WANT ADS Buy or Sell Everything Phone LO 4-2441 ihe The Only Daily Newspaper Serving North-Central British Columbia WEATHER FORECAST Low 32; High 52; Showers Crown Life Insurance Co. Wm. J. Shockey District Representative Phone LOgan 4-2441 Vol. 4; No. 59 PRINCE GEORGE, BRITISH COLUMBIA, THURSDAY, MARCH 24, I960- 7c a Copy BY CARRIER 35c PER WEKK $1,500,000 Sites Tested A drilling program lo determine foundations of Ihe proposed Ollson Creek dam site will be carried out this year, Mines Minister Ken Kicrnan said in Chilli-wack last night. This is part of a $1,500,000 three - year reconnaissance and engineering project lo control Fraser River flooding which the provincial and federal governments are sharing. During the Legislature session, Lands and Forests Minister Kay Williston told the House the project, 40 miles northeast of Prince George would make possible the development of 100,000 kilowatts of incidental hydro electric power. A dam on the Fraser tributary would create a storage basin of 5,000,000 acre feet, which together with storage on the Clear-water River and one or two other tributaries and combined with adequate dike maintenance and rock facing, would give as close lo 100 per cent flood protection on the lower Fraser as is possible, Kiernan said. Studies have been going on for the last few years by the Fraser River Board, and the continuation of this joint federal-provincial program was agreed to by Willislaih and Federal Resources Minister Alvin Hamilton. The board is to make a final report by September 1963. 17fh Polio Case Another prc-school child has been admitted to Burns Lake hospital with paralytic polio. Robert Wilson was admitted Wednesday night with slight paralysis of the left shoulder and upper arm and some leg weak- is "progressing- satisfac- ness. He lorily" today a h6�pUaI spokes man said. The 5-year-oid boy is the son of Mr .and Mrs. L. G. Wilson of Pcrow, about 45 miles west of Burns Lake on Highway 16. The lad is the 17th case of paralytic polio reported in the outbreak which has been largely centred in an area surrounding Burns Lake. The outbreak .started in in id-January and has claimed two lives. BRIGADIER J. W. BISHOP, foreground, inspected "A" Company, Rocky Mountain Rangers at the Armouries Wednesday night. Three companies were on parade along with the band. They were 1 and 2 Companies from Prince George and 4 Company from Quesnel. Brig. Bishop was accompanied on the annual inspection by Major A. R. Hawkins, Officer Commanding RMR seen left, Major-John Reeves, aide de camp to Brig. Bishop, Lt. Col. David Kinloch, Area 24 Militia, Vernon, B.C., and Capt. Douglas Hanbury, Adjutant RMR. �Photo by Don Lobb One Convict Ready to Surrender His Partner Would Do Likewise B.C. Likely To Spurn Loan Offer VICTORIA (CP)�B.C. govern-merit officials indicated today the province will likely reject a federal offer t<> help B.C. finance $700,000,000 of the proposed $1. loo.ooo.oo Columbia River Canadian development, The Victoria Colonist erroneously reported earlier that Ottawa had offered to put up the entire amount. A government source, spcak-ing unofficially In the absence of Premier Bennett, on vacation, said he was shocked at the federal offer. B.C. expected the federal government to share 50-50 the cost of developing the Canadian portion of the Columbia project as an outright, grant, but now ap parenlly Ottawa considers B.C. must pay the entire cost, and has offered to "help" by lending the province half the total at market rate plus five-eighths percent. NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP)�A hardened convict told reporters by 'telephone from Tennessee state penitentiary today thai he was wMling. to1 surrender ihim-iJ yiid his hostages it ihis ipa-rt-ner would do �o. Buit he said the second convict was refusing. Robert Rivera, 25, serving 40 years on an armed robbery charge; and Charles Raymond Fa mi, 25, serving life for robbery, had 'l>een holding 16 to 19 hostages at gunpoint in the captured deputy warden's office since mid-afternoon Wenesday. Three of the hostages are women. It e v era told a reporter in a telephone interview that he would surrender if officials would release Ferra from prison or if Ferra would agree to surrender. State authorities would make no agreement to release either man. HOSTAGES NOT HURT "We can 'hold out Ihere a Gong time," -Rivera said. "We won't hurl, the women unless we are rushed. We haven't cursed the women. We can wait. We might be awful skinny before it's over but we can wait." 