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Vol. 5; No. 42
PRINCE GEORGE, BRITISH COLUMBIA, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 1, 1961
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SPORTS HIGHLIGHTS
The West pulls in front in first Canadian women's curling cham}oionship play. -� * � �
Vic Stasiuk, with two goals, helps Wings defeat Black Hawks 3-1.
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Canadian players stay alive in singles at badminton championships. (See Page -l.i
SCHOOL DISTRICT
Engineers
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School trustees approved a $10 increase in wage rales for custodians and engineer^ Tuesday night following conciliation talks with Local Union 80S of the tnternational Union of Operating Engineers, The increase, main chanyc
;i new. two-year conlraul between the board and the engineers' union, will be in efCecl in all categories during the current year, \sitli a furtlicr $6 increase Id be made in all categories in 1962.
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Start Work Monday On Lodge Building
Work will gel uricleVwiiy Monday on construction of a $'10,000 Ivvo-storcy Chinese Free Mason building, It will replace the old structure which burned to the ground lasl year and will be luiili on the same .site ai 150 Quebec.
The project, la be accomplished with volunteer Hay labor, is expected to lake three months.
rjuildiny will be uf concrete] bluOk ecus!ruciinii and will have Imniiiiitcd hi'.-iins. Dimensions arc 21 by 00 feel.
A rucreutiun room and sleepily rooms u ill he on the main floor, while i he Masonic Lodge u lit I i Loi'i n in to accommodate 150 persona and offices for the executive will lie housed on the second flour.
I'Jxtcrior decora I i ijjs wMJ Jn-vii'.'le (he SYiisonfc fUihleins,' d flat! pule ami a ncoil sign!
The union and school district | ;!;iriod conciliation proceedings .iI'Iit tlie board Tailed to award i in per cenl increase sought by ihc engineers' union.
Other changes in the new con-Lrucl, which were agreed upon earlier, include posting of vacancies at least 10 clays prior to the vacancies being filled, an adjustment of complaints clause, which calls for a delegation of the union and school board to meet as required to settle all com-plainLs, the addition of a clause to ensure a minimum of two hours time be paid when an engineer is called mil for special work, and the extension of sick leave lo one and one half days per month up to a maximum of 60 days.
The agreement covers custodians and engineers in schools throughout the city.
AT HIGH SCHOOL
iversity
NEW EXECUTIVE will guide the Central B.C. Electrical Association during the coming year in its policy of "protection to the public" and its members. Elected Monday wore, from' left: Stu Williamson, president; P>nb Borne, secretary-treasurer; Art Rater, vice-president; and Ken Bentley, director. Past-President Ross Goodwin will also serve on the executive. �Hal Vandervoort photo
TIED JUG TO TAIL
Man Jailed for 10 Days On Dog Cruelty Charge
A charge of cruelly to a dog resulted in a 10-day jail sentence for Charles YV. Campbell when he pleaded
A major experiment in education, which started ' here last September, may be continued during the . L9C1-62 school venr.
Trustees of School District 57 were told Tuesday the University of B.C. senate ! has approved in principle j j continuing to make university course's available � here.
Word of the semi to approval | was received by .school hoard j chairman Mol> lianye from Dean Geol fro.y An-drcw, ilcpu ly to j CHC president X. A. iVl. Mac-Ken/.ie.
The nmingemonl still must bo | approved liv the UBC Faculty of Arts. S'I'AI T MKMKKK
Dean Andrew said ihe university was attempting to find out whether a sLaff member of Iho university would be available Cor the forthcoming sear.
In its request lo the university to continue the arrange-
Legislature at a Glance
ISy THE CANADIAN PRESS
� Committee of supply approved expenditures in estimates ol the premier's office and department of finance.
� Premier Bennett said no consideration has been given tu having public funds used lo pay contempt of court fine or court costs incurred by Highways Minister Gaglardi.
� The premier said some flexibility will be accepted in the final figure for Columbia river downstream-power benefits, delivered in Vancouver, but it will be limited,
N THE HOUSE
BIG GAS WELL FOUND IN NORTH
VANCOUVER iCP) � Western National Gas Company Incorporated announced Tuesday it has brought in a big natural ^as well in northern British Columbia.
juilty in magistrate's court Tuesday.
The term will be served con-currently with a 10-day sentence he received earlier for a liquor1
offence
A subsidiary of Western Natural (Jas of Houston. Tex., the company said the well, Kathy
nven-t, ilie school board asked j premier Bennett was on the
On Financing of PNR
By THE CANADIAN TRESS
VICTORIA � When the legislature gets down to considering the departmental estimates of expenditure for the coming fiscal year, members of the house may pose almost unlimited questions to the minister whose department is under scrutiny.
