An Independent Serni-WeeRI^ Newspaper Devoted to ihe Interest o' Centra! and Northern British Columbia ^~� 37; No. 85 (Three Sections) $4.00 per year 5," �r copy insmen Sponsor Film Hallowe'en P"nce George, B.C., THURSDAY, October 28, 1954 Prince George Student Flyers Earn Wins* Ge irge Kinsmen will � ;�(�(� showing of the Si coinetiy "Living it Up" on m evening, as a special, Haiti, ireat for city children, nioiion picture., will be �n thi� Princess Theatre at theatre hours, with the (,)!�;� in. session for/rhild-�' [o j:; years, and the later vine for- students/over- 13 KiI�--:�'"i a'K<) request that Bnc preparing bottles for the jjual Kinsmen drive who has Ivei had them collected phone -.[.I br-210-R-l and the collec-ho made. M.P. Here Brief�VisH frt Leboe, M.I', for Carl bod votl here last night by car. a Vancouver where he was'a delegate to.a convention ay ami Saturday, of the B.C. Kial'CrccHl League. Ef.iRMoiiiinK north he was the (speaker at a meeting of the noniie Ivhiratlonal Institute ibllotsCoitl mi Tuesday. . r, Leboe will Ik? leaving for tent Spur tomorrow in con-ion with business matters, and irly next pionth will be attend-; Social.Cre.u" It provincial con-ons in Winnipeg and Saska-twfiiiv returning to Ottawa i'Novem&er VI federal member stopped watQuesnel on his way north nsult businessmen on a pro-to have* an UnemplpyhTent urance Commission office jhlish�!_U.'.uic, Mr; Leboe-wlU � attempt tu have the Depart-lit of. Transport- start a hard-rfaclng program at Quesnel air-in order that larger planes |ay u?e"the field. At present PA's Conyalrs /dp not call at snel's gravel-surfaced airfield rim: to tbu danger of damage to mpellors.' iy Consult City On George district school JEajfeseek=an audience with council before December to iss a central heating systein : schools which was opposed/by council some months ago? |H. A. M.ifr,it. chairman of the board building corHmitteo. truMees on Tuesday that ilects still advise installation 'steam plant. |H? said Hint a schools in the Duchess area would greatly reduce annual rating cost for Moffat/added that he .may to technical mqn to review Mti question, and will -TA Files Protest Trustees of School District No.: 57 will sit down behind closed doors tonight to consider what action, if any, they will take in reply to o protesf filed Tuesday by the executive of King George V Parent-Teacher Association against further shifting in elementary grades. The protest took the form of a brief alleging that a move announced by the school board two weeks ago, which would see an additional 200 elementary students on shifts In city schools, is not necessary. Announcement that tvvo classes of grades three, four and five would have to'start-double shifts on November 1 came following the school, board's decision to terminate the use of three rooms In the .school district dormitory as classrooms. The school board soys UsPlonship three Sjrjisysaiu he believes Prinro Prince capable of Jcing s start building nets and will de-strongest defence pos- Vtt*K ofg�Sf �n tO" the de-Bations scoring com- rt'';it Prince George need-'''�:'bc development- of lif P'1., Ko.rsey unhesltat-'� 'U'tificia] ice ff and a"�''l that a rented and v .. f for himself and tpi^ -' Pro�ably help. jj that Prince George 1,.'T>^1'<)fesslonal hockey pract-avallable. saw n ovtrj V/e&rninster �rJaPPlng in their bract, ice periou'SsJU'ivdwiloops, and I have no dotiuKone 6f them, would have been glad t(KW)me here if we had been able to prb^de the facilities." \ ^V Forsey said that d neK arena would probably be needed Here if, artificial ice is to be installed. X 'Exchange' Robbed For Twelfth Time Prince George's "Mecca" for all small-time criminals. The Exchange, a second-hand store_jvt 1180 Fifth Avenue, was broken into for the twelfth time in recent years on Monday night. " The store has been a target for thieves six times this year. Even the usual method of entry, through a side window whk-b Is screened from the street by an adjacent building, did not change oh Monday. Claude Foote. proprietor of the store, reported the theft of about $130 In merchandise. 