say JafSSfe -ag uw jipa Thll advartltamant l not published or dliplavad by tha Liquor Control Board or by tho Govtrnmtnt cl Brltlth Columbia Vol 8 No 130 - THE WORLD TODAY Scranton fizzles Senator Barry Goldwaters delegate lines held firm today while Pennsylvania Governor William W Scrantons attempt attempted � ed blitz for the Republican presidential nomination show showed � ed no signs of catching fire Goldwater strategists remained so confident of his convention strength they made no move to break apart the Ohio and Wls consion favorite son delega delegations � tions from which they might gain additional votes New president Mexican government candi candidate � date Gustavo Diaz Ordas 53 was chosen Sunday to become Mexicos next president in one of the quietest elections in the countrys history His lone op opponent � ponent was Jose Gonzales Tor Torres � res 44 of the Party of Na National � tional Action which charged voting irregularities in a dozen states But the federal electoral commission and high officials said it was a clean election and there were no disturbances Grenade hurled A Viet Cong terrorist threw a grenade at the US Embassy in Saigon today but it failed to explode The grenade was hidden in a loaf of bread that the terrorist tore open before throwing thei grenade In his excitement he pulled the det detonating � onating mechanism from the grenade instead of just the pin and it did not go off an embassy spokesman said 18 killed Eighteen persons were kill killed � ed and 25 were injured when a bus plunged into a ravine in the Pakistani village of Dhapall 200 miles southwest of Rawal Rawalpindi � pindi it was reported today The Pakistan Times said the bus ran out of control due to defective gears and brakes Strike threat Robert McCormack presi president � dent of Local 91 of the Inter International � national Typographical Union CLC said Sunday he expects an answer from the unions In International � ternational headquarters before this evening on the locals re request � quest for approval to take a strike vote against Torontos three daily newspapers He was speaking to reporters after about 750 union members voted to ask for permission to take the strike vote and for authority to declare that the newspapers have created a lockout s ltuat ion Five members opposed the mo motion � tion covering both requests In a standing vote Fair site toured Some 50 members of Parlia Parliament � ment and senators including Trade Minister Sharp Health Minister LaMarsh and Industry Minister Drury toured the is island � land site of the 19G7 Montreal worlds fair Saturday on what fair officials intend as the first of a series of parliamentary visits THIS UMPIRE OUT HIMSELF SOUTH BEND AP - The Indiana state prison Softball team lost a doubleheader In South Bend last night and also lost its umpire The Inmate Raymond Johns was nowhere to be seen after the game A station wagon was stolen from the ball park and the police believe Johns was in it A The gossip is that Highway w io east of Prince George which is bliown on a num number � ber of maps as going past Purden Lake Isnt going that way at all Apparently the soil tests have revealed the district is nothing but muskeg which means the new road probably will have to go Hansard way All of this is bad news for people who were planning tour 1st developments at Purden On this mornings piano from Vancouver was E P Fisher the conciliator wholl sit on contract talks be- INDEX Betty Conner -----2 Classified 8 0 Comics ----- c Coming events ---- 2 Editorial 7 Markets 3 Sports 4 5 k IHINCE PHILIP flag goes down e r V3teejv0jllvf laBawBt sBL mluiaarV Hi n JHJBBaatfRabaLajvliHflUaga -f BiLiaiiiiTaiVMJfl aBBBBBBBBBBBBaTEEjK T fcW ldjMJBtfMPSBBlB I afclBBBBBBMftriCvifclBBBBBBBBBI VffyI tlr ffTVtfy 1 All ready for fun in the parks are these happy youngsters who are taking part in the Supervised Park Playground Program put on by the Civic Properties and Rec Recreation � reation Committee and paid for by the city Today is the first day of the two month program and Mary Thibaudeau top left and Jutta Fricke playground supervisors have already got things underway at Fort George Park Programs which include games and handicrafts for 4 to 12 year old boys and girls are also being held at Quinson School Park Elks Park on Harper Kiwanis Park on Alward and Ingledew Park 17th and Ingledew There is no charge Pete Miller photo Huge riots road slaughter on US national holiday NEW YORK CP-AP-Riots by hundreds of youths and a record death toll on the high highways � ways marred what otherwise was generally a safe and sane Fourth of July holiday weekend In the United States Police used tear gas dogs and cattle prods to break up riots at five places across the country About 200 persons were arrested Several officers and rioters were Injured The Associated Press count of deaths on the highway from 6 pm Thursday to midnight Sun Sunday � day was 477 There were 31 deaths in boating accidents and 117 by drowning for a total of 