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Vol. 2; No. 51
PRINCE GEORGE,  BRITISH COLUMBIA, THURSDAY, MARCH   13,   1958
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"Little Prairie" Welcome
"THERE SHE IS" was cry that went up when the first train into the Peace River rolled into Little Prairie yesterday. Excitement was at a fever pitch when this picture was taken showing the train crawling.up:to an improvised station with some, of the crowd of 3,000 person s on hand seen surging down the track to meet it.                                                                                        �Citizen Photos
A PROUD and happy Premier Bennett tells of "the great record of achievement" of his government in bringing the PGE into the Peace River to a crowd.of over 3,000 persons who jammed the tiny station of Chctvvynd just outside the community of Little Prairie. Man holding the "mike" is CKVVX news editor Eric Sanderson, Vancouver.
Paratroopers Capture U.S.-Owned Oil
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JAKARTA, Indonesia (AL1) � Premier Rjuanda today claimed that Indonesian government paratroopers have captured tlic American � owned Caltcx oilfields near Pakanbarii In central Sumatra.
The rebe] regime in central Sumatra had disputed earlier government claims that paratroopers dropped on the Pakanb'aru airfield Wednesday and a combat regiment -which followed �them hud captured the rtearby town  of PaKahbai'u.
Minas oilfield, one of two major Caltex fields in central Sumatra, is about. 15 miles north-cast  of PakanLwru.
Diuanda ^aid capture of tlie oilfield would permit Calte.\ to resume operations "if the company so desires." Evacuation of American personnel from Che area would no longer be necessary.
The company shut down operations last Monday and evacuated a few women and children at the suggestion of the Djuanda government.
An army spokesman said the
Jakarta troops suffered no casualties in occupying the Pakan-baru area. He could not say whether there were nny casualties among the rebel forces.
$953 Raised In Red Cross ifz Drive
r ' Over 100 canvassers last night called on homes throughout the city and district in a blitz drive to raise !;.(),:j00 in an annual Red Cross fund campaign.
Campaign manager Jim Mc-Conncll reported this morning that with less than a quarter of the returns in, the total stood at $053.
He was somewhat dubious if the campaign would reach its objective.
The drive was also held at Summit Lake, Willow River and other communities in the Prince George area. An extensive mail campaign is also underway;
iMcCoririell urged canvassers to submit their donations as soon is possible in order that a clear ndication of the results of the drive to be calculated.
Money raised in the annual Red Cross campaign here supports close to a dozen services which the local society organizes.
Man Killed In Conveyor Bell
NEW WESTMINSTER (;CP) � Ernest Mailloux, 02, of Port Co-quitlam was killed Wednesday night in an industrial accident at the Crown Zellerbach sawmill near here.
Mailloux was operating a scraper when it struck a conveyor belt. He was thrown into .'.he workings of the conveyor belt.
MRS. L. M. JOHNSON
Xaineii Acting Circulation Manager
Mrs. L. M. Johnson Acting 'Citizen' Circulation Manager
Mrs. L. M. Johnson today was named acting circulation manager of the Prince George Citizen replacing Ian French, who has accepted a position with the Victoria  Times.
Mrs. Johnson has been on the circulation staff of the Citizen tor six months. During this time she has handled tlTe accounting jn the circulation department in addition to looking after the street sales and city carrier boys.
Prior to joining the Citizen Mrs. Johnson was on hte staff of tne Vancouver Herald where she �rained valuable experience in all phases of the daily circulation iield.
She joined the Citizen last September.
Peace River Has Western Rail Link
By TONY SKAE Citizen City Editor
LITTLE PRAIRIE, B.C. � This tiny community situated on the perimeter of the rich Peace River country some 200 miles north of Prince George caught up, with an era yesterday � the era of the railroad.
For many of its pioneer residents it has been a wait of upwards of 34 years.
But when the first train to reach the Peace River from the west rolled into a siding a mile or two north of toWn at Cb.et-wynd station, a cheering crowd of over 3,000 persons dissipated forever the frustrations that had hounded this and other communities throughout the Peace for nearly four decades.
The train, a dlesel-powergd Pacific Great Eastern freight, pulled lip to a make-shift plank platform with a smiling, waving Premier W. A. C. Bennett standing afront the engine at approximately 4:30 p.m. Mountain Time. CHEERING CROWD
It was .greeted by a wildly cheering crowd whose members converged on the now historic: site from neighboring farms,,,' lrom traplines and logging, camps, and from communities* throughout the broad Peace River area, from Fort St. John, Dawson Creek, Grand Prairie, Rolla and Pouce Coupe.
