LIBRARY VICTORIA.
An Independent   Semi-Weekly   Nowipoper   Devoted   to   the  interest   of   Central   end   Nortk
No. 31
(Two Sections)
Prince George, B.C., MONDAY, April 18, 1955
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oads Rob Area Of 500,000 Payroll
Inodequocy of government roads and highways will cost
Prince George district a payroll loss of more than a half
pillion dollars this year, a Citizen investigation has disclosed.
The loss has become increasingly larger each year as the I t industry expanded and road closures became more wide-lad and lasted for longer.periods.
Almost 50 percent of the 5000 unemployed in this dist-' �t would work a whole month longer this year if provincial and highways would stand up to spring break-up condi-
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.,.,�! millman described ion today as "an intol-million   which   the  gov-irient apparently  fails   to  ap-,lle anil which will ultimately l0 complete chaos." (|(|S|. oiim.itt's �>f the unem-vnii-nt  situation  here   today llcati' Unit �">on() mPn are out work i" the district and that of  tliese   directly   derive
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micd half of this num-work   for  four more
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; \V Hilton, president of the them Interior Lumbermen's l^jation explained it this way: II have about four weeks Ike best logging and sawmilling Ithei; left each year when road highway restrictions go into
imall mills have little storage city because of the Imperman-of mill-sites and they must (tail   production    when    their
�t jammed.
These are the mills which Id continue to dry-pile their llii lumber through operating ital advanced by planing mills. in there are the sawmills that not dry-pile due to lack of op-ling capital advances and ,-c planing mill deliveries are Ipemled by public road condi->Vthus depriving them of the ortunity to obtain operating lital."
Hilton said he believed tit an estimate of an uimeoe**-unniial payroll loss of. a llf million dollars jis u direct wilt nt inadequate public kjhiughfiiri'.s was "a bit con* Iryatfve."
the government would' build feather roads,, in this area ny companies would duplicate hi. a! ]v" Qf a  100-font section ��"f   C:u-ih�o   Kiglnvay   one. 1(1 north of stone Creek. fngincer; rkirtfr 2! I to sav(<
^uvcl workmen are nlr-a-clay shifts try-ie cast abuttment of ^JJCsnel span. Last week the temenr pier sank 24 inches nn Friday the scene of riear-
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today trying to shore up the sinking bridge foundation.
On Thursday night a 100-foot section of the Cariboo Highway succumbed to water saturation and simply dropped 12 feet straight down.
Traffic was stalled momentarily on the north-sound link but highways department equipment was rushed to the scene and a "bypass" road was scooped out of the adjacent clay bank.
The "slip", as engineers call it, was brought about by diversion of a small stream during the construction of the P.G.-Quesnel link of the PGE.
. A small stream will have to be flumed away from the highway before the condition can be remedied.
About 500 cubic yards of material will be required to fill the crater brought about by the slip but engineers are afraid to put the fill in place until the stream has been flumed away from the highway. They say the added weight of the fill might,cause the road to sink even further.
Maximum load restrictions throughout the district remain unchanged from late last week.
Thousands of dollars have been spent by the highways department in planking long sections of impassable highway.
A section of the Northern Trans-Provincial Highway six miles west of here is being planked today and already long sections have been planked immediately west of the. city.
More planking is being undertaken at Josephine Hill commenc-ing'at the Chilako River Bridge.
SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL
SIR ANTHONY  EDEN
Fifty-seven-year-old Sir Anthony Eden has realized a longtimt ambition as he was made Prime
Minister of England following Sir Winston Churchill's retirement.    Sir Anthony's years of
suspense as the No. 2 man in British politics is now ended as the nation's two big political
parties get set for their fourth post-war general election.
Gets Nine Months For Indecent Assault
After deliberating 45 minutes a jury of 12 men at the Court House Saturday afternoon pronounced James Kenneth Anderson, 30, of Cassiar B.C., guilty of indecent assault.
