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Vol. 4; No. T68
PRINCE GEORGE,  BRITISH COLUMBIA, MONDAY, AUGUST 29,   I960
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WILLISTON SAYS
Hook-Up Proposed Between PNR, CNR
PRINCE RUPERT (CP)�A branch line linking the proposed Pacific Northern Railway and the Canadian National Railways east of here is already planned, say lands and forests minister Ray Williston.
"This branch is incorporated in I------------------~
the plans completed by PNR engineers," he said in an election address Friday night.
Mr. Williston said the proposed branch to link with the CNR at Hazeltoh is a natural development to enable minerals and timber from the north to be shipped through Prince Kupcrt to over-
seas markets by omical route. BOOST ECONOMY
Prince Rupert city council ha maintained that the PNR should
ment Mr. Williston said it was de cided to issue a water licence to Peace River Power Development Limited only after its plans pass ed Public Utilities Commission approval.
He said certain changes in dam structure required by the commission have been ineorpor-
havc been started from Hazel-ton instead of Summit Lake, to provide most economical shipping rates. The minister said the proposed
the most econ alecj -ln t|iC plans of the company and a licence now will be issued for the project.
The licence would be "subject to the same regulations and con-
branch  would   "consolidate economy of this area both
existing industries and those which it will bring in its wake."
Timber companies adjoining the proposed PNR route to the Yukon already were cutting limber and this must have an outlet.
Speaking   of  power   develop-
NO SURPRISES IN NOMINATIONS
Nominations for the provincial election Sept. 12 closed at 1 p.m. today, and no last minute dark horses entered the race in the three Central B.C. constituencies.
Filing official papers in the Fort George riding were (x denotes incumbent): John Coatcs, Conservative; Holger (Spike) Encmark, Liberal; Ken Rutherford, CCF; and (x) Ray Williston, Social Credit. ,
Omineca riding: Mrs. Peg Dccder, Liberal; Karl Frederik-scn, Conservative: Ivan Holmes, CCF; and (x) Cyril M. Shelford,
l-sJLe&ta ��-rMTiiU: WoVuy AlUorr, CCF; Dudley George Little, Social Credit; William Donald Stick-ncy, Liberal; and Guy Ronald Wil liams, Conservative.
ditions as anyone else."
Of the Columbia river, he said money available is not adequate to build both the Mica Creek and Arrow dams. It has been decided to build the Arrow Lake dam iirst because it will bring prime power and prevent U.S. "dictatorship" over the river.
The Arrow Lake project would be completed five years before Mica Creek which, he said, would place B.C. at the mercy of U.S. regulations of the river flow if developed first.
Woodworkers Okay New Agreement With Quesne! Firms
M c m b e r s of International Woodworkers of America (CLC), Local 4-124, voted Sunday to ac cepl an agreement with two Qucsnel firms providing a total wage increase of 22V-> cents per hojSr over three years. /Memorandums of agreement affecting 375 workers have been signed between the union and Western Plywood Cariboo Ltd., and North Cariboo Lumber Co. WAGES UP
Wages will be increased 3'Q cents Sept. 1; four cents March 1, 1061; four tents Sept. 1, 1961; four cents March 1, 1062; and seven cents Sept. I, 19(i2. This will provide a base rate of $1.93, effective Sept. 1, 196"2.
The companies will pay half the medical and group insurance for all employees during the term of the agreement. Other benefits include improvement of statutory holiday qualifications in line with coast contracts and improvements in the seniority clause.
Expected in Race
VANCOUVER (CP) � Election nominations closed throughout B.C. at 1 p.m. today and the official list may show the highest number of candidates ever to contest a provincial election.
At least 228 candidates will be nominated for the B.C. general election Sept. 12, two weeks away, compared with 199 in the last election in 1956.
The Social Credit and Progressive - Conservative parties have each warned, a full slate of candidates to contest the 52 seats. The Liberal party, which had intended to do the same, fell one short of its goal. The party announced Saturday it was unable to find a suitable candidate for Cowichan Newcastle. � The CCF, which has already named 51 candidates, was uncertain whether it svould have a candidate for Oak Bay and said it wouldn't know definitely until the official close of nominations.
