fc ftrv thirst dwnclihig umkV flavour WORLD TODAY ALL THE WAY DOWN This advertisement is not published or displayed by the Liquor Control Boardor by the Government of British Columbia Vol 9 No 242 Zambia Aided By Canada OTTAWA CP Four RCAF transport planes will join an airlift to supply oil and other supplies to Zambia a neigh neighboring ¬ boring country of Rhodesia whose oil supplies have been cut off by the new Rhodeslan regime prime Minister Pear Pearson ¬ son who made the announce announcement ¬ ment at a post - cabinet press conference also said that his governmont has placed an em embargo ¬ bargo on Canadian oil ship shipments ¬ ments to Rhodesia Band Beat Off SAIGON AP Forces guard guarding ¬ ing Saigon against terror 1st attacks on the fifth anniversary of the Viet Cong beat off a company - size band tonight five miles outside the capital near a vital fuel and ammuni ammunition ¬ tion dump The action was east of Nha Be site of the biggest supply depot of fuel and am ammunition ¬ munition in the country Battle a Setback SANTO DOMINGO AP The precarious peace efforts in the Dominican Republic appeared today to have been dealt a shattering setback by a battle between army troops and former rebels At least 13 per persons ¬ sons were believed killed in two shooting incidents Sunday Twelve were reported killed in a six hour battle that raged around a hotel on the outskirts of Santiago the countrys sec second ¬ ond largest city Ad Rule Invalid OTTAWA CP - A British Columbia order - in - council restricting advertising by pro provincial ¬ vincial druggists was in effect ruled invalid Monday by the Supreme Court of Canada The court rejected a motion by the province and the BC Phar Pharmaceutical ¬ maceutical Association asking foi leave to appeal decisions by lower courts that the order-in-council and an association bylaw were not within the au authority ¬ thority of the BC cabinet and the association Mercenaries Move BONN Reuters German led mercenaries in The Congo have begun moving Into Rho Rhodesia ¬ desia in suppoit of Premier Ian Smiths breakaway regime the West German newspaper Blld Am Sonntag sajs It quotes their leader Maj Siegfried Mueller as saying We are to get between 2300 and 3000 marks 575 and 900 pay a month kr wlH v 1 P tlXYL Mil ySA ii x wKMm SPfllBBiSllrL Dave Reidie Photo Drummer Girl An intent look in her eyes this little Indian girl beats her drum duiing the Lower Post Residential Schools Christmas Concert The presentation was for visitors who took part in Operation Reindeer an annual project of the Prince George Lions Club that brings Christmas and Santa Claus to the small community on the 13 C Yukon bordei See page 6 Picking holes in the phone company was the subscrib subscriber ¬ er who called In with dissatis dissatisfaction ¬ faction about the new telephone book That big book may be a sign of progress he said but its sure hard to hang it up in a convenient spot when theres no hole punched in the corner Irate young man wants to know how come all bankers dont keep bankers hours He is concerned about the late nights put in at one of the local institutions and aired strong Views about overtime etc etc But this corner took the com complaint ¬ plaint with equanimity as it knows the real truth Complain Complainant ¬ ant goes around with a teller at the bank In question and he just Is anxious to see her earlier INDEX Weather ------3 Women - 7 Betty Connoi ----7 Classifieds H 14 lr Coming I vents 22 Comics 22 Ldltorlal g Sjioits 1 This mild winter brings worries to some people who are looking for more snow Should there be more of the white stuff another horse drawn sleigh may show up in the city for the amusement of the kids But the kids are going to be out of luck IX the weather doesnt change a Oh those gremlins who steal lines of type from cutlines In case jouve been wondering the gal who presen presented ¬ ted the money C0C2C for the physlotheraphy pulley system at the hospital was Toby Tim Timber ¬ ber lake Honored Royal Lady of the Order of the Royal Purple The lodge makes an annual donation to the hospital for equipment 4 1 A tip of the community hat to the management of the Strand Theatre for allowing the grade eight students from Con naught Junior Secondary School to vlw the Greek mythical story Hercules and the Cap Captives ¬ tives Women free of charge The film was shown to the students as a supplement to ttui Greek mythology section of tho made eight tnglish cur ri ulum Trappers Having Slow Year Poor prices and a shortage of some species have combined to make this winter a compara comparatively ¬ tively slow season for the 1700 trappers In Northern BC Insp Walter Gill of the BC Game Branch in Prince George said today the demand for mink pelts is not high jesultlng In low prices Lynx are scarce but beaver trapping is yielding falily good results he added Insp Gill said economic con conditions ¬ ditions have resulted Ina rather slack season in the trapping industry The average price tor a mink pelt probably is 40 said Insp Gill This is comparatively low and is a reflection of a poor demand for the fur There is an abundance of beaver and their pelts are re returning ¬ turning lairly good prices he said Many of the tiappers in Northern BC are Indians whose lines do not come under the jurisdiction of provincial authorities f jjf 01 The daily newspaper for Central British Columbia PRINCE GEORGE BRITISH COLUMBIA MONDAY DECEMBER 20 1965 Phone 564 2441 HOME OF THE KNIGHT TRAILER Mile 6 Hart Hwy Phone 5639549 WANTS BUDD CAR SERVICE BACK ii s rtt month lOttopy TCmit CITY TO FIGHT PGE Cloaked by a labor dispute PGE railway officials have cut short the daily passenger service to Prince George North of Lillooet the familiar Budd car service runs no more But Prince George will fight to have the service restored The service cut was first introduced when employees walked off their jobs as a result of dissatisfaction with working conditions De Gaulle Back At Helm PARIS CP President Charles de Gaulle 75 was given another seven years Sun Sunday ¬ day to guide the affairs of France With decades of military and political life behind him the wartime Free French leader received a mandate from the voters to exercise until 1972 if he wants to the enormous powers of the French presi presidency ¬ dency Re elected on the second bal ballot ¬ lot de Gaulle can turn his at attention ¬ tention now to the Common Market relations with Western Europe the United States China and the Soviet bloc Frances defensive alliances and a backlog of domestic needs De Gaulle got roughly 55 per cent of the valid votes cast Sunday a good bit short of the frank and massive support he originally demanded Francois Mitterrand 49 candidate of the united left and his sole opponent on the second ballot got 45 per cent The turnout was nearly 85 per cent of the eligible voters al almost ¬ most equalling the record num number ¬ ber who voted in the first ballot two weeks earlier New School Approved BURNS LAKE CP Rate Ratepayers ¬ payers here voted 77 per cent in favor of a referendum for 330000 for new school class classrooms ¬ rooms The construction program calls for a new four room school and a 170000 dormitory for students attend attending ¬ ing Granlsle high school About 40 per cent of the eligible voters cast ballots Two Charged With Using Four Hooks Two fishermen who were using four hooks on their lines were nabbed by Game Branch officers at Vivian Lake during the weekend Insp Walter Gill of the branchs Prince George office said they will be charged under the Game Act which allows sport fishermen to use only one hook or two hooks close together Insp Gill saidthe men caught at Vivian allegedly were using lines from which were sus suspended ¬ pended not only lures but four hooks The Idea was that more than one fish could be snagged at a time Game regