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No. 63
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Prince George, B.C., THURSDAY, August 12, 1954
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A charge that city paving contractor Williams & Carrothers Ltd. is using obsolete equipment subject to continued breakdowns was levied at a city council meeting Monday by-works committee chairman Alderman Frank Clark.
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subject of the paving program although the contractor is co-cui-r'ently going on with the re- operative It ig, difficult to enforce nark, "Frankly, I am disappoint- high quality work." ed in the performance of the con- Alderman Clark tractors."
He said Williams & Carrothers' jquipment is continually breaking down and he added that a municipal works inspector had been forced to return a load of hot-mix asphalt to the plant recently be-ause it had cooled off too much \� � �
in transit due to a truck break-; Vancouver LlOnS
(MES QUEEN�Pretty June Mathesoh,. secretary of a Van-ver fencing club, was chosen to rule as Miss B.E.G. The |-yeor-o!d telephone operator credits fencing With helping her keep her delectable figure^
[en Softball Teams Seek lalkin Silverware, Cash
- will \zn into action | tinie at 10 a.m. Sun-. �>' � Prairie meeting ! chants at J^ucjiess ic La I ruche "dashing r (Vntre with the "mii the radar sta-
enmes are' billed for p.m. l\ following the fin-
I his committee had no recommendations to make regarding the paving program at present, but, thought the conditions under which the work was being carried out should be bared to council.
Who's Got a Pencil ?
Complaint Problem Solved By Confusing Power Consumers
Some 2400 Prince George area householders received municipal util'rfy- accounts-based on the new electric rate schedule within the past few days and probably fewer than a dozen could compute how total costs were arrived at. City Clerk D. T. Williams ad-
the roller being used bv
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the paving contractors is "very � VANCOUVER, Aug. 12 (CP) � small and doesn't appeal to me at Montreal Allouettes administered all." i a stlngtrrg 22-0 spanking to the
Alderman Clark said the roll-. BrHlsh Columbia Lions, infants of
er's small wheel-size might contri bute to wavlness in the final sur-
face.
The works chairman declared, that City Engineer George P. Har-j ford has expressed worry over the final quality of the w.ork.
In a separate report to council Engineer Harford wrote: "The � paving proceeding exceedingly slowly due to contractor's obsolete equipment.
"The specifications and contract for this work are very vague and
i Canadian football, in an exhibition j game before 19,000 fans here Wed* nesday.
Arriving in Prince George today via the Pacific Great Eastern Railway is Premier W. A. C. Bennett. The premier will stop here for only a short time before' he heads north to a ceremony at Forj. -St. John where he will officially turn on the town's natural gas system. While in this area he will check on progress being made by some 60 men employed on survey of the; northern Pacific Great Eastern extension.
Cheque Case Now $3300
Soil Expert Lends Support To Carney Hill Reservoir
Initial and cursory investigation of Carney Hill as a potential reservoir site indicates that it will probably be satisfactory from a soil structure aspect, it was learned from City Engineer G. P. Harford's weekly report to city, council on
water committee's attention.
Monday.
He said that a soil engineer,
recommended by Associated En- ln h}s f[rst report on it he Iglneerlrig Ltd., municipal water Pointed out that it would be ' � more in the line of municipal
growth than would a reservoir in the North Nechako area. Ultimately it.would be central to the
The last of seven new forg-'j consultants, visited here last week
and said surface indications-are
xery counts ggoinst an cttroc-; that tne structure of Carney Hill five former office receptionist is similar to that of Connaught was^disposed of in police court Hill
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the \V. H. MalkiriCo. here, will present the 10 Wi uming team,
erft is being spqjv rin c George Athletic
in Trophy and $350 in will be at stake here nd Sunday when ten "!'l>vi'il teams in the [�hiding four -from i'ge, dash in the seas-i tournament. iry names will start at ujiay with the Billiards -' rfUHij Train squad '�'I followed at 4. p.m. between Prince George 1-1 and Canadian Leg-Creek and the1- Canad-1 "iii be the principals Saturday game at 6:30
' U'om will also get a '� �'-"'I, while" �100 will ' � i finalists, and $50 ril team.
Finance Committee Slashes, Relents
City council's finance 'committee started trimming municipal expenditures tojstiit its budget last week, then felented to the extent of $2000'on Monday.
Last week, at the. request of finance chairman Alderman W. I). Ferry, the city, works, committee agreed to postpone plans for a $7.r)00 "retread" paving job "on part of Third Avenue, as well as a proposed $10,000 storm drain program, some $3000 worth of sewer cleaning equipment and a $500 street sanding machine.
On Monday Alderman Frank Clark, chairman of the works committee, asked that plans to spend $2000 of the $10,000 storm drain project be reinstated.
