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An Independent S�ml.W��fcly N,w.pop,r p^,^ ^ ^ |BtWMt of Central cml Northern
(Three Sections)
British Colu ;�P,000 were passed by the electorate with safe mar-
Fire Destroys McBride Hotel
The 40-room Fr#ser Hotel at MrBridc was completely destroyed by fire List night
The three-storey frame building contained the only beer parlor in the community.
Fire started at about eight o'-h&se <>f.$75,000 worth of*clock Wednesday evening, and
,cipal equipment was approv-512.v\te>Sj opj)osed by 251,
ballot^ were spoiled. Bleating that those who aped the purchase of equipment veil the construction of the nearly identical re-bn the latter. Voters were 511 \Z in favoring the .pool pro-250 opposed itXand there !! spoiled ballots. \ t stage for the\ three res passed by the elector-a -30 day waiting period re-I by law before any further i can be taken.
y hall officials say that about
[people were entitled to votex
tic three bylaws and .they
the attendance at the polls
Traffic Lights Operation Soon
ro new traffic control lights
int
service in the dqwn-
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ea within the next 10 days, traffic chairman Alderman ly Williams stated this week. lr.e pn operation is located at Vic-Strpet and Third Avenue, Ijunctior of an arterial hlgh-j with Prince George's busiest (oughfare.
ncrete foundations for the supporting posts have been and it is expected the in-atlon will be complete in a days.
ork has already started on the Ortlng structure for a second lii;ht at the intersection of cc Street and Fifth Avenue, to the new federal builuY
->'* Look Now�But lays 'Fine Friday'
fine falTflay-of Hunshlne and i temperatures is promised by oathermnh for Friday.
predicting a full day of J and light winds. The norjictb'r is expected to drop tonight and rise to 55 on
"fair for this sbr^ of thing."
At noon yesterday it appeared that a record low number of vot-era would turn out, wur^-of 136 for the first four balloting.
within an hour and a half the structure had completely burned to the ground;
The hotel was owned by E. Hivon,. and was undergoing renovation when it was destroyed.
A CNR train leaving WcBrlde was delayed for one-half hour while cars were shifted as a rer suit of the fire.
The hotel was located a block from the CNR station.
A man who had checked out of the hotel a scant hour before the building was . destroyed, and whose baggage was lost in the blaze, gave The Citizen an eye witness account of the fire this morning
,Hle said the fire started-in the basement of the building in the vicinity of an oil furnace. Flames raced \through the building so quJcklySlfiat nothing could be saved.
A CNR ^engineer, who was sitting in theVotunda of, the hotal when the flrtkalarm was sounded, barely had time to rush up two flights of stairs to pick up a few belongings in his room before he was surrounded by smoke and had to escape, leaving the bulk of his luggage behind.
There were no.reported casualties, but a small dog is believed to have burned in the blaze.
Mayor Gordon D. Bryant to!d The Citizen hy long-distance telephone from Victoria this morning that preliminary preparations for construction of a municipal swimming pool in Block 57 will be carried out this fall.
"1 am very pleased with the majority which has been given to the three bylaws and I believe it shows that the people have confidence in the judgement of the -city council," he said. . \>^st night The Cittaen flashed the victorious bylaw, program^ "Mayor-Bryant at the Em-Victoria where he is representtpgHhe city at th�i annual convention &C.the Union of British Columbia\\nraicipalities.
With him at the^GoiWBntion is parks committee chairmanSvider-ma'n Carrie Jane Gray, bneof^the council's strongest advocates for a municipal swimming pool. \x
"Mrs. Gray is exceedingly happy at the results of her efforts," the mayor said.
He told The Citizen that as soon as the 30-day bylaw waiting per-iod Is over, work will start on. clearing the pool site �o that* coii-
traction can get underway early
n the spring.
General plans for the pool Installation have already, been drawn up, but working drawings and specifications must still be
>repared. Following counting of ballots at
'ity Hall last night, works committee chairman Alderman Frank
Hark stated that his department would make ah early start on the purchase of some of the maintennce equipment authorized under
he bylaw.
