LIBRARY VICTO
An Independent   Semi-Weekly   Newspaper   Devoted   to   the   Interest   of   Central   and   Northern^   <Hsh   Columbia
lvol-37;
No. 46.
(Two Sections)
Prince George, B.C., MONDAY, June 14, 1954
 year
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\§tudent Safety Patrol Guards Life and Limb of Schoolmaies\Bowie Nominated To
CCC Directorship
the backing of the RCMP and the
Motorists are asked to exercise
as  the  leading patrol  for
Iportunity to Rerform a service Ir'theif fellow students and jt .,, sihu' lime make ji vital con-Motion to highway safety.
If you drive a car or truck, ou'vi -vi-n thorn every morning, ,«,:, and afternoon during school ,mi.s. as they stand alert with BisiFetched'arms to protect their iri'les.s schoolmates from- the anger linking at busy traffic in-Ejections.
Inspiration for the formation of he School Safety Patrol came rom (Ki'G's "Chuck" Cawdell, rho"enlisted the willing help of fo Junior Chamber of Commerce. |i.!iii CooRe; vice-principal of Kintj .y V Klementary School, and Sister Superior of Sacred • School, were also ,actively ested, and the movealso had
^turned a committee,
the project over to
<j>f Prince  George    Rotary
headed by "Chuck" Ewert.
At first the-young patrolmen— and patrol women—were^supplied
with white belts and
adges for
"on duty" wear by t-fie.JCC and the American Autojrfobile Association.  Now various city
tary. Club and groups    have
furnished any/vt yellow "slickers" and neat black and white caps, and thos<r have become symbols of safety to both motorists and youngi-and old pedestrians in Prince George.
Each month during the school Jerm the patrol members frow the various schools compete for a shield donated by the School Board. This has now been won for three consecutive months by Sacred Heart  School, which  will
¦Sacred Heart (center) holding the coveted trophy.
Competition for the honor will be. resumed at the start of the Xalll-term next September.
Soon, the safety-conscious will be missing from their accustomed corners as schools close for the long summer recess. But they'll be back when classes start again and there is once more the menace of wheeled traffic at the main street intersections in the vicinity of the larger schools in the city.
The Rotary" Club is very pleased with the manner in which the members of the safety patrol have carried out their duties, and are justified in believing they have been mainly responsible for the*1 absence of traffic accidents involving children going to and coming  from city schools.
ing intersections during the peak traffic hours. They are also asked td respect the boys and girls who stand on guard in all kinds of weather to protect them and their schoolmates from the ever-present danger of traffic accidents.
Standing at the rear are; Left tojight, Alex Bowie, president of the Rotary Club and Board of Trade; Chuck Ewert, chairman of Rotary's school safety patrol com mittee; John Morrison, committee member, and teachers Allan Wright, MarOn KaldesTad a Miss Alma Kippen, ~ who have supervised the organization and assignment of the patrols.
Other members of the Rotary committee are Charlie East and Pete Bancroft.
—Wally West Studios'
—The—P-r-ince—George— BiSard-Trade Is preparing resolutions for submissions at the convention.
 Perry Criticize Blanket Vote
IPGE Northern Link Should Have
'riority State
Spokesmen
Addressing an audience of more than one hundred in j He Elks' Hall Thursday night, Arthur Laing, M.L.A. for Van-Ojver-Point Grey and aggressive leader of B.C. Liberals, said Ijis party agreed wtih the proposed extension of the P.G.E. north inlo the Peace River but-eould not support the southern extension, which he estimated would^-cost about $22,000,000.
u will, be Jittle freight for ivern merit-owned lirie be-Squamishs and  Vancouver,
steel   mishlNte  pusiied^ north   to Davvson  CieoK\only to\find  the
will be different in the j nar had beat th\m into theheart the Prince  Gfeqrge-Peace j of the Peace JRlver\Block.'' x
"The Peace" Rlvershas become isolated from the rest of B.C., and 1 would like to see it\brought back into this province."
