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Prince George, B.C., MONDAY, O< 2 3, 1955
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fov't Brief Looms As lajor UBCM Topic
When seme 300 official delegates to the Fifty-Second An-Co'nventipn of >he Union of British Columbia Municipal-aei down to-business on Wednesday they will commence fissions oa a variety of topics ranging from the costs of mosquito control. � ------------------
quests
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rt 01 I' the- coi ora'c � fheie .-� the
t Muni inieipal provtifi
as the most impor-
on the three-day
a brief to he sub-
Planning Act.
While details of the contents of the brief*are. still sketchy, it Is known that it. will propose
tlay outlining the : longer terms of office for city Municipal Affairs' aldermen and will define the w Municipal Act. status of communities under :\ iw presented by such titles as villages, towns, :!;i�k, Minister of cities, districts, etc. air.�; and it will j If the brief results in the crea-ication of a new | tion of the legislation it proposes tion to take in all , the municipal system in B.C. will of seven existing get Its first major overhaul in I
years.
I die Municipal 1 Prince George will propose a
Village Municipalities il Incorporation Act, !;:., 'inns Act, Local Municlp a 1 the Town
Act,
and
single resolution which, If passed, would result in the UBCM setting up a standing committee to consider policing and police contracts and costs.
yjy Mills, New Construction righfen Employment Picture
A month of good weather coupled with on exceptionally ve construction and sawmill season have brought unem-lyment figures to on oil-time lew in Prince George.
ef :i!-.r->�� i l iy mail from the jeorge-office are register-
ed as carpenters and are seeking jobs.
However, the Third Avenue office reports that the carpenter shortage is definitely not localized and has struck on a province-wide level.
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Bush Pilot Averts Air Tragedy; Dies
Heart Attack Takes Flyer Hugh Russell
A veteran Canadian bush pilot last Friday averted what could have been art unexplained arr tragedy when, wracked with the pain of a heart attack which was soon to prove fatal, he taxied his plane back to its South Fort George dock instead of taking off on a routine flight for tine B.C. Forest Service.
Kansas State formers and their wives got a quick look at Prince George and the Pineview farmlands during a 50-minute train top-over on September 25. They were accompanied to the city by Harvey Milne, CNR colonization and agricultural agent, and met by Alex Bowie, Norman Napier and L. L. King of the Board of Trade, and John Zacharlas, distriqt agriculturist. The visitors, enroute home via Winnipeg, toured the Dominion Experimental Farm
with Brian Appleby, supervisor of illustration stations.
�Wally West Studios
to the numbers
quired to work on the gas pipeline and the northward extension of the PGE, an official said: "We will definitely have to Ujiport workers for those projects."
Lumbering and logging operators report the need for at least 110 more workers, both skilled and unskilled.
Mil linen are still asking the U1C office for the right, type of men for the jobs available.
In the middle of August it became apparent that local mills did not have the right type of men and some, threatened to advertise in prairie newspapers for steady help.
Friday, 143 persons were regis-(Sec BUSY MILLS, Page 7 A) .
Wally West Heads Fort George Socreds
Wally West, well known Vririce George professional photographer, was elected president of Fort George Social Credit Association at a constituency convention heid In the IOOF Hall on Saturday.
Delegates were in the hall from McBride, Malemount, Loos and Stone Creek: when Chairman Peter.ladmark called the convention to order.
Reporters were presented from Social Credit groups at Prince George, Valemount, McBride, Loos and Stone" Creek arid" the delegates were addressed"-.by the newly elected president, retiring president H. Sperling, and Elmer Nelson, resolutions committee chairman. J
Delegates were informed that Labor Minister Lyle Wicks will be in Prince George next Thursday, Friday and Saturday.
O. E. I.eboe was re-elected s
)ff The Wires Today
(Canadion Press, Monday, October 3)".
Murder Suspect Corftmitted Fot Trial At Pentieton
PENTfCTQN�George Kramer, 28, of West Summerland, chorged with murder"pi .his wife, was committed here Soturdayj to stand trial at the � session of oisizc court in Vernon.
Kfo"mervwos chorged with murder following the discovery of his wife's ^September I 1 in o shollow grave scooped out of muskeg 17 miles north d�e.' . I ' . � ;
'Discovery of the body climaxed a six-doy search by RCMP for both ner and his wife after they were reported missing by the'wife's parents..
.During the preliminary heoring Saturday, Dr. W. A. Wicket*, who pcr-m^ a pcu-mortem on the 22-year-old Summerland school teacher, said *o$ unable to determine the cause of death.
