zorge An Independent Semi-Weekly Newspaper Devoted to the Interest of Central and Northern British Columbia n 11 39; No. 33 (Three Sections) Prince George, B.C., THURSDAY %l 26, 1956 $4.00 per year 5c per copy Nosey Motorists Fire Chiefs Bane Fire Chief August Dornbierer today attacked the' "complete irresponsibility" of city motorists when they spot the fire truck, speeding to the scene of a blaze. Last night, Dornbierer soid, a small fire in o home on Alward Street saw o cavalcade of cars and trucks about Lost Youth v half o mile in length following the fire truck. "It is fortunate that the fire was A 21-year-old Prince George woodworker and star heckey player is safe at his home at 1785 Fourth Avenue today following a harrowing two days lost in the swampy wilderness south of Cluculz Lake, -30 miles west of this city. Billy Lee, who spent part of his anxious ordeal in the woods composing and writing what might have been his-last letter to the girl he is going to marry next month, was spotted almost simultaneously by two search planes late yesterday. / Observers in a United States Air Force plane stationed in Prince George spotted Lee on the east shore of a desolate not serious," he remarked, "bscouse I swamp just a few minutes before the crew of o Citizen-chart volunteer firemen could not find their I ered search craft caught sight of the missing rr.an and the way to tne dddress when close to o emergency message he had tramped out on the snow. LOST HOPE Lee had almost given up hope of seeing civilization again when the U.S. Air Force Beaver, piloted by Captain B. Christen-son, swept low over the area and saw the lonely figure waving hundfed vehicles turned up cicuds of dust on the grovel streets." He soid that if on ombulonce or additional fire truck was needed at the scene it could not come near because of blocked traffic lanes. Sundoy there was a small blaze at a Third Avenue hotel. ,n,ra Avenue no�, frantically beside on unlit bonfire. Motorists followed the fire truck at | ' that time and parkedcrce carfy Wednesday morning. Canadian National Railways carried out a test run of its* luble-untf, 32,000 horsepower diesels on the Smithers division, which includes Prince eor'ge. It is-reported that the CNR lines servicing this city from both the east and west will .completely dieselized by 1957. This locomotive left the yards here creating a scarcely audible purr with 59 loaded cars trailing behind it. �Croftsmon Photographers !NR Tests Diesel Motive Power )n Jasper - Prince Rupert Run Third Degree Victim Offered Settlement Justice Department Awards $750 To Fraser A 24-year-old Prince- George lumberworker who was released from Oakalla Prison Farm last August after his allegations of a third-degree beating at the hands of Royal Canadian Mounted Police Constables here were proved correct has* been offered $750 by the Dominion Government as compensation. IA i'ock Canadian National Railways diesel locomotive� e first of its kind to travel the Jasper to Prince Rupert run� ilied in and out of Prince George yesterday. All .:. it w :i> only perform-: � in, the big diesel unit � i iii I'd a completely i : i i a to central Bri- tlly known as one cient and cheapest mechanic, and Jack McNeil, the train's road foreman. Doth are senior CNR employees. McNeil, with his spectacles coated with diesel exhaust film, pronounced the trip to Prince ijulting ilsion. would un- i George "overwhelmingly success-a leading" role in | ful" before embarking on the trip economy of this west. He said the double-unit loco- and yellow "9082" !� motive hauling 73 load?, left Mc-Bride at 10 o'clock Tuesday evening anil arrived here at about 12:30 Wednesday morning. Only one of the 16Q0-horsep6wer units., was used between bore and McBtide, The second, an auxiliary (See CNR TESTS, Page 6) the Prince George o'clock yesterday icf! just ahead of train to Prince Ru- rnlsj of the locpmo-0. l'hilion, master wops Camera For Radio-Phonograph Woman Big Winner In [Fix the Mix-Up' Sweepstake Mrs. Stan Dear, whose home is at the Prince George air-t, has won the grand prize��a combination radio-phono-|rcph�:n The Citizen's "Fix-the-Mix-Up" contest. * Kjr,| reci :.:.�. Born came ;, y was a miniature und complete with nip-� �! .i music box, which i/.e iri the fourth week �. and the judges lew .minutes to de-was the most novel - entry submitted five weekly contests. selecting the winner prize the judges spent hour inspecting the "I unique entries sent fifth and final .week L'St. ze,. a woman's tliroe-��'�� set, went to Jim 20.62 Fifth Avenue for ally arranged bed of s and fern planted ls containing the Cor- namea. Probably the e influenced by their flowers were not arti-. � model-of downtown George with miniature ihe stores represented eck s content won second 1 1 l-year-old Geri Wil-Brade :> student at'Prince '-'" school,, 1 I'rince Rupert, Gcri this city with her par-��iid'Mrs. C; M. Williams, ���nth Ave., when-infant, and now has Fraser Up Five Feet The Froser *ivcr here has: risen at least five feet since the weekend. According to a bridge engineer who is supervising the construction of the new PGE span across, the Fraser, about a mile east of the city, the river has risen unexpectedly sj/ice the weekend. He said markers he hod placed close to the shore .normally protruding three feet above wotcr, were now at leost two feet below the surface. � Meanwhile, a construction firm which has been usi^ig the river befd os a source of. grovel has moved all its machinery clear of the rising stream to higher grounds. Authorities at the coost and lower mainland have expressed confidence that there will be'no flooding on the Fraser this year. Nevertheless, the month of Moy will see the turning point in the flood situation. Most-of tK low-lying valley snows are now melted but the run-off from the hill-sides and mountains is yet to