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Vol.  4;   No.   67
PRINCE GEORGE,  BRITISH  COLUMBIA, TUESDAY, APRIL  5,   1960
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CEILING ON INCOMES
Direct Housing Loans
OTTAWA iCP> � The government's housing agency, its mortgage fund newly replenished, announced today it will resume this week making direct mortgage loans to prospective homeowners.
At the same time, a new rule will go into effect to prevent direct government loans from going to well-to-do families.
The announcement by Stewart Bates, president of Central Mortgage and Housing Corporation, said the new direct loans will not be made if the gross annual income of an applicant exceeds $5,000 for families of up to two children, $5,200 for three-child families, $5,400 for four-child families and $5,G00 for Tamilies of five or more children.
The provision for an income ceiling on direct government loans is a new requirement. It will not apply, however, to Na-
tional Housing Act mortgages issued by private lenders.
Families with incomes over the ceilings will have to apply for mortgage loans to these lenders.
The announcement said local CMHC offices will start on Wednesday to consider applications by prospective home-owners for direct NHA loans from the government's housing fund.
Last October, CMHC cut off all new applications when its $1,-000,000,000 housing fund was fully allocated. Last week, Parliament completed passage of legislation to add another $500,000,-300 to the fund.
Works Minister Walker has iaid that about $150,000,000 to $175,000,000 will be committed j this year in direct loans for lome-ovvners and special limited-lividend rental projects for low-income families and elderly persons.
to Get Loon
"Insurance companies lake a lot of money in premiums out of Prince George and it should be their obligation for the mortgage departments to make funds avail
Arthur Joseph Fayant, 22, ap peared today at the first day of a preliminary hearing into a charge of manslaughter laid against the youth.
Fayant was cliarged by RCAIP Feb. 15 following a coroner's jury decision that Joseph Sin clair, 35, died at the hands of a person or persons unknown.
The Red Rock woodcutter died of h.oad injuWos -in ��Vancouver's Shaughnessy Hospital three1 days after he-had been involved in a W � The Westers powers today flatly rejected Nikita Khrushchev's plan for tot;11 world disarmament within a foiir-year period as unacceptable in any form and under any circumstances.
French delegate .Jules Moeh delivered the Western rejection at. tlie 10-power disarmament conference on behalf of the United States, Britain, France, Italy and Canada.
"We cannot, accept as a basis lor discussion the Soviet plan of any text resembling it," .Moeh told the deadlocked, three-weeks-old conference.
The plan was first outlined to the United Nations General Assembly by the Soviet premier �last September.
Prime Minister Nash Starts Overseas Tour
WELLINGTON, N.Z. (AP) � Prime Minister Walter Nash left New Zealand for a two-months overseas tour during which he will visit Singapore, Britain, France, Denmark, West Germany, Italy. Canada, the United States and Russia. He will attend the Commonwealth Prime Ministers' Conference in London before returning to New Zealand June 8.
able here for home building."
This opinion was expressed today by Brownie Ruse, a director if the Prince George Builders Exchange and managing director ot a building supply firm.
Referring to the new income jroup restrictions for direct loan applicants, Mr. Ruse complained it was necessary before to show financial capability to meet mortgage payments whereas, he felt, now a capable person "would have to ask for a salary decrease" in order to obtain a loan.
Mr. Ruse also felt there should be a differential in the salary groupings between Prince George and "a place like Whiterock where the cost of living is lower."
He said it was necessary for a man here to earn more than lower mainland centres in order to subsist, and the new regulations would prove a hardship to families wishing to qualify for a CMHC loan/
Case Dismissed
A charge of indecent assault against a city man, involving a 13-year-old girl, was dismissed by County Court Judge C. W. Morrow Monday.
Voctor Vogler was accused of molesting the girl near her home 29 miles north of here.
Six persons, including the de-fendenl's wife, testified Vogler was at home at the time of the alleged offence Jan. 18.
He had been identified by the girl in a police lineup as the man who molested |iere in a car at Salmon Valley. However, she said in court Monday she was no longer sure if he was the man.
Vogler was defended by T. Ray Cullinane. H. R. Frctwell acted for the Crown.
UNION CONTROL
MOSCOW (AP) � Under a new government decree all sanitoi'ia and rest homes in Russia except tuberculosis hospitals are to be operated by trade unions. Formerly they were run by the ministry of health.
FIRST OF AN ESTIMATED 11,000 persons to be given allergy tests for tuberculosis in the Prince George area was Mayor Garvin Dezell when it-was administered Monday in the City council chambers. Giving trie test was public health nurse', Mrs. Nora Berkhout. Watching the process are Doug Gcekie, B.C. Tuberculosis Society health educator of Vancouver, (left rear) and Dr. K. T. G. Benson, medical health officer of the Cariboo Health Unit. Tests will start in local schools May 10, and others in the community will be able to take them starting May 30 when a door-tn-door canvass will be made.          �Hal Vandervoort Photo
Queen, Prince, Prime Minister Welcome
LONDON (AP) � Charles de Gaulle of France was welcomed by the Queen, Prime Minister Maemillan and a 41-gun salute upon his arrival in London today to begin a three-day state visit.
The French leader, back on British soil for the first time-since June, 1944* reached Victoria station aboard the Royal Family's own special train from Gatwick Airport, 30 miles southeast of the city, where his jetliner had landed.
With the Queen were Prince Philip, Princess Margaret, her cousin, Prince Alexandra, and her aunt, and uncle, the Duke and Duchess of Gloucester.
Another aunt, the Duchess of Kent, was on the train with the French president's party. She had represented the Queen at Gatwick.
MASSED S.ULTES
.Massed gun salutes, by the King's Troop of the Royal Horse Artillery in Hyde Park and by the Honorable Artillery Company at the Tower of London, boomed out. as the train pulled in.
De Gaulle, wearing the uniform of a brigadier, shook hands anil chatted warmly with the Queen, Prince l'hili;> and Princess Margaret in turn.
The Queen personally introduced de Gaulle to some of the welcoming party, then led the way outside the station where a fur-hatted honor 'guard of the Coldstream Guards was drawn up stiffly at attention.
Wild the Queen at, his side, de Gaulle stood erect, and saluting while the guards hand played "The Marseillaise."
State landaus  then drew up
for the trip through the city to Buckingham Palace.
It. was the Queen's first public engagement since the birth of hei1 third child, Prince Andrew, on Fell. 1!).
Mrs. Gwcn Pharris Ringwood, who started adjudicating Prince George's   ninth   annual   Drama
SEES KHKUSIICIIEV
PAKIS iCPI � Father Able J. | Boulier, a Roman Catholic priest who has had trouble with the church for associating with Communists in various peace organizations, showed up at a Russian Embassy reception for visiting Premier Khrushchev. "I was invited," he said, 'it would have been impolite not to come."
TOURISTS WANTED
K AM LOOPS ICPI � The Kam-loops and District Board of Trade hopes to attract an extra $50,000 worth of tourist business to the area this summer as a result of a booth at the annual Seattle boat and travel sports show.
Now Hear This...
Simon Fraser Assistant Manager Jack Cowan has said goodbye to the new hostel staff, which he joined in January after 20 years as accountant with Cassiar Cannery near Prince Rupert. No explanation . . .
This biz of being Citizen photog has its moments, but when it comes to being guineapig for every health centre shot clinic, our Hal Vamlorvoort says it's for the birds. Not long ago the "patient" for polio shots, Hal was nabbed again as a suspect and promptly shot in the arm yesterday With a TB injection. Fortunately after four years of RCAF Hal is sure it's all a good idea . . .
Now that the federal government has slapped an income ceil-
ing on housing loans issued by Central Mortgage and Housing Corporation, it will be interesting to see how many wage earners ask the boss for a salary cut so they can build a home . . .
Catholic Convention Set For Dawson Creek
The Catholic. Women's League have completed plans to hold a convention in Dawson Creek May 31 and June 1, it was disclosed by Mrs. Danny Palumbo, president of the Diocesan, and the convenor of the Diocesan C.W.L., Mrs. C. Chaput of Dawson Creek.
The theme is to be "The Christian Aposlolato Family."
MRS. G. W. RINGWOOD
WEDNESDAY    PROGRAM 9:30 a.m.�Harwin Elementary auditorium: elocution.
1:30 p.m.�Harwin Elementary auditorium: choral speech, elocution.
8 p.m. � Duchess Park Junior High auditorium: impromptu speaking, public speaking, adult drama, Prince George Players' "Birds of a Feather," directed by Fran Gibbins.
Festival this morning, brings with her a wide range oi' experience in drama work.
A graduate of the University of Alberta, with Master of Arts degree from the University of North Carolina, Mrs. Ringwood Has adjudicated at festivals in Alberta and Saskatchewan ys well as British Columbia, Last year she adjudicated the B.C. One-Act Finals in Trail.
She has also been active in the writing field, with some three three-act and nine, one-act plays to her credit. One of her plays. "Lament for Harmonica" last year won the Canadian One-Act play contest sponsored by the Ottawa Little Theatre and was produced on thr- eastern network.
Among her best known one-act -plays arc "Still Stands the House" and "Courting of Maria Jcnvrin". A three act play '"Stampede" has twice been produced at Banff School of Fine Arts and a number of her one-acts have been included in Canadian anthologies.
