THIS MAMMOTH CONSTRUCTION PROJECT the building on the Peace Hiver of the largest hydro hydroelectric � electric dam in North America was inspected by a group of Prince George misinessmen Monday At centre left is Portage Mountain from which the 600 foot dam will extent Across the river are the portals for thee diversion tunnels which will take water around the construction area when the dam is being built They will be plugged later creating a storage reservoir Hal Vandcrvoort photo HUSH HUSH OPERATION Chinese Nationalists infiltrated mainland TAIPEI Formosa API-Fif- fui largely because of the co teen groups of well trained operation and support of local Chinese Nationalist guerrillas I anti communist elements who landed in Communist China be 1 are reported daily growing in tween May 17 and the end of i strength July an official agency here c- The guerrilla bands who ported today landed on the Chekiang coast The agency which declined to encountered resistance from be identified bv name said the communist troops puDiic secur cucrrillas established secret ity guards bases according to plan The I guerrillas size of the individual croups ulfa was not disclosed but they George Touchdown Club meets at 830 pm in the Shasta Cafe Under the did ou kaow department Pienucr W A C Hewlett BCs best known tee teetotaller � totaller was one of the prin principle � ciple investors in the Okanagan Valley- first winery Frank Srrnt who claims to have tjinated the game in Argcn and militia Tin suffered casualties heavily outnumbered they inflicted greater casualties probably averaged about 14 men I on the communists and succeed each The agency gave these de details � tails The landings wcie made in three seaboard provinces Kwangtung Fukien and Che Chekiang � kiang Fukien is opposite For Formosa � mosa Kwangtung flanks Fukien in the south and Chekiang on the north The landings were success- BODY OF CRASH VICTIM IDENTIFIED Hie bod of a man found in the Eraser Hiver near Lillooet Aug 12 has been identified as Mike Sincha of Prince George police said today Mr Sindia a passenger in the plane which crashed in the Eraser Hiver south of llixon Aug 3 was the operator of Sindia Trucking The bodies of two other pas passengers � sengers Helen Schultz 19 of Malsqui and Alan Ward of Pi nice George have not jet been recovered ed in reaching their assigned areas The guerrillas are maintain maintaining � ing regular contact with head headquarters � quarters in Formosa One of the guerrillas objec objectives � tives is to stir up and direct revolts against the com communists � munists Another report gave this ac account � count June 20 anti communist ele elements � ments raided the Tsangchcng commune in Kwcipmg county 250 miles west of Hong Kong They killed more than 10 communist security guards seized 1100 pounds of rice and withdrew- to a mountain base A commune official named Liang Yu and some militiamen were arrested for failing to re report � port the raid ROSS APPOINTED VANCOUVER CP BC Lumber Manufacturers Associa Association � tion has appointed its educa educational � tional supervisor Walter Ross to serve in England as a special specialist � ist in Pacific coast woods W E Hardy senior grading super supervisor � visor will replace Hoss here Now hear this Football fans who follow the game of crib t other day against fortunes of the BC Lions vvillEv Rayncr and came up with be presented with an oppor a 29 hand Interesting part of iimtv tonmhl to view the film this is that it was I rank s fourth of the recent Lions Edmonton Eskimo affray when the Prince oerfect hand in I dont know how many ears so he says A friend we know a student of Zen the Buddhist philosophy describes an exetcise of the cult called Koan which is supposed to help the student achieve self identification by seeking to pro provide � vide an answer to a given ques question � tion Such a Koan designed to baffle the most deeply intro soeclive is the following What Una was cajoled into plavmg a is the sound of one hand clap- I pi Next question please IN THE CITIZEN British Columbia Lions and Calyary Stampedcrs arc still at the top of the Western Football Conference stand tnas after victories over Tor onto Argonauts and Hamilton Tiger Cats Monday night Sec spoils page 4 Classified -- 8 Comics -- - 10 Coming events - 5 Editorial page 7 District news 2 Here and there 5 Arfarkets 3 Sport 4 Tv and news -- 2 Seems nobody but nobody is safe from thieves not even church ministers Rev David Wilson stand in at Knox United during Hcv Ibbs Averjs ab absence � sence reports the theft of an electric t pew liter and a port portable � able record plaer light from out of the pastors study too Among the names in a big wad of put king ticket summons at the cop shop this morning was one well calculated for a ihucklc John Arthur Knox Not that the name itself is amusing but the fact that it belongs to the former non noncommissioned � commissioned officer in charge of the city HCMP detachment who was transferred to Chilli vvaik a few weeks ao CA Phono lOgan 4 2441 Vol 7 No 161 I H 1 Bear mauls to death