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Vol.  4; No.   117
PRINCE GEORGE,  BRITISH  COLUMBIA,  THURSDAY, JUNE   16,   1960
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ON THIRD
Power
Pole
Trouble
Board of Trade President Join Morrison today advocated tha city council make surveys among property owners to find out ii they want modern street lighting with  underground wiring.
He was commenting on city council's decision to have B.C Hydro erect wooden poles with overhead wiring between George and Victoria on Third.
Work has started on the installation, which is part of the city's downtown street lighting program. Mercury � vapor lights have already been installed along Second, Victoria and George. BACKWARD STEP
"I realize this is something of a retrograde step," Mr. Morrison said. "But it's a question of speed and money. These dark streets need lights, and it's better to install this old-fashioned system on a temporary basis than to have no lights."
He said properly owners must pay for modern lighting with underground wiring, and therefore they should be asked if they are willing to pay for it. They must be told in detail first what it will cost.
Then perhaps in a year or two, lie said, the overhead system can be replaced.
Aid. Harry Loder said that although he didn't like the present system "it's all the city can afford at present."
He said the proposed system will cost $200 per light, of which half is paid by B.C. Hydro.
Under the overhead wiring system the city will pay B.C. Hydro $325 a month and Hydro installs, owns and maintains the system.
City pays
The city would have to pay all installation costs of an underground wiring or ornamental street lighting system. However under this system the city would only pay B.C. tiydro $2.50 per unit a month and would own the system.
Aid. Lodcr said the cost of an underground wiring system was "much too high."
"At present," he said, "we can't afford it."
However, he said, installation of lights on Third completes the city's downtown street lighting program. "After getting these lights in," he said, "we'll be in a position to consider ornamental lighting."
CHANGE OF COMMAND ceremonies were held by "A" Company, Rocky Mountain Rangers, in Prince George last night. Major David Skene turned over command of the company to Captain Alf. Strom. Major Skene was forced to retire clue to business pres-
sure that required he be out of the city frequently. Capt. Strom, left, is shown presenting Major Skene with a plaque on behalf of "A" Company while Mrs. Skene,, second from left, and Mrs. Strom look on.
�Hal Vandervoort photo
No Clue Yef on Why Plane Crashed Killing 14 Persons
ANCHORAGE, Alaska en � A preliminary investigation Wednesday failed to provide any clue to what caused a big airliner to strike the tip of a snowy Alaska peak, killing all 14 aboard.
A six-man rescue parly returned from 9,(>4b"-fool Mt. Gilbert and reported finding the bodies of one or two of the nine passengers and five crew members in wreckage of the Pacific Northern Airlines Constellation.
The others apparently were buried in the deep snow. The big four-engine plate literally disintegrated and there was no chance of survivors. Removal of the bodies is expected to be a problem.
The airliner smashed into the mountain Tuesday less than 100 feet from the summit as it near-cd the end of a flight from Seattle.
An investigation indicated the Constellation was in perfect working order and that the crew had sufficient rest.
RE: PEACE, COLUMBIA DEALS
Power Brass Now in Europe
BASH, GALE
. . . voltage
Willow River to Get Electricity Shortly
Construction will start Wednesday on [power distribution lines to Willow River, Hydro district manager W. B. Gale announced today.
Cost will be $80,000.
Thi.' 'line Avill be constructed initially to operate- at  1-1,000
However, provision is being ima'de, 'by iiho uxe of 45-foot Ipoles, ior the addition of a 00-, OOO-volt transmission circuit, when required, to facilitate future growth in the area.
About. J20 customers will be served by ifttie extension 'at Six .Mile Lake, Ferndale and Willow River!
Line is expected to be on power in a'bout five months.
Claxton  Funeral Held  In Ottawa
OTTAWA ICF) � Non-military funeral services were held in Christ Church Anglican Cathedral here Wednesday for Hon. Brooke Claxton, former defence minister, who died Monday of cancer at the age of 61.
