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Doris E. Bechtley 1158 Melville- St. VANCOUVER,   B.C.
 Dec6--57
The  Weather
Continuing cloudy and mild. Occasional mow flurries Wednesday. Little change in temperature. Low tonight, high tomorrow 15 and 32.   ;
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Vol.  2;   No.   19
PRINCE GEORGE, BRITISH COLUMBIA, TUESDAY, JANUARY 28,  1958
PRICE   7   CENTS
BY CARRIER 11.35 VSR MQNTB
AT FORT ST. JAMES..
THE CHURCH OF Our Lady of Good Hope was built by the Oblate Father's Mission in 1873 at Fort St. James. The restoration of the church, which is one o f the notable features of the town, is a centennial year project The Oblate Father's mission was established in 1842. Still used by the townsmen, the church is much visited by sightseers.                                                                             _____________               -Citizen Photo
Council Tables Talks On 'Secret' Meetings
City Council was asked last night to settle the controversial question of holding meetings behind closed doors, but agreed to tobie< the issue for discussion t>t-a commlttec-of-thc-wlio\e meeting next Mbnday. • Aid. Charles Cranston raised the issue when he called for a motion to rescind a resolution adopted at! council's statuatory meeting Jan. 6.
If his motion had been adopted, council would have rescinded council's 1958 schedule of 23 committeo-of-the-whole meetings as well as its regular meetings. "SECRET" MEETINGS
Aid Cranston's motion brought before the council a controversy that was raised in a front-page editorial  of The  Citizen  which charged   ma.Mor   and   aldermen with . conducting   city   business at ^secret" meetings. /'In requesting that the ln-com-AVnlttce    meeting    schedule    be ^•¦scrapped, Aid. Cranston declared iw"w'tliat the  practise of scheduling E       [   council  meetings  in   committee S           oh each second Monday of the
month  was   "contrary"   to  the city's Procedure Bylaw No. 7.
His motion was seconded by Aid. Harry Loder and supported by Aid. John Powers.
However the motion did not con]c to a vote because Aid. Ken Jack moved an amendment to the, motion requesting that the subject be tabled. The amendment was unanimously adopted.
Before Aid. Cranston put his
motion to council Mayor Carrie Jane Gray interjected to point out that at the statuatory meet-Ing, council was advised at a latter'4aUi,..      .          _     ..
Her "Worship also informed council that she had requested the city solicitors to revise Bylaw 7, which she said due to its age, it was drafted in 1915, was "unworkable" in many instances.
Aid. Cranston suggested that pending the updating of the procedure bylaw which "may take six months," council agree to meet once a week instead of every other week.
He  warned   against   the   frc-
Khrushchev Plugs For Summit Meet
MOSCOW (AP) — Still plugging for a summit conference, Nikita Khruschev proposed Monday night that government, heads start with issues "we can agree on before tacling the tougher and more basic problems."
The Communist party chief was talking with Western ambassador at an Indian National Day reception. He spoke with the good humor he usually displays on before tckting the tougher circuit, in considerable contrast to his blasts at the United States and the West in a speech last week in White Russia.
PGE   OVER   HALF   WAY
Quarter - Mile - long Tunnel Completed
Car Struck By Train, Wrecked
A car was completely wrecked early today when struck by a CNR diesel locomotive a few miles west of Prince George.
The 1948 Dodge sedan became stalled on a railway crossing at Miworth, a SvhisUestop eight miles west of here, shortly after midnight.
Its driver couldn't move the vehicle off the tracks so he dc cided to go to a nearby farm for a horse.
By the time he returned with the animal, the train had done the job. The car was laying crumpled and damaged beyond repair at the trackside.
The driver and the three passengers were unhurt and the only trouble they encountered was being forced to walk home. Owner of the car was John Stoger.
A cmartcr-milc-long tunnel through a mountainside on the Pacific Great Eastern Railway 133 miles north of here was completed Monday.
-The underground 7*outc only has to be cleaned out before track-laying crews begin again to the end of the 300-mile extension.
Ben Ginter Construction Co. Ltd. crews put the I'aihvay well past the halfway mark in its drive to reach the PGE's Initial goal of Taylor, at the Peace River crossing.
it appears likely thi.s point will be reached on schedule, by May 1 this year.
