e en An Independent Semi-Weekly News ted fa th« Interest of Central and Northern British Columbia I 39; No. 55 er Garib g *o|—=____ §" 9 3 -3 & ^ree Section*) I pig------ WEATHER Mostly sunny Friday, cooler, winds light. Lovf .tonight 40, predicted high Friday 70. y Prince George, B.C., THURSDAY, July 12, 1956 $4.00 per year 5c per copy g u «¦ urist Final Rites Friday For judge E. D. Woodburn ' ludge Eric Donaldson Woodburn, for ,13 years County uii Judge at Prince George, died in Shaughnessy s* ' Hospital at Vancouver Tuesday. ,, ,,,.,,1 services will be held LiVat Christ Church Cathed-| ,',i Vancouver, the Very Rev. „ jtorthcote Burke officiating. family has requested that no I uiers be -sent to the services. ' liidiic Woodburn is survived, his wife, Naomi; a daughter, | s Charles Atlee, of Grimsby,! ,' ihrcc grandchildren, and a ,;,,.[-, Ian H. Woodburn of ruler Harbor, B.C. UJecause of failing health Judge ,,l'l.iim retired only recently , the bencli here at Prince rge. He suffefed a stroke in inliO;". 1052, and never fully "verwi from the effect on his lalth. . |\ judge of the County Court CaiilK)o since 1942, he was ¦:i In Liverpool, England, and connected with the world-tnous Donaldson shipping fami-,,f Scotland, Jounders of the bnaldson Line. |He came to Vancouver as a boy 12 and when admitted to the at the aw of 21 he became of the youngest articled law Intents ever to be called to the ti.sli Columbia Bar. iidu'e Woodburn first came to Cariboo in 1033 when he cs-wished a branch of the Vancou-law firm of Brown & Wood-n at the historic town of Bark-ville. lLaier he moved to Quesnei here he practised law until loitly after the outbreak of Foild War II, as a partner in firm of Wilson, White & He was 53. JUDGE E. D. WOODBURN Dirt Hauling Deal A! SiastdstiSI Now Dirt, from n Third Avenue fx; cavation to the Little League hall park adjacent to the Civic Center has ncit been moved yet. Last Tuesday evening Parks Board' decided to accept an offer from the city's engineering department to' have the dirt moved to the ball diamond at a -^ price per cubic yard. An official of the department j promised that the operation j would begin within a couple of days. In the meantime Little League play at the park has been halted, I the juniors have been playing on ; Duchess Park near the high | school. Dirt moving from the Carney Hill ¦.•¦reservoir operation to the park ended some time ago and ieft the ball field half covered .with an excavation four feet in height. I Ho served with the Seaforth liiihlanrlcrs during World War rl shortly after his discharge (See WOODBURN, Poge 2) Light Docket For [ounty Court Here A light docket is awaiting His Judge Bruce Boyd of Van-buver when he arrives here next leek to conduct sittings of tl\e Vmty court. lEiwin 0. Steele. of Dawson |cok will .stand trial on charges breaking and entering three irviee stations in that area. ] Wayne Wokhlnkowskl, Prince ">rge is scheduled to appear on [charge of having possession of offensive weapon dangerous the public peace. In addition to the criminal als, a citizenship court will be ld Tuesday morning at which new Canadians .will receive v citizens-nip certificates, 24 will be examined by Judge M'f'r.-ml. y To Be Represented Dominion Meeting ll'rincc George's deputy mayor «rrle Jano Cray wM.be MMg fficlal delegate at the' an- of the Canadian ¦ ¦: 'Tiit ion of Mayors and Muni-IPalities to be held in Hamilton, intario. ! The meeting will be theld '0 to 23 inclusive: unoof the main resolutions to nic before the body 4s one pre-j.ied by the IMnce George coun- calling for Increased grants 1 the federal government for •sp.ilal construction. Already dozens of organized ¦elnalMes throughout B.C. dVe.«n(lorsed't'hel resolution. 