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Dedicated to the Progress of the North
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Vol.  3;   No.   194
PRINCE GEORGE, BRITISH COLUMBIA, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 7,  1959
A HEAD-ON COLLISION between the car and panel truck shown above about four miles south of Prince George on highway 07 Tuesday evening claimed the lives of the two occupants of the panel. The driver
of the automobile is in critical condition in hospital while his passenger is reported to be in fairly good condition.
Problems
(I'Jdilor's note: This is the eighth in a series of articles mi retarded children and the work being done to hrlp them.) By LEN WALKER
Although   much   bus   been accomplished by the Prince George and District Association for Handicapped Children three major problems regarding mentally retarded have become their concern. The firs I of these problem
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'tin! lack of a clinic for evaluating children and counselling parents.
It. is known that children attending .Aurora Sdhobl have not been asssesed. Also, there are children attending public schools in the area, and some who are not attending* school ill all.
The school board have established classes Top slow learners. However, there is no one with the specialist qualifications to decide, to whoso responsibility ii is td decide whether children Should be in Aurora School, the slow learners class or the regular classes.
ur. Benson, the Medical Health Officer of the Cariboo District, has taken a greal interest in these children and acts as chairman of the screening committee. However, with the turnover becoming higher thfi society members feel this will soon be too much iif a responsibility for the .Medical Health Officer. COUNSKLIjIXG
With regards to the rouxcl-liujl service the organization stresses the importance of this to parents. At present th'eSi! parents have no one to �:> to lor help and guidance. K feels that m> much heart breaU could l>e avoided if there was a clinic with a well-trained qualified stall' who could assess the child and tell parents what they may expect ui'
thai, child and how he should be cared for and trained. The second problem confronting the Society is the lack of training facilities for older mildly   and   moderately   retarded children.
Early in Alt'gust two children were turned away from Aurora School because there was nothing to offer in the way of vocational training which they needed.
At present, the only place where such training is available is Woodlands School, and, as many know, their waiting list is long. Because of this, there is little possibility of these young people to obtain this training for some years.
Steps have been taken to remedy this problem as the Association has i*ec6 in in ended that vocational training centres be established at str;i-tcjiic locations throughout the province for the training of retarded children who can become at least partially self-supporting.
The third problem is the lack of hoarding facilities for out-of-town children.
Although the Aurora School was originally intended to .serve this district! there are retarded children in surrounding areas whose parents cannot afford the $30 per month for boarding the child in Prince George.
Because the Department of Welfare denies responsibility and the Department of Education has made no arrangement for boarding children the Association has recommended that a boarding allowance be payable for those who must leave their homes to attend school.
An organizational meeting of the Prince George Happy Clang Square Dancing Club was held in the Civic Centre recently.
The new executive for the following year Includes: president, Doug Brown; vice-president, Joe 1'Yomberger; secretary-treasurer, I'at Wicks; directors. Bob Seeds, Francis Rose, Bobbie Philips, Celia Casslno, and Ole Bjeid,
The clii'b will be meeting every Monday night in the Civic Centre starting October 1!).
Delegates Final  Fie
Leave On Trip
MOSCOW CAP) � Lunik ill. Russia's newest space traveller, apparently was continuing o.n it's planned orbit today after round, ing i he moon, but Soviet scientists so far have not said what it. found on the other side.
Word of what the flying laboratory observed on ilu- face of the moon never seen by man Shay come after lunik's next transmission of data, scheduled from 7 to S a.m. MST today.
A Soviet announcement Tuesday night said the cosmic rocket reached a point 4,:i49 miles from the moon at 7:1(3 a.m. MST Tuesday and then "kept, its movement turning around the ruoon."
On the third day of the Canadian Institute of Forestry convention here the 200-odd delegates today will view two devastated forest | areas.
Dave Monk, provincial public relations officer for the B.C. Forest Service, says delegates will be viewing areas razed by ��fir" and "straw" fires at Mile (JO on the Hart Highway,
The fir fire in question qaused damage estimated at a total of $515,000. The other blaze damaged !>S0O,000 worth of timber.
