SPORTS HIGHLIGHTS Bencher blasts two homers to lead Macs to 14 2 win over Yanks Hitting of Monroe and Trodd paces Interior to victory Doug Harvey gives Rangers notice of retirement from coaching chores Sec Page 4 ll-h-sT - JC mr - CHILDREN even enjoy taking the newest form of anti polio vaccine the pleasant tasting Sabin oral vaccine now available in Prince George Shown drinking his on the first day of the clinic Monday is Michael Becker G while his brother Andrew 3 awaits his turn The boys are the sons of Mr and Mrs Prosper Bec Becker � ker 829 Fifth Mrs Eugene Gabriele right administered the vaccine while Mrs Trilby Green left prepared it Fujikawa photo FIRST DAY OF 3 WEEK PROGRAM More than thats right its their official name auditions for the play You Cant Take It With You by Hart and Kauffman Audi Auditions � tions for club members and others inteiested will be held at 8 pm Thursday at 27S0 Second The play is scheduled for production in October A member of the Stellako Indian band at Fraser Lake has written to letnind us theie aie two bands not just one at the lake A few days ago The Citi len carried a Canadian Press news story which stated that the small Fraser Lake band was the only one in BC and the Yukon to vote against ex tended liquor privileges Inci Incidentally � dentally one of the two Wil- Guzzle Oral Vaccine 1300 persons in only fair but added we expect Prince George and district Mon day received their free Sabin oral polio vaccine in the first day of a three week program The total included 522 school children who were given the vaccine at school 241 prc school clukhcn and 559 adults who at attended � tended the clinic in the Cariboo Health Unit Health Unit Director Dr Ger Gerald � ald Bonham termed the adult attendance on the first day as Study of Tenders Being Continued The board of School Distiict 57 will continue to study tenders for the six room elementary school planned for the Moffat subdivision after no agreement was l cached at a special meet meeting � ing Fiiday Tenders were first opened Tlnusday immediately after they closed but only three trus trustees � tees weie present so no con contractor � tractor was chosen for the school to be icady for classes in September A second meeting was held Friday cening and the board decided to ask for more in information � formation from the architect A third special meeting may bo called to consider the four tenders leeched heavy adult turnout Friday and Saturday It is expected about 0000 school children will receive the vaccine in School District 57 Dr Bonham said it will take a week to determine what age groups arc laggng in taking advantage of the free service The vaccine served in a pleasant - tasting syrup form has no ill after effects on any age group and is lecommcndcd for all persons over three months old regardless of wheth whether � er they have had previous polio vaccine injections Clinics in Prince George are being held daily except Sunday to June 1G at the health unit 1461 Sixth Times arc 130 to 330 pm and 5 to 9 pm Monday through Friday and 10 am to 4 pm Satmdavs There will be additional clin clinics � ics here June 22 and 23 for those unable to attend the cail ier ones UNEXPECTED BUNDLE SYRACUSE NY AP An unidentified infant girl was found Monday on a table at a self service laundry The infant weighing seven pounds five ounces was leportcd in good condition in hospital She was believed to be two or thiec days old Now Hear This Its almost an anti climax after the prime ministers visit to her homo last week but today Granny Seymour cele celebrates � brates her llOtli btithday This jcar she received wellwishers at her South Foit Gcoigo home vheie last year she had to welcome them in the hos hospital � pital Aio you interested in acting If ou aie you should attend the Theatre Workshop PG liams Lake bands has since vot voted � ed against Indians being allow allowed � ed to buy liquor and take it home to the icserve Our in informant � formant says it was the Nautlcy band at Fraser Lake which turned down the plebiscite while the Stellako band voted 99 per cent in favor of the extended rights There was a girlie show at rourth and Quebec yesterday afternoon The oungstcr one of three pic schoolers left in car Licenced 444 629 was pranc ing about on the sidewalk sans panties Which might have been amusing except that one won ders how voungsters that age can safely be left in a car while parents shop or what-havc-jou Any one of the trio could easily have run out into the street and squish The Tartan is coming yo ho o ho with apologies to the Campbells Its the Tartan Brew label and its coming to morrow Which means Brew master Gene Zarek will put the bottling machine on a trial run Thursday and hopes to do a full days bottling Friday THE CITIZEN The Only Daily Newspaper Serving North Ceniral British Columbia Phone LOgan 4 2441 Vol 6 No 109 Clinics arc also being held in various centres throughout the health unit area including Van derhoof Fort