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SPORTS HIGHLIGHTS
Mohawks edge Bears 0-5 in fast, hard-hitting game before 1,000 fans.
Wings, Toronto tie; move closer to league-leading Montreal Canadiens.
Ken Ploen takes off cast and works out in preparation for Saturday's final. (See Page 4).
INSURANCE COMPANY SAYS:
Mortgage Money Will Be Released
Announcement that a major insurance company will make mortgage money available for homes in Prince George has been hailed as a progressive step by the board of trade. ! b^nTonsidered - outside the
"We feel we can take a little , veterans' Land Act � in that
credit for the increased amount of money available from insurance companies for home building," said Board President John Morrison.
C. Ray Mann, provincial manager of Manufacturers' Life Insurance Co.'s mortgage division, announced here Wednesday that his company will now make mortgage money available in the city to qualified persons. ON MERIT
."We will also consider applications, on their merits., for the VLA Subdivision, which will be
the first time any money has
area," said Gordon Bryant of B.C. Land and Investment Agency Ltd.
His firm will handle mortgage arrangements for the insurance company, which also maintains an insurance office here under "Chuck" Lees.
Manufacturers has previously restricted its mortgage activitie in B.C. to the Lower Mainland and Vancouver Island. A PATTERN
"The pattern of lending money her.e will be the same as else where in the province," said Mr
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C. RAY MANN . . "same basis"
Mann, "and the percentage o loans will be on the same basis.' Persons who are expected to benefit most from the company' announcement are:
� Those wishing to build single or multiple dwelling units who require long-term financing
� Those who do not qualify for National Housing Act loans due to income restrictions.
� Those wishing to purchase an older-type home which isn't
^adequately financed.
Mr. Mann said his company , has enjoyed considerable life insurance business in Prince George and is willing to put some of it back in through mortgage loans.
Last May, a resolution presented by the Prince George Board of Trade, which called on insurance companies to provide more mortgage money in smaller cities, was adopted by the B.C. Chamber, of Commerce. COULD REVERT
Mr. Morrison, as president of
the local board and a delegate to
the B.C. Chamber of Commerce,
will present the resolution to the
�cabinet in Victoria Nov. 24.
He cautioned that "while the situation is now easier,;Ur,could, revert to the old situation again," if the government failed to take a stand on the issue.
The resolution was not intended for the benefit of Prince George alone, Mr. Morrison added, ,but for all areas of the province.
CITY COUNCIL
Three Incumbents Seek Re-Election
WHAT'S THE WEATHER GOING TO BE? Just ask these young meteorologists and they'll tell you. The youngsters are members of the Grade 6 class at South Fort George School, which has its own weather station. Above Suzanne Elliott, left; reads the maximum-minimum thermometer while Andrew Morris reads the dry-bulb thermometer, Joan McLeod, records their readings. �Hal Vandervoort photo
'POLITICAL FOOTBALL1
Labor Council Blasts Henderson on TV Issue
Cariboo MP Gus Henderson has been charged with attempting to make the Board of Broadcast Jovernbrs "a political football,"
CKPG-TV .
Fred, Scholz, secretary-treasur-r of the Prince George and Dis-riet , Labor Council, made the harge today in a statement-dcal-ng with Henderson's announcement he would fight granting of TV station license to CKPG-TV. ../
"The BBG has been, in our pinion, an impartial body and as made its decisions independ-
ent of government or private influence," said Mr. Scholz.
"Political interference, as indicated in this instance by Mr. Henderson, is a step in the wrong direction and can set a dangerous precedent in future regarding such matters.....'
GORDON BRYANT � . . . VLAj too
MAILING DEADLINES
Post Office to Provide Up to 40 Jobs Shortly
Christmas will mean some work for about 35 or 40 of Prince George's unemployed.
The post office will be hiring extra help about; Dec. 7 to cope with the annual Christmas mailing rush.
Youngsters Are Amateur Weathermen
The weatherman's severest critics locally, are the Grade 6 students at Soufh Fort George School.
And, unfortunately for the weatherman, they know what they're talking about�they have
their own weather station. 1 The weather station is
the
itceifses in^thts'Tfielda matter of political decision."
Post office officials will work
'CHUCK" LEES . . . local rep
in co-operation with the Uncm ploymcnt Insurance Office ir hiring the temporary employees The work will end shortly be fore Christmas.
