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Dedicated to the Progress of the North
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Vol. 3; No. 214
PRINCE GEORGE, BRITISH COLUMBIA, WEDNESDAY, NOV. 4, 1959
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Vellowlicad J'ass. After going through the mountains it would turn north to McBride, Prince George, Vanderhoof, B u r n s Lake, Hazelton, Terrace and Prince Rupert.
In British Columbia it would tap the rich northern areas and provide a major access between the northern regions of the prairie provinces and northern British Columbia.
As work on the Trans-Canada Highway passes $"500,000,000 in value a western group continues to seek support for an alternate route which would run through the Prairie Provinces and British Columbia farther to the north.
Advocates of the alternate route�iin affiliation of hoards of trade along uncompleted Highway 10 and the Northern Trans-Canada � Route Association�con tend the present Trans-Canada Highway serves only part of the west 'because it passes only ' through soti thorn regions.
This map shows the alternate route for which the western group seeks recognition already is in existence. The big gap is a .stretch between Jasper and Prince George. Highway Hi, completed between these two points, is the aim of the westerners, along with recognition of the entire route as a second Trans-Cajiada Highway.
The proposed route would go north in Manitoba through Dauphin to Maifeking, then proceed west into Saskatchewan through Hudson Bay, Tisdale, Melfort, Prince Albert, Hhcllbrook, Spir-itwood, Glaslyn to Lloydminster. in Alberta It tl.en would follow Highway 10 through Vermilllon, [Vegreville, Edmonton, EcJson and Jasper, then through the
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D.WVSO.V CHEEK, B.C. 01 � This northeastern British Columbia city is looking tor it city clerk l>ut it's not likely the applicant from Pavilion, B.C., will K�'t the job.
His application asked for S'i.nno a month, a cat' and a chauffeur, an out-of-town house � and accommodation for his .Arabian stallion.
Two Huntsville Youths Charged With Murder
Logging Accident Takes Man's Life
Eric Sakawsky, 40-year-old father of three and part-owner of Lincoln Sawmills has been killed in a logging accident at the mill. 57 miles north of here on the Hurt Highway.
He was dead on arrival at hospital here after lie was crushed by a l[)g about ,'i p.m. yesterday."
RCMP were investigating today.
An inquest is planned, probably for Thursday morning.
Details of the accident were sketchy but Sakawsky was (bought to have been fatally injured while working on a skid-way.
lie and his wife, Jean, had three children � Jimmy, 7. Dale, I. and Sharon, one year.
Funeral service is slated for '2 p.m. Friday at the Anglican Church, with Reverend Canon Tom Allen officiating.
The family has requested that no flowers be scut.
BRIDGE, Ont. ICP) � Two Huntsville youths charged with murder heard a 17-year-old girl tell a Supreme Court jury Tuesday how she spent days with them in a^stolen taxi, in barns and on the banks of the Montreal River.
Marvin McKee. 20, and 17-year-old Wayne Sluman, charged jointly wtth-tlie June 17 slaying of Francis Grosso, 29-year-old Huntsville taxicab owner, and his companion Bruce Spiers, 22. pleaded not guilty.
Police found the decomposed hollies of the two men in a gravel pit after an 11-day search. Both had been shot in the head and their pockets emptied. Spiers' skull had been crushed.
Speaking without apparent emotion, Ann Young of Hunts-
Planes Clashed Over the Desert
TEL AVIV (Reuters) � Four Egyptian MiG fighters and Israeli fighter planes clashed over the Central Negev Desert today, an Israeli Army spokesman announced.
Four Egyptian M1G-17S�Soviet made jet fighters�penetrated 15 to 20 miles into Israeli air space from the Sinai Desert before being intercepted, the spokesman said.
He added that all Israeli planes returned safely to base. There was no report that any of the Egyptian planes was hit.
The incident was reported to 'he United Nations truce supervision commission.
Joint Defence Talks
WASHINGTON (CP) � Canada and the United States will hold a new found of ministerial talks on joint defence problems Nov. S-9, state department officials said today.
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Living Cost Rise
OTTAWA (CP) � Canadian living costs rose in September for the third consecutive"months pushing the consumer price index to a record high of 128 on October 1 from 127.1 a month earlier, the bureau of statistics reported today.
The rise of .7 per cent was due mainly to a 1.5-per-ccnt increase in food prices, described by ihc bureau as "seasonal.''
But all other sectors of the consumer budget also showed price increases in September, moving the index two points above its level nl' 12i> on Oct. 1 last year. The index is based on 1949 equalling 100.
ville said the two boj's picked her up in Oshawa on the night of the murder and drove her to the home of McKee's uncle at Elk Lake, near Kirkland Lake in Northern Ontario. HEADED INTO BUSH
During the drive north, she said, the car left the highway near Huntsville and they drove to a small gravel pit. The boys left her. in Uhe cur while they headed into the bush for 20 minutes..
