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PRINCE GEORGE,   BRITISH  COLUMBIA,   MONDAY,   APRIL 25,   1960
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NORWEGIANS ARE BLUSHING BRIGHTLY OVER ANCESTORS' PORNOGRAPHIC HUMOR
BERGEN, Nbrwjay (AP) � Norwegian 'archaeologists examining 12-century runic inscriptions left by Vikings near this west coast city ore blushing;
"Farts of it art very strong pornography," said chief interpreter Aslak Liestoe!.
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HIGHLIGHT OF THE 15.P.O. ELKS regional meeting here Thursday, Friday and Saturday was a march to the cenotaph Saturday afternoon. The meeting, attended by about 100 wa.s to co-ordinate activities for the
provincial convention being held here June 6, 7 and S. Elks attending, the meeting here included Art Dods-worth of Powell River, provincial president.
�Hal Vandervoort photo
LAND UNDER WATER
Three city and nine rural appeals against property assessments were heard here Friday by �the three-man B.C. Assessment Appeal Board.
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Burnaby; R. H. Green, Victoria; and chairman K. M. Beckett, Vancouver, will hand down its .decisions by May* 15.
Majority of the appeals presented to the board came from residents of the VLA Subdivision.
John Tuyltcns, Geoffrey Richmond, James Stelmock Stephen R. Makarenkb, George Fennings, and Le Roy Stone, all appealed rulings on their VLA property.
Mr. Stelmock also appealed assessment on one private lot ho
A "sink-hole" on the Canadian National ' Railway main line east of McBride that had bccji disrupting traffic since last/Tuesday has been bridged, a CNK spokesman said today.
CNK work-crews have completed a wooden bridge over the trouble spot.
Traffic was halted when a section of earth 10-feet deep and 400-feet long started sliding from underneath the tracks.
Near-normal traffic started to flow over the section shortly before midnight Sunday.
However, work trews and equipment will remain on the scene for the next few days as an insurance measure.
Passengers on the CNR Jasper-Prince Rupert route bad been taken around the area bv bus.
owns in the subdivision in addition to his VLA holdings.
The two other rural appeals came from John A. Eisbrenner, whose two lots on 20th are sur-roun(i>iti yn, .three ,sidg� by Lhe VLA .Subdivision.  '
NOT CONSIDERED
Eisbrenner based his appeal on the fact that vvhiie the VLA was givon a 20 per cent reduction "across the board" by a court of revision here in February lie was "not even considered."
Mr. Eisbrenner also said lots seemed to be assesseci unfairly. Ho pointed out that one lot was assessed at $1,750 despite the fact that no improvements had been made on it while the oilier lot, with a house and lawn, was assessed at $1,650.
Three of the VLA residents appealing assessments entered a joint brief in which they claimed assessments had increased over tOO per cent over the previous year and that the court of revision 20 per cent blanket reduction was not fair to some.
The trio, Mr. Stelmock, Mr. Makarenkb and Mr. Fennings, then presented specific information applying to their own property.
Constable  Killed By Mental  Patient
VICTORIA ICP) � An escaped mental patient armed with two rifles ran wild here Sunday night, killing a policeman and injuring a male nurse.
Const. Robert Norman Kirby, 28, of Saanich municipal police was shot through the heart and Horace Goad. 54, a nurse at the Wilkinson Road Mental Hospital, was seriously wounded in the shoulder before a posse of police from three forces captured the unidentified 44-year-old pa-tieht after shooting him in the leg.
Mr. Fennings entered what appeared the strongest appeal of the three stating that a high bank running across his property wasn't "given recognition" in the assessment.
John Davis Bosdet, land appraised for the Department of Finance, Victoria, replied that the bank didn't "have much effect on the value of the property."
Both Mr. Makarenko and Mr. Stelmock also based appeals on the topography of their property.
Mr, Tuyttens said assessment of his property apparently didn't take into consideration a slough covered much of his land.
"The water never leaves the slough," lie said, "making that land worthless." LESS 65 PER CENT
LeRoy Stone said over 85 per cent of his land is flooded each
year, making it worthless.
His claim the property floods each year was challenged by Mr. Bosdet. Trie appeal board decided to take a look at Mr. Stone's property Saturday before leaving Prince George.
Mr. Richmond said one lot slopes at a 70 degree angle, from 20 feet above the road level to 16 feel below the road.