St James Burns Lake and McBride 73000 Poured Into City from Survival Course A payroll of 73000 was add added � ed to Prince George during the four national survival courses held here duiing the winter it was disclosed today Maj W D Blackburn of officer � ficer in charge of the training program for the last two cours courses � es said 378 men signed up and 2GG completed the courses which began last November Of the 112 men who did not complete their courses 50 found employment and the balance dropped out for medical and disciplinary reasons Maj Blackburn commended the Indians who participated in the courses desenbing them as a pictty fine type of lads There were 56 band Indians en enrolled � rolled of which 44 completed the courses The program was designed to form a nucleus of men who would be paitially - trained to assist in emergency measures necessary in the event of a nuclear attack Twelve persons were employ employed � ed in administrative and in instructional � structional capacities Equip Equipment � ment used during the courses is being packed and shipped to Edmonton SKIPPER FINED NANAIMO CP Captain Paul Kildcgaard of the freighter Marcel was fined 250 plus costs on a pollution charge in connec tion with discharging oil in Tahsis harbor voters in B C 18 while 21 is PRINCE GEORGE BRITISH COLUMBIA TUESDAY JUNE 5 1962 UNDER WILLISTON Hearing on Pulp D ue Wednes North American Common Market Group Proposed TORONTO ICB Canada should seriously explore the idea of a North American common market com comprising � prising Canada the US and Mexico Douglas Am bridge president of Abitibi Power and Paper Co said Monday He said such a free trade area would be easier to form than the European Common Market because only three languages would be involved and there are no ancient national prides and prejudices in the way ON GAS ISSUE C of C Head Welcomes Meet with Operators Chamber of commerce representatives would be pleased to meet Automotive Retailers Association mem members � bers to discuss gasoline prices chamber president Alex Clark said today on his return from the coast This can be done at any convenient time too he said Leboe Proposes Election Study QUESNEL Staff Cariboo Social Credit Candidate Bert Leboe Monday night proposed a Commons or Senate committee be set up to study the possibility of uniform electoral procedures in provincial and federal elec elections � tions Mr Leboe said the committee would be able to come up with a plan agreeable to the 10 prov provincial � incial governments and Ottawa Included in present differences arc the transferable vote which applies in BC elections and minimum age of qualified elections it is the minimum federally He suggested the Conscrva tives arent so much concerned with retaining the Cariboo rid riding � ing as they arc in making sure a Social Crcditcr doesnt win it The recent visit to Prince George of the prime minister and other cabinet ministers he told the public meeting indi indicates � cates the government is at attempting � tempting to justify to Cariboo riding residents its position on the Columbia River power treaty The Liberals Mr Leboe charged want to put the Peace River power project into cold storage for 20 years The Prince George chamber took a resolution to the BC Chamber of Commerce meeting in Victoria last week asking support for a demand for equal equalized � ized gas prices throughout the province It was rejected Contrary to reports earlier by Canadian Press the Prince George Chamber of Commerce received considerable support lor the resolution said Mr Clark Last Friday president of the Prince George Automotive Re Retailers � tailers Association John Esau said the group would be quite willing to discuss the situation with the chamber The operators did not like higher gas prices here cither because the cus customer � tomer blamed the service sta station � tion rather than the oil com company � pany for the situation he said Mr Clark said lie was ex extremely � tremely pleased to hear the ARA here was interested in dis discussing � cussing the problem Despite the fact the resolu resolution � tion wasnt carried at the pro provincial � vincial meeting we dont pro propose � pose to give up attempts to have a more reasonable price struc structure � ture for the residents of areas outside of the Lower Mainland he said He said considering the resol resolution � ution was debated on the floor of the meeting for nearly 90 minutes the longest debate taking place at the chamber meeting for several jcars the chamber here felt the Lower Mainland residents now recog recognize � nize there are other areas in BC that also deserve consid consideration � eration Kootenay Power Pole Blast Shakes Centre GRAND FORKS CP RCMP today arc investi investigating � gating a night time bomb blast which destroyed a West Kootenay Light and Power transformer and shook this community A West Kootenay Power and Light spokesman blamed the blast on terrorists and said the bomb was set