I, Itt SPORTS HIGHLIGHTS Prince George Hickory Wing Ski Club grows during last two seasons. • • * Promoter Quinn only loser as Moore-Cleroux fight called off. • • * Folley ready to take on Liston after beating Cooper. (See Page 4). The Only Daily Newspaper Serving North-Central British Columbia Phone LOgan 4-2441 Vol. 5; No. 238 PR'NCE GEORGE, BRITISH COLUMBIA, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 6, 1961 7c a Copy BY CARRIER ' n 50 per Month BENNETT: Million-Dollar Highway Job in North. Awarded VICTORIA (Special) — Contract in the amount of SI,-216,816 for more than 40 miles of the Stcwait-Cassiar Highway in NoTithwes't D.C. lias been 'awarded to Bedford Construction Co. Lid. of West Vancouver. Work is ta begin as soon as possible, Highways Minister G'a'glaidi said in announcing the contract award. The 40 miles of highway is between Edduntenajon Lake ¦and the Bur; age River. RECORD BUDGET SEA CADETS AND WRENETTES here were inspected Tuesday night by Lt.-Commander W. W. Bowditch of lithe RON, Victoria, area officer for Sea Cadets. With Commander Bowditch (right) are Lit. Bob Forscubt, local cadet commanding officer, and Sub-Lt. Phyllis Johnston, Wrenette divisional offi-cor. Wrenetites being inspected (front row only) are Bonnie Dobbs, Donna Levers, Sue Bolton. 795 SO FAR The largest number of building permits ever issued in a year in Prince George for single dwellings will be recorded by Doc. 31. Up to the end of November, 195 permits for homes were issued by the city building inspector. This is the highest since 1958, when 183 were issued for the year. A breakdown or the month's figures shows that 17 permits were issued. Eleven of them were for single dwellings, four for commercial alterations or additions, one for a residential alteration and one for a garage. For November, $156,900 in building was declared, bringing the total for the year so far to $4,503,297. At the same lime in 19(>0, a total of $4,056,427 was declared. If however, the building permit for the new Connaught Junior High School is taken out this month, building during 1961 may reach one of its highest yearly totals in Prince George. Sale of city lots has been good this year, too. A ciiy official said that 199 had so far been sold and there are -13 still available at City Hall. According to figures released by Central Mortgage and Housing Corporation, Prince George places high in Canada for the number of homes being built per capita and it has remained this way for the last several years. FORECAST The meteorological department at the airport reports that cloudy periods and brief snow flurries will alternate with clear periods Thursday. Winds will be westerly 15 and there will be little change in temperature. Low tonight and high tomorrow at Prince George •'¦ and Smithers, 20 and 35; Quesnel, 15 and 35. Peace .River — A light snow falling during the night will give way to cloudy and a little colder weather tomorrow. Winds will be northerly 10. Low tonight and high Thurs day at Grande Prairie, 5 and 10. LAST 24 HOURS Hi Lo Prec Prince George 36 22 __ Terrace 34 22 .29 Smithers 38 18 __ Quesnel 39 12 — Williams Lake 32 4 — Kamioops '11 19 __ Whitehorse -7 -25 — Fort Nelson -1 -8 — Fort St. John 15 -4 .29 Dawson Creek 38 -2 .32 TAX SUIT LOS ANGELES I/?) — The internal revenue service has filed a tax loin suit for $8,608 against Orson Welles. The government complaint claimed the actor-writer-producer owes that much on his 1958 earnings. VD INCREASES CHICAGO l.n — Primary and secondary cases of syphilis increased 200 per cent in the U.S. in the last five years. Now Hear This... Legal eagle George Baldwin points out1 that a classified ad in Friday's Citizen might cause some confusion. 11 directs the individual against whom a writ of summons was issued to appear at the registrar's office at 1411 Third. Seems the old provincial government building was at that address more than three years ago, but it aint no mo . . . Twenty-one voles were polled by noon today in advance poll voting at city hall. Purpose of the three-day advance poll which closes at 5 p.m. today is to ensure electors a right to vote if they are going to be out of town Thursday, which is the regular election day. Since there are so few advance pollsters, we hope it means the rest of the city's 4,851 registered voters will surge to the polls tomorrow . . . Omineca MLA Cyril Shelford is wondering if it's open season on AILAs. While out hunting on horseback near his Wistaria home Sunday, several shots were fired very near him. He fired his own gun into the air to warn the unseen hunters of his presence. After a five-minute pause, Mr. Shelford rode over to see who had been mis- taking him for a moose. Suddenly the shooting was resumed. A bullet went between his horse's legs and struck the snow 10 feet away. Realizing that to get out of range was probably the only safe thing to do, Mr. Shelford rode quickly off. Then he circled around to where the shots had come from, but by that lime the trigger-happy hunters had vamoosed . . . Supporters of Geoff Richmond for