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Vol.   1;  No.  52
Prince George, B.C., FRIDAY, NOVEMBER  15,  1957               (2 Sections  14  Pages)
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QUESNEL YOUNGSTERS John Coombs and Geoffrey Reid sit on the treasured buggy which was'used by Cariboo medical practitioner Dr. G. R. Baker in the early 1900's. Quesnel's new hospital is named after the.famous doctor.
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Cariboo Historical Group Helps Rebuild B.C/s Past
ALVIN JOHNSTON is president of the Cariboo Historical Society which covers an area stretching from Lillooet to Barkerville and includes Quesnel.
By   JOHN   MATTERS
The Cariboo Historical Society, with its headquarters in Quesnel, today is one of the most active organizations in existence,  rebuilding  B.C.'s  past.
It has a splendid collection of historical items from the Carl-bop's early days but the problem" is to find a place to display them.
Plans are underway for a modern, fire - proof museum which is expected to be opened next year. The exhibits are now stored in a rooin in the Quesnel federal building.
Cariboo bldtivher, Alvin Johnston is president of the group which is busy mining relics in a historically-rich area stretching as distant as Lillooet to the south and Barkerville to the fast.
""We have plenty for the mu-
seum now but we are confident there is still much more around," he said.
Johnston has spent most of his life in the Cariboo and first travelled to Barkerville in 1904 when he was eight years old.
He Is a balding, well-kept man who can recall almost every square foot of the territory and can cite its history at> u moment's notice.
He lives about a mile and a half southwest of Quesnel in what was one of the original sites of the area,
Near his home there was a flour, brick and sawdust burner, built at the turn of the century to provide some of the essential commodities needed in the growing land. FIKST HOTEL
Among the great volume of prized possessions he has a set
FIVE-SHOT REVOLVER is one of Alvin Johnston's prized possessions. Weapons like this were kept in dancing girls' garters.
Trade Board Backs City Manager Plan
Members of the Prince George Board of Trade unanimously endorsed a resolution submitted to city council nearly two weeks ago urging the adoption of the city  manager plan.
Tho resolution prepared by a
RCMP Sommers Report Now With Commission Counsel
VICTORIA CD�An RCMP report an charges against former forests minister Robert Sommers has been turned over to Stanley Remnant, counsel for the Royal l ommission investigating allegations that the former minister accepted bribes.
The report has been under guard in Mr. Remnant's office for two days, it was learned on Thursday.
Attorney-General Robert Bon-ner confirmed that he. turned it over to Till*- Remnant in accordance with a promise he made last weekend.
special trade board committee and adopted recently by the trade board executive was endorsed by about GO members at a dinner meeting last night in the Prince George Hotel.
The resolution, which was submitted to city council Nov. 14, was instrumental in bringing the entire city mancger form of municipal administration before the public, and was drafted after a six-month investigation into the plan.
The mooting also favored a resolution recommending that the board's city manager com-niitec carry out a further investigation in an effort to show by what methods and how much money a city manager can be expected to save the city of Prince George.
Dog's Space Trip Fatal   �
MOSCOW fAP) � Russia announced officially today that Laika. her pioneering space dog, Is dead. A foremost Soviet scientist said its death was painless.
of five-shot cap pistols which dancing girls used to keep tucked under their garters. They were used to fend off any stealthy advances.
There is also the key from one of Quesnel's first hotels, the Occidental; The structure was later destroyed by fire.
Four-wheel cart of 'the Cariboo's famous doctor, Dr. G. R. Baker is also being kept under lock and key by Mr. Johnston.
Dr. Baker, in whose memory the Quesnel hospital has been named, travelled thousands of miles in the Cariboo during the 1020's and 30's to attend the sick.
The plot of Jand on which Mr. Johnston lives today was once known as the scurvy relief center.
Miners who spent several months on the creeks at a time usually ate salted meat, a staple food in their diets. Subsequently, many were afflicted by .scurvy, a disease of the blood und bones.
The site where Johnston currently lives was the turnip-growing center of those days. Minors flocked to the home for turnips in an effort to relieve the disease.
"We are not only surrounded ��>y history but we live on it," Johnston  remarked.
"There is more history around here than anywhere in B.C. but there really isn't all the interest there srould be," he said.
However, plans are being finalized for Centennial year celebrations in the area and the museum project is slated to be a  major item on  the  list.
GIANT ANCHOR was used by steamers which plyed the Fraser near Quesnel in early days. Five steamers constantly navigated the river, one of the major transportation routes of the era.
