fol. 38; No. 46_ An Independent Semi-Weekly Newspaper Devoted to the Interest off Central and Northern British Columbia (two Sections) Prince George, B.C., THURSDAY, June 9, 1955 . $4.00 per year 5c per copy lore Wardens, End Of Wolf tounty Asked By Trappers Major resolutions passed at the annual convention of the Northern Zone; B.C. Registered Trappers Association, held iere last week call for appointment of more gamg wardens and [jiminafion of the bounty on timber wolves. The association will telegraph------------------ attorney Ceneral Robert Bonner fcibva won tljnt more game wardens d and that existing rancies ne filled immediately. pollution dealing with the re-!,] the wolf bounty hinges die condition that the tiius saved be granted to Le lie Game Branch for the [further-.interests of the wild-ir province." week's trappers' convening, with a discussion i by Northern Zone Charles Olds on the if the price spread be-iveei, raw furs and finished fur ferments. f Mr. Olds quoted from a .clipping which stated that fur sewing Wicials Warn It Flood Threat present spell of warm weather British'' Columbia could pre-ii:iiie a serious flood situation, fells "f the B.C. Water Retirees Branch-stated late yester-i}1. They cautioned that a high loflil hazard may be experienced plong the Fraser, Columbia, Koo- nay and Okanagah' River sys- '�There |to cause rated. Meanwhile, still sufficient snow flood hazard," they at Prince- George lite Fraser river dropped ,ap-|proMi>iHi.tly eight inches during ihc past 16 hours and is several Ifet from the- 1948 high-water Iniar'k. But veteran observers say that |i!i overnight drop in the Fraser not always significant and I that the current hot spell may I I lake several days � apparent effect. to have any �Three Fires Reported [in Port George Fire hazard in Fort George IForestry District has dropped �considerably during the past few [week:- according* to the B.C. For- \(t\ Service. Only throe fires are burning at Ithe present time and these arp^ Ironfinc-il to remote areas in the li'tare Uiver district. / Total fires recorded hpre thus liar this year number 37 as com-�pared id h recorded during the lame period last^year. 1 Cost of fi^lvting the fires to as aiutfanted to $1,240.this Isason as,compared to $7,030 fast specialists earn-$400 for 70 hours work and that cutters make $200 for 14 hours work. � The convention heard a suggestion that its members work towards strengthening of the association so that a man may be employed to work on the problem of reducing the price-spread, and stabilizing the. fur market. Eric Collier, noted guide, author and president of the B.C. Registered Trappers Association, told.the meeting of his talks with the B.C. Game Branch concern-ing-.ja-apping of beaver. OPPOSED � Government . game men, he said are opposed to wide-open trapping of beaver or muskrat in'the fall except in individual cases where special permits are issued. He reported on the recent meeting of the British Columbia Game Convention in Nelson. Discussing a season on antler- j less moose, he told the meeting that in areas where these have been in effect there has been a 40 per cent reduction in the moose population. Ed Nahanee, business agent for the Native Brotherhood of British Columbia, told the convention he will organize native trappers to work with the Registered Trappers Association towards a solution of -mutual problems. Robin Kendall, supervisor of Indian affairs, told the meeting that references to Indian trappers was discriminatory and stated that most Indians are conservationists,, just as white trappers Forest Aftermath Kendall also pointed out are. � Mr. that it was not until some time after the coming of the white man to various parts of Canada that the fur supply began to dwindle. Inspector Walter Gill of the B.C. Game Branch stated during a discussion on beaver that the destruction of beaver dams, bid W new; is illegal unless a special permit has been issued. S Traffir Restricted On Vanderhoof Road /Partial restrictions on' the Trans-Provincial Highway west to Vanderhoof are expected to be kept in force for some time yet, the Department of Highways announced today. Although the road is drying rapidly, rough sections are still prevalent at Swede Creek and Josephine Hill. .Vehicles must detour at the Baldie Hughes turn-off, seven miles west of "here. Pff The'Wires Today (Canadian Press�Thursday, June 9) Unionists Suggest Big Hike In Minimum Wage VICTORIA�A trade union council Wednesday suggested the govern-Mnt-sct minimum wage should-be $1.50 hourly and all overtime be paid double; time. Victoria Trades and Labor .Council made the suggestion In o brief subletted during hearings on a revision of Wage Order 25 which sets the minimum WOgC jn ^e province at 40 cents on hour. A Canodian Manufacturers Association brief suggested a minimum *oge of 50 cents hourly for women and 60 cents for men. Vancouver Bonk Bandit's Generosity Halted By Police VANCOUVER�Robert William McKay, 42, truck driver, stepped across |be.street from his home here ond robbed o bank. McKay, who pleaded guilty Wednesday to a charge of robbery with viol-ic^c, ployed Robin Hood with bank funds to the tune of $300 before police j y polled his giveaway program. He was