Doris E. Bechtley 1158 Melville St. VANCOUVER, B.C.
Dec6-57
Sunny, with a1 few^clo.udy, intervals. Little change in temperature. Light winds. Low tonight and high tomorrow, 40 and 72.
Vol. 1; No. --8
Prince George, B.C., THURSDAY, September 12, 1957
(3 Sections, 18 Pogfes)
7c per copy
Recovers %Rorry#
The family of Jim Sles-inger is a different one today.
Where gloom and gnawing emptiness seized its four members yesterday, today it is replaced by smiles and laughter.
The reason of course is because "Rqrry" Is back.
"Rorry" is the golden rctrei.v-er whose picture appeared on the front page of The Citizen yesterday trier it was reported missing by its anguished ownpr.
"If it hadn't beeii toe The Citizen publishing his picture Wo wouldn't have him back today," said a grateful Mr. SJesinger, Prince George Tire Service ni'MsidWt, But because the dog's picture did appear in the paper it was seen and immediately recognized by Mrs. .lim Kennedy of the Fraser Bridge Trailer Court, who recognized the dog as the one who followed her to her home last Monday after she had delivered her children to school. "The dog's been having a wonderful time here playing with the children," said Mrs. Kennedy.
A golden retriever, the dog is one of the most valuable in the central interior.
Just as happy as his own two daughters, Karen, 3, and Diane. 8. to have his dog back, is Mr. Slosingpr who yesterday was prepared to give up hunting "for good" if "Rorry." didn't return.
Me was all prepared last night to give Ms gun away.
"We're a different family altogether this morning," grinned Mr. Slesinger who lives at 1150 Fir Street.
SHAPE of things rto come can. be seen, for the first time today as giant: trusses for the new civic arena go into place. First of the 115-foot trusses was hoisted atop the building last night by 20-ton crane. Weighing from 8 to 10 tons apiece, contractor C. J. Oliver hopes to have all seven trusses in place by the latter part of next week. Completion date for the half-million dollar building is scheduled for early December.
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'Confidential' Cries For Freedom Of Press
LOS ANpEiiBS (AP) � The slate of California is trying-to put Confidential out of business in a "witch hunt", the defence has contended 'at the magazihe's criminal libel .trial:.
"The indictments.were returned not to punish someone but
P. G. Leads Other Areas
In Fire Fighting Costs
Prince George forest district's costs for fighting fires this year continue to soar far above figures for other regions of the province.
Release front the B.C. Forest Service last week shows that this area has spent $58,56(3 in fighting 142 blazes. Up to the same time last year, it had cost $150,924 to battle 210 fires in forest lands near Prince George.
General situation throughout the province is stated as "excellent" with low hazards existing in all forest districts except Prince George where the hazard is deseribf.'j as "moderate."
area is still leading other forest districts in the amount of money spent fighting fires. The Nelson area has chalked up $54,490 since the opening of the forest fire season this spring.
Indications arc that the cur-
rent moist conditions will CQtv Ifhu'e throughoiit.B.C. for at least another week, the Forest Service stated.
"Although there arc high pressure areas off the coast, it is not expected they will effect the present low-hazard conditions," the report said.
There were only 30 fires burning throughout B.C. up to last week-end. Some 41: new fires began but of these 40 were immediately extinguished. ' Vancouver forest district has fought 402 fires at a cost of $7,-029 so far this year. ' There have only been 1,361 forest fires in B.C. this year compared to the 2,592 which hit provincial forest - labels iii the corresponding period in 1956.
Total cost this year has been $138,294 compared to the $440,-915 spent .on forest fire fighting
costs up to the first .week September, 1956.
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to put a magazine out of business," lawyer Arthur J. Crow-ley said Wednesday in his final argument to the jury.
