MB Vol 8 No 251 Try Again THE WORLD TODAY Recapture Town SAIGON AP The govern government � ment of South Viet Nam says It has recaptured the district capital of Dinh Nghia 40 miles east of Saigon Communist guerrillas took the city on Mon Monday � day The victory cost the gov government � ernment a high price Two com companies � panies of government troops were killed Arrest Communists NEW DELHI AP - Hun Hundreds � dreds of Communists have been arrested in India Prime Minister Lai Bahadur Shastris government says the communists were preparing for violence and acting as a fifth column apparently meaning they were working for China The government which faces a close election contest with the communists In Kerala State arrested communistparty lead leaders � ers In closely co - ordinated raids all across the country NEW YORK AP The United Nations General As Assembly � sembly will attempt again today to finish its business so it can adjourn Assembly President i Alex Qualson - Sackey is re reported � ported to be planning another attempt at an unofficial vote to decide whether Jordan or Mali is to be appointed to a temporary seat on the Security Council No formal votes are being taken by agreement while the question of Russias bills is unresolved Snow on Island VICTORIA CP - Vancou Vancouver � ver Island is digging out this morning from the heaviest snowstorm of the year More than a foot of snow was report reported � ed in a six hour period on many parts of the island Court enay is in a state of near emergency following the snow snowstorm � storm Police have warned mot motorists � orists to stay off the roads except in case of emergency Police on the lower main mainland � land also advised motorists to proceed with caution as high highways � ways and side streets alike are slippery from an overnight fall of snow And the weather office says there is no indication of any change in the weather pattern The forecast is for continued cold and more snow flurries over almost the entire province Cold Continues REGINA CP A prolonged cold spell continues to plague the prairies Temperatures during the night plunged to near record levels in Saskatchewan In Regina the temperature was 30 below zero early today A high of 10 below zero is fore forecast � cast for today Angela Rose is a sad little girl this week She lost r a wrist watch in the wash washroom � room of the laundromat on Brunswick St on Boxing Day Because of the sentimental value of the watch she asks the finder to call her at LO 4 4802 Miscellaneous information y4 department reports the Francois Lake ferry broke its way through four to six inches of ice Sunday and is now making hourly crossings The volume of Christmas Y trade exceeded all expec expectations � tations for one Prince INDEX Weather -3 Women s Classified 8 0 Comics 7 Coming Events 7 Editorial ------ 2 Markets 3 Sports - C TV 7 CARLING BLACK LABEL BEER Thlt idvertliement li not published or displayed by tfia Liquor Control Board or by the Government ol British Columbia MI JSMI lsTS v j r - jl - rra George chain store It was so good that it only confirmed the managers idea that the firm will need at least five big out lets to keep up with the cus tomers demands here in the next 10 years While rival pulp mill bid Y ders Ben Glnter and Bob Cattermole are soaking up the sun on the beach at Wal klkl back home NDP members of the legislature are collect collecting � ing information about post postponements � ponements which have been given the deadline for Catter moles proposal One phone call came from the Coast yesterday which indicated the government may be in for a roasting when the legislature sits next month Still not claimed is the 500 y reward offered for Infoiv matlon on the murder of Rose Greenwood in Prince George this spring Police have a thick file on the case and arc trying to track down the stran gler who killed the woman in a hotel room Xi O fl wan Ha ft M 1fiiiS- i t 2C2hi sSEZ- 77 Jafg -1 - t tT--7g BTJBP LlWw n Aj JS r Wifrrmmmmm iTii 1 1 Ruins of a town show in this view of the main street of downtown Klamath California almost totally wiped out by the flooding Klamath River AP Photo BILLION BLOW 1 5000 Homeless In Coast Floods SAN FRANCISCO AP - The far wests disast disastrous � rous floods entered the recovery stage today as 15000 homeless families and hundreds of stricken farms and businesses dug out from natures 1000000000 blow As far as the real erner gency thats over right now said Jim Morrison civil de defence � fence spokesman at Eureka Calif in hard - hit Humboldt County Helicopters and jeeps Tues Tuesday � day brought the first outside food supplies in a week to the last known isolated pocket 500 persons stranded in lumbering villages west of Yreka Calif near the Oregon border Dill Sowle Yreka civil de defence � fence chief reported Theyre getting back down into the towns now and starting to dig out No more people want to be evacu evacuated � ated They want to be sustained where they are The flood described by inter interior � ior department water special specialists � ists as probably the greatest ever experienced in the west caused 19 known deaths in Cal California � ifornia and 18 In Oregon It carved federally - desig designated � nated disaster areas out of northern California