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Dedicated to the Progress of the North
WEATHER
Mostly cloudy today with afternoon and evening showors. Sunny periods with scattered afternoon showers Thursday. Little warmer with light winds. Low tonight, high tomorrow 45 and 67
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Vol. 3; No. 160
PRINCE GEORGE, BRITISH COLUMBIA, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 19, 1959
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PGE Derail merit
The engine and ten cars of a Pacific Great Eastern freight train left the tracks near Stoner � 2(i miles south of here � about 10 o'clock last night.
Further information, which must be obtained from railway officials, is very scanty as all responsible PGE men in this area could not be contacted by press time.
It is not believed anyone was hurt in the accident.
Cause of the derailment is not known but it apparently occurred shortly before the regular passenger run from the south. Passengers on the run had to be transported to Prince George by bus when the regular train was stopped by the freight derailment.
J\* nnnn toH.-'v it was renm-ted that the wreck was still being cleared from the tracks.
Driver of the bus that transported passengers from Stoner to the city had no comment to make on any aspect of the train wreck.
Seriousness of the accident is expected to be known later. A statement is anticipated from PGE officials who were at the scene of the incident up to press time.
Crews were reportedly dispatched to the wreck site last night from Prince George upon first report of the accident.
ItCMP here received a complaint about l<):.}0 last night and time of the accident is placed unofficially at about 1(1 p.m.
Eight Known Dead In Mountain Slide
WEST YELLOWSTONE, Mi. fCT) � Killer slides shrugged loose from the .Montana Rock-ics by earthquakes left eight known dead today. The thunder of rocks, earth and trees may hide an even higher toll. '
Approximately CO pcrsoiiN were injured as tin1 scries of nImvcUs hit the <';in;iui vitiiscti no <1:iiii:ik*'-
Most <>f the victim's were campers enjoying outdoor vacations in the wilds of southwestern Montana, less than 20 miles West of Yellowstone Park.
The tremors struck near midnight Monday at Hebgen Dam and farther, downstream In the Madison River Valley, Montana trout-fishing country. KS<\\l'l<: I Nil ICY
There were nn estimated 22,000 to 25,00(1 vacationers in
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those who have been ^- Jug rather strongly a,-, and a son, Tom, II. ISenneU's wife and another son were injured.
The death toll could rise. Survivors reported seeing a couple and a crippled boy swept, away ill their car by an avalanche. It was not known whether they escaped. At another location, parts of an automobile registered to Thomas Stowe, 31, of Sandy, I'tah. were found. Stowe and his wife were reported missing.
Of the approximately GO persons injured only 27 remained In hospitals in four Montana towns. Six were reported in critical condition.
At one time Tuesday night tlu death toll was given by officials as 1!�, then was revised downward, lint sheriff's officers
id others might have been carried to death beneath slides.
Suicide was the verdict of an inquest jury which probed here last night Into the shooting death Monday of lumber worker Louis Ernest, 34, killed at a lumber camp in the McLeod Lake area. Workers at Finmoore Lumber I
'BIG ONES; SMALL ONES,' SOME AS BIG AS YOUR HEAD." The song with those lyrics applies to coconuts but it could just as well apply to the south traffic lane of the Fraser Bridge here. Potholes in the roadway would make dandy pits for trapping elephants. We'd like to see the CNR" post a "Sorry For Any Inconvenience" sign near the bridge. �Vandervoort Photo.
Birth Rate in Area
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The Cariboo Health [Jnil area
is the distinction of having the highest birth rate over any other area in British Columbia.
It was brougm out in the innua'l health unit report thai he local area is sporting an lverage of 30.G per thousand lopulation.
This is almost 10 per thousand
For Theft of Horse
William Kraft, was sentenced o three months in Oakalla Prison Farm after pleading guilt} iere yesterday to horse theft.
Kraft took a horse from II. 0. ludd on the Quesnel highway Yugust !� and was arrested by t'CMP after he rode it through Prince George.
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The Prince George branch of thq Unemployment Insurance Commission reports that thisfcity is in a low fourth place, with $51,144 being paid bit in unemploy ment insurance in .July. r
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over the prqvince;wide average.
11 is also to lie noted that this total is several units higher than the Canadian average.
As for I lie death rate, the Cariboo unit area has the tagline of having one of the smallest in Canada.
