P u V\CSTOB^ B.C. RINCE GEORGE CITIZEN L 22, No. 43 j, C C. Remits Dues of Members Who Enlisted In Canadian Army Dinner Meeting Hears Addresses By Captain Angle and A B Moffat on Army Life and Early Days t South and Fort George Thursday, October 26, 1939 Prince George, B.C. in The dining-room of the Shasta Cafe > was bhe scene of a capacity, meeting on Monday evening when thirty-five members and guests of the Junior Chamber of Commerce met for their monthly dinner-meeting. Guest speakers for the evening were Captain Angle of the B.C. Dragoons, vho spoke briefly on "The Army and its Recruits," and A. B. Moffat, who spoke of his experiences and life in the early days of the Cariboo and what is now known as South and Central Fort George. At the close of the dinner President! W. D. Armstrong cleared the decks for action and the J.C.C. immediately went to work and disposed of many items of business in record time. W. Ferry brought before the meeting the desire of purchasing a shelf of technical books for the local library, explaining that many persons were interested in carpentering, electricity, etc., and who could not afford books of this nature. Dr. Hocking spoke in favor of Mr. Ferry's suggestion. Some interested member suggested a book on Home dentistry. There were no additional comments offered and a sum of $50 was granted to a committee made up of Mr. Ferry and Mr. Matthews Lo co into the work immediaely. On the suggestion of W. G. Clark the meeting unanimously appruvurl the issuing of receipts for dues paid up in full to all members of the J.C.C. who are now members of His Majesty's armed forces and that they be retained on the books as associate members with dues paid in full for the duration of hostilities. The meeting also went on record as approving the action of the Canadian Junior Chamber of Commerce in offer- Old-Timer Drops Dead In Office At jtend Mills Patrick Murdock, Pioneer Mill Man of District, Buried Here Today Patrick Murdock, accountant, collapsed early Monday morning while working at his desk in the office of the Earl Jack Lumber Mills at Bend, and died a few minutes later. Coming to work at 8 a.m. Mr. Murdock complained to Mr. Jack of feeling ill and went into an adjoining room and laid down on a couch. After a short rest he got up and took a stroll in the fresh air for a few minutes and then returned to his desk and started to work. Mr. Jack, working in an adjoining roo-n. heard a crash and coming out to investigate found Mr. Murdock lying on the floor. Calling help he removed Mr. Murdock to his home next door where he expired in a few minutes. The body was brought into Prince George and an enquiry into the circumstances by Coroner M. W. Skinner disclosed that death was due to natural causes. What! No Brass To Polish? B.C. May Send Pit Props To Britain Present Negotiations May Result in New Timber Outlet The Bureau of Trade Extension of the provincial government has had a considerable volume of correspondence during the last few weeks on the feasibility of supplying p»t, props to the United Kingdom. Cables from London of three test cargoes going from the Pacific sea.?, board during the months of December, •January and Fbruary to rtplace the Baltic supplies cut off by war conditions. The timber commissioner in London has sent approximate specifications to the B^C. bureau stating "fir, pine and spruce okay.. Some cedar and iir-' hemlock only if necessary. Must be peeled but with inner bark pre-- ferred." Dimension specifications call for pit props from 4M> to 13 feet long with 3 to 10 inches top diameter, and will have to be supplied in definitely fixed percentages as to length and top diameter. Quotations will have to be on a basis of cubic fathom of 216 cubic feet, piled measure, f.a.s. Vancouver or open Atlantic ports. / If a satisfactory price basis and the transportation problem can be worked out it is felt that the proposition might lead to a considerable increase in forestry operations in the Fort George; forestry district. J Patrick Murdock was 56 years of age and came to Prince George in 1920 as accountant for Campbell and Myers, operating under the name of Cran-brook Sawmills Limited, having worked i u ^, + +v>« n™r in a similar capacity with the firm in ing their services as a body to thegov- Cranbrookt BXT A/ter the Cranbrook ernment in any way possible for the operation he was with the successful prosecution of the war. It I Etter & lvIcDo^gall millS) and in 1932 spent some time in an accounting capacity with the Fort George district department of public works. For the past few years he has been with Earl Jack Lumber Mills as accountant at the} Bend plant. ' Pat Murd6ck was one of the bes known and most popular members of the lumber fraternity along the C.N.R line from Prince George east, and his host of friends deeply regret his un- Highly Successful Stock Show and Cattle Sale at Williams Lake Over Eleven Hundred Head of Cattle Disposed of at Auction and Bring Prices Considerably Higher Than Prevailing Quotations at Vancouver and on Prairie NEW DEAL FOR SOLDIERS—Smart, and also comfortable,'is the new regii- Canadiah timely passing. He is survived by one sister, Mrs. P. A. White, residing in Toronto, and a sister in Winnipeg, the wife of S. L. Cork, supervisor of .branches in Manitoba for the Royal Bank of Canada. Assman's Funeral Chapel were in and the the Ro- man Catholic church at 10 a.m. today with interment in the Prince George •cemetery. Pallbearers were Lome Lyle, Aleza Lake; Earl Jack. B^end; James Hooker. Dome