Miss Young said she has known 'both boys for about four years and steadily dated McKee for the last 1',-j years. She said McKee was the leader of their escapade.
While they were staying with McKee's uncle, she learned police were searching for them and told McKee. That night they slept in a barn, then borrowed a boat and travelled down the Montreal River.
She said they travelled by night and slept on shore for four days before police arrested them.
Loan Demands Beyond Quota
OTTAWA (CP) � Housing structlon could not be preciably" increased this
con-"a'p-
winter by further federal housing loans. Finance Minister Fleming said Tuesday night.
He also said the government had not deliberately cut off its direct mortgage lending.
Mr. Fleming, appearing on 1 he CBC's televised program Press Conference, was asked about the announcement last Friday that no further applications would be received for federal bousing loans because government funds for that 'purpose were all committed.
He said the government, in starting its lending program last summer, had expected a demand lor 10,000 mortgage loans this year, instead there had been 12,000 applications. Government housing funds now were all Invested.
Even if the government loaned mure money now it was too .ate in the season to make any perceptible difference in the amount of house building this winter, he said.
Mr. Fleming declined to forecast how long the present Situation of tight money and high interest rates will continue.
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Shot in Knee
FORT ST. .IAMK.S, Ohm Pcrin, 11. wa with criminal Monday after
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negligence here man was shot
KAMLOOPS (CP) � Two new cases of polio were reported in North Kamloops Tuesday, bringing the total this year in B.C. to 81.
A 21/2-year-olcl boy was stricken two days ago and brought to hospital suffering from slight paralysis. The second was that of a 36-year-old woman from North Kamloops.
Authorities said the woman had received one shut of anti-polio vaccine but the youngster had received none.
BOSTON BAR (CP)�Howard Skaar of Vancouver doesn't inow how the survived an acei-lent that killed the driver of he car in which he "was riding.
One minute1 he was asl'eep In �he car, 'Uhe next, 'he was on a narrow ledge on a sflreer cliff 100 feet from t'he road. The car was another 200 feet below lim in 'the rugged Fraser Can-son. It ha'd crashed through a guard rail. Passing motorists spotted tlhe wreckage.
"It wtirf a dream for a few ninnies�1 didn't know what lappened," 'he sum in an 'intyr-
"The first thing l remember was lying on tflie ground witlh lig'lKs above ami below inc. Someone sTro.uled not to move and I shouted back, and waved my arm."
'ROMP Cpl. C. A. Wiiitchead was lowered liy a rope, wrapped his arms and jega a'bout the injured man, and both Witfu pulled back to the highway.
Mi-. Skaar .-aid ithe door of the car 'must have come open and i)re was -t'hrown some '2T> feet, into some Saplings.
'JWbei't Fairburn, -10, of Vancouver, was kilted 'in'.l!ho crash near Anderson Creek bridge tiwci miles from there.
GORDON HOUGH recently
appointed District Cub Master has been a Cub master in Prince George fur the past six years. Two years ago Hough completed Gilwell training which is the highest position in cub work.
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SUMMIT LAKE en� A mech-mic was seriously injured Tuesday night in an explosion that destroyed the Summit Lake garage al Mile 3'S2 of the Alaska highway.
The mechanic, whose name was not released, was injured when a gasoline tank on which he was welding exploded; The garage was levelled, destroying a tow truck in the building.
Tliei'o were no other in juries.
An intensive search was underway today near Marguerite�00 miles south of Quesnel�for a Prince George hunter missing since Sunday in heavy bush country.
Latest development in the search for painter Henry McMurren, about 45, of 1752 Norwood, came today when four aircraft from the Prince George Flying Club left for the area.
Mo.unties, accompanied by an RCMP tracking dog, are leading a 12-man ground party in the search, now concentrated on the west bank of the Fraser River, north of Soda Creek. Five other men from Prince George, in MeMurren's hunting party, last saw the missing man in that area about 10 a.m. Sunday.
[�LANES SEARCHING
The four planes from here that joined the search today left for the area about 9 a.m. They were piloted by Charlie*Shields, .Mike Hackman, Chris Larson and .lim Crokcn. There were about nine local men in the planes� including pilots � who had volunteered as observers.
.McMiutcii aim live Other iiiimi It'll the city Friday niglit. Mis companions�Hurry Curtis, North Necliako; l,r<> lien-oil, :t2.{ Freeman; Kay Wil-kilis, i:l7() lOwcrt; lioh Killer, Kiirnl lloutc 2; Charlie .Miller, I I Hi Freeman�reported him missing when lie failed to keep a rendezvous Sunday.
The tracking dog was brought into the area Monday night from Kamloops and worked in the area yesterday, along with the ground party and two private platj.es from Williams l.ako. Tnu
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CAIRO i Healers) � The Egyptian newspaper Al Akhbar reports from Baghdad today that doctors intending Iraqi Premier Abdul Karim Kassem are considering amputating his arm, damaged by bullets in an assassination attempt October 7.
