WANT ADS Buy or Sell Everything Phone LO 4-2441 Dedicated to the Progress o/ the Nor*h WEATHER FORECAST Low 25, High 40 Crown Life Insurance Co. Wm. J. Shoe key District Representative Phone LOgan 4-2441 Vol. 4; No. 22 PRINCE GEORGE, BRITISH COLUMBIA, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 2, 1960 BY CAPRIFR 35c PER WEEK Quesnel Logger nstantly Killed A 38-year-old Quesnel logger was instantly killed Monday in a logging mishap at liloyd Bros. Sawmill, 40 miles west of Prince George. , Lawrence Ronald Ballantyne was working on a pile of logs when he was struck on the head by a nine-foot iron bar suspended from a cable. lie is survived by his wife and three children in 'Quesnel. An inquest will be held here tonight. City police court Is getting a fair amount of repeat busin these days. Emll l)anie!son who w fined $10 and given 1 I days to pay it Monday wound up hack on a drunk charge this morning, Magistrate George Stewart revoked the fine and sentenced him to seven days on each, to run concurrently. And Dorothy Anatoje, 10-year-old girl from Fort St. James, who was given one hour in jail in lieu of a fine only last week, found herself before the bench again today. "Give me A chance to go home," she asked the magistrate, receiving the reply "1 Have you*lhe chance to leave for home last week." But he relented and fined her $10 or, in default, one day. "If you come in here again in the next month or so I'll send you to Oakalla for two or three months�that's not. a threat, it's a p r o m i s e," the magistrate warned. Victor Maclsaac, 28, an unemployed man who was picked up by police late Monday with 11 Education Seminar cents in his pocket, was given a 30-day suspended sentence on a vagrancy charge. � And Melvin Shun also drew a HO-day suspended sentence for Intoxication. A cautious Dr. Hugh Kecnley-side, B.C. Power commission chairman, had little to say about Peace River power when he arrived in the city last night for,a meeting today with the commission's central and northern interior district managers. About the boldest statement^ he ventured, in a tour of the local genei'aling station, was that BCPC would buy Peace power if it is cheaper than producing it at home. He said also generating stations like the one here would likely be kept as standby units if cheaper power was available from the Peace. He predicted Prince George's population would reach 25,000 by the time the Peace is due to be producing power in 1968. He said BCPC is most interested in in- in �J? td A political education seminar, Spfn� faci.Jl ie! * �' Company Commissioner F.. A. Smith and Garth Griffith, director of administration, will go to Vanderhoof Weclnesday following the meetings here. A dinner is slated there to mark opening of the new transmission line from here to Vanderhoof and Fort St. James. Prince George Board of Trade President John Morrison and members Harold Moffat and'Harry Loder will attend the dinner as well as village commissioners from Vanderhoof and Fort St. James. Labor Council in co-operatior with the B.C. Federation of La bor, will be held here Saturday It starts at 9 a.m. in the 1WA Hall. Dan Radford, representative of the i western region, Canadian Labor Congress, and Pat O'Neal, secretary of the B.C. Federation of Labor, will attend. Another seminar, sponsored by the IWA, will be in Quesnel Sunday. KAMLOOPS KPI � Tom Ignace 21, of Chase, B.C., Monday night was charged with murder in connection with the beating death of a 69-year-old Kamloops ranch hand Saturday night. Ignace was arrested an hour after a street brawl in front of a Kamloops hotel as he hopped onto a box car in a railway yard here. John Allam died in hospital Sunday morning from injuries suffered in a fight. Canada Crcosoting Co. Ltd. is reported planning establishment of a plant here shortly. It's learned a sizeable chunk of property has been obtained from the PGE and private interests near the railway right-of-way several miles south of the city. Further details are not known but an announcement is expected from the company shortly. Its local representative is out Vanderhoof Village Commission today voted to ignore an RCMP warning that prosecutions might result if the practice of selling heckey tickets on Sundays continues. Commissioner Karl Frederickseri said following a meeting of the commission tins morning that "we were warned in a letter from the local RCMP that we would be prosecuted if we allowed Sunday sport to continue in 3Ur Civic Arena. "We decided to go ahead with selling hockey tickets m\ Sundays/ RCJfP Inspector I. C. Shanl it Prince G;org? said today tY -olicp merely "advised" the Van .icrhoof Village Commission of the provisions of the Lord's Da> Vet. He snid as far as he knew there vas no immediate action contempt vi by policy. Ttv. acto'na} general's department must issue a fiai before any charges can be lici. THIRD CENTKE Coir miss-oner Frgjflerikseh said Vanderhoof is t ;o t.iira jjik. INSTRUMENT PANEL for-newly energized power line from here to Vanderhoof and Fort St. James is examined by BCPC Commissioner F. A. Smith, Plant Superintendent PYed Skinner and Dr. Hugh Keenleyside, power commission chairman. Mr. Smith will attend a meeting in Vanderhoof. tomorrow marking opening of the line, Dr. Keenleyside is in the city for a meeting today with district managers. The line replaces local generating stations at the two centres. �Hal Vandervoort photo QUIET PREVAILS ON GAZA BORDER ian CAIRO (AP)�Egyptian army troops today were reported to have taken up positions along the Unit e d Nations-patrolled Egyptian-Israeli