Last year, the post office handled up to 600 parcels a day during the Christmas season. A large portion of this was going to, or coining from, Saskatche wan and Alberta. IN SORTING
"We'll need extra help for
ome of the carriers, in sorting
mail and helping unload mail
from the train," one official said.
"Some of our normal shifts
may have to work overtime and
on their days off," he said, "but
sometimes we can't help it."
With the Christmas season approaching, deadlines for mailing
from Prince George have been
Now Hear This...
Policemen in the course o their duties often exercise a re straint far beyond the call o duty. Such was the case yester day when an itinerant con artis admitted in the presence of a policeman and a Citizen rcportci that the sob story he'd handed an employee of this ncwspapci earlier this week was sheer fab rication for the purpose of getting a touch . . .
This nogoodnik's claim he'd been slapped by a policeman and relieved of his last $20 by the PG Hospital was itemed in this corner Monday. Because it was completely phoney, we apologize humbly to the JtCMP and the Hospital pcoj)ic for printing it. For the public's information, here's what happened . . .
This joker soft-conned us into believing he'd been taken to hospital unconscious after rolling his car neur Hixon; that a Mountie slapped him awake to take a blood test; that the hospital took his last double-sawbuck in return for treatment; that everything not nailed clown in his cor wus stolen during His absence; and that he'd have
starved but for the Salvation Army . . .
All of it lies except for the initial fact he did overturn his car. His sob story was successful to the extent our man took pity and gave him $4. He had more loot in his pocket yesterday since he'd scrounged $33 from the Social Welfare before bein_ picked up by police. He hasn'l been charged with anything� yet . . .
This 33-year-old Prairie peni tcnliary product admitted a re
set. They are:
� Parcels to Great Britain must be mailed before Nov. 20, letters before Nov. 30;
� Letters to Europe must be mailed before Nov. 20, while parcels should have been mailed Monday;
� Parcels and letters going to Newfoundland must be mailed before Dec. 7;
� Parcels and letters to tl United' States must be maile before,Dec. 8;
� Parcels and mail to 11 Maritime provinces and Ontan and Quebec must be mailed b fore Dec. 10;
� Parcels and mail to Albe la, Saskatchewan and Manitob nust be mailed before Dec. 12
� Parcels and letters t other parts of B.C. must be mai cd before Dec. 14;
And parcels and letters t jc delivered here must be mai ed before Dec. 17.
However, the post office ad /ises residents to mail parcel efore the deadlines to assur< delivery by Christmas.
cord
as long as for theft,
the proverbial breaking and
entering, and houscbrcaking. He had to. The IICMP had it all down on a little card along with his profile . . .
Asked why he chose to malign policemen and hospital officials, said: "Well, you would too if you were hungry and had no )lacc to stay." But his method of finding food and shelter is inique among, the thousands of vorlhy men trumping the streets )f Canadian cities today. Maybe iu should ;;o back to his more lalural profession of sneak-liieviiu; . . .
INTEGRATION BATTLE RAGES
NEW ORLEANS Wl�While rowdyism by day and Negro rock throwing by night brought new tension in New Orleans' explosive school integration crisis.
Demonstrations by white youtliK againsl race mixing in schools sent police and fire engines racing over the city Wednesday. Negroes tossing rocks and bottles at cars and buses" Wednesday night sent police on a dozen or more-calls.
Fights between Negro and while youths and a cross burning on a street wore among 20 complaints Investigated,
Demonstrations brought ur-rcsts or oo porsbns.
Tax Incentives Asked to Foster
Winter Building
OTTAWA (CP)�Tax incentives to encourage private construction projects in the winter, thus reducing winter unemployment, were urged today by Raymond Brunct of Hull, Que., a former president of the Canadian Construction Association.
A SPEECH
The present incentive program for municipal winter works has proved successful in providing increased winter jobs, he said in a speech to the Ottawa branch ol the Engineering Institute of Canada.
. "The potential benefits of the application of similar principles to the much larger fields of in dustrial, commercial and residential construction arc correspondingly even greater."
Mr. Brunet is chairman of the notional joint committee on winter-time construction�a group with government, industry, business and labor representatives. INCOME TAX
He said the tax incentive most favored by construction association members would be an income tax allowance for accelerated depreciation on privately-financed construction projects, related to payrolls during winter months.
All three city aldermen whose terms expire this j year .will seek re-election in the Dec. 8 civic elections.
