BRARY VfCtORfA, i r cr Largest Circulation of Any SernM g ly Newspaper in British Columbia Prince George, B.C., TUESDAY, October 14, 1952 $4.00 per year 5^ per copy umbermen Stay Mum in Saturday Ballot Press committee of the Northern Interior Lumbermen's sedation today refused to disclose whether its members had cepted or rejected the report of a conciliation board aimed settlement of their dispute with tht International Wood-rkers of America over a 1952-53 contract. official of the I More Polio Here-Two Women Smitten bleanwhile, an official of the pii, which held a meeting of peneral membership on Sun-for the purpose of starting looting on the report, said the end so far is towards accep-lce. [He said that only about 100 of union's 1000 Northern Inter-members had voted so far I id that the ballots have not been unted. District I.W.A. President J. ewart Alsbury spoke at the jnday meeting in favor of ac-fpting the report which would e Northern Interior workers union-certified operations an ross-the-board wage increase of j-cents-an-hour plus three paid atutory holidays. ; |A local union official said he Ilieved the trend in balloting aned in favor of acceptance. (Although it is known that the I.L.A. voted on the report Sat-day, members are close-mouth-concerning the result. 1A member of the lumbermen's ¦ess committee stated this morn-g they had been asked by their ancouver negotiator to refrain i making public the results of | balloting. If,the I.W.A. vote results in ccoptance of the report, and the I.I.L.A. has rejected it, the union ill likely apply for a govern-lent-supervised strike vote immediately. I If the N.I.L.A. has rejected the fcport, they will have followed Be action of the Southern Inter-br Lumber Manufacturer's As-pciation which turned thumbs pwn on a similar report some ays ago. jamming Mills Home )estroyed By Fire For the second time within a fh, a McBride district family tst their home by fire, the latest ictims being the Jensen family Lamming Mills. Xo one was at home when the \ve broke out on Friday, the liklren being at school and Mrs. lensen was shopping in the vil- Ige. A vqlunteer fire brigade from IcBride was soon at the scene lut were unable to save either lie building or the contents. McBride Women's Institute is rganizing a miscellaneous show-for the family in the W.I. fuilding on Thursday. Need for continued precautions against spreading of disease and watchfulness of even mild symptoms of illness was stressed again this morning by Cariboo Health Unit officials, reporting two more cases of polio among city residents over the week-end. Latest to be attacked by the dread disease are two young Prince George women, one 21 years of age and one 26. Both are patients in the city hospital. No more district cases have been reported since the child from Upper Fraser was hospitalized last week. Care in food handling, segregation of any member of the family who seems unwell, and early check with a doctor if illness occurs are among the steps urged by health. authorities toward checking any major outbreak here. First symptoms, published in Thursday's Citizen, include nausea, fever, dizziness, and pains in head and limbs. Parsnip Bridge Work Is Well Advanced Work on the permanent steel and concrete Parsnip River Bridge is progressing well following difficulties encountered driving pile caissons for the main sub-structure, and it will probably be completed late this fall. In order to counteract the der lay in assembling the steel superstructure of the 600-foot-long span due to iricompletion of the concrete sub-structure footings, contractors on the job have erected a network of wooden pile supports and the two end spans of the bridge are now in place. When the concrete has set in the caissons, the piles will be removed and the outermost ends of the spans will be in their final position. Heated gravel will be used in pouring the concrete and steam pipes will also be run through the mix to prevent it being affected |»by frost action. All that will remain to be done when the sub-structure is complete is installation of the centre span. Bridge Started ear Tete Jaune Workmen are now excavating oundations for cement abut- tients of a new highway bridge span the upper Fraser River It Tete Jaune, 183 miles east of rince George, and it is expected lie 160-foot span will be ready r traffic next May. : Contract for the job has been ft by B.C. Department of Public 'orks to McCaffery Excavating Ltd., of Victoria, now engag-in resurfacing the south traf-fc lane of the CNR steel bridge |t Prince George. The contract, which involves >bor only, is for $30,351. The new Tete Jaune bridge, looted two miles upstream from *e present crossing, will-be of ne Howe truss type. The entire iperstructure will reosoted lumbei4. consist of Department ' engiheerS. were nccessful in finding solid rock oundations for the bridge ap: roaches on both sides of the ?ver. New location of the bridge will squire the construcCion of one three-quarter miles of road link the span with the North-n Transprovineial Highway. funds have been set aside for work, which will start early in April and cost an estimated $23,000. ' Residents fear the old Tete Jaune bridge, -consisting of two 70-foot King trusses and pile trestle approaches, may be carried away by log and ice jams next spring. Actual construction of the new bridge will not start until January when the river has frozen over, which will permit false work to be erected on the