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Dedicated to the Progress of the North
PKene LO 4-2441
Vol. 3; No. 43
PRINCE GEORGE, BRITISH COLUMBIA, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 4, 1959
BY CARRIER 35c PER WEEK
DRESSED IN authentic Japanese costumes, these three-local performers will appear in the roles of the "Three Maids" Thursday through Saturday in Gilbert and Sullivan's operetta "The Mikado." Play will be staged
by the Prince George Light Opera Society at the Duchess Park Junior High School auditorium. From left to right, the "maids" are: Kay Bell, Dorothy Nor-berg and Anne Simons.
Rural Teachers, Probed in Test
A testing program designed to assess accomplishments of rural teachers and students on a dis-trict-wkle comparison Is currently being carried out by K. F. Alexander, District 57'superintendent of 8choo\�^A;- fj"r"'" ~"
The program was irrigated to establish a basis fo/equal academic standards.
Up to now, teacher? in rural schools have seldom hml the opportunity tn compare notes, thereby * making it Impossible to .fudge the progress of a student in comparison to those in
at hoi1 parts of the district.
The novel experiment, termed "an outstanding success" by Mr. Alexander, consists of tests in three basic subjects in three grades of.. Uje,J-ijtci'inecJiate and junior rlivision^^of the elementary schools, including city schools.
In the first division, tests were prepared in Grade 4 English, Grade 5 arithmetic, and Grade 8 science.
Returned to the .school board office, the tests were marked by members of the Future Teachers
Your Citizen Carrier
Twelve-year-old Roger Gibbins is one of the Citizen's most faithful and active carriers. Me has been with the
Citizen for seven years.
When he was too young for deliveries he helped out his elder brother .Michael. Later he stanod his own route.
Model building is Roger's main hobby. He loves all sports especially hockey.;
He is saying his earnings foi a new bicycle. Ho has bpughi himself many articles with the money made delivering The Citizen.
Roger is also h active scout member.
The son of Mr. and Airs George 'Gibbins, -Roger lives at 171)8 Fourth Avenue anil. Is i Grade Q student .at, King George V school. " .- , v. � '��'
FHs I'dUftfr is on Third -a-m1 �Fourth Avenues from Vancouver to Edmonton St.'His telephone ROGBK GIIHU.VK .number is LO 4-2OS8.
Course At
The F�rl ^eoi'ge Boy Scout council will sponsor basic training course for new leaders in Prince George
this week-end, The course for
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Course leader Gordon Hough said it will be of interest to
everyone engaged in youth lead
lie points out that prev ious leadership experience is no' essential.
The course will open at 7:30 p.m. Saturday in the Scout Han Fourth Aye.' and Brunswick St The initial session will continue to 1(1:30 p.m.
Sunday .sessions Mill he held between 1:30 and 5:30 and 7:30 and 10:30 p.m. �
Mr. Hough's training assistants will he Mrs. IX H. FawceU. Bill' Mummery, Mrs. Percy Williams, Ted Williams and .!�_��. Turner,
The Fort George District Council will he hosts to the course at a buffet supper Sunday evening.
A minimum of 20 persons must show interest in the course before it can start. There can be a maximum enrolment of 36.
The six leaders for the course have completed the Gilwell scouters' training course and passed its written and theory ex;uv)inaUp,n.y.
Club in the senior high school. By marking the papers in let-; ter grades from A to E and returning them to the schools, teachers were given a way of comparing thoin.-aw-o .judgment with the grading on a district level.
By comparinK the letter grade with the ability of the pupil, it was possible to determine whether the pupil should be doing better than he is. For instance, a high ability rating Cor a pupil with a D rating on the test would indicate that something was wrong.
However, .Mr. Alexander pointed out, (his does not necessarily indicate p o,o r leaching, since there ;iro other factors �,which could influence a child's I'QsuH on tlir test.
Discrepancies in ability rating ind letter grading were pointed ->ut by the superintendent of ichopls In notes to the teachers, As an interesting sidelight, Mr. Alexander reported that in wo of the three subjects at the ntermedintc-jnnior level the highest marks in the district were made by pupils in rural schools!
The highest mark in Grade S science was made by a pupil at Sinclair Mills.
Mrs. Larnh Red Cross Delegate
Mrs. Ira S. Lamb of Prince George has been elected a regional representative on the B.C. Council of.,the Hed Cross Society.
Officers were chosen at a provincial convention of the Red Cross held in Vancouver last week.
Other regional representatives chosen were: Mrs. R. Pi. Roebuck, Crestnn; R. B. Morris. Nelson', W. H. Raikes, Okanagah Mission; Mrs. I. P. Dobbyn. Duncan; and Dr. Olga Jardine and M. L. Fitzgerald, both of Victoria.
A Prince George businessman, feared lost with his wife for two days in the bushland some 1-10 miles south of here, flew his light plane into Williams Lake this morning and returned immediately to pick up his wife at a lonely lake where he had left her.
Finding of Mr. and Mrs. Charles M. Shields, 475 Tofield Street, ended one of the biggest air searches ever staged in the northern interior.
Mr. Shields piloted the borrowed Cessna 170 aircraft which he was flying from Kelowna to Prince George into the Williams Lake airport shortly before 11:30 a.m.
lie left his wife, Elizabeth, on the shore of Crooked Lake, 05 miles east of Williams Lake. A weight factor jrphibiiod him from taking off while both were in the aircu.ft.
