IHE ' The Only Daily Newspaper Serving North-Central British Columbia Vol. 5; No. 199 PRINCE GEORGE, BRITISH COLUMBIA, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 12, 1961 7c a Copy BY CARRIER OCT. 31 PGTV PROSPECTS FOR DEVELOPMENT in the Prince George area are being studied today by Peter Paul Saunders, president of Laurentide Financial Corp. Ltd., Canada's third-largest finance company. Here Mr. Saunders (right) is greeted by Prince George Chamber of Commerce President George Cowell on his arrival at the airport this morning, while Clay Burton, local manager for Laurentide, looks on. Mr. Saunders will address the regular chamber meeting in the McDonald Hotel at 6:15 p.m. today. �Vafidervoort photo COUNCIL TALKS FREEMAN SITUATION City Might Honor OEdtimers Hy .JACK JAM1ES0N Citizen Staff Reporter There are many persons in a community who deserve to be recognized [or their con tribution to society. In a city, one way of honor ing them is making them free men of the city. At a city council meeting Wednesday, discussion of the subject arose. "I think it should be-looked into a little more," said Aid. Dick Yardley. He said there were s o m e persons who had helped develop the city and they should be recognized for their service. Council agreed. The matter will be brought up at a council committee meeting, closed to the press, Oct. 18. In the meantime, city officials will draw up a list of names of senior citizens who have contributed to the growth of Prince George for the committee's consideration. � * * A bylaw amendment was in tlQclueotl. stipulating wlvu con dltions constitute untidy or unsightly premises. Amendment was to replace a section of Bylaw 1482 which was inadvertently deleted by a previous amendment. The error was brought to light by a court case last week in which a charge was dismissed when defence counsel pointed out that the section dealing with untidy premises no longer had a penalty clau.se due to the first amendment. Amendment brought in Wednesday puts teeth back in the section of the bylaw. * � � Council agreed Wednesday to change a sand contract by reducing the amount involved by one-half the original figure. Conhaiiglit Junior High School .students will report lor classes Friday morning at (he Civic Centre. A school official said today thai students will spend most of the (lay on organisational work. They will be issued hooks, cover hooks, get their classes established, re-form home rooms and get acquainted with the timetable and new surroundings, "In short, it will Just be another first day of. school," said the official. Regular studies will resume Monday. W. E. Robertson Construction Co. Ltd. will now screen 1,000 cubic yards of sand at 85 cents a cubic yard. Originally, 2,000 cubic yards at 71 cents was agreed upon by council. However, difficult working conditions would have arisen at the pit, because of the weather, if the larger amount is needed immediately. Council noted that the normal city stockpile is 1,000 yards of treated sand. The city still has approximately 400 yards left from last year's supply. �; � � Fifteen fires reported to the fire department during Septem- ber caused an estimated $2,280 damage. The figures were presented by Fire Chief August Dorn-blerer. Major damage was caused in the house fire on Carney Sept. 18. The chief said the fire was probably set in the attic by children who then ran away. A passerby noticed the smoke coming out of the roof. Damage was estimated to be $1,500. RCME called the fire department Sept. 11 to report a completely burned car at the city gravel pit, Nicholson a n d Twenty-Second. Damage was estimated at $400. 10,000 Yank Troops To Move into Germany WASHINGTON (AP> � An additional 10,000 air am ground troops have been or dered to Europe to bolster the allied garrison manning the line between West Germany anti-UK1 Communist IC -i. They are in addition to the 40,000 army troops beginning to deploy abroad in the firs phase of a program to increase conventional war capability against possible Communis aggression. By year's end, U.S Court Restores Death Sentence For Rupert Man OTTAWA (CT) � The Su preme Court of Canada in ; unanimous judgment today re stored the death sentence im posed on Louis Leforte, convicted last March at P r i n c e Rupert of the murder by beating of a 2',2-year-old Indian girl. The court granted an appeal by the attorney-general of B.C. against a judgment of the B.C. court of appeal ordering a new trial for Leforte. After bein convicted of the girl's murder, Leforte had been sentenced to be hanged last May 23. The Supreme Court of Canada judgment ordered a new date for the 31-year-old man's execution to be fixed by a judge of the Supreme Court of B.C. Leforte was convicted of the leath of Tina Marcelle McKay, who died in hospital from mul tiple injuries following a beat ing. At the time of the girl's leath Leforte was living with the girl's mother. Now Hear This... Driving record for car bearing Licence 425-257 this ayem: Failed to signal left turn at Sixth and Quebec, failed to