Boy with Broken Legs Wins Soap Box Derby
By LEN WALKER
Citizen Snorts Editor
Spunky 11-year-old Garry Lind-strom threw aside his crutches Monday afternoon and, racing with two broken legs, defeated 48 other contestants to capture first prize in the annual soap box derby here.
Garry has been on crutches since May 15 when he was hit by another soap box during trial races, suffering fractures to both legs. He had his legs taped lightly, rather than having them put in casts, in order to compete in the race.
AT THE LEFT arc Garry
Liridstrom and Doug Allen, Derby Finalists, .May 2X
The victory for the youngster won him a trophy, a .22 rifle and an expense paid trip to Mission City to represent Prince i George July 1 in the Western j Canada Soap Box Derby. Winner of the derby goes to Akron, Ohio for the North American championship.
The Lindstrom boy, in his light blue racer, streaked down the 1,000-foot nunvay in the final race to edge out second-place winner Doug Allen by half a ear length.
lie commented on winning, "I took it all! I took it ail!." He was too excited to say more.
In the crowd were the two proudest parents in Prince George, Mr. and Mrs. Arthur
Lindstrom, Garry's parents. They had permitted Garry, with a doctor's approval, to compete in the race in spite of his broken legs because "It would have broken his heart to miss the race."
More than 600 spectators lined the course and gave the youthful driver a roaring ovation for his victory.
Garry, along with other winners, was honored at a banquet attended by drivers, parents, Elks and officials last evening.
The victory was the fulfillment of a much-sought-after dream for young Lindslrom who spent many hours of labor to construct his car, the first he had raced.
Spectators were treated to many a thrill as the cars, two at a time, raced down the track
neck and neck. At times officials had to be Johnny-on-the-spot as only inches separated the winning car from the second bug.
Although Lindstrom, one of the youngest in the race, will be the official delegate from this area at Mission City it is anticipated several other boys will also enter.
Officials praised the boys for their workmanship in building the soap box racers. Judges found it difficult to choose winners in the various divisions and a total of three hours was spent going over the vehicles to select winners of construction and other awards.
Of the original SO entrants only one failed to show for the annual event; his car was uncompleted.
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PRINCE GEORGE, BRITISH COLUMBIA, TUESDAY, MAY 24, 1960
Man Gets Year in Prison On Bigamy Charge Here
David Jamison, 20, wa-s sen-1ilencca involving worthless
tcnccil iii one year in j-.ril for :l)lKaimy 'toy Maclsbrate George
�The cheques were cashed to
Stewait in police court today.;] .purchase a wedding r*ng and
.kmii.-mi jkaded j-'.uK'i.v Pniday'i flowers for iii � il'legal marriage.
�to Ljuin'4 through � form of cri-ar- Jamison, when �asked i�f he had
riaj:u April :;o with a LG-yeardld I*i iiice CJeoi'gc girl; He wu.-t already niaiTird and I'he father of throe, children.
The-
will ili(! served eon-
ahyt'h'irig to say before sentence was passed, asked "mercy" of fhe coiiPl.
''You lravc a long record <>l False pretences, have you 'iKri?"
secuiively with an lS-itionUis Dhe� mKtgistra'ie"-asked. "And 'tlliis sentence he received here May i bigamy) is a form of false pr'e-Jl for live charges oT -fal.-.i- i>re- i tences."
Heavy and unexpected snowfall closed the Unit Highway from near Chetwynd/to East Pine Sunday.
The highway was closed during the morning but snbwplows opened it again by Sunday afternoon.
An estimated US inches of snow fell in the Dawson Creek-
Suuny with cloudy peril "I today and Wednesday, l.itil change in temperature, lighl I northerly winds, rising to 20 lo-1 call.v. Low tonight and high Wudricsduy al Quesnel 32 and (iS; Prince George and Smith-urs, l>2 and 05.
I'oacc Ilivrr Keg'ion
Sunny and waiin today and Wednesday, Light winds. Low tonight and high tomorrow at Grande Prairie, .".."> and (i."j.
