An Independent Sm�i-W*ekJy Newspaper Devoted to the Ihterett
37; No,
68
Prince George, B.C., MONDAY, August 30, 1954
PROVINCIAL LIBRARY
per copy
Royal Canadian Mounted Police are admittedly baffled in
case of o 42-year-old laborer who died over a week ago
a broken neck. |" <
the mati, Charles Ernest Plant.
pronounced dead on arrival iprince George fetal |r hi'
nut
and District I'uk ago Saturday been picked up in a a downtown hotel
New Classes In Fair Prize list
, |{(Mi y
.. mining witness in the case difid fnd
not l'
New classes are still being added to the �Fall Fair prize list "as
liCMi' official said today a result;of the demands of prospective exhibitors.
In division 5, the dairy and home'produce classes have 'been, increased by six.
Mew classes Include:
1. Dressed chicken roaster, york, dressed.
2. Dressed fowl, york dre,s.sed.
3. triers and broilers.
4. Viscerated dressed chicken.
5. Viscerated dressed fowl. |
6. Viscerated dressed broiler.' Inadvertently omitted from the
prize list in the baking section1, were class 265, angel cake, not iced, and class .206, white fruit cake.
The two classes are included In the home baking section for which the Canadian Bank of Commerce silver tray is awarded for most points. \
City 'Phone Employee � Plant Superintendent
Charles O'Connor, district repairman for the North-west Telephone Co. in Prince Georgo since 1943, has been promoted to the position of district plant chief.
Mr. O'Connor joined the B.C. Telephone Co. In 1939 arid transferred to the North-west Telephone Co. three years later.
Born in Medicine Hat, he began his career as a lineman with the CNR and then worked in the came capacity for the B.C. Electric Co. in Kam loops before join-Ing the telephone company.
identified or found d the co-operation of ! m trying to get wit-id come forward.' |'lf jiu>IhhI.v knows anything^ I'lant's movements In thje--imhiis Hotel beer parlor on Saturday night I wish'they $,,1,1 contact the RC3MP as \n a� possible," he Kald.
(1 that some.30 to*40 iaye been' interviewed in ion with the baffling case lnit to no avail. Written �ma have been taken frdm izen. �/ - .''
'-> fiir indicate that Plant uck by anyone, witness thought he saw an argument with an un-liificil man, another simply ii sitting on the beer par-
i hotel official said he helped �lain outside, held his head I bathed his face in an effort pvive him.
said the man's head was j and that he stayed with J until the ambulance came. |nli| a police Korgeant thin "Somebody knows (it happened. Homebody saw wish iln'.v would come for-I."
�! week an unidentified man crHhe Quebec Street news-< ol The Citizen and said he seen Plant struck in a fight |he tiitiht he died.
man left before his Identity l)c Icrfrnetl.
fcanwh.lle, police may ask for er adjournment of the in-into Hani's death when:'it k - wmorrow night after lericlng a week ago. [polite corporal working on id that efforts to gather nee would be continued inquest resumes. ' a wife and two child Prince George district.
Light Rains Expected
After a week-end of sunshine. Prince George -gets back to "workaday"" weather today and Tuesday, with variable cloudiness and scattered afternoon showers.
There will be little change In temperaturcand winds will be
light.Expected overnight low 45, and high Tuesday 67.
Is
soy Treated After Coal Oil Poisoning
v.e'ek after
who last
was admitted to hospital swallowing kerosene wa^ discharged yesterday sufferlng/ho lleffects.
Hospital authorities said it was
he second such case In a month.
Earlier another youngster was
n critical condition after sw.al-
owlng coal-oil.//
Public safety officials stress the
JOHN BANKS, 18, of Toronto, who survived six' days of wandering over barren /Fiahtery Island in Hudson Bay, is reunited in Toronto wjln a friend, Deloris Wilks. He lived nti . blueberries and water until rescued fcv Eskimos.
Spouses Can Vole Here In Next Municipal Elections
Lists To Swell By 400 New Names
An estirnated 400 names will be added toPrince George's municipal'voters lost this fall as a result of ^a recent legislative amendment to. the Municipal Elections Act. ,
The new legislation will make possible for the first time the
casting of ballots by spouses, that Is, husbands or wives of property owners.
Because most property in Prince George which is not jointly held is held in the names of men, most of the, 400 new voters wjiU be women. >i .. 4.
