SPORTS HIGMUGHTS Yanks edge Tilers 8 7 to tie for third place in senior Softball Giscome takes one game lead over Jslanders with 10 8 win Roughriders open WFC season with win over Stamps See Page 4 4 DREAMING of the dances the parade the colorful midway the canoe race over which she will reign as Queen Aurora V during the Simon Fraser Days American Nazi Still on Loose Yard in Hunt LONDON Reuters Scot Scotland � land Yard security men were called in today to search for George Lincoln Rockwell the self styled fuehrer of the Amer American � ican Nazi party who slipped in into � to Britain to attend a fascist rally during the weekend The search for the 42-ycar-old Rockwell went on as the home office conducted an in inquiry � quiry into how he managed to get into Britain despite a ban on his entry It is believed he landed at Shannon Ireland and entered Britain by boat through a small port -where there Is nopassport check During the weekend Rockwell visited a Fascist style camp set up by the tiny British National Socialist Movement in rural Gloucestershire where he lec lectured � tured on anti Semitic and anti Negro ideology and whipped up considerable enthusiasm among sympathetic Britons Sunday a hooded man dashed past leportcrs at the camp into a waiting car and it was thought he might be Rockwell Jack booted camp guaids armed with cudgels icfused to say who it was WARM j A cool air system remains over the area but there are signs that a gradual warming trend has started Clear periods may be expected overnight with cloudy conditions Wednesday and scattered after afternoon � noon showers or thunderstorms A little warmer with light winds Low tonight and high Wednesday at Prince George and Smlthcrs 45 and 70 Ques net 50 and 75 Peace River Sunny with afternoon cloudiness L L 1 1 1 e change in temperature and light winds Low tonight and high Wednesday at Grande Praiuc 50 and 70 LAST 24 HOURS Hi Lo Preclp Prince George 57 52 03 Terrace 68 19 Smilhcis GG 43 Quesncl 70 51 03 Williams Lake 63 43 112 Kamloops 75 55 05 Whitehorse 64 52 trace Minister Seeks Mercy For Mothers Murderer MELBOURNE Reuteis A clergyman said today he will try to stop the hanging of his mothers killer Scottish immigrant Robert Tait 38 Rcw George Hall was commenting on the state executive councils refusal Monday to commute Tails Supremo Courts death sentence Tait is due to hang Aug 22 My conscience tells me that I must try to help Tait I would not feel worthy of facing my chuich eongicgation unless 1 tried 1 do not believe in the death sentence being cat lied out on any man no matter how ghastly his crime Now Hear This Seems Ilince Gcoiges Simon Fraier Days and Exhibition Aug 15 18 is getting some minor competition fioni an agucul- turul fair in Smogtown known as the Pacific National Exhibi Exhibition � tion Apparently worried about competition from the SFDE the PjNE is going all out to at attract � tract patrons from the Seattle Worlds Fair But just In case anybody from PG wants to at attend � tend the PNE they can pick up a brochure plus application for ticket to the RCMPs Musi cal Ride at tho fiont desk of The Citiien Now hows that for being nelghboi iy In cidentally this is Ihe ear the PNU hope at long last to en ticu a million ciistomcis to the fair fui lliu fiist time By comparison the srDlS hopes tu atli act 20000 Half a down of the 20 special beer bottles containing letters of credit for PG Chamber of Commerce spiucc dollars which weie heated into the Straits of Juan do Fuca a few imlhths ago by local C of- C types who attended the B C Chamber con convention � vention at Victoria have been ictuincd here to djte All have I If district foicst fires are at a minimum Friday the Forest Service plans to stage an aerial fiiefighting demonstra tion at Quesnel The planes on contract have to woik out once a week anvhovv so the boys in gieen down Quesnel way plus any interested spectators wilt get a chance to see the water bombing pilots do their btuff Eighteenth street west from Central to the fair grounds will be fiec of dust during the Simon Fraser Days and Exhi Exhibition � bition promises City Public Works Superintendent Bill J one lies not sure jet how his de department � partment will accomplish this but he guarantees that thu en liance load to