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PRINCE GEORGE, BRITISH COLUMBIA, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 11, 1960
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DILWORTH ELECTED
The Canadian Forestry Association of British Columbia yesterday formed a Prince George section under the chairmanship of Lumberman Tom Dilworth.
The association has been active in the area, with junior forest wardens' courses and other projects, but this is the first local branch of the CFA. Aid. Dick Yardley is vice-chairman.
COMMITTEES NAMED
Following commitees were set up to take charge of association projects here:
Forest Fire Control�Tom Dilworth, Reg Hilton, Al Dixori, Bob Gallagher and Cecil Clare.
Junior Forest Warden � Dick Bond, Roy Yip, Charles Cranston, John Mclnnis and Ivor Killy.
Fire Prevention � Larry de Grace, Dory Thacker, Jacob Hoist and George Cowell.
Finance � Dick Yardley, Bill llollingshead, Roy McGillivray and Gordon Brownridge.
Commitees will meet shortly to begin work on individual programs.
ACTIVE PROGRAM
Association Secretary-Manager W. F. Myring presented Mr. Dilworth with a sounding board and gavel and outlined committee responsibilities to the new section members. t
Two junior forest warden courses are already being given to some 50 youngsters here. The new committee will decide plans, training programs and operational procedures.
Fire control courses, giving sawmill workers and others basic fircfighting knowledge, will be started again shortly, this time under local control.
SIX-POINT l^AN
The fire prevention committee has a six-point program to promote:
Entering floats and displays in parades and other,�functions.
Conducting poster and essay contests in schools and financing awards for same.
Promote numerous forest fire prevention campaigns locally.
Participation in observance of national Forest Conservation Week.
School lecture courses.
Make available educational material to schools and organizations.
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CITIZEN GENERAL MANAGER JOE SIDDONS
looks almost like he enjoys giving away money. Those %$10 bills are being grabbed by 10 of 12 winners of this newspaper's editorial writing contest for high school students shortly after winners were announced yesterday. Standing, left to right, are: Helen Ridley, Bernice Gustavson, Kraus Schroeder and Rita Lotisdale. (Miss
Gustavson and Mr. Schroeder were the big winners and left today for a trip to Victoria to witness legislature in action). Bottom row, left to right: Georgia Wolczuk, Michael Gibbons, Sue Killy, Mr. Siddons, Roberta Box, Edward Goodkey and Arlenc Sinclair. Winners Michael Crowe and Carson Merrick are not in the picture. Hal Vandervoort Photo
PUBLIC DEVELOPMENT PLANNED
CCF Opens Fire on Peace River Plan
VICTORIA (CPi � Socialist members of the British Columbia
Legislature
Owners Warned To Shovel Snow From Sidewalks
Businessmen and homeowners are in danger of prosecution, under a city bylaw providing fines up to $100 or 30 days in jail, unless more attention is paid to cleaning ice and snow from sidewalks.
City Engineer Bill Jones said today the bylaw stands to be more strictly enforced unless a few more snow shovels arc un-limbered here.
The bylaw stales a homeowner, tenant �� or even owner of ;i vacant lot � must clean snow and ice from sidewalks in front of liis holdings by 11 a.m. of the day following a snowfall.
Police arc empowered to have the work clone, with the labor charge added to the owners property tax, as well as press charges.
Mr. Jones said city crews have been sanding some very danger-ouc sections of icy sidewalks but this is not city responsibility. Citizens arc well warned to start clearing sidewalks themselves, | said the engineer, or they maj be prosecuted.
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has already made a considerable profit selling 250,000 shares at $1 each. -
000 private power development | Gren interests should be told to
"pack their bags and go." It was
of the Peace'River in the northern part of the province.
Gordon Dowding and Randolph Harding, CCF members for Burn-aby and Kaslo-Sloean, called for the public development of the immense power potential of the river and suggested thousands of dollars had been made in stock sales and millions could be made in the future.
