4 quakes in 5 hours shake Los Angeles area LOS ANGELES CAP Four earthquakes in five hours Tuesday kept police in Los Angeles County beach communities busy telling callers Yes there has been an earthquake The tremors came at 1249 230 547 and 920 pm ON ISLAND if ar fear lessens V SANTO DOMINGO AP Immediate threat of war be between � tween the Dominican Republic and Haiti appeared to recede today but tension remained j high as Canada and the US i planned to evacuate some of their citizens from neighboring Haiti The Organization of American States and the UN Security Council called meetings today to discuss the situation between the Caribbean neighbors shar sharing � ing the island of Hispaniola The Security Council was ex expected � pected to leave it to the OAS Dominican President Juan Bosch called Haitis dictator president Francois Duvalicr a madman in a radio television statement on the crisis Tuesday night Bosch said if the US found the crisis grave enough to order the evacuation of US citizens i from Haiti we shall continue to think the problem is more serious for us We have to be careful and vigilant he declared This seemed to hint at a state of alert rather than full scale mobilization or any intention of imminent military action against the Duvalicr regime Area praised for support of sweeps plea CALGARY iCP Mrs Mary English organizer of Operation Sweepstake says her campaign for legalized sweepstakes has got off to a good start in BC Mr English who has collect collected � ed the names of 500000 Cana Canadians � dians who want legalized sweep sweepstakes � stakes in this country last week called at 15 centres in BC She said she had excellent response at Qucsnel Terrace and Prince George and visited Prince Rupert where a branch of the organization has existed for some time The campaign at Prince Ru Rupert � pert has the support of that citys chamber of commerce said Mrs English Mrs English also left peti petitions � tions at Vandcrhoof Endako Smithers South Hazelton Burns Lake Telkwa Salmon Arm jappan Kamloops Chase Rev clstoke Golden and Field cood food standards and it was only a coincidence that the new menus ordered when the decision was made happened lo be delhered and put into force the day the convention be began � gan Incidentally the meal jrfce increase decision was helped along by rising costs of both food and wages and its something that might well be become � come general through this com community � munity and others in Central BC before long Like 15 cent coffee Scheduled to appear in person at the Coliseum June 27 and in Quesnel June 30 are Don Messer and his marders seventh day of massive Negro demonstrations Governor George Wallace a militant segregationist an announced � nounced Tuesday he was order ordering � ing 250 riot trained highway patrolmen to Birmingham Al Lingo state public safety director said early today how however � ever that the number was be- stepped up to 575 troopers Lingo said the troopers were under direct orders of Wallace I They are equipped with tear i gas grenades riot guns car Restrictions explained by highways Load restrictions on Prince Georges three arterial high highways � ways were lifted some time ago says district highways superin superintendent � tendent Al Park But 75 per cent restrictions still apply to the main trunk roads outside the city bound boundaries � aries Highway Id and the Hart and Cariboo highways The citys three arterial high ways are First Victoria and the Prince George bypass Restrictions of 50 per cent of legal load limits are in effect on district side roads Mr Park said Side or feeder road restric tions are expected to be lifted to 75 per cent within a few days and restrictions on all roads should be lifted com pletely before the end of May Now hear this Down in Oregon the state le legislature � gislature is considering slap slapping � ping a tax on cigarets to help meet looming revenue deficits Boy are those guys ever be behind � hind the times Seems members of the La Ladies � dies Auxiliary to the Legion now holding their BC conven convention � tion here are more than a bit mistaken if they think a city restaurant boosted its meal prices to dig more dough out of their purses Taint so sez the manager Price hikes on some of the meals were planned boss man CPC will Bill Woycik The sponsor the famed musicale here and the Anglican Church will underwrite the Quesncl concert The local branch of the Cana Canadian � dian Mental Health Association