COMMUNICATIONS play an important part in the success of Exercise Tocsin B. Receiving information off the teletype direct from regional emergency headquarters is chief of communications Joe Galinis. Zone intelligence officer Jim McDonnell reads over the instructions, which arc relayed to Cadet Cpl. Len Nakonechny on the phone. �Vandervoort photo. 'GREATER CO-OPERATION' CD Exercise Goes Well Here Civil Defence Co-ordinator Art Fraser said today the area organization was working efficiently and smoothly as Tocsin B, the theoretical nuclear attack, continued across Canada. And, he said, "There has been a far greater degree of government co-operation . at senior levels than we had in previous exercises." The exercise, due to end at about 4 p.m. today, started late Monday afternoon. Imaginary bombers dropped imaginary bombs on Canada during the exercise to see what the country's survival units would run like if an attack ever did occur. Comox, Vancouver, Tacoiiia and Seattle were all hit by bombs. And immediately prior to the attack, Civil Defence organization at the coast warned the local unit of the impending disaster in order that the local , organization would be prepared to receive refugees. More than GO persons were taking part locally in tiie nation-wide exercise. Drift of lelhal radioactive material from the coast quickly cut off the Fraser Canyon route to safety into the Interior of B.C. A few did get through. Some were injured. Many were contaminated. Williams Lake was set up as a staging area. Refueling and emergency feeding was handled there. An estimated 350 imaginary persons, seriously injured and ill, arrived from southern points and had to be taken care of by the health services. Anticipating this situation, CD officials had previously sent eight railway cars and buses to Williams Lake to transport these persons to emergency treatment. "Fifty of them were too ill to be moved," said Mr. Fraser. "However, 300 of them were taken out of the convoy and brought here." In the meantime, the Prince George Regional Hospital brought in an emergency expansion plan. CD placed 140 of the injured in the hospital and 160 in the senior high school. "The maternity ward of the hospital was moved Monday night into the Simon Fraser hotel," said Mr. Fraser. This provided more room at the hospital." The large influx of evacuees �imaginary ones, of course� from Southern B.C. was not expected here for awhile yet as a heavy concentration of radioactive fallout extending from Hope to Lac La Hache prevented the use of roads. A little later on, it will be permissible to drive at high speeds over the road. Early today, Williams Lake had another problem. A heavy concentration of vehicles and evacuees was being processed there as quickly as possible. However, the persons became hungry and impatient arid rioted. They smashed into food stores and the liquor store, looting as they went. Later, at S) a.m. RCMP, Civil Defence auxiliary police and special constables had the situation restored to normal. More than 2,200 theoretical persons had reached Williams Lake by 2 a.m. today. A further 1,500 came in by 5 a.m. (Continued on Page 3) _*L 111 III 111 / The Only Daily Newspaper Serving North-Central British Columbia Phone LOgan 4-2441 Vol. 5; No. 222 PRINCE GEORGE, BRITISH COLUMBIA, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 14, 1961 7c a Copy lii ail Der MouLo BY CARHIRB Prince 13 Today But He'll Wait for Cake LONDON (Reuters) � Britain today has a teenage heir to the throne. Flags flew throughout the country to mark .the 15th birthday of .Prince Charles. Bui there was no birthday cake. Cheam, the Prince's exclusive school, has a rule that birthday celebrations can only be held on Wednesday Tor Saturday. The prince must wait until Wednesday before enjoying his cake, cooked by Buckingham Palace's chef. The Queen and Prince Philip left him presents before they left on a tour of West Africa. 60 IN ALL City council agreed Monday night to put up an-ether 4(3 lots for auction in the Central area on Nov. MO. Although 20 lets in the same area go up for auction Thursday, councillors felt there is probably the need for the additional building sites. The 40 sites are. as the others, serviced with water. Some members of council asked why the city hadn't been able to purchase 20 lots (10 building sites) on the old women's provincial jail site on Burden. A public auction sale was held at the government offices last week. "We should get more information on this from the provincial government," said Aid. Charlie Graham. "For it (the government) to arbitrarily go and set this (the sale), I don't like it." Aid. Spike Enemark said, "Let's have the manager question the government on this, since we applied for this land." Reason for the discussion was that 'the government is