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An Independent Seml-Wwkly New.pqper Derotc^ to the Interest of Central ond Northern
British Columbia
17; No
71
(Two Sections)
Prince George, B.C., THURSDAY, September 9, 1954
$4.00 per year � & per copy
jcrfiy Competition Needed ere Says Health Chairman
;ompetition in the dairy business in Prince George is �-----------------------------
because it will stimulate milk consumption and i she went on, "there is
,n a better quality of dairy products, health committee ,an-Alderman Carrie Jane Gray stated in a four page
!sd at City Hall on Tuesday.
rt\Gray's report came � w (lay* after an order
bnemafj Milk Control � Nechako Dairies out -- ami left only North-� - Ltd. in the fluid milk
alth cuB.lrmatv!s report j low milk consumption
George and placed.part u�e onTlne lack of pro-
, tlvprusihg, a medium
n
vdicted Would become
more than one dairy in prince George. ir.g the history of the Dairy's operations here, v disclosed that on or ,:u-i 21 the firm made nSq the milk board for �an- uf convenience and requirement, for any hliig (o sell^itulk in an re another dairy is al-operation..
fcST
tchai
[far
L'.wl that shortly after !.� ""management of Nor-ies protested the issu-certificate.
as can be determined lesi was verbal only. As . (he .Nechako Dairy was rKprder to* cease shipping I'iij-��(' George until a pub-ring has been held, and ce arid need" been prov-
Htttixcj
:tisslon with the manage->rtlierri Dairies,�-cotK � efrquin Gray, "the claim > jM^otest against the the\certiflcate was protect themselves from
|er Talks To Be InPrivateW
council will meeC tonight
s the latest proposals for
"olumbia Power Commls-
ticipallon in power dis-
|�.i and generation here, but
I p pi
moved Tuesday to have ig take place behind the
< ommittee-of-the-wholei npt by Alderman R. W. have the meeting held
was defeated, but so posal by Alderman Wil-�ny to have contents of
iposals kept secret un-
ll.-l.
tonight's discussion was d
p-ing tn. Alderman Hilton's or a public meeting, A]-�ny said, "It Is my iat when any official or of the city reports, it ' lo committee-of-the-
also that the power pro-�'ulil be discussed- by �l "if being released to il public. ^ '
n Ililion and Mayor *" -.liiyaju agreed that i^ason why terms of
unfair competition. The claim -was also made that' they would not mind competition if there was no
price cutting involved. The1}.- claim milk, consumption in this area, was that the Nechako Dairy was .... ,,,� � ' ��. .,_-.
cutting prices, they are not."
Dairy
which, in effect,
Mrs. Gray then listed comparative prices of the products from both dairies and said that Northern wants the Nechako firm to standardize its milk butterfat content at 3.5 per cent instead of" selling it with 3.8 to four per cent butterfat.
"Asfaras can be ascertained,"
in British Columbia,
no law controlling
the maximum amount of butterfat allowed in milk. There ls~& minimum of 3.25 per cent.
"It is felt that It is very desirable to have competition in the dairy industry;* Competition will have the tendency to increase the
At the "present time milk "con-sumption is less than one third of a pint per person per day. This is about the lowest average in B.C. Children require one quart per day and adults one pint per day. "At the present time Northern Dairies is not advertising to promote sales. Many people feel Northern Dairies is still reconstitut-See DAIRY, Pdge 8)
$75,000 Swimming Pool Bylaw Gets Unanimous Council OK
First reading of a bylaw designed to seek the approval of electors for borrowing of $75,000 to build a municipal swimming pool received the unanimous approval of the city council
on Tuesday. Presentation
of the bvlaw so
soon after parks chairman Alderman Carrie Jane Gray was instructed to obtain more details on the project came as a surprise.
Only a week before, Mrs. Gray had attempted to introduce the bylaw but w'as advised by finance chairman Aldermap William Ferry to obtain a more complete study of the project.
On Tuesday Mayor Govdor^Af. Bryant told council that thxKparks committee had obtain.edan estimate on the projeertrom Associated Engineering Ltd. and from two city contractors.~
He said that the plan chosen by the committee was in every way similar to that drawn up two year* aso for"'ther Klnsrnan Cluh,; except that pool size and dressing l*opm facilities had been expanded.
Tne^original Kinsman pool was to have"b�en 75 feet long by 35
feet wide. The municipal pool would be 110 feet l6ng by -J5 feet wide. . .-;'��
- Bathhouse facilities expanded by 50, per ctrnt. According to abatement made Bryant last
$500 Per Customer Limit Set On Suburban Power Line Cost
The British Columbia Power Commission is willing to enter into an agreoment with the City of Prince George to erect a suburban power network costing up to $500 per consumer. This is the main point in, the
second of two proposals which the commission has made to the city.
Draught copies of the two agreements were released at City Hall yesterday.
