LIBRARY VICTORIA. B. C. Prince George\Citiz Largest Circulation of Any Semi-Weekly Newspaper in British & umbia Vol. 35; No. 83 Prince George, B.C., THURSDAY, October 23, 1952 $4.00 per year 5^ per copy RT. HON. VINCENT MASSEY, Governor-General of Canada MILLMEN REJECT 31-CEHT RAISE Northern Interior Lumbermen's Association announced this morning it has rejected a Conciliation Board majority report designed to end their dispute with the International Woodworkers of America over terms of a 1952-53 contract. Until this morning the decision His Excellency Governor General Vincent Massey will arrive here by train from Prince Rupert at 5:50 p.m. and will deliver a brief address to the assembled crowd before inspecting a guard of honor and embarking on a whirlwind tour of the city. The Governor General will be officially welcomed by His Wor ship Mayor Dezell and a throng of city dignitaries. Mayor Dezell and members of the vice-regal entourage will mount a specially erected „platform at one end of the .station where the formal few words of welcome from His Worship will he delivered. The platform will be floodlit for the occasion and the Governor General will also make a brief address from its height. Due for formal inspection will be an honor guard from "A Company", Rocky Mountain Rangers, under the command of Captain Jackson Barber. Also standing by during the inspection of the Canadian Army unit will be squads of Prince George Air Cadets, Boy Scouts, Cubs, Brownies and Girl Guides. Accompanying the Governor General on his visit here will be Lionel Massey,. vice-regal secretary, and aides-de-camp in w'ait-ing Captain Nicholas Eden of the Canadian Army and Flying Officer A. F. Titus, Royal Canadian Air Force. The Weather Cloudy today and tomorrow is the current forecast, continuing mild, with light winds and low and high temperature' readings tonight and Friday 32 and 60 degrees. His excellency will he present- with an illuminated scroll in the form of an air photograph of i Prince George duly signed by all members of the City Council. I Following his address and the inspections, he will enter an au-! tomobile accompanied by His made some da_ys ago by the operators had remained a closely kept secret. Asked what the next development would be as a result of the operators' announcement, union officials declined comment saying that meetings of I.W.A. groups in Vancouver between today and Monday would determine the union's policy. According to a press release to The Citizen from the N.I.L.A., the operators' decision to reject the Conciliation Board award was unanimous. An I.W.A. official said that there may be an alternative to strike action in ending the dispute but he refused to go into details. Statement from the N.I.L.A. read in part "the industry is unable to consider any increase whatsoever in present operating costs owing to a declining market and reduced prices of lumber." ' The increased costs which would be incurred if the conciliation report was accepted would stem from a 3>/2-cent hourly wage j product, they cannot see their way clear to grant any increase over the 1951-52 wage schedule which they have offered to renew for another year." A government-supervised strike vote would have to be held at union certified operations here before the lumber industry could be legally brought to a standstill. Four Plead Guilty To Game Infractions Fines totalling $70 wore levied against four men in Stipendiary Court hero at the week-end as the British Columbia dame Branch continued Its strong crack-down on game law offend- \ ~ ors. Fined $10 and costs by Magistrate G. H. Hallett after pleading gulltj; to carrying an unplugged shotgun was Charles L, Chambers. A similar fine and confiscation of a rifle was imposed on Lorenss Scheffer, a recent Immigrant to Canada and non-Hrltish subject, who pleaded guilty to carrying a firearm without a license. Fines of $25 and costs wore imposed on Joseph Gulllet for carrying a loaded rifle In a car. and on Fred l'antor for hunting without a licL'iise. Ernesf Carson Died* Tuesday VICTORIA, Oct. T.