1'llOPOSED PLANS for a new Royal Canadian Region Bfandh 4u building, designed by architect IJynden Foriseca, will be presented for approval to a general membership meeting at 8 tonight. Estimated corft of the two-storey structure, including furnishings, is $150,000. It would be located on lour lets in the l.'500-blcck of Seventh. An adjacent parking lot would have space for 33 cars. Building would be of steel, concrete and timber construction. Plans call for a start on construction eaily in the spring.
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TWO-YEAR TERM
FOOTINGS
Highways Minister Gagiardi announced Fi-iday that Poole Construction Ltd. of Calgary has been awarded a contract to build footings for the new Fraser
River bridge  here.
The contract is for $491,432, and Gagiardi said work will begin  shortly.
The bridge will cross the river south of South Fort George, linking'the new highway bypass through the city along Central with the proposed new road south of the airport.
Overall length of the bridge, including approach will be 1,200 feet. It will have three spans with a 417-foot centre span.
The two-lane bridge is of the type known as a continuous deck truss span.
Earlier, a highways department spokesman estimated the construction would take at least 18 months and would be ready for use by the spring of 1963. , Prpmjer W. A. C. Bennett an-.
nouncod -tlio   RovtM-nmemt's   plan
to start construction in a speech here Sept. 16.
JETLINER SETS PACIFIC RECORD
TOKYO (AP) � A Canadian Pacific Airlines DC-8 jetliner set a new non-stop, trans-Pacific record today, flying 4,728 miles from Vancouver to Tokyo in 10 hours and three minutes, a CPA spokesman said.
The spokesman said the Empress of Vancouver, captained by C. A. Anderson of Vancouver, beat the previous record set by another CPA DC-8 Nov. 30. That was 10 liours  lo  minutes.
MOST   DOCTORS
GENEVA i.l'i � Israel leads the world with one doctor for every 420 inliab:tauLs,.-Ji>ll()-,v.H| by the SAoviet Union with one for 550, the World Health Organization   reports.
�SNOW
FORECAST
Sunday morning's low reading of -30 at the airport was not only the coldest reading this month, it was the coldest December reading since December J8, 1965, when the'mercury fell to -46.4 degrees. Normal minimum for December is -19. Tuesday's forecast is for cloudy weather with a few snowflurries, little change in temperature and light winds. Low tonight and high tomorrow at Prince George, -5 and 10; at Quesnel, 0 and 10; at Smilh-crs, 10 and 20.
Peace River � Variable cloudiness, continuing very cold. Light winds. Low tonight and high tomorrow at Grande Prairie, -20 and -10.
Last 24 Hours
Hi   Lo Prcc.
Prince George      -3    -16    .00 Terrace                 18     16
Smithers               n      G    .04
Quesnel                 0    -17     .10
Williams  Lake       2      -5     .04 Kamloops              18    10
Whitohorse            1G      2
Fort   Nelson         -8    -17
Fort St.  John      -10    -17 Dawson   Creek    -11    -27
Record low temperatures. swept the Prairie provinces Sunday and overnight as prevailing cold weather continued to stall cars and nip exposed ears, fingers and noses.
The lowest temperature in Alberta Sunday was at Grande Prairie where the temperature plunged to 40 below zero. The record for Dec. 10 was 24 below in 1948. Dawson Creek also hit 10 below, although no previous record was available at I h e Dominion weather office here.
Warmer, but still cold, Pen-hold, 12 miles south of Red Deer, struck nine below, eclipsing the former scven-below record of 1948.
In Edmonton, the early-morning temperature dropped to 28 below while at Winnipeg it was 14 below. Saskatoon 25 below. Rcgina 19 below and Calgary 19 below.
The dominion weather office said the weather will continue cold and clear with minimum temperatures ranging from 15 below to 35 below.
The coldest spot recorded early today w a s Whitecourt, Alta.. 110 miles northwest of Edmonton, where it was 39 below.
Now Hear This...
Skip Jack Greenwood thinks lie curling club should have .onger games. After his rink ft'as down 17-0 on the ninth", and he just got started on the 10th with a two-ender, there wasn't any more time left . . .
Northern British Columbians are talking fondly these days about the fact the Peace River project will .result in the biggest power dam in the world � if and when it gets finished. But Prince George can brag about a "big" that's already here � the Highland Sweet Shoppo on Brunswick between Third and Fourth has on display in; its show window the world's biggest chocolate bar, a whopping 10-pound bar which is on sale for $7.50 .  .  .
Speaking of Christmas dinners, friends are wondering how well Bert Jerferios enjoyed the Xmas cake last night when he was guest at the Jim Me-Intyres. Seems Bert was served the cake on a plate and thinking it was a special meat dish he carefully covered it with salt and pepper and gravy before eating it ...
