An Independent Semi-Weekly Newspaper Devoted to the   Interest of Central a
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 No. 68
(Three Section*)
Prince George, B.C.; THURSDAY, August 25,
imanWins wet Fight
driver whose .chauf-^rmTrwas revoked by a Canadian  Mounted   Police |)ere  after conviction on ,,.. ,,r   selling   liquor   has il� appeal to city council:
Way, part-owner of a Irhii h operates as a unit of Liny  fleer,
will   have  his ir's .licence' reinstated  as of a decision announced council pn Monday.   . lias- been, unable to.drive" jre since last month when -I:.  Hosberg, non-commls-officer  in  charge  of  the \+ie Tupper royal commission fodby to tell "what they knaw^about alleged corruption and, strife in
Vancouver's 75Q4rvm -force, .
H. C. Spring, counsel for the Police Kcaeral Union, reported aboufe^40_. officers have indicated ^they'll testify before Commissioner Reginald H. Tupper, appointed to Investigate all phases of police administration.
Two days of searching cross-examination of a secret report clearing Chief Mulligan of charg-fes ended Wednesday when former RCMP sergeant Terry Parsloe ^ stepped down from the witness bqx.                           .       .
Parsloe - was  comntissioned -In
tell Co. Awarded Contract $110,000 Curling Rink
tonst ruction ^contract fbr Prince George-Curling Club new $110,00bvt;urli'ng rink a mile south'of the-city has awarded to DezellI Construction Co. Ltd. on a cost-plus
o,-oll firm was low^bld-i fixed-fee basis for con-
of the big bulkling. Sniractors were asked, to lonly a fi^edfee covering construction   faclll* Succissjful   bid
�I I profit.J -S2!l()0.    ' Roi   underway  today at ions   for 4be   laying
forms for the building's. inundations.
and   specifications    for
�'is of the building are
i"K   prepared   by   Jolyon
e.lty architect.    �
i' ,tno agreement between
r|ing . club  and   the  con-
_   all   materials   for   ttje
|p Wjll be supplied by. the
; ,on order  are. M wood, trusses' to.- sup-i roof of the curling area. �'�Her  will   be-; completely >ts and the playlnif sur-become a ' Bingle sheet for. skating. when. requlr-;
id today when ttie rink and
tent clubhouse'would be
fd,   Garvin   Dezefl,   pres-
|f 'he contracting company,
'onlyoSay:-tWe. will be curl-
iiewhat earlier than-UBUal
is tri be located ad-[to  the east boundary of' fy owned by Prince George Country Club Ltd. and Plans  are  to  lease  the use    quarters    to   golfers th summer and early fall, of the rink .will be section   containing
fe�   ,jpn,rboth large'  lounge, /'coffee gating room^pump rooni,
washrooms, general office, kltch- area  and   caretal^ers'
suite. r^\,                          |
The ciirUng section will *be completely � I tak�n up � by six sheets of 'artificial'ice. !
Dimensions of the, clubhouse are 95 feet by 32 feet.    vx
Space: will be providedxadjacent to the building for the parking of some 250 sfutomobiles.
-Eiflanclng of the rink has been accomplished through the private Bale of shares arid debentures.
1950 by the then Mayor Charles Thompson to conduct an undercover investigation into graft charges Involving Mulligan and other officers.     .
Lawyers hammered at Parsloe and his report more than six hours, .charging:                   . *
It was based on "rumors and conclusions''.          -   '
It was ^cvon  written by him. It  waa   "a   $1,700  bucket  of whitewash".
But the 45-year-old security officer remained '"adamant.; and swore the report was the result of- an "exhaustive investigation'1 through contact with "persons the know".
And a barrage of biting ques tlons failed to elicit a < single name from the witness concerning "contacts, agents, inforinants," as he described them..     .             .i.
The 20-year veteran officer ad-jriitted he'd found no evidence agalnlst anybody in his investigation; that the investigation turned up "only rumors".    �
Most searching and elaborate attack on the report *came- from Victor Dryer, assistant commission counsel, Who charged Pars> lo'e-had heard reports of a "gambling fix" Involving the police.
"I suggest to yoih/witness," said Dryer, "that the'individuals you spoke to thpifght Snider (an alleged gambler') had-some sort of fix or control over the police."
"1 don't" know, I couldn't com mit/myself on that,� returned Parsloe., �
Rules And Regulations Revised
Face B.C, Students Next Month
VICTORIA�Possibility of more hdmework ond the prospect of, corporal! punishment "when rt's "imperatively necessary", face students starting school next month.
Revised rules and regulations for schools and teachers were released Wednesday by Education Minister Ray Willlston. Th�y also include clarification of- the teachers' working hours and administrative matters. ��_         ;    -
Regulation^ provide^ Increases in Ithe1 amoun>' o/ honfework permitted school children and Introduce, home study for children in grades heretofore free df It \ -. I>ealing with' corporal punlsh-nnent; 'the rules caution teachers to av.old it unless "Imperatively necessaryv," then only, to a degree which "might-be practiced by a kind, firm and Judicious parent".
