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Phone LOgan 4-2441 Vol. 5; No. 160 PRINCE GEORGE, BRITISH COLUMBIA, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 16, 1961
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FIRST CATTLE from the Prince George area to be shown at..the.Dawson Creek Fall Fair left Tuesday for the three-day event which starts Thursday. Shown here in the PGE stockyard, seven of the purebred Holsteins are from Giscome Farms' Salmon Valley Ranch and the other seven from Joe Russ-man's farm. Cattle will be judged Friday.�Hal' Vandervoort photo.
BORDER CLOSURE PERMANENT
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BERLIN � East Germany today plugged escape routes Into West Berlin with concrete and started ordering East Germans off trains leaving t h t country for Western Europe. Armed East Germans working tinder the glare of searchlights overnight set up concrete walls at road crossing points and strung six-foot barbed-wire fences, giving the anti-refugee barrier a look of grim permanence.
Meanwhile, East German police told travellers on an early morning train from Leipzig in Bast Germany to Cologne in West Germany that the border had Dfteri closed (r> nil Easl Germans since midnight.
Other reports reaching Bonn said all East Germans were ordered off two night trains at a checkpoint on a line to West Germany further south in Thurlngia. East German passengers also were taken off a Swiss-bound train.
A scaie hit West Berlin this morning when the overhead railroad, supplied by East German electricity, ground to a
ADENAUER . warned agaliist embargo
halt. But power was restored after 70 minutes and police said "it seems i there was a power break after all."
West Berllners remained calm although they were not happy at reports that trie Allies oppose any drastic action in
Throw Out Americans' Khrushchev Tells Japan
TOKYO (Reuters) � Soviet iRusf Premier Khrushchev today I \\ called on Japan ti < close down all American bases on Its soil.
Jle made the appeal In ;i message handed over to Japanese Premier I layato Ikeda by Soviet Deputy Premier A n �' b t a s Mikoyan.
Khrushchev coupled with .1 suggestion thai Japanese trade could i� or (Hjadruplod in the n yours "it the i�n nui unstinted endeavors.
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retaliation against Communist closure of the divided city's border.
Reports of Western reluctance to counter the tightening East German restrictions came in the wake of a Red threat to repeat the 1918-19 Berlin blockade if Chancellor Konrad Adenauer's government cuts off trade with the east.
West Berlin officials predicted that outbursts against the cautious allied stand might erupt at a giant rally that Mayor Willy Brandt called this afternoon to protest the Com munist sepjeeze. At least 200, )00 were expected to turn out West Berliners already were ?xpressing their indignation over the Western position.
In Washington, Britain, the Jnited States and Fiance are Irafting a protest to Moscow gainst the closing of the border.
Western diplomats said the protest, following up formal complaints made in Berlin Tuesday, will go to the Kremlin in the near future.
Representatives of the three Western powers and West Germany were scheduld to meet at the state department today to work on the draft and to continue efforts to develop other measures that may be taken because of the refu blockade.
SPORTS HIGHLIGHTS
Hamilton Tiger-Cats beat back B.C. Lions drive to take 30-21 win.
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Roger Maris belted 4Gth home run of season but Yanks lost ground.
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Dodgers lost to Reds who now are within one game of lead. (See Page 4.)
TENDERS FRIDAY
Major Fire Erupts At Francois Lake
Forest fire situation in the giant Prince George forest district is worsening today.
Another major fire, an outbreak of smaller fires in the McBride area and a lightning storm Tuesday night have brought the already extremely critical situation to the breaking point.
B.C. Forest Service officials are keeping a worried eye on the Louie fire near Francois Lake, about 100 miles west of here. The blaze has jumped to 6,000-acres in size and is still out of control.
More men and machines are being rushed to the scene today.
"This is a major fire and we haven't been able to gain control of it," a forest service
Refusal to Fight Fires Brings in
WILLIAMS LAKE (CP)�A nan who refused to fight a orest fire here will spend the next 30 days in prison.
Bona Langlois, 29, was fined 60, but refused to pay the fine. Langlois told the court he olunleered for fire fighting hree clays earlier, but was old he was not needed.
He said he found anothei job later and refused to giv it up when a forest ranger and police conscripted men. The case is believed the first thii year of a man refusing to figh forest fires.
A forest protection officei said men were urgently need ed to fight blazes at nearby Alexis Creek and in the Horse fly area.
The only persons excused from conscription under t b e forestry act are doctors, some rail way men and cripples.
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BCE Expropriation Damages Economy Perrault Claims
VANCOUVER (CP)�Liberal leader Ray Perrault said today the B.C. government's method of expropriating the B.C. Electric may affect the flow of the $1,000,000,000 in new investment the province needs annually to maintain employ-nent and family incomes.
In a wire to Premier Bennett, released t<> the press, Mr. �errault urged that the govern-nent allow arbitration in determining the price paid for the B.C. Electric.
"Arbitrary confiscation of the B.C. Electric at a pre-de-termined price with no evidence from either side as to whether too much or too little is being paid for tile company Is bound to damage the economic future of this province, "Such an expropriation pro-
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A lightning storm hit most parts of the district Tuesday night, causing fears of a rash of new fires in the already beleaguered district. Rain which accompanied the lightning was almost negligible.
"We're hopeful that the lightning didn't hit us as hard as we expected," the forest service spokesman said. "But only time will tell."
An outbreak of fires has the McBride area reeling. Smoke from the blazes has all but "greyedout" the village and ashes were reported falling like rain.
Forestry lookout on the mountain above McBride can see nothing due to the pall of smoke. Three fires are burning.with-n a 12-mile radius of McBride, ncluding the 1,000-acre King ire at King Creek. A number of other fires are burning north of McBride.
The King fire and a blaze burning at the junction of the 'ottonwood and Castle creeks ire causing the major concern oday.
The King fire is burning in lash and immature timber, but eading for explosive, dry cedar slash. Sixty men and four bull dozers are trying to halt the blaze, believed to have been started by human carelessness The Cottonwood fire has moved at least 13 miles through slash since its discovery Monday. It is threatening the liar-slad Cottonwood mill and Emil Rosin's mill.
Men and equipment are standing by in McBrdc.
The two major fires in the Prince George area, the 25,000-acre Grove fire and the 33,000-acre Tsus fire, arc still being
High School Wing Start in 10 Days
Construction of a two-storey classroom wing addition to Prince George Senior High School is expected to start in about 10 clays, District School Superintendent Joe Phillipson said today.
The wing will increase the present 17-classroom school to 27 classrooms at an estimated cost of $440,-000. Project was a chief item on a building referendum passed by ratepayers last December.
Tenders will be opened at
3,500 VISITORS
A record 3,500 visitors to Prince George have registered to date at the. chamber of commerce tourist bureau since this year's opening date June 1.
held.
The Grose fire, 12 miles ea.st of hero, is si ill burning hot In
the centre of its ea.st side. The fire is burning up lo and over guardi on that side.
No change has been reported in the Tsus fire, 40 miles south-east nl lure.
SU new fires were discovered
Tuesday, bringing to n<> t h e number now burning. A total of 1,67] men, 113 bulldozers,
three water*bomberi, four hell-COpteri and six aircraft is the firo.
U.5. 'Windmill' Heads Into Space To Gather Data
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. AP)�A new "windmill" scien-ific payload raced through the vastness of space today, gath rinR data on the relation be ween magnetic fields and ra iation streaming from the sun Named Explorer XII, the package is expected to tell sci entists more clearly than evei before how solar radiation in fluences conditions on earth and how great a hazard it is to manned space travel.
The U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration was reluctant today to label the space messenger a satellite, but there was every indication it was in .successful orbit following its launching from this rocket centre Tuesday night.
"Yes, 1 think we have an orbit," reported \~>v. John Townsend. But because an extremely elliptical orbit was sought, Townsend said it may be as long as 02 hours after launch before it can be definitely confirmed.
Explorer XII was aimed for a wide-swinging course designed to take it as far out as 54,* ooo miles from earth and bring it back to within 170 miles at the low point. Each pass around the world would take ,'!1 hours, compared to a normal satellite circuit of about two hours.
Robert Gray, chief of t h e space agency's field projects branch, reported slightly excessive velocity In the second st;i^e of the Thor-Delta booster rocket could send the payload
a bit higher than planned.
Gray reported nearly two hours after launching that the vehicle was well on Ita way Into Bpace, transmitting dear signals.
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special school board meeting Friday.
The new wing will not be ready for use before September, 1962.
Mr. Phillipson said it generally takes a week following acceptance of a bid to get department of education approval and as soon as that is received the contractor can start work immediately.
The project will include addition of a new boiler to double the capacity of the present furnace room which serves the senior high school, Duchess Park Junior High School, the junior high annex and Baron Byng School.
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Trustees Tuesday gave tenta tive approval to establishment of a one-room elementary school at St. Marie Lake in the Willow River working circle.
It is contingent on at least 10 pupils living within a three
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School District Superintend ent Joe Phillipson said today the school, including a teacher age, could be set up in time for the new term next month if we can get a satisfactory ndicatibri there * will'be suffic-ent pupils."
He is to meet with residents of the area Thursday.
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Trustees asked District Superintendent Joe Phillipson to enquire further into the feasibility of piping closed-circuit television into city schools as proposed by B.C. Telephone Co.
Trustee Jack Rhodes said he felt the cost would likely be prohibitive and suggested the matter be dropped until results of similar experiments in the larger school districts of Vancouver and Victoria are learned.
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The board approved extension of school bus service from Ot-way to Miwortb where the number of school-age children has increased in the last year.
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