INSIDE
EDITORIAL ........................ poga 2
SPORTS .............................. Poga 4
WOMEN'S SOCIAL ............ Page 8
CLASSIFIED ........................ Page 6
COMICS..............................Poge 7
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Vol. 3; No. 125
PRINCE GEORGE, BRITISH COLUMBIA, TUESDAY. JUNE 30, 1959
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Citizens of Prince George will not be lucking 5'things to do" during the July 1 holiday tomorrow.
Many organizations in Prince George have gone all out to give local residents as much entertainment as possible,
Here is a run-down on the varied activities:
1:00 p.m.�Kcgjitta ut Summit l/iikc 1:00 p.m. Kn^ing at I'gara
Speed \v;i.v
5:00 p.m.�H,is�'I>;t||, Qiicsiicj vs Col II 111 bill Hole) Athletics at. Industrial I'ai'k 5:00 p.m.�Softball CM en's Iit'iiKiic) Koostcr Boosters vs KCMI', jn Coniiaught Park 7:00 p.m.�Itacing at I'gnra
Speedway
7:15 p.m.�Hoftball (LutUra'
League) liitilcl Uros. vs
GI.SCmiiic, Hiicliess 1'iii'k
BriJO p.m.�Wrcsdin^ in the
Colitsvun'i
10:00 p.m.�Ladles' Softball Dance in Civic Centre
Tax
Payment
Deadline
Today was the deadline for city tax payments. .
Residents WrMo havei:'i made their annual cunfri-butions to city coffers will be subject to penalty as of July 1.
The penalty Is five per cent of the lax.
An additional penalty of another five per cent will be imposed October 1 if ta.x-piiyers neglect to pay up by then.
City Clerk Arran Thomson is buried in tax pay-merits today figuring but ju.st who has paid their taxes and who'll be penalised.
The city stands to collect over a million dollars in general property and school taxes.
Profi
VICTORIA (CT)�"British Co-lumhia hopes i" realize $2,500,-�000 from the sale of petroleum and naiural gas rights mi :i(i(>,-000 acres of lands In the Peace lilver area from Dawson Creek to the B.C.-Yukon border.
This was disclosed .Monday; when tlk> mines department announced it will put the rights on sale July :!().
Murder h?.s been definitely established as the cause of the death of a man found Sunday at McLeod Lake, 80 miles north of Prince George on the Hart Highway. RCMP
LOUISE REIIY1ER, Citizen office worker, gives anxious answers to RCMP Staff-Sergeant A. N. Beaumont during investigation of McLeod Lake murder. Girl' thinks she recognizes dead man from police morgue photos. �Vandervoort
New Bear Trap Used
Prince George Jaycces are generally interested in any story concerning bears. They devote a good part of their time each year to hunting the beasts to supply pelts for the bear skin hats of British Grenadier Guards. The following dispatch from the Canadian Press should satisfy their thirst for bear stories for a while:
BANFF, Alto (SIM _ A hotel in this Rocky Mountains resort, town has come up with a novel device for discouraging black hears. Hotel officials say that a length <>r culvert, pipe, fitted j with a spring door, makes a perfect trap.
The trap is mounted on a small trailer and once nruin has
got himself locked in the pi pi1. in attempts to reach a pot of honey, ho is given a quick ride to a remote section of t'he park.
Park officials say some of the hears will find their way hack to town, even when released 30 miles distant.
The Senior Citizen's Home development is looking for elderly couples to fill five new units ready for occupancy at the site |
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The units have just been completed and, so Car, only a couple of applications for entrance to them have been received.
It was previously announced that persons seeking to occupj the units need not have their j own furniture. However, the Senior Citizens Home Society says now that the units are not completely furnished as they had expected and any people fil-
ing application � for entrance should be prepared to supply most of their own furniture.
Only married couples are he-illg accepted to Till the newly. opened Liu its.
The society appeals for more couples, who are interested in residing at the development, to ,'inplv as soon as possible to Bill Woycik at LO. -1-4357, or LO. �1-2SSG.
KCMP of the Prince George Sub-Division are requesting the help of local citizens in identifying the murder victim discovered near McLeod Lake Sunday. He is six-feet-four inches tall, weighs 190 pounds, has bluc-grey eyes, brown h;u> an(| a beard. He was wearing a blue sweater and gi-CY hjjiits when discovered, One of his lower back teeth was missing. Police report that no scars or birthmarks were discovered on the bociv. ' �RCMP Photos.
report that the �nan had been shot three times, twice through the head �nd once in the right shoulder.
One of the shots blasted a gaping hole in the centre of the victim's forehead and lodged there. The other two bullets passed completely through him.
It is not known ii the murder weapon was a hand-gun or rifle.
No clues to the identity of the victim have been found. KCMP report that the victim's pockets were cleaned out and his watch removed. A gold wedding band was found on his left hand.
Killed Friday
RCMP place the time of the killing at some time Friday night. f
The body w/s found in bushes about 20-f?t*t from a picnic site at Whisker's Point, 0 Provincial Government Campsite off the Hart Highway at McLeod Lake.
It was hidden from sight. Police say the body was far enough in the bush so as not to be discovered unless someone stumbled over it.
The body was finally found about (>:.'{() p.m. Sunday when n woman picnicker stumbled on it. Lack of communications prevented the local Subdivision from being notified until four hours later.
Several members of the local detachment were sent to investigate, and were still at the scene of the crime at press time today.
The body has been sent to Kamloops to be examined by the RCMP pathologist.
No Shot Heard
The investigating officers found a camper just (id feet away from the dead body. On questioning he stated that he had not hoard a shot ;>t any time Friday night.
But, recording to police, this does not mean the victim wpsn't shot in the immediate vicinity.
Police are also considering the possibility that the 111.-111 had been shot elsewhere and the body transported to Whisker's Point.
Elementary, Watson?
A VIEW of Cariboo Meat Packing Co. plant near the Fraser River. Slaughtering soon to be conducted at plant with establishment of government meat inspec-
tor. Cattlemen to foot bill for cost of the inspection, not cost of slaughtering equipment as previously reported.
-�Vandervoort photo.
The recent loss or salc ,,f a' j'arciuly been sold before the break-in. Today a Mai kin's official tclc-
^ of spuds from .M;i|kin-here is turning into a wi,0-s g
the object �anie. It was originally
bv
police last week that the nota-jtpes were stolen in a break in along with some cigarette..
Yesterday police said the eom pany- reported that the SS hadn't been stolen but j *
phoned the Citizen to say that the sack of potatoes -was stolen, not sold.
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