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PRINCE GEORGE, BRITISH COLUMBIA, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 1960
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Provincial government's plan to contribute almost $i"0,OOQ,006 more to the eosl of education in the province this year, announced by Premier Bennett in his budget speech last week, is causing little stir among local school trustees.
Just finished wrestling with their own budgetary problems, trustees arc taking a wait-and-see attitude toward the proposed increase in contribution by the provincial government.
They will have some indication of how generous Premier Bennett's government plans to be next week, when a department of education representative will travel to the city to in-sped their budget figures. The provincial department can�and usually .does � veto any shareable items not in line with the provincial picture.
"We're not expecting any outright gifts or change of policy on the part of the department," said School Hoard Chairman Ray Atkinson.
He sn i (i he didn't believe the additional grant would mean iiny change at all, but would simply he absorbed by normal increases throughout the   province.
School district 57 must allow for a substantial budgetary increase each year, and when one considers similar increases in districts throughout the province, lie said, the $10,000,000 addition doesn't amount to very much.
Concurring with that view, Finance Chairman Bob Range fell the amount simply represented allowance For normal increases throughout the province. Other trustees contacted were of the same opinion.
Woman Jailed For Six
A woman was jailed for six months today after pleading guilty to keeping a common bawdy house and the illegal sale of liquor.
Pauline Brisson was sentenced to six months on each count, to run concurrently. She was arrested Saturday in a police raid on premises at  1181 Fifth.
Karl Kaldal was sentenced to five days for his twelfth conviction for intoxication. A man who said he only had seven beer, but nevertheless pleaded guilty to intoxication was fined $10. Wilfred WaJther was picked up at Third and Dominion.
LONDON (Cl'i � Queen Elizabeth moved Tuesday night, to the maternity suite arranged for her in Buckingham Palace after her doctors told her to expect her third  baby  "at any  minute."
In what may have been their final prenatal examination, the doctors found the 33-year-old monarch in the best of health. They anticipated no complications.
The Queen moved from her own apartment to the ground-floor Belgian Suite, at the back of Hie palace, which has been converted.into a royal maternity ward.
IT'S A BIT CONFUSING for Mrs. Francisca Dutra of Willow River, mother of thai six-pound, 14-ounce baby girl born yesterday � the first ba'by born in the new hospital. A recent arrival from Portugal she doesn't speak English. Hospital Administrator Gordon Town-
end presents an engraved silver mug and spoon commemorating the' occasion. Nurse Hazel Sproule smiles at the proceedings. The baby was born only four and a half hours after the hospital was put into operation.
�Hal Vandervoort photo
VANCOUVER�Canadian National Railways, with 2,024 dio-
sel locomotives in service, lias instituted a now system to obtain maximum use from its locomotives and to ensure that they are available when and where needed.
The railway, which will soon be totally dieselized, has established regional .motive power control bureaus at Winnipeg, Toronto and Moncton.
Operating around' the clock, each bureau keeps daily, record of all locomotive movements. These show at a glance the current locomotive situation at any given point and, at the same time, are a basis for changes in schedules and statistical analysis.
Sentence Reduced For Former Teacher
Humphrey Milne Forrett, a 50-year-okl former school teacher with a record of 64 convictions for false pretences, has won a reduction in B.C. Court of Appeal of a sentence handed down at Prince George Dec.  18.
lie was released after serving two months of a two-year sentence on four counts of false pretences relating to four bogus cheques of  $2  each.
504,000 WITHOUT JOBS
Unemployment at Half-Million Mark
OTTAWA CPI � Unemployment in Canada passed the half-million mark at mid-Jan., rising 134,000 in the five weeks up to Jan. 15, the government estimated today.
Monthly survey figures placed those without jobs and looking for work at 504,000, compared with the post-war Jan. high of 538,000 last year. The estimate for the previous month � at Dee. 12 � was 370,000.
The number with-jobs in Jan. fell to 5,699,000 from December's 5,861,000 but remained above the 5,538,000 figure of Jan.  1959.
Besides those without jobs, the bureau of statistics estimated 42,000 persons were on temporary layoff in Jan., about the same as a year earlier but up 7,000 from Dec.
