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WEATHER
Cloudy with a few light snow flmri** tomorrow. Not much chonga in temperature. Winds light. Low tonight and high tomorrow, IS and 25.
Dedicated to the Progress of the North
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Vol.  3;  No.   19
PRINCE GEORGE, BRITISH COLUMBIA, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 28, 1959
BY   CARRIER Sic  PER  WEEK
Square Dance Art or Sport?
Is square dancing an act of brain or brawn, an art or an athletic undertaking?
This question puzzled District 57 School Board last night. Faced with a request by the Happy Gang Square Dance Club for use of a gymnasium, the board had to rule whether this would come under the heading of outside athletics which are barred from use of school facilities.
1   Said  trustee Robert Range:  "This  is athletic, we can't allow it."
Countered K, F. Alexander, superintendent of schools; "I think it's art. I belong to it myself."
Trustee K. A. Melville shook his greying head:
"hi my days square dancing used to be some-
; thing athletic, but the way they're doing it today,
. itjS a long way from good square dancing and an
even longer way  from  being  athletic.  It's strictly
.social."
Though the board couldn't agree on the question they rejected the request to forestall an onrush ' of. similar grdups.
Parents Protest To School Board
A mass delegation from Red Rock invaded District 57. School Board offices last night in a joint protest against the teacher at the one-room Red Rock school.
Three  men  and  six wo-
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A P.rince George youth is among 56 young people from communities through-
OUT*"tbcJ ^A-oVined1 .Who   are
attending the 14th annual Yoyth Training School at the-University of B.C.
�John iFijitc of,IIR 2, Prince Gt?6rge',��� Is ' .taking, vocational t^afh'jng in agriculture, forestry ahej- fishers  at  the session.
� OtHuTs attending the .school from northern H.C. centers are Sylvia Klstex Eido of Burns Lake; Vernon Haglof and Caroline Uarrett of Daw-son Creek; Sylvia Partington, Francois Lake; Beverly Thompson, Ques-ncl and Rita Isaac of Rose Lake.
�The eight-week school, Which continues until February 28, is administered by the university's extension department and sponsored 'by the Canada department of iabour and the provincial department of education.
Designed for young people between the ages <>f 16 and 30 who have completed their formal education but desire further vocational training, the f^hool aims to provide leadership training, promote co-operation and acquaint students with opportunities for further education.
Included In the agriculture training arc such subjects as animal and poultry husbandry, horticulture, welding, motor mechanics, carpentry and farm management.
To Elect Officers
Prince George Women's Progressive Conservative Association will hold its annual /nceting and election of officers Thursday night In the small banquet room of the Prince George Hotel.
The meeting will get under way at S p.m. Among other business, membership will rote oh a permanent constitution.
men, two of them holding babies on their arms, charged the teacher with not being able to handle the children and "playing one child against the other."
They also complained that their children were "not learning a thing."
School Board, unable to take immediate action without Knowing the situation more intimately, instructed K. F. Alexander, superintendent of schools, to carry out an investigation and report back to the board.
"I'll get down there as fast as possible," Mr. Alexander promised.
One of the irate parents accused the teacher of calling her children "Indians." She also said the teacher "keeps telling the kids they are going to fail."
Another woman said the teacher played one child against the other.
"She (the teacher) butters up one of the kids with cookies and candies to find out what goes on in the individual lives of the other children."    �
One of the strongest complaints was voiced by a woman who in effect blamed the teacher for her children's poor health.
"Whenever she wants to punish kids she pushes their desk against the heater and turns the heat up," she said.
"When my boy came home with a bad cold one day I discovered that he had been going to school without underwear."
Questioned by Mr. Alexander whether they'd rather send their children to Buck-horn or Stone Creek where they'd be "assured of a better education," the parents agreed unanimously that they preferred a school in Red  Rock.
