WANT ADS Buy or Sell Everything Phone LO 4-2441 THE The Only Daily Newspaper Serving North-Central British Columbia Low 30, High 50, Showers WEATHER FORECAST Crown Life Insurance Co. Wm. J. Shockey District Representative Phone LOgan 4-2441 Vol. 4; No. 73 PRINCE GEORGE, BRITISH COLUMBIA, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 13, 1960 35c PER WEEK WILUSTON No Fight VICTORIA CP) � Lands and Forests Minister Williston said Tuesday reports indicating there is a conflict between the provincial and federal governments over development of the Colum bia are "only designed for mis chief-making purposes." Reports said B.C. is pressing for a High Arrow dam while the federal government is seeking a dam on Mica creek. "Mica creek is considered to be essential in any development of the Columbia river. Any inference to the contrary is only designed for mischief-making purposes," Mr. Williston said. "Public hearings will have to take place on individual project before they could be ratified oi a final agreement could be made with the United States." Negotiations are proceeding and until agreement is reachec it cannot be said authoritatively what project will even be recommended, he said. "Any position which is adoptee: by British Columbia has been at ail times fully supported by the combined technical officers rep resenting both federal and pro vincial governments." Justice Minister Fulton, a mem ber of the federal negotiating team, said the reports are ob viously speculative and contair many mis-statements. They bear little relation to the actual situa tion. He said the stories infer that Mica Creek will be in a very in ferior position. "The core of the federal posi tion is that Mica Creek is an essential part of Columbia rivci development and its position will be fully protected in any agreement." First City Engineer, J.C. After Long J. C. Mekenzie, first city en gincer and fire chief in Prince George, is dead. He passed away after a lengthy illness at 10:15 p.m. yesterday in Prince George Regional Hospital. Born in Scotchfort, Prince Edward Island, in 1882, Mr. Mc-Kenzic came west to Cranbrook in 1903 and was city engineer there until 1909. He then moved to Vancouver where he was superintendent of the Canadian Wood Pipe and.Tank Co. In 1916 he came to Prince George to supervise the installation of the city waterworks system. When the project was completed he joined the city's staff in the capacity of city engineer and fire chief. He held both positions until 1D37. In that year as.-Uie city was expanding he was relieved of his duties as fire chief, and continued as city engineer until his retirement in 1947. Mr. MeKenzic in 1912 married the former Marion McPtiee, a school teacher from Vancouver. From this happy union five children were born. One predeceased him (George, in 1925, at the age of four). Others left to mourn are two daughters and two suns: Helen, Mary. Jack and Bernard, and six grandchildren, all of Prince George; two brothers. sisters and two U.S. CONGRESS TOLD TEEN TOWN COUNCIL for 1960-61 was sworn in last night by Alderman Harry Locler. From left are, Aid. Loder, Aid. Terry Smith, Teen Town mayor Marilyn Keibel, Aid. Sandra Stockley, Aid. Ken Peterson, Aid. Gay Rees, Aid. Ray Ruse, Aid. Keith Anderson, Aid. Brian Fawcett and Aid. Lorria Strom. Mary-Ann Mal-gunas, Teen Town city clerk, is seated at the desk. �Hal Vandervoort Photo School Board Passes $1,988,000 Budget After Arbitration Cutbacks School trustees took another look at their 1960 budget last night following arbitration with city council, and voted approval of amended estimates of $1,988,-171. The figure is some $548 less than net estimates recommendct by arbitrators in their award following arbitration hearings be twecn the board and city council SURPLUS USED The reduction comprises a $9,987 cut ordered by the arbitra-tion.board, a reduction of capital expenditure by $6,000, and a further reduction of $13,655 repre senting undeclared operating surplus which came to light in the auditor's report for the last year and was subsequently applied to the I960 estimates. To make up the $9,987 cut in budget estimates recommended by the arbitration board, trustees last night voted approval of cuts of $2,613 and $1,000. from the teaching supplies and other in struclional expense departments of the instruction account, $4,000 from the janitor and engineers' supplies department of the operation account, and $2,374 from VICTORIA � An Austra [Ian nurse, travelling from Brisbane to work in a hospital at Fort St. John, had an unexpected encounter with Canadian hospitals. Miss Alice J. Little was a passenger aboard a freighter in-joiincl for Vancouver. A two-pronged fishbone became odged in her throat during a neal Monday and the ship de-oured to nearby Brotchie Ledge vhere she was taken off to hos-jital. The bone was removed and Tuesday she was discharged from lospital . Now Hear This... trate's desk in police court are a treat to watch for less energetic folk, was thrown off step by the long distances in the supreme court chambers, where he presided al a prelim hearing. He looked pooped by the time he reached the chair This ole town is really getting convention conscious. Now the international president of Ki-wanis, Albert Tully from down Alabama way, will