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Vol.   1;  No.   18.
Prince George,  B.C., THURSDAY, September 26,  1957
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LITTLE HOCK, Ark. (AP) � Paul Downs, a 35-year-old combat veteran of the Second World War and Korea, sat on a porch near Central High School Wednesday and asked "What are they trying to do to us?"
The slender, unemployed salesman who was wounded in the arm as federal soldiers escorted Negro students into the school, said a paratrooper "bayonettcd me in the arm because 1 wouldn't move fast though;';
"I'm from the south. I don't move very fast," Downs said he told the soldier.
Downs said the wound required several stitches.
"1 was just down here to see how this whole thing was turning out,"  the  Springdalc,  Ark., man said. MADK  BAVONKT THRUST
Downs, who quit his job here two days ago, said a specialist first class among the troops made a bayonet thrust at him.
"After1 he got me, I grabbed my arm and walked off. What else could 1 do?" he said.
"1 realize that guy was worried. He had his orders," Downs said.
But, Downs said, "that is not the way to treat these people."
"Raw bayonets aren't the answer."
He said he had decided to sue the government.
"1 think I've got a case."
"1 don't have anything against the niuRcrs � or whatever you want to call them," Downs said.
"1 have u lot of colored friends."
Winnipeg Spared That Tree ~
WINNIPEG (CP)� The tree that grows in the middle of a Winnipeg street has been spared..
The public works committee of the city council voted Wednesday to rescind its original motion committing � the 95-ycar-old elm to the axe.
Since it grows in the middle of AVolscley Avenue in the residential district of south-central Winnipeg, the tree had originally been ordered cut down by the public wdirkis committee as a traffic hazard. Residents protested that it slowed traffic and provided protection for children.
When city workmen went to cut it down latit week, they were met by a group of women who surrounded the tree and defied workmen and police. Mayor Stephen Juba finally called off the cutters, saying that if aldermen failed to back him up he should resign.
City council Monday night re-ferecl the matter back tolhc public works committee.
The commit tec- nice ting was marked by desk thumping, bitter argument, and the banishment of Alderman Frank Wagner from the table. He stood and stared at the wall while the vote was taken because he would not vote without further information.
Canadian Education Crisis Sparks Mammoth Conference
By BILL BOSS
Canadian Press Staff Writer
OTTAWA (CP) � A mammoth conference to dramatize an impending crisis in Canada's education program is to be held here Feb. 1G-20.
More than 700 persons � representing 19 sponsoring organizations embracing 2,000,000 members throughout the country and including 120 delegates from other interested groups � arc to attend the. Canadian Conference of Education.
They will spend one day being
Workshop study of It Jfiid 5" fourth in reporting their findings and recommended solutions. to a plenary conference session. Business, labor, education and social work will be represented in  the talks.
Planners say the conference will be unique in breadth of sponsorship and participation. "There has been nothing like it in Canada before," said George Croskery of Ottawa, the conference director.
The conference, with Dr. Wilder renficld, world famous Montreal neurologist, as chairman, will resolve around pre-lininary reports by eight preparatory commissions, education for leisure, financing education, the role of the home in education, special needs, the quality and quantity of teachers, and organization and curricula.
K. R. Swinton, Toronto businessman representing the Canadian Chamber of Commerce, is chairman of the organizing committee.
"The crisis before us points out with abysmal clarity that we are confronted with a series of problems that we have to tackle � and have to solve," he told a press conference. "The plain fact is that as^ a nation we cannot afford to wait any longer to co-ordinate our attack on the unsolved problems of  education."
Facts he laid before the press
Public Invited To View New BCPC Power Plant
Residents of Prince George can see for themselves
Sunday the power that generates the electricity which
makes the lights burn in their homes at night.
This will be possible by virtue
of an invitation issued today by J. D. Dobie, district manager for the B.C. Power Commission, who declared "open house" at the new 13CPC gas-dicsel generating station which went into operation Tuesday.
The "open houtc" will follow an official opening of the powerhouse Friday by Lands and Forest:; MiniUer Hon. R. G. Williuon.
On that day Mr. WillL-ton will throw a switch which will officially put the plant on the east bank of the Fraser River into service.
