An Independent Semi-Weekly Newspaper Devoted to the Interest of Centr ¦ *! I Northern British Columbia r~3ij; No. 52 _ (Two Sections) Prince George, B.C./THURSDAY, June 30, $4.00 per year 5c per copy AJ v?- % V *"v. Socreds Returned In Alberta Election EDMONTON, June- 30 (CP) — Alberta's Social Credit government is back in office today for the sixth consecutive term. It was returned in Wednesday's general election with a reduced but firm majority. The Liberal party, which formed the official opposition in the last legislature, gained strength. When counting ended Wednesday night this was the party standing compared with the result of the 1952 (bracketed) election. Social Credit 30 (52); Liberal 5 (4); Progressive Conservative 1 (2); Liberal-Progressive Conservative 1 (0); Coalition 1 (0); Independent 1 (0); Independent Social Credit 0 (1). Doubtful 22. Total 61. Both Premier Manning and Liberal leader Harper Prowse . were re-elected. Eight cabinet members were returned but Lands-Forest Minister Ivan Casey was defeated by Liberal-PC Ross Ellis in Okbtocks-High River, and Attorney General Lucien Mayn-ard and Provincial Secretary-Treasurer C. E. Gerhart are trailing in their ridings. Idles iscome A-wildcat strike has closed the big Eagle Lake'Sawmills Ltd. plant at Giscome following a prolonged dispute over the type of board available to employees. One hundred and sixty milt workers failed to report for work on Tuesday morning in an attempt to-force the company to ^ reopen the cookhouse. Representatives of ,the IWA held meetings with the company yesterday, and it is expected further meetings will be held today to explore the situation. Today slightly' conflicting' statements came from officials of the union and the Northern Interior Lumbermen's Association. An NILA spokesman said the strike is illegal and the union is liable for heavy penalties under the Labor Relations Act for "failing to make any attempt to get the men back on the job." He said adequate' eating facilities are available in Giscome for that stipulated in the union agreement. "Negotiations have been going ri with the company for over a year, but no progress has been made toward settlement. "All other companies are supplying board and lodging for $2.15 a day. Eagle Lake Sawmills provides tnis service at heir logging operations, but reuses to follow this procedure at their sawmill." employees mill. of the strike-bound Commenting on the dispute, a local official of the International Woodworkers of America said: "Last year the company closed the cookhouse without consulting the employees or the union and raised the price of lodging." "The cookhouse closure forced employees to find board elsewhere with the result that they had to pay a higher rate than Girl Guide Turns First Sod For Fine New Swimming Pool A 12-year-old member of First South Fort George Gir Guides-shared the spotlight with members of the city council, parks board and Kinsmen Club early yesterday afternoon at a brief and informal ceremony marking a start-on the construe tion of a modern outdoor swimming pool. At a tree-bordered spot in Block 57, Sharon Kelly, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. 'William .Kelly, sank a shovel into the rain-softened earth to turn the first sod. An excellent swimmer and an enclosed wading pool fo children. i I Eorly Sunday morning tiny Stone Creek, 22 miles south of Prince George was transformed into a raging, destructive torrent on the heels of an eight-hour deluge of rain which swept pcrcss the countryside. Upper view shows debris and uprooted trees being carried downstream toward the nearbyFraser River. At right a large tree has shattered remains of the store and post-office. The owner's living quarters, wrenched from their foundation, now rests 200 yards io^nstream (upper left). Below, spectators watch from the damaged bridge as large sections of the north bank umble into the turbulent water which gouged an 80-foot breach in the main highway. A temporary bridge was completed Tuesday, i ¦ —Craftsman Photographers Site Wanted For Equipment Depot The board of works has placed a proposal before city council that the city should take over Blocks 143, 144 and 145 for the building of a public works barn and maintenance shop. Blocks are located in the extreme south-western part of the cijy and will, require a (ill if they are to be used or that purpose. aribooRoad Traffic will start moving over Cariboo Highway south of juesnel late Saturday, according to word received here today from Public Works engineers who have had crews battling since last Sunday to breach huge gaps in the road at Sister's Creek, 110 miles south of Quesnel, and at'Australian Creek, 20 miles south of that town. a;iys Minister Saturday the pool is completed, Sharon was recommended for the honor by District Commissioner Ted Williams. Watching her were Mayor Gordon Bryant; Alderman Carrie Jane Gray, chairman of the parks committee; S. H. Perry, chair-^rnan of - the Parks tBoard,'. "and' Tommy Norton; fjir^ident of the Kinsmen Club, whose" members planned the pool and raised $6200 for its construction before the project was turned over to the city. . Mayor Bryant paid a tribute to the Kinsmen Club and to Aid. Gray for. the work performed by them in laying plans for a swimming pool, which will be admim stered by the Parks Board. Mr. Norton said the pool was "a culmination of the dreams of the Kinsmen Club." Mrs. Gray and