I TOWAL .................... Page 2 < iWL'.,v................... ?�a9 4 I pSIFlEO...................... Po^ 6 IC� ...ii..................... Page 7 ^'S SOCIAL FOge 3 ie/LO 4-2441 Dedicated to the Progress of the North Vol. 3; No. I PRINCE GEORGE, BRITISH COLUMBIA, TUESDAY, MARCH 10, 1959 THIRTY-ONE boys group around leaders during train- end. Course leader Gordon Hough said the near-capacity ing course for pack scouters held here over the week- enrolment in the course will allow for two more groups. Entered Prince High School \v\fy plav "The Man-^kfe-. J�r�uld Not Go To I-%v$pf irl the Northern I n t er i o r yligb School Drama Festival F 'vday and Saturday... iiool will be ing with se1'on other entries from five corlnunities^for the awards! Second entry iyflji Prince Your Citizen Carrier Edward Ney, son of Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Ney, 1686 - Thirteenth Avenue has only been a Citizen carrier for one month and ho says it is great. Citizen circulation manager Jim Tucker .says Edward is doing "a terrific job." Edward likes outdoor sports such as hockey, softball, soccer and baseball. He also likes to Bead. lOdward is a Grade seven vtudent ii\ the Connaught Junior high school and is 12 year of age. He has liver] here all his life. He is saving his money for items lie wants to get later on. Edward has an older sister and a younger brother. Edward's route is A-20 which cover Eleventh and Fourteenth Avenues from Edmonton Street, to Prince Rupert Street. committees and will be asked to adopt amendments to a new set of bylaws which were approved by the society last year. Memberships in the society will be payable at the door. Two executives of the Prince George and District Irlospital Society, whose terms of office expire at an annual meeting of the organization tonight, are expected tB stand for re-election. John Powers, chairman of the hospital board, will allow his , nomination to stand for office at a meeting of the Society to be held at S p.m. in the Civic Centre banquet, room. L. L. King, a director of the society, is also expected to be nominated. I Both have served on the hns-' fltal board during one of its �t lost, trying and adventuresome I eriods. The board has guided cou-ructiiHi of a S2.OOP.000 hospital ''d'JUirsi'x residence- which will opened here this year. :tit has been a very gratify- ; task and I would like to be � the board when the structure t finally occupied," commented , Powers. \'owcrs' and King's positions only offices which will for elections tonight, finnual meeting will hear from the hospital board's The festival marks the first time that various schools from the north are gathering in a drama competition. High school principal A. G. Stables has expressed hope that next year Prince George will be, the site of a province-wide festival. A special adjudicator, provided branch of the Department of Education, will judge the entries. The eight plays entered will be staged'in two evening performances. A banquet at 6 p.m. will precede the Saturday evening showing. The banquet will be held in the home economics laboratory of the senior high school. Awards will he given for best actor and best actress of junior and senior high schools, best supporting actor 'and best performance, also separate for both types of school. Schedule Of Events 8 11.ui. FKIUAY "The Man Who Wouldn't Go To Heaven" � Prince George Senior High School. "The House of Bernarda Alba" � Nechako Valley Senior High Elementary. "Johnny Dunn" � Dawsbn Creek Senior High School. "Five Doac-a Eggs:; � Mc-Bride � Junior - Senior High School. 8.p.m. SATURDAY "iiucrezia Borgia's Little Party" � Dawson Creek Senior High School. "The Stolen Prince" � Duchess Park Junior High School. "The Jubilee" � McBride Elementary School. "A Room in The Lower" � North Peace Junior - Senior High. NO SUCCESSOR has yet been named for Flying Officer Jeff Bridges, 29, public relations of ficer with the Prince George Ground Observer Corps until he was transferred to Edmonton re cently. Keith Sutherland, Master Councillor elect, and his slate of officers, will be publicly in stalled hy the Prince George chapter of the Older of DeMolay at 8 p.m. Thursday in the D u c h e s s Park Junior High School auditorium. B of T Pulls Out of Miss Canada Contest The Prince George Board of Trade has backed out of sponsoring a local entry for the annual Miss Canada contest. "Unless some other organization in Prince George takes over sponsorship there will be no contest arranged here," said board secretary-manager Bill Shockey. The Board of Trade announced two months ago its intention to handle the contest here. City Council Asked A Prince George man, acting on behalf of his sister who lives on the Lower Mainland, Monday night asked city council whether he lived in a "Communist state" and had a demolition bylaw returned to committee for study. George O. Toombs, 733 Seventeenth Ave., delivered a well-phrased argument to council over a bylaw which has been passed ordering removal or demolition of property registered at 1729 Gorae Street. The land and sub-standard building belong to his sister, Mrs. Eva Farley, who resides at loco, B.C. Mr. Toombs cited that although the assessed value of the property has been increased in the past five years, the city has ordered its demolition apparently because of its decreased value; aged by fire, is currently oc-cupied by a destitute family. Mr. Toombs presented the following . figures to show the value of the property: Year 1954 1055 1056 1957 1958 Assessed Value $060 $1060 $10(50 $1060 51060 Taxes S54.8S $59.90 $68.39 $109.51 $88.86 He said that the figures were to prove a conflict between the actual value and the value placed on the property by city council when it passed the demolition order. "Who will reinburse my sister?" he asked. "Are wg free Canadians or do we live in Communist Russia?" "I have already assured Mr. Toombs that this demolition I won't be carried out," said Mayoress Carrie Jane Gray. (A bylaw ordering the demolition was passed February 23.) She said council was not aware that Mr. Toombs had power of attorney In the