Stop Press
Stop Press "Where's Our Little Brother?"
A YOUNGSTER who joined in the search pauses before the "child missing" notice is nailed to a porch post of the Beauchamp house. The notice carried a description of the two-and-a-half-ycar-okl missing blond-haired boy. �Ken Orr Photo
Tabor Creek
f'riie Tabor Greek 1'TA heiU its first meeting of the new school year Friday.
The 11-niernber I'TA welcomed Sir, It. Wolbe, a now teacher, to tliojscliodl and the �district.
Outer I'inku, I'TA pretSidctit, failed on secretary-treasurer 31 rs. olivi' Miitliu.s to read the iniuiitr*.. Jt was tlicBMlgpUltKl-
mi ilio first Wednesday s of � each month.
Boy Charged With
Parents' Murder
aiE'LVIN TIMKK, JR., eight, is led by detectives to police headquarters in New York, Sept. 10, after arriving by plane from Utah where he attended his parents' funeral. Police say Melvln is being con--sidcrod as a suspect in t lie double slaying of his parents, whom Mclyln said died trying to rescue him from a prowler who was trying to strangle him.
News Briefs
LONPON � Paul Martin, for-juvr./.'i^Klian minister of health, wild*'Tece#"VHr i�y -ivau'.s Piouhl>v AflUu'l rcurlm .kassem", BagVuVuil radio reported.
Martin, Liberal member of Parliament for Essex East, is uii u tour of the Middle East.
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UONN, Germany � The Wist Gerniuii army yesterday began the first full-scale -manoeuvre of its' two-year r.v-islenei'. BijTitptiicni being tested by Hie 80,000-nuiil force includes ;\ mask to protect a-gainst atomic radiation and fallout.
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1'OMONA, Calif. � A loaf of bread two years old won a first prize for baking for Streeter Blair Thursday at the Los Angeles County Fair.
He said he baked his orange "loaf in L05G and stored it in deep freeze.
Sti'Seter, 70, an artist, lives in Beverly Hills.
� * � LONDON � Do Havilland
Aircraft Company announced that the Comet IV jet airliner which arrived in Hong Kong on a demonstration flight covered the 8,000 mijes from Hat-field. England, in 17 Vz hours � L4V6 hours faster than present scheduled services. The Comet will leave Hong Kong Sunday and is expected back at Hatfield that evening.
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SCOTT DALE, Pa. � Police should have little trouble identifying a missing dog that belongs to the Charles Q.'Killincr family.
When an officer asked a. member of the family how to identify the dog, the answer was:
'��It has onlv three less."
Fingers-Crossed Fires Prediction
Forest service officials today made (he prediction
__ with their fingers tightly crossed � that the forest
fire hazard had now disappeared.
head of the
Maurice Isenor; RC. Forest Service protection division, told The Citizen' this morning that only a sudden long hot spell would bring the hazard back-r^'and. that Is almost impossible now."
There are 2G fires still burning, but they are all in the mopping up stage. About 2;} men are currently employed in the mopping up operations.
"The rainfall during the past jew days has made the bus h
pretty .damp," Mr. Isenor said. "It looks as if we arc over the crisis."
Over SI.700,000 has been spent |n fighting 504 blazes since the fire season started in May:
Timber loss has been estimated conservatively at $7,000,000.
Burning restrictions have been lifted throughout northern B.C. and permits may be obtained from the local offices of the nearest forest ranger.
Little Tony Richard Beauchamp was today found not far from his home at Bonnet Hill after having spent nearly 21 hours in the dense bush.
Dressed in light clothing and wearing no shoes, it was expected that Tony would he rushed to District Hospital for a check up.
The child was spotted from the air by Lieut. George Knight of the USAF base at Balcly Hughes who had been in the air for two hours.
He directed the RCMP to the boy by radio.
Earlier, John Matters, on the spot with the searchers had filed this story from Bonnet Hill.
By JOHN MATTERS Citizen Reporter
Tiny, barefoot, two-and-a-half year old Tony Richard Beauchamp went missing from his home at Bonnet Hill, eight miles east of Prince George yesterday afternoon.
He mysteriously disappeared only eight miles west of Willow River where two-year-old Cindy Lou MacLane vanished a week ago. Cindy has still not been found.
Tony is the son of Mr. | tercel the hunt at � a.m. and Mrs. Gilbert Beauchamp who moved to the Bonnet Hill district from Ontario two years ago. They have six children.
Tony told his mother he was going to see his father who
They scoured the bushland all morning for, a trace of Tony but came up with nothing. Nikki was given a rest at noon and it is expected he will return to the bush this afternoon.
