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12 Terrace Teachers Return to Their Jobs
TERRACE :CP) � Skeena High School is back in business.
Twelve teachers have withdrawn the resignations they submitted Friday in protest against criticism of the school trustees during wage negotiations.
The dispute was settled at a meeting of the teachers and four trustees.
The board said there was no intention on its part to question the competence of the staff and said it was regretted if such an impression had been created.'
FIAT TO BE GRANTED?
BCP Action May Take Five Years
VANCOUVER (CP) � A newspaper here quotes
a  provincial  Supreme Court  official  as  saying  B.C.
Power   Corporation's   action   in   challenging   legality
' of the B.C. Electric expropriation could easily extend
GIRL KIDNAPPED NEAR HER HOME
CORVALLIS, Ore. (.fl � An eight - year - old girl was dragged into a car and kidnapped halt a block from her home Tuesday night by a man.
Police launched a search for the kidnapper and his victim but they had no leads.
The abduction was witnessed by a neighbor.
Total Drops 3rd
OTTAWA (CP) � Unemployment in Canada rose by 10,000 to 318,000 in mid-October from 308,000 in September, the Do< minion Bureau of Statistics re ported today. But the jump was less than usual for this time of year and the new figure is 50,-000 lower than a year earlier.
October unemployment represented 4.9 per cent of the labor force, compared with 5.7 per cent in October of last year.
This is the third month in a row in which unemployment declined from the corresponding period of 1960, following 17 successive months of increases in the   year-to-year   comparison.
The number of employed persons was down 15,000 from  September and this dip was  "smaller -tf:ar. u^ual jvving to a  relatively small drop in farm employment." Non-f arm employment increased less .than usual.
The bureau said late harvesting slowed the farm labor decline which usually is sharp at this time of year.
Total employment was 1.5 per cent higher than in October of last year, matching the year-to-year increase reported for September. The figure for mid-October was 6,220,000, compared with 6,235,000 in September and 6,131,000 in October,  I960.
The picture in brief, w i t h estimates  in thousands:
Oct.    Sept.    Oct.
1961    1961    1960
Labor force 6,538   6,543   6,499
Employed     6,220   6,235   6,131
Unemployed    318      308      368
The report is based on a survey of 35,000 households across Canada.
Unemployment declined in the Atlantic region during the month, remained stable in Quebec and rose in Ontario, t h c Prairie and the Pacific region. Total employment was down in all regions except the Atlantic.
SCHOOLS   GET   ESTATE
LEXINGTON, Ky. (AP) � A former city school teacher accumulated $275,000 and left most of it to the school system, her will showed. Miss Mary Kim-brough Stoner; who died Nov. 10 at the age of 93, had much of her estate in real estate and slocks.
over five years.
BCP asked the Supreme Court Monday to rule on the legality of the Power Development Act under which BCE was taken over without the right of challenge.
BCP is seeking $225,000,000 instead of the $111,000,000 it received for all BCE common shares and seeks a fiat to sue the government for this amount.
Premier Bennett has indicated the fiat may not be granted.
In its Supreme Court writ BCP now has taken a different tack and claims the provincial legislature had no power to expropriate- the  B.C.   Electric.
The maneouvre promises to result in a long, complicated legal  battle.
The government now has eight days in which to enter an appearance and 10 days more to get its statement of defence into court.
Once a Supreme Court judge decided that the legislation is either valid or invalid, either BCP or the government could file an appeal with the B.C. Court of Appeal. From there, theoretically, the case could go to the Supreme Court of Canada.
Some observers feel that BCP's Supreme Court suit might have the effect of limiting debate on power matters at the session of the legislature opening in January, since it could still be before the courts.
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PRINCE GEORGE,  BRITISH  COLUMBIA, WEDNESDAY,  NOVEMBER  15,  1961
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LION TO STAY
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (AP) �Thor, a 200-pound African lion, may remain in Woodrow W. Woodhouse's ba�em?nt. The tity commission went to Wood-house's aid and passed a new law allowing wild animals inside the city limits providing the owners get a permit. Wood-housc purchased the'lion from
FOKBCAST
Thursday's weather, according to the meteorological department at the airport, will be cloudy with liMle change in temperature. Winds will be light.
