Doris E.   Bechtley Melville St.
Dec6-57
rrince txeorge Citizen
An Independent Semi-Weekly Newipaper Devoted to the   Intercut of Central and Northern British Columbia
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Vol. 40;  No. 57
Prince George,  B.C., THURSDAY, July 18, 1957
(Four Sections, 26 Pages)
7c per copy
Hospital Pay Budget Slashed By BCHIS
Salary estimates for Prince George & District Hospital were cut $3,000 for the year 1957 by the British Columbia Hospital Insurance Service, although the new wage schedule is expected to require at least $7,000 more than last year.           '           j�----------------------------------
Hospital board memDers facqd the Jnescapable.fact Tuesday.night that this kind of arithmetic'does not add up to trouble free operation.                               -.       ��....
"The only way w�..can combat BCHIS Is to-show them the actual cost for the last six months and prove we are operating at a loss," W. D. Ferry, chairman, told the meeting.
In addition to the cut in nurses' salaries allocated,to the local hospital, the board must face the problem of requested wage increases for lay employees.
Ottier hospitals, the board learned, Have paid up to 10c per hour increases, but, as Alex Bowie pointed out, this was only important in relation to the salary schedule in effect at those points.
"They may not have been ing anything like what we do," ne said.'
An appeal from the non-technical personnel of the hospital had shown that the cost of living had risen 3.0 per cent in the last year, and suggested a wage In Increase based, on that fact was only fair.
It further mentioned that "the cost of living is higher here than in other centres of the province."
Tentatively, the board wil approve a 2c per hour increase for lay workers if the insurance service permits, but board members felt they could make no definite committments until that time.
To further increase their problems, the board was informed by Administrator Bruce Thomson that the deficit for the year to date  was .�12,526.
This will be partly offset during the remainder of the year by. an increased per diem payment of $13.65 per patient day from BC HIS. The new rate is 80c per day more than previously allowed, and also carries with it recognition that the local hospital is being vised more often and will in future be allowed to bill for more patient
Pauper's Funeral For Gallows Victim
VANCOUVER (CP) � The body of Gerald Eaton, 52, hanged early Tuesday,, will not be claimed by his widbw.
She hasn't any money for burial  costs.
Rev. Donald Macqueen who was with Eaton when he walked to the gallows for the murder of Carolynne Moore, said Mrs. Eaton is in hospital. She has been in a state of collapse -for more than a week and was unable to have her scheduled last visit Avith her husband.
Mr. Macqueen said the sheriff is in charge of the body. No date has been set for a funeral.
Shortly before he died, Eaton -wrote in letters that he was worried by the fact his wife's grief n$>uld be aggravated by her in-! ability to claim his body. He ex-�pected to have a paupfe*'s fija-eral.     .       �         *  '     �
days.
Approved expenditures for operating costs during the year are,. $473,000. One board member com'-* merited "thia will probably leave.
us with adeficit not much' greater-than luBt year."             �
The meeting received word that $30,000 had been forwarded from the district and a similar amount from, the city as initial payments on the new building program. The amount of $23,744.50 will be paid out from this sum for the purchase of city-owned lots on which the new structure will be built.
A minor financial problem was brought up at the meeting. Mr. Thomson informed the meeting that the contemplated changes in the building -.which-would permit expansion of bed space, had been held up by the fact foundations under the building were discovered to be rotten.
To the estimated $3,000 cost of the new addition, he said another $500 to $600 for concrete foundations would have to be added. The work was approved with the hope, expi'essed by one member, "that BCHIS will share in this enterprise, too."
NOON HOUR traffic accident on Fourth Avenue outside CCF Flail Tuesday drew large crowd of spectators and sent 13-year-old Richard Neal to hospital with minor injuries. The youngster was struck down by motorist when the bicycle he was riding swerved suddenly in front of approaching motorist. Police described incident as an "unavoidable accident." Youngster is son of Mr. and Mrs. Victor L. Neal, 1534 Ingledew Street.
X-Ray Service Resumed As Radiologist Unearthed Here
Prince  George. &  District  Hospital's X-ray  problem
was   solved   this   -week   when   a . technician   appeared of the air."                            �����----------------
What looked like a complete
shutdown  of this  vital  set-vice
on Monday has now been tern-
oravily taken  care of with  the
employment of a newcomer to
the   district who  is capable of
operating the  intricate apparatus.
The hospital board which accepted the application of Dr. Jean lzzal, Penticton, newly arrived practitioner for use of the local facilities, didn't know at the time that Dr. lsszat's husband was experienced in the radiology field. ; When they found out they wasted no time taking Mr. Izzat on the ; staff. Although he is only able to work part-lime, Mr. Izzat is avail-abe for special calls, and his acquisition has made it possible for the local hospital to once again ' offer all the usual emergency and regular services required by the medical staff.
3 Injured As Car Hurtles Off Highway
Three men, two from Prince George, were, seriously injured Tuesday when the car in which they were riding careened off the Cariboo Highway at Cale Creek, 15 miles south of here.
