tt rnJm hsftB PkVi iii si handy compact 6 pack PILCAN n jtt k5j5fi take a pack home tonight 1h 1 aaVtrf itrtftt Vol 12 No 191 it Gn nwnt slf lifi Columbia A vlciou little iUi K dog n W Aberdeen Road near the Halt Highwa i teir muib a xiikl wniuii and hei eight-jear-uld bos dail Hie bo is relectant to pax- the dog cm the wa to school and his inotlipj has had to cancel doctm s appointments rathei than pass the vicious annual Maybe its owner will read this and do some something � thing about regaining the dog a A well known Pj lute Geo jge lady awaje of tho neal ness of Ctulstinas has come up with a suggestion foi the pulp mills this festive season Have ou uvei thoufcht of colojed smoke and smog Green and led e will be able tn mell ou alright but on will by haid to -ee with the snow Avid golfeis ounia relax A lepojt that the Pi inte Geojge Golf and Count Club was closing peiinanent gieensi foi niaj is entiiely untrue Asa matter of fact the club is ex i tending play on the gjeens joj as 1 Ijng as weathei Krnilts Last I eaj pla teased on peiinanent greens in tla thud week In Sep- I temUi The Citizen The Only Daily Paper Serving BCs Third Largest Market 24 Pages Forecast cloudy occasional rain PRINCE GEORGE BRITISH COLUMBIA WEDNESDAY OCTOBER 2 196B Pfaik SffffffffffffffflffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffT J3TW BBVaSBBBBB Lii fflI BBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBfVfliJB BbSBBB HjjPHMFfHSTjPjpBB BJBBUBsali4BBBBa y ffi B P MTfBPiBiPlBPBfch BnRraK VZBSBBr J0 JSMBfl MMi B JmBSB1 LBBBBBBBBBJBXBBBBBJ w hhhh Js 9vT Jf J PbMBsBP II i bBIPjbbbmbbYtJBbI by CON JACKSON Citizen Staff Reporter An all male jury letired In Prince George County Court this morning to consider a ver dict in the trial of four young men chaiged with robbery with violence and possession of stolon property in the first of the County Court assise cases Kenneth Roy Evans William Norman McRae Dennis Bernard Paquette and his brother Law Lawrence � rence Cecil Paquette have plead pleaded � ed not guilty to all chaiges They a e charged with beating Douglas M JInkerson on a lone lonely � ly side road just west of Pi ince George and stealing his wallet containing catli and credit cards Before the jury members re retired � tired Judge RW Kennedy ad addressed � dressed them explaining the law involved In the case and dis discussing � cussing the evidence present presented � ed You are the sole judges of the facts he lemlnded the jur jurors � ors Firewoman to the Rescue Off to a practice session of the South Fort George fire department M rs Vi Weatherly joins in like a veteran She is one of four women that help out in the villages volunteer fire department On page 18 Violent Robbery Charge Weighed by City Jury During final evidence Tuesday two acquaintances of the ac accused � cused Mameen Meise 17 and Marie Moore 20 said they met all four in downtown Prince George about 1230 one night in November 1907 They were in Evans car McRae got out at George Street and walked toward another car They diove around town then out on the Vanderhoof Highway with Evans and the two Paquette brothers Miss Meise said the three got out of the car They said they -were going to meet Bill William McRae An RCMP constable describ described � ed finding nine credit cards bearing the name D JInkerson in Kenneth Evans car w lien he checked the car on the Port Mann Treeway Nov 17 Constable DW McLaren of Westminster highway patiol said he saw Evans car pull over on the freeway with EvansandDen niss Paquette looking under the hood City Bonds Sold At Record Yield The Citv of Pi ince Geoigehas sold 500000 of 20 ear water w oi ks debentui es at a i ecord In Intel � tel est yield The bonds weie sold to a svn dicate composed of McLeod Young Weir and Co of Vancou Vancouver � ver Equitable Securities Co Ltd of Toronto and the Bank of Montreal City comptroller Chester Jef fery explained this morning the debentuies had coupons attached bearing interest at 7 14 per cent and sold foi nnG5 foi eacli 1000 bond The bonds will weld appiox iuntel 800 per cent Jef ferv said the highest vield In the cit s histors The inonev will bo used t pa off the oost of coiistuictint tho next cit water woiks leservoir on Cranbrook Hill The yield is appioxlnntelv what other municipalities across Canada aie requiied to pay for borrowed monies Jefferysaid He explained the cost of boi