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Vol. 39; No. 97
(Three Sections)
Prince George, B.� &Z%   RSDAY, December 6, 1956
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Jty's Scheme Scuttled
This bank of four Linotype machines, newest of which was'installed last, week at a cost of $12,000, will permit The Citizen to enter the daily newspaper field -next September 1. The machines will set almost 2000 lines of type each hour at maximum output. Additional equipment costing nearly $20,000 will be added to Quebec Street plant within the next few months to facilitate the transition to five-times-a-week publication.
Eight In Running As Nominations Close
A total of eight candidates will seek municipal office on election day.December 13 as the time for filing nominations came to a close at noon today.
Two candidates  for the office of school  trustee were
elected by acclamation.
Nominations for seats on city council, parks board and school board were filed between the hours of 10 a.m. and 12 noon in the council chamber at City  Hall.
Candidate for parks board, E. L. Pollard, filed papers just 10 minutes before Returning Officer H. II. Anderson declared nominations closed at 12 o'clock sharp.
Electee] by acclamation to fill the two vacancies on the school board are incumbent .Mrs. Cleo Bryant and Alfred W. Wilson, financial secretary of the United Brotherhood of Carpenters & Joiners of America; Local  1998.
Aldermanic candidates, three of Whom will be elected to office for two year terms include incumbents Alderman Charles E. Cranston, Alderman Robert S. Ferguson, and Alderman Percy L. Williams. Fourth candidate is Howard Webb, financial secretary of Local 1-424, International   Woodworkers'  of   America.
Electors will also choose three commissioners from four candidates for parks board. They are H. II. Callaghan, Lyndon O. Fonseca, Jack  Rhodes and  incumbent  E.   L.  Pollard.
At least four of the candidates arc running for election for the first time in civic politics here.
Parks hoard candidates Fonseca', city architect, Rhodes and Callaghan, both provincial government employees, arc standing for office for the  first time.
Aldermanic candidate Webb was endorsed recently by the Prince George & District Labor Council and is making his first appearance in politics in Prince George.   -
Alderman Cranston and Ferguson have both served a two year term on city council while Alderman Williams is concluding a total of three years service on council.
A question which has been on the lips of hundreds of Prince George residents in recent months was answered by the directors of Citizen Publishers & Printers Ltd. today in an 'announcement that The Citizen will become a daily paper commencing September 1, 11)37. tated   that
The announcement preliminary steps towards the transformation to a daily newspaper "have been going on -for many months in the purchase of certain equipment which will be required  next  September.;"
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For more than 30 "years The Citizen .was published once each week' and in 1U52 twice-a-week publication was commenced.
Circulation of the paper averag-545S copies per issue for the
step   towards   outfitting  six months ending September 30 the company's Quebec Street plant j this year, compared with a figure for  production  of a   five-times-a-wcek daily came last spring when a SI0,000 engraving plant was installed   with  a  view  to  enabling the paper to use more local pic-
'Stock' Offered As idio Auction Rolls Tonigh!
Everything from 20,000 board feet of dressed lumber to a gallon of anti-freeze will be on the auction block when the Rotary Club's third annual radio auction starts tonight with goods and services donated by Prince George firms valued at more than $7,000 up for sale.
Tonight's session starts at 8:30 p.m. and ends at 1 a.m.
The auction will be resumed Friday night and conclude with a marathon session starting at the same hour Saturday.
A battery of. telephones anU C.KIT! microphones havo fteen i., -italled in the basement dining room of the Prince George Hotel in readiness for tonight's opening auction during which 140 articles Will bo sold to the highest' bidders.
The hotel management and Ro-tarian Jack Lee have donated the space as headquarters for the city's most ambitious pro-Christmas  fund-raising campaign.
Facing the "mikes" will be five members of CKPG's announcing staff, Jack Carbutt, Bob Hark-ins, Ron Hast, Phil Needham and Marcel Leveque. Assisting the professional radiomen will be a dozen Rotarian script readers specially selected by chairman, "Chuck" Ewart for their persuasive voices and previously demonstrated ability to coax the last "two bits" from the bidders.
A complete list of the goods to
half a dozen box cars, appears on
pages 13 and ,13 of this paper. It
was   all   donated   by   city   mer-
(See RADIO AUCTION, Page 4)
Inquest Into Road Deaths Postponed
Inquest into the deaths of David Scoullar, 13, and Lorraine Clough, 11, killed in a car accident November 21 has been postponed un-
til next Tuesday. it   was   scheduled
 to   continue
today. The postponment was made necessary because all seven witnesses involved in the accident are still in' hospital. RCMP have laid no charges concerning the mishap.