ice. Volunteers Busy At Quesnel Rink Jobs Volunteer workers at Quesnel have nearly completed the foundations for a new ice arena and curling rink and those in charge of the project are confident that the trusses and roof will be erected in time for ther first. cold New York Yankee manager Casey Stengel (centre) with two of his ace moundmen, Vic Raschi (left) and Allie Reynolds (right). Here Casey is giving some sage advice to Reynolds as he took over in the deciding game from Raschi. The Yanks won from Brooklyn Dodgers with standout jobs from the above hurlers with .help from Eddie Lopat and Bob Kuzava. Committee Set Up Here To Study Tweedsmuir Flooding A special committee of the Prince George Board of Trade was set up here late last week to investigate the desirability and economic feasibility of clearing the Tweedsmuir Park area which will be inundated by the Aluminum Company of Canada projeot. Appointment of _the committee,! consisting of two city"rnefcharfEs" and two lumbermen, came following discussion oh whether or not the board should iencj its Weight to a Burns Lake Board of Trade motion urging clearing of the area. Discussion on the topic went hot and heavy among general membership of the board. N. Wobdhead, manager of the local branch of the Bank of Commerce, said he believed it, is well established that flooding without clearing leaves a mess and is not good for fish resources. Alex Moffat, a city merchant, said he believed it would be impossible to log and clear the entire area to be flooded. Alex Bowie, another merchant, said he believed that if the B.C. Forest Branch would throw the existing timber in the area open to salvage by lumber firms, the problem would be partially solved. Hans Roine, a millman and chairman of the Trade Board's timber committee, said he had been told that the timber had been offered for a nominal royalty of 50 cents a thousand feet but that the fact that it is well scattered throughout the area had discouraged attempts to log it. G. B. Williams, a board] member well acquainted with the area which will be inundated, said he was inclined to agree that the timber was too scattered and that the cost would be prohibitive. Hedley Millar, Manager of the Bank of Nova Scotia branch here, pointed out that the Aluminum Company of Canada Limited had cleared the timber from an area flooded by them in the province of Quebec. According to the Burns Lake weather Fifty-four workers, including «ome high school pupils, were on the job last week and spent more than five hours pouring concrete. Trusses for the main building^ will be delivered at .the —' ***' Trade Board, cost of clearing the area would be about $5,000,000. Mr. Bowie pointed out that at the Associated Boards of Trade convention held in Sm|thers this year, the question of how much timber actually existed in the area was further confused by the fact that Aluminum Company officials tended to minimize the total, while residents of the area were inclined in the opposite direction. Chairman of a committee which, through the provincial government, will attempt to get a clear Social Credit Group Backs toll Road Plan Prince George district's Socia Credit Circle Group will back vthe present government in a plan to get private capital interested in building a toll highway from Prince George to Jasper if suf; ficient funds for a government road are not available from cur rent revenue. The toll road proposal was brought before a meeting of the Prince George Board of Trade last week and was slated for further study. The circle group also agreed that the government should pass no legislation concerning any industry without first consulting the industry so affected. M. E. Alderson, Prince George, president of the group, transmitted the two decisions to the Social Credit Constituency Council which met here last Friday even-\ ing. Mutual Life Loans $100,000 For Homes Mutual Life Association, through he National Housing Act, has oaned $100,000 for the construc- ion of homes in Prince George since they first came into the rince George' home-financing scheme in late May. Alderman T. S. Carmichael, reporting to the Prince George Board of Trade at a general meet-ng last Thursday in the Prince eorge Hotel, said Mutual Life had-participated in the financing of 16 homes here so far. He said prospects look good for an increased number next year and that the loaning organization may extend its facilities for the construction of two-family and multiple-dwelling units. 'He said it is also considered ikely that loans comprising a arger percentage of the total cost ,vould be made in Prince George and that as a result, down payments would be lower. Store Robbed Twice In One Week Here Smash and grab thieves entered The Exchange, 1180 Fifth Avenue, for the second time in a week yesterday but got only 20 cents in cash and an unknown quantity of new and second-hand merchandise. The Exhange was entered and rifled for the first time a week ago today and it is thought that yesterday's thieves were the same ones who perpetrated the first breaking and entering on the store. Proprietor Claude Foote told a Citizen newsman this morning that yesterday's thieves entered the rear of the store by the same window and entered the front of the building by removing the same pane of glass on an inside door. Mr...Foote said that the first theft ' was made easier through the fact that a window in the rear of the store could be pushed open from the top. The second