� "We would like to have made the official opening a public oc-cassion," said Mr. Dobie, "but it would be ImposslbuG to ac-comodatc all the people who would like to ace the plant nt one time."
The public will be Uk^n ca
guided tours of the multi-million pollar plant between the hours of 2 p.m. and 6 p.m. Personnel will be on hand to explain the operation of the station and descriptive literature will be available.
A party of BCPC officials will arrive here Thursday night following a. similar ceremony that afternoon for the opening of the new plant, at Queenel.
Prior to Friday's ceremony the commission will entertain members of city council the board of trade and members of the industrial development commission at a luncheon.
Members of the official party from Victoria will include BCPC chairman T. H. Crosby, com-�fnissioner H. H. Griffin, general martager Lee Briggo and chief engineer R. C.  McMorJie.
conference:
One-third of Canada's present population is under 15 years of age, posing a need to expand facilities for a secondary school population likely to be tripled within 20 years, and a university enrolment expected to be quadrupled,.Teachers, too, must be"-provided.    -----����'��
.Within 10 years Canada would need 28,000 more schoolrooms and teachers for-them; Canada already was short 0,000 qualified teachers.
Two-thirds of the pupils enter-
Scotch, Gin Drop Wines Go Higher
VICTORIA (CP) � Prices of one brand each of imported gin and scotch will drop 10 cents a bottle and prices of 26 varieties of Canadian and imported wines will increase on a new B.C. liquor board list effective Oct. 1
Wine increases range from five to 00 cents a bottle. Two types of imported English ales and titouts will go up 25 cents a dozen bottles.
Price rises are tlue to "increased costs to the board," said board chairman Donald Me-Gugan. The Scotch and gin reduction of freight costs by the distilleries.-
Kelowna Youth Sentenced To Gallows
VANCOUVER (CP) � Calvin Klingbell, 23, of Kelowna, was sentenced Wednesday to be hanged Dec. 17 for the murder of an elderly Vancouver grocer.
The jury deliberated for an hour and eight, minutes before returning the guilty verdict. It recommended mercy ami Mr. Justice Wilson said he would forward the recommendation to the proper authorities.
Klingbell was convicted of the May IS slaying of Lee Yick Yung, 63, in Yung's store here.
Stagecoach Vet1 Seeks Vehicle
VICTORIA (CP) � The 195S centennial stage-coach run to BarkefviHe, famous early gold mining centre 400 miles north of Vancouver, will be made by Jack Turnbull, colorful British Columbia  horseman.
Turnbull's career span more than three decades of ranching in the Cariboo and the Fraser Valley.
Right now he is searching for the coach he wants to use. "It must be authentic and eturdy enough to ttand up to the tough
run," he siid.
ing   Grade   VII   now   drop   out
before     completing     secondary
(See  EDUCATION,  Pogo  4)
Dreaking ground for therxon-struction of new Gonna'ught High Sshool is .underway on Seventeenth Avenue. General contractors C.J. Oliver'Ltd. will construct the 10 classroom building at a cost d'r $462,545 Additional gymnasium and'au-ditoriuin will be constructed sometime next year at-a cost of approximately $JuQ,P0fi. This dramatic photo was^tcn early this morning by Craftsman photographer Carl Sprints
Are You On Voters' List!
Tomorrow is the last chance that qualified persons will be able to register their names on the Prince George voters' list.
Deadline for registrations is at 5 p.m.
"Those wishing to vote during the municipal elections this year and who are not-registered, may *do- so by �-milking" Application at' City Waff" by not later than 5 p.m., Friday, September 30," said a City Hall official today.
Forms of declaration for resident-electors, tenant-electors and for corporation agents are available upon application.
This year by virtue of alterations.within the Municipal  Act  some  7000   persons  in   Prince George are qualified to vote, bothered to exercise their franchise.
Because of changes in the act any person who has reached the age of 21 years and who has resided in the municipality for a period of six month's? prior to September 30 this year, may vote, providing he completes the necessary registration form.
Registered owners of property in the city, arc not required to make application as they are automatically enfranchised.
Bitter Labor Rift Over Teamsters
NE\V    YORK    (AP)    �      The council acted in the face possibilities of the bitterest  of   a   warning   that   James   R.
schism in the ranks of organized labor in more than 20 years shaped up today in the wake of a 30-day cleanup ultimatum issued to the giant International Brotherhood of Teamsters by the AFL-CIO high command.
