Prince George Citizen
An Independent Semi-Weekly Newspaper Devoted to the    interest of Cent/oJ and Northern British Columbia
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(Vol. 39; No. 87)
(Three Sections)
Prince Geor~/� C, THURSDAY, November ly 1956
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Prince George's new $100,000 reservoir atop Carney Hill looked like this late yesterday after water had been pouring into its 2,500,000 gallon interior for more than six hours. Size of the big compacted-earth basin can be judged from two human figures within white circle at left. Picture was taken by Citizen photographer from plane  flown  by  Bruce   Lamb.
New Mark For October
New Building Nears Record $5 Millions
Applications for building permits continued to flow into the office of tlie building inspector at ;City Hall during the month of October at the same high pace,that is d
Hallowe'en Night Described As Very Orderly; RCMP Happy
Royal Canadian Mounted Police had a quiet Hallowe'en despite rumors that gang violence might break out in the city.
Sergeant S. A. McKim, NCO in charge of the local police detachment, commended the young \ people in town and said RCMP were very satisfied. He described tho night as "very orderly."
Police received numerojus complaints on usual Hallowe'en pranks. However none of them iveje serous,....
_   ed  to  establish   1956  as  the� record 'building-boom  year * '''An cipfht-yi'-aVoid
for the City of Prince George. Octoncr-s    permits    valued    at
$331,150 brings the total value of building in the city for the year up to $1,781,310 and there is a good chance that the five-million mark will be topped by year's end.
Building Inspector E. S. How-avtii sf.id that hist month's total '�is quite surprising" and that he did not expect permits to come "anywhere near" the $:300,000 mark.
Previous high for the month of October was in 1952 when value of   permits   reached   $245,850.
Last month's permits included a $57,000 office and garage build, ing being constructed for Columbia Excavating Co. Ltd. and a $58,000 warehouse now under construction at First ami Queerisway for the \V. 11. Malkin Co. Ltd. Permits were also taken out for at least a dozen homes in the above $10,000 bracket. A total of 51 permits were issued. �  Total  of permits issued  up  to
ity will llkeiy -rop �>if, Howarth said. However if the pace continues November permits could easily top last year's total of .$101,000 issued during that could month.
Nova  Scotia Victory Encourages Pro-Cons
KA.MLOOPS � E. Davie Fulton, member of parliament for Kavnloops who is seeking the national leadership of the Progres-siv Conservative party, said Wed-ncsday the victory of the party in Nova Scotia Tuesday is partly due to the growing unpopularity of the Liberal Government in Ottawa.
"People all over Canada are realizing this," he said, "and as in Nova Scotia, they are turning to the Conservative Patry to serve their country. It is also a reminder there is only one other truly national party available as an alternative to the present gov-
thc   end   of   October   last   year | ernfnent  in  Ottawa, was     $2,681,895,     slightly     more than half of this With    winter '
year's total, now    becoming firmly established building activ-
Gang   Problem   Surprise To City PTA Members
City High School Parent Teacher Associations have made no plans as yet, for dealing with the juvenile gangs which arc roaming city streets and attempting to recruit members from the ranks of junior and senior high school students.
Reports of the existence of the gangs, printed In Monday's issue of The Citizen, came as a surprise to many of the PTA members.
Mrs. H. B. King, president of the newly-organized Junior High School Parent Teacher Association, said the question would come, up at an executive meeting of her association to be held next week.
'�We will certainly back anything which is being done at the school," she said.
But the amount which the PTA can do is limited, she felt, because the parents of the youngsters involved   arc  the  ones  which   the
Canadian Legion Branch 1" will hold its annual Poppy Day on downtown streets Saturday. City council granted the lcgion-aires permission to hold the tag day in commemoration of Remembrance Day.
ported lost when he failed to return home after the Kinsmen party at the Civic Center, but he �was found a short time later.
Early in the evening a boy, about 13, was brought in for questioning after police found him running down a street. He refused to give his name. He told police they '-should be bringing in the hoodlums in town, not him." The boy was released to a parent.
Later a girl, about Hi, was apprehended with a brush and can of red paint. She was brought in, questioned at some length, and finally released.
Several cars throughout the city were reported to have had red  paint smeared on  them.
There were many ogg and tomato throwing incidents in the downtown area, with car windshields the main, target. An unlucky youth was caught in the act of heaving an egg at the windshield of a. police car in front of the station early in the evening. Police stood behind him while he cleaned the mess up.
More eggs were thrown at the police station door and windows, but there was no damage and no arrests. Two constables caught a youth in the act of egg-throwing at a car on George Street, and took nine eggs from him.
In the residential districts, nu-
merous reports came in of fire hydrants being turned on and garbage cans being overturned by gangs of youths travelling around in cars.
The force was out in double shift most of the night, with some foot patrols in the downtown area.
