/ N SIDE IDITORIAL ........................ Poge 2 SPORTS ............................. Pago 4 CLASSIFIED ........................ Page 6 COMICS .......................... Page 7 WOMEN'S SOCIAL .......... Page 8 TH -i WE A T H E R Cloudy with occasional thowers Wednesday. Little chang" in temperature Lo" tonight and high Wednesday 35 and 45. Dedicated to the Progress of the North Phone LO 4-2441 Vol. 3; No. 52 PRINCE GEORGE, BRITISH COLUMBIA, TUESDAY, MARCH 17, 1959 BY CARRIER S5c PEP. WEEK Cross Raises $2,000 in Drive A total of $2,013 was last night in its 90-minute in the city. The "blitz" was the first phase of the society's campaign to collect $0,000 for vital services. A business canvass started today. Jack Leylan'd, chairman of the Red proas! fund-raising committee, said he was satisfied with the results. Some 300 volunteer �anvassers under 40 team captains knocked on doors between 6:30 and 8 p.m. yesterday during the campaign. A committee under Ira S. ,amb will solicit from planer and sawmills in the district before results of the month-long drive can be tallied. Twenty-four of 28 canvass areas were heard from this morning and the remaining can- collected by the Red Cross "blitz" of residential areas vassers are expected to bring the total Residential collection up to $2,500. Dies ot Terrace Charles Hagiand, a former resident of the Salmon Valley area for several years, died in Terrace Sunday. Mr. Hagland had a farm in Salmon Valley until he moved to Terrace and took up residence in the Senior Citizens Home in that centre. He was born in Sweden and has no known relatives. EIGHT-TON, $40,000 crankshaft was replaced in a huge Cooper-Bessemer generating unit at the B.C. Power Commission .plant yesterday. The shaft was transported from Grove City, Pennsylvania, by truck by Cooper-Bessemer, who replaced it on a guarantee. Above, BCPC mechanics J. B. Laing and A. E. Scott are taking advantage of the breakdown to overhaul the natural-gas fired unit.�Hal Vandervoort photo WEDNESDAY OR THURSDAY Load and.speed restrictions will bejmposed on roads in the Prince George area before the week-end, regional Department of Highways engineer Ray Cunliffe said' today. Mr. Cunliff expects re- tures at night have curtail; strictions to go into force ed the break-up in the past Wednesday or Thursday but 110 days. Mr. Cunliffe ex-the exact dale depends on pectcd restrictions to be im-the weather. ft'�'i temperatures will retard 'breakup conditions a few days but a spell of mild weather would force restrictions on roads almost overnight. The initial restriction is expected to bo 75 per cent of 18,000 pounds on a single axle. Below-freezing tempera- A A'nndrrhool' sawmill owner has Ihmmi fined $225 for withholding �l',010.82 ill pay from nine employees. Mrs. Juno II. P a r r ;i n 1 <> plcadcil guilty So all charges I) c I o r c Magistrate Itichnrd J'jVjiiis in Vnnderhoof police court March 13. A. H. Knliihl, Industrial Re: latious officer from (ho Prince George Department of Labor, handled the prosecution. In default of payment Mrs. I\irr;into was sentenced to 10 days in .jail, ami in default of payment to the employees another 10 days for each conviction. , by last week-end but weather conditions were favorable for a few days late last week. 76 Attend Father-Son Banquet Seventy-six fathers and sons gathered last night at Knox United Church's AOTS-sponsor-ed Father-Son Banquet. The banquet was held in honor of the Second and Eighth Scout Troops. AOTS, the men's club of Knox Church, sponsors the two troops as well as' cub packs and other groups. Scouts from the Second Troop entertained the meeting with a skit after the banquet. AOTS president Dr. Jack New-by called on District Scout Commissioner Ted Williams, who described the advantages of Scouting and pointed out the need for more leaders. Rev. C. Bryson Boyle gave an appreciation of the scouting movement and Brian Tapp described scouting activities. Ralph Storey also told the meeting of the activities of his troop. Your Citizen Carrier Murray Gault, 12-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. R. G. Gault, 1656 Birch Street is an active scout and patrol leader. Murray is a Grade 8 student at Connaught Junior High School. 