Aid. Frank Clark and i Aid. Spike Enemark filed I nomination papers Wednes-{day. The third alderman j whose term is running out, Aid. Charlie .Graham, filed his papers earlier.
On the school board, terms of city trustees Harold Moffat and Jack Rhodes and rural trustees Ken Melville, of McLeod Lake and John Holmes of Beverley expire this year.
Mr. Rhodes has taken out nomination papers and expects to file next-week. Mr. Moffat, a veteran of 16 years on the school board, has,not yet made a decision. BOWS OUT .
Mr. Holmes is bowing out of the board after one -term due to "business pressure".
No word has been received from Mr. Melville.
Rural and city ratepayers will vote on a $600,000 referendum needed to build new schools and additions. City ratepayers alone will vote on a $40,000 water bylaw and an $85,000 storm sewer bylaw. SEVENTH TERM
Aid. Clark will be trying for his seventh two-year term .on city council. Aid. Enemark will be seeking
FRANK CLARK
-. . another round
SPIKE ENEMARK
.'. . files papers
three-year-old brainchild of'Bob Moss, school principal, a RCAF meteorologist during the war. -
SCIENCE COURSE
"The weather station is part.
of their science course. This
gives them practical knowledge jpf their.��Wbject,'.'.lhg_j3u,ldi .. . ;
' "Usually most teachers just hang a thermometer on the wall for that part of the science course and leave it at that," he said.
"We keep a daily record and put the findings on a graph on the wall," he explained. "When we receive the weatherman's monthly report we do notice a difference. But the kids give the weatherman the benefit of the doubt."
WIND VAN 10
. The school's weather station consists of a maximum-minimum thermometer, a dry-bulb thermometer, a wind vane, a nanemo-meter, a wind vane, ananemo-rain gauge and a hydrometer (a device to measure humidity).
The two thermometers were purchased by the students.and they made the other equipment.
"The kids compete with each otjicr to take turns reading the instruments," Mr. Moss said.
"Thev arc quite capable of, operating the station and arc Ivcrlca to stora6c sPacc-cjuite keen on it," he said. (Continued on Vugc 3)
his first two-year term. He was elected to council in a ^election in July, 1959, to replace George Stewart, who resigned to become city magistrate.
Mr. Rhodes is completing his first two-year term on the school board. '
Big item in, the school referendum- is a' $400,000 two-storey, 10-room wing to the- 17-roOm Prince George . Senior High School.
An enrolment of 558 pupils has forced conversion of the home economic arid library rooms into classrooms this year. Further bulging is expected next year when an estimated 100 students move to the senior high from the two city junior high schools. MORE STUDENTS
An increasing number of students in the two city junior high schools and a third under construction at Kelly Road arc expected to keep the number of students going to the senior high school increasing during the next few days.
Also included in the referendum are:
� A badly-nccded $50,000, two-storey administration building to replace the present one at 1835 Sixth. The new building
75 STRIKES
B.C. Fifth in Country In Number of Strikes
VICTORIA (CP) � British Columbia is fifth among Can dian provinces in'the number o strikes and workers involved far this year, Labor Ministe Wicks announced today.
With 51 strikes involving 1,90 workers to Oct. 31, the proVinc
is behind Ontario, Quebec, Man tbba and" Nova 'Scotia, o"n th 3asis of figures supplied by th
federal' government, said' Mr
Wicks.
, A.total of 32,000 man days hav
been lost.in B.C. through indus
trial disputes, .this puts .the province fourt
J�,. Canada.
rt6'we>er,"mari> hours' 'lost' - f o
all 1959 totalled 1,400,000 sai
Mr. Wicks. ''There.is a tendency to over
play industrial strife in thi
province," said Mr. Wicks.
will be situated next to the present building, which will be con-
Clark Gable Dies at 59 When Hit by Heart Attack
HOLLYWOOD (AP) �" Clark- Gable, greatest star of them all, died late Wednesday night of a heart attack.
The end came so fast that his doctor said there was no pain � just a few. gasps. Gable, 5'J, hud been in hospital since an attack Nov. G.
Thus ended the .30-year'..reign of the king of Hollywood. He rievcL1 will see his first child due in March.
W.A.C. Says Gov'f Doing Utmost To Provide Work
VICTORIA ICP) � Premier Bennett said Tuesday the govern ment is doing all it can to create jobs and "all groups have a responsibility not to rock the boat with unrealistic demands." MORE PAY
Asked as a press conference if his remark referred to labor demands for more pay the premier told reporters it referred to all groups.
