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Vol. 4; No. 205
PRINCE GEORGE, BRITISH COLUMBIA^FRIDAY, OCTOBER 21, 1960
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Improvements on Nature Not Exclusive, Court Says
POITIERS (AP) � Appeals court here says you can't patent falsies cut out of spongy material in France.
The court Thursday reversed a lower court award of several thousand francs to Maurice Rousseau, who claimed Maison Aaron had copied
his design and method for making falsies.
The appeals court ruled that cutting circular pieces of the spongy material was not a pat-entable process and ordered Rousseau to pay the Maison Aaron 15,000 francs (33,000) in damages and costs.
RETURNING FROM CONVENTION
3 Local Teachers Hurt In 2-Car Highway Smash
Two Prince George school teachers were scheduled to be flown to Vancouver today with injuries suffered in a two-car mishap on the Quesnel highway Thursday. ,A third will remain in Quesnel's G. R. Baker Memorial Hospital.
To be flown to the coast by regular flight were:
Miss Eleanor Hattcn, 23, of 1401 Eighth, a teacher, at Con-naught Elementary School, who was in "satisfactory" condition. PEDEN HILL
Miss Esther Soroka, 22, of 1709 Quccnsvvay, a teacher at Millar Addition School, who was in "poor" condition.
Remaining in the Quesnel hospital is Miss Joan Hatlen, 19, a sister of Eleanor, of 872 Harper, a teacher at Peden Hill School, who was in "satisfactory" condition.-
The three women were returning to Prince George from a teachers' conv6ntion in Quesnel. HEAD-ON
John Dscszneki and Teresa Kitchcmonia, of Quesnel, who were travelling southbound in the other car, were under observation in hospital-today.
RCMP said the head-on, collision occurred on "a big bend of
Towns Get Schools
Deserve, Teachers Told
QUESNEL (CP) � A former school principal said Thursday communities get the schools they deserve�good or bad.
Waller Hartrick, former principal in Trail and Dawson Creek who now is studying at the University of Chicago, said citizens expect higher standards from schools than are found throughout the rest of their community. ANNUAL MEET
Mr. Hartrick was addressing the annual convention of the North-Central British Columbia Teachers' Association which opened Thursday.
A total of 438 teachers of the 659 in the area are attending the three-day convention.
the highway near the Ahbau. bridge, about 57 miles south of here, .at 6:15 p.m. It was raining heavily at the lime.
All' five persons were taken to hospital with facial lacerations and shock. The two cars were badly smasTied.
Police were continuing their investigation today.

CUS HENDERSON . . . main speaker
-Annual meeting -of. the Cariboo Federal Progressive Conservative Association.' will be held at 10 a.m. Sunday in the upper banquet room of. the Civic Centre. Gus Henderson, MP, will - be chief speaker. Election of officers will be on the agenda. Lunch will be served at noon in the Hotel Simon Fraser.
MAC HAS A COLD
LONDON (Reuters) � Prime Minister Macmillan developed a slight cold which prevented him attending a gala opera performance here for King Mahcndra of Nepal.
WINTER WORK
BY PERRAULT
AN EXCITED Mrs. Ida May Wilson was hard at work at her job as a telephone operator today despite the fact she held an Irish Sweepstakes ticket on the Cambridgeshire Stakes in Newmarket, Eng. However, Mrs. Wilson needed supervision from Northwest Telephone chief operator Miss Barbara Ladner and manager Jim
McKee to keep her mind on her job.
SURVEY DRILLING UNDERWAY
Utilize Columbia Power In BC, Says BCE Man
VANCOUVER (CP) � The vice-president of the British Columbia Electric Company, said Thursday ways and means should be studied to use power, from the
olumbia -.River export it. ,
development at home rather than
Williston said Wednesday, alter announcement of agreement by he United States and Canada to develop the river,' B.C. will al nost certainly export power he initial stages of the multl lillion dollar project. 0 PKK CENT
B.C. will receive 50 percent f the downstream benefits re ultiny from storage facilitie uilt on the river in Canada.
Mr. WillisLon said it was latter of selling the power to lie U.S. or "giving it away ntil such time as all the powei on Id he used in 15.C.
Mr. Purely said the trouble is lat power will become avail
le in large blocks with Uio nipletion of the .Mica and Ai o\v Lake dams.
