CMgrge Citizen
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Vol. 39; No. 46
(Two Sections)
Prince George, B.C., MONDAY, Jane 11, 1956
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illworker Killed
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Kelowna Will Host Jaycees In '57
Kelowna will be the site the l!>:>7 U.C. Junior Chamber Commerce convention^
Tin.' derision was "cachc-d Si ibrhing by 200 delcKaJ ;ntion's bu Civic ('��I'-
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attending the < j v'ess sessions in ''�it frmn tht IS t.'ie sole' bii
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Fell Into Whirling Blade
A 2G-year-okl millworker died .this morning a few minutes after he slipped.and'fell into a high-speed headsaw at.a mill :'>s miles-north of Prince George.
Dead is .lanes Shaw, sawyer at
Simmon and Kherharr Sawmill, oner Dr. A. 1.. Chnml \s wen! ::s miles north of prince George
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to mark the final phase of construction of the Fifth.Avenue structure. > Dr. \V. P. Bunt of Vancouver, superintendent of home missions, is shown putting the stone in place, and looking on, from left to right, $re Rev. Gordon McLaren, Gus Lund, vice-chairman of the building committee executive; John .Mallis, chairman and secretaiy of the building drive; and Duncan Munro. Contract for the final building phase has been awarded to Dezell Construction Co. and completion time has been set for November.
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kw Nurses'Home lust Pay Its Way
British Columbia .Minister of Health and Welfare Eric liirtin intimated here at the week-end'that the government kill approye construction of a new $105,000 nurses' home in Prince George as long as its operation is nqt reflected pi higher overall hospital operating costs. Mr. Martin's statement wa
UIC Men Here Face Huge Labor Demand
Prince George's principal employment agency, the Unemployment Insurance Commission, will be faced this summer with the greatest demand for skilled and unskilled
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to clarify a situation which here last week from a letter ho had written to Prince Wrge and District Hospital Ad-histrator Bruce Thomson. The lettor stated that in the Union, of the . government the '- 01 subsidized accommodation employees was over. The Citizen's, newsroom on '"day the minister said this Hi-: necessarily mean that government would not par-i;"o in financing the constuc-' the fa-bed nurses' resi-
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depreciation or interest 'Simon t.
entirely up to you people hcther or not you set a I'ses' home." said Martin.
1 ^'1'e tiic government will Is "With the scheme in con-
vvith the eons'! ruction of
-.500,000 hospital the g'qv-
� ':'!d must be "prepared -'� rates where the home ;y its own weight." �inted out that if a reason-'�"^'- is not made to the '''"I'.vjng the building, its
111 would merely be re-:'i higher hospital costs.
� prepared to say that 1 '�'I" new home will get
properly financed," he stated.
"We arc just as anxious as you are for proper accommodation here."
Referring to the size of the new (See NURSES' HOME, Page 2)
labor ever experienced here
With the entire province poised on the -crest of one of its biggest construction seasons, officials of the local office hold little hope of keeping up with the problem of supply and demand.
Labor requirements, are expected to be almost 100 percent higher this summer than last year, an employment spokesman told The Citizen today.
With a scarcity of skilled tradesmen being felt in the construction industry there arc currently more vacancies available than there are applicants.
There is a danger too that the usual flow of labor from the prairies may be sidetracked into jobs in the booming Province of Alberta.
And there is little likelihood that the agency will Ife able to tap the labor pools in the southern portion of the province.
For almost the past two months the Vancouver area has been im-
Chelwynd Wins Bels - First Train Today
VANCOUVER 2, an employee of Mannix Construction Ltd.
The truck he was driving at .Mile 10 on the highway went out of control :md swung into ditch.
He was thrown against windshield and received her of head lacerations.
The mishap was reported to the KCMP here at 6:30 Saturday evening. He was brought to hospi-
the
the num-
cbnslUeratlo.n if it is | tal in an ambulance.
Laying Starts In North
T ST. JOHN. B.C. (CD �i the 605-mile section of
Work has begun on natural gas pipeline
fora Port St. John to Vancouver for Westcoast Transmis-?n Ltd.