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WASHINGTON (AP) � Congressional associates quoted !>..�� mocfatiu Representative Frank
Thompson of Xew Jersey today as reporting acid was thrown on him from a passing automobile Tuesday as he drove to his office.
Stewart I.. LJdal of Arizona, also a Democratic Representative, and close friend of Thompson, said the Xew Jersey representative told him and a few others about, the incident. rpn(
Udall said there was an acid Dan-hole through Thompson's cloth- usual s arm. about
��imp. at Mile 103 on the PGE, testified at the inquest thai Ernest has been "very depressed" the day before his death.
Nels Kriberg quoted Ernest as saying, "there's no use going on like this. I'm just working for a liquor store. That's where all my money goes."
The man was found outside his crude tent-shack Monday morning dying of a bullet wound in his right chest, inflicted by a ,303-calibre rifle found nearby.
Ernest died on the way to hospital in Prince George.
lie was found by fellow workers when he didn't show up for work at the nearby lumber camp.
Next-of-kin were found at Dundas, Ontario.
Ernest had been working in lumber camps in this area for several years.
RCMP Constable Stan Partridge told the inquest jury that
he was positive, from his investigation at the scene, that the wound that took the life of the lumber worker was self-inflicted.
He said it would have been very difficult for anyone other than Ernest to have fired the fatal shot.
There was no sign of a scuffle in the cramped confines of the dead man's tent and from the angle the bullet was fired and other evidence it was quite obvious Ernest sat on his lied and pulled the trigger of the rifle, said the constable.
The man appeared to have walked from the tent and col-lapsed because there was no blood on the floor of tlu? dwelling but he could have crawled to where he collapsed at the door as two shirts and a leather jacket he wore would have soaked up the blood, said Constable Partridge.
Africa National Congress Inspires Race Disturbance
DURBAN, South Africa (Reuters) � The deputy head of the Sout|i African police force said here Tuesday night that present race disturbances in Natal province, in which two natives were killed by police, were in-
For Birds
tCP7 � Farmers in this area GO miles west of Winnipeg are providing free ammunition to hunters in an effort to kill off the worst blackbird invasion of cereal crops in several years.
Frank Anthony, president of the local fish and game association, reported thai in one recent weekend carton after carton of f\X'v shells were given to hunters by farmers. 'Blackbirds, long a nuisance
iere, have attacked large fields of cereal crops approaching maturity. Damage ranges up to 75
)0r cent in some districts.
Farmers are awaiting the results oi' research undertaken by a I'nited States group reported making a study of the situation.
Cancelled
ing and a burn on the size of a dim
Happy Gang Square Club has cancelled its Wednesday night outdoor dance in Simon Fraser Park for this week due to wet weather.
spired by the African National Congress.
Itrig. ('. .1. Els', assistant police commissioner, said some of the leaders of the disturbances, and "at times all the leaders," were dressed in congress colors or. wore congress armbands. The congress is the main African political organization in South Africa. Fires still were burning on five white farms this morning as police searched for arsonists. More than 300 African women have been arrested In the lust two clays, most of them charged wit h trespassing and obstruction.
African Negroes' started riots Friday in widely separated parts of Natal, in protest oycr higher taxes and restricted entry into towns and cities.
Africans say the laws are. aimed at forcing them to work for white farmers at lower wages than they could earn in the cities.
A 21 percent decline In trie incidence of venereal disease in the area covered by the Cariboo Health Unit, was reported for the year 1958 in the unit annual report for the year 1!)">7.
Total of 120 cases were reported.
There was an overall provlnc-cial decline of 10 percent during the same period!
From information he gained he said no one at the camp was surprised by Hrnest's death.
The man had taken several months' treatment at Crease Clinic last year for alcoholism and apparently had "lost hope for himself" when he went back on the bottle.
Time of death was placed at between 8:30 and 10:30 a.m. Monday.
Ernest was pronounced dead near Summit Lake by a doctor who was in the police car that met the vehicle carrying Ernest to Prince Geoi'ge.
it fo Bed Animal
A new type of beef animal is to be displayed this year at the Prince George Fall Fair.
Several Hrangus cattle arc to be shown at the fair by Alan Low of btnvsoii ('reek. The animals are a cross between Brahma cattle and the Aberdeen Angus � five-eighths Brahma and three-eighths Angus blood.
A good beef animal, the breed has been developed as a very hardy strain, capable of standing great degrees of heat and cold as well as flies and other hardships.
Low consented to show his animals at the local fair after a visit last weekend to the Dawson Creek Exhibition by members of the fair board.
