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urs after the job of building these towering PGE bridge piers a mile east of the city had n completed on Saturday a movement of Fraser River ice crumpled the pile and timber ling fr�m which they had been constructed. Two large gaps were torn out of the falsework [ae Saturday night or early Sunday morning. Workmen did not have time to '<. �move r;!iW   to    police, wsiny   Queensway    near Avenue   when    he   was j the i!t alh car. I      wskj ha.s lived in Prince im- years and is em-Prince George Planing
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Council Moves lo End Safety Threat
City council last week took steps to eliminate a serious safety hazard which occurs six evenings a week at the intersection of Third Avenue and Vancouver Street, in the vicinity of the Princess Theatre.
Hundreds of theatre patrons swarm across Third Avenue twice nightly on week nights and Saturdays u> reach cars parked on the north side "Of the street,
In addition, theatre line-ups frequently Intrude out onto ..Vancouver Street l)efore the evening theatre  programs commence.
Council has ordered the establishment of a pedestrian crossing lane over Third Avenue to eliminate the danger there, and haa asked the theatre manager to,veif .-in employee with the authority to exercise more, control over people standing in line-ups.
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Capital Jo Province
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CORRECTION
A news story on the front page of last Monday's Citizen erroneously stated that four men charged with theft had confessed to the alleged crime and entered pleas of guilty in police court here.
The men were identified as Frnnk Pint, PauL Hl'mmell, Tony Szucunp and Charles Fournier.
-The-*tory went on to state that they had "been remanded eight day,s for sentence.
In actual fact the four men pled not guilty to the charge and were remanded eight days for trial. The lour were released on bail.
The Incorrect report which appeared in Monday's Citizen was the result "of a reporter confusing the facts of one court case with the facts of another.
The Prince George Citizen sincerely regrets any effect which the erroneous report has had upon the reputations of the four men mentioned in the original news story.
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Three Nabbed With Expired Licenses
Three drivers Saturday morn-Ing were fined S25 and costs for operatWg vehicles bearing expired liceAqtf plates.
Tom iboucettii, Gary Johnson and Maurizio Florian appeared in police court on the charges.
They were picked up Friday in the RCMP's crackdown on neglectful drivers in Prince George.
Meanwhile, Roy Theodore Bush pleaded not guilty to an. impaired driving charge and was remanded for trial.
Speeding on city street? cost Lawrence Shatsky S25 and costs Saturday.
Speaker Ura.es New Concept  Of Mankind
VICTOiyA, (CP) � Dr. Brook Chisholm, former head of the World Health Organization, says the worst thing that could happen to the next generation is that it turns out to be the same as the present one. �^H� told-the Victoria'branch of the United Nations Association the present generation has become expert in the artof killing the next generation and is going to have to learn to think and feel basically, not as part of the group or nation it is born in, but as members of the human race.
City Seeks Voice On Centennial Planning
City of Prince George will at-empt tt/get local representation on the British Columbia Celebration Committee, it was learned recently.
The city has written to Premier Bennett pointing out that the central Interior part of the province is not represented on the committee.
Purpose of the committee is to plan provincial recognition of the centennial year, largely as an attraction to tourists.
Prince George is not the only city which was skipped from representation on the committee and is seeking its own member.
Game branch Muddled
Confusion Reigns  Fishery Furor
Roe  Banned On Morice;  Bulkley Rivers
Evidence that the British Columbia Game Branch's right hand does not know what its left hand is doing was disclosed here late last week on release of the 1956. sport fishing regulations.   .
bozens of city steelhead anglers are up in --arms today over the fact that the use d*. fish roe has been banned on tlie Morice and Bulkiey Rivers in spite of assurances from B.C. Game Branch Inspector Walter GUI some weeks ago that such a ban would not be j put into effect on those two rivers.
Contacted by The Citizen Saturday Inspector Gill said he was dumbfounded at the inclusion of the Morice and Bulkley Rivers in the roe-ban section.
But    this    morning    the-  B.C.
Span Builders Win Race Against Spring
A dramatic race against spring break-up in which two large British Columbia construction companies gambled a half million dollar project against the destructive force of Fraser River ice ended in victory Saturday just a few hours before de-
feat would have been a certainty.
