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PRINCE GEORGE, BRITISH COLUMBIA, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 27, 1960
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Export All Power We Can Until It Is Needed Here
By Citizen Staff Reporter DAWSON CREEK�A change of thinking is needed in Canada's export power policy, John S Shakespear, solicitor of Peace River Power Development Co. said here last night He told the annual meeting of the Dawson Creek Chamber of Commerce the federal government should tell us to get on with the job and to export all we can produce until it is needed in B.C.
Shakespear was outlining his company's plans to develop the Peace River with 4,000,000 horsepower of hydro electric output. Hydro power is not like gas, he said, it is inexhaustible. The surplus should be sold quickly as it can be produced because there is always more available.
He then said the situation is different than it was a few years auo. Then, once power export was  begun   it could   not  be  cut
Thieves Enter
Thieves with apparently little ambition broke into the Royal Produce store on Seventeenth taking only $2.50 in small change. No groceries were missing, Cruising police spotted a broken front door window.
Frank and Ken Tims told police they spotted three young persons near their truck with a ten-gallon drum and four feet of hose. They drove off in a hurry, leaving their equipment behind.
Eric Fayarit reported a suitcase stolen from a friend's car.
Further Donations For Hospital
A further $2,025 has been donated for equipment and furnishings at the new hospial here, putrth'2 total donations Well over the $13,000 mark.
The Imperial Oil Co. Ltd. has donated $2,000 and the Ladies Orange Benevolent Association gave $25.
, off even though it was needed at the source because the industries which had hooked up had no other power sources available. This is no longer the case Shakespear said. Today if hydro power is cut off the affected industries can develop thermal energy to lake its place. It might be more costly but it's still there, he said. If Peace River power were allowed to export surplus energy until it is needed in B.C. the U.S. would be glad to get it and thus stall off the necessity for developing more costly thermal energy.
His Brass
A man picked up by police shortly after 5 a.m. today when they spotted his car weaving appeared in police court five hours later charged with impaired driving.
John Hector Brass told the court he was unfamiliar with legal procedure, and would like to have his trial "put off" for two or three days.
Magistrate Stewart remanded him for one day without plea, but a half hour later Brass requested his case go ahead today.
He pleaded guilty and was fined $150.
"Are you being lenient, sir?" he asked.
The magistrate advised him in a loud, clear voice that $150 was somewhat lower than fines levied for the same offence and warned him a second conviction would carry a M-day jail term.
Robert 'Moyen was given 14 days to pay his $25 fine after pleading guilty to intoxication.
William Dunlop drew 30 days after he pleaded guilty Tuesday  trespassing on CNR property.         "^
Failing to yield the right-of-way^ cost Edward Nelson-Kent $15 after he was found guilty of the offence.
"HEY, MAN, IS THAT THE CRAZY SUN OR THE
crazy moon up there?" querried the first Beatnik. Beatnik number two replied, "Man, like I don't know. I just got here." Actually it's the. '-'crazy" sun. ,But hazy, overcast skies here make the lucky old sun no brighter than the moon some days, as shown by this photograph taken somewhere in the Central Fort George area.                         �Jarvis Whitney" Photo
Provincial S.C. Party Leader Named for First Time in Sask.
SASKATOON (CP) � Saskatchewan for the first time in its history has a provincial Social Credit party deader.
Martin Kelln, a Dtival district fanner and a former president of the provincial Social Credit League, was named provincial leader at a iparty nominating convention  Tuesday.
Mr. Kelln, a veteran of politi-/cal campaigns, was elected on the first ballot, defeating Rev. T. Froese of Rosthern, the present league president, and former league president Malcolm J. Haver  of Saskatoon.
Annual Meeting
Dr. J. A. Richardson, professor of special education at the University of British Columbia, will speak here Friday to the annual meeting of the Prince George & District Association for  Handicapped  Children.
His topic will be on the general needs of the handicapped child.
The meeting will be held at 8 p.m. Friday in the Cariboo Health Unit building on Sixth.
Steady snow which started falling at 3;30 this morning had piled up close to four inches by noon today, but was scheduled to slacken off later tonight.
Forecaster says it will become intermittent tonight with only a few snow flurries Thursday. There'll be little change in temperature and light winds will prevail. Low tonight and high Thursday at Quesnel, 10 and 20. Prince George, 5 and 15, Smitli-crs. 0 and  15.
