Cloudy and a little cooler Thursday, occasional showers. Light southerly winds. Low tonight and high tomorrow, 40 and 65.
Vol.  1. No.   17
Prince George,  B.C., WEDNESDAY, September 25,  1957 (2 Sections, 12 Pages)
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LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) � One white man was clubbed and another stabbed with a bayonet in a clash with paratroopers who guarded the entrance of nine Negro students to Central High School today.
The clashes came after-six Negro girls and three boys walked calmly under armed escort into the previously all-white school to attend classes.
A spectator identified as Paul Downs of Springfield, Ark., was stabbed on the arm by a bayonet when he apparently was slow in following orders to move on.
Soldiers said C. E. Blake', 4(i-yccir-old railroad employee, tried to grab a paratrooper's rifle. The soldier quickly reversed his hold on the rifle in combat fashion and the butt struck Blake over the eye.
VKiiU   INTO  STKKIOT
Jle fell to the street. The incident happened while troops were moving white persons back from  the, school  street.
However, there were no cat-callH,'� ud^J/icJflents as tile stu- tlctiut-wnVkotl into We School encircled by troops with fixed 'bayonets. Their entrance today in the calm atmosphere contrasted strangely with the bloody riot I ha I followed Lheir attempt to   enter  Monday,
NEGROES CIIEER
A cheer went up at (he 16th street entrance to the scchool as the station wagon carrying the Negroes 'cleared the barricades and slopped. It came from a few Negroes watching from afar.
President Elsenhower says he ordered federal troops into Little Rock, Ark., because "mob rule cannot be allowed to override the decisions of the courts."
In a radio-TV address he appealed to the American people Tuesday night to unite in-understanding that he had no choice but to dispatch the troops.
"Unless the president did so," he declared, "anarchy would result."
lie emphasized that the troops are there "solely for the purpose of preventing interference with the orders of the court" which directed the admission of nine Negroes to Little Rock's Central High  School.
ARMS
Senator Olin Johnson Dcin. S.C. talked of armed resistance.
"If 1 were governor and he the president came in, I'd give him a fight such as he never been  in before."
"I'd proclaim a state of insurrection and I'd call out the National Guard and then we'd find out who's going to run things in my state."
Governor Avercll llarriman of New York said the president had "contributed to the making of the present situation" in Little Kock by not taking strong action at the outset of the school crisis.
Doug Jung Called To UN
VANX'OUVER (CP) � Vancou-crv Central Conservative MP Douglas Jung left by air for New York Tuesday night, Jiours after being called to the United Nations hy Prime Minister Dief-cnbaker. �
.Mr. Jung, first Chinese-Canadian elected to Parliament, told reporters at Vancouver airport before his departure.
"I don't know in what capacity they want inc. But the message said it -was at the request of the prime minister so I didn't ask any questions."
FIVE�That's right, a five-leaf clover i s held in the hand of comely little Leona Kowalski, 1737 Norwood Street. Proud of her find, Leona who is 8 brought her rare find into the newsroom of The Citizen yesterday and as a result she will be' rewarded with $1 for the unusual news fc aturc. The daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Leo' Kowalski, the girl found the clover in th e backyard of her home.
New BCPC Plant Now Lights City
First power from the new, $3,000,000 B.C. Power Commission generating station east of the Fraser River bridge started flowing into the city yesterday.
The conversion  was simple.
The First Avenue plant bowed out to the new station Ht 1U:3O a.m. and consumers kept flicking their switches as usual, unaware that there was actually new blood in old veins.
The First Avenue powerhouse which had been in use for \'l years, pound to a halt and the new units cut in on the city distribution lines with clock-like precision.
The seven ctiesel generators at the original station had been working to capacity in recent weeks. Only last Thursday the highest power peak ever reached in Prince George was recorded at the generating site.
PERFECT"
Plant operator Fred Skinner described the change-over as "perfect" hut kept a careful watch over batteries of instruments and control boxes to see that the three new Cooper-Bessemer diesels were running in good order.
Now those who travel First Avenue will miss the thunder-ins powerhouse with clouds of Llue-grey smoke shooting out of its huge exhaust pipes and giant, sausage-like mufflers.
The "old" generating station has been the focal point of millions of words of civic controversy,   i
Was it paying for itself? Was it worth the trouble for the city to manage its operations? How long would the facilities last without being  replaced?
