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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 3UH),3l2>; October $2S-1,54S ($190,338;.
RIGHT DISMISSED
Mr. Hers said Investigations a year iigo had resulted in the dismissal of eight men for inefficiency but, turned up no evidence of dishonesty. The men were later rehircd on the strength of a conciliation board's majority recommendation.
Harbors board officials attributed the .-harp incivase in bridge rove n u es to Improvements which had speeded up the traffic flow. These included the installation of automatic toll collection, additdon of a fifth traffic lane and better approaches to t'he bridge from the south shore.
WILLIAMS LAKE ICP) -- Ray I'errault. leader of the provincial Liberal party, said Tuesday nlghi some cci-' followers ha.ve become "disheartened and bewildered" over their party's policy decisions.
"We invite Hie small "I" Liberals among them to join us for responsible reform without socialism," he told a rally hei'o.
Mr. Perraull said present government policies place too much emphasis on material progress and neglect human needs.
"British Columbia leads all Canada in the rale of dope addiction, alcoholism and suicides. Governments must help provide solutions, lie said.
More Employment
X AX A I.MO
Onlv 887
persons this week were regist-
ered
looking for work com-
pared to 1,155 at the same time last ysar, t'he Xati'onal Employment office reported. One of t'he reasons gaven for the decrease was that sawmills arid' pulpmills are maintaining pro-due lion in an off-season.
OTTAWA fCP) � The Canadian Chamber of Commerce today called fur tougher federal labor laws thai would tighten up on strikes and picketing and end the immunity of unions from law-suits.
In iis annual brief lo the cabinet, the chamber also called for outlawing of strikes and lockouts that would endanger public health or safety, with compulsory arbitration of such disputes.
The proposal thai unions under the federal labor code be made liable for civil lawsuits is in line with a British Columbia law enacted earlier this year. Organized labor has criticized it strongly.
The brief was presented to Prime Minister Diefenbaker and cabinet ministers by a delegation headed by Chamber President H. Cordon Love of Calgary. STItQNGEIl UEQUJ3ST
Its proposals on labor were in stronger terms than last year's submission to the cabinet. There have been reports that the federal labor code may be opened for revision at the next session of Parliament.
The brief said picketing should only be allowed where a legal strike or lockout exists, with picketing only by the employees involved. It would prohibit picketing to establish bargaining rights, in juristijctlpnal disputes between unions, or where the employer is not involved in a labor dispute.
The chamber renewed its demand for prohibition of sympathy strikes and secondary boycotts. It said strike votes .should be supervised by an independent party and that during a strike the labor minister should be empowered to conduct strike-settlement voted.