INSIDE EDITORIAL ........................ Pq9a SPORTS .............................. Poge CLASSIFIED........................ Poge COMICS .............................Page WOMEN'S SOCIAL .......... pago WEATHER Cloudy with occasional showers tomorrow Nor much change •" Irempcroturc. Windi light-ILow tonight and high {tomorrow, 35 and 50. Dedicated to the Progress of ihe North Phone LO 4-2441 Vol. 3; No. 82 PRINCE GEORGE, BRITISH COLUMBIA, WEDNESDA\APRIL 29, 1959 BY CARRIER 35c PER WEE1! Police Costs Prince George citizens! pay more for police pro-1 tcctioii than any other municipality of comparable size in British Columbia. The Citizen has obtained information on the subject from a number of such cities in an effort to compare police costs in Prince George with other communities. This city, which has been served by Mounted Police since the force tuok over from the Provincial l'olice in 1050, appears to be paying its share for police protection. $125,430 HEKE Prince licoige has 19 police officers to serve an estimated population of 13,000'. The 1956 official census was 10,503. "while this city may have the highest costs, it also has the busiest detachment. At least half of the police ¦work In Northern B.C. is hahdled by the Prince George city detail. The contract for this year js budgeted at $125,450. Prince George city clerk Arran Thomson says no changes in the contract or size of the force are contemplated for this year. A similar report was received from Kelowna, Kam-loops and Dawson Creek. CARLOAD of Mexican-grown watermelons arrived in Prince George yesterday which will go on sale in city stores this week-end. The delicate cargo was shipped here in eight days from Cerrillos-Sinaloa, Mexico. Produce department employee of the W. H. Malkin warehouse, Pat Holzworth, is shown beside the fruit. $200,000 Contract Granted For Super-Valu Store Here A Vancouver firm will build a second, $200,000 Super-Valu store, in Prince Comparison of Costs With. Other Centres Municipality Number Population Cost of officers PRINCE GEORGE 10 13.000 $125,450 Kelowna 8 9,181 $34,021 Dawspn Creek 11 10,000 $4S,924 Kamloops 14 9,650 $62,671 North Vancouver 16 32,490 $72,745 George, slated to be one of the largest in the province. C. .1. Oliver Ltd. has been awarded the contract for the store with a bid of $199,000 according to architect Desmond Parker. Construction of the building at Twentieth Avetufe and Victoria Street, is expected to begin this week with completion date sd't for'the fall. •.).. ...... The 13,000 square foot building (110 by 120 feet) will be the second largest free .span building ii\ Prince George, second only to the Coliseum. The store will be reinforced concrete construction and will have a paved and illuminated lp Spectacles Will He E. Indians Prince George Lions Club has launched a "Bank of Lights" appeal to collect discarded, spectacles. The spectacles will be sent to persons with failing eyesight In India. The campaign Is nation-wide and the first shipment has already been dispatched to the East. I-ions Club officials point out that it docs not matter what weakness ihe spectacles were meant to correct because someone will be found who has a similar ailment and can use them. The "glasses" may be left at the Royal Produce downtown store, Royal Bank of Canada or Fred Welsh and Son Ltd. The Lions Club is a member of the Prince George Service Clubs Council. TODAY'S "Newso" bingo clues were drawn by Alderman K. A. C. Jack and Jack Hope, president of the Prince George Gyro Club. The game, which was introduced to Citizen readers last Friday, is sponsored by the Prince George Joint Service Club Council. Watch The Citizen for daily numbers. —Vandervoort parking lot with space for 200 cars. Mr. Parker says the span will run the full 110 foot width of the building, just short of the Coliseum span. Numbers Only Look That Way The odds are against it happening — but it actually did. W h <• n Aid. Charlie Graham cranked up the Newso squirrel cage yest'er-day, out came three consecutive numbers, Newso players eyed the list of three consecutive numbers In the paper yesterday with suspicion but we swear, that's the way it happened. The fact that Aid. Graham left town for Vancouver immediately after the drawing the numbers had nothing to do with the way they came out. Today's numbers drawn by Aid. Ken Jack aren't going to do any of the players any