DECISION MADE
Finally, Prince George made up its mind in a referendum in .March, 1956. It decided to sell the power plant along with the entire distribution system to the
(See POWER PLANT, Paga 4)
Sommers' Consfifutents Are 'Very Unfair' Says Bennett
VICTORIA (CP) � Premier Bennett said Tuesday that constituents in Rossland-Trail have been unfair to their MLA.'
Mr. Bennet was commenting on a weekend , report from Trail that Mayor Leslie Read said he would seek an official expression of his aldermen's view on the disappearance of Robert Sommers, MLA for the interior riding.
The  mayor  said  Trail  was  now  without representation in the legislature during one of the  most  vital  hours  in  the   city's   history.
Mr. Sommers is believed to be under the care of a doctor.
"I don't know where he is," said Mr. Bennett.. "I only know that he's a very sick man."
"Mr. Sommers' constituents are adopting a very unfair attitude," he said.
P.G. Traveller Wrong Man
Police snatched a colorfully dressed traveller from a Prince George-bound Canadian Pacific airliner at Vancouver airport Tuesday as a prime suspect of a bank
holdup.       ;.         _ . ___
- .Trouble^ was that the ltian, who was reported 16 he carrying Ipts of money arid a gun besides, wasn't a bank robber at all.
According to the Canadian Press, he was a respected businessman who was headed for Prince George to inspect a mining claim.
He told police that he had a chartered aircraft ready and waiting on a runway at Prince George Airport pending his arrival.
A thorough check by Citizen reporters failed to uncover the existence of the chartered plane, but according to aircraft manager W. Sanderson a chartered- aircraft could   have   left  the  runway
Medical Evidence Spurned; Sommers Case Opens Oct.7
VANCOUVER ( C P ) � Preliminary processes in the 21-month-old slander suit of Robert E. Sommers, former B.C. lands and forests minister, against a Vancouver lawyer were set Wednesday for Oct. 7.
Air. Justice H. W. Mclnnes set the date for examination for discovery at the request of William J. Trainor, counsel for defendant David  Sturdy,  and  set Oct. 21
Hoffa Indited By Jury
New York (AP) � James R. Hoffa, vice-president of the TeamsLers Union, was indicated by a federal grand jury today on five counts of perjury.
The indictment charged that the 44-year-old union leader, a candidate for the presidency of the teamsters to succeed Eame Beck, lied to.a grand jury ruling its probe to alleged wiretapping of teamster union headquarters in Detroit.
The grand jury also indicated Benjamin Franklin Collins, secretary-treasurer of local 299, which is headed by Hoffa. It accused him of 12 counts of perjury in connection with the same investigation.
as  the new  trial date  for  the three-times adjourned action.
The judge rejected a medical certificate entered by counsel for the former minister which said he was suffering from a heart condition and nervous strain and should avoid all controversial matters.
Mr. Sommers failed to appear for the pre-trial examination Monday and his lawyer, Lome If. Jackson, said he was unwell. Mrs. Sommers earlier told newspaper men her husband is resting and his whereabouts are known only to herself.
Alter Wednesday's hearing Mr. Trainor said failure of the former minister to appear on the new date would entitle the defence to apply for dismissal of his suit.
Injured Welder 'Satisfactory'
. A 28-yeur-old welder "injured in an explosion Saturday is reported in "satisfactory" condition in hospital.
Authorities said today that Frank Ccscon, recovering from a serious leg injury, is show-ing improvement.
He was hurt while cutting the lid of a 45-gaIlon fuel bar-lie with an acetylene torch. The lid blew off and struck him on the leg.
Cescon is a principal in the Tony and Frank Blacksmith Shop, 11D3 Fifth Avenue, where he was working when the accident occurred.
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The police move followed the holdup of a Vancouver branch of the Royal Bank of Canada by a colorfully dressed gunman who made off with $2300. .. Police were told that a man with lots' of money atul a gun (See WRONG MAN, Poge 4)
U.S. Navy Loses 4
LONDON (AP) � The U.S. Navy reported today that four of its planes, carrying 10 men, were missing arid feared to have crashed in the North Atlantic while taking part .in giant NATO sea excercises.
The navy identified the planes as two Fi-D Skywarriors, single-seater jet, .fighters, capable of speeds of more than 1,000 miles an hour, and two S2-F anii-submarine planes each carrying four men.
A navy spokesman said the anti-submarine planes were based on the 33,100-ton carrier Essex. Ho said he did not know on which carrier the Skywarriors were based.
The carriers are part of a seven-nation NATO fleet taking part in Exercise Strikeback, designed to keep the Atlantic open against Russian attackially from submirines.
The exercises were immediately suspended and ships and planes were ordered to search for the missing planes and possible survivors.