in the same manner as those which have previously been blamed on Sons of Freedom Douk hobor terrorists WEATHERMAN CONFIRMS SUSPICIONS i Lands and Forests Min Minister � ister Ray Williston Wed Wednesday � nesday will conduct a pub public � lic hearing here into a pro posed 50000000 pulp mill and establishment of a pulpwood harvesting area The hearings will start at 9 am in the provincial building courtroom when the minister will consider pioposals counter-proposals and objections from per persons � sons interested in the pro proposed � posed utilization of pulp wood included in the re requested � quested pulpwood harvest harvesting � ing area Canadian Forest Products an nounced May 1 it will seek per mission to build a pulp mill de signed for a 500 ton daily prod uction on Eraser Flats just cast of the city It would begin operations late in 19G5 The companys proposal in included � cluded a request for a pulp pulpwood � wood harvesting area under Sec Section � tion 17A of the Forest Act to include public working circles in the vicinity They are the Parsnip Crook Crooked � ed River Carp Stuart Lake Nechako Wcstlake Navcr Big Valley and Willow River sus sustained � tained yield units Be Hypnotized Relax for Tests Students Urged CALGARY CP The Calgary Hypnosis Society has invited Grade 12 btudents totake posuj nypnotic suggestions nnac win relax them for their final exams The students have been in invited � vited to attend a meeting of the society June 13 They will need the written conscn of their parents before they will be al allowed � lowed to take the treatment If the kids have learned the work then lhat information is already in their subconscious mind said Bill Brooks past president of the society We merely attempt to relax them enough so they will be able to remember it when they arc writing their exams Robert Warren Calgary pub public � lic school superintendent said he knew of nothing in education research which supports the use of hvpnosis as a means of help helping � ing students If a parent asked my advice as to whether a child should go to the meeting I would definite ly discourage it WEATHER Mostly cloudy with a few showers late Wednesday A little warmer Light winds Low to tonight � night and high Wednesday at Prince George and Quesnel 40 and 65 Smithers 40 and 60 Peace River Sunny and a little warmer on Wednesday Winds westerly 15 with gusts to 25 in the afternoon Low to tonight � night and high Wednesday at Grande Piairie 35 and C5 LAST 24 HOURS Hi Lo Prec Prince George 58 38 Terrace 55 43 01 Smithers 55 3G Quesnel 62 39 Williams Lake 57 35 trace Kamloops 61 36 Whitehoisc 51 39 34 Fort Nelson 65 35 Fort St John 57 38 Dawson Creek 50 33 Brrr May was Miserable Month According tu records of the Department of Transport weather office at the airport May this car was cold dark and wet if thats news to anyone who lived through it Maximum daily tempera temperatures � tures and the high for the month were below nornial total precipitation and the number of days with measur able precipitation were above normal and hours of sunshine were below normal Spokesmen at the weather office say that there is no sign of a break in the im immediate � mediate future although as Juno progresses the weather will probably get warmer with less precipitation High reading for May re recorded � corded May 26 was 67 only one degree higher than the April high of 66 and equal to the record low maximum set in 1943 and 1960 Normal high is 80 while the all time record high here set May 30 1936 is 95 Lowest temperature during the month was 25 the normal low Mean daily maximum tem temperature � perature was 573 and the mean daily minimum 363 compared with normals of 635 and 362 Mean tempera turc for the month was 468 three degrees below normal Sun fiends were shortchang shortchanged � ed 31 hours during May this j ear when 217 hours of sun sunshine � shine were recorded compar compared � ed with the normal of 248 Record sunshine for May in Prince George was set in 1946 when 314 6 hours were recorded Dullest May on record was in 1950 when only 180 hours of sunshine were recorded Precipitation during the month was above normal with measurable quantities on 17 das compared with a normal of 11 Total precipitation was 23 inches 214 rainfall and 16 snow Average wind velocity was 62 rnp h below the normal of 74 mph However with gusty winds accompanying showers a record gust velocity of NNW 59 mph was set May 20 7c a Copy S by CAnnim It SO per Month Fluoridation Squabble To Be Taken to Court WINDSOR Ont CP City council Monday night authorized court action to compel the Windsor utilities commission to fluoridate the public water supply The commission refused to follow a bylaw passed by the city several months ago claiming it was a joint waterworks and required a bylaw from the majority of the surrounding municipalities which it supplies James E Watson city solicitor said his inter interpretation � pretation of the fluoridation bylaw was