remanded to June 14. b d He obtained $2,600 in a gunless robbery Tuesday at a downtown branch |cf too Conodian Bank of Commerce. His sudden affluence led police to \ Licence Seekers Donate To Politicians, Witness Says -^CTORIA�Narajan S. Grewall, head of Mission Forest Products, charg-|td before the Sloan forestry commission Wednesday that forest management '"-ence oppljcants were making contributions to campaign funds. The East Indian businessman sa[d: "These rising maharajahs will inevitably bring about a form of feudalism like thot which I thought I'd left I thirty VCQrs ogo in |n(jiQ>'' "c did not mention any party by name. ^icf Justice Gordon Sloan told him the commission was not set up to Iinvestigajp campaign funds,'if .any. ' HOPE�Bodies of two men were slid down the side oj^g,towering mount-|Qin ond brought here Wednesday night. Discovery of the bodies ended faint h�Pe thot Pctre Fuhrmonn/26, Weyburn Sask., and Jack Marshall, 25, Kel pfo, might' be found alive. Their plane crashed on a mountain Friday on 0 (l'Qht from Princeton to Vancouver. VANCOUVER�Fight promoter Earle Kalani said Wednesdoy night he y> threatened three weeks ago by an eosrern: United States syndicate ond ld-to get out of boxing in Vancouver. Kalani said he told the phone caller 1 dc'i't icare eosy." AGASSIZ�Province-wide alarm has been ..issued by RCMP for two rolhcrs and 0 sister.missing from their homes near here. Missing are Fritz , "' 22' former, and brother. Otto, who live at Waleach, and Mrs. Chris- uston, 26. WEST VANCOUVER-^-Wendy Mortimer, 11/ West Vancouver, was while swimming here Wednesdoy night when she was crushed cen two breakwater logs that were smoshd togethr by the woke from boat. . ... � Volunteer firefighters Bruce Ernest ond Har.ley Slaunwhite sleep, exhausted on the floor, of the Bridgewater, N.S.,-fire station after a raging blaze destroyed acres of 'forest, several buildings and 22 cars In a warehouse. './ ' . 91919 Boat Cost *3 -Just To Move Most people would think twice about paying $3000 for a pleasure boat, but one American tourist who annually finds his Shangri La. at Stuart Lake is on the point of paying that amount just to move one. A cavalcade consisting of pilot car, fifth wheel truck, trailer and �46,000 yacht inched into Prince^ George Tuesday night just three-weeks and 3500 miles from; its home "port" at Tulsa, Oklahoma. The big luxury cabin cruiser "Adna Belle" is today at its Stuart Lake destination after a harrowing " trip which demanded special road permits and police escorts. f Over 40 feet long- and packing twin(Hercules gas engines coupled torear wheels of the rig with jacks that looked as if they could lift a barn. Blankenship said it "was the first time they had been stuck since leaving Tulsa over three weeks ago. He and his pilot-car driver lived on board the "Edna .Belle" during most of the trip. In most U.S. cities the marine cavalcade. had to have police ? corts and in B.Cr speciar'perjirrits were required to permit to use public highway: Waters Receding it th ��sT Dust Laying Program Underway This Week Use of sodium chloride to lay dust on city streets will commence this week but the program will not be on a large scale, City Engineer G. P; Harford stated today." �> . The. engineer said that his department would attempt to lay dust along city bus. routes in the first stage of the program. The chloride is being -used in place of oil this year as an experiment. Its advantages over oil are that where soil conditions are right it has a more lasting effect, is cheaper and clearier. But hot all unsurfaced city streets are adapted to use of the salt. Mr. Harford said that it would be wasted on streets where the surface is of porous gravel and where there is no clay to bind the soil. Such streets could be adapted for use of the chloride by the addition of clay, but this would cost as much as asphalt surfacing. - . . Police'Shiners' Cost $200 Apiece Second, recent case of ,ari assault on a "police officer here brought a heavy fine in police court Monday when a transient woodworker>was offered the al-ternative^of paying $400 in fines or serving four months in jail. Mike Snieciboski, convicted on charges of assaulting a police officer and obstructing, was one of three men charged as a result of a fracas with police last Saturday night. He and Harry Chikora, the lattdf" "sentenced to pay a $100 fine or serve 40 days for obstructing, were passengers in a car driven by Kazimerz Bikus. Bikus was convicted as a second of: fender lor impaired driving and was sentenced to 14 day^-ih jail with no alternative of^a fine. Police chased , Bikus' vehicle from the downtown area before forcing it^tcTthe curb in the Millar Addition. JWfien one of the occupants lashed out at a police constable bystanders^'earne" to ""the � constable's rescue.