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Vol.  3;   No.  80
PRINCE GEORGE, BRITISH COLUMBIA, MONDAY, APRIL 27   1959
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Dentists Interested In City
The B.C. Dental Association i.s focussing its attention on Prince George.
Association president Dr. VV P. Munsie of Vancouver, said here Saturday the organization is centering its efforts on bring, fog more dentists to Prince George, where the shortage ha been described as �'desperate." He predicted the association Will bo successful in steering several more dentists here.
Dr. Munsie praised a recent Citizen article on the local dental care problem. And lie credits a copy of the paper, which reached California, with interesting six undergraduate students there in establishing in B.C. U.S. GRADUATES
The six. from ah Evangelical medical school at Loma Linda, Calif., will appear before the examining board of the College of Dental Surgeons in late June.
The Dental Association president said: "It is definitely quite possible that we will get at least one of the six for Prince George."
"We will certainly do what We can to make it possible for them to come here."
The association will assist those licenced by the board for operation in B.C. to establish their practices.
Dr. Munsie said about 12 other graduate dentists from the United States are also expected to appear before the examining board, which changed its hearing date to accommodate the Loma Linda group. CAVAIHANS, TOO
Besides the Americans six Canadian graduates, who are already qualified to operate in this province by virtue of certificates from the national examining board, are looking for places to settle in B,C. �
"ft. is aiso possible we will be able to steer some of these to Prince George and our attention will be focussed on this city," Stated  Dr.  Munsie.
The association is usually contacted by dentists who wish to settle In the province and the organization steers them to the areas where they are needed most.
The Dental A.ssociation representative is Louring the province to bring members into closer contact with the organization and' assist them in solving problems.
He said local dentists arc all "excellent" men In their field. V1W FACULTY
Efforts will continue to have a dental faculty established at UBC and a publicity campaign will begin in the fall to educate the public in problems of the profession,
The local problem is described as the worst in the province.
Guides Sell Cookies
Prince   George   Girl   Guides
and IJrownies will sell cookies during the organization's Cookie "Week, from May 1 to 9. Guides and Brownies have, been asked to meei .Mrs. Garvin Dezell In the Scout-Guide Hall at 1 p.m. to hear plans for the annual, fund-raising campaign.
REPRESENTATIVES of the Prince George Joint Service Club Council drew the first numbers of the "Newso" bingo game in The Citizen's offices Saturday. Dick Smith, Jack Hope, Harold Moffatt, Roy Yip, Dick Bond and Clare Foster, president of the Council, witnessed the draw. Clues will appear daily in The Citizen. See story this page, advertisement on Page 5.                                �Hal Vandervoort Photo
rvice Clubs Council
Newspaper Bingo � a game which has met with outstanding p o p u 1 a r i t y throughout Canada � starts
oday in The Citizen under sponsorship   of   the   Prince
eorge Service Clubs Council   which   *.s -'Vhail^-up -of
yro, Rotary, I^ions, Kins-iien and Kiwariis.
Newso-Bingo is played just as my other bingo game except hat instead of numbers being �ailed out, they will appear daily in  The  Citizen.  Cards  may  be
Was Time Confusing?
Did Confusion reign in your ionic Sunday morning?
Were you late for church?
If so, your's was likely a ypical home and not the exception as you suspected.
B.C. wont on Daylight Saving Time for the summer at mid-light Saturday and in spite of he many years now that Ihe lock has been juggled every spring and fall, confusion is still he order of the day.
In past years ministers have iccn known to sleep in and ?reet a sleepy congregation an loiir late, speakers have turned jp late for dinner engagements tnd farmers have even com-ilainetl, and still do. that old lossy won't give milk an hour earlier.
The time change definitely akes  its  toll.
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Watch this spaco for daily clues
purchased at the business places of service club members and a list of these locations appears today on Page 5.
First drawing of numbers took place at The Citizen office Saturday morning and presidents of all five service clubs were on hand for the initial draw. Starting tomorrow, numbers will he drawn at 11 o'clock every morning from the bingo cage on display in The Citizen business office. The numbers drawn each day will appear in that day's newspaper, along with a repeat of the numbers already drawn.