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EXPERT ADVICE on how to be an aspiring Rembrandt is offered, here by Mrs. Robin Pearce, right, to pupil Mrs. W. A. Fry, 1499 Sixth Avenue. Mrs. Pearce instructs pointing classes sponsored by the University of British. Columbia's extension department. Classes are being held every evening and afternoon of this week in the senior high school.                                                   �Vandervoort photo
Jaycees Pledge $1/180 For Furnishing 'Home'
Prince George J u n i o r Chamber of Commerce last night donated $1.1SO to furnish a complete unit in the new senior citizens home.
Home Society president Harry Locler received the cheque after he had addressed a Jaycee meeting held in the banquet room of the Shasta  Cafe.
The JCC offer brings to four
the total number of pledges received by the Society for furnishing units in the homo. Approximately 10 units will be r e a d y for occupancy next month.
The Lady Lions Club, Rotary Club ami Prince George Hotel-men's Association have already decided to purchase furniture for "suites.
The Society is currently cam-
WA to CARS Elects President for 1959
Mrs. Alfred Alexander yesterday was elected new president of the women's auxiliary to the local branch of the Canadian Arthritis and Rheumatism Society.
Other officers elected were:
Mrs. William Kirschke, vice-president; Mrs. L. T. Kenney, secretary-treasurer; Mrs. Terranee Ag-new, ways and 'means committee; Mrs. John Wall, visiting committee; Mrs. Jessie Cunliffe, publicity, and Mrs. Ted Blow, refreshments.
paigning among organizations throughout the city to have units furnished. It is also conducting a $10,000 fund-raising drive.
The money is needed before the first units can be occupied, Mr. l,oder said.
The furnishings must be financed separately from the construction ami I he society is hoping to raise Lhe necessary funds through lhe sale of memberships to local organizations, businesses and individuals.
Mr. Ljoder expects at least, five units will be furnished through donations by single individuals.
Unpleasant Surprise
Bank manager H. Wcldon Steel and his wife returned to Prince George over the weekend hoping that everything would at least be near-normal at home.
The Steels, who were in Vancouver, returned to their Ross Crescent residence last weekend and found that the furnace had exploded. A neighbor had been putting their mail inside the f r o n t door while they were away but didn't notice what h a d happened.
Almost the entire basement area has to be cleaned out and redecorated after the furnace is repaired.
Mill Wins Decision Against PGE
The Supreme Court of Canada.Tuesday confirmed a decision by the British Columbia Appeal Court awarding $.').5O1 damages to A. L. Patchett and Sons Limited, Quesnel, B.C., lumber mill operators.
The Patchett company had appealed to the Supreme Court, asking $4,577 from the Pacific Great East-em -Railway Company for damages suffered when strikers picketed the railway's yards on which the company has its plant.
The pickets were members of the International Woodworkers of America who struck a number of B.C. mills in September, 1!)53� but not the Patchett mill� and picketed the Quesnel yards.
It was alleged the provin-cially-owned PGE did not take sufficient action to move the company's lumber in spite of the pickets, thus causing damages to the Patchett company.
Temperatures are expected to drop slightly tomorrow.
After a high of 3d today. In. morrow's forcast calls for 2."> above.
Charge of Cruelty To be Lai
A charge of cruelty to against a Peden Hill areu mongrel dogs.
tie will face charges under �the Criminal Code for keeping an assortment of inter-bred, crippled bounds on property west of the drive-in theatre.
Royal Canadian Mounted Police officers, who have had an eye on the situation for several months, say the man keeps the animals on chains which are tied to trees.
Some find shelter only in holes in the snow.
He is a social welfare client. Officials of Hie local Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals have visited the man's property with police on several  occasions.
Police said most of the animals are short-haired and some of them do not look hardy enough to withstand another cold spell.
Some or tlu> nninuils are crippled. At one time last year a dog witli only throe l�'gs was kept at tin- site, police say.
Although lhe dogs do not appear tn be too underfed, the main complaint is against their shelters. There are several cardboard and wooden boxes with entrances cut in them which serve to house them.
Officers recently turned over one box and found three clogs asleep and huddled together for warmth inside it.
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