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Vol. 4; No. 20
PRINCE GEORGE, BRITISH COLUMBIA, FRIDAY^ JANUARY 29, 1960
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SENTENCES CONCURRENT
Parsons Convicted Drug Possession
Convicted drug peddler Ronald Parsons, who pleaded guilty in police court today to theft from a local drug store and illegal possession of narcotics, was sentenced to one year on each count.
Sentences, concurrent with the 15 years he is serving on drug trafficking and bail jumping convictions in Vancouver, will noi increase his time in penitentiary.
Parsons told Magistrate George Stewart he has been a drug addict since 1945, and that he had broken into the Cunningham Drag Store Jan. 13 in order to obtain soconal, used by addicts to relieve the pain caused by withdrawal froni drugs.
Prosecutor Peter Wilson said Parsons has been in and out of jail "a great many liir.es" since l!<33, in Jailer years in connection with narcotics offences.
Parsons and his wife were sentenced to 14 years in Vancouver last week on drug trafficking charges. He received an additional year for bail-jumping,
He and Robert Roland Taylor, 27, were arrested in the Nationa Hotel here Jan. 14 after the dm; store robbery. Pills and merch indise valued at $1,500 were found in their possession.
The pills were analysed in Vancouver and found to contain an amount of codein in excess A the ie^al amount allowed in in individual's possession
The men were charged with breaking and entering initially iiid the possession charges were disclosed by RCMP Thursday.
Taylor was sentenced to one �ear on the theft charge, and is xhedulcd to appear Monday on '.he possession charge.
Parsons was returned to Vancouver after his arrest to face he charges there before appear-.ng on the local offences.
Magistrate Stewart said in court today he could not understand why Parsons was returned to Prince George "at the Diiblic expense." He said those responsible would be aware any sentence would be concurrent.
"It's about time you learn the facts of life," Magistrate George Stewart told a 42-year-old man in police court today.
Julian Dcschcuc had pleaded guilty to supplying liquor to an Indian, in this case two girls who helped him consume a jug of wino in his Albany Hotel room.
Deschene said the girls went to his room and asked for a drink. Shortly after, he said, he fell asleep only to be awakened by a policeman and charged with the offence.
One of the girls was picked up by RCMP with the jug in question and told the officer where she had .obtained it. While he admitted giving-them a few drinks, he denied making a gift of the whole bottle.
Deschenc was given a $50 fine, but preferred to take the optional 30 days. The magistrate doubted if he was ignorant of the law prohibiting giving liquor to Indians.
The young lady in question, Dorothy Anatole, 19, got off lighter. Picked up by police with the wine and charged with possession of liquor off the reserve, was fined $10 with the alternative of one day in jail.
"It's just going to be a fine," the magistrate said, "because if you were a white person it would not have been an offence."
Bruce Stewart, 22, who pleaded guilty Monday to the theft of an electric grill .valued at $48 from Northern Hardware, was sentenced to one year in court today. The magistrate made a recommendation he be committed to Haney Correctional Institute. Stewart had four previous convictions for breaking and entering on the prairies.
Paddy Isaac Dies When Hit by Car
BURNS LAKE (Special to The Citizen) � Prominent spokesman for Indian rights, 62-year-old Paddy Isaac of the Macim Lake Indian band, was killed in a highway accident last night at Forest-dale, 26 miles west of here.
He was struck by a car as he walked on Highway 16 near his home.
Driver of the car, Harry Cran-mer of Rose Lake, brought Mr. Isaac to Burns Lake Hospital where he was pronounced dead on arrival.
He is survived by his wife, Julia, and three children at home.
Charges of liquor infractions against two Prince George youths vere dismissed. Alexander J. 3ird and Russell Greenfield were iharged with consuming liquor in a public place after a constable caught them with two open bol-fles of beer in their c^r outside the Strand Theatre Wednesday night.
Greenfield, 18, was also charged with being a minor in possession of liquor. The two pleaded not guilty.
In dismissing the case against Bird, the magistrate said he could find no evidence he had actually consumed the beer in that- pla.-e. Tn in 0 r r O w at Prince George, Quesnel and Smithers 30 and -10.
Peace Kiver Itogion Sunny, clouding over this afternoon. Snow this evening. Variable cloudiness and milder Saturday. Light winds. Low tonight and high tomorrow at Grande Prairie 10 and 30. Thursday
Co Hi Precip. Prince George 17 :iS .06 Quesnel 10 42 .01
Smithers K5 33 �
Terrace 2:? :iS 1.46
Dawson Creek -15 -4 .IS Fort St. John -19 -5 .2(i �Fort Nelson -13 -11 .2S W}ulch�r.se -II -5 43
$2,746 Surplus
VICTORIA id1) � The government tabled a financial accounting in the legislature Thursday to show that the end of last year it had a surplus of $2,746,653.
