! The Only Daily Newspaper Serving North-Central British Columbia Phone LOgan 4-2441 Vol. 5; No. 247 PRINCE GEORGE, BRITISH COLUMBIA, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 19, 1961 7c a Copy BZ OAKRTBB 'U 50 per Mont* MEET DUE DEC. 29 HEAVIEST volume of mail in 'the Prince George Post Office's history was handled today by beleaguered postal clerks. Contending with some of the (140 sacks of mail which arrived today were regular clerks Dorothy Johnston and Jim Smith. Normal staff has been supplemented by 45 extra assistants. Main problem in deliveries, said Postmaster J. 11. Abear. 'is householders neglecting 'to shovel snow from their sidewalks, making it difficult for burdened postmen. �Vandervoort photo FINANCE MINISTER TO MEET W.A.C. VANCOUVER (CP) � Justice Minister Fulton expressed a hope Monday night that a rnect-ii! � bet vr. ::�&&-� Prein it�r-~ Bermett-antl Finance Minister Fleming might lead to a fedcral-provin-H'ial partnership under which thV Columbia River hydro-electric development can proceed. lie said he is convinced Mr. Fleming will be able to convince the B.C. premier of the soundness of the federal development proposals. At the same time, however, the justice minister � Ottawa's chief Columbia negotiator � re-pt-olod SftsSertH objbiTnnfc to outright cash sale on long-term basis of B.C.'s Columbia River downstream benefit power and stated again that the federal government will not compromise on the principles set out in the international Columbia treaty. The treaty calls for the return to B.C. of half the downstream Rare Heart Operation VANCOUVER (CP) � A 17-year-old girl who has spent most of her life in Northern B.C.'s Indian villages will undergo a rare heart operation Wednesday. Fanny Massettoe was born with a hole in her heart. The condition was discovered late this summer by a doctor with the Indian Affairs Department during a routine tuberculosis check. Meanwhile, Fanny is having her first look at city life � Mirough a hospital window. "She is very shy and very homesick, but a very brave little girl," said, a nurse. "She is one of our best patients'.!' Fanny's home is near the Hudson's Bay Co. outpost at Fort Ware on the upper reaches of the Findlay River, -too miles north of Prince George. A month ago she was flown out to Miller Bay Hospital near Prince Rupert where her condition was diagnosed. Ten days ago she was flown here for rare open heart surgery. Nurses have bought her a set of paints and she has been spending her time at the new hobby. She received her first visitor Monday�Bishop Fergus O'Gra-dy of Prince George who was on his way home from a San Francisco convention. BISHOP O'GRADY . . . visits patient Now Hear This... I Chappie in the drunk parade Monday in city police court, for the third time round, made a strong plea for a line rather than incarceration. He had a job lined up, he claimed. W h e r e ? Magistrate George Stewart wanted to know. Looking alter the Salvation Army cheer kettle .outside the liquor .store, was the reply. This was a little thick, the magistrate decided, denying the freedom wish . . . Natty Norris McLean, while dabbling with the TV weather blackboard last night, spelled Mayo (the Yukon one) Mao. Mao Tse Tung getting through to him? . . . One item on the latest list of stolen property in the RCMP shop is this: a snake container. Before you go ordering half a dozen for New Year's, a snake container is part of a plumber's equipment. . . \ Watch some of these so-called drivers who decide it's to cold to roll down the window to signal or too lazy to use automatic signals. There have been some pretty narrow shaves around town recently as a result of this. Could be the last drink before driving wasn't coffee cither . . . Williams Lake Tribune says former PG-based hot-shot salesman Ken Fuller lias opened a new business in the lake town It's called Cariboo Feed Service ... B.C. Tel has a 55-member mixed choir on a pre-taped half-hour program of Christmas music which it's distributing to local TV outlets. It's due to be shown on the local free flicker Saturday at 9 p.m. . . , benefit power, that power which results at U.S. generating installations from storage on the river in Curiada. Mr. Fulton told about 70 persons at a public meeting sponsored by the Young