WANT ADS Buy or Sell Everything Phone LO 4-2441 THE The Only Daily Newspaper Serving North-Central British Columbia WEATHER FORECAST Low 25, High 38, Clouds. Crown Life Insurance Co. Wm. J. Shoe key District Representative Phone LOgan 4-2441 Vol. 4; No. 26 PRINCE GEORGE, BRITISH COLUMBIA, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 1960 BY CARRIER 35c PER WEEK TESTS Accuse LONDON (Reuters) � Leading Soviet scientists have accused American experts of presenting "erroneous" information at East-West talks in Geneva on detection of nuclear tests. An article signed by several scientists in the Communist Party newspaper Pravda, reported by Tass news agency, gives the Russian view on the protracted discussions by East-West experts. American scientists last December presented new data saying underground explosions were far harder to detect than had first been thought. Better detection devices than had been discussed before were considered necessary to make a test ban treaty work. The Russian experts refused to accept this. The Pravda article says the Americans "made an error in assessing the seismic force of explosions, or the so-called magnitudes." They had equated the force of the explosion area with that us measured far, away. "We also believe that the American scientists would have been wiser to check accurately the significance of the main dimensions before submitting them to a responsible discussion." SALT LAKE CITY (AP) � Most experts believe a light that flashed across western skies early Sunday was a meteor. Hundreds saw it, most of them in Utah, Idaho, Montana and Wyoming. Amateur astronomer Floyd Rickorcs. Hollywood, Calif., said }�v tracked a red ball in the sky for nearly five minutes-, tifter a "bright flash lighted the room." He said the ball was brighter than anything else in the sky, and guessed it was several thousand miles above the earth. "It seemed to stay stationary between two stars for three or four minutes," he said, "then took off with fantastic speed and disappeared." Richard Below, piloting a Western Airlines plane 11,000 feet over southwest Montana, said the light was "fantastically bright ... it lit up everything in the cockpit and the cabin and the entire sky outside." Most observers placed the light as over southwest Montana. They said it was something like a flash of lightning streaking across the sky. HALIFAX iCD � Atlantic province citizens continued battling the weather today. An overnight freeze added lo the troubles caused 'by Saturday night's deluge of rain that caught southern Nova Scotia still partly buried by last Wednesday's record snowfall. The freeze left highways and streets glazed with ice. Cars skidded everywhere and traffic on some thoroughfares was snarled. Sunday the same streets were running rivers of water. Some roads were flooded for a time during the rain. Halifax piers were clogged with freight held there because railroad yards were still partly blocked witli snow. IF WINTER COMES can Spring be far behind, as of the Neohako River testifies. Normally, the river is the quotation goes? But in Prince George, many agree frozen over in February, but the still waters flow on winter almost passed us by as this scenic photograph without let or hindrance. �Hal Vandervoorl Photo ikoyan Cloaked in Secrecy On Leaving Havana Saturday HAVANA (AP) � Russia's Anastas Mikoyan made appearances social at both ends of Cuba's scale ^Sunday, agd - was thunderously ayplaiuled on both deputy premier occasions. The Soviet made the second public address of his Cuban visit to a meeting of the Textile National Federation of Workers, Sunday night he attended a concert of the Havana Symphony conducted by Russian composer Aram Khacha-turian. Peter Yip was installed as president of the local Kiwanis Club at the organization's sixth annual installation banquet Saturday. Mr. Yip, a charier member of the local club, succeeds Dick Bond to the presidency. Other officers .installed for the 1960 term were: Ted Blow, first vice-president; Jim Farwell, second vice-president; Clair Watts, secretary; Desmond O'Brien, treasurer. Kiwanians from Williams Lake and Dawson Creek were in the city to see Warren Holley, Lieut.