SPORTS HIGHLIGHTS Gooffrion gets himself in trouble with referee Kichardson still undefeated but given scare by Mann lluuny Ahearnc predicts Russia will win hockey crown See lage 4 WHITEWASH NDP up in arms VKTOHIA i Special A charge of whitewash echoed around the legislature toda as hearing began on allegations of graft in the highways depart department � ment The suggestion of whitewash came from Tony Gargrave NDP Mackenzie in a furious row Tuesday about the house committee on public accounts which started the hearings this morning Gargrave was almost named thrown out of the legislature when he called the go em eminent � inent scoundrels It happened when Opposition Leader Robert Strachan made another attempt to place an NDP lawver on the committee He tried for a third time to put forward a motion allowing a swap of membership James Rhodes of Delta for lawyer Alex MacDonald of Vancouver East Strachan barely started to speak on his point Tuesday evening when Premier Bennett began shaking his head in de denial � nial You cant do this youre exceeding your rights as gov government � ernment Strachan protested Introduction of motion must receive unanimous consent Im incensed cried Gar grave pounding his desk with clenched fist Im incensed What kind of whitewash is this he demanded Dont be cheeky called a voice from the Socreci back backbenches � benches Gargrave got really incensed Cheeky you bunch of scoundrels he roared Speaker Hugh Shantz crashed his gavel for order and warned Mr Gargrave that if he con continued � tinued in this manner he would be named If the speaker names a mem member � ber he must leave tiic house The last time this happened was in 1955 when Liberal J Gordon Gibson was named for a speech alleging wrongdoing in the forestry department which ultimately led to convic conviction � tion of the minister Robert Sommers for bribery Premier Bennett joined in the furore insisting that Gargrave withdraw the word scoundrels or be named by the speaker Finally at Shantzs insistence he reluctantly stood and with withdrew � drew the word As the row subsided Liberal Leader Ray Perrault rose to say that he supported Strach ans original bid That brought a thunder of dusk thumping applause from the other opposition members DEPT DECLINES TO COMMENT WASHINGTON CP A state department official said Tuesday he will have to in investigate � vestigate the situation before he can make any comment on a report that US diplo diplomats � mats are attending Canadian political rallies He was asked for the state departments jesponse to a Vancouver report that Richard King a US vice consul there has been attending the public rallies held on behalf of Ex External � ternal Affairs Minister How Howard � ard Green EUiu UNREALISTIC PRICING ALLEGED BRIGADIER E D DANDY aimed iruii uncouvei this muining foi a one da unol iiual inspection of Rocky Mountain Rangers at their parade tonight ck Phone LOgan 42441 Vol 7 No 46 SYRUP BY THE GALLON 216 POUNDS OF PANCAKE MIX AND 24 POUNDS of coffee are included in supplies being loaded at Malkins for the annual Ki wanis Pancake Day to be held from 8 a m to 4 p m Sunday in the Legion au auditorium � ditorium Supplies chairman Bill Slier ba operates the loader while Mel Brun dige chairman of the pancake day looks on Vandervoort photo Timber shenanigans charged VICIORIA CP A brief pre presented � sented to the legislature com committee � mittee on forestry Tuesday said an operator in the Kamloops area is forcing up the price of timber in an apparent at attempt � tempt to make other operators pay an unrealistic price for his mill The brief signed by C C Ternan first vice president of Savona Timber Co Ltd of Kamloops indentified the oper operators � ators as C V Bennett pre president � sident of Halston Planing Mills Ltd and Terrace Forest Pro Products � ducts Ltd The brief said that Mr Ben Bennett � nett has made it quite plain to a number of operators in the Kamloops area that he intends to carry out a campaign of persistent bidding on timber within a sustained yield unit Our assumption would be that he is taking such action in the hope that by doing so he will embarrass the local industry to the extent that they would be prepared to buy him out at an unrealistic fig figure � ure Another brief signed by 10 operators of the Kamloops area said an operator not named lias suggested to others that the established permanent mills in the Kamloops region could combine and pay him 500000 for his investment generously estimated to be worth 100000 Now hear this All candidate forums are be becoming � coming popular This is the type of public meeting at which all parties candidates get on static and supposedly debate el election � ection issues plus answer ques questions � tions from the floor