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Vol. 4;  No.   114
PRINCE  GEORGE,  BRITISH  COLUMBIA, MONDAY, JUNE   13,   1960
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Chi Ed Labor
GENEVA (Routers) �Millions nC children, some as young as seven or eight years, all over the world are .working long hours when they should be at school or play.
This was disclosed in a report by David A. Morse, director general of the International Labor Organization, which says that no area of social policy seems to be more in need of constructive and co-CH'dinalcd national and international action than question? relating to the employment of youth.     '
NO CONTROL
"In some parts of the world, | working children under 15 years j old form a substantial part of the total labor force in agricultural i and    non-agricultural    activities alike," the report says.
"The occupations at which they " work are subject to little or no control."
The report states that while much has been done this century [ to eliminate the abuse of child labor in the less-developed coun- j tries, the problem is still extensive, acute and difficult to solve.
MINES, FACTORIES
Children can be found at work | in   quarries,   mines,   factorie fields  and  offices,  the report says.
Many of the commodities and products which find their way into world markets could bear the stamp "made by children."
Generally speaking, children make up one per cent or less of the total labor force in Australia, New Zealand, North America and Western Europe.
2 TO 10 PER CENT
In much of Latin America and in some Asian countries, they form between two and 10 per cent of the labor force, and in certain Middle East countries and elsewhere, the percentage is Sim higher.
National and family poverty are the root causes of child labor, said I he report.
Cloudy with sca&tored showers today, variable cloudiness Tuesday. Lidl'le- cHiange in temperature, winds light. Low 'tonight and ihigh Tuesday at Prince George, Quesnel and SrnlUhens, �10 and OS.
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Cloudy today, willi occasional liglM. rain ending late tonight. Sunny wiih cloudy iperiods tomorrow. l.it't'lt1 dhatTge in tern-jpcra tfirrc. Winds liwhl today, northwest. 15 'tomorrow. Low tonight; wml hi;;1!! 'tomorrow ;n G'l'undc 'Prairie, 16 and 03.
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MEETING TONIGHT
An Important meeting of The Friends of t'he Library will be 'held at. S ipjm. today in Room 104, Senior High School. Guest (speaker'will bo Mrs. Jean Mun-ro. Refreshments. All' citizens are cordially invited.
HAUL) AT WOivK Sunday on the big baseball stadium they are building in a giant co-operative effort are these members of t'he Prince George Rotary Club. Some of the bleachers have been built and about half the wall is erected, but there is still plenty of work to be done
before the park is ready for the ball tournament July 1. Left to right are Aid. Spike Enemark, Bill Thomerson, Charlie Cranston, Glen Barton, Bob Wiggins, Ray Jan-akka, Al Dixon and Bob (TV) Harkins.
�Hal Vandervoort photo
ART DONALD, djstrict agriculturist, B.C. Department of Agriculture, Prince George, was elected official delegate to the Agricultural Institute of Canada annual convention, to be held shortly al Guelph, Ontario, at the annual meeting of the Prince George branch. �Hal Vandervoort photo
ARSON CONVICTION QUASHED BY COURT
VANCOUVER (CPI � The B.C. Court of Appeal has quashed the conviction of Peter Verne Bishop of Chctwynd on a charge of arson.
Bishop, charged with his wife Stella Zinnia of burning their clothing store at Chet-wynd) had been sentenced in Prince George to two years by Judge C. W. Morrow last Nov. 13.
.Mrs. Bishop was acquitted of complicity in the Jan. 27. 1959, store burning.
Now Hear This...
MOST SPECTACULAR
Simon Flraser Day celebrations will toe larger and more spec-tacu'lar 'then ever, accordtag io Chuck Bwart and Ron Bast, publicity coimmititee members.
Beginning Jumo 30, the Wen-�atcliee YMCA circus will be on hand.
s Shaping  Up
This will be tine H:.-' time '.)') years that, a full-fledged circus has visited 'Prince George. Along with the circus wi'U be nyany sensational acts, including �aerial tvap&zo^ inals, clowns.
POSSIBLE COMBINE
Auto Insurance Business Warned About Its Rates
Only distasteful episode connected with the Ross' visit lo PG hospital Saturday was the aiti-tude of one of the hospital underlings. By being rude lo a Citizen reporter, she put her personal hatred of this newspaper before her consideration for the citizens of Prince George who, regardless of her opinion, might like to know what His Honor and 3Irs. Ross thought of the hospital kitchen facilities . . ,
There still arc people in PG willing to lend a helping hand where necessary. When an old couple's mil building became useless recently, a number of city merchants chipped in for materials and -two local citizens donated their Sunday to erecting and painting the building for them. Hals off to such fine people . . .
Williams Lake Stampede crowd arc up in arms over the way the recent turkey-jerking incident was reported in the Vancouver papers, stating that the famed
have sued them, snapped one irate Stampcdcr. It was the W.L. Trailriders Playday where it all took place, and this organization is no relation lo the Stampede . . .
