Doris   E.   Bechtley 1158 Melville St.
VANCOUVER,   E.G.
Dec6-57
Variable cloudiness and warmer tomorrow, winds light. Low tonight and high .Thursday 25 and 05.
Vol.   1;  No.   12
Prince George,  B.C., WEDNESDAY, September  18,  1957
(Two Sections,  12 Pages)
7c per copy
Pension Boost, Farm Aid Assured Says P.M.
CJIARLOTTETOWN (CP)�Announcement by Prime Minister Diefenbakcr that old age pensions will be increased at the next .session of Parliament and that steps will be taken to equalize economic opportunity for all Canadians pepped up a provincial leadership convention here Tuesday night.
i Mr. Dlcfenbaker listed a point-by-point program at a huge Progressive Conservative nominating rally at which W. R, Shaw, the province's deputy minister of agriculture for 30 years, -was chosen to guide the party   against  the  Liberals   in
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One of the '.-prime "minister's points, which went over with rousing cheers before the agriculture-minded people of Prince Edward Island, was that "measures will l>c submitted to pro-latlon to protect the farmer vide for emergency farm lcgis-against- falling prices of farm products.1' U.S.   IfCHV   1XFOKMUI)
He also said there has been favorable reaction in life United Slates to his recent New Hampshire speech protesting � the clumping of U.S. wheat on world markets, lie predicted closer co-operation with the United States because "for the first time they know what the situation in Canada is."
Mr. Diefenbakcr did not say �what increases could be expected in old age pensions or what type of price support farmers could expect But apart from federal spending he hoped that "St,he   "spirit   of   Confederation"
would be restored and the November Dominion-provincial conference would be a step in this dircctiun.
Without elaborating, he said; "action will be proposed to lay the groundwork for a Canadian edirice in which equality of econonilc^oppwtunity will- be available to all."
Special Meeting Will Decide Cinder Track
Special meeting of the Prince George Centennial Committee tonight will decide on the location of'thc proposed cinder track.
Committee chairman Alex Bowie said today location of the $11,000 track is expected to be settled along with other important, business pertaining to the 1058 centennial year celebrations in this area.
All representatives of city service clubs and other groups participating in the program arc asked to be present.
Meeting gets under way at S p.m. in the Civic Center banquet room.
Nation Wide Flu Wave Hasn't Hit This Area
Influenza epidemic currently sweeping across Canada has not yet hit Prince Cienrgc.
Iir. C. D. Kcllyls, medical health officer bore, said yesterday that the incidence of influenza in this area is not. likely to reach epidemic proportions: Incidence of the virus in the district is negligible: be said.
He did not indicate if a wave of Influenza was expected in this area later this fall.
Meanwhile a report from Ehirns hake, an area within the administration of Cariboo Health Unit, indicated that more than 75 residents of the small community had been stricken with the disease.
Health officials at Prince Rupert  reported  at  the week-end
that between 200 arid 3Q0 persons have been stricken with influenza. ONE MEAD
Despite the large number of cases reported within 1he last few days, medical authorities said they arc not alarmed because the flu sems to bo mild. Only one person�an elderly man in Sault Ste. Marie, Out.� has died from the flu. Doctors termed it a rare occurrence.
Cases of Asian flu, which has appeared in the United States, have been positively identified in Canada, says Federal Health Minister Monteith.
However, only six of the many
thousands of flu cases reported
have been  identified  as  of the
Asian flu type. The six reported
(Sec FLU WAVE,  Pogc  4)
FIRE in the fuel bunker at Rustad Bros, planer mill, First Avenue, early yesterday evening sent large clouds of smoke into the air. Cause remains unknown and the mill is back in operation this morning. Company officials reported that damage was confined to heavy timbers and was not serious.
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Flu' Epidemic Strikes U.K.
LONDON (Reuters) � Influenza has reached epidemic proportions in some cities in England's industrial north where about 60,000 school children are ill, according to health figures issued today by medical officers.
Four children in the area were reported Tuesday to have died from influenza bronchial pneumonia.
In some towns^tie^diaeasje nascent'"school attendance by half and hit factories, coal mines and transport; Several naval depots through Britain have reported dozens of cases.
One of the worst-hit towns is Sheffield with 11,722 cases among schoolchildren. Last week 3S cases of pneumonia and 14 deaths were reported.
