�1 -� ... ... . . . INSIDE CLASSIFIED ...................... Pogc 8 COMICS .......................... Page 9 EDITORIAL ...................... Page 2 WOMENS, SOCIAL............ Page 6 SPORTS ........................ Pgs. 4, 5 PHONE 67 , � Doris E. Bechtley 1158 Melville St. VANCOUVER, B.C � Dec6-'57 The Weather Cloudy with sunny periods, . little change in temperature. Low tonight and high tomorrow, 5 and 40. Vol. 2; No. 48 PRINCE GEORGE, BRITISH COLUMBIA/MONDAY, MARCH 10, 1958 PRICE 7 'CENTS BY CARRIER $1.35 PER MONTH I J> Lions Club Show Draws Capacity Crowd Over 2,300 At Lions Club Show CIVIC CENTRE was packed Friday and Saturday evenings for the Lions Club annual auto and fashion show that saw over 2,300 persons in attendance for both nights. Those on hand were treated to the latest' in fashions, autos and entertainment. Plans are now being made to hold next year's show in the ice coliseum. Next year's show will include boats. See additional pictures on page 10. Prince George Lions Club officials, spurred by the overwhelming turnout to their weekend fashion and auto show, today started making plans to hold the event in the ice coliseum next year. The show, held in the Civic Center Friday a*nd Saturday -Citizen Photos by Karl Spreitz nlghti drew over 2300 pel.sons TEACHERS WARNED NOT TO WRITE LETTERS TO PAPERS Russian Marilyn Monroe Must Halt Hip Wiggling LONDON (AP) � Moscow radio said today Russian girls must stop wiggling their hips. There are other ways they can let men know they are female. "A woman's dress should suit the shape of her 1 figure, stressing her contours and grace," the broadcast noted. ' . ' ..;. � �.��'Btifrit added; "It is not very attractive to pose as some women do with the express purpose of displaying quite unnecessarily the mobility of their hips while walking." Mock Infantry Skirmish Held Rocky Mountain Rangers this weekend underwent a 30-hour mock-infantry skirmish on "battle grounds" west of the city .limits. ..�'it was an exercise designed to acquiant the UMR's (30-odd members with the principles of- infantry fighting and imtrol work. Field practice got underway at noon Saturday and laatcd until yesterday afternoon. Highlight of the battle came at about 2 a.m. Sunday when a contingent from the RCMP detachment overtook the Rangers' bivouac and scattered by an RMR picket which was stationed atthe site. A large enforcement of RMR's lcturncd two hours later and captured the police, who were somewhat cold and weary as the morning .sun started breaking Another New Industry At Dawson Creek Another new industry will come into being in the Peace River area next month with completion of an asphalt production unit at Dawson Creek. The unit is being built by XL Refineries Limited, a subsidiary of Pacific Petroleums Ltd. Production is estimated at approximately 350 barrels per day, and most of the first year's output will be utilized in the paving of the Alaska Highway from Dawson Creek to Fort St. John, which |s slated for the summer of this year. The unit, which is located on icfincry property, consists of a fife-proof steel structure supporting a steam stripper, high vacuum unit and heat exchangers. It will process reduced crude oil, first by steam stripping reduced crude and then by subjecting the stripped material to a high vacuum in the flash vessel. The resultant product is then pumped to a new 25,000 barrel storage tank and associated blending facilities. < asphalt over the eastern hills. It was an exercise that few RCMP members had experienced �jince they had left their tough training courses after enlisting in the force. The Rocky Mountain Rangers crept up to the campsite garbed in white sheets which camouflaged them against the snow and their strategy surprised the police officers. Pair Booked On Narcotics Charge A Vancouver couple were charged with illegal possession of drugS while they were visiting Prince George during the weekend. Neil Minette and June Min-ctte alias Savadra were booked on Opium and Narcotic Drug Act charges Friday afternoon and appeared in police court Saturday. They were remanded for eight days without plea. The(car in which the pair were riding was seized and certain paraphernalia, which police allege included narcotics, have been sent to Vancouver for analysis. No Guarantee Other Nations Would Renounce H-Bomb LONDON (Reuters)�Emanuel Shinwcll, a former Labor defence minister, warned today that if Mritian renounces the hydrogen bomb there will be no guarantee that other nations would follow her lcau. In a letter published in The Times, Khinwell added: ''Every effort must be made to create a peaceful atmosphere, either hrough summit talks of through the United Nations, or both. "Meanwhile we cannot contract out of our commitments to the nations of the West, whose jower of retaliation may prevent a potential aggressor from taking Uie initiative." Usurping Authority Of B.C School teachers who write letters to the editors of newspapers have been accused of "usurping the authority" of the B.C. Teachers' Federation'. . � In a letter circularized among the BCTF membership, teachers are. warned that "only properly authorized representations of the whole body of teachers should presume to handle .publicity." �'�"Stirring up' newspaper controversy accomplishes nothing and can do irreparable harm," the