Quick Recovery Being Made by Sir Winston SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL comfortable night 92 VOTE MARGIN UlCLabor Rep Visiting City The representative of organ organized ¬ ized labor on the Unemployment Insurance Commission A F MacArthur was scheduled to arrive here today to meet the staff of the local office Mr MacArthur of Ottawa is on a familiarization tour of Western Canada He is being accompanied by Horace Kectch regional UIC director for BC and the Yukon He was to stay in Prince George overnight and drive to Dawson Creek early Wednesday There are three commission ers on the UIC the chairman a labor and an employers repre scntative LONDON Reuters Sir Winston Churchill had a com fortablc night at the Middle Middlesex ¬ sex Hospital here hospital sources said today An official bulletin Monday said the 87-year-old British wartime leader was making satisfactory progress In his recovery from a thigh frac fracture ¬ ture sustained in Monte Carlo June 28 The bulletin made no men mention ¬ tion of complications which earlier this month caused his doctors anxiety phlebitis a vein inflammation and later thrombosis a blood clot in his injured left leg and last week a bronchial in infection ¬ fection The doctors announcement that no further official bul bulletins ¬ letins would be issued until Friday was regarded as an in indication ¬ dication they were satisfied with Churchills all round pro progress ¬ gress Liberals Capture Stormont Riding CORNWALL Ont CP the Liberal fold Monday by of more than 25000 cast In a battle that saw the lead change several times Lucien Lamourcaux 41 a lawycr MAN FINED 250 AFTER ACCIDENT BURNS LAKE Correspond Correspondent ¬ ent Thomas White of Van Vancouver ¬ couver has been fined 250 or three1 months in default and has had his drivers licence suspended for six months throughout Canada after he was found guilty in magis magistrates ¬ trates court here of dangerous driving The charge arose from a two car collision at Decker Creek six miles west of Burns Lake April 28 Five persons including Mrs Bobbie Philip and Robert Seeds of Prince George were injured in the crash and had to be taken to hospital Stormont riding returned to a scanty margin of 92 votes snatched the seat from Prog Progressive ¬ ressive Conservative Grant Campbell who had taken the Liberals in the 1958 general election Mr Campbell 39 and a law lawyer ¬ yer said he will seek a re recount ¬ count The Liberal victory narrowed the PC plurality in the 265 seat Commons to 16 seats The stand standings ¬ ings 1962 1958 PC 116 208 Liberal 100 49 SC 30 0 NDP CCF 18 8 Vacant 1 0 The vacancv is in Rurnahv Coquitlam the BC riding won Dy arnart iiegier of the NDP in the June 18 general election Mr Regier resigned to make possible a byelection in which T C Douglas NDP leader will bid for a Commons seat Mr Douglas was defeated in Re- gina city in June Balloting in this eastern On tario constituency had been de deferred ¬ ferred four weeks because of the death of the original Lib Liberal ¬ eral candidate Final returns cavp Mr Ta- moureux an aide to Lionel Lhevner who represented Stor Stormont ¬ mont in the Commons for 10 years 11661 votes to Mr Camp- Dells 11569 Social Credit candidate Mel Rowat and NDP candidate Mrs Marjorie Ball trailed far be behind ¬ hind with 1297 and 970 votes respectively From the moment the first polls reported shortly after vot voting ¬ ing ended at 8 pm EDT it was a close battle between the Lib Liberal ¬ eral and Conservative candi candidates ¬ dates The result was in doubt until the last of 139 polls came in H CLOSE VOTE STUMPS FORTUNE TELLERS of a pay boost of 30 cents an hour over three years from the Heavy Construction Association Amalgamated Contractors As Association ¬ sociation and the Builders Ex Exchange ¬ change The union sought an increase of 25 cents an hour over two years and other benefits Pres Present ¬ ent basic rate is 292 an hour Results of the membership vote are expected July 26 Prince George carpenters are affected Ottawa Limp After Battle OTTAWA CT The tense down-to-the-last-ballot Liberal election victory in Stormont left Ottawa political circles limp Monday night They had hung on every vote count in the see saw deferred election in the vain hope of finding some clue to possible changes in the countrys polit political ¬ ical atmosphere since the incon inconclusive ¬ clusive June 18 federal election If the result offered no such guideposts it did produce fod fodder ¬ der for speculation And for the four political parties it offered a mixed dose of satisfaction and disappointment The Liberals had reason to bo jubilant By a 92 vote margin they won back a seat they had held in six general elections and one byelection from 1935 until they lost it in the country wide Conservative landslide of 1958 Their candidate Lucien La