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Vol.    1;   No.   7
Prince George,  B.C., WEDNESDAY, September  11,  1957            (2 Sections,  12 Pages)
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a group of 20" visiting eastern United States financial experts. The visitors were representatives of many of the investment, banking and insurance firms that recently invested in the purchase of $45 million worth of B.C. government bonds sold on the New York market.. Top photo shows main floor of plant with generating units in foreground. In lower photo chairman of BCPC T. H. Crosby, points out features of unit for benefit of Donald R. Atkin, assistant vice-president of J. P. Morgan & Co. Inc.; New York and James G. Butler, Aetna Life Insurance Co., Hartford, Conn.                                        .   � Craftsman Photographers
'Prevented Violence'
Governor Prepares Defence In U.S. Segregation Case
By HULMAN MOKIN
LITTU: ROCK, Ark. (AD � Governor Orval Faubus today was compiling evidence aimed at convincing Hie federal government that racial violence would have exploded had he not barred Negroes from enrolling in Little Hock area high school.
"It will bo all forms of evidence, documentary and through witnesses," the governor told reporters.
Faubus quietly accepted a summons Tuesday to appear Sept. 20 before U.S. Judge Ronald N". Davies, whose action he had described as "arbitrary and high-handled."
At issue In the U.S. government's petition for a preliminary'injunction restraining Fau-
Expert Rules Out Travel To Moon
WACO, Tex. CAP) � A former German rocket scientist says he thinks man will never make a preaching the limits of human trip to the moon. "We are ap-endeavoring" said Robert Lus-scr, guided inissle reliability coordinator ot the U.S. Army's Redstone arsenel missle centre in HuntsvUle, Ala. Lusser was here fbr a meeting of the American Rocket Society.
bus from interfering further with the' racial integration of Lit.tle Rock's Central High School. Armed guards have been on duty there for a week, turning away Negroes.
The governor said evidence of Impending violence�which he clcclincf. lo disclose publicly �Will be presented at the hear: ing.
DKEENDS  ACTION
II<> says l,o slill R-cls lie did the right thing, and that to maintain order iu*l,iltle Rock it was ncccs uiry lo surround the school wit !i national guard U-oop-ors under command of the slate.
Meanwhile, he said, the guards wi)l remain on duty but
in smaller numbers. "The rules are the sane," he said, meaning Negroes would not be permitted to entex*.
"Tension has lessened somewhat iii that area," Faubus said when asked why the guard has been reduced.
Faubus read a telegram from eight of 10 Little Rock aldermen requesting that he leave the national guard at Central High his action In ordering them there. The governor said tne other two were absent from tho council   meeting.
The big question today is that with relative quiet prevailing, will the Negroes make further attempts w enroll at Central High?
Pope Asks Supervision Of Movies, Radio, Television
VATICAN CITY (Reuters) � Pope Pius today published an encyclical letter Lo the world's 1,500 Roman Catholic bishops, instructing them to protect Christian morals by setting up immediately machinery to supervise movies, radio and television.
He exhorted the bishops "not only to exercise a watchful care, but also to use positive action and authority ... so that by means of this difficult and extensive province of the arts, the Christian idea may bo ever more   widely spread."
In the ] 3,000-word document, the �l-year-ol<3 pontiff said "with all force at our command, we desire to impress upon you how
the flock committed to the care of each one should be protected against, a.iy errors and harm from whatever sources which the use of these arts can introduce�with serious rir-k�to the practices of Christian life." POLITICAL, MORAL POINTS He said it is the duty of public administrators to watch over the^e mass means of communication and entertainment not only from a merely political
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that of public morals.
"There is no question here of the true liberty . . . but rather of ^n uncontrolled freedom, which disregards all precautions, of communicating to others anything at all, even though it be contrary to souni morals and can result in serious danger to souls.
Man Now
17 Days
Mope is waning for a. Seattle truck driver missing for 17 clays in dense bush country 140 miles north-east of here.
Corporal W. V. Williams, head of an RCMP mobile unit at Little Pralvie, (Chetwynd), said Tuesday that the searth. for Robert Horsely, �15, will continue for three or four more days.
He said ]2 searchers are working through the Moberly Lake area. An RCMP tracking dog is being used.
