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Cloudy tomorrow, little change in tern* perature,   winds'  light. Low tonight and- high tomorrow, 15 and 30.
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Vol.  2;. No.   13
PRINCE GEORGE, BRITISH COLUMBIA, MONDAY, JANUARY 20,  1958
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' TO THE VICTOR, all the spoils. Over the week-end the Prince George high school rink defeated Prince Rupert in two straight games in the best-of-three series. By virtue of the win the local rink will represent the region in the B.C. finals to be held in Cranbrook this week-end. Seen above left to right are: third Kevin"Smale, coach Trev Sterling, skip Gary Wray, (top) lead John Kennedy, and second Bill Kennedy. (See more pic-tures and story on page 4.)                                                                                       ______
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YOUNG   TORIES  CONCERNED
May Protest Barring Of Indians From Restaurants
A   resolution   protesting   the .-ANNUAL  MEETING
barring of Indians from restaurants at Vandcrhoof may be presented by the Cariboo Young Progressive Conservative Association at an annual meeting in Vancouver next month.
Peter Henslowe, a .vice-president of the organization, called for the resolution after he had charged that Indians were being discriminated against at Vander-hoof.
While there was Htle evidence of outright racial discrimination at Prince George, Mr. Henslowe described the situation at the farming and lumbering community of Vanderhoof as "serious."
He said that a* number of restaurants in the community will not admit Indians to their premises.                                     '
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"Hanging Judge Film Scrapped
NANAIM.O (CP) � Bruce Ramsay of the Vancouver branch of the B.C. Historical Society said Saturday his branch has successded in haying the recently completed National Film Board story The Hanging Judge "ditched."
Mr. Ramsay said that the brandi received advice from justice minister David Fulton that the Film Board picture had been scrapped because of protests from 'the society over the angle taken by the film on the life of B.C.'s colorful jurist Judge Begble.
He asked that the resolutions committee consider formulating a resolution on the subject for presentation vell for one week.
He was taken by truck to the Beaton River landing strip whore he was met by an airplane sent by the company to fly him to Fort St. John.
Modern Music Craze Termed 'Huge Fake'
VICTORIA   (CIV �   Dr.   Boyd  make   $3,000   a   week,   nothing
Neel of Toronto .has a capsule definition of modern musical entertainment � "one huge fake."
The< 52-year-old dean of the Royal Conservatory of Music at Toronto says this definition extends to all modern musical entertainment � serious ov popular � on recordings and television.
He had no "pet hates" on the subject, he explained while here as guest conductor of the Victoria Symphony Orchestra. "I just have opinions."
He especially had opinions concerning "singers who sing out of tune," and "the modern craze for never keeping on the beat. For anyone with a keen rhythmic sense, that's torture," he said.
"You can be a singer today without any voice at all. Unless you've got a microphone almost between their tonsils, you can't hear them. And. yet, if you can
else matters.'
He said the "whole of this mechanized business' is getting out of hand; it's a farce.
"The average long-playing record is a fake, compiled of a series of little strips of tapes for tY\e 'best performance.' In the old days, when we had to do it on wax, you couldn't get away with anything � the old 7S way is the right way."
He said the public accepts this because it is all they are given iii mqst places.
"The public has so little chance of hearing real singers in the flesh; but in places where it's available, they lap it up."
Dr. Neel is best known for the small orchestras he formed in England ami Toronto to play works not often done by large orchestras.
He chose a program of Wagner, Schubert, Halvorsen and Elgar for his appearance herd.
Ku Klux Head May Be Charged
Irate Indians Rout Kian
LUMBERTON, X.C (AP) '� Sheriff Malcolm MeLeod says he wil ask a grand jury today to indict, a Klu Klux Kkm leader who had his rally shot out frbnj under him by whooping Indians.
The Robeson County law officer said Sunday night he �wanted charges of inciting to riot brought against Rev. James Cole of Marion, S.C., self-styled KKK leader.
Cole, claiming he was denied legal rights because he is a member of the white race, said he planned legal action against the sheriff, also a white man.
But later, Cole said the Klan should turn the other cheek as far as further action may be concerned.
Cole's rally near here Satur-
day night ended with Klansmen and spectators scrambling for fcafety as hooting Indians fired rifles, shotguns and pistols.
Although-Indiaus fired for .10. minutes y .while people milled about in pitch darkness, only four men wore wounded�none of them seriously. Apparently most of the shots were fired into the air.
