INSIDE EDITORIAL ........................ Page 2 CLASSIFIED ........................ Pog� 6 SPORTS .............................. Page 4 COMICS.............................. Poge 7 WOMEN'S SOCIAL .......... Page � IHE WEATHER Sunny, cloudy periods. Winds light-Low tonight and high tomorrow, 35, and 67. Dedicated to the Progress of the North Phone LO 4-2441 Vol. 3; No. 100 PRINCE GEORGE, BRITISH COLUMBIA. TUESDAY, MAY 26, 1959 Btf (JAKJUER. S5C PER WEEK Local Firm Falls Contract Local seat of learning, the Prince George Senior High, has slipped on the "writing" end of the "three R's" with a grammatical error in. of all places, the invitation to the annual commencement exercises and dance. We a>in'l never hs�.d much learnin' but we don't never gonna lot no goofs like that escape our prying eyes. No Knowledge Of Pulp Costs Although lie is president of the Canadian I'ulp and Paper Association, Mr. R. M. Fowler of Montreal disclaims any knowledge of the cost of producing these items. A Vancouver paper this morning quoted Mr. Fowler as selling eastern Canadian pulp costs al about $25 a ton higher than those of the southern slates. Contacted long distance "by The Citizen to see if he could give a comparison on western costs�the northern interior in particular � Mr. Fowler said lie has no knowledge of production costs at all. The figures quoted in the Vancouver paper, he said, were given by V. E. Johnson, president of International Paper, liis travelling companion. Murder Trial Continues Today Introduction of formal evidence including photographs and sketches of a Stellaqxto He-serve qabin occupied the first day of the murder trial of Isaac Augustus, charged with the .Dec. 17 killing of his brother, Fraser Joseph Augcsta. 'Die hearing was extended into an evening session to complete formal evidence. 'Flit; case is being tried by Mr. Justice Bro\yn with H. li. King acting as prosecutor and T. G. ISowen-Colthur.sL of Kdmloops for I lie defence. Mr. Fowler said his association does not concern itself with production costs. He said the only way a comparison between eastern and western costs could be obtained would be to find someone with an intimate knowledge of both. He could not recommend a source for this information. -Mr. Fowler was queried on the Vancouver interview Ix1-cause of intimations that one or more pulp mills may follow development of Peace River power and to determine If growing competition from U.S. and other producers may make such a project infeasible before such development could be started. Comments credited to Mr. Fowler, but which he claims came from Mr. Johnson, were that the pulp aiid ;>aper industry is facing stiff competition from U.S. producers in the southern states, domestic producers in .some Canadian export markets and Russian activities in certain key markets. It was said extra costs borne by eastern producers when compared with the U.S. southern states total about .$25 a ton. The prevailing exchange rate costs the Canadian producer about ?0 per ton and the southern producers have lower wood, power and freight costs 'than eastern Canadian producers. Hut Mr. Fowler says neither he nor Mr. Johnson can say how these costs stack up against western costs where labor and taxes are higher. CITY CREWS working on 17th Avenue on the first in less than half of the working hours. He says the part of the city's huge $253,000 sewer construction exceptionally large program will not be completed k bf f if ffiit titi f i t program are being stalled by lack of pipe. Bill Jones, city engineer, reported to city council last night that crews are able to lay the pipe available in a day py before freeze-up if sufficient quantities of pipe are not available shortly. Northern Interior Lumbermen's Convention Opens Here Tomorrow R. T3. Bradley of Hamilton, Ontario, President of the International Harvester Company of Canada, will be guest speaker at the 19th Annual Convention of the Northern Interior Lumbermen's Association opening here tomorrow. The convention o p e n s here tomorrow. . Mr. Bradley will speak at a noon luncheon Thursday, the second day of the big three-day convention. He is one of about GO machine company representatives expected at the meetings. NILA officials expect about 250 delegates and official visitors at the business sessions. Official registration begins at n a.m. tomorrow. Elghti or 100 of the number will be Prince George and district members of the Lumbermen's Association. The registration tomorrow morning of NILA members and machinery representatives at the McDonald Hotel will be followed by the official opening at noon