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Vol.   2;   No.   54
PRINCE GEORGE, BRITISH COLUMBIA, TUESDAY, MARCH 18, 1958
PRICE   7   CENTS
BY CARRIER 11.35 PER MONTH
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COMPARABLE to Maple Leaf Gardens is the way the ice in the city's new arena has been described by hockey man Tom Hennessey. Confident that it is that, and perhaps even better, is Steve Zingle, the man responsible for the operation of the ice making equipment. Steve is shown here giving the gleaming sheet a loving caress.
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TRAPPERS  TAKE  ACTION
Wen-Gren Development Would Ruin Traplines
Some of the most productive trapllnes In the province will he lost forever under water if the Wenner-Gren interests curry , oti(..plans for the damming of the  Vcacc   River.
This was the warning sounded today hy one of Prince George's best known trapper, C. H. "Charlie" Olds.
"A registered trapline is private property" says Olds, "and if it is destroyed or damaged, repayment should be made."
But firm in the belief that prevention is worth more than the cure, the northern, zone of the B.C. Registered Trappers' Association will attempt to prevent the flooding of tlio Peace River traplines, Olds reports.
At its annual meeting to>he lield in Prince George in June, the association will take legal Hieahs  to  prevent what it des-
cribed  as  a   "repitition   of  the
tragic fate which overtoook some
irapline owners in  the  flooded
Twecdsmuir Park  area  due to
the construction of the Kenny
Dam."
CLAIMS IGNORED
"Most claims made by trappers for damages were ignored," claims Olds.
He said that "if and when the WennerGren interests dam the Peace, some of the most productive traplines in the province will be partially or wholly 'buried under water."
President of the northern zone BCRTAj Olds has been a persistent fighter for the rights of trappers and is well known for his wild animal sancuary near Telk-vva. He retired as an engineer from the CNR last year.
At. tlio annual meeting, Olds predicted   that   the   association
Symphony Concert In City Saturday
The famed Vancouver Symphony Orchestra will present its centennial year, concert in Prince George Saturday night.
Under the direction of I twin Hoffman, the group will play to an anticipated capacity audience in the field house of the Prince George senior high school.
The orchestra will give a special  concert for local school
NKWI.V - APl'OIXTKl) Canadian Arthritis and Rheumatism Society physiotherapist in this area is -Miss Pamela- Harding (above) who came to Canada last month from her home at Tauranga, New Zeland. Miss Harding will take over the duties currently performed by Mrs. Julia Serup, who handles arthritic sufferers taking CARS treatments in ,an area which stretches as far south as Ques-nel and west to Burns Lake.
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children   in   the  same  building Saturday afternoon.
Centennial committee vice-chairman George Thorpe, who is in charge of arrangements for the orchestra's visit here, reported yesterday all tickets for the event are selling fast.
He said parents still have an opportunity to accompany their youngsters to the Saturday afternoon performance hy purchasing tickets at radio station CKPG or the H. H. Douglas store on Third Ave. PROGRAM
T h e orchestra's Saturday evening concert includes Weber's Euryanthc Overture; Beethoven's Symphony No. 2 in D Major; Yaughan-Williams' Folk Song Suit; Chabrier's Espana Rhapsody; Straus' Voices of Spring Waltz and Sibelius' Fin-la.ndia.
During the current centennial year tour, which is the most ambitious and extensive one ever to be undertaken by a Canadian orchestra, the Vancouver Symphony is expected to play to a total of 25,000 adults and 30,000 children.
it will fly here aboard a chartered Canadian Pacific Airlines aircraft and will also travel to Dawson Creek and Fort St. John by the same method. 75 MUSICIANS
Ndw in its twenty-cigth consecutive season, and numbering 75 musicians, the orchestra will play a total of more than 90 concerts throughout the province, at home and abroad.
In a series of 12 Sunday concerts alone, the orchestra has played to an audience of almost 3-1,000 persons, a substantial increase over any previous season. Children's attendance at concerts has more than doubled in the past two years.
will demand that stronger penalties be levied against poachers, those that steal from a registered Uapline.
An export trapper himself, Olds deplores the present trentt toward lower prices on the fur market and says that the price of raw fur is so low now that there is "no incentive" left for the trapper to continue their profession!
"There is no doubt," he predicts, "that if the present low prices continue, the trapping of wild fur will become a lost art and occupation in Canada.