good. All the numbers he drew are under the "N" and since it is necessary to form an "X" in order to qualify as a winner, the only effective square under "N" is the free one. Service Club Council President Jack Hope reports tremendous interest In the game here and indications are the charity funds of tlie participating service clubs will receive a generous boost from proceeds of the event. Cards are being sold at the business houses of service club members and will be on sale until a winning combination is produced. The winner selected by the Service Club Council will he required to answer a question on civic administration. $3.000 in Prizes Class 'B' Fall Fair Sought for Pr. George Efforts will be made to promote the Prince George Fall Fair to "Class B" status. To do this the Fair Board, which now runs a Class C Re-•'ional Fair. n?.«st pay out §3,000 In prizes for agricultural exhibits in three successive exhibitions. , If this can be attained, the fair will receive a federal grant and the federal government will h all building costs and the fede grnm share all building costs. Under its current status, the receives grants from the and municipal gov- fair eminent*- ernmeiii>. Ml division'' "I the prize list have been revised with many increases in clasps and amounts of prize money. Division 1 has been enlarged and Division 2, for 4-H Clubs, has been created. Lists of the increased prizes will be available in Juno. The races and Cymkana events are not included. The Prince George and District Agricultural and Industrial Association fair is a three-day affair held every Labor Day weekend. A successful canvass of the city for advertisements, merchandise and cash donations is nearly completed, according to the fair board. CHUCK WAGON RACES Chuck wagon races will be held again this year with more and better races and nuri-mutuel betting. There will likely be a daily double race this year and racers are coming in from throughout B.C. and Alberta. The Gymkana events are expected by the board to be more successful than last year with Prince George Saddle Club members participating. The Fair Board is contemplating building or renting a starting gate for the running races. Once again this year, a car raffle will be held on the grounds. The association, is looking forward to one of the best fairs ever and hopes to be able to make a start this year towards advancing to a Class B fair. N-35 N-40 N-43 Numbers previously drawn: O-6I1 O-62, 0-63, N-34, G-50 and 0-64. Soil temperature measure ments indicate it is hot necessary to run taps to prevent frcezc-ups of domestic water pipes. City engineer C. W. Jones reported there were only a dozen freeze-ups last winter compared to 200 in 1958. Residents were urged to keel their water taps running duririt the cold, winter months, bu' now is the time to shut then off, lie said. JOHN It. MORRISON, president of the Prince George Board of Trade, last week went on a Highway 16 promotion tour of centres west of Prince leorge with other trade board members. The local board discussed plans to encourage tourist traffic over the route which links this i-ity with Prince Rupert. Hoards of Trade between the two cities have also decided to launch a campaign to have the NTP completed between Prince George and McBride. Mr. and Mrs, William Swain, vho reside at a local trailer ourt, were uninjured when heir truck was wrecked on the lope-Princeton highway. Bodies Still Trapped The bodies of a woman and two 12-year-old girls are still submerged in a car on One bottom of the Fraser, River at Marguerite following a ferry accident Sunday. Royal Canadian Mounted Police at Quesnel reported today that specially-constructed grappling hooks attached to floating buoys are now being used in attempts to pull the vehicle out of 30 feet of water. Crawler tractors and other equipment are also being used. Frogmen earlier gave up attempts to reach the vehicle encasing the unfortunate trio because they could not submerge in the swift current. Mrs. Oscar Laycock, 38, her daughter Sharon, 12, and Yvette Felton, 12, plunged to the river bottom when a car driven by Mr. Laycock broke through a ferry guard chain and disappeared in the rushing water. Mr. Laycock escaped alone through a smashed window. An t'xliiiltt'runt Citizen printer yesterday got carried away with the daylight .saving time Idea" arid tried to -jflippd uj> the. -whole MeaHon h.v