Unit a member from me ICnglish department be invited to conduct eour.-".s here.
Last year at this lime the school board was negotiating
Plring line in the house Tuesday as members considered estimates for Ihe premier's office and ihe department of finance, following are some of
iwu
i:stiom;i>
with the university lo have a exchanges thai resulted, resident professor placed here lor the I'ltiu-ill school term.
The university eventually ap- Liberal Leader Pemuilt ask-proved the plan and Professor ecl the premier if the Hank of It, ,|. (taker, resident UBC pro- JCngkiiKl'hail 'advised'him during lessor of Knulisli. agreed to eon- his trip lo UMidon last year
VICTORIA (CP) � 15.(7s demand for electricity will continue to increase aboul ."> per I cent annually � doubling or)
, jn i ,ufj.- u.Miim' lin' ici\ John Davis said today,
I >r. I lavis, dire tur of research for IJ.c. Electric Company, was a speaker in a panel discussion at ilie U.C resources conference ' here.
Nat ui al gas prices hi the prov-I ince w;l! never be as cheap i�s
Also named to the executive Alberta's nor will electricity were: ('now Kinm. guardian of| rales reach the low levels of Dan Coon; l>ougla.s Chow, Eng- some parts of eastern Canada llsh secretary; Wong lJang, and the United suues Pacific Chinese secretary; Jang Dong j northwest. San.", treasurer; Chow Lo.v Gong, supcrvisoi advisor.
N a in >-1
Chine c Free Masons w.i- Wil-lwilh its export of electric powei liam Chu of Quesncl. l : ii.u graphs to illustrate en
The new executive consists energy consumption '�.�>�-'�>���� � of: George Chow, \ icc-pre.-nlmt; . nii|,. /.,.,.,, |iatjons. I
Darl Coon Lodge
George Chow has been ele ed grand master of ihe (!hlne Masonic I )ari Coon Lodge. Vi grand master is Won K
Police said Campbell lied an | empty half gallon wine jug to the tail of a neighbor's dot; and threw him out of his cabin. While
Lake area.
It is 8'l1 miles north of an-
other, Kotcho No. 3. brought in by Western three winters ago.
Company officials said eal-
the flog was running to its home cuiatjOns on the new well's po- offered three-quarters of a mi!c away, j 1(,miul havc n()( heL,,, finished-the jug smashed, cutting its bind j legs.
David C, Reynolds drew a $50 fine for driving wiihoul reasonable consideration for oilier per-
duel university courses In Km-glish here.
h was lilt1 first lime such a plan had been tried.
The plan proved to be successful, wilh 77 persons, all lull Id of them teaeiiers. tuking advantage of the courses being
thai ih
them I
would be unwise and un.von- | 1Ttt.,' "'i,,",-niV>V-i
oniieal Jit this time. The Liberal
that is all 1 can say at tins time."
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Premier I3cnncll said he is nol aware <>i' any discussions which might havc taken place between the 13.C. Power Commission and tlie Peace 1 liver Power Development Company concerning purchase by ihe commission of I'eaee Power.
under whose
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p to UMidon last year T1)c j,,.,.,,,^.,-, im,i,.,- whose e proposed Pacific Nor- department lll(, commission iailway In northern B.C. funcliona and who has two cab-
director:
leader
belie\'
said he had reason i< this was -so.
Ihe
unmission. made the state-
I incut under questioning during committee consideration of do-"The Information I .gol in I partmen'lal estimates. England is just the opposile/'J -\\u negotiations have conip replied ihe premier. "Mriiish > t(, nu. premier's iovel yet," saio
capital already is comin our province. "Wild statements such
Mr. Bennett, "if any have taken plaee they havc been between ihe Power Commission and the
sons using the highway. His car! FORECAST
was involved in ;i collision with March may nave dawned on , .,' a truck at Fifth and George I-Prince Cleorgc: like a lamb bul l>us s-Feb. 1!'. �'� certainly came in at midnight
Some 120 people had turned capital already is, coming into [out to register for the courses s inii dm- tu conflicting t lines, I many had to drop out. j these are a terrible thing. It's I peace lliver company and I
l-jmlish Jon. ;;on ami 13U were I the kind of attack that stops have no knowledge of them." the courses offered by Professor capital from coming into our The Teaee I liver company
country." said several months ago that it
ItV Alan -Macfurlane (L-Oak Bay) Was negotiating with the Power
The school board has accepted
asked whether the province was Com mission and 13.C. Electric
N'IKITA IvIllllSIK IIIA' . . . wo were Hist
A. 19-year-old j'.....Ii who plead-! like a lion. February bowed on I luil responsibility for having a trying to promote something Company, the two largest clec-
ecl guilty lo I wo charges of theft while a iwss-ing cloud cover W;isM'esWcnl professor here � pay-out i>r the federal government hricily distributors in the prov-was released on eight months' dumping a heavy, wot snow on i�K salary, expenses and supple. i,y bringing a bill before the jince, for possible contracts for prohation and fined $25. 'the city. mentary costs.
lie and another youth who was. Whether Ala'vh will leave us ' " lo appear in juvenile court were like ^ lamb, as the old saying
;potled by patrolling policemen taking gasoline from a Domano
would suggest, it question.
