am iBt rgy v wH rare pjtmtHLmH Kir fil w I HHfe3Bt A HWyMMBMHjnUU LO KRUITHOFF HELPS QUELL A TEST FIRE IN THE WILSON FLATS AREA Wednesday night as final part of a three day Civil Defence rescue training course in Prince George The course was conducted by chief of the provincial rescue service Ken Jackson of Victoria Eighteen men completed the course Vandervooit photo TRADE DEFENCE Mike ----- Mac Jack to talk OTTAWA CP Prime Min to countries in the so istcr Pearson will be lajing the groundwork for improvement in Canadas trade imbalances with Britain and the US when he isits Prime Minister Macmil Ian May 2 3 and President Ken Kennedy � nedy May 10 11 Mr Pearson announced Wed Wednesday � nesday he will fly to London May 1 for talks with Prime Min Minister � ister Macmillan and go to Hy annis Port Mass on May 10 for a meeting with President Kennedy While detailed arrangements are still to be made Mr Pear Pearson � son announced liis--travel pro program � gram for the two big meetings little more than 48 hours after taking office Monday as prime minister He promised during the April 8 election campaign his first mocs would be to have per personal � sonal meetings with the British and American leaders to cement personal friendships and build called ABC triangle America Britain and Canada Defence problems will be an another � other Important topic for dis discussion � cussion at the meetings Mr Pearsons previously-indicated views in favor of freer world trade and lower tariff barriers will be put forward in London and Hyannis Port Mass at an important juncture in world trading development Chief elements In the world trading picture are the prepar preparations � ations for a round of tariff bar bargaining � gaining among most of the countries of the free world and plans in the US to make use of the tariff- educing powers of President Kennedys Trade Ex Expansion � pansion Act aimed chiefly at the Common Market The basis for next years tar tariff � iff bargaining will be laid at the Geneva meeting May 1C 21 of I members of the General Agree ment on Tariffs and Trade This will be preceded May 13 14 by a meeting of the Commonwealth economic consultative commit- fauuu a uuuua i UIU inner tce whicn wm dcal wUh IN THE CITIZEN Boating and fishing 5 Classified 8 9 Comics - 9 Coming events 6 Editorial page -- 7 Entertainment guide 11 12 District news 10 Here and there 6 Markets 3 Quesnel news 2 Sports - - 4 Tv 2 12 I tions of the various Common wealth countries at the GATT talks Canadas role is affected by her trading position with both Britain and the US Canada sells Britain two thirds more in value than she buys there And for every 370 worth of goods Canada sells to the US she imports 1 30 worth Canadas problem is to be able to buy more from Britain without injuring the growth of the markets there for Canadian Now hear this For the info of Recreation and The old CCF Hall has closed Conservation Minister Earle Westwcod Bear Lake camp is located about 40 miles north of PG on the Hart Highway The honorable minister told his 11 C Piovmcial Affairs audience on CKPG TY last night it was 40 miles east of here on High Highway � way 16 Dont confuse morality with the law Magistrate George Stewart told about 60 people who attended a panel discussion of religious instruction in our schools at a Ilarvvm PTA meet meeting � ing this week Adultery isnt a crime but over parking is said the magistrate one of the panel members Central RCs only home pi oduccd beer Tartan now is available in compact bottles dqnt say stubby pleads Brew master Gene Zarek say com picts and the first bottle filling run this week was a record for the bieweiy about 3000 dozen more than a noinial tun There btill are plenty of the tall bot bottles � tles on the market but the com compacts � pacts will be everywheie soon as the North Nechako riant was a liumming yesteiday That well known Legionnaire humorist - writer Doug Smith who now has his own public relation firm in Vancouver lias picked up the coast citys swish Diltmore Motor Hotel publicity account Writes Doug whom PG I j pes will remember fioin his personjl appearance at the Legion opening here Im sure many good PG citizens visiting Vancouver will want to stay at its most beautiful hotel the gourmets hideaway wheie in incidentally � cidentally tipping is verbotea its