Full Report Of Big $700 City Softball Tournament
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Vol. 2 No. 150
PRINCE GEORGE, BRITISH COLUMBIA, MONDAY, AUGUST 11, 1958
PRICE 7 CENTS
BY CARRIKH Sftc PER WEEK
Service May Stop At End Of Week
With six days to go before Prince George may lose its ambulance service, city council tonight has its last opportunity to take action.'
Prince George Ambulance Service operator Alex affirmed today that
Izatt re-the ambulance will go out of operation Sunday unless city council takes action.
The action may be:
1. Council may increase Its $20-ii-inonth siibsidy currently granted to l/.att
2. Tlir Hty may purchase the vehicle and auxiliary equipment for approximately $7000;
Jzc'itt gave council (50 days' notice of his intended action in June.
"DEEPLY IN KKD"
His solicitor advised city council the service to both the city and district has gone deeply in the red since it was instigated last fall.
, City council has discussed the Ssulrt in Cc)ii^)-.il.U.'cr-^f '-lie- vvhole anil the mutter was placed In the hands of the fire and water committee.
"I am under the impression council will act tonight," l/.att .sailI today.
He signed a 12-month agree-
VANCO U V E R � A
strike by British Columbia's 5,000 salmon fishermen was called oil a few hours before it was due to start at midnight Saturday.
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At least 53 accidental deaths wore reported across Canada during the weekend � -i1 In traffic accidents, 20 drowniiigs and four in miscellaneous mishaps.
* * � JAMESTOWN, S.I). � Four'
psychatric patients, three of them under prison sentence, lied the North Dakota State Hospital Sunday night after terrorising two attendants.
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NANAIMO, B.C. � This city's 11,000-pound birthday cake for the British Columbia centennial is being cut from the inside to .save its upward appearance as long as possible. Already 10.000 pieces of the LS-foot-high cake have been mailed to points around the world.
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MOAT CLUB
KELOWNA, B.C. (CP) � The board of trade hopes to buy one of the retired Okanagan Lake ferries from the province to use as a float at the Aquatic Club. The ferries became obsolete w hen Princess Margaret opened a bridge across the lake.
ment with council last fall for maintenance of the service at the $20 subsidy. "CANNOT BE HEM) KESPONSIBIiE"
City council has notified the provincial government that it cannot be held responsible for the cost of calls beyond the city limits.
''People think this means there is no further ambulance service to the district but that is not true," Mr. Izatt commented.
He said the city was never responsible for district calls and uncollected bills have been borne entirely by the firm.
Big Cariboo
Highway Contract
Award of a $580,000 contract for reconstruction of a nine-mile section of Cariboo Highway from Dng Prairie to Quesnel River, was announced, Friday, by Highways Minister P. A. Gaglardi.
Emil Anderson Construction Ltd. will start work on the section shortly, he said.
A department of Highways spokesman said today that the section will be completed some time next year.
Great technical difficulties are expected over the last mile of the section, which Is designated as "slide area" � an area oi unusual unstability. MASSIVE SCALE
It is anticipated that excava tion on a massive scale will be necessary to find a sound footing for the road.
As work on the Prince George end of the highway, up to Cale Creek, approaches completion, men and equipment, will move down to the new section.
Grading to C'alc Creek should be complete by mid-September.
Paving of all hut, L'5 miles of the Prince George � Quesnel highway should be complete by this fall,
New pulvamix paving at this end of the highway will extend from Cale Creek, the southernmost extremity of the present paving south of Prince George to Woodpecker, SKTTLIXG TKKKAIN
The finished Highway, for which contracts up to $4,389,000 have hern awarded will be two lane, with a 2-1-foot wide pavec surface and two six foot gravel shoulders.
Pulvamix�a mixture of gravel
and asphalt------will remain as
a temporary surface for two years or so while the terrain settles. Then the permanent hot-plant mix will be laid.
The pulvamix Is almost indis-tinqulsable from the hot-plant mix, hut its wearing properties are not so good.
Broadside Of Flour
A cannon delivering a broadside of flour will be one of the many novelty attractions in the Prince George Day Parade August '11.
The broadside will be aimed at an "army" from the Canadian Legion, who will revive at intervals along the route.
Parade chairman Chuck Ewart reports thai, 50 floaUs have already entered the parade.
Any businessmen or others who still wish to order float plans and materials through the centennial committee must do so before August 15.
All entrants are asked to notify the centennial committee of their entiles as boon as
Cattte
Rustling
Reported
Reports of cattle rustling in the Vunderhoof area have been received Iicre.
However, KCMP who are investigating t h e c o m-plaints will mnko no statement yet.
Hides have been found of some stolen cattle, it has been learned, but no rustling charges have been laid.
