iway Paving Sought
Hard-surfacing of the serv ice highway between Prince George and Sinclair Mills wil be sought by the Prince George Chamtter or Commerce. The chamber, Thursday instructed its highways committee (o request action immediately in a letter to Highways Minister Gaglardl, with copies to Lands and Forests Minister Ray Williston, the Fort George MLA, and Premier Bennett.
The meeting approved the following report from t h e highways committee and instructed that it be embodied in the letter:
"The proposed northern trans-Canada highway section between Prince George a n d McBride will not touch any of the communities v e t w e e n Prince George and Sinclair Mills.
"These communities are entirely dependent on Prince George for their supplies and daily needs, medical care, banking and business services. They have been promised improved highway conditions for many years, but still have only ;j rough gravel road.
"Indications point to consic erably increased populatioi and activity along the presen route, thus greatly increasing traffic and lowering the safety ratio due to dust conditions.
"The Prince George Cham her of Commerce therefore (should) request the provincia department of highways u make an immediate start on laying a dust-free surface on the present road east from Prince George, through Six IMile Lake, Ferndale, Willow River, Giscome and other sections to Sinclair Mills which now are up to proper standard to receive surfacing."
Klolchko Says He Defected To Work Freely
OTTAWA (CP) � A prize-winning Soviet scientist who luis defected to the West said today that poor living conditions in Moscow and a refusal by Soviet authorities to recognize some of his most important worjt led to his decision to defect." '
Dr. Mikhail Antonovich Klotchko told a 50-mlnufe press conference that he had sought asylum in Canada to enable him to "work as I want."
The 50-year-old chemist, who has been described by Soviet embassy officials as a nobody, issued photostat jc copies of documents which he said prove his scientific ability,
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PRINCE GEORGE, BRITISH COLUMBIA, FRIDAY, AUGUST 18, 1961
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PATIENTS IN LOUNGES
IS Stays Silent On Hospital Crowding
BLACKOUT DUE TO SPARK PLUG
A spark plug failure in the power generator caused short blackout in various sections of the city and district at 7:35 p.m. Thursday.
The power break lasted five minutes in the Millar Addition and downtown areas and nine minutes in the Hart Highway and industrial areas.
CONSTRUCTION of four hostel units at the Roman Catholic educational development on Peden Hill are being rushed towards completion by September. The hostel units will house out of town high school students attending the Catholic Senior High School in Prince George. The living-room of hostel number one is being completed by workmen in the above photo. Each hostel will house eight students, all in private rooms. �Vandcrvoort photo
BISHOP O'GRADY SAYS:
R.C. College Aids Others
By PAT DENTON
Patients in Prince George Regional Hospital are accommodated in lounges and waiting rooms while the provincial government ruminates on the advisability of completing unfinished areas which would provide badly-needed wara space.
Hospital Administrator Gordon Townend told The Citizen today he has not yet heard the results of an investigation conaucceci more than six weeks ago into the hospital's bed requirements.
The 125-bed institution, opened in February of 1960, has exceeded its theoretical capac ity ever since, bringing down the wrath of the provincial fire marshal for placing beds in corridors.
But before the unfinished sections � which would provide an additional 35 beds � can be completed, approval must be received from the B.C. Hospital Insurance Service.
In early July the government sent four doctors here to determine whether repeated requests by the hospital board for more bed space were warranted. They spent two days interviewing doctors, the administrator and staff.
Their findings, which were to be submitted to BCHIS shortly after their return to Vancouver, have never been disclosed and only silence has emanated from Victoria.
Meanwhile, daily bed-oc cupancy figures remain over 100 per cent despite a high selectivity of patients. Co-opera-
AROUND B.C.
Cubans Defect By The Boatload
MARATHON. Fla. (AP) � Tjfilrty-sGven Cubans, jammed tightly in a 27-foot fishing boat, docked at this island in the Florida Keys Thursday and asked for political asylum.
The fugith es Included a j number of small children and i pregnant women. They Bald their voyage took ;u nou they wore withoul food f
Establishment of a junior ollcge by the Roman Catholic organization will in no way interfere with any plans the Prices George school board may have for a similar college.
This prediction was m a d e Thursday by Bishop Fergus O'Grady of the Prince Rupert Diocese in an address to the chamber of commerce.
'�1 can't imagine there will be enough space in colleges." he said, "because it is known that college and university enrolment in Canada will double in 10 years.
"Anything w<" do will not Interfere; bul will aid, whatever nt her facilities are built. There is a shortage of college I
accommodation now, and in 10 years we shall be doubly short."
The bishop was answering a question from School Trustee Ray Atkinson respecting the possible effect of the Ft. ('. ollege, being mult lour miles on111 of the city, in dupllcat-nu facilities which may at
youths have a lot of intelli gence and require only addi tional training to make then useful citizens."
The college will offer ad vanced education and voca tional training to graduates from the five R. ('. integrate! schools in North-Central B.C.� Hazeltbn, Smi there, Yander-hoof, Fort St. James and Williams Lake.
It also will offer the first two years of university for all high school graduates by cutting the cost of hgher education for those who cinnot afford to go to university at Vancouver.
The bishop said courses will be arranged that will h e I p students of this area, and help students to establish themselves in the area. One such course will be forestry, which will benefit the youth and the industry in this region.
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GUATEMALA (AD � Gov-
I eminent employees who have I mistresses win be fired. President Miguel Ydigoras said today in an order which startled this central American country. Nothing like this ever happened here before.
"We are planning 25 years in advance," he said. "A lot of money will be needed, arid a fund-raising campaign designed to produce up to $2,000,000 will be started shortly in Prince George, then carried throughout the continent."
Objective is to accommodate 500 to 600 .students. A start is being made on building nine hostels, each to accommodate eight out-of-town students. IM-timately, housing will be built for 200.