lhat the commission was not a joint waterworks but rather just a seller of water ELECTION CLAIMS Mike Dief Exchange Desperation Charges By The Canadian Press Whos worrying about the June 18 election outcome Prime Minister Dicfenbakcr and Liberal Leader Lester B Pearson both described each others cam campaign � paign effort as desperate Monday night Mr Pearson told a Kitchener audience the Conservatives have switched desperately from say saying � ing how good things arc to another line of how good they will be The Conservative leader in a free time political broadcast on the CBC television network ac accused � cused the Liberal opposition of being desperate and ready to go to any lengths to misrep- resent and downgrade Canada Mr Pearson said the Conser Conservatives � vatives have made the most fantastic election claims despite a clear rccotd of unemploy unemployment � ment chronic deficits and high higher � er taxes prices and interest rates Mr Dicfenbakcr said the eco economic � nomic trend now is towards one of the greatest business and job upsurges in Canadian histor and said that by sum- mersicnd -Oanacra would have virtual full employment New Democratic Party Lead Leader � er T C Douglas speaking in Glace Bay NS to more than 3600 persons said it is no nothing � thing short of criminal that one out of every four woikcrs in the Cape Breton area is un emplojcd eco 1 By The Canadian Press Biggest field of candidates ever was recorded when nomin nominations � ations closed Monday for the June 18 fcdcial vote Some 1018 candidates are in the running for 205 Commons seats The figtuc compared with 836 in 1958 when Prime Minister Dicfenbakcrs Progressive Con servatives lolled to a rocord shattering majority The pic- vious high mark for candidates was 951 in 1945 when the Com Commons � mons held only 245 seats The slate was rounded out Monday when nominations closed in 242 ridings two of which elect two members apiece Nominations were held in the remaining 21 constituen constituencies � cies where geographical prob problems � lems make communications dif difficult � ficult May 22 and 70 candidates qualified then Heie is the lineup for June 18 with 1958 figures in brackets Progressive Conservative 265 265 Liberal 261 265 Social OITAWA CO Health Min Minister � ister Monteith said Monday night the Conservative partys approach to seeking ways of r ju8Qj H J WALDO MONTEITH royal commission 91 Candidates In BC Field VANCOUVER CP Ninety one candidates including independ independent � ent Burton V White who waited until the final day to enter the Vancouver Centre contest were in the race for 22 B C scats when nominations closed Mon Monday � day White 47- car old semi retired landlord Who once sought the mayoralty in Vancouver was the only surprise when nomina nominations � tions closed in 20 ridings Deadline for nominations in the two far flung northern rid ridings � ings of Cariboo and Skeena was May 22 The Progressive Conserva Conservative � tive Social Credit and New Democratic parties have full slates entered The Liberals who lost their Skeena candidate May 22 when his nomination papers were improperly com completed � pleted have 21 candidates entered The Communist party entered three candidates All 22 BC members of the last house were renominated Bl Cicdit 232 82 NDP 217 CCF 1C9 Independents and others 40 55 Last minute entrants helped swell the total Advance com compilations � pilations had indicated at least 995 candidates would enter the battle but seven moic Social Crcditers and six NDP candi candidates � dates came forward before the deadline Bennett Sees Socred Govt TORONTO CD Premier Ben Bennett � nett Monday predicted the June 18 election will splinter the old parties and Social Credit will form a minority government Mr Bennett cited Social Cicd its stait as a minority govern government � ment in BC 10 years ago as a parallel Quebec has already been set on fire by Social Credit and the movement is spreading thiough out the countiy he said Health Minister Slaps Current Mess in Sask providing adequate health serv services � ices for Canadians hoped to avoid anything like the current mess in Saskatchewan Mr Monteith making ths comment on a free time political radio broadcast did not dheclly mention by name the Saskatche Saskatchewan � wan medical care plan due to come into effect July 1 He said the Conservative gov government � ernment had ah cad y moved forward by setting up a royal commission to study the whole situation of health services and make recommendations for fu future � ture action In so doing wc hope to avoid anything like the current mess in Saskatchewan and also to come up with a far moio realistic and comprehensive ap proach than has been put for forward � ward by the Liberal party The Liberals he said had an announced � nounced no less than two dif different � ferent schemes for medical in insurance � surance in two years and nei neither � ther one held out any hope of doing the job effectively