An Independent Semi-Weekly Newspaper Devoted to the Interest of Central and Northern British Columbia (Two Sections) Prince George, B.C.. MONDAY, July 18, 1*55 $4:00 per; year 5c per coup rena Project Touch-And-Go Volunteer Aid Considered _|mp!ementation_Ql_a_$65,000_renovation and artificial program for the civic arena is in a precarious position/ lince George Parks Board chairman Syd Perry told The Citizen Saturday. r Ijficial i' �city n.a ioment came a clay after installation off the system' were opened htrai I: bid on the job would . cost of the system at r>.ooo. i his is approximately the mated by ice installation ,rs prior to the call for it leaves #nly $30,000 hieh to erect additional for 1200 persons plus liifications to the heating n and other improvements. if the" use of volunteer lab-11 -iill not bring the costs i the construction allow-Li i!,. entire project will be nJofiwl, said the chairman. I,, s-iiil that the installation of ificitil ice alone 'would not be fifieil in ;i building whose seat-i;i|i,irity is only 800 persons, f iIn project must be abandon-the parks board will probably ,.,! up it's preliminary investi-lipn <'f .trie possibility of build-iiew arena here within the iv.i or three years, ivaiion plans for the exist- rs. Madeley, 46 led This Morning liiitklle-aged wife, mother and i-.-swnal social worker who years was ;i familiar and wel-i> figure to hundreds of dis-;efl and-ailintr families in nor-n and central. B.Cijdied in tiial today. is. .loan Etllt'h Madeley, 46, dcI away at 5 a.m. in Prince �go- and District Hospital �ere: she \s-as admitted last |nrl.n>� following a serious ill-oj-several months duration, member of a well known in family. Mrs.' Madeley uaicil from lho University of in 1931, and tht*. following iir received a diploma for ad-social' studios. ?ho first came to Piince^GWrge 30:5*1 j the first social worker ie stationed in this city, She -Jlllll�l".voil 'by the:'Welfare. d Service, forerunner of the al -Si-rvkv 13ranch"; Depart-Jnr. of ITenltrj and Welfare, and mission of mercy took her to ijeWnis ivm'nto settlements and dated Tiomesvbetween 100-Mile a-er�the Yu/on and Alberta iiHiai'ics am/ the Queen Char- 1 ��jlarjds; �% }n VXiT Mrs. Madeley went pk in Nelson, and 12 years later lurnccl to this district before kkiiifi her headquarters in 1951 no Rtiport where she was ionpd until again returning to George in October, 1954. Mis Mndeley�was the author ["The Shining Head", a recent-[puhlished niystery novel which its setting jn northern B.C. io is survived by her husband, ?t- �lohn .Madeley,- whom she 'Tied fit Nelson In-April, 1938; iurghtor, ,Sue, M and her moth-Mis, i d.ith Hallett of Nelson. �'�'� "ients Tor the funeral w in progress. ing arena were prepared by Vancouver engineer C. T. Hamilton, designer of the building. Mr. Hamilton's first recommendation to tire parks board some months ago was' that the cost of renovating the structure would not be justified by the results. He recommended an early start on a new municipal arena. But when the parks board found that the city could .not, in the face of'prior, and more urgent committments on its� borrowing powers, place an arena money bylaw before the electorate this year, it elected to go through with the renovation project. City council approved the proposed �65,000 expenditure out of sale-of-land trust fund money but indicated it would go no higher if costs did not work out as hoped for. Because side walls of the existing building must be demolished and new ones constructed farther out to accommodate the increased number of seats, costs may run in excess of the $30,000 anticipated. Mr. Perry said the parks board was prepared to resort to use of some volunteer labor, if necessary, to stick" within the budgeted figure. Six Car, Cub Collide Death took an unearned holiday 12 miles south of Prince George on Saturday night when two automobiles carrying a total of 11 people smashed into each other with pile-driver force scattering bits and pieces for a distance of 150 feet. Six occupants of the two ve-------------------��--------------------'� hides are in Prince George & District Hospital today suffering -from-fractures, cuts, bruises and shock. All are described as in "fair" condition. Both vehicles were completely wrecked. Witnesses at the scene of the accident said that condition of the cars made death seem inevitable. A police constable said damage indicated � that both may have been travelling near the maximum speed limit of 50 m.p.h. The collision occurred when a United Cab Co. taxi from Prince George was struck on its left side by a Quesnel car driven by Roy Ridler. Occupants of the cab now* in hospital are Bernie Holmes, Quesnel; M. Clingam, Quesnel; Mrs. V. Harrison, Miss E. Vickers and Allan Harris. One passenger from Ejected From Cafe; Man Hospitalized A man identified only as William Kovak, address unknown, j is being treated in Prince George [ & District Hospital today for injuries he sustained when he was ejected from a Third Avenue cafe on '�Saturday-night:� Kovak was,seen to land on the pavement and strike his head after being forcibly pushed through the cafe dooj. Pull extent of- his injuries are not known but hospital authorities this morning