Meanwhile, the
of chromium from another vc- Thursday. It'll be
Stil.1 open i
ifficiul wea-i r id �I.-
ilder Lonighl
Thieves to Run Into
!r; Chow Loy Gong, He said B.C., because of its - Construction Co. truck at the .Meanwhile, the official wea-
md William Chu, power potential, will continue to 1/ P O^r-fr* new (-';i!'llllu' ''i1-'1 school. Iher forecaster is calling fm
attract industry and the pror- |\ ^ClyS J\6CZS llc ;il>� lt>1)k ;i Pair ol head- clearing conditions tonight and � . j
piv.-ident � tuuld ��do i � � � / * lights from Ihe truck and a strip ; -mmy with el.....ly per; � . [.QQl ^0111
mi Made First
�;;� Super Bomb
house that refers to a $J'J,000V purchase of power from the
linn federal subsidy for the Pa- proposed $000,000,000 Peace
I ulfic Great Eastern Hallway project.
! when no comment has been -^ ^ -^
made by Ottawa, ]]r svj]| nu, (|(,);iv btar, on
Tlic premier did not reply, but U]e Columbia lliver power de-
objected to the chairman that vclopmcnl project by holding
tlie hill could nol be discussed Uu, 1(.lk.ntl ,;lA(.mUieni rigidly
j until it comes up fur second l0 it!. csli,nalet] 3,77 nljjjH l(..,
reading, I ,.,wi r.f Columbia lliver down-
llerbie Chow, ICnglish secretory; chow Fuiin, Chinese secretary; Wong chin1-', treasurer; Fong Hen, supervisor; and Chow Gong, advisor.
LADY CHiiRCHilT 15 IN HOSPITAL
LONDON' ell Lad> Chun ill vvas in Ihe hospital ioila> for \\ hai 1 lie family desuribed as "a rest."
A spokesman said the I01 ���' 1 ui her sia> al St. Mary's Hospital in I'iuldinglon, to w Inch she v\as .11: i iilcd Tiled ilay night, Is not know 11.
I .ad.v 1 'inn c-ii.) "j, -w ,i~ reported to be 1. � iforl ably. Tho M" i' �� � . .1 u �:i\ e iinv ot her iii' iriiiiii Ion,
i|,| |!(- is
Pliic arc;.,, where per capita L0ND0N (neuters) - Nik
consumirtlon is elunlmu: at ^ : Khiushch, v ciaiined m a ,Pr,
'�" K lalc< published today that Ilu*
"We find ourselves some- made the hydrogen 'bomb befi
where beyond the imaginary the United Stales.
'"'tlorline drawn between the ' Th S(,v,'(,t' '.,,,� i,,,. H,
emerging industrial eeonomlcs w.m,|10|| ..A;,,,,.�,�, llr])er,
Isi-," 1 ii.i; they now have li
!!<-' :iid thai In per eaplla u|| ;!�, [idvantawrt they In erms U.C. Is In Ihe Same en- pn,n1 hases around the Sovl ��.�. . msuining catoMnr.s as the h-n-lon because of the ul-l-i i h 'niled Kingdom, Xorwaj and ur [ong-rango Russian ;.. � � iwedun, bul behind Alberta and Khriis*iehcv ,|i,| mn pin(Kr| 1111(1 �' '-'.lales In hi- H-bomb claim, niw
l.l-t 'rillM--d.lV 111 .1 �pC(
Here Now! in
1 day a'| Prince (
! tilers. 2(i and and 38.
\MSl -I Hull
(orge ki
.'e and Smi� Quosnel, 25
who broke into Ihe provincial l>f';< 1&WS SOO.V
government office here Sunday David Barrett tCC
night and escaped will) whal is I asked whether the government
Lak<
int
ilcli lie. pro-nature" stage? ,,-�.. iclud-
.i.i i i iui ami uvuilablu to fu-
Now Hear This..
