Doris E. Bechtley 1158 Melville St. VANCOUVER, B.C. Deo6-57 George Citizen An Independent Semi-Weekly Newspaper Derated to Hie Intemit of Cenfre! and Northern British Columbia THE WEATHER Scattered showers Friday afternoon and evening. Winds light. Low tonight, high Friday at Quesnel and Prince George, 40 and 70. Vol. 40; No. 61 Prince George, B.C., THURjSDAY, August 1, 1957 (Three Sections, 24 Pages) 7c per copy Seventy-five Percent Approva Voters Demand Annexation Cabinet Has Open Williston . . A Bylaw which may sec 4000 acres added to the city limits was approved by Prince George voters Wednesday. It was one of the most controversial polls this city has seen. � Over 75 per cent of 799 voters who cast ballots supported the bylaw. There were 194 "no's." \ City council members and Mayor John Morrison were elated over the outcome. If it receives the consent of the provincial government, the bylaw \yill mean ih-AV. 9 Prince George will triple its present size; � New industrial sites will be available within the city limits; � There will be room in the metropolitan area. A GO percent majority was needed to put tho bylaw through at the local level. Disapproval was sounded by residents of housing areas who feared that their taxes would climb. City of Prince George had awaited the new Municipal Act passed by the B.C. government this spring before leaping into the annexation scheme. A municipal public works program, to serve the new area will have lo.be started soon. .The provincial government's municipal aid tax will jump according to the Increased population of the city, proper. -� All aldermen supported Mayor Morrison In hji> vigorous, far-sighted drive to have the area bwjujfh.t. into, the city!s JMig for a low-cost housing project a bid to annex the 'area'west to trie foothills as -Well as South Fort Geot'ge: and a Veteran's Land Aat housing development in the southeastern part of the city. Highlight of the city council-inspired campaign came Monday �when Mayor Morrison intimated he would resign if Wednesday's referendum went down the drain". The mayor's statement followed A communique fronf deputy municipal affairs minister J. E. Drown, advising the city to abandon plans to take tlie scheme to the1'electorate.' CITY HALL AUTHORITIES felt' �'Brown's" attitude .was based on a number of protests he probably received from "fringe" homeowners Svho feared the'plan would mean higher taxes. "We have been working toward this for a long time and we have finally accomplished it. The city has opened another avenue into a bright; and prosperous future," said alderman and deputy mayor Percy "Williams. Aid. "Williams stated that he ex-pected the bylaw t6 be approved but at the time' saw a threat looming from those who have never approved an expansion program. Aid. Carrie Jane Gray stated that she anticipated the bylaw being overwhelmingly endorsed by the electorate. "1 never go into anything unless my heart tells me that 1 am going to be successful, in spite of protests, I knew that it was going to turn out as we wanted it," she (Sec VOTERS DEMAND, Page 2) Government Didn't Take Stand On Annexation Issue Spokesman for the provincial government today denied that it had taken a stand on the annexation, issue. "We were only asked for an opinion and we will not receivo the bylaw with any .prejudices," .said Ray Williston, MLA for 'Fort George and minister of lands and forests. Mr Willistou said any protests over the bylaw endorsed by 7o percent of tho electorate's poll will be handled through the provincial secretary's office. City Clerk Arran Thomson said the bylaw will be in the hands of the city solicitor.-- before the weekend for final preparation." Area to be annexed will be listed in detail. "1 don't know how long it will be with our solicitors, but I expect it to be reviewed by thi provincial government before the end of the moiith," Mr. Thomson stated, Earlier a government official had advised City Mall not to proceed with the bylaw. However, council ignored the advice and went ahead with the poll. Duke Of Windsor Target For Mali Scheme Jo Win ^^^^^y � Captured Second" AVdrldWai-doeurntm'tW made public Wednesday "cHsciosed" that the Nazis offered in 1040 to put the Duke of Windsor back oil the British throne provided he undercut then Prime Minister Churchill and got his people to surrender. � Tliny backed their plan �with phony bomb scares and other threats to. bis life and the life of his American-born wife � "tlie woman 1 love" for whom he gave up the throne in 1936. � But the Nazis thought he "hesitated even up to the last moment." They