The Only Daily Newspaper Serving North-Central British Columbia Phone LOgan 4-2441 Vol. 4, No. 182 PRINCE GEORGE, BRITISH COLUMBIA, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 19, 1960 7C O Copy BY CARRIER $1.50 per Month EXPECT 150 DOUBLE WINNER in Prince George Senior High School awards clay Friday was Ken Feyerv He received the $210 Parent-Teacher Scholarship and the $75 Order of the Royal Purple Bursary. In the picture above he is given the PTA" scholarship by Mrs. Don Gough. �James Meadows Photo Students Presented With Bursaries Here Six students of Prince George Senior High School in the 1959-60 school year were honored at an awards assembly Friday. The six were the winners of bursaries or scholarships awarded by local organizations. Two students, Ken Foyer and Nan Carter, received two awards each. WORTH $240 Fcyer was presented with the Parent Teacher Association Scholarship, worth $240, and the Prince George Order of the Royal Purple Bursary for $75. The PTA Scholarship, to aid a student in studies at, the University of B.C., will be deferred for one year while Feyer attends senior matriculation here. The Order of the Royal Purpl Bursary goes to a student enter ing senior matriculation her "with the highest academi standing." Miss King, who is now attend ing UBC, won the Prince George Teachers' Association Scholai ship and the Soroptomist Club Scholarship. Porch Light Drive Turn your porch light on lo jhl and help bring .some light L" he 'hearts of the less for re. Starting at G::30 volunteer invasscra will call on city homes requesting donations for the Salvation Army's Red Shield Appeal. A local objective of $7,500 has been set to meet costs of the Salvation Army's program of social work, a largo part of �which goes to assisting the unemployed and destitute. Campaign, which started last Wedneday, has collected $95. Due to a lack of canvassers', homes in the Pineview, Bonnet Hill and airport amis will not be called on. Residents of 'those areas are asked to mail their donations to the Toronto-Dominion Bank, Prince George, or lo Chairman Chuck Lees, 203 Bon Accord Building, Prince George. Homes on the Hart Highway to Chief Lake Road will be canvassed Wednesday night. Hcd Shield's national objective is $2,595,000. Money raised in the local campaign, which continues to the end of the month, is spent locally. The teachers' association scholarship will pay a full year's fee at the UBC College of Edu cation, worth about $350. The Soroptomist Scholarship is for $100. NURSES' BURSARY Other award winners were: Janice Baillie, winner of the Registered Nurses' Association Fort George Chapter, Bursary worth $150. Miss Baillie is cur rently in training in Kamloops Michael Gibbons, winner oi the Canadian Legion, Branch 43 Bursary of $200. Mr. Gibbons is currently attending UBC. '. Netannis King, winner of the Agnes Anderson Pack Memorial Scholarship of $100. Marie Evanoff, winner of the Teen Town Scholarship, worth $100. PILOT TRIES AIRPORT BUT IT'S NOT READY BURNS LAKE � Burns Lake airport was used for the first time Wednesday when a plane piloted by Andy Isabcllc of Prince George landed there. Due to a misunderstanding, the Prince George Flying Club, of which Mr. Isabclle is a member, was given to understand the airport was ready for use, so the pilot shared the honors with the village bulldozer, which had just begun to work on the landing strip. By BARRY IIAMELIN Citizen Staff Reporter A major experiment in higher education gets under way in Prince George today when some 150 people register for three English courses to be given by Ronald J. Baker, assistant professor at the University of B:C; The courses�English 200, r>00 and 430�are being offered jointly by School District \To. 57 and UBC. It will be the first time a UBC professor has been in residence outside Vancouver to teach university courses. Registration will be undertaken tonight at the Senior High School at 8 p.m. After registration Professor Baker will draw up schedules for classes, etc. MANY WORKING Allan Stables, principal of the senior high, said about 40 per cent of those applying for th courses are "working people ani businessmen." Housewives and teachers eacl compose about 30 per cent of thi prospective students. The fee for any of the course is $66, plus textbooks. Mr. Stables said anyone taking one of the three courses will hav access also to the school library He said Prof. Baker has sen up about 2,000 of his own books to supplement those supplied by UBC and the school board, SPACE IN SCHOOL Prof. Baker will be providec lecture space and an office a the senior high school. The school board will pay the salary, expenses and supplemen tary costs incurred by the pro fessor and provide him with a ir. Prof. Baker, who graduated from UBC in 1951 with first class honors in English language and literature, was born in London, England. From 1954 until 1956'he did graduate work at the School of Oriental and African Studies at the University of London. He returned to UBC after completing his graduate work and began teaching duties in the nglish department. Prof. Baker's research interests lie in the field of linguistics � the study of language. "While here he hopes to make a study of the