The executive council of the AFL-CIO set the time limit for possible suspension of the largest union in North America at an extraordinary session Wednesday.
llofl'a � a chief target of the AFL-CIO leadership�was "sure" of election as president of the teamsters at its convention in Mia ma  Beach  next  week.
The warning came from John K. English, secretary treasurer of the teamsters, in his capacity as an AFL-CIO vice-president and a member of the executive council.
English, who cast the lone vote against the cleanup mandate, urged the executive council not to make a hasty decision
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550 Students Absent
Influenza Local
Two To Sue Boys In Blue For Boo-Boo
Jesse W. Rogers, president of Jesse Mining Company, picked up as he boaded an airliner for Prince . George, and Joseph Boyes B.C. Electric Company employee, taken in custody as he sipped beer at a downtown hotel, said they will sue police for  wrongful arrest..
Officers brought them in for questioning after receiving tips they might be the cream-suited gunman who earlier held up a downtown branch of the Royal Bank of Canada and was seen cycling from  the scene.
Mayor Fred Hume said he was "very sorry: it happened" and Attorney-General Robert Bonner termed it "regrettable."
Teacher Salary Board Mooted
' VICTORIA (CP) � A proposal for a-single teachers salary negotiation board will be examined by the B.C. School Trustees Association.
A single board would negotiate salaries throughout the province.
The. proposal was discussed Wednesday before - the annual convention cjf the association. U suggests that the negotiating board be composed of' representatives of trustees, teachers, department of education and college of education, with the cost shared equally by BCSTA, BCTF and department.
The convention adopted a re port from L. C. Aggett, educa Uqh finance committee chairman stating that the present education finance formula is unsatisfactory.
Provinces Ask Freight Rale Hike Reason
OTTAWA (CP) � Provincial governments demanding Wednesday to know whether the-railways are basing their latest freight rate application on a demand for an increased CPH surplus.
The board of transport commissioners, hearing a rate, increase application) set this morning for its verdict, on whether they should grant these increases.
The rail carriers are seeking an increase of 10 per cent in rate from the board. The boost i.c being opposed by eight provinces, all except Ontario and Quebec which rarely take part in freight rate cases.
"Alberta counsel J. J. Frawlcy � speaking for all eight increase-opposing provjnees�said to the board Wednesday that he feels the application "is solcy directed to an increase in the CPR surplus."
Little Rock Awaits Move From Fa ubus
LITTLE    ROCK,    Ark. a speech on radio and television      Never   ^before    had : United
(AP) � With integration of Central High School finally accomplished under the watchful eyes of armed federal troops, Arkansas citizens today waited to see what Governor Orval Fau-bus might do about the use of what he termed "naked force."
The governor, whose Arkansas national guard was taken into federal �,ervice;by FreUdcnt Elsenhower Tuesday, will
from  Little Rock tonight.
Fau'ous broke a day-long. silence Wednesday night to say:
"... I will make a report by radio and television on the situation in Little Rock and Arkansas to my people and the nation. 1 have no further comment at this time on the naked force being employed by the federal government against the people of my state."
Nine negroes made history in this city's racial struggle Wednesday when they attended clases at the formerly all-wbite school.    �
States troops been used to enforce public school integration. The Negroes : we*e driven to school in an army station wagon and a score of paratroopers with fixed bayonets escorted them from the.vehicle into the school.
Within, other armed soldiers guarded doors to their classrooms and marched with them in the; corridors when they changed classes. >
Whert school elided, the three Negro boys and ii:c girls were &t LITTLE ROCK, Pose 4)
A total of 550 children are absent from classrooms here today as an outbreak of influenza continues to sweep through city schools.
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attendance has dropped to such a low that the operation of the school system is beng seriously hampered.
Out of a total enrollment of 770 pupils, some 285 were absent from the school yesterday.
Gordon Paton, principal, told The Citizen that the 'flu problem has become increasingly serious during the past week.
Health authorities admit it is a serious outbreak but have declined to classify it as an epidemic.
Several downtown businesses contacted yesterday said up to 50 per cent of their staffs were ill with the disease.