-Governor of Division 5, perform installation ceremonies. Mikoyan's speech lo the textile workers included a boast of Soviet missile strength coupled with assurance of Russia's desire fo-cjiconfcrrcd .with Raul, and ^possibly other top officials, abonC closer Cuban-Soviet trade ties and the possibility of resuming diplomatic relations severed in 1952. KOCKKT ACCURACY "Those who talk of ,war," lie said, "know that if we can 3cnd a rocket to the' moon with such precision, we can send a rocket with the same precision to any point on earth." But "war is against our wishes � we want peace, peace forever." Mikoyan got another ovation as he outlined the size of the Soviet Union under communism and declared, "The Cuban revolution can accomplish miracles, too." At the concert Mikoyan beamed from a mezzanine box, acknowledging the applause of the large crown, among them Guevara and Premier Castro's younger brother Raul, who is minister of the Cuban armed forces. Fidel was not present. TOUR NEW PROJECTS Mikoyan's activities had been cloaked in secrecy since he was driven out of Havana Saturday morning under heavy escort. The Soviet news agency, Tass, reported that Mikoyan and Raul Castro visited the Cienaga de Zapata swamps near Matanzas, which are to'be drained, and a boarding school for 40 homeless ciiiklren ALGIERS (AP) � President] however, lo determine whether de Gaulle may give Moslems a " ' " !........."' stronger voice in the administration of Algeria as a result of the European settlers' uprising, government sources said today. Informants said it is too early, Now Hear Thi Revenge must have been sweet for Mayor Garvin Dezell on Sunday when he won the puck shooting contest at the Mohawk-Williams Lake hockey game and thereby took a $5 bill from Hard-�\vareinan Ham Aloffat. Only a few days earlier Moffat won a curling game from Dezell and didn't mind rubbing it in ... Incidentally, His Worship is a busy man these days. In addition to puck shooting, he was out calling square dance's Saturday (he's good at it, too), and tomorrow he leaves for a session with the Provincial Cabinet in Victoria, where he hopes to gel some money for his paving program . . . And while we're on the subject, the Mayor has promised to tangle with "a certain little stuffed-shirt one of these days" in a fray should be good for "big black headlines." It could have some connection with a current Sunday sports case . . . That old saying "phoney as a four-dollar buT' ain't necessarily so. Percy Garland, operator of the store as Giscome, has a couple of real live $4 bills . . . Mrs. Murta King phoned that those big black birds everyone is arguing about really are crows. She has five or six in the yard "cawing like crazy" . . . RCMP Staff Sgt. Art Knox apparently believes in showing his men a good time. Significant item in his monthly report reads: "Police conditions in this city are at a reasonably good level. All places of illicit activity receive our attention." Really Staff! . . . When Trailer Court Resident Kill Swain's wife went for a haircut, his pals figured he should have one too. Now the parly's over, he isn't so sure il was a good idea . . . Profiles side-by-side: PG Restauranteur Chris Fotos and Composer-Conductor Arturo Tpscannini . . . HBG Clerk George Campbell lias been transferred to Powell River and leaves in two weeks . . . They're all congratulating Skip Don Kerry who won his first game in 20 starts . . . there is enough .Moslem enthusi asm for de Gaulle's self-determination policy to create a genuine Moslem "third rorce" � between the European settlers who want lo keep Algeria French and the nationalist rebels who are fighting for independence. Major administrative changes meanwhile are expected throughout the rebellion-lorn North African territory. CURK OX RIGHTISTS Restrictions appear imminent on European right-wing groups which hitherto have enjoyed virtual freedom of action. Some already have been banned. Court officials are assembling thousands of records for prosecution of the ringleaders of the recent abortive revolt of the French settlers which claimed 20 lives and paralyzed Algiers for nine days. Top civilian and military officials from eastern and western Algeria were summoned here for talks Sunday with the cabinet team sent from Paris to get at the roots of right-wing plotting. Interior Minister Pierre Chate-net. one of the three cabinet officers rushed here after the revolt was crushed, left for Paris Sunday. Jean Verdicr. France's chief of security, went with him. Defence Minister Pierre Mess-mer was leaving today and the third member of the team. Justice Minister Edmond Michelet, I plans to depart Tuesday. at a country estate seized from ex-dictator Fulgencio Batista. It was believed Mikoyan also 91 Surprisingly, January was colder