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Vol. 4; No. 40
PRINCE GEORGE, BRITISH COLUMBIA, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 1960
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More than 170 additional Prince George homes will get door-lo-door mail delivery as soon as possible, Cariboo Member of Parliament Walter C. Henderson announced today from Ottawa.
This improved postal service will be put into operation when the postmaster has made the necessary staff adjustments, and when 8u per cent of the homes have been equipped with suitable mail boxes.
Following streets will get this service extension:
Central, Nechako Drive. First, Second, Gillette, Freeman, Hammond, Victoria south of Twentieth, Caddie ltd. east of Maple, Rose from Fourth to Eighth, Sixth from Clarke to LaSalle, Seventh from Itose to Clarke, Eighth from Rose to Clarke, LaSalle from'Fifth to end, Hamilton from Fourth to end.
Fifteen entries have been received to date from out-of-town points for the Aurora Queen Legend Contest.
Entries have come from Merrill, Telkwa, Terrace, Prince Rupert, Fort Fraser, Qucsncl, Kel-ovvna, Ponticton; Alberni and Vancouver.
Many entries from Prince George arc expected before the closing date, but none have been submitted yet.
The contest, sponsored by the Prince George Simon Fraser Day Committee, offers' a prize of $75.00 to the best legend describing how the Aurora Borealis (northern lights) came about and how Aurora became Queen of the Evergreens.
Closing .date for ��nli'ies is March 4. As soon as the winning entry is chosen the legend will be adopted for stau.e presentation by Mrs. Joseph Sidclons. II will be presented by local talent on July 1 at Fort George Park as part of Simon Fraser Day activities. Anyone interested in taking part in the production is asked to phone Mrs. Siddons at LO -1-4754 or contact The Citizen.
A 38-year-old high school teacher suffering a severe case of polio was flown here from Burns Lake today to meet an RCAF mercy plane which flew her to Yancou-
BURNS LAKE SCHOOL TEACHER MRS. ISABELLA
Montaldi, 08, is taken out of smaller craft which rushed her here today from Burns Lake with severe case of
polio. She was later taken aboard an RGAF mercy plane which had flown here from Sea Island to take her on to Vancouver General Hospital.
�Hal Vandervoort Photo
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From Sweeping Walks to RCMP Chief
Canadian Press Staff Writer . OTTAWA ICPi � It's a long way from sweeping the sidewalks of Regina to the conimissionership of the RCMP, but Clifford W. Haryison has made it.
As a rookie policeman, he swept. Now, at 57, after a long career of chasing everyone from moonshiners to spies, he is to become head man of the RCMP.
His appointment was announced Thursday by Justice Minister Fulton. He takes over from com-mjasiflnex C. F Rivet'. C-rnae April 1, just a year after the present commissioner took command in a period of turmoil.
Commissioner Rivett - Carnac, 58, retiring for health reasons, assumed the post when L. IT. Nicholsijn walked out because he disagreed with the federal government idea that it should not send RCMP reinforcements to Newfoundland on the demand of
� Well, Raymond Jackson had his 'day in court and the world's a � filer place for it. �^�Htf' appeared in court this Miming three hours after he en-fferpd a suite at 1215 Fifth and stole a coat. Although he pleaded guilty to breaking and entering and theft, ho lias certain reservations.
VI stole the coal, sure, but there's no such thing as breaking and entering when the door was open," Raymond opined.
But Magistrate George Stewart pointed out the Criminal Code definition of breaking and entering is such that it's not necessary to literally break anything to constitute a broach of the law,
Throughout his hour-long trial Raymond gave what the magistrate referred to as a "running commentary" of the offence, but when tin* time came to give edi-clence himself he declined because "1 don't feel like it � 1 feel ashamed of myself."
SQUAW. VALLEY (CH �Anne Heggtveit of Ottawa appeared headed today for Canada's first gold medal, in Olympic skiing history.
She eclipsed a highly-rated group of European and American skiers in the first leg of the women's downhill slalom in the wind-up alpine event of the 10(30 games.
lie said the arresting policeman had "made a deal" with him to the affect that if he showed them where the coat was cached "there wouldn't be a,charge laid."
Police countered by saying they had told him that whether or not a charge was laid was entirely up to the plaintiff, John Warner.
It was "man to man" he insisted. "I'm a man; my heart still pounds." With that he dramatically pounded his fist against his chest.
Reiterating his point that he hadn't actually demolished a door or window to perpetrate his foul deed, Raymond said "1 walk through about 40,000 doors a day," and wanted to know if such actions were offences against humanity,
The magistrate regained his composure long chough to find the 32-year-old Chaplinesque gentleman guilty. lie was remanded eight days for sentence to allow the Crown time to ask Ottawa if he had . any previous stage experience.
Somebody said afterward the moral of the tale was "Never steal anything small, and if you do, rehearse your lines."
Elsewhere in (he court scene, Carlos M. Powell, charged with keeping liquor for sale, and Sally Nicholson, charged with selling it, wore remanded to March 25 Case of Oscar States, facing a charge of theft over $50 involving a power saw, was remanded to March 25.
Now Hear This...
Printer Johnny Warner will likely wear pyjamas to bed from now on. Wakened early this ayem by sounds of a burglar leaving his home with a couple of coals. Johnny gave chase, but only as far as the front door, it would have been loo, too embarassing to go farther . , .
