An Independent 37- No. 92 (Two Sections) of Central and Northern British Columbia prinee Qeorge B ^ M0NDAY NoYftniber 22, 1954 $4 00 pfcr espy [urvives Car Plunge; lits Man With Truck A 31-year-oltf C.N.R. employee is in "fairly good condi-n Prmce George & District Hospital today after being �d down by a light,truck which was driven by a district ,,on. who one day earljer had survived an 87-foot plunge hospit , Injuries fen Nj' airport hill in her light English car. suffering extensive Alex Beznochuk, a |George, and is an employee of \he Northwest Telephone Company. She was treated for minor shock d h helping fellow ,ovees piil a speeder on the t the point where the CNR >at th At jiunan, a i men hi .off tl) ,e t jjed-by the level point where the CNR ;ed by First Avenue ml of the steel bridge.-. Whiting, driving a owned by Richard patently did not see I.the speeder as she old p g lice that she was sun as sne cached sing. The accident place a.t:3:25 p.m. hk pi uochuk was pinned to the mentarlly and. then clsed down. lv after 8:30 a.m. the pre-msjtroniing Mrs. Whiting was .(1 from. her car after it had out uf control on the air-hill and plunged down a hank. I She was unhurt in spite of the * that her car had rolled end-before coming to .rest ionp some trees. Whiting resides afc Fore-b. B.C. >'x miles west of Prince minor shock and a severe shaking up following her first accident. Start Drive if Injured leorge Rlks Lodge ha.s !�:-. a drive to raise funds for icTcIs, who injur-playing with a over a week ago. five-year-old � daughter of ml Mis. Stanley Shields of n -Valley, Jo-Anne pierced eye ball while playing, with opener and it was feared she aid lost- the sight of her eye. Specialist medical attention was �commended and last, Saturday echild left with her mother for liicouvpr, where she will be !�� the care of eye specialist h.Wiiliam G. Wilson'. I The Rlk < Lodge has guaranteed ai.-e medical and travelling jspenses required by the young-ler. Local medical authorities lave advised that af least one' jperation will be necessary. |All fun/Is raised by the. Elks cii-'o will he put in a-Jo-Anne ItieWs Trust Fund Account. Pal Ihunont and Hilton Lewis (sve been authorized i .by the �lp' t/i .canvass for fund.1? for fivcyoar-old girl. Contrlbu- Two Escape Death In Spectacular Crash Two youths miraculously escaped death and serious injury Saturday night when the late model sedan in which they were riding failed to negotiate a turn at the eastern approach to Vanderhoof and soared between 50 and GO feet into a nearby.millyard. Damage to the car is said to he in the vicinity of $1500. Ross Fowler, age 20, driver of" the car, was picked up 85 feet from the point where the car left the road and is suffering from kidney injuries. His companion, K. Dean, was merely shaken up in the spectapu^ lar crash. On the spot .with EASY DOES IT THIS SEQUENCE of pictures shows how the U.S. Navy's new vertical rising plane, the Convair XFY1, comes in for a landing on its tail from, level flight. Left: the plane flies horizontally across landing. field. Centre: it zooms into a vertical position. Right: gently back to the ground in a vertical position. forestry Talks 'Ineffective' Says Spokesman For Hit A A recent meeting between district lumbermen and high officials of the British Columbia Forest Service" was described by NlLA secretory manager R. J. Gallagher today as "far from satisfactory." "We got absolutely nowhere," said Mr. Gallagher. The meeting- was for. the purpose of discussing lumbermen's problems arising from forest SLOWLY NOW Unemployed On Increase As Rains Saturate Bush Roads ear J^^ v- Unemployrrfent isstill mounting in the Prince George dist-j"1"^-------------------------------~----- Unemployrrfent is still mounting in the Prince George rict following another week, of rain. The city's planing mills! are operating with only skelton shifts and-it is believed their ptitput is less than 30 percent of normal for this4ime of year. said marks on the ground beside the highway indicateu that the car 36^/eet through the air sailed before^sfrikirtg the ground .and skidding another 20 feet and com--frig to rest against a pile of lumber. Fowler u'as thrown another 25 feet and-his wallet was found 25 feet further on. The accident took place shortly before midnight. PG Hospital To Get Suitable Donation Suitability of a piece of equipment which will be donated to Prince Gebrge & District Hospital by the Kinsmen Club next year, was emphasized at a meeting of the club last week by Dr. Gordon _Flerheller, city physician. '. As its major public service project for 1955 the Kinsmen Club will present the hospital with an-obstetric^ table and stretcher cost-Ing about-SlOOO. Dr. Kierheller pointed out, to the meeting that the hospital is situated at the center^of an area where the birthrate is more than 50 per cent higher than the^pro-vincial average of 25 babies per, year for each 1000 of population:' He said that the birth rate.w'ith- One large city planing mill re-I ported it took delivery on a mere 300,000 board feet of rough lumber last , month compared to a' normal of about 3,000,000 board feet. , . The continued rains are curtail! ing shipments in three different ways, one millman explained late la�t week. 1. Lumber is not being brought to Prince George from sawmills in- sufficient quantity to meet available orders and keep planing mil.ls busy. �2. Inventory lumber cannot dry properly under current weather conditions "and therefor cannot be, dressed and shipped Without incurring a financial loss. � 3. Mill yards, like logging roads, are extremely wet and some companies are hesitating to use them because frost might come quickly and leave them In a rutted condition fb'r'trie entire winter. Even mills with dry kilns are �unable to maintain production'. Kilns demand fresh grjeeri lumber and earinojt-operate, on partly dried inventory stocks without drastic reduction in quality. Prices'for und'ried lumber are .such that the half-dry inventories cannot be shipped. � �-''(�.� Only one thing caa put the lumber industry back on its Feet Wbf.ore Christmas and that is ;dso l)e left at Carmich- in the' interior area covered by Islam! I.uuera|- Agencies, McKen-1 the Cariboo Health ^jriit rivals and Dunsmuir Ltd., j that of Bombay, -India.' ie Ltd. and Carl Ben-1 The ..rate of births in the district is close tcK-10 per thousand. _________/ Power To Be Plank ndidaljrRv S. Ferguson � Further reductibn^of city power rqfe'svand a money bylaw f'icy for sewer construction are two main planks-irv-tbe civic fecjion platform of R. S. "Doc" Ferguson, we.H:known city City Scores In I Inter-School Tvillltfl � f Pm!l jobless in the area, but stated an increase in unemployment has ' continued ever since the first of' the month when 1200 persons were claiming UIC benefits. �Estimates of the number of unemployed in the district run to 3000, with possibly another 500 school "last^Saturda working only part time. Competing with tfie^Prince I George. team were four students A Prince George^eam of Grade 10 students tookxtop' place in the first inter-school typing contest held at the^Pnhce George high ,from Vanderhoof. SalVatlOn ArmV MflJVj Doreen Corke of the Prince T If* "i I\ A / |.George High School received tfie In If |C|t Pr HPHrriP highest individual net scored dur-IU FIJII I I. VyUIl|C ing the contest with 51 words per Prince George wlU^De host to-1 minute. morrow to a widely travelled Salvation Army major who is currently making a tour of the en- tire Dominion. He ,is^ Major Arnold Brown, High scorer for the Vanderhoof team-was Trudy Howe with a net of 33 words per minute. Luncheon was served to the typing teams in the home econo- special efforts officer and public mics room following the morning relations representative. I contest. Arriving here early tomorrow,! Taking part in the competition he will keep ah appointment with i ijvefe second year typists Trtattene Mayor Gordon Bryant at H a.m. LePoidevin, Trudy Howe, Jessie and tomorrow night will address Morrison and Marjorie Stewart a public meeting and show films for the Vanderhoof school, and at the Salvation Army Hall, 1088 Francis Fedoruk, Phyllis Malay-Fourth Avenue. \ ko, Joy Rees and Doreen Corke While in Prince George Major for the Prince George High SchooL A group of Grade 11 students will travel to Dawson Creek on Brown will be the guest of Lt. and Mrs. George Chapman, local Salvation Army officials. From here Major Brown will make his way to the Yukon. service policy and administration. Representing the industry was the forestry committee of the Northern Interior Lumberme Association. Mr. Gallagher said th�--meeting was the "least staged between and spokesmen for lumber industry. ever forest service the interior Major topic- of discussion at the meeting was policy< Under this the marked sale