Creek; Dan McPhee, McBride; J. P. Meyers. Penny, and Frank Smith, Prince George. _--------—o------------- RUPERT RATEPAYERS VOTE FOR CHANGE By a vote of 404 for and 42 against, the ratepayers of Prince*Rupert dei.id-ed in favor of a city managership plan under an elective body which shall determine the general policies in municipal matters pertaining to the city. Prince Rupert municipal affairs have been conducted for several years past by a city commissioner appointed by the provincial government. The present city commissioner. J. W. Alder, lias signified his intention, of resigning at the end of 1939. Prince George Area May Produce Essential War Metal Requirements ----—-——----- Occurrences of Tungsten, Cinnabar, Antimony, Molybdenum .and I Manganese Being Investigated uniform Jo be worn, r overseas forest NoOffiMfocft-a.sk). suit, the jacket' is. belted in. windbreaker fashion. Off- duty the trousers can be worn as slacks 'lower) but for regular wear the cuffs are enclosed by a six-inch canvas gaiter, replacing puttees. Upper pictures show how the forage cap can be adapter! to cold-weather wear. There are no buttons to polish Bis Gold Values on Boulder Creek Dease District Leases Sold By Percy Peacock Yield £1,000 a Day on 20-Day Run Hugh McLean, Telkwa propscetor. hr.s arrived at Hazelton from a prospecting trip of several months in the Injenika and D?ase laka region, northwest of Prince George. He reports hav- ng made a discovery of a tin' deposit n the latter area and states that mining engineers have assured him it is well worthy of development. He will return next spring " to open up the showings. As considerable placer tin s mined in the Yukon it is possible McLean has located a similar deposit and will develop a worth-while mining prospect. During the summer he visited Boulder creek, a tributary of Turnagain river in the Dsase lake district, and reports that the leases sold last fall by Percy Peacock, former resident of this city,* are yielding big pay again this year. After recovering around $45,000 last year from this ground by primitive working methods. Peacock sold to the Barrington-Walsh syndicate and they Omineca Road Now Graded To Manson Creek Eight Bridges Completed For Highway Projects North of Fort St. James Work on the north road system from Fort St. James to Germansen creek. Aiken lake and the branch to Finlay Forks, has made splendid progress the past few months, and with another season's work a good gravel road should connect these northern outposts with the Cariboo highway and the excellent southern system of roads. The Associated Engineering Co. has completed grading on the Fort St. James-Manson creek road to Manson Creek post-office, and the public works department has made improvements on the road from Manson Creek to Germansen Landing. Work is also being carried out on a seven-mile section south of the Nation river where some improvements to the highway are being made. The Gaffney creek road nas been completed to a crossing of the Omineca river and is now graded to ""within forty miles of Finlay Forks. Road, crews are still working between Germansen Landing and Discovery creek on'the Aiken lake project and it is anticipated that this road will be in, shape for tractor traffic before work is stopped by weather conditions. ''The road building programme has necessitated the building of eight bridges, and provincial public works crews numbering forty men have had a busy season in northern Omineca. Crossing the Nation river a bridge has been completed with a sixty-foot —iing truss span and four nineteen foot bays, while the west fork bridge has two nineteen-foot bays. Two bridges on Gaffney creek, a tributary of the Nation, have been constructed. On Upper Gaffney the bridge is a sixty-foot King truss span with two nineteen-foot bays, and on Lower Gaffney a seventy-foot King truss with four nineteen-foot bays. Manson creek bridge is a seventy-foot King truss span with three nineteen-foot bays, and Salmon river bridge has two nineteen-foot oays. Granite creek bridge is a sixty-foot King truss span and there are five nineteen foot bays over the Wolverine. Travellers over that part of the road already gravelled state that it is equal to any gravelled road in the province and are sanguine that its completion will open up one of the richest mining sections in British Columbia. Federal-Provincial Assistance to Clubs Farmers' Institute Members To Purchase 20 Gilts To Get Boar Free Within a hundred-mile ra i have installed a small gas shovel and j dragline scraper. On a clean-up after I a twenty-day run just before McLean idius of Prince George there are left tne camp for the outside the synd- recovered sixty pounds of gold. py development or the owners of wh.cl, known ore occurrences of tungsten, cinnabar, antimony;, molybdenum and manganese in apparently commercial quantities, allot which are now actually under are arranging If or an early start on preliminary Given a reasonable measure of success the pro als, added, to tne gold being produood result-id capitalists to the region. pr be abl wagon iu-'i iMub^ lake. hoeiite an ore of tungsten was 1 (Continued on Page Three) Three Way Fight For Cranbrook Seat Nominations closed October 23 and election is on October 31 in Cranbrook. where a three-cornered fight is taking place "in the bye-election for the provincial seat vacated by Hon. R. G. Mac-Phersan when he rc:epted an appointment to the Railway Transport Boarrl. Oandidatrs are Arnold J. McGrath, Liberal: A. B. Smith. Independent, both