WANT ADS Buy or Sell Everything Phone LO 4-2441 The Only Daily Newspaper Serving North-Central British Columbia WEATHER FORECAST Low -5, High 25, Clouds. Crown Life Insurance Co. Wm. J. Shockey District Representative Phone LOgan 4-2441 Vol. 4; No. 50 PRINCE GEORGE, BRITISH COLUMBIA, FRIDAY, MARCH 11, 1960 7c a Copy BY CARRIER 35c PER WEEK TALKING OVER RECIPES FOR COOKING B.C. products are Beth Gillanders, author of the Evergreen Kitchen sponsored by the. provincial government to promote the consumption of B.C. agricultural produce; Art Donald, district. agricultural representative, at Prince George; an<^ John Ben, chef, at the Hotel Simon Fraser and formerly with Vancouver's Shaughnessy Golf Clu'b and swank Harrison Hot Springs. The government is spending $150,000 to promote and advertize B.C. produce. �Hal Vandervoort Photo PIG IN A POKE, CLAIMS MAYOR School Board Rejects Appeal From Dezell to Delay Budget it u r ill r e p r o s cn.tativcs oC .School - District No. 57 last night 'vo.ted approval of the school hoard's 32,010,(3:10 budget for 1960, rejecting an appeal, from Mayor Garvln Dezell to turn down the ^estimates until the provincial government revealed how much it would contribute toward education costs in the district. . But not hefore a heated debate that kept representatives and trustees in their chairs until nearly midnight. KUitAli VOTE School trustees called the special meeting with rural repre-ijity council mem- sentaUvps ami c E*'narvVa�rrtuTiu5S Ci ser For Louis Underway George Johnny Louie, alias Gene Jack, charged with murder; ing his common-law-wife, apper-ed before Magistrate J. A. Dixon at Quesnel Thursday in the first day of a preliminary hearing. Louie, 28, is accused of the bludgeon - slaying of 30 - year - old Margaret Dennis at her shack near Quesnel Jan. 23. Sharon Titus, a 16-year-old neighbor of the dead woman, told the court Louie had come to her door and said "something has happened to my wife." She phoned the police. The day was largely taken up with the entering of a large number of exhibits and testimony from two RCMP constables. J. E. Spence, a Kamloops lawyer, was appointed by the Department of Indian Affairs to defend Lottie. D. F. McNeil is acting for the Crown. Louis has been held at the Prince George provincial jail1 since the fatal day. lie is formely from Grassy Plains, 22 miles south of Burns Lake. taers to present" tttoir estimates for operating, schools in the district during 19G0. Only rural members were in order to act on the figures. City council will consider the budget at a separate session. Claiming he was 100 percent behind the board's estimates, Mayor Dezell asked the rural representatives to turn the figures down until it was kown what amounts each body would have �to pay on an assessed value basis. "We're buying a pig in a poke if "we accept these estimates," His Worship told the rural members. "The principal of the whole jo is how much do we pay?" he .vSjtl, "and until we know, I personally refuse to accept it." COST m>T QUERIED Told ti^s would merely be a reflection sui the school board and its budXpt and would not force the goveWiment to do anything, Mayor ^Dezell reiterated his stand, that %c didn't question the cost, bu'*!;,niaintaincd if the government waVjtipt in a position to say what it \\*Quld pay, then the budget should ue turned down on principle. Legislation governing provincial grants for schools is cu\ rentlv under revision and until this worlc Is completed. It wlT not be known what portion ol the school budget will be shared by the provincial government and how much will be 'the direct responsibility of city and rural taxpayers. Department of education ha.c until April 15 to notify school boards of changes in policies regarding shareable items. DUOKIXC. ISSUE Supporting the mayor's con-tention that the taxpayers should be informed of the method by which the budget would be financed, Aid. Charlie Gra ham said the government was avoiding the issue by setting the rural area against the city and vice verse. "If we have to force the issue by having to close � the schools, then let's close the schools," he said. He felt the budget was basically in favor of the rural area since such things as dormitory and bus operating expense would lie of benefit only to the rural students. FAIR SHAKE Explaining the education fin ance set-up, school finance chairman Bob Range said payments over and above the approved operating expenses would not be Newspapers Learn Route Of the Proposed Railway VICTORIA (CP)�The Times says it has learned the route of the proposed Wenner-Gren Railway will follow a course about SO miles west of the Rocky Mountain Trench. Is says, "unofficial reports in government circles" have indicated the line will go northwest from Prince George and hit the Now Hear This... Recreation Chief Ernie Rucks claims singletons are a shy lot. Complains he can't got anything but couples out to his Friday night courses in ballroom dancing . . . A Vancouver newspaper is carrying ads for an assistant administrator for the PG hospital. Since the job "�sn t been advertised locally it "Hist be presumed the hospital brass figures there's no one around |lcrc wiln any ability. Wonder ^f the same ad ran in the Manchester Guardian . . . First Sunday hockey game in PG 'since the L�rcl s Day Act charge was tossed outot court comes up this Sggay. Only inkling of ROMP'S,inwn ions as regards a second gjrgc against the city wits the cautious sUle. me'nt: "We may have somebody over there to keep order, and that sort of thing!' . . � A year's subscription donated by The Citizen will be raffled off at the annual dinner of the Vancouver branch, Prince George and District Old-Timers. Dinner will be at the Mount Pleasant Legion hall at 6:30 p.m. March 17 ... Speaking of draws, patrons are advised to guard their wallets, since local Legionnaire ticket hustler Doug Smith is at it again. This time, winner takes home a movie camera outfit .