The convention delegates will view damage caused by the flat-headed bore, a small beetle that infested the fir fire area just after the blaze was extinquished. The beetle damage over 60,000,-000 board feet of timber, that would have otherwise have been salvageable, after the fire was put out. In the straw fire area salvage crews were able to move
in before the beetles and take out much good timber.
On the fir fire the beetles damaged every standing piece of timber, and even started to break into the charred logo on the ground.
The salvage crews could not get enough lumber out of this area to defray the cost of sending salvage crews in.
When the delegates stop for
lunch today they will be treated to moose stew by the Finning Tractor company.
This afternoon the members of. the convention will be invited to tour the Stevens and Rahn Lumber Co. Ltd., on Kerry Lake. The mill is reputed to be one of the smartest and most up to date in the area.
Executive
At the first meeting of the i] a r w i n Elementary Parent-Teachers Association it was decided that .J. Selpdy would be the 1059-60 president.
Other elections includes: K. Belsham as vice-president; B. Smeaton as second vice-president; Mrs. W. Hermanson as secretary; Mrs. S. Johnson as treasurer.
Rev. M. K. Brown and Mrs. .1. Everhsen were named to the council representatives; Mrs. O. Manning in charge of memberships; Mrs. ,1. Paine anil Mrs. M. Pfliger as social conveners; Mrs. E. Sidsworth as historian; Mrs. Dorothy Bently as the hospitality president; Mrs, K. Mclntosh, Mrs. I). Clark and Mrs. O. Dupre as a program executive; and Mrs. K. Thomas, Mrs. H. Lundeen, and Mrs. L. White In charge of the ways and means committee.
The entire group took a grand tour'of the new Harwin school after the first  meeting.
QUESNEL, iU'. '('I') � A 77-year-old Winlock, Wash., hunter, lost for three days in bush country near here, was found Tuesday.
.!. II. England was discovered by a search party 10 miles east of Lac La Hache, in the Cariboo area of British Columbia';
Police said he was in good condition.
Another lost hunter. Alex Me-Kim'men, :ii), of Forest Grove, !!.('., walked out of the bush in the same area Tuesday after being missing for a day.
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ROME CAP) � American tenor Mario Lanza died today in a Rome hospital.
Lanza had been in hospital for about a week, for reported treatment of Q minor illness.
A friend said lie suffered a heart attack and died shortly after ftbqn. He was 3S.
Lanza was well known for his starring role in the motion picture the Great Caruso, which grossed one of the highest amounts of any musical.
The often temperamental singer also was known for his recordings.
Lanza was born in Philadelphia. His real name was Alfredo Arnold Cocozza. He later adopted his mother's name of Lanza for professional use.
Asks Funds
Funds   for   the   expansion of British Columbia's "Boy's Town," near Hope, might be solicited in Prince
George.
Money obtained from drives to be held across B.C. will be used to expand facilities of the ranch. Facilities are filled to capacity and boys are daily asking for more help.
To give these hoys the help ithey so urgently need, more room and equipment will be needed, a Boys Town spokesman said.
Boys Town, B.C. is maintained and operated by voluntary contributions only, and while the ultimate objective is to make the operation self-supporting, geher. ous and sustained public financial support is required, say town officials who are currently in Prince George studying possibilities of a fund drive here.
Boys Town, B.C., sponsored by the New Hope Benevolent Society, is a ranch, 12 miles out of Hope on � the Hope-Princeton Highway. The main aim of Boys Town is to combat and cure juvenile delinquency, and the problem pr&sonted by the boy-at-large � the product of broken homes.
These boys learn a trade and are helped secure a job. The maximum age of boys accommodated at the town is twenty-one.
Although the development of Roys Town is just starting, it will be modelled after the famed Boys Town, U.S.A. The ranch consists of 1,000 acres of beautiful, arable and timber land with lakes and streams. On the land are a number of large modern barns, horses and over 70 head of cattle.
The first cottage home is al-comt completed, although a considerable amount of work is still needed to complete the project.
