INSIDE EDITORIAL .......................... Poge 2 SPORTS .............................. Poge 4 WOMEN'S, SOCIAL ............ Page 5 CLASSIFIED .......................... Page 6 COMICS .............................. Page 7 WEATHER Unsettled with long cloudy periods. Light winds. Low tonight, high tomorrow, 25 and 50. Dedicated to the Progress of the North Phone LO 4-2441 Vol. 2; No. 204 PRINCE'GEORGE, BRITISH COLUMBIA, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 3, 1958 PRICE 7 CENTS Earlier Story on Page S VANCOUVER (CP).-�Mr. Justice J. 0. Wilson opened a new phase of the Somraers bribery-conspiracy trial today by telling the jury that their decision on the conspir- will not affect their decisions on bribery acy counts charges. He gave this instruction as he opened his charge th^ morning in. the 77th clay of the trial involving Robert Sommers, former Lands and Forests Minister, and olliers. OUT 30 HOIKS Saturday night, after more than 5t) hours of deliberation, the jury returned guilty verdicts against Sommers and IT. W. Gray on conspiracy and also convicted Gray's firms, Pacific Coast Services Limited and Evergreen Lumber Sales. It failed to agree in the ease of Timber Engineer Charles U. 80111111/ and his firm of the same name, and on the guilt or innocence of John Gray! a P.C'.S official. it. acquitted the multi-million dollar E. I'. Taylor-controlled firm of B.C. Forest Products Limited. The '17-year-old former minister and Jf. W; Gray, the man who is .said to have passed bribes to him for favor in the issuance of government timber licenses, reappeared in the Court prisoner's dock after a weekend spent in city jail. Sonuners looked serious and P�i> appeared wan rnv! some* �what rotl-oyed. At the mid-morning recess the two were led downstairs in charge of ROMP. This compared �with the freedom they enjoyed at the earlier stages of the trial, when they sat beside their counsel in court. It is expected that appeals will be taken on behalf of both Sommers and Gray but no announcement will be made until completion of the trial. Thq jury now is being asked lo decide on the guil! or Innocence of seven accused�all except. Sommers � who are involved in a group of 12 charges as the alleged donors of bribes. The nine-man ami three-women jury will be required to return a total of 50 verdicts in this phase of the case. Later they will be asked to decide on seven charges of bribery against Sommers as a receiver of bribes. BY-ELECTION Sommers, minister from 1952 until his resignation in tO56, automatically lost his legislative seat as Social Credit member for Trail-Rossland on conviction of conspiracy Saturday. A writ for a by-election must be issued within six months. ,Mr. Justice Wilson, citing law and repeating much of what he said in his four-day charge on conspiracy, said his voice must he beginning to sound like a dentist's drill to the members of the jury. But he could not help it; he must go on. Me told them that their verdicts on conspiracy were not to affect their decision on the substantive counts. Women Should Represent Us At Victoria, Ottawa Local Progressive Conservatives should find a woman to represent northern B.C. at both Ottawa and Victoria, the national president of the women's Pro-Con organization said here Friday. Miss Elizabeth Janzen said women are emerging as a strong force in all levels of politics. She spoke to the local group in the banquet room of the Civic Centre. "I have no doubt at all that here in Prince George you can find a woman to represent both the federal and provincial ridings," she remarked. Miss Janzen warned, however, that if women want to get into the fight they must be thoroughly organized. She noted "excellent" enthusiasm in all Pro-Con women's clubs in B.C. and commended members for their "wonderful" work in the March federal election. Telegram To PUC Till' following telegram dated October 31, lias been seni by Priiice George (�:is Company to Chairman of the Public Utilities Commission, l>r. II. V, Angus: We hereby notify you of our offer to Inland Natural ttas to least- for one dollar eiglity-five-lilock gas distribution system constructed by us at Prince George pending referendum upon Inland franchise December 11, on terms if referendum passed we sell system at arbitrated price and jf referendum defeated and our company becomes certified to. distribute gas at Prince- C'forgo, we purchase system constructed by Inland at arbitrated price. In refusing this offer, Inland