With the timing of a jewelled Swiss  watch  the two  companies
Four Pay $300 Each For Bootlegging
Four persons charged with unlawfully keeping liquor for sale last week have pleaded guilty and have paid fines of $300 and costs each.
Friday William Hugh Anderson and Glen Gordon Belford were each iined $300. This morning Barbara Piscuric and Carl Powell, both of the same address, paid similar  fines.
Miss Piscuric and Powell"'appeared in police . court 10 days ago with counsel but today they stepped into the prisoner's box to plead guilty undefended.
A police report stated that two
plainclothes constables on several   coulcl nave set back the construe occasions had entered the premises  of  the  Albany  Hotel,  Second Avenue, and bought liquor from the pair.
brought to an end the construction of mid-river piers of the Pacific Great Eastern Railway-bridge over the Fraser River a mile east of Prince George.
Hours later, the ponderous mass of Fraser River Ice piled up against the falsework staging from which the concrete piers were being poured started to shift, and with it the timber stag-Ing was ripped out like matchwood.
If the river ice had shifted before the; project was finished the delay "would have cost the companies   thousands   of   dollars   and
vorth $600,000 for the construe-ion of the. piers for the Fraser
and Salmon River bridges.
Work on the high-level Fraser pan got underway last July and or a time the contractors were
plagued with misfortune.
Fire Victims' Inquest Reopens Friday Night
� Inquest' into the deaths of Mrs. Vera Harrison, her daughter, Ellen -Tickers, and son, James Vick-'ers,  will  reopen  Friday  evening.
RCMP :\Srs.
said today. Harrison    and
her    two
children died in their Red Rock' home when it burned to the ground  late Tuesday, April 3.
Bonspiel Enters Fourth Day
Kamloops Skip Muffs Bid For Eight-Ender
Sixty-five rinks�50 from the city and 15 from outside c!ubs�broke from the barrier, rounded the first turn and moved into the back stretch over the weekend in the 36th annual bonspiel of Prince George Curling Club. � The big event will wind up Friday  night  with   the  play-off  for ihe hvjge  Kelly Cup. which will involve   the   rinks   reaching   the fours of A.  B. C and 1) events.
The winners of E and F event? will also get a chance at the big massive mug if there are duplicate winners in "the four- leading competitions.                   g
Bonspiel headquarters have been set up in the suite'of a downtown hotel where Draw Master Ford Wray and his i.\>iiimittce of helpers have kept the 'spiel running smoothly.
Some close play and extra ends marked the early rounds Saturday and Sunday, and on one draw on opening day three of the games were decided  by a single  rock.
First extra-end tilt came when Williams Lake's veteran skip, Tony Woodland, nosed but McCori-nel of Prince George 7-(3.
Mel Rustad of Prince George and McKenzie of Prince Rupert staged a thriller early Sunday morning. Tied 7-7 in ten frames, the judge had to be summoned at the end of the extra' end to measure for shot 'fockV^" Rustad was closest by the width of a lead pencil.
George Buckham, draw shot artist from Kamloops, missed a golden chance for an eight-ender yesterday when he failed to put his last stone into the house. But he Acounted seven against Mel Walls local foursome, which tied score, and went on to win 12-9.
Among the many rinks yet to taste defeat is Prin.ce George's Mel Strickland, who entered the bonspiel after an inactive year at his favorite game. Last night he had a 3-0 record.
Here are some scores in the preliminary rounds:
"A" EVENT
Rustad 12, Skalic'ky H; H. Kennedy 3, Palumbo 8; McEachnie 3, James   10;   Sandberg  9.  Carr  6;
Giles 5. Bachand  10; Dilworth 7, Walls 11. Carmichael 0,  Dagg 10;  Moffat
10,  Hatch S; Wray 11,' Mellish 2; Madill 10, Geddes 4 ;Burns 11, Astoria 7; Mclnnis 5, S. Kennedy 11.
Lewis 8, Thibedeau 15; Corrlin-er Oj^Bermel 7; Hutton 12, Buck-hani 13; Gaffney 7, Nielsen 8; Moores I, Strickland 14; Carson 5, Killy 0.
