INSIDE EDITORIAL ........................ Page 2 SPORTS .............................. Page 4 WOMEN'S SOCIAL ............ Page 7 CLASSIFIED ........................ Page 8 COMICS .............................. Paae 9 WEATHER Mostly cloudy and cool. Snow showers Tuesday. Winds southerly 20 in main valleys, otherwise light. Low tonight, high Tuesday, 28 and 45 to the Proaress o/ the North Phone LO 4-2441 Vol. 3; No. 60 PRINCE GEORGE BRITISH COLUMBIA. MONDAY. MARCH 30. 1959 BY CARRIER 35c PER WEEK Police Truckers Police and highways department officials today reported truckers are obeying lead and speed restrictions imposed on district roads during the week-end. The restrictions, limiting loads to 75 per cent of the gross a.xle weight and the speed to 30 miles per hour, went into effect at midnight Friday. They were applied to the Hurt, Northern Trans-Provincial and Cariboo highways along with all tributary roads. The city's engineering department last week imposed a 50 per cent load restriction on all traffic on Second Avenue from Carney to Central Streets. The restrictions tooK all "lumber trucks off the roads and limited transport vehicles, to operating only with permits issued by the Department of Highways. One of the factors which will govern further restrictions on the roads will be truckers' obeyance of current regulations. Most of the planer and sawmills dose during the spring breakup period because they cannot transport lumber pro. ducts to Prince George for cessirig. pro- Sheil and Home Oil companies have announced reductions in wholesale gas prices to match the price-cut announced last week by Imperial Oil. Prince George motorists will now pay one-half cent less per gallon for regular gasoline. The companies say the reduction will be reflected at the retail pumps. There will be no cut in the cost of premium gasolines. The price cut reduces the wholesale price of gasoline to the 1949 level. [n a survey of oil companies in Prince George The Citizen learned that at least one other company is expected to follow suit. Municipalities in north- central British Columbia will be asked to endorse a resolution calling on the federal government to make its winter work-assistance plans known before September 1. �Aid. Harry Loder, chairman of Prince George's Winter Work Campaign Committee, presented the resolution to diycouncil last week. Loder said northern and interior B.C. communities are penalized by adverse weather conditions during the winter months and any construction program^ planned for the winter should be given a head start in trie fall. Aid. Loder stated that one way this could be accomplished �would be by having the extent of the federal government's assistance known before Sept. 1. The resolution, which was endorsed by council, will be forwarded to members of the North Traffic Victims Two Dead In Crash Two persons died in a traffic �cci(icnt near Ft. St. John over the Easter Holiday weekend. They were the only two traffic fatalities in Northern B.C. during the three-day holiday period. Victims of the mishap, which Occurred ;n Mile 116 on the Alaska Highway, have nut been identified. A truck in which they were riding spun out of control and crashed into a nearby ditch late Friday. Police presume the steering mechanism failed. Two passengers and the driver were in the truck at the time of the accident. The driver was the only person to escape the crash. . Tile tank truck turned over once and jack-knifed into the cabin. A passerby administered first aid until police arrived from Fort St. John, 50 miles down the highway. Central Union of B.C. Municipalities. . The local Winter AVork committee has been given credit for encouraging .several projects in it he city during the past season. . Half a dozen major buildings w e r e u n d o r construction throughout the winter. KOKKKT KANGE, chairman of the finance committee of School District 57, will answer questions over radio station CKPG at S p.m. Tuesday regarding financing of the educational system. Mrs. A. K. Short,1 president of the Parent-Teacher Council, will introduce Mr. Range. :ro\vded to capacity as holi- FINDING A WAY to get along without natural gas is Jack Lee, manager of the Prince George Cafe, shown here boiling coffee over "canned heat." Ironically, the Prince George Cate had switched to natural gas only two days before the Inland Natural Gas pipe snapped in two places at the Fraser River. �Vandervoort. Yankee Textbooks Scorned By Local Teacher Group A resolution calling for more Canadian textbooks to replace American-published volumes, will be taken before a B.C. Teachers' Federation convention in Vancouver this week by a local delegation. Alex .Phillip, vice-president of the Prince George Teachers Federation in the North Central school district told The