SPORTS HIGHLIGHTS Ten post-season U.S. football games on tap in busy windup. � � � Andy Bathgate picks up commanding 10-point lead in NHL scoring race. * � � Pep talk by Harvey brings results with Rangers. (See Pages 4 and 5.) ACTIVITIES NORMAL AGAIN City Settles Down Between Holidays By JACK JAMIESON Citizen Staff Reporter In the three-day lull between the Christmas and New Year celebrations, Prince George today settled down to the normal routine as if nothing special had happened or was about 'to occur. If anything, the pace was slower as residents picked up where they left off prior to Christmas. Stores kept their normal Wednesday hours, closing at noon. Although storekeepers might have expected quite a number of shoppers to restock dwindling supplies after three days of shut doors, most were relatively shy of customers. The liquor store opened with regular hours today, closing at 6 p.m. A spokesman at City Hall said all employees were busy working today catching up after the weekend. A city council meeting was held this afternoon. Banks were operating as usual with the 3 p.m. closing time. The Department of Highways today said crews were busy clearing out side roads. Over the Christmas holiday, crews were mainly concerned with clearing main roads and keep- 2^ ing them as safe as possible. MP^SInftfB n n�)V( A spokesman said the road JIIH9EU&U U Wfl|J crows were busiest near Honeymoon Creek and the Pine Pass area. He said 32 inches of snow had fallen there since ONLY 20 MINOR MISHAPS HERE Despite heavy holiday traffic and icy streets during the long weekend only 20 automobile accidents, all of them minor, were reported to police. Two persons were injured. Richard Lattman, 875 Vancouver, and Richard Norberg, <18(i Harper, were treated at Prince George Regional Hospital and later released. Lattman suffered a broken arm and face lacerations and Norberg was treated for face cuts. BOTH OKAY Found by RCAF EDMONTON (CP> � John Lang-don, 42, and Blake MaoKenzie, 47, both of Edmonton, spent Christmas in Fort Nelson after being stranded six days by bad weather in the storied Nahanni River Valley (sometimes called Headless Valley) in the Northwest Territories. Langdon and McKenzic left Nahanni Butte, NWT Dec. 18 for a 105-mile flight west to McMillan Lake. They were not heard from until Sunday, when UW were spotted nr.ar ..the lake hy "" RCAF Albatross rescue aircraft from Winnipeg. MacKenzie said Monday in a telephone interview he and Langdon were "just preparing to take off when the rescue aircraft arrived." He said they suffered no ill effects while "socked in" and their sin^le-engined Cessna 180 aircraft was not damaged. The two men flew into- McMillan Lake to work on a documentary film about the Nahanni Valley. HOME DESTROYED QUESNEL (CP)�The family dog awakened ,the Ronnie Wil-kins family in time for them to escape in theri night clothes as fire broke out and destroyed their home Saturday. Destroyed along with the home was a store and the Cot-tonwood Post Office, 20 miles from Quesncl on the Barker-ville road. WASHINGTON (AP) � Mrs. VVpodrow Wilson is critically ill with a respiratory infection and complications. Her doctor said the 8!)-year-old widow of t h e former president has been ill for three weeks. NO HOLIDAY FOR THIEVES Thieves didn't take a holiday at Christmas. They broke into the Elks' Club, 1192 Fifth, and stole $80 in cash from the juke box and a bottle of gin. A key left on an outside windowsill for night drivers provided the means of entrance for burglars who broke into R. A. Ewen Transfer, 670 Second. They stole a camera, tools, cigarets and a bottle of rum. Friday and heavy overcast clouds existed there today. Roads and highways throughout the area are slippery but are being sanded. At the provincial government building, all offices were busy cleaning up year-end business. Jan. 3, 1962, has been declared a holiday for provincial employees, giving them one more long weekend. Preparations are now starting for the new Year's Eve parties. Much of the celebrating is being done at private parties this year since New Year's Eve falls on a Sunday. Liquor lounges and beer parlors will be closed. Prince George residents had the talkingest Christmas ever. A record 1,677 long distance phone calls were placed Christmas Day exceeding last year's total of 1,340 by more than 300. Xmas Merry for Heart Patients VANCOUVER CPl � Fanny Massettoe and Virginia Parrent came through the Christmas excitement just fine, thank you. St. Paul's Hospital reported today that the two heart patients arc in "fairly good" condition. Fanny, 17-yoar-old Indian girl from Northern B.C., underwent surgery last Wednesday to repair a hole in her heart. By Christmas Day, she was fit enough to enjoy