has had another change of speaker for its first regular meetingset for 8 pm Thurs Thursday � day in the health unit Assist Assistant � ant exec director of the asso ciation now js scheduled to re replace � place BC President Gordon Nicol who was to have replaced B C exec director George Ken Kenwood � wood as speaker At least weeks ago jn order to maintain j 54 delegates to the Legion Aux iliary conference will leave Prince George with a high re regard � gard for the type of hospitality tendered by Prince George Ho Hotel � tel operators Danny Cooper and Pete Osmack When the ladies returned to their rooms at noon Tuesday following the ayem biz session each was pre presented � sented with a corsage compli compliments � ments of the hotel management Nice gesture boys New Westminster delegates to the convention went in a group to have their pictures taken with Granny Seymour What were you doing 18 years Phone tOgan 4 2441 Vol 7 No 90 IH kmkkkm m MBmmlm pwT s kkkkkkkWkw JMH iNt -- kkkkkkm0jfU Bkm LkLWkW Jkwukkm MMMMMMM iMMMMm GRANNY SEYMOUR WHO WILL BE 111 ON JUNE 8 WAS VISITED AT HER South Fort George home Tuesday by a granddaughter Mrs Betty ODonnell of New Westminster Mrs ODonnell is a fraternal delegate to the Legion Ladies Auxiliary convention being held here this week She was accompanied on her visit to Granny by several other delegates from the New Westminster branch Vandervoort photo AS NEGROES CONTINUE CAMPAIGN Governor sends riot police BIRMINGHAM Ala AP bines and sub-machine-guns he Negroes had gained these four Heavily armed state troopers said I things they wanted swarmed into this racial trouble i The highway patrolmen began I Better job opportunities de- into the late Tues- s - moving city snot spot tociav todav readv rcauy to to aid aia Bir- isir deploying i PWc facilities formation of mingham officers facing their from distant areas of the state through the night In the face of this develop- ment integration leader Dr I Martin Luther King Jr said j This movement is getting big 1 ger and bigger Therell be no I stopping until we move segre 1 gation from the city Dr King president of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference said more than one virtually the entire manpower demonstration was planned dur of the state agency ing the day He said there would be no end to the demonstrations until Hart paving fob let 40 miles left to finish Completion of a 176473 pav paving � ing contract this year will leave less than -10 miles of gravel on the 250 mile Hart Highway The half million dollar con tract to pave 332 miles of the Hart Tuesday was awarded to Columbia Bithulithiq Ltd of Vancouver Paving will be completed north from the Pacific Great Eastern railway crossing in the Pine Pass about 11G miles north of Prince George The present unpaved portion extends from the railway cross- i ing to a point about seven miles south of Chetwynd Work is expected to start about the beginning of June IN THE CITIZEN Classified 12 13 Comics 13 Coming events 10 District news 7 Editorial page Gardening 10 Here and there - 16 Markets 3 Sports -- - Tv 2 7 biracial committee with author ity to solve all racial problems and the dropping of charges against the arrested demonstra tors showers iigl W Prince George and Bulklcyl Valley region Cloudy with a few showers today anil Thurs Thursday � day Remaining cool with light winds Low tonight and high Thursday at Quesncl and Prince George 35 and 60 Smithers 35 and 55 Peace River region Cloudy with a few scattered showers Clearing this evening Mostly sunny Thursday with little change in temperature Winds will be west 15 Low tonight and high Thursday at Grande Prairie 35 and 60 e Low tonight and high Thurs Thursday � day at Vancouver 42 and 60 Victoria 42 and 57 LAST 24 HOURS Hi Lo Prec Prince George 54 32 Terrace 53 II trace Smithers 53 38 Quesnel 5G Williams Lake 47 Kamloops 58 Whitehorse 50 Fort Nelson 53 Fort St John 5 Dawson Creek 57 SUPREME COURT DECIDES PRAIRIE WEATHER Winnipeg- Saskatoon Regina 03 51 partly cloudy showers overnight 46 cloudy 44 sunny Medicine Hat 40 clear and calm Calgary 31 clear Edmonton 41 scattered clouds VANCOUVER CH Carbon- result of the forms copy traffic ticket summonses The judgment results from the issued by the RCMP in BC case of Gcorgina P Mitchell of have been ruled invalid by a Supreme Court judge The decision voiding the car boncopy citations for traffic offences was disclosed in a judgment by Mr Justice F K Collins Legal