You get a barrel of flavourta Carling Pilsener BEER say please Vol 9 No 124 THE WORLD TODAY Hockey League NEW YORK CP -The Na National � tional Hockey League decided today to expand Into a two-division 12 team circuit by the 1967 - 68 season and accepted Los Angeles and St Louis as the first two cities in the expansion program Vancouver is among 10 cities being considered for the four remaining berths In a new six team division Four Downed MOSCOW AP The Soviet news agency Tass said U S jets appeared today over Hanoi capital of North Viet Nam and four were shot down In a story datelined Hanoi Tass said anti aircraft guns opened fire twice today in the Vietnamese capital when American jets appeared It said they were met with a fierce barrage Chopper Crash VANCOUVER CP Two men whose helicopter crashed Thursday on a Fraser Canyon mountain 100 miles northwest of here were back on the job the same day unscathed and full of praise for the RCAFs Search and Rescue unit Those boys sure did a wonderful job said Victor Williams president of Williams Logging Co of Yale Their helicopter got right in and got us out three hours after we went down Honor Patron MONTREAL CP Mont realers turned out in the hun hundreds � dreds of thousands Thursday night for the annual St Jean Baptlste Day parade in honor of the patron saint of French Canada People lined the way five and six deep as 26 floats passed by with marching bands and dancers End Crisis SAN FRANCISCO AP UN diplomats looked hopefully to today � day to President Johnson to keynote the world organiza organizations � tions 20th birthday celebration with a plan for ending its finan financial � cial crisis and rebuilding its sagging prestige The U S president after staying overnight in Kansas City Mo was to fly here this morning and address the dele delegates � gates of 114 countries in the San Francisco Opera House where the UN charter was drafted two decades ago Train Kills Deaf Man An Upper Fraser man about 80 was killed instantly when he was struck by a train Wed Wednesday � nesday George Whitford was sitting on the railway track when he was struck by a westbound CNR freight train at 1130 am Police said the man was deaf The dead mans son John also lives at Upper Fraser 43 miles northeast of Prince George An inquiry has been ordered into the death Israels biggest box manu- facturers went fishln last night courtesy of Overseas Spruce Sales Ltd and Seaboard Lumber from whom S Kahani and Sons Ltd purchase 90 per cent of their raw material Shemaryho Kahani and his son Arle were flown to one of the many fine lakes In the area for an evenings trout angling with Overseas Spruce presi president � dent Mel Rustad And heres another from Q our Americana Ignorama Dept three University of Los Angeles students passing through Prince George tother nite asked one of the local INDEX Weather - - - 3 Betty Conner - T - - - 7 Women 6 7 Church Notices - - - - 6 Classified 1619 Comics 8 District 20 Editorial - r - - - 2 Teen Page -9 Markets 3 Sports -u TV -T-----8 w This advertisement is rot published or displayed by the Liquor Control Board or by the Government of British Columbia BLAST KILLS 23 Ae 0 High Ride Bombs and Bull Fill the Night A SAIGON AP - The worst terrorist bombing this South Vietnamese capital has seen since the outset of the Vietna Vietnamese � mese war ripped a floating restaurant on the Saigon River tonight and killed 23 or more persons Including manyAmer icans Two gigantic explosions sounded almost simultaneously from the river bank Witnesses said they believed as many as 50 persons may have perished within the crowded restaurant the My Canh and on the river riverside � side boulevard neaiby Police said 17 of the dead residents If there was a prov province � ince called Calgary rather disappointed when they found out there wasnt 4 Stu Burnell Hydro regional 9 manager is a p oud pappa this week Three of his four school age children came home with honors in their classes this year Linda grade seven Qreg grade fou rand Judy giade two were each at the head of their respective grades A new high speed line painting truck Is working in the Prince George area brightening up the old and lining new pavement They say theres no way of predicting how much the Vancouver based truck will accomplish That depends upon the weather But you can be sure It will be a lot more than was done in 19C4 said a high highways � ways department spokesman Simon Fiaser elbow- benders got a startling an announcement � nouncement over the hotels PA system late Thursday after afternoon � noon Ladles said a reson resonant � ant volcethewashroomisnow open for business There was a flood in the womens earlier in the afternoon explaining the straice announcement were Caucasians and presum presumably � ably most of these were Amer Americans � icans Of six