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Lack Of Evidence' Against Local Doctor
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WE ATHER
Cloudy with a few showers. Remaining
tomorrow, 45 and 65. cool. Low tonight, high
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Vol  2;  No.   162
PRINCE GEORGE, BRITISH COLUMBIA, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 2,  1958
FNTS
CLUTCHING her raincoat tightly round her neck in the week-end rain, Marie Denis, 1801 Redwood, nevertheless had fun out at the Fall Fair.
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2500 Sad Boys And Girts On Back-To-School Trek
Police have warned motorists that 2500 school children will return to their classrooms tomorrow morning after a two-month holiday.
Ihsp. G. R. Engel; officer commanding the Prince George sub-division of the RCMP, said special patrols will be made in school zone "areas to enforce the 15 mile an Hour speed limit.
Parents; too, should warn their youngsters of the dangers of traffic,   Insp.  Engel  stated.
School zones are enforced in both the city and country and highway travellers should be on the lookout at all times for youngsters playing alongside or crossing the roads.
Many of the children will be entering classes for the first time in their lives this fall and will not be acquainted with traffic procedure, he said.
Insp. Engel warned special school zone patrols will be made in every police detachment in the Prince George sub-division.
Schoolboy patrolmen are expected to be assigned to intersections in the city once classes are organized in elementary schools.
The Aurora school for handicapped children also opens tomorrow with transport laid on. for all pupils.
Prince George Seen. As Education Focal Point
Six Months Trial Period First
Prince George will be without a transit service next year u a trial schedule does not solve the company's financial troubles within the next six months.
Continuing losses have forced the operators to make several route and schedule  changes  on Sept. 30 in  an effort to find a solution to the situation.  Smith, general
R. H. "Dick'
manager of Northern Stages Ltd., announced today the system will go on trial for six months � "Bui if it does not prove satisfactory the service will be permanently discontinued," he added.
Mr. Smith disclosed the plans in a letter addressed to city council.
He said Northern Stages submitted a summary to its city transit operations to council five months ago with a request for financial  assistance.
"Since our submission to you we have received no advice, correspondence ov other significant signs of action from you on this matter and in view of the tinie which has now lapsed we are forced to take some action ourselves," he "wrote.
Revisions  to  the1 service are advertised   by   Northern   Stages in today's Citizen. DBTAILKI)   SLHVEYS
Mr; Smith disclosed the cbmp. any had made detailed .survey.' of.transit service usage in the city and the revisions have been made to put the service in a financial position where it wil be able to continue operations. The- changes will be on tnili to March 31, 1959.
"Should we find that the financial position of the service "does not improve to a point where we can overcome the present loss we wish to advise that the
Morals Charge Dropped
A morals charge against n Prince George doctor lias been  dropped.
Police magistrate I'. .1. Moran stated Friday the crown had not presented sufficient evidence at a preliminary hearing to cojnmit Brown for trial in a higher court.
By failing to establish a prhna-facie case, the prosecution's evidence did not justify taking the ease to a higher court.
Hearing lasted four hours in p*olice court. The charge was laid  last  month.
A technical high school to serve northern B.C. is needed in Prince Cleorge, a candidate for the leadership of the B.C. Progressive-Conservative party declared at the week-end.
Dr. Desmond Fifo Kidd. Who is currently campaigning for the leadership in northern B.C., net
ith     the    local     Conservative
with
group last night. He paid that Pri
He pai that rince George, in the geographical center of northern B.C., should be the focal point, for technical high school training.
^BNNIilUrGREN
Dr. Kldd had words of caution for the vast Wcnner-Gren develt        ject
opment  project..
"There are several questions which I would like to have answered. One of them is what will he done with the power, and the other is, what will be done with the timber resources?" he stated. Dr.   Kidd   has   travelled   the
Rocky Mountain Trench area extensively as geological engineer.
Me Is familiar with the Fort Ware-Fort Grahamc area and travelled the rivers with veteran boatman Dick Corlc.ss of Prince George.
He is also a director of .Pacific Western Airline*, a fellow of the Geological Society of Canada, and a member of the Society of Ecoonmlc Engineers.
"I would like to know particularly how this hydro power can be transmitted to Vancouver economically." he remarked.
"And then, what will be done with it'.1"
Dr. Kidd said visitors to Prince George fed they are In
the   extreme   northern   part  of the   province   "and   they   don't realize, that they are still in the south." PHYSICAL AREA
At least 50 per cent of the B.C.'s physical area lies north of Prince George and less than 90 per cent has been thoroughly explored.
"Engineers don't usually take an active part in politics, but* the state of the present government would bring anyone out," Dr, Kidd added.
He said the Social Credit cabinet was holding cabinet meetings throughout the province to "politic with the people's own money."
He left. Prince George early this morning to attend a luncheon meeting in Fort St. John today and will travel the Peace Hivu'r area over the wefekchU
service will be permanently discontinued March 31," he stated. Norther Stages Ltd. operate four bus routes in the city as well as school buses under contract with the school board and the Dawson Creek-Prince George daily run.