matter. Alderman Harry Loder presented a motion that the bylaw be referred back to committee for study and report. No Crossing To Cache Island Cache* i'esideiUs will be ��wiinouc ff stStUtxiry pedestrian access into their area when Canadian National Railways completes a $300,000 trackage improvement program this year. City council heard a letter from : the railway last night which stated that it cannot sgrce to any foot or pedestrian crossing leading to the district. Council last month received a letter from I. 1,. Wiley, representing a group of residents in the Island Cache, which complained of a decision to move a railway crossing from Hamil- ton to Ottawa Street. Close to 3U0 provincial government employe? the Prince George area are ready to walk off their Friday if a written agreement is not reached within] next two days on a new wage offer by the government Provincial Secretary Wesley Black announced in the leg| ure yesterday wage increases for government employees we iotal $3,000,000, a figure recommended by the Civil Service mission. Some quarters consider that the offer of an increase vX lettle the dispute. However, officials of the local governmei �mployees organization received a telegram from their provinciq organization last night advising them that the strike deadllr still stands. Employees of all government departments, except certail offices which are considered "vital services," will walk off theif jobs at 7 a.m. Friday. Engineers who maintain heating systems in government. buildings will take strike action at 7 a.m. Thursday. The employees want Black's offer in writing and are demand-^-ing they have access to the Carrothers report on civil servants'I wages and working conditions. The report was filed in the legislature Jan. 19 without govern-' ment employees being aware of it. Strike action in Prince George would close down all departments in the provincial government building, the Sixth Avc liquor store and B.C. Forest Service field operations. Jail guards and the staff of the Cariboo Health Unit are classified among the vital services and would not take strike action. .. "Employees fe^l they would accep*ltt5--a=^pj,B Vn a poVw.," This Could Happen of High-maintain *aid locaV ^GWx-ffai-i.i! R. B. Carter. ** f.~4�?�*" He pointed out that about 90 per cent'iOf the 300 government employees in the Prince George area are organized and would be eligible to take part in a strike. "The government seems to }>p backing down," commented BCGEA general secretary Ed O'Connor after hearing Black's offer yesterday. The civil servants' grievance started when the B.C. government included only $1,500,000 in the budget for pay increases this year. The Department w.'ys would not roads, some of which need constant observation and service during the current break-up period. :, -ire �**r-"ft\;1 � Billing, scaling and licensing departments of the B.C. Forest Service would ckwe, snarling services to the lumber industry. �& -sV "fr Marriage licences would bo unobtainable. Social welfare offices? would close. �fr -ft vV Driving tests, car licence issuing, electrical and labor inspection, and tax collection offices would lock up. �ve $ A cheque in the amount of $526, proceeds from a recent Elks-Shriners benefit hockey game, has been presented to the Prince George Senior Citizens Home Society. The money will be used to equip one of the suites which is ready for occupancy at the site. Half a dozen units have been occupied in the low-rental project and others are expected to be ready soon. George Cowell, representing the Shriners, and Carl Benson on behalf of the Elks made the presentation. gland's Teenagers Raving II Lopaschuk" t Terrace's .itizen, chairman of the Commission and well-...Jthroughout the entire '�a dim-id for his board ot .| work, died .suddenly on �Sflay in Terrace, it was 'd here today. He was -I!) 'bid. By JOHN MATTERS Citizen Staff Writer Pacific Western Airlines pilot Bill Lopaschuk is making a name for himself in more ways than one. Lopaschuk, who flics PWA aircraft out of Prince George, is suing down in English history books with Robin Hood. This, is what has happened: Last summer Lopaschuk and two other PWA pilots were sitting around in a cabin near Fort Sr. James with a newspaper reporter from the United Kingdom. The pilots Rave well-spiced accounts of what they thought were their most exciting flights. The stories were so vivid, in fact, that the newspaperman could not nrsisL turning on his tape recorder and taking '.'.own the stories told by Lopaschuk and the others on oxide. GUARDS TAPES The reporter carefully guarded the precious tapes until he was flown out to civilization. He took them hack to England and after some editing he marched them straight into the British Broadcasting Corporation studios in London. The BBC played the recordings over a children's program and the first, thing the radio network knew, the roving reporter not only gathered news put was also a talent scout. The English children went wild over Lopashuk's stories. But the story doesn't end there, either. � Bill Lopaschuk's accounts,uf his low flights over Wenner-Orenland on magnetometer expeditions for Hans Lundberg Explorations kindled a fire that �today is burning more furiously than ever. The BBC assked children to rite lyric,-) to the tune of "The SqiNiws Along The Yukon" :il?ojit r^opaschiik. They took up the radio' system's offer and almost as many lyrics have been written about Lopaschuk as there are squaws along the Yukon. "I don't know very much about it," commented the quiet, modest pilot. "It sounds sort of silly and I can't believe it," he said. But Lopaschuk will soon be the only bush pilot in the.world who will heed an Iinpressarlo. WINNERS in winter works campaign contest pile out of.light plane after having been taken for a flip over city in brilliant sunshine Saturday by Pacific Western Airlines base manager Bill Harvie. In two flights, Harvie took up 11 boys and girls who had picked up specially marked copies of the 5,000 leaflets. dropped over the city by the National Employment Service, in co-operation with the. winter works committee, - -