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Prince George, B.C., MONDAY, November 1, 1954
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irking Space Plentiful Spruce, Politics Topics As Mayors Meet In City Streets Today
or
effect
e first time in years it was possible for the casual take his choice of several parking spaces along uc and George Street this morning as meters came on the city's two main thoroughfares. �. ets filled up quick-
ifier
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point
One ma
ityeral lls ami What h hi in in , beside y'rumm lor a !
M leas Wisher
, a.i'n, business rush
. -cr who watched o the meters from , i Avenue noticed - w ho had appar-that they went � :; November 1. ut'i feed bis car, walked then hurried back away.
ulled into parking icn pulled out again, become a common : < [ties; a man stand-i parked car frantic-ling through his pock-:.;:'. or a nickel, was : .,. e in the city to-
,rie company, Citizen . printers Ltd., met
me -To
Hend Kinsmen
(lose to : Prim n perfor MiinR. vih nsir.cn C'li Bowe'cn i 'Urn fare aisled of ino\ Ie liaddllio:
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000 children flocked tea Theatre for two nances on Sunday �p. the. I'rince George I. held their annual arty.
for the youngsters shorts and a west-
to the motion
youngsters '
bags of candy,
pic-
800
the challenge of parking-space] scarcity on slde^ streets adjacent to the main thoroughfares by put-ting.an employee parking lot into! service at the rear of their Quebec Street building.
Meters are made to take up to five pennies, each one providing 12 minutes of parkin-, or one nickel, giving one hour.
In double stalls cars must be parked so that the front or back of. them is within two feel of the governing meter post.
Gas Healing System For Civic Centre
City council will probably clear the last hurdle to completion of the I'rince George Civic Centre when it lets a contract for Installation of a gas heating system.
Contract price will be just over 510,000. it was disclosed late last week, and it will be comp about January l.
The system will consist of gas unit heaters suspended from the in the main audit.orhini, *as furnace for the front
Toppled From Boat
Young Man Drowned In Frigid Summit Lake
/
A 24-year-oTd rivermdn perished in the icy Raters of Summit Lake early Saturday morning within a few seconds of rescue by an alert resort manager.
Dead is Richard Dean Huble, a resident of Summit Lake.
His body was recovered by police shortly after 4 a.m., Saturday after they had been summoned by Lawrence Ferrier, manager of Summit Lake Lodge .
Huble got into difficulties when he attempted to start up ar? odt-board motor on his boat at about 2 a.m.
An-eyewitness to rhe
ing than Huble was seen to let go of the gas tank.
Search _\<'as hampered by the fact that the only means of illumination was a flashlight.
Police dragged for only a short time -befrtH^-brtttging the budy tn~ the surface.--
st-tit
mot
tragedy
the lodge told
ir started with j
the bow skV-
tft>�nrstaii'5 mid
The dead youth, v/ho was employed by a firm engaged in moving a ranger .station near Summit Lake, attended elementary and high schools here, and recently was discharged from the Canad-youtH fi ntci the i:ui Arm-V after serving a term in a paratrooper unit.
Surviving nre four ^Istpr^; Mi-q
outside tu shout to HifrihMo hang I i'V (Be"ha) n^?*?" uS ^T" on ->^" * (lejirge, Mrs. T. (Martha) Corless
,' . � ' . . ,'' \. of Quesni'l, Mrs. Ceorge d'ati Hice
Dgsplte the frigid water, th�l,,f
m^m clung to the boat's gas tank ' Jtiiv several minutes atid could be seen about 2~> feet from the end of the resort wharf.
Ferrier, accompanied by -.the guest, managed to get a launch started, but no sooner was it mov-
Meheo Park. ('al.,-> Mrs. May * of Fort Bablne, and three broth>*s. A.I and Sam of Prince George imdj!airy of .McLeod Lake.
Arrangemcnt.s^sire now beinc made for the funenuN-Qtrtorrow at 2 p.m.
Drug Case
"And there's pretty good fish-, live and director of-B.C. Spruce, Xlayor Bryant told .Mayor Law
[cijing just about there." Mayor Gor-'Sales Ltd. of Prince George.
ceiling and a annex.
