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Vol. 3; No. 234
PRINCE GEORGE, BRITISH COLUMBIA, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 3, 1959
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You Can't Be Sure Of Anything Now
What with "payola" and rigged quiz shows, you can't be sure of anything these clays!
At least, this was the reaction of a Citizen reporter when he deposited a dime in a soft drink vending machine Wednesday and got nothing for his money but an empty hole where the pop bottle should have been.
Where was the machine? The police station.
BLOWING OF THE TRUMPETS is a pastime thoroughly enjoyed by (left to right) Bob Warman, Bill Brihnen and Ed Glad win, members of the newly-formed Prince George Senior High School Band. They will
play at the school Christmas dance Dec. 17. Led by music instructor Jim Johnson, other members include Don Brown, drums, Barry Piers, trombone, Wayne Evans, saxaphone, and Sonja Zarek, piano.
VANCOUVER (CIV-Plans for coristrhctferi of a I'ydn', nnwr
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northeastern British Columbia wore given1 final approval Wednesday by directors of Peace �River Power Development Company Limited.
This was announced In a statement relousQd following a mooting ui' the directors here.
Sir A n d re vv McTaggai't, chairman of Hie board, said that documents outlining Lho plan and the proposals will in1 print-eel and handed to the provinqlnl government within the next two weeks.
The document must he in the hands of the provincial government by I)<�(�. ill to meet requirements of the agreements
VICTORIA (CP) � The new field of higli voltage, long distance power transmission � perhaps the key to. the feasibility of the Peace River power development
__ is being studied by the B.C.
government.
Deputy water comptroller Walter Raudsepp left here Tuesday to confer with eastern power officials on recent power experiments in this line.
"The result might be the hiring of another eminent consultant by this branch � we are hoping il will," said water comptroller A. P.. Paget. SECOND INDICATION
It was (lie second recent indication that the water rights branch, which has jurisdiction over granting a water licence to Peace River Power Development Company, will be armed with experts before examining the company's submission late this month.
Recently Lands and Forests Minister Williston announced the commissioning of Donald Blay-fuss, internationally-known dam construction expert, to assist the water rights branch in assessing the development plans.
He is still in Iraq and it was not immediately known when lie would arrive here. But the company feasibility report must be filed by Dee. 31, at the latest.
It was indicated the newest expert to be sought would be of similar stature in world engineering circles.
signed between the develop-nSartt d'-iu.'.vy and the govern-
nuMit t\vi> yoai'K u�o when l'c-ncc
River rower Development undertook a detailed power study on the Peace River.
Before the company can proceed with construction government approval must bo given.
Ii it is obtained, the company Said in a statement Wednesday, construction could begin on the $011,000,000 project by next summer.
The approval involves the water rights board, the public utilities commission and the government. APPROVE FINAL DRAFT
Directors of Peace River Power Development Company, which Wenner-Gren B.C. Development! Company holds controlling interest, have been meeting
here this week to approve the final drafting of the documents
soLtliiK out. plans and proposals
lor the Peace River dam.
They said Wednesday the report fills nine volumes.
Lust October, Peace River power announced that its engineering reports indicated development of hydro on the Peace is completely feasible from every standpoint.
Initially the company would construct a $375,000,000 first-
sta^'o dam 000 feet high and 7,oou feet long. It would genei
tree v-l,,c>oo ]ii>i-.si']><>\v<-r uhi
would be the largest in the world. It would form a UOti-imlo lon.g lake.
The main . e a r t h-f i 1 I dan would be built near Hudsor Hope, nearly 000 miles north east of Vancouver. Eventually a series of smaller downstream dams would double the output hi inure than 8,000,000 hon power.
MOPE (CH � RCMP said Wednesday an exploding kerosene 'lamp is believed to have caused a cabin lire which took the life of a 59-year-old Indian woman, Mrs. Annie Garner, at Othello, seven miles east of here. She is survived by a daughter, lUrs. Henry Petlis of Seabird Island, near Chilliwack.
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Mayoralty candidate Garviri De/ell and aldermanie aspirant Dick Yardley are tripping hand-in-hand clown the civic election path.
The two have joined forces in the race for the roses and are sharing committee rooms in the city.
They apparently see eye to eye on how the city should be run.
Dezell says he was instrumental in Yardley's decision to run. "We need good men. 1 think he'll make a good alderman."'
The man seeking to unseal incumbent Carrie Jane Gray said he also fell Clare, Loder and Fraser were "good men".
It's now a four-way fight for the three aldermanie seats on city council up for grabs at the Dee. 17 civic elections.
With the Monday deadline for the filing of nomination papers fast approaching two more men have entered Eighty-twb-year-old Dave Fras-
er. who retired this week after 35 years service with the city � eight as an alderman � announced today he'll file papers Monday and youngster Hilliard Clare, 30, filed papers yesterday.
Dick Yardley and Harry Loder � only incumbent seeking reelection � had been the only candidates prior to this.
Fraser was alderman from 1924 to 1931. Clare, local hardware man, has no city council experience but was Junior Chamber of Commerce president from 1949 to 1951.
