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Vol. 5; No. 124
PRINCE GEORGE, BRITISH COLUMBIA, TUESDAY, JUNE 27, 1961
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Beards and Beanies
WHISKERS may be restricted to the male of the species, but voyageur'hats aren't us this photo proves. The hats are being worn by many Prince George citizens in preparation for Simon Praser Day Saturday. They were originated by the early canoeists. Planking reporter Pat Denton are stenographers Elsie Wiens (left) and Sandra Wilkinson. �Vandervoort-photo
HOW DO YOU PUT 'EM ON?
Every Head Has a Hat
a $1,000 first prize and the trophy. Second prize is $500 and the- third, $200. -
Wrong Way
MOFFAT SLAPPED
Downtown Survey Plan Off Base � Loder
SPORTS HIGHLIGHTS
Whitey F"ord wins 13th game to lead'American League pitchers.
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National League decides on player selection for Houston and Mew York clubs.
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Owens and Green stop Giants, each giving up but four hits. (See Page G.)
APARTMENT OWNERS
Fedoras luive taken a flip this week in Prince George as ticadgcar styles retreat 150 years to that worn by the picturesque A'oyayeurs who paddled the canoes of fur traders, and explorers.
The new, style in hats is a prelude to Simon Fraser Day Saturday. Some of them are worn in combination with beards grown for the occasion. Just how they should be �worn puzzles many, as the
Right Way
KC iit HOKKIK lir;n�rn\.'d a rather distinct class with their peculiar dress, distinct vocabulary and their songs. Largely French Canadians,' these men explored many of the streams of the interior of Canada and the U.S.
Entrants in the fourth annual Norih West Brigade Canoe Race will start their ��' exciting journey to Prince . George at 5:30 a.m. Saturday. The 139-mile route became the means by which the North West Co. and later the Hudson's Bay Co. transported furs to the Fraser River and. then to the Pacific by way, of the Okanagan Valley and the Columbia River.
It is known as the oldest established trading route in B.C. Canoeists will be racing for
Illegal Suites Problem Brought to City Council
Jack Nelson appeared before city council Monday ight on behalf of city apartment owners to ask what action the city plans to take against illegal suites.
"We are quite concerned about the renting of illegal suites in the city," he told council. "It is a common practice and there are about 370 of them."
AhEX CI/AHK
. . clean shaven
Special Session Won't Be Changed � Bennett
VICTORIA KB � Premier Bennett says he doesn't plan changing tlic date of a special session of the B.C. Legislature to allow CCF members to attend the founding convent ion of the Now Party.
Opposition leader Robert Strachan had asked the premier 1o reconsider the Aug. 1 date which coincides with the Nsw Party Ottawa convention.
The premier said Monday he has already taken a second look ;it the sit u lit ion.
Now Hear This...
Let's hope the Victoria Tourist Bureau gels a copy of the pantnulcl from the Indian-Eskimo Association of Canada
received today by The Citizen. Members of tliis group's board hail from coast to coast, it says, from "places as remote as Bar {Inland *nd Vancouver island." At least the hints ran find it ... I to in from Ottuua today announced thai JuatiCQ Minister
DavI� f niton will wear a hi-gallon hat mul .swing a double-liilted ;i\ .Till> 5 tii cut a ribbon iillu'iallv open (he new air-
i at Williams Calco so Lib-
I f'.u'l M�itii*, fresh front ill in i; lite govci'iinieiii aboul i gold |il-ii'il sjilagc which Ag-�jciilline Mini-U'i Alvln Ham-Itoo useil ret'i'iilly on a Peace liver com li> celebrate victory ivcr hiiv itic TW. ti mk occasion it e.'iivv tip l-'ullon. Will the itv le gold pluteil tun" he asked in In- Common*., II so. should the ovt1 in me ul nol pnirllee some eotinniieN iti \ l�'\v <>F ith Iiiiik liJHil ul litxluet cli'fieltN'.' The iiiiniiiieeiiteiit taitl the ribbon ill lie held I iv two von ii i! Slitiii-cilr i|ii�'�'ir , .mil I nlloii iopliod irrc vmII not lie pild pliitr mi
10 ux utiU roortovor "my
thoughts will be directed in a certain direction when 1 swing the ax" . . .
