MOVE TO JOIN CITY Cache clean up being proposed Island Cache residents discuss tiic possibility of FOUR HITCH HIKE ON HUGE WHALE SAN DIEGO Calif Mv Iour marine biologists rode a 45-foot-long whale for three hours near here Wearing skin diving equip equipment ¬ ment Ihey found the whale entangled in a fish net and fatigued from towing it The four jumped on its back They pulled its dorsal fin looked it in the eye swam alongside it and sat in the spray blown from its spout And they took pictures to prove it CLEARING Pulp mill tender out Tenders for clearing the 150 acrc millsite for Canadian For Forest ¬ est Products proposed pulp mill at Fraser Flats arc now being called According to a legal adver advertisement ¬ tisement appearing in todays Citizen tenders will be received at the offices of CFP or Indust Industrial ¬ rial Forestry Services until noon Jan 22 Specifications and drawings can also be obtained at both ffices after 10 am Monday for a deposit of 25 refundable after return of the documents Earlier company spokesmen had said they wanted the site to be ready for construction crews late this j ear Clearing should be completed during the winter and next summer grading will be done Construction of the mill itself is scheduled to begin late in 1063 Completion date for the 470 ton null is Dec 31 19G5 CHAMBER WANTS INCOME TAX CUT OTTAWA CP Substantial cuts in income taxes and an another ¬ other federal budget deficit next fiscal year were advo advocated ¬ cated today by the executive council of the Canadian Cham Chamber ¬ ber of Commerce In a prc budgct brief pre presented ¬ sented to Finance Minister Now Ian and Revenue Minis Minister ¬ ter Fleming the council said there should be a substantial reduction in both corporate and personal income taxes to stimulate growth of produc production ¬ tion and employment will meet Monday night to forming an improvement district or joining the city President of the Island Cache Community Club Mrs Thomas Boyd said representatives of the 13 C governments water rights branch and the assess assessment ¬ ment department have been asked to attend Uic meeting The place needs cleaning up better roads street lighting and the garbage has to be taken out she said Some of the rubbies arc just too lazy to go out to the dump and instead throw it garbage everywhere Wc used to live better on the farm Mrs Boyd said the meeting Monday might be termed a last ditch stand for improvement and progress in the Cache Talk about incorporation of the Island Cache into a village may also come up during the meetings Wc want more than com community ¬ munity club members to come to the meeting said Mrs Boyd We want to have all the residents and Cache property- owners there The meeting will be held at the Island Cache School at 8 pm Prince George Chamber of Commerce has for several years been making a study of the Cache Under committee head Art Murray the possibility of turning the Cache into an in industrial ¬ dustrial area is being proposed Eut it will take three or four years to make a careful and complete study he said to today ¬ day I understand the federal government make a survey two years ago on the area Id like to see the results of that one City alderman and chamber of commerce member on the Cache survey committee Hil liard Clare said today For the last 15 years people built indiscriminately When I was first appointed to sit on the committee for the city my first thought was to clean it up He felt a low rental housing development in the city could house the Cache residents if the Cache was turned into an industrial area But more study is needed There hasnt been a meeting of the committee for the last few months The CNR had shown interest in the area as an industrial estate Mrs Boyd says she doesnt feel Island Cache residents want to incorporate with the city although the city may want us She said she has spoken with Major Garvin Dezell about the matter Hiwcvtr Major Dczcll is out of the city and was not available for comment The unregulated areas pop population ¬ ulation of between GOO and 1000 persons is growing and im immediate ¬ mediate steps are necessary she said RECORD 30000 EXPENDITURE IN 62 Now hear this People out Pedcn Hill way who aicnt fussy about getting home from a weekend outing and finding nothing left of the house but the chimney ought to attend a meeting in the school at 330 pm Sunday Organized by Vic Jay and other fire con scious folks the meeting is de designed ¬ signed to explore the feasibility of getting fire protection for the area possibly building a fire andor community hall Three of the four CNR daylin ers that weie put on the Prince George Prince Rupert run dur ing the Christmas season arc still on it Assistant BC area bossman Harry Wortman says its a busy passenger season McDridc Chamber of Commerce will send reps to the 51st an annual ¬ nual supper dance and instal installing ¬ ling officer will be