mouroux achieved victory de despite ¬ spite a late start compared with his three opponents who had been in the field well before the June 18 voting deferred in Stormont because of the death of the original Liberal candi- Now Hear This Mighty chilly weather for camping wot The weather of office ¬ fice here repot ts a grass mini mum thats the reading they get from laying the thermo meter on the ground of 299 degrees last night The low temp reading at four feet above ground was only 38 above icio to be sure which caused the weather man at the PG Ail port to quip Its a mild winter were haing this summer New general manager for Tartan Brewing Co is an old friend to many in Prince George Tommy Doucetre who ar aril ¬ il ved yesterday to take over at the end of the month from Jack Corklsh the boy who got the operation staited last May and who we hear is resuming his chartered accountancy practice Tommy is a former manager of the Canadian Legion branch here and latterly has been d freelance representative in be v crage lines jA bouquet to the hard working cityrjnptayccs w ho hav e done sucli a -good job on the giounds in front of city hall A group of Washington toiuists who were stopping at a nearby garage was among many such people to walk over and photograph the park School board decided recently to dock Teacher NDP Federal Election Candidate Ken Rutherford only the pay needed to cover the sub substitute ¬ stitute teacher who handled Kens duties while he was away on the hustings Gal who did the subbing Mrs Mary Marples said today she thinks this is fine and dandy but she wants to know when shes going to get paid Seems the person at the school board office who must sign her cheque is away on holi holidays ¬ days and Mary is out of luck until said person arrives back about July 24 Memo to Mike Im from Paris Thornthwaite In spite of what you think Pouce Coupe is not pronounced in the French manner on or off the radio Horses are expected to begin arriving at the Exhibition Grounds any time now to get in a few familiarization runs around the track in preparation for the two days of racing here Friday evening and Saturday afternoon It will be the only parimutuel racing here this ear t date Albert Lavicne Mr La moureaux was nominated some four weeks ago lhe Liberal victorv marcin compared with a 1987 vote edne tor conservative Grant Camp dcu lour years aeo It com pares with Liberal majorities ranging from a low of 2290 to a high of 6259 in their string ot six ceneral election triumphs In a 1954 byelection the Liberal margin was 350 Conservatives who for dav had been conceding privately tne proDaDiuty of defeat found encouragement in the very closeness of lhe race To them there was real satis faction in the strong run by Mr Campbell in a predominantly urban riding especially since they had lost ground in urban areas of Ontario June 18 Social Credit althoueh it fail- ed once again to make a dent in Ontario polled almost three times as many votes as in 1958 1297 against 331 But other parties noted that it didn t win tne same measure of sunnort from Frenchspcakinc voters in Stormont as it did in Quebec last month The New Democratic Party which hasnt fielded a candidate in Stormont in the last three general elections came loser to the 1000 vote mark with 970 Yet that total was below the 1283 CCF votes cast in the riding in 1949 although National Leader T C Douglas spoke during the campaign The result made little impact on the House of Commons It gives the Liberals as official opposition 100 seats against the lit neia Dy the Conservatives Of the rest of the 265 House seats Social Credit holds 30 and NDP J8 One other NDP scat became vacant Monday when Erhart Regier resigned Burna-by-Coquitlam to open a constitu constituency ¬ ency for Mr Douglas4jeaten June 18 in Regina City gone upstairs Into the store Russacks bedroom is also in the basement He said he had double locked the rear door of the premises after returning home that night It was the practice he said for whomever came in last at night to secure the door The door was partly open when he went upstairs The in inside ¬ side doorknob was lying on the floor and the outside knob was missing He said a window also at the rear of the store had been broken since that evening 30 30 RIFLE The shooting of Michaud and a second man David Sinclair Stevenson 21 who was only wounded is alleged to have been done through the win window ¬ dow after the men emerged from Sparkcs car parked be behind ¬ hind the store Sparkes said Russack had kept a 30 30 rifle behind his bedroom door as long as they had shared quarters about 3V years Facing charges of attempted breaking and entering and at attempted ¬ tempted car theft arc Steven- son and Barrie Malcolm Blake 20 Blake who was not injured in the fray was found by police on the roof of an adiacent