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PRINCE GEORGE,  BRITISH  COLUMBIA,  FRIDAY,  JANUARY  8/1960
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LONDON (CP) � MiL-and-. run hate-mongers operating under   cover   of   darkness continual their smear cam- N9;BLAME          r,      ..
,    ,                ,    ,         Sixteen   clays   after   the   out-
paign against .lews unabat-  bursts began with the desecration eel 1 hursday night.
Attempts  to  track  them down    are    meeting    with I little success.
More   swastikas   and   abusive
slogans appeared in widely scat
QUEBEC C'li � Quebec's new premier, Labor Minister Antonio Barrettc, was sworn in today with ministers of his new cabinet.
lie is the 18th premier of Quebec and his administration is the 22nd since   1�67.
All the ministers in the cabinet of the late Paul Sauve are members of the new administration. One or two new men from party ranks are to be elevated to cabinet ranks. STILL CONFUSED
The Quebec public�stijl somewhat confused over the behind-the scenes activities that for four days preceded tin; choice of the new premier�will be watching the actions of Mr. Barrette in his new post closely.
There is talk that several cabinet shuffles are possible.
Mr. Barrette, (50, announced at a press conference following the 40-minute caucus Thursday that he would retain his labor portfolio for the time being.
His words indicated he is thinking of accepting the growing view in government circles that the lime has arrived for a Quebec premier to devote all his time to that job alotia��&JJ. j�>eiiuui--o ii. Quebec so far have held other portfolios though they receive no additional salaries. MESSENGER  150 Y
The strong-featured Mr. Barrette, once a freight-yard messenger boy earning a few cents a day. looked slightly flushed and in high good humor as he emerged from the steaming, smoke-filled caucus room in. the legislative assembly to answer Lieutenant - Governor Onesime Ga'gnin's call lo form a new government.
He had been in the background during the last two years of the late Mr. Duplessis1 regime but bounced back in the limelight when Mr. Sauve look over the premiership Sept. 11.
Mr. Duplessis had said ill health caused Mr. Barrelte's lengthy absences, but persons, close to the government say they were due lo severe disagreements on matters of labor policy. Mr.   Barrette   told   newspaper
tercd countries. � most of them crudely splashed on synagogues, homes and public buildings.
of a synagogue in Cologne. ;;ov eminent officials, Jewish leaders and social workers si ill disagree
in trying to place the blame for the continuing situation.
West Gorman's Interior Minister Gerhardt Schroeder said anti-Semitism "represents no political power in Germany today.
"We   shall   make   every   effort to eliminate any dark prejudices wherever they may exist. " FAN WAK
The Moscow Communist party newspaper Prayda says "These loathsome Fascist provocations and the flaunting of the swastika are designed to fan up the cold war and set some peoples against others."
Police in .Milan, Italy, seized eight men, ranging in age from 17 to 28, and charged them with reviving Fascism by anti-Semitic acts.
French authorities were inves- | tigating reports that jet aircraft traced swastikas in the sky over southwest France Thursday.
In the United States, the FBI is investigating two threatening letters sent to Jewish congregations in Jacksonville, Fla., where a synagogue was daubed with the Nazi symbol. ' STRANGE TWISTS
The hate campaign took odd twists.
The glass doors of London's Royal Festival Hall were smeared with the words "Less Jewish music." The current attraction there is the Nutcracker ballet, by the Russian Tchaikovsky.
Walls of two of New York City's large Protestant churches were splashed with Jewish religious symbols and the Old Pcbl.ani.ent phrase, "An eye for.an eye.'1
Kettle Valley Line
OTTAWA (CPi�The board of ransport commissioners has de-ided the CPIt for the present will not be ordered to restore ts reduced service over British Columbia territory plagued by �aids of the fanatical Sons of rreedom  Doukhobor sect.
The board said it will take no tction now but will watch the situation to see whether normal rain service can be resumed in �safely between Vancouver and Medicine Hat, Alta.
