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Vol. 5; No. 139
PRINCE GEORGE, BRITISH COLUMBIA, TUESDAY, JULY 18, 1961
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SPORTS HIGHLIGHTS
Macs take V.)-'.) game from Texaco to move ahead in locul softball league.
Warren Spahn wins, to move him within three victories of charmed 300.
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All his life, late Ty Cobb was in competition with himself. (See Page 4-)
FORT WAR.? FIRE
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Bus Driver Quits Job During Trip
NANAIMO (CPI � Bus driver Geoffrey Hirst got fed up with the way Canadians drive, so he quit his job � in the middle of a run from Nanaimo to up-island points on Vancouver Island.
He wheeled his inter-city bus to the side of the island highway near Qualicum, about 30 miles north of Nanaimo, and stopped.
After picking up his jacket and cash box, he turned to the passengers and politely announced:
"That's it, I quit."
Then he walked off, leaving 41 passengers bound for Campbell River to fend for themselves.
A relief driver arrived after at phone call 'to the 1(ua company and they completed the trip 1H� hours behind schedule.
Forest fire threat to the tiny community of For Ware, about 1300 air miles northwest of here, had easec today.
The blaze, which crept to within about a half mile of the community on the Finlay River Monday hac
stopped "running.'-'
"The weather in that are; is cooler and cloudy, wliiel slowed the fire clown com pletely. Jt wasn't moving very fast to begin with." a fores tei said today.
"The community apparently isn't in any immediate dangei now."
A 10-man B.C. Forest Service crew, equipped with water pumps, went to the community of ISO people Sunday to protect it from the fire. LIGHTNING STRIKE
The second lightning storm in as many days hit the southern section of the 1' r i n c e George Forest District Monday.
Aircraft were patrolling the area south and southwest of Prince George looking for fires started by the storm. So far, only six fires resulting from Sunday's severe storm had �been discovered. Hazard in the area was moderate to high today.
A five-acre blaze near Narrow Lake, 10 miles southeast of here, was the only fii causing forest service officials any concern.
The blaze, burning in t h e Big valley -SusfninWl Y f p I rt Unit, is on top of a knoll surrounded by valuable timber. It is believed to have started from a lightning strike.
A Hi-man suppression crew sent to the fire Monday night hoped to bring it under control by tonight.
The largest fire in the district, the 275-acre Gaff Fire in the Manson Creek area, about 100 miles north of Fort St. .lames in the Rocky Mountain Trench, was under control today. TAKING IX)OK
�'The ranger is taking a look it the lire today," a forest service spokesman said. "He'll probably start reducing t h e crew tonight or tomorrow."
An so-inan crew hul been battling the blaze, which broke out over the weekend.
A total of 20 fires were burn-Ing in the district today but all were quid with the cooler weather, The blazes were be-
NO SCHOOL IN FALL
FINISHING TOUCHES to new sign erected on Highway 16 near the city are added by, left to right: Alex Clark, cha irman of the chamber of commerce tourist committee; Pat Turner, tourist committee receptionist; and George Cowell, chamber of commerce president. Similar signs are to be put up on the other two major highways leading into Prince George. �Vandervoort photo
RED CHINA MAN DROPPED
We Didn't Do It � Morrison
2 to Attend Gov't Workers' Meeting
J. H. Guest and Herb Beck-ley of Prince George will attend a B.C. Government Employees' Association provincial executive meeting in Vancouver Aug. 5.
David Block of Vancouver, BCGEA field representative, attended a meeting of the local executive here which studied matters to come up for discussion at the forthcoming convention in Vancouver Oct. 20 and 21.
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3 Men Charged Here With Theft of Safe
RCMP have charged three men with breaking and entering and theft of a safe over the weekend from Canadian Propane (B.C.) Ltd., 1443 Third.
Remanded without plea for eight days or less when they appeared fn magistrate's court today were Leonard Conlcy Hall, 28, Peter Anthony Choquctte, 19, and James Alexander Frascr, 28.
The safe was recovered Monday in a field west of Central. Police said it had been damaged, but not opened. They said it contained about S200 in cash and a quantity of cheques.
Lack of funds has delayed first phase of a multi-million dollar educational centre to be built by the Catholic Church on the city's outskirts", it was announced tixlay.
As a result, Prince George Catholic High School will be housed in St. Mary's Elementary School again this year.
The high school had been scheduled to move to the education centre at Peden Hill for the 1961-62 school term. A two-storey classroom block had been scheduled for completion by this September to house the high school, along with nine hostel units to house out-of-town resident students.
However, construction of the actual school buildings had to be set back until next year due lack of money, the church announced today. Construction is Doing pushed to complete at east two of the hostel units by September.
We have to have at least two hostel units ready in Sep-ember," Rev. Stuart Gordon, n charge of the project, said. 'They're to be used by students and teachers of the high school, vho will be bused to and from chool in town for this year. "We won't do anything on the 'lassroom block until next 'ear."
Five hostel units, each cap-ble of housing eight students nd a supervisor in individual ooms, have been framed. Foun-
Phil Passed on Right Driver Says in Charge
PHIL GAGLARDI . . . flying again?
VICTORIA (CP) � Highways Minister Phil Gaglardi has been summonsed to appear in nearby Saanich police court Thursday on a charge of careless driving'.
The charge was laid by Eric Vickerman ot Sidney.
Mr. Vickerman, an assessor for the federal government, said he was driving on the Trans-Canada Highway July 11 when a car passed his and several other cars on the right-hand side, the shoulder of the road.
457,000 JOBLESS NOW
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Prince George bank managers an- generally enthusiastic about
the B.C. Toll Highways and Bridge Authority five per cent parity bonds which went on sale Friday,
The $.50,0(i(i,(MM) issue is the third offered by the Social Credit government. The first, two years ago. was for $35,000,-
ooo of PGE railway development and the second, last year, was $25,000,000,for B.C Hydro. W. H. Patlcnden, manager of
tin* Royal Hank ot Canada, said
the bonds are m>\i\x well. "There's a good demand for them. It looks as if they're going well with the public and i think they should. It's a good (leal for the public."
The bonds were termed "popular" by Bank of Montreal Man ager H. Weldon steel. "The principal thing is, you can cash
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Bank of \o\a Scotia Manager G. stuart MacLean said "There have been numerous requests (for the bonds) and a fair-to-good response," but he foil it u.i* a little early to tell just how well the bonds will go over.
.More guarded was Harold X. K a in g a y, Toronto-Dominion Bank manager.
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here," he said, "hut I understand the provincial picture for the bank is very good/1
Me felt the parity bonds are "a tremendous boo.st to commercial firms for short term borrow Inns."
ations for two more units have een poured and foundations for ic final two units will be poured lortly.
A water pipeline will be hook-d up to the two units to be oc-upied and a temporary sewage ystem put into operation. The vo units will be provided with mporary oil heat. Work on the remainder of the nits will be continued through the winter. "Well try to get as many units as possible enclosed so we can complete them during the winter,-' Father Gordon explained.
The Catholic project occupies over 1,500 acres in the Peden Hill area west of the city. When j completed it will include the i high school, a junior college or university, a shopping centre and, possibly, a residential development. ----------�----------------------------
Holiday Pay Feud Slit! Not Settled
A meeting of union and lumber operators' representatives Monday failed to reach agreement on a union demand for payment of wages for July 1, a Statutory holiday which fell this year on a Saturday.
Spokesmen for both groups said today the next step will be a right-ol-reference meeting between representatives of the NILA negotiating committee and of the IWA regional council negotiating committee. No date has been tel for the talks.
Should the groups he unable to Bgreo, the matter would be referred i<> ProfoMor A. w. it. Carrolhcrs, who docldei matters
reflecting question* of contract interpretation.
Unemployment Declines Across Nation in June
OTTAWA (CP)�Unemployment in Canada continued its downward trend in June, falling Lo :!7(),()()() from 457,000 a month earlier, the Dominion Bureau
of Statistics reported today.
The mid-June jobless "figure represented o.G per cent of the labor force, compared with 4.9 per cent a year earlier.
The .87,000 drop-in unemployment between May and June was smaller than the reduction in the corresponding periods of 1900 and 1959.
The June unemployment total, fourth monthly decline in unemployment since the winter peak of 710,000 in February, was still the highest for the month in post-war years.
The 5.6-per-cent unemployment rate for mid-June com-
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Employed C.222 (i,085 6,139
Unemployed 370 -157 ;U5
The unemployment report Is based on a survey of 35,00a households across Canada.
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