CIVIC CENTRE -
ness meetings will
- This is where all the be held, it is only two
Legion busi- of the Legion Building. Convention starts Saturday blocks south and continues until Wednesday. �Vandervoort
LEGION BUILDING � This is where delegates to the Provincial Legion Convention will.gather. And for the
occasion it's been specially lace-lifted outside, remodelled fixtures for the interior.
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EDITORIAL ........................ Page 2
SPORTS .............................. Page 4
WOMEN'S SOCIAL ............ Page 7
CLASSIFIED ...............,........ Pago 10
COMICS ..............;............. Page 11
W t A T H E H
Variable cloudiness with scattered afternoon showers today and Saturday. A little cooler. Light winds. Low tonight and high Saturday at Prince George 40 and 65.
Dedicated to the Progress of the North
Phone LO 4-2441
Vol. 3; No. 94
PRINCE GEORGE, BRITISH COLUMBIA, FRIDAY, MAY 15, 1959
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Spruce Dollars
The Prince George Hoard of Trade "spruce dollars" idea has caught on in Syracuse, New York, thw to the efforts of a local businessman.
The Vlcc-Prcsldcnt of the New York State Junior Chamber of Commerce, .lames (!. Davitf, has written the Local B "I'T saying the Syracuse china-jare industry could possibly (fiako use of the scheme.
lie says he trusts Prince George would not bo offended if the product-dollar idea was "stolen".
The New liliiglanders first got word of the scheme from local businessman Bob Hamilton, manager of MacKenzie's Men's Wear, while be was attending a Jaycee "do" in Buffalo, New York as a guest last year.
He had occasion to sit in on a discussion on promotion schemes to publicize local industry. When lie produced three of four spruce dollars from his pocket the; Americans immediately took to the idea.
Mr. Davis said in his letter that with the sanction of the Prince George Hoard of 'Trade he would suggest the gimmick to heads of the Syracuse china-ware companies.
He didn't mention what would be used for the publicity money, if the .scheme is adopted by the chinawaro men. Hut. presumably, china would be just, a little too fragile for such a purpose.
The spruce dollars were used in the Grey Cup parade in Vancouver to- publicize Prince George, About 5,000 of the wooden pieces were tossed Into the crowds from a float and �were to be "good" for merchandise in this city.
Rqqiiests for samples of the wooden money have come in from across Canada by various groups planning to establish similar promotion schemes.
Busy Weekend
There'll be no excuse this weekend for Prince George people to complain that ."there's nothing to do," a.s Prince George and district will be a hive of activity.
The four-day, Elks May Day celebrations begin this evening with the Shrine Circus, Baldy Hughes Air Force Base holds an open house Sunday, the Flying Club has an air show planned for the Sabbath and the Legion Convention opens then.
This multitude of events, plus the fact that the fishing season is now in full swing, should provide something for everyone.
THE McDONALD HOTEL on Third and George has likely never had such a si range guest as the one shown here entering the building last night. However, rider Bill Lottman of 891 Fifth Avenue, yelled "whoa" before his animal got in the door, undoubtedly greatly relieving the desk clerk who stared in disblief. Bill is a member of the Prince George and District Riding Club.
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The Post Office will short-! About 300 additional homes in l.v extend its letter carrierltllc Centrai alva wil1 alb0 bc
delivery service to 371 more homes in Prince George.
South Fort George is to be i served for the first time, with 171 residences there to be eligible for carrier service providing regulations for each arc met soon.
served. The new delivery areas sh
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Teens' Para
One wonderful thing about teen-agers, they never lack enthusiasm.
This was well demonstrated last night by members of the Prince George Teen Town as they staged a promotion stunt for a membership dance and wiener roast.
A 1030 model car, with the inscription "Give Teen Town a Push," led a parade of ten cars down Third Avenue and along George Street to the Teen Town club rooms at the Civic Centre at 7 p.m.
The vehicles which followed the shuddering old-timer, bore signs and placards designed to interest the younger set, in the club.
Citizens who've noticed the odd mosquito around of late needn't panic. The City Engineers Department is coming to the rescue.
