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American League places baseball's most controversial issue in Frick's lap.
Toronto Leafs delve into football ranks for another hockey player.
Clordie Steliga advances in Cariboo Hockey League scoring race. (See Page 4.)
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On Stage Thursday
City actors will be well disguised when they appear in Prince George Players' production of '"The Three Bears" next week.
The children's play, designed as a pie-Christmas treat for city youngsters, will he staged in the liiichess Park Junior High School auditorium, Thursday, Friday and Saturday, beginning at 7 p.m. A matinee performance will be given at 2 p.m. Saturday. It will be'the second time that Prince George Flayers are staging the Charlotte Chorpenning version of "The Three Bears" here. A similar production was presented four years ago.
Bill Hughes is directing the children's story and staging is being handled by Art Grinke.
Tickets for the children's play are available from any member of the Prince George Players or at the city library on Brunswick.
BUT BEHIND '59
South Viet Nam Braces For Communist Onslaught
SAIGON, South Viet Nam (Reuters) � Troops stationed along the Communist North Viet Nam border have been placed on alert following fears of mass Communist infiltration, informed sources said today.
Communist activity has been stepped up in the last few weeks. Government troops have clashed with guerrillas within a few miles of this capital.
TKIO OF THESPIANS are enjoying their roles in the Prince George Players' production of "The Three Bears." Seen here in rehearsal are, from left, Kay Averill, Jean Horn and Howard Barton. The children's play, a pre-Christmas treat) will be staged in Duchess,Park Junior High School auditorium at 7 p.m. Thursday, Friday and Saturday. There'll be a matinee at 2 p.m. Saturday.
�Hal Vandervoort photo
SHOPPERS SNUB SCENTED SUBWAY
PARIS W � Despite massive doses of perfume, most Paris subway stations still smell like a football team's locker room at half-time.
City officials, fearing shoppers were using other transportation because of the odor, tried wafting the essence of some of Paris' famed perfume through miles of underground tubes. , That didn't help, so this week four subway lines are spraying the odor of violets along the tracks, while another is trying to make passengers believe they are sniffing the refreshing odor of a pine forest.
BY B.C. GOV'T
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From Columbia Forecast
VICTORIA (CP) � The B.C. government Monday set sights on a potential $480,000 a year "bonus" revenue from the Columbia River hydro project.
A complete revision of rentals and fees for water licences has been approved by the provincial cabinet in a new set of regulations for the WtTter Act.
Church Draws
SAM FRANCISCO (AI>)�The �10,000,000-member N a I i o n a 1 Council of Churches today took a close look at foment in Cuba and The Congo and was told "we must not concede the revolution to Communism."
The tenor of the report, by the division of foreign missions of the council, was that "the Communists miscalculated" in The Congo, have gained a strong foothold in Cuba but have not necessarily won out yci.
"We must not. write of rev-ouliionary situations as lost to the Christian cause," said the report prepared for the general assembly of the council; largest religious organization in the United States cnibracjng ill,-ot)i! churches,
"The gospel itself is the root cause or creative revolution,'' The report, on Guba, leased on findings of I).-. Ho\v:ird Voder of New York, a council missionary official whoso field is Latin America, said "a social revolution \vas Ion;,' overdue" and: "The fact, that Fidel Castro took land without, paying for it, that he is hostile to American capital, does not necessarily make him a communist,
"It. would scorn that at some point Castro made the decision to use I he Russians and Chinese in a desperate struggle for survival, believing that lie could control them and that the distances Involved made any physical conquest of Cuba impossible."
The big change is addition of a new regulation charging rental on hydro-clcctric power produced outside B.C. This directly affects the Columbia project, due to start sometime next year.
Three dams' will be built c the Columbia River in B.C. control the flow of the river i
the U,S. and cnablo that cou
try to produce much-neede
ipo.wer,
KKXT.A I,S SKIM KATE
An international treaty ready drafted lays down th term's of this $150,000,000 d velopment � dams on the A row and Duncan Lakes and '<� Mica Creek � and gives Canad a payment for flood control an the extra power to be availabl for the U.S.
The rentals are entirely sej arate from this.