Card - holders completing a bingo should bring their card to The Citizen business office before numbers are drawn the next day. If a winner should be late in presenting a card, then they will have to share with anyone who may have completed a bingo with later numbers drawn. NUMBERS P.VII.V
Numbers will be drawn each publication day, starting with two   or    three   each   day   until
bingo patterns start to fill up and then there will be only one number each day.
Cards will he sold right up to the time a winning bingo is presented,
Numbers drawn on Saturday to start the play off were N-34, G-50 and O-G-4. v   -:�..�
Flayers must take care not to deface numbers or) their cards but should just circle them with pencil as they are drawn. They must be legible to be checked for correctness of bingo.
The person selected by this Newso contest will he required to show their knowledge in civic affairs by answering a question on civic affairs selected by the Service Clubs Council.
$100 Fine
A Vancouver man has learned first hand that "crime doesn't pay" and "the mountics always get their man."
Joseph Gamel, 28, appeared in city court Friday charged with obtaining $!)6 by forgery at a local store four years ago.
He pleaded guilty to passing "rubber" cheques for the amount at Morrison's Men's Wear and was fined $100.
A warrant had been out for Camel's arrest since the forgeries and he was apprehended recently in Vancouver and brought  hero  for trial.
Restitution has been made to the clothing store.
Concludes Today
Judgment is expected to be handed down this afternoon in the trial of Baptiste William George, charged with the violent robbery of an elderly Prince George fur buyer.
Argument was summed up this morning after George took the stand to tell County Court Judge C. W. Morrow that he did not remember striking an elderly man over the head with a block of wood and stealing $22.
He is charged with beating Nicholas Avergis, 84, on the morning of February 8.
of "The King's Cream puffs" won
the elementary  school  cup
 do  the
 Dawson Creek Players presented the winning adult play at the eight annual Prince George and District Drama Festival.
The four-day festival ended Saturday night with the group's stagipg of "The Poison Party" being judged the top adult play over five others in the class.
The six-member cast wil| hold a cup offered by the Prince George Players for the next year.
The local group was runner-up with Us- presentation of "When Guto Ran".
iiAj      LAKE ACTOR
AtUudlcator Mrs. Lily Haypct awameff the CKPG Cup ,*���'�*?st individual actor to Lloyil Yoi'k-ston of Williams Lake.
Ruth Pennbck of Prince George won the British Canadian Propane cup for best individual performance by an actress.
The Catholic Drama Group Cup for best supporting role was won by Sheila Webster of Quesnel.
King   George  V  presentation
nated   by   the   Women   of Moose.
A   shield    presented    by   the Hudson's Bay Company for the best performance in  the choral (Ser   DiVWSON,   Tage   :t)
Engineers will move into the vast Bowron River coal and mineral site next week in an effort to bring the promising'development back to life.
Fred Garraway, a Victoria mining man, announced today plans are being made to develop the Bowron River reserve, located about .'50 miles southeast of Prince George in the Willow River forest access road area.
The development, which started as a coal mining company, flopped a few years ago but came back into the picture this .spring when the Bowron River firm obtained a mining licence.
Some 200,000,000 tons of coal and an equal volume of uranium-vanadium ore are located in the area, according to preliminary engineering surveys.
Tlsnv is considerable local (kicking behind ,the Bowron River Company, Mr. Gnrra-way stated.
He said plans are being made to sink a 100-foot shaft and cross-cut the uranium and coal deposits.
''If everything goes ahead, we could produce 1,000 tons of coal a day for domestic markets," Garraway said.
Besides the coal and urani-iim-vanadiuin     ore     deposits
Tenders
Public   tenders   will Co-op store here.
This was reported Thursday night to the 14th annual meeting of the Prince George Cooperative Association by architect L. F: Fonseca.
Tenders will close May 11.
