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Intermittent snow and cloudy today and tomorrow. Low tonight, 120.
Dedicated to the Progress of the North
Phone LO 4-2441
Vol.  2;  No.  235
PRINCE GEORGE, BRITISH COLUMBIA; WEDNESDAY DECEMBER 17, 1958
BY CARRIED tftc PER WBk
HANDICRAFT CLASS of the CARS patients received a preview visit from Santa Claus yesterday at a Christmas party given them by the Women's Auxiliary to CARS. Seen posing with Santa at the home of Mrs. H. B. King are:  (back row, left to right)  Mrs. Jack
Klotz, Mrs. John Hill, Mrs. G. K. Doolittle, (center row) Mrs. U. Hebert, Mrs. E. Nygaard, Mrs. Peter Belado, Mrs. Henrietta Munro, (front row) Mrs. Nancy Bal-lentyne, Mrs. Charles Wright, Mrs. Ben Harder, Mrs. J. A. Anderson and Mrs. J. Ormiston.
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Arthritic Patients Hosted At Party
Santa   Claus  and   school   children   combined   theii talents last night, to give a Christmas party for Prince
George's uvthriUo  patients.
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ATter Santa arrived with gifts at the home of Mrs. II. 13. King, ](>21 Seventh Avenue, a group of children staged a play called "The  Wax Works."
Those taking part in the play �were Tommy Park, Bruce Kcl-Ictit, George Kllly, Linda Killy, Suzan Watts, Silvia Richmond, Ba'rbra Warman, Judy Richard-
ROMP city detachment said today charges will be laid in connection with the slashing of lires on six cars in the past week.
The Lire-slashings all occurred late at night in the downtown ;aica, police said,
No other damage to the cars was reported.
son, Mariiyn Cooper and Judy Brown.
The patients attending the party were Mrs. John Klotz. .Mrs. John Hill, Mrs. Doolittle Mrs. U. Hebert, Mrs. E. Ny-gaard, Mis. Peter Belado, Mrs. Nancy Ballontync, Mrs. J. A. Anderson, Mrs. ft. Ormiston, Mrs. lien Harder, Mrs, Wright.
Among the guests were Mrs. L. 'I'. Kenney, Mrs. David Bowman, Mrs. C. f;. Elphlcke, Mrs. W. J. Peckham, Mrs. Cordon Nash, Mrs. 13. G. Willianis, Mrs. I-:. Palmer, Mrs. Ralph J. A. Richardson, Mrs. A. R. Thomas;
Tin1 parly was convened by Mrs. Jessie Cunliffe. Assisting 1 he hostess. Mi's. King, was her daughter Tania.
Game Branch To Provide Live Christmas Present
The Montana game department is getting a Christmas present from the B.C. government, courtesy of the Prince George Game Branch.
Two live fishers � animals similar to weasels � will be flown to Montana via CPA Thursday by the B.C. game department after being trapped   in   the district here.
A total of 13 fishers will be sent south, said game inspector  W. A.  H. Gill.
Montana has no fishers, the inspector added, and the gift is a reciprocal arrangement between the two game departments.
ONLY
more slopping days
'til CHRISTMAS
Motorists Cautioned By Police
Prince George motorists attending traditional pre-Christmas parties are urged by RCMP to use care on the way home.
Say police:
If you drink, don't drive!
But if you do drive, take care.
RCMP plan on setting up road-blocks in the city and district to check out drinking motorists.
Police suggest that that last drink should be coffee.
If you indulge in loo much Christmas cheer, say police, the wisest move would be to take a taxi home.
Icy road conditions will make driving hazardous so RCMP urge that all motorists make it a Merry Christmas � by using caution on the roads.
Murder Tag
KCMP Ikivc put the "probable murder" tag on the fatal shooting of a Stellako Itcscryo   Indian.
Vaiulcrhoof police are investigating the tfruth of Fraser  Isaac Augustus, about  25.
Augustus' body was found early this morning on the reserve, near Prascr Lake. I'o-lice believe lit* was murdered.
FRIDAY IN VANCOUVER?
Lourmais Nears Goal After Conquering Gate
Frogman Louis Lourmais hopes to reach Vancouver Friday on his 600-mile swim down the ice-jammed Fra-ser River from Prince George.
He completed a dizzying seven-mile swim Tuesday through boiling Hell's Gate � a narrow rock gorge in he Fraser � and was be-icved to be the first swim-ner ever to do so.
Lourmais stepped from the river at Yale after being carried by the water at speeds greater than 20 miles per hour through the rap-irs.
He was reported groggy from being slapped and tossed by waves 15 feet high. He shot through Hell's Gate in less than oO minutes. Lourmais suffered a slightly cut head by waves which
were described by a member of the party as "hard as concrete."
His face mask was shattered on a rock as he was tossed through the rock-walled gorge.
Lourmais plans to enter the river north of Yale today for a 35-mile swim to Hope. He hopes to reach Chilliwack Thursday and his goal � Vancouver � on Friday.
Parties Reach Deadlock Over IWA Wage Demands
Threat of a crippling IWA strike loomed darkly again today after breakdown yesterday of negotiations between IWA and NILA and both sides withdrawing into positions from which they state they will not budge.
