w3 TVs lftMMM 4 fM ftvfclitfcd lea t T 0tiet Vol 13 No 110 25 on all BCtR bottles TARTAN CANS at North Nechako Royalite di to tared br lfluof antral Inf Csbttb 24 pages SS5 Forecast Main sunny and warm dLLsLLLRwTv--u MswBMWKWssWKasffilllwsjKsalKi jsviSwiiiv4dBllBHwMnM HIHIIIHK7r S iMBilTTTWnTTTiTiiTiiiMM laWnTsKsMTniT f iTHttli W rJntMwllWSMMsMisT ImSmImj Aim - a 1 New school shown In top photograph it alongside segment of Hart Highway which carries heavy traffic HART HAZARD WORRIES PARENTS By Bob Groves Citizen Staff Reporter A potential traffic hazard concerns the parents of chil children � dren who will attend the new North Hart Highway Elemen Elementary � tary School scheduled to open in September Parents have been seeking to have an underpass con constructed � structed for the estimated 90 children who will have to cross the highway to reach the school The school with an ex expected � pected enrolment of 220 Is being built about eight miles north of Prince George just off the east side of the high highway � way It is located on a bend in the Debentures now total 225000 Community swimming pool debentures worth 225000 had been sold at press time today about twi thlrds of the amount required to be raised by the public Negotiations are still in progress for the transfer of 70000 In timber sale de deposits � posits to swimming pool de debentures � bentures The city was given permission by the provincial government to seek the trans transfers � fers When the 330000 target Is reached the citys char chartered � tered banks will contribute 250000 lips of Chicago will not be able to speak at the Prince George Gospel Chapel Sunday evening Mr Phillips however will at attend � tend the Christian Business Businessmens � mens Association conference at Ness Lake which continues until Sunday noon Would you believe it The Citizen - Civic Recreation Commission free swim classes are practically oversubscribed Recreation director Matt Briggs says the response has been fan fantastic � tastic with the July class filled and most of the August classes as well In less than 10 days yet There are still some op openings � enings In the late August classes -so hurry hurry hurry The Barracuda Swim clubs first annual swimathon to help defray club expenses will highway which parents feel increases the danger to their children The provincial Department of Highways has indicated In a letter from Victoria that it will erect student silhouette warning signs and crosswalk signs but this does not satis satisfy � fy parents A meeting of about 30 adults at Kelly Road Junior Sec Secondary � ondary School on Wednesday decided to write Fort George MLA Ray Willlston and high highways � ways minister Wesley Black to press their demands for In Increased � creased safety measures Mrs Ross Edwards mo mother � ther of a daughter who will be attending the school said that falling an underpass parents By Bob Cohen Southam News Services OTTAWA Canadian tobacco Industry senior executives agl tated by alleged government doublecross have verbally lashed federal health minister John Munro and his depart departments � ments anti smoking drive They have also charged the department has prejudiced Commons committee hearings on smoking and health by pres swing scientists who oppose the anti smoking theories from testifying Paul In order to catch a planei enty sevenyoungswlmmershave Sunday afternoon John Phil- been pounding the neighborhood doors In recent weeks in bids to obtain sponsors for the swim Club vice president Jack Rose- year said Seems like they man aged to each get a sponsor who will pay for so many laps across the pool The club travels ex tensively across Northern DC and this will help pay our costs want toseea20-mlle-an-hour school zone placed on the highway The silhouette sign would only require motorists to tra travel � vel at 30 miles per hour when children were visible on the highway she said According to Mrs Edwards the highways department re reported � ported there was not enough traffic or children to warrant a crosswalk on the arterial highway She said that parents at the meeting felt a 40 mile per hour zone starting just north of the school should be ex extended � tended about one mile farther north to the Shell service sta station � tion An RCMP traffic officer at Imperial Tobacco Company of Canada said yesterday Mr Munros anti smoking attack be fore the committee last Dec 19 was a scurrilous indictment without any objective founda tion In a highly personal speech Mr Munro said he was trying to kick a two to three-pack-a-day habit because I want to live and live a healthy life Mr Pare said this rash and intemperate speech had dam aged