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Prince George, B.C., MONDAY, June 25, 1956
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Man Killed Beneath Locomotive Wheels
Susped Sought in
I KEN LARSEN (left) of Prince George Athletics and Billy Martino of Willow River are going to be tougher to beat after receiving some expert advice from ex-big-leaguer Bob Hooper (right) during a two-day baseball clinic held here last week. Here the Ontario-born Vancouver Mountie moundsman is showing the boys how-to grip the spheroid to deliver a fast ball, one of his most effective pitches. Later he advised both Larsen
and Martino to eni^JJl next year in one of the many baseball schools convicted by American and National league teams. To pw^fe that he "knows the score," the likeable Hooper boaf/dpd a plane Saturday and arrived in Vancouver in utimjj� to don a Mountie uniform and hand-cuff the Portland- Beavers in a night game which the Io\#y Mounties won 3-1.
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VANCOUVER (CP)� Police Sunday afternoon issued a pickup order for a man with "stained 'and crooked "teeth" seen hear the area where eight-year-old Bobby Henderson was last reported playing. I
The search continued Sunday night for -Bobby, missing since 4 p.m. Saturday when -he was left iWor.c by an older brother in South Vancouver.
Police said they .siill hoped the boy was "hiding out" because he was afraid to.come home after gelling into ".some-kind of trouble".
Bobby/was playing with his nine-year-old brother; John, Saturday afternoon in a vacant lot. John went home at I p.m. but Bobby wanted to play a lit lie longer.
"He said he was going to play with thhree older boys who were about half a block from us," police said. -
Bobby's parents, Mr. and Mrs. John Henderson, said he was a quiet type, seldom coming home late and they could think of no reason why he would voluntarily stay away.
More than 800 Boy Seout.s, members of the Legion of Frontiersmen, householders and police joined in the .search. �
Elderly Victim
An elderly unidentified.man died beneath the wheels of a C.N.R. locomotive at about 10:15 a.m. this morning in the vicinity of Malkin's warehouse on First Ave.
Both legs of the victim were severed and his skull shattered by the impact. Death was instantaneous.
Switchman John Capp, who---------------------;---------------------
was riding the engine at the time 1 ambll)ance and la' doctor arrived discovered the grisley remains on lhe Sccne some 15 mlnute3 iat-seconds after the mishap occur-1 er
red.
it is not known why the victim, aged somewhere in his late sixties, happened to be on the tracks.
One leg of the man was found a distance of 15 feet from the scene of the '.accident;
The locomotive was backing up onto an industrial spur that runs behind the food wholesale warehouse at the time.
The man was dead when an
According to C.N.R. policeman Peter Russell, the victim appeared !n be of foreign extraction, was neatly dreesed and was not the usual type "that hangs around the tracks."
Engineer of the locomotive was Edward Hughesman, 1977 Norwood.
I'ntil early this afternoon the
�load man was only identified
as "Whit�\v."
Talks On .and Assembly Plan
Two city aldermen flew to Vancouver Friday afternoon for "at the summit" talks with the president of Central Housing & Mortgage Corporation, in a last ditch effort to break a deadlock blocking development of a $2,-W,000 housing project in Prince George. Alderman Charles"Cranston, ac j
ompanied by Aid. Ken Jack,
Iflew to the coast city to an appointment Saturday
keep with
itewart Bates, president of CM HC.
"We're going right to the top |in an effort to break the jam that is blocking this thing," said Cranston, chairman of the land assembly project committee ap-ointed early this year by Mayor �Morrison.
Cranston will report on the outcome oF the conference,at a meet-ling of city council tonight.
The project involving the de-Mopment of all municipal services in an area containing about premium hotnesttes, was pro-smoothly with city and when suddenly the beginning of this month, i senior government agency, CM & HC, applied the brakes to deal by demanding that the 1 In question be.transferred to ^e land assembly project at about half its assessed value.
Assessed value of the land, an area overlooking the Neehako River froin Central Fort George, is approximately $650 a lot and the
senior participant/in the scheme insisted on a price of $3500 an acre.
Details of the land assembly project were first made public nearly a year and a half ago and under the proposal a three-government authority would be set up to finance the construction of paved streets, sidewalks, water-mains, sewers, street lighting and power distribution. - By the end of May this year more than 70 prospective home owners had come into the deal.
Total cost of providing services in the area would amount to $375,-000, the money being advanced by the two senior governments.
Buyers of th# land would assume responsibility for approximately $225,000 and would refund the money through addition al charges added to the mortgage payments on. th#tr homes. The city "would pay off the balance over a period of 10 years.
If Cranston and Jack are unsuccessful Jn their talks it is probable that the whole project will be abandoned.