The amendment opens the door for voting to close to 800 spouses, but it Is believed that only about half of this number will .take the trouble to make the required declaration at City Hall.
Spouses desirous of voting
BRIDE CLUB CHARTER
TORI A
mblic.
On each succeeding year' after
permanent City Hall employee. He was formerly employed as surveyoi^draughtsman by the City of Trail.
City Engineer George P. 'Harford said today that Howarth had been working long hours lately on the municipal water-work and curbingprojects. . . �
"He has been working as much as 70 hours a week to keep up with the' work/N^aid the engineer.
Mr. Harford said Howaitt &' 100 upside 5�0 miles on hour in o low-level pass ovier IntemWiowpl Aii-port. �me Villeneuvc, Ottawa, put his F-86 Sabre through 10 a-nsecu-" climbing it from 1,000 to 12,000 feet.
Cor Claim Two Lives In Vancouver Weekend
OUVER�Two persons died violent deaths, hare yurinf-JJhe week-o Soturdoy night fjre and another in-a Sunday traffic accident.
*as bu
Johnson, 25, distillery worker who formerly Hyt'4 ot Mozart, med to death when flames swept the hoflie of hi* girl friend's
="� Cartwright, six, became Vancouver's 17th traffic )Fat>(lHty when
1'Pmobile.
outside his'home. Police sa(dhe stepped
of
U.B.C. Team
Our Growth Problems
A three-man teaitv from the comlnuhity planning department of the University of BriUst lumbia was In Prince Georgt week doing research on problems-which go hand in hand with com munity expansion.
In charge of the project is Pro fesspr Ifa Robinson. Assisting him were two post-graduate stu dents, J. B. Chaster and L.'W Lane. # ,
Out pf the findings of the re search team will'probably come a manual which may. simplify ot solve problems of growth for other young communities. ,
Prince George was one of ll locations chosen throughout th province as a source of material
Others were ChiHlwack ant1 Chilliwaek District, Alberni and port Alberni, Haney, Kimberly, Penticton, Quesnel and west Ques-nel. . .
The team is studying problems relating to administration, sociology, economics, geography' and. topography.
Backing Car
Tragedy struck: withput warning outside a Carney Street home on Saturday when an 18-month-old baby was fatally injured by a batking automobile. Dead is peter Vogler, infant son
of Mr. arid Mrs. Bruno Vogler, 1096 Carney Street.
The youngster died a short time after being admitted to Prince 'George & District Hospital with
what medical officials have described as "extensive head injuries."
Peter was the victim'of a rear wheel of a car driven by his uncle, Joseph Vogler, a millworker.
The driver of the car told police he came out of the home where Peter lived, got into his car, and
mportance/6f clearly labelling all was backing out to Carney Street iquld containers and keeping when h'e felt a bump.
hem /OjL children.
_pj reach of younger
Getting out to investigate, he found the body of his nephew
School Buildings, Teachers Problems Facing Trustees
Trustees of School District No. 57 are faced with the jroblem of finding accommodation and teachers for "an estimated 3,519 pupil enrollment when the district's 36 schools re-open for the winter term on September 7. Most acute problem .faced by --------------------
he sohool board at present Is the Shortage of qualified teachers. Three teachers are still needed to complete the staff requirements n the Prince George High School while in rural districts teachers lave not yet been obtained for schools in Crescent Lake, Reid Lake, West Lake, Strathnaver, Newlands and Summit Lake.
The lack of trained instructors las already caused a curtailment of the school board's program in two areas, in thexllstrict. McLEOI) LAKK
At McLeod Lake, ^b,ere 10 pupils, the number required, for :he establishment of a school,^are located, the school board decided against the construction of a school building this fall because a qualified teacher for the school could not be guaranteed.
A school project proposed for the r Baldy Mountain radar base, which woufd have been established Jointly'with the American army stationed on the base, was also turrjed down because of the teacherShortagei
To give sojrne relief to the teacher situation, the school board is brmRlnf? to C?n�Hla a number of teachers from Knglarjd, and these have already begun tiKarrlve. In the city this week are^-Wilfred DurranC who .will "instruct at Pilot Mountain, William HulHf, high school physical education instructor, and S. J. Gowland,- high school commercial" teacher. ACCOMMODATION ' Also facing the school -board is the problem of housing the record number of children expected to enrol in the district schools this fall.