A total of 874,802 persons will be eligible to vote Sept. 12, an increase of 11.2 per cent over the 1956 figure of 778.587.
The increased number of can didatcs this year is mainly due to the Progressive Conservatives who ran only 22 candidates in 1956. There arc three more Com munist candidates. Seven ran as independents in the last election 38 SOCREDS
Standing in the last legislature at dissolution was Social Credit U8, CCF 10, Liberal 2, Labor 1 and vacant 1.
Premier Bennett, BO, is seeking re-election along with all 11 of his cabinet ministers. Robert Straehan, 41, is leading the CCF into an election for the second time.
Deanc Finlayson, 41. heads the Conservatives for a third election campaign and seeks to give the party its first representation in the House since 1956. Kay Per rault, 34, is leading the Liberal parly and seeking election himself for the firs time.
Queen Leaves for PNE
LAUREEN SMITH, Prince George's Queen Aurora III, left Sunday for Vancouver and the Miss PNE contest. Miss Smith, who was presented with a corsage-by Aid. Hari'y Loder on behalf of the city, will be one of 26 contestants in the contest. The contest, starts today and concludes Wednesday with the naming of the 1960 Miss PN'E Queen. Miss Smith was welcomed aboard the DC-6B that carried her to Vancouver by stewardess Beverley Rose.         �Hal Vandervoort photo
N SEPT. FOR CERTIFICATE
Peace Co. to Apply to PUC
Now Hear This...
Grand old man of the legal profession in H.C.. Prince George's own Peter Wilson, Q(\ city prosecutor, celebrated his 89lh birthday Sunday. Which makes him, as far as anyone can find out, the province's oldest practicing lawyer . . .
Her name is Leila Sauda, and her cheery .smile and excellent service which has brightened the Prince George Cafe for some time will he seen no more around in;, she left by CPA yesterday for Vancouver, whore she will live . . . Canadian Legion finally wearied of the rag Oil the top cud and now sports a brand new Union .lack . . , People at llur-hum's Uimu'IumiIs oiiI on VaudiT-lldof road phoned in a piece concerning unuBual eating habits, i hap who hitch-hiked hero from Vfludcrhoof In Bcarcli of work dropped in. ordered up three dozen sinkers anil downed 'cm olio after 'tothcr . . .
So it's late in the season, hut you just can't get rid of fish stories. I'd' Irio Emlo (iliiuihiich, Marvel Viuulal and Huh PrCOtnail braved Sunday's pain i<> go aiigl< ing down the lllackwaliT. Alter a iwiituiic Irak (luring which llioy  to got u nibble, our nOFOOS I,
returned to their ear and found six gorgeous rainbows a-sctting on the hood . . .
Passers-by are wondering whether those two big letters "S,C." In a main floor window at the froiit of I'd Regional Hospital Stand for Social Credit or Send Cash . . . Aid Charlie Graham, speaking briefly in PC. t'other llighl in .support of Liberal candidate Spike ISncmark, advised listeners to cast their votes for Spike on July 12. Could be too early or too late, Charlie, depending on how you look at it ...
For Hie past It) days, one who shall remain Known as (led lias worked late each night stuffing OllvelopcSi painting signs and doing all the other jobs essential to an clod inn campaign, a:> his contribution to Iho CCF venture. Friday night, pooped out, lied had a lew snorts and failed to make the Straehan rally. Later and somewhat the worse for wear, he chanced upon his party's leader. When nobody Introduced them, the fighting Scot stuck out Ills hand and (old Red: I'm Hub Slra-chun, To which our blcary-oyod I friend replied: Whad'ya wuni, u
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VICTORIA icn �Peace Rive) 'ower Development Company which plans a $5600,000,000 hydro electric complex in northern British Columbia, will apply to the public utilities commission next month for a certificate of public convenience and necessity.
An official of the firm said Saturday the application will be made "in the latter half of Scp tember."
