- Lab IAN MclNNIS SHOWS THE STYLE THAT WON FIRST PLACE IN THE NOVICE piping class at the Caledonia Games in Vancouver Aug 3 The youngster won a gold medal for his efforts Ian has been playing for about 2 years Roy Fujikawa photo Good lungs lots of talent right combination for Prince George lad A boy with large lungs and a lot of talent is a happy young youngster � ster today Ian Mclnnis 11 son of Mr and Mrs Jack Mclnnis of 1397 Ingledew took first place and a gold medal in the novice pip piping � ing class at the Caledonia Games in Vancouver Aug 3 Ian started playing the bag bagpipes � pipes about 2j years ago and is a member of the Prince George Juvenile Pipe Band Ian who didnt even expect to place took first prize by plaing Hills of Perth which is his favorite There were ap approximately � proximately 35 pipers in the contest including one adult Ian practices an hour a day and he lived up to his good Scottish name with his victory at Vancouver He was not the only winner from Prince George at the Caledonia Games Barbara Gunn Fowlie 17 daughter of Mr and Mrs Jock Gunn Fowlie of 14GG Gorse placed third and won a silver medal in the novice class The Prince George Pipe Band Williston here for presentation Lands and Forests Minister Hay Williston will officiate at the presentation Wednesday of a mobile disaster feeding unit to the Prince George civil de defence � fence zone The presentation will be at 1030 am at the city hall park Representatives of city and provincial government depart departments � ments have been invited to attend Here and there 6 Market 3 Sport 4 Tv - 2 also made a top showing in i Vancouver The band took second place against seven other I Weather roundup with occasional cloudy periods It will continue warm with light winds Low tonight and high Wed Wednesday � nesday in Prince George 52 and 83 Smithcrs 50 and 78 Qucs ncl 55 and 85 The forecast for Peace River is variable cloudiness with Babysitting service offered The girls of the Prince George Land Hangers will offer a baby babysitting � sitting service at the Simon Frascr Days and Exhibition Mrs Harold Hojcc Captain of the rangers told The Citizen today The girls between 15 and 2t will be able to entertain the children with toys donated by the S S Kresge Co Northern Hardware and Furniture- Co and the F W Woolworth Co Four or five girls will be on duty at all times Parents using the service will be charged 30 cents an hour In addition to babysitting the Land Hangers will take care of any lost children Now hear this The city hall Hag was flying I for production this fall The at half mast yesterday morn- Mousetrap by mystery writer ing but it wasnt out of respect Agatha Christie The London for anybodys memory It was production of this play is still some clowns idea of a joke humiing after more than 10 some time during the weekend Which is the sort of jazz that wouldnt happen if tho flag were lowered at night a practice that etiquette demands any anyway � way Prime George Plajers direc director � tor Fran Cibbins held a pre preliminary � liminary reading last night of the companys play scheduled IN THE CITIZEN Deity Conner Classified Comics Comlno event Editorial page District news -- years but Fran said she doesnt expect the local group to break that record Three or four years would be enough she quipped Vandeihoof innkeepers Dick and Audrey Malnwaring having traded part of their in Iciest in the Vandeihoof Hotel for ownership of the Chilcotin Hotel at Alexis Creek 75 miles west of Williams Lake will move there lo operate their acquisition Going to Vander hoof from Alexis are Miss Joyce Russell and Mr and Mrs Art Chalmers who will manage the hotel jointly with Mr and Mrs George Keiler It was a boy the fourth for Magistrate George Stewart and wife Laureen on Monday So in addition to handing out sent ences police court naoituees - bands in the competition which included a professional band which placed first WARM Prince George will be sunny slightly Siife lower temperatures Winds will be light Low to night and high Wednesday at Grande Prairie 50 and 75 The rest of the week should have near normal tempera temperatures � tures and little if any precipita precipitation � tion LAST 24 HOURS Hi Lo Prec Prince George 80 51 Terrace 77 54 Smithcrs 78 -18 Qucsncl 84 54 Kamloops 96 50 Whitelmrsc G7 49 Fort Xclson 82 55 Dawson Creek 80 49 CONCERT TAKES 5 PANTS TAKE OFF DENVER Colo API The conceit at Red Hocks amphi amphitheatre � theatre was delayed five minutes Monday night be because � cause conductor Vasilios Priakos forgot his trousers Priakos said it was tho first time in 25 jcars of conduct conducting � ing that hss forgotten his trousers for a concert Priakos said