Extension north of Prince George to Dawson Creek and Fort St. John represents an investment of S54,0OO,OOO over 324 miles of some of the toughest territory in B.C.
The 263-mile extension is expected to be opened later this year.
The end of steel was held at Miie 132 to-give crews time to align track, lay sidings, myes and switches.
quency of closed meetings and expressed the view that routine matters that should be dealt with at public meetings, tend to become* inslnuatccl' -'iirto * el6sed meetings. NO SUrrKKSSION
Her Worship agreed that weekly meetings would be desireable and averred that she "had never tried to suppress anything" of public interest.
She suggested that some matters, of business were apt to receive "undue publicity."
Aid. Loder suggested that "in the interest of our own group" an adjustment in the frequency of closed meetings "should be made."
Aid. Powers expressed the opinion that the scheduled meetings "were out of order according to the bylaw" and he urged that the bylaw be adhered to until such time as it is ammend-cd.
He said that as a new member of council he was ignorant of the (Sec COUNCIL TABLES,  Page 4)
Rosselimi Seeks Wedding Annulment
ROME fAP)—The Italia news agency said today Roberto Ros-sellini has filed suit in a Rome court for an annulment of his marriage to Ingrid Bergman.
Italia, a private news agency, said the suit was filed by lawyer Ercole Graziadei) a friend of the Swedish film actress and her estranged Italian director husband.
Red Diplomat Leaves
WASHINGTON (AP) — Geor-gi Nikqlaevich Zarubin, an engineer - turned - diplomat who looks like an ex-heavyweight fighter, left Washington today after five years and four months as the Soviet ambassador to the United States.
CURLERS' ROYAL WELCOME DELAYED
Plans for n royji] welcome tp the Prince George WB" School curling team, winners of the B.C. championship, were <l«*l;il>e(] at noon today.
It had .been previously an-
lUMliu'ot that th« oiii'lern \i-niilil •
be returning home from (Iran-brook on the 12:20 p.m. (JIM flight, but word was received this morning that they weren't aboard the flight.
At press time it was reported that the curling champs will be aboard the 5:40 l>.i»!v Cl'A flight today.                   r   ¦
Rotary Pipers
U. S. Convention
Rotary Pipe Band may bring Prince George international fame this year when it forms part of this city's delegation to a U.S. convention.
Plans are currently underway to send the Highland musicians to the Rotary International convention at Dallas, Texas, early in June.
It is hoped the band will represent Prince George along with a group of local Rotarians at the meeting.
Band spokesman John Barlco said yesterday the only snag in present plans is to find sufficient funds to cover the expenses of the trip.
He stated the group will attempt several money-raising efforts in the meantime in an effort to underwrite the journey.
"It will bring endless, far-reaching publicity not only to this city but to the entire province during centennial year," Barlee said.
The Prince George Rotary Pipe Band is one of the most unique of its kind 9n North America because it is sponsored by an exclusive business and professional men's club.
COUNCIL $1,156,750
U.S. ARMY IN BID TO LAUNCH SATELLITE
By BEN FUNK
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — The United States Army will be given a chance soon — perhaps Wednesday or Thursday — to launch the earth satellite it claims it could have hurled into space in 1955, long before the Russian Sputniks.
Following the navy's latest failure to get its Vanguard satellite rocket off the ground, new activity around the Army's Jupiter-C launching pad indicated today that this missile now has the go-ahead and is close to its firing time.
Inquiry Finds Hoxsey Cancer Cure Valueless
VICTORIA Iff) — A report ta-  head   of  the   pathology   depart-bled Monday in the British Co-  ment; Neal Harlow, UBC librar-
lumbia legislature says treatment used by the Hoxsey Clinic in Dallas, Tex., to cure cancer is valueless.   , •
A six-member Inquiry board said there actually is danger in the Hoxsey treatment, from the delay it causes patients who might otherwise have a "reasonable opportunity of being cured by the proven methods of surgery and radiation."
A summary of the 60-page report said th£t the Jloxsey method of treating internal 'cancer is worthless and the external treatments "have no place in modern cancer therapy." VISITED CLINIC
During July and August the committee visited the Hoxsey Clinic in Dallas, the National Cancer Institute in Washington, the American Cancer Society in New York and several other agencies concerned with cancer.
