Sugar dumped in fuel tanks of tractors car Two district residents have reported to police that sugar was dumped in the fuel tanks of three tractors and a car Operator of Massina Sawmill Red Hock owns the tractors Bernhard Hansen of Vance Road is owner of the car CHRONIC WING Martin promises hearing Plans to improve health scr ices available here through a mental health unit and a re rehabilitation � habilitation and chronic care wing will get sympathetic hear hearing � ing from the department of health Health Minister Eric Martin said here today the department is encouraging both types of development throughout the pro province � vince and Prince George is among the communities in line for development Mr Martin stopped overnight at Prince George on his way to Fort St John where he will open a new 1800000 hospital his 31st Wednesday He returns to the coast Thursday BEDS NEEDED Rehabilitation and chronic care beds are needed increas increasingly � ingly throughout the province and particularly in Prince George where plans are now underway for a rehabilitation and chronic wing It is considered essential that these beds be the responsibility of the existing hospital for con encience of operation and the easy transfer of patients he said Such wings designed to put people back on their feet take the load of the general hospital to build more expensive general beds with their intensive care TIME NEAR Mr Martin said that plans for a mental health unit now being formulated by the Northern In Interior � terior Union Board of Health would also get a sympathetic hearing lrom the department The time is not far off when Prince George will have facili facilities � ties of a clinical and consulta consultative � tive nature and we hope in due course beds for acute psychia psychiatric � tric care Opening of BCs first mental health unit at Kelowna later this month marks the beginning of a new program of decentral decentralization � ization of mental health services Kclownas unit will feature consultation services beds for acute care integrated public and private psychiatric care and work through medical doc doctors � tors ministers and school coun counsellors � sellors One of the units major con concerns � cerns will be combatting juvenile delinquency in its early stages Mr Martin added as well as the cure of existing mental health problems SOCKS COST MAN EIGHT MONTHS Donald Edward McKay was sentenced here to eight months imprisonment Mon Monday � day for the theft of 11 pair of socks from the Hudsons Bay Co store Also appearing before Mag Magistrate istrate G O Stewart Gerald Kakakaway was fined 50 for stealing a pair of gloves from the same store Ha Charges of brutality at Institution probed VICTORIA CP A BC health department spokesman Monday night said a full scale inquiry has begun into charges of brutality at the Colquitz mental home here He also said two attendants have been indefin indefinitely � itely suspended as a result of testimony given at the preliminary hearing of Peter Howard Dootson 34 dn a charge of attempted murder Dootson a Colquitz psychiatric aide now under suspension is accused of trying to murder Robert Robinson 64 on Oct 19 by means of a blunt in instrument � strument and fire Zone commander named president of Legion Long time zone commander Larry A Willington last night was elected 1963 president of Branch 43 Canadian Legion He succeeds Doug Grant Earl G Robertson was elected first vice president and John Tuyttens second vice president Elected to the executive for two year terms were Don Allan and Lyn Fonseca for one year terms G E Tomlinson and Alf Wick Other executive member is ATOMIC POWER NEW YORK IB Consoli Consolidated � dated Edison Co has applied to the US Atomic Energy Com Commission � mission for permission to build a 175000000 atomic power plant in New York City Now hear this At least one member of the Mann family wont be at the big big show for British Empire Games gold medal boxer Hr old Mann in the Coliseum Wed Wednesday � nesday night Harolds brother Irving has been picked as a member of the jury hearing the capital murder trial of Frederick Charles of Fort St James and the jury in a cap capital � ital murder case gets locked up until the trial is over Connaught Secondary Schools Frances Thacker came up with a 29 crib hand at the Legion last night to barely win the game fjom Citucn Ad Boss man Ken McLelltn whose four and thicc sixes got almost as much help from the five turn- IN THE CITIZEN Hefty Conner Classified 8 9 Comics - 9 Coming events S Debbie Drake - District new 10 Editorial page 7 Here and there 6 Markets - - 3 Quesnel news -- 2 Sports -- - 4 up as Frans jack and three fives The Christmas choir festival in which some COO local school