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Cloudy and cool with occasional snow flurries today tunting to freezing rain overnight. Low tonight and high tomorrow, 10 and 30.
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PRINCE GEORGE, BRITISH COLUMBIA, MONDAY, JANUARY   12,   1959
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\ SMOLDERING CHESTERFIELD and remains of china cabinet were carried out �of blazing city home by firemen yesterday morning. Cause of the fire, which : broke out at .8:55 a.m. at the home of Patrick Carpenter, 1493 Eighth Avenue, lias not yet been determined. Amount of damage is still to be set.
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Your Keen Eyesight May Win You  Prize
; '.You may be a lucky winner in the second week of The Citizen "buried names" contest today, j
Three names have been taken from the Prince George telephone directory and have been placed in ads in the Business Directory.
Last week these were the winners of passes to local theatres � Art Bohn, D. Macintosh and Charlie Stewart.
Will you be a winner this week?
Each Monday, three, names will be hidden in the directory.
Look hard � the name you see might be your own.
This Also Happened..
Seventeen persons died in accidents across Canada (luring .the Aveek-end. The total included II deaths in traffic, one in a fire and another by drowning. There was our traffic fatality in  B.C.
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HAVANA (AP) � Kxcculions of the followers of former Cuban dictator Fulgehcib Batista are mounting us the forces of rebel leader Fidel Castro continue hurry-up military trials. Thus far about 30 Batista supporters have been executed. Nearly 3,000 are awaiting trial.
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I'KIXCK Uri'KliT KT! � A sen and air search for three Prince Kiniert duck hunters has failed to turn up any sign of them,  ItCMl* reported here Sunday.
Missing since late Friday are Horace Holt, Carl Simonds and Joseph Stacc-Siuith.
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RIO 1)10 JAN-BIRO; Brazil (AP) � Thirty-six persons were killed when a West German airliner crashed and burned Sunday as it came in to laud in heavy rain at Galeao International Airport. Three crew members were tlie only survivors.
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NEW rORK (AP) � A baby believed to W the kidnapped Chjohchio infant has been found safe in Brooklyn, police said today. The infant was found in the apartment of Mrs. Jean Tayarone, !�">, a widow with seven living children. Mrs." Tayarone denied taking the baby from St. rotor's Hospital 2V-> hours after its birth Jan. 2.
Explosion Rips Line
KAMLOOPS (CPi � An explosion ripped apart a five-foot section of natural gas pipeline Sunday, hurling debris some 300 feet and shaking residents awake in Kamloops, 16 miles away.
The pre-dawn explosion near Barnhartvale, on the main Inland Natural Gas Company line to the Okanagan Valley, tore up rocks and frozen earth but did little damage. There was no fire
Gas company service crews worked in knee-deep mud to repair the break late Sunday.
No word on cause of the explosion was released.
LONDON (AV)�Prince Philip and young Prince Charles had to take refcige in a three-bedroom fishermen's inn during the weekend when their own hunting lodge was flooded.
Ten-year-old C h a r 1 e s, his father and several friends were shooting wild fowl on the Norfolk Broads, a network of waterways cutting through a desolate east coast swamp.
The party planned to stay at Whiteslea Lodge, a luxurious bungalow on an island in the middle of a fiOO-acre lake. On arrival Friday night, they found a foot of water in the bedrooms.
They went on' to the nearby Pleasure Boat Inn; a calling place for hunters and jflsher-raen.
"Can you put Us up?" Philip asked landlord Albert Amis and his vvifc Jean.
The Inn's three bedrooms were  put  at  royalty's  disposal.
The royal hunters stayed two nights. Local fishermen and yachtsmen drinking beer in the bar below didn't know a thing about it.
Hit-and-Run Victim Quits Hospital Today
A six-year-old girl who was struck by a hit-run motorist 10 days ago will be discharged from hospital today.
Tiny, blonde Helen Leon a Labonte, daughter of Mr.' and Mrs. Otto Labonte, 1G84 Fourth Ave., has made a "remarkable" recovery from serious injuries suffered in the accident.
She was struck down by a car near the intersection of Eighth Ave. and Winnipeg St. on Dec. 31.
Helen was confined to hospital for 10 days with skull and facial injuries. The only pain she will suffer will be in her collarbone.
Royal Canadian Mounted Police are still looking for clues which may help identify the vehicle which struck the youngster.
The child celebrated her sixth
birthday    in   hospital   Sunday, Jan. 4.
Her doctor said the swelling around her eyes has receded and she has clear vision. It was once feared she would not be able to see out of one eye.
Voters Have it Easy
NORTH GOWER (CP)�This village today saved its record of going more than a quarter-century without a municipal election.
Former trustee chairman Rex B. Craig � one of three trustees returned by acclamation � said the last election was held in this village 25 miles south of Ottawa some time in the 1920's.
New Freight Rate Hike Set
OTTAWA (CPI � The new freight rate in cr ease being sought by the railways possibly will be around 12 or 15 per cent, it was indicated today before the Board of Transport Commissioners.
However, Ian D. Sinclair of the CPR, counsel for the Hail-way Association of- Canada, told the board this is just an "educated guess."
He   asked   for   more   time. .�
t" April    1O�   hcfore
naming   the'  figure   which   the railways   will  seek.
