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^Prince George, B.C., THURSDAY, Nove
[cuitcil Votes To Support lojlerify' School Program
lty Council voted Monday night to support a $997,000 expansion program which will be placed^tferore'city son December 9, municipal election ,i)I(, ralnc after Mayor Gor-'aUi k,|iI aldermen he was .I, . ,'i-.'icil with the con-
iay.
May
:hool expansio;
voiced
iin>f'an earlier lasse'd $2,0(50,-scKobls and ad-
1 pblls
ding t|l(l
hhardw... I'ijiidlioriiui
opposition to it
oil for its defeat tit
.\iay and again in
notice that the coun-iiii-1 the "austerity" in, the city will ask ition be given to re-_exterior of Kin,? iool anil installation � i floor in a propos-
:race" at Monday night's feting and Alderman Ferry suggested that funds to repaint it could be founol, City Voting Be In Elks Hall
Ivotinj; for municipal office-lers* and a S!)lJ7,000 school ex-erondum: will all take jceat the Elks Hall on Decem-city council "decided on iwiay.
change in location for city bting from the usual poll in the hail i? brought about by the jthat-.uiiartors there are over-Iwik'ii.
�ate" voting machinery for ' school bylaw, and civic elec-be set up and run^-by ert (jracoy, school district sec-ancl I). T. Willitfms, city irk ami relurning^officer. I Nominal mn,s --""" for aldermen, wt, and park commis-" will close at 12 noon De-�2 in the office of the city �rk.
be filled arc three council ancles', two school board vacan-. and die entire five-member thp paries board. '
Hurtles 87 Feet
But Woman Not Hurt
A district missed death
woman narrowly or serious -injury
shortly after 83a.m. today when the small English car she was driving plunged off the Airport Hill and spua.87 feet down a steep embankment, coming to rest on its wheels..
Treated, for minor shock "and a severe shaking up at Prince George Hospital following the accident was Mrs. AdelVwhiting of Foreman.
Police say that damage to the car was not. extensive and they believe that a coating of frost oil the pavement caused the car "to go out of control.
Mrs. Whiting is a Prince George employee of the Northwest Telephone Company!
Fifty miles west of Kenney Dam at Skins Lakre^ the Aluminum Company of Canada Limited h d
y
has constructed a massive steel and ^concrete spillway to permit the escape of surplus water from the huge reservoir into the^-Skins Lake-Cheslatta\Lake system. ,The twin 192rtpn gates are raised and lowered by"reduction gears/coupled to-a 10 h.p. moto'r. Water. is"ex� pected to be flowing;.ovepthe spillway late next year. The road over, ihe gates is' zO feet
above "the spillway. . ss^
s^ ' . Photo courtesy of Harry JomJni, Alcan's Resident Engineer
inlies Have mg Memories
Royal Canadian Mounted Police ay not always get their man, lit they don't soon forget htm. |lnpoli'v court'here this week
fid Roberts entered a plea of
ity to a fin conn<
large-of wilful dam-
ince
tion with an incident ch took place in the city of-of tire Provincial Welfare ?nch last September 16. crts v.\ as "arrested as a vag-in McltVide recently and his name was flashed to Jooi-gc through normal iiinnels a vigilant mem-roftJiero'rce linked it with the wo.'iffirc incident. � rjuirl'ii to prince George he identified as the man"who, ;erw;ii;inu several minutes for welfare ' worker to interview suddenly arose, hurled a !UHl Plmi't ill rough an office ... . shed an adding ma-Plneoff a counter onto the floor
Typists To Compete In School Contest
Something new-area covered by School DistrjctrNo. 57.
An extremely wejU-sfiinmer jind fall season has^greatly hampered the work of canvassing at many rural pohftej-and It Is not expected that sufficient owners will be .edntacted to secure the necessary 70 per cent of approvals^until early in the new year^^-^'- ......
Don Bridges and Lew King, who are in charge of the country canvass; reported they have "been balked by muddy, impassable roads to farm homes located off the main highways. However, they were successful in interviewing about 500 occupants of rural homes, only to learn that about one-third of the properties had changed hands and it would be necessary to locate the new owners.
Of.-the 330 resident property-owners. who were interviewed only 30 refused to sign the petition forms.
\j Registered property-owners who B.C. Electric vice-president W. phave not been contacted and who C. Mainwaring says he is hopeful: would be willing to sign the peti-for a 'bountiful supply of natural. tion\are requested tq get in touch
gas'for the lower province main-., land." Mainwaring
with -either the canvassers-- or-Bruce Thomson, administrator of
impro\
proveVnent district are listed'
__ absentees" arid are now-living
at widely scattered points in Europe and North^America. They represent approximately 30 percent of thp total number of land-owners^m the , district, and .the matter 'of placing petitions in -tlieir'hands is causing some concern among those in charge of the canvass.
Hospital officials have emphasized the importance of securing as many signatures as possible, as a means of influencing the government in giving high priority to Prince George in new hospital construction.