"Cpnfidenlial [has- the biggest news stand -sale in the nation. A very-large segment of the public fpadti it...I.t.has �.circulation of 4,0G0,Ot>Q' copies , with, at' least ^000,000 readers." /
Cr.bwlcy iolcl thq.juuy- tlini'the
issue of freedom.of. the press is .at, stake.. '
'.'When, you start.'encroaching on .freedom of the' press, where do you end?" he asked. THOUGHT SUPPRESSION
,"When you start out censoring you end up with book burning. You may not like Confidential, but that doesn't mean you have the right to tell others that they can't read it. If all the books that arc not for teen-agers and adolescents are taken away, you will end up with suppression of thought."
Confidential and its sister magazine, Whisper, Marjorie and Fred Mcade and Hollywood Research Incorporated�which the Meades set up � arc charged with libel and to publish obscene, matter.
Crowley said the motion picture industry protects an element within Its own ranks which has "brought disgrace upon Hollywood."
As the final arguments lengthened it began to appear doubtful that the jury '.will get. the case before early next week.
ke, Faubus Talk End Race War
Governor Asks, Gets Presidential Meet
m
May
By RELMAN MOIUN
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) � Arkansas governor Orval Faubus is taking the federal-state dispute over racial integration in the schools directly to President Eisenhower, and all the general belief here today is that, a solution will come out of their meeting.
Eisenhower suggested either Friday afiernoon or Saturday morning tor the conference.
FaubuE, an aide "said today, has not yet decided when to go to Eisenhower's vacation headquarters at Newport, R. I. He said the governor spent most of Wednesday in bed and that,
while Faubus is not actually ill, "he's not too good."
The aido said Faubus has been exhausted by the tense events that boiled up after he ordered the state militia to surround Little Hock's Central High School last-week�with instructions to keep out Negro students. rOINT KKSPOXSIBILITV
Faubus telegraphed the president asking to see him in Newport. Hja message said in part:
"Recognizing, that we jointly share great responsibility under the federal constitution, I feel that it is advisable {6r us to counsel together in determining my course of action . . . with-reference to the responsibility placed upon . me by the state and federal constitution.
"AH good citizens must, of course, obey all proper orders ;>f our courts, and it is certainly my desire to comply with the order that has been issued by the district court in this case, consistent with my responsibilities under the constitution of the United States and that of Arkansas."'
The latter paragraph referred to a summons to the governor to appear in a U.S. district court Sept. 20 for a hearing on a federal petition for an injunction that would stop Faubus from intcrfcrinc with enrollment of Negro students �in Little Rock.
Eisenhower read the message on the golf course, just as ne finished pluying the first h61e. He dictated a reply which suggested a meeting either Friday afternoon or Saturday morning. REASONS FOR OPTIMISM
The atmosphere of optimism here pivots on two main points:
1. It is assumed generally th.it federal judge Ronald N. Davies will issue the preliminary in-(Sce IKE, FAUBUS, Poge 3)
TCA Heads Study Memorial To 62 Killed On Ml. Slesse
VANCOUVER (CP) � Several suggestions for a memorial marking the mountain grave of 62 persons who died in the TCA North Star crash on Mount Slesse are under study by TCA officials.
The sugestions were submitted by B.C. designers, a company spokesman said Wednesday.
He made the statement while Vancouver Coroner Glen MacDonald visited the mountain for a final check before issuing death certificates;
The TCA spokesman said a site was being considered by his company in co-operation with the B.C. forestry service.
"We can't yet say where the memorial will be erected," he added. "But it's safe to say it will be as close as posible to both the mountain and the road. ...�-.
"We'd like it to be accessible by. road to any visitors. ' . � .
"We'd also like it to be of local/design and manufacture," he said.
110 MPH Claimed
Dead Man In Triple
1700 Hungarians Said Going Home
VANCOUVER (CP) � Mrs. Irene KaYadi, one of more than 1700 Hungarian refugees in Canada who are reported to have applied for return to Hungary, says she is; uncertain whether or not she wants to go hack.
"They'd throw me In jail," she said, but the 44-yqar-old woman added that the' future here seems to hold nothing for her.
She is one of about 30 Hugar-ians in British Columbia who are known to have applied to return.
Andre Licia, a 20-year-old student, of the Sopron Forestry School at Powel River, has already left in response to repeated appeals from his family.
