Ranch Bread. � � AThe Freshest Thing in Town" THE The Only Daily Newspaper Serving North-Central British Columbia Phone LOgan 4-2441 Vol. 5; No. 211 PRINCE GEORGE, BRITISH COLUMBIA, MONDAY, OCTOBER 30, 1961 7c a Copy .. -.ii per Month ' RT CARRIEB HALLOWE'EN came early for students of Duchess Park Junior High School. They had their Hallowe'en party Friday night in the gymnasium. Costumed young ladies are Stephanie Barber, Cathy Winters and Darlene Richet. Tuesdaynight the youjlger .trick or treat crowd will be roaming the streets in search or goodies. And police will be out in full force to discourage damage by Hallowe'en vandals. �Vandervoort photo TWO-CAR COLLISION 5 in Hospital After Mishap Five of seven persons involv-, car were Marjoric Vandal, 40, ed in a two-ear collision at Queensway were still in hospital today. Driver of one of the cars, Gerald Gordon Hoffman, 34, of Prince George is charged with driving while impaired and driving while his driver's licence was under suspension, police said. The three passengers in the car were Thomas Halvorsen, about 50, Kenneth Enokson, about 55, and Harold Kidd. All arc from Prince George. Driver of the other ear was Lucien Vandal, 45, police reported. Police said passengers in his and Romeo Lupien, 45. Still in hospital arc Romeo Lupien, Thomas Halvorson, Lu cicn Vandal, Harold Kicld and Marjorie Vandal, a hospital spokesman said today. None is in serious condition but both Marjorie Vandal and Howard Kidd suffered from fractures to the pelvis. Others were treated and released. A Prince George driver Albert Bleich, will be charged with failure to yield following a Saturday night accident at the intersection of Third and Quebec, police said today. Marcel Vandal was proceeding along Third when he was PGE Car Inspector Killed at Chetwynd A PGE car inspector was killed when a slow-moving train ran over him four miles east of Chetwynd Saturday. Dead is Michael Zack, 59, formerly of Squamish. He is survived by his widow, now living in Squamish, and a family. PGE officials said there were no witnesses to the accident. An inquest is to be held tonight at Dawson Creek. Mr. Zack was an employee of the PGE for many years. He was out with a work train at the time of the accident. Now Hear This... Something new has been add- play-by-play also came in cleared to the Gregorian calendar for ly and loudly 19C2. Spee - Dee Printers in making up posters for Prince George's 42nd annual bonspiel listed the entry deadline as February 31 instead of the 28th. Could be we arc about to have a triple leap year . . . At least two people in the Prince George area saw the B.C. Lions-Rcgina Roughridcrs football game on live television Saturday night due to what engineers like to call freak re-ceplion. Mr. and Mrs. Leo Sa-bourin who live on the Giscomc highway were watching a program on the local channel when the reception suddenly went h a y w ire. So Mr. Sabourin switched to Channel 2, on which CJ3UT Vancouver was 'telecasting the game. He received a clear picture of the game which latscd for the next 40 minutes before dying out. The voice of the announcer describing the Most descriptive phrase so far to describe the start of the new curling season here was uttered by Icemaker Art Chase: "Well, I'm now in penal servi- tude for 20 weeks" Lots of chaps and gals who helped inaugurate the new curling season during the weekend arc hobbling around today with sore muscles and stiff joints, as if to prove they weren't in quite as good physical condition as they should be. Some of the shot-making done at the rink tells the same story . . . Shock waves created by the giant Soviet nuclear bomb blast were felt and recorded clearly at the Prince George weather station at 5:50 a.m. today, a full 35 minutes before they were felt in Vancouver at 6:25 a.m. Other weather stations which reported recording the blast waves included Kodiak, Alaska, at 5:18 and Juneau at 5:45 a.m. struck by the car driven by Bleich. Nobody was seriously injured. RCMP estimated $800 damage was caused to the two vehicles. Lord Alex Tours Kitimai Smelter KITIMAT iCPI � Lord Alexander of Tunis mot some of his old soldiers at this Aluminum Company of Canada smelter city during the weekend. Lord and Lady Alexander, accompanied by Alcan President Fraser W. Bruce of Montreal, visited the Kitimat branch of the Royal Canadian Legion. There 10 Legion members who served under Lord Alexander during the Second World War were presented. The wartime commander also ment John Kypriotis, a former member of the Greek under- ground who Alcan here1. is employed by During the war Kypriotis received from Lord Alexander a certificate in recognition of his service in assisting captured soldiers, sailors and airmen to escape from the enemy. CIGARETTE COST UP PARIS (Reuters) � Frenchmen are paying between the equivalent of two cents and eight cents more a pack of cigarettes under new price in-reases. 