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Vol.  3;   No.   250
PRINCE GEORGE, BRITISH COLUMBIA, MONDAY, DECEMBER 28,   1959
Mayor, Publisher, MLA
Harry Perry i.s dead.
The man whose period of public service spanned half a century and varied from mayor of Prince George, to member for Fort George of the provincial legislature for 25 years, to newspaper editor and publisher, died Saturday in Victoria. He was 70.
Harry  George Thomas Perry"
v.as not a native son of Prince on George street in the rousinf Ceorge but he was for many years its most famous citizen. His influence on provincial politics and northern development was extensive.
During his 25 years in the Legislature, he was deputy speaker I ponents:
babe  now  called  the  city  of Prince George. OUTSTANDING CAREER
Here is a resume of the career which brought him admiration from   both   supporters  and  op-
and  House Speaker, and  later minister of education. He served as president for some years ol the B.C. Liberal Assocation. CITIZEN PUBLISHER
Mr. Perry was publisher and later editor of The Citizen from 1927 to 1948, and was also a forme? owner of the Prince Rupert Daily News and the Nechako Chronicle at Vanderhoof.
In li)39, Charles 0. Albins, then president of the Prince George Board of Trade PGE Committee, in referring to the announced construction of the railway to the Peace River country, said of Mr. Perry:
"I solemnly say that no one has done so much or could have done as ably, as Harry Perry, to secure this legislation. The extension of the PGE can be considered a monument to his name."
The PGE was at times called "Perry's great endeavor" because of his agitation for action on the line. When Premier Bennett arrived in Prince George in 1.056 on the railway's inaugural run here, he was greeted with placards bearing Mr. Perry's portrait and proclaiming him the "man who saved the PGE." PAYS TltfBUTE
Mr. Bennett said Saturday B.C. "has lost one of its most outstanding parliamentarians and one of the province's most eloquent debaters."
Mr. Perry was also credited with persuading the government to build the John Hart highway linking Prince George and Dawson Creek.
Born in England, Mr. Perry came to Canada in 1912, and, after a brief stay in Calgary, moved to Central Fort George where he followed his trade as a tailor. He later opened a men's wear sfiop
Deaths
By  Till:   CANADIAN   PRESS
Death fan rampant on Canada's highways during Hit' Christmas holiday weekend.
liy S p.m. PST Sunday ;t Canadian I Mess survey had record: cd 03 persons killed in traffic mishaps, including seven Quebec residents drowned when iheir car plunged down an em-'bankmen! into the Manicougan River as they returned from a Christmas party. TOM. AT li!�
Accidents pushed the deni deaths
of .other types nation's lull ol' vio-to (in. The count began at I! p.m. local time Christmas Eve and Includes fires. drownings and other mishaps connected with holiday activity. Seven persons wen' burned to death, four drowned and five died in other accidents, including falls.
six ix u.c
Quebec led in traffic deaths
with 2:?. Ontario had 17 as fog.
freezing rain and snow during
Saturday   and   Sunday   turned
driving into a nightmarp.
'nu- Canadian Highway Safety Conference had predicted that 3G persons would die on the roads during the holiday period.
All of British Columbia's six deaths were in traffic. New Bruiiswick ha.I three traffic fatalities, Alberta two, Saskatchewan and Manitoba one each.
Hands Over Command
GAZA, Egypt CAP)�Lt.-Gen. E. L. M. Burns of Ottawa today formally handed over command of the United Nations Emergency Force to Maj.-Gen. P. S. clyani of India.
Gen. Burns, first commander of the UNEF, when it came to the Middlo East three years ago. resigned his post to take up an appointment as adviser to the Canadian government on disarmament matters.
lie is to leave for Canada soon.
j
 Elected mayor of Prince George. During his three years in office, he was chairman of the city's Victory Loan campaign and appointed a Justice of the Peace. He was mayor for three one-year terms, 1917, 1918 and 1920.
li)Z0: Elected MLA representing Fort George.
1921: Started a weekly newspaper, the Leader
1923: Amalgamated the Leader with The Citizen.
1924: Re-elected MLA.
1927: Acquired controlling interest in The Citizen.
1930: As Liberal candidate in federal elections, lost to Tory John A. Fraser by a narrow margin.
