SPORTS HIGHLIGHTS
Williams Lake winter sport fast getting underway, with hockey, curling and basketball heading the list.
Quesnel Kangaroos and Prince George Mohawks split weekend exhibition home-and-home series.
NHL hockey and pro football headline weekend on national sport scene. (See pages 4 and 5).
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PRINCE GEORGE, BRITISH COLUMBIA, MONDAY, OCTOBER 24, 1960
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KENT SAYS 'POPPYCOCK'
City Hall Takes Issue
Demand for Lots
3,000-Day Safety Mark Hit by CNR
"Safely First" is a slogan which has been taken to heart by the 37 employees of the Canadian National Railways' car shop here
At the end of their shifts Satu day, the men chalked up 3,00 days without a loss-time acciden
That mark has been exceedec in B.C. only by the car shop a JJiup, River, with. .3.4&Z days, bu only two' or three men wor there.
Foreman Len Smith attributed the shop's good record to "prac ticing safety the year round.' The men hold regular safety meetings.
The car shop is responsible for the maintenance of railway cars and major repairs in the event of a derailment.
SAFETY-CONSCIOUS WORKMEN at the Canadian National Railways car shop reached 3,000 days Saturday without a loss-time accident. (Front, from left): D. Henery, J. Anderson, J. Bush, W. D. Spencer, Ben Seiter, T. Boyd, W. S. Young and T. Hughes. (Rear, from left) Foreman Len Smith, Ray Manner, M. Snay-chuk, P. Zarek, D. Blakeley, D. Douglas, W. Vos. �Hal Vandervoprt photo
AT PM's CONFERENCE ON JOBS
CLC Asks Big Economy Push
TEACHERS SATISFACTORY
Prince George teachers Eleanor Hattcn, 23, and Esther Soroka, 22, were reported in satisfactory condition today in Vancouver General Hospital, where they v/cvi flown after being involved in i two-car collision on the Cariboo Highway Thursday.
WEATHER
OTTAWA (CP)�The Canadian Labor Congres warning that national survival is at stake, called todaj for a massive push through public investment to spu the Canadian economy.
(The proposal was offered to I and re-training, assisted volun the prime minister's conference tary migration and greater ef on unemployment as a long-term ficiency in the National Employ solution to chronic unemploy- ment Service including compul ment, one of six kinds of unem- sory reporting of job openin ployment the labor body said by employers.
Seasonal: 1. A detailed study of the problem and use of inter est rates, taxes, capital cost al lowances and government anc Crown corporation expenditures to encourage off-season activity; 2. Earlier announcement of the
plagues the economy.
The CLC repeated a demand for an immediate, emergency session of Parliament to start implementing proposed solutions.
It said the steam has gone out of defence spending and private nvestment. Large sustained in creases were required in spend ng on health, education, child welfare, low-rental housing, slum
winter works incentive program which should be further expanded.
�learance, urban redevelopment, {Construction HypO
parks, roads and development nd conservation of natural re->urces.
The money could be raised nly by deficit financing by gov-rnments and an increase in the K'omhat winter unemployment, loncy supply. The- 1,100,000-1 Tllp incentive should be pri-lcmbcr congress argued this
OTTAWA (CP)�The Canadian Construction Association suggested incentives on industrial and commercial construction to
marily directed at the purchas-
Clouding over this evening Showers Tuesday morning Little change in temperature Winds light southerly, reachin southerly 20 and gusty Tuesday. Low tonight and high Tuesday in Quesnel, Prince George and Smithers, 10 and 50.
I'oaci* Itiyor Itcgioii Cloudy with a few sunny periods Tuesday; A little wanner. Last -l Hours
Lo Hi Precip.
Prince George.. 3S 05 .:ii
Quesnel .......... �Jl 59 .11
Terrace .......... �12 �12 .ot;
Smithers ...... 29 50 .03
Kumloops ...... ;>!) 68 .03
Dawson Creek 30 57 �
Fort St. John.. :S2 5-1 �_________
Fort Nelson.... is 35 _______
vould not be inflationary be-1ers of construction since the ausc Canada has the means of buildinff industry itself was production and labor to produce anxious and able to operate on extra goods to match the extra I a year-round basis, said the CCA.
POLICE SEEK MISSING BOY
RCMP today are pressing the search for a 10-year-old boy -missing from his home at Sinclair Mills since Thursday.
When last seen, young Ingo Umstatter told his friends he was "going back to Germany." The lad has gone missing on several occasions but has usually been found in abandoned cabins. However, police fear he may have caught a ride on a passing freight this time.
He is described as four feet, 10 inches tall, 100 pounds, with brown hair. He had a pronounced German accent. When last seen, Ingo was wearing a dark grey parka and hood, dark grey pants and rubber hoots.
money.
