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Vol. 5; No. 37 PRINCE GEORGE, BRITISH COLUMBIA, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 1961 7c a Copv �#&&�> "Vn^M^ft
DUE IN MARCH
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Senate Gives Approval To Indian Act Change
OTTAWA iCPl � The Senate gave third and final rending Tuesday night to a bill amending Ihc Indian Act to remove th government's power to enfranchise Indians against their will.
The bill was introduced to end fears expressed by Indians Hi at their treaty rights could be taken away from them through compulsory enfranchisement,
Already approved by Lhc Commons, I lit1 bill now awaits only the formality of royal assent before becoming law.
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Nii-w sign has been pul atop the B.C. Hydro generating station here. Above, i\ crane is shown hoisting the L,800-pound sign on to the building. The sign is more than 17 feet wide and more than 16 feet in height. A three-quarter horsepower motor is used to rotate the neon sign. �James Meadows photo
HEART DISEASE BIGGER KILLER THAN CANCER
VICTORIA CB�More than twice cis many Biil ish (lolum-bians died from hear! disease in I9IJ0 thun succumbed to cancel1, the Public Health Services rejiiort shows.
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IS Politicians Reported Executed in The Congo
LEOPOLDVILLE, The Congo (Reuters) � Fifteen Congolese politicians detained in Stanleyville were executed .Monday, qualified informants said here today.
The rcpori came _'I hours alter -I'ui'ed Nations authorities here w;in/''i: Ihe Antofne Glzeniia Kovcrimri:t in Slaldcy.-.v i i1 c Ugaiilst -such executions.
headquarters here had no iate confirmation uf the
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Americans Launch Two
CAPE CANAVERAL,
� Two new U.S. satel cd around the earth :> propelled alol t by a si et.
The iloulilelic.iilcr .shoot Tuesday partially succcs
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IS orbit1 iv. both Ic rock-
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nighl was only il and ilie orbit-devices arc not living up to spokesman for Applied Physics today.
space travellers Ihc spokesman taih appa; than Hid
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expectations, .� Johns Hopkins Laboratory said The pair of achieved orbit, ,n;iid, hut thi1 slightly mor
miles the
above Ihu earlli instead of target height of 500 miles.
lie added llial lliere arc some indications the two units may not have separated as they vwxc in tcnclcd to do.
The laboratory, ;m ttffilialc ol Johns Hopkins University, is in charge ol the tracking of the .space messengers.
The new satellites or one satellite if they are still joined together - are Hie navy's 2M) pound Transii 111-13 n;n iRnlion device and a 54 pouml hitch-liik-er called "Lofli," intended to study space coiiiniunicalions.
The duublt'liciiclcr went tip from Cape Canaveral, Kin., propelled l>y a Thor-.Mdc-Star nickel.
reports. Stanleyville, capital of OrienUd province, is controlled by followers of murdered Congo-
so premier Patrice Lumumba,
Among the 15 persons re-
n-led executed was Alphonse I Soiigolo, ;i former senator who : was iin| irisoned in < Ictober.
l.iiiiiuniii.i was ousted from power ;i few weeKs earlier by Congolese sirbnginun Maj.-Gen. ; Josepli Mobutu'.
Lt.-Cien. Sean McKeown, Irish commander of l'\ forces in 'The Congo, n i urncd here by air lo-day from ;i peace-making mission in Kquator province.
lie conferred there with Mobutu uhuttj il IN Security Council resolution Tuesday .^ivhu; the United Stales authority to use force as a Uisi resort lo pro-\cm ci\ ii \\ ar in Tlie Congo.
A IX spokesman said Me-Ktown's meeting with Mobutu look place in "a cordial atmos-!
iner soon after The Congo gained its independence from the
\ONt MAN THOUGHT DEAD
Vicious Storm Lashes Southern Part of B.C
VANCOUVER (CP) � The tranquility of a mild, sunny day was upset Monday by a vicious one-hour wind storm that lashed through southern B.C'.
With gusts of up to 7-1 miles an hour, ihe wind ripped up live.s and power poles, smashed windows and disrupted communical ions
adjourned because of the power failure and three senior officers of the Vancouver police force were trapped in an elevator for .'!() minutes at Ihc police station. A Russian freighter dragged its moorings in the harbor and missed crashing into a pier by feet as iuk's kept it under
rebel Baluba
rejected the
demand that and political
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McKeon had up ;i neutral s of Equator
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D NATIONS CIV-The United Suites is reported urging llelgium to press defiant President Moist1 Tshombe lo bring Kaiangii province into a federation of ('ongu states that would
co-nper.ili' With the I"X L'OllgO
Informed sources said the t'.s.
al i) is pressing Uelgiuni to ket p
her natitmals from going lo
K.;t.ir.�.�;i ,i �> inerceiijiry soldiers
for tiie iii'iny in Kiuanga prov-
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Tshombe Tuesday able-bodied persons mobilized lo oppose lo put into effect in hi the new Security Council resolution authorizing Ilie LIN to use force if necessary to prevent civil war. Tshombe's Belgian-officered army continued an offensive against tribesmen.