However, it is unlikely an emergency will be declared and school and public entertainment places closed.
But  they  warned  that  there
is no reason for a "flu scare."
There have been no k'nown fatalities from the disease in this area and the chances are slim that there will ever be a death which can be directly attributed to the disease. NOT  ASIATIC
Dr. G. D. Kettyls, director of the Cariboo Health Unit, said yesterday the disease prevalent in this area has not been identified  as  Asiatic   'flu.
"There is no reason for any particular scare and it can be treated simply by going to bed, taking fluids and aspirins, and calling a doctor only'if an emergency  arises,"   he  stated.
The illness which1 many have complained of during the past week or 10 days is only serious enough to make the sufferer stay home' for a coupje of days.
Expert inedkal treatment is seldom, required.
Eight of the junior, high school's 33 teachers arc absent and there are an equal number complaining of 'flu symptoms!
"The other eight should actually be home but their sense of devotion brings them here to keep the plant in operation," Paton  stated.
Classrooms are doubling , up and substitute teachers are being sought to keep school operating on a reguar schedule.
However,     it      is     unlWcoly schools   will   \)C  closed   by   the current 'flu outbreak, according to Dr. Kettyls. NO POINT
"There would be no point in closing the classrooms unless we knew we would contain the disease," he said. ' Dr. Kettyls stated that the 'flu which is prevalent here apparently has a very high incident rate and would be difficult to bring under control by simply curtailing classes.
He did not indicate that any other control measures, such as closing theatres, would he taken.
Dr. Kettyls, who returned from a trip to Williams Lake, made a quick survey of the situation here yesterday afternoon. He consulted at length with school officials and teachers.
Over 120 elementary students are absent from Connaught school. It has a total enrollment of about 620.
D. N. Weicker, principal, said
the complaint has not seriously stricken the school and felt that the wave had reached its peak as far as attendance in his school was concerned.
One teacher is abesent from the school today and another was away yesterday.
Allen G. Stables, principal of Prince George Senior high school, said 150 students were away from their classrooms' today, apparently suffering from influenza.
The school has an enrollment of -125.
"Two staff members are sick at home because of the 'flu but we are managing to hold our own," Stables commented.
Principal of the Island Cache elementary sohool, Mrs. Martha Card,, reported that attendance was normal and there appeared to be no incidence of illnesses keeping children away from school.
T. Wheeler, principal of the Central Fort George elementary school, statd there was no ab-(See INFLUENZA,   Page 4)
$500,000 High. School Underway
Construction is underway today on the new 10-room Connaught Junior High School.
Giant earth-movers of C. J. Oliver Conct ruction Company moved onto the site this morning to clear the area for the building which will cost well over half a million dollars.
Contract for the const ruction of the school was signed at the week-end.
Construction of an auditorium and gymnasium which was to be included with the classroom block will not get underway until sometime next year following negotiations between the contractor and School District 57,
Following the opening of tenders it was disclosed that the school board would have to raise additional funds for the construction of the gym and auditorium.
Oliver's bid of $426,545 covers construction of 16 classrooms and an arts and industrial building.
An additional $100,000 is required for the auditorium and gymnasium.
Other bidders for the school were Bennett & White Construction, Narod Construction and Peter Kicwit Sons.
Contractors submitted separate bids for each section of the modern structure designed by Prince George architects Jolyon EHggs; Architects.
Sub-contractors have been awarde'd to locaj contractors Acme Electric Ltd., and Fred Welsh  &  Son Ltd.
Mounties Who Pinched Phil' Were'A Couple Of Punks'
SASKATOON (CP)� Highways Minister P. A. Gaglardi of B.C. Wednesday described reports he was driving at 85 to 100 miles an hour when stopped recently by RCMP is "a pack of trash" and said the Officers who flagged him down looked like "a couple of punks."
"They were coming up behind me in a Fontiac, they were not even wearing ties," he said" in an interview. "They tried to pass me on a curve. I was going about 60 miles an hour."
Mr. Gaglardi here to attend a good roads convention, said the incident occurred last month when he was testing curves on a stretch of new.B.C. highway between Sivdna iai Kamloops.
He paid  a  $10. fine  Sept.  10 In Kamloops.
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