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PRINCE GEORGE, BRITISH COLUMBIA, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER  29,   1960
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READY AND WAITING for heavy-duty equipment to level the grade for steel is this right-of-way cut for the proposed Pacific Northern Railway 'near Summit Lake.                 �Hal Vandervoort photo.
Wet Ground Impedes Construction at PNR
If the ground were ?.s dry as the sky has been during the last few days, the going would be much   easier   for   construction workers at the Pacific Northern Railway site near Summit Lake. , v~��Muskeg end generally jnuddy conditions have been a major plague to the carlhmoving equipment, workmen say. The equipment itself, as if protesting th rugged going, has played hookc with the occasional mechanica breakdown.
Still,  the  grade  is  creepin closer to a swamp crossing whic will entail the toughest task o the initial 2:iA miles of the new railroad.
Accepting the inevitable, th beavers which have lived in th soon-to-be-draincd pond arc no\ making only a token effort t dam the drainage channel.
Last week, one workman liac to spend as much as three hours undoing the beavers' damming job each morning.
Another section which wil ptovc a challenge is a 3,000-foo .continuous cut; ranging as deep as 40 feet in some spots. Workers have found it riddled with springs, hampering both men and equipment.
"We've been building up the access road, though," quippec one workman, "just to help the press get in." (The Citizen makes a weekly visit to the site to re port on the progress.)
Farther up the line, all felldc brush and trees are being cleared from the right-of-way. Some of it is dry enough to burn.
H. Greenhuf Elected By Retail Merchants
Harry Grccnhut, president of Better Value Furniture Ltd., was elected president of the Prince George Retail Merchants' Association at an annual dinner meeting Wednesday.
Mr. W. M. Trailer was named vice-president, Frank Seldl secretary, and Jim Ziinmaro treasurer.
Elected directors wore: Roy yip, Elliott Hall, Frank Clark, Norman Float, Al Edelnian, Martin Laspa and Eugene Gabriel.
La Bardot Recuperates After Suicide Attempt
MENTON, France (AP)�Film star Brigittc Bardot was reported to be out of danger today following a reported attempt on her own life.
It was learned from the Saint Francois neurological clinic in Nice, where she now is under treatment, that she cut the veins of her wrists with a razor blade and took an overdose of sleeping pills. There have been reports of serious marital difficulties with her husband, actor Jacques Char-
UN ITED NATIONS (CP �British Prime Ministei Macmillan urged the Unitec Nations today to make a calm, reasoned approach to disarmament.
His speech was interrupted by angry heckling from Soviet Premier Khrushchev and the Communist bloc.
At one point the Soviet premier leaped to his feet scowling, and shouted in Russian at the British leader s Macmillan was present-ng a major statement on Western objectives.
Macmillan interrupted his speech and remarked cooly: "I would like to have a translation of those words."
It was learned later Khrush- j chev had said: "We are always! in favor of controls for a di armament program."
Macmillan had described h plan as "not in any sense a pr posal to institute control withou disarmament"�a frequent Sovi objection to Western schemes fo reducing arms.
When Macmillan raised a poin about the breakup of the Par summit conference last Ma; Khrushchev waggled a finger a him and shouted: "Don't commi aggression."
Nearby delegates were startlec Macmillan ignored this first in terruption.
Macmillan received the bigges
ovation so far in this histori
15th Assembly session. Khrush
chev and the Soviet bloc sa
[lumly and silent throughout the
tormy applause. Then the Sovie
premier strpde out of the as
embly hall.
Municipal Finance Study Request to Be Weighed
VICTORIA (CP)�The B.C. government will consider a request for an inquiry into municipal finance problems, Municipal Affairs Minister Black said Wednesday.
The Union of B.C. Municipalities at its convention in New Westminster last week asked for a royal commission inquiry into tax distribution. It said current tax revenues are not enough lo meet service requirements.
Negotiators Report
Khrushchev   and   Macmillan vere to meet later today in pri
ate conference. It was the first time the head
f any delegation, let alone the
ead of a government, had risen o his feet in the General As-cmbly during a fellow leader's
ddress  to  heckle  or  protest.
ssembly   delegates   seemed
docked.
Macmillan was presenting a hrec-stage program designed to
car the way for gradual political clion toward resumed arms ne-otialion and agreement.
The British leader also raised
c suggestion that the world's copies hoped the break at Paris ould  be just  temporary and
ere might be another try as a
mmit meeting of the heads of ate.
OTTAWA (CP)�Canadian and U.S. negotiators have agreed on principles and details for developing the big Columbia River hydro potential.
Agreement reached here Wednesday includes the amount of power Canada will get from the
result of U.S. flood control through Canadian clams. The document spells out priorities | for various clams and power stations and time limits on build- j ing them.
