e An Independent Semi-Weekly Newspaper Devoted to the Interest off Cer.Svo! J ''�them British Columbia THE WEATHER Mostly cloudy Tuesday with a few rain showers. Little change in temperature. Winds southerly 20 in some valleys, otherwise light. Low tonight and high tomorrow, 32 and 45. Vol. 40; No. 22 Prince George, B.C., MON 2" 3 arch 18, 1957 � (Two Sections 16 Pages) $4.00 per year 5c per copy Men Who Foiled Bank Holdup Recover From Bullet Wounds VANCOUVER (CP) � A bank accountant shot in the stomach following an attempted bank holdup here Friday was in "much better" condition two days later, a Vancouver General Hospital spokesman said! The spokesman described the � general condition of accountant Ronald Coinpston, 33, as satisfactory. SHOT WITH .22 He and Const. K. C. Miles, 27-year-bid? rookie policeman, were .shot -with a .22 cj�UV>re d .sht cjre royplysr when they pursued'a'fleeing ban-dit who had made an abortive attempt to hold, up: the main branch of the Royal Bank of Canada in downtown Vancouver. The policeman was in good condition In hospital Sunday with a face wound. CHARGES liAID Saturday, two charges of attempted murder and one of attempted robbery ' were laid against John William Buckell, -13-year-old cost accountant said to have once been a prominent citizen of Shcrbrooke, Que. Police said Buckell lias a wife and son in Quebec. He was remanded until Friday without bail. EMERGENCY SURGERY An emergency operation was performed on Compston Saturday to remove his spleen, through which the bullet, had passed. Doctors said they discovered damage to his left kidney. The policeman had not been op crated on and the General Hospital spokesman said surgery for him had not yet been scheduled. The bullet was still lodged behind 'his pala.te.' Police Commissioner Col. C. C. I. Me'rrit VC, knows personally of the'bravery of Rookie Constable* Kenneth Miles. He stood only a few yards away as Miles was-gunned down by a wild bandit Friday near the Royal Bank of Canada at Granville and Hastings. "The police commission will �certainly; recognize his act in some way," said Col. Merritt, who won his Victoria Cross at Dieppe in the second world war. "I .-cairie out of a restaurant during the, blowup on- the street. There appeared to.be a bit of a struggle and two shots rang aut. "The officer fell but then pullr etl himself. up . guttjf trained, a sun on" the'fellow' Ii'wa 've tt lf. p . guttjf trained, a sun on" the'fellow.' Ii'-was a'very stout act, no question about it. Probably the happiest currers in Canada Friday night were members of the "WiJf.Peckhain rink, newly crowned Kelly Gup champions. Loaded with silverware are, from left, Craig Smith, Harold Dornbierer, Wilf Peckham and John Warner. Peckham rink won cup in a thrilling 11-9 triumph over the Harold Hatch rink. Hundreds of fans jammed the rink for the big game. �Craftsman Photographers Reception Wednesday Anglican Bishop To Visit Prince George This Week . .Rt, Rev. Ralph Stanley Dean,' recently enthroned Anglican..bishop. o� the .Diocese of Cariboo, will make his first visit to Prince George on Wednesday. School Costs Relief Mayor Sees Ray Of Hope Magsaysay Killed In Air Crash MANILA (AP) � Vice-Presi-dent Carlos P. Garcia took over the reins of government today as the Philippines and the free world mourned the death of President Ramon Magsaysay with 25 others in a mountainside plane crash. . Magsaysay, 49-year-old champion of democracy and bitter foe of communism, . died early Sunday when his twin-engined plane crashed in dense jungle just after leaving Cebu Island for Manila. Brassieres, Perfume Among Sekani Gifts City Photographer W. D. West is not certain just how great an impression the "Save the Sekan-is" movement originated by a Vancouver newspaper is making among members of the Rocky Mountain Trench Indian tribe. On hand at the Fort Grahame home of one 'Sekani .family just a few minutes, after the' gifts of Vancouver contributors were landed by plane, Mr. West described their reaction as "not very enthusiastic." When one of'the -visiting party asked the head of the family, Isa- Rt. Rev. Ralph Stanley Dean to visit Prince George 'A parish supper and reception has been planned to honor tho �bishop on his arrival in the city. Th�� affair will bp held in tho CCF Hall at 6:15 Wednesday evening. H. B. King, Q.C., chancellor of the Diocese and rector's warden for St. Micthnrl's Anglican Church, will