Bus services have been cut because scores of drivers and conductors were ill.
Yes, It Was Cold Last Night
You're right, it was cold last night.
It w;ts thp coldest September night Prince George has known  for the past 31 years.
Official recording of the temperature taken at the airport at 7 o'clock tills morning placed the--mercury at 19.4 degrees above.
Although the temperatures recorded at the airport differ from those taken in the city, most thermometers in town were registering temperatures in  the   mid-twenties.
Lowest previous temperatures for September was recorded in I92ff when the mercury dipped to 18 above.
Forecast for, tonight i.s Tor a "stiff" frost but not quite so  severe  as  tills  morning's.
Sommers Too III For Trial
VANCOUVER KT� � Counsel for Robert E. Summers, forinci Lands and Forests minister, said Tuesday he will apply for a postponement of Sommers' examination for discovery In the libel action he has brought against Vancouver lawyer David Sturdy.
The examination is scheduled for Monday.
"Mr. Summers is an extremely sick man; he's Very ill," said .lames Proud foot of Victoria, the Cornier minister's lawyer. "He's a sick man � nerves."
The action grew out uf allega tioris made by Mr. Sturdy before the Sloan Forestry Commission in Victoria late in 1955. Mr. Som mcrs subsequently resigned his seat as Social Credit MLA for Rossland-Trail. He was re-elected at last September's provincial election. ^i*--" Mr.- Protrcffbot saicl: "I'm not going to jeopardize jus health by having him appear for examina tion, so I'll be applying for a postponement."
He said Mr. Summers is now in Trail, staying at the home of a friend under a doctor's care.
Mr. Sommers definitely in tends 1o continue the lawsuit when he recovers his health, Mr. Proudfoot said.
'They Must Go'
Labor Demands Removal Of Compensation Board Heads
VICTORIA (CP) � The provincial cabinet was asked today to remove top officials from the Workmen's Compensation Board if discontent with handling of claims is not cleared up.
A delegationof labor leaders representing some 150,000 B.C. workers presented a brief claim-ins misinterpretation of the Compensation Act was defeating its purpose.
The brief said board's insistence on injured workmen furnishing "proof of accident" as the cause of their disabilitisc was causing the unrest. TOP  rjKVJBIj CIIAXCKS
]t is said the troubles have coincided with "numerous changes of personnel at the top" of the Hoard, including chairman .1. Kdwin Eades; appointed in May 1005.
"We do not intend ot engage in witch-hunting," the brief said. "lUit we would like to make absolutely clear that the rights of an injured workman transcend all other considerations.
^Accordingly] wo believe that it' those responsible for the present-discontent are un-:il>le to administer the act synipathittcally, then they must go � the sooner the belter."
The brief said that technical rejections of claims on lagal grounds has doubled  since the
period  1946-1950.
"It is our belief that it is the rejected claims which may wreck this fine edicice the acf. so painstakingly built up over the years."
KILLS SPIRIT OF ACT
The brief took issue with the board for its insistance on a narrow interpretation of the word "accident" in rejecting claims.
"Contrary to the spirit of the act, the board appears to constitute the word accident narrowly and; indeed, appears to be so obsessed with proof of accident as to negate the spirit and intent of the act.
"We cannot, and will not, support that body of opinion which suggests that the workman must prove to he satisfaction of the legal mind that he has suffered an accident in the narrowest sense of the word.
"It is only where the board has good reason to belivc that the injury was not, or could not, have been caused during employment that a claim should be rejected."
Lloyd Whelan, president of 1 the'Vancouver Labor Council
and spokesman for the group, said after the one-hour sesion that    Premier    Bennett    and seven   other   nunibters   gave them a "cordial hearing." "The   premier   asked   us   to furnish proof of specific cases where claims were unjustly rejected and said if it was forthcoming then the claims would be paid," he said.
He said the premier indicated that corrections could be made in the act's wording if it was at fault.
Dream Of Trip Goes In Smoke
A young Prince George truck driver's plans for a motor trip from Vancouver went up in smoke yesterday.
' Leroy Poucclte, l�), j(M>0 Riyer Avenue, Island Cashe, for $75 in the coast city to drive home.
With a lighted cigarct in his hand, he knelt at the rear of the rar to investigate a leak in the gass tank.
