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Vol.  3;  No.  226
PRINCE GEORGE, BRITISH COLUMBIA, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 23,  1959
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iurcau of Economics v, covers the metro-
A provincial government survey of pay rates in clerical, professional and trade occupations in 13.C. shows generally that northerners in many occupations earn more money than their counterparts to the south � with the frequent exception of workers in Metro-polity n  Vancouver.
The annual survey by the and  Statistics, carried  out  in  .1 politan areas of Vancouver and Victoria and the Northern  and Southern   Interiors.
Report of the survey, recently released, says it was not intended to cover all occupations but "included are common to most medium and larger size industrial, commercial and service types of business."
The report shows Metropolitan Vancouver workers, on the whole, have highest take-home pay of any in the four areas.
Northern salaries -- taken from information obtained in Prince George, Quesnel, Smithers, Terrace and Prince Rupert -- most often follow closely behind those in Vancouver, with some northerners claiming fatter pay envelopes.
� Generally, fewer dollars line the pockets of Metropolitan Victoria and Southern Interior employees. They have comparable salaries in most occupations, with Victorians usually getting just a slightly larger slice of  the  pie.
General trends are difficult to determine, however, as the Vancouver-Northern Interior-Victoria-Southern Interior pattern doesn't hold true throughout the report.    Following are some comparisons.
AVERAGE MONTHLY SALARY
Met. Van.    Ni Int.    Met. Vic.    S.  Int. Occupation Stenographer Bookkeeper Telephone Opt*. Jr.-Clerk Male Female
Civil   Engineer Architect Janitor
Local workers also come put fairly well on hourly wage rate comparisons. Automobile mechanics here pull down an average of $2.2:] hourly, carpenters get $2.48, cotistruction laborers receive $1.87 and labor foremen get an hourly rate of $2.21 on the average.
All these rates compare! favorably with those in other parts of the province.
Kates reported from the survey are those in effect prior to payroll deductions and don't include overtime money,1 special bonuses or commission earnings. And rales paid to part-time employees are not in-eluded.
The term "average" is defined as "a numerically weighted average of nil rates reported for any given occupation.
S2-H!	8212	8222	$212
$350	$33G	$279	$300
8225	$iyo	8201	8 1(iO2	$581	$460
850!)	$525	$450	$507
$289	$2!):;	8272	$22:3
liberal Leader Attacks Tight Money Policies
fNEWCASTLE,   X.I I.  (CPI Wint  of  Ihe  trend of onix
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ijim of the trend of opposition rtuclics in the forthcoming session of Parliament was given Saturday when Liberal Leader Pearson attacked Progressive Conservative policies as he began ;i tour til' northern New LJrun.su ick.
Striking oul ;n defence policies, ti;:ln money and uneven development of the Canadian economy, he said the government had made few real accomplishments.
At an overflow public meeting here .Saturday night, Mr. Pearson said "all government policies are unimportant face-to-face with the grave need of peace."
"All the legislation imaginable can contribute nothing it' we cannot  achieve peace."
Present defence spending was "little more than a terrible waste." Canada had little possibility of defending her soil alone and should pool her resources and stand collectively with allied nations.
Defence policy now seemed to hinge on basement fallout shelters. "We should do better than resort to hunts In our cellars."
Mr. Pearson said a government estimated expenditure of $500,000,000 on social services In the last -" l1 years included $187,000,000 of social benefits instituted by the former Liberal administration.
Prime Minister Dlefenbaker and Finance Minister Fleming apparently disclaimed any responsibility Tor a tight money situation, he said, if it was the action of the Bank of Canada and it was justified, why did they not  back  ii  up?
Earlier, he told students of Sackville's Mount Allison University he did not believe Russian Premier Khrushchev wanted war with the West because he probably realized this would mean   mutual   destruction.
Instead, he and his colleagues would strike in "our most vulnerable sector�economics."
Four Persons Injured In Traffic Accidents
At least four persons were known to have been injured in Prince George traffic accidents over the weekend. Three were still in hospital  today.
To Initiate For
ive
THE ART OF Ballroom dancing was received with pleasure at the Cabaret Saturday as Fritz Zoernack and his wife Rosemarie demonstrated the dance. They were brought back several times as the crowd applauded vigorously. A large crowd was in attendance at the annual event that has proved highly successful in the city.                                                                                  �Viinc!crvcH.:i  r:v u>
Cuban Labor Conference Like a Lunatic Asylum
HAVANA  CAP) � Cuba's organized  labor broke away  from the anti-Communist Inter-American   Regional   Organization   of Workers   and   set   out   today   to rgtinize   a   new   "revolutionary nfederation    of    Latin-Ameri-n workers."