than normal, according to the weatherman. But, not much colder. lie reports the average of the month's temperatures � 14 degrees � was one degree below the normal monthly mean reading. Compared to the recor.d cold January of 1950 last month was a scorcher. In that year the average temperature for the month was 19.6 degrees below zero. Highest ever recorded was in 1931 when the mean was a sizzling 28.8 degrees. The January low temperature was 18 below, registered on the 22nd. This compares to the normal low for that nionth of 30 below. The high was 47 degrees, on the 31st, five degrees above the normal monthly maximum. Precipitation was slightly above normal due to an abnormal amount of rain. Rain fell on three days and amounted to .65 inches, which has been exceeded only by the record fall of 1.47 inches in 1941. On the other hand, snowfall was nearly 4 inches below normal. Measurable precipitation occurred on 20 days, only one day below a record. Sunshine was slightly below normal. There were 15 days without measurable sunshine and five of these were consecutive days. Win Combine Case TORONTO CP)�Chief Justice .1. C. McRuer of the Ontario Supreme Court today found Canadian Breweries Ltd. not guilty of operating a combine as charged under the Combines Act. His ruling said testimony presented during the 3S-day hearing did not prove the merger of 37 companies across Canada gave Canadian Breweries the power to carry out activities without competition. The charge was that Canadian Breweries had formed or operated a merger that operated or was likely to operate against the public interest. Man Convicted One man was convicted and another released after they were charged with assaulting a hotel operator as he was attempting to eject them from the building. Laszic Tolgyesi was sentenced to 14 days in police court Friday. He and Janos Nyiredi had been charged with assaulting David Clement of the Park Hotel Thursday night. Two rinks from Prince George are among SO rinks m a i c h-Ing rocks today as the 65th annual B.C. curling bonspiel got underway in Kelowna. Al Engstrqpi's Prince George rink is ampug thef10 provincial �zone champions heading the lint of entries. Engstroiti has Bob Madill at third Bill Dagg at second and Owen Dupre at lead. The second Prince Gaorge dnk is .skipped by Bill Carmi-chael, who lost out to Engstrom in the zone semi-final here. He will have Carl Rustad, Harvey Clarke and Clarke's brother from Haney on his rink. The entry list is studded with former provincial champions and includes the only B.C. skip ever to win the Canadian title� the veteran Trail skip Frenchy D'Amour. Heading the zone champions and favored to win the B.C. title is the rugged Roy Vinthers rink of Vancouver which has Leo Herbert as third, Howie Christopherson second, and. George Ingram, lead. Also given a strong chance are Dean Haynes of Haney, the Fraser Valley zone champion and winner of the 1960 Totem bonspiel Glen Harper. Duncan. Vancouver Island winner; East Kootenay champion Eric His-groves of Kimberley and Trail's Mickey Brennen, who defeated veteran Keg Stone in the West Kootenay zone final. Stone, B.C. champion in 1015, 1949-50 and 1952-55, Vancouver's Barry Naimark, defending champion, and Victoria's Tony Gutbski 1958 B.C. winner, will lie among the 70 remaining rinks struggling lo reach the primary finals. (By Staff Reporter) FORT ST. JAMES�An enthusiastic crowd of first-day shoppers thronged the new Hudson's Bay Company store here Saturday. The event marked the 154th year of Operation for the Company at this historic settlement The first trading post was built here in 1806 by the famed North West Company explorers Shnon Fraser and John Stuart. It became a Hudson's Bay fort in 1821 when the two great fur trading companies amalgamated. Official opening Saturday was a double ceremony. Veteran fur trader and retired HBC post manager W. D. Fraser cut a ribbon tc open the store. Mr. Fraser ran the Fort St. James post from 191S until his retirement. Louis-Billy, at 97 the oldest Indian in the settlement, cut a string of babiche across the modern doorway. Manager Don Forsyth has been with the Company 32 years, the last 10 as manager here. Since he became manager the old store has been enlarged twice to keep pace with the growing community. The new ultra-modern store is single-storey construction, measuring 85 by 110 feet. C a n a d a Safeway's proposed half-million dollar supermarket development here has run into a snag. Owners are holding