INSIDE
EDITORIAL ".................... Page 2
SPORTS ............................ Page 4
WOMEN'S, SOCIAL ......... Page 7
CLASSIFIED ...................... Page 8
COMICS ............................ Page 9
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WEATHER
Cloudy wfth scattered showers. Cooler and light winds. Low tonight and high tomorrow, 55 and 80.
Vol. 2; No. 123
PRINCE GEORGE, BRITISH COLUMBIA, FRIDAY, JUNE 27, 1958
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QUEEN OF THE EVERGREENS, Lynn Alexander and her two attendants, Ann Kueng and Judy Jan-akka get a lesson on the inner workings of stock cars from driver Vic Russman. Vic will drive in the Prince
George Auto Racing Association meet at the track Juty 1. Miss Alexander will present trophies to the winners of the event.
$14,000 Stilt Not Recovered
Searchers Area For
TERRACE � RCMP led a cordon of volunteer searchers into wet bushland here this morning in a hunt for two gunmen who escaped with $ I �1.000 from a bank here yesterday.
The hunt, aided by KCMP tracking dugs and aircraft, is ContlnUing without, any trace of the pair who police believe arc still in the backwoods near this small community.
Terrace is 250 miles east of Prince George.
Police and volunteers literally
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By JACK BRETT
Being former resident of Ontario is a hindrance rather than an advantage when one moves to Prince George. I'm talking about buying used cars. The finance companies insist upon 10 per cent down before driving the vehicle away from the lot. Yesterday a salesman told me I'd have to .swallow by "Ontario pride" when looking for used cars.
Oh tor the days of Stoney's far Market, on the Danforth where SliO lets you drive away "anything on the lot."
Why do finance companies insist a man PERMANENTLY employed in Prince George � bearing good references etc � require I" l>er cent down? That is the question to which 1 intend to find the answer. The used car dealers don't like it either.
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Decimation, the dictionary explains � to reduce by one in ten �
Peter Phlllippe and John Harlbw have left for Parksville and Qualicum Beach Progress, But Echo omitted to tell they bought the paper.
hose �decimated" by getting married and
The Echo; giving up
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Lil Johnson is one of they mean by this she is job*� they're right.
However, they didn't pet all their facts � New stall ap pointments include Bill Canning, day foreman; Jim Tucker, cir dilation manager, and Joe Sniddons, business manager.
Lots of luck to Peter and John and to Lil and Ariel.
There is a so-called photographer nroinul town who hinclc ;i pretty crafty deal on a camera. 1I<< bought it front a kind lady for $50J Neglected to tell her it's actual value was well over �150. -Vice guy!
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Peter Knlgge's name was inadvertently left off the list o the Junior High Schools Centennial pageant scrip lit ions. Peter was co-author and also workc
credits on
iti last night's
on stage production.
rhcidehtiy, the show way pretty well done one'*; So was the one on the Hart Highway the I liked last night's show better. It show* the 'kids' are capabl of better things. _
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ealed off the town hoping to orner the two men who per-prnicd the daring robbery at (i:l(i a.m. yesterday.
I KM .MUD IN
Terrace is hemmed in by the oast range of mountains?. The own is served by the Northern Trans-Provincial highway run-ling west to Prince Rupert and asi to Prince, George.
KCMP reinforcements were sent here late Thursday from joints in the Kamloops subdivision and [racking iU)ir,x were lown in from Cloverdale in the ower mainland, JET 11' KOADBLOGKS
Roadblocks were set, up Thurs-lay on all three highways load-n'g out of the area and searchers made a thorough check along the banks of the Skeena River. The blocks were at Hazelton, Smlthers, Tyco, Kitimat and Gallow Bridge, near Prince Ku pert.
The bandits forced manager H. Alan Taylor to lie on the loor while they scooped bilk out of the tills at three wickets. A girl teller tripped an alarm 1 police were on their waj when the men fled.
It was believed the first haul'
ibbi'ry in the history of t!>i-logging and farming town, IC( miles northeast of Vancouver.
PRINCESS B1RGITTA, 21, of Sweden, created quite a stir wlien she appeared in this brief suri-suit in Stockholm. She-is shown cutting a piece of wood to make a draiillg rack while camping out with gym trainees.
15 Die As Plane Crashes In Flames
WESTOVER AIR FORCE BASE, Mass. � A je tanker plane, attempting a trans-Atlantic speed recon crashed and exploded seconds after takeoff early today killing all its 1") occupants.
Observers said the giant KC-1------------*�
135 jet tanker apparently hit Kazimierz Machowski, 15, high tension wires about I' r ! whoso the runway ana
Anyone Ioking for German Shepherd puppies
\lrs Hubcr at the Chilako Kennels has three lor sale. I hese
n� tip'real pure bred dogs with lineage reaching back into
Central Europe. 'Darn1 good pets too - take i
owns one despite protests from the dog-haung
it from one neighbors.
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Auto Kaecrs will hold stock car racing will be aWarded, An all-out ello.. �o
under
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..�'1ml the kuat situation will be uiad.;. The races get at '� o'clock at Uie uwial track.
miles from the runway plunged into a garden in a blinding burst of flames.
The explosion disintegrated the plane Into hundreds of pieces, the largest of which was described as no bigger than a chair.
Among the victims were six reporters who were to cover the flight of four U.S. air force plane.; attempting to break records for aircraft speed in crossing the Atlantic in both directions. GENERAL ON BOARD
Also on board was Brig.-Gcn. Donald W. Saunders of Athens, X. Y., airborne commander in charge of the operation.
The ill-fated plane flight to take off. The first two sot off on schedule and headed directly for London.