the hospital's turkey dinner and to entertain half a dozen visitors, acquaintances she has met since coming to Vancouver from Miller Bay near Prince Rupert. Mrs. Parrent, 19-ycar-old mother of two from the Lower Mainland district of Coquitlam, underwent similar surgery Dec. 13 and she was able to spend Christmas Day visiting with her liusband, Bert, 19, and her family, who came to the hospital with their gifts. BIRD KILLS MAN MANILA (Reuters)�A gamecock attacked and killed a cock-fighting referee in the southern Philippines. The bird, enraged after being struck by its opponent, knocked down the referee, a 49-ycar-old father of seven children, and attacked lim with its spur as he lay on the ground. Now Hear This... The Christmas holiday brought happiness to last for many years to residents of the Senior Citizens' Home in the form of a Heintzman piano � gift of John Mclnnis. The folks want to express their appreciation to Mr. Mclnnis, the Royal Purple for the table and chairs set, and to many other persons for gifts and kind acts which made Christmas such a happy one The truckdriver's friend Harry Loder wants it known that no pro cannonballer would ever lose a chunk of radium or any other hot material off a van. Seems transport drivers secure every load they put on the trucks . . . The Jaycees are still plugging Traffic Safety Month, which got underway Dec. 1. It's been noticed that people arc watching the way they drive a little more during December too, a spokesman said. Concern showed by a young man who ran over a small brown dog on Victoria Christmas Day is commendable, considering that many motorists don't even bother to stop when they hit an animal. The driver, whose identity is unknown but who was very upset over the incident came to the door at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Billy Munro, thinking it was their dog he had killed. It was not. But he was most anxious that the owner of the animal understand that the dog darted out from the alley and he could not stop in time. So if it was your dog, those are the unfortunate facts of Uiti matter . . . THE The Only Daily Newspaper Serving North-Central British Columbia Phone LOgan 4-2441 Vol. 5; No. 251 PRINCE GEORGE, BRITISH COLUMBIA, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 27, 1961 7c a Copy BY OAHRIKR ' ki 5(1 Der Month I SANTA didn't forget the kiddies in hospital although the helicopter in which he was to arrive wasn't able to leave Fort St. John to take him to the ihsti-titution due to inclement weather. He went to the hospital by more conventional method � a sleigh. He's shown here, after delivering gifts to child and adult patients from the Kinsmen Club, with Margaret Utz, 11, Len Quaw, 6, and Hospital Administrator Gordon Townend. �Roy Fujikawa photo TRUE Spirit of Christmas was exemplified when members of the Prince George Goodwill, Club delivered more than 25U hampers to needy families. The hampers' contents, were donated by various city organizations and individuals. Among those making the rounds were Airs. Carell McPherson and Walter Burns. �Roy Fujikawa photo PM TO MEET VANIER Dief SfilE Silent on Cabinet OTTAWA CP) � Prime Minister Diefenbaker said today he expects to meet Governor-General Vanicr Thursday morning in Quebec City and with his cabinet there right after lunch. However, he declined following a long conference with Finance Minister Fleming, to indicate what cabinet changes if any are likely to be made at Quebec City. But he did not deny that there might be changes. Mr. Fleming, who appeared visibly disturbed after leaving the prime minister's office on Parliament Hill, declined a direct reply to reporters who asked whether he will assume another portfolio or leave the cabinet. Later, an informed source told the Canadian Press that Mr. Fleming is not leaving the cabinet, despite some Ottawa rumors to that effect. Meanwhile, Mr. Diefenbaker confirmed that he will be going to Quebec City by train this afternoon and that all the available MEYER DIES LUEDENSCEID, West Germany (CP-Reuters) � Kurt Meyer, the German SS general and onetime bodyguard of Hitler whose death sentence for the wartime murder of 18 Canadian prisoners of war was commuted to life imprisonment, died Saturday night of a heart attack. He was 51. ministers will assemble there. Reporters persisted in asking him for information and the prime minister said sharply "everything will be available tomorrow." RCMP Continuing Probe into Bombing Attempt GRAND FORKS iCF) � RCMP today continued an investigation into an attempt to blow up a Canadian Pacific Railway bridge in a rcsidental area here Christmas Eve. Six sticks of dynamite planted under the bridge failed to explode because of a defective timing device. ON