A program of rural construction is being pushed ahead with ai one-classroom addition already completed at Aleza Lake. A similar addition to the school at Summit Lake will be made this fall,
and new one-room schools.will-bo constructed at Telachick and Red Rock.
School trustees decided at their last board meeting to Instal light and heat in all new rural school.' under construction in the district
such Ha.Il
a declaration is made City will mail a "notice to
spouse" to -each person so rcgis-eral on the preceding voters list. The notice must be returned to he municipal clerk before 5 p.m.
on the last day of October con-irming that the spouse in ques-
tiqn Is still the spouse of a cer-,
tain property owner and that he she remains qualified under
the conditions of the legislative
amendment.
Thousands Flock To Odyson Circus Here
�v Prince George sdw its first realcircus in many a long year last week as-the Odyson show played to three capacity
Alberian Hurt When Pinned By Vehicle
An Alberta resident whose late model sedan swerved out of con trol on a paved curve of the Cari boo highway two and a half miles south of here on Saturday even ing is in "fair" condition in Prince George & District Hospital today. �
Police said that Wilfred Mohr, a resident of Red Deer,, told them he was blinded by the. sun as he rounded the bend and lost control of his vehicle, s The ear-swerved,�then�turned orxits side.
Mbbr was thrown out but was pinnedMo the" road by his automobile when it came to rest.
Help cainVfrom a nearby auto wrecking cortGern, whose em ployees lifted tlravehicle off its driver.
Mohr was rushed vto hospital ami is thought to be suffering from a fractured vertebrae^-�
Banquet Held . For Departing CNR Officials
Departing members of the Can adlan -National Railways staff were honoured at a dinner in the VIcDonald hotel banquet room on Thursday evening.
Somex22 members of the I oca division <>C the CNR gathered a' :he banquets-room to bid farewel to J. P. MarUhvdistrict superln tendent of colonization and agri culture for the pasKflve years and R. M. MUne, assistant, super lntendent here for three years.
Mr. Martin will retire tcKEd monton to make his home aue 23 years of service on the CNR 5yhUte Mr. Milne 18 travelling Hanna, Alberta, to take over new position on the railway d vision there.
W. E. Dale, travelling ifrelgh agent acted as chairman of the banquet.
.Following a turkey dinner, a number of presentations wore made to the departing members.
A wallet of money as presented to Mr. Milne .by local freight agent Jack Robertson, and a similar presentation was made by Mr. Milne for Mr. Martin.
A. �. Leary, road master,' also presented~a purse for Mrs. Milne.
Following the banquet the group adjourned to the home of Jim Friend, Fifth Avenue where the evening concluded with a musical hourX
eneath the rear part of the car.
With him in the automobile as�his�brother, Victor�Vogler,� so a millworker
The driver said he had seen eter about eight feet from the de of the car when he got in.
There were no actual witnes.?-s to:the accident.
The uncle and the boy's parents laced him in, the car and rushed im to hospital.
Time qf the accident was 11 .m. and the boy died at 1:20 p.m.
An inquest Into the death will pen this evening.
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iniest B?by Born iere To Be Taken o Coast By Plane
The tiniest baby ever born n Prince George and District �lospital will be taken to Vancouver by plane early this even-ng for medical treatment.
One of a set of twins born Saturday to Mr. and Mrs. Edgar William Marleau of South Fort eorge, the little boy weighed only one pound 14 ounces at birth. His twin brother weighed four pounds one-quarter ounce.
A -nurse from St. Paul's Hospi-al in Vancouver arrived on the noon plane with a portable incu-)ator, and will take the little fel-bw to the coast on the southern light early this evening.
The Red Cross has made all arrangements for the mercy trip of he little infant to St. Paul's special premature baby nursery.
Mrs. Marleau and both her /oung sons are doing well. �
Nurses at the hospital say the ittle baby is doing well and is 'really peppy." '
Near Tragedy Caused By Youthful Vandals
A serious accident was narrowly averted by pure chance here dn Friday when- a car laden -with three^women and six children became Nie target (or, a group (>f vandalsA-tt&o� bbi
bbinbartled traffic
on the NecnaJro Hill from the top of _an adjiic^nl^uink.' (
Mrs. J, i>. Corliss, driver- of the car, was slightly, cut and bruised � when a boulderNcrashed through the left hand skle\uin-flow," showering her with jitiKis and striking her on the back ot\ the neck. ;-
Also cut slightly was one of the six youngsters riding in the car;
Looking up after the car lurched to a stop, its occupants could see children running away along-the top of the gravel bankxsome 125 feet above.
