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VICTORIA. B.
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 No: 61
An Independent   Scml-Wcekly   Newspaper   Devotad   to   the   Interest   of   Central   and   Northern   British   Co 3-   >ia
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 Prince George, B.C., THURSDAY, August 57l954____  Kqvci\ father of three,   �------------:-------------------� ;.
,i,  i'liuee   George   Dis- , on the scene sometime "later spent ruwning vlctinrrthis  10 minutes dlvijlg in ,he Vlc,niry
,1Hnit   9 p.m,   Tuesday '".. ,','.. ... ;,. iiis mother and his ^�atchc'd-hini slip beneath the !n ^ ...  �� .�  lake  just 10  feet urfof hi    -'";i1   at  a  point 11 1   , . �    pT Prince George. According to police Boyer  and '     ,,..,       were    enjoying    a
Lel. |.....:   when   the   43-year-
, rkir decided to try .", ,', . � | ..ill which was about Ofcct from shope.
\\t (��iiiijil.iiiiiil "I a-cramp in hi. lie ."- I"1 filtered the water, l,llt Hinlft-iis  far as  he  could jni, ||M,,, started swimming. When he was just 10 feet from hera/t h   sank.      i                      ,
j;,;; i.....l his party dived Mr
... : || : iilt?d to locate his body I,. ...:,,   the  inurklness  of  the
vator >, oolke'Tonstabre who arrived
of where Boyer went down before he could find the 43-year-old woodworker.
Police said Boyer was not*a strong swimmer and they believe the cramp he had complained of convulsed his leg and forced him to the bottom.
He Is, survived by his wife, Mary Elizabeth, one son, William Henry Boyer, age 21, and two daughters, Delo'res Eleanor and Mrs. Myrtle Warren.
A coroner's enquiry will be held by city' Coroner Dr. J. D. MacArthur.
Funeral rites for the drowning victim will he conducted from Assman's Funeral Chapel Friday afternoon at 2:30 p.m.
Iheqiies Worth $1747 iring Woman To Trial
A mother of two whoNs^already serving a six month jail lenience for uttering, a forged^qheque Tuesday heard Magistrate P. Jr Moron commit her mistrial  on  five new counts nvolvmg cheques totalling $1747.~15. This afternoon she will again be
taken out 01 her^jall cell h^ere to
face two acTflitional charges. :����: ��   [or   Mrs.   Muriel
Mc-
I ?," a. fnrrrirr receptionist in [fowntiiwti office of, a city fan, was  reserved   by   her
l insjol vvhefi -!��'.' appeared Tue.s-
|ay.
Of the_fiye charges  heard   In Tuesday  four   arose   from llegcdly forged ''nflorsements on njn ihc'iuf> made payable to Dr. />. MacArthur, and one tnvolv-rll chfyvu: n ;u!r'payable to Jean ell a �city physiotherapist. i hcfjuo-s i,n which Dr. Mac-r's endorsement   was   said '���� n    forged    totalled
Public Work? Can Fake A Bow, Too
''�����;     � rk at Blair's Out-�:; George Street, has n     :---->~4>eliev&.._.he's   a sjife driver and has a
$1445.65.
cheque.
was made out for^SSOl.SO.
All five cheques  w�ro said to have   been   cashed banks.
city
Colorful B.C. Jurist Died Last Night
 5  :".� at work    someone  Lourdes   was   dedicated   on   the -"< ny.   \\'.,y i,e   was  driving' shOres of West  Lake Sunday be-
itn^dozen eggs on top fore some 200 worshippers. 1:1    >"i>" were broken.         Bishop Jordan officiated at the
1 of cream was miss-  dedication service which was fol-1 lowed by a picnic liinch.
river Hero In Special Crash On Airport Hill
Quick thinking o I
11 sect Suffc

e part of a 27-year-old city oil truck and'those of others on the. Airport the Cariboo Highway late Tuesday afternoon.
nix n scratched leg """/pound Standard >nnk truck plunged ' w    escape    from
is injury came sec-
'�~ "uek had, crested
"ill on its -way into
 Ihe
-iiin or "gears just be-"f the hill resulted eed rear-end of trie neutral it
ifi   Into
 speed   where engaged.
the l led
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c�frhi
 the
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rakes but found and tried to ea.se
'''� l�iK rig with the
i;ikc.
sjzed and also failed. nlng traffic in sight 'anker  driver made
!    10ft
shori
Jhed the cat), isslon housing and (in'n its top. The . reaf of the unit "Plied, of gasoline and '-"lie before

Phone Service Was
Storm Broke Too .Soon Say Company Men
Prince George was poised unknowingly on the fhreshhold of an era of better telephone service when a storm of public protest against Northwest Telephone Company's operations here arose two weeks ago, the company's general manager told The Citizen yesterday.