Wick Radio in Scotland said it had picked up. reports that two planes crashed 100 miles northwest of the Lofoten Islands off the west coast of Norway. It gave no details.
The navy spokesman in London said it was feared that the two skywarriors may have collided while carrying out a sortie.
'Satchmo Wires Ike Take Me Along Daddy
DAVENPORT, Iowa ((AP) � Louis Satchmo Armstrong says he may go to Russia after all.
After hearing President Eisenhower's televised explanation of why be send troops to Arkansas, the Negro trumpet player Tuesday night declared: "Things are looking better than they did before."
Armstrong had planned to make a government-sponsored tour of Russia but conceited it
in bitterness when the school integration problem developed in Arkansas this month.
After the speech by the president, whom Armstrong had criticized previously, Satchmo said he wired the president:
"If you decide to walk into the   schools   with   the   little colored  kids, take  me along daddy. God bless yon." Armstrong heard the speech while here to play a coacert. "It
was just wonderful the way he explained it. It was all in good faith," he said.
Of his proposed trip to Russia, he said, "I won't say that 1 won't go. We may get to Russia on our next trip. We have Germany, Italy and France In mind and Russia isn't far away."
"All I want toil? is blow that horn," Armstrong insisted. "Music ..puts   everybody   in   good
Loaded Enfo
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By ROBERT E. FORD
LITTLE ROCK (AP) � Battle-dressed paratroopers, their rifles loaded, encircled Central High School today to back up federal integration orders, and federalized national guardsmen began pouring into the city.
A spokesman for nine Negro children indicated they will seek to enter the school when classes start at 8:45 a.m. CST�their third attempt this month. They got inside once but soon were moved by school authorities.
The military action, ordered by President Eisenhower through the army, was the most drastic ever taken to back up federal court racial integration orders.
The first troops rolled through Little Rock at dusk after flying from Fort Campbell, Ky. They were units of the 101st Airborne Division.
Their convoy headlights probed the darkening streets to bring back memories of war days.
Watched In Silence
Ttyey passed through small knots of citizens who watched, silent and sometimes stony faced. More than a company of paratroopers took immediate stations at the 2000-pupil school�about VI hours before any students were expected.
Big carrier1 planes kept bringing paratroopers into the Little Rock area until 1000 had arrived.
From army camps throughout this area, convoys began rolling�apparently with supplies to feed and support the, troops. Mai .-Gen. Sherman.T.Ciingeiy Arkansas National Guard* comma infer, at 10:15 CST Tuesday night ordered the guard to "mobilize immediately."
The callup of regulars and fedcralization of the guard was ordered by the president Tuesday.
In placing the National G-uard under federal army command, Eisenhower took it from the control of Governor Orval Faubus, who had used guardsmen to stop Negroes from entering the school Sept. 2.
Acted With Sadness
The president, saying he acted with sadness but expressing determination to be firm, addressed the country by radio and television Tuesday night shortly after taking military action.
He moved, the president said, because what he termed "mob rule" menaced the very safety of the United States and the free world.
This referred to the crowds which surged out of control Monday to attack police and four adult Negroes. Nine Negro students slipped into the school. They were secretly taken out shortly afterward when the mob began to riot.
There were some indications that white persons were trying to organize a white student boycott of Central High. Attendance dropped by 700 Tuesday.
Mixed Reaction To Army
Reaction to the president's action was mixed, generally cutting along North-South lines.
It ranged from that of Senator Olin Johnston, Dem.-S.C., who said that were he Faubus, "I'd proclaim a state of insurrection and I'd call out the National Guard and then we'd find out who's going to run things in my state," to that of one-time Democratic presidential candidate Adlai Stevenson, who called the Little Rock trouble "a national disaster" and said "at this point the president has no choice."
Faubus had no comment on Eisenhower's speech.
Led By Soldier's Soldier
Commanding the federalized guard and the regulars is Major-General Edwin A. Walker, described by other officers as a "soldier's soldier."
The 47-year-old Walker mainly is an artillery man, but also is. a flier, a paratrooper, ski trooper, and was an advisor to both the Chinese Nationalist and Korean armies. He won military honors in the long fight up the Italian boot in the second world war. .
The guardsmen will be under army discipline and will have all regular army benefits while in federal service.
Eisenhower's action in federalizing the guard presumably, was to erase almost all chances of a clash between federal and state troops. Actions of guard officers indicated there would be ho opposition to-regular army orders.
Some of the regular troops flown here are Negroes'. There are no Nego national guardsmen in Arkansas.
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