RED CROSS FLAG was raised on the pole in front of city hall Saturday by Mayor Garvin Dezell to mark start of the current Red Cross campaign Looking on were Aid Spike Enemark Harry Herri ngton vice president of the Red Cross here and groups of Boy Scouts and Sea Scouts WARM WEATHER FOLLOWS SNOW Fiords Threatened at Coast By The Canadian Press Two snowstorms in three days combined with rising tempera temperatures � tures today posed a flood threat in southwestern BC Rain and 30- to 35 degrce tem temperatures � peratures followed on a near record 15 inches of snow Friday and another three inches Sun Sunday � day More rain was expected to today � day making flood danger high Some flood danger also plagued the Maritimes The fifth successive weekend of stormy weather in eastern New Bruns Brunswick � wick and Prince Edward Island Exiled Dictator Peron Returning to Argentina MADRID AP Juan D Peron exiled Argentine dictator has disappeared from his home here and a servant said he had been away several days There have been rumors that he might be returning to Argentina in connection with the election March 18 of a governor tfnd-lieuttfidrit-goVeirioi-of -Buenos Aires province- Some reports said he would be running for the latter office but the Argentine government said he would be barred as a fugitive from justice U 2 Spy Pilot Followed Orders Board Finds WASHINGTON AP A spe special � cial board of inquiry has found that U 2 pilot Francis Gary Powers generally complied with orders on his ill fated flight over the Soviet Union informed sources said today In the aftermath of extensive interrogation Powers is likely to be revealed as a man who met unexplained disaster and coped with it reasonably well However the pilot was said not to have been able to shed much light on how his plane was forced down deep Inside Russia May 1 1960 Powers 32 who had been ACCIDENTAL DEATH TRAIL CD A coroners in inquiry � quiry has ruled that threc j car old Christine Carpenter died accidentaaly in a fire which de destroyed � stroyed the top floor of her familys two stoiey home Po Police � lice said the fiie started from candles which two chikhcn wete playing with sentenced to prison on spying charges was leleased by the Soviet Union lasl month in ex exchange � change for Russian spy Rudolf Abel Since then Power lias been kept out of sight by government interrogators while facU con concerning � cerning his capture trial and imprisonment were investigated by the special board Powers is understood to have contended that the force of his planes speedy descent pre prevented � vented action to destroy it Nevertheless there is resent resentment � ment among some members of Congress over the pilots fail failure � ure to destroy his plane and its equipment when it fell to Sov Soviet � iet soil These members said there were five different methods of destroying the craft Military experts doubt Rus Russian � sian claim that anti aircralt missiles brought it to earth from an altitude of more than 68000 feet Now Hear This Predatory Game Hunter Milt Warren cautions all dog owners around the district to keep their pets close to home His depart department � ment is diopping poisoned hoise meat in the Prince George Mc Bride and Vandcrhoof areas in an cffoit to eliminato some of the coyotes and wolves Drops arc being mado by aircraft mainly in the areas of rivers and lakes That two lone Chcv Licence 445 325 was worth following for laughs Sunday afternoon Young chap at the wheel obviously was moi e interested in his girl friend than he was in driving properly He showed it by ig noting traffic lights stop signs tut n signals and other road rules and by a session of sticnuous necking as they dtovc through Soulh Fort Tha lady who saw a car smash into another on the Simon Fraser parking lot about noon Sunday is asked to kindly get in touch with Norm Brielsman at LOgan 4 7955 Visitor to PG and interested guest of the bonspicl people is Dave Kinloch who toils both for the Canadian army and Hiram Walker This is Edu Education � cation Week and the Prince George Co operative Play h School held in Our Saviours Lutheran Church will stage open house Tuesday from 10 to 1145 am for the 4-year-old class and Wednesday from 3 to 345 pm for the 5-year-old class Registrations are being taken by Mrs John Bennett at LOgan 4 6810 There are open ings for 4-year-old girls BC Tel Radio Technician Dave Suitor had the fastest moving stationary car In town Friday night Some pranksters hoisted his wee rut climber atop some 2-by-4s leaving the wheels about an inch off the ground In hop hopped � ped Dave and wondered why his speedometer reading was 35 when he was standing still Tabs for the CO odd turkey din tiers dished up Saturday and Sunday for the local and Kam loops midget and juvenile hoc- key teams were picked up by Ben Ginter Construction Cen Central � tral