INSIDE COITORIAL ........................ Pog« 2 SPORTS .............................. Poga 4 CLASSIFIED........................ Pogo 6 COMICS ............................ Pose 7 WOMEN'S, SOCIAL .......... Pago 8 Dedicated to the Progress of the North W B A T H B R Mostly cloudy today and Wednesday. A few showers beginning mid-day Wednesday. Not much change in temperature. Low tonight, high tomorrow 40 and 50. Phone LOgan 4-2441 Vol. 3; No. 188 PRINCE GEORGE, BRITISH COLUMBIA, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 29, 1959 B? Carries JSc PER WEEK It was In 1807 Chat Simon Fraser established a fort for the North West Company below the junction of the Fraser and the Nechako Rivers, and named it Fort George In honour of King George Hie Third—nho reigning monarch. The fort was abandoned In 1S08. By 1820 Hudson's Bay Company men wore in Fort George. In a North West Company journal for .June 1820 we know of "There being at the Forks of Frascr's River one of the H.H. Co. Clerks and 2 Men, with the Iroquois distributing out Goods & Tobacco Gratis with promises their coming the summer. in force early Shortly, the Company had com-peti'tion in the area. In October 1820, the Nor'Westers sent George McDougall from Stuart Lake with six men "to establish the Forks of Fraser's River . . ." In November 1821, John Stuart of the North West Company at Stuart Lake received word of the amalgamation. In writing to Thomas Hodgson, who was then in charge of Fort George. Stuart, told him ". . . you will on receipt of this take an exact ac- count of the properly on hand and along with the Keys deliver it over to .Mr. .1. M. Yale (Hudson's Bay Company) and make the best of your way to 'this place . . . Mr. Yale you will introduce to them (the Indians) as mj' Son and acquaint, them that 1 expect 'they will consider and attend to him as such . . ." In 1823 the Company built a new store 23 feet by 17 feet, "at the points of the Forks." This store served 111 customers, 3G of them children. Fort George was on the brigade route, followed by the fur traders from Fort St. James to Fort Vancouver; Washington, and was naturally visited by everyone going in and out of New Caledonia. To help ease the food situation the Company kepi a large garden, when they grew barley, potatoes and French turnips. From 182] to 1915 the Hudson's Bay Company had a store at Fort George and in 1948 they again returned. A modern, de-partinen't store was built with additions in 1952 and 1050. Another .$280,000 extension is now completed. Inga Hensina Andersen Local Entertainer Dies Inga Hensina Andersen, Prince George girl who "made good" in the ontertaiiftnent world, died in- Kelt Sleep here early Monday morning at the age of 50. Daughter of A. I1. Andersen and the late Mrs. Andersen, Inga came here from her native Argentina while still a child, in 1912. She had settled in the city more than a year ago alter a long and successful career that Started when she left here in 1!>2!) to .study dancing under the great dance producer Albert Kaseh at his studio in Hollywood, Her stardom ranged over many fields. She left Hollywood for New York and later England after performing in a Fox Siu-dio production in California and during the war years she was known as the "Blackout Girl." A familiar figure to Canadian servicemen overseas, she entertained in such overseas nightspots as Cafe de Paris and Bagatelle. Inga entertained troops in Italy and was known as "Hilde-garde of England?' She was also a record-holding speed .skater, and an accomplished violinist. Montrealers knew Inga Andersen for her performances at the famed Mount Royal Hotel. Before settling down in Prince George she was modelling in New York and teaching Latin American dancing in the Fred Astalre studios. She leaves behind her brother, Henning, in Vancouver, as well as her father. Funeral services will be heh Thursday at 2:.'i() p.m. from the Anglican Church with Canon T. I). K. Allen officiating. Voters List Wednesday is the voters can get their the new city voters Anyone wanting hi.* the lisl must apply last day names on list. ; name on to Arran Thompson, city clerk, at the city hall. A court of revision, to heai application's for any changes in the list, will sit on November night grant grunt of $500 or wore "could be regarded as a retainer tor parades attended which circumstances will not permit us to charge any fee for, as well as for appearing at any city-sponsored functions and for.out of town publicity which the band ften ply." position to sup- lrnion H The Prince George Rotary Pipe Band last applied to city council for a minimum annual of $500, which it said is '.Very urgently required." Councillors moved to consider the request when the city's provisional budget- is dealt with in late October. A two-man delegation from the 17-member band said tin-group, composed of local men who "volunteer their time and efforts," has "next to no means of support." The pipers bear the name of the Rotary Club because RoUi'riaris donated funds to outfit the band members ami bring the band into being about four years ago. H Is now completely independent. Sufficient funds cannot be raised, they said, to more than maintain kit and instruments. Annual "costs will soon