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Vol. 3; No. 166
PRINCE GEORGE, BRITISH COLUMBIA, THURSDAY, AUGUST 27, 1959
BY CARRIER S5c PZR WEK1!
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PRINCE GEORGE'S new $2,000,000 hospital is to have a Royal name but not until early next year when Queen Elizabeth gives birth to her third child. This
decision was reached last night when members of the board failed to find a suitable name from those submitted by citizens.
P.G. and District Hospital Chasing Small Debts Again
The Prince George and District Hospital is watching you!
The piece of paper tucked away In ;i forgotten corner of a wallet, drawer or pocket saying vou owe the hospital two, three or four dollars has made you a wanted man.
The amount, granted, is not id licit .iiiil when you occasional l.v run across that bill it's easy to put off paying il "un-lil tomorrow" because it- ilo.es not seem large enough to be important. JMN MONEY GROWS
However, you're not the only person owing a couple dollars to (lie hospital and bills of Uvo dollars hero, three dollars there adus up to a fair chunk of much; needed hospital revenue.
Uruce Thompson, hospital administrator, says the hospital Is now searching for $11,,'! 11.12 in unpaid bills; bills owed by about 800 people.
I'Vw of the bills tire large but small payments due the hospital amount to a stagger-
ing sum in a short while. I'eople forget they owe them or don't bother. The hospital cannot afford to forget.
Accident Viclims Buried Yesterday
A double funeral was held for the two Unger, brothers, both killed in a traffic accident recently.
The service was held at 2:00 p.m. yesterday in Assman's Funeral Chapel with Rev. Bry.son Boyle officiating.
The chaiol was wore than full of Iriouds and' relatives from Saskatchewan, Alberta and B.C.
The two brothers, James, 21, and Richard, .''�!, were members of the Dunkley Lumbermen Softball team.
They were killed instantly, when their car swerved off the road near Ked Hock on the Qtfesnel Highway August 22.
Most of the money owing is on accounts payable that are now over three months old � $8.180.1)7 to be exact.
Tnree other categories stack up as follows: ACCOUNTS
Current � $1,482,01.
ISO days � iSl.G48.-10.
GO days � $773.80.
'JO days � $1,952.23. .
The situation is growing worse. AMOUNT GROWING
Several months back the hospital was looking for about a thousand dollars less in unpaid accounts than it. is currently. And, Thompson -says the hospital stands to lose about $30,000 by the end of the year unless former patients react to his urgent plea. Approximately $100,-000 was written off in bad debts last year.
Each month the Prince George and District Hospital collects only about two-thirds of money owing for the 30-day period.
Pioneer Reviews the Past
'1 sure notice how the country has changed since here last, and now there is a big town here," Hirst.
The year was 11)12, and
of the real bid-Prince George
Hirst worded it, " it was sure different then."
lie was born in 1SS7 in Virginia, and is still living in the United States.
Me came to Prince George or as it was then called South Fort
uildcis of the Grand Trunk Pa-ific railway between Kagle Lake what is now the Frasei1 iver I!ridge.
George in the winter of in 12 to take on the position of a civil engineer.
He worked at this for about IS months before he again felt the homeward pull of Virginia.
In answer to questions about his home he said that his original plan was to go home for a visit but he "stayed and stayed."
Hirst now is the owner of a building material firm in Lees-burg, Virginia.
His business was interrupted during the firs I World War.-He served as a [flight Lieutenant in France and Germany.
When he returned home he took up his business again and at the present time still holds a major 'interest In It.
When asked why he wa in this area he slate simply wanted to see
y again."
He is accompanied by his wife Katberine who goes on most of his trips and ventures with him'.
Hirst has never left the northern spirit of B.C. as he has been a faithful subscriber to the Prince George Citizen for several years.
He remarked that this has helped him to understand the situation at hand when he first came into town.
He is also sorry now that he did not take time to explore the country when he was here the first time, but now he is all set and will take time out to see as much of the country as he can.
ck
, "that he the coun-
Heart Attack
Kolan George Anderson of Clucuz Lake died Tuesday morning as a result of a heart attack.
RCMP in Prince George and Vanderhoof report that there were no traces of foul play and that they are satisfied the man died a natural death.
Anderson was from Prince Rupert but was visiting in the Cluculz Lake area'when the attack took his life.
No further details were available at press time.
Local Man Dies
William MacCoomb. deaf and mute, died in hospital here Tuesday.