Engineering   details   of   the project    were    approved    tin spring by the provincial comptroller of water rights. PILOT TUNN1X
Initial phase will be construction of a pilot, or access tunnel. The spokesman said the tunnel
Jordan's Premier Said Assassinated
LONDON MV-Premier Hazza Mujali of Jordan, 44, was assassinated by a time bomb thai exploded in his office, reports from Amman said today.
Ten persons wore killed and 50 Injured by this bomb and one set off in another Amman government office, unofficial reports said.
Majali's death was announced by Amman radio.
About the same time, n second bomb was exploded in the office of the government's director-general of publications. There were unconfirmed re-,ports that officials of the foreign ministry were among the casualties.
A curfew has boon ordered ami troops are patrolling Amman streets,
.Miijali took over as premier May 0, I!).1)!).
Government authorities in Amman announced last March (hut security police hud uii-covcrcd �' plot to assassinate Majnli along with Nasser BCM .laiuil, uu uncle of King, Hussein.
At that tin))1, the government announced a number of persons who had arrived from the Unflrd Aral) Republic by way "i Lebanon h.ui boon ur-rested in the plot.
Jordan and the U.A.It, have curried on a running propaganda feud by radio.
will be started late this fall or early next year.
"We will still be on schedule if we start Jan. 1" he said. "We have been extremely busy getting ready for the application."
Along with engineering adjustments to the over-all plan which were recommended by provincial oficials, PRPD has been preparing a detailed study of a rate structure for the PUC.
The access tunnel will parallel three 3,000-foot tunnels of �0 feet diameter which will divert Uie waters of the Peace River during construction of a clam at Portage
Mountain,   11  miles  north   of Hudson Hope.
The access tunnel will be eight or 10 feet in diameter and 3,000 feet long. WILL EXPLORE
"Through it we will explore the rock formations and later it will be used as a service tunnel for the main project."
Officials have set 10G8 as the target date for completion of the 750,000-horscpower Portage Mountain dam.
The entire project is expected to produce 4,200,000 horsepower and would be completed by 1976.
63 Feared Dead in Crash Of French Plane in Ocean
DAKAR, Scngal (Reuters)�A French airliner with 63 persons aboard crashed in the sea while trying to land here in a rainstorm today.
Rescuers reported five hours later that all 63 persons were feared dead. Four children were among the passengers.
A small fleet of rescue shins and helicopters searched in heavy seas for the four-cngined Super-Constellation which crashed a mile off-shore in about 65 feel of water.
The Air France plane was on a flight from Paris to Abidjan, Ivory coast, with 55 passengers and a crew of eight.
The Super-Constellation was equipped with a number of life rails which were released automatically when the plane hit the water. Rescuers found them empty.
BURNS LAKE
Charge of Murder In Beating Death
RCMP in Burns Lak have charged a 47-year-pl Indian with murder follow ing the death Sunday of 71 year-old Jimmy Andrew.
Robert Skin was remand ed for eight days when h appeared in court toda; after being charged thi morning.
Andrew, a popular anc well-known figure in the Bums Lake district, wa taken to hospital Saturday after what RCMP describee as a severe beating in brawl at Southbank Indiai Reserve, 15" miles south o Burns Lake.
Police say Andrew wa apparently struck over thi head with a board.
He was admitted to Burns Lake Hospital suffering fractured skull.
Congo Situation Remains Troubled
LEOPOLDVILLE, The Congo (CP)�"I was so mad I promised to fire the first shot myself if there was any interference."
Infurated by the latest clasl between his forces and Congolese soldiers. Gen. Carl Con Horn, the U.N. commander in the Congo deployed about 300 .men arounc a plane that brought woundec Canadians and Americans into LeQpoldvillc Sunday night.
The wounded men were flown here from Stanleyville, in the Congo interior, where a mob oi mixed troops and civilians bca them with clubs, rifles' and sub machine-guns after their arriva Saturday. .
One report said the crowd wen berserk after someone shoutcc "Belgian paratroopers."