Tshombe also Security Council's Belgian military idvisers quit The in exodus would ministration and men.
Informants said Secretary-General Dag Haminarskjold told his committee on the Congo Tuesday night that he would write Belgium asking her to .u'et Belgian military and political advisers oul of The Congo in accordance with the resolution, In Brussels a spokesman for the foreign ministry said Congolese authorities�not Belgium� had called in the Belgian military and political advisers and the Brussels government could not Intervene.
Authoritative sources said the U.S. had offered Sudan helicopters to detect trucks that might try to smuggle anus through Sudanese territory to the pro-Communist rebel regime <>i' An-loine Cllzenga In llio northeastern Congo. The Sudanese wen- re-ported to have replied they do not wc\\\ the helicopters.
One man was believed dead beneath a mud slide at Mission, '30 miles cast of here, and five persons were injured in Vancouver by flying glass in automobile accidents. Pedestrians were knocked to the ground by Ihe wind.
P..C. Kleclric officials said late tesday nighl they couldn't be--,rin to estimate when complete iervice would be restored in lower Mainland areas. The storm came oul of a blue ky in mid-afternoon and was >ver within hour. The weather-nan said it was caused by a secondary cold front in the west. The 74 � mile- an � hour winds were exceeded only once In rc-ct'nl history. In ln.jT. there were
j brief Kuals of BO hi1I<-k an hour.
ordered all ; TK.AirKK.VITKW MUOI'.S
n Kaianga During Tuesday's violence Ihc
any efforl i temperature dropped It) degrees
province and rain, mixed with hail fell on the city.
Heavy rains early in the day caused washouts and slides on i the CPU iracks in the Fraser j Canyon and Valley.
The worst washout was GO feel Ioiil; ai Deroche, 42 miles � easl of here,
Two slides blocked the Iracks nl Saddle Rock, 150 miles cast, in the Praser Canyon-�scene of a major washout lasl month.
The Cl'l! rerouted trains over ("NK tracks. The Canadian and Dominion passenger I rains left Vancouver Tuesday as one train, Power to 1,000 dwellings al Chemainus, in central Vancouver Island was knocked oul and six families were forced briefly from iheir homes when Ihe Koko.-ilali [liver went over its ! hanks. ; CIMVK II.W HISKrt
The Cowlcluin Itiver was also affected by the rains and rose | an estimated l\\ o feel in 21 hours Tuesday. A dyke was e.v. i tended lo hold back the rampaging waters.
On the lower mainland, trials at the city court house were
control.
A clear, cloudless night followed the storm. It was mild today with a high temperature near 50 degrees.
ciboul March 10 on the LS-unit addition to Citizens' Home and Laurier.
This was announced today by Harry Loder, president ui' the Senior Citizens Mottle Society, following re ceipt of approval from t h chief architect of Centra Mortgage and [-lousing Cor poration.
�'This leaves u,-: free Ii for tenders I-Vb. 2S," stii< Loder.
The project is expected Ii lake some lour monllis and wil employ upwards of .'ill men according lo architect Lyndon Koliscca. (KVKTIIIKD SHAKE
Mr. Loder said the provincial .','<> veni-ment has "verbally ap proved" its one-third share of ilie. estimated $70,000 cost, of construction.
This amount is supplemented 10 iper cent of the total cost
CURLING HIGHLIGHTS
In the afternoon draw Tuesday, Alberta, Manitoba and B.C. continued to set the pace in the Canadian Schools Curling Championship here as they chalked up their third straight wins.
Saskatchewan, in the evening draw, can. o up with a spectacular v/in over B.C. Score was 6-5 and was B.C.'s first hss. (Details page 4).
;OVERNMENT AT WORK
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.MISSION (CB�Rescuers worked all night Tuesday, searching through a massive mudslide for a missing, .'52-year-old chicken farmer.
Wolfgang Faschor disappeared earlier In Uie day us he red his birds. The slide, 250 feet long, and 12 feet deep, rolled clown a hill and buried Fischer, the rambling coop and hundreds of screeching chickens.