Mrs. Ringwood has also written for the CBC, and has had one novel published, "Younger Brother" set in Alberta and published last fall by Longman Green, New York.
She has, in addition, taught drama at the Banff School of Fine Arts for a number of years.
Mrs. Ringwood now lives in Williams Lake, where her husband is a surgeon. They have four children.
Mrs. Flora Nicholson, who was to have adjudicated this year's Drama Festival, was forced to cancel her engagement at the weekend due to the sudden death I of her husband.
Gusts o; up to 63 miles per hour buffeted Prince George after 3 p.m. Monday causing three power outages and sending pedestrians scurrying for shelter.
The strong southerly winds swept into the interior at the head of a cold front from the Pacific  Ocean.
A power outage at 3:20 p.m. threw the whole city electrical system out. It was caused by conductors hitting in a short circuit which threw the breakers at the power plant.
The major outage lasted only five minutes because two workmen were near the scene of the trouble at the time and spotted it.
Otherwise, a B.C. Power Commission spokesman said, it would likely have taken much longer to locale the cause of the breakdown.
There were wires down in nine locations in the city causing brief power interruptions in the immediate areas.
The power failure was not of a long enough duration to re-I quire the Prince George Hospital to switch over to its emergency auxiliary unit, a hospital engineer said today.
Part of the huge sign atou the Simon Fraser Hotel was in peril for a short lime when three guy wires supporting it snapped. T\Vo men climbed up and secured it with  heavy ropes.
A chimney lire at 3:30 was partly attributed to the high winds, There was no damage reported in the chimney blaze at 75fc> Johnson after prompt attention by the fire department.
A 15-month-old boy died in a house fire near Quesnel Monday.
Dead is Joseph Pinctte, son of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Pinettc of Ahbau, 20 miles north of Qucs-nel.
Mr. and Mrs. Pinctte were working near their two-room house when the fire of undetermined origin broke out. They have two other children who were at school when the blaze occurred.
Quesnel RCMP told The Citizen today there will be an inquest, although the date has not been set.
CAPETOWN (CP) � Two! South African white policemen were injured and a Negro policeman hacked to death today in a new outburst of race rioting at the big Nyanga Negro settlement east of Capetown.
The outhreaK came as police with armoured cars ranged through Nyanga beating up Negroes in an 'attempt to get them to go back to work, witnesses reported in dispatch.
Pan- Africanist officials in Nyanga said police gunfire had wounded at least five Negroes in today's raids, including a seven-year-old girl shot in the leg.
At noon � five hours after they  first  entered  Nyanga � police were still carrying on the raids. WIDESPREAD DAMAGE
Elsewhere in South Africa, a mob of young Negroes roamed through the native quarter 'near Port. Eliza'beth, on the- Indian Ocean, during the niglit>commit-ting widespread damage. They scattered when police arrived.
The area raound Durban was reported quiet after Monday's clashes. Negro townships around Johannesburg also were reported quiet, with trade and transport nornial.
South Africa's white supremacy government appeared determined to force idle Negroes back to work. But reports spread that the 60 per cent who returned to 'their jobs Monday after a week's boycott might, stay homo again in protest against the latest police action.
Thirty-five persona were reported wounded by gunfire Monday when police surrounded the Nxanra township and combed their huts for Negroes who had not gone back to "work. Police denied (ihat many were .wounded by gunfire. I'SK RUBBER WHIPS
Hundreds of Negroes wore reported beaten in Capetown itself as police broke out; rubber whips to clear the streets of trouble makers.
The sitiurtion was described as ten.se in Nyanga � a stronghold of the Pan-Africanist Congress which organized the work boy-cot t.
Reports 'trickling out, of Nyanga said Pan-Africanist,' leaders were bekig whittled down by police arrests.
The total casualty figures from Monday's clashes were still
unknown. A police six>kesman said one Negro had been shot and wounded by 'a policeman in "self-defence," and that another policeman had fired into a crowd at close range.
Sources in the townships themselves said there had been many casualties but that the number of those shot had 'been "small." NEGRO KILLED
At least one deat'h was reported, near Durban, where about 20 per cent of the labor force stayed home from work. A Negro was killed in the suburb of Claremont when police charged 3,000 demonstrators.
At LamontviMe, near Johannesburg, 2,000 Negroes with knives and clubs charged a group of 150 Negroes, seriously
Injuring a Negro policeman. Police reinforcements opened fire, and three Negroes were reported wounded.
In Durban, Zulu chief Cyprian Bhekezulu called for a conference Thursday between government officials and leaders of the two African congress movement. The chief appealed to this people to remain calm, go back to work �and "let your leaders discuss any greviances at the meeting."
A native administration official reported fanatical resistance to white authority in Langa Township near Capetown. Police found inost shacks there stacked with food and bags of cornmeal, as though the occupants were prepared for a long siege, he said.
