An Independent Semi-We�kly Newspaper Devoted to the Interest <* I^ntrol 37; No. 25 ^ / (Three Sections) Prince George, B.C., THURSDAY,
I.C. Buyers Start Paying iye Percent Sales Tax
VICTOR.)A (GP)�B�t4sh-Columbia today becomes the rovince with the highest sales tax in Canaa1a7'v\
Bares Huge ferior Highway Program
Qne of the largest highway fmj>fovernent and construc-rprograms ever envisioned for this part of British Columbia ueen outlined within the past 24 hours by Works Minister Goglardi and Fort George M.L.A. Ray Wjlliston.
Highlights of the multi-million dollar program arenas
1. Expenditure of more than $1,000,000 this year on L improvements to the Northern Trans-Provincial High-x > of Prince George. y^
2 Survey of the McBride-Prince George link this sum? i construction scheduled to get underway next year. highway is not scheduled to become a toll operation. 3. Relocation of tho Cariboo Highway north of Quesnel, |obly next year,^jioxtruit it will utilize the Pacific Great trn Railway Cottonwood Conyon bridge to eliminate what icrs claim-is one of the major bottlenecks to large-scale ting operations north and south.
% Expenditure of $185,000 within the immediate vicin-Prince George this year, for improvements to existing �/ays. \N,
Laying of 81 miles of paving in the area this year. : of projects which will
Lip i.i the .�1,000,000 to be improvement of the Nor-�]!uns-Prpyihcial Highway n;.r is not yet "known, but bcllevctb tho money rcpre-a continuing policy of lining the oast-west highway lyear. �:
.GnyUirtfj ^avg definite con-in the legislature yes-r :hat a thorough survey of - link" in the N.T.-P. itween Prince George focBride would be made this ncr and that construction gel underway next year. roi.L itoAi>
[reply to a question on the jf ihe house from Ray AVI 1-{lie works minister said |lic province has no plans for road nVthls time" although tni iTceiveuKa petition from rea in which^more than 8000 v> had askecKfor a road east, "even a toll road if san.%"
eeial wire nianinu_,Mr.
urvey 'of a proposed/ majtm. ..project- oh 'the :�ar4boo w!7.- h;is not yet/been 1',/The surve
new rogxe wouUTswl
swing east of the vay and would cross y Cottonwood Canyon ralfic deck-affixed to the
klge. � fK IHfJ PROBLEM
a project would solve a l>roblerh which engineer's ?en faced with for years, hiora Jhas been that only tuditure of an almost, pro-;inuiiint of money could ni I the present Cariboo y descent int.o the Cotton
Into a safe piece of ould he used by cars trucks throughout the
|r without undue hazard, certain types j
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In heavy haulij&g can south^descent
survey is coni it is believed that will start next year " project will not hold '�� >'inrncnt's program of ctiori and paving of "the 11 Highway. ASPHALT
;i'> "f 21 miles of hot-mix
will be laid adjacent to
Cl< prge. This will be made
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miles from Prince George Airp to Cale Creek and six miles the Cale Creek area.
McBride village streets will be paved and other paving projects undertaken" throughout the district.
Local reconstruction projects will include the expenditure of $65,000 to eliminate two 90-degree turns at the south end of Prince George Airport on the Cariboo Highway, $75,000 on relocation of the Northern1 Trafis-Brovincial Highway between Prince George Cemetery and :Mile ,8, $15,000 between Mile Sjin6A5 on the Cariboo HighwayWnd $30,0000 for improvements \ to the Prince George-Glscbine \ section of \h& NorthernvTrans-Provlnclai.
In a;'speech iri the legislature yesterday Mr. WUU^tdn outlined the need for a nejw^provincial gov-
ernmenrjwtkllng here and polnt-ed qu*".thaKrapld expansion of
during the post-war ^years made" such a project a "financial necessity." ~ "\"�r~~
Prince George is believed to hold the number three priority throughout, tho province for a new building.
Red Cross Campaign Goes 'Over The Top'
The lied Cross fund campaign went "over the top" in the Prince George area this week.
Campaign chairman W.' M. MacLean announced,this morning that a total of $5440 has been collected so far.
Objective was $4500.
Organizers expressed pleasure at the over-subscribing of the fund. Prince George has gained a
reputation of more than adequately supporting the drive in the past but it was feared that the economic aftermath of the lumber strike would make collections more difficult this year.
There is still more money ex-pectecKfrorn several points, and the iujfjd organizers are hoping that "the drive wIH reach $6000 in this area before tkis completed.
Four-Year-O|d DiesX In Hospital Toddy
Four-year-old ^L'arry- Letchford died in Prince George and District Hospital .4his morning after an illness-which had lasted for some timef
'"The young boy is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Letchford, 1630 Elm Street.
Funeral services will be announced later by Assman's Funer-
al Chapel.