On Brewing Licence
A decision on the oppl^atiop"oflrie~NechafcoBFewfng Go. Ltd. to construct and operate a brewery in Prince George is imminent/ reliable sources disclosed today.
The entire development will involve an expenditure of around $1,000,000. -
In behind^he-scenes moves in Prince George this week three key bodies agreed to support the application �or a brewery here.
City council has written, the company stating that it Nhas no objections to establishment of a brewery in Prince George,- and both the Prince George Board of Trade and the Junior Chamber of Commerce have taken similar action. .
It is believed the letters will be used in the company's submissions to the Attorney General.
A report from a Victoria Informant yesterday stated that-^a ier Crescent. , decision on the two-year-old ap-1 Both made their final decision plication for a brewing, licence ] to enter the park board race to-here will come* any day. 6 day, and both are newcomers to
City council^.dealt with its let- the municipal political field, ter of suppOTt at a committee | Mr. Perry, whose well known meeting "field Monday night. � j father is a former speaker of the ^J-f-'trie licence is granted, the j BritlsH Columbia legislature and,-brewery will be built on a site in I former Minister of Education,-ls North Neehako which was pur- j a long-time city residents-having chased by the company two years i come to Prince George'as a child ago. " 1 in 1914,'
All tests of water suitability have already been carried out.
Two Enter Race For Park Board Seats
First two candidates "for seats on the city's first parks board declared themselves this morning.
They are S. H. Perry, city druggist,.. 593 Tofield Street, and I. W.
i Bell, merchant, 2140 Laur-
Trade Board Backs NILA Campaign For Fire Protection
George Board of Trade will support the Northern Interior Lumbermen's Association in its drive to have municipal fire fighting, facilities installed in the city's industrial area north and south of First^Ayenue.
A vote to back the NILA in its stand for fire ""protection came from the general membership of the board late last week.
A. G.. Bowie, trade board president, said that "complete sympathy" with the aims of the lum$ aermen has been expressed bjr the board.
^�At present the city is considc^ ng^construction of a reservoir next year and installation of a aree ranaHtv waterniain in tho
arge capacity
mill area. ^
Two .mpnths
Trade Board Wants Road Policy Change
BURNS LAKE�At a Board of Trade meeting Here*. Tuesday night, strong support was given a proposal to have future heavy construction work on Highway 16 performed by private contrac-_ tors with the Department of Pub-" lie Works handling repairs and maintenance only.
The meeting agreed that the new construction wark on the ini
watermain ini. the
go F. W. Dobson, nanaging directoi*v of Prince George Planing Mills and a key figure "in the campaignxfqr fire protection, said Prince George is ripe for an industrial fire disaster^ which co_uld not only wipe out a $10,000,000 planing mill industry, but much of the rest of the city as well.
He received-his early education in Piincg/George and became a j graduate^ pharmacist in 1936. ^Efur'irig World War II ho served
^ served
with the Royal Canadian Air Force,and upon his discharge he opened Perry's Pharmacy, 1371 Third Avenue, in 1946.-.
Mr: Perry is a past president of the Prince George Kinsmen Club and has served on the executive of the Prince George Golf & Country Club.
Mr. Bell came to the city in 1942 from Wells, after having lived in the Interior intermittently since the 20's.
For the past eight years he has been engaged in the men's wear business and is now owner of Tommy Richardson's Men's Wear, 1364 Third Avenue.
An active figure in community affairs, he is leader of the Second Prince George Rover Crew, paht president of the Kinsmen CluK past\president of the Prince George-jGolf & Country Club and has twice^een president of the Prince GeorgiKRod & Gun Club.
Weather
Increasing cloudiness and more rain pn Friday is the weather outlook for the Prince George district.-
Forecast says not quite so mild tonight with light south winds, , becoming south 15 on Friday.
tow and high temperatures ex-pectetLLn Prince George tonight and Friday 32 and 45. ' ' .
Off The Wires
I (Conodion Press, Thursdoy, November 1.8, 1954)
Pair Arrested Following Cariboo Highway Holdup
100-MILE HOUSE�Police Wednesday arrested two suspects in a Monday midnight armed holdup of 59-Mile service station on the Cariboo Highway. r- - - � . r' �."���'. 1
Police say two men aged 20 and 21 were arrested after staying the! night at- a resort near Lone Butte. The arrests followed an intensive search by 15 officers and two-police dogs. � -
The two thugs held up Mrs. Albert Friend, station operator, and her boarder, Meryin Rodberg, tied them to chairs and escaped with $56 and Mrs. Friend's truck.
Forestry Department Says Inquiry Would Be Premature
VICTORIA^�It is reported here an inquiry into the province's forest industry which was demanded by opposition political groups would do little good at present. , __, .t
The Colonist says it has been^infbrmed by Forestry Department sources that a full inventory of B.C. forest resources is not yet completed and the management scheme has not been in effect long enough "to determine its ultimate effect under perpetual yield program."
