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An Independent Semi-Weekly New.pop,, Devofd to the Interest of Central and Northern British
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___frtnee George, B.C., THURSDAY, May. 20, 1954
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DR. GORDON M. FIERHELLER
President of Host y ims, plane and train ching I'rince George will di* lontingent of delegates J huiels and motels to �the bfsting point;
I -i-< will travel from Vancou-ntj,- the lower mainland, oteriay, Okanagan and hser. valleys and central and B.C. by car to^ attend Me <"i(oirc'.s "Frontier Klnven-
111 noon today more than 375 s had registered for the rention,*' and late" reglstra-are expected id swell this re to more than 400.
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[Checking in tomorrow will be
strict Governor Landon DeLong
Sirs. DeLong of Chilllwack,
District Secretary Ernie An-
son ami District Treasurer
felly Ferguson, also of Chilli-
:k.
[Also expected are Deputy- Gov-ors Robbie Robinson of L..ady: >'accom
nation.
attendance at all social
and entertainment will be to-: Kinsmen and , Kin lt>si H u;is announced a( convex
ti'Milquarters. id * � fflnco c;cx)rge. Kinsmen wll at^the convention garbed " hats, striped jackets w ti, s. Typical of Kinsmen y.es, many other B.C. com-es win be .represented by ates wearing bizarre attires
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hundred miniature metal ):k'10H nave b�en imix>rted Jd h b
aves as "souvenirs of the VFron-tier Ktnvention."
In addition' the ladies will wear iny buckskin moccasins made by he Tatchi Indians or Stuart Lake. Cuterer Jack J>a nnd his corps of chcf.s and waitresses will nerve more than 2000 meals to the (Ii'lrffiitcs during the week-end rally.
Business sessions .will be held n the Strand Theatre Sunday and Monday mornings. One of the main Items on the agenda will be selection of a District Governor 'or the ensuing year. At least two eading B;C Kinsmen are in the field for tfie honor. Norm Little-wood � of Princeton and Robbie Robinson of' Lady-smith, both (See KINSMEN, Page 3)
Funeral Services Held For Four-Month Baby
Funeral services were held on May 5 for Susan Lynn Mclnnes, four-month-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Alien Mclnnes of Prince George.
The baby died at home on May Rev. T. D. R. Allen officilited at the services, which were held from Assman's Funeral Chapel.
Busy with > lost-minute plans for the big Kinsmen rally are TOMMY NORTON, chairman of convention committee (above), and JACK Mc-ARTHUR, second in command.
Moyor Hurls First Boll
Dark Horse Entry Slaughters Merchants In Baseball Opener
Clear Loke Yankees 17, Prince George Merchants 4
i
y the host club be presented to the dele-
A big right-hander, Gordon llry-ant, more at home in the city's mayorality robes, \mcorked a wide curve ball at the Civic Centre sports pasture last night to rajse'the curtain on a brand new season for the six-team Prince George and District Baseball League.
Twenty-two minutes, seven valks, three errors and three.hits later a dozen Clear Lake Yankee runners had crossed the plate and half an'inning was over.
tt was a nightmare start for FernieNOHinger's Merchants, who trailed 2!M at the end of four and two-thirds Innings when umpires Fred Andrew and "Chuck" Caw-dell called off the^-rnassacre owing to darkness;
g. Official score reverted to the 17-4 fourth-inhlng count;Tn.
Young" Marty Johnson i^and Steve MakarenKo were the victims of the Yanks1 first Inning assault, both having trouble in locating the plate. Olson came on
To Test Aluminum line
"ce George power and light i Aid, Hilton said it had not been rl�)cnt win test a new type' ascertained whether the recent "jninum transmission line In! half-cent reduction in the price ld|ng service for 42 residents' o' diesel fuel at the Royalite re-ock 777, at the south' end of finery In Kamloops was the re-Street, suit of a lowering of the freight
�*/ felfj ^^^!**lS <* chairman, said the | Meantime the department is metal would permit the waiting for a quotation from Im->�n of half the customary perial Oil, Vancouver, on the I!01' of poles. He estimated city's future fuel requirements. n Jge lot, 1() be' btri'K at a cost No commitments for a supply of OrV, � for material and $800 fuel-Tor the city's power and light rJJ?r, and recommended that plant had been made beyond the urews start work on the pro- current month, Aid. Hilton re-1 ^njediateiy, � i ported.
in the third and gave up the first home run of 'the season to ^Mc-Farlane, who also pouqded out a double in the first frame.