Vietnamese dead in the Initial count most were women A hundred or more persons were wounded The river front normally is thronged with strollers seeking a cool breeze In the early part of the night In the air U S jet bombers stuck at a North Vietnamese air base and an ammunition depot In a new attack north of e Everything it seems is go- i ing up these days And not E even the time honored two- jfl some of boy and bicycle has -Jk managed to escape the trend Wheeling his high- Lf rise bike is David Kay 13 pi - -HH n jr whn who charno shares nwncrohin ownership with with Lome Lome Kay Kay Glen Glen Cheer Cheer and and Robbie Robbie Johnson Johnson Robertson Robertson photo photo mmW 1 JR kc Vb 4tH f T3zdm w ffiggjB r I yM I JvkSmk 11 s I Mjjf J n Mm Hanoi a spokesman announced He said 18 planes rained 30 tons of bombs on the Na San airfield 115 miles west north northwest � west of Hanoi The pilots re reported � ported they destroyed two buildings and heavily damaged a fuel dump The spokesman said 18 jets attacked the Ban Phaieng Hay ammunition depot adjacent to the Son La barracks 125 miles west northwest of Hanoi The barracks have been hit repeat repeatedly � edly during the last week itlzn The daily newspaper for Central British Columbia PRINCE GEORGE BRITISH COLUMBIA FRIDAY JUNE 25 1965 HOSPITALS IN INTERIOR TO MEET The president of the BC Hospitals Association will meet with Interior hospital officials in Prince George next month Regional Hospital admin administrator � istrator Colin Elliott told hos hospital � pital board Thursday night F W Laird would be here July 21 to discuss matters of inter interest � est with officials of the Prince George Vanderhoof McBride and Quesnel hospitals The mooting was requested by D L Thompson of the Ques Quesnel � nel hospital The board also decided Thursday to retain Its mem membership � bership in BCHA and author authorized � ized payment of dues In the amount of 750 per bed BCHA negotiates contracts for hospitals and represents them at the government level SEA SCOUT TO NEW YORK A local Sea Scout 15-year-old David Leaney of 1755 Ninth Ave will be spending an unexpected holi holiday � day in New York He was selected by Dis District � trict Commissioner Bill Vanderhorst on request from the Boy Scout provincial council The request was made for the B C - Yukon district to form a patrol at the New York Worlds Fair for one week In August After the weeks patrol Is completed David and six other Scouts from the prov province � ince will be the guests of the Boy Scouts of America They will visit with vari various � ous troops In the New York area and take part In a num number � ber of functions there The selection was made on the basis of schooling Scout grade personality and char character � acter GAS PRICES RAPPED Wheres the Tiger VANCOUVER CP - The BC Federation of Labor says hundreds of thousands of BC motorists are being deceived into thinking a major oil company canplace a tiger in their tanks In a submission Thursday to the Royal Commission pn gasoline prices in DC the Federation said major oil companies are keeping gasoline prices at an un unnecessarily � necessarily high level and are spending some of the resulting profits on decep deceptive � tive gimmicks The Federation said it had written to a number of com companies � panies asking for samples of mysterious ingredients with mileage boosting proper properties � ties The brief said the samples were wanted for an inde independent � pendent chemical analysis to place before the royal commission but the Federa Federation � tion had no success in ob obtaining � taining such samples The Federation said it is Incumbent on the commis commission � sion to obtain samples of these mysterious ingred ingredients � ients so their true proper properties � ties may be assessed The brief said that if it is true as chemists say that all makes of gaso gasoline � line are essentially the same this fact is vital to any examination of the gaso gasoline � line price structure The Federation cited two cases which it said il illustrate � lustrate the anomolies dis disturbing � turbing the motoring public It said BA Oil delivers regular grade gasoline to a Vancouver rent-a-car firm for 142 cents per gallon This is considerably less than the usual retail price which other oil companies have no difficulty matching in similar circumstances The brief added that the rent-a-car firm charges its customers the full regular retail price And it said the same com company � pany BA Oil in Vancou ver sells gasoline to Inland Transportation and Time Oil in the US for approximate approximately � ly eight cents to 10 cents a gallon for regular and premium gas The Federation said this is the gasoline which is re retailed � tailed at cut rate prices and yet BC motorists pay nearly four times as much for gasoline