Judge C W Morrow When people ic mark that an accident is going someplace to happen they us usually ¬ ually refer to a haywire driver But theres one pedestrian around town to whom the phrase is especially applicable He tools along Victoria about 715 ayem daily lunch bucket in hand scorning the sidewalk and jog ging along in the right hand traffic lane He doesnt walk near the curb either but pre prefers ¬ fers the path where cars and trucks have the right-of-way Harold Assman has a prospec prospective ¬ tive customer in this guy City garbage collectors are w oi king hard in spite of the cold snap More power to them Down there in the Great Rain Foiest even the polar bears are complaining CP story fiom Vancouver today says the 15 above temp of ycsteiday was too much for the white bruins in Stanley Park zoo and curator Alan Best had to lock six of them in their dens so they wouldnt slip on icy patches in their pits and hurt themselves Save standing in line by get getting ¬ ting your motor vehicle licences now says the boss at the pro- vincial building Although the plates dont have to be bought until Feb 28 its a lot easier on everybody il people buy them earlier 4 expressed his appreciation of the new building and of city councils support of its opera operations ¬ tions However he was concerned about the present stock of 18000 books He said With the city population of approximately 14000 this is only 12 books per capita in comparison with the Canadian Library standard of 25 books per capita The board hopes to incieasc the book stock in the coming year and also to open the library to the public in the mornings How However ¬ ever these improvements will depend on the budget made available to the library by the city council In her annual report librar librarian ¬ ian Mrs Anne Scott summariz ed the various activities of the library Re registration of bor borrow ¬ row ers which involved issuing numbered cards to all members was one of the largest projects undertaken Extension of library services to non residents of the city at a fee of 5 per card was also instituted during the year Her report staled The ref Continued on Page 3 Cfc Phone LOgan 4 2441 Vol 7 No 8 Definitely yes says Dr Gordon Shrum co chairman of BC Hydro Dr Shrum said today cost of transporting electric ener energy ¬ gy over long distances had been i educed by 50 per cent over the last 15 years due to drama dramatic ¬ tic breakthroughs in extra high voltage transmission And we can expect further improve improvements ¬ ments to come he added The pace has increased dur during ¬ ing the last five years due to the tremendous effort being dir directed ¬ ected by utilities manufacturers consultants and governments to towards ¬ wards improving EHV transmis transmission ¬ sion Dr Shrum said Russia had energized a 500000 volt line from Volvograd to Moscow some 550 miles in December 1959 achieving the highest transmission line voltage in the world During the present USSR Sev en Year Plan 1959 65 sonic 3000 miles of 500000 volt line will be energized equivalent to a Canadian grid from coast to coast Quebec Hydro is building a 700000 volt alternating current inc from the Manicouagan Outardcs hydro project to Mont Montreal ¬ real loan centres a distance of some -400 miles He said this project scheduled to be in ser service ¬ vice about 1965 66 would be the worlds first at that voltage Dr Shrum added that BC Hydros engineering consult consultants ¬ ants consider 500000 volts to be more economical for the initial powerline from the Peace pro project ¬ ject Dr Shrum pointed out that Ontario Hydro had obtained ex excellent ¬ cellent results with its Cold water project established in 1959 to determine the best IN THE CITIZEN Betty Conner 5 Church notices 3 Classified 8 Comics - - 9 Coming events 10 Editorial page 7 District news 6 Here and there 5 Markets 3 Movies 9 Quesnel news 2 Sports 4 Tv schedules 2 BC CHAMPIONSHIPS UNDERWAY HERE By LEN WALKER Citizen Sports Editor Only a handful of spectators braved 35 below zero weather at 8 am today to watch the stait of the B C Sectional Fig uic Skating Championships at the Coliseum Although it was much warm warmer ¬ er in the Coliseum it was still plenty cold for the skaters who were on the ice as early as 6 am for practice ses sessions ¬ sions prior to the opening A total of 63 bkatcrs regis- teied for the event which is being held for the first time outside of the Lower Main Mainland ¬ land Vancouver Island aica The morning session was taken up with ladies and mens senior and junior no novice ¬ vice figuics Referees for all events are Mrs June Iinkerton of Van Vancouver ¬ couver and William Lewis of New Westminster A total of eight judges will be watching the events Those w oi king in this capacity aie Miss live Ltttice Victoria e bundle conductor arrangement for use on a 500000 volt line to be built from Abitibi Canyon to Sudbury and Toronto As a result he said this 