Premier Bennett's government requested the inquiry last year after a demand for an investigation had been raised in the legislature.
Members of the inquiry board, appointed by Dr. John W. Patterson, dean of the University of British Columbia medicine faculty, and under the joint auspices of the provincial education and health departments were:
Dr. J. M. Mather, professor and head of the UBC department of public health; Dr. George Saxton, clinical instructor of the surgery department; Dr. H. B. Taylor, professor and
British Troops Battle Cypriob
NICOSIA, Cyprus (AP)—British troops and Turkish Cypriots battled again today on Cyprus for the third successive day. The British forces opened fire for the first time, and four persons were killed.
Security forces were braced for still more trouble with the island's Turkish minority, which planned a mass protest in connection with the funerals of two of their people killed in the battle Monday.
ian; A. W. R. Can-others, as1 sociate professor, faculty of law; and S. A. Jennings, professor of the mathematics department.
A menace of the Hoxsey system, -the committee says "is the false hopei it-arouses in patients and the useless expenditure of large sums of money by many who can ill afford to do so."
Izyk Funeral To Be Held Tomorrow
Prayers will be said tonight at S o'clock in Assman's Funeral Chapel for the late Alfred S. Izyk who was killed In an accident in the CNR yards here Friday.
Funeral service will be held tomorrow at 10:30 a.m. from As,-sman's Funeral Chapel. The body will be shipped to Victoria for burial.
City Men To Settle Properly Dispute
VICTORIA ICP) — John Mallis, Lloyd Pollard and Ralph Moffat, all of Prince George, Monday were appointed by cabinet order-in-council to settle a dispute involving a Prince George company and the B.C. Power Commission.
The dispute is between thn commission and the North Central Investments Limited and involves two lots expropriated in June, 1956, under the Power Act.
The three men will be paid $35 a day and expenses for the time it takes them to determine the price that should be paid for the property.
Falls 200 Feet
BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) — A steeplejack slipped on a scaffold at the top of a factory chimney Monday and plunged 200 feet to his death. Robert Monroe, 30, was repairing a chimney at the Hanna  Furnace Corp.
Centennial Year Tribute
'Citizen7 Honors Fort St. James
(This is the (list in a series of Centennial Voar tributes to historical areas serviced b.v the Prince CJeorge Citizen. Today's (ribute is to Fort St. James, the second community estab-lisshoil in Rritisli Columbia. Ke-norle.r Bryan McCarthy and photographer Kaii Spreitz give their impressions of this centre on pages 2 and .1 of today's Citizen. Xe.xt month The Citizen will honor Vanrterlioof and and its Centennial plans). By  BRYAN   MCCARTHY
Citizen Staff Reporter Some towns, following a short visit, cave no impression at all.
Others, such as Toronto, leave a nightmarish one.
Fort St. James left me, after a day, with a very definite impression both of the town, itself, and its inhabitants.
It is not easy to sum up this impression in a single -word, but an image of itself.
The image that comes irresistibly to mind is that- of a tree which has grown slowly, over a long period of time, in rocky soil, so that the, wood is close grained and strong. . PROVKX ITSELF
The tree is not large, but has proven itself capable of stand-
ing up to the buffeting of various economic winds.
It will probably still be growing when other more rapid and spectacular growths have perished.
Above all the neat little town, with its spick and span houses, many of them pet back in the trees, many looking out on the magnificent white expanse of Stuart Lakp, seems to have grown naturally out of the land; it is not something arbitrarily blasted or gouged out by men.
This is reflected in the character of the people of the town.
Those I met made no attempt
to "sell" any line about the town; they were quietly sincere: hospitable without being effusive; with a quiet confidence in themselves and their town.
Much of this was illustrated in the course of a conversation with Howard Blackburn, the ruddy-faced president of the Fort St. James' Board of Trade.
He re-told the fantastic story of the mercury mine by Pinchi Lake.
During the war when there was a huge demand for mercury the mine boomed.
A town of several thousand (See CITIZEN HONORS* Page 4)
Based On Same Mill Rate As '57
With scarcely three weeks' work in 4oflice behind it, city council has approved the 1058 preliminary budget which today totals $1,156,750.