by R. D. McKee, Deputy Minister of Lands and Forests. The first business session will get underway at 2 p.m. with the address of welcome by local NILA President, R. W. Hilton. Annual reports from the president and secertary-rnanagcr and dismissions on safety�featuring presentations of safety awards �will make up the bulk of the TASK SHUNNED by father after a busy day at work is readily taken up by this four-month-old bear cub owned by Mr. and Mrs. Bill Harrison of Tchesenkut Lake. The cub was brought to Prince George yesterday by the Harrison's who planned to ship the young fellow to the St. George's Island Park Zoo in Calgary. Grime Department regulations would not allow the animal to be sent to the Stampede City, however, and Bill and Mrs. Harrison are stuck with the bear, at least temporarily. Stanley Park Zoo hasn't room for the cub. who playfully clamped his teeth on the leg of Citizen photographer Hal Vandervoort yesterday after posing for the above picture. A kind of marathon "Can You Top This" contest has begun among Prince George television enthusiasts. With each report of several hours of uninterrupted "freak" reception from a distant station there is a loud guffaw and a report from another TV addict that his set has held strong on a distant transmission for a lunger period. When The Citizen reported | last week that two local households had enjoyed programs from two California stations for for than three hours it was considered something of a rarity! However. Ed Carlson. TOG Ir-w in. promptly reported that he has often received signals for three hours, and many times longer, in the last year and a half. Mr. Carlson says that a clear I picture, accompanied by strong audio reception, was picked up I on his television set for nine hours last summer. Transmissions of two, three and four hours have hern common at the Carlson residence, he says. California television stations in San Francisco and Sacramento (the stations received here last week) have been picked up often and the TV bug has also watched programs from Los Angeles and even Salt Lake City. Utah. Other viewers Have reported signals from Nebraska and Alabama. Cloud cover, reflecting television signals for long distances, and the aurora boreal is, or northern lights, are some of the explanations given for the freak reception of television transmissions from distant areas. City Council Won't import Any Garbage The city council is not interested in importing any garbage. An application of Will" Smiley, who is collecting garbage along the Hart Highway, to use the city dump was turned down at tbe council meeting last night. O p i ii i o n of council members was that it is a problem of the provincial government to provide a suitable dumping site. convention's business session. Mr. Bradley, a native of Oklahoma and a learned, Well-travelled man, will speak at noon on the second day. Reports of various committees -will complete proceedings. Friday, the third and final day of the convention, will fea- ture the election of'officers and a luncheon speech by G. C. Edgett, Executive Director of the Canadian Wood Development Council. Dinner and dancing at Six Mile Lake Lodge will complete the convention program oa Friday evening. An operation has been performed in Vancouver to save the life of the newborn daughter of a Prince George couple. Victoria Vlchek, daughter of steam engineer Steve Vlchek and his wife Beatrice, was horn last Friday in local hospital with a tumor on her forehead. She was rushed by plane to the care of a specialist in Vancouver oh Saturday when local doc-tors deemed that the tumor could be endangering the child's brain i\m\ was a threat to her life. Normally, operations are not performed on a child this young. But the family doctor here said the operation, performed yesterday, was a matter of life and death and the chance had to be taken. At press Lime no report on the condition of the infant was available from Vancouver but the parents and doctor expected word this afternoon. SWIMMING POOL is getting a new coa t of paint and general cleaning these days. The painting is well advanced as is the landscaping. Even the bath houses are being prepared for the new season. Above, Steve Zingle, on the left, and Morris Vanlvoughnett are finishing the spray painting on the floor of the pool. Clauses It was reported to City Council last night that failure of a local firm to live up to contract agreements is crippling the city's $253,000 sewer construction program for this year. City fathers have instructed solicitor Harold Fret-well to study penalty clauses in the contracts with