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Dedicated   ro the Progress ot  the  North
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Vol  3;  No. 84
PRINCE GEORGE,  BRITISH  COLUMBIA,   FRIDAY,   MAY   1,   1959^
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"CITY OF PROGRESS," "Gateway to the North", and other such captions would be very apt under a post card featuring a panoramic view of Prince George such as captured by Citizen photographer Hal Vandervoort from a vantage point on Conriaught Hill. The broad,
flat downtown area, bordered by the industry along planer row and fenced by the green-cloaked Nechako river cutbanks is an inspiring view to any photographer. At the foot of the hill is pictured the roof of the city hall.
Information
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An extensive public information program is slated by the Prince George and District Hospital for National Hospital .Week this month.
National   Hospital   Week
Fishing In Area
Popul
ar
Every week-end draws more and more sport fishermen scrambling to the lakes and streams in the Prince George area as the 1059 season gets underway.
The trout, dolly, chair and grayling tempt the very young and (lie very old out of doors to try their luck at the many bodies of water dotting the map t:l the northern interior.
Every stream has its angler but not, as some fishermen who neglected te "poison-
is May 11 to 15 across the country but the local group is beginning its program May 4 with events leading up to the official opening of the *2oU,r)U>I imxseijJ residence May'1(5.
Addresses will be/carried in The Citizen and over radio by eight members of the Hospital Society and the Board of Trustees.
.Radio broadcasts will begin next Monday with the addresses being carried the following day in The Citizen .
Speaking first will be the district trustees representative, Charles Albins, whose address will be centered on the Hospital Society and the Board of Trustees.
Board Chairman John Powers will speak on "Responsibilities of the Board of Trustees, followed by vice-chairman Milton Bert with a talk entitled "New Hospital Needs."
The chairman of the finance committee, Bill Ferry, will inform the public on "Financial Problems of ;i Hospital." Canon Tom Allen, house committee chairman will talk on public moral responsibilities toward the hospital; personnel committee chairman 1.. I.. King will speak concerning "staff relationships."
The Hospital Auxiliary appointee to the board, Mrs. II.   B.   Ruse,   will   give   an
campaign Feature
address on, "Why Hospital Auxiliaries?"
"Civic Responsibilities Towards the Hospital," will be the final address, to be delivered' 'by- Aid. Frank Clark)' city appointee.
The five minute radio talks to be printed in the paper arc designed to educate the public in its responsibilities to the hospital.
James White was remanded for eight days when he pleaded guilty to a charge of assault.
Andre Talbot was also remanded for eight days on a charge of false pretences.
CITIZEN news editor John Mallei's (left) last night was presented with a travelling bag by the newspaper's assistant Publisher W. Gordon Crockett at a farewell parly.
Ij. V. PLANT, president of the B.C. Senior Citizens Association was in Prince George this week to organize a branch of the organization; He had high praise of Prince George's new Senior Citizens Home Society development. A meeting of senior citizens has been called for May.
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Cold  Weather Hurts Mosqultos
Continuing chilly weather with snow is delaying the hatching of mosquito larvae in the Prince George area.
City engineer C. W. "Bill" Jones reported today that ice and snow on pond's, in the city has curbed development* of the larvae.
In the meantime, the city's works department is ready to spray the larvae-infested sloughs with oil and other chemicals on 24  hours notice.
An aircraft is expected to come here from the Lower Mainland for the job.    .   �
Fires
Bible  Society  Shows Film  Here  At  Weekend
The inspiring story of how a tree from the forest brings life and hope to the people of a far away land is the theme of a motion picture to be shown here this week-end.
This coloured film, entitled "The Leaves of the Tree", is being shown for the first time in British Columbia by Rev. .1. A. Raymond Tingley, Provincial Secretary of the British and Foreign   Bible  Society.
Its premiere showing here is in Hagar Memorial Baptist Church  Sunday  8:45  p.m;
Navy Week will open in Prince George Sunday morning with a church parade by members of the local Sea Cadet Corps.
The  Corps   will  appear  at memorial service at   Knos  Unit- j ed Church Sunday morning.
