Thli dvrtlmnt It not publiihad or tfUpltyed by tha Liquor Control Boird or by tho Govtrnmont ot British Columbia Vol BNo 116 BTA kKPIMVAni - rMINlCUl I UKI AL f 4fIT from the beginning that the Peace River Power project is a massive blunder iKNr Proof accumulates backed bv the higriesi authority lpFof example the other day US President Johnson announced that a big breakthrough to cheap atomic power hVsheeh made nuttinc the United States years aneaa oi us program ana maKing atomic power commercially competi tive A few days earlier Atomic Enercv FT7 i i 4 oyoanaaa Lia maae it Known mat it could produce atomic power substan- Xiauy cneaper man tne oy mills tnat will be the cost of power from the 200 tnousana Kilowatt nuciear station aue to rjegin operation at Douglas Point On Ontario � tario next year KThe words substantially cheaper jwiHtbe clarified by The Citizen which has commissioned a highly respected power engineer to investigate atomic power costs at sources in both Canada land the United States agnail would appear now that these costs will range from four to 45 mills r Reputable authorities have contra dicted the propaganda claims of the Ben Bennett � nett government about eventual costs of Peace River power which the govern ments creature the BC Energy Board said would range between 42 and 45 mills These authorities say initial costs ofPeace power will be as high as 13 mills and will never get below five or six mills lAtomic Energy of Canada is now Wfm Proof accumulates liThe Citizen ha9 contended steadily THE WORLD TODAY Meeting saved The world trade conference saved from almbst certalnfall ure In Geneva when agreement was reached Sunday night on permanent world trade mach machinery � inery under the United Nations meets today In its final plen plenary � ary session The agreement was expect expected � ed to be formally ratified at the plenary session which will bring the three month confer conference � ence of 119 countries to a close New eruption Sicilys Mt Etna rumbled thundered and hurled Incandes Incandescent � cent clouds of volcanic ash 3000 feet Into the air today on the fourth day of a new eruption Explosions that sounded like aerial bombing came from the two mile high central cone The observatory at Acereale at the foot of the volcano said the eruptions were accompanied by three sharp earth shocks Experts at the Catania Ins Institute � titute of Vulcanology said the central crater apparently is brimful of lava again since it emptied in a violent week long eruption In mid May Now hear this Some travellers are down- right stubborn about being delayed by flood waters H G HARVEY regional high highways � ways engineer Informs us One such motorists Ignoring warn warnings � ings from a highway crew dis disconnected � connected the fan belt of hlsnew car and splashed Into a four foot deep current covering the Trans Provincial Highwaynear Terrace Unfortunately tho car started to float A highways crew i escucd car and motorist before they were swept into tho river Equally determined were tho two young men travelling In a Volkswagen who started build building � ing a raft to ferry their little car across a two mile section of flooded road near Cedarvale A highways crew managed to discourage tho young adven adventurers � turers before they could launch tho raft Noticed a usually well- dressed businessman lnhis office the other day wear wearing � ing blue Jeans and an old denim Jacket Turns out he Is ripping apatt the Inside of his building to make room for the fit tt night nightclub � club Jn DC north of Vancouver INDEX Detty Conner ------ o Classified ---- lo H Comics 8 Coming events o Editorial 7 Here arc there o Markets ---3 Sports 4 C TV - - 2 Urging Ontario Hydro to build a two Unit nuclear station each reactor would produce 500006 kilowatts for its svstemt The Financial Post quotes Atomic nnergy ot Uanada as stating At an estimated cost of 250 mil lion such a doublebanked plant would supply electricity at a substantially lower price than the 59 mills per kilowatt ex pected from Douglas Point The Citizen has warned steadily that research would soon make atomic power cheaper competitive with hydro power but the incomprehensiblevanswer of Dr Shrum and other Bennett facto tums was that BC must hasten to de velop its hydro power before it is made obsolete by atomic power Dr Shrums gambit probably the most stupid justification ever offered for a massive public expenditure is as though someone around 1910 told people to rush out and buy a horse and buggy before the automobile made them obsolete - - The time when atomic power can compete with conventional power is al 1 ready here but the tfennett government will pay no attention to the factses i pecially since it exposes its own total ineptitude b The Bennett government can go on treating the people of BC as though they were utter idiots The Citizen at its own expense in tends to dig out the real truth about power costs and make it widely known We dont think the people are idiots -ICMcLJ Back to normal Australias largest city was calm today following a tumul tumultuous � tuous welcome bv some 40000 I fans Sunday for Britains pop- slnglng Deatles in Melbourne While the mop haired singers