blamed the Duke's legal adviser and then Deputy Foreign Minister Sir Walter Monckton, as the nemesis who "influenced" the Duke to reject their grandiose plan. There was nothing in the documents about any direct contact between the Duke and any Germans. Apparently the Germans carried on all their, efforts through Portuguese and Spanish 'inter* mediaries. A statement, from the Duke, in Paris, was. issued Wednesday night through' his London yer. It said it part: "While I was in London law- "' "SOME PAVEMENT" said Andy Anderson, of 751 Harper Street, when his car nose-dived into a sewer line at the corner of Brunswick Street and Fifth Avenue. Backfill in the newly laid sewer suddenly collapsed as Mr. Anderson was crossing the excavation, leaving his car stuck solidly until a wrecker arrived.' tain people, whom 1 discovered to be- Pro-Nazi sympathizers, did make definite efforts to persuade me to return to Spain and not take up my appointment as Governor of the Bahamas. "At no time did 1 ever entertain any thought of complying with Eiucli a suggestion, which 1 treated with the contempt it deserved. Sloan Report Due In Month Sloan report on the B.C. forest industry will be released at the end of August, it was learned today. Final adjudication on the state of the industry will be released 'by the provincial government, lands and forests minister Ray Willis-ton confirmed by long-distance telephone today. Marathon investigation, stated 2V� years ago, was headed by Chief Justice Gordon Sloan. The Royal Commission held hearings in hundreds of B.C. centers and received over 10 thousand exhibits. A sitting was held at Prince George in lale 1955. Lumbermen arc particularily interested in the Commission's conclusions on 13.C. Forest Service management policies. "SKELETONS DON'T SCARE US" say Jimmy Bell (7), 1670 Dogwood, Larry Larson (9), 1699 Cedar, and Bill Daughterly (8), 1615 Dogwood Avenue! "All we wanted were fishing worms, and this had to turn up," they said. The bones they found near the banks of the Praser River are likely those of some long-dead Indian chief, or of some other malefactor of the "good o Id days," but police are inclined to believe that the youngsters hit upon part of an early Indian graveyard. (Sec Picture Page 3) History, Not Horror, Bared In Youngsters Grisly Find Coas! Loggers Hit By Heavy Layoffs VANCOUVER (CP) Three major logging companies have announced shutdowns ond layoffs which will mean unemployment for more than 1,500 British Columbia loggers. Powell River Company operations normally employing more than 700 men have not reopened since the threat of a strike by International Woodworkers of America early in July. Alaska Pine has closed camps normally employing 300 men. Macmillan & Bloedel Ltd. said It will lay off 500 men during August in temporary suspension of operations at five Eastern Vancouver Island lumber camps. A company spokesman said the layoffs have been made necessary because of oversupply of logs at sawmills. Fishing worms are important business, especially if you happen to be IV2 to 9 years of age�but searching for them pales into insignificance when the moist brown earth yields a human skeleton instead. Three young Citizen carriers decided that on Tuesday when their efforts to dig up some fish bait resulted in uprooting the grisly remains of what appears to have been a long-dead Indian. The worms weren't in evidence, but the boys took the bones home In their cart and stored It quietly away in the Larson,family garage. They didn't know, of course, what they had found, and they weren't too much interested. After all, you can't catch many trout with old bones. OXIA' SIX INCHES DEEP But when James Bell. 1670 Dogwood, Larry Larson, 1699 Cedar, and Billy Daughery, 1615 Dogwood, came into the Citizen manager Ian French about their Citizen routes, they confided to him that they had found "a bunch of old bones" just six inches below where a City excavating unit had been taking out dirt for a fill. Mr. Trench, a newspaperman 10 the heart even 'though he sits in lonely splendor in the remote circulation department, called in the newsmen. "Sure, we've got it all right up in our garage. Yeah, we'll show it to you, but first we've got to go to the dentist." THE WAIT IS ON The city room men waited and waited. In the meantime, an RC office to report to circulation MP car, alerted because you never First Section Of McBride Link Ready Before Winter A three-mile section of the Northern Trans-provincial highway east of here to McBride should be built and ready for use this fall. This was indicated here