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Possiblity that the commission plant being designed for Prince George would not contain the most efficient type of power-gen-
Driver Injured In Truck-Train Mishap
Reginald E. Hutson, 3G, driver
of'a gravel truck, was sent to
lospital Saturday afternoon after
eing involved in a collision with
CJs'R train, a mile east of tho
city.
Hutson has lived in Prince eorge for ten months. He was driving a heavy truck owned by Robertson Construction Ltd.
Today he is recovering from a ractured shoulder and numerous bruises. The tail-gate and left door of the vehicle were seriously damaged.
The accident occurred at 12:15 Saturday afternoon nedr the site \
of the new PGE bridge being built I NEEDS DIFFERENT o span the Fraser River. j In a long-distance
ate remains where fire of unknown origin took lives 3 39-yeor-o!d Red Rock woman and her two school-age liidren early yesterday were still smouldering late in the Iternoon. Heot from blazing storey-and-a-half Harrison [me 18 miles south of Prince George was so intense that
bodies of three victims were nearly wholly consumed, and police and volunteers were unable to approach the building. Lonely family pet peers atphotographer from behind snowbank in circle at upper right. (More pictures on Pg. 8)
�Craftsman Photographers
hree Die In Red Rock Fire
Nothing but a charred rectangle of ground littered with Icened household effects today marks the place where a s.ar-old mother and her two children perished in a roaring Jno near Red Rock early yesterday morning.
s. Vrr.i Harrison," 39, form-Mr-.. Vcra Vickerit, n-Ife�. ted llock carpenter Jack ls*oiia
nm.\ \ irUt-i-.*, iigc Ifi, pld-ItiM of Mm. Harrisoii'd by ryiuiiM ninrriage. lit1 n Vickrrs, 14, youngest \\ in thr family. : iiirvjvi r of the Heel Rock ' iiy> is Mr, Harrison, who ; burning home about >�. -'!�!.lay with the flames Ii al his heels.
family lived in a storey-all ' nber home about two j fi � Red Rock on a barely-
�: lo road.
rison would have perished
the rest of his family ex-,
I he was sleeping on the
lotir of the .building and
ha ! time to escape.
told neighbors after the
thai he".was sleeping in the
oin <>f the home and sud-
"awoke to .see a sheet of
racing across the ceiling.
i^-;it was so intense, he
thai it was impossible to
ything but flee.
ice.bolieye the three victims
fire were overcome by
fore the flames reached
i' Harrison left his burning hi i'aecd for help to the > � of Red Rock two
'�:u: the home of garage
I' Willard De.Marce he col-
1 ���! was only able to say
louse was burning and
family was Inside. '
'"><� inimediately contacted
( iinadran Mounted Police
nee George and rounded up
tight volunteers to go back
phi the blaze.
"nieors and .polite arrived one about the same time ':' unable to approach the nfi building.
t''lt- was nothing we could �'li ' De.Marce told reporters ']�>>'� "It was so hot you t even get near it."
ihe walls fell in a short
JAMES VICKERS, 16, perished with his mother and younger sister .in a fire at Red Rock early
yesterday morning. � �Craftsman, Photographers
JCfore their arrival, and a ""iniey tumbled to the
importers visited the yesterday the remains of iiise were still smouldering. "�Prison's black and white �""I near the ruins, hcwild-'-v What had happened. Mr. ['��n had- been admitted to 81 In.Prince George suffer-'{[> shock, and the farm was ihi led.
W-body had thrown'a sleep-jc onto the snow near the L " ro'"i*ins of the home, and
pain
Inot
refused to leave it.
of; the three victims been removed from
L bul lutle was
ROCK FIRE, Page 8)
but
Boy Scouts Honored At Victoria Today
VICTORIA ,(CP) � Some 211 Boy Scouts from troops throughout B.C. step up before Lieutenant Governor Frank Ross today to receive Queen's Scout certificates�scoutlng's highest rank.
Seventy-five Scouts from the lowe'r mainland made a choppy crossing aboard the RGN frigate Sussexvale. The remaining boys, from a&far away as Prince George and Dawson Creek, arrived by CPR ferry.
Thieves Get $300 In Cash, Goods From 'South' Store
Ten-Day Loot Jumps To $2700
Thieves made off with $300 in cas.'i and merchandise from the Royal Produce Store in South Fort George late Tuesday evening or early Wednesday morning, brought to three
The robbery
the number of break-ins and thefts made by thugs in Prince George within the past ten days.
North-West Produce Co., 1057 Third Avenue, was raided Sunday, March 25, and safe-crackers took over $2100 in cash from the store's, vault.
Four days later thieves conducted a mid-day theft from the premises o[ Rush Coal Sales Ltd., 9S0 First Avenue, escaping with $300 in cash.
"They are all under Intensive Investigation," was the only remark made last night by Sergeant L. E. Rosberg, officer commanding the Prince George detachment of the RQMP.
