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Bob
Clelands
rink
advances
In
curling
after
playoff
victory
Sunday
Mohawks
Crulkshank
stars
as
club
wins
two
weekend
contests
Canadiens
get
jump
on
Leafs
with
double
vic
victory
�
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over
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page
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Fire
Forces
Residents
Of
2
Towns
to
Evacuate
MELBOURNE
Reuters
Two
small
Australian
towns
near
hcic
were
evacuated
today
as
a
windswept
bush
fire
raged
out
of
control
in
mountains
noilh
and
cast
of
Mel
Melbourne
�
bourne
Women
and
children
were
evacuated
from
Ohnda
with
about
1400
residents
Flames
covered
three
quarters
of
Mount
Dandenong
east
of
here
and
residents
of
the
nearby
town
of
Kalorama
with
400
population
were
being
led
to
safety
The
body
of
a
man
was
found
by
firefighters
It
was
the
first
death
attributed
to
the
blaze
Evacuees
from
Olinda
were
escorted
to
a
local
soccer
field
and
fairways
of
a
golf
course
as
the
two-day-old
fire
raged
out
of
control
Now
Hear
This
Harwin
School
PTA
meeting
advcitised
in
todays
Coming
Events
column
as
due
to
take
place
tomonow
has
been
post
postponed
�
poned
for
one
week
If
jouie
wondering
why
friends
aic
calling
DC
Hdro
PR
man
Bob
Borrie
Junior
its
because
he
cant
get
ocr
being
a
Jaycee
When
being
sworn
in
as
first
vice
president
of
the
senior
chamber
of
com
commerce
�
merce
Saturday
night
Bob
was
told
to
repeat
the
oath
of
alle
allegiance
�
giance
to
the
chamber
Instead
of
which
he
swoic
to
be
true
to
the
junior
chamber
When
BC
Piicclor
of
tech
voc
training
Jack
White
anived
Saturday
to
neak
at
the
cham
chambers
�
bers
annual
meet
he
bumped
Into
an
old
school
pal
Citizen
Photog
Hal
Vandervoort
Which
pleased
them
brlh
until
Jack
mentioned
at
the
dinner
that
the
two
had
been
in
school
to
together
�
gether
in
192G
thereby
sort
of
dating
Hal
and
causing
a
num
number
�
ber
of
O
hos
from
gals
around
the
hall
whom
Hal
had
been
tellina
how
oung
and
vir
virile
�
ile
he
is
II
ou
think
its
cold
here
today
and
it
is
dammit
some
of
the
more
established
resi
residents
�
dents
in
the
area
will
lecall
when
the
old
mercury
stick
fell
to
aiound
the
GO
below
mark
back
in
the
early
1950s
They
say
that
really
took
the
wind
out
of
a
chaps
sails
And
speaking
of
sales
the
story
goes
something
like
this
A
local
stoie
clerk
told
us
the
other
day
the
reason
the
cost
of
a
nationally
advertised
elec
electric
�
tric
razor
is
10
higher
hero
than
in
their
Vancouver
store
is
because
of
freight
coats
It
woiks
out
roughly
to
a
50
per
cent
iricicase
Come
now
thete
must
be
a
hotter
alibi
the
transportation
indus
industry
�
try
doesnt
have
that
fat
a
wallet
Mrs
Margaret
Gagnon
hopes
the
fellow
who
shot
her
daugh
daughters
�
ters
pet
dog
Rusty
is
pioud
of
himself
The
little
dog
to
which
her
five-
ear
old
daughter
Doo
ley
was
very
attached
wander
ed
away
from
home
near
the
meat
packing
plant
Friday
night
and
returned
later
with
gunshot
wounds
in
his
neck
and
side
Police
were
called
to
put
the
little
don
out
of
its
misery
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CITIZEN
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Only
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Newspaper
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INCLUDING
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photos
NOT
ENOUGH
WANT
TO
GO
European
Tour
Called
Off
The
proposed
European
good
goodwill
�
will
tour
which
the
Prince
George
Chamber
of
