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Vol. 2; No. 55
PRINCE GEORGE, BRITISH COLUMBIA, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 19, 1958
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On Forgery Count
Jenkins Gets Two Years Jail
Former minister of St. Andrew's Lutheran-Presbyterian Church in Prince George, -Robert A. Jenkins, was sentenced yesterday' to two years less one day in.; jail for.forging the endorsements on a series of old age pension cheques.
The 53-year-old, former head of the local church is currently serving a sentence of two years less a day in the provincial men's jail here after being convicted of a similar count last November.
Jenkins spent over a clay in the prisoner's box hearing a preponderance, of evidence sub mitted by Crown Prosecutor Frank S. Perry. He was convicted by His Honor Judge C W. Morow on nine of the 17 counts of which be was original ly charged.
FJORGED DOCUMENTS
Jenkins allegedly forged the endorsements1 of a "Mr. Wal-lingford" and a "Mrs. Florence M. Harper" on the documents after obtaining them from Box
Women By Eating
Fireworks
BOGOTA, Columbia (A]') � Within two months Hi despairing young Bogota women have swallowed a form of fireworks that ended their lives in agony.
Alairmed at the wave of "two-cent suicides," the government now has prohibited sale of the poisonous cracklers called totes.
Shaped like a large pill, totes pop and crackle -when scraped on a rough surface. Children make noise with them at Christ-anas.
They sold for a cent apiece. Two contain enough phosphorous to kill.
Shortly after ChHstmas a 21-year-old salesgirl' in a large department store, disappointed in love, swallowed a handful of totes and died. Nobody had tried that before, and a chain of tote suicides began among girls and women ranging in age from 14 to 28. Mostly they were servants or working girls, unhappy in love.
Three men also killed themselves with totes, making the total number of victims 10.
Totes were cheap, much cheaper than sleeping pills, and easy to buy. They brought a slow, horribly painful death.
When the 18th victim died, the government prohibited further sales of totes while it prepared to regulate the sale of fireworks generally. The 19th victim, a 17-year-old servant girl, already had swallowed some and died 18 hours after the ban was announced, i
303 at the Vandcrhoof post office.
Judge Morrow acquitted him on eight of the counts because there was not sufficient cor-"rqboratlbri of evidence to indicate that Jenkins actually did "unlawfully forge the. endorse ments on the documents to the prejudice of the Government of Canada."
NOT MUCH TO ADD
"I don't know if there's much I can add to what 1 have said before," commented the judge. He "was referring to what he told Jenkjns at the conclusion of a trial on a similar offence committed in Prince George last year.
"1 cannot treat this, offence any lighter than I did before," His Honor stated.
Jenkins admitted a conviction for false pretenses in Prince George in August 1957 and a conviction for forgery here in November. He was sentenced to one year imprisonment for the false pretenses offence and two years less a day for the forgery, which also in volved old age pension cheques.
GKADUATE
Jenkins said lie graduated from the University of Toronto with a bachelor of arts degree, received a B.A. and master of arts from Oxford, an M.A. from Harvard and a diploma hi theology from a college in Montreal.
The bulk of the crown's evidence was given by Cj)l. L. Zltfc'elberger, an RCMP handwriting expert. Cpl. ZiUselberg-er was accepted as an- expert witness by Judge Morrow.
"1 have no hesitation In accepting the evidence of the Corporal," said the judge.
�"The false documents . were completed and they wei'e acted upon as if they were 'genuine,," he stated evidence.
in summing up the
Soviets Not Goods Hosts
MOSCOW (Reuters) � Capt. H. R. Newton, British naval attache in Moscow, was held under arrest for\lwo hours last Sunday and forced to walk a mile down
road with an armed escort.
British sources say the incident took place at Tsaritseno, a popular skiing resort for Moscow's diplomatic colony �ibout 20 miles from Moscow.
Soviet army officials later apologized for the behavior of subordinates who, they said, "exceeded their duty."
1,000 Needed For Operation Mulligan
At least 1,000 "evacuees" are needed for a mock civil qefence exercise, dubbed "Operation Muligan,", is designed to test' feeding, registration and traffic control facilities which would be swung into action in the event of a major catastrophe in this area.
Coordinator of the event. Jack Nicholson, explained that the 1000 volunteers may Be men. �women or children so long as they participate In the exercise in a vehicle.
Any person who wishes to take part in the operation and has a car or truck should telephone 1120, 177, (56 or 32-R-2 leaving their names and the number of persons who will be with thorn. OX SUNDAY
The exercise will take place between 1:30 and 3 p.m. Sunday. Final instructions to evacuees will be aired over radio station CKPG at 1:30 p.m.