languages of the various Indian tribes in the sur-ounding areas. LOCAL MAN- CHARGED PRINCE RUPERT (CP)� Fer-inand Douglas Lowell, 39-year-ld fisherman from Prince Jeorge, was charged with mur-er here Saturday after a man vas knocked off a skiff Friday nd drowned during a fight. )ead is Joseph George Roch eauehoniin, about 40, of Prince iu pert. I'relimlnary hearing into a charge, of criminal negligence iigains': GillcH Georgo Midland, 21, is scheduled for magistrate's court here Friday. He is charged in connection witli tlu> death in a traffic mishap H�'|it. 3 of his wife, Dorothy, 19. Released on his own rccog-lii'/imcq Sept. I:!, lu< was lato appearing in court Friday; and arrived (it the police station in time to prevent a bench warrant for his arrest being issued. PROFESSOR BAKER Two Seriously Hurt In WeeRend Mishaps An American airman from Baldy Hughes and a two-year-old Island Cache girl were in "serious" condition in Prince George Regional Hospital today after separate traffic accidents Friday. .Police, said Dianne Lois Hay, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Jim Hay, received cuts to the head after she ran in front of a small truck in front of the Island Cache store. Airman 1/c Morris Foss suffered seven fractured ribs and a punctured left lung when his car left the Blackwater Road and overturned. He was trapped beneath the vehicle until help arrived from he Mid-Canada U.S. Radar Base, hree miles away. Foss was driving alone to 3rince George when the accident occurred. Police said the road >ed was soft after a recent grad-ng. IWA Votes On 8-Cent Pay Offer An eight cents per hour wage increase across the board has been recommended for local lumberworkers. The recommendation is contained in a majority report of a conciliation board which sat on contract talks between Northern Interior Lumbermen's Association and Local 1-424, International Woodworkers of America. Union members are now voting on whether it will accept or reject the report. Result of the vote will not be known until Sept. 29, Union President Jake Hoist said today: Majority report was brought down by. Board Chairman W. E. Philpott and union appointee Earl Ki.nney. The other member was NILA nominee D. A. Sut-ton. ATTENTIVE LISTENERS for Dr. David McGann were supplied by the Prince George Handicapped Children's Society Friday night. Dr. McGann, a consultant^ to the Provincial Association for Retarded Children and a member of the UBO" faculty, presented his theories on how to help retarded and handicapped children in B.C. �Barry Harhelin photo EXPERT SAYS Retarded Needs Care MURDER CHARGE LYTTON (CP) � Jimmy Smok-r, 62, has been charged with nurdcr in the rifle slaying of a elative on an Indian reserva-ion 17 miles north of here. ICMP charged Smoker follow-ng the slaying Wednesday af ternoon of Willie Henry, 43. Must Service Potentially Uneconomic Areas, Private Power Companies Told VICTORIA (CP) � The Public Jtilities Commission has orderec he three largest private power lompanies in B.C. to make de ailed studies of electrification leeds in areas which so far lave proved uneconomic to serve Commissioner A. B. Jacksor aid B.C. Electric, West Koot may Power and Light Co. anc 3asl Kootenay Power Co. have leen asked to complete surveys n the fringe of their franchise reas which need power. The PUC used new powers granted it at the last session of Now Hear This ... Vancouver sales type on a business trip here learned the intricacies of a Volkswagen car he rented from his boss, but not without some embarrassment. When the temperature dipped to 25 t'other night, he drove into a service station and told the attendant to toss in a gallon of antifreeze. Where do I put it? asked the startled pump jockey, whose knowledge included the fact the German buggy has an air-cooled engine, and thus no radiator or water. I don't know, use your imagination, the sales type replied . . . Standard Oil bigwig Don Birn-ic, formerly of PG and now a Smoglowner, was here on vacation recently and made $1 bet on the weather with Mrs. Ruth Evans. She lost. So t'other day she got a mysterious phone call from Royal Bank manager Jim McConnell, *lvho said he wanted to see her toot sweet. Ruth toddled over in fear and tremblinj only to find that Birnic had put through a bank draft from Vancouver for $1.25 to cover the bet ... Local nimrods Joe Whitney and Warner Jarvis drove down an obscure trail and spotted a bull moose near a lake. You circle through the bush, said Joe, and if he conies this way I'll beep the horn. So away went Warner. And along came a couple of drunks in another car, horn beeping. Warner came leaping from the bush and the drunks offered him a drink. Having got rid of them, the lads went back to stalking their bull, saw an animal and pumped four shots at it. Then they discovered they were shooting at a cow moose, their bull having been scared off by the drunks. Oh well, no harm clone. Our heroes didn't score a hit anyway . . . the legislature to order a 38-mile extension of West Kooten-ay's transmission system. It was the first time the commission has made such an order, which also ensures that there won't be a "substantial" increase in rates or a decrease in service elsewhere in the system. to