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CDiTORIAL ........................ Page 2
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WOMEN'S, SOCIAL .......... Page B
Dedicated to the Progress o/ the North
WEATHER
Intermittent light roin, otherwise cloudy wifh afternoon showers. Remaining cool. Winds southerly 15. Thursday's outlook � showers, tow tonight and high tomorrow, 40 and 55.
Phone LOgan 4-2441
Vol. 3; No. 174
PRINCE GECRGE, BRITISH COLUAABIA, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 9, 1959
Parts Omitted !n Installation
NEWLY-APPOINTED minister of St. Giles Presbyterian Church last nigh! met for the first time with members of the church session following a service of
recognition which installed him in his new charge. With him were C. T. Wilcox, A. E. S. Cordiner, R. J. Mirdoch and K. C. S. Luttrell.
Although persistent rains have kept the first hazard to a "low" rating in the Prince George Forest District foresters are taking no chances. With start of the Hunting season the B.C. Forest Service has issued a warning to hunters.
It says, "There is still the danger of forest fires starting from carelessly discarded clgar-et butts and campfires that have not been properly extinguished,"
Only 209 forest fires have been recorded in this area during the 1030 fire season � with fire fighting costs at the $11'J,-203 mark � as compared to l'J7 fires to this time last year. which cost $1,073,715 to fight.
Last year fighting costs here were the highest of the five forest districts in the province at this time but currently only the Prince Rupert district has lower costs than Prince George.
The Vancouver Forest District has had the most fires this year
The malfunctioning heart of the Prince George Coliseum, the ice-making plant, will conic in for some surgery in the very near future.
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Carelessness is robbing an appalling number of British Columbians of their sight every year, according to Mervyn Ca�'|-inn, Held .secretary of the Can '
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Qlind in Northern ii.C. and the Yukon.
Here during the week-end on an annual tour of CNIB offices, he said there are 2,~i() eases of blindness it; B.C.; "Two hundred too many."
Carelessness; he said, is a major contributor to the increasing list of the province's sightless population and he appealed to residents, particularly children, to lie moie careful with their sight. Playthings, he warned youngsters, can often become dangerous weapons if u^\ imprudently.
Regular eye examinations were recommended, particularly for those suffering defective vision.
The CNIB, said Carl ton', is continuing its blindness prevention program in efforts to curb Joss of vision.
Increasing population Is the main cause of a yearly jump in the number of blind In I!.('. bul more care would certainly nol injure the situation, said the CNIM field secretary.
(larllon, who himself has only I 1(1 per cent vision due to malnutrition suffered during four years as a Japanese prisoner of war. also made an appeal to service clubs. He urged them to accept blind persons as full-fledged members, hot, as do some, only as honorary members. Many can be very valuable in service club activities
but being accepted as an honorary member can be, not only very frustrating, but very embarrassing, he said.
The ['MB Held secretary ap-IhiiUmI to Northerners to !>e more attentive to blind persons on the streets. Some have difficulty crossing streets, he said, and people in the North are not as aware of this as elsewhere. Their help would be gratefully received.
The local CNIB campaign for funds will take the form of a tag day. It will hi; held next Saturday, September 12.
l!i!l Wardlaw was elected new president of the Prince George Players Group.
others elected were Marlene Ongman, vice-president; Pal Gough, secretary; George (!ii>-bins, treasurer; directors, Ruth Ponnock and ISlsia Gilo's.
The players are resuming rehearsals of Cinderell, to be presented October !> and 10. Any-one interested in acting or any other phase of Little Theatre u ork ainl w onl-.l like to join the cast nf Cinderella, phone LOgan 1-2088 or LOgan i-7681.
The eiidi is planning to combine their talents with a popular form of entertainment to provide an evening of fun for themselves, friends and persons inclined to the arts, for later this fall.
Funeral services for .Mrs. Lillian Gertrude Jaeck, a inenvbor of one of the oldest milling families in this district, wore held from Holly.burn Funeral Home, West Vancouver, Tuesday. Rev. Thomas T. Oliver officiated.
Mrs. .laeck's father, Eugene Bashaw, qwned the original mill at Sinclair 'Mills, 13. QV SHe and her husband, the late C. E, Jaeck and family, lived a>t Longworth, Bend and Penny for many years, where Mr. .laeek was 1n the sawmill business.
Both families were ploneei millmen here, having lived in this district since 1918.