Oregon and Washington where federal lo local � cal and charitable organizations are running emergency recov recovery � ery centres on a for-the-dura-tion basis Californias damage was es estimated � timated at upwards of 500 000000 In Oregon many evacuees returned to devastation left by the Williamette River Oregons damage totalled 3 15000000 in what Governor Mark Hatfield terms his states worst dis disaster � aster In Washington latest state to be added to the disaster list by President Johnson most high water problems have ended and no persons are known to be stranded The Yakima River in central Washington posed a potential threat because of two huge Ice Jams one a mile long and the other three miles in length Many passes In the Cascade Mountains remained closed by snow slides The Red Cross announced the estimated 1GO00 homeless families in Oregon and northern California would be eligible for Red Cross financial aid in re rebuilding � building their homes Charles Wood northern Cal California � ifornia disaster director for the Office of Emergency planning estimated that 100000 persons were assisting in relief workin California and Oregon and about 25000 workers in Wash Washington � ington and Idaho The OEP es estimated � timated damage at 1000000 000 SOMEWHERE -A FORTUNE Somewhere in prince George a boy is carrying a small fortune measuring one half by three quarters of an inch Its an unset topaz from South America belonging to Mrs Marlene Ongman 1740 Ninth Ave The stone is worth between 50 and 100 The boy thinks its worth 25 cents The stone in a chamois bag was taken from the Ong Ongman � man home Sunday by the nineyear - old won of vis Uors He then sold It to an another � other boy at the skating rink Monday for 25 cents The only identification of the boy is that his name Is Don and hes In Grade i at the Catholic school But school officials say theres no Don inGradeOne So who and where Is Don asks Mrs Ongman e Feb 16 Mr Thompson said the non confidence vote likely would be on the grounds that four cabinet ministers are under a cloud of sus suspicion � picion He felt that if the Liberals fail lo remove the cloud of suspicion a federal election is inevitable because the Social Credit and New Democratic parties will have to vote against the govern government � ment The Social Credit leader said his nine man party could not support the government in such a vote unless it first cleans house Otherwise he said So Social � cial Credit would come under a cloud of suspicion too Mr Thompson declined to name the four cabinet minis ministers � ters he said were under sus suspicion � picion But he did mention the Dorion judicial inquiry and what he called the Furniture Bank Bankruptcy � ruptcy Mr Thompson specifically excluded Justice Minister Favreau from the four minis ministers � ters He felt Mr Favreau was a man of principle who had made an error of judgment Immigration Minister Trem blay and State Secretary La montagne recently issued de detailed � tailed statements regarding purchases of furniture from a Montreal firm which since has declared bankruptcy The Dorion commission Is investigating alleged attempts to bribe and coerce a Montreal lawyer into dropping opposition to bail for a Montreal narcotics suspect wanted in the United States In Eastern Canada Credit iste leader Real Caouette joined Thompson in urging the Liberal government to clean house Caouette was interviewed in Rouyn Quebec itizen The only daily newspaper serving Central British Columbia PRINCE GEORGE BRITISH COLUMBIA THURSDAY DECEMBER 30 1964 PUT HOUSE IN ORDER Cloud of Suspicion Shrouds 4 Ministers RED DEER Alberta CP The national Social Credit leader today called on the minority Liberal government in Ottawa to put its house in order Robert Thompson said the Pearson government must clean house before the next session of Parliament if it wants opposition support Mr Thompson said that Opposition Leader Diefen baker is almost certain to move a motion of non-confidence in the government in the next session starting Mr Thompson also said he was in Edmonton recently to discuss a proposed new political party with Premier Manning The present climate In Par Parliament � liament cannot be tolerated he said because It has lowered the esteem of Parliament in the eyes of the Canadian people Mr Thompson said a pro proposed � posed new political party In Canada would come Into being earlier than anticipated if a fed federal � eral election Is called He and- Premier Manning were drawing up policies and principles of the party he said Social Credits non-partisan attitude in the House of Commons makes us the natural leaders of this realign realignment � ment but the party would draw support from all centre right parties Burst Mains Create Rink At McBride McBRIDE Correspondent A twin break in a four inch water main here has created a downtown skating rink The breaks the ninth this year apparently occurred days before water began to seep to street level In the village Village Commissioner Steve Kolida said they were due to the same cause an electrolysis process corroding steel bands holding together the wood stave water pipe Homes and businesses throughout the village Sunday were without water for half an hour while repairs were made The repairs were