The fourth plane was on the runway ready 'to lake off at the time of the crash. Tliat flight was cancelled.
property the plane crashed, said:
"1 heard the plane taking off as 1 was lying in bod. In a very little while, 1 heard a terrific explosion. I ran outside and it was 'brighter than daylight from the burning' plane.
TV FOR CITY
Entire System In By Early October
Target starting date for continuous telecasting central Prince George has been set for August 1.
PGTV Station Manager Gary {obinson said today that if final able plans for the area are ipproved by the North West Telephone Co. headquarters by Monday, a zone bounded by 'arney, First, Seventeenth and ho Edmonton will receive regu-ar programs within a month.
"Exact date depends on the ate of progress of the North Vest Telephone Co. in laying he cable."
"But the service should cer-ainly come into operation within
month from whenever cable ilans are approved at Vancouver." -'IMSIIIOD BY OCTOBER
Target date for completion of he whole system has been set or the end of October.
"We have solid contracts with he telephone company for com-)letlon of the whole job," he said.
Telecasting on a part time nisis to dealers is slated to start Thursday, Mr. Robinson said. DKALKKS' TELECASTS
'Wo hope to run a two hour
Monday to Thursday. On Friays and Saturdays we will run
l program from 5 p.m. to niid-
light." President of the company Joe
Briggs said today that they in end to develop a good local news
section of the telecasts. Studio
facilities for live telecasts exist, said, and the company plans
to develop outside live telecasts.
Pageant Wins Praise
A colourful centennial pagacnt presented by 100 students last night today won high praise.
Alex Bowie, chairman of Prince George Centennial Com mit.tce, said it was "excellent throughout" and showed "re markable originality."
The students re-enacted the progress of gold-seekers from the "rutH" of 1819 and showed how Governor Douglas ruled in the west.
Among the highlights of the show was recreation of some of the scenes at Barkerville and lighting with Indians along the Frascr.
"It was a1 very good jol throughout and it was exception ally well planned," Mr. Bowie, stated.
New York Visit
NEW YORK (CP)�vrwo Canadian frigates, La Hulloise and the Swansea, docked here Thursday with 82 cadets on a training cruise. The sister ships will re main here four days.
Asked what effect a rival open-circuit company might have on lis company, Briggs said he was 'Not afraid."
"Economics are on our side, e can stand up to it if it eonjes."
An application for permission erect a television aerial on Connaught Hill was received by city council recently. No action on the application has been taken to date.
Mr. Robinson announced to-lay that equipment and cable 'or the system is in town.
To date two-and-a-half miles jf cable have been laid down-own to service 11 television lealers.
It is anticipated that -10 miles jf cable will be needed to ;s'jrv-ce the whole town.
CHERYL CRANE talks with her mother, screen star Lana Turner, in the office of attorney William Pollack where depositions are being taken by Pollack in the $705,000 damage stiit brought in behalf of John Stompanato. Defendants arc Miss Turner, her daughter and Stephen Crane, Cheryl's father. In background is attorney Jerry Geisler who is acting for Miss Turner. Cheryl now says she does not recollect stabbing Stompanato.
RCMP WILL WATCH
WEElCEhOD -TRAVELLERS
A full-scale check on holiday week-end traffic in the Prince George area will be undertaken by the RCMP.
Extra, patrols in both the eity and district have been arranged for what is anticipated will be a busy weekend.
Many holidaycrs will leave town today or tomorrow to spend Sunday, Monday and Tuesday at resorts or visit friends at nearby centers.
Last concerted traffic cheek made by police \vl\s on the May IS week-end when Prince George had a full card of centennial celebrations.
Sure, H's Cool -
But They Say If Won't Las!
Current spell of cool, rainy weather will not last.
Weather men at Prince George airport reported totlay we can expect showers and thunderstorms for another 24. hours at the most.
A mass of Pacific air is moving eastward today but, bv> hlnd it will come the same sun which parched this area for plgjlt weeks.
Heavy rainfall has been recorded in the southern interior regions of the province and has helped dried out crops and forests in the area.
Firefighters Fin Relief In Showers
Overcast skies and indications rain will fall this week-end are the first promises of relief forest fire fighters in the P r i n c e George district have had in eight weeks.
Only one now fire has been reported in the past 24-hours, a B.C. Forest Serivce official said today.
It was a lightening strike and has been successfully brought under control.
Meanwhile, the same number of fires as yesterday continue to rage over valuable timber-
land in the Prince George area.
Fire protection officer Maurice Ise'nor said a thoroughly drenching rainstorm would ease the situation and slacken regulations wheih currently cancel all burning permits in wooded areas.
The cooler weather will also be a relief to firefighters at the scene of the blazes who have withstood both smoke and searing heat from the fires and sun.
"It looks better all over," Isen-or stated.
Rain has fallen recently in the southern regions of the Prince George Forest District and scattered showers have
sprinkled burning areas both west and north of Prince George.
Most critical fire in the ini-ing would be a complete loss if rain did not fall Immediately, mediate Prince George area l<>-day burns savagely through valuable timberland about 70 miles north of here on the Hart Highway.
It blankets approximately 8,-000 acres.
Rains have also helped local crops which, like the forests, were parched by the two months of persistently hot weather.
This week agriculturists declared some of the spring seed-
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A further case of parathyphoid was confirmed today in Prince George.
Medical officer of health Dr. K. .). Benson said that the case was already under isolation at district hospital as a suspected ease, when diagnostic confirmation arrived from Vancouver.
Two confirmed and two 'Sus-peeled ca^es are currently under isolation at the hospital.
ONE OF THE PAGEANT'S MANY COLORFUL SCENES