The three city appeals, two entered by John Ernest Nelson on assessment of his lots at 1642 Juniper and 1698 Juniper, and one by Greville R; Kerr over assessment of the Bel-Air Motel property, were heard earlier in the day.
The court of revision had granted Kerr a five per cent reduction on his assessment while upholding the; assessment on Nelson's property.
with  France
Now Hear Tkls...
Item in this column last week on the late-opening habits of PG businessmen must have been taken to heart by Royal Bank's Jim McConncll. About 7:50 ayem today the bank's alarm went off again, which might now be considered as the town's wakey-wakey signal, since it's come to be a pretty regular event . . .
City Poundkeeper Rhys Thomas is more used to handling dogs but did a creditable job when called out to apprehend an animal which was wandering about downtown streets. Turned out to be the goat which is a traditional part of the Elks' initiation ceremonies. Billy had been tethered outside the Elks' lodge and had eaten up most of the rope by which he was tied. He was quite happy to go along when Rhys arrived . . .
In staid old Victoria they must
spread out the 17th of Ireland celebration over the entire year. A Victoria gentleman ordered a drink in the PG lounge Saturday, then with a whooping 3 cheers for the Irish, he tossed the whole thing over his shoulder. Exit Victorian . . . Youngsters who worked so hard during The Citizen's recent circulation carriers' contest missed the boat by not selling a subscription to Citizen Circulation Manager George Ferguson, 4t>7 Wainwright. It's not too late, boys. Fergie still hasn't got one . . .
Kinettes are getting chuckles out of a goof in last Wednesday's Citizen in which it was reported that Peter Beryar talked about lhe "Japanese" city of Hong Kong. For the information of our news suitor. KK is still a British colony . . ,
TUNIS (AP) � Accusing France of new ground and air raids on her soil, Tunisia has served notice that any more border attacks will be considered acts of war.
President Habib Dourguiba cut short a tour of the northwest provinces to dual with the crisis.
Bourguiba's g <> V e r n in o n t charged French forces had launched two attacks killing many civilians.
The foreign ministry in Paris had no commen-t. Habib Hourguiba Jr., Tunisia's ambassador to France, was summoned home for consultations.
Observers here feared the situation was reaching the boiling point along the frontier, where about 10.000 Algerian guerrillas harass French outposts from Tunisian soil. France has accused Tuiiisa of siding with Algerian rebels.
President Bourguiba warned that if France uses the presence of Algerian rebels in Tunisia as
Teen-Age Girls Mi as Car Rolls
Two teen-age girls were hospitalized early Sunday after the car in which they were riding missed a turn and rolled into a ditch on Central.
In "satisfactory" condition today are Sandra Sands, 19. with several broken teeth, and Mavis Cousins, 16, with a fractured wrist and bruises to the knee and chin.
Driver of the car, Ronald Ma-dil.l, 18, and another youth, Fred Allen, 19, escaped injury.
a pretext to make war on Tunisia, "we are ready."
He admitted ho ihad no planes or ships to pit against France, but warned, "we have effective means of riposting." He pointed out that France still has important interests in Tunisia, and his government could take reprisal measures.
Board of Trade has asked eight life insurance and investment iompanies which have Prince CJeor^e offices to make mortgage ho'nay available to local house builders.
The request is contained in letters which went out to each firm last week over the signature of Board President John Morrison.
.The letter said in par1:
''It has become increasingly obvious that the new NHA loan requirements will create a real hardship in our area owing to the limitation on the wage earnings of applicants to $5,500 a year.
"We have many wage earners who will require mortgage facilities to build homes this year, but whose earnings exceed the maximum limit to qualify for a direct NHA loan.
"You arc operating a sales staff in Prince George, and as you are deriving premium dollars from this area, would you advise if you are prepared to return some of these funds by making your mortgage facilities available to house builders here.
"The only company in Prince George giving house mortgages :s the Sun Life Assurance Co. There   are   six   reputable   real
CCFers Leave Policy Unchanged
VANCOUVER (CPI � Owen L. Jones, a 70-year-old socialist who once beat Premier Bennett at the polls, told fellow CCFers Sunday at their annual B.C. convention they must fight as a unit to defeat the Social Credit parly in the next provincial general election.
Mr. Jones, winner by 4,900 votes in a federal byelection in Yale riding in 1948 when Mr. Bennett ran as a Conservative, succeeded Mrs. Grace Maclnnes of Vancouver in the provincial presidency.
The convention put him into office 103-85 in a two-way race with Colin Cameron, former Na-naimo CCF MP.