The CLC offered these other solutions on other types of unemployment:
Structural: For industries hit by import competition, it rejected the "deceptively easy" solution of tariffs or import quotas, called for organization of industry into units large enough to get maximum economies from mass pro-duction and suggested secondary industries reach agreement with United States counterparts to produce certain products for a joint open market.
Among the forms of incenti proposed:
Accelerated depreciation capital cost allowances offere by the federal government encourage owners to make ca'] tal investment wholly or part in winter months.
� Compensation*for extra e perises involved in winter bulk ing.
� Extension of the white works incentive program to c< Ver municipal services whic contractors are required to it stall In their developments anc which are subsequently opera
Frictional: A location-of-indus-, ,
try policy, adequate general edu- wl h?, mi!ll'(''l)i!lltlL>%
' � Consideration of
� cation and facilities for training
Now Hear This...
a rebal
on mortgage-interest on person al income tax returns in th case of houses built during win tor.
A sure-fire way to discourafi city fathers from improving roads is the way in which sonic motor ists have reacted to the paving of Quecnsway. Nearby residents have become so incensed at the way it's been turned into a drag strip they're seriously consider ing attacking the blacktop with pick and shovel. And all for want of a little law enforcement . .
Even the golf course is getting the treatment now. Weekend complaints ut the cop shop include one from ail irate coif or that five bccr-guzzling youths were racing their bomb .ill over the greens. Said he hopes If they keep it up they'll get a hole-in-one, six feel deep . . .
Remember the I'NR? Word is that during the last clays of construction (sic) fill was being moved from place to place at two lo three times Hie cost it .should have been clue to impractical equipment and pre-election hustling. Someone should deny these estimated figures by publishing Mime other ones, if anybody can:
Where cost of moving fill should have been 75 cents a yard it actually ranged from $1.50 to $2.25 . . .
There arc about 100 men who won't agree with the old fairy tale that a pot of gold may be found at the foot of a rainbow That multi-hued streak which graced the sky around 5 p.m yesterday ended at a spot up the hill where stands yc glittcrin provincial jail . . ,
Last night's concert staged by the newly-formed PG Jazz Club had one unexpected result. The mustc proved to be too much for Mrs. George Mriklc and she gave birth this ayem to a bouncing l)aby boy. The newcomer arrived more than a week ahead of schedule, and the doctor and hubby 3eorgc both put the credit on the oot-stoinping music at the con-�erl . . .
Legal light Frank Perry is lack in hospital, where he's been out by his doctor lo rocuporato rom u recent bout of pneu-nonia . . .
Justice Deplores Absence of Women On Assize Jury
Justice J. G. Ruttan said here today he hopes the situation whereby women need not serve on juries if they don't wish "will change in the next few years."
His remarks were prompted by Hie all-male jury of 44 empanelled to .sit at the fall assizes which opened today.
"1 .sincerely regret there are no women on the jury," said Justice Ruttan.
Men arc required to servo on juries when summonsed unless they can produce a doctor's certificate showing (hem to be unfit due to health reasons.
"Everybody is subject to some rule of law and the jury is part of that law," the judge told I he lancl. He termed the Anglo-Saxon lnry system "u great safeguard against tyranny."
LONDON m � For.....r' Cuban Ambassador Sergio Itojiis Sanla marina prepared today to fly to .Miami lo join I.">H,-000 Cuban emigres lie claims arc preparing a eountrr-i-evo-Inf ion against Prime Minister Fidel Castro.
"II will be a civil will* � perhaps another Korea," lie warned, "('astro is ;i mad dog. He Illlisl be Wiped out."
Sniitainariiin was Cuba's envoy to liriUilu until lie was I'ii't'd lour monllis ago. Culi.-i .-miioiim-ed he liiid been "dishonorably dismissed."
"Kor Hie last three weeks I Iiiivo been having huportani talks with people all over Ell-rope," he said.
"This is not just nnollici' La tl n-Aincricun revolution."
City hall took issue today with statements by Dick Bond, local Central Mortgage and Housing Corporation manager, that there is a shortage of building lots iere.
Ted Kent, assistant city clerk, termed Mr. Bond's �emarks "poppycock" and said, "He doesn't know what he's talking about."
Mi*. Bond told the winter work committee "it's ridiculous a city with so much land available to expand and build on should be faced with a shortage of build ing lots." And he said that unless lots were ready by next spring $2,000,000 in construction that likely would have started next year would be postponed.
The committee moved to ask the city to open up more land, particularly the Seymour Subdivision, which has been surveyed but not serviced. OUT WINDOW
Mr. Bond had said if some thing wasn't done this winter to provide more land "everything we and the contractors have tried to do to keep the price of lots and homes down al a reasonable level will go out the window."