Progressive Conservative Association and the Enterprise Club of Vancouver that Ottawa is asking the B.C. premier to re-examine the federal government's Columbia policy. He delivered a 70-minute political speech in which most of the time was spent detailing Conservative government accomplishments since the party came to power in 1957. Sticking closely to the prepared text in a brief reference to the Columbia, Mr. Fulton said: "We in British Columbia must have this treaty. We must receive thp benefit of the cheapest power � Columbia River downstream power�in order to build the industries, create the wealth and provide the permanent jobs B.C. needs. "That is why the federal government, having got a treaty under which these things are possible, simply cannot countenance the outright sale, on a long-term basis, of British Columbia's share of the downstream benefits. "We cannot leave this province to get along with more expensive power than that which we would make available to our competitors by an outright sale." He said federal policy is aimed at assuring Canada a supply of cheap power to maximize industrial potential and meet foreseeable domestic needs. Ottawa wouldn't be "so senseless' as to leave Canada with an "unmanageable surplus." SPORTS HIGHLIGHTS Vanderhoof coach Dave Wall holds four-point lead in scoring race. � * * World hockey officials want to keep cold war out of championships. � � � Cassius Clay makes bid to meet heavyweight boxer Sonny Listen. (See page -h. MAYBE IN '62 Training X-atior.al survival training is in store for .some B-C. school children but this is not the case in Prince George. In Victoria Monday night, the Greater Victoria School Board ordered that all children attending public schools there will il BIRTH RATE DECLINES WASHINGTON UP) � There was a decline in U.S. births in 19G0. The Public Health Service says there were 4,257,850 birth registered, about 4,000 fewer than in 1959. take part in national survival training. However, District 57 School Board Chairman Bob Range said today, "We haven't even discussed it here yet but I don't doubt it will come up early next year." He did not suggest what action would be taken by the board here. School Superintendent .1. M. Phillipson said he had been waiting for a directive from Victoria on the matter to see what the Department of Education suggests doing. As yet, nothing has happened. Civil Defence co-ordinator Art Frascr felt that some sort of plan for the Prince George area will be released in January. He said no official discussion had taken place on the matter yet but he expected it soon. Meanwhile, in Victoria, Board Chairman W. C. Gelling stateu that no child would be excused on the strength of a letter from pa rents. "This board is responsible for the safety of more than 24,000 children in our schools," he said. "This responsibility can't bed clegated�no one else can assume it." The chairman said it would be "thoroughly impractical" if parents were permitted to withdraw their children from survival drills. The board iias received 12 letters and a petition with 185 signatures protesting the decision to institute survival training in schools. The petition said the program could "serve no useful purpose" and it "can have harmful psychological effects." Trustee George Curran said that as a father of seven he expected the board to set up a survival plan fur youngsters in school. "What about the parents who arc buying guns and war toys for their children?" said trustee Mrs. E. M. Maunseil. "Aren't they* likely to cause more harmful psychological effects?" MORE REQUIRED FOR NEEDY HERE Goodwill Club President Norman McPherson said today more cash and clothing, toys and non-perishable groceries can he used. Money maybe, deposited in the club's account at the Toronto-Dominion Banjc Cash is used to purchase perishable foods. More than 250 hampers will be delivered to needy families Friday. Killed in Stores in Prince George will remain open Wednesday to G p.m. to handle the heavy pre-Christmas shopping rush. Thursday and Friday the doors will be open to 9 p.m. and to 6 p.m. Saturday. Clerks will enjoy a three-day weekend returning to work 9 a.m. to noon Dec. 27. Staff members of The Citizen will observe the holiday weekend. The first newspaper after Christmas will be