Congolese Premier Patrice Lumumba, who arrived at the Stanleyville airport shortly after the fracas, was flying back to this capital today to face sharp protests from the UN command
Meanwhile U.N. troops today held key positions on the routes of Katanga Province in an effort to prevent a civil war between the breakaway province and ad vancing Congolese Army units.
The Congolese forces of Pre-nier Patrice Lumumba Sunday were rcpotrcd apporaching the 'ronlier as Gen. Roger Ghcyscn, Belgian Army commander, called �ailed for a UN-patrolled neutral one in the border region.
City Woman Gets Another Remand On Murder Charge
B.UKNABY m�Mrs. Winnifred Dorothy Tosoff was further re-nanded for one week Monday vhen she appeared in police �ourt here charged with murder n the death at Prince George arlier this month of four-year-ild Anna Marie Wade.
Ann, placed In Mrs. Tosoff's are after the child's parents vcre charged with criminal neg-igence In connection with mal-lUlrition of a baby, died after uffering severe bruises.
Mrs. Tosoff was transferred ore for detention In Oakalla ail women's quarters Police said he would continue to be re-landed until a dato is fixed for reliminary hearing of the mur-cr charge before a magistrate n Prince George.
Truckers Ask Hearings Halt Until After Vote
VANCOUVER (CPl�British Columbia truck loggers have asked Premier Bennett to postpone hearings of the royal commission on road user charges until after the provincial election.
Cy Bennett, secretary-manager of the Truck Loggers' Association, made the request in a telegram to the premier Friday.
The hearings are scheduled to resume here Tuesday.
'A DIRTY SLUR'
Smear Campaign Stirs Ire of CCFer Rutherford
A visibly angered CCF candidate Friday night set aside his planned talk to lash out at persons he said have
started a smear campaign against him.
Ken Rutherford, who in troduccd   CCF   leader   Robcr Straehan at a rally in the Civi Centre, told of being advised b a man just before the meetin that rumors were being circula ed about him in a city planin mill." TAKEN MONEY
"There's a story going aroun among the men at Prince Gcorg Planing Mills that I had lake, some money from the school," h said. "Some years ago, a leach'e named Rutherford did, and some thing was done about it."    /
Mr. Rutherford teaclW a Duchess Park Junior High Schoo
"If looks like somebody is try ing to start aj rumor to do m harm in this election. Now I kno\ what Gaglardi meant when *li said it was going to*be a di:t, campaign."
The normally affable ca'ndi date, struggling to control hi anger, told the audience "If somt of the followers of Gaglardi are doing it, I don't like it," and abruptly sat down. WILL INVESTIGATE
A member of Mr. Rutherford's
campaign   committee,   Frank
inowscll, said he had receivee
n anonymous phone call at CC1'
headquarters Friday in which the
person   "uttered   a   dirty   slur
against the CCF candidate."
"What we say about the Soc eds, we say on the platform,' le said and urged anyone hear ng such rumors to bring the per on to CCF headquarters where he charges "would be investi atcd."
"Let's cast out these dirty limy, back-door tactics," Mr nowscll said. "It's a disgrace to 3.C. politics."
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I'lVIS INJUUBU
KKHK.MKOS KB�-Five persona ere injured late S at u r d a y, hen two cars collided head-on 1 miles i-iist of here, Drivers ' the cars were Identified as ans Kgll and George Alex.
PLANS REGULAR CONCERTS
City's First Jazz Club Swings Out
A smnll group of jazz enthusi-ists met here Sunday night and ^w birth to the first Prince George Jazz club.
The club la iho Hob Larson, who 1'rin Prior
brainchild or h;is been in George for lour months, > conilnc here he was n
member of Hie Vancouver Jazz Society and Vancouver Musicians' Union.
"There is interest in jazz here," llO .said. "Just look at the number of jazz records sold locally."
"When people would rather listen to records than 'live' music there's 8oinothl|18 wrong," ' he told Iho gathering, "and it's not Iho records,"
"By forming the club," he continued, "the intercut among local
musicians to improve their music will be created. They in turn will have an outlet for their musical ideas and Interpretations through jazz club concerts."