signal left turn at airport, failed to signal turn off Giscome road, 50 mph in 40 mph zone at top of airport hill, 45 in 30 mph going down airport hill, 38 mph along First in city, 39 mph along Queensway. But this car had a siren on the roof, so perhaps all these sins are permissible, although others can't commit them with impunity . . . Dollar Band Fund being raised by a group of local community-minded gals to buy a decent concert grande piano for Prince George is still climbing slowly. The drive has been assisted by several over-$25 donations, including S25 from the Good Cheer Club, $50 from Beta Sigma Phi, and a combined gift of $150 from Eagle Lake Sawmills and Northern Dairies . . � Rollickin' Roy Fujikawa hurried out of the Queensway Mar- ket with evening meal under his arm on his way to his apartment in the Rioray, just as he does several nights a week. Charging through the apartment block's main door, Roy scurried up to his second-storey digs, just as always. Also from habit he looked up at the suite number, 202, as he pushed the key into the lock. But there the normal procedure collapsed. The key wouldn't work. And after a more thorough inspection of his surroundings he discovered he wasn't in the Rioray at all but had gone into the Tilcon Manor, its twin building on the next lot, by mistake . . . Aluminum Company PR-man Stan Rough, visiting from Kiti-mat, wants to know where all the loot is coming from in PG. Sez it really looks like you're coming into a city now. If we could switch some facilities with the aluminum capital, it would help too. One whole floor of their hospital isn't being used.. forces in Europe will total about 300,000. About halt the 10,000 are army men, the other half Air National Guardsmen. The Pentagon announced Wc.Nlne.sday .out this 3l"(2 !Ai ored Cavalry Regiment, about 3,000 men, would go overseas at an early date. Another 2,001 soldiers also will be sent to handle and guard weapons and equipment being stored against the possibility that full-sized army divisions might go later. A steady decline in the number of subscribers since start of free broadcast television here last August was blamed today for PGTV's proposal to end telecasting Oct. 31. The closed circuit station, in operation three years, has ap plied to the Public Utilities Com mission for permission to close its operation. Announcement of its inten tion was made last night bj PGTV President Jolyon Briggs Managing-Director A. W. Gil lis told The Citizen today the number of subscribers has been dropping by 100 a month. "The people have indicated they don't want a second chan nel and we have therefore ap plied to the PUC for permission to close down," he said. Mr. Giliis said the number o subscribers reached a peak o 889 last June, but "it would take 1,700 before it would be a profitable enterprise." He also blamed what he term ed "continual hassling" with B.C. Telephone Co. over rates and availability of channels PGTV rents lines from the tele phone company to transmit its signal. The station, he said, had or iginally planned to use five channels for such purposes as educational and "good music' programming. "We've always paid for five chanels ($1,500 a month)," he said, "and only used one be cause they denied us this and denied us that." Law to OK Suits VV from Reuters-AP BERLIN � Ten armed East Berlin policemen crossed into West Berlin early today and tried to search a house for a fleeing East Berlin policeman, West Berlin police said. Two West Berlin radio cars hurried to the scene and slopped the East Berlin policemen after an elderly couple in the house were heard shouting for help. Cost of Bridge Work for Peace VICTORIA (CD � Lands and Forests Minister Williston said today an unexpected increase in the cost of a bridge is holding up work on access to the dam-site of the Peace River Power project. A bridge across the river was estimated by a consulting en- ineering firm as costing about $250,000, but when tenders were received all bids were more than $500,000. The span would link an access road at the main damsite near Hudson Hope with Portage Mountain where a pilot tunnel is to be drilled during the winter months. The minister said engineers have now been asked to design a cheaper bridge. Until it is built, contractors will use an ice bridge which forms up at the damsite during the winter. (Sec pictures on Page 3.) INSULT BRINGS FINE BONN'(AP) � A member of an ultra nationalist party was Ined $150 for expressing doubt that a synagogue was a house of God. Asked by Liberals VICTORIA CPi � A law to permit legal action against the provincial government withou its consent will be urged in i-resolution to be put before the provincial Liberal party con vention here. The resolution from the Oak Bay constituency will urge the passage of a Crown Suits Act that would permit action against the government without approv al in the form of a fiat whicl at present must be obtained from the attorney-general. The resolution follows attempts by B.C. Power Corporation to sue the government for a better