believed to have sold the land without MURDER HEARING Shown to Court any stipulation that improvements be made within a certain time. Aid. Graham also asked the city manager to ask, in a letter o MLA Ray Williston, why the city's requests to purchase the and had been ignored. � � � Council was asked to look over property in the Perry irele area before meeting in committee Wednesday. Mayor Dczell said: "There's liiitc an area thai is vacant or Dnly has small places on it," le said. "It might be advisable o consider it from a commercial point of view." Aid. Graham, however, felt (Continued on Page 3) RADIATION GROUP CHAIRMAN SAYS: Could Easily Start War There is a very real possibility of a nuclear war beginning by accident or miscalculation, the chairman of the B.C. Committees on Radiation Hazards warned here Monday. Mrs. Olive Johnson of Vancouver was addressing the King George V Parent-Teachers' Association. "What happens if some radar monitor sees a flock of geese on his screen and mistakes them for Russian missiles?" she asked. "This has already happened. Luckily, we managed to avert a war in that instance because the man in charge of the instant retaliation system in the U.S. paused long enough to allow Ihe radar monitor another look at the screen and his error w a s discovered in time." Mrs. Johnson questioned what will happen when the entire North American defence system becomes fully automatic, "probably 'in 19G2. What happens when, instead of a human being making the decision, we have an electronic computer digesting the radar monitor's signals?" She declared the spread of nuclear weapons to more nations must be prevented and the balance of power maintained by confining the bombs to the U.S. and the Soviet Union. "We must refuse to let nuclear weapons spread to our country," she stated. "It would hamper or destroy the leadership External Affairs Minister Howard Green is trying to give toward disarmament. "We must keep out of the nuclear club and encourage other non-nuclear nations to keep out as well so that all non-nuclear nations can work to force the Now Hear This... Out Vanderhoof way at least one of the Vets "skipped" his curling game which was laid on to herald the .opening of the curling season simultaneously with tlic dugout following Remembrance Day services . . . PG Chamber of Commerce officials could have very, very red faces if the chamber's entire membership turned out to hear Justice Minister D a v i c Fulton speak on Peace versus Columbia power development as seen from the federal government's point of view. T h e chamber apparently wants to skip this opportunity to let the public in on the Fulton address, which it could do b> hearing Dayic in the high school ficld-housc, in spite of the fact its original telegram to Fulton contained the statement ". . . we shall guarantee you a hearing that will be attended by people from many areas in North-Central B.C." Instead, however, Fulton will speak to a chamber dinner meeting in the Hotel Simon Fraser banquet room, I which will accommodate at most 250 diners. So what happens it' all of the chamber's 340 members show up? . . . Person who expects to have a furnished house or apartment to rent to a Mountie, his wife and baby who will arrive here from the Yukon about Christmas might get in touch with Staff-Sergeant Knox at city police station, phone LOgan '1-2141 . . . Woman complained of fumes in the house t'other day and had the city gas inspector and a gas company man up to find out what was wrong. When neither found any trouble, she called the Johnson-Ahl man, who took the top off her gas furnace and discovered whoever had hooked it up had left it so the flames went straight into the roof space instead of up the chimney . . . Black must have been the unlucky color at the curling rink last night. When the early draw finished the white-handled racks were the winners on every sheet . . . U.S. and Russia to work seriously for disarmament, a thing which, until now, has not been done." Airs. Johnson declared Canada would not be letting its friends down by refusing nuclear weapons since "the West already has enough of a nuclear stockpile to kill every person in Russia 10 times over. How much of a deterrent is needed?" She charged people with being ostriches and failing to recognize the grave world situation. "We must assume our responsibilities as members of the human race to discuss these issues within our country," she said. "Wherever men come together they must assume their responsibility for persuading their governments to work for peace. "I say anyone who shirks his responsibility to human survival is the enemy. Let us no longer delude ourselves into thinking the enemies are only communism or capitalism." Mrs. Johnson maintained that if peace is not attained it will not be