The Social Credit government has inflicted seven hoaxes on the people of British Columbia.
In total these hoaxes have cost, or will cost, the residents hundreds o[ millions of dollars.
None of those hoaxes can be swept under the carpet any longer. They are too precious for that, in thnt they affect all our lives, and the lives ot our children.
The Citizen will shortly describe each hoax in detail;
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Vol. 4; No. 171
PRINCE GEORGE, BRITISH COLUMBIA, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 1, 1960
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Tipjoff is this summer's la ow sumo activity just bef
program of tiie Social hoax, especially in the
t-mimtte desperate rush '.'l' election clay on roac"
along .since the places. Other
; ograms which have beei iawdlin 'gst election.
Iliads are being built in the wron pads ?i%' not being built or repaired.
There has been duplication and waste on one hand. i'hI almost complete neglect oh the bthdr hand, in the Social Credit program.
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The Green Tinok published
ng Social Credit claim.- of )1 years, refers to what it calls
fea test in V reatesl road s
The laets .
Termer
i the Mv
y the Socreds recently, progress over the last the ['highway program, Bennett .says it's the world.
lims to be a hoax.
Record Channel Triumph Registered, by Canadian
FOLKESTONE, England (Eeuters) � Helfie Jensen, 23-year-old Danish-Canadian from Toronto, Wednesday set a record for swimming the English Channel and returned in triumph to tiiis coastal town.
Crowds cheered when the fair-haired Jensen stepped from a fishing boat which brought him back from the French coast.
The 233-pound Jensen set the record when he completed the gruelling 22 mile crossing from nearby Dover to France in 10 hours and "3 minutes.
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(SIDE BY SIDE � Old section of Highway Hi west ol Prince George is now paralleled by the new high-. way, still under construction.
While obviously the government has done a good leal of highway building and rebuilding in the Okanagan mil Kanilobps areas, the North has been left with little or nothing.
Says the Green Book on Page 45: "Since 1052 a total of '1.U7!,1 miles of highway have been built or rebuilt in B.C. (and) a total of '.\.2O7 miles have been paved."
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of the eight-year program in the Fort reveals that new paving in the entire [bnstituericy totals only a miserable 64 miles to date. Phis is made up of 32 miles south to Woodpecker, 1!) jliles west to Cluculz Lake, 13 miles north from Summit Lake, and nothing whatever east of Prince George.
In other words'; the Fort George riding represented by Kay Williston has received exactly two per cent of (Continued on Page 3)
QUESNEL (Staff) � A four-year-old Quesnel girl died Wednesday after suffering burns lo I (it) per cent of her body in a blaz-I ing house fire at Richbar, six miles south of here, Tuesday.
Doris Lafontaine, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph L. Lafontaine, was one of five youngsters trapped in the home of Mr. and Mrs. C. McLeod when the fire occurred.
The other youngsters fled the home immediately and one went back to bring out the little girl. Doris was rushed to baker Memorial Hospital here.
The fire, which levelled; the home, is believed to have started while an oil stove was being lit. RCMP are investigating-.
Tiie International Woodworkers of America (CLC) and the Northern Interior Lumbermen's Association presented their cases I to a conciliation board Wednesday m Prince George.
The union is asking for a 25-cent across the board increase along with a number of fringe benefits and technical changes.
The NILA has balked at these terms and remains firm on its stand. REBUTTAL TODAY
W. E. Philpott of Vancouver is chairman of the board.
Earl Kinney of Vancouver is the IWA's nominee while Don Sutton, also of Vancouver, is the NILA nominee.
Rebuttal from both sides was slated for today with the final
Jerome Drops from Sprint with Cramp
ROME ICPI � Harry Jerome of
conciliation report expected to be released within the next 10 days.
Dag Scores Belgium For Failing to Take
UNITED NATIONS, N.Y. !.?>� Secretary-General Dag Hammar-skjold disclosed today he has delivered a formal protest lo Vancouver pulled up lame today \ lhe Belgian government for
in his semi-final heat of the men's 100-metre Olympic sprint.
Peter Radford of Britain won the heat, first of the semi-finals it was a dramatic race. Jerome stopped midway in the race.
Obviously in severe pain from a pulled leg muscle, he hobbled to the infield where he fell on his face in a gesture of extreme despair.
Armin Hary of Germany, co-hoklcr of xthe world record of 10 seconds with Jerome, flashed in winner of his semi-final
failure to get its last combat troops out of the Congo by Monday midnight as promised.
Hammarskjold said Belgium still had nearly fa'00 troops at the Kamina b::se, Tuesday despite Belgian assurances the evacuation had in effect been completed.
lie accused Belgium's UN delegate, Walter Loridan, of giving him information contrary to the facts observed on the scene by UN officials.
lie said Belgian officials at i Kamina had told UN representatives the last troops would not j leave the Congo until Sept. 4./ Russia demanded Wednesday I night that Hammarskjold turn | ov'er the two big Belgian bases I in the Congo to Premier Patrice LUmumba's government as soon as possible.