"" Horwly   went   mlsislnsr-ln -Mic"
lonely country August 23 when he struck out to claim an acreage of farmland. He was last seen the same day by an Indian trapper.
His wife and family live at Fall City, Washington. He is a truck driver for a meat packing company in the U.S. city. . Relatives told the .Associated Press- that he. was., carrying, about $50(5 cash on his person when lie travelled north to stake the land.
An RCMP Beaver aircraft from Pnncc George, another from Dawfon Creek, and an Industrial Photographies Piper carrying a Citizen reporler searched the area last week.
'Frisco Drinkers Top Them All
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) � San Francisco has the hardest drinkers in the United States, says a mayor's committee on alcoholic problems. The Committee reported Tuesday that alcohol consumption here is 3'/2 times the natlonol average at 3,500,000 gallons yeurly.
Jehovah's Witness
No Smell From This Skunk... Woops!
FREMONT, Mich. (AP) � A skunk has lost his chance to become a star attraction in Fremont High School's biology department.
The animal was found in a residential area several; days ago. Its good behavior led observers to believe it had been de-scented.
The skunk was turned over to Arthur Biltman, high school principal, with the suggestion that it might make an interesting specimen for the biology class.' Biltman kept it caged pending examination by a veterinarian.
That proved unnecessary. Gary Hall, 10, inadvertently let the skunk out of its cage�and Gary's mother reported she had to bathe and bleach her son and burn his clothes.
Trailer Explosion Fatal \
A man who was seriously burned while lighting a gas stove in his Spruce Street trailer last week, died on the way to Vancouver for emergency treatment after refusing a blood transfusion on religious grounds.
lssac Weins, 62, who had been here only two days from Ques-ncl, was burned in a small trailer at 1814 Spruce Street shortly after 9 o'clock Thursday morning.
Police  here did not learn  of the  incident  until  The Citizen started   working   on   the   story early this morning. � Doctor attending  Weins  con-
Late News
OTTAWA (CD � Dr. Sidney K. Smith, �0, president ol" thn University of Toronto, will l>o Canada's iicNt external affairs' minister, it was learned reliably today.
Cream Of Crop Amazed At 'incredible Vastness"
A special Pacific Great Eastern railway train pulled into Prince George yesterday afternoon carrying on board the most unique group of passengers yet to visit this area..
.Prince George is growing accustomed Jo hosting touring government  .leaders,   industrialists
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 , anil �assorted boards of trade but
"yeAteraajTa'   vlslto'rs     wei-C     different.
They represented the cream of some of the world's top banks, investment houses and insurance companies.
They are guests of (he PGE and the B.C. power Commission and today they arc'visiting such places as the plywood-plant at Quesnel, the stockyards at. Wil-
liams Lake and tho  B.C.  Elec-tric's power plant at Shalalth. NEW KXI'ERIKNCK.
At the same time^thetfe m \yJiof are .used   to .thinking terms ' of   millions -are .having their eyes . opened to a., million dollars worth of scenery.
Some have never strayed far beyond the Kteel and stone canyons of Wall Street, New York so for 'hem it is a new .experience.
S'umirier'B." Eirtcr&'oh * a Tnefh-ber'-of the investment firm-of Morgan  Str.nloy &  Co., 2  Wall
CN Plans 60,000 Gallon Bulk Storage Plant Here
Canadian National  Railways announced today the proposed construction here of a 60,000-gallon. diesei bulk
storage plant.
Cost of the project, to be constructed in the heart of the railway's freight yards, has not been disclosed.
The plant will consist of four, 15,000 gallon storage tanks, pumps and dispensing units.
Construction is planned to coincide with the anticipated dies-elization of all CNR equipment between Prince Rupert and Jasper.
A company spokesman said that the Prince George installa-
tion will be included in a "master plan" for the dieuelization program.
Working drawings for the project are complete and construction of the plant will get underway pending approval by the assistant fire marshall and the city's building inspector.
Earlier this year- the fire marshall rejected uii application for an additional bulk petroleum products plant in the city's heavy industrial area.
Got A Nose For News?
Reporters Abound In Central B.C. Under 'Citizen' Coverage Plan
Give Newsroom Tip Get One Back
Ever -wanted to take part in the drama of gathering the day's news
Well, here's your chance.