rowing money is diopping very slowly from the extremely high yields demanded earlier this vear However the cost is well In excess of the 10 jear average he added Last September the cit sold debentures and thevieldwas 7C7 pel cent The high bor jawing iate of the last two wars incieaex the csts of opeiatint the municipal it Jefferv explained rventualh tin- will tend to lnciease taxes he piedicted today the Citizen takes a look in pictures and story at the village which lies on the southern border of the city cr Duffy photo He asked Evans for his regis registration � tration and insurance papers and noticed numerous credit cards in the glove compartment of the vehicle as Evans searched for the papers When he checked the vehicle transfer paper he found the num numbers � bers differed from the car li licence � cence plates Evans told him he got the plates from an old car in the Prince George dump The cars correct plates were in the trunk When asked why he had chang changed � ed the plates Evans told him In case he was caught speeding by the cops he could outrun the police car Const McLaren said he check checked � ed the credit cards from Evans car noted them and leturned them Each of the four In the car when questioned Individually said Evans had been entrusted with the credit cards by JInker JInkerson � son Const McLaren said he knew nothing of the robbery of Jink eison tho day before and after Evans put the correct number plates back on the car they diove away No defence evidence called on behalf of the accused OLD INDIAN LAW FACES SURGERY BEAUPORT Que CP Radical changes in Canadas century old Indian Act can be expected by the spring of 1969 Jean Chretien federal Indian affairs minister said Tuesday Mr Chretien made the announcement at a news conference in this community near Quebec City following a meeting with 35 Quebec Indian chiefs which is part of a cross country fact finding tour being conducted by his department He said suggested revisions of the law to be presented to the Commons will be determined by results of the fact finding tour and of a commission which will shortly begin studying such problems as Indian territoial claims Opposition Hits Farm Loan Rates OTTAWA CP - Agriculture Minister II A Bud Olson a government recruit from the op position side of the Commons had his baptism of fire Tuesdav night as former allies opened up on his farm legislation The former Social Credit member and Alberta farmer named to the Trudeau cabinet four last summer came under at attack � tack for a series of measures to THIS HUS Sharp and Rusk Confer UNITED NATIONS CP - External Affairs Minister Shaip had a private 45 minute meeting today with State Seci etarj Dean Rusk of the United States The Canadian minister said East West relations and the Middle East were the main topics Theie was no dis discussion � cussion of NATO pollcj as such Pact Countries Wrong Debre PARIS AP - French Toretgn Minister Michel Debre today condemned the invasion of Czechoslovakia by Soviet led Warsaw pact countries No outside menace no inside tiouble dangeious to a neighbor nq jequest for assistance can seio as an explanation or an ovuso for tho Soviet Intervention in C7echosloakla Drbie told the National Assembly of the UN Gang Robs English Bank BRIGHTON England AP - n armed gang wounded the manager of a tank and escaped with S72000 187200 The bank was crowded when tour men lan in squiit Ing ammonia The manager was shot In the aim as he grappl grappled � ed w ith one of tho men The raiders fled In a waiting tiuck Tse Tungs Wife Advances HONG KONG Reutets - Chiang ChUu wlfo of Chinas Communist pajt Chairman Mao Tso tung and one of the aichltects of the so called tulUual j evolution has ap paiently moved up tluee places to slxlli In tho Communist hierarf h Defence Minister Lin Plan jeinalns Maos helj appaient ahead of Piemler Chuu Ei lat observers heje said aftei studiny the paity lineup at a tijewojks display In Peking Tuesdav night to maik the 19th annlersaiy of Coiiuminist jmwi r broaden farm loan legislation and free interest rates from present ceilings The opposition criticism centred on the prospect of high er interest levels and member after member talked to the farmers difficulty in making ends meet They said the higher rates would be a bonanza for finan cial Institutions while imposing an extra burden on farmers NDP member Arnold Peters Timiskamlng said the flue tuatlng govern mentset interest rates probably would range to seven or lV per cent on a long term mortgages an intolera ble level Jack Horner PC Ciowfoot said the minister had cam paigned in Alberta for jears in favor of low er lnrest rates par ticulailyfo farmers Yet the first stroke of busl ness he does after ciosslngthe fence is to present Parliament with three bills each of which inci eases interest rates Phone 5622441 JOHNSON LIEUTENANT 20th A Tamarack Ph 564 7127 BF GOODRICH TIRES WHEEL ALIGNMENT BRAKE SERVICE II fllSa -ogg ioc copy aMONiM Reformist Gets Quebecs Reins Humphrey Plan Rejected PARIS AP - North Viet Vietnam � nam today officially rejected Vice President Hubert Hum Humphreys � phreys proposal to quit bomb bombing � ing the North if Hanoi under undertakes � takes to restore the demilitar demilitarized � ized zone to its former status The turndown by Ambassajor Xuan Thuy came after the United States accused the Com Communists � munists of building up that zone as a base and staging area for a new invasion of the South Xuan Thuy told Ambassoador Averell Harriman at the 24th session of the peace talks here Whoever the president of the United States is he is doomed to failure unless he correctly solves the Vietnam problem on the basis of respect for the Viet Vietnamese � namese peoples fundamental national rights Xuan Thuy whose statement was released by alaes after calling attention to Humphreys qualified campaign pledge ex explained � plained why it Is not acceptable to Hanoi Mr Humphrey like Mr Johnson still demands reci reciprocity � procity Moreover he even hreatens to resume the bombing of North Vietnam Crash Claims Third Victim A third man has died as the re result � sult of injuries received in a car crash on the Hart Highway Sept 21 about70miles north of Prince George Kenneth Virgil Smith 39 of Mackenzie became the acci accidents � dents third victim when he died in hospital in Prince George this morning The two others who died when their car hit a parked truck at Mile 70 on the Hart Highway were Ernest Elroy Robinson 58 of Prince George and Edward Jamas Reeve 37 of Mackenzie Police Identify Highway Victims The names of those involved in a car accident on the Vanderhoof Highway Sunday which claimed two lives have been released by RCMP officiers Dead are Marie Sousa 37 of Tort Traser and Kwong Ping Lee 31 of North Vancouver a ps senger in the one of the two cars Frank Sousa driver of one car and his children John C and Lydla 12 and the driver of the other car George Watley were all admitted to Prince George hospital The Sousa childi en were said to be due for discharge today though their father in quite satisfactory condition suffer suffering � ing from a fractured arm and upper mouth Is to be detained Watley s condition was given as very satisfactory though he too Is detained In hospital INSIDE TODAY Ann Landers 24 Sports 13 14 Bridge 9 Stocks 4 Coming Events 4 Television 24 Crossword 1 6 Social 1 1 Horoscope 19 Classified 20 23 QUEBEC CP-Jean-Jacques Bert rand a reform minded federalist who acted as the late premier Daniel Johnsons Lieutenant today was chosen by his Union Nationale colleagues to succeed Mr Johnson as premier M r Bertrand 52 emerged from a special caucus of Union Nationale legislature members at 1220 pm one hour after the meeting began and told reporters I have just been summoned by the lieutenant governor I am going over to his office to discuss with him when the new government will be formed The caucus took only 30 mm utes to decide that Mr Ber Bertrand � trand justice minister in the Johnson government should succeed the late premier The decision was signalled by a thunderous ovation at 1150 am At 1105 three lead leading � ing aides of Mr Johnson were called into the caucus room They were Jean Loiselle Mr Johnsons executive assistant Paul Choulnard private secre secretary � tary and Mario Beaulleu dlrec torgeneral of the Union Natio Nationale � nale party At 1210 a six man delegation led by party whip Rene Lavoie left the caucus room and walked to the office of Lieuten ant Governor Hughes Lapolnte to Inform him of the decision The six men Included Jean Nor el Tremblay the Johnson governments cultural affairs minister who was smiling broadly The delegation returned to the caucus with the lieutenantgov ernors aide-de-camp Col J P Martin who carried a message to Mr Bertrand Fifty four of the 55 Union Na tionale MLAs and nine of the 13 Union Nationale members of the legislative council provincial upper house were present at 1130 am when the caucus began Mr Bertrand told reporters on his arrival Gentlemen I enter as member for Missis quoi Mr Beaulleu and Mr Loiselle were in the caucus loom for about 20 minutes prior to the start of the meeting and left as it was about to begin Earlier story page 8 BERTRAND Pills Work BIRMINGHAM England CP Sheila Ann 1 horns who took a fertility drug after 10 years of childless marriage gave birth to sextuple ts today her 30th birthday One of the six babies died shortly after birth at Birmlng ham Maternity Hospital First reports said Mrs Thorns the wife of a draltsman and all six children were well The babies were four gills ana two boys Within an hour however one of the girls died Canada Expects Wave of Czechs OTTAWA fP The steady least one or two aboaid each in- flow of Czechoslovak refugees to Canada will likely push the final total well above early esti estimates � mates informants say Government officials thought at the outset that anywhere from 1000 to 2000 might choose Canada as a new homeland be cause of the Russian occupation Aug 20 But about 700 most of them on airlifts sponsored by the Ca nadian government have al already � ready arrived And the spon sponsored � sored charters continued to ar rive from Vienna every few davs The next two are due Oct 4 One plane load of 10C will land passengers at Winnipeg Ed monton and Vancouvei The other with 132 aboaid will land at Montreal and Toronto On Oct C another flight ar arrives � rives in loronto On Oct J one flies to Winnipeg Edmonton and Vancouver Flights ai e also tentatively booked for Oct 13 Montreal and Toionto and Oct 10 Toionto and other eastern joints Besides the chai ters paid foi by the Canadian government there is a trickle of refugees en teilng on regular commeiclal flights There aie usually at coming flight from central Eu rope Canadian officials expect at least 2000 immigrants in Can Canada � ada by the end of October and there is no sign the flow is abat ing It Is an bodys guess on just how high the total will go Most of the 100000 or so Cze Czechoslovaks � choslovaks on holiday when the Russians came ai e still biding their time waiting to decide whether to return home or go to Canada or some place else Some are going to the United States and Australia Officials say the publicity sur rounding the exodus has led to many job offers for the new ar rivals Most of them are highly qualified A check of the manifests of a couple of the early planeloads showed the adult male Imml grants to bo doctois dentists scientists technicians univer university � sity students members of the arts and so on Sometimes the wives aie also piofesslonally qualified Theie weie no labor ers on boaid In the planes checked SIEG HEIL THEN GRENADE BONN Reuters - Demon Demonstrators � strators throwing thaiis and tear gas gjenades Tuesday night broke up tho first politi political � cal i ally oiganlzed by far right wing leader Adolf von Thadden In the Wost German capital The pjusslan ailstocrat tried to brave It out against luindi eds of jeci ing young men and women who totally di own owned � ed his spou h with roars of Sleg Hell and Nals out of this town But when fighting uioko out and dozens of denionstia tors ti led to rush through Ra Rational � tional poinocratlc Paity guaids onto the stage police stepped In and closed tltei ally Later von Thadden said ho would almosi ceitalnly aban abandon � don mass meetings and on centiato on tho pilnted woid for publicity Ho saldthopajty pi esldjum would consider the matter today The ostlmated 1500 per persons � sons Insldo tho all at least three quarters of them antl NPD fought repeated scuf scuffles � fles with paity stow aids as they tried to form a battering ram to chaigo tho stage Students cheered wildly when von Thadden flushed and with tears caused by tho gas sti earning down his face tin nod lis back tothoinicro phono as police announced that tho i ally was over It was tho second setback for von Thaddens party this week Sunday the NDP polled a disappointing 52 per cent of the vole In Lower Saony local elections During tho all out election campaign von Thadden was pelted with eggs and tomatoes and howled down by chanting leftwlni students