Judge fines himself In ticket campaign WELLSVILLE N Y AP - In the midst of a drive lo clear up overdue parking tickets Police Justice Philip Engcldcr found two bearing his name The judge Monday fined himself 2 for each ticket with the comment No excuses MR AND MRS BEN BODEKER NOW OF NANAIMO STAND ON THE SITE where Mr Bodeker pitched a tent when he came here on a preliminary survey for the Grand Trunk Picific Railway in 1906 Mrs Lutie Bodeker originally from Oregon came to Prince George in 1909 and was the first school teacher in the area The Bodckers in December 1911 were the first white couple married in Prince George They are passing through to visit their daughter Mrs Betty White in Spirit River Alta Hai Vandervoort photo WAS FALL ELECTION PLANNED Tories want budget changes OTTAWA CD Gordon Aiken PC Parry Sound - Muskoka served notice in the Commons Monday that the Conservatives will introduce amendments to several sections of the budget resolutions They must not pass as they stand now Mr Aiken said He said he had evidence to prove the government intended at one point to call a new election this fall but that this plan had been dropped after a storm blew up over the budget The minister of finance Mr Gordon has done one good thing with his budget in that he has left the government m such bad shape that they will not dare go to the country for a long time he said Monday the Commons marked the end of two months of work since the opening of Parliament by passing the fourth govern government � ment bill of the session It was a special appropriation bill giving Parliament the op opportunity � portunity to approve retroac retroactively � tively government spending of 8331G2GS0 in the 1962 63 fiscal j ear Uie amount spent last j car without Parliamentary au authority � thority The 1962 63 estimates were never approved because of the inlcrrupUons occasioned by Uie 1962 and 1963 general elections Government spending during Uie period was under the au authority � thority of interim supply bills and governor generals war warrants � rants Stanley Knovvles NDP Win nipeg North Centre and II A The Cititcn will award two ihow ticket tor the bett Swiltie each day and din ner for two courtesy Hotel Simon Frasei or the best to July 31 Olson SC Medicine Hat ac accused � cused the Conservatives of hav having � ing ignored Parliaments an ancient � cient rights to control the coun countrys � trys purse strings Former finance minister George Novvlan and Mr Aiken replied that the Liberals Social Credit and Ncvw Democratic MPs deliberately wrecked the last Parliament by delaying1 week and obstructing government legislation In other business the House continued a humdrum general debate on a measure to cstab lish a 28 member Economic Council of Canada The bill still awaits second reading ap approval � proval in principle and is unlikely to come up again this Arrest ordered after accused fads to show Magistrate R S Munro today issued a bench warrant for the arrest of a Vancouver man charged with robbery in connection with an incident here May 24 Gordon A White who earlier pleaded not guilty failed to appear in court for his trial Monday after being released on 1000 bail He was charged after a man complained to police he was beaten and robbed of 42 and a case of beer in his hotel room TO REDEEM BC POWER ISSUE Cft Phone LOgan 4 2441 Vol 7 No 137 GOLDEN CD Premier Ben nctts Social Credit government Monday retained sparscly-popu-latcd Columbia riding in a pro provincial � vincial byelection that revolved mainly around Columbia River development Frank Greenwood 42 a rail 50 million bond issue out VANCOUVER CD Premier Bennett today announced a new 50000000 issue of provincial government - backed parity bonds bearing interest at five Now hear this Quite a number of local folks according to an informed source will be waiting eagerly this week for Aid Spike Ene mark to pay a call on the Government Store Apparently Spike a Liberal party stalwart of note believed his organiza tions rave notices that the Grit candidate was a shoo in for Uie Columbia byelection and be believed � lieved them so much he even bet on them Youre never too old to try something new according to Mrs Rita Byrne who is visit visiting � ing her daughter here Mrs Ay leen Bexon At 02 Mrs Ilyrnu took her first airplane ride when she flew fiom Monti eal to Vancouver and then to Prince George accompanied ly anoUi er daughter Kathleen Sey mour E Park of Victoria di director � rector of the BC Forest Serv Service � ice public information and ed education � ucation division is a brief vis itor to this area today And licj got a right to feel happy TODAYS TOM SWIFTIE- about the public relations of the Forest Service in these parts Another official visitor here today is Jim Lister chief of civil defence in BC who is interviewing applicants for the post of CD co ordinator in charge of the northern half of the province Winning ap applicant � plicant will replace Art Frater of Prince George vvho has been appointed co ordinator in the Fraser Valley The PG Industrial Develop ment Commish must have the inside track on that crowd at Victoria IDCs latest booklet of statistical info on PG and dis district � trict claims the missing high highway � way link between here and Me Bride wont bo missing after 1965 Last ApiU Premier Ben Bennett � nett and Highways Minister Gaglardi muttered something about work starting in 1061 But this time they made no rash promises like This Highway Wont Stop Until It Beaches The Alberta Border Wo will lay the steel to Fort St James said WAC iron ironically � ically Harry Evans 2235 Laurier per cent The premier made Uie an announcement � nouncement at a specially called breakfast meeting of in investment � vestment dealers and said it would be used in Uie main to redeem 25000000 in former BC Power Commission bonds sold in August 1960 and com coming � ing due next Aug 15 The other 25000000 would be used to redeem other short term issues The interest rate on provin provincial � cial parity bonds has been 5V4 per cent The premier said the five per cent rate on the new issue reflects the generally low lower � er interest rate on the mar market � ket But the rate on bonds already issued would remain at 5la per cent Provincial government parity bonds are redeemable at any time at full face value Mr Bennett who had set a ceiling of 212000000 on the amount of parities outstanding said the new issue will put the ceiling temporarily at 221000 000 But it would be adjusted back to the 212000000 figure He said this would be done by redeeming more of the 101 000000 BC Electric now BC Hydro parity issue due in September 1965 Hydro has al ready bought back 15300000 of this issue leaving 85600000 outstanding Jf all of Uie new 50000000 parity issue is sold and deal dealers � ers expected the issue to sell quickly various government agencies would have the follow following � ing amount outstanding DC Hydro 50000000 Pa cific Great Eastern Railway 50000000 BC Electric 86 000000 and Toll Authority 37 000000 rccenUy reduced from 50000000 The new bonds go on sale Friday be dated Aug 15 with interest payable on the 15th ol February May August and No November � vember They will be available in amounts of 100 to 25000 and will be redeemed Aug 15 1967 IN THE CITIZEN Betty Conner 5 Classified 8 9 Coming events 5 Editorial page 7 Markets 3 Sports 4 Tv 5 e e way telegrapher polled 1087 votes with 23 of 26 polls counted Monday night 430 votes more than his nearest rival Dr Alvin Trott the Conserv Conservative � ative candidate had 657 Lib Liberal � eral Bob Kcenlcysidc 623 and the NDPs Robert Harris 578 RETROACTIVE BOOST 60000 civil servants get increase in pay OTTAWA CP Retroactive pay increases for GO000 federal employees dating back to last Oct 1 were announced today by Finance Minister Gordon Postal workers customs and immigration employees build ing cleaning staffs and tcchni cal workers are Uie main groups benefitting from the pay boosts estimated to cost some 17000000 a year Mr Gordons announcement said that apart from hospital employees this is the last ma major � jor group of federal employees to be dealt with in the current cycle of salary reviews He said the government plans to continue the policy of peri periodic � odic reviews under which sal salaries � aries of various groups come up for consideration every two years The government is pushing forward wiUi the preparatory work that must be done with a view to introducing a system of collective bargaining for the civil service his statement ad ded The pay increases for postal workers come in the wake of repeated warnings that the mail workers would adopt a work- to rule policy if the raises werent forthcoming This would involve a strict adherence to xstal regulations which would have the result of slowing mail handling Letter carriers receive a 360 annual increase to a maximum 4380 and mail handlers get 300 increase to a maximum 39G0 No increases were made for postal messengers examiners Grade 1 and 2 in defence de partment inspection services aircraft mechanic learners and aircraft mechanics Gradosi 1 and 2 PETITION LACES COST OF SUGAR VANCOUVER CD A 3000 name petition protesting hikes in sugar prices was sent to today � day to Prime Minister Pear Pearson � son by the Consumers Com Committee � mittee on Prices The petition demands restor restoration � ation of sugar prices to the level of last October Senator gets out of hospital VANCOUVER CP Senator Gray Turgeon Member of Parliament for Cariboo from 1935 to 1945 was released from hospital here Monday The 81-year-old Liberal sena senator � tor is reported in satisfactory condition following a recent heart attack The airport experienced a downpour Monday at 512 pm during which 15 of an inch of rain fell in 16 minutes But only a few drops of rain fell over the city at the same time This is the revcrso of the situa situation � tion Sunday evening when Prince George experienced a very heavy shower but rain was not measurable at Uie meteorol meteorological � ogical office Mostly cloudy skies arc fore forecast � cast for Wednesday with little change in temperature and light winds Low tonight and high Wednesday at Prince George 45 and 70 Quesncl 50 and 75 Smithcrs 50 and 70 Low tonight and high Wed Wednesday � nesday at Vancouver 52 and 72 Victoria 52 and 70 LAST 24 HOURS Hi LoPrec Prince Gcorgo 73 50 Terrace 66 58 Smithcrs 73 48 Quesncl 78 52 Williams Lake 65 49 Kamloops 66 i2 Whitchorse 75 51 