The Only Daily Newspaper Serving North-Central British Columbia Phone LOgan 4-2441 Vol. 4; No. 158 PRINCE GEORGE, BRITISH COLUMBIA, MONDAY, AUGUST 15, 1960 7c a Copy BY CARRIER $1.50 per Month Tot in Busk for 20 Hours Following Fathers Death. VERNON CP) — A three-year-old girl spent 20 hours alone in the bush during the weekend after watching her father and brother drown during a fishing trip. The bodies of Hans Vander-laan, 41, of suburban Laving-ton and his son, John, 7, were found in the Shuswap River 200 yards from where they had been fishing. Nancy Van-derlaan, 3, was spotted simultaneously by a helicopter nearby. "Daddy slipped into the water, and Johnny went in after him," Nancy told RCMP. The girl was in excellent condition, police said. She had not eaten in 24 hours and had slept on a rock. FIRE TOTAL DROPS Cons 'High' on GoofbaSis Riot; Guards Shoot One WINNIPEG !CP) — A prisoner . to see what was happening, but at Stony Mountain penitentiary was shot and killed Sunday afternoon as prison guards quelled an uprising by fire-setting prisoners. Twelve convicts rushed the dome, nerve centre of the prison 14 miles north of Winnipeg, and started fires in a cell block and other buildings. Besides the man killed, four other prisoners were wounded by gunfire and three unarmed guards were beaten up. The name of the dead prisoner was not released, but he was believed to have been from Western Canada and serving a three-year term. The bullet that killed him is believed to have ricocheted and hit him in the chest. Warden Charles Des Rosiers said he did not know what caused the outbreak of violence, which started when the group of prisoners "acted up" in the prison yard where the prison soft-bull team was playing against an outside team. Harold Johnson, manager of the Winnipeg team, said prisoners told his players that some of the convicts had obtained "goof-balls" — drugs that gave them a narcotics-like lift — and had started fighting among themselves and with guards after getting "high". ^ He said that when shotuts were licaviJ from the prison btfildings, about 200 prisoners who were watching the game rushed away Plywood Firm, IWA Sign Agreement Frank Hahn, area manager, Western Plywood (Cariboo) Ltd., and Jacob Hoist, president, Local 1-424 IWA, announced today that the firm and the union have signed a memorandum of agreement providing for wage increases and other benefits. The agreement is for a three-year period and was signed after 10 clays of negotiations. It affects 300 employees. Full details of the agreement will be released as soon as the membership of the IWA votes on its acceptance. At the same lime Mr. Hoist announced that North Cariboo Lumber Co. Ltd., and the IWA have signed a memorandum of agreement for a three-year term, providing for wage increases and benefits which will affect 75 employees. Both firms Quesnel area. operate in the Beef Auction Will Highlight Fall Fair A beef auction will highlight the Fall Fair in Prince George Sept. 3. Area 4-11 clubs competing in the Fall Fair will supply the beef for the auction. Fall Fair officials say a "top-notch" auctioneer from Vancouver will conduct the auction, lie apparently plans on bringing in buyers from large packers on the coast. However, local residents who bought some of the prize beef last year are expected to do the same again this year. most returned to the game. Wives and children of Winnipeg players, who were watching the game were hurried out of the prison. The players finished the game and then were hustled out themselves. "PRETTY HIGH" "They told us some of the fellows got pretty high' on these goofballs," Johnson said in an interview. "They reported that when two guards went to quiet them down they started fighting with the guards." The game was being played in the southwest corner of the yard, which is surrounded by 18-foot walls. The administration building is on the west side, and one long structure runs straight east behind it, housing the dome and cells. This east-west building forms the top of a "T" with the dome at the junction. The stem of the "T" is the north cell block where the convicts fired bedding and clothes. Above the top of the "T", between it and the south wall, wore the other buildings fired. The flames destroyed the small, brick sports equipment storage building and the large brick gymnasium and recreation building. SMOKE SEEN Smoke was visible in downtown Winnipeg and fire equipment was called from the city. Warden Des Rosiers said the other prisoners — about 400 are in the penitentiary — did not take part in the disturbance. They stayed in the yard, supervised by guards and RCMP officers sent out from Winnipeg. The warden said the prisoners presumably were trying to obtain hostages when they stormed the dome. He did not know how they gained entrance to the building. Tear gas finally was used to capture the group of troublemakers, about three hours after the first skirmishes. CANADIAN