Commerce
has
been
organizing
to
take
place
in
May
has
been
can
cancelled
�
celled
This
was
announced
today
by
President
Alex
M
Clark
follow-
ing
a
final
meeting
of
the
tour
directors
Mr
Clark
said
that
while
54
persons
had
signified
their
de
desire
�
sire
to
make
the
trip
this
num
number
�
ber
was
insufficient
to
justify
the
chamber
entering
into
a
charter
agreement
with
an
air
airline
�
line
Cost
of
any
vacant
scats
would
have
to
be
borne
by
those
making
the
trip
and
a
mini
minimum
�
mum
of
72
persons
was
required
in
order
to
obtain
the
rate
pub
publicized
�
licized
Naturally
the
chamber
is
very
disappointed
because
wc
believe
a
promotion
trip
of
this
nature
would
have
had
extreme
extremely
�
ly
beneficial
results
for
the
economy
of
the
aica
Mr
Clark
said
Unfortunately
this
belief
does
not
seem
to
be
shared
by
a
sufficient
number
of
business
and
industrial
men
in
the
Cen
Central
�
tral
Interior
without
whose
support
we
would
not
have
had
a
body
representative
of
the
area
To
those
who
gave
their
sup
support
�
port
to
the
chambers
efforts
our
sincere
thanks
Wo
are
sor
sorry
�
ry
to
disappoint
them
Mr
Clark
said
all
deposits
paid
on
the
trip
will
be
re
refunded
�
funded
and
cheques
for
same
will
be
in
the
mail
this
week
Fort
St
John
Firm
Only
One
To
Bid
on
Peace
FORT
ST
JOHN
Special
Fort
St
John
Lumber
Co
Ltd
was
the
only
bidder
at
the
first
auction
of
timber
lying
immedi
immediately
�
ately
to
the
rear
of
the
pro
proposed
�
posed
Peace
River
dam
The
auction
sale
was
held
Jau
12
at
Fort
St
John
An
estimated
250000000
feet
of
timber
is
behoved
in
the
area
which
will
eventually
be
coveied
by
a
water
reservoir
more
than
2C5
miles
long
The
lumber
company
will
pay
2
for
spruce
180
for
pine
and
1
sq
for
other
species
calcu
calculated
�
lated
on
the
stumpage
Logging
operators
wW
be
able
to
remove
the
timber
when
diversion
tunnels
are
completed
in
the
area
iu
about
two
years
PRINCE
GEORGE
BRITISH
COtUMBIA
MONDAY
JANUARY
15
1962
OSMACK
HEADS
HOTEL
GROUP
Pete
Osmack
manager
of
the
Prince
George
Hotel
Sun
Sunday
�
day
was
elected
president
of
the
Prince
George
Hotels
Association
Vice
president
is
Lawrence
S
h
a
t
s
k
y
of
the
McDonald
Hotel
and
secretary
is
Gerry
Coolc
of
the
Columbus
Hotel
Eigln
city
Hotels
and
the
Stone
Creek
Hotel
belong
to
the
association
Farmers
to
Meet
2
More
Times
to
Talk
Assessments
VANCOUVER
CP
BC
Lower
Mainland
farmers
will
hold
two
more
meetings
pro
protesting
�
testing
higher
land
assessments
before
they
take
their
griev
grievances
�
ances
to
the
provincial
govern
government
�
ment
The
first
meeting
will
be
in
Abbotsford
Friday
and
the
sec
second
�
ond
in
Delta
Jan
23
The
protest
will
be
taken
to
Victoria
after
the
legislatuie
opens
later
this
month
Richmond
farmers
voted
Sat
Saturday
�
urday
to
assess
themselves
to
fight
the
increased
evaluations
before
court
of
revision
next
month
The
amount
will
be
set
later
Under
protest
is
the
govern
governments
�
ments
assessment
equalization
act
under
whch
land
is
now
assessed
at
half
the
current
market
value
The
farmers
are
complaining
about
differences
in
assessments
between
munici
municipalities
�
palities
Assessments
in
Richmond
are
270
an
acie
compared
with
an
average
of
115
in
Surrey
208
in
Delta
and
225
in
Chilliwack
TRICKY
FIGURES
HOLLYWOOD
AP
Jack
Benny
celebrated
his
35tli
wed
ding
annivcrsuiy
Sunday
pietty
good
for
a
fellow
who
says
hei
only
39
Benny
and
Maty
Livingstone
long
a
co
star
on
his
show
met
in
Los
Angeles
while
playing
in
a
musical
and
were
married
in
Waukegan
HI
in
1927
An
