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Vol. 2; No. 135
PRINCE GEORGE, BRITISH COLUMBIA, MONDAY, JULY 21, 1958
PRICE 7 CENTS
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MAN DIES SATURDAY
Men Rescued
DRUNKEN BRAWL
Two men whose, plane crashed in the mountains 120 miles north of Prince George yesterday were rescued by helicopter after a unique radio device gave their position to a hunting jet plane.
J)on .Myers, a pilot for Chit-i
cotin Airways operating mil of ,starte�aa search for the;two men; Williams Lake, and Angus Me- They wore hampered by fores Donald, a Vancouver geologist, were conducting survey work in the Bear Lake area.
t,1ip -non ci)m|Vied uninjured from the crashed p;ane and ra-
hanging over the
dloecl Smit!K.'rs that they were
safe. An KCAI-' Canso from Sea- ...........................
island ;,t Vancouver, a T-33 jet equipment had been used in
and a helicopter immediately tuui rescue.
f 1 re sin oke mountains.
The T-33 found the downec plane which was equipped with a Sarah beacon, a unit enablin ait'cratc 10 be met by radio. Jt was believed the first time thh
Russians Propose Friendship Pact
IiOXIM)x (ItuiitciH)�Kussia lias proposed fl fi-|�n(l(-l>lp and co-operation pact with Hiiro-Iican govern iiiciitN and the United Slates.
H was reported to be a treaty which would prevent surprise attacks, create a nuclear-I'ree European zone and closer scientific and economic co-operation. The pact was proposed in a Soviet note given Western ambassadors in Moscow July 15. A "denuclearized" zone would b(> established along the line now dividing the Ettst and West in Europe. Countries within this zone would be considered "as ex-
Record Disputed-
CARDIFF <�P) � A controversy over the timing of Saturday's 100-yartl dasli final�the fastest ever run in Europe�was building up today as the Uritish Empire (!;imcs resumed after a Sunday layoff.
Keith Gardner of Jamaica won the dash and was timed officially by five stopwatches in 0.4 seconds. This clipped the existing Games mark by one-fifth of a second and was only one-tenth of a second off the worl dmark.
SecqncKplace Tom Robinson of the Bahamas was clocked at 9.6 seconds, as was third-place Mike Agostini of Vancouver.
But a photo-finish picture showed Gardner breasting the tape a scant six inches ahead of Robinson, with Agostini another yard back.
Track experts said that if Robinson really was one-fifth of a second behind Gardner, he should have been beaten by about two yards. (Tor BEG results sec Page 4)
eluded from the sphere of the use of nuclear weapons." CUT TKOOPS OXIO TIHIM)
The number of foreign troops inGe rmany would be reduced by one-third "or by another agreed factor" within the next one or two years.
The note suggested that the reduction of forces could be extended from Germany to embrace all NATO and Warsaw Fact Countries. It did not go into detail about this extension. A 1,000-mile aerial inspection zone, extending 500 miles on each side of the iron Curtain was favored 'by Russia to prevent surprise attack. The note made no mention of previous Western offers to open up the Arctic skies to aerial inspection for this purpose. Other suggestions covered the
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lion on a mutually profitable and equal basis without discrimination and artificial restrictions of any kino1."
DEBRIS, JUNK and broken bottles mark, the scene where the 2.'5-year-old Indian died on Saturday night. He lived with his wife and one child in the tent above. Jt is located in a small community of ramshackle huts
and tattered tents about 100 yards off the Hail Highway at Summit Lake. Nearby residents have complained of the noise and even rifle firing late at night on
other occasions.
�Jack Brett I'hoto
Weekend Deaths Down On Previous Week
The price in lives Canadians pay for their weekend holidays dropped from a shocking 70 last weekend to 46 this weekend.
A Canadian Press survey from (5 p.m. local time Friday to midnight Sunday showed 'M were killed on the highways, eight were drowned, three perished in fires and two died in other accidents.
The big drop came, in Ontario, wilh l(i, and Quebec, with 11. Last weekend both reported 30 each. In Ontario nine died on the highways, in Quebec eight.
The total for the Western provinces remained the same this week as last with 12. Saskatch-wan reported none, as did Newfoundland and Prince Ed-ward Iislan'd.
Fires In District
Shaft
tinder cover of dense clouds of smoke forest fires have gained a new hold on the Prince George district.
A million acres of timber are burning today.
Smoke pinned aircraft to the ground during the latter half of last week and blindfolded observation posts, enabling fires which would normally have been spotted and snuffed out to assume dangerous proportions. Precipitation this morning was too slight to affect the situation ALL-TIME KEGO1M)
Altogether 49 fires are burning today, bringing the total number logged for the season up to 356.
With two months of fire-season to go this breaks the previous all-tmie record, 313 fires in 193S.
PLRDOX LAKE
In heavy timber 30 miles east of town at Purdon Lake a new
700 acre fire is burning out of control. A total of 60 men and seven cats arc fighting the blaze.