The percentages he mentioned today, in reply to a board question, were based on present estimates of 1959 revenue of the CPR, which the board uses as a
"yardstick" line for freight rates.
He guessed that jt will take an increase of 12 or 15 per cent to make up the CPR's revenue deficiency over a full year. But he added the railways would rather wait until returns for the first three months of 1959 were in before naming the actual figure.
Counsel for eight provincial govt>rnments..declared the case snouvi be ptft ofE e'oitsWeratMy longer. Their suggestions1 ranged up to six months.
Chief Commissioner Rod Kerr said the board will hand down an order in the next couple of days setting dates for hearing the   application   and    also   for
learning from  the  railways the size pf the requested increase. SOUGHT KAKIjIEJR
The application is a continuance of one filed last September when the railways asked for a 19-per-cent increase to cover the cost of wage settlements with employees.
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The September application also notified the board that the railways later would ask for a further increase for general revenue purposes.
It is this increase which now is before the board.
New '59 Licence Plates On Sale in Pr. George
The new 1 i) 5 9 licence plates are now on salci at the Motor Vehicle Branch office in Prince George.
They are being sold through the government agent's office in the provincial gov e r n in e n t building  on  Third   Ave.
The superintendent of motor-vehicles announced that 1058 motor-vehicles licence renewal applications have been mailed to all motor- vehicle owners. This process involved the preparation and mailing of 500,000 renewal   forms.
Owners are urged to carefully preserve the renewal forms so that they will be readily available for the owner when he gee's to purchase his 1951) licence  plates.
Many owners will not have received renewal notices. The majority of these instances will be because the owner has moved and his new address has not been sent to the Superintendent of  Motor-vehicles.
Some postal areas have been revised this year to either extend a letter carrier service or to rename or renumber streets. Thousands of renewal notices have been returned to the Motor Vehicles Branch marked "urideliverable" by the Post Office.
If you have not recieved your renewal notice yet, you should do one or both of the following:
If ymi live in an area served by lot tor delivery and have moved within the area this year, go to your nearest Motor Licence Office and sec if your renewal form has been sent there by the Post Office. The clerks will give it to you if they have  it.
If it is not held by your local Motor Licence Office, or if you live in an area not served by a letter carrier, write to the superintendent of Motor Vehicles In Victoria and request your 1950 licence renewal  notice.
When you write state your full name, your present address, the  make of your  vehicle,  the
19'iS licence number and the registration number of the vehicle. The superintendent of motor vehicles is prepared to handle those requests now. Heavy volumes of mail later will cause slower processing and some motorists unfortunately will fail to receive renewal forms before  the   1958  licences expire'
Decertification Growing
The International Woodworkers of America are faced- with a growing Stirring among their members in the northern interior, according to observers of the lumber industry.
Latest developments are two more decertifications and an alleged refusal by woodworkers to serve on strike committees in a Prince George operation.
Jacob   Hoist,  local  president   of  the  IWA  had no comment on the report.
Me said he would have to discuss it with other union officials in Prince George.
Two decertifications were granted by the Department of Labor in the last two months.
The last two groups to leave the union are some 25 men working at a city lumber company and the employees of Vanderhoof Lumber Sales, a company about four times as big. This brings the number of decertifications since the last strike to six.
Lumber officials are reluctant to detect a definite trend in these developments.
One top-ranking executive said:
"I don't know whether it's a trend or not, but it certainly must be indicative of something."
In this connection, reliable information has leaked out that IWA members in one of the large operations in the city refused to serve on strike committees.
It is understood that the majority of men at this company voted in favor of a strike in a government-supervised ballot, but refused to Jollow in line when the Northern Interior Lumbermen's Association stood firm on its argument that the lumber industry can't absorb higher costs at this time.
Mr. Hoist said negotiations between the union and the Southern Interior Lumber Manufacturers' Association will open in Vancouver this afternoon.
A strike of IWA members in the southern interior has-tied-up 80 per cent, of th^.op^r^tjoiis,-   '
It is the first break in the southern situation since negotiations collapsed over a month ago.
Mr. Hoist said he will stay in Vancouver if thevc is any 'sign cf the negotiations bringing an end to the strike.
The union is expected to announce a walk-out date within the next two weeks for employees of a dozen sawmill and planer operations in the Prince George area.
Eight Men Missing Aboard USAF Plane
WASHINGTON (AP) � An air force C-.124 cargo plane with eight men aboard was reported missing in Alaska Sunday night.
The plane, en route from Me-Chord Air Force Base in Washington State to Sheniya, Alaska, reported that two of its four engines had failed, apparently In the vicinity of Kodiuk, Ala's-
The air force said it. was advised a rescue plane made visible contact with the crippled cargo plane but then lost it in bad   weather.
Contact was not immediately re-established by radar or radio, the air force said.
STREAKING across the sky is CF-100 "Canuck" � all-Canadian, all-weather interceptor of the RCAF � stands prepared to meet and destroy any unknown aircraft that approach Canada. Radar and rocket-equipped, it can be "scrambled" aloft at a moment's notice.
On patrol of waters off British Columbia in search of subs  is  radar-cquipped  P2V7  "Neptune"  aircraft  of 407 Maritime Squadron based at Comox on Vancouver, Island.  When necessary they are  also called  on.to assist in search and rescue operations.       �RCAF Photo
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