1933: Elecldd again to the provincial legislature, and was named Speaker of the House.
1335: By unanimous vote, the Legislature appointed him its representative to the Empire Parliamentary Conference in London, where he was selected the only speaker on behalf of all the dele-gales from all parts of the Empire at a banquet in the famous Lord Mayor's Mansion House.
1936: As speaker of the Legislature, he gave the dedication address at the opening of Vancouver's new city hall.
1941: Appointed minister of education in the new coalition cabinet.
1942: Was accorded an outstanding ovation in the House when he gave an eloquent address in which he appealed for a united war effort above party politics.
1943: Acquired a controlling interest in the Prince Rupert Daily News. His report on postwar rehabilitation for B.C. was compared with Churchill's four-year plan for Britain.
1.945: Was defeated by John Mclnnis, CCF, in his bid for reelection, a victim of the north-land's general swing to the left, 'rendered his resignation as minister of education and chairman of the Bureau of Post-war Rehabilitation and Reconstruction to Premier John Hart. Honored by the premier and provincial cabinet at a farewell luncheon in, Victoria.
His influence on the Liberal party in B.C. never waned, but received its sharpest setback in 1948 when he backed Gordon Wismer for the leadership only to lose out by a narrow margin to Byron Johnson.
Until his death Mr. Perry served as chairman of the party's resolutions committee.
1948: Sold his interest in The Citizen, prompted by failing health and other business considerations, lie retired to Victoria shortly after:
1949: Declined to stand for another term as MLA after suffering heart attack. Elected president of the B.C. Liberal Association succeeding Arthur Laing.. FORCED TO RETIRE
Declining health in the latter years forced the withdrawal of Mr. Perry from an active part in those- community and provincial affairs which had absorbed much time almost since the day of his arrival here.
Besides those already mentioned, he had served in many other capacities including president of the first Prince George Hospital Society; a founder of the Associated Boards of Trade of Central B.C. (he was a life member of the local board of trade); and member oi' 4he school and hos-pilal boards at various times.
Mr. Perry had planned on coming to Prince George to attend the official opening of the new hospital Jan. 16. He last visited here in September. IN HIS STLt'S
Following in his footsteps, his two sons have become prominent citizens of Prince George. Frank-is a practising barrister here, and Syd, a druggist, has just completed a one-year aldermanic term'.
Also surviving arc his wife, in Victoria, and five granddaughters, all in Prince George.
Funeral service will be in Victoria We-'-'upsday. Further arrangements are expectea to be announced today.
Chain Store Winni
attle For Property
Law Breakers Carried on
HARRY PERRY
Areas
High tributes have been made to I he" memory of pioneer Prince George resident and former Ml,A. Harry [Jerry, following news of his death in Victoria Saturday.
Close friends, some of whom were former political opponents, described him as the man most responsible lor the opening up of central and northern I!.('. and as a memorable orator.
Here are their comments:
John Mclnnis, the CCF former MLA who defeated him in the 1945 elections: "Mr. Perry was a major factor in, the opening up and development of this northern area. He was one of tho host speakers ever to sft In the House.
Alex Jloffat, a Conservative and his close friend for more than -10 years: "1 know of no man who contributed more to this district than he."
During his 25 years as a Liberal member of the B.C. Legislature, the late Harry Perry was a subject of praise from the daily press, of ton despite their editorial convictions.
Here are some examples of bouquets thrown in his direction while representing Fort George:
Following his appointment by the coalition government as minister of education in 1941, tho Victoria Colonist acclaimed him as "a man of sound judgment and the best speaker in the Legisla-
Santa Ciaus
Tho stork played Santa Claus j to two Prince George families i in hospital Christmas Day.
Presented wlt'h daughters were Mr. and Mrs. Donald Chamberlain, T2.2 Douglas, ami Mr. and Mrs. Chris Pancyr, 1101 Ewert.
Throughout the hospital, thera were a total of 82 patients in tor Christmas dinner. Nursery infants accounted for 13 and there were 21 in the children's ward, li was a full house compared with last, year when only GO patients wore in on the holiday.
Christmas gifts were distribut ed to patients by various service clubs in th'_- ci'�'.
Jack Corless, president of the Prince George Liberal Association and a friend for 35 years: "He was a very fine man. He deserved credit for the extension of the PGE to the Peace River country."
