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Vol. 4; No. 21
PRINCE GEORGE, BRITISH COLUMBIA, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 1, 1960
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BURIED 25 HOURS
Entombed In Snow Duke Found Alive
WINDERMERE B.C. (CP) � Workmen carrying out the sombre task of digging out the body of a comrade entombed 25 hours in a massive snow slide sheared through the snow with bulldozers Sunday and found the sup posed victim � alive.
First sign that Jim Duke, 60-ycar-old highway's department employee, had survived death attributed to him 15 hours earlier was a madly waving arm.
The bulldozer, which swept within inches of him and uncovered the air pocket where he lay trapped beneath ei^ht feet of snow, had almost taken his life at the moment of rescue.
Duke told his rescuers he heard them working throughout and "lay in fear that the blade would take off my head."
His first question as he was
Robert Roland Taylor, 27, pleaded guilty in police court today to drug possession and was sentenced to six months. Magistrate GecJrge Stewart recommended the sentence be served concurrently with the one year Taylor is serving for the Jan. 14 theft from a local drug store.
Taylor was arrested shortly after he and convicted drug pedlar Ronald Parsons broke into the Cunningham Drug Store and took an estimated $1,500 in merchandise and pills.
The pills were taken to Vancouver by RCMP for police analysis and found to contain an amount of codcin ruled illegal when in an individual's possession.
Parsons and Taylor were subsequently charged with illegal possession of the narcotics.
Taylor earlier told the court' he had come here with the intention of renting a cabin and trying to break his drug habit.
He. will likely serve his sentence at Haney Correctional Institute, which the magistrate recommended in passing sentence.
lifted from the snow was: "Did someone remember to feed and water my dog?" IN GOOD SHAPE
His second request was for coffee, lie drank two cups and was driven 17 miles to hospital here suffering extreme exhaustion and a few minor cuts. Doctors said he was in good condition.
His son and daughter�Wayne Duke of Calgary and Mrs. Lee
Clauson of Edmonton-------were
at the scene when he was freed. The slide, in the area known locally as Little Dragon, west of this southeastern B.C. centre, was belived caused by a chinook.
Duke was acting as lookout �nan while crews cleared snow trom an earlier slide when a second avalanche caught him.
"All I can recall was that I was working on the temporary road when I heard a roar," he said later. "I tried to run, but my foot got caught. I instinctively doubled up, put my hands over my face, and went with the snow." "When I came to, I was entombed in the snow. I tried to get some breathing space and by straining against the snow managed to make a hole about the size of a washtub. KEPT CALM
"I knew they would be looking for me," he said, "so I didn't get excited."
About 770 workmen and local residents joined the search. Fear of further avalanches at nightfall forced work to cease on the mound of snow estimated at 200 yards wide and 300 yards long, and in places up to 40 feet deep. The searchers were out again at daybreak Sunday but had given up all hope of finding Duke alive. The bulldozer was driving toward the centre of the mound, where the "dead" man was believed to be.
The machine's blade carried away one side of the pocket and Duke was able to stick his arm out and yell.
Sain cat operator Lloyd Rod-ningen, 39; "I saw a man's hand waving in the snow ... I was so excited. I just hollered and hollered ... we had given up all hope of finding him alive."
Call Strike If You Like Causes Chaos, Confusion
LONDON (AP) � A rail union's "strike if you like" call brought chaos and confusion to London commuters today.
Main-line railroad stations were reported working normally, but the subway system was badly hit. On four lines there were no trains at all, and on five others there was only a partial service.
Buses were running normally packed from dawn.
The trouble was mainly caused by confusion. Union officials, workers, commuters and transport authorities just weren't sure what was happening.
The London district council of the National Union of Railway-men a month ago called for a token 24-hour strike today. Then last week the union called for a national rail strike on Feb. 15. Both were to protest delays in meeting wage claims.
So the London district council Sunday night ordered its members to defer today's strike, although it added that any man who did come out on strike would get union support.
For hundreds of thousands of commuters it was a question of turning up at the station to see if their regular train was run-
ning. And traffic officials said early reports indicated that thousands of motorists would not risk the uncertainty of public transport. Car traffic was running about 70 to 80 per cent above normal and traffic jams were reported from several suburban areas.