Purpose of the separate heating systems and gas fuel is that temperature in the main auditorium can thus be allowed to fall almost to thp freezing point- when that part of the building is not in use.
The 4jas unit heaters permit rapid increase of temperature
(!<>!! 11. Bryant of Prince George i.- telling Pittsburgh's angler-Mayor David '1'. Lawrence.
Mayor Bryant spent close to an hour with. Mayor Lawrence during a recent business trip to F.ast-em � Canada and the United States. His audience with Pittsburgh's chief magistrate was arranged by !!. y, Han is, Sanford HarVls Lumber Company execu-/
Aside from the angling possi/ billties, Mayor Lawrence, headyuf-
the Democratic machine irt/nis part of Pennsylvania, \v^s in-
Bryant was not affiliated with any municipal political machine.
"How do you gey-elected?" asked the astonished De/nocratic boss. "Who do/" you want
/fence that the economic destinies of Prince George and Pittsburgh are closely bound together by western, white spruce.
Industries in and adjacent to
trigued by the fact thai yMayor ^-Pittsburgh _use about $20,000,001)
worth of spruce annually__ s
Mayor Lawrence was in British Columbia briefly 25 years ago and may return next year on a go/to when | fishing trip as a guest of B.C. | Sprtree Sales Ltd. at Takla Lake.
help?"
rn and 9G dozen when die bull pied on short the Hallowe'en City official!
ing Is notice, belie
to
th
bull
i'y the Kinsmen ling will be ready for its fir.-t uil bottle driw.� winter of use by January !�">.
Ijiool Trustees Relent On ormifory Classroom Plan
72 On Shift Instead Of 200
Board Heads Will Ask Plant Af Hospital
Executive of the Prince George Board of Trade wilt write the board of manageirfent of Prince George arid District Hospital at an early dg-fe asking that immediate consideration be given to installation of an emergency power plant. "We were asv\ :��/
Q presenti
at the: lit, prote �'Urn: whii
fl": o\ ,i; W>-i ��..
ft the cl � �'
�:ial mee.1
by Mrs
isident of
press reports vfhieh revealed that the hospital^ has no method of sustaining/us light and other electrical etyupinent during a munici-r failure," trade board uleTiT ITarry Loiler tolU '.en after an executive ast week;
meeting Tuesday ig the additional A'.oukl result with C. the dormitory
to convert only! is was made at a � Thursday attend-/ Clayton WlHsoi^i
and the Grade 3 class <-y'X~< pupil--is, furthermore, too yfarge to be I placed in the wesr end Sunday School. The schojpTprincipal com-miMitcd that ni/stof the Grade : pupils live cLtfsejr. to King Q? V than do t,Me Grade l youngs
PTA^xeculive 'Very Satisfied'
eetlng ONE OFFKW
He said the executive is under the Impression that Prince George's hospital is one of the very few in British Columbia which can not fail back on ail emergency power unit during' a pnwer failure. ^.
v\\. would seem to me particularly important that the hospital have an emergency 1 iuhi source because it Is quite obvious that some act of God which knocks out the power �system can also
bring Injuries to a great many people," Mr. Loder went on.
He said that every unexpected power failure is coupled with the .nmL lor.Jiuzardmis work un ttefc rj'art of cay electrical crews and that art adequate emer-gem y lighting system at the hospital is required for their protection at any r/ite.
I'rince George & District Hospital's only emergency lighting equipment consists "f one portable battery^ofMirated lamp, plus a stock of candles and liquid-fuel lanterns; : ~
During Prince George's recent six-hour power failure no operations were In progress at the city hospital, but the night before, n.t the same time, Qloctors were per-formiix: major surgery.
ich di
George and District llospit/il on Saturday morning, three weeks after being admitted.
Mr. Reich, who has no known relatives, tame to Prince George from Lusear. Alberta, 30 years ago after being employed in the cos] mines of that area.