� Simeon- Oxendine,- son � of � the � mayor of the Indian community of Pembroke; proudly � wrapped-himself, in.a .Qa.Rt,ur,ed KKJv ban-, ner and winked at reporters.
Oxendine'said: "I don't' khW how [many ! Indians were . there last alight, but. .there ..were enough to do a job.
"They    won't    come    back.
There'll   be  bloodshed  if   they do."                            -
There are about 40,000 white people, 30.000 Indians and 25,-000 Negroes in Robeson County. BtTRX TKOSSKS
� Race relations in Robeson have been generally peaceful, but Indians were aroused last week by two cross burnings. One was in front of the home of an Indian woman who was reported 'dating' a white' married man.
The other was burned in a white neighborhood where an Indian- -family � had � occupied a house. The- Saturday rally was reported to be a final warning, to Indians to watch their step. -- .After both groups gathered, a while-hooded Klansman appeared at a microphone. Klansmen
rushed toward an electric light illuminating the field and encircling Indians herded them in.
Suddenly an Indian smashed the bulb with his rifle barrel.
"Start shootin' boys!" a voice cried from the darkness and gunfire crashed.
The crowd scattered, racing for the safety of their cars.
State highway patrolmen cleared the field and escorted Klan cars through the jeering Indians, who slammed at the cars with guns and sticks as they passed.    .
Then the Indians carried off the Klan banner and a1 Klan cross and hekl their own rally. They burned the cross and hanged an effigy of Cole.
Death Toll Mounts After Severe Storm
HALIFAX (CPI � Danger spots still loomed in Nova Scotia today as the death and damage toll mounted in the aftermath of the Maritimes' worst storm of the season.
Five are dead, including two children.
Crucial spot today was at Bridgewater, N.S., where a highway bridge, weakened Sunday when an upstream dam broke, threatens to collapse into the channel directly in the path of the town's power plant.
Victims of last week's 2W days of snow, sleet and rain included Alice Campbell, 2, of Montague Mines near Halifax, and Charles Acker, 3, of Birth-town, N.S. Both drowned in pools of water near their homes.
The other . victims were Jacques McGraw of Bignard Settlement, N.B., electrocuted while repairing snapped power lines, Clarence Jollimore, 33, of Chester Grant, N.S., a rabbit hunter who lost his way in the woods during the storm and died of exposure; and Thomas Me-Ph6ei' 73,. drowned in-,.a .lake neaV Caledonia, N.S.,5- durlngf the storm. Police found his body Sunday.
Accidents Few Despite Ice
Most highways in the Prince George arda are sheeted with ice today.
A'department of highways official reported this 'morning sanding crews were at work throughout the weekend on the Hart, Cariboo and Northern Trans-Provincial roads keeping them safe for vehicular traffic.
In .spite op the treacherous conditions, police reported few accidents and credited the relatively accident-free weekend to careful driving.
Only serious mishap occurred east of Giscome Saturday, morning when a mother and her three children were injured in a head-on collision.
Patches, of "black ice" which covered some roads were'soon covered with sand.
Travelers on the Hart Highway report the snow is very deep in the Pine Pass area but the road is kept clear and little rouble is being encountered.
Folk Festival Plans Underway
Plans for a gala spring festival were discussed at a Folk Society meeting Friday night. � Fred Bradley,, festival committee chairman, told over 100 members of the society wrho had gathered in the Prince George Cafe banquet room that the project was rapidly taking shape.
He called on all members of the society for their co-operation in participating and promoting the annual project.
The Folk Festival will be held in the Junior High School auditorium for four .nights, beginning Wednesday, April 9. j Annual handicraft display will be- held April �}' in the Prince George Hotel banquet roam.    '
The society has agreed to sponsor a citizenship certificate presentation as part of the centennial year festivities here. President Al Burton reported it will bo held outdoors if possible.
Mrs. R. J. Seeds told the meeting that there are currently 70 students enollecl in the English for New Canadian classes. She said another instructor was needed.
Mrs. E. A. Dpbson showed a series oT .'slides which she took on a recent" trip to Great Britain and the continent.
Early Election Or Not Top Question^
By JOHN E. BIRD Canadian Press Staff! Writer
OTTAWA (CP) � The hottest political question since last June's federal ejection will be settled today in the Commons.
