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Vol. 3; No. 105
PRINCE GEORG^BRiTISH COLUMBIA,J]�SP^
I'etc Anatole, 25, of Summit Lake, i.s to appear in police court today under Section 107 of the Unemployment Act.
Anatole is charged with Tailing to declare proper eai'jimyo ami receiving benerits.
He is to appear before Magistrate P J. IVIorari:
A conviction brings the option of cither paying $125 and costs or spending 40 days in jail.
thfc lvfet by the 1'oi.vrs^
A former member of the Guards, Frank Henden of Van
To Get
Training
Two members of the local Air Cadet squadron have been awarded 11CAF Flying Scholarships,
Corporals Uclp Holm and Robert Todoruk will be given .".0 hours flying instruction, plus ground school training, which can qualify them for private pilots licences.
Site of the course has not yet been announced here. I ml previous (raining scholarships have been held in Prince Rupert.
The cadets had to pass Lransporl pilot A-l medical examinations to be eligible for the scholarship.
Ex-Guard
eouver, laughingly pointed out the difference here yesterday between a busby and. the' ha worn by the colorful guard regi inents.
A. busby is the water .pai shaped fur hat worn in the British Army by hussars, artil lerymen and engineers.
The hat worn by the Grena dier.s', larger and resembling a flash buln in shape, is simply called a "BKAR SKIN," said the ititlignant Britisher".
Mr. Henden, who served six years in the Grenadier Guards during the war and whose son had two years service witti the guards, was not too hard on "The Colonials." English people often make the same mistake, he noted.
-Another point In connection with the Grenadiers made by fhr nl talk in terms of "dire dlf.fi-ulties" when market conditions .re very buoyant. But this is precisely the time" to look at he future and "to try and
smooth the path for the rough trip which we. will all surely haVe to take/"
As an example of the declining position of wood In competition with substitutes, Mr. Edgett asked delegates, "Are you" aware that in 1948 Canada had a per capita consumption of lumber of 257 fbm and last year it was down to around 210."
"This might bo an opportune time to take a quick look at sonic cold, hard facts on what flh i1 manufacturers of one substitute material arc doing in the way of replacing established uses of wood."
"I think that our real threat now and in the future Is aluminum."
Edgett said a tremendous productive capacity of this material was built up during the war and is "definitely in a state of over-supply."
.Added to this, he noted, "is the fact (hat aluminum is controlled by a handful of companies with extensive financial resources."
One company alone spends 817,000,000 annually on re-
search,1; said the. Wood Coiin-
"About the wfty use of wood that isn't tieiftg successfully nibbled away at. \s dimension material, but this way only be a matter of time."
He outlined tremendous research and advertising pro-grams undertaken by aluminum companies in efforts to further sales in the construction field.
Quoting from Mr. Edgett's speech: "A fundamental rule of marketing is that the consumer must first decide what basic material he Is going to use. After that, he starts to consider the many choices within that basic category."
"Before you can sell a potential customer on a particular wood product, he must first make up his mind that he is going to use wood instead of plastics, wood instead of aluminum, wood instead of glass, wood instead of steel, wood instead of wa'llboard or plaster."
"That first decision is the all-important, one. The National Wood Promotion Program is designed to make the first decision favourable to wood and, thus, create an atmosphere In which consumers will he receptive to tho merchandizing and advertising of specific brands and species.
There will be no fireworks at this year's IVinco George Hay celebrations!
The Prince George Day committee will use the fireworks budget funds for some other project.
It was proposed that Raid entertainment from Seattle be used in the celebrations this year.
The committee is still waiting for a price quote before going through with the plan.
The entertainment from Seattle would include dancers, acrd"oats and all forms, of mixed entertainment in a stage circus form.
The committee ag reed that the opening events in the two-day celebrations would be the water sports and boat races on the river. The barbecue should be in operation at this time, possibly opening around 5:00 p.m". [''n'day.