In recent year&" he had been employed as a tie-maker. He was 69 years of age. . Funeral will br* held from Sac-rod Heart Church on Wednesday
Meticulous examination of the Crown's chief witness morked the opening in the provincial courthouse this morning of the biggest narcotics case in the city's history.
On trial charged with possession of narfciUks for the purpose of traffick-+�g-ore Ronald--Wr-Bft*rtef~ond-Moudo E. Truman^ both residents of Prince Cjeorge.
The pair were arrested September 24 about seven mftss south of Prince George when their car was halted and scorched at a Royal Cortatjian Mounted Police roadblock.
Allegedly seized from the cor in which they were travefling^vcith onother woman and a young child were five hypodermic needles, an eyedrop^ per and 390 capsules of heroin having an underworld value of nearly $4000.
The two accused entered picas of not guilty before County Court Judge Eric D. Woodburn today. They ore represented by city barrister George 0. Stewort. Acting for the Crown are H- B. King, Prince George, and special narcotics prosecutor W. H. Hcffcrnan of Vancouver.
Mr. King this morning conducted the examination of RCMP Sgt. C. Rosberg, the police oHicer who commonded the interception force which arrested Brunei and Mrs. Trufirian.
Sgt. Rosberg is the non-commissioned officer in charge of the Prince George police detachment.
He was. colled to the stand following evidence from a provincial government employee which established thot Brunei was the registered owner of the 1954 Austin �;don halted by police September 24./"
The sergeant recounted his evidence given ot the preliminary hearing October. 16 when the accused were committed for trial before Stipendiary Magistrate G. H. Hallett.
Hi/ told of following the Austin sedan from a point eight miles south
Support Growing For Seaway Compensation
fri Idinc
.�i\nccs are siding Nfyl'. in his con-
Mem bees <>f parliament
I he Maritime prov with Bert I.eboe N Lention that the federal government should initiate cnmi>cns;i'_-i wHIch
Mrs. Clayton
Willson George V
ailable
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occupied mesdjck,! ! Wzed that
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'be ava lal ardosi
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W an adi
ig lha/after llsten-
p/vsented by the
and considering
the shifting sys-
had decided to
e of the dprmi-
and retain the
bine.
space made -be classroom is
dent Of King Teacher Association, t Citizen Saturday her gr "very satisfied" with the
. pres
Parent ld The up was decision
of school trustees of three classroom school district dormitory
Mrs. Willson 'appcaiv the board last week on her 1TA to protest th shifting of elementary children after the school decided Id close all three dormitory classrooms,
The I'TA president s
o convert one In use in the
before
�half of further, school board f the
.....r
Ulow the placing j group -f'"'' th^t tlu s In each domil- j had given them a '
iijiow, many of
Hoys' wing have
four students.
ing.
She said the meeting Thur?(\ay
special called
con* I
iard ch'alromah em-[sldei*" the dormitory question, lie two/remaining I brought home \cjoarly that It he dormitory will (would have; been the. farthest after the school thing from the board's mind to. bring up the matter with ;be Be-J ceniber school construetlort refeF-
Karlier the PTA\ executive ac-: cused the board on '�bad timing" and said their course w;is being interpreted as an antificia
Mid, o peop
railr' -,
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Hit th
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' board's intrn-lortnltory tn ho said.
/board doesn't feel arigetnent wherein �its occupy one ie, and its? ideal, to get down to � room. "'iitN from two
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"\v School went on ">'ininK as a result "('<>f tho dormitory itrnf sonio 37 Grade formerly nccupylnR "'".v cIiiKHrootn start-
"� pupils will attend 1 lasses from 8:30 to 1 to 5 p.m. in the
'� Principal of King -ifntary School said : nufestioned by some !t moving thy Oradn 1 west end Sunday n. presently -occu-'�"'^ 1 class and srnd-udents to KGV.
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Off The Wires Today
(Canadion Press, Monday, November"!, 1954)
Higher B.C. Wages Hurt Province, Businessmen Told
VANCOUVER�Labor leaders here, Saturday termed "a dream" a proposol thot British Columbia workers should aim ot wage parity with eastern .Canada. B.C. Chamber of Commerce president F. W. Arnott made wage parity pleas at the annuol meetinq Friday and said the tradition'of higher B.C. wages often worked against thejjrovince.