president of the Canadian Legion are busy scotching the rumor someone started passing around that Geoff had withdrawn his name from the slate of candidates for election. His name will be there when members vote Monday. Advance poll is Saturday . . . The 25 men who donated more than a dozen hours of their time, and their sponsors who donated a total of $262, were a little miffed when nobody showed up to collect the sum for the March of Dimes after the weekend bowling marathon. There was nobody there to present the trophy either. Just because they're over the mark, the personality kids over at CKPG have apparently forgotten about the March of Dimes. MORE THAN 40 DEAD Jets Join in Fighting In Capital of Katanga CP from AP-Rcutcrs ELJSABETPTVILLE — The air forces of bath the UN Command and Katanga went into action today as fighting raged for the second day in and near '.this secessionist capital. Mortar blasts shook the residential area near UN headquarters and an old airport north west of the city where Katanga forces were denloved Ways lo Compete MONTREAL (CP)—Canadian Pacific Railway Co. said Tuesday night it will study the position of its Vancouver-Vancouver Island ferry service in view of a provincial government plan to go into competition with the line. Premier Bennett of B.C. said last week the provincial toll authority had assumed control of the Black Ball Ferry Line and tenders would be called immediately for construction of two new vessels for the Vancou-ver-Nanaimo service. He said the government will pay $6,795,476 for the total assets of the firm which, with the addition of the extra ships, would also operate an hourly service between Nanaiino and Horseshoe Bay. R. E. Emm-son, CPR vice-president, said the company will study the position of its present services if and when the government completes the purchase of Black Ball. 5 Thirty-six accidents have marred Safe Driving Week in the area, according to figures compiled by the RCMP here, during (he first five days. An RCMP spokesman said figures compare favorably with other years. Safe Driving Week runs from Dec. 1 lo 7 throughout Canada. Locally, the Junior Chamber of Commerce is now spearheading a safe driving; campaign to run during tho entire month of December. Of the 36 accidents throughout the;subdivision area, which extends north to Cassiar, south to Quesnel, west o Vanderhoof and east to McBride, only five have involved personal injury. However, Prince George and immediate district had IS of the accidents, with two Involving personal injury. From midnight Monday io midnight Tuesday, only two mishaps were reported in the Prince George area. In the subdivision, four accidents were reported. In other words, half the accidents during the last 21 hours were in the immediate Prince George area.' inga forces were deployed. More than 40 persons were dead, with the figures expected to go much higher. A lone aircraft, from Katanga's small air force, a bomber converted from a German-made Dormer transport, raided the main Elisabothvillo airport held by UN troops and dropped three bombs. A UN spokesman said there were no serious casualties or damage. Indian Brig. K. A. S. Raja, who took over the UN operation in Katanga from civilians, announced UN jets strafed the Katanga air force at Kolwezi, northwest of Elisabethville. He said Swedish jet fighters carried out the attack, and prevented an air attack on UN forces at Elisabethville. One of Katanga's Fouga jets at Kolwezi succeeded in getting off the ground but made a forced landing near Luluabourg in adjoining Kasi province, he said. UN troops opened anti-aircraft fire on another Katanga plane which circled the main airport. At Lcopoldville, the UN Command announced that its 15-jet (Continued on Page 3) MOSCOW (AP)—The Soviet government today announced a record-breaking 1962 budget including an increase in military spending of almost 50 per cent over that originally planned in 1961. The original 1961 figure was boosted tremendously last July because of U.S. military measures taken to meet the Berlin defence crisis, Soviet Premier Khrushchev said then. The 1962 budget totals 81,-900,000,000 rubles, Finance Min- ister Vasily Garbuzov told the Supreme Soviet, the parliament of the Soviet Union, which be-yan a session today. Garbuzov said defence expenditures in 1962 would total 13/i00,000,000 rubles, or 16.7 per cent of the total, as compared with 9,220,000,000 rubles originally budgeted for 1961. At the official rate of exchange, one ruble equals $1.11. The new amount 'allotted to the Soviet 'armed forces is more than 1,000,000,000 rubles more than the total 'allotted on both a regular and emergency basis during 1961. But this is no longer emergency financing, and it indicated the Soviet government expects world tension to slay at a high pitch during Uie coming year. In the related field of science, which includes mosl programs of weapon development, the budget figure was set ait 4,300,-000,000 rubles. Last year it was 3,800,000,000. The 1962 budget is 3,600,000,-000 rubles bigger than last