Joseph Robert Paul died in Prince George Regional rlospital this morning after suffering severe burns when fire gutted his cabin in the Island Cache.
The fire is believed to have started about 5: p.m. Wednesday in the kitchen of the four-room cabin.
The Island Cache Volunteer Fire Brigade arrived on tiie S'.'ene five minutes after the blaze broke out.
They found Paul face down beside the front steps of the cabin, badly burned but .still alive. EARS GONE
One of the first on the scene, Roy Doucetlc. said:
"I've never seen a man so badly burned in my life. His (Paul's) ears and hair were burned off and he kept making moaning noises."
Doucette said Paul was badly burned from the waist up but the lower part of his body was relatively untouched.
The fire was first spotted by an unidentified man working on a nearby house. BLACK SHIRT
lie said lie saw Paul stagger out of the cabin and a woman "clad in a black shirt" run from the burning house and disappear.
A .second woman, also unidentified, was believed lo have been in the house when the fire broke out.
RCMP are investigating the blaze and an inquest will be held.
A VVAKM WELCOME ABOARD was given these two "belly-scrapers" ds hovered on the scene of cons'vuctiori at the Pacific Northern Railway siu near Summit Lake. But they're hung up waiting for drier weather.
�Jarvis Whitr.ev .-'I solo
NO WORD YET FROM LUMUMBA
OTTAWA Cfl� Prime Minister Diefenbakcr said today he has received no direct acknowledgement from Congolese Premier Pal rice Lumumba of his note protesting the manhandling of Canadian servicemen in Leopokiville.
He noted, however, that the government of the Congo had apologized through UN under-secertary Ralph Bunehe.
PNR Project Picks Up
Steam
Some
Columbia First, Green Says
NELSON KB � External Affairs Minister Green stated emphatically here that the Colum-
River development must e precedence over any other
bia
tak
power project in British Columbia.
Mr. Green told a public meeting:
"This Columbia River cannot wait, The LJnit6d states cannot wait. This .scheme cannot wait for Peace River development or any other developments in British Columbia."
"I am positive thai develop nient of the Columbia River will go ahead.
Site of the Pacific Northern Railway construct ion job near Summit Lake looks today more like a major project than it has since Premier Bennett felled a tree there nine- week? ago.
Three pieces of heavy duty equipment and at least five men have been added to the work force during the last week.
MORE MEN
Additional equipment includes two scrapers, said to have been shipped up from Vancouver by the contractor, Jamieson Construction Co., which to Wednesday was sitting idle waiting for drier weather.
Also at the job-site is an additional bulldozer and a portable gas tank.
Workmen have been grubbing the right-of-way and other preparatory work, presumably anticipating an early- start on the major job of bringing the railroad bed up lo grade.
DON'T KNOW
As has been the case since opening ceremonies June 29, the workmen themselves did not
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The Social Credit government's forest man igernent policies have created a "timber auction arena �. hich is rampant with intrigue, cut-throat deals and bJ;, Larry Eckardt, Conservative candidate for V Centre, told The Citizen in an exclusive intervk:
~SYt. Eckardt, a 51-year-old lawyer and logging operator who is a past president of Ihe Truck Loggers' Association, compared small logging operators with the ham in a ham sandv/ich:
They're pressed in between two slices. One slice is discriminatory government legislation and regulations. On the bottom side are politically-minded, ambitious labor leaders who are just thinking of their own inter-eats."
lie charged that due to policies of the present government the lumber of small operators in the province has been reduced to one half in the last four years.
He said that in 195(3 there were 1.550 operators in the Vancouver Forest District, "it's now about half that . . . we're the last of the Mohicans."
Mr. Eckardt told of a brief presented to Lands and Forests Min-
But there's activity there, any-
way.
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RINDING THROUGH THE BUSH, two highways where only one good one !s ncclcd. /lighwny Hi is actually two poor highways in many nlaces in ihe 70-"^ stretch between Prince George and Vjuitlerhoof. The old highway, pocked i and "washboard", has a twin in the new highway, also pocked with a few JLeet away*
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Out at the PNR Summit Lake site the election race is off to a rapid pace. This corner last week itemed a bit telling of a CCF poster boosting candidate Ken Rutherford which was, nailed to a tree on the Hart whore the access road swishes off to the bush. Yesterday's Citizen vigilante committee saw another one�above Ken's�this lime favoring Jlay Williston . . .
And while we're at Summit Lake, we may as well throw ac-eolades in the direction of two members of the Aurora Aquatic
I Association. Dan Arncy and Guy Heer were out there just sloshing about in their frogmen suits when they were asked lo search out the trouble in the lodge's water supply system. They found
j the faulty part in a submerged
I section, and were amply re-
| warded ...
Our own Red, who is becoming a major contender to Jake the Fake for witty sayings, suggests the narrow windows in the new fhieciical centre at Fourth and Quebec are to keep fat thieves out . . . Not to be outdone, Jake the Fake "barbcrizes" this way: It's easy to tell when the cold weather comes 'cause that's when h
Since school opens Tuesday, the folk at Use school board offices may now change their calendar. Current date recorded is Julv 20 ...
