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LIKE A" SCENE in a picture postcard the historic old church at Barkerville nestles comfortably in the valley that was once, the mecca of fortune seekers, from the world over. Built with loving care almost entirely by hand, the church still stands today in perfect preservation, a monument to .British Columbia's colorful past. ... ^ � .,. -, -� �Citizen Photo by Karl Spreitz
NATO Allies Take Lead In Meeting With Russia
By JOHN M. H1GIITOAVER
PARIS CAP) � Diplomatic officials say the NATO allies will take the initiative in trying to set, up a foreign ministers' iheeting with Russia. Opinion is divided on the likelihood of Russia's acceptance.
Sonic , AVestern authorities think the Russians will lay down acceptable conditions, others that their terms may be too high and designed to block a meeting because the hid for it grew out. of the NATO summit conference just ended here.
One thing seems certain. If an East-West conference is arranged in the next several month?;, it Mill result in discussion of much more than the problem of how to get disarmament discussions started again. The possibility of a broad agenda covering major world problems is already being talked about by British leaders. U.S. TAKES HISK
The United States, which has been basically opposed to going into now East-West talks without evidence of change in So-
viet policies, decided to take a risk in yielding to European demand for a new effort to end the armaments race and the cold war.
One danger pointed to by U.S. officials is that the public will
Pleads Guilty To Theft Charge
A Prince George man has pleaded guilty to stealing a quantity of coffee, tea, meat and mandarin oranges from the cookhouse of a Stone Creok construction camp last weekend.
Michael Frank Viczko pleaded guilty to a charge of theft over $50 in police court Tuesday. He was remanded eight days for scsnlence.
Police recovered the foodstuff in his Burden St. home early Sunday morning, about four hours, after the theft was reported. .,
New Weapons Policy Justified By Reds
LONDON' (Routers) � Foreign Secretary Sclwyn Lloyd today cited Moscow's continued determination to impose communism on the world by force if necessary as justification for NATO's new policy of arming with missiles and nuclear weapons.
Lloyd defended Britain's support of the United States proposal to NATO that launching sites for intrrmpdiatc-range ballistic missiles and stockpiles of nuclear weapons should be established in Europe.
lie spoke at the beginning of a day-long debate in the House of Commons on foreign affairs revolving around decisions taken at the meeting of the Atlantic pact alliance which ended in Paris Thursday.
The debate enabled members of all parties to state tlitdr re-
action to the NATO communique, which accepted a policy of arming Western Europe with the latest rocket weapons while leaving the way open for further East-Wef-t talks on disarmament.
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Ancurin Bcvan 'opened Labor's attack. Amid government cries of dissent, he termed Lloyd's statement "very satisfactory."
He accurccj the government of bring too rigid in its foreign poliiv.
"There exists between us and the Soviet Union, whatever we may say against their politics, their structure, ideas, principles and practice, at least one common bond and that is to avoid a third world war breaking out.
'"But there has been no im-
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expect groat achievements which will not be.realtzed. Another is the possibility pressure will be general.ed for a slowdown in equipping NATO's European defence forces with nuclear weapons.
American officials were evidently surprised by the amount of resistance their plan for atomic stockpiles and missiles encountered at the summit meeting.
Since Russia is ahead of the U.S. in developing the 5,000-mile-range nuclear rocket. � the intercontinental ballistic missile -4 the U.S. more than ever needs European bases for the 1.500-mile rofssUes from which Russian targets could be reached. U.S. CONCESSIONS
Eisenhower and Dulles mot criticisms chiefly by offering new assurances that, the U.S. will stand by its Atlantic treaty pledge to fight for its allies, will engage in closer consultation with them, will join in greater pooling of weapons and scientific findings and stands willing to talk again with the Russians in a foreign ministers' conference.
Still Time For Lighting Contest
Judging will take place Sunday night in the fourth annual Junior Chamber of Commerce Christmas lighting campaign.
Don Datoff, head of the Jaycce committee, said today entries have been coining in very slowly but there is still plenty of time to decorate your home or place of business in order to enter the contest.