'Rivera asked to talk to one reporter on a pool arrangement so he could list some of his grievances. The convict then listened on an extension phone wh'lle-a "trusty," hold among the hostages, relayed them. The "trusty" said Rivera's complaints included: Procedures of the parole �hoard, the prison merit system,, lack of proper medical attention, sanitary conditions, lack of educational facilities and 'the use of paddles 'for spanking unruly prisoners. ONE RELEASED Rivera 'then permitted one of the hostages, lawyer Byron Bean, to speak to the reporter. Bean, caught while visiting a client, said the two convicts were holding 18 hostages, including five "trusties." One was released because of illness. Previous reports placed the number at nine and then corrections commissioner Keith Hampton said late Wednesday night that there were 16: The "trusties," prisoners prisoners whose good behavior entitles them to certain privileges, were not participating in the rebellion. Officials believe 'five New Flareups Break Out, Whites Told to Stay Out JOHANNESBURG (CP)�New 'lareups broke put Wednesday light in the big Nyanga Negro settlement near Capetown, but there was no indication of a resumption of the bloody riots of Monday and Tuesday' that left iiore . than 70 Negroes dead 'mm police bullets. The police had difficulty in intorvenin.tr in \V e d n e s d a y night's disorders because the Now Hear This... A local provincial government man will agree you can chalk up one full mark for the efficient administration of St. Paul's (Roman Catholic) Hospital at Vanderhoof. This man had to have his appendix out, but was kept dangling awaiting a bed in the new PG Regional. When the operation became an emergency t'other day and the' local situation remained unchanged, he drove to Vanderhoof and had the operation performed I here . . . Spring cleaning bug has hit the House on the Hill. The jail (known to lawyers as the gaol) is being painted and polished through the interior, according to one who knows . . . Southbound tourists who get thirsty should skip Langley, or stick to beer. A PG man was refused a glass of water at a Langley restaurant because he didn't want to buy anything, but was simply thirsty For those who wonder what will happen lo the level piece of property which will be left at Patricia and Quecnsway when work crews finish taking part of Connaught Hill to fill land in the industrial east end, it won't be used to relocate Queensway � at least not immediately. City plans to sew it to grass . . . Citizen Photog Hal Vander-voort reports that after visit to Penny Iliat residents anticipate top-notch grizzly hunting soon as the snow goes when the big fellows come in to feed on a fine patch of wild cabbage nearby . . . Hal also reports only three families at Penny are not Citizen subscribers; these three only read French . . . A certain used car salesman 'round town is bragging he sold a 1945 model which had been on the lot for umpteen years for the grand price of $1,200. Now who sez times arc tough? . . . Negroes barricaded themselves behind roadblocks and fires in the street.s "It is virtually impossible to drive into Nyanga Township," one police officer said. Whites who tried to enter the settle-men t on foot, were ordered away. At daybreak a strong police force managed to penetrate the settlement. They reported the situation "quiet but tense." The d i s o r d e r s apparently arose out of disputes among the Negroes themselves over whether to continue the Avork stoppage that followed the bloodshed. Government officials claimed that "terrorist agitators" were resorting to death threats and open assault to force moderate Negroes into continuing the demonstrations set off by a protest against laws re-q Hiring non-whites to carry identity passes. CONGRESS RAIDED Teams of police this morning raided offices of the African National Congress, a church mission and other organizations thro u ghout the race-troubled country. No arrests were made, but files and documents were seized and individuals, searched. The raids followed a warning by Prime Minister Hendrlk Ver-woerd in Parliament Wednesday that the government was studying "certain serious measures" to meet a threatened resistance campaign from the congress. , of them may have been forced into the captured deputy warden's office with the others. Authorities said, a .45-callbre #i'tom:Hic. and a..22-calibre pistol apparently we-Yo smuggled into �the prison in recent days. After pulling the guns in the office the two convicts demanded their freedom, a car to drive them away and three hostages to assure their getaway. The demands were rejected. Private Aircraft For Short Time A private aircraft was reported overdue for a short