Last 2 1 Hours
Lo Hi Prccip.
prince George 35 5S trace
Quesnel ........ 29 02
Terrace ...... lo 51 .15
Smi'thors ....... .">- 55 .02
Kamloops . 37 (�i)
Dawson Creek _'.' 52
Fort St. John . .">2 17 .02
Fort Nelson ... 30 53 .15
Whitehorse..... -10 7ii �
Fort St. John area of the Peace River, a highways department official, said today.
Snowfall in the Pine Pass-Chelwynd area was estimated at 10 inches.
Department of Highways said the heavy, wet snow also caused mud slides in the Chelwynd area and Pine 1'ass.
Fort St. .lolm is still blanketed by three inches of snow today. However, there is no snow on the ground at Dawson Creek.
It is not known how much snow remains in the Pine-Pass-Chctwynd area.
Snow also fell in the Prince George area.
U.S. Air Force base at Baldy Hughes received snow for 13 hours Saturday. However much i)!' it melted on the ground.
Snow was also reported at Clu-culz Lake.
An estimated .65 inches of precipitation fell on the Prince George area Friday and Saturday according lo the weather office.
This brought last week's total precipitation to 13.15 inches and May's total to 3.71 inches, an all time record for that length of time during May.
Prince George will get a chance to dry out according to the weather office. No rain is expected during the next few days.
Now Hear This...
In case Burns Lake officials are looking for the big Union Jack they kindly lent the Rotar-ians and Shriners, it's still hanging in the Civic Centre . . .
Great kafful'fle at Dawson j Creek where several hundred; (by their story) ladies think] they should have been invited to Licut.*Cov. Frank Ross' farewell reception, but weren't, prompted the DC city council to issue a statement explaining that the invitations emanated from Government House at Victoria, and no one locally knew what motivated the choices. This explanation is ottered in case PG ladies get the same idea, although being ladies, they probably won't . . .
United Steel workers of America rep Russ Hoover was passing through town en route for Vancouver when lie learned an ex-Kitimat pal Hill Cutt now is managing a local hotel. Hoover's trip was delayed a few hours , . . For � the benefit of local
organizations which stage functions of one sort or another, the only official rep of The Canadian Press in this entire North-Central area of B.C. is The Citizen, and only Citizen staffers are entitled lo say they ALSO represent � The Canadian Press. Anyone else is pulling your legs . . .
Renewing old acquaintances at the cop shop over the weekend was Trev Schoficld of the Peace River Block News al Dawson Creek . . . Printer Erik Seaberg occasionally has to keep his distance from fellow workers because he likes chawing on garlic. T'other clay as a sort of a gentle hint the boys made up a sign for him which reads "King of the Aura" . . .
End of long wait is in sight for PG's two TV licence applicants. Word came over The Canadian Pres wire at noon today that the BBG expects to make the fatal announcement tomorrow evening ur early Thursday ...
VANCOUVER id1) � Head of a group proposing to develop northern B.'J. says the only "giveaway" involved is the $9,-5M.000 of risk capital we have already spent in B.C."
Bernard Gore said accusations of giveaway by CCF Opposition Lender Robert Slrachan about development by interests of Swedish financier Axel Wenner-Gren are a "lot of nonsense."
Mr. Gore is president of Wen-ncr-Gren B.C. Development .Company, deputy chairman of Peace River Power Development Company, and will be a director of Pacific Northern Railway Company which plans a rail line from north-central B.C. lo the Yukon border.
"What has been given away ',,j P>A}''" ho asked in a viu'e interview. "Nothing."
JUST WATER
"The water of the Peace River? That's all we're proposing to use. No one can give that away. It's an inexhaustible resource.
"The minerals in the area? They don't go with the railway. Anyone, even Mr. Slrachan, is free to stake a claim if he wants to, jusl like us ...
"There is simply no need for us to' defend ourselves against these charges," Mr. Gore said. "They are nonsen.se."
He said the projects involved � development of hydro potential on the Peace River in northeastern B.C. and of other resources in the Rocky Mountain Trench area of the interior � are "so big they will go ahead with or without Wenner-Gren."