children will sing carols will be held at the senior sec secondary � ondary school fieldhouse start starting � ing at 730 pm this Saturday not Jn Duchess Park auditorium as reported earlier Re Results � sults of the Prince George Fig Figure � ure Skating Club competitions finds three of the champions live on Dogwood street Leslie Latham senior ladies Sharon Docherty junior ladies and Loreen McKinnon novice champ First annual bar tenders and hotel employees ball will be held Thursday at the Hotel Simon Frascr start ing time io pm Anyone can go Price tag is 250 per per person � son and tickets arc available at any city hotel Turkey din dinner � ner is included Proceeds from the cenl will go toward a Christmas paity for the child I en of the hotel folks City poundkeeper Rhys Thomas re reports � ports 31 dogs picked up during November of which 11 were destrojed Ten cats also were destrojed Drier of blue hotrod licenced 505 625 seems to think Victoria at 830 avem is a drag strip built for his private use Dr Bill Saunders who has one year left of a two year term Voting was light only 170 of some 800 eligible cast ballots A general meeting Monday night accepted applications of 156 new members comprising 21 ordinary 21 rcapplications 12 transfers and 102 club mem members � bers 5000000 tree planting program to be launched VANCOUVER CO Officials of MacMdlan Bloedel and Pow Powell � ell River Ltd Monday announc announced � ed the launching of a 5000000 forestry program to plant 40 000000 trees in BC during the next decade The project will vastly in increase � crease the companys rate of reforestation and provide the basis for expanded production and employment The scheme will require GO new full time employees im immediately � mediately He said it will event eventually � ually make 500 jobs available in various company operations The goals are to grow the maximum volume of wood per acre in the shortest possible time and to reduce the existing grow til cycle of trees from 90 to 80 years PLANE WANDERS OFF ON ITS OWN WATKINS GLEN NY Ml A huge US Air Force refuel ing plane caught fire in Hie sky over central New York Monday night its crew of 10 bailed out and the abandon abandoned � ed craft disappeared appar apparently � ently headed north on auto automatic � matic pilot One crew mem member � ber was killed The plane apparently crash crashed � ed Its 11 hour fuel supply would have been exhausted today if the flames had not destrojed the craft before then Pilots were searching today for the plane CA Phone LOgan 4 2441 Vol 6 No 240 e Glenn MacEwen RCAF telecommunications officer Lt Col Alfred Naigle officer commanding 918 Squadron USAF FL Graham Craig officer com commanding � manding the RCAF advance party and FL Stan Frith chief administration officer for the advance party Vandervoort photo FIRST HANGINGS IN DECADE e Police pickets shove as two killers hanged TORONTO CP Two convicted killers were hanged back to back early today while police pushed back protesting pickets outside Don Jail in freezing temperatures Arthur Lucas 54 and Ronald Turpin 29 were the first two persons to be hanged together in Canada in 10 years Lucas a Detroit Negro died for slashing the throat of a man in Toronto last joar Turpin of Toronto was hang hanged � ed for shooting a Toronto con constable � stable in a downtown street gun battle last Feb 12 The last previous double hang hanging � ing in Canada was Dec 16 1952 when Leonard Jackson and Stce Suchan went to the Don Jail gallows for the shoot shooting � ing of apoliceman More than 200 persons gath gathered � ered at the jail gates Monday night About 50 of them carried placards protesting capital pun punishment � ishment They paraded until midnight scheduled time for the hangings then lowered the placards and bowed their heads in silence More than 100 curious onlook onlookers � ers watched the dimly lit jail from across a street Most were youths Others sat in cars and watched the jail from a near nearby � by service station lot Notices declaring the deaths of the two men were posted outside the jail door at about 12 30 am and violence nearly erupted as onlookers crossed police barricades and pushed their way towards the jail A death watch service was held at Don Heights Unitarian Church in suburban Scarbor Scarborough � ough Rev J Franklin Chidsey told the 17 persons at the serv service � ice that hangings are public murders and should be abolish abolished � ed AL0UETTE MAKES IOOOTH ORBIT OTTAWA CP At 545 am PST today the Canadian sat satellite � ellite Alouette completed its 1000 orbit of the earth Defence Research Board said Alouette launched Sept 28 has provided the first complete profile of what the ionosphere looks like from above The ionosphere