. Royal Canadian Mounted Police at. Williams Lake said the couple did not need medical attention.
Mr. Shields immediately returned to the lake in a ski-equipped, Chilcotin Airways plane to pick up his wife.
jVJr. Shields told attendants at the Williams Lake airport that the wheel-equipped craft was forced down by severe weather conditions and could not move for two days after water flooded the ice surface. �
He was cold and hungry and was taken to the airport manager's home for food.
Bill Harvie, Pacific Western Airlines' base manager in Prince George, told The Citizen from Williams Lake that Shields' plane was undamaged.
"Charlie is a hot pilot," Mr. Harvie stated.
The couple was expected back at the Williams Lake airport at 2:30 p.m.
They are expected in Prince George by 3;40 p.m.
First reports from Williams Lake said Mr. Shields and his wife were in good condition in spite of the three clays and two nights they had spent on the windy, lonely lake...-..,_, aKan______.___________�- �" - � - ��
At least 28 searchplanes were in the air 'tocfay combing, the vast wilderness between Kelowna and Prince George.
The barrens between Prince George and Kelowna had been chopped Into 300 square mile rectangles. An aircraft was as signed to thoroughly search each rectangle.
Eleven aircraft took off from the Prince George airport at
NO GAME TONIGHT IN HOCKEY LEAGUE
The Prince George Mohawks and the Quesnel Kangaroos will hot meet in the fourth game of their Cariboo Hockey League best-of-five semi-final tonight in Quesnel, as previously reported.
The decision not to play in Quesnel was made by league president .lack Ftebman on learning that Quesnel ice could not be played on.
The Mohawks lead the semi-final series. 2-1.
8 a.m. today to cover the area south to Williams Lake.
Most of the pilots of the local searchplanes are friends of Mr. and Mrs. Shields. RCAJR PLANE
Four RC'AF aircraft worked the Kamloops area and four others from Comox entered the hunt. Several private planes op-orated out of Williams Lake, Kamloops and Kelowna.
The Royal Canadian .Mounted Police "Beaver" from Prince George also searched for the couple.
Six private planes along with two RCAF aircraft returned yesterday without a single clue as to the location of the Shields' .n their borrowed aircraft.
Mr. and Mrs. Shields left Kelowna at 9:-'iO a.m. .Monday for the three-hour trip. The air-Malt carried enough fuel for four and. a half hours' flying. WILLIAMS LAKE AREA
The search was concentrated today in an area about 30 miles east of Williams Lake where several reports originated from RC'AF ground observer posts.
Vfcjcavch off idiUs of She KCAF � *niut one lincon-firmed .report placed ' the -Shiei;!*'. � silver hliii; Cessna near Williams J.Jikc. "But with no definite clues III I to go on we will have to branch ! ��>n out .inrj cove{! all possible areas," said an ItCAF official.
P a c Vf i c Western Airlines' j I Prince George bas? manager,
Centiiiu.e.d on Pagf Three See "AiJtCitAFT FOl'.VD"
Mrs. C. M. Shields
A PLEASURE TO THE EYE were these visiting curlers from Prince Rupert in their smart uniforms on which most of the attention focussed at the Prince George Ladies' Curling Club's banquet Monday night. Enjoying Prince George hospitality are, from left to right: .Jean Gordon, Amy Jefferies, Gwen Eby (skip) and Lucille McRae.
CAST POLISHING UP L
Thirty-six theatre enthusiasts will stage the last dress rehearsal tonight before going on stage tomorrow with the first light opera ever put on in Prince George by a local group.
The Prince George Light Opera Society's cast of "The .Mikado" will go before the audience in three night performances of the Gilbert and Sullivan operetta tomorrow, Friday and Saturday, plus a Saturday matinee.
Attend Annua
The Prince George Ladies Curling Club held its ctn-nual banquet in the Sacred Heart Auditorium Monday night.
The banquet was held in � g ri junction with the eleventh annual women's curling borispiel which opened Monday morning and winds up tonight.
Mrs. Harold Hatch proposed a toast to visitors.
Mrs. Gordon Sales, President of the Curling Club, introduced members of the different clubs which came.
Mrs. Carrie presented the
Abrahamson Abrahamson
Cup to Thclma Rome's rink, The second prize went to
Grace Wilkins' tetim.
Over 120 guests attended
the dinner, catered by the
Girl Guide Mothers.
Among the out-of-town
MJllHarn, Berta Milljhain and Marion Thorn; Elsie Molt fskip). Kay McLean and DoL Storey.
The Prince Rupert rinks are made up of Alma Whatman (skip), Jean Wildbauer, Myrtle Lewis and T.ona A r m strong; Gwen Eby (skip), Jean Gordon, Lucille
McRae and Amy Jefferies. Some of the other vi.sit-
rinks taking part in the bonspiel are three rinks from Vancouver and two
From Prince Rupert. Tliejing rinks were the Robin-Vancouver rinks consist of .son' rink from Fort St. John Mary Jefferson be] Richardson.
skip). Ma-Win Warner and Zelpha Wood; Elsie
MeKenzie
M a r i e
and the Bjornson rink from Quesnel. The Krutch rink from Quesnel was unable to make the trip.