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Vol. 2; No. 151
PRINCE GEORGE, BRITISH COLUMBIA, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 13, 1958
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e To Nowhere
To Stand
$800,000 Span No Road Link
Construction of Prince George's new .$800,000 bridge over the Nechako River will be completed within a few weeks.
But these facts can be revealed today: It will be at least
J.It will be at least one year before a road can be built to connect tbe bridge to a highways system.
2. Financing for the linking road by the Department of Highways will not even be considered until next spring. The beautiful, gleaming-white bridge straddles the Nechako River just north of the present out-dated structure.
Hut at the moment the pavement ends In a rubble-strewn track.
The crossing was supposed to lie pact of a $3,000,000 by-pass route which would skirt Prince George and connect the Cariboo and John Hart Highways. SI'KVKVK TAKJSN
Regional highways construction engineei' John \V. Morris,
News
PRINCE' RUPERT � Construction of a $250,-000 sawmill here is to begin within a month, it was reported by R. E. I) u g g a n, forester for Prince Rupert Sawmills Limited.
The mill, to be completed before year-end, will have a daily output of 100,000 board feet of lumber and will employ 40 men.
� � � MEMPHIS, Tenn � Army
private Elvis Presley flew home Tuesday night to the bedside of his ailing mother.
Presley, the rock 'n' roll singer drafted Into military service, was granted an emergency � seven-day leave from Ft. Hood, Texas.
� * * VICTORIA � Llglitlnlng
storms in the southern interior of British Columbia Dave started 8^ new fires in tlie last -I hours.
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TORONTO � The police commission .said Tuesday women may be used for downtown traffic control.
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LOS ANGELES � A woman trapped for more than two days in a closet died yesterday. Firemen used hacksaws to free* (12-year-old Mrs. Ruby Hummingbird who apparently suffered a stroke and as she fell was wedged between a folding bed and a closet wall.
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VANCOUV KK � It is report: cd here 'that the Chjjco Ranch, one of the biggest .ranches in British Columbia's Cariboo country, is being offered for sale at $2,250,000.
� � * TORONTO � The United
Packinghouse Workers of America ,(CLC) and Canada Packers Limited agreed Tuesday on a j 21-ceul package wage increase in a ^0-month contract.
� * * TATIOVAMA, Japan � The
ls.'j-ton fishery training ship Kyoel Marij Tuesday became Ihr fifth .rap.'inoc vessel to report ;i decrease of while Mood cells among crow members as a result of last month's Eniwetok nuclear test.
� � � VANCOUVER � Claims
against Emil Anderson Construction Company, Ltd. and Pacific Great Eastern Railway Company as a result of a mud slide at Britannia Beach three years ago were dismissed here Monday in Supreme Court.
said surveys have been taken of the highway this summer anc financing appears to be the onlj stumbling block in its construction.
"We will have to wait until next .spring at least before financing of the highway is arranged," Morris said. (Department o f Highways votes on road construction pro grams go before the proyincia legislature at that time.)
The bridge, when it was start ed two years ago, was planned to coincide with the opening of the bypass highway. , Concrete Construction, of Cal gary, is decking and installing railing on the bridge and the project is expected to be completed soon.
Highways department, which has battled with at least two organizations and city council over the highway, which will run down Central Street, will be sticking to its original plans.
Both the board of trade and town planning commission at one time opposed the idea and fought to have the route farther west along Quinn St.
COXNKCT WITH CARIBOO
'*f!ie by-puns IiIrImvh.v will
.inirn1�t with U�m CarlbMi Wl�li>. way tlu-e�* iiiIIcn north or' Oiilc Creek, Mr. Morris said, and will cross the I'Yaser (liver at South Port George.
Mr. Morris said the final route will probably be west of the golf course. \
Aid. John Powers, chairman of city council's traffic- committee, said the City has not heard of by-pass highway plans for "months."
Royal Commission Coming Here In September
The British Columbia three-man Royal Commission on education will hold its hearing in Prince Gcore during September instead of August.
Dean S. N. K Chant, commission chairman, announced the revised schedule today.
"it. will allow the commission to conclude its work in April, 1900, two months earlier than planned," Dean Chant said.
Months and locations of hearings under the revised schedule are:
September, 1!).">8, Prince George, Burns Lake, Sniithers, Itc'vclslokc, S a I m o u Arm, Ka in loops;
October, l!)38, ('ran brook, Creston, .Nelson, Trail, Grand Porks;
.November, I!)58, Cllilliwack, Abbotsford, .New Westminster; January, i!(.v>, Vancouver, Victoria; February, 1959, Duncan, Nanaiino, Qiialicum, Cour-tenay;
March, 195!), IVntieton, Ke-lowna, Vernoti;
April, 11)55), Powell Kivcr, Ocean Kails, Prince Kupert.
Members of the commission are Dean Chant; John Liersch, vice-president of the Powell River Company, and R. P. Wai-rod, general manager of B.C. Tree Fruits Limited of Kelowna.
New Travel Service
A new t r a v e 1 service has opened offices in the lobby of the McDonald Hotel, Third and George.
