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Vol. 5; No. 85 PRINCE GEORGE, BRITISH COLUMBIA, TUESDAY, MAY 2, 1961
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SPORTS HIGHLIGHTS
Edmonton Oil Kings stay alive in Memorial Cup final with a 5-4 \ iclory.
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Doug Harvey of Montreal Canadiens named best defenceman in league.
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Phillies again fail to hi; for Robin Roberts who loses his fourth straight game. (See Page 4.)
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House Here
Oncn house was held by ;5f)(i Rotary Air Cadel Squadron in Prince George Monday-, despite renovation work being carried out in the RA1R Armory.
The open house was part of %.wm Ihe loc.,1 'iiuadron's Air Cadet &"��& Week celebrations, which were a week late due lo the sponsoring Rotary Chili's convention.
Observance of Air Cadet Week here began Sunday when the cadets paraded lo Knox United Church.
Monday the cadets were inspected by Flying officer Lome LcCiear, Parenl Unit Air Cadel Liaison Officer from No. 5 Wing. Sea Island.
F () I oCear selecl :il Corporal Dennis Clarke as the besl turned out cadel of the evening idler his inspection.
A rifle shoot was held later in Ihe ('veiling and was won by ('"I. Glen Goodwin. Cpl. Clarke came second.
In Ihe (in. phoLo; nbove, Don Simpson, f;ir right, and his son, � iSgt. l!!'l Simpson, are seen shooting against Ken Jack and his son. Air Cadet Ken .hick. Jr.
The bottom photo shows F I i '.: h i Lieutenant liar v e y Clarke, local squadron commanding officer, V (� LeGcar and Sgl, Simpson inspecting the cadets.
Lumber and debris from renovation work being done on the ceiling cluttered up the drill hall floor, restricting movement in the Armors', but the inspection was carried out anyway.
O GOVERNMENT?
rway,
Prince George Regional Hospital Administrator | Gordon Townend t o d a y i said he was "surprised" at Health Minister Eric Martin's statement he was not aware of any requests made I'm1, a meet ing be-| tween t he hospital board � and his department.
Mr. Tow iH'iul said he has continually pressed for an early meeting with Mr. Martin and his department to discus; the serious overcrowding problem in the j Mist it nl inn.
lias been un such a meet-
it;);!! CI.'M'KIO MIMSTI'.K A1 v in Hamilton today announced the; sa-lo ito Red China of 1S6,700,000 bushels of wheat and IG.700,000 bush-( Ls of hiii-ley worth about !jviU2,000,000 o\ or a 2l 2 > ear pei in I staiM ii::', .IIIlit1 1 �
ik, � The health mini.ter .-aid in
SB AQQIIl|Vi.-i..m Monday he is "ready
Kind willing at any 'lime" to
MONTREAL (CP)�Negotiations between Cana- \mcct ,],,, i]iospi>tevl board and da's railways and their 111,000 non-operating railway | denied Mr. 'Pawnend's allogti-workers, which some Limes seem Lo move wiih all the formaliy and predictabiliLy of an old-fashioned waltz, have once more reached an impasse.
Monday came the announce-[ 7 met t 1 hail the 15 non-op unions have broken r,\'\ the high-le\'el talks aimed at averting a nation-wide railway strike scheduled for .May 11; � ap-pan ni ly puUting t he w hole complicated problem once again in the hands of ithe govern.
CHURCH HIT
lay
lion [he boar
able to arrang
tog.
Mr. Tow nenci 1 Kits copied of
consider able, corre-spondt nee I between himself and 'the heu'lth j i'i pai; iiiciii oii'DHning t'hc exist-| ing i|M"o)}'lcim an 1 requesting
early meetings.
.MAW LETTKKS
Ldtlers were wriiteii to Mr.
Marti:-.. Deputy Health Min-
iwt< r Donald Al. Cox and Ray
A cold arctic front following j wjlliaton, M'LA for Fort
Last December, when Llici I'lyoliind an eastward-moving low George, 'thus far without, re-roblem was handed to it, Lhc pressure air mass was respon- su'Ms.
governmonjt responded by siblc for smr.v in the Prince 1 Meanwhile. .1 fiie marshalI's passing legislation which froze| George district today. order, require.-: the liOHpi'TM to
Scattered snow showers were , bake bed-, out of ilti corridors
the wai
dispute until niid-
t. May 10.
slated to continue in the disli'i
The union's replied by fall- until tins evening, according to
ing another strike for S a.m. the weatherman, bul the pre-
regional standard time, May cipilalion was t\[n' to end by
Hi. early Wednesday morning, More
OX US ON (j'OV'IOKN.MI'JVT than an inch of snow had fallen
by noon today but was melting
anybody'a
o\ eminent
BAD WEATHER
For Sea Cedels
Annual general inspeul ion of I he Ii u ,:1 Sea ('add corps will le held in tbe armory Friday at 7:130 p.m.