And here's a little bit of consolation, courtesy of the Gyros, lor the three candidates who must lose Sept. 12: "Failed in business in '31; Defeated for legislature in '33; Again failed in business in '33; Elected to legislature in '34; Defeated for Speaker in '38; Defeated for Elector in '40; Defeated for Congress in '43; Elected to Congress in '46; Defeated for Congress in '48; Defeated for Senate in '55; Defeated for vice-president in '56: Defeated for Senate in '58. His efforts were rewarded, because one other entry should be added to his biography: Elected President in 'GO." Who else but Abraham Lincoln in 18(iO . . .
ME Gus Henderson hit town last night, and will be here over
the Fall Fair
And visitiin
the kids' leave the doors they slammed all summer.
open
Conservative forest-baiter Larry Eckardt displayed his fine baritone on television last night in j a parody on Ivan Skavinsky I Skivar entitled The Pirates of!
Power or the Hymn of the Hand-1 gardefd here as perhapsTthc�'most'i out. He comes by it legitimately
OTTAWA (CB�Marathon international trade talks which could have a major influence on Canada's future export business open at Geneva today.
Furty nations will be represented at the fifth post-war negotiations of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade.
One of the big goals for Canada will b'.v to preserve�and if possible improve � access for Canadian goods to the six-nation European Common Market in the face of a .pending tariff shuffle by the six to form a customs
OTTAWA (Cll�Canada rolled up a S3�,3yO,OO3 trade surplus in July�the second month this year iii which exports have topped imports, the Dominion Bureau of Statistics reported today.
Exports jumped 8.3 per rent from a year earlier to SJG5,-000,000, and imports slumped by 10.7 per cent to $426,-700,000.
The resulting trade .surplus pared t!ie trade deficit for tlte first seven months of the year to S163.100.000 � about "two-fifths of the deficit of S401,-200.0&0 in the corresponding period of 1959.
The Geneva meetings are rc-
ister Ray Williston last February by the Independent Timber Converters' Association, a group representing smaller logging operators.
The brief pleaded for steps lo correct the "inequities" of tree farm licences and "an even chance to compete with the few large corporations which have been ' given competitive advantages by the government." iVfA?,;Y. PROMISES
All Mr, Williston did. said Mr. j Eckardt, was to say "h'e would I take it into consideration. In the meantime, all we have is promises.' We find their slogan of ac-lion, not promises, has boon reversed.
And lie produced a photostat copy of a letter dated March 1932, he received from the then-back-bencher MLA, \V. A, C. Bennett, in which the now premier said -I am very alarmed regarding some of the forest management licences that might
VANCOUVER 'CPi Communist party nier-campaigning within th labor in negotiations . i ger with the CCF an.1 I matidn of a new polite says Canadian Commu' er Tim Buck.
The statement, made tcrvicw here Wednesc!^.1. sharp rebuttals from I... and CCF leaders.
"lie lias a fat chance, gry Claude Jocloin, pn.'
Sixty icrs are anks of a iner-the for--I party, -.! lead-
n an in-'Drought h labor
an an-lent of lanadian
the 1,000,000-member
Labor Congress, said ;v. CtiiuVfai
"The CLC and its aftjihtoii op-eratc under the dcinoomcic system which Mr. Buck knu >s nothing about."
Stanley Knowles, vice-president of the CJ mer CCF Member of 1' and a prime mover in mation of the new part
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Variable cloudiness with .scattered showers Friday afternoon. Clear periods overnight, Remaining tool with light -winds.
Low tonight and high tomorrow at Quesnej, 10 and (>2; at Prince George and Smithers, 67 and utt.
gy
too, since he solos at Ryerson United Church when at home in Vancouver ,. . .
important trade conference sin the war. Predicted to last or nine months, they might ev stretch out to a year.
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Cieaviitg this evening. F ossy.
Friday mibr'nngj sum y in i he
afternoon. Not quite .so cool.
Light winds.
Low tonight ; rid In �,-!i tc mor-
row at Grande Prairl �;, 155 aml
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Dawsdri Creel 31 IS 17
Forl St. John Furl v .; ;nn 35 hi .53
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said: "It's nonsense."
At Na'naimo, T. C. Saskatchewan premier ; iid the choice of many to head .lie new warty said: "They are i ing to g:ve the movement tlio >Ls of death."
Air. Buck told repoiv .� one-third of me Communist w.-mbers arc hiding their party |i jnibe-r-ship to avoid being expi .: i.
Tiie infiltrators, he trade unionists primed wi immist schooling. Their tale aim is to have the j political parly revoke its communism before the merger next August.
.!<>(� Morris, president' national Woodworkers -�.:. a District 1 (15.1'.
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George today: "No whal Thn Muck says, {!;.> I'nsn-inunist party will not )>c j.jKihI to the founding rotiveiu,-n Wt tin1 .Vrw Party.
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