Newspaper Devoted to the Interest of Central and i\ iorthem British Columbia
Prince George, B.C., MONDAY/July 5, 1954
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Percentage Of City Taxes Collected
Levelling off of the city economy was indicated this morning in a City Hall release which showed that municipal tax collections, although; g\eater in dollars and cents, are off 7.8 percent of the total levy1 compared with last year.
City Clerk David T.VWilliams said that 76 per cent of tht\$465,-806 1954 tax levy has vbc^n received at City HaJl by this rnorn-
Ing. Last- year 83.8 per cent' of ithe levy or $297,(557 had been\col
lecled at this date;
The tax take in dollars in 195-1 is 535-4,832.
Mr. Williams reported ttons coming in slower thaix year.
City Moves To Gel Lois Near City Hail
The photograph above was taken a few months ago at Banks Island in the Canadian Arctic by former Prince George bush flyer Pat Carey on one of his northern patrols while flying" for Associated Airways of Edmonton. In the foreground can be seen Eskimo children, a white man, (probably a "mountie") and the Eskimo parents. Faintly discernible at far right can be seen an ice-shrouded trading ship and between it and the foreground^ roup, a pack of huskies. Banks Island is a mere 1200 miles from the north pole and roughly the same distance from the northeast? tip of Russia.
At left is Carey, sitting on the landing gear strut of his Deflavilland Beaver skiplane ar Banks Island. The former Prince George-bosed bush pilot makes several trips a year into tho Canadian Arctic carrying police officials and N.W.T. government men.
Proper development of municipal headquarter.* will ultimately require that-thc- city have title to all lots,-in'Block 185 Immediately wesf^of the present ellv hall ocatiofj, Mayor Gordon D.\ Bryant stated last week.
The mayor's remarks came at a city council meeting after read-ng of a letter offering to sell to he city a house and two lots\la :ated oh"one corner of the block. The letter was from -\V. Blau-'liss and It offered to dispose oi he house and property for $!)10() Recently the city bought privately owned property in the civic j centre grounds and it Is making I iverttires for purchase of another j liece of nearby ground.
Mayor Bryant said that purchase of; the Blaufuss property
Holiday Takes Lives Of Eight In B.C.
VANCOUVER (C(5�EigKl h;ive died In British Columbia' in tho long holiday extending from Do-jnlniorr Day through Sunday.
Three died in traffic accidents, two dr�\vned', two were burned to death'and Nthe eighth was kifled n a<�rw>\v.slifli! on Vancouver Is-arfcl;
\ At Port Aiberni; police, aided by a helicopter, are investigating a death In the Croat Central Luke area where II member of a NC'upk-enn molirita in-climbing party w.H killed In a snowplide. Police said the>\ lacked details of the accl-
|ains Hampering Crop Growth ays District Agriculturist
George district is causing
nsideroble delay in crop, growth and may do permanent juTyr^orTrT^arhai ius, Jistrrct-ogricttHuf i
First Avenue Accidents See One Kitted and One Injured
One man was killed and another was injured by a hit-and-run driver in two separate accidents on First -Avenue at the weekend.
Killed when he was struck by light delivery truck driving 0
B'Furmers are experiencing one of their wor.st seasons as a result the continuous rain, the dis-ct agriculturist said. Normally harvesting in U.<- dis-Jet would have begun by now, r. Zacharias said, but because, the rain, coupled with .the. fact ain crops were late ggtunig^lnto e.. grou ri(l," cutfing' Has" been"tfc-yed for about 10 days. vas knocked down by a hit-and-run driver on First Avenue in from of the National Hotel. He was not seriously injured. Police are withholding the nnnte of the pedestrian white they search for the light grey M'dan which knocked � him down.
The injyj-ed man was taken tr�
one man witnessed the .accident" and gave a description of the car to police.
Several -sedans similar � to the one which hit the unnamed man
Prince George-and pital for' "examination birT was ater released and tak.pn"into cus-.ody by RCMP. The pedestrian rppeared ,'ln-^,-po'lice court this nornlrig oiva charge of drunkenness. ' ^
R^ho was killed instantly when he was struck by a light delivery truck driven by Harold Mabley^sa esident of Alberta. No. charges have been laid in connection with the case.