settle the strongest claims first. It estimates that West Kootenay will just break even on the extension which has a potential revenue of $62,000 a year. REASONABLE PROJECT The figure covers operating costs and interest charges for The report recommends a six-cent increase effective Sept. 1 and a further two-cent increase March 1, 1961, bringing the basic interior lumber industry rate to $1.77. It's a one-year contract. The union originally called for a 25-ccnt increase to bring the interior rate up to that of the coast workers. In addition to the general wage increase, tradesmen would receive a further six-cent increase; powerhouse certified engineers an additional six cents; and powerhouse firemen an additional four cents. Premium rates for second and third shifts would be increased from 4'/2 cents to five cents. Fringe benefits would include improvements in the travel time and vactions with pay clauses. The IWA regional policy committee, comprised of a representative of each local in Western Canada, has recommended the membership accept the majority report. An estimated 35,000 people i B.C. arc intimately affected b mentally retarded or physicall handicapped children, Dr. J. D McGann told the Prince Georg Handicapped Children's Societ Friday night. Dr. McGann said one child i 50 is retarded. "We have betwee six and nine thousand rctardc children in the province," h m ' FIRST TOUR Dr. .McGann, a consultant t the Provincial Association fo Retarded Children and a mem ber of the University of B.C faculty, is making his first tou of the province. �Educated at Yale, Syracus and Boston universities and th University of Connecticut, Dr McGann came to B.C. a wee! ago. A trained psychologist, he ha taught mentally retarded anc blind and deaf children. Prior to coming to the province he hac served as director of a state pro gram for handicapped children in Montana. Dr. McGann said "a mentally retarded child's needs are more difficult and costly to satisfy than a normal child's." CAN CONTRIBUTE But, he pointed out, with the Involved is a certificate of j ^ancinS thc 5380,000 project i -,. . -. .. Thorn tc n "ronennah p nrnsnpct public convenience and necessity ordering West Kootenay to build the line from Rock Creek, east of Osoyoos, up the Kettle Valley to Carmi, east of Pcnticton. ASKS DATA The three utilities ordered to study power needs have been asked to especially consider projects that may come under the PUC's new-found powers. It asks for data to establish a priority list. The companies have been asked to bear in mind "the existing systems must contribute to the support of any uneconomic system." The PUC said it wants Cuba-Hungary Pact HAVANA (Reuters) � Cuba and Hungary Thursday signed a 10-ycar agreement under which Hungary will give Cuba $8,000,-000 in machinery on credit, including completely equipped industrial plants. Power Failure Power in the downtown area "was interrupted for less than a minute at 9 a.m. today /iue to. a fault in the powerhouse. B.C.1 Hydro officials did not know cause. !pf the outage. There is a "reasonable prospect' of revenue increasing soon. A statement accompanying the West Kootenay order says: "Thc commission is no longer bound as a matter of law to satisfy itself f.hat the probable revenue will be enough to match the full costs of service, but it cannot order any uneconomic extension costing hundreds of thousands of dollars without careful regard to the prospect revenue to meet the full costs of service." DULL PLACE, WHAT! HALIFAX (CP>�Selling Bikini bathing suits in Halifax is skimpy business. The city's sportswear shops report only a handful sold all summer. One store said it had six in stock and sold only three�nil the sales following a price reduction. Another said the only bikinis it sold included a detachable skirt. "Haligonians are just too conservative," said the head of one department store. "Perhaps a few buy bikinis for private sun bathing but most girls are hesitant to go on a public beach with them." proper program a mentally retarded child can contribute to society. By a proper program, Dr. Me Gann said, he meant: � Small residential units, lo take the place of the "large impersonal institutions," scattered throughout thc province with facilities for retarded children who are also deaf and blind or physically handicapped. � Greater and more efficient diagnostic services. � Counselling and guidance services for parents of retarded children. Special education programs to follow a retarded child's ability and needs for as lour; as a child can benefit from them. � Sheltered workshops for a retarded child who has finished his education and is capable of doing some form of work. 9 Integration of "cducable" retarded children with normal children. BECOME DELINQUENTS Dr. McGann said many retarded children who aren't given proper help become socially mal- NEAR SUMMIT LAKE New Town Plan Gets Cabinet Okay A cabinet order Friday was the first step toward carving a new town out of the forest wilderness in B.C.'s north. Lands and Forest Minister Williston said the new community will be set up 12 miles north of Summit Lake, about 40 miles from Prince George. The cabinet order lifts part of the Crooked River forest reserve