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The report on feasibility of the project, as expected, did not find any major fault with the proposed development and clears the way for Peace River Power Development Co. to sees a "certificate of .public convenience and necessity" from the Public Utilities Commission. Following 1 that a second public hearing will PLAN GETS be necessary for the company to get a water rights license. Mr. Williston said he expected the company to move quickly to seek these licences in order to rush into construction. Mr. Williston, who made his anouncement at a Rotary Club luncheon, had little to say of the report. He said he wanted to let the report stand on its own and let the company make the next move. "Anything I say now presages what is to come next." The minister did say "the supply of cheap electrical energy right now is the vital key to our industrial expansion in the whole northern region." And he said cheap power would "vitalize the whole economy of this region." Of the immediate Prince George area he said "cheap power would open the door here" HON. RAY WILLISTON for establishment of the region's first pulp mill. The six page report, which had to be filed by the end of this month, was made after Mr. Paget's department had studied a huge nine-volume report filed by the company which said that pending PUC and other approval "there should be no material delay in the commencement of the project." Estimated cost of the development is "likely to exceed by 10 per cent" the $638.6 million price tag included in the 1957 memorandum of agreement. Mr. Paset was assisted by lop consulting engineers throughout the world in his study of the report. He said "I find the proposed development entirely feasible from an engineering standpoint (Please turn to Page 3) WANT ADS Buy or Sell Everything Phone LO 4-2441 IH H The Only Daily Newspaper Serving North-Central British Columbia WEATHER FORECAST Low 33, High 52; Cloufdy. Crown Life Insurance Co. Wm. J. Shockey District Representative Phone LOgan 4-2441 Vol. 4; No. 60 PRINCE GEORGE, BRITISH COLUMBIA, FRIDAY, MARCH 25, 1960 7c a Copy BY CARRIER 35C PER WEEK CROWD OF 25,000 Paris Reds Give Khrushchev Noisy Welcome at Lenin's Former Home PARIS (AP) � Nikita Khrushchev paid brief homage to Niko lai Lenin today, then sat down for another lojig conference with President de Gaulle. The Soviet premier visited the modest third-floor apartment' in which the Soviet Union's founder plotted revolution while an exile in Paris. The visit, in a workers' section of Paris, produced an almost hysterical welcome, perhaps the most enthusiastic since he arrived Wednesday. About 5,000 persons jammed Into the tiny Rue Marie Rose, chanting, shouting, singing and waving Soviet and French flags. Every square foot of space was filled as nearly 500 policemen and detectives cleared a way for the premier's party. Another 25,000 people filled adjoining streets, shouting and singing. 'Teacd! Pcncel I'c^cc!'.' qharii* cd Uic crowd. '"Franco -' Soviet friendship!" "Nikita to the balcony." Khrushchev waved smilingly from the tiny balcony outside the apartment, now a French Communist party shrine. There was one dissenter, a small dark woman who tried to push her way out of the crowd. "Why are you leaving," ma-dainc?" shouted a young man with a hammer and sickle button in his lapel. NIKITA KHRUSHCHEV "I've already seen the butcher," she replied, "and I remember Budapest." Boos drowned her out. The conference with do Gaulle was the last for the two leaders until Khrushchev returns next Thursday from a fast tour of the French provinces. Today's talk amounted to a full-fledged diplomatic conference, with Premier Michel Debrc and Foreign Minister Maurice Couve de Murville and Andrei Gromyko attending. The Soviet leader continued to drum out insistently the major theme of his visit � his desire to supplant France's strengthening ties with West Germany by a French-Soviet alliance. Both in a public speech at the Paris Town Hall Thursday afternoon and a banquet toast to de Gaulle Thursday night, Khrush chev again warned against resurgent Germany and called for close ties between his govern ment and de Gaulle's. Accountant to Chair School Budget Probe Chartered accountant Claude Rampton today was named chairman -of a three-man arbitration board which will decide if the $2,019,610 School District 57 budget for 1960 ,is excessive. . Date �or the hearing to start is' expected to be set in the next few days. Mr. Rampton was selected to chair the board by the city and Cloudy, unsettled weather with occasional showers is on the menu for the Prince George, Cariboo and Bulkley Valley areas over the weekend. It'll be mainly cloudy Saturday with showers beginning in the afternoon; Little change in the mild temperatures is expected. Winds will remain light except southerly tonight and again Saturday night. Low toniffht and high Saturday at Prince George, �-33 � and 52; Quesnel, 35 and 55; Smith-ers, 30 and -15. 