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"I do not accept this honor lightly." the new leader told the 1500 persons attending the convention after being carried shoulder-high to the speaker's platform. JOB TO DO
"We have a job to do. Let's go back to the constituencies and carry the spirit of this convention to the thousands of Social Credit supporters in the province."
Mr. Kelln said later the party will run candidates in all 53 constituencies in the next ipro-vincial election, expected this yea l1.
The party now has three seats. The CCK party won 36 scats in the 1056 election and the Liberals   M.
Delegates drew up a rough platform outlining some of the party's politicies on medical and hospital care, agriculture ,'labor and aid to municipalities. "l'M.M.\<;i.\ATIVE"
However, after the platform was discussed, Peter Dyck of Lanigan told delegates it dealt too much in generalities and was unimaginative. He said the convention should "put some icing on  the cake to catch  the eye."
The party's proposed hospital plan suggests that patients ipay $1 a day for each day they arc in hospital. .Maximum yearly payments under the plan would
be SIT..")!) for individuals and $35 for a family.
Free hospital care would be given maternity cases, old age pensioners on provincial supplemental allowance, blind pensioners and totally disabled persons.
A Social Credit government would pay a portion of the premium on a medical plan which would be set up in conjunction with other groups now providing private medical plans.
Peace River Bridge Open
DAWSON CHEEK ICPI�The new $5,000,000 Alaska highway bridge across the Peace river, 40 miles north of here, was handed over to the Canadian Army Tuesday by  Dominion   Bridge   Company.
The army, which maintains the Alaska Highway, later announced that the bridge will be opened for traffic Wednesday.
The bi'idge replaces a suspension span that collapsed Oct. 1G 1957. Since then, vehicular traffic has used the planked-over Pacific Great Eastern Railway bridge.
There will be no ceremony al-tached lo the opening. A formal opening is expected to be held early in June.
MONTREAL ICB � The Canadian Pulp and Paper Association needn't fear any serious competition from Russia until at least 1975, a panel of pulp and paper experts said Tuesday night.
The equipment and manufacturing processes of the Russian industry are 20 lo 25 years behind that of.Canada, the nine-man panel reports.
The group, sponsored by the Canadian Pulp and Paper Association, made a 5,000-mile tour of Russia last October, visiting mills in .Moscow, Leningrad, Kaza, Gorki, Kiev and Lvov.
Despite its present condition the Russian industry appeared lo be on Ihe verge of rapid expansion, they said.
The Russians plan lo double their pulp and paper output and quadruple their paperboard production in the next five years, said Jack Limerick, chairman of the panel and research director of Bathurst Power and Paper Company.
"Although the industry will grow lo several times its present size by 1975, we believe local requirements will prevent Russian mills from competing on world markets,"  he said.
Present pulp and paper output in Russia is less than half of Canada's.
Paper consumption in Russia is 30 pounds per capita compared lo 300 pounds in Canada and 40C ::i Ihe United Stales.
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By Citizen Staff Reporter DAWSON CREEK � Dawson Creek Chamber of Commerce was prevented Tuesday, by its constitution, from endorsing a Prince George resolution asking Prime Minister Diefenbaker- to reconsider h i s government's stand on immediate Peace River Power development.
But the resolution which the Prince George Board of Trade voted unanimously Monday to send lo Diefenbaker will likely Be strongly supported here at the chamber's next regular meeting.
The resolution asks Diefenbaker and his government to live up to their election promises for full scale northern development. It demands thai the Prime Min-
ister refute recent statements by External Affairs Minister Howard Green and Justice Minister Davie Fulton that oppose Peace River development.
Dawson Crock Chamber president Arthur Elliott turned back a motion by Glen Bra den and strongly supported by the membership that the Prince George resolution be discussed at once. Elliott said the chambers constitution required two weeks notice of motion and Bradcn agreed-.
Representatives of several neighboring Boards of Trade attended the Dawson Creek Chambers annual  meeting.
The Prince George president John Morrison said, we in Prince George are alarmed and disappointed  at  the  apathy  and  un-
concern with which the people in the B.C. Lower Mainland re-garded potential northern developments.