LKFT HUSBAND
When Mrs. Karadi fled from Hungary Dec. 18 she left her 65-year-old husband behind.
She left because she believed she would be jailed for running a, field kitchen for freedom fighters . during the fighting, staying behind saying lie way too old to go abroad;
. Mrs. Kai-adi arrived hero Feb. 1 and has had one job as a domestic helper in Victoria.
"I liked the job, but 1 don't speak English and I felt all the,time..that I was the butt of jokes of even little children," she.sald.
She-left Victoria for : Vancouver, io be among Hungarians. By leaving her job she was disqualified from immigration department aid.
Fulton, Baker May Switch Jobs In Cabinet Shuffle
Would Soothe Quebec, Let Davie Try Ideas
OTTAWA (CP) � Imminent changes in the Progressive Conservative cabinet are reported to include moving Hon. Davie Fulton from the justice to the citizenship and immigration portfolio, giving justice to Solicitor-General Leon Balcer and bringing University of Toronto president Dr. Sidney E. Smith in as external affairs minister.
The prospective changes were reported Wednesday following an indication Tuesday by Prime Minister nipfnnbnkrr that he had changed his mind about keeping Mr. Fulton in the dual job of justice minister and acting citizenship and immigration minister for some time.
The! 60-year-old University of Toronto president was reported due here Friday when announcement of his external affairs ap-
pointment would be made.
Dr. Smith in that case would replace Mr. Diefenbaker, who has also been external affairs minister in the Conservative government that succeeded the Liberals after their June 10 election defeat. QUEBEC COMPLAINS
The' Fulton-Balcer switch could serve to mollify grumblings from Quebec that the 39-year-old Mr. Balcer, also president or the National PC Association, was not adequately treated in being given only the solicitor-general's portfolio. Both Mr. Bal-ccr, MP for Trois Rivieres, Quo'., ami Mr. Fulton, of Kamloops, B.C., nrr lawyers.
The Liberal government had in recent years either combined the solicitor-general's job with the ministry of justice or given it to the government .Senate leader, chiefly as a means of permitting him to sit in on cabinet meetings.
Giving the justice portfolio to
Prawda Finds Red Threat Reaction Disapointing
MOSCOW (AP) � Pravda suggested today the United States could escape the dangers of Rusia's military strength as outlined by Marshal Konstantin A. Ver-shinin by accepting the "concrete and realistic proposals" of the Soviet tJnion for ending the arms race.
VERSH1NIX, commander of the Soviet air force, said in a statement broadcast by Moscow radio Saturday that western
Europe and large U.S. Metropolitan areas are particularly vulnerable to Soviet rocket missiles.
"Invention of the intercontinental mitsile makes it possible to reach iny part 6f the world," .he said.
Pravda, official organ of the Soviet Communist party, said American reaction to Ver�hinin'E statement was disappointing.
"American generals and their bosses refuse to admit the defeat of their "positions of strength'- policy," Pravda said.
Mr Balcer would resume a policy followed last in the Liberal government of the late -Mackerj-zie King that under an English-speaking prime minister the government party's Quebec strong man has been justice minister. -Rt. Hon. Ernest Lapointc was in'that, post under Mr. King and so was Rt. Hon. Louis St. Laurent before he becam prime minister.
"Mr. Fulton, 41-ycar-6ld former Rhodes sbolar, devoted much of his time.as an Opposition member to.affairs of t,he citizenship 3nd immigration department. PLAN.6-FOR CHANGES
�He is known to have a good (See FULTON, Page-3)'
A dead man last night was blamed for a-motor vehicle accident near here in June which took' three lives, including his own.
A coroner's jury reviewing the. multiple' highway tragedy
heard evidence that. Russell Waddell travelled at speeds up to 110 miles an hour prior to the accident.
..Accident took place June 8 on the Cariboo Highway near Cale Creek, 14 miles south of here. " Killed were James Frank Patterson, 21, of Innttrfail, Alia., a relative- Kl/in;i � Pat-teV-son, 14, and Waddell. Pat-toi-aon died at the scene while the others passed away "in' hospital here.