government industry co cooperation � operation which was showing Pare president of the 1 signs of picking up A Happiness appears tobe con taglous says the Prince George chapter of the Canadian Mental Health Association A Happiness Is Mental Health campaign conducted recently by 11 happiness girls from the senior secondary school resulted In 600 new members The hap happiness � piness girls along with Mrs Mary Bishop Included Pat La Rose Marge McKlllop Sandra Tlede Marily Kos Shelly Gro- yer Cathy Checkley Anne Rees be held at the Civic Pool Sunday Wendy Short Diane Fowlle and from II am to 1230 pm Sev 1 Karen Selody He said in an interview one month before the ministers pre Chrlstmas appearance at the health committee the indus industry � try and Mr Munro had ex changed amicable letters which pointed the way to joint co-operation in the study of smoking and health issues The industry he said had agreed to undertake tar and ni nicotine � cotine publicity studies and to discuss doing research on the importance if any of tar and Montour trial opens today The trial of Wayne Montour charged with breaking and en entering � tering Spruceland News Ltd with Intent to commit an indictable of offence � fence began in city magistrates court today The first of 10 Crown wit witnesses � nesses were called this morning to testify to the facts surround surrounding � ing the May 11 fire which de destroyed � stroyed the store the meeting agreed the 40 mile per hour zone should be ex extended � tended said Mrs Edwards Mrs Edwards quoted the officer as saying that was the most idiotic place for a school on the bend In the highway Parents also want an ac access � cess road constructed be between � tween the schooland the service station so children wont have to walk on the highway DW Randell district high highways � ways engineer who was at the meeting said any deci decisions � sions wouldhavetocomefrom Victoria I cant comment at this time he said Ottawa1 s doublecross1 hit by tobacco firms nicotine In the smoking and health issue So when Mr Munro came out with his statement to the com mlttee and his departments controversial anti smoking pro proposals � posals the industry felt It had been doublecrossed Industry sources said yester day when Mr Munro was later confronted with the doublecross proposition he appeared to make light of It He inferred It was claimed that there had been great public pressure for some government leadership on the smoking Issue tr The Citizen PRINCE GEORGE BRITISH COLUMBIA FRIDAY JUNE 6 1969 the driver of the getaway car Strike halts Kaiser VANCOUVER CP - Work stopped Thursday at the multi million dollar Kaiser Coal devel development � opment In south eastern British Columbia as labor disputes con continued � tinued to plague the province Local 213 of the Teamsters Union placed pickets at four access roads to the coal project after striking against a sub subcontracting � contracting firm Fred Sowchuk Trucking Ltd The picket line was honored by 650 members of the building trades union employed by Kaiser Resources Teamsters official -Kenneth Scott said the union has joint certification with thccontraclor but has net been able to nego tiate an agreement In a second action work stopped on a section of the Roberts Bank deep sea port rail link 20 miles south of here The strike was sparked by a dis- agreement over hiring procedures Construction at the port itself being built to handle Kaiser Coal was not affected by the walkout staged by the Interna International � tional Union of Operating En glneers Less Meat As a dispute which has closed 102 Lower Mainland super mar kets continued a spokesman for a large packing house said the meat available to consumers has been cut by 75 per cent However this was challenged by a second firm which said consumers still have access to about 65 per cent of normal supplies A meatcutters union spokes spokesman � man said negotiations with six major chain stores were sus pended Wednesday because of a deadlock over hours of work Also the Retail Food and Drug Clerks Union locked out of the same stores is canvas canvassing � sing union members throughout the province for funds to support their local members Both the clerks and the meat cutters seek a lan hour pay Increase and four day 36 hour week The meatcutters current base rate Is 380 an hour while the clerks lowest rates ranges from 235 to 345 In other labor developments the strike Involving the Oil Chemical and Atomic Workers Union and six major oil com companies � panies continued in Its second week as two companies said they have not felt the effects of the walk out Phone 562 2441 FV SEVEN YEARS JN JAR tence because his