We arc amazed at the.apathy and lack of interest toward the possibility of getting U.S.. Canadian. British and other foreign capital into the north to develop it and open it up, Morrison said.
We have experienced active opposition against the north, especially among the Conservatives in Ottawa he said. This we are unable to understand and want to remedy.
We therefore ask you and all Boards of Trade in Northern B.C. to endorse this resolution to Mr. Diefenbaker which was passed unanimously by the Prince George gqard of Trade he said.
Faces Charges
Under Lord's Day
Summons Still to Be Issued in Test Case
Father of Eight To Serve 5 Years
\ 45-year-old father of eight children was sentenced to five years in penitentiary today on four charges involving incest and carnal knowledge.
Magistrate George Stewart told him "you have pleaded guilty to some of the most serious offences in our criminal code, and I see no extenuating circumstances at all."
"If a deterrent is to work, it must   work   in   these   types   of
cases," the magistcatae sid.
The man was sentenced to five years on one charge of incest, and to a total of six years � to run concurrently � on three other charges of carnal knowledge.
Under the criminal code, he could have received two life sentences, another of 14 years and a third for two years. Whipping is also provided under the code.
jh School Students
oterested in Contest
High school students are reported showing much interest in The Citizen's Guest Editorial Column contest, which will see two winners travel to Victoria to see the provincial legislature in session.
Trustees of School District 57 met last night and further hammered out plans for reorganization of district operations.
Operations are being streamlined by putting the board of trustees in more of a policy-making position and having much of the spade work done by hired staff.
The four main committees set up under the new policy were established last night in the first step towards reorganization.
Tl'iiKtee Jack I! Inm 1cm wa.s appointed management, committee chairman, Trustee Bob Range is finance chairman, John Holmes wa.s named personnel chairman and chairman of the education committee is Trustee Ken Melville.
Subcommittee dealing with teacher recruitment was formed, of board chairman Ray Atkinson and Trustee Harold Moffat. Trustees Range and Holmes combine on the salary subcommittee.
The board also moved to hire a man to be responsible for management of all maintenance and new building. This man, along with District Secretary Robert K. Gracey and Superintendent Ken Alexander will all report to the board through committees on their separate responsibilities.
Tourist Bureau
City council has moved to permit the Board of Trade lo establish its new combined offices and tourist bureau on part of the First and George lot occupied by the  MacKenzie  Monument.
It has moved also to budget $1,500 towards the tourist bureau, following last year's refusal to support   the   bureau   financially.
Tenders for the $11,000 building, to house a museum besides Board of Trade offices and the tourist bureau, are expected lo be called by this weekend. Construction would start immediately.
Some 50 columns have, so far, been entered in the contest. Twenty or more additional entries are expected before the contest closes at 5 p.m. February 3.
Students in Grades 11, 12 and 13 are eligible  for. the contest.
Entries are to tie judged by Prince George Senior High School Principal Allan Stables, Hoard of Trade President John Morrison and City Clerk Arran Thomson.
The big winners, a boy and a girl, will be flown to Victoria early next month to see the legislature debating the provincial budget.
There will be 10 follow-up prizes for other submissions.
Entry forms are carried daily in The Citizen for high school students interested In the contest. They should be attached to the guest editorials when they are submitted either to The GXtlzjen, .'353 Quebec, or Post Of-
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The City of Prince George has been charged with violating the Lord's Day Act, climaxing the Sunday sport issue brewing here for the last three months.
City Detachment RCMP said! today the Attorney-General's department has given'.orders to prosecute following police investigations of commercial Sunday activities at the city-owned Coliseum.
With charges laid court action is expected to proceed shortly, as soon as the city is summonsed to appeal1 in court.
Lawyer Frank Perry has been engaged to act for the Crown.
Magistrate Stan Carting will likely handle the case. Police court magistrate George Stewart would be disqualified from hearing the charge due to the fact he is employed by the city.
The city deliberately provoked  court   action  by   ignoring   a
Small Contractor a
CALGARY (CP) � Tho presi. dent, of the Canadian Construction Association said Tuesday the association is: considering steps to match the financial resources of national and international labor unions.
J. E. Harrington of Montreal said consideration is being given �by the industry to setting up a special fund for members unable to afford prolonged legal battles witli  unions.