025 The heavy traffic death toll Crane causes short blackout A crane moving pipe In the Central area today struck a 12000 volt power line caus causing � ing a brief blackout in sever several � al parts of Prince George No one was injured when the crane came in contact with the high voltage circuit at Second Ave and Burden St Bill Best district manager of BC Hydio said the No 2 feeder system was knocked out leaving most of the Cen Central � tral area the district near the bypass highway and parts of the downtown area without electricity Tho blackout occurred at 1030 am and lasted 10 min minutes � utes tween the IWA and NILA The discussions staited at 2 pm today School kid on the Island 9 Cache who couldnt get back to their classroom because of the flooding Wednesday afternoon will be able to claim their books and the other duds they had to leave behind The school will be open from 1pm to 4 p in Heres hoping youll find all of your things in good shape The weekend roundups of drunks by city HCMP Is continuing and Magistrate G O Stewarts courtroom bulged again this morning A total of 10 persons faced charges of Intoxication In a public place Aitliur McLeod and Vincent Parrel got the only fctlff penalties 45 days each in the pokey One man was fined 25 two 10 one 1 and 11 others got one hour in Jail compared to the previous high of 442 set during the three day July 4 Independence Day holi holiday � day in 19C0 The holiday riots occurred at Indian Lake near Bellefontaine Ohio Newport RL Garnet Kan West Yellowstone Mont and Pleasanton Calif R vSWlaiiiiMLiiiiiVI Near Newport RI thousands of youths attending the Jazz festival started to whoop it up at a beach party Beach house doors beach umbrellas and a lifeguard stand were among items tossed onto a huge bon bonfire � fire police said Some integration inroads now seen in Mississippi WASHINGTON CP-AP-The underlying bitterness of segre segregationists � gationists broke out into open violence once again In sever several � al southern states despite the newly - passed federal civil rights law but there were inroads made In some spots particularly racist Mississippi At Jackson the Mississippi state capital leaders of the National Association for the Ad Advancement � vancement of Colored People Sunday registered without inci incident � dent at two downtown hotels and a motel then received services In tho coffeo shop of one Also in Jackson four Negro youths attended a previously all white movie theatre while more than a dozen Negroes In several cars were served at a drive - In for whites At tho drive in all four tires on one car were slashed while its Negro passengers were inside But four persons were wounded by gunfire as white persons and Negroes tried to integrate a swimming beach near Texarkana Tex Sunday Thirty three Negroes were Jailed on charges ranging from inciting a riot to assault with intent to murder Officers said 80 to 150 Negroes appeared on Lake Tex Texarkana � arkana beach where about 20 white persons were swimming Soon both sides were throwing rocks stones and cans A 21-year-old white man Lee Ed Edward � ward Johnson was shot in the leg and an unidentified white man flrecl a shotgun Into the group of Negroes wounding three About 200 Negroes went swimming on the other side of the lake without incident A shot fired in the dark darkness � ness as a Negro mass meet meeting � ing bioke up in Selma Ala Sunday night set off a melee in which officers used tear gas and nightsticks Several of officers � ficers were injured as tho Negroes pelted them with rocks and botlles There wero no ar arrests � rests itizen The only daily newspaper serving Central British Columbia PRINCE GEORGE BRITISH COLUMBIA MONDAY JULY 6 1964 A 34-year-old city woman has become Prince Georges first traffic fatality of 1964 Mrs Mary Hlllyard 1S87 Eleventh Ave was killed at 415 am Sunday She was struck by a car which police say was driven by Steve Buba 20 of Cotton Cottonwood � wood Island as she crossed Victoria St near her home He husband has been noti notified � fied and Is returning to Prince George from the Queen Charlotte Islands Mrs Hlllyard had rented the home on Eleventh Ave recently Job r One neighbor said she be believed � lieved the Hlllyards had five young children three girls and two boys Mrs Hlllyard had worked In several rest restaurants � aurants In town but her em employer � ployer was not known RCMP are still Investi Investigating � gating the accident No charges have been laid and an Inquest has beenordered At least 53 persons died accidently across Canada during the weekend with On Ontario � tario and Quebec counting the bulk of them A survey by The Canadian Press from 6 pm Friday to Phone LOgan 4 2441 say midnight Sunday local times showed that 39 persons died in traffic accidents nine were drowned and five died In a variety of other acci accidents � dents Ontario led with 22 deaths 15 on the roads five in drownings and two by suffo suffocation � cation Quebec had 18 fatalities with 16 