A simultaneous announcement from National Employment Service said that at Jan. 14 there were 755,387 persons compared with 549,084 at Dec. 10 and 775,-658 the previous Jan. BIG BOOST
The increase of 134,000 in the estimate of actual jobless between December and January compared with an increase of 98,000 a year earlier.
A government statement accompanying the statistics said that the latest increase was larger "in part because of the small; er-than-usual seasonal decline in
A provisional budget of more than $2,000,000, representing estimated school expenditure in School District 57 during 1960,  given final approval by school trustees last night.
The 21-page budget, in ifs fourth draft since trustees began working on it last November, will  get one   further  going-over
Now
City brass should be very indignant about a slur on our fair metropolis contained in a letter written by AG Robert Kon-ncr and read to yesterday's Van-dcrhoof Village Council. 11 answered Vanderhoof's suggestion that Bonner do something to legalize Sunday sport, and read in part: "In view of the unnecessary issue raised by the City of Prince George on this subject i am totally at a loss to understand why this matter has not been raised in orderly fashion through and by the Union of B.C. Municipalities if it is the wish of municipal corporations to have their act brought into line with that of the City of Vancouver. Meanwhile it is hardly justifiable to complain that the Lord's Day Act is being enforced . . ." Now who raised that sum; In Prince George,  Mr.  Bonner?   .  .  .
There should have been a few aldermen or maybe even a mayor at the fire hall last night. Firemen and volunteers saw a film on Canadian fire disasters resulting from  lack   of adequate  fire-
equipment    caused    by money-worried city coun-
fightin stallin cils . . .
Appears likely the fancy turn-off   on   Connjuight   Hill   where
Queensway joins Patricia needs ! a warning sign about half a block I back on Queensway. Another befuddled out-of-town motorist went down the wrong chute this ayctn  . . .
Classified ad today says anyone whose interested in buying a 1929 Graham-Paige can phone E. Bel-lavance at 1-Y Shelley between 5 and 6 p.m. This is interesting, but it would be even more interesting to learn if the owner can drive it as far as The Citizen front door . . . Relative values: At chimney fire scene this ayeni, a man dashing from the house with a sewing machine clutched under his arm . . .
The news story in Monday's Citizen about May Emiline Cum-rningsj of no fixed abode, who was fined $50 as an inmate, is not in any way connected with Mrs. May Cummiugs of 1805 Upland . . . Memo to Premier Bennett: Your new provincial building in PG is fine, but it would be nice if you bought some chairs and benches so that people wishing to do business with the various departments could sit clown while they wait � as wait they must, invariably, when dealing with government . . .
iieforc being submitted to city council, probably next Wednesday.
This will come from department of education comptroller S. E. Espley, who will be in the city next Tuesday to inspect budget items sharable with the provincial government.
In its present form the budget presented by finance committee chairman Bob Range represents an increase of some 15Vi percent over  1959 figures.
Increased expenditures are estimated, in part, on a calculated hike in enrolment throughout the district of some G43 pupils, and an increase in full-time teaching staff to 15. This would bring the total number of pupils in the district to 6.050 by next September and full-time instructional staff to 227. 11 CLASSROOMS
Other calculations are based on the addition to the school dis-districl of 14 new classrooms, including an eight-room elementary junior high school at Kelly Roadj a four-room school at Bonnet Hill and a two-room addition at Ilixon.
Principal and interest servicing j various   by-laws   account   for   a : considerable amount of the bud-1 get, and the figure also includes charges which the board collects for  the  health  unit,  as  well  as dental service charges, which  it shares  with   the   department  of health.
the labor force." No reason was ascribed  for  this.
The labor force in Jan. stood at 6,203,000 compared with 6,076,-000 the previous Jan. and 6,231,-000 in Dec.
Jan. unemployment represented 8.1 per cent of the labor force, compared with 8.9 per cent a year earlier and 5.9 per cent in Dec.
On the employment side, the decrease of 162,000 in those with" jobs between Dec. and Jan. wvas greater than the 122,000 drop that occurred between the same months a  year earlier.
However, the government said it   was   about   the   same   as   the
average Dec-Jan, change in the previous six years.