J. D. Corless, owner cjf the car, said the boulder would 'probablyx have seriously injured his wife if it had struck an instant sooner and come through the forward portion of the window.
The Red Cross Blood Clinic will be in Prince George on September 15. 16 and 17. Be sure you have made an appointment.
CNR Official For Weekend
In City Talks
K. L. Robertson, of Prince Rupert, general agent in the
houses.
Today the circus left for its Penticton headquarters after play-Ing its last scheduled appearance for the season on Saturday night.
The city's youngsters attended the show in droves and adults were not far behind in their enthusiasm.
The familiar music of the caliopc blended wiith the tiger's roar and the showmen's cries of "Step right up�"
Highlights of the two hour circus performances- were three educated elephants, a trio of trained-dogs,. men and women trapezs ' artists, . a balancing acrialist, a well known slack wire specialist, trained chimpanzee and monkeys, a clown and the electric organ music',ofCColambia Record-Ings' Dale Madden.
The circus set up Its big top at O'Briens Trailer Camp, a mile northwest of the city In the North Ncchako area, after being denied the use of �rown land and faced with the withdrawal of its sponsors, Prince George Athletic Club.
The Athletic Club withdrewits sponsorship a few days before the scheduled appearance when the Fall Fair Association protested tnat^ the proximity of the circu.s datesx^vith/the fair dates would result In/a loss of revenue for
p ^
ger department of the Canadian National Railways, was' In Prince Ge6rge during the weekend to discuss business of the district with C.N.R. officials here.
He reported that C.N.R. business, which had dropped, off during the last lumber strike, was
now showing pfovdmenL /
considerable im-
the as�0cfa\Jon.
But Ody�otKClrcus officials sai that "the Athletic Club had done all the preliminary work of sponsor before withdrawing and although under no obligation made a substantial donation to the club.
They lauded the enthusiasm o
he show would be back next �ear, bigger arid better than ever iefore.
Meanwhile, it was learned to-lay that the show's^ owners and officials of the Prince Cjeorpe Ath-etic Club are negotiating for the appearance here In about two nonths time of a completely indoor circus.
The show would feature one of
he "world's greatest acts,1' Ens,
he aerialist who can balance on one finger, currently a main at-
raction with Haggen Bros. Circus
n the United (States.
RCMP Members Honored At Farewell Gathering
Miss Prlscilla Tatcheli was hostess at a farewell party Thursday night in honour of Corporal John Betts and Constable N'or-. man Sharp of the local detach1 ment ' of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, who are/being transferred from the city.
Corporal Betts, who''has boon stationed with the/city detachment for the past three years, will take over new duties at Ver-non early�next, month, while Const. Sharp will join ^he RCMP detachment at Port Alberni.
Inspector J. D. Lee,1 made a presentation of lamps to the guests of honor on behalf of the city detach ment.
No School Referendum Until December Predicts Trustee
There will tte no school expansion plebiscite in the Prince George District ui^il December, a school board spokesman de-
clared this week.
The board's building committee chairman, Trustee H. A. Moffut, said that planning of: a new expansion plan for the district is taking- longer than was at first anticipated.
So far, he said, his committed has been concentrating on the design of an eight-room expandable school building which will be erected in Centrat~Fort George.
Mr. Moffat added that the expansion program will be retarded by almost'a whole year. '
Although estimates on various parts of the new expansion program are not all in, it is believed the total cost will run close to $l.r>00,000, a reduction of half a million dollars from the reforen-
Prince George audiences and said dum which was twice defeated
earlier this year.
If the new referendum do�>s amount to $1,500,000, the city's share would l>e $121,500 and the rural area's share would be $328,-500.
With the program as far be>~ bind schedules as it is, Mr. Moffat said, tB$ school board might jus_t as well wait for the December municipal elections to "place it>i referendum before the electorate^
When the original $2,060,000 referendum was rejected for the second time it was believed that a revised edition might be placed before the voters in late Augxist or September so that some construction would be underway before winter*