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Vol.  5;  No.   84
PRINCE  GEORGE,   BRITISH'COLUMBIA,  MONDAY,  MAY   1,   1961
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MAY DAY
rength
MOS( OW    ( Reuters) __ The
mililarj and space might of the Soviet Union rolled in parade through Red Square today as Russian leaders marked May Day by warning the West of the consequences of aggression.
Maj. Yuri Gagarin, the first nan in space, stood at rigid at-cnlion in the place ()f honor at he left hand of Premier Khrushchev atop the tomb of Lenin and Stalin.
Hundreds of thousands of ipectators cheered and clapped is rockets, mounted on cater-lillar wheeled carriers, moved hrough liie spacious square.
Six different kinds of rockets noved past along with conven-ional arms that included tanks villi twin barrelled turrets and iclf-propclled   15-inch  cannon,
HAVANA KB�Cubans massed oday in Havana's civic .square or a May Day celebration of �"idol Castro's revolution and he victory of his troops over nsurgent invaders.
Castro, who was awarded the tussiaii Lenin Peace Prize Sun-ay, I'resident Osvaldo Dorticos nd economic chief Ernesto iicvara were scheduled to ad-ress multitudes of workers and
militia brought into the capital
for the day.
SCHOOL TRUSTEES
SPORTS HIGHLIGHTS
Willie Mays of the Giants slams four homers in one game to tie record.
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Oil Kings' fifth attempt to win Memorial Cup nearing failure.
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Sports acth it) around city beginning to swing into action. (See Pages �! and 5).
70 START SHORTLY
B.C. AUTOMOBILE ASSOCIATION has established an office in Prince George. The office will be run by the chamber of commerce. Above, Wally Compeau, manager of the BCAA office in Kamloops who was sent here to organize the new service to motorists, explains operations to Mrs. Robyn Webster, chamber of commerce secretary-manager, and Mrs.  Winnifred Murphy of the chamber staff.
�Hal Vandervoorl photo
New Posl Created
A new posl of Vicar Provincial lias been established by the English-speaking ObJale F;dhers   of   Canada   to   direct
i the West.
\     Named   to the  new post,  effective July 1, is Very Rev. Gerald   Kelly,   OAII,   principal   of Lejac Indian Residential School ; at Frascr Lake. I     Making the announcement  in j Ottawa  today.  Very  Rev.  Lawrence K. Pouporc, 0A1J, Provincial of St. Peter's Proi'ince (all the English-Speaking Oblatcs in Canada)  of the Oblate Congregation, stated:
'Our main consideration in creating this new position was Us urgent need we felt for a specialist in Indian affairs to devote full lino to our work in Iidian educftifi/n and welfare ii B.C. and for such a specialist t) be on the spot in B.C. for joady consultation with govern-iient and church officials."
As Vicar Provincial, Father Kelly will represent Father Pouporc in B.C. and Alberta in all matters of ordinary administration and with most of the same powers. His jurisdiction will include the direction of 87 Oblate Fathers and 29 Oblate Brothers throughout the two western provinces.
Among the institutions manned by the Oblatcs in this territory are 80 Indian missions and eight Indian Residential Schools in B.C.
Father Kelly, who is 47. has had It) years experience in Indian work in I!.t'.. first as principal of Cranbrook Indian Residential School, then at Lejac. Prior to tin's he spent two years as bursar at the Oblate seminary in Ottawa, lie has his 15.A. and B.Ed, degrees.
HOSPITAL HEAD COULD BE FINED
If Prince C7eorgc Regional Mo.-pii.al is unable La meet a Fire Marshall's order to uike beds out of the cor-v or- by .lime 13, Administrator CortTon To'wnencl could lie subject to a 550 Pine for each day.
Ho lokl The Citizen today he is hoping to hear momentarily whether the fire marshal! will okay an extension of the time limit. It will be impoi Mile to meet Llie order until B.C. Hospital Insurance Service gives the green li^ht to completing unfinished sections of the 15-uiouih-old institution.
TWO MEN EJECTED
Shouts, Sobbing Erupt At Eichmann's Trial
JERUSALEM  (Reuters)�Bitter shouts and sobbing erupted in Lite public gallery today as witnesses ;it the trial of Adolf Kichmann told the grim details of htcr of .Jews during the early days of
At New Area
T< )lv( )NT() (CP)�Engineering si udies foresl   holdings  in   B.C.  of  the  Norancki organization are expected to start shortly, spokesman said here.
"We'll atari as soon ;is we ,L,rei organized," the spokesman added, commenting that the project is very new and there | are a number of things .--till to be considered by directors. |
The   acquisitions,   made Wane   Amulet    Mines   Ltd., Noranda      subsidiary,      u
on the new .Mines Ltd! a company
made    from    National Products  L/Lcl.