LEGION BRANCH 43 held its annual Kiddies' .spurts day Sunday at Fort George Park. Besides a full slate of races and' novelty events for the children, adults shared in the fun with horse-shoe pitching, egg throwing and a mixed Softball game. Photo shows finish of the boys' wheelbarrow race. —Hal Vandervoort Photo AFTER FOUR-YEAR-OLD DIES Woman Charged with Murder A 34-year-old city woman was arraigned in magistrate's court here Saturday charged w i t h murdering a four-year-old girl who had been left in her care. Mrs. Winnifred Dorothy To- Bennett Won't Talk On Same Stage Here With Other Leaders KELOWNA CP) — Premier Bennett does not plan to appear on the stage with other party leaders in public debates during the Sept. 12 election campaign, his executive assistant says. Dan Ekman was commenting on an invitation from the Prince George Junior Chamber of Commerce for a public debate by leaders of all major parties on the Pacific Northern Railway. Leaders of other parties agreed to appear. Mr. Ekman said the premier will make a number of speeches, probably including one at Prince George, during the campaign but the dates have not been set. soff, 214 Harper, mother of five children, was charged by police after the child. Anna Marie Wade, died in hospital late Friday after suffering severe bruises to the body. 'I DIDN'T' The distraught woman was led to the prisoner's box where her name was called and the formal charge of murder read out. Breaking down, she said only two words: "I didn't." The child was one" of three placed in foster homes after the parents, Lawrence and Yvonne Wade, were charged with crim- inal negligence when their youngest child was found suffering from malnutrition two months ago. They go before a judge jury at the fall assizes. and Breaks Back orest Menace FAMILY OF THREE HURT IN BLAST TERRACE CD — A man. his wife and their two-year-old child were in satisfactory condition in hospital Sunday after a gasoline explosion and fire swept through their home here. Burned were Percy Benson, his wife and son, Louis. Firemen said the blaze apparently started Saturday night when one of the Benson children put a can of gasoline in the oven of the kitchen stove. An explosion followed and the home was razed. 37-Year-Old Man Is Polio Victim WILLIAMS LAKE (Staff) — A 37-year-old man was admitted to War Memorial Hospital here Friday found suffering from polio. A Monahan respirator was driven to Williams Lake from Prince George Regional Hospital by RCMP. The man is from Likely. Further details were not available UPHOLD NEUTRALITY PLEDGE UN Troops Ignore Clash 2 City Men Escape Serious Injury k Plane Crash Two Prince George men escaped serious injury Sunday when their Aeronea Champion seaplane crashed in the isle Pierre area, about 20 miles west of here. Ncale Patterson and Jack Jteb-man walked away with only minor cuts and bruises. Crash was believed due to the carburetor icing. The plane was demolished. 4 Lose Lives In Climbing Disaster VANCOUVER (CP) — A tiny sprite of a woman whose passior was mountain climbing has ap parently been killed with three other Vancouver climbers in ar avalanche on towering Mount Waddington. The first steps in an opera Lion to try to recover the four bodies were to be made today more than two weeks after the accident . TONS OF ICE Elfrida Pigou, 38, was one of two women who joined a pair of men for the assault on the 13,-260-foot peak 175 miles northwest of here. Thousands of tons of ice drop-pod from an overhanging cliff Local Girl Wins Swim Gail Bryant, of Prince George, a member of the Kelowna Kyth-mic Swim Club, captured the Irene Athans Trophy at O^opogo Pool in Kelowna. She was competing in t h c Northwest Synchronized Swimming championships at the 1960 Kelowna Regatta. ELISABETHV1LLE, The Congo (AP) — Police used tear gas today to break up street demonstrations against Katanga Premier Moisc Tshombe. United Nations troops, pledged to political neutrality, looked the other way. The Swedish UN troops were out on their first day of patrol in Elisabcthville after taking over guard duties from Belgian soldiers who had lent support to Tshombc's demands for independence from Premier Patrice Lumumba's central government in Leopoldville. Following the arrival of UN troops last weekend, Tshornbe's police began moving around the city, throwing tear gas bombs whenever large groups refused to disperse. Members of the opposition Cartel party were arrested but later released after paying a fine equivalent to $1. This morning a large crowd Now Hear This... More timely than they'd bargained for was the display in the current edition of the Echo claiming credit for having been instrumental in forcing the city to clean up its garbage clump. Even while this claim was being written, irate neighbors were demanding health department action on a back yard where dogs bad dug up some buried bearskins, at 1055 Freeman — that's right, it's the residence of the Echo publisher