WIDE INTEREST
"There is great world-wide interest, backed by hard cash, because it has been demonstrated that the projects are feasible.
"In any event, with some $630,-()()().()()() to be raised largely from the public money market for the power project, it is a certainty that l>r. Wenner-Grcn will not be the majority shareholder."
Mr. Gore derided partisan criticism of the developments, saying the Wenner-Gren interests have fulfilled all obligations up to the present and "we'll carry through."
lie said if the CCF gain power and want to nationalize the Peace River project, "let them go ahead � but at least they should say 'thank you' to us for giving them something to nationalize."
"... Critics or no critics, we are going ahead."
Alex Damicu Pierre entered a plea of not guilty at the first day of his (rial on a murder charge in Supreme Court hero today.
He is charged nith the Feb. 18 rifle murder of Tommy Zaa Williams, -I, of the Tachi Indian Kescrvc near Fort St. James. City lawyer Frank Perry is acting for the Crown. Defence conn.se) is Henry 1). Castillou of Vancouver.
Trial, bring heard before Chief Justice Sherwood Lett, is expected to t:iU<- most of the week. It is the first case t� conic forward as Spring Assizes open here tor an expected two-weejs ruu.
AN ATTRACTIVE FEATURE of the Elks May Day parade Monday was the procession of Aurora Queen contestants, each of whom rode in an open convertible along the chilly parade route. Shown above is 17-year-old Miss Leslie DeGrace, the Canadian Legion entry in the contest. �Yandervoort Photo
IN CONTINUING DENTAL WAR
A Prince George dental technician has lost his second court battle involving provisions of the provincial Dentistry Act.
Clayton Willson was fined $200 after found guilty of illegally taking the impression of a man's jaw for a partial denial plate.
lie appeared Friday before Magistrate Stanley Carling. W. J. Wallace, a Vancouver lawyer who acts as a special prosecutor for the B.C. College of Dental Surgeons, appeared for the Crown. Frank Perry acted for the accused.
Willson was convicted mainly on the testimony of Fred Wolfgang Pfitzner, a Vancouver private investigator, who told the court Willson took an impression of his jaw Sept. 16, 1959, for the purpose of making a partial plate.
Under current provisions of the dentistry legislation, it is unlawful for a dental technician to make an impression of the patient's jaw. Law requires all impressions to be taken by a dental surgeon.
Legislation to amend the act has been before the provincial I legislature for more than two | years.
Pfilzner told the court he went lo Willson's laboratory at 1772 Seventh, Sept. 10 and that Will-son "identified himself as Dr. Willson."
Later, in cross-examination, Pfitzner admiled he had asked "Dr. Willson?" when the technician answered the door, anc that Willson had replied "Yes."
He said Willson then examined his mouth, told him he would require two fillings, to which Pfitzner replied he only wanted a partial denture for a missing tooth.
According to the detective, he returned later in the day when Willson took impressions of both the upper and lower jaws.
Pfitzner said he gave Willson S10 as a clown payment, the full price being set at $15.
"He said he couldn't give me a receipt as what he was doing was illegal at the time, but would mail a receipt later as it would then be legal," Pfilzner testified.
Tiie witness said he returned at a later date, had the partial placed in his mouth, and paid the S5 balance.
Pfitzner told the court he left the laboratory and went outside lo his car, where his partner, Robert Blishen, scratched the initials "C.W." on the plate i'or identification purposes.
Mr. Perry's cross-examination of Pfitzner took more than two hours and was aimed mainly at discrediting the witness.
He established that Pfilzner was a member of the Hitler Youth in 1939, and later served as a private in the German army. He asked the witness if part of his indoctrination by the Nazis
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had been to disregard the truth, which Pfilzner denied.
Mr. Wallace objected to the line of questioning, but the magistrate allowed Mr. Perry to continue.
At one point, the defence counsel asked Pfitzner "You are a paid informer for the Dental College are you?"
"That's right," the witness replied. He said he was paid $35 a clay while working on a case, or while in court testifying. He said he had worked on ten other such cases.