he hunted and hunted for the trousers of his tuxedo He finally wore a pair of street trousers The outdoor audience of 8000 applauded anyway Ca VANCOUVER CP Mr Jus Justice � tice J G Ruttan may rule in British Columbia Supr c m c Court today whether a dead utility can ask for a stay of its own execution The utility is the UC Hydro and Power Authority ruled non nonexistent � existent in a Supreme Court judgment last week of Chief Justice Sherwood Lett The authority is attempting to appeal the Lett judgment whicli said the governments The appointment of Alexander Keith Young of Prince George as Northern Zone Civil Defence Coordinator was announced to today � day by provincial coordinator Jim Lister Mr Young replaces Art Frascr who filled the post here since 1960 and leaves shortly to take over the CD co-ordinator for the Frascr Valley sta stationed � tioned at Abbotsford Born in Scotland Mr Young came to BC with his parents when he was two years old He received his education in New Westminster He went to sea as a Navy League of Canada cadet with the Canadian Government Mer Merchant � chant Marine later to become the Canadian National Steam Steamships � ships He served with the com company � pany as a junior and senior officer Mr Young obtained the Mas Master � ter Mariners Certificate of Competency and served as executive officer until he en entered � tered the naval service in 193J During the war he served with the Hoyal Canadian Naval Reserve as lieutenant and lieu lieutenant � tenant - commander in the North Atlantic escort service Crash claims third victim A Prince George district man died in Williams Lake Hospital Monday to become the second local and third victim of a highway mishap Saturday night near 100 Mile House He was Emerson Ford SmiUi 33 a logger who worked for Mac and Mac Logging Smith had worked in the area for a year after coming from Dray Drayton � ton Valley Alta Roland Vhal 34 of 979 Car Carney � ney operator of Mac and Mac Logging remained in satisfac satisfactory � tory condition in hospital today with injuries suffered in the same accident Smiths death brought the toll to three in the head on collision six miles south of 100 Mile House Vaughan Frank Read 35 who was en route from Vancouver to a new job in Prince George was killed instantly He was the lone occupant of tho second car John Stephen Plctch 30 a district logger for the last year since coming from Ontario was dead on arrival at hos hospital � pital e expropriation of the UC Elec Electric � tric Company Aug 1 1961 was beyond the powers of the legis legislature � lature The chief justice said the for formation � mation of the Hydro Authority the following year out of a mer merger � ger of the UCE and the BC Power Commission was thus in invalid � valid The Authority is seeking a stay of proceedings on the Lett judgment pending appeals The BC Power Corporation parent of the BCE is seeking to have Alexander Young named northern CD co ordinator mm W mik LNJ Alexander Young and later ashore with the naval control service until his dis discharge � charge Following the war Mr Young commanded Canadian merchant ships In 1950 he went into the saw sawmill � mill business in New Westmin Westminster � ster until 1956 when he joined the Texas Refinery Corp of Canada as a salesman He was transferred to Prince George in 1957 and promoted to district manager for the firm His experience in civil de defence � fence goes back to its incep inception � tion in 1952 when he was one of the original instructors at New Westminster He has been active in civil defence here and has acted as controller and northern zone deputy co ordinator Mr Young has taken various CD courses at Victoria and the civil defence college at Arn prior Ont e Itlzen The only daily newspaper serving Central British Columbia I Phone LOgan 4 2441 Vol 7 No 152 PRINCE GEORGE BRITISH COLUMBIA TUESDAY AUGUST 6 1963 7c a Copy - cuuum JUDGE TO RULE BC Hydro wants execution stay SOVIET SERIES STARTS TODAY POLICE SAY The HCMP have established that two women not oae as earlier believed wero passen passengers � gers in a plane which crashed into the Fraser River near Hixon Saturday apparently claiming the lives of two Prince George men The women were identified by HCMP today as Mario Marcel LHeureux 21 of Alexandria and Helen Schultz 19 of Mat squi the giant utilitys assets handed back to it The Supreme Court proceed proceedings � ings on tlia applications opened Monday but the entire day was taken up in argument over whether the Hydro Authority is a legal entity that may apply for a stay and thus go on to make an appeal DECISION RESERVED Mr Justice Ruttan reserved decision on the Power Corpora lions contention that