The following may sound like a fish story, hut we're told it really happened . . . Belt/ Lund took the mnlorboat out on ClUClllz Lake t'other day nnd it nice trout obligingly jumped out of the water and landed in Hetty's lap. Meanwhile, company staying at the Lund cottage who were out fishing at the same time had no luck . . .
Those voya Hours' bonnets Which the Simon Frascr Day committee hit dreamed up aa a distinctive chapcau for I'd are
:.oiling like llOtCOkca ill stores about town. Now the committee thinks il may luive misjudged Ihnr popularity, because tiiey ordered only so dozen . , , Incidentally, the odd complain! has come in as to why PC! w;mtH Ki'Btulpa'K old m 111. .11. for ,,n � �iiii mI hat, iind why not gu
for itctioniT Which in silly, became the while Ntetson In loo el�M'l> iihsocliik'd with the Cal-miry Sliimpedo, and even the Wiliianih Lake Slumped.1, and iillcr all, aicn't we the heirx to Snnon'i. rough 'a' ri'utly pud-
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Mayor Garvin 'Dezell tol Mr. Nielsen "most' of 'the so called illegal suites were buil prior to our bylaw, whic makes them illegal. This can' happen now.
"We can't just. maKe a mo tion and displace 370 people It would be 'better, as they become vacant, that we mak sure they ai'en't rented again "I see no other way of doint it." � � j
Alderman Cnarlie Grahan said "an inadequacy of housing created these illegal suites The advent of new homes and apartments, doesn't mean they will become vacant.
"The situation ..warrants a definite policy from this coun-cil.V
Aid. Grata am movecF the situation be considered by the zoning arid building committee and a. policy formed.
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A recommendation from the advisory planning commission that reference 'to home occupations, and offices of a professional person, be removed from the zoning bylaw was rejected by council.
The com mission, in a report submitted to council, felt there should bo no restriction on bona fide hobby-type wor and that it was within th powers of those concerned wit enforcement of the zoning bj aw to prevent such uses froi becoming commercial.
"I am not entirely in agre> meht with the commission, Aid. Graham said. "If a (tenth or doctor wants 'to work in hi home it can benefit the city. (Continued on I'agr ii)
CENSUS CHARGE LAID AT COAST
VANCOUVER 1CB � Roy Jacques, television news commentator, has been charged with failing to answer census questions.
He was served with a summons returnable in court Wednesday.
Conviction carries a $100 fine or three months in jail. . It is the first such charge laid in Vancouver following completion of the census.
HAROLD MOFFAT "... part of job"
In Rupert Death Gives Up in U.S.
WEATHER
FORECAST
Variable cloudiness w i 11 scattered showers in the after noon. A little warmer. Windf light. Low tonight and high oi Wednesday at Prince CJeorg( j and Smlthcr.s, 45 and 65; ai Quesncl, 15 and 70.
Pence River
Cloudy with occasional light rain. Little change in temper [ature. Winds westerly lo, occasionally westerly 20 and | gusty. Low tonight and high tomorrow :it Grande I'ralrie �13 and GO.
lAibt -i Hours
111 1 ,II\V prcc
Prince George 5'J 11 .87
Terrace (12 �17 .12
Smithers 01 38 .03
Qucsnol (>,") J.0 .70
Williams Lake ."iS -II
Kamloops 7H �1!) .08
Whitehorse 55 �II .10
Fort Nelson 71 55 ,05
Fort St. John 03 �IS .20
Dawson Creek 57 �18 .37
LAS V ICO AS, New (LT) � Comas'-Clifford Brown, 11), barged with, murder in the eath June 7 of his 11-year-old ftcle near Prince Rupert, sur-endered to police here Moil-ay;
The battered body of Edwi ohn Douglas of Port Echvai was found in a cabin the da of his death.
Brown reached police hei through an hotel clerk.
He was quoted as savin have sonic things on my mind Brown had been sough throughout B.C. and at on time was believed hiding i the Vancouver area.