The second investigator, Blish-
Local Man Elected
W K S T VANCOUVER ' It'll � Tommy N o r t o h of P r i n c e George was elected governor of British Columbia's :i,5()0 Kinsmen here Monday. He succeeds J. I). Turner of Burnaby.
.More than 1,000 delegates I'rum most districts in the province attended the organization's annual convention.
en, was able to corroborate I'fitz-ner's testimony only to the extent he had marked the initials on the plate. He had clone this, he said, because it would have been difficult for Pfitzner. who lost his right arm in an accident a year ago.
In presenting his argument, defence counsel Perry suggested the use of paid investigators and informers was "an unsatisfactory way to be prosecuting honest people."
He said the use of marked money in such cases would be the best method of providing conclusive evidence.
Crown counsel argued that "np person is entitled to � break the Jaw simply because it doesn't conform with what he thinks is right."
Willson was previously fined $50 for an earlier conviction last year.
TOMMY NORTON
VAXI/KKHOOF � T h it e V.'Uldci'Jloof youths were found iilivo and well Salin-da.v, IH hours after I lu'.v were reported missing and feared drowned.
The trio, Dennis Ulloy, 13, .sou of Mr; .-ind Mrs. William Lilley; Dave Patterson, II, son of .Mr. and .Mrs. Ituyniond Patterson, and Gary Voting, II, sou of Mi. and Mis. Harold Voting, were found in bush country htewcen tlu> NcehaUo Itlvcr and tho airport hero.
The lioys were I'uuntl I>y .search parties o i1 k;i ii i /. e d Thursday after-a boat they had been seen in was spotted overturned in (ho river.
.\ caii one of (lie youths was wearing was also seen on the wut
'1'iiie Crown was granted a further remand to May 27.
"It. betier ,u'<> on May 27 or I'll have news for Quesnel," the Magistrate added.
Kdwani Thomas Kumorek, 2!), was jailed five days for vagrancy,
John I'hilip Lafooucane and Oliflford Kenneth Biroh were allowed 30-diid is in a Vancouver, hospital 'following a shooting fray early Saturday at Hixon, ::."> miles south of hero.
John Voiken, 21, and William Allen Faulkner, 32, were remanded for sentence in Quesnel police court. Vincent Raminsk'i, 26, is in "satisfactory" condition today with gunshot wounds in the back ami neck. Part of his right ear was Mown off.
All three men gave their address as Prince Georgre.
tten Taylor, owner of Taylor's Hardware Store at Hixon, told police he was awakened about
12 a.m. Saturday by a burglar 'alarm and took a ,30-30 rifle I when he went, to Investigate.
Taylor, uu, said he fired a warning shot and the intruders rcjplicd with .22 pistol fire. After a further exchange of shots, the men fled. They were arrested at ulie Eraser River Bridge near the city by Prince George District RCMP.
Ranrinski was admitted to Prince; Gedrre Regional Hospital and later flown to Vancouver. He will be returned to Quesnel to face charges, RCMP here said today. The offence occurred in 'lihe area policed by Quesnel RCMP.
By SIMON CARD12W
Citizen Staff Reporter
Ben Taylor stood, rifle in hand, outside the open door of his small hardware store in dead of night . . . listening.
Hearing noises from within he fired a shot into the building, demanding whoever was inside lo "come out with your hands up."
Noise of a gun being readied was the only reply. And as the heroic storekeeper dove into the building to the protection of the darkness within, a barrage of wild firing sent bullets screaming haphazardly into the night.
As the man crouched in his store iii the Uuy coflmiuiiity ol
Hixon, 35 miles south of Prince George, more shots whistled over his head.
Taking stock of the situation Mri Taylor, .who said later "I wasn't scared," decided against lighting il out; lie didn't know how many men he was up against or that he had wounded one with his shot.
lie darted from the building to get help.
Choosing not to run 50 unprotected feet to his house, where he had been awakened by the store's burglar alarm, he went lo a neighbor's to call police. But the thieves escaped in spite of the storekeeper's heroic defence of his property.
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