anniversary
dinner
was
cancelled
because
of
the
traffic
death
Saturday
of
their
friend
Ernie
Kovaes
ADJUSTERS
VIEWING
DAMAGE
A
decision
on
whether
to
rebuild
the
Cariboo
Meat
Packing
Co
plant
which
was
destroyed
by
fire
early
Saturday
is
expected
to
be
made
by
sharehold
shareholders
�
ers
within
a
week
Damage
to
the
plant
located
on
the
banks
of
the
Fraser
River
two
miles
west
of
the
city
was
estimated
in
excess
of
100000
The
blaze
was
spotted
by
pa
patrolling
�
trolling
RCMP
Constable
John
Niblock
shortly
after
2
am
He
notified
police
headquarters
which
in
turn
advised
the
Prince
George
and
South
Fort
George
fire
departments
Neither
department
attended
since
the
plant
is
located
out
outside
�
side
each
ones
respective
area
The
blaze
was
bclicvcdto
have
started
in
or
near
the
boiler
room
It
burned
down
power
lines
cut
off
electricity
to
vva
ter
pumps
and
left
six
plant
employees
with
only
snow
to
fight
the
fire
in
sub
zero
tern
peratures
They
managed
to
save
the
holding
pen
which
housed
a
large
amount
of
hay
Thirty
head
of
cattle
awaiting
slaugh
slaughter
�
ter
were
chased
away
from
the
fire
About
20
carcasses
and
an
undetermined
amount
of
cut
meat
was
lost
Max
Nicholas
plant
mainten
maintenance
�
ance
engineer
and
one
of
three
local
shareholders
told
The
Citizen
today
a
shareholders
meeting
will
be
called
within
a
week
here
or
in
the
Lower
Mainland
to
decide
whether
to
rebuild
the
plant
Insurance
adjusters
were
to
inspect
the
damage
today
and
prepare
a
report
The
plant
employed
12
men
Mr
Nicholas
said
a
woman
visiting
a
house
near
the
plant
phoned
the
fire
departments
We
felt
sure
they
would
be
down
he
said
It
just
seemed
natural
thoy
uoulri
come
-If
wo
had
known
beiorerrantt
that
no
fire
department
would
help
us
we
would
probably
have
had
more
equipment
on
hand
He
did
not
know
if
the
com
company
�
pany
paid
taxes
to
the
South
Fort
George
Improvement
Dis
trict
which
would
entitle
it
to
fire
protection
but
felt
its
the
usual
thing
to
lend
a
helping
hand
in
the
case
of
emergency
I
couldnt
say
we
would
expect
them
to
South
Fort
George
Improve
ment
District
Trustee
Wil
Wiens
said
today
the
plant
is
located
three
quarters
of
a
mile
outside
the
area
covered
by
their
fire
department
and
that
the
company
does
not
pay
taxes
to
the
improvement
district
He
said
about
five
calls
were
re
received
�
ceived
to
attend
the
fire
Here
arc
the
contents
of
an
open
letter
he
wrote
The
Citizen
Once
again
wc
witness
the
ravages
of
fire
The
trustees
and
residents
of
South
Fort
George
Improvement
District
can
offer
only
their
sinccrcst
sympathies
to
the
proprietors
and
employees
of
the
Cariboo
Meat
Packing
plant
I
say
only
sympathies
for
wc
may
not
take
our
fire
fight
fighting
�
ing
equipment
or
crew
to
battle
a
blaze
outside
our
improve
improvement
�
ment
district
The
explanation
is
simple
people
who
pay
for
protection
arc
entitled
to
it
24
hours
eacli
day
To
give
this
protection
to
residents
outside
our
district
would
be
highly
unfair
For
this
reason
we
have
en
encouraged
�
couraged
residents
in
our
im
immediate
�
mediate
ncighboihood
to
organ
organize
�
ize
fire
protection
for
them-
Continued
on
Page
3
Amalgamation
of
the
Prince
George
Fall
Fair
and
Simon
Fraser
Days
was
approved
in
principle
Saturday
by
the
exec
executives
�
utives
of
the
two
groups
Decision
was
reached
at
a
special
joint
meeting
of
the
executives
of
the
Prince
George
Agricultural
and
Industrial
As
Association
�
sociation
which
has
sponsored
the
fall
fair
for
4G
years
and
the
Simon
Fraser
Days
commit