Bear Chased
Coyote
Trapped
A black bear which stampeded atop CoHiiiiught Hill over the weekend is now believed to be beyond the city limits.
police early Saturday morning we to called to chase the marauding animal wlilch was spotted in a backyard.
Fire department lieutenant Harold Dornbicrcr chased the bear down a road with a pickup truck.
Milt Warren, predatory animal hunter with the B.C. Came Department, investigated the incident later Saturday and declared the bear was not in the environs. Meanwhile, a coyote which has 'be.cn blamed for the slaughter of II sheep at the Dominion Experimental Station in Plnoyiew has been trapped.
Warren said the predator was killed in a steel fVap early Friday. He plated that animal can be clearly connected with the killings.
PRINCE RUPERT � A six-times weekly ferry service between here and Juneau, Alaska, with intermediate stops, has been recommended in a report for the Alaska highway and public works departments. The report says the system would be self-supporting after only a few years.
1000 Attend Free Centenniat Movie
Accendance at a movie starring veteran river boatman Dick Corless, Friday, was over 1,000.
"Centennial Magazine" was screened at the Civic Centre as part of the centennial summer cinema program.
It depicts centennial activities all over the province, including the Fort George Park celebrations marking the launching of the Simon Fraser Canoe Brigade.
Shots of the three canoes, with the crews in full voyageurs' dress are shown together with an interview with Dick Corless.
Another highlight of the show is a breathtaking demonstration of "bird flying" by parachuting stuntmen.
"Centennial Magazine," which was shot by CBC TV director Tom Connochie, will be screened again tomorrow night, 8:30 p.m. at the Civic Centre.
Admission is free.
FIRE late yesterday evening levelled a woodshed at 545 Ewart St. Fire depart-said the building was nearly consumed by flames before trucks and firemen were called to the scene. At one time the
flames threatened a home on the property but the blaze was quickly brought under control. Residents at the address feared the home would also catch afire and removed furniture and appliances from the house.
aret's Tour-Sometimes
Pleasunt-Sometimes Boring
times.
TAIJvKI) TO FISHIDRMION
In Digby, N.S., she loft her motorcade on the waterfront and walked the length of a pier to talk with grizzled scallop fishermen and see their boats.
She told Mayor Gordon Turn-
HALIFAX � Princess Margaret leaves Canada for home tonight. Her plane is due to take off here fpr
[Jvittiin ut^lO p.m. ATVP.
The princess stopped clown from the special royal train for the last time Sunday after a cross-country tour that took her from 0Joo.se Bay, Labrador, to Victoria, B.C., and back cast to Halifax.
Ton: somiotimes bo ring
Her tour was sometimes
pleasant, sometimes gnioHiriR.
Some of the people and places
she saw obviously excited her;
others apparently bored her.
Once or twice she balked at what local officials arranged and demanded something mo're interesting. She seeiried happiest when she was able to break away from the stuffy formality to see and talk to ordinary people at work or play.
She broke llio routine several times this weekend in the Mara-
hull she would like to po aboard one of the boats but decided the steel ramp leading down to it wasn't made for high-heeled shoes.
That was the only way to get to the boats, the mayor told her. The princess smiled and said:
"1 could sit. down and slide down the ramp. 1 could slide down the handrail. Or 1 could climb down the stairway."
She talked with the grand old man of the fleet, ("apt. Rollle Wormell, 82. He slyly rcach'ed in his pocket, pulled out. a handkerchief, polished two rare blue-coloured scallop shells and gave them to her. "They're royal blue," he sairl.
VICTORIA (CD�: The Victoria public library will establish late this year a new fine arts section to bring together hooks on art and music and feature records and films. Members will he able to borrow prints of famous paintings and records.
Holiday
A recommendation . . . tli.il Prince George Day, August -", he declared a civic holiday will he considered by <� i t y c o ii n c i I tonight.
It is understood (hat the recommendation, which comes from the Hoard of Trade, will ask that retail stores be permitted to remain open from !> a.m. until noon to accommodate visitors to the city.
Centennial Ties
Sale of centennial ties by local army cadets was 100 per cent successful, centennial co-ordina-tor George Thorpe reports.
Full compliment of tics�20 dozen�were sold out.
"This is especially creditable," Mr. Thorpe said, "As the ties were moving very slowly in the stores."
Profit accruing to the tiadets from the sale, $120, will be Used to purchase a glockenspiel for the cadet band. : Work.-on fhe supcrstucture of the Fort George Park outdoor iitage is progressing rapidly.
A total of Hi frames, each 13 feet 6 inches by six feet will be painted at the armories tonight.
ATramework of poles to support the frames is expected to be in position tomorrow.
The centennial committee is nego'tiStlng with the B.C. Power Commission for assistance with this; work.