attend a Ki-wanis one-nighter, his first trip to Canada, May 8 at which 200 members are expected. Which is also noteworthy because it comes smack dab in the middle of the Rotary convention May 7-8-9 . . . Hanging down his head today is the informant who told this column the Associated Commercial Travellers group is irked about a rumor that the Civic Centre has denied guaranteed bingo dates for one organization while others can get dates in advance. Rumor turned out to be false, as most rumors are. Centre and B'S Bov fmalIv Treat of Boss Bill Woycik explained the entire matter, and everybody's happy with the excellent way tilings are being run. Except our informant ... Another barber story: 'Local type was getting his head crop- the week was at the Corning t'other night when someone showed up with 25 pounds of fresh Prince Rupert shrimps to help down the suds . . . Add- to frustrating experiences list: Woman pulled up to vacant parking meter and was preparing to back in when she was beaten to the draw by a fellow with one of those belch-fires. Woman stayed put, shooting visual daggers, look off. belch-fire Then lo, yet another slipped in where angels fear to tread. As this observer departed hastily, woman was leaving her car to take action . . . South Fort George resident BJain AIcLcod arranged to get two rabbits for his youngsters. the grounds-wages and supplies department of the repairs and maintenance account. TINY SAVING The arbitration award will save city taxpayers one-eighth of a mill and rural taxpayers will receive a similar saving based on school board assessment of $36 million. Trustees approved a further cut proposed by Finance Chairman Bob Range last night, reducing current, capital account from- $9,750 -to 52,75.0 non-shar-able estimates. "Eh � amount leaves funds only for/$2,000* to be"applied on. a new truck and $750 for a controlled reader for assisting with reading problems in the elementary grades. Trustees also moved that $13,-665 unearthed by auditors reviewing last year's accounts be named undeclared operating surplus and applied to a reduction of estimates in the 1960 budget. SPECIAL RESERVE Operating surplus of $24,904 was noted in arbitration recommendations brought down April 6 but some $7,238 of this was not recognized as surplus but as money for the board's special reserve building fund, Mr. Range said. School trusces, who based their budget on an operating surplus of $4,000 expressed surprise at finding an additional $20,000 in the coffers. Accounting for the surplus, the finance chairman said the amount represented revenue surplus accrued from 1946 to 1959, which, until this year had been buried by auditors in the statement of assets fund. For the first time this year in VANCOUVER CP) � Lumber production in the Interior was higher than on the Coast during 1959 but over-all output in British Columbia declined by six per cent during the year, the B.C. Lumber Manufacturers Association reports. Production last year was estimated at 4.730,000,000 board feet, six per cent below 1958 when B.C. production first lopped 5,-000,000.000 feet. The decline was blamed on the strike last July which shut clown Coast mills for 10' weeks. Coast production was down 12 per cent at 2,354,000,000 board feet. Intorior production at 2,-.V76.O00.OOO surpassed Coast pro' duction for the first time. Body Still auditors transferred the amount to the statement of capital funds, to disclose its presence. Since the auditors' statement was not compiled at the time the budget was drawn up, the estimates were headed only with the 84,000 sur plus shown in their last year's budget. NO OPPORTUNITY Auditors' statements were com pleted at the time of the arbitra tion hearing, he said, and there had been no opportunity to make adjustments on the basis of tfteir findings. Actual revenue surplus reveal ed by the auditor's was $17,665, including last year's figure, he said. Additional $7,238 represents insurance for loss of a school building by fire during 1951-52, proceeds from the sale of fixed assets and payment for a right-of-way at Red Rock. Mr. Range said he did not recognize this as surplus but as money for the board's reserve building fund. Non-sharablc estimates were trimmed from $49,367 to $30,827 by the amendments made by the board and as the result of a cut of $1,166 on non-sharable estimates in the conveyance of pupils account by the provincial government. Division of costs on teachers' salaries will not be known until next week. SMITHERS (Special)�A flash fire destroyed two vacant homes and threatened another at II a.m. today. Volunteer firemen saved the third home, which is occupied by Hugh Shirref, ML A for Skee-na. Ho was due to move out today, and was waitinff for the movers, when the lire broke out. The two burned homes were on the point of beitis demolished, when fire broke out in a rubbish) pile. It spread quickly, because of a brisk wind. ped, after which the man in white | Hc built a hutch, but when he remarked it wasn't a very good | went to collect the rabbits he haircut, but the next lime it'll be i [earned a clog had beaten him to better. Which left his customer's mouth in fly-catching position . . . George Stewart, whose way of stepping bouncily into the magis-' Phone 7657 . . it. lias anyone any rabbits which would like a clean, comfortable, spacious new home with a view'.' A man found dead in a boxcar if a CNR freight train at Endako Saturday has still not been identified. RCMP in Vanderhoof said today that the man, a transient, had probably never been in B.C. iriof to several clays' bofore his death and locating next-of-kin will be difficult. The man, believed to be between 45 and 60 years of age, is said to have died from asphyxiation due to particles- of food lodging in his throat. First Successful Bomarc-B Firing ELGIN AIR FORCE BASE, Fla. 