Mr. Kent said today "about 200 building sites are ready to go." Included in this arc 40 building sites in the Nechako Subdivision, 100 sites in the Moffat-Lyon street area and various single lots in established residential sections of the city. ON SALE
"We put lots oh sale on Lyon and Moffat earlier this year, serviced them and promised sewers by late 1961 or early 1962 so people could put in temporary septic tanks," Mr. Kent 'said.. "All the lots, except one or two, were sold and we immediately purchased another block of about 24 building sites in the same area from the provincial overnment.
"These lots have been placed on the market. When the large majority of them are sold we'll purchase another block from th provincial government and pi them on the market. This woul only take about two weeks." QUITE CLEAR
"It is quite clear," he saic "that if the demand is there we'l provide building sites. We don' need to be told by any fedcra agency when to develop ou lots.
"It is a matter to be decidec by our city council in accordant with our local economy," he said Mr. Kent said the Seymour Subdivision "will be dcvclopcc when council is ready.
"Mr. Bond doesn't approve o: the survey of the subdivision be cause it has lanes in it," the city spokesman said. "He feels lanes cut down on the number of build ing sites in the subdivision."
Rev. Feels He's Too Old At 82; Turns in Licence
ALBANY, N.Y. Wl�Rev. Frederick F. Corey sent his licence to the state motor vehicle bureau with a letter saying: "Having reached the age of 82, and realizing that I should not be driving any longer, I have disposed of my car and herewith surrender my driving licence." He had been driving since 1915 and had never had an accident or broken a law.
ONLY 2 CLASSES FULL
350 Registered for 19 Classes at Night School
A total of 350 people have registered for 19 night school courses at Duchess Park Junior High school here.
Only two of the courses, typing and sewing, are full. The rest still have room for several students.
Fees for the courses range
from $10 to $20 and are on a I try, Room 101, 8 p.m.; bookkecp-onc-night per week basis for 20 ing, Room 102, 7:30 p.m.; art, weeks. Room 5 (Annex), 7 p.m.; con
Those still interested in en- versational French, Room 103 rolling can register on the night 7:30 p.m.; and carpentry, Baron the course is given. , | Bypg Building, 7:30 p.m.
WE DNESDAY: shorthand Room 101, 7:30 p.m.; math 101 Room 102, 7 j).m.; motor tune up, Room 103,, 7:30 p.m.; and typing, typing room, 7:30 p.m. � THURSDAY: first aid for irt-dustry, Room 101, 8 p.m.; scw-
advanccd English for new Cana- jng( Baron Byng Building, 8 p.m.; dians, Room 102, 7:30 p.m.; and bookkeeping (elementary), Room elementary English for new Cana- 102, 7:30 p.m.; prospecting, Room dians, Room 103, 7:30 p.m. | 103, 7 p.m.; and golf, gymnasium,
7:30 p.m.
FRIDAY: first aid for industry, Room 101, 8 p.m.; and occupational math, Room 102, 7 p.m.-
A keep-fit organizational meeting will be held in the Duchess ! Park Gymnasium Tuesday at ! 7:30 p.m. This will be the last chance for men and women interested in the classes to register.
FINAL SCHEDULE
Here is the final schedule of | the night school courses:
MONDAY:, dog obedience, rifle range, 7:00 p.m.; first aid for industry, Room 101, 8 p.m.; typing, typing room, 7:30 p.m.;
TUESDAY: first aid for indus-
Tariffs, Self-Help
OTTAWA iCIl � European-built automobiles will continue to erode the Canadian car industry unless the government follows tradition by providing some tariff protection. General Motors of Canada Limited told the royal commission on the automotive industry today.
The prime responsibility for successful strengthening of the Canadian auto industry lies with those in or associated with it, the Ford Motor Company of Canada said.
Unions Expected To Affirm Support Of CCF-Labor Party
VANCOUVER (CP) � Reprcscn tatives of some 120,000 B.C. un ion members this week arc expected to affirm support of the new CCF-labor party after some lively debate.
Politics is expected to receive almost as much attention as unemployment at the week-long convention of the B.C. Federation of Labor (CLC) which op ened today.
DOUGLAS WEICKER
. . . Duchess Park
Local Teacher To B.C. Federation
QUESNEL (CP)� Some 440 teachers from north central British Columbia wound up their annual three-day convention here Saturday with the election of Douglas Whicker of Prince George as their representative on the provincial teachers' federation executive.
The North Central Teachers' Association passed five resolutions . dealing with curriculum changes and recommended that they be sent to the provincial body for further study. . The resolutions called for nore time for science and social studies in grades one and two, an increase in the .number pf. choices - prescribed. Tiovels "for unioi1 high school English cluss-:s and the inclusion of an atlas n the student text rental plan.
The convention approved 'rince George as the site of the 961 meeting.