'Besides varied sports, games, hobbies and ranch work, the hoys arc also provided wi'.h education and religious training. B.C. Government correspondence schooling is provided for the boys wishing to further their education until such time us schools are constructed. Religious training is given according
to the boys' religious affiliation.
The object of the group is to (each the boys to become self-rehent and solve their own problems, therefore becoming a welcome addition to society!
Home life is .stressed at the ranch. A group of about ten Ikj.vs share a cottage with a house mother and a house father, carefully chosen to help the attitude and behaviour of each lK>y.
Every boy is awarded his share of the household chorea, agricultural or .stock raising duties, and later, trade training.
Low morals are combat ted by the setting up of a high standard of conversation and conduct which contribute to poise, appearance, clean habits and acceptable social personality. The boys are encouraged to develop their own moral and spiritual strength.
'Father Flanagan's Boys' Town originated this modern method of approaching the delinquency problem and after forty years, he proved it to be a success. The boys are taught to "work out their own salvation." In British Columbia, the group is entirely unassociated with the American group.
Warden Hugh Christie, of Oakalla Prison, stated, "You cannot combat delinquency by talking about it, you must provide alternatives, and the only way out is to .strengthen the agencies that do such preventive work." The motto of the group is, "Better to Build a Boy than Mend a Man."
Tonight at 7 p.m. the Prince George night school instructors will bo interviewed on television with the express purpose of introducing them to the public.
Mr. Roth Gordon, director, said that his teachers should be familiar with the public.
Two Prince George district residents arc dead and two others injured � one critically � following a two-car, head-on collision about a quarter mile south of the Airport Tuesday night.
The two killed in the accident, a man and a woman, were riding in a 1953 Chevrolet panel truck which collided with a 1052-515 Lincoln about 7 p.m. yester-day.
The driver of the other vehicle, Joe Svato, is in critical condition in Prince George and District Hospital, Neville Nelson, 24, a passenger in the automobile, is reported in fairly good condition. NAMES   WITHHELD
Names of the two killed in the accident have been withheld by RCMP, pending notification of riext-of-kin.
The woman was killed almost instantly in the grinding crash. The driver of the panel, believed to be the dead woman's husband, died in hospital about 8:00 o'clock this morning.
The crash caused traffic to be re-routed over an abandoned section of highway 97 for approximately two and a half hours.
The Lincoln was travelling north, towards Prince George, while the panel was heading south, when the accident occurred on what has been described as a "dangerous curve" on the highway.
P.G. District to Have Record Cut
Forest Officials of the Prince George District reported today that the District will esablish an all-time high record cut this year with a. scale of over 772,000,000 board feet recorded up until the end of August.
"It is quite possible the cut will reach 1,000.000,000 board feet before the year is ended,'1 officials say.
The previous ' record cut for this Forest District was the 667,-606,000 board feet cut during the whole of 1956.
This new record which is at present keeping the Prince George District in second place cut, behind the Vancouver District only, has been accomplished in spite of the wettest summer on record.
If the cut reaches the one billion feet as predicted by the end of the yoar, it would be worth   some   $00,000,000  --a
now record in value for the District.
"This record is partially due to the now areas coining into full prod net ion as a result, of forest development road expansion," said Ted Knight, forester in charge of Management for the District.
"The PGE Railway has certainly contributed to this increase as well," Mr. Knight concluded.
The increase comes principally from the* Prince George and the Peace River Zones. Last yoar the Prince George Zone cut 351,000,-000 board feot; up to the end of August this year the cut was 504,000,000 feet. The Peace River is up IS,000,000 board feet over 1958 to an end-of-August total of 00,000,000 feet, more than twice the total for all of 1958. The Quesnel Zone Is up 24,000,000 board feet over 1958,
PRONOUNCED dead at the scene of last night's head-on collision between a panel truck and an automobile by Dr. P. J. Kinaian was the woman passenger of
the panel. Identity of the two victims in the accident has been withheld by RCMP, pending notification of next-of-kin.