Contractors Hugh Doch erty Northern Hardware and individual ACT members Joker who tossed pennies on the Coliseum ice during Satur Saturdays � days hockey game should hang by his thumbs If his idea of excitement is to see a player stumble into the boards after skating on a sunken penny he should see a hcad shrinkcr bore most of the brunt Twenty inches of snow fell in Moncton while Summerside PEI got 10 Other areas got a mixture of rain and snow and more of the same was expected today Saskatchewan and Alberta re reported � ported the coldest temperatures in Canada As the unusual cold spell continued into its second month the western Prairies set at least three record low tem temperatures � peratures At Medicine Hat and Saskatoon the mercury edged down one degree lower than previous records for March 4 in Medicine Hat reaching 22 be below � low to break the record set in 1945 and in Saskatoon dipping to 28 below to crack records set in 1916 and 1945 at 28 be below � low Lethbridge broke its 1912 record by three degrees ic cording 26 below Calgary at 25 below tied its 1947 record and Swift Currents 26 below reached the record low of 1919 while Moose Jaw equalled its 1951 record with 27 below The heavy snows hit the nor normally � mally mild Lower Mainland ot BC a week after crocuses and other early flowers had bloom bloomed � ed in the area The first snow fall caused three deaths and two more in other parts of the province were blamed on the wintry weather The cold snap which gripped the interior of the province dur during � ing the weekend cased up slight slightly � ly today with mote snow ex expected � pected in the Prince George area Education System Knocked by Dean MONTREAL ICPl There is overwhelming evidence our chil children � dren are not being educated as effectively as they should be Dr Neville Scarfe told the Ca Canadian � nadian Conference on Education today The dean of education at the University of BC delivering the keynote address in English on the aims of education in a free society said there is no nothing � thing wrong with Canadian edu education � cation that better quality teach teachers � ers will not put straight Children were often being taught to memorize and regur regurgitate � gitate facts when the emphasis should be on teaching them to think creatively Teachers freedom was re restricted � stricted they were not ade adequately � quately trusted and not given sufficient scope to teach in ways they knew to be better than the orthodox VICTORIA COLUMN HE CITIZEN Ted Allen was returning from Vancouver with his fiance Eleanor Dricdigcr 22 a teacher at King George V Elementary School when their car skidded and rolled over an embankment north of Williams Lake Miss Driediger uninjured continued to Prince George by bus Mr Allen 39 was believed to have suffered a broken bone in his shoulder By The Canadian Press Nineteen persons died in ac cidents in Canada during the weekend Newfoundland and Prince Ed Edward � ward Island reported no acci dental deaths in a Canadian Press survey from 6 pm Fri day to midnight Sunday Highway accidents claimed 11 lives five persons died in fires and three from other causes Dock Bids To Be Opened March 15 Bids arc scheduled to be opened this month for construe tion of dock structures for the Alaska Ferry System in Skag way Haines Juneau Sitka Petersburg and Wrangell Richard A Downing commis commissioner � sioner of the Alaska public works department said sealed bids will be opened March 15 The only dock not included is the Ketchikan dock which has been delayed pending approval of a site A performance bond for at least 50 per cent of the total contract and a payment bond also for at least 50 per cent of the total will be required of the successful bidder Mr Downing said that orig original � inal plans called for inviting bids for dock structures at all seven ports in southeastern Alaska He said the Ketchikan dock had to be delayed when a protest was filed with the US Army Corps of Engineers re garding the site where the Ket Ketchikan � chikan terminal had been planned He said preparations are now underway to make on site in investigations � vestigations of other sites near Ketchikan but said the state had not abandoned hopes for the old site HOWARD GREEN Canadas external affairs minister said on the weekend in Victoria that Premier Bennett was sacrificing the Columbia in order to proceed with the Peace adding that return to Canada of Columbia power would jeopardize the pre miers northern development plan The Only Dally Newspaper Serving North Central British Columbia Phone LOgan 4 2441 Vol 6 No 45 PRINCE GEORGE BRITISH COLUMBIA MONDAY MARCH 5 1962 7c a Copy 32 tmC wE NE4K WUMAIS LAKE oca I Teacher urt in Cras A Prince George high school teacher was described in satisfactory condition in Williams Lake hospital today recovering from injuries suffered in a