An Independent Semi-Weekly Newspaper Devoted to the Interest of Central c %-. irthern British Columbia
39; No. 26
Prince George, B.C., TUESDAY, April 3, 19.
ushman's Life Saved y Protective 'Derby'
A battered "hard hat" is credited with saving the life.of )uthful bUsh worker who was injured at National Sawmills erdoy afternoon. .,.-,,. i McLaughlin, a choker-hurled {o the ground ii,k by a tree. I,!iii Is today recover-tpital from shock and
Inor shake-up. He was brought prince' (Jeorge late yesterday n ;n the company's am-
..,: sawmills is approxl-[]v 30 miles north of Prince
just
off the Hart High-
Pipe Slock Piles Growing In Peace
DAWSON CREEK � Full scale stock piling of equipment and material for the natural gas pipeline has started across the southern part of the Peace River Block.
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Stockpiles of pipe are rising steadily along the route of the s report that he was j Pipeline, ana rrom three to six ori3cioii6 for ten min-i flat cars of equipment are arriv-being revived and lnK dally in Dawson Creek, ('lose to one-c|uarter of the expected 350
en
$4.00 per year
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in, who Is married it the millslte, was j mi a mile from the the near-fatality oc-
eans of pipe had arrived here by mid-week.
At Taylor Flats, a large equipment stockpile is taking shape, and units of the mobile camp : to Prince Putton-Willlams Brotherswill use
Heal treatment by are tieinS moverl to the campsite ��:. �<�.,� r,r mo. near Groundblrch.
Clearing crews have slashed
ow, operator tills.
of Na-
lion was reported by horitles this morning
in will probably be-tuber of the "Turtle irganizallbn of Indus-:> whose lives have Ity wearing protective
ieral Supporters jet Here Tonight
- iu a meeting of B.C. \ - . iation rn Vancouver Ii ctetl at a meeting of urge and Fort George
......ition in the annex
(jeorge 'hotel dining-;hl starting at 8 o'clock. rancouver meeting will ue Friday and Saturday in CKfcy Midi School, ana will landed by party supporters all parts of the province.
|MKKTIX(i TOMORROW
|ince George Recreation Com-lion will meet tomorrow even-|n the Civic Centre, beginning o'clock. Main topic of the Ing is expected to be the iming classes to be conducted .� next summer.
their way through close to sixty miles of right-of-way, working In half-dozen places along the pipeline route. They must complete their ]20 miles of work by August first.
Build-up of equipment and pipe for the start of work in spring is .moving ahead satisfactorily, District Engineer I^arnarr Walker reports.
No further details have been announced for calling of tenders for the $18 million scrubbing plant at Taylor, on the north bank of the Peace River. Land for the site has been purchased.
Main contractors for the pipeline, Canadian Bechtel Ltd., are presently applying for leases on crown land for the construction of compressor stations along the route of the line from the I'eace south'; to Huntingdon at the U.S.-B.C. border.
Local representatives of Dutton-\Villiama soy they can give no deftnite*date as starting time for actual laying of pipe. They say merely that they will start as soon as weather permits. Crew of 300 men will b� employed on the line at peak of construction this summer.
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iirCharged With Car Theft |om George St. Sales Depot
Two youths appeared in police court this morning charged breaking, entry and theft from a downtown' used car lot
Saturday night. -----------'---------------------"-------"
Street, about 9:30 Saturday even-
dpr .lames Bird, pleaded 1 the two charges and andecl eight days for
paries Edward Yargoau, fac-ame charges, elected to he-l by a judge. Preliminary jing will be held Thursday. Pjea was taken today.
pair allegedly entered the at the used car lot of Pol-thers Ltd., 223 George
ing.
Upon gaining entry into the building, they are believed to have stolen keys to a car being held on the lot.
Bird and Yargeau allegedly made off. in one of the vehicles. a'1951 model. They were apprehended by police soon after the break-In was detected.