Citizen today that the majority of the foreign books which the group wants replaced are being used at the senior high school level. The resolution calls for the Department of Education to "authorize, if possible, more text, books by Canadian authors and publishers" to replace the American books, which according to Mr. Phillip, give a "queer" slant to Canadiana. He stresses that the problem is particularly serious in senior social studies courses. The federation spokesman says in recent years the elementary school system has been able to use almost entirely Canadian books. Mr. Phillip blames, in part, Canada's small population for the lack of Canadian text books for senior high school students. He says Canadian publishers haven't found the financial backing necessary to take the chance of competing with each other to produce the most widely acceptable textbooks. The situation would "change overnight", states Mr. Phillip, if individual schools would order text books they feel most suited to their needs, as is done in Britain. Federal government control of education would not change the situation, according to the teachers' spokesman. He laid the onus on provincial education departments. "If they arc content to continue ordering American books, nothing can be done." Steps must be taken, says the resolution passed by the North District at its convention Prince George last October, to obtain textbooks for B.C. school? to replace the foreign writings which "make no positive refer' ence to Canadian mores." The annual Teachers Federation convention will also con sicler suggestions for smaller classes, qualification examinations in grade nine, teaching of French in elementary grades, subjective examinations, more physical education in secondary schools and separation of history and geography. High Schoo Choir Here The first mod ing for the formation of a high school girls' choir was held recently at the liome of Mrs. Alex Moonle. The following officers were elected: President, .lean Read; vice-president, Carole Morrison; secretary, Margie Burton and treasurer, Barbara Rankin, all of Duchess Park Junior High School. The members of the choir arc from the Senior High. Duchess ami, Connaught Junior High, and Central Fort George school, It is a teenage choir for girls. There are a few vacancies left and new members are welcome, jMrs; Moonie said. The next meeting is on April 0 at 7 p.m. at -Mrs. Moonie's home, lS-iu Twelfth travellers took adyarit-ige of the three-day weekend to spend a short vacation in sunnier climes. Added facilities were put nto service by most transportation companies. Most of the holiday traffic noved south. Canadian Pacific Airlines replaced their DC-.'} with the oigger DC-GB Thursday and Friday. Pacific Great Eastern Railways put one extra coach on their Thursday morning run, and two extra coaches Friday and Satur-lay. Canadian National Railways on their run to Jasper added two coaches Thursday oncl one on Friday and Saturday. Greyhound bus linvs sent out two special busses on Thursday, one to Vancouver and one to the Okan-agan, and one more Friday, headed for the Okanagan. normal. That extra blanket is bachelor can forget about the cold sandwiches and go out for a hot dinner, and the housewife can put the old kitchen range back into the attic. The "heat is on", after a -10-hour break in natural gas supply that closed down restaurants, hotels, and bakeries, and left many residents shivering in unhea'ed homes in crisp spring temperatures. A twin break in Inland Na- tural Gas Company's pipe across the Fraser River cut off the city's gas supply at 8:30 p.m. Friday. Inland and Westcoast Transmission crews worked around the clock to re-establish connection. A temporary line across the Fraser River CNR bridge was hooked up by Sunday morning, and all commercial gas users were connected by 10 a.m. Mrs. Louis Lourmais says her frogman husband who swam 000 miles down the icy Fraser River from Prince George to New Westminster uiree months ago is planning to swim down the St. Lawrence behind an icebreaker. FIRST BREAK in the natural gas pipe near the Fraser River was this iron valve, torn out of its concrete anchor as breaking ice in the river put tremendous strain on the line. �Staff Photo. Begins Here Saturday Prince George will become part of the complex, continent-wide telephone long-distance dialing system Saturday when a new intertoll network will be integrated with the rest of Canada and the U.S. B.C.'s entry into the international system will permit operators in most centres in the province, including Prince i SNACKS ON FORMAL Chinese dinner table were served Friday as the Prince George branch of the Canadian Folk Society put on a display of table settings in the banquet room of the Prince George Hotel. The Chinese table featured an elaborate embroidered silk cloth and highly ornate dishes. �Lagies i George to dial intra-'provlnce long distance traffic and calls' between B.C. and points beyond without the services of operators at the called centres. The hulk of 15,000,000 originating calls in the province annually will be handled this way. as also will most of the 10.000.