The town will be divided into two parts for the exorcise.
All volunteers living east of Alward St. will be asked to go to marshalling yards at the Con-naught elementary school on Seventeenth Ave.
They will proceed across town in convoy to the South Central Elementary School where they will be registered and given an emergency meal.
Those living west of Alward St. will first go to marshalling yards at the South Central school and will proceed In convoy over n pre-designated route to Con-
naught school where they will be registered and fed. i;r\dv to go
"All pkm.s are ready to go. All we need is volunteers," Nicholson said.
If central B.C. was ever struck by an atomic bomb. Prince George would have to care for at least 45,000 evacuees from surrounding centers, according to CD calculations..
The senior high school girls are taking care of legist rat ion and the Rocky Mountain Rang-; ers and RCMP arc looking after traffic control.
The city engineering department's mobil radios will be used in the overall control program.
Mrs. Dorothy Allen Is in charge of registration and Mrs., C. Thorscness is looking after the emergency feeding program.
"This is a civic effort and good �espouse is necessary if Prince George is to get good results," Nicholson said.
"The volunteers will only have a slight idea of what real evacuees arc up against," he pointed out.
The Prince George operation is so important, in fact, that two of the top men in the B.C. civil defence program will be here to watch the proceedings.
Claude Watkins, in charge of, provincial civi.1 defence welfare; arid Jack Bbwermari, who is head of civil defence communications In this piovince, will be here tu observe the exerci.se.
CITIZENS NEWS Editor Ron Powell, sporting a full Centennial beard, took a few minules out this wek to get the styaggy ends, trimmed. Barber Gerry Not-enbomer takes great care with the trim job since Powell is� sure he may have a prize-winning growth. �Citizen Photo
Open Tenders For New City Hospital Tonight
A handful of Prince George citizens together with the board of directors of the Prince George and District Hospital will witness thp opening of tenders for the $2,500,000 hospital tonight. .
It" will be� a -'quiet occasion, but one that will likely be charged with tension, for upon the amount of the bids will depend how soon this city wilL be provided with a hospital. !
With over a dozen contractors ompeting for the contract, hospital officials are hopeful that the bids will be qompetitive.
Hospital administrator Bruce rhomsoi. said the brief meeting will get underway at S p.m. in he. council chambers of city hall. After the lenders have been opened, the board will go into
II Helps To Be An Insect
SAN AMOMO, Tex. (AP) Insects can survive 100 timrs the amount of radiation that humans and aniut'als can take] Lt.-Col. Samuel Hill sn.Vs in a statement from the United Slates Army medical laboratory here-,
Hill said he discovered insects cj|n iilt.sorb :is iniicli as (K),OOQ rncntgeiys without (lfath. 11 ndi'ituiliy takes from �150 to (i(Mi roeiitgens to Kill an animal or liuin.-iii. A rocntgcii is a unit of measure of radiation.
Hill salvp well
"The campaign is shaping up well, and 1 wouldn't trade places with any other candidate," he remarked.
Leboe said he has met thousands of persons during ' his trips, north, east and south of Prince George and has spoken ta public meetings "almost every week-day."
He went as far north in the Cariboo riding as Montney.about ;?0 miles north of Fort St. John, and hopes to visit Lower Post before the campaign is concluded 10 days from now.
He left for Quesnel late yesterday and has a speaking engagement tonight in the Bushy Lake Hall, a few miles souih of Quesnel PKEMIEU HERE
Leboe will bc.in Prince George Monday night for a Socied rally at which Premier \V. A. C. Bennett will be guest speaker in the Civic Center.
This Friday federal Social Credit leader Solon Low will speak at a luncheon � meeting at Quesnel. He will travel to Prince George later in the afternoon and catch a plane from hero to address a rally in Grande Prairie.
Low is expected to be here (See "LEBOE" Page 3)
Family Of Four Lose Everything
As
Couple Live In Trunk Of Hollow Tree
PERSHORE, .England (Reuters) � A woman who lives in a tree slept with a roof over her head Tuesday night for the first time in six \veeks.
Mrs. Doris Mary Parkes, 37, was remanded in custody Tuesday, charged with stealing a pair of shoes. Monday night she slept in a prison cell. Earlier she had pleaded with the magistrates: "I want to go home."
Home for Mrs. Parkes and her husband, Harry, is a gnarled old elm tree on the outskirts of town. For six weeks the couple have lived inside its hollow trunk.