published Wednesday with a complete roundup of holiday happenings. Provincial government employees will enjoy an extra day off Jan. 2 to make up losing July 1, which this year fell on a Saturday. BURNS LAKE (Correspondent) � A resident of the district was killed Monday when he was run over by a tractor at Nicholson's lumber camp, 12 miles west of Francois Lake. His name was being withheld by RCMP until relatives were notified. FORECAST Coldest spots this morning were Mayo, Y.T., with -57, and Snag and Dawson City with -56. Watson Lake was a cold -49 with Dawson Creek at -41. Intermittent snow is forecast for the Cariboo, Prince George and Bulkley Valley regions with temperatures not quite so cold and light winds. Low tonight and high on Wednesday at Prince George, -5 and 10; Ques-nel and Smithcrs, 0 and 15. Peace River � Clouding over with light snowflurries. Not quite so cold. Winds southeast 15. Low tonight and high tomorrow at Grande Prairie, -25 and -15. Last 24 Hours Hi Lo Prec. Prince George ' -4 -1) .07 Terrace 16 7 trace Smithers 6 -3 .03 Quesnel 0 -7 trace Williams Lake 0 -8 .. Kamloops 16 14 .12 Whitehorse -13 -30 .03 Fort Nelson -25 -29 .01 Fort St. John -26 -32 .01 Dawson Creek -27 -41 VICTORIA (CP)�Transport Minister West-wood saiil Monday he "certainly hopes" directors of the Pacific Northern Railway will decide on the fate of the project at a meeting in Vancouver Dec. 2i). "1 hope they go ahead with it," he said. "It could be of immeasurable value not only in relieving the unemployment crisis but in getting something going in t h a t part of the country." Shareholders and directors of the PNR will meet to review accounts, elect directors a n d transact "other business," according t:> a formal notice of the meeting- The PNR was set up by the associates of the Late Swedish financier Axel Wenner-Gren to build a railway from Summit Lake 30 miles north of Prince George to the Yukon border. The company failed to meet a Nov. 1 deadline imposed by the government, by which time it was to have let a contract for clearing the first 100 miles of right-of-way. '77s Season To Be Jolly, W.A.C. Tells Reporters VICTORIA (CP)�'Tis the season to be jolly and nasty old politics should be forgotten, Premier Bennett said Mon-day. Reporters met him on his way to a cabinet meeting, but he said he wouldn't discuss a n y controversial subject be-c a u s c it's Christmas time. "The premier is full of the Christinas spirit," said Mr. Bennett. "I am not entering into any political c o n t r o versy. Just say I have the very best feelings towards Mr. Perrault, Mr. S'trachan and Mr. Fulton." W. A. C. BENNETT . . . silent night FLYING TACKLE VANCOUVER (CP) � B.C. Power Corporation shareholders voted overwhelmingly Monday n favor of capital distribution of $87,890,000 and against selling their shares to the B.C. government. At a special general meeting 90.4 per cent favored a general distribution of $18.70 a share. Turned down by 96.3 per cent was a resolution to accept the government's offer of $38 each 7or B.C. Power shares. Distribution will be made to shareholders of record Dec. 15. The money represents the major part of $110,985,045 paid to he corporation by the provincial government as compensa-.ion for the takeover of the B.C. Electric Co. Aug. 1. Only 256 of the company's 22,000 shareholders attended the meeting. Of these 52 had already given proxies to other shareholders. VANCOUVER (OP) � An armed holdup man fleeing Monday through a department store crowd of Christmas shoppers turned on produce clerk Malcolm Colling and shouted: "Don't come after me or I'll shoot." Colling, 20. looked at t h e bandit's revolver for an instant then brought him down with a flying tackle. The clerk said later he saw that four chambers in the revolver cylinder were empty and gambled that the other t w o also contained no cartridges. He said he heard the weapon click while he lunged and knew that his gamble had paid off. Two police constables took the gunman into custody in the downtown store of Hudson's Bay Co. ending a wild chase which began two blocks away at the Guaranty Trust Co. of Canada about 4 p.m. Police said the bandit confronted Guaranty Trust teller Elaine Berry with his revolver and demanded money. She ducked behind the counter and shouted. "There's