Youngsters of Mr. and Mrs. Herb Roberts really thought the spirit of Christmas had taken hold when they saw Hal Van-dervoort's photo in The Citizen Friday of Mayor Garvin Oezell happily embracing his wife after his election victory. The youngsters didn't bother to read the cutlines under the picture, but took for granted it was His Worship crushing rival candidate  Carrie  Jane   Gray   .   .   .
Word around the block is that the Toastmasters staged a humdinger of a skit at their Christmas party t'other night with the Toastmistresses. Theme was how Toastmasters get to Heaven and stars included John Frey as St. Peter and Bill Jones as Gabriel  .   .  .
The spirit of Christmas invaded the banking business early Sunday morning when Bank of Montreal Manager Weldon Steel got his car stuck in the snow in the 30-below weather, and enlisted the support of Royal Bank Boss-man Wilf Pat-tenden to get the vehicle unstuck. Took quite  a  while,  too
Steel Has Half Nickel Men, Organizer Says
TERRY   MANCINI ... 50 per cent
SUDBURY, Ont. iCPi � Organizer Terry Mancini claimed Sunday night at a union meeting that the United Steel-workers of America (CLC) have union cards signed by more than half the International Nickel Co. employees now represented by the International Union of Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers (Ind.).
"I am happy to say that 225 cards now arc in my possession. That makes it over 50 per cent."
A letter from Claude Jodoin, president of the Canadian Labor Congress, expressed hope the Sudbury workers would follow the lead of Inco workers at Port Colborne, who last week voted to be represented   by   the   Stcelworkers.
Sentence
JERUSALEM (Reuters)�
Adolf EicJimann today was found "guilty of masterminding the assembly-line murder of millions of Jews during the Second World War.
The former Nazi lieutenant-colonel stood erect with his eyes riveted on the three judges as the historic verdict was passed on the 15 counts against him, 12 of which carry the death penalty.
He was convicted of crimes against the Jewish people, crimes against humanity, war crimes and membership in a hostile   organization.
Justice Moshe Landau, in a voice heavy with emotion, declared "there is nothing more serious than the crimes with which you have been charged� he worst crimes of the Hitlerite period . . ."
Eichmann showed no sign of emotion as Landau announced the verdict in the tense silence of the courtroom.
Eichmann was ordered to sit down after the verdict was announced. He sank back in the chair in his bullet-proof glass cage with a slight shrug of his shoulders.
He swallowed hard and his face often twitched but his gaze never left the three judges and the Mcnora (the state of Israel emblem) above their heads.
The accused was expected to remain in the cage for at least two days while the 100,000-word judgment is r e a d. The sentence is expected Friday.
Landau said the trial was "not the first time the holocaust has been brought up in courts of law."
At the post-war Nuernberg and subsequent trials, he said the issue of crimes against the Jews had been raised but this was the first time it had stood at the centre of a trial.
"We have heard here in detail of the sufferings of the Jewish people, the heroism of the camp inmates and ghetto and partisan fighters," he said.
"Questions of great import lave arisen and call for clarification.
"How could all this have happened in the light .of day?. Why was il just tho German people thai caused all this? Could it have been averted had the allies shown the will to assist the persecuted Jews?
A Prince George district man j was recovering in hospital today from injuries suffered when he was struck by a car Sunday and thrown some 60 feet.
Herman Robnick, 26, of the Island Cache was in "satisfactory" condition with a compound fracture of the left leg and  multiple bruises.
RCMP said Robnick and a companion, Darryl Moore, 21, were standing at the side of the Hart Highway four miles north of the city after they had stopped to assist a motorist when a southbound vehicle struck them.
Moore was released from hospital after treatment for minor injuries.
RUSSIAN ORDERED OUT BY OTTAWA
OTTAWA (CP)~A military attache at the Russian embassy has been ordered out of Canada for trying to buy secret information from a government employee, it was announced today.
The external affairs department said today it requested the embassy last Thursday to arrange for the departure of Lt.-Col. A. F. Loginov, assistant military attache.
It said Loginov was arrested by the RCMP in the act of receiving secret documents from a government employee.
North Nechako rura representative Shirley'Gay Preston is the new rura area trustee on the boarc of School Distinct 57.
Mr. Preston, supervising ag riculturist for the provlncla government, was elected to i two-year term of office at the annual rural representative's meeting Friday, He succeeds All' Wilson, whose two-yeai term expires this month.
The two city trustees whose terms expired this year, Bol Range and Hay Atkinson, were re-elected by acclamation.
In his opening remarks tc the meeting, school boan chairman Range, who has jus completed his 10th year of of fice. loked back on a decade o: progress and growth in the dis trict.