As the result of dynamitings, he CPR discontinued through-ail service between the two �itics, substituting a shuttle service operating only in daylight hours through the troubled
men Thursday his health is "very   area on its Kettle Valley line in good."
Record lumber production!
ONE GAL WITH ALL THE LICENSES she needs is Mrs. Evelyn Fraser of the Motor Vehicle Branch; shown here amid a stack of 10,000 pairs of license plates. New plates went on sale in Prince George Monday and so far 250 motorists have bought them. About 300 more are expected to be sold this year over last. Deadline  for having  the  I960  plates on vehicles is Feb. 2!).
�Hal Vandervoort fftioto
Local Motorists Paid Record
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Prince  George  motorists paid
record $19,605 into the city's 400-odd parking meters in 1959.
This was up considerably from previous record money of $17,650 collected from the city's driving public  in   1958. FINES UP
Parking fines also reached record sums as Prince George's population continues its steady climb. More than 4,500 drivers ontribuled two-dollar fines to the total sum of $9,090, eclipsing the 1958 record of $8,350.
Jaywalking fines are included in this year's figure but account for ah undetermined s mall amount. The bylaw was enforced early in the summer.
Last year the city offered parking permits for the first time. The permits, costing $10 every six months, allow servicemen to park without leaving the job periodically to "feed" the tin monster on the curb. These per-
mits   netted   the   city  additiona revenue of $2G0.
Chester Jeffery, city comptrol ler, said today petty revenues sel records in 1959 in nearly every department, This is due to con tinued growth, he said. $5,000 HIGHER
Trade licences produced a lop annual revenue of about $50,000
An itinerant unemployed l ger and miner was sent to warmer climes by Magistrate George Stewart today.
Kenneth McGillivary appeared on a. drunk charge lo which he p'leaded guilty. The magistrate asked him if he would prefer to slay here or go to the coast.
"I was in Vancouver once," the silver-haired man reminisced.
"You'd like to go to the coast sir?" the magistrate asked. "Fine, I'll sentence you to 14 clays in Oakalla."
Joseph Klecker, charged with the illegal sale of liquor, was remanded to Jan. 16 for trial Another man, jointly charged with Klecker, is being .sought. City prosecutor Peter Wilson said the case would go ahead on the new date, whether or not Uie  other  man  is  found.
Crash-Run Driver Sought
Police today were seurehing for the driver of an automobile involved in an accident with a truck at the top of Nechako hill late  Thursday.
A half-ton truck driven by Vaughn Dubys was turned over in the ditch and while he and a passenger were walking down the hill for assistance, the driver of the other vehicle left the scene.
It was the only accident reported to police in the Prince George district overnight.
INSPECTING THE oil furnace installed in the new parish hall of St. Michael's Anglican Church are Lome Wildfong, people's warden (right), and Canon T. D. R. Allen. Official opening of the new hall is scheduled for Jan. IS.
�Hal Vandervoort photo
Bishop fo Open New Parish Hall
Right Pxev. R. S. Dean. Anglican bishop of the Cariboo, will officiate at opening ceremonies of the new St. Michael's Church parish hall Jan. 13.
The 8 p.m. ceremony will be preceded by a supper in the hall, sponsored by St. Michael's Guild, at 6:30 p.m. Tickets for the supper will be available from the Bank of Montreal, Prince George Agencies or any church member. Public is  invited  to attend.
Election of officers will highlight the annual meeting following the opening.
This was about $5,000 over the previous year's record.
Trade licences range from $10 for small truckers lo $150 for banks, with pedlars paying from $100 to $150, depending on merchandise they hawk.
Dog licence revenue, including pound fees, also swelled city coffers more than in past years. The sum collected was $2,450, as compared to the 1958 total of $1,950.