The trio of Merchant Hurlers pave up only seven hits, but wlld-ness and miscues by their teammates enabled the combination of last year's West Lake loggers and USAF personnel to roll to an easy win.
,Loose-jointed. Brooklyn born Al Blake of the Yankees exhibited an assortment of -sharp-breaking curves and a nice fast ball in limiting the Merchants, plcntiful-.ly sprinkled with ex-Pony Leaguers, to five hits.
Canadian Legion band succeeded In livening up the proceedings between innings with a selection of lively inarches.
In a pre-game ceremony, league president Wilson Muirhead complimented the parks committee for co-operation in getting the diamond in playing condition and predicted the league would have a successful season.
Mayor Bryant said the parks committee would continue to carry out--improvements at the Civic Centre playing field, which will be enlarged when arrangements are completed for the purchase by the city of property on the fringe of the park. This will be done within the next month, His Worship added.
Fire Flattens Two Quesnel Sawmills
QUESNEL, May 20 (CP)�Damage estimated at between $80,000 and $100,000 was caused Tuesday when fire destroyed two sawmills at Two Mile Flats near here.
The blaze, which left 20 men temporarily without work, ripped through the Brown Miller^ Bros, and Saloon Sawmills, .and. spread to nearby bush. Firefighters-brought the bush fire under control and prevented the spread of flames iq other buildings.
Brown" Miller said work will start immediately to put his mill back into operation.
CCF 'Giant
Speaks Here Tonight\
- The man who defeated Premier Byron Johnson in the 1952 provincial election will be the speaker at a public meeting in the CCF Hall tonight at &:30 o'clock.
Rae Eddie. CCF member for New Westminster"; Is business agent- of the TW^' local' In home city, and'has long been an active trade unionist. He has also been in the lumber business for 32 years.
Conquer Cancer Drive $tets41330 To Date
A to^a^otS 1330.29 has been received sV-^arMn the 1954 Conquer Cancer^campaign in Prince George are^O^.
There are still some/>>utside points to be heard frorn.^
The campaign conducts n to-door canvass, but depends^ ctitetly on the tag day and business dlstricl_canvass.
The amount collected so far-Is made up of $483,79 from the tag day; experimental farm (T. Tobla-son), $31.50;^ Royai^ Bank Staff, $32; by mail, $30; Eagle Lake Sawmills camps, Glscome, $93; Newlands, (G. Redding) $55MDagle I^ake Sawmills Ltd., (Mrs. Dorothy Coster) $114; local business canvass^rw. Fraser) $491. Named are the canvassers.
The money Is used mainly for research and welfare, and manj people from this district have been helped In this.
An account is kept at a looa) bank, and there is no waiting period for help, when referred by your doctor. �
The^Society pays for transportation, x-Yay treatment, housekeeper service, and many-other benefits for those, in need, .With
irual
the
money su'ppllcjdk^by, the arrii&fgh' '" ;>^--
Hadden is president tit Prince Ceorge Unit off
Canadian Cancer Society; Mrs Helen M. Timco, secretary,' and J. "Mac" MacNaughton, treasurer.
Airmen, League Officials See Pr. George Air Cadet Squadron
Under ideal weather conditions, 54 smartly dressed cadets and cadettes of Prince George (Rotary) Air Cadet Squadron marched briskly down the smooth tarmac at Prince George airport early Monday afternoori in the presence of a group of RCAF and squadron officers and members of trie air cadet
Next Issue 'Citizen* v Coming Out Tuesday
Next Monday being Victoria Day. all offices and most stores In Prince George will be closed. Advertisers, correspondents and news>K>ys are advised The Citizen will not be published on that day but will appear on Tuesday.
committee of the Rotary Club.
The reviewing officer was Wing Commander. J. A. � McDonald, RCAF, and watching the march past were Flt.-Lt. Bruce Hooker, commanding officer, and his aides, FO Harry Estlin and FO Harvey Clarke, who had worked tirelessly for six-weeks to train the squadron to . peak efficiency for the annual official inspection.
Following arrival at the airport of an RCAF canso and a DC3 at 11:20, a.m. Monday, the Inspection party was entertained at a luncheon-in the McDonald Hotel by the Rotary Club air cadet Committee. President Alex Bowie presided.