HART HIGHWAY Lost Radioactive Found A piece of radioactive material, the object of an intense weekend search on the Hart Highway, was found this morning. An employee of Industrial X-Ray of Calgary, Gordon Dempsey, found the material near Honeymoon Creek, north of Mc-Leod's Lake. He found the material with a geiger counte r a f t e r being 1) r o u g h t here for the search. RCMP and Civil Defence Coordinator Art Fraser in Prince George were notified of the discovery by Department of Highways radio. Meanwhile, a Dawson Creek man who said lie had picked the material up while en route to Penticton was examined by doctors at the Okanagan city but no trace of radiation was found. Hugh Forsythe, a 30-year-old trucker, could still be found to have been contaminated, however, since it could take 10 to 14 days before the radioactivity shows up. The radioactive source was being transported from Lac La Hache to Calgary when it apparently bounced from the back of the truck. The means by which it got out of the lead cylinder remains a mystery. The material is used to test pipeline welding for faults. Police scoured the area where the material was believed to be with a geiger counter. 13 Die in B.C. ins Weekend By The Canadian Press Thirteen persons died in B.C. during the four-day Christmas loliday weekend. Five died in traffic accidents, four in fires and four in miscellaneous mis-laps. Two elderly persons, identi-ied'as Mrs. Gordon Lamb, 54, and James Thomas Carpenter, 6, died Sunday when fire destroyed the Coldstream Hotel n Vernon. Police said a cigaret may have caused the blaze. Joshua Davits, 58, and Harold Dayton, 57, died in separate fires in Vancouver Sunday. Mrs. Grace Warmald, about 80, of West Vancouver, died Christmas day following a collision on the Pattulo Bridge in New Westminster. Her husband, William, 86, and 60-year-old Mrs. Nora Franks of Nanaimo were critically injured. Austin George Nudds, 22, of Port Coquitlam was killed Saturday night when his sports car crashed in the Greater Vancouver-area community. Mrs. Cornell Brunst, 65, died Sunday night following a collision in Vancouver and Mrs. Lydia Lcskem, 79, was killed when struck down Sunday by a ear in Surrey. Sheila Kennedy, 22, of Kcl-owna, died in hospital in Hope Sunday following a three-car pileup on the Hope-Princeton highway. Melville Waddell of Bralorne died Sunday when he was crushed by a snow plow near the mountain mining community and James W. Gray, 15, died under a snow slide near Ross-land Saturday. William David Sharp, 21, of Vancouver was believed drowned Saturday when a canoe capsized at the mouth of the Capi-lano River in North Vancouver. Shots at Car Result In Murder Try Charge eT' "CPj � Ivan Brown, 40, was released on bail of $4,000 Tuesday after being charged with attempted murder. Police ch3rged Brown after a shooting incident at Old Cinema. Mr. and Mrs. William Gault and Fred Pinnette, occupants of a car driving on the road at Old Cinema, told police that someone had fired bullets at their automobile. One struck the car. Police said Mr. Gault had been involved in a disagreement with a man shortly before the shooting incident took place. UNITY AGREEMENT Congo Parliament Waits For Katanga Delegation LEOPOLDVlL/LE (AP) � The central Congo parliament today awaited the arrival of Katanga n delegates to take 'their places in the assembly as promised by President Morse Tshombe in his Ivitona unity agreement vvit'h Congo Premier Cyrille Adoula. UN sources indicated that the 15 legislators were to be flown today from Eljsabethville, capital of their secessionist province, to Leopoldville in a UN plane and housed in quarters guarded by UN troops. The Kitona pact signed by Tshombe recognized the central government's control over Katanga but the deputies and senators were expected to bring proposals to amcnd the constitution and give the provinces more freedom from Leopoldville's control. The constitution, drafted by Belgium prior to tho granting of independence to .The Congo in 1960, has never �cen ratficd by parliament and Tshombe objects to its provision for a strong central government. His Katanga cabinet ruled that it was not competent to �atify the Kitona agreement and passed it to the provincial ih P assembly, a mier Adoula p which Pre torpedoed "the last effort to resolVc the Katanga crisis by peaceful means." 