An inquest into the death oft the j Kenne; deceased man will be held at 7:30 tonight in Assman's Funeral Chapel.
The deceased, who had no known relatives in Prince George, is believed to have resided in the area for some time.
According to reports two men driving down First Alentte in frjant of Mabely narrowly averted hitting Reno. ; . '
They came back following the. accident and reported their near-miss.
In the hit-and-run'ca.se at least
week-end-without success.
Funeral Today For Rev. Itamey's Wife
Mrs." Ella KeTiney, wife of Rev. Allen Kermey of the Pentecostal Tabernacle, was buried at funeral services from the tabernacle at "2:30 p.m.1 today.
Mrs. Kenney died' Thursday
trict Hospital at the ^Sp�" i the^conttol
Besides her husband she is sur- Vancouver vived' by three daughters, Eunice,' Geraldlne and Beulah and one son Delbert, all of Prince George; two sisters, Mrs. Ruth Thompson of Kinistlno, Sask., and Mrs. John Golonisky of Alonzo, Man., and a brother, Conrad Tangen, of Van-ciHiver.
in Saskatchewan, Mrs. had resided here two
Xily To Prolil JFrom i Vancouver Project
nvfodernTzat Ion- of Vancouver'.-traffic control system will save the City tff Prince George about
� iler'man PercyWtlllams disclosed
t lust week.
I Alderman Williams said tha
(Vancouver is switching to a new typo of traffic light control, and that the old controls, completely reconditioned, can be purchased for about one third of their original cost.
. Cost of two traffic light installations to be made here this year will be only SlttOO instead of
dentV
- Other deaths:
VANCOUVER�Johunii Hall-doTson, 2t, died Sunday from hc;ickers, jiK<* four, was found drowned in ;i slough neai\ his farm home in Agas#i� S:>tnr\l;i.y.
i PltlNf'K tiKOKGK�George Reno, traffic fatality.
Killed on-JMinlnlon^Bav were-might eliminate temporarily the Mis. Margaret Hawkins, OK; in a
need to expand the present city hall building.
He said the house could be used the city's engineering and power department offices.
Council moved to conFer^wnh MhvBlaufuss over possible sale of tho- property ajjjlrtq Investigate the^availlbUify of 1\vo other houses locatcd'in filock 1S5.
Appraisals of the homes and property on which they-are situated will be carried out at the city's expense.
Vancouver traCftO accident: Flying Officer, NjMTnan Mont, drowned while ii^ninc near Mission; Louis Teller, 43; burned to 'loath when fire qngulfed a float at Merritt.
Man To Stand Trial On Forgery Charge
.lames William Quinh was committed for trial.at a pn-Hminary hearing in police court Satur�l:ty when KL' appeared\on a charge of ulterlng u forged document.
The Wires Today
__LCanfldlQti._Pre&5�Monday, July 5, 1954)
(liechuhlytiis�froin-
City council acccpte32,000, com pared with the
Clouds, Showers Is
Weather Prediction ^corresponding month of last year.
Variable cloudiness ami scatter- operating . expanses this, year
�e^Sfi 1,601.000. Last year they
ed showers is the gloomy weath-er picture for Prince George and district today and Tuesday.
' were
.totalled ViR.014,000.
Aggregat^flKures for the first ifive months ofSU}54 show a fall-I ing off in gross revenues of $27,-i 550,000. Expenses wore reduced $20,003,000, and the result Is a I decrease in net revenues of S7,-55G.O00 compared with the corresponding period of 11)53.
Moose Wrecks Gardens, Fences In Rampage Through West End
At least a dozen residents of the west end had Prince Few Rough Roads In B.C. George's reputation as a stspping-off point for some of the Travel Map Indicates best big game hunting in the west forcibly driven home,,to them Friday morning.
Jack McArthur To Penticfon: New Bay Manager Takes Over
Well-known community worker W. J. (Jack) McArthur leaves Saturday for Penticton and is being succeeded by R. G. Lawrence of.Vernon as manager of the Hudson's Bay Co.
ed. A fourth member of the par ty, Miss Alma Currie, escape* with ininor injuries. All are from Alberni.