The rental will amount t< about $480,000 a year once tin >rojcct is complete- � abou 1970.
Kepresentntives of rural areas in School District 57 will elect l.'tiil trustees tliis evening at the annual dinner meeting, to he held in the Hotel Simon Fi'i'iscr at (>:�'(!> p.m. Trustee1 John Holmes, representing Bcverlej'i lias declined to st;mu lid ing the town with water. Hundreds of families were acuatcd from their homes in haslily-commaiuleercd craft.
Other parts of Britain were cleaning up in the wake of the most widespread flooding in history.
Across the North Sea in the Netherlands, Dutchmen frantically built up sandbag dikes to check the flooding river mark in the southwest of the low-lying country.
Mobutu said UN officials have not asked for permission to visil Lumumba, but he would "never" agree if they did.
Mobutu said the premier and eight supporters in jail with him had been found to be in "satisfactory" health after a visit by two doctors.
Lumumba has a swelling on his left eye and his left leg, Mobutu reported.
But Mobutu described as "odious and scandalous" reports that Lumumba had been treated with excessive violence.
Hammarskjold has asked Congo President Joseph Kasavubu to permit examination of Lumumba by the International Red Cross. He said Lumumba's seizure raised general fears for his safety.
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UNITED NATIONS, N.Y. (CP)� A new round of bitter strife in the United Nations over The Congo seemed certain today a Russia demanded the immediate release of former premier Pat rice Lumumba.
The Russians also demandec the disarming of the forces oi army chief Col. Joseph Mobutu which arrested Lumumba last week.
The Soviet delegation opened the way for a Congo debate Fri day when it called on Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjold to report at once to the General Assembly on what is being done to lelp the imprisoned Lumumba.
Construction in Prince George has taken a turn upward.
But the spurt in building in November, reported today by the city building inspector's office, still leaves the year's construction pace several steps behind that of 1059.
Building permits taken out last month were for construction valued at 8291,593. compared to $275,900 during the same month last year. SAME PiSlttOD
November's figure brings to $4,050,-127 the value of construction in the city during the year compared with $5,032,9S5 during the same period in 1959.
Permits taken out last month were .for 20 single family dwel-ings, three commercial build-rigs, six alterations and additions, three garages and carports and 34 basements, including the lasement of the new library. 162 HOMES
The commercial buildings included a storage shed and two warehouses.
The month's totals brought to 1G2 the number of new homes to be built in the city this year.
NO PAY HIKE FOR TEACHERS, BOARD RULES
KAMLOOPS which was at variance with the B.C. School Trustees' Association decisioii to he'd the line on teachers' wages this year.
These are the first two arbitration awards in more than 50 school district contract disputes which have gone to arbitration throughout the province.
BANK MAN SAYS:
Stick Pierces Boys Brain; Doctors Lose 5-Hour Fight
VANCOUVER :CPi � A four-year-old boy whose brain was pierced by a stick, died in hospital Monday night despite a five-hour effort by doctors to save his life.
Daniel Brown of suburban Richmond slipped and fell on the stick while playing near his home. The stick pierced his eye and lodged in his brain.
By The Canadian Press
Civic nominations were held in >ur B.C. villages Monday, each I which set Dec. 5 as the close f nominations when they rcceiv-1 no instructions from Victoria l changes in the Municipal Act. Other communities across the :ovincc saw nominations close week earlier in lino with a mngc in (lie -act passed at the 060 session of the legislature, ost communities will vote this ltirsday. while the four which nominated Monday � Williams Lake, Tofino, Ucluelet and Zeb-allos � will vote Dec. 15.
Clerks at these four places had net been advised that the act changed nomination day from the first Monday in December to the last day in November.
The nominations included: x indicates incumbent WILLIAMS LAKE
Commissioners (two seats) � x Dean Gel/, B'-ji-e Magoffin, x W. Ralph Woodland.
School trustee (one scat) � Felix Kohnke (accl.).
FORECAST
A shell of Arctic air still persists over the valleys in this area but will gradually disperse. Continuing cloudy Wednesday. Little change in temperature. Light winds. Low tonight and liigh on Wednesday at Quesnel ind Prince George, 15 and 30; at Smtihers, 20 and 30.