the fair will cicatc no dust Aug 15 18 regard leis of how many vehicles use U Leaders of Knox United Church vacation Bible school report they aie swamped with children Seems only 20 young youngsters � sters wcio registered during the pre school registration period vet four times that many have joined the classes Additional supplies cannot be obtained and parents are advised that no been found along tne mainland I mom children can be accept- and Vancouver Island coaUed Phone LOaon 4 2441 Vol 6 No 153 JMlMMFlP3FnHf ASiWMSSAmmKlmWM id h iif jr -v a a Ywraiu - i t -a a w r ta iai vii i i5 ivsa s tiSKr fm r fc v t - j tajTSaA W3i JrJBiKs s y f4-fc-Xsii jtMiii ytLjs jilfclliife J5F AT PREMIERS MEET ONE CHICK THRIVES VANCOUVER Cft Stanley Parks second baby penguin of the season died during the weekend but the first one is thriving If the chick survives it will be the third king penguin hatched in captivity in North America saSt and Exhibition is pretty Pat Turner 17 The annual celebration will be held this year Aug 15 to 18 Fujikawa photo Dollar Conscious Reps Talk Up Finance Storm VICTORIA CP Based on reports from the first days discussion at the third provincial premiers con conference � ference finance stands out as the major issue of mutual concern to government leaders from the 10 Canadian provinces Dollars how to collect them and how to borrow them formed the heart of the bulk of discussion Monday during two 90 minute sessions held behind closed doors guarded against intruders by red coated RCMP Premier lean Lcsage of Que Quebec � bec instigator of these confer conferences � ences and chairman of the cur current � rent one gave reporters an off-the-cuff accounting of the days talks Most of the afternoon Mr Lcsage said was taken up an exchanging ideas on co ordina ordination � tion of provincial bond issues and on new methods of borrow borrowing � ing such as British Columbias parity bonds and the savings ceitificatcs of Saskatchewan and Manitoba Mr Lesage said the provinces decided to co ordinate liming of major borrowings by having syndicates which handle this business meet secretly before issuing bonds so interest rates will not be pushed up by too many bonds reaching the mar market � ket at once Mr Lcsage said that many provinces Alberta and Mani Manitoba � toba do not havo sales taes are losing large sums of revenue from this source because there is no means at present to col collect � lect sales tax on retail goods shipped by merchants in one province to customers in an another � other One method suggested to overcome this evasion svstem was to make merchants in each province concerned the agents Tor the purpose of collecting the sales tax of other provinces Mr Lesage said the hour long discussion on provincial bonds dealt especially with par parity � ity bonds and savings certifi certificates � cates Premier Bennett had ex explained � plained at some length how the parity bonds worked in this province where government agencies have issued 212000- 000 in parity bonds But the Quebec premier -refused to be drawn into discus discussion � sion with leportcrs which might indicate whether BC has had any difficulty with its program Provincial treasuicr A E Blakeney representing Premier Woodrow Lloyd of Saskatchewan here end Manitoba1 Premier Duff Roblin had explained safe safeguards � guards used in their savings ceitlficates Tho conference continues to day with uniform liquor-advertising laws as its first topic It ends tonight and the picmicrs aiicl delegates are to fly Wed nesday to Kelowna in the BC interior for the opening of that citys annual regatta Two Swimmers Bodies Found Bodies found Monday in the Fraser River at Lillooet arid Lytton are believed to be those of a Quesnel district boy and girl who drowned July 30 RCMP said today a minister was to go to Lillooet to identify the bodies Police were unable to locate the parents Drowned in an eddy of the river about 34 miles south of here were Janice Margaret An derson 18 of Quesnel and Jeff Scott Grafton 8 of Wood Woodpecker � pecker INSPECTION PLANNED VERNON CTl Defence Min istcr Harkness is due here Thursday to inspect cadets attending summer camp ZJl THE CITI PILL OVERDOSE RULED Mysterious Phone Call Adds to Monroe Case HOLLYWOOD AP A mysterious phone