�Following their verdict, Chief Justice J. V. Clyne sentenced Anderson to a nine-month prison term at Oakalla Prison Farm.
The offence occurred on the night of October 24, 1954, when the accused assaulted a 20-year-old Indian girl, Lucy Lutz, a resident of Lower Post.
D. F. McNeil of Quesnel represented Anderson and F. S. Perry of this city appeared as crown prosecutor.
It was the only criminal case of the assize court hearing and lasted for two days.
Ground Broken For PGE Northern Link
Fulfillment of a long-nurtured dream commenced a half mile northeast of the CNR's Fraser. River bridge this morning when a large General Construction Co. tractor clattered its way into the adjacent wilderness and broke the first ground for northern extension of the Pacific Great Eastern Railway. The occasion went without cere-  ----------
mony and only a handful of workmen and engineers was present.
General Construction holds contracts for railway grade construction along the first 37 miles of the northern extension route. KXPKRIMKXTAL
A company official tola" The Citizen that today's start was really only an experiment and that work might be suspended if heavy' moisture content of the ground made the going too tough.
Engineers in charge of the operation hope that some right-of-way clearing can be done while frost is still in the ground.
Although "-General Construction has more equipment on hand here, only one unit is being used in the trial run today.
Actually the start of construction- on the northern rail link y/ a year ahead of schedule, :Pne government originally dkr not plan on getting the prok>et .underway until the sprine^of (1956.
Cost of construpmig the first 65 miles of the extension will be approximately/810,000,000 including the piMcjc of a bridge over the Fraser fever.
Contract for the last 20 miles  atJme initial section has not been  C
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- -Forestry officials here have not yet received any definite information on the subject, but one official stated that the road will be similar in construction to the one in use at the Hixon Working Circle.
No definite plans have been made by the Forest Service for the disposal of timber rights in the area, but it is anticipated that it will be utilized on a working circle plan,
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Awarding of a contract for the 20 miles immediately south of Red Rocky Creek was postponed pending a British-Columbia Power Commission survey of hydro possibilities jn the Summit Lake region.
No decision lias yet been made on which route the PGE will follow north of the Parsnip River. Alternatives under cotjdderation are the Tine Pass ana the Rocky Mountain Trenchy/
Railway eri&meers are now working in
edifications for the
second \cg/6( the northern extension   ruVming   from   Red   Rocky
to the Parsnip. Peace River rail link will f)en up hundreds of millions of feet of virgin timber and will provide B.C. with its first economical rail connection to deep-sea shipping ports. .  .
UBC Oarsmen Won't Go Far On Prince George Contribution
Campaign Ends Without- A Penny Here /
Campaign to raise funds for the purpose of sending the University of British Columbia rowing eight to,the Henley Royal Regatta ended on Easter week-end without a penny having been raised in Prince George, hometown of one of the crew-members.
City council last month received a request for financial assistance in sending the BEG rowers to the famous Henley Regatta. On March 14 they voted to turn the matter over to the Prince George Recreation Commission.
The request for assistance came from the University Development Fund and similar missives went
out to other cities and towns where UBC rowing crew members reside.
about a late drive in order to assist the UBC crew.
The present situation "does not look very good for Prince George," she said.
Mayor Gordon Bryant also expressed surprise that the campaign had ended without Prince George having participated.
He told The Citizen he intend-ed to look- into the matter  and
Highest In History
Would  Fence Canada Two  Feet  High
If Prince George Forest District's February sow log production was reduced to boards it would be sufficient to surround all of Canada with a fence two feet high and one inch thick.
The February sawlog mark was the highest in the district's history for any 30-day period and totalled almost 90;000,000 board feet.
Cut into six-inch boards it would exceed the equatorial circumference of the world by one third..
Highest previous sawlog cut for one month came during March, 1953, when a record 81,000,000 board feet was scaled.
Sawlog production of 156,715,-500 board feet for the first three production months of 1955 is more than 30 per cent higher than it
CCF Moves To Heal Internal Dissension
VANCOUVER    Duncan,  Powell  River, J|
student of dentistry.