The 'building, to be constructed at Sixth Avenue and Quebec
 today
 the new
Your Citizen Carrier
"I hate all girls," was John East lands remark when he was interviewed by a Citizen reporter, "make sure you write that."
John has started his paper route to buy equipment for a chemical set he received last Christmas.
He is 11 years of age and is a grade 5 .student at the King George V school.
John stinted his route in January and already has saved some money.
He likes all outdoor sports and has no special hobbies, apart   from   chemistry.
John plans to he a chemist When he grows up.
His route is A-10 which covers Sixth, Seventh and Eighth Avenues, from Quebec Street, to the Crescents.
Street, will be valued at- approximately $120,000.
Over 100 members and visitors attended the meeting'to hear the reports on the new building and to vote on a number of extraordinary resolutions.
One resolution which was passed limits proxy voting to members residing more 'than 50 miles from  the city.
Guest speaker Barney Johns-rude, manager of the B.C. Cooperative Wholesale Society In liurnaby, addressed the group on monopolies in the food and hardware   industries.
"Sixty per cent of all food in Canada is controlled at, the retail level by one man,", he said.
The cooperative spokesman also charged that two firms control Canada's retail hardware outlets, with 80 per cent of total sales in the hands of one of the pair.
Four-fifths of Uhe vMal Canadian petroleum industry; he i said, is controlled by non-Canadians.
The spinning rod and reel offered as door prize was won by Bob Gracey and the electric combination tea and coffee maker was carried home by Gerhard   Ba'hzer.
there is ;i I'taugc potential" �>1' iron ore, according to Can-away. The or*- is covered l�,v (id mineral claims.
Noranda Explorations held a licence for development <>f the site last year but Bowron River firm is expected to take it over this spring.
Mr. Garaway said he expects to meet the deputy minister of mines in Victoria soon to obtain the licence.
At one time interest ran high in using Bowron coal to fill a local market.
Ueiger counter tests over the uranium-vanadium deposits arc high and the coal could be used for extraction of the radio-active mineral  from the ore.
An air cadet group emerged Sunday as the best cadet rifle team in Prince George.
Six-man small-bore rifle teams from local Air, Army and Sea Cadet units competed at the armories for a trophy to he offered annually by Prince George Builders Supplies and put up for the first tlmo ilils year.
Competition , v;.is close, with the Air cadet team and the first Army Cadet team tying for first place.
Each had -152 of a possible 500 points and the winning team was decided by the number of "inner bulls".
The Air Cadet team c? Corporals P. Hellenius, U. Holm and R. Todoruk, Sergeants M. Watt and B. Rayner and Leading Aircraftsman F. Belsh'am will hold the Builders Supplies trophy for one year.
The Air Cadet shooting instructor was Flight Cadet Bruce Jack.
The Air and Sea Cadets entered one team each and the Army Cadets entered two six-man teams.
IWA
Howard Webb of Prince George has been named six-year trustee of the International Woodworkers of America (C'LC) for the B.C. district.
He defeated Max Snlter of Courtenay for the position in a mail referendum carried on for the past two months.
Joe Morris of Vancouver was confirmed in the position of president'.
NOT TO BE OUTDONE by the fishermen , who are swarming to the lakes, rivers and streams this spring, local boating enthusiasts are now beginning to ply northern waterways. The cool spray and the wind in their hair � the boating lover's weekend thrill � is drawing more and more to the waters to check "Old Betsy," "Water Demon" or whatever the family craft has been' dubbed.
"THE FINE ART of baiting a hook" is fast becoming a main topic of conversation in the Prince George area.as the sport fishermen unlimber their equipment for the coming season. Here the veteran sportster illustrates the process to a relative beginner.
THIS PONTOON-EQUIPPED CRAFT on the Fraser River near Prince George marks the beginning of the water plane season in the northern interior.. The ice is fast disappearing from northern waters and most of the flying during the summer is done with float aircraft. The new seaplane base near Fort George Park is expected to be in use during the corning season.                           �Hal Vandervoort Photos