in an elec electrically � trically - charged layer 50 to 250 miles above the earth itlzen The only daily newspaper serving North Central Brilish Columbia PRINCE GEORGE BRITISH COLUMBIA TUESDAY DECEMBER 11 1962 FIRST ROYAL CANADIAN AIR FORCE PERSON- ncl to be posted to Baldy Hughes radar base have arrived Between now and March 1 a complete RCAF squadron will be phased in as the gradual change changeover � over from USAF to RCAF takes place Seen here talking over their work are left to right FL Stan Smith supply officer for the RCAF squadron FO ARBITRATION STARTS Three major reports to come before important chamber meet Thursday Three major chamber of com commerce � merce committee reports will be considered Thursday when the chamber and local Jaycecs hold a joint meeting at the Prince George Hotel banquet loom at 616 pm A special committee headed by Alex Bowie will leport on the advisability of retaining af affiliation � filiation with the Associated Chambers of Commerce of North Central BC and Alaska Af filiates The merchants committee of which Bob Hamilton is chair chairman � man will leport on the recent shopping suney when mer merchants � chants and consumers were ask asked � ed to state their preference in shopping hours And the nominating committee will bring in its report to be read by chairman George Cowell Nominations from the floor will be received and the election of oificeis for 1903 will be held i raVJI SAM FLETCHEf i speaker 7c Copyt0K Sides hold firm in wage dispute Both the School District 57 board and the Prince George District Teachers Association stuck to their guns today when they sub submitted � mitted their cases to an ar arbitration � bitration board in their contract dispute The board represented by A I Guttman research officer of the BC School Trustees Asso Association � ciation stood by a zone offer made by sccn Northern In Interior � terior boatds to their district teachers associations This offer would hac meant 40-a-ycar across the board to Prince George teachers as well as a new top pay level It would also have been a first step to regional pay levels and negoti negotiations � ations INCREASED PAY Teachers negotiators gave the offer tentative approval but the membership later rejected it Teachers at Smithcrs Burns Lake McBridc Vandcrhoof Quesnel and Williams Lake ac accepted � cepted the offer The teachers here held out for increased pay for highly qualified teachers those in the professional classifications of the present scale and for elementary school administra administrators � tors Representing the teachers be before � fore the arbitration board to today � day Stan Evans of the BC Teachers Federation reiterated the claim that these two groups get less than provincial mean salaries DEC 31 DEADLINE At the same time said Mr Evans the professional teachers are the ones the board should be trying to bring to Prince George and keep in the schools here The three - man arbitration board will enter closed discus discussions � sions of the dispute Hearings and awards binding on both parties must be completed by Dec 31 Lighting plan proposed for city by chamber The chamber of commerce would like to assess every business lot1 along Third and George 10 to increase the number of colored lights being hung across the two streets for the Christinas season The city has already got some lights up but we would like to see lots more explained chamber secretary Robyn Web Webster � ster as she announced plans to canvass all Third and George businesses whether they are members of ithe chamber or not It would be the chambers in intention � tention she said to turn the lights on for special events such as the Simon Frascr Days and Exhibition as well as during holiday seasons They would be left up throughout the year The city has agreed to pay for power to keep the lights on and maintain them while BC Hydro will install them All the chamber has to do is get the money from public spirited merchants and pay for the lights Next year a 10 levy might be put on Fourth Avenue mer merchants � chants to pay for lights on their street and the program would continue until the entire business and shopping area was lit for Christmas and other special oc casions Nominated for president of the chamber is Harold Assman first vicc picsidcnt Art Murray second vice president Bob Bor rie and treasurer Gerry Ran nie Nominated for executive coun council � cil with nine io be chosen arc Clay Uurton Bill Duncan Lloyd Hunter Jack Lee Ken Mc Kenzic Don McKinnon Duncan Munro Jack New by Bill Ogg Thco Williams Ralph William son Harry Wortman and Dick Yardlcy During the meeting Jaycecs will also hold a business session They will also meet Wednesday to conduct bomo business be because � cause