Xuaring thcconcluslon of one of the most successful benefit campaigns evqr .conducted fn^ihls district, the Barbara -Goodwin. Rund now has; $#327.92 i bank, according to Mrs. JkT Goodrich, treasurer/qf thtj/eommittee set up by the/ sponsoring Loyal
Order of Moose^ the Moose.
p u the Women of
At a jpre'etMg' tonight at the home otflxwU Goodrich, district govprnofxif the Moose Lodge, the iHfll hear a detailed" re p
port on the progress of thd drive, and it is expected that tentative plans will be made for administering the fund. 'I
March 31 had been designated as the closing date for. tjhe campaign, ami the committee urges all intending ddnors to, send if their contributions at / once in order that'a final report may be prepared for public Jannounce- /
ment:
When the fund was /started six weeks ago, an objective of $2000 was set by the committee, and now the Moose Lodge members are highly elated that this has
by 03 per
'and predict�there will -be available when' final returns are in.
Although/the bulk of/the donations came f�om (individuals and firms/ in -and near Prince George, trif campaign had a province-wide appeal, and /contributions were received frfain unexpected scAirces.
PRIME MINISTER ST. LAURENT sees Canada for the time irVsix weeks as he arrives at Ottawa following o^globe-
goodwill tour of 16 European and AsiatlipKe Prince George Curling Club moving out pf'thef'presentjgiyic Centre building'was discussed at a meeting Tuesday'evening between a committee of the City Counc
�sentotives of the cuHing club.
and re
Coancll representatives includ-aypr dosdoit-Bryanti anti-Al-ifermen W. D. Ferry anil .Carrie Jane Gray while President Jim Willson, Harry Kennedy and Gar-1 tTin tntor-
This week the fund /was boost-(See GOODWIN, Pdge 5)
It -\viis pointed out that the council, hud tentative plans for completion of the ClvicCentro building which would encompass .the use of the entire structure including that of the basement, present curling j;ink, which would be used for qlutirooms and a possible (din-iruf ropm and kitchen.
A lease, agreed on verbally, but never signed, ^between- the Civic Centre Association and the curling club, would have entitled the curlers to occupancy of the basement for another 15 years. At/ a meeting held about a year agp, when Mayor Bryant was president of the Civic Centre;: Association,
Magistrate Must Help City To Lay Charges Against Self
TemDorgVy Impasse To Be. Solved Soon
City Police^ Magistrate P. J. Moran will heve to agree to be .prosecuted/ for an alleged infraction �,of the municipal plumbing bylaw before the city Columbia Municipal Aet- the police magistrate of any municipality has exclusive jurisdiction within that municipality unless he gives written consent to transfer of jurisdiction to another magistrate, or is unable t/> preside due to illness.
After/ seeking clarification of the section from the Attorney General's Department in Victoria, the city's solicitor, V. K. Wilson Q.C., learned that the section must be interpreted at its face value and that Mr. Moran must give written consent ,before another magistrate can be'; empowered 10 handle the case.,
Mr. Wilson will.seek Mr. Mor-in'sconsenj this week and the charge willi.be laid before an alternative magistrate shortly after.
- Magistrate JVIoran's powers will probably be vested .In government Agent George H. Hallett.la stipendiary magistrate, so that the case can proceed.
The city's action against its own magistrate arose from the alleged installation of a toilet in a kitchen r of a cabin located near the Intersection of Third -Avenue and Vancouver Street.
The city will contend that Mr Moran is the owner of the cabin and that he failed-to-eomply with a section of-the city'a plumbing
and
Dezell was mayor, both "men as well e N council, e\ Centre an the
club, j
terms, of the lease wouliKjx? hon
An act increasing the sales tax o five per eent from the former TTee"per~ccntrlevel was approved n the legislature at the beginning f the week and goes into effect oday�-Jt was given royal assent y Lieutenant-Govefnor Clarence Wallace 'Wednesday.
Although paying a higher^ tax', esldents ' are no longer ,reciuired ) pay hospital insLjrance prem-ums. The. tax-increase will be sed to replace premiums under he .compulsory hospital services
scfieme.
Clothing .ami shoos for children up to 14 years and food and restaurant meals costing $1 or lews are exeinpt from the tax. j
assented to another bill granting^" the government Interim^.stfpply of'$17,000,000 to maintain"services\ until departmentar estimates are� passed. �
LuDowski May Be BEG Contender
Lothar Lubowski, hafd-'nTtjihg Prince George welterweight box-
er, will go to Vancouver soon to train for the British' Empire Games elimination bouts^and may be selected\as one of three B.C. boxers to travel to eastern Cana-
The increase in tax i& expected da to compete in t tournament
from-which wHl emerge Canada's representatives in the big sports classic In Vancouver next August.
o add $23,420,000 to goyernmeTir evenues.
heN^iew tax will mean that uyefs will be paying three cents ristead of two on taxable purchases .of-.50 cents. It is computed.to he nearest cent as in the past, 'ax on a A 9-cent purchase will be wo cents. The Lieutenant-Governor also
set at
CANCER FUND DRIVE OPENED TODAY
Today marks the opening oTThe, 954 Conquer Cancer Campaign cross this continent.