spokesman said it may ago today It was V E Day 1 open to question traffic convic says Civic Properties Commish I remember tions already registered as a Dawson Creek who was handed a traffic ticket Feb I But she obtained a writ to halt proceed proceedings � ings against her on the ground that the carbon copy bearing the issuing officers signature out not identity the signer as a B itizen The only daily newspaper serving Central British Columbia PRINCE GEORGE BRITISH COLUMBIA WEDNESDAY MAY 8 1963 THIRD MAN SOUGHT Two men jailed after Mountie hit Extra strong speakers blare Western message HKHLIN Matters Loudspeakers which develop a higher intensity of sound than jet aircraft were put into operation today on the East German border with news and propaganda broadcasts for East German police The loudspeakers mounted on huge trucks blared music and news across the border with an appeal to the soldiers not lo shoot at East German refugees They can be heard about five miles inside East Berlin RUNAWAY PLAYS PART OF ESCAPEE Boys fantastic story baffles police for week OTTAWA CP A 14-year-old boy who had Ottawa police working for a week to check his strange tale of escaping from Communist - dominated Hungary was finally identified Tuesday night as a runaway from the Montreal area town of Stc Dorothce Franc Inczc was returned tot his home early today by three police officers from Stc Doro thce who came to Ottawa to jollect him The boy was found a week ago sleeping in the boiler room of an apartment building He said he and his father escaped from Budapest made their way to Belgium and then flew to Ottawa arriving April 29 He said his father bought him a bike told him to pedal to Toronto and find his grand grandmother � mother then disappeared Young Franc supported his story by speaking in Hungarian English and French He also produced the new bike First break for baffled inves investigators � tigators came Tuesday after afternoon � noon when the bike turned out to be one stolen in Montreal just over a week ago 101 days minus food LOS ANGELES AP I was desperate said Mrs Elaine Johnson I tried everything reducing pills diets but I kept gaining weight I finally said theres only one thing for me not to eat a thing That was 101 days ago Since Jan 28 Mrs John Johnson � son 29 has been at Wads worth Veterans Administration Hospital living on water and vitamins Shes lost 115 of the 315 pounds she started out with GIANT CLEANUP JOB GETTING UNDERWAY Fines of 300 each and 11 - day sentences were meted out Tuesday to two men convicted of obstruct obstructing � ing and assaulting a police policeman � man and resisting arrest It was the second case arising from assaults against policemen on city streets heard in police court here in as many days Found guilty of obstruction and assaulting a police officer was Bernard Huzar 23 Henry B Collins 2a was found guilty of resisting arrest RCMP have j been unable to locate a third man William Nelson allegedly j involved in the melee outside the Embassy Cafe on Feb 9 Court was told that a lone constable attempted to arrest i Collins for intoxication when Huzar interfcrred The const able had to call for assistance on the police car radio NO HELP j A large crowd gathered to witness the battle but none of- fered the policeman any assist assistance � ance Other similar incidents in Prince George have drawn cri criticism � ticism of the public by court officials Magistrate G O Stewart told Huzar and Collins both Prince George men that it is not open season on policemen He said if he were to levy only minor penalties they would not be deterred from in interfering � terfering with the police RCMP officials today declined to comment on the incidents BLOODY NOSE Monday a 25-year-old Kam Kamloops � loops district man arrested following a similar incident May 9 was fined 300 and jailed 14 days after he was found guil guilty � ty of assaulting a policeman Lawrence Elliott of Westwold gave a policeman a bloody nose while scuffling with him in the back of the police station He had gone to the station to protest the detaining of a com companion � panion police were question- Continued on Page 3 f-T-szw It a VOpy ITCB BT CARRIER HARRY TRUMAN FORMER US president who says he wishes people would forget about his birthdays turned 79 today obviously tickled they remembered The anniversar anniversaries � ies only make me a year older he remarked but you wouldnt know it unless you observed that he doesnt walk as much as