Gap between IWA demand and NILA offer now stands at a seven and one-half per cent wage boost.
Breakdown of negotiations comes as a sharp blow to the district. Fears of an IWA strike last week diminished greatly with the announcement the workers had applied to the provincial department of labor for the appointment of a mediator. William Fraser was named as mediator and conducted talks between the two parties in Vancouver Monday and yesterday.'
Following   the   breakdown   in I of $1.53 and the coast basic rate
negotiations, association manager Bob Gallagher said operators had made it clear before the meeting they would not agree to a pay increase.
Jack Hoist, president of IWA local 1-12-1, said the union had cut its wage demand to seven-and-one-half per cent from 15 in an attempt to reach a settlement, but the association refused to consider any  increase.
"Our Hoist,
membership,"   said "will    not    tolerate
Mr. the
wide differential of 19 cents an hour   between   their   basic   rate
of $1.72."
Mr. Gallagher said: "It has been our position throughout that the industry can't afford more wages and this was borne out by the earlier conciliation board."
Chief government conciliator Fraser mediated in Tuesday's talks, but both sides were far apart on a settlement.
Northern interior woodworkers won a strike ballot in 15 operations with about 800 workers. Eighteen other plants, with about 000 workers, voted against strike action. No ballot was taken in an additional 13 plants.
Under B.C. labor laws, the union can only shut down the 15 plants with a strike majority.
Mr. Hoist left Vancouver for Prince George early this morning and could not be reached for a full statement on the union's position.
Mr. Gallagher, in a long-distance telephone interview said:
"They gave us an ultimatum and put. it in exactly those terms. 'They cut their demand down to seven and one-half per cent, admittedly, but they've known right along the industry can't meet an increase.
Money Price Of Peace - Fieber
Fred Fieber, who is secretary of the negotiating committee said to us yesterday that if we want peace in the industry, we'd   better  find  some  money.
That's   Iho' way �they" ))ii L   it.
'Mi*. Gallagher stated further: "They gave us a letter, signed, which said the only conditions
on which they would settle were seven and one-half per cent, union shop and those points which were originally agreed to in the negotiations. That is the attitude they took," he said, "so if they want to pull a strike, there's nothing we can do about it. We've been honest
$521,000,000 Dam Program Outlined
Lands and Forests Minister Ray Williston said today he could not predict when construction of 11 projected Fraser Riven dams would start.
Mr. Williston was comment-: ing on a report of a $521,000,000 program to build the dams on the 'upper reaches of the 85,6-mile-long Fraser. The program was outlined yesterday in the Fraser River Board's preliminary report on flood control and hydro-electric power in the river basin.
The development plan recommended by the board includes power sites which could produce nearly 1,500,000 horsepower.
The report is entirely preliminary and has to be followed by about three years of thorough investigation, Mr. Williston told The Citizen this morning in a long-distance   interview   from
Victoria.
"Too many factors are involved to facilitate any prediction now," he said.
The  main  object of  the  pro-
Art Bohn Prepares To Defend His Master Baker's Cup
posed dams would be to provide flood control for the lower levels of the Fraser Valley. The plan would lie self-supporting through  the power produced.
about this thing right through and the union has refused to recognize facts."
Mills which will close down should a strike be called are:
'B.C. Spruce Sales, Cornel Sawmills, Dewey Logging, Decker Lumber, Eagle Lake planer and camp, National White Spruce, Northern Planers, Shelley (logging operations), Sinclair Spruce, Prince George Planing Mills, S. B." Trick, "Strom Lumber, Northern Spruce,, and Interior Spruce.
Employees in the following mills voted against strike action:
Heaver Lumber, Church Sawmills (logging), Geddes Lumber, Hansard Spruce, Lloyd Brothers, Nielsen Sawmill, NWJ, Park Bros. (F�rt St. .lames), The Pas (planer and Hart Highway operations), Shelley (sawmill and planer), George Stauble (Fort George), Norman M. Smith, Summit   Lake  Sawmills,   Ralph
GIRL EXPERTS JUDGE MALE BAKING TALENT
A new challenge has been added to the second big "Businessmen's Bake-off" to be held here tomorrow � a challenge that no self-respecting  male  baker should  pass up.
Judges for the men's culinary contest were appointed today.
And they are all women.
Here's an opportunity for every man in Prince George to make good every bit of advice he's ever offered his wife in  the kitchen.
With this added incentive, the "bake-off" is expected to draw almost double the GO entries that turned out to the first competition last fall.
Tomorrow's contest will be held at Simpson-Scars Ltd. between   10 a.m.  and  0  p.m.,   with  "oven  deadline"  set  for
AKT IJ0J1N preps up to retain his Master Baker's Tro-     PHYLLIS decides the family needs a ca"ke and Art gets   'NOT CONTENT with the co-operation at home, Art      THEN HE DECIDES that thrones who should really j'hv while relaxing at home. Phyllis gives him helpful     practical work in on their range.'                                   " decides to really seek expert advice from the chef at     ,'know would be the bakers. So" off he" goes to Nechako
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