Me I
extension, Mr. Laing said, elief the -Liberals had op-"<¦ northern extension pro-came froih the fact that iad. protested a blanket ap-atlon for const ruction of ends of the line, and the i warned: that there may ¦ enough  money remaining
the   southern   extension   is I the Liberals had'opposed the link lifted to build the line Into race River.   •
The Vancouver News-Herald, a Social Credit organ, had contended the southern extension wouM cost more than the $10,000,000 estimated by. the government, but  h    lik
r Laing also blasted Premier it'll for his vacillation on the lion of PGli extension or a way to link Vancouver ami intish. The premier,, he said, announced -he would build iui I way, - then- had- said he I'l build 4he road, and as it '¦inds,   apparently   planned
¦   Liberal   leader, had   been
"I statistics on the economy
S(|tiatnish-Vancouver  area
'iKinioi Hennett, who in 1051
' :itkiized   (he  southern   ex-
yln Bennett is a very difficult, w pin down on any point;" 1 -ling  declared.  "The  great
lllualf <>ur province lies/north,
tliq Liberals believe/^-andal-li ave bel.leved—t>at the nor-
"¦'¦ 'Xtcnsion   shotfld  be  built
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Vis audience thai resident of the had sja'id  the Northern Al-
reminded Id Gordb
d hh X\  P
I;"ri;'-.KaiWvay would extend that dnJ north to Fort St. John, and Jhiit nK,,.e was no justification for '"ding the PGE over the Rock-Into the Peace. The Liberals wanted the premier to come •me agreement with the CNR CPR regarding railway trans*
The  province had  worked   for years   to  develop  ideal   relations between  labor  and   management, believing the-government should separate itself as far as possible from "the eternal contest between employer and employee.   Instead, j sy the Social Credit goyjwTHTient has ]/${ <Sce ARTHUR LAING, Poge 2)
Gov'l Can See Nee For Pulp Mill H
.Desirability of Bteerlng a pulp mitt development-to this area has not been overlbok*e<t/by thegojV ernment, Hon. R./E. Sommers, Minister of Lan/i's, informed the Prince George.Board of Trade by letter last wpek. Mr. Somrners was replying to a
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letter wxnten by the trade board's trade ^amd industry commute.
Prince, George Trade Board president A. G. Bowie was nom-nated by the board on Thursday or a directorship in the Canad-an Chamber of Commerce.
Mr. Bowie was not available to comment on his nomination but it Is believed that he 'will accept.
Nominations for three British Columbia directors must be in he hands of the CCC. by July 1 .and each nomination must be supported by three boards of trade or chambers of commerce.
Prince George Board of Trade will seek support for Mr. Bowie's nomination through the Association Boards of Trade of Northern and Central British Columbia.
In addition to nominating it$ own president, the Prince George Boaftl will support the nomlna tlon xiKw. J. Scott of Prince Ru pert and^^V. S. Raikes, assistant general mafraRer of the Bank of Montreal, Vancouver.
Annual convem4on of the Can adian Chamber of \Tommere wll
be at Halifax commencing Octob-
er 4
Spun Collapse Cuts Vital Highwa
Cariboo Highway traffic came to a halt at Quesnel at 6:45 p.m. yesterday wherTa 40-ton gravel-crusher plant destined for Vanderhoof bVougbt obout the total collopse cf the south span of the Quesnel River^bridge.
One emergency route bypassing------------------------------------------
the collapsed bridge is now in and the south will only be resum-service and a second more direct ed with completion of the tempor-route should be open by mid-after- ,ary facilities over the P.G.E. span.
noonx today.
A 70-foot   long section  of  the' south span,of the wooden bridge jack-knifed when a public ..works department lowbed  trailer carry- j ing the crushing unit eased onto the south span.
The Alexandria Ferry 1m limited to maximum loads <>r five tons and is carrying only pcries-irinns anil automobiles.
Greyhound   Bus    Lines   saved their  service   from   interruption/
Frank" HaTrod,   driver   of   the ' bv stat»°ni"K a bus on the^vest truck pulling the trailer, scrambl-, slde of the Alexandria crossing. ed to safety as the debris settled'    Bu     p                 dibrk
around him on the riverbank; below,
Bus   passengers  disembarii   at Ferry   Landing   and/resume j their trip    In another/Vehicle on
Provincial engineers swung into action to set. up alternative routes ' before the dust had settled.           ,
Traffic in today bj-pasKing the broken and twisted bridge by a chruitioiis ' roiito which makes use of the Alexandria Ferry and the Fra«er River bridge at Quesnei.
 ^     other side.
 Damage to the/(Juosnel River  bridge and JLo the huge crushing  plant runs in_^o thousands of dol- lars.'
