INSIDE EDITORIAL.................... Pu9e 2 SPORT ........................ ... Page 6 . WOMEN .SOCIAL ............. Page 7 CLASSIFIED ..................!... Page 8 COMICS .v......................... Page 9 OIAL LOgan 4 - 2441 TZF WEATHER Sunny with cloudy periods, scattered showers. Low tonight, high tomorrow, 40 and 80. Vol. 2; No. 137 PRINCE GEORGE, BRITISH COLUMBIA,� WEDNESDAY, JULY 23, 1958 PRICE 7 CENTS BY CARMKR ISO PER EB ' � Injunction Against Yesterda.y ilftci'llUDll Tin' Citizen was notified by tele-Kraut tli.it mi injunction had been i�rntiled liy Mr. .lustier Iti-own of flu* K.<\ Supreme Court restraining The Citizen "from on the twenty-second ami twenty-third (lays of July l!>">8 publishing, distributing, placing up, posting, using or advertising hi aniy way concerning or liuving reference to voting on city of Prince George bylaws 1080 and 1081 or either.'! -\t '1:20 p.m. totljiy, (>\-<>cii. tire assistant to tin* publisher, I1- \V. H. Welhvob'fl, was pre- sented witli a summons to appear before Police Magistrate I'. .1. Morau, at' 10 a.m. Saturday, July 20, at I'rlnco George on a cliargo that In* did "unlawfully undertake to publish and did unlawfully publish advertising concerning and having references to a municipal by-law contrary to tlie form of statute in such case made and provided." Because this case is now sub judlco and the Citizen does not want to be in contempt of court we are not reporting further on the story; Details Of Prince George Day Float Arrangements Float plans are available to all businessmen wishing to participate in the Giant Centennial Festival Parade, August 27. Entry deadline has been set at August 1. The plans may be obtained from'Centennial Coordinator George Thorpe, 050 George Street, or from Chuck Ewart, who heads the parade committee, at LO 4-7095. Little work is involved in constructing the floats stated Mr. Thorpe. "Most of the work can be done with a stapler. He added that floats made this year could be used for many years to come, as it is intended that the parade shall be the first of a series of Prince George Day Parades. First orders have already been sent to the supply house. They full under three classifications: community, commercial and non-commercial. Three bands, the Rotary Pipe Band, Rocky Mountain Hangers Band, and the Army Cadets Band ure already earmarked to take part in the parade.- The event is sponsored by Prince George Board of Trade. Giant 'Splash' To End Centennial A $10,000 "splash" will ni:il festivities, August 27. In tin; morning llic city will nee the biggest ever parade of bands and floats, and from 2 p.m. until miuriigfht a lavish program of outdoor entertainments will foe .provided on tin- bank of the Fraser River at, Fort GeWge I'ark. The day will be heralded by the i:i!i-mile North West Brigade Canoe Race from Fort St. James to ,Fort George. MWTIOK K\ KYI'S / Two water events�swimming and boating regattas�will be highlights of the afternoon entertainment. Top water skiers of Canada will be- brought in by Khvanians for the event. Jumps of lliO feet, bare-foot skiing, and a skiing clog arc among the highlights of the show. Highlight of the evening's entertainment will bo the giant open-air pageant "From Wilderness to Wonderland." HUNDRJODS OK ACTORS Many hundreds of local actors will re-uiiact dramatic episodes from (lie Province's turbulent history, W i t li local scones s|�i'ciall.v -written l>y climax the year's centcn- pageaul director Mrs. lleryl Siildons. The pageant will be fully supported by the rest or the program which Includes the RCMP musical ride, tin1 Chinese Lions Dance, an oldtlmers' Dance and a display of oriental fireworks. Fireworks have been specially ordered from Hong Kong for the display. Refreshments will he provided for the crowd expected to reach 1 (>,(>()<>. A barbecue will he run, and other concessions are expected to open. Advance tickets for the whole day's entertainment will shortly he available at $1 for adults and 50 cents for children. Second Letter A second anonymous letter was received by Mayor Carrie .lane Gray this morning and has been turned over to RCMI\ Mayor Gray refused to divulge'.thc contents of the letter as "the matter is entirely in the hands of (he police." Black Ball Ferry Resumed Tuesday VANCOUVER (CP) � After four days without any regular surface connection betwoe Van-vouver Island and the British Columbia mainland, the Cluck Ball ferry service was resumed Tuesday night�at least until next week. Officers and engineers who walked out Friday in defiance of a provincial government order and were required to return to work Monday by a B.C. Supreme Court injunction slowly returned to the boats Tuesday. The first ferry to move left Horseshoe Bay, the company's Vnneouvor terminal, at 7:30 p.m. and the first eastbound sailing started from Nanaimo at 9:13 p.m. A company spokesman said it was expected the service would operate on schedule today. National Security Richard Greaves of the Association of Marine Engineers said Tuesday night the men had been told to return