�Dr. Harry ;Purdy. said. B.C. industry, should be developed fast enough to take up all the power in B.C. Lands and Forests Minister
"Export of power may be desirable but it would be much more desirable for us to get busy us soon as we can to study every device we can find to assist the industrial development of B.C. that will absorb these blocks as fast as possible."
NOT WHOLE ANSWJSIl
He said the Columbia is not the whole answer to the province's future needs. Even with the present estimates of industrial expansion, it would satisfy requirements for only five to six years.
High transmission costs made ii unfeasible to use Columbia power in the north. A power source would have to be developed in the north for the area's development.
3 City Cabbies Nailed, 2 Dismissed On Bootleg Charges; Heavy Fines
Three city taxi drivers were found guilty of bootlegging and charges against two others were dismissed in magistrate's court Thursday and today.
Convicted of selling liquor were Frank Miller, Russell Brandlicr and Thomas Greenfield. Miller and Brandncr were each fined $300. Greenfield was remanded to Monday for sentence.
Charges against George Zielkc and Jacob Giesbrecht were dismissed, although Giesbrecht was scheduled to appear later today on a second charge. UNDKRCOVKR WORK
The cab drivers were nabbed as the result of an undercover
investigation into illicit liquo sales in the city by an RCM officer brought here from Clin on in early September.
The officer said he followe the same procedure in each cas lie would hail or call the cat ask for a bottle, and while th driver was out of the taxi gettin it, he would slip part of a mate folder with his initials on i under a floor mat.
Giesbrecht was charged wit keeping liquor for sale in hi taxi. Had he been convicted o that his car would have bcei subject to forfeiture to the crown. TECHNICALITY
The charge was dismissed ot
Now Hear This...
This people
will come as news to who have had their
tongues hanging out for ,a snort of a Sunday around PG( but a Mountio said in police court yesterday he had bought nine illicit bottles out of eleven tries, lie wasn't dressed in scarlet, of course. lie wore bush clothes and a growth of stubble, which bears out the claim of niaiiy that you have In work with your back to afford ten .smackers for a bootleg crock . . .
Top financial wizards of I he world fire nicking their brains these days trying to figure why Ilic price of gold on the market is going crazy. Mcnnwhtlo back in PO| nine people who simply Want to study prospecting are looking for another six, Course is offered al local night school, bill .so far only nine have .signed up and a minimum of 15 are needed before school board will okay
school class also has openings for
three or four more cabinet making, etc.
to study Persons
the expenditure
While on
tlic
carpentry night
interested in either course should 'phone Mr. Lowe, Duchess Park Junior High, after 7:30 any eve ning . . .
The local air cadet squadron is looking for officers and in struclors. Any cx-HCAF officers or NCOs Interested in helping the hoys could drop down to the Armory at 7:15 p.m. Monday or call Don Christie at LOgan 4-8064 . . . Any of you nimrods who hunt lor sport but don't like moo.se meal can do somebody a good turn by phoning Captain A. I). .Mucmllliin of the Salvation Army at LOgan 4-5711, who gives assurance that the meat is much appreciated by the many hungry unemployed Iho Sally Anns prepare meals for these days , . . Question from I lie editor's dosk: lias there over been a �howor at which the gif's were not "many" and "lovely1"/ , , .
a technicality. After more than two hours' testimony, defence counsel moved for dismissal on the grounds the indictment did not include the location of the alleged offence, thereby not proving jurisdiction.
Lawyer I). F. McNeill said he had only noticed the omission when he was about to present his argument in the case. An indictment can be amended only during the trial itself.
Zielke was discharged after he told the court he had never driven the policeman nor sold him a bottle, and that he was driving another customer at the time he was alleged to have done so. WAS MISTAKEN
His evidence was corroborated by a man who said he was with Zielkc at the time mentioned by the policeman. Defence counsel said he was not suggesting the .loliccman had lied, but that he mist have been mistaken.
"After all, this corporal is not nfalllblc," he added.
Both Grcnfiehl and Miller de-nod ever seeing the policeman ;nitsidc the courtroom.
VICTORIA 01�Survey drilling already going on at the proposed Arrow Lakes and Dun-an Lake dam .sites in the Kout-for the vast Columbia
power development, a
nays liver !.(.'. Hydro spokesman said
lursday.
He said the drilling, belnil one by a private contractor ,vho obtained the contract last month, is by way of surveying ie fontiatlons in the area "to etermirie the best sites for the ams."
I i.e. Hydro has been designated the agency for the physi-ii construction of the si.'iO.iioo,-ooo project, details of which ere announced Wednesday.
