An independent Santi-Wmkly Nwtpoptr Devoted to the? l*t*r*tt\ fe rtral and Northern British Columbia
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39; No.
34
(Two Sections)
Prince George, B.C., MONDAY, \ \
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;jty To Embark On tig Sewage Program
Urgent need for sanitary sevT&ge in Prince George will be
rtially met this year by a quarter million dollar program de-
ned to provide a main, trunk line to the eventual site of a
tment plant, as well as service a number of scattered mun-
al areas. ~~ j �"" " "
new sections to be electorate*, from general revenue, i sewage are situated !* h
I fiid and the Millar ome isolated sections .tnwn ai-ea will be in-' But general revenue for the
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|theeen finaliz-btit a ssries of local-lmprove-nt programs Is considered the s't likely source for a large irtion of the money required. Originally the city hoped it uld finance the entire project jtha series <>f local-improvement tigrams where the cost is assess-against owners of property rved by the system over a per-
�mc 10 years, but recently Dcparthicnt of Municipal Af-spokesman said this method : tiancing could not be approv-
re the cost,of trunk lines
reorned.
Approximately $102,000 of the from local-improvement tenure issues it will have to id some other source for the maim lit; SI 02,000* Under normal circumstances money could come from a or.ty bylaw voted on by the
or, with the consent of the provincial government, from sale of tends trust fund.
But general
year is already all budgeted and no provision has been made for the cost of the trunk lines.
Preparation and passage of a, money bylaw this late in the year would practically preclude completion of the 195G sewage program before the end of the con-struction season.
Accumulated sales of land revenue Is therefor considered the most probable source.
Remainder of the funds would be raised by issuing debentures under the authority of local-irrr-provement legislation.
Authority to Issue such debentures could be secured by the city 1% two ways.
The first of these would require that approving petitions be signed by the property owners against whom the cost of the 1956 program is assessed.
The second, called the initiative plan, and the method most likely to be adopted, is a � reverse form of the same principle which requires that a certain percentage of owners within the areas to be served and assessed officially protest the Implementation of a project already announced by the city. Lack of sufficient opposition would give the city the authority to proceed with the program. ,
Thi.s system was used last year in the financing of a local improvement project here.
City council's finance committee is expected to bring in a recommendation shortly to resolve the sqwage financing problem.
lax Levy Rate Here Hearly To 1955 Figure
Mill rate which will face Prince George municipal tax-ayers in 1956 was officially struck by city council last week nd is nearly identical with last year's levy.
due
tax payments ,will, how-J
Sludenl Pilots Musi
,increased ..assessments
infinitesimal degree, somewhat increased school cost
Raie b| taxation for general unfeipal revenue; will be (J7.06 111? on 100 per cent of land ass-�ment and �>() per cent of Im-wenioiu. assessment. This Is a eduction of mh mills from 1955. Due to increased assessments nd new construction the general x lev >r l!)5
f$2S;747 last year with a mill at mills over last year, net 5103,012 for schools . qpared to �105,286 in
*:
� i school and' general tax
(See 1AX. LEVY, Page 3)
Sign Up By May 7
Deadline for would-be birdmen to enroll in the Prince George Flying Club's 1,956 flying instruction school is Moy 7, it was learned from a club spokesman todoy.-
. Present enrollment in the course indicates thot from 1 5 to 20 students will take instruciton. Some 10 of this number have already made payments
ill net the city $385,599 !�" the course and more thon 15 have compared with a tax take completed medical examinations.
The course, to be conducted for the club by Cariboo Air Charter. Ltd. of Kelowno, will occemmodate a tota enrollment of obout 20.
No enrollments will be accepted in the current course ofter May 7 one instruction moy not be avoilable here again this year, club officiqls worn
A local pilot, Bruce Lamb, is ot present obtaining his Canadion insruc-tor's rating so thot he con assist Cariboo Air Chor'ter's Ralph Hermonsen with the course.
Fair Gas Verdict
A natural gas price common to this city and other points in British Columbia "would discriminate heavily" against Prince George consumers, Mayor Morrison stated this morning in a telegram addressed to Dr. H. F. Angus, chairman of the Public Utilities Commission. i~ ' * ~>.