call in the night shortly before Marilyn Monroe was found dead added still further conjecture today to the tragedy that befell the blonde movie queen There also remained the ques question � tion of whether she died inten intentionally � tionally or accidentally I dont remember what time the call came in said the act actress � ress housekeeper Mrs Eunice Murray Monday And I dont know who it was from But knowing Marilyn as I do I think that if this call woke her up she might have taken some more sleeping pills Coroner Theodore J Curphey said the death Saturday of the actress was caused by a mas sive overdose of barbiturates Mrs Murray added that the unidentified call might account for the phones being found clutched in the hand of the sometimes bright and gay sometimes depressed star Mean while arrangements were being completed for quiet funeral services and burial Wednesday Friends were hop hoping � ing the simple rites would not attract throngs of the curious Details were not set but a funeral home spokesman said only 15 persons were Invited lo the service for the 36-year-old Miss Monroe The actress will be placed in a mausoleum crypt near the grave of a woman believed to have befriended her early in life Electronic Brain Helps To Build Portage Dam DAWSON CREEK Kn An ccutivc secretary of the BC electronic computer is hcln- energy uoaru ing to construct the Portage Mountain Dam The computer is being used by International Power and Engineering Consultants Ltd to provide an extensive analysis of the huge dam to be built across the Peace River International Power and En Engineering � gineering arc consultants to the DC Hydra and Power Author Authority � ity the body in charge of con construction � struction of the Peace River power project Aided by this modern mech mechanical � anical brain engineers can cieate a detailed piclme of the dam in a short time and get answers to many vital questions such as the effect on the dam of fantastic stress both from its own weight and from the 600- foot depth of water behind it The da in will be one of the largest in the world rising 615 feet above the existing river bed and reaching 13 miles across Peace River Valley It will be 3000 feet thick at its base gradually narrowing to a 50 foot thickness at the crest Water runolf from more than 25000 square miles of Northern B C will be controlled by Port Portage � age Mountain Dam and stored In a 270-milc-tong artificial lake for year round release to power plants The complete dam will con contain � tain an estimated S5000000 cubic yaids of fill Mr Southvvorth said the dam will begin growing In 1964 reaching its full height in 1970 The huge power reservoir will begin forming behind the un uncompleted � completed dam in 1966 and take about seven years to fill First savs John M Southvvorth ex 1 power will be available in 1968 Workers Receive 10 Cent Increase A health and welfare plan and 10-ccnt-an hour wage increase over two years arc included in terms of a settlement between Eagle Lake Sawmills and IWA Local 1 424 Terms were announced joint jointly � ly by the two parties today as a union membership vote was completed to confirm accept ance of the agreement reached by negoUators Union members will recejve four-cent-an-hour increase this year and a slent an hour increase in September next year company spokesmen said The health and welfare plan is effective as soon as the two year contract goes into effect Sept 1 this year they added Overall benefits t o union members are similar to those won earlier thisycar in a two year agreement with the NILA Fire Hazard Still Dropping The general fire hazard in the Prince George Forest District continues to drop today follow following � ing a night of cool damp weather A BC Forest Service spokes spokesman � man said only 19 fires arc burn burning � ing throughout the district No new ones vvere reported over night There were 23 fires burning Monday In total 131 men and three bulldozers arc continuing work on fire lines On the Hot Fire near Valemount in the Canoe River Valley 85 men and a fleet of bulldozers arc working on mop up operations Fire is smouldering in slash areas In Ranger District 19 opened up early this year in the Chpt wynd region five fires are burning but all of them arc un