time here Wednesday. The Stinson station wagon piloted by Frank Ilinlcreger, 1239 Fourth, left here at 12:40 p.m. and was scheduled lo return at 4:40 p.m. Hintcreger was forced to land the plane on a strip at Boulder, 13 miles south of Chetwynd, when it developed engine trouble. After making repairs, he took off again but fear of further motor dificulties made him land again on the Hart Highway. He later placed a phone call to the Prince George airport lo advise them of his whereabouts. In the meantime, the local Ground Observer Corps had alerted the Air Rescue Squadron in Vancouver, but word of the aircraft's safety was passed on before any search craft left the coast city. There were two unidentified passengers aboard the missing plane. Working Circle Central School Project Started Plan Communities To Replace Sprawl A pilot project sparked by local board of school trustees may result in the establishment of orderly, well-plannecl sawmill communities within public working circles to replace the sprawling, disorganized building presently Characteristic of many of them. The pilot project is being un- dertaken in the Crooked River public working circle, where some five sawmills are operating. School trustees first struck on the idea last fall after receiving repeated requests for schools from settlements scattered six or seven miles apart within working circles. CENTRAL VILLAGE By having children located in one central village where community store, water system, etc., could be set up, they reasoned, a single school could be constructed, doing away with scattered one room units. Teachers would be more readily obtainable for areas where there is some degree of settlement. Youngsters, loo, would be more adjusted socially, and a better teaching situation would result. Trustees took their idea to Victoria where they met with government officials from the departments of lands, health, municipal affairs and others. PLAN SUPPORTED With enthusiastic approval from all sides, and assurance that the government would back their actions, the trustee delegates were told to go back and get a pilot plan started. Next problem was to locate a public working circle to carry out the project. Operators in the Crooked River public working circle expressed interest and at a meeting of trustees Tuesday night presented five possible sites for location of their proposed community. Trustees endorsed their first choice, at Heart Lake, and moved to call a meeting with various government agencies to co-ordinate plans made to date. Trustees Harold Moffat and Jack Rhodes were appointed to represent the school board at local MLA Ray Williston and the meeting. 3 New Schools Planned Work is progressing on plans for three new schools and additions to be built in the Prince George district this summer, school board operating council reported to trustees Tuesday night. The new construction, comprising 14 �additional classrooms at Hixon, Kelly Road and Bonnet Hill, were authorized in the School Board's referendum No. 8. READY FRIDAY Working drawings for a two-room addition to the Hixon Superior School arc scheduled to be completed Friday. Since the addition will be a duplication of an addition already made at Gis-comc Superior School, trustees moved that the drawings be sent to Victoria as soon as they arrive with the request that permission be granted to call for tenders. After studying proposed sites for an eight-room Kelly Road elementary-junior high school, trustees moved to proceed with construction on some five acres already owned by the board, on which four classrooms arc now located. It was moved that the well water situation on the site be investigated. Trustees rejected a department of education-standard two-storey plan for the school building as being inadequate, and moved that a one-storey standard plan be requested. BONNET HILL Working drawings were expected to be ready shortly on a third project, a four room permanent school at Bonnet Hill. Three portable classroms are presently serving the area. Trustees moved lo offer the dominion government $200 per acre for five acres proposed as site for the school, and passed another motion that tenders be called for the pipe and fillings for the water supply for the school. SPORTS HIGHLIGHTS Rockets upset Giscome 4-3 in the Coliseum last night in the first game of the best-of-five Commercial Hockey League final. � � � Detroit edged Toronto 2-1 in the first game of the two teams best-of-seven Stanley Cup semi-final in the NHL. � � � Vancouver defeated Edmonton 4-3 in the first game of their WHL semi-final after two overtime periods in