caught up on their sleep in pre preparation � paration for two shows tonight at the citys Festival Hall po police � lice and security guards waited at their hotel to prevent a repe repetition � tition of Sundays incidents in which mobs of screaming teen teenagers � agers tried to invade the ho hotel � tel Forty persons were taken to hospital and released after treatment K on way Soviet Premier Khrushchev headed for Copenhagen today starting an 18 day Scandinavian tour during which he is expect expected � ed to plug for a ban on nuc nuclear � lear weapons In the countries he is visiting as well as cen central � tral Europe Accompanied by his wife Nina and a party of Soviet of officials � ficials Khrushchev left Moscow by train Sunday night to board a ship today at Kaliningrad He Is due in the Danish cap capital � ital Tuesday morning NORTHERN AFFAIRS and m NATIONAL RESOURCES MINISTER ARTHUR LAING touched down with CPA this morning bound for Dawson Creek While In tho area ho plans a look at tho Peace River power project The minister will bo In Prince George In mid October again when he Is slated to address the chamber of com commerce � merce A talk planned for last month had to bo cancelled due to pressure of government busi business � ness DOU HAMILTON known as Tho Silver Fox among Jay- cees received quite a shock Saturday Jaycettes were pre senting baby spoons to the fathers of new 60ns and daugh daughters � ters and they called on Dob to receive one ho turned to his wlfo and asked In a stage whisper Did we have an other Seems his daughter Is now 10 months old and ho hadnt realized this present at ion only takes place once each year It tuins out that REV tjj DONALD McLEAN who led citizens of New Hazelton against a gang of bank robbers In April 1014 Is still allvo and living In jetlrement at Port Moody Since an article on the robbory appeared In Fridays Citizen its been learned that at least tlireo people In Prlnco Gooigo wero students of Mr McLean when ho taught English at Noith Durnaby High somo years later Recalling that he was a colorful character oven then uie Marian McDonnell Kenneth Hayntun and Cpl Donald Knight of the RCMp Prime Minister Douglas Home said today the greatest danger facing the world Is that the gulf between rich and poor na nations � tions might become a conflict between white and non white people ONE SERIOUS INJURY e e itlzn The only daily newspaper serving Central British Columbia PRINCE GEORGE BRITISH COLUMBIA MONDAY JUNE 15 1964 y - i a v jf Cl VHFtfTnjr aaaaaH Mil vfMi -fS jSi Police have busy weekend in accident department Metal - smashing in major vehicle accidents kept city and district RCMP busy during the weekend Only serious injury in tho rash of mishaps was a pos possible � sible broken hip suffered by Walter Kornylo in an Intersec Intersection � tion collision at Tenth and Laurier early Sunday evening Police said Kornylo was crossing Laurier protected by a stop sign when his car was struck by a vehicle driven by Karl Irzinger of 2141 Laurier Kornylos care ended up on a nearby lawn and Irzingers car had 300 damage Two similar accidents on the Giscomo Road about and hour apart early Sunday caused a total of 1900 damage Police said Charles Alfred Cox and Rudy Alfred Plante both of Giscome were follow lng other cars when they de decided � cided to try to pass Doth hit patches of loose gravel sweryed side swiped the curs ahead went out of control and wound up in the left hand ditch police sajd A three car accident near Red Rock on Highway 97 caused minor injuries to several per persons � sons Doth Eldon Dennis Wilson of Hixon and Leo Durau of Red Rock were travelling south when something caused a rear end collision Duraus car was driven into the path of a car driven by Doris Darleno Schuk of Van couver travelling north Just before 8 am today a blind un posted coiner In Roulli Foil Georgo was tho scene of another three car ciasn Police said Robert Miller of Quesrel was coliig ist on Seventh and Chris Huff of Mar- low subdivision north on Eighth when they collided at the corner Millers car then veer veered � ed Into a car owned by Waller Encler of 2757 Eighth Police charged Phyllis May Nichols with entering a high highway � way when it was unsafe to do so after a three car smash Police said she was backing out onto Queensway when a car driven by Norman Morten son of 284 Ewert struck both her vehicle and a car driven by Daniel Joseph Webber of 1330 Twentieth r Examining the blown out tire that caused it all is Ossie Boyce of Holley Wrecker Service Car driven by Adelard Michaud of 543 Wainwright rolled over and ended in a ditch on the Vanderhoof Highway near the Startime Drive In Sunday after blowout and received 1500 damage Compulsory birth control for welfare recipients Birth control should be en enforced � forced among couples living on social welfare or other forms of public assistance says a resolution which will bo taken to a convention of Central In Interior � terior womens Institutes this week The resolution to be submit submitted � ted by Fort Fraser Womens Institute suggests that birth control be made mandatory on families who are wholly depend dependent � ent on public assistance and in cases where the Income earner is permanently incapacitated either physically or mentally Another resolution from the Fort Fraser group asks the government to adopt a work-for-welfare rule It notes there apparently Is a mis use of welfare by able bodied persons and adds that when an apparently healthy adult applies for welfare money greater care should be used In investigating the case and IX such persons refuse to work they automatically be refused wel welfare � fare The Fort Fraser WI also sug gests that Canadian National Railways turn off Its weed and brush spray when passing through populated areas lakes rivers and Industrial sites The resolution says the spray has been proven harmful to the health of humans and animals Other resolutions urge Completion of the pavement on the Vanderhoof - Fort St James road Family allowance apply un til a child has completed second secondary � ary school The sale of firecrackers be prohibited In BC A health services plan be made available to all senior citizens The womens Institutes which will be represented at the Fori Fraser meeting Include Cari Cariboo � boo Dunster Fort St James Fraser Lake Hixon McBride North Fraser Lake Northslde Prince George Slnkut Fort Fraser and Vanderhoof Flood swollen rivers force grounding of forest crews A forest survey crew In north northern � ern Prince George Forest Dis District � trict was grounded Friday for fear men would be killed travel travelling � ling on flood swollen rivers The 20 man crewtaklng forest Inventory In Blueberry Sus Sustained � tained Yield Unit some 170 miles northeast of Prince Gerge was told to use helicop helicopters � ters or walk but not to ride rlverboats The Forest Service sent simi similar � lar orders to six other survey crews working throughout tho province after one surveyor was killed when his riverboat smashed Into a log on tho Kit lope river near Kitlmat Forest Service spokesmen say the Instructions were co coincidental � incidental with and not as a result of tho accident The victim was 30-year-old boatman Samuel Seymour of Morlcetown Ho Is believed to have struck his head when a riverboat struck a log and threw tho occupants out Four others all university students escaped and wero taken to their main camp by helicopter Tho orders came from the Surveys and Inventory Branch In Victoria and do not apply to other forestry employees Said one forestry spokesman Surveys and Inventory is auto autonomous � nomous from us When a forest fire breaks out we have to get there hell or high water Three lost in north VELLOWKNIFE N W T CP Twelve aircraft combed more than 1000 square miles of the barren Northwest Terri Territories � tories Sunday in a search for a Yellowknlfe pilot and his two American passengers who were last seen June 9 Fit Lt Joseph Menton the RCAF search master said ex excellent � cellent flying conditions Sunday enabled the Tour RCAF and eight civilian planes to cover a fairly extensive area Missing is Chuck McAvoy 31 of Yellowknlfe and two Am American � erican geologists Their names have been withheld They weie last seen Tues Tuesday � day and the search was organ organized � ized Friday Snow and fog cut down search operations Saturday Phone LOgon 42441 say LABEL CARLING BLACK LABEL BEER Thli advertliamant li not publiihad or dlaptayad by th Liquor Control Board or by tht Government of British Columbia 10c Copy Sr BYPASS PROJECT NEAR COMPLETION The 3 million bypass highway aiound Prince George a project uhlch was started eight years ago is only two weeks away from being opened to the public The last section of the highway Is ready for paving a job which should take about two weeks If there Isnt any heavy rain A J Kos gen general � eral manager of Den Glnter Construction Co Ltd said today The section of the bypass on which Den Ginters crews have been working stretches from the south end of the new Traser Dridge to an Inter Intersection � section with the Cariboo Highway about 11 miles south of Prince George The contract was worth approximately 825000 WORST SEEMS OVER Crisis passes tor ih Hi Hi Tar HI Annul fflnB AvB IB An Hi fifiH IBP firvn Hb Anil am IT ill Ml IT mlajpmm fiSiw IB i The worst of the Prince George flood seems to be over a Highways Department spokesman said today The Fraser River receded 114 inches last night Flood waters are dropping on Island Cache Evacua tions have ceased During the weekend the fluc fluctuating � tuating Fraser rose from 3225 to 3250 between Saturday and Sunday and dropped to 3237 today The river appeared to be holding steady at noon Minor flooding remains near the seaplane base Cooling weather In the moun mountains � tains may save the city from further floods as snow Is melt melting � ing less quckly than it did last week The rivers will probably hold steady for some time but the worst may be over said the highways spokesman In the district new flooding occurred near Valemount clos closing � ing the highway the northern Trans Provincial Highway is expected to be re opened be between � tween Terrace and Prince Ru Rupert � pert today after a five day closure Heavy rains in the north dur during � ing the weekend are not ex expected � pected to affect Prince George Most of the 88 - inch rainfall recorded