17 blocks; Elko Street from Laur-~ ier Street to McBride. Crescent, one block; Columbia Street from Laurie? to McBride, one block; Prince Rupert Street from Third Avenue to Patricia, 12 blocks. Sixteenth Avenue from Con-naught Drive to Ash Street, 11 blocks, and, from Quince Street to Norwood, three blocks; Eighteenth Avenue "from Oak Street to Qu'eensway, .six blocks, from 'Victoria to Spruce, two blocks, and from dak, to Dogwood, 12 blocks, froiri Victoria to Yew, seven blocks, and from Oak Street to Victoria, three blocks. Eleventh (Avenue from city boundary /xo Lethbridge, 19 blocksj^/Twelfth Avenue from Johnson Street to Harper Street, two blocks; -Ir\vin-SJ re,et from Eleventh, to ThirteerrH^�tyrf block's- Fourteenth Avehue\^w>m city boundary to Lethbridgo Street, 19 6locks; Quince Street from Seventeenth to Twentieth, three blocks; Pine Street from Seventeenth to Twentieth, three blocks.'" / Under the plan the city would gain 316 new home sites, or half that--number of neighborhood parks. \ Campney May Act To Widen Baldy Road Minister of/National Defence Ralph Campney will personally^ see to It that the road to Baldy Hughes radar station is adequately widened if investigation proves �that such action is advisable, Bert Leboe M.P. assured The Citizen today, -v * Mr. l.el>w said that he had spoken with the^Rfjw defence minister over�the need Ulub-rqoms on October 15. Starfdlng,4eft to righ^: Jim Maxwell, Merl Alderson, Sven Serup, Mrs. Dicks' Hiller, Ted Williams, Ted front row: Bob Vernon, Munro, Bert Scott, E. M. grieves, George Bolton. Two other successful airmen, Bill Strom and Bill Spurr, did not attend � the graduation, "functloiv �Wally West Studios Robert- Range,- .school�board-chairman, replied that the timing of the shift announcement and the proximity of referendum voting was merely a coincidence, and he added that the shifts would have commenced in i September if the school construction /crew had been available. \ The1 brief presented by the P-TA executive offer's the school boacd two alternatives to Immediate im-j^ementation of their' plan to close th\lhree classrooms as scheduled. I Tth� first o,f these asks that the boaraV^consla^r an- offer frvm 'the P-TA toxfind other accommoda Golf Club Moves To Buy Land From City City council will initiate a bylaw at its meeting on Monday designed to authorize sale of 65 acres of municipal land to Prince George Golf & Country Club. . The land is part of the old municipal airport and contains the proposed site for the golfers' club-Appearing at a council meeting :arHcr this-week" orrbehaif of thtr golf club were H. B. King, city barrister and past president xof the clujjN and Charles CranstorV presiding president. A proposed agreement covering sale of the property has . been drawn up by P. E. Wilson, Q.C., city solicitor. ' \ The aifc.eement sets price of the land at $20 an acre, but gtv,es tho city the right'to. first refusal of, at the same price if it ever^bej comes useless-jo the club. y /' .other concession) which the the> not'th line will be announced T5anTe~timo A hot ilf cJ n! e golf cjub must make is alter its rules t(f membership to permit non-shai^ehoklers to use its facilities. ' \ Unemployed May Get Work On PGE North Extension Slashing crews rhay soon go to work on the right for the PGE extension north of Prince George if action is taker} on a resolution adojpted by-the B.C. Social Credit League at a convention in Vancouver Friday and Saturday. Ralph Chetwynd, Minister of Ttattwa � statedvthc�locu t fo n " of A proposal submitted by Foil George members of the party pointed out that considerable unemployment is evident in Prince GeoVge and at other interior centres and recommended that preliminary work be started on the right-of-way during the coming winter in order to provide jobs for i^jle millworkers ami loggers. ' \.. Anothpf resolution fr�5riv Fort fltNthe convention asked the Roverni'tjent to-have Forestry Departm^-iit roads bu^,t attending! the~Socred rally were Mr. anU Mrs. Alex Floen, H. Sperling; Klmer Nelson, WiTnam Bel-lqs and Lew King./' ' Calling Tenders On New City Equipment Tenders wUl be called', for sup-lly of close'to $50,000 Worth of municipal works department equipment � within th&�neftf.".' six weeks. George P. Harford, city engineer, asked city council Monday or their consent to go ahead with calling for tenders on a portion of the $75,000 equipment purchase list which was'approved by ratepayers at the polls a week ago. Council gave the money bylaw final . approval and passage at thetr Monday meeting and consented to go ahead and invite tenders." - Actually the bylaw will not become final for about six weeks. J^'nlloujng its passage it must undergo a 30 day waiting period l>efore terms of it can be imple- PurcTiase of a new power-shovel and heavy roller wijl h4 postponed until spring. v. First units which the city will ciilk for; -teqders on are a grader-iivitn\snowplQw, $23,500; u\unp truck with snowplow, S7500j_nj , $GM0; farm tract&i! mower anH. sidewalk vplow, -^eooi� street sander, SH200. , Tenders''on�uH;. above equlp- Others present from Fort George I ment w,n dose