Aid. Frank Clark: "Whether from business desk, editorial chair, speakers' dais, or as a minister of tho Crown, he was at his best when debating controversial measures. In his later years of seml-retiremerit, his voice was the voice of true Liberalism."
Peter Wilson, city prosecutor: "He was one of our finest citizens. J give him a great deal of credit because he was self-educated, yet was known as the Ifent speaker iri B.C.''
Victor Morgan and Jack Paschal, district pioneers and friends of Mr. Perry credited him with having a greater influence on this part of the province than any other person.
ture, which is a tribute to his educational equipment."
At the same time, The Vancouver Sun called Mr. Perry "one of the outstanding public speakers of Canada."
The following year, during the main debate of the Legislature in which he pleaded for a united war effort to transcend party affiliations, the Colonist commented: "It was Mr. Perry's day in the House ... he made a moving and spirited appeal, perhaps the finest of his long and distinguished career in public life . . . for a sittini,', tho* House had hc'a'rd oratory at its best."
"Mr. Perry is not a big man physically'," the Victoria Daily Times said in 1927. "but he worthily represents the largest. constituency in the province, and probably the largest provincial riding in Canada."
Tug Exptede
Only about half the city's homeowners have made application for their S2S government gfa.nt, with Thursday the deadline.
Applications to date nuniiber 1,602. However, there are about 2.i)00 homeowners in the city.
Edward Nelson-Kent, city collector, said today applications must be in by Thursday to be valid. He .said they should be lii'ought to city hall In person but if they are mailed 'before Thursday they will be accepted. � Applications arc mciled to homeowners along with their tax notices but the collector said they are also a%railable at city hall.
Mr. Nelson-Kent said fewer homeowners have applied for the gram than ]u�t year.
CRESCENT CITY/, Calif. (AP)
�For three hours it was touch and go in this northern California coastal town. A tug boat exploded next to a barge loaded with 800,000 gallons of high octane gasoline.
When the peril ended Sunday, one man was missing and believed dead and another was burned. Four were pitched into the hay by the force of the Mast.
The business district of Orescent City, a community of 2.750, was evacuated. Fishing boats, tied up for the holidays, lifted anchor. Many carried local residents.
Council Swom-In
Prince George's 19G0 city council will convene at noon on January 4th.
New mayor Garvin Dezcll and alderman Hilliard Clare, Dick Yardley and Harry Lodcr will take oath of office.
Government agent Stan Car-ling will perform the shearing in, in the absence of County Court Judge C. W. Morrow who normally performs the ceremony.
The 1959 city council meets Wednesday night for its last session.
Police today reported lawbreakers "carried on business as usual" over the Christmas holiday week-end which, they say, is not common to other B.C. centres.
Thieves who attempted to break into a safe at Hub City Motors Christmas eve proved to be amateurs. They aDDarentlv np. tercd through a window and tried to knock the dial off the saie. They created what police described as "an awful mess" in the office, but left empty-handed.
Lucien Bachand, 1805 Kenwood, reported to RCMP the theft from his pickup Christmas eve of a tire and wheel valued at $24.
Christmas Day, two men were charged with attempted breaking and entering after police spotted them near the Public Library. They were apprehended after a short car chase. The men appeared in court Saturday and were remanded eight days.
Owner of the Pine Grove Motel, Hart Highway, told police a car was driven into a sign at the front of the motel and that the driver refused to pay the damages. A charge is pending.
A dairy employee, Wallace Turner, told RCMP his car which had been parked at Sinclair Mills Christmas day was badly damaged by vandals. They cut the wires and banged in the roof and fenders.
Five men were arrested Boxing Day at Cornell Mills following a brawl, the third in a month there. Charges are being laid.
.A man claimed he was robbed of $83 and a wrist watch by a drinking companion Saturday. Stan Stasyshyn, of the Queens Hotel, said lie woke up in an other hotel to find his money and watch gone.
Christmas Dinner
Six u n i n v i t ed men were guests of the city at a Christmas dinner served in the jail.
Spending Christmas day in the city jail wqvc five charged with intoxication and a sixth man faring an impaired driving charge, One other charged with impaired driving was released on bail Christmas day.
They all received a turkey dinner.
