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Vol.  2;   No.  59
PRINCE GEORGE, BRITISH COLUMBIA, TUESDAY, MARCH 25; 1958
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NEW HYDR
EDITORIAL
Riding Needs Man Inside Government
On  March 31  the  electors of the Cariboo  Riding must decide who is to represent  them in parliament for what will, in all probability, be a four or five year 1 period.
They have a choice of four candidates; B. R. "Bert" Leboe, who has represented the Social Credit Party in parliament for some years; Gordon D. Bryant, former mayor of Prince George and in the running as. a Liberal candidate; William Close, a member of the CCF party; and W. C. "Gus" Henderson, flag-carrier for the Progressive Conservative Government.
Cariboo voters should carefully consider all phases of the forthcoming election and cast their ballots not upon the basis of personal likes and dislikes, but on the basis of achieving the most good for the entire constituency.
Looking over the roster of candidates we would be remiss if we failed to make a. few observations.
Mn Leboe is a highly regarded citizen who enjoys and deserves the respect of the community. He represents, however, the "funny money" party and "funny money" in sll its pretty j^isg^ises has been foisted on
Jjnany f countries tViVauB*\out Vii'stb^y wIUi .thvarlably  disastrous and cruel results. With this lesson from history why should Canada be a guinea pig for what is no more nor less than one more group of irresponsible theorists? Even  if Social Credit theories .were sound,  Mr. Leboe can be no more than a member of a small minority group with little or no influence or opportunity with which to advance the affairs of this constituency.
Mr. Close also has many friends and admirers, but again, the!cold fact is that he too cannot expect to be more than an obscure member of a relatively obscure minority party, even if the theories of his party were as inoccuous as they are often made to sound.
The stark truth is, however, that the socialist party .of Canada (CCF) is, like socialist parties the world over, a fellow worshipper with the communists of the theories of Marx and Engels. Theories which can be made to sound logical but which can never be made to be workable.
The socialists have forever been in the advance guard of communist revolutionary tactics and, but for socialists, the iron curtain would probably never have advanced west of the Russian border. A vote for socialism must always be a vote for totalitarianism.
We are left, therefore, with the candidates of the two major Canadian political parties.
Former mayor Gordon Bryant is a man who, as an active participant in community affairs, has earned the right to our unreserved admiration.
. He headed an excellent administration in Prince George and he enjoys the distinction of possessing a formidable personality and engaging marmcr.
His chief drawback as a candidate lies in the fact that he will go to the polls as the representative of a party which Canada, by and large, was thoroughly fed up with only 10 months ago and which, in our opinion as well as the opinions of many better qualified to prognosticate than we, has an exceedingly slim chance of (See "RIDING NEEDS"  Page 2) -
PREMIER W. A. C. Bennett and .his official-party made,a whirlwind tour of the city yesterday afternoon .before addressing; a crowd-winning rally in the Civic; Center in the evening. Here Lands and Forests jMinister Ray Williston (right) and the Premier are
with Fire Chief August Dornbierer (center)  inspecting'a new fire department vehicle. The officials also visited the new arena and the provincial government; office building.
�Citizen, Photo
Indoor Rally Held In North
Queen Wears Short Dress, But Juliana's Shorter
AMSTERDAM (Reuters) � The-eyes of Amsterdam women were focussed today on the length of Queen Elizabeth's new "scarab blue" dress in." which she arrived for her three-day state visit. They saw that it was shorter � about two inches below the knee � than she. has worn before.
But the big surprise was Queen Juliana's sand-colored dress which was shorter than Elizabeth's. It came only an inch below her knees.
Calling Election Sheer Foolishness
Prime  Minister  John  Uicfcn- a rally in the Civic Center that
baker was scorned last night for calling -'in election "at a time when we needed a government in. office to pull the country through its troubles."
Social Credit M. P. Bert Leboe, campaigning for re-election, told
Dry Tears, Then Fire Crying Business Girl
CALGARY  (CP)  � Three of  ness   manager   of   the   Calgary
four women panelists agreed Monday on a cure for the business woman who has a habit of bursting into tears � offer a handkerchief,' and rollow it up with a dismissal slip.
But one of the panel members at the Second Annual Seminar on Mental Health in Industry was more sympathetic to her kind. Miss Florence Thorpe, women's editor for Calgary radio station CiTAC, said the crying girl should be ignored.
Mrs. John Gorman, a lawyer, had a quick answer for men who find their female employees repeatedly in tears. Help wipe cway the tears and then fire them, she said.
She drew unqualified support frr.oi Mrs. Berryl Rowland, busi-
Philharmonic Society. Mrs. L. S. Willmore, said it depended on the reason for the tears and how frequently  they came.
The panel was considering the problems of women in industry. More than 123 persons have registered for the seminar sponsored by the Calgary branch of the Canadian Mental Association. It ends today.
Miss Thorpe, the only unmarried woman on the panel, said very few bosses make a "pass" at a woman employee unless they get encouragement.
Mrs. Willmore and Airs. Gorman felt that a working woman makes for a better wife. When she has worked she knows the value of money and appreciates what her husband does through-
out the day, Mrs. Willmore said. i.Mrs, Rowland said some women found difficulty in the business world because most men resent newcomers, male or female, until they prove their ability. Some men have such high standards that it was almost impossible for a woman to meet them.
She believed women should not use feminine "wiles" on their jobs and "men don't expect it." But no woman wants to be considered a little boy.
"Most women can get further hy poa.\:ug than by brow-beating," Miss Thorpe added. "A woman would be a fool to use wiles, without anything to back them up and she'd be as equal a fool to let men forget she is a woman."
tno decision to spend $9,000,000 of the taxpayer's money plus party expenses on an election was "sheer foolishness."
�'The 'Follow John' slogan won't be quite as effective this time because Canadians know exactly where John will take ihem," Leboe told a capacity audlencG.
"But the real cost is the lack of an active government," he said.
"W"'.- should have had a strong government in the event of any national emergency but Diefcn-baker dissolved the house to put Canadians in the terrible spot they are in today."
Leboe urged Voters to understand their full responsibilities in this election and "judge the situation carefully."
Mother Charged In Shooting 01 Son
KELOWNA CD � Mrs. Marion Pcarse, 44, of Kelowna is slated to be tried on attempted murder charge at spring assizes at Vernon  next' month.
She is charged in the shooting of her 21-year-old son with a 22-calibre rifle following an argument in their east Kelowna cabin last September.
By JOHN MATTERS
Citizen Staff Reporter
Largest indoor political rally in the history of northern B.C. was held in Prince George last night.
Premier W. A. C. Bennett, Lands and Forests Minister Ray Williston and Social Credit M.P. Bert Leboe drew a crowd in the Civic Centre which was estimated at 1,100.
The meeting capped Leboc's campaign in this portion of the Carllwo riding but was only the beginning of a week's politicking planned by Bennett and his cabinet.
Bennett flayed old line parties in his bristling, 90-minutc address. There was only one blast from a heckler.
Willislon    outlined    the    role
his department has played in the . development of northern B.C. and Leboe criticized Prime Minister John Dicfenbuker for calling next week's federal election. WAS  FATIGUED
The premier was obviously fatigued and after the meeting was hustled off to his private car at the Pacific Great Eastern Railway siding. This morning he left Prince George for a speaking engagement at Kariv loops.
Williston today went into the Fort St. John-Dawson Creek area along with Mr. Leboe. Both are planning to spend the remainder of the week in that area.
"Prince George is a great, throbbing city that the Progressive Conservatives know nothing about," Bennett charged.
He said this city is what the Social Credit government looks on as the nerve centre of B.C.
"1 have inspected some of the finest municipal buildings in B.C., including the new provincial government building," the Premier remarked. RESPONDED POORLY
The former Liberal government in Ottawa, he said, responded poorly to pleas for help; in the construction of the P.G.E.
�'1  had a wonderful reception
 it's   obvious   neither   they  the    Conservatives    know h1
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anything about northern  B.C.,"
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It was on the subject of the P.G.E. that Mr. Bennett was assailed by a heckler. He said there were between 3,006 and 5.000 persons on hand to greet the first train which pulled into Chetwynd recently.
"That's    bunk.    S_it    clown!"
shouted   a' member  of  the  audience.   Howevcd,   Bennett  was not  discouraged  by  the  cries. MUST BE TOM)
"I'm here to tell a story that must be told," he said.
He said there is no other provincial government In Canada which . pays as much, as' B.C. does toward hospital and school construction.
"B.C. is spending more per capita on highways than anywhere in the free world," Bennett declared.
"It's no miracle. It's what the province needed and that's what it is getting.
"We are doing all � these things arid are' reducing debt at the same time."
And then he broke into the campaigning which he has long been noted for:
"This  is  the great  rally you have all been waiting for. This is good for you and the whole province. X(> GOOD POLICIES
"The ladies in this audience are splendid people. If they were around 30 years ago � and I'm sure most of them weren't � they would easily see that the policies of the old (See "PREMIER"  Page 2)
Williston Tells Of Upper Fraser Plan
A hydro and flood control development a few miles east of Prince George on the Fraser River mi\y solve all the power problems- of north-central B.C.
Minister of Lands and Forests Ray Williston told a political rally here last night in the Civic Center that surveys are currently being undertaken for the project.
He spoke in support of Social Credit M.P. Bert Leboe.
He said a damsite on the Eraser River could back the water up to Eagle Lake, creating n water reservoir which would have the power capacity "of any of its size in B.C."
Earlier in the day Williston ex-ulained that the power potential of the project would be in the neighborhood of 1,000,000 hp. He also said that the development of power was dependent upon  the
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success oi the Wenner-Gren project in the Rocky Mountain Trench.
Wenner-Grcn power potential is 4,000,000 hp. and this power would be moved to the lower mainland and U.S. by* a newly developed high Voltage line. This line could also carry the power load Iroin the Fraser hydro development arid thus give a market to make it feasible.
WillUton. made no' indication as to when. construction pnf Die project would besftvor what"outlets, would be found for the energy: ON SCHEDULE
"The Wenner-Gren project is going ahead on schedule," Willis-ton slated and added that one damsite has been found, to be feasible on the Peace River.
Diamond drillers probing for 'he foot of a second dam on the same river this winter have encountered difficulty reaching bedrock lie said.
However, Williston  had little doubt that the Wenner-Gren development   program   would   go ahead. SOU) NORTH
"We have managed to sell northern B.C. not only on a national but on international basis," he said. The reserve which blankets the Rocky Mountain Trench is in thr> name of the crown and over $">,000.000 have already (See "HYDRO SCHEME" Page 2)
Williston
NOTHING WRONG IN SOMMERS' OFFICE FILES
BiG.'s minister of lands and forests said in Prince George last night that he found "nothing �m>ng" with the department when he took over from bribery and conspiracy-accused ex-minister Robert Sommcrs.
Ray Williston said he would hesitate to comment on the case now because it is before the courts but added that only "half of the story has been told."
"The defence has not presented arty evidence yet and U won't fro r MntJJ the end, of "May ~whc'n both sides of the case will have been heard,'/ he remarked.
'As minister of lands and forests taking over Mr. Summers' office I could find nothing in those files which would indicate any wrongdoing," he said.
He-did not indicate if he would 1c a defence witness in the Assize Court which is scheduled to open May 1.
Teachers Seek To Form Trade Union
VANCOUVER (GP.| � The �ii)0-mcmber tetichers association of suburbaan Surrey has applied to the labor relations board to be certified as a trade union.
it is the first such attempt by a B.C. teachers group and is designed as a "test case" to find out what will happen.
Tories Fail In Jobless Crisis
The conservative government has failed to deal "adequately or with expediency" with unemployment in Canada, Liberal candidate Gordon Bryant has charged in a campaign speech.
Referring to the "mounting unemployment" across the nation, the candidate for Cariboo said that it ''is beyond comprehension" why the conservatives have not dealt adequately with' the problem.
"They made no frontal attack on this situation during the last session of parliament. No bold and comprehensive plan as it should have done," he said.
He said that it would be unfair to lay the blame for the present economic depression on any
patty lately or presently in power, but he maintained that the Picfenbaker government should have introduced sonic plan to deal effectively with the situation. �
The Pearson Plan, he said, with its many proposals, would slinulate the economy by increasing purchasing power.
Mr. Bryant who speaks at a campaign rally in Quesnel tomorrow night winds up his'campaign in Prince George Friday night with a dance and social c veiling in the Sacred Heart School  auditorium.
The Liberal candidate claims that all during the campaign he is the only one to have offered a clear-out pltaform.
Council To Demand Gas Distribution This Year
City council will make a bid soon to secure the distribution of natural gas in the" city this year.
At its next regular meeting council will be asked to make a formal demand upon Inland Natural Gas Co. Ltd. and the Prince George Gas Co. requesting the two companies to negotiate an interim. agreement, whereby the city would be provided with gas at the best rate schedule hitherto offered by either comoanx.
The demand has already been phrased in a m6tion prepared by Alderman Charles Cranston and which was' submitted to city  council   last  night.
The motion,will be adopted as a matter of routine at council's next regular meeting or at a special meeting to be held perhaps within the next, few days.
The notice of motion served by Cranston has the support of mayor and aldermen and indicates the temper of council regarding the naturaJt gas issue.
"We cannot wait forever. We have waited long enough already," maintained Mayor Carrie Jane Gray today.
"It's time we started to do something ourselves," she said PltESSUKE OX
Aid. Cranston explains it this way:
"The  city is being subjected to pressure from many- sourc for   the   supply   of   gas.   r will  be   the  new  hospital there.is the new coliseuni
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