WANT ADS Buy or Sell Everything Phone LO 4-2441 The Only Daily Newspaper Serving North-Central British Columbia WEATHER FORECAST Low 28, High 55, Showers Crown Life Insurance Co. Wm. J. Shockey District Representative Phone LOgan 4-2441 Voi. 4; No. 78 PRINCE GEORGE, BRITISH COLUMBIA, THURSDAY, APRIL 21, 1960 7c a Copy BY CARRIER 35C PER WEEK Terrace Mishap TERRACE (CIl _ Ten-year-old Randy Hubble of Prince Rupert was drowned here Wednesday as he played with three other boys beside the Skeena River. Police wore dragging the river for the body of .the boy, who was here visiting friends. Tiie boy's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Tye Hubble, came here to aid in the search from Prince Rupert, where Mr. Hubble is cm-ployed by the Columbia Cellulose Company. CARACAS, Venezuela (CPl � Loyal government troops led by tanks converged on the mountain city of San Cristobal today to snuff out the last stronghold of a doomed revolt. Some rebels were reported in flight toward the Colombian border. A government spokesman reported a major battle was shaping up within hours to crush the insurgents holed up in the capital of Tachira stale. President Romulo Belancourt's government accused the rebels of seizing 200 hostages to use as shield in a hopeless last-ditch stand. Venezuelan frontier guards were reported to have repulsed some rebel units trying to 'escape to neighboring Colombia, from where they launched their invasion Wednesday. Betancourt told the nation in a broadcast Wednesday night that the rebellion led by an ambitious retired general had failed and would be crushed within hours. Major military, political and labor leaders rallied behind his left-leaning coalition regime. Interior Minister Luis Aguslo public reported that the rebels had suffered losses but so far there had been no casualties. LONDON (Ketiters) � Kast and West appeared ready today 16 discuss ;i Berlin compromise ;it summit talks starling in Paris May 16. Several speeches in the last 21 hours from both sides of the Iron Curtain indicate the Berlin-Germany problem may get equal priority with disarmament at the summit. Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev has declared disarmament should get top priority at the Paris conference. Walter Ulbricht, Easl Germany's deputy premier and Com-muni.Mt, party chief, told a television audience Wednesday his gjffyernment Is ready for a compromise on West Berlin's status. ' United States Undersecretary of State' Douglas Dillon told a labor conference in New York Wednesday night: "We arc will-in;,' to consider interim arrangements to reduce tensions in Berlin." Dillon, chief foreign policy planner under Stale Secretary Christian Herter, added: "But we are determined to maintain out presence In Berlin and to preserve its ties with the West German Federal Republic." .Jacob Hoist, president of the Prince George and District Labor Council, leaves Friday for Mon'treal to join union leaders from across Canada for next week's massive Canadian Labor Congress convention. Top men in some of Canada's most powerful unions are now holding policy conferences there to plan their official stand on some issues to be aired during the gathering. , The country's largest single union � the 80,000 - member United Steelworkers of America (CLC) � will set the public pace Friday with its two-day national policy conference. It promises to be a wide-open discussion of policies and practices on wages, contracts, (political action, fringe benefits and public relations. Other unions are holding talk.' as a prelude to the congress convention, expected to attract more than 1,800 delegates. These quieter meetings- involve officials of unions representing oi workers, railway clerks, teamsters and truck drivers, and elec trlcal workers. At the same time, the big brass of the CLC � the 21-mem her executive council � are digging into the issues due to go before the congress. The CLC, which claims 1,150,-000 members, is reported to havi. a quartet of key issues to resolve: � What, to do about a proposed alliance between 'labor and the CCF party. � What to do about the International Brotherhood ^ Teamsters, which is appealing a CLC ruling that found it guilty of stopping into the jurisdiction of the railway unions. Sharp disciplinary action against the Teamsters may be taken if the appeal is tossed out. � What to do about the Seafarers International Union which has been suspended 'by the CLC for raiding itho National Association of Marino Engineers, relatively small union that merged with it'he Canadian Brotherhood of Railway and Transport Workers, Canada's biggest transport union. 