time, thieves found the same window section nailed shut and so they smashed the frame. The proprietor said'he was unable to say how much merchandise was stolen in the two thefts. Four nickels left in the store's cash register by the proprietor's young son as "bait" were gone when the theft was discovered this morning. NECHAKO WATERS DOWN 21 INCHES Prince George is already feeling the effects of the Kenney Dam on the. Nechako River, City Engineer Charles East declared today. He said the level of the Nechako has dropped 21 inches here since the diversion tunnel around the dam was sealed off six days ago. The drop in the Nechako was responsible for an interruption in the city's water supply system today. Mr. East explained that surface objects such as leaves and small twigs are now swirling around the main water intake near the First Avenue pump-house and that they blocked the filtering screens through which water must pass to get to the pumps. Previously the water intake was far enough below the surface to be clear from surface objects. Mr. East said that the dropping in the river level has slowed almost to a standstill and it is expected the drop in level will not exceed 25 inches at this time of year.' • The water inlets in the river wifl be extended and lowered to surmount the new difficulty. City On Southbound Route Of 'Expedition Francaise' From Alaska to Brazil on motor "scooters" is the current itinerary of two much-travelled young Frenchmen who paused briefly in Prince George this morning on their way south. Jean Claude Bois and Michel Le'clerc,—plan to write travel books and will also produce a documentary film as a result of travels which started from their home city of Paris, France, last July 23. They commenced their North American tour from New York August 3, and visited Montreal, Ottawa, Niagara Falls, Winnipeg, Edmonton and innumerable Trade Board Told Of Secret Power Source A mysterious source of around 25,000 potential hydro horsepower which has never been investigated as a possible solution to the cheap power needs of Prince George and the surrounding district was described to the Prince George Board of Trade last week. The power site is the discovery of an.Aluminum Company of Canada engineer, the board was told, and could probably be developed for less than $2,000,000. The Board's information came from Robert Seeds, city electrical store proprietor, who said he had had a long talk with the engineer. Mr. Seeds said he could not disclose the actual site for the installation but could reveal the information that it was about 70 miles from Prince George. He said transmission of the power from the installation to this city would pose neither any great engineering problem nor any great expenditure of money. In addition, he said, there would be no difficulties with the International Salmon Commission in development of the site. It is expected a meeting will Vi ,..,_ „.....„ ____ ( be arranged between the engin- Seeds. He will be assisted j eer and a member of the Trade ....... — -,- , , ,, c »ho Rnhprt Seeds He Will De assisieu cci auu a uremuci ui "it imv*.^. ui iirtiioiiuitauiuii may iittvc iu uc i ^S?!^*SiŁ?^»"te|*^^Srtr»»- Roine «A Board «*«i™ to discuss the Uandon?d except in the extreme curling rink trusses Way in the next few days. Low Water Strands Isle Pierre Ferry One of the first effects of the closing of the diversion tunnel at Kenney Dam came at the weekend when the government ferry at Isle Pierre was stranded by low water. Water level in the Nechako River in the vicinity of Prince George dropped three feet within 72 hours, exposing numerous sand bars. An immediate start will be made on extending the approaches to the ferry landing and it is expected the cable craft will be back in action late this week. Sawmill operators who have been floating logs down the Nechako River are also hit by low water, and it is feared this mode of transportation may have to be Bert Leboe. spring high period. other points of interest before-heading up the Alaska highway for Fairbanks. Packed neatly on their AGF light motor scooters, which drew an interested crowd on Third Avenue, are food for two or three days and camping equipment, also their precious cameras. "We take pictures all along the way and we also test the motors," Bois explained the purpose oF their multi-thousand mile journey. "Expedition Francaise Alaska" is emblazoned on the backs of their machines, along with the name of "Revue Technique Mot-orcycliste" Fi'anch technical journal for which they report. Leaving here shortly before noon, the two French adventurers headed south down the Cariboo. Highway with their immediate destination, Vancouver. They will proceed down the west coast of the United States, with many stops including one in San Francisco,1 to Mexico. "We will make a whole documentary film on Mexico," Michel Le'clerc disclosed, "In addition to> the film on the trip itself." Both young men are motion picture cameramen by profession. They expect to complete their South American tour and depart from Rio de Janeiro for their homeland about ten months from now. Looking forward to the southward trip, Jean Claude Bois confided, "Your country up here is very nice but a little cold for us!" Both men were parka-clad" (See CYCLIST, Page 5). The Weather Variable cloudiness is the-weatherman's forecast for tomorrow, light winds, little change in temperature. Low reading tonight and high Wednesday are expected to be 30 and 55 degrees.