� �on. The speech Md.iv [11 : lu� 1 'oi iKUV. A,net lean-; atomic bo.rb dm Vv'ovhl War, they
Mos
to 1
I co, I
stream-benefit power delivered >ewdnev)Mn Vancouver, fremler Dennett
(CoiUiuucd <�n I'agc '.',) now estimated at $79,000 will I now could cancel agreoments __�^______..�_______�
find it almost impossible to cash vvltli the Pacific Northern Rail-the chcciuc thiil made up mosl of wh} slncu It has not maintained il)(' loot. continuous construction on Us
The burglars smashed open a proposed line through northern
hole 111 the real' wall of Ihc of- U.C
lice, then used an electric drill \|r Jjc'tiliell repeated a stale-lo enter the vault al the rear of m,.n. m;,de Monday thai he the building. liopcn ta have recounnandulions
Govcrninenl treasury advance fol. d,,, i^islatioii before ihc cheques worth $71.000 were rnii nt I)M. ,.,,,,,.,,( session on taken along with about $6,000 In U)^ mutter, personal cheques, $750 111 cash.' U|. j{;irn.|t ;isked whether a 1.022 111 various cheques and )lrW ,,,,,,�. ,,.,,, ,,!jr,.n Hlir(,
a's campaign*: lo purge Ixick-1 money orders and -17 licence j ^I;i|.( nj L'oiistructlon lusl June Idiiig farm lender* ha* result- plates for 1901. ur wliulhur a rautor known al
I m the removal of Ukrainian The treasury advance cheques hhai lime was forcing this new Postponement of the confer- premier N'imifor Kaiciu-nk... were made oiii 10 government JruL-dimnmidailon ence date was made necessary Thu Soviet news agency'Pass, agent V E. Hughes lobe used lo 1 when a team of University of D.& which annuunced tliu dismissal cover the district's disbursements, ( I professors scheduled lo conduct Tuesday, ;ulu im montion of a Hughes said Ihc cheques were . the conference was unable to new job for Ktilcheiiko. consid- nol endorsed and payment on
; I" ineo ' ' Terrace : Rmithoi William
A new date of March 25 has Qucsncl been set tor the community eon-; Kamloop.s I fercnee on Ihe arts, previously Whitohorso scheduled [or February. I'VJi'l N'elson
The one ilav conference, spun-' sored by Ihe B.C. Arts Hoard and the University of B.C. Extension Department, will be held in ihe library nl Coilliaughl lilein-entarv School.
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LONDON iHeiilersl �
One ol a pair oi locul belles who share digs passes this one along for Us educational value, Seems her youngt r pal V\ as oil grossed In a ucwsjiaper iiccounl of Ihc rcci'iii debit 1c ill UBi �n
[ho tlOS and (loil'tH 1)1 dull
when she looked u.i A'illt a pui il I'd frown and usked ilit' uu :ui
Hi "k.lMll> " ll's "1 ll,l'.llt\ " 0UI'
fnc'iil piiHiihlriietl lier, '*> > whal I'liiiHlil!) '" ' lie 29 v car old ",d wmitcd tn know SIuti � li
Vote fur Ilio mini w ith � In mom I'lijiiiiul ii>i� in low n this si}' ui in
li we remember correctly, (ieoi'Kc i'lMimhs Isn't having a birthday ih;- year, lie's one of these people who \\j- bom on i'ch l'ii ilie date we see only ever) four > oars on Loaj) Your, i ei e �vaa no 2i)lh lliis j ear ami quciil I) no blri iui.iy for him i i .
North liiitileionl. Sask., AA I ivtMlilt!I lire icpuiw,| consider-
: a iiiii kr; luur ihrough Ilio i iirihiiii, u ii a \w ii ,,i men slrtlcd li'i 1'iiiiic lU'OI i rtlO Icnu i>
iitiu lep ii ''in liiiuor i imkliiu
Union, n Impur
l|ll I. d .1 I IV.'
to the I'lllippk' M'lU) had 1(1 liilil .mil would pla.v .i: ,u11^I HCIllui1
nut the hall Iro/eit pudillt1 i U'iliuii !iere. in \aiiileilioul, (jllCS1
the Smii'ii FriiM'i' park In ti I"' ml and Will lam n Luke ii Ilio
�"Hli u pair u' 'un'ki'ts t'oiuci ofl
A mum ii.ipp.s I�� I''�'��* ii'dir.