THE ALBERT ENGSTROM RINK of Prince George Sunday won the Northern Zone curling finals at Quesnel in a best-of-three playoff with the Lloyd Harper rink of Quesnel. The local rink thus advances to the provincial finals in Kelowna later this month. Standing are Engstrom (left and his third, Bob Madill. In the front row are Owen Dupre, lead and Bill Dagg, second.�Hal Vandervoort photo
PLANES IN DOG FIGHT
Cease-Fire
TEL AVIV, Israel (AIM � Three Israeli and two Syrian soldiers were killed today in a pre-dawn battle on the southeast shore of the Sea of Oalijee.
It was the fourth straight clay �of shooting in the area but a cease-fire was arranged by UN truce supervisors.
Later, four Syrian Mid jot planes fought a brief dogfight, when two Israeli fighter pianos intercepted, them at 11 a.m.
An Israeli Army spokesman said the Syrian plane's were driven off from the .area over Me-tullah, close to the Syrian-Israel border in northern Galilee.
The Syrian planes Were trying to penetrate into Israel ait1 space, pie spokesman declared. UKPOKT C.\Sl.\l;TIKS
Seven Israelis and four Syrians were wounded in the ground fighting. Israel also reported .that an Israeli policeman was killed and two wounded in shooting Sunday.
Israeli sappers during the night moved into the Arab village of Tawfik, in the demilitar-
Marching Mother:
The future wellbeing of many Northern B.C. youngsters and their families will be at stake Wednesday evening.
This is the oncc-a-year date when the mothers of Prince George go out banging on doors to raise money for a very worthy cause � the B.C. Foundation for Child Care, Poliomyelitis and Rehabilitation, sponsored by the Kinsmen Clubs.
Some 250 Marching Mothers will conduct a door-to-door canvass between 6:30 and 7:30 p.m.
Now Hear Tkis...
A proud grandfather this week is city prosecutor Peter Wilson whose grandson, Robert Guile of Vancouver, junior member of a � major law firm, is sitting in on a Supreme Court case in Ottawa. Another offspring of Mr. Wilson in the legal field is his son, I\Ir. Justice J. O. Wilson of the B.C. Supreme Court ...
Isabelle's Music Corner and a Mr. Charlie Gray are reported to have bought the lot of the former Serv-U-Self laundry, corner of Sixth and George, and are tearing clown the old building . . .
When Woolworth's Manager Frank Floate arrives back in town from Calgary tomorrow among the letters he will find on his desk will be one of resignation from his assistant manager Bill Johnson, who leaves the next day for Vancouver to find other employment . . . Eaton's Ernie Longworth oh a recent trip to
Fort St. John discovered he would have to slay longer than he intended and had to have fresh laundry sent up air express . . .
Ken Wood of Chctwynd, who recently challenged anyone to a curling match after saying his rink could beat anything Prince George has to offer, found his challenge picked up over the weekend by Harold Pretty, manager of the Prince George Curling Club. Pretty has arranged games at 2 p.m. and 4:30 p.m. next Sunday and just hopes Chet-wynd rink shows up ...
One-time Citizen Reporter and Echo Editor Meinhart Lagics entered his office the other day and spied former Citizen Assistant Pqblisher Gordon Crockett looking around ... He asked: "What the h� are you doing here?" Crockett had every right to be there because he'd just bought the newspaper . . . Now it's onetime Echo Editor Lagies . . .
in Prince George, Willow River, Giscome and Summit Lake.
Objective of the local campaign is $4,500.
HEAVY YEAR
Work done by the Foundation in Prince George area over the last year includes:
Contribution of $730. being one-third of the cost of a respirator for emergency polio cases which is now in the Prince George and District Hospital. (Remaining two-thirds were split between the hospital and the provincial health department.)
Provided needles, syringes and Salk vaccine for adult clinics, at which a total of 6,057 persons were vaccinated against polio. Only 958 of these have completed their shots; there still are some 5,000 second and third shots to be given. MANY CHILDREN
A total of 4,442 children have received Salk vaccine, and 80
Izecl zone between tlie two countries, anil blew up 50 houses the Syrians had vacated. The Israelis claimed that the United Arab Republic's army had fortified the village anK CHAKGKS
The Syrians and-Israelis gave conflicting versions of the shooting Sunday. The Syrians claimed the Israelis opened up first on Arab farmers in the demilitarized zone. Israeli officials claimed the Syrians fired first and that members of the U.A.H. army disguised as farmers were crossing into Israel.
An Israeli spokesman said Tawfik was attacked to "clean up Syrian armed posts within the demilitarized zone from which Syrian soldiers are firing."