The pair were held in the RCMP lock-up over the week-end.
lade Board Group To Sell rince' With Facts, Figures
I Trade and industry committee of the Prince George Board [""ode-next week will begin a marathon facts-collecting sur-
jin this city and surrounding areas. of the plan
I following an executive of the trade board this
py 1 red Cunningham, chair-the committee, id the information gather-'�iins of statisticians will �nsed and later this ye$r
''' and published in bro-
form.
llll:" Projects have been un-
II by the trade and indus-romittee in previous years [- will be the most exten-lo comprehensive business
: ;;nal survey they have
�f the brochure is to iHisiness promoters with L�-date, accurate picture of ,"'ri"n a.s it pertains to the ' growth and prosperity of l.eorge. '
1 '' i iu?;ipi abundant supply Lv.lri^a,1 Power to be made |<*!'i<*jfr Prince George by the lower Commission in 1957, Known that the eyes of many ''��� will turn to this city. �on of proauctlon mater-Qri -sites, industrial fuel, Ration and market- distrl-1 facilities, power, water, L'ond]Uons, laws and regu-s- tux structure and climate � discussed in the brief. - will be gathering every available detail and then
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Truckers Must Co-Operale If They Want To Keep Hauling
Whether or not district truckers will be able to continue hauling at 75 percent gross load over many highways and feeder roads in the district rests in their own hands, a Department of Highways engineer told The Citizen this mornfng.
"We expect co-operation on this thing and if we don't get it we will have to put more stringent restrictions in effect," he said. - !
The 75 percent limit could stay in �effect all through break-up if infractions become prevalent.
The highways official Said that staying within the speed limit of 30 m.p.h. on roads where the 75 percent restriction is in effect is just as important as not loading over the weight limit.
Driving Still Possible But Not Pleasant Says Engineer
Motoring is possible but not pleasant on most roads and all main highways within the Prince Gsorge district today, it was learned this morning from Department of Highways engineers.
D. D. Godfrey, divisional engineer for the area, said that the worst main highway driving conditions in this district lie between Mile 28 and Mile GO on the John Hart Highway.
He said that the surface of the road between these ^points is severely rutted and makes driving over it "most difficult".
The condition of the Hart Highway over this stretch was the result of weather conditions last fall after the road surface had been prepared for winter. Sudden rain softened the surface and early frost prevented further grading. A/i attempt will be made to grade the worst sections tomorrow.
Similar conditions/ exist over some 35 miles of the Cariboo
BCHIS Pares Hospital Plan
Prince George's new hospital will have a^ minimum of lUO-l.'H) beds and an additional unfinished floor space to accomodate a maximum of 150 beds.
Kitchens, laundry and other ser-l
Traffic was stalled as spectators gathered Saturday morning to watch a dozen rubber-shod youngsters grab fish from a. murky pool at Fifth Avenue and Quebec Street. A wag had dumped.the fish- in the miniature lakexaused by\a blocked storm main. One lad caught eight of the startled elght-inchers, and another seized six. Holding samples of their catch above are Mona Ericson, Neil Blue, Tomray Geise, Ronald Cavanaugh, Tommy Smith and Gregory
Fotos.
drawing some generalizations which should answer most businessmen's questions," Mr. Cunningham stated,
The brochure -will be fully illustrated and the six-member trade and industry committee will be charged with the task of preparing it.
Other board of trade arms, such as the civic affairs and power committees will collect the detail relevant to their particular phase of interest.
Mr. Cunningham Is hoping that the brief will be compiled and ready for distribution at the end of this year.
Good Friday Fire Raz&s Woodshed
An abandoned woodshed.In the 600 Block on.First Avenue burned to the ground on Friday.
City firemen -were summoned to the scene at 11:15 a.m. but made no attempt to extinguish the fire, which was burning fiercely when they arrived.
The dilapidated shed was a favorite rendezvous for homeless men and it is believed the fire was the outcome of ai\ attempt by transients to cook a meal on a crude stove.
Highway Brass To Coast For Talks
Senior Department of Highways engineers from all over Bfi-ish Columbia will-converge upon Victoria today where they will hold talks which will set the stage for a major departmental reorganization which was' announced last month.
FlylngVto the sessions in the cajjital' from Prince George are D. D. Godfrey, divisional engineer here, until the change-over, and D. F. Martin, district engineer.
It Is expected the administra- k
tional change which
make
Prince George the Department of Highways headquarters for more than half of British Columbia will come into effect shortly after the
lk^ conclude.
Under the new plan the province Is divided into lour regions, each presided over by u regional engineer, assisted by a regional maintenance engineer, ;i regional construction engineer and a number of district engineers.
Mr. Godfrey will take on the top post of regional engineer for the Vancouver.Island-lower mainland area.
Mr. Martin will be regional maintenance engineer in the Kamloojps division. .