because it is unattainable but because not enough people have taken the trouble to work for it. "Public opinion must demand a total commitment to the cause of a better and safer world," she said. "It is not enough to say we don't want war; we must be willing to spend money and manpower on researching the roads to peace." She said no dose of radiation is so small it doesn't damage a small percentage of the population and "since this damage passes on from generation to generation we can expect stillbirths, miscarriages and deformed children to be born every year for at least the next 5,600 years as a result of bomb tests so far." Persons who talk of fighting "limited" nuclear wars in which people would survive by going underground have not faced up to what a nuclear war would mean, she charged. Mrs. Johnson likened those who feel a nuclear war is too horrible to talk about to a man who has stalled his' car on the railway tracks but doesn't want to be told the train is coming because he might get frightened. Formation of a local branch of the B.C. Committees on Radiation Hazards was announced at the meeting. Interested persons were asked to contact Mrs. Jean Lunden at LOgan 4-5867 or Mrs. Jean Kellet at LOgan 4-7534. HUNGER STRIKE IN 14TH DAY PARIS (Reuters) � Condition of Mohammed Ben Bella, leader of a hunger strike by three imprisoned Algerian rebel leaders now in its 14th day, today was described by French officials as "not critical." Airport Contract To Be Given Soon The contract for installation of an instrument landing system and other improvements to the Prince George airport is expected to be awarded within two to three weeks. Tenders for the project close at 3 p.nu Thursday. Federal government -expenditures of more than $4,000,000 included an estimated $237,000 for the local airport. An instrument landing system, which allows pilots to land more easily under poor visibility conditions, would cost an estimated $67,000. Also to be included in the contract are improvements to ditching and general draining system at the airport. 132 Homes Under Construction Here Houses under construction in Prince George at Oct. 31 num--bcred 132, the largest of any non-metropolitan centre in B.C., acording to the latest Central Mortgage and Housing Corporation report. The figure compared with 130 at the same date in I960. However, the number of construction starts from January to October this year totalled 181. considerably higher than the 114 during the same period last year. The 132 under construction at Oct. 31 here compared with 123 in Port Albcrni, 88 in Kelowna, 85 in Dawson Creek and 34 in Prince Rupert. More than 30 exhibits, including the dead woman's blood-spattered clothing and bedding, were entered by the' Crown at the preliminary hearing Monday of a man charged w i t h non-capital murder in the death Oct. 21 of his common-law wife. Charles Hamilton Rombough, 48, was arrested after the near-nude body of Hazel Cousins, 47, was found on the livingroom floor of the home they shared at Upper Fraser, 50 miles east of here. It is one of the first noncapital murder cases in Canada since a recent change in the criminal code which provides the special section for unpremeditated killings. Only a person convicted of capital murder would face the death penalty. Magistrate G. O. Stewart is hearing the case. The Crown alleges that Rom-bough caused Mrs. Cousins' death by kicking and beating her and throwing her outside the house. A specialist from the RCMP laboratories in Rcgina said he was unable to determine if blood stains taken from the floor were from the dead vuraan. Among the exhibits produced were a hammer and a poker but prosecutor Frank Perry said he was not yet attaching any special significance to them. RCMP Constable Al Fry, who arrived at the scene the following day, said the poker was underneath a living room oil heater and the hammer beneath a coffee table. Const. Fry arrested Rqm-bough at a neighbor's home hall' a mile from the death scene. The hearing was adjourned to Thursday. If committed for trial, Rombough would be tried at the fall assizes which open here Dec. 4. FORECAST The meteorological department at the airport is forecasting sunny weather Wednesday with little change in temperature and light winds. Low tonight and high tomorrow at Prince George and Quesnel, 15 and 40; at Smithers, 20 'and 40. Peace River � Sunny with a few cloudy periods. Winds westerly 15. Low tonight and high tomorrow at Grande Prairie, 20 and 35. Last 24 Hours Hi Lo Prcc. 45 21 trace Prince George Terrace Smithers Quesnel Williams Lake Kamloops Whitchorsc Fort Nelson Fort St. John Dawson Creek 42 45 45 41 45 37 41 43 46 33 22 20 23 34 5 17 28 29 .10 .01 SPORTS HIGHLIGHTS Calgary enters first Western Football final in 12 years. Bob Brown leads 918 to cage