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Vol   2;   No.   143
PRINCE GEORGE,  BRITISH COLUMBIA, THURSDAY, JULY 31,   1958
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ROYAL CANADIAN Mounted Police membcTsTrom detacHments tlifougHout the Prince Geoi'gc subdivision have participated in shooting trials at a Central Fort George target range. The trials have been in progress since July 24 and arc scheduled to continue for another two weeks. Members' shooting skill is judged, a regular program in the force.                                                        �Citizen Photo
Millworker Dies
Plane Lands
A Fort St. iJames mill-worker died yesterday as a mercy flight plane taking him to Vancouver touched down on the runway.
Logger Jack Peters suffered a skull fracture near the sett lenient 100 miles north-west of Prince George Sunday when struck by a fallim- '.roe.
The 500-mile mercy flight during which two ambulance operators worked continuously to give him artificial respiration curled in failure when he was declared dead on arrival at Vancouver General Hospital.'
Peters was seriously Injured at a sawmill .'C> miles west of Fort St. James and brought Lo the settlement in a speedboat Sunday.
lie was then transferred to a truck and taken to St. John's Hospital at Vanderhoof where doctors and first aid attendants
worked around the clock to save his life.  .
Vanderhoof doctors decided to transfer Peters to Vancouver for specialized treatment. They contacted the RCAF rescue coordination center in Vancouver for a mercy fight out of Vanderhoof.
An RCAF D.ikota equipped with an iron lung and carrying a crew of seven including doctors and nurses arrived in Prince George early yesterday, morning.
Arrangements, had been made to have Peters brought to the local airport aboard a Pacific Western Airlines Beaver aircraft for transfer to the airforce plane.
HoweVer, the RCAF craft developed engine trouble at Prince George and Vande'rhoof doctors decided not to have Peters transferred from one plane to the other.
Reporter Will Not Be Prosecuted
Prince George Citizen reporter .lack Brett � who posed as a doctor in St. Paul's Hospital, Vancouver earlier this year on assignment from a national magazine � will not be prosecuted.
The reporter has stated he worked the hoax � "to spotlight for public information just how difficult it is for a person to attain so responsible a position without any more than an intensive interest in  the field."
Brett worked as an intern in the hospital last April under the name Dr. Jack Harris.
Dr. Paul P. Jackson, chairman of the intern committee, at St. Paul's, said Brett attended live births but had doctors standing at his elbow giving instructions during  two of them.
At the other deliveries he was an observer only.
Brett was suspended when his claims   to   medical   qualification failed to "check out." Dr.   Jackson   said   today   no
prosecution was planned.
A new system of checking credentials will be established at the hospital.
"It will be ironclad in future," said   Dr.  Jackson.
Station For Vanderhoof
Canadian National Railways is calling for tenders for the construction of a new passenger station, freight shed aiul platforms for these facilities at Vanderhoof.
The railway's engineering department is also asking for tenders fort the erection of a diesel locomotive service building at Terrace.
The CNR has set August 20 as the deadline for the receipt of bids for  these two projects.
The man was flown out of Vanderhoof direct to Vancouver aboard the Beaver which was piloted by PWA Captain Bill Smith of Prince George.
Prince George Ambulance Service operator Alex Izatt and Vanclerhoof ambulance driver Floyd Woods accompanied Peters on the Vancouver-bound flight.
They took turns at administering artificial respration. The pair gave Peters a total of 17 hours of rcspiraton.
Weather Men  Report Driest-Ever  July
If the weather doesn't change in the next six hours, Prince George will have survived the driest July on record.
Weather bureau at the airport reported today only .03 inches of precipitation has been recorded this month.
Lowest previous record was .27 inches.
"It's about time we had a real downpour," commented forecaster Vic Beirnes with an eye on today's forecast which calls for scattered showers today and tomorrow.
But Beirnes isn't the only one who has his fingers crossed hoping the current spell of hot, dry weather will come to an end.
Forest Service officials and farmers have been faced with appalling losses in huge forest fires and drought which has stricken the area.