financial deal on its takeover of the B.C. Electric Company. An application for a fiat now is before the cabinet but Premier Bennett has indicated that it may not be granted. The two-day Liberal conference opens Friday. National Liberal leader Lester B. Pearson will address a wind-up banquet Saturday night. WEATHER FORECAST Mostly cloudy Friday with a few rain showers and snow-flurries along the ridges. Little change in temperature. Winds light. Low tonight and high tomorrow at Prince George, Quesnel and Sinithers, 30 and 45. Peace River Occasional light rain or snow overnight. Clearing Friday afternoon. A little warmer. Winds westerly 25. Low tonight and high tomorrow at Urande Prairie, 30 and 50. Last 24 Hours Hi Lo Prec. Prince George 45 24 trace Terrace 15 33 .03 Smithers 40 25 Quesnel 40 27 .01 Williams Lake 44 31 trace Kamloops 5S 40 trace Whitehorse 33 22 Fort Nelson 30 2 Fort St. John 30 10 Dawson Creek 39 17 Woman on 6-Day Hunger Strike Forced to Eat GREENOCK, Scotland (Reuters) � Miss Pat Arrowsmith, a leading British campaigner for nuclear disarmament, was forcibly fed in prison here today after a six-day hunger strike. A Scottish official said Miss Arrowsmith, 31, was "under constant medical supervision and will be forcibly fed again if the doctor advises it." She is serving a three-month sentence here for her part in 'a demonstration against the American submarine Polaris. CONSERVATIVES APPROVE MARKET BRIGHTON. England CB� Prime .Minister Maemillan's government. today won approval from a hesitant Conservative party to seek membership for Britain in the European Common Market. Approval came by an overwhelming show of hands after long and spirited debate among the 5,000 delegates at the party's annual convention. FALLOUT Reds Give Americans Hot' Lunch WASHINGTON UPi � Fallout from Soviet nuclear tests has introduced radioactive iodine 131 into fresh food supplies in many areas in the southeastern US and probably throughout the eastern half of the country, the public health service announced today. "However, present fallout does not warrant undue public concern, nor initiation of public action designed to limit the intake of radioactive substances," Surgeon General Luther Terry said. The service said its announcement was based on analysis of milk in six cities � New Orleans, La.; Atlanta, Ga.; Charleston, S.C.; Jackson, Miss.; Tampa, Fla., and St. Louis. Russia resumed nuclear testing Sept. 1. Since then, according to President Kennedy's disclosure Wednesday at a press conference, Russia has fired more than 20 nuclear explosions into the atmosphere. The U.S, Atomic Energy Commission had announced detection of 19 of the Soviet blasts. Iodine is a source of potential concern because physicians say extensive overdoses might result in cancer or other injury to the thyroid. Three weeks ago, the top-level Federal Radiation Council cut sharply its recommended maximum safe limit on the intake of radioactive iodine 131. The cut was recommended particularly for the protection of children. Under the old standard, a daily intake of up to approximately 1,300 micro - microcur-ies was considered acceptable. A micro-microcurie is a measure of radioactivity. PASSENGER ESCAPES Bush Pilot Dies In River Crash DAWSOxN CREEK (CP) �One man was killed and another escaped with slight injuries late Wednesday in the crash of a float-equipped S t i n s o n plane in the Peace River northeast of here. Dead is pilot Dan Yaeger, 38, of Fort Nelson. His passenger, Donald Slack of Calgary, was brought to hospital here for examination. It was the second fatal plane crash in this area since last weekend when Walter Murphy, editor of the weekly Daw-son Creek Star, and pilot Ron McAuliffe died in the crash of a Piper Cub 70 miles west of here. A third man, Tom Humble, president of the Dawson Creek Chamber of Commerce, was injured when the plane went down in a snowstorm. "I thought we were making a normal landing just downstream from the Clayhurst ferry," Slack said Wednesday night after escaping from the wrecked plane. "Next thing I knew we were on the bottom of the river. "1 kicked out the windshield. I couldn't get my leg over so turned around and went out head first. The plane was bumping downstream in the current. "Danny didn't get out of the plane and it went downstream. Then 1 saw the boat coming along." William Billey, operator of a (Continued on Page 3) NO TEA, NO WORK, SAY 250 STRIKERS LONDON (Reuters) � A strike over tea virtually halted all car production today at the Ford plant in nearby Dagenham. The trouble began when 250 men staged a wildcat walkout in protest against their morning tea break being cut to five from 10 minutes two weeks hence under a new wage-boosting, hours cutting settlement agreed on by their union and management. Supplies to other plant workers were cut lo a trickle and 2,000 men were laid off by mid-day. SPORTS HIGHLIGHTS New clubs, coaches and defence combinations highlight opening of Western Hockey League season. � * � New York Rangers look spry under Doug Harvey during Wednesday