9 What to do about getting more money to meet; the mounting costs of the CLC � in the form o'f higher 'per capita dues paid by affiliated unions. New PGE Agent Don McKinnon has taken over the position of station agent for the Pacific Great Eastern Railway here. Mr. McKinnon succeeds Gordon Smetanuk to the post. Mr. McKinnon was PGE station agent in Lillooet prior to coming to Prince George. He will be replaced in Lillooet by Mr. Smetanuk. U.S. Gives Russia New Disarm Scheme � GENEVA (Reuters) � Russia was invited today to join the United Stales in studying a method for verifying the armed force levels of the two countries. U.S. delegate Frederick Eaton issued the invitation at the 10-nalion disarmament talks here. First reaction from Soviet delegate Valerian Zorin was reported to be unfavorable. But he promised to study the proposal. The conference has been deadlocked on how to start up negotiations ever since it convened .March 15. Today's meeting was the first of seven sessions before the conference adjourns April 29 until June 7. During adjournment, it is hoped government heads will agree at summit talks in Paris on a way to get negotiations started. Now Hear Tkis... B.C. FOREST SERVICE is busy sprucing up operations for another work-filled summer. Here a PWA Beaver practises low-level supply dropping at the airport. Bill Harvie was at the controls and service air observer Jim Muir was doing the "'bombing." He landed two of three parcels in the centre of the target area. �Hal Vandervoort Photo Winch Claims Wen-Gren Company Seeking Cheap Labor from Europe VANCOUVER CD � Outspoken CCFcr Harold Winch said Wednesday he has heard that Swedish industrialist Axel Wenncr-Gren is recruiting low-paid European labor for work in the Northern B.C. development. Mr. Winch, member of parliament for Vancouver East, told a meeting of more than 550 unemployed workers here that a Danish friend had reported Wen-ner-Gren interests have been advertising in Danish papers for tradesmen. , near the trade union rates in B.C.," Mr. Winch added. Secretary Pat O'Neal of the B.C. Federation of Labor also told of advertising campaigns in Holland and Denmark. "We must do all we possibly can to prevent it," Mr. O'Neal said. IN AGREEMENT Attorney-General Bonner, who is also trade and industries minister, commented later that the memorandum of agreement between the B.C. government and "And the rates are nowhere j Wcnner-Gren B.C. Development Flags Wave, Guns Boom. For Queen's 34th Birthday LONDON (Reuters) � Queen Elizabeth was 34 today and flags flew from public buildings and guns thundered in royal salute. In London's Hyde Park the Royal Horse Artillery fired a 41-gun salute and the honorable artillery company fired a 62-giin salute at the Tower of London. Naval ships and shore batteries fired salutes of 21 guns. Prince Phillip, not known to share his wife's love of horses, made an unexpected decision to accompany the Queen from Windsor to the Badminton Horse trials today. After a quiet, family morning �it Windsor Castle, Prince Charles, Local swain met an old flame in a downtown pub yesterday and was escorting her to his home on the Hart highway when he was set upon by two heavies who relieved him of $9 and his watch. The entire caper appeared well-planned, which might lead one to believe old friends aren't always the best . . . Newest embarkation toward the matrimonial trail occurred Saturday in Vancouver when Norm "Screech" Wcsccn popped the question to student nurse lovely at St. Paul's Hospital, and whs accepted. Later the s;imc eve they took in Hen llur which may be "significant but if so it escapes us . � � p In line-up at B of M wicket today was a provincial jail guard in his olive-drab uniform which is much like that worn by game department laddies. This explains why a chap in adjacent line-up, after looking closely, walked over and contributed: Pardon me sir, but there's something I'd like to know about our game laws . . . Cariboo health unit MHO Dr. Ken Benson is in Victoria attending a four-day series of talks sponsored by the provincial health department . . . Note to the blue Volks operator, licence 396-966; Better turn your front licence plate right side up. It's confusing to the boys in brown . . . For Classified Ad readers who turn to Page 11 today and get one of thn early runs before the goof was noticed, we might explain that the RD-7 cat listed under rets for sale is not the kind that purrs . . . Most unusual weather report received today at PC's met office came from the U.S. South .Pole station. It reported high temp yesterday was 81 below and low was 38 below. By contrast, it was 101 in Presidio, Texas. So who wants to be a penguin or a I large cactus NEW DELHI (Reuters) � 0 in in u n 1st Chinese Premier Dhdu En-lai made the rounds of ndia's stern statesmen today in he second day of his mission to smooth over the Chinese-Indian border dispute. Chou said he had "fair and Ull" talks after emerging from i two-hour meeting with Pandit iovind Ballabh Pant, Indian minister for home affairs. The meeting was held after Chou called on India's Vice-President Sarvapalli Radhak-rishman and before a session with Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru. Communist diplomats said privately that Chou was ready to make substantial concessions to ease the strained relations between the two nations over Chinese claims to Indian frontier-territory. But Indian statesmen were reported to be in a grim and unyielding mood, unwilling to accept any settlement which might mean condoning the aggression they accuse China of having committed. Chou said the boundary dispute had '�difficult aspects" but lie was convinced it could be settled. Nehru said any solution "must bo in accordance to the dignity and self-respect of each country, well as in keeping with the causes of peace in Asia 11, and Princess Anne, 9, left with their parents for Gloucestershire for the three-day trials. Ninc-wcck-old Prince Andrew stayed behind with his nurse. Princess Margaret and her fiance, Antony Armstrong-Jones, were also expected to attend the trials along with the Queen Mother. 