FORT ST. JOHN�-Baby sitters will be.-at a premium here November
says/ negotiations , Prince- Geprge(rancl. District Hos- portent Prince George-Prince Ru- ,
are underway which may lead to j pital, whenever they arc- in the pert northern" trans-provincial ,25 and 26 when the 10th onnual drama festival is held. Most of the an application from Westcoast for ;.city.- In this way the canvass can \ highway is lagging far behind re-1 town's mothers are in the casts of the 18 plays to be presented 'and are
plant at Hanford, Washington, en-
companles, has been underwuy
an application j y I ay e
the right to serve California with , be greatly speeded 'up.
B.C. natural gas, serving B.C. j Mrs. C. OrAlbinSv who has been
points, Portland- and tho atomic
interviewing PrinceXGeorge residents who are owners of rural property, reports that thV canvass is about 85 per cent-complete and 92.4 per cent of the ownersNnave given approval to the scheme\
This does not include 96 signed petitions received by the Hospital Board through the mail prior to the start of the campaign to obtain signatures.
Mrs. Albins reported she/ was unable to locate 3S owners] and had learnedthat many of the properties listed in the 1953 assessment l'oll had reverted to the government -
Another 600 owners of rural property in the proposed hospit-
TOUCHES to an outside telephone plant installation in Prince George are shown
lib, Photo on left shows Norm BoWmdn and Ken Russell placing cable, and at ..the right-est Xlaiber is splicing cable The $45,000 project made- it possible to upgrade service in 1 "llle business area and provided telephone facilities for many residents'desiring service.
Courses Urged For PWD Equipment Men
Prince' George -Board of Trade will send a strong 1 rpcommenda-tion to the Provincial Department of Public Works(' urging that maintenance equipment operators be given courses in the operation of' their machines before being turned loose on the public highway.
The recommendation came from the trade board's highways and transportation committee and was endorsed by the general membership. -.:
The committee said that some public works equipment operat4 errs apparently do not know how to get the full use out of their machines. - i
Specifically mentioned '"were gradermen who dcTnot use sufficient blade penetration on dirt and gravel roads. ,
quirements arid at the present.; busy lining up sitters to look after their children, stage Public Works .crews;, and machinery can be kept busy with maintenance.
Attending the meeting and ing the move were E. T. Apyicwi-.i �
waite, MP for Skeena, and Cyril ,hooked Shelford, MLA for Omineca. Iless than estimated.
QUESNEl.;�A new sewer system taking in Quesnel business section has been given final inspection by'consulting engjneer A.-G. Graham.and.of-�= f'^ ';^\K* fiddly taken over by the village. About 50 premises are expected "to be Hooked 7 before the fjU-up to a system, which cost $55,000, $10,000
Record Attendance Air Associotion Meeting Lost Night
Ofy Scout Gete Prized
He pledged the continued sup-
Third Term
More than 100 persons applauded last night as Mayor j Gordon Bryant presented Leading Scout Gordon Crowe with , the coveted Queen's Badge and congratulated him on behalf of the city on becoming a member of Her Majesty's Scouts.
It was the annual meeting ami banquet of Fort George District BOy Scouts Association.
Earjier the 16-year-old son of Mrs". D. R. Crowe, 893 Alward Street, was given his Pathfinder Award by A. G. Bowie, president of the Board of Trade, jaccepted his B Cordsjfrom Distrjct_CQipniijs=-H sionefTecI Williams/and was presented with a framed placque signed by Governor-General'Vincent Massey, Chief Scout for Canada.
In-- another presentation ceremony Commissioner Williams was handed a parchment signifying ho is the holder of a Woods Badge issued by the General Council of the Boy Scouts of America.
"There is no better way to combat., the problem of juvenile ' delinquency than by taking' an Interest in the Boy Scout movement," Mayor Bryant told the gathering. �Not enough citizens realize the good work being done here by association officers arid Scout leaders."
H. B. TWIS^
f the city, an
; own membership, in thq_ Boy Scouts at Nanaimo more than twen.ty years ago.
Jack Bond, chairman of the nominations committee, announced that H, B. Twiss had agreed to serve a third term as association president, ana presented a slate of other officers for the 1955 term. They are:
Inspector Jack Lee, RCMP, vice-president; ,W. Hollingshead, treasurer; Jack Hope, .treasurer; A. G. Bowie, Cy Phillips, Ron King, Tom Maxwell, Tom Dil-worth and Ron Munro, executive committee. *
President Twiss outlined the aims of the Boy Scout movement and said there were now 21,000 Boy Scouts in the Yukon and British Columbia.
"We- arc still confronted with an acute shortage of volunteer leaders," said Mr. Twiss, who highly praised the � devotion and zeal, of District Commissioner Ted Wiliiams; Peter Smith, | assistant district commissioner, .and the new field commissioner, Joe Turner.
In his report_Cornmissipne.r Williams said "Scouting in "this dls-
(See SCOUT MEETING, Page 5)