INSIDE EDITORIAL ........................ Page 2 SPORTS .............................. Pago 4 WOMEN'S SOCIAL .......... Page 7 CLASSIFIED ....................... Page 10 COMICS ........................... Page H Dedicated to the Progress of the North W E AT H E R Mostly cloudy w:?h o few showers today and Saturday. Remain-Ing cool with light winds. Low tonight and high tomorrow in Prince .George 45-68. Phone LOgon 4-2441 Vol. 3; No. 152 PRINCE GEORGE, BRITISH COLUMBIA, FRIDAY,,AUGUST 7, 1959 � Y CHBKIEH S5c PZH WEBK ELECTRICAL POWER was interrupted in parts of the downtown' area today as the Sacred Heart Church was moved from its old site on Patricia -Boulevard to Seventh and Brunswick. The church took several hours to move as transmission lines had to be severed to let the building pass. The church has been taken over by Catholics of the Ukrainian Rite. Sacred Heart congregation is now attending services in the auditorium. Plans are underway for a new church at the now-vacant site on Patricia. �Vandervoort with him \ylicii he was taken into custody that led police to tin* arrest. Dills missing froth the Aleza Lake store were in denominations of twenty dollars and less. There was also some change reported taken in the break-in. The unidentified niiuri arrested in connection with the break-in will be charged with the theft. Cash taken from the store was composed of the week's receipts .md extra cash kept on hand to take care of pay cheques of local people. A Prince George man is being held in custody in connection with theft of between $2,700 and $31000 at Aleza Lake July :>l. ' lie was arrested yesterday in a local hotel, say polite. Up to $3,000 In cash was taken from the Aleza Lake Genera) Stoi'C, 50 miles east of here, �when the store safe was opened. The dial had apparently been manipulated to open the sale. The man arrested has nut been identified li.v KOI I". He reportedly had some money Prive-ln Opening Saturday I'i'ince George's second drive-in theatre will open Saturday. George Huska, part owner of the Moonlight Theatre, says the drive-in' will open eariier than planned because of many requests received from local people for it to open. lie says the opening tomorrow night will lie a try-out, with the" grand opening planned for several weeks later. 'The confectionery is not completely outfitted yet and some � kinks will likely have to be ironed out. The show will start at 9:30 Saturday and the drive-in has accommodation for 500 ears. The first movie to be shown at the Moonlite Theatre will be the liil "Friendly I'ersnn-sion" starring Gary Cooper, Anthony Perkins, Dorothy MrGuirr and Marjorie Main. Huska Khtorpirscs theatre Is located at the foot of Crank brook Hill, at the cm\ of fifth Avenue, Land clearing is now almost complete for the Sunset Drive-In to be built on die C'hier Lake road. Pleads Not Guiliy To Cheque Charge Joseph NagjV.2'1, of the Island Cache pleaded no guilty to issuing a bad cheque for �100 when he appeared in city court this nlornlng. He was charged with committing the offence on -May 22. The lumber worker was remanded for eight days. An ambitious ground Improve; irieni plan lor the Senior Lligli School. Duchess Park Junior High and King George V elementary was submitted to trustees of School District 57 this week by i he school board grounds committee. Trustees decided to write the City asking for the closing of some roads and lanes on -school property. They also approved placing of bumper logs to block certain roads. The rest of the program was riot set In motion. The grouncte committee, in submitting the plan, said the area Included serves approximately 27 percent of the entire school district population. .Main part of proposals under the plan consisted of construction ol ;i snorts field lor use of all schools in the Duchess Park ana. Considerable grading, filling ami levelling would be required lor the field, reported the committee. About 2.2OD cubic yards of material would have to be taken from the high to the low side of the existing field. The King George V work would involve levelling off the slope in front of the school. Top soil, grass seed, levelling, annexation of a ball field ami other improvements are planned a round'the other school included m the plan. Grounds committee members estimated the entire ground improvement program for the three i schools at $11,122. Trustees decided the road closing sections of the plan were the ones needing immediate | attention. Dawson Creek Gets Aid To Clear Slight Area OTTAWA (CT> � A $7,500 grant is being made available to the city of Dawson Creek to assist in a housing and urban renewal study, the government announced Thursday, The study will be directed by Desmond ,1. Parker, architect and town planner, of 1'rinee George. It is designed to identify blighted areas in the northern centre, whose population has more than doubled since 1!)51, and establish the order in which redevelopment schemes should be undetraken. The study will cost an estimated $10,000, with Dawson Creek putting up 25 percent and the government 75 percent. News of Queen's Condition Best Kept Secret of Tour Teaciiers Inn u been rewarded