The new era started last Monday when the company stamped
add   the   500  'phones   have  been made at Northwest's Quebec ami
aay  wnen  me  company  siampeu   made    t Nthwests Quebec _ and "accepted" on the vital parts of a   Iiourth Av�n"e ��u.l(hng but lines
t! ""n nnn               *        -..           . .       miiKt  VPt  no strum* in  m:inv  tinrls
$150,000 network of tiny cables, electronic tubes and super-complicated electric circuits which add up to six new switchboard positions, greatly improved longdistance facilities, and capacity to install 500 more telephones within the next five months.
Hcrt R. Tiipprr, general manager for Northwest Telephone, placed much of the blame' for the spontaneous combustion of bitter complaint here to the inability of his company's public relations department to keep the public informed.
He said that thousands of dollars were being spent on the system since his visit here last July and he agreed the company fiad been remiss in not asking the forbearance of the public while the construction program was inter-mlttantly disrupting the service to subscribers and forcing switchboard operators to work under, a handicap.
All this will be changed from now on; he told The Citizen.
Improvements in service will stem from full utilization of the six new switchboard positions, from the addition of switchboard supervisors to the local staff and from the installation of more circuits which will allow installation of some 500 more private and par.ty-type telephones. Alkinstallatlons   necessary    to
Two razor-keen steel-tipped arrows were the missjes used by J. C. (Jim) Vandergrift, president of Prince George Silver Tip Archery Club, to drop a 200-pouna Dfac*. Dear near this city last week.    They were fired from a range of 60   feet  and  can  be   seen   protruding   from  the
animal's chest arid back.
It marked the first   time big game had been killed trKthis novel
manner by a   local hunter.
�Photo by Peter Bancroft
must yet be strung in many parts of the city.
The. company now holds 30G applications for telephones, commercial
stated,                                    y
a "hidden" 'demand consisting of many more persons who want 'phones but  who  have not made
 manager    B. F. Abram  but     there     is    always
ird At
BritorhBeats Quesnel Matman
Canadian
Behind England and
UBC Oarsmen Surprise Powerful English Crew
VANCOUVER (CP)�The record carnage showed no signs
of abating today as the British Empire Games enrered^tjne third
last day.     Yesterday swimmers washed out three mark5\and
cyclists rode gaily past another.                                           --S<
More than a dozen gold medals.
were issued with the surprisingly   10 to -12 in the last 150 yjuxls to powerful University of British Go-1 win going away. The.vvitfere the
only
"E.stes did exactly the right thing and he was experienced enough to do It fast enough," his employer, J. D. Corless, said following the crash.
"It Is very tempting? at a time like that to try and ride the thing out and stay on the road. If he had, done that, he certainly would have "been killed himself and very probably- would have taken the lives of other motorists with him."
Corless said that .a close inspection of the truck following the accident disclosed that tire chains which had been installed on it; earlier in the day to enable ltxt<> get over a .soggy sawmill n>a<1 had worked loose and chaf^Kthnum'h a copper hydraulic brake line.
The cut in thCiine was small enough so >hai loss of pressure In the system was gradual and was nef^noticed until the episode oiv-tne hill.
Haik.Este.s tried to take the careening truck to the bottom of the hill he would-have smashed into a PGE train which spanned the highway and a line of some 10 cars which had formed awaiting the train's departure.
The driver" has been employed by Corless agencies for three years and .Tuesday's spectacular; crash was his first accident;        ;
lumbi.Vs crew sweeping to victory over England's eightoared shell and Bill Patrick of Calgary winning the jowefHlivirig competition. Earlier weightllfters had given Canada three,--{Julds
Feature of today'; mile heats \vith the wtjphTs great mly   of  Aus-Baririister of in �^jseparaie
^Tffngland entered today's program leading in the unofficial standings with 2S0'-j points followed by Australia with ' 20834 points; Canada. IS!); South Africa. 1 IS:'j: Now Zealand. 0634;
Remaining countries are far behind  In the tabulations based on 10-5-4-2-1  for the first .six finish-1 ers.i
Keith MnltnYnn of Quosncl earned a silver nierinl and five points for Canada, although losing the games heavyweight (�lianipioiishTp lo Kenneth Kich-iiioikI of Bngland by a unanimous decision.