Volunteer rescue workers were hampered during the night by a shifting mass of mud, gravel and broken trees.
Mrs. Fischer, crying, said: �'There was no chance for Wolfgang to get out in time."
With her three young children .Mrs. Fischer was In the family's nearby house as the slide oozed down.
Using bulldozers, shovels and I heir hare hand.-, woi'l cr- i r\fi\ frantically to locale I lie missing man. They could not have heard liny sound from him above the cries of ihc trapped chickens.
raised by the society and the balance provided as a federal government low-Interest mortgage repayable over 10 years from monthly rentals.
The addition will provide IS single units to the home, which
w has is double units. Sl\<:i/K I'NKSONS
This will allow single person now living in (he double unit move in on their own, permit ti'lig more married couples to find space.
Prince George Senior Citizens' Home has been in operation more than two years 'and has proved to be financially sound
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[\.\ � A new sel of rules for timber bidding
fully and over-committed public working
called for yesterday by [. ('. JVUicQueen, a
onsultnut who Tor io years was manager of
Funeral Held Today For PM's Mother
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I'loicnce DIefenhakor, inothcr
NiLA to Talk Bid Practices Thursday With Committee
Northern interior Lumbermen's Association will appear before the legislature's select standing committee on forestry Thursday morning to present its submissions on bidding practices.
Bob Gallagher, NILA secretary-treasurer, left today for Victoria with an eight-page brief for presentation to the committee which is reviewing bidding I practices in the Lac la Ilache. Williams Lake and Nicola Lake working circles.
He told The Citizen the association took exception lo an in ferencc by Cyril Shelford (MLA-Oininecai, committee chairman, that ihe N'lLA among other groups had showed a lack ol action appearing before the I commit lee.
wlcdged Ihe invila-inimillee to appear wt'lv prepared lo
;iv." said Mr. Gal-
Western Plywood plant at Quesnel, Mi1. MacQueen appeared before the Iegi standing committee on forestry which is reviewinj ency legislation passed last session.
This legislation affected the| Williams Lake. Lac la Hache and Nicola Lake public working
ircles where the actual timber commitment was 150 per cent or nore of the annual allowable 'olumc. The legislation, valid for one
ear, provided that limber could )e sold by scaled bid on request of the quota holder. If sealed )ids were requested, the oppor-unity was given the original imber sale applicant to match he highest tender from an cs-ablishe'd operator.
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lature's emerg-
Mr. MacQueen called for legislation to be applied uniformly throughout the province in fully committed areas.
Me said the present system was unfair.
"Only people in those immediate areas concerned can compete for timber." he told the committee. "It's as if you have put a wall around them and told the operators: -Fight among yourselves'."
� and it's up to the committee to decide whether it should be
� operators in the affected working circles will have an advantage over those in neighboring areas, he said.
"A neighboring operator can't come in and compete for timber against them ibui they can go into his area lo compete against their neighbors," said the forestry consultant.
Mr, MacQueen said Section 17, Subsection One of the Forest Act provided for (.he saJc of Crown timber by public compe'ti-ion and was originally drafted ipon the supposition that timber would be available for the applicant. This was indeed the case prior to the adoption of the sustained yield policy for British Columbia.
"Presently, however, regulatory controls restrict, within unit
jlunie of limber which may be sold in any one year. As a result a curb is placed upon the individual operator whenever a unit is committed lo or in excess of capacity," he said. "When the act was originally drafted there was lots of timber available and the principle of open auction was good," said Mr. MacQueen. "Now we have changed the rules ..."
The consultant said that he felt the best sysem was that an operator be given the opportunity 1 to match the bid of another but that no restriction be set as to who could bid for timber in a particular working circle.
Other witnesses, including representatives of the Northern In-lej'ior Lumbermen's Association and Larry dcGrace, who were scheduled to appear before the committee were weatherbound and did not arrive on time.
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"Our association i striving io promote il of the Industry In tin interior."
of the Monday .asi forced post-Thursday's' date by phone, he
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Prime Minister DIefenhakor cirri veil In Saskatoon by air from Ottawa Tuesday niglu. lie was met by relatives, Mayor Sid I tin Uw i iii I of Saskatoon and l'n>. gresslve Conservative party officials,
The prime minister w n s scheduled in fly back to Ottawa alter ihc funeral,
funeral service was lo ho j ted liy flov, A. K. Hlllott.! fnnilly has requested h"
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Man Loses Hands
BRUSSELS (AD � A Brussels University student, Guy Le-111 a ire, 24. had both hands amputated today following injuries received Tuesday during a clash between police and demonstrators near the United Arab Republic Embassy, police sources reported.