From  2,000 students  in   tlie area   10  years  ago,  enrol men has   increased   to   6,600  and   i; Bv-nected   to   reach   10,000   by 19G8, he said.
Mr. Range stated that the aim of the board is "to offei equal educational opportunitie to everyone throughout the district" and "to have Prince George become an eclucatjdria centre serving the northern half of the province."
The discontinuance of one room rural schools whe'revei possible and the greater emphasis placed on higher educa Lion in tlie district have contributed lo this goal.
"As the university entrance requirements are much high er now, we will be paying more attention to Grade 13," Mr. Range said.. "The program started two years ago, of bring-lnR*TTBC  professors- to  Prince
OcorKL',   �nn   (irovcil    nncccssrul
and has been of direct benefit to teachers In the area. We hope to continue this liaison with URC and even to advance it and raise even higher the level of education that can be obtained in this district."
Dstrict Superintendent J. M. Phllllpson spoke highly of the members of the school board. Their co-operation and ability to take prompt action when necessary was illustrated after the recent fire at Connaught Junior High School when immediate problems were settled almost at once, he said.
Mr. PhiHipson told rural representatives that he would be available in his office every Friday to discuss their problems. He asked representatives 'to be alert to population changes and community needs for classrooms in their areas, in order to include their requests in the spring budget.
In a question and answer period during the meeting, rural representatives brought various matters to the attention of the board.
MERRY CHRISTMAS ANYWAY�In spite of tension along the Berlin demarcation line, the West Berlin Senate is having this big Christmas tree put up near 'the famous checkpoint Charlie as a greeting to East Berl'ihers.                               (Radiophoto)
SPORTS HIGHLIGHTS
Mohawks use two goalies in defeating Williams  Lake.
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Alec Rjtspn and Irv Pollack lead Quesnel to win over locals. '                           *        �       �
Montreal Canadians have record of 12 games without a  loss.  (See  Page 4.)
WORK COMMITTEE
To Be Asked of City
City council will be asked to turn the Municipal Swimming Pool into a y ear-around operation.
Winter Employment Committee decided at a recent meeting to approach the city either to complete the present pool on Third or consider constructing another pool for indoor use.
SHIP PROBES SUB REPORT
ESQUIMALT (CPi � The destroyer escort Saguenay Sunday night was sent to Stuant Island, in Calm Channel, 140 miles northwest of Vancouver, to investigate a submarine sighting report.
The Royal Canadian Navy establishment here said the lighthouse keeper on the isolated island reported sighting a periscope.
Quesnel
Gof Livo TV
Might
QUESNEL (Special) � Live television may come to Quesnel in the spring. A recent survey indicated it would be feasible to extend live TV service from Kamloops,    according    to    Ian
lark, manager of CFCIt-TV in Kamloops.
Live TV could be channelled to Quesnel through a hookup with the Cariboo network which las placed Williams Lake and joints south within the Kam-oops station's orbit.
A relay station would be required at an estimated installa-ion cost of Slu.OOO. The Cariboo TV Association has been set up .o raise the cost of the booster nstallation.
Cost to the individual set owner has been estimated at $25 which, under the proposed plan, is the sole outlay required.
Meanwhile,  TV screens from
Clinton   to  Williams  Lake   will
emain  dark  until the Cariboo
TV   Association   raises   $25,000,
due under  an   agreement  with
FCR-TV.
HIEF'S TROUSERS RIPPED BY SHOT
CAMPBELLFORD, Ont. CD �Police Chief Samuel Baird escaped injury Sunday night when a shotgun blast ripped his trouser leg as he fought with a man who held him and five other policemen at bay for .two hours.
During a two-hour siege of a house, the man fired several shots from two shotguns and two rifles from the rooftop.
Police persuaded him to come down. The man fired as Chief Baird lunged at the gun and tried to twist it away.
Committee member Bob Strom pointed out there w ere no facilities here for swimmers during the winter. He suggested an Olympic style pool could be used by hundreds of people. Equipment could be as high as 70 per cent of the total cost. Since the WEC thought the city might already have some plans for covering the existing pool, it will be asked to con sider doing the project undei the winter work assistance scheme.
More winter work co-operation by the city and a gas company was urged.
A contractor on the committee, Wayne Thompson, said the city requires a frost bond of $75 when pulling in sewer pipes to homos durine tho . winter. "A lot of contractors are disturbed about this," Mr. Thompson said.
He explained that the city puts a man on the job to watch fires which thaw out the frost. The men watching the f ires arc charged to the contractor through the bond.
"The city is interested in win ter work but not at their expense," he said. He felt, as some other contractors did, that the city might pay half and spread the winter connection costs throughout the year. Similarly, Inland Natural Gas Co. charges contractors $1 a foot to dig in a gas line to a house during the winter months. The winter employment committee heard that the average cost would be $70 a house.