A brief thunderstorm raged outside as the services began but the rain had stopped when the coffin was borne out of the cathedral.
A memorial service will be held today in Montreal. The body will be cremated.
Now Hear This...
Memo to motorists travelling between PG and Smithcrs: RCMP is about to move their mobile radar speed trap from the Smithcrs to the Burns Lake area. Jn fact, it may already have happened . . .
Normal army punctuality went for a Burton last night when -a ceremony transferring command of the RMRs from Major David Skene to Capt. Alf Strom was delayed an hour and a half. Ma.j. Skcnc, who rushed back from Terrace for the event, was late in arriving at the Armory. Then, horrors, he discovered his wife and Mrs. Strom were to be presented with bouquets of flowers as part of the ceremony, and she hadn't even been told, so was still at home. And if anybody thinks it didn't take some coax-
ing to persuade Mrs. Skene to get dressed and clown to a do like that in nothing flat, try it some time on your own wife . . .
Travellers to Alberta report finding squatters have taken over many government-provided camping sites by rough-boarding up the covered outdoor kitchens and moving in. Common sights include clothes lines and "reserved" signs hung at camp entrances . . .
Intriguing ad somewhere in today's edition: Suits, coats and skirts 25 per cent off. Which prompts the juvenile query: How
much are they on
Brighter
than the lights they will support is the suggestion that city council members be made to climb old-fashioned wooden poles they are installing on Third and carve them into totems . > .
By REUTERS
PARIS�Members of the British Columbia Power Commission and leading Canadian and American scientists Wednesday attended the opening of a 10-day session of the International Congress of Large Electrical Systems here.
Interest during the conference will focus on the problems involved in the development of high   voltage   transmission,   a
Cuban Ambassador To Canada Resigns-Asks for Asylum
OTTAWA iCPI � Luis A. Baralt Medcros, 32-year-old Cuban ambassador to Canada for the last five months, has resigned and is seeking political asylum in Canada.
He said, "I can no longer defend" major items of Cuban policy.
There was no immediate comment from Canadian government officials, although one external affairs source said he could see no reason why the ambassador's request for haven here would not be accepted.
NO COMMENT
Mr. Baralt, youngest ambassador in the Canadian capital, was not immediately available for comment.
He came to Ottawa Jan. 27 after serving in New York as consul-general of Cuba for a year.
The story of his resignation was told today in a simple mimeographed statement.
"Being at variance with my government oil fundamental aspects of its policies, I find that as head � of mission, though a career diplomat as well, I can no longer defend, either effectively or with a clear conscience, those major items of policy with which I totally disagree."
The ambassador said he had wired his resignation to the ministry of foreign relations in Havana Wednesday. "This was followed up with a letter of resignation to President Dorticos of Cuba in which I set down in detail the reasons for my decision."
"Though my future plans are vague, it is my intention to ask permission from the Canadian government to remain in this country," the statement added.
member of the Canadian delegation said. RIVAL SYSTEMS
This is of importance to Canada, he said, because of rival power systems proposed for the development of British Columbia.
One system, a private one involving the development of the Peace River, is backed by such groups as the B.C. Electric Corporation and Swedish financier Axel Wenncr-Gren, the Canadian said.
The other system, a semi-official one involving development of power from the Columbia River, involves a joint United States - Canadian committee on Columbia River development and the B.C. Power Commission. PEACE RIVER
The trouble, the informant added, arises from the fact that there is not a large enough market for both systems.
The provincial government has not yet decided which to support.
As a result there is interest in a number of Canadian papers to be presented at the conference here on the economics and development of high-voltage power.
Lake Negotiators
Negotiations between International Woodworkers of America, Local 4-124, and Northern Interior Lumbermen's Association resume in Prince George Thursday.
Talks started in Vancouver last. week.
Negotiations between the union and Eagle Lake Sawmills Ltd., which is dealing separately from the NILA this time, were continuing today.