said his condition is "good",- No ".Charges have been laid in connection with the affair. Hearing Postponed Until Witness Recovers ,. The above winner of, a Prince George Tourist Bureau Province-wide fish derby trophy is not indicating the size of his boat, but the approximate size of the 8 Ib. 1 oz. trout which he took outof Stuart Lake recently. .Accepting the trophy is Dick Smith, city bus company official and brother of Stuart Lake resort operator Craig Smith. Presenting the handsome^ trophy which is symbolic of a fortnight's angling supremacy is Stuart Williamson, tourist bureau spokesman. Receiving a similar trophy for a 3 Ib. 4 02. Babine Lake trout at left is Louis Quant, city lumberman. Presentation is being made, by vVarren Holley, tourist bureau official) who appears reluctant to hand .over the gleaming piscatorial prize. I Craftsman Photographers. Man Fined'After Struck By Car A man who was struck by an automobile in downtown Prince George on Saturday night and subsequently treated at hospital for minor injuries, was fined $10 and costs in police court this morning on a charge of being intoxicated in a public place. Victim of the 'accident involving an Alberta automobile was Winfield Wilson, Prince George. Wilson was crossing the street near Third Avenue and Dominion -Street when he was struck by a. -car driven by Henry - Simard of Gerouxville, Alberta. No charges were laid a'gainst the driver, but the vehicle was impounded for failing'to be insured against public liability. The accident took place shortly before midnight. RCMP Probe Charges Made At Vancouver Police Enquiry VANCOUVER (CP)�-A fqurVmdn RCMP team today began investigating ^charges made last week before the Tapper ff The Wires Today (Canadian Press, Monday, July 18) TV, Bingo, Heat Close Ten Vancouver Theatres .VANCOUVER (CP)s�Five Odeon theatres in the greater Vancouver to will close at the end of the month, manager Art Grayburn. announces, t s prpbably just a temporary situation for the summeY when business down, but the influence of bingo and television also prompted the close," odcled. ...... Earlier this month Famous Players announced the closing of five: theatres '� .jhc city because of television competition. Calgary Man Injured In Leap From Flaming PGE Car LILLOOET�Mike Bartlett, 18, of Calgary, suffered cuts and bruises en he leaped through the window of a flaming roilway service car about miles south of here, it was' learned Saturday. Bortlett was one of'three workers injured when the car burst into flames May., Cause of the blaze is unknown.. The car was part of a train re-">9 roils on the Pacific Great Eastern Railway. Gales And Rail Lash Okanagan And Southern B.C. Gale-force winds drove torrential rains across southern B.C. Saturday 9"t, leaving a troil of minor property damage. No one was reported in- The thunderstorms followed three days of high temperatures throughout rrovince. Princeton reporfedl .53 inches of rain in five hours and large hailstones during the storm. Some telephone lines were brought down and the m-water washed out several sections of the Princeton-Tula'meen road. homage in the Okanagan district was confined to. toppled trees. Kamr had..52 inches of rain but at Kelowna, 80 miles southeast, only a trace recorded. Vancouver had .08 inches of rain in two brief downpours but Victoria P 25 inches of rain up to 9 a.m. Sunday.. Young Voncouver Woman Is 'Nudist Mother Of 1955' WHALLEY�Mrs. Phyllis Thomson, shapely 25-year-old Voncouver ^�fre'r, 5unday was chosen "nudist mother of 1955" by three women judges The smiling Mrs. Thomson was quickly joined by-Jher children, Nancy, nd John, 5, and-posed for press and. fellow-nudist photographers. L. A. Thomson, husband of the young woman and owner of a tree "scry -in Burnaby, soid he and his wife had joined the Sunny Trails Club" i(y eight weeks ago after Jdisrri.. getting interested" in newspaper stories about royal commission inquiring into Vancouver's police force. , Inspector�J. J. V. Dube of Regind ana1 a sergeant and two corporals from three municipalises surrounding -rtiis- virest .'coast' city, wilt make -the investigation. ' . Attorney-General Robert Bonner announced Friday he had called in the RCMP .after several witnesses at'the. Tupper commission told of pay-off deals involving high-ranking police officers and gamblers, bookmakers and bootleggers. Assistant Commissioner E. C. Rivett-Carnac, head of the' RCMP in this province, says he "assumes" criminal charges will... be laid if the special investigators produce evidence of crimes. Wolter Mulligan, suspended as police chief for the duration of Reginald H Tupper's loyal commission, has been named in statements about police protection payoffs and Det,-Sgt. Archie PJummer said Mulligan and others are "allied with'the criminal element in this city." Through his lawyer, T. G. Norris, Mulligan stated (luring the weekend that in his testimony before the commission he will "deal with the men who have, been making the accusations." Mr. Tupper adjourned hearings Thursday for between 10 days and two weeks. He is waiting for the recovery of Det.