\ (CP)—Progressive Conservative strength In the British Columbia Legislature is reduced to three members with the death of the man who might well have become the party's next provincial leader—10. C. Carson. Conservative leader in the house, the 58-year-old rancher and merchani died of a heart attack Tuesday In the garden «>r his home In neighboring Ouk Hay. I lc will be burled <>n Friday. Mr. Carson, member for Lll-looet continuously since 1041 and one uf the four Conservatives to survive the June 12 provincial general election, became Minister of Mines and Trade and Industry in 11)11. In 19*10 he took the job he really liked, Minister of Public VICTORIA, Oct. 23 (CP)—^Final arrangements have been WorkB, and remained In that. Premier, Cabinet Ministers Coming Here mads by P.G.E. officials for the inaugural passenger train over the 80-mile Quesnel-Prince George extension of the line Worship and will be through the main part city. Other cars will carry the remaining members of the party. paid statutory annually. Earlier in the day a union official here said that if operators could not afford the small wage driven increase they would be better off of the snut down because they "are in a very precarious position." November 1, Government and railway ol-radio men will he aboard the special train. The official party will leave Vancouver by steamship at 0:110 a.m. Friday, October 31, for Squa-mish on Howe Sound, the railway's southern terminus'. A special train will leave Squa- mish, stop at Llllooet and arrive The operators' statement said mi™. Sl"l f U'W, ailu . ?„ iiS £<„£„ nt nv.r&Hnnrwt I at Quesnel, formerly the northern Hart is also expected. Between 75 and SO tickets for the inaugural run will go on sale to the general public at the l'GE office in Vancouver. Special round-trip falre, including berth, is $38.35. Freight trains arc expected to operate through to 1'rincC George this winter, and regular passenger runs will begin in the spring. capacity until the break-up of the coalition In January. Political sources fell Mr, Carson was the man most likely to succeed Herbert Anscomb as B.C. leader of the party. Ernest Crawford Carson was born June Q, 1804, on the Carson family ranch In the Cariboo country. For some years he managed the family ranch ami later lie branched Into business. Survivors include his widow and three children. The operas j it is the opinion of experienced h! IWA Accepts Report By 9 to 1 Majority north of Quesnel, driving ceremony. The train will arrive at Prince George at 1 p.m. Saturday. It will begin I he retuun trip at (! p.m. Tentative plans for the civic reception lo be given the and the party will reach Vancou-' first passenger train to arrive in Prince George over Pacific ver at 0:30 a.m. Sunday. ! Great Eastern Railway tracks were made at a meeting in City Among the official" '•¦ "...... augural party will he Premier 1 Hall last night attended by members of the City Council, Union spokesmen said this morning that policy of the union operators towards the Northern Interior Lumbermen's refusal to accept the report will be decided at five key meetings to be held in Vancouver between now and Monday. First to meet will be the I.W.A. district executive board today and tomorrow, followed by a meeting of the district council on Saturday and Sunday and meeting of the negotiating committee on Monday. Mike Sekora, international organizer for the I.W.A., said here this morning that "bullheaded-ness" of Southern Interior lumber Speaker Says Self-Help Is Basis Of Co-operatives "People want a say in their own affairs. Basically they desire to do things for themselves/' declared A. J. Wirick, secretary of the B.C. Co-Operative Union, in a keynote address to the Northern Co-Op Council convention which met here Monday and Tuesday. In statements which were echoed by other speakers at the meet, attended by delegates from Queen Charlotte Islands to the Peace River, Mr. Wirick stressed that the co-operative and credit union movements were formed not only for business and economic benefit to the individuals concerned, but for service to the membership as a whole. Election of officers at the conclusion of the meeting saw George Veireck, treasurer of the Prince Rupert Fishermen's Credit Union, re-elected president of the Northern Co-Op Council. A Prince George district farmer, Wallie Klenzle of Beav-erley, was elected secretary. .Jack Hill of the city is one of seven directors. Other directors for the coming year are Ben Miller, Dawson Creek; Oliver Benson, Burns Lake; Corbin King. Terrace; Jack James, Vanderhoof and B. Sutherland, Massett. Terming the co-operative movement "still the one and lasting hope of ordinary citizens, such as ourselves," TV J. Robertson, president of B.C. Co-operative Union, brought greetings from the provincial and federal bodies in turning down the Conciliation bpard's majority report "may lead to 'trouble." The report granted workers a 3Vfc-cent across-the-board hourly wage increase plus three paid statutory holidays each year. Commenting on the rejection of the reports in the south, Mr. Sekora said "If 3V6-cents