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EDITORIAL ........................ Pag. 2
SPORT ................................ Page 4
WOMEN SOCIAL ................ Pag. 5
CLASSIFIED........................ Pag* 6
COMICS ............................ Page 7
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WEATHER
Mostly sunny with a few afternoon showers. Low tonight, high tomorrow, 42 and 80.
Vol. 2; No. 151
PRINCE GEORGE, BRITISH COLUMBIA, TUESDAY, AUGUST; 12, 1958
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Work to Start In Early 1959
Prince George's proposed million-dollar luxury hotel � "The Simon Fraser Inn"�will be completed by April 30 of next year.
�Tiiis was learned by city council last nigiu.
Sketch plans for t);c !)2-room hold, which will be one of the finest. In British Columbia, have been completed by local architects Brlggs and r-onseca.
The hotel will have elavators, novelty shops and a spectacular "golden triangle" lounge.
Cloverdale Construction of New Wsetminster gave the finishing date in a letter to council, confirming a verbal agreement with the city and the company representing a group of industrialists behind the venture.
It is believed that construction on the site, at Seventh and Quebec, will 'begin early next year.
Occupying eight lots, the site will cost $27,500.
KKCORI) VISAII
This lias been a record year for major construction projects.
New construction which has been started in the 'city alone is estimated to amount to $8,-000,000.
Major projects in band this year include the district hospi-
GANGES, B.C.�RCMP
.at this Gulf Islands community said Mrs. Alice Kerf; 54, was charged Monday night with murder of her husband, found dead earlier in the day with a bullet wound in the head.
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t MONTREAL � Marie Dipiine, $\vhb once longed for the solitary \(c of a nun, Monday became he third of the four surviving ^quintuplets to marry.
� * * VANCOUVEU � Forty
members of Vancouver Board of Trade leave Wednesday for a two-day tour of industrial ' developments i n the B. C. Interior.
� * � MOSCOW � Premier Nlklta
KhruscHev has expressed hope
I that the UN general Assembly's �debate on, the. Middle East, will IJielp clear the way for a summit
conference.
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I AMMAN, Jordan � Thirteen persons today were sen-ienced to death by a military fcourt here for attempting to Start a revolt to overthrow the Jordanian government.
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[ l'OKTLAXI), England�The �M'.S atomic submarine Nnutil-^�fiis arrived in harbor here today to si cheering welcome on lithe completion of its historic Journey under the Arctic ice cap.
� � � HOXOIA'I.O � A brilliant
flash, apparently caused by a nuclear explosion at Johnston Island lit up Hawaii's skies for an instant this morning. The flash was seen at. 12::!0 a.m. Hawaii time.
The flash came during the eight-hour period announced Monday by the command in warning of a possible nuclear
.test 'shot in the Johnston area.
1700 miles .southwest of Hono-ulu/
II SOUTH WKVMOl TH, Mass. i*The U.S. Navy blimp ZFt.'-l!
irrived at its home base today
ifter a scientific mission to the � retic designed to te.st the lisefufness of such lighter-it tan air craft in search in V >lar areas.
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\\EDMONTON � The UCAI<\
\"tiding up its third northern
'S'lch within :i week, lias re-
t�l sighting tlie wreckage
W small-American plane in
th-*uwtern Alaska near the
Uc. Circle.
tal, the new Connaught school and possibly yet another hotel on George Street.
The new Woolworth's store was completed recently and plans for a new co-operative feed-mill and retail store are expected to mature shortly.
MORE RURAL THAN CITY BCPC CUSTOMERS
Bulk of the B.C. Power Commission's new customers in the Prince George area are in the rural districts.
During July nearly twice as many customers from rural areas were signed up In comparison with those residing within the city limits.
B.C. Power Commission reported yesterday that 28 customers were added to the distribution system in the city during July compared with 54 at out of town points.
Power Commission lias since �'undertaken i' *110.POO expansion program lntu tTie Plnevlew area which will add at least 200 new customers to the system.
jburing the month of June 20 city customers and 35 rural customers were signed up.
Meanwhile production at the $2,500,000 power plant here increased u() percent in July over June. The peak load during the past three months was 0000 kilowatts, an increase of 1500 kilowatts over the same period last year.
