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Vol. 4; No. 200
PRINCE GEORGE, BRITISH COLUMBIA, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 14, 1960
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FAMILY UNHURT
Plane
On Hart
A flying family from Fairbanks, Alaska, escaped unscathed from their small aircraft Thursday when strong headwinds forced them to land on the Hart Highway, 38 miles north of here. "None of us was scared � our 15-year-old daughter got quite a thrill out of it," said Mrs. William Ackerman today after their harrowing experience. 25 YEARS
Mr. Ackerman, an aircraft mechanic who just sold out his own business in Fairbanks, was flying his family to Eureka, Cal ifornia, where they will live.
lie. has been flying 25 years and this' was his first forced landing.
Their decision to land came as the result of a severe buffet ing by headwinds in the Pine Pass and an uncertainty as to their whereabouts.
As the Stinson plane's wheels were i ready to set down on the highway, a gust of wind blew it off the road into a gravel pit damaging the propellor and the tip of one wing. DAMAGE PROBE
Extent of damage to the plane which Mr. Ackerman has just re built prior to leaving Fairbanks was being investigated today. It has been trucked into Prince George.
Mr. Ackerman got a lift into Prince George where air-sea rescue operations were gcltin underway.
The plane was an hour and a half overdue from Fort St. John. The family will slay here a few ddys iinlil their plane is made air-worthy again.
"My daughter's writing all her friends about it," said Mrs. Ack erman.
AT PUC HEARING MONDAY
Lower Natural Gas Rate Will Be Sought by City
CHARRED REMAINS of the kitchen is seen here after fire gutted the home of Spiro Southas at 1535 Gorse early today. The blaze, of undetermined origin, broke out while the family was attending a children's birthday party.
�Hal Vandervoort photo
FUITE, WEST MAN
Highway Deaths Accidental by Inquest
A verdict of accidental death
as brought in by a coroner's jury Thursday night in an Inquest into the deaths of Robert Daniel Fuite, 17, and Vernon �Arvid- Westman, 20.
Fuite and , W.estman were killed last Saturday when, the
ma truck in Which} they were riding overturned on the Old Summit Lake road, about two
j CHIANG KAI-SHEK
/ ... no blood
Chiang's Regime Blasts Kennedy's Stand on Defence
TAIPEI, Formosa (AP) Chiang Kai-shek's regime today angrily rejected U.S. Senator John Kennedy's views that the Nationalist islands of Quemoy and Matsu are indefensible and so should not be subject to any U.S. guarantee of protection.
A statement read by foreign office spokesman James Shon at a press conference reiterated the Nationalist determination to hold the two islands just off the Coin-lmmisl mainland and said the blood of no American soldier needs to be shed on them.
The statement said Chiang's government has never requested U.S. forces to participate directly in the defence of the islands.' is
j miles off the Hart Highway. | J5KOKKX LEG
A third youth in the truck, 10-year-okl Gregory Friend,
a curve and went into a shallow
ditch on the left side of the
road.
HIT it TIMES
The truck travelled about 250 feet in .yje}.-d{tc,h,f;strikiiig the bank twlqe,'before ^lt .hit \lhe �hank *a third time and flipped 35- feet through the air.
Fuite, the driver of the vehicle, was pinned underneath
the truck and died immediately from a crushed chest.
Westman. was thrown part way out of the truck. An
, autopsy showed he died fro...
suffered a broken leg in the h k � , � 1)lllvel-ized spinal
mishaP- cord.
The jury ruled the accident "may have been caused by excessive speed."
RCM'P Constable Doug Doige told the jury investigation of the accident showed the truck was travelling at "an excessive rate of speed" when the accident occurred.
Const. Doige said he believed
FALSE TEETH FOR CATTLE
DALLAS, Tex. (VP) � A set of false teeth may be all old bossy needs to add a few more useful years to her life.
Dr. Nelson Cruz Arias, a dentist from Cali, Colombia, said by wearing false teeth, a cow can start gaining weight again and have several more years-of useful life. He said in one case a J 5-year-old cow gained 45 pounds after getting the teeth.
FAMILY OUT
City Home Gutted By BBaze
A four-room frame house at 15.'J5 Gorse was gutted by fire early today while the family was out attending a children's birthday party.
Spii'os Southas, his brother-in-law, Socrates Isdor-ou, and Mr. Isdorou's three infant children, returned to their home at 1:30 a.m. to find it ablaze. Mrs. Southas is visiting in Greece. ALARM DELAYED
They were delayed in turning in the alarm because they were-unable to rouse neighbors.
Firemen arrived later and managed to contain the flames.
All of .the. family's clothing and effects were lost. They are now staying with friends.
Fire Chief August Dorn-bierer said the fire was believed to have started in the basement.
Its cause has not been determined.
By DORY THACKER
Citizen Managing Editor
Prince George will ask the B.C. Public Utilities Commission Monday for a lower and more equitable natural gas rate.
City council will request the PUC to "wipe out the highly discriminatory" rate structure under which Prince George consumers are forced to pay high rates for gas..
The request is contained in a letter to PUC Chairman Dr. H, F. Angus, which council asked be read at the commission's preliminary hearing into the two-year-old rate structure of Inland Natural Gas Co. Ltd., to be held Monday in Penticton.
The city wants.,.PUC to amend the present rate, which is uniform throughout Inland's entire system regardless of distance from the gas fields, and to replace it'with'a structure of different rates in different zones.
GARVIN DEZELL'
.' ..'lower rates '
THUNDER LINGERS AT UN
Ferris Inquest
An inquest into the death o Thomas David Ferris, 23, of
0 miles per hour. MM
South Fort George was adjourn eel Thursday night for 14 days.