The cadets will parade from the First Avenue Armouries at. 10:15 a.m. The church service will commemorate Battle of Atlantic  Sunday.
Oh   the  same  date   in   1940   a full    concentration   of   German \ submarines was deployed in the North Atlantic. From   that date j to the i-nil of the Second World j War, many men and ships were ! lost   and   many   German    sub- ; marines  were  destroyed.
The   public   has   been   invited to   attend   an   "open   house1'   in | the armouries at 7 p.m. on May j
Strathnaver
School
Considered
The District 57 School board is still considering the possibility of a new school at Slrath-naver, 35 miles south of Prince George.
School Board secretary Bob Gracey says thai about 10 children from the area are now being transported by bus to Hixon.
However, the situation is approaching the point where a larger bus will be needed as well as a new school room at Hixon to accommodate the Strathnaver children.
It would'be more economical to build a school at Strathnaver says Mr. Gracey.
The   plan  is  still  under  con-
In announcing the film, Mr. Tingley tells of the urgency of the Society's work of providing the Bible for all people in this time of grave world crisis.
He will speak at the morning service of Our Savior's Lutheran  Church.
While most residents are frowning on the current >ad  spell the B.C.   Forest Service  is more  than  happy | with the damp weather.
District Forester Allan Dixon reports that the fire situation could now have the rangers "in real trouble" here but for the weather.
He reports that 15> minor grass and brush fires have already been fought in the Prince George Forest District, covering the top third of the province, with the  1!>5J) fire season  only officially  beginning  today.
Such fires could have become serious blazes had not the weatherman cooperated and dowsed the drying forests with a liberal amount of moisture, he says.
"With no break in the warm weather we could have been in real trouble now. We are happy with the rain." The  l'J  fires  were  spread  widely  throughout  the district.
From today on permits are now required for camp fires and for burning of brush or rubbish.
These permits can be obtained free of charge from the Forest Service.
Indications of the fire hazard rating in the Northern Interior will be given this year at each ranger station �and at the B.C. Forest Service warehouse on Fifteenth Avenue by colorful indicators.
Conditions will be posted daily on these boards. There are six different markings on the indicators to supply   information   at   a glance on the condition of the wpods.
Reports supplied by the forest service will also be carried by The Citizen.
"In preparations for the coming fire season we hope to have the same co-operation from the public and the lumber industry as we did last year,"  Mr. Dixon said.
TODAY'S NEWSO NUMBERS
1-30 B-6 B-ll
Previous numbers: G-57, 1-18, 1-19, N-35, N-40, N-43, 0-61, 0-62, 0-63, N-34, G-50 and 0-64.
TODAY'S "Newso" numbers were drawn by Aid. Harry Loder and Ernest Longworth, representing the Prince George Gyro Club. The selections were 1-30. B-6 and B-ll. Clues appear daily in The Citizen for the game which is sponsored by the Prince George Joint Service Club Council.                                       �Vandervoort
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,"). Visitors will have an amity to see all phases Cadet, activity.
Memberships in the Navy League of Canada help support the local corps. They may be obtained  from   Dudley Sawley.
About 25 friends gathered last night   in   the  banquet   room   (it i the Prince George for a farewell party    for   John    Matters    who leaves  the  post  of news  editor ; of The Citizen  to join  the staff I of Canadian Press in Vancouver.
Presentation of a travelling bag was made to Matters by Citizen Assistant Publisher Gor. don Crockett on behalf of the newspaper and his friends.
The departing newsman during his two years on The Citizen pained a wide circle of friends and news contacts and will be missed on the several news beats he covered in Prince George.
However, since The Citizen is a member of Canadian Press, his news dispatches from Vancouver will be turning up occasionally ui thi* newspaper-.
WITH SCANT HOURS left of the April 30 deadline for start of construction, heavy equipment moved onto the Seventh Avenue site yesterday afternoon to start preparing the ground for erection of the Simon Fraser Hotel. Next deadline facing the hotel company is the all-important-one. If the hotel is framed up and the roof on by September 1, th