Peace River
This region is experiencing, a c hino ok'. 'Variable cloudiness Wednesday. Continuing mild. Winds west 30, except 15 overnight. Low tonight and high tomorrow at Grande Prairie, 15 and 35.
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TO ATTEND MEET
Two Prince George labor leaders will attend a New Party sein-riar in Calgary Saturday and Sunday.
They are Jacob Hoist, president )f Local 1-424, Internatioir.il Woodworkers of America, and inancial secretary Howard Webb.
TORONTO (CP) � Unless there is inflation, some of the houses sold under the proposed easier credit terms of the National Housing Act will be worth less 10 years hence than the amount owing on the mortgage, A. C. Ashforth, president of the Toronto-Dominion Bank, said today at the bank's annual meeting. WILL BE LESS
"With a 35-year mortgago," he said, "the principal repayments for some years will be less than normal depreciation. Apparently the government expects inflation to continue in the housing market."
He said successive governments have used easier credit under the NHA as a method ol bolstering employment and he wondered whether the ill-effects are beginning to outweigh benefits.
'�The backlog of housing demand has been satisfied. The trouble this year has been lack of demand and now the government proposes, through easy credit terms, to attempt to bring into the market a further band of prospective purchasers. This cannot but help make inroads on future demand and carries with it the danger of creating a surplus of new houses.
"We need to consider if we are not building the wrong kind of houses, for the wrong reasons, in the wrong places, designed for the wrong people, at the wrong time.
"Present policy directs NHA financing into new houses and refuses to extend any aid to people buying existing houses. It drives young families into new houses and pushes them into the suburbs, and this multiplies I he demand for services of nil kinds and adds to the ^pcculalive and inflationary pressures on land value;;."
VOTERS GO TO POLLS THURSDAY
Election interest High in Vanderhoof
By ICAKli I KKDIOKIKKKN
VANDERHOOF� In contrast to tho majority of B.C. centres, it seems Vanderhoof citizens are taking a keen interest in municipal affairs.
An indication of this interest the large number of candl-lates�seven�contesting Thurs-lay's municipal election at vhich three village commissioners will be elected.
Few of the seven have held )fflco before and most . are 'qunger people, further Indlca-Ions of keen interest, They are: Dr. John d'odcl, in his thir-ies, is one of tiy> community's nost respected men and has
been a practising .AID for four years,
lie has shown much interest in and understanding of village affairs. He is the able lead of the local choral society,
G> Neil Ewen, 29, in business here for two .wars. He lias shown good business sense and ability. He represents the village south of the railway truck and has pledged to sec Dial this par! of tlie village is not "shortchanged."
O Ford Moran, also In his thlr-ties, is manage)' of a local hardware. He has developed IjUp an efficient businessman and would be a good representative for retail merchants.
G Dennis Carrier has tried for office three times and has been defeated by only a small margin each time. lie is also In his thirties. A public-minded person, he has always been willing to work on community affairs. Mr. Carrier has been one of the leading members of the Kinsmen Club for years.
O Tom O'Meani, close to 30, Is an independent business nuin, A hard worker who has built up a good business; whatever he Starts he puts his heart Into. Mr. O'Mearu, has boon in this district most of his life and Is thorough I y acquainted with Hit.1 problems and the advantages of the village, lie would no doubt
do a good job on the commission.
� Phil. C. Meriard has resided in Vanderhoof for the last four years, moving here from Fraser Lake. He is Interested in the condition of sidewalks and streets and .safety measures In traffic. He tried for office a year ai;o but did not make It. He is about 10.
O Airs. Gloria Hobson, formerly of Hlmrnck Ranch, wife of Rich I', llobson, for several years has lived In the village and knows its problems. She is
very able business-woman.
So, ii should be an interest1 Inj? election In Vtmderhoof Thursday.
BUSINESS AS USUAL "oven if I have to hold up the corner of the building myself" was the word from city libra rim Bill Fraser. The old library is at the side of an excavation dug in preparation for construction of a new library wing. The Brunswick street entrance is closed, but i\ door-in the lane allows access to the book .shelves; ., f�H^l VandervooH photo'>