Mrs. Jaeck was well known here and will be missed by her many friends.
She is survived by one son. Earl Norman Jaeck, and two grandchildren, Bryan and Susan iif Florida; two sisters. Mrs. I,. Howe of Portland Oregan, and Mrs. Lois Taylor from Spokane, Washington; and one brother, Mr. V. Bashaw, Moses Lake, Washington.
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The women's auxiliary to the loeal hospital requested and received permission . from city council last night to instal a gas heater in its "Thrift Shop" in the old police station in order to operate (luring the winter.
Permission, however, is sub ject to approval by the fire chief.
The letter asking permission noted that the auxiliary hopes to have another building for the s-hop next year.
City council last night found a new, temporary home for the Historical Society's museum, now situated in the Civic Centre, but not before Alderman Charlie Graham got in a few candid licks at the project.
Councillors decided to re-locate the museum in either the old fire ball or the former police station while Graham found lime to say the museum was of such merit that the exhibits "might as well be stored in some
� 805 � but the Nelson district has. had highest fire fighting costs � �209,53 1.
Estimated cost of fighting fires in the week ending September 1 was S:S(i,S6S.
I 958
District Kiri's Cost
Vancouver I.G29 $75.S.S1."
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58,662 110.203 rG5,61G 209,53-1
Total� 1,972 (172,!) 17
Fires burning last week IS7 New fires this week 28
Fires extinguished this week 45 Fires still burning this date 20 Estimated cost this week $36,86$
Tag Day for E!ks
City council last, night approved an Elks Club request for permission to hold a tat,' day September 20 in aid of cerebral palsy work.
dark basement."
The Civic Properties Commission had given the society an ultimatum that the museum he moved by September ;!() or it would be dismantled and stored in the Civic Centre basement.
As city fathers studied a letter from the Historical Society asking for a new location for tin1 museum by then. Graham prompted a move to have the city ask the Department of Recreation and Conservation to give financial aid to the museum to make a "real museum" out of t'ne project.
.\ Itlriiiian (ai'aliam had little lt()J)C for (lie museum ;is il now stands. He stiiri "I even
(|IM's(io!i Hie ;iu( lii'Ml ieit.v of some exhibits. .Many of tlieni have no significance or any great value."
Calling for a "real museum" to be established, through help <>f tiie li.('. government, he said there was "no point in displaying a lew relics" that very few people go to see.
Tiu city will move the museum to either the old fire hall or police station, "whichever is found most suitable," and the society hopes to keep it open one or two afternoons per week during the winter.
"We're always doing something for the dead." quoth Al-Graham, as he sttggest-lack-like building in the Civic Centre housing the museum he given to city workers as it is in better condition, and newer, than the city hall.
Conventional Railway Favored Over Monorail
VANCOUVER CCP)�The Sun says Wenner-Gre'n B.C. Development Company has abandoned plans for a monorail through north-central British Columbia In favor of a conventional railway.
Husiness Editor Mill Fletcher says In a dispatch from Fairbanks, Alaska, that the company has assured the provincial government it will make a start on a railroad to the Yukon border by next year.
Executives of the company, which is studying a proposed
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Funeral services were held last Saturday in Lakefieltl, Ont., for Charles Edward Stewart Cow, aged M) years.
Mr. (low. a former resident of Prince George, passed away Wednesday. September 2. following a lingering illness.
lie was a former railroad conductor with the CNR here and was a member of the Masonic Lodge No. Sf! and a member of the Shriners Gizeh Temple.
Charles Cow was a Boer War veteran and a Canadian Legion member.
He is survived by his sister, Mrs. Murky Carroll'of Eckville, Alberta.
development of the Rocky Mountain Trench aroa north of Prince George for Swedish industrialist, Axel Won'ner-Gren, were in'Fair-hanks with representatives of its sister company, Peace River Power Development Ltd.. for the 12nd General Conference of the Pacific Northwest Trade Association.
The Sun says the monorail idea was scrapped after Wen-ner-Gren H.C. Development, received a report from Col. Sidney Bingham of New York; who conducted the railroad survey.
"Presumably a conventional railroad is called for so it, can link up with the Pacific Great Eastern Railway near Prince George and a proposed American connection to Alaska, Fletcher says.
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ice-making plant had bee'n a thorn in the sid: of Civic Properties Commission manager Mil! Woyc'k. who is directly responsible for forcing the contractors into fixing the equipment.
