INSIDE �DITORIAL ........................ Poga 2 SPORTS ............................ Page 4 WOMEN'S SOCIAL .......... Page 7 CLASSIFIED ...............,....... Page 10 COMICS ............................ Page 1.1 Phone LO 4-2441 THE WEATHER Cloudy and a little cooler Saturday, light winds. Low tonight and - high tomorrow in Prince George, 50 and 70. Dedicated to the Progress of the North Vol. 3; No. 147 PRINCE GEORGE, BRITISH COLUMBIA, FRIDAY, JULY 31, 1959 BY CARRIER S5c P3U WEBTK *.. "I" THE STRIKE of B.C. Ironworkers is How more than a moritfa old and has- halted two of the largest construction projects undertaken in Prince George this year. Work on. the million-dollar Simon Fraser Hotel and the $138,000 Co-Op building, situated across from each other'on- corner lots at Sixth and Quebec, is halted. Nopt/iw@ si 'T-e-L&p&i To Apply for Rate Increase ]',� allowing the military a/Ciom that the best form of ence is attack, a team of Northwest Telephone Co. officials last night laid before representatives of city council and board of trade the company's plans to apply for a regrouping of its exchange rates, which will have the effect of Increasing rates throughout the sys-tojrn. x If approved, thq increase is pexpceled to go Into effect sonic-livne Inter this year. It will be the second boost in I'rinei. George I'ati-s ihis year. Telephone costs hero i won I up cm A pi'il 1 when the number o| telephones Serviced by this ox cHatTgc passed the 5,000 mark which automatically placed ii in a higher cost grouping. Representing die "company ai lasl night's meeting were (1. A Kennedy, Vancouver, vlce-proslt ' dent in charge of revenue and receipt's; Glen Jones, Vancouver, traffic manager; Al Hlgginboth-am. Vancouver, plain manager; Frank McGee, Duwson Crook, district manager, and Al DeBeck, Prince George district supervisor. Tlir proposed change in grouping is designed to bring th�* Northwest rate schedules in lino with those of 11.C. Telephone Co., which, at present, arc higher. Those attending (ho meeting were given financial statements and charts sho\ving the company operation in detail. .Mr. Kennedy explained the need for the increase stemmed from the fact that increased revenue is necessary to continue operation and expansion. One thing reflected in discussion was the phenomfnal growth Figures Pon'l Lie Continued growth of Prince George over the |Kist six years i* 'reflected in figures renre-Rented by Northwest Trie. phone Co. showing tlie in-crease in
<)\VN Problem of the Northwest Telephone" Co.. Mr. Kennedy said, bolls down to the simple fact that return on capital investment is now down to 5.02 per cent." In today's money market it will he impossible for t h d company to raise money for capital expansion unless (his return can he increased. The proposed increase will provide $258,000 additional revenue to the com puny. In noting some of the increased costs to the company, Mr. Kennedy pointed out that since 195'd property .taxes paid in Prince George have increased 456 per cent compared to an increase in taxable properly of" 1510 per cent. Income tax and wages were also listed as factors in increasing costs. Speaking of money costs, lie pointed out in 15)51 the company was able to .obtain capital through the sale of first mortgage bonds at \\:> per cent. The same coupon rate today, he said, would have to be six per cent at least. Hardest to he hit in the proposed rate regroupings is business phones, while domestic installations will get off lighter. Cost of business service will jump from $7.25 a month to $0.55 while a single-party residence charge will k'o from $.'5.05 lo $.4.60; This same residence service in Vancouver would cost $0.25. s for Esccs a 'Bust' A recent "Hollywood or bust" expedition, started from Gisconie. has ended in the latter�bust. Adventurers Al Killick, 17, and Eric Forrester, 2!), left on July 10 with only the clothes on their back? and a few cents in their pockets to hitch-hike to movieland. They made it over the Canadian-American border by virtue of a little quick-thinking, but Holly-�wood was still a long way off when they decided to turn back- Scarcity of work seemed to be the major deterrent to the hitch-hikers reaching their goal. The pair, sore thumbs and all, are now back in Ciscome and an edited account of the adventure (written by Forrester) is earned on Page Six of this issue of The Citizen. All Quiet at Sixth, and Quebec It's as quiet as King Tut's tomb these days at the corner of Sixth and Quebec. Construction on the million dollar