In the Rockies is draining into the Peace River The Fraser however is still holding steady at Ouesnel with a level of 2320 feet At the same time it has come down fractionally at Hope and the level at Mission has dropped from Sundays high of 2224 to slightly more than 22 feet The Chllcotln Road Is closed west ofAnahim Lake and Lytton to Llllooet is closed in the Pa Pavilion � vilion area until further notice because of flooding The provinclally - owned Pa Pacific � cific Great Eastern Railway has kept crews working around the clock during the weekend to clear debris left by 18 slides and washouts In the Cariboo Railway officials said the slides occurred when the area was hit by the heaviest rainfall In local memory on Trlday The tracks were cut In the Llllooet area by a total of 14 slides and four major wash washouts � outs Crews using bull bulldozers � dozers and power shovels expect to have the line re reopened � opened today Tho railway has however kept traffic moving via CNR rail lines l Gasoline hearings slate set Judge C W Morrow royal commissioner who is invest investigating � igating British Columbia gaso gasoline � line price structure has an announced � nounced a new slate of nor northern � thern sittings for July He said Friday the commis commission � sion will meet July 13 at Fort St John July 15 at Dawson Creek and July 17 at Williams Lake On July 20 Imperial OilLim- lted is scheduled to present its third submission to the com commission � mission including a paper on economic theory prepared byf the Stanford Research Institute In other submissions Imperial and other oil companies have claimed their gas prices arc fair throughout the province Asked If he had come to any early conclusion from the evi evidence � dence presented so far Judge Morrow said we are only halfway through New fire breaks out One new forest fire broke out at Tort Fraser during the weekend to bring the Prince George Torest District total to six All fires are minor and under surveillance by eight men The fiie hazard ranges from low to moderate throughout the district a BC Torest Serv Service � ice spokesman said Monday Provinclally 41 fires are burning and none are consid considered � ered serious The number of fires this season 381 and the cost of suppressing them 27000 are both well below the flguies for the conespondlng period last year 579 and 65000 FLAG WAVERS HAVE DAY IN COMMONS TODAY i OTTAWA W The cm tain goes up today on the lons- heralded Commons debate on Canadas new flag Prime Minister Pearson Is expected to start speaking In suppoit of the Liberal governments iesolutlon calling for a flag design of thiee ted maple leaves on a white background with verti vertical � cal blue bars at either side following tho dally question period The same resolution would allow the Union Jack to bo flownas a symbol of Canadas Commonwealth connection Although Mr Pearson has said the government will not be amending its resolution changes are almost cejtaln to by proposed from the Op position benches Tho Now Democratic Party r Als expected to tuggutt a flag r with one maple leal Instead fe of UueEH The Credltlste party Is believed ready to introduce an amendment calling for leaving U19 Union Jack ref reference � erence out of the resolution Tho Queliec group may also call for adoption of a flag divided diagonally Into red ami white bections with a green maple leaf In the centie similar to a design proposed by the Native Sons ol Canada At least one Conservative backbencher Is known to be armed with an amendment calling lor elimination of the Union Jatk reference The Conservative partys official stand on the flag Issue has not yet been spell spelled � ed out Several of Its inem bers aiu adamant Canadian Red Ensign suppoi ters and outside tho Commons Ppo sit Ion Leader Diefenbakur has suggested that a modified version of the ensign be adopted Many of the questions ask ed by MPs in recent stormy question periods In tho House may be answered today These include to vhat extent the vote on the resolution will be regarded by the gov eminent as a confidence test and when the government wants the hew flag to stait waving officially Another question to bean swoied it how long todays debate will last Other piesslng business awaiting the Commons may cause a brief or slbly lengthy Interi uptlon during the flag proceedings -oi ecasU on how the de bato will go range fimn lt living a cairn dull uifilr to It developing Jnto i Iloire hotly fought contest with Uhslons tlillHiHd 011 il sides of the 203 beat House This thing might Just go through without too much fuss said a Liberal MP who thought much of the emotion had beendralnodout during the dallv question period in past vteeks Like hell said a Con servatlve Therell be fuss all light The picposed maple leaf design was made puWIc May 27 and since then thousands of such flags have been pio duteil bv pi Ivate IUUUUU tuiers IWtalKs of the jiov eiiuiients final veibloubtlll hao toheplfhlill aniuumr ed but tliannos In the i lude of color the -lzi of the leaves and llu width ol lhv blue luiti luu been Indi Indicated � cated HiinditdN or KMUio have been laming Into the mime mlnlsterV oil hi on the Hag fcs o w M IM KSON wiwt ilit todn