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SPORTS HIGHLIGHTS
Mohawks extend lead in Cariboo Hockey League with two weekend victories.
Rosburg's experience, plus a crucial putt, win him Crosby tournament.
Chicago  Black   Hawks  have  become  the  most unpredictable team in the XHL. (See Pages 4 and
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Vol.  5;  No.   15
 BRITISH  COLUMBIA, MONDAY, JANUARY 23,  1961
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INVESTIGATION STILL UNDERWAY
CNR Steps UpSchedules By As Much. Ai24 Hoars
TORONTO !CP>�Canadian Nation;Railways has announced a faster freight service from Torot;0 t0 Western Canada, speeding up schedules by as much 5 24 hours.
Faster sorvic s with no extra t>,e to shippers will be available from Toronto lo Vancouver^ Several intermediate points and faster service will also bepoyi'ded from the West to  Toronto.
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TORONTO a lack of money,
 ustomers, rather tlian
High School Hits Highest Point Ever
Marks recorded by students at Prince George Senior High School during Christmas exams have their teachers grinning from car lu ear.
According lo AJ Stables, principal, some of i!)e highest marks in the history of the school were recorded during the exams. "They have reached their highest standard  ever," he  said.
Total of 25 students made the "excellent" list, including one in Grade 13 anrl lour in Grade !2. Art Warburton, Grade 11, led all the students, lie received an A in each subject,
"The work they (the students) arc cloiny now is much more advanced than two or three years ago," he said. "Yet the marks are hotter."
"Basic credit," said Mr. Stables, "belongs to our highly qualified staff, which is spending extra time with the students.
"But a lot oi credit rests with the .student?." he said, "they :uv taking more interest in their studies and working after school on them."
"The way they have worked makes me proud of them," he said.
STRAIGHT A's on report card belonging to Grade 11 student Art Warburton, 15, left, are admired by Grade 10 students Don Dezell, Elaine Erickson and Anita Banzer. The proud owner of the school's only string of A's is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Art Warburton of Six  .Mile Lake.                     �Hal Vanclervoort photo
'HIS DUTY/ SAYS MAGISTRATE
Man Fined $100 for Not Aiding Mountie in Fight
Failing to assist a police officer when called upon to do so resulted in a I2:i-year-uid man being fined $100 when he pleaded guilty Lo the offence before Magistrate George Stewart SnturdViy.
Gary Furano pleaded guilty to the charge which arose following an incident on a city street Jan. 7 when i;C.\!l' Const.  Arthur  Hoivik  was attempting  to arrest
(CP) _ Lack o
faces the housinynduRtry, the Canadian Construction Association was to; today by its housing committee.-
Money   has   become   easier () gut,   the  committee said, but buyers have not been oniing forward.
Ii   welcomed   amendments  of               __
late
 wn contended that Fu only refused to assist  to  agitate  the crowd  nst. Hoivik."  your  iluiy   to  help,"
Through Fraser
VANCOUVER CP � Canadian Pacific Railway passenger trains ace again roiling llirough British Columbia's treacherous Fraser Canyon after bcini! held up for a week by flood damage to the line.
lioth the Canadian Pacific anlo, and Alexander Trojan, $5. James Dun-i an, HJ. was jailed one hour for
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'PRESSING THE PANIC BUTTON'
VANCOUVER 'CP! � A union said today a spokesman for the B.C. construction industry is "pressing the panic button" on labor negotiations.
Jaek Fradlcy, business agent for Brotherhood of Painters, Decorators and Paperhangers of America, Local 138, was commenting on a statement by Wallace Haughan, chairman of the B.C. Federation of Construction Associations, who appealed to building unions to be realistic in upcoming wage negotiations,
FORECAST
Mostly cloudy Tuesday with occasional liuht snow. Little tpiango in temperature. Light wind.--.    Low   tonight   and   high
Now Hear This
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last year to the National Housing Aet, suggested the possibility of further changes, in-eluding NHA mortgages for existing houses, and urged its members to attempt better salesmanship.
Noting    last    year's    housing starts were around 110,000. down :$() per cent from 1!);)!), the committee commented: "FIRST  TIMK"
"For the first time in the post-! war period, demand for housing became a limiting factor in. the | size of  the  house-building  pro-1 gram.   Although  there   was   an easing  in   the �ypply of ,rnort-gage money Huring the summer',' lending   activity   by   approved lenders and directly by Central Mortgage and Housing Corporation, was less than expected."
Describing the 1960 NHA amendments as "especially siK-cant," the committee said availability of long-term loans treatment projects is gratifying, and added:
��Increase in the ratio of loans to lending values on both individual homes and rental projects is must welcome. The clown payment is frequently the main financing problem lo be overcome in either ease . , . MAJOK CHALLENGE
"A major challenge facing housebuilders in many centres will be in the field of merchan dizing. This does not merely in volve salesmanship but also pro vision of a product that meet.-the need of Canadian families and offers advantage in term of price, quality, design, loca lion and grouping compared u other  units on  the market."