He said there had been conferences with industrial leaders on the job problems and "we have let industry know the government's feeling in this matter."
Every individual had a responsibility, right down to the homeowner who could possibly create work by home improvements.
Business had a responsibility to employ as many people as possible, even if only to see inventories build up through winter. SAID OVER
He reiterated what the government was doing by way of highways contracts, erection of public buildings, construction of a new $3,000,000 ferry.
He said he hoped the federal government would "start to move" on an expanded winter Works program.
"This works at a disadvantage to B.C. because it discourages hew industry."
The minister said this; year's figures show a "very commendable" attitude on; the part . of working men in B.C.
US. Warships Being Sent Id
Central America,
AUGUSTA, Georgia (AD� President Eisenhower has ordered U.S. Navy warships and "air units' to ;fielp" Guatemala and Nicaragua "seek out and prevent" any communist directed attack of these countries if it becomes necessary.
The White House reported the warships, including an aircraft carrier, arc now*on the high seas to carry out this mission.
Eisenhower acted, (he White * House said, in answer to written requests from the Guatemala and Nicaragua governments for help. . In the last few days, the two countries have fought off what they claim arc anti-government revolts directed by supporters of Cuba's Fidel Castro.
WEATHER
FORECAST
Cloudy with a lew snow flur-ics Friday. Little change in emperature. Winds west 20 to-norrow. Low and high for Ques-el, Prince George and Sinith-rs, 25 and 35.
Peace illy or
Clearing overnight. Sunny and ol ho- mild tomorrow. Winds outherly- 15, becoming west 15 ite this -evening. Low tonight nd high tomorrow at Grande rairie, 15 and 30.
Last -I Hours
Lo Hi Precip.
Terrace .......... 38
Smlthcrs ........ 32
Prince George.. 37
Qucsnel .......... -10
Kamloops ...... -10
Whltehbrse...... 30
Fort Nelson .... 18 Fort St. John.. '30 Dawson Creek 39
32 .21
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21 .10
30 .10
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LOCAL TEACHER SAYS AFTER 7 YEARS. IN AFRICA
Educated African Negro Shuns Independence
By BERNICE ROBERTS Citizen Staff Reporter
"Educated Negroes in Africa don't want independence yet but they must go along with the mass or be declared traitors," according to a local teacher who arrived in Canada three months ago from Africa.
C. B. Kotak, Duchess Park teacher, told the Knox United Church WA; "According to our standards, the Africans have had no civilization; yet they fed they have a civilization of their own."
Mr. Kotak, born in India, is qualified to speak on the African situation. He taught seven years in East Africa (Uganda, Kenya, Tanganyika) prior to coming here.
He said the African Negro uis different desires, a different background and his needs arc therefore different!
"In this country, we assess our wealth by our bank balance. In Africa, a wealthy man is one who has the largest number of wives and children. Since the women and children cultivate the land, the more wives a man has the larger tract of, land he can cultivate and the more cotton he can grow." One chief Mr. Kolak knew had 31 wives and 108 children and regretted he hadn't more.
But the new generation, willi Western education and assistance from the church, is slowly beginning to accept the idea of one wife, he said.
There are hundreds of dialects in Africa but until recently there has been no written language. Swahili is now being taught.
The negro needed nothing before ' the while man came;
nothing not readily provided by his surroundings. � Then the white man came and set up the poll lax and the African had to work to raise money to pay it.
Mr. Kotak, in comparing Uganda's cost of living lo Canada's, said his three-bed-room modern home in Uganda was rented for $16 per month. The paid help in the home received another $16. Coffee was 15c per pound.
A scat in a modern theatre built by 20th-century Fox costs $1.50. Africa is cither ultramodern or extremely backward � there is no middle ground.
Mr, Kotak applauded the work done by the church. Nearly all the schools arc run by the mibbions. Up to Ibc ago
of six, education is practically nil. Over six, education is not compulsory.
Some educated Africans attempted to push through compulsory education for primary age but it was defeated by the governor because Africans arc not in a financial condition to finance such a system and haven't the trained personnel to staff the necessary schools. Some Africans with Grade 7 schooling leach children up to Grade 5.
There arc about 5,000 Africans receiving elementary schooling. However, because of space, only 2,000 can be passed into junior high, and only six senior high schools are available � all' but one of these run by the missions. .
To the Africans, education is a moans to line clothes, an (Continued ou 1'ittfo U)
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