Ap Independent Semi-Weekly Newspaper Devoted to the    Interest of Central and Northern British Columbia
I5T39-NO- 44
(Two Sections)
Prince George, B.C., MONDAY, June 4, 1956
WEATHER
Ctoudy today and. Tuesday, raivi showers today, sunny periods Tuesday, little change in temperature, light winds. |_ow tonight 45, predicted high tomorrow 65.
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labor Talks Open In P.G. Tomorrow
Talks on the 1956 contract demands will begin between the International Woodworkers of America and the Northern Interior Lumbermen's Association here to-
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morrow.
Highlights of the union de-nands for the 1956 contract are a closed shop, wage increase 'of 19 cents an hour and six additional paid holidays yearly.
Officials of the IWA here feel that by asking for the wage increase they are simply requesting a parity with coast woodworkers.
The present two-year contract does not expire until August 41.
Present basic wage in the northern interior is $1.40 an hour and on the coast, $1.54 ah hour.
Bargaining between the southern interior B.C. woodworkers will begin in Penticton on\June 11.
Woodworkers wilj aiso ask for improvement of the annual vacations clause, contributions to a medical plan and daily rest periods.   ^
By seeking a medical benefit plan, union representatives will ask for a scheme which will see both employers and employees each contribute 50 percent toward the cost of coverage.
The plan would cover all medical benefits as well as life and accident insurance.
Bargaining between the south-will   include   B.C.   President Joe
Morris, local Business Agent Jake Hoist and Financial Secretary Howard Webb.
Bargainers for the NILA will be R. W. Hilton, chairman of the labor committee; T. R. Dllwqrth, president; Norman Strom, Gordon Brown ridge, Secretary Manager R. J. Gallagher and Labor Relations Counsel Terry Watt.
Six Months For Car Deaths
', Robin Roy Ridler and Stephen Kalinowsky were each sentenced to six months imprisonment in Oakalla jail this morning on convictions of manslaughter.
In addition the pair are deprived of the right to drive an automobile anywhere in Canada for a period of 10 years. This is believed, to be one of the stiffost driving suspensions' ever handed down in a B.C. court.
The comparatively light prison sentence was imposed by Mr. Justice J. O. Wilson at 10 o'clock-^and came as a surprise to court room observers and spectators alike. Both    Ridler and    Kalinowsky
Fall Start Seen For Vocational School
Work will get underway this fall on a $250,000 vocational school in Prince George, Hon. Ray Williston told a graduating class from the Nanaimo vocational school last week.
Long-rumored plans to build a school   here  offering  courses   in,,
mechanics, welding, plumbing CouvelUer, told the court that the and other trades were confirmed accURed had been undec Wyclilafc by the Minister of Education.
wore pleased smiles when they were led away by RCMP escorts.
A third man, Rene William Couvellier, was sentenced to serve terms of 18 months each on convictions of arson and creating a public mischief, the sentences to run concurrently.
Ridler, 27, a Que.snel sawmill worker, was found guilty of manslaughter arising out of the dc.ath last July of M. J. Clingan.      \
Kalinowsky. 26, of Prince George, was tried and found guilty Friday of the traffic death last April of aged pensioner Axel Munson.
Couvellier who was brought here from a mental institution on Vancouver Island to stand trial, pleaded guilty in Supreme Court Friday to the two charges.
H. B. King, defence counsel for
i The- .school is to be built on a vacant lot adjacent to the South Central  Klenieniary School.
Mr. Williston said sketch plans for the new institution have already been approved by the government. Tenders will be called In the fall.
Mowing unsual poise, 17-year-old Beryl Lonsdale, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. R. E. Lons-lale, bine Street, Friday, told her Adventure in Citizenship  sponsors,   Prince  George lotarians, of her recent trip to Ottawa.   Beryl was one   of Biosen to participate in the Rotary-sponsored event.
Ireston, Trail, Co it lego r Menaced
200   Canadian   youngsters *r-Wally West Studios.
lood-Swollen Kootenay River light Inches From Dike Level
CRESTON, B.C. (CP) � The worst was still to come
wr the swollen Kootenay River today with about 100
rsons evacuated from their homes here and a reinforced
Milingent of soldiers working on the dikes with civilians.
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[Seventy-five more soldiers left lilllwack by train Sunday night join 73 already on flood duty c. In addition^ there are about civilians on U1e job. U four-man committee of civil-In.s und army officers headed by laglstrate Guy Constable, secre-fry of the Crcston Diking Com-|i.s.-ion, was established Sunday co-ordinate   flood   control   efts.