All had come to see the realiza-' lion of the Peace River dwellers' finders ambition � a rail outlet io the coast.
The train arrived into the teeth of a biting wind that blew from tne north, but that failed to diminish the ardor of these northcrn-�rs.
They came with their cars de-
corated with banners and streamers and a community that stubbornly refused to change its name to Chetwynd, announced in oold letters "Little Prairie Wei-'.omos the PGE" on a banner lioistcd high above the platform.
Aboard the brand-new dicsel with the premier, was lands and tjrests minister Ray Williston and executive vice-president of me PGE, Einar Gundersoil. .MOTORCADE
The premier and his party plus a motorcade of about 50 cars drove to Little Prairie down the ?GE grade from Fort St. John, i After lunching at the railway's construction camp, the premier urove south of town to Nasler Creek where he boarded the waiting  train.
, The i arrival scene; yas a picture of wild disorder!
Premier Bennett, who never Teased to smile, was surrounded by a pushing mass of people the moment he stepped on the platform.
Proud of the achievement, the premier praised the PGE as "the lincst railroad on the continent."
He said the railroad "would go forward" predicting its completion to Fort St. John and 'Daw-s'ori Creek "in due course" and a further extension into the (Se,c "LITTLE  PRAIRIE" Page 2)
Water Scooter Top Prize In Raffle
Prince George branch of the Janadian Arthritis and Rhuma-iism Society is offering a $500 water scooter as top prize in a raffle to raise funds fur the organization.
Draw on the raffle will take place April 15. Other prizes include rliincstonc jewellery sets aid electric razcrs.
CARS president George Thorpe explained that the raffle was necessary because a blitz drive
Executive Of Time Incorporated Speaks Tonight
Economic relations between Canada and the United States will be discussed tonight by the head of an international publishing firm at a monthly meeting of the Prince George Board of Trade.
Lawrence Laybourne, managing director of Time International of Canada Ltd., the Canadian division of i Time Inc., arrived here yesterday for two speaking engagements.
He will speak to the trade board tonight and tomorrow will address a meeting of the Prince George Rotary Club on journalism, particularly as it is practiced by Time Inc.
Time Inc. publish such widely-read magazines as Time, Life, Sports Illustrated, Fortune and \rehitcctural Forum.
Before coming to Prince George, Laybourno spoke to the \d and Sales Bureau of the Vancouver Board of Trade and the Canadian Club of Victoria.
The board of trade meeting will be held in the banquet room of the Prince George cafe at 7 p.m. and the Rotary Club meet-will be held in the same place at 12:15 p.m. tomorrow.
held in Prince George last fall fell $2,000 short of its objective.
"We hope the raffle will offset part of this deficiency," lie said.
The  fibre glass speedboat is -�omplelc with an inboard motor and will be on view in a local store soon. CURTAIL SERVICES
Meanwhile, financial pressures may force the B.C. division of the Canadian Arthritis and Rheumatism Society to curtail-future services.
Treasurer Alexander Campbell told the annual meeting here Monday: "We are concerned about the Society's ability to meet demands. Some community Chests and appeals have been unable to meet their targets, resulting in a curtailment of future income."
"Under these opposing pressures, the society may be forced to use. reserve funds, otherwise services will haye to be curtailed."
The division had an operating (Sec "WATER  SCOOTER"  Pogc 2)
AN OVERJOYED Premier Bennett stands on "the engine platform of the first train into the Peace flanked on either side by PGE general manager Joe Broad-bent, left, and Eina'r Gunderson, executive vice-president right.
Eight Accused To Stand Trial In Sommers Case
VANCOUVER (CPI � All eight accused companies and individuals will stand trial in the drawn out bribery-conspiracy case involving former British Columbia lands and forests minister Robert E. Sommers and his actions while a member of the cabinet.
^Magistrate Oscar Orr in police court Wednesday � committed British Columbia Forests Products Limited, a big timber concern, after a brief hearing of defence argument. The company is the last of the eight to be committed.
Last week the magistrate, after a hearing that. stretched over three weeks, committed the others accused: Sommers, H. W. .Gray, C. D. SchuKz, Pacific Coast Services Limited, Evergreen Lumber Sales Limited and the C. D. Schultz Company.
Defence argument in the B.C. Forest Products ease was put over because of absence of the company's chief counsel, Walter Owen. He told tlje magistrate Wednesday that on the evidence he would feel justified in asking for dismissal, but did not intend to do so because without a trial improper imputations might, be left in some minds. SIX CHARGES
The Crown has levelled a total of six charges against the accviscd. It alleges a conspiracy between them, arrangements for a    three-way   split   of   certain
Hospital Approved For Dawson Creek
DAWSON CREEK (CP) � Construction of a 100-bed hospital here has been approved by the provincial government, subject to the favorable result of a plebiscite.