preside. Rt. Rev. Dean will be in the city for the remainder of the week. He will conduct services at St. Michael's church on Sunday, and will preside at a confirmation service to be held at the church on the same day. The bishop, who will make his first visit to Prince George, was enthroned in St. Paul's Cathedral Church, Kamloops last February. Previous to his appointment, he was principal of Emmanuel Theological College in Saskatoon. Tickets, for the supper to 'be held in his honor Wednesday may be ohtained by phoning 1003 or Michael Thatcher at 535. $1 Million Dredge Won't Be Salvaged VANCOUVER (CD � A million dollar dredge which sank in the Kraser Hiver Thursday will be, blasted to pieces because it cannot be refloated. The dredge was working on the Dease Island tunnel project when it was rammed by a scow and sank. Divers say salvage would be impossible because the dredge flipped over on Its back when it sank in 60 feet of wators Even If the 058-ton vessel1 was ralsetl it would be impossible to right it. Divers will salvage removable parts of tho dredge. The remaining hulk will be blasted as a hazard to navigation. Victoria Ponders Ways Of Assisting Poor Prince George Unless "hope" means anything, Prince George will likely be stuck with its crippling $350,000 share of tho 1957 school budget. For hope was the, only promise held out by Mayor John Morrison when he returned to the. city during the weekend after concluding high-level talks in Victoria with members of the provincial cabinet. His Worship travelled to the capital city last week in a desperate attempt to secure help in reducing the amount of the record budget. He was accompanied by comptroller C. A. Jeffery and City Clerk Arran Thomson. "All we can do is hope," reported the mayor. "We talked with Mr. Peterson and Mr. Wiljiston and they promised that if something could be done that would not establish a precedent, it woulcl be done." DECISION* SOONT Whatever is decided will,, be made known to the city before next Monday. At that time, city council will (See MAYOR SEEKS, Page 7) Brokerage Office Opens Next Month The Canadian brokerage firm of James Richardson & Son will open a Prince George office early next month, a spokesman for the company stated today. The office will be managed by R. G. Drayson, local representative until recently for W. C. Pit-field & Co. Ltd., Montreal. James Richardson & Son officials visited Prince George last month following publication of a Citizen news story in which the need for a local brokerage office was stressed. The new office will have Toronto Stock Exchange "ticker facilities and direct teletype service to Vancouver. The company maintains offices in major cities throughout the Dominion. Acquitted On Rape Count VANCOUVER (CP) � A 27-year-old deaf mute, who defended himself by using sign language through an interpreter, was acquitted in assize court on Friday of attempted rape. Roy Phillip Parsons was charged with attempting to rape a 43-year-pld woman January G. In his defence, Parsons denied the charge and claimed that the woman was the aggressor and that he resisted her advances after he discovered she was wearing a wedding ring. Si. Patrick's Dance Ends In Slaying CAMPBELL RIVER, B.C. (CP) �William. Wallace, 21-year-old fisherman, was found stabbed twice in the back near here early Sunday after a St. Patrick's Day dance. A logger has been charged with murder. Vernon Breckon, 31, was charged and is expected to appear in police court here'today. He was charged a few hours after he.finding of Wallace's body at 3 a,m .Sunday in the logging settlement of Quathiaskl Cove on Quadra Island. Quadra Island is in the Strait of Georgia, just off Campbell River, which is 160 miles northwest of Victoria up the east coast of Vancouver Island, Wallace's body was found about three miles away from a community hall where the - St. Patrick's Day dance had closed before midnight. Police said the stabbing had taken place in a road and there were signs of a scuffle. No inquest has yet been set. Wallace, a member of the Cape Mudge Indian Band, was mai--ried but had no children. His parents live in the districts Breckon was described as a newcomer to the district. U.K. Labor Crisis Sparks Special Cabinet Meeting LONDON (CP) � Prime Minister MacMillan called cabinet ministers to an urgent conference today on a 200,-000-man shipyard strike paralyzing Britain's vast shipbuilding industry. � . The