The cj u c c n crowning ceremony will take place at S:00 p.m. and the big parade at 12:00 noon on Saturday. The ne|xt meeting ofj.h� committefj will b
Catholics Plan Church, Schools
The Catholic Church plans a large-scale building :'ogram in Prince George. |
our promotion ends, your i}a\> \iesVv\s. Aw\ \X\V� Aa.a.-job ofno small dimensions;1; \ Manufacturers, lie said can not depend solely on the Wood Council hut must acquaint themselves fully with good marketing practices. CONCENTRATED EFFOHT
Calling for a concentrated effort to hold the position of the lumber industry against substitute industries, it was noted by by Mr fcdpett that "the average retail lumber dealer today derives only about one-third of his income from the sale of lumber and approximately two-thirds from the -sale of other commodities."
"Tlie retail dealer didn't just happen to fall into tins loivsidpd salrs Intern Ami lie didn't go �'""�" bcatlnS "" bnsl.es, pounding on doors, di-Hniniiiig up these other materials to sell. "Tlie manufacturers of materials competitive with wood �ame to him: And, they came wi i more than just the materials they manufacture.
..Thcv brought with them a complete merchandising plan." The Executive Director of the Canadian Wood Development Council urged the interior lonncn to recognize that Sob of'selling lumber isn't EJ� Se responsibility of the retail dealers.
?*tfS&! i)"wover- thaL thc
iiirHber industry could not
1 , tiallar-r-.r.dollar the pro-
�pf of activities of compe-
Ut-Thc-e industrial giants � �tiol aluminum, concrete, plus-Uts arid other synthetics - are r ,.xiiv- their muscles to move |n __ and move in fast � on iiimb'er's markets."
'�Thc-e competitors of wood l.ivc already stolen a consider-',',,, share of our industry'^ traditional markets The only ! wonder is that they have not ma,lc dcei-er inroads.
��'j'o counter these attacks� <� stem " rising tide that ,l,,e:it''iis to engulf us all�we, . ;m inilusry and as individuals �iu>t l""rPaie s�'"e sort ,,f plan, some hort of program that will spell out where we iinDe t(> S� ;mi' how we i>Ian ,� get there.*'
Kdgrit. said thc plan must be
buili around Hie realization thai
RjjcridC.nce on price alone i:
\c most dangerous way of sell
ing-"We must recognize, once am
f,,i- all, that if we concentrate solely on price cutting when tin market weakens, we will' b< encouraging resistance to th buviug. of wood as a superio building material."
"If we ourselves become de pendent upon price as our onl: our customers wil k of lumber an Lets as cut-rate ma me, that they can al
program in Prince George
Plans call for a new church and rectory, another high school and an elementary school.
Bishop Fergus O'Grady, OMI, of Prince Rupert, anounced the proa-ram here Sunday.
The architect who designed the Sacred Heart Auditorium is now planning a new Sacred Heart Church and Kcctory. The church will seat between 500 and 600 people and the rectory will have accommodation for four or five priests.
Construction will begin no later than May, 10(>0, says Bishop piG'rady.
Costs estimates of the building are not yet available as planning is only in the preliminary stages.
The construction will take place at the site of the present church and rectory. OLD CHl'IU'H ri'HCHASKl)
Catholics of the Ukrainian Rite have acquired the old church and will move it in mid-.Iuly to the corner of Seventh Avenue and Brunswick Street.
The building is not being used regularly because it is not large enough. Services are being held, for the most part, in the Sacred Heart Amiitorium.
Details of the new high school jeing planned were not released.
The announcement said: "the present Catholic Schools in Prince George are accommodating over 200 pupils. This, however, is totally inadequate and a new Catholic.
Hi�;li Mrhool'ls lt� tb�s \>l�Mi�lt�sr
stages."
A site for the building has not been determined.
The first part of the construe-.ion program to be undertaken will be an elementary school.
Site for the school will be the 21 lots bounded by Gillette and V r e e m a n Streets, .between Eleventh and Twelfth Avenues.
The scTioul will have eight classrooms and an auditorium.
The auditorium is planned for �omplelion by next Christmas but the school will not likely be
finished before 1960, says Bishop O'Grady. SPLIT PARISH
The new school and audi-orium tie in with the splitting f the Sacred Heart. Parish an lounccd .Sunday by the Bishop. The tremendous growth of 'rineo George made it necessary o divide the parish.
