PROVINCIAL LIBRARY
An Independent Seml-Weekly Newspaper Devoted to Hie Interest of Central and Northern
h\ 37; No.
67
(Two Sections)
Prince George; B.C., THURSDAY, August 26, 1954
�w Power Deal In Way To Cily
UjirFlr-foluinbia�Power Man is^ sending a revised partnership" agree-i>�3 construction of an distrlfeutibn system for Egjiiurban'-arSiv outside the
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at the agree their way was recef v COUncil Monday in p �. j a-. ] j. Crosby, power coi chairman.
shy's letter reads in � are very glad that rips with y<">u have de--i.at deal of under-,1 our common . prp^ eeting the future pow-dI Prince George and ireas, all of which are developing rapidly and �. bright future.* � glad that you apprec-Ihese power problems high degree of co-op-etween yourselves and and we have every believe that by such location and action real efiis can be brought to your ,j in ,i minimum time. �Since returning to Victoria we received a purely interim � I pn progress being made us engineers with regard to u pott:ei for.'the central area Ur province wnJch, of course, uly refers to Prince George contiguous areas. In this con-ion we can confirm our state-,i that this work Is be->n a broad basis I
Autopsy Shows Broken Neck
and for toKcourage she has displayed during her fifty-live months of confinement in an iron lung, Sirs. Esther Wright of Los Angeles, Calif., was chosen polio queen in a contest among 50 polit> sufferetain a Los Angeles hospital. With an orchid and a crown wenNthe title "Miss Breathless of 1964." Mrs. Wright's son bestows acongratulatory kiss on his mother after the ceremony. On hand UKshare her triumph were her husband and three of her four frhjldren
Circus To Play Here Minus Athletic Club Sponsorship
! The Odyson Circus will play Prince George regardless of
rgy and dispatch." .whether or not it is sponsored by the Prince George Athletic
..details or the new- Club and regardless of opposition from the Fall Fair Associa-^�sagreements are *j '
fsvbelieved they �
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nMi'ii (if^�MieratTn%^JacilIUe8"~from"'- Athletic iv winter and the erection of Fernle Ollinger. ifiurliari distribution systern nc the same period. .\
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t'lub - director
iplicalions le For H.S. irm Students
aibmltted their applica-rcsirichce at the High �rmltory risk the pros-lnu without accomrnoda-thii approaching school
Mr. Ollinger said a representative of the circus telephoned him "�rom Vanderhoof last night to confirm a story which ran in Monday's Citizen stating that the athletic elub had withdrawn its sponsprshlpNs^
"J told hirri\Uie report was j quite correct," Mrv Ollinger said j this morning, "and h>� applications are dealt with
ie ordey in which they ar-he saiU. The dormitory al-
� lias'inwre applications than ami' Hi. guarantee can be
'� that all late applications
Ik; accepted he said.
idline for past.
i president said lasb week, because I fall fair opposition had made it j impossible to secure an accept-! able site. ' .,...�,,
"In view o<" the Fall Fair Association's feelings," Don McEachnle, club president, said this morning, "we have no connection with the appearance of the circus in or near Prince George."
Mr. McEachnle agreed that tho only difference between the situation today and the situation a week ago is that a wo!ek ago the athletic club was scheduled to get i a portion of the proceeds of the
applications is al- circus.
"Now they are going to appear
applications for residence dormitory should''be sent It Sqict-y at the School Board l!tX> Sixth Avenue.
peers To Study N Ave. Extension
council Monday night vot-�9-haVt; us municipal englneer-[�iletiai'im-nt prepare a prelim-
rT"" on the
Aid. Williams Flies East To Convention
Alderman Percy Williams left here by plane at noon today en-route to Windsor, Ontario, and the annual convention of the Can-( adla'n Association of Mayors & Municipalities.
Mr, Williams was appointed delegate to-the d
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The club president said that he had been under a misunderstanding on Monday when he told The Citizen that his club had applied for a concession to run games at the fall fair ' carnival and had been turned down.
"As far as I can learn," he said "the application was not made.'
He added also'that fall fair, op position to the athletic club's plans to sponsor a circus so close to the fall fair dates had been
Death Clues
- Beer Parlor Fracas Story Investigated
Royal Canadian Mounted Police are today trying to unravel the mystery which surrounds the death Saturday of a 42-year-old ioborer in or near a downtown hotel.