More than one-third of the decrease occurred in construction, the government said, and about half in trade, manufacturing and agriculture.
While employment was higher than last year in all major regions, many local areas experienced a larger surplus of labor, particularly in the construction trades.
Of 110 labor market areas, 82 were classified as in substantial surplus compared with 78 a year earlier, 27 were in moderate surplus against 31 and one was in balance, same as last year.
Highways Department
VICTORIA CI'l�A $20,000,000-a-year tourist business is expected at the Hudson Hope dam site i!' the proposed Peace River Power development project goes ahead, Stanley C a r n e 1 1 (SC-South Peace River) told the Legislature Tuesday.
Mr. Carnell has an interest in a new hotel at the new town-site and was on the job during construction of the hotel.
"This is not a figure out of thin air." he said. ".Many people visit projects of this nature. The people in our area are interested in that $20,000,000 because it is not  peanuts."
He said it was not beyond the realm o� possibility that an uranium enrichment plant could
Sunny with cloudy periods today ami Thursday, little change ! in temperature. Light winds. Low tonight and high Thursday at Prince George and Smithers, 20 and 35; Quesnel. 20 anil -10.
I'cace River Kegion
Cloudy today imd Thursday, a little colder. Light easterly winds. Low tonight and high Thursday at Grande Prairie. 0 and 10.
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Terrace  ............	28	-10	�
Smithers ..........	7	:?5	�
Quesnel ............	12	:',�-;	�
Kamloops .....	21	-1-1	�
Dawson Creek .	12	32	.01
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WTiitehorse   .	-5	21	�
Chimney  Blaze
A chimney blaze sent firemen scurrying to 20-10 Ross Crescent shortly after 0 a.m. today. It was brought under control within a few minutes. The house is the residence of Mr. and Mrs. W. H. PopP-
LUMBER SALES TO U.S. 'SAFE'
MONTREAL ffiP) � Canadian lumber sales to the United States will not he affected by an expected drop in U.S. house building! O. I. Hankin. Canada's deputy consul-general in New York. said.
Ik' tolct a meeting at the Canadian Lumbermen's Association convention that other construction and repairs and additions to existing houses will offset the predicted building decrease.
Last year 4,000,000,000 board feet, nearly half of Canada's lumber production, was K>ld in the U.S., he said.
be installed at the site.
Mr. Carnell said the recreation department is encouraging tourists to the Peace River area "and the highways department is discouraging them."
He said the province is losing 85 per cent of the $100,000,-000 tourist industry in the Peace, River because travellers going north and south to and from Alaska prefer the paved Edmon-ton-Dawson Creek road rather than the mostly-unpavod Prince Georgo-Dawson Creek route over the Hart  Highway.
He said only 100 of the-2G5 miles of the Hart Highway are paved.
power to decide the issue without an ftxprcfJsion'W.publUi.opinion. It was put'into effect after the 1959 plebiscite. MAJORITY BASIS
First part of the ballot required and got a two-thirds majority but the second question was decided on a simple majority basis. The plaintiffs charge this, too, needed a two-thirds majority lo be valid.
The plaintiffs want it declared ultra vires because of this. In voting on the money question, the "yes" vote was 1,352, the "no", 112. On the second question the Sisters go 760 votes, the community  plan  622.
Votes in 1957 and 1958 on the money question only were defeated. The first was only some 10 votes short of a majority, the second had a 60 per cent majority.
Plans then were for the Sisters lo run any new hospital. The question of a community run hospital didn't arise until the third plebiscite.
A charge that some ineligible voters had cast ballots in the 1959 plebiscite was dropped prior to the Supreme Court hearing which opened  Monday.
Howard Travis, chairman of the hospital improvement district board of trustees said there was nothing irregular in the plebiscite. And. he told of the old hospital being condemned, that the top floor was vacated completely due to the fire hazard existing in the    three-storey    building.    Mr.
Judgment Avas reserved in Supreme Court here Tuesday on an application to have last April's hospital plebiscite at Fort St. John declared ultra vires.
Mr. Justice T. G. Norris said at conclusion of the case, which has delayed construction of a new hospital at the town -nearly a year, he would voice a decision before conclusion of the current sittings.