1'cacc River Region Runny periods today will give way to cloudy skies Saturday. Continuing mild. Winds southwesterly 15 Saturday. Low tonight and liigh Saturday at Grande Prairie, 20 and 15. Last 21 Hours I.D HI Prodi) Prince C ieorgo.i 33 50 .0 1 Terrace 35 10 .28 Sniithoi'f $ ........ 33 30 .08 Quesnel :s:s 5!) __ Kamloo) )S ........ 10 GG __ Dawson Creek :s:i -10 .02 Fort St. John . 32 49 .03 Fort Ne! lson .... M -11 __ Whltehorse .. 21' 3S __ Now Hear This... Mystery of the week: Where oh where is the McBridc high school boys' basketball team? According to McBridc residents Ihc squad is in Vancouver contesting the B.C. high school invitational tournament courtesy of a $250 grant from the school to cover expenses. Last night CBC Vancouver reported McBridc beating South Biirnaby 40-38. But The Canadian Press and two Vancouver dailies which' are covering the tourney have never heard of the McBride team. And they said today South Burnaby isn't in the competition either . . . Fire � Chief August Dornbicrcr must have been doing too much smoke-eating, lie's laid up with a sore throat . . . Number of breakfasts being served at the provincial jail here is clown to 58 from the normal 85 to 90 . . . Witnesses in the upcoming Fay-ant manslaughter case is expected to total at least 18, so arrangements have been made to hold the preliminary hearing in large county court room. Normally, prelims arc conducted in police court but it lacks facilities lor detention or separation of witnesses. Hearing will go ahead April 5 and will last at least two full clays . . . Latest Gallup poll returns ar-. rived at Lawyer Peter Hcnslowc's office today and show that 51 per cent of the Canadian public thinks PM John Dicfcnbaker is doing a good job ... Vancouver businessman Hume Wright is back to his old habit of missing the plane. He did it again yesterday . . . Ray Williston, home for a brief, brief stay during which he announced the acceptance by the government of Peace River hydro development plans, is off again this weekend for Ottawa and further Columbia River talks. Having one foot in each river means stretching things a bit on occasion . . . Best story going the rounds is one about Rolling Rock. It's loo long to tell here but insurance adjuster Lome McCuish knows it all ... One motorist has solved the problem of PG's street condition. He parks his car in the ditch-it's the only place he doesn't get stuck . . . school board appointees to the arbitration board. Chartered accountant Desmond O'Brien will represent the city and school trustees named B. G. Hirst, secretary-treasurer of School District 58, Quesnel. The board must report its' recommendation to the education minister by April 10, ,City council applied for arbitration when it ruled the schools budget excessive. The arbitration board will be the second faced by the school district recently. Arbitration was necessary earlier to solve the trustees dispute with teachers over a new contract. While council terms the budget excessive, it is not known what effect it will have on city and rural taxes if approved as it now stands. This will not be known until after the provincial government's share of costs is determined about April 15 by the education department. But it is almost certain taxes will rise due to the $2,109,610 budget, which compares with a budget of $1,787,756 last year. Arbitration is also delaying action on four proposed school expenditures: capital items requisitioned by principals, heavy supplies requisitions, fencing of the school grounds and room and board fee at the dormitory here. THIS GAL DIDN'T NEED ANY DOWRY HOLLYWOOD (AP)�Lance Rcventlow and starlet Jill St. John are honeymooning today �just a couple of kids starting married life with $20,000,000 or so. Reventlow, playboy racing driver and son of dime-store heiress Barbara llutton, married Jill Thursday in a 9'J-sccond ceremony amid the splendor of San Francisco's exclusive Nob Hill. Colored Plates Would Help Police � Jury VANCOUVER ICPI � A coroner's jury recommended Thursday vehicle colors be included in motor vehicle registrations. The jury said it would aid police in checking vehicles in accidents where witnesses knew the color and approximate year of a car or truck. Police now must cherk all vehicles by year of manufacture. The recommendation came during an inquest here into the death of an elderly pedestrian knocked down and killed on a city street. The vehicle did not top. School Lands and Forests Minister Williston announced here today that first contracts for the new vocational training school here would be let this summer. He said it would likely be in operation in 1961. Plans for the school will be completed in a month, he said. The school, originally planned for a three-acre site near Harwin School, had to be replanned when the government decided to provide a larger institution on a 13-acre site in the new Carter Industrial Subdivision area west of Central. 