THE WORLD TODAY An offer by East Germany to re open the Berlin Wall during the Easter holidays has been re rejected � jected The West German government and the West Berlin Senate announced the rejection In a Joint statement Issued In Bonn They said they were fully agreed on the decision Chancellor Erhard of West Germany Is In Paris for two days of talks with President de Gaulle They are expected to take up their differences about the Atlantic alliance China policy and a European union The visit Is one of the semi annual meetings between the leaders of West Germany and France provided for under their co operation treaty Informed sources In iMoscow say the American ambassador Foy Kohler has been given a stern admonishment by Foreign Minister Gromyko over the de defection � fection of Russian security of officer � ficer Yuri Nossenko The sources said Kohler was called to the Soviet foreign office Soviet Premier Khrushchev has told Russian agriculture of officials � ficials they should take more cues from capitalist countries to boost farm production He told a meeting of the Commu Communist � nist party central committee that Soviet farm lands will be covered with fertilizer In seven years The premier said the US Central Intelligence Agency had under - estimated Soviet economic growth In say saying � ing the rate fell to two and one half per cent in 19G2 and 19G3 He denied western reports that Russia is de emphasizing heavy Industry so it can build up the chemical and consumer goods Industries A police dragnet spread through the Atlantic provinces and Eastern Quebec today for two armed men The search started after the fatal wound wounding � ing of a businessman in Saint John ND during a holdup Thursday Hugh s Gregory i5 president of US Gregory and Sons Limited died early today inhospitalafterbeingshot in the stomach The gun went of as his son Alexander P Gregory grappled with one of the two men who invaded the offices of the stevedoring firm shortly before closing time The Montreal police anti bomb squad revealed today that a box found in a Montreal mall box with the Initials FLQ on It was a dud It contained nothing but a wrapped up empty bottle A post office em employee � ployee discovered the box which was set up similar to the way dynamite bombs were placed In suburban - Montreal mall boxes last May by the sep separatist � aratist - terrorist organization called the FLQ k Jack Denny the worlds old oldest � est living 39-year-old cele celebrated � brated his 70th birthday today He doesnt look it or feel it He makes one comment Thank God I havent had a sick day In my life The other day he a polyp removed from his nose but that was just a minor Interruption In his busy television schedule The doc doctors � tors asked him whichanesthetlc he was allergic to He replied I dont know Ive never taken any before Ive never even had a tooth pulled Forty girls In Glasgow Scot Scotland � land screaming yeah yeah yeah went on strike today for the right to wear a picture of one of their favorite beatles Fifteen-year-old NanReidhada large photograph tucked In her overall of George Harrison one of the Liverpool group of singers now in the United States The manager of the cardboard box factory where Nan works John Milne told her to get rid of the beatle He said the photograph was in danger of catching In the machines Nan refused to obey and walked out In a huff Forty girls walked out with her Vol 8 No 32 pfWK cerning a trailer thought to have been the subject of a theft at attempt � tempt from Evergreen Auto Court They story indicated the officer had gone to the auto court as the result of a phoney complaint This was the wrong impression The complaint was real The word phoney was used because the accused later In Indicated � dicated he had moved the trail trailer � er as a prank not with the Intention of stealing It Phone call from Evergreen yesterday asked us to clear this up so readers wouldnt think that establishment had sent In a hoax call Hospital ball is tomorrow nlht at the Civic CentreCom mittee reported today that no tickets will be sold at the door and no one can get In without tickets and this is bad news tWkPl sales closed Wednes Wednesday � day Tk flash in the legislature late Thursday night One member accused another of being drunk The government was told to hang its head in shame Premier Dennett cut loose at ghosts and big business At the end of 25 fierce min minutes � utes of debate a bill authoriz authorizing � ing last falls final payoff for the 1961 takeover was given second reading with approval from all sides Last fall payment for the common shares of DCF was boosted 25000000 to 197 114358 in an out-of-court settlement between the govern government � ment and DC Power Corp Gordon Dowdlng NDP Durnaby started the debate on the bill calling it the third patching Job on a patchwork quilt Then Coidon Gibson L Worth Vancouver recalled tlut In 1961 he had asked Dennett specific questions about the price and negotiation Its been very embarassing that I was given facts that were not true Mr Gibson said e J Happy and logical recipient of Valentine messages today is pert city V office worker Margie Burton 21 Pete Miller photo BCE sparks fly again VICTORIA Correspondent The DC electric battle ex exploded � ploded anew with a great blue Now hear this Television got to Chamber of Commerce President Art Murray last night Thanking Vancouver town planner H W Pickstone he said Id like to express my thanks to Mr Flintstone ah Pickstone Flintstone Is the stone age charaeer from the TV series The Citizen detailed a story the other day concerning a man being sent to jail for assault assaulting � ing a police officer who was in investigating � vestigating a complaint con- INDEX Detty Conner 12 Church notices - ji Classified 4Z Coming events - J2 Editorial - 9 Here and there -- 12 Markets 3 Sports -- 4 TV 2 You were tight then called put Waldo Skllllngs SC-Vlc-torla Alan Macfarlane L Oak Day demanded an accounting on the costs of the lengthy court case over the takeover And he said DC preferred shareholders still have not re received � ceived a fair deal from