.MacCoomb has no known relatives and is reported to .have lived in the Prince George district for over IS years.
There is no date set for funeral services yet.
'1'rince Qeorge's new 82.000,000 hospital situated at 2001 West Kith Avenue is to have a Royal name, Bruce Thompson, hospital administrator told the Citizen today.
Decision of the hoard to name the hospital alter a member of the Royal family was made due to the lack of suitable names submitted by the citizens of Prince George.
Thompson reported approxi-
mately forty names had been submitted.
When the hospital is named, in February, it will have the distinction of carrying the name of the first royal birth to a
reigning British sovereign for more than 102 years.
The last royal birth to reigning sovereignty took place in 1857, when Queen Victoria gave birt.h to a daughter, Princess Beatrice.
In turning the matter over to the House Committee, the administrator said we would have to wait until the Queen gives birth to her third child, early in the year, before we know if the hospital will be named after a prince or a princess.
Licence Rush To Start This Week
The Prince George department of the B.C. Pish and Game Branch told the Citizen this morning that the general rush for hunting and fishing licences has not yet started.
An official said that the big rush should come about the first of September when the would be hunters start thinking of the wide open spaces again.
it is also believed that this week-end should be the open-
ing of the rush that will swamp the local game branch office. This rush will last for about one month as all the local resi-
New Co-Op Store Needs Shareholders
The Prince George Co-Op will he looking for new shareholders starting' Monday, August 'M.
With the opening of the new store on the 1300 block of Sixth Avenue the Co-Op needs more shareholders to finance the big undertaking.
Howard Rudcen, General Manager of the Prince George branch, announced this early ibis morning.
He said that with the increase in stock and inside fixtures more money will be needed.
In order to get the ball rolling tin' Co-Op will hold a shareholders meeting in the Prince George banquet room, Aug. ill, to which all interested parties are welcome. They will get together and try to interest their friends in the business of being a shareholder. Starting time is 8 p.m.
The drive will be similar to lasl spring but there will not be any outside canvassers.
The system used this year will be the Centre of Interest plan. That means that the present shareholders will try and interest their friends and neighbors in the plan which will help to operate the local co-op store better.
Tlic executive has set a period of :'ii) days to obtain the required $50,000 in subscribed capitol.
At present there are about 1HH) shareholders in the local organization.
They would like to get another 300 persons interested so that Prince Geot.'gc Co-Op will bo fully financed.
Shares have a par value of S23 per share with a total of eight shares needed before a member is fully paid up. However, one
may become a member for as little as $20.00 down payment, and pay the balance on a budget system.
The advantage of this shareholding scheme is that at the end of the year any profits are paid back to the shareholder in a direct percentage of the amount of the purchases that have been made.
The new Co-Op store will be open about the end of October. If all plans go right this dale will be very close.
It is also pointed out that the old store on Fourth Avenue will remain open to become an Agriculture Supply centre.
The present staff of six will also have to be more than tripled to handle the increased business and also look after the bigger premises.
dents and the various hunting expeditions come to this area for the big game that is known to be here.
The cost of the licences for big game h u n tin g tire Quite varied depending on the status of the hunter.
A resident of B.C. will have to pay seven dollars plus the cost of the animal tags.
The cost of a licence for a nonresident of tlii.- province but a resident of Canada is set at $15 but the Hop price is paid-by the residents of another country other than Canada.
For example an American would have to pay $2u plus the cost of his animal tags.
The cost of the tags is also set at various levels. Moose tags are two dollars along with goal tags. The deer tags will only cost the hunter fifty cents apiece hilt as the official pointed out fifty cents is not much to pay lor a nice venison steak.
The 'out of province' residents .seem to have taken over the .spotlight as the most popular visitors to the hunting office.
However this is by. no means any Indication of what is coming as the main force of hunt crs is still to come and the Citizen was assured that there would be a flock of them.
The Fish and Game Branch would also like to wish everybody a successful hunting season hut would also like to say "Hunting can be dangerous, watch your firearms."
The shooting death near here August 17 of l(i-year-old Bernard Wall of Chilli-wack has been ruled accidental.
An iucp.icst jury, probing here last night into ihe incident, found tile bullet Wound causing Wall's death was accidentally inflicted wish a .:�)-.:>0 calibre rifle held by lu-year-old James Peter Bblado, HiG.'l-Pith Avenue. Jurymen deliberated about half an hour before giving the "accidental" verdict.