18th Polio Case *B ft A second child in the same family has been diagnosed as a "very mild case" of paralytic polio. Brian Wilson, 18-month-old son of Mr. and Mrs. L. G. Wilson of Perow, is remaining at home. He has a slight weakness in the legs. This brings to 18 the official number of paralytic polio cases in the area since the outbreak began in mid-January. Brian's brother Robert, 5, was admitted to Burns Lake hospital Wednesday night witji slight paralysis of the left shoilldcr and upper arm and some leg weakness. LOOKING OVER now automatic rain gauge which measures precipitation in amounts at little as one one-hundredth of an incfh is Eric Pagct, senior technician for the department of transport's meteorological bureau at Prince George airport. �Hal Vandervoort photo CHILDREN REGISTER VANCOUVER iCPl � Elementary school principals here are registering children who were jorn in 1954 and who will be starting Grade One in Septem-jer. The expected enrolment of 5,812 is 27 Jess than the record set last year, - . OTTAWA ten � Building more houses than the country really needs each year is one way to improve Canadian housing standards. The Central Mortgage and Housing Corporation's 1959 annual report, tabled in the House of Commons, said this was demonstrated in the last decade. The number of occupied dwelling units increased by about 1,-000,000 in the 10 years, and the number oC families sharing accommodation was estimated at 250.000 at the end of 1959, compared with 325.000 in 1850. ''While census dates are not yet available to indicate the ex-tent of this change, there has undoubtedly been a substantial reduction in the number of occupied dwellings that must be considered substandard lor reasons of structural inadequacy, blight and lack of amenities," the report said. "Improvement in the physical housing standards of Canadians during the fifties reflects the achievement of a rate of new house building above the minimum necessary to meet the heeds arising from year to year out of the growth and movement of the population. "The maintenance of this rate of building opens the way to continuing rapid improvements in general housing conditions." The report said rate of family formation appears to be on the thrcshhold of a long upward trend. Real incomes probably will increase, and as time goes by more people are �going to want better homes. In 105H, 1-15,671 new dwellings were completed, and 141,345 started. At the end of the year, 81,905 were under construction. These figures almost matched the 1953 completions numbering 146.686, but showed a 14 per cent decline in starts. Youngsters Run Away With Deadly Cyanide NEW YORK (AP) � Residents of Staten Island were warned Thursday night that 72 disks of deadly cyanide poison, used for fumigating ships, may be in the hands of children unaware of the peril. A crate containing canl'uls of he poison disks apparently vashcci up on a beach of the island. Children playing in the area found the crate and broke into it, then ran away at the approach of a passer-by. Mcl@od Lake Entry Wins Legend Prize A McLcod Lake woman has won the Aurora Queen Legend contest. Mrs. Nancy Y. Middleton topped the field of 75 entrants with her story of "How the northern lights came about and how Aurora became Queen of the Evergreens." Honorable mention went to Mrs. Carmen Perinock, 575 Douglas, and Richard Clifford, 866 Johnson. Entries, which were received from throughout the province, were judged on imagination, closeness of their link with Aurora, plot, characterization and adaptability for drama. Mrs. Middleton will receive the $75 prize from the Prince George Simon Fraser Day committee. The legend will be presented by local talent at Fort George Park Tuly 1. Judges were Mrs. Harry Lod-ir, former Board <>f Trade secre-ary; Allan Stables. Prince George Senior High School principal: Bill Fraser, City Librarian; and Dory Thacker, managing editor :>f The Citizen. Mr. Williston said cost of the project, first announced in 1956, would not be known until plans �vere complete. But he said the provincial government, to be assisted in the school by a federal grant ,had set aside about $200,-000 for this year's work on the project. And he said final costs would likely hit the million-dollar mark. The minister said he had viewed uncompleted plans and the school would be a two-wing structure. Administrational and classroom area would be included in one wing and the second would be dormitory space. The school will be built in a manner allowing a good deal of expansion and will have three workshop areas. When the provincial,, government arinou;v..'cd- in� .'3ffj t.hat tjh/* school,-was to.