Costly, Says MacKenzie
K AM LOOPS (CP) � Norman .MacKenzie, president of University of B.C., 'warned Interior communities Monday that junior colleges would be a serious and costly  undertaking.
"Let there be no illusion." he said. "We only deceive ourselves if wo think more institutions will save money for the taxpayer.
"There will be a need in due course for some decentralized higher education and I, for one, agree there may be reasons to justify establishment of junior colleges throughout the province."
Educational Agree with
Local educational authorities agree with Dr. MucKenzie's viewpoints, "nut, point out that a step-by-step program is being followed 'here with the ultimate ipur-pose of acquiring a junior college for the north.
"We have our foot in the door now'," Ray Atkinson, chairman of the school board said today, "tliis being one of the lew centres in B.C. with qualified senior matriculation courses rec-onzed by the university."
He said it was necessary for 'Prince George to establish iis need 'for a junior college by first proving there is a demand for it. However, he pointed out, it could bo a "long Irani," and take as long as 20 years 'before a college could be achieved.
'Mr. Atkinson also agreed establishment of a junior college here would be costly and a higher population density would 'be required.
"1 agree with Dr. MacKenzie 100 per cent." Allan Stables, >rincipal of Prince George Senior High School commented.
But communities would have to improve the high school pre-university program and institute a first-class senior matriculation program before junior or liberal arts colleges could 'be justified.
Dr. �MacKenzie urged formation of a provincial 'board of regents which would be the over-all administrative and governing body for higher education.
He said such 'a group should precede any program of decentralization and should be responsible for distribution of public funds and for decisions for the location and type of institution of higher education in B.C.
Authorities MacKenzie
, He said the UBC president is not. against junior colleges or decentralization, but recognized the problems of their establishment as do local educationists.
A proposal has boon made to the university through the school board for a resident professor in Prince Georrge to give second and third year courses. Grade l.'J lias been provided here for the past six years and it's hoped the current enrolment of 30 will increase to between �10 and 50 next year.
Prince Charles Acts In Cheam School  Play
LONDON (AP) � Prince Charles, 11-year-old heir to the throne, made his first appearance as an actor Monday night when he appeared as an usher in the play Silence in Court at Cheam
j School,   where   he  is a  pupil.
I Prince Philip and nine-year-old
I Princess Anne were in the au-
1 dience.
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I'.   SIMPSON
The promotion and transfer of P. G. Simpson, manager of the Prince Rupert local office of the National Employment Service, to the managership of the Prince George office, has been announced by Horace Kcctch, regional director, Unemployment Insurance Commission, Vancouver.
The new appointment was effective yesterday a n d he succeeds H. I. Moss who was recently transferred to t h e managership of the Mission City office.
Mr. Simpson was born and educated in Red Deer, Alberta, and served overseas with the Canadian Army during World War Two.
He joined the Commission in Trail in 1947, and in 1955 was transferred to the Mission City office. The following year he was promoted and transferred to the managership of the Prince Rupert office.
Mr. Simpson slated that both he and his wife, Marguerite, are looking forward to establishing their new home in Prince George.
An item-by-item perusal of the rejected 19u"0 school budget was conducted at the arbitration hoard hearings into the matter Monday.
The hearings are continuing today.
Testifying for the better part of the day was school district secretary Bob Gracey who explained the reason for the amount estimated as required for each function.
City comptroller Chester Jef-fery is conducting the case for the city. His questions of Mr. Gracey included many about school board's policies which prompted Claude Rampton, chairman of the arbitration board, to remark "If we got into policies of the School Board we could go on for weeks."
Mr. Jeffery insisted his questioning was pertinent to the inquiry, and he was allowed to continue.
"I am trying to get out of the witness as an employee of the school board if the school budget estimates arc excessive," he explained.
At one point, citing some teachers' monthly incomes' of $1,080, another of $1,046 and a third of $930, he suggested the teachers' wage scale was too high.
"Do they ever serve steaks in the home economics classes," he asked Mr. Gracey.
"Not to my knowledge," was the reply.
The $2,019,010 school budget was turned down by the city council March 14 on charges it was "excessive."
City appointee to the three-man board is Des O'Brien while Bill Hirst is the school board appointee-.
Chiliiwack lawyer Frank Wilson is acting for the school board.
Mostly sunny today and Wednesday. Little change in temperature. Light winds. Low tonight and high Wednesday at Prince George, 25 and 52; Quesnel, 25 and 55; Smithers, 30 and 52.
Peace River Region
Sunny Wednesday with cloudy periods in the afternoon. Little change in temperature; Low tonight and high Wednesday at Grande Prairie, 25 and 15.
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