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An Independent   Semi-Weekly   Newspaper   Devoted   to   the    Interest   of. Central   and    \    L^hern    British    Columbia
Prince George,  B.C., MONDAY, January 11,  1954
$4.00 per year
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George Man Dies By Truck
A 78-year-old South Fort George pensioner died in Prince jrge &  District Hospital on Saturday from injuries he re-cm-ed when he was struck by a light truck on the .evening
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(cad  is   San ford  E.  Van  Bus-  inB  to  British  Columbia he was ftt,   a   district   oTcRIWierrwh^^r1"^1'!6!11"01"HA-_lberta-and-at the led    to    regain    consciousness |>r   being   hit   by   a   truck   on ften.swav   Boulevard"   at   about
 tlme ()f his death he was a mem- ber of tne Fort- George Oldtimers1  Association.
on Friday evening.
was the'first traffic fatality 'I'ince George in  1954.
Inqtiest into Van  Buskirk's th    Will    be    held    later    this
vehicle   which bachelor    was
iriver   of ..the lick    the   aged
A. Ewen.
Iwen   told   police   the   elderly was  walking down  Queens-on the road. )riviiiR  in  the dark,  he. fail-
iTrade Board Thursday, Jan.   14
Annual  meeting of  the   Prince George   Board   of  Trade  will  be .held   Thursday  next   in   the McDonald   Hotel   when  the  election of  officers for the  ensuing year
vvill be  held.
A-dinner will precede the meeting at 7 p.m.
John Mclnnis, H. B'f King and
�Hgto sec the figure in front of   ; Martin   Caine   have  been   named Sgrami until it was too lato to stop    a   nominating   committee.     They biji the slippery road surface.         | will     bring    recommendations   to f Even's   truck   was   headed   to-   the   meeting,   but   President Nor-|�H�Is South Fort George a'short   man  Napier   requests   that  mem-distance away  and  it  is believed   hers  be  prepared  to  propose no-"Vah P.uskirk was headed towards   initiations from the .floor. Prince George.                                I     "The  year   1954   offers  a chal-
��\S|e   was   seen   earlier   near   his   lenge to all of us." remarked Sec-home and it is thought he decided   rotary -Mrs. T. Emerson in a bull-
to:'return  to town.
Funeral arrangements will not be-kn.own until after the inquest daitte is set.
: .Mt. Van Buskirk came to this area around 1!.)H) and until 10 years ago he operated a farm near', liuekhurn Lake. Before com-
etin to members. "It will be a year of change and opportunity. A great deal may be accomplished by an active, vital Board of Trade."    -
/Veic Nnval Uadae
This budge, _ designed at Naval' Headquarters, will soon be available for wear by ex-m�mbers ol the naval forces of Canada. To be known as the Former Naval Personnel Badge, it may be worn by all former naval officers, men and women who have been honorably released from the service, flic badge is to be reproduced only in metal,..suitable for wear in the left lapel button note, or embroidered fm ivenr on the left breast pocket of blazers and jackets. Reproduction of the badge for any other purposes must have the approval of Naval Headquarters. The former -Neval Personnel Budge features a gold anchor set in a circle of navy blue. Ten" gold maple leave* surround the circle, atop of which rests the naval crown. The crown "jewels", left to right, are red, green, blue, green  and  red.
Build Modern Plants
LABOR federation Ft. George Formers Produce RAPS JUDGE LORD More Local Eggs, Poultry
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. County Court .ludgt A, K. Lord came in for swore criticism at the'annual convention of the British Columbia Federation of Labor here Saturday.-
Stewart Alsbury, former district president    of    the    International \Vo6dwoikcrs of America, took is-suei.wiih  Judge   Lord on   his   recent, handling   of    investigations intofa woodworkers strike in the 'no'l'ihern interior. ,.;. si�$sbury    charged    that    recom-,m#SHaiions   put   forth   by   Judge &M             made   for  him   by   a
As the result of a vigorous local demand for fresh eggs coupled _wjth an abyndance of cheap locally grown grains, Prince George farmers are showing increasing interest in commercial  poultry raising.
cleaning out of the floor area is necessary only once every one or two years. The center roosts prevent crowding of hens and provide a convenient place for water and feed, hoppevs. All  walls  and
In  utilizing  their  own   grains.
