Welcome To B.C. Municipal Engineers' Convention INS! D'E Sports ................................ Page 4 Women, Social .................... Page 9 Classified .;.......................... Page 14 Comics ......................��....-� Page 15 WEATHER Cloudy Friday with a few showers. Low tonight, high tomorrow, 45 and 60. Phone LO 4-2441 Vol.. 2; No. 174 PRINCE GEORGE, BRITISH COLUMBIA, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 18, 1958 BY CARRlfc.1t IRr PKR WKltfc Only 270 ratepayers hhd cp.st � their, votes on the city's natural gas bylp/w by. noon today. Returning officer Arran Thomson stated at the' old five hall polling station, however, that he expected most voters would com* in the late afternoon and after supper. The poll will close at 8 p.m. after being open for 12 hours. A total of 3.170 ratepayers arc entitled to vote on the bylaw (No. 11.12) which concerns the establishment of a municipal gas system that would be owned by the city Will .Defend Strike Right VANCOUVER�The Vancouver and District Labor Council In a standing vote, Wednesday night instructed! its executive lc> join immediately with the U.O. Federation of Labor in riKhtliiR any government attempt to water down labors right to .strikt;. \ ' ami financed, built and administered by the Prince George Gas Company. The old fire hall (immediately next to the city hall) is being used as the polling station because of the engineers' convention at the Civic Centre. HKAVV BOOKINGS Prince George Jaycees also reported a light demand this morning for the fleet of cars they have standing by to take voters to the.polls. "But we have heavy bookings for the late afternoon right through to the closing of the polls at 8 p.m.," it was stated. .Anyone wishing to take advantage of the free transportation offered b.v the .laycecs should telephone, I/O 4-5544. 'Tricycle Was Tony Having A Quiet Nap "Tony is certainly the most lightfootcd of our six children," Mrs. Richard feeauchamp said as she held her two-and-a-hulf-year-old son Tony in her arms last night. Mrs. Beauchamp was comforting Tony in district hospital after his 23 hour ordeal in the bush near Bonnet Hill. He had become lost after telling his mother he was "going to meet Daddy," who was cutting trees not far away. B.C. Forest Service ranger George Meents, and his assistant John Young, nearly by-passed Tony when they saw something red beneath a tree. "We thought it was an old kids' tricycle," said Mr. Meents, "But we decided to investigate and found the child sleeping with one of his knee-high uubber boots clasped in his arms. ';'��( See full story, pictures on Page Three. COUGAR, Wash. � A workman, trapped knee-deep in swift and frigid water inside a stream diversion tunnel, let go of his handhold Tuesday night after nearly eight hours and swam to safety. Charles E. McGee held to an old steel rod that stuck out of a rock some 400 feet "inside the tunnel at the Swift hydro-elec- The service is provided under,! trie project on the Lewis River, *he Jaycew-*'-"Get out at campaign. voteV v.'/ier. br '"as washed into the I tunnel/Tuesday morning. TWO i^AKL/tf-COMfclRS register their votes curtained booths at the old fire hall polling opened at S a.m. and closes at S p.m. on the natural gas bylaw behind station this morning. The station Blood Clinic All Set Up To Hit 1,200-Pint Target Only 400 pints of blood are needed today to reach the Red Cross blood transfusion clinic's objective in Prince George. Mik Thornthwaite, chairman of the nod Crops committee �which Is mustering donors, paid rispinse was "very .cood" during the first two days of the campaign. Clinic opened Tuesday morning in the CCF Hall on Fourth Ave. H has been in operation every day from 1:30 to 4:30 p.m. and 6:30 to 9:30 p.m. Although response in the afternoons has been slow at times the pace soon picked up In the teers were planning on working , split shifts so that they could also help feed hungry searchers : hunting for little Tony Bcau-chanip in the Bonnet Hill area. | Food headquarters were set up in the Bonnet Hill elementary school and food was donated by Prince George residents and merchants. But arrangements were cancelled when Tony was found. All canvassing for the clinic has- been done by telephone this year. It is the first time a telephone canvass for blood has been undertaken by 'phone. Final rush of dono'ds who had postponed their transfusions was expected this afternoon and evenings. Yesterday will probably go Red Crosi voluiu midnight today. through to Thousands of lives are saved every year through Red Cross blood banks and injured or ill persons who 'require