yesterday when Highways Minister P. A. Gaglardi announced a 5336,628 contract for clearing and grubbing a 10-mile stretch of the road. It will be between Tabor Lake and Willow iliver, and when completed will be the first section of the proposed highway ready for traffic. Contract was awarded to Park Brothers Ltd., of Spirit River, Alta. Work is scheduled to begin immediately. Mr. Gaglardi toured the road Wednesday after a meeting with executive members of the Prince George Board of Trade late Tuesday. The three-mile section is expected to be ready by November. The other seven miles will be graded and gravelled next spring. Mr. Gaglardi surveyed the area (See McBRIDE LINK, Page 3) know what it might mean, stood by. Finaly the three youngsters were picked up and the party was on its way. "ftnroute the officers asked questions. "What shape was the skull (was it human-shaped, they meant?), how many teeth did it have (I don't know but there were only throe missing!). Up to that point, three news-pa) lermcn and two policemen weren't too sure they weren't chasing a phantom. But then the boys unloaded us at their family garage, 1670 Dog- (See HISTORY BARED, Pogo 3) Coast Woman Sues Hotel A city hotel manager and the McDonald Hotel Company Ltd., have been named, defendants in a suit for unstated damages filed by a Vancouver woman. Cited in a Supreme Court writ Issued and served yesterday by city barrister John Meredith Tay-ler on behalf of Clare Ladouceur, Vancouver, was Lome Shatsky, manager of the McDonald Hotel, � corner of Third Avenue and George Street. 1 The writ alleges "assault and/or battery, and/or false imprisonment and/or breach of contract." Tayler told The Citizen today that in addition to filing suit against the hotel manager and the company, his client will appeal a police court conviction on a charge of creatiiig a disturbance by swearing. He said Mrs. Ladouceur pleaded not. guilty to the charge on Monday but was not represented by counsel. She was fined $10 and costs on the count. Complaint against the Vancouver woman was sworn by the hotel manager on' Saturday after Mrs. Ladouceur allegedly refused to . give up her room at the McDonald Hotel. The" defendant told the court on Monday that she had registered at the hotel on Friday and was asked to vacate her room, the following day. She said the .hotel her to leave. Unable to secure Saturday night accommodation elsewhere after canvassing other hotels and even private homes,' Mrs. Ladouceur told the court she returned to the McDonald and asked If she could remain until the following day, by which time she would be able to occupy a room being held for her at another hotel. When she was given a negative reply, she told the court, a fracas ensued and her room key was taken from her by force. Following this the defendant admitted using a profane epihtel and she was subsequently charged and held in the city lock-up over the weekend. Mrs. Ladouceur is a travelling employee of the Parent's Institute, a publishing firm with offices in Vancouver and Seattle. Now staying, at another hotel, she said- she will remain in the city for approximately two weeks. Man Arrested In Hotel Theft A man was charged with theft four hours later and over 150 miles away from a hotel which had reported a quantity of linen missing late Tuesday. RCMP at Willianis Lake arrested Gerald Allen ' McConnell, 40, shortly after the Stone Creek Lodge, 24 miles south or here, told police that a number of sheets and pillows were missing. Police said the property was valued at $05. McConnell was returned to Prince George for trial Work on Second Pipeline May Start Before Winter A second natural gas pipeline will link the Peace River to California and the northwest States, the Citizen learned today. It will follow the route of the Westcoast Transmission line from northern B.C. oil and gas fields through the heart of B.C., the Okanagan and Fraser Valley. The gas will be marketed mainly in the U.S. A reliable source said that it is "already past the planning stage and work should begin before winter on the project." Compressor stations will be spaced half-way between the compressors on the present Westcoast line. Applications to the Federal Power .Commission for a franchise to market in the U.S. have been kept quiet until the giant company examined the feasibility of the present line. First gas through the recently-constructed pipeline is expected to flow by the fall of this year. A Westcoast official, Dr. Charles H. Hetherington, indicated in Prince George over a year ago that a second line would be necessary.