lawyer was not available Coadys lawyer David Jenk ins told the court of his clients poor family background and his serious alcoholic problem He asked that Coady be sent to a rehabilitation centre where he could receive help in dealing with his alcohol problem rather than the penitentiary and told the court that his record was not serious prosecutor Ross Simpson re minded the court however of Coadys cold blooded sugges suggestion � tion that one of the witnesses to the robbery be shot and said that this should also be con considered � sidered in the sentence Magistrate George Stewart told Coady that in some ways he felt sorry for him but he would have to give great weight to the gravity of the offence and protection of the public Only one or two offences In Canada are regarded with more gravity than armed robbery he added Thyr spoke on his behalf and also asked that the magistrate recommend psychiatric help for him Prosecutor Simpson reminded the court that Thyr Instigated the 1 whole thing held the weapon and carried It out he was probably the most serious of the ones involved5 mif sssssBH BASFORD Sforeowners threatened OTTAWA CP Consumer Affairs Minister Ron Basford warned Thursday night he will name any storekeeper found by his departments Inspectors to be gouging Vancouver shoppers because of a chain store labor dispute In a Commons adjournment debate Mr Basford also warm ly endorsed a call by Leon Welnsteln president of Loblaw Groceterias Co Ltd for a con sumers boycott of steaks and roasts to force down prices The Vancouver minister said such a boycott would be in line with recommendations of the special parliamentary commit tee on consumer prices which had urged consumer pressure to keep prices In line NATIVE GHETTO GROWS IN CITY WPAB THAT 100000 Mlft ZWrW w daisun c calk f conice 125 DOMINION mmim 200 PER MONTH lOcCopy ft f1BU By CARRIER Pair given stiff terms for newsstand holdup Two of the three men recently convicted of the Easter armed robbery of Pats News Ltd were sen sentenced � tenced in city magistrates court today to imprisonment in the BC penitentiary of five and seven years John Coady 31 one of twoi was remanded to Monday for sen who took part in the actual hold up received a five year sen tence and Frederick Charles Thyr who held a gunonoccu pants of the store during the rob bery received seven years William Hardy who was shown at a trial last week to have been Save the water9 residents asked The hot dry weather has forced sprinkling restrictions in some areas outside the city and prince George residents were asked today to co operate with the city by saving water volun voluntarily � tarily City engineer Ernie Obst asked residents to save water volun voluntarily � tarily but expressed fears that sprinkling restrictions may have to be imposed if the hot weather continues The request also ap applies � plies to South Fort George which uses the city supply He said If we can get every everyones � ones co operation In avoiding wasting water it will not be nec necessary � essary to Impose restrictions Last time we had a hot spell a couple of weeks ago weused 10500000 gallons a day Con HONG KONG Reuters - At least one Chinese border fron frontier � tier guard was killed and 16 other Chinese were kidnapped In recent Slno Sovlet border In Incidents � cidents rthe New China news agency reported today The agency monitored here was quoting a Chinese foreign ministry note delivered to the Russian embassy In Peking1 which also claimed several hundred tanks armored cars and vehicles were used In the new incidents along the frontier between the two countries The foreign ministry charged that firing on Chinese positions was still continuing at the disputed Chenpao Island where bloody clashes took place In March In Moscow a Soviet govern government � ment said today the SinoSovlet border situation was abso lutely quiet- The agency quoted the state statement � ment as saying the Russians were using heavy artillery and machine guns on the Island In the Ussurl River which forms the border at that point The Soviet Union also was ac accused � cused of sending bombers fight ers and reconnaissance planes to carry out provocations and reconnaissance over Chinese territory The incidents described in Red rockets slam bases SAIGON AP - The Viet Vietnam � nam war exploded Into heavy combat in the last 24 hours with Viet Cong mortar and rock et attacks on more than 100 southern allied bases and towns and as many as 400 Viet Cong and North Vietnamese troops killed In ground fighting At least 35 Americans were reported killed and more than 100 wounded South Vietnamese casualties were said to be light and damage from the shelling also was described as light sumption is normally 4000000 to 5000000 and we should not be trying to pump more than 9000000 to 9500000 Obst advised Do not leave sprinklers runnlngwhile you shop or visit do not run sprinklers longer than necessary to water the garden or lawn and do not leave sprinkler running all day thats when the normal house household � hold demand Is heaviest Restrictions imposed In the Nechako Improvement District 10 days ago were tightened up today Previously sprinkling was al allowed � lowed from 10 am to 9 pm on alternate days But under the new restrictions all properties may water from 4 pm to 8 pm only 7 6 Chinese grabbed in border flareup the protest note -were said to have taken place in both the northern and western sectors ot the Slno Soviet border tn April t and May- r vtS The firing was Continuing today the radio quoted the Chinese statement as saying Riverboat identified The riverboat axle destined for display in Fort George park is from a medium sized stern wheeler the Robert CHammond1 city public works superintendent Bill Jones said today Jones found the massive axle together with connecting rods and steam cylinders Tuesday on the fire levelled site of the old Lambs planer mill on Cotton Cottonwood � wood Island Since then he has been doing some research He said It was built In Prince George in 1914 by Mr Hammond I pre presume � sume It operated on the Nechako and Fraser Rivers hauling freight When it was taken out service the hull was purchased by Paul Wleland a butcher and In 1927 1928 and 1929 an alder alderman � man of the city Jones continued His rela relatives � tives tell me lots of the pieces were stored in the old grain ex exchange � change building In Central Fort George that was when downtown was an Indian reserve Alfred Alexander who lives on Taylor Drive purchased the pad paddle � dle machinery from Wleland for 50 and set it up in Lambs mill which was started In 1936 The paddle assembly was used to drive the planer mill for many years I have not yet been able to nail down when it came out of service Jones said that since he de clared his interest in displaying some of the areas early history in the park he has received a number of calls from persons offering other relics Indian aid starts at Third and George Help for Indians should focus on Third Ave and George St not the Isolated reserves says Rev Eric Powell of St Michaels Ang Anglican � lican Church Powell Just returned from conference In Vancouver where the recently published Hendry Report an assess assessment � ment of the Anglican Churchs work with Indians was dis discussed � cussed The report was prepared at the request of the church by Charles E Hendry direc director � tor of Toronto Universitys school of social work Powell who spent seven years at Klngcome Inlet on the Coast serving six Indian villages was one of 35 min ministers � isters Indians and laymen who attended the conference It was a lazy sunny after afternoon � noon Thursday on the banks of the Fraser when Powell discussed the meeting but his thoughts onthelndlanquestlon were far from lazy The biggest problem In the Indian question Is the changing culture of this ethnic people How is the church and gov government � ernment prepared to help in that change he asked The Indian Act no longer protects Indians It puts them in a box and makes them sec second � ond class citizens Its about time the act was changed We must classify a new situation to care for natives HH Sk tH IBC1 - nfr iifl REV POYVtlL In the city They have to be assisted everywhere not just on the reserve If the education given natives on the reserve makes them want to come and live in white society there must be a welcome and opportunity for them said Powell When they come to an ur urban � ban area and are unable to find work or housing they begin to associate with others who are considered un undesirable � desirable by oursocletyThls Is when we see the native ghettos that have grown up In Winnipeg Vancouver and Prince George The whole of the Indian department is wasting its time If they dont work with the native people downtown he declared The starting point for church and government Powell said Is to co operate with the native people They must find out what the people want then provide better trained personnel to work with them on an edu educational � cational practical and social level The big goal Is to get na native � tive people and white people talking together on wants and needs Until then we keep stumbling on in the white arrogant way of doing things Its not my Intention to knock church and govern government � ment but It Is time to re reevaluate � evaluate