Lloyd Wholen, president of Vancouver Labor Council, said ArnoU should take a look in lorge cities of eostern Canada and he would find I that in many cases wages are higher than in B.C.. "\^ �
Tom Alsbury, president of the Trades and Labor Council, saftka high wage economy is sound. \^
"It Arnott is interested in a good standard of living, why doesn't he 'urge eastern Canada to gain parity with B.C.," Alsbury said.
Man Charged With Murder As Divers Hunt For Boy's Body
POWELL RiVER�Two dcepseo divers ore expected here Tuesday to lead the search for an Indian boy, four, missing since Wednesday and belicvRd sloin.
Police Saturday charged the boy's uncle, Thomas Bloncy, with the murder: They said the boy was shot with a rifle at a fishing camp 15 liaelbcdv drnpppH in th<> *t>n -______________
ovinces
benefits
St. Lawrence >o member told
from
mg projects in pi derive -no direct completion of the Seaway, the Caribc newsmen recently.
Mr. I.eboe said be had circularized members of parliament from these provinces and was obtain-mg enthusiastic response from some of them.
The ('aribno member would have the federal 'government in-cvease its assistance in construction of the Pacific Great Eastern Railway and embark on a defence highway system in British Cplum- |
stimu-
Navy frogmen unsuccessfully scorched for the body Sunday. said part of the boy's skull wos found.
Polico
jf\ the referen-
V
e kchool
his to approval dum.
"The fact that the kchool board gave our King George V I'lA such a fair hearing anw Invited me to attend their special meeting to consider our requeal is ample proof that ihey will tliston and compromise when the! criticism is constructive."
She said the trustees are to be commended for discussing the matter with the \velfarjp of the youngsters uppermost in .their minds.
The solution is a temporary expedient, she said, and pointed on' that when the classrooms in the dormitory and west end Sunday
VANCOUVER�Robert Logerstrom, 17, lost both his hands JSundoy when a home-made bomb exploded premoturcly in p garage at the rear of his North Burnaby home, The youth was reported holding the bomb preparing to ignite it when it exploded.
VANCOUVER I ing the weekend.
u-1h
boo]
l nt
this
would be imprac-' cember.
end of
June, the problem and extent of shifting will depend on the outcome of the referendum which will go before ratepayers in n>--
Four persons met violent deothf, in the province dur- Dead ore Brian Alton Block, 19, of Daysland, Alta.,
able seaman aboard HMCS Ontario who plunged fifty feet to thc_fJoor of a drydock at Esquimolt Saturdoy.
Ray Fowler, Salmon Arm, killed when a car-overturned near his home Soturday.
An unidentified former died at Pitt Meadows when crushed beneath on overturned tractor.
An unidentified woman was killed when struck by a, car while crossing the highway near Mission Sunday night.
Ca!f Arrives Home After Long Absence
PINEVlEW�A four-month-old
cat; was found last Wednesday after waivlenim1 in (.he dense bush for nearly three months.
The animal wandered away from the Charles Parker farm on August C. After Mr. Parker and mrighhors had searched several days.^t^wus feared it had been killed by^Jnar or had drowned in a creek. ^\
On Wednesday ~TMurncd uf) In a neicrlibor/s field less than a mile from home in a very weak condition.
who had parked a second police car across the highway.
He described the seorch of the car which led to the discovery of the capsules.
In reply to a series of questions from Mr. Kitvg, the police sergeant described the containers in which the capsules and- other paraphernalia were found, and identified various brown paper bags ond plastic containers �said to have been used to transport the articles.
He testified to keeping the capsules in his continuous possession or . under his sight during o trip to Vancouver wh^o n r'lrmint-e*n�onoiyst" "exaTTuned-tne powder from them and pronounced it to be a salt of the drug morphine, l-.nown as diocetylmorphine hydrachloride.
The police witness stated that hypodermic needles are used by drug addicts in connection w/th eyedroppers for injection into the body. He testified thot spoons, similar to one found in the possession of Brunei, arc used to heat the drug with water to put it into solution for the purpose of injection.