 Men onAhe scene today state  that th^r entire south truss will  have^o be. replaced, a job which  I may-'    k               h
 t  th^r entire  south  truss  e^o be. replaced, a job w  y-' take a month or more.
A crew of men worked all last; "/Eyewitnesses to the collapse of night and is still at work today/Xne span say that the structure creating a temporary crossing by settled slowly with a wrending means of a Pacific Great Eastern crash of timbers. Railway bridge a quarter/mile Members of the Prince,George from the broken span.    /-         j Players, returning from the One-,
A   tpmpnrany_.mad—tqAhra-caU.—Act—P-lay—Festival—4n—PenHetoiV
road bridge has been cut through were stranded for several hours and the deck of the^an is being *arly this morning by the bridge ptenkdtnbdaie cars afuiTcoitapse.
trucks.
Thieves Get $1245 In Loot From 'Bay' Store
Thieves who forced tfreir woy into the rear of the Hud-
son's Bay Company•srorje7at Third Avenue and Quebec Street Friday night or early/Saturday morning escaped with $1245 hf^, a store official declared
this morning.
The theft was/disco voted by a Hudson's Bay/Company employee shortly aftcr/S a.m. on Saturday.
Police camped the scene of the break-in/Saturday and are working on/several leads.
It/Is considered probable that mpre than one man was involved Jn the break-in and that a truck or car was used to carry off the loot.
The   thieves -gained  entry   by
 Tcoitapse.
 /                          >    Tne &lm|P reached the bridge
Truck traffic between Quesnel | late last  night, travelling in the
car of George Riggs. When they found   the bridge- out/    Mr.  and Mrs. Riggs decided m stay  vyjth the cur    until  they,could drive, across "today. <-¦ .. V
The rest j)f the group, Lil Beech, Fran Gibbins, Gwen Stairs and James "Mac" MacNaughton, walked across the railway bridge lo Quesnel, wbere they phohwi Prince George and were picked up later by George Gibbins and Dick Hughes.
The group had presented "Fum-! ed Oak" at the Penticton festival
forcing  a small  window situated ! onJ^e.
at the rear of the building   about 12 feet from the ground.
Once inside the store the. men made quick work of gathering a quantity of men's clothing off the racks and picking up seven pieces of luggage.
Using   a  hacksaw   which   they ] found sawed door and made their escape.^
Yesterday's south span collapse was not the first misfortune suffered by the Quesnel River span.
Some years ago the north span collapsed in .similar., fashton from a heavy load..  .-
There wercnO' special Joad ry-strletiorjs'on the bridge at tbo s south truss was deitihltsh-......1-..   •rN.-i------.   0D!ververs
in   the building   the  men' etf^yest^rday, Quesnel through a hasp on a rearl   state\       -           '
Referendum Goes Down For Second Time As'No's Increase
Prince George SchoplrDistrict's $2,060,000 school expansion referendum was defeated on Friday for the second time
Little   Girls' In  Police Found
Bicycl
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 northern B.C. se," he said, "the
jecause theirxe«timate was $22,-000,000.                         a
"If   this   money   is   expended/ down there, I can tell will  be  no  money north from your eity.,"'1he/£peak-ur declared.
However, ho could
Bo-nnej \>--could__justify    building-
both   railway  and/nighway,  side by   side,     for Just   41   miles of "rocky Nviklcriless." BUDGET' y
Turning to finances, the speaks or saicKthe provincial budgerhad doubled in the past four years, and the Social Credit government ,1s now collecting $170 frOra every man, woman and child in' B.C. Alberta, another Social Credit province,, is collecting $167. Comparative figures for other provinces. I were: Ontario, SSO; Quebec, $77;, and Manitoba, $59.
Said Mr. Laing: "The Liberals believe the ¦ duty of the government is to leave as much earned money as possible in the hands of the people—the people distribute wealth better than governments." LABOR KE1.ATIOXS ACT
Mr. Laing labelled the Labor Relations Act "another blunder of inexperienced government," and said it would, in effect, dump every employer-employee dispute "into the lap of the government."
Some little girl wiWnas been without her bicyclejsrfnce last December may get IJ/back again if she wills at the Ideal office of the Royalv^Canadian Mounted Police on Seventh .Avenue.
RCMPlfeye been holding a .small bifycleNiinceDecember. 15 w4ii^ch/wa,s picked^up at the king Geopge V Klenicntary School. /T1k?nbicycle is a sunshine make rind bears the "seriaK number -008350.   \,
Police are also holding a metal tool box- containing plumbing tools and fittings which has been in their found box since December 1952.