ACADIR SHAKES UNDER SHOCKS
ACAD1R, Morocco I/?)�Two earth shocks were felt here Sunday night, sending fear through the city which was wrecked by an earthquake a year ago.
No damage was caused but scores fled into the streets and spent the night outdoors or in ears.
TORONTO (CM�Neither Indus try nor labor .should expect gov arnments to continually pas.-, liiws in the hopes that this will settle their problems. Claude Jo-doin, president of the Canadian Labor Congress, said today in an address to the Canadian Con ti'tructlon Association.
QUEEN STALKS INDIAN TIGER
JAIPUR (Reuters) � The Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh went tlgcr-shootlny today.
Plans for the shoot during the Queen's three-week Indian tour have aroused protests from British animal lovers and India's tiny .Non-Violence party.
Ton/ Goes lo Work Again; This Time In a Limousine
LONDON (Reuters) � Antony Armstrong-Jones went to work today.
A chauffeur drove him from his home in Kensington Palace to the Council of Industrial Design jffices to take up the first job o has held since his marriage to Princess Margaret last May
In the unpaid job, ex-photog-raphr Armstrong-Jones, 30, will advie on films, film-strips and phos for exhibits and publication
IMR0VED DESIGN
T� council was set up by the oovnment in 1944 to promote impved design in British in-dusal products.
�'islrong-Jones asked that tho.st be without pay, at least at it, but he is entitled to the cqtiloht of about $7.50 a day suljtcncc allowance if he is out �.f vn  overnight   on
A nine-year-old girl was fighting for her life in hospital here today following a shooting mishap early Sunday seven miles south if tVie city.
RCMP a r e continuing their investigation into the incident in which Gloria Glover was shot through the abdomen with a bullet from a .303 rifle.
Po 1 i c e said the girl, daughter of Mrs. Gloria Folkes, wns baby sitting at lie home of a neighbor on Johnson Road when the shooting occurred.
'DIDN'T KNOW
They believe the rifle was in the hands of her L 1-year-old brother, Ronald, when it was discharged. The boy was said to have told police "We didn't know it was loaded."
Ronald had been sent by his mother to see if Gloria was all right.
He returned a few minutes later and told his mother Gloria had been hurt.
The girl was rushed to h o s p i t a 1 by ambulance where she underwent emergency surgery.
BLOOD GIVEN
Donors were called out in the early hours of the morning to give blood for the stricken girl.
Police identified the neighbors as a Mr. and .Mrs. Scofield. Gloria was silting with their two infant children.
Her    condition    was   de-
LIQUOR RIGHTS MOVEMENT GROWS
VANCOUVER ICPI � The North Amehican Indian Brotherhood, which speaks for 12,000 interior B.C. Indians, says it is joining Northern Indians in demanding liquor rights on reserves.
George Manual, president, said resolutions from 20 villages will be sent to the federal  government.
Reserve Indians now may drink in beer parlors and liquor outlets but may not purchase spirits for drinking elsewhere.
If the federal government approves holding of plebiscites and they are passed, then it i-s up to the B.C. legislature to amend   lh*  Liquor Act.
Nominal
MICHAEL  STARK
told the National Business Conference on Unemployment in Winnipeg today that, in a technological age, Canada must have a greater proportion of highly-trained manpower than countries with larger work forces. The labor minister was one of many speakers.                               �!CI\
Fire Razes Home, Cars
scribed  today as  "fair
33-Day Belgian Strike, NY Rail Stop, Settled
Home of Airs. Irene Kowdcn. 1280 Seventh, Island Cache, was destroyed   by  lire  Saturday.
Police said the house and contents were a complete loss.
City fire department was called to Charlie Philp Ltd., 745 Fourth, Friday when ;i gas tanker which I was being steam cleaned  caught) lire.   The  blaze  was  quickly  < linguished.
The Social Credit Federal Association for Cariboo will h<>ld its ...nominating convention in Quesnel  April 22.
This was announced by l'ie a s s ocial i (i n president I lerb Sperling, following the annual meeting Saturday in the civic centre. Closed to the press, members only were allowed to attend the secret session.
An executive was named, composed of one representative from each provincial constituency lyintf within the federal Cariboo riding. Bert Loboe, of Prince George, will represent Forl George.
Mr. Sperling said a committee for educational purposes *was formed after discussion "which confirmed the general opinion ih;it Canada would be in the hands of Communists under the administration of mis-management by the old-line parties, if electors allowed them to continue."
lie added that the meeting felt Social Credit is "Die only true alternative to the slavery of the Socialist state."
BRUSSELS (Reuters) � Bel-giums 33-day strike over the government's austerity measures officially ended today, after costing the country an estimated S2O0.00O.OO0, four deaths and scores of injured.
But Socialist-led trade unions in Belgium's south, which announced the return to work Saturday, say Ihe stoppage will continue '�under new forms."
One of the strike's immediate | legacies is a call in Wallonia �  business. I t|,c French-speaking south � for
Hrii, also claim mileage allow-J constitutional    reforms    to    sive anijf lie uses-his own car.       i t|10 southerners a bigger say in 'his arrival, he wns greeiedi government affairs.