Stan Carnell SC-South Peace River, has sent word that approval was given when Premier Bennett and members of his cabinet, met this week with a delegation  from  Dawson Creek.
Mr. Carnell said financial difficulties have been overcome and preparations for submission of a plebiscite are under way.
funds and charges that Sommers while minister received some $15,000 in connection with sanction of certain forest management licences.
Sommers resigned his portfolio in 195G,as a government-ordered police investigation of the' case began. He and all others except B.C. Forest Products were charged, last- November.-,
B.C. Forest was-charged last .January shortly after the sud? den death of company president Hector Munro.
. iMunro is still named in some of the depositions and has been, quoted by Crown witnesses about the alleged conspiracy. The defence has made much of the fact that a dead man's alleged words were being used by the Crown to support its case against the big limber firm.
The accused arc expected to come to trial at the spring assizes, probably about mid-April. If convicted on all counts the individuals in the case could bo sentenced up to 11 years in prison.
In committing B.C. Forest Products   Magistrate   Orr   com-
mented there was evidence by a former company executive� one-time forest products treasurer Trevor Daniels � that money had passed. FLOW OF, MOXKV
"There was a flow of money to the defendant Sommers in the last, analysis, somewhore." the magistrate suid. -But he was still-concerned whether a corporation had the legal ability to be guilty of conspiracy.   (
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Endorse Resolution To Up Speed Limit
CH1LLIWACK CT � A resolution calling for the raising oft speed limits to (iO miles an hour on all highways of British Columbia was endorsed Wednesday at the annual meeting of-the Associated .Boar/Is of Trade of the Fraser. Valley and Lower Mainland.
Toddlers Will Get Anti-Polio Shots
Cariboo Health Unit announced today it has received sufficient anti-poliomyelitis vaccine for the immunization of all children three months old and over in the Prince Gcorgearea.
Miss Jean Sutcliffe, acting director of the health unit, said1 medical officials recommend that all infants and pre-school children be protected against whooping cough, diplheria, tetanus and smallpox before they begin   their   polio   vaccinations.
The polio immunizations are given at regular child health conferences or infant and preschool clinics held throughout the  Cariboo   Health   Unit  area.
Children who received their first and second doses of Sulk anti-polio vaccine in May and June of last year should receive
t'lieir third dose before til end of June.
Those w'oo received first and second doses in October and November of 1057 may also receive their booster shots in June.
The booster doses will be given at regular child health conferences rather than at special polio clinics.
To maintain their protection against diptheria, tetanus, small pox and .whooping eugh, it is necessary that children receive their reinforcing or booster doses  at   regular   intervals.
The health unit advises that children should receive these doses before entering school. Parents wliose children will 'be entering school for the first time in September should conttict the health unit concerning these immunizations.
SHACKS   PRESENT  PROBLEM
Quesnel Growing Pains
By JOHN MATTKRS Citizen Staff Reporter
QUESNEL � This Cariboo community needs more than a shot in the arm to relieve some of its growing pains.
These so-called "pains" arc the rule rather than the exception in any growing B.C. center.
Prince George had those troubles five years ago and still has them to a lesser extent. Today West Quesnel has exactly the same problems its northern neighbor had during the boom of the early '50's.
Twenty years ago there was a store and 10 shacks in what
was referred to by Qucsncl residents as a "possible development."
Today there arc 400 homes in the same spot. But the trouble is that 10 per cent of them are what could be called "hovels."
They are the same sort of "hovels" Prince George had to content with in some areas of the city  only  Quesnel's  are  worse.
Old age pensioners, transient lumber workers and others who don't plan on making Quesnel their permanent home, live in them.
Building, sanitary and fire in-
spectors prod the inhabitants with terse warnings that the buildings will have to be spruced up. But what docs that do? Nothing.
These people will � be around for another two or three years at the most. So what difference will it make? That's what officialdom has to content with.
They don't share the feelings of their neighbors and the community that plans for olderly development.
Alderman Mrs. Edith Hartley, who is West Quesnel's representative on the town council, has pledged herself' to  spearhead a
cleanup campaign.
She's in the same spot today as Mayor Carrie Jane Gray was when she took charge of Prince George's health, parks and cemetary committee a few years ago.
Aid. Hartlay will attend a community planning course next month sponsored by the University of B.C.'s extension department. She hopes she will come back from the 14-day seminar with ideas which will be valuable to the orderly, development of Quesnel.
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