Authority is in the words of its counsel dead and its application should be wiped out He said he hoped to have his decision today and added that if he rules that the Authority is non existent the BCE will be back in business as a privately owned company But M M McFarlane coun counsel � sel for the attorney general in informed � formed the court if that is the decision the government will forthwith file an application for a stay Douglas McK Brown Cor Corporation � poration counsel contended that Dr Gordon Shrum and Dr Hugh Kccnleyside co chairman of Hjdro arc tresspassers un unlawfully � lawfully carrying out the func functions � tions which they have no right to carry out 2 fee asked for fire dept Residents of the Hart Highway district are being asked to con contribute � tribute toward the cost oCoper ating the volunteer fire depart department � ment by paying an annual 2 fee Letters asking residents to send in the voluntary fee were mailed today Fire Chief Gor Gordon � don Ware told The Citizen If the fire department attends a blaze and the owner has not paid the fee a minimum charge of 20 can be levied he said About 50 business firms in the area will be canvassed for their annual 5 fee Car break in at hotel lot AnoUicr in a recent rash of Uiefts from cars parked in city hotel lots was reported to police overnight Herb BarUiel told police an electric massage outfit valued at 280 a plastic suitcase and a flight bag containing numer numerous � ous articles of clothing was stolen from his car parked in the McDonald Hotel lot City posts important land sites up for sale Three parcels of land which may be the sites of important developments have been posted for sale by the city They arc A 92 acre site at Fifth and Central for the specified purpose of building a shopping centre at an upset price of 8000 per acre plus the cost of installing municipal utility services about 10000 per acre A 223 acrc site adjacent to the one at Fifth and Central specifically for commercial develop development � ment at 12000 per acre plus the utility services costs A three acre site at Tenth and Lauricr for an upset price of 33500 for use as a chronic care hospital and nursing home A city spokesman said today that the earliest council can consider bids under the Municipal Act is Friday At a city council meeting last week realtor Gordon D Bryant representing Caledonian Lease Leaseholds � holds Ltd of Vancouver disclosed plans for a pro proposed � posed 9 million shopping centre and commercial complex at Fifth and Central Earlier two Victoria businessmen indicated they wanted the Tenth and Lauricr site to build a 75 bed institution for the care of chronic and re rehabilitation � habilitation patients Our foreign exchange reserves drop drastically OTTAWA CP Canadas for foreign � eign exchange reserves sagged by 190600000 during July to 2501000000 Finance Minister Gordon announced today Mr Gordon said the greater part of the decline in Canadas official holdings of gold and US dollars from the end-of-June figure of 2691600000 oc cured on July 18 and 19 inv mediately after president Ken nedys announcement of a pro j posed US tax on American purchases of foreign securities A significant part of the New chemical for drug addicts SINGAPORE Reuters Medical men working in Aus Australia � tralia and Singapore have pro produced � duced a chemical compound that relieves drug addicts of their physical craving for drugs in three days according to a spokesman for the Australian group here He said in a scries of tests using amiphenazole 12 con firmed opium smokers were treated and cured of their phy sical addiction The worst case was cured physically in two weeks The spokesman said the com pound was effective against heroin morphine and pethidine Two women dead in crash A jKlice patrol of the river off from Qucsncl at 5 pm Sat Monday failed to locate the bodies of Alan Ward and Mike Sindia The body of one woman was found in the plane wreckage on a sandbar about eight miles south of Hixon where the crash occurred The Fairchild 2 J four place aircraft crashed into the river about 20 minutes after it took The riddle of changing Russia Alan Harvey Chief of Bu Bureau � reau at London for The Cana Canadian � dian Press has spent a month In the USSR visiting Tash kent Samarkand and Duk hard in central Asia Kiev In the Ukraine Leningrad and Moscow He gives his impres impressions � sions in a series of stories starting today in The Citiien By ALAN HARVEY MOSCOW CP The gap be tween what i ami what could be constitutes one of the funda fundamental � mental riddles of changing Hus sia Though great progress has been made since StalLi tima toward a more relaxed and sensible approach