50 MEGATONS OR MORE SPORTS HIGHLIGHTS Mohawks show well against Vernon with 5-5 tie and 6-3 loss. Prince (George Curling Club members open 1961-02 season with bonspiel. Montreal Canadiens riding high in National Hockey League. (See Pages 6 and 7.) MERGER WITH SIMON DAY? A major plan to reorganize the annual fall fair was unveiled before the Prince George Agricultural and Industrial Association's general membership Friday night. It included a suggestion that the fair and Simon Fraser Day activities be merged into one large celebration, possibly early in August. The scheme was proposed in detail by the fair's advisory beard, which has been studying ways and means to put the 46 year-old association on a firm economic footing with a more business-like administration. President Carrie J>anc Gray refused the advisory board's reqiiTt that the new plan be voted on by the membership at a special meeting in two weeks. , Instead, she said the fair executive and added members will seek a meeting "shortly* with the advisory board and representatives of the Simon Fraser Day committee to study the proposed scheme further. Meanwhile, fair board treasurer E.>C. Crowe reported the 1961 fair operated,at a loss of some $12,512, compared with a profit of $2,619 last year. To this he added a $2,972 deficit at the start of this year, bringing .the fair's total debt to about $15,484. Prize money and money for persons who sold animals at the cattle sale, including 4-II club exhibitors, has not yet been paid, along with some $17,000 in outstanding bills. The meeting instructed the president and treasurer to seek a bank loan to pay the bills, and to provide money for continued operation. Only bright spot came when Mrs. Gray reported prize money awarded in the utility agricultural classes totalled more than $3,000 for the first time. This, she said, "means we have attained the first of the three years rating required to apply for B fair classification." Government regulations say that a fair may apply for Class B rating after it has paid out more than $3,000 utility class prize money (cattle, field crops and other purely agricultural events) for three successive years. The reorganization scheme read by Walter Burns, manager )f .the Dominion Experimental Farm, was prepared after considerable study by the four-man advisory board, assisted by the agricultural committee of the chamber of commerce. Board members are Mr. Burns, Dis-rict Agriculturist Art Donald, Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce Manager Bill Ogg, and Chamber President George "Lowell. It recommended: � Changing the name and status of the fall fair to "ex-libition" � possibly the Prince (Continued on Page 3) BING'S FATHER OF BABY GIRL LOS ANGELES (A I') � Bint; Crosby's wife, actress Kathy Grant, gave birth to a nine-pound, 2'/f>-ouncc daughter late Sunday! Mother and child are doing well. This is the couple's third child. They have a son, Harry Lillis Jr., .'5, and a daughter, Mary Frances, 2. Crosby had 'hoped 'to be �present when the child arrived. But the hospital said it believes he is still in London, where he has been making a film. Eight Firms Bid On Fraser Bridge VICTORIA (CP5�Eight companies have submitted bids ranging from $491,432 to $7!)!).- 402 for the contract to construct a bridge across the Fra-ser River at Prince George. The tenders were o p e n e d Friday afternoon in the Department of Highways offices here. Lowest bid was submitted by Ppole Construction Co. of Calgary, with the highest bid coming from Perini Pacific Ltd. of Vancouver. A highways department official said the contract is likely to he let sometime this week. The bridge will be located two miles downstream from the Canadian National Railways bridge and be part of a highway bypass system skirting Prince George. CP from Rcuters-AP UPPSALA, Sweden � Russia today detonated the biggest nuclear explosion of all time at its Arctic test site � a blast with a force of 50 megatons or more. British scientists said the explosion was apparently the 50-megaton bomb Soviet Premier Khrushchev threatened to set off before the end of this month. But Swedish scientists said its force appeared to have been even greater. Officials in Stockholm said the explosion was four times stronger than 'the Soviet test a week ago, thought to have been in the 30 - megaton range � equal to 30,000,000 tons of TNT. "It is probably a bomb well over 50 � megatons," a 'top official said. A spokesman at Britain's Kew Observatory said the signals recorded there had indicated a nuclear explosion "of about 50 megatons." It was definitely >a nuclear blast, he said, and not an earthquake such as one- which confused French scientists Sunday. Despite the size of t'he Soviet blast, it was neither seen nor heard by residents of die northeastern tip of Norway, nearest Norwegian point to the test area. Norway's special radioactivity warning command met shortly after the blast to study