He was lx>oke feasible.
"If it is, the survey will Ik turned over to the city foi further steps."
Aid. Loder contended todaj that "the Industrial Development Commission was set up to promote industrial development, in the city and district. "When it enters into town planning, it is oy6r� stepping
WE'LL HIT MOON FIRST, YANK SAYS
WASHINGTON (AP) � The head of the space agency said today he believes the U.S. will beat Russia to the moon.
James E. Webb, administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Agency, said the U.S. goal is to reach the moon before 1970. He declared that he thinks American chances are "good" of beating the Soviets despite their successes so far in lofting heavier booster rockets and payloads into space.
NORTH B.C.
HARRY. I/ODER . . . over-stepping"
On Pipeline
OTTAWA per ent of its budget on this
hlliff, It would be belter ail-Iscd to save the money and pond it bn something else." Mr. Tarker said the IDC had sked for his opinions as he ;ul done studies into th<< down-)\\n area while working us iwn planner for the city. "The DC has not hired me. lid. "It asked me to gel
len together and have
eliminary study made, what I've done. "Later on, I miKht
To Close Here Sunday
Prince George's two automatic coin laundries have been advised by city licence inspector Adam Baronc il is illegal to operate on Sunday.
Move was taken Monday afternoon following a ruling by the Supreme Court of Canada in upholding a decision of the Ontario Court of Appeal that operation of automatic coin laundries on Sundays constitutes an infringement of the Lord's Day Act.
"If the automatic laundries
' he two thl-i
rhat
com-
[gsloned if support is found or this plan."
150 PG Witnesses To Attend Meeting
Some 150 Jehovah's Witnesses rom Prince George will attend i six-day district 13iblc conven-ion in Vancouver July -I to 9, Ronald Nelson, presiding minister of the Cariboo Unit, said today.
About 25,000 Jehovah's Witnesses from western Canada and Ihe U.S. are expected lo attend.
Highlight will be an address by N. H. Knorr of the Watch Tower Society's international headquarters in Brooklyn. His lecture is entitled "When All Nations United Under God's Kingdom,"
BANK GOVERNOR DEMANDS HEARING
MILLIARD (
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Blackmail Charged by Angry Coyne
FLAT FEET FAIL TO STOP HIKER
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Ill's t ami lllle~.t man reiurn-
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Jl'HIlt with lot I'ci'i. S�l.
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Ottawa kti � jamei t: ync, angrily demanding a arll.iineiitary hearing, ha., DC-used Finance .Minister Klein-t of "blackmailing lac ties" concealment of evidence, ic Hunk of Canada governor levied those charguis�tind othei'K�Id a hotly-worried open lott�j- to Mr. Klemlnif,
HreaklliK IfllbnXfl for the flrnt time In a week. Mr. Cu.vne made the letter public Moml.iv during the O|)0nilig stage� of iou.'i delmli1 on ihe i'.ov-
trnmont'i bin tu huvu
incnt lire him from hi* a�yoar Job.
The tailor i ani(. out ;ii nbolll the time Mr. Fleming was llntly reject Im: an opposition rOCLUQSl lltal tile I.-: lie be re.
ferrcd to tho Commons bank*
Iiik ('hni..e- Hiuiiinill.s"
to bring Borlotiu c h ar B o -;
UgttlllVL lllb C'lvernur.
� Suggested that gpyorn<
meiit plans for a snap election may have been behind Its at-tempt to oust him,
� Said Ihe gOVOmITlWVl had Illlilelmilled the Iliilrpehilcin c of Hunk of Canada directors mid left them "tinder suspicion nl UOtlng U pollIICOl pii|)|)etH."
Aii ii. nl ihe gp\oi*nnioivl of havini: "dcBi'UdcU" tlio uUind'
aril., of public Ufa In t',m.n|.i Tliu i�0>yt'ur.oJU guvcruur
ijlil int! elaborate on hi:, "black-mulling" uhai'ge,
In his public staienieul June M ii'jii lim: ihe govornmenl'B May :to rcf|UC(ll fbl1 his ref.lK-nitil