Will newly-elected Liberal leader Lester B. Pearson propose a want-of-confidence motion aimed at defeating Prime Minister Diefenbaker's Progressive Conservative administration and bringing about an early general election?
DIEFENBAKER
... leaves door open
Mud-Slide Derails Train At Lillooef
LILLOOET (CP) � A mudslide which derailed 1U cars of a Pacific Great Eastern Railway train near Lillopet Saturday morning was cleared later in the day after delaying some trains for four hours.
Lillooet is 150 miles northeast of Vancouver.
Passengers were'taken around the slide area by bus to board trains at Lillooet arid Fountain, three miles north of the accident scene. No one was injured.
There are reports Mr. Pearson personally would like to do just that, and that his motion will be so framed that it will be supported by the CCF and Social Credit groups.
However, there also are reports that influential Liberals want.a motion � if one is to be proposed � that could not be supported by the other two opposition parties. This would enable the Liberals to censure I he government without running the risk of defeating it and bringing about an election. DECIDE IN CAUCUS
Liberal members were to meet in caucus this morning, before the House began Its afternoon sitting, and a, decision on w.hat course will be taken likely will be made there.
Present standing in the 265-seat House: Progressive Conservative   113,   Liberals   106,   CCF
Hit Way Liberal Voting Released
MONTREAL (CP) � Montreal La Presse, largest French-language daily in North America, today editorially criticizes the Liberal convention's delay last Thursday night In, announcing election of Lester B. Pearson as leader.           \
Official announcement was withheld until Duncan M. Mac-Tavish, president of the .National Liberal Federation, could appear before television cameras to announce it. The editorial said:                 -                         I
"Can we accept that dissemination of information be subordinated to special interests, for example that the election of the leader of a great political party be communicated to the public only at the moment and in the manner that suits a few?
"The choice of Hon. Lester B. Pearson as Liberal leader last Thursday was. an accomplished
fact about 8:30 p.m. The publication of this news was delayed for a half-hour to reserve it exclusively for television.     v
"The Canadian Press, common source of information for about 100 Canadian daily newspapers;, was right in protesting this unjustified delay. As it pointed out, it is accepted .that news is public property . . . - "It may be-said the delay was of little consequence. But who will not understand that once the principle of priority of special interests over public interest is accepted in the publication of current events, then the door is open for further manoeuvres directed at monopoly of information? This is a peril that must be averted at all  costs . . .
"It is to be hoped that this incident will be a lesson and discourage such intervention in the future."
25, Social Credit 19, Independent 2.
The Liberals would need the support of 27 other members to topple the government, assuming there was 100-pcr-ccnt attendance.
However, if the Liberals present a non-confidence motion, there is speculation that Mr. Diefenbaker will seize on this to ask for immediate1 dissolution.
He might argue that the government minority position has been impossible all along even with the previous Liberal commitment not to obstruct the government in carrying out its election promises. However, now that the Liberals had proposed non-confidence motions along with the CCF and Social Credit parties, the time had come for an election to clear the air.
Mr. Pearson, after he officially takes over today from Louis S^ Laurent as leader of the Opposition, will be able to pro-, pose non-confidence in the government in an amendment to -a supply motion. A vote would be taken Tuesday night.
Works Minister Howard Green government House leader, formally announced the supply motion for Monday at the conclusion of Saturday's sitting.
Line Failure, Power Out
A line failure shortly after 1 p.m. today put Prince George in a temporary blackout. B.C. Power Commission officials said something hit the lino and sub; sequently put No. 2 feeder out of service.
The sharp decrease in voltage then affected the pumps auxiliary to (the gas-fired engines at the power plant and three of the generating units .were automatically cut off.
BCPC service crews were sent to the feeder to locate the trouble  spot.
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THE   ANNIGONI PRINCES
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"IT'S 'ER FACE, but the rest of 'er is me,"  says  strip - tease  dancer. Georgina Moore, left, as she looks at the painting of Princess Margaret by Italian artist' Pietro Annigoni, The' painting, right, raised a storm of protest from many per--sons when it went on display. Miss Moored who posed for the body in the painting, and who has the same measurements as the princess, is critical of it, too. She likes the painting of the face, but says she: " 'E ain't done my body so well in this one. You should see some of the others 'e done of me. They're smashing."      '                   ��................______    ____    :.....:.....