-000 yearly total of incoming calls. "Cutover" deadline for opening of the B.C. system is set for 11:01 p.m. that clay, when inter-toll switching machines and cordless long distance switchboards in Vancouver and Victoria are thrown into operation at the same time as installations in Edmonton and Calgary. THROUGH VAXCOUVEi: Most calls to points outside B.C. and the bulk of intra-pro-vince traffic will flow through the Vancouver machine. Main feature of the board itself is that outgoing calls arc allotted in sequence to the next idle operator, while the associated machine automatically forwards inward traffic without the aid of an operator. More than 10 B.C. centres will be able to dial into or through the Vancouver machine to B.C. and Alberta points, and 27 of these will be able to dial almost any centre in Canada and the U.S. At the same time, Vancou- ver operators will be able to ring any telephone in approximately ' (K) B.C. communities, without the aid of an operator at the called point. Vancouver and Victoria operators will key-pulse calls, while in other B.C. centres operators-will dial them in the usual way. Under the distance dialing plan Canada and the U.S. arc divided into 112 numbering plan areas, each with a three-digit code. B.C.'s is GO 1. Sunday. The last households were connected by noon. Inland is now awaiting CNR approval for a new permanent line to be strung below the bridge, replacing the old .pipe that snapped in two places Friday under the force of breaking ice. The second break in the pipe was not discovered until the first one had been repaired by G a.m. Saturday, 10 hours after disruption. Inland engineers found the first lead in a broken valve in the ground some 250 feet inland from the east shore of the Fraser. That break was repaired early Friday morning and gas was pumped through. li was then tli.il liuldilos rising up in the deep part of the 1'Y;inct channel indicated a second break. John Barker, Inland construction engineer from Vancouver, thinks both breaks must have occurred at the same time. He does not believe that a concrete block anchoring the valve was to blame. "The strain was just loo much, it had to break somewhere," he .said. Men and equipment were rushed in. Two welding rigs and two welders came from Kam-loops and Ponlicton to take part in the repair work. . Sojne of .the t.key personnel worktd around tW clock, went without sleep for two nights until repairs had been completed. A new pipe was laid from the broken valve to the end of the bridge, across the bridge and hooked up with the pipe on the west side. The temporary pipe serving the city now is a three-inch pipe, replacing the old four-inch pipe. The new, permanent connection will be a six-inch pipe. It will be suspended about two foot bclnw the bridge across the deep channel, to connect with the pipe on the island in the river. "Only danger of any break Is in the rleep part of the river," Mr. Ilarker said. "The pipe in the shallow part is perfectly safe." The 40-hour break crippled much of the downtown businesses. Most restaurants closed clown immediately. One or two tried to keep up an emergency service with coffee and sandwiches but had to give up as the rush grew too heavy. Almost every hotel was left without heat. The municipal coliseum remained open. Though heated by gas, the coliseum runs is ice machines on electricity. Also cut off from gas supply was the new hospital, still under construction. One of the restaurants hit by the break was the Prince George Hotel cafe, which had switched to natural gas only two days before the break. The Prince George Hotel was one of the few hotels not do-pendant on natural gas for heat. Engineers for Inland Natural Gas Company today praised the fast repair work. "It couldn't have been done any faster, under ny circumstances," one of them stated. Your Citizen Carrier Ron Wilson, 12-year-oid son of Mr. and Mrs. Clayton Will-son, 1772 Seventh Avenue, wants to become a doctor.. Ron has many hobbies and outdoor sports but. finds reading books and school his favorite tasks. He is 12-years-old and in Grade 7-A at Duchess Park Junior High. Ron lias been delivering The Citizen since September and has more than 60 customers. His route Ts A-ll which covers Sixth, Seventh and Eighth Avenues from Victoria to Edmonton Street. Ron has travelled to Calgary and Jasper by himself during his last summer vacation. He has a pet dog called Tip.