Cloudy with scattered snow flurries,.partially clearing-. Not much change in temperature, light winds. Low tonight and high tomorrow 2S and 37. (Vol. l:No. 60) Prince George, B.C., WEDNESDAY, Nov. 27, 1957 (2 Sections, 12 Pages) 7c per copy Phone 67 i THE CITIZEN GOT through last night to most of itscustomers in the city, despite many obstacles including a broken press. However, some of the staffers had to turn paperboys because of the late hour. In action on the distribution'end were the above left to right Mrs. L. M. Johnson of the circulation staff, Mario Wirges of the secretarial department, l'eporter-columnist Bryan McCarthy, advertising salesman Ariel Kennedy and sports editor Pete Phillipe. �Citizen Photo But The Paper Came Out! Tuesday A Nightmarish Day For The Citizen By KON Citizen News Editor Tuesday, November 2G, was one of (hose days that can be described without exaggeration as a newspaperman's nightmare. it had (.lie entire Staff of the Prince George Citizen contem-plating' either .suicide or a change of profession, while some, 6,000 HuVmcuiboviwwBVo -lovnetU^iOB ' the absence of their local paper. The clay started out in normal fashion and, if anything, the job of putting out a newspaper was ahead of schedule. The front page was alt made up and ready to roll when we received a telephone call from Canadian Press in Vancouver telling us of Eisenhower's heart attack. This meant a remake of the front page, which was accom plislied at a rapid clip. LOUD "CLANK" The forms were placed on the press, the starting button-was pushed and a loud "clank" made the face of pressman Ala reel Vandal drop at least a foot a'nd a half. A cog had broken on the bottom half, of the press and jairi- Jl i h T\l d in tho gears. T\ilB. snapped the mounts' and beiit the rollers. At least six hours of repair work was ahead for the Citizen's bedraggled press. The parts were rushed to the Prince George Machinery Depot for welding, reborlng and bending. iMeanwhile, back at the plant . . . tlie brain waves were jelling as to how the Dally Citizen could be gotten out to its cus- Teen Town Installs New Mayor, Aldermen Teen Town's new mayor and bis eight aldermen were installed in office at a' formal ceremony in City Hall council chambers la.st night. The oath of allegiance was 1akcn by newly-elected Mayor Wilfred Engclhardt and his council consisting of Francis Fcdoruk, Howard Foot; Dennis Glazier, Karon Strom, Gerry 01-linger, Ron Faweett. Linda Hoi-Icy and Los "Wcstman. Also taking their place at the council table were adult (advisors Cpl. Al Guy of the RCMP, and Don Yip. Unable to attend the fniiaugural meeting was City Clerk, Elaine Kuz. Rev. T. I). R. Allen, chaplain for the association, officiated at the installations. Getting down to business council discussed plans for ing and house. renovating its club The house was donated by the city to Teen Town last year for its use as a meeting place. Council is endeavoring to find a suit: able, tax free lot on which to move it. An annual event for Teen Towns throughout the province is the March of Dimes. Last night's meeting started preparations for the drive, and each alderman was asked by the mayor to submit a plan for fund raising at the next meeting. The drive lasts until the end of January and is competitive, the prize for the highest donation being a trophy, the Sioux Memorial. Membership in Teen Town is reported to be low and plans are going ahead for increasing teenage interest in organized activities. tomers in the face of rather slag goring odds. Only one slim hope remained (Perhaps the paper could bo run off four pages at a time in the top half of the press. This would give two eight page sec lions with four blank pages In each section. But at least the paper would remain daily. :' 'After a series of adjustments Marcel .started his one-legged press. The experiment worked, but the going was slow. Apprentice Jim Preston turned the ink roller by hand, and the press roiled on. By the time the first eight-page section was run off It wa? 7 p.m. and circulation manage) Ian French and his staff were kept busy answering the steady jangling of telephones � irate subscribers, paper boys and par enLs of paper boys, the second section run off to the secon dsection run off to start putting each of the sections together. Mrs. P. Annan, Mrs. L. A. McGowan and Mrs. L. Le-'Cluse handled this chore with aplomb. Between 8:45 and !) p.m. there (Sec "NIGHTMARISH" Page 3) B.C.E. Builds $100,000,000 Thermal Plant VANCOUVER (CP)�The B.C. Electric Company announced Tuesday it has been granted provincial government approval to build~a �100,000,000 thermal power plant, the largest in the world. Company officials said construction of the plant will start next March or April. It. will be built at loco, B.C., some 20 miles east of here, and will be fired by natural gas. City Hall Beat By TOW SKAB Many of those who attended the recent meeting of the city council