As usual, boys and girls armed with Wv
in a central .location eliminated the need to lay both, pressure and return lines because the distribution system can "bleed" its requirements off the 10-inch main which connects the basin to the municipal pumping station.
NO PRESSURE CHANGE
.Pressure throughout the city will remain the same as it is at the present.
� Carney Hill was proposed as a reservoir site after city council early last year rejected a proposal involving similar construction atop Connaught Hill in the heart of the city.
At the time the Carney Hill site was suggested the city had all but decided to build a reservoir north of the city amid the banks overlooking thc Nechako River. This site would have required laying of both pressure and   return  lines  under   the  Ne-
chako River.
Mr. Harford pointed out at the time that the inaccessibility of the lines under the river, in case of breakage, was a bad feature of the Nechako location. He also stressed the point that Carrtr-y Hill would ultimately become u central location in the populated area of the city.
Up to the time of completion of the new reservoir the city h;>s had to depend on a mere 100.-000 gallons of water storage \n a wooden tank on top of Con-naught Hill.
The tank represented only about an hour's water supply at normal consumption rates if pumps were cut off.
Next year, to augment the 2,-500,000 gallon basin now being completed, the city plans to reactivate two former Canadian Army reservoirs which have a combined capacity of 1,000,000 gallons. These will give tola', municipal water storage of 3,500,000 gallons.
Negotiations are now underway between the city and a private owner for purchase of the army tanks and a plot ot ground around them.
Design of the Carney Hill basin was entrusted to Associated Engineering Services Ltd., the city's technical consultants. It was built by Interior Contractors Ltd.
Originally scheduled to get und-oi'way In 1055, the first call for tenders on consU*uction of the reservoir resulted ill not a single bid being entered.
Later, when bids were called again, council divided on thc letting of the contract because (.he
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lowest.bider, Interior                 r
Ltd., was an hour late gelling its offer into the hands of the city clerk.
Three Men And Woman Face Thett Count In Cow Death
Three men and  a woman  have been charged  with theft over $50 as a result of the shooting of a year-old
steer at Nukko Lake last week.
Charged in connection with thc shooting and theft of thc meat were 'Thomas Edward Cawley, �17, of Prince George; John Duckworth, 30, formerly of Kitimat; James Stephanson, 38, formerly of Kitimat, and Mrs. Agnes Steelc, 3D, of Prince George.
They were remanded to November 20 after electing to be tried by a judge without a jury in police court Wednesday morning. Bail was set at $100.
The three men arc- being hold in jail while Mrs. Steele is free on bail.
John Coates is legal counsel for  the accused.
RCMP made arrests Tuesday after interviewing from 30 to 40 people. A quantity of meat was seized  in the  trunk of  Cawley's
The   four   allegedly   took  part
Woman Sentenced For Murder Threat
NEW WESTMINISTER�Mrs. Mary Lloyd, 32-ycar-old mother of two, was sentenced Wednesday to IS months in prison for threatening a North Burnaby man with a revolver.
Kenneth Bird and his wife testified that Mrs. Lloyd entered their home and threatened to blow Bird's head off if did not tell her where her husband was.
Lloyd was murdered in Edmonton  last summer.
Mrs. Lloyd and James Stancly Kcmpstcr, who testified in her defence Wednesday, are to appear at thc next assizes on charges of robbing a Burnaby bank last summer.
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Pedlar Fined
Horlick   was   fined   $50   in
police court this morning for selling furs without taking out a licence. He was charged under thc city trade licence bylaw No. 778. His counsel, George Stewart, pleaced guilty on his behalf.
in the shooting of a year-old steer belonging to Vern Gustavson, a Nukko Lake-farmer, October 34'. All that was left of the ant;:i.il was the head and entrails found on thc side of the road.
Cawley is currently awaiting trail on six charges or retaining stolen property, and has been committed to a higher court on three similar charges besides thjb new one liad Wednesday.
Sewer Clean-Out Device To Cost City $1250
City of Prince George will spend SI250 for a clean-out manhole to be installed in the lowest portion of an inverted-syphon that carries sewage across the slough in the vicinity of Thirteenth Avenue and Patricia Boulevard.
City council approved the expenditure when it was advised that the Provincial Health Department requested the installa tion. The inverted syphon provides the impetus to carry sewage down and across thc slouch and up thc east side on its way via the main trunk line ?u thc fall-out at the Frascr River near Twentieth Avenue.
Temperature  Dropped Below Zero Today
Prince George District's first cold spell of che season hit about. a week earlier than it did last year.
The coldest temperature of the season, 3 below, was recorded at daybreak this morning, according to the weatherman.
The low for November 1 last year was 15 above. The temperature didn't plunge to below zero last fall until November 11, when it hit 7 below. Temperatures remained low for about a week after thc 11th, with 27 below recorded on thc 13th. Two days before last year's cold spell hit, a high of 53 was recorded.