putting today's date in the date lines. The error was detected and corrected before many papers were off the press hut apparently everyone twho received one of the wrong copies noted the error because The Citizen switchboard was lit up lili' a juke, box with rails to rib us about the mistake. TeSegram Asks Land Sale Delay A telegram signed by 20 Prince George taxpayers yesterday afternoon was dispatched to Hon. Wesley Black, Minister of Municipal Affairs, in an effort to block Lhe "giveaway" of the valuable civic-owned Seventh Avenue property to Prince George Holdings for their .Simon Fraser Hotel. The telegram asks the minister to conduct a publin inquiry into the proposal of the council to sell the property at one-quarter of its value and also into the way n which the deal was set up without the property being advertised for sale in the normal way. Contacted by long distance telephone this morning, Mr. Black stated he had just received the wire from Prince George taxpayers this morning and could not make any comment until he had an opportunity to study the situation. "1 don't want to say anything unlji we have an apportunity to study both sides of the ques-lion and decide" what action can be taken, if any is indicated after a thorough study," he said. TEXT OF TEIjEGRAM He added the matter is receiving his immediate attention. Following is the text of the wire sent yesterday: "Request you demand city of Prince George hold up sale of lots one to six inclusive and lots 16 to 20 inclusive, Block 171, District Lot 343, Plan 1268, until your department has held a public inquiry of this proposal. "The Corporation land is being sold to private enterprise for one-quarter of its actual value. It was never offered for public bid outside the notice board inside the city hall. LOSS "The citizens will lose SfiO.OOO to 970.000 i>v exeeutijiK this transaction. The mayor and aldermen admit they do not. like the deal but feel they have to go along with solicitors advice that they could be involved in legal action if they do not follow through on their commitment to sell. "The corporation has not passed title to the land but have accepted money and intend OFFICIAL HAS PRAISE FOR 'CITIZENS' HOME President of the B.C. Senior Citizens Association has high praise for Prince George's senior citizens home development. L. V. Plant of White Rock, who was in the city yesterday to organize a branch of the Association, said the home is "a splendid thing for the North." There are 50 branches of the Senior Citizens Association in B.C. and Mr. Plant has arranged for organizational meetings in half a dozen northern centres. to let a building permit tomorrow. "We submit that you should at once request the city to desist from any action on this public trust land until you have held u public hearing on this matter. "The city is about to become a victim of a nefarious promoter now missing and wanted in Canada and the U.S., according to R.C.M.P. here." Signed: G. D. Bryant, Harry Brown; IX A. Gillies, L. Simkins, Hart-ley Fawcett, H. Minck, .John Coates, J. M. Hunter, Frank Hewlett, James Slesinger, M. A. Ellison, T. L, Mooney, D. S. Allan, J. S. Spaner, Lome Shat-sky, D. R. Darroch, D. Mi Berry, Fred "W. Bunton, J. S. Carrelli, David Ross. School zone signs arc being put up closer to streets so drivers can not miss them when they drive through a school 7,one. i > .Police say maiiy have complained about drivers going through school zones without oven slowing down,. City council's traffic committee, the RCMP detachment aria the city's engineering department have considered the situation and are putting up the signs. They may paint the sgins a different color. A traffic survey has been made and signs will be put up within a woek. All school zone signs will be put up within two blocks of the schools. ;e OTTAWA (CP) — An appeal by Calne lumber Company Limited of Prince George, B.C., against, an income tax assessment by the federal revenue department was dismissed Tuesday by the Supreme Court of Canada. ss* THIS SAILING group from the Christian Leadership Training School at Naramata, B.C., "is currently on tour of ie Cariboo. Thursday at S p.m. they will lecturej o. the school and its functions in Ivnox United Church here. Left to right: Edith Morgan, Penticton; Bob Baird, Vancouver; john Barclay, Calgary; Rena East, Vernon and Dean of Women, Mrs. Ethel Pack-ham. —Vandervoort