Prince George Junior Chamber of Commerce has such a meeting Jined up for April 1 in the Civic Centre Qucsncl Chamber of Commerce plans one March 27 and others are in the works for Yandcihoof Fort St John and IN THE CITIZEN Betty Conner - 8 Classified -- 10 11 Comics -- - 5 Coming events 8 Editorial page 7 Education page 12 District news -- 2 Here and there 8 Market 3 Quesncl news 2 Sports - 4 Tv - -2 Dawson Creek So theres no need for anvbody to say they dont know whats going on Nobody has quite figured out et what the official designation will be for the RCAF Station Baldy Hughes formerly the USAF 918 Squadron radar base but the Canadians who officially look over last week are getting things rolling They jeopened the stations bowling alleys last night for a starter Mem Members � bers of the PG Toastmistresses Club were invited to air their pet peeves at last nights meet meeting � ing One of them said she never could find the comics or the womens news in the paper be cause the man who dummies the pages keeps jumping from one section to another So how long does it take to iook through 1G pages BC Forest Service spokes spokesman � man said Don DeWitts job transfer to ranger supervisoi from ranger is really a change of duty not a promotion Sound like in plain English hes got a new job including timber The operator further advised that he would bid on all timber sales in the Kamloops region if he did not receive the 500 000 for goodwill as he called it Subsequent events have sub substantiated � stantiated the threat because this operator has continued to bid timber sales to uneconomic levels detrimental to the indus industry � try and the community BC goodwill group snarls Frisco traffic SAN FRANCISCO HP Eve Evening � ning rush - hour traffic in Union Square was forced to a dead halt Tuesday by a group of 35 zealous goodwill ambassa ambassadors � dors from BC handing out pamphlets extolling the prov provinces � inces tourist attractions Harassed police kindly looked the other way The days activities for the travelling municipal and bus business � iness leaders more or less were a replica of the groups itin itinerary � erary in Sacramento Monday New Westminster Mayor Beth Wood presented a Cowichan sweater to acting maor Cla Clarissa � rissa McMahon of San Fran Francisco � cisco and Mayor Dick Wilson of Victoria gave her a plaque bearing Ins cit creit Prince George is represented on the tour by chamber of com commerce � merce member Alex Bowie -Ed The briefs were two more of a number that hav been sub submitted � mitted to the committee b in tenor operators seeking protec protection � tion for their investment through restriction of bidding in sustained yield units Sustained yield units are large areas of forest managed by the government to provide a con continuing � tinuing crop of timber Only a set amount of timber may be cut each year The amount of timber an operator in a sustained yield area may cut is set by quota He then must bid on the timber in public auction Briefs complain that operators with little or no investment in plant are bidding on timber that operators with a large invest investment � ment have to continue opera operations � tions Thus the latter must pay an inflated price for the tim timber � ber VICTORIA CP The legisla legislature � ture gave approval in principle Tuesday to bills increasing BCs homeowner grant and re removing � moving tolls from five bridges in the province Removal of the tolls won una unanimous � nimous approval of the legis legislators � lators but the five man Liberal group opposeil the hill on the homeowner grant Liberal lead leader � er Ray Peirault called the grant increaie a miserable political bribe e BC PENITENTIARY 2 men go over wall NEW WESTMINSTER CP A Calgary gunman and a Vancouver drug trafficker went over the wall at the federal penitentiary here Tuesday night in the first break out at the in institution � stitution in a quarter of a cen lur Edward Beaver 2 of Van Vancouver � couver and Thomas William McCauley 25 of C a 1 g a r y braided a rope from the tough cords used to repair mailbags They fashioned a rope to climb the inside of the 25 foot walls and to lower themselves down the outside They had only to climb a 11 foot fence to freedom from there Warden Tom Hall said the last man to escape from inside the high grey walls was a pri prisoner � soner who hid in a garbage truck 25 years ago Last ear Peter Day 25 fled the prison after concealing him himself � self outside the walls while other prisiners were returned to their cells He was recaptured in nearby Vancouver within two days Both of Tuesdays escapees were serving six jear terms Beaver for possession of narcot narcotics � ics and McCauley for armed robbery breaking and entering and