Mr. Perry also spoke briefly following the sod-turning ceremony. Another interested onlooker was W... F. Robertson, who will superintend" construction of the pool for Beaver Construction Co. Ltd. of Vancouver. The firm has signed a contract to' complete the project before September 20 at a cost of $78,548. ¦ Included in the undertaking is Payments For Mains Extended Residents of the Vanbow area who have not yet been connected to a city water supply will have_ their payments extended another two. months, city council decided. Vanbow property owoners petitioned the city for water early last year and the city decided to proceed with installation of. the mains providing that all residents near the projected water lines take advantage of the service. According to an agreement made with the city this year the payment for the installation of the water is to be made in a single down payment and four other payments to be made in consecutive months. Water was supposed to be connected by June 30 and payments were to begin on July 1. The ¦>• main pool, of siandan , concrete construction, will be 10. An excellent swimmer and a po-, feet long aM .,5 fm wi(, witl !t"^LI?aClK>1Ll.^!!irenc^"!a dePth t0 thelVater level o: "">v>" " "' """" ' nine feet at one end and 42 inche at the opposite end. At the .southwest end there will be a dressing room, showers, lockers and cashier's office. Other accessories include three diving boards at the deep end of the New Hospital Gets Help From Club At a recent meeting of Cariboo Amateur Athletic Club the members decided Ao donate 40 per cent of the net proceeds of all major shows in the Civic Centre to the Prince George hospital building fund. The club ha$ received the sanction of the B.C. Amateur Boxing Association to stage a boxing card in the.Civic Centre tomorrow, July I. Mr. Robertson said work would start immediately and that 15 men would be employed at the peak period of construction. Site of. the pool is in the block ipunded by Wainwright and A'atrous1 streets and Third and fourth avenues. Gaglardi uly minister Evans Jones fverp m Quesnel yesterday to '•''¦!¦._ highway damage as rail "I road crews fought round the °'ck tn unsnarl the biggest traf-ul> in the history of Cen-('. following last Sunday's ial downpour. li of Quesnel heavy conation equipment is being *"i onto the job today and repairs at - Sisters K- ti hi Hone '¦ Sul true |1K 15 day all be completed in about "ilcling of the highway at liun will take about 30 ¦......... is being .re-routed over l";( I'1'!', at Cuisson Creek, where !-•'<' was condemned after ure pier was damaged, is 27 miles south J'lrnie&on. Construction Co. is lll(1intL_a new fill to eliminate ^¦damaged bridge.. '. lhl 'liarkerville'' road is still " '-¦'' ( Vn ton wood bridge where ^¦approach' was washed away. .'filers are moving across "' hi"'ik by boats but' freight wyemenf is impossible. Repairs Hi n°< bo possible until the rlv-'". ]cvel drops. Supplies of milk anci beer are L|BlnK ]6\v at Quesnel. - ' I- Mvanrlnie all hotels' and mo-s aL Williams' Lake and Prince George are jammed with stranded motorists. An estimated 300 travellers are waiting here:for*word.that roads have been repaired south.of Quesnel. , .M».st reliable estimates are that it will be three weeks before traffic is resumed, on the PGE. The_bridge at Cottonwood Creek has been badly damaged and. may have to be replaced by a trestle. At "Stone Creek three piers of the railway span have been waslied away. At Cottonwood Flats, 20 miles north of Quesnel, a detour has been built around 300 feet of the (See "Cariboo Road" Page 3) Cache Residents Relax As Nechako River Down Earlier fears the several hundred families may have to be evacuated from the Cache area be- tween the CNR tracks Nechako River were and the removed Tuesday when the river started to recede from the high level of the previous day. ' Many low-lying areas are under water and several families have been forced to abandon their homes. The Cache school, built in a depression, is surrounded by water. The Nechako, still carrying the delayed spring run-off and swo'i-" len by heavy week-end rains, also McBride Families Flooded Out tod cannot be estimated until the been on a rampage for days and witfe the heavy rains has overflowed its banks' on the north side of the town. Several • families had to be evacuated when the water rose two feet around east from .the Fraser River" bridge for over a quarter of a mile was impassable i'for cars early tins to a depth of their homes. The highway only a through. fewr" trucks week and could get lies lbst all their winter's wood which floated down river. the Cloudy, cool weather of the past few. days is having its effect, and it is expected the river level will drop. But it will be some time before conditions return to normal. Beaver River,.seven miles east of JVlcBride, has also spilled-over its banks. Sawmill operations have been halted and there will , be some unemployment until tl?