(In An Independent fcmi-Weekly Newspaper Devoted to the Interest of Central and Northern British Columbia Of Twolosf Prince George, B.C., MONDAY, August 16, 1954 R/ver ______________________________ Unrelated drowning tragedies took two lives in less than I hour here yesterday in !��� was -u- Iit rei ir-old Hart Highway lit off her feet In the ,', at ~..')0 prn. yes- she had helped her (�i assistance to a ,iher who had. been In the water a few ill/fici iit- before.- , laJj-ear-old Prince George swimming off the island |tt;iv across the Fraser River the C.N.R. bridge was Ipt (iownstream by strong cur-and ;i companion who tried to his help was saved from vnlng by two men in a boat, s'of the Salmon River r are not yet known. The Cecile Denis, daughter k|r. anil Mrs; M. J. Denis, was bverert lam fron l| plunge lUt a mile down- where she took her Her father was the in the drownini'. short lime before Cecile swrpt ;i�;i.v Ikt father had ,1 ii younger son from the miLjati'. -'/-= tresenir 'if mind of two men, B, Minim and Karl Lehna id the Fraser drowning from pmipg a-double tragedy. John Snider had been liiminu with companions at ;h end of the Fraser is- luhro, standing on the west I lie Fraser, suddenly saw in trouble some dis-t t'i"in shore.___ Per Bordenluk was charged with murder In the shotgun slaying of Mrs. Annie Plesko at Alert Bay on the east coast of. Vancouver Island. Francis Bourel, 54, was found dead in his home at the Fraser Valley town of Agassiz. His 03-calobre rifle lay nearby. An unidentified man drowned late Saturday in the Fraser River during a dock fight and the body of an unidentified fisherman was recovered from the Vedder River near Chilllwack. A two-car collision near Crescent Beach, 15 miles south of here, resulted in the death of Gerald Leduvigson, 28, Ocean Park. Stipendiary Magistrate O. G. Easterbrook of Lillooet died early Saturday When his car struck a pothole and plunged over a cliff. Mrs. Fred Schram of Penticton died in a car accident near Princeton. Jack Molyneaux, Calgary salesman, dipwned in a boating accident near Nakusp,.-_. turned out to be looking for his imcr Cochrane ipanion. tlMMV, TO.MMV" altl he heard Cochrane I "Tummy. Toinmy,f; try-Snlder's whereabouts. 1'ith Lehna, Munro got a boat nch(d~and sped out into the �hiaiii" was pulled aboard aiisted. opce constables who arrived the scene q few minutes later Cochrane would have drown-[too had it not been for the pence of mind of ^I^ehna and mi commandeered by the o a futile ,trip down the ik iif the river for close s Imping tyi find Sniu- Curb, Gutter Work To Disrupt Traffic Downtown traffic in Prince George is going to be somewhat disrupted for an indetermina e time when a curb and gutter construction program gets under way P.G. Sisters Tour English Shoe Factory ren's shoes annually was founded I?. Spun, Died Friday A man of, modest beginnings who carved a community of 350 people from a wilderness and who built an industrial empire worth millions died suddenly on Friday while tryingHo reach medical help in Prince George. The death from a heart attack |-------------------------------------------'� of Roy Spurr, general manager j Spruce Miills Ltd. is one of the and onetime owner of Eagle Lake Iks.ol the Krase-i;" for the jniss I youth's IhkIv. , ; I ht other-: Verson,s died vio-n British Columbia dur-wcek-end, three in foad s, two by drowVilng and gunshot, r ' City. Engineer George Harford said that inconvenience to motorists, pedestrians and merchants will be kept at a minimum, but will still require some patience. Ha said today ttiat the program will be carried out on four blocks at Once along Third .Avenue and George Street. Biggest inconvenience will be that" parking along the Sections under construction will be\\in- Until it is completed the curb and gutter program will cost the downtown area some GO parking spaces at all tiqies. Minor inconveniences in the form of noise will dl^o exist. Pedestrian traffic will not be interrupted at any pointN. Concrete, curb and gutterxin-.stallations will be made along Third Avenue from Victoria Street to George Street along George Street from First Avenue to Sixth Avenue. Each block will be completed in about a week's time. pier Turns On Natural Gas A jack boot of Cromwell's time | through Street, In Somerset when is proving a source of fascination for globe-trotting sisters Kath-.; Winds will be light and there will be little change in tenipera-ture. Predicted overnight low is 45, with a high Tuesday of 75. Six Pay For Failing To Slop At Crossings A Royal Canadian Mounted Police "ghost!1 car squad laid charges against drivers of five trucks and a taxi last week for failure to stop at signs designed to' halt all vehicles bearing motor carrier plates. The sinm; are most frequently encountered at rail crossings and a.- popular public misconception, as the sixdrivers learned, is that only busses are meant to stop at them. Police pointed out that all trucks, taxis or other vehicles bearing carrier plates must come to a full"stop at such signs. They added that tank trucks which normally carry Inflammable liquids such as gasoline , and oil must stop at all railroad crossings regardless of whether or not a stop sign exists at such crossing. .July, lOSK^was cooler., and damper than normal but there were no records^ broken, the monthly, meteorological summary from the Prince George weather office indicates. As many frustrated picnickers suspected, rainfall in the district for the month of. July was dis- driver of the car, and Sally Ware; tinetly above average. | age 17, of Summit Lake. Some 3.22 inches of rain fe'.l' Dixbri, of 1717 Spruce Streek-during the month as compared told police that a front whepTof with, the normal rainfall of 2.06 his car gbt into loose material at inches. However, the total