Missing Golden  Lab Sought By Youngster
A nine-year-old this week-end is planning a thorough hunt for 'his golden Labrador pup which has been missing since Tuesday o veiling.
Little Brian Johnston, Ofil Douglas Street, today is heartbroken and bewildered over the disappearance of the four-month-old pup.
The thoroughbred dog was l.Kst seen Tuesday afternoon. Since then Brian has travelled Uirpughout the city looking for his pet.
Today he asked anyone who might sec the animal to call his home at 86G-L-2. A reward is offered for its return.
Bitter Words Over Pulpworkers Strike
" VANCOUVER CCP) � Bitter words have issued from both camps after only one day of a strike of (i,<>00 British Columbia pulp and paper workers.
The strike moves into its second day today with no indication of a settlement. No talks have been scheduled and the province, already facing growing unemployment, seemed headed for a lengthy strike in an industry that pours more than $1,00,000 a week In direct payrolls   into   B.C.'s   economy.
D. R. Blair, manager of the Pulp and Paper Industrial Relations Bureau, which has been negotiating for the seven firms involved, said management was "shocked" that the unions had taken strike action under present business conditions, and in the face of "such a substantial offer from the companies."
The companies have offered a 7'-2-per cent, wage increase as recommended by a conciliation board�over the present ba.~ic rate of SI.72 an hour and aver-
Mayor, Aldermen Should Take Pay Cut
City council members may not agree but. according to one taxpayer, mayor and aldermen are being paid too much money.
Asa matter of fact, as the taxpayer pecs it. council .should not be paid anything at all.
"The office of mayor and alderman should be non-paying jobs," Harold A. Moffat remarked last night when he spoke to a resolution relating to the city manager plan at a meeting of the Prince George Board of Trade.
"We should substantiate the
claim that tho ci'y manager plan will save us money," stated Mr. Moffat. "We should start ourselves by cutting down the salaries paid to aldermen."
Moffat. chairman of the hoard's Industrial Development Commission, told board members it was costing taxpayers 86,000 a year for the salaries of mayor and aldermen-
He did not press for a resolution covering his remarks and the chairman of the meeting did not request one.
age wage of $2.30. The. union wants 12'i per com.
As if to emphasize Mr. Blair's reference to business conditions, one of the companies involved announced it was closing down its two plywood p'jants for periods of one week each because of slumping sales. MaeMillan and Bloedel's move will affect 1,800 men in plants at Vancouver  and  Port  Alberni.
Meanwhile, the president of a union local at Nanalmo said In reference to the negotiations carrier on by the Industrial Relations Bureau that tho unions find themselves dealing with company representatives "who have never worked a day in the industry, rather than the men who know every phase of it."
�\V. McCandlish of the International Btroherhood of Pulp, Sulphite and Paper Mill Workers said in an interview it was "unfortunate" that a strike should be necessary after 20 years of strike-free relations, with the industry in  B.C.
"The companies, by having their bargaining done through a central Industrial Relations Bureau", together with the mul-lifying effect of the province's Labor Relations Act, have made collective bargaining virtually impossible."
Lumber Olfice Raid Failure
Strom Lumber Co. office near the CNR yards was raided late Wednesday but the van'dals left empty-handed.         �
Police reported today the office was entered by smashing a large plate glass window on the west side.   .
The thugs/.tinned the s,afc over but never Tittaeked it.
France Blasts States, Britain,
etrayal
Rift Caused By Arms Skip meat
Tunis Gets From Egypt Too
TUNIS, Tunisia (Reuters) � Tunisian President Habib Bour-guiba said today a* shipment of arms from Egypt will arrive in Tunis soon.
Bourguiba was making his weekly broadcast to the nation a few hours after a token shipment of British arms had arrived here. An American shipment was expected later.
The United States and Britain announced Thursday their decision to supply arms to Tunisia, a move opposed by France.
Fears had been expressed in Britain and the United States that Tunisia, having been refused arms by France because they might "leak" to rebels fighting French forces in Algeria, would turn to Communist countries and Egypt if she could not get them from other Western nations.
Bourguiba said 'current American policy could help to bring about a solution of the Algerian problem.
Leboe Hits Film Release
OTTAWA (CPi � Bert Leboe, Social Credit Commons member for the remote British Columbia constituency of Cariboo, Thursday,criticized the National Film Board -for releasing its film The Sceptre and the Mace to commercial theatres only for the next six months.
The 20-minute color motion picture is a feature on Queen Elizabeth's visit to Ottawa last month and her opening of Parliament Oct. 11.