The B.C. objective $200,000.
This money p%k desperately needed"'to enable the British Co-umbla Cancer Foundation to erect a bot boarding home for patiepK taking treatment at the iish Columbia Cancer Institute rTVancouver, and to carry on the 3.C. Division, Canadian Cancer Society's three-fold programme: research into the cause and cures of cancer, welfare for needy cancer patients in B.C., and an educational programme to alert B.C. citizens to cancer symptoms.
W. H. Malkin, Provincial Chair-Tian of the campaign, said that s^ "Cancer Foundation and Society, in British Columbia de->ends entirely on tihe generosity of the people in B.C. to carry through the plans".
"I would like to remind our citizens that cancer can strike anyone . . . but, fortunately, each one of us, through our time or money, can strike back at caj he said.
The,Conquer Cancer" Campaign" will continue jjttffoughout thiB month.
Lubowski was ^crowned B.C. amateur_weUerweight king during the recenTGolden Gloves tournament in. Vancouver, where he impressed fight fans and "managers who predicted he had^a bright ring future.
� His trip was/arranged by Shields Motors I^fd., where he is employed as/an apprentice mechanic. White training at the Po-licemer^s Mutual -Benefit gymnasium - in^Vancouver Lubowski wiff,contlnue to learn his trade "under an apprenticeship board of General Motors of Canada.
orf Of Gas In
Fall Is Discounfed
CNR BANS USE OF CACHE SHORTCUT
A ban on public use of a footpath Jeading to The Cache from directly in front of the CN'R station, will be discussed at. a public meeting in the CCF Hall at_8 o'clock tonight attended by some VT j the 500 residents living north of the railway yards.
On Tuesday night a delegation from The Cache conferred with ITrrA;-Maibprlze, divisional super-i intendenl, and was infQrrn.ed. that i pedestrian traffic across company' i tracks and property at this pop would be halted.
An estimated 100 chj^cfi-en use the crossing on .school days, and Mr. Mainprlze^said it was for their- prptec-tton the plank walk, will be>�ffn up and traffic banned for >aflout.company employees.
rainmen have frequently com-' plained that switching operations in the vicinity of the station were being hampered by the presence of children.
Mr. tMalnprlze said there* was always! the danger of a-flftatW1 Tjf -an.acortleril. while youngsters were using the footpath, and if had been decided to take immediati action in the interests of the pub-anri thp-
On!v -oilher alternative route to
bred if tliecity took^ver th� par Possibility of delivery of natuivland fron) The^Cache nre across tiallv coinpleted^Civic Cefitre! al �as to JJr,inC0 George late this , Ottawa htraet. five blocks east of linillllnt? ' " -\lyuiir if the United Stages Federal; the station, ami along River-Ave-
building. Now that the city-would like to
jwer Commission approves the
aow ma me cuy^oin ukc; to j u s_ �ortlon of Westcpast Trans-ake over the entire building, they Sn^gSlCbmpa&W1 proposed Bri-
t
have asked the curlers to submit a proposal whereby they would vacate the premises, inreturh-for which the city would give them property for avne\v rink and a cash settlement, for an undecided arnount, to reimburse . thertt for the money they have invested in
the present site.
jylaw which requires that such nstallations be made in a separ ate room. �
Three cabins said, to be owned
y the magistrate were the target of municipal health officials last
ear because they did nqt con-,ain adequate plumbingflt is one; if these three which will be cited' m the charge. jW '
City health, officials .gave.' Mr. Moran until December 12, 1953, to comply with health standards In regard to toilets arid it was a subsequent inspection by health officers -which disclosed a toilet installed in a kitchen./
Curling club executive ,' is to" present their case to a / council committee meeting on .Monday. Club memberships in the amount of about Sl'2.500 have /been invested in the' rink as vwell as 4; considerable sum from curU'rig du.�fs and donations of'material.
Curl&rs have been,dissatisfied for the last few years with ice conditions -due to rnild'.winters and had more or less decided to install an artificial ice' plant this year. If they are forced to build h new rink they are afraid that their .dreams of thc In n "no man's land" and �he said a school trustee had told him it could be filled by, having child if n walk as much as three niiles to reach It.
Ho sanl�that passage of money bylaw, which also
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braces schools in The Cache, a new million dollar high school, and .a number of rural area schools, would "break the city."
Meanwhile, the school board has scheduled a public meeting designed to explain the bylaw.to the voters for tomorrow night :n Connaught School.