hawkH plii.vor SIimi1 llin�l
Wife pi'CM'iili'il li.ni vulh
�pound
attcna, erod .1 farming uxjiert. i them has been
The pvofessurs who \siil lead '
discussions and workshops dur- /*ni/rnK/ijrMT it \x//-\ni/
ing ihc conference, Include GOVERNMENT AT WORK
Donald Smile, flSSlSlillli professor
m ihc 1 lu' Dcpartmcnl of Ihc Theatre; ICIIiol Welsgarbcr, a> sislanl professor in the Depart-men; di Music al the university,
and Sam Ulack, nssociato profeS'
-or In the art division ol the iii i ihic-.'e ol Education
The Prince George conference will bo one "I -is i�i be iivlvt in centres througlioul the province this yciii'i replacing 1 lie U.C At\s Itcsoiii'i'oj Conference which previously iiicl In VaiK'iutvt'i'i
AllyiHie mil re-led ui aiU'inhnu 1I1. loc ,d Mice1111:; i^ I in ilcd tu
phi'iie ,\ir>. c, j-., Strom ul UU an �I 5403
>p)ied.
��\ mi i-.m ask your question u until in lluie.s and you \\ ill >:ei ii ui in � ui isv oi," i aid t lie pru-
ier. "I've lold >on �c liope to
NO REDUCTION IN MEAL TAX
VICTORIA tCIV I'remiei' licmieit said Tuesday there \s ill be no icliei on the 11^>� per cenl tax on restaurant meals.
George llobbs ({JCK-Hevol-stoke) had asked ihe government in consider some form ol
lvliel fl'oill Ihe lax liei aUSC Ullhoilgli meals under Nl are osempt, si (Icceill meal could not lie obtained for less ihan
briny m a r� conimcndation and
1 ho ('('!�� incmlier asked for ihc exemption limit lo be raised lo $1.50.
Socreds Should Resign � Strachan
��'Sieve ix hu�.\ den) i
\ that he'f iiirc.nl> put
V pitr Of hk:iii'� lor ilu-
Some Idkci1 \Mih ii ivM-irtl i liunior m>iti ii ij ,i dollnr lodn) and .i imapl Illilo note con
i .itul.itm I Ihe I, lluvv, w ho lIlIM
I n.* '< i in in lllivs TliomaVi
Sul(l Hicie vllOUld hi' il Illllil 1.0 lid |n| llll>,-' QMIlilttnt TOP"
� Ifli eiuo >a hutuoi'i eh what ...
Music Festival Program
Till HMMV I'llOail V>l
1 Sll p.iii, llurwin I!Iciiicii!,n;. School DlKlitorllllll luilluf
rlini'.il mill vim ,i| Miln i-l.ii^i'x
ll.llll pui, IMit'lir>>� I'.nK .Itmiur Ili^h Si lionl ;mddui nun. \miiiiI\miiiI i l.i | ; 11, i' i � > I III! \ il "<]�<� .in. I I'i.kIi i |,i |{ .
Ity SIMlllAL COlUtlvSPOXDISNT
V I i T "J li I A The Social
credit government has no rl&lil tu mi in office mid .should resign, Opposition Leader Ilouerl
Struct) III lold thi' le^i.sl.lllllV
Tuesday. He eharueU dial Ihc Bovcru-
liienl had I'one 11.11 K Oil Us eiri1-
Hun |M�'ini'C> hikI for Ilio 111'-1 iijjj'i' lime hi iii'ior) a conunoiuvciiltli
tin* h';:all.\ 1 Ici'kd Op|iu.Mtiun. llQ
Slid.
.1 man I trieil to pui childish things belli ud me."
lie said tin* premier had "tjono Into orbit,"
"lie kuuws Ills government in headril for Wu> I.iM rminilup," he said. "Ho was .'i little inure shrill, ,1 little mow feverish ami a little more desperate . . "
Elc ���nl 1 lie BQvernmuiil'H per'
I iil'imitirc sonielinics reminded a iirci'. he UHCll to go |0 <�'(' in hi1) native (ilHH(it)Wi
' We 1 iiniiiiic old Miii'.ii1." �'When* U Ilia Cni'otheri lloport
tried I'romlor LJcmtatl, . wliorc li iho IIC.MP roporl
Mr SU'nchiii vv.n ipcflkiufl In ��� Soihuksm, win re li the IICMI1
reply lo ii 20'llllllUlO iirin \vii\Iny tfipoi'l OH 1110 highway! ilep,irl-
ipeech by iho iirimlci' al Iho itiont. Von talh aboul locrol
cloie ni Momiay'i lilting. clocwwonlj in Hits coalition day*
��Whon I wai a child I ui�d � ; � jtita icvornmonl hai aucrol
to (Id chlldlfh lliniKo." naiil Hi*1 "k'(l "'"
CCl' I'liii'lUm "When 1 >.�,nnt> | (Cdutluurd mi I'ujjc 3>
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