Mr. Leboe said the film board plans to release the film only lo movie houses at first "to defray expenses." Then it would distribute it to private and public groups in tiic normal way.
Many areas, ho .said, are without theatres and it was a shame that many persons, who had the royal visit fresh in their mind, would not sec the production for six months.
B.C. Centennial
VANCOUVER en � President Eisenhower has been invited to take part in British Columbia's centennial celebrations next year.
R. A. Penntrigtpn, deputy provincial secretary, told the province's centennial committee Thursday: "in our invitation to the president to come to B.C at anv time of the year, we dropped a broad hint that he might come in lime to open tho Pacific National Exhibition."
PARIS (CP) � France stormed out of a NATO conference here today after charging that the United States and Britain had "betrayed" the Atlantic Alliance in shipping arms to Tunisia.
Shortly after, a group of U.S. Democratic congressmen  attending the meeting of NATO  legislators here joined France in denouncing the arms shipments. The group, headed by Repre-
sentative Wayne Hays of Ohio, said in a statement the arms deliveries "constituted a danger to the unity of the North Atlantic  treaty  alliance."
The congressmen's statement said: "Whatever possible gain might bo accomplished by the delivery of these arms is more than offset by the loss- of confidence and by the fear and suspicion which it has created in the minds of members of NATO."
Original signatories were Representatives J. C. Healey of New York, Armistead J. Soldon .lr., of Alabama, Eugene McCarthy oT Minnesota, and Hays. Later, Senator Theodore F. Green of Rhode Island signed it. There are 15 members of the U.S. delegation.
Before ^he French delegation walked out of the conference, Senator Michel Debre protected �igainst the "ruthless and., un-iustified" Anglo-American decis-
ion, announced Thursday night, to send small arms and ammunition to Tunisia. NO RECONCILIATION
Debre said: "President Eisenhower and Mr. Harold Macmil-lan have  betrayed  the  Atlantic
alliance
there  can  be  no
reconciliation as far as I, as a delegate to the NATO parliamentary conference, am concerned unless the United Stales and Britain stop forthwith the sending of arms to Tunisia."
Debro, a former follower of wartime premier Gen Charles do Gaulle, said French soldiers fighting nationalist rebels in Algeria are writing home saying their "comrades are being killed by Atlantic Pact arms."
The French delegation said in a statement it was walking out to express the feeling provoked lh Franco "by the ruth-les. and unjustified decision of two NATO member governments."
Tight Money Not Policy, Just Fact
The so-called Tight Money Policy is not a policy at ail but is a  reflection  of fact.
This is not gospel, but is very nearly so because it was explained thus by ono of Canada's brightest. young economists, Ronald f>. Ritchie, manager for Imperial Oil's B.C. marketing division.
Speaking ai a mooting last night of the Prince George Board of Trade, Mr. Ritchie explained for the benefit of those who fret under restrictions imposed by tight money, that monlds, like butter and ga* during war, has lo be rationed in order to prevent uncontrolled inflation.
In explaining the facts of life as affected by economics, the youthful oil executive pointed out that Canada was developing Its natural resources "to the utmost" and. to develop those resources   required   etipital.
As a result, he said, the de-maml for credit was greater than the supply and the sequel to this is the fact that only certain amounts of money can  be  released   at  a   time.
Enforcing such a policy, is not  an  easy  job,  he  said  and
added that it is an "honest policy" under the trusteeship of the Bank  of  Canada,
"All of us as Canadians have a stake in it."
In order to achieve the vast post-war development that has taken place In Canada, has strained every resource the country had or could borrow, ho said.
Such developments as the St. Lawrence Seaway, oil and gas developments. Kitlmat and the country's huge defence program required enormous amounts of capital, much of which was not available in Canada.
The inevitable result he explained was a rise In the cost of living.
He expressed doubt that the value of the dollar, now worth about 67 cents in comparison to pre-war times, will ever return to where it is worth 100 cents.
Raiders Blast Safe
LONDON (A P)�Raiders blasted open a strong box of a suburban bank with powerful explosives Thursday night and made a clean getaway with about $72,-soo.
Press Search For Plane After 17 Bodies Found
HONOLULU (XV) � With 17 broken bodies recovered, the Lr.S. Navy pressed a relentless search today for clues to why a Pan American stratocruiser with �II persons aboard vanished into the Pacific last Friday.
The bodies were found Thursday as aircraft, from the carrier Philippine Sea .searched a 100-mile .square area 955 miles northeast of Honolulu.
A flotilla of small boats picked up the corpses and debris from