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Cloudy with sunny periods tomorrow. Little change in temperature. Low tonight and high tomorrow 45, 65.
Dedicated to the Progress of the North
Phone  LOgan  4-2441
Vol.  3;   No.   150
PRINCE GEORGE,  BRITISH  COLUMBIA, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 5,   1959
BY    CARRIER SSo  PER  WEEK
SACRED HEART CHURCH on Patricia Boulevard has been raised off its foundations. It will be moved to Seventh and Brunswick and taken over by Catholics of the Ukrainian Rite. A new church is to.be built at the site on   Patricia.   Meanwhile,   members  of  Sacred   Heart
congregation hold services in the nearby auditorium. Electricity will be shut off briefly in some downtown areas when the church is moved. Lines will have to be severed to let the church, pass.
Construction Almost Abreast Of Last Year's Record Total
Total value of construction in Prince George fcir the first seven months of the year is almost abreast of the record set during the same pei'iurj. last your. To the
end of July this year building permits had been taken out for construction worth some $3|648;96i. At (he cud of the seventh month of 1IJ5S the figure had reached $3,816,1.68.
The new $2,000,000 hospital and several schools are included in last year's figure, distorting the pic-lure presented by the sums. Actually construction this year is uhcad of building in the year previous.
For  the  month   of  July. this year had ;i margin over fflie same month in  HJ58. Jifty-thrce building per-
Poison is being set I'or a bear in the Grassy Plains urea which I.Mini a !� building and has repeatedly made reference to a possihle record year.
Will Face Trial On Dope Charge
A man charged here with tampering with a doctor's prescription for morphine has been committed for trial in a higher court.
Bertin   appeared    in last' night   for � pro-
William city court liminary hearing on a charge of littering a forged document, under section 3il (1) (a) of the criminal code.
Local druggist Geoff Mortimer testified that Bertin handed him a prescription from Dr. O. G. Burns of Kamloops on April 30 that was "not illegible but obscured."
Ho said last night sonic of the
writing appeared to have "been written over."
The prescription was filled, however, and Bertin paid $2.50 for the medicine, which Mortimer says was morphine.
Prosecution charges the prescription was altered to increase the amount.
Magistrate .1. A. Diekson of Quesnel committed Berlin to trial in county court following the hearing.
iisfiiigyished WW II Flyer Takes Over USAF Base
.Major Kenneth (,'oleman has assumed command of the UlSth Squadron, Baldy Hughes Air Station. Change of command took. place yesterday when he succeeded Major .1. 1). Lessley who has been re-assigned after serving as commander of Baldy Hughes for two years.   .
Major Coleni'ah is a jet flyer and holds the rating of' command pilot. He is a regular officer in the USAF.
He entered the army aviation
cadei program in 1942 and flew 1 '-IT's and J'-51 's in the European theatre of war during WAV. 11. Early in .1915 he became a prisoner of war and was not liberated until April 21 of that year.
For his roh> in air action over bin rope, .Major Cclcmaii, received the Air Medal and the Purple Heart.
After World War II, Major Coleman, then holding' the rank of lieutenant, was reassigned to
Japan for air defence operation's. From 1949 until 1950 he served with the Strategic Air Command, He then served as instructor at Tyndall Air Force Base in the Intercept Control School, and while stationed there was picked as an exchange officer with the 1 loyal Air Force. Arriving in England in ~1951 Major Coleman seryed as a captain in the Royal Air Force's radar Control school as an instructor. It was while serving in England, in 195;! that the Major's son, Ronald, was born to him and his wife Twannette.
The most receu't assignincut of tlic new commander was at Hamilton Air Force ISasc, California; at the Western Air Defence1 Force Headquarters. It was here that he received the s:ol2 Ninth Ave., is reported to he in satisfactory condition in Vancouver hospital.
The infant was flown to Vancouver Monday when only 18 hours old for treatment of a circulatory  condition.
Foreign Ministers Accomplish Nil
(iENEVA fAPl-^Tho Big Four foreign ministers conference ends today in failure, but with its importance deflated by the agreement of President Elsen-H o w e v and Premier N J k i t a Khrushchev to hold their own private summit talks.
The conference drew up lo a close after !)!�� weeks of steady dispute which continued into the final hours todav.
School District 57 is searching i'or .".0 teachers..
Superintendent Ken Alexander reported to school board trustees last night that this number of teachers is needed for the coming school year.
The school most strapped for teachers is Duchess Park Junior High, which needs 10.
The other 20 are required for schools scattered throughout the school district.
Thirteen are needed at rural schools.
Alexander expressed no concern over getting the required 30 teachers for the fast-ap-proaclling school year.
Somb iru&iees pointed out that the situation is about .normal and lias often been more serious.