made quickly because the BC Hydro diesel propane generator re requires � quires a constant supply of water 0 - tyxx yS S -TiAf SNOW r Low 0 High 10 FILh y i ROBERT THOMPSON need clean up Family Finds Pet Deer Butchered By AGNES NEAVE Citizen Correspondent OOTSA LAKE Bambi a fawn which was nursed by Mr and Mrs Bill Peters was stabbed to death and butchered at the weekend Mr and Mrs Peters who live on the Marilla Road near Ootsa in the spring found twin fawns which had been deserted by their mother The mother had been scared away by a bulldozer They brought the young deer home and fed them by bottle One of them died but the other did well and lived with the Peters They called her Bambi and she would go to anyone who called her As the Peters have no children little Bambi became one of their family and she spent most of her time in the house with them On Saturday she had been put outdoors to play and Mr Peters thought she had gone down to the barn He walked around the house and saw blood on the snow He followed it to the road and saw where the pet had been butchered Her murderer probably had called her and she went up to him trustingly and was stabbed to death The game warden lias been notified Not only was the fawn under age but she was also a doe Phone LOgan 42441 This advertisement Is not published or displayed by the Liquor Control Board or by the Government of British Columbia 10c CoDV 74MONTH FEARED OWN RIVER DEATH Former Policeman Monitored Phone OTTAWA CP Montreal lawyer Pierre Lamontagne feared for his life over the Rivard narcotics smuggling case the former chief of the RCMP narcotics squad in Montreal testified today before the Dorion Inquiry Former RCMP Sgt Ronald Crevier said that during a telephone conversation he monitored Aug 20 Mr Lamontagne told Raymond Denis then executive assist assistant � ant to Immigration Minister Tremblay that When some people- get money and they dont deliver they find themselves In the bottom of the river Mr Crevier said Mr La Lamontagne � montagne said in the RCMP monitored conversation that his situation was terrible because some people thought he had accepted a bribe in the Rivard case Mr Crevier confirmed for Ross Drouin Progressive Con Conservative � servative party counsel that in his report he said Mr Lamon Lamontagne � tagne told Mr Denis many peo people � ple thought he had taken money that Rivard might be under that impression and unless Rivard was convinced otherwise he and his gang could decide to get rid of him and he Lamontagne might find himself at the bot bottom � tom of the river Mr Crevier told Mr Drouin this was why Mr Lamontagne was worried Mr Lamontagne at the time was acting for the US govern government � ment which is seeking to have Lucien Rivard extradited to the US to face charges of nar narcotics � cotics smuggling for the Mafia crime syndicate Mr Lamontagne has said he was offered and rejected a 20000 bribe by Mr Denis to drop opposition to bail for Rivard Mr Crevier monitored for the RCMP the telephone con conversation � versation between Mr Lamon Lamontagne � tagne in Montreal and Mr Denis in Ottawa He later left the RCMP to join Mr Lamontagnes law firm as a special Investi Investigator � gator He said Mr Lamontagne sug suggested � gested to Mr Denis the person behind the whole affair was Guy Rouleau Liberal MP for Montreal Dollard and at that time parliamentary secretary lo Prime Minister Pearson Mr Crevier said Mr Denis replied I cant tell you or something like that The former RCMP sergeant said that throughout the conver conversation � sation Mr Lamontagne was most insistent that Mr Denis tell him who was behind the bribe offer Mr Denis had said I cant tell you Mr Crevier quoted Mr Denis as saying that he should never have got Into a business like this Mr Crevier said both men seemed to be discouraged Busy 1965 Forecast For Area The National Employment Service today forecast a busy prosperous year for the Prince George area in 1965 Such projects as the two pulp mills two large hotels and many other structures under way or projected Indicate a busy year for the construction Industry said Hugh Waller NES manager here The expansion in primary and secondary industries is as assured � sured with the growth of the city Mr Waller looking back on 1964 said one of the problems has been an unprecedented in influx � flux of workers from all parts of Canada Statistics show that in BC this year there were 223 appli applicants � cants for every unskilled job The national average is 83 applicants for each unskilled job Mr Waller noted that in every month of 1964 unemployment was down from the correspond corresponding � ing month of 1963 Employers in the Prince George area used the NES to a greater degree during 1964 to obtain their labor require requirements � ments he said More than 8500 placements were made through the Prince George NES an Increase of nearly 34 per cent over last year L JMHA Wysfflf U -mmm mammiKmf Maait z istm fcWRffiffi ggMJhffellHnSV y ljiiii8IHffiSSwiBBBBBBBg BBIKBi Kagle Lake Sawmills Ltd at Giscome is the foreground of a wintery working at full steam dispile cold weather which will help make scene which shows Prince Georges main industry - lumber production att 11X54 ani jcxjr a jjg muction season - Dave Heidie Photo