Delegates to the National Cuban Labor. Congress Sunday night' approved a resolution harging that a regional agency was under council 61 ''American imperialism, which has consistently   supported   all   dictators."
Tile lnlrr-.\ nicrican K<'!i-iniial Organization is a branch tit' (lie International Confederation of I'Yi'i' Trade Unions, Hie west's rival to the Com-iniiiiisi-lril World [federation of Trade  Unions.
The     Congress     appealed     to o t h e r    Latin-American    labor groups to join it in forming the ew   "revolutionary   confederation."
The delegates also proposed a handful of oilier resolutions bristling with attacks on the United States. These included a
Licence Suspended
NEW YOKK iAI'i -- The New fork State ath-letiic commission today revoked Cus D'Amato's licences ;is a manager and second and suspended promoter llifl Kosensohn's matchmaking licence for three years. \Y \niato is the manager of former heavyweight champion' Floyd Patterson.
Another  Polio Case
NANAIMO (CP),-� Health officials have confirmed tli.it a one-year-old girl has been stricken with polio-mvelitis. She is the Nth polio victim this year in the Central  Vancouver  Island area.
Powers Agree
PARIS (Reuters) � The Western powers have -ereed to propose to. Russia to hold an East-West Limmit conference between April 2:> and the end of May, it was learned today.
Records Topple M Local Library
Records toppled at the City Library on Saturday, the busiest day in the library's history. Librarian Hill Fra'ser reported a iotal of (12!) books borrowed during the nine hours tlie library   was  open.
Two hundred ami sevehty-I'ive of the books borrowed were children's books. The remainder w ere taken out by adults.
Seventeen children visited the library for the first time on Saturday, "This is more new members than we usually have in one day," Mr. Fraser stated. He felt it was a fitting tribute to Voting Canada's Book Week, just  concluded.
Construction Value
VANCOUVER 'fit � Value of new construction in Iiriiisii Columbia d i! r i n g the first 10 months of lib".:) lagged 'more than 810,000,000 behind the total for the same period last year, the- Journal of Commerce reports.
The   trade   magazine   of   the construction   industry   says   the value of building permits issued ( iii   12  British  Columbia  centres to Oct. ol totalled S204,G77,07G.
denunciation of t'.S. "monopolists and the state department... for opposing just efforts of the I. a t i n-A in o r i c a n people to achieve their rights."
I .   S.    \a\al   anllioritics   at tlii'    (�IlillltillKIIIlO    iKIVill    has)', iii eastern Cuba, were accused til   a\  scali'S. Another   resolution   protested "the   tramping,    torturing   and jailing  of   Pannamanian  youth" �a  reference  to  the clash  three weeks  ago   between   C.S.   police in   the  Panama  Canal   zone and Panamanian   nationalists. Thi- convention  bogged down
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Lack of a candidate has forced postponement until January of the (lection for president of Prince George Agricultural and industrial Association.
.1. II. Morrison, the only" nominee, told a ��; arsely attended annual meeting Friday he felt he "needed a rest." Mr. Morrison is the immediate past-president. Only 23, most of them directors, attended in the civic cent re.
F olio w i n g were officials named for the coming year:
.). II. Hopcott, vice-president; Ted Williams, honorary secretary; Harry Lomax, honorary treasurer; directors', Joe Rtiss-man, Miss D irothy Johnston, !!. I-:. Ji hnston, Henning Niic-man, .v die con ven tiorr's working com-m it tee, made up I'litircly "I" members of liis ":�(;i!i of July" party and excluding ('oiiiiiiini-ists.
Speeial meeting of Prince George's winter employment committee will be called late this week to initiate a drive for increased   federal   housing  loans.
Committee secretary It. c. Bristow, employment supervisor for the local National Employment Service, said today the purpose of the meeting will lie to draft a resolution asking the .federal government's Central Mortgage and Housing Corporation to make more money available for home improve-I ment loans immediately.
M e a n w h ile the unemployment total in Prince George today stood at 2,462, down only slightly from a  week ago.
Of this total, 2,1 IS were tin-employed men and 314 were women.
Breakdown ol" the total male applicants showed 168 from the construction!) trades, 307 transportation and equipment operators, (J21 loggers and mill workers. 185 miscellaneous tradesmen, (ill! unskilled logging and consruction workers, and the balance miscellaneous unskilled men.          ,
Mr. Bristow said this week's total was increased by transients who are beginning to drift into the city from the outlying areas and smaller communities.
