Three-Day Fall Fair
INSIDE
EDITORIAL ........................ Page 2
SPORT ................................ Page 6 i
WOMEN'S, SOCIAL ............ Page 9
CLASSIFIED ........................ Page 12
COMICS ............................ Page 13
W EATHER
Cloudy with a few showers. Remaining cool. Low tonight, high tomorrow, 45 and 65.
DIAL LOgan 4-2441
Vol. 2; No. 161
PRINCE.GEORGE, BRITISH COLUMBIA,. FRIDAY, AUGUST 29, 1958 �
Ail Profits To Be Split With City
New revenue to ease taxes and effect improvements � low cost fuel to heat the homes of residents and ;� means oC attracting new industries � that's what Mayor Carrie Jane Gray sees in the by-law passed by council last night by which the city proposes to buy gas from the Prince George Gas Company, subject to a citizens' referendum to be held shortly. Intei-viewcd this morning, Her
"Worship stressed the point that, | fect improvements without add-under the proposed agreement | et, burt|ens on tlie taxpayer, with Prince Oeorge Gas, the ,IQ- negoliallons wilh
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system will be owned by the city and will purchase gas from the operating company '.'a very different set up than the citizens being sold gas by a monopoly thut is totally disinterested in the welfare of this city." "This city is growing faster than any other in Canada and despite every economy, is hard put for revenue Jto keep up to this growth and continue to ef-
Citizen Analysis Of New Gas
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The city will own the sys right from tl�� start.
Tlit! 1>;v-I;mv' concerns tin* llHlmicnt of n municipal
msti'ilmtlon .system that
v would be owned by the city and financed, built and administered by the Prince George Gas Company.
0 The city will receive five per cent of the gross revenue and 50 per cent of the profits on gas sales both inside and outside tho city.
� Out of earnings the system would inakii payinc-nts on the purchase price so that roughly 40-50 per cent would In-paid off in this way at tlic end of 20 years.
� Frince George C.'as Coihp-uny absorbs operating; losses, ex-cept in the first year.
� The rates, terms and conditions under which gas may be supplied consumers will he fixed l>y the government.
e I'riiico George fias Co. ;iK''�'�'s to employ wherever pos-hililc locul contractors, laborers, workmen find artisans.
� Council is applying to the Department of Municipal Af-fnirs for a waiver of the six months waiting period required before holding another referendum. If approved, the referendum will be held in September.
� September '.'.I has been set us the date the Hoard of Transport Commissioners will lioar a city request that the hoard direct Westroust Transmission Company to sell gas directly to the city without going through the middle man � Inland Natural CJas.
� A by-law authorizing the city tti contract with "Westeoast for the supply of gas has uil-reail.V been approved by council and if approval is granted by tho Department of Municipal Affairs it will not be ricci'ssiiry for this to lie included in the referendum.
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Prince George Gas Company have resulted in their agreeing to pay the city five per cent of gross revenue on all gas sold, uoth inside and outside ihc city.
"Further, they have agreed V split all profits equally with the city. The city will own the system without the added burden of having to run it. The Prince Geo-rge Gas Company will run it and will absorb any deficits.
"If there could be any arrangement more advantageous to the citizens of Prince George, I'd certainly like to hear about it.
"The only other proposal of which I am aware Is one whereby we would get none of these
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to'buy gas from a monopoly at prices which include a subsidy to build gas lines to the south of us.
"This city is not going to be pushed around and be forced to pay through the nose to swell the coffers of interlocking directorates that reach as far as Texas.
"Why pay taxes to Texas?
'We are prepared to take our case to the Government of Canada which provides for muniei-pally-owned systems getting gas direct. On the one hand residents would have to pay as high as $1.24 per unit. This way we expect to got it for {Me or loss. And, as the volume increases, the cost will steadily decrease.
"Why, the saving on the cost of heating municipal buildings alone will amount to thousands of dollars!
"When tho referendum is held, 1 think we should remember that this is the one way we can cat our cake and have i">, too. And it's going to be good lasting cake."
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Koyal Canadian' Mounted Police warned to,lay highways will be "saturated" with patrol cars during the Labor Day weekend.
Officers said every available man and vehicle will be patrolling highways and streets in an effort to cut the toll of deaths, injuries and damages in this area.
Ghost cars will also be in use j along with a full complement of RO.M'P officers engaged in traffic checks.
The traffic crackdown will come in the midst of what is expected will he the busiest weekend this summer.
Thousands of persons will travel to out. of town points and thousands more will attend the city's ' fourty-third annual fall fail-.
LONDON � A British medical group asked today for 1,000 wives to volunteer for n world-wide family planning experiment to pro-
duce pill.
a snfc birth control
tV * * MONTGOMERY, Ala. � Police who sought to arrest a teen-aged Negro on a complaint he was trying to date a white woman shot and killed the youth Thursday as he scuffled with them.
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VANCOUVER � It was reported Thursday night the B.C. Federation of Agriculture has requested the provincial Milk Board for a retail price increase of two cents a quart.
Scattered Showers Ahead For Weekend
Scattered showers are at the top of the .week-end meteorological menu. g.
Weather bureau at the Prince George airport predicted today a Pacific storm, moving eastward should 'be over the area by tomorrow morning but*l another storm will come in its wake.