to work and the pickets had been removed because "we are not above the law." iltj continue work Mr. Greaves said the men will continue to work pending the n Iconic of efforts by union lawyers to have the injunction lifted. The case comes before the II.C. Supreme Court July 29; Mr. Justice A. I). MacFarlane issued the injunction at the request of the attorney general's department. The government had ordered the men to remain -at- work under the Civil Defence Act when they gave a strike ultimatum they gave June 26 in support of demands for a 19-per-cenf wage increase. Indications early today were that there would be a heavy poll on the natural gas referendum � one of the most controversial issues ever to go before the ratepayers of Prince George. in the advance polls Monday and In an initial rush nearly 200 voted at the Civic Centre when the poll opened at S a.m. The pace was expected to quicken in the late afternoon and evening�the most popular time for voting. � The city is .seeking ratepayers' assent to two by-laws. The first authorizes the city to purchase gas from Westeoasi Transmission. The second authorizes the city to purchase the distribution system cur''�ntly being laid by Prince George Gas Co. Returning orficer, Arran Thompson, stated the ratepayers' were turning out "in good numbers" hut that the rush would come later in the day. He said -17 votes had been cast MAIN AUDITORIUM of Civic Center is the scene of today's natural gas referendum. Thero. was a rush of voters shortly after the polls opened at 8 a.m. and a second ^irge is expected from 5 to S p.m. when ratepayers' return from work. Mrs. Irene; Kortvelyessy, center, is busy issuing the ballot forms to voters. �Jack Brett Photo: vCrack Of From Doome Y.WCOIVKII (CP)�A man who lives near Vancouver's Second Narrows bridge testified Tuesday that he heard a crack 11 leu rifle tire coming hiiiii (lie direction of lhe half-completed SIMin more than 12 hours before it collapsed '"to ISIIITaI'd Inlet .Inno 17. Walter ScpradynsKy told a royal commission investigating the collapse that he was painting outside at about. 2 p.m. when he heard the noise "like three rifles going off simultaneously." "It sounded like steel cracking," he said. "1 know because 1 have worked with steel and have heard railway rails breaking many times." DID NOT REPORT He said he did not report the incident because tlire was no one in authority nearby and because he had been at work 13 hours and was tired. He said he went to bed and when he awoke he looked out of the window and saw two spans of the bridge had collapsed. Eighteen workmen died in the disaster. William A. Moore, forman of steel construction on the bridge rose in the spectators gallery and asked the witness why he did not report what, he had heard to the bridge watchman. "1 never though of him." Sco-rady^nsky replied. "1 was thinking of someone in authority." HXIM.OSIOX POSSIBILITY Commission counsel John Karris told the commission he will attempt Ib determine whether the collapse might have been caused by an explosion. During his examination of Moore the lawyer saiu he would like to call a doc-tor to testily on whether injuries suffered by Moore could have been caused by an explosion. Moore said a loud noise immediately above his head occured just before the spans fell and he jumped to ;� concrete parapet. Welder Sam K. ,C Ru6gg, 30, told, the commission ho had a premonition that the bridge would collapse. Kui'gg testified.: "1 picked the safest, spot pn the bridge to go to if something happened." He indicated a coheret'c pier onto which lie jumped as the spans collapsed. .More than :',2 witnesses Vel'e heard Tuesday, most of them workers who survived the. collapse and nearby residents who witnessed the dlaster. SURVIVORS OF DRAMATIC FORCED LANDING Long-play records of selections performed by Prince George's famed Cariboo Chorus will be available here soon. . j ~~ Chorus secretary-manager Wil- w^vc made by the group on its Ham Shoekey announced this recent centennial year tour of morning orders are now being the province. taken for tiie recordings which | Anyone wanting �:a recording has been asked to telephone Mi'. Shockey at the board of trade office before noon tomorrow. They will cost under S3 each, he said. Recording was made of the 10-ypice choir in the B.C. Klectric auditorium at Vancouver by Aragori studios. While the chorus was preparing for the recording concert. Harry John Brown, conductor of the Manhatten Symphony Orchestra, had high praise for their efforts. Both he and Mr. Middletoa, director of the B.C. Electric choir, said they had never heard a chorus like it before. forbThreT BACK FROM the bush to beauty, that is the story of (left to right) Angus MacDonald. Tom Williamson and i chunk of the copper ore they were seeking when their plane crashed on the Sustatt River last Satur- Chilcotin Airways Pilot Don Meyers. Geologist Wil- day. The men arrived in Prince George Monday night, liamson shows beautiful Sylvia Pertch of Prince George (See story Page 2). Air rcconnaisance revealed