Condition of six persons injured in the accident was described as "good" by hospital authorities today. They added that all were improving, A seventh victim, 8-year-okl Eileen Clough, was flown to Vancouver for further medical treatment last Saturday morning. No report is available on her condition,  however it was reported
be   auctioned,   which   would   fill \ as good before she left.
Plan
Mayor Morrison, City Engineer George Harford and possibly one alderman will speak at a meeting tomorrow night, organized to protest the city's proposed street-closure plan.                                     ?
president of the Ratepayers' As-day that he will
Jack
turcs in connection with news coverage.
A third Linotype was added to the mechanical equipment of the plant four months ago and a fourth unit, costing nearly $12,-000,  was installed  last .week.
Additional new equipment costing approximately S20.000 will be added to the plant before the September 1 deadline.
of 1200 during the pre-war period.
As a daily paper The Citizen will carry full coverage of world and national events, as well as other features not previously used in  a  local  newspaper  here.
Planning for the conversion will go into high gear early in January to ensure a smooth transition into ;he daily field when the target date approaches.
After September 1 The Citizen \vilL_share with the Prince Rupert Daily News the distinction of being the farthest north daily papers in British Columbia.
odes.
Prince George sociaUon, said t caution the membership to"refrain from signing a petition that would give the city franchise to convey street allowances to individual property owners.
Rhodes said that he had a tentative promise from the mayor that His Worship would attend the meeting. If he is unable to attend, � Board of Works Chairman, Alderman Frank Clark will appear in his stead.
Mr. Harford, who was instrumental in drawing up the street-closure plan, lias agreed to attend providing some member of council is on hand.
Rhodes, a forest service radio technician who earlier this year spearheaded the re-organization of the ratepayers' group, said he hoped that at least ]00 persons would attend the meeting to be held in the IOOF Hall, Fourth Avenue and Quebec Street.
Earlier in the week, Rhodes lent tentative support to the street-closing project but in the light of further study has since changed his mind. SECOND LOOK
"I think we should all take a second look at this plan before we go ahead and sign," he said.
He 6aid he objected to a clause
in the proposed agreement which
would provide easements in  the
event  the  city   was   required   to
(See RATEPAYERS, Poge 7)
Damage To Motel Estimated At $5000
Damage to a Third Avenue auto court may reach as high as $5000 as the result of a midday gas explosion Tuesday.
A duplex unit of the Rosewood .Motel, 1820 Third Avenue, was lifted off its foundation when gas from a leaking propane feed line exploded! underneath the floor of the building.
No-one was injured and there was only one occupant in the dwelling at the time of the explosion.
Firemen were called to the scene to prevent a possible outbreak of fire.
Force of the blast shifted the �single storey structure from six to eight inches on its foundations.
The chimney collapsed and walls   are   badly  cracked.
Owner of the motel, R. G. Lucas, estimated mat it would take about a month to complete repairs to the unit.
The gas line supplies heat and fuel to the motel.
WARMER PREDICTED
The temperature at Prince ! George   Airport   plunged   to ] trie lowest point this winter at approximately 3 a.m. this morning   when   2!)   degrees below zero was recorded.
Elsewhere in the province, temperatures also dipped to. in many cases, the lowest point this winter. Therrnornetecss in Vancouver fell to 10 ahove last night.
According to the local weather office,, the general trend is going to be towards warmer weather the next few days. A low of 15 below is predicted tonight with a high tomorrow of 10 above. The high recorded at the airport yesterday was 0.4 degrees, just before 2 p.m.
Last night's low of 29 below was considerably below normal. The average maximum' extreme temperature for December locally is 21.6 below, while* the average overnight low for the same month runs at 10 above.
The cold snap, which swept over all of B.C., followed pelting blizzards on Vancouver Island and the Fraser Valley. In Washington State, two teenagers were killed in a train-auto collision blamed on the snow and ice. Heavy snow in the Fraser Valley Is believed to have been respr risible for cutting cif teletype service at the local weather office for 36 hours. However servicce is returning  to normal today.
Despite icy road conditions in the city, RCMP reported only four minor accidents in the city overnight, with no extensive damage. No one was injured.
City of Prince George's last chance to annex the VLA sub-division on the southern outskirts of the city has failed.
In  a poll  taken among the -10---------------------------------------------
odd property owners in the area,   veterans   that   it  could   give   "no
the  veterans  were almost unani-mous to a man in their decision
firm   commitment"   but   that   "it will most definitely be considered
to reject the latest city proposal,   for early completion.
Among other things, the city of- j     in  addition   to   the  tax   redue-fered the veterans a reduction of | tipri, which in effect was abolish-25 percent of the total  tax levy for a  period  of 10 years.
'I'm afraid "we can't see eye to eye with them," said Clair Watt, spokesman for the group.