Sentenced In District Court Raymond Trosky, 27-year-old jail escapee who led RCMp on a nine-day chase through northern B.C. bush, was sentenced today in district court here to nine months in jail. The sentence ls to run concurrently with the six month sentence inetcd out to Trosky at Fort St. Jaraos on a charge of assaulting a policeman. This means that the man will serve, throe more months in jail for his escape. Magistrate George Stewart i in posed the nine month sentence- on Trosky for three offences to which the man pleaded guilty following bis capture near here lust weekend. Charges were: escaping custody, pointing a firearm and breaking and entering. Simon Fraser Hotel and the $138,000 Co-op Building has halted. The buildings, located on corner lots at the intersection, just across Quebec from each other, were hives of activity until the B.C. Ironworkers Union went on strike at midnight, June 22. Now a deathly hush has fallen over the construction sites and nothing more than the odd stray dog can 'be seen moving. Erection ot the Simon Fraser Hotel ground ton hiilt' 1P# thaw ii aviicU ttitc* the li-oiiwofkt-'i-K went on strike and: nothing has been done on the building for more than a month. Work is being held up by iron erection that would be finished in a couple of weeks. The erection began only several days before iron men walked off jobs throughout the province. Building Superintendent Roe-eo Zappone said then that the iron work would only, take "a couple of weeks." Carpenter^ arc also out of work because uf the strike. There were eight on the job when the walk-out was called. The Prince George Co-operative is not too happy with the strike either.. It hail planned to move its new Iniihling on Septeinher 15 but the 'zn men working oii the project bad to be laid oft last work-end because construction could not g<> ahead without iron work being completed. The Co-op . centre, the dream of local Co-op people, is to replace the present cramped quarters housing the Co-op store on Fourth Avenue. It is estimated by an official of the association that the building will not be completed for between 45 and 60 days after construction starts again. Trpsky appeared bewildered by coui't proceedings today as he stood In the dock wearing rubbers:, work pants and a sweat .shirt. When sentence was pronounced the 'nan asked Magistrate Stewart, "Can I get a fine?" To this the magistrate replied, "I'm afraid not Mr. Trosky." Trosky. who threatened to escape again when he was caught, was not handcuffed and sqenisto have decided since his capture, that he likes the Moun-ties- He walked between two Former Prince George Resident Held for Questioning in Murder CRESTON, B.C. (CP)�A former Prince George man was picked up Thursday for questioning in the double slaying in Trail late Wednesday of u mother and her eight-year-old daughter. Year Telephoned increase 1853 1 �")l (,!>;!!) 'JZX.ti' r 1 �33 2,511 ^!>..l'r l ;>.-><> 3.10Q �j;�.8'f I�57 1.017 :$:>.- ci J958 1,473 io.r.r, 1059 5,411 21.0'.i. Richard Alexander Huctdak, 25, was picked up Thursday, as he was hitching down the highway about 10 miles south of here. The hired hand was held in Nelson jail oVernight for questioning in the double slaying, Mrs. Violet Doris Townsend, 28, and her daughter, Linda, 8, were found naked and beaten to deatn cany Thursday on a *.* BKOW,N B A>'NA HUC1IAXAX With Vancouver and Toronto Warring over Hie merits of their respective girls' gams. Prinefi �George 'oglers can be assured that they don't have to lake a back seat t<> diner al the I; i g cities. Local girl3 have as shrijjely underpin lings as any 'o bo seen in Caria/ja. Toront i recently charged that Vancouver misses won bow-io--ged from inbuntaln-cliiftbina and horseback tiding. A Vancouver newspapev developed a neat llitfc f.i.k designed to show this :is.s:i\io:i to be false. Girls were pu-uui-d holding coins at tlilghs, knees awl ankles to illustrate that their legs were as straight as any to be found in Eastern Canada, Citizen photographer Hal Van-(Icryooi't went o:i a Ieg-hurfting expedition hero to banish any fears Prince George residents might have had that local gams didn't stand up to competition. If the "two bit" test developed in Vancouver is any proof ;Of whether or not a girl has straight legs. Prince George females need fear not. This straight logs craze isn't confined to teenagers. Mrs. Kttie Drown, after watching daughter Sherry hold quarters between her logs without any trouble, declared that, "Jf Sherry can do it so can I." And, she