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Vol.   2;   No.   78
PRINCE GEORGE, BRITISH COLUMBIA, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 23, 1958
PRICE   7   CENTS
BY CARRIER 350 PER WEES
Real Estate
Sets  Stage  For
Second Large Hotel In Prince George
SCOURGE TO TRUCKERS but guardian of the John Hart Highway is this British Columbia Department of highways weigh-station situated two miles north of Prince George. The mammoth scales have a capacity of 100,000 pounds and will accurately record objects weighing as little as 100 pounds. They were put into operation to control the weight of vehicles using the Hart. Lobking over the accurate instrument at left is operator Sid MarshalU As many as 104 loaded trucks and trailers have passed over the scale in a single day since it went into operation a few days prior to the spring breakup. The weighing platform is 62 feet loxig, a size large enough to accommodate almost any truck which uses the road. It is mithned by three shirts and is open around-the-clock. A similar scale is located a few miles south of Dawson Creek to guard traffic on the northern end of the highway. Other scales arc in operation on highways in southern B.C. and have been effective in keeping roads in good condition throughout the year.
Councillors In State Of Shock As School Cost Share  Bared
j City of Prince George /today is faced with paying school costs it never anticipated.
The provincial government's share of education costs in this school district did not turn out to be as generous as municipal government officials and most residents expected.
Prince George ratepayers can expect an increase in taxes this year unless further grants are made by the department of education or other B.C. government sources.
The city's share Is $70,000 more than it should be, council contends.
A special meeting of city council last night decided to dis-
patch a telegram to the acting premier and other members of the cabinet protesting the city's share of the costs.
Acting Mayor Charles Cranston said he felt the city of Prince George had.been "hoodwinked."
"This is the worst it has been. We should advocate a sit down strike or something close to it," declared Aid. Percy Williams, chairman of council's finance committee.
Generally speaking, the city was expecting, the government to increase its grants toward education  this  year.
Publicity has been directed in this direction and council felt ratepayers had been led down the garden path on the matter.
The school budget for lf)5S is a record $1,137,300. Provincial government share under the new formula is 88-12,596.
School budget for 1957 was $1,-300,GIG.  The government share
was $803,S-12.
However, the city's share this year is almost $16,000 more than it was in 1957.
City's share of the 1957 budget was $261,367; this year it's $307,-620.
If the government had paid the same percentage of school costs in 195S as it did in 1957 the city's share would have been $23S,320.
City had expected to offer ratepayers a reduction in taxes this year.
A telegram sent last night to the acting premier, minister of education and other officials discloses that council vehemently protests the new finance formula.
All budget planning was carried out in expectation of some improvement in the sharing of the school cost burden and it now has been wasted, council said.
The    inevitable    increase    in
overall school costs in this area in the future and the resulting financial condition of our city as a result of the new formula will have a serious effect upon the normal development of the city which is in no position to increase its property taxes any further,"  the  telegram  reads.
"This council feels that there has been a serious failure upon the part of your government to provide adequate provincial contribution towards school costs which we were led to believe would be forthcoming this year and which we believe we have a right to expect."
However, rnc city is literally over a barrel on the issue.
In compliance with the new municipal act the city comptroller compiled the 185S budget in October last year.
"it was an unfavorable time to do  it  because we  had  little
(See  "COUNCILLORS"   Page 2)
 Loss $130 Million
BOSTON (CP) � Approximately $130,000,000 worth of property was destroyed by fire in Canada in 1957, the National Fire Protection Association's annual report today showed.
The most costly single fire during the year was a $5,000,000 blaze which damaged the Bowater pulp and paper mill at Corner Brook, Nfld., on April 20, and industry as a whole lost more than $13,000,-000 worth of plants in 11 major fires.
Building
Demolition
Imminent
City council last night gave third reading to eight bylaws calling for the demolition of a series of substandard buildings.