Private development by the Peace River Power Development Company was defended by Works Minister Chant and Harold Roche, Social Credit member for North Peace River.
BIG GAINS
Mr. Harding said Swedish industrialist Axel Wenner-Grcn, owner of the majority of the shares of the development company, and his associates stand to make a fortune out of something that belongs to the people of the province.
He suggested Bernard Gore, a Wenner-Gren executive, probably
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What has happened to some good, and at least partially sponsored, ideas for complete be-tween-periods finishing of the ice surface at the PG Coliseum. Certainly would improve the calibre of the hockey . . .
And while on the Coliseum, one would think to sec them that the trusses were heavy enough before the present additions, which merely seem to add more weight to these controversial structures . . .
Mohawk's high scoring centre Billy Lee found out last night there are two kinds of ice. There is one kind on the rink where he scored a goal and an assist,
and another kind on the Giscome road where he scored a collision with his car . . .
Our Sports Editor Barry Hame-lin found his usual fan club waiting when he arrived at the Van-dcrhoof Arena last night. Difference is that last year they pinned
up hi Arena
lockey stories on the wall. This year Vandcr-
ordered them removed because his players were reading them
For the benefit of residents between Smithers and PG, who must be curious, that red streak was no UFO, but Giratin' George Ferguson flying home . . .
disloyal to the province to permit such "promoters" with an expenditure of a mere $2,500,000 to "grab a great resource worth hundreds of millions and sell power to the northwest United States." V
BOTH RIVERS
Mr. Chant said the government wants development of both the Columbia and Peace Rivers and persons who attempted to play one against the other could stall the province's economic growth.
He said realization of the power potential of the Peace "put ants in the pants" of some American and Canadian officials and they suddenly realized it was time to get on with the Columbia.
GUESSWORK
Mr. Roche said criticisms of
the Peace
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guesswork" #nd he hoped the development would proceed, letting private interests take the risks.
Mr. Harding said Wenner-Gren paid 33la cents each for 7,134,-424 shares, or 69.9 per cent of the interest in Peace River Power Development. He said Peace River President W. G. Mainwaring had predicted the shares might be offered to the public at $10 each, meaning Wcn-ncr-Gren would have an equity of more than $70,000,000 for an vestment of just over $2,000,000.
Mr. Gore was already "cashing in." He had sold 250,000 shares to the Henry Ansbacher Company of London, England, last October and "you can bet their price was at least $1 a share." TRANSFER OKAYED
Mr. Mainwaring said in Van-
s
NEW DELHL iCP) � � Nikita Khrushchev received full V.I.P. treatment when he arrived here today but with none of the tumult or crowds that welcomed President Eisenhower in December.
Between 100.000 and 200,000 persons turned out to cheer the Soviet premier as he started his Asian tour � a marked contrast to the million and more who welcomed the American president.
VISITS NEHRU
Later this afternoon Khrushchev paid a 45-miiuite courtesy call on Prime Minister Nehru and opened their political and economic talks.
Beaming and waving his white Panama hat to thin lines of flag-waving Indians, the Soviet premier seemed cither unaware or undaunted by the comparison of the welcomes.
A major reason tor the smaller crowds today may have been tighter security controls, ordered-to prevent -the motorcade from being blocked even once. And Khrushchev is playing a return visit to India, having been here four years ago.
OFFERS AID
Khrushchev today offered Russia's "friendly and selfless as-
Paar Cut Off Air After Risky Story
NEW YORK (AP) � About three or four minutes of the Jack Paar television show was replaced by a news summary late Wednesday night because Paar told an off-color story, NBC said.
The show is taped only two hours before it is shown.
sistance" to Cuba in its struggle for independence.
Addressing a joint session of India's Parliament, a. large portion of his address was devoted to an attack on Western nations for oppressing and "plundering" the peoples of Latin America, Asia and Africa.