build- ing shortly after the shooting Blake told the court he had climbed up a stairway think thinking ¬ ing it was the rear of the Columbus Hotel after seeing a policeman in the lane He said he was hiding because he was drunk and had beer with him illegal because he is a minor He denied a sueeestion bv do fence counsel that he had climb- ed to the roof after becoming ingntened when hearing the shots Blake said he heard no shots and that he must have been in the corridor of some girls apartment when they were urea During the first day of testi testimony ¬ mony Mondav Stevenson pave evidence for about three hours most of which was taken up with a meticulous cross-examination by defence counsel David Sturdy FIVE BEERS Stevensons left arm is still in a cast It was shattered during the shooting incident He told the court that Mich Michaud ¬ aud Blake and he left the As Astoria ¬ toria Hotel beer parlor with a case of beer about midnight He and Michaud walked down the lane between Second and Third while Blake talked with the girls who lived in a build building ¬ ing next the hotel Stevenson said he and Mich I JuliaiHI K f fe4pp jLiLWf I ERHART REGIER who won the Burnaby Coquitlam seat for the NDP in the June 18 federal election resigned Monday His resignation paves the way for NDP leader Tom my Douglas to run in a by election in the riding Mr Douglas lost his seat in Re gina in the election last month oo the cm Man Claims He Didnt Hear Two Shots Fired A man who shared store and living quarters with city jeweler Steve Russack charged with non capital murder in an inci incident ¬ dent which occurred during an alleged burglary attempt on the store May 10 said at the preliminary hearing today he did not hear the two shots which killed one man and wounded another Percy Sparkcs operator of Sparkys Music Store which at the time of the incident was located in the same building at 1166 Third as Russacks watch repairing and jewelry business was testifying at the second day of a preliminary hearing Russack a 68-ycar-old bach bachelor ¬ elor was charged after Gilles Jim Michaud 25 died of a gunshot wound at the rear of the store shortly after midnight May 10 HEARING POOR Sparkes told the court he had returned from Quesnel about 11 pm and went to bed He said he was wakened in his basement bedroom by Russack and an RCMP constable about 1245 am He said the hearing in one of his ears is not good and that he was sleeping on the other Sparkes told the court he knew nothing of the shooting until after he had dressed and BC Carpenters Planning Strike VANCOUVER ten BC car carpenters ¬ penters locked in a wage dis dispute ¬ pute with three contractors as associations ¬ sociations Monday gave 48 hours notice of intent to so on strike It meant that the 1200 car- Denters can strike after two days and within three months bui union spoKesmen said they wont walk out until mem members ¬ bers vote on an offer from em employers ¬ ployers The unions provincial council has ureed reicction of the offer aud then got into Sparkes car parked behind the store They drank four or five beers said Stevenson then Jim got out of the car I stepped out of my door thats when I heard a shot I didnt know what was going on I walked around the car and there he Jim was He was lying on the ground I called him but he didnt answer I was going to pick him up and then I got hit Stevenson said he then went into the adjoining Embassy Cafe through the rear entrance and asked the manager to phone a doctor RCMP arrived shortly after In cross examination he de denied ¬ nied he had any intention of stealing Sparkes car The hearing is continuing Few Spaces Left At Ex Mall Area Exhibitors are snapping up the last few spaces in the mall area at the Exhibition grounds a spokesman for the mall com committee ¬ mittee said today The mall area is comprised of permanent quarters on a paved pad More than 75 per cent of the 28 spaces have been signed up The city Kiwanis clubs agri agricultural ¬ cultural development committee volunteered its time to sell space for the Prince George Agricultural and Industrial As Association ¬ sociation Committeeman Trelle Mor Morrow ¬ row said We arc leasing the rest of the spaces now so that all the 12 foot square booths will be filled for Exhibition time - Utility companies building supplies appliance and furniture dealers and specialty items will be featured in the mall area The booths are all covered There will probablv be sev eral kiosks in the centre of the mall which can be used for food concessions he said Ferry Bombing Put to Douks VANCOUVER CP A bomb exploded on a BC government ferry early today and a police official said later there is little doubt it was the work of the Sons of Freedom Doukhobor sect The time bomb constructed of two or three sticks of dyna dynamite ¬ mite wrecked a locker in the