Belgian troops serving with I North Atlantic Alliance forces in West Germany, called home for security purposes during the strike, crossed hack into West Germany Sunday night at Aachen to rejoin their units.
The   strike   began    when    the government   of  Premier  Gaston Eyskens  introduced  an  austerity bill to counteract losses in reve- i mie following the freeing of the : Congo  from   Belgian   rule  June 30.
door by council director I';i iicilly, -l(i. and taken to Hie thi floor office he will occupy 11(1 loor to Reilly's. THEE SECRETARIES
�i'C secretaries have been P';i at his disposal. ��'ore his arrival, Princess fret's personal detective led for security and the ling was placed under police : Similar precautions will iken in the future � when wry,
� of his first tasks will he
>lp prepare  the  Illustrated
, of a new council publica-
will work ;i five-day week it   does  not   conflict   with ibllc appointments.
Sneak thieves struck at parked cars again over the weekend.
Albert Shenko told police a power saw wns stolen from his car which was parked in the Columbus Hotel lot,
A transistor radio wns stolen from a parked car belonging lo Herb Wall. 104(5 Clark, South Fort George.
John McCormac, 16'4fi .Juniper, told police his car caught fire late Sunday six miles out on the Giscome road.
Fire apparently started from a flat tire. Inter spreading to the motor and  interior.
KITIMAT MEN FOUND SAFE
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A contingent of 15 members of Canadian Legion Branch 43 in Prince George journeyed to (ji.scome Saturday evening for installation ceremonies of Willow Rivcr-Giscome  Branch  252.
In the group were local president Dennis McDonald and Harry Wellington, /one commander, who conducted the installation.
Installed   as   president   of   the I branch    was    Keith    Dougherty, j Others   in   Ihe   Legion   executive | are: Frank Roth, first vice-president;   Lcn    Block,   second   vicc-| president: Father de Keyzcr, secret.iry-treasurer:   William   Dunn, j Ernie    Swain.    Frank   Werbecky and    Malbi    Sawler,    executive members   at   large;   and   Harold Dayton, sergeant-at-arms.
Executive of the Legion Auxiliary, also installed Saturday hy .Mr. Willington, are: Mrs. Alice'. Neal, president; Mrs. Pearl Ross, first vice-president; Mrs. Shirley Jeffers, .second vice-president; Mrs. Alice McLean, secretary; Mrs. Alice Chnrlrand, treasurer; Mrs. Bertha Dubois, sergeant-alarms; and executive members :i{ largo Mrs. Tessa Cleveland and Mrs, Harold Dayton.
NEW YORK (AIM � A two-week railroad licup that had spread from New York City lo the midwest ended today with a tentative agreement on a new work contract.
SAYS HE CAN'T REPLY TO PROTESTS
Welfare Top Kick Hum on Criticism
mooio launtor alons tin' i proitj
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(Itlzvn Staff Up porter The provincial director of uociul
welfare declined to comment here Saturday on the subject of mounting criticisms against his depart incut.
Jim Saddler told The Citizen during an exclusive I nil that he had not boon told to keep "mum" mi the iiibjccti hut "ihe minister has not publicly dlicuisod Id therefore I cannot/1
Welfare Minister Wesley Black bus made no public reply In DC cuiotloni lovollod ogoinil Iho i� to j hud  "no  connection"  with  ibf current public uproar,
M.ijur objectives nl the iinmial Staff meetings, he Mild, include t|i\in;: social wiirki'i's nil 111>|>�� T� tunily lu ut'l Ihe views of ">� he,id nl lice it nt I lo lean) xiinA thin" uf new tci'liniqucK,
Somo   U5   social  welfare
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I     < , Including Regional Ad-
II     rator Verne Dallnworc oi 1' I George and Regional Ad-!:'r.uor  W,  II.  Crossloy  of ''..(',   attended   Iho   two-day
T'.cy i-oprc.scnied regions five
"'!>i'vcn which comprlio thr
!: ��irn   half  of   the   province.
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1   ,,es chargod with tho op-
n of wclfaro for the vast
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 again floollnod lo m bi m wltotiier no ihi if wui) Miiili'K'iii I'm1 ii*' ill ndininlitrntlon of (oclal o for iucIi ii loW iirt'Ui
(ISarlici'i Regional Adinlnlslra-i tor Dallailiore had slated the local branch lias too small a stall lo handle his offlco's caseload which lia.s been greatly increased over the last year hy unemployment)!
Mr. Saddler .said Ihe Staff wanted to know "some of the background" of the current dispute during their moctlngSi hut lie did nut olaboralo,
lie lauded the Staff of Hie local
branch and duicrlbed them as "Moiiio o| the k cent's I I've incl." Nu itrongor (o Prince Coorgo, Mr. Snddlor was roglonal ud-mlnlilrator   here   In  i n-i l. und
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AT INSTALLATION  ceremonies for   Willow  Itivcr-Glscomo Branch 262 Canudhin Legion are Mra Neul,   uuxlllury   pr^iik-m,   Larry   Willington' commander, antl President Keith Dougherty.      �
�Hal Vandervoort photo