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PRINCE-GEORGE, BRITISH COLUMBIA, THURSDAY, APRIL 14,   1960
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HEALTH CONDITIONS ODD IN NORTH B.C.
Annual report of the Cariboo Health Unit for 1959 was released today revealing some startling facts and figures concerning the health and habits of the G3,000 people within its boundaries.
The 53-page report, prepared by unit medical health officer Dr. K. I. G. Benson, had these things to say about health conditions in a chunk of B.C. running roughly from the Pine Pass to Williams Lake and from Burns Lake to McBride:
& Birth rate of 33 per 1,000 population was eight above B.C. average, five above national figures.
A n (1 the "exceedingly high" rate here has accounted for a two-thirds increase in population in five years.
Q   Venereal � disease incidence jumped 40 per cent but little hope was given  for  better conditions. Although the area has only four per cent of the provincial population it had IS.5 per cent of the Dr. K. I. G. Benson        caseload and Dr. Benson said bootlegging and bawdy house operations were thriving.
� Active tuberculosis cases in hospital declined, while T.B. patients treated at home increased accordingly. The medical health officer called for 'hospitals to strive for X-rays of 50 per cent of admissions     (Report condensed on Page 9)
RCAF In Fix Over Bomarc, Interceptor
OTTAWA ICP) � The RCAF is in a fix.
It wants both the Bomarc antiaircraft missile and a new manned interceptor to replace the CF-100 jet.
Every time the Bomarc fails a test, chances of getting it go down and chances of obtaining a manned interceptor go up.
U tin- Bomth'i: files � at it did Wednesday for the first time
Lawyer Says
In Rebrin Case
VANCOUVER (CP) � A lawyer for UBC lecturer Irene Rebrin says there may have been a government breach of security in connection with the deportation case.
Gordon Dowding, CCF MLA for ' Burnaby, commented on statements in the House of Com-Jfions Wednesday by Prime Min-S" isler Diefenbaker. ' Mr. Diefenbaker told the House UBC President Dr. Norman Mackenzie agreed in February to "go along with" the deportation decision in the Rcbrin case "without any question."
Miss Rebrin, ordered to leave Canada by April 15, was arrested by RCMP Wednesday under an immigration department order. A writ of Habeas Corpus for her release was to be sought today.
Mr. Dowding said if Dr. Mackenzie "did make this statement. I consider it possible that he has been given classified information that the government seems to he reluctant to give anybody else, including Miss Rebrin."
Plane  Ditched
NEW YORK (AP) � A twin-engined RCAF plane, bound for Bermuda with live persons aboard ditched west of Bermuda today. The U.S. coast guard rushed ;i plaijie to the scone.
The piano .-was intentionally ditched by the pilot after navigational equipment had malfunctioned and fuel had run low.
in eight attempts � the RCAF's chances of getting it increase am chances of getting the intercep tor decrease.
There's no way the RCAF can figure out how to get both.
Authorities have said the gov eminent plans to dismantle the nine CF-100 squadrons in Canada if and when the Bomarc comes .i'lu su;-\ice as Acheduled in late 1961.
The United States Air Force has proposed that the Canadiai government acquire three super sonic F-101 squadrons to replace the subsonic) CF-100 units. No decision (in'this is likely uriti the Bomarc proves out, fails or is cancelled by the U.S. Con gress.
De Gaulle Gets
OTTAWA ICP)� Tight .security arrangements have been made for the state visit of French president Charles de Gaulle next week.
RCMP and local police are not leaving anything to chance despite the widespread admiration and esteem in which the 09-yeai1-statcsmen is held in this country. Altogether 2,000 to 3,000 policemen � plainclothes and uniformed � will be involved witii security cither directly oi indirectly during de Gaulle's four-day Canadian visit. The I1' r c n <.� h head of state and his wife arrive here Easter Monday.
Gen. de Gaulle was last here Aug. 2S-2D, 19-15, as provisional president of the Fourth Repub-
OTTAWA iCPl�Highways Minister Gaglardi conferred with Federal Works Minister "Walker here on the B.C. government request for a start on a second trans-Canada highway.
Mr. Walker is understood to have reiterated the federal government's stand against starting a n e w highway until the one now under construction is more nearly completed.
Now Hear This...