The s p e rial meeting, for which arrangements have tun yet been completed, is expected to make strong appeals for action to the National Employment Committee to get loan money made available for pe.r-sons wishing to do home improvement    work    llus   winter.
Such projects as painting, repairs, renovation, and even major work such as additions, can all help to relieve the unemployment situation, an NES spokesman said.
Appeals fin1 active support f o r the pi a n will go to Gus Henderson, M.P. for Prince Ctoorge; Public Works Minister W. N. Chant in Victoria; and Lands and Forests Minister Kay W i 11 i s t o n, M LA Cor Prince George.
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for more than 16,000 test strips as   a   result   of  last   week's  dia- I
says  there may  be some delaj i in keeping up with demand, although   "every  request  will  be honored."
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VICTORIA   (CP)   �  A   recent I four-day suspension of the operating licence of a burriaby trucking   firm   was   a   case   of   "some importance"   to   the   motor  car-1 rier industry of British  Columbia,  a  Public  Utilities  Commis-j son   spokesman   said   Saturday.
Carson   Truck    Lines    limited i 1   its   licence  sm.p a led   I ist ! Mon.lay while the  PUC investigated   ihe  written  complaint of a competitor who .-aid  the firm had   charged   rates  below  those filed  with  ;hc commission. The; licence was rc-instatcd Friday.   |
"Lower .rates, as such, arc not forbidden or discouraged by the commission,"     the     spokesman <, said.                                                    !
"But t!ie rate schedules must lie fair to all shippers. What is j intolerable is that rates should be lower for some shippers than for others and that shippers with strong bargaining power should be able to obtain advantages w bich other shippers do not obtain.''
Counsel for the trucking firm which operates between Vancouver and Prince George argued before ihe commission that it had been forced into the rate-cutting situation by its. competitors, who had also reduced rales.
An accident early Sunday ; which a large truck went ol the road near the Fraser Brlds
pital.   Unidentified,   one   of   th victims   has   be( n the  inber two   we not  seriously Injui
KC.MP identified the truck as Richard Alexander Hill. He escaped uninjured. The truck slid on its side in the ditch after striking three trees.
A pedestrian was struck by an automobile in another accident in the South Fort George area Sunday, and was sent to hospital with a suspected broken leg. Those involved were also  unidentified  at   press  time.
Meanwhile, five other persons died violently over the week-end in separate accidents on the lower mainland.
Three were fatally injured in
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her wish Saturday and wound up spending the week-end in jail to keep her husband company - - in separate cells, of course.
It all started when 21-year-old Hartmut Wontko was arrested by UC.MP lor obstructing a constable engaged in dispelling a disorderly  crowd.
Wontko's wife, Agnes, was then placed under .arrest for causing a disturbance and using obscene kmwiaw. She told Magistrate George Stewart in court today she wanted to keep her  husband  company.
'Von got your wish, didn't you," the magistrate commented.
Wontko .was released on a S"iii liond and l>i �� 'tiase reinundecl lo Saturday, alter Magistrate Stewart entered a plea of not guilty on his. behalf. .Mrs. Wontko was fined   $50.
 traffic accidents and a .'{1-year-qld North Vancouver man was  burned to death Sunday when a � hesti rfich! on which lie was  sleeping caught fire, apparently  from a ci jaret butt.
Gerald Helgason, 16, of Mission City, was killed Saturday when a bullet from a hunting  companion's rifle went through his abdomen. He was on a deer hunting trip with two teenage friends when the accident occurred.
An unemployed logger was lined $250 in police court today after pleading guilty to assaulting an IICMP constable in a house   fracas  Saturday.
^i.i .1 -'rate (ieorge � Stewart told Lome St. Marie, '- I. the charge of striking a peace officer is serious and "can't be regarded lightly in- people will get the impression it's open season mi policemen."
Const. Fred Jenkins told the ailed   to a   rowdy
court   he wa house   party  on urday  where, he rie   struck   him rate1 occasions. St.   Marie,
 I,arch late Sat alleged, St. Ma on three sepa aid,   was   hid-
In Water Three Hours
AGASSIZ (CB�Vern Rouleau, 27, lay for more than three hours in shallow water after he was thrown from his car near here Sunday. He suffered shock, a possibly punctured lung and other   undetermined   injuries.
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Ing in a closet in the house. The conslab'e said there were a number of juveniles in the parts' and there were "beer bottle's all over the place." Charges of contributing to juvenile delinquency may be laid against iu\ adult present.
The defendant, who said be expects to go to a now job within a week, was given �">() days to pay the line or Face an alter-"�itive  of