Vancouver. Khrushchev's Objectives Made Clear in Paris Talks Dormitory Cost Probed A special sub-committee to look .into the operation of the liigh school dormitory was established by school trustees at their meeting Tuesday night. The move was made follow-ng a recommendation from the lormitory advisory council that a dormitory salary committee be set up lo suggest a schedule for dormitory workers. The recommendation was ex-.ended lo include a study of the ntirc operation after Board Miairman R. G. Atkinson exprcss-d concern that the cost of operating the dormitory was becoming "so high in relation lo he number served". Trustee Harold Moffat was lamed chairman of the special committee and asked to serve with him were Trustees Bob Range and Alfred Wilson. At an earlier meeting of the board, trustees discussed the possibility of raising fees to $30 from $25 to help cover the increased cost of uncrating the dormitory, but tabled the mailer without taking any action. Cost of maintaining one pupil in the dormitory for a month is estimated at $70.30 in 1960, compared with $51.11 in 1958. There arc 38 pupils presently living in the dormitory. PARIS (AP)�Nikita Khrushchev and Charles de Gaulle got down lo their first serious private talks today, with the Soviet premier expected to press again for a Moscow-Paris axis to replace France's growing alliance with West Germany. Khrushchev arrived at de Gaulle's Elysee P a l'a c e this morning in pouring rain for the first business talk of his 12-day visit to France. Scores of policemen lined the premier's route from the Quay d'Orsay, where he is staying, but fow Parisians were out. Despite a gruelling 18-hour day of activity Wednesday, the G5-year-old Soviet leader seemed little the worse for wear. No formal agenda was announced for the Khrushchev-de Gaulle t a Iks, but the Soviet premier made his objectives clear Wednesday in three public statements. Some Western sources interpreted his aims as: 1. To woo France from her new ties with West Germany and replace the Paris-Bonn alli-,ance with a close French-Soviet understanding. 2. To press for a German peace treaty on Roviet.lines. ;!. To hammer away for disarmament on Soviet terms. �1. To weaken the North Atlantic Treaty Organization and the Picking Pocket Isn't Cricket Taking a $20 bill from a drinking companion's pocket just isn't cricket a young man learned in police court today. Mclvin John Calahazen, 26, pleaded guilty to theft of the money from John Smith in a city beer parlor. He had joined the man at a table, asked him for money, and then upon refusal lifted the bill from his pocket. Magistrate. George Stewart sentenced him to two months, to run concurrently wilh a three-monlh jail term he is currently serving for shop-lifting. An old age pensioner was given 10 days to pay a $1 fine, plus $3.50 cosls, when he pleaded guilty to intoxication. James Thomas Shea, 78, had lo wait for his pension cheque to meet the fine. Katherinc McKay was fined $10 after pleading guilty to being drunk on Second. Western European Union, to both of which West Germany belongs. COURTEOUS RESERVE What headway he may make is highly problematical. De Gaulle maintained a courteous reserve throughout the opening day of the visit, but showed no sympathy with Khrushchev's talk of new clanger from Germany. De Gaulle aired his own view on Germany publicly at a banquet in the Soviet leader's honor at the Elysee Palace Wednesday night. In polite but firm words he declared his belief that the Germans' "unabourided am b i t i o n which had twice menaced the continent in this centry," has disappeared. This did not stop Khrushchev from replying with a reference to "the presence of the threat of .a" revenge" and of calling once more on the West lo agree to a peace treaty with Germany, clearly on Soviet terms. And he repeated his bid for a French-Soviet alliance, first made in his arrival speech. To Consider Protest Of New Seaplane Base Transport Minister George Hecs has informed the cily he is considering its protest over the size of the new saplane base here. In a letter, he snid he was "look- CRUEL SITUATION EXISTS Negroes Have Cracked Color Barrier LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) � | Krcat deal the board can do about that," Tucker said. He A school official says that although Negroes have cracked the color barrier in Little Rock, a cruel situation exists in the integrated Classrooms. Everett Tucker, school board president, told a federal judge Wednesday that the eight Negroes attending integrated high schools are shunned by their white classmates. Negro students had'protested to Judge