But this did not take into account the province's contingent liabilities � guaranteed loans for government agencies � which totalled $543,000,000. The figure was up from $462,815,972 as of the end of the last fiscal year, March 31, 1959.
The documents, including the public accounts up to the end of the last year and an interim balance aheet up to Dec. 31, 1959, were given at the opening of the new session by Attorney-Gene'-al Bonner on behalf of Premier-Finance minister Bennett who is recovering in hospital from an operation.
SUFFERS RELAPSE
CAIRO (API�A West German Embassy spokesman today said Economics Minister Ludwlg Er-hard, stricken with pneumonia two days ago while on a visit here, has suffered a relapse. His fever rose again.
To Aid Polio Fund'
A five-year-old ciiy girl, Marilyn Shaw, recent polio victim, will be aiding in publicity work for the Mothers' March, Feb. 3.
The U.S. Federal Housing Administration announced formally today it will recognize lumber grade markings of nine Canadian associations on an interim basis until Sept. 1.
By that date, association members to export lumber for FHA-fina'need housing must have qualified for grade stamps under procedure now being developed by the Canadian Lumber Standards Committee. MORE PROTECTION
Announcement came from Federal Housing Commissioner Julian H. �Zimmerman "reminding the U.S. home-building industry that grade-marking of board and framing lumber used in housing built under FHA inspection becomes mandatory April 1 as a further slop to protect home buyers and to assure quality in
KAPOHO VILLAGE, Hawaii (AP) �Kilauea volcano, after destroying a village, was spewing more lava than ever today over the ravaged countryside of this southeast Hawaiian island.
It. buried most of this once-thriving village of 300 people under a flaming carpet of lava Thursday. Only eight, small wooden buildings stood'amidst a sea of charred and still-smouldering homes and buildings.
Volcanblogist Wayne Aul't estimated that the lava flow covered two square miles of fertile forest lands, sugar cane fields, papaya and coffee plantations. 'He said he saw no end in sight for 'he r.uption.
HOW HEAR THIS
Ken Wood, who coached the Chietwyhd bail club, recalls how they whomped Prince George in baseball and says they can also do it in curling. Ken issued a challenge to anyone in PG, especially Don McEnchuio although "the next best will do." to meet, the Chetwynd selects any Sunday with a jiigorum at stake. He can be reached at Chetwynd Hotel . . .
Cpl. Ron Wyim, who would skip the Chetwynd rink, will curl with Inspector Shank's crew in the subdivision elimination spiel Feb. 7 to decide which rink will represent the PG subdivision in the annual police bonspiel at Kamjuppa Feb., 154Q
.. .Six rinks will play in the local subdivision elimination ... winner at Kamioops will represent B.C. in the Canadian police curling champ affair in Winnipeg ...
On tour of new Hotel Simon Fraser last night, conducted personally by manager Fred Lcippq yet, was Harry Brown, co-manager of the Prince George Hotel... MaLeod's Lake Standard dealer William .1. Cox turned on the pump to fill a car Wednesday and discovered his underground tank had sprung a leak through which he had lost GOO gallons of gas......
Big Question at the Legion these days is draft beer... Many members are agitating for it not only because they prefer il but also because it can be a better muney-maker than .bottled beer.,,
homes on which FIIA insures mortgages."
The announcement read:
The commissioner announced the grade-marking requirement at this time to eliminate any confusion among builders and dealers as lo the effective date.
"This means that all framing and sheathing lumber for use in FHA-insured houses must be grade-marked on and after April 1," Mr. Zimmerman said. "Lumber produced in the U.S. will be grade-marked by associations and independent agencies which have been recognized by the American Lumber Standards Committee.
"As far as lumber imported from Canada is concerned, the various Canadian lumber manufacturers' associations have prepared grade marks which will be accepted by FHA effective April 1.
' "Grade-marking by these Canadian associations will be in operation by this date on an interim basis."
Nine associations in Canada have had temporary grade markings approved which will be recognized until Sept. 1.
They are:
Alberta Forest Products Association, Edmonton; B.C. Lumber Manufacturers Association. Vancouver; Canadian Lumbermen's Association. Ottawa, (including spruce bureau and pine bureau); Cariboo-PGE Lumber Manufacturers Association. Vancouver; Interior Lumber Manufacturers Association, Penticton; Maritime Lumber Bureau, Am-herst, N.S.; Northern Interior Lumbermen's Association. Prince George; Quebec Lumber Manufacturers Association, Quebec; Saskatchewan Timber Board, Prince Albert.