ye.sterd.iy that the forest fire six miles in from the Hart Highway at Mile 70 has grown to 0,000 acres. The fire, one of the most inac-cessable in the district, is being fought by 183 men aided by 13 tractors. Firelighter's had to blaze an eight mile trail through the bush, from the site of the fire at Mile T'J, of the highway to reach the new i'ire. RATEPAYER Jim Friend, L657 Juniper, was one of the first Prince George citizens to cast a ballot in today's much-talked-about natural gas referendum. There are over 3500 persons eligible to vote on the issue of which 47 took advantage of the advance polls held Monday and Tuesday. Tuesday. In the last municipal election, in December more than 2200 ratepayers cast ballots. At that time Mayor Carrie Jane Gray defeated ex-Mayor John Morrison in perhaps the most closely fought municipal elections this city has ever seen. A referendum held last August however, had only a lukewarm reception. The vote then was in a plan to annex 2700 acres to the city. The vacation period was blamed for the poor turnout at that time. That referendum was approved by a narrow majority. As a public service, cars are being provided throughout lhe day for those otherwise unable to get to the Civic Centre to vote. This service can be reached by telephoning LO l-72:i5. 2500 Attend rOpry' Show An estimated 2.r>00 persons Mast night intended tbp Urn'nd Old" Opry show in the ..municipal coliseum. Organizer of the event, Barry 136yd, reported attendance at the program was "terrific" and said/ the troupew as pleased with the audience. The show sta: fed western singers Kay Price and Krnust. Tubb along with many other perforni- Parnocl Canadian Auto Date Devils thrill show will he presented tonight at the fall fail* grounds in Central Fort Georgg. The show starts at. 3:30 p.m. The Dare Devils performance here is sponsored by the I'rincc George Agriculture and Industrial Association and local new car dealer, The show, which started touring Canada 12 years ago, carries its own generating system for track lights. Among the p'roforniers ;ire Buddy Young, Tex Saxon and many other star drivers who will be seen in feats requiring skill and courage. 13y NAT COLE Canadian Tress Staff Writer VANCOUVER � Princess Margaret today continues an exhausting round of official duties which won't, end until after she leaves British Columbia Saturday. The princess resumed the active part of her tour of the province Tuesday after a three-day rest in the sunny Okanagan Valley- At Fort Langley, she opened restored buildings on the site of B.C.'s first capital. At, night, she attended a Vancouver Symphony concert conducted by Bruno Walter. Princess Margaret originally was to have attended the concert tonight, hut it was moved back one clay�presumably to provide some relief from today's exacting schedule. FIRST VANCOUVER VISIT It is her first official visit to IJ.C.'s largest city, although she passed tiiroinih Vancouver twice earlier oil hrr tour. Today will be one of her busiest. She wiil meet civic officials of Vancouver, nearby New West- minister and suburban Burnaby, open a preveritorium for children with chronic diseases am unveil a plaque in honor of the Royal Engineers. Erjncess Margaret left Ke lowna Tuesday morning after an early swim in Lake Okanagan. She flew south'to Penticton in a float-equipped Mallard plane and changed to an RCAF C-5 aircraft which took her to Abbotsford, 45 miles east of Vancouver. A car took her from there to Fort Langley. Despite SO-dcgreer heat and swirling dust which surrounded the fort, the princes.; appeared cool and unruffled; She wore a pale blue spotted chiffon dress, white shoes and glove.s, and carried a white handbag. A scarf effect at the neckline was pinned by a diamond brooch. B.G. BIRTHPLACE Fort Langley, the first perma-ment settlement iri the northwest, was built in 1S40 by the Hudson's Bay Company to control trade west of the Rocky Mountains. It was there, in a building 100 yards from where Princess Margaret performed the opening ceremonies Tuesday, that the Crown colony of British Coin in Ilia was proclaimed and James Douglas was sworn in as Us first 'governor oil a cold wet November day in 1858. The fort is being restored jointly by the federal and provincial governments and the princess called it "most fitting"., that the re-opening was chosen as a major centennial project. She said the fort is 'an important link with the romantic past of this province ... I am sure it will continue to be a source of pride to British Columbians -and' visitors alike." The public address system went dead for a few second's! halfway through" her speech and the crowd of obout 8,000 missed several words:. The princess continued speaking. TOURS MUSEUM After taking part in a flag-breaking ceremony and watching the changing of the guard by �soldiers of the Royal Engineers' ' Regiment, which Was present at the birth of B.C. 100 years ago,' and the Royal Canadian Kngl-' r.cers, she spent some time at-a museum in the only building of the original fort which still itands.