and editor. To quote the Echo: Fortunately it is not possible to reproduce the odor which accompanied this blot on the landscape of an AA residential area . . . Group of local business and professional men are trying to organize a veddy. veddy posh club, and hope to take over a big, big white house overlooking the Fraser Riyer for thp frpajtyuar- ters. Reports say they want 100 members at 51,000 each plus $15 a month toward the cost of upkeep. Now who was that who said times are tough? The lineup forms on the left . . . Someone smashed into t h e Aurora School bus Friday night when it was parked at the rear of 1429 Burden, and driver Nick Lutz would like the culprit to own up. Damage to the bus is estimated at $50, which the school can ill afford. Person responsible is asked to get in touch with School Inspector Ken Alexander . . . Bill James' beatnik party was a rip-roaring success, according to all reports. This conclusion had to be reached by reading between the lines, since none of the reporters present can remember details . , , of young Africans gathered in Elisabcthville's main square in front of the post office. Jeeploads of police rode up and began throwing tear gas bombs. Swedish UN troops continued inarching on their guard posts, looking off in the distance. Tshombe's government reported five Africans were killed Saturday and five injured in a clash with police in the city of Jadotville. The government blamed the trouble on "Lumumba agents." MORE TROOPS Responsibility for order in Elisabclhville, the provincial capital, was officially handed over to the United Nations Sunday by Belgian troops in a tearful ceremony. More UN troops were on their way to replace Belgian forces in the province. The 4,000 Belgian troops were withdrawing to their base 300 miles northwest of Elisabcthville. Among the troops heading to Elisabethville under the UN banner were Ethiopians, Mali Federation soldiers, some Moroccans and more Swedes. Minor Fire Quelled A minor fire broke out in (lie The dispatch of African UN troops to Katanga was intended wall ()f., , Twentieth, to quiet criticism by Congo Pro-inier Patrice Lumumba, who assailed UN Secretary-General Day Harhmarskjdld for starting the Katanga operation with white troops instead of Africans. GHANA, GUINEA But the choice of soldiers was unlikely to apease Lumumba. He wants troops sent in from Ghana and Guinea, whose presidents Kwame Nkrumah and Sckou Toure are backing his demands that Katanga Premier Moise Tshombe's secessionist regime submit to his authority. Tshombe is adamantly opposed to admitting troops from these countries. Sunday morning. The fire department quickly extinguished the flames before any damage was caused. 11 was believed to have started from a short circuit in electrical wiring. RESTRICT MOVIES ACCRA (Reuters) — Ghana intends to keep out of the country movies which arc "injurious to morals" thc information min-jstry announced. The move follows complaints of excessive violence in movies and pictures which "portray Africans as prim-"ive peoples." The accident probably happened July 30, but word of it was not received until Saturday, when 17 Seattle mountaineers arrived from thc scene after being isolated while waiting for a scheduled aircraft pick-up. FIRST OF SEX The other victims of British Columbia's worst climbing mishap were party leader John Owen, 24, who was in the first Canadian group to climb Mount Waddington two years ago; Joan Stirling, 32, who had climbed frequently with Owen in thc past, and- British-born Derek Bocldy. The women would have been the first of their sex to scale the mountain, which had previously claimed tsvo lives in separate mishaps and had defied all but the most astute climbers. They apparently never got higher than 8,200 feet. Conciliator to Be Named For Dispute VANCOUVER ICB — Labor Minister Lyle Wicks has announced appointment of Bert Sang of Cranbrook as chairman of a conciliation board in a dispute between thc International Woodworkers of America (CLC) and 34 Southern Interior lumber operators. The minister said he is in the process of selecting a conciliator in the dispute between the IWA and Northern Interior employers. He said he expects to make an announcement early this week. Rain and cool weather over the weekend was credited today with breaking the back of the forest fire menace in the Prince George forest district. B.C. Forest Service officials here said the weather extinguished an unknown number of fires and slowed others to the point where firefighting crews could contain them. The rain knocked the fire hazard down to moderate In the immediate Prince George area and t(- moclerate-to-High in the South Peace River region. Hazard was extreme in both areas Friday. 