"The city isn't as big-hearted as it seems to think," he commented.
Despite the promise of a 25 per cent reduction most veterans would Ipe paying more taxes than they are now if they came Into the city.
Watt said that he would pay an estimated $70 a year more taxes if the city were to annex the area.
"It's a shame that we can't get together with the city at this time," he said.
"If the city is going to grow, we should be a part of it."
The veterans' spokesman reported that 80 per cent, of the VLA' owners canvassed objected to amalgamating with the city. Only one expressed readiness to be annexed.
He expressed the conviction that if the city had offered to pave Pine Street, main VLA thoroughfare, the veterans would "go for the deal."
The city  however advised the
Lost Man Finds
As Searchers Comb Bushland
Fred Reumayr, 51, was found alive and unharmed at 8:30 a.m. Tuesday after spending two nights of sub-zero' temperatures lost in the bush in the Blackwater district about 50 miles south of here.
He had   found  the Blackwater         ~--------------------------------------
Road   himself   and   five   minutes   estimated   it   took   him   only   20
after  he   reached   it,   a   searcher
reach  the  road.  Five
discovered    him.    Meanwhile,    a   minutes ,atcI.  he  camc  upon  an
party of 23-searehers was already
combing  the  area  about  a   mile �rhe"' lost.hu'htVr"was quick  to
from   where   he   was   found,   an
RCMP tracking dog was getting
ready for action, and planes had
taken off from Prince George to
aid in the hunt.
HUNTING  DEER
Reumayr left his home, about 10 miles south of here in the Pineview district, early Sunday morning with Albert Ennis, 2533 Laurier Crescent, for a deer hunting trip in the  Blackwater area.
The two separated later in the day, after deciding each should cover one side of the road. Reumayr said he realized he was lost about 2  p.m.
He told a Citizen reporter after the ordeal Tuesday he hadn't intended to go too far away from the road because he was to return home the same afternoon. He added he knew he wasn't far away from the road because he could hear cars and gunshots coming from different directions, yet he couldn't quite figure out his position. To make things worse, he had lost his compass. HI II/T PIKE
When it started to get dark he built a large fire to keep warm and attract attention. He was j wearing light clothes, having left his coat in his car. After dark he heard more shots and answered them until he ran out of ammunition. He didn't have a thing to cat during the time he was lost, but he added later, "I wasn't feeling very  hungry  anyway.*
It was cold, foggy, windy and snowing Monday and he stayed close to the fire all day. Although searchers were out, he said he didn't hear any more shots or  probably  because  of  the
ment of a debenture tax levy, the city assured the veterans that their property would be zoned "A-A" residential and that installation of a street lighting program and fire protection would be "automatic." CHIEF CONDITIONS
The city's proposition followed a request made over a month ago by the veterans advising city council that the VLA area would not consider annexation unless certain conditions were adhered to by the city.
Chief conditions included a guarantee that taxes would not be raised beyond the present provincial tax roll level, and that the city would agree to pave Pino St.
"We can't see what we will be getting if we go in with the city now,"  Watt said.
He stated that the provincfal government has since included the paving of Pine Street In 1057\s estimates and that as a result the veterans are as well to stay as we are."
"The only thing we won't have is fire- protection," Watt said.
But he estimated that at a nominal pro rath sum, the veterans could probably install or make other arrangements for a fire protection  system.
The plan to annex the VLA sub-division was a part of an overall city plan to amalgamate with South Fort George and the fringe area west of the city to the foothills.
Failure to bring the VLA into the city is expected to forestall further action on annexation at least  until spring.
Volunteer  Firemen Save   Liquor   Store
QUEEN CHARLOTTE CITY(CP) � Citizens were quick to respond to a fire alarm which was flashed around the city by telephone Wednesday.
Carrying hoses, buckets and axes they rushed to the scene and confined, the blaze to living quarters above the city's liquor store. The store and its $50,000 stock of
It   is   estimated   that   the   gas I wind. He spent Monday night by
accumulated over a period of time and was una"ble to escape because of the closing off of vents to prevent plumbing from freez-
the same fire. FOUXI) ROAD
It cleared Tuesday and early in the morning he decided to attempt to make his way out. He
thank those who took part in the
search parties,  HC.MP, and those
who cared  for hi.s wife while ho
Reumayr came to Prince George
district four years ago with  his
wite and two children. He is an
engineer at the Prince George &.
District Hospital.
liquor were not damaged.
LOST for two nights in the Blackwater district, about
50 miles south of here, Fred Reumayr managed to find
the road and safety early Tuesday morning.    Keeping
warm by  a large  fire he built, he  suffered  no injuries
or exposure. Searchers were combing bushland'about a
mile from where he came out upon the road.