The 75 cadets of IICSC ('01 ps 1 Irizzl.v will be inspected j by Captain ('. V. Laws. UCN, of l. Shepard, 37-year-old navy commander, had been selected to be the �����~��������-�-^ i'jrSL American in space.
NO FLIGHT PAY FOR SPACEMAN
on
before Jii'iio lo.
The order, dirccied lo Mr. Towner..!. makes him liaiilc upoii .xii'iuinary con\ iction lo a mi nil 111 hii SI11 or maximum $300 Pi-nt! �and 'to ;i maximum of -Sr>(> I'm- each ifciy ''he order is nut, complied wildi.
l'kiriior, Board OlKiirm'an Gordon Jir.vani. stifid it. would be impo.-'sible lo meet, the order by June Li. I'KOVIDi; STACK
.............................. If unfinished set lions of Ihe
those railway workers nol aot- shoul(, get lhal today. ihiwisi'twl were completed, it
ual.'-v engaged in rumriinif ..h, 1943,2.1 inches fell dur-| would provide space for an trains, is jii.-i about as wide hllg May wnjlc L/7 jnchcs Tell on additional IJSbedis, wWch would as in was, for all practical ^.1V 4. ., rcccm| 24-hour snow- irel'Ievo lihe fiirrcrri necessity purposes, when ivcfjirtdaLions fall ,-,�. lhl. monl),, j ,�,,,. glueing bed,; in L'he 'hospi-
first opened m September, .'Wc can cvon ge( MloW in j KlV< jK,-||W;iys.
June," he said. Vim officials have pointed
Flight now, i guess what I lie will IL is .3 inchcs �,- ,IU)W and wc
KLV WEST, l-'la. (Al1) -; I'rime Minister Fidel ('astro ; today declared Cuba a "social-j ist" state, ruled out elect ions i and i lapped harsh new rest lie-j t i( us on the K 0 m a 11 (latholic j Church.
Cuban masses filled 1 lavana's � civic plaza for a mammolh May i 1 lay demonstration and roared t heir assent when < 'asi ro insisted on 1 'ubas righl to L'hoosu its ow n politicid and social ' Future despite United State., disapproval.
"We will not even discusM I hill subject." said (' il S i I1 o,
whose audience was estimated by Havana television comuicn-liitors at ::.(iuii.iit)t). The telecast Wits monitored in Key West, 90 miles from I la vana.
The mu'l'tiilllde screamed "no, no" when (lastro asked "do you
in i-d elei 'ions?" I le said ('llbil
will do without them.
Calling priests "the exploiters who ciune iii ihe name of (!od," ('ast n) announced 1 hat chinch school.-, will be nailion-j all zed in a lew days am I For-I ciyn-biirn clergymen will be expelled from Cuba.
I L950.
bast I tecembcr w hen Lll
Highest temperature recorded
CAI'K CANAVERAL, l-'la. �dj mi�There1;] be no "flight
pay from
ivemnienl
for the firsi U.S. spaceman, by s and the Wren-1 but he'll pick tqi more than
cttes Iiv lour. j $70,000.
h'rii lay's Lnspection is the last bi.u inspeel ion of tlie 1300-
Thai will he his share of $500,000 paid by Life maga-
year lor
which I zine 10 ih
even astrona
will soon disband for t h c
sum nier.
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for tlie personal storio: their experiences.
Now Hear This...
IT anyone sees brewery salesman Ian Selkirk drinking a bottle of Old Style, it's nol a case of treason. Ian has iefl Caribou, where lie has been pushing products the last three years, and starts today with iMolson's. He's due to become their northern rep when Stan Mather j;ocs south in about two weeks . . .