Hart Concrete in which the company agreed to supply 17,000 .feet of concrete sewer pipe. The project is the major work being undertaken by the city this year, Bill Jones, city engineer, told council that work on the first stage of the huge program is being stalled by delays in the arrival of pipe from the local firm, the only Prince George pipe manufacturing plant. He maintained that the contracts were not being observed and the solicitor was asked for a report on penalty clauses by noon today. Mr. Jones said the delay is serious and I he situation shows no indication of improving. The end result �will be a damaging effect on the entire program, one of the most costly ever undertaken by the city. Delays now will put the entire program far behind schedule. If pipe continues to arrh'e late � or not at all � crews will not be able to complete the program before the freeze-up deadline. Contracts for pipe let to Hart Concrete represent a total cost to the city of about $50,000. Seventeen thousand feet of Included in 'the con- pipe are tracts which, were awarded last months The city crews laying the pipe have already installed about 2,000 feet of sewer pipe in seven blocks of excavation on Seventeenth Avenue but "�the supply of material has deteriorated" to the point where the pipe available per day can be laid in only half the working hours. Car Bingo Pays $300 Rental Fee Holy Name Society will [jay a rental fee of SuOO for the use of the old airport for a car bingo June 0, in spite of a strong appeal by Alderman Graham at last night's council meeting for a '�"realistic1.1 rental fee. Graham's words fell on unsympathetic e a r s and four other members of the council voted for the fr]00 fee. In addition, the Holy Name Society will pay a $200 deposit which will be returned when the grounds are cleaned up. Alderman Graham voiced his opposition to the rate b e i n.g charged on the grounds that property about one-third the area was leased last year to an individual for a driving range and the charge was only S20 for the season. Rental to travelling carnivals is only SI00 per day. Under terms of the contracts, one penalty that could be imposed, if the city decides to employ penalty clauses, would be to purchase outside pipe and force Hart Concrete to make good any difference in price. Should this avenue be explored, a delay in the program would still result while crews waited for pipe to arrive from another centre. Mr. Jones says he will have to temporarily put his pipe crews out of work while the delay in being experienced. Storm sewer construction represents approximately $17G,-000 of the program, Sanitary sewers account for about �77,-000 and a sanitary sewage pumping station will cost about $35,000. CKPG President Bias Suddenly Frank H. (Tiny) El-phickc, president of radio station. CKEG in I* rinto George died suddenly in Edmonton last night. He was 5!) years-old. Mr. Elphicke had been president of CKPG since its inception. Me was also gen* eral manager and vice president of radio station CKWX in Vancouver. He had stopped off in Edmonton while on his way to Toronto and died in his sleep. Mr. Elphickc's death follows that of his brother, Cecil Elphicke, by two months. Cecil was managing director, of CKPG at the time of his death. Tiny, as he was known to his wide circle of friends throughout the province, has long suffered from arthritis, and bits been in declining lira I 111 for the past year. Mrs. Nora Elphicke, widow of Cecil, left for Vancouver today to attend her brother-in-law's funeral. It is expected she will he joined by Bob Ilarkitis, managing director of CKPG. lie began his radio career in 1024 as a singer, joined the staff of CFAC in Calgary in 1JKJ1 and became manager of that station two years later. In 1030 he was manager oE CJCA in Edmonton. He joined CKWX in Vancoxi-ver in 1!>I2 and became manager in 10-14. Mr. Elphicke is survived by his widow, Helena, who is a sister of Mrs. Norah Elphicke. Your Citizen Carrier A new bicycle represents the effort. Gary Qulnnell has put into his work as a paper boy on tihe Vandcrhoof highway. Nine-year-old Gary has routes one and two on the highway and delivers papers regularly to 33 customers. He is a grade four pupil at Peden Hill School. Besides the bicycle, Gary and his brother Floyd, 11, iljavp bought a $6-1 accordion and both are taking music lessons. Gary, an enterprising boy, has also saved �45, which he has tucked away In the bank. He is active in tihe Cubs and Sunday school and finds time to play baseball, swim and make model planes. Gary Is looking forward to a trip to Alaska this summer.