Low tonight and high tomorrow ;it Prince George, 20 and :S5; at. Quesnel, 20 and -10; at Smithers, 25 and -10.
Peace River � Cloudy and milder. Winds southwest 25 and gusty.
Low tonight and high Thursday at Grande Prairie, 25 and �15.
L;ist 21  Hours
Hi
Prince George 31 Terrace             3S
Smithers           34
Quesnel              37
Williams Lake 31 K am loops          47
Whitehor.se 28 Font Nelson 3S Fort St. .John 38 Dawson Creek  37
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UNINVITED visitor at. the office of J ames Richardson and Sons, 235 Quebec, Tuesday was a car which went out of control after its accelerator stuck and backed through the plate glass window. No one was injured. Inspecting the damage are stenographer Mrs. Heather Anderson and manager Reg Drayson.
�Roy Fuijikawa photos
FASTER THAN CRASH OF '29
Runaway Car Hits Stock Office
Now Hear This...
Commercial Curling League crest Doc Saunders is trying to get everyone excited about is pretty splashy all right. But, oh the price, Doc . . .
You'll wonder where the hockey went, but you should have a bang-up time anyway, if you turn out to 'this year's March of Dimes schmozzle in the Coliseum. It's set for Nov. 24 and the more athletic staff members of The Citizen and CKPG are once again due to tangle in a knock 'cm down, drag 'cm out type game of something less than NHL calibre hockey . . .
Jock Gunn-Fowlie is looking for 36 women. No, his wife, doesn't mind. They're needed by the army militia, of which Jock's a member, for the filter centre to be established here. The centres 'are being set up throughout the province as part of the army's extended national survival work. Centres will receive reports from fallout reporting posts and forward the information to the provincial warning centre in Nanaimo. Jock'u a little fu^sy. He says
his 36 gals must be single or married without children. The filter centre work is only a part-time  effort for them,  however
Word is out that the Mounties are taking a pretty dim view � and rightly so � of the antics local drivers are prompted to indulge in by the icy condition of city streets. In idiot driver circle, it's known as "doing donuts." Trick is this: you cramp the wheel hard left or right and step on the gas. It works fine, too. The car usually docs tilings which many figure skaters would envy. Couple of motor maniacs apparently were given warnings the other day and it's likely that police will be even tougher in future if the dangerous game persists . . .
On the road, again: It would be an awfully good idea if Harold Pretty arranged for somebody to put clown a little sand where the curling rink road meets tJie highway. Otherwise, we're apt to have several rinks looking for players . , ,
The big crash of 1929 didn't strike half so swiftly as the big crash which struck a stock broker's office on Quebec Tuesday.
A stuck accelerator apparently caused a motorist's car to careen backwards into a plate glass window in the office of James Richardson and Sons, 235 Quebec, at 3:50 p.m. causing an estimated $1,000 damage.
Police said the driver, Bing Yee Chow of 1180. Third, was backing his 1954 sedan out from a parking spot on Second when the accelerator pedal stuck. The car wheeled in a wide arc through the Second and Quebec intersection, hurtled between two parked cars, across the sidewalk and into the large window.
"I thought it was an explosion of seme kind," said Mrs. Heather Anderson, a stenographer in the brokerage office who was sitting with her back to the window less than four feet away.
"Then I turned around and saw the car. There was a good bit of glass around but none flying through  the air."
She and manager Reg Dray-ton were the only ones in the office when the unexpected visitor arrived.
Mrs. Anderson said the force of the impact jarred the whole office.
A  heavy  steel  cabinet which
FIRE ONLY IN SLASH
A number of residents phoned police late Tuesday to report a fire on Peden Hill but it turned out to be only a slash blaze at a millsite.
Workmen had set the blaze to get rid of slash and debris from last summer's operations.
stood against the window was pushed about six feet by the impact.
Damage to the wayward car was estimated at only about $100 while the shattered window was valued at $900. It was al-
most a perfect fit. Neither side of the window's frame was touched.
RCMP said today no charges had been laid. They were continuing their investigation of the  incident.
Give Economy Boost, Bonner Urges Ottawa
TORONTO ffl � B.C. Attorney-General Bonner Tuesday said the federal government should "bestir itself" and give the private sector of the economy some assistance.