's""ie 350 men have been welding and laying pipe at touth .shore of the Peace River in northeastern B.C. dozen tractors have completed laying the pipe up �degree slope from the edge of the Peace River and re on level ground. ' pips section weighs more than 50,000 pounds.
work train on the run today, but at least it is going the full distance.
A railway-' spokesman said Sunday the last rail had been laid and everything was ready for the ceremonial ride.
Saturday 'the oi\d^ seemed igainst Mr. Chelwynd as heavy rain washed roekslide onto the new track cut into the mountainside of Howe Sound.
The line will not officially be opened for passenger traffic until about mid-August.
porting building tradesmen from eastern Canada to fill the demand for skilled labor there.
"The whole province is teeming with construction development," the spokesman said woefully.
Biggest drain on unskilled labor will come from, the Pacific Creat Eastern Railway construction and it is estimated that, accounting fora "collossal turnover' of help, a total of sun workers may be required for that one pro. jeet alone. The natural gas pipeline could account for another 2.500 men in the Prince George area of construction.
Taking advantage of the rosy construction boom arc tractor operators. A, spokesman for the international Woodworkers' of America has estimated that 30 percent of its "cat" operators have foresaken the logging industry for the more lucrative construction business. However this figure could he overestimated, the employment official said.
Although there was a total of 2,299 male applicants on file at the employment office at,the end of April, majority of whom were waiting to return to the logging camps shut-down by the spring break-up, this number was reduced by some 200 placements in the first week of this month, and is expected to diminish' rapidly as. mills get underway again.
Meanwhile the number of applicants decreases daily "and employment officials gird themselves for the unequal struggle with the rest of the province to find suitable labor requirements.
Inmates Taken To Oakalla
Men's jail at Prince Georgi been lull "almost from the da. doors were opened," Erie Martin. Minister of Health and Welfare, �said Friday night.
Aeting as attorney-general during Hon. Robert Bpnner's absence from the province, Martin visited the institution here Friday afternoon.
He said on many occasions during the winter inmates had to he taken by aircraft to Ookalki.
The old jail here was occupied by only a dozen men last August when an inrhato sot fire to uk-former cell block in ihq basement of the provincial government building.
Total spent by the government on the new institution is well over SfjoO.ooo and it has incapacity of 100 men.
Prisoners at Oakalfa and the local jail have sentences ranging up to two years :e,-.s onu day.
Sentences longer than that are served at the B.C penitentiary.
known thai .ill efforts I life were in vain.
He died long "before a doctor, ambulance ami police reached the scene
Shaw has been in the Prince CJeorge area for approximately lour years. He has worked at Sinclair Mills as uell a- at a sawmill a: I Ilxon for short periods'.
The accident was reported !�� police here at X:.-{u this morning.
wo KCMP constables and Cor-
a; Christinas. 101" are also in district at the .
Saskatche-ihis district 'inplpymenl
Westininster here His mother and fa the Prince Georgi present time.
Shaw 's- home is in wan and lie came to m 1!>.",2 to take up ( in local sawmills.
His mother is a cook at a another mill and his father lives here.
They own a house on Ewart Street which is being rented at the present time.
A i�>|iee photographer went to the sawmill to take pictures of the scene lor use as evidence at an inquest to be hold later thi.-i week.
Legion To Facelift Crumbling Cenotaph
A complete survey of damage to the cenotaph located in the- park in front of City Hall, and steps to restore it. will be undertaken by Canadian Legion Branch �}."�. A Legion spokesman announced "vc today following a front-picture of the crumbling rial in The Citizen last
the n page mom Thursday.
The survey will determine the extent of the da'magcand the cost involved in restoring it.
"We know something has to he done about it and we would like to keep it up," said Legion president J. J'. Tuyttens with an eye already looking ahead to next November 31, Remembrance Day.
The monument to the dead of two world wars was built by the Legion in*" 19F>0 and began deteii-nating shortly afterward.
Giscome Woman Cheats Death Under Wreck Of Family Car
A 4CPyear-old Giscome woman, Mrs, George Batkc, is in Bulklcy Valley & District Hospital at Smithers today, lucky to be alive after being pinned to the ground by a crumpled automobile yesterday afternoon. .
A , Smiihers hospital official this nmrning told The Citizen that the woman is in satisfactory condition with minor injuries of the chest.