The budget, which may undergo some slight revisions before meeting with final approval in May, is only slightly > higher than last year's and is based on the same rate of 83 mills.
It is understood that the rate of taxation will stay at 63.75 mills on 100 per cent of land and42 per cent on improvements.
As there are virtually no capital expenditures in the budget, the chief reason for its surpassing 1957 estimates lies in the increased debt charges. CAPITA I; UKBT
This yjbar taxpayers will pay a total of $287,(80 in capital debt charges, almost one-quarter of the total levy.
Total tax levy amounts to $001,500 as compared to a property tax levy of $SG2,3'J7 last year.
Another factor to be reckoned with in this year's budget are increased police protection costs which are up some $3G,000 over last year's costs.
Debt charges, levied against some 21 money bylaws, all legislated since 1945, are broken. down into Interest and principal amounting to $i73,6B5 and $113,-814 respectively.
The  most eonolusivc   tiling about »lie i 058 budget is (hat ratepayers   must   not   expee.i any   major   improvements  in tlie   city   this  year.   >'o  new paving.   No   new   curbs   uiul gutters.     No    storm     sowers worlh    mentioning.    Probably no new sidewalks. The entire document is gcur-ed to meeting current expenditures, paying for new equipment and consolidating the city's financial position In regard to past indebtedness. SCHOOL COSTS
Still to be indited into the- budget arc the 1958 school costs, although allowance has been made
Youth Was Lucky
MENLO PARK, Calif. (AP)— Tom Mazik, 17, who flew a kite Sunday^ on a wire, is alive to tell about it today because the wire was too light to carry 4,000 volts. Police said the wire melted immediately and broke the contact when it fell over two 4,000-volt power lines. Mazik was treated for a burned finger and slight shock.
for them. School costs now are the only major item that could seriously affect the budget, but they are not expected to do so. Caught unawares by unprecedented school costs last year, this year City Hall has budgeted cose to the mark.
Summing up I lie preliminary budget finance committee chaiu-man Percy L. Williams had thijs to. say:
"The honeymoon Is over now. We have just about everything we need in the- way of new buildings. Our big job is to gift caught up."
Sommers Calls George Gregory 'Just Yellow'
VICTORIA (CP) — A bittter exchange between George Gregory L-Victorla and Robert Sommers SC-Rosslancl-Trail highlighted the sitting of the legislaV ture Monday. '
Mr. Sommers recently wn« charged by the RCMP with conspiring to accept bribes during his term as Minister of Lands and Forests.
The exchange began when Mr. Gregory congratulated Mr. Soin-mers on being in better health now than he was last, summer.
"What do you know about it?" Mr. Sommers asked from the other side of the floor.
^"Possibly a.lot more than you think," replied Mr. Gregory.
Mr. Sommers continued to heckle Mr.  Gregory,  who  warned:
"Don't goad me, I'm liable to say things we will all regret,"
"I'll goad you all 1 please," shot back Mr. Sommers. "You haven't got enough guts to say anything — you're just yellow."
Mr. Sommers' case is still before the courts.
Torgerson New CARS President
C. O. "Torgy" Torgerson was elected president of the Prince George branch of the Canadian Arthritis and Rheumatism Society last night.
Annual meeting was held" in the banquet room of the Civic Center.
Torgerson succeeds George Thorpe to the post. Other officers named last night "were Morris Roy, vice - president; Mrs. G. Kazakoff, secretary and George Thorpe, public relations.
A lack of both motivation and desire to recover is often the biggest problems with victims of arthritic and rheumatic diseases, the meeting was told. SHOU'X GOALS
Dr. G. D. Kettyls. medical health officer of the Cariboo Health Unit said patients must be shown the goals they can achieve and how to achieve them.
"We don't have specific medical therapies for many patients but there are things the patients can do for themselves which will be just as effective," he said.
Social and economic strains often accompany the disease and must be combatted by specialists and others who are close to the patient.
"You are dealing with not only a disease, but with a person suffering from a crippling,
chronic   condition,"  Kettyls  remarked. GIUSAT 'CIUI'I'LEII
There ano over 100  types of rheumatic   and   arthritic  conditions,   he   said,   but   the   most (Sec TORGERSON,  Page 4)
C. O. "Torgy" Torgerson. .... elected CARS president