Commencing today The Citizen will institute a news gathering system used extensively by English newspapers and a few in eastern Canada and the United States.
You not only participate in rounding, up the day's news, you get paid besides.
No matter where you live or what you do you can be a newspaper reporter.
All you have to do is keep your eyes open.
Any event you see or hear about which you thlnfc would make a bona-iide news story you teliy by telephone or null
to    "The    Newsroom,"    Prince George Citizen.
Telephone numbers are 050 and -931. The mailing address is PO Drawer 578, Prince George Envelopes should be marked "News, rush." Your address should be on them. CRISP  DOLLAR
The Citizen trained news staff will evaluate your suggestion and "and if It is accepted you will be fcent a crisp new one dollar bili.-
At the end of each week tho (See REPORTERS ABOUND Poge 7>
Boy,5, Hanged By Door Chain
AUDUBON, N.J. (AP) _ A five-year-old boy who had been scolded fo:* riding on an automatic garage door was found hanged in its chains Tuesday Mr. and Mrs. L. s. Chapman told police the boy, John, hid been .warned agiinfet. riding on tie. chain's, of. the. door,' w&ich is electrically operated.
'The Course Of True Love...
TRENTON, N.J. CAP) � Ralph Rcstuccio. has vowed to follow his pet lion into exile. . The - former, circus gorUla--keeper, ' who has a fondness for big pets, said probably lie �will move to Florida,, to rejoin  the  4u0-pound  cat.
When neighbors complained about the lion recently, Magistrate Samuel Leventhal gave Restuccio until Sept. 30 to dispose of Leo. So Restuccio sent the lion south.
"There are no complaints down there," he said. "They like Leo. I'm moving as quickly as I. can from here. There's no room for Leo here end there's no room for me either."
Street,. N.   Y.   explains   it   tills' way:
."Some of Us decided that it would be a good idea for those who. havj. Jnvested in B.C. to see it for themselves. And there
-are those-here today who haven't yet. Invested in this province
�but .tfratr should'.do no" . ,/jy>4%v KnitTso'nV (irui was one of   those   which   recently'. purchased some $45 Million worth of B.C. government bonds.
Thomas W. Boynton, 3.6-year-old assistant, treasurer of the Ford Foundation was another. The foundation with over three billion in assets, snapped up $2,500,000 of the B.C. bonds. HARVARD GRADUATE]
Boynton, 3 Harvard graduate, expressed emazement a I" the incredible vastness" of the country he had seen between here (Sec  "Amazed"  Pago  3)
finned today that he did not accept a blood transfusion or. a plasma injection offered to him while lie was undergoing treatment in Prince George Hospital. liOlID BLAST
Weins was a member of the Jehovah's Witness fellowship, :i religious organization which does not believe in blood transfusions.
Bob Schwartz, who lives ut 17G8 Spruce, said he heard a loud blast and saw the man coming out the trailer door moments later.
"He got to his feet and was back in tho trailer by the time I got over there," Schwartz said. He lives about 100 feet from the scone.
There Is no evidence of any fire damage inside the dwelling.
"His   face  and   arms  seemed ' deeply singed. A doctor came a few minutes later and he  was rushed  to  hospital,"  the neighbor stated. STOVE  TKAKI3I)
Schwartz said that the stove was apparently leaking slowly and there was a violent explosion when he ignited a match �.o start it.
Weins  was transferred   from (Sec "Rejects Blood" Pago 3)    I
GiNE OF THE MOST valuable retrievers in Central British Columbia disappeared from its master's home at 1450 Fir Street on Monday afternoon and police believe it may have been stolen. Meanwhile, its heartbroken owners, Mr. and Mrs. James Slesinger, hope that some alert Citizen reader may spot it in the district. The dog, a golden retriever with several field trial victories to its credit, can be readily identified by tattoo marks inside each ear. The letters AD will be found in the right ear and GI in the left. "Rorry," as his owners call him, weighs about 95 pounds, stands around 20 inches at,the shoulder and has a black nose. A substantial reward has been offered for his return. Anyone seeing "Rorry" is asked to contact Mr. Slesinger at 376-R-3, Prince George, or the Princfe George Citizen immediately.
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