"The talks, so far, have been very amiable," Mr. Hoist said. He is being assisted in the negotiations by Joe Miyazawa, associate research director for the IWA Regional Council Number 1.
Company is being represented by R. II. Wood and Edwin Sands.
Sponsors of the Peace Power project are particularly interested in this, the member said.
Lesser Charge In Fry Pan Killing
QUESNEL (CP) � Jules Adams, 64, charged with murder in the frying-pan beating of a 58-ycar-oId man March 1, was convicted Wednesday on a reduced charge of manslaughter.
An assize court jury returned its verdict after deliberating for 2Ms hours. Adams, an Indian, was to be sentenced today.
Before the jury retired, Mr. Justice J. O. Wilson suggested it might be wise to allow Indians the same drinking rights as whites.
"This is the third killing by violence at this assize; all have been connected with Indians and liquor has been a large factor. It makes one wonder at the present system whereby Indians who want liquor must resort to unlawful means to get it."
Miller, a prospector, was found in his living room on the Lyllon Indian Reserve, his skull badly battered and a broken cast iron frying pan matted with his hair was found nearby.
Adams testified he was given liquor by Miller and that he jfn� 'hunk and could not remember anything after that.
Highway Fatalities Up from '59 in B.C.
VICTORIA (CP) _ The motor vehicles branch Wednesday reported a nine per cent increase in the number of highway fatalities during the first four months of this year compared with the same period in 1959.
There were 75 fatalities to the end of April. In 1959 the total in the same period was 69.
Queen Loses Horse Race
ASCOT, England (Reuters)� Queen Elizabeth came fourth in an unofficial horse race on the Ascot track this morning several
hours  before  the  day's  racing began in earnest.
The Queen, was narrowly beaten into fourth place in a field of
RIOTING CONTINUES
Ike's Japan Sliced from
would sail as scheduled from Manila late tonight for Formosa, where he is due Saturday morning.
Hagcrty said he did not know whether Eisenhower would be able to visit Japan in the remaining six months of his presidential term.
Hagerty also reported that until today Eisenhower had-no indication that the Japanese would ask that his visit be postponed.
Shortly before his scheduled departure from Manila Eiscn-liower and Philippine President Carlos P. Garcia issued a joint .�ommuniquc flatly pledged that the United States would consider any armed attack against the Philippines as an attack against the U.S., and that such an attack 'would instantly be repelled."
Japanese leftists launched massive new demonstrations today in renewed demonstrations, after a night of violence that left one
Reds, Filipinos, Koreans...and Ike
MANILA (AP) � President Eisenhower today agreed to postpone his visit to Japan because of leftist rioting in Tokyo.
James Hagerty, White House press secretary, said although the president "would have liked to fulfill his long-held ambition" to visit Japan, "he fully respects the decision of the Japanese authorities" that he should postpone 'his trip.
The president blamed postponement of his visit on a small organized minority "led by professional Communist agitators."
Premier Nubusuke Kishi had said the same thing in announcing his government's decision to ask the president not to come.
He said it was decided that President Eisenhower's scheduled visit to Tokyo should bo postponed "in view of the increasing rioting" against the American-Japanese security treaty.
Hagerty said Eisenhower was confident that the "deliberate challenges to law and order" in Japan will not and cannot wreck Japanese-A^nancan relations.
He said flK?�president wanted to make known his "full and sympathetic understanding of the decision taken by the Japanese government."
Despite postponement of the Tokyo visit, Eisenhower is going ahead with his plans to visit Chinese Nationalist Formosa and Korea, although Hagerty indicated there may be some revision of the timetable. SAILS TONIGHT
Hagerty     said     Eisenhower
Communists Jubilant
HONG KONG (Reuters) � Peking radio today termed the decision to ask President Eisenhower to postpone his Japan trip as "a victory for the Japanese people's just and patriotic struggle against Eisenhower's visit to Japan."