The election came as delegates pushed through a final-day batch of business, including unanimous re-election of Robert Strachan as provincial party leader.
The convention left the party's broad basic policy statement, adopted a year earlier, practically unchanged.
Employment situation in this area is described as "not very good" by Unemployment Insurance Commission official Cliff Bristow.
�ui. Mr. Bristow said, the number of unemployed is no higher than usual for this time of year.
He said the situation was "the usual seasonal layoff we have every spring at breakup time."
"The big thing," he said, "is how long the present situation will continue; If it is a short layoff the local economy won't be too seriously effected."
Logging and lumbering are at a low ebb, brought about by road restrictions. The situation is expected to< continue "until about the last week in May".
Total number of jobless here is 3,589, including 330 women, according to figures released by P. G. Simpson, manager of the National Employment Service here.
During the same period last year jobless numbered 4,178. However, this included applicants served by the former Quesnel branch office.
Work is slowly increasing in volume in  the construction industry and general feeling is that j this should be a good construction year, said Mr. Bristow.
He said construction seems to be starting about two weeks earlier than normal.
The proposed Peace River Power scheme and the Alwcg Railwy is said to be responsible for an increse in transient workers. Mr. Simpson, in his report, said that many of the transients are seeking work on the "mooted northern development."
estate and insurance offices in the city . . . which would be capable of handling your mortgage facilities."
KOREA:
SEOUL (AP) � Army troops with gas masks, fixed bayonets and tanks tonight fired tear gas into a crowd of nearly 5.000 Koreans demonstrating in Seoul against Syngman Rhee's government.
Led by 200 college professors, the crowd of students and civilians marched to the National Assembly building ' and demanded the resignation of Rhee, all Supreme Court justices and members of the assembly.
It was the first such street demonstration in the Korean capital since martial law was clamped down after the bloody riots last Tuesday and demonstrations were banned.
Rhee's government today bowed to a demand of the National Assembly and eased martial law throughout the tense nation.
RHEE PROMISING
Rhee, 85, also promised to run South Korea . as a non-partisan president but showed no inclination to give up his autocratic powers. Opposition assemblymen and newspapers sharply criticized Rhec for failing to call new elections for president and vice-president.
Military rule in Seoul and four other cities was stepped down from "emergency" martial law to "security" martial law after the assembly adopted a resolution staling the more severe form was illegal.
MILITARY FADES
The change means the military will fade into the background but still retain final control. Outdoor gatherings arc still banned, but civilians will no longer be tried in military courts.
Rhee announced Sunday that he was cutting all ties with his powerful � but now discredited � Liberal party and would "seek to serve the nation solely as the chief executive as head of the administration." REFORMS MOOTED
In promising reforms "to correct the mistakes of the past." Rhee sidestepped any personal responsibility for last week's slaughter.
But he made no mention of new elections and said nothing of reports that he would become a figurehead chief of state and turn the government over to a premier responsible to parliament.
The official death toll of the Tuesday rioting rose today to 130 dead as more of those injured died. The number of wounded and injured was scaled down to 693 from 777.
Police today laid a charge if molo r manslaughter igainst. a McLeod Lake man lollcwing the death Sunday >1" a 30-year-qkl woman in a traffic mishap on the Hail Highway.
Mrs. Harriet Solonas was killed instantly and seven ither persons were injured in a rear-end collision involving two half-ton trucks near McLeod Lake, S-l mile-north of here.
Charged is Frank Deatrich, about 50, driver of the truck whlceh collided with the one in which Mrs. Solonas was a .passenger. Deatrich was released from 'hospital Sunday after treatment for minor injuries.
He is expected to appear in police court Tuesday.
Six others, including the dead woman's husband, David, were admitted to 'Prince George Regional Hospital.
In "satisfactory" condition today were Antoine Solonas, Tom Trussler and Tom Oley. Another man, J. E. San'born, escaped injury. All were 'from 'McLeod Lake.
Mr. and Mrs. Solonas were [passengers in the first vehicle driven 'by Sanborn. They stopped on the highway to pick up Solonas' brother, Antoine.
The second vehicle, driven by Deatrich, came around a bend in the highway crashing into the i*ear end of the San'born truck, police said.
When 'the collision "occurred, San'born wa.s across' the road talking with an ROMP constable
Public Interest Gap
VANCOUVER (CP)�Honorary Chairman il. R. MacMillan of MacMillan, Bloedcl and Powell River Co. said here lack of informed public interests is as great a danger to the forest industry as fire, insect and disease hazards.