Rockefeller Slims Parties
WASHINGTON (AP) � Both the Republican and Democratic parties strove today to capitalize on a stunning political surprise� Nelson Rockefeller's withdrawal j from the contest for the Republican presidential nomination in I960.
Neither party had much to say in public about the problems posed for it by the New York governor's "definite and final" announcement Saturday that he would not be a candidate and would not accept the vice-presidential spot.
One big poser for the Republicans was how to pump some drama into their convention opening in Chicago next July 25.
At present there appears to be nothing to prevent a first-ballot nomination for Vice-President Richard Nixon and the only suspense lies in the choice of his running mate.
McDonald hotel listed by hines
ITHACA, N.Y. � The McDonald Hotel, Prince George, has received international recognition in the new 1960 edition of the Duncan Ilincs Travel Book, "Lodging for a Night," just published, according io an announcement from Roy II Park, editor-in-chief of the Duncan Ilincs Institute here.
Two Fire Calls
Fires over the holiday weekend were mainly confined to parched throats.
Only two calls, both minor, were reported Christmas Day. Chief August .Dornbierer credited the good record to people being "a little more careful" in their handling of Christmas tree lights and other decorations.
A short in the heater was believed the cause of a fire which caused minor damage to an automobile parked at Third and Quebec.
A call at 10:15 p.m. Christmas Day to 1725 Fourth resulted in a chimney fire being quickly extinguished.
Good  Swimmer
MONTREAL (CP) Samuel Silver, a YMHA member who admits he's at least 70, has mas-stered the half-gainer and forward somersault dives from the swimming pool springboard.
Canada Safeway Ltd. is winning its battle for downtown property, which the food chain wants for a half-million dollar supermarket development. Safeway paid $10,100
in winning a city lot auction Wednesday for one of four lots it wants in block 154. The chain now has 19 of 22 available lots in that block, bounded by Victoria and Vancouver streets and Fourth and Fifth avenues.
One other city lot is to be auctioned Dec. 30 at 3 p.m. at city hall and Safeway is negotiating for two private lots. It has said it must have the four lots� one of which has now been obtained � for its proposed development.
Dud Sawley of Sawley Agency, optioning and buying lots for the food chain, entered bids Wednesday against two local men.
Larry de Grace, of Industrial Forestry Service Ltd., bid as high as $5,500 before dropping out. He was seeking the lot for employee parking.
Surprise bidder Jack 'Nelson, of Nelson Electric Ltd., bid up to $10,000. He told The Citizen he wanted the property to establish an electrical shop.
Bidding started at $3,000.
When the second city lot in block 154, lot 22, is auctioned this Wednesday it is expected bids might be received from all three who sought lot 24.
Bidding will start at $2,000.
Mr. Sawley was not available
EFFECTIVE JANUARY 7
Northwest Telephone Co. has received approval from (he Public Utilities Commission of B.C. to increase exchange and long distance rates effective Jan. 1.
The company operates KJ exchanges in the province, including such centres as Prince George, Dawson Creek, Fort St. John, Powell River and Campbell River.
The approved exchange telephone' rental increases vary from :)U cents a month to $2.30 for individual business service in Prince George, the largest community served by the company.
The approved increases will result in additional annual revenue of $221,000.
"This i.s the first general rate increase for the company since Dec. 1, l!);j.'i," said C. .1. McLean, vice-president and general manager.
"It was urgently needed to enable the company to continue its program of expansion and improvement throughout the'areas it serves," he said.
Old anil new rates for the interior points are as follows:
Exchange Chetwynd
Dawson
Creek
Fort St. John
Me Bride
Ponce Coupe
Prince George
Ilcsiilcntc Services Ind. Two-parly Multiparty
Ilusiness Services Ind. Multi-party
Old
New
Old New
Old New
Old New
Old New
Old New
$3.15 3.C5
3.75
4.33
3.40 4.10
3.15 3.85
3.75 4.35
3.93 4.60
$2.50 3.00
3.00 3.40
$2.20 2.C0
2.65
2.90
$5.10 6.75
G.55
8.50
$3.40 4.40
4.35 5.20
for comment. But, tliere is little doubt he will seek the lot for Safeway.
Mr. de Grace said he had not decided yet if he will bid on lot 22, although Hie forestry firm manager appeared before city council in connection with this lot.