Expectant Mother Gets Two Years On Drug Charge
VANCOUVER�A housewife, Nellie Medcalfe, 45, expecting a child nrce' weeks,.'vvos sentenced Friday to two years In Kingston penitentiary
She
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:tion for possessing narcotics,
atrestcd after a drug squad raided her room and seized on �W and a burned bottle top. Nineteen capsuls containing a white ' *ere taken from her at headquarters.
Two Injured In Leap From Runaway Lumber Truck
^CHILLIVVACK-rA Princeton man was in critical condition here Sundoy f'b truck accident on the Hope-Princeton Highway. (I suffered severe head injuries Saturday night when he jump-m'o lumber truck as it rolled off the road. He fell down a 1 50-foot
toikrncnt. ' ' ' �
^."^�onicn,'WillloflB Burke of Princeton, found two hours ofter the 1 m ""dcrbrush 80 feet below the highwoy, suffered minor cuts.
oncouvcr Man May Lose Home, Car As Suspect Skips Bail
i&00NC"OUV^R~~Wolter Campbell, city fircmon who stands to lose j '� bail-jumper Eddie Scosky doesn't appear in court before October
-unrfsy he js res|gpec( lo |ofijng pjj home and car. ^fonip.bell pot up $10,000 in real estate towards $15,000 bail. Scosky
oppcor m court September! 22 on drug charges. lhe fireniQ
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posted a $1,000 reward last week for Scosky's return lr a|ive." Since then he has received two phone colls about Dnc caller said he'.would meet Campbell Friday night and "deliver" ' � 'o'-lcd to show up. �""
mt>n colled Sunday from Port Neville, and said she has seen Scosky Jlicc are checking. * ;.''.'-"
UBCM Convention To Shatter All Records
Annual convention of the Union of British Columbia Municipalities which gets underway here tomorrow will shatter at
Dead is Pilot Hugh Russel, age 4-1, a senior flyer with Pacific Western Airlines and a resident of Prince George for the past two years.
Russell was stricken with an acute heart attack a short time oefore he was scheduled to take off at 9 a.m. on Friday morning. He died at approximately 2 p.m. in Prince George & District Hospital.
A fl.ving tr.-igrtly which would probably have retmiined a mystery forever could have evolved if the take-off had been scheduled fur a few minutes earlier.
Russell had reported at the South Fort George seaplane base shortly before 9 o'clock on Friday morning and helped Pacific Western Engineer B. C. Moore ready the company's Beaver aircraft for the flight.
According to Moore the pilot was sitting in the nearby flight shed on a disused aircraft seat awaiting the arrival of his passenger, A. F. SpeclH, 2030 Fifth Avenue, when he first complained of feeling unwell. Felt ill
"He complained of a pain in his chest and thought it might be indigestion," Moore told The Citizen today.
"'I went to my car and got him
office to sit down.
"1 wtrs tying up the aircraft," said Moore, "when-one of the forestry chaps came down and said, 'You had better 'get that man to a doctor."
Moore got Russell into his car and they headed for a downtown doctor's office.
(See BUSH PILOT, Page 7A)
least two standing records.
It will be the biggest convention ever staged in Prince George and, according to UBCM executive director T. R. B. Adams, it will'be a new record for UBCM attendance.
Harried municipal em^lqxfie$ were today making final 'arrangements for the last ot some 550 delegates and guests who will attend the convention.
So acute has been the accommodation problem that some 50 persons will be billeted in private homes.
;-Because Prince George restaurants could not cater to the entire convention crowd at one time the city's UBCM convention coin-
City In Limelight As UBCM Host Says Mayor Gordon Bryant
Prince George is "fortunate indeed" to be able to play host to municipal,, provincial and business leaders from all over British Columbia at the Union of B.C. Municipalities convention here this week, Mayor Gordon Bryant said today.
As registartions got underway in the Prince George Civic Centre this morning .Mayor Bryant said, that besides the distinction or being host to one of the largest conventions held annually in British Columbia, the city would reap rewards inherent with the presence of many exports in municipal affairs and many men who
two" indigestion'tablets','"whichThe '" Private lift- are,some of B.C.'s
leading businessmen.
"We are one of the fastest growing communities in Canada ind the mure people who know It he better," said Hi.s Worship
ed over by chairman Mayor F. H. Jackson of New Westminster, UBCM president. A feature of the opening will be an address of welcome by Prince George's Mayor Bryant.
" Business sessions will continue through . .Wednesday, Thursday and Friday, when the convention
will close following a buffet sup
per.
