rff m w imc m V2 vV5 The Color party of the 8th Prince George Guide Company under Captain Eva Daniels led in the executive of the BC Provincial Catholic Womens League for the opening session of its annual meeting here this morning The session opened at 930 am with a prayer led by the Provincial Spiritual Director Bishop M A Harrington of Kam loops The scripture reading was given by Mrs J G McKenzie iVlfl Jin RAIN JilVI VI LOW 50 HIGH 72 WifXmUFllv rT tMWf1 i ifftMi Jwll I hi Jr UfflV i The Prince Georgo Taxi l w Association has begun action to raise fares First step was a letter to city council asking per permission � mission for the fare Increase If this permission Is given the association will ask permission from the Public Utilities Com Commission � mission Tlag rate will remain at 55 cents but this will be for one fifth mile Instead of a quar quarter � ter Rates will be 10 cents per subsequent fifth mile instead of quarter mile The association has also asked permission to increase Its radius for meter operation from five miles to 10 When choosing the directors for the new Bank of British Columbia bank president Trank Trebell and his colleagues came across ono name which had a certain ring to It The name was Bill Bennett We knew his zi THIS ADVERTISEMENT IS NOT PUBLISHED OR OISPWYCD BY THE LIQUOR CONTROL DOARO OR BY THE GOVERNMENT OF BRITISH COLUMBIA Vol 11 No 124 20 Pages Extending a welcome to the visi visitors � tors was Bishop rergusOGrady Bishop of the Vicariate of Prince Rupert Rev Patrick Keane of St Marys Parish and Mrs Bert Fisher president of St Marys CWL the hosting council The National CWL President Mrs H T Donihee of Cornwall Ont was Introduced and addres addressed � sed the group briefly on the convention theme The Chris Christian � tian and the Community Mrs Donihee presented the challenge of Christianity to every league members and said there was no place in todays world for a lukewarm Catholic She went on to say that faith was a gift of God and must be cherished Alderman Hilllard Claro chairman of the citys Centen Centennial � nial Committee presented Mrs Donihee with a Centennial gift Sessions will continue today and Wednesday under the chair chairmanship � manship of the provincial presi president � dent Mrs D N Palumbo of Prince George father was a politician Mr Trebell said tongue-in-cheek last night But what the heck everyone knew he was the pre premiers � miers son and I feel this is one way we can honor the premier for laying the groundwork for the new bank City Council and the press have been invited to a spe special � cial meeting of the newly formed Community Betterment Associa Association � tion The association In a letter to council Monday asked alder aldermen � men to attend to association members can question them and make suggestions Rotarlans today installed their new slate ofoHicersat an impressive ceremony Roy Dawson is the new president replacing Wally West who ruled the roost for the past year xJie To Heal Disenchantment Paddlers Portage Canoes 1 9 Miles WINNIPEG CP - The re resourcefulness � sourcefulness of paddlers in the Centennial Voyageur Canoe Pageant was tested Monday when the 10 teams encountered a 19 mile portage in their race from western Alberta to Mont real The overland trip from the southern tip of Lake Manitoba to the Asslnibolne River near here was the longest to date on the 3500 mile journey but team members were given an option of carrjing their canoes or ar ranging transportation in the mode of 100 years ago The Manitoba team which Is leading the race with more than a 90 minute edge over second place British Columbia ob talned a horse cart for their canoe and a truck for them themselves � selves Cumulative times since the race began May 24 at Rocky Mountain House Alta Manitoba 183 hours 19 minutes 44 seconds British Columbia 184 5015 Alberta 18G 33 39 Ontario 188 51 18 Saskatchewan 189 0733 New Brunswick 189 10 12 Quebec 18955 04 Northwest Territories 1915721 Yukon 194 41 04 Nova Scotia 203 01 33 Police Beat e HAVANA CP Soviet Premier Alexei Kosygin began talks here aimed at healing Cuban Premier Fidel Castros growing disenchantment with the Kiemlin as soon as he By ROB BARRETT Citizen Staff Writer Vanderhoof Kinsmen and Ro tarians have issued a wanted pos poster � ter for Prince George Klwanls Nechako Club president John Cooper They believe John as club president Is the dark vllllan be behind � hind the tractor swiping episode two weeks ago Alive dead or in pieces the Vanderhoof members are not fussy how John is delivered A two man Vanderhoof dele delegation � gation called on John last Fri Friday � day to discuss the delicate sub subject � ject However the boasted bill of sale was not produced and the tractor is still in Prince George territory But they did hint that the next move may be a hanging party John reported The delegation was the first official attempt by Vanderhoof to have the tractor returned peacefully Dark warnings of stronger ac action � tion were Issued last week by Vanderhoof notary Club presi president � dent Jerry Peterson Meanwhile 1967 is slipping away and the steam tractor is still carrying Its 1914 paint job We dont want to spend five or six hundred dollars restoring the tractor only to turn around Catholic Women and hand It to Vanderhoof John explained this morning 1 think we had better wait for a while and see what hap happens � pens It should be worth watching flew in from United States Monday nfght It was not known how long the surprise visit would last but Soviet sources said as the two leaders began their discus slons that It was clearly not just a matter of hours Soviet Cuban differences on several international topics In Including � cluding Latin America Viet nam and peaceful coexistence have come increasingly into the open since the last visit by a top Soviet statesman Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko in October 1965 Cubas apparent disapproval of the recent Johnson Kosygin meetings In Glassboro NJ and public condemnation of the Soviet line during the recent Middle East war were the most recent signs of CubanSovlet dif ferences There was no direct criticism in newspapers here of the Glass boro summit but little space was devoted to It At the time of the war the Cuban government openly crltl cized as shameful the Soviet supported Security Council call for a ceasefire without con condemning � demning the aggressor The position adopted by the Cuban delegation in the current General Assembly emergency session on the crisis also is much more radical than that taken by Kosygin At the bottom of the two countries differences Is Cubas feeling that the Soviet Union Is neglecting revolution and show showing � ing a conciliatory attitude to the United States Castro recently openly crltl elzed Soviet efforts to estab llsh economic and cultural rela relations � tions with Venezuela Colom Colombia � bia and other Latin American governments fighting a guerrilla movement which the Cuban leader backs He was also believed to feel that Soviet support of North Vietnam and the Viet Cong is too soft itizen The daily newspaper for Central British Columbia PRINCE GEORGE BRITISH COLUMBIA TUESDAY JUNE 27 1967 Mm n ft - INSIDE TODAYS CITIZEN City Planner Des Parker above and the city admin administration � istration came under fire last night in City council over the controversial re zomng bylaw Page 3 O The end of the school shift system Is coming with the completion of the massive building program Page 3 Simon Fraser University Chancellor says that the provincial education system is obsolete Page 4 The American and National Baseball leagues get ready for their annual All Star game July 1st Page 11 O Editorials 2 Comics 14 Coming Events 6 Womens World 8 9 Stocks 4 Vanderhoof Club Holds Position Phone 562 2441 llrtrffifTiii iBBr1 airirlilffTrffTlffiTlmitfiiiWiiriBffil Compulsory Stickers Damaged motor vehicles will now wear a white identifica identification � tion badge Const John Turnell of the city RCMP traffic section holds one of the stickers that must be affixed any car receiving more than 100 damage or any vehicle in involved � volved in an accident where personal injury results Police will mark area of damage on a car diagiam included on the sticker The sticker must be left on the windshield until damage is repaired The new damagp clearance sticker plan went into affect Monday in Prince George The scheme will be province wide Looy Photo Service Station Petitions Tabled Squire MOBILE HOMES Mile 6 Hofl H woy Phone 962 9392 City Council decided Monday to table discussion of rezonlng for a training service station at Fifth and Carney when it was dis discovered � covered at least two persons had signed petitions both for and against it Lawyer H Allan Hope acting for Union Oil Co of Canada Ltd which wants to build the station said the two residents had signed the petltionagalnst the station be before � fore the proposal was fully ex explained � plained to them He produced letters from both asking that their names be with withdrawn � drawn from the petition against The petition against the station contained 10 signatures For it was 18 residents Aid Carrie Jane Gray asked that discussion be tabled Rain Eases Fire Threat Showers overnight eased the forest fire threat in the south of the Prince George forest dis district � trict but In the northeast haz hazard � ard is still high to extreme A forest service spokesman said several fires in the Fort Nelson and Fort St John areas are burning out of control one of them more than 4000 acres another more than 2500 The spokesman said five new fires In the Fort Nelson area were started by lightning strikes which also plagued forests in the Fort St John area Rusk Gromyko Plan Mcet UNITED NATIONS AP -US State Secretary Dean Rusk and Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei A Gromyko plan a follow-up talk tonight on the major RCMP Have No Leads In Screwdriver Case By BOB GROVES Citizen Staff Writer Routine legwork is the story on the continuing Investi Investigation � gation into the death of Alfred Rae Juneau who was found strangled and stabbed with a screwdriver beside the Hart Highway last May 15 Police report no definite leads but say a general bulletin has gone out to all detachments In the country Merle Koehler of Prince George presumed drowned at Purden Lake last June 1 1 remains unlocated Periodic checks of the lake 50 miles east of the city are continuing The man is believed to have drowned after a canoe capsized The public is invited to attend a meeting of the Prince George chapter of the John Howard So Society � ciety tonight at 8 pm in the mag magistrates � istrates courtroom 1306- 7th Ave Frank Lewis a Vancouver lawyer will speak on The Citi Citizen � zen the Community and Cor Corrections � rections A light court docket faced Mag Magistrate � istrate GO Stewart this morn morning � ing Six persons appeared and pleaded guilty to being Intoxicat Intoxicated � ed In public and there were 12 charges Involving motor vehi vehicles � cles Sgt L Martin was stand ing In as prosecutor for James Barrett in the early cases The name of the young man who drowned Sunday at Bear Lake Is still being withheld by police District RCMP say the Italian Consulate In Vancouver was still trying to notify his next of kin in Italy No date has been set for an inquest International Issues passed down to them from the Glass Glassboro � boro NJ summit sessions Since Soviet Premier Alexei N Kosygin and President John Johnson � son wound up their weekend conferences still far apart on big Issues their aides were unlikely to come up with any quick agreements Rusk and Gromyko are to dine at the Soviet UN mission and discuss such Items as Vietnam the Middle East crisis and ways to hold down the arms race But the proposed draft of a treaty to check the spread of nuclear weapons appears to of fer the best prospects for pro gress Johnson and Kosygin agreed to high priority for this treaty which the two atomic super powers proposed to present at the 17 natlon Geneva disarma disarmament � ment conference US sources said an agreed US Sovlet text has been vlr tually completed On the Middle East Issue the United States and the Soviet Union are still at loggerheads with Kosygin demanding an Im Immediate � mediate pullback of Israeli troops as a precondition for a peace settlement and Johnson saying a troop withdrawal should be tied In with a settle settlement � ment Diplomats at the United Na tlons are seeking a compromise and some predicted the General Assembly would recess Its emergency session for two or three days at the beginning of next week to allow time for more negotiations The assembly ends Its general debate on the Arab Israell war Friday Five Feared Drowned KITIMAT Police here now believe that five persons died In a boating mishap Saturday near here RCMP have recovered the bodies of a woman In her late 20s and that of a four-year-old girl and are searching for the womans husband another man and a one-year-old boy The group apparently set out Saturday from Klldala Arm 20 miles from Kltlmat In a 16 foot flat bottomed punt powered by a 20 horsepower outboard Police believe the toat capsiz capsized � ed In heavy winds Names are being withheld pending notification of next of kin ICk Copy PT 75 PER MONTH BY CARRIER r Council Fires Prosecutor For a Cause The citys 1000 a month pros prosecutor � ecutor was fired Monday James L Barrett will be noti notified � fied of his dismissal by letter City Hall refused today to say why Barrett was dismissed but it apparently Involves Barretts actions in getting an injunction last week to halt a rezonlng by bylaw � law public hearing scheduled for June 19 He was dismissed for cause said assistant city manager Peter Pattullo We wont say whatthel cause is It Is strictly a matter be between � tween the city of Prince George and Mr Barrett Barrett who attended the Mon Monday � day nights council meeting but did not stay through the dismis dismissal � sal vote was not available today for comment Barrett had been Invited to ap appear � pear at an In camera meeting of councils general purposes committee Monday apparently to explain why he represented relator Louis Matte in obtaining the Injunction against the city Minutes of the meeting say Barrett declined to attend until he was further notified of the rea reasons � sons for the meeting The minutes also mention a let letter � ter from Sgt Charles English of the city RCMP detachment It was then moved by Aid Stan Stagg that the committee recommend to council that the services of Mr James L Bar Barrett � rett in the position of city pros ecutor be terminated imme immediately � diately say the minutes which record the motion as Being un animously carried WHEEL CHAIR ON HIGHWAY LEGAL TORONTO CP Con Constable � stable David Pugh stopped the suspect on Highway 2 Just east of Toronto early this morning then bewild bewildered � ered he reached for his cruiser radio microphone He says hes wheeling himself to Montreal in his wheelchair he reported Is there any rule against it Try to reason with him replied Sgt David Fleming I cant find anything in the Highway Traffic Act Its not a motor vehicle or a bicycle or a tricycle It doesnt men mention � tion wheelchairs at all He says hes not going to stop until he gets to Mont Montreal � real Constable Pugh re reported � ported Hes got 100 and he says he can telephone for m ore money when he needs It What do I do Has he got a motor on the chair asked the ser sergeant � geant hopefully No hes using his arms to push the wheels and hes got the build for It I cant talk him out of It He says he lost the use of his legs In a mine accident and hes determined to prove to his family that hes not a useless cripple He says his family lives In Montreal Tell him to go back to Toronto and make his way to Montreal the sensible way said the sergeant I cant convince him replied the constable Tell him to stay off High Highway � way 401 and wish him luck the sergeant advised The official police report Identified the wheelchair occupant as an R Bolduc 30 of Toronto r July 1 The Holiday that Isnt Businessmen and municipal officials across Canada are grappling with what should rank as a most agreeable problem a federal declaration of a July 3 holiday The federal government has proclaimed Monday a public holiday not to be confused with a statutory holiday July 1 Dominion Day and a statutory holiday falls on a Saturday a day off anyway for most Cana Canadians � dians But since the federal govern government � ment can declare holidays only for persons within Its jurisdic jurisdiction � tion the proclamation Itself di directly � rectly affects only a minority Prime Minister Lester Pear Pearson � son told the House of Commons June 14 the day after the proc lamation was Issued that It Is up to each province to make its own decision about an extra holiday The proclamation was to have set an example In the hopes that the provinces would follow suit But even in Ottawa meetings are still under way to establish what federal employees are coy ered by the order and existing legislation Statutory holidays declared by parliamentary legislation grant federal employees nine days off a years New Years Day Good Trlday Easter Mon day Victoria Day Dominion Day Labor Day Thanksgiving Day Remembrance Day and Christmas Day Following the lead of the ted- eral proclamation most prov lnces have declared July 3 a holiday for government employ ees But many merchants and municipal leaders are still un undecided � decided Nova Scotias provincial and municipal offices will close Monday but leading stores have Indicated they will close Satur day opening July 3 Labor groups are affected by Indivi Individual � dual contracts Deputy Attorney General Doug Rouse of New Brunswick said provincial civil servants would be given a day off Mon day but could not say how the proclamation would apply to businesses Municipal of flees have not yet made a rul lng Premier John Robarts of On tario has declared July 3 a holl day but only government work workers � ers and bank employees may get It Stores operated by the Brewers Retail and Ontario Liquor Control Board will close Saturday but open Monday In Manitoba most stores have Indicated they will be open Monday closed Saturday Mon day has been declared a holiday for provincial civil servants bank workers and Winnipeg civic employees Saskatchewans federal and provincial offices will close Monday and Prince Albert has declared July 3 a holiday for municipal employees All provincial civil servants In Alberta Including employees of the telephone company a Crown corporation will be off Monday In some Alberta cities Monday is a regular closing day for stores The city of Vancouver will not recognize Monday as a holl day having already selected Aug 7 for what It calls a Cen Centennial � tennial Day holiday July 3 will be a holiday for all provincial government employees In Brit British � ish Columbia Treasury board officials in Ottawa still are trying to decide how the legislation is to be ap applied � plied to specific groups Private companies face tho task of determining which holi holiday � day they will grant and what rates of pay to give employees working July 1 or July 3