400 Feet of Sliding Track Disrupts CNR The CNR line between Me-Bride and Valemount, disrupted since Tuesday when a section 10-fccl deep and 400-feet long started sliding, is expected to be back in normal opera-lion by midnight tonight. The "sink hole", is located at Mile 31.9, east of McBride, in the Tcte Jamie subdivision. Passengers are being taken around the "hole" by bus. Five bulldozers, and numerous other equipment, arc being- used in reopening the track. A temporary track is being built around the trouble spot. Co. stipulates preference shall be given to B.C. labor and ma tcrials. He thought the report was a "malicious rumor," adding: "There is no scarcity of B.C. tradesmen and I am quite cer-laic a corporation incorporated in the province, such as Wcnncr-Grcn B.C. Development, would not for a moment contemplate such a practice." The company is conducting surveys for a proposed railway from Prince George to the Yukon through northern B.C. and development of the area. Company officials were not available for comment. The labor rally called for a restriction on immigration "until there is full employment for people already living here." PM Ofi to Talks In Sunny Mexico OTTAWA (CD�Prime Minister and Mrs. Dicfcnbaker leTt by plane today for Mexico to return the state visit to Canada last October of President Lopez Mateos. During the two-day and three-night visit, Mr. Diefenbaker will make four speeches and give a press conference. Trade and international relations are expected to be the main topics of his meetings with the Mexican president. Rafael He La (Jolina, Mexican ambassador to Canada, accompanied tiie prime minister on the triii. Canada's sales to Mexico dropped to $27,766,000 from $31,564,-000 in 1!)."kS, but this country's import from Mexico rose to $34,-015.000 from $32,058,000. Mr. Diefenbakei; is the first Canadian prime minister to visit Mexico, but it is his second trip there. He and Mrs. Diefenbaker pent their honeymoon.at Alca-pulco in December, 193;;. Assessment To Resume Punishment to Fit Crime For Youthful Boat Thieves VANCOUVER (CP) � Three boys, two 12 and another 11, who were caught with a dinghy they had stolen from Fishermen's Wharf and painted to camouflage it, will begin repainting it today. C. V. Hunt, the owner, agreed not to take them into juvenile court if they repaint the craft to itd original color. CABINET RESIGNS Rhee in Lonely Control Of S. Korean Powder keg SEOUL, South Korea 'CD -President Syngman Rhec wa left in lonely control of South Korean affairs today after both his cabinet and the central com mittce of his Liberal party resigned en masse. The cabinet and the parly or ganization accepted responsibility for the bloody riots this week in which hundreds of anti-government demonstrators were killed or wounded. Following the resignations, Rhee summoned six senior "neutral" politicians to his heavily guarded residence to discuss the crisis. Rhee's opposition continued to demand new presidential elections. There w,erc no reports of renewed violence but tension mounted as the bodies of demonstrators shot by police were turned over to weeping, wailing relatives. With at least 1,000 persons shot during the riots, the known death toll stood at 147. Hundreds more still were in critical condition. The cabinet resignation appeared to be mainly an apology for Police Court Raymond Sullivan was granted 30 clays time to pay a $250 fine for driving while his license was suspended, after he pleaded guilty to the charge in police court today. When checked by police at 3 a.m. today, Sullivan told the constable his license was at home. Upon their arrival at the house, Sullivan admitted his license had been suspended two years ago. REMANDED Ronald John McKinnon was remanded to April 29 for sentence after pleading guilty to false pretences involving a worthless cheque. He cashed a cheque for $15 on non-existent Dawson Creek bank with an employee of the local liquor vendor whom he had known in Vanderhoof. McKinnon said he was an al-�oholic and did not recall committing the offence. A 37-year-old man was found dead Wednesday in bed in a house he had been looking after t 1229 Ninth. Police said today Hubert Ga-reau was believed to have died iue to natural causes. Garcau was unemployed and had no relatives in Prince George. An inquest will be conducted onight. the bloodshed and not a move toward correcting underlying causes of discontent. United States Ambassador Waller P. McConaughy met with Rhee for an hour to press the U.S. demand for more democracy as a 'solution to the situation. The retiring ministers neither fixed nor accepted the responsibility for the harsh military suppression of the civilian outbreaks. Martial law headquarters announced meanwhile the release of 1,004 demonstrators picked up during the uprising and said 104 were still being held. The B.C. Assessment Appeal Boa,rd will sit here Friday and Saturday to heat-nine appeals against court of revision judgments handed down on rural assessments in February. The board will also heat-three appeals on city assessments. Seven of the rural appeals are from residents of the VLA Subdivision who were awarded a 20 per cent reduction by the court of revision. 