Moore said the veteran pilot reused a cigarette which was of-ered to him, then � changed his nind and lit one of his own.
"We talkexl about the World Series game of the day before and briefly discussed the trip."
"I still don't feel right," Russell said as he left the shack for the aircraft.
The big, genial pilot climbed Into the Beaver- with .Specht
started the engine, a
ml
had
Moore shove the aircraft ouf.into
Outstanding social events
retary-treasurer of the Fort i mittee has arranged to have the
George Assopiatlon with the following other officers: first vice-president, Elmer Nelson, Prince George; second vice-president, William Olexiuk, Valemount; third vice-president, II. Sperling, Prince George.
East Zone � Director, Robert Heesoii, Valemount; assistant director, Adolf .leek, McBrltle; secretary-treasurer, I\ Dobrowolski,* Mcliridei
West Zone�Director, Charles Richmond, South Fort George; assistant director, A. Floen, Prince George; secretary-treasurer, Mrs. Judson Post, RR 2.
Women of the Moose operate a breakfast, canteen in the CCF Hall.
Remainder of the meals during the convention are part of the UBCM program of events anti will be served at convention headquarters in the Prince George Civic Centre.
Registration
gets underway
here today, continues from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. tomorrow and closes at 9:30 a.m. <>n Wednesday.
P'irst business session gets underway at 10:15 a.m. on Wednesday after the convention opening ceremonies which will; be presid-
150 Cars Delayed Yesterday
Traffic Was.-Stalled Twice Over Nechako River Span
Traffic over the Nechako River bridge leading to the Hart Highway, came to a standstill twice over the; weekend. .First tie-up came Friday when a car struck the guard rail and the second occurred Sunday when a truck blocked the bridge.
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JUVER�Arrclght-yeor-old.Qucsnel girl, Rosemory Worwick, wos drt'Oh Sundoy night after hoving a 25-cent piece removed from
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c 9'rl travelled here by bus whenQuesnel doctoFS found they ? t0 pcrform f"e op�rotion. � Ir'Xs net known how she came to
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s Minister Sinclair was reported in "fairly good f� Vancouver General Hospital where he is "recovering '*? and a spinal injury. Sinclair received compression fracture vertebra while inspecting a Russion fishing village in August. cct when a scaffold collopwd.
A .stream of 15O cars using the Hart Highway yesterday afternoon came to a sudden halt when a loaded- lumber truck ran out' of gas on the bridge.
Vehicles waited on both approaches of the out-dated crossing for 20 minutes while the' truck's gasoline supply was replenished.
Friday night, a 1055 Buick coupe, entering the bridge from the riort.h end, hit the side railing and swung across the entrance, blocking traffic from both ends. ��
Driver of the. cars was Kenneth Mayer, Prince George.
No one was reported Injured but RCMP coiistable.s who were at the scene, said that they found blood stains on the upholstery of the car.
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Front and -left sides vehicle were smashed.
Twelve feet of wooden rail Ing were torn from the ancient wooden -structure.'
The crossing has always .been a bottle-neck to. motorists . and truckers, and if a wide vehicle \s using the bridge, oncoming cars and trucks have to wait at the approaches until it passes.
Early In July an accident in which two persons were injured and two trucks were badly � dam*
aged held up traffic for an hour and a half.
A movement aimed at obtain ing a wider span to cross the Nechako north of here has been building up for a number of years. (See TRAFFIC STALLED, Page 8A)
Telegraph Service To Be Improved
Arrangements are under way to improve Canadian National telegraph facilities between Prince Rupert and Prince George, C. A. Radford, CNT supervisor for B.C. and Alberta reported, .
To. effect this, Mr. Radford said repeater stations wilL, be built at Terrace and Smithers. anci channel facilities enlarged. Under the new plan the repeater station at Woodcock, 270 miles west of. Prince George, will ;be closed down. Personnel from'there will be transferred. to Terrace.
Kitimat also will benefit by the plan, Mr. Radford said. Communication facilities there are to he doubled and it is expected that by mid-November the nc\y communications depot will be ready for operation.
the convention include a reception and dinner on Wednesday afternoon sponsored by the City of Prince Rupert, a reception on Thursday at C p.m. with the Bank of Montreal as host, the annual, conference banquet at 7 p.m. Wednesday sponsored by :he City of Prince George, followed by dancing.
Speciai social events for the eminine delegates, include a., rer ception and afternoon tea in the McDonald Hotel at 3:30 p.m. on Wednesday with Mrs. Bryant and the aldermen's wives acting as hostesses.
the stream.
