INSIDE EDITORIAL ........................ Page 2 HpORTS .............................. Page 4 WOMEN'S SOCIAL ............ Page 7 CLASSIFIED ........................ Page 8 COMICS.............................. Page 9 WEATt VariobiB cloudiness torn noon rain showers. Litt. in temperate tonight, high t�. , row, 20 and 40. Dedicated to the Progress of the North �ain i Phone LO 4-2441 Vol. 3; No. 56 PRINCE GEORGE, BRITISH COLUMBIA, MONDAY, MARCH 23, 1959 BY OAKRri 350 PER WEEK SHRUM ROYAL Commission probing the B.C. Power sented by the Prince George Board of Trade, the city Commission heard three briefs in Prince George this and District C Farmers' Institute. The Commission, morning. Commissioners John Dunsmuir, Dr. Gordon Shrurn and E. A. Alexander (above) inspected the BCPC generating plant yesterday and held a hearing yy g in the provincial courthouse today. Briefs were pre- Winners Will Take Holidays Two Prince George wohien who shared the $501) jackpot in Saturday night's giant bingo game are spending the money on holidays. Mrs. Robert Little, 556 Harper Street, is leaving for Vancouver Island with her husband in two weeks. Mrs. Ted Williams, 1006 Twelfth Avenue, is leaving for Vancouver tonight to attend a wedding. She will be away 10 days. The bingo program! sponsored by the KIwanis Club on behalf of the Prince George Joint Service Club Council', drew a capacity crowd to the Civic Centre. A total of $1000 in cash prizes was given away to winners. Money raised in tlie giant bingo pi'QgVaui is spent on a dozen community projects. Five local service clubs are members of the Joint Service Club Council. , along with five of the top brass from the B.C. Power Commission, returns to the Lower Mainland this afternoon. �Hal Vandervoort Photo. Governments Closer coordination between the British Columbia Power C'>mmission and provincial and uuuiiripul iV'partni"nL< was advocated today by the City of Prince George in a brief to the Shrutn Royal Commission inquiring into B.p. Power Commission affairs. The city's brief suggested that lack of cooperation was jeopardizing the city's growth and undermining the financial security of- both the city and surrounding areas. In presenting the brief, city clerk Aaron Thomson pointed out that "insufficient planning such as supplying ipower to the city's fringe areas, invited undesirable shack dweller.-; wh< benefit from the city without paying a fair share of taxes. The city brief was one of seven presented "to the commission during its morning session in Prince George. Other briefs came from the Prince George Hoard of Trade, District B Farmers' Institute, District C Farmers' Institute, Fort St. .lames Hoard of Trade, Burns Lake Board of Trade and Chetwynd Chamber of Commerce. While the city � went on record as 'supporting the policy of boha fide rural electrification, it strongly opposed distribution of power to rareas not under control ;bf, but benefit ting from the existence of a city. The brief stated: "It is when under the guise of rural electrification urban development takes place in un- JfOHN MORRISON presents trade board brief controlled areas and in direct conflict with the interests of the bona fide urban population of the region tha^. the city must take issue with a utility that provides a service", which would not be 'possible without the existence of the organized municipality." "Urban residents in the City of Prince George are compelled to underwrite part of the costs of the uneconomic system." While the brief, as read to the commission, charged the Power Commission with the main responsibility for this uncontrolled development, Mr. Thomson tempered the charge in the ensuing debate. "Our quarrel is not with the Power Commission, but with the lack of coordinated planning," he said. The brief asked that BCPC developments be viewed as an integral aspect of regional development. It urged establishment of province-wide administration to ensure that the Power Commission, along with federal, provincial and municipal governments, is able to take an organized approach to regional planning.' This would prevent, the brief contended, a situation where one public agency can act in (See -COMMISSION" Page I!) IT'S SPRING, BUT Continuing chilly weather makes it hard to believe Prince George is experiencing spring but the condition has the blessings of truckers and the Department of High ways. PLAYOFFS in the Cariboo Hockey League ended in tragedy for at least two parties this week-end. Beside the Yandcrhoof Bears, who lost both games in the week-end scries. League president Jack Rebman suffered a broken nose when struck by a puck at Saturday night's game. Rebman's injury is attended to by Dr. Jean izatt. �Hal Yandervoort Photo. Regional highways' engineer Ray S. Cunliffe said today road restrictions will not be imposed on local xoach until the frost doesn't freeze the run-off during the nights. "If we would have had warm weather two weeks ago, there would be loa'd and speed restrictions on local highways," Mr. Cunliffe said. However, the department is ready to slap restrictions on roads on a day's notice. It has already restricted traffic over the Northern Trans-Provincial Highway near Tel-kwa, Hazelton and Smithera to 7-") per cent of the gross axei limit. Freezing temperatures at night are holding off break-up conditions which could have kept truckers off the roads two weeks ago. -Most serious affects of road restrictions are felt among planer and sawmills which have to close down because they cannot transport their products to Prince George. In the event, of restrictions being put into force overnight, Mr. Cunliffe said ail highways In the Prince George area � the Northern Trans-Provincial, Hart and Cariboo � would have load and speed limits on them. Side roads would also be restricted, he /aid. twsvit loitiorrow Funeral services for Charles Wassil, 8Q, who died in Prince George and Uisirict Hospital March 20 will be held from SaCred Heart Church at noon tomorrow. Wassil lived in the Ferndalc district since 1011 and was well-Known to many in the Prince George area. Prior to his death, Mr. Wassil spent two months In Prince George and District