Persons on the Israeli side of the demilitarized zone said the firing was heard in all settlements of the Jordan valley. Red tracer streaks and flares lit the night sky as cannon shells thundered and machine-guns chattered.
A United Nations spokesman said that up to this morning neither Israel nor Syria had complained of an armistice violation.
Dr. Hugh Kecnleyside, chairman of the B.C. Power Commission, was scheduled to arrive here tonight for a meeting Tuesday of the Commission's central and northern interior district managers.
Dr. Keenloyside, former director-general of the United Nations Technical Assistance Program, was named chairman of the Commission in March, 1959.
He is accompanied by F. A. Smith, a commissioner of the company. They will attend an 'nformal luncheon in their honor Tuesday.
ngstrorn Rink Zone Champions
Prince George's Albert Engstrom rink Saturday won the Northern Zone playoffs to advance to the B.C. Curling Championships in Kelowna later this month.
The local crew .whipped the Lloyd Harper rink of Quesnel the first two games of the best-of-three northern final by scores of 7-G and 10-3.
Playing in Quesnel yesterday, Engstrom and his rink of Bob Madill (third), Bill Dagg (second) and Owen Dupre dead) won the first gaine after an extra end. In the second game Engstrom overpowered Harper and was seven up coming home. � Engstrom had a lead of four in the sixth 'end of his first game with Harper. But the Quesnel veteran came 'back with one in the sevenlh and three in the eighth to tie the game.
Engstrom came back with two in the ninth to regain the lead, but Harper tied it up again in the 10th end.
Engstrom won the match in the extra-end with his last rock cutting out Harper, who had been laying three.
In the second game of the best-of-three series it was Eng-stroin all the way. He was never in trouble.
Should the Engstrom rink win the provincial bonspiel in Kel-owrta it will represent B.C. in the Brier to be played at Fort William. But it will have to get by some stiff opposition.
The rink will also take part in the B.C. Bonspiel in Kelowna Feb. 8, being held a week prior to the provincial playdowns.
The Ernie Strasden rink from here, representing the North in the -provincial high school playoffs in Kamloops on the weekend, wasn't as fortunate. But it turned in a good performance, coming second to the winning Vancouver team.
(Further Curling on Pago 4)
Trucking Hot Issue Talks Here
Hauling rates and increased licence fees � two hot issues in the provincial trucking industry � will be thrashed over here Thursday by the Automotive Transport Association of B.C.
A meeting has been called here to name an association director from the more than 20 local members of the ATA, which represents most trucking firms in the province. It will be the first time Prince George has had a director.
Attending the meeting will be ATA President II. M. Hartley and seven other directors from the Coast: It. G. Biggs, membership committee chairman; H. H. Williamson, tariff advisor; T. J. Lehane, G. R. Wood, F. W. Loucks and W. J. Morris, executive secretary.
Messrs. Hartley and Williamson will tee off discussion on rates and licenses and the local director will be selected from nominations from the floor of the public meeting. It is being held in the Prince George Cafe at 8 p.m. Thursday.
The directors are on a tour of the province, which will end with a meeting in Fort St. John.
Sunday Temperature Highest In 19 Years
Sunday was Prince George's warmest January clay in 19 years.
The mercury readied a torrid 47 degrees, most blistering January reading since 1941 when the temperature 'hit 52.
Yesterday's warm temperature compares to a 25 degree reading on the same date last year and the top January reading of 58 degrees in 191!).
Highest reading for the month in 1959 was 45 degrees. Saturday's high was. 44, just three degrees short of yesterday's spring-like temperature:
An unusual amount of rain, was experienced in January, more than half an inch. Normal amount is only .11 inches.
Dawson Creek Lawyer Heads Bar Association
Angus Carmichael, Dawson Creek lawyer, was elected president of the Cariboo Bar Association at its. weekend annual convention in Quesnel.
T. Ray Cullinane of Prince George was elected vice-president and D. L. Clanccy of Dawson Creek is the new secretary.
The meeting was attended by some 30 representatives from
N. McCallum Joins Willjs, Cunliffe Engineering Firm
VICTORIA 'CP) � Neil McCallum, former chief engineer of the B.C. highways department, is leaving an Edmonton firm to become associated with a group of paving consultants here.
Mr. McCallum resigned his position with the highways department in 1954 and became manager of General Construction Co. Alberta Limited. He joins the firm of Willis and Cunliffe engineering .
Willis and Cunliffe left the department of highways in 1956 to form their own firm.