The two were bound first for of I Summit Lake to pick up Forest
IWA To Offer Full
Forest Brief Here
Latecomer into the Sloan Commission picture here is 'the International Woodworkers of America with a brief to be presented on behalf of Local 1-12!, Prince George. '
Presenting the brief will be IWA business apent Howard Webh and organizer Jack Hoist.
Details of the submission will not become known until actual presentation before the1 commission is made, but it is expected that greater utilization of waste will form a major part of the union's contention.
In a brief statement on Saturday. Mr.T-Webb said that greater utilization of the total volume of trees -is a matter of serious concern here. ;
He pointed out that only about 50 per cent .� utilization is being isecured in district forests and that any increase in this figure would bring with it a substantial increase in employment.
11*is believed the brief wil] also deal with the communal aspect* of forest management.
Mr. Webb said that the sub mission to be made here will be
in addition-to o; e whiifh
be
presented on bcha.'f of the whole B'.C> district of the 'WA in Van couvcr.
The woodworkers union were the last to announce that they would make a loeal submission before the chief justice in his enquiry into forest administration.
According to the Stoan Commission schedule here, the IWA's brief willbe presented on October 11/ First brief to be heard,will be that of the Northern Interior Lumbermen's Association on October 11. �' i
Ranger K. L. Envirij and were to leave there for Fin lay .Forks, 15S air miles north of Prince'George. TURNED BACK
"I walked hack to the*shack to listen to Russell Rive take-off notice, on the radio," Moore re-sounted. ' � ^
"He had been warming up-iiis engine and it was about TO minutes after nine when he called ne on the radio and said, 'Bud. I'm returning to the dock, 1 don't feel right'." , �
Moore said Russell looked seriously ill when he docked the Beaver and went to the nearby4
In a brief statement of wel- Mayor Bryant said, "The citizens of Prince George extend their wannest �Welcome to all delegates and visitors of the Fifty second Annual Convention of the Union of B.C. Municipalities. "It' Is extremely gratifying to us to be host to this event when we -realize that this conference will be the largest ever held In our city ;and the largest I'llCM con von tion since the organization was formed 52 years ago.
"Go-hosts with the* City of Prince George, are other cities and villages In the north and central regions of British Columbia and we are greatly indebted to Prince Ruperf, Dawson Creek, l\|timat, Terrace, 'Smithers, Ques-licl and McBride ior their active participation in helping to make this/conference a success."
As a mark of recognition of the occassion of the convention Mayor Bryant asked all city business firms to leave their window lights and signs burning during the hours of darkness while the convention lasts.
Dietrich-Collins To Open
First B,C. Branch In City
One of British Columbia's largest heavy equipment companies will establish a Prince George sales and service branch
Prince George .Players will meet in the high school library this evening, beginning at 8 p.m. Members are reminded that fees are payable.
here before November 1.
A Prince George man returned to the. city of his birth for a few days last week, to Inake preliminary arrangements for the opening).
He i^ John Enemark, service manager for Dietrich-Collins Equipment Co. Ltd.
"I suppose I always knew that Prince George 'was destined to become a sizeable city, but 1 never quite realized the growth would come so fast," Enemark remarked on Saturday..
Prince George will become "the first city In British Columbia" to have a branch of the Vancouver equipment firm established in it.
Last week Mr. Enemark was making arrangements for quarters in which to house the c|ly branch of his firm.
The local outlet wUJ^be staffed by a branch manager, two. salesmen, two service specialists, and two orthfec parts men. ^iA^complete parts service and. field servicing of equipment will be the specialties of the Prince George branch.
Djetrich-Cl'llins Equipment currently employs some 80 persons on Its staff ancl is British'Columbia dealer and distributors for such firms as the Euclid Division of General Motors Corporation, makers of heavy earth-movers; Michigan and Lima power excavating equipment, Chicago Pneu-matici manufacturers of compressors and air equipment; Wayne Sweepers, makers of industrial and municipal sweeping units; Slcard snowhlowors and garbage disposal trucks, Challenge corv crete mix trucks, Cedar Rapids rock crushers, and CMC pumps and small mixers.
In addition to selling these machines the firm operates a large rental fleet of construction equipment. .��:..
Dietrich-Collins was started in 1940 and Mr. Enemark, who went to school in Prince George, has been connected with the firm since Its" founding.
He said last week that need for a city branch is the result of the increased activity in the heavy construction and mechanized, logging fields, here.
Most notable' recent Vancouver firm suited In Hen Gjnter Construction Co. lLtd. acxitiiring three new\23-yaVci^JBtlclidj earth-movers at a cpHfof $159,000.
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