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Vol. 4; No. 44
PRINCE GEORGE, BRITISH COLUMBIA, THURSDAY, MARCH 3, 1960
VANCOUVER (CP) � Einar Gundersoil said today two railways with which he is associated will be in competition.
The former Social Credit finance minister is executive vice-president of the government-owned Pacific Great Eastern Railway and a director of the railway planned by the Wenner-Gren interests between Prince George and the Yukon border. In reply to questions during an interview he said:
"There is going to be competition but there will be plenty of room for all. There is going to be a tremendous development up there in the next few years. MATTER OF CHOICE
"You have lo remember it is better to ship some freight by rail and some other by road."
Mr. Gunde'rson admitted the Wehner-Greh railway, construction of which is expected to start in June, will b? near or over the new Stewart - Cassiar provincial highway in northern B.C.
lie agreed that freight could be carried by ship and highway then on the Wenner-Gren railway to the north-central part of the province.
Asked if that would not mean competition for the PGE running between Vancouver and the Peace River country he said "Oh no. That's a silly argument.1.'
But later he agreed there would be competition. COST A SECRET
lie declined to say how much the Wenner-Gren railway will cost. The Swedish industrialist would finance the start of construction then others would be invited to come in.
"We don't want people to come in and invest at the risk stage." Construction of the railway was expected to take three years although it could be rushed through in a shorter time.
Provincial government officials said today a 10-mile wide strip has been reserved for the railway from jus I north of Prince George lo the Yukon border near Allin Lake.
Mr. Ciundersoil said ,once the specific route is chosen the balance of the 10 miles will be handed back to the government.
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8th Polio
NECHAKO RIVER has risen to a point only inches from River Road at Prince George Planing Mills .site as ice conditions threaten to push the river even higher and flood mills on the other side of the road. Lumber piles were surrounded by water as river rose
over its banks and water reached the planing mill's office building. Threat of a flood seemed to be lessening today with last night's 17 below temperatures.
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LEARNED TODAY
Quitting at Hospital Here
Here This Month
Vodka, now released for sale by the bottle in B.C.. will be on the shelves in the government liquor store here "by the latter part of the month."
The store said today the booze will be ordered shortly, with delivery taking at least two weeks.
Not to be "prominently displayed,'" the liquor will be a Canadian product. The order from Victoria clearing sale of vodka by the bottle in B.C. for the first time .said imported brands will not be available.
An unknown problem or problems has brought resignations or pending resignations from about half of the admlnlstratlon-al stall' at the new P.r i ri c e George and District Hospital, ii was learned today by a hospital spokesman.
Assistant. Administrator lien English and Mrs. Joyce MacDori-:\\d of the accounts receivable department worked their last day al the hospital Monday, following earlier resignation of accountant John Barton.
Admitting Clerk Mis. Lucille .MacKinnon, with the hospital ;i year and a half, and Mrs. Sonja Rahn, in charge'of payroll and accounts payable department. are through on the 11th. And ;i sixth member of the adminlstra-tional staff of aboul a dozen told The Citizen today she will turn in her resignation, when she finds another position.
Reason or reasons for the resignations is obscure. Most of those quitting have little to say on this matter.
Mr. English likely came closest to the problem when he remarked: "The one specific reason 1 am resigning is because
people in charge are unfamiliar with the job of running a hospital in British Columbia. The administration doesn't have one iota of what BCHIS (B.C. Hospi-lal Insurance Scheme) is all about."
272 Homeowners
A total of 272 homeowners in the city and surrounding district have contributed to the winter work employment drive.
The Business and Professional Women's Club here found this in ;i two-week telephone survey of 3,612 homes just completed.
Survey, designed lo impress the public with the winter work theme, found that 1.18 of the 272 renovations, decorations or alterations were still underway. Another 167 homeowners said they planned some winter jobs.
Four chief reasons were noted for residents not contributing lo winter employment: no money, new homes, doing work themselves or they were renters.
Tension Rises Over Segregation
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NASHVILLE. Tenn. (AP) � More than 1,000 Negro students planned to slay away from classes at Alabama State College today in mass protest against the expulsion of nine students for taking part in recent anti-segregation demonstrations.