Close to the previous inferno on Mile 70 Hart Highway 3,000 acres of valuable timber are ablaze. Six miles from the highway, in rugged country, 100 men and 7 cats are struggling for control. lilACTOKS BY 1'GE
Another fire of difficult access is burning at Tacheeda Lake. Only means of bringing tractors to the blaze has been by I'GK.
Men have been flown in to deal with a fire at Anzac on the Parsnip River.
A large outbreak is reported'at Tudyah Lake, north of McLeod Lake. It is being combatted by
Soviet's 'Summit Ca May Be Rejected
Here is a events in the Middle East over the -week-end. � * *
Britain and the United Slates were reported ready to reject Premier Khrushchev's call for an immediate summit meeting on lhc Middle East crisis on the grounds that the situation should be kept within the framework of the United Nations.
A reply war; expected to be sent to Moscow late tonight-only a few hours before the Tuesday date suggested by Khrushchev for starting the summit meeting.
Nasser was reported by usually reliable sotirces here to have told the U.S. that Russia is eager to '.send troops into the Middle East and "1 may not be aide to keep them out."
There \va.^ no official confirmation. iAND 'TROOPS, ARTILLERY
The U.S. landed 1,100 more troops here from Turkey, raising their Lenbanese force to more than 9,000. Another 1,900 to 2,000 troops were reported standing by in offshore craft, ready to land.
Heavy artillery was included in the continuing stream of supplies landed Sunday.
i'lan* for t-iie U.f>. airlift of
summary of were almost, completed.
The first shipment arrived in Amman in giant air tankers Sunday.
The U.S. also advanced Jordan S7,r(00,000 to pay its day-to-day expenses, and more financial aid 1,000 tons of oil to Jordan daily
was expected.
Hussein said he has asked President Eisenhower to send U.S. troops to his country, in addition to the British force of paratroops now there, He added that he expects to get them.
STEALS PLANE;
DENVER (AD -
CRASHES
� A 1J -year-
old hoy who police said stole a $17,000 light plane was seriously injured Sunday night when the craft crashed two miles from the airport. The plane narrowly missed an outdoor theatre where hundreds of persons were attending a movie, police said, before it crashed.
105 men and seven cats.
Smaller fires are reported near Summit Lake and in the vicinity of Carp Lake.
In the whole district an armada of 650 men and 10 cats are out fighting the fires.
BULLETIN
BEIRUT (AIM � A United States Navy spokesman said today that "all combat units, including ground, air and sea have atomic capability." Me specifically avoided saying U.S. marines in Lebanon are packing atomic warheads, but the implication was clear.
A marine public information officer said the marines had landed four eight-inch Howitzers. This Howitzer is capable of hurling an atomic shell about 11 miles. The statement, was made at an American Embassy briefing
Oooh.. Owls!
MOUTH llOLLYWofo, fcal. (AT) � "Dad, there's something flying around iny room and it looks like a bat."
out his
two hijj owl eyes peering from under the bod of son, Arthiir, l.'t.
.Mauask shuffled sleepily back to his own bedroom.
"Helen," he whispered lo his wife, "(here's an owl under Arthur's bed."
"WI160," caino a voice from the broom closet, iMana.sk spotted another owl perched 011 the stove.
"Helen," he culled, "the house is lousy witli owls."
The owls evidently hail come down the chimney, I5e-sides scattering soot, they knocked over two vases of flowers and attacked a stuffed squirrel.
Rape Charge Laid
Ronald Del'bert Donley of Prince George was charged with rape today following an incident Saturday night at a Central Fort George gravel pit.
Nechako Lots Selling Fast
Home sites in the new Xe-o.tva'k'o Heights subdivision liave sold at the rate of one or two � day, Central Mortgage and Housing Corporation reported today.
Already one buyer has started building'a house on a lot for which he stood in line when they went on Sale July S.
It i..-. the first ^ign of construction in the low-cost. land assembly area which overlooks the Nechako river in Central Fort George.
177 SITES
There are 177 .sites in the subdivision, the first of its kind in the B.C. interior.
B.C. Power Commission lias started, installing, distribution lines -in the urea, which already lub s,tmsu>, bewerb and water
services.
Downpayrnent on a building site is only $100 and a prospective homo builder is allowed nine months in which to commence construction and 18 months to complete his project..
Heads Meet Over Pineview System
Officials of the it.c. Power Commission and Department of Transport are today meeting in Vancouver to threash out details which have shaded construction of an electrical distribution system in* the pineview area.
Jack Dobie, BOPC district manager said commission and transport department heads are discussing problems which have
tied up construction plans since early this year.
B.C. Power Commission last month auuonccd plans to build a $225,000 distribution system in the farming district.
It would serve an estimated 200 customers. Telephone service Is also planned in connection with the construction of the power lines.