Jury decided the mishap was caused by Waddell who attempted to pass1 another vehicle on a solid line which was in his traffic lane, contrary to the Motor Vehicle Act. SPEKDOMETEK LOOKED
Hugo and Donald Boreen, both of Stone Creek, told the jury and Coroner Dr. A. L. Chambers that Waddell travelled up to HO miles � an hour while proceeding
Poison Vigil For Baby Not Over
VANCOUVER KJI � Final effects of corrosive disinfectant swallowed last Friday (by an 18-jnorUh-oW- boy won't- be known (or several days.
.Larry Chaplin, son of Mr. and Mrs.' Theodor6 tJhapUn, -was in poqr~ condition at hbspita}. after shallowing the ''powerful disinfectant. , ;,-'( . ��-,-, . -; .
. The, tot accidentally swallowed the iicpjid when be found it In a pop bottle near the back of the. house where his parents �Kent a suite.
� Hospital authorities said Wednesday it would be several days before it could be determined if neutralizcrs used to, counteract tji edisinfectant had been fully effective.
Murder Trial In Pr. Rupert
PftlNCE RUPERT (CP) � Three criminal cases, are scheduled for the 'fall assizes, of the B.C. Supreme Court here which opens Sept. 24 before Mr. Justice J.. C. Clyne. ,
6n, trial are Werner Hensel of Kitimat, charged with.murder in the May 25 slaying of Franz Lechner, also of tfitimat: Benjamin Roy Hallett, charged with breaking and entering; and Arthur Jbm, of Quick, charged with the" June 9 rape of an eight-year old girl.
south out. of Prince George on the ilitfht of the tragedy.
Police, found the speedometer locked at 70 miles an hour in Wad/lelPs late model passenger car following the accident. S Four recovered from..injuries in the crash. They are the Bor-recn brothers, Edwin Ralph Miller of Calgary and James Me-Whivter of Prince George. � The accident occurred as Wad-dell's car, travelling south, attempted to pass another vehicle being dtiven by George Agrcy of Williams Lake.
In the manoeuvre, he crashed head-on into a late-model Austin being driven by- James Patterson. Patterson died almost instantly mid his cousin, ISlzina, died two days later In hospital.
Seven passengers in Agrey's vehicle escaped unhurt. The car in which they were riding went out of control following the collision and careened into the ditch.
Four RCMP officers and three civilian witnesses to the accident gave evidence at the inquest.
Jury was told that Agrey was travelling at a normal speed and Patterson was proceeding at. about 35 miles an hour.
Road was hard-surfaced arid the mishap occurred in semi-darkness. �
Waddell died in u Vancouver hospital after being transferred from medical treatment here. He had not been charged.
To Address Convention �
Douglas Jung, Progressive Conservative MP for Vancouver Centre and the first oriental to win a seaj, in the House of Commons, following the June fed-oral, election, will speak hero next month.
. Mr. Jtmg has been invited to address a nominating convention October 2 of t,hc Cariboo Progressive Conservative Association in the Civic Centre.
At that time delegates from Quesnel, Vanderhoof. Fort St. James, Dawsoiv Creek and Fort St. John will assemble to choose a candidate for the anticipated federal election next year.
Mostly likely to get the nomination iE Prince George lawyer William D. Ferry who lost out at the. polls- last June to. Social Credit MP Bert Leboe. However, a Pro-Con' spokesman here said today there at least two other names tliathaye beeii. mentioned as possible candidates.
HAPPILY REUNITE!) with their fathe r's prize retriever, Diane and Karen 6les iriger, welcome the pet.home. ''Rory", owned by Mr. and Mrs. James Slesinger, 1450 Fir, was found by Mrs. James Kennedy at the Fraser View Auto Court. The dog followed her t6 her residence Monday and she didn't.know who its own- -ers were until reading The Citizen yesterday. Diane, .8, and Karen, 3, started playing with the dog soon after it was brought h6me late yesterday. ..
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