Main points of the proposal for generating capacity expansion are as follows:
1.' The power commission will proceed with engineering studies for providing a source of hydroelectric energy- for the city and adjacent areas and will notify the
| city not later than December. 31,
j 1955 whether it can assure the
city such a source. / __,__
2. The commission will install
' and make available to "the city such diesel-electric generating capacity as will by mutual agreement meet the electrical demand
�i of the city's system.
^3. If no adequate and economically feasible source of hynrq- electric energy can be found the commission will sell to the %lty whatever generating equimnent it has' installed at c6st le^s-^ight per cent per annum depfeciation.
4. The city^would pay lo the commissicyr^a rental for the use
I of corfmffssion-installed equipment
by Mayor Br,j
imminj^'
week, the bylaw might be
g placed^oefore .the people next
month. The mayor said
at that time
that early presentation of the bylaw and approval by the electorate would give the city time to wind up final details of the project, call for tenders and award a contract so that construction could get underway early in the spring.
-The bylaw calls for construction of the po61" iti *I116ck 57 so that hot water can be piped Into It from the mtnlc.lual-no.werhmi.se a few hundred feet away.
Weort�6r Grouinfjt^Aircroft At Smithers
BOT Delegates At Ketchikan After Plane,
After being grounded at Smith-
ers Tuesday afternoon
poor
weather, five members of Prince George Board of Trade arrived in Ketchikan, Alaska, at noon yesterday to attend the annual meeting of the Associated Boards of Trade of Central B.C. and the affiliated Alaska Chambers of Commerce.
According to word from the
tonvention city this morning, the Geor.Pe,B�a.rtl,of Trade Prince George quintette were taken from Smithars by -wxi ..to Prince Rupert where tbey were
were submitted theyNvere carrleci^ajx'r until the sesslonStoday.
A resolution calling fotva. car ferry between Prince RupertNuid Haines, Alaskii, and another whic advocated the establishment of a Canadian customs clearing station in KelchikanXhaye been adopted. Resolutions forwarded byNPrinco
FRAf>lK V. HUTTON, superintendent of the Pirieview experi-
mental
station for nine years and an employee of the Domin-
ion Department of Agriculture for 34 years, retires on pension
today and will make his home in Kelowna. not yet been named.
His successor has
City Appoints Man To Maintain Meters
� City council Tuesday night ap-' pointed B. J. Arsenault, until now the . municipal pound-keeper*, as ! inspector and collector of parking meters.
The meters will go into operation late this month and the new position of caring for them will pay $275 a month.
In addition to maintaining meters and collecting the "take" at intervals, Mr. Arsenault will continue as pound-keeper and may take on the duties of plumbing Inspector.
Alderman William Ferry, chairman of the finance committee, suggested that he might also assist with power meter reading when his other duties permit.
Electors Will Vote On Pool And Parks Board Next Month
Sectors of The City of Prince George will go to the polls here next month to cast their ballots for or against two bylaws j governor, . George Maloney of
Rotary Governor In Town Friday
;Prinee George Rotary Club 'w+tl be hosts Friday to their ^district
which would create a five-man municipal parks board and authorize the borrowing of $75,000 for construction of a swimming pool.
The parks board bylaw got first reading by city council on Tuesday aflfcr :a~tteated, depate or whether it i.s necessary to placjj. it bi'firrc-ttu- peopler"
Under provisions of tho-Munich pal Act the city cmVncil can
funds." ered.
Alderinan Hilton "count-
re
'tfuncH carried unanimously olution from � Aldermari llr
y that a bylaw .calling for the crea-
Puyallup, Wash.,., who recently visited clubs^lrf Alaska and a Pi Rfe T SHU
Prince Rujferv, TsiTap�, and Burns.Lake.
Regular weekly luncheons wil flot�be�heM�at�nnorrTTrr^FTKla^ Instead members will moot Gov ernof Maloney at a dinner In the Prince George Hotel banquet-room
tion of a. fivo-memrier .parks board j at night and the executive and constituted of throe two-year I various committee chairmen will create an elected jpisfks board by'terms aijd two Tine-year terms be I submit their annual reports.
placed^before the electorate. ' Tho meeting will start at 7 p.m.
ask the assent
considered today.
Addressing the delegates WGrfe S. Wilson of the B.C. Automobile
flown to the Alaskan' city, arriv- Association and A. Baird, gener
�should not be made
"ilt. tepmsNqf the agree-'ich the Powbii Commls-!il have the city enter
ll�' found elsewiibre in
"I" The Citizen.
ing just 30.mirmtes buhind schedule, ��
In the party are Norman "Nap5 ier, association' president, Jack Carbutt, Garvin Dczell, 'William Duncan and Dr. T. J. Agnew.
A'total of 105 delegates are registered' for the convention, and so
ftThe Wires Today
(Conodion Press�Thursday, September 9, 1954) "To� Complicated" Says Visiting Archbishop
a-�Most Rev. Getrtfrcy Fisher, Archbishop of Canterbury, said the world is "too; full of complications and gadgets." d
He said
|ntervtew the world really needs "more time to sit bock and think." was critical of�television and said it "increases the'complications cre of the great dongers."