Police told the court Monday: "Mrs. Parkes is of no fixed address, and is residing,in a tree trunk."
Inside the five-feet-across interior, the couple have laid a carpet of 'sacks. They have pots and pans, and have been seeh cooking.
They moved into the tree tree when they had to leave their former trailer home, the court was . told. The couple claimed they could find no other place to live.
Fulton Seeks To Stem Sale Of Obscenity
MONTREAL (CP) � Justice Minister Fulton said Tuesday his department, is seeking a definition of "obscenity" to stem sale of immoral literature.
He made the statement at a press conference while here to address a Progressive Conservative election rally.
"We are deeply concerned about the flood of salacious literature inundating Canada" and "one of our major problems is the lack of definition in the criminal code of obscenity," Mr. Fulton said.
To determine obscenity, he .said the. justice department now had to use a judicial statement made in England more than SO years ago and it was outdated. .'"We must give our courts a fundamental definition of obscenity that can guide thorn in whatever ruling may be necessary in future cases."
Burns
Fire Levels North Nechako Dwelling
A family of four were left . homeless when fire levelled its three-room dwelling on the North Nechako Road yesterday.
H. "Andy" Vandriesen, warehouseman for Simpsons-Sears Ltd., his wife and two pre-school-age children lost everything they owned when flames swept through the home and an adjoining garage at about 11:30 a.m.
included in the loss was a deep freeze, packed with provisions, and also hundreds of dollars worth of hand tools.
It is understood the loss is partially covered by insurance.
DUPLEX THREATENED
Tnrpatoned with destruction was "a new duplex which v Mr. yanariesen is building adjacent to the doomed dwelling.
The new home is only about half-finished but the family had planned to occupy it within the next few weeks. ,
Neighbors and.fellow employees fi'on Simpsons-Sears, unable to save the frail house, concentrated all their efforts on saving Ihe new house which was separated from the lire by a sca^nt six ieet.
Their efforts were hampered when a short-circuit "kicked out' a power transformer thus eliminating the water supply, which is supplied by an electric water pump.
Neighbors report that Mrs. Vancteriesen and her two children, a girl and a boy 3, were outside at the time of the outbreak.
A'ccoruing to reports the fire started when a stovepipe fell away from a thimble in the chimney.,
Untiil their new home is ready lor occupancy, the Vandriescns will stay with Mrs. Vandrieson's mother who lives nearby.
City To Honor Bowling Champs
A testimonial dinner for Prince George's five-pin provincial bowling champions will be held Tuesday, March 25.
City council agreed to hold the dinner for the team that will rep-icsent B.C. at the Western Can-��ida championship play in Rcgina next month.
The dinner will be similar to one held recently for the high, school provincial curling champions and follows a custom established by the city to honor those who "bring fame to the city."
Minio Faces Watery Grave
MINTO, B.C. CP) � This Bridge River Valley mining town 100 miles north of Vancouver was bor-n in 193-1 and will die in 1959.
The end is inevitable. Next year the 13ridge River will be dammed 35 miles east of Minto. The water will back up and the streets will lie 25 feet under the surface.
But Vancouver will benefit by the flooding.
The artificial lake will provide more power in B.C. Electric Company's multi-million-dollar Bridge River power development scheme to serve the lower mainland.
Minto was born as a mining town. It boomed in the first few years. A work force of about 200 miners gouged $1,-000,000 in gold' out of a nearby mountain. The population rose to nearly 800.
But the rich ore vein faltered. By .1042 it finally petered out, and today the mine buildings sag and snow drifts in and out of broken windows: ' Only about 50 people, construction workers, hunting guides and prospectors, live in Minto now. More than half of them have already made plans to go.
Others say they will stay till the water is lapping around their feet if B.C. Electric doesn't meet their compensation demands. ,
Radio Taken In Smash-Grab
A transistor radio valued at approximately SSO was stolen from a local warehouse last night
Crown Cartage, 720 Second Avc, reported to police today that it was taken from the pre-,;jises after thieves smashed a window. /
A CUSTOM that is now traditional at City Hall was enacted Monday night in council chambers when Mayor Carrie Jane Gray on behalf of city council, presented former mayor..John Morrison, with a desk chair. Upholstered in navy-blue leather, the swivel-type chair bears-a bronze plaque in recognition of Morrison's two-year, term in. office. The;cx-m'ayor, who was defeated by Mayor Gray in the December municipal elections, said that he was grateful for his-past association with city council. . �Citizen Photo