when the city manager plan -was the feature attraction admitted later that what they bad witnessed was a revelation. Call it what you like, hut that's democracy at work and the procedure is basically the same here as it is beside the river Thames or atop Capital Hill. And although council meetings arc epen to anyone who cares to drop in. during the 38-odd months that. I have reported the council's activities, the number of persons who have sat through an entire meeting could be counted on the fingers of one hand. Certainly it's dull, more often than not, but it's your money they're spending. &? tV" � �& � It's in the minutes that a 15 ni.j>.h speed JUnU down, city lanes will be strictly enforced from now on. This, says traffic committee chairman Aid. Howard Webb, follows a number of complaints received concerning certain types whose sole pleasure in life, it seems, is to barrell up and down back alleys for kicks. it �& �& Council has expressed regret at. the resignation from the Town Planning and Recreation commissions of Nestor Izowsky, formerly a part owner of this newspaper. Nestor, who has bought into a paper at White Rock, B.C.. left the, city today with, wife Betty and .two young daughters for the beach resort community. i? it * Pedestrians who risk life and limb crossing Third Avenue at Brunswick may be heartened to know the city is contemplating the cost 9f_hibtallin5_an_over- ...."..(See. "CITY. HALL" P head light at the middle of the busy intersection. -ft if i? Aid. Charlie Cranston reports that the new police station will be ready for occupancy within the first two or three days of next month. An official house-warming is planned for about the loth of the month, after the elections arc all over. �>> %Y �& Larry de Grace, enterprising chief of Industrial Forest Surveys, has applied for a lease or the outright purchase of a piece �K property on the south shore of Hudson's. Bay slough for the construction of a warehouse and workshop in anticipation of the finalization of plans for the creation of a seaplane base there. He is jthe second operator to do so.. Pacific Western Airlines �made the same request several Refinery Strike Ends VANCOUVER CPI �The nine-week-old strike at Imperial Oil's refinery at nearby loco ended Tuesday night when agreement was reached between the company and the Oil, Chemical and Atomic Workers Union. The end of the strike, the first for Imperial Oil in 4 years and only the second in its 77-year history, was announced in a joint statement by the union and coin-parry- ;,...;. The 24G hourly paid woi'kers at the refinery, B.C.'s largest, will begin today to return to their jobs at the plant which has been closed since Sept. 24. Under the settlement, hourly rates at the refinery will be 5J.7S to $2.74 effective Sept 1, 1957, until Aug. 31, 1958. The new rates'include increases of from 11 to 22 cents an hour. Also provided is a lump sum payment of $141 a man in lieu of wage retroactivity to last spring. IKE'S ILLNESS BRING RESIGNATION Wage Hike Gives P.G. Teachers Top Pay In B.C. A new salary agreement wil make Prince George teacher among the highest paid in th province and will give them a special incentive to continu their profession in this area. School Board at a regula meeting last night ratified th' agreement which will effect 17 teachers in the Prince Georg* district. � The agreement was negotiatec and drafted by representative of the Prince George Distric Teacher's Association and Schoo District 57 this spring. GJBNBRAL INCREASE It calls for a general increase of $400 in all secondary schoo classifications and a second ?400 jump for teachers which have an EC (elementary) classifica tion and work toward an EB or higher standard. . The Board felt the increase particularly at the elementary school level, was unique insofal as it would encourage teacherb to continue, teaching., in the Prince George.area.while taking extra summer schCjoi-and c respondence course training. Another clause in the detailec agreement will see teachers em ployed in secondary schools and holding elementary certificate! receive $300 per. annum above their proper placement on the scale. The salary scale has also been notably increased for teachers with a long record of exper iencc. For example, a fully-qualified But Help May Come No Commitments For By JOHN LeBJLANC Canadian Press Staff Writer OTTAWA CD �The provincial premiers arc leaving this city empty-handed on immediate tax-sharing proposals, but with indications of early federal action to sweeten their treasuries in other ways. The 10 provincial chiefs got no federal commitments on basic changes in existing tax arrangements at this federal-provincial conference that ended late Tuesday, but they received assurances of federal aid in some directions. And they were told that a new conference will be convened as early as possible in the new year to receive the central government's decision on a multitude of