Top engineer in the Prince George Region will be Ray S. Cunliffe, son of a former divisional engineer here. Construction engineer will" be M. C. Nesbitt, formerly of Fernle; and maintenance engineer, will be O. \V. Huberts, formerly of Pouce Coupe.
Water, Water Everywhere -Complete With Fish, Too!
Either someone was msant to be the butt of a well-executed prank or the hand of fate was at work Saturday when at least 30 fish were pulled from large pools of muddy water at downtown street corners on Saturday morning.
As .children and .others interested in the unusual proceedings took the pisces from the pools with hooks, nets and even naked hands, anglers.who have (ravelled at least 300 miles only to bag a similar catch opened their eyes.
Those conversant with fish and fishing said tbat Rocky Mountain whitefish. and almost half a dozen other, species abounded In the waters which caused residents to wear their overshoes while doing their Easter shopping Saturday.
Perhaps vthe bigRest haul was taken fromche pool in front of the Canadian Legion at the corner of Fifth Avenue and Quebec Street.
A trio of amateur anglers, whose luck, they hope, will stay with them for the remainder of thefr lives, bagged a whitefish behind a George Street billiard hall.
� Jimmy and Jack McEachnie, along with "Skippy" Walsh, took the fish from the depths of the pool. s
The youngsters used a red and white plug.
"We saw its back in the water so we ran down to the 'store to get some tackle," Jimmy explained.
Their father operates the Sports-
man's Shop on George Street.
Meanwhile, other children in the city were reporting, similar catches. As the tempo of . the great derby mounted, groups began to gather on the shores of the pools.
But the question still remains: 'Where did they come from? One spokesman who is reasonably well-versed-in fish lure said they were deposited in the pools by a prankster who wanted to scoff at the city's engineering department.
Others maintain that the fish came through the plugged drainage lines from the Nechako River.
Three Dead In Smithers Fire
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the maximum p
will also be on a scale to provide for the future construction Of a 75-100 bed wing.
Board of directors of Prince George and District Hospital Society had advocated construction and furnishing of, a 150-bed h i
Highway between Prince George and Quesnel, but outside the Prince George district of the Department of Highways.
Motorists yesterday were taking more than an hour to cover one badly rutted 18 mile stretch south of Woodpecker.
Rapidly deteriorating condition of the Northern Trans-Provincial Highway west of the city was checked last Friday when engineers clamped an 8000-pound gross load limit on the route as far west as Vanderhbof. The 8000-pound limit now extends to Burns Lake.
Mr. Godfrey warned that motorists should not attempt to use the west road unless their trip is absolutely necessary.
It is still passable, but the possibility of becoming mired down in the vicinity of Burns Lake is Increasing. . Graders are scheduled to go out onto the west highway from .Prince George today, but due to the wetness of the ground they will be able to little more than "knock the humps off."'
Mr. Godfrey said that snow Is melting along the roads and highways at a satisfactory pace and that run-off is being handled by ditches.
He does not foresee any flood-
areas will be designed for ing of roatjs for lhe Uine nelng.' \axlmum of 150 patients and \__________________
Hoted lawyer To kt For Local Gas Co.
A.noted western Canadian corporation lawyer has been retained
hospital, while officials of the! by Prince George Gas Company B.C. Hospital Insurance Service j LtdT^Hn make Its submission be-had recommended the size of theifore the British Columbia Public
uiihling be limited to 120 beds,
The compromise agreement on ibe size of the hospital was reach-d Wednesday following a flying visit to .Victoria by Mayor John Morrison and hospital administrator Bruce Thomson.
At the capital city they conferred with D. M. Cox; BCHIS commisslodner; Mrs. G. E. Wbal-en, head of the research division, and W. J. Lyle, finance manager. The agreement is subject to confirmation by the Minister' of Health and Welfare, which is expected this week.
Funeral Rites Tomorrow For Old Age Pensioner
Funeral services for William Arquette will be held from Ass-man's Funeral Chapel at 11 o'clock Wednesday morning.
The old age pensioner was found deatl last week in an unused planing mill burner in the Cache area.
Utilities Commission later (his month for the purpose of obtaining a certificate of public convenience and necessity to distribute natural gas here.
George Steer, Q.C., Edmonton counsel for a number of western utility companies, will ' present the submission and call expert witnesses in its support.
His appointment to present the company's case was announced this morning by gas company president Hubert B. King.
It is expected the application of Prince George Gas Company will be contested by Inland Natural Gas Company Ltd.