"The trapper is willing to endure the hardships that go with his occupation, but when he gets �about one-tenth the price of what ills fur sells for as finished garments, he knows he is the victim of a form of daylight robbery," he declared.
On the brighter side, Olds sees some relief in steps taken by the federal department of agriculture �which is currently publicizing the superior qualities-of Canadian fur, both raw and finished.
A highlight of| this year's convention,, he says, will be the demonstration' of the new humane animal trap developed by Frank Connibear, which kills animals outright with a minimum of suffering.
According to reports, production of the trap, which was displayed here last year, is expected to get underway sometime next fall.
Granduc Mines Abandons Work
VANCOUVER (CP) � Granduc Mines Limited has abandoned indefinitely development work at its copper property on the Leduc Glacier. 23 miles north of Stewart,   B.C
$4,000, SUBDIVISION
Survey 90-Acre Tract Of Land
In less than two weeks from today, a firm of land surveyors will move men and transits onto a 90-acre tract of land in the south-west corner of the city to trace invisibly the contours of what may ultimately be af $4,000,000 residential subdivision. News of this development has
been brewing at City Hall for months, but it was only last night that city council took the first tangible step to reduce the subdivision from the planning stage  into the realm of fact.
It is a scheme that will rival the land assembly area, and may perhaps even outshine it.
As seen now by the eyes of the city's planning consultant Desmond Parkera, the subdivision known simply as District Lot 936, will incorporate the latest concepts in housing developments.
It will be an area with home-sites commanding a sweeping view across the face of the city to the river and mountains to the southeast. SELF-SUFFICIENT
It will be a self-sufficient community with crescent-shaped streets, conforming to the natural contours of the land and retaining the natural landscaping of poplar, cottonWood and pine trees that already exist.
It will be a community incorporating its own schools and parks and will be so designed as to attain the maximum of privacy with the streets set up to discourage traffis other than than of the resident homeowner.
Homesites will be located in pleasant groupings with several parks insinuated into the scheme so as to create an open airy effect.
At this date it is planned so that streets, curbs and gutters, ighting, water and sewers are installed before a house is built. 1)11 KKK IiSr METHOD
Thus far the subdivision will duplicate to a certain degree, the planning that has gone into the land assembly area, but' it will differ in the method of financing.                 v
In  this respect the city will
sell the building sites to loca contractors instead of to Cen tral Mortgage & Housing Corp oration.
Since the turn of the year and even before, local contract ors have endeavored to buy par eels of land in order that they could   undertake   "mass"   home
(See "SUBDIVISION"  Poge  2)
Jenkins Trial Will End Today
Trial of Robert A. Jenkins o'n 17 counts of uttering forged old age pension cheques is ex peeled to lie concluded early this afternoon in County Court here.
Jenkins will resume argument in his own defence. He is charged with uttering the cheques at Vanderhoof, GO miles west of here, last year.
Bulk of the evidence heard by His Honor Judge C. W. Morrow this morning was from Cpl. L. Zitzelberger, an RCMP handwriting expert from Regina, Sask.
Zitzelberger testified that the endorsements of a "Mr. Walling' ford" and a "Mrs. Florence M. Harper" were written by the same person on the back of the cheques.
Other RCMP officers and officials of a Vanderhoof store, where one of the cheques was allegedly cashed, testified that the name "Wallingford" was written by Jenkins.
Police in Prince George gathered specimen handwriting for the investigation by conducting a search in Jenkins' home, at the rear of St. Andrew's Lutheran-Presbyterian Church, last sum-
Establish Arena Rate Schedule
Rate schedule and admission charges for the city's new arena, vhich opens tomorrow, were approved by city council last night. Prepared by the civic propor-ies   commission,   the   schedule vill apply for the balance of the ce-skating and   hockey   season, t is understood that the city's senior hockey team may negotiate for a revision for the 1958-59 eason.
Not approved yet is the sche-lule of rates for the figure �skating club. Others are as fol-owsi
Senior hockey will share the ;ate on a 50-50 basis with the iockey club bearing the costs of �eferees and goal judges. The same will apply to commercial Kickey clubs.
Minor hockey clubs will be required to pay $200 for the season, in advance.
Public skating will he provided for a minimum of two hours at a cost of 50 cents an hour for adults; 25 cents for students and 15 cents for children. Pre-school children, provided they are accompanied by adidts will be permitted free skating at specified hours.