The structures will be demolished and removed by the city and the costs of the operations will be charged to the property owners' tax bills.
The owners of the building have all been given 30 days notice in which to act on the substandard structures.
They were then given 10 days in chich to appeal the building inspector's   decision.
Building Inspector D. G. Fra-ser said demolition will commence as soon as the bylaws affecting the structures have been approved by council.
Final reading will probably be given the bylaws next week.
GAS COMPANY SEEKS HELP IN SURVEY
With a scries of advertisements running in The Citizen the Prince George Gas Company is actively seeking the co-operation of city residents in expediting a consumer survey on which to base natural gas system engineering decisions.
Home-owners and business operators are urged to fill out- a questionnaire which appears in the Prince George Gas Company ad'.
Gas company officials have stressed that the questionnaire is not an application and that filling it out entails no obligation.
Two technical officials of the company, Joseph Maday and Murray. Campbell, will remain in Prince George until April 27 and will answer any questions which the public cares to ask.
COURT QUASHES CONVICTION
VANCOUVER (CP) � Conviction of Cecil George Folland at Prince George on a charge of obtaining credit by false pretenses has been qilashed by the Court of Appeal.
He had been sentenced by Magistrate P. J. Moran to six months.
L.  ZIMMARO
L Zimmaro Passes, Age 74
A successful hotel operator in Prince George for 30 years, Louis Zimmaro died in Vancouver Monday. He was 74.
Mr. Zimmaro came to Prince George in its early days and stayed with community through its many ups and downs in the 1920's and 30's.
He was born in Italy in 1884 and came to Prince George with Hie Giand Trunk Railway in 1911.
He worked on the railway for some years and made his home in Central Fort George. In 1925 Mr. Zimmaro built the' Columbus Hotel on Third Ave.
He retired from the hotel business in 1950 anil has been ailing over the past year.
It was only two weeks ago when he was taken to St. Paul's Hospital in Vancouver for medi-home in Prince George five months prior to  that.
His wife predeceased him three years ago.
He is survived by a son, .lames, and two daughters, Mrs. D. N. Palumbo and Mrs. N. S. Peterson, all of Prince George. He raised his family here.
Requiem mass will be sung by the Rev. J. A. Carroll, O.M.I., at the Sacred Heart Church at 10:30  tomorrow morning.
Interment will be In family plot at the Prince George cere-try.
Prayers will be said at Ass-man's Funeral Home this evening commencing at S o'clock.
Prince George Hotel Owners Bare Plans
Hard on the heels of an.( announcement yesterday that final corporate obstacles to construction of the $1,000,000 Simon Fraser Inn had been hurdled came word that Prince George Hotel Company will erect a 100-room structure on the east side of George Street.
The company currently operates the Prince George Hotel on the west side of the same thoroughfare.
The hotel will have'automatic elevators and frontage  of  122  feet extending  south  from  the  corner of Fourth Avenue and George,  of
Lou Slmpkins, manager the Prince George Hotel and a director of the company which owns it, said construction will get   underway    "shortly."
A start is to be made on plans for the. big structure immediately, he told ' The Citizen this morning.
The project, which the company has had under consideration for some time, got the green light yesterday when 'arrangements were finalized for purchase of some of the land from   private   owners.
Key parcel of land was a lot on the corner of Fourth and George Street. It is at present occupied by Carmichael & Lutt-rell, real estate and . insurance agents. Owner of the lot was L. H. Kenney, former city businessman now living in Vancouver.
Simpkihs said negotiations to obtain the key parcel of land have been going on for two years.
Final transaction for the property was negotiated on behalf of Prince George Hotel Co. by Cy Westaway a� Prince George Agencies.
The company now owns' all I he land between Peeters' Meat Market, -158 George Street, and the Fourth Avenue intersection.
Prince George Hotel Co. operates hotels in British Columbia and Alberta. It. recently completed a $750,000 hotel at Dawson Creek and i\ short time previously opened a now half million dollar, hotel in Grand Prairie.
