14    Prince George Citizen
Thursday, June 3,  1948
Government of British Colanmbia
Department of Public Works
NOTICE
Notice is hereby given that the Miworth Ferry has been discontinued and will not be in operation in the future.
S.  A.   CUNLIFFE,
District Engineer,
by Authority of the Minister
of Public Works. Dated at Prince George, B.C. this 11th day of May, 1948.
Steady
Red Cross Chairman Stresses Importance Of Blood Transfusion
British Columbia has proved to the world that the public can and will support a free Red Cross 240 Blood Transfusion Service states Col. W. G. Swan, chairman of the provincial Red Cross blood donor committee.
"During 15 months operation of this service 30,000 B.C. citizens gave 32,000 pints of blood (2,000 were repeat donations) to save hundreds of lives and restore thousands of their fellow-citizens to health. While donations exceeded our first estimated requirements by 25 per cent if additional donors had been planned, B.C. hospitals could have used another 5,000 bottles.
I think that residents of British Columbia will take pride in the fact that they have established a world record in free blood donated to the Red Cross," he said. "Canada is the only country • in the world in which this unique service is being established and British Columbia the first area to be put to the test."
About half the blood supplies to date has come from Vancouver figures show, the other half coming from monthly clinics in Victoria and from 40 other B.C. cen tres that have been visited by the Red Cross Mobile Clinic.
Today 52 hospitals use this free blood service, which means that every patient, whose doctor con-
Residents Flee As Usk Demolished By Skeena Floods
Food Rationed at Terrace As Supplies   Become   Exhausted
Raging- rivers in interior British Columbia during last week-ejid, bringing disaster in their wake, demolished the tiny village of Usk, 13 miles east of Terrace, which was flooded by the Skeena and caused evacuation of all the inhabitants except 108 people. Among the evacuees were two expectant mothers.
Chicken pox broke out among
the   children,   who,   along   with
adults, were evacuated to higher
round by rowboat.
ed out in the open.
They camp-When word
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siders transfusions necessary, receives   this  free   blood   with   no harge from Red Cross, hospiial >r donor.    There are 20 perman-nt   blood   banks   established   in B.C.  and  plasma  is  available   in very hospital in the province. The result has been the saving f hundreds  of  lives.    With   all ypes of blood readily available, vith no question of cost to reeip-ent to be considered, doctors ha^e een able to use this miracle fluid o   save   lives   of   patients   who would otherwise have died. Scores of   accident   victims   have   been cept   alive   by   transfusions    so that surgeons could perform the necessary surgery safely.
Blood has been flown to isolated  camps  for  wounded  loggers; ,t has been rushed by car through ;he  night  to  burned  fishermen; t  has  been administered  by air by doctors endeavoring to main-ain the thread of life in an  inured  man  until he could  reach bspital;   it   has   become  an   en-rely new supply of blood in  a newborn baby when RH infection was- detected.     The   stories   are legion.
Prior to establishment of this Red Cross service in B.C., greatest number of blood transfusions given in this province in any one year from professional donois, friends of relatives of patients, totalled 7,000. Under the Red Cross, the number was more than tripled in the first year's operation. Hospital requirements are now barely being met and not a bottle of blood is being wasted, states Col. Swan.
Success of securing donors has varied considerably in many local-ities being as low as two per cent of population in some areas and as high as 10 per cent in Pentic-ton. At the University of British Columbia, 25 per cent of the students gave their blood at a special
autumn   clinic student body.
arranged   by   the
All areas of the province have
been with
visited   by  a exception   of
mobile  clinic the   Cariboo.
some northern coastal points'and communities on the Prince Ru-pert-McBride railway line. It is intended to cover all these points this "year, Col Swan says.
PENNY
PENNY—Joe Boudreau was badiy burned about the hands and his brother-in-law, Jack McKinley, burned around his ankles when a gasoline blow torch, with which they were working, caught fire Sunday afternoon. Tiley were given first aid by Bill Tuckwood and later taken by speeder to Prince George for medical treatment.
The monthly community whist drive was held in the hall Saturday night. Mrs. Webb was in charge. Prizes for highest score went to Peter Romanuik (playing as a woman), highest score for gents to W. Boyce and low score to Cecil Smith.
Miss McArron, Mrs. Benton, R. McGillivray and R. Hawkes were visitors to Prince George.
The women's Softball team, with Mrs. Johnson as coach, started playing this week.
of the chicken pox was received provincial police sent out a railway speeder from Terrace with ood and medical supplies.
Food stocks over the week-end vere becoming exhausted at Ter-ace, especially meat and butter, nd merchants started to ration ood Friday.