prominent mining man FAIRBANKS API A prominent Anchorage Alaska man was attacked and killed by a bear near his mine about 100 miles west of here Alaska State Police were notified Monday The victim was William Strandberg about 55 former president of Greater Anchorage Inc and member of a pioneer Alaska mining family He was mauled Friday apparently while moving mining equipment from a settlement -near the mine in the Manley Hot Springs area PLANT ATTACKED Cuba accuses US of shelling island MIAMI Fla P Shelling heavy machine gun fire from of an industrial plant on the the flagship the broadcast said north coast of Cuba was re 1 it added that militiamen later ported today by the Cuban combed the access channel and radio It was the third report picked up two 30 calibre of major hostile action against the Fidel Castro government since Friday The broadcast heard here said two boats Monday morning shelled a metal processing plant in Pinar del Kio province on the north coast of Cuba The plant is 100 miles southwest of Havana The report said the shelling damaged tanks and pipes used to carry oil and sul sulphuric � phuric acid We make the US govern government � ment directly responsible for this cowardly attack the broadcast said in quoting a gov government � ernment communique The broadcast monitored in Miami said the two boats ap approached � proached the coast line from the flag ship out at sea through an access channel and opened file on the installations with 30 calibie machine guns and bazookas - When militiamen stationed at the plant repelled the attack the boats fled under cover of machine guns a mortar a bazooka an empty fuel tank and four beacons Weather Little improvement is antici anticipated � pated in the weather picture be before � fore Thursday and even then it will probably be short with a return to showery weather for the weekend Wednesday will be cloudy with scattered showers and isolated thunder showers Winds light except gusty near showers Rc maining cool Low tonight and high Wednesday at Prince George and Quesnel 15 and 0 Smilhers 50 and 68 Peace Hiver Variable cloudi cloudiness � ness Cool Expected high Wed Wednesday � nesday at Grande Prairie 70 Low tonight and high Wednes Wednesday � day at Vancouver 52 and 72 Victoria 52 and 65 CITY OFFICIALS ON TOUR e e Itlzen The only daily newspaper setving Central British Columbia PRINCE GEORGE BRITISH COLUMBIA TUESDAY AUGUST 20 1963 LP OVER 00 PER CENT EDMONTON tCP The successfully by a number of their fair share of the tax bur royal commission on taxation socialist minded toliticians for den because of the cvemption was told today that some Ihc compulsory transfer of own socialist - minded politicians i ership of electric utilities from have engineered power com pany takeovers to tree tnc utilities from federal income tax The monetary advantage gained under the present dis discriminatory � criminatory income tax laws by provincially- or municipally owned system has been used YOUTHS RESCUED VANCOUVEH CP Hobert Smith 7 of 15iu nab and David Armour 10 of Port Al berni weie rescued unharmed Monday night after their gill netter started sinking one half mile south of Point Atkinson The jouths weie taken aboard a second gillnetter Sea Ven tine the investing public to the gov eminent said Canadian Utili Utilities � ties Ltd in a brief to the com commission � mission The company investor owned supplies power to parts of Al Alberta � berta and the Yukon It said that investor owned utilities are carring moie than Party girl set to sue London paper for libel LONDON Reuters Lawyers for Christine Kecler the red haired party girl involved In the sex scandal surrounding John Profumo and Stephen Ward said Monday night they will sue The Daily Telegraph for libel The lawcrs in a statement said the suit arises from an article in the London newspaper Monday The Daily Telegraph in a front page story said Sir Theo Theobald � bald Mathew director of public prosecutions had called in lavv vcrs to advise him on police re reports � ports containing allegations of perjury and conspiracy to per pervert � vert the course of justice at the trial of jazz singer Alojsius Luck Gordon Gordon a Jamaican and for former � mer lover of Christine was freed from prison tlnee weeks ago after the appeal court quashed a threo car sentence against him on conviction of as assaulting � saulting Miss Keelcr The evi evidence � dence on which Uie appeal court acted in freeing Gordon was not disclosed at the hearing The Daily Telegraph story said the evidence on which the appeal was granted was a number of statements about the night of April 17 18 Gordon was alleged to when have attacked Miss Kceler The story gave a report on what was alleged to have been contained in the statements Cost of fires shows increase Although three new forest fires have broken out in the last 24 hours the total number burning in the Prince George Iorest District remains at six a forestry officer said today A 50 acrc fire burning in black spruce timber 35 miles west of Fort Nelson is the only large new blaze Rain in the