The plan sent tensions rising in Montgomery, Ala., already the scene of sitdowns and violence on the streets.
A boycott of variety stores loomed in Tampa. Fla., and a Negro minister here was contem-
plating an order either to leave Vanderbilt University divinity school or be dropped from its rolls.
The expulsions and a number of arrests indicated that authorities are taking a firm stand in the face of the massive lunch-counter demonstrations spreading across the southern states as part of a Negro drive for equal rights at eating facilities. "BLtJNDER"
Rev. Ralph D. Abernathy, president of the pro-integration
Now Hear This...
Holding up traffic on Eraser Bridge yesterday were two 4-year-old boys gaily riding tricycles. Which might be amusing except that the incident took place a mere stone's throw from the scene of last week's drowning tragedy, and prompted an RCMP officer to wonder aloud when PG parents are going to start keeping a closer eye on their offspring . . .
St. David's Day, honoring the patron saint of Wales, passed virtually unnoticed Tuesday despite 16 listings of folk named Jones in the city directory . . . Tuesday also was Pancake Day, but who remembered? Apparently not PG merchants, who are advertising pancake makin's today. And certainly not our Social Editor Jessie Cunliffe, who forgot until today to print the special flapjack recipes she had j�rcc{ for the occasion . . .
Don't be surprised if PG Announcer Screech Wasecn can't describe last night's hockey game today. If he has any voice left, after that terrific play-by-play in in E above high C it's a miracle . . . Two local welfare department types are off on a safari today to pick up a new car. The one they're driving clown in has steering so faulty it zig zags along the road and they've orders not to drive over 40. Which might prove a good reason why the highways department should establish a motor vehicle testing station here . . .
Conservative party exec type Derek Humphrey of North Van slid into town to tell local Tories what's what last night, and out again this ayem without a public murmer about Peace River vs Columbia. Could be Ihu southern boys arc getting wise � . .
Montgomery Improvement Association, told the students Wednesday night the expulsion order was "one of the greatest blunders in the history of education in Alabama."
But state governor John Patterson said the expulsion order was necessary "to prevent bloodshed in this city."
"If we ever bow to the threat of a mob," the governor said, "We are on our way out and they'll get more arrogant every clay."
In Florida, 7(i members of a youth council of the National Association for the'lAdvancement of Colored People staged two sit-down cleinoustra!ions at Tampa. One arrest was reported. The president of the state NAACP said that if the demonstrations are effective a boycott of the stores will be tltf i"cxt thing. MOVEMENT SPflEADS
Demonstration.' 8'so occurred in St. Petersburg Sarasota and Daylona Beach.
At Nashville, Eev. James Morris Lawson, a 315'ear-okl Methodist minister, vas ordered by Vanderbilt UnivtfS'ity cither to leave its divinil: jpchool or be dropped from lie,[rolls. Lawson has been identiffej as an organizer of sitdown P; olests.
Demonstration: ti'oke out again Wednesday at >'s >hville public lunch counters, io'o than 50 Negroes were arrest] <' in the bus station when tity' refused to leave the closd lunch counter ill thp fapp qf aNJmb threat. No bomb was found fowever.
Questioned, as to what h meant by "people in charge" anc "the administration," Mr. Eng llsh declined to comment fui th'er.
Mrs. MacKinnon would s;p only. "It's a very embarrassing situation." Mrs. Rahn, with the. hospital over a year, comment ed: "1 don't want to gel minglei into this, and I don't think it's my position to give any state ments about what's going on ii| here. 1 have my personal rea sons for resigning."
Mrs. MacDonald stated, "1 did not like the new administration and they didn't like us. They figure anyone who wasn't trained in England can't do their jo] right." She also would not say who "they" were. Mrs. MacDonald had been with the hospital two years.
The sixth unhappy adminis-tratlonal staff member who's "pretty sure" she'll turn in her resignation shortly said, "1 don't care to work there any more. It's just changed, that's all."
Administrator Gordon Town-end and hospital board members could not be contacted by press time to comment on the situa tion.