threat of two more giant strikes, among railway and manufacturing workers, confronted the Conservative government only three days before Macmillan's Bermuda meetings wiCh* President Eisenhower- The rail and factory walkouts, if they materialize, would boost the number of British workers on strike to more than 3,000,000�about one-eighth of the working population. Log Production Drops 49 Percent In January Evidence of lagging North American lumber markets Was a long time making its appearance in Prince George Forest District sawlog production�but when it came, it came aplenty. Latest British Columbia Forest Service statistics show the district's sawlog harvest dropped 40 per cent during January, of 1957 compared with the same month a year ago. Observers within the local lumber industry say that cold weather during the nionth of January might have accounted "for a few percentage points, but not many." The sawlog production drop for mills adjacent to Prince George was even more significant than for -that of the whole district. Citizen Exclusive Sekanis Traditionally Beggars Says Expert: Squalor Hasn't Changed In Century and Half As help for northern British Columbia's Sekani Indians started trickling into the Rocky Mountain Trench at the we.ek.-end, The Citizen Learned from an authorita- do're Izony, where the recently- tive source that the squalor in which they were found ' to be living by a Vancouver newsman recently has existed .arrived donations were, he replied, "Oh, that junk. It's over there in the corner." "Trucked all "the way from Vancouver and flown to Fort Grahame by special flight, the cartons contained � sqdh backwoods necessities as the latest style brassieries Cologne. and bottles of for 150 years or. more. "Other tribes looked down on the ^Sekanis with scorn. They were a nomadic tribe. They never had a. home.They never prepared for winter. They went begging for-their food." ;.'?,, . With these words, one-of-BrhV ish Columbia's most authoritative voices on the history of' man in North America, described the character of the band, of Indians which makes. its home in the Rocky Mountain Trench. The voice belonged to Judge Henry Castillou, Q.C., County Court Judge for Cariboo. The tribe of Indians he was describing is the Sekani, subject of a recent newspaper article which discribed it as living "in the squalid margin of life . . . submerged in debt' and' filth." ' LOXG HISTORY OF WANT From his home on the shore of Williams Lake, His Honor described the history of the Sekani via ' long-distance telephone for the benefit of a Citizen reporter Sunday. He left little doubt that the plight in which the Indians find themselves today, is a condition in which successive generations have found themselves since the earliest recollection of man. He intimated that if a. Vancouver newspaperman were able to turn the 'dock back .150. years or iaare, he wotildbavcf found 'the Jndians living in much the same condition. SEVER A.MOUXTEP TO MUCH Judge Castillou said .the Sekani tribe was included in the last great migration of neolithic man which crossed the Bering Sea in about 1200 A.D. Like most tribes in central British Columbia, they belong to the Atha'baska nation. But unlike the Carries, the Shuswap and Chilcoun tribes, the Prince George mills scaled G9 per cent less volume in January 1957 than in January '5(3. Quesnel area production was down about ao percent, but Peace River production showed an unaccountable 70 percent gain over 195(5 figures. Total district' sawlog production for the first two months of the forest year shows a drop of 27 percent from a corresponding period one year ago. District cut during January was 51,000,000 board feet, compared with a January 1956 figure of 101,827,000 board feet, the highest total ever scaled in a single month in the Prince George area. Forest district mills have scaled 123,554,000 board feet so far this year, compared with 169,789,000 board feet by this time last year. Mills' in the vicinity of Prince George cut 24,527,400 board feet during January '57 compared with 77,000,000 board feet in -56. Two month sawlog total for the same plants is 82,000,000 feet, a drop of 22 percent form last year. This represents 66 percent of the district total. Peace River mills scaled 17,000,-000 feet in January compared with 10,000,000 feet one year earlier. � Local lumbermen said there is little likllhood of improved, prices before mid-May.