Robertson 12, Phillips 5; Me-Kerracher 12, EngStrpm�3; Woodland 7, McConnell (> extra; McKenzie 6, Kirschke 0; Shatsky 5, Peck-ham'9;^Thompson 11, Dezell 5.
Allen  9,  Braaten  6;   Balllie 9, Hewlett 6; Field 9, Meiers 4; Berry 7,, White 13; Belsham 5, Darroch J-continue 10.
Willson 13, Hctheringfon 6; Loth 7, Rowlands 4; Roine 8, Grohame 7; Polumbo 1 1, James 6; S. Kennedy 1 1, Woodland 7; Buckham 12, Walls 9; Peckharn   8,   Robertson   7;   Sandbcrg
11, Thibedeau 5.
Allen   9,   Burns   7;     Bachand   10, (See CURLING, Page S)
Pair Remanded On Robbery Charge
M�ivin James Burke and Theodore ;,Adam Schcck, suspecled of beating and robbing an old-age pensioner two weeks ago, were remanded for eight days in police court this morning. | They elected to be tried in County Court. A date.&r the preliminary hearing has not yet been set but it will probably be held within the next -week.
Burke and Scheck are charged Mill stealing $265 from Wcslie Hickie, 70, 1605 Dodgwood Street,
Hickic told police two men as saulted him while he was walking home along Queensway late on the evening of Saturday, April 7, and left him penniless.
Son timetable for the whole northern extension.
Contractors on the job were Northern Construction Co. Ltd and J. W. Stewart Ltd-.
The  companies held   contract?
TuesdaiJJeadline For Road-e-o
Game Branch's chief fisheries biologist, Hobert McMynn, told The Citizen by long-distance tele-phone that he in turn was "dumbfounded" over the inspector's statement that the ban would not apply to the Morice and Bulkley rivers.
McMynn stated that Inspector ill himself recommended the banning of the use of fish eggs . as bait on the Morice River, a fact which Gill admitted Saturday, adding that he was under the impression the recommendation had*not been accepted.
Banning of roe on the Kispiox, Morice and  Bulkley rivers effectively   curtails   the   activities   of many anglers in this area. CONFUSION
Contacted on Saturday, Inspector Gill said the banning of the use of roe on the Kispiox River was implemented in order to protect a single run of unusually large steelhead^,
But McMynn, in an article in the April 20 issue of a Vancouver newspaper, and again by long-distance telephone this morning, contradicted this.
He said the banning of roe is not a conservation measure as far as migratory salmon and trout are concerned.
The Kispiox ban, as well as the others, were not implemented in order to relieve the fishing pressure on these streams, he said. BASIC REASONS
He told a reporter that where any fishing legislation i.s contem-
First catastrophe to hit the juilders came in November when recently-formed river ice shifted unexpectedly and tore out a sec-ion of the pile and timber span i plated, two factors must be taken
Kntries close tomorrow for the Prince George section of the National Teen-Age Safe t Driving Road-e-o and written examinations for the contestants will be held in the Scout-Guide Hall on Friday from 4:30 to G:30 p.m.
Entry forms can be obtained at the Board of Trade ofrice, High School and radio station C'KPG.
Prince George JCC's are sponsoring the contest in this city and in dozens of other communities across Canada. It was designed to give the nation's young motorists an opportunity to prove and improve their driving habits and attitudes.
The local Jaycees have selected a panel of judgds for the city Road-e-o, including - Mayor John Morrison, RCMP Inspector Jack Lee, and Jack Leyland of Imperial Oil .
Jaycees have been granted permission by the city council to seal off Third Avenue between Quebec and Brunswick streets where the contest will be held over a four-obstacle course on  May G.
Council Studying City Manager Plan
Intense paragraph-by-paragraph study of the Olson Report on Municipal administration in Prince George was embarked upon by city council last week and will in conimi.ttee-of-the-whole thia evening.
The controversial report recommends adoption here of the city manager form of municipal gov-errfment.
In order to evaluate the contents of the report before acting on them Mayor Morrison some weeks ago suggested a plan of regular study of the 22-page document and its recommendations.
Last week council reviewed the first 10 pages of the Public Administration Service report dealing with such things as a brief history of the city, its strategic location in the province, inadequacy of such municipal services as street paving, sanitary and drain sewers, the electric utility and town planning.