weatihor reports from the Arctic but the head of the command said winds were likely to blow fallout in the other direction. The test meant that Khrushchev has ignored a United Na tlons appeal last week not ka go through with the explosion and individual protests from several nations fearful of fallout from ilhe bomb. A 50 - megaton bomb is 2,-500 times as big as the atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 19-15. Those bombs killed 120,000 persons. Khrushchev told the Soviet party congress in Moscow last week Russia would probably wind up i'ts series of nuclear tests by setting off a 50 - megaton bomb before the end of October. The French Atomic Energy Commission reported that the Russians had set off their 50-megaton bomb Sunday, but the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission as well as seismologists in Sweden, London and Denmark attributed the disturbance to the earthquake off LS.C.'s Queen Charlotte Islands. The biggest U.S. nuclear test bomb has been reportcd at 15 to 20 megatons. American scientists have said making a 50 - megaton bomb is easy (Continued on' Page 3) Women, Children Killed By Invading Congolese EL1SABETHVILLE (/Pi�Troops of the National Congolese Army were reported today continuing to advance into Katanga province, razing villages and murdering women and children. Two companies of Congolese trooos crossed into Katanga on ithe weekend and started to attack villages. Katangan troops rushed to the area and met the Congolese head on. The invading troops appeared to be acting in defiance of �the central government at Lcopoldville. The troops had been ordered back to their bases while the Leopoldvillc and Elisabethville governments negotiated for a settlement to end Katanga's secession. WHERE WILL IT GO? Stalin's Body to Move From Spot Near Lenin's CP from AP-Rcutcrs MOSCOW � Five thousand cheering delegates and officials at the Soviet Communist party congress voted today to remove the body of Josef Stalin from its place beside Lenin in the Big tomb on Red Square. The congress action came in the wake of speeches by Premier Khrushchev and others denouncing the longtime Soviet dictator as a murderer and instigator of mass repression against Communist and army leaders. Khrushchev said as a result of Stalin's purges, the Soviet Army's efficiency was at a low ebb at the time of the German attack in 19-11. The mausoleum, which thousands visit, each day, was suddenly closed Sunday "for repairs/1 a police guard on duty there said. The name of Stalin, put alongside Lenin's on the 'toinl when his embalmed body was placed there in 1953, will be removed. There was no immediate an houncement where Stalin'.' body will be placed. The proposals for the removal were made in the congress in the Kremlin by Ivan Spiridonov, first secretary of the party in the Leningrad regdbn. It was promptly endorsed by Moscow party chief Peter I)e-michev, in whose territorial jurisdiction the tomb is situated. The motion was also supported by a representative of the delegation from Georgia, Stalin's birthplace; Millions of faithful Communists have visited tine mausoleum since it was erected in 1922 to receive the mummified body of Lenta, who led Russia's 1917 Bolshevik revolution. Khrushchev, who demolished Stalin's image in a "secret" speech at the party's 20th congress in 1!)5G, indicted him again Friday at the c u r r e n t jngrese. Khrushchev said Stalin was responsible for killing "many innocent people" and suggested a memorial be built to "immortalize those comrades who iccame victims of violence" under Stalin. Spir.idoriov and iid the removal Dcmichev if Stalin's corpse was demanded by workers in both .Moscow and Lenin-rad. Gov't Won't Hide Facts If Fallout Reaches Danger Level, Says Fraser The Canadian public will be informed if radioactivity indicates a threat to health, Civil Defence Co-ordinator Art Fraser said here today. "There would be no hesitation n taking appropriate measures and informing the public," he said. In response to numerous inquiries from the public on the effects of radioactive fallout from the current Soviet tests, he Emergency Measures Or- formed CD zone co-ordinators that monitoring of radioactivity is covered in Canada by the Department of National Health and Welfare. And current radioactivity docs not indicate danger to health. A telegram from Ottawa said all official statements concerning fallout hazards will be issued by the department. Mr. Fraser said, "A lot of mothers are concerned about milk for their children. Well, fluid milk, at present, is safe ganization in Ottawa has in- I for consumption." He said since recent tests have started, the CD office here has been receiving many calls from worried area residents. Canada's Defence Research Board chairman, Dr. A. H. Zimmerman recently said, "I don't want to gloss over the seriousness of the matter but as yet there is no real cause for worry in Canada." Dr. Zimmerman