But on the other hand the chances are �g'efod for sunny periods and cool temperatures. $�?
Suny skies have been predicted for the':ywestern half of the Cariboo region tomorrow but there will be showers in the east.
The Fall Fair should not be seriously affected by the forecast but showers.Monday could upset the,chuck-wagon races and other track events.
Sornrners Witness Ceiled Liar And Blackmailer
V.\X< OUVNIt� British Columbia's longest criminal trial � the Soininers hribery-can-S|)ii'Ucy case�is finally near-ing its end.
J. K. Nicholson, counsel^ for H. Wilson Gray and his company, Pacific Coast Service* Ltd.,
told the Assize Court jury'fhurs-ila.v why his clients should be acquitted in the politically-po-tdnt case.
Mr. Nicholson branded the Crown's chief witness, Charles EversfiHrt, as a "cold-blooded schemer, a blackmailer and a Har," and said he was tho "kingpin" in the case.
The lawyer said that Cray may have acted "imprudently and unwisely" but was not a criminal nor guilty of criminal acts.
Mr. Nicholson said the Crown mainly rested its case on the evidence.of Eversfield; the_ former Pacific Coast Services'Ltd. bookkeeper who took numerous documents from the company files before he left his job in 1955.
The Crown mainly bases its case on the testimony of Evers-charges that, former lands and forest minister Robert Samrnersj who resigned in 105(5, but still is a member of the legislature, took bribe money for use of his
Funeral was held yesterday morning for Sam Miller, who drowned while practicing for the North West Fur Brigade canoe race on Summit Lake Saturday afternoon.
Miller. 1_\ disappeared in the water about 200 yards from .shore, lie swam ashore after his craft capsized and drowned -when returning to rescue hts| companion; Glen Wlllson, whoi -was clinging to the canoe.
He was considered an expert canoest and was a member of the Simon Fraser Brigade which made the historic re-enactment trip to Vancouver' earlier this summer.
influence in obtaining government licenses . permitting holders to cut timber on Crown land.
Charged with him are H. W. Gray, .John Gray, Charles D. Schultz-, tb,e C. 1). Schultz Company, Pacific Coask^Si
KC. Forest Products-: Un ' [Mr. Nicholson said\ he approached the defence on the basis that the accused had been guilly of imprudent and unwise acts but this did not make them criminals. There had been loans to Sommers from Gray to the extent of some $7,000 out of Social Credit campaign funds Which Gray bad been collecting. Hut. this did not make Gray guilty of a criminal act, he said.' The Crown must, prove, lie said that Gray and Schultz unlawfully conspired to bribe a minister of the Crown to betray the confidence vested in him. If doubt remained then the jury must acquit the accused.
The Crown's case mainly rested on the testimony of Evers. field, he said. And Eversfield was a man who could not be trusted. The documents which Eversfield had produced wore just as consistent with the defence theory of loans to Som-mcrs as they were with the Crown theory of bribery of the former minister.
THERE'LL BE a lot of. fun, and work too, ahead for six-year-old Colleen Lancaster when she enrols in school for the first time next Wednesday morning. She is shown here with all the textbooks she will have to use before she completes grade 12. Colleen, among the S00 first-graders in the area this fall, is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. A. S. Lancaster, 2.'J.'32 Ross, Cres. � Ken Orr Photo
The largest and most exciting fall fair ever held here will'be opened here today bv Mayor Carrie Jane Gray "and ..B.C. Fall Fair President C. German at 2:30 p.m. today.
The three full days of fall fair activities come as the grand climax to a year of festivities.
Commenting on the weather today, which could make or break the fair, Prince Gebi Agricultural and Industrial Association President ISinar Ncll-
I sen said, "1 am not worried | about these showers, as long as they don't persist. A little rain is just what we need to lay the dust." (HI CKDUJVIA'C HACK
Most exciting part of the program will be a spectacular series � if chuckricling races.
More than (id horses are stabled ;it the rill fair grounds in preparation for the races.
Backbone of the show for the rainier will be the livestock contests.
Farmers from all over the northern interior will be entering dairy c a I t 1 e, beef cattle, horses, pigs, sheep and poultry in this division.
Apart from the contests, which range from the fields of bakery to babies, the fall fair provides a .shop window for the leading enterprises in Prince George.
CKPG Ra'dlp', Northern Hardware, the Department of Agriculture and many other organizations are exhibiting at lho show.
One colorful exhibition is a display of paintings from schools in the district.
Throughout the day special interludes of entertainment have been aranged for tho.se visiting the grandstand and watching the races.
All the usual fairground entertainments are available__octopus, wheel, side shows of all kinds.
BEST FEATURE of the Fall Fair in Prince George is the things to eat, according to three-year-old Kerry Ongman, 1531-Ash. Here Kerry gets in practice by munching on a hot dog. And, after the fair is oA'er, a certain young gentleman's stomach will have had. enough for another year.
WHAT ARE THESE? is the question cf one:and-a-half year old Brent Ongman. The answer, of course. js chickens, and Brent appears fascinated by them. They are part of the poultry exhibit of the Prince George Fall Fair which runs today, Saturday and Monday. �Ken Orr Photos
Staff of the Prince George Citizen will observe the Labour Day holiday Monday.
Regular editions of The Citizen will be published Tuesday with full coverage of week-end events.