On hand at Victoria April 10 when the hearing opens will, he Mr. Steer, Mr. King, \\T. E. Bow-ness, consulting engineer.on the project, and design, engineers who have planned the lecal installation.
Prince George Gas Company last month received the assent of the electors to distribute gas in Prince George.
SMITHERS (CP) � The toll from a fire that spread rapidly through a two-room cabin here. Sunday rose to three- Monday when Mrs. Hazel Joseph died in hospital from burns suffered in the blaze.
Two children who had* been wards of Mrs. Joseph and her husband since they were Infants died Sunday. They were five-year-old Annie* Bensen and 15-year-oliI Wilfred Tail.
RCMP report a" large gasoline can exploded after Robert Tail. 20-year-old brother of Wilfred, used.oil from a small can to a. fire in the s'tpve. The explosion blew Robert out the cabin door. He said the kitchen was a mass of flames when he picked him-"
self up, and that he wet a blanket and threw it over his head to rescue his brother and the little girl.
Meanwhile, John Joseph escaped from the cabin and ran'' for help.
H-is wife escaped from the burning building, but not before ?he had been hadly burned.
Robert Tait got the little girl out of tho cabin first, then brave*"] the flames a second time to rescue bis brother.
Anne Benson died In Smithers hospital a few hours after the fire.
Mr. Joseph suffered serious burns about the face and hands.
Robert Tait escaped serious Ln> jury. ^
Policeman Is Hero Of Vancouver Fire
VANCOUVER (CP) � An alert policeman sounded the alarm that saved 50 apartment dwellers from a raging fire early Monday in oqe of three serious outbreaks in the greater Vancouver district .during the week-end.
Deputy police chief Gordon Ambrose said Constable William Biddlecombe will �"certainly be commended."
Constable Biddlecombe spotted smoke coming from the basement of the four-storey Parkway Apartment block in the west end of Vancouver soon after 1 a.m. He called the fire department and then ushered 1G tenants to safety from the upper floors.
Meanwhile Monday, police continued to investigate the possibility that burglars were responsible for a $200,000 rnv that swept three business premises In New Westminster, Sunday night.
Destroyed in that blaze were a paint '.warehouse, a jeweller's shop and a fur salon.
Two fire captains were injured and ore of them will be in hospital for "several weeks".
Six persons fled in their night-clothes early Monday hi a suburban Vancouver fire that destroy ed a grocery and caused smoke damage to an upstairs apartment. The fire was caused by an ex1-ploding furnace.
Off The Wires Today
(Canadian Press, Tuesday, April 3)
Governor-General At Whitehorse Today On North Tour
WHITEHORSE, Y.T.�Swinging low over the'rugged Yukon hills, Governor-General Vincent Massey arrived at this fabled capital Monday night, reaching the western tip of his northland tour.
Army, RCAF and RCMP detachments were drawn up at the airport for Mr. Masscy's arrival, the most formal welcome he hos received in the -listoric trip that took him to the North Pole and Monday dipped southward across the Arctic Circle.
Four Dead, 33 Rescued In Emergency Crash Landing
SEATTLE�Four persons were known dead, one was missing and 33 numbed survivors were rescued Monday after a vibroting. luxury airliner's emergency crash-landing on Pugct Sound.
The Northwest Orient Airlines stratocruiscr developed its fatal case of ocrial shakes a few minutes after its takeoff from the Soattle-Tacoma International Airport on a flight with New York as its ultimate destination.
Tha pilot decided on a water gamble with the crippled craft instead of theopparentiy greater one of trying to return to the airport over lond,
It was the second major airline tragedy in the country within 13 hours but the first for Northwest Orient since 1951 to claim a life.
The other air disaster wos near Pittsburgh Sunday night, -if also was an a takeoff. It killed 22 persons ond injured 14.
Canoe Overturns, Two Powell River Boys Perish �
POWELL RIVER�A frantic cubmaster"watched two boys drown os he swam to their rescue in the chill waters o* Inland Lake here Sunday. Guy Campbell, 9, and .Stanley Rossander, 12, were drowned when their canoe capsized.
Cubmaster Elmer McNulty rescued a third boy, Jimmy Avon, 1 1. The boy clutched o paddle while McNulty towed him: 100 feet back to shore.
The cubmaster said the bays disobeyed his orders to stay away from o canoe they found en the lakeshore.
"I yelled at them to come back and turned to get help when I heard the splcslr" be said.
The other five boys were unable to swim and could offer no assistance.
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