persons dying In traf traffic � fic accidents one lnadrown lng accident and one struck by lightning Manitoba had two deaths In traffic and two drownings Three persons died on Bri H s CARLING BLACK LABEL BEER Thla idvrtlimjnt ll not publlthad or diiplayod b tha Liquor Control Board or by tha Government of Brltlah Columbia TOcCopy llftST tish Columbia highways and two on NewBrunswlck roads In Alberta there was one drowning and one highway death Saskatchewans sole acci accidental � dental death was In the crash of a single engine airplane near Prince Albert and in Nova Scotia one person died In a fall from a bridge Newfoundland and Prince Edward Island were the only provinces without a fatality during the weekend The survey does not In Include � clude known suicides slay- lngs or Industrial deaths 3CI1 as building booming DE BEATLED CHOP CHOP TAIPEI Formosa AP Pollce broke Into a house In Taipei early Sunday and found four teen agers with beatle hairdos entertaining a swarm of fans The four Chinese Beatles were even noisier than the British Beatles said a po policeman � liceman The quartet was taken to the police station and their parents summoned The parents made onov request and police cheerfully com compiled � piled They shaved the youths heads Plan charge in hit run Police said today charges will be laid in connection with a hit-and-nin accident on the Cariboo Highway south of Prince George more than a week ago Alice Rose Mindel about 50 was struck by a car June 27 when she was walking along the highway about seven miles south of the city She suffered a fractured pel pelvis � vis shock and bruises Police recovered a car near the scene Meanwhile four persons in injured � jured in a collision at Fifth Ave and Central St remain in hospital They are progres progressing � sing favorably said a hos hospital � pital spokesman Injured were R J Johnson of Kamloops driver of a truck and Nick Tanner Hans Van derhorst and Marlene Wood all occupants of a car SHOWERS j i ii i i Mf Ocfaft f i jrjt y vi High 05 Low 50 The highest total of new jobs in the history of Prince George was recorded during June The building boom created 893 job placements through the National Employment Service NES Manager Hugh Waller to today � day said the June total is the highest number of regular jobs in history and was only exceed exceeded � ed by forest fire fighting place placements � ments in 1957 when 500of 1175 placements were to fire lines A major factor In the June placements was the Prince George Pulp Mill project where 500 men are now working The number of new jobs is Just staying ahead of the influx Tension felt at meeting LONDON CP Off stage rumblings from Ghana and Southern Rhodesia created a distracting atmosphere today as Commonwealth prime minis ministers � ters assembled for their 13th and biggest family conference An official statement by President Nkrumah Issued during the weekend termed the situation in Rhodesia criti critical � cal and explosive At the same time it was disclosed that the president will be coming to the conference possible seallngthe doom of strenous British efforts to play down the Rhodes Ian issue The Ghanaian foreign minis ministry � try issued a document calling for urgent British action to give Negroes in Southern Rhodesia equal voting rights with white settlers The seven African states at attending � tending the week -long meeting starting Wednesday In Marlbor Marlborough � ough House were reported pressing for a Commonwealth statement on South Africas apartheid policies Still another report was that the two Southern Rhodeslan black nationalist iiovements planned what one commentator called a major lobbying opera operation � tion during the conference The report said African rep representatives � resentatives planned a direct approach to Prime Ministers Pearson of Canada Mcnzles of Australia and Holyoakc of New Zealand They have served notice on Britain they will press for an end to white rule in tho self governing Britisl colony of new workers to the area Even with 893 reductions In the unemployment ranks the total Is 500 more than at the cor corresponding � responding time last year A present 1881 persons are registered for work at the NES Only the unskilled workers cant find jobs said Mr Wal Waller � ler There Is a severe shortage of all skilled types of workers the country is crying for tradesmen Unemployment will probably be alleviated within two weeks as the logging industry gets back into swing Some 300 to 400 loggers and millworkers have been delayed by wet weath weather � er The Influx of unemployed per persons � sons from all parts of Canada is continuing said Mr Waller More people are coming In every day no one can tell how many A good Indicator is a trail trailer � er court on the Hart Highway Last year at this time there were six or seven trailers on It Today there are more than 60 he said Tshombe to gain power LEOPOLDVILLE Heuters President Joseph Kasavubu to today � day asked Molse Tshombe for former � mer