To be purchased before winter sets in will be a new city power eder and a small tractor equipped vtith a blade for, plowing of sidewalks.
P. A. MIQUELON of Edmonton, Dominion organizer for B.P.O. Elks; has arrived in the city and will remain for ten days, to; conduct a selective membership campaign in the interest.of. the local lodge. He is registered, at the K Donald Hotel and, wiVhaddressthe "Elks Lodge tonight at their regular meeting.
CNIB Tag, Lions Broom Sale Enjoy Strong City Support
City residents Saturday gave $540.95 to the Canadian National Institute for the Blind and this week are strongly supporting the'Lions Club sale of Blindcraft brooms.
Saturday's successful tag day for the CNIB was conducted by a crew of volunteer taggers under the direction of Mrs, Ernie Crawford. .
Members of the Lions Club this week report excellent response to their sale of brooms.
Club salesmen were out Tues-
fff/ie Wires Today
(Conodion Press, Thursday, October 21, 1954) Gale Force Winds Hit Coast, Prince George Area
VANCOUVER�The entire Canadian west coast bowed Wednesdoy
r winds which in some places reached 100" miles an hour. Sustained
'speeds of more than 75 miles on hour with ousts to 100 were reported
the Queen Charlottes.: The west coast of Vancouver Island and parts
Strait were "hit as gales reaching a sustained 50 miles an hour.
were no reports of casualties os small shipping Kad ample worn-'rcoch shelter but 3,000 West Vancouver children were given a school �Y because of power failures when trees toppled on power lines. The h-gh winds moved inland yesterday afternoon, and in Prince^ 'co-.hed a sustained velocity of 40-45 miles an hour, ousting to 65 �on hour. No major damage has been reported.
"'I Anderson Jailed For Spending Emil Anderson's Money
VANCOUVER�Emil Anderson, 54, a logger who received $12,000 �5c of mistaken identity, Wednesdoy wos sentenced to six months in
fcr -pending $7,500 of it.'; > ___'}
^nder',on, convicted on a chorge of obtaining money under false pre-
vvas waiting for her parents to call to take her home.
"This girl had been sick the
board committee during a" the residence, told theCiti consider myself well taken ca"h of." -f\ ..
The high school student said she had been sick on. the previous day and was-still feeling dull on the following morning, k She said she would have gontKto work anyway, but Mrs. Yost^had advis
previous night and was made to ndvl*ed her to remain in*t�d and stay In bed next day. She was look after herself.'-/ given proper attention and care she said sho h9^ boen offered and by afternoon was quite well suPPer and was-^ust waiting for
�_-i _a_;>.. �_-----..4 a ride home-''when the trustees
visited the* dormitory. �
and ready to go out. HOLIDAY WEEK-END
"Being a holiday week-end most of the pupils had gone home and those who stayed behind had gone out fur the evening. ~ ~, *
"The assistant matron was in residence and within reach of anyone who wanted her. ' � "At no time In my seven years in this dormitory� has a Kingle student been neglected or left*"1incare on' the scene shortly after I p.m.*
His body wa.s in about four inches of water and he may have drowned or been asphyxiated.
Mrs. Gibbs and her other throe children were uninjured.
Clifford Gibbs Is a former Con-naught Elementary School pupil. This year his parents moved
called tonight to testify before an ' from__Pjneview into the Tabor
inquest jury which has been in J Creek district farther south, and adjournment since a short time he-started attending Tabor Creek after Plant's death. . -.1 Rural School.
CXK station and the steel bridge.
Mystery Death Inquest Tonight
An inquest into the death of a city man who died under mysterious circumstances two months ago today will resume tonight in the provincial courthouse.
Charles Ernest Plant was found dead outside the rear door of a downtown beer parlor. He had been helped out earlier in the evening by employes of the estalv lishment. Cause of death was a broken neck.
A police official said this morning that little Hew information on the baffling death hati been received.