Members of the inspection team were Wing Commander McDonald, Capt. F. ,L. Clarke, chairman, B.C. committee, Air Cadet League of Canada; V. R. Clerlhue, Immediate past chairman; J. A: Brown, of the B.C. committee, and F/L H. E. Carling, Air Cadet liaison officer, RCAF.
Parents and friends, together with Rotary Club members, witnessed the inspection.
Following the general salute and inspection, Wing Command, er McDonald addressed the squad' ron and complimented them on their proficiency and expressed
bers of the official inspection party at the head table. Several after-dinner speeches proved both enlightening and enjoyable.
Later in the evening a social gathering was held in the RMR officers loungo where informal discussions were held dealing with progress of the Air Cadet movement'.
Crews of both aircraft .we�-e present at the social functions as well as members of Rotary's air cadet committee, inclining Alex Clark, Hans Roine, Jack Ratledge, Bob Madill, Jack Wall, Clint Geddes, Henry Houghtaling and Dr. Larry Maxwell.
The inspection party left aboard the Canso at 9 a.m. Tuesday bound for' a' similar functioif at Prince Rupert, and the DC3 took off about the same time for the Sea Island base, Vancouver.
Auto Court Directors Meeting Here May 27
Directors and Resort
of the Auto Court Association of B.C
his pleasure at the general deportment and progress of the Prince George squadron.
Capt. Clark then expressed gratification over the progress and Improved conduct of -the squadron since the last inspection visit.
Following dismissal, official photographs were taken with the Dakota aircraft In the background.
All the boys and girls were then taken on flights over the city in the DC3.
The inspection party proceeded to squadron headquarters in the First Avenue armouries where records of the year's work and instruction were examined by F/L Callings� ~~7
At 6:30 p.m. in the Prince George Hotel banquet-room, 60 Rotarians and Rotary Annes sat down to an enjoyable repast with Rev. T. D. Allen, chairman of the
JIM McNAUGHTON
�Secretory
PAT OGILViE
�Treasurer
Beaver Dam Blamed For Fatal Train Wreck
Canadian National Fireman Buried Today
A 28-year-old rdifway fireman died in Prince George, arid District Hospital at 8:40 p.m. Monday, 66 hours after he was crushed and burned when pinned under a CNR locomotive which plunaed into a flooded culvert 29 miles west of Prince George. t�----------------------------:---------�
Oidtlmers of the Isle Pierre district where the locomotive and two baggageTcars of a passenger train dropped into a deep hole believe the accident was ^caused when a beaver dam- broke In- a nearby small lake, sendihg a wall of water cascading under the right-of-way.
H. "Bud" Wade was rushed
^Jl suffering from a cru^hetKleg, severe internal in-jurles^fe^irh�vand shock. Despite skilled medi!qat>.a.rid nursing care the young maid ed to rally from mj
Death .was, attributed, tixln tern-al Injuries and shock.
His wife, Blanche, was riowrK :o Prince George 'late Saturdiry, by Dick Heggle, owner of a private plane.
At home are two sons, Stewart, ami Leonard, 7, and a daughter. Beckle, 6..
Also surviving are his parents, VIr. and Mrs.' Frank Wade, South Fort George; five sisters, Mrs. rordon Wilson amk Mrs. Bruce Myttlng of Chief Lake;xMrs. Robert Westle and Mrs. Jvlne Myt-ting of Prince George, and^Mrs. James Westle, South Fort George, and two brothers, Gordon andv Lawrence, South^Fort George.
Louis Goodrich of Prince George 1st n half-brother.
The late Mr. W�de wa� born In Smfthers and served - as signalman in the Royal Canadian Wavy during the last war.
Many floral tributes from relatives and friends of the bereaved family' at Smithers. and Prince
George covered the casket when funeral services were held thl3 afternoon in St. Michael's Anglican Church under auspices of the Canadian Legion. Rev. T. D. R. Allen officiated at the final rites.
Pallbearers were R. /Pooley, Wilf Peckham, W. J. Peckham, Roy Cleland, Cam/ Jones and _
arth Williams. I-
Trumpeter KenXrnett sounded the I^ast Post at the graveside.
Mrs. Wade's father and sister, T. R. King and/Mrs. V. Wllkin-ion, of Kamloops attended the uneral this afternoon.
Arranges arley
Dead-End Streets Will Be Closed
As a move to prevent teen-age^s using the Connaught HU1 ball park as a speedway, city work jrewis will start soon to close all dead-end^ streets adjacent to the Civic Centre. -
It was reported at Monday's council meeting that young car drivers are damaging the playing field by using the area as a race track.