observation deck of the ferry Chinook as it was berthed at Tsawwasscn 30 miles south of here Damage was slight and there were no injuries T P Brcnnan deputy police chief of Delta the municipal municipality ¬ ity containing Tsawwasscn said the bomb had all the ear earmarks ¬ marks of the type used by Frecdomites in the Kootenays We have no proof yet but we have little doubt that it is con connected ¬ nected with the Doukhobors The bomb was the same type that they have been using Examination Set In Assault Case Case against a 42-year-old man charged with indecent as sault of a Vancouver boy was adjourned in police court here today for 30 days so he can undergo psychiatric examina examination ¬ tion at Essondale Ralph Anderson has entered a not guilty plea in the case He was arrested a week ago Police allege the offence occur occurred ¬ red after Anderson lured the 14-year-old boy here with the promise of a ranch job AMERICAN NEWSPAPERMEN COMPLAIN one voice No was the way the an answer ¬ swer came in the transcript they received Monday ASNE President Lee Hills of the Knight newspapers and Paul Miller president of the Gannett newspapers said they were distressed most that their questions were inaccur inaccurately ¬ ately reported The questions were written then read aloud at the Krem Kremlin ¬ lin session The Americans said they believed the ques questions ¬ tions were rephrased to fit into the Communist party line REGINA CD Arrangements have been shaped for the first face-to-face talk betwen prin principals ¬ cipals in Saskatchewans bitter medical care dispute since doc doctors ¬ tors withdrew normal medical services July 1 The CCF provincial convention at Saskatoon agreed Monday night to a request from the Saskatchewan College of Physi Physicians ¬ cians and Surgeons to have a representative of the college present the doctors case to the convention Wednesday The convention will be at attended ¬ tended by Premier Woodrow S Lloyd and all but one member of his provincial cabinet Doc Doctors ¬ tors withdrew normal service in the province in protest against implementation of the govern governments ¬ ments compulsory prepaid medical care insurance plan It- is not known whether the college representative will be college council President Dr II D Dalglcish The request that a representative be allowed lo speak came Monday from Dr Dalglcish to Harry Link of Sas Saskatoon ¬ katoon president of the provin provincial ¬ cial CCF association The request from the college matches one made a few weeks before the act went into effect by Premier Lloyd He asked and was granted permission to pre sent the governments case on medical care insurance to an emergency session of the prov provinces ¬ inces doctors TRADE VIEWS Although there has been no meeting of the two sides since the star of the doctors boycott of the medical scheme college and government have traded views and charges in press statements A television program featured both Premier Lloyd and Dr Dalglcish but they were inter interviewed ¬ viewed separately Direct talks between the col college ¬ lege council and the cabinet broke down last month The government offered changes in the Medical Care Insurance Act which it said would permit doctors to practise outside the act if they wished These changes were later incor incorporated ¬ porated in the acts regulations The college insisted the act it itself ¬ self must be withdrawn before negotiations could resume to reach agreement on a plan ac acceptable ¬ ceptable to both sides With implementation of the act July 1 most of the prov provinces ¬ inces 700 practising physicians when they appear in the paity newspaper Pravda Felix McKnight of the Dal las Times Herald said he asked this question Have the Soviet people been told that the Soviet Union broke the three year moratorium on nuclear testing and was the first lo carry out 40 nuclear explosions in the atmos atmosphere ¬ phere All reference to atmospheric explosions was deleted from the transcript Michael J Ogden of the Providence Journal and Bul Bulletin ¬ letin said be Commented thatt ZEN The Only Daily Newspaper Serving North Central British Columbia Phone LOgan 4 2441 Vol 6 No 138 PRINGE GEORGE BRITISH COLUMBIA TUESDAY JULY 17 1962 MURDER HEARING CONTINUES 7c a Copy closed their offices Emergency service has been provided at 40 designated hospitals by about 200 members of the college through a plan co ordinated by the Canadian Medical Associa tion MANY WILL DECIDE Dr Dalglcish said Monday many doctors will decide within the next few days whether to remain in the province He said this is the week of decision Jor individual doctors At the time of withdrawal of normal service many doctors said they would remain two weeks to see how things worked out before deciding on a per permanent ¬ manent course of action There arc no exact figures