year's, but Garbuzov said the government actually planned to spend only 80,300,000,000 rubles, leaving a deflationary surplus of 1,600,000,000. He reported a surplus of 1,-600,000,000 rubles for 1961 also. Earl Attlee Reported In Serious Condition AMERSHAM, England (Reuters) — Earl Attlee, 78, former British prime minister, was repotted today to be "very seriously ill" in hospital here. Attlee entered hospital Tuesday for what his daughter described as an "upset tummy." The disclosure that Attlee was seriously ill was made by his son. Lady Attlee is in the same hospital as her husband. She is suffering from lumbago, but hospital authorities said she would be out in "a day or two." CAIRO CHARGES 5 WITH SPYING CAIRO (AP) — Five French diplomats accused of spying and plotting to overthrow President Nasser's regime were formally indicted Tuesday. Four of the diplomats, members of the French property mission in Cairo, were arrested here Nov. 24. The fifth, an official of the French foreign ministry, is living in Paris. "The assassination ofPrcsi-dent Nasser was among their means toward their intended goal," said the indictment. The French government has rejected the charges, calling them propaganda. Over Fall Assizes Justice F. Craig Munroe of New Westminster is presiding at the fall assizes which opened here Tuesday, his first such assignment since being elevated to the bench last March. An address of welcome was given by II. B. King on behalf of the Cariboo Bar Association, of which Mr. King is the senior member and only Queen's Counsellor. In his reply, Justice Munroe ¦noted it look Simon Fraser 40 days to travel from South Fort George to New Westminster in 1818 and Monday "it look me just two hours." He said he was greatly impressed with the city's growth since his last visit here six years ago. Following the ceremony an all-male jury was selected from a panel of 57 assize jurors to hear the non-capital murder trial of Charles Hamilton Rom-bough. The Rombough trial is expected to conclude Monday alter which two other criminal trials are scheduled before the Christmas recess Dec. 15. Balance of the criminal and civil cases will be held next month, starling Jan. 9. VICTORIA (CP) — Premier Bennett said Tuesday B.C. could borrow in the U.S. all the money required for the Columbia River project providing it gets a firm contract foi the charge of downstream benefits. He said the long-term advantages to Canada of the sale of those benefits are so great that they can be disputed only on political grounds, and not on economics. The major point in a dispute between the federal and provincial governments over the $458,-OC'J.COO project involves the sale of downstream benefits — a portion of Ihe power generated in the U.S. which is returnable to Canada for controlling the flow on the upper reaches of the stream. He said if B.C. was allowec to sell that power in the U.S. it would have enough money to pay for the entire project ove; a period as great as 35 years'. "This (a firm contract for sale of downstream benefits) would allow us to borrow at 4 la per cent rather than the 5V6 per cent we would have to pay in Canada," said the premier. Over a period of 35 years the lower U.S. interest rates would save Canada as much as $15,-000,000 in financing charges. Mr. Bennett said there cannot be a compromise on the cpuestion of selling downstream benefits. "We cannoi 'sell part of it and take the rest as we need it because it would mean we would have the expense of transmis sion to 'look after for part of our entitlement," he said. >"This would make the price of such electricity out of oui economic range. "All that is needed to make the sale of downstream benefits legal under Article 8 of the treaty is an exchange of notes between the Canadian and U.S. governments." He said lie does not think the international treaty would be abandoned by .the U.S. because of any delay in (ratification by Canada. The treaty is considered so valuable by the U.S. ithat it will wait until Ottawa changes its mind, said Mr. Bennett. VANCOUVER CD — Altorncy-General Bonner says B.C. must grasp its opportunity to develop its power resources "massively." The attorney-general told Vancouver Chartered Accountants Tuesday: "We have a choice of developing them modestly, just enough to take care of our own domestic requirement, or to launch on a major program which will include export and sale of Columbia river downstream benefits." The economics of major power development are just the same as the development of oil or gas resources, or of the international wheat trade. It is necessary to include exports in a major program. ONE Of FIRST IN CANADA Non-Capital Murder TriaS One of the first trials of noncapital murder in Canada since the charge was established in recent amendment to the criminal code got underway here Tuesday. Charles Hamilton Rombough, 48, is charged with the death Oct. 21 of his common-law wife, Hazel, Cousins, 47, at Upper Fraser, 50 miles northeast of here. The new section differentiates from pre-meditated murder in which the death penalty