« . to honies on the north river subsides, , flooded portions of some river-bank farms west of Prince George. The river went down more than seven inches Wednesday, according to measurements in the Cache. It is the opinion of people who are well acquainted with the Nechako River that the Kenney Dam has prevented serious flood ing this yearNon the lower reach es of the river. "The extra-drainage-fr&in—the huge Alcan reservoir watershed would have spelled disaster this -year," remarked an oldtimer. City Wants Ban On Noisy Weddings The razzle-dazzle of post wed ding car rides will soon be stopp ed if city council has its way. At Monday night's council meeting~ Alderman William Ferry, who has his offices on Third Avenue .where the wedding caravans frequently pass, sat in silence while other members of the council, §11 married, laughed at his proposal. But the young bachelor juiT took another puff of his cigar. Council will be writing a- letter to police officials requesting that action be taken to ban the hora-laonking marriage celebrants. $182,000 Wafer Main Contract Goes To Prince George Firm Tenders Called For Hart Highway School Tenders have been called for erection of a four-classroom elementally school on the Hart Highway, one mile north of Prench-ie's Cafe. Bids will be received at the office of the secretary-treasurer of school district 57 up to 5 p.m. on July 19 and will be opened at S p.m. the same evening. The school will have accommodation for some 100 pupils from Grades 1 to 6 whose homes are in the fast growing Hart High way settlements and on the old Salmon Valley and Chief Lake roads. During past terms, students in the area from Grades 1 to 4 have attended two separate one-class room schools," while those enroll ed in Grades 5 and 6 have been transported by bus to city schools. Plans and specifications for the Hart Highway school may be obtained from Jolyon Briggs, archi tects, i705 Third Avenue. Tenders must be accompanied by a bid bond or certified chequ< made out to the Board of Schoo Trustees of School District 57 in the amount of five, per cent o the bid. Motorist Fined $50 For Impaired Driving .A youthful motorist was fined $50 and costs for impaired driving yesterday in police court. ' Edward Kovach was- found ru ilty of the ehargo after he' was arrested by a RCMP patrol on the Cariboo highway, about 12.miles south of here. It was reported that the car driven by the accused hit a horse-in the vicinity of Calc. Creole" Store. Fred Welsh and Son Ltd., city plumbing and heating firm, has been awarded a $182,000 contract for the installation of new water mains in the city! Decision to give the firm the job came at Monday night's meet-ng of the city, council. Contracts were let for the installation of the new mains as the first-part of a $245,000 money by-,aw endorsed by city voters less than two weeks ago. Only other bid opened on Monday night was from Jamieson lonstruction Co. of this city. Council" called for bids on two types of pipe and prices were quoted by the two companies, on cast iron pipe and cement-asbestos pipe. On the cast iron pipe Jamieson placed a bid of $87,918.90 and Welsh bid $91,642.40. For cement-asbestos pipe Jamieson Construction tendered a price of $81,009.50 and Fred Welsh and Son Ltd. placed a bid of $80,785.58. Welsh's bid on the Transite pipe was the lowest and was accepted by a majority ruling. This pipe will be used in the laying of new water mains in the centre and outskirts of the city. . Also part of the money by-law, but not being let out by contract, is the replacement of old water-mains in the city center and residential districts.;. The city hopes to undertake'' 'tlfis Job it--self. Building of a water reservoir on top of Carney Hill, near the golf course, is expected under a contract plan and it is hoped to be finished before the winter season begins. . ' Cement • asbestos (Transite) pipe is a relatively new type of conduit for northern areas. It* has been found that it is more frost and rust resistant in comparison with cast iron. Fred Welsh & Son Ltd., in their Third Avenue showroom, have samples of a similar pipe to "Transite" taken from Roman aquaduets at least 500 years ago. Only 'one-eighth of an inch of silt has collected on it. Officials of the plumbing firm hope' to begin work within a week. Off The Wires Today . (Canadian Press, Thursday, June 30) Bennett Turns Down Requests Of Hospitals Delegation VICTORIA-—Premier-Bennett indicated Wednesday- that, the provincial government will neither relent on its wage-freeze order for hospitals nor permit on increase in co-insurance. ^ Both measures were discussed with the cabinet Tuesday by a delegation from the Hosoitals' Association. Bennett said the government "docs not look with favor ori putting an increased load on the people who are sick." He ofiked delegates to go back and meet with their medical staffs to increase ^efficiency and hold down costs, - Heavy Rainfalls Recorded Here In the last 6even days 2.15 inches of rainfall have been recorded .at the Prince George Airport. % ^TrincefGeorge-^will have more clouds and more showers today and .tonight, according to this morning's weather forecast. However, there will ^ be a few sunny periods Friday« ' VANCOUVER—A convention to review provincial policies, is expected to be called here this fall by the British Columbia Liberal party. Provincial headquarters announced Wednesday a convention probably will be colled for at the July 4 meeting of the advisory council; NEW WESTMINSTER—Welfare Minister Martin said Wednesday in addressing the annual convention of the old age pensioners organization that the provincial government is preparing a plan for continued employment of "valuable civil servants"^ after the normal retirement age. LANGLEY—Joy Edwards, 13, Langely Prairie, died in hospital Wednesday after she had been dragged for half a mile by a bolting horse.