He declared:
"It would only be fair if Western countries now returned to the peoples held in colonial dependence in the past at least part of the wealth appropriated by them."
Wednesday's low of -I above zero will be replaced by warmer temperatures the weatherman promises.
It will be mostly cloudy and warmer today1 and Friday. This morning's snow was .scheduled to end in the afternoon, returning around daybreak Friday. Light winds today will give way to Southerly 15 Friday.
Low tonight and high -Friday at Quesnel. 20 and oo; Prince George, 15 and 35.
Peace Kirci* Region
Cloudy tonight, sunny with cloudy periods Friday. A little warmer. Light winds. Low tonight and high Friday at Grande Prairie, 10 below and 15 above.
couver Mr. Gore was given permission some months ago to transfer.,the sihares, to the Ans-
hachw � Company bu). hn dipV
know how much he got for "them or why he transferred them.
He said the 14 shareholders in Peace River Power- must approve all transfers. Ansbacher was already a stockholder.
Warship Hunts Mysterious Sub
BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) � An Argentine frigate steamed to the Golfo Nuevo, 700 miles south of here, today to lead a "final battle" against an unidentified submarine believed to be lurking on the seabed.
Usually reliable naval sources said the frigate had a full supply of anti-submarine weapons and was joining nine other ships in a hunt, now in its 12th day, for the mysterious submarine.
All civilian ships and planes have been barred from the area, which is under continuous observation by bombers.
AT VICTORIA
Mayor Garvin Dezell laid his cards on the table before provincial cabinet ministers
Government leaders were also asked to allow local lumbermen to use municipal debentures as
in Victoria today in an el- i timber sale deposits fort to get government as- j The sistance on seven important
issues.
. Only one item of his business was made public before the meetings this morning with Highways Minister Gaglardi, Lands and Forests Minister W i 11 is t 6 n and Deputy Municipal Affairs Minister Everett Brown.
The mayor is seeking government money for part of a proposed 36-rblock paving program this summer, to cost at least $50,000.
Mayor Dezell was also bringing six other problems to the government but what they were was not known until today. He had refused to release information on them before in order not to tip his hand to cabinet ministers.
Mr. Dezell is seeking to have First Avenue, from Victoria to the Nechako Bridge, moved the width of the street in order to provide more space for truck loading at warehouses.
The city claims the province agreed to move the roadway in 1952 because of the dangerous situation. Trucks loading there now must park with bumpers reaching the edge of the road. MORE LAND
The mayor also is seeking more lots for residential building. The province owns 60 per cent of the lots,4n the 24 block
area of�the city wcsl �f Central.
Avenue. Mayor Dezell wanted the land sold to the city, for resale as building lots.
A revolutionary school costs plan was to be submitted for government consideration. Mayor Dezell was to propose the city and district share capital costs of schools, with the province paying all maintenance and salary costs.
The mayor'wants to be let in on secret government knowledge of developments in the area in order to plan utility extensions and other expansion.
That Last Beer Can Cost Money
Lingering over that last beer doesn't pay.
So Alphonse Richard discovered in police court today when he was found guilty of being in a beer parlor after midnight and fined $50. He was found in the Canada Hotel at 12:15 a.m. Jan. 21 by a policeman and charged under a section of the Govern-
zcll is
other after
matter Mayor Deis more strict en-
forcement of unregulated areas around the city, an old city complaint on which the government
has more or less promised action.
If the highways minister declares Fifth, Tenth and Fifteenth, as well as Carney from Fifth to Second, secondary highway routes the government would pay (i0 per cent of paving costs. This is Mayor Dezeli's most immediate worry.
School Trustees gave third and final reading Tuesday night to two school loan bylaws totalling $295,000.
The district was authorized to issue school bonds in that amount following recent cabinet approval for the issuance of more than $1,000,000 in debentures by school boards throughout the province.