Emblem of curling supremacy in northern and central British Columbia is seen here with 1956 winners, the Bill Kirschke rink of Prince Oeorge, who three times came from behind in finals for the Kelly Cup to cop the big trophy by a single point over the Frank Hewlett aggregation. Individual trophies, and silverware sets donated by the T. Eaton Company went to the winers. From left to right above are Bernard McKenzie, lead; Clive Black, second;
Bill Kirschke, third; Bruce Murdoch,�skip.
�Cra'/tsmon Photographers
Record Crowd Sees Kirschke Rink Capture Coveted Kelly Silverware
Biggest Kelly Cup crowd in history Friday night watched Prince George Curling Club's thirty-sixth annual bonspiei came to qn exciting climax as a Six Mile Lake "Sawmills rink entered by veteran curler Bill Kirschke ond skipped by Bruce Murdoch nosed out the Frank Hewlett aggregation in the final end.
An estimated'one thousand curlers and guests filled the first and second storey. galleries and flanked the sides of the rink itself as the Kelly moved into the decisive last three ends..
Hewlett's entry, with Norman Strom, third, Bill Hollingshead, second. Alec Lamb, lead, dominated the first eight ends of play in spite of constant pressure from the Kirschke entry which consisted ol Murdoch, skip,, Kirschke, third, Clive Black, second and Bernard McKenzie, lead .
Hewlett went into the lead with a one count in the first end but Kirschke tied in the second and went one up in the third. ' Hewlett recaptured the lead by laying three in the fourth end and forged ahead to an 8-2 count in the fifth. &
The Kirschke crew settled down in the sixth, scoring three, and tied the count again In the seventh with another three end-er.
'ff The Wires Today
: (Canadian Press, Monday, April 30)
People Must Choose Between Fish And, Power
VANCOUVER�B.C. must choose between salmon and hydro electricity f0"1 the rrascr River, soys publisher Howard T. Mitchell.
Mr- Mitchell, 54-yeor-old publisher of several business magazines, told
annual meeting ol the. B.C. Chamber of Commerce that B.C.'s power <" ore incrcosing ot the rote of 17 percent a year.
"So many people dppend on the salmon run for their livelihood but we Pust net forget our power needs," he soid.
I Hc said by 1970 oil streams near Vancouver except the Fraser ond Wumbio rivers will hove been developed for hydro purposes.
Home Burns While Owners At Benefit Dance
V|CT0RIA�A six-room home on the outskirts of Victoria wos destroy-'Mirc corly Sunday while its owners were attending a benefit donee stog-dfc' victims of o similar bloze o week ago. Mr, and Mrs. D. W. McLennon a"jtheir personal possessions and $1,000 cosh,
Thc benefit dance wos for Mr. and Mrs. Peter Sheencn who lost all ' ^longings when on outo court cobin in which they lived was destroyed
Four Freed Of theft Charge
Charge of stealing $10 against four men was dismissed in police court last week.
Frank pjut,; Paul Hlmmell, Tony Szucuno and Charles Four-nier were, freed of a charge of theft.
The quartet was represented by city barrhsler John Coates.
Evidence .showed the men were not connected with the crime, alleged to have taken place in a downtown cafe Monday, April 16.
.The crown alleged they had stolen the money from a young Indian woman.
Once again Hewlett moved into the lead with a count of two in the eighth, but It was for the last time.
Kirschke tied in the tenth after Judge.-Bert Field of Prince Rupert was called upon to decide shot rock. The measuring device showed the Kirschke rock had three-sixteenths of an inch edge over Hewletus. * TClrschkfe isked out another point in the eleventh and fiddle-string tension prevailed throughout the big new rink as the final end started with Hewlett two down coming home.
Hewlett's rink was the fir.st to show the strain when its members missed' several shots, and with only one rock to throw Kirschke lay two.
SkipJFrank Hewlett levelled his sights on a complicated wick and raise shot which caused held breaths throughout the big crowd as It rumbled down the keen ice (See KELLY CUP, j
Waller Burns Heads City Canadian Club
Walter Burns, superintendent of the Dominion Experimental Farm, was elected president of the Canadinn Club of Prince George Friday night.
He headed a slate of 1956-57 officers recommended by a nominating committee and which was given formal endorsatlon following an address by Lt.-Gen. Guy I Simonds In the Prince George Hotel. *
tylayor John Morrison was the chairman of the nomiriating�com-mittee. . .'/.,.