farmers are finding it  more profitable    to    convert    these    to a
readily.- marketable product  than
to   ship   put   to  a   clogged   grain
market. According  to    John  Zacharias,
district   agriculturist,  many  local
farmers who formerly kept only
a few dozen  hens  for home -use
have  now increased- their  flocks
to at least 100 birds and are planning on expanding to a 400 or 500
bird unif as a profitable sideline   XKW
to other livestock enterprises.        j     These and many other produc-One well known local producer,   er's  are demonstrating   that   with
SSHfcia'N wrote Premier Bennett H. O. Cuddie^ who along with new methods of management, isiin'u''that lie dismiss the judge �� ' '� "� Poising'has played an im-' careful feeding, and well insulated ^^ni^e they had no faith in him. iportant role in the development_�houses, the hens will keep laying 5*iVVA    officials    said    in    their! of   the  poultry
<'lUpiber    manufacturers'    associa-j
? �:'-T(t-wa.-- the second charge against f.tjh�j.    g.ivernment-elioseh   investi- j ;$$$>i'  into  the  province's  lumber I HbEsc in the last few days.           !
�$BJarlier, sonthern  interior .IWA !
ceilings are ,>vell   insulated.  Ve,n tilation  is attained  through slots �with adjustable   openings   above the windows.
Mr. Hudson of Canyon Creek has also 'completed ' a. building modelled along similar lines.
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industry  here,  is 'right through the winter.
the Vancouver judge 'was in his condemnation of membership.
3 ]ie stated, before producers here this week. -. will know whether prices are going to strengthen   '.....'
He said that producers here have lost the first quarter orders for industrial lumber and in some
to strengthen  in   195-1. An indication of present spruce prices  can   be drawn from price ca'ses   have   lost   second   quarter  of pomler0sa PLnCi the industry's
market  "barometer." Ponderosa pine competes^pn the
orders.. An estimated 60 per cent of   the   lumber   produced   locally is used   for such  industrial  purposes    as    crating,    boxing    and scaffolding. BUY QUARTERLY Industrial     buyers      purchase
Power Commission Interested?
McGregor River Could Provide Power For City
In a brief address to Rotary Club members at noon on Friday, Ray Williston, MLA, intimated that the B.C. Power Commission might be induced to consider, the installation of a hydro-electric power plant on the McGregor River, one of the-main tributaries of the upper Fraser River, 40 miles east of Prince George.
Preliminary surveys have shown that there are a number of sites on the river which are capable of developing sufficient power to supply Prince George and large areas of Central B.C., including communities served by the Smithers division of Canadian National Railways.
same market with locally manu factured, lumber and prices usually are comparable.
Today prices for number 3 pine are irt about $69 per thousand feet
their . stocks n q.uartei'ly.-and let compared with the postwar peak orders well in advance. About the jn September, 1950, of $87 a thous-only first quarter industrial ord- and, and the postwar low in June, ers which can be expected here 1949, of $55. are those which went begging in in 1940 pine was $23 a thous-other producing, areas.                      and and in 1952 at the height of 1
Operators are facing about the defense spending for the war in same prices as those which pre- Korea the price was $8G a thou.s-vailed at   the start, of the  strike  and.
in the case of specialty and crat---------------------------1_
ing lumber. Green normal stand-"ard lumber prices have slipped slightly.                :-\                       !
One   millman   said   that   there was an indication of a "firming" , in  the market a  few  weeks ago but "that prices softened again be-1     An    aftermath    of   the    strike
Start Made Signing IWA Contracts
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"FAIR RESPONSE"
He said that re-entry of Northern Interior mills into the eastern markets has broughft a "fair response."
The. millman 'explained that buyers, who have been obtaining substitutes for local lumbar dur-
settlement will take place here this week when some 65 certified mill.--operations in the Prince George area "will commence signing the 1954 contract with the International Woodworkers of America.
Following a move recommended in the industrial enquiry commission-report of Judge Arthur K. Lord, the I.W.A. is today rnaking a bid to expand its membership here and already plans are underway to apply  for certification at
! several previously uncertified operations,
j The 1954 contract, which gives \yorkers a 5l� cents an hour wage boost effective January 6 and in-
Thieves Gain Little From Clothing Store
Thieves smashed their way into A. M. Patterson's Men's Fur-nishings, 126I7rhLrd Avenue, early  dustry-wide maintenance of mem-
Saturday evening but aside from a pair of boots, got little in the way or loot:
Proprietor of the.store said this morning that a small sum of money   left   in    the    cash-drawer
now taking the lead iir producing for the broiler market. In addition to his laying flock of 600 hens, he maintains a flock of 1000 birds of various ages solely fyx rail to Edmonton where^riatttral gas is utilized in tho>ifuinufacture of. nylob threa< arrfl other finished products.. � When'   natural   gas    from    the
Peace" River and north-western Alberta is brought to' Prince George, attractive opportunities will exist for combining these two separate operations in the production of plastics...