[Committee Will Study I Arena Plans Tomorrow
A joint committee composed of members of the city council and parks board" will sit tomorrow afternoon to [consider revamped plans for a new arena here.
Plane Crash Kills Two Near Vernon
VERNON (CP)� Two college students home for the summer holidays were killed Sunday when their light plane crashed in a farriier's field about 12 miles east of here.
One of the victims was Derry McCulloch, 20, son of Mrs. Yera . McCulloch- The other was B&don Follis, son of Mr. and Mrs. John Follis. Both boys were from Vernon and attended the University of British Columbia.
The aircrift _a single engine Cessna belonging to the Vernon Flying Club crashed In full view of several people.
Witnesses ran onto the field after the plane came down but the two boys were already dead.
Reports from the scene said the plane did not catch fire, It appeared that the victims had been crushed by the motor as it dived into the ground.
Boy, Man Hurt In Accident Here
A young boy was seriously injured and a 27-year-old was hurt slightly and arrested on a charge.of theft following ar spectacular motor vehicle accident on First Avenue
Gas Co. Talks Were 'Inconclusive7
First negotiations between Prince George Gas Co. Ltd. and Inland Natural Gas Company Ltd. for terms of a wholesale gas agreement were held in Vancouver last week and were termed "inconclusive" today by H. B. King, president of the local distribution company.
The two firms met in compliance with a British Columbia Pubic Utilities Commission order vhich grants the right to distribute gas here to Prince George
Saturday evening..
Bill Griffith's. 17, is in hospital today suffering from serious neck injuries while his companion in the vehicle, Arthur Louis, Shelley, was discharged early yesterday after treatment and observation by doctors.
Griffiths' condition was described by hospital authorities as "fair."
Police allege that Louis took a vehicle owned by Henry Marceau, Prince George, a few minutes before the accident happened.
It'was parked .behind the Mac-
ABQT Pulls Mai From Under Corridor Plan
If the Dominion Government was looking.to northern British Columbia for endorsation of the much-talked-of trade corridor through the Alaska Panhandle it was look-
Mayor Morrison,'in a interview lls morning, said theicost of the under the revised plans be between $300,000 and
His Worship said he did not , W'c ample time to give them l� more cafeful perusal but corn-finemed that tiie cost was "more "ian what we anticipated." ." About six weeks ago Vancouver engaged by the' Parks <� to ^prepare preliminary [Wans, came, up with drawings which would see the building cost [approximately $100,000. . I Subsequently, they were, asked [to pave the price considerably and [return with plans for a building
[ plans for a
{valued at approximately tatS.OO The reduced price was facllltat-J mainly by cutting the seating
[capacity down from 3000. to 1500.
However, the design for the
new buildlnfc w|u be such that
us capacity can b* increase l
2000 whenever the city see, fit;
1 In the'meantime a site for the arena had not >et been dfedded.
fit was first thought that th.e ho* pital reserve on the north side of
|Conn�ught hijl would be ideal but
(soon the plan wag vitofcd.
Later It was thought that part of district" lot 1429 In Central Fort George would prove an ideal site for a building--of-that nature.
That idea, too, was temporarily abondoned and the only locations left are 'a former school site in the Millar Addition, vacant land in the vicinity of the South. Cen. tral Elementary School arid a portion of the old airport near the hew. curling rink on the'Northern Trans-provincial highway. * It was first thought that a new arena could be built nere and put into use before the hockey season begins this fall.
However, gUll on the list of problems , to be overcome is the financing ofthte project.
1/ it will be built through the sale of municipal bonds issues, the plans must first be. approved by both council and ptrks board anj prepared* in bylaw1 form- The "by. taw Would th*n Ifet three readings and go to Vic&rfc for final con sent.
Sketch plans for the new arena show *jt ice sheet of *5 by 100, comparable to any other arena- in B.C. today. ,
ing the wrong way.
In a surprise move Friday morning the Associated Boards of Trade calmly passed a resolution which put it on record, as being unconvinced that the proposed corridor through the Panhandle would be of material benefit to the interior of British Columbia or Canada as a whole.
The resolution was sponsored by the Pacific port of Prince Ru-' [>ert, many of whose residents see the western terminal of the corridor as a future competing seaport. LITTLE OPPOSITION'
Some 50 delegates to the ABOT convention listened silently to the resolution and Prince Rupert publisher John Magor's explanation of It, and concurred, with two exceptions.
The exceptions were two of the four Prince George delegates.
Mr. Magor told th'e assembly that the corridor would most logically run from the all-year seaport of Pyramid Harbor to the northwestern tip of British Columbia. NORTH-SOUTH LINES
Development of B.C. should be by the creation of north-south lines of communication which connect up with such existing facilities as the CNR and Highway 16.