1:5 NEW KIKES Forty-three new fires were found over the weekend, bringing to 1L':> the number of fires caused by 1 i g h t n i ng storms Thursday and Friday. However, the number of fires burning In the district was down to 85 today from 99 on Friday. A local forest "service official said "the rain came just in time." Without it, he said, the district would be a raging inferno today due to,' thc severe lightning storms. (OULI> CHANGE Hpwerer, Dennis MaePonald, forest protection officer, said forest fires could still cause trouble in the area. "Clear and sunny weather conditions will shoot the hazard up during the next few d/iys," lie said. A total of 587 men and abou 21 tractors are currently figh ing fires jn the district. The crews are being assisted by seven .water bombers, pin lit-rht ulanesi''.urn}:.-.uix,. i»«U«*»r lers. ' . liKXTONITE USED Included in the total are tw< TBM Avenger water-bomber.1-arid two new helicopters, a 13el G-2 from Montana and a hiitfi Vetol twin-rotor helicopter fron the nCAF base at Sea Island. 11 o w e v e r, tiie number o )lanes working in the distric is expected to he reduced withir !he next few days. The two Avengers Sundaj tombed hot spots on a ilghtnirij strike at Seeback Creek, 1( niles north of Aleza Lake, us ng a mixture of bentonite anc water. (Bentonite is a fire rctardenl ilso known as drillers' mud). PIKE STOP I'Ml) Forest service officials say he two planes were successfu 11 keeping tin; fire from de jtroylng u valuable stand of i in her. The major fires in thc dis rid, at Burnt Creek, Callazor !reek and Hook Lake, are st'll! mrnihg out of control today. However, the fires are report id to have slowed down due to he rain. TOMMY DOUGLAS . . . speaking tour CCF 'Bio Guns' KVIUI; SEARCH KOK SON FO1X, Franch (AP)—Eleven 'car-old Yves Rouan slippec vhile mountain climbing a n < (lunged more than 1.000 feet o his death. Companions i o tell the hoy's father. Rogei Iriuan, who organized a searcl >arty and went to the spot fron vhere his son had fallen. Rouar ost his balance, and fell to his eath a few feet from his son's odv. INDIAN MISSING ON STUART LAKE A young Indian man is missing and presumed drowned after his capsized boat was found on Stuart Lake, 110 miles northwest of here. . Raphael Pierre, about 20, left Fort St. James at the south end of thc lake Saturday in the 35-foot launch Aurora, on his way to work at Cuchoe'nu Lodge half way up thc lake. The boat was found Saturday night. RCMP from Fort St. James and private boats were still searching for him Sunday night. Department of Agriculture held' n at the Dominion Experimental p^ p. when the agriculturists there were: Walter Burns, superintendent of the experimental farm; E. M: King, provincial horticulturist; and Ken May, assistant agricultural —-Hal Vandervoort Photo Among the engineer, Victoria. To Stump in B.C. VANCOUVER (CP)—The biggest names of national CCF and Labor groups will make personal appearances to help promote the cause of their B.C. brothers in the Sept. 12 provincial election. The CCF has scheduled appearances of the following "big guns" and others on provincial platforms: Premier T. C. Douglas of Saskatchewan will arrive for four days starting Aug. 30; program to be announced. Former CCF national leader M/ J. Coldwell arrives Aug. 21 £or, two weeks on thc hustings. ' Saskatchewan cabinet rainisiiw. «us^feT'Br<}wli-'rs"~tiure"'abput th'e same time. New CCF national leader Hazcn Argue will speak at undetermined B.C. points Sept. 5 to 12. Cyprus Independent After 82 Years Of British Rule NICOSIA, Cyprus (Reuters) — The Mediterranean island of Cyprus becomes an independent republic at midnight tonight after 82 years of British rule. Thc country's first cabinet, announced Sunday night, includes men who fought against British security forces in the hitter four-year emergency that preceded agreement on the island's future. Nearly 700 lives were lost in the war against underground terrorists which ended a year ago when independence was promised. President - elect Archbishop Makarios Sunday night named a one-time suspected terrorist, Ni-cosi Kranidiotis, as foreign minister. Kranidiotis, 48, was imprisoned for seven months by the British government as a suspected member of thc terrorist organization EOKA. Prospective minister of the interior Polycarpos Georghadjis, 29., was an EOKA fighter w h o escaped from British custody three times. He carried a price of £5,000 on his head at one time. Violence and terrorism marked many of thc post-war years in which Greece, Turkey and Britain strove to find a formula under which the island could achieve independence. Turkish Cypriots wanted guarantees of their minority rights on the island. Cloudy with showers in west-n sections Tuesday. Winds ight. Low tonight and high tornor-ow al Quesnel, 45 and 62; at }rince George and Smilhcrs, 45 and 60. Peace River Region Cloudy Tuesday. War ra e r. Winds southwest 20. Low tonight and high tomor-. ow at Grand Prairie, 50 and 75.' Last 24 Hours Pre .03 .02 .IS L II Prince George 37 61 Quesnel 39 62 "errace 53 69 mithers 47 66 [amloops 51 74 )awson Creek 43 62 Tort St. John 48 57 rort Nelson 57 76 Whitehorse 70