Judge Woodburn adjourned the case shortly before noon at the conclusion of direct examination of S:jt. Rosberg., Commencing at 2 p.m., Mr. Stewart will commence his cross-ex.amina'ion of the chief witness.
Farmers Winning Battle To Recover 1954 Grain Crops
Prince George District farmers have won a partial victory in their battle to harvest 1^54gvpin crops in the face of inclement .weather, provincial agricultural officials disclosed late last week.
S.. C. Preston, si tricl agriculturist, farmers have saver cent of their grain
trvising dis-
aid district
[bout 60 per
far in spite
VANCOUVER�A five-year-old- girl unwittingly pulled off the best Hallowe'en prank in the city in years and did it while asleep.
About one thousand persons searched from noon Saturday throughout the TiTghf when Sheila Sorensen was reported missing from her North Vancouver home. The frantic parents, Mr. and Mrs. Henning Sorensen, found her at noon Sunday asleep in the basement of her home.
Cariboo Health Uni! Seeks New Quarters
The Provincial Cariboo Health Unit has been asked to seek accommodation elsewhere than in its present quarters in the headquarters building of School District Number 7>7.
Word that the school board had asked the' Qariboo Health Unit to move c.tme at a school boar 1 meeting last week.
School trustees explained fcfint ultimately the entire former army building situated at Sixth Avenue and Winnipeg Street would be required for school purposes.
They said that the maintenance department would eventually occupy the space now used by provincial health officials.
Health Knit director Dr. .H. M. Brown was told that he would he given plenty of time to find new quarters for his staff and that I the move need not he considered as imminent. �
of original predictions that they would be lucky to harvest 20 per cent. �
Earlier this month an associate of Mr. Preston predicted that the next 10 days would decide between relative abundance and
shortage of feed cereals. >fim-lng that 10 day period close to ">0*>cj' cent of the total grain crop was ""salvaged, and Jjiere is still hope thai -the remaining 10 per cent will end .lip In the bins Instead' of rotting in the Tlclds.
( ontrary to earlier predictions,
some of the grain harvested mav be suitable for seed next year, but it will be subjected to germination tests this \\ inter.
What grain harvesters still rie&l more than anything else is^an n!> sc nre of precipitation arul\iin abundance of frost.
Only with coldeY tempera'turcs � ;m they take their, equipment into the fields without fear of ii becoming constantly mired down.
If the jrost and the absence of rain or snow materializes, the entire crop may be harvested and Prince George District would have a grain surplus of approximately* 120,000 bushels. Cereal proportions would he 20 per cent wheat, 70: per cent oats and 10 per cent barley.
All grains In the Bulkley Valley, N'echako Valley and I'rince George-McBride district will be cf
substantially lower grade than last year.
Approximately 75 per cent o� the grains have been threshed In the Bulkley Valley, and 50 per cent in the N'echakb Valley.
Mr. Preston reported thnt grain
I prices are increased from last
year with Number 1 feed oats
I bringing retail prices of 82 scents'
a bushel. Nurrfber 5 wheat $L60,
and Number 1 feed barley $1.15,
The .1964 clover Crop' in the r.rlnico George MeBrlde. district^ 13� now ail but wiped out, but a very small amount of alsike may be recoverable through direct corn-binings if there i.s ample frost and no snow.
Other districts which come under 1'riin.e (leorire ' ;<:;thority have fared better with their forage crop seed.
ilkley Valley farms will yield 2")O.ooo pounds of timothy alsik", 10,000 pounds of red clover. 2500 pounds of red fescue and'8000 pounds of reed canary trrass.
The Lakes DiSt.Tfci will market some iiO.OOO pounds of timothy seed and the Necnako Valley area will yield about 10,000 pounds of clover and mixtures.1
Mr. Preston said that Prince George farmers, who have gone in heavily In past years for a cash crop of clover seed, would do woll to switch some of their acres to the-production of grass seeds.
He said that these are. on the whole, hardier and more adapted to local weather conditions.