Last Call For'Jags'
An adult polio clirric will be held from 7 to 9 p.m. today in the Cariboo Health Unit for persons over 16 years of age.
This is the last time first injections will be available.
Second injections will also be available at a charge of .$1 each.
The polio clinic, sponsored by the local nursing association, will be held again in late August.
Full Report On P.G.  All-Stars Games In Monday's "Citizen"
Stakes-And Hazards High In Canoe Race
Both the stakes and hazards will be high in the 1:59-mile canoe race from�Port St. .lames lo Fort George, August 20.
This is the verdict of Rod ind Gun Club President Bill Blackburn, one of the primc-mo\�crs of the event.
Quiel and fast water alike will H'csent s n a r e s to contestants, who will be competing for prizes totalling nearly $2,000.
'The quiet water along the Stuart, river conceals shifting sand banks. The very stillness of the water makes it almost impossible to 'read' where the banks are," said Mr. Blackburn.
Main fast-water hazard is at he Clillako rapids where a fierce �ross-swoll precedes deeply dropping rapids narrowing to 15 feet across.
"But canoeists will have to  making satisfactory recovery frorii pelvic injuries in Prince George   Hospital.
A second inquest has concluded that ace hockey player. Ron Montgomery, also died accidentally in a crash norl'h of Prince Ceorgu last Friday.
A New Fire-Bomb Technique Tried
A new 'fire;bombiiig' technique was tried out on a small forest blaze near Bear Luke today.
Bags containing .'SO pounds of thick borate solution were dropped from a Beaver aircraft on the six-acre fire.
Resujts of the bombing have not yet been evaluated.
Some 500 pounds or solution were dropped under the observation of Forest Protection Chief Maurice  Isenor.
Purpose of the operation is to slow down fires until fire crews get. to the scene.
The method has been iiscd in other parts of the province this year. ANOTHER  WEAPON
Another new weapon will be added to tho local firefighting armory today with the arrival of a specially modified Otter seaplane equipped with a water tank; The plane pumps aboard a ISO gallon load at a lake, which I
it is then able to dump on fire's.
Use   of  this   technique   is  restricted   to  fires  in  their  early stages. LIGHTNING  FIKIOS
Lightning has ignited four new fires since yesterday bringing the total burning in the district to 71.
Altogether 107 fires have broken out in the district this year at a cost of $1,010,000 in suppression expenses and an estimated $6,500,000 in damage to timber.                              !
In the field today against the fires arc 9j2 men aided by 46 tractors.
Near Mile 70 on the Hart Highway .'jlo men aided by 20 tractors arc still battling a 20,-000 acre Inferno;
With no break in the hot weather foreseen, winds up to 30 mph persisting, and a rash of lightning fires breaking out, no let-un in the fire situation is predicted.
Exclusive Citizen Ball Coverage
THE PRINCE GEO11GE LITTLE LEAGUE ALL-STA11S
Citizen sports reporter Barry Hamclin left Prince George by air today lo cover the B.C. Little League.finals in Vancouver.
He will be covering the pro-gres of tho Prince George Little j League All-Stars in the  finals.
Prince George advanced to the ' final   when   they  defeated   l'en-ticton Tuesday for the Interior championship.
Their first, game will be a-galnst the tough Victoria All-Stars Friday at -1:00 p.m.
The Prince George team, under the supervision of Rudy Lofting 'and Hal Rodgers, are staying at the City Centre Hotel, Sixth and Main, in Vancouver.
Should Prince George win the B.C. final, they will advance to the Regional Playoff, to be held this year in Victoria.
The regional winner advances' to'the Little Leajgiift.Wqrid Series in Williamsport, Pa.
Here is the line-up of the All-Stars: Bruce Lofting, Bill Bell, Gary Carulli, Jim Davidson, Btu Rodgers, Doug Alien, Peter Neu-
knnnn, Paul Buszkp, Brian l>el-shain, Richard Matthews, Keith C'line, George Killy, Raymond Stafford  and   Ken  Faranski.
Rudy Lofting* is the manager and Harold Rodgers the coach.
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