out for more money on four or five lots in the block on Victoria the food chain is seeking. Dud Sawley of Sawley Agencies, agent for S a f e w a y, has bought or optioned about 19 lots in the block. But he said today the chain store cannot build unless it obtains the lots in question and negotiations have bogged down. Sawley said, if he can't get the lots by next month an alternative site has been chosen for the supermarket and the block on Victoria will be dropped. He wouldn't say where the alternative site is, or how far negotiations have gone toward its purchase. The hold outs on the Victoria site mean Safeway will not. likely get a store in operation here now until 10GL said Mr. Sawley. Original plans had called for construction to oejrin in March, with the store to be completed late this year. Even if negotiations are successful finally on the Victoria lot it will no-t be in time now for a construction start next month, he said. And if the alternative site is used construction will be delayed further. It will take about six months to have the supermarket in operation from the date construction begins, he said. Assaulted on Street Matt Luomo told police he was assaulted by three youths early Sunday as he was walking on George near Third. The assailants struck him without apparent rrusiiii, lie said. Gordie Steliga's seven goals helps keep Mohawks in CHL first place. -fr �& �& No change in NHL standings as every team split weekend double-'headers. #:, ' -fr ft Ron Wynn skips Prince George sub-division rink to win police bonspiel eliminations. �c^ -^y sV FULL SPORTS COVERAGE ON PAGES I AND 5 Urge Local Labor People To Get Out the CCF Vote Local labor people were urged Saturday to get out the CCF vote at the next provincial election at a political education seminar sponsored by the Prince George and District Labor Council. And a committee of 25 was set up to work with the CCF in getting a heavier VCh" vote at the polls. This is part of the movement towards a labor-CCF-farm groups political party in Canada still in the making. CARS Meeting Tonight Dr. V. M. Fraser will be guest speaker tonight at the annual meeting of the Prince George Branch of the Canadian Arthritis and Rheumatism Society. The meeting will lake place in the back dining room of the Prince George Cafe, starling at 8 p.m. Election of officers will lake place following the guest speaker. Mrs. Henrietta Munro, director of the handicrafts group will have a display of wor]t done by her group. Worthless Cheque Artist Receives Light Sentence A 2M-year-old lather of three children was sentenced lo ,'10 days concurrent on each of four charges of false pretences involving worthless cheques by Magistrate George Stewart in police court today. David Frank Jamison, with a record of several convictions for the same offences, told the court he was ready to settle down and asked for a fine Instead of a jail sentence. In passing sen- Mayor Garvin Dezell leaves tomorrow for Victoria for meetings Thursday with several cabinet ministers. He'll be seeking to have several streets in the city declared secondary highways in order to receive provincial government assistance for part of a proposed 36-block paving program this summer. He also has several other demands on the government but refuses to make them public until he has arrived in Victoria. Mayor Dezell doesn't want lo tip his hand to cabinet ministers. M a y or Dezell has a tight schedule. He's due to see Lands and Forest Minister Williston at 10 a.m. Thursday, Highways Minister Gaglardi at 11 a.m. and Deputy Municipal Affairs Minister J. E. Brown at 11::)() The mayor also hopes to talk with other cabinet ministers but has no definite appointment arranged with any but the three. tence, the magistrate said, he didn't feel a fine would suit the purpose, but that he would make it a light sentence to give Jamison a chace to straighten around. 