system of . forest cutting the forest service marks which trees may be cut in a given area with a view to furthering the sustained yield program. Lumbermen contend that marking of trees greatly increases logging costs and has never been proven effective. "The forest service is experimenting with the industry,", Mr. Gallagher said, "and if the experiment fails the damage to the Industry will be tremendous and long-lasting." He said the NILA is a strong supporter of the policy/Of sustained yield, but that It cannot accept the forest service method of putting that policy into practice. Officials of ^tne forest service were unimpressed by ^photographic evidence of extensive blow-downs^in areas where selective logging has been applied in the Prince George district, the NILA spokesman said. "They are adamant in their marking policy and they appear to have closed their minds to any. evidence which shows the folly of this policy." Mr. Gallagher said the association will continue to press for a royal commission on forestry. Saturday to take part in a similar contest there. Most operators agree that they will resume operation as soon as ground conditions permit, even if they can operate- for-only a Few days prior to the Christnias layoff: Unemployment Insurance Com-; mission officials were unable to 'give latest figures on the number Mr. [�Vimi.s()n< announced his fla.juro on Friday afternoon taking o'ut nomination pap; �'.- lan Interview with The Citi-ho said that if he .is elected 'tt'ill iii-Lie city,council to cut Jt'i' I'iites and boost voltage.. He ntod out that under the ?meius signed ^recently with British Columbia Power Com-"n. ihe city is no longer re: l t budget for new generat- or distribution system puired 'unit). ^.tension The Xii i factor Mhc p.,. He safd "poor n Ws \(iii-; Ns. .' !*� Ferguson had high praise ^present city council which, ^u>, 'has made an excellent gr�" .;,' new aPl^roach to city ing which results from should be passed along >er consumer, Mr. Fer- the city currently has ii\ver factor"-which al- Syndicate Purchases School Debentures Sale of $8,064,000 of 314 percent school debentures was announced last week by Premier W. A. C. Bennett, minister of finnnce, acting as agents hir 10 B.C. boards of�se hool-t^-ustces. Price was $!>8.B17 for eacli S!00, or at a cost to the seller b>f "3.-114 percent. ' , - Included in the sale was $21,000 in debentures Lssued by School District No. T>7, Prince George. Successful bidder was a syndicate composed of A. E. Ames & Co. Limited, Do'minion Securities Corporation Ltd., Canadian Bank of Commerce and the Royal Bank of Canada: Three More Seek Seals On Parks Board; Slate Is Full Announcements made here this morning by two well known city women and one businessman assure municipal electors of a full slate of park bp_grd candidates. Latest to announce their intention of seeking seats on the--re^. cently authorizedjaafks board are Mrs."William Kirschke. Mrs. Har-ttitr'Hatch aaw Norman Heighing- Two other prospective park commissioners who, announced their condidacies late last week are S. H. Perry, city druggist, and W.. Beil, men's wear merchant. If another candidate enters the park board field an election will become necessary. If not.uhe five. will take office by acclamation. Mrs. Hatch is the wife of a former city alderman and is active in athletic and general community affairs. A top-flight golfer and curler, she is captain of the Women's division of Prince George Golf Jt Country Club and is president of Annual Meeting Held Friday plan- for "ie of m ?jth blaw n'ation of a master 'I'oOt lighting would be I-'erguson's aims, along .th y sewer construction ,(; laying of concrete side-Cj,'v lhe more remote parts of -Sewer construction is-currently 1 n ["'""date pointed out, and in-ll'1 advance payments :''!' ''> ns much as $246.