Fire Control
Lumber Meet
PENTICTON (CP) _- Fire control techniques specially tailored to southern Interior forest conditions are being outlined lo 40 Interior lumber company representatives in a three-day course that opened here today.
The course features 14 experts and covers latest methods and techniques of fire control and suppression.
It is sponsored by the Canadian Forestry Association in co-| operation of the Interior Lum-| ber Manufacturers Association and the B.C. forest service.
Speakers noted today that Interior forest industries are undergoing a major expansion. There was a 10-per-cent increase in production last year and the Interior's production now represents 44 per cent of the provincial total.
.The fact that fire loss each year still exceeded the annual cut in the province showed the need for wider knowledge and use of fire control techniques.
MAN FINED �1,200
VANCOUVER ICP) � William Moldowan had fines totalling $1,-200 in court Wednesday on five charges of making "false or deceptive" statements in income tax returns. Moldowan, court \vas tqjd, PWed a total of $6,670 uxlra lax money on returns frpm 1051 to 11)55. S �
March 11 has been set as deadline date fur entries in the city's ninth annual Drama Festival.
All those planning entries arc asked to submit their entry forms to the entry secretary, Mrs. George Riggs, 1476-8th Avenue before that time.
The drama festival is' scheduled to be held April 4-9 with Mrs. Flora Nicholson of Victoria adjudicating.
Threat here of the Nfiphako River flooding lessened today.
The river, rising um\ Falling ominously as it battles to burst an ice jam near the Island Cache, has remained quiel since before midnight Wednesday.
Tom 1) i 1 w o v t h of P r I n <� e Ceo rg e P la n i n g Mills Ltd., which stands in the flood path the river would take if it. goes on the rampage, said danger appears loss than yesterday.
The water crept over the bank near the mill office on Planer Row last last night but receded since. Water reached lumber piles near the office, but today didn't threaten to spill over the roadway into the mill as it has in the past, as in the big 1950 flood.
Mr. Dilworth said if it keeps rising it would take only about another foot to flow over Planer Row and into planer mills.
The river has a pattern. Pressure from the rising river forces >pen the ice dam, then the mass >f floe ice backed up lo the new Nechako bridge moves, lowering the level, until it jams again. Then the process starts again.
When jams form the river rises dangerously close to pour-
', Into the planing mills along the river.
The cold weather appears to be hardening the mass of ice chunks into one hard mass. And f cold weather continues it could end the problem if the ice jammed near the Island Cache s pushed out and the floes become welded together prevent-formation of another jam.
A 40-year-old bachelor wa confirmed Wednesday night a the eighth paralytic polio viclir in the Burns Lake area since th middle of, January.
The stricken man, Peter Burt a farmer from Palling, near Dec ker Lake, was flown to Vancou ver this afternoon where he wi be placed in the infectious dis eases ward of Vancouver Genera Hospital.
RCMP were called late Wed nesday to transport a Monagha respirator, a portable "iron lung which fits about the chest, I Vanderhoof from where it wa taken to Burns Lake by anothe police car.
Burns Lake, a community o
about 1,200, is the centre of th
huge lakes district. Wednesclaj
night, 122 persons lined iip t
| receive their Salk vaccine shot
| at a special adult clinic. A spokes
man said it was the largest turn
out ever experienced there.
However, despite the larg I number of non-paralytic poll victims and the eight seriou cases, there is stiJl little panic Shows and other public function are still being well-attended.
Mr. Burtt was flown to Princi George by an Omineca Air Serv ice. plane shortly after noon to day. He was transferred to plane bound for Vancouver.
The plane from Burns Lake with Dr. Jack Matvenko accompanying the patient, connect cd with an ItCAF search and rescue squadron Dakota.
Concern was felt a storm hit ting Victoria and Pat Bay ail base could shift lo Vancouver forcing an interior stop-off for the mercy flight.
Dr. K. I. G. Benson, meOica
Jiealth officer of the Cariboo
[�'Health Unit, dold The Citizen to
day he has not recommended
closure of the town's schools be
cause "the infection has gone
through the community" anyway
and lie felt no good purpose
would be served by such action.