The section studied by council also contained a description of the existing plan of municipal administrative organization, and an analysis of each top-level administrative position.
Tonight the council will start on the portion of the Olson Report which deals with organizational deficiencies and problems of the existing type of administration, as well as remedial recommendations.
rom which the men were work-ng on the main piers.
Collapse of the falsework dumped an $8000 steam-hammer into he river and days were spent irobing the bottom in an unsuccessful effort to retrieve it.
Then came bitterly cold weather in which men could hardly handle their tools, and with the cold weather came a fire which destroyed .a shed in which gravel was heated before being mlxec into concrete.
As the work started to fall behind schedule the builders put on double shifts of workmen, and finally triple shifts.
Today the bridge sub-structure, stands   completed   exespt   for   a small amount of concrete pouring on   the   readily-accessible   south abuttment.           ,   .
Crews   from   Dominion   Bridge Co.   Ltd.,   the   firm' awarded   the ' 1. . steel superstructure contract, will j | '. � arrive here within a few days.
nto consideration by the game om mission.
These are biological evidence hat such legislation will be bene-iclal, or at least not harmful, and mblic opinion.
The ban on use of roe on the three rivers mentioned was baaed purely on the factor of public opinion, he stated.
The commission is governed to
See CONFUSION REIGNS, Poq� 3 .  - #
Sunday Brawl Ends In Indian's  Death
MERRITTl (CP)�Johnny Sampson, a 45-year-old Indian, was >eaten to death early Sunday in a brawl at a reservation near here. RCMP said another man had been taken to hospital and two others were in custody without charge.
The brawl occurred at the Shu-lus village five miles from Mcr-ritt. The injured man was identified as Tim Shuter who suffered undetermined injuries.
Splendcd focial flora of Steve Goal of Sinclair Mills won him top marks and a prize ot Junior Chamber of Commerce aonuol Hobo Hop last Saturday
night.     � �Craftsmen  Photographers.
Off The Wires Today
(Canadian Press, Monday, April 23) Mounties Nab Suspect In Edmonton Express Robbery
VANCOUVER�Weeks of undercover investigation paid off Friday night when RCMP recovered $22,400 believed to be part of $44,000 stolen from a  Canodian  National   Railway express  van in  Edmonton  April  9.
The money was found in possession of a man arrested in Clovcrdale by Vancouver RCMP  officers.
Charged in the robbery is George Soka, 25, of Edmonton, a former employee of the CNR Express.
Merrit Cattle Rustlers Jailed In Jig Time
MERRITT�Justice was swift last week for two Merritt brothers convicted of cattle rustling..                  "\ "
A few hours after rancher Allan Collett reported to RCMP that he discovered a slaughtered steer' on his ronge, Joe and Walter Majors were sentenced to one year in Oakalla by Magistrate Peter Moyes.
Police tracked tire marks to Merritt where the vehicle was discovered along with a fresh quarter of beef. Another half beef was found in a cabin occupied by the pair.
Union Official Frowns On Long Week For Loggers
VANCOUVER�A union spokesman said here Friday there is "no justfiicotion" for o return to the 48-hour week in Ihc B.C. logging industry for a six-month period this summer.
The Board of Industrial Relations gove operators permission to work a six-day week and build up a supply of logs to meet a .threatened labor shortage.
Fred Fcibcr, local secretary, said: "The operators ore attempting to. work through the most favorable weather wi^h only one day off a wce'<. When they get their quota,  they'll shut down,  even  if some good weather
t VANCOUVER�Berrrand Paris, elderly Vancouver man, wos burned to death'Saturday when his gasoline-soaked clothes caught  fire in his jjarage.
TERRACE�Jens Peter Neilson, 28-ycar-old employee of the Columbia Cellulose Co., was killed in a logging accident near here Friday. Neilson, a rigging slingcr, was struck by a moving cable.
VANCOUVER�Charles Parker, 20, auxiliary policemon, was sentenced to three years in jail for the beating of grocer Chew Bing April 4. Parker, pleading guilty to a charge ef robbery, said he committed the crime because ht wos "short ef coshi"