He had ho comment when asked by a Citizen reporter if the trio of burglaries had any connection with each other.
Fred Yip, manager of the Royal Produce- Store In South Fort George, said Sol) was taken from the cash register and about .$250 worth of goods was stolen from the store shelves.
He said the loot consisted mainly of fresh meat, fish and cigarettes.
A small window on the south side of the building was broken with rocks, Mr. Yip explained, and the vandals stood on boxes
Fix the Mix-Up Contest-
Embroidered Runner Wins First Prize For Student
Feminine "fixers" have again won all three prizes in The Citizen's weekly "Fix the Mix-Up" contest. ..The judges awarded first prize,
a silver tea Service, to- Miss Dor-een BalaSki, a 1-1-year-old Grade
9 high school student who lives contest.
with her widowed mother at 192 Victoria Street.
Second prize went to Mrs. Jes-sie Cadden of Northern � Light Motel, Third Avenue, young, mother of three children. She gets a radio.
Third prize goes to Mrs. J. Medley of 2035 Ross Crescent, wife of an RCMP corporal.
Miss Balaski was born in Prince George and formerly lived at Tabor Creek. She plays bas-
Her 17-year-old sister, Adeline, won" second prize in last week's
Mrs. Cadden, who was born in Vancouver but has lived in South P'ort George ami Prince George since she was a year old, .submitted a neatly illustrated colored folder, with accompanying advertising text for. the stores represented in the contest.
A .blue-print of the downtown business section of Prince George containing the winning names earned third prize for Mrs. Medley. Her pri^e is a handsome
ketball and softball at high school.; chest of silver.
Hov entry consisted of a dec-! Novelty in the presentation of orated white runner embroidered entries was again the deciding in blue lettering with the correct factor^,,a^__ the judges- sorted
store names.
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(See fiX MIX-UP,.Poae 6)
to enter the front section of the store. *
It was one year ago when Roy a! Produce, operating four foot stores in Prince George, bought the premises from Walter Plynn
Heart Attack Takes District Horseman
A Prince George race horse owner, Henry Arthur Smith, was found dead in a boxcar at Calgary Tuesday night beside, a horse which he shipped from here
on'Saturday. Smith was
well known in
Prince George Fall Fair racing circles having trained for the W.M. Ranch last summer.
Until recently he had been em ployed during the winter months at a sawmill near Cinema.
On Saturday he loaded a horse aboard a CNR box car here and accompanied it to Calgary.
Railway employees found Smith's body in the car when they opened it at its' destination. Calgary police say the man died of a heart attack.
Power Units For PG Best For Job
Turbines Unsuitable Says Official
Prince George and district power consumers will be getting no "second best" when the British Columbia Power Commission installs a 16,000 h.p. generating plant here within the next 12 months.
conversation this morning a power commission official explained that requirements on Vancouver Island are entirely different from requirements here, and that con-
erating equipment was .suggest** j sequenlly a dlfferent lvpe of unil recently ^vhen it was disclosed i � re lred Ulcre that the Crown agency would install gas turbine generators on
Vancouver Island and the B.C. Electric Company would Install similar units on the Lower Mainland.
Some weeks ago the commission stated it would buy and install reciprocating engines to power the generators here .
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IWA Demands For '56 To Be Known In May
International Woodworkers of America will probably announce their 1956 demands on the northern interior lumber ndustry May "6 or 7, a spokesman for tKe union stated here
The commission official said that gas turbines to be installed on the Island ar,e for intermittent use, whereas units to serve Prince George must be in constant operation, j �
Of the turbines he said, "The commission hopes it will never have to run them.
"Full consideration of the best type of units for the Prince George installation was given by h
ate yesterday.
Howard Webb, business agent 'or local 1-424, said that an interior wage and contract conference will be held in Kelowna on May 5 and 6 and that the 1956 demands would be formulated at that time and probably re-eased before the conference closes.
Bargaining can start in the northern interior anytime after May 31 according to terms of the 1955-56 contract between the IWA and Northern Interior Lumbermen's Association mills.
Mr. Webb said the conference is almost certain to press for additional paid statutory holidays for interior lumberworkers, and for the union shop.
He would not say how far Local 1-424 delegates to the conference will push to close the present 14-cent basic wage differential between the coast and the interior.
"The wage question will be a matter for the conference to decide," he stated.
The union official pointed out that by the time bargaining can get underway here the wage dif ferential between the interior am the coast will be 19 cents an hour Under the terms of a'two-yeai
the commission's engineering staff," he said.
"The decision to u^c diesel type j units fuelled by natural gas is J considered to be ^he best course of action in the particular circumstances of "the Prince George installation.
"With the load factor in the type of operation at Prince George the commission's studies indicated that the best economy will be achieved by gas-fuelled diesel
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To Lease School Playing Field
Missing Aircraft Found fn Manitoba
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