MMP Seek Assistance
� Royal Canadian Mounted Police have asked Citizen readers t.o assist In the location of. a car which \vas stolen in. the city 10 days. ago.
'� The vehicle is described as a lOST Chevrolet station wagon with yellow trim. It bears B.C. licence plate 381-002 and went missing ..August ]S.
-Anyone 'who has seerf "tnis" vehicle should report its whereabouts to the RCMP here.
"NO THANKS, I'll sit this one out," says four-year-old Randy Scholton, of 2551 Lauvier Crescent, whose head jvas spining after a morning of riding the Fall Fair roundabouts, Below, one of the chuckwagons in
the Fair races thunders through the much Photographer Ken Orr just managed to catch this excellent shot before he and his camera were covered with Ely-ing mud.
LONDON � Race rioters rampaged through London's Notting Hill district Monday night for the third successive night. It was early morning before police with big Alsatian dogs cleared the streets of the mob of more than 2,000 whites, most of them teen-agers. The rioters smashed windows of Negro homes. The embattled residents retaliated by hurling bottles from their roofs. One white was stabbed in the shoulder. Scores of other persons had minor injuries.
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LOS ANGKLKS�The ne* churcli was ready so on Sunday the congregation of the Prince of Peace Lutheran Church held final services In its temporary place of worship�a brewery tap room-cafeteria. Pastor Donald Schneider said: "Wo have worshipped here in the Anheuser-Busch cafeteria and through this experience we have Formed many new friends and God has given us many new joys and blessings."
�   �   � GUAM�A U.S. Military Air
Transport. Service plane with 19 aboard crashed in the Pacific Ocean early today and an air-sea search team could find no survivors,
�   �    � MONTEREY, Calif. � A
pretty young mother caught a seven-foot blue shark by the tail in the surf. Mrs. Frank Madeira was at the beach at the week-end with her two children when she saw the shark's fin. She hustled her children to safety, grabbed the shark by the tail, dragged it ashore and beat it to death with a board.
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nRKLIX�Coinnuinist Bast Germany ordered its children bark to school today with instructions to put in one day a week working without, pay for state-run enterprises.
�   �    * CHICAGO�The    U.S.    traffic
d!eath toll for the extended Labor ijlay U'eekcuil was 420 persons.
Threatens But Crowds
Persistent rai nstorms tried to snarl Prince George's Labour Day week-enr plans and nearly threatened the success of this area's fourty-third annual Fall Fair.
An estimated 8.000 persons attended the three-day fair which came to a dramatic close late yesterday with a dramatic fireworks display.
Although the crowds weren't as big as in previous years, the rain didn't upset the strict schedule of the fair.
The midway, horse races, industrial displays, entries of everything from babies to begonias drew the jutcresl 'of everyone.
Largest exhibit .of livestock ever seen at a .local fair was a feature attraction oi this-year's exhibition.
The full fair association had spent, thousands of dollars improving and constructing new cattle sheds. They were put to good use with entries f / o m points a* far away as MpBride.
The midway, with its barkers,
mock   auctioneers   ami   gypsies
kept visitors, on the move�and
spending their money".
Hdrsu   races    Saturday    and
.Monday afternoon which featured the exciting and intricate gymkana events drew a large crowd to the grandstand area.
The fair association had also macfe notable improvements to the track ami grandstand this summer.
: 'Chuckwagon entries direct from the Calgary Stampede stole the show.
Only part of the exhibition not as lively as in previous years was the vegetable and flower section. Parched conditions in gardens combined with a frost which    came    last    Wednesday
were blamed for the dearth of I exhibits.
The midway, by midnight yesterday, was soft, and mud w a s clinging to spectators' shoes.
Fair officials feared yesterday afternoon's horse races would have to be called off if the rain persisted but the track was brought into condition for the events.
Prince George Auto Racing Association stock car races at the old airport on the Northern Trans-Provincial Highway were cancelled yesterday because of the dangerous condition of the track.
Prince George Fire Chief Honored
PRINCE George lire chief August Dornbierer was chosen vice-president of the B.C. Kire Chiefs Association convention held at Kelowna over the weekend. Stan Da vies of Powell River was named  president.
Prostitution And Homosexuality Recommendations } Feared'
, MOXTKKAL h- Sir tfbtin"-Wolenden, chief author of Britain's controversial report on prostitution and homosexuality, said here Monday the British government fears �to implement any of the report's recommendations \ for1 'political  reasons.
ills committee, after un 18-
month inquiry and a further 18 months of preparation,-made HI) recommendations. Of these., he said, attention has been   centred  on   two.
The first was that homosexual behaviour between consenting adult parties in private no longer be considered
n criminal offence: second, that fines for prostitution be increased to   �25  from   �2.
J-Ie said tht: government, with 18 months of its term left, "does not want to alienate some of its .supporters, Secretly most people agree with what we. found."