of Cranbrook, and Thomas O'Con- nor of New Westminster, who is con-the seat for the C.C.F. party. E>r. Wallace R. Gunn. British Columbia government livestock commissioner, told a farmers' institute meeting at Kamloops last week, that what British Columbia agriculture needs "is more livestock, more little beef herds, more little sheep flocks, more small poultry flocks and more swine herds. The present situation, in which Canada has been designated the larder oi ireat Britain, permits British Colum-io. to round out her agricultural development in wartime. As far as this province is concerned there is a defin- "The "Williams Lake show and sale of feeder cattle held there on October 19 has been voted one of the best and most successful events of its kind held in British Columbia for many years," stated Harry Bowman, district superintendent of the C.N.R. colonization department with headquarters in this, city, on his return from Williams Lake on Saturday. y Accommodation at Williams Lake was at a premium, reports Mr. Bowman, and with all the rooming houses and hotels filled the Pacific Great Eastern Railway was called upon to supply three sleeping cars to help take care of the visitors. "One thousand, one hundred and fifty head of cattle were auctioned by Mat Hassen of Armstrong, B.C. The cattle were all in excellent condition and bidding was brisk. Buyers of feeder cattle were disappointed in being unable to pay the prices but those contributing the stock had no regrets. One authority and heavy buyer stated it was a packer's war. The Vancouver packing houses bought about 80 per cent of the stock offered at prices a great deal higher than was expected, and one of the government officials reported them as being $1.00 per hundredweight higher than prevailing quotations in Vancouver and 15 cents per hundredweight higher than the sales on the prairies. The price averages were as follows: 130 three - year - old steers: $7.15 per cwt.; 433 two-year-old steers, $6.65 per cwt.; 212 yearling steers. $6.50 per cwt.; 210 yearling and two-year-old heifers, $5.87 per cwt.; 45 calves, $7.62 per cwt.; ISO cows, $4.33 per cwt. "E. „ C. McGeachy of Vanderhoof purchased fifteen head of pure-bred but not registered heifer calves, contributed by C. E. Wynn-Johnson of Alkali Lake. These won the first prizes for lots of fifteen head and were a (Continued on Page Six) Quebec Election Makes Canada United In War Quebec Demonstrates Loyalty to Confederation and Empire Engaged in War Ex-Prerhier MaMrice Duplessis went down to defeat in the elections for the Quebec legislature in the biggest landslide since 1936. Of the 85 seats Duplessis got only 15 while Adelard Godbout, leader of the Liberals, won with 68 seats. The third party in the field. Action Nationale Liberals, were in the "also ran" class. Seven of Duplessis' ministers had ost their seats according to telegraphic reports late last night. Hon.. Ernest Lapointe. minister ot justice in the federal government, who had announced he would resign, his seat if DuplessiS/Were returned to power, naively announced over the rp.dio last night that he would not now resign. Mayor Houde of Montreal, independent, was elected. There were 248 candidates contest-ng for the 85 seats. ------------o------------- Health Board Head Dies In Victoria Dr. H. E. Young Was M.L.A. For Atlin 1903-1915 ite need for hog production. At.-present prices British Columbia imports hogs and hog products to the extent of $3,000,000 annually." Dr. Gunn warned.that scattered production would not be as efficent as if the farmers got together under their instiutes and co-operated. He stated the federal and provincial governments have adopted an assistance program whereby federal agricultural representatives on the prairies will purchase, at the order of British Columbia farmers, gilts at current market prices and pay half the transportation charges to the nearest railway delivery paint. For every twenty gilts purchased by a group of five or more fanners, said Dr. Guim, the federal department of agriculture will give as a gift a specially selected high-class boar and will also pay Jhe freight on the sire to Che nearest railway point. "The federal ?nd provincial a.gricul-tural departments are endeavouring to develop wartime agricultural policies that will encourage more production of a kind that will make Canadian agriculture permanently profitable," concluded Dr. Gumv Henry E. Young, B.A.. M.D., L.L.D., CM., secretary of the British Columbia Provincial Board of Health-since 1916. died suddenly in Victoria on Tuesday at the'age of 72. s Dr. Young was born at English River. Quebec, in February. 1867, and after completing his education in Canadian and English universities, came to this province in the early nineties. Accompanied by his younger brother, the late Judge F. MeB. Young, he went to the Atlin district in 1898. There he practiced medicine and retained his residence until 19D7. He was first elected to the British Columbia legislature for Atlin riding in 1903 and was re-elected in 1907. 1909 and 1912. Dr. Young was made minister of education in Sir Richard Mlc- " Bride's government in 1907 and—held the office .until lf)15. In 1916 he was appointed secretary of the Provincial Board of Health which office he capably filled-until the time of his death. Alex. MrB. Young, barrister and solicitor, Prince George, is a nephew. Dominion representatives meeting in London as a war council are to visit British munition plants and make a tour of the western front.