he used to CLEAR PICTURES Tv satellite works okay NEW YORK AP The Tel star II communications satellite whizzed through the heavens to today � day after working perfectly in relaying television pictures be between � tween the US and Europe The pictures that bounced hack to the sending station at Andovcr Me Tuesday night were described as magnificent very very clear Tonight a color television transmission is planned between the continents The satellite was sent aloft Tuesday i The switchboardin-thc-sky is to be used next Tuesday to try to beam to Europe television pictures of astronaut Gordon Coopers scheduled 31 hour orbi orbital � tal flight from Cape Canaveral Fla If the 175 pound ball of instru instruments � ments is in proper position over the north Atlantic it could pro provide � vide the first live telecast to Europe of an American astro astronauts � nauts lift off Otherwise Telstar II will re relay � lay a tape recording of the blastoff at the first opportune time That was done last Octo October � ber on astronaut Walter M Schirras flight Flood victims want to relocate town HAY RIVER NWT CP edges of several roads and the Buildings wrenched from their foundations and thrown askew in a mixture of mud ice cakes and debris presented a monu monumental � mental cleanup task today for residents of this flood devas devastated � tated island community Mayor W R McBryan in a telegram to Frank Cunningham assistant deputy minister of northern affairs said that 97 of 100 ratepayers interviewed in a special poll favored rebuilding the town on another site It was understood that the I new site might be on the main mainland � land about seven miles up 1 stream from the present town The silt - laden Hay River I cause of the floods that wrecked the centre section of the town flowed innocently but swiftly through its dirty ice bordered channel into Great Slave Lake In one street a house rested en top of a car On another the Legion Hall had settled on an angle about 20 feet from the outline of its original founda tion The Hudsons Bay Co store staff house had popped from its lot basement and all and was tilted towards the sky Houses were snaged on the Traffic summonses invalid Mr Justice Collins ruled that it would not be logical to con 1 elude that the summons was effective unless the signing au authority � thority is identified as a peace officer An RCMP official said the decision could mean that there may be a return to the system of issuing proper summonses peace officer as required by from detachment ottices ramer the piovhicial Motor Vehicles than using the carbon copies Act issued at the scene main street was blocked at one point by a displaced building You have to sec it to believe it said John Morin who had started building a new house be before � fore the town was inundated a week ago He pointed to a cluster of wood pilings sunk in a rectan rectangular � gular pattern beside his present water logged home It cost me 1800 to have those put in he said but Im not going to build here now Federal government assessors were expected today to inspect damage Adjustors for private insurance companies also were but we had the ingredients for to be on hand to receive dam- an epidemic age claims I Our hospital is empty We A 10 man co ordinating com committee � mittee was set up Tuesday night to plan and oversee clean cleanup � up rehabilitation and re entry of the town The committee included rep representatives � resentatives of the municipal and federal governments RCMP the Salvation Army businessmen and town doctor C G Penny Dr Penny said health hazards in the town have been con conquered � quered We didnt have an epidemic have had less illness in the last week than weve ever had not a cough cold or a sprain sprained � ed ankle All people re entering the main part of town must be in noculated against typhoid Our greatest health problem now is that the water still is so high that all our sewers are backel up We rumped one out and 15 minutes later it was full again from seepage of sub soil va ter JIH H V x -III Jfy iik i I I MWaMmk C 71 SOMETHING TO GROUSE ABOUT WAS GIVEN THE JIM SLESINGER FAMILY at 430 pm Tuesday when an uninvited guest invaded their home at 1477 Taylor A grouse flew through the double pane window in the bedroom of daughter Diane 13 while she was studying at her desk The experience killed the bird and sent Mi Slesinger to the basement when he thought the loud crash was the furnace backfiring Vandervoort photo