['I'ho river, had reached a level
-�><� feet by Sunday night I'tv was a threat of rain |fiii;il    said   a    heavy    rainfall
lie. disastrous." " |"n>f river was about eight inch-" from the tops of the dikqs and expected  to  reach  a  crest wlnesday "or Thursday. Inkers   have  already  used   an Umated '/15,000    sandbags    to water-sdftened  dikes. ^�ie are 35,000,more sandbags r')ancl and 40,000 more on order. [Hie most seriously threatened 11 during the week-end was a '"0-acrq   tract   known   as   the rcstnn veclapiatlonv district    " � VJN'18 BOATS ; Icneral   C.   R.   Stein,'   British l"i�biu civil defence co-ordinat-tuured  the area'during the f^k-eiid and was believed plan's to be in Victoria today to
Mr. Stein said he Is hoping for cool weather to slow the runoff. But the weather forecast was for, si|nny periods. STREET FLOODED
At Trail,, the waters of the Co-' Jumbia River completely cdvered flood-prone Groutage Avc. and crews laid sandbags to prevent damage.
A city engineer said the situation was well under control although It appeared certain the river would rise higher than 43 feet. In 1918 the level reached 46.17 feet.
A round-the-clock "watch was being kept, on the Columbia and pumps were set up to clear sewers at low points.
At Castlegar, halfway- between kelson and Trail on the Columbia, rising waters closed a sawmill and a drive-In theatre and homes in low-lying sections were threatened.
Preliminary Report Due From Planners
Preliminary report of the two provincial  planners with  regard
for provincial help in obtain- lo ianci use- in and around Prince
boats for use in the case of iaJor dike break. CAF planes were bejng used fly.�n supplies and the Red osy and the sefiool board had  up. some temporary shelters u furnished blankets and food 'like workers. The soldiers are [artered in the civic auditorium. ^<-:.Mp pan-oiling all roads into threatened area are turning K   travellers   not  on   official mcs
r'ie dikes protect about 26,000 ies of reclaimed farmland, tie evacuees include 15 to 20 wies   who   live   outside   the

George will be In tlw,hands.of city council this week.
The report is the work of Don South and J.H. Doughty-Davis, both officials of the regional" planning division of the Department of Municipal Affairs. ' Botfi men spent some time here last spring studying the needs of the present and future.
Major recommendations will deal with the use ,of land between the. existing city.limits and the foothills on the south and west.
.A large, industrial area will be
Increased Aid For Farmers Advocated
CLOVERDALE, B.C. CB � The SSO.OOO.OOO gas pipeline subsidy could be better spent helping Fra-ser Valley farmers solve their problems, CCF leader Robert Strachan said here.
Mr. Strachan joined Nigel Morgan, B.C. organizer for the Labor Progressive party, and Menno Friesen, Social. Credit organizer, in a panel discussion on farm problems.  '
The panel was sponsored by tfce Cloverdale local of the B.C. Farmers Union.
*Mr. Strachan contended B.C. should implement "rural electrification legislation now on the books. He also urged the storage of "the 90,000,000 bushels of grain now rotting on the prairies into the-wrinkled bellies of starving people."
Mr. Friesen said equality of production and consumption are necessary if a sound farm policy is to be built up. He deplored the lack of purchasing power due to dwindling farm commodity prices to enable the farmer to meet consumer costs.
Rain Drenches Worst
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Burning Restrictions Are Lifted �   '.
Burning restrictions, clamped on sawfhitL operations in the Prince George forest district last week, were lifted this morning by the forest service following the Week-end rain which brought respite to the forest fire hazard. District   forester,   W.   C.   Phll-
was remanded for sentencing, today.
An employee of a Prince George planing mill for the past flvo years, Jvalinowsky was found guilty of the death of old-age pensioner. Axel Munson, 81.-  .~
The aged man was struck down by Kalinowsky's car and left to die on the street in broad daylight, ;in act described by Mr. Justice Wilson as "'cowardly and contemptible."
He died within three hours of being hit at the intersection of Queensway and Fourth Avenue in the early evening of April 21.
lh the witness stand, the well-groomed Kalinowsky denied ever (Sec TWO CAN'T DRIVE, Page 2)
Terrace  Business  Block Levelled By Flames
TERRACE, B.C. CP) � Fire destroyed a business block and an adjoining . building containing threer apartments early Sunday but all the occupants escaped without Injury.
Volunteer firemen worked all night to keep, flames from spreading through the business section and spokesmen said that only the fact the wind was blowing in the direction it was saved the section.
jSix-Year-Old Boy Drowned In Septic Tank
CRESTON, B.C.. IB � A six-year-old boy, whose family was evacuated in,the face of the rising Kootenay River here, was drowned late Friday when he fell into a septic tank.
Barry James Holmes was drowned at an auto court after his parents and 15 to 20 other families were moved from their riverside homes near this flood-threatened British Columbia cam-
lips, told The Citizen that rallfall will improve conditions "immeasurably" and ease" the hazard In the Prince George, district, which he said, was worse, than the hazard experienced by the Vancouver forest district.
A total of .77 inches of rain fell in the immediate area here up until 5:30 a.m. today, accord-Ing to the meteorlogical station at the airport. In the embattled Peace River area wherV 25 fires were burning last week, four-tenths of an inch of rain fell.
It is estimated that the moisture will bring along the long-awaited green growth in the parched woods.. ;.
In Vancouver, meanwhile, rainfall of .58 of an inch in the 21 hours up to Sunday night helped "tremendously" to case the forest fire hazard, chief forester D. B. Taylor of the Vancouver forest district said.. ..