Moonlight Drive-in Boss George Huska says his show place no longer is an amphibious operation since frost has left ground and drainage is working. He plans to water the dusty mile access road as often as necessary . . . Ami Star-time Manager Jim Fairley, who has no dust problem being on the main highway west, admits the problem of serving customers from 700 cars at his snack bar during a 15-minttle intermission has him scratching his head, but adds: We're doing the best we can � � �
Kids arc in their clement these days now the Rainbow are reported running in nearby creeks. One Walton reported proudly he'd snagged 16 on a fine evening. At which Dad glanced smartly 'round to see it' a game warden was in hearing ...       i
RCMP Staff-Sergeant Art Knox warned motorists today that holi day traffic is expected to be heavy, which is a good reason for extra care on the highways and byways. Police patrols will be out in force to provide any assistance required as well as to enforce strictly all speed limits and other road rules, including the law which, on this Holy Week, can be paraphrased as: Thou shalt not drink if thou intendest driving . . .
Look for an increase in the local vodka price shortly when LCB runs through its present low-priced brand quota. Under the existing system as laid down at Victoria, only one brand is being marketed in B.C. at a time, and they began with the cheapest, working Up ...
Won't Bury Sports Stadium � Loder
PAST PRESIDENT MEDAL was bestowed upon Bill Dunn at the regular monthly meeting of the Willow River-Giscome Branch 252 of the Canadian Legion Wednesday. Left to right are Larry Willingdon, regional secretary, Bill Dunn, past president and Keith Dougherty, president. Father De Keyzer in background. An encouraging report on the Cub movement was also presented.
West Offers Nuclear Ban, Russia Turns Thumbs Down
GENEVA (AP) � The United States offered today to negotiate an immediate agreement to ban the production of fissionable ma Lerials for military purposes.
Ambassador Frederick M. Eat on told the 10-power disarmament
Vancouver Hit By High Winds
VANCOUVKR �Gustst up tc 54 miles an hour hero Wednos-lay night disrupted navigation and power; services and caused widespread L o w e r Mainland lamage;
A wall was blown out of the end of the No. 5 fire hall in Sur-�ey, all but burying the chief :ar in bricks.
A pedestrian, .lames W. Wrightson, (39, was taken to bos-jltal with leg and hip injuries ifter being buffeted by two lulck gusts.
B.C.  Electric reported widespread  power disruptions  and ailed  on  all available  repair crews.
Easter Brings No Lull In S. Africa  Policing
CAPETOWN (AP) � South Africa's Parliament went home oday for Easter, but police raiders were as busy as ever.
The while-supremacy govern-nent appeared to have checked he racial disturbances of the ast three weeks without coming o grips with the basic causes of the unrest.
The "midnight knock on the loor" still spreads fear amonj nti-governmenl elements. Secur-ty police continue nightly round-lps in the big cities of persons uspected of being connected vith "subversive" groups, mean-n g niilitantly anti-government organizations, mostly of the left ving.
Boniarc Test Friday
WASHINGTON ffl � The Bo-narc-B Wednesday made its first successful flight, � a limited cst after seven consecutive 'ailures. Its hopes raised, the J.S. Air Force said a full flight cst will be launched Good Fri day.
iiasgow Drubbed 6-1
FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) �The Einlracht soccer team of �'rankfurt, last year's German hampions, crushed the Glasgow {angers (M in a semi-final ound match of the European up competition Wednesday ight.
VANCOUVER m�A. L. Bcw-ey has been appointed deputy olice magistrate for Vancou-er. The appointment, effective lily 1, was announced Wednes-ay by Attorney-General Boner. Mi'. Bewlcy fills the vacan-created by the retirement of v'aller Firkins.-
conference the U.S. is willing to throw open all its nuclear plants to international inspection and control if the Soviet Union docs the same......|
An international control staff would supervise the conversion of military fissionable materials � including nuclear bomb warheads � to exclusively peaceful purposes, Eaton said.
Soviet delegate Valerian M. Zorin promptly rejected the proposal, describing it as containing "more control than disarmament."
Eaton made his proposal on behalf of his own and the four other Western delegations � Britain, France, Italy and Canada.
He said it was a Western attempt to get the hopelessly dead-
Britain Drops
LONDON (Reuters) � Britain today weighed the consequences of the government's drastic decision to write off a multi-milliori-pound program for a long-range ballistic missile.
In the midst of Parliament's biggest uproar in years, the government said Wednesday it is abandoning the Blue Streak missile, which has cost the country �65,000,000 ($173,000,000) so far.
The government indicated that Britain would rely on American rockets instead and consider adapting the Blue Streak for launching space satellites.
The Labor opposition angrily accused the Conservatives of waste, and introduced a censure motion. It also demanded the resignation of Defence Minister Harold Walkinson.
Spokesmen for Britain's aviation industry said the decision was a severe blow and would inevitably lead to unemployment.
British technicians, along with the industry, can be expected to look to the United Slates for opportunities, aviation officials said.
locked conference into a discussion of a concrete disarmament measure.
The conference has been stalled for four weeks by argument over mutually unacceptable plans for a world disarmament treaty.