Owners may pick up the lost articles at  the polic.e_ office after
\y/ote the minister,   'I can as
re you that the potentialities your area as a site of a pulp and paper industry have not been' overlooked and the establishment of.a plant or plants has been discussed with interested parties on a number of occasions^
"Thereis no question about the availability of raw material, and 1 am confident that as soon as economic conditions permit there will be oiie or more pulp mills operating in the upper Fraser watershed.
"In the meantime, the government is fully aware of the desirability of establishing a pulp industry in the region and management plans are draughted accordingly."
Mr. Sommers pointed out that sufficient raw material to supply a large pulp mill is being wasted in the woods and at .mills already established' here today; He said this material is available without cutting a single acre more  than
satisfactorily   identifying  them.       is being logged today.
in a month as city voters turned out in force to protest the program.                                    ,------     *--------------------------------
The referendum failed tbspass £jB?f50 vote margin which would have  given   it   tho   GO   per  cent
 Collapse of the span* yesterday .came as more of a surprise be-V cause a similar crushing unit hart I been moved' across it \yitliout in-jciflont a weck'figo.
Work on salvage of the (ruck and crusher will get underway as soon as the emergency bypass rnute is completed.
The two units are on dry grountl bj»Io>v wh».>re the span was. located and a- few feet« from the-rivurbank.
Chetwynd Supporting City Route For PGE
South Fort, Otwqy Crossings Feasible
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Routing of rhe Pacific-Great Eastern Railway south and
west of Prince George and involving the construction of two high-level bridges would be no more expensive than any other route northwards which,has so tar been suggested, Hon. Ralph Chetv/ynd, Minister of Railways, informed the Prince George Board of Trade by letter this week.
Approval required for its passage. Protest against the huge five-. year school building program was stronger Friday than it was when the referendum was first defeated on May 1-1.
The man wIiohc committee iliil the planning behind the program, Trustee H. A. Moffat, will place his resignation in the hands of the board this week,   possibly  tomorrow.
So far ^Mr. Moffat is the only one'of four city trustees who has indicated an intention to resign.
School Iward chairman Trustee-Robert Range could not be reached for comment and nor could Trustee Jack Nicholson.   /
Trustee William Rees/ipld The Citizen today he was/not ready to discuss the possibility that he rriay resign.
Mr. Moffat's resignation will result in a school board election within 30 days. •
While rural voters came out
Young Girl Dies n P.G. Hospital
Dolores    Schlitt,    nine-year-old
just as .strongly in favor of tin* referendum at the second voting,    city   forces   opposing the
expenditure gained .strength.
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VotesXapproving the referendum totalled 52 per cent of the number of ballots cast, just eight per cent'-short of-'the required number.
When the samex\referendum was placed before, theX'lectorate on.May 14 it was defeateosby less than three per cent.   s
City, hall oppositierT to tite referendum did not diminish dur-
(See REFERENDUM, Poge 3)
Briefcase   Presented  To UIC Veterans' Officer
Arvid Westman, veteran's officer for the Unemployment In-surance Commission here for the. past three years, was presented with a brief case befqye^Teaving at. the week-end ftma' now position in Courtetjay:
Irvine Moss, manager of the local office, made the presentation on-b'ehalf of the UIC Staff Association.
Also present to express regret. ^it his departure were Bernard McKenzie, ,president  of  the  UIC
,  p ("Staff. Association and Jack llond,
Trappers Coming Here Wednesday, Thursday
Trappers   and   game   conserva-loni^ from a wide areaW Cen-J!"1 B-C will converge on Prince tj-orge    next     Wednesday    and I'liursday fot. tlie annuai meeting 1      U.C.    :Rcgfcfcrcd     Trappers' Ot-iaiion  (Northern Zone). Meetings will  be  held  In  the
CCF Hall, Fourth Ayentie.
Game seasons, prdpagation methods and other matters of importance to RTA members and outdoor sportsmen will be discus-ried at the two-day meeting under the chairmanship .of President C. H  Oldsv pf Prince George.
The minister's letter was the first intimation that the government may be'reconsidering what has always been advocated as the most logical railway, route north from Prince Georgei "
His letter came in reply toxa trad£*(board resolution emphaslz-ing'She assets of the route south and west of the city.