During hockey season the machine burned out. one generator twice and, according to Woycik, would only operate at 50 percent of is lis.ted specif i-eat ions.
Knowing something was wrong, but not sure what it. was, Woycik contacted architect. A I-her; Church, designer of the building, and asked that the design engineer he sent here to check the equipment,
Woycik had to make his request several times, and in much stronger terms eaeli time, before getting his request honored.
The report, of engineer George Nixon of Vancouver was startling. Typed on 1 I pages, it told of wrong parts used and some parts left, out altogether.
Armed with this report, the Civic Properties Commission was able to get the contractors to promise to correct, the discrepancy. I'.XHT OK I'ATTIOKN
The schmozzlc with the iee-tnaking machine had, according to Woycik, started hack when the building was under construction.
The architect, in an effort, to cut down expenses, let the engineer supervising the installation of the ice-making equipment go and supervised the job himself.
Tlie architect, knowing nothing of the complex ice-making machinery, could not tell if the proper parts were being used or if it was belnU installed properly.
And the contractors, are no longer in the commercial refrigeration business, put the ma-
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� search for a I in the area east
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came to a hap iion ai.out 1 :�">'* yesic noon as Etocco Capo found near the creek ; lost for 28 hours.
The main search was centered in the area 12.'/a miles east of Stone Creek on the new access road.
Capogreco was reported missing about 7:1."> a.m. Monday alter hi- had drifted from his companions who were out on a timber cruising expedition.
When the group travelled several miles into the bush, Capogreco decided he was going back to the road and then to their camp. He left his two companions and started back lo the access road that was supposedly right behind them.
Soon realizing he was lost Capagrecu.elected to stay put at the creek and let. I he searchers locate him. It was at this point that Jim Cunningham, a member of the searching party, found him. Capagreco was tired and cold from his ordeal bul otherwise in good health.
Thi' main brunt of the searchers were from a mill in the area. Forestry department workers, under the direction of For-t Range i' Whiiev Anderson, also aided RCMP.
"With the help of the forestry and the mill workers the search very well conducted and lead to the locating of the lost man." said local RCMP officials, "Their help was very valuable."
Bonds Purchased By City Council
The city has purchased $50,-nun in Dominion of Canada Bonds, to yield 5.0 per cent by April. I960, for the city's utility sale funds.
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THE ABOVE GRAPH gives the daily temperature range for Prince George for the month of August.. Tlie bottom of the column gives the lowest reading and the top, the highest reading for the day. Our maximum temperature of 7U" degrees is shown on Aug. 1. and our minimum of 32 degrees on the 11th. The graph shows a rather uniform temperature distribution, the average or mean monthly temperature can almost be read directly off the graph. The tempera ture rose above 70 degrees on only three days and dropped to the freezing point on the morning of the 11th.
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Several records were set. weather-wise, according to tin1 airport meteorological office but they were records of which the weatherman is nol Loo proud.
The average temperature foi Augusl was 52 degrees, which is the lowest mean registered that month during the 4G years weather records have been charted here. August. 1958, produced a mean temperature of oS decrees ond the normal is 56.
Highest temperature last month was 7."j.G degrees, on the first, which is also a record, being the lowest monthly maximum ever recorded here. Last year the maximum for the month was 84.9 and the normal maximum is SG.l.
August 11 registered the coolest temperature last month � 32
j degrees. This was the first fall | frost.
As well as being cold it was wet in August. luiinl'all reached the I.SO inches mark � 2'^ incites above normal but one inch less than the record rainfall in August', IM is. Klghtoen days showed measurable precipitation, with 12 being normal.
"Cool temperatures and plenty of rain" tells not the whole story. Hours of sunshine were well below normal and winds were higher than usual. A total of 1 ys.fi hours of sunshine was recorded. .Normal is 246. Average August wind speed is 5.9 and records for August show speed last month at G.G miles per hour, with a record gust of 5G miles per hour experienced on the seventh.
Wet, cold, sunless days made life not too pleasant last month and September has yet to show-signs of promise.
AFTER WAITING for over a year to raise the required funds, St. Michael's and All Angels' Anglican Church has had the official sod turning. Seen holding the shovel is Lome Wildfong, People's Warden, while Canon Tom Allen looks on from the extreme right and architect Jolyon Briggs watches from extreme left. Church construction is expected to move ahead now as the level of the "fund thermometer" has reached the desired point.