350 PER CENT The 20 per cent reduction came after some 30 veterans protested over increased assessments which, they claimed, were up as much as 350 per cent from the previous year. The VLA residents, however, feel the assessment should be reduced further. Should the appeal board grant them a further reduction, it would affect all VLA assessments dealt with by the court of revision, it was reported today. CROSS APPEALS Local provincial assessor Len Parker, who was turned down when he applied to appeal many of the 47 assessments dealt with by the court, has entered cross appeals. The three city appeals will be heard by the appeal board at 10 a.m. Friday while the rural appeals will be heard at 2 p.m., with further sittings Saturday. Traffic Ticket Planned With Built-in Summons Prince George is expected to adopt a new-type traffic ticket with a built-in summons, but it will probably be after the current supply of the old-style ones has run out. Question will be discussed, at the next city council traffic committee meeting, the dale of which has not been set. However, local RCMP and city officials ( have indicated their willingness to use the uniform traffic ticket which Attorney General Robert Bonner announced today would be used in unorganized areas of the province. Mr. Bonner said also he had hoped other parts of the province, including large cities, would adopt it. The new ticket is a perforated, four-part form. It comes in four colors and the summons is included. With a scries of check marks in 80 optional squares a constable can record almost any offence. If an incident should defy the selection system, a small space is provided in which' police can write in the offence. Mr. Bonner said the ticket will Variable cloudiness with scattered afternoon showers today. Sunny and a little warmer with lo'iidy periods Friday. L'ighl winds. Low tonight and iigh Friday at Quesnel and Prince George 28 and 55. At Sriiithers 25 and 55. Last 24 Hours Lo Hi Precip. Prince George.. 2!) 55 .01 Terrace ............ 33 -17 .03 Smithers ........ 24 50 __ Quesnel .......... :5-i 53 .03 Kamloops ........ :52 63 _ Dawson Creek 25 49 _ Fort St. John.. 28 �ID .02 Fort Nelson .... US 55 tr. Whitehorso .... 2S -10 _ provide uniform information to the motor vehicle branch and to eliminate "a great deal of clerical effort which used to be required in connection with traffic \i tickets." He said several municipalities have already indicated they will adopt the new ticket. B.C. People Are 'Different' VANCOUVER Id1!�A historian says British Columbians are different kind of Canadians. But, says Dr. Margaret Onus-by, University of B.C. lecturer and centennial history author: "We can't say any more, because we don't know any more." "We don't know much about the economic development of this province, of early engineering and mining, or the first salmon fishing, or the colorful past of the lumbering Industry." She urged social studies teachers to talk to retired engineers, pioneer fishermen and loggers and the skippers of early coasters before they die. For the first step to completing a history is the collection of material. Skinheads Plan World Meeting SAINT - NAZA1RK, Franco (Reuters) � The 'first World Assembly of Bald Men will be held at La Baule, near here, May 22, 'the organizers .announced Wednesday. The National Brotherhood of the Bald Men of France said the aim of the assembly is to strengthen the ties between bald men of different nationalities in an atmosphere of good humor. Contingents are expected from Britain, Belgium, Italy, Switzerland and West Germany. BICYCLES, RADIOS, CAMERAS Citizen News Boys Win Big In Competition ! and the world." KKX SHEWt'JULUK IAX UAJLL, Jli. Fourteen Citizen news boys, winners of a two-months long sales contest, Saturday will be presented' with prizes ranging from bicycles to flash cameras to ball gloves at a banquet to be attended by up to 100 young fellow businessmen. Winners of the contest, split into street sales and home carrier competition, were announced today. Bicycles will be awarded to 11-ycar-old Ken Shcwchuk and Ian Hall, Jr., 14, first prize winners in the two categories. The Shew-chuk boy marketed 3,003 copies of The Citizen on downtown sidewalks in two months, topping his nearest competitor by more than 1,300 sales. The other first prize winner piled up 44 new customers on his (See "PAPER BOYS" Page 3) LAHUY WEAT11KU1A' GA11Y TIlOMl'SOxV