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Vol. 4; No. 101
PRINCE GEORGE, BRITISH COLUMBIA, WEDNESDAY, MAY 25, 1960
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EASTWARD
Prince George Board of Trad asked the provincial governmen in a resolution last night to "pri vide the 2,500 residents" on th road cast with a first class al weather highway.
The board acted after tiirnin down a petition for a h'ard-sui faced highway, signed by mor than 450 residents living betweer Prince George and Sinclair Mills
Board members refused to en dorse this petition becau.se i demanded that the governmen provide a hard-surfaced road bo fore any further work was done on the proposed Highway 1G eas from Prince George to Jasper.
SEVEN COMMUNITIES
This resolution was signed by petitioners at Sinclair. Upper Fraiser, Alcza Lake, Giscome, Cornell Mills, Dewey and Willow Kive-r.
It was rejected by the meeting after several speakers suggested it amounted to telling the government to stop work on Highway 16 � a project which the board has advocated for several years, and which now is being surveyed.
Also speaking against the motion was Lands and Forests Minister Ray Williston, MLA for Fort George.
lie suggested a better solution would be lo plan the new highway so that it will provide access to communities east of Giscome, and Unit a proper road should be built in addition between Prince George and Giscome.
ALTERNATIVE ASKED
Several speakers strongly urged the board to pass the alternative resolution after turning down the petition.
John Mclnnis, who sponsored the resolution, said the residents along the; present highway had
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an all-weather road, and "it's only justice (hat we strongly support their application."
John Coates, Conservative candidate for this riding, asked what reason the provincial government had for not routing the new highway farther north so it could serve these communities.
SECOND TRANS-CANADA
Mr. Williston replied thai it has been approved by the provincial government as the second Trans-Canada highway route to Prince Rupert, and therefore must be up lo Trans-Canada standards.
He said any other route than the one being surveyed would not meet Ihis standard, and would not therefore be assisted 50-50 by the federal government.
Record Number of Nominees in Sask.
WIDEST POSSIBLE VARIETY OF TRADES WILL
be taught at the new Prince George vocational training school, in which construction will begin this year, starting with the classroom and administration build-
SPY PLANE STILL ARGUED AS
Yanks Launch 'Spy' Sputnik
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. AP) � An experimental Am-rican "spy" satellite whirled
See Talks on Summit
WASHINGTON (AP) � Presi-
ent Eisenhower makes a public eport tonight on the collapse of f the summit conference and
s effect on the policies of the
ee world.
The Kremlin was urged by the White House to let the Russian people listen to broadcasts on the president's 30-minute talk
The Senate foreign relations committee, meanwhile, has called State Secretary Christian Herter for closed-door testimony Friday, starting a major inquiry into the
UMwnlnj; nt the U-2 plane over
Soviet Russia and the chain of events which followed it.
The hearings are to continue into next week.
Stalemate Set
UNITED NATIONS, N.Y. (CO� Western opposition in the U.S. Security Council today doomed in advance a Soviet resolution asking for condemnation of U.S. spy flights.
Diplomats wailed to see if the two neutrals on the ll-mcnibcr council � Ceylon and Tunisia � would line up with the Western majority or would merely abstain on the vote expected Thursday.
Both Ceylon and Tunisia were to speak this afternoon along with U.S. allied Ecuador in the third session of the council debate on the Soviet charges.
Even before the council began debate, observers here had been
about the earth every 94.34 minutes today, ready to test its missile-detection equipment on giant flares and friendly rockets.
The Midas, weighing 2\-i> tons, will determine the feasibility of using a series of such satellites to detect hostile missiles the instant they are fired.
The test vehicle was launched Tuesday.
The mammoth satellite, 22 feet long and five feet in diameter, probably will test its equipment for the first time on huge sodium flares set to ignite at Edwards Air Force Base, Caiir., within a few days.