He told council that the current paving program requires that
some, storm drains be lu'ilt this year.
With the consent of the finance committee the council agreed to reinstate $2000 of the prigina amount for immediate-expend! ture.
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Plane Gets Girl To Hospital In Second Attempt
jUVER�A dramatic mercy flight was successfully complctec cftcrnoon when on RCAF Dokoto reached here with a four-day-Tofino, on the west coast of Vancouver Island. r try to pick up the seriously-ill girl foiled when . fog pre-ie landing. The aircraft returned here, refulled, then land-
Gillis, age -26, -was committed scaie engineering report will be for trial on two charges of us- compiled.
ing forged cheques. j Associated Engineering already
,On Monday Mrs. MKJiillfi-faced P^Pared such reports'on Con;
mitted this Week that computing monthly utility accounts is no longer as easy as it once was because a'new factor, known as de-.mand rating, has crept into the proceedings. THE GIMMICK
� The demand factor is the electrical engineers' manner of giving constant and steady users a financial break over consumers who may have the same total consumption but who use it over short periods and create sharp peak o^ds.
The demand factor is put into utility accounting because the constant msec, is a desirable consumer and theNLntermittent user, whose peajc requires that power be available at all times but is not used much of the time, is a less desirable customer.! SPREAD IZ)AD
It can also be said that the ,de mand factor is worked into the situation to encourage intermlt-ent but heavy consumers to spread out their load and become more desirable.
But-any-way you lodk^at it the business of computing a "^utility account from known consumption at a known rate or combination of rates cannot be accomplished any more unless the demand rat-ng of the consumer is known.
Because the demand rating does not- appear on the utility account slips which are mailed out to power customers, a. swift check with City Hall is required before the process can commence. MOST ON LOW RATE
Mr. Williams said that about 70 per cent of the municipality's 2400 domestic consumers have a minimum demand rating of two-kilowatts. Another 25 per cent have demand ratings of three kilowatts and the remaining five per cent are over-three kilowatts �but not much over.
Power schedules In Prince George are broken down into
what .is called the primary rate, secondary rate and trailing rate. DOMESTIC USKKS
In the case of domestic consumers the primary rate Is'eight cents per kilowatt for the first 20; the secondary rate Is five cants .nor-, kilowatt for the next 20 and the trailing rate is three cents per kilowatt for all consumption over and above the primary and secon-dary quantities.
Now the gimmick in the use of the demand factor is that the quantity of power* encompassed by the primary and secondary rates is multiplied by the consumers demand rating. MINIMUM TWO K.W. � In Prince George the minimum demand factor for domestic use is two kilowatts and so the 20 kilo-_watts/ mentioned in the primary and se east was submitted to council by Mr. Harford.
He "disclosed- thatr fife elevation "of the concrete base of' a radio
,-hn,"aoe InvnlvinP PhmTiM in the ' �a"ght sitG �n Opposition/ 10 Its �� . l[�-' �����e ^ in. a-nuw ,un? of j)(),e erecl|on wn|ch
h', �? f?ndSf^\ 'he, engineers---recommendation be- >"<* atop Carney^Hill is but one \ s|retch f{.om Quebec Stroc( in
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City, 'PRone Co. In Joint Pole Venture
_ Northwest Telephone Company and the City of Prince George will'embark on another joint veh ture of pole erection which wil
amount of $345 and $26G.
has been .charge
calise it would -not" solve the pro-
., blem pf low water pressure wfth using SJ30Sm cheques saul, h, her Qf ,he c|t
to have been the property of Dr. F. G.'MacArthur, Dr. A. L. Cham-
iL'ib anO" .Miss JuaTi~A.sinverr;
At the"* Urne Mho seven new charges were laid on the Informa-tion of anrt.C.M.P. constable Mrs. McGillis was serving a six month sentence for an earlier conviction involving a cheque made payable to Dr. Chambers for $950.
Through preliminary hearings this week and last Mrs. McGillis' counsel, George 0. Stewart, has reiterated that defence will be reserved for the Woman's trial.
Date of the trial has not been definitely set but it Is believed it will be later this month.
Witnesses .who testified against the comely mother of two at the preliminary hearings included bank employees who handled cheques said to have been cashed by her,- as well-as her former employers, the two doctors, and Miss Ashwell.
ln sentencing the former receptionist on the first count some weeks ago the court said "that it had taken into consideration the fact that restitution had been nVado.
Mrs. McGrtlis was employed for almost three years at a clinic operated by Dr. MacArthur and Dr. Chambers.
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area to Carney Street
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the' baslnSof from 30 to 10 feet.
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Westcoasf Still Seeks Basis For Pipeline Says Spokesman
Westcoasr Transmission Company has far from abandoned hope for early action on a gas pipeline from the Peace Rivsr area to the south, an official of Inland Natural Gas Company, a subsidiary, stated here yesterday.