surrounding area has helped keep the fire under control and six men arc being moved in to fight it the officer said Meanwhile a statement issued by the BC Forest Service shows that 5G new fires broke out in the Prince George For Forest � est District in the week ending Aug 1G During the fire season 274 fires were started as compared to 211 in the same period last j ear Fire fighting costs for the year were up to 70300 com compared � pared with 73700 last vear Across the province 372 fires broke out last week with 253 still burning on Aug 1G A total of 1811 were started during the vear an increase over the 132G last j ear in the same period Fire fighting costs rose to 311300 over 272000 in 1902 PWA inaugurates Hudson Hope run By PATRICK DENTON Citiicn Staff Writer HUDSON HOPE Staff Men working at the Portage Mountain damsite near here paused a moment Monday to watch an airplane circle over overhead � head It was only one of many aircraft which have taken a birdsejc view of the giant power project since its start but it had a special signifi significance � cance The twin engine Uecchcraft 18 was on the inaugural flight of a Pacific Western Airlines service which will provide the first regulaily scheduled air service into the project It will operate between Hud Hudson � son Hope and Prince George daily except Sunda and Wed Wednesday � nesday connecting at Prince George with the northbound and southbound Canadian Pa Pacific � cific Airlines flights The Prince George persons aboard the inaugural flight piloted by Benue Bergeron vvere Mayor Garvin Dezell Aid Harry Lodcr Harold Assman chamber of com commerce � merce president Alex Clark chamber of commerce past president Mrs Hobvn Web Webster � ster chamber of commerce executive secretar and a Citizen reporter photographer team They weie met b BC lljdro project manager Bob Dundas who took th parly on a tluec hour tour of the mammoth jobsile Its no place for expensive convertibles The roads are of corrugated gravel although paving is scheduled and a car 50 yards ahead is invisible as it leaves billows of dust in its wake First stop for the Prince George visitors was a mag magnificent � nificent lookout building built recently by Hydro to provide a safe viewing place for the public Its perched on the cliff 500 feet above the Peace Hiver canon Through the tinted windows one gets a panorama of the sandstone lined canjon and the three tunnels through which the river will be diverted when the dam is under construc construction � tion ilia lookout built mainly of Western White Spruce has a shingled roof and stained siding to blend with its en environment � vironment of rolling forested lulls Restaurant facilities ate included Suiulav 125 persons signed the visitors book On one pre previous � vious Sunday 250 visitors checked in On a plateau above the lookout a construction camp is being built to accommodate 1000 men in the Hshapcd bunkhouses It will be self contained with cookhouses and maintenance shops I he men who are to build the 600 foot high and Ui- mile-Iong-dam plugging the Peace to create a 680-square-mrle reservoir will call it home On the road leading to the camp and lookout outcrop pings of coal are visible A coal mine once operated there At the side of the road two borehole cameramen were at work Mr Dundas explained that they drill a hole to whatever depth is required lower a special camera which takes a picture of the rock coie for study by geologists Farther down the road stand a symbol of the less frenzied activity which dom dominated � inated the aiea before the rat-a-tat-tat of the drillers work invaded the Peace Hiver canvon a log cabin belong belonging � ing to Hank Lee a trapper It was about 80 degrees at the damsite Monday but one engineer found evidence that Continued on Page 3 applying to the government owned utilities It asked that the tax be removed and the revenue recouped through an end use sales tax that would apply to all customers regard regardless � less of who supplied the power Because the rates of investor owned utilities are set by pro provincial � vincial boards said the brief the elimination of income tax would result in an immediate drop in the price of power Despite the tax the investor owned utilities were still apply applying � ing rates competitive with government-owned power The company said it paid l3G00OO in income tax last year which amounted to 145 per cent of sales Wc know of no other industry which has such a high tax component in their commodity sales price In 1961 income tax revenue from 20 Canadian utility com companies � panies totalled 30300000 But since then eight of these finns have been taken over by pro provincial � vincial governments and the tax loss to the federal govern government � ment would be insignificant in view of the small remnant of electric utility companies left under investor ownership TO RIDE INSTEAD 7c n Copy bt cAwum Log production soars in Prince George area Gas drilling to start in BCs Monkman Pass VANCOUVKIl CPi Drilling for natural gas probably will start in October in the Monkman Pass