Funeral Wednesday For C. G. Burke Funeral services for Colbert Gregory Burke, 82-year-old Cariboo old-timer who passed away here Friday while on a visit to his brother, James Burke, will be held Wednesday morning. C. G. Burke came to the Interior in 1913 and worked at the construction business for many years. He was retired at the time of his death. Besides his brother here, he i3 survived by a niece, Mrs. T. R. Richardson, Prince George, a sJs-ter in New Brunswick and a sec-ond brother in Massachusetts. Services are to be held In the Sacred Heart Church at 10:00 a.m. Wednesday, Rev. Father A. MacDonald will officiate. Interment will be in Prince George cemetery. An independent Semi-Weekly Newspaper Devoted to the Interest of G 52 I and Northern British Columbia Vol. 35; No. 4 Prince George, B.C., MONDAY, January 14, 1952 $4.00 per year 5^ pej copy Approval Sought Claude Foot Recovering From Heart Attack One of Prince George's most ardent sport fans, Claude S. Foot of Central Fort George, • was taken to hospital last night following a heart attack suffered at his home. He is reported in good condition today but will probably rest in hospital for a week or ten days. * Mr. Foot, who seldom misses a baseball or hockey game here, did not attend the Williams Lake games but listened to the Saturday night encounter on the radio. Plan Half-Million Dollars For City and Rural Schools City By-Law May Total $161,937 By-law projects with a total cost of more than half a mil lion dollars have been submitted to the B.C. Depantment of Education by School District Number 57, a school board officia disclosed today. Prince George property owners will be expected to put up about one quarter of this amount if they approve the by-law when it is submitted to the people. Harold Moffat, school board chairman, said today that the half-million-dollar list of 1952 projects was taken to Victoria by Ray Williston, district school inspector, last week. It must be approved by the Department of Education before Teachers' Raises To Range From $180 To $1330 In'52 Proposed Pay Boosts Would Cost District $40,000 Salary 'increases for teachers in School District Number 57 will range from $180 a year for the lowest categories to $1330 for the'highest categories if the 1952 proposed scale of salaries is given the final stamp of approval by the School Boord. * | - . Already approved by the board' pay raised from $3280 last year in principle, the proposed Bched-jto $4130 this year. ule will come before a joint meeting of teachers and school trus- It is believed that the new schedule proposed here will be tees before the end of this month adopted over most of northern for final ratification. (and central British Columbia. School District 57's annual j wage bill will go up from $30,000 to $40,000 yearly, a school offic-1 ial believes. Minimum salary to be paid in the district during the coming j year under the proposed new- John Ryser, 62, who spent 40 "rates would be $2240 for a first years on prairie and Central B.C. SWISS-CANADIAN FARMER INTERRED year elementary school teacher. Highest salary, for a secondary teacher with 17 or more years of experience, is $5110. Only three top-bracket teachers' are employed In the district, a hoard spokesman pointed out, and the majority will be in the $2240 to $3710 category.. Top salary for elementary school teachers will be $4200 and will go to teachers with 14 or more years previous experience. Annual increment to District No. 57 teachers of both element- farms, was buried in Prince George cemetery January 3 following services in Assrman's Funeral Chapel. Mr. Ryser died December 30 at the family home on the old Moore Ranch, four miles west of Prince George following an illness which commenced in 1947. In the interval before his death he was a frequent patient in Prince George and District Hospital, and was last discharged December 19. Mr. Ryser came to Canada from Switzerland in 1911, settling in ary and secondary grades Is $140. the Fox Valley district of south Chief Lake Previously the annual wage in- Saskatchewan. In 1923 he came to.' West Lake crease was $100 but it continued Prince George, and later took up until the 20th year for secondary iand two miles west of the city teachers and until the 17th year which in 1943 was taken over by for elementary teachers. • | the Department of National De-The new $140 annual incre-' fence as pa*rt of a site for a mil-ment ceases after the. 17th year itary camp. The family then mov-for secondary teachers and after ed to Tabor Creek and recently a by-law can be prepared to" plac before the city taxpayers an there is some possibility the department may whittle it down. Largest single item on the proposed list of expenditures is for the Gonnaught School replacement at a cost of $334,000. Second largest expenditure 1 the proposed plans are approved would be $119,000 for a seven room addition to the Junior Sen ior High School. Projects planned for within th city limits will alone cost $512, 000, while those outside the citj will cost $55,800. Total expenditure planned on the list of proposed by-law projects is $583,000. Of this amount, the provincia government would grant one hal of $568,300 or $284,150. The $15, 500 gap between the overall tota and the amount to be shared by the government is made up of by law expenses and other items which the government will no participate in paying for. According to the scale of division of costs between the city and the rural district last year, th< municipality would put up 57 pe cent of the remainder, or abou $161,937. On behalf of the rural area th government would put up the re malning" $122;163". CITY EXPENDITURES Expenditures scheduled fo within the city limits include $23 000 for equipping 23 new class rooms, $14,000 for completion o the school district dormitor buildings, $12,000 for £he site o the proposed new Connaugh School, $7000 for auditorium chairs and $3500 for dormitorj and annex storm windows. RURAL SCHOOLS Rural expenditures are toppec with a $9000 one-room school a Willow River. Second largest district expen diture would be $8000 for equip ping eight new classrooms. Other rural schools to be con strueted under the proposed plan would be Canyon Creek $7000 $6000, Penny $6000, $4000, McLeo'd Lake the 14th year for elementary teachers. Under the new schedule elementary teachers with three years experience will earn $2660 a year compared with $2160 under last year's schedule. Secondary teachers with the same experience will be paid $3150 this year compared with $2580 last year. Elementary teachers having 10 years experience