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Connaught Park Road Closed Next Week
The park road down from the top of Connaught Hill will be clos l d t wek
' � 'hc return flight, o teom of hospital attendants worked on the
of Rev. ond Mrs. Wilfred Highfield, applying artificial respiration. _J';d i- fairly good" in hospital. Balked By Chilly Strait, Miss Chadwiek Leaves Victorid
i f> I ' '^�Swimmer Florence Chadwiek Icavos today, three doys offer a< We; to conquer the Strait of Juan Dc Fuca.
�hodwick hod tea with Licutcnant-Govcrnor and Mrs. Wqllacb
and discussed the unsuccessful attempt to swim the 18'/i; miles
*oter between here ond Port Angeles, Wcsh.____
� Kamloops Pool Claims Life Of Young Prairie Girl /
'< n<�Eight-year-old Judy Mocey of Alix, Alto., drowned here which wilLbe widened.
e playing with friends in an outdoor swimming pool. ;The ' � >n holidays with her mother visiting relatives, slipped beneath Qco unr�oticed by her companions.
ed for several days next week while n municipal works department crew Widens, gravels and ditches its lower portion.
City Engineer G. P. Harford said today that excessive rain* this summer had caused' repeated washouts along' the lower end of the descent road and had made hazardous its use by the public.
A crew of city employees is at work today removing trees from areas adjacent to the stretch
Cecil Smith, a public relations spokesman for Inland, told The Citizen his company is in possession of detailed plans for a natural gas distribution system for Prince George- and he s^ys the,Company fully expects to be able to use them someday.
He said Westcoast Transmission is exploring every avenue for export of Peace River gas to the U.S. to underwrite a B.C. pipeline ampif that step fails, the company will seek financial sup? port for an all-B.C. pipeline whose major volume would go to the lower mainland.
Financing such a line Would jc far from easy. The Inland gas official said, but might not be impossible.
Mr. Smith stated that the general feeling In the gas business following the U.S. Federal Power Commission ruling which smashed Westcoa.st's plans for a start on a gas line this summer is that the northwestern states cannot get along without Canadian gas for very long.
"But we don't want to wait that long to build a pipeline," he add ed.
Proven reserves of natural gas
water-in the wooden municipal jn. the city annex, water tank atop Connaught- Hill. :f This would give an indrea.se.(
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recommendation of City Electrician K. A. C. Jack./
Under the tenn/ of the program the telephone cornpany pays half the cost of erectltig each pole along the rout^e. '
When erected the poles will carry both telephone and power lines.
Due to/the fact that 18 of the 47 poles required for the job have already been erected by the city, the municipal out-of-pocket co.st will l)e only $198 and the telephone company will pay $816.
Cost of erecting-each pole has been estimated by the eity a,t $36; In his report to' council Mr Jack said the route the new pole line would take corresponds with the city's 'plans.
The line will run from Quebec
Power Authority To Talk Here Tonight
One of British Columbia's fore- . most authorities on power will address a special meeting of the" Prince George Board of Trade tonight in the MacDonald Hotel. He Is H. N. Walter, general sales manager of the B.C. ..Electric Company for the past 10 years.
Mr. Walter's subject will be the importance and' effect of adequate power in the 'development of a community.
An electrical engineering graduate from the University of Minnesota, tho B.C. Electric graduate hardly completed his formal education before he enlisted with the Canadian armed forces in World War I.
He served throughout hostili-ies with the Royal Winnipeg tlfles and at Canadian ' Army . headquarters overseas.
In 1926 Mr. Walter joined the B.C. Electric and has served steadily �with that company ever sinct?r with the exception of two years� during World War M 7 when he was on loan to the Dominion Department of Finance.
Well known irKA'ancouver bus< iness circles he is president of the Community Chest,.,.president 'of the Vancouver Symphony Society, chairman- of the Metropolitan Health Bo.iriI ami vice-president of the Vancouver. Board nf Trade;
in the Peace River area would last British Columbian^ 100 years, Mr. Smith ventured, and. unless a U.S. I fd li
buUet Is found gas exploration work will come to a standstill.
IF a line were built to serve B.C. alone it would be about Ifi inches in diameter in place of the 30 to 30 inch line which West-coast originally based its planning on.
-OUVER�Fifty-five oireroft mechanics and maintenance men cm-Queen Charlotte Airlines hove won on $18 across-thc-boaid
fov hike Union
The agreement, onnounced Wednesday by B.C. Auto representing QCA workers, brings journeymen's wages up Cy Q rnonih.
Tu^ELL RIVER�Mrs. Patrick Vienneau, 28, mother of two, missing *�' afternoon, was guided to safety Wednesday after being sight-Ai^ines pilot.