Three Held Investigation
A 23-year-okl Indian, Jimmy Dennis Charlie, died Saturday in what police described as a 'drunken brawl' at Summit Lake;
Police are holding three men in connection with the case. At press time no charges hiul been laid:
occurred
The incident occurred in a small tent and shack community about 100 yards east of the Hart Aighway. RCMP were called to the scene about an hour arid a half after the fracas took place. Charlie lived in one of the tents nearby with his wife and one child/
RCMP Cnostables W. E. Ma-
Film Showing
Centennial free film showings will resume'tomorrow evening in the Civic Center.
Program which was scheduled to be presented was delayed in shipment vand was not shown Friday night.
Tomorrow's showing will get underway at 8:30 p.m. providing the hall is available, said centennial committee coordinator George Thorpe. Interested persons should refer to notices posted at the main entrance to the Civic Center.
Work Starts On -Ton 'Saucer'
LONDON (Reuters)�Work has begun on -' a half-Ion flying saucer to carry two men into space and brjng- them back to earth, the News Chronicle says Britain's fhst,, space ship pro ject is a private venture of tbj,
ArmHtroi-nrWJrllWortli Aviation
Aviation Company of Coventry, the newspaper says.
The News Chronicle says the scientists may prevent the saucer from burning up through a new process designed to beat the heat barrier. Researchers found that when air got hot it became electrified and could be controlled by a magnetic field.
The RAK was investigating the use of space vehicles for reconnaissance, radar jamming and attack.
son and E. S. Dandy picked up one of the trio at the scene, and the two others later, while lsleep in a house near Summit ake on Sunday morning.
The shack community consists
if a lumber shack, a canvass
shelter strung under four trees
ind two tents, on the outskirts
f Central B.C. Planers plant.
The scene was deserted yesler-lay, the only noise being the icking of an abandoned alarm clock.
A guitar was lying under the rees, apparently thrown there in .he heat of a quarrel.
The canvas shelter covered a stove, couch and scattered cloth-ng.
Two tents were pitched a few yards east of the shelter. They, 00, were abandoned.
Water had .been left in the bottom of cooking utensils and household equipment was scattered near the tents,
A small hatchet was discovered by Citizen reporters in nearby bush.
Broken glass was scattered throughout the area along with miscellaneous clothing.
Residents near the community said they have often heard gunshots In the mldle of the night.
They recalled that early one morning they heard a car screaming down the highway with one of its passengers discharging a rifle.
. Residents living across the highway said they did not hear ^'disturbance among the tents Saturday night.
'WILDERNESS'
It is now certain that the "Wilderness to Wonderland" centennial spectacle will be presented August 21.
Centennial Co-ordiriator George 'Thorpe said today that full lighting, costume and stage effects for the show arc on order now. Until recently there was considerable doubt, whether the show would be presented at all. as uo local organizations would undertake to organize and direct it.
But 10 days ago, a newcomer to the city, Mrs. Joe Siddons; stepped in and offered to direct the show single handed.
The public have been responding well to her appeal for volunteers, Thorpe t reports.
But more ��specially men, arb still needed.
Volunteer actors and stage assistants arc requested to come to rehearsal tonight at the Civic Centre at 7:'M) p.m.
Aid. Ken Jack Refutes Claims
Alderman Ken Jack flared up today at repeated references to the city's handling of the electrical utility. "The suggestion that the management was faulty is contrary to the facts," he told The Citizen.
"It made an operating profit or $1(17,000 in ';">.'{, $213,000 in TjI, $182,000 in '55 and $107,000 in '5(i. Does that sound like bad management? Why, the amounts the city received froth the Electrical utility in those years were equivalent to savings to taxpayers of from 22..'! mills to 28,4 mills.
"The only reason we sold the utility was because it required a tremendous capital investment to increase its capacity, and we didn't have money to do it."
"Another thing," the fired-up kldernian continued, "I'm fed up with this arithmetical non-ense Inland is trying to palm off. This stuff about them pay-ing -10 to 50,000 a year to the city. On the basis of their own figures for expected revenue and osts the amount would be $15,-000.00 � no 50,000 � small dif-erence of $35,000.00 � which is ust about par for the course or this outfit."
SANTA MONICA, Calif. (AP) en. Itafae! Trujillo jr. sailed away aboard his luxury yacht Angelita today�destination un-old. A woman in a green dress went aboard, her face gallantly shielded by a Trujillo aide, just lefore the sailing.
EX-MAYOR JOHN MORRISON TO MAYOR CARRIE JANE GREY
KX-MAYOK John Morrison, holidaying in far-off Scotland, sent the telegram reproduced alongside to Mayor Carrie Jane Gray today. "This is one question we've always been in complete agreement on," the .Mayor sail).
Car-Dream Comes True
A 30-year-old 'dream canir true tor a Sinclair Mills housewife at the giant car bingo here Saturday,
Mis. John Hrehorka won the first prize � a !?:5,2OO, 1958 four-door Ford sedan.
The Hrehorka family hud never been able /to afford a car as they were putting three children through university.
And it was beginning to look as it' they never would own one.
" lint now "providence, or luck, has made their dream conic true.
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