checkered "Ncchako" brand a synonym for reliable quality and co-operative enterprise.
XE\V LUMBER FIRM
Aiiiong the B.C. companies recently granted papers.of incorp-' oration: by the provincial registrar. Si \V. Taylor Qf Victoria, was Bowron Valley Lumber Co. Ltd. Head office-of-the company is in Prince George, and authorized capitalization is $25,000. < *.;.'
to them.
'�It is not the poor people who are not paying their bills because ifv^ person can't afford to be with hospital insurance he certainly can't afford to be without it."
Mr. Moore said he was happy to see the end of the alternative voting system but he challenged ''Social Credit Party's; motives Iri changing the elections act.- . statement to The Citizen at the .conclusion of the public meeting here he said the government had changed the act as a matter of convenience to increase the chances nf victory of Finance Minister rEinar Gunderson 'in the Victoria by-election. STRIKE INTEKVEXTIOX
Turning to matters of local interest the C.C.F. member said that the Social Credit government had voted down a C.C.F. resolution calling for government- intervention in the interior lumber industry .dispute.
� Moore said he was betting