The post mortem report indicated the boy bled to death less than five minutes after the bullet tore through his jaw and severed blood vessels in the neck.
Wall died about 5:30 p.m. at the home of William Hogh, about seven miles from Prince George on the Giscomc 15oad. He was scheduled to return to liis Cliilliwack home earlier in the day but failed to catch a bus.
Hogh was not home the day of the shooting. "Jimmy" Bela-do, Hogh's brother-in-law, travelled to the house with Wall and 17-year-old William George Whitwiek to pick up several articles from the dwelling. IKO.VIC DEATH
The trip was nind<1 after the ' Clilllhvack .youth � who had been staying with his uncle, Henry Adrian, who operates a service station seven miles north of here on the Hart Highway � missed, by five in i n 111 e s, the afternoon bus that would have returned him home.
He deckled to catch a later evening bus and, in the meantime, went with the two other youths to the Hogh house.
The blond, chunky Belado boy, in a calm manner, related to the iii'iuest jury tnr events, leading up to the untimely death of Bernard Wall. When he was In the house, the other youths became involved in a good-natured argument in the yard. BeTado said he grabbed the rifle from the wall and planned to "scare" the arguing pair with the "click" from the gun.
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"1 didn't look down to see if it was loaded." be testified,
As the other boys came into the house Belaclo "jacked" the lever-action rifle and pulled the trigger as he held the gun at bis hip. Wall fell to the floor from the impact of the bullet. which RCMP Constable Robert Collins said was probably delivered from a distance of between seven and eight feet. ttEli4.1>0 HYSTEKICAIi
O t li e r evidence submitted indicated liela'do returned the rifle to its place on the wall and ran from the house. Whit-wick ran to neighbor Max Me-Call for help. The two met .Jimmy on the road, in what McCall said was a state of hysteria, as they rushed to the scene of the shooting.
McCall said Wall showed no signs of life when they arrived at the Hogh home.
Mrs. Hogh, Jimmy Belado's sister, said the boy would not have known the gun was loaded. Evidence showed the rifle had three Indicts in it. William Hogh had loaded it some time before the incident as his wife wanted it for protection. He is away from .home during the week.
Belaclo and Wall had only a c a s u a I acquaintance through Whitwiek.
Mrs. J. Stewart To Furnish One Hospital Room
Mrs. ,1. C. Stewart, widow of the late Dr. 10. (!. Lion, now living in Vancouver will furnish a room in the new hospital in memory of her late husband.
Tins was confirmed today by Bruce Thompson, hospital administrator.
Mrs. Stewart is well known to the people of Prince George having nursed at the old hospital which was torn down last year.
Mrs. Stewart informed Hie hospital board she woidd completely furnish a private room in the new $2,000,000 hospital.
Gaglardi Sets Next Year For Finish, of Highway 16
KITIMAT�A first-class highway between B.C. and Alaska would bring in millions of tourist dollars, Highways Minister Gaglardi said here.
He told the Associated Boards of Trade of Central B.C. and A 1 a s k a Affiliates convention that Highway l(j, linking Prince George and Pr ince.R u p e r t, should be finished next year.
The l!)(i-milc highway ends 35 miles south of the southernmost tip of Alaska.
"It's well on the way," the minister said. "There's not too much left. If the Americans move as fast as B.C.. the ferry routes will he completed, too."
Turning to labor unrest, Mr. Gaglardi said: "It's time those who rattle around and try to engender strikes at as critical time as this should have their heads examined."
He said he doubted If I he average laborer wants "the present strife."
VANCOUVER tCP) � Two violent earthquakes, two hours apart and separated by several thousand miles, rocked the Pacific Coast early Wednesday.
The first of the two rocked the port of Coata/.aeoaleos. Mexico, just after midnight.
Later the second quake shook the sparsely populated Queen Charlotte Islands off British Columbia, close to the Alaska border. There were no reports of damage or injury.
Tuesday itfgUt a rolling treai-
! or of less intensity was felt in southern ('ulil'oriua.
The Dominion astrophysical laboratory on Vancouver Island, recorded three "fairly strong" quakes centering In the Queen Charlottes, starling at 1:32 a.m. and, ending at (>:02 a.m. The University of Washington seismograph recorded shocks for two hours after the first one was noted at 2:30 a.m.
The same quake was noted by seismographs at the University of Alaska.