"The whole rear end ex-ploded and then the car was nil aflame," he told Vancouver police.
He is a driver for Douccttc Trucking here.
Lost Boy Found By Search Party
Police, Volunteers Comb Bush In 4-Hour Search
A desperate, four-hour search for a three-and-a-half-year-old boy ended in success at dusk yesterday on the Giscome Highway six miles south-cast of here.
Close to 100 searchers combed thick, rough bush-lands for tiny Lloyd Woodland, who went missing from his parent's farm home shortly before 3 p.m.
He was discovered by an unidentified searcher near the' highway, about a mile east of his home.
The youngster was apparently wandering unalarnied when found.
As darkness began to fall, his family and friends became more concerned over Lloyd's whereabouts. They were certain he could not survive a night alone in the cold. ALARM  BROADCAST
UCMP broadcast an appeal over radio station CKPG asking for volunteers to join in the search.
Lloyd was last seen playing in the yard in front of their modest -farm home about 2:-'5O yesterday afternoon. At 2:15 p.m. he had vanished.
Mrs. Ida Woodland, his mother, first thought'that the boy had gone to sec his father who was hauling poles out of the bush about a quarter mile from home.
She found that be bad not been there and subsequently started searching near their residence for the younster. Mr. and Mrs. Wodland tramped through the bushlands for over an hour looking for the youngster.
They feared that, he had wandered off to see his father and during his trip through the forest of spruce and poplars had lost his bearings. PARTIES  ORGANIZED
About 30 searchers were in itHe: area , before police wci^ called at 4 p.m. They had organized into parties' and started stumbling through the wilderness shouting Lloyd's name.
Some travelled directly to Woodland's residence while others were marshalled from the police station here.
They went into the bush with dogs, flashlights and garbed in hunting clothing. They combed the area on both sides of the highway, fearing the boy had wandered across the road and through the bush to Six Mile Lake, about a mile away.
No one knew where he was actually found. Lloyd was so excited and tired that he couldn't recount the story.-The searchers who found him had left before he could be contacted by the family.
The search parties were called off immediately. Last man stepped out of the bush at about 8:30, nearly an hour after the youngster was found.
Mrs.   Woodland   was   frantic
Chairman  Named To UBC Fund Drive
Paul E. Cooper, executive vice-president of Sandwell and Co. Ltd. and former president of Crown Zcllerback (Canada) Ltd., has been appointed general chairman of the University of British Columbia Development Fund, according to an announcement by DDrJ Norman A. M. IMc-Kenzie, UBC president.
Howard N. Walters, vice-president of Pleasant Valley C!as and Oil Ltd., will be deputy chairman, Dr. McKenzie said.
UBC is now the second largest university in Canada, though second to none in academic standards. Today SO0O students arc enrolled, but this number is expected to double by 10G5.
The development fund was organized to meet expanding physical facilities and goal of the appeal is $5,000,000 which the provincial government has promised to match dollar for dollar.
and heartbroken while men, women and children converged on their property to look for her son.
But when Lloyd was led back home, she was the happiest woman in the world. She gave him a hug, and took him into the house to get Avarmed and have   something   to   eat.
Mrs. Woodland said none of her five children have ever wandered off by themselves be fore.
"They have always stayed close to home as we have always warned them to," she said.
VI don't know what Lloyd had in mind when he walked away. I doubt if he was going to sec his father because lie has been in that urea many times before and I am sure he would have known the way very well."
The Woodlands came to Prince George in 1050 from Turtle Lake, Saskatchewan. Lloyd was born  here.
Mr. and Mrs. Woodland were grateful for tho volunteer efforts of all  the searchers.
"We didn't know how many friends we had until something like this had to come along," Mr. Woodland stated.
He also paid tribute to the �RCMP for ac'tlng promptly on short notice.
Three constables were at the scene. They arranged fur more than half a dozen teams to go into the bush during the search.
UDL May Wind Up Operations
VANCOUVER (CP) � The Vancouver Province says shareholders of United Distillers of Canada Limited will meet Sept. 25 to authorize payment of $1,-125,000 to claimants against the firm.
A series of actions which totalled $7,000,000 is being settled out of court, the newspaper says.
