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Vol. 5; No. 173
PRINCE GEORGE, BRITISH COLUMBIA, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 5, 1961 7c a Copy
�, ..it per Mouu � Bt CARRIER
WATCH FOR THESE SIGNS which have been re-erected in school zones throughout the city and district to mark the opening of the new school term.
�Vandervoort photo
SCHOOL OPENS
A record G,274 students, according to initial estimates, enrolled at Prince George and District public schools today.
If Uie estimates are correct, School ienced
District 57 has exper-a seven per cent increase in students compared with 1!)GO enrolment figures.
Said Superintendent ,J. M Philiips.on: "The provincial increase is normally ' five per cent."
This makes Prince George slightly higher than normal.
When classes wound up in June I960, the enrolment figures were: rural, 1,960; city elementary, 1,965 and city secondary, 1,445.
liy June 1901, enrolment figures took a 371 pupil-increase producing: rural, 2,193;. city elementary, 2,003 and city secondary, 1,561.
(alfiolic Schools Report Increases
Sacred Hvart School today reported tl.-;t eUlil leu-ivrs as-sinned duties tins morning to tutor approximately 281 pupils.
A spokesman for the Roman Catholic school, Patricia Boulevard, said: "The enrolment has increased by about 20 pupils compared with last year."
Teaching staff remains the same in tthe eight-^rade school.
At St. Mary's high school, 160 students registered this morning � approximately 50 more than last year.
Four more teachers have been added to the staff to bring the total to 11.
A spokesman for the school said: "We will have three classes of grade nines. It is the largest grade."
WEATHER
FOKECAST
Mostly sunny ami a wanner Wednesday In Curiboo, Prince Gcorgi Bulkley Valley areas. Lu
Jli.Uilt and high Wc.lii. �.: J'rince GCOl'gO and Sim
�jo ami 00; Quesnel, 10 m
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An additional 427-pupil crease was e.Npected today. The increases will be seen in: rural, 2.4G7; city elementary, 2,197 and city secondary, 1,610.
Figures are indicating that the largest increase has been in the rural circuit. Additions and moveable schools will be erected to handle them.
Student enrolment has exceeded the increase in teachers over tlie last 11 years in the Prince George school district. According to a recent breakdown of the number of teachers and pupils in district schools since 1950, student enrolment has increased by 315.6 per cent.
Teachers on the other hand have grown in numbers by 291.7 per cent.
. Phillipson said records show that 82 teachers had 1,-815 pupils by June 1950.
Today, 233 teachers (plus siq relieving teacheis) registered on esMmat&H 6,274 pupils � the largest number of both ever to have been at district schools.
Taking the figures in five-year jumps, the increase in staff and enrolment has been steady. In 1955, 129 teachers were required to tutor 3,384 pupils. The numbers increased to 211 teachers for 5,618 pupils by June I960.
When school finished up last June, 22(> regular teachers plus six relief teachers were working with 5,717 pupils.
.More than 68 pur cent of school district teachers, rehlr� ed from last year, returned here today to take on another 10 months' duty.
Records show that 31.7 per cent of the 1061-62 staff is coin-posed of new teachers to the district.
Mr. Phillipson said: "It is ; very favorable ratio of turn
Rain has been keyed the responsible factor in low gate receipts this year at the fall fair.
Although actual figures will not be tabulated until later to-lay, fair officials said "they sre clown from last year."
Paper work is being finished up today. The results will in-licate whether the fair could litalify for the coveted Class B -ating. MOVKV CI/EAK
Raid President of the Agri-�nltural ard Industrial Associ-ition Mrs. Carrie Jane Gray: ['ho money that is going out completely clear." There were more than tsv'r-e many exhibits in the 19G1 air despite the fact that three xpected cattle herds didn't nake it.
Some industrial exhibits vore spread around the ound of the exhibition. How-ver, Mrs. Gray said there still isn't proper representation from the industrials." Rain insurance? If two-tenths f an inch had fallen between p.m. and o p.m., the association could have collected on Saturday and Monday. "We missed it Saturday just by a whisker," said the president.
AMILV AWARD
The Farm Family of 19G1 went to the hardsvorking couple, Mr. and Mrs. Joe Russman. The award merits an ova tion from the Prince George Agricultural and Industrial Association.
Mr. Rtissman also took the Inland Gas Trophy for the grand aggregate dairy cattle Co-op Trophy for the grand aggregate livestock division and the Ross Cup for the most points in divisions 1, 3 and in agricultural products.
The Northern Lights Motel Trophy for sheep and swine wwi won-by Ernie Kawceit, Fort Fraser.
Giscome Farms copped the Ferry Trophy for the best dairy female registered.
Green Valley Ranch took the Grace Ginter Trophy for grand aggregate in Herefords and the Elks Lodge Cup for the best beef bull in the show.
SPORTS HIGHLIGHTS
Vancouver and Prince George were named co-holders of B.C. Softball championship.
Kathy Pretty retained ladies' golf championship at Quesnel over weekend.
Southern sulkies captured a number of wins in harness racing at fair. (See Pages 4 and 5.)