night game. � � � Mohawk coach Willie Schmidt starts building his team at first practice of the season. GINTER BIDS LOW Peace Pilot Tunnel Job To Be Awarded Friday Contract for drilling of a pilot tunnel, first phase of the Peace River hydro project, will be awarded Friday, it was learned today by The Citizen. ! Tenders closed Wednesday and were being studied today, a B.C. Electric spokesman said in a telephone interview from Vancouver. | Purpose of the pilot tunnel will be to determine the type of material likely to be encountered in drilling three major tunnels. Tenders were called for the first 1,000 feet, with additional unit tenders of 500 feet each up to 2,500 feet. The BCE spokesman said the decision to be made before the contract is awarded is the length of the pilot tunnel to be built. Low tender on the initial 1,000 feet would not necessarily receive the contract since the additional unit bids could exceed an overall bid submitted by another contractor. Ben Ginter Construction of Prince George submitted the low bid of $108,750 for the initial 1,000 feet. Eight other tenders were received. However, the company's alternate bid of $260,622 for the full 2,500 feet was second lowest after an Eastern Canadian firm's bid of $246,450. Work is expected to start next week with a target of 67 working days. The contractor will receive a $1,000 bonus for each day under the 67, or pay a penalty of $1,000 for each day over 67. Ben Ginter, president of Ginter Construction, said today if his company is the successful bidder, between 30 and 40 men would be employed. 25,000-Barrel Daily Oil Flow Seen for Line VANCOUVER iCl'l � B.C. oil wells will probably have 25,000 barrels of crude for daily delivery through the Peace River-Vancouver pipeline by the middle of next year, W. O. Twaits, president of Imperial Oil, predicts. Mr. Twaits, whose company has substantial holdings in the Peace River area, said a major program to prove up Boundary Lake and other fields now is underway. There already were more than 90 wells capable of production in the area and this would be raised to 130 by the year's end, with a capacity of 20,000 to 22,000 barrels a day. The new oil pipeline is-being built by Western Pacific under sponsorship of Westcoast Transmission; It is expected to be in operation by the end of the year. Mr. Twaits said he was not disturbed by U.S. concern over the increasing Canadian exports to the American midwest. He felt the Americans now are hooked up to Canadian sources and this would have long-range benefits for Canada. NOT ENOUGH LEADERS 200 City Boys Denied Cub Training Some 200 Prince George boys who would like to join Cub packs are unable to do so because of a lack of leaders. This estimate was made ' today by District Cub Master Gordon Hough in announcing a weekend basic training course for leaders to be held here Oct. 21 and 22. About 45 men and women are needed to lead established packs and new ones in the Prince George district, Mr. Hough said. To qualify, interested persons should be over IS, have an interest in youth and be prepared to accept the aims of the Boy Scouts Association. They needn't have been Cubs or Scouts themselves. "As a matter of fact," said Mi1. Hough, "many of our most dedicated leaders were not able to be in. as youngsters themselves and appreciate the value of the training." THE FUN and education received by being a Cub is denied some 200 Prince George youngsters due to a lack of leaders. Looking on enviously are Daryl Miller and Kurly Keepper (centre) who would like to become Cubs but can't unless more leaders are found. Wishing their friends could join too, are (from left Barry Thorsness, Ken Robb and Barry Hatch. �Vandervoort photo The time involved to be a leader amounts to about 00 minutes a week for the meeting and a further two hours a month for plannning meetings with other leaders. Some leaders spend more time with the Cubs, taking them on tours of such businesses as the newspaper, a dairy and sawmill operations. Persons interested in the . basic training course should contact Mr. Hough at LOgan 4-1956 or District Commissioner Ted Williams at LOgan 4-G075. Opening session will be from 7::$0 to 10 p.m. Oct. 21 in the Scout Hall, basement of the city library, during which practical demonstrations will be given. Weather allowing the course will move the following day to Camp Hughes starting at 1:30 p.m. through to 9:45 p.m. All phases of Cub work, including their ceremonies, games and handicrafts will be described. Mr. Hough will be course leader, assisted by Mr. Williams, Mrs. Thelma Bell, Mrs. Sheena Pattullo, Tom Burns and Boy Scouts Field Commissioner J. L. Miller. There, are now some 300 Cubs in packs located at Prince George, I'eden Hill, South Fort George, ,H.art Highway, Pinevieyv andvGis-come. Each of the 10 packs needs three leaders, said Mr. Hough, but most have only two, allowing fewer boys to' participate. In Prince George alone, Mr. Hough said, "I'd estimate there are 200 boys who would like to get' in but can't for luck of leaders."