'Murray has been inking piano lessons for three years. His main interests-arc model building, hockey, baseball and swimming. Murray was born in Edmonton, Alberta and came to Prince George Tour and a half years ago. He i.s the oldest of three children. Hiking is one of Murray's favorite pastimes. Murray enters the Soap Box derby- every year and is planning for this year's derby now. His route is A-22 and covers Seventeenth Avenue to Patricia Boulevard from Cedar to half of Birch Street Ho may bo reached at, LO -1-5U17. CARS, BOATS, FASHIONS Lions The accent was on daring design as well as everyday use as the Lions Club and city merchants paraded the latest in fashions, cars and boats before 1,400 spectators in the Coliseum on the weekend. Fifteen fashion models. 17 cars, 11 boats and four lines of outboard motors shared the limelight in the variety-packed show. About 20 entertainers provided musical background to the sparkle of the newest and best city stores have to offer. Fashions were supplied by the Dream Shop with women's clothes. Morrison's Men's Wear, Baby Lane, Prince George Shoe Store, Beauty Lane and Perry's Pharmacy. Nine of the city's most attractive girls, three men and three children acted as models. Flowers were provided by the House of Flowers, scenery by Modern Decorating Company Limited and special lighting effects were reserved by the sponsoring Lions. ilODEUN CARS One of the biggest attractions was the brilliant array of new 1959 cars. Following cars were exhibited by five automobile dealers: Prince George Motors: 1959 Sceptre Hardtop Monarch, 1959 Ford Thunderbird convertible, 1959 Ford Galaxie Four-Door ftai'dtop; . � Shields Motor Products: 1059 Classic 98 Oldsmobile Holiday Sports Sedan, 1050 Chevrolet Impalu convertible coupe. 1950 Chevrolet 1VI Air Four-door sports sedan. 1059 Vauxhall Victor, 105!) Vauxhall Vclox. Fred Walls and Sun Limited; Meteor Montcalm, Meteor two-door cruiser. West End Motors: Model 1S0-D Mercedes, 219 Mercedes six-cylinder gas model, 1959 Hillman sedan, DICVV three-cylinder, front-wheel-drive hardtop convertible. Hub City Motors: Carmann-Ghia Volkswagen sports car, Deluxe Volkswagen sedan, Volkswagen Micro-Bus. BOATS USEFUL Geared to the demands of northern British Columbia lakes was the line of boats exhibited. Shown were: Interior Power Saw Sales: car-top boat, 11-foot boat kit, 1-1-foot runabout and trailer. (See Page 3 "LIONS SHOW" bulletin OTTAWA � T) � Tiime Minister DielenhaUer today announced to the Commons the sudden death of External Affairs M i n i s t e r Sydney Smith. He made thj* announcement in :i choking voice, some 'JO minutes after the opening of today's Commons' sitting. The H<�u>e immediately- adjourned until Wednesday as t" a heart attack. v LOCAL CONNOISSEURS OUTDRINK EVERYBODY Prince George leads all other major centres in the province iu per capita �'liquor Consumption, a' . British-Columbia Liquor. Control' l^oard report states.' Every resident here spends about SloO per year on liquor. Kamloops comes second with about. $110 per capita. Vancouver-Victoria are far behind with $15, the same as New Westminster. In total consumption Prince George ranks third with $2,200,000 spent every year. Vancouver-Victoria leads with $6,650,000, followed by New Westminster with $3,700,000. Kamloops comes fourth, behind Prince George, with $1,900,000. Taxpayers Protest Moving Of Road A spokesman for 550 Island Cache residents today declared the city is "fence-sitting" on demands for a "reasonable" pedestrian access into the area. Irving Wiley, chairman of an Island taxpayers' committee, said the city council has ignored the area in negotiations it has held with Canadian National Railways for trackage renovations. The CNR plans on spending $300,000 this year extending switching trackage on the east end of its yards. To accommodate the extension, an access road into the island will have to moved about half a mile eastward, from Ottawa to Hamilton St. "Persons who drive cars uptown