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Sunny today and tomorrow with occasional cloudy periods. Scattered showers, light; winds. Low tonight and high. tomorrow at Prince George and Quesnel, 50 and 70.
Vol. -1; No. 1
Prince George, B.C., TUESDAY, September 3,  1957
(2 Sections,  16 Pages)
7c per copy
Hit-Run. Victim
Mayor Lauds Move To Daily Paper
Conversion of the Princ George Citizen from .a sem weekly to a daily newspape was greeted today with cnthi sia.sm in a telegram from th city's chi'.'f magistrate, Mayo John It. Morrison.
Wired 'he mayor, "The put lishers and staff of The Citize are to be congratulated for taK ing this slop into the daily news paper field."
 Mayor .Morrison is In Ottavv today preparing to launch th city's natural gas case befor federal  authorities.
His message to the paper con tinucd, "This move represent an extension of the e.vprossioi of confidence which The Citizei has unfailingly demonstrated in the future growth and security of  yur  community."
In a statement to Citizen re porters before his departure His Wors! ip predicted that dailj publication of the newspapei would lend the city new stature relevant to its rapid develop nient as the capital city of the Interior of British Columbia.
"In my opinion The Citizen, through   its   forthright  policies
'standing: cHisa'tfer }ri'voicingXit demands of the people of tl area and has made itself heard from the legislature in Victoria to the House of Commons at Ottawa.
'Observer' Publisher Denies Sale
Publisher of the Cariboo Observer in Quesnel has denied that he has .optioned  AltOAKI)
Still   on   board    the   packer
vhen it arrived here, towed by
he Prince  Rupert Fishermen'.-;
Co-Operative  Association   vessel
'liallcnger, were crew members
;drl  Olafson,  25,  Dell  Siegner,
38,  Hruce Stanwood, 20, and Al
Hcminors, 20. They had refused
m offer to be taken off befoie
he long tow home.
The pa.ssengers, Mrs. Mosses loss and her four children, who vere returning to Prince "Rupert the fell school term, had 3cen taken aboard the Nelson jrothcrs fisheries packer AlifonJ Bay. i'HE CLOSEST"
"This trip was the closest I came to shaking hands with Davy Jones," Captain Hclin told lis wife and daughters. "I've seen bigger winds and bigger eas but never got into such a Drcdiuainont before."
Bruce  Stanwood  was one  of
ho   luckiest   aboard   the   Cape
erry. He was swept overboard
at  the  height  of  the  gale  but
a  second  giant  breaker  swept
ihn back onto the deck where
ic maintained a foothold.
Two Men Struck In Accidents
A 3!)-year;old man was left injured, bleeding and struggling for life by a hit and run driver on the Hart -Highway late Friday.
Quintette Of I risk Nuns Arrives To Open School
Mercy   mixed<  with    a p      Christian/ message ^ warmth,  -Juridrie'^  ariS
earning   came �� to 'lort?St.
James at the week-end. '
Five Roman Catholic nuns jlriiight out of a convent in rcland travelled to the lonely, lorthci'n settlement to open an nt ok rated school for white and h'dian children.
Their mission is tough and hey know it.
They'll be . meeting cultural, anguage and racial problems icvc-r before encountered in a lassroom in this part of the vorld.
And they'll iron their prob-ems out with God's love and )lcssing in the style of Roman latlidlid missions on this con-inert t two centuries ago.
Sisters Mary Peter; Mary Jlarc, Mary Anthony, Mary Gon-aga and Mary Alplionsis of the H'der of the Sisters of Mercy topped briefly in Prince George aturday before going on to Fort >t. James. IKIS  CiNDEKELLAS
They stepped off a Canadian 'acific Airlines plane at the air-ort like Cindercllas on their vay to a midnight ball.
Their faces were aglow with varm smiles and an aura of ad-(Sco QUINTETTE,  Page 4)
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Attend Fall Fair
Record crowd of close to 15,000 attended the weekend, forty-second annual Prince George Fall Fair.
. Fall F:iir association officals had not compiled final attendance figures early this morning but number of paid admissions was expected ' to soar close to the all-time, record-breaking rigure.
They jammed the gales Saturday and Jlonady to attend onu of the most colourful,'fun-packed annual exhibitions this area had seen .'n many years.
The clear skies and warm sunshine were wliat fair boosters had put their money on many months ago.
CROWDS THRONGED into the main building to glimpse attractive displays and look at commercial booths.   -
They wound their way along the , dus'y, loudspeaker-lined midway to watch the sideshows and enjoy I he rides.
They bought barrell after barrel!  of cotton  candy, ate miles
of hotdogs and spent thousands (if dollars to the barkers' delight
Thousands went to the race track gra ltistand to watch the races, invr-st at the parl-inutueh 'and take in the variety concerts
Some noticed that Hie same woman was managing the duck pond wlu was on the job last year. Some went to sec the cancan dancers. Others went with their children to give them the:1, last big outing before school opens.
Number of cntnets in some classes was 400 percent above last year's figures.
"The response was excellent, just what we had been hoping for a long time," said Mrs. Natalie Kassakoff, fair association secretary.
Vegetable, flower and field crop exhibits were at the best (Sec RECORD CROWD,  Page 3)
Excursion  Tragedy
Dead Number Over 200 In Jamaican Catastrophy
Train Wreck njures 700
MANDEVILLE,   Jamai-
a   (AP)   �  The   smell  of
cath. hurig heavy over this
itllc   Caribbean   mountain
esorl today as burial scrv-
ccs were rushed for more
iian  UOO  Jamaicans  killed
�   the wreck. of  a  Roman
atholic excursion train. ..
It was one of the worst dis-
stcrs in  railroad history. The
2-coach train was packed with
early   1,500   Roman   Catholics
returning  to   Kingston  from  a
religious pilgrimage and holiday ouling at Montcgo Day, on Jamaica's north coast. Nino coaches were derailed and plunged ever a 100-foot embankment near Kcm!al, five miles from here.
The count of the dead reached lffi Sunday night. The Roman catholic bishop of Jamaica, mosc Rev. John J. McElcney, estimated that it might rise to 200.
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