the emergency service are never charged for it. A full supply of tilood Is ahvays kept nn hand at. Prince George and district hospital. As soon as it is depleted further supplies arc flown In from Vancouver. The Red Cross clinic currently in Prince George has a staff of one doctor, 11 nurses, technicians and dilvers and is on a tour through northern B.C. Anyone requiring free transportation to" the clinic or the service's of a baby sitter should telephone the clinic at 4-0113. CITY COUNCIL MAY MEET IN � NANAIMO A ,special.; Prince George eity 'colmoifj;-meeting may take place in N ana imo next week. Mayor Gray and Aldermen Jack, Powers, Webb arid Cranston will be in N ana imo to attend the annual meeting of the Union of B.C. Municipalities. C o u n c i 1 resolved this week that under the powers of the Municipal Act, the delegation could hold a special council meeting if it became necessary. City comptroller C A. Jeffery, who will also attend the U.B.C.M. meeting, has been authorized to act as clerk for the meeting. A motion which would see school zone signs restricted to one block from schools stirred discussion at. city council. Moved by Aid. John Powers and seconded by Aid. diaries Cranston, the motion would affect is-milc-an-hqur zones within the city. The mat (or was referred back to the traffic com mi tiro for further sin ly and consultation with tiie police. It wHl ibe discussed at city iioimcij's first1 meeting in Octo-peiv Other . traffic control .sign J chai'gps'.'-ajipuoyed j>y council include a "School Crosswalk� Stop When Occupied?' sign at' !Seventeenth Avc. and I'liio St. land a "No Left Turn" sign at Latirier Crescent and Melville Street. Aid. Williams requested the traffic committee to investigate! thn possibility of installing a crosswalk on Third Ave. at Vancouver St. Final Fall Fair Prize List Winners The final list of Fall Fair winners � numbering over 2,000 � are on Page 10 of today's Citizen. SOME OF THE 250 delegates to the municipal engineers convention in the Civic Centre pause for a refreshment between business sessions at "the longest bar in the world" � a 90-foot' replica of one that was in regular use in S.o.uth Fort George in the early clays. The hundreds of bottles that adorn the bar are, however, empty. Firearms Warning By RCMP Persons owning firearms are asked to register or reregister their weapons with the Prince George RCMP. It is a criminal offence to have rcvol- your possession. Don't "registering it with the an unregistered pistol ver in delay i RCMP. The RCMP will forward the application to Ottawa where the registration is completed, a certificate issued and returned to the applicant. If you have a revolver' or pistol that was registered in your name prior to 1952, you must obtain a new certificate". If I lie certificate has been lost, write a letter to the Commissioner, RCMP, Ottawa, advising when it was registered, make and model, calibre, serial number, barrel lenfith and number of .shots. If you have a pistol iliat was previously registered by someone r-k-p. it is necessary to apply to the local RCMP so the transfer can be noted. T,be KCMP also advise to make sure, their cars, are locked when left unattended, and that-'the ignition Roy is removed. CAKDIKr, Wnlrs � Joyce Williams walked into a butcher shop and offered to bless the boss' money. Butcher Vincent Kiehards handed the gypsy C100. ' She made mystic signs over it and said: "There will be 10 times more, after this." Hut when the gypsy left, a court was told here Wednesday, tin* butcher found there w;is .CM less. Gypsy Joyce was jailed for six months for stealing the cash. * � � hONDOX� Russia has presented an IIj-14 airliner as a pift to the King of Yemen, Moscow Radio announced today. Peter Townsend Offered $30,000 A Year Job CAPETOWN � A Johannesburg company has offered Peter Townserid a salary of more than $30,000 a year to come to South Africa as its* public relations officer. Blaar Gpetzee, a Nationalist party member of Parliament and director of the company concerned, said in Capetown it was an attractive offer which he did not think Townsend would reject outright, particularly as he said', recently he was interested in settling somewhere in Africa. . Townsend, former suitor of Princess Margaret, ' last was reported in Paris for talks with members of. .the tpany filming his world .travels. More than 250 municipal engineers from throughout B.C. attended the opening session of the association's convention in Prince CJcorge this morning. I; is one of the biggest conventions ever held in 1'rincf George, hut delegates�and RO of their wives�have been accommodated in the city's hotels anil motels'. City engineer George P. liar-ford delivered the opening address. He welcomed delegates win) have COtlJC from centre.