career in the city but it begins a new one Saturday as the Hartway Community Hall New location Mile G on the Hart will be the scene of the clubs big dance Saturday eve evening � ning Cariboo MP Bert Leboe sas hes going to spend about three weeks touring the tiding before attending a Social Credit Caucus at Ottawa and opening of parliament May 16 Deris at Fort Fraser today will spend the weekend in PG then visit the north section next week Theatre Workshop PG has been scrounging all over BC for a bona fide skeleton for its pioduction Doctor in the House tonight Friday and Saturday The company has settled for a skull courtesy Dr T J Agnew As a oung med student Dr Agnew woiked a summer with a topographical team in the Arctic where ho found an Es kimo skull A University of Al Alberta � berta anatomy prof sweet talked I him into a swap for a common old Caucasion headpiece and thats what joull see on stage Commented TWIGs Mrs Pat Gough From now on Im going to keep a skeleton handy in the closet Theies another screwball driver on the loose Driving a late model white car he knocked down a German shep shepherd � herd dog and narrowly missed its 13-year-old owner at the corner of Cassiar and Launer about 10 minutes before seven this morning Unfortunately Patsy Savage was unable to get the licence number but the goods and to sell more to the US without restricting Ameri American � can access to Canadian mar markets � kets The precise line Mr Pearson will take in London and Hyan Hyannis � nis Port is vague However Mr Pearson said during the election campaign that he wanted to dis discuss � cuss with Mr Macmillan and his cabinet wavs and means of deepening and strengthen strengthening � ing our political and economic relations He said he would propose joint action to promote freer trade and for means of asso association � ciation with the new trade pat patterns � terns developing in Europe and other parts of the free world 52300 AWARD VANCOUVER CP Mrs Charlotte Row ell of Clullivvack and her two daughters have been awarded 52500 in Su Supreme � preme Court as the result of the death of her husband in an October 19C1 traffic accident Stanley Howell a Chilhwack merchant died when his car was in a crash with a fuel truck near Sumas tfflriflLLLaiLLflSsEtfttf bialbKtf v AJV leHHHHHHHHH driver ought to be very proud MISS MARGARET NICHOLSON lot bis performance Mi Legion Cfc MORTAR BLAST -WIH l I lf Calgary 32 wind north clear Edmonton 38 clear wind SE 4 e i Man 102 takes sixth bride woman of 82 COLUMBIA Ohio AP Fannie E Russell 82 today became the wife of Charles A Wilson 102 Wilson married five times previously and his bride a widow have 33 children between them Explosion deaths of 2 boys ruled accidential VERNON CP A coroners jury Wednesday night found boy scouts Donald Hope 14 and Grant Morgan 12 died accidentally as the result of a mortar bomb explosion near here March 16 However they recommended that qualified army personnel lecture school teachers and pupils on explosives in areas where war games were carried out at least every five jcars starting immediately Twelve witnesses were called by coroner J A J Illington From testimony it was learn learned � ed the boys were members of the fifth Vernon scout troop clearing land for construction of a cabin in an area used by the army as a live ammunition battlefield during the Second WoilcTWar David Crane 11 who survived the blast said he found the bomb or what Donny said was a bomb ling on top of the ground under a bush lis described it as about 10 to 12 inches long with a dent on one end He held it up across his chest I started to stumble back and fell as he hit the plunger end with a hand axe w C 1 1 M f wviW VV CLLLILCI roundup Variable cloudiness is fore forecast � cast for this area on Friday Light winds Low tonight and high Friday at Prince George Quesnel and Smithcrs 40 and 55 Peace River Variable cloud cloudiness � iness Friday Warm Light winds Low tonight and high Friday at Grande Prairie 35 and 60 Low tonight and high Friday at Vancouver 40 and 60 Vic Victoria � toria 42 and 55 LAST 24 HOURS Hi Lo Prec Prince George 59 40 Terrace 53 40 04 Smithers 50 30 28 Quesnel 63 42 Williams Lake 57 39 trace Kamloops 6G 42 Whitehorse 41 22 Fort NeKon 58 36 Fort St John 57 37 Dawson Creek 60 32 PRAIRIE WEATHER Winnipeg 36 clear calm Saskatoon 