Fraser said he sees nothing wrong with the way the city is being run "but there's an opening on council", and he wants a chance to further serve the city.
The other new candidate says lie was persuaded by friends to seek election. Alderman Spike
Mostly cloudy today and Friday, a few snow showers today. Intermittent snow or mixed rain and snow beginning Friday afternoon. Not much change in temperatures. Winds, south 13, becoming light this afternoon and south 20 by Friday afternoon. Low tonight, 20; and high Friday, 3S.
City council lias decided the Jaycees will have to pay a bill of $10 that a delegation to council recently protested.
The bill was for use of the Civic Centre for a meeting in connection with the Junior Chamber of Commerce sponsored Teen-Age Safe Driving Koad-eo.
Jaycees had asked the bill be reconsidered as all others concerned with the road-eo had donated time, services and equipment for the worthwhile cause.
No Platform For the Mayor
There'll be but one announced platform in the mayoralty race liere this year, unless a third party joins incumbent Carrie Jane Gray and former mayor Garvin Dezell when they go to the polls.
Mrs. Gray says she has had no platform before and doesn't plan to have one this year. "I have no axe to grind and will give each matter that comes up my undivided attention."
Dezell. on the other hand, says he'll be announcing a platform "with about six strong points" after nominations close next Monday.
Both mayoralty candidates had planned to file their nomination papers today.
Enemark and Danny Paltimbo signed his nomination papers.
There are two openings on the school board but interest is low. City trustees on the uoard Ray Atkinson and Robert Range both plan to seek re-election, as yet without opposition. Atkinson is the only one of the two to file papers so far.
Nominations for the Dec. 17 elections close at noon, Monday.
Candidates have a 24 hour period following in which they may reconsider and withdraw their candidacy if they so choose.
HILLIAUD CLARE
Should be Responsible To City Council
City council has informed the board of trade that it feels the Industrial Development Commission would be a more effective body if it was responsible to, and reported to, city council and operated in a manner similar to other city commissions.
Changes Made
City council, meeting in'! committee of the whole, made only "our changes in the i960 preliminary budget vflpch will be turned over to next year's city council.
An expenditure4iJPi$3'r52Ef was added to the water, utility section for proposed winter work, $7,500 was added to Civic Centre costs for addition of a false ceil-
ng, $1,000 was added to. Colir scum costs for earthquake insurance and a S200 grant was .yolcd
or the Salvation Army. This $1,212,144 budget, which
locsn't yet include school costs,
vill compare favorably with the 1953 budget.
(Doc. 1 to 7 is .National Sale Driving Week. During tlio week, The Citizen will publish ;i box score of the city's record).
Second Day�Wednesday
Accidents reported: U. Total--.' to date, 2.
Injuries reported: Nil. Total � to date, nil.
Fatalities: Nil. Total to date nil.
Prince George will reach a population of between 50 and 75,000 within a generation.
This was envisioned today by provincial highways minister P. A. Gaglardi, here, on a tour-day tour of inspection of road works in the area.
He believes this figure will be reached as a result of the de velopment of the Rocky Moun tain Trench by the Wenner-Grer interests.
Mr. Gaglardi told The Citizen much of the local development will depend upon the alertness of business people here.
"God provides the worm bul the bird has to go out to get ii in the nest," he philosophized.
The colorful � and often* opti mistic � Social Credit ministei said he believes development o this part of the province during the next five years will be "be yond the anticipations of any body."
Mr. Uaj�lartli is a hard man to
pin down, perhaps understand
ably. He likes to generalize ant
maybe in his position it's tougl
to do otherwise. Anyway, despite
his bad press, he's generally co
operative with ncwspapermei
and willing to say what he thinks
providing it reflects well on the
Socred government.
He denied adamantly charges that the Wenncr-Gren project is an example of "give-away policies" of natural resources on the part of the government for immediate political favor. "1 challenge anybody to show
me where there is any give-away'
in connection with ttic Trench
development, he said. "Now is
the time for its development," he
added,, "and when you have a
product to sell you sell it wher
it's saleable." What about the bridge "that
goes nowhere" � the bridge
across the Nechako River which
will link the bypass highway? "You'll hear something on the
bridge just as soon as 1 gel the
estimates through the/,house."
What is the progress on highways here � will Highway 16 be completed in iflfGO as previously promised? "We're definitely on schedule
in construction of .highways in
B.C., but adverse Nveathcr has
slowed tilings downJa bit in some
places." !
Mr. Gaglardi is head of a department responsible for 23,500 miles of road, with an annual maintenance budget of $3 million. He repeated a statement he made two weeks ago in Vancouver that anyone with a complaint of rough sections in any part of the highway network should phone him directly in Victoria.
A rough section about 12 miles west of Smithers which was reported last week will be fixed, he said.
Will there be a provincial election in 1960?
"I'm to busy to think about elections."
And he took time to �ivc a jHit^otWhc. hack to other mem-hereof the Socred government whom he feels have been instrumental*;, in planning of the Rocky mountain Trench de-vclopmentj'
"Your man here � Kay Wil-ristoh (MLA-Fort George, Lands and Forests minister) � he's done a tremendous job for this part of the country. So has Kicr-nan.". (Kenneth Kicrnan is the Mines and Resources minister.)