theft Both were reported danger dangerous � ous by RCMP Beaver was described as five-foot-six 144 pounds with a sal sallow � low complexion blue eyes brown hair and the initials J B tatooed on his left wrist McCauley is six-foot-one 149 pounds of medium complexion with brown evcs anil black hair A blue dot is tatooed on his right cheek His forearms are heavily tatooed change in temperature Contin Continuing � uing mild Light winds Low to tonight � night and high Thursday at Prince George 25 and 45 Smithers and Quesnel 25 and 48 Peace River Sunny with cloudy periods on Thursday Population boom here doubles BC average Natural population Increase in ihe Northern Interior Health I nit area is about twice that of B C as a whole According to the health units annual report released Tues Tuesday � day night natural inciease in the area was 274 per 1000 the s4iiie as in the old Cariboo Health Unit area in lJCl Rate of natural increase for the province in 1901 last ear for which figures are available was 14 9 per 10U0 In I960 the provincial rale was 148 per 1 000 During 1902 in the Northern iiitiior Health Unit aiea there tie 1529 biilhs 33 per lOiK compared with 237 per 1000 in 1st and 315 per 1000 in the tanboo Health Unit area in tool Deaths in 19G2 numbeied 200 6 0 per 1000 population com compared � pared with 88 per 1000 in BC and 41 per 1000 in the Cari Caribou � bou Health Unit area in 19G1 The high biith rate and low death rate can be tied to the i age distribution of people in t North Central BC says the annual report The statistics should not be interpreted to mean life expec expectancy � tancy here is high it warns but only to mean that the pop ulation is young Citizen The only daily newspaper serving North Ccnlral British Columbia PRINCE GEORGE BRITISH COLUMBIA WEDNESDAY MARCH 6 1963 ARSENAL CLEANED OjT BY THIEVES PORT ALBERNI CP -An arsenal of weapons and ammunition was cleaned out by thieves from a militia ar armory � mory here Tuesday RCMP said entrance was gained in a number locations during the obviously well planned raid The loot included thtee light machine guns 10 Fab rique national rifles two pris prismatic � matic compasses about 7000 rounds of 7G2 millimeter am ammunition � munition and thousands of rounds of 22 aiul 303 cali calibre � bre ammunition IN HEALTH UNIT AREA FOR LIVESTOCK shipments out of the area go to Alberta Farmers feel there is generally a better market there and that the Vancouver market couldnt handle every everything � thing out of this area anyway Dr Saunders said fall cattle sales in the Prince George area would do much to help the cat cattle � tle rancher here He said it would reduce shrinkage trans transportation � portation costs to the farmer and give him a sellers market Inspection figures released for 19C2 show that G711 head of cattle were moved through Cen Central � tral BC Compared with the 19G1 fig figures � ures there was a CG per cent increase in movement I I LX I CLEAR T5 Weather g roundup Mostly sunny Thursday Little Continuing mild Winds wester- ly 15 Low tonight and high Thursday at Grande Prairie 25 and 40 Low tonight and high Thurs Thursday � day at Vancouver 32 and 52 Victoria 35 and 50 LAST 24 HOURS Hi Lo Prec Prince George 40 21 Terrace 43 30 Smithers 45 23 Quesnel 41 25 Williams Lake 37 32 Kamloops 45 37 Whilehorse 44 Fort Nelson 45 Fort St John 42 Dawson Creek 42 PRAIRIE WEATHER Winnipeg 19 above west wind Rcgina 5 above WNW wind 10 Edmonton 35 above wind west 10 HILLIARD CLARE acclamation 220 DIE IN YEAR c a copy isti2BT CARnIEn Railway denies shipping delays A claim that cattle ship shipments � ments to Vancouver from Prince George are delayed up to 20 hours was dis discounted � counted today hy PGE of officials � ficials here PGE traffic representative Roy Dawson said We have through cattle trains running out of Fort St John each Sat Saturday � urday morning which go di lect to North Vancouver He said livestock cant be kept on railway cars without feeding and watering for more than 30 hours PGE therefore tries to make the run in 36 hours or less Social Creditcr Cyril Shelford of Omineca told the legislature Monday cattle had to wait in Prince George a number of hours and no one fed them He charged farmers are ship shipping � ping cattle to Alberta because of lengthy delays Delays cause weight loss before sale Mr Dawson said any state statement � ment claiming there are 20 hour delays is certainly untrue Mr Shelford charged this Frank Campbell CNR agri agricultural � cultural representative in Prince George aid today that cattle leaving Smilhers arrives in Ed Edmonton � monton in about 31 hours De Delays � lays in livestock shipments are costly to railways and arc therefore reduced to an absolute minimum he said Both CNR and PGE