Fort Nelson 70 52 Fort St John 67 48 Dawson Creek 70 41 15 21 Itlzn The only daily newspaper serving Central British Columbia PRINCE GEORGE BRITISH COLUMBIA TUESDAY JULY 16 1963 BY 430 VOTE MARGIN Socred narrowly takes byelection A great vote of confidence beamed the premier when he heard the result of the byclcc tion It was plainly a vote of con confidence � fidence for his governments policies on Columbia River de development � velopment he said and its two river policy joint development of the Columbia and Peace rivers Robert Stracnan NDP op- position leader in the provincial house conceded Uiat Columbia River development was the prime issue His partys honest and forth forthright � right support for the Mc- Naughton plan of Columbia de development � velopment killed any chance for an NDP victory in the re remote � mote mountainous riding In BCs southeastern corner Under the McNaughton plan rejected by Mr Bennett much of the Columbia riding would be flooded in the Columbia River development The byelection was considered a crucial ono for the Social Credit government particularly since it came so soon after a provincial byclectfon in Vancouver-Point Grey last December in which Libera Dr Pat Mc Gccr took a scat Uiat once had been solidly Social Credit Standing in the 52 scat legis legislature � lature now is Social Credit 31 NDP 16 and Liberals five There arc no Conservative MLAs The Columbia byelection was called to fill a vacancy left by th death of Richard Orr New Newton � ton Social Credit member Mr Greenwood had been a cam campaign � paign manager for Mr Newton One surprise in Uie byelecUon was the rise in the Conservative vote In the last election in the rid riding � ing the Conservative polled only six per cent of the total vote This time the Conserva Conservative � tive share jumped to 22 per cent The significance of this was that the ConscrvaUve party now has been established as the alternative to Social Credit gov government � ernment said E Davie Fulton BC party leader Ray Perrault Liberal party leader blamed the furore surrounding the federal budget for his candidates loss During Uie campaign the budget furore and BC sign signing � ing of the Columbia agreement with Ottawa it became a ques question � tion of whether we would main maintain � tain the lead or drop to second or even third position GROUND SEARCH SLATED FOR NEXT MONTH NORTH OF HERE 7e a Copy oJtoV Driver charged following 3 -car collision In area Henry Matties of Clcarbrook has been charged with following another vehicle too closely after his car was involved in a three car collision on the Hart Highway at the Chief Lake turnoff at noon Monday His wife was in good condition in city hospital today after being taken there for observation RCMP said considerable damage was done to all three cars LEADER SAID A CROOK Judge levels scathing indictment at union OTTAWA Cr A torrid tale of terror and lawlessness on the Great Lakes waterfront has been dumped in the lap of the federal government It is contained in a 318oaec XX report written by Mr Justice T G Norns following a year yearlong � long investigation of labor strife and shipping disruptions on the Great Lakes The 69 - year - old Vancouver jurist turned in a sizzling docu documenta � menta 27500 word book that has drama sex big names and vivid prose He wrapped up his thriller with an unprecendentcd pro proposal � posal that the government take over sailors unions in Canada through a three man independ independent � ent trusteeship The trustees possibly a judge an economist and a transport expert would run the unions reform their operations try to integrate them into one body then turn them back to their members The judge also proposed stif- fcr federal controls over water- For Norris portrait please see Page 3 -front Unions with compulsory certification and government supervised strike votes He said the SIU hiring hall through which all seamen must obtain jobs on SIU - manned ships should be shut down until a government - supervised opera- tion could be set up Labor Minister MaoEachen told reporters that an immedi immediate � ate study would be launched to the far reaching proposals of the Norris report Firm propo proposals � sals would then be laid before the cabinet He also promised a new bid to resume peace talks on lake labor discord with US Labor Secretary Willard Wirtz Presi President � dent Claude Jodoin of the Cana dian Labor Congress and AFL- CIO President George Mcany The report was delivered to the government after Mr Jus- Continued on Page 3 US consul accused of meddling in vote OTTAWA in A New Dem Democratic � ocratic Party MP charged Mon Monday � day that Uie US consul-general in Vancouver tried to in influence � fluence voters in Mondays pro provincial � vincial byelection in BC at the instigation of Premier Bennett H W Herridge member for Kootcnay West said in the Commons that the consul Afery Peterson showed ex extremely � tremely bad taste by taking copious notes at an election meeting of the NDP at Golden in Columbia constituency Satur Saturday � day He also accused Uie federal government of surrendering its sovereign rights and promot promoting � ing Uie Balkanization of Can Canada � ada by letting Premier Ben Bennett � nett negotiate directly with the US on the Columbia River power treaty Mr Hcrridgo said the consul travelled from Vancouver to Golden last week and took noics at NDP and other political ral lies His presence was resented by many of those electors and some considered it a subtle form of influence brought in at the instigation of Premier Ben Bennett � nett Of course Im tough says Banks MONTREAL CD Whenever people have described Hal Banks as tough and used the word as a curse the union lead leader � er and waterfront boss always expressed amazement What do they expect he once asked Ive had to fight finks and scabs and look out for my boys Its a tough position and some sometimes � times I havent had time to be a gentleman But Ive done my job CRUEL DISHONEST Banks as president of the Seafarers International Union Ind saw his job as looking out for my boys and providing Canadas waterfront with a democratic union But according to a judicial report made public in Ottawa Monday Banks a bully cruel dishonest greedy power hungry contemptuous of the law did anything but that Harold Chamberlain Banks 54 has traded for years on bc- g a tough guy In 1949 when he came to Canada from tho US at the behest of the old Trades and Labor Congress and several shipping companies his tough toughness � ness seemed to many to be the answer to a prayer RED RUN UNION The Canadian waterfront was under Uie thumb of an openly Communist run Union the Cana dian Seamens Union In the 12 months before ha appeared oni the scene there had been 66 strikes and work stoppages many of Uicm branded illegal Some ship owners and many private citizens thought any anything � thing would be better The anything they turned to on the advice of the SIU headquarters in Uie US was Banks As Banks has often said since he did the job The CSU was broken after a number of shooting and club swinging inci incidents � dents and within a few short months Banks was building his empire No one seemed to know just how tough Banks was when he arrived in Canada It was for example a couple of years before it came out that he had served time in San Quentin on a bad cheque charge and had been released as reha rehabilitated � bilitated In 1951 he was given a full and unconditional pardon Two prospectors missing year police reveal By PATRICK DENTON Citizen Staff Writer A ground search will get underway next month for two prospectors who have been missing for a scar in the re remote � mote Bulkley House area about 270 miles northwest of here Tho disclosure of their dis disappearance � appearance was mado to Tim Citizen today by the RCMP Missing Is Roy den Edgar Duvall Godkin 42 of Pro Progress � gress near Dawson Creek TO WALK OUT Police are withholding tho second mans name until it is determined if any relatives are living He is between 57 and 60 police said The pair was last teen July 3 ltl33 when dropped off by a Northern Mountain Air Airlines � lines pilot at Bulkley House an Indian settlement at the north cud of Takla Lake They made no arrangements for being picked up and told the pilot they would walk out A spokesman for the airlino said the men did not disclose where Ihey were going Pros pectois rarely reveal their destination First nplification of Uie fact they were missing vsas mado by Godkins sister who lives in Dawson Creek WATER LEVEL Police doubt if they could have survived the winter The men indicated to tho pilot they would bo coining out in September or October of last year Police are putting off tho search until next month when tho water Jcvcl in Uie area should be at its lowest There havo been rumors the men went out by way of Fort Ware and McLcods Lake but neither has been seen or contacted relatives Those who saw them thought they were packed a little lightly for a trip of that nature a police spokesman said Each had a pack of about 60 pounds Roy Pollard who lives on the Driftwood River north of Bulkley House said they stayed with him for two days shortly after they were drop dropped � ped off RCMP made a boat patrol into the area six week ajo A native trapper Dick Joseph told them he had found an abandoned camp at the junction of Bates Creek and Omlncctla Creek believ ed to have been used by tho missing men SLEEPING BAGS He found two sleeping bags a packboard an axe food clothing and other equipment Most of it was partially im imbedded � bedded in ico which led Joseph to believe it had been there sinco freczup last Oc October � tober He said his cabin at the head of Bates Creek had been entered and chains from his beaver traps filed off and used to bind logs for a small raft lie found partly broken up nearby Joseph also found tho re remains � mains of another camp about 10 miles north of the cabin No notes were left The chances are these articles weie theirs and if so they wouldnt have survived the winter without Uicm the RCMP spokesman said NO LANDING SPOT On June 13 the police and Joseph made an aerial search of the area and ho pointed out where he had found Uie ar articles � ticles There was no suitable landing spot in the vicinity The ground search will be begin � gin when the water level is lowest sometime next month if the men are still missing Police will get a guide and pack horses from Bulkley House