The cut-off and conversion of nuclear materials is part of the Western powers' plan for gradual disarmament in three stages under an elaborate control system.
ENGINE FAILURE BLAMED IN CRASH
OTTAWA (CP)�Engine failure and deteriorating weather conditions were to blame for a plane crash Nov. 5 near Prince George in which the pilot lost his life, the transport department said today.
The aircraft, owned by Barton Air Services of Anchorage Alaska, was on a flight from Fort Nelson to Prince George. Pilot was Jack Rasmussen.
The department's report noted the pilot apparently continued to apply visual flight rules in deteriorating weather conditions.
"The engine failed for reasons not conclusively determined and the aircraft crashed during the emergency landing."
No Wane Hike For Hotel Workers
VANCOUVER ICI1 � The B.C. Hotels' Association has rejected wage-increase demands of 700 hotel employees here and has decided to set up a $1,500,000 fund as an insurance against a strike.
The Association rejected a demand for an increase of ISO cents an hour across-the-board. Instead it has offered to renew the current contract which expires April 30th.
Hotel Operators say bed occupancy and beverage room patronage is down markedly from last year and the hotels can't afford to give a wage increase.
Hundreds Flocking South For Long Easter Weekend
Prince Georgians are flocking out of the city in droves for the long Easter weekend, most of them heading south.
Greyhound bus ll.-:es reported today that two, and possibly, three buses will pull out of the local bus depot tonight instead of the usual one.
The same is expected to apply Friday night.
The Pacific Great Eastern Railway expects "very heavy" traffic, beginning tonight. A spokesman for the railway said the big rush is expected tomorrow morning witli probably 100 people leaving here.
Normal passenger load for the PGE from Prince George is about 15 people.
Canadian Pacific Airlines is probably the only transportation media not providing extra accommodation to accommodate passengers.
CPA agent Earl Brown said flights leaving Prince George today and Friday are all booked solid but that Saturday's runs still have openings.
Woods Community Plan Beginning to Shape Up
Plans for the creation of an organized community within the Crooked River public working circle are beginning to take shape.
Jack Rhodes and Harold Mof-fat, comprising school board com mittce working on the project, reported to trustees on a meeting held to co-ordinate plans for the proposed community.
In addition to the school representatives, those attending included representatives from the departments of lands, highways, public health and welfare and Crooker River Forest Association Forester L. A. deGrace.
Mr. Rhodes said the I.W.A and
U.S. Cool to ArmsControl
WASHINGTON (AP) � The Western prc-summit talks headed into a final session today with United States officials reported cool toward a French plan for East-West control against arms shipments to newly developing countries.
Among other things, they fear that such big-power control might give the appearance of dictatorship toward the smaller states.
State Secretary Christian Her-ler was also said to be hike-warm to a British proposal for seeking Russian agreement to an international code of ethics, since the United Nations already has such a code. But he was more favorably disposed toward stepping up cultural changes the West.
llerter, Britain's Sclwyn Lloyd and France's Maurice Couvc de Murville are charting strategy for their government heads to use at the summit parley with Russia starting in Paris May 16.
Also here are the foreign ministers of Canada, West Germany and Italy, whose views arc being brought into the discussions.
External Affairs Ministers Howard Green of Canada was due for a private talk with llerter today, but he would not discuss in advance the subjects he planned to bring up.
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KAMLOOPS iCPI � The Yale-Cariboo Music Festival will use two halls and a school to handle
other unions would be invited to assist in making a population survey of the working circle.
Minimum size lots to be sold to workers in the circle will be 15,000 square feet in order to meet provincial health regulations, it was decided. Initially the entire project is expected to cover one square mile.
Mr. Moffat reported the department of lands would survey the area, and lots will be sold on the understanding that roads will be built. It was felt that development should be on one side of the highway only.
Possible -formation of a water district is also being considered.
School board is taking the initiative in developing the working circle community, which is expected to serve as a pattern for circles throughout the province. Trustees first struck on the idea last''fall as a means of centralizing facilities in the working circles.
WEATHER
Cloudy with sunny periods today and Friday. Scattered showers bo'th days. Winds southwest 15 niph, becoming gusty near showers.
Remaining cool. Low tonight and high Friday at Prince George, Quesnel and Smithers, 32 and 15. Outlook for the weekend calls for variable cloudiness, remaining cool and widely scattered showers. Milder Sunday, and sunny.
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Rotary Club hasn't given up on its proposed $20,000 sports stadium here, despite city council shelving a request for a $5,000 water line to the proposed site.
"Council didn't turn us clown flat," claimed Aid. Harry Loder, who is handling the project for Rotary, "they tabled the question without a vote."