75 Homesites Going On Sale Some 75 bxiilding lots just south of th^ • Engineers, Bridgemen Prepare To Tackle Salmon Valley Span Oiit at Salmon .Valley, approximately 20 miles north of Prince George, work crews of Northern Construction and. J. W. Stewart Construction Co. Ltd. are back on the job again laying the foundation for the Pacific Great Eastern Railway's bridge over the turbulent river. With only one pier still to be- Preparation for the pouring of the last concrete pier for the construction of the Salmon River bridge got underway again this week after a two-month delay due to high waters of the Salmon. This will be one of six bridges north of Prince George to be built for the Pacific Great Eastern Railway on its long march into the Peace River country. Firm Bids Double Estimated Cost Cily Work Crews May Launch Million-Dollar Sewer Project City of Prince George may go it alone in the construction this year of the first phase of a $1,000,000 sewer constructed, work, was halted at the end of April because of flooding by the fast-running Salmon. Today workmen were assembling the framework for the construction of a coffer dam and if all goes well the concrete piers will be ready for steel erectors within about six weeks. Dominion Bridge Co. crews will move to the Salmon River crossing just as soon asthey have completed the. bridge over the Fraser ov. General ere Governor-General Vincent Massey will' pay a quick 'isit to Prince .George next week. ^Accompanied by his son, Lionel e5ey> and a cordon of news- n>i t ?ai speak t0 ^e Canad-'"¦ uub here Tuesday, July 17. 1 ne^ov*rnor^enera^ will trav-' n Prince George via the Can- ian National Rupert. Railway from after spending the earlier part of the week at the famous Calgary Stampede. The Queen's highest-ranking emissary in Canada will speak to members of the Canadian Club At Pefk following a dinner to the banquet Pfesent he is, in Vancouver, room of the Prince George Hotel. River near here. So far they are about half-way across the F'raser. The Salmon River bridge will be* a single span, 200 feet long and will be one of about six lm-jiortant bridges between Prince George and the Peace River coiin-try over which the PGE will lay its tracks on the long road north. • Man In charge- of testing and supervising the preparation of the hundreds of yards of concrete for the approaches and piers, of the Salmon bridge is an energetic Al-ber-tan named Bill Gibbons. ¦ Employed by G. S. Eldrldge Co. Ltd., Vancouver, chemical analysts for the PGE, it was Gibbons whose job it was to test every yard of the thousands of tons of (Sec ENGINEERS PREPARE, Page 6) Stolen Car Found On First Avenue Royal Canadian Mounted Police this week found a car which was stolen earlier from Kamloops on First Avenue. Police said it bears the exact identification of the vehicle missing from the central B.C. center. No arrests have been made yet in connection "with the theft - The vehicle was towed to storage; awaiting advice from the Kamloops police; program. All methods of petting a start on the huge project' this summer were considered at a meeting of city council Monday night and it was decided that if the factors involved are not too complicated, the city would undertake to do the job itself.' - Work on the program which was scheduled to get underway sometime this month, was stalled last week because the city had received just one bid for the job and the contract price was so much above the estimated cost' that the city was forced to reject it. Now City Engineer George Har-ford will be instructed to meet with representatives of Associated Engineering Services, an advisory firm engaged by the city, to determine the- feasabillty and the factors involved in the city doing the work Itself. Lone bid for the undertaking, tendered by Fred Welsh & Sons Ltd., was for 5629,391, almost twice the amount Associated En-ginoering estimated that the job should cost. According to Alderman Frank Clark, chairman of the board of works committee, another contractor later contacted, estimated that it would run over $500,000 and still another gave a rough estimate amounting to 50 percent over the estimated cost. If it is found that it will be too costly, for the city to do the work, then the project will likely be abandoned until next year. 'NOT "¦It's not an easy job to got this (See SEWER PROJECT, Pog'e 6) Liquor Shares Blame In Death Of Four Men POWELL RIVER—A coroner's jury blamed liquor and the lack of a guard rail" on a bridge for i weekend accident that claimet four lives. ' Hope Looming For Early Contract Pact IWA, NILA Negotiators At Vancouver Parley Hope for an early agreement between contract negotiators for the International Woodworkers' of America and the Northern Interior Lumbermen's Association .seemed bright today upon completion of talks between the two groups in Vancouver last weekend. Results of the talks held last Thursday ami Friday and Monday and Tuesday of this week, are A car driven hy Pcter.Sa'u.nders.