Mrs. Batko was thrown from her husband's car ut about 2.-15 p.m. yesterday when it veered off a curve on Highway�]�> al a point where a former Prince George man, Ormand Pratt, and a companion wore killed in a similar accident on March 21.
Driver of the Batke car was George Albert Sand, J7, also of Giscome.
After Mrs. Batkc was thrown from the wildly swerving car she became caught under the right rear wheel and was not extricated- until the rear of the vehicle was jacked off the ground.
The five other occupants of
the car �were merely shaken up. They -\vrro. Sand, Mrs. Batke, son Garry. 17. ami Mr. and Mrs. Henry Roth, all of Gisconie,
They were travelling to Smith-ers to pick up a car belonging to Sand.
Batke's.vehicle skidded 50 foci along the asphalt surface of the road and ended up 2]f> feet from the highway. Fur the last i>K feet it travelled on the roof, striking and loosening a telephone pole.
It was the same pole struck exactly one week earlier when Donald Harvey Milne lost his life.
Excessive speed is believed !o have been the .tjuiso of the latest mishap.
Four Charged After Week-end Thefts
Four men this morning stepped into the prisoner's box at police court to hear charges of theft read to them in connection with two separate week-end raids.
A man was held by police over the week-end for breaking into a FGE office on the east side of the Fraser River bridge and steal-ing an oil stove froni the building.
Facing a charge of breaking,, entry and theft i.s William Ki-chardson, Prince George. .
He appeared in court this morning and was released on bad Trial will resume in eight days:
The stove was owned by VV. J. Gibbons, .also of this city.
The break-in and theft wasdis-eovered by Gibbons, a PC 13 employee early Saturday afternoon.
Meanwhile, a charge of theft was read to three men who allegedly broke into a home in the Island Cache yesterday and made off with an $80 suit.
They are charged with theft from the homevof' Paul Klatik. 77(1 George Street, early Sunday evening.
Entry was gained shortly after 7 p.m. yesterday when the occupants of the building were downtown.-
Neighbours, who saw the trio leave the building, chased, apprehended and held them until police arrived.
Police said this' morning the door to the building was not locked and the men simply walked in without any trouble.
Local Company Gets Assurance Of Gas
Inland Natural Gas Co. Ltd. in a letter to the British Columbia Public Utilities Commission has agreed to t;ell fuel to Prince George Gas Co. Ltd. on Uufins acceptable to the commission. ��s^------------------------------
Presidents�past and present�shake hands-at the end of the Junior CnamDef of Commerce's twentieth annual convention held here Thursday, Friday and Saturday. Retiring president of region one, Al Dann (left) from Cloverdale wishes presidentelect Elton Harwood of Burnaby the best fpr the coming year. Election results were announced at the president's' banquet and Ball held in the Civic Center Saturday
� night. �Craitsman Photographers
H. P.. King, presl- Gas Co. Ltd. on terms acceptable to and review able by the commission whereby a supply will bo secured pari passu with the supply of gas "to other points oh our system, ij'ari passu means on an equal footing)
i'. 'in apply io the Public Utilities Commission tor a further certificate of public convenience and necessity to authorize the supply o( g,i.- by our company to Prince George Gas Co. Ltd and to the British Columbia power Commission at Prince George.
The letter continues, "The proposal to he made to Prince George Gas Co. L:d. is heing prepared and will be pre.-.ented io that company sometime within the next week or 10 days. In any event we will comply with the direction of the commission that such an offer be mad� within 60 days from May 23, 1956."'
Meanwhile,
dent of the local gas distribution compnay which was Issued a certificate of public convenience and necessity by .the PIT two weeks ago, disclosed this morning that principals of the two companies have been in touch with each other and that negotiation of gas sale terms will commence shortly.
Under the PUC ruling Inland had to offer gas to the local company before it could proceed further with plans to serve 13 othcir communities in the province.
The PL'C ruled that the price paid by the local company should make some contribution towards the cost of building lateral trans-mi&sion lines to serve the Okan-agan and Kootenay districts.
In its letter to the Public Utilities Commission laUnd agreed:
1. To offer gas to Prince Oeor�e