The Federation which presented a brief in earlier hearings charged the price of domestic crude oil is tied into the world petroleum pricing system It said also the so called free enterprise of the petroleum industry which it said is dominated by international ownership will only allow Canada to produce oil if it does not compete with foreign sup supplies � plies The Commission is ex pected to hear further briefs in Vancouver during its present sitting which is ex expected � pected to wind up this week Phone 5642441 ChainSaws J MODEL tO Worlds Light CHAIN SAW SEE IT NOW AT Interior Power Saw Sales and Service Ltd 140 Quebec 363 3678 Military Jet Carried Marines EL TORO Calif AP - A US Air Force jet transport plane loaded with marines headed for Okinawa via Hawaii crashed to today � day shortly after takeoff from the marine air base here A spokesman said all 84 aboard were killed The big C l 35 came down about 4Vi miles north or here at about 245 am A base spokesman said the 72 marines aboard were from Camp Pendelton Calif near San Diego south of here The plane and crew of 12 air force men aboard were from McGulre Air Force Base NJ There was no indication what went wrong There were low clouds and light mist in the area at the time The plane is a military version of the Boe-lng-707 jet transport The base spokesman said there is expectation that the marines on board were on their way to Viet Nam but this plane was scheduled only for Hono Honolulu � lulu In Washington the de defence � fence department gave Okin Okinawa � awa as the destination Okin Okinawa � awa is a staging area for move movements � ments to Viet Nam Gold Rush At City Hall The lineups are beginning to form at city hall in the last minute rush to pay taxes before the June 30 deadline City comptroller Chester Jeffery estimated this morning there are still more than 1000 people who will have to ante up before Wednesday If they want to avoid the five per cent late pay payment � ment penalty Mr Jeffery said during rush hours lineups have formed They come and they go he said The city official said he doubted there will be special office hours or extra staff to handle the last -minute rush We do that if the last day or two runs into a weekend he said But we got out bills early this year and we dont expect too much trouble Plan Action On Stricken East Farms OTTAWA CP Agriculture Minister Hays and the agricul agriculture � ture ministers of Ontario and Quebec will meet here Monday to discuss actions to be taken on the drought situation in parts of both provinces For Forestry � estry Minister Sauve told the Commons today Farmers representing six drought stricken Ottawa Val Valley � ley counties called for the of official � ficial declaration of a disaster area Thursday The call was made at a meet meeting � ing of Ontario Farmers Union representatives from Lanark Carleton Renfrew Leeds Prince Edward and Stormont counties representing an esti estimated � mated 25000 farmers Ellard Powers first vice president of the union said farmers have shown no con confidence � fidence in rain making machines being brought In by the pro provincial � vincial government Girl Missing From Home District RCMP are search searching � ing for a girl believed to be in her late teens who failed to return home from a date with a boyfriend Wednesday The girl whose name is be being � ing withheld pending further in investigation � vestigation by RCMP is an employee of a local bank Police said at press time today they were not In a posi position � tion to speculate on the girls whereabouts The girl left home at 930 Pm Wednesday dressed In light clothing si si month in iO f copy ITCMII Headed for Okinawa AIR CRASH KILLS 84 sPht If Wall 11 - HARRY HAYS Monday meeting Forestry Fighters Hopeful Prince George Forest Service officials were hop hoping � ing for their first relatively quiet weekend in two weeks as forest fires throughout the area appeared this morn morning � ing to have been tamed Even the big Strand fire 10 miles west of Flnlay Forks was quiet this morn morning � ing Fireguards were being completed today by 115 men and seven bulldozers at the 4000 - acre blaze They were also directing ttlr attention to hotspots on the blaze which burned through 2800 acres of sec second � ond growth and mature spruce The Pan fire northwest of Quesnel was also tame to today � day with 16 men and two bulldoze i s patrolling and watching for hot spots The Spruce fire 30 miles southeast of Prince George reported a similar status early today A new 10 acre blaze in the Quesnel ranger district was cooled quickly last night by Canso water bombers Two new First Prince George Queen scouts Greg Fretts left and Ken Bond left with other members of their troop this morning for summer camp The troup will spend two weeks at McLeods Lake Miller Photo