on how many doctors have lefi ihc province and how many of these went because of the medical care plan The college estim estimates ¬ ates about 100 Of these it is not known how many left perm permanently ¬ anently or combined a vacation with a job seeking trip and may return In Rcgina the citys cmcr- eminent British doctor and one of the pioneers in the British health services plan arrived in Regina by air Monday night at the invitation of the Saskatch Saskatchewan ¬ ewan government He was met by three govern government ¬ ment representatives eight women and a man with placards supporting Saskatchewans doc doctors ¬ tors in their boycott of Saskatch Saskatchewans ¬ ewans compulsory medical carq scheme He handled the demonstrators gracefully gave a five minute press interview and left the air airport ¬ port with Health Minister W G Davies Lord Taylor said the purpose of his trip is to try to help the government the doctors and the people of Saskatchewan with a good solution He said it would not be possi possible ¬ ble to act as a mediator in the dispute since he had not re received ¬ ceived an invitation from the doctors I bring sympathy for both sides he said He said he would be here as long as he can do some good but Yes Is No When K Plays Editor MOSCOW Wl The 13 Am crican editors who interview cd Premier Khrushchev last Friday complained today that the Russians made numerous changes in editing the offi cial transcript of the proceed proceedings ¬ ings Yes een came out no At one point during the in tcrviewK4iushcljivaisked the Americans all members of the American Society of News paper Editors Were you restricted in any way during your tour of the Soviet Union Yes they replied with compared to previous ytars consumer goods are more plentiful The comment came out The shops have all the essential goods The Americans said they found the average Russian citizen woefully lacking in in information ¬ formation of the West For A ample nicy said almost no one who knew that the United States dropped the first two atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki while at war with Japan Instead the ditors sajd many Russian Believe the US was testing them on two peaceful cities BY CARRIER 150 per Montb HYDRO CRWS ARE COMPLETING CON struction of a power lino to serve a BC Tele Telephone ¬ phone Co microwave repealer on Tabor Mountain east of Prince George A section of the 60 foot wide power line right-of-way between Tabor Minor and Tabor Major mountains link linking ¬ ing the two towers is shown Power already established to Tabor Minor will be available to BC Telephone on Tabor Major by July 27 See story on Page 3 Bill Best photo IN MEDICARE FUSS Face-to-Face Meet Slated gency service co ordinator Mr Clayton Crosby said Saskatch Saskatchewan ¬ ewan doctors arc angry and disgruntled at terms under which British doctors arc coming to the province The Medical Care Insur ance Commission administer ing body for the act has been recruiting United Kingdom doc doctors ¬ tors to provide temporary med medical ¬ ical service About 85 have been recruited and about half of them already are in the province PAY ALL COSTS The British doctors are being flown to Saskatchewan licensed for practice In the province then being sent to points which arc not covered by emergency service centres They are on short term agree agreements ¬ ments which provide cost of their transportation both ways expenses involved in practice and salaries ranging up to 500 a week Dr Crosby said the provinces doctors are not feeling the strain of financial pressure This is no factor he said UK Doctor Arrives For Medicare Study REGINA CTI Lord Taylor that he has an assignment with the World Health Organization in September Lord Tailor said he had been invited to come bv Graham Spry Saskatchewan representa tive in lintain on behalf of Premier Woodrow Lloyd He said he had written the pre premier ¬ mier to say one clause of the Saskatchewan Medical Care Act was a little bit unfair I understand this has been fixed up now Lord Taylor said the British Medical Association has com complied ¬ plied with a Canadian Mprliml Association request not to pub lish Saskatchewan government advertisements for temporary doctors but the BMA 1nurnil had published a leading article somewhat critical of the Sas Saskatchewan ¬ katchewan doctors stand ryf2 c O t rL F -rT 81 Last nights low readme was only six degrees above frcez- ing Cloudy weather with sunny periods is forecast for Wednes day with slightly warmer tern pcraiuies tignt winds Low to night and high tomorrow at Prince George Quesnel and Smithcrs 45 and 70 LAST 24 HOURS Hi Lo Precip Prince George 63 38 Terrace 65 40 02 Smithcrs 65 49 10 Quesnel 67 50 50 Williams Lake 65 46 70 Kamloops 7 45 14 Whitehorse 1 70 43 Fort Nelson 74 54 21 Fort St John 63 52 117 Dawson Creek 64 50 77