Trt'iiiK&'S SOMETHING ABOUT HOR^S at a fair that draws people into the spirit of the occasion. Rain couldn't ho Id hack the avid racing fan last weekend.
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MORE RESULTS
Additional results in the live-stock competitions and the fall lair will he pfintfld in Wedncs-
day'i Citizen. The fair board
did nut have these results ready
for today!
Now Hear This...
Moat coveted prize nt Ihe fall
fair wai �'�> by J^v Rutwii
ni I'oit St. .laules. .lust ii.sk anybody el.se who had a ticket
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then Dad can'l cans much �Ither
�iiiniii tin' engine or the sufi'ty ni Hie public. Licence wuh 419* 401, and Hi*' Jerk lore out of tin* lot with Hie* icreamlng u�
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ItKST CLUB
The Salmon Valley 4-H sewing club won the Lions Club Trophy for the best 1-11 club. Grand aggregate in points for horticulture, the Echo Rose Howl, was won by F. A. Thompson.
Best stock horse in the show, the Bank of Montreal Tray, was won by Ralph Grinder, Gescond.
The Institute Shield was won by the Cariboo Women's Institute.
For the most points in a district display, the Miwbrtn District won. The Caine Apple | Cup for the best plate of apples grown In �< 50-mlle radius of Prince George was taken by Mel Rustad.
Grand aggregate In division nine, needlework, the Bank of Commerce Rose Bowl, went to
.Mrs. s. Blzlkl, McBride. CHAMPION nti;i:u
Tommy Ne\ Hie of the railing
i n Beef Club showed the
I grand champion steer Saturday
in a competition that vnas the
strongest club C0nte8t in tlif hisory of the l'riiue George
fall tan-.
Reserve grand was shown by < imt Crlppa of the .Mud niver
111 Club.
There w as a i <> ord 35 entries iii the i M competition! from clubi at Mud River, Palling, the Lakes IHsln.t (Bumfl
Lake)i Quick (Smlthera), i Ilxori ami McBride.
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in
ROY C. ROSS . . keeping profits
DISTURBED CATTLE; weren't the m,ost co-operative during the show of champions at the Prince George Fall Fair yesterday. Milling about, hands were kept busy trying to hold the animals in line for the event.
Lack of Buyer Interest Deprives Fall
A shortage of bidders- and lack of organization turned Sat-day's 4-H Club cattle sale into
fiasco.
The almost complete absence of competitive bidding resulted in poor prices � so low in fact that Auctioneer Ian Paton of Ladner stopped selling with only two-thirds of the o5 entries sold.
"I'm not going to stand here and let these kids be made fools of," he remarked.
Commenting on the sale, Fall Fair President Mrs. Carrie .lane Gray said: "The Prince George Agricultural and Industrial Association executive is making a thorough investigation, and \\ill see that there is no repetition of such a fiasco. Otherwise, they cannot tolerate the sale in conjunction with the fair.
"The sale was a .III club project and entirely their responsibility. However, since the fair is for all exhibitors, the sale is supposed to be at the time of the fair. The association
was led to believe that the ground work was covi red and all w as in readiness." COOP PAID MOST
Top price of the sale was
paid by the Prince Georgo Co�
0p store which bOUglll the grand champion ol the til competitions, entered by Tommy Neville of the Palling in Club, for $:t.ri2, or $40.10 per hundred pounds.
it was the only itoor boughl at much over ntarktl prlcoj
winch imi. hum :m in 21 cenui u pound fur tins type iii ihovy
heel
As a result, many of these junior farmers sold at or near market price. Others either refused to sell and shipped their animals elsewhere, or arranged sales privately afterward. BOYS BITTER
Several boys remarked bitterly afterward that this sale would set back 4-H beef clubs in this part of the country.
"We pay $101) for a call," said one young farmer. "It costs US between $75 and $150 to grain-feed it and look alter it J'or a year. Then we arc offered only what we could have ^ol for any grass-fed animal. .Many of US won't oven make our feed bills, let alone anything for the work we've put into raising the stock."
"You won't see a beef club in Our community next year," another remarked.
Co op paid (1,468 for its purchases. Cariboo Packers paid $1,454. One Individual, John Gray, bought three animals tor $578, and four other individual
buyori paid a total of $7!).r>.
LEARNED LESSON
Alkcd to comment on the
sale, Mr. Paton remarked: "The ICII said the belter. 1 hope We'VO all learned our lesson.
"1 certainly hope the coin millet1 in charge of that sale ... :ll start much earlier next!
Perhaps the committee should get some statistics from other areas where these sales are becoming quite popular, Mr. Paton suggested. VERY DISAPPOINTED
"You can't put your finger on any one thing," he said, "But I was terribly disappointed in that a lot of the youngsters were absolutely sick over the fact their calves didn't even bring a bid in u lot of cases.
"They placed fair and reasonable reserve bids on their animals in most cases. 1 don't think any youngster llB8 a right to insist that lie gets 40 cents a pound for his calf and won't sell for less, nut when they were bringing rcsorv< there's no earthly rea-
Mill wh> they couldn't have been bought locally without any ilil-1 null >.