Lady phoned in to complain that some light-fingered fellow niu.-t have got well soaked in that white downpour this ayem. 1U' boosted two thirsty batn towels from her Fourth Avenue clothesline . . . The R.CMP here I would like very much to sd | in loucli with !\Irs. Shirley Ann Black. If she's in the area she'd be wise to give them a holler . . . Evergreen Auto Court Bo:;s-m.iii Stan Haines se/ John and Josephine Kcrr, who have ibought Ihe motel, plan to leave Osoyoos today and will take over the operation this weekend . . . Legionaires who are. anxious to resume activities in their club are wondering if Treasurer Ted Kent hu.s got j lost. Ted told The Citizen yoster- j day, iu time for publication, he j
was on his way over to KiH back the Legion licence, but it still hasn't appeared . . . And yesterday's error should he a lesson to Radio 1'C not to get all its local news straight out of The
Seotty Almond, who cmceed
the recent Tots to Teen Fashion Show at Vanderhoof, sot a big ovation and a fifty-cent tip from Bandleader Hill Bowman for introducing the firemen's band as the host hand in town . . . And still in Vanderhp'of, Citizen carrier boy Gene Huck was the envy of the younger set t'other day when he landed an eight-pound dolly varden in the creek west of town . . . Up at Chctwynd, Publisher George Peck h;is folded up the town's newspaper. The Chinook, on account, he sez, there isn't enough business or public in-ler'e-stj^lo keep it printing . . .
It would be interesting to know if the driver of that big maroon job Licence 419-609 thinks First Avenue is a local race track, especially when all the potholes are filled with rainwater . . .
Jack King, ;i spokesman for Hie National Aeronautics and Space Administration, said the firing of the Mercury capsule Wiis postponed because of poor weather conditions over the cape and at. the down range stations.
No new date for the firing of Ihe capsule was set but King said that at least a IS-hour wail was necessary. The announcement said: "An attempt to launch a manned Mercury space crat'l here today- has been postponed due to bad weather here and in the recovery area down-range. The pilot selected for the first manned flight attempt was Alan B. Shepard. He was prepared i'or flight but held in the pilot's preparation area. No j new launch date has been set but the minimum recycle time I is IS hours. The pilot will re-! j main in the crew quarters in the XASA Aleivusy hangar here." � � "
Today's countdown had progressed to within 1 10 minutes of launch Mine of the Redstone booster, w h i c h was 10 boost Shepard 113 miles into space| and drop his space capsule 2D.0 miles downrange L"> minutes later. The flight is p 1 a n n e d strictly as an up-and-down flight, ll is to be a prelude to ;iu attempt to send an American space pilot into orbit, and return him safely to earth�a feat already accomplished by the Russian Yuri Gagarin April 1_\
Weather had threatened the launch .-nice Monday morning. Officials decided at a midnight] weather conference to go ahead I v\ ttli the countdow n, which started at 1:30 a.m. EDT de-spile iin unfavorable weather report. A rain storm swept the ui'ea at 3 a.m.
Liquor Control Board in Victoria has told the Canadian Legion provincial command in Vancouver that il wants to know more reasons why the Prince George branch's charter was .suspended.
Branch 43 treasurer Ted Nelson-Kent told The Citi/cn he spci!:c on the telephone this morning with provincial Legion Secretary Duncan McLennan who said the LOB demanded a Jfiill explanation before reinstating the branch's liquor licence.
The local branch has been shul down since midnight Friday alter its charier was suspended for failing to file the annual financial statement on time.
"The punishment far exceeds the crime," said Mr. Nelson-Kent. "No prior notice was sent to us before the charter was suspended.
"As no prior notice was received, provincial command's action seem.-, to be a very arbitrary and hasty move and they have now started something over which they have no control "
Mr. Nelson-Kcnl said he gained the impression from speaking with Mr. McLennan that "it j may be Lwo or three days before, our licence is rc-instatod."
strike- was prevented botli so far ,|,is ycar was 65 degrees sides were told to wait until hn |atc Ap,.ji Normal April the report of the royal com- high js qq degrees, although mission on transportaition, 'temperatures in the 80's aren't which would presumably give abnormal.
more indication of what iln railways could expect their financial position to be in the future.
The. commission ha.^ reported.
Ii recommends federal sub-
"In May you can usually expect some 80-degree temperatures," the weatherman said. "It has been up to 95 degrees here in May."
out the corridor beds would constitute a 'hazard to human j life in 'he event of a fire.