The crowd continually called tor action in: the dull 15-minute bout between the games only two heavyweights. Richmond Is lliitish Kuipire heavyweight ti?> 1st and placed third in the yS^'l Olympics at Helsinki.      ^^
The Duke of K-was sponsoring the  contest.^'^
One ccjntestant, Shellagh f.Cow-art, ^-wlis entered in .the contest yytrdcr the sponsorship of the Hudson's Bay. Company;
Mr. Torgerson said another attempt would be made to hold the contest next year and he hoped that the girls who did not-enter this year'would reconsider entering the contest then.
Power Executive To Speak Here
PrinceXJeortte Board of Trade members' will,have a chance next week to hearXrine of western Canada's foremost-power authori-
Trade board officials announced'this, wedk that H. N. \Valtcrs. general sales manager for B.C. Electric Co., will come here a week today to address board members on the aspect of community growth and development through adequate power.
His address will be given in the MacDonald Hotel on August 12. The meeting starts at 7 p.m.
y crews
In tin* winning lx>at.wji.s Her-
man ZI<>Mik>tti .loan Harrison of Soijth  Africa'; wen  the  women's  110-yard  backstroke final in the record time of 1:15.2, eclipsing a  mark of 1:10.1 set_ in  beats  the  day before.   Le-npre  Fisher of Ocean Falls  was fourth.
Gary   Chapman,  15,    won    the men's 440-yard freestyle in recopj time of 4:389.8 against the fo>tiierj mark of 4:46.1. Gerry  M^ameu-J ver of Canada finished -tilth.
Helen Orr Gordon of Scotland broke her owrv^rOl.i games mark in winninj^i-fie women's 220-yard breastroJfeT She .swam the dis-tanetv-rn ?:59.2. Margaret Stranjg-\rxxfi) and Margaret Pebbles./ both r>f Vancouvei sixth.
The women's springboard championship went jto Phyllis Ann Louk of England with Irene McDonald of Hamilltpn third belunil Australia'-; Barbara >,1cCaulay. Lll Wood nf Toronto was sixth.
Patrick finished strongly in the tower diving to beat out Peter Healy of Scotland for the title. Patrick is favored to take the men's sprirqJooafd  title.      .^;
OKA I)  HKAT
Only cycling championship decided Wednesday produced a double winner with Jim Swift of South Africa and Dickie of.Aus-tralja deadlocked in the 1,000-metre time trials with identical times of 1:2.5. English riders took the next three place.3. The co-winners were each awarded a goJd medal.
In all three cycling marks have been set. Eight have been'set in swimming and seven In track and field. Bicges^ upheaval has been in welghtlifting^with 13 records broken, eight by Canada,  Includ-
Dr. T. JvAgnew, the city physician whfrs(? lettervof complaint against theHeJephone service in. Prince George, set off- a storm of controversy  t*vn weeks
b             city council'-ag�ln on
MondTry- in his capacity as president of the Prince George- Medical Association.
He claimed   tjiat  soiue  doctors
j in the city have waited as long-.is
i eight years trying to get  private telephone lines to their noiTie^^ "It is the opinion of the itViijoi-i-
� ty of us that this condiUofi should lie rectified as soorp-tis possible." he wrote.
i He said IJfo same situation exists   vdifpa   city   drug   store
I which-is'still on a party line.
Engineer To Study Carney Basin Site
A well known soil engineer' recommended hy city watejveon-sultants Associated Engineering Ltd- will be asked tp^come here shortly to make a, preliminary in-vestipation,. of;Carney   Hjjl  as a
ossible murflcipal  reservoir site.
sari OUinv, an engineer afflliat-
cd  \y
and will
Associated,   is  currentjly ri a project in Quesrlel askej.1  to~come   here
TRADE BOARD HEAD
Following an informal meeting and-luncheon with officials of the Northwest Telephone Company yesterday, Prince George Trade Board president A. G. Bowie told The Citizen he has no intention of recorn^ mending to his executiye^Hiat they withdraw an earlier demand for a full RublicXJtllfties Commission investigation.
He said that the official's explanations of shortcomings in the telephon^service here and plans to improve the service "sounded   very  plausible.".
But he added that other Northwest plans of years gone by "sounded very plausible too."        �
Mr. Bowie went on, '.'The board decided that the service warranted air investigation and 1 doubt very much if it will deviate from that course."