Injured arc Alvin Erickson, 36, and Wiliain Edward Mimlrl, 42, both of Prince George and Peter Collins, Saddle l^ake, Alta.
The trio were injured when the late-model car crashed through a barrier missing a detour in the road at Cale Creek.
Driver of the car, Erickson is in good condition while Mindel and Collins are in serious condition. Both are suffering from pelvic injuries and in addition Colins sustained severe chest injuries.
According to police the vehicle was driven at a high rate of speed. Damage has been estimated at $1400.
The vehicle rolled over several times and was prevented from plummetting the full depth of a 50-foot drop into the creek .bottom by a projecting rock.
Police were notified of the accident at about 12:30 and the men were rushed to hospital by ambulance.
Rites      M
Funeral for the late Matthew Chorney,. who died last week, was. held" this morning at 11:00, from Ashman's Funeral Chapel
Rev: Allea Kemaey -officiated.
The board was informed, moreover, Tuesday night, that wires of acceptance had been receivd from both X-ray technician and a laboratory technician now in Nova Scotia. They-are expected to report here by September 9.
Bruce Thomson, hospital administrator, and chairman W. Ferry agreed that' "it was just not worthwhile to advertise in coast papers  for  technicians.
"They just aren't-to be had. It isn't a question of money (as some local doctors had suggested) � it won't help us to offer more than Vancouver General Hospital if there is no one to be obtained.
"This bidding against each other only aggravates what is already a serious situation."
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So far as the nurse situaiton was concerned the board was told it "is deterioratinc" at the present time, but that it is standard procedure for this time of the year.
Mrs. I/. Knight expressed tlin feeling that there could bo no hope of keeping n . contented staff until a permanent matron was appointed.
The board agreed and will commence once again seeking a fully qualified matron, although six months ago such a campaign had no results.
Pr. George Scoufer En Route Overseas
VANCOUVER (CP) � The first plane load of 86 B.C. Boy Scouts left International Airport Wednesday to attend the 50th international Boy Scouts Jamboree at Sutton Coldfield, England.
The B.C. boys and their leaders will join 1,300 other .Canadian scouts and 24,000 scouts from all over the world at the Aug. 1-12 jamoree.
Soon to follow the first contingent  will   be.  Prince   George Queen  Scout Gordon Fox, who leaves   line   Sunday  to   attend the  jamboree, only scout  from the   central   interior  to   attend the event. (See page 19.) , Included among the first group to leave was Prince George District   Scout   Commissioner   E.  F. "Ted" Williams who was among three  commissioners  aboard  the plane.
Local Appointment
City Bows To Planning Need
B.C. Tax 'Gift'
VICTORIA (CP) � The pro-vinicial finance department issued an order Wednesday to its municipal tax collectors enabling more homeowners to claim the $28 municipal tax rebate.
Tlie new order will allow a homeowner to get the rebate if he rents out as ninny as one housckeping unit and three individual rooms, providing he also occupies the house.
Previously the interpretation was that if the homeowner rented out more than one housekeeping unit, he could not get the rebate. TSic new order specifies the rented rooms can bo "with or without plumbing."
Splinter Group Spurns Offer Of Pay Boost
NEW WESTMINISTER (CP)� �Members of Essondale and Woodland branches of the B.C. Government Employees Association walked out of a meeting here Wednesday     night . in,   protest
agfalst the qsspciatlon'jj aeceptanco or-- a'  wbso1   Increase  "offer    from
the   B.C.  government,   a  spokesman  said. The meeting was closed to the
press. A   spokesman
for   the   group
said   the   Essondale   and   Woodlands employees wanted the nieet-ing open but the association executive'stepped in and closed it. He said that the 400 members
attending indicated a "strong feel-  the   Royal   Melbourne' Technical
Consultant Retained J On Annexation
WOE
City council has taken first steps toward implementation of a town planning program advocated in Prince George Citizen editorials for the past 24 months.
Appointment of Desmond J. Parker to the post of planning consultant for the City of Prince George also conforms with repeated recommendations of the town planning commission and the Prince George & District Industrial Development Commission.
Appointment of Mr. Parker, a Prince George architect associated with Jolyon Briggs, Architects, was announced today by Mayor John Morrison following a meeting of city council sitting in committee of the whole earlier this week.
His name was selected from among close to a dozen applicants who had vied for the position following the insertion of advertisements in national business periodicals.
His appointment comes at a time when the city Js involved iii one of its most crucial periods of development, the extension of its boundaries to embrace an additional 4000 acres of land.
Said His Worship: "It is important at this time that we have the facilities as well as the know-how to plan the orderly development of not only.the existing area of this city, but of the.proposed
area to be annexed.               -    �
"ilr,   P�rlcor   comes-to   us   with
the highest qualifications and I am certain he will prove to be a real asset to the city."
A young, enthusiastic architect, whose ambitions have always been directed to community planning, Mr. Parker, an Australian, received his training at the University of Melbourne.
A graduate in architecture from
ing of dissension."