Joe Cunliffe is a son of the late Sydney Cunliffe, one time divisional engineer of the department of highways in Prince George and stepson of Mrs. Jessie Cunliffe. His brother Ray is an engineer with Ben Ginter Construction.
WEATHE
Sunny with cloudy periods today and Tuesday. Continuing very mild. Light winds. Low tonight and high Tuesday at Quesnel and Prince George 23 and 5. Smithers 30 and 45.
Peace Itivcr Region Sunny today, cloudy Tuesday. Continuing mild. Winds westerly 15. Low tonight and high Tuesday at Grande Prairie 25 and -10.
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Prince George, Dawson Creek, Fort St. John, Quesnel, Williams Lake and Lillooet.
Guests from the Vancouver, Yale and Kamloops bar associations and the attorney-general's department included Judge C. W. Morrow, Judge Henry Caslillou and Judge Stanley Remnant.
Among resolutions approved was a repeal request that the attorney - general's department make arrangements quickly to improve the land registry office services in Northern B.C.
Another resolution asked the attorney-general's department to consider providing some sort of course or training for lay magistrates.
The association has-urged, and S indeed it is government policy, j that wherever possible magistrates be appointed from the legal profession. But it is recognized that this is sometimes impossible.
The resolution suggests a course, possibly under the wing of the law faculty at the University of B.C., to include lectures and other training, would be of considerable assistance to lay magistrates.
CNR Engineer MacKenrof Dies
CNR engineer Raymond Tel-ford MacKcnrot, a railwayman for 36 of his 53 years, died of a heart attack Saturday at his home at 1674 Oak.
Services will be .held at Ass-man's Funeral Chapel Tuesday at 3:15 p.m., following which the body will be taken to Vancouver for cremation.
Mr. MacKcnrot, survived by his wife, Helen, and their three "small children, came to Prince George in 1947 from Jasper and was originally from Vancouver.
He spent the last 17 years with the CNR after an equal period of service with the CPR.
FRASER OPENS PARLORf LOUNGE
Cocktail lounge and ueer parlor in the now Simon Fraser Hotel will open tonight, it was announced today by Manager Fred Lieppe.
The hotel proper, along with the (liniuqsroom and coffee shop, were opened for business last week.
Revolt Against de Gaulle Collapses Insurgent Leader Cheered By Crowd
ALGIERS �The French colonial revolt against President de Gaulle's Algerian policy collapsed today.
His ranks thinned by steady desertions. Pierre Lagaillarde, the firebrand insurgent leader, led some 300 of his haggard, unshaven forces out from the barricaded stronghold at. Aligers University they had held for eight days.
The rebel remnant climbed into trucks parked near the barricades. The trucks headed in the direction of a little village west of Algiers.
It. was not immediately known what the French Army, which had stuck with de Gaulle, would, do with Lagaillarde and his men.
A crowd watched in silence as
the men moved out, their armed resistance apparently over and clone with.
Lagaillarde, a reserve .para-troop lieutenant, gave up after the population of Algiers ignored his call for a continuation of the general strike the rebels earlier had planned to end today.
As he crossed the square, the red-bearded Lagaillarde exchanged salutes with the French officers commanding foreign troops who were assigned to duty before the barricades.
Then, after its initial silence, the crowd cheered and clapped for Lagaillarde and there were cries of "Algerie Francaise." (Algeria is French.)
Somebody started singing The
.Marseillaise and it was soon taken up by the crowd.
As Lagaillarde surrendered, the other group of insurgents, led by Joseph Ortiz, were dismantling their street barricades.
Reuters news agency reported that Oritz' men had surrendered but that he had fled.
At 12:IS p.m. a big, blood-smeared French tricolor which had fluttered above the Lagaillarde position was slowly pulled down. It had flown there since the bloody start of the revolt last Sunday, when 27 persons were killed in street fighting.
Dr. Bernard Lefevre, a right-wing political figure in Algiers, said the surrender came as the result or night-time negotiations between the insurgents and the army. He said the conditions
asked by the insurgents, were that the surrender so off with military honors and that no sanctions be taken against them. - Whether the army accepted these conditions fully was doubtful. De Gaulle in demanding that the army bring the insurgents under control had' called the rebel leaders liars, and conspirators, indicating they could expect little mercy from him.
If the letter of the law were followed, Lagaillarde and Oritz probably could be executed for treason, having violently challenged the authority of the state and waged armed warfare against it. But the insurgent leaders' continued popularity with the French colonials in Algeria ruled out this extreme
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