the government They were forced to take bonds of lower value 400 phones knocked out Service Is almost fully re stored to telephones connected to the feeder line burned out In a fire Thursday at Pettersons Service on the Vanderhoof highway Frank McGee district man manager � ager for DC Telephone said today close to 400 phones were knocked out when the feeder cable at the corner of Highway 16 and Vance Road was burn burned � ed through Lines crews worked late into the night to re splice the cable I e Itizen The only daily newspaper serving Central British Columb PRINCE GEORGE BRITISH COLUMBIA FRIDAY FEBRUARY 14 1964 la Angry Prince Georgp social workers are consider considering � ing locking up their offices and marching on the British Columbia legislature it was learned today A finiirro source said ciM Mm the march mrli which would take place during the debate on welfare depart department � ment spending estimates would attempt to bring to the govern governments � ments attention a lack of train trained � ed workers clerical staff and special treatment facilities The march would only be a last ditch alternative IX the staff shortage and other problems are not remedied here the source said The idea of the march came up after five welfare workers here fired off a telegram to their boss in Victoria protest protesting � ing remarks he mado about a young worker who was dis dismissed � missed Wallace du Temple 23 earl earlier � ier this week wrote Premier Dennett claiming that It was impossible for welfare clients in the Fort St John district to bo properly served because of the staff shortage Ho subsequently flew to Vic Victoria � toria to meet the premier but failed to win an audience In the meantime James Sad Sadler � ler director of welfare called a press conference and describ described � ed du Temple as young and misinformed When the wel welfare � fare worker arrived in Vic Victoria � toria he was told he was dis dismissed � missed We do not feel a senior welfare official helps the cause of a hard working dedicated staff by using smear tactics said the telegram from here It is an established fact that many young staff members have aged prematurely on the Job and we take our hats off to du Temple The telegram was signed by Nick Proznick Dridget Moran Helen Gilmour Judith Kennedy and Shelagh Vickery Mrs Moran said later in an interview that such public ac action � tion would have been unheard of in the department three or four years ago It shows how the welfare situation in this province has deteriorated she said I wouldnt be surprised that Mr Sadler soon will be hearing from workers throughout the Interior and Kootenays The New Democratic and Lib Liberal � eral parties are debating the welfare controversy at every opportunity In the legislature Mr du Temple told report reporters � ers he had been unable to meet i remier uennett or weuare Minister Wesley Dlack Asked whether he planned to stay beyond Thursday If the meetings could not be arranged he replied I might as well I havent any Job Ive been fired Du Temple said he received a telegram from the social wel welfare � fare department Thursday tell telling � ing him his resignation had been accepted effective immed immediately � iately He said he planned to ask Premier Dennett to set up a royal commission inquiry Into provincial social welfare act activities � ivities In his letter he claimed the area Is ripe with prostitution and alcoholism and that his task was hopeless Du Temple said he plans eventually to return to uni university � versity but has had his fill of social welfare work He will study anthropology He met briefly with Mr Sad Sadler � ler who confirmed his release Shopping centre unwise says Vancouver planner Prince George does not have a large enough population to support a shopping centre as well as a downtown area Dont think for a moment this city can sustain both This professional opinion was added to the already heated debate on shopping centres by Vancouver city planner Harry W Pickstone when he addressed Prince George Chamber of Commerce Thursday night Noting this citys downtown area contributed 25 of the communitys revenue Mr Pickstone asked If the down downtown � town area goes Into decline who will pick up the taxes He saw no alternative to the burden falling on the home homeowner � owner Opposed to shopping centres in communities under 60000 population the speaker never nevertheless � theless advised that established business districts take a lesson from such centres A wide range of facilities attracts people he said There should be as many and varied stores and other facilities as possible The downtown area should be kept confined for the con convenience � venience of shopping around Merchants should follow the pattern of shopping centres which have major stores at each end of their developments to serve as drawing cards lie observed Third Avenue has strong stores in Kresges Woolworths and the Hudson Day but they are grouped at one end of the main street He proposed the vacant gar garage � age at Third and George as the site of another department store to keep shoppers moving The planner predicted this would stimulate development of stores between George and the Vic Victoria � toria intersection You cant duplicate a shop shopping � ping centre but you can take a leaf from their books Mr Pickstone advised He proposed thought bo given to trees shrubs music and decorative sculpture Shopping centres have them for business reasons not be because � cause they are patrons of the arts he said Mr Pickstone characterized the Prince George downtown area as flourishing but ven venerable � erable You should hang on to It he told the commerce chamber members i WARM -A CS Tv ATJ NT ffllmjjf Low 28 High 35 Phon LOgan 4 2441 3Klji 7e a copy ffS Welfare workers here consider Victoria march Five Prince George social workers who fired off tele gram Thursday to senior welfare official James A Sadler in Victoria are pictured here At telephone is Nick Proznick while Judy Kennedy reads from note notebook � book Back row includes Helen Gilmour Shelagh Vickery and Bridget Moran -Pete