treasury-dipping propositions advanced by the provinces at the conference during the last two days. Finance Minister Donald Fleming estimated for the conference Tuesday that, all the provincial demands could add up to well over $1,500,000,000 a year, compared to some $000,000,000 which the central treasury now is pay-ng out in various forms of tax-rental agreements and grants. TAX CUT CONFLICT His whopping figure�around School Officials' Meeting Tomorrow Annual meeting of school representatives in School District 57 will be held tomorrow evening in the McDonald Hotel dining room. School trustees will discuss school affairs with the newly-elected representatives and will also elect a school trustee for a two-year terra of office.. one-third of the annual federal budget�appeared to throw cold water on some of the claims of the provinces, particularly in the light, of the new Progressive Con servativc government's avowal to cut taxes. However, informants said after a final private meeting between Prime Minister Diefenbakcr and provincial heads that no final decisions on the province's proposals were delivered to the provinces. Mr. Diefenbaker announced to reporters that, while considering provincial propositions, the federal government intends to to tax-sharing plans but on their go ahead on its own on a number of matters not directly tied fringe. A major one would be special "grants-in-aid" to the four Atlantic provinces to counterbalance their present relatively unfavorable economic position as against the general level of income in Canada. While the prime ministers specified nothing publicly about this", informants at the meeting said the grants might run to between $20,000,000 and $35,-000,000 a year, to be divided up among the provinces later by discussions between them and the federal government. They would be in addition to any tax-sharing agreement. UNEMPLOYMENT RELIEF A second prospective move announced by Mr. Dinfenbaker was a Sll,500,000-a-year expansion in the federal sharing in provincial costs for unemployment relief. Another major announcement of the prime minister was that of a start some time in 195S on federal payments towards provincial hospital insurance plans without waiting�as the predecessor Liberal government insisted�on having a majority of the provinces wtt.li a majority of .the population committed.. .- secondary school instructor with 15 years experience will receive $6700 under the new contract. The previous agreement paid a maximum of $5500. The maximum in the expired agreement, for 12 years' experience, stood at IJ5500. A teacher with 12 years experience will be paid �56250 under the new contract. An elementary teacher with an EC certificate, the lowest on the scale, has to achieve 15 (Sec "WAGE HIKE" Poge 3) Local Sea Cadets Praised By Mayor Sea cadets of HMCS "Griggly" were praised for their turnout last night. . Fallowing a parade and inspection at First Avenue armory, Mayor John. Morrison said he had never seen a smarter group of young men. He was pieased to see tha,t the recently formed company was getting off to such a good s.tart, he said. '��Lt.-Cmdr., D. Tyc, area officer commanding sea cadets for B.C., ^1 so praised the boys' "good beginning." "Apart from the smallest details it would not be possible to tell the boys from old hands," ho remarked. The inspection party consisted of Mayor Morrison, Lt.-Cmdr. D. Tye, Major J. Lesslcy, USAF. Baldy Hughes; Flt.-Lt. L. P. MacKinnon, officer commanding the ground observer corps; Father J. Carroll, Judge C. W. Morrow, and Sub-Lt. M. McKcnzic, drill and discipline officer. Also present was Lt. Gordon Talbot, O I C, Rocky Mountain Rangers. Inspector To Probe Teacher Shortage Chief executive officer and Inspector of School District 57, Ken T. Alexander, has been named head of a special committee to investigate the teaching problem. Mr. Alexander has been asked to report to an annual meeting of the Canadian Inspectors Association in eastern Canada next month regarding a shortage of qualified teachers in the Prince George district. Inspectors from other school districts in north central B.C. will also serve with Mr. Alexander on the committee. Predictions Rife Nixon May Accede (Compiled from Canadian Press News Despatches) President Eisenhower's illness has precipitated a flood of speculation, particularly from Western Europe, that the ailing, 67-year-old chief of state will be the first president in U.S. history to resign from office. An earlv announcement w forecast that the president will turn over the U.S. government to vice-president Pi chard Nixon. London papers filled inside pages with lengthy featured articles *i Nixon. Meanwhile at Washington this morning President JSIsbn-hower's doctor reported that "everything is all right" with the president. Maj.