The Senior High School is in need of only one more teachei to be ready for the 1039-00 school year.
There were nine resignations from the 21 member staff of the high school this year but there has since been one teacher transferred to the Senior High and seven appointments to the stafr.
Teachers who resigned from the high school included J. Kern, math and science; W. Murray, physical education; Mrs. Bob Garter, home economics and health and personal development; Miss Amy Moyles, French English and girls councillor; Miss Alberta Whittle, math, science and health ami personal development; and Miss Pamela Noel, English and French.
Three others listed as resignations were probationary teachers or were teaching here on temporary certificates. They were William Jones, E. Richardson and R. Johnson.
The one transfer to the staff of the senior high school is E. Dekoninck, who taught last year at Duchess Park Junior High.
Appointments include: J. K. Sandercock, N. S. Rattan, A. S. Walker. 'R. �G; Gordon, E. � A. KIHough ujid Mr. w'. Mrs. J ,S. Harris.
Duchess Park required IS teachers following close of the school year tout there have been eight  appointments  since.
The school, needing 10 teachers, is in the worst position o( any school in the district but Superintendent Alexander is not too worried about completing the starr in time for the September's opening of schools.
Suspended Firebug Has New Job � Fighting Fires
ATCTORIA (CP) � A man suspected of starting Forest fires in a sparsely settled part of the province will be above suspicion for the rest of the fire season.
A forest official said Tuesday the suspect has been put to work on the fire line "and they will keep him busy there.."
The official said the man was suspected of setting some 25 fires burning in the Alexis Creek area of the Kamloops forest district. Seven of the blazes are in the 2,000-to-l0,000 acre class.
One is a blaze that has already covered some 10,000 acres. of mature spruce.  Another  has
covered 0,000 acres and moved forward five miles Monday on a narrow front.
The forestry department reported there was a general reduction .'in the fire hazard throughout the province as a result of cool moist air and some rain.
Only 13 new fires were reported in a 2-1-hour period and 137 were still burning.
He says the situation is "no worse" than  last year.
Schools which now have a full complement of teachers for the start of the term are t'on-riaught Junior High. King* C5eoi\L!e V, llarwin, Central Fort, Giscbme, Millar Addition and Peden Hill.
Copy PGE Microwave
A microwave communications system similar to the network used by the Pacific Great East' em Railway is to be installed by the Quebec North Shore and Labrador Railway.
The P.d'.K. was the first railway in the world to use a microwave communications system over the entire length of its line.
A report from the Communications Department of the P,G.E. states that the Quebec railway has called tenders for a microwave system with specifications almost identical to those of I he system now in operation between Vancouver and Fort St. John.
The P.G.E. system has attracted a large amount of attention from other railroads, some as far away even as Finland.
During July, a paper was read before the annual convention of the American Institute of lOlec-trical Engineers in Seattle on the P.G.E. microwave network. This paper jhas been published by the institute and receives world-wide circulation.
On Annual Visit
J. H. H. Roche, field supervisor for the B.C. Automobile Association, was in Prince Ueorge yesterday on his annual inspection tour, for the ninth consecutive year.
Mi1, Roche expressed his pleasure lo be back in Prince George again. "I have always found Prince Geor,ge to be a friendly and co-operative city."
"Each year, when 1 arrive bore, 1 find s<> many new build ings either already up or under construction, Prince George will one day he the hub of all this great northland."
Roche and Gal MacPhcrsbri, field representative, spend approximately two months of, every year touring B.C., getting information on auto-courts, resorts, motels'and hotels belonging to official members of the Association.
Purpose is to get the information for a book, put out by the association to inform members of the many stopping points throughput the province.
The two representatives, both from Vancouver, started at the south of the province and are working north to Alaska.
I BALDY HUGHES Air Station yesterday underwent a change of command when �Major James D. Lessley handed Major Kenneth Coleman the orders giving him lithe position of Commander of HIS Squadron. Major'Lessley (right) leaves for ||SAGE school and then will take on new duties at McChord AFB, Washington,
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PRINCE R V P E R T (CP) _ | ishbbals remained tied up here as the Prince Kupcrt Fishermen's Co-operative Association hoard mm today after a meeting Monday night with the United Fishermen and Allied Workers Union (Jnd.).
The union said agreement has .been reached with tendermen, but none was sighted a-ffecting shoreworkers and fishermen.
PETER GERNITZ pleaded guilty to impaired driving and was orderpd to pay a $]00 finp or spend 14 days in jail when he appeared in court here today. Police said he was the driver of a car which went off the
Hart Highway three miles north of Prince George last night and plowed thirty feet into the bush. Passenger Tina Harper sustained minor injuries.