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One of the more interesting, and most hotly con- I tested, matters to be ruled on today at the big Canadian '\ Legion convention here, is the site of the next provincial  |
NEW LEGION president. Jack Pothecary, and his wife are shown here admiring 20-pound salmon flown in from Vancouver. New Westminster delegates gave a banquet last night in a bid for the next provincial meeting of the Legion � the twenty-fifth convention.
The British Columbia and �Northwestern States Command "holds a convention every second year and Prince George Legionnaires, with a good deal of public relations work, managed to draw the big meeting to this city this year.
Now the 300 or so delegates are anxiously watching members from New Westminster, Victoria and Kamloops bustling about lobbying for the 19G1 meeting, the 25th.
Great displays of civic pride are evident mi the convention floor at  the Civic Centre.
With the five-day convention winding up today the site of the 1061 meeting was to be decided this afternoon.
Four vice-presidents of the B.C. Command of the Canadian Legion were elected here late yesterday to take office along "with the new President, Jack Pothecary of Armstrong.
First vice-president is Sid Kirk of Prince Rupert, second vice-president will be \V. E. Martin of Vancouver, third vice elected was G. E. Bolton of Penticton and the new fourth vice-president is E. G. Ballinger of Mission City.
All Four wi'i'i- elected by sealed ballot yesterday afternoon following tin- morning election of the new president,
Mr. Pothecary, Mayor of Armstrong, was unanimously elected, being the only candidate in the running.
He | takes over the position vacated by Robert Macnicol.
British Columbia Legionnaires, meeting in Prince George at their twenty-fifth convention, have wirecl Veterans Affairs Minister, Mrs. Ellen Fairclough, urging that the War Veterans Allowance Act be reviewed at the current session of parlfa-inenL -
The   telegram,   sent   yesterday,   was   in   response   to   an announcement   in   the   House of  Commons  by  the Minister that   the   act   would   not   be brought before parliament for review this session. Delegates   to   the   convention here asked   Mrs.   Fairclough   to reconsider and  bring the WVA Act    before    the   Commons    in order   to   gain   some   relief   for people depending solely on the War   Veterans   Allowance   who ai'e not now "afforded a decent living."
RKSOLVT1OXS PASSED
A number of resolutions were passed yesterday at the Legion convention here dealing mainly with the War Veterans Assistance Act.
One requests that immediate legislation be introduced by the \ Federal Government to provide \ medical benefits for dependents of War Veterans alowance recipients and widows on the widows' allowance as are now provided for the veterans.
SOLEMN MOMENT in convention proceedings was observed Tuesday morning when Legion delegates paraded to the Prince George Cenotaph for a brief remembrance service. A wreath was placed by Past-Provincial President R. Macnicol.
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WEATHER
Cloudy with sunny periods Thursday. A little warmer, winds light. Low tonight, high Thursday at Princa George 45 and 60.
Dedicated to the Progress of the North
Phone  LO 4-2441                               Vol.  3;  No.  96
PRINCE  GEORGE,   BRITISH  COLUMBIA,  WEDNESDAY,  MAY  20,   1959
BY    CARRIER SSc   PER   WEEK
PROUD Prince George Junior Chamber of Commerce members are shown here with 13 prime bear skins that are to be shipped to the Buckingham Palace Guards for the making of the elite group's busbies. Ernie Hill, Bob Hamilton and Herb Assman, wearing old busbies discarded by the guards, say ;5(J or 40 skins will be shipped this year. The local Jaycees have been supplying pelts for the toppers for many years and are
currently quarreling with the Mayor of Timmiris, Ontario over the right to supply the skins. The Ontario Mayor is offering the guards a supply of bear skins and the Prince George group charges that the Ontarians are enroaching on sacred ground. A derisive telegram was sent to Timmins' Mayor Leo Del Villano by the Jaycees after it was reported he had accumulated only three of oOO pelts promised.
The B.C. Power Commission will pay the city of Prince George an additional $3,630 this year in payment in lieu of taxes.
The $20,514 payment is three per cent of gross revenue within the municipality and is made in lieu of taxes on the commission's distribution facilities.
It is in addition to taxes
I paid on commission buildings and land.
A total of $22-1,447 is lie-ing paid out before September to 4S organized areas of the province and this represents an increase of ten per cent over last year's total payments.
A $152,000 distribution-line extension from Pine-view is to provide electrical
Five choice building lots we're to be auctioned this afternoon at the city hall.
The lots, valued at a total
of    approximately    $6>40Q;
are opposite the site of the
new hospital on Edmonton
ifcjtreet and on 15th Avenue.
The auction was set for 3 p.m.
Building permits must be taken out within six months of sale and buildings on the choice lots must be ready for occupancy within two years.
service for residents of ilix-on.