victory, scoring 3G points. Tough Western ground attack will meet tough Eastern defence. (Sec Page 4.) EXPROPRIATION TANGLE BCPC Asks Court Rule Gov't Out of Bounds By The Canadian Press VANCOUVER � B.C. Power Corporation Monday asked B.C. Supreme Court to rule the provincial government acted beyond its powers in expropriating B.C. Electric Co. The corporation, parent company of the giant power utility before the takeover, said in a writ that should the court find the expropriation was legal, it should declare that the corporation was entitled lo an additional $114,000,000 in compensation. Under the Aug. 1 Power Development Act, the government paid $110,000,000 for B.C. Power's 3,800,000 B.C. Electric shares. The corporation contends the shares were worth $225,000,000. The action does not seek damages, only a declaration from the courts. The writ holds that certain sections of the act are "selective legislation" directed at the corporation. It says these sections had the effect of forcing the corporation, a legally incorporated company, to surrender its assets, preventing it from carrying on business with the effect, of "sterilizing the plaintiff in its operations and depriving it of status and powers." Under normal Supreme Court procedure, the government has eight days to declare whether or not it will contest the action. � � � Booiier Defends Market Price MONTREAL � B.C. Attorney-General Bonner said Monday there arc many precedents for the decision to pay the market price for shares of B.C. Power Corporation. Among them, he named Quebec's purchase of the Montreal Light, Heat and Power Company in 1944 and the British Labor government's purchase of 540 private utilities in 1917-48. He said the B.C. government's decision to take over B.C. Power last August docs not represent any "defined Social Credit policy regarding public ownership of utilities." Similar action would not bo contemplated for utilities such as those supplying natural gas, "which have a long history of private ownership." Mr. Bonner said that, before the takeover, B.C. power was paying taxes to the federal government of up to $12,000,000 a year and "it was difficult" for provincial authorities to watch these funds leaving the province while electrical rates to private consumers were maintained at a high level. � � � Strachan Doubts Cost of Surveys VANCOUVER � Opposition leader Robert Slrachan said here he doubts Peace River Power Development Company spent more than $8,000,000 on a few surveys. He said he will demand at the next session of the legislature an accounting of all money spent by the company on surveys for its proposed hydroelectric scheme. The new government-owned B.C. Electric Co. has sent a cheque for slightly more than $8,000,000 to Peace Power as compensation for money spent on the project. Gov'ts Assure Chamber Of Support for Tour Various departments of the provincial and federal governments have assured the Prince George Chamber of Commerce of their support in a planned European goodwill tour next May, George Cowell chamber president, said today. The lour is being planned lo interest United Kingdom and Western Europe capital in in- SEVEN Prince George Senior High School students were on Principal George Bevan's list of honor students after tne first report cards were issued. From the left are Scott Glabus, Barbara Rankin, Bruce Kellett, Ken Peterson, Geraldine Griffeths, Edith Pancratz and Stan Kellett. -p-Jack Jamieson photo vesting in Central and Northern B.C. and to provide an opportunity for local businessmen to make connections which will be beneficial in their own business. Members of Central and Northern B.C. chambers of commerce and boards of trade can .join the tour if they make reservations through the local chamber by Nov. 30. Providing a minimum of 72 persons participate, the tour will leave here by chartered plane next May 2 and return May 23. Receptions have been arranged in London, Paris, Bonn and other major centres. Some members of the tour win address various functions on subjects relating to this area, including forestry, agriculture, natural gas, oil and other industries. Agenda for the lour has been arranged so members will have a least a week's free time to visit places of their own choice. Return air fare for individual members is $368. Reservations may be made by depositing $100 with the local chamber. 'WE'RE WORKING HARD'-TRUSTEES VICTORIA (CR � Rapid growth of the ixlucafional system ^nd an increase in educational problems has forced school trustees to take on a much greater work load, Education Minister Peterson was told Monday. The executive of the B.C. School Trustees Association presented Mr. Peterson with a list of resolutions approved at their 1961 convention. The resolutions ranged from transportation for pupils to curriculum.