-be- bujlt * here il said the institution''would have to wait construction of' a vocational training centre in Burnaby. "This is being opened June 29," said the minister. Exports Up For Canada OTTAWA ICPl � A strong upsurge in Canada's . export trade has left the country, with a small trade surplus of $1,200,000 for the first two months of this year. Exports in January-February wore 27.1 per cent higher than a year earlier, the bureau of statistics said today. Imports for the period were up eight per cent.' Although February showed a trade deficit of $24,200,000, ending a three-month period of trade surpluses, this was more than offset by January's surplus of $25,400,000. Pacific: Great Eastern trains tb and from Prince George are back on normal schedules today all or a rock-slide 'blocked the line near Britannia Beach Thursday. The southbound Number 2 train left on time at 7:10 a.m. and the northbound Number 1 is expected to arrive on schedule at 10:50 tonight. There was no regular train Thursday night. The slide, about 150 feet wide mil 10 lo 20 feet deep, blocked both the Horseshoe BayiSquam-sh highway and the PGJ3 line about three miles south of Brit-lannia. MAYOR DEZELL City's Futures; Mayor Garvin Dcz'ell said today "the total progress of.the city" depends on the outcome of arbitration board, hearings into School District ' i>Ts; budget- of $2,619,610. - N lie said city budgclting was being held up, and the city would not know how much money it had to work with this year until the board makes its report. Reason for this, he said, is that city council is not anxious to increase taxes. And if the school board takes a bigger slice of tax revenue than the 35 per cent it claimed last year the city might be forced to cut out many expenditures planned for this year in order not to hike taxes. The provincial government has not yet stated how much of the school's budget il will share cither, but must do so by April 15. Mayor De/.cll said the city refused acceptance of the budget because "the city was being asked to sign a blank paper." Five-Inch Snowfall Hits South Ontario TORONTO (CP)�A weak low-pressure system picked up moisture over Lake Eric and dumped from two to five Inches ol snow on southwestern Ontario Thursday. Hardest hit were the Sarhia and London areas where five inchest of wet snow fell during the afternoon. Visibility was cut to 50 feet and traffic in both cities was snarled. Freeway Plan MONTREAL -(CIT�A plan to build a $130,000,000 expressway that would carry motor traffic 8!i miles across downtown Montreal in 20 minutes was .submitted Thursday lo the city executive committee. The project calls for an elevated expressway for G\\ miles and the rest at ground level in a parallel to the St. Lawrence waterfront . London Mob Scores Apartheid LONDON (AP) � Police arrested 50 demonstrators Thursday night after scaling off South Africa House in � the heart of London from a yelling mob shouting, "murder" and "freedom for Africa." The arrested men, mostly British students and Negroes, were bundled off lo a local police station after a wild new flareup of protest over the killing of some 80 Negroes in South Africa. Several hundred placard-waving demonstrators clashed with mounted policemen surrounding the South African government's headquarters in Trafalgar Square. But a few hours later things were almost back lo normal.- Police said they had placed charges against some 30 of the 50 arrested demonstrators. Police, handling big crowds for the third straight day of agitation against the bloody incidents in South Africa, estimated the hard core of the demonstrators at more than 100. But at least 400 others-joined the fringe of the fracas. The outcry against the shootings in South Africa was building up into Britain's biggest public demonstrations since the Suez invasion more than four years ago. In Parliament, the government came under angry fire from Labor opposition members demanding an official denunciation of action by the South African police. But Prime Minister Macmillan sidestepped any direct comment on the racial policies of a fellow Commonwealth member. Instead, the government tabled a parliamentary motion expressing its "deep sympathy . . . at the recent tragic events." Outside Parliament, the protests were getting near to boiling point.' In. some quarters there were demands for South Africa's ex- pulsion from the Commonwealth. Labor unions denounced "this brutal massacre" and called for massive demonstrations against South Africa's apartheid policy. The Soviet Union weighed in with an official statement saying the South African government has taken up a policy of "racial genocide." "It is with a feeling of great indignation that broad sections of the Soviet public learned of the brutal killing of innocent people in the Union of South Africa who pressed for the recognition of their legitimate human rights," said the Soviet statement.