('ompletion of line unfinished seeiiop.'s requires the approval of the B.C. H".-ij Rial Insurance Service before work can gel under way.
Mr. llryaii'l, who was ill Quesnel today, w; u a-vng shortly to take up his new duties
an vice-principal of the junior-senior high seJhool in
Sipuimi^h.
A meeting w,-n called for Wiose interested in forma-lion of 'the New Party to be held ;rt S p.m. Motvd'iiv in the CCF Hall.
Howai-,1 Webli reported 17 registered delegates al the reccnl new party workshop.
A donation of $ 15 was sent to the new painty for use in the K.si|uiniak-Suankii by-election.
Described by Man k\ Eichmann Trial
JERUSALEM (Reuters) � A Polish-born American scientist today told lhc court trying Adolf Eichmann of being forced lo throw liviu;: victims onto a Nazi extermination lire and grinding tlicir bones to hide the evidence of their murder.
Dr. Leon \V. Wells of Fort Lee, N.J., Cough! back tears as he outlined the horrors Of working on the "death ibrigade," which was ordered to burn Ihe victims of the Nazi regime and hide all evidence of tlicir deaths.
In some cases, the "bodies started to scream and yell" when they were thrown on ihe fire, Wells said, "because they were still alive."
One man working on the brigade had been forced to destroy the bodies of his two daughters, who had been kill-
Ciniliniieil on I'ago '�'>
FOR THIRD STRAIGHT MONTH
Output Increase Chalked Up
Lumber production in the immediate Prince George area in March showed an increase from the same month IaM year, the third straight month HKJ1 output has topped that of 1960. Bul production in the entire Prince George Forest District dropped once again.
A total of 57,862,791 cubic feet of lumber was produced in the immediate area in March, compared with 44,'183,993 cubic feet in the same period in 1960.
March's total brought to 170,-331,419 cubit feet the amount of. lumber produced by local mills no far this yeary compared to 152,079,853 cubic leet last
ycar.
Peace River is the oivly other area in the forest district to .surpass its 1960 production, despite recording a blight decrease during March.
A lolal of 4,436,607 cubic feet of lumber was produced during .March in the Peace to bring the year's total so far to 14,218.940 cubic feet.
Last year 5,960,993 cubic feel of lumber was turned out during March but the year's total at that date was only 14,116.602.
Total output in the entire forest districL during March was 76,902,811 cubic, feet, down from 33,036,390 cubic feet pro-
duced during the same month in 19UU.
The March drop has plunged total production this year even farther behind 19tiO's figures.
So far district mills have produced 260.970.543 cubic fuel of lumber compared to I960\s total of 297.012.50!) cubic feet.
Quesnel area recorded the biggest drop in the district, clown from 28.420.526 in March of 1960 to 13,026,066.
The drop during the first three months of the ycar in the Quesnel area has been considerable, down from 33.9C8.834 in I960 to 43,624,103. this year.
A lotal of 3.991.293 cubic feet
i of lumber was produced in the
area during March, compared
to 7,722.058 cubic feet in 1900.
March's total brings to 17, 943.414 cubic feet the amount produced so far tint year, compared to 33.432.826 cubic feet during the same period last year.
Production in the McBridc area is also clown from last year. A total production of 2,-636,054 cubic feet in March brought the year's total to 9,-852,635 cubic feet, clown from last year's 12,591,388 cubic feel, of which 2,768,828 cubic feet was produced in .March.
1 oki;c.\st
A lotal 1.1 inches of snow-fell this morning and, wiih ihe rain which fell since yesterday, made for a total precipitation of .SI inches.
It will be mainly cloudy Wednesday with frequent showers of rain or wet snow and temperatures a little colder tonight. Winds will be light, occasionally southerly 15. Low tonight and high tomorrow al Quesnel and Prince George,.35 and 50; >ait Smi'Lhers, 30 and 50.
I'tace River
Cloudy and cold with intermittent snow. Winds will remain light. Low tonight and liiyh tomorrow at Grande Prairie, 25 and 35.
Last ill Hours
Hi Lo Prec.
Prince Geoi'ge 5!J 33 .46 Terrace 52 -KS .18
Smi'thers 50 :i7 .21
Quesnel 65 45 .37
Williams Lake 56 40 KanYloops 60 45 .20
Whllehorse 34 !'�) Fort Nelson 28 IS .2-1 Font St, John 3U 20 .26