PROVINCiAIr
LIBRA
Prince George, BC, THURSDA^jeptember 30, 1954
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InstafkitionWouid $1,000,000
Inland Natural  Got   Company   is   proposing  to build  a on system in Prince George which will cost more than ^dollars and operate on  liquified petroleum gat jjfural gas becomes available.
rsiword of th� proposal came as a surprise announce-o city council meeting on Monday by Mayor Gordon nt,       v
He toldkafd^rmen that he had received a letter from o$k:rig if the council would consider (a franchise pro-nstallatiorkof a distribution system based on tne of a propane-like Wbstdnce as on inferim measure. He said he had toloVthe company the council would be ued to consider any such proposal.
Yesterday Mayor 6ryant\contacted The Citizen saying he I details of the plan and wcujld release them in order to i the public informed.
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Inland Natural Gas, a subsidiaryNjf Westcoast Transmis-Compony, proposes to instalP'o...g\s distribution System i put it into operation here next year>\ The system would deliver a gas whfch Vevery way would
[readily interchongeoble with natural gas.
the system would be of adequate capacity\and quality to Jet present and future requirements of the city so as not �necessitate a change in mains when natural ads becomes
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In its proposal the company has listed six advanf the installation of such a system woulct bring to
fond'its residents.
-1.   It would  make  available   an  additional   source  of. , 'which would be convenient, clean and competitive with ' MaSS
Water Fluoridation Council Topic Again
City council is expected to make a move shortly on a controversial topic which it shelved earlier this year�fluoridation.
The council opened its 1954 term by budgeting $4000 towards installation of a machine which would add fluorine to the city's water system and thus promote the growth of better teeth in the mouths of today's children.
But the allotment was the first to be cut from the budget when an economy move came along, in spite of the-fact that resolution, was passed endorsing the theory of   fluoridation   "in   principle."
Adding of fluoride to j.he. city's drinking water has been urged by both medical and dental groups within the city.
On Monday the fluoridation topic cropped up at a meeting of the council in committee. Outcome of the talk is not known, but is is believed further discussion will come up at the regular city council meeting which is scheduled for Monday.
-Provision of funds in, the 1954 budget for a fluoridator came after such water "treatment had been urgedby Dr. H. M. Browni director of the provincial CSriboo Health Unit herev and the city's
ANTIMAL MAU NATIVES, wearing long hooded cloaks to conceal tocir identities, are escorted from the guard house at Langata detention camp, near Nairobi, Kenya, to scrutinize natives suspected of Mau Mau terrorism. The hoods were used as a precaution, ngainst Mau Mau revenge since some informers had been murdered after giving evidence against members " the fanatical organization.
| medical health officer.
 Defence  Meeting
 At\CCF Hall Tuesday
 development of the system would build a gas load A mass meeting on Civil de-Niereby.enhance the-possibility-of construction of a natur- fence wni be held in the CCF s line from the Peace River area                            ""    '        | Hall � nex\ Tuesday,  starting    at
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>>   v-ost of gas appliances as opposed t.o those using  Cuss several aspects of defence. '�' types of energy are usually lower.              .                        j     AH. persons^ who   have   taken
4.   The municipal administration would benefit through   civil defence courses and a)l in-goll underground structures completed as soon as .pas-  u>n*ti:cl  in  tht> '*ubJccl  """
'�� Availability_ of an economical gas service could to the development of certain industries in Prince George.
'��Jhe public can become familiar with the use of gas
'"ore leisurely manner than would be possible if natural were suddenly made available.
terested In the "subject are ask ed to attend the ineetlng, which will.highlight sumlnary and review.
Civil; defence coordhiator Jack Nicholson .will be chairman of the meeting.
� Other speakers will Include Frank Clark on first aid; Dr. H. M.   Brown,   health;   Mrs.   D.\G.
 company points out that the entire operation, from'j^-aser, welfare; Miss Gerry GoV s to company accounting and  fiacig   would be   aW hospital  and  medical  care;
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Pfl�s to company accounting and  financing, would be H.conMof *. British Columbia Public Utilities ^
 hospital, and  medical  care;
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Natural Gas was one of four companies interested gas-distribution franchise here before a United Power Commission ruling killed the imminent 3ll(yof a Westcoast line from British Columbia's Peace the American border.
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e company's engineers surveyed the city's needs and, rdln9 to Qn official
distribution M|and Natural
Refreshments will be served following the meeting.
Visit Of Air Force'Brass' Hints Al Squadron For P.G.
Possibility that Prince Gebroe Airport may be slated to become the home base of a Roygl Canadian Air Force unit sometime, next year was hinted .at this week when two senior air force officers spent three days herte examining its facilities.
A movement to have the air force re-activate Prince George Airport as a military base got underway here some months ago after the Canadian Air Transport Board, probing the multiple-fatality crash of a Trans Canada Air-llnefl plane which was struck In midair by an air, force trainer, brought down a recommendation that military flying bases be kebt away from main commercial air routes.