Car manufacturers are now experimenting with plastic car bodies, and if these tests prove successful   there   will   be   an   iin-
ial which feeds this new and booming industry. . � - '-'There is no other place In British Columbia with brighter possibilities or greater need for a stabilized economy based on our immense natural, resources," Mr williston fold the Rotarians, win were'meeting for the first time in the new basement banquet-room of the Prince George Hotel addition.
Plans are.going ahead this week to build ali enlarged courtroom at Royal Canadian Mounted Police headquarters on Seventh Avenue.
City officials- are' preparing plans for the'new courtroom this week. It will incorporate the old courtroom and space which is now used as a private office.
Even in its enlarged state,  the room  will  be  only   11   feet  wide, and  20 feet  long.
Long a target   for criticism by 1. I the press and city -barristers, the recent   present courtroom facilities cover less than 160 square feet.
So small is the room that spectators, when there are any, must ' sit among prisoners awaiting tria.l. and lawyers, the magistrate and the accused all share one tiny table.      I
-' The  building   in   jwhlch   police court   is   located   is  the   property^ of-the City of Prince George and is supplied to the  UC'.MP live of charge under terms ofrMre' policing   agreement   between   the city-and the federal  government.
Enlargement of the courtroom is being maffe possible tht'ou^w the evacuation of the quarters for single/constj.ibles jn tilt. rear of the' building.
New Deadline For Coast Air Mail
Woman May Tackle_ Mainland - V.I.  Swim
__y]GTORlA-r Jan.   II   (CP)�Flor-
) ence  Chadwick,    worid-1'enowned
t distance swimmer,  is considering
an attempt to swim the Straits t>i
Juan ,de,"Fuea   ni.\t   summer,   it
was announced  here Saturday.
Tentative plans-call for tlic at-teinpi to be made in July from Port Angeles, Wash., to Victoria: If successful, she will he the first swimmer to conquer ihe;tai'rbulent 20-mile, stretch of water between the majnJarid and Vancouver'-Js-�kind."
. Victoria Tii
 and the Llri-
Airborne mail destined for Van-I ' lil culver will have to be at Prince � hisj> American Pyjut Company George's main post office two h;iVt' tJt'Lii-�iiit,covlm � S2.500 bonus if.successful. Mulligan  announced todav.
Council  /sheets  Tonight
Fir.st  scheduled meeting of  the 195-1' Prince George   city  council
tonight at   S  p.m.
now stands at $170.50, and | tually house a flock of 1500 birds,  looked like league champions�which they are�as they took j tori'i   ni< ount will be   The first unit, designed to house  Prince Georgc Lumbermen apart to the tunes of 9-2 and 1>5   tlo.ti   w�
ajtyR expected this amount pt^mented    this    week    following |^Mtings  at  which   a  number of Irani    organizations    will   decide kfttyftimounts  they   are  willing' to
500  laying hens  is  now   nearing completion.
This modernistic building, constructed according to plans (drawn up by  the  B.C. Dept: of .%ricul-
nnpunced last, Thilysday, ture. represents a radical depar-|Wpose of the fund is to .provide ture from the conventional type financial   assistance   to   a   young j poultry house.
The building is 10 feet square;-with windows on both the north and south sides. It features a central roosting rack which needs to be cleaned out only twice a year, community nests, and a dirt floor.
it  is expected construe-ill   get   underway   in   the
on Saturday and Sunday in the first league games played here ! spring.
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jajTDllander who was seriously in-Hunpd during a fracas resulting *fro>ln the recent lumber strike. Uo
tidB already spent three weeks jijpghospita!. preventing him from :\yqrking on a home he is building
in'Prince George for his britie-to-
be-in Holland.
� jMlstra had planned and work-.edL:-to bring his fiancee to Canada
this summer.
"I hope 1 can make it," he said
from  his   bed   in   Prince  George
and;  District .Hospital.      "Rut   it
don!t look too good right now."