The debentures will contain a 5 per cent coupon and be sold at a yield of 0.30 per cent. Of the amount, $175,000 was portioned under Referendum No. 5 which will complete financing of the referendum, and $120,000 under Referendum No. 7 which will leave about $330,000 still to be borrowed.
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Administration Plan
A new administrative organization designed to keep trustees better informed on all aspects of school board operation, while at the same time leaving them more time for policy making, had its second tryout at Tuesday night's school board meeting.
The new system is modelled after that used by Vancouver School Board.
Under It, arrroperattve council composer! of the district superintendent and the secretary-treasurer will perform much of the actual work of the various committees. They will bring in their findings to the' school board, which will then make decisions on the recommendations presented, and formulate general policy.
Standing school board committees have been narrowed down to four, with all board members serving on each committee. These include management, under the chairmanship of J. Rhodes; personnel, under J. Holmes; education, under K. Melville; and finance under R. Range.
Temporary committees are also being added as they are required.
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Budget Meeting
School trustees have called a special meeting for Tuesday night to draw up a final draft of their 1960 budget.
An interim budget covering anticipated expenditures for the
coming year was drawn up last December, but could not be made final until all salary negotiations .vere completed.
The budget will get another going-over on Feb. 23, when S. E. Espley, comptroller of expenditures for the department of education, will arrive in the city to review budget items shared with the provincial government.
The budget must be brought before city council by March 15.
it.-'it .ft Off the Payroll
Clerk-of-Works Ivor Killy is no longer on the school board pay-rol and there is a resolution In the minutes to prove it.
Trustees passed the motion after management committee chairman J. Rhodes hinted darkly of "horses on the payroll".
Rhodes accused the board of carrying the clcrk-of-works during October, November and December after his work for the board had been completed. He was supported in his contention by Trustee Holmes.
Snapped Finance Chairman Bob Range: ".This trustee is al-wnys looking for someone to put something over on him." He said Killy was still working on school projects before Christmas and that he was cut off the payroll in January when it was established he had terminated his employment with the board.
Pointed out District Superintendent K. F. Alexander, the whole things was a misunderstanding. Killy had informed one trustee when he had completed his work, he said, but since he was employed in a continuous basis it was believed he was merely referring to one phase of it.
Pre-Sumrnit Huddle For West in April
WASHINGTON (AP) � Foreign ministers of the chief Western allies are planning to meet in Washington about April 15 to begin final shaping of Western policy for the East-West summit conference in Paris a lnontli later.
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OH, WOE" IS ME moans Basil Honour, whose $4 bill "game" was quashed after an item in the "Now Hear This" column in Monday's Citizen. He's seen here adding up what he figures the "expose" cost, him, "Everybody's on to it now," quoth he. Bill in question is seen in foreground. �Hal Vandervoort photo
$4 Game Collapses
Basil Honour is miffed.
He's miffed because a cute little "game" he's been perpetrating for the last 25 years was cut short by an item appearing in Monday's Citizen about $4 bills.
It started during the depression when Basil was shown the bill by Dave Suttic, who was then wording in a Burnaby bank. It was among a number of currency oddities which popped up in banks during the lean years when folk were digging deep in the family mattress to unearth any negotiable currency.
Since that time, the two cohorts have accumulated unto'id wealtii through what, for the lack of anything better, we shall call "wee wagers" with the boys of a Saturday ni:^ht. Most folks will wager there's no such animal as a $4 bill.
And what an angle. When local types wise up, which occurs periodically, Basil would simply return the bill to his pal, who is now manager at Oliver, for a couple of "cooling off" years. Then the Okariagan marks would be subjected to the same gaff.
The reporter who originated Monday's item which blew the whistle on Basil's fund raiser had the temerity 10 interview him Wednesday.
It was a short interview.
A defeated Basil Honour could only murmer sorrowfully, "Guess I might as well send it back now."
By the by, those $4 bills were issued Jan. 2, 1900, and created joy for some 10 years.
Anvbody not a $3 hill.