"Alert, active public opinion is needed to see that the forest industry gets a fair deal for the sake of its beneficiaries, customers, suppliers and workers," he said.
Mr. MacMillan told the annual meeting of the B.C. division of the Canadian Forestry Association the industry is especially threatened by the altitude of government authorities, school districts, unions, utilities and "price fixing suppliers."
The industry must be protected against discriminatory taxes, tar-riffs and imposion of unwarranted load by both government agencies and trade unions, he told t h e conference.
He said the forest industry employs more people and returns more in tax revenue than any other industry in Canada. It is the greatest market for Canada's secondary industries and supplies more than one third of the wealth of the country's primary industries, he said.
Kills Thousands
TEHRAN, Iran. (AP) � Estimates of the earthquake- death toll in 'the south Iranian city of Lar and neighboring villages ranged today'between 1,500 and 3,000.
About 97 per cent of Lar � a cotton and tobacco centre of 17,000 .population 550 miles south of Tehran � was completely devastated.
A Red Cross spokesman estimated it would take three weeks to clear the debris and remove >the dead.
who had put o\^ hi:-: red flasher to stop San'born for a routine shock.
A 'mote manslaughter char.se was tl.-o laid here last week in in accident which claimed the life of lS-year-old Richard Tor-;erson.
PREMIER W. A. C. Bennett says reports European labor will be used by Wcnner-Gren interests, at low rates of pay, for development in this area are untrue. (Story, page five).
C. J. Oliver Favored To Erect Board Office
(.'. j. Oliver Ltd. has been recommended as con'tractpr for the new board'of trade'building, 'to 'be "built next to the McKerizie Monument at Georrge Street and First Ave.
The company entered the low bid of $12,501 for construction of the one-storey >buihling. The iiid ti'luvvs for "the owners lo provide the contractor with vertican boarding for the inside and outside.
C*. J. Oliver entered an alternate bid of $13,250 if it should have to provide t/he vertical boarding.
The construction firm stated in its bid that it could erect the building in 30rworking days.
The board of trade, presently studying financing arrangements, has two weeks In which to accept the tender.
Kelowna Girl Renamed
KKLOWNA (CD� Kolownu's Lady of the Lake, Katihy Hillier, was elected to her second term as provincial chairman of the three-day B.C. Teen-Town conference here.
A salmon Ann miss, [sobel Sinclair, Is 1960 Teen�Town Sweetheart.
Variable cloudiness with widely scattered showers today and Tuesday. Little change in temperature. Light winds.
Low tonight and high Tuesday at Prince George and 'Quesnel, 2S and 55; Smlthesrs, 35 and 55.             i
Peace River Region Sunny with a few cloudy intervals Tuesday.- Little change in temperature. Low tonight and high Tuesday at Grande Prairie, .'50 and 50.
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ONLY SOME HEAR IT
Mystery Drone Puzzles Britons
LONDON (AP) � Down in quiet Kent county a mysterious droning noise just never seems to slop.
Most people, can't hear the noise at all because the pitch is too low. But those able to pick up the low frequency range complain the strange humming torments them day and night. They say it jangles nerves, breaks into the deepest sleep and stays with the hearer till he is far from Kent.
. Electricity and telephone men have checked all the wires strung
across the countryside and say they emit no drone.
The government has disavowed all knowledge of the matter � but with a certain coyness that aroused the suspicions of William Decdes, Conservative MP for the market town of Aschford.
He noted that Kent lies nearer than any other part of Britain to the continent of Europe.
"Obviously," said Deedes, "the hum is something to do with defence warning apparatus."
He plans on bringing the matter up in Parliament and demand
an  investigation.
"I do' not hear it myself, but far too many people complain for it to be just imagination," said Deedes.
Until recently imagination was frequently blamed. It was only when one long-suffering woman wrote to a local newspaper that sufferers realized they were not alone. Now more than 100 people have reported being in tune with the noise.
For five years the woman had been tormented by the drone but could never find anyone else who
heard it. She was advised to consult doctors.
Then one day a woman friend who had been out of the country for years visited the woman's home. She immediately remarked:
"My dear, what is' that awful humming noise? Can't you turn it off?"
When the affair finally broke into print many people reported they had said nothing about it for fear of ridicule.
Now they know they have company.
But the noise goes on.
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