Major share of the settlement, ahout $825,000, would go to Mrs. Nctta Bell, widow of one of the founders of the company, her son Jack and her daughter, Mrs. Angela Bell. The Bells originally claimed $3;GOO,000 plus return of a block of stock.
The remainder will go to two other claimants, The Province says.
It reports that if the payment is authorized Sept. 25 by the shareholders, they will wind up the affairs of the distilling company which entered the international whiskv market after the Second World War.
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action    by    tho    Hell    family
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Howe Joins B.C. Firms
VANCOUVIOH (Cl1) � Former defence minister C. D. Howe has stepped into the directorships of two Vancouver companies.
Mr. Howe Tuesday Joined the boards . of Vancouver Iron Works and Vancouver Machinery Depot, both controlled by Lieutenant'-'Governor Frank Ross and millionaire Col. Victor Spencer.
Douks Appeal To UN For Release Of Children
VANCOUVER (CP) � An Orthodox Doukhobor group and a Russian-Canadian society are appealing to the United Nations and to Justice Minister Fulton for release of 100 Sons of Freedom children from the New Denver. B.C.,  school  for truant children.
Appealing arc tho Doukhobor j Society of Vancouver, and New Westminster and the Federation of Russian Canadians.
Both groups decided to join the j appeal for release of the Sons' j children  after  meeting  with  a delegation from the radical Doukhobor sect Tuesday and Friday.
Alex Reibin, spokesman for the Doukhobor Society, said his group does not think it is fair for the provinceial government to incarcerate children for the actions of their parents.
The children were forcibly separated from parents who refused to send them to school four years ago.
. Since then, they have been wards of the provincial government at the New Denver school.
"Such tilings are unbelievable in our times, especially in democratic Canada," said the Doukhobor letter to Mr. Fulton. "It i.s inconceivable that wholesome results can 'he achieved by such medieval tactics.
"On the contrary, there is evidence that these unhappy children develop a strongly hostile attitude towards authority and the whole human society."
The letter appealed to Mr. Fulton to "give this matter your serious consideration and to vindicate the integrity of the Canadian  character."
A similar appeal has also been sent the United Nations.
Three Die In Rupert Air Crash
PRINCE RUPERT (CP) � Three Kctchikan, Alaska, sports fishermen were killed and another injured when an Ellis Airlines Cessna ISO plane crashed on takeoff at Wilson Lake Saturday morning, it was learned here Tuesday from Carl Lundstroni, Ellis Airlines representative in Prince Rupert.
Reported dead are Leon Bass, pilot of the plane, John Erick-son and Al Berry, Ellis mechanics. Sole survivor is Frank Stepheson, employee of Ketchi-kan  public  utilities.
The plane was apparently sucked into a down draft as it was taking off and plunged into a sandbar at the end of the lake, �JO miles east of Ketchikan in the Alaska Panhandle.
A rescue plane returned to Ketchikan soon after noon, tak-(Scc THREE DIE, Page 4)
Country  Residents  Save   Money on Taxes, Building
(This is the second of three articles on a new residence pattern in this area, the semi-urban country subdivision development. Today's instalment deals with the economic aspects o� the problem.)
"Middle class" families simply can't afford city life.
They can't face the sometimes-prohibitive building costs. They're stumped by high taxes.
They have an illusion that the country living standard is lower, hence cheaper, than that of the city.
The. city has chased hundreds beyond its limits by the high tax arrangements. A homeowner who would pay an average of $150 a year
in metropolitan Prince George pays about $5 as his share of an annual tax bill on a Hart Highway subdivision development.
Admittedly* he doesn't have the same public services that he has in the city, but he feels he's reimbursed three-fold by the money he saves on tax, water and other service bills.
Initially, the resident of a semi-urban country community pays between 9200 and $300 for an acre of land. It's adequate for a. large garden and firewood for two or three years.
The acreage is just what the man who works a 7V� or 8-hour day wants. He can come home at night to cultivate a prosperous garden or saw enough firewood for domestic xise.
Of course, there are many other advantages to the rural system. The family heads don't have to finance children's expensive expeditions to the corner store or to the downtown movie every night.
It's ideal for the family of five or sis children where the householder earns less than $400 a month.
A home suitable for a family of five for example, costs between S3000 and $3500 at a Hart Highway subdivision development. In the city of Prince George a home suitable for the same family would carry a price tag of between $10,000 and $12,000.
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