-�v'l'yi?e of financing retards is ion of" one of our most- i'octed, ]\[r. Ferguson would i-iucfit .c'�'oPei'ation of all city !up �^�[ct organizations to speed '"ithd- n�w nosPital Program �eG |V'eW t0 aclvanclng the pro->n t "f'.for a start on construe- R. S. "DOC" FERGUSON Coming here as an employee of Pan-American Airways in 1940, Mr.. Ferguson became active in community affairs and in 1945 went into the radio-iarid electrical business on his own, 'Today he is the major shareholder and managing director of Fer*guson Electric, 1495 Third Avenue. '<" He was a strong supporter of the candidacy of Mayor Gordon D. Bryant a year agp and took an active part in the mayor's election campaign. A past president of the Prince George Kinsmen Club and charter member of the Klwanis, Mr. Ferguson is. an active community worker amMs chairman of the Fall Fair Association In Good Financial Condition Or The Prince George Agricultural and Industrial Association is in a healthier position today than ever before in its 39-year-old history, treasurer t. B. Tobiasen indicated in a financial statement presented Friday to the annual meeting of the Association. Reflecting the progressive growth of the fair, the statement lists assets totalling $2G,G75.34. Inabilities were reduced from $8,129.25 in.. 1953 to-$2,048.50 this year. Receipts to the Association rin 1954 totalled $12,548.23 while expenditures amounted to $12,364.00. Admission fees to the 1954 fair amounted to $4,146.60 as compared with $4,427.20 last y�ar, � Unpleasant weather was blamed for the slight decrease In attendance t'liis "year." i �', Membership fees to the .Assbcia- committee ,of the Pfinee ; tlon rose from $79 in 1953 to $97 power Gebrge Board of Trade. I in 1954, indicating tfie increased interest which is being shown in working with the Fair Association. Membership fees,, advertising, concessions, donations and gate receipts contributed to the receipts of $12,148.65 obtained , by the Association last year. Expenditures included $1,480.25 distributed as prize money for agricultural exhibits and $850 awarded as prizes in the horse racing, hot rods and truck roadeo. ' Of the surplus of $6,175,20 realized'following the fair, $5,478.59 was spent bn;debt reductions. Other expenditures were capital purchases" of electrical installations and equipment. . the ladies' section of the Prince George Curling Chib. She is also an active member of the Prince George Guild of the Vancouver Children's Hospital. Mrs.- Kirschke is well knpwnin comrnurfity circles and has been a resident of Prince George for 22 years. Her husband is a prominent millman. At/present she is rorr- member of Che recently-created Prince George Recreation Commission .and is active in a number of athletic associations. Last year slje was secretary-treasurer of the Northern Zone of the British Columbia' Hockey Association and she has served as president of the Prince George Girls' Softball Association and vice-president of the Mixed Softball Association. . She Is active in the Rebecca Lodge: and is""aTpast" president of the city chapter of the Canadian Women's Institute. Mr. Heighington came to Prince George in 1948 and is'seeking a parks board seat because he believes that the planning and coiv struction o% parks and other recreational facilities is , a "prime need in orderly community development." He is owner of Superior Laundry. & Cleaners Ltd., 1233 Sixth Avenue. At -present he is a member of the executive of the Gyro Club here and of the Mason Lodge. All five candidates are making their first entry into municipal politics. - � ' " .� . Showers Tuesday . More of the same is-the weather forecast for the Prince George district. ' .......i Variable cloudiness wilL. continue on Tuesday with occasional showers expected during the day. Temperatures will continue mild and winds will be light Low and high readings expected at Prince George tonight and tomorow 35 and 46. Kinsmen Raise $504 ForJIood Vicllms^ Ontario flood victims will get just over $500 from city and district residents as^a^result of a whirlwind campaign , stagjed Iaiil week by the Prince George Kinsmen Club. A tag day sponsored by the club on Saturday and carried out with the help of Kinettes and Air Cadets raised a' substantial $404, ana the City of Prince George earlier in the week made a $100 donation to the project. The Ontario Flood Relief p'und is being administered by the Canadian Fedefatio nof Mayors & Municipalities. Three Soccer Matches Played At Weekend Sons of Germany, Experimental Farm and- Town soccer teams were triumphant in three games piayed at Duchess Park at the week-end. On Saturday the Experimental Farm piled up the biggest win-, ning margiifof the season as they downed" Sons of Italy 6-1. Yesterday a smooth-passing German XI scored twice while tho Teachers were unable to capitalize on, a single scoring opportunity. In another gam� the Town team downed the Sons of Denmark 4-1. League officials have -^received from Vancouver somclnstruetion^ al films on socceiviand these will be shown Tuesday (tomorrow.) at, the high school at 7:30 p.m. School Board Agrees To City's Requests School board spokesman H. A. Moffat said late last week that an effort would be made to comply with two requests which came from' city council along with endorsation of the new $1,-000,000 school expansion program. The requests were to have the old King George V Elementary School painted on the exterior and to have a hardwood floor incorporated Into a proposed new gymnasium. Plans at present call for a concrete floor In the latter building. ...:- Mr. Moffat said he was quite sure the school board would be able to comply with the request to paint King George V School, and said his building committee would try and find funds with which to build the hardwood gymnasium'f loor. The>new school expansion by- w/wiH be put before the city ana" district electorate on December 9. Unlike an earlier one which-was twice defeated here earlier this year, the new program has the full endorsation' of the city council. M.r-(M0NT) AIRD has been appointed manager of Prince George branch of Hales ,H. Ross & Sons Co. Ltd., pioneer western Canada lumber manufacturers. W. Oils To Seek School Board Seal Prince George may have a con tested .school board election the first' time in sevei-al years. Although it is not known whether the two incumbent members will see re-election, a hew-comer to the public-office field declared himself this morning. / Seeking the seat of a sdiool trustee on the board of District Number 57 will be Wilfred Olts, city electrical store .-employee. r'i Olts, a past president of the Prince George ivinsmen Club and former boy^out official will filp nominaton papers this week. He-has been active in the parent-teacher groups since coming to the city 11 years ago, and has two children attending, city schools. So far undeclared are Trustee Jack Nicholson, who could "not be reached at press, time, and Trustee William-Rees who said he would make a statement on Thursday. ' '� Off The WlresToday Canadian Press. Association � Monday, November 2.2, 1954 Police Dog Leads To Arrest of Oakalla Escapees MISSION�"Bobby", RCMP trail dog, Saturday led Police to two escaped convicts near here, nine hours after being put on the scent. Captured were Lawrence Corbett and Russell V. Patterson, who ^scaped Oakalla prison farm near Vancouver-Thursday. The two fled afoot from the wreck of a stolen cor ot Haney, 15 miles west of here. A third man, who escaped jail with them, surrendered to police earlier, weak from loss of blood due. to alcut hand. . � Corbett is a brother of a young gi(1 who was murdered more than a year ago at Quesnel. Her slayer has been' convicted and sentenced to hang but.is^..repealing the sentence. . '_____________ Wholeslaugliter of Birds Follows Marine Accident VICTORIA�More than 1,000 water.birds were massacred by gunfire on greater Victoria's oil covered beaches Saturday, leaving an additional 2,000 dying waterfowl to be killed. Almost 3,000 have been killed since last Wednesday when thick oil scum collected on beaches following grounding of the U.S. freighter North Beacon off Oak Bay. Her hull was punctured, releasing heavy fuel oil. Vengeance-Bound Escaped Convict Is Recaptured VANCOUVER�A fprmer Air Force officer, held at bay by a knife-wielding escaped convict, said here Sunday night the man told him he was en route to Winnipeg to slay his wife. > Ken Morton, provincial registrar of voters, told police Robert Sates, 26, who escaped from the� provincial penitentiary at New" Westminister,^ur-prised him in an unoccupied house in Burnaby. Knife at throat, Morton was forced to drive Bates to downtown Vancouver.. He soid the only reason he broke out was to go "finish off" his =wife in Winnipeg. He said she hqd but his child-into a home and he/was going to get her for it. . CALGARY�THe Big Bend Highway between Golden and Revelstoke has been officially /closed. Motorists using it are travelling at their own risk. No gas is available along the Big Bend, no patrolsvand no snow plowing are carried out. PORT ALBERNI�Body of one af two men killed when a logging engine plunged into Tain swollen Franklin River near here was recovered by navy frogmen Saturday. The bodywas identified as that of Einar Erickson, head brafceman. Body of the engineer, E. Crpsby of Victoriaflsvstill missing.. Th* mishap occured Friday. . . . . � � 'I__