The radio said Premier Nobu-sukc Kishi "has bowed to the popular demand" of the Japanese people.
Incident in Manila
MANILA (Reuters) � Police seized a boy carrying a pistol and several grenades at campus of the University of the Philippines about an hour before President Eisenhower arrived to speak there today, Mayor Arsen-io Lacson of Manila said.
The mayor said police were questioning the boy, who was about 10 years old. He said it was a typical technique of the Huks � military arm of the Philippine Communist party � to use boys to carry weapons.
Korean Trip Changed
SEOUL (Reuters) � Tne South Korean cabinet t'ecided tonight to invite President Eis enhower here Sunday instead of Wednesday. Sunday was the clay Eisenhower was due to begin his now-postponed visit to Japan.
Martial law in six of South Korea's major cities will be lifted before his visit, government sources said.
Martial law was proclaimed April 19 after anti-government rioting by the now-ousted administration of president Syngman Rhcc. Rhec resigned April 27 and the caretaker government has kept it in force pending re-
TOUGH BEER FOR MINORS
NELSON iCPI � The B.C. Hotel-men's Association plans to ask the B.C. Liquor Commission to place more onus on minors caught in licensed premises.
A committee will meet next month with the liquor commission to discuss the matter.
Some hotelmen at a meeting here said a $10 fine for a minor and a $300 fine for a waiter serving the minor is unjust.
A combined beverage-banquet room licence is being sought by the association so beverages could be consumed in hotel banquet rooms.
dead and more than 800 injured, lice.
organization of the national po-
Eaters   Not   Elite Class   in   This   Country
OTTAWA (OP) � is bee'f-eat-�n^ a status symbol?
Not apparently in Canada, ag-�louiltiwe bPWoiuils said in com-nen'ting on a United Stale.s view ;hait ibeef lhas more food prestige 'ban 'pork. It was conceded steak night foe the "�ultimate food imago" for .some Biungry males.
Generally, ihoAvever, they suggested Canadian consumption ieenia closely tied in recent /cars to (Hie meal in most abun-kint supply and therefore offer-ng >Uie [best iretail bargain to he housewife.
What had developed over the ast 10 yeais in beef was greater >roduction and consumption of top-grade beef.
Dr. George Wilson of the Am-rican .Meat. Institute  Foundation �'t Ohicago told a Winnipeg neetimg recently that pork has never caught tine public fancy to tihe same degree as beef. It fllcn was called a \>oov man's food. INVESTIGATING   I)KOP
He said an investigation is being made why per capi'ta pork consumption is dropping In the U.S.
IN TOP MANAGEMENT POSITIONS
It Pays to be Ignorant!
KINGSTON, Out. CD � Telephone executive O. R. Armstrong said Wednesday a lot of learning is a dangerous thing for anyone aspiring to top management.
"There is reason to suspect," he said, "that a great deal of knowledge may be a handicap.
This type of thing is noticeable particularly in the field of social relationships."
Mr. Armstrong, assistant vice-president of the Bell Telephone Company, told the University Counselling and Place-
ment Association that after a certain point is reached, acquiring still more knowledge has little or no effect upon habits of action or skill performance.
There were examples of the most knowledgeable looking fairly inept in practice.
Mr. Armstrong said that as an individual rises in an organization, he must make more important decisions with less and less information.
Management may come to be more of an art than a science.
Training in the humanities in university arts courses equipped students to make educated guesses of the kind needed in management, but much experience was also necessary.
Technically trained men were more likely to fall into highly technical jobs.
They were trained to rely on proven data.
A good man in management
had to be sensitive to everything that went on around him.
There was "no certain knowledge" of what to do about producing a ready supply of future managers and "help would be welcomed from any source."
The Counselling and Placement Association, meeting here in conjunction with the Conference of Learned Societies, is to wind up its four day sessions Friday when the conference concludes.
