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Prince George, B.C., MONDAY, March 21, 1955
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LARGEST FREIGHT LOCOMOTIVE ever used on Smithers division of the CNR is now in service between Prince George and Jasper The
giant Santa Fe type engine, which weighs 568,170 pounds and carries 15\ons of fiiel and 9,500'gallons of water, cpn haul 100 loaded cars. It has an over-all length, including tender of 84 feet, 6 inches, and the ten. driving wheels have "a 'diameter of 57 inches
listrict Mills Show oduction Increase
jSawlog cut in the Prince George Forest District so far [year is up 31 percent over last year as a result of fair ling conditions and a relatively stable market. .. � � ^district cut 35,277,066,boai'd w s'awlogs during the month Binary,'an increase of 25 per liver "the corresponding figure
pi.
In adjacent to Prince George fcl a rut of 27,471,695 board ;he second month of the Forest Service year/ a pro-mi increase)- of 50 per cent the January cut one year
("same nulls, with production .Dili hoard feet for the i months of 1955, have |vpr GO |mt cent of the forest cf total.
Mills Asked To Pay 60 Percent Of
Walermain Cost
Operators of planing mills along Prince George's , River Avenue would not commit themselves Friday to 60 per cent financial participation in a municipal project to install a. watermain in the city's heavy industrial section. >
idudion this year is still 30- A meeting xbet ween municipal erii off what it-was at this in 1!)V>. the last record
(Hey Development pints Forester
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with
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Sepvtce and a.degree in,
In^ffrom the University/07 Ih Columbia has been named Icr for iShelley Development ltd!; " y
:onip;iny is/one of six i'eceiitly repoived prelimin-P'proval oil its forest man-
jeni application.
of- preparing
the
i>g plan for the 93,000-acre [of tljiilier is John Frey, for-tighter pilot with the Royal fli.'tii Air Force.
�'ro'y came to Shelley De-inient from the BCFS where V worked;on the giant task King the provincial forest in-
.Development has until
"t l!).*)(i to file its work>
Red Cross Campaign Reaches Half Way
With its fund raising campaign reaching the half way point, oh St. Patrick's Day, Red Cross Society in Prince George reported close to $2500 had been contributed by Prince George residents.
Total objective for the March campaign is $5000".'
Returns .to date haye-been from^ canvassers in the city. No distpiet returns have yet come in. /
With other outside pokfts also making their first returns to B.C. Red Cross headquarters, it is reported that $130000 was contributed in BrittelfColumbia during the first nhre days of the campaign. Qudta for the entire province fe^$
officials and planing mill representatives'was held at Qtfy Hall Friday' evening but no/rigreefnent on 'financial participation by the lumber companies/was reached.
Reporting bjpiefly on the meeting this morning, Mayor Gordon Bryant saiu/the city is now awaiting eijther acceptance of the 60 per/Cent plan or an offer of a counter-proposal. . �
Installation of a" watermain in the industrial area will cost $53,-000 and the industry's share of it would be.$31,800.
Planing mill operators contend that they pay high municipal taxes and are entitled to the watermain as a city service.
Mayor Bryant said that installation of a water system in the industrial area "must be considered, to same extent, as a sectional' benefit.,"
"Someone must pay^for the main and I don't thirfk the whole load should falFupon the city's tax payers,'>said the mayor.
Milipfficials say that they will already be faced with the high -cost of installing water systems at their own plants.
Nanaimo was a star performer ip/early campaign activity. Campaign chairman for'- the Island city reported $6,000 of their $7,-500 quota has already been received.
Young Woman Faces Forged Cheque Count
A 22-year-old Edmonton woman, Virginia Jessie Burroughs, was^ordeyed.to^tand.;trlal, on a
charge of uttering a forged[document when she appeared for preliminary hearing, before Magis^ trate P. J. Moran last Thursda^
She is alleged to have nr-Csen ted a fraudulently endojareu cheque for $101.51 in my-rnent of goods purchased ata^city sporting goods store, to'the value of $50. The offencG^occurred on November 19 lastf
The cheque was made -out in the name of Shannon Spruce Mills to the endorsee, R. King According to the store clerk, the woman re-erfdorsed the cheque by signing the name "D. King", and received the balance in cash.
Accused was escorted back from Edmonton by the RCMP and pleaded guilty to the charge.
K. TUPPER
kouver Engineer fds Telephone Co.
Tupper, Vancouver en-I1' w'Iio'has been outstanding [� development of commer-"jphony in B.C.; has I appointed vice-president and I"! manager of the North-P.Icphp'ne Company, company provides radio-lioiic!�service: to approximate-[f land, stations and 2400 P'.ving coastal waters, as ��' number of vehicles. In '� the company provides exchange service to 7725 iniies in 14 communities in ipovinco, including Prince
'�'upper, a graduate of has hocn - connected with 'I'th-wcst Telephone Comp-nce its inception in 1929. n^2. he has been manager iff ongineer.
,his work in the application , '� techniques to the exten-iot toll.telephone services in I"11' Mr. Tupper last year was 4 I'ellow or the Instifftte of _ engineers: Only 13 Canad-inavc- been ao' honored. .
30-Minule Drought Caused By Missing Link in Pump System
Several hundred Prince George residents were without water for a few minutes Thursday afternoon when high winds blew down a tree .on the north face of Connaught Hill and carried away a remote control system wire which periodically activates big pumps in the city's Nechako River pumping station.
If the incident .had come 4S hours later when the installation of one of the most modern water control systems in B.C. had been completed, it would have gone unnoticed .and . water pressure would have remained normal throughout the city.
City engineering department officials explained that the only feature of the automatic water control system which was not yet �installed was the one which the emergency called for.
The missing link, which has since been completed, consisted of an /alarm circuit which warns city officials when any of the automatic features of the supply system fail to operate.
Nucleus of the remote-control supply system is a highly sensitive pressure switch situated inside the 100,000 gallon storage tank atop Connaught Hill.
When water in the tank falls to a point about four' feet from the top, electrfcal impulses speed out from the pressure switch and energize an electronic control mechanism situated in the Nechako River pumphouse.
This control then turns on one of three large electrical pumps, which starts refilling the storage tank.
]f the tank is not. full within a brief interval, the control unit, then switches on a second pump, and, if it is still not full 20 minutes later, puts the third pump into operation.
When the tank is full the pressure switch signals this informa-
tion to the pumphouse and1 the pumps are automatically shut off.
To prevent.uneven wear of the units caused by the fact that the first pump to be turned on runs longer than the second, and third pinnps, a special device inside the control unit rotates the sequence so -that running .time remains equal.
The emergency warning system rings a bell in the fire hall below Connaught Hill whenever the pressure switch demands more water and the pumps fail to respond. In such cases the pumps will-be turned on and off manually.
.,Only higher portions of the city actually � ran dry .Thursday and city officials believe that no place was without water for more than 30 minutes..
Millworker Injured When Roof Collapsed
A 19-year-okl millworker was rushed to Prince George and District Hospital On Wednesday following an accident at Ilixon.
Harold Holzworth, son of Arthur Holzwo'rth of South Fort Jeorgc.was pinned beneath a roof that had collapsed from weight of snow.
He is being treated for severe oack and. head injuries. His condition was reported by hospital authorities today as "satisfactory."
He is an employee of S & D Lumber Co., and -the accident occurred at the company's mill, 35 miles south of Prince George.
South Fort George To Let s Contract Soon
A control will be let here within a few days forinstalla-tion^of th^flrsf water distribution system to serve one of the area's^taest communities;� South Fort George.
A/mistee for the South Fort