"We still have plarft for the stadium," he continued, "and will probably go back before council in a couple of weeks."
The water line to the proposed site of the stadium south of the curling rink is necessary, claims Rotary, if the stadium is to be built. Water must be available to grow grass and for washrooms and concessions.
"We won't give up on the stadium," Aid. Loder said, "but council tabling our request for a water line may make it too late to go ahead this year."
Aid. Loder explained that had council agreed to putting in the water line Monday, Rotary could have used donated equipment to level the site. Now, he said, we may have to pay for the equipment.
"The equipment we could use is still idle," he said, "but in a week or so the contractors will be using it on their own projects."
According to Mr. Loder only one alderman is blocking city council approving the water line to the "stadium. But, he said, the report by Civic Properties Manager Bill Woycik that the stadium could make money for the city may swing the reluctant alderman.
Rotary had requested that the city take over running the stadium and Mr. Woycik said gate receipts and concessions would more than offset expenses.
Last year the local senior baseball, club, through silver collections, took in $4,000 at the makeshift site they were using by the stock car track on the Vander-hoof highway.
UBC Conference For PG Principal
King George V Elementary School Principal Wilmcr Wicns will be among some 60 persons attending a two-week principals' conference at University of B.C. this summer.
Mr. Weins was nominated by school trustees from among four applications made by principals in the district and the selection was confirmed by a UBC planning committee.
The conference, to be held July 25 to August 5, is limited to 60 principals, selected from the 82 school districts in the province.
UBC is sponsoring the meeting, which will include lectures by prominent educators from the United Kingdom and the United States, as well as Canada. Panel discussions will be led by faculty of UBC summer session.
Principals will receive free housing and meals at UBC while n attendance.
PGE Now All One Road For Accounting Purposes
VANCOUVER (CP) � The Pacific Great Eastern Railway, for accounting purposes, now is considered a completed railway, Premier Bennett said today.
This means interest and depreciation charges over the en-
a record entry of 600 for the I lire line between Vancouver and May event.               I the  Peace  River area  will  be
BENNETT SAYS
New Railway Needs PUC Okay
VANCOUVER CD � Interests proposing to build a 700-mile railway through northern B.C. to the Yukon must receive permission from the Public Utilities Commission before they can start construction, Premier Bennett aid today.
He told a press conference a company is being set up under the   provincial   department   of railways. PUBLIC HEARING
When this step is completed, the company would go before the UC for a certificate of public convenience. This would bring jublic hearings and release of engineering surveys of the proposed route.
Surveys have been carried out at a cost of Sl.000,000 by- ftic Wenncr-Gron (B.C.) Development Co., established to carry out various research in northern B.C. under agreement between the province ami interests of Swedish financier Axel Wenner-Grcn.
The agreement provides that the railway construction be started during the second quarter of I960 � by the end of June.
START FORECAST
"If they clear those hurdles (the commercial transport department and the PUC), then construction will start," the premier said. "1 expect it to start this year."
Asked if the PUC could bring about changes in the original Wenncr-Grcn agreement and the date set for start of construction the premier replied:
"Look at the act." OPEN THE NORTH
Mr. Bennett said the company being established to build the railway will involve prominent people from several areas and will not be dominated by the Wenner-Gren interests.
The road would serve to open up northern B.C. to great development, just as the CPR served to open Western Canada.
He reiterated previous statements that the government has made no coucciibiuuti, no guaran-
tees and no giveaways to Wenner-Gren interests, and he said there is no question of the company being able to grab the only railway franchise in the north and sit on it until such lime as it will become profitable to build it.
SECOND LINE
"There is no franchise," the premier said. "You can build another line parallel if you like."
Asked if we would estimate any completion date for the line, he said: "Right now I want to get it started, but I'm sum it won't take as long to complete as the Liberals and Conservatives look to complete the PGE."
considered part of the operational costs for 1960.
Last year, the provincially-owncd railway was considered a "railway under construction" and interest and depreciation charges on newly-completed portions of the line were not assessed.
The line has been extended by about 300 miles during the last few years to link Vancouver with the Peace River country of northwestern B.C.
Mr. Bennett said all railways use these accounting procedures, assessing no interest or depreciation charges on new construction during its first year of use.
He made the announcement in reply to political criticisms of PGE financial statements which show an operational . profit of $1,000,000 for 1959.
Some political opponents have contended that the line would have shown a Joss of $10,000,000 if interest and depreciation charges for the whole line were included.
"Full interest and depreciation is being charged against the railway operation this year," Mn Bennett said, "and there'll be nri $10,000,000 loss or $5,000,000 or $4,000,000 loss.
"I hope there will be no loss, but you can't tell yet because it is too early in the year."