SPORTS HIGHLIGHTS Diomedes Olivo 42 begins rookie year with fine performance k Rudy Pilous says his Hawks arent only players favored by home ice Trail Smoke Eaters and Saskatoon Quakers ready for fourth game See Page 4 Go to Festival TERRACE CP A piocluc tion of George Bernard Shaws Poison Passion and Putrefac Putrefaction � tion has won the Terrace Little Thcatic a place in the provin provincial � cial drama festival The play took four awards at the Skeena Drama Festival and will bo staged at the B C festival in Dawson Creek in May Adjudicator John Emerson awarded it best duector best actor best supporting actor and besj visual presentation Kitimat Plavcrs were second and won the best actress award for their peiformance of Scan OCascys Bedtime Story 10 Pension Hike Announced By Province VICTORIA CP The provin cial government Monday an- inef nounted- a -plan whereby aH pensioners will get 10 increases in line with new federal gov government � ernment grants The BC government is boost boosting � ing the maximum for old age assistance so that blind and disabled recipients can get lull advantage of the 10 plus exist existing � ing supplementary allowance paid by the government to persons who have passed a means test Government officials confirm confirmed � ed here Monday that actual provincial government payments for blind and disabled pension pensioners � ers are being boosted with Ot Ottawa � tawa sharing part of the cost of a 10 increase An agreement retroactive to April 1 covering increases for the blind and disabled was signed and mailed to Ottawa last week for federal approval Although Premier Bennetts latest budget allowed 2000000 to pay for the pension boosts no confirmation or details of the plan had been made until Monday First phase of the plan al lcady taken was to boost the maximum pension allowed for pensioners over 70 eligible for old age assistance MORE X 15 FLIGHTS LOS ANGELES AP The US National Aeronautics and Space Administration is plan planning � ning at least 35 more flights for the X 15 rocket plane in Uic next two ears from Edwards Air Force Base 75 miles north of here Now Hear This So many people had been phoning a local travel agency asking about the admission piicc to the Seattle Worlds Fair that one of the staff got a sus suspicion � picion something was wiong Shed been telling callers to phone the local tourist bureau operated by the chamber of commerce Then sho phoned the bureau and without reveal revealing � ing who was calling she asked about w oi Ids fair tickets Wc havent that information sho was told Call your travel agency they have all the dope Management at the Houston Hotel suio are cautious chaps Theyve tacked up a sign in the lobby No Visitors Upstairs Without Permission fiom the Desk Doesnt say whether its tough to get the okay from the desk IHimois of Big Things out west aie drifting about but seem to be unfounded One storv has it the coal mine at Telkwa is due to go big time coal body and would have to sink at least another shaft all of which may or may not be done this summer And it seems the mine in Hudson Bay Mountain just oack of Smlthers is going to get -another year of exploration work before a deci decision � sion is reached on whether it will become an operating mine Chambers of commerce meeting at Hazelton missed old timer Wiggs ONeill He is at Kitimat visiting Mr and Mrs Stan Rough while Mrs ONeill is in hospital But Stan chair man of the Associated Cham bers tourist promotion commit Ice and a PR man for Alcan was at the meeting Stan also look part in a turkey shoot at Kispiox but those clay birds were just too elusive Veteran Lumberman Martin Caine has been playing cribbage for years hes 82 and has been at it most of his adult life But he had to wait until Saturday this summer Seems however night for his first 29 hand He that the operators still have to was playing wiui Mr caine prove up a sufficiently large1 and Mr and Mrs Jim McLellan TTH Phone LOgan 4 2441 Vol 6 No 76 LICENCE TO BREW was presented to Tartan Brewery Monday afternoon and the first brew began today Brewmaster Gene Zarek left accepts the licence from R F T ie of the customs and excise branch here Fujikawa photo SALE SOON Tartan Appoints Manager as 1st Brew Started The appointment of Jack Corkish as managing director of Tartan Brewery was an announced � nounced this morning as the first brew to be prepared at the North Ncchako plant in about a year was begun Licence for the brewery suc cessor to Cariboo Brewing was issued Monday afternoon by the customs and excise branch and j the first brew was started at J 8 am today i We were all prepared to go r here said Brewmaster Gene gpi wgareit wmoorKea at brewery until 19C0 and then returned to Prince George to work for Tartan t The first lager beer will be 1 on the market in late May or I early June said Mr Corkish Well taste it before then but it wont be ready for sale i for five or six weeks said Mr I Zarek It will be listed with the liquor control board and will be avail available � able throughout the province said Mr Corkish but the com pany plans to concentrate on the local market Mr Zarek in whose offiea