committee
�
tee
which
has
staged
the
big
July
1
extravaganza
for
the
last
four
years
Proposed
name
of
the
main
annual
event
to
be
undertaken
by
the
amalgamated
group
is
Simon
Fraser
Days
and
Exhi
Exhibition
�
bition
The
resolution
to
join
forces
was
adopted
unanimously
by
the
meeting
and
will
be
taken
to
general
membership
meet
meetings
�
ings
of
both
associations
The
agricultural
society
meeting
is
Ton
Oft
tn
thn
TU7A
boll
ot
75fl
committee
meeting
will
be
be
fore
that
date
Also
to
be
studied
by
bpth
recommendation
tlrat
thcexnt
bition
be
operated
for
four
days
this
year
Aug
15
to
18
Resolution
recommending
the
amalgamation
was
moved
by
Mrs
Margaret
Johnston
and
seconded
by
Mrs
Helen
Wilson
It
was
carried
unanimously
and
read
We
recommend
to
both
as
associations
�
sociations
that
they
combine
their
efforts
for
the
purpose
of
staging
the
annual
event
for
formerly
�
merly
conducted
separately
as
the
Simon
Fraser
Day
and
the
Fall
Fair
that
the
event
be
named
Simon
Fraser
Days
and
Exhibition
and
that
dates
fnr
the
Exhibition
in
1962
be
Aug
August
�
ust
15
16
17
and
18
It
is
tentatively
proposed
that
Uic
name
of
the
official
spon
sponsoring
�
soring
body
be
the
Prince
George
Agricultural
and
In
Industrial
�
dustrial
Association
DECISION
HELD
IN
BCE
CASE
VANCOUVER
PI
Mr
Jus
tice
A
E
Lord
has
reserved
decision
on
the
last
of
several
applications
in
BC
Power
Corporations
litigation
over
the
BCE
takeover
by
the
gov
crnment
The
judge
was
asked
to
strike
out
a
counter
claim
filed
by
James
Copilhcanc
Vancouver
investment
dealer
who
is
defendant
in
the
power
corporations
suit
against
the
attorney
general
of
BC
the
BC
Electric
and
Royal
Trust
Co
which
was
transfer
agent
in
the
takeover
in
which
the
government
paid
BCP
111
000000
NDP
LEADER
TO
CAMPAIGN
HERE
IN
MARCH
FIFTH
DUE
UP
LATER
7c
a
Copy
3D
DT
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VI
80
Pr
Mont
Fate
of
Packing
Plant
To
Be
Decided
in
Week
AUGUST
Joint
Fair
Simon
Days
Girl
Narrowly
Escapes
After
Fall
Through
Ice
A
lG-year-old
girl
narrowly
escaped
drowning
Sunday
afternoon
when
she
plunged
through
the
ice
into
the
frigid
Fraser
River
Karen
Olafson
daughter
of
Mr
and
Mrs
C
A
Olafson
1489
Gorsc
remained
home
from
school
today
although
she
didnt
even
develop
the
sniffles
after
her
experience
Karen
and
a
friend
Heather
Bliss
16
were
walking
on
the
ice
near
the
city
when
t
h
e
near
tragedy
occurred
There
was
an
opening
in
the
ice
and
just
as
I
was
walking
around
it
it
crumbl
crumbled
�
ed
in
she
said
today
I
went
right
under
the
water
but
managed
to
pull
myself
half
way
out
and
Heather
got
nic
the
rest
of
the
way
Karen
ran
all
the
way
home
It
took
her
about
10
minutes
and
by
the
time
she
reached
her
house
her
kerchief
was
frozen
to
her
head
It
was
eight
above
p
m
The
Simon
Fraser
Daysfour
calves
calves
trorr
from
the
Dominion
Experimental
Farm
ioqay
oeiore-
Mr
justice
n
A
woot
ton
at
the
fall
assises
s
KAREN
OLAFSON
no
sniffles
Trial
of
4
in
Cattle
Theft
Case
Opens
The
trial
of
four
men
charged
with
the
Jhcft
of
last
May
opened
y
jf
jr
pnri
nf
nrfl
clrtn
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calves
were
takun
fromjCoaTajruUs
li4uuhinniin
tonal
ve
RCW
PirjvUgation
Which
included
theiiseTof
a
niine
detector-
an
electro-
magnet
and
scuba
divers
in
an
attempt
to
find
a
wea
pon
used
to
kill
the
cattle
Charged
arc
James
Bourquc
Albert
Johnson
Fred
Carpenter
and
Edward
Ross
A
fifth
man
Robert
Stewart
was
charged
with
possession
of
stolen
prop
property
�
erty
and
will
be
tried
later
The
men
were
