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EDITORIAL......................   Page 2
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The  Weather
Cloudy - today o-nd Friday with snow flurries anl sunny periods. Winds ligrit, little change in tcmpcrotmc. ' Low tonight and high tomorrow, 20 and 32.
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Vol. 2;  No.  16  ;
PRINCE GEORGE, BRITISH COLUMBIA, THURSDAY, JANUARY 23, 1958
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BIDDING BON VOYAGE to Prince George were members of the.Prince George High School representing this zone in the Provincial School Curling Association playdowns in Cranbrook. Members are (right to left), second Bill Kennedy, skip Gary Wray, third Kevin Smale, and lead John Kennedy. The foursome left by
plane this afternoon eyeing a possible berth in the Canadian finals to be played in Charlottetown, Prince Edw,ard Island February. 17 to 21. The local link defeated Prince Rupert recently to enter the B.C. finals.
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FOOT OF SNOW BLANKETS AREA
Weather forecaster Says Snowstorms To Continue
Over   a blanketed
foot   of   snow   has the    Prince   George
area since early Wednesday and today's weather forecast calls for continuing snowstorms.
Department of Highways and the city engineering department's snow - clearing equipment are going "all out trying to keep pace with the heavy snowfall.
Weather bureau at the Pririce George airport said 11.4 inches of snow had. fallen at the1 station between 9 a.m. Wednesday and 4 a.m. today.
/However,    residents   on    the
Jrjart  Highway  about  20  miles
jTnorth of here report that about
15 inches has fallen. A traveller on the Northern Trans-Provincial west of Prince George said there were 20 inches of new-fallen snow at some points on the road. DIG CARS OUT
Meanwhile, residents dug themselves and their cars out of homes and garages this morn' ing in an effort to get to work on time.
City engineer George Harford apologized on behalf of the public works department for plugging driveways and other private entrances.
"We can't help doing it in some instances but we must not
Council Appoints New Commission
Three prominent Prince George businessmen were chosen by city council last, night to. sit on the city's newly formed Civic Properties Commission.
They are George O. Stewart, lawyer; Warren Hollcy, garage and service station operator*, and Harry Brown," hotel operator.         � .
Three additional members to be drawn from city council, the parks commission and the recreation commission will be delegated to serve on the commission. MANAGE CENTRES
Major function of the group is to undertake the custody and management of the Civic Centre, the Municipalv Swimming Pool and the new civic arena.
Council also named six members, to � the � Recreation, Commission and three new members to the soon-to-bc-created parks commission.
Incumbent park commissioners Lyndcn F. Fonseca and William Fleming will serve on the new commission while new appointees are Mrs. Shirley Ewing, Robert McCauley and Mrs. William Bentley.
Appointed recreation commissioners are Ernie Bodirie, Mrs. Jean Darrow, Fred Glaum, Walter Hermanson, Barbara Guest and Marjorie Brown. NAMED LATER
Two members, from the recreation commission and one parks commissioner will be named to (See COUNCIL, Page 3)
get behind in the snow-clearing operations," he stated. REPEATS WARNING , Harford reiterated a warning hejnade 10 days ago to merch ants and others who have pro perty, particularly in the downtown area. He said a city by law stipulates the property-own er is responsible for clearing his frontage of snow and ice.
His   department ' has   cleaz'ed some vacant lots of excess snow. The public works committee has ordered that, effective at noon   today,. city   crews   will clean    Know    from    business  and    append    the
ehargs to the annual tax bill
I Harford said an average of between 14 and 16 inches had fallen in the city overnight and ifr the snow stopped for a few hours the whole problem could be easily brought under control. WILL CONTINUE
The weather office has recorded a total of 17 inches at the airport so far this' season. All indication's this morning were that the snowstorms would continue .'for at least another 24 hours.
Pacific storms were persistently blowing eastward, keeping the cold air well to the north of this part of the province. Generally mild temperatures were reported this morning in all parts of Canada, except the far north.
Department of Highways crews worked through the night on the Hart, Northern Trans-Provincial and Cariboo Highways.
The department reported that the warm, moisture-laden snow was difficult -to move and soitie (See WEATHER,  Page 3')     �
U. S. Based Unions Are Dominant Force In Canada
OTTAWA' KT) � International unions with headquarters in the United States are the dominant force in Canadian organized labor, the Gordon economic commission was told in a report made public today.
But the report said Canadian branches of those unions have wide freedom to make" their own decisions. There was no indication that the international unions try to force Canadian employers to pay the same wages obtained south of the border.