-The officer receiv-ed two black eyes. Ends Crop Hopes Wild Hay Farmer's Only Salvation The flood waters of the Mud River are receding, but since last week when a reporter from The Citizen toured the area with District Agriculturist John Zacharias, farmers still have been unable to plant an acre of crop, The level of the swollen river has dropped a scant two feet but the rich farmlands are too saturated for man or machine to work. Because of the short growing season most farmers do not expect to grow a thing but will see the winter through on wild hay. Not all are as lucky as Walter Peacock, whose farm lies almost entirely on high ground and has escaped flood damage. ..Some, like Marvin Kaska, will try to work the land within the next few days, before it is too late to plant it at all. - Hard-hit Ernest Huber, whose 320-acre holding is almost entirely under water, stands to lose in the neighborhood of $5,000 to the flood. A market-gardener, his income is almost entirely dependent on the production of root .vegetables. As it us he has only four acres plantecN'to potatoes. He draws a small income for his wife and two children from a small flock of chickens, whose eggs find a ready market in Prince George. An inventive Swiss, the young homesteader has built his large Alpine^lQoking home and out-buildingsNnit of lumber mille'd from his hand-made mill. Mr. Huber ish-convinced that if the government were to straighten the torturous meanderings of the Mud River by dredging, almost three-quarters moreKpf the available land in the valley would and could be farmed. \^ 'But we are only a handA.fl of farmers here and not^powerful enough to convince/tne government of that ideal," he said. An aerial/map of the valley in Mi*. Hawer's possession, shows that^tfie river could be easily maae to flow straight. In making its constricted way to join the Nechako it almost re-unites itself in.many places, coming \vith-( in 20 yards of doing so in some' instances. "Maybe in twenty years they do it, when the value of the land has increased," Mr. Huber sighed; In the" meantime he and his wife, working alone, will scrimp and save until they have enough apital to turn to dairy farming. Then, like other farmers of the Vlud, the flood may inconven-ence them, but will not cut off heir only source of income as t has done this year. City flfm First In Canada With Record Size Tractors Three of the largest crawler type tractors ever manufactured/and the first to enter Canada, have been purchased by a Prince George firm, Ben Ginter Construction Co. Ltd. The machines are Allis Chalm- Coast Firm Gets Airport Contract Vancouver firm of B.C. Bridge & Dredging company has been awarded a contract for runway improvement at Prince George Airport. ' The Coast company was low bidder on the project with a tender of $166,773. Specifications for the work include the strengthening of~5625 feet of runway and installation of certain new drainage facilities. ers HD 21s and they tip the( scales at better than 30 tons' apiece. Although the HD 21 model has been in use in the United States for some months, none have so far been delivered in Canada. The three units represent an investment of about $100,000 and will be at work on highway construction within a few hours of delivery.- - First of the trio will arrive at Quesnel this week-end and the other two will be delivered a few days later. The new machines will ,.bring to more than 60 the number of heavy earth-moving units operated by the Ginter firm. Since the close of the 1954 construction vseason the company has spent close to $200,000 on additional earth-moving equipment. Most recent contract acquired by the firm was awarded this week and consists of construction of the 8.73 mile Balmoral-Sbrren-to section of the Trans-Canada Highway. The city construction firm was low bidder with a tender of $417,892.30. Other bidders were P. F. Law Construction Co. Ltd. $421,446.80; Dawson & Wade Co. Ltd. $429,581.56; Emil Anderson Const. Co. $429,703.10; Stoims Contracting Pacific Ltd. $431,-048; General Construction Co. Ltd $469,757.55; Jamjeson Construction Co. Ltd. $56t),428.30. Ginter Construction has also been awarded a. $384,012 contract for relocation of the Cariboo Highway from Quesnel to Cot-tonwood. This section star^a at the Ques nel Airport and ^ way to a point ^ the high near the PGE y p crossing of the Cottomvood Canyon, a distance of 8.23 miles. The company expects to complete a 1954 Trans-Canada Highway contract near Kamloops by the end of this month and has crews and machines working for the Dominion Department of Transport at Terrace and for the B.C. Highways Department near Burns Lake. Two Charged With $450 Raid On Kelly Douglas Warehouse Two transients who were arrested by "Vancouver City Police this week are being held here today charged with the 12d $ f 12-day old $450 thef.t at Kelly Douglas & Co. Ltd. in Daniel Mc- The two are_Jok Kenzie and""Alfred Earl Dance. According to police the men stopped here briefly over a week ago on their way to Edmonton. � "A. mistake on the part?.of a Kelly Douglas employee made theft of the money a simple matter of opening a cash drawer. � Normally the firm's Saturday receipts are placed in a theft-proof steel vault. Thieves ripped several heavy planks off an unused door on the north side of the First Avenue warehouse to gain 'admittance to the building. When branch manager Jack McLean entered the office a week ago Sunday he found that every desk had been rifled. The cash was made up of small bills of denomination no higher than 20 dollars. McKenzie and Dance appeared efore Police Maitt P J pp before Police Magistrate- P; Moran and were remanded