S.   C.   Burnell,   regional manager for the B.C. Power
Commission, says the 28-mile extension from Pine-view will serve about ISO customers initially.
Legion Oldtimers Attend Convention
Mr. and Mrs. William McKinstry of Collingwood, who arc attending the Legion convention here, have the longest combined length of service in the Canadian Legion of. any couple in the province.
Mr. McKinstry, 70, and his wife Frances, who are members of Branch 4S, were the .second man and wife team to receive honorary life membership in the Legion, in 1932.
A former provincial president from  1938 to 19-11,  Mr. McKiri-
stry served 15 years as province vice-president and he has 10 years service in the army and
the legion to his credit.
Mrs. McKinstry served 1-years as treasurer in the Women's Provincial Auxiliary and is now honorary vice-president.
She received the Coronation Medal for her work in the Canadian Legion and still serves on many provincial committees.
. War .has. been -declared _here on Timmii.is, Ontario.
The Prince Georgewfunior "Chamber of .Commerce sent an indigant telegram to Timmins' Mayor Leo Del Villano yesterday protesting the Ontario center's current bear hunt. The hunt is to produce skins for the busbies of the Buckingham Palace guards.
The local service club has been providing bear pelts for the toppers for many years and resents the encroachment of Timmins on a service considered to be its private obligation.
Only three bears have been shot in the Northern Ontario hunt, which began last Saturday, according to a BBC report. But Prince George hunters, on the other hand, have already obtained 13 prime skins for shipment to  the Royal Guards.
The telegram to the Ontario mayor, who promised at least 1300 bear skins when he organized the hunt, said; "For many years the Princa George Junior Chamber of Commerce has been supplying bearskins for the Palace-Guards' busbies."
"In return for the skins we have received the guards' older busbies, which we have worn as unit dress.
"With some indignation, we noted your announced intention   to  take upon yourselves  this  task.
"Now that the BBC has announced your failure to obtain more than three skins we assume that you will retire gracefully, leaving the job to those, who by nature of their natural environment and their world renowned prowess as frontier huntsmen, are fully qualified to do justice to this regal task."
With scornful reference to the "failure" of the Timmins people to obtain their announced 300 bears, the Prince George Jaycees proudly announce that the 13 pelts now ready for shipment are only the first of 30 or 40 to be shipped this year.
Some of the skins sent from here were collected from Indians in the Stuart Lake area in the spring. Organized hunts by the Jaycees provide the rest of the yearly shipment.
The bears likely to be shot by Timmins hunters have been described here as "garbage clump prowlers whose fur is poor due to the mild Ontario winters."
It has been stressed that local pelts are of the highest quality.
Women have joined the Timmins' hunt and the local service club has nothing but derisive remarks for this move.
While the London war office has welcomed the Ontario hunt, opposition has been received not only from Prince George but from Paul Martin', Liberal member of Parliament for Essex East.
He wrote Mayor Del Villano that he and many of his constituents were "opposed to this slaughter of wildlife."                                :   �
Jayc'ccs here arc not quite so sure that three bears make for a slaughter, and arc giving the '"horse laugh" to the Timmins hunters.
The publicity feud has its humorous aspects 'for all but the bears. If they knew of the little war for their j hides, they would be heading for parts -unknown.
jbyWivx CUjS viiJN 'xJLUN u.k; LaiAsATh, winds up with a handful of notes, and 2nd vice-president S. Kirk of Prince Rupert compares his with Canon Tom Allen, padre of Prince George branch, during a quiet moment in  the Legion  Convention's  round of activities.
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Service Clubs Monster
Service Clubs Council monster bingo which hist year proved so popular is to be repeated in the Coliseum on May' 30.
Two cars  will   be major prizes  in  the
offered as bingo session. Prizes in the 15 games will  total more than $5,500.
Clubs participating in the .Joint Service Clubs Council are Rotary, Lions, Kiwanis, Kinsmen and Gyro.
The council last year promoted four monster bingo with cars offered as prizes.
This has been a major source of revenue for the five participating  service   clubs   to   enable
them to carry  on   their charitable and community work.
Funds from the council bingoes last year went toward construction of. Aurora School, Senior Citizens' housing, Little League park, Kinsmen Youth Camp at McLeod Lake and various projects such as providing specialized surgical attention to Mrs. Cecelia Bencher who is still undergoing treatment at Mayo Cliniu.
Ambulance Service Begins
The Prince George Ambulance Service officially resumes operation today.
It will provide ambulance care for people in the districts surrounding Prince George, who have been without such care since the end of March when the city took over ambulance service from Prince George Ambulance and refused to venture outside municipal limits.
The private ambulance service will take calls in the city eventually when more equipment is available as a trades licence has been obtained but initial service will be to the district, says Manager Alex lzatt.