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Scratched In Shallow Water Dive
VANCOUVER, Aug. 12 h!illow end of a private swim ming pool here.
Highway Motor Accident Takes Life Of Woman
Word has been received here of the death on Sunday^pf'^Mrs Stuart niadsworth on., the -Trans Provincial Highway/fiear Lytton
Daughter oiJXcW Miiirhead ol Sniithers and granddaughter of Mrs. R^Huffman of Fort St ons. Bladsworth was well
Known to pioneer families of the district.
JThe fatal accident la reported to have occurred on Sunday when Mrs. Bladsworth was a passenger of a motor vehicle which plungnc over a_bank while travelling down a hill:
Funeral services for the late Mrs. BJadsworth will be conduct
ed this James.
afternoon at Fort St.
Street along the lane betweer Fifth arid Sixth Avenues west U Melville Street, then follow the nearest crescent lane, along Mel Vifle to the. lane between McBride and Ross Crescents then south to Cariboo Street"and west on Cari poo and Tenth Avenue to Carnej Street. n\ '
Site Turned Down
An application to run a farmers outdoor market on land formerly jsed as the Rotary Club play-
;round near Vancouver Street____
and Third Avenue was turned 3own by city council Monday night.
The application v\*as rejected with instructions to City Clerk. D. T. Williams to supply the applicant with a list of potential sites drawn up earlier in the year by the Prince George Town Planning Commission.
Walter Patterson, the applicant, stated In a letter to. council that, he planned on starting a market which would be divided into wholesale, retail ami handicrafts sections.
Alderman Hilton pointed but that not only docs the. city not own" the land applied for, but that the site would be 11 poor one from
Peace River Gumbo Stalls Gry-Bound Circus Caravan
Bound for Prince George, an entire thr.ee-iinp circus motor -cara-
Council Awaiting 'Phone Transcript
City council has still not decid-:d what its next step will be in he current controversy over the operations of -Northwest Telephone Company here.
Aldermen are awaiting receipt of a verbatim record of what took' place at their meeting with top van bogged down on the highway telephone officials last week. leading from Spirit River, Albor-
Plans are to study the record & to Dawson Creek when a tor-and then to meet-to decide wheth-tvential downpour swept across cr the case should be pressed fur- ^e 1>cacc River region .late last ther or whether new assurances' Sunday.
of better service should be accept-1 Hundreds of children were dis-ed at their,face value. appoints, when the show was tin-
,,^' , able to appear here as advertised
According to reports ^embers. ll Wednesday,
of the council closely questioned ' ' \.- .,. .��. * nc , Northwest's general manager, B e elephants and other wild
R. Tupper, over shortcomings in animalSi thle lrapcze ai.Us(s and
,, ! the^tight-rope walkers when the 1 'circus returns to Prince George August 27 and 2S.
In order to get back on sche-
the standpoint of traffic safety.
He suggested Mr. JVUerson biv supplied with a list of suitable sites and asked to re-apply for one of those.
from him an admission that doctors should have private linos both at their homes and at their offices.
He is also said to have agreed that the practice of having two competing companies on the same party line was an impossible situation which must be remedied.
After the city council has stud-died the transcript of the meeting it may decide to accept officials' assurances of better service in the future or it may throw in its hand with the Prince George Board of Trade in seeking a full B.C. Public Utilities Commission investigation.
dule, the management decided lo fulfill engagements at Burns Lake, Smithers, Hazelton. Terrace and Prince Rupert before appearing at Vanderhoof and Prince George. Vandcrhoof showing will be -on August 26.
"If the rain had come an hour later we would have been safe in Dawson Creek," said a spokesman for Odyson's Circus today In describing how the 22 semi-trailers carrying wild animal menag-
ed into dee� ditches or became mired in greasy Pence River gumbo as an aftermath of Sunday's violent rainstorm. STALLED
Nineteen of the units were stali-ed within six miles of Dawson Creek and another three churn-, ed to halt 20 miles Cp the rear.
I'ulilic Works trucks and wrecking cars rushed to the rescue of the marooned circus from Daw-l Creek but many of these mot a similar fate and the highway was soon dotted for miles with helpless vehicles.
The rain started "when the caravan had completed alxwt half the 60-mile journey from Spirit River. Other worries beset the circus too. A tractor pulling an elephant truck developed engine trouble 40 miles west! of Dawson Creek on the Hart Highway and had-to return to town for repairs. And a car driven by the circus organist joined the casualty list when a clutch burned out.
First units of lhc mud-splattered circus caravan limped: into Prince George yesterday ami the^ v
' cries, circus performers, tents and ' balance arc expected some tune other paraphernalia either skidd- today. \