Hopes that the railway -might eventually take this route have twice been dashed within the past year. ~
First Indication that the route encircling the city, was belng.no longer considered ^s feasible can^jf\ almost a year ago whenjhe provincial gove'rnwtnt lifted a reserve on land over which it would be located.
Last week a second blow came when it was learned that an impending survey of the extension between Prince George   and  the
Peace River would start with work at a proposed Fraser River crossing site near Willow. River. HOPES SOAR
But the railway minister's letter read to the board of trade on Thursday-, night sent hopes for tiie city (hiefrelement route soaring.'
Wrote the minister, "I will have your resolution read at the next board of director's meeting accompanying plans and argu ments which I have .already in preparation dealing with the in tenft of this resolution.
"May 1 take this opportunity to congratulate your mover's and seconder's constructive thinking in the matter. I might addmy"per sonal reaction in that jtfter a fair
ly exhaustive study^of. costs sucl a route as proposed by your com HfTWYND, Poge 5)
sehlltt, died Thursday evening m Prince Georgp and District Hospital, where she had been a patient for six days.
The young ''girl ^ had - been,lTn; volvcd in an automobile accident on the Quesnel Highway on March 10, 1953, and it is reported that ishc had never regained her health.    ¦     ----            r   ---s
Surviving are her parents, two sisters, Evelyn arid Hedy, four brothers, Joseph, Frederick, Herbert and , Daniel, all at home on the Quesnel Highway in the-Tabor Creek District.
Funeral services were.
2 p.m. this afternootv-ffbm Hager Memorial Baptisf^Church with Rev. Phil Daum officiating.
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(Canadian  Press  News
Quesnel Youth Victim Of Highway Accident Sunday
QUESNEL—Herb Foster, 21, of Quesnel wos killed near-here early Sunday when his car collided, with a heavy oil truck on the Cariboo Highway. RCMP identified the driver of the truck as James C. Moxom. No charges will be laid, they said. Three passengers in Foster's car, Henry Teichroeb ond Mr. and Mrs. Dahl, escaped with minor injuries. They are all from Quesnel. The Occident occurred nine miles south of Quosncl. Another automobile smashed into the stalled" truck after Hie accident, but no one wos hurt in the second collision.
VANCOUVER—An emergency resolution calling for the resignation cf Rod Young from the B.C.-Yukon section of the CCF was narrowly defeated Saturday at the close of the party's 21st annual convention here. Young, former CCF Member of Parliament, threw the convention into an uproar Friday by declaring "I'm proud to have people tell jne I'm a Communist. ' A  resolution, demonding  that   he ""resign wos  rejected by  a  vote  of  62^
Another resolution disassociating the party with any remarks^rrTodc by Young regardihg Communism or Communists was passed by^a substanciol majority. Young was overwhelmingly defeated in the^party's presidential contest by Frank McKenzie, Vancouver lawyer. ^^'
Ex-Mayor Of Medicine Hat Killed In Traffic Accident
CLOVERDALE, B.C.—Isaac BuUttfant, former mayor of Medicine Hat, Alto., for 13 years, was killecpino traffic accident near, here Saturday night.                      ¦         ^^
Bullivant, his ywfe, Olive, and another passenger were riding in a car which collidcd^vrifh another automobile while they were on a plcosurc drive from thcif'-tTomc in White Rock; 35 miles south of Vancouver.
^-Mrs. Bullivant was unhurt but a passenger, whose identity, was "w.ith-Kcld by RCMP, suffered a fractured pelvis and shoulder ond head lacerations. Occupants of the other car escaped Injury.
MEETING   CANCELLED
McBRlUE—A scheduled meet ing of Hon. R. G. Williston with McBride Farmers" Institute or 7unc 17 has been cancejled. Mr Williston   Was   In   McBride  last
TORONTO^—CpllistecCa brown colt owned by the Burfit SlaCle of Hamilton, Saturday won the classic Queen's Plate before ad«appointing crowd of only 18,000. Queen's Own was second, a ncckjt»cnind. King Maple was third.
ST. BONIFACE, Man— Siamcse-'fwin boys, born in hospital here Thursday as part of a triple birthter'a young St. Boniface mother, died early Sunday while still in ^rj^irtcubator. The twins, which had a common pelvis, and shared a nunibcfof vitol organs, died at the same tim«,- A hospital doc-
week and bai left for the south,  ''tor sold: "TJicfe was never any doubt of the outcome; just how sooni"