�He said "it is not enough to tell private business to 'sell harder.' " There are, he stated, problems of tariffs, trade relations and market assessments tnat require government action.
In regard to B.C.'s takeover of B.C. Electric, Mr. Bonner said "public ownership of power is not an evidence of socialism," and in this B.C. had acted in similar manner to "socialist Ontario, socialist Manitoba and socialist New Brunswick."
DRAWINGS OKAYED
Tender Call Set For Connaught
Tenders will be called Saturday for a new> Con-naught Junior High School to replace the one levelled by fire of mysterious origin in the early morning of Oct. 1. They will be returnable Dec. 12.
This was decided Tuesday night by trustees of School District 57 at a board meeting at which complete drawings a n d specifications were approved. Trustees set a completion date of Sept. 1. 1962.
Plans for the building are basically the same as those presented to the board a month ago, with a few minor changes involving the library, science room and locker rooms. Ample storage space 'and bleachers have been provided in the gym-
nasium. The    administration
section
will be completely separated from the classroom block by fire walls.
Trustees decidel to investigate several fire warning systems more fully before deciding on the type to be used, if any.
A sprinkler system would cost approximately $12,000 and must be instaUed when the building is constructed, but a smoke warning system would be much less expensive and can be installed at any time. ,'hairman Bob Range said that the best fire protection is a. ;ood fire drill by staff and; pupils. "The saving of 'human ife is our chief concern."
Completion date for at least the classroom block of the half-million dollar construction, which will house 400 students \ was definitely set for Sept. 1 1962.
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SPORTS HIGHLIGHTS
Ailing Geoffrion and Kelly weaken Canadiens and Leafs.
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Slippery field could be equalizer for junior football final.
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Nationals, down  Juveniles  in   first game  of Commercial League. (See Page 4.)
UN MAY USE FORCE
Hundreds of Congolese Troops Rise in Mutiny
LEOPOLDVILLE (AP) � Several hundred Congolese troops are rising in mutiny in two eastern Congo cities, the United Nations announced today. A spokesman declared the world body intends to put down the lawlessness by force if necessary.
3,000,000 'Died' In Nuclear Attack
PETAWAWA , Ont (CPI � This, n theory, is the capital of Canada today as the country licks he wounds left by an imagin-ry nuclear attack and counts he war dead � by now more nan 3,000,000.
If the attack were real, crews n Ottawa, 100 miles southeast f here, would later search in rubble for the bodies of Prime Minister Diefenbaker and Governor-General Vanier. Fourteen other cities would be smouldering ruins.
The survival operations of the country would be directed from a big basement fallout shelter here with Defence Minister Harkncss acting as prime minister.
But the attack wasn't real. Tuesday was the final day of exercise Tocsin B, the second cross-country test this year of Canada's national warning system  and its survival plans.
When the exercise finished Tuesday, planners knew there were many holes to plug yet in the country's survival system. However, the exercise helped to fill some gaps spotted in the first Tocsin exercise last May and others will be filled in future exercises � if the real thing doesn't come first.
Mr. Harkness said the death toll was "appalling," but a sufficient number of Canadians were left after attack�the figure given was 14,000,000 � to "reactivate the life of the nation."
He said that after a real attack, "undoubtedly it would take years" to return the country to anywhere near normal conditions.
Some 700 soldiers at Kindu refused Tuesday to hand over 13 Italian airmen they had arrested and beaten last Saturday.
UN sources said a high-level party from Leopoldville which went to negotiate their release � including the troops' army commander, Gen. Victor Lun dula � had to flee from the KIVU province town for their own safety.
'The situation continues to cause grave concern," the UN spokesman said.
From the north Katanga town of Albertville, the UN reported about 100 Congolese troops entered the city and within seven hours Tuesday created an "impossible"   situation.
Orders were sent to the Indian UN contingent at Albertville to intervene to liait' "mutinous and lawless acts," by force if negotiation proved fruitless.
A UN spokesman said the troops in Albertville arrested Europeans and Negroes, looted houses, erected a roadblock in the town and tried lo extort money  from   passersby.
Qualified sources expressed fear that the rampaging troops were acting under the direction of Lumumbist ieacer Antoinc Gizenga and that Gizenga was turning against Lundula, nominally his supporter and friend, and Christophe Gbenye, a former ally now in the Leopoldville central government.