-expected to come in the form of of Vancouver plunged off a bridge { into Priest Lake Sunday "killing Saunders and his passengers, Thomas Bcatty, George Jol-Iffe and John Folktes, all bf Vancouver. The jury ruled Wednesday that the men died from drowning when the car overturned into five feet of wat&r, adding: "it is our con clusion that had these men not been Impaired and had the bridge had suitable guard rails this accident may have been avoided." recommendations for agreement niSht, I n-ohi Labor Minister Lyle Wicks, probably on Thursday of this week. if the recommendations from the. Labor Minister are agreeable to both sides and a basis for .settlement can be drawn from them, ihe negotiators will be able to draw up a new contract. well ahead of the contract expiry date of August 31. Reginald Clements, conciliator BCPC, City Will Co-Operafe In Smooth Utility Transfer When the British Columbia Power %>mm.ission takes over Prince George's power distribution system at the beginning of September, transfer of the 3800 city accounts will be handled as smoothly as the flow of electricity. Starting on August '\O, six qualified readers from the BCPC and the city's own utilities office will begin reading meters and arc scheduled to complete the operation September 1, at which time the government-owned utility takes over. A program for co-ordinating the readings between the present andi the time of transfer has been worked out-by the city's electrical Lull In City-Employees Wrangle All is quiet today on the civic employees-City Hall administration, front today and no action has been reported since Mayor J. R. Morrison appointed a three-man committee over a week ago to study complaints set forth by the Civic Employees Federal Union. The committee was born from out of a meeting of the committee of the whole recently at which time council discussed a union brief in which was contained criticism of the city'$.administration and complaints regarding promotions in' the maintenance department 4 ConeensuB of opinion arising from the meeting was that the union waa introducing "irrelevant matter" into its grievances; that criticism of the administration Was "ultra-vires" and complaints rejfradinf promotion were "not substantiated by facts." Final outcome of the studies of the much discussed "onion brief and the retaliatory report from the city's engineering department, is that allegations-and submissions must he presented in writing to all members of the city council, otherwise they will not be considered nor any weight attached to them. Object of establishing a committee was to arrange meetings with union representatives and to carry .out an investigation o£_the individual complaints in an ef' fort to bring a solution to the problem of the unrest* back to city council. Thus tab, the problem is still at large and an uneasy quiet pervades the atttospnere at City Hall. .superintendent J. D. Dpble and was approved, by city council Monday ni>;lit. Residents whose meters have been read ordinarily on the 10th of each month were read earlier this month and they will be given a final reading on August 31. -Meters, ordinarily read on the 20th will be skipped this month and be read finally on August :?0. Commercial and industrial meter readings will he read in the usual manner at the end of the ; month. _ j Billing for the month will be J conducted from City Hall when j the city utility machines arc niov-'j ed from the.utility premises, 1106 ¦ Third Avenue. After that date cus- j tomers will be billed direct from Victoria but provision, will, prob- • ably be made for a cashier to be established here, to receive cash payments. from the Board of Industrial Relations, attended all of the five sessions hold in the coast city and his report to Labor Minister Wicks will form the basis for the recommendations. Both IWA business agent Jacob Hoist and NILA labor .committee chairman R.W. Hilton hope lh;it the report from the minister will l>«> In their Hands l Earlier .he pleaded not guilty to the charge. AVhitford, police say, was found in a house in the city after complaints were received from, neighbours. The family was out of town at the time. Youthful Prince George insurance salesman Geoff Hill was elected president of the local unfit'of the Junior Chamber of Commerce at a recent meeting of the organization. He succeeds Maurice George to the office. ¦—Craftsman Photographers