"We want lots of entries. The prizes are generous and whatever you do in the way of exterior lighting will brighten up and he a credit to this community," Mr. Datoff said.
Anyone who wishes to enter the contest simply has to call Mr. Datoff at 2S5 or 691-X-3 during the evening.
Application forms are not required and no elaborate and expensive displays are needed.
"We are looking for something that is original, simple and colorful. An inforno of light will not necessarily win the prize," he said.
Top prize money for the best display by a homeowner is $25. The retail store entering the best display will win a scroll.
B.C. Railroading History Is Made In Mountainous Pine Pass
B.C. railroading history was made last week in a cold, snowy, mountainous setting high in the Pine Pass, 126 miles north of Prince George.
Friday, Dec. 13 a Pacific Great Eastern Railway tracklayer crossed the Rockey Mountain summit at Mile 126 and began the long descent into the Peace River watershed.
It marked the last leg of one of the toughest, most challenging railroad construction projects in the history of this nation.
But the event passed with scarcely any notice let alone a ceremony.
Progress was marked only by the throb of track-
layers motors, the machine gun-like stacatto of the power spiking hammers and the occasional sharp blast from the whistle of a diesel locomotive as it moved up with yet another carload of steel.
Crews battled howling winds and freezing temperatures in a brave effort to lay up to two miles of track a day.
Crossing of the Pine summit came, just 30 months after construction on the 300-mile extension Unking Prince George with Dawson Creek and Port St. John began.
The tracks are now well past the halfway mark in reaching the PGE's initial goal of Taylor, at the (See B.C. RAILROADING, Page 3)
RUSSIA
Two Local Boys Win Prizes In Essay Contest
Two contestants, one fron Prince George and the othci from McBride, have been nam cd winners of cash prizes in an essay contest sponsored by the Canadian Pulp and Paper As sociation.
Michael Crowe, 1M7U Urn-wick Crescent, a student at I'rincr (ieorgp Junior Jtigh School won third prize of $25 for his entry in the junior division wtyile Jqxs&ilEicaiuta student at the McBride .hrti-lor-Srnior High School won first prize of n $100 savings boml for her essay. Michael and Joyce are two of 30 winners of major awards totalling S 1,750 awarded con-estants throughout British Co-umbia. Some 600 runners-up vill receive a game based on he story of the manufacture of ndp and paper.
Presentation of the prizes will e made by the individual school n-incipals at a ceremony early n the new year.
loifom Oi Chute
BRITANNIA BEACH CV�Piotr Jrlowski, -10, was found dead at he bottom of a six-foot underground shoot at the Britannia opper Mine Thursday. A company official said the olish-born miner was found ly-ng at the bottom of the chute vhich was near where he and a ompanion were working.
denlify Trucker Killed In Crash
PRINCETON (CP)� Police Thurs-ay identified a truck driver kill-d early Wednesday when his chicle plunged 500 feet down a lountainside as Arthur Gerry lurtis of Vancouver. Police said the accident took lace near Sunday Summit on he Hope-Princeton highway, 23 liles west of here.
LESTER "PEAR9OX '.. ex-newsboy makes good
Woman's Body From Crash Scene
PRINCETON, B.C. (CP) � RCMP here aro attempting today to establish the identity of woman whose body was brought down late Thursday from the scene of a plane crash on rugged Mount Thynrie, 40 miles north-west .of hero.
A search party brought the body here following an all-day trek after a series of unsuccessful attempts to reach the spot at the (i,100-foot level of the mountain, 110 miles east, of Vancouver, -where pilot Roger Su-iir, 30, of Calgary crashed the ight plane Sunday.
Searcher?, who toiled for lours in terrific winds to recover the bodies, were unable o get Sujir's body to their snow tarctor before darkness fell over the scene.
RCMP Cpl. N. D. Gibbon said the body was wrapped in a plas-ic pouch and placed in a crev-isse in the mountainside, where t will remain until spring.
The searchers, who started out t G a.m. Thursday, said the snow tractor was able to get within only a third of a mile the bodies.