'CD � The first completely successful launching of the controversial BomaroR interceptor missile was made here today. The -17-foot missile streaked more than 170 miles down range before impacting in the Gulf. It was not fired at a target. 0 Defence Minister Pearkes Interrupted regular business in the House of Commons at Ottawa to announce the successful tost. But Paul Hellyer (I,-Toronto-Trinity) said the announcement does not increase the Liberal party's confidence in the missile "one iota." PROFITS DOWN VANCOUVER (fPi � Canada Safeway Ltd. reported Tuesday a net profit of $5,310,532 for 1959, compared with 85.-043.006 in 195S. despite a $1(V (lou.ooo increase in sales to $248,350,000. Net income retained at the end of 1959 was $23,290,000, compared with $17,530,000 for 195S. & NO CITIZEN GOOD FRIDAY The Citizen will not be published on Good Friday, in order that our staff throughout the North may enjoy the holiday. Next regular edition will be published Monday. To accommodate our classified advertisers, the business office will be open to the public on Saturday from 9 a.m. until 2 p.m. Lady Chatlerly Not a Bad Girl MONTREAL tfji�Two of Canada's foremost authors and a prominent professor of English from the United States defended D. H. Lawrence's Lady Chatter-ley's Lover Tuesday before a Montreal court. After testimony by Morley Callaghan of Toronto. Hugh Mac-Lennan of Montreal and Harry T. Moore, professor of English at Southern Illinois University, the hearing on the book was adjourned until May 5 to let the prosecution prepare rebuttal testimony. Mr. MacLennan said college students see Lawrence's famous novel of an English woman who turns from a loveless life with her impotent, cynnical husband to an affair with her gardener as a "clean reply to the negative force of much contemporary literature." Mr. Callaghan said the novel's dominant characteristic is to provide "fundamental dignity to the relationship between man and woman." Both Mr. Callaghan and Mr. MacLennan defended the book as fit reading for adolescent?. The hearing before Judge T. A. Fontaine stemmed from raids by juvenile squad police on three city newsdealers last November. STUDENTS TASTE FREEDOM THURSDAY The first taste of freedom in 1960 will be tasted by 5,400 School District 57 pupils Thursday as doors lo the halls of learning close for a 10-day Easter holiday. Youngsters will return to the district's 18 schools April 25. They'll have one more extended holiday before school lets out for the suinc-r June 24. Victoria Day, May 23, will give them a long weekend break. Two New Polio Cases Brings Total Up to 35 VICTORIA (CP) � Two new cases of polio reported on Vancouver Island Tuesday brought to 35 the number in British Columbia this year. A 16-year-old girl at Port Alberni and John Spalding, 38, of Chemainus were the latest stricken by the disease. Only one other case has been reported on Vancouver Island. Deputy Provincial Health Officer Dr. G. F. Amyot said it is early in the year for polio to strike, but a similar situation has existed before, following a heavy polio year like 1959. Hc said it is too early yet to say whether B.C. is heading toward another serious season or whether the cases so far are a carry-over from last year's heavy polio conditions. Dr. Amyot said a report on last year's polio cases and their relationship to a salk vaccination program should be available next week. There have been no cases of polio reported at Burns Lake since March 27. Pearson, Fleming Argue Existence of Recession OTTAWA CPi�Liberal Loader , the eight-clay Commons debate Pearson accused the govern- j on the finance minister's 1060- ment Tuesday of refusing to hoed warnings that a serious economic recession may be around the corner. Finance Minister Fleming re torted that the Liberals are i party with a definite recession complex." He said the leader of the op' position "has exaggerated unemployment has created gloom so thick that he has lost his own way now." The finance minister /said there is a sound basis for confidence in Canada. Kir, Fleming and Mr. Pearson spoke on the second last day of VICTORIA (CP) The British Columbia Teachers' Federation has proposed a new formula for sharing school costs. It would increase the provincial share of the cost. The BCTF "policy statement" on education finance has been presented to the provincial cabinet. Tables accompanying the brief showed that in 1958 the total grants made by the province would have jumped from an actual $42,046,000 to $58,647,000 under the new formula. This would have reduced the burden on local taxpayers proportionately while boosting the province's over-all share from 48 lo 67 per cent of the $87,559,000 1958 education bill in British Columbia. The