Mr. Nelson indicated he would at least be present when the lot is put on the auction block.
Prince George Shares Spirit
Prince George really shared its Christmas spirit, with the rest of the world this year.
This was indicated by the fact 1,241 long distance phone calls were placed in the 24-hour period from Christmas eve.
This was an increase of 517 calls over last' year, which a Northwest Telephone Co. spokesman attributed to the increased population and the greater ability of the local station to handle more calls faster, only 490 were placed in 1V57
Celebrants greeted friends and relatives in as far-flung countries as Italy and Australia. A large number were to the British Isles, but New Year's Eve is expected to be a busy time for eiil-uHs to Scotland vpfrpjro the new year is greeted with high exhilaration.
Canadian National Telegraphs reports an average traffic for this year. Although not yet. tabulated, an estimated 100 to 150 greeting wires were sent out, mainly Christmas eve. A lighter load is expected at New V ear's.
An official of Prince George Taxi Association reported a 2o per cent, increase in business this year over last. Wednesday was as busy as Christmas eve, he said, probably because of a trend toward more people using taxis rather than driving themselves to office parties and other pro-Christmas functions.
Heaviest volume pf mall was cleared by 2 p.m. Thursday, Postmaster .1. H. Abear said too'ay. He estimates there was an overall increase of three per cent in the volume handled this year.
Dec. 15, the local deadline, proved to be the busiest day for hard-pressed postal employees. Post Office was open four hours .Saturday but Air. Abear said it was '"pretty quiet."
2.70	2.4.0	5.(JO	3.75
3.20	2.75	7.60	4.80
2.50	2.20	5.10	3.40
3.00	2.G0	G.75	4.40
3.00	2.65	G.55	4.35
3.40	2.90	8.50	5.20
3.15	2.80	7.25	"   4.J35
3.00	3.05	9.55	5.G5
RCMP Appointment
Cpl. K. .1. Jensen has joined the KCMP's Dawson Creek detachment, replacing Cpl. K. L. Purely, who has been placed in charge of the Alberni detachment. A former B.C. Provincial policeman at Williams Lake, Cpl. Jensen has been in Ottawa i lie lasi few years.
Cloudy with snow/lurries, beginning this evening. Little change in temperature. Winds southerly 15; Low tonight and high tomorrow, 18 and 35.
Booze-Up Bonanza Goes Betty Up
After two \v o n d e r i u 1 weeks during which it was considered the greatest thirig since the ball point pen. the "booze for nothing" craze is dying on its feet locally.
Prince George drinkers have become leery of the chain letter scheme. They know that, as with all such somethirig-for-nothing deals, tables turn eventually and you get nothing for something.
However, when the craze was in full swing some local booze hounds, who were among the first "in," had pheuomjuai luck. Many
report 10. 20 and even 30 free bottles of liquor from an investment of just one "crock."
There's even one local type bragging spiritedly that he grossed   a   maximum   G4 bottles of hooch. NO COMPLAINTS
The letter was not distributed through the mails in the usual manner but a police official said be still considered the giggle water movement "definitely illegal."
However, he added that the scheme was never brought to police attention by an official complaint and RCMP were not too alarmed.
Apparently the people who started the chain thought it was,
at least, almost legal. Closing remarks on the letter were: "But please remember, this letter must be transferred to your friends in person. It can't legally be mailed." PROFITABLE PLAN
Had the chain not been broken participants could have each netted 64, 25-ouncc bottles of Christmas cheer, all for the entry fee of one bottle of fire water.
The scheme worked by phone. After a "iricnd" had your nr.me on the letter, you phoned the top name on the attached list.
You asked what kind of "cheer" the person wanted, advised them where to pick it up, and when.
Then you started on your own booze gathering. You added your
name to the list and gave copies to two friends.
Your final move was to buy some mixer, sit back, wait for the phone to ring and your joy juice to start arriving.
Reports arc there were as many as a dozen of the letters distributed. Some local printing firms even had orders to mimeograph the letter for some inebriates who maybe wanted just a little more than a fair share of the pie.
Returns on investments have dropped to one or two bottles, or, in most cases, nothing at all. And, drinkers have become too suspicious to enter the scheme.
So, another "spirited" Christinas has come to pass,