come. . Flooding ot Prince George is generally caused by the Nechako. The ! Word that the Justice Department was prepared to make a settlement in the case of Robert John Fraser, wrongfully jailed more than a year ago for a crime j he didn't commit, was made pub-i O.l The Citizen-chartered craft, piloted by Delmar Lamb and carrying 'reporter Terry Hammond, was searching an area to the south of Lee's position at the time. Making a sweep northward towards Cluculz Lake the two occupants of the Prince George Flying Club plane spotted Lee and his "H-E-L-P" message at the same time. Not httv'ng radio contact with the American craft they could not tell that the missing youth's position had already been pinpointed. " They dropped cigarettes to the lost man and a message reading "Stay There." lie by his solicitor, George Stewart, this morning. I Mr. Stewart said that his client I is working near Dawson Creek j at present and has not heard of j the offer. Mr. Stewart agreed^to take up the near hopeless case of winning compensation for the wrongfully jailed man after local police officials conceded last January that Fraser's tale of a beating at the hands of two RCMP constables was correct. Both constables received -terms in detention barracks and were dismissed from the force. Fraser's case was pleaded in the British Columbia Legislature by CCF MLA Tony Gargraye. In the House of Commons a series of questions relating to the case was tabled by Davie, Fulton M.P. of Kamloops and replied to by Justice Minister Stuart Gar-son. Fraser confessed to a "brutal case of robbery with violence here after he was beaten about the face by one policeman,while another held his head. In court he pleaded guilty to the charge because he,feared fur-.�raser river plays a secondary role. iner�'violence if hi protested the Flow of the Fraser is governed by cialSe- now ui i it iua j / jje � sentenced to a year th" F-raser Canyon south ol here. It � -.., , , , �! . tne rrubi-r >_u y , al anrj a whipping. In Oak-is simi or to o funnel with only a ccr- ,, , , , � �, , , ,, similar iu u i . . . tn | all?, he placed his case before the i vo ume of water being able to | . ...� Both aircraft took compass bearings on the spot so ground searchers could be guided to the rescue. The search force involved the use of three aircraft and a fourth had just arrived at Prince George Airport from Vancouver when the man was found. TRACKING DOG Royal Canadian Mounted Police tracking dog "Tony" was on the ground, but after picking up Lee's scent once, lost it where the quarry had crossed a swamp. Lee became lost shortly after noon on Tuesday while assisting Northern Spruce Company Forester Don McColl on a timber cruise. In an interview at his home today the rescued youth was still a bit confused over just how he had become lost. Ke and McColl had entered the bush from the west end of Bed-nesti Lak� and were searching for a blaze marking a timber limit. A short time after noon the two .struck out in opposite directions in search of the marker, and agreed to meet .back at a point �where McColl buried their axe in a tree. ROBERT FRASER On the soccer front on Sunday, the Legion and the Bay stage an exhibition game at 4.15 p.m. A member of the Bay teom, Roger Fox, hos consented to undertake the coaching task for the season. A work-out [for Legion players will be held at ConnaugKt Park ot 6.30 p.m. tonight and for Hudson Boy players on Friday ot 6.30 p.m. SILLY LEE He came to a small lake around which he believed he and .\fcCn?l had walked on their way into the bush, but coukTflnd no tracks around it and now believes it was not the same lake at all. Lee says he walked in an easier-1 "Then 1 got into a sioUgh and ly direction for only about 101 1 knew I was lost for sure." mihutes,! and lost his bearings nis nrst and only attack of on the way back to the tree. tha panic which overtakes most WRONG TRACKS people lost in the woods set in. After a time ho tried to pick : He started to travel faster, and up his tracks on the snow crust j '�� faster. to,,Rukle him back, but insiead ['PAJflC followed the tracks he and Me- �i was felling down over wind-Coll had made on the way in. fau.s and things and suddenly I He wandered about for an, hour realized 1 had to get hold of m'y-and a half and then decided' to sc|f before I fell down and broke yell for his companion. There was no answer so he tried to walk back to the Northern Trans-Provincial Highway to the north. ,> a <�.!,, bJ t for she two s W'ho also will be their cooking lessons !ild mixer she has won u:iii|ue entry. ,.'�'' vC'iy designed "dial-o caught, the eyes of the for the third award. It ': *lf two circular cards, 1 being ringed with the I11CS< By turning the inner " suitable two-line jingle a'ed under each store 's entered by a 22-year-old F|X THE MIX-UP, PoOe.7) MRS. STAN DEAR tain pass throuah it at one time. Under these circumstances the runoff is held back upstread and the waters of the Froser lean againstthe flow of the Nechako. The Nechako, o drainage system controlled by a mass of lakes and streams, cannot find its way into the Fraser and consequently overflows its banks at the confluence of the two rivers. Council Will Act On Street Closure Dl�?laa John Howard Society and an yestigatlori into his allegations was .launched hV RCMP officers. Fraser eventually testified against the two constables at a police trial held in Vancouver. He was released after five months in jail. The story broke in The Prince George Citizen and other papers across the nation when Fraser sought to have his name cleared of the conviction. Lawyer Stewart said today he has written to Fraser telling bim of the Justice Department's offer City council will shortly'ruie on a controversial year-old street closure program which must be decided before municipal engineering consultants can proceed further v