for many things in many ways but seldom lias a "beer biiStV been uroposed ;is a prize lor meritorious service. Superintendent of school district 57, Ken Alexander, complimented teachers on jiood marks received by Senior 11 (Kb School students this year when he |>resrnted a report to school hoard trustees the .other night. A trustee jierked up and suggested that the hoard ". . . throw a beer bust" for the teachers. Needless to say, his suggestion hardly got off the ground. Willpw River Schopl Out Another, petition for a school in the area of the Willow River working cjrele has been turned down by school district 57. A delegation from the area a p p e a r e U this- week before school district trustees. It proposed a portable school he placed near the Willow River Bridge to handle about 15 pu-pJJs. "l-towi/ver, school board trustees noted that the district is not obliged to provide educational facilities- for an area unless there are 12 pupils wilhin a three-mile radius around the proposed school site., The proposed site at Willow River was six miles from the nearest student. The delegation said it would provide transportation but the school board deemed it an unsatisfactory arrangement as students would be beyond the dis'-trlcl's jurisdiction. Some school board trustees Suggested that sawmills in the area should establish a central community. This, it said, would make provision of educational facilities much easier. NO INCREASE Trustees of School District 57 this week turned down a request from the 1'rinee George and District Handicapped Children's Association for an increase in uipil grant. KEV. GORDON McLAUNN will leave Tuesday to return to Capilano, North Vancouver He spent the past month taking services in K n o x U. it.eif.ih Prince George. Rev, McLaren was here as replacement for Rev. Drysori Boyle, who Is on holidays. �Vandervoort Accident Victim Walter Burns, injured in a car accident on the Vanderhoot Highway last month, is home after spending a few weeks in the Vanderhoof Hospital. Burns, superintendent of the local dominion experimental farm, was brought home Wednesday by car from* Vanderhoof, wfth his knee still in a east. He will be home for a month, after which he will return to hospital in Vanderhoof for an operation on the knee. Burns was driving the car in which Dr. Hinson Hill, one of Canada's lop horticulturists, was killed. Burns suffered chest injuries and a fractured knee cap. Raid Cars VICTORIA fCP) � Col wood RCME said Thursday they are waging a small war against thieves taking money and valuables from parked ears at Thetis Lakes and Witty's Lagoon swimming spots. About $183 in cash has been stolen in one day. They asked the public not to leave valuables in their cars. Parents of children from six lo nine-ycars-old at the Stoner school told school hoard trustees here this week that pupils lunches freeze right in the building in the winter. They said ''something must he done" to provide their children with more adequate educational facilities. ' A new school was proposed is the mosl logical plan. It was suggested, however, that if a new school could not be built by winter that a bus he provided to take the children lo schools in Prince George. Either the youngsters be taken tn school by bus or he allowed to lake over a better school at Stoner bciiig occupied by older students, suggested the delegation. L'nder the second proposal the older students would be forced to make use of the bus. School board trustees promised to do .something to ease the situation before freeze-up. VANCOUVER (CP) � Briefs urging everything from more hospital beds to financing of a proposed $340,000,000 freeway system were heard by the provincial government cabinet when it held a special meeting in Vancouver Thursday. Most Lower Mainland municipalities bad delegates at the meeting. physicians were not 100-per-cent sure she was pregnant unless they conducted a complete med-\eal examination. The sovereign asked that the examination be deferred until her return home. Her London doctors � Lord Evans, Sir John Weir and .John H. Peel � all have stated the Queen is in good health. BIRTH PLACK NOT SKI' It is not yet known where the birth will lake place. Hut the Royal Family plans to spend the Christmas season as usual at Sandringham, t h e'i r Norfolk home 150 miles northeast of London, anil February and March at Buckingham Palace. Colville tokl reporters at Buckingham Palace: "The Queen was determined to avoid the cancellation of the SIMPLY DELIGHTED with telegram are Mr. and Airs. Hartley Fawcett. It notifies them they have won a trip to Paris. Mr. Fawcett, local bottler, won the trip in a contest sponsored by the Pepsi-Cola company. The contest was Canada-wide and the prize went to the bottler signing up the most vendors. �Vandervoort. It was announced from Buckingham Palace this morning the queen is expecting a baby, probably in February. ' A Buckingham Palace spokesman gave the news to British and Commonwealth reporters this morning. He said her pregnancy was not confirmed until this week. The 3o-year-old monarch returned only last Sunday from a six-week tour across Canada. Today's palace