a holdup." The bandit fired a shot into planter and fled to the street with accountants Walter Funk and Don King, 23, in pursuit. The gunman turned and fired at King, hitting him in the knee. He was in satisfactory condition in hospital with a flesh wound. Several passersby joined the chase and shouted ahead while the bandit clucked along back alleys and through a parking lot. He fired again at another of his pursuers and the shot grazed Jimmy Cawalader, 15, who was sitting in a parked truck. The boy was not hurt. WILLIAMS LAKE TV ON AGAIN WILLIAMS LAKE (Special) � Li\x> television, which went on the air here last month and was subsequently cut off due to failure of a local group to meet fund commitments, is back on the air. Cariboo TV Association is nearing the $2.r>,000 needed to �pay for the television relay tower here. On the strength of CFCU-TV in once again relaying jj grams lo the Cariboo FOURTH ANNUAL The USAF plane being used in Operation Reindeer Ibis year struggled off the ground here today in -5 degree temperature and headed the 600 air miles north to Watson Lake where it. was a chilly -49 degrees. Members of the Prince George Lions Club and airmen from the U.S. Air Force Baldy Hughes radar station are fighting the elements to take Christmas presents to 187 Indian children at Lower Post, near7 Watson Lake. This is the fourth year the trip has been made from here. At 9 a.m., the four-motored U.S. Air Force DC-6 aircraft look off on its five-hour flight to Watson Lake. It carried Christmas gifts, candy, mandarin oranges and nuts for the Indian children. Santa Claus was on the flight, too. A big party is planned tonight for the children and teachers at the school. The party of merry-makers will return Wednesday. Priest in charge of the Roman Catholic school at Lower Post, Father Yvon Lcvaque, asked the Lions Club here four years ago to help make Christmas a happier event for his many little charges. Leaping into the breach, the Lions and the USAF at Baldy Hughes have since worked together to provide the children with Christmas gifts especially chosen here by a shopping committee and wrapped in a special wrapping bee. MAJOR ALFRED NAIGLE of Baldy Hughes greets Col. Robert R. Gideon, commander of the Seattle NOR AD sector at McChord Air Force Base, Wash., before they continued on together to Watson Lake. They are taking part in Operation Reindeer, taking presents to children at the Indian residential school at Lower Post, B.C. �Vandervoort photo W1IITEHORSE, Y.T. (CP)� A. W. Miller of Edmonton, counsel for Norman S. Cham-berlist, said a statement of claim would be filed here today seeking a declaration that Mr. Chamberlist is and continues to be the lawfully-elected member of the Yukon Territorial Council for Whitehorse East. Mr. Miller said the statement also will seek a declaration that Commissioner F. II. Collins and Speaker J. O. Livesey of the council acted without lawful justification and in excess of their powers in declaring the Whitehorse East scat vacant and calling for a byelection. Mr. Chamberlist was ousted from council last month after a linn in which he had an interest was declared successful bidder on a government contract. The seat was declared vacant. Mr. Chamberlist said that he had no interest in the company when it won the-contract. Mr. Miller said an application will be made to the territorial court for an injunction restraining chief electoral officer Nelson J. Castonguay from proceeding with an election writ. Mr. Chamberlist will file the statement and the Edmonton lawyer will take over as soon as he is admitted to the Yukon bar, probably Jan. 4. The defendants have eight days to file a defence and the case would be heard by Mr. Justice John Parker of the territorial court. The federal justice department is expected to say who will act for Commissioner Collins and Speaker Livesey. MANY SUFFERING FROM VIRUSES An increased amount*, of respiratory ailments aim gastroenteritis, 'flu-like illnesses, have been reported recently in the Cariboo Health Unit area. However, said Dr. G. H. Bonham, director of the unit, there have been no laboratory studies made to determine what virus has been responsible for the illnesses. It was not known what effect they have had on student attendance in the school district.