It was also stated that the snow fence used last year as a temporary enclosure for the baseball field had been_badly damaged by cars driving over collapsed portions of. the fence. It had been loaned by t&e- provincial Public Works Department.
rn Canada vill fly to Prince early date to interview Council for the viewing the city's power and submitting details of a proposal to construct a hytlro electric Installation in the vicinity.
At Monday's council meeting a letterxwas read from Fred Burden, -foraier -tnintirter of lands find B.C. agent-general 4n. London, Who Is acting- as intermediary for E. W. Bowness, well known con-su/Ung engineer, reciuoxting lh3t ;i date be set for consultations with Officials of the power coii-cern.-
While no details of-the power plans were divulged In the letter, it was learned, that the company' has an assured market, for 5^000 horsepower from the projected power plant�presumably for a pulp or paper mill�and proposes to se+l^surplus power to the city for distribution over the municipal system. \
"Time is important in this matter," said Mr. Burden, who was present at the meeting.
Council consented to Uje request for an audience, and Mayor Gordon Bryant- Informed Mtv Burden that a meeting will be arranged lit the convenience of the principals.
Immediately following the meeting, Mr. Burden sent a telegram to TWr. Bowness Informing him of the council's decision.
Air Cadet committee, and. mum- .sanitation.
will, hold a directors' meeting In Prince George on May 27.
'This will be the first time that such a meeting has been held U this area. They are generally hcU in Vancouver.
Hpn. Ralph Chetwynd is expect ed to attend, as well as Ernest Evans, Commissioner of the B.C. Travel Bureau.
The meeting will take the form of a dinner nieptingj to be held at Melvadeer i/>dge, starting at 7 p.m. next Thursday.^'
Many auto court and resort owners from Daw son Creek, Quesnel, Vanderhoof, Burns Lake and other points will be hi attendance.
A. J. Pound is president.of the Auto Courts and Resorts Association of B.C. J. J. Di Marzo and Violet M. Bayne-^re vice-presidents and Alex B. MacQuarrie Is secretary.
Craig Smith is president of the Prince George Brance'of the or-
OffTheWires Today
(Conodian Press�-Thursday, May 20, 1954)
Doctor, Specialists Flown To Telegraph Creek
PRINCE RUPERT�A three-member medicol team left here by plane Wednesdoy to. combat a measles epidemic at the isolated community of Telegraph Creek, 250 miles north of here. /
The trio will aid two nurses who hove been caring for 45 white and Indian children stricken with the disease in the lost two weeks. Additional medical supplies will be taken in.
Heading the party is Dr. G. W. Fiddes, of the Indian Health Department. He will be accompanied by a woman eye specialist, Dr. V. Morkin and X-roy'technician George-Eaton of Prince Rupert.
The party was *� % to Wrangell, Alaska, and then make a three-day boot trip up the Stikine River to Telegraph Creek. The river trip' will be only the second made this year, os the Stikine.has been clogged with ice until recently.
Floods Menace Lower B.C. Communities
VANCOUVER-~British Columbia's fl�od picture darkened Wednesday os murky waters flowed through the streets ofi Kimberley, ripped through highways ond threatened many communities in the Kootenay Valley.
' B.C. Government brought in emergency regulations, organizing flood control and relief .agencies into a force under the direction of Works Minister Philip Goglardi.
Gravest threat was along the Kootenay River, 250 miles eost of here. The Columbia, too, was another threat, but in the Fraser Valley, scene of devastation in the 1948 floods, the danger peak had not been reoched.
At Prince George the Fraser and Ncchako Rivers rose 11 inches this week but pre strll well below the flood stage. Two wash-outs were reported on the CNR line near Prince George as small streams spilled over the bonks.
At Bonner's Ferry in Idaho a state of emergency was declared qs the Kootenoy River there swelled into flood-trde, threatening fast disaster.
# In B.C. dike patrols at Kimberley, Nelson, Trail, Creston, Casttegor ond Cronbrook all reported "serious" deterioration of conditions.
Mork Creek at Kimberley crept over its bonks, sending mud-splashed woter racing through the lower level of the city. Many homes have been evacuated.
Moyie River at Cranbroak washed, over the southern trans-provindi highway, closing it to automobile troffic. Other interior roads were
covered. C
Flood-swoilcn Cottonwood Crock burst its banks two miles south p|? Nelson and forced one family to evacuate thoir Nvater-iurroundod horn*.