A police sergeant connected, with the case today declined, to comment on the possibility that Charles Ernest Plant, married and with .two children, dle"d as a result of foul play.
Plant was pronounced dead on arrival at Prince George & District Hospital last Saturday evening and death was Initially ascribed to a heart condition.
It was not until an autopsy on Tuesday disclosed death was caused by a broken neck that intensive police investigation got iinderway.
ANjarge number of persons thoughKto have been in a hotel beer parioXwlth Plant on Saturday night na^ve been questioned and reports of alight are being investigated. A 'Citizen
yesterday he saw the dc, knocked down by a blou
hospital and. that the body was immediately taken to the morgue.
Police' said that go far they had uncovered no evidence that the dead roan was involved in a fight, bat added, "the case is still under investigation." .
Funeral service for the dead man were held from Assman's F.uneral Chapel at 1 p.m. today. Plant is survived by his wife, Mary* a daughter, Violet, age 10; and a son, Jerry, age nine.
To Parents Here
The worried parents of a missing 15-year-old Prince George boy heaved sighs of relief yesterday when, they received a letter from him from Vancouver Island.
"i hope I never have to fto, through this again," Mrs. Allen Birchard, 1492 Ninih Avenue,
Found
volcejree of the anxiety which had/plagued her for the previous
Yesterday Mr. and Mrs. Dafe Birchard received a letter from their son, Dale,'written at Honeymoon Bay where he is employed in a logging camp.
Mrs. Birchard had made arrangements to have Dale's picture appear in Vancouver papers in order to expedite the search for her son. -
Royal Canadian Mounted Police units had been alerted and given a description of the boy's appearance.
At one point a youth thought to be Dale was spotted in a Van couver orchard; but fled before he could be questioned.
Cooler Temperatures Scheduled For Area
Temp*" ;? lures are expected to be a h.ui cooler in the Prince George arerf Friday.
However frequent sunny intervals will break through the
Buses Tq Service Area Between City And Fair
Ruses will provide continuous transportation to thX. Fall Fair grounds on September 4xand t>, an official of the Agricultural and Industrial Association annoiinced today. ^V
The buses will follow a route from the bus depot to Third Ave-
clouds, the weatherman reports., nue. then along to Fifth Avenue,
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Winds will be overnight low Friday 65. .
Master Plan Sought For Civic Centre Area
Fight. Expected formerly Winchester Street, then is 45, and high' to Burden-Street, and on to the fair grounds. >
The buses will leave the depot hourly from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. on each day of the two-day fair, and every half hour from 2 p.m. to midnight.
him to strike against a pout.
The Inquest into'Plflnt'BriWih adjourned on Tuesday after the tody had been idntlfied. It will not be resumed untU next Tuesday.
A police official today commented on the difficulty of obtaining a clear story from persons who were in the beer parlor at the same time Plant is thought to have been there.
A city ambulance dri,ver told The Citizen he picked up Plant from just inside the/rear entrance to a city hotel's beer parlor.
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8 predestined ending venue in the vicinity iiako River Bridge, the municipality show !<� following the brink fiibankment above ill area,
it jogging slightly northwards at Edmonton �. �'" few degrees closer to a8ain at River Street, and wards ,ig;iin at Water Street, is-;believed that sotpejsec-lllf> bank which it fol-'"'�I Have to be rip-rapped !" further slides. l)00 feet of street would �' built to bring Third 1 its intersection with
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^ Pinners have studied the .ion iif Third Avenue as a ""� -"Union to traffic con-l'!1 ;"' F-'ifth Avenue, former-inchester Street.
Off The Wires Todpty
v (Canadian Press�^Thursday, August 26, 1954) Family Safe After Twp-Day Ordeal In Mountains
PRfKlCETON__Two courageous teen-agpd girls, thei^/mothcr and their
ln Slightly Burned Hemlock St..Fire
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'as treated for minor in Prince George and spltaj, Monday after-Pftcr he was summonsed w ^idewalk to help ( v1 �.' Jire in a nearby house. � ii'ihy ran into the home � �� I'. Laux, on Hemlock - *hcre a quantity of gaso-J-.^'J as cleaning fluicf had
Hjhea from the building be-. 'incn were called to ex :*" 'he blaze. , (lainage was done to the
Earlier the citVhad decided for reasons of economy^not to send its own delegate.