Rotarians who dutifully went out into yesterday's early morning sunlight to help build the new ball stadium are mostly unused lo that kind of work. By 11 ayem their tongues were hanging out, when Caribou's Gene Zarek came to the rescue, not a moment too soon, cither . . .
US tourists arc already coining up north by the hundreds. They come as enthusiasts, but after covering some of our ill-conditioned roads they go back home as bad ads. One motorcade of over 50 cars, after navigating the Hart Highway yesterday and losing mufflers, etc., in foot-deep rbck-arid-boulder type of gravel the highways department has spread over the road, wanted lo know if the department is playing footsie with local garage operators. This group won't be back in our country, and neither
W.L. Stampede was to be lassoed
for ibis crime-sport. We should i will their friends
OTTAWA ICR�A federal combines report gave strongly-worded advice today to one sector of Canada's automobile insurance business to abandon its system of compulsory uniformity in insurance premium rates.
The report by the restrictive trade practices commission said there is a "distinct possibility" that this practice may be a breach of the combines law.
Justice Minister Pulton', in making the report public, gave no indication of any immediate legal action.
But he said that the relationship of "certain practices" to the anti-combines law will lie reviewed again after the insurance companies have had time to consider their position.
HIT F1X131) COMMISSION
The commission also advised rate-setting associations to con-Idcr ending the practice of setting fixed rates of commission for insurance agents of member companies.
The bulky commission report based on an extended inquiry by the justice department's commies branch. The Inquiry, which ended two years ago. made a detailed study of the auto Insurance business in the 1050-52 period. It dealt mainly with the activities of so-called
>oards" which fixed minimum premium rates for their member companies in various areas oi Canada.
Gained in the report was the
B.C. Underwriters' Association The commission report said that although the share of member companies in the country's insurance business had dropped from 1!J per cent in 1050-52 to 137.S per cent in 1057, their actions had had "a substantial effect on the degree of competition in the automobile insurance business."
It indicated that one reason for the influence of rates" set by the boards was the existence of "conferences" of other insurance companies operating in Ontario and Quebec, in the Prairie provinces and in B.C.
COLLABORATION EXISTS
The report said that while this and other conferences recommended�but did not endorse �premium rates for their members, there were varying degrees of collaboartion across Canada between the board and conference organizations.
Each organization knew of rate changes to be made by the other, and conference rates "were generally set as a result of conscious price leadership by the board organizations . . ."
The commission's report made no recommendations for new legislation to deal with the situation. It said this field is entirely within the jurisdiction of provincial governments.
But it indicated that provincial laws on the subject arc scanty. Only Nova Scotia ha< legislation in that field.
('.WOK HACK
The Northwest, Brigade canoe race, 'being .held 'for the third �time, is cxipeetcd to be a highlight of t'he day with possibly 10.canoes 'taking >part. The race �begins 'at. Fort SO Jaine^'and ends at Font, George .
The 'Prince George Flying Chub is making big plains for the day and is expected to. give spcetatular iClnrt'lls galore.
One of the 'biggest anil best parados to 'be held in Kit- city is .planned and organizations wishing to take part, 'arc asked lo cli>p the form wihlcih can be located on ipage three of itoday's ipaiper. Upon completion of 'the ifoi'iiiK 'tlhey are 'to ibe sent into the board of trade office no'later than June 27.
AUTO KACES
other highliiebls of the July .1 celebration will ,sce races sponsored 'by itlie Prince George Airio racing Association. Races will be 'held at. PGAiRA 'beginning at ]:.'.)() p.m. There will be a water sport slwiv at Foiu George 'Park beginiriiii'g at 2:.'!() p.m. A giant buffalo barbecue will take plane in the afternoon and evening.
'Flic Vancouver Sky Diving Giu'b will give an exhibition of
i av'hii'te jumping with delayed drops of up'to 3Q seconds. Thrills will be In store for spectators as si.x jumpers will land In 'the park alter leaping 'from height-; up to L0.000 feet then cl^entog t'he 'chute at 1,500 foot. This will also mark a first for the city In this tyipe of entertainment.
QUEEN CKOWNING
Tihe' crowning of the Queen Aurora 111 will be a colorful affair with 27 visiting princesses in attendance. It. la also possible
M Kelowna's Lady of the Lake and Peii'tieton's Pcajh Queen will be in attendance.
The evening's entertainment will conclude witli a gigantic fireworks display after the evening's performance of llic Wen-atoliec YMCA circus.
LEFTISTS BACK DOWN
Ike's Not
NAP ON TRACKS FATAL FOR MAN
SMITH ERS  � A 72-year-old Telkwa man who ap-ip&renoly ft'll asleep on CNR �cracks near his home, aixmt 10 .mile? south or" here, was ki'Med when a west - bound ifreigihit train ran over him.
Victim of Friday's accident waie,, lying face down in her bedroom, Shot 'to death through t'he head.