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They Spruce Kraser with a
 nsist
I'OKECAS'C
Cloudy wit crs Tuesday 'temporal urr, twi igilit and t'rince Geor; unit 55; at S
()cca jional ra'in overni cool to morn east 15. Low tomorrow a 35 and -15,
rasionol show-
tic change  in
. I i light. Low
tomorrow at
I Quosnel,  U)
i  . 35 and 55!
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snow or loucly anrl nds nonth-1 and high le   Prairie.
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rec. .10 .02
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[lish-i ur-030, men
their victims.
1 up in the pub-
tho Ncizi slati the last u'tir.
Two witnesses were fai'tei iiipteld and two men were le "tit of the gallery for shou-tin and qcsnirini; at Eich'inawn, th man charged with the nvurde of millions of .lews during th war,
DKATII   MAIM II
The first interruption can: during testimony by a I1 hum Jew i'ii a death man gOTized by the Nazis in dui'ing wh'icih jeering SS beat and shot
A  man stooi
lie gallery and screamed and shouted at. Kichiiia'iin. Guards led him away, still screaming "bloodhound,   bloodhound."
When another witness, Pol-ish-bora Yaacov Gurfein, fie-Scribed how Mb mot/her .ruished him out of a train bound for -Holscn o.vtorniiniation r a m p. another man stood up a n d shouted toward EMchntann: "Ail my family wore killed . . . 'bloodlhound . . . murderer."
The man wats led away sobbing. \\.\\ I.I)   VIIMS
The first  witness of the day, Her,   waved   his   arms
Leqion Receives
(HUUilOTKN
got its licence afternoon and sliortl.v .'ifti'i1 '-1  ii
Prince < Jeorgo i Canadian   Legion .�iwaitin.u    won!   i'i ver which   would reapen   after   it closed Saturday t file its annual ace
'.I'lll!     IvCgioil
hack     was   ordered
tir failure to unit.-.
Lumber and Upper Spruce Mills, each sawmill and large timber reserves in the Prince George area: and lour sawmill and logging companies in southern I3.( '�� with mills at. llrookmere. Oliver, Osoyoos and Tulameon.
Tin' Prince ' leorgc mills together are expected to produce 50,000,000 board feel of lumber a year; and Oliver Sawmills Ltd. and Tulameen Foresl Products will add another 25,000,000 board feel iirt ion potent ial. In the mills al Osoy Brook me re will ma able' to Wai'le Amulet i lot as and
THIEVES CUT THROUGH WALL
Thieves wlio cut through a wall to win entrance to Okan-agan Equipment Ltd., on the weekend gained nothing for their efforts. Nothing appeared to be missing.
A traveller from Dawson Creek, J. !'. Greco, told police the hubcaps from his car were stolen while he was in an all-night cafe.
The president of the B.C. School Trustees' Association forsees a new concept in the field of adult education whereby more older people will be returning to the school room.
A. M. (Al) Harvey of Ocean Palls was here on the weekend to attend a meeting.of the association's Northern  Interior  brunch.
I le  lei!   by   plane  today for  Philadelphia  where he | will at tend a convent ion of the National School Boards Associat ion.
"There's been a change in thinking about education," Mr. Harvey told The Citizen. "In the next few years we will be encouraging older people to return to school at the grade level where they left off.
"The old idea that older people find it difficult to absorb knowledge is going out."
lie said a lot of teachers are not good at instructing adults. "When you teach a youngster, you're feeding him; when you leach  an  adlull,  he's  eating."
son
Leaves PC Leadership
NANA1M0 � I1' � Deano Pinlayson resigned Saturday after nine yea-ivs as leader of Uhe I!.('. Conservuitilvo party.
The 11 � year � aid business man, who failed three times In efforts to win election to the provincial legislature and once in a federal election campaign, handed in his resignation ait a
regu'lar m provincial
(DMI'I.KTK During    hi
 ot'iing of the  executive.
party s
his   own nizatkm
 party's  s   well
I I'oll^lU.    \\ itll
Today,  he  said,   a   boy  of 20 Lj with tlu' Sorial Credit, CC wouldn't contemplate sitting in  ani\ uiberal panties on ihe pro classrooms   with
Country Club Plan
Plans for a country club for Prince George executives and their families have been dropped.