under � der control There are 16 men there In the Pine Pass area two ranger districts report moderate conditions A little rain in the area held hazard where It is LIGHTNING KILLS 10 NAIROBI Kenya Wl Light Lightning � ning struck an African hut re recently � cently killing 10 Negroes who had sought shelter from a heavy storm PINE PASS HAMLET WAITS BREATHLESSLY FOR BOOM By PAT DENTON Citizen Staff Writer CHETWYND This Hart Highway community at the east end of Pine Pass has hitched its wagon to the Peace River power project convinc convinced � ed that its lavs as a hamlet are numbeicd If construction of the Por Portage � tage Mountain Dam at Hud Hudson � son Hope goes ahead and it now appears it will with more than 400 men working there on the three diversion tunnels Chetwynd expects to become a transportation boomtown Any materials or equipment being transferred from the south must pass through Chel wynd where a 0 mile road branches off to the damsite Teu fears aga Chetwynd was a Sleepy Hollow type of place called home by about MX people Things started stirring after the Pacific Gicat Eastern Railway was finally punched through from Prince George to Dawson Crerk Out of sheer gratitude the townspeople dropped the name of Little Prairie too cll deprccatory for a northern development - inspired town and adopted the name Clict wynd after the late provincial railways minister 1100 PEOPLE Today 1100 people live here Last week property owners voted 40 to 11 for in incorporation � corporation as a village mu municipality � nicipality Like South Fort George Chetwynd is present U designated a water district ZEM The Only Daily Newspaper Serving North Central British Columbia PRINCE GEORGE BRITISH COLUMBIA TUESDAY AUGUST 7 1962 ON CONSPIRACY COUNTS 70 Doukhobors Freed by Court Parks Branch Studying Possibility of Park A two man reconnaisance crew from the Vic Victoria � toria office of the Parks Branch will investigate the possibility of establishing a provincial park at Monk man Lake District parks supervisor Dennis Podmore said today that Bill Spriggs and Kerry Joy left Prince George Monday to investigate a number of sites in the Dawson Creek area NEW WESTMINSTER CP A magistrate to day refused to commit 70 elders of the Sons of Free Freedom � dom Doukhobor sect on conspiracy charges Magistrate William Ev Evans � ans said there was not enough evidence for him to order higher court trial on the charges of conspir conspiring � ing to intimidate the gov governments � ernments of Canada and BC with acts of violence His ruling ended a 38 day preliminary hearing into the charges which came after RCMP officers arrested the members of the Freedomitcs fraternal council in a series of surprise raids at several shack towns in the Kootenays Magistrate Evans said in his judgment witnesses and scores of documents produced by the Crown contained little to indi indicate � cate the accused had formed a conspiracy All but six of the men were set free The six are in cus custody � tody on other charges Stefan Sorokin spiritual lead leader � er of the Freedomites and an another � other sect leader both in Uru Uruguay � guay were also charged with the conspiracy when the 70 were rounded up March25 Police said at the time Soro kin and his aide would be ar rested when they returned to Canada lash2Cwas charged Monday night -with capital murder in the shooting death of his attrac attractive � tive redheaded wife outside their home here Police said hair the skull of Mrs Shirley I Ballash 22 was blown off by a blast from a 30 calibre hunting rifle fired from only six feet away George Pappas a taxi driver who had just taken Mrs Ballash to her home said he shouted to the gunman Youre mad Youve killed her you fool Half her skull was blown off he said in an Interview There were brains and blood and hair scattered all around The womans three-year-old daughter Lisa was staying at per granuparenis ai me nine of the shooting 1500 ADVANCE TICKETS SOLD An estimated 1500 advance admission tickets for Simon Fraser Days and Exhibition had been sold up to noon to today � day secretary manager Ron Deacon said He said the ladles of the ACT sold more than 900 ad advance � vance tickets Friday and Sat Saturday � urday Deadline for advance admis admissions � sions is