mqnth- the shoulder of the highway and ly precipitation was still below that when it began to swerve he the record amount of 1.59 inches" over-corrected tl�o steering wheel set in 1910. ; causing the cqv to tiirn over. Measurable amounts of rain fell on 15 days. -, Temperatures during the month were also lower, with the maximum temperature recorded six degrees below- the normal. The high temperature Of 82^6' degrees recorded during the. month was far below the high of 102 degrees recorded in 194,1 but still above the low of 78 degrees I set in 19.J2. Low temperature of I5G.2 degrees was recorded during the month. Higher than the normal of 34,3 degrees it w.as still far above the low record o�f 28 degrees set in 1918. � There were 251.0 hours of sunshine during the month, less than the normal of 2(>o.r> but higher than the? low record of 18S hours set in 10IG. Four Injured When Car Rolls Over Twite Four people were injured early Thursday evening when the car inxwbich they were riding wenKout of control and rolled over twice on the John Hart Highway 28 miles north of Prince George. %"�������' V � Still in hospital heriKtoday .are Violet Ware, age 10, ^Summit Lake, and Earl Wark, 22, dfN-733 Carney Street. Discharged from hospital: following'treatment for cuts and bruises were Robert Dixon, IS), The - vehicle suffered about $1000 damage. ' '( The younger Ware girl suffered a fractured arm and wrist. Wark is stilf being treated for cuts and i lacerations. Transient Loses Leg Under CNR Boxcar AXransient laborer lost his foot and "pa^T of his leg early yester- dav'morhing when a.railroad car -under which- he was sleeping was moved by a switch crew. C.N.R. offlcialsNjaid here that details of the accident are scant, L. O'ConneU, formerly of Prince Rupert, was rushed to hospital by city ambulance shor-tly after 1 a.m. yesterday. ' ., The railroad car had severed his leg just.above the ankle. His condition^tliis morning was described by^npspital official* as "good". Power Is B.Cs Pot Of Gold And City At End Of Rainbow The days of using sawn boards as a building materipl are numbered, H. N. Walter, general sales' manager of the B.C. Electric Company, told a diversified audience of some 60 Prince George .Board of Trade members on Thursday evening. Wiring (ode Charge Dismissed Here A charge against Nelson Electric Company of Prince George arising out of an alleged infraction ?>f the provincial wiring code was dismissed by Magistrate P. J. Moran last week. The charge was laid by the City of Prince- George electrical department. The dismissal was the second in recent weeks under similar circumstances. Magistrate Moran dispensed with the charge after it was learned that the company had not had warning of any infraction or been every requested to modify the Installation cited in the case. Prince George Represented At Church Meeting Steve Moleschl left Friday for Whltby, Ontario, where he will represent the Cariboo Presbytery at the United Church National j Young .People's Conference to be held from August 17 to 22. His trip Is sponsored by Knox Young People's Union, of which lie is a past president. .The Cariboo representative will joirKother delegates at Ashcroft and on the C.P.It, mainline be-frJre continuing to the east. Others will join thegroup along the way, making a totai'-df 60 in the west ern group. The Cariboo ddiegnte is one seven official delegates irortyBv\-tlsh Columbia. Some six vpthers from the province wi^Il bo travelling as observers. . liic United Church National Young People's Conference meets every two ytfars, and greatly influences policies and programs of United Church Young People. Mr. Walter told his audience (hat the advent of cheap and j abundant power, technological advances and the need for uniform j products anil stable markets will some day see all of the forest's wealth-ground into shreds for use as an ingredient of hardboard's textiles and papers. Going a stcp^'furthcr.-Jihc B.C.K. official predicted that the day1 is 'not far off when natural gas will become more important as a raw material for manufactured articles than it will be as a fuel. Mr. Walter indicated a rosy future for British Columbia be-� cause it contains more potential hydro sites than any~Tftheivpro-jVihce with the exception of Que-\ bee. He predicted that the heavy industrialization xof Ontario will taper off because the* St. Law- t- * ^ Seaway project is the last t>lo major hydro develop-in that province. >VAY PEANUTS He went on to say that vasl as the Seaway project Is, Jt will develop only half the powe which the Froblsher development alone will generate on oiie part of the Yukon Ttiver. ^ The development of power in ample quantities, combined with natural gas, mineral and forest 'esources will result in decen-ralfzation of industry; throughout British Columbia and will result n better balanced communities. 4KKV.ANT OF CENTURY Electricity, said Mr. Walter, is -'the serv/aht of the century." Going back to the pre-electrical era, the U.C.E. executive recalled: "Man used his muscles. Without the silent efficiency of electricity he made things slowly, He had to work long hours to turn out enough goods to earn a living wa'pe.1 He could afford only life's necessities. He had little leisure time and little energy with whSvh: to enjoy it. Working hard, in cold, drafty and ill-ventilated places, he was a prey to ill-health .and accidents. "As electricity began to turn the wheels and heat tho forges, man's Inventiveness produced more and better machines to make things faster and cheaper. As machines became too fast and complex for man to control, scientists developed electronic 'brains' which can feel, touch, smell, hear and see; which have a 'memory' and which can perform calculations at speeds b<> yond human power. Electronic (See POWER, Po9e 8)