In fact, Canadian wages ran about 25 or 30 per cent below those in the U.S. and that gap had been continuing for some time although membership in international unions had increased greatly.
'The labor study was included
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in a report on Canada-U.S. economic relations by�S. S. Reis-man of the government's finance department and Professor Irving Brecher of JIcGill University. DETERMINE   INFLUENCE
"The prime objective," said the authors, "is to shed some light on one basic question; namely, whether international unions in Canada under American influence seek and impose wage and employment conditions which reflect the more productive American industrial structure and which therefore prejudice the efficiency and competitiveness of Canadian industry."
They concluded that such is not the case. Of some l,26S,000 "union  members  in  Canada  in
1955, S94.000 belonged to groups with international affiliation, a fourfold   increase   from'1939;
But in 1955 average Aveekly earnings in Canadian factories, totalled 559.26 compared with $76.52 in the U.S.   �    -. �� � :
"There now exists a very substantial gap between Canadian and American wages," the' report said. "Despite some narrowing over the years, this diF-fcrential has persisted in large measure through Canadian eco-'nomic history." ; "It is quite evident, therefore, that whatever influence.has emanated from the U.S., either directly or indirectly, It has by no means succeeded in bringing about Canada-U.S. wage parity-?�or indeed, anything ap-�proacfling parity."         -  �  -
Editorial Wins B of I Praise
Copies of a front-page editorial which appeared in The Citizen yesterday warning residents against the purchase of inferior television sets, will be distributed by the office of the Prince George Board of Trade.
Copies of the editorial, entitled "Residents Beware Video Shell Gamej" and which warns the public that "unscrupulous" TV salesmen consider Prince George consumers "money in the bank," will be distributed among the city's retail merchants and professional people. About 800 copies of the editorial will be. distributed.
Trade board secretary-manager W. J.W Shockey requested copies of the editorial after it had been favorably received by retail merchants in the city.
Many Persons Die In Venezuela Revolution
By MORRIS ROSENBERG
CARACAS,  Venezuela  (AP) .�. President  Marcos Perez tJiminez:fled from Venezuela today, but new-blood shed marred > the wikj public jubilation which followed the dictator^ downfall..
National-guardsmen opened fire on a crowd which moved in1 its headquarters to" release political prisoners ordered freed.by a military junta' which took over the government,".An unknown number of persons were re ported killed and, others were wqiinded. The .junta-rushed- two  tanks
to the ... guar^l headquarters to stop the firing, It rappealed to the people to clear- the area around the guard headquarter; so the release)of the prisoners could proceed without disturb ances.
Perez Jiminez took to Ills heels after a brief but bloody civilian uprising in which the military finally joined.
The junta, at once began re storing some of the liberties the dictatorship of nearly 10 years had suppressed. RELEASE PRISON EKS
In addition to freedom for all political prisoners it ordered all officers who- took' part in. the short-lived New Year's revolt restored to their ranks. Punishments against them were cancelled.   .
Censorship was lifted; Political  cM4eH - trtwoad   mtrte plans to relurn to their homeland.
Celebrating thousands jammed the streets of Caracas, in cars and trucks and on1 foot. They cheered � wildly, waved Venezuelan flags and honked horns. Flag-waving students, the most' publicly coval of the ousted die-Lator's opponents, congregated in-front of the statue_of Simon Bolivar, the' South American liberator.
Perez Jiminez, dictator of the oil-rich country for nearly 10 years, left the presidential palace at 2:15 a.m., drove to La arlota airport and took off at 3:08 a.m.�apparently for the Dominican  Republic.
He left behind an estimated 100 dead and hundreds injured
Frozen Gas Line Causes Blackout
A   frozen   natural  igas   line      The    b'lackout     hit     Prince
feeding the B.C. Power Commission generating station is believed to have caused a 25-minute blackout last night.
BCPC officials said the three lenerating units which were on the line stopped abruptly before they could be switched to diesel fuel.
Commission district manager Jack -Dobie explained that the failure apparently was caused ay a freezing condition in the Inland Natural Gas Co. line which connects the power plant with the Westcoast system..
The "blackout" struck at 6:45 xm. and power was back on the The ^it 7:10 p.m. The street light circuit and- the transmission fa-ilitics which serve the hospital were the last off and the first to be put .back into operation.
The outage was. probably caused' by the freezing of humidity from the-natural gas accumulating at one point in the ihe, stopping the . flow of gas. PRESSURE REDUCED
The pressure on the natural ,ras'line is reduced from 800 o 125 pounds per square inch U. the. Inland meteryig house, ocated ori Power Commission irpperty south