officials said shipments to Alberta out outnumber � number shipments to Vancou Vancouver � ver City alderman chairs health unit executive Aid Ilillard Clare of Prince George has been named chairman of the Northern Interior Union Hoard of Health succeed succeeding � ing Dr John Godel of Yandcrhoof Both Aid Clare and the new vice chairman Steve Kolida of McBride were elected by acclamation at a regular meeting of the union board Tuesday Secretary is Dr G II Bonham director of the Northern Interior Health Unit Signing officers named at the boards meeting Tuesday were the chair chairman � man and Dr Bonham Heart trouble mishaps take most lives here Federal government veterin- Diseases of the heart and blood vessels are the arian Dr Bill Saunders saidlmajor fillers of older people and violence and accidents luuciv ij vi mil m an Lauii I the major killers of younger people in the Northern In terior Health Unit area The health units anuual re report � port shows that 103 of the 220 deaths of persons more than one year old were caused by diseases of the heart and blood vessels All 103 occurred in the 40 to more - than SO age group with seven in the 40 - to - 49 group 18 in the 50 - to 59 group 24 in the GO - to 69 group 39 in the 70 - to 79 group and 15 in the more - than 80 group Violence and accidents took only 44 lives in the group of 220 the annual report said but they accounted for 57 per cent of deaths among people 49 j ears old and younger Deaths from violence and ac accidents � cidents by age groups are as follows one to four one five - to - nine one 10 to - 11 one 15 - to - 19 two 20 - to - 90 oinht- n in 30 fivo- JO to 49 seven 50 to - 59 8 will head cww hid GO to C9 to 79 - - seven 70 - - j three more than - 80 one Third most important cause of death in the health unit area in 19G2 was cancer It caused 37 deaths one in the five - to -nine age bracket and the re remainder � mainder in persons more than 20 ears old Ten of the 37 cancer deaths were due to lung cancer the most important form of cancer showing an increase says the annual report released Tues Tuesday � day night The convincing circumstan circumstantial � tial evidence linking lung can cancer � cer to cigaret smoking is cause for considerable concern it adds Most significant cause of in infant � fant deaths reported in the health unit area last vear was prematurity which accounted for 20 of 40 infant deaths DR C H BONHAM to Nanaimo Director quits island unit Dr G II Bonham director ot the Cariboo and Northern In Interior � terior Health Units since June 20 19G1 has resigned his posi position � tion effective June 31 this ear Announcing his resignation Tuesday at a regular meeting of the Northern Interior Union Board of Health he said there is no indication who his suc successor � cessor will be Dr Bonham will become di director � rector of the Central Vancou vei Island Health Unit at Nan Nanaimo � aimo second largest health unit in BC effective July 1 He expressed his regrets at leaving this area with its re ceptivencss to ideas and willing willingness � ness to get things done His regrets were echoed by mem members � bers of the union board Third of accident deaths on roads About one in three deaths by accident and violence in the Noithern Interior Health Unit area last car involved a motor vehicle according to the health units annual re report � port Motor vehicle accidents ac accounted � counted for 14 or 32 per cent of the 44 deaths by accident and violence Average age of the nine males and five fe females � males who died was 38 Drowning was second most important cause of acciden tal or violent death with seven JG per cent of the lolal to its credit says the annual icport Suicides and industrial ac accidents � cidents were next with six deaths each The industrial accidents all involved men while five of the six suicides vwue males Aircraft accidents took one life fire three homicide one firearms one other un unspecified � specified five Alcohol hsurcd in live ot Ihe II deaths Biggest problem in attack attacking � ing the problem of accidental death is public apathy toward safety measuies the annual repoit sas However the following six programs have had proven value Campaigns against mixed drinking and driving indus industrial � trial safety programs destruc destruction � tion of unsafe dwellings and fue safety programs water safety programs first aid in instruction � struction uud driver traiuing and laws enforcement of highway Estimated population of the Noithern Interior Health Unit aiea in 1902 was 46325 an increase of moie than Ioih fiom the 12238 reported in the 1961 census Estimates by school district with 1961 figures in brackets are Burns Lake 4650 4 43G Vanderhoof 6100 5 729 Prince George 32350 28978 McUnde 3225 3 095