push band financial status •'into the reel should some steady financial support not be found forthwith." .Minimum operating cost for one year is about $390, !' sum band members find cliff 1 cult U> raise. "Simple mathematics will indicate that in the past two years, vitii an Income of $975, Including a 9300 grant (from the Centennial Committee), as compared to minimum expenses amounting to S7S0 for the same period, a substantial grant Is very urgently required," said the band in a written submission to city council.. The pipers said an annual INGA ANDERSEN Invitations for 'be Trafalgar Day Ball, to no held in Prince George, October 23, have been sent out to the many guests. Dud Sawley, president of the local branch of the Navy League of Canada,' who. Is- sponsoring. the ball, requests that all invitations be replied to by Oct. 0. The local Navy League was formed in 1957 and was sponsored by the Prince George Ki-wanis Club. Man Drowned k% Plane Flips BURNS LAKK CPl — One man was drowned anil another injured when a float plane flip-ped over and sank as it landed on nearby Monkman's Lake Monday. Dead is Herbert Monkman, about 43, of Grassy Plains 30 miles south of here. The pilot of the plane, identified only as William Blair, is in hospital here suffering face lacerations uml shock. Blair siid the plane ran smoothly over the water for about 30 feel as he landed, but suddenly flipped over and sank almost immediately. Upon reaching the surface. Blair dived under to get Monkman free, he said. Monkman appeared unable to help himself uid at'ter a while Blair became exhausted and had to let him go. Pilair managed to reach shore and was found by Monkman's son,, Terry. Police are dragging for tie body. .Monkman is survived by his wife and three children. Parking Meters fo be Corrected Some, hut not all. of the city's U0 illegally positioned parking meters are to be corrected. Hill Jones, city engineer, has insiructions from the city council's traffic committee to "arrange that no parking meter space's shall come within twenty feet of the approach side of any crosswalk." In other words, double meters that position can that they face within the legal 20 feet of crosswalks will be replaced by single meters. Meters that place automobiles closer than the limit to the walks, but facing away from the pedestrian crossings, will not be changed. The committee feels that the outlaw meters pose a traffic hazard only when they force cars to proceed over crosswalks when leaving the curb. The matter of the meters he-inn too clo.^e to Intersections was irought to a head recently when Kjlice began cracking down on notorists for illegal parking, R. W, Bpncl complained that he was ticketed for the first time n 2i) years of daily parking it the same stall. Three Local Accountants Pass Exams Successfully Three Prince George men and one man from Quesnel were among the 2-12 students who passed the 1959 exams of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of B.C. II. J. Ilines of Prince George [ and L. A. Jewitt of Quesnel passed the I !'.">!) Intermediate Law examination while, A. I). "Stimulating and rewarding," were the words of Bert Curtiss) supervisor of the short courses and conferences in the UBC extension dept. iii reference to the Living Room Learning discussion to be held soon in Prince George. | ~ ice George Civ nion Monday its proposed citv Km-ight 1960 hoi union the 1. y council in which thinking against that of anot a 25-cent-an-hour. i person in the group." ¦ The Pri ployecs I submitted contract n it asked across tilt The bring hourly, This, it added, woul out of line with wages similar work by othei ers in this area. Accompanying the proposed contract was an invitation to begin negotiations at any time convenient to the city. City firemen also plan to seek a wage boost. Amount of the increase to be sought has not yet been brought before councillors in a proposed new wage He was In Prince George to get the classes under way for the third consecutive season. They will start during the first week of October, with five groups to operate under the direction of co-ordinatbi", .Mrs. G. C. P.. Kellett. The group held a five hour discussion period last Sunday evening at the home of Mrs. Denis McDonald. Members of the Prince George advisory committee for the group are: Piiil MacGregor, Mrs. Ron Carson, Mrs. Dennis MacDonald, Harry Greenhut, Bob Graceyand Bruce Thompson. * Materials, records and films are provided to present a common starting point for the members of the group. Bert Curtis explained. "Living Room Learning offer.1, a chance' i.i everyone to improve his knowledge and to match his ther rd. wage hiki d this would rale to Sl.S'o not be paid (or employ- is for participants to obtain material from books and to help stimulate personal thinking and the thinking of other members. "Any person will find one of these courses stimulating and rewarding, offering a chance to broaden skill and knowledge of the world around us," slated Curtiss. The local courses will start October 5 and will last for about 10 to 11 weeks. In the two years the has been in operation, i come popular in 17 tiiroughout B.G. with a over 1.700 participants courses. . Friesen of Prince George and P. E. Zloklikovits, also