The University Development Fund required $25,000 to send the UBC crew to the Royal Henley. Results of'the drive in other cities and towns have not yet been disclosed.
Shortly   after   the   recreation commission was asked to handle the local campaign a city con-tractor and his employees publicly announced they woul/1 donate $100 towards the cause, but nobody ever called to collect It-Contacted   Saturday,   six   days after the campaign officially ended, Jack  Hotel I,  recreation commission chairman, told The Citizen  that one  proposal had been forwarded, to council but had been rejected and returned.
He said the commission has no ajternative plan at the moment and that^someof its members are away on holidays.
There would be no point in holding a meeting, he added, \intil all members of the commission could attend.
Apprised Friday of the fact that the Henley Regatta campaign had closed before Prince George had aised: a cent. Alderman Carrie Jane Gray, city council's representative on the recreation commission, was shocked.
She said she had . been � out. of touch with the situation due to illness but would attempt to bring
Woodworker Fights For Life After Hit By Falling Snag
A 26-year-old district woodworker is fighting for his life today in Prince George & District Hospital as a result of an industrial accident last Saturday. .Reported   in   critical   condition   -------------------------:---------------:�
this morning suffering from head -and internal injuries is Samuel Yohadnosky, a chokerman for Lincoln Sawmills Ltd.
Yohadnosky was hurt shortly after he went on shift at a mill near Mile 51 on the John Hart Highway.
Police who investigated the accident said the chokerman was working with a crew cleaning up near the sawmill. A bulldozer is said to have struck a dead snag and brought it down on top of Yohadnosky, knocking him to the ground.
The injured man was lifted onto a stretcher and prepared for the journey to town. The party bringing him to hospital was met by a city Ambulance just south of Summit Lake and.the patient was transferred to it.
Police    say    the    woodworker
comes from Quebec but efforts to trace next of kin have so far failed. He is.single.
Council To Vote On 1955 Budge!i Tonight
City council's finance committee will seek "approval of its record 1055 budget tonight.
The committee, under Alderman W. D- Ferry,, has been at work on the budget for weeks and reports indicate that although it will be higher than ever before, it will not bring about any real increase in municipal taxation.
Much of the increase in the budget for this year will be offset by a municipal saving of about $110,000  on school costs.
and Nelson.
The UBC eight shook the rowing world last year when it upset eastern favorites in the 13EG trials and then went on to defeat the famous Thames Rowing Club entry for the empire championship.
June 29 marks the opening of the Royal Henley this year and the B.C. crew would be aiming at capture of the Grand Challenge Cup.
Traffic Resumes On PGE Tomorrow
First passenger train to arrive in Prince ' George from Quesnel for ten days will probably reach this city at 1:30 p.m. tomorrow, it was announced by a PGE official this morning.
Traffic was halted on the northern section of the line on April 9; when a washout between Greening and Cotton wood swept away 100 feet of track and left a gulley 30 feet deep in places.
Last Tuesday it was stated the line would be closed for two weeks or more, but two bridge crews and two pile drivers were rushed to the scene, 55 miles south of Prince George, and by working on a round-the-clock schedule are expected to span the breach with a wooden bridge some time today.
DON MckEA'CHNlE, former baseball  player and manager, is the new president  of  Prince George and District Baseball League. �Craftsman Photographers
Trade Board Committee Wants Change In City Store Hours
Closing hours of stores and the need for a better licencing system governing confectioners came under lively discussion at the Board of Trade meeting Thursday night' when Bruce Scholton, chairman of the merchants' committee, read three proposals which will be incorporated into a petition to be circulated among city retailers.
Briefly, the proposals of the merchants' committee of the Trade Board are:
1.  Stores  close  all  day  .Monday.
2.  Stores remain open all day Wednesday until 6 p.m.
3.  Stores remain open "all day Saturday  until 8 or possibly 9 p.m.
A second proposal will be a petition which will affect by-law 7-10, which governs the licencing of confectionery stores. It suggested that certain restrictions be placed on the terms of a confectionery licence.