Cost of the new hotel to be built here has not yet been determined, Mi'. Slmpkins said, but it will approximate the Dawson Creek   project.
Mean while Prince George architects today are conferring with the builders of the million-dollar Simon Fraser Inn in Vancouver over specifications and general features of the new structure.
Construction of the 100-r.oom hotel is scheduled to get underway within a month.
Douglas Starr, principal and partowher of the enterprise, last night, appeared before a special meeting of city council to confirm final arrangements for the purchase of property at the site of the former civic arena.
He also applied to council to have an agreement over the property and performance bonds transferred from the Chuckrow Construction Co. to the Van-George Hotel Co. Ltd., builders of the edifice.
Starr said Robert Chuckrow, principal of the construction firm, has withdrawn from the venture because of illness.
Chuckrow visited Prince George earlier this year.
Architect Jqlyon Briggs is now in Vancouver working with officials of the Cloverdale Construction Co. Ltd. on details of the  building.
Starr was in New York City last weekend and made final arrangements for building and financing   of   the   undertaking.
Local architectural firm of Briggs & Fonseca has been named supervising architects for the project.
Secret
Sputnik
Suspected
By ALTON U BIjAKKUMSE
NEW YORK (AP) � Is a secret Sputnik III circling the earth painted black, beeping out its message  only  over Russia?
Is a rocket made in Russia all set. to land on the moon?
Or has the USSR been having rocket-launching troubles?
These are some of the quest-inns asked in a sweepstakes of speculation; all rising from the fact it has been almost six months since Sputnik 11 rose on Nov.
Why the six months delay in Sputniks'.' Or is the Soviet Union preparing some spectacular new sti'p in our young new space ago?
A secret Sputnik is possible; says one prominent U.S. rocket scientist.
''The Russians might have been shocked and awed by our reactions when they were first with their Spiitnicks," he says. "Maybe they don't want to stir us uii anymore, so they're waiting awhile,
"Maybe they even sent up a secret Sputnik to continue their scientific work. Paint it black instead of polishing it up, and it would be very hard ever to sec Fix it so it broadcasts only on command signal from the ground in Russia, and radio stations elsewhere could miss it entirely."
SHOOTING AT MOOX
Another publicly voiced suggestion is the Russians have been shooting for the moon, but missing.
Something is apparently brewing.
Some Soviet officials have hinted that it is repitilious and a waste of time just to send up satellite.; � that after a couple have gone up, the next step is something bigger and bolder. This could be a shot for the moon.
Town   Planner   Holds   Fate   Of   City   In   A   Briefcase
A young Prince Georgian is in Victoria today, with a ]arge chunk of this city's future in his brief-case.
He is town-planner Desmond Parker, who flew into the provincial capital this week to discuss his mastcr-plan for the long-term development of Prince George with experts of the Municipal Affairs Department and of the Department of Lands and Forests.
These plans, which were recently approved by city council, lay clown guide lines that will determine much of the character that the city will develop as it grows, and will effect not only our lives, but the lives of generations of Prince Georgians to come.
GKOWIXG POPULATION
By 1975 it is expected that city population will have grown to about 40,000, and that the city will occupy the natural triangle bounded by the Fraser, the Nechako and the western foothills:
One of the aims of the present plans is to make orderly, undislocated development of a city of  this size possible.
The object of all planning, of course, should be to provide the basis for a good life for the individual.
As Parker put it recently, planning must provide all the basic elements of urban living� residential, recreational, working, trading, educational, health and general service facilities � for the individual.
How   these   ideas   work   out when applied-to an.,.actual problem is shown  by the way  the problem of devising a rcsiden-| tial  area which  is  something
more than a homogeneous dormitory, has been tackled.
The residential zones of the city will be divided into a number of cells or "living neighborhoods." Each neighborhood, which will accommodate about 3,000, will have a main road or artery at its perimeter, so that no heavy traffic will flow through the neighborhood itself.