Earlier, Mrs. Isabellc Monlal
di, a Burns Lake school teacher
and mother of two children, was
flown to Vancouver Feb. 26 after
becoming ill while conducting a
school class.
Mr. Monlaldi, in a phone conversation with a Vancouver doctor Wednesday night, learned his wife's condition is unchanged since her arrival there. She has not been placed in an iron lung, although there was said to be a possibility she will be shortly.
Mr. Burtt was in "good spirits" today, a nurse said, despite learning of his serious condition. Paralysis was affecting both his arms and legs. He was admitted Feb. 27 and kept under close observa tion.
11 was the second time in as many weeks the local police were called upon to transport a respirator to Vanderhoof. Constables Stan Partridge and Bob Currie left here at 10:30 p.m., minutes after receiving the request, and arrived al a meeting point west of Vanderhoof two hours later.
An adult polio clinic is being held here Friday from 4 to 6 p.m. in the Cariboo Health Unit.
John Ivan Ross, 20, was fined 150 in police court today after pleading guilty to impaired driv-ng.
His car was 'involved in a col-ision Wednesday afternoon with i city doctor's automobile. No one was injured.
Dr. Donald Murphy informed police Ross left the scene with-jut stopping. Ross pleaded not guilty to a second charge of hit and run.
The youth was remanded to riday on the second charge. He old Magistrate George Stewart le was "guilty of half of the harge," saying he left the scene, lthough "without intent." "I know it'� bad," the acpused ajcj qfter r�P W3S vvanipd. pf the eriousness of the charge.
Five Firemen Lie In State En Montreal
MONTREAL CPi � Five firemen who died Wednesday as fire destroyed a business and residential block in northeast Montreal will be buried at a civic funeral Monday. Until then their bodies will lie in state in the hall of honor at city hall.
It was the worst tragedy to strike the Montreal fire department since 1877 when seven firemen died fighting a downtown blaze. Last year two firemen, one of them an assistant director, were killed when the roof of a burning restaurant caved in.
The dead firemen leave behind a total of 19 children. RECEIVE BENEFITS
Each of the families will receive a $5,000 insurance payment and $1,500 from the department's mutual benefit fund as well as a percentage of the amount the mon had paid into a pension fund.
The Firemen's Union has announced that the widows will also receive a monthly pension of $100 and children from six to 11 years of age $25 monthly. Those from 11 to 13 will receive $30.
J. M. Sacienac, chairman of the Montreal executive committee, praised the "outstanding bravery'* pf the niep. srid, pfferetf sympathies to the families. ' ,
SPORTS HIGHLIGHTS
Mohawks win best-of-five semi-final-dlL series from Vanderhoof Bears with a nerve-wracking !)-7 overtime victory over the Bears here last night. Quesnel edged Williams Lake 11-!) in another overtime thriller to lead that series two games to one.
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Canadians place one-two in world figure skating pairs competition in Vancouver. Carol Heiss holds commanding lead in ladies battle.
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Ted Williams named as "part-time batting coach" of the Boston Red Sox. He retains his other duties as well.
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FULL SPORTS COVERAGE ON PAGE 1
Stre Admits to
NEW YORK (AP) � A Wall Street broker with a weakness for gambling and night clubs Wednesday admitted using his export knowledge of business machines to steal $270,000 from his firm.
Frank B. Haderer, 50, an $18,-; OOO-a-ycar vice-president of Wal-ston iS,- Company, made a full statement to the district attorney's office when the nine-year series of thefts were discovered by an audit.
He paid back a small amount of money he obtained by juggling of the bookkeeping date recorded on punch business machine cards, and made a clean
Government Seeks Diver
VICTORIA (CP>�The provincial government i.s seeking a diver who can work at a depth of 200 feet to rocov.er a body from a Pexada Island quarry.
The dive!" is needed to recover the body of Donald Brock, 34, >f Burnaby, one of' live men Irouned when their car plunged rito the quarry in January. The >tlier four bodies have been recovered.
breast of his methods, the office of district attorney Frank S. Ilo-gan said.
No clients' accounts were involved and the loss is covered by insurance.