The judgment will conclude a three-year battle at the town of 5,000 for establishment of a new 80-bed hospital, to replace the 32-bed Providence Hospital of the Sisters of Charity, condemned two years ago but still in use.
The battle involves the North Peace Hospital Improvement District No. 13 and an element in Fort St. John seeking to establish a municipal hospital. DECLARATION
Plaintiffs Philip Tompkins and Harvey Freeman seek a court declaration invalidating the district's plebiscite ballot of April, 1959. The ballot put two questions to ratepayers: one asking permission for trustees to borrow more than $1,000,000 for hospital construction, the other asking if a community hospital were favored or if the Sisters of Charity, who have maintained a hospital there since 1930, should run the new hospital.
A confusing array of complaints ranged from unclear wording of the ballot to the manner in which voting was conducted. But. they were centred on the vote majority required for the plebiscite's approval. The other major protest was against an amendment in the B.C. Letters Patent under which the improvement district registered its charter.
The amendment gives trustees
Travis spoke also of the lengthy delay  in  getting a. much-needed', new and  larger hospital for thefijy-growing community.
In order for another plebiscite* to be held the court would have � to declare the amendment to the ft B.C. Letters Patent invalid.
If it fails to do this the entire   1 question is up to district trustees. Government   approval   has   been received for financial assistance.
If the Sisters contribute to construction costs the improvement district would have to raise �450,-000 for tho new hospital planned, a community hospital would raise the district's share to $1,035,000.
EDMONTON (CP) � For the first time in its transcontinental tour, the royal commission on transportation has heard a plea for a second railway.
It came from the Lethbridge Chamber of Commerce in a submission Tuesday to the MacPhcr-son commission, studying railway problems and freight rate inequities across Canada.
Claiming that southern Alberta suffers a disadvantage because il has only one railway � the privately owned CPR � me chamber suggested that a "detailed economic study be made of the feasibility of a second railroad." EXCELLENT SERVICE
The brief, however, pointed out that the Lelhbridge area has on the whole received excellent service from the CPR. . It �ww&ht low freight rates on. farm" equipment coming into-the area and rates set on farm products going out that will not give any  undue regional  preferences.
The brief also urged a better deal for receivers in Alberta who have to pay high rates on some goods brought from the East by rail.
The Lethbridge submission said that agreed freight charges, passenger services and other matters "should be investigated before there is any thought of jeopardizing the Crowsnesl Pass grain rates upon which so much of Western Canada's � and indeed, all of Canada's � prosperity is dependent."
The issue of export grain rales � pegged by Parliament at a pre-1900 level � is one of the major questions before the six-man commission, headed by M. A. MacPherson of Rcgina.
WANT CPR NATIONALIZED
In the West, there has also been the recurring theme of nationalization of the privately owned CPR. All three Prairie farmers unions have endorsed public, railway o�/7errV,\ although spokesmen for business groups have been equally opposed to the idea.
Commissioner Herbert Ans-combe of Victoria, a former provincial finance minister, said he regarded the nationalization proposals as a "very serious pcob-lorn."
brry Day for iducai
B.C. Teachers Federation President Reg Cox said here today he doubts anything would be gained by putting education on a national scale.
Asked if uniformity of education among the provinces would be desirable, he said application of a national education plan, particularly involving curricula, would hinder rather than aid education.
"It woidd be a very sorry day that education became completely government controlled" as it might cut down on any flexibility
of current curricula.
Of B.C.'s standard of education, Mr. Cox said "I think it's safe, to say B.C. standards are equivalent to any province in Canada."
He said the 13 years of school in B.C. and Ontario gave those students a belter education than in most provinces where 12 years are sufficient to obtain senior matriculation.
The BCTF spokesman, on a tour of the province, said British Columbia teachers have reasonably good working conditions. "There's nothing we have to cry about very much."
PROBLEMS OF EDUCATION in this scientific age were thrashed out at a dinner Tuesday attended by district teachers> From left are Ken Alexander, school superintendent, Ray Atkinson, board chairman, Reg.
Cox, president of the B.C. Teachers, Federation, and Jack Hotell, president of the local Teachers' Association.
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