Aug II lie said The ticket booths with the special low prices will be in opera operation � tion again starting Thursday and continue until next Tues Tuesday � day Last year ground admission was 1 Advance tickets arc selling for three for 1 Reg Regular � ular admission through the gates will be SO cents BY CARRIER 7e a Copy tsJp STPtJw n so ttt Month BOB HOPES BROTHER DIES BOSTON1 CP William Jack Hope 62 brother of comedian Bob Hope died Monday night at the Massa Massachusetts � chusetts General Hospital William Hope a resident of California was producer of his brothers television shows and the assistant treasurer of Hope Enterprises Incorporat Incorporated � ed Cause of death was not dis disclosed � closed THIRD SHOT Trial Opens For 2 Men The trial of two men charged jointly with attempted car theft and attempted hrcaking and en entering � tering of a city jewelry store in connection with an incident May 10 in which a third man was shot and killed opened Monday in police court David Sinclair Stevenson 2t and Barry Malcolm Blake 20 were arrested following the alleged burglary attempt at Rus sack Jewelers 116G Third Stevenson was wounded and a companion Jimmy Michaud was killed by Jeweler Steve Russack when he shot a 30 30 rifle from a rear window of the store Russack was subsequently charged with non capital murder and committed for trial at the fall assizes in December lie testified at the trials opening under protection of the Canada Evidence Act i The trial was continuing to I day Vancouver Man Blasts Pretty Wifes Head Off PappJiOaIdhe wasHold W wait - Suddenly I saw her backing out from the house A tall man with a rifle was talking to her as she was backing out I hcaid her tell him Take it easy dont do it Pappas said the man tofd Mrs Ballash to pay the cab fare She turned and walked toward the taxi I saw him raise the rifle and take careful aim and I shouted to him Dont shoot Youll be sorry Then there was a blast and I saw her collapse before me BILL DAVID comedian - im impersonator � personator will be master of ceremonies for the eight big acts at the grandstand show at the Simon Eraser Days and Exhibition on Aug 16 17 and 18 Impressions of such stars as Frank Sinatra Ed Sulli Sullivan � van Liberace and Vaughan Monroe will be among many to be given by Mr Every body of the world of show business Chetwynd Big Little Town with Eye on Future What is now the main part of the town has just been built during the last decade Almost every house is new You can spit SO Icet La most any direction and be bound to hit a trailer Most of tho trailer people arc temporary residents who work with the hlghwavs de department � partment and on other con construction � struction jobs The main cm ploycrs are two sawmills and Iwo planer mills the PGE its a divisional point and the higflways department There is one large hotel one issue and four motels The hotel is 0 DUSTY TRAIL pretty well the towns enter entertainment � tainment centre with its giant beer parlor and a cocktail lounge The spirited Chetwynd Chamber ol Commerce has its dinner meetings in the hotel dining room Bill Gardiner a former Prince George resident the the chambers secretary and publisher or tho mimeograph mimeographed � ed Weekly Advertiser proud proudly � ly points out the chamber has 44 members probably five times the actual number of businesses in Chetwynd Rather than continually bug bugging � ging MPs and MLAs or every- thing from lower gasoline prices to a liquor btore the Chetwynd chamber sticks to Improvement ol the road from Chetwynd to Hudson Hope and right now Thursdays Advertiser con confidently � fidently announced that Re Repairs � pairs To HH BoSil Premis ed Immediately The story beneath the headline said that resulting from chambcr in spired telegrams to Victoria officials II T Miard deputy highways minister wired REURTEL CHETWYND HUDSON HOPE ROAD ItU IAIR WORK WILL RB CAR RIED OUT IMMEDIATELY Well probably within 10 days anyway commented Gardiner Pretty good action but then Chetwynd has gone along with Social Credits pleas for voUs both provlnc- ially and federally Recent summer weekends have seen hundreds of the curious risk their mufflers and tires to cross the dusty trail to Hudson Hope which according lo Gardiner was Continued n Pas 3