The man who puts the "Flying" in "Flyin' Phil Gaglardi's" nickname � pilot Bert Toy � was scheduled to take off from F'rince George airport this afternoon, probably Victoria-bound.
The city is quietly testing the controversial Lord's Day Act.
RCMP announced in mid-October the law would be more strictly enforced locally. The city is retaliating by continuing, to charge admission to Sunday hockey games in the Coliseum.
Police are giving the Attorney-General a running account of the city's violations of the act.
The year's first Sunday hockey game in the Coliseum last weekend was attended by a member of the RCMP who observed the illegal selling of tickets. And. this evidence was referred to the Attorney-General's department.
Similar investigation is likely at future Sunday activities, with
reports being sent to Victoria each time.
The Attorney-General will decide from the reports if police are to prefer charges. PERFECTLY HARMLESS
Decision to continue charging admission at Sunday sport events in the Coliseum was not made by city council as a body. Aldermen merely agree among themselves that the city should maintain the policy, come what may.
Bill Woycik, Coliseum manager, was given no special instructions. He was told only to continue Sunday operations as before.
Mayor Carrie Jane Gray, asked by The Citizen if the city's decision to continue commercial Sunday sport in spite of the iiCAIP warning amounted to a test of the Lord's Day Act, said "I suppose you could call it that."
She said Sunday sport, in her opinion, is ' perfectly 'fair,,less" and a test case is warranted. The Lord's Day Act is "not enforced all over" and only once has the local Ministerial Association questioned Sunday activity, according to the mayor.
"We may be fined but maybe we'll get the law changed," she added. Fines under the act range from a $1 minimum to a maximum of $40, for an individual, $50 to $250 for a corporation, and $20 to $100 for an employer.
Vancouver is the only B.C. centre with legalized commercial Sunday sport.
That city held several plebiscites on the matter and eventually had its charter amended to allow Sunday sport.
However, Prince George, along with almost all B.C. cities, operates not under an individual charter but under the Municipalities Act and could not legalize Sunday sport on its own but would have to have the act changed.
The city apparently hopes to drum up enough support from other centres for this change.
Woycik has adopted a don't-care attitude towards the business � he has his orders,. When informed of the RQMP inv.estya-tions he said he coidd "care /ess" about any action by the Attorney-General's department.
Tickets have been sold in Sunday's before at the Coliseum and "we haven't tried to hide the fact."
Simple' economies enters into the city's position. If it was decided to skirt the Lord's Day Act by the oft-used method of scll-
SIXIUV SPOUT (Continued on l\igo �'!)
dave Eraser
May Be tost
ff says "It had been hoped to exceed the record this year but several major construction jobs in 1958" made for a hard to equal building figure last
It looks now as ii' Prince George will not register a record construction year as had been expected.'
Value of building here this ~ ��
I year to the end of November private garages and one for com-
was $5,032,985 � down consid-1 "lcJvl,'a^1 buiki.j111(H-|
(erable from the $5,629,015 total
for the first 11 months of last
year, the record year.
And, December construction isn't expected to pick up the slack, according to building inspector Ed Neff. I MONTH HIGHER
Building permits for November itself show building valued at $275,000 � larger than the November total of $181,372. But. $200,000 of this year's figure is represented by one project � the new Kresge store at Third and Brunswick.
Construction here for all of 1958 reached $5,(i47,615, with December, 1958 building recorded at $18,600.
In order for 1959 to better last year's record building here construction this month would have to equal some $015,000.
year.
lie was optimistic about 1961, however. The building inspector said there is some evidence that (here will be a good deal of construction here next year, both on private homes and commercial buildings. "I think next year will be really big.
Polio Reported At Lac La Hache
VICTORIA 01 � Two new cases of polio, one at Haney the other at La La Hache, were reported by health officials Wednesday. This brings B.C.'s 1059 toll to 108 cases. The health department also decreased the death
K1TIMAT iCP) � British Columbia will lose its touHst gold mine to yie United /Staics or other J parts of Canada unless it takes action to develop it, B.C. Liberal | Leader Ray Perrault said Tucs-) lay night.
"I have, visited many areas of (he province in recent months and the possibilities for tourist radc development, are beyond jclief," he told a public nieet-ng here.
"We need a crash program by overnment and business to build _big-league tourist trade and to levelop it to a point where it will be one of our important secondary industries, big and buoyant enough to bolster the entire economy of B.C."
Mr. Perrault said spine of the B.C. government tourist program good but he snid jl still is in the minor, leagues.
There were 10 building per-1 toll from 13 to 12 when an au-mits issued last month; six for tbpsy in one case showed that residential dwellings, three for death was not from polio
Dec. 26 Holiday
EDMONTON ICP)�The Alberta b*yerhment Tuesday proclaim-d Dee. 26, Boxing Day, a prov-ncial holiday.
? MOM!
~ DO IT NOW,
ONLY IO MORE
Shopping Days 'tit Christmas