Miller photo No welfare action brings Tobacco Road to Peace VANCOUVER CP Vigor Vigorous � ous welfare action is needed to prevent the roads to de development � velopment of the Peace and Columbia rivers becoming twin Tobacco Roads says a university social work author authority � ity Prof W C Dixon director of the University of British Columbias School of Social Work was commenting on the resignation of social worker W G du Temple who charg charged � ed that social welfare facili facilities � ties In the DC north are a farce Du Temple has shown the great welter of problems that can emerge when a new terri territory � tory starts to develop Prof Dixon said Unless we take vigorous action on a community level the road to the Peace and the road to the Columbia can be twin tobacco roads In terms of the lives of the people In effect we are going to get another gold rush Dut it is not going to be largely con confined � fined to single men The phen phenomenon � omenon of today is that the entire family will move because the old car is the covered wagon of today Unless we engage in some form of community development we are going to be In real trouble In these communities Prof Dixon said community development workers can be catalysts In getting people to VICTORIA Correspondent Commonlaw Is better living than marriage under Social Credit the oppositions welfare critic said Thursday A married couple get 103 a month social assistance from the provincial welfare depart department � ment David Darrett NDP Dewdney told the legislature But a commonlaw couple get 132 a month the rates for two single people For his pains In attacking Socred welfare policy Darrett was branded smart aleck by Premier Bennett Barrett said a deserted mother and four children can get only 168 a month in aid Yet It they break up their collective welfare Income it soars to 38C When Socred members mur murmured � mured protests he answered If you dont believe me go and ask the social worker in your area IX you can find her BC In 1964 employs only eight more social workers than it did in 1952 he said The total today Is 251 In 1952 It was 243 In 1952 there was one social worker for every 5100 people In the province Barrett said Today there is one for every 7500 William Speare SC-Cariboo the next speaker said 4 I almost waited for him to cry to our Lord and protec protector tor He said Darrett was over against creeping fingers of water and against crumbllngand decay Cariboo MLA Bill Spear an announced � nounced Thursday a company Crownlte Diatomite had been formed to process and market the diatomaceous deposits found in the Quesnel area It would employ up to 12 men lie said the principals did not w ish to be named but both he and Cariboo MP Deit Leboe were activel Hying to get them off the ground The MP and MLA wpie advising as far as possible iu the companys bid foi the grouting contract on Portage Mountain dam Diatomaceous earth Is so fine that one gram of it would covet an area equivalent to a foothill field For this leasou it is supeilor to cement as a gi out outing � ing nuteiial as it penett ites even the most minute cracks in lock face up to problems and work them out in terms of govern government � ment aid and whatever Is re required � quired They can mobilize the people to deal with whatever problems arise lack ot wel welfare � fare services housing educa education � tion before It Is too late Commonlaw cheaper NDP claims in debate stating the case as usual and that he was dealing with par particular � ticular cases instead of the general situation Darrett said Welfare Minis Minister � ter Wesley Dlackhas been mak making � ing the same defence of his welfare department year after year Stop this silly defence of social welfare attacks on the government as being cheap and low politics he said That In Itself Is low poli politics � tics Lets stop playing political games Lets get down and do some work Thats what were here for Three held after break in Three juveniles have been arrested and will be charged In connection with the breaking and entering of St Marys Cath Catholic � olic Rectory 1088 Gillette early today A small amount of money and some religious articles were taken from the religious coun counter � ter but the items were recover recovered � ed when the youths were ap apprehended � prehended They were noticed running from the building at 1 am by the rectory caretaker Ger Gerard � ard Seerey who called police Entry was made through a classroom window which was closed but not locked No dam damage � age was caused Industry from ancient seas A new Central Interior snail industry may be born if a group of businessmen are successful in selling a product created at the dawn of history The sub substance � stance they are seeking to mar market � ket Is diatomaceous earth which is found In abundance In the Quesnel area It Is a fine power like de deposit � posit the remains of a minute marine vegetable of the coral type It Is left behind after old seas have receded and their place has been taken by the land The market for this iu the Central Interior is the Peace River power project the fine earth mixed with water and a hardening agent is used to seal the bedrock upon which such structures as the Portage Mountain dam are based Under pressure it is pumped through drill holes Into ciacks and fissures to seal the lock To provide effective coverage the standard for grouting material in such a project as the Peace dam is that one gram be able to cover 12000 square feet The Quesnel pro product � duct can cover 17000 square feet per gram Mr Speare Thursday assured The Citizen the company was quite legitimate and was not a promotion The deposit on which the firniwould wotk Initi Initially � ally lies foui mile f 1 om Ques Quesnel � nel 011 the west side of the river but the Cariboo MLA says there aie deposits all the way up the river bank Cost of getting into produc production � tion would be about 150000 he estimated If Crownlte weie successful in selling to the Peirp pioject Mr Speii pre predicted � dicted the film a ho would find market on the Columbia jnd I iasei Mum Uouliontiol jobs f