He said thar even if the service was improved before the investigation took place, a probe iwou'jd definitely establish the fact that II had been inadequate and would give the PUC cause to he watchful over the telephone utility here.
applicinion because they tie hope "Of Retting
Mr. Tup^r achletj^that cvtn with 500 new^tol^pnones In ser- .� vice   here,   ,.af*^ against   306  an-.plicaUonHi^there  Will Btill     be pi-��pU- waiting for liuttailatlonK ^wB^n; Uftr'jirogram Ik rtnb*hp�1. Asked what hit eompnny    h;i'l (See  PHONE SERVICE, .Page 5)
Entry Forms Available Now For Fall Fair
Entry forms and prize lists t'-'i-Prince George's 3f>th annuoKFall Fair are now available/ifor all prospective exhibitors^
Mrs. R. B; Carie'r, secretary of the Industriap''and Agricultural Associations said the fair forms and prizfc^ lists have been placed in jJie Northern Hardware and yttrniture, the Prince ueorge Cooperative Assoc. store, and Blair's Outfitting Ltd.
In addition, the forms have been sent to everyone who has ever placed an exhibit in the fair, Mrs. Carter said.
She made a special request to those who have placed entries in cyirlior fairs not to pick-up second copies of the
prize list while the are being distVlbut-
to examine thcKrecently proposed Carney  Hill site.
Alderman EugerY*t -Gabrlele, chairman of the counc^s water committee, told � aldermeuv^NIon-day that more information on site is required. He recqmmende? that the engineer be brought her1.-, i
wrangle Over 'Phone Meeting; Council To Study Transcript
Acting mayor Alderman Eugene Gabriele told The Citizen late yesterday that city council will study/a verbatim finished fifth .an-1 � transcript of a Tuesday night meeting with officials of the Northwest Telephone Company to "evaluate^ the proceedings before embarking on any course of action in the Current storm of controversy over the telephone service.
Monday night city council spent more than an hour debating whether or not the meetint! should be conducted behind closed doors with only councilors and telephone company officials present.
Ultimate decision was that the YnroitiiK'should.be a private one and that press, public and Prince George Hoard of Trade observers should be barred.
Alderman Gabriele, who acted as chairman of the meeting in the absence of Mayor Gordon D- Dry-ant, said that no statement con-enning the city's next move in the controversy couloX be made until another meeting of the council has examined ar*erbatlm transcript. QUTIilNEO CASK'
He   said    that    the    telephone
company  officials   outlined  their case that all pledges  to the city ing.Vancouver's Doug.Hepburn,    regarding Improved service facill-
lies have been more than fulfilled. .
Originally the council asked that- officials of the parent concern. B.C. Telephone Company, appear here to answer charges of Inadequate service.
But City Clerk D. T. Williams told council Monday he had sent a copy of the letter requesting B.C. Telephone officials to come here tn the Northwest.Telephone Company and that it was the latter ivhich-WQUid be represented..
Earlier Alderman \V. D. Ferry had urged the attendance of B.C. Telephone Company men because he alleged officials of Northwest apparently were powertfess to for miilate policy. TRADE BOARD POLICV
Present at Monday's council meeUng when aldermen disagreed over whether the meeting
(See PHONE MEETING, Page 2)
mailed topic: ed.
Entry forms for the Fall Fair must be returned to the seer-clary, at 1850 10th Avenue beftJre, August 2S. This will enable directors to arrange numbers and stickers for inlye'xhibits before entry deadline.
 fees-^do not have to he enclosXl /vyith the entry form, Mrs. CatTC?sa"id.
inal deatRine for. exhibits is 7:3�' p.m. on Fmlav, September 3. Judging will bef?hv at 9 o'ck>ck_' the same evening.
Club aw  a
Flying Club Buys Own Aircraft
Prince George Flying members early this week leek two-place silver aircraft glide into Prince George Airport and the pride of ownership gripped them.
The craft, flown up frnm Cbil-liwack by club member -Bill Smith, is the first purchased by the club.
Radio-equipped, the craft is a Luscombe Silvalro and was bought by the club for Si800.
It will bi5" used by club members for putting in solo hours ami can be rented by them, for S8 an hour. It has a 3.">-foot- wfngspan � and a fuselage length of 20 feet antl carries night flying equirv ment.
Meanwhile, flying club officials disclosed this w.eek that would-be pilots should enrol in flying instruction early because the cost of obtaining a licence may soar.
They said there "are strong rumors to the effect that the federal government subsidy on flight instruction is to be removed. This will jump the cost of about S2oC to a total of $500.