letter cautions. Distributed among the Prince George members, the letter does not refer directly to a series of articles that appeared in The Citizen in December and January under the heading "Frankly Speaking." Written by a Prince .George teacher under the signature PCDTA, the articles dealt with teacher and schbol problems, salaries and other topical-* subjects. UNETHICAL ACTION However the letter Informs teachers everywhere that "it' is unethical for an individual teacher to take certain courses of action in respect' to matters Too Bad Teacher Wasn't Smarter WASHINGTON (AP)�The first grader who sent in his letter to flic Washington Post's "favorite teacher" essay contest readily admitted liking Miss Davis." In foci, he .scrawled: "I wish she was smart enough to teach second grade loo next year." Which are properly the concern oi his local association." "There arc also occasions when a matter should be properly dealt with by the federation as" a whole rather than by a local association." Signed by Stan Evans, assistant general secretary, BCTF, al Vancouver, the letter indicates (See "TEACHERS" Page 2) and attracted more Interest than any other event of its kind previously held here. Spokesman for the club also anounced that plans are, underway to add water craft to the gala display. Over 100,persons had to be turned away from the Civic Center Saturday night as word spread that the auto and fashion displays topped any previous show. Herman Grieman, chairman of the Lions committee Which arranged the show, said today he was "more than satisfied" with Car Damaged By Hit-Run Vehicle driven by a Vancouver man was damaged by a hit and run incident south of here near llixon Saturday. 'Claude Tburigny, who .is now staying'in Prince George, said he was travelling north when a south-bound car struck him and caused about $700 damage. He told police the driver of the second vehicle fled the scone. There was a man and a woman in the car, Tourigny stated. The accident occurred at 3 p.m. Saturday about a quarter mile north of Hixon", In the area patrolled by the Quesnel detachment of the RCMP. Carpenters Deny Support To CCF Prince George local of the United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America have gone on record that its membership should take no part in supporting- any political party in the current election campaign. At its regular meeting last week, the local membership agreed''that it would be "unconstitutional" t&'back any particular party. According to a statement released following the meeting, it was decided that support to a political party would not be "conducive to harmony within or without the Brotherhood." The stand taken by the local union was the result of a recent radio broadcast by Jacob Hoist, president of the Prince George & District Labor Council, in which he stated that the council had pledged to support the CCF parly in the election. The Carpenters and Joiners Union is a member of the labor coui* cil. "The need was recognized'that a study of political parties is needed, but it is not agreed that the United Brotherhood of Carpenters is the place to take it up," the statement concluded. interest shown in the event. Beside the latest in men's and women's clothes, 1958 model cars and trucks, a full card of entertainment was arranged for the visitors. � � Among the entertainers were the Legend Singers directed by James L. Johnson, Gloria and the Guys, a rock 'n, roll group, and Al LaChance and his jazz a la carte. Parking Meters A'Slick-Up' COURTENAY, B.C. (CP� � Self-styled "king of the safecrackers" Herbert Emerson Wilson labelled city parking meter regulations "a stick-up" Sunday after being fiven a $2 parking ticket. Wilson, author of the book "1 ttolc $1G,000,000," made the reference in a letter to city council before leaving this Vancouver Island community for Horseshoe Bay, near Vancouver, where he will live while he waits for a United States visa. Machine Shop Broken Into " Thugs broke into a machinery .shop here last night but left practically empty handed. Royal Canadian Moimtqd Police were called this morning tp investigate a break-in at Prince George Machinery 07.1 Third Ave.. Depot Ltd., Officials of the firm said there Was only a small amount of money stolen and the premises were apparently left undisturbed. 1 Thousands of dollars' worth of (ools and other precision equipment are kept in Hie building. The vandals, entered the structure through a side window. Work To Be Done At 2 a.m. Sunday Dial tone will replace the familial1 "number please" in the Prince George telephone exchange at 2 a.m. Sunday, March 30. At this moment the existing manual system will be'switched'over to automatic operation. �North-west Telephone Com- pany officials expect that the actual cutover will take less than two minutes to complete � a brief finale to the months of planning and hard wefrk that has been s'peni in bringing dial service to Prince George. The con-\esion of approximately 4,500 telephones will be the largest that has taken place in the history of the company. Manager C. J. McLean said that the reason for the cutover taking place in the middle of the night was to ensure a minimum of inconvenience to local subscribers, tile calling rate normally being at. its lowest at this time. Explaining the short length of time