-throughout the province and the Yukon. Busine?.- sessions will con- tinue throiigh to tomorrow eye-niiigl Win chip session i.s Saturday morning when v.isltiiig en-glnqers will be lakten on field trips In the area. This morning engineers appointed a nominating committee for the 1958-5Q executive, heard tliQ annual financial statement and presented notices of motions. Brigadier .1. R. 13. .Jones, chief engineer of the Northwest (Alaska) HighWay system from White-horso, presented a paper on the problems, of construction and maintenance of utilities in com munities along Hie highway. We said frost, boils have boon brought under control by in- Lcvc'l . of � the ' Ncchako river at Prince George has not jet been affected by the release of a flood of Water from the Alcan dam at Skin's Lake, west of here. � Flow of water down the Xechako from the Aluminum Company of Canada's spillway has been increased in an attempt to save the ' valuable Adams River sqefceye run. � Alcan released an additional (i()()() cubic feet of water a second fp>m the lake Monday to raise the level of the Fraser River at Hell's Gate in the Fra-ser canyon. Jt will enable the .spawning salmon to climb a fish ladder. Joe Beausoleil', the city's pumphouse superintendent said the level of the Xechako has not raised since the beginning of the week. . "The river went;down .about an inch yesterday," he com-1 rj'iontnrj. The'flood i.s expected to reach here' hcfoiv the weekend hut it is not expected'to cause any trouble in the f.ood-prone Island Cache area. The rise will be felt at Hell's Gate about the middle of ncx\ week, enabling the salmon toV climb two fish ladders. One is is currently in use but the other is dry because of the low water level. � The additional runoff has increased, the flow of the Xechako, which .runs into the Fraser, to 12,000 feet a second. OXK FOOT -\T HKI/l/K GATIO Alcan officials said it will raise the river level by one foot at Hell's Gate, where the Fraser narrows, but will not appreciably affect the height of the river elsewhere. Prince George Rovers Co To Manning Park A group 6 f Prince George Rover Scoiitg will be among 150 taking phrt In the Rover Scouts Provincial Moot on the banks of the- Similkameen River east of Manning Park. The moot takes place Saturday and Sunday, under .the direction of Clem Burton-Smith, Deputy Commissioner of the Vancouver Metropolitan Council for Boy Scouts. � Rover Scouts from Penticton, movement. Haney, Port Hammond, New Westminster, Victoria and Vancouver will also attend. Special visitor will be Fred J. Finaly of Ottawa* chief evecu-tiver commissioner of the Boy. Scouts Association.. The Hovers will engage In a programme of outdoor activities and discuss subjects; pertinent to their section of the scouting jceling a chemical into the ear-h ai.iti Permafrost can be curbed by building- up the road rather than �eepening the ditches. Underground water is one of the biggest problems In t. h o north, ho said. He described types of ditching which arc used. Tills afternoon G. A. Wilkinson, vice-president of the Mar-well Construction Co. Ltd., of Vancouver, will speak on labor relations and A. .1. Mac-Donald, Of the I!.C. Electric Co., will di.s-juss forms of contracts. M. C. .Nesbitt. of the Department of Highway,--, in Prince George will present a paper, "A Construction' Engineer Looks4 at Soils.'-' A Red |\oek man h^s been killed In a motor � vehicle collision .south of F'rhicc George oh the .Cariboo" highway late Tuesday: Edward Stophenson. IB', died after a small car 'collided with a truck near Red Rock, 11 'miles south of here late Tuesday. An unidentified man was seriously injured. His condition is reported unchanged. Accident occurred shortly after 11 p.m. Tuesday. Ambulance from Prince George brought the injured man to hospital. Sold Out In 45 Minutes OTTAWA � The Government of Canada Wednesday over-sold a S600,000,000 bond issue in 45 minutes. The announcement Wednesday night foliowed by only three hours a government report that it's mammoth $6,100,000,000 conversion loan has been a "resounding" 88-per-cent success. The indication was that borrowing money is plentiful in Canada�both for short and long I term loans. j And the government has not I finished its financial angling. It announced Tuesday its annual Canada Savings bonds issue will go on sale - as usual this fall. The purpose of the gigantic bond program is to raise $1,-�100,000,000 to meet current federal money needs.