-. . Mrs. Marlene Ongman has turned out a terrific pencil and chalk portrait of 108-year-old Granny Seymour for the hospital.. It's to be hung in the lobby in honor of Granny, who was the hospital's first patient . . . Yukon border east of Atlin Lake. The Wenne r-Gren interests have also approached federal authorities for permission to carry the railroad through the Yukon, the newspaper says. NO GOVERNMENT COMMENT Government officials were attending a session of the legislature and were not available for comment. The story gives these other details of the route: It will follow an a 1 m o s t straight course northwest to the Atlin-Teslin Lake area, at distances 40 to SO miles west of the Rocky Mountain Trench. It touches Fort St. James, T a k 1 a Landing and passes through almost 600 miles of wilderness. It will follow the east shores of Stuart Lake and Takla lake, the Driftwood river and upper reaches of the Skce-na. It will extend In part along the Stikinc and the northern tributary of that- river, the Tuya. OTTAWA CONFIRMS It said Ottawa sources con-firmed "Wenner-Gren officials have asked for a 10-mile corridor, 101 miles long, to the Alaska border. The railway would start from Atlin Lake, tying in with/the Alaska Highway, a few miles north. heavier on the city than on the rural areas. He said the city share of costs is based on 51.05 percent of as sessments while rural area is based on -18.05 percent; but the city also receives an education grant from the provincial gov eminent after taxes are made up. District Superintendent K. F. Alexander said the budget could be turned down on only one ground, that it was excessive. UNITED FRONT Later modifying his appeal, Mayor Dezell asked that approval of the board's estimates be put off to the end of the month and asked rural representatives to join with city council in a united front. "Together we have power to force the issue with the government," he said. A motion presented by Mrs. E. McCartney of Bonnet Hill, that voting be held in abeyance until it was determined what amount the provincial government would contribute, was defeated by representatives and a second motion calling for approval of the estimates was passed. NORTH MECCA Reviewing activities of the school board during the last year, Chairman Ray Atkinson said Prince George, was getting to be the mecca of education for the north. He cited accrediting of the senior high school as one of the accomplishments during the year. He said the school board enjoyed a "very excellent" relationship with district teachers and claimed the district has some of the best principals in the province, who were getting together some of the best staffs. He said the senior high school was receiving many enquiries and applications to take Grade 13 here following the recently inaugurated practice of granting tuition to students who pass all their subjects, and mentioned the extensive teacher recruiting c a m p a i g n conducted by the board. Mr. Atkinson pledged support io city council in any strategy it wished to use to get the provincial government to take another look at schol financing. Sewage Causing Polio Disputed by Off Richardson Wins BULLETIN FORT WILLIAM (CI1 � The Richardson family rink from Saskatchewan defended its Canadian curling championship today with an easy 13-3 victory over Nova Scotia. An upstart quartet of youngsters from Prince Edward Island knocked Ontario out of the running with a 15-11 vie- A statement by health minister Eric Martin in the legislature Thursday that the Burns Lake sewage disposal system was "unsatisfactory," inferring it had contributed to the current polio outbreak, was disputed today by a town official. In a telephone interview with The Citizen today, Burns Lake village clerk. Tom Forsyth pointed out all the victims of the current outbreak, with one exception, live outside the village and their homes have no indoor plumbing. The exception is Mrs. Isabelle Montuldi, a 38-year-old high school teacher who was flown to Vancouver Feb. 20 after being stricken with paralytic polio. She was the seventh victim of the crippling disease in the community since mid-January. She'had visited the eighth person stricken, Peter Burtt "about 10 days before" his illness was diagnosed, Mr. Forsyth said. Two days later, Mrs. Montaldi came down with polio. Burtt was flown to Vancouver March 3. Health Minister Martin also told the legislature an "investigation is currently underway" of the village's sewage disposal system. Mr. Forsyth said he had no knowledge of any investigation other than general enquiries by Dr. K. I. G. Benson, medical health officer of the Cariboo Health Unit, and other local doctors. He said the sewage disposal system is "not good" and in many cases the drainage breaks through to the surface. The majority of homes are located on a hillside, and sewage drains into the lake. The lake is also source of the town's water supply, although it is