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Phone  LOgars  4-2441     Vol.   5;  No.   155      PRINCE  GEORGE,  BRITISH  COLUMBIA,  WEDNESDAY,  AUGUST 9,   1961
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GUARDS JUMPED
Blaze Pretty But...
H.v   KAIUIY   IfAMELIN Citizen   Stall'   llcporter
To many people, a forest lire is beautiful. Or perhaps the word should be fascinating. It is horrible, but nevertheless pretty. Something to be watched from a distance.
Hut to Ihe men on the fire lines and tho mill owners, a forest fire such as the Grove Fire Is an ugly monster, an enemy. It's not a pretty sight in their eyes and wouldn't be even if they had time to sit hark  and   watch.
one such  man  Is   I'.ill  Klrschke, owner of Six Milr Lake Sawmill. TI.MIIKK GONE
For   Mr.   Klrschke   the   fire
has been a disaster, Tin- blaze, which started about 20 miles from his mill and timber stands, has destroyed his timber. "Here  I   protect  a  stand of
timber for almost .'!() years and now it's gone�taken out by a lire that started miles away, ii jusj about breaks my heart."
Perhaps Mr. Klrschke could have been excused from imhi-
iiiK the Hie. The popular lumberman is no longer a young man. But -ittini: on Ihe Bide-lino   i-n't   for   liim.
"Hill Klrschka i-; working like .1 hoi '�. .1 B.C, Forest Service olflclnl unld,  'ile'i "in1
ol I he most valuable men WC'\ a
got." However,   tho   pace   caught
up   w itli    Mill    Ku >i like   early
Monday morning ami be iner-ails i nil.in 1,1 after fighting Iho fire Hlnco cat Ij   Satut du).
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I. BVENSON, KIliM IIKI . MurDON'AM). 3, MEN LEAVE FOR Tin: I mi. links, ;i. tin: vu hi suits    from   the   Fraser   River and forest service officials say | the  fire  shouldn't   present   any problem on that  front.
ed   by   manual   contra landing   on   any   spot   on   the globe.
Premier Khrushchev, standing at the spaceman's elbow, led the applause alter each of Titov's sentences,
The first Soviet cosmonaut, Major Yuri Gagarin, stood nearby and shared in the plaudits.
SPORTS HIGHLIGHTS
Joe Whitney helps Legion to one-game lead in local baseball final with three-hitter.
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Cleroux  looks   for  world   heavyweight   title bout after decision over Chuvalo.
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Fights and beanballs feature play in National League. (See Page 6.)
POWER SITUATION
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Field Marshal Viscount Montgomery, former deputy commander of NATO forces in Europe, said Tuesday night he will travel to Communist China next month as a personal guest of Mao Tse-tung and then will go on to Japan and Canada. He gave no details of his plans.
3, Possibly 4,
RITES RECALL NAGASAKI BOMB
NAGASAKI, Japan (APj � Hundreds of small candle-lit paper lanterns for the dead were cast adrift on Nagasaki Bay tonight marking the 16th anniversary of the atomic bombing of Nagasaki.
Hundreds of thousands joined in a minute of silent prayer at 11:02 a.m., the time the bomb was dropped Aug. 9, 1945.
Some 74,000 were killed in the Nagasaki blast. In the Hiroshima bombing, three days earlier, 78,000 died.
TERRACE   fh   �   Three   � possibly  four �  persons  were illcd Tuesday when  their car
plunged oft Highway 10 into the Skcena River at Exstcw Cross-ng, 20 miles southeast of here, t was reported today.
Three others were  injured.
Missing  and  presumed  dead re    Mary    Gunanoot,    Lorctta Smith and Loon Bordeafeau, all f Hazclton.
Brought to hospital here with light injuries were Mr. and Irs. Thomas Green and Ivan awson,  also of Hazelton.
Police said there may have een a seventh person in the ar.
Police recovered the car but icre was no sifjn of the bodies, he doors of the car were clos-\
Prosecutor Renews Blast at Eichmann
but    the    windshield    was
naslicd,                                     'full   allowable  amount  in   cap-
The   mishap   was   discovered j ital cost allowances but showed by  coach  driver Stu   Meldrum J a   diiferent  sum   in   its  annual of Prince Rupert, who brought   report to shareholders.     ' the injured to Terrace.                     (Continued  on   Page  3)
By The Canadian Press
TRAIL � Trail City Council's first move in any bid to take over the West Kootenay Power and Light Co. would be to se.ek approval of the Public Utilities Commission.
Company president R. G. At derson said here Tuesday tl Public Utilities Act prohibi the sale of the company witl out PUC approval.
Mr. Anderson was com men ing   on   city   council's   decisio to   explore   the   possibility negotiating for purchase of th firm by the city.
The move followed Premie Bennett's announcement tha the provincial government plan to expropriate the firm.
Aldermen said a provincia take-over would lead to incrcas ed power rate for Trail an other cities served by Wes Kootenay Power.
"It is obvious that if we an to go to B.C. Hydro (a  crown corporation  which  would   operate  the  West  Kootenay  Powc system)   the   rates   will   go   up very   considerably,"   said   Aid W. A. Curran.
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$44,000,000 Gained
VANCOUVER � The Province said today Premier Bennett may have gained an extra $44,000,000 in federal revenue: in its takeover of B.C. Electric. In a dispatch from Ottawa, the newspaper says income tax authorities in Ottawa said the $44,000,000 tucked away in the company's treasury as deferred income tax, would eventually have come due to the tax collector had the company remained in private hands.
But, as a crown corporation, it becomes tax-exempt and the provincial government gets the money.
The newspaper fjuotcs "a top federal spokesman" as explaining the company, like others, had   undoubtedlv   claimed   the
WEATHER
Mercury dropped lo a chilly !.r> degrees overnight, three degrees from frost level, lint it vas far from tne lowest Ang-isl reading recorded here. In i)17 it dipped lo 21.
Average  extreme  low  temperature  foi" the  month  here is V2.  Temperature  also  dropped o 3,rj here Aug. 15. last year. KOItKCA'ST
Forecast -wills for sunny kies and slightly warmer tern-eraturefe Thursday with light dnds. Low tonight and high 'hursday at Prince George and mithers, 40 and 80; at Ques-el, -12 and HO.
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Winners of Home Ground Contest Announced by Horticultural Society
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CABBAGE, HAM EAT LICENCE
BUFFALO, N.Y. (AIM -�Mrs. Patricia DeVSnoy told the Judge .she didn't have her driver's licence because .she accidentally dropped it in a boiling pot of ham and cabbage.
Tlif    hoiMOWifo,    appearing
in   city   court   Tuesday   on
charges oi speeding and driving without a licence, nid Iho
hci nee   apparently   dissolved in  the  pot. The   judge   sighed,  dismiss
ed  tne  licence charge,   and fined her |is for speeding.
NEWFOUNDLAND FIRES
JERUSALEM (AP>�Ii raell prosecutor < Sldeon Hausner today reopened in> Blushing at-lack "M Adoll Kiilimanii, charging the former Gestapo colonel ii.ui cither direct or Indirect ioniiui <>\i r Nazi extermination Camps 111 l'olalul and Hungary,
liauMicr. iif,ii in;; the end oi the Minimal ion ol   the pi'U ICCU<
lion i,i.-r, declared  l�ichmunn organized     completely      i ii e
Lome H. Wlldfong, 230 Al-ward, ha> been awarded The Citizen Trophy for the best home grounds in a competition sponsored by the Prince George and District Horticultural Society.
Society President 1. C< shank today announced the winners m me iinee di\Islons ui t h o home 1'iouiiiis competition, i ;d Johnston, < Ity win, assisted by W.
i>f flowers around the trailer. The judge suggested a separate competition be established for trailer homes ncxt season as a result of Mr. Strolg-k'l's entry.
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Mr.     Johnston     commend
the 2\ competitors but pointed out that some losl valuable points due to weeds and such evidence ol untidiness ns tools left underfoot,
ii,- uggested competitors endeavor t" keep walks weed-free, trim fence line remove dead bloom and �������ii poda, trim low-hanging bronchos and screen compos! heaps.
Hi.   also   urged   garden   en-3* I Uiuslosta  to prepare now  t < n-' next year'- competition since
proper arrangemern of flowera
and  vegetables help to create a  belter Harden  pk'tiuv. I'l.OUKIC  SHOW
prize winners will be presented with their trophies by the donors at it p.m. Aug. 10 during the society's flower show in the Hotel Fraser banquet  room.
Runners-up In the t ii t o b categories weir:
Best home groundfl Anton Waldvogel, 2171 Tamarack, and Mr�. <;. A. Qalley, B58 Fifth,
Best bach u. Dackelln, Mrs. August Eighth.
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Norinan    C.    PlODte,    101     No-
chako, and Rosa a. Fergunoni 2970 First.
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