-Sgt. Len Cuthbert in the psychiatric ward at Vancouver General Hospital. Cuthbert, linked with the charges of corruption, turned his revolver.on himself last June 24. Mr. Tupper said Cuthbert may not appear and may not give evidence "but I cannot be stopped on this ground." Other highlights' in the first days of testimony were: , 1. Counsel for senior officers claimed notes taken before Cuthbert tried to commit suicide were signed under duress. x ~2. Det. George Kitson said he was present at a meeting where Pete Wallace, already named as a Idading gambler, tried to "make a-*fix" with Cuthbert. 3. Ex-.*olicemon Jack Whelan claimed Vancouver's police commission is "grossly inefficient.V^ - 4. Det-Sgt. Plummer ^H he is convinced Mulligan was part" of a conspiracy among, city jbookmoBfcrs in 1951. _ 5. Det-Sgt. Robert Leatherdale testified the chief tried to arrange protection for bootleggers in 1949, 6. Whelan said he split with Mulligan'contents of a "piggy bank or jar"-taken from the scene of a investigation in 1945. 7. Whelan said Mulligan and Cuthbert agreed with Wallace to split Vancouver in two for payoff plan. 8. Mulligan said he will allow a chartered accountant to examine all his and his wife's financial affairs. �� - 9. Former attorney-general -Gordon Wismer said he wants to testify to answer a statement which he says is untrue, "that Mulligan was close to Wismer.'' '.�"",' _. .� Young Patients To Attend B.C. Travelling Clinic Here Little patients will come from as faraway as Kitimat and McBride to atjtend the British Cojumbia Children's Hospital travelling clinic, .when it stops in Prince George this week. The annual clinic will be held* in the Connaught School Audi* torium on Wednesday and Thursday. Well over 200 youngsters have received appointments to see the visiting specialists. ! This' year the consultative panel includes Dr. E, K.-" Leh-, mann, orthopedic surgeon; Dr. C. J. Treffy", paediatrician; . Dr. H. Mallek and Dr. P. Maisonville, opthalomologists; an optician and two nurses from Children's Hospital. ; � Children's- Hospital Auxiliary has been working in conjunction with-the Cariboo Health Unit to prepare for the annual clinic. 1 In addition to making the preliminary appointments, the hard charge of many other aspects,of the clinic's organization. Members look-.after the reception desk, entertain waiting youngsters and serve tea to parents. In addition, a transportation service to the clinic is provided for parents and youngsters. Consultations with the travel' ling specialists are free to all children 'who "are referred to the clinic by their family physicians.- ' SWIMMING CLASSES Swimming dosses, sponsored by the Prince George branch of the,Red Cross Society in co-operation with the city Recreation Commission begin this afternoon "at Six Mile Lake. Classes will be held each Monday, Clouds Still Threaten Period Of Fine Weather We're still going to have clouds threatening this unaccustomed spell of fine summer weather. If today's weather forecast comes true-the weather- will be cloudy with a few scattered showers today and Tuesday.. Isolated thunderstorms will persist this afternoon and tomorrow. Cooler, and, we hope, Ber-mudian winds are. in the prediction. . Low. tonight and hig)*.tomorrow at Prince" George Twill be 50 and 75, Quesnel 53 and,,80. the Quesnel car, Calvin Frontaine, is hospitalized. � Three occupants of the latter vehicle, and two from the taxi were unhurt. . Exact cause of the accident is not .yet known. The car driven. by. Ridler was headed towards Prince George, and the taxi was bound for Quesnel. After smashing into the side of the taxi, the Quesnel vehicle careened off the road into the righthand ditch. The taxi plunged to the same side and rolled over. t Police said that indications at tlie scene show that both drivers made a last-minute effort to avoid each other. The collision took place at about 10:45 p.m. The two vehicles were 143 feet apart when they came to rest. The highway is paved at the scene of the accident and visibility is said to have been good. War On Bootleggers Goes On; Price Soars To $12 A Bottle A relentless war-on illicit liquor sales in Prince George flared up again at the week-end when two establishments were sraided by Royal. Canadian Mounted Police,, and charges laid against another person who was not connected with the raids. Tne% week-end activity on the part of\the liquor detail brings to nine the, number' of bootlegging actionsxin the past month. So far the courts have registered two convictions and one dismissal. > . � ... Police declined to give full details of the week-end raids pending further investigation "and the formal laying of charges. \ Latest conviction was handed down this morning when Police, Magistrate P. J. Moran levied a fine of $300 and costs on Ronald j Therault. �~-------- Four of the remaining cases have been remanded to September 1. Police activity against the city's numerous bootleggers: during the past, month has resulted in two increases in the price of illicit liquor. Current price of a bottle of B.C. Liquor Control Board whisky is reported to be $12. Retail price at the government liquor store is $3.99. . - Six weeks ago the same product could be bought on a Sunday, or any other time when the liquor store was closed, for $S. First wave of police raids saw the