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Dedicated to the Progress of the North
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Vol.  3;  No.  228
PRINCE GEORGE, BRITISH COLUMBIA, WEDNESDAY, NOV. 25,  1959
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L'sing a beer bottle to smash the window, a thief broke into a local office early lodav and escaped! \\ it!i an estimated $25 and a sj:;:i adding machine.
Bob Clelar.d, office manager of Standard <;.; Milk sales office In the OXR yiii'ds, told The Cil'/.en about $200 had been deposited In the hank Tuesday. The !>-i� stolen had been left for notty cash,
The break-in was discovered by   a  nntndlinjj  IM'Ml' ear.
It was the first time the office Iims been raided since last year when the thief escaped   empty-handed.
ope Celebrate
"NO, NO LAUREEN � this way!" might be butcher Ralph Ellison's exclamation as he shows student Laureen Smith the fine art of meat, cutting. Mrs. Audrey Harris, Prince George Senior High School home economics teacher, took her class to Northern Meats as part of her first-hand professional instruction in various phases of class work.
NEW DKLHl CIV-Prime Minister Nehr.il .said >Uulay 'that ','i.f war is thrust upon (is we shall fight�but we sha'll tiy'to prevent it by every means Iri our power."
Nehru was opening a debate in 'the lower house of Parliament' on India's relations with Communist China and the border dispute between  them.
NelU'ii s*ii IM'Cinii'i'   Clioil    Kn-lai   lor   settling   tlic   dispute   wi'i'i!   "fair, I'l'sisoiiublc      ;� ml      lionoiiiblo, liulli  for India and China." Shouting    "Shame!    Shame!" u:.>st   menvbers   vociferously backed   Nehru's   strong   attack en  India's Communists.
N e hr u .said he had been ��amazed and ashamed" at recent demonstrations in. Calcutta in which looa'l Communists had backed Communist China in the border dispute. KIMKCT OWN   COUNTKV
"What  am   I   to say  to people
who reject  the soil  from  which
they spring and the nationality
which   gives   them   protection?"
i Nehru demanded.
Al   diis   point   members   of the lower house erupted.  Veteran observers could recall no i' o in |> a i' a I) I �'   explosion   of .shouts   in   the   history   of   Hit! house.   The   two   dozen   Com-iiiunist   members sat   silent. As   the   prime   minister   finished    speaking,    police   armed with   sticks   stood   at    the   entrances to Parliament  to halt a
Su'nny today. Cloudy and cooler Thursday. Light winds. I.ow tonight, 25. High tomorrow, :!.j.
I procession of about 2,000 socialists, healed by six oxcarts IikkI-jfid \.\ i 111 women and children, demanding a stronger goverh-menl  policy toward China.
The Hist, proposal for sot'lenient of the border issue was made Nov. s in a letter, from Chou to the Indian government calling for the establishment of a 25-mile demilitarized zone along the Chinese-Indian border and early talks between the two pKemiers. ItlVAIi   PLAN
On Nov. l(i, after declaring this scheme "impracticable," Nehru countered with a three-point plan proposing the with-
Canadians Gel few Disorder
VANCOUVER   (CP)  �  Canadians, says a fitness expert, are developing   a   new   di >order   -television bottom.
So soys Hareourt Roy, executive director of the National Fitness   Council.
He told the Humane Science Sooiety Tuesday night that Canadians are "going to po," mentally, physically and emotionally. Their bodies are becoming pear-shaped through stuffing their stomachs and not using their legs.
"Right now it isn't fashionable to keep in shape," he said.
"People won't run around the block just or the joy of physical 1 xercise because they fear the neighbors will talk.
'l'ossibly the answer for these people is modified yogi. This way they can exercise without letting the cat out  of the bag,"
First in  History
VICTORIA (CP) � Rev. Dr. J. Lewis \V. McLean, n former .Moderator of the Presbyterian Church in Canada, announced Tuesday he will seek aldermanic office next  month.
He will lie the first clergyman to stand for civic office in  Victoria's history.
Dr. McLean, who has been minister of St, Andrew's Presbyterian Church here since 193S, said he will run as an independent candidate.
He came here from Ontario in L93S and was moderator of'the general assembly of the church in 195-1.
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Many Visitors
PENTICTOiN (CP) � A total o( 12.9S5 persons have signed a visitors hook in a museum aboard the historic sternwheeler S.S. Sicamous which is launched near here. The count was taken during an eight-month period ending Nov.   ID.
draw:i| of all Indian and Chinese forces from j|i<> Ijiulakh arra, f' h in esc withdrawal from the Indian Northeast Frontier outpost of Longju, and an agreement thai neither .side should .send out pat-rols along the rest of the frontier.
Nehru said he stood by the basic policies of non-alignment and peaceful .coexistence, and it was for Parliament, to give him a clear mandate on whether it-wished these policies ito continue.
Nehru faces 10 motions on Indian-Chinese relations�mostly critical of the government� submitted by the .socialist, independent, and light-wing parties. WAit  \ I'ossimixrv
Nehru told the house that India Is faced witih the possibility of war, but he did not think any country foolisih enough to jump over tl;e precipice.
"I   am   <]iii11-   confident   our (li'fcni'c    forces   are    well    capable  of   looking  after  our  >e-Clll'ity   ...   At    no   (line   since .....� independence, or even before,   have  our  defence   forces been  in better condition . . . orwiih a background  of greater industrial  production." Commenting   that    India   has 9,000   miles   of   frontier,   2,600 miles of it with China, he said: "We  do   not   want   to   disperse our strength. The main thins is to have the strength  to Ihit out if you want to."
Project Feasible
VICTORIA (CIV- A multi-million dollar hydro-electric project In Northern British Columbia has been found' "completely feasible." \V. C. Mainwaring, president, of I'eaee River Power I' e v e I o pmeii't Co., said here Tuesday  night.
.Mr. Mainiwaring told a service club meeting the company will give a definite commitment for development of the Peace River when it. files 'technical reports with the Comptroller of Water Rights before Dec. 31.
"1; has been found possible to transmit electricity to the Lower Mainland and Vancouver Island a: attractive rates," he said. The first Peace River-generated power is expected in southern areas by 196S.
Total cost of the 1.000,000-horse-power project -will he 8625,000,000 am! "we are prepared to proceed with clevelop-nent immediately if we got the approval of the provincial government."
He predicted that the Columbia, Peace and Fraser rivers will be connected "electrically arid hydraulically" to increase the province's power production  to 50,UUO,OOU-lioiBCi)ower�
VATICAN CITY (Reuters) -Tope John XI11, the peasant's son who became the spiritual leader of the world's -150,000,000 Roman Catholics, will celebrate his  78th  birthday  today.
Papal white and yellow flags will fly from Vatican buildings in honor of the man who Is known here as. Pupa Giovanni, But Vatican sources say that the 43rd consecutive Italian pontiff will  work  as usual.
The energetic Pope "I suffer neither from liver nor nerves" recalled at the first anniversary of his coronation three weeks ago that a previous 1'ope John in the 11th century lived to be no-.
He probably will rise today as usual at 1 a.m. from his brass bedstead overlooking St. Peter's 3