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WEATHER
Rain this afternoon and evennig. Cloudy and cool with scattered showers lote Friday.. Low tonight, high tomorrow, 4� and   65.
Dedicated to the Progress of the North
Phone LO 4-2441
Vol. 3;  No.   107
PRINCE GEORGE, BRITISH COLUMBIA, THURSDAY, JUNE 4,  1959
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One of the leading Citizen boosters, it turns out, is Vancouver box company executive, James Dexter, according to the latest issue of Vancouver Ad & Sales Bureau weekly newsletter "The Tear Sheet." It states:
"Jimmy Dexter won a one-year subscription to the Prince George Citizen, courtesy of Ex-Ad and Sales member Gordon Crockett, for being the "worst-dressed golfer" in the spring golf tournament. He is so taken with the paper that he claims he would turn up naked, if necessary, to next year's tournament to win it again."
A popular Prince George churchman will preach his farewell sermon Sunday before leaving on travels which will take him to Edinburgh for post-graduate theological studies at Edinburgh   University.
Rev. Donald M. Corbett,\vho for the past two years has been minister of St. Giles' Presbyterian Church.
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was admitted to the bar that he made a long-considered decision to enter the clergy.
He will spend a couple of months in Vancouver before leaving for Scotland in August.
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Scholarship in Edinburgh. His cour.se in systematic theology will be toward a doctorate in philosophy;
Mr, Corbelt will be succeedei at Hi. Giles' by Nov. Bruce V. Will, who for the past two years lias been minister of a .church in King City. ;i new suburb oC Toronto.
Mr. Will received his IS.A. an I!.l>. ;il   Kuox College in Toronto.  He will arrive here later in the summer, accompanied by his wile "and four young children.
To brjdge the gap between tins Sunday and the arrival of the new minister, there will be it student minister lor the nexi couple of weeks and then a supply minister from Vancouver for the balance of the time.
Construction started this week on a new manse in Ncchako Heights for St. Giles'.   ,'
Mr. Corbett's presence In the community will be missed by .u large number of friends.
Ayarl JCi'&ISlV hi* uv.usiliL'!�-. through the chuiVh, he tooH u keen interest in various cultural and other community affairs, lie was one of the organizers and the first president of the Prince George Light Operatic Society, an executive member of the Concert Association, a director of the Ked Cross and vice-president of the Handicapped Childrcns' Association.
The route Co the pulpit followed an unusual course for the departing clergyman; His firs! choice was the lefjal profession and it was not. until he had completed   his   law   studies   and
Funeral Services
Funeral services arc to be held at 2 p.m. Friday at Connauglit Hill Lutheran Church for Mrs. Emma licrlsclii, <>.'?, who passed away Monday after a long illness.
Outdoor
Bingo
Saturday
A �959 Chevy and a 1959 Vauxhall will be the main attractions of the large outdoor bingo to be held Saturday at the old airport.
There will be 15 games during- th;>:.eiyening,. with 13 2%" the gtfces having $100 crash prizes.; ''The other two games, naturally, arc for the cars.
This is the Holy Name Society's second outdoor bingo. They held one last year, which was a great success, and promise that Saturday's will be even better*.
� The games will be held at 7:15 p.m. Saturday at the old airport on the Vander-hoof highway. Admission is $2.50, and the players take part in the games from their own cars;
A giant loudspeaker system will enable the players to hear the numbers clearly. Checkers will be spotted throughout the crowd to check when a person hits the bingo "horn."
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PRINCE GEORGE jaycees have their bear skin toppers, but unique are the hats worn by these Dawson Creek Jaycees, who; passed through here last night on 'their'way to the regional Junior Chamber of Commerce r convention in Nelson. The famous Mile Zero post on the:Alaska Highway at the northern city is carried, in scale size, on the gents hats. And.another replica of the post, surrounded by the "third jargest set of moose
horns taken in the,north last season," rides atop the Jaycees car, With Grenadier Guards' bear skins, and the mile post headgear, delegates to the convention should easily pick out local and Dawson Creek Jaycees. Left to right here are: Art Keenari, public relations, Gay St. Denys, youth development committee, and Bob Chambers, Jaycee director.       �Vandervqort
Prince George had a near record snowfall in May.
Department of Transport meteorologists at the local airport say the 1.5 inches of snow for the month was exceeded only by the record 2.1 inches received in 1043.
Measurable snow fell on four days-in May.
.Total precipitation for the month   was   above   normal, as
well (1.77 inches) approximately one - quarter of an inch above the average.
Record May precipitation was 2.01 inches, in 1934, and the driest May recorded was 195S, with .-") inches of moisture registered.
The near-record snowfall was accompanied by a below normal mean tcinperatnre.
The 48-