For the first time, home assign-
ments of |half an hour are permitted pupils in grades 4; to 6.
The previous W hour for stu dents in grades 7 to 9-is continued, buv the .90-mimites for grades 10 to 12 was boosted to two hours.
Willis,ton said the . "relatively light increases permit a scale, of homework increasing1' with the maturity of the youngsters'con
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Revised regulations, place direct responsibility on teachers��� %iand principals to ensure the assign-ments are . "educationaliy sound carefully'^planned, and don't require the < ufie-i of resources not readily available irilthe' ordinary home.., ., ,t . .,i .   . L   -'�>   \
Clinic Here September 20, 21, 22
be removed."
Those are the -words of Dr. W. Stuart Stanbury, National Commissioner lor the Canadian Red Cross Society, and that is the imp�tu^i U*e bk�d 4morcaw3j:
Vhich i� cuR�ihrUy belKg
carried out in this city  '-
This year the objective'of the canvassing committee of the Reid Cross Society Is 1,000 pints, but the.  clinic,   when- it   comes   to
'rlnce George will have a capa-
Ity of ,l',200 pints. With' Increased  uses,  such  as
:amma globulin used in the Immunization against polio, and the marked "Increase in the country's population, .the demand, for blood has grown steadily. �Last year in British Colu
0,637 pints were collect^ and 21,687 pints'were used^m, trans-
usibhs.
The difference^ 27,693 pints, were  put  toe GeorTC^dlea suddenry In Vancou ver^on'August 12. Mr. and Mrs Her moved  to Abbotsford las September, from Prince, George.
out  the  ideas  of some  inexperienced professors."
"If it freezes, we'll -admit our fault. But if. It doesn't, and ,I'm quite sure it won't, -so much the   � better.  The thing is already Jn1 the ground and we are not going to dig It up again," retorted Trustee  Harold  Moffat, chairman of the building committee^ Foreman  of  the school   maln-enance crew, which installed the' ank. at   the   location,   cnntaci.ed he- Health   Unit  for advice  be-ause there was^a' well  nearby nd he was^affaid that the field ;ralnage -system would contanUn-te, trie  supply  of water taken  -fom the well.
Inspector Taylor said that he only wanted to bring the matter to thcattention of the board .and hat. he wished to go on the .record as presenting a' suggestion. "Surely there (can be a little elasticity in your* laws. We are doing our best with what we have and we are trying to save each and every taxpayer money," Trustee Jack Nicholson remark- I -ed.
Later    Chairman    Bob    Range asked   the   Cariboo Health1   Unit to   investigate   the   field   disposal system at Connaifght School. Taylor replied that the depart-ment's divisional engineer would-^ be in town soon and that the situation  will  be  surveyed   ai  that time,                         . /
Gray Charges Discriminafio lit Sot-Standard Home Action
City council watered down its rnethod^dealing -with substandard dwellings on Monday nf^ht apdarew charges of dis-
crimination from health committee^ Jane Gray.
Where . in   two  previous the city had issued an the  dwellings  must   I within 60 days, an^prcler dealing with" two additional cases offers
 iarrmah Alderman Carrie
the  alternaU building^ the twpffnonth
 f  of' bringing  the
 to standard  period.
 within
 new approach came Monday after Mrs. Gray had recommended that action taken in. two previous eases be taken against a group of -dwellings ,oni the southeast corner .of Spruce Street and' Seventeenth Avenue, and a" single dwelling situated at Nineteenth and.JYe'w.   . ,
After1 Alderman Gray had put her recommendation Into the form of" a motion, an amendment modifying the order was propos-
ladies' Day At Rotary friday
About 50 Prince George Rotary Annes won't have to jlrepare a  meal tomorrow.'
Instead they'll be guests of their husbands \ at the regular Friday luncheon meetitig jof the Rotary Club in Prince George Hof tei banquet-room where '-they'll meet and hear M. C- "Hobble" Robinson of Vancouver, governor Qf-J.he 151st. District of Rotary International.
Governor Robinson, who is completing, a tour of .the 71 clubs in Alaska and parts of B.C. and Washington State, will arrive here ihis evening by train after visiting clubs at Prince Rupert, Terrace, Smithers, Burns ;Lake and Vanderhoof. He will go direct to a 6:30-p.m. assembly meeting to .confer with local officers and committee chairmen. . Ail members are requested to attend this meeting.    \
Mr. Robinsoru who Is national director for western Cfan^da of the Canadian National irielitute for the Blind, is an outstanding speaker and was accorded] a 'tremendous ovation when, nominated for the governorship �t;a district cflnVention in> Vanoouirer last March.               \           - \ -
He is one pf^the ;238 district gdvernors supervising the act,lvi ties.of sone 8.70P Rotary Clubs which have a membership of 41-4,0^ twaUMM add prt*sessional
executives in 92 countries "and gepgraphicaJ regions �throughbut the world...