chlorinated. Plans for a new system were drawn up be an engineer three years ago, but the estimated cost of $120,000 was described by Mr. Forsyth as "beyond the borrowing power of the municipality.' Five- of nine cases of polio which have occurred at Burns Polio Case Too III to Fly Condition of 55-year-old Ernest Howlett, the Bums Lake area's 10th paralytic polio victim this year, wa too serious for him to be moved today when an RCAF plane arrived here to take him to hospital in Vancouver. . The man, flown to hospital here Thursday, was described in "poor"- condition, not well enough to be moved. His condition had deteriorated severely in the few hours before the plane arrived at noon. The RCAF aircraft returned to the coast, ready to return if the polio victim's condition improved sufficiently for him to be moved. Cariboo Health Unit medical health. officer'.Dr. K. I G. Benson said the man, who had not received polio vaccine, suffered a combination bulbar-spinal type polio. As Howlett's condition deteriorated his brain became affected and paralysis had attacked his arms and legs. Breathing was made difficult and he was being treated with a respirator. Demand Renovation Sinclair Mills Road Board or trade highways committee chairman Art Murray said Thursday his committee will press for immediate repair of the road between Prince George and Sinclair Mills. He told the board's regular meeting this road has been long neglected, creating a definite hardship for all residents in that area. He said also Lands and Forests Minister Kay Williston has been asked to arrange a mid-April public meeting to discuss plans for the completion of Highway 16 between Prince George and McBride. His report was endorsed by the meeting. Road Restrictions Imposed in Area Provincial highways depart-nent today warned load and speed restrictions might, be jlaced on highways in the Fort George Electoral District "in the cry near future." District superintendent A. F. Park said in event of a sudden >rcakup restrictions might be enforced with little or no prior lotice. And he cautioned farmers and logging operators plan-ling to transport heavy equip nent to Prince George for over-uuil to waste no time in doing so. Any restrictions will limit oads to a percentage of the gross load or axle loading and no special permits will be issued, he said. The department also announced spring breakup conditions nay force load and speed restrictions being imposed on lighways in the Omincca East and Oinineca West electoral ells-riots. Single axle load limits are io\v restricted to 75 percent of 8,000 pounds or 75 percent of 32,000 pounds on tandems on bi-uminous roads, and 50 percent �estrictions on gravel roads, in he Skeena West district and highwa y s between Princeton I Kamloops and Merritt and Spence Bridge. Lake were children under four years. The first case in the current outbreak was reported Jan. 15. One case was a child of school age and there were three adults over 35. Cyril Shclford (SC-Omineca), in whose riding the community is located, said a nurse told him Burns Lake had a highcr-lhan-average percentage of immunizations. Mr. Martin replied that preschool children and adults had lower-than-averagc percentages. More than 58 per cent of the preschool children were immunized while 85 per cent of the school-aged children received the shots. Two of the five children who suffered paralysis had taken the complete series of three salk vaccine injections. City Refuses to Accept New Seaplane Facilities City council has refused point blank to accept the new Fraser River seaplane base from the federal government because it is "totally inadequate." Council told Transport Minis ter George Hees in a letter yes tsrday that until the new base is made adequate, seaplanes wil continue to use the existing base on the river near South Fort George. 1 The letter also asked the min ister to have "responsible offic ers of the department give immediate and undivided attention to the completion of the air har bor to modern standards suit able" for the present and ex panding aircraft fleet operating in the Prince George area. The department was to have handed over the seaplane base to the city March 14, to be op erated on a crown lease basis. Advised of this plan, and seek ing a suitable lessee, council approached commercial operators here, but was turned down cold When negotiations for the base were completed in 1957, council was given to understand it would handle 20 seaplanes. But the commercial operators said the new base facilities are totally inadequate to handle more than four planes, one of. which School Leaders Plan Conference Principals ana superintendents from schools and districts throughout.northern Britjsb Ccu lifmbia will meet in. Prince George next month to exchange views and discuss common problems. The annual northern administrators' conference will be held April 2 under chairmanship of Senior High School Principal A. G. Stables. Some 40 administrators arc expected to attend the session from schools extending as far north as Fort St. John and south to Williams Lake and from McBride west to Vandcrhoof. Also in attendance will be some 10 district superintendents. Board of school trustees, who first started the conference four years ago, will host a banquet for the local and visiting administrators and their wives at the close of the conference. Last year's meeting was held at Dawson Creek. Plan Aired to Promote Sale of