ANNUAL CONVENTION
PCs Seek Energy Board Change in Export Policy
A resolution requesting the National Energy Board to review its present policy of non-export of power to the
Up for consideration will be I U.S. was passed by the Cariboo Progressive Conservative the federation's active support of Association at its annual convention here Sunday. the^CCF in last month's B.C. dec- NEB wil, be askcd to makc recommendations to the
'Affirmation of the merger is federal government on the feasibility of continuing the expected because the province's current policy in light of present day developments and big industrial unions�represent- economic demands, ing woods, steel, pulp and pack- Dcicgatcs felt the non-export inghouse workers � already have u formulated in the 1920's, spoken in favor of it. Their vot- is no longcr practic-al, and that ing strength in the convention is
enough to win approval.
Other motions call for payment of unemployment benefits as long as a man is out of work.
Prince George members will Icmand that the government cancel agreements with the interests of Swedish industrialist Axel Wenner-Grcn.
Wenner-Grcn is involved in construction of a railway from lorth of Prince George to the Yukon border and the proposed nulti-million dollar Peace River jower project. The northern res-lutions say the railway is a vicious hoax."
Two executives of the Agl'l* ulliiral Institute of Canada will Idress members of the local roup at 7 p.m. today In the otel Simon Fraser,
its retention would end hopes for development of Peace River power.
The one-day parley was attended by Gus Henderson (MP-Cari-boo) and delegates from Prince George, Quesnel, Vandcrhoof, Dawson Creek and Fort St. John.
Other resolutions adopted by the convention called for:
� Immediate completion of paving of the Alaska Highway, in co-operation with the U.S. government.
� Immediate commencement on construction of a second Trans-Canada highway. (No route was suggested.)
� Government adoption of "an effective national oil policy" giving direction and support to the achieving of adequate outlets for Canadian oil, especially
ONE OF OLDEST MEMBERS AT 69
Gus Would Run Again If Health OK
By PAT DENTON
Citizen Staff Reporter Gus Henderson, al G9 one of the oldest members of parliament, says he'll run again in the next federal election "if my health holds out."
i\nd, of course, providing the Cariboo Progressive Conservative Association again nominates the farmer from Holla, a liny community in the Peace River country.
The silver-thntehed member
or Cariboo has had a full itin-
:rary, including visits lo var-
0U8 points in the vnst riding
is far north as I lie Yukon
jordcr, .since his return from
Ottawa last August.
YNNUAL MEETING
He was IntorVlowOd by The
ltizcn Sunday while in Prince
GUS HLNDURSON
� . � feels fine
George attending the association's annual convention.
The member said he had a complete physical examination Friday and the results were favorable. "1 feel fine," he said.
But one problem which, has plagued Gus Henderson since his election In 1058 is the tremendous area of' this riding. It's a major problem for two reasons:
� The great amount of time required to visit all the cities, towns and villages in the constituency.
� The fact that the basic industries vary greatly from the lumber and mining in the south to the grain farming, oil and gas industry In the north. Thii. means tbo member must
be fully conversant on a wide range of topics to efficiently represent all of his riding.
"The two districts arc hardly akin," said plain-spoken Gus in a masterpiece of understatement.
He's hoping that one result of the first national census since 1041 next June will re* suit in the splitting up of the Cariboo constituency. And he's not alone.
Gus hasn't much to say on the greatest domestic problem facing the Dicfcnbakcr government, and the people of Canada � the severe unemployment Mltiitlion.
Things in Dawson Creek aren't too bud. In fact, things (Continued on I'uuc 3) Sec "lloudcrtiou Llkou"
in the domestic areas of Ontario and Quebec.
The resolution claimed a Montreal market of 250,000 barrels daily would add $750,000 daily to the Canadian economy and would wipe out a $475,000,000 a year deficit in Canada's balance of merchandise trade.
11 would also add $100,000,000 per year to the federal and provincial revenues, according to the resolution.
I Immediate start on construction of the Pine Point railway in Northern Alberta.
i Raising of the old age tension to become more consist; �ill with the higher cost of liv-ng (no amount was recommended) and that the fund be set ip on a self-sustaining basis ralhj cr than out of general revenues. Tlic government to "take mmediate and vigorous steps to ombat and reduce unemployment in Canada."
� Extension of unemployment insurance benefits (and the deduction of contributions) lo all employees regardless of salary, including civil servants and other salaried groups now exempt,
� Institution of a "limited" prc-paid medical health plan "prior to the next election."
� Advising the government that the association favors the establishment of a government-operated sweepstake with funds going toward Ihc operation of hospitals.
� The amending of Income tax forms lo ��acquaint the lax-payer" with the distribution of the tax dollar between the federal and provincial governments!.
� Increasing of travelling expenses for MP's whose ridings are far removed from Ottawa and whose ridings are exceptionally lurj;c,
� Federal cabinet ministers to undertake extensive cross-Canada speaking tours "to publicize tin- BCcornpHihnienlB of tiiu Progressive Conservative govern* muni,"
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