Proposed Connaughf Country Club had an option on the three-
if pro iddKlo
os and I e avail-! sulistau- ,
tial     timber spruce,    larch pine,
Acquisition George    mills $1,G00,000  B.C.   mill
idgepol'c
Provincial perfded its charti tin1   Liquor   Conn w ithdra w its liciui iil the acco tints u
Treasurer   Ted sa'id today  "it's oi of a telegram" fro headquarters in   \
nniand     sits-� and advisBfl Hoard   to icencc mi 2  filed. :Ison-Kenl a matter Drovincial
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Now Hear This...
Footprints in the dust . . . Those seeded "Keep Off" signs on the city hall flower beds apparently aren't effective. Perhaps the bigfooted bipeds who can't read would react properly to a few well-placed bear traps
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return in a wect hc.'d be able to reveal the extent of her good fortune. True to his word, Uiis greaser came back and said she'd wan a sewing machine, a set of flatware and a set of ovenware. The first two she'd won outright, but the oven ware "gift" carried only a S50 deduction, and in order to get all
tapping on ljrly  soliciting
 siding jobs, in l
quire if it's a local business or are they travellers. Then cheek by phone, and you might save yourself a lot of .uric. . . . An-olhcr eon-man type haunting the area is the lad who visited  d S^1 at the office  and  told her
-he'd won a major prizc at a Vancouver Island theatre where her name had bct'.n, Put in by
a   19-year-old  S^1 where she works
that's why these con-men make such a Socici living . . .
It's around town, apparently on pood authority, that a former Citizen reporter and cx-cditor of the Echo will return  to PG
at the  c
control
of  May  lo  resume the   Second   street
journal which lie relinquished in 1958. Since then he has been editor of the Campbell River Courier and   lately  |las  served
what
was
friend " Uc couldn't tell her   as a PR-ma'1 In �ne of the pro-1                                   '  government   depart-
she'd
won., but  said   he north   and   on  his
v i n c i a 1
ments
his fist at Eich-glass cage art the bitter I ion of the beatings and inPlioted on the march-SS men. Puchter told of .lews being ki'Hed lKKsuuse they could not keep up with the inaivh ami of the i leiTOwn commander of the march itossinig a piece of bread to a Jewish boy and shooting him when the boy tried to pick it up.
Eiehnrann   pursed    his   lips and  his   face   twitched  as   he listened   o the gory evidence. OKDKRKI)   AKSKMUI.KD
rae'n'u ��. speaking in Yiddish, said all Jewish males between the, ages of 15-and 60 in his hometown of RubeschoV,' ncai Lublin, i',.!and. were ordered to assemble in the catjtle market Dec. 2, 1939. There they Continued  on   I';ik�' �"'
the RCMP and the l/i'iuor Co/i-trol Hoard to reopen the branch, The accounts were mailed Saturday.
I n a sUitcmcra to lay, branch presi'dent Dennis MacDonald >.,iid "we were awa.ro that we would be laic in sending our annual audit. IFowevw' we had advi'sed provi'neial coninra'nid of this in writing and requested an extension.
of   the    Prince
involved about and the southern about   $550,000.
J'OU.U   NKW   \\l\i.
A subsidiary will be formed to operate the enterprises, wiLh So per cent of the shares held by Waile Amulet and 15 per cent by National Forest Products.
The Prince George mills are in
aid,   former   general   manager of  Xat ional  Forest  Products.
Central oil ire for the operations will  be in   Vancouver.
Two representatives of Nor-anda's Toronto head office were to he in Prince George today.
They were A. Powis, assistant treasurer, and A. 11. Ziin- j merman, assistant comptroller.
acre Loboc property on Patricia Boulevard, overlooking I h e Fraser River.
In confirming cancellation of the plans, director Gordon Bryant told The Citizen only 7H of the required 100 memberships were subscribed. Memberships were $1,000 each.
tie said it was "definitely indicated there is a need for a downtown executive club" and "this is being  pursued."
Mr. Bryant would not comment as to whether the group had any specific property in mind, but did say the financial structure would be on a syndicate basis.
Plans called for renovation of the Leboc house to include a private  lounge,  gymnasium  fa-
. =! � ��: Idward Mel ton- antics and recreation rooms. A 31' by 18 foot heated swimming pool was to he constructed.
U had been expected to open in mid-May.
younger   persons, ai'gn   in \ Nanainvo,
NO   All ION    I \ Kl  \
Thi'   ( \ieiil l\'e    ti I'ok   no   ae-ilion   Saturd'ay successor.   It maUo.r w ill be i.artv's   fall   n
\'.\.\COl'\i;i; ten - The lead unit of a Pacific Great Eastern train, carrying 50 passengers, was derailed Sunday when its wheels nil a boulder 10 miles nont.li oi  here.
The car jumped the irai ks j but remained upriglu. No one ' was  hurt.