of Princa' George, passed the 1959 Primary Accounting and auditing exam. The exams were written by accountants all over the province of British Columbia; An announcement of exam results by the institute revealed that Hock Wing Yip, 23, of Vancouver, has emerged for the fourth consecutive year as prize winner in the Institute's fiVu year series of exams. Leading candidate in tim year's final law exams, Yip stands a chance of achieving a unique record, should he be equally successful next year in the Uniform Final qualifying exams, In mid-October, another group of C.A. students will be writing Uniform Final qualifying examinations. The results of these exams will not lie released until December. Four-Way Coliseum Continuing Safety tests of the trusses in Prince George's now-vacant Coliseum could be the next step in the four-way hassle involving the city, the contractor, the architects and the consulting engineer. Architects Underwood, Mc-K'intey and Cameron of Vancouver have given contractor C. .1 Oliver .'Ltd. an ultimatum — signify Intention by October 1 lo make strength tests on the roof or the matter will be turned over to the city. The architect say c. J. Oliver is bound to do the testing under terms of his contract with the cly. The city closed the building recently, c:a;mlng it would not he reopened until the architects declared it safe. 'I"li<- (leadline was contained in a letter sent from the architects to tin- contractors on Kri-day. A copy of this letter was just one <>r ;i pile of correspondence on the linildinj: city council waded tlhrougli Monday evening. QUESTIONABI-iE WOKIC in their letter to the contractor, the architects poined out that under the terms of the contract, the architects are given power to direct re-examination of questioned work. The architects pointed out that due to the length of time since the deformity was discovered it will be necessary to commence work incidental to the tests immediately. ( ITV TO PAY? lOnclosed along with tlio architect's letter of instruction to ('. .1. Oliver was a letter to city council asking council to liolri back a complaint to (.lie Association of Professional lOngineers until a report as to tin- tests is complete. Should Che contractor refuse to carry out these tests the architects advised the city to "authorize us to carry out the tests on the city's behalf, payment for which to be settled by tl>o city or between tliu cit.y and the contractor." C. J. Oliver is eurrenly trying to get the city to jny him Sl.V 333.67 for corrective work ordered by the city, FAULTY DESIGN TJio lengthiest and most, enlightening piece of correspondence presented at tlio council meeting last night, was from the Vancouver law firm of Hull, Housscr, Tupper, Kay, Guy and Merritt to II. K. Fret-well, the oily solicitor. Included in the 12 page report were the stands taken by the consulting engineer, I'1. Wavell fjrry, the architects and the contractor. The report stated that liny, who had designed the trusses, accepted the responsibility for the defect in the design. However he maintained that :ho "effect of the error in de-idgn was increased by poor workmanship on the part of the contractor in building the trusses." Urry listed several points of poor workmanship, among which were: the lumber supplied was not completely in accordance with specifications; there was excessive dampness caused by the delay in sheeting of the roof; no wood preservative was used and some of the material was not uniform in thickness, length or in spacing. The report also stated Uiat Urry was prepared to settle by contributing $!>,550.fi(S, but Ik* accepts no responsibility lor the fact that "the roof may now be less strong than the specifications required.1' The error in design, according to Urry. produced a buckling which was corrected by strong-backs (bolted steel plates). Any loss in strength of the trusses originates, in his view, from the fact that inferior lumber was used in the construction of the trusses. The use of the inferior lumber — 20% of the total lumber used m the trusses — appears to be the stumbling block in a settlement of the question of responsibility; Kveryone has a different opinion on how jmich loss of strength in the trusses was caused by (he use of this timber. Urry maintains that if the'inferior lumber was evenly distributed the roof would he close to tlio specified strength. His calculations show that the inferior lumber, if evenly distributed, the trusses could withstand 55 to 58 pounds per square foot; if not, only between 41 and 44 pounds. CThe original design called for the trusses to be able to support a snow load of (it) pounds per square foot, with the building code minimum being 50 pounds.) Hut Urry, according to the report, greatly doubts that the inferior lumber was evenly dis-ributed. He feels that all parties must assume the worst — that the lumber was not evenly dis-ributed — until tlio contrary is clearly proven. The architect's position, according to the report, Was the same as Urry's, They maintained that the installation of the strongbacks had corrected any weakness resulting from an error in design. The architects admitted that they- ivtl they may be primarily liable to the city. However, they also stated 'that "any residuary weakness is a direct result of the eon-tractor's breuchc of contract and specifications by using sub-specification lumber.'! They also pointed out that their contract with the city didn't require them to check all material used in the building. Otto Killv was appointed by the Hty as the clerk of the works JUKI it was agreed between the city and architects that he would perform the above- function. It was further stated that the contract provided that the architects ¦ wouldn't be responsible for the negligence of the clerk of the works. Responsibility for poor workmanship, claimed t'he architects, lies on the contractor alone, as it was agreed that the clerk would supervise the details and the architects supervision would be cut to a minimum. Ho'wevcr the architects' expressed willingness to contribute 20% of the amount claimed by the contractors. But they maintain that they have no responsibility for the fact that the trusses may even now be weaker than the specifications required them to be. The contractor, meanwhile, admitted no blame for the faulty trusses, putting it on the design an,I the city through the clerk of the works. The contractors maintain that Otto Killy was appointed by the city and "must be taken to have consented to this lumber being used." ¦ "He saw tho lumber on IHio site,'* say the contractors. "He received the invoices for the lumber from the contractor. These showed 20'.< of the lumber used in the trusses was inferior to that required by the specifications." "He knew or ought to have known this," state the contractors, "and must be taken to have consented, on behalf of the city, to this lumber being used," The contractors also deny any inferior workmanship, but again say, in any event, that the work was approved by Killv, on behalf of the city, throughout the construction. However, tho contractors stated that they do not suggest the city should hear any part, ultimately, of these extra costs. They feel they should he. split, between the architect and the engineer. The contractors also deny any responsibility for permanent weakness of the trusses. However the Vancouver law firm representing the city states that "in maintaining this strict position a law, the contractor runs me risk of bringing upon himself an action for specific performance of the building contract." The lawyers also stated that, "we have been advised that the architects refused to let the contract for the alterations necessary to cure the eaves-trough defect in their name." They then said that they understood that, the architects had written (Jio city njicl intend to discuss with city officials the alterations proposed by them earlier, which could remedy tile situation, at, a cost of $2,^00. They then pointed out that the bids for the work as set out in thc'-iirdjiitaei'jj tliuuvings ranye between $5,000 and $7,000. "It seems to us," continued the lawyer's report," that if there is any possibility that the roof may have to bo removed in order to overcome the weakness of the trusses, or to replace the trusses with .satisfactory ones, the repairs to the eaves-trough would be postponed until the truss problem has been rectified. Otherwise, the repairs may have to be torn off with the roof." A resident of Prince George for only three months, Mrs. Hannah Beckham of 801 Ewert Street, passed away yesterday afternoon in Prince George and District Hospital. Mrs. lieekhain has been in failing health lor the past year. She is survived by her husband, Ernest Beckham, one daughter, Airs. \V. Gordon Crockett; and three grandsons. .Mrs. Beckham was SO years of age and was born in Dudley, Worcester, England. She came to Canada in 1919 and has lived in British Columbia almost continuously since then. With Mr. Beckham, she moved to Prince George from Vancouver this summer, to make her home with her daughter. Funeral service will be from Assma-n's Funeral Chapel at 2:.'!0 p.m., Wednesday, following which fiic remains will be .sent lo Vancouver for cremation. 151! Ha iU Th Club agreement. He added, "because the emphasis is on ail concerned, the group provide.-: an excellent opportunity for each member. No 'expert' is on hand to direct ih-' thinking of members. Each par- : ticlpanit thinks for himself and i Vanderhoo comes to his own conclusions." Those attending these discussions periods will have a choice of various subjects, such as; world politics, great religions of the world, economic reasoning, and Canada in world affairs. The leaders for the program are intended only to keep dis- • *g e nice hold a gymkhu ay, October 0 out at 'alley Jfrom : p.m. to 5 It is expected horses rought in from Qucsi cussions on the chosen subject. The main purjjose of the talks Annual Convention .1. Hartley Guest and Pod Kenzie; delegates from the Prince George branch of B.C. Government Employees' Association will leave this week to attend the annual convention of the. association in Victoria on Oct. 2 and 3. h "DON'T FENCE ME IN, fence me out" is the theme I'or the engineer and crew at the coliseum these days as it has been declared unsafe. With no ice to make and the future of the building in doubt the crew are busily engaged preparing parking facilities around the white elephant.