Following the Windsor convention, � which opens next Sunday and lasts four days, Alderman Williams will visit Brockville, Ontario, where he tyill see his mother, father and one brother for the first time In nine years. He will return to Prince George in about 10 days.
earlier than he had believed v Mr. Ollinger ToTcT The "Citizen that circus officials.do not knov wherexthe "big-top" will beer ected yeh^
"Their representative told me they had spent%-i lot of money on advance publicity^here, had scheduled the dates as1 a^Uayover' before journeying south/Sand fully intended to fulfill their engagement."
He said he believed the circus would be'set up/on private land.
City Purchases More Private Property
. City council has purchased the property of one more Prince George resident whose homesite interfered with development of the Civic Centre grounds, notably the senior baseball diamond.
Mrs. A. Melnychirk. 1389 Ninth Avenije, will shortlyNreceive a City of Prince George cheque for $4000 fbr her land, but will "move' her home to a new location.
City council learned Monday that the property /will become available by September 30.
So far this year the city has authorized purchase o'f private land and homes costing $18,400.
The property was bought either hecause/it interfered with de-veloprrfent of civic centre grounds or .sYood in the way of development o/ the city ha\\ area.
Mayor G. IX Bryant disclosed Monday that purchase of three other private properties is under consideration; but. he said they need not be bought this year.
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A leading university community planning foculry. will be asked to assist in prepara-i_pJLa_jTH3s.ter_pJan for the development of Prince George's central ^recreation area in which the Civic Centre is located.
Word that the citxwM seelc university help in prepih4ng""the plan came at a city council Ing on Monday.
Said Mayor Gordon D. Bryant, "This is a large area and we do not, want to hit and rhlss on It.
area and will prepare an estimate
of _the..cost of acquiring the land.
When tttis assessment and es-
imate Is complete the council will
ieclde which land is required
nd -will^probably obtain options
on It.
__ _ihis�stage" Is completed a Tnap"of the area will be forwarded to a university where a master ?lan for development will be predated. ........__
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Baldy Mountain School Debated
The responsibility. of Canadian educational bodies towards American children- living in Canada came up for debate Tuesday when Trustees of School District No. 57 were asked to consider the establishment of a school on the Amerlqan-manned radar base at Baldy Mountain.
School Inspector G. E. Johnson was asked tOsSeek clarification from the Provincial Department of Education on their policy on educating'Anjerican Children resident in British Columbia, after school trustees failed to c&rne to a decision on the matter, ^v
Board chairman Robert Range, opened the debate when he reported that officers at the Baldy Mountain base had offered to provide a school building on the American-manned base, equipped with heating facilities, if the school district would provide a teacher to staff the school. / The proposed school, he ^sald, would be international, serving some seven children of American army men stationed or/the base and in addition, sorne six Canadian children living/at Clear Lake a short distance from the base. A minimum/of � 10 pupils are required for/the construction of a school in/any area. At present the nearest school in the area is at West Lake, a distance of some 12 miles.
Trustee Jack Nicholson took strongest exception to the proposr 'cd arrangement, pointing out that a number of schools already ; ^tablishcd in the school district wer&'i.sUH without teachers.
"We are not entitled to stick our hecks out until we are cer-tahKall other classes are filled," he emphasized. "Our first consideration niust be to our own people. We must remember that
of a permanent nature and a mas-ter plan is therefor desirable."
So' far thiB year the city, has spent, � o'r Is in the process of spending, some $18,000 for addl tional property adjacent to the recreation area or the city hall.
Mayor Bryant Monday said-he believed the city should ^embark on a five-year program of purchasing any additional property which will be needed to fulfill the requirements of a master plan.
Meanwhile, city officials will
guide, rode into civilizotion here Wedriesdo^ night aftjrf being overdue two . thcy arc a forcign army on our days in the high valleys of Three Brothers Mountain, 25 miles southwest of here. /
They had one egg and a piece of fruit cake left.
The party, on a week-long camping tripwhcluded Mrs. Vera McFetridge and her daughters, Carol, 13, and Morilyn/il, and guide Lome Cook, 50. * The girls refused to ride out with their rescuers in a jeep, and insisted on accompanying their mother and gufde on horseback.
CLOVERDALE�Walter 'W/ifne Van Meter, 40, of Seattle, was remanded until Sept. 1 on $10,000 bail Wednesday following his orrcst at Douglas port of entry on a charge of .possessing marijuano valued at $1,500 on the underworld market.