Admission to hockey games has been established at $125 for adults, 50 cents for students and 25 cents for children. High school hockey will cost the adult $1 and 50 cents for students, 25 cents for children.
Skates may be sharpened at a fee of 35 cents.
Employment Picture Here Better Than Most Areas
Employment conditions in the Prince George area this winter have been brighter than almost any other center in Canada.
Figures released by the National Employment Service in Ottawa today indicate that the Pacific region, of which. Prince George is a member, has been one of the most active parts of the country the past two months.
Most other cities and regions included in the NES survey have shown sharp increases in the number of jobless registered for claims. AX  EXAMPLE
As an example, the" NES release ciies the figure of 3,141 who were out of work and look-
ing for w6rk on Feb. 13 this year through the service's office in Prince George.
On Jan. l(i last year there were o.")07 seeking work through the local o.ffico ami there were 2.011 looking for jobs on Feb. 11, 10">7.
However. Unemployment Insurance Commission officials here today pointed out that the situation as it exists today could change very quickly, as it did in the one month during 1957.
In spite of a threatening breakup season, which will cripple the operations of many sawmills and planers in this area, many persons are still finding .work in the lumber industry, j "Even if we have an excep-
tionally large number registered with us during breakup, it only indicates that there is a large labor force here and the number of opportunities has not drop-pod," a spokesman for the local office declared.
Calgary had 11,02(5 persons looking for jobs on Feb. 13 this year;.Last year at the same time there were 7,(3S1 in the same category.
Winnipeg, too, shows the same �narked increases. Last year ihere were 27,320 out of work; this 3'ear, (20,600)?
Across Canada there were 854,-257 seeking jobs at the middle of last month, compared' to 574,691 for the same date in 1957.
A VIEW of the ice in the new arena from the uppermost seat in the house illustrates the clear view hockey fans will enjoy when hockey gets underway Thursday night. The smart new building which will be open to the public tomorrow, is a pleasing combination of natural woods, blues and orange. Workmen are seen here preparing to paint the blue line.                                �Citizen Photo
Technicality Threatens Street Light Blackout
A legal technicality involving property easements today threatens a street-lighting blackout of the entire west end of the city.
The technicality applies to the city's' controversial street-closing bylaw which was passed recently after a stormy two-year period during which it was constantly debated by city council.
Because no provision was made for electric light utility easements across the former street allowances, the B.C. Power Commission may be forced to remove all of its street lights from the west end of the city. 79 LIGHTS
Involved in the dispute are 79 .existing street lights and poles plus nine proposed lights and poles.
All of the poles were installed a year ago at the city's request and their installation is included in the city's street lighting program.
In a letter to city council BCPC' district; manager Jack [Jobie advised council that unless the city has obtained ease-nents for the light utility, the BCPC will be forced to remove the sHreet lights "at the property owners request."
Dohie   said � the   stringing   of
wires over streets now closed "constitutes an aerial trespass over  private  property."
Council was advised by city clerk Arran Thomson that petitions for street closures did not "specifically" mention light utility.
And the BCPC, assuming that it was "safe" in running the power line clown the property line dividing the former road allowance from the adjacent property, now finds that there is  no  such  property  line.
One Missing In Plane Crash
KETCHICAN, Alaska (AP) � One man was reported missing and another scri&usly injured Sunday in the crash of a Scabee plane in George Inlet, about 10 miles north of here.
Missing was passenger Harry Landis of Ketchican. Pilot and owner Ken Chapman of I^etchi-k'an was taken to hospital with severe injuries. Chapman was �cscued by another plane. His own plane sank in GO fathoms of water.
Also involved in the. snarl is the North-West Telephone Co. which has just completed installation of a quarter of a million; dollars worth of lead cal)le to tie in with the new dial .system; scheduled to go into effect'at' the end of this month.
The BCPC has a total of 50 light poles in the Central area, six in the Van Bow area and the balance in the Millar Addition.
All are subject to removal if" the   property   owners   involved demand it.
Cost of re-locating the poles would amount to about $200, while the original installation cost amounts to1 $160-
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MRS. JESSIE CUNLIFFE
Mrs. Cunliffe New Citizen Social Editor
A person long-associated with women's activities in Prince George has been named social editor of The Citizen. She is Mrs. Jessie Ciinliff,c.'
Mrs. Cunliffe will handle the local social scene on a part-time basis from her place of residence. For news of all forms of women's activities she may be contacted at GSO-X-3 days or evenings.
' A member of the Canadian Arthritic