�Hal Vandervoort photo
City Woman Has Ticket On Sweeps
A Prince George housewife, who is also a telephone operator with Northwest Telephones, is among 19 B.C. residents holding tickets on the Irish Sweepstakes for Wednesday's. Cambridgeshire Stakes.
Ida May Wilson holds ticket PZS64019 on Extra Time in the *acc to be held at Newmarket England.
Mrs. Wilson, the wife of Haydn Wilson, owner-operator of Centre 3ity Texaco, was notified of her tick last night by one of he o-workers, Mrs. Irene Pringlc Mrs. Pringle heard the new over the radio.
"I nearly died when she (Mr Pringle) phoned," the 25-yea old woman said today.
"This is only the second tim I've ever bought one of these. Her disgruntled husband h "always bought a ticket on th sweepstakes, but I've never woi "We had (o fight with her t get her to buy the ticket," h said.
Mrs. Wilson is still too cxcitci to have made plans for the dis posal of her winnings. "1 thigh buy a little car if I win," sho said.
She was at her job as a tele phone operator this morning.
A Dawson Creek resident under the noin de plume of Lucky, holds a ticket on Full shaw Cross in the race.
More Lots Sought For Building Here
The winter work committee here will ask the city to open up more residential lots this winter in order to have land ready for immediate development in the spring. The committee, at its meeting Thursday night, appointed a three-man sub-committee to study the possibility of having the land cleared and serviced with roads
and water this winter. The action was taken after
Dick Bond, local Central Mortgage and Housing Corporation
manager, told the committee:
"If something isn't done to open
up these building lots now so
they'll be ready in the spring
the city stands 'to lose $2,000,000
in new money."
125 UMTS
Mr. Bond pointed out, "We
VANCOUVER (CP>�One-year re- have had about 125 units built ductions in federal individual this yeari at around $13,000 each, income, corporation and sales and L,nis was a siOWer than nor-taxes were recommended Thurs- lllaj year.
day night by British Columbia �Tne w"m.k of opening up lots Liberal Leader Ray Perrault as and servicing must 'be done now, a "fast hypo to Canada's sagging not in tne sprjng when 'builders economy." are looking for lots," he said.
In a speech to the Canadian "There is no reason why the Credit Men's Trust Association Seymour Subdivision, which "has he recommended that the sales already been surveyed, can't be tax be temporarily reduced by 50 serviced this winter and put up per cent. : ror sale during the spring," he
RESTORE FAITH sald
Mr. Perrault said retail sales ' must be stimulated, a greater in- LK>N-r tABil ccntive for small businesses must "* don l care who develops it be provided and the confidence ~lhc cit^ a l)rivatc oulfit or develop if she is to justify her of buyers must be restored us�but it must be done now. existence, Premier Frost of On-
�Tax reductions would only be "If il isn>t> we woll>t havc lo tario said Thursday night, temporary for otherwise there work aboul a winter employ- Addressing the annual dinner would be the danger of increased incnt caP}Pa*Sn next veal'> we>11 of the Canadian Good Roads As-inflation. bc worrying about a summer sociation, he said thai "in a
He also said the government employment campaign," he said, land-hungry world Canadians are should consider a special pro- "It>s ridiculous that a city has not doing their duty if they do gram of tax exemptiony of tho lcltcr will be y 15. Low tonight and high Sat- Riven to Gus Henderson, MI' for arclay at Prince George, Qucs- Cariboo, when he visits the city lei and Smithers, -12 and 52. Sunday.
pand and ibuild on should be
faced with a shortage of build- MAKE MISTAKE.
ing lots. Mr. Frost said Canadians
"Yqu would expect.lt of Van- ShOuld not make the mistake- of
couyer, which hasi reached, the "thinking they h�v� a stable
saturation .point, .but not or economy
Prince George," he said. "Canada must take a large
WINDOW part in the development of for-
;Mr. Bond said, "If something eign trade.