NILA Opens Annual Convention Here Today
The 20th annual Northern Interior Lumbermen's Association convention opened in Prince George this morning with over 'M0 delegates in attendance.
The convention was orriclally opened at a luncheon at 12:30 p.m. by Lands and Forests Minister Ray Williston.
The three-day convention concludes Friday with a dinner and dance at Six Mile Lake.
Highlight of today's business .sessions was the secretary-manager's report delivered by Hob Gallagher.
In his report, Air. Gallagher said "Ihis past year has seen the association (NILA) and the entire industry faced with one of its crciatest challenges."
Mr. Gallagher pointed out that the $:'() million subsidy to the railroads by ihe Federal Government resulted in some
"The Federal Rousing Admin-i ,..,,,, recillctions or. non-competitive hauls.
During bis report her also touched 01
certain that the Soviet resolu-REC-JNA tCH � Saskatchewan's uon would not get the seven
four main political parties will voles necessary for adoption.
contest all 54 scats in the June 8 | �
general election, the biggest
turnout on record. A total of 22L candidates filed
nomination papers Tuesday in
48 of 49 constituencies. Nomination day is June 13 in
the northern riding of Athabaska
which votes June 29 because of
late spring breakup.
Epidemic of Polio Predicted in Canada
HALIFAX iCIl � Health Minister R. A. Donahoe of Nova Scotia said Tuesday medical experts expect a polio epidemic in Canada this year.
Mr. Donahoe said the disease has a "cynical epidemiological behavior" and the federal health and welfare department had compiled figures that indicated the epidemic.
Police Chief Shot In Accident in Car
PORT MOODY (CD � Police Chief A. W. Kruger, 53, staggered more than half a block after being critically wounded in a shooting accident here Tuesday.
Doctors were fighting to save his life in hospital at nearby New Westminster.
RCMP said no foul play was suspected.
Police believe the accident took place in Chief Krugcr's car.
WANTS GOVT. DRUGS
OTTAWA (CD � Frank Howard CCF Commons member for Skeena, said Tuesday Canadian taxpayers would be saved millions of dollars if the government produced its own wonder drugs.
Now Hear This...
One couple who may have shaken the smog of Vancouver out of their systems are Art and Dot (Lippy) Walker. They came for the Shrine shindig last weekend and not only arc still here, but are reported looking around for opportunities which might convince them they should remain . . �
A feminine touch has been added to the B.C. Hydro office at Smithers with the arrival as clerk-typist of Mrs. Phyllis Pleym Radio PG men arc so confident about getting this city's TV licence that at least one of them spent last night celebrating the event as though it had really happened . . . Bar-Wick
co-owner Jackson Barber is down in the dumps. He has to go to work these days, which is against his principles, because partner Jack Chadwick is locked up on jury duty . . .
There's a new legal beagle on
the scene. joined the
Alex Shkuratof has firm of Coates and
J ilenslowc. He (we can't spell it
twice) hails from Vancouver Mayor Garvin Dezell returned from a visit to Highways Minister Gaglardi with a sort of wondering look on his face. Asked about the results of his request for financial aid to pave city streets. His Worship merely shakes his head sadly and mutters: It would take an hour to tell you . . .
1st ration in the I'.S. issued a ruling requiring thai all lumber used in framing construction hear an approved grade stamp.
CANADIANS IMtESSEI)
'�This pul all Canadian associations In a very difficult posit ion as none of us were acceptable In thai our grade marks were not recognized In the U.S.
"Steps wore immediately t;ik-en, through Colonel J. II. Jenkins, chief of Fores I Products Laboratories of Canada, and a meeting of the Yard Lumber Standards Committee was held to see whal could be done."
Mr. Gallagher said that after a lot of travelling and negotiations, agreement to recognize ('a n ad i a 11 Association grade marks was reached.
Mr. Gallagher touched on labor management relations for the past year, although there was little activity in this field as a two-year contract with the 1\\'.\ was signed in 1!).")!).
"However," he said, "we