announcement said: "The Queen will undertake no further public engagements," the customary phrasing for the announcement of an impending royal baby." Cmdr. Richard Colville, the Queen's press secretary, said: "lioth the Queen and Prince Philip have always been anxious to have more children and are very happy about it." The o f f i c ial announcement said the Queen, who has been seen by her doctors since returning from Canada, is in good health. The Queen has two children. Prince Charles, 10, and Princess Anne, 8. NOW IN SCOTLAND The Queen left Thursduy with Prince Philip and her children to take her annual vacation at Balmoral Castle in Scotland and arrived there today. She was smiling as she boarded the train Thursday and looked far from exhausted despite the rigors of her recent 45-day Canadian tour. The Queen, and Philip will ho unable to make a scheduled tour of Ghana and West Africa in November. Premier Kwanie Xkriiinah of (ihan.i was one of the first persons outside tin* Royal family to be notified of the expected bahy. The Queen and Philip were married on Nov. 20, 19J7. Prince Charles, the Prince of Wales, was born on Nov. 1,4, 1918. Princess Anne was boni on Aug. 10, RUMORS DURING TOUR Rumors that the sovereign was expecting her third child circulated after she was taken ill during her Canadian tour. Members of her entourage denied the rumors on July 22. It was understood they had no knowledge at the time that the Queen was pregnant. This was confirmed only upon her return to London Sunday. SI' a second sou is born to Elizabeth, he would he .second in line, to the throne after Prince Charles, talking precedence over Anne. IWI.ACK AXXOUXCUMKXT "Her .Majesty deeply regrets the disappointment which her inability to carry out her projected tour In West Africa as arranged this autumn may bring to many of her people in (Uiana, Sierra Leone and the Gambia. "Her Majesty also much regrets that she and the Duke of Edinburgh will be unable to visit Shetland.and Orkney next week. "The Queen', who has been seen by her medical advisers since returning from Canada, is stated to be in good health." FIRST IX 102 YEARS The royal birth will he the first to a reigning British sovereign for more than 102 years. Tlie last was Princess Beatrice, youngest child of Queen Victoria, born in 1S37. The Queen plans to stay at Balmoral until mid-September. Xkrumnh has been invited to Balmoral next week to discuss nnsmnnement of the royal tour. DIEFEXBAKER KNEW Another statesman who kept the news to himself was Prime-Minister Diefenbakcr. He was told toward the end of the Queen's Canadian tour about the expected baby. Diefenbaker suggested revising the gruelling schedule but Elizabeth insisted on going ahead with it. When the Queen told Dieferi-baker of the possible situation, he offered immediately to alter or cut. short the tour. "The Queen, however, insisted that she alone was in a position to decide/? �'�"�id Col-"And so Mr. Diefenbaker reiterated that at any moment arrangements could be made for the Queen to return to the United Kingdom." QUEEN INSISTED It was learned that Elizabeth herself insisted during her Canadian tour that her condition should not become publicly known until her return to Britain. One major reason was ti;at .EXPECTING . . . Canadian tour w h i e h would have caused disappointment to millions." He said the Queen was emphatic in insisting while on tour that her condition not be known. INSTRUCTIONS TO STAFF "She issued personal instructions to those few people including, of course, the doctor attending her on the tour, Surgeon-Captain Derek Steele-Perkins, that she did not wish her condition to become known." Colville went on: "The Queen's reasons for this were because it could not be stated at that time that it was a certainty that the Queen would be having a child, and therefore the doctor could not publicly commit his patient without a 1) roper medical examination, which Her .Majesty did not want carried out before her return to the United Kingdom and then by her own doctors in London." Charles and Anne already have been told the1 news about "mummy." QUEEN KEPT CRADLE Although the Queen has not had a child for nine years, she has kept the cradle and baby carriage used for her two children. They are the same as those the Queen and Princess .Margaret used themselves. Both t;ie Queen's children were born before her accession to the throne in February. ]!)">2, upon the death of King George VI. Sir William Gilllatt, the royal gynaecologist w h o delivered both Charles and Anne, died in 10.")(i at the age of 71. PAIXIJONS CIIILDItlKTll An advocate of painless childbirth, he was assisted at Anne's birth by Peel, who is exJM'etCtl to lie the gynaecologist for the new royal birth. Weir, -who is 79, also was present at Anne's birth. The first official bint thai a new royal birth /was pending came earlier in the day from Lord TCvans, the Queen's physician, wlio is an obstetrician. � Before leaving on a European v a e a t i o n, he said that "the Queen is in good health�1 can say no more than that." At the'Queen's reepjest, Lord Evans examined her .Monday, a clay after she returned from Canada. .