.Tilstra was brutally beaten I)e-- cemlier 21   near the house he  is
With     the~use of a   deep  litter,
Three Fined For Game Infractions
British Columbia Game Act infractions here have netted the provincial    treasury    $G0    within
It was the first appearance this season for both teams, and Van-derhoof was definitely the better club as they iced a solid defence and two fleet forward lines which hit a mid-seasonjiaee and hemmed the Prince George tcarn back of their own blue line for most-of the two games.
( Although showing promises Lumbermen were disorganized most of the time and were unable
I to match tlic smooth passing plays
:and individual attacks of the visitors,   who    are    again    being
, coached by Jack  Forsey,  former
j Trail3 Smokcaters star.
i. �Bears lived-up   to   their name
' in the opener as they applied the big squeeze to Lumbermen's'all new defense department to rattle throe pucks past Don Young with
building on  ,hV  outskirts  of the j Jhe p^Vew weeksT game officials   ^�V^^nZ^ city.  His attackers were believed   disclosed today. -                         I/'1,   '"'sl   lL1     '  -    J         minute
.to: be picketers, but the young Tu'.o men, Robert Watson and "' " ... TltMMWiinK-iminigrant was unable to positive- N \v V]om< pai,Kfines.-nf $25 and , blvho was   ar- .$io respectively for c'airving'.Iqad--1     The slick ieamwork of the Van
y
 rented in connection withthe. in cident. which aroused considerable indignation throughout the city.
�''|j'l believe something should be ftldfio to compensate this now.citi-iris! r'^ nuts who was an innocent ':VR?tim or the strike." said Mayor ;G)Srdon O. Bryant, who gave $20 to1: the. fui)d last week. l |3h"iiations received over the ^week-end include Kechako Bak-W&, $10: Charles K. Haga, $2.r>0; W%y Williston. MLA, $3; Bert R. fljehoe. Ill', $1: H. O. Cuddy, $5: l^ssc CoUl Storage, $12; Jimmy ^|ines, $2: Anonymous,"$5. jfciA complete list of donors will ^� jniblished in .The Citizen at the vconelusion of bhe campaign.
 anderhoof squad threw the Lumbermen defensive set-up into a disorganized attempt to clear the  puck'^oul of vulnerable territory almost from the opening bell. �" The game was less than seven minutes.old when "Jim Silver got the jump on o_ne Lumberman defense  stalwart at  centre  ice and
Funeral service was held in j beat the other out with a back-Wetaskiwin, Albert;), today forward pass to brother Ken just Mrs.   John    Borglund,   who   died..pnsitle the bluelinc with  Ken $
spec ti vol.v ed firearms in motor vehicles.
A third man, Anthony Forcier, was fined $25 and costs for carrying a firearm without a license.
Funeral   In  Wetaskiwin Today For City Woman
Thursday   in   Prince  George  and District Hospital.
Mrs/ Berglund came to Prince George two years ago from Wetaskiwin- She was 32. ' . _ The remains -were shippeij Friday to Baker's Funeral Home, who took care of arrangements.
ver making the top-corner drive.
Smithers pulled a repeat with a neat exhibition of stick-handling from �center ice a few minutes later and Vanderhoof was two iip.
Bert Baekstrom opened the Bears net when he banged home u   rebound   from   a   goal-mouth
scramble, and   Ken   Silver   closed the period  for the visitors when he caught a bottom corner off his own rebound. KIHST PENALTY
Silver also drew- the first penalty of The season with a two-minute stint for interference, and Kirby of Lumbermen drew the scctind:
It was Ken Silver again as (he second frame opened when he broke out of a melee around Young's goal to slip one.betweeu the net-minders skates.
First light note of the game came when Fred Amtt'ew got into a pmiu ofhockcy-siiek pat-a-cakc with Abe Wall in Bears' goalmouth when referee and linesmen were looking" elsewhere. � Rushing to his team-mate's assistance. Howie Sugden took the Lumbermen coach high-on the shoulder "with a jolting body-checkwthen thought about .matters for the. next two minutes in the penalty-by,x while Freddie smiled from the ice. CHURCH
Mike Church, one of Andrew's hip hopes for the '51 season, opened the door with a hard-driving short shot at the halfway mauk but Sugden put the �westerners three up off a goal-mouth pass ffoniSmithors.   .�
Lumbermen Avere reeling under the onslaught ol last year's champions when the third-frame opened -and were easy meat for the ' 'Sirver-Smy-hers-Sugdcn ; trio which netted a goal apiece before the final" bell.