Arrangements have been made for the University of B.C. to accept students who graduate from here.
Victoria Accident Kills City Man
VICTORIA (CP)�An inquest vill be held .Monday into the leath of Able Seaman (iustave Eklvall, -'], of Prince George, 'I iIsed following a traffic
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3 Injured When Sports Car Spins Out of Control
QUESNEL (CP) � Three men were injured late Wednes day when their sports car spun out of control on the Chilcotin Road near Williams Lake. Driver Grant Johnson, 24, Vernon, and passengers Dennis Graham, 23, and Cliff Johnson, 26, of Williams Lake, were taken to Williams Lake Hospital with undetermined internal injuries.
� � � ACCIDENTAL DEATH TERRACE (CP)�An RCMP inquiry into the death of Lief Husoy of Terrace, missing since June 30 on a trip to Prince Rupert, found drowning was the cause with no sign of foul play. Husoy's car was found in a roadside ditch and his body was discovered a month later in the nearby Exchamsi River. The 34-year-old man was the father of five.
� � � DROP OPTION
VANCOUVER (CP) � Canadian Forest Products Limited has decided against taking up an option on timber in the (Jrandc Prairie area of northwestern Alberta with a view to building a pulp mill there, a company spokesman said Thursday.
� � � TAX POLICY DUE
VICTORIA (CP)�Dr. Gordon Shrum, chairman of the board of British Columbia Electric Company, said Thursday directors will meet early next month to decide on policy regarding
the payment of municipal taxes.
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ENTERED FORESTS
NELSON (CP)�Two Nelson men will appear in magistrate court in Kaslo Monday on charges of entering a closed area.
Joseph Anonby and Harley Trudeau arc charged with entering (he Crawford Creek area An;1 II. 11 was closed to the
public because "f tho high forest fire haiardi
Three deputy rangers from the Nelson Forest District will 1)0 sent to thi" Prince George area as relief
there.
SPORTS HIGHLIGHTS
McDonald Hotel Macs play host to 100 Mile House in regional softball playoff.
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Local Pony League all-stars defeat Ketchikan 8-2 in first game.
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Blue Bombers make it four straight victories with 29-19 win over Ottawa. (See Page 4.)
Grove Fire Races South at 12 Mph.
The huge Grove fire continued to rage unchecked on its southern side today, racing faster than men and machines can travel.
Fanned by north winds the blaze, running at peeds up to 12 miles an hour, has covered over 4,000 acres since it broke out Wednesday. We've had no chance to eve
ion of the medical staff in al-owing only those absolutely requiring hospitalization was auded by Administrator Town-nd.
"We're experiencing great ifficulty in controlling the ad-nitting; they have to be really 1 to come in," he said. "In ther words, we're having to rastically sort them out." Lands and Forests Minister ay Williston, the member for ort George, has made no ublic declaration of the situa-on since be told the assembled rowd at the official opening: "You should impress upon in (Health Minister Eric Mar-n, also present) that the un-)mpleted sections require al-ost immediate attention and Jur (the crowd's) presence lould impress this on him." The problem is expected to be a major topic at the hospital board meeting Aug. 24.
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tart putting in fire guards," B.C. Forest Service spokesma aid. "The fire is moving to ast."
Now, he said, no matter whic vay the wind blows the fir will be carried over guards. The blaze, which started mor than three weeks ago, hac been quiet for the past week Its size is now estimated a 30,000 acres:
The 33,000-acre Tsus fire bur ning 40 miles southeast of here was quiet Thursday.
The Louie fire, burning over 7,000 acres in the Francois Lake area about 100 miles west of here, continues to burn almost unchecked.
A guard is preventing the fire from jumping the Nithi River and sweeping down a valley to the community of Fra-ser Lake.
It is burning in logging slash, but a stand of spruce and balsam is threatened. A Husky water-bomber hit the fire with six strikes Thursday but had little effect.
Visibility over the area now is nil due to heavy smoke.
A fire burning about 150.miles southwest of here in grazing land is being fought by crews from the Prince Rupert Forest District.
It started at the boundary of the Prince Rupert, I' r i n c e George and Kamloops districts, but iias now burned into the Prince Rupert district.
The 18,000-acre fire is reported to be moving in the general direction of five ranches', but is no immediate threat to them. SIX LEFT TO BURN
Six forest fires covering an estimated 40,000 acres are being left to burn themselves out in scrub timber in the wilderness of the northern section of the Prince George Forest District.
They are burning in an area about 400 miles northwest of here. Checks arc being made
daily to ensure no remote sot*
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A six-man suppression crew completed a 'J.Vmilc river trip | Thursday to the remote Indian village of I n goni k a. A fire thoatonlng (ho deserted village had burned to within 100 yards
of the village when the crew arrived.
The village is reported safe today, with the fire burning in the opposite direction. INGENIKA SAFE
Four new fires were discovered in the district Thursday, bringing to 90 the number now burning.
A total of 1,796 men, assisted by 107 bulldozers, four water-bombers � including one which arrived from Langlcy Thursday � five helicopters and six aircraft, are fighting the fires today.
Forecast calls for continuing hot, dry weather during the next several days. Lightning storms ar� predicted for tonight.
TCA Strike Ends
MONTREAL (CP) � Trans-Canada Air Line maintenance vorkers at .Montreal Interna-ional Airport today voted to nd the wildcat walkout start-it Thursday night and return 0 their jobs this afternoon.
ATTENDING the first national Indian conference to probe problems facing his people is George Manuel, president of the North American Indian Brotherhood, Mr. Manuel was last in UlO Prince George area in February when ho was kcytmtc speaker at a convention of district Indian bunds in \ .null i lioni
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