Approval was also given to the �ye;ir-old club's first constitution and by-laws.
Mr. Burns succeeds H. U. King, and is himself succeeded by Don Bridges as vice-president.
Secretary Geoff Hill and treasurer Irving Moss were both re-electerl, and I). H. O'Brienfwas appointed auditor.
Committee members ,are Mrs. Harold Fretwell, Mrs. Gordon Shortt, Mrs. Joe Parks, John Coats Hilliard Clare and Robert Gau,lt.
The mayors telegram came just two days after the commission reserved judgement on the conflicting applications of Prince George C^i^ Ltd. and Inland ' Natural Gas Conipariy Ltd.
Mayor Morrison urged the com-1 mission to rule in favor of Prince George Gas Co.
Full text of the wire follows:
"This city deeply concerned over forthcoming verdict rc-.: gnrding franchise for supply of natural gas here. Thl8 city of 12,000 people voted overwhelmingly in favor of Trjnce George Gas- Company. Thc proposed price by both companies warrants most emphatically our selection and choice.
"Due to intense cold and lengthy winters here any common price as- proposed by Inland Gas Company would discriminate heavily against gas users In this city. In view of these facts we urge every favorable consideration for application of Prince George Gas Company. J. R. Morrison, Mayor."
Meanwhile, a decision on the conflicting applications for a certificate of public convenience and necessity here is expected in about a week.
A British Columbia Court of Appeal judgement on a PUC decision between the B.C. Electric Co. and Valley Natural Gas Co. Ltd. is expectdclj daily and may have some bearing on the decision for a Prince George franchise. A high point of the PUC hear-Ing last week came wheti Dr. ('. K. Heatherington, executive vice-president of the Westcoast group, to|d the commission that consumers In Penticton, Vern-on, and Kelowna wofild pay more for their gas if Inland is not awarded the Prince George franchise. Earlier Inland quoted an aver-
age price of $1.30 per mcf and Prince George Gas Company an average price around 90 cents per mcf.
Heatherington told the com-, mission on Friday that Westcoast Transmission Company wouldy "not be free" to consider a deal to supply natural gas to the Prince George Gas Company unless Inland failed to provide the service here.
He said Inland bought a block (See GAS VERDICT, Pogei3 .
Former City Barber Dies At Burns Lake
A barber who worked at Prince George for more thon a year collapsed and died at Burns Lake last week.
Ernest Timms, 27, married with two children, suffered on attack while he was at work ond Wied two hours later in hospital.
He recently moved Truman Hunter. Robert Bob suffered.possible concussion and Jomes 'ntcri a dislocoted hip ond concussion. All are residents of Nanoose Bay. Fort St. John Will Get Sulphur Plant
. NEW YORK�A contract for construction of o plant at Fort St. John ,uUnUfaCtUre su|Phur fr0^ notu-al gas hos been signed by Jefferson Loke
�ur Co: of New Orleans, LA., and Pacific Petroleums Ltd. of Cangary
^announced here Sunday. rc he sulphur will be manufactured from hydrogen sulphide extracted
'm nQturQ| Oas.of the Peace Riv�r~orea of Alberta, and British Coluumbio.
A four-year term of imprisonment, was � imposed by Magistrate P. J. Moran Friday on a man convicted of uttering a $35 forged document.
Leo LaRocquc, 37V pleaded
Prince George might be able to solve its occasional winter guilty to a charge of uttering a flooding problem along the Nechako River and create a new industrial area simultaneously and at, relatively low cost, City Engineer Georgelrlarford reported recently. In a rough outline of the plan
filed with city council the engineer has proposed that an investigation- be carried out to establish the feasibility ol the revolutionary plan.
The project would consist chiefly of dredging the delta of the Nechako River and using the dredged material as fill to raise the overall' Iavel of the undevelop-
ed portion of 'ftie Island Cache.
Dredging of the Nechako delta has long been advocated as one method of eliminating winter flooding or, at least, materially re-ducingthe effects of winter flooding.
Engineers have established that the winter floods, last oi which (See DREDGING, Pogo 3)
forged document at a. downtown bank.
Before being sentenced, he was remanded twice for eight-day in-teVvals.
LaJtocque's lengthy criminal record includes convictions for forgery and