committed
for
trial
at
a
preliminary
hearing
before
Magistrate
G
O
Stewart
last
August
It
was
understood
an
applica
application
�
tion
would
be
made
for
separ
separate
�
ate
trials
A
2t-ycar-old
Fort
St
James
man
was
sentenced
to
five
jears
imprisonment
for
rape
at
the
conclusion
of
a
four
day
trial
Friday
Kenneth
Peicrs
was
found
guilty
of
raping
a
15-year-old
girl
following
a
drinking
party
He
was
also
sentenced
to
three
cars
to
be
served
concur
concurrently
�
rently
on
a
second
count
of
unlawful
intercourse
with
a
girl
under
16
Kiwanis
Governor
Speaking
Tonight
The
lieut
governor
of
Kiwanis
in
the
area
Doug
Campbell
of
Summcrland
will
speak
to
the
Prince
George
club
tonight
as
part
of
a
weeks
visit
in
North
Northern
�
ern
BC
He
will
visit
the
two
Prince
George
clubs
and
ones
in
Qucs
ncl
and
Dawson
Creek
While
in
Prince
George
the
Campbells
are
staying
with
the
Warren
Holleys
Mr
Campbell
is
manager
of
a
packing
plant
The
-31
temperature
recorded
by
the
airport
weather
office
this
morning
was
the
coldest
reading
of
the
winter
so
far
The
mercury
had
not
plunged
so
low
since
the
same
reading
on
Nov
15
1959
Coldest
Jan
15
evcrheie
was
-42
in
1953
Arctic
air
is
firmly
cnticnch
ed
over
the
area
and
no
mild
weather
is
expected
for
at
least
a
few
days
Cloud
cover
tonight
will
prevent
Uic
temperatures
from
falling
as
low
as
those
overnight
The
forecast
calls
for
a
few
snowf
lurries
overnight
and
cloudy
weather
Tuesday
with
little
change
in
temperature
Light
winds
Low
tonight
and
high
tomorrow
at
Prince
Georgo
15
and
5
Quesnel
-10
and
10
Smithcrs
0
and
15
Peace
River
Mostly
dear
Continuing
very
cold
Light
winds
except
northwcsteily
15
in
the
afternoon
Low
tonight
and
high
tomorrow
at
Grando
Prairie
-30
and
-10
Last
24
Hours
Hi
Lo
Pice
Prince
George
Terrace
Smithcrs
Quesnel
Williams
Lake
Whitchorsc
Fort
St
John
Dawson
Creek
11
-31
23
G
08
1G
15
07
13
-28
-
8
-2G
10
12
-31
3
-2G
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Douglas
to
Work
for
Rutherford
By
PAT
DENTON
Citizen
Staff
Reporter
New
Democratic
Paity
lead
leader
�
er
Tommy
Douglas
will
speak
to
at
least
three
public
meet
ings
in
the
Cariboo
riding
in
March
in
support
of
candidate
Ken
Rutheiford
Announcement
of
the
leaders
visit
was
nude
at
a
nominating
convention
here
Saturday
which
picked
the
51-ycar-old
city
school
teacher
to
cany
the
NDP
banner
in
the
uuxt
federal
dec
lion
Mr
Rutherford
who
failed
in
a
bid
to
unseat
Lands
and
Forests
Ministei
Ray
Williston
in
the
1960
provincial
election
won
the
nomination
on
the
sec
ond
ballot
getting
the
required
clear
majority
of
21
votes
from
the
40
delegates
He
won
over
Murray
Watson
chairman
of
the
Dawson
Creek
CCF
Club
Stan
Crowe
of
Ques-
T
C
DOUGLAS
three
meeting
nel
and
John
Curtis
of
Tajlor
piesident
of
the
North
Peace
CCF
Club
and
of
the
oil
and
gas
workers
union
Both
Mr
Watson
and
Mr
Curtis
were
unsuccessful
candi
candidates
�
dates
in
the
North
and
South
Peace
constituencies
in
the
last
provincial
election
Mr
Rutherford
the
first
condidatc
to
be
nominated
by
any
of
the
four
political
parlies
in
the
Cariboo
riding
predicted
Prime
Minister
Dicfcnbakcr
will
call
a
July
election
His
long
time
friend
and
political
associate
Mr
Douglas
will
address
public
meetings
on
his
behalf
at
Quesnel
and
in
the
Peace
River
area
probably
at
Dawson
Creek
and
Fort
St
John
near
the
end
of
March
Mr
Rutherford
was
a
mem
member
�
ber
of
the
Swift
Current
CCF
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on
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