AVhereVer Rotary Clubs are lo-cated, President Alex Clark said in discussing the governor's visit, their activities - afq similar to those - x>f � the Rotary Club of Prjnce George because they are based in the same general objectives.                           . � During the past fiscal year, 416 new Rotary Clubs were organized in'50 countries of North,'South and Central America, Europe, Asia, Africa and the Islands of the Pacific..
ed, by Alderman William D. Ferry.   .--         .   .        '   .,
The amendment was passed and will result in -the order' requiring that the dwellings be va cated or, brought up to standard Jn 60'^ayl, *         ..' .. f"    -
To-the^amendment the health chairman retorted: "How can we, (See GRAY CHARGES, Poge 8)
100-Home Project
 Vancouver and mid-west q racting company may build a 100-unit housing development in Prince George after H^has sampled local construcJiorT costs,    i
Mayor Brw^nt made the disclosure, this^week after the company applied to the city to pur-chasesltes for four , test homes, j^fnterestd in local housing Is Beaver Construction Co. Ltd., -prime contractors on the munlcl-pal. swimming'pool. .
Sites for the foxir test horn will be" put up for public In the usual manner.
No More Anti-Polio
^,-NCOUVER (CW^-^Salk anti-olio shots will n^t be available to. B.C., children until' January next year, four months later thah-planned.
Dr. G. F> Amyo?, deputy provincial minister of health, says "Salk vaccine will not be available un/11 about December."
At present the Health Department plans to make vaccine available In "one area after an-other" rather than spread tlie en-tire supply throughout, the province. Shots will be given first-to children from five years down to the one-year-old group. Remaining vaccine will go to child-remip from The slx-year-old; class until supplies are exhausted.
Some. 600,000 to 700;000 young-stcrs in the five and six-year-old groups were immunized earlier this year.
e Wires Today
Construction Men Call For More Carpenters
"More, general | htfen'in ; r
 carpenters" is still�the  cry from construction  this city and other ""dls-
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, Records at the Wfice of the Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners show that over' a dozen fully-trained ' and' f qtrarlrfi<*d carpenters are required for good-paying jobs at this time.
There, has always, beefr an acute shortage of skilled carpenters in pirince^'George,; buj, \the situation grew more acute earlier this we*k when calls from, idtt-zoat and Oiscome were received.
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Strike May Halt-Milk Deliveries In Vancouver/
' yANCOUVER�Vancouver Milkmen Qnd .Dairy Union officials agreed) to meet company representatives! today In, a' Ipst-minute effort to stave off a strike.'   ~                                    \ '
More than 900 rnembers of the Milk Drivers' and'Dairy Employees' Union in the Vancouver area, employed by nirve major distributors, ore involved in a government-supervised strike vote,   j                    "�">
Meeting between company and union spokesmen hove failed to-bring both sides closer to settlement of o- union demand to retain l*x-day mitk. deliveries, against  the  five-day proposal by  milk firms.   _
f: '..   Jurors Recommend Safety Belts For Motor Vehicles
m-     VANCOUVER�-A  coroner's jury Wednesday  recdmmended that  "officials  concerned"  consider the   advisability   of   installing   safety   belts motor vehicles.                                                                            .    '
The .recommendatiorc was made at an inquest Into the death^of John H. McKenzie, 27, killed last Thursdoy in o collision between a panel truck and o car.                 ;,�           -     .   '  '   ~   "'                                                      �*-';
In. returning a verdict of accidental death, the jury said a safety belt probably would have saved McKenzie's life. Car> driver Lance Darnel, 19; was charged with manslaughter.'                   �   .-< /   .
j "� Engineers' Strike May Idle 3,000 lumber Workers
. i PORT ALBERNI, B.C.�-A uriianofficial and member of the legislptura said here Wednesday a strike by fewer than 20 engineers within the next few weeks or months could^throw 3,000 lumber workers out of o job.
'John Squire, CCP MLA for Port Alberni and vice-president of  Inter- � notional Woodworkers of America  ^Squire soid he didn't knaW H-.o:S'lrik* was in the offing. "We don't tycn know what their demands, ar^." Hk estimated about'125 engineers ore'irivolyed in the conciliation proceedings.       ,
wKELOvVNA,"B:C�Growers in the Okanogan Valley are ready to send their families into packing' houses to ship out the season's rich fruit and vegetable crop if a strike'threatened for 8:00 o.m. today goes ahead. About 3,000 members^of the. Federated Fruit and Vegetable Workers' Union called a strike in 30 plants to support demands for 10 cents an hour Increase in male) workers' wages and" 8 cents for worneri.�-                      ji   I  !
VANCOUVER�Fourth complete pot line, comprising 121 smelter pots, for installation at the Kitimat smelter, are now enroute and wtpictcd ot Kitimot lot* Tu��Jay>
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