Police   -aid   she   'had   'been wounded several 'times.
�'our cnvpty shells and a weapon  were found.
BUT NOT LIKE 'GOOD OLD DAYS'
Barkerville Gold Hunt on Again
BARKERVILLE, B.C. Wilt's a far cry from the excitement that made this Cariboo town quiver UK) years ago, but there's a tense battle with the elements going on today to recover $30,000 in lost dust.
Workers are battling 2-1 hours a day to reclaim a floating washing plant that sank last fall, carrying gold dust worth SHO.000 down 10 feet to the bottom of Williams Creek.
The battle is adding a real-life aura to the restoration efforts being made to turn Barkerville, a central 'boom town in B.C.'s Cariboo gold rush days, into a tourist-attraction replica of the town U one was.
Kumhila Dredging and Exploration Company, a United Sates firm which owns the washing plant, is central figure in the drama which pits its employees against chance and the elements.
They thought they had it beaten Saturday when salvagers saw some of the gold dust glinting through the waters, 'but. a spring freshctte inundated the area where � they �were working and they had to start again.
The opening skirmish in the salvage battle also was won by the elements.
A sub-zero winter halted all work for six mouths and
the spring runoff raised the water level.
Kuhmila's washing plants sank while scouring for gold in the bed of once-rich Williams Creek.
For 21 hours a day without letup, a dragline dumped gravel and gold from the pond bottom into a hopper on the floating plant.
Iron bars known as the "grizzly" allowed fine material to filter through the hopper to the sluice box, where the heavy gold was captured by riffles while lighter gravel was washed off and discarded as tailings.
Somehow, on a night shift
last fall, a big boulder landed in the hopper and obstructed it.
The hopper filled up as the dragline kept dumping, and one end of the floating plant went deeper in the pond.
A manhole was open oil a pontoon. Suddenly, the big float filled with water and the whole steel plant went to the bottom.
Company officials figured the gold loss at about $30,000 because the accident happened just before clean-up, when everything stops so accumulated gold can be collected.
The salvage work was taken up a mouth ago.
TOKYO (AT)�Some Japanese leftist groups appeared today to be backing away from massive airport demonstrations o n t h e d a y President Eisenhower arrives on Tokyo, but the Communist partv leadership was reported still threatening to mark the day with violence.
The headquarters of the leftist Sohyo labor federation said most members fell  they should not
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) President Eisenhower, halted warmly in Alaska, flew to the IMiillipines today on the next let? of a potentially perilous Far Eastern tour.
The United States Icadfr went to Manila where he will be the guest of the government for three days.
The president arrived in sunny Anchorage, biggest city in the new 49th stnte, Sunday morning nflcr a S.'JOO-niilc nonstop flight from Washington.
demonstrate at the airport itself next Sunday.
Even the Communist wing of the Zengakuren student federation said it would refrain from such acts of violence a.s staged against Eisenhower's press secretary James llagcrty last Friday.
Japanese security officials went ahead with plans to mobilize 25,-000 police to protect Eisenhower should mob action develop when he arrives on June 19.
Police announced unpvedented security measures to guard the safety of the American president.
The car that will carry Eisenhower and Emperor Ilirohito from the airport to the palace will be accompanied by 13 trucks loaded with 600 policemen, 52 motorcycle police plus six sidecar motorcycles, four radio cars and patrol cars.
The two chiefs of state will make the trip in a closed limousine rather than an open car.
The socialists, leaders of the
parliamentary opposition to the security treaty and Premier No-busuke Kisiii. were reported now undecided cm what course to follow during Eisenhower's visit. 11 was considered possible that they might want to wash their hands in advance �f any violence that might mark his stay.
Tokyo police disclosed they were planning to arrest leaders of the mob which set upon the automobile in which Hagei'ty, presidential appointments secretary Thomas Stephens and U.S. imbassador Douglas MacArthur II were riding last Friday.
Eisenhower said he had rejected advice that he abandon or oostppn'c his visit to Tokyo.
lie is :;oing alic:id, Eisenhower said, bacause the visit "represents ;m important phase of a urogram whose paramount objective w;>:s, and is, lo improve 'he climate of international understanding."
\\'IM.!A:i| MASON of Vanvou-vi �' has taken uip his duties as Prince Gebrge's new area 'SUipcrir.it'enden't of pp'sta'l services. He Is ireijilaokig J. R, Ranotta who has ibeen transferred to N'anaimo. Mr. flari-etta had been in Prince George for t'he past four years. Mr. .Mason was previously public relations oiPficer for 'the ipost office in Vancouver.
FAREWELL, AND GOD BLESS YOU. ALL . . . These words were uttered Sunday by Lieut.-botfernor Frank Ross as he and Mrs. Ross stepped aboard the RCAP Dakota following a triumphant two-day visit to Prince George, their last before he retires as lieutenant-governor of B.C. See story on Page o.
�Hal Vandervoort Photo