this year will j pet $3640 compared with $2860 j in 1951. Secondary teachers with j similar experience will see their took over the Moore acreage. Besides his wife, Margaret, he is survived by seven sons, John H., William, Thomas, Ernest, Frank, George and Daniel; a brother, Walter, and a sister, Mrs. Fred Duthi of Plneview. $4500. About $2000 would be spent on sites for these schools and about $800 for equipping them with storm windows. Of the $15,500 expenditure which the government will not participate in, $5000 will go towards completion of the school district administration building on Sixth Avenue, $5000 towards two rural-area teacherages, $3000 for grounds improvements and $2500 for by-law costs. George Choban To Head Automen Here George Choban, Hub City Mot- Festival Plans Well Away, Meeting Okays Syllabus Syllabus for the new Prince George Music and Drama Festival is now drawn up, the committee in charge announced at a meeting of the festival prs and Equipment Ltd., was in- tion in Room. 204 of the stalled in the presidency last school Thursday night. assocla-high week of the Prince George Auto- mobile Dealers Mr. Choban Association, succeeds Roger Gauthler of Roger Motor Products Ltd. Vicerpresident this year will he Austie McLennan of Austie's Service, First Avenue. He. sue-1 ceeds Ed Pollard of Pollard Brothers Ltd: Prince George Automobile Dealers Association was instrumental ast year in obtaining a reduction in gasoline costs here from Canadian oil companies. ^i part of their program in will be to attain lower taxation on automotive products. The syllabus was given final approval by the meeting and Vancouver music dealers are immediately being contacted t6 make sure that an adequate sup-ly of all test pieces on the program is available. Piano, violin, singing and elocution sections are included in the syllabus, copies of which, with entry forms, should be ready for all interested performers, teachers and others by the end of this month. No special selections are set for the drama section of the festival, where competing groups may enter any one-act play 9 of their choice. At least three groups are already . lining up suitable plays for entry, It Is known, and other organizations have the matter under discussion. Membership and publicity committees were set up during the evening, under the chairmanship of Mrs. Elsie Giles Leckie, respectively. and Bob Mrs. Fran Gibblns Is head of the already ex-(See FESTIVAL, Page 4) Red Cross Meeting Set For Wednesday Three p.m. on Wednesday next, January 16, is the time set for the annual meeting of the Prince George' Chapter, Canadian Red Cross Society. The meeting will be held in the city hall and all members and persons interested in aiding this group are urged to attend. Decision Awaited On Second Power Unit Decision to commence installing a second 1600 h.p. Fairbanks Morse opposed-piston diesel power unit in First Avenue Powerhouse may come at the first scheduled meeting of the 1952 City Council tonight. The new unit, costing more than $50,000 and acquired in a trade with General Machinery Ltd. of Vancouver for the machinery currently at work in the Central Fort George Army Power Plant, is now on hand and is covered against the weather near the First Avenue plant. . One hitch to installing the second unit is that one of the power plant's larger old units may have to be moved first. At present this generating unit is supplying" a considerable amount of power and it is possible no move can be made towards shifting it until the peak winter power load has fallen off. Switchboard facilities for the second unit are not yet on hand. The first new Fairbanks Morse engine and generator, which was connected with the city's distribution system after the two city-wide power failures took place, and just In time to prevent a "black" Christmas, is operating satisfactorily, municipal power men state. Present city power plans call for eventual installation of a third 1(500 h.p*. unit. George F. Sullivan In Portland Hospital A well known former A Iberia grain buyer, who in recent years has prospected in northern and central B.C. and worked in district sawmills, George F. Sullivan, is a patient in the Veterans' Hospital at Portland, Oregon. Mr. Sullivan, whose home is in the Cache, left Prince George more than a month ago for Vancouver, and later went to Portland for treatment of a throat ailment. He is a United States Army pensioner, having served in eriod only to run up against a erles of three retaliatory goals o their first two. Three more goals in the final eriod gave tlvm a ighting hance but Lumbermen added anther two points to their tally to omplete the 9-5 score. For a few brief minutes Sun-CSee LUMBERMEN, Poge 4) Thieves Break Info Central Warehouse Complete inventory of the contents of an army drill hall broken-into Friday night is expected by police today, but it is already known that a number of tools were stolen. . . , ., , , , Thieves broke into the Central winter at the week-end as a deep Fort G building bv knock- Heaviest Snowfall Hampers Traffic Municipal ernment and provincial gov- snow plow crews get their first real workout of the y blanket of snow covered the city and surrounding district. More than seven inches of snow fell Saturday and Sunday and last night a 36-mile-an-hour wind resulted in considerable drifting in open areas. Gusts of up to 42 miles an hour were reported at times. Several cars were abandoned in high drifts on the Giscome and j VanderhDof highways. This morning school buses were running on an abbreviated schedule, but Department of Public Works plows crews hope to have the main roads cleared tonight. The city's new rotary sidewalk plow was on the job all day Sunday, and is out again today. , ! More snow is forecast late today with winds up to 20 miles an hour. Tonight the mercury will dip to 25 below zero with a high Tuesday of 5 below, the weatherman forecasts. ing the lock off the door. The night watchman was away at the time. Contents of the building included cars belonging to Roger Motor Products Ltd., tools belonging to W. C. Arnett Company and stock owned by W. M. Tire Serv- ice. Rear vision mirrors were smashed off three cars, a official stated. W. C. Arnett Company officials have not yet learned the extent of their losses. DINNER MEETING Board of Trade members are reminded that tickets are now on sale for the annual meeting and dinner to be held this Thursday,! January 17 in the Prince George Hotel. The tickets can be obtained from Fred Black at the Prince George Shoe Store. All members are requested to attend the affair.