The helicopter, flown here from Vancouver, brought the women to Alberni Sunday night. Vitterlich remainedtn the accident area to lead a wwch party on Monday
Home owners in the Crescent area and farther west were left fuming after a young bull moose had wandered into the city, become panic-stricken at being surrounded by civilization and stampeded through streets, lanes gardens in a frantic effort to escape.
The moose riped down a fence and trampled vegetables on property owned by R. K. Moffat, 2212 Laurier Crescent.
It was sighted charging down the street some blocks away by Mrs. F. S. reify, 1025 Winnipeg Street. . ':
' A city cabinetmaker and his son were driving to work when the father , pointed out what he thought was a horse trotting up the middle of the streej. ' -"That's no horse, that's a moose,", shouted his son.
T.h'e animal checked when it saw the truck, then went lumbering on its way again.
Glen Haack, 2090 Seventh Av-enuf, .reports that the moose battered down a fence at his home and ran through the gaftlen about �? arfn. Friday morning.
The crash of the lumberin
and at first, he thought it was a car accident. Later when daylight came he found moose tracks through his garden.
Some persons who saw the animal said it was a young cow moose, but two veteran hunters who sighted it said it was a three-year-old bull.
$1000 Damage Suffered In Lumber Yard Fire
Damage estimated at $1000 wits suffered b'y A. P. Andersen Lumber Yard Limited when fire swept through a part of the lumber sheds late Thursday; afternoon.
Cause of the fire is unknown but it is believed to have started when a lighted cigarette was left burning on a shelf in the shed. \A shed and some lumber was damaged in the fire.
Looking For Homes
Does anyone want jx kitten?
Any youngster" who wants to have a little pet can^have one by contacting Doug Brown)iLt)25-L-l.
Mr. Brown has three kittens,
There are only four rough road from here to Sinclair Mills, .according to an official release from the British Columbia travel bureau.
A road map issued June.23, 1951 indicates' four sections of from rough to poor road along the stretch of less than one mile and two of five to 10 miles.
From Prince George to Williams Lake there are no rough road segments indicated but two sections of less than a mile have construction work being dbne.
From Prince George to Vander-hoof tHere is one stretch of from one tc five miles which is rough, the nii'p states.
Following in' Mr. McArthur's. foot-steps, is no-novelty for Mr. Lawrence, Who took over his position in the Vernon branch of the Hudson's Bay from Mr. Mc-Arlhur who left there six years ago to work in the- Nanalmo branch.
Muring his residence -in the city since March. 1951, Mr. McArthur has been an active mom-b<>r in the-Kinsmen Club and the Prince George Board �f Trade, holding office In ; both groups, j ttoth he and Mrs. jMcArthur have sections of,1)een active, in tho/Golf Club, and Mrs. McArthur U i\ member of the Kinette Club.
They have two children, a boy Rickey, six, and a daughter, Diane, 4.
Mr. Me Arthur expressed regr�H at leaving the city and the "wonderful friendships" he has formed here. He will become manager of a new Hudson's Bay Co. store now under construction; in Pentlcton.
Mr. Lawrence, who has had 20 years' experience in merchandising, joined the Hudson's Bay Co. in Vernon six years ago, shortly after coming to Canada from Eng- j
-in ah attempt to recovec the body, beast hitting the fence awoke him part-Persian and black in
Foresters' Order B.C. Manager Here
E. G- Drage, provincial or of the Canadian Order of Foresters, will arrive in the city tomorrow for a week's visit.
Mr. Drage is anxious to contact all present and past members of the order, and may be contacted at 513 Flast Third Ave. while in Prince George-
A number of former members
of the order are known to be
living here, and initial undertak
ings in formation of a chapter
i here-will be taken,
land.
He has been manager of thfe1 wojnen's, children's, piece goods and staples departments in tho Vernon stpre.
Arriving in the city two weeks ago for the first timo, he said he te very Impressed with what he has seen of this area so far.
In Vernon Mr. Lawrence was president of the Vernon Skating Club and a member of the Session of the United Church. His recreation and hobby is music, and he Is well-known In music circles in Vernon. � Mrs. Lawrence, their son Brian, 11, and daughter Vivian, eight, will arrive In Prince George on July 1G.
It. G. LAWRENCE