Canadian    Pacific    Airways rought   an   emergency   freight-assenger service between Smith-rs and Prince Rupert. Heavy  rainfall  aggravated  the ituation in the north; rivers rose 2    inches    at    Houston,    where many families were evacuated.   A similar situation existed in many smaller communities  in the surrounding area.
Pent-up waters of Cadwallader Creek, backed up by a slide, tore free Saturday and caused, havoc
TENDERS FOR COAL (Western Provinces)
SEALED TENDERS addressed to the undersigned and endorsed 'Tender for Coal for Western Provinces," will be received until 3 p.m. (E.D.S.T.), Tuesday, June i, 1948 for the supply of coal for the Dominion Buildings and Experimental Farms and Stations, throughout the Provinces of Manitoba, Saskatchewan, Alberta and British Columbia:
Forms of tender with specifications and conditions attached can be obtained from the Purchasing Agent, Department of Public Works, Ottawa; the District Resident Architect, Winnipeg, Man.; the District Resident Architect, Saskatoon, Sask.; the District Resident Architect, Calgary, Alta.; and the District Resident Architect, Victoria, B.C.
Tenders should be made on the forms supplied by the Department and in accordance with departmental specifications and conditions attached thereto.' Coal dealers' licence numbers must be given when tendering.
The Department reserves the right to demand from any successful tenderer, before awarding the order, a security deposit in the form of a certified cheque on a chartered bank in Canada, made payable to the order of the Honourable the Minister of Public Works, equal to 10 -peri cent of the amount of the tender, or Bearer Bonds of the Dominion of Canada or of the Canadian National Railway Company and Its constituent companies unconditionally guaranteed as to principal and interest by the Dominion of Canada, or the aforementioned bonds and a certified cheque, if required   to   make   up   an   odd
amount.
By order,
J. M. SOMERVILLE, Secretary.
Department of Public Works, Ottawa, May 19, 1948.
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over a 15-mile stretch in Bridge River district. Bridge timbers joined a debris of logs and 150,-000 feet of lumber stacked by Bra-lorne wharf. Tidewater Dam was smashed under a wall of water at 3 p.m. Saturday and about six bridges tossed aside.
Woodpecker-Hixon
WOODPECKER — Mrs. R. Brownscombe and children, Del-la and Bruce, Hixon, were the guests of Mrs. H. Cuddle, Prince George, over the week-end. While in town Mrs. Brownscombe will receive dental care.
F. Elston, Camp Greek, motored to Prince George Friday.              !
Mrs. C. Alex motored to Prince George Thursday. On her return she was accompanied by her son David, who has been in hospital for the past week.
Misses Ina and Joan Sahlstrand of Prince George, spent the weekend with their parents, Mr. and Mrs. C. J. Sahlstrand, HLxon.
E. Thue, Hixon, motored to Prince George Monday.
Joe Dale reports a number of acres of his seeded land is now under water following the sudden rise of the Fraser River.
Gasoline Sales In Province Increase
Sales of gasoline in B.C. dur ing March climbed 11.58 per cen over the same period last year amounting to a total of 9,447,446 gallons, according to Dr. W, A Carrotners, chairman of the coa and petroleum board.
Private cars used 16.10 per cent more and there was a comparable increase for commercial vehicles Marine and aviation sales showed a slight drop.
March sales by districts were Vancouver Island: resellers (sales to service stations), 664;671; com mercial, 189,28; marine, 10,459 aviation, nil; total 859,658.
Vancouver and district: resellers, 3,521,709; commercial, 921,-674; marine, 66,044; aviation, 48,666; total, 4558,093.
Remainder of B.C.: resellers, 2,106,249; commercial, 1,522,005; marine, 203,023; aviation, 198,418; total, 4,029,695.
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DIE ON CALVARY'S CROSj
—TO TAKE THE PUNISHMENT FOR YOUR SIN-
HOW CAN  YOU  BE SAVED?
REPENT—Luke 13:3. BELIEVE— 1 Corinthians 15: 3-4.
(o)  That Jesus Christ died on Calvary to take the punishment for your sin. (b) That He rose from 'the. dead.
SIMPLY say "THANK YOU" to the Lord for shedding His , precious BLOOD on Calvary to take the punishment for your sin.
Matthew 26:28;   1  John  1: 7-10.
Confess Christ Before Men. Mart.  10:32 and 33. Romans 10:9 and 10.
HOW  DO YOU KNOW ARE SAVED?
JOHN 1:12.
"But   as   many as rw Mim to them gave Hew to become the sons of ( even to them that belie His name."
YOUR    PART —   v
BELIEVETH IN HIM'
GOD'S WORD—'SHALL PERISH but hoveev I'fe."—John 3:16.
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