frontier in the Sinai Desert as a result of clashes between Israeli and Syrian troops. The newspaper Al Aliram says Egy ptia n troops have moyed up all along Israel's western desert frontier in the last to three days, and that the Egyptian army has been placed in a state of emergency so that it, as well forces in the Syrian Ted Young, assistant district forester with the B.C. Forest Service here for the past four years, has been promoted to forester in charge of the service's Surveys and Inventory Division in Victoria. He leaves his post here in mid-March to head what is one of line headquarters divisions of the forest service. The 270 member local of the B.C. Government Employees Association has sent a "get well" t e 1 cgrain to Premier W. A. C. Bennett, in hospital in Victoria recovering from surgery. Association members moved to send the wire at their regular of the city completing plans and I meeting last night is expected to throw more light on the proposed development on his return. No replacement has been named for Mr. Young. The division he will be in charge of covers the entire province. It maps and studies all forests in B.C. and prepares statistical information on which the sustained yield program of forest conservation is based. Mr. Young, with the forest service 12 years, will head a staff of about 200 men. He said he worked in the division in 1940 and 1941, while still in university, and before returning to it ho will have served in all five forest districts in the province except Prince Rupert. Mr. Young noted, however, his forestry experience covers that area as well. He worked there with MaeMillan-Bloedel after graduating, prior to joining the forest service. The assistant district forester came here four years ago from an identical position in the service at Nelson. province of the United Arab Republic, will be "fully prepared to meet all eventualities. All military leaves have been cancelled. Reuters news agency quoted UN Emergency Force sources as saying that quiet prevailed today along the Gaz,a border, UNEF units were keeping close watch but no exceptional troop movements were reported, Reuters suit I. In Osio, Norway's army command said Norwegian troops serving with the UN force will be pulled out immediately if serious fighting develops between the U.A.R. and Israel. It added the troops were sent to the Egyptian-Israeli border for police duty only and would be called borne if the .Middle East situation exploded into major fighting. Daily clashes since Friday between Israeli and Syrian troops prompted the dispatch of the Egyptian forces to the Sinai frontier, where the Norwegians, Canadians and others of the UN Emergency Force maintain preventive patrols as an aftermath of the Israeli invasion of 1956. NO OUTBREAK YET So far there has been no action on the Israeli-Egyptian frontier: The last four days of shooting, which have renewed fears of a new Middle East outbreak, have been limited to Israel's nr /theast frontier, where a demilitarized zone separates Israel and the Syrian province of the U.A.R. Israel charged that there was more firing Monday'night from the.Syrian side of the frontier. An Israeli spokesman said Syrian mortars and machine guns opened fire just before midnight in the demilitarized Jordan River sector near the Sea of Galilee. There were no reports of casualties or of answering fire from Israeli positions, .Monday's violence included an air battle over the border area and an artillery and tank battle before dawn on the southeast shore of the Sea of Galilee. It was also decided to donate I Mr- Yuung replaces Mickey S13S towards furnishings at the Pofiiie as forester in charge of new hospital here. Now Hear Tkis... Asked how things arc in gen-1 there are no Rooms 113, 213 or era! these days, IWA prexy j 313 . . . Judging from the fam- Jacob Hoist said ho isn't sure any more after hearing an address last week in Parksville by iliar faces on the Simon Fraser lounge and beer parlor staff, the management must have done a the Surveys and Inventory Division. Mr. Pogue, well-known in this area, has been unt in charge of the service's Working Division. Plans Winter is over. Spring is here. Technically speaking these statements miyht be open to quest ion, but the Prince George groundhog insists they're true. You sec. it's like this. Being j Feb. 2. the gro.undhog emerged i from his burrow to observe the progress of spring. If he sees his shadow (which he didn't), he retires for six weeks more of winter. If be doesn't (arid he didn't), he remains above ground, confident of continuing mild wea- This association of the groundhog with Candlemas day is a North American variation of the tradition, long widespread in the Christian world, that a sunny Candlemas presages a cold spring. It Is reflected in the Scottish saying: "If Candlemas is fair MOSCOW (Reuters) � Leaders of the Communist world assembled toaay lor a conference expected to cover developments and future plans in world affairs. Communist parly chiefs of seven East European countries, the Soviet Union, Mongolia and North Korea are meeting with the advertised aim of exchanging agricultural, data. But it is unlikely that they will stick to farming subjects. There has been no official announcement that Communist China or North Viet Nam would attend. But the two countries could he represented by officials ul Ihulr x'lnbaaaliM frerc. Premier Khrushchev is leaving this month on a tour of India, Burma and Indonesia and it is possible that methods of boosting Communist prestige in Asia will be considered at this Communist "summit." The leaders also may co-ordinate plans for the coming East-West summit conference May lo" in Paris. The topic of agriculture is important because Russian grain production slumped last year. f the Cariboo Hockey League �hich has been warned of pos-,ible prosecution for selling tick *.s on Sundays. A similar warning was issued to Prince George last O-.'tob?i nd city council ignored it. Las', week, council gol word that thi .1} wo lid be prosecuted, but so ,r no action has ensued. Quesnel also has bsen warped, he Vrnderhoof commission tele-,ioi;?cl Otiesnel Mayor, Fraser lo jy, Mr. fredftrikseii said, am �as informed by the mayor that .is council would also ignore i . varning, Fourth league centre, Williams-Lake, is outside? the jurisflietio! of the Prince George RCMP sub division and to date no action has been taken there. TO ASK AMENDMENT Commissioner Frederiksen said he will nrooose to the next commission meeting a resolution asking* Ihe attorney-general for legislative amendments needed lo permit Sunday sports. He saiil the commission also will seek the support of Prince George, Quesnel and all other Northern communities. Hockey tickets have been sole! on Sundays for many years, he said. Before the new arena was built, Sunday hockey was played on an outdoor rink. SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) � A United States air force B-52 Stratofortress crashed and burned at Ramoy base here Monday night, and all seven aboard were killed. The giant eight-jet bomber crashed just short of the runway during landing practice. The weather al the time was described as ideal. p. N foiihii P3 Nan MONTREAL�A former Prince ieori?e man, Frederic W. Soiri'fflJ .on, previously assistant chief of . r a n s p o r I a t i o n , Canadian National Railways, has beeS ippointed assistant to vice' resident, operation. Mr. Some.rj.on, who began his transportation career in 1925 vith t!ie CN Telegraphs at Prince George, is an outstanding lUlhorily in the transportation field. From 1926 to 1948 he worked as an operator, agent and dis-nalclier at various points on the Western Region, lie served successively as rule instructor and transportation inspector at Winnipeg before being transferred to Edmonton as a>sistaijjt superintendent . v' . Mo wtfs uppVifnlccl system rules' supervisor at Montreal in 195.'$ and four years Inter became operation assistant. Two years ago he was named assistant chief of transportation. THREATKN COURT ACTION KELOWNA (CD � The Okana-gan Logging Association has threatened lo take its fight against truck licence fee increases to court. Harry Hildred, association president, said the increase is discriminatory. REVELSTOKE CP) � Lawrence J an<1 clear, there'll be two win-Simpson of Nelson Monday wasj tersjin the year." and in the recovering in hospital from in- William' Epstein of the U.N. | considerable amount of raiding Secretariat on the dangers of nuclear and missile diplomacy �,�,� a,, other local establishments And the extreme difficulty in finding a seat in the new hotel the Chce Dak Tong Society tomorrow night? If not. he must have some good explanation for the bright-lighted" Christmas tree which still adorns his front lawn . . . The superstitious needn't worry about being checked into a room with an unlucky number in Prince George's new Hotel Simon pretty town . . . CPA traffic officials here appreciate Prince George's hardworking police force. A large share of' the passenger list flying south' for the winter is Oak-alla-bound . . . The local weatherman hasn't much faith in the groundhog's forecasting abilities. He says he would rather consult an al- Fraser. Following hotel tradition, i manac . . . juries suffered in a rock slide Friday that swept another man 500 feet into a snow-filled can- ; yon. Mr. Simpson fractured his left leg after he joined a search for | Louis Ronderud. 58, also of Nelson, buried beneath snow when I cribbing collapsed at the Laurier i Tunnel on the CPR line, 45 miles j east of here. Mr. Bonderud. whose entire body was bruised, managed to claw his way to the surface and was dug out by another rescuer, W. Weaver, 18. Pioneer Dies QUESNEL (CH � E. Jean Norman, colorful Cariboo personality and a pioneer of the district, has died in hospital here following a brief illness. Mr! Norman arrived in the Cariboo with his wife 25 years ago and resided at Baker Creek, now West Quesnel. � "I rural maxim: "February, second day, have half your corn and half your hay." To ?,el back to the recognized weather authority, he's calling for c 1 o u d y skies Wednesday with intermittent snow or mixed rain and snow in the evening. There'll be little change in temperature with light winds. Low tonight and high Wed- I n e s d a y as Quesnel', Prince George and Smithers, 25 and 40. Peace Rive v It !gi< n Cloud y We Ihes day , mild. Winds Easterly 1 "i. 1. ow tonight, high Wednesday at G rande Prai- rie. 15 and 30. 1'ast 21 hou �s: Lo Hi Precip. Prince George :'.] 15 tr. Terrace 35 41 .07 Smithers 28 41 � Quesnel 30 48 � Kamloops 34 43 � Dawson Creek 4 38 � Fort SU John 15 42 __ Fort Nelson 7 24 � Whitehorse 16 o2 tr. HAPPY SMILE from a brave little girl is given by 5-year-old Marilyn Shaw, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Blake Shaw, who was stricken with polio in December. Through the local Kinsmen, she has a brace which she'll wear for six months �before getting a new one. Marilyn is spa rking the Kinsmen-sponsored Mothers' March Wednesday night for the Polio Fund. She received treatment at the G. F. Strong Centre in Vancouver. �Hal Vandervoort photo