Cpl. Ian Hall, who was also t|lc car jn which he was a pas
at the scene of the accident, senger crashed into a guard rail
estimated thc truck was travel- on tilc Nechako Hill,
ing "10 to 15 miles per hour" T]lc driver of Ihe car, Pierre
n excess of the speed limit, or Loujs Romaller, 21, has been
)ctween 50 and 55 miles an charged with criminal negligence
KHU'- He appeared in magistrate's
Friend, in a sworn statement court last Saturday and was re
ead by Const. Doige, said he manded ejght clays.
elieved the truck was travel-ng "between 15 and 50 miles
1JLOOD SAMPLES
The inquest into the accident
The inquest into the accident
n hour" when the accident was postponed pending a decis-appened, but he wasn't sure. ion by the Attorney-General's dc-The truck failed to negotiate partmeni on a request by local
RCMP that the inquest be waived due to the charge brought against the driver.
Blood samples from Ferris and Romaller, which are being analyzed for alcohol content, have not yet returned to the local RGMP detachment.
CONCILIATION HEltE
A conciliation board hearini ltd n dispute between Tabor reek Sawmills and Internatlon-
Woodworkers of America, Lo-il 1-121, is scheduled to open ere Saturday.
\V. B. Phllpott is chairman. ii in p a n y nominee is Eric rown, while Frank Enowsell
the union nominee.
Now Hear This...
Nobody can say the plumbers aren't practical around these parts. The pipefitters who worked on the three new department of highways houses at Honey-in oou Crock apparently anticipated a cold winter, so they hooked up the toilets to the hot water tanks . . .
Kobertsoii Construction man Sieve Marry read the item in this column Wednesday about his �UHJUinilc hunting trip on which lie gut skunked except for live Broiuio. Then wont out Wednesday afternoon ami bagged u
moose way , Last Serious
only 10 miles up-high-
limo Ik1 re for World Pirates caught Citizen News Editor Jarvls Whitney way off base, He'd prepared a lioadllno about tho Yankees winning before the �aine was an in Illng old. Then caim' thai luk'ful ninth . . . And Joyce Stewart won
the final eighty on Fifth Avenue when she bought the only remaining ticket in the half of the board which Jake the Fake left for everybody else
District Forest Protection Officer Dennis MacDonald now has his student pilot licence and hopes to qualify for his private ticket this weekend
Neighborhood Stores are trying to almost give away corn on the cob, at six cobs lor 30 cents, at their Island Cache, Summit Lake. Willow Hiver and Carney Street shops. This price is rlflhl and the ail prlco was wrong
Local Navy League of Canada President Dud Suwloy is worried that many people who want to attend next Friday's gala Trafalgar Bull will miss the event ho-cnuso they haven't bought tickets. Persons who have had invitations must pick up their ducats from] bint by
Nikitas Gone But He'll Not Soon Be Forgotten
UNITED' NATIONS, N.
(OP)�Nikita S. Khrushchev ha gone from the United Nation but the echoes of his thunder linger on.
The Soviet leader, tasting de feat and victory, flew home Moscow lifter giving anothei
verbal walloping to the 15th
General Assembly Thursday
night.
Practically nothing in t lie
West escaped Khrushchev's de
nunclatlon during his 25-cki tay. Canada was aghast at bein ailed a "colonizer." Britain wa
called an Imperialist blood ucker. And the United State
had taken the world a step be Hid the brink of war, accord
ng to Khrushchev.
IKK A FOOL
President Elsenhower, by Irii libation, was a fool, as was JN Secretary � General Dag
ammarskjold. The UN Security ounell was a "spittoon." Tho West imbued disarmament egotlatlons yvlth such a stench that "no honest man can breathe."
U.S. Ambassador James ,). 'a point that 111 < � Qssoinhly gave ununltrious sup" port for u hoarlng, in plenary ,i-i.niiiy BQgjilpn, on his demand tor lirinio'dluio Indopbntlenco for ail colonlos.
"Wu uru luuvlntf In a
NEW YORK (/PI�A woman o Cuban delegation to the United Nations <)uit her post today saying Premier Fidel Cas-
tro had
hoi' country into
a police state, where the people
were living under terror.
reign of
Miss Teresa Casuso, once one of Castro's most enthusiastic supporters, said she had written the revolutionary leader a 15-pugo letter telling him what she now thought. MINI) Hl'ICT
Miss Casuso asserted that Castro's "mind and soul have been affected."
"He became embittered with great resentment agdlrist the United Slates because of help ilii'.v wore KivlnK Bt the last uiluutu lo ij.iiii.ia und every-
that smelled American was to him something hateful," she said.
One of three members of tho delegation given the rank of ambassador by Cuba, Miss Casuso acknowledged she had lived most of her life outside her. country* sakictv n:Am:i>
I ini Mil1 said her father and mother wore living In Cuba, and thai she feared for their safety,
Miss Casuso described Castro is ti "nmn of wtir.'1
"He lias to bo at war with �vcrylindy � with the world � >ecauso he's at war with him* self," sho said.
. MIhs Cuku.su Indicated she had 10 Jimnudiatu pluns for thc fu� Uuu.
FIDKT CAHTJtO � . many Uoubluw
Consul Beaten
MIAMI, Fla. (AP)�Cuba recalled its consul-general from Miami today in the wake of violent outbursts against the Kidol Castro regime by Cuban exiles hero.
The corisul'Renernl; Abelai'do Leon Blanco, was taken to hospital after h band of t'lilnins Bwarmcil ihrough his office, smashed the furniture and boat him Thursday, lie was released after treatment.
This and other Incidents followed the execution of 13 men, InclufllnK an American, by Cuh� tro's firing squads.
T w q m q n w c r o wounded Thursday night as fights flared Utsldo ii aufo frequented by Castro sympjithigui'H.
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