region of central BC it was disclosed Monday E J Gray of the Gray Oil Co of Texas said drilling will be in the same area where a runaway gas well was abandoned six years ago by Richfield Oil Corp of California Also involved in the gas drilling are Peace Hiver Petroleum and Central del Rio TAX COMMISSION TOLD The volume of logs scaled in the Prince George distuct has rocketed the 13 C Forest Service reported today In a monthly report the forest service reports that the volume of logs scaled in northern ttC during June was 113 per cent greater than during the same month last year The figure compares with an increase of 9 3 per cent during the first six months of the ear in the provinces five forest dis districts � tricts A forest service spokesman said Hint although theic prob probably � ably will be record lumber pro production � duction in the Irince George area this ear he June scale figures cannot be taken as an Power takeover socialistic indication of any trend It would take several months statistics to come to that con conclusion � clusion lie said He suggested that the increase in the figures in the northern area probably could be attri attributed � buted to a spell of favorable weather during which sawmills caught up on their scab lg June also was a good month for production with cloudy and cool weather decreasing the forest fire hazard he said The increase in the Prince George figures compares with a hike of G7D per cent in the Kamlcops forest district Logs scaled in the Prince George forest district during June totalled 6112103 cubic feet compared with 2882222 cubic feet during the same month last ear The Kamloops scaling total was 1G674202 compared with 0933266 dining June 19G2 Spokesmen for the Northern Interior Lumbermens Associa Association � tion were out of town and Jiot available for comment No survivors in plane wreck TOKYO Reuters A search party today found no survivors among 19 persons aboard a Heron airliner that crashed on a mountainside south of Tokjo The plane carrying 16 pass passengers � engers and three crew mem members � bers was missing since Satur Saturday � day The wreckage was found on the slopes of Mount Hachijofu ji on Hachijo Island The plane belonging to Fujita Airlines disappeared over Sagami Bay about 120 miles south of Tokjo after taking off from Hachijo Island on a flight to the capi capital � tal Sons call off trek to Agassiz prison VANCOUVER CD The big trek is off Sons of Freedom Doukhobors who said they would hike Uie 60 miles to Mountain Prison to be with their imprisoned breth brethren � ren have chartered buses in instead � stead Florence Big Fanny Stor goff sect spokesman had said earlier only the old and the in infirm � firm would go by car or truck on the migration to Agassiz Today as the sect milled in Pacarka case goes to hearing Peter Pacarka charged with public mischief arising from a shooting incident at Reid Lake June 15 was re remanded � manded to Sept 19 for pre preliminary � liminary hearing in police court todaj The HCMP allege that Pa Pacarka � carka commuted mischief by giving false information to the police touching off a investi investigation � gation Pacarka a sawmill operator suffered gunshot wounds in his light leg and left hand lie claimed he was shot bv one of two men while they were try trying � ing to set fire to his null Its win lose for exhibition How much money was made or lot by the Simon Eraser Days and Exhibition will be de decided � cided tonight at 8 at a meeting of the exhibition executive and committee heads in the main building on the exhibition grounds Exhibition president Harry Loder says it is doubtful a pro fit will be realized The meet meeting � ing is open to the public A3 downtown Victory Square an hour behind Uicir originally-announced 9 am departure Mrs Storgoff announced that buses would be chartered Approximately 500 persons with their bags and bundles sang as they waited Earlier the Sons asked for a police escort to the city limits but civic officials said they would let the police handle the situa situation � tion as they saw fit HCMP Doukhobor Squad offi officers � cers wandered through the crowd Across the street three mo torcycle police sat on their ve vehicles � hicles and waited The move is the latest in the Sons of Freedom plan to camp outside the special doukhobor prison at Agassiz Warden Tom Hall has said that any attempt to enter the prison grounds would be met with resistance There are 116 men and wom women � en in Mountain Prison serving terms for terrorism and con conspiracy � spiracy to commit terrorism WELFARE MEN HAPPY AT WORK COUKTENAY CP i Three men went to work for wclfaie Monday under orders of Mavor William Moore ll was the start of his onc ruaii campaign to make cap capable � able people work for their social assistance The tin eo were given jobs on a park that ccnlics a housing project They are quite happy to work The plan is woiking wonderfully well saul the mavor The city of Courtenay will bill the federal government for the usual 50 per cent of the cost and the province for 40 per cent