" VANCOUVErU-Fire in a railway boxcar portly loaded with explosive sodium nitrate threatened the worerfront here briefly Wednesday but was quickly extinguished. Only the foct that the fire was not in a confined space prevented -a disaster, fire department officials said.
'MliRRITT__Body of six-year-old Bernice Moses, daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. Antoine Moses of the Shulus Indian Reserve, was found In the Nicola River near here Wednesday. The child was drowned July 21 when, she waded beyond her depth. \.
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We had no feeling ofchauvlnism when we went out, replied Trustee Range, referring to an inspection of the base made .earlier by the.school inspector and himself.
Trustees decided to hold action on the proposed international school, until it could be determined whether a teacher could be obtained.
A letter, pointing out that shortage of teachers made the proposed _8Chool_ unfeasible at the present time was forwarded to the Baldy Mountain base. - "**<
Bus Stops, Taxis, Hotel Parking Council Topics
Bus stops/ftaxi stands and hotel unloading areas were the basis bf/recommendations and discussions at a city council meerinijxon Monday.
Alderman Percy Williams, chair man of the traffic committee, saic bus stops in Prince George art located on the wrong\side of in tersections and should us chang I ed.
Council agreed with the fie chairman and authorized a move which will see bus stops moved to the far sides of all In tersections.
Other changes will make it im possible for a person to be more than two blocks from a bus stop on ;i bus route street in the down town area.
Space now set aside at each corner for busses will be left as a no-parking area and used partial lane for right-turning vehicles.
.....Taxi companies will still only
be allowed to have one car in front of their stands after parking meters are installed, regardless of whether they pay for meter time or not.
bylaw, already containing
ssess the amount of property re-
Two Men- Hospitalized Following Car Accident
quired to fill out the recreation-1 fWo Prince George men'were l and municipal headquarters hospitalized last week In Williams djlL lit:
i�fallo-Wlng injuries sustained whertthe texLln whfch they were driving went out of control near Lac La Hache and overturned.
Harry Weiss, driver of the car, broke both shoulder blades and suffered internal haemorrhage. Douglas Forrest, passenger, was operated on for abdominal L?rJur' ies.
The accident occurred on a curve In the highway al 118 Mile.
Phil MacGregor, vice principal of the Prince George High School for the past three yeQM, has been appointed principal of\the new 18-classroom Connaught tary school.
He succeeds Hairy ThompflorJy who has been appointed assistant superintendent of schools in the Yukon Territories.
Mr. MacGregor came to Prince ieorgp in 1917, spending three years as industrial arts instructor at the High School.
He was appointed boys^ counsellor in 1950 and next year became vice-principal of the High chool.
Anglican Lay Reader To Lgavo For College
CoJin F. Dicksnn, lay reaftpr at _ Si Michael and All Anprefs' Church. leaves next week on a holiday prior to under�aRiil� studies nt tlu* Anglican Theologi-" cal College at the University of British Columbia;
Ir. Dlckson has been assisting IX it Allen at the church Tor the-t^ast. 10 months.- He will be in re^klunce at, the" college starting September 10.
He will 'preaclvhjs farewell sermon at the eveninffssorvice .thi Sunday and afterwai;dtKa social hour will be held in Room to bid .Mr. Dickson well.
Two City Lots To Replace 640 Acres For Frank Hutton
Retirement for Frank V, Hutton, superintendent for the past nine yearsat the Prince George Dominion Experimental Farm, will mean a reduction in responsibility from management of 640 acres to engagement of a 60 by 140-foot home-site in Kelownp.
BIG EVENT '
EDMONTON �This city's 50th birthday will be celebrated Oct. 8 by a half-day civic holiday. Activities wl". include features ranging from a pageant to free rides on city buses.
a provision for traffic administration with meters, will be amended to make it unlawful for a taxi firm to park more than one car in front of its stand,-�even if meter charges are paid on any other cars.
Mayor Bryant pointed out that such a step would be -necessary because taxi drivers would sometimes willingly pay the meter charge to remain on the main street for prolonged periods.
Taxi companies will each-^get one packing space free of a meter
for
an annual payment of
$12 a year -will be charged.
Hotels will be allowed to have unloading zones before their main entrances, but parking in these zones for ! other than unloading purposes will be forbidden.
Mr. Hutton, under whose administration the experimental farm on Pineview has grown from 350 acres under cultivation in 1915 to over 500 today, will leave here September 9 for a holi-day\before his retirement officially commences on October 1.
By theMatter date he will have spent 34 yea