First  two  periods  of Sundav's (Sec  HOCKEY,   Page  8)
Mr.  Mulligan said that air mail destined for Vancouver/will  have to   be   mailed   at   the Jnain   post office' by   2:30   p.m.  each   day   in- i will   take  p!;ice stead  of the former  time of   l:   at City Mall, p.m.    .                                            |     His Worship,
The change in mail deadlines. Bryant will lie results from altered schedules of j public .-appearance in ihe st�iit of Canadian Pacific Airlines, Mr. the city's chief magistrate since Mulligan said. '                                lie was sworn in on .January "l.
Mayor Gordon P. making   his   first
will (be a steel-
reinforced Concrete structure and will serve the entire northern part
of the province__
Ray .Williston M.I..A. said late last week that money for the jail was provided in last year's budget. '
Iti'cciitly,   In*   added,   ho   lias �
ry.ceivrd  sonic ci>       "I'rincc      George's
SliaughiH'N^y  Heights."
�He said that among others who complained of the site chosen for the jail was His Worship Mayor Bryant.
Site for the jail is on the-pro-men tory   of   land   which   extends northwest    from    Prince   George Airport.  It  encompasses   IS acres. \\ is believed that a substantial, amount   of   real-estate   has   been purchased   in   the  same   area   in I recent  years with a view  to de-. veloping a residential area whoso | homes would look dowii over thej Fraser River and the present City of  Prince Georgc.
Mr, Williston said he had for-w;nxlcd the views ofthose -u4io. 'objected to thelrslte to the Department of Lands in Victoria-ami had asked if the value of tho property as poteutial residential land had been taken into consideration.
It is considered doubtful, bow-. ever, that the government would agree"lo �n alternate site this late in the proceedings.
Water supply for the jail was provided last, year by the government, in an- insTallation made.primarily to. serve the P.G.E. Plans have ~also � been carried out for the supply of municipal power to the juil  site.
Off The Wires Today
(Cqnodiap Press�Monday, January  II,   1954)
British Jetliner Carries Thirty-Five To Death
F^orto Azzuro, Elba�-A British Comet jetliner with 35 persons aboard plunged into the icy Tyrrhenian Sea Between the isles of Elba ond Montc-cristo Sunday and fishermen returning from the scene said there was no sign  of  survivors.
An Italian fishing boat recovered 15' bodies; including those of two children.
Twenty-nine passengers, including Chester Wilmott, 42-ycar-old Austro!-ian war correspondent and author, were reported oboard-the jy^ibt-mile-a-minutc  jet,   whose death  plunge  was  witnessed by horrified  fishermen.
Ferry Passengers Marooned Eigh Hours On  Fraser-Sandbar
ROSEDALE, B.C�An ancient ferry, loaded dowri witTi cors, got-,hung up on o stand bar in the Froscr River near hetc Saturday night, stranding 20   passangcrs  for eight   hours!
� The  ferry,   plying  between   Roscdalc and Agassiz   on  opposite  batiks of the   river,   ran -aground   at   5   p.m.
It was after midnight before ladders werci-put out from shore and passengers were ablentb scramble to- safety. Some had to wade through hip-deep   water.
Copt. Denis Harvcy~said visibility was poor at the time and the river was at its .lowest winter le\el, making navigation of the two-mile route treacherous.     The ferry was   refloated  Sunday with the   aid of  tugs.
Drunkomcter Evidence  Not Conclusive," Judge Rules
� ��� VANCOUVER�The dtunkclmctcr, a machine for measuring .t^e btood'a alcoholic content content,  won .a split decision on court here* Soturday.
Magistrate Oscar Orr ruled the machine, used by the City police traffic department, moy.be used to corroborate other evidence, but-that its findings cannot alone  bo accepted as conclusive.   _
The ruling was handed down as Alex Donald, Vancouver1.- salcsmop, Was found: guilty of driving while impaired, reduced from the original driving while   intoxicated charge.
Woodworkers Union  Calls For  Huge Strike Fund
VANCOUVER�Dan Radford was re-elected president of the B.C. Fcd-eratfon of Labor (CCL) for his fifth straight term at ihe conclusion of the I Oth  annual   convention   here   Sunday.
Stcwort   Alsbury was named  vice-president   for  the   sixth  straight   time.
Ear-ficr at the convention, the International Woodworkers of America called for:ro~strike fund_6s high as $600,000 annually: