w You get a barrel of flavour In Carling Pilsener BEER say please Vol 9 No 34 WORLD - - f s Y Independent OTTAWA CP Quebec Con Conservative � servative MP Reml Paul an announced � nounced to the Commons today he will sit as an Independent in the House until the partys leadership problem Is solved Summit Out MOSCOW Reuters - The upsurge in the Viet Nam crisis has put Washington - Moscow contacts for a Soviet American summit meeting on Ice Rus Russia � sia and American sources here said The Russians have been hinting that President Johnsons plans for a summit meeting with the new men in the Krem Kremlin � lin may be jeopardized by con continued � tinued US attacks on North Viet Nam Ottawa Anniversary OTTAWA CP - Parliament marks an unprecedented anni anniversary � versary today Its current ses session � sion is one year old and liable to get a lot older before it ends This Is the 217th sit sitting � ting day for the House of Com Commons � mons already well ahead of the previous record session of 174 days in 1960 61 Moon Bound PASADENA Calif AP -Ranger VHI streaked on toward the moon today after what sci scientists � entists say was an apparently successful manoeuvre design designed � ed to send it crashing onto the lunar surface early Sat Saturday � urday morning Scientists at jet propulsion laboratory saldpre liminary indications are that the camera - carrying space spacecraft � craft will land on or near Its target a broad and dusty plain called Mare Tranqulllatltls the Sea of Tranquility Are There More NEW YORK AP -New York police the FBI and the RCMP sought possible additional members today of the thwart thwarted � ed terrorist plot to dynamite the Statue of Liberty the Wash Washington � ington Monument and the Lib Liberty � erty Bell Authorities refused to comment on reports the search had spread to Cleve Cleveland � land Detroit Washington Philadelphia Chicago Balti Baltimore � more Toronto and Montreal Re Affirm Support HONG KONG Reuters-Chl-nese President Liu Shao Chi Wednesday night reaffirmed Chinas support for North Viet Nam against US Imperial Imperialist � ist aggression and said a war crisis seriously threatens the peoples of Indochina and South Southeast � east Asia Air Crash LOS ANGELES AP - The first woman to fly the equator equatorial � ial route around the world Is believed to have piloted a small plane that crashed In the San Gabriel Mountains Wednesday killing the two women aboard Although the coroners office declined official identification until her husband views the badly burned bodies the hus husband � band said he had no doubt his wife Joan Merriam Smith 28 is dead If you think you had a r rough night how about Mrs Herman Penner operator of Prince George Ambulance At 1145 pm last night she re received � ceived a call to go to F Inlay Forks to pick up an Injured man She drove the 360 mile trip in six hours Only 200 of the miles were on highway type roads Early morning scenes Pete y Patullo from city hall en enters � ters at the wheel of a pick pickup � up truck Proceeds along 10th Spots city garbage truck Stops Hoists family garbage palls from rear of pickup Hands them to collector Returns emp empties � ties to pickup Heads off to work Its like a jeverse super supermarket � market a sort of de - serve yourself INDEX Women ---------7 Classified 8 9 10 Comics ---------6 Coming Events 6 Editorial 2 Markets 3 Sports 5 TV 6 This advertisement Is not published or displayed by the Liquor Control BoardorbytheGovernmentof British Columbia HOSPITAL AWAITS FIFTH FLOOR APPROVAL When is Victoria going to approve the fifth floor addition at Prince George Regional Hospital It was a question going through the mind today of Vic Smith chairman of the hospital board Were expecting word any day now he said I dont think theres a hold up of any kind Its just bureaucracy at work It has to go through the machinery The city and district rate ratepayers � payers have approved their shares of the cost of the 680 000 addition The provincial treasury boards approval has to be obtained before the con contract � tract can be called Mr Smith also said no writ written � ten Information had been re received � ceived by the board on a re recent � cent announcement by Health Minister Martin on extending hospital insurance to cover chronic cases No plans are in the works at the moment he stated City Police Blame Crash On Icy Roads RCMP reported only one major traffic accident in Prince George Wednesday A three t- car collision at Twentieth Ave and Norwood St resulted in 650 damage to the vehicles involved Police said a parked car owned by Blake Alexander Tweddle was struck by another auto driven by Howard Lyall Frltts 1889 Larch St Another car driven by Wil William � liam Walker 2137 Spruce St then crashed into the Frltts auto Police blamed icy roads for the accident TO REPLACE 141 LIGHTS B C Hydro and Power Authority will replace 25 000 worth of street lights in Prince George at no capital cost to the city A total of 141 lamps will be replaced with 400 watt mercury vapor fixtures The project will start March 1 The areas affected will be between Fifth and Tenth Ave from Central Street to Laur ier Crescent the area be between � tween Victoria St to Edmon Edmonton � ton St and the Millar Addi Addition � tion from Patricia Boulevard to Queensway More Sales VANCOUVER CP-Increas-ed mill capacity should con contribute � tribute to increased sales for Columbia Cellulose Co Ltd says the companys annual re report � port Whoopsl we did It again Y The notice of the annual meeting of the South Fort George Water District which requires one weeks advance publication should have ap appeared � peared yesterday The notice is In our legal columns today and tells all Interested persons that the meeting will be held on February 24th j Record temperatures have T been set in the area by the current warm spell Smlthers with yesterdays high of 53 set a new February high Former record high for the month was