Mr. Taylor said he was considering recommending to lands and forests minister Ray Williston that a ban on recreational use of forests be lifted. "But it all depends on Monday's weather" he said. "If it turns hot again, we're back in trouble."
Forecasts for today called for sunny peiiiods and the weather office said rain .today and tomorrow is unlikely. Mr. Taylor, said
few fires started during the weekend. Those already burning were not expected to spread. .
incorporated  Into the  land  use > raunity of 1,600 persons, 250 miles
plan.
I east of Vancouver.
Burnaby-Coquirlam M.P. Choice Of CCF Party
COQUITLAM, B.C. Ol �- Erhart Regier, CCF member of parliament for Burnaby-Coquitlam since 3053, was nominated at a convention here Saturday to contest the seat in the next federal election.
Mr. Regier told delegates that surveys indicated only eight per cent of the Canadian people favor federal government proposals on the Trans-Canada natural gas pipeline. He said Canadian, gas needs should be met first and prices charged In the United States should not be lower than those charged in this country.
Robert Strachan, provincial CCF leader, said revisions to the B.C. Labor Act will subdue trie tradd union movement.
accused had been under
rlc care and that his actions were
not that of a normal person.
He said that the tall, bespectacled Gouyellier had been 'cj^'d on' by his Inmates to set fire to Ihe old - provincial men's jail at the rear of the .provincial government building to draw attention to the crowded condition of the institution.
He contended that Couvellier's action in making a false state-merit, to police was clouded by mental unfitness and was motl-> vated by "revenge". 'He suggest ed that penal servitude was "not the "answer" in sentencing Cou vellter*:           '        �        _ �'-   �
Couvellier made the false state> itieru, when he told police that two of his prospecting companions stole a car from a Fort McLeod resident when In fact the vehicle actually belonged to the pair.
Meantime this afternoon the uanslaughter trial of Thomas lesic, Bralorne miner who is charged with the death of fellow niner Gordon Musclow, is; expected to continue. Musclow, '61, died on about April 21 following a brawl at a drinking party in the nining town. Kalinowsky
Stage Is Set For Big Jaycee Regional Meet
Three hundred members of .the Junior Chamber of ommerce from all parts of British Columbia will converge' on this city at the week-end for their twentieth annual
Three Juveniles Fined For Stealing Gasoline
Three juveniles today paid fines of �25 and costs each for stealing gasoline.
They were caught by police early this morning taking gasoline from a parked motor vehicle In the city.
RCMP Puts Full-Time Watch On Motorists
An RCMP constable this morning went on duty as a full-time traffic officer in the city, police officiate an-
nounced today.
Constable Fred Rhodes today began a check on lawless drivers in Prince George.                      i -
He will be on patrol all day and during the .evening hours whep traffic is heavy, Sgt. T. Maxwell; officer in charge of the city detail, said.                          '
Assignment of an officer : to traffic duties was decided upon several weeks ago when city council endorsed a motion 'from the traffic committee approving the hiring of an additional man on the local detachment of the RCMP.                                 .
. At Jhat time the traffic problem had become serious and as aurty  $                           4
against lawless drivers in . police court every day.
The traffic officer as yet docs not have a special vehicle for his worH but he will use vehicles which arc under the authority of the city and district details:
At other times Rhodes will be on foot patrol through the main thoroughfares and at the princl pal intersections. � Maxwell pointed out that a special day will be allotcd to traf flc court, probably a certain af
tornoon. Before
Rhodes' took   up   His
special duty .streets. .wfire :�tu Jarly, but inadequately     tipt
 rty as 1$ convictions wer* *4ftst*�d for traffic infractions.
was � convicted   of
he   manslaughter   charge   by   a Supreme Court jury at his trial
Gas Price Measure Planned By Mayor
.City council will tonight deal with a resolution which will urge the British Columbia Public Utilities Commission to hold the wholesale price of natural #as here "us low as possible."
Mayor Morrison disclosed today that stich a resolution was being prepared at City Hall and would be submitted for council's approval tonight.
The resolution will ask the PUC to establish a minimum rate for the sale of gas by Inland Natural Gas Co. Ltd. to Prince George Gas Co;'L�td.
Its preamble will 'Cite a host of reasons why Prince George gas consumers should receive the benefits of cheaper gas than will be available throughout the Inland system.  '���
The commission will be advised that local residents arc already paying some of the highest fuel prices in the province and that, lit addition, the winter climate prevailing here requires the consumption of greater amounts of fuel.
Inland Natural Gas has 30 days �in. which to submit to the PUC a proposal whereby It will wholesale gas to the local distribution company. Price and conditions of sale must be approved   by the com-
ast Thursday, at which time he mission.
convention.         '
Meeting begins Thursday afternoon, and ends Saturday evening.
A three-day program with all tie razzle-dazzle which could only "be expected from Jaycees has t>een planned for the affair.
Hilliard Clare,, chairman of the convention committee, said today plans have shaped' up for one of the most colourful, flag-waving y