Peter Lloyd, manager of the local branch, said the office is an arm of the Kitimat Travel Service and will ^peeializc in all forms of commercial transport*-tion.
Completion date for Prince George's proposed new luxury hotel, the "Simon Fraser Inn," has been set. at August 31 of next year, not April 30, as was stated in The Citizen yesterday.
The finishing date was given to city council, Monday, in a letter from Cloverdale Construction, New Westminster, representing a group of industrialists behind the venture
Don't Feed Bears � You May Be On Menu
Game Biologist Hay Bullies advises unarmed people to steer clear of bears and never to attempt to feed them.
fie was commenting on the death of a young girl at Jasper Park.
Hears in parks, he said, are most dangerous as they have lost much of their fear of man while retaining their savage instincts.
It is unusual for bears in the hush to attack people unless they have cubs or arc interfered with in some way.
Anyone without a gun encountering a bear is advised to bark slowly away.
"Bears are short sighted, usually you see them before they see you ... so you can get out of their way in most cases without them ever know-
ing that you are there."
"Some people recommend yelling at the bears and jumping, or even charging them� and these methods are sometimes effective�but the best possible advice is still to steer clear of them as much as possible."
Shot bears, thought to be dead should be approached with extreme caution, as the recent case of a fa,riner who was mauled by a wounded bear at Cranbrook hills shows, lie said.
Once a person is grabbed by a bear, little can be done, unless someone is standing by who can shoot the bear � which is a very risky proceeding for the man being mauled. *
Regular Shipments Over PGE Extension Readied
Initial shipments of cattle, sulphur, lumber and grain :� the principal resources of northern B.C. � have travelled over the northern extension of the P.G.E.
Bob Williamson, assistant to the general manager of the railway, said in a telephone interview yesterday the first regular revenue cargoes over the line are expected next month.
The $54,000,000 extension is expected to be completed
oy ,mid-September :mcl tho ol'i'iokil opening is solioduled for the end of SeptemlxT or'enrly October.
First shipment of sulphur from a petroleum plant at Fort St. John passed through Prince George last week on its way to Vancouver.
Already "first" shipments of cattle, grain and lumber have gone over the line.
Construction on the last link of the railway between Ch'etwynd and Dawsori Creek is proceeding at about a mile a day, Mr. Williamson stated.
There is still considerable steel-laying and ballasting work to be done.
First passenger train is expected to use the route between Fort St. John and Prince George by mid-September.
Unemployment Down� Here, Provincially
A total of $87,238 was paid out in unemployment insurance benefits through the local office of the L'lC during July.
In the same month, $3,502,-989 in benefits was paid to unemployed in the Pacific region of the UIC.
This compares with a total of ? 1,278,937 paid out in the same region during June.
One of the reasons for the
TV PROFIT
LONDON (CD�An operating profit of �-1,053,000 was reported by Associated Television, which runs commercial TV programs In London at weekends and in the Midlands during the week. This compares with a pro-'it of �-117,000 the previous /ear.
decrease Is the decline in the number of persons registered for employment. At the end of .July there was approximately 20 percent fewer persons looking for work that there were at the beginning of the month.
OFFICIAL OPENING of $200,000 Woolworth's variety store will take place at 9 a.m. tomorrow. The store, 209th Woolworth outlet in Canada, features the latest novelty merchandise, including horticulture, pets and
snack bar for shoppers. Store employs 22 local sales clerks and officials of the chain are here from Toronto for the occasion. (Citizen photo)
STOKE BREAK-IN
Thieves escaped with $50 cash and part of a cash register from the Hear Lake store, 7(1 miles north of here on (he Hart Highway yesterday.
I'oliee said the premises were entered by smashing a plate glass window on the front door.
The cash register has not been located and no arrests have been made.
Patterson Prepares
For World Title Bout
OCM.WSIDI-:, Calif. Heavyweight champion Kloyd Patterson, unlike everyone else, is not taking lightly his Mile defunct! against long-shot I toy Harris of Texas. "In u righ; like this." said Patterson; "one punch can make a difference."
The 23-year*oid New York title-holder, training at this seaside resort for the fight next .Monday in Los Angeles, said he heard Harris had a strong left, a desire to fight and train hard, and is unbeaten in 22 professional matches.
About 20,000 persons are expected to see California's first heavyweight, title battle 111 almost two decades. Others around the nation will see it on theatre closed-circuit TV.
Emergency Ambulance Service
Acting Mayor Ken Jack today gave the. assurance that "whatever happens," an ambulance service will be operating in the city next week.
The present service will go out of operation Sunday, unless council come to some eleventh hour agreement with owner Alex Izatt.
And this, in tjie opinion of, a vlty sjjokt'simin, is "vei"V
unlikely."
Mr. Izatt claims,that the present city subsidy of 820 a month is insufficient for him to run the ambulance at a profit.
City is preparing to take emergency action to ensure Chat Prince George has an ambulance service after Sunday.