- Magor also said ne believed that the ports of Prince Rupert and Stewart can serve the area which would help to develop pyramid Harbor Jf the corridor plan was implemented.
Delega tes �. also � eur pr isin g 1 y blocked passage of a Sm it hers resolution which would have en' dorsed the development of the vast Mica.Cretk h^dro potential
Commission. They voted for a mail survey of member boards on the question after Smithers delegates had been forced to withdraw their resolution in the face of qualified opposition. PR. GKO OPPOSED
Opposition to the resolution was spearheaded by Prince George delegates who stated they were (See CORRIDOR PLAN, Page 2)
donald Hotel just off Third Avenue when Marceau left It.
He had gone on a short errand and had left the motor running.
A few minutes after he had notified police that his car was apparently stolen, another call came into RCMP headquarters, sum-mining help to the First Avenue incident.
Police found that the vehicle reported stole� was similar to the one involved in the accident.
Subsequently, a charge was laid against Louis and he was held in police custody today.
Shortly before 11 a.m. today Louis appeared before Police Magistrate P. J. Moran to face the theft charge. He pleaded guilty and elected to be triert by a magistrate, lie will fre sentenced in eight days.
The pair.was travelling west along First Avenue when the mis hap occurred.
. Accordlrig'to eye-witnesses the 1951 model truck struck a large "pot hole" in the roadway and tumbled in a forward motion.
Griffiths was thrown through the windshield while Louis was shaken up in the cab.
Near-fatality took place direct ly in front of the Kelly Douglas warehouse at 1850 First Avenue
An estimated $l.r)00 damage done ' to the vehicle.
)as Company, and to Inland the �ight to supply it.
Mr. King said that while negot-ations between the two companies were still in progress he did not feel at liherty to" discuss the actual terms which are under con ideratlon.
"1 can only say that Inland has submitted to us a proposal which we cannot accept and that we have asked for further information on their cost figures," said the company president.
Engineering consultants for the two companies are getting together this week to discuss costs and a further meeting of principals? of the two firms is slated for.-next week.
Under terms of PUC orders the companies must submit a mutu ally acceptable "agreement to the commission before either can proceed with any of their gas distribution plans.
Presumably the commission will step back into the picture if the companies cannot reach agree ment'.
The PUC in Its rulings so far has stated that Prince George con sinners must subsidize, to an as yet undetermined extent, the cost of building lateral transmission �lines to less economic gas distrl nation centers in southern B.C The amount of the subsidy would be included in the wholesale gat> rate which Inland would collec from the local distribution com pany.
The companies may have to gc hack to the PUC tor direction oi the amount of subsidy to be ii
corpora ted sale rate.
Juncan Kerr Heads Associated Boards
Duncan K. Kerr, Terrace lumberman, was elected president of the Associated Boards of Trade of Central. British Columbia at the close of the two-day convention here Friday.
He succeeds A. G. Ford of Smithers,
An executive member of the association for many years, Mr. Kerr served as its secretary and vice-president before being elected to his present position.
Alex Bowie, of Prince George, new vice-president of the Boards of Trade Association.
Fred Macklln of Terrace, wno took over the office of secretary-treasurer last year, will remain in that position for a second term.
George Beck, of Ketchlkan, Alaska, was elected vice-president of the association for Alaska.
Delegates and visitors from 14 Boards of Trade in Central British Columbia and affiliated boards in Alaska attended the two day convention-
Boards of Trade representatives accepted �m invitation v to hold their next convention at Smithers.
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Funeral Tomorrow
Funeral services for the late Mrs. W. I-.;. Range will be held tomorrow from St. Michael's Anglican Church at 2:110 p.m. Rev. T. 1). R. Allen will officiate. Pallbearers will be J. Mallis, J. Hod-son, George Gary, Ian Sildey, Wilf Olts and W. R. Munroe.
Baby Delivered At Summit Lake Resort
The proverbial stork raced neck to neck with time at midnight Thursday andt/the stork won.
A son was* born to Mr. and Mrs. David C. Peters at Summit Lake Lodge, 30 m'Aes north of here after a dramatic race from the family's home at Mile 96 on the Hart Highway. �
Mr. and Mrs. Peters were speeding to Prince George in a pick-up truck when it had to be halted at the lodge for delivery of the baby.
Dr. J. G. MacArthur, who owns the lakeside resort; was present
The child weighed 6 pounds, 14 ounces.
Mr. Peters explained that they travelled the rpad for four hours at not more than 20 miles per 'hour.
The road.is very bumpy between Mile 86' and Summit Lake. To add to the discomfort the light truck was � not loaded, and the ride was exceptionally rough.
Dr. A. L. from Prince
Chambers arrived George when the
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