C. Vv". "Hill" Jones. City Engineer, says spraying operations to control mosquitoes will likely begin next week.
Skyway Air Services of Lang-ley has been hired to spray ponds and sloughs in the area.
Twenty-five gallons of oil and a poison were clumped into the Victoria Street and loth Avenue slough yesterday in order to retard growth of mosquito larvae. Larvae in the water were further advanced than in other sloughs so measures were taken to retard growth in order that the plane can spray all sloughs when the mosquito eggs have leached the same, and most vulnerable, state of maturity.
begin receiving the carrier service about June 15.
In the Central district the new service will be in the following areas:
Carney street from 12th Avenue to 17th Avenue,
Burden street from loth Avenue to 17th Avenue,
Alward street from 15Lh Avenue to 10>th Avenue,
Roughly the area bounded by 10th Avenue, 13th Avenue and Central street.
The South Fort George service will lie:
Second street, Third street. Fourth street and Fifth street (between La Salle Avenue and Clark Avenue), La Salic Avenue to Fifth street, Hamilton Avenue to Fourth street. Roughly this is the South Queens way area.
Letter carrier delivery service in these new areas cannot be established until .so per cent of the householders have proper mail receptacles, clearly visible house numbers and residents living more than -10 yards from the streetline have installed letter boxes adjacent to the street.
A display of "water bombing"," the highly effective fire fighting method introduced here late last'year, will be one feature of a giant air show being staged at the airport Sunday by the Prince George Flying Club.
.Members of (i(i flying clubs throughout the province have been invited to take part in the show. Club president Mike Hackman expects about -JO planes to enter the show..
About 15 local craft will participate in the show.
Featured will be spot landings, flour bombings, tape cutting, balloon busting, two point landings and side slipping as well as the water drop being performed by the B.C. Forest Service.
Parachute drops will be performed and rides into the cool upper air will be offered.
In the water drop, the plane will scoop 1 because of financial difficulties, will resume operation, in the district only, next Wednesday, May 20.
The service has also gamed a trades licence in order that it may operate in the /city but manager Alex Izatt says city operation cannot begin fur an indefinite; period because additional equipment will be needed and is not now available.
The city is now operating the only ambulance service here, but since taking over from Prince George Ambulance city fathers have ruled that the municipal service cannot venture beyond city limits.
Two vehicles arc to bc at the disposal of district residents and both will bc equipped with oxygen therapy machines and inhalators.
Only one ambulance will bc ready for use when the service opens next Wednesday hut a
now ambulance will lie brought up from Vancouver before June 1, says Izatt.
The vehicle being used to resume the service, a two-stretch-ei- model, will be used mainly a.s an auxiliary unit when the new machine arrives.
The new ambulance will Ik; equipped with radio-telephone and will have three stretchers, with all equipment of the latest design, he says.
Besides Mr. Izatt the Prince George Ambulance will have four fully-trained operators, all of whom have "A" licences, industrial first. aid and oxygen therapy tickets.
A recent report to city council on the municipal ambulance service's first month of operation showed that 20 calls wore received in April and payment had been received for six.
A HOT PLATE in the basement of a home in the 200 block on Alward Street was left on yesterday" and caused a brief flurry of excitement. The burning hot plate caused a good deal of smoke but little damage as firemen arrived on the scene in minutes Firemen are shown here packing equipment after a few short minutes work.
The City Engineers Department will begin the street oiling program today in efforts to keep down the dust clouds that are beginning, as in' former years, to choke and blind Prince George residents.
A truck tanker, loaded with about 2,700 gallons of oil, will be arriving here this afternoon from Dawson Creek at a cost to the city of about 1-1 cents per gallon.
The oil will be loaded directly into a spraying vehicle and the city ci:i:wa will begin an oiling program which will eventually put a dust-prcvcnting crust on about 17 miles of city streets.
About 50,000 gallons of oil are to be used in the program and the first shipment of oil, arriving today, has been purchased from Pacific Petroleums.
Main arteries in the city that are not paved will receive first attention and the oiling program will gradually spread out over the more dusty streets in the city.