do not have any particular objection to the scheme but pedestrians are certainly asking for some sympathy and protection," Mr. Wiley stated. When the access to the Island is via Hamilton St., pedestrians will be tempted to trespass CNR trackage more than ever, Wiley said. Overhead Crossing Safer lie said an overhead foot crossing would alleviate the danger of pedestrians being struck by switching trains while taking short-cuts. However, G. W. Keefe, CNR superintendent at Prince Rupert, said he could not agree to any proposal which would allow pedestrians or vehicles to cross the railway's yards. "We have made our feelings on this matter quite clear to city council' and all we have had is brush-offs," Mr. Wiley said. -He saict,jhe�has fonvartled compfalj'itjs to^ city ipuncil only to have" them bounced to the CNR. "We have not had a grain of sympathy or have not heard of any move on behalf of the city to help solve the problem which we will face," Wiley stated. The city contends that since the Island 'is not within the city limits it has no jurisdiction over any of its affairs. "It may have no jurisdiction but that doesn't mean it shouldn't have any interest in us," Mr. Wiley commented. Heave to Cross Tracks He said housewives and high school students commute daily with the city and once the access has been changed to Hamilton St. they will have no alternative but to cross the tracks. Mr. Wiley wrote a letter to City Council on March 7 which pointed out that the city hadn't taken a'stand on the matter "'so we ask for a meeting with council or a committee to discuss the problem." He received a letter on March 10 from the city which stated that the city has no jurisdiction over Island affairs. Mr. Wiley said that if the railway closed its yards between 50' and GO sawmill'and planer workers would have to use tjie Hamilton' Stj crossing to. get/to work. ' He suggests a direct, pedestrian crossing be made on George St., connecting with a short route to the downtown area from a road in the vicinity of the CNR roundhouse. "If someone wants to force or buy us out of the area, they should say so," Mr. Wiley stated. "They wouldn't have much trouble if they went about it the right way," he commented. SAYS SALLIE PHILLIPS . . . Symphony Orchestra Slates Prince George as Tour 'Must' Mrs. Sallic Phillips, who lives with sounds, yesterday sounded off on her favorite topic. Mrs. Phillips, always-oii-the-go public relations director of the Vancouver.. Symphony Orchestra, was in Prince George yesterday to talk symphony. She is travelling ahead of the fiS-piece orchestra which will make a flying concert ,tour of half a dozen northern B.C. centres next week. It will perform here March 25. Mrs. Phillips who is promoting a eomrnoriuy which is as unfamiliar to these parts as banana trees, i.s encountering no trouble. "The symphony is another di- mension in sound. It brings to life a set of sounds which can never he captured by electronics,'-' she said. Those are the sounds, Mrs. Phillips states, which over -1,000 Prince George music-lovers are expected to hear when the Vancouver Symphony performs three concerts here next Wednesday. The orchestra, which thrives on a shoe-string, $139.000 budget, has chartered a.DC-6B aircraft, engaged half a .dozen bus lines an"d trucking companies and has reserved accommodation and meal services in each of the centres which it will visit. Its visit to northern B.C. is made possible by a $20,000 grant iroJa the Canada Council for the orchestra to "extend and improve" its services. Mrs. Phillips, who "thinks the world" of the orchestra, also has praise for the audiences. "The orchestra hardly returned to Vancouver last year when we received an invitation to return to Prince George," she said. "Therefore^ when we' wore making arrangements for the 'flying tour1 wo decided that Prince George was a 'niust'." Conductor Irwin Hoffman directed the Philadelphia Symphony Orchestra when he was only J7 years old. He studied with Serge Kousscvitsky and Leonard Bernstien. World-famous Leonard Rose has signed up wit}! fhe prcjiestra (See Page 3 "SYMPHONY")