they have o much this month Guest speaker at the Thurs day meeting will be Sam Flet Fletcher � cher of Vancouver who will speak on The Magic of En Enthusiasm � thusiasm in belling and mer chandifixis Fulton to tour BC during Xmas period VANCOUVER CP Works Minister Fulton will make a three week tour of the province during the Christmas Parliamentary recess party officials said here Monday Mr Fulton unopposed in his campaign for the provincial Conservative leadership will meet dele delegates � gates to the Jan 24 26 leadership convention and discuss party organization He flics to Fort St John and Dawson Creek Dec 23 and later will visit several northern and cen central � tral communities COURT TOLD Wine party preceded shooting of man 59 A few drinks of wine preceded the fatal shooting of 59-year-old Leno Prince at Fort St James Sept 11 an assize court jury was told Monday Frederick Charles 48 is charged with capital murder and he is alleged to have shot Prince with a 30 30 calibre rifle Opening the trial before Mr Justice H A Maclean Crown counsel Frank S Perry out outlined � lined events surrounding the shooting SHORT DISTANCE He said Prince was shot from a short distance Before the shooting Mr Per Perry � ry said wine had been con consumed � sumed by Charles and Prince Charles left the Prince house for his residence nearby A short time after this the Princes went out the back door of their house and were return returning � ing by way of the front door when they met Charles carry carrying � ing the rifle he alleged Mr Perry added that Mrs Prince became frightened and pushed Charles back She was between the two men Then Charles made know his inten intention � tion to shoot Prince the lawyer charged FATAL SHOT Prince then pushed his common-law wife to the side And just as she was falling the fatal shot went off said Mr Perry Charles walked past the pro prostrate � strate body threw the rifle in inside � side the dwelling of the owner VVassa Leon and disappeared into the bush before police ar arrived � rived later giving himself up the same day Crown counsel said Because many of the witnes witnesses � ses speak poor English or no English at all Alex McKinnon has been appointed court inter interpreter � preter to translate the Carrier Indian language to the English Continued on Pg 3 CANADIAN PEACE CORPS PROPOSED OTTAWA CP A Vancouver lawyer asked the government Monday to establish a Cana Canadian � dian version of President Ken Kennedys � nedys Peace Corps Tom Berger NDP Van Vancouver � couver - Burrard made the request during an hour set aside in the Commons for resolutions from private mem members � bers It did not come to a vote and is not likely to be debated again this session Ottawa plays Santa increases servants money OTTAWA CP A pro-Christmas thaw in the governments pay freeze was announced Mon Monday � day by Finance Minister Now Ian with retroactive increases for some 65000 civil servants The increases adding an esti estimated � mated 30000000 to government payrolls had been on the shelf since mid July as part of the gocrnments austerity program to meet the June foreign ex exchange � change crisis Some 50000 clerical and ad administrative � ministrative employees will get increases retroactive to Oct 1 1961 Another 10000 hospital and penitentiary employees will get pay boosts dating back nine or 12 months A further group of 5000 to 6000 hourly paid cm ployces for whom increases have been delayed several months also will get retroac retroactive tive boosts WeatherP roundup Mild weather conditions at Prince Rupert Monday caused high and low temperature read readings � ings of 60 and 49 degrees in the 24 hour report for that area In the Cariboo Prince George and Bulkley Valley regions Wednesday will continue cloudy with little change in tempera tuie and light winds Low to tonight � night and high Wednesday at Prince George 28 and 38 Ques Quesnel � nel 32 and 40 Smithcrs 32 and 38 LAST 24 HOURS Hi Lo Free Prince George 35 27 Terrace 3U 32 02 Smithcrs 38 27 Quesnel 42 35 Williams Lake 37 32 Kamloops 43 37 Whitehorse 16 13 04 Fort Nelson 5 -3 16 Fort St John 12 -1 20 Daw sou Creek 15 -1 30 cloudy WKy v Vancouver was still lost in fog this morning At 10 am the Vancouver weather office reported a light drizzle and visibility of one eighth of a mile Abbotsford was clear by 10 am but was ex peeled to fog in again this eve nin Eaily morning weather in Prairie cities Winnipeg 13 below NW wind clear Brandon 15 below winds light Moose Jaw 12 below clear calm Swift Current 2 below wind SE 1G Saskatoon 10 below S wind 10 cloudy Rcgina 15 below cloudy WSW 5 Edmonton 12 above cloudy wind SE at 18 Medicine Hat u above cloudy 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