the long sought licence hangs said that this will be an entirely new brew designed to satisfy current tastes and sell in cuncnt markets Terrace Players ECONOMIST SAYS Treaty Would Leave Canada in Chains TORONTO CP Economist Larratt Higgins who worked for Canada on the International Joint Commis Commission � sion governing border waters says Canada will be put in chains if it ratifies the Columbia River Treaty The treaty signed 15 months ago by the Canadian and United States governments provides for division of the Columbia power resources between the two countries The treaty has been ratified by congress but a dispute be tween the Canadian and BC governments has delayed ratifi ratification � cation by parliament Mr Higgins a waterways en energy � ergy expert who served for a year with the IJC charged in an interview that under the treaty Canada is a puppet dangling at the end of strings manipulated in Washington Columbia Licence Story on Page 3 He supported charges levelled early this month by Gen A G L McNaughton retiring Cana Canadian � dian chairman of the IJC that Canada was sold out in ne negotiations � gotiations on the Columbia treaty The economist said BC Pre Premier � mier W A C Bennett tor torpedoes � pedoes the Canadian govern government � ment plan to divert Kootenay River waters into the Columbia and held out for the proposed system of storage dams on the Columbia with power installa installations � tions in the US The Canadian government should have rejected the Bennett stand and broken off negoti ations with the United States rather than acting as an agent for the B C ideas Mr Higgins said Mr Higgins said the treaty calls for the wrong dams to bo built and commits Canada to provide in perpetuity more flood control for the US than is needed The Columbia treaty jeopar jeopardizes � dizes Canadas future bargain bargaining � ing position on other interna international � tional waters ho added SPENDING UP E CITI2EM The Only Daily Newspaper Serving North Central British Columbia PRINCE GEORGE BRITISH COLUMBIA TUESDAY APRIL 17 1962 PHIL SPANKS CHAMBERS ianwav tiu Hiked 3 Mi Castro Catches Kills Top Cuban Guerrilla KEY WEST Fla AP Osvaldo Ramirez Garcia a top counter revolutionary who has been carrying on a hit-and-run guerrilla campaign since mid 1959 has been killed by Castro forces Havana radio said today Ramirez was slain in Las Villas province close to the rugged Escambray Mountains where he carried out his anti Castro activities the radio reported No details were given Exile sources said Ramirez had commanded close to 1000 guerrillas Mill Rate Drops But Tax Picture Unknown Prince George and district property owners will pay about 215 mills for education this year a drop from last year when the school tax stood at about 23 mills Information on provincial gov government � ernment grants was received at the office of School District 57 Monday and the appropriate mill rate was calculated by Sec retary Treasurer Bob Gracey The decreased mill rate does not necessarily mean that the actual cash value of taxes to be paid by each individual tax taxpayer � payer will decrease however Specific information was not available today Spending by the school district has increased to 2502955 this year compared with last years figure of 2329798 but two fac factors � tors have resulted in the de decreased � creased mill rate Assessment in the area served by theschool district has jump jumped � ed from 40500000 to approxi approximately � mately 48000000 split about half and half between city and surrounding area In addition the provincial grant is up from 1314151 last year to 1408574 this year Mr Gracey said This year 1021 809 must be raised by taxes locally Announcing this years grants in Victoria Education Minister Peterson said that in most school district grants are up and the mill rate down fUl iS BOB GRACEY calculated rate Speaking at a press confer ence Mr Peterson said that the basic provincial mill rate for operating expenses has been set at 1515 a reduction of 40 mills from 1961 Ho said that 55 of the 32 school districts in the province arc getting larger grants this ear than they received last Election June 18 OTTAWA II Dissolu tion of parliament this week for a federal general election Monday June 18 was an announced � nounced in the Commons to today � day by Prime Minister Diefen baker His announcement that he would ask Gov -Gen Vanier for early dissolution of the 24th parliament was greeted with cheers on both sides of the Commons The house will adjourn Wednesday or Thursday after dealing with certain legisla legislation � tion including the vote of in interim � terim supply to pay govern government � ment bills for five months TREMORS UNEXPLAINED LOS ANGELES AP A mysterious storm of tiny earth tremors one every 27 seconds for eight hours last June G was described here at a meeting of the Scismological Society of America The trc mors too slight to be detected without instruments were re corded by seismographs around the world The tiny shocks have never been explained daet 09 IB til llion HAZELTON Staff Highways Minister Gaglar di has upped by more than 3 million the amount of money the provincial gov ernment will spend on Highway 16 this year At the same time he de delivered � livered a verbal spanking to the Associated Chambers of Commerce of Central BC and Alaska for bugging him on the project He told a meeting of G5 cham chamber � ber delegates representing com communities � munities along Highway 16 from Prince George to Prince Rupert that his department will spend more than 5 million re renovating � novating and rebuilding the road this summer Previously the minister had announced in the legislature that his 19G2 estimates con contained � tained only 2 million for the project Mondays gathering here was in the nature of an emergency meeting The associated cham chambers � bers are irked that the road has not yet been completed in spite of many past promises made by Gaglardi himself and by other MLAs from this reg region � ion that the entire route be tween Prince Rupert and Van Vancouver � couver would be hardtopped in time for the start of the Alaska Marine Ferry System due Sept 3 this year Gaglardi told the meeting he would not allow himself to be whipped into action I have the whole province to consider he said Northern highways have received more than their share of government money since the Social Credit party was elected to office in 1952 he added I make no apology for the work we have done on High Highway � way 16 This is why I didnt like the tone of some of the wires I have received from jour chambers of commerce Chambers will get more by co operation than by threats he i warned The minister assured Bill Boardman of Ketchikan a member of the Alaska legisla legislature � ture and one of the fathers of the proposed Marine Ferry Svstcm that highway 16 will be ready to handle the antici anticipated � pated freight truck and car Continued on Page 3 TOP RELIGIOUS MEN PRODDING PARTIES OTTAWA CO Nuclear arms for Canada will be raised as an issue in the forthcoming election by a vocal disarmament group headed by two respected religious spokesmen The Canadian Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament former formerly � ly known as the Canadian Com Committee � mittee for the Control of Radia Radiation � tion Hazaids will try to get every candidate and every political party to forswear nuc nuclear � lear weapons before election day President of the organization is the Very Rev James S Thomson former Moderator of the United Church of Canada now on the faculty of McGill University Montreal Its vice president is Abraham L Fein berg rabbi emeritus of Holy Blossom Temple in Toronto Honorary president is Justice J T Thorson president of the Exchequer Court of Canada Electoral War of Nerves Being Waged Pearson Complains in House OTTAWA CP Well here it is April 17 and the Commons hasnt yet approved all federal expenditures for the fiscal ear which ended March 31 17 das ago Theres still a tidy sum ot 138116981 gathered together in a single money bill which re remains � mains to get parliamentary ap pioval Opposition Leader Pearson seized on this bill just before the House adjourned Monday night to launch a counter stroke in what he himself has described as the electoral war of nerves By opening a debate on the bill which under normal cir circumstances � cumstances would pass without mention because the expendi expenditures � tures have already been ap proved piecemeal Mr Pearson in effect began a budget dc J bate This in turn might force Prime Minister Dicfcnbaker into a declaration whether Parlia Parliament � ment will bo adjourned Wed Wednesday � nesday or Thursday for an Eas ler recess or dissolved for a general election The government needs that 138116981 to pay some bills but it wont get it quickly if the opposition pursues the money bill debate begun by Mr Pear Pearson � son Its high time we were told and the country was told what the plans of tho government are if they have any plans Mr Pearson said The opposition was prepared to open a general debate on the nations finances because the government had given no indi indication � cation that there would be a normal debate this session The money will include kums to cover the CNRs 1901 deficjt of 67307772 the Trans-Can-ada Air Lines deficit of 6450 082 farm price supports of 23139333 maintenance of the navy 3500000 and a United Nations assessment o 2612591 for Congo operations The Commons earlier approv approved � ed 14 individual supplementary spending items for the external affairs department And rapid approval was given to ratification of the universal copyright convention which Can Canada � ada signed In 1952 Thirty nine countries have already ratified it Rabbi Fcinbcrg interviewed leaders and spokesmen of the three parties on Parliament Hill Monday in an attempt to assess their positions on univer universal � sal total nuclear disarmament In the order of his visits he reported his findings at a press conference in this way New Democratic Party Un equivocally opposed to nuclear weapons for Canada and in fa favor � vor of Canada withdrawing from 7e a Copy Ce n MonUr Blame for Accident Pinned on Dead Man An inquest jury Monday night blamed the death of Douglas Mceks 21 