500 nulc Continued on Page 3 Number of court injunctions irk labor minister VANCOUVER CP Labor Minister Peterson said Thurs Thursday ¬ day night he is displeased at the number of labor-management injunctions the courts have issued and the conditions under which some have been granted But he gave no hint of labor law changes These injunctions have not been granted because of our legislation he said Injunc Injunctions ¬ tions issued during 1962 could have been issued in previous years e Itlzen The only daily newspaper serving North Central British Columbia PRINCE GEORGE BRITISH COLUMBIA FRIDAY JANUARY 11 1963 DRIVER OF THIS PANEL DELIVERY TRUCK WALTER ANDREYCHUK OF Gunn Road was rushed to Prince George Regional Hospital Thursday night He was pinned behind the wheel of his vehicle after it collided with a Central Freight ways tractor trailer on First Traffic was temporarily diverted around the accident Vandervoort photo HYDRO BOSS POINTS TO RUSSIAN PROGRESS Peace transmission feasible VANCOUVER Special Will j Mainland at 500000 volts it be economically feasible to transmit power from the Peace River project to the Lower Catholic cardinal raised million to aid prisoners BOSTON AP Richard Car Cardinal ¬ dinal Cushing Roman Catholic archbishop of Boston has dis disclosed ¬ closed he raised 1000000 to help liberate Cuban invasion prisoners Cardinal dishing released a statement Thursday identifying himself as solely responsible for the collection of the 1000000 He said he made the statement because of the many rumors concerning the nysterious do- Library grows rapidly here By FRANCES DITMARS Continued growth and expan expansion ¬ sion of the Prince George Public Library resulted in a lecord expenditure of 30000 during 1902 In the annual report present presented ¬ ed to board members this week statistics revealed a continu continuing ¬ ing increase in book slock cir- Body found near Wells QUESNEL Staff The frozen body of a man was found near Wells Tliuisday afternoon No further details arc known at this time culalion and membership A total of 18000 volumes arc now on library shelves compar ed with 16000 a year ago Book circulation was 107000 in 1962 a rise of 10000 over the previous J ear Complete figures for library membership are not available as in August a program of re registration of all borrowers was instituted Indications are how however ¬ ever that memberships surpass the 7000 maik of 1961 In a review of the librarys operations for 1962 board chairman Hqn Carson comment commented ¬ ed on the extensive use of all sections of the library by chil children ¬ dren students and adults He SERIOUS CONDITION A district man was seriously injured Thursday night when his panel truck and a tractor trailer truck crashed head on on First In Prince George Regional Hospital in satisfactory condi condition ¬ tion is Walter Andrcychuk of Gunn Road near the airport RCMP said the Andrcychuk panel was proceeding east on First It was in collision with a Central Ircightvvays tractor trailer which was backing into the company lot off First RCMP arc continuing their in investigation ¬ vestigation There was no in indication ¬ dication today whether charges would be laid Police said Andrcychuk was taken to hospital by ambulance after being freed from behind the steering wheel of his panel truck He has chest leg and arm injuries Driver of the freight truck John H Page of Prince George was not hurt in the accident The Central Frcightways truck was apparently on the wiong side of the avenue as it was backing into the ware warehouse ¬ house police said President of the company Art Murray said there is a street light in the immediate area It is the first two vehicle accident any company trucks have had in nine years of op operation ¬ eration Page has been driving for Central Freightways for more than five years A city official said the indus industrial ¬ trial growth in the First Ave Avenue ¬ nue area has been rapid dur during ¬ ing the last few months Some motorists however are not yet wise to the activity in the area the spokesman said But it is a 30 miic zone Chamber of commerce presi president ¬ dent Aicx Clark said today that area of First ought to be wid widened ¬ ened He charged that it is a men menace ¬ ace to the public with all the industrial development on the narrow avenue But the property owners should make some provisions for vehicle movement when they build there he said 4 DEATHS NO BREAK IN SIGHT 7c a CopyJriVMcJSw Head on collision hospitalizes man 200000000 forest investment expected VICTORIA CP Forestry firms are expected to invest 200000000 in BC during 1963 Thomas Stargcss deputy minister of industrial development said Thursday All the big forestry companies were planning either expansions or new facilities this year he said OVERNIGHT LOW -355 Weather fails to hit forecast of 45 below The mercury missed its cue overnight and dropped to only 355 below at the