highway accident Sunday IN AFRICA 111 Die In Plane Wreck DOUALA Cameroon Republic Reuters All 111 persons aboard a British DC 7C airliner were killed Sunday night when it crashed into a swamp seconds after taking off officials an announced � nounced today Half of the aircrafts fuselage was found in a swamp acces accessible � sible only by boat and other wreckage was strewn over an area of one half square mile An airport spokesman said the plane burst into flames and the fire guided rescuers who had to battle through the swamp in rubber boats in pitch dark The aircraft operated by Caledonian Airways crashed during a storm The plane took off normally after a refuelling stop here but went down lA miles from the end of the runway The plane was en route to Europe via Lagos Nigeria from Mozam bique Sixty four of the passengers had South African addresses 31 were listed as being from South Southern � ern Rhodesia andtwo had Eng lish addresses No addresses were available for the other passengers Nine Britons including three stewardesses and an Australian made up the crew N The death toll of 111 would make it the worst air crash in the history of Africa The worst previous crash that of an Air France Super Constellation in which 79 were killed in the Sahara May 10 1961 The worst British civil air dis disaster � aster to date was in Wales in 1950 when an Avro Tudor air airliner � liner returning from a soccer game in Belfast Northern Ire Ireland � land crashed with a loss of 80 lives 200 Bomb Blasls Shake Algeria ALGIERS Reuters Euro pcan right wing extremists cxt plodcd more than 200 plastic bombs today as part of a des desperate � perate last minute bid to fore forestall � stall a ceasefire in the Algerian war Almost all the blasts were di directed � rected against Moslems in the hope that possible bloody re reprisals � prisals would delay the immi imminent � nent end of the 7Vt year Moslem insurrection The explosions at Moslem stores restaurants and other points which injured at least 10 persons caused heavy damage But Moslem reaction to the bomb attacks was on a small scale As police cordoned off Mos Moslem � lem districts women massed on rooftops in bombed areas shrcik ing the Arab rallying cry while their men intermittently fired with rifles at European cars passing below In an Algiers suburb Moslem insurgents prevented European extremists from exploding plas plastic � tic charges after a violent gun battle in which there were no casualties h By PETER BRUTON Election Considered Strong Probability VICTORIA A provincial election within the next few months can bo regarded as a strong probability observers believe Premier Bennetts off hand statement casually thrown into debate last week that hes prepared to go to the people for approval of the gov ernments two river policy was initially regarded in many quarters as a bluff But on closer examination his statement explains many of the anomalies and strange goings on which have char characterized � acterized the current session of the Legislature And there was no doubtiag the thoroughness with which the premier last week was quietly dotting many of the governments Is and cross crossing � ing its Ts in areas of vital interest to the voting public ELECTION SIGNS In recent days policy state statement � ment has followed policy state statement � ment in areas rescned for at tention at election times These included announce announcements � ments by Premier Bennett last week that the government will build no more toll facili facilities � ties except ferries and that its Social Credit policy to re remove � move all tolls as soon as pos possible � sible that the government has proposed a new fixed assess assessment � ment formula for agricultural laud a move which should go a long way in placating farm farmers � ers and that the government while wanting to drop the BCE bus transpoitation sys system � tem is prepared to pay all losses which may be incurred by municipalities Dozens of other areas scat scattered � tered throughout the province have been promised goodies in bountiful numbers There are plans for a new 80 car ferry for the Sechelt Peninsula run for example and even the lesidents of tho small Kootenay village of Win law have been told that the government will look with favor on a request for finan financial � cial assistance to rebuild a hall burned down by Douklio bors There have been plenty of other signs this session which also bluntly spell election PICTURE BUDGET This cars budget was fan cily printed complete with il illustrations � lustrations of the premier and tho Peace and Columbia dams and is being widely distributed thetc has been little controversial legislation and many of the speeches by go eminent members have been more suited to election hall platforms than the legis legislative � lative chamber On top of this Premier Ben Bennett � nett has shown himself to be extremely sensitive to criti criticism � cism and rushes to a spirited defence of his governments Continued on Page 3 PIPERS of the Kiwanis Junior Pipe Band com competed � peted for their bronze badges in a competition Sunday Jim Forbes of Qucsncl a former queens piper was the judge and is shown pinning the bronze badge on the arm of winner Barrie Selkirk who topped the competition with 85 per cent Runner-up was Garry More with 80 per cent and John Thomson with 79 per cent Twelve of the 14 com competitors � petitors passed their tests BBKjwWBflLIHKciGiiwflKsraillHv trjp J IHHHHiBHflBB JsSSraSScvP1 dflVfH AFTER TALKS FALTER Firemens Pay Dispute Goes to Conciliation A conciliation officer has been appointed to settle a contract dispute between the City of Prince George and the Firemen s Union Although the time has not been announced when Gordon Carmichacl is to arrive in Prince George from the coast it is believed he will be here this month to hear the case Nine full time city firemen had applied for a conciliation officer when 1962 working agree agreement � ment discussions with the city broke down The firemen had asked for a 10-per-cent increase in salary for senior firemen It was re rejected � jected A second move by the firemen suggested a 10-pcr-ccnt increase spread over the next three jcars in addition to 60 day ac accumulated � cumulated sick leave Former agreements gave only 30 days Although the city would net grant the increase in salary it agreed to the 60 day sick leave condition Only Two Appeals Due Before Board Only two appeals from Van derhoof and McBride arc scheduled to be heard in this area by the BC Assessment Appeal Board Dates for the hearings have not been set and it was not known if they would be held in Prince George or at the small smaller � er communities There are no appeals for the city or district The board started hearings Thursday at White Rock near Vancouver on a schedule that will take members several thou thousand � sand miles throughout BC hearing appeals against deci decisions � sions of local courts of revision 1 of 2 To Saak Liheral The Cariboo Federal Liberal Association will hold a nomin nominating � ating convention here April 1 to choose a candidate to con contest � test the next federal election Carter Hanbury association president announced the dite of the convention following an executive meeting Sunday It is expected to b one of the largest and one ol the luost keenly contested Liberal nom nominations � inations to be held in the riding in recent cars he sad Two Liberal party members who have announced they will seek nomination arc city busi businessman � nessman and alderman Charlb Graham and Howard Penin building contractor from Fort St John Delegates will attend tho nominating convention from as far north as Foit Nelson fc liMH tWM Mainly cloudy in the Smith ers area with intermittent snow elsewhere Little change in tem temperature � perature and light winds Low tonight and high Tuesday at Prince George and Qucsncl 10 and 20 Smithcrs 5 and 20 Peace River Variable cloudiness with occasional light snow A little milder Winds southeast 15 Low tonight and high Tuesday at Grande Prairie 0 and 10 Last 24 Hours Hi Lo Prcc Prince George Terrace Smithcrs Qucsncl Williams Lake Kamloops Whitehorsa Fort Nelson Dawson Creek 14 -7 06 24 a 11 15 0 9 -3 27 18 -7 It 18 11 03 13 -19 r 3 -31 -7 -13 MEN CHARGED LANGLEY CPl Two Langlcy brothers have been charged with manslaughter in connec connection � tion with the beating death of Wilfred Gabriel 43 Chester and Gerald Miller will appear in court Wednesday They were charged after Gabriel died in hospital Thursday from injuries suffered Feb 22 in a beating at his Fort Langlcy home Boris pieL Result 630 am Automotive Event Holder 10 Glen dinning 5 G Wray -10 Gunderson 8 Dagg 10 Bliault Jasper 8 Foster Edmonton 14 Johnstone 3 Dimor 9 Meier 6 Hoard over J E Smith Wells by default 845 am Automotive Event Glazier 13 Balison Kamloops 1 F Wray 10 Foulder Jasper 1 Dar roch 14 Polyk G Peckham 10 II Hatch Vancouver 7 Jensen Dawson Creek 8 Lane Gj Yeo Terrace 10 Cooney 9 Its Back to Work For Astronaut Glenn WASHINGTON AP Astronaut John Glenn Jr headed back to Cape Canaveral today to resume work on tho Mer Mercury � cury man in space project after a week of parades banquets and awards Tho first American to orbit the earth spent a quiet Sunday with his family at their nearby Arlington Va home after attending Presbyterian Church services Several politicians impressed by Glenns performance in Washington and New York last week remarked that he showed tremendous vote getting appeal In reply James Webb director of the National Aeronautics and Space Administra tion which controls Mercury said -Glenn tells mo he is devoied to the space program and wants to stay with it just as long as he can be useful in it