15-DAY AIRCRAFT HUNT CALLED OFF VANCOUVER (CP)�A 15-day hunt for a light aircraft with two persons aboard was called off Tuesday after search planes failed to substantiate the reported sighting of an aircraft tail section near Nelson Island on the B.C. coast 20 miles south of Powell River. RCAF officials said the report was from a man who said he saw the section � in the water. The float plane disappeared Dec. 11 during a flight from Sullivan Bay, 200 miles north of here, to Bella Coola. Missing are pilot Dennis Newton, 27, of suburban Surrey and salesman Eli Wislos-ki, formerly of Winnipeg and Saskatoon. By The Canadian Press Canada's post-holiclay weather vas much like the Christmas urkey today�it canie in sandwiches. The first slice ^as in B.C. where temperatures generally ranged from the rnicl-30s to the low 40s. This contrasted sharply with the bitter cold of the Northwest Territories, Alberta, Saskatchewan, much of Manitoba and part of Ontario. Coldest spot was Snag with an overnight low �f 50 below zero and a high of 41 below. Other typical low temperatures were 21 below at Edmonton, six below at Calgary, 19 below at Saskatoon, 13 below at Regina, 11 below at WinniPcg and nine below at Port wilh'am. Churchill, Man-, usually a chilly spot on the weather map, reported a high of 23 and a low of 5 above. The chunk of warm air over Churchill extended over much of Ontario and brought milder temperatures to Quebec. Typical temperature was at Toronto with a forecast of close to 30 degrees for the whole day. Similar conditions prevailed at Montreal, Ottawa and Quebec City. This miidness was due to change abruptly overnight, with FOR PEACE, COLUMBIA PROJECTS Power Men Study Long-Range Lines VICTORIA (CP) � Power officials in B.C. arc taking great interest in Ontario Hydro-Elcc-tric Power Commission's plans to bring huge quantities of electricity to home - owners and industrial centres over a super-charged transmission line. Long - distance extra - high-voltage transmission is one of the problems facing economists who have studied the feasibility of $100,000,000 worth of power projects proposed for this province. The success of a 4G0,000-volt, 2oO-mile line between Abitibi Canyon and Sudbury will be a guide to agencies which plan major hydro developments 300 to GOO miles from large markets. The Ontario line would be the first of its kind in Canada and officials of the B.C. Power Commission and B.C. Electric Co. hope its feasibility will be established by the time projects proposed for the Peace and Columbia rivers are ready to produce electricity. Ontario Hydro's line will consist of V-shaped aluminum towers to which three conductors would be strung. The tower design was selected because of the rough terrain through which the line would pass. Conventional steel towers have four legs, making construction difficult in rough country. A private consultant firm has made studies of the V-shaped tower for possible use in B.C. A firm of British engineers which did preliminary work on the Peace River project before it was taken over by the government - owned B.C. Electric Co. said extra -high - voltage transmission had been proven possible in United Kingdom and Russian experiments. General Electric Co. last sum- mer announced it had. transmitted 770,000 volts through 4V& miles of its $7,0oo,000 prototype transmission system at Pitts-field, Mass. The company, claiming a world record, said it had started a research program requiring millions of electrical, mechanical and meteorological readings at 500,000 volts and later at 750,000 volts. Westinghouse-American Electric Power Co. later announced that its extra-high-voltage lino at Apple Grove, Wcst Virginia, was energized at 775,000 volts, and that, it had started a five-year research and. test program. the influx of cold from the west. The next slice in the weather sandwich was a snowbelt extending over most of New Brunswick and much of the Maritimes. In the U.S., warmer weather rode winds into Florida today alter the coldest Christmas on record. The weather bureau predicted temperatures would rise to the 65 and 70 range in northern sections and to 70 and 75 in southern Florida. Tuesday's lows ranged from 20 at Tallahassee in the northwest to 51 at Key West. Miami had 42, the coldest Dec. 26 on record. Early reports indicated damage to the state's multi-million-dollar citrus crop was slight. The chill was caused by a cold front that funnelled icy blasts down from Canada, bringing blizzards to the northern states. FORECAST The meteorological department at the airport forecasts mostly cloudy weather for Thursday with a few snowflur-ries. A little milder. Low tonight and high tomorrow at Prince George, 5 and 20; at Quesnel and Smithers, 10 and 20. Peace River�Variable cloudiness and milder weather is in view for Thursday with winds southwesterly 15. Low tonight and high tomorrow at Grande Prairie, 5 and 25. Last 24 Hours Hi Lo Prec. Prince George 18 2 Terrace 28 22 .03 Smithers 10 2 Quesnel 17 1 Williams Lake 23 0 .. Kamloops 30 16 � Whitehorse -18 -30 .01 Fort Nelson -25 -35 � Fort St. John -15 -24 .. Dawson Creek -16 -33 *,