is mandatory upon conviction. Noncapital murder carries a maximum sentence of life imprisonment. In his opening remarks to the jury, Crown Prosecutor Frank Perry said the crown would attempt to prove that Rombough caused the woman's death "by beating and kicking her and in any event accelerated her death by putting her out in the snow." Rombough was arrested early the following morning at a neighbor's home in the small sawmill community. His wife's semi-nude, bruised and blood-spattered body was found on their livingrbom floor. She had apparently died as the result of severe blows to the head. Const. C. W. Potter of the Prince George RCMP identification branch, said he went to Upper Fraser as the result of a phone call and on arriving at the death scene found the woman's body lying behind a living-room oil heater. He took a number of photographs which were entered as exhibits in the trial. Const. A. E. Fry, who later arrested Rombough, told the court he found the house in a messy state. There were partially-filled jugs of wine and glasses lying about. He took samples of what appeared to be blood stains from various points in the house including the floor, door and porch. They were taken to the RCMP laboratories in Regina for analysis. Const. Fry arrested Rombough at the home of Gordon Gale and seized clothing worn by the accused, parts of which were also forwarded to Regina to determine if certain stains were blood. Prince George coroner .Dr. A. L. Chambers, who examined the body at the scene, said the head injuries "might have been caused by a single fall but the other injuries were caused by numerous applications of force in my opinion." A heavy fall or a blow by a blunt instrument could have caused the woman's blackened eyes, he said, but doubled if the head injuries could have been caused by fist blows because they covered "too wide an area." (Continued on Page'3) Hey, Dief! How About A Holiday ? CHICOUTIMI, Que. CD — A young boy stole the show Tuesday as Prime Minister Diefcn-bakcr made a brief but busy tour of this industrial city. Prime Minister and Mrs. Diefenbakcr spent 41 j hours here and then flew to Summer-side early today for a day's swing across Prince Edward Island. Mr. Diefenbaker shook hands with close to 500 persons during visits to a nearby RCAF base, the Roman Catholic jishop's palace, city hall, a seminary and other spots. During his tour of the seminary Mr. Diefenbaker was followed everywhere by 11-year-)ld Tommy Reeve who insisted the prime minister declare a school holiday to mark the visit. "I know you can do it," said the youngster, one of the few itudents at the seminary sciiool )f 660 who speaks perfect Eng-ish. Mr. Diefenbaker explained several times that education is a provincial matter over which he has no authority. At one point the boy turned to Mrs. Diefenbaker with his plea, but she told him it was out of her authority as well. Tom my stopped the prime minister a little later with his final suggestion: "If you can't give us a holiday, how about giving the professors a day off?" Mi-. and Mrs. Diefenbaker rocked with laughter, joined by the priests of the seminary staff. But the answer still was no. Northern B.C. Gas FORT ST. JOHN (CP) — Workers at the McMahon natural gas plant at Taylor, 10 miles souith of 'hare, have voted 67 to 14 in iaYor of strike action in a government supervised vote. John Curtis, president of local 16-686 of the Oil, Chemical and Atomic Workers Union (CLC), said the Monday vote followed a year of negotiations. He said the major issue in the talks between the Union and Pacific Petroleums Ltd. was improved safety regulations. No immediate strike action is planned and negotiations are continuing, he said. Workers also seek improved wages. The company has offered a 10-cent an hour increase over the current basic rate of $1.97, but the union seeks 16 cents. The plant supplies natural gas to Fort St. John and to Vancouver and the U.S. via Westcoast Transmission pipeline. Thousands Taken REGINA (CP) - A daring robbery in which "thousands of dollars worth" of diamonds were stolen from a ground floor display window Tuesday night is being investigated by police. No estimate of the value of the jewelry, which included engagement and wedding rings, diamond bracelets, necklaces and watches, was available. The jewels were on display in the midtown window of the J. Alex Mackenzie Ltd. store. Police said the thief apparently hid inside the store dur- l dinner hour, entered t h e window from inside the store and escaped with the loot. No sign of forced entry was found. BARTENDER IN JAIL IN RACE INCIDENT GRAND FORKS, N.D. (AP) — An acknowledged test of North Dakota's new antidiscrimination law resulted Tuesday in a quick conviction of a bartender who charged $5 for a 10-ccnt soft drink served a Negro air force man. John Brandt, 52, was sentenced to 30 days in jail and fined $100, the maximum penalty under the law. Brandl did not testify in the trial, brought about by a complaint signed by Sgt. Joseph McClendon, 32, a Negro. ease. and Vote '-¦— ¦ -- "¦ ¦ ¦