formula recommended by the federation would involve establishing an "average" cost of operating schools across the province on a per-teacher basis. At present, through a number of formulae, the province undertakes to pay 50 per cent of the total operating schools. costs of B.C. OPEN FOSt BUSINESS The Prince George Hudson's Bay Company store will be open for business Easter Monday as usual, manager M. V. Laspa announced Tuesday afternoon. Mr. Laspa made the announcement after checking with his head office in Vancouver. The Bay will also be open until 9 p.m. Thursday. Gl budget. Mr. Pearson was supporting a Liberal non-confidence motion forecasting an over-all budget deficit and Charging the Conservative government with offering no solution to pressing economic problems. The Liberal motion was defeated 170 to 45. Cale Creek Home Destroyed by Fire Fire destroyed the home of j Robert Stewart at Calc Creek, 12 miles south of Prince George on the Quesnel Highway Monday. No one was home when the blaze, believed to have started from an overheated stove, broke out shortly after 11 a.m. Mrs. Stewart and two of her younger children were in Prince George at the time of the fire while the two older children were at school. Mr. Stewart, a sawmill worker, was also away from the house when the fire broke out. The fire was discovered by Gary Spooner and Frey Mayer, who had been working in a small mill several hundred yards behind the house. Variable cloudiness today and Thursday. Scattered showers both days with a few isolated thunder showers of hail in the afternoons. Remaining cool. Winds light becoming 20 near showers. Low tonight and high Thursday at Prince George, Quesnel and Smirhers,' 30 and 50. Peace River Kckioii Sunny with cloudy periods Thursday. Light winds. Little change in temperature. Low to- night and hitfh Thursday Grande Prairie, 30 and 45. Last 24 Hours at Prince Geoi Terrace ...... Sm it hers . Quesnel . . Kam loops Dawson Creek 34 Fort St. John.. 33 Fort Nelson .... 30 Whitehorse...... 2G Lo Hi Precip. 47 44 �18 40 58 50 43 .28 tr. .01 OTTAWA (CP) � Military testimony before the United States Congress indicates that the Canadian chiefs of staff gave the government an incorrect or incomplete intelligence estimate last year on usefulness of the Arrow interceptor. Prime Minister Diefenbakcr told the Commons Feb. 23, 1959, that the supersonic Arrow was cancelled because the chiefs of staff, "on the basis of the best information they can secure," determined that it didn't make sense to continue expenditures on it. Sources of Canadian intelligence on Soviet military activity are not disclosed but they are presumably American. Mr. Diefenbaker maintained on Jan. 18 this year that the Arrow decision was still the right one because the "day of manned bombers was about to be over." DIFFERENT VIEW But the opposite picture has been given the U.S. House of Representatives defence appropriations subcommittee by Gen. Thomas D. White, chief of the U.S. Air Force. In testimony recently released and just made available here, Gen. White said: "We have plenty of information that their Russian manned aircraft arc continuing to be exercised and manoeuvred at a very high rate, in fact, at an increased tempo. "According to our intelligence, they are continuing production at a reduced rate of their heavy bombers. � We also ha\'c intelligence that they are developing new bombers . . . "Well, now, is there a future for the manned fighter interceptor? "I would say definitely, very definitely. MISSILE INVOLVED "I still foresee a requirement . . . for a long-range fighter interceptor for the simple reason that the air-launched missile is here. "We have it in the Hound Dog. The enemy is developing similar missiles, and it means that the aircraft, the incoming air-breathing aircraft with its missile, can launch its load long distances from the target. "That means you must be able to reach it, reach the^ vehicle before the missile is launched. "Even the Bomarc anti-aircraft missile won't do it. So I foresee a long-range interceptor, a manned aircraft." Again, at another point, Gen. White testified: "We must be able to counter the threat of missiles launched from enemy bomber aircraft. Long-range intercen-tor aircraft are the most effective weapons for this purpose. They would be able lo attack and destroy the bombers before they launched their missiles. "The need for a manned interceptor still exists and likely will exist for a long time to come," Gen. White said. Gen. White said the American F-108 long-range interceptor was cancelled last year because of a squeeze on funds. This is said in some quarters to be the reason the Arrow was cancelled though Defence Minister Pearkes has denied this in the Commons. He said the main reasons for cancellation were the "decreasing threat" of bombers and "lessening need" of interceptors. $7f000 'MUSEUM PIECE'? ...... . ' IggSggg^K HERE SHE IS! This is the aerial ladder truck the city is purchasing from,the City of Vancouver. Fire Chief August Dornbierer has been seeking a truck for some time, but had visions of a new $50,000 job. This 1938 manually-operated model ill a museum piece. , ad visions of a new $50,000 job. This 1938 manually-operated model will cost $7,000. The chief calls it "a museum piece"