to allow establishment of a town. Mr. Williston said the com- ' munity is being set up mainly for loggers arid their ffrUH lie said there will be some GO lo SO families involved. "Eventually there could be 100 families involved," he said. "This is a new idea. It's the first of its kind in the province." Thc project is a joint one by half a dozen local logging operators, education, health and welfare officials, and the lands and forests department. Mr. Williston said the project has nothing to do with the Pacific Northern Rail w a y which starts three miles south of Summit Lake and'is to run iioftlnVest lo the Yukon border. However, it's possible that workers on thc line might join the new community, he said. Next step toward setting it up will be public auction of subdivided lots on a 25-acre area of crown land, he said. Logging operators have agreed to build roads. Eventually a waterworks system will be provided, using the lake. Operators who are involved in the plans include Neilsen Sawmills, Park Brothers Sawmills, Summit Lake Sawmills and Ferguson Lake Sawmills. adjusted and emotionally disturb ed. "They then become delin quents," he said. "Let us put the skilled pro fessional people at UBC to work and give them the resources to carry out basic research," he suggested. "They could help oul a great deal with the present problem." "The lack of trained personnel is a' crucial problem," he said "and we have to attract, encourage and educate these people we so desperately need." Dr. McGann said "a mentally retarded child who is able to gain from education belongs in the present school structure. "The retarded child would have contact with normal children and would grow up as a part of thc community. "The .severely retarded child isn't a responsibility of the schools, but those that can be trained are. CAN BE BURDEN "If a retarded child is properly educated and trained il can, eventually, perform very Meeting Postponed JUNEAU, Alaska W)�A planned meeting of the Alaska International Development Commission with representatives of the Yukon and B.C. here next month laa been postponed until next year. Governor William A. Egan said today the decision was made at the request of Premier W. A. adequately in certain occupations and earn a salary, contributing to the community. "But if a retarded child isn't trained it is a burden on the community." Dr. McGann said that an edu-cablc retarded child can read up to the fourth or sixth grade and do arithmetic up to thc fourth grade level. "This is sufficient to live in society," he said. New Westminster Man Wins Cancer Bursary A fourth year medical student at the University of B.C., Robert Wilson Morgan of New Westminster, has bccii awarded the annual $500 bursary offered by the B.C. and Yukon division of thc Canadian Cancer, Society to assist promising students in their studies. The bursary is available to financially deserving medical students at UBC. Those assisted are asked to assume a moral responsibility to reimburse the 'und after completion of their medical studies. '. Bennett, iven. CHANGE TRADITION JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) � Instead of champagne, officials, used a pot of coconut palm juice ,o christen the first Indonesiafi-No reason was built naval vessel, a 147-ton submarine chaser. Forest Fire Hazard Up in Southern B.C Regions VICTORIA (CD � The B.C. For-jst Service said today a spell of Iry weather has increased thc ire hazard in several parts of he province. There were 167. new fires re-orted last week, most of them i thc Kamloops and Vancouver orcsts districts where thc haz-rd is described as "moderate." A few clouds tonight and \iessday. Colder with frost to-ight. Light winds. Low tonight nd high tomorrow at Quesnel nd Prince George, 30 and 55; at mithers, 30 and 50. Peace* River Region A few clouds tonight. Widely scattered showers Tuesday. A little cooler in temperature, light winds. Low tonight and high tomorrow at Grande Prairie, 35 and 55. Last 2-1 Hours Prince George.. 44 Quesnel .......... 48 Terrace .......... 40 Smithers ........ 33 Kamloops ...... 54 Davvson Creek 37 Fort St. John.. 36 Fort Nelson.... � WliitehOrse...... -29 LO Hi Precep. 59 55 58 5G 75 63 62 .05 .12 .02 .05 .04 44 � Low hazards arc reported in the Prince Rupert and Prince George districts and a "low to moderate" hazard exists in the Nelson district. A local forest service official said most of the Prince George district has received showers during thc last few days arid has "cooled off." Thc forest service spent $4,-616,377 suppressing the 3,888 fires which have been reported this year. The old record was $4,528,137 spent during thc disastrous 1958 fire season. Defence Chief Named For Central Zone VICTORIA CR�Thomas W. L. Butters has been appointed full time civil defence coordinator for the central zone of B.C. He will make his office at Kamloops. His monthly salary of $400 a month was approved by the cabinet Friday. Appointed part-'time coordinators at $175 a month were. Ernest Tennant, Okanagan area; Herbert B. Mer-rcik, Powell River; Richard John Dolman, Skeena River. ALDERMAN QUITS SASKATOON (CP) � Veteran Alderman Bill Gray announced his retirement from city council *fter iQ years. - . . )