Members interested breeders in the Dawson Creek area to bring about 10 cattle in all to the fair here on September 1, �j and 7.
The prime purpose of the visit to Dawson Creek was to give fair board members fresh ideas Concerning operation of the fair.
Immunization
Last evening In the Central Cariboo Health Unit 598 persons received their immunization shots of the new polio vaccine.
Dr. K. I. G. Benson told The Citizen this morning the unit was very pleased with the turnout but it could still be increased.
He remarked that this brought bo total percentage for the City it Prince George to between is and 20 percent. In actual numbers about 2600 people have received shots for polio.
The next clinic will he held on September 17.
Dr. Benson's closing words were, "we were pleased with the turnout but these figures coidd still go much higher."
The Vancouver area is still a high first, paying out S702,f)S9. U. 1.. Moss, manager oi the local Unemployment Office stated that in mid-August, a total of U3-1 male and 210 female applicants from throughout the local office area were registered as seeking work.
This represents a drop of 23r.'b from thai of July.
He also reported that job opportunities in this area show an Increase of 80'r with the largest iiuiilhcr being for skilled and unskilled workers required by the logging and lumbering operators.
In the women's division, a shortage of experienced waitresses, domestic workers, fully qualified stenographers and experienced bank workers is evident.
The overall situation for the Prince George area is relatively good.
The sum of $1,516,607 was paiil out in unemployment insurance benefits in the Pacific region during the month of July. This was $307,330 less than the amount paid out during the
irevious monjtn and $1,9S6,3S2 less than the! amount, paid out in the same period a year ago. Horace Kcetch, IJegional dirctcbr of the Unemployment Insurance Commission in Vancouver revealed in a summery last week that he felt unemployment conditions were considerably brighter than they were during the corresponding month last year. His summary revealed an increase of about 'M'c in the number of persons seeking work.
The CIC regional director points out, however, that there is some evidence that the buoyancy of the labor market Is beginning to show signs of weakness as a result of the current wave of labor management disputes.
The main effect of this Is being felt in the Lower .Mainland, coastal and Vancouver Island areas.
At most interior points of the region, however, practically all the logging camps are working to full capacity.
With the exception of seasonal labor turnover, the
mining industry remained fairly stable during .lufy, l>ut experienced miners a'l'C still needed in some areas.
Employment in the construe lion industry also remained at a good level during the period but some effect of the ironworker's' strike and shortage ol essential lumber supplies resulting from the dispute in the lumber industry, are beginning to retard some of tlu1 largor construction project activities.
In the executive and professional field, there is a continuing demand lor certain types of engineers, designers and draftsmen.
There is a noticeable decline in the number of women .seeking employment (luring the current period although there is still a fair demand lor fully qualified bookkeepers, legal stenographers, credit clerks, hairdressers and experienced restaurant workers. "Generally the overall employ: ment situation in the Pacific Region appears to be much more favourable than it was b year ago, and if existing labor management problems are soon settled this could still be a year of high employment," Air. Kcetch stated.
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1)/. Benson brought out one very important point in his report: 'How well we look after I these 'new' citizens � good iced-Ing, housing, clothing, schooling and employment conditions will serve to make tiie-c representa I lives of the next gencratii better citizens, to produce their turn a bettor society and better country."
McBride will be the next telephone exchange to be added to the operator Ion;; distance dial-Ing system when a cut-over to new equipment is made on Nov. 15.
A new building is at present under construction and installation of new equipment will start Sept. I. The new equipment will increase capacity at the McBride office from bo to 000 lines.
With the changeover Nov. 15. telephones will be on the two-letter-five-number system instead of the present three-number dialing. Prefix for the Me-Bride exchange will be LOgan-:).
Cost of the expansion program will be $70,000.
One benefit McBride telephone users in the new system will receive is selective ringing on party lines. That is, only the telephone of the party being called will ring rather than the present system where each has a distinctive ring and all telephones on tlie line ring. j
BUSINESS MAY BE BOOMING but the boys on construction crews are paying little attention to it. This heavy concreffe wall is being erected at the rear of the first floor of the Hudson .Bay's building. When it is finished it is to be the warehouse for electrical apparatus. Salesgirls said this does not bother them too much,
but.it seems to be common consensus that the sooner it is finished the better it will be. Workers have also finished the main work on the second flqor in the new addition. They are now getting ready to put in the counters.
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