The paper says Ka.ssem's health is deteriorating rapidly. '4 .
in the knee with a rifle. Police said Ernest Peters, an
Indian trapper, was shot with
.i .32-calibre rifle when he wai
sitting mi a log at a roadside.
Perin was hunting nearby at
the time. The accused was remanded to
Saturday without plea. Fort St; j James is no miles northwest J of Prince George.
A rampaging grizzly bear errorized the tiny mining settlement of Manson Creek, ibout 12U miles north of Ajrt St. James, during the )'ast week.
During the bear's destructive binge, eight cabins vere broken into and ransacked with the finesse of i professional house-wreck-n^ crew.
The bear was caught and dlled Monday by .Milt YVar-�en, predator hunter for the ocal branch of the game lepartment, and Andy Si-nonski.
The "berserk" bear caused onsiderable damage to the abins during his destructive �aids.
Warren stated, "we've never lad anything like this happen irouncl here before. 1 don't �mow what caused it." \ LITTLE HUXGKY
Warren believes that the bear was probably looking for food when be hit the first cabin.
The berry crop in Northern B.C. was almost non-existarit this year," lie stated, so the bear was a little hungry. Hut he wasn't starving."
The raiding grizzly hit a cabin owned by Knowland, a placer miner, on his first foray.
He entered the cabin by pushing off the roof. Once insiriu lie proceeded to cut l."5 loaves of liroad, \v;ix paper and all, 2(1 dozen cjjkn and anything .else he could get his paws on.
In his search for food, the rambunctious bruin tore apart the inside of the cabin.
Next on bruin's list was a visit to the cabin of Mrs. Miller-Tait, He entered by way ul' a window, and once inside proceeded to smash every window in the cabin.
The bear also attacked and wrecked a steel desk inside the cabin, tearing off the legs and crushing the desk.
Mrs. Millcr-Tnft said that Ihe bear then raided her pantry. He consumed all of the, cannrii food. iucliMlinu several large lins of jam, splattering much of it on Ihe cabin's �walls and ceiling.
The bear's most destructive raid came when he hit the cabin of a Consolidated Mining and Smelting geologist with a blitz-kreig attack. i.
The bear apparently went crazy in the large cabin and almost completely ruined it in his rampage.
Once again he gained entry through a window, and again proceeded to smash every window in tile cabin. A bed and ma!tress were heaved out one of (he windows and a chesterfield chair was stuffed part-way through another window.
Warren stated that the bear then tried to rip down one of the walls, and made a good job of it.
The cabin was stocked with a large supply of food, and bruin consumed up most of that �� including 12 packages of jello powder.
By this time, the people of the settlement were carrying rifles with them at all times. They organized several posses to trail bruin, but the night-raider eluded them with ease.
And he kept returning for visits to other cabin:;.
One night he again visited the unlucky geologists cabin and feasted on grease and oil used fur lubricating a caterpillar tractor.
He also hit and wrecked a cabin belonging to Hob Watson, an oldtimer in the Manson Creek area.
One night bruin was caught
peering into the local trading
post, sizing it up f<�r raid. A
I barking dog h e 1 p e d to .scare
him off.
Another nighl he broke a window in a cabin and pushed his head In to have a look around. Art Hynnian, the cabin's occupant, woke while'bruin was looking around. His screams frightened the bear off. FATA I, VISIT
The bear then staged a return raid on the geologist's call-in, bul this time it proved to be a fatal visit.
During his foray Into the Tallin, the bear ate a piece of poisoned meat planted by Warren. Warren and Simonski then 1 racked the bear and finished him off.
Bruin's week-long reign of terror was finally over, much to the relief of the Manson 'Creek >
dog is being used again today but liCiir say '-'nothing new" has been turned up.
The five otlur men in the mis-ing man's party are in the area, aiding in search operations.
McMurren, a single man. was employed as a painter, along with Wilkiris, by Carl Wede-meyer. He arrived here; this spring from Kitirriat and was originally from Norfolk, Alberta. uniiOW kkkk/im;
The lost hunter has been subjected to belbwjfreezing temperatures now for more than three days in the heavy tangle of bush north of Soda Creek but he is described by police as an experienced woodsman.
One Diane that left here this morning to join Hie search returned w i t h mechanical trouble after ball' an hour in
Hi.- difficulty in raising buffalo in captilvity. Four 'buffalo have been born ;:'t 'the zoo, and two Were sold to other zoo.-'.
OLD BRUIN was an unpopular guest at the tiny settlement of Manson Creek, about 120 miles north of Fort St. James. He finally wore out his welcome among the
settlements residents and Milt Warren, left; predator game hunter for the local branch of the game depart-mnt, and Andy Simonski had to nab him