From Telkwa To McBride For Trade Board Meeting
Delegates representing a dozen board of trade and business promotion bodies in north-central B.C. will attend a meeting in Vanderhoof next week.
Annual conference of the Associated Board of Trade of central B.C. will be held there August 21 to 23.
Vanderhoof and District Board of Trade will be host to the delegates.
Topics of importance to all communities from Mc-Bride to Telkwa oh Highway 1G as well as many other northern centres will be discussed at the meeing.
First business session opens at 9:30 a.m. Friday. Guest speaker at a banquet at the Vanderhoof Community Hall Friday night will be Ralph Pybus, president of the Canadian Chamber of Commerce.
ill Present ial Films
Special film showing of interest to farmers and high school .students will be presented here by the Canadian National Railways, Sept. 5.
Murdo MacLeod, district CNR safety inspector from Vancouver will present a short lecture on farm safety.
THKEE INTREPID mariners eat breakfast at Woods Hole, Mass., following what they said was a 10-day, nonstop outboard motor trip in their 22-foot cruiser from Copenhagen, Denmark. Left to right are: James R. Wynne of Miama, Kla., Sven Orjangaard of Sweden, and Ole Botvet, Danish citizen and.Fort Lauclerdale, Fla.. boatbuilder.
Top Canoe Team Coming For Race
A team from one of the top canoe clubs in America will compete in the 139-mile canoe race from Fort St. James to Fort George August 2f>.
The two men arc from the Michigan Canoe Racing Association Flint, Michigan.
Their travelling expenses will
4,000-Seat Stadium Planned For City
City planner Desmond Parker today is working on a plan for an extensive recreational development in the ball park-ball field area on the Northern Trans-Provincial Highway. .
He said a preliminary site study has been made of the area which eventualrj will see a stadium with a seating capacity of at least -1000 spectators.
Size of the stadium can be increased as interest in the
sport grows.
Parker Is also preparing an overall plan for development of the Fraser River park which will turn is into the finest recreational development In the northern interior.
be subsidized to the extent of $100, centennial association president Alex Bowie announced to-day, from a fund donated by interested persons.
"This means that the local boys will have some real opposition in the race", Mr. Bowie said, "�If we! can win this it will; be a real feather in our cap!"
LONGEST ON CONTIXKNT
The race is believed to be the longest one-day race on the continent.
Running time is now estimated to be about 17 hours.
Starting time at Fort St. James will be 4 a.m. to ensure that the canoes will arrive here in daylight.
They will compete for a purse totalling nearly $2,000 plus trophies.
Sun-Tanned Arrives Back
LON DON�Princess Margaret arrived home today
om her tour of Canada and stepped out of her plane into a ,�� Jackie Stinson at the pool or Ernie Ituchs at the Civic Centre.
Adult swim classes will continue until August 28. They are held every Monday and Thursday evening from 7:15 to 8 p.m. lleginnors arc still invited to attend as three instructors are now handling the course.
Speedster Tries Again
SEATTLE (AP)�13111 Mun-cey, who has been in the cockpit of two disintegrating .giant speedboats in less than a year, said Monday, � "I'll race again�and win that Gold Cup three straight times."
Muncey, who escaped with only bruises and minor cus on a leg and toe, was gunning for an unprecedented third straight victory in Sunday's 51st running of the Gold Cup race.
Disaster overtook him during the Second heat when his defending chamion Miss Thrift way lost a rudder In a first-turn jam and rammed a coast guard picket boat. Both sank. Five coast guard men also were hurt, none seriously.
FOREST FIRES are disappearing off forest district in the past 24 hours, a
the plotting map quickly as cool, damp record i'or this summer. Above BCFS
�nights set in and showers sprinkle north- radio operator Jack Rhodes, left, and
em B. C. Not a single new blaze was technician Joe Galinis, right, check the
reported in the massive Prince George
location of One of the latest outbreaks. (Citizen photo)
City Council Agrees On Aug. 27 Civic Holiday
City council last night agreed that Prince George I>a.v should be declared u civic holiday.