: Primate of oil England, who orrived here Tuesday on HMCS -aid Western Canada formers and ranchers moke up "the salt (.earth," because they hove escaped a world of gadgets.
^honorary doctorate of lows will be conferred pn the archbishop '� visits the University^of B.C. September 15.
Lumber Firm Sues LiHooet MLA For Slander .
I^-TOria�Gordon Gibson, Liberal member of the British Columfro lurc for Lillooet, was sued for slander.^Wedncsday over remarks ol-^ade during a* cabinet hearing'on forest management licences. "os started when B. J. Kelley, president of Empire Mills of "Squam-dled a .writ for unstated domages at Supreme Court registry here time after conclusion of the hearings. He said in statement later ' *as filed "as the result of certain statements madeby Mr. Gibson PPearing before the cabinet."
| CTORIA�Provincial cabinet Wednesdoy cleared another barrier.from
"^nt of B.C.'s northTand by Frobisher Ltd. by'concelling i*i reserve
�n Atlin Lake area. The reserve was clamped on., the lakes and
'he region April, 1953, when negotiations started with Frobisher.
t0 be cancelled before Frobisher could moke- formal application for
licence.
[�RT SMITH, N.W.T.�Robett^Po'mtt,, o trader, was elected to the Northwest Territories .ybverning council for MacKenzie South in general elections^'First unofficial reports indicated Frank Car-'as re-elected in MacKenxie Delta,
al manager of,the Alaskan Devel-
opment Board. The Prince
George delegates
are scheduled to return home by chartered plane tomorrow.
Works Crew To Get Own Paving Machine
Prince George's municipal works department will shortly/have its own junior-size paving machine, city council decided/ earlier this week.
The machine will be used large: ly for patching locations of pavement'failure with hot-mix material.
Cost of/the new machine is $3300. 7/
, Although Intended primarily for repair work, it can he used for surfacing raw ground but will perform the work ma\& slowly than'a regular size machine. / Pavement repairs have been carried out up to now by crews of laborers working with rakes.jUKT shovels. The rtow machlnp^'il perform more permanent' work.
resolution or of electors.
Said Al(lerm;m It. W. Hilton, '1 think the city council should have enough courage to create a parks ,boartl.of its own. 1 think we are bothering the public unnecessarily".
Alderman Carrie Jane Cray, chairman of the parks committee which will become defunct/ft an elected board is created, ^replied, don't know about that, it is
Said ^ASderman Hilton, "I think' you are unxtcsc^stimating the popularity of a parlvSxboard."
"I'm Tiot underostjmating anything." Alderman GrayNUiot back.
Mrs^ Gray said that the^rrcation <>f a parks hoard would mean Increasing tho mill rate so that it could be supplied with operating funds/ v
"It is xiot necessarily raising the. mill rate^because the act says that7 the council 'may' grant
fire Damaged Shed On Bellamy Property
A Storage shed ownecj, by C. Ilel-
Carnival Operators Committed For Trial On Theft Charges
Two carnival game operators arrested at the Prince George Fall Fair at the week-end and charged .with theft involving $1,72 we.re committed for trial before Stipendiary Magistrate G. H. Hallett on Tuesday.
Freeman Street last night when
fire
lamy of damaged swept through the structure.
No assessment of the amount of damage caused by the fire has yet been made.
It is not known how the fl�& started.
Grand Master To Visit Pr. George Oddfellows
On Tuesday-evening of next week Newton P. Stcacy, Grand Master of the Independent Order of Oddfellows in B.C., accompanied by Bruce Patterson, IT..I William Orr, P.O.P., Alfred ZIr.ft-P.G.P., and Hugh Blackstock, Grand Conductor, will pay an of ficia! visit to Cariboo Lodge, No. 05, Prince George. . A good turnout of members is requested and expected, as this will no doubt prove to be a very interesting meeting.
California Has 5-Year Gas Supply
VANCOUVER,/Sept. 9 (CP) �� Construction of a'natural gas pipeline iv six months to a year before, the location of thj> proposed Hew hospital is known.
Speeding Motorists Impress Visitor
WOODPECKER�William Ko!l-ing of KP Ranch was a business visitor to Prince George Friday and Saturday.
It was his first trip to the city in sis yr-ais, and he in>tit(>(|nwjj'i'y_ chang^s, especially tho spotxl in
Messinger explained the Rame|, which motorists . travel (See CARNIVAL, Page 3) street intersections.
Welfare Branch Hit As Error Disclosed
The British Columbia.Social Welfare Branch came in for sharp criticism at a city council meeting on Tuesday when Mayor Gordon D. Bryant disclosed that the city has been forced to pay welfare allowance to a family in which the husband
and wife are/both working.
Said the mayor: "We have been expecting something like this bat this is tho first actual case.
"I don't think the Social Welfare Branch Is. doing a job for us or the provincein not being more diligent in these cases." '
He said he had no idea how many more1 similar cases may exist on the city's welfare rolls. The city pays the welfare branch a fixed amount each yij;