These sources said Gizenga is believed to be in Kundu garrison. Gizenga for a time during the summer made peace with the central Congo government in Leopoldville ana' accepted the post of vice-premier, but has been holed up in his stronghold in Stanleyville for several months.
Gbenye was one of the negotiators who left Kindu Tuesday night.
WELDING OUTFIT, SAWS STOLEN
The theft of welding equipment and power saws valued at more than $600 belonging to Dutton Williams Bros. Ltd. was reported to police overnight.
Equipment was stolen from the Jamieson Construction yard on Eighteenth. It was tlie second time in less than a monlh that a large amount of construction equipment has been stolen from the com-, pany.
Provinces Must Help Universities, Diefenbaker Says
OTTAWA (CP) � The onus is on the provinces lo g i v e more, financial help to universities, Prime Minister Dleferi-, baker suggested Tuesday night.
However, he told the National Conference of Canadian Universities and Colleges there has been no "shelving" of its demands for greater federal aid.
The enormous amournts involved in NCCUC forecasts of university needs in the next 10 years required further consideration and the decision should "not he a piecemeal one," he said.
Mr. Diefenbaker said the federal government recognizes constitutional p r o b 1 e m s involved in such assistance. The provinces had a primary responsibility in the field of education.
Labor, Employer Reps Certified for Peace
VICTORIA   (CP)  �  The   Labor > sources in the two new agencies.
Relations Board Tuesday certi fied organizations which will represent labor and employers engaged in the Peace River power project.
Labor Minister Peterson announced that the Allied Hydro Council will represent all unions involved in the project and :he Peace River Power Construction Co. Ltd. will represent the B.C. Electric Company  and  sub-contractors.
The unions and employers affected have agreed to pool re-
10,000 IN CITY
Refugees Almost Double Population
About 10,000 imaginary war refugees, most of them from the Frascr Valley, were in the city today, nearly doubling the population.
They were considered by Civil Defence officials to be in Prince George. But they were only as real as the theoretical nuclear attack at the coast Monday which, had it been real, would have sent that many actual refugees here.
Mythical bombs were drop ped on Vancouver, Comox, Seattle and Tacoma as part of the Cauada-wide Civil Defence exercise Tocsin B.
The evacuees arrived here in droves from southern points. Nearly 500 were injured and were being given hospital treatment in the area.
Civil Defence Co-Ordinalor Art Frascr said Exercise Tocsin B, as far as Prince George is concerned,, was completed successfully.
Purpose of the simulated nuclear attack was to test the readiness of Canada in the event of actual atomic attack. Prince George acted as a reception area, not a target area.
Looking at the probable results, Mr. Fraser said evacuees were primarily being put
up in private homes. Others were lodged in public buildings  throughout the  city.
Rationing went into effect in the area to help take care of food distribution.
"There is no problem with food as yet," said Mr. Frascr. "There is sufficient to last indefinitely with the cattle and flour products here."
He said dairy products could possibly be difficult to maintain for the first one to two  weeks.
However, by that time, dairy products would be able to be shipped in on normal transportation routes.
The expanded population here would likely remain for more than a month. It will be reshuffled to bring families together and put them into the best possible conditions.
Residents in the area would carry on with normal work while evacuees would be given employment where possible.
At practically tlie same time the alert was given of the impending attack, the Civil Defence Act was enacted by the lieutenant-governor. The War Measures Act was enacted shortly after 4:30 p.m. Monday superceding the provincial measure.
Mr. Peterson said the move was "a great step forward" in B.C.  industrial relations.
He said it will ensure labor-management peace throughout construction of the hydro project.
It means that all wages and working conditions will be agreed upon by the two agencies instead of a large number of small, separate negotiations.
Mr. Peterson said this will avoid the possibility of a single union's dispute holding up the entire project. He said it is the first time in B.C. that such an agreement had been made.
Mr. Peterson said a similar arrangement . had also been used during construction of the St. Lawrence seaway project, and had proved "extremely effective" in keeping industrial peace.
4 BELIEVED TO BE DEAD
PRINCE RUPERT (CP)� An intensive Skeena River search was continuing today for the 'bodies of four persons believed drowned in a boating mishap.
The missing persons are Rita Wesley, Ambrose Wells, George Cooper and Roderick Green.