custody for preliminary hearing. They are charged with breaking, entering and theft. Trade Board Meeting Tonight Is Last Until September -Final meeting of the Prince George Board of Trade until next September will be held tonight in the banquet room of the Prince George Cafe. Members are urged to attend this meeting "if they possibly can because it will entail the fihaliza-tion of much unfinished business. Meanwhile, the board is seeking names of potential delegates to the annual meeting of the Associated Boards of Trade of Central B.C. to be held in "Terrace fronv July 6 to 8. Committee chairmen are asked to complete . all resolutions intended for presentation at this convention as soon as possible. First two days of the annual meeting of trade boards will be devoted to business sessions, and the third day will mark the official opening of the Terrace-Kit imat branch of the CNR. Official opening program is being arranged jointly by the CNR and the Aluminum Company of Canada. Fraser Backwaters Proposed As Parks City council will be asked by the Prince George Board of Parks Commissioners to reserve shorelines of Fraser River backwaters for park purposes. The pai;ks bogrcl recently passed a resolution from Commissioner William Bellos asking for council i action on the matter. With the recommendation to city council-will-go a map showing the Fraser backwaters which run through the city in a horseshoe shape terminating west of Vancouver Street and originating near Hudson's Bay slough. The first portion of the backwater is in land already earmarked for park development. Commissioner Bellos contends that the bodies of water make natural park sites and can also be used age. for storm sewer drain Police Vigilant For Traffic Infractions A Royal Canadian Mounted olice official announced this veek that one, member of the 3rince George'" City Detachment ias been^assigned on a full-time Dasis ,,tcT enforcement of traffic aws' The drive against all types of traffic regulation offenders is already paying off, with approximately two dozen police court convictions during the past 14 days. Police are being particularly vigilant in enforcement of school zone regulations and have issued a multitude of tickets to drivers who falj. to heed parking regulations. Labor Groups Meet To Discuss Merger Executive, members of the Trades and Labour Council and the International Woodworkers of America met here last week to discuss merger of the T.L.C. and C.C.Li Both labor organizations agreed to co-operate in sponsoring joint efftirts in community and civic affairs. Thc-NAVA will appoint two delegates to attend the monthly meeting of rhe Trades and Labor .Council in owjer to co-ordinate their efforts. NI-P Road Subject Of June 15 Meetini Delegates from Prince George Board of Trade will travel west next week to attend a special Burns Lake conference, on the Northern Trans-Provincial Highway. ._!____._y~ The conference is scheduled f0r the afternoon of June 15 ancrin-vited-guests are Hon. P. A. ^Gag-larcli and-Hon.Ji. G. VtfllistonS ' Delegates from all along the route of the NT-P road will -pre sent statistical information relating to economic effect of the pour condition of the road during spring break-up and at other times. Purpose of the conference will be to convince the government that an immediate large-scale improvement program is essential for the welfare of communities along the east-west highway. Funeral Service Held For Giscome Resident Funeral services were conducted from Assman's Funeral Chapel today for Louis Lee, 87, of Giscome, who passed away in Prince George and District Hospital Monday. Born in Norway, Mr. Lee hail no known relatives in Canada. Lieut. "Chapman of the Salvation Army officiated at the last riles. ~ High School Grads Get Scholarships Worth $665 Scholarships totalling $665 were awarded to graduates of the Prince George High School yesterday afternoon at the annual Awards Day program. I Naming of the scholarship the winners brought a climax to the afternoon during which nearly one hundred awards were presented to the students. Registered Nurses' Association of Prince George presented Margaret Reynolds a selibTaTsHip~~oT $125. Next September Miss Reynolds will enter the school of nursing at St.. Joseph's Hospital in Victoria. Nursing scholarship presented by Women of the Moose went to Jackie Macdonald who plans to enter the school of nursing: at St. Paul's Hospital, Vancouver, next January. Lillian Strom, a dormitory student, wJlotse home is at Willow River, recced a SI30 teaching ~ rn�,Sehool District board of trus- s of SI00 each were tees. Scholars sp given to Sheila Toney and Agnes Walchli. Both girls plan to enrol at the Provincial, Normal School at Victoria' next September. School District 57 Senior Matriculation award went to Pat Larson, a graduate whose home is �it Reid Lake. Jim Briggs received the $75 Senior Matriculation scholarship sponsored by the Order of the Royal Purple. Dozens of other awards and trophies characterized the afternoon and brought the climax to the�tenti's__uiark__for. the mone_ than 000 students of the high school. KEN LARSON, city high school graduate, was named outstanding boy athlete of the term at the Awards Day program yesterday.