isn't done this winter, every- "We can't hide behind high im-
thing we and the contractors port duties and embargoes. We
have tried .to do to keep the can bc strong only by exposing price of lots and homes down ourselves abroad, to a reasonable level will go out "Canada must be competitive the window. with the rest of the world in or-
"With only a few lots avail- dcr that industry, investment and able, prices will double or triple economy may flourish." within a month and so will the Errick F. Willis, lieutenant-prices of existing homes. People governor of Manitoba and a who wanted to build either formed CGRA president, was pre-won't 'be able to afford it or sented with a life membership in won't bc- able to get a lot. It the association by out-going must be done now, before it is President Fred M. Cass, Ontario too late," he said. highways minister. Mr. Cass is
City Engineer Bill Jones told being succeeded by G. I. Smith, the meeting development and Nova Scotia highways minister, servicing of lots could be done under the winter work program. LETTER COPY
The committee also agreed to write Prime Minister Diefen-baker requesting that some Federal Winter-Work (projects
'��ace Klvei' Krgion
Another letter will be sent lo
Cloudy with rain today and U;'y Wilhston, MLA for Fort 5a tu rd.ay evening. Scattered Qe6rge, requesting that he make bowers Sunday. A little warm- surc tenders for the second r. Winds light, increasing to staB� of tllL' vocational school ouWwest 15 Saturday. Low to- l)eln� 1)llilt nero aro calle(i -soon-ight and high tomorrow at Tendei's on the second stage are rande Prairie, 35 and -15. Ulie t0 l|)e called in the illinit-'di-
J,ast 24 Hours alu fllt-ure.
Lo Hi Preeip. TlK PRODUCTION �11 51 '.2'3 The committee also wrote the
45 51 .27 Pacific Great Eastern and Cana- 51 ..')l dlan National Railways request- 51 .l.'J ing that they ste-p up tic-making 53 .10 here this winter. The request is 30 .0!) also aimed at stopping up tie-30 .00 making in the Vanderdi'oof and 30 �� Hums Lake areas.
Prince George
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CARTOON SERIES STARTING TODAY
A series of cartoons depicting amusing aspects of Northern U.C.'s logging industry begins on Page 2 of The Citizen today.
The series is drawn by Joe Devcau, 53-year-old Nova Scotia-born cartoonist who has worked in pulpwood camps in the Marilimes and sawmills of B.C. for the last 25 years. He came to the Prince George district In 1043.
A student al the Boston Academy of Fine Arts for two years, Mr. Deveau also took a course from the Cartoon League of America al Ciu-cinatti, Ohio.
"The things I've seen around this area of B.C. gave me the ideas for the scries." he said.
FIREWORKS ON SALE MONDAY; PARENTS ASKED:
Picture of Jesus Christ In Knee Pants Approved
MILWAUKEE � The governing body of t lie Evangelical and Reformed Church gave Its approval hers to ;i now and someu h;it controversial Sunday school book Unit pictures Jesus Christ wearing knee-length trousers rather than the traditional long flowing mhos.
The unorthodox portrayal of Christ is found In a picture-story hook lor three-yonr-old children, retelling the New Testament account of Jesus and the children,
Control Halloween. Arms Build-Up!
By PAT DKNTON Citizen Staff Itcportcr
Police and fire department of-ficlals are calling for the cooperation of parents as fireworks go on sale in city stores AI outlay in preparation for Hallowe'en, Oct. 31.
Firecrackers, Roman candles, sky-rockets and oilier relatively harmless fireworks can be as dangerous as dynamite in the liands of young children or careless persons, (hey point out.
For this reason, provincial inul civic laws have been enncted In roccnt years restricting sule of tin-works l<> the week prior to Halowe'on, and then only to persons over Hi,
Violators of imy offence under I lie .statutes cun be lined from 5.10 to $200.
The use of common sense and continual supervision by adults are the most important factors in preventing injuries and fires, says Fire Chief August Dornbicr-cr.
He believes one method of ensuring a safe and .sane Hallowe'en is for neighbors to pool (heir fireworks ivul have ;i dull -.supervised displays for the children.
The HC.MP will be particularly watchful during the coining wrek to sec thai fireworks do not full into the hands of young children. It Is illegul to cither sell or give thorn to youngsters under 10, and police warn this will be strictly enforced.
Meanwhile, local .stores tire preparing for the usual onslaught f kiddies with bulging eyes peering at lliw colorful divpluyy of.
ghoslly masks and noisy slain* bangs..
One local variety store operator says there arc two major trends in evidence this year.
Fewer of the more dangerous fire-crackrr type explosives are bring sold, while (he display type such as sky rockets awl Roman caudles arc enjoying more popularity.
In the field of disguises for the children's door-to-door "trick or treat" oxcuslons, the irond Is away from full musks which tend to obscure the child's vision while crossing streets.
There Is now u variety of paints, falf.c noses, fulse Ivelli and other materials which arc Just us effective but do not in* with tin1 kulilleV eye�it;hti