A tear gas bomb exploded in Lcmalrc's hands during the demonstration, one source said he had picked up the yas bomb.
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Lands and Forests Minister Ray Willislon said that he had been visited by angry employees of Hen Gintcr during the weekend protesting an inference by CCF Leader Robert Srachan that they were scabs working for less than union wages.
The minister told the legislature that he had spoken to the Prince George employees during a visit to his constituency over the weekend.
"I couldn't repeat their language in this place because you wouldn't let inc. say what they said were I heir opinions of the lion. Leader of the Opposition," said Mr. Willislon.
lie was complaining about statements by Strachan last week that ihe Prince George contractor had paid some of the crew working on the Quesnel bridge at rates up to SI le scale.
were paid at rales up to $1 less than union scale. "Put tip or shut up," lie said. "Regardless . . ." said Willis-ton, changing to another subject. Lands and Forests Minister May Willislon yesterday defended Premier Bennett's insistence on having Ottawa guarantee Columbia River power costs at 11.77 mills a kilowatt hour.
15ut the opposition jeered at the proposal.
"It's Alice in Wonderland tactics." .said CCF Leader Robert Strachan.
"Absolutely fantastic." snapped Randolph Harding (CCF-Kaslo-Slocan).
Ottawa officials have consistently stated that Columbia River power can be delivered in Vancouver at :i.77 mills. Premier Bennett has answered thai if than union i Ottawa will guarantee this figure development of the Columbia will
Willislon said the men consid- j proceed immediately; otherwise ered Strachan lo have imputed it will have lo wait until ihe B.C. that all Glnter's employees were I energy hoard completes its stir-Working for loss than union rates. | vey.
"Arc you saying 1 said thai'.'"! B.C, spokesmen say it i.-demanded Strachan. utely impossible lo sel
Willislon said he was merely pointing oul what the men had told him,
"They made a special trip to interview inc." said the minister.
"They told me they don't appreciate his representation."
CCF Leader Strachan demand-
absol firm
cost of the [lower until engineering studies are completed.
Mr. Willislon said yesterday that Premier Ueiinelt was right and any other decision would be "blank cheque financing that IJ.C. cannot afford."
M.'iny things had still
ed (hat correspondence between | done before anybody could come the government and Gintcr bejup with a dependable cost for filed to prove his .statement that I the projects, he said, and B.C. some of the Qucsnel bridge crew I (Continued on l�ogo 'J)
WOULD FREEZE UNION MEMBERSHIP DUES
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Introduction Tuesday of pro Mm ml Icslalnilon forbidding trade unions to Mini user any purl of membership dues to y lid |iiiri> wun described to-m "a Krini uhow" by the ilciil of the Furt Qoorflo Chili.
"Tin1 govornmcitl Ii lioppliii] into Minu'lliliift it him no rli'ht hi," slid I'rank Snowidl. "I'd Illio In know when they're fiOlnfi lit uliirt imttinu the sunn1 pro*-Mire dm bk butlncii,
"ii > an Invmlon ' leet the democratic rifihl ol the individual to lupporl the political party of llll choice,
Penalty for InfrlngoiMOnl by liny union will he loss of rl;:ht> to salary check-off ni duoi,
Labor lugllUtlon wai forecast III TOO ^veek^ OflO bill it clime In n Jui'in with fewer leeih ih.ni hud lor .i Inn.' boon oxpocludi
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('('I1' incinbcr Itoe Eddie of New Went in I nut or said In (he House that he Interpreted the labor minister's remarks In lorecaMing the legislation as meaning right-toworl. liiws .slunild he introduced,
The hill will make no change in olosod'ihon privileges, nor dooi It make any change In Iho checkoff of dues, oxcopl where political donation of dues is ln<
volvcil,
Some observers rxpceiod removal of Iho dm-* chockoff nrlv< HcgCi which wai wlthdrown fnnii I the U.Ci Oovormiiohl LJmployocs aiuin.iuii Abkuclullui) Ijic Ukt year b
of its (iffillation with the I'Yilci'alinn ul Labor, which Ivcly supporlcd Llic CCP in
B.C. act-
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September ficnci'al oloeliun in the province.
The now legislation received first reading Tucsdiiy night, im-mccllalo rouctlon Indicated t li.it when it comes up for .second reading, possibly within io days, the House will wv a knockdown figll( Similar to thttt between the
('('!�� opposition and iho govorn* incut two ynn-H n�ti over Ihe Trade I'liliuih Act, Wlllcll placed I'oslrlclloni on liifni'iimtliiu pick-otJug and byiiipotliy blrilcott,