The club, open to musicians and non-musicians alike, will start a drive for member! Inv mediately.
Mr. 1/cir.son, who is guiding the club until fin CXOClltlvo is elected, presented three suggestions to l ho group.
�                                 Hring "live" music to Prince Goorgo from money raised by activities of Iho local club.
0) Hold concerts by local musicians on a monthly or hi-monthly Ivisis, The concerts would bfl held on a Sunday.
�                                    V:.u jsu dub �� an un-
official booking agent for local musicians.
Mr. Larson explained that the Hotel Simon Frascr had agreed lo rent its ballroom to the jazz, club for concerts for a "very nominal" rent to help the club �Ac\ started!
"The amount <>f interest ill a jazz club has been fantastic," he .said, "Not only arc a lot of the musicians enthusiastic but people who just like to listen to jazz are interested."
Mr. Larson told the group, "We'll hit all sides and types of jaeZi from big band .sounds to the progressive school,"
"Prince George isn't u small town anymore." ho Bliid, "and it's about time our muj>io started to
keep up."
Mr. Larson said he thought the club would spark interest in all types of music, not just jazz. "As Iho interest increases the quality of our local groups will also iu-crcBuc,'1
Membership lo (lie club costs $5 per year and will entitle � person tt> a discount at one music .store on instruments and supplies and possibly u discount at another on long-play records.
The club will hold n meeting Sept 11 at 8 p.m. in the Hotel Simon Fraicr and everyone, musician or non-nuisiciun, is invited to attend.
if you're an accomplished ildo* [pili a beginner or Just a libtcn* cr, you're welcome to attend.
Stripping Marks Sorokin's Return To Douk Heartfond
KRESTOVA (CH �Stefan Soro-kin, bearded spiritual leader of B.C. Sons of Freedom Doukho-bors, returned to the Doukhobor heartland Sunday to be met by about 400 of his people and some stripping demonstrations which aroused his ire.
Sorokin limited his talks with his pedplc�the first he has had with tliem in eight years�to a few words in each of several appearances.   v
He was interrupted by strippers on arriving at a meeting hall among the shanties of. this Slocan Valley village. He brought the reunion to an abmpt halt and told the Frecdomilcs he would refuse to speak if they continued to disrobe.
Stripping is a common occurrence at Sons of Freedom rallies, often used as a form of protest jut sometimes in approbation.
Later, Sorokin was taken to dinner at a village home, where the Frecdomitcs crowded outside and sang continually in Russian. lie appeared periodically to address .the crowd in Russian for a few minutes.
Sorokin arrived here after an indefinite stay of proceedings was ordered in pre-trial exam-nation in Vancouver of his libel iuit against the Trail Times. ;lc has been living in Uruguay for the last eight years.
Sorokin was asked for his first niprcsslon on seeing his people or the first lime in eight years. 'I thought that after eight years absence my influence over my jeoplc has wandered," he replied hrough interpreter William Moo-elsky.
"I will continue to help the people as long as 1 am able. I A'ill contribute everything 1 am ble to bring peace among my >coplc�that a common ground nay be found between them and he authorities�because at the noment there is no better place o live than here."
OAS Closes Talks With Motion Blasting Commies
SAN JOSE, Costa Rica i/l'i � 'he meeting of foreign ministers f the Organization of American talcs drew to a close today after ondemnjllg the campaign of the oviet Union and Communist hina lo use Cuba as a willing pringboard Into the Americas. .
By a 19to-l vole Sunday rnuht, ic conference rejected a Cuban CSOlullon calling on the United tales to refrain from aggressive els against Fldol Castro's re-ime.
When the ministers also do-laled a Venezuelan proposal to ator down the aiitl-Commuiilat Declaration of San Jonoi" For-
in Minister Raul Ron mid jlie est of the Cuban dologatloti /alked out of (he conference mid aeked for honie.
With the United Slates pross� ig for n firm line auuinst tho ommunlst threat to the hoini-ihere, the ministers CompronV rd only to the extent of omitting iGcUlc niontlou oi Cuba from iclr declaration.
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