of Red Rock on gross negligence on his part in a car accident south of Prince George April 7 It said the car which apparently went out of control and plunged into the ditch near the airport was driven at ex extremely � tremely excessive speed prior to the accident Three other persons were injured in the accident all of them youths The jury found that a considerable amount of liquor was consumed the greater amount having been drunk by the driver The jury urged more attention be given by authorities to curtailment of liquor consumption by minors TO TOP OF GLACIER Airline Completes Big cumstances and with available public information nuclear wea weapons � pons for Canada appear unnec unnecessary � essary but if NATO worked out an agreement by which all nu nuclear � clear weapons in the alliance would be under collective con control � trol Canada should not refuse to participate Conservative External Af Affairs � fairs Minister Green who told 111 i P9 I LABOR men here were meeting today with Bob Heath member of the National Union of Mineworkers in England as the UK unionist visited the city on a fellowship which is giving him the opportunity of studying trade unionism in Canada Mr Heath right is shown with Bob Langford of Prince George local general chairman of the Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen representing men working on the PGE ing VANCOUVER CP Pacific Western Airlines has completed a 2700 ton freight haul from Stewart to the top of Granduc Glacier in Northern BC General Manager R II Laid man told the companys annual meeting Monday that two air aircraft � craft carried out the project for a mining company The mining company cleared a 5600 foot airstrip at Stewart on the coast at the southern tip of the Alaskan panhandle On the glacier 55 miles from Stewart and 3600 feet above sea level a 4500 foot landing strip was built by compacting the snow as it fell to a thickness of about 12 feet The area gets about 60 feet of snow annually In a two month period that began in February PWA used two twin engined wheeled Super 16 aircraft on 290 trips to carry the freight which included everything required to support the mining operation Prefabricated steel tanks of 17000 galIon capacity were flown in and after erection 250 000 gallons of fuel oil were carried up in a 1500 gallon rub rubber � ber bladder inserted in one of the aircraft 27 ROAD DEATHS SEEN ON WEEKEND OTTAWA cn The Cana Canadian � dian Highways Safety Council estimates that 27 Canadians will die in traffic accidents during the Easter weekend This would be the same toll as last year The council says it expects another 600 persons to be in juicd from 6 p m Thursday until midnight Sunday REPORTER FALLS FROM 10TH FLOOR NEW YORK m New York Times reporter Russell Porter was killed Monday night when he fell from his lOth floor bed bedroom � room window His wife said he went to bed early after dinner She said he preferred to sleep with the window open and that it was difficult to raise Porter 69 had been a re reporter � porter for more than 50 years WEATHER Showers are forecast for this evening with mostly cloudy weather Wednesday Little change in temperature Winds southerly 20 this evening and light Wednesday Low tonight and high Wednesday at Prince George 37 and 55 r Quesnel 37 and 57 Smithcrs 28 and 50 Peace River Sunny and continuing warm Winds light except southwest 15 Wednesday afternoon Low tonight and high Wednesday at Grande Prairie 35 and 55 Last 24 Hours Hi Lo Prcc Prince George Terrace Smithcrs Quesnel Williams Lake Kamloops Whitehorsc Fort Nelson Fort St John lection iss 54 38 47 37 49 36 57 37 51 40 G7 43 41 36 trace 53 22 55 31 NATO if it becomes a nuclear reporters their talks had been pool very good and had gone over Liberal Under present cir the whole pioblem asked Rabbi Fcinbcrg not to make any statement on his behalf The committee will assess re reports � ports of interviews with candi candidates � dates and of public meetings and the campaign literature of the parlies The stands taken by candi candidates � dates and parties would then be reported to disarmament gioups across the country so individ individuals � uals could make up their minds Rabbi Feinberg who led the delegation to Parliament Hill because Mr Thomson was ill said Mr Giccn had cautioned the organization against trying to get written commitments from candidates which would be contrary to the Elections Act Wc want to centralize and dramatize this issue The cam campaign � paign will pursue its policy of submitting to every candidate a question as to his or her atti attitude � tude and we shall try on our shoestring budget to convince the Canadian people that Can Canadas � adas best policy for peace is to avoid nuclear weapons Rabbi Feinberg said he had been attacked not physically vet as being pro Communist for the stand of his organiza tion but tlicic weio anti-Coin-munists on tho lunatic fringe in Canada as well as in tho US CUBANS MARKING INVASION FLOP HAVANA Reuteis Cuba today began three days of celebrations marking the first anniversary of the collapse of last years American-backed invasion of the Islands Bay of Pigs