president ofKatango to try to form a transitional Congo Congolese � lese government Tshombe said Sunday that if requested to form a govern government � ment he could deliver a cabinet list within 24 hours My government will be a hard working one Tshombe said today Tshombe returned to The Congo from self exile In Europe 10 days ago and has been hold holding � ing folks with Kasavubu and other Congolese leaders against a background of political recon reconciliation � ciliation moves here The government of Premeir Cyrille Adoula handed in its resignation last week when its regular tenure ran out Kasa Kasavubu � vubu asked Adoula to stay in office until a transitional gov government � ernment is formed It laPR WWi scs ak r -rAjfc V JOT 5 A r vJtP v -- V- Prlnccss Margaret showed up at a ball in London In what could be called a near -topless dress Only a judicial pin on the plung plunging � ing neckline kept the Princess out of the fashion forefront The ball was set in an 18th Century motif AP photo MEDIC BACK TO McBRIDE Dr John Smart returned to his practice at McBride today after his annual vaca vacation � tion The absence of the doctor almost brought the opera operation � tion of McBride hospital to a standstill Patients had to be taken to either PrlnceGeorge or Jasper for emergency hospital care The nearest doctor was at Valemount 60 miles east of McBride For the past week Dr A S Pirquet of Prince George has woiked at Mc McBride � Bride AFRICAS 37th NATION RAISES COLORS CP from AP Reuters BLANTYRE - With fire fireworks � works and mountain bonfires lighting up tho sky 50000 wildly cheering Negroes celebrated tho biith of Malawi eaily today At midnight Iho former British protectorate of Ny as aland becamo Malawi Af Africas � ricas 37th Independent state after 73 years of colonial rule Dr Hastings Baitdapr lino minister of the Infant na nation � tion prpsided at ceremonies as tho Malawi flag of black green and red horizontal stripes replaced thojlrltlsli Union Jack Prlnco 1hlllp husband of Queen Elizabeth and Gover Governor � nor Sir Glyn Jonos icpro sentod lijitain at theCentral Stadium ceremonies which Included tribal dancing and military parades Jones now becomes governor - general of Malawi the Queens rep representative � resentative In tho 18th mem member � ber of the British Common Commonwealth � wealth Official ceremonies cen centred � tred on Dlantyro tho main town In this mountainous south central African state of 3900000 Negroes 8000 whites and 12000 Asians After a moment of silence at midnight 50000 voices In tho stadium roared ufulu independence Throughout tho country bonfltes blazed on proml nant peaks A patty of whites and Negioes climbed 10000 foot Mt Malanje tho coun countrys � trys highest peak to plant the now flag and light the nations laigest bonfire For Danda 58 a physi physician � cian who attended Harvaul medical school tho cere ceremonies � monies marked tho end of a six year struggle to win Independence for his people But he said ho wanted noth nothing � ing but fiiendshlp with tho foimer governing iwwer llanda who will head his countrys delegation to the Commonwealth prime minis lers conference In London this week paid ti Unite to for former � mer colonial secretary Iain Macleod for setting the ball l oiling towai d the tci rit ot ys independence Macleod who tesignedhis post lutheBlitihConscrva tlve government when Sir Alec Douglas Homo was ap pobited pilmo minister lat November sat only a few seats away iiom llanda Tho piesldent of Atlanta University Dr Hums U Clement acting as Pi evi dent Johnsons representa representative � tive at the Independence cele celebrations � brations presented Banda with a silver Inkstand Banda acknowledged the gift and said he would be asking the American piesl piesldent � dent for inoro Much mote ho said at least 5000000 15000000 In aid Internally Malawis prob problems � lems aie economic Britain has alioady committed Itself to underwrite tho E5000OOC 15000000 budget deficit foi several years However a 40000000 138000000 development plan has bon foi imitated Investment Is Incj easing and the count ly Is unlikely to become a bank -jupt and Ineffective force Banda letmnod to his na native � tive land bi years ago after 30 jcais in exile In Britain the United States and Ghana to lead the drive for inde independence � pendence His initial aim was to smash the Brltlsh-spon-soi ed federation of Noithern and Southern Rodesla and Nyasaland Banda viewed the federation as a device to perpetuate white rule With Nyasaland on the point of rebellion the British Jail Jailed � ed Banda In 1059 but leleased him J year later and pjomlsed free elections Bandas Malawi Congiess paity won a landslide vic victory � tory in August 1901 The fodeiatlon died Dec 31 1903 Noithcin Rhodesia will become the Independent nation of imbla Oct 24 Southcii Rhodesia Is still lulwl by a white minority government Its pi line mlnUter Ian Smith did pot attend the Malawi Independ Independence � ence relegations 1