A number of civic groups in Vancouver came up witftv the recommendation that Vancouver International Airport be vacated by the RCAF and In Prince George, The Citizen teamed up with, the Prince George Board of Trade-and Socred M.P. Bert Le-boe to ""-draw' attention .to local facilities.   \^   ,
Here this weekxon what was officially dubbed a "routine" inspection were Wing Commanders Norman Thompson and Edward Hurry, both frpm Number 12 AitvDe-fence Group.
/ The men inspected runways, and adjacent terrain, possible building sites, and inventoried existing faculties.
In advocating the installation of an air force base here, The Citizen has editorially pointed out the existence at Prince George Airport of more flying days per year than \ancouver and the strategic location of the airport as it relates to westcoast defence, the Kenney ^nd  the  remainder  of  the
Prov. Government Approves Million Dollar Land Bonanza
,         City of Prince George has been granted land by the pro-speafications for a Pr.nce             ,           nment which will enrich mun\apa\ coffers bysper-
By-Elecrion May Be Held
An alderman of almost six years experience will resign from city council before the year-end if the opportunity for a municipal by-election pretenti irtelf.                  ___�
This was the climax today to controversy over a fire hall expansion proposal which was defeated by a single aldermanic vote at a council meeting on Monday.
Alderman Eugene Gabriele, chairman of the city's fife committee for close to Four years, and now reaching the end of his third aldermanic term, said that defeat of the $18,000 fire hall project came to_him_"as a bitter disappointment/'
^e said also that all this.year he had found himself a "minority prone" during moat of the couh-
 deliberations. "Newspapermen,"      he      said, "have notiNjf.course", been aware of this because in open meetings 1 have-gone along^vith most planr lfr
Deputy Mayor
Alderman Gabriele hasXmore seniority than any other member of the council and this year hass acted as deputy mayor on a number of occasions.
Defeat of the $18,000 fire hall bylaw on Monday night came almost as an anti-climax to a month of council controversy.
Passage of the bylaw for second reading hinged on the vote of Alderman Percy Williams, who, with Mayor Gordon Bryant, was
one of the original opponents to
Police Reply Briefly To Council Request
City council's request two weeks ago for a report on a Royal Canadian Mounted Police raid on a downtown club was compiled with Monday when a brief letter from Inspector J. D. Lee, officer commanding the Prince George Sub-Division, was received.
The letter stated simply that the raid was carried out under the authority of a search warrant Issued under the provisions of the Canadian Criminal Code covering common* gaming houses.
The RCMP inspector's reply to xhe council request closed with vital Alcan development, as well the sentence, "Since this matter as 4ts pro\lmity to a radar sta- j nas not come before tne courts to
date no further information can be given for obvious reasons."
The raid in question was carried out a month ago at the premises of the Summit Highway Association', Third Avetiuft.
Sixty persons were arre�lfef the best In British Columbia ahd Is capable of handling any typevOf aircraft currently belftg^flbwti 6y the RCAF.
Bootlegger Fined
1 Margaret Eonlen, a resident the Van-Bow area, pleaded guilty inpollce court here Tuesday to a charge of keeping liquor for sale and was sentenced to pay a fine of $300 plus costs.
A small quantity of liquor .seized by police when her home was raided on September 13 was ordered forfeited.
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which Westcoast would ultimately supply a
 ,the coancil will give early considerotion  and will ask corrtpany officials to come here
r�vincialPTA Executive For Conference
with some of the 42,000 member^of i bodies  in  British  Columbia  is  keeping pro ""'' erat'on vice-president Mrs.   Betty Mcbonald busy abandoned
JWord that a grant roughly equalling one third of all vacant Crown land within the city^fias been given the approval/6f the provincial governmen/was received this week from Hon. R. G. Wllliston, B.C.VMinlster of Education.        ,y/
The jpdnt was applied for earlier this year at the suggestion of Mayor Gordon: D. Bryant.
Its final approval by formal brder-ln-councll   will   mean1  that
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| the city faUs heir to 1876 lots, 25 - < _.!.i:�inv.*.i�Hfei]idIng.,   sites,    and street      allowances roughly   equivalent   to   18   city blocks.
Purt   of   the   grunt   will   be Block   57   in' District  Lot  343, site   of   a   proposed    in mile I pal .swimming   pool,   nnd   another pail 'will be the land on which the ijor*ner army-surplus power plan!) now stands. The land grant is the rlch'esTln the city's history and is Intended to partly recompense the city for the money it will have to spend In   equipping   (he   annex   with streets, lights, sidewalks,  sewers
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and watermains.
� Present plan is to withhold from
the market all lots included in the
grant which are not served by streets and watermains.
It is expected that over the period during which the land is sold, single lots will bring an average price of about $275.
This means that the 1876 lots alone should bring the city more than a half million dollars.
ptember  30,. 1954)        \
Kamloops^Woman Rescues Voting Girls From Drainage
KAMLOOPS�A frantic wpnrtan clawed desperately through wet cfoy to rescue two four-year-old aMs buried alive wherNa drainage ditch cavea in near here Tuesdpyv^^X                                       �     ^\'
Mrs, Jack Goddyn/fouiTd her daughter and a playmite-.unconscious but still breothing. The woman managed to crawl out of the artch and then collapsed, but tbcchildren suffered, no apparent ill effects.