If the petition receives a 65 per cent majority by the merchants it will likely result in an overhaul of city_by-laws 739 and 740. ���-,--��
By-law 710 deals with the licencing of confectionery stores in the city, while by-law 739 regulates the hours of closing of certain other stores. It was only during March, 1951, that these two by-laws were introduced and passed, aborting by-law 593,, and amending by-Jaw 315.
In an interview after he had made'these proposals,- Mr. Scholton said that it was becoming a modern trend to instigate longer store hours.
In the chairman's opinion, the idea that the stores be closed on Monday would" give the merchants, as w.elhas the public, a much longer week-end. �
Saturday is a big business day, he said, when a majority of the
country people come to town on their weekly shopping trip. It is also on this day that an average of lT>0 people come to this city on'the''east and west bound local, trains.        "\_^
Mr. Scholton\i:emarked that Wednesday is. alwayS^rcjjarded as a lost day by the majority of city merchants.
Man Found Dead In Hotel Room
^ . RCMP are . Investigating tYie death of a middle aged man in the London Hotel at the weekend.
Leonard Bereau, aged between 40 and 50, was found dead on Saturday morning by a chambermaid of the hotel.
The dead man, who had .resided in the Cache, had spent the five days previous to his death in the hotel, police1 report.
A resident of the city for only a few months, he came from Burns Lake.
Funeral Rites Today For Mrs. 0. E. Barker
� Funeral services are being held from Assman's Chapel at 2 p.m. this afternoon for Mrs. Irene Barker, 48, who passed away in Prince George and District Hospital Thursday following a lengthly illness.
Mrs. Barker and her husband had resided in the Prince George district for 'the past eight years.
Surviving are her husband. Oner Barker; her father, E. Edighoffer of Zurich Ont.; two sisters, Erma at Winnipeg and Donna at Regina; and, two brothers. Ken at Saskatoon and Vic at Zurich.
Rev. G. McLaren will officiate at the funeral rites.
Off The Wires Today
"(Canadian Press�Monday, April   18,   1955)
Socreds Slash B.C. Debt, Report PGE Profit     ,
KELOWNA�Provincial debt will be reduced by another $15,000,000 by the end of June, Premier Bennett said here.
And he predicted in an address to Kclowna Boord of Trade that "in the not too distant future" the province will be entirely debt free.
The premier said the PGE will moke a profit of $265,000 this year for the first time since 1912. Before the end of the year, all contracts will be awarded for completion of line.
Dawson Creek will become one of the greatest grain markets in the world,, the premier predicted, ond he hoped in the near future, with the co-operation of the United States, to extend trade clear through to Alaska.
Attlee Hurrying Home To Launch Election Campaign
VANCOUVER�Clement Attlee will make hi$Jast_speech in Canada tonight,  then head back to Englond to  lead  his party's election campaign.
The/leader of the British Labor Party, whose CCF-sponsorcd tour of Canada^ was cut short by the sudde^ calling of a May 26 election by Prime Minister Eden, will address an expected audience of 6,500 in Victoria -before returning  by air to England.
Attlee started off his election campaign 6,000 miles away from home .when he talked to an audience of 3,000 at Exhibition Gardens here Saturday.    The former prime minister dealt with foreign affairs.
He called for United Nations recognition of China; warned against a third world war which would destroy civilization, and said, although 1he West  docs not  like  Communist  governments,   it  must  accept "them.
PORT ALBERNf�Alberni Athletics whipped Sault Ste. Marie Gunners 9 T -64 here Saturday night to wrn the best-of-five Canadian senior men's basketball championship in three straight games.
CINEMA�A familiar landmark on the Cariboo Highway, 60 miles south of Prince George, wos reduced to a heap of smouldering ashes late Saturday night when fire destroyed the store and post-office at this roadside community. Practically all the contents were lost. Origin cf tht fire could hot be learned.