Conspiracy Trial Ends With A Hung Jury
PRIME Minister Diefenbaker was sworn in as a member of the Privy Council in a brief ceremony today at Buckingham Palace in London. The ceremony, held in the presence of Queen Clizabeth, took place at a regular mtiefing of the council.
NFAV YORK (AP) � The wiretap conspiracy trial of James R. Hoffa, president-elect of the teamsters union, and two others ended today in a hung jury. The panel of seven . men and five women reported a'hopeless deadlock. 11 to 1 for conviction.
The jurors began tJieir deliberations at 4 p.m. Wednesday and were dismissed at 12:50 a.m. to day. The trial began No. 22.
United States Attorney Paul \V. Williams! told reporters: "There certainly will be another trial of the case and I shall try to have it brought to trial at the earliest practical time." HOFFA PI/EASED
Highly elated at the deadlock,
Hoffa shook hands with his
i lawyer, Sol Gelb, and raced
from the courtroom to phone his wife, Josephine, in Detroit.
Judge Frederick VanPelt Bryan had encouraged the jury to reach a ' verdict, and arranged ovenisht accommodation, but shortly after midnight the jurors told Bryan in a note that this '�positively, absolutely" would not help them reach a verdict.
Bryan summoned the panel and the jury foreman, Mrs. Lillian Keren, a Parke Avenue receptionist, singled out juror Ba'rle T. MacHardy as the lone holdout against conviction.
MacHardy said he was attempting to resolve certain questions involving circumstantial evidence.
On trial with Hoffa were Owen B. Brennah, president of
Detroit Teamsters Local 337, and Bernard Spindcl, a professional wiretapper.
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There were charged with conspiring here to tap illegally telephones in the Detroit teamsters building to find out what information union subordinates were giving to official racket investigators. Conviction carries a maximum penalty penalty of one year in jail and a $10,000 fine. 'Hoffa is charged in another indictment with committing perjury five times before federal rackets grand jury in Xew York last April 3. That case has not been tried. Conviction could mean a sentence of up to 25 ycara in prison*
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Canadian Press
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sultations between the II oiT,{ipwev and diplomacy; P^sS Thursday nigh" ^'tlantic'Treaty .Gr&aflT t>i:, the *c.\-nev
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ifecaune president, � .United rl&tions General As'SenV -biy -aim won tiie-'Nobel peacti prize, gave his formula for peace to 2,000 persons honoring him at a dinner on Lester B. Pear son Day.
Civic officials said it was the firs time in memory that, Toronto had honored anyone by naming a day after him.
"If the United States, after discussions with its NATO allies, were now to make a move� not necessariy through a urn-jtiit conference�to open up serious and far-reaching consultations with the USSR on certain outstanding problems, there is no reason in the world why that move should result in any weakening of the strength or unity of the alliance whatever," he said.
"On the contrary, if moves of this kind are riot made and not attempted, that undesirable re suit may occur.-1'
With him at the dinner sponsored by the Canadian Institute of International Affairs and the
his wife and Vaughan Pearson, his younger "brother.
His mother received a surprise presentation from the sponsors �a picture of her .c-on receiving the $10,000 Nobel award in Oslo last Dec. 7. She brushed away tears and kissed the picture as it was handed to her.
The {sponsors presented a simi-i jar picture to Mr. Pearson's wife.-Mr. Pearson received an ilium inated scroll from the sponsors and a silver water jug from the City of Toronto.
Speaking of NATO, Mr. Pearson said:
"If an casing of fear brings about, an impatience with the; obligations and commitments for co-operation and consultation with allies, then our coalition will be found to be too fragile a thing ^o survive a removal of the fear that brought it into being In the first place.
"This is the challenge and the (Sec PEARSON URGES, Page 3)
GETTING THE Christmas tree i.s probably the biggest job in the pre-festive rush for little Marianne Sande, who lives with her parents in a trailer court near the Fraser River bridge. Yesterday The Citizen mistakenly identified her as Laurie Friesen in a picture taken at an RMR Christmas party. Both Marianne and Laurie were at the party, both had their pictures taken and it could almost be said they are twins.
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