The size of the neighborhoods is determined by the distance that a child attending elementary school can conveniently walk � a distance that has been set at about one quarter of a mile. A 12 or 16 classroom elementary school will be located at the approximate center of each neighborhood. Also near the center will be a four or five acre park. Smaller parks will be scattered over the neighborhood, so that all homes will be within one eighth of a mile of a park.
A little local retailing will be
provided, where warranted, in the neighborhoods, a store, say, on the supermarket pattern. Provision for the complete life-cycle is made in the neighborhood: bachelor apartments will be provided at the edge of the unit, while families will Jive nearer the center. MAJOR  KEOKEATIOX
Two large recreation areas have been reserved for the city, one in the vicinity of the fall fair site, the other south of the town, comprising the golf course, the old airport, and adjacent lots. DOAVXTCWX   AREA
Main or heavy retailing will not be done in the "neighborhoods. The resident will drive to the perimeter of his neighborhood, and make his way, via a radial artery'to the downtown or retailing area. He will park at the edge of the retailing zone �which is encircled by an artery, and proceed on foot to the stores   that  will   b*   compactly
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locator!   in   the  area..
The retail area is, under existing by-laws already zoned as such. The area enclosed by Third and Fifth Avenues extending from Vancouver to George, and the area between Fifth and Seventh from Brunswick anct George, will be the retailing area. No dwelling houses or light industries will, as at present, be allowed to trespass into this region. At the moment about half this zone is being misused. If the whole zone is put to retail use, it will be able to serve a town of 40,000 easily.
George Street, Parker predicts, will develop into a "quality" or "sophisticated" street, with good restaurants, fine food and clothing stores, while Third Avenue will continue as the bustling business street with the  big  department stores.
As the area develops, Fourth and Fifth will take over, preventing ribbon development along Third Avenue*
LIGHT  INDUSTRY
i Adjacent to the retail area are two zones that have been reserved for such light industries as warehousing service stations and repair industries. Queensway, Second Avenue and Patricia Boulevard form the boundaries of one, while First, Second, Victoria and Queensway limit the other. HEAVY   INDUSTRY
Heavy industry has practically no accommodation in this tbvps
The CNR has rlgiitof-way, and serves the area bounded by first avenue and the Fraser and Nechako Rivers, which already-con tains what industry � planing mills and the brewery � exists in the town.
In addition the CNR could service some 600 acres north of Fifth Avenue and West of Carney street � this area is also reserved for industry.
The PGE also owns huge areas which could well develop industrially. One is across the
elbow of the Fraser and Nechako � Fraser Flats. The other is an area of some 2,000 acres along the west bank of the Fraser river extending south from Fraser Bridge. The development of all these areas, will, of course, depend upon tbe industrial potential of the area as a whole. HIGHWAYS
The highways are planned to link the zones and neighborhood;-;, so that it is easy to travel from any one point to any other, and to minimize heavy traffic through the zones, particularly in the case of the retail and residential zones.
A system of arteries, mainly enlarged and improved versions of existing roads, consisting of roads radiating from the downtown area, and roads concentric with it, has been planned.
The first ring, around the downtown area, is defined by Second, Seventh, Queensway'and Victoria, the next, going outwards from the center is bound-
ed by First, Carney, Twentieth and Taylor Drive, the next will be the new Cariboo Highway and service roads, while the outer ring will be provided by two roads parallel to the foothills and the Vanderhoof highway.
The radial system wil consist of: Fifth Avenue, Fifteenth Avenue, and the Van Bien Highway.
The new Cariboo highway will be located close to the present Central Avenue, it will be associated with a compact trucking terminus and a limited area for certain inoffensive industries.
Such, in barest outline, is the plan that will probably guide the growth of the city for many years to come.
Parker will present a fully detailed report on the plan to city council at the end of the
month.
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