Nikki also could find no trace
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City Boys Aid Search
A bus load of boys from I'rhicu George Senior High School left at 10:00 a.nt. this morning for Jlounct Hill to iissist KCMP in the search for two-and-a-half - year - old Tony Kichartl Bcnch'anip.
The high school boys are under Uhe direction of Mr. George Hayes, a teacher from the school.
When asked for volunteers, all the boys in Grades 12 and i:S responded.
They were sent homo by principal .Alan Staples to obtain their parents' permission, a lunch to take with them and proper clothing.
School officials then volunteered the boys' services to the llCMl'-wlio gratefully accepted.
lflie hoys will be picked up by the school bus at Bonnet Hill at 5:30 p.m., when RGMp officials expect to have more men engaged in the search.
TON�'S BROTHER and sister, one year old Laurie and Valerie, four, gaze . down the narrow road where he was last seen yesterday afternoon.
�Ken Orr Photo
Vol. 2; No. 173
PRINCE GEORGE, BRITISH COLUMBIA, WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 17, 1958
EDITORIAL .......................... P090 2
WOMEN'S SOCIAL .......... Pogc 5. 7
5PORT............................... Page 4
CLASSIFIED .......... ............. Page 8
COMICS ..........;................... Pago 9
DIAL LOgan 4 - 2441
TONY MIOAl'CHAMl* . . . went for candy?
CIMIV liOU . . , missing a week
was sawing trees about three quarters of a mile away.
But he told his younger sister he was goin to town� "to buy candy."
His mother found one of Tony's knee-high rubber boots about 100 yards from home.
A second rubber boot was discovered a few yards further down the bush road which leads to the house.
The Beauchamps live about a mile and a half north of the Giscome highway in the vicinity of the Westcpast Transmission Co. pipeline.
Their three-room cabin sits on a hillside overlooking a small sawmill where Mr, Beauchamp works.
Mr. Beauchamp spent the night with a liarty of about 20 searchers in the bush surrounding the home.
They were posted to sentry duty to await the boy's cry or whimper. They heard nothing.
Royal Canadian Mounted Police brought officers in from the Prince George detachment. Policemen from Quesnel, Daw-son Creek, Fort Si. John and other centres administered from headquarters in Prince George joined in the hunt.
The Beauchamps moved to Prince George and set up a home in the Bonnett Hill area two years ago. SLEEPLESS NIGHT
Mrs. Bcaucluunp spent the morning in the bush looking for her son after a sleepless night. She left her cither five youngsters in the care of a friend.
The roads are so muddy only four wheel drive "jeeps" and delivery trucks can make their way to the Beauchamp home. ttGMl' tracking dog Nikki with its master Cpl. Ernie Boiiderud' drove here from lvauiloopt. lust night and en-
Jaycees Organize Cars For Voters
Prince George .Junior Chamber of Commerce will provide a free transportation service for citizens wishing to go to the poll tomorrow to vote on the natural gas referendum.
Under the chamber's Civic Affairs committee chairman Bill Symington and director Ron Anthony, cur pool headquarters will be set up in the Board of Trade offices to provide transportation between the opening of the poll at 8 a.m. and its closing at S p.m.
Most of the cars will be provided by the Jaycees themselves and will be made available to anyone telephoning LOgan 4-5544.
This serviee is provided by the Jaycees at all occasions of public voting to encourage interest in local and national affairs.
They ask voters to take advantage of the service and hope that the people will respond once more to theih call � "GET OUT AND VOTE!"
Brother, Sister Drown From Raft
FORT ST. JOHN (CP)�A ride on a raft ended in death for two children when their home-made vessel capsized on a farm pond 15 miles north of here Monday.
RCMP said Gail Clelland, 11, and her 10-year-old brother, Bill, drowned in a reservoir 150 feel from the Clelland homestead.
Police recovered their bodies early Tuesday after four hours' dragging.
Thieves Took Time Out!
llein's Jewelry Store early this morning will have no excuse for not knowing the time.
They ignored diamonds valued at .S^.OOO to 8:5,000 each and an open till with over S50 in it to steal six watches.
Four of llu> watches, inset witli diamonds, were loaned to lirin's on approval by the Biilova Watch Co. Tlniir total value is estimated ;ct over *000.
Also taken were two less expensive watches from the window showcase.
Entry into' the store was gained by smashing {l window in an apartment at the rear. The thieves then broke in a connecting door.
The break-in was cliscov-ed at between 2:30 ajid 3:00 u.m.
'Sex Deviate' Prowls Vancouver
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