toll go to $10. Appointed Manager fiome-Sportsman's Show Draws Large Attendance The curtain came down late Saturday evening on'the first annual Prince George Home and Sportsmen's Show with a large crowd in attendance. First show of its nature to feature a panorama of articles of interest to the home-maker and sportsman played, in the Civic Centre Thursday,^ Friday, and Saturday last week;' � It has been travelling, through out British Columbia for six yeaj-s but this is the first time it has come here. Organization of the- affair was by a Vancouver, group. Radically new home appliances and fixtures such as "bagless" vacuum cleaners, non-tarnisfriing copper and stainless steel wall, tiles attracted wide interest at the show. High fidelity radios and record players, tape recorders, pianos and other musical instruments pointed the home-maker to wider fields of entertainment and enjoyment. MagneJ. of the crowd was the latest home appliances such ! as gas and electric stoves, refrigerators, laundry washers and dryers and heating equipment. For the avid sportsman there Six More Fires Hit District Forests Six Jiew forest fires were reported in the Fort George Forest Distirct at the week-end. They brought the total to 11 fires which are burning.-All are classified as "under control". This morning the Forest Service had 15 men employed battling the flames. During the week-end a "dry thunderstorm" hit the Summit Lake area and wrote four more fires into Forest Service records. � The Forest Protection office ;aid that.the "dry thunderstom" is a very-rare instance where the working guild - members take Wednesday and FrjdoyV and the bolts of lightning deviate in another, path. Yesterday afternoon a small one-acre fire got out of control on. the PGE line north of here. It was believed to have originated from smouldering ashes left from brush piles heaped, there by. slashing crews. Largest fire is burning at Isle Pierre, and another comparatively large forest fire is. ablaze in an inaccessible district of the Parsnip River. were the latest guns, boats,- outboard motors and fishing equipment. Contour chairs claimed to be -made precisely for your posture and tastes were displayed by a Prince George firm. Vancouver advertisers participating in the affair displayed metal awning, encyclopedia sets, vacuum, cleaners and trailers. A refreshment stand was available throughout trie whole three-day event. D. (AD R1ACEY has been appointed manager of Prince George Motors Ltd., it was announced re-cently by J. G. (Bill) Rariby, president of the'firm. Mr. Macey has been employed by Prince George Motors for more than six years as accountant and office manager. Owing to ill health, Mr., Ranby -baa. been advised by his doctor to take an indefinite leave of ..ab-. sence from business activities. Wolly.West Studio. $50,000 Health Centre Plans OK'd By Provincial Gov'l Building plans for, a $50,000 -civic Health Centre have been approved by provincial health1 authorities and final go-ahead signal rests with federal department of health and welfare officials. If plans for the building keep progressing it might possibly be one of the most non-controversial-ly built' civic structures in the city's history. Earlier this year, the city bought three lots on Sixth Avenue between Victoria and Brunswick Streets. In the meantime, the health committee of the city council, .under the chairmanship of Alderman Carrie Jane Gray, has been working quietly on the. building plans and specifications." The Sixth Avenue " site was chosen because of its central location and its comparative freedom from traffic congestion. . �No definite date has been set for constructipB to begin because the whole program now rests with federal- authorities. The center will be built to pro-rain clouds head in one direction yide adequate accommodation for the Cariboo Health Unit and various other voluntary organizations such as the T.B. Society, Red Cross, CARS and the Cancer Society. Estimated cost of the building is $50,000. Of that sum $30,000 will be looked after jointly by the provincial and federal governments. The remaining $20,000 will be solicited, locally, most of it coining _frpm the organizations which will be using the building. It is unlikely that public dona* tions will be solicited. Many other . communities throughout B.C. have taken advantage of the government" contributions and medical authorities here feel that Prince George would be lacking common, sense and civic pride if it -clicl not do likewise. It. would- 'be.. through such an institution that control could be exercised over community sanitation, communicable diseases, infants, school children and maternal health as well as such conditions as cancer, arthritis and tuberculosis, i Farmers' Spokesman Speaks Here Aug. 11 A top agricultural official will address a public meeting of farmers and other interested persons in "the Pineview Hall on August 11. > 4 Speaker will be Charles Walls; secretary-manager of the British Columbia Federation of Agriculture. Most farmer's institutes and growers organizations are affiliated with the B.C. Federation which maintains offices- in> Vic-toria_aml which in turn is connected with .the Canadian Federation of Agricultural