29 SE wind 5 sunny CLOUDY lik19 fan mP g7T 700 AT FUNERAL FOR SLAIN PRIEST VANCOUVER CP Nearly 100 priests nuns monsignors and bishops were joined by about 600 mourners here Wed Wednesday � nesday at the funeral of slain Franciscan priest Rev Cuth bcrt Seward Father Seward was killed last Friday by a rifleman at the door of the monastery Centenarian says shell stay alive to watch govt VANCOUVER CPv Mrs Annie Bigland whos 101 tomorrow is determined shell stay around for the next four or five years to keep an eve on Prime Min Minister � ister Pearson A life long Liberal Mrs Big land said in an interview she figures the Liberals will do a good job of running the country Mind you I dont think any government should stay in too long she said I believe a change is good for the country But my father was a Liberal and Ive been a Liberal all my life Mrs Bigland who lives with a daughter here but spent many cars in Vernon savs she keeps to the rule of an apple a day The result QUEENS BALL TO BE HELD SATURDAY Establishment of an in integrated � tegrated pulp and paper operation here is planned by Canadian Forest Pro Products � ducts Ltd of Vancouver and the Reecl Paper Group of London Eng Canadian Forest Products has already received a pulp wood harvesting licence cover covering � ing 9000000 acres of forest in this area and has started de development � velopment for a 500 ton kraft pulp mill here The Reed Paper Group with net assets exceeding 300000 000 is an international group with manufacturing interests in Canada Norway Italy Aus Australia � tralia New Zealand and the UK 14 DIRECTORS A statement issued by CFP today says that subject to of official � ficial consents the two intend to enter into a joint agreement for the establishment of an in integrated � tegrated pulp and paper opera operation � tion at Prince George For this purpose a jointly owned company with head of offices � fices in Vancouver and 14 di directors � rectors is being formed under the name Prince George Pulp and Paper Ltd The announcement that a paper operation would be com combined � bined with the pulp mill was welcomed by government offi officials � cials and the business commun community � ity One report said the com combined � bined operation would be the largest initial pulp naper de velopment ever established in North America Construction on the S50000 000 project is expected to becin early in 1964 according to the statement and initial production at the mill is expected in 1965 CFP had received the pulp- wooa harvest licence for con struction of a 50000000 500 short-ton-a-day pulp mill to be in operation by 1965 650 SHORT TONS ine new mm will have an initial daily capacity of 650 short tons of kraft pulp About half will be bleached kraft market pulp and the other half kraft papers Sales of pulp will be under taken by CFP Some of the paper will be taken up by the Reed group for conversion in its own plants and the balance will be marketed by the Reed sales organization Sufficient raw materials for initial operation and all fore sueauic expansion wiu come from the CFP harvest licence and from sawmills with con Theres nothing sick about tracts to supply wood chips me I feel swell Continued on Page 3 Itlzen The only daily newspaper serving Central British Columbia Phone lOgnn 42441 Vol 7 No 81 PRINCE GEORGE BRITISH COLUMBIA THURSDAY APRIL 25 1963 70 MAKE PAPER New firm formed for pulp project 7 a Copy It 50 Df Monti BT CARRIER Mounties commanding officer transferred HePaLLViOlV am- m1 STAFF SGT J A KNOX to Chllliwack day if wc fail in Laos I would think the prospects for accord on matters which may be geo geographically � graphically closer to us would be substantially lessened Kennedy challenged critics of his Cuban policy to say whether they advocate going to war to topple Premier Fidel Castro He said thats the question being sidestepped by- thoseXwho call for a more militant policy agauui -cuDas communist re regime � gime GOING TO WAR And except for going to war the president declared it would seem to me that we havo pretty much done all of those things that can be done to de demonstrate � monstrate hostility to the con concept � cept of a Soviet satellite in the Caribbean Kennedy addressed himself to two recent Republican critics former vice president Richard Nixon and Senator Kenneth Keating of New