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Doris E. Bechtley 1158 Melville St. -V-AKCOUVER,   B.C.
Dec6-57
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Vol.   2;.   No.  -61
PRINCE GEORGE, BRITISH COLUMBIA, THURSDAY, MARCH 27, 1958
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Editorial:
Premier Bennett Whistling In Dark
Speaking before 1,100 people in Prince George Mon day night Premier W. A. C. Bennett sounded less like a man of destiny than he did like a man whose politica sins are starting to bother his conscience.
Listening to his fantastic claim of provincial debt reduction, and his willy-nilly attack upon the Liberals and Progressive Conservatives, one was inclined to wonder whether he was not trying more to convince himself than the aggregation before him.
Mr. Bennett's government has not reduced the per-capita debt of the people of British Columbia, he. has merely transferred debt responsibility to municipalities school boards etc., from the shoulders of the provincial government.
The per capita debt of British Columbians has increased during the Social Credit regime and with this we have no argument. It had-to increase if the province was to' progress. But we do seriously question the integrity of a man, and a party, which claims to have reduced public debt when thd man and the party know that the "debt reduction" is nothing more nor less than a trick of accountancy.
Mr. Bennett was forced to acknowledge the truth of public debt increase last year when he was rebuffed in an effort to raise another large provincial loan in the United States. He is not so stupid as to try alnd perpetrate the morally dishonest debt reduction story on New York bankers because he knows they would laugh at him.
Mr. Bennett and Mr. Williston's childish stage byplay on the freedom of Social Credit Party backbenchers to express themselves needs little comment other than a reminder of the incident only a few weeks ago when the premier accused a party dissenter of having loaded (See "PREMIER BENNETT"  Page 2)
School Board Brief Set For Submission
�School board and city off I-, "dills will meef'soon to discuss" the contents of a brief which will bo presented to the Chant royal commission on B.C. edu-� cation.       '
Board chairman Robert Range said the school body will definitely submit a brief on local education problems to the commission.
The commision, headed by Dean   S.   N.   1>\   Chant   of   the
University of B.C., will open Tts"""inaugural sitting in Vancouver  soon.
One' of the major problems affecting the schools in this area a policy regarding teachers recruitment and training programs.
The school board has already taken steps toward alleviating the problem relative to this area and to .the entire northern part of   'the  province.
Strange Orbit Pattern For Newest Satellite
. CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) �Explorer ill, the world's , newest satellite, dipped and ~ soared today through the strans-cat orbit, pattern man has yet established.
Unseen but overheard as its radio voiAe untiringly transmits information on its out-of-this-world environment, the new American moon 12 times a day staggers up and up until it is about 1,700 miles out in  space.
This is a more far-reaching journey than accomplished by any other satellite, among the five that have achieved orbits, except the United States Vanguard which flies out to a distance of 2,500 miles.
Twelve times a day, also, Explorer III zooms earthward to entangle itself with the thin upper reaches of the earth's atmosphere, only 110 miles a-bove   the  ground.
Because of the increasing atmospheric drag and the greater pull of gravity as the satellite approaches the earth, Explorer 111 is expected to have a relatively short life.
Miaj.-Gcn John B. Mcdaris, commander of the U.S. Army ballistic missile agency which fired the new Explorer Wednesday, told reporters it probably will not live longer than two weeks.
But Medaris pointed out that the satellite, while venturing far out in space, also will explore air densities at the lower altitudes where it overlaps a region that has been measured by high-altitude .sounding rockets such as  Hie Aerobec.
Weiker Gels New Posting
Douglas Welcker has been, appointed vice-principal of the Prince George junior high school,
Mr Wcif'ker is currently principal of Connaught elementary school and will replace P. C. MaeGregor who is vice-principal on the junior high staff.
Ex-Mayor Morrison To Open New Arena
Ex-mayor John Morrison will be invited to cut the ribbon when the new civic coliseum is officially opened April 11.
Mayor Carrie Jane Gray suggested to council Monday night that because the arena was start-. cd\mder Mr. Morrison's admini-' Btfatjon, he be invited to undertake the honor.
In addition all former mayors of  the  city   still  resident here will be officially invited to attend the ceremonies. LOXG lilST
The former mayors will be included among a long list of private citizens and public figures who will attend the gala two-day celebrations.
Aid. Ken Jack, president of the
North Central Union of B.C. Municipalities, l'equested that tickets be pi-ovided delegates of the organization, many of whom will be in the city at the time to attend a regular union conference.
Also in attendance will be representatives of the coliseum's architects, McKinley, Underwood & Cameron, of the contractor, C. J. Oliver, the parks commission, the civic properties commission, executive members of the Joint Service Club Council and many other organizations including press, radio and television coverage.
The grand opening will be highlighted by an ice show stag' cd by the Connaught Skating Club of jVancouver.
TELEPHONES AND telephone directories are in the news here as illustrated above by Irene Mitchell. The new Prince George telephone directory:is being distributed in the city this week and on March 30 at 2:01 a.m. all telephones will be switched over to the dial system.                                           -^Citizen Photo
'Gus' To Close Campaign Here With Skirl Of Pipes
The skirl of the pipes will ouch off a political rally tonight as Progressive-Conservative can-lidate W. C. "Gus" Henderson nakes his last appeal to voters, n Prince George.