-Gen. Howard M. Snyder, chief presidential physician told reporters at 6 a.m.. that no one can tell "at this time" whether the president suffered more than a spasm in a brain artery. : "There's no doctor up to this time who can tell you it's a stroke,"J the army doctor said. SHOCKED News of the president's latest illness, the third major illness in slightly over two years, shocked and saddened most of the world and precipitated a Change of plans for the U.S. par (icipation in. the 14-nation NATO conference.. "~ An announcement from Washington today confirmed the fact that vice-president Nixon will attend the "summit" conference of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization In the president's stead. ' From London came a message from Queen Elisabeth express- ing sympathy and "heartfelt good wishes." "I am sorry to hear that you are ill," the Queen said. "My husband � and I trust that your recovery will be early and complete and we send our heartfelt good wishes to you and Mrs. Eisenhower." MORE TIME The president's physician Maj.-Gen. Snyder stated that it. will take more time to determine exactly what did happen to the president, who was stricken yesterday after attending a welcoming ceremony for King Mo-hammuil V of Morrocco. Snydcr's comments followed the same careful line taken in formal medical bulletins Tuesday which steered away from use of the word "stroke." The attending doctors did say the artery difficulty had caused Eisenhower "slight difficulty in speaking." DOMINATES NBWH -Eisenhower's illness dominates the front pages of British newspapers. Editorials described it as a "bitter" and "great" shock. Stock market drops were caus.-v, cd in both Amsterdam and Tok-/ yo in addition � to market losses in New York Tuesday, School District Deficit Likely Prince George school district will probably suffer a deficit when its books arc closed on its current $1,325,000 budget. Board chairman Robert Range said last night a deficit should be anticipated because there are no large surpluses left to spend before the new budget takes effect early next year. "We are working under extreme difficulty because of the three 'years' we have to calculate," trustee Harold Moffat told the meeting. FORECAST HARD He said the annual school budget has to be drawn up on school, calendar and fiscal year scales and at times it becomes impossible to give an accurate forecast of the monies which will be needed for the board's many departments. Just over one million dollars has been spent by the Board far this year on school affairs. Biggest deficit is seen in the board's repairs and maintenance services. Already $28,475 has been spent on maintaining the buildings. Only $2-1,25(3 had been budgeted for this expense. Teachers salaries arc keeping well within the budgeted amount with $530,767 already spent this year out. of a $671,-811 allotment. Over SMO,000 has been committed to salary expenses out of current budget. Exactly $6!), 575 was spent last month on teachers' salaries. The Board's largest expenditure is 5153.72S for paying off debentures and bank interest charges. It has already spent $118,729 on this account. Pupil conveyance by school bus this year wil cost taxpayers $47,700. Of this sum, $36,(192 has already been spent and another $10,100 has been committed. Janitor and engineer supplies have been budgeted at $03,300 and light, power, water and fuel at $91,000. The dormitory appears to be well within its budget with only $20,258 spent of its �35,605 budget for 1957. Says Centennial Head Shouldn't Cloud Need For Track And Field In City Need for a regulation-size track nd field in Prince George should not be clouded by snap sugges-ions from sources which have laid only fleeting attention to he problem, chairman of the rincc George centennial com-littcc said yesterday. Alex G. Bowie, chairman of he local committee which is naking centennial year plans, aid construction of a track and icld here .as' a centennial year roject has been bore the Parks Board for six months. "The announcement made last voejc was an eleventh-hour -deci- sion, something which was wanted six months ago," he said, referring to a statement made by Park Commissioner Bill Fleming In Friday's Citizen. Mr. Bowie stated that Prince Seorgc would have the only cinder trick in northern B.C. if the Parks Board and ultimately the city council saw fit to proceed with t,he committee's plans. OLYMPIC Sl'OKTS "We should initiate ."and encourage Olympic sports in this part of the province and give potential athletes the t-dinc opportunity they would haw at any other large center," Mr. Bowie remarked. He iiaid Prince George would\, become the track and field center of northern B.C. and an adequate track would undoubtedly make this city the focal point of other sports which are auxiliary to track games. He said the ball clubs had not protested the track and field project when it was in the discus-'J� sion stage but only took an ln-'r ttrcst after the centennial committee was firmly committed to the plan' and had received the (Sec '.'SHOULDN'T'' Poje 3)