set In February 1938 In Prince George yesterdays high was 52 only one degree below the previous high for the date set In 1943 The overnight low of 42 equalled the highest February low established In 1932 Records date back to 1913 Whats a spook house You r can find out at Harwin Schools annual Funorama Friday 7 to 0 pm Okay so what Is a Funorama It Is a kind of family fun night ar arranged � ranged by the PTA with games home baking and a spool house The proceeds buy ex extras � tras for the school I h e Doctors Protes t e st f A J l V V JlWtiL i Km h iWmWmmSmWmmi teiH HI ift ism ML- mwifMmmmW wBbph Colorful costumes such as this can can dress worn by Judi Denton will help to make Prince George Theatre Workshops production of Oklahoma which opens at 8 pm today in the Senior High Fieldhouse The Oscar and Hammerstein musical will run until Saturday It is the most elaborate production ever attempted by a local theatre group Miller photo Reject Patient Fee Health Report Asks OTTAWA CP - The Royal Commission on health feels any service fee to patients under Its proposed health care program should be rejected the second report of the commission was tabled In the Commons today It mentions suggestions for a minimum fee in addition to any premium and adds such a policy would mean that Canada was simply continuing to ration health services on the basis of ability to pay a policy which was overwhelmingly denounced In submissions to the commis commission � sion The commission maintains a service fee would deny medical services to the poor and would not prevent over use by higher Income groups It also rejects suggestions that a universal pre payment plan would mean crowded surgeries as was said to have occurred in Britain The commission recom recommends � mends a national adylsory coun council � cil on the rehabilitation of dis abled persons R would Include representatives of provincial governments and volunteer agencies and doctors The ie port suggests widening the Fed Federal � eral Vocational Rehabilitation and Disabled Persons Act by eliminating the restriction to vocational rehabilitation LONDON Reuters Family doctors today flooded the head headquarters � quarters of the British Medical Association with promises to quit the British socialized med medicine � icine program At the last count nearly 4 000 of the countrys 23000 gen general � eral practitioners had given written promlsesto reslgnfrom the state - operated national health service rv 7 HI J y Itlzen The daily newspaper for Central British Columbia PRINCE GEORGE BRITISH COLUMBIA THURSDAY FEBRUARY 1 8 1 965 rWJ T0 fWTWJH fa Phone LOgan 4 2441 Rain VW Tuufw i Low 38 High 45 1A r l 73 ft MONTH Slide Traps 40 Men At North Mine Site Plane Picks Up Disaster Message Forty men were trapped this morning in a slide which rumbled over a mining camp near Stewart on the northern BC coast The slide came down at a mining camp on the Unuk River flattening bunkhouses There were 30 40 men unaccounted for and urgent calls were being made to Ketchikan Alaska asking for more morphine George Hills civil defence co ordinator at Prince Rupert told The Citizen by telephone the men were at the Granduc copper mine 28 miles north of the town The avalanche came down at 1020 am he said Word of the tragedy was re relayed � layed to Vancouver by a Pacific Western Airlines plane which received a radio report about the slide on the Leduc Glacier Army RCMP and provincial government officials were al alerted � erted Information received in Van Vancouver � couver was that the avalanche roared down on the Portal Camp of the Grand Due Mining Co Mr Hill said there was no way of communicating with the disaster scene However B C Telephone Co said its facili facilities � ties to Stewart were not inter interrupted � rupted Communications are out so we have no way om kiioiXlng what needs t6 be done or what conditions are he said Prince Rupert reported low cloud and fog covered the area and no planes were flying In or out to the north The Granduc campsite Is at the bottom edge of the Leduc Glacier at the head of the Leduc River The construction camp was built to accommodate 140 men and consists of four bunkhouses a dining hall a recreation hall auditorium and office and a powerhouse At last report 40 men were working there but there has been an expansion since then The Leduc Glacier slopes toward the camp put its slope is gradual An air strip had been built on it Weve alerted our own group to stand by and we have also got an alert Into land sea rescue in Vancouver and they are standing by But that is all I can tell you until communica communications � tions can be set up said Mr Hill Granduc Mines which last year announced a 55 milllon development employing hund hundreds � reds of men has its operations about at the head of the Port Portland � land Canal The development was to in include � clude the building of a 28 mlle road from Stewart to the plant site at Tide Lake to tap the mines estimated 325 mil million � lion tons of are Also included was an 11 12 mile tunnel from Tide Lake to the mine l I h jfeV STEWART 0 r i PRINCE RUPERT K PRINCE GEORGE VANCOUVER N VICTORiA N PHONES OKAY Early Floods Keep Work Crews Busy Floodwatersfrom the sud sudden � den thaw which hit Prince George this week have been keeping city works department and telephone company crews on their Jobs around the clock All telephone circuits knock knocked � ed out of order late Tuesday were back in service today Crews from BC Telephone Lack of Sewer Facilities Link to Hepatitis Campbell Studies show a connection between a lack of sewer facilities and a high inci incidence � dence of hepatitis in sev several � eral northern British Co Columbia � lumbia communities Municipal Affairs Minister Dan Campbell said Wed Wednesday � nesday Mr Campbell told the legislature the studies taken in communities along Highway 16 between Prince George and Prince Rupert show a direct relationship between hos hospital � pital admissions for this disease and whether the communities are sewered or unsewered The minister was making a plea for residents of B Cs unorganized communities to rid themselves of the cancer of parochialism and to support moves toward Joint services or incorporation as municipali municipalities � ties Mr Campbell said his de department � partment is against imposing new forms of government with without � out ratepayer votes Rather the policy was to make people aware of existing problems and help them realize the need for area wide solutions The two big problems faced by the department in dealing with unorganized areas were fear and cost The fear is largely of the unknown and needs no further description the minister said The cost factor is more IN THE LEGISLATURE difficult to present He said it is hard to assess the cost of an unborn munici municipality � pality which would involve yet unknown decisions by a yet unknown council Further we are dealing with the problem of bringing a cost level of services to many people who left municipal areas to have rural living with few serv services � ices but who now reluctantly find themselves surrounded by urbanlzljon demanding of serv service � ice Earlier in his speech Mr Campbell lashed out at Harry McKay L Fernle for naming Al Williamson a Vancouver publicist as author of a letter signed W A C Bennett which the premier has de described � scribed as phony Company worked continuously to restore service on more than 90 circuits damaged when water flooded manholes on First and Fourth Avenues BC Telephone district man manager � ager Frank McGee said every everything � thing is back to normal and that he does not anticipate fur further � ther trouble of this nature The city works department Is working overtime to keep the runoff water from causing serious damage to businesses and residences Crews worked until after midnight Wednesday and were back at 8 pm today Biggest job the department faces is to keep catch basins open Water thawed at the surface must run through still frozen pipes In many cases the water freezes again clogging the pipes and causing floods on the streets To keep the water running off the department uses steam More than 50 storm sewer bas basins � ins have been steam - treated since Monday It will be cooler tonight than the balmy night experienced here last night Friday will be cloudy v 1th a few showers in the Prince George and Bulkley Valley areas However no rain is expected in the Cariboo reg region � ion Light winds Low tonight and high Friday at Prince George 38 and 45 Quesnel 35 and 50 Smlthers 35 and 45 Cute a Red Herring As Weve Seen These past few weeks the minister of municipal af affairs � fairs has been like a Camp Campbell � bell on the run in MacDon ald territory He has been shot at from all sides Wednesday he fought back with a speech carefully tail tailored � ored to support the govern governments � ments municipal policy It sounded like the work of man hands First he denied the pro province � vince was the parent of its municipalities but he had trouble finding a doorstep to leave them on Like Topsy he Intimated they Just grew Second he tried to con convince � vince the House that the home owner grant did more than anything else to keep the municipalities independ independent � ent and self sustaining The master haberdasher must f4U yfi r -VA0j kSIT fffipti MR- SPEAKER have tailored this bit for him Third he attacked the Op Opposition � position for advocating that the home owner grant be turned over to the munici municipalities � palities instead of deducted from home owners tax bills He rightly pointed out that if this were done big mu municipal � nicipal taxpayers factories etc would benefit more from mill - rate adjustments than small ones This Is as cute a red her herring � ring as weve ever seen drawn over a trail and It seemed to fool the Opposi Opposition � tion temporarily The home - owner grants are a political bribe nothing else They put a wedge between municipal tax payers and municipal councils Theyare made to look like a gratui gratuitous � tous grant from the Bennett government though they come out of general tax re revenue � venue They destroy muni municipal � cipal Independence because they keep municipalities under the governments thumb just the opposite of what Campbell argued The right way to permit municipalities to meet their obligations without fake hand outs of this sort would be to increase per capita grants and share gasoline and auto licence taxes with them But that of course would reduce the governments power over voters and municipalities One of our favorite states statesmen � men Leo Nlmslck NDP Cranbrook was back again making big waves on the leg legislative � islative mlllpond During the week the gov government � ernment side tried todls- BY KEN MclVOR credit his complaint about Brannen Lake Correctional School Hes said they had 12 boys In solitary some for three weeks when he visited the place a couple of weeks ago One boy hed said was 12 A Vancojver newspaper had checked and found the bov was really 15 The government back benchers had seized on this to descredlt Nlmslck and whitewash the govern government � ment In high dudgeon Mr Nlm Nlmslck � slck wanted to know What kind of people are these who seize on such a piti pitiful � ful argument to cover up the wrong of putting young peo people � ple 12 or 15 In solitary Why should juveniles of any age be locked up in these cages for three weeks sim simply � ply because the courts or officialdom are unable tode cide what should be done about them These are disturbed chil children � dren and to treat them like stray dogs in a dog pound is a black shame It is just not good enough for people who call themselves civil civilized � ized What a blessing it would be if men capable of powerful and deeply moving oratory would make one or two good points and quit Mr Nlmslck alas went on to je bulld the province bilck by btick u