the Saviet Union lias - not - yet fully MJ accom I may expect the magistrate to unshed the leap into ration baud cut cigars this week raUty When the Communist parly line permits freedom to Sovet thinkers ideas sprout like musl rooms after rain Its absolutely fantastic said a Czech born Western ex expert � pert In all the sccntific areas of which I have personal epe rience tho rate of growth has been tremendously steep It shows what could be done if professional talents were com completely � pletely liberated Rut the nation is still har harnessed � nessed to a myth still trying to prove that Uie Marxist tablets of stone are untarnished still obsessively suspicious of the West It drives ou dizzy trying to remain strictly objective Friendly Rujjuiii keep init ing that you are seeing Uiings with Western eyes that you have been shaped from the cradle to detest Communist methods that you can never really understand Russian w ays NO SELF DOUBT With the best will in the world having come to appreci appreciate � ate the intrinsic qualities of a notable people and having made allowance for historical handi handicaps � caps a visitor may reluctantly assert some doubts For in instance � stance the impressiai emerges of A huge waterlogged bu reaucracy seesaw ins u iasticitv of interuretation tween self importance and fsu ly r rpV sprvilitvi an officious ma ibility and sticks to the safe ty of channels A rank ridden society conservative and bound to a central orthodoxy A heavily moralizing ide ideology � ology repetitive atul often artificial immune to self doubt or inner questioning All this plus a prickly defen siveness toward the outer world designed to shut out danger ous ideas A distorting mirror is held toward the West por Irayctl as riddled with strikes racial discrimination and colon colonialism � ialism Fortunately the holy writ of Marxism is subject to an inner chine that evades rujHM ConlinosJ on Page 3 M- kita Khrushchev is a pragmatic unlay Department of transport in investigators � vestigators who were in the area Monday were apparently un able to determine the cause of the crash police said HCMP said the river is too treacherous at that point to make a further search for the three bodies practical Its an anticipated � ticipated they will turn up later downstream The plane was owned by Ward operator of W and S Log Logging � ging of Prince George Sindia was the operator of Sindia Trucking also of Prince George Bellavance rites set Wednesday Funeral service for Mrs Eu Eugene � gene Uellavance and her daugh daughter � ter Rao Ann will be held Wed Wednesday � nesday morning at the Sacred Heart Church Rev O G Do Keyzer will officiate Mrs Uellavance 20 and her three- ear old daughter were drowned in Lake Kathlyn last week when en route to Prince George from Prince Rupert Mrs Uellavance is survived by her husband Eugene her daughter Marney Lyn and her parents Mr and Mrs Harold Kuz cf Prince Gtore change in the reserves in terms of US dollars also was a S7l 700000 partial repayment by Canada to the International Monetary - Fund of an emer emergency � gency loan made last June to tase Canadas then foreign ex exchange � change crisis NO MPORTANCE 1 HHHKSMm Eft I Kenneth Kiernan Mines Minister Kenneth Kiernan said in Victoria Mon Monday � day he foresees no import important � ant delay in construction of the Portage Mountain dam on the Peace River because of what he calls uncertainty over the status of the UC Hydro and Power Authority Kiernan a hydro director was commenting on reports that contractors on the dam deferred buying 10 million of machinery after refusing to accept Premier Unnetts written assurance they will be paid for the work The dam construction time table he said is pretty flexible and a minor delay would be of no importance Kiernan said ho expected the reaction of the contractors to the UC Supreme Court de decision � cision declaring the 1061 pro provincial � vincial government takeover of the privately owned UC Electric Company unconsti unconstitutional � tutional would be discussed by hydro directors Friday in Vancouver The directors would aUo discuss according to Kier nan an application for dead deadline � line extension from Portage Mountain Constructors the company responsible for tho 17 million diversion tunnel contract The company has asked for a 08 day postponement of the diversion tunnel completion deadline because of prelimin preliminary � ary delay and extra work re required � quired by UC Hydro ACCIDENT TOLL 110 PARIS Heutcrs A total of 110 persons wore killed and 1276 others were injured in French accidents last weekend at the height of the tourist sea season � son according to provisional police fuurts 4