said the fallout from the current Soviet series still was not as high as ifrom the U.S. tests in 1958. BENNETT COULDN'T WIN ELECTION TOMORROW BY PETER BRUTON Political Fortunes of B.C. Gov't at All-Time Low VANCOUVER � Political fortunes of B.C.'s Social Credit Government are at the lowest ebb ever, observers believe. Not even during the height of .the Robert Sommers scandal, when the former provincial lands and forests minister was convicted of accepting bribes in exchange for forest management licences, was the government so much on the defensive as it is today. This reporter has been a member of the legislative press gallery since 1955. I am convinced that if a provincial election was held to- morrow Premier Bennett and his government would be swept from office. In Vancouver this weekend, the annual convention of the B.C. Social Credit League has been held at the same time as the B.C. section of the CCF merged with labor to be reborn under the name New Democratic Party. Atmosphere of the two conventions was strikingly different. Premier Bennett, in one of those razzle-dazzle performances which he only musters when his back is to �the wall, flailed out at the press and critics, including the speaker of the Legislature Hugh Shantz, the Social Credit member for North Okanagan, in an apparent 'attempt to whip delegates into line. Yet even with this fiery start the 275 Socred delegates were unable to work up much enthusiasm for their meeting, held in the drab Exhibition Gardens. Across town, in the swank Bayshore Inn, more than 460 CCF, labor and New Party Club delegates met to celebrate the birth of the New Democratic Party. Enthusiastic, full of life, and supremely confident, they set about drafting policies and programs designed to give them the prize they already consider won � election as the next B.C. Government. A political convention docs net win elections. But the different atmosphere between the two meetings seemed to echo current public opinion in the prov- Sce Socred, N'DP Stories on I';tge 3 ince. The takeover of the B.C. Electric has backfired on Premier Bennett. And he knows it. His announcement Thursday evening of "quite significant" rate reductions early in the new year is a desperation move to try to win back public support. Only a few weeks ago, B.C. Electric" Chairman Dr. Gordon Shram said there would unlikely be any rate cuts before 1963. Every day, scores of letters of protest over the refusal of the government to allow the matter of BCE compensation to go to the courts are delivered to the premier's office. The situation is getting so critical that some observers even believe the premier will reverse his �stand on 'tills ques- (Continued on Page 3) SMITHERS (Staff) � An estimated $10,000 in jewelry and cameras was stolen from a Smithcrs jeweller late Saturday night or early Sunday. Smithers RCMP said today that an itemized inventory is being taken by store owners. Meanwhile, all RCMP detachments have been notified of the theft and are on the alert for suspects. The break-in was made by thieves who forced open the back door of the building. Discovery of the entry was made at 9 a.m. Sunday. Police said rings, watches, cameras and costume jewelry was on the list of missing obi nets. One source said 120 rings, more than 80 watches, four movie cameras, six electric razors, transistor radios and other jewelry were taken in the store break. It is unknown how much insurance was carried on the articles. WEATHER koi:k< v\st Mostly cloudy. I.itile change in temperature. Winds light. Low tonight and high Tuesday at Prince George, .'35 and 12; Quesnel, :JS and -18; Smithers, 35 and 15. Peace Iliver Variable cloudiness Tuesday. Not quite so mild. Light winds. Low tonight and high tomorrow at Grande Prairie, 30 and 45, Prince Gcor Terrace Smithers Quesnel Last 24 Hours Hi Lo Prcc. 11 37 .... HI 11 .20 52 38 .... �IS II - Williams Lake Ka m loops Whitehorse Fort Nelson Fort St. John 43 51 -19 Dawson Creek 54 1!) .... 21 trace 41 �1(5 .... READY FOR HALLOWE'EN HINSDALE, 111. (AP) � Collectors of the Illinois toll highway system are prepared for Hallowe'en. The toll road commission has ordered booths supplied with 50,000 candy kisses for youngsters who propose trick or treat while mom or pop are kicking in with the usual money. ANCHOR CATCHES BOAT DETROIT (AP) � A British freighter raised its anchor here and hanging from it was a 25-foot inboard motor boat. Coast guard officials said the boat had been submerged for at least a year. 6 PEOPLE DIE IN U.S. STORM DENVER (AP) � Six persons were dead and six others were missing today in the wake of a storm that brqught wind, rain, snow and cold to Rocky Mountain states. Up to two feet of snow blanketed parts of Wyoming and Colorado, halting traffic and stranding scores of hunters and motorists. Winds in gusts up to 55 miles an hour ripped across southwest Wyoming, sculpturing snowdrifts eight feet high.