at\noon on Kxj. riding included Mr. and Mrs. Adolph Jeck, M. Petro and E. T. Renshaw of McBride; Mr. and Mrs. R; Taylor and Mr. and Mrs. Charles Mullett of- Stone Creek; W. Symonds, WilJ! Leboe, L. Mad-ley and Mrs. Will" Leboe of Crescent Spur; Mr. Simmonds of Loos. 1 Education Minister Ray Willie-ton, ML A for Fort George was also among^Uie ^accredited- delegates at. the ""convention- by private or byxthe partment of Public .Works. Delfgates, from Prince George Were Civif Servants Condemned? Socred Officers Disagree On What Happened Af Convention make, it his personal respnnslblli- ty to see that it is done l proved necessary. The road was built two yean? aco with a travelled portion only lft feet wide. Today, with softened shoulders, the travelled portion is narrower than 16 feet in many places and trucks have difficulty in passing. Besides United States Air Force transports, the Baldy Hughes road Is used by a half dozen mills' In J.he same area. VANCOUVER, Opt. 28 (CP)�Top of f kvrs of the -Social - Credit-party were in disagreement Wednesday ovt-r what happened at last week's convention on the controversial motion condemning civil servants. -In Victoria, Vice-President Whit Stahbury said his "records showed -the motion, which charged wilful inefficiency among- clviL servants, passed but later rescinded. Bi\t in Vancouver, League president Noel Murphy said Stanbury "just got his motions mixed." Mm'phy said tht? motion was passed and then a motion to reconsider was defeated. He said Stanbury possibly thought It jwas the original motion being defeated. Stanbury also said a statement would be coming from either the league or the government later this week, but Murphy said: "1 not going to make any statement.'The league- tells me what to do, non the league." Meanwhile league vice-presidents Thomas McGibbcn and Eve- sure it wasn't meant to cover suca a wide scope."� Mrs. Fingarson said another motion commending civil servants "seems to have got lost in the shuffle" Man Dies Alter Fall From Car A 30-year-old man who is believed to have been injured when he fell from a moving car last night was pronounced dead on arrival at Prince George & District Hospital shortly after 9 a.m.~ this morning. Details of the accident are not known, but companions who brought the man to hospital are said to have remarked that Pawl Eugene Jacques, age alwut 30, fell from a car in the city last night but returned to his place of employment at Fyfe Lake Sawmills and went to bed. lyn Fingarson, both of Vancouver, j Efforts to rou.^e him this morn-said the controversy is being (ing failed, and he was rushed tho "grossly overplayed.!' McGibbon said: "People have got it the wrong way. I admit it �\v3ss a bit ambiguous and I'm quite 20 miles back to-Prince George. Jacques had been an employee of the Fyfe Lake mill for about four years. vembcr 22. The Weqtfte With the exception of .patches in the early morning, P day should be j& sunny, cool day.x The weatherman says winds will be light and there will be little change in temperature. Expected low tonight is 25, and high Friday. 45. � 3 Off The Wires Today (Canadian Press, Thursday, October 28, 1954) \ Insanity Verdict Returned In Nelson Murder Trial NsiELSON�A verdict of, not guilty by reason of insanity was returned by an assize court jury here! Wednesday after ten minutes deliberation in the murd-r trial of Fred.Allen Huscroft, 48, charged with the strangulation death of hisv wife, Agnes Louise, lost May. 24 when li.e bodies of Mrs. Huscroft and her fiye-year-tld adopted doughter were Joyrid-in .their beds. The court ordered HuScroft to be held in jail here until the Lie.utenont-6overnor -kv,co>jncll makes rtls pleasure kr.Own, . ��. �________ Indians Will Press Search For Missing, Fishboot Crew MASSETT�Indian fishermen JocParneH and Amos Willioms^Jjnonced tjoy $600' donated by fellow resident? of this Queen Charlottes village, arc carrying on o hunt for the fisHboat Oceanic which was abandoned by the Air Force and Coost Guard. The men say they will take months-^f necessary to search the 35O0 square miles of Dixon Entrance for a trvl-ce of the Oceanic which disappeared two weeks ogo carrying Hcrry Ridley and- Fred Jones of Massett. VANCOUVER�Coffee prices tumbled as much as five cents a pound here Wednesday in one chain grocery store, Other.stores are expected to cut prices in a few days. Two popular brands new sell for $1.16 and $1.23 a pound. -VICTORIA-�SchooL teacher John Hewitt said Wednesday in a phono call to the Victoria Times he'll bring his pretty Jamaican wife bock to the province but won't return to the Shawnigan Lake private