Only the Mayor, however, who is out of town at the moment, has the power to declare a public holiday.
Council were considering a proposal from the Board of Trade recommending that the day be declared a holiday with the provision that retailers he allowed to remain open until noon. �
Council concluded that this provision was contrary to the municipal act. They returned the recommendation to the Board of Trade, advising them re-submit it in the form of a request of a holiday for everyone, when Mayor Gray returns.
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Other city council news: Owner of the Rainbow Drive-In, Richard Bator, informed city council last night, that he would be compelled to legal action
against the city unless the city's order stopping renovation work at the drive-in was modified.
The city ordui'cil Kloppuge . of renovating svo'rk on the drive-in this year' on the grounds that the building was wrongly zoned.
Mr. Bates claims that the city was in full possession of his plans long before he went ahead with them, and that he was granted a building permit;
Haters solicitors; Perry and Cuiilario, told council thai Mr. Bator, could suffer considerable damage under the city's action, and, unless the city is willing to consider some "compi-omi.se" the only alternative would be "action in court."
Ovcrwa'itcp Ltd. last night made application to city council for the rezoning of five lots on Victoria tn retail, for the purpose of constructing a new store there.
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Gulden Construction Co., Ed-
monton, wired city council that unless they were informed of the cost of lots in Seymour subdivision' be^-jiri. Monday llu-.v would have to defer construction of 25 medium price homes there until next year.
The site lies south of Fifteenth between Carney and Gillette.
Acting city Clerk Kenneth Arkell told city council that a letter with the required information had already been dispatched to Golden Construction.
It is understood that (lie company will construct homes selling at about $11,000.
Council approved a suggestion from Mr. R. Swigert that signs indicating the location of motels and auto-courts be erected in the city for the benefit of tourists.
Slain Girl Buried As Killer Sought
PEN'TICTON,' B.C. � Anita Budde. 28, was buried Monday in a quiet ceremony at Vancouver as the hunt for a man wanted in the shooting of an RCMP constable during the search for her slayer moved into its ninth day.
RCMP reported no new leads in the search, now centered around the Green Mountain area, 10 miles west of here.
Police converged on a dusty, winding road leading past the mountain to Keremcos, 20 miles southwest, when suspect transient Donald Stevens, 08, was spotted there Saturday.
Stevens disappeared into dense scrub bush at the side of the road before officers who sighted him could turn their car around and get back to the spot. SHOT AT KOADBLOCK
Stevens is charged with attempted murder In the wounding of Cpl. Ralph Brown at a roadblock 30 hours after the slaying of Miss Budde. The corporal, who was shot with a pistol in the hand and neck, is recovering in hospital
The body of Miss Budde, 2S, was found Aug. 3 in a lonely
cabin on an orchard at nearby Kalcden where s.he had been employed for less than a month. She had been beaten to death.
The woman's mother in Germany has not yet been told how her daughter died.
"All we have told her so far is that Anita is dead," Dr. Ifein-rlch K Llebreclit, the German consul In Vancouver, said Monday. "I'm collecting all the facts before 1 tell her." M'lTTKK TO MOTIIKK
Inspector C. W. Speare. in charge of the search, said Monday Miss Budde had just finished writing a letter to her mother when she was killed. He refused to say what was in the letter.
Mi.ss Budde came to Canada from Germany IS months ago.
ANX MARIE EliLBRBECK,
one of the dancers in "The World of the .Wonderful Dark" will star against a striking background for the three act play here Saturday at 8:30 p.m. in the high school field-house. The drama by Lister Sinclair, is created on a stage set which is centered on a theme of west coast Indian life.
Museum. May Have To Find Bigger Premises
At least 1000 persons visit Prince George's new j mtuscuni every month.
Local branch of the Fort George Historical Society 1 reported the figure today and added that traffic through the museum is growing daily.
Number of exhibits is also increasing and George Henry, custodian of the museum, report's the building which is located in the Civic Centre will soon be too small to house the selection.
"The amount of traffic through the museum is greater than anticipated and it points to the fact that in the' future larger premises will be needed," said the historical society president.Ian Evans.
Museum is open daily from 2 to 4 p.m., except Saturday and Sunday. .,