Winnipeg .Street is the dividing line within the city. The new parish will accommodate people on the Hart and Vanderhoof highways.
The auditorium at thu ele nentary .school site will serve is a church for Catholics in the area until such time as a new :hurch can be erected.
Father .Joseph Bogues, now ii Burns Lake, will be the nev
Pastor and Father Christopher Diamond will be his assistant.
They will bo required to name the new parish.
The school will be under the
care of the Sisters of Mercy,
I who are currently conducting
schools at Vanderhoof and Fort
St. James.
Sisters for the project are al-eady on their way to Prince
eorge from Ireland.
Three will arrive initially, to
; followed by others later.
�o\(;katikatks pakisn
Bishop O'Grady, at Masses ere on Sunday, congratulated ie Catholics in the city and istrict. on their "very fine cliievement in reducing to a cry nominal figure the debt on leir $145,000 Junior High hool, opened in September, 057."
He said their effort was not ily an asset to the Parish but i the community as well.
Bishop O'Grady quoted the 1!>5!> figures of School District 57 which showed that the present estimated cost alone for each pupil was &105.5:!, of whit'll the city's share was. 51.72.
If the capital debt reduction �ere taken into account the ty's share per pupil would be ncreased to SG5, he said. He pointed out that this year one the Catholic schools have aved local taxpayers $13,000,
without these schools the ehool Board would have had
make accommodation for imtven viavj^va in parochial :hooTs. t
Since the Sacred Heart School ,ras built 11 years ago, he added, rinee George taxpayers have aved not less than $77,000. Municipal tax on the school roperty yielded a further $10,-05 to city coffers.
As the province has to pay balance of the educational 6st l�'r pupil, a conservative stimate of the saving to the irbyince during this 11 year �criod would be approximately 100,000."
Druggists
Mr. Gordon S. Wood v\il represent Prince George and district at the 68th An tiual Meeting of the B.C Phamaceuticul Assoeiatioi in Harrison Hot Spring, June Gth.
Mr. Wodd is a member of th Council (if the Association.
One of the features of th three day meeting will be phai niacy's special panel display � seen by more than 200.000 sens throughout the provinc last year.
"The -display has been n modelled this year to I'eaUir forward strides in health an careers in pharmacy;
Chief speaker at the convci lion will lie !>r. h. E. Kane medical director of the Vancoi vet General Hospital.
l>r. Elaiita will speak of "Tl Cost hit! A'aluc; of Well-Bcing
Among the topics slated f< discussion arc the supply i dnigs to pensioners and wclfai patients, and regulations coi trolling the sale of drugs sut as trariquilizers and antibiotic
This year, member of tl ladies' pharmaceutical auxiliai are assisting the conventio committee and managing the
Quesnet
Man Missing
Search parties were being organized at Qpe^nel early this afternoon to comb the. irea for AdolpH Lust., 84. missing since late Friday afternoon.
Haphazard searching had oeen carried on by local residents since the old man disappeared, but KCMP reorganized searchers this afternoon for a more effective and complete combing of the area.
No trace of the missing man has been found since he was last seen oil the Kraser Kiver Bridge at Que'tiiicI Friday by his niece.
The Canadian Press reported that it was feared that Mr. Lust had met witih foul play. RC.MP In Quesnel say, however, that there has been rip Indication of this.
They had issued a radio appeal today 'or all persons available to assemble at 2:30 p.m. in a central aiva in the city.
Aircraft have not yet been used in the search and tracking dogs arc not being pressed into service.
Mr. Lust disappeared from Ills home on the city's west side, practically without trace.
Former Resident In Good Condition
Bruce Russell, a former resident of Prince George, is reported to he in good condition in a Vancouver hospital.
lUis.scIl, who now resides in White Hock, was injured last Saturday morning. He is reported to be "coming along fine" and will return home in a few days.
The 18-year-old sent unconscious
youth was
. . . �.....- to hospital
after his car went out of control
- � - ��-..^ wiil ot contrw early Saturday morning in Vancouver's; Stanley, ParJt. '