York as the Cuban question vied with the tense situation in Laos for pre preeminence � eminence at the conference NUMBER EQUALLED Unleashing the exiles cannpt do the job of toppling Castro Kennedy said in reject rejecting � ing a proposal put forward last Saturday by Nixon And Kennedy rejected out outright � right Keatings contention that Russian troops arriving in Cuba Continued or Page 3 Staff Sgt J A Knox non comissioned officer in charge of the 30 man Prince George RCMP detachment since September 1959 will be trans transferred � ferred to Chiltiwack effective July 1 He will be replaced here by Staff Sgt Earl Sarsiat cur currently � rently in charge of the Nana mo detachment Brought up in Kamloops Staff Sgt Knox was a mem member � ber of Ihe BC Provincial Police 18 years before that force was taken over by the RCMP in 1950 His 31 years of police service has all been in BC His duties at Chilliwack will include inspection of detach detachments � ments in the RCMP subdi subdivision � vision area CUBAN POLICY DEFENDED JFK threatens action in Asian trouble spot WASHINGTON CP President Kennedy says the entire Southeast Asia region including Malaya may be rocked by violence it peace is not preserved in Laos Making a last ditch appeal to Soviet Premier Khrushchev to help keep the peace Kennedy told a press conference Wednes GOVT CONSIDERS 2ND CAVALCADE VANCOUVER CP Recre Recreation � ation Minister Earle West wood said here Wednesday his department is planning an another � other trip similar to the BC cavalcade to California earlier this year Mr Westwood said the sec second � ond group would make good willWisits to Alberta Saskat Saskatchewan � chewan and Manitoba to spread the theme Know Your Western Neighbor This is not a game we are playing but a serious business which last year brought in nearly 150000000 to BC Many Japanese tourists expected VANCOUVER CP BC should sec an influx of Japan Japanese � ese tourists this jear BC Tourist Association presi president � dent W Jack Dalby told 100 indclegates at their annual con convention � vention here Wednesday of plans to lift Japans embargo on travel to North America Mr Dalby and association secretary Harold Merilees said half a million Japanese have been subscribing to a save now travel later plan in anticipa tion of travelling to Canada and the United States Candidates for Aurora Queen announced BflbbbbbvbnbaBBr baes abbbbbbbbbbwis alaaBaBbbbE flbaehL basbbbbbbbbK 4Llbbi 9 BBT -1 iBvV9SBBBBH 4BBIbBT 4 M kM mMWMUKfvlk uStlllBHBBa 5t M - MMbm aBbbbbbSRbaBbbvR i M it s Twi 3 IfrJW -fit m - j h Jt tj- ljr Mil x k - wfJmM Umm HH ii JT H fyHMBml l m am i LA fMSm att wkmi ZtMM j 4mbB j4bWmb1bV JK w ijRJJLSrM i - - iaeaaaBBa SIX CANDIDATES FOR QUEEN AURORA VI HAVE been announced They ate from left Miss Gail Loder Mbs Jaycee Miss Judy Norrish Miss Jiotelmens Association Miss Elsa Gladwin Miss Rotary Miss Janice Rikley Miss Lions Miss Pauline Smith Miss Kiwanis At left is Miss Legion Miss Margaret Nich Nicholson � olson out of town when the group photograph was taken Vandervooit photo Six candidates for the title of Queen Aurora VI will be pre presented � sented to the reigning queen Miss Pat Turner and to the genfral public at the second annual queens ball to bo held Saturday at Sacied Heart Au Auditorium � ditorium The six are Miss Jaycee Miss Gail Loder Miss Hotel mens Association Miss Judy Norrish Miss Kiwanis Miss Pauline Smith Miss Legion Miss Margaret Nicholson Miss Lions Miss Janice Riklcy Mbb Rotary Miss Elsa Gladwin Candidates will be presented to Queen Aurora V by emcee Earl Barlow The attendance of scarlet coated mounties and a guard of honor provided by the sea cadets will add to the pagean pageantry � try of the presentation The ball is being convened by Mrs June Barlow and par party � ty reservations may be made by calling LOgan 4 521 Tick Tickets � ets aie selling at 8 a couple with a student rate of 4 a couple Mist Doreen Jcffcry U in charge of decorations with the Queens table to be arranged by Mrs Muriel Skac Music will be by the Bill Long orchestra and a midnight cold plate supper will be served by Sacred Heart CWL Chairman of the queen com committee � mittee Mrs Dene Hill has an announced � nounced that Craftsman Pho Photographers � tographers Ltd has been ap appointed � pointed official photographer for 1963