WELLINGTON, N.Z. (Reuters) � The United States icebreaker Glacier has been ordered to go to the rescue of a second icebound ship in the Antarctic.
A naval spokesman said Wednesday Uear-Adniiral David Tyrec told the Glacier to aid the British ship Kista Dan after helping the Argentine icebreaker General San Martin.
Both ships are stuck in the if; about 40 miles apart in the Ainundsvn �Sen area, .\, ''
The General San Marlh;' had been on her way to pick up seven men from an Argentine Antarctic base. The ship finally sent a helicopter to get the men and they are now aboard the ship. Two needed medical attention.
The Kista Dan is carrying an cxpendition led by Sir Vivian Fuchs to reopen a base at Ston-irigton Island.
Won't Give Without a
OAK HAM, England (Reuters) �Folks hereabouts are fumin >ver a heartless plot, hatched l> jureauerats in London to do nvay with England's four small-est counties.
A special government commit; ion advised in a report released Tuesday night that Rutlandshire, Huntingdonshire, the Isle )f Ely and the Soke of Peterborough should be swallowed up oy big neighboring counties for ldministrative purposes.
But the people living in the w.storal peace of this west-cen-ral English district have made t clear that they will not give jp their ancient status without i struggle.
The views of some 20,000 onntry fojk living among the �oiling hills of Rutland, tiniest if England's 43 countries, were nit by chief magistrate David )avenport-HanIey here in Oak-lam. the county town.
"The people of Rutland will ight to the last rut," declared )avenp6rt-Hariley. Rut is really in old English word meaning ed.
The Isle of Ely's council chair-
Hill Rate Remains Same at Burns Lake
BURNS LAKE � The 1960 nill rate will remain at 17 mills, his was disclosed at Monday's uceling of the Village Council.
The budget calls for an ex-enditure of $61,100 and a reve-ue of $62,320 on the general udget. Budget for the water ystem estimates expenditures of 122,450 and a revenue of $25,-77.
With the mill rate set at 17 lills, municipal taxation is ex-ectcd to bring in a revenue of 16,446.
Last year's actual expenditures n the general account amount-d to $58,295. The actual reve-ue being $62,000.
A highlight of this year's udget was the decision to pur-hase a fujly equipped $5,500 imper truck' fpr" t|}e YQju,n.tepr re "brigade..
Struggle
man, T. \V. Anthony, scorned the proposals as "impracticable."
The Ely area gels its designation "isle" from tile days, when it was .swam)) and fenlancl; Now drained, it is rich fruit-farming land.
The commission, set up two years ago to streamline regional government. � proposed a series! of a d m i ni s t ra t ive changes throughout central England.
iMos*. drastic of the proposals called for the merging of Huntingdon. Ely and Peterborough with Cambridgeshire lo the south, creating a new county of 320,0QP people. Rut kind would vanish inside neighboring Leicestershire.
WEATHER
Sunny, clouding over this evening. Cloudy with widely .scattered snpwflui'ries tonight and tomorrow in o r n i ij g. Clearing again tomorrow afternoon. Not so cold tonight. Light winds. Low tonight and high Friday at. Quesnel 0 and 20. Prince George �'.) and 15, Smithers -S and 23.
I'eacc Itiver Region
CJoudy. SnowfluiTies today. A few sunny periods tomorrow. A little colder tomorrow. Winds north 15 today, light tonight and Friday. Low tonight and high tomorrow at Grande Prairie -lo and 0.
Last 21 ii.>n rs
Lo Hi Precip.
Prince George.. -17 i:5 �
Terrace ............ 13 20 �
Smilbers .......... -5 21 �
Quesnel .......... -12 IS �
Kamloops ........ 1 21 �
Dawson Creek -20 9 �
Fort. St. John.. -1 1 10 .01
Fort Nelson ... 5 2(i .!(>
Wliitehorse .... 2'.) �
MOTORISTS MUST PAY
VANCOUVER CPI � Police said Wednesday that 166 cars still bearing 1959 plates were ticketed Tuesday. New Westminster police reported 50 cai's ticketed and other areas reported smaller nHmhPrs qf pffen,d,ers. Usual fine is $20.