Hospital. Y\o is survived by his brother, Peter, also at Ferndale. Willow River Area Gives Air Talk Veteran school trustee Harold Moffat will be featured at 9 p.m. Tuesday on the weekly broadcast Parent-Teacher Time, sponsored by the Prince George Parent-Teacher Council. Mr. Moffat, chairman of the building committee on District 57 School Board, will give a picture of work and decisions going into the building of a school from the artist's sketch until completion. Parent-Teacher Time is heard every Tuesday night on radio station CKPG. The first community safety council in Northern B.C. was officially formed in Prince George Friday night. At an organizational meeting held in city hall council chambers, Herbert Maxwell was elected president of the Prince George and District Safety Council. The Council will co-ordinate and promote safety programs in all fields of endeavour, including traffic, water, home and school. Bob Borric was elected vice-president and Mrs. A. M. Word-ley was named secretary-treasurer. .COMMfTTKES CHOSEN Committee chairmen are Clare Watts, traffic; Alex Izatt, Water; "Chuck" Lees, occupational"and Art Murray, community. The meeting heard talks by Workmen's Compensation Board inspector John Dinsmore and Northern Interior Lumbermen's Association safety inspector Fred Wade. Mr. Dinsmore stressed the need for safety programs affecting the home and community. He pointed out that of the !)5S persons killed 'in accidents in British Columbia last year, most of them occurred in the home and on the job. "In the first month or 1959, 80 persons died by 'accidents' in B.C., 31 of which occurred in our homes," Dinsmore stated. Mr. Wade, who has had some 20 years' experience in safety work, poined out that accidents usually occur during a lapse of thoughtlessness. 'WASN'T THINKlNiJ' " 'I just wasn't thinking.1 is the most common explanation for a fall or when a child swallows poison," Wadn remarked. Programs in all phases of the Prince George and District Safety Council's organization are expected to be started within the next two months. Following is a break-down of fatalities which occurred in B.C. during January: Motor vehicle accidents, 25; drown ings in water transport, 1; accidental poisoning, G; accidental falls, 17; accidents caused by machinery, 2; fire and explosion of combustible materials, 10; firearms, 3; drowning and submersion, 0 and other causes, G. The Safety Council will hold its next meeting on April 23. A B.C. Forest Service employee lost for a week in the woods southeast of here was found alive Sunday by searchers. Tony Pierren, 33, survived the si^-day ordeal in the desolate Willow River Working Circle without food and suffering from a displaced foot bone. Pierren stumbled into an ac �ess rpad yesterday afternoon, only minutes after volunteer searchers spotted the hot ashes of a fire which the man had huddled around last week. He was rushed to Prince George and District Hospital and is reported in good condition today. He is expected to be discharged either tomorrow or Wednesday. His discovery came as elaborate plans were being made for a search to begin today. An aircraft and 20 men guided by an emergency radio transmitting station were to have hunted for him. Pierren, a Swiss immigrant who is reported to have had considerable bushwork exper-ierce,. disappeared March 16 in the area. His disappearance was a "comedy of errors", said acting district forester K. L. Young. A forest cruising teani planned .on moving into a rjew area to mark-up a new sale last Mon-day. Pierrcn, who was operating ,by himself, returned to the trailer site Monday n\brning and found that his workmates had gone. ', I They had come to Prince George for supplies but Pierren Your Citizen Carrier Douglas MacAuiey, eight-year-old son of Mr, and Mrs. Roderick MacAulay, 1735 Ingle-dew Street, has soccer for his main sport. Douglas also skates, plays baseball, hockey and table tennis. He is a grade three student at Connaught Elementary and his favorite subjects in school are language and Arithmetic. Douglas does baby-sitting for his younger 'brother and sister. His route is A-D which covers Queensway and George Street to Third Avenue and Patricia Boulevard. He lias been carrying The Citizen for four months and likes it. Douglas does a lot of hiking and hunting with his friends. thought they had moved on to a new site. Therefore, he hitch-hiked to what he thought would be their new site. At 3 p.m. Monday the crew which had come to Prince George returned to the area and found Pierren missing. However, they went on with their cruising operation, assuming Pierrcn had got mad and quit his job. FOUND MISSING Later last week a Forest Service supervisor went to the scene and the crew complained to him that it Was a man short. The supervisor came back to Prince George and started to investigate. He found that there was no record of Pierren leaving his Job nor being transferred to another operation. It was not until 3:30 p.m. Friday that, the Forest Service realized Pierrcn was in the woods. BCFS immediately sent four men out' to look for him. OIvICB CAhlJEp First search parties were organized Saturday morning and the. area was "stripped"' foif rehink1. -ifioyal C a n'a d i a n Mounted Police from Prince George also started taking part in the hunt Saturday. They hunted through Saturday but didn't come up with a single clue which could point to his whereabouts. Yesterday afternoon a party came across the smouldering ashes of a fire around which Pierren had spent most of the six days and nights. The ashes were at the bottom of a ravine. Pierren had been struggling to get out of the ravine but the dislocated foot bone prevented him from climbing tlie steep .banks. He had struggled for days to get out of the trench but failed at every attempt. However, he made the bank just as searchers arrived at tlie fire and saw footprints in the snow. "He knew how to look after himself in tlie woods, but he was lucky, too," Mr. Young stated. OVER 800 persons took advantage of the free adult while assistants issued cards and sterliacd arms. Vac- went into the street. Two nurses did the vaccinating Vandervoort