department of transport weather office here Expected low was 45 below at about 4 am as the centre of an Arctic high now sprawl sprawling ¬ ing over most of North America passed the city Thursday eve evening ¬ ning The high was centred in Southeastern B C by mid-morning but said weathermen Prince George could still have that 45 below reading tonight A cloud cover istforming over the area and will keep the heat of the sun off If this clears in the evening and lets what heat there is escape temperature could be minimal At the very least current cold temperatures will continue the weathermen said Predicted low tonight and high tomorrow here and at Quesnel arc 35 be below ¬ low and 10 below Two area schools were re reported ¬ ported closed today Westlakc where the teacher is sick and no substitute is available and St Marys separate school in the city Some morning lows around the province were Vancouver 15 Victoria 17 Hope 7 Pen ticton 0 Kamloops nine below Williams Lake 31 below Ques Quesnel ¬ nel 32 below Bitter cold grips Prairies EDMONTON CP Below zero temperatures arc expected to hold Alberta and Saskatch Saskatchewan ¬ ewan in their grip for at least three more days The bitter weather already has been blamed for four deaths in Western Canada Coldest overnight tempera tuic on the Prairies was 45 be below ¬ low zero at Beavcrlodge in the northwest corner of Saskatch Saskatchewan ¬ ewan Southern Alberta tempera tuies clipped to about 30 below The Edmonton and Pcacq River Block areas registered between 20 and 25 below The weather office predicted a slight moderating trend for Saturday but said most Prairie temperatures would not reach zero Light snow was expected in the Peace River area Satur Saturday ¬ day The sub zero weather so far has been blamed for two deaths in Alberta and one each in Man Manitoba ¬ itoba and BC GcorgV Rex Davis 24 of the Blood Indian reserve soutli of Lethbridgc Alta was frozen to death Tuesday night while sleep 69 skaters vie for honors Mis Maureen Humphries Vic Victoria ¬ toria Mrs Jacquic MacFur lane Vancouver Mrs Aud Audreys ¬ reys Mooie Victoria Miss Dorothy Wliitcoak Vancou Vancouver ¬ ver Mrs Audrey Williams Vancouver Ednc Osvvcll Kelowna and Nick Zuk Trail Officials are hoping for a large turnout of spectators for the evening events when Donna Lee and John Mitchell perform in the senior dance and Norma Scdlar performs the bcnior free skate ing in a haystack His car had stalled during a blizzard RCMP reported that Joseph Mcnovv a 29-year-old Indian from the Norway House reserve 276 miles north of Winnipeg died of exposure early Wedncs- day Daniel Gordon Delfore 7 drowned near Victoria Thurs Thursday ¬ day when thin ice on a pond broke under him Mrs Christine Little 76 of Calgary died of a heart attack while shovelling snow in front of her home Thursday LOOKING CLOSELY AT MARKINGS LEFT ON THE ice by a cpmpetitor in the BC Sectional Figure Skating Championships which began at 8 am today are judges Miss Eve Lettice Victoria and Edric Oswell Kelowna Vandervoort photo COLD V Increasing cloudiness is fore forecast ¬ cast for this area Saturday with snow in the Smithers area Winds will be light Low tonight and high Saturday at Prince George and Quesnel -35 and -10 Smithers -5 and 10 Sunday outlook Fai and not quite so cold Peace River Variable cloudi cloudiness ¬ ness with light snowflurries Continuing very cold Winds will become northerly 20 in the afternoon Low tonight and high Saturday at Grande Prairie -20 and -10 Vancouver weather forecast is for very cold conditions Sat Saturday ¬ urday Light winds Low tonight and high Saturday 15 and 25 Victoria forecast calls for main mainly ¬ ly sunny skies Cold Light winds Low tonight and high Saturday at Victoria 15 and 30 LAST 24 HOURS No precipitation at any point Hi Lo Prince George -13 -36 Terrace 8 -1 Smithers 1 -16 Quesnel -10 -33 Williams Lake -12 -31 Kamloops 3 -11 Whitchorsc -20 -27 Fort Nelson -27 -39 Fort St John -15 -26 Dawson Creek -10 -24 PRAIRIE WEATHER Very cold Arctic air covers all of Western Canada and has thrust southward to Texas and East to Quebec Readings of 20 to 30 below were reported across the Prairies this morning and afternoon maximums were ex expected ¬ pected to near 10 below The cold weather will continue Sat Saturday ¬ urday Early morning weather in major cities Winnipeg 20 below NW wind clear Brandon 20 below calm Moose Jaw 19 below clear and calm Swift Current 22 below wind W15 Regina 21 below NW wind 13 clear Saskatoon 27 below SW wind Medicine Hat 29 below clear winds SW10 Edmonton 20 clear wind light Lethbridgc 25 below winds SW16 clear FOREST HEARING DUE JAN 18 KELOWNA CP - Lands and Forests Minister Williston will sit in at a public hearing here Jan 18 to hear proposals for establishing the Okanagan Valley as a sustained yield unit for logging district forest Ranger IL C Hewlett said today we have been over cutting trees in Uiis area for years