The passengers were loaded I aboard I he rear car and re-j turned    to    Squami  Ii    at    the
head   of  nearby  Howe  S......d.
M hey   proceeded   i orth   again i the track \
co uve M r.
by  ti
expected Lhc -rvisseil at Uio tin:-,' in Van-was censured
federal | early in his cism of naii and of lhc qv G< arse  I
ihai-
Ieared.
ership IVir party pol-i national He once party wa 5 al   Credit
\ ei'iimrnt In 1058 h
m B.C.
� wa �; confirmed as ]r lcI'i r ai a gcnorti'l ''� invent ion. lie said he would resign if he laded Ito obtain oleel ion to tilie legisla'ture at.'Hie next general
On Right Note-
Strike Action Favored In Vote by Union Here
Employees, of the Prince George branch of McLennan, McFeely and Prior Ltd. have voted 3-2 in favor of strike action.
However, the decision of whether or not to strike is contingent upon results ol the vole at Prince Rupert. Results will he marie known Tuesday, a  union spokesman  said.
Members of the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union (CLC) employed at branches in Port Albcrni, Chilli-waek and Abbotsford have already voted to strike.
The union is demanding a 12 ner cent across the board increase over a two-year agreement, plus fringe  benefits.
Forest   lire   season   in   the   I before doing much Prince   George    Forest    District j     The   forest   lire   seaso officially started today, and on I Oct. '.11 and the followin the right  note � no fires.
Local B.C. Forest Service officials credit cool, moist air, which moved over the district Friday ui^.ht. with keeping the fire hazard low over the weekend.
Forest service crews had been placed on standby Friday as a considerable amount of burning was taking place in the district. LITTLE  DAMAGE
Several of the fires did manage  to  break away but  caused I kindles any  fire in   any  forest little damage.                               lor woodland during the closed
A small fire in the Pineview J season for the purpose of cook-
damage.
eason ends regulations are in effect: 9 "Every person carrying on any land-clearing, lumbering, industrial, engineering or construction operation during the closed season in or within one-half-mile of any foresl or woodland or any slash or forest debris shall provide and maintain such fire-fighting equipment of a typL- statisfactory to the B.C. Forest Service � � -� "Every person who. under permit,    sets     out     starts     or
ion in hack yards or on a vacant lot. It's easy enough for the fire to spread unless proper precautions   are   taken."
The r e g u 1 a t i o n s apply throughout the year but are more strictly enforced during; the forest fire season.
area and another in the Willow River   district   were   contained
HIGHV/AY ENGINEER REPORTS II
A monster ice floe moving ai about six miles-an-hour was responsible for knocking out the S2S0,O0O B.C. Department of Highways bridge over the Sikan-ni  River near Fort Nelson.
'!� C. Harvey, department regional engineer here, said today on return from a flight into the area to survey the damage that the huge floe was about loO by 200 feet "in"size. He "said �the flot was spotted by two
ir,r:i in an aircraft as it hit the bridge la.--t  Wednesday.
The Ploe took out three of the VI piers supporting the 760  foot, bridge.
�I've never .-con ice like that," Mr. Harvey said, "The liver rose ei^'ht i'ecH when the ice started to move. But it was that one floe that did the damage."
He said the ice "wen: out" in one day, ".the fastest--it's1 ever been since they've started  lo keep  records."
The temporary Bailey Bridge was built by the Department of Highways for the Department of Mines to aid oil companies in expora-tion work, he said.
The bridge was user! during Che winter but isn't being used now clue to the condition of the muskeg. Roads  are   impassable.
"Work will go ahead im-"lTi'SQfa-tely""6n "repairing the bridge." said Mr.  Harvey.
The  bridge connects Fort
Kelson with the Clarke Lake gas field.
Loss of the bridge could deal a crippling blow Lo the oil and gas industry operating in  the area.
The bridge wtis to play an important part in the proposed program for pipeline construction and summer drilling in the area. ��r'xj-ri. ��Nel-.son- is art-Mite- i!00 oi Hie Alaska Highway north  of  Daw^on  Creek.
ing or obtaining warmth: Shall not locate the live within 10 feet of any log. stitmn. snag or standing tree: Shall clear away all inflammable debris and material down to mineral soil for a space of three feet in every direction from the edge of the fire."
Advent   of   the   1061   forest fire season will also bring tighter enforcement of general fire regulations in the city. WRITTEN PERMIT
Under the regulations "open air" fires arc prohibited unless a written permit is obtained from the fire chief.
"Householders should even phone for permission to burn garbage," Ted Kent, assistant city clerk, said.
"The regulations are aimed at people barnins brush and so
YOUR GOLF
by
Dr. Cary Middlecoff
starts TODAY in The Citizen