1'leading guilty to causing a disturbance by swearing on Second avenue Saturday, Paul Jean Robin was fined $25. "It was self defence," Eric Seilei; told the court as he pleaded not guilty to causing a disturbance by fighting at Third and Dominion Saturday night. He was remanded to Tuesday for trial and released on $25 bail. A local record for recent months was set by Emll Daniel-son who appeared in the drunk parade for the third time today in the past week. lie was picked up the previous Saturday and given 11 days to pay the $10 fine. Then on the following Tuesday he reappeared and the previous fine was revoked and he was given seven days concurrent on both counts. Daniel'son was released Saturday and a few hours later picked up once again for intoxication. As city prosecutor Peter Wilson said this morning: "He didn't lose any time." This time he'll spend 1-1 clays In jail. John Keen Smith, with 10 previous convictions for being intoxicated off the reserve, was sentenced to 10 days. Fined on intoxication charges were Francois Recollet, $25; Vol-demars Kajins, $25; and Joseph Boulanger, $10. Leonard A. Pearson, pleaded not guilty to impaired driving and was remanded to Saturday for trial. He was picked up by police Saturday. He'll be defended bv T. Ray Cullinane. Dan Radford of the education department of the Canadian Labor Congress at Vancouver directed the seminar. Labor people were urged to get on the voters list and vote CCF and the committee was formed to further these objectives. Mr. Radford said only half the eligible voters in this area turn out to the polls and "our working class people are being asked to make sure they're on the voters list and get out and vote CCF." Committees are being formed in every constituency in the province. A seminar was held in Quos-ncl Sunday and a committee was formed there as well. Mr. Radford spoke on how to register voters and the necessity of getting out. the labor vote in favor of the CCF. Civil Aviation Tactful Reminder LONDON CPi � The Dail> Mail says British civil aviation authorities have been told by United Stales government officials that aircraft of a merged Commonwealth airline could be refused permission lo operate in the U.S. The newspaper says the warning was issued by the U.S. civil aviation administration "in the form of a 'tactful.reminder' that a British air monopoly would be in danger of violating American anti-trust laws." It says Washington officials fear Britain is trying to form a bloc powerful enough to outvote U.S. airlines at the annual fare-fixing conferences of the International Air Transport Association while Commonwealth airlines "have long resented U.S. domination of the IATA." Cloudy with sunny periods today and Tuesday. A lew showers in the afternoons. Little change in temperature. Light winds, becoming southerly 15 in the Cariboo both afternoons, and northerly 25 in extreme western valleys. Low tonight and high Tuesday at Q u e s n e 1 a n d Prince George, 25 and 3S; Smlthers, 20 and 35. Peace IUver Region Cloudy, light snow this evening. A little colder. Winds northeasterly 15 today, light Tuesday. Low tonight and high Tuesday at Grande Prairie, 0 and 10. Past 21 Hours Lo Hi Precip Prince George 18 41 __ Terrace .......... 2!) 40 .02 Smithers ........ 15 38 ___ Quesnel ............ 22 44 ___ Kamloops ........ 30 43 ___ Dawson Creek -11 28 ___ Fort St. John... .2 2G .12 Fort Nelson .... -S 12 .0G \\ nitehorse .... 13 29 ___ ISLANDS OFFERED FOR SALE Cottagers Could Be Embarrassed PETERBOROUGH, Ont. CPI � Cottagers in the Kawartha Lakes area who are living on islands "deeded" from Indians may find they now have to pay for their property. Some 250 of the 640-odd Indian islands in the chain will be offered for sale soon by the department of Indian affairs. The islands are not crown lands but were withheld by the crown in Ihe 1850s for use of district Mis-sisauga Indian bands. E. A. Adams, district superintendent of Indian affairs, said none of the islands have been legally sold according to a search of records. Some were supposed- ly bought about 50 years ago for token payments in return for deeds. The only legal way of transferring Indian property to whites is through a patent, in addition to a deed, Mr. Adams said. "EMBARRASSING" "This situation may prove embarrassing to many island owners who inherited "deeded" Indian islands from forefathers." They may face federal tax bills and federl offers to let them buy the land at present real estate prices, plus additional money for the numbers of years they have trespassed on the Indian islands. The Indians surrendered the islands to the crown about 60 years ago, requesting they be sold with the proceeds going to the bands' funds. Mr. Adams estimated sale of all the islands could net more than $1,000,000 for the three Indian bands at Iliawalha, Curve Lake and Scu-gog. The Lake Ontario Development Association hopes the federal or provincial governments will buy some of the islands for public camping grounds and stopover sites for cruisers. The islands stretch from Balsam to Rice Lakes, northwest of here.