He made his comments in a press conference at the CCA's 42nd annual convention, Tho convention ends today when delegates will give final approval to resolutions drafted earlier in the convention.
Mr. Harrington said a contractor may win a legal battle in court, but when the union takes the case to a higher court "as they invariably do, too oPen small contractors must bow out because of a lack of funds."
.Mr. Harrington said each year more firms 'are finding it harder to make a profit.
"Thirty per cent of the firms are operating in the red," he said. I don't think it unreasonable to expect a five-per-cent return although Ganadas largest, contractor last year barely made a one-per-cent profit."
Jr. Chamber Will Sponsor Local Band
The Junior Chamber of Commerce here will sponsor a junior band.
The Jaycees moved at their regular meeting last night to organize, train and give $100 towards establishment of a l>and to >be formed of high school students.
Applications for membership In the band will 'be distributed to the schools and the club said it will Uikc up lo 100 yoOuig
musicians and train them in band work,
instruction will be given at two classes per week by Jaycee Eugene Ba'tes and his wi,fe, Margaret. 'Hand members will be charged S2 per month to help with  expenses.
The $100 will be to get the band started and the chamber will assist the 'band to raise funds to continue future operation.
A committee of Jaycees, teach--ers and parents of band members will be formed to handle band organization. Maurice Cicorge is chairman of the committee. Two other Jaycee members are Ian McPhie and Bob Hamilton.
The Junior Chamber of Commerce meeting last night was the meeting held yearly at which former members are entertained.
Reminiscing on their days in the chamber were: "Brownie"' Ruse, Frank Brinkworth, Hilli-ard Clare. Graham Clark, John Nellsen, Chuck 'Cawdell, Bob Lonsdale, Andy Isabellc. Ralph Moffat and Gordon Grant.
Pla'ns are being made for the 25th anniversary of the local chamber in Oct.
Form  Brigade
TUNIS (Reuters)�The insurgent Algerian National Liberation Front today asked the All-African Peoples Conference here to form an African liberation brigade to fight in Algeria.
police warning the controversial Lord's Day Act was to be more strictly enforced here.
The Attorney-General asked for police reports on the city's Sunday activity in the Coliseum and has now decided to proceed with action.
An unconfirmed report has il that charges under the act are pending in Quesnel and Vandc-r-hoof. Depending on the outcome of the case here, responsible parties in those centres could be charged for operating commercial Sunday sports events, according to reports.
The city could be fined up to $2.j() if found guilty of violating the act.
It was decided to test the unpopular act, with a view" of getting support from other B.C. centres to have the act changed.
The city has continued to charge admission on Sundays.
To legalize Sunday commercial sport in Prince George and other B.C. centres, with the exception of Vancouver, would re-quire a change in the Municipal Act.
All centres are governed by this act except the coast city. It has legal commercial sports on Sundays because it operates under a separate city charter, not under the Municipal Act.
Seen in Area
Another unidentified flying object has been spotted in the area, the fourth reported to RCAF Ground Observer Corps in the past month.
The latest object, spotted in the airport district Monday afternoon by salesman Albert Jensen, 58, of 486 Harper, was described as being "like an aluminum barrel with a hard hat on its top."
Mr. Jensen and an unidentified woman sp'otted the UFO hovering over what appeared to be Hie airport district. From their location on the old Vandcrhoof Highway the salesman said the object appeared about 15,000 feel in the air.
The "saucer" was in view for about 15 seconds. Mr, Jensen said il moved slowly southward, veered in his direction, then disappeared suddenly from a cloudless sky.
He said he has never doubted the existence of flying saucers and would, "like to get a good sighting sometime." The UFO spotted at 2:30 Monday afternoon was his first one, "although my wife saw one years ago," he said.
The RCAF Ground Observer . Corps couldn't explain the sighting. It said there were no aircraft in the area at the time of the sighting and no radar pickup of the object. The corps said in many cases the "saucers" are nothing more than weather balloons but "some cannot be identified."
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the lot but it didn't take away from the fine, old barbershop singing these fellows rendered when they met  night a.t home of Ray Atkinson (piano)   to
�form a barbershop quartet singing club. The group is meeting each week and singing "just for the fun of it," said Mr. Atkinson.
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