More than 10 witnesses will be
Work Complete On $230,000 Municipal Waterworks Bylaw
Construction work being carried out under the largest single municipal money bylaw ever put before the electors of Prince George is now complete, City Engineer G. P. Harford
announced this week.
The work entailed the Installation underground .of some 50,000 feet of new watermain, designed to service an area which ultimately will contain between 1200^ and 1300 homes..
Passed by the electorate List December, the $230,000 waterworks bylaw was designed primarily to service that portion of the ci.ty_ which was annexed from the Prince George Regulated Area 18 months ago.
Installation of the new main's was carried out by The Jamleson Construction Company Ltd., Vancouver and Prince George.
Work on the huge project was completed a full month ahead of the. November 15 deadline sot forth in the/contract.
With installation of the mains barely completed, more than 200 homes have already been supplied with running water? Of these, 70 are located In the Millar Addition and HO in Central Fort George.
Individual services have been
Installed to supply (500 .homes. /
The contract held by Jamieson Construction involved the installation of 1500 feet of 12-inch main, 1300 feet of 10-inch mi.n, (5300 feet of eight-inch main, 21,500 feet of six-inch main and 16,100 feet of four-inch main.
City officials have pointed out that no connections arc being made unless water charges have been fiilly paid by owners of property.
-�They also point out that it is unlawful for owners or tenants or plumbers to tamper with service lines.. All final connections bo-tween the city service and a'dwelling must be carried out by a duly authorized waterworks department employee.
With work-on the S230.00O- bylaw finished, city officials are already planning a new waterworks bylaw of a more modest nature.
it will cover the installation of sonic new mains, and possibly construction of a reservoir.
Parking Meters Go Into Effect Here November I
Thc
rrport also said no time-should be lost in providing c new girls'
c; Bronnon Lake, Nonaimo,. replocing the, present school and said !�l "ceded constant supervision to prevent runaways and smuggling n ooods such as cigarets and "lurid magazines."
[ VANCOUVER� Joyce Markevitch, 15-year-old blonde, Wednesday bc'-L* � v�u"�-est Person ever sentenced in police court here on a narcotics "c 9irl, who said she was "scared to death" to go to Oakajla in r�pnsolst was sentenced to six months for possessing drugs.
, T DNER�Robert Earle Wells, 33, wos committed for trial in higher "eiday on a chorge of murdering his commonlaw wife, Victoria Woo, body was found in a Fraser River shack here in mid-August.
Motorists jjr^Prince George will become^subject to parking regulations at 9 a.m. on Monday, ^November 1.
As a reader service and to prevent the confusion which new parking regulations generally create. The Citizen obtained, the above diagram to show Tiow vehicles must be parked.
Each parking meter covers two
"stalls", as can be seen In the diagram. Between each jialr of stalls is an open space covered b>v large diagonal yellow lines.
~ko part of a motor vehicle must Infringe on the eight foot space between stalls and.observance of this regulation will be enforced by the police.
Under terms of the bylaw, the front of the number two car In any stall must be within two feet of the rheter post, and the rear
of the number one car must conform to the same distance. Each car stall is 18 feel long.
Motorists; approaching a double stall in which the front space is not occupied are asked by the traffic committee to pull to the front in order to make parking easier for the car which parks In the rear stalt.
Maximum � continuous parkin:: time In any single stall is one hour, and "feeding'* meters to in-
crease the stay beyond one hour is contrary to^the terms of the bylaw. �
Meters will accept pennies arid five-cent pieces. i
One cent will buy 12 minutes of parking time and up to five .pennies may be inseVted at one time.
Each meter has two coin slots and two activating cranks. The crank nearest to a given parking space is the one which will actl-
vate thtit half <>f the meter.
Nleters have been installed' on George jStreet and ion Third Avenue in the downtown portion of the city.
Enforcernent' of meter regulations is to he carried out ny the Royal Canadian Mounted Police.
The meters will be In operation between, 9 a.m. and 6 p.m. on weekdays, o a.m. to 1 p.m. on Wednesdays; and not at* all on Sundays and holidays.
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