"If it docs cost more in the winter, why not spread it over the year," said Mr. Thompson.
THE END � Emmanuel De-merah, G7, is quitting the Capitol Theatre in Ottawa, after working tickets and backstage for 41 years and not seeing a movie for the last 25 years. Hates 'em, he says. He's retiring.
Roadblocks on the Hart Highway checked hunters over the weekend for guns and game.
Provincial game officials said three blocks were set up in the last week at the weigh station on the Hart Highway.
"We are trying to determine the proportion of game compared to the number of hunters," said an official.
He said game branch employees also checked rifles. A total of nine have been taken from hunters.
The check is being conducted on behalf of the biology branch of the department.
Mountain goat and moose are still in season until Dec. 15. Deer season closed Dec. 3. All bird hunting finished the same day.
D. C. Thackor, managing editor of The Citizen, was elected president of the Prince George Agricultural and Industrial Association at the group's annual meeting Friday succeeding Mrs. Carrie Jane Gray.
Aid. Dick Yardley was elected vice-president; Mrs. Evelyn Robertson, secretary; E. C. Crowe,  treasurer.
Directors elected are Joe Russman, Sven Christensen, Bob Borrie, Art Murray, Harry Loder, Stu Wood, Martin Cainc, Harry Workman, Gordon Stcn-ntr. -iwaiiiTce�ciaTKT"ur.' 'Bill Saunders, Mrs. Russell Johnston, Mrs. Olive Cummings, Mrs. Alexandra Bellos and Mrs. Verna Wilson.
Two weekend parties were windup affairs for the first n a ti o n a 1 survival training course in Prince George.
After six weeks of intensive training, trainees and wives, totalling 88 persons, met Friday at the Armory men's lounge for a buffet - dancing party.
Saturday night, 40 persons met at the officers' and senior NCOs' lounge. Twelve couples from the city were guests of staff personnel who conducted the .six-week course.
In appreciation of the cooperation     shown     by     local
Izens, Major Marry Gourley, officer commanding, praised them for assisting in making the course a complete success. The second course will commence in early January.
Guest list included Mayor and Mrs. Garvin Dczeir, Mr. and Mrs. Arran Thomson, Mr. and Mrs. Bill Jones, RCMP Inspector and Mrs. I. ('. Shank, RCMP Staff-Sergeant and Mrs. ]. A. Knox. Civil Defence Coordinator Dt.-Col. and Mrs. Ar-hur Fraser. Mr. and Mrs. Dory rhaeker, Mr. and Mrs. Bob Harkihs, Mr. and Mrs. John BaHee, F/O and Mrs. I). E. Waller, and A Coy IlMK's Major and .Mrs. A If Strom, 'apt. and Mrs. Jock Gunn-Fow-ie, Capt. and Mrs. R. ,1. Deac-m, ('apt. and Mrs. Newton Steacyi Capt. and Mrs. Tom Allen, Lieut, and Mrs. Loe La-voie, Lieut, and' Mrs. E. M. 'orter and Lieut. Jim Lehman.
FIERCE FIGHTING CONTINUES
Jets Smash Industrial Area
CP from Reuters-AP ELISABETMVIDLiE�Katanga
resident Moisc Tshombc today accused I he UN of 'trying to dc-troy Katanga's economy as his government announced new UN trafing   of   the   important   in-lustrial centre of Kolwezi. The   secessionist   leader   ac-used the UN of acting on be-alf of U.S. bankers in its  at-empted   destruction  of Katanga's   industrial  interests.
He made the statement as leavy fighting continued to rage n the outskirts of Elisabtheville n the seventh day of the fierce truggle for control of the cap-tal between the UN and de-ianl Katangan army forces.
Tshombc said UN jets already had annihilated Kolwezi's economic potential for several months with strafing raids.
But after he spoke, his government announced new strafing raids against installations of the Union Miniere mining' company in Kolwezi, 150 miles northwest of here, as well as attacks on the centre of the town and its Negro quarter.
The announcement said two Swedish SAAB fighters made several raids on the town and blew up an oil depot, sending "giant flames" shooting into the sky. Fires also were reported in other parts of Kolwezi.
The   government   spokesman
said there were no casualty figures yet but added: "We fear the worst."
The statement said one of the �targets of the strafing was one of the world's most modern copper processing plants � at Luilu, near Kolwezi.
The Katangan spokesnian said none of the targets attacked at Kolwezi was military, but they were vital for the country's over-all war effort.
Two SAABs and a Canberra jet bomber made screaming runs over the centre of Elisa-bcthville Sunday and pumped rockets into the Katanga troops' (Continued on Page 3}