Challenge issued by Echo Editor Gord Crockett is accepted, but let's make the bet more' interesting than a mere exchange of cash. Mr. C. being agreeable, if a new pressed-wood stripping mill is established in the McBride area before PG gels one, Mr. C.
will push a peanut with his nose across the Fort George Stage park proscenium immediately prior to the Simon Fraser Day stage presentation of "Aurora, Queen of the Evergreen." If PG gets the mill first, Citizen ME Dory Thacker will nose the peanut . . .
There was a collision, and damage was 20 bucks. But in one respect yesterday's item on Northern Dairies wagon backing into Nechacko Dairy truck was wrong. Damaged truck was post office COD delivery van. same type and color as Nechako's, which wasn't in the area at the time . . .
the island government during a loggers' strike there.
His tall successor � who stands six-foot-four � likes to recall that he has never had ao fire a shot in anger in all his years in the RCMP.
He's been shot at, though he doesn't like to talk about it.
Both shots at him were in Montreal, when he was on narcotic raids and shotgun blasts came at police raiders.
"Lucky," is the way he describes it.
In the same tradition of the Mounlie not unlimbering his gun unless in extremity, the new commissioner in his earlier years has done about everything in the police case book, largely in investigation.
Except, perhaps, for the sidewalk sweeping. ROYAL, TOUK CLEANUP
That was in Regina, when he was a young rookie of the Royal North West Mounted Police -signed up shortly before the Prince of Wales, the former King Edward VIF, visited there.
"1 was assigned to sweeping the sidewalks and that's what 1 did." he says now when asked about his most menial police job.
From there, he has Rone on to some of the RCMP's trickiest mi-der-epver work involving drugs, liquor traffic, fraud, espionage,
For Guilty Man
One man was found guilty and another dismissed in police.court Thursday, on charges of living on the avails of prostitution.
Remanded eight days for sen liMice was Bernard Lafleur. Case of Kenneth llorak was dismissed by Magistrate George Stewart.
Lafleur was convicted after the court heard testimony of his living with a woman convicted last week as an inmate of a common bawdy house. The criminal code calls for a conviction if a male lives "wholly or in part" from the funds received by a prostitute.
The woman with whom he was living, Kathleen Morrow, paid the rent for the motel unit at which Lafleur. Horak, Morrow and a second woman, May Olson, were living.
At one point, city prosecutor Peter Wilson was attempting to establish that a woman in question was. indeed, a prostitute.
"Were you between the fifth and the 14th days of February carrying on as a prostitute?"
"I was practicing," she admitted.
The prosecutor was perplexed. "Practicing? What does that mean?"
"It's like the law. Mr. Wilson, you're always practicing," the magistrate remarked.
The magistrate dismissed the charge against llorak because he said he could not find any evidence to show the man actually lived on the avails of prostitution.
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!oyal Princess Engaged
Alex Pierre, 37, of the Taehi Indian Reserve, is due to appear in court Saturday at Fort St. James, charged with the murder Feb. 18 of Tommy Zaa Williams, 21, also of the reserve.
� He was remanded to tomorrow when he originally appeared on the charge one week ago. "
Wilhams died of gunshot wounds shortly after a fracas at. the reserve, 27 miles from Fort St. James.
LONDON icn � Princess Margaret plans to marry a 29-year-old photographer, Anthony Arm-stiung-Joncs.
The engagement was announced today by Clarence Mouse Press Secretary Major John Griffin.
The wedding dale was not announced.
The princess, also 2!), has known Anthony-Jones for two years but their romance was a carefully-guarded secret and the announcement came as a total surprise.
She and Anthony-Jones first met two years ago at a party in London.
"They have met continuously since that time at various places i and have been together at Bal-1 moral and Sandringhanij" Maj. Griffin said.
The Queen and Prince Philip
were said by a Buckingham Palace spokesman to be "delighted," because "this is obviously such a happy match."
HOSPITAL DEBT CUT
XANAI.MO (GR) � ''Opera tir deficit at Nanaimo General Hos- j pital was agajn reduced last I year and should be balanced I when adjustments Have beeu made by the B.C. Hospital Insurance Service. The 1959 operating deficit was Jl',981.
Peering into his crystal ball, the weatherman says ll's.gbing to be clear and cold over thu weekend.
Clear skies and cool temperatures will prevail over Saturday at least. Winds will be light. Low tonight and high Saturday at Prince George and Snrithcrs, �~j and 25; Quesriel, (I and 30.
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950 im incubator To Local Hospital
T h e Associated Canadian Travellers Thursday presented a cheque to the Prince George and District Hospital for a $950 incubator from funds raised at the association's Sunday night charity movies.
Response to the showing has been so great the travellers this weekend will begin using both downtown theatres.
Movie starts at the Princess at 7:30 p.m.; at the Strand it's half an hour later. Doors open a half hour before each movie basins. The same film is showing at both theatres.
The ACT donation brings total donations to tlie new hospital to about S35.000.
The $35,000 mark was reached by the ACT donation and the following donations received in the past few days:
Employees of Clear Lake Sawmills Ltd.. $125; IOOF and Re-bekah Lodge, $350; Thrift Shop, S50; Jaycettes, $183; Dr. Gordon Fierheller Memorial Fund, $350.
CHEQUE FOR $950 INCUBATOR for the new hospital was presented by the Associated Canadian Travellers from funds raised at Sunday night charity movies. Bill Savage, chairman of ACT ways and means com-
mittee, hands the donation to Charles Albins, chairman of the hospital donations committee. ACT past-president Bob Beech and Jim Fairley, general manager of Trans-West Theatres, look on. �Hal Vandervoort