is all that is keeping some operators in business then they had better close because they are in a very precarious position." A government-supervised strike vote would have to he held in qpch union operation before a legal strike could be set In motion. Sites For Indusiry Prince George Board of Trade is now in a position to steer potential local industries towards available building sites here. A survey of available building locations for new industries was completed recently by the Trade Board's civic affairs committee Hedley under the direction of Millar, local manager Bank of Nova Scotia. for the J. A. Kennedy. ' Railways Minister Ralph Chet-wynd and perhaps other cabinet rninlsters will attend. Former P.G.E. President John Hospital Insurance Still A Puzzler VICTORIA, Oct. 2.'} (CP)—Health Minister1 Eric Martin plans a fact-finding tour of central and northern British Columbia in early November in an effort to obtain "grass roots" Information on the peoples' hospital Insurance wants. It was learned Wednesday the government's plan to bring delinquents into the .scheme — through suspension of arrears— has not, to date, had the desired effect, and the minister will go among the people to get the reasons first-hand. bridge where the ceremony of driving the last, .spike would take place. The train would then proceed to Prince George, arriving at the CNR station early in tin-afternoon. Mayor Garvln Dezell will attempt, to contact Premier W. A. C Bennett today to arrange for tin train to remain in the city longer than Is scheduled, Meantime the reception committee's plans will remain elastic enough to conform with schedule alterations. I'ians made last night center around a parade from the station to the Civic Arena following ;i brief trackslde ceremony, At the Civic Arciiu f.iblcs will bo sel for a IniK'1 '><'<•! barbecue which will cater »<> tin; parallel's and upwards of 100 passengers expected from nitaiies, and later free dances will he held in every available hall in the city. On hand will he the Canadian Legion hand anil a composite group of musicians from Quesnel and Williams Lake. An attempt wi|l also be made lo bring in the (Sec PLAN GALA, Pacje 5) Indian Girl Victim Of Brutal Beating A brutally beaten 25-year-old Indian girl is in only "fair" condition in Prince George and District Hospital this morning after being rushed here from her McLeod Lake home yesterday. The board is now in a position Suffering "multiple injuries to guide interested firms to many locations in and around the city. The sites were- listed through the co-operation of owners of the land who placed details of their property at Mr. Millar's disposal. Any other persons wishing to list industrial sites with the board should contact Mr. Millar or Trade. Board president Norman Napier, manager of the Royal Bank of Canada branch at (See SPEAKER SAYS, Page 4) Third Avenue and Quebec Street. according to hospital authorities is Sophie Solonas, wife of Andrew Solonas, a Fort McLeod Indian. Her husband is being held here by Royal Canadian Mounted Police pending laying of a charge of assault. Police here received a report yesterday afternoon of an Indian girl lying bleeding and unconscious in a Fort McLeod cabin. En route lo the scene with an ambulance the police party was intercepted by a Dawson and Mall Ltd. truck which was bringing the injured girl to Prince George for medical treatment. The girl was transferred to the ambulance and rushed to Prince George Hospital. Details of the affray in which the girl was badly boatcn are not yet known but police stated her .husband her up. h.'id admitted "heating Last Rites For First Polio Victim; More Cases Here Funeral services were conducted yesterday for Eleanor Rose Belcher, H year old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Clifford Belcher of Ale/.a Lake, who died in hospital here October 20. She was the first fatality from polio In this district, having been admitted to hospital suffering from the serious disease the previous Thursday. She was an outstanding school athlete. Survivors include her parents, a sister Donna May and two brothers, Gary and Leonard, Kev. Allan Kenney of the Pentecostal Tabernacle conducted the last rites, at 2 p.m. Pallbearers were John Dyck, Patrick Scully, EH Jervls and I). Radcllffe. Meanwhile Cariboo Health Unit officials this morning reported two more victims of the dread plague have been admitted to hospital here in the past two or three days. One is :i four-year-old boy from Penny, formerly resident. at Aleza Lake, and the other another 14-year-old girl from Aleza Lake.