John E. Miller the school board's use of an Arkansas pupil placement law to limit integration. The board has assigned only a few Negroes to once-white high schools, and has rejected applications of about 50. imiGHlER PICTURE "There is now an intangible aura of attitude�of intolerance, if you will�and there is not a claimed", however, that the integration picture is brighter than in 1057. Elsewhere in the United States, fights and a cross burning marked an episode at an integrated air force radar station near Albequercjup, N.M. Arguments and fights erupt cd early Sunday at a dance at the NCO club between white and Negro airmen. Later some of the white airmen fashioned a crude cross and set it afire. In Washington, a group of about 20 white and Negro college students picketed the White House in support of Negro demonstrations against segregation of lunch counters in the southern states. PJIUUCH INVOLVED The church entered the pic- ture in Princeton, N.J., and Oro-iid. in Maine. Approximately 150 students and townspeople attended a special service in the Princeton University chapel "to express Christian concern of racial discrimination in the South and North." Methodist Bishop John Wos-ley Lord of Boston told a church meeting in Orono that the sit-in demonstrations are a test of Christianity. There were also picketing demonstrations by students from northern universities Wednesday, including Skidmore Girls' College at Saratoga Springs, N.Y., and Yale, in New Haven, conn. The students picketed chain variety stores in protest at refusal to serve Negroes at lunch counters in their southern branches, ing into the protest" and would write again "in a short time" letting the city know the department's decision. Senators Gray Turgeon and Sydney Smith have also replied to city letters protesting the base is too small to accommodate the number of float aircraft here. Both said they were pushing to have the base enlarged. A. II. Wilson, regional superintendent of airways for the department of transport, inspected the new base and is quoted as saying he thought further money wouid be allocated to improving the base. The new base is only large enough to accomodate four small aircraft or three Beavers, while the old base at South Fort George often houses up lo 14 aircraft. The city informed the department it would not lake over the base unless it was enlarged. About $10,000 would be needed lo make the base large enough for 10 planes, or $25,000 to enlarge the base to a capacity of 20 planes, according to the only estimates available. To accommodate 20 planes the slough adjoining the river where the base is being established would have to be dredged out a further 200 feet back. Spring Break-up Forces Shut-down As spring break-up progresses logging operations in the area arc gradually being forced to shut down. The Unemployment Insurance Commission here reports about 150 jobless men registered since the weekend due to mills shut-ling down as a result of the warm weather. The tide of men coining out of the bush uritii work can resume after break-up is expected to increase as warmer weather continues but unemployment supervisor Cliff Bristow said today the office has had no difficulty handling the situation so far. In his words, "There's no panic." Building Lots The lands and forest department is expected to inform the city shortly ils estimation of lot values in the two blocks of Crown land being acquired by the city in the area west of Central. Provincial lund inspector Doug Snider and cily assessor Ralph Moffatt have completed their assessments and their report has gone to the department. When the city receives the department's suggested sale prices the two blocks will be opened up for residential housing, wilh the city paying the province for the land as it is sold. The city plans later to seek more of 216 Crown owned building lots in the area for resale. WEATHER Sunny, clouding over in the western half this afternoon and the eastern half tonight. A few showers over the western half tonight and over the eastern half Friday morning. Little change in temperature. Light winds. Low tonight and high Friday at. Prince George and Quesnel, 32 and 52; Smilh-ers, 32 and -IS. Peace Kiver llcgiou Becoming cloudy Friday morning. Continuing mild. Winds SW 15 Friday. Low tonight ami High Friday at Grande Prairie, 20 and -15. Last HI Horn's Lo Hi Precip. Prince George.. 30 51 .01 Terrace............ 34 39 .19 Smithers ........ 26 47 ,02 Quesnel .......... 35 54 tr. Kamloops ........ 39 GO � � Dawson Creek 32 15 � Fort St. John.. 27 30 .02 Fort Nelson .... -1 21 .13 Whitehortie .... 23 38 