The commissioner explained that a.Canadian Lumber Standards Committee oi the Canadian
Pr^ice George Banana BeSI
We're in the banana belt!
Yesterday, while our temperature climbed lo a sweltering 38 degrees, our neighbors to the North were freezing.
Highest reading at Dawson Creek, Fort St. John, Fort Nelson or Whitehorse was Dawson Creek's -4. And, while we had an overnight low of 17 aoove, those four centres had below zero readings from 11 tq 19 betyw.
Standards Association is being established to fulfill the same purpose for Canadian lumber ex-pored to the U.S. for FHA projects as that performed for U.S. lumber by the American Lumber Standards Commitee.
"By Sept. 1 the procedure qualifying recognized Canadian associations will have been completed by the Canadian Lumber Standards Committee," Zimmerman said. "Grade-marking practices in both the U.S. and Canada will be similar."
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For Hospital Move
The new Prince George and District Hospital is slated tcj swing into full operation in mid-Feb.
Hospital A (1 m in is t c a t o r Gordon Townend said today tentative plans call for patients! staff and equipment to be moved from the old hospital to the new $2,040,000 building in a two-day operation, Feb. 15 and 16.
It is planned to have 108-year-old ��Granny" Seymour as the first patient in the new hospital, providing she is still in hospital at the time.
Mr. Townend said the number of patients in hospital here will be cut. down before the big move, which he described as a "colossal job."
Plans arc to discharge, at least temporarily, enough of the 120 people now in hospital so that only between 10 and 50 remain for moving day.
Those patients who can he sent home, if only to be readmitted in several days, will be taken from the old hospital on Feb. ]'5 ami 14. Monday, Feb. 15, some equipment and the stores will be moved to the new building. And, the following day the patients will be moved.
Mr. Townend said the move will climax a nine-month job completed, in three months. Normally, he said, the job of getting the new hospital ready and preparing the move would have taken three times as long but for the -concerted effort made to apenthe new building as spoil U� possible,
PARIS (Reuters)�French police Thursday raided offices and homes of right wing extremists throughout France in a move to cut off any support for the settlers' insurrection in Algeria.
But news of the lightning raids was dwarfed by the announcement that Delegate-General Paul Delouvrier, senior civil administrator in Algeria, and C o m m a nder-in-Ch'lef Maurice Challe both had moved out of Algiers to a command post "somewhere in the countryside." The announcement hit Paris like a bombshell. Many deputies of the French National Assembly were flabbergasted and said they could not understand the move. They calmed down somewhat
Material Strength
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa iReuters)�Prime Minister Macmillan Thursday described the United States as "a reluctant debutante in world affairs."
Russia lu> characterized as a "buoyant and determined imperialist."
The great material strength of the world, the British leader said, is roughly divided between "these tremendous powers of East and West" and in such a situation disaster might follow "not from any plan, or because anyone willed it or because it was thought out by wicked men."
Two years ago. he said, lie felt the world might be drifted into another world war and that it would he a good thing if he and Foreign Secretary Selwyn Lloyd went to Moscow.
But, he added, he would not have taken the responsibility for his Moscow journey last Feb. as prime minister of Great Britain alone, "if I had not felt that there was this great organization, the Commonwealth."
A 13-year-old boy was in "good" condition in hospital today after an incident on a South Fort, George skating rink in which he suffered a knife wound in his shoulder.
Lewis Quirin, son of Mr. and Mrs. Abe Quinri, 25G4 Fourth. South Fort George, was skating when he and another boy became involved in an argument with two young girls.
RCMP have the weapon, a small pen-knife, in their possession and arc investigating the incident.
later when a government spokesman said: '"i he order; to set up a headquarters outside Algiers was given to put the connnander-in-chief and the delegate-general out of reach of any pressure from the insurgents or any quarter whatsoever. " AT OR NEAK IlLIDA
It was understood here that the new command post is at or nest' Blida. about 30' miles south of Algiers, site of a big.air base.
One report circulating here claimed the settlers planned to establish an Independent regime In Algiers today or Saturday.
According to this theory, Delouvrier and Challe got put of town to avoid being taken prisoner.
Maurice Schumann, president of the assembly's foreign affairs commission, tsaid: "Dol'ouviior s-salvation plan .is the.only one which holds any hope of avoiding shedding French blood and which ensures the continuation of the state."
Everybody is waiting impatiently for tie Gaulle to make his broadcast tonight.
Meantime, officials of the justice ministry studied thousands of documents seized by police in raids in Paris, Marseille, Iiyon, Lille. Bordeaux, Nice, Bayonne, 1'au and other towns.
Many of the extremists were detained for questioning and one national Assembly deputy was arrested. He is former Pii-jadist Jean-Marie le Pen, 31'; an ex-paratrooper who heads the National Combatant Front The organization opposes de Gaulle's program fur Algerian .self-determination.