College, of which he is a fellow,
"The meeting nded in chaos",  he received his degree in architecture at the University of Mel-
he said.
A  threatened  strike  of   11,000 civil servants was averted .a week
ago when the association' agreed  prising  the  practical^ application to a 7V� per cent wage increase
and the formation of an inquiry board to look into the requests of the association for recognition as bargaining agent for the civil servants.
Bids Called For Rogers Pass Link
VICTORIA (CP) � First tenders for construction work on the Rogers Pass route of the Trans-Canada Highway in the interior have been called by the provincial government.
They are for an lS-milc stretch of reconstruction from Golden to Donald on the east' side of the pass, and a AVz mile piece from Greeley to Butte on the west side. Work is expected to start early next month. Bids will be opened July 25 and 26.
The Rogers Pass route through the Selkirk Mountains is the last major uncompleted section of the highway in B.C.
'Big Brother' Is Watching You Under New RCMP Speeding Curb
Prince George district drivers will soon know when they are being speed-checked under a new scheme announced by RCMP at Victoria, but they won't know when they aren't.
This is in contrast to the method currently in  effect here.
Until the new system starts, probably early next month, district motorists won't know they have been under surveilance until they hear the scream of a police siren.
Corporal
Bob Crawford, Victoria, who has organized the new drive against speeders in a drastic effort to reduce the province's accident toll, says four �by-five-foot bignboards reading "you are entering a safety conrtol zone'.' will be placed beside the highway at the start of the check. But there will, be no sign, not-
cal device showing where the zone ends. It might go on for 1,000 yards or 100 miles.
Two uniformed officers in a standard police car will clock vehicles as they pass the notice at the start of the check. They will radio registration numbers to plain-clothes men in an unmarked vehicle inconspicuously parked at a selected point ahead. '
A cruiser patrolling the area will be ready for the chase when a vehicle is clocked through the zone at excessive speed.
The system is essentially the same as that in use on local highways today, escept that the signs
icfe, marked police car or mecbaai' are not yet -in use.
bourne. A post-graduate course in town and regional planning, com-
of technical knowledge, followed. This course, open only to university graduates, involved the actual planning and development of an industrial expansion program in the City of Melbourne. Mr. Parker's appointment was hailed by civic leaders as a most important and timely decision by council.
"Council is to be commended not only for its decision to appoint a town planner but on its choice of Mr. Parker," said Harold Moffat, chairman of the
DESMOND J. PARKER
.' .  .  iiluiinifiir  conanltnnt
iudu.strial     development    commission.
"I have worked with him on school planning and I know him to be enthusiastic and hardworking. He will fill a big need. The city has taken a big forward step," he said.
Said R. 13. Carter, chairman of the Town Planning Commission: "We are very pleased that the city has taken action on our recommendations to hire a competent planner."
Mr. Carter, whose views on annexation may be read on Page 2, said that a part-time voluntary board such as the commission, was unable to "do justice" to the job of planning, but with Mr. Parker's appointment its work as an advisory body will come closer to fulfillment.
Mr. Parker, who came to Canada two and a half years ago and to Prince George just over a year ago, comes to the job well prepared to implement a plan immediately.
Within six to eight months he (See CITY BOWS,  Page 8)
Smash, Grab Thieves Loot Photo Studio
Smash and grab thieves made off with approximately $500 worth of movie and still cameras and equipment from the window of W. D. West Studios, 331 George Street, sometime during the night.
A heavy plate-glass window In the entrance to the store was smashed by the thieves sometime between midnight last night and 8 a.m. today.
It was the second time in three years that the photographer's premises have been vie-timied  by theives.
The robbery was discovered by
It is understood that the cameras, including a 35 mm and an 8 mm movie camera, were covered by insurance.
About three years ago thieves netted some $200 worth of photographic equipment when they raided premises formerly occupied   by   the   commercial   photo-
RCMP   at  about   8   o'clock   this | grapher  across  the   street  from morning.                                       his  px-esent  quarters.
Eisenhower Proposes
zhukov-wiison TaiksJCanada Dollar Hits New
Peak After Four-Day Rally
WASHINGTON (AP> � Pres ident Eisenhower said Wednesday it might be helpful if his wartime friend Marshal Georgi Zhukov � now a power in the Kremlin � would exchange visits with Defence Secretary Charles E. Wilson.
There has ben some speculation about the possibility of an Eisenhower-Zhukov meeting since the. Kremlin shakeup two weeks ago in which red party leaders Georgi Melenkov, V. M. Molotov and K. M. Kaganovich lost their power and Zhukov moved into a leadership position.    -
NEW YORK (AP) � The Canadian dollar advanced Wednesday for the fourth straight day, scoring another} new high since 1933.
In terms of U.S. currency the" Canadian dollar closed at $1.05 7/32, up 1/32. During the day it sold as high as $1.05 19/64.                         ;       .
In November, 1933,--just � before, the United States went off. the gold standard, the �Canadian dollar went to an-all-time high of $1.05 5/8 in terms of American currency,