ACCEPTING the Malkins' Trophy after his team, won the Softball Tournament held in Prince George over the week end is 100 Mile House manager Stan Halcrp. League president Tom HenneBsy made
the presentation. Also taking part in the brief ceremony were vice-president Cam Fraser, behind Halcro, Billy Lee, Gis-come representative, and Ernie Bodin,
league, secretary.
�Citizen Photo
A middle-aged man injured when struck by a car north of here near Summit Lake last week is making satisfactory recovery in Hospital.
He has been identified as George Powers, about 50, of Prince George.
; Powers was hit early Friday morning about 30 miles north of Prince Oorge. He is believed to be suffering from, na^ihly internal injuries.
LAKE CCAVICHAN. B.C. � Two men were killed Sunday right on the outskirts of thi� Vancouver Island community when the car in which they were riding hit a guard rail and then crashed into a power pole.
OMAK, Wash. � Ellie Lewis, Penticton, B.C., repeated as all-around cowboy champion Sunday at the 2oth .annual Omuk felampede.
Search For Stayer Narrows
PENTICTON, B.C. � RCMP are positive they had a fltietinjuf eVimiJtmjrluring the weekend of the man who has eluded police-led jSbsses throughout the southern'.Okfin-asan for the last seven days. ~~--------------------------------�
The search for Donald Stevens, charged with wounding an RCMP corporal at a roadblock set up following the slaying of a woman limit picker, was narrowed Sunday to the heavily-wooded Green Mountain area 10 miles west of here.
Stevens was sighted by a three-man squad of RCMP on a winding dusty road between here and Keremeos, 20 miles to the southwest. Mul their quarry disappeared into the dense scrub.
Stevens was carrying a rifle over his shoulder, police said. lie was previously thought to he armed with an automatic pistol. ('() N HTA B IjK WOU XI > KI)
He is charged in a warrant with wounding Cpl. Ralph Brown or the RCMP at a road block thrown up after the slaying of Anita Buddc. 2R. a week igo Sunday in her fruit picker's shack at the nearby Kaleden orchard where she had been working.
The corporal was shot twice with a pistol Tuesday, once through the arm and once through the neck. He is recovering.
Stevens is well-known In the district as .lohn Morrison. He lias bragged that he ,ia able to "live off the �land.1'
lie is 58, five feet, eight inches tall, weighs about ISO pounds, has reddish brown hair and is deeply tanned from working on farms and orchards.
Following the sighting, a farm house off the road was broken into.
Aeneas Ortland reported bacon, eggs and flour were stolen Saturday night from his home. Police said footprints, believed to be Stevens', were found in the road near Ortland's farm. They led into the bush whenever a farmhouse was neared
and out again when the farm was out of sight.
ft VANCOUVER � Anita Rll'ddc wen! there to see a man who wanted to marry her, the woman's former roommate here said Sunday.
I'.'rik.i Fischer said her friend met the man last year at the Pacific National Kxhi-bitibn here.
"lie was much older than she, and led a very unsettled life," said Miss Fischer. "Anita always thought the best of people and trusted everyone.
"They wrote regularly to each other . . . She said that he wanted to marry her." 6 .Miss Rudtlc came here from East (�eriiian.v IS months ago. She worked in Holy Family Hospital for It months, then at St. Paul's Hospital for six months. She went to the Okanagnn a month ago. Q A transient fruit picker hns vowed he'll never again return to the Okanagan.
Responsible for his decision is the manhunt being staged in the Summerlnnd district for a wanted gunman.
The transient answers, almost perfectly, the description of the hunted man.
The iinfortunate fellow was-, picked up first, at Westbank. Officers whisked him here foiv, <|iiestinning. Then he was re-" leased.
An hour later he was pick-'; ed up at Oknnagnn Mission, handcuffed and brought here, again. It was suggested he travel north.
Officers got him at Winfichl" � then hack here again.
It was suggested the (ran-1 sieut change his clothing and maybe have a haircut. |) Me was last seen walking north oil Highway !)7.
Rupert Riot Squad Stand By-1 Just In Case
PRINCE RUPERT, B.C. � The RCMP detachment here was all ready Saturday night for a repetition of rioting which ended British Columbia centennial celebrations in this coastal city a week earlier.
Inspector H. A. Bloxham re-inforced the normal three-man night force at headquarters with If) extra officers and held all squad cars in service through the night. Shore patrols from the visiting destroyers HMCS Antigo-riish and Waterford were on duty in the. city.
But nothing happened. There wasn't even a fist fight.
"I don't think there will be any more trouble but I had extra men in reserve as a precaution," Insp. Bloxham said.
In the early hours of Sunday, Aug. 3, Mayor Peter J. Lester twice read the Riot Act before firemen turned on hotes and RCMP. went in with tear gas to break up a mob of 1,000 rioterti Ihruwing rocks and bottles at policemen.