The negotiating teams met 5 Via hours and ended nine months of I dickering with a document called
U.S. in return for building up- a "progress report." This will be stream storage dams that will | submitted to the federal govern-boost
hydroelectric below the border.
Also covered is the amount of cash to be paid to Canada as a
generation | men of each country for final approval, forming the basis for an international treaty which then will require ratification by Congress and Parliament. NO TROUBLE
Elmer 'Bennett, U.S. undersecretary of the interior who heads the American team, said he foresees no major U.S. government objections to the report.
He was hopeful that a treaty
could be drafted in time for the     A toP official of the Inter
next session of Congress, open-' l early January.
national   Union Engineers   has
of   Operating absolved    the
Top Nazi Bormann Possibly Captured
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP)�A one-armed man sus-jeeted of being Martin Bormann,
iifier's lohgjnjssing fleauii^waV   ........... .........._,.r
being questioned by Argentine     Justice Minister Fulton, who Prince George School Board of �"I:"   '""�""  '��''�'""   ""       '  led   the   Canadian   delegation, any blame in its dismissal earlier
added that he doesn't expect the |in the month of its chief engirt: principle of the report to altered by the government.
"We are very optimistic that national representative of the this progress report and subse- union for B.C. and Alberta, met quent action will make possible in committee-of-thc-whole with a start of construction in 1961," j members of the board at their he added.
There has been no announcement of any agreement between     Thc union ofricial said latcr
he found the school board "justi-
Cast of the Prince George Players presentation of "The Whole Truth" held dress rehearsal last night, their last before the curtain rises on the play at Duchess Park at 8:00 p.m. today. The play also runs Friday and Saturday. Shown above in a scene from the play are Daisy West as the visitor, Bill Hughes as Lewis Paul-ton, and Noreen Greenwell as his wife Brenda.         �Hal Vandervoort photo.
School Board Was Justified in Firing Chief Engineer, Rules Union Official
police here today. The suspect a've the name of Walter Flcgel.
Interior Minister Alfredo Vitolo said the suspect obviously vas a German and had most of he missing Nazi's physical haracteristics.
There were two big differences, he man appeared to about 48 ears old, whereas Bormann ould be 60. Bormann of Hitler's ay had both arms, while the lan held has had one amputated.
Police captured Flegel last eek at Zarate.
Bormann was chief of Hitler's lanccllery and was directly iked with thc operation of thc onccntration camps. He was icd in abstcntia as a major war iminal in 1946 and sentenced
be hanged.
Ottawa and the B.C. government for sharing the Canadian costs.
Retail Merchants' Canadian Chief Urges Co-operation on Store Hours
The end of "ruinous" reta irice warfare and a restoralio f "some semblance of order larketing in this country" wt redicted by a prominent Can lan businessman at a mcctin ere Wednesday. David A. Gilbert of Toront resident of the Retail Merchant Association of Canada, was ac ressing the annual general mce g of the Prince George brand lie said Improvements in re til    merchandising    practice ould be accomplished throug cccnt amendments to the Com )iiu\s Act. But a greater mcasur of cooperation is needed bctwcci merchants at the' local, provln rial and national levels.
Now Hear This...
WagerlnJJ on the sex of a newcomer can bo expensive, as Printer Main McLcod discovered last night when ho and Mrs. McLeod became the proud parents of a boy. That's right, Slain had bet on a Sirl. Natch, Thoy'vo had four girls already, so Mac figured Iho odds were with him . . .
c'iii/i'ii Spurts Editor Lch Walker on vacation In Hie ()k.iii;ij.:.iii phoned In the Bcoroa of a goii gama ho*d played with Pet roil Hid WiiiK Mar* (ionlli1 Uowo and Alex l)elvpcchlo, .mrC8ontatlvo   be   appointed   for 'rime Goorgo and district. Ho said the provincial organ* atlon is undergoing a "roorgan-Mtion and revitalizing" which ould extend to the local group. "You have ,i tremendous Job f tourist promotion to do for the nlire region." lip told the husl-ess.  "ii  requires  long�rango iing with communities co> penning nil along thc lino." Ho
NM'd the importance of sell-
 the entire urcu, not Just the idividuul ciimmuiiitics The <|iie.sUoM of .store hours re' iv ���- a disproportionate Amount attention whenever retailors illier. Mr. (iillierl felt. Kclulloru rely jjot (heir story iutomi um to why tho uniformity of vtoro
hours  within  a  community  is "necessary."
lie said other problems of local merchandising should be settled among retailers, and the franie-(Continucd on Page 3)
British Rail Union Issues Strike Call
LONDON (Reuters)�Union leaders today called for a nationwide railroad strike Oct. 17 following rejection of a pay demand. About 450,000 men on thc slate-run lines are involved.