Good Price Received For $4,500,000 PGE Loan
� VICTORIA�B.C. Government, has accepted a bid for Pacific Greot Eastern Railway bonds that is described as one ofMhe finest prices in Canada fof- provinciolly guaranteed bonds in the current market.
Deputy Finance Minister J. V. Fisher said Wednesday a price of $96,296 has been accepted for a $4,500,000 issue of 3i4 percent 30-year bonds of the government  owned  railway.
Prince George To Be Base For International Air Service ^WASHINGTON�President Eisenhower Wednesday approved o propose] of  pacific Western Airlines, Voncouver,  to operote' an irregular air service^ between  B.C. cities and the western U.S. and Alaska.
The company will operate from Voncouver, Nelson, Kamloops, Port Alberni, Fort St. Jomes, Prince George and Terrace, and to points within the   United  States   and  Alasko.
Russ Baker, PWA vice-president and general monager, says the1 new service will start  shortly.
Turn On The Heat Colder Days Coming
October will get a cool start in Prince George, with an expected ow tonight of 25 and high Friday of 50.
Freezing temperatures descended  on   the  area  in  earnest  las night, when the recorded low 17.                "'  -x            /
Qlguds are expected, ^overnight and" Friday, with occasional sViow-ers Friday afternoon. Winds will be Hpht.                          \  �   1
. Last night's/low of,17 wasxf$till cosy compared with the Prince, George rpcordj set oh September 22, lOpif when the thermometer touched six above.
Gaming House Trial To Open October 8
A group of 23 men charged as 'found-ins" in a gaming house raitf here some weeks ago were, remanded to October 8 for tri-il when they appeared, before Police Magistrate P. J. Moran today.
The 25 were part of a group of 44 men who still face such charg^ es. Fifteen have pleaded guilty to being occupants of a common gaining house and paid fines of $5 ami �costs.
\The remainder are at larger, oh
inmyidual ball bonds" of $15 each.
Also to face trial October 8 will
be   Richard  Schmidt,  charged as
keeper of the establishment.
Defence counsel in the case will Tx^ Thomas Hurley of Vancouver.
The raid was carried out 013 the premises, of thd1 Summit Highway Association*, east Second Avc; nue.
ORIA�British   Columbio   Labor    Deportment   has   laid ^chorges against^a/number of logging companies for flagrant abuse of the Hours of Work Act. %ynnamed companies are reported,to have worked their employees 48  hours  axweek wKen the oct colled  for an  eight  hour  day and 44-hour week.
Prince  Rupert  Drydock Closed  Down Today
^XAXCOUVER, Sept. 30 (CP)�A spokesman for Canadian National Railway^ xannounced here Wed-, nesday nl&h^ the drydock at Prince Rupertv will be closed down today becaviseno purchaser has been found.
Thq spokesman said the^closv followed termination of a       ^ ment subsidy which had been tended   for �lx month^^to allo*v Prince Rupert> authorities to find a purchaser for the drydock.
Vanished Boy Mystery Is Yem Old: Was It Perfect Gim&, Misadventure ?
Leaden clouds hung over the city just a year and five days ago today, and a smiling four-year-old boy talked to an unidentified man on a station platform�and then vanished to spark the most intensive search and bafflirSg mystery which Prince George has ever seen.
Did he wander towards one of the two rivers adjacent to Prince George and fall victim to the swirling waters in the last few momenta of twilight?
Was he kidnapped by some childless person or persons attracted by his sunny disposition and his boyish friendliness; his attractive appearance?
 p Or did he meet foul play?
These are the questions which Royal Canadian Mounted Police Investigators are still asking themselves. These are the questions which attractive Mrs. John Aspinall still asks herself in the home at 458 Harper Street-
which 'she and her husband and second young son moved to after the tragedy. x These are the questions^'which
have        plagued/'   Investigators throughout Canada and in Ala^ ka and In the United States.   / PILES STILL OPKN       y^.
NO police file has ;hee'n~t>losed on the,..case for even, yet the �shroud 6f mystery may be Tlfled by a chance tlp\ a rumour, or a fleeting,indentlficatlon on a busy streetjebener.
Onjya short time.agQ the boy's aunt saw a blond head shining in the sun at a busy Vancouver intersection, thought she recognized Ronnie Aspinall beneath it, ami plunged through a red traffic light
prfly to find her eyes had played tricks on her.      ! -
Ronnie's pictures haye been circulated    to    police    (lepartmpnts throughout   North    America,    to schools   and   to   service/Stations, a^id someday, if he^stlll alive' and    his    appearance    does    not change, he may be recognized. "MIST DK iVLIVE"
Said his mother with wistful determination to a Citi'zen reporter yesterday, "I think he must be still alive. I would have a sort of final feeling if he were dead. (See BOY MYSTERY, Pofl�. 4)