Ottawa figures show 'that each Canadian man, woman and child is credited with eaiting 143 pounds of nil niea'ts last year� including 01 pounds <*f ibeef and 58 pounds of pork. Onlly twice in 'I'ho last 20 years has pork consumption exceeded beef � and toobh times market conditions were responsible.
Once was in 1913 when the hog industry was geared 'to 'tihe win- effort, and beef exports soared, Then in 1051 cattle were in light supply and fpig production was heavy.
A back-to-ibeef trend haw appeared in Canada in it/he last few months as exports to the' U.S. dwindled from an unusual peak and abundant pork production began to ebb. Pork prices are expected to increase in t/lie next few months while beef prices have already fallen.
WEATHER
'Mostly cloudy with scattered showers today. Partial clearing tonight. Variable cloudiness wit'h a few afternoon showers Friday. Continuing cool, winds light. Low tonight and high at Ques-nc-1 43 and 63; Prince George �15 and 62; Sinithers 40 and -12. Peace Itiver Itcgion
Cloudy with showers. Clearing �this evening. Sunny wit'h cloudy periods Friday. Continuing tool. Light wind's 'becoming west 20 tlii.s afternoon Low tonight 'and high at Grande Prairie 10 and 60. Last -1 Hours
Hi l>o l'recip
Prince George	53	47	.19
Terrace	53	46	.36
Smithers	55	43	.30
Que.-:nel	05	51	.07
Kamloops	72	58	�
Whitehorse	61	43	�
Fort Nelson	73	51	__
Fort St. James	65	-17	32
Dawson Creek	65	49	.40
GEOltGE l'KAKKKS . . . conscription?
No Conscription
Pfanned-Pearkes
OTTAWA (CP) � There is no provision for conscription of civilians 'for a national survival d-ole in the event of an enemy attack on Canada, Defence Minister (Pearkes said Wednesday.
He I old tho Commons defence committee it is hoped Mm in an emergency tilicre woii'ld -be volunteers.'
"If not, itilie army would 'have to do the 'best it could without them," he said.
Geongo C. Fairficld ('PC- Por-tage-NeclpawaJ said t;hat in liliiO and 1010 British air raid wardens loR 'lihe cities with 'thoir Pami'lies and 380,000 persons had to 'bo called up for these duiies.
Harold Winch (CCF-Vancou-ver East) saiditrtiere wowldibo no lime for evacuation of Canadian cities under attack. When Ik; said the only protection would 'be Shelters, .Mr. I'ea.rkos sakl tilrat in about- a month t.he Emergency Measures Organization will publish a paimpMot on siheMors.
Much of the cbni'iTiititee's qiios-itloninig of .Mr. iPearkes sougtbt to find out wtho is Uhe 'boss of tJho Emergency Measures Organization, which is attached to Dm prime minister's office.
The minister said 'Prime Minister Diefenba'ker could delegate his 'authority. BiM it was mot made clear during the committee siititing to whom thiis authority would Ibe delegated In tihe event of a nuclear attack on Canada.
Mr. Pearkes made clear Llrat in each province t:he 'top official of ifche Emergency Organization would be the senior officer.
Chegley M. Carter (L-Burin-Bttrgeo) commented that this officer could not wive orders to �the army or militia.
"He can call u meeting," Mr. Pearkes said.
"If ihe's going to caO 1 a meeting, let's say ou>r prayers now," said Mr. Winch.
Later, outside the committee,
Mr. Pearkes explained that .he
didn't mean 'a meeting in Wie
ordinary sense 'but an "orders
roup" similar to t>he army's.
Ex-Chief Incarcerated
MEDICINE HAT 'Cn � Karl Pegin, former Bassano, Alia., police chief, was sentenced to three years for possession of stolen property.
Amount collected to date in fche Canadian Cancer Society fund drive here, which has been extended ito itihe end of the inont'h, is now $2,571.
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