There were 53(J  one-dollar bicycle  licences sold  in 1959; 450 in 1958. COURTS DOWN
Police court fines and costs j were down from previous years. The city was richer by $33,200 from public misdemeanours in 1959. But this .was down from the 1958 total of $30,800 and the 1957 record of $40,500.
Mr. Jeffery said records arc established almost every year in
is forecast for the Prince George Forest District during 1960.
Ted Knight, B.C. Forest Service officer in charge of management, said today lumber output should reach the one billion board feet mark.
The 1953 record yield was surpassed last year, early in the fall. Total lumber production in the district for all of 1959 was 850,000.000 board feet, compared with the 1956 yield of 068,000,000 board feet.
Mr. Knight said the forest service had anticipated the yield would hit the billion mark in 1859. This would have come about but for wet summer weather and too warm weather in the early winter season, he said.
This year, he said, "There's no reason why the yield shouldn't climb higher than the' 1959 record. With no unforeseen trouble we should hit the billion mark."
Lumber production in this forest district, which covers major part of the top half of the province, climbed each year up to 1956. In 1957 there was a recession, 1958 yield started up again and 1959 is seen as the start of another year by year increase
Mr. Knight said increasing lumber production is a direct result of the expansion of the lumber industry here.
"Each year new areas are opened up, making room for more mills," he added.
Make Power Public,
2 Missing Girls Returning Home
Two run-away girls are expected lo be returned lo their Prince George homes tonight after a three-day  disappearance.
Father;; of the. girls, Alfred Carr and Kay Shiels, went to a sawmill 70 miles from Burns Lake today where the youngsters reportedly went to visit friends, to take them home.
First clue to their whereabouts came Wednesday when a woman who had given the girls a lift just west of the city, recognized Marilyn Carr's picture in The Citizen and promptly phoned Mrs. Carr with the news.
licencing   revenues city's expansion.
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The Lesser Of 2 Evils ...
OSWEGO, Kan. ,,\ l>> � The Democratic majority on the La'bette County commission Wednesday re-elected the lone Republican member as chairman.
The two Democrats couldn't agree which one of them should have the chairmanship So they settled the matter by re-electing    Dave    YVestervelt.
That's how he got the job * last vear.
Old Sol will be playing peek-a-boo with Prince George Saturday, according to the weatherman. Forecast, for the Cariboo and Bulkley Valley regions calls for    variable    cloudiness    with
,'htly cooler temperatures. Winds will be light. Sunday will >robably  bo  sunny  ami  cool.
Low temperature tonight and the high Saturday lor Quesnel ind Prince George will be ~j :.>�r
VICTORIA 111 � The 120.000-'niember British Columbia Federation of Labor (CLC) in a brief to the cabinet Thursday urged complete public ownership of public utilities, with emphasis on electrical power and natural  gas.
The brief urged that the publicly-owned B.C. Power Commission take over all existing and future electrical power and natural gas developments.
The brief also urged:
That the new B.C. energy board plan development of the Peace River, and an experienced conservationist and a labor representative should be added to the board;
"Gimmicks" in retail sales should be  investigated;
Amendment   of   the   Equaliza-
UK Lumber
VICTORIA (CI1 � About 35 United Kingdom timber importers, engineers, architects and housing planners will tour B.C. lumber operations in June, Ti'ade Minister Bonner said Thursday.
The tour will be sponsored by the B.C. government and marks a concerted drive for English markets.
'"The members have been nomiated by Major-General B. M. Hoffmeister, B.C. agent-general in London, as the men most likely to influence purchases in the United Kingdom," Mr. Bonner said.