B.C. Products A plan to help British Colum bia food producers to sell their products was detailed yesterday to the regular meeting of the Prince George Board of Trade. Speaker was Don McClean, chief public relations officer for James Lovick and Co. at Vancouver, who has been assigned by Provincial Agriculture Minister Newton Steacy to get the campaign started. The department has set aside $150,000 for the purpose. McClean said the plan was made necessary by the fact that tremendous competition from producers outside the province and outside Canada is hitting liard at B.C.'s agriculture industry. "Our job is to help make consumers aware that B.C. foods are Cariboo Highway Not A Stadium A track star can often overcome the leaders in a mile race jy a sudden spurt of energy in the final 100 years. But the Cariboo Highway isn't a sports stadium one motorist learned in po- ice court today. Ralph Crawford pleaded guilty o speeding and was fined $25 after his explanation failed to ;ain sympathy Irani the court. He was on the final lap of a rip from The Pas, Man., when clocked by RCMP at 70 miles per lour in a 50 zone. "After 5,000 miles, anxiety was etting in," he said. He explain- :d later the trip through Montana Oregon and Washington with heir higher speed zones made it iard to readjust to Mr. Gaglardi's restrictions. the best on the market," he said. "By buying B.C. products, the money you spend stays right here at home, to be used again and again," he said. "When you buy foods from outside the money stays out." The company plans to run series of advertisements featuring B.C. products where and when they are in! season. It has established the "Evergreen Kitchen," which will make up and distribute recipes and hints on the preparation of B.C. foods. But McClean warned that the producers must also help themselves. The big chain stores bring in produce from everywhere, and get advertising and promotion help from the manufacturers and producers, he said. It is up to the B.C. producers organizations to promote their own products, he said. aiiust be the locally-owned RCMP aircraft. The' new base is located in the Hudson Bay slough near the south end of Fort George Park. Commercial operators said also the high slough bank created an extreme hazard to taxiing aircraft and should be removed. Council's stand was endorsed unanimously by the Prince George Board of Trade at its regular meeting Thursday. Business Licences When does a business become two businesses? This is a question being debated by the city and Inland Gas Co. Ltd. currently on the matter of business licences. The city claims the company's installation of heating units is a separate business from its distribution business and should be subject to a $20 construction trades license every six months. Inland maintains all its activities come under its utility business, and that no trades license is needed. Utility companies and closed circuit television businesses are exempt from trades licences ajid pay one per cent of gross income per year in lieu. Local office of the gas company has paid the trades license but the matter was later contested by its head office. If the city succeeds in its bid to have the company agree it is j running?, Urp,,business, one of which needs''a trades license to operate, it is understood two other local concerns will be tackled on the same question. WEATH There'll be a total eclipse of the moon Saturday night, but it's unlikely we'll see it here due to an impending cloud blanket. The phenomenon will start at 11:41 p.m. and star-gazers will have a free show for about an hour and a half. Only North and South America will have tickets, but it'll probably be curtains for Prince George. Lunar eclipses occur at full moon when the moon passes into the shadow cast, by the earth, providing, the encyclopedia says, the sun is loss than nine degree's 30 minutes from the node, the minor eclipse limit for the moon. Forecasters say there will bo a few clouds tonight and Saturday, with little change in temperature. Long-range forecast for Suff-day indicates increasing cloudiness and a slight moderation in temperatures. Low tonight and high Saturday in Prince George, -5 and 25; Quesnel, 10 and 30; Smithers, 15 and 32. Trace IMvcr Krgion Sunny with cloudy intervals Saturday. Continuing cold. Light winds. Low tonight and high Saturday at Grande Prairie, -20 and 5. Last 21 Hours Lo Hi Precip. Prince George.. -13 21 .01 Terrace ............ 29 .'52 � Smithers .......... 21 32 � Quesnel ............ 5 33 � Kamloops ........ 25 38 � Dawson Creek -22 (i � Fort St. John... . -S 1 � Fort Nelson .... -28 -5 � Whitehorse...... -11 8 � CURLING Results & Draws 'B' SECONDARY EVENT � (Scmi-Finals) � Garry Wray 10, Baillic 5. Berry 11, Slesinger 8. 'E' Event � Trodd 7, Zogas 6. Skalicky 6, Carr 4. Walls 12, Glaum 2. Final of 'D' Secondary gets underway at 9 p.m., as docs 'C Secondary final. Kelly Cup play began at 1 p.m. Second games were scheduled for 3:30 p.m. with finals at 9 p.m. Al Harris of Quesnel and Jim Woods of Burns Lake were only outside rinks among the eight qualifying for Kelly Cup playdowns. Also entered are defending champion Danny Palumbo, who won the 'B* Primary Thursday night; Bill Carmichael, Wilf Peckham, who lost to Harris in 'A' Event final last night; Garry Wray, Keith Moffat and Hans Roine. Kelly Cup draws: Garry Wray vs Hans Roine; Jim Woods vs Al Harris; Wilf Peckham vs Danny Palumbo; Bill Carmichael vs Keith