indicated I e ;> s e arrangement would hamper its financing. Consequently we then offered to finance construction pending referendum so that our offer could lie accepted. Nevertheless Inland declined our offer. We submit, in view of our offer, any duplication of system totally unnecessary and contrary to public convenience and necessity. ibT THESE FACES are any indication, the Kinsmen's party were Jimmy Morrison and the Sensational Strikes Hallowe'en party at the Civic Centre for teenagers was of Vancouver. The kids were well behaved and little a rousing success. Supplying the music for the huge breakage occurred. � Orr Photo McBride Curling Meeting THE MONEY'S GONE�Cracked safe of The Citizen's business office is examined by Citizen employee Richard Noble after break-in was discovered Saturday morning. Amount of cash taken is $117.(>."5. RCMP are mystified as to how safe-crackers gained entry into The Citizen. All windows were undamaged and appeared untouched. Thieves broke open safe, took out cash box and cracked it in a back room. �Orr Photo also locate be used new 21. The program will start either tomorrow or Wednesday. A Vancouver drilling firm will punch between 1000 and 1500 holes in city streets within the next three weeks. The holes won't be for another pipeline nor will they be test bores for gas wells. Acting city engineer C. W. "Bill" Jones announced at the week-end that Boyle Bros. Ltd. will test subsoils under streets which will be hard-surfaced next year. The firm was engaged by Wenner-Gren interests to do diamond drilling at the sites of hydro-electric plants in the Rocky .Mountain Trench. The self-contained diesel trail- � unit will bore -IVi-inch holes ;ght feel into the earth. Mr. Jones estimates at least 1000 of these holes will have to be bored before the city will get a clear picture of its sub-stratae. The Prince George and District Saddle Club held their first meeting Sunday at the Little Hear Uaiich in Salmon Valley. Over ;>0 riding enthusiasts attended this meeting. The next meeting will bo at 2:00 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 16, at the home of Mrs. Shields, 175 Tofield in Prince George. .All those interested In horses and riding arc invited to attend. p � The McBride Curling Ciub 'has organized for a b(iaj�rseason in a rink which was bulTl'hy a loeul resilient. - About ;S0 members of the" club met to discuss plans for the season at a meeting in Jim's Restaurant last week. Earlier this year Gunnar Tjen-er, who had built the rink himself, opened the structure to the village. L. II. Kinlcy presided ;it the meeting and was later named president of the group. Other officers are: Phil Jensen, sccrc-.tary-treasurer and T. MacDon-aid, I). F, Be.amer and Norman Ewen were chosen for the executive. In organizing for the year, it was decided lo have mixed curling again and pay the owner, Mr. Tjener, a sum of money to cover all operating costs and services. The rink will be used by members six evenings a week. It is hoped that a Junior Club will be formed, under the supervision of several of the members, to play on Saturdays from S a.m. lo I p.m. Membership fees were set. at $20 and junior memberships at $5. Prospective members arc asked to contact any of the executive. y service freeze-imgr soon will be just as archaic as kerosene street lamps in Prince George. The city's engineering department, which has been battling freeze-ups ever since a communal water system was installed here, believes the problem is close to being licked. Two projects will lie under-taken by the department this winter which will probably see the problem go down in history. The first, according to acting engineer Bill Jones, is the installation of a "controlled leak device." It will be introduced to homes in chronic freezing areas and is Youth Recovering From Bullet Wound Twenty-one-year-old Barry (I. Kennedy is reported in "fair" condition in District Hospital sifter an operation for a bullet wound in his chest. Mr. Kennedy was found at-5:35 a.m. yesterday in the garage of a local service station with a .22-calibre rifle beside him, RCMP reported today. PK.NTMTOX, B.C. � Tin-new Canyon Cafe here had its problems on opening day. Proprietor .\1 Watson was held up at gunpoint and robbed of $45. Prince George Anglicans will discuss plans for a modern extension to St. Michael's and All Angels Church at a meeting in the CCF hall at S p.m. today. All church members are urged to attend the meeting. .�iir�i|jl.v a piece of split pipe wh'icrt controPs' leakage," tHills keeping .service lines free of ice accumulations. it can be drained into a sink or toilet bowl and eliminates the headaches associated with leaving a kitchen or bathroom tap slightly open. The second project is far more complicated � and more interesting. It was evolved by the city's engineers in co-operation with the National Research Council at Ottawa. The study is being made on Harper St. in the C'eVi-tral Fort George area. A series of cables connected tt>(.-thermo-couples buried in the earth Is the heart of die complex apparatus. The cables lead to meters which indicate the penetration and any earth movements caused by the frost. A similar apparatus will bo installed in the Millar Addition. The frost penetration problem became .so serious in Prince George a couple of years ago that the city delegated an engineer to discuss the matter with the National Research Council. NltC supplied the equipment, and the city is only required to share the data with the council. Hallowe'en this year was celebrated the way it should be � treats for the kiddies, fun for the teenagers and lit Lie worry for adults. That is the consensus among the authorities whose task it is to keep Hallowe'en fun ami excitement within reasonable limits. Said SlaTf Sergeant A. N. Beaumont. NCO in charge of RCMP city and district detachments: "Best Hallowe'en we've had in years. The worst we ran up against were a few rotten eggs." Fire Chief August Dprnbier-er: "Good on the whole though it could have been better. No damage from lire works that we know of." Police were prepared for a possible repetition of the kind of Hallowe'en mischief experienced in' previous years, such � See Hallowe'en Page 2) SPRINGHILU N.S. (CP) � Haggard miners dug with picks and shovels into the last unexplored depths of bump-shattered No. 2 colliery today with little hope of finding anything but the bodies of their buried comrades. By early today the count of known dead stood at l!t. Twenty [five others were missing and prc- matic climax to G2i days of hard digging in the black, hazardous passageways. The unit will � the city to gravel pit. CAPITAL WORKS PROGRAM Isumcd dead. The town was ejectrifieel Tor City's1 capital work program One hundred of the men the second time early Saturday for 1959 envisages about $1,000,- caught in the deeps by the wild kyith the discovery.ot'seven more 000 worth of hardtop. j under ground upheaval Oct. 23 men alive. They were brought A soils testing expert engaged j reached the surface safely, 1!i ci'jdut after being entombed. S\u by G. E. Elclridge & Co. will | them in two mircle rescues after days, five without food or water. brought up by j they had been trapped- for days | There whs nothing Sunday to uudv lh<: ils The drilling crew. in tiny pockets of safety 2V� He is a professional engineer ] miles down the sloping shaft of deepest coal and his most noted work is an the continent's analysis of the slide problems mine, at Whitehorse, Y.T. TOWN PKAYS "We want to find the most I The 7.000 resident of Spring- indicate more men were alive. Harold Gordon chief of coal operations for the Dominion Steel and Coal Corporation which operates the mine through the subsidiary Cumberland Railway economical and durable road j bill prayed Sunday for a third! and Coal Company, said Satur-possible," commented Mr. Jones. | miracle while all Nova Scotia day there's "no life." .Most of the tests will be aimed j at determining the roads' load: �bearing-qualities, he said. The drilling program is ex-I pected to be concluded by Nov. joined them in a province-wide day of mourning. Twelve men were found alive Wednesday and brought to the Mine manager George Calder Sunday night echoed the gloomy pronouncement. He said all 'foodies will be brought to the y g surface the next day in a dra- i surface before the week 'is out. A BONE is a bone, but it took Peter Choquette some talking to convince "Sandy" that a genuine dinosaur bone, several thousand years old, could find a place in the diet of today's dogs. Trophy was donated by Citizen Editor Peter Thompson as consolation prize at "Businessmen's Bake-off" Friday.�-Ken Orr photo MASTER BAKER, � Art Bonn is given taste of his own cake together with cup as prize for best baker in Businessmen's Bake-off Friday. Presentation was made on behalf of The Citizen by Mel Sumner. Mr. Bohn is assocated with the Thins Avenue Saw Shop and with Gordon Nash Limited.