The British Transport Commission refused Wednesday to go beyond its offer of a three-per cent increase for 110,000 workers in railroad workshops, backdated to January. The unions asked for another two per cent for the workshops' 50,000 skilled workers,
fied" in the action taken in dismissing the engineer and that he had advised thc chairman of thc school board and the union of his ruling. Meanwhile    school    trustees
earlier in their meeting approve the operating council's appoin ment of Marion Roberts as at ing chief engineer at a salary $425 per month. He will sen a three-month probation perio Some 20 men applied for th position.
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Prince George school trustee will hold a social evening in th Senior High School Oct. 5 t meet with new principals an vice-principals from the city elementary and high schools Also to be invited will be residen University of B.C. Professo Ronald Baker.
�                                                              *    * Trustees, who arc used to hav
ng brickbats thrown at them came in for a pleasant surprise
IWA Asks Membership To Boycott Newspaper
VANCOUVER (CP)�A resolution requesting a boycott of Thc Province, Vancouver morning newspaper, was referred Wednesday to the resolutions committee at the western district convention of the International Woodworkers of America (CLC).
There was no debate on the
resolution, submitted from the floor by New Westminster, Vic toria and Port Alb'erni locals, anc it is expected to come before the Convention later.
The resolution requests the 130,000-member B.C. Federatioi of Labor (CLC) to boycott the newspaper. It declares that dur ing the Sept. 12 B.C. election campaign, The Province "perpetrated a political brain-washing hoax on the people of B.C."
(During the campaign, the newspaper supported the Social Credit government which was re-elected.)
CCF and labor officials criticized The Province ami Frank McMahon, president of Wcstcoast Transmission Company, for an article published Sept. 10. The article quoted Mr, McMahon as saying that millions of dollars for northern development would be lost is a socialist government were elected.
PLANE CRASH
MEXICO CITY (AP)�A Com pama Mexicans dc Aviacion two sngined DC-3 plane crashed Wednesday eh route here iroin Caxacu. First reports said six were killed ami 12 Injured.
 MERCHANTS' ASSOCIATION of Prince (Ii-orge eluded new officers Wednesday, Seated, from left, are Frank Seldl, secretary; Marry Grccnhut,jprcsl-donti Dcq Trotter, vice-president! James Zlniniaro, treasurer, Standing! directors
Al Kdclinan, Elliott lhill, Martin Laspa, Roy Yip and l-Ju^ne (iubriel. At the far right Is guest speaker David Gilbert, president of the Retail Merchants' Association oi' Cunudfl.                                �Hal Vandervoort photo. *
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BOMBS AWAY ORDER OF DAY
HAVANA (AP)- Two bomb explosions Interrupted Premier Kiilel Castro's homecoming speech following Ins return from Hie United Nations (ieucrul Assembly. They went off 40 minutes apart while he was speaking from the front balcony oi tin1 palBCO.
At Lconnldvlllt! in the Congo, a imall plastic bomb wrecked tho offices of Congo, last newspaper MippnrlJnu deponed Premier 1'utrlcc LiiiiiuiiiIju.
Tuesday when they read a letter from Bonnet Hill school representative Mrs. E.. McCartney. �
Complimenting the board on its provision of a new four-room school for the area, Mrs. McCartney said it was felt in the area that "we arc lucky parents to have such pleasant people in charge of our children."
�                                                                   �    * Connaughl Junior High School
Principal Phil MacGregor will be given a new title. Trustees voted to request approval from thc department of education for his appointment as supervisory principal.
Thc board has the right to request such an appointment to secondary school when the pupil population exceeds 400. Enrolment al the junior high school is now 430.
�                                                                    �    � Trustees accepted the $250 bid
of Mrs. E. L. Marx of Prince George for the purchase of one acre of school board property at
sic Pierre. Tendered was the
iite of the old Isle Pierre school. Only other bid received  was
hal   of  T.   G.   Wren,   Prince
icorgc, for $200.
�                                                                �   * Trustees granted a request at
heir meeting from Prof. Baker hal he be allowed to live in he high school dormitory during is term in Prince George. It vas felt the professor's presence l the dormitory Would have a oikI effect on the pupils.
Also under obligation to pro-ide the visiting professor with �ansportation, the board moved j tender by direct contact for purchase of a small car in ic low-price held for the pro-cssor's use.
An order was also placed for
o purchase of a I9iil Chevrolet jr the use of the district super* tendent, together with trade-in
the board's existing lf;57 Ford dan. A net price of $2,2;i0 fercd  by Shields Motor Products was accepted.
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