He a d d e tl B.C. is ; losing ground in lumber sales and the So vice Union is looming" iiS B.C.'s biggest competitor.
tion of Assessments Act to exempt old age pensioner homeowners from its provisions;
A 30-per-cenl increase in social assistance payments;
Frop school for all, from kindergarten through college with construction of more vocational schools, especially in the B.C. Interior to assist native Indians;
Changes in forestry regulations to create more public working circles and less tree farm licence areas � with opening of private access  road  to the  public;
A government car insurance scheme;
Exclusion of citizens from coroner's witness duties except for the actual time required to give evidence;
Assumption by the province of the full cost of arterial highway upkeep within city or municipal   boundaries;
More camp and picnic sites and investigation of river pollution problems and more fish stocking;
A more equitable distribution of provincial electoral ridings � and an easing of limitations on the time in which a tenant-elector may register to vote;
A drive to obtain more skilled mental hospital workers through pay and working conditions improvements.
Alex Clark Heads Accountant Group
Alex Clark has been named 1960 president of the Prince George Association of Chartered Accountants, lie succeeds Desmond O'Brien.
Chester Jeffery is secretary-treasurer, replacing Alistair Duncan.
Deepsea Ships Jam Port of Vancouver
VANCOUVER CPi� Vancouver harbor was jammed beyond capacity Thursday as ,'!2 ships filled all available berths and another seven wailed to get in.
Shipping agents found difficulty in getting enough dock workers to load aiid unload ships.
FRENCH PRESIDENT General Charles do Gaulle will visit Canada and the United Stales in  April.
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TROIS-RiyiER'BS, Que. (CP) � The city has decided to convert its baseball park into a quarter-mile- asphalt track for stock-car racing. The park was the home of the city's entry in the now defunct Provincial Baseball League.
.     DENSE FOG
LONDON (Reuters) �One of Britain's densest fogs closed in over three-quarters of the -country Thursday night, cancelling aircraft arrivals and departures, hampering shipping and causing hazardous driving conditions.
Freight Derailed At Hixon
Thirteen cars of a5011 Mi bom id 21-car Pacific Great Eastern Rail; way freight were derailed Wednesday night near Hixon, between Prince George and Qucsncl.
The railway said precautions are being taken to prevent explosion of butane gas in one of the derailed cars. They said, because of below freezing weather, there is little danger of explosion. NO INJURIES
An official of the government-owned line said there were no injuries and the cause of the derailment of the cars in the middle of the train near midnight is not known.
He said it also is not known whether the tank car carrying the butane is leaking because of the accident.
Routine precautions were b^ing taken, including keeping all traffic away from the area. INSPECTS CAR
A dominion government explosives inspector would inspect the car before attempts are made to put it back on the tracks.
The derailment was in deserted country four miles from the nearest settlement and a mile from the highway.
Passengers are being taken around the derailment by bus and a northbound and southbound freight, scheduled to pass the area today, will be held up until the line is cleared late tonight  or  early  tomorrow.
Winter Work Plans Okayed
Senior government approval has now been received for all winter work projects planned by the city, to cost a total $134,715.
Approval for final two projects submitted for winter work assistance was received this week.
The two are a 321,000 project for removal of fill from Con-naught Hill Park for the industrial cast end, and a $1,500 project for completion of the comfort station in Fort George Park.
The Connaught Hill job was rcsubmitled after being turned down as it was originally worded. The other job was the final project to be included in the city's winter work program.
SHE WOULDN'T, REALLY ...
Postmark Astonishes Casual British.
LO X DO -\' (API � Letters which appear to bear a portrait of the Queen thumbing her nose caused widespread astonishment in Britain today.
On closer inspection of the envelopes, the effect proved to be a combination of the stamp bearing the Queen's picture postmarked with the
symbol of World Refuge Year � an outstretched, empty hand.
In many cases, the hand's thumb touches the Queen's nose.
Dame Laura Knight, the Sl-year-old artist who designed the overprint, was indignant.
"They took my design," she snorted, ''and did not have enough common sense to iuaku
sure it was usikl' well away from the Queen's portrait."
Said a post office spokesman:
"This unfortunate effect will occur only on perhaps one in 50 letters, where the stamp has not been affixed in the extreme right-hand corner of the envelope. We have no intention of withdrawing the postmark/'
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