it takes to convert from the ild to the new .system, Mr. Mc- Lean said, equipment "the new automatic is being installed parallel to the- old system and it will only be a matter of killing Lhe old and activating the new. In the following weeks,, the' old system will be dismantled and removed. While finishing touches are' being made on the installation of the dial switching equipment in the telephone building on Sixth Avenue, much .of^the tijTje before the conversion will be spent on. testing the recently-installed . telephones, cable and distribution wire, and finally the switching equipment. / At the aamc time an inten-' sive training program is under way for the .staff who will handle the new equipment:. This training will conlimie until the time of the cutover. Dial service will not mean the complete absence of operators. Subscribers will still call on the switchboard staff when placing long distance calls, when in need of assistance in placing a call; or when calling information. Frosf Fends Off Breakup Prince George's lumber industry won't have to worry about curtailing operations as long as a heavy frost settles over the area during the nights. Ray Cunliffe, regional engineer for the Department of Highways, said this morning heavy frosts frc saving the roads from load restrictions. However, he warned that if the weather warms, and breakup condition which persisted here 10 days ago returns, restrictions will have to be placed on the traffic routes. The only restricted roads in the sprawling area1 which Cun-life supervises are a few mi-aravelled routes south of Qucs-nel. He said they are not used cxtensivey and their closure does not hurt any industry. i > Meanwhile the highways department is trying to keep pace � with-^iwchdle^-conditldns which ., are curtaining traffic on many roads throughout the Prince George area. The "pot holes" became ap-, parent ' following the warm weather here recently. The Carl-i'oo highway between Prince iJeorRe and QuesiVol is the hard-fist hit by this condition and on :.;omc stretches .vehicles cannot recced 20 miles an hour. Today's .weather forecast indicates the night frosts will persist for two or three more nights lit least. The skies will remain clair durinfg the hours of dark; ness and will become sligthly cloudy during the days. Carman, Ruth Pennock Win Top Drama Honors A( husband and ^ wife were awarded top honors for best individual male and female performances at the conclusion Saturday night of the five-day Prince George it District Drama Festival: Carman and Ru,th Pennock each won cups for outstanding performances in the prize-win-ling play Fennel, staged by Prince George Players club. � The honor performance of the "estival which drew a packed louse to the Junior High School auditorium, also saw the Prince jeorge Players walk off for the second straight year with the cup for the winning adult play. The club's -staging of Fennel, won for its members, the right o travel to Burnaby to compete n the finals of the B.C. Onc-Ac� Drama1 Festival. HIGH STANDARDS Verlie Cooter, TV and stage actress, who adjudicated the fes-ival, in congratulating the cast ror its "splendid performance" �DOintcd out that the standard of amateur theatricals, not only in Prince George, but throughout the' province has improved con,-/ tiderably and has reached a high standard. Named winner of the cup donated by the.Catholic Drama Group for the best supporting role, was Peter Qook for his performance as Bruce Warren in "Still Stands the House." Mrs; Pennock won the British Canadian Propane Cup while her husband was awarded the CKPG cup. An out-of-town players club, '.he McBridc High School troupe �.von the Women of the Moose cup for staging the best high school play witli its presentation (if Anton Chekhob's "A Marriage Proposal." Best individual performance .'n the high school category was that of Les Westman who won the Rotary Club cup for his role in "The Royal Touch." PERSONAL TU1JUMPH Selection of the Prince George Flayers as the winning. drama group amounted to a personal triumph for its director Marlene Ongman. The staging of Fennel was only the second' time in her career in amateur theatrics that sue has directed a play. Winning play in the elementary school classification was "Golden Goose" presented by King George V school u-ho won � he cup donated by the Women of the Moose. Dorothy Jank won the Mrs. Fuhner cup for her acting in "The Golden Goose." Other awards were as follows: Choral Speech , Shield donated by Hudson's l!ay Co. � South Fort George school, grade 4. Girl's Elocution Cup donated by Mrs. R. J. Cameron � Cheryl Corless. Boy's Elocution Cup donated by Prince George and District Music and Drama Festival Association � Colin Milne. Adult Elocution Trophy donated by Wally West Studios � Ethel Barton* PRIZE-WINNING performance of "Fennel" by the Prince George Players in fifth annual Drama Festival produced the top performers too. Pictured in this group are Ruth and Carman Pennock, husband and wife team that won highest acting awards in the five-day festival. They are seen standing in center flanked by John Healy, left and Tom Smith, right. Seated in foreground is Marlene Ongman who directed the play and who will lead the cast to Burnaby where it will participate in the finals of the B.C. festival. �Citizen Photo