"I don't want to sound bitter or appear too critical just for the sake ol being critical, but when .sou come quite a distance and ssalk into a lailm-madc situation that .sou didn't have ans thing in do willi creating, and find that you have lo get off the auction stand at half-time and (|Uit simply because there hasn't been enough l>re-arrangement made, it's scry
RCMP today called on hunters to exercise greater caution when entering the woods after four men were reported missing in the area over the weekend.
They all turned up_ safely '�>ut only after police and forest service had .started to organize search parties.
�\n RCMP spokesman said everyone entering, the bush should carry with them an axe, matches, a compass, food and warm clothing. He said it- is unwise for even experienced woodsmen to hunt alone in the event of an accident.
Coast Loggers Sign For $2.13 an Hour
VANCOUVER (CP)�Coastal union loggers fighting forest fires on company property now will be paid a uniform rate of $2.13 an hour under a new agreement reached between the �International Woodworkers of America (CLC) and Forest Industrial Relations Ltd., which represents 152 lumber operations.
The agreement concludes extensive negotiations during which the companies offered a Ibase rate of $1.92, a/rate paid by many firms. Tht* new-rate is $1.38 above 'the amount paid volunteers and cons'criptees fighting fires for the B.C. forest Service on crown land.
The agreement, signed here Friday, is retroactive to the start of the 196*1 fire season.
RICHARD C. BROWN . . . advertising analyst
em in wiih a 20-cent i [Merest!
been harmed
Bar Group Raps Takeover of BCE
WINNIPEG (CP)�The recent takeover of the B.C. Electric Co. by the British Columbia
overnment was denounced by the Canadian Bar Association today in a resolution which empowered the bar's B.C. section to question the provincial government "with respect to the deprivation of civil liberties and property rights inherent in the act."
The resolution adopted specifically named the B.C. Electric takeover, and deplored the extension of the crown's Immunity from law suits and the loss of property rights,
In voting for the resolution, the bar convention said it was acting on principle and was nut trying to represent special which might have the takeover.
RAY PKRRAULT
. . . trade trends
Four Retail Trade Experts to Speak At Day-Long Seminar Here Wednesday
year to �et a real publicity campaign going. Maybe a weight
I KiiessiiiK contest or a pool on
I ihe average price paid, or
M>nietliir;: lo r.ct the merchants and buyers interested in the .Mile and in whul's happening at the i.hi grounds."
disappointing.
"1 shudder to think, he added, "what the report! are rum � in be when it gets back lo the COaal lli.it Hie I II sale III I'llllee
Qeorgo had to be called off i*inmply because there weren't any busei, for the e.illle,"
No Serious Accidenls Mar Long Weekend Here
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period from '< mldnitfht Mon� ie i.mii traffic nd two ilrowiv
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II of fliilidlil S|ieine ,M,d nojjo> Unto .i < ui n a on Hie Cariboo
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with mull iii mined Injuriei.
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ti.�.s in different miiliap
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overturned on the Ui i ket \ lite
iii.ni .m.l anoi
Provincial Liberal Leader Kay Per null Will speak on trade
trends at a dinner concluding a
day�long sales seminar Wednesday apbnaorod jointly i�y the chamber of Coninierce and The Citlten.
lie will be one of four Van-
eous'er marketing experti who
will conduct the seminar which will deal svith modern sales
methodii advertlalng and pro*
motion, II starts at 10 a.in .in tho I'rinco (icorgv Hotel bun-quet room.
Here in the achodulo for
I lie "Selloraniu" .Hcmliiur:
ni a.m. � Introduction b.s
It. II Wood, a.s.si.sljint to I Ii e president, MuiVKemeiil Serv hi. Ltd.
10:10 a.m. � "finthuiiaun � tin> Reeull of Poeltlva iiilnk-mi:," tin addreaa by Koy d He . vice president, Allan c. L.
Kelly iii id AitAoduU'it Ltd.
11:10,n.in. � "Keeping In the Profit Picture while Meeting OompeUtl....." ii leeond addreaa
by Mr. I(o/�n.
12:10 p in, Lunch, uiul re miii'kt by Aid Illllmi'l < Lu��
2 pin "Advertising � Hip
Id Iflllur'n Sllt'lil Siilei-nirtll," Mil
addren by Richard C Drowni
dili'itni' of iiiiil'ltrlllU!. Wl i liiinMer l',i|iei' Co, Lid. folltJW-. I !"� .i Him, J.JO |i,in, � All upvil iot'Uin
tlu
tin.
peakem bi
bi
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limner
U!tll
panel la (fi
Cocktaili will ii p.m. followed 0;30.
"One of the ni.ijiir problonil
we have In buiinou today ia have forgotten
of lolling e.\ce|it .vs (old 'ihe ('ill-
il. a
thut people
every MPI Ol price," .Nlr. Ko.ss /en.
' It's blgtl tun
look ai oureelvei and our buil�
nesses lo lind out svliether wo
are keeping In the profit pic-lure While met tun: competition." .Mr, Komi is also u |>jt�t pie i
dent of Sales uiul Marketing
L'xcrutises liilirii.ilioiiid, I Ii o V.in. oiisei' (lull, ,i diii i tor ni
ihe Van '�< i �