Hospital Board Chairman John Powers announced today he'll resign his post in March, after completing only one year of his second two-year term on the board.
He moved 50 miles from the city, to Dunkley, after being ctnrI for his second term and Mr. Powers said he finds it "too inconvenient" lo be in the city for numerous hoard and committee meetings.
The board chairman will resign at the March 8 annual meeting of the Prince George & District Hospital Society. The society will elect three members to the board or trustees at that meeting.
Term* of two other board members, canon T. D. R. Allen and Vice-Chairman Milt Hurt, expire in March. Canon Allen has scrvoii three years on the board. Mr. Burt is completing his first two-year term.
Choices of a nominating committee set up lo fill the three �racancies are expected to be known shortly. Nominations are ilso accepted from the floor of the meeting.
To be eligible for nomination, and to have a vote, a society member must hold membership it Kist 30 days prior to the annual ri'i
BANK RATE DOWN
OTTAWA (CP) �The Hank of Canada interest rate Thursday declined for the third successive week, slipping to 4.85 per cent from -I.D1 per cent a week ago.
The rate, established following sale of $115,000,000 in !Jl-day government treasury bills, compares with rales of 5.00 per cent Jan. 1 I and 5.39 iper cent Jan. 7.
The bank rate minimum charge by the cental bank on its infrequent loans to chartered hanks is set. at one quarter of one per cent above the average yield on the weekly sale of 91-day treasury bills.
.HOT CRASH
MILLBROOW, Ala. (AI')�An elderly couple was killed when a pilotless T-.'J.'J jet training plane crashed Into their farm home Thursday to set it on fire.
The pilot. Lt-Col. R. M. Turn-quist of Andrews Air Force Base, Md., parachuted safely from the stricken plane.
ntfe Ptans-
At the second meeting of the I960 Simon Fraser Day celebrations committee chairman of individual committees were appointed and some tentative plans for the July 1 affair were discussed.
A move was also made to have the group officially named the Prince George Simon Fraser Day Society.
Bill Woydk was named chairman of a special events committee and ho will investigate possibilities of new attractions for the annual celebrations, One would be a race from the co;ist of the Vancouver Vintage Car Association, The other would be a performance by the Sky Divers, a teasn of parachutists which specializes in a free fall display in which parachutes are not opened until the "last moment."
An RC'AK Acrobatic team will also bo sought to put on an air display and there will be logging contests.
It was decided to have a local talent stage show this year, in the form of a pageant. Mr. Mall Briggs is chairman. Mrs. Joseph Siddons is coordinator.
A new feature may be added to the canoe race this year. There was talk nf establishing a British Columbia prjZc, as well as the first prize, |n order to make the race the Provincial championship run.
Chairman Bill Blackburn will be assisted by co-chairman Del-mar Lamb.
Queen Aurora ill will be selected from among Grades 11 and 12 high school students, to be sponsored by local service clubs. There will also be auto racing, a buffalo tneat barbecue, a water show, a parade, and possibly a fireworks display.
City Complains
The City has complained to RCMP of children playing on equipment left in tne city yard overnight.
Police warned parents to keep their children away from the yard as a mishap could result in serious injuries.
NEARLY 11500 BOOKS
City Library Circulation Expands
More books are circulated by the city library in a month now than were distributed in an entire year 10 years ago.
Librarian Bill Fraser, illustrating the library board plea for more space, said today more than 74.000 book's circulated through the library in 1959. This compares to 0,613 for all of 1950.
The stock of books during that period has climbed from 3,343 to nearly 11,500 books.
Membership was 669 10 years ago. It is now near the 5,000 mark.
In 1950 the city budgeted $1,-000 for the library, the 1959 budget was �15,000. This year's preliminary oity budget calls for $16,500 in library spending.
Each year the library has increased in stock, membership and circulation. Current 74,000 circulation is up from 63,000 the year previous.
Because of the increase the library board has sought several times to have the city build a new library to ease overcrowding. The 1959 city council said it would have to wail for several years until enough money was available for a planned joint city hall-library.
The library is hoping Mayor Garvin Dezell, who said during his election campaign he was in favor of quick action on the library problem, will do something to settle the matter. He has appointed himself as city represen-
tative on the board. its (jrst meeting of Uie year is d a,,xt month.
DAWSON CREEK � An ,g month-old boy was killed hi Dawson Crock Thursday when small 22 calibre target pistol w- � let off accidentally. WuS
The boy's name has not been released by RCMP. ycl
The accident occurred a|jQ 11 a.m. in the livingroont of north-end residence. >l
Police said the father w working on the pistol when u exploffep!.