A I l-.vear-old ambulance, used before .Mr. Izatt started operations last September ina.v he brought back into service, or, a truck may he put into temporary .service!. DECISION THIS AFTRRNOON Whole question will ho thrashed out at a meeting of the finance committee, headed by Aid. Percy Williams, this afternoon. Feeling of council is believed to be that the Cadillac service run by Mr, Izatt is too expensive for Prince George:
It is expected tliat council will reject. Mr. Izutt's offer to sell the vehicle and equipment to
Ike Accused Reds Of 'Ballistic Blackmail'
United .Nations, \.V.�IMcsi-dent ICisenhower today set forth a six-point plan for
building Middle-Hast peace__
including swift creation of an
BIGGEST TIRE IN WORLD
THIS MAMMOTH "Earthmover" tire, which dwarfs the car, is the heaviest in the world. Made by a British firm for vehicles in use overseas, it is 29 inches wide and SO inches in diamteter; weighs'more than a ton, costs about $2,500, and can cany a load of 20 tons. It contains 300 miles of nylon cord in the casing and Ha miles of steel bead wire.
emergency US police force and an international economic development program.
Opening the General Assembly's special emergency debate, the president pledged that. United States troops would be "totally withdrawn" from Lebanon '.'whenever this is requested by the duly constituted government of Lebanon or whenever, through action of the United Nations or otherwise, Lebanon is no longer exposed to the original danger." At. the same time he accused Russia, without actually naming it, of stirring up war hysteria with tactics of "ballistic blackmail."
The president proposed a six-point solution to the middle-East situation r-
J. A standby 1'nitcd .Nations peace force.
�*. .\n Arab-run Middle Kaj>t economic development loan fund and ;i trchnicarat-sihtanoe program financed jointly by the Arab s>tatr>, the United States and cither countries, presumably including Russia.
3. A constant L'X check to curl) inflammatory propaganda broadcasts to and from tlie Middle East nations.
4. A l.*.N study of possible controls on arms shipments to Middle East countries, including Isreal, to avert an Kast West munitions race in the area.
5. Unspecified 11 c >y U X moves to guarantee
security a 11 <1 independence after American troops are withdrawn.
(j. An expression of I'.N determination to assure Jordan's survival as a nation, presumably by replacing H.ritisli troops now there with UN personnel.
Fire Hazard Increases
Dry weather over the last five days has again raised the lire hazard in the Prince George district.
General haxard is rated at "moderate to high" while to the east in the McBride district the hazard is rated "high".
In the whole Prince George district 437 men are fighting G-l fires with the aid of 19 tra'c tors.
Guard has been . established around the 15,000 acre fire at Mile 70 on the Hart Highway.
Rough terrain at. Tctc Jaune, in the vicinity of MeBride means that firefighters, who can receive no asuit-tancc from tractors, must resort to the old-fashioned mattock and spade to f|ucil a 700 acre fire.
An 8,000 acre fire in the Fort St. James district is reported to be in the mop-up stage.
DIES DURING GAME
HAMILTON . Brown for a provincial subsidy for a service here.
Hospital Building Two Weeks Ahead
C o 11 s t r 11 c t i o n of Prince George's $2,000,000 Hospital is running two weeks ahead of shedule, contractors reported today.
Sokcsman for Rush &, Totnp-kfns (Canada) Ltd. said good weather has been credited with the progress.
He said crews have started basic construction on the fourth floor of the five-floor structure.
Only a breakdown of equipment, arid crippling weather conditions could interrupt the current pace of construction.
Meanwhile. Hon. Eric Martin, minister of health and welfare, inspected both the new and old hospitals during an informal visit here this week.
Aid. John Powers, chairman of the hospital board, said Mr. Martin appeared "very satisfied" with conditions lri the current building and construction at the new hospital'site.
HAMILTON (C'P) � A prolonged strike against the big Steel Company of Canada was feared today after tho foundering of government-sponsored mediation.
The 7,500 Stolco employees walked out Tuesday, backing demands by the United Steel-workers of America CLC for a package increase of 33-cenls an hour.
Armchair Thief
IRVING AXELROD, a paraplegic, is being held in New York on charges of trying Uphold up and rob Mrs. Lena Ernest after she had given him a lilt in her car. Police,' say Axelrod was unable to answer when asked how ho thought he'd make his get-away had the hold-up been successful. The attempt failed when Mrs, Ernesl screamed for help.
Sputnik Spotted Soaring South
Sputnik's carrier rocket didn't go unnoticed when it Clashed.across Prince George skies late yesterday.
Mr. and Mrs. Jack Rhodes, 1SSI.) Juniper St., reported today they saw the rocket flickering in the sky at U:47 p.m.
It appeared on the northern horizon and travelled south. 11 is scheduled to re-enter Prince George's horizon at 9:.'j6 p.m. today.
Mr. Rhodes, radio operator for B.C. Forest Service, said the carrier rocket pulsated and was travelling several iundred miles aloft.
However, there's one point which is confusing Mr. Rhodes.
When he was in Victoria July 15 he spotted the carrier travelling from the south to'the north. He cannot understand why it has reversed its path since that time.
The Rhodes were awaiting the overhead passage of
the carrier and spotted it from their front lawn.
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