The spry candidate from the 'eace River will share the plal-orm in the Civic Centre with the Hon. H. H. "Harry" Stevens, one ol the party's elder statesmen r'om  Vancouver.
The meeting will be preceded jy a parade and a 'band concert staged by the Rotary Pipe Band.
Parade time is scheduled for :15   p.m.  from   the  corner  of
Third   and  Dominion   St.   from whence it. will proceed up George St. to Seventh Ave. and over to the Civic Centre. QUJCSNKL,  GISCOMK
The Manitoba-born farmer completed a whirlwind campaign Tuesday at Giscome and Willow River and Quesnel and Wells on Wednesday.
Prior to that Mr. Henderson travelled to the farthestniost community in the riding to address a meeting at Lower Post. The wily campaigner claims that he is the only candidate to visit the northern  point on the B.C.-
Yukon border.
Mi1. Henderson, who with his son farms at Rolla, a community about 50 miles north of Dawson Creek, will return to Dawson Creek tonight following the meeting.
He Will make two more speeches before his campaign closes Saturday night. Friday night he will address a meeting in Dawson Creek arid on Saturday he will speak at Pouce Coupe. He will be accompanied on his return to the Peace River by John Coales, a member of his campaign committee.
Woodward, Guinness Win Motion Picture xxOscar'
By   JAMES   BACON
HOLLYWOOD (AP) � Joanne Woodward and Britain's 'man of 1,000 faces," Alec Guinness, hold the new Motion Picture Academy awards.
The Bridge on the River Kwai >yas voted the best picture Wednesday night at Hollywood's 30th awards presentation, a show that many critics called one of the best ever.
Red Buttons, a comic unwanted by television, won the supporting-actor Oscar for his first, movie and first serious role. Buttons player the American air-nan who married a Japanese girl in Suyonara.
And Miyoshi Umcki,' who played Buttons' wife in the pic-Lure, won the feminine supporting Oscar.
"1 didn't think I had a chance," Miss Woodward said. "... Even when they called my name, I thought they said 'Deborah Kerr'."
Miss Woodward had an actress tour de force in The Three Faces
Funeral Held For Giscome Pioneer
A pioneer resident of Giscome, Gordon Wipdom, 72, was buried today following funeral services in Assman's Funeral Chapel.
Mr. Wisdom who was a resident of Giscome for 32 years is survived by his wife, two souk, Donald and William, and two daughters, Adelaide and Ruby all of Giscome and a third daughter Margeurile at Lac la Hache.
of Eve � and she did it the hard way. The picture was a true-life psychiatric study of a Georgia woman with a triple personality. Miss Woodward, a Georgian herself, did the sudden changes in continuity rather than shooting each personality separately.
Guinness, usually a master of satire, played a hard-nosed British colonel in "Kwai." His award was accepted by actress- Jean Simmons, an old friend. Guinness wanted to fly over for the academy awards but an insurance policy of his current movie prevented him leaving England.
Mlyoshl, a Japanese singing star, said: "I didn't hope to win. 1 just happy to be nominated."
S-Sgl. Beaumont New RCMP Head
- Staff Sergeant A. N. Beaumont has taken over the post as head of th Prince George detachment of  the RCMP.
Beaumont was in charge, of the Richmond detachment before coming to Prince George. Previously he was with, the force's air division working dut of  Winnipeg.
He will be senior to some 25 members of the detachment plus a clerical staff of three. Beaumont succeeds Sgt. S> A.. McKim, who has been transferred to the Hope detachment last month.
Sgt. W W. Thomson has been acting officer in charge in the interim.
For Buttons, the award was the culmination of a career of tips arid downs.
"I feel this should serve as an' inspiration for every guy who has been written off in this business as I was," he said.
Other top awards went to David. Lean, the British director of "Kwai," and to song writers Sammy Calm and Jimmy van Huesen for their hit, All the Way.
City Acquires CNR Properly
An offer by Canadian National Railways to forfeit ownership of a strip of land bounding the west bank of the Fraser River between Seventeenth and Twentieth Avenues has been accepted by city council.
The railway company advised council that it had no use for the narrow strip of land and that it would donate the property to the city providing the city grant a tax rebatcment retroactive to January 1958, in return.
The newly acquired land will be incorporated into the Fort George park.
LOADING ZONE
� Home Furnishers Ltd: have been granted a request for the creation of a 22-foot loading zone to service its premises. The zone will be located on the east side of Dominion St. at Third? Aye.
Khrushchev New President  Of Soviet  Union
Bennett Greeted By Cow Bell
NEW WESTMINSTER, B.C. (CD � Hostile placards, .catcalls and a cow bell kept a meeting of 1,300 persons in -uproar Wednesday night as Premier W. A. C. Bennett and Attorney-General Robert Bonner of British Columbia outlined the Social Credit election platform.
The premier relished the excitement, kept up a running repartee with the hecklers and drew loud applause from supporters.
The noise started as a man tried to carry into the hall signs reading "Social Credit means funny money" and'"Social Credit means chaos." He was flocked by members of the audience-Hecklers then rose in the front row,-each carrying a letter card to spell out first "Lot of smoke but no fire" and then "Socred cow."- At each display nearby spectator seized one of the cards from its bearer and tore it up.
As the "Socred cow" sign was spelled out, one