did. It appears that newspaper reporters, often referred to as legmen, are really taking the term to heart. Pleasant pastime! liTTlli BltOWN smsmtr ukown blood-stained bed in their farm home outside Trail. An RCMP officer wii�l tiio daughter had been raped. llticiiluk is said to have worked in a Prince George logging cam]) about a year ago; It js believed ho left hci'c ;i few months ago. Hueulak, who worked on the Towhserid's hog farm, was found dazecl from an apparent overdose of headache pills trying to hitch hike. He was taken to Nelson for emergency hospital treatment and later lo the citv jail. The victims died of terrific bend injuries caused by a blunt instrument," said coroner Dv. .lolm ;\laekay of Trail. A two-pound hammer was found near the bed. � � � in i,urn n NKI-MOX �'!�) -_ Uidianl ilic\jiiitici,< Huculak, i!5, fnr-liici'ly or Dawson Om'k and 1* >" i n c i> <; c O r g e today was Hini-gi'il with uimriler in con-ncctlpii with the heating dcutlr of a�i H-.Voar-old girl. Eliiciila'k did not enter a j)l�'a, when he uumIc a In'lef :il>I|onrHin-c before Stipcndinry ."MaRisiiiUc WilEiani II. Taylor tit Custlogni1, 25 mile's south-\vcat qf'iiei'C. � � � Dr. Mnckay stated that the pair had been dead only a few hours, when he called to the farm Thursday morning. The child's head was smashed lo a pulp. Tw0 children sleeping in the same room as the murder victims we're not disturbed. A five-year-old son was sleeping iir another rooni. The bodies were discovered when the three children, all under five years, were unable to waken the mother. The oldest fan about, a mile and aJialf to I a gei'vico .station and Mrs. E. It. Plcsted returned to the house with jho child to investigate, She called police.' Andrew Townsend, the father, learned pf the slayings. when he arrived home from night work at th0 Consolidated Mining and , Smelting Company in Trail. . �Police are still* searching for the family.car, reported missing from tlie Townsend's hog farm. constables from police cells to the second storey court room at the police station. Monday, when the charges were read and Trosky was remanded for sentence, the police escort given the. man was huge. The |)iovineial jail on Uw airport hill will bo Trosky'a hoiiw for the next nine months. Frank Perry appeared as" counsel for the resident of Fort St. James. Ho urged that sentence bu made- concurrent with the sentence given Trosky the day he escaped from "The Fort" to be-�jjin a 150-milo trek through the mosciuito-infested bush. NO VA MI IA UWK The lawyer told court that Ray Trosky Had an early fajnlly life that "leTt much to bo desired." When his mother died at Keg River. Alberta, Trosky was 12-y.ears-old. He left home then to work as a cook at a sawmill because he didn't see eye to eye with his father. Lawyer Perry said Trosky had been on his own since then. The whole pattern of the (Continued on l>�g(> l{) � See 'TKOSKV SKNTKNCK1V Union Fined VANCOUVER (CP) � Two of three ironworkers union officials fined Thursday by Mr. Justice A. M. Manson for contempt of court spent the night in Oakalla jail after being unable to pay their $3;000 penalties. Legal advisors for the union hoped to obtain the release today of business agent Tom .Mo Grath and President Kernand Leopold Whitmore of the Bridge, Structural a n d O"namental Ironworkers Union (CLC) as soon ;us friends and relatives could raise the money. Meanwhile (he union law-yrrs uro hccIUuk a special sitting of the British Columbia iCourt of Appeal to consider the case. The court is in summer recess until September. In his precedent-set lint; judgment in the IJ.C. Supreme Court Thursday Mr. Justice Mansoii imposed a $10,0,00 fine on tho union biid $3,1)00 lines each on McGrath; Whitihore and business agent Norman luklisun. lOddison paid his fine and was released at the courthouse. The judge found the union and its officials in contempt I'm' railing properly to inform striking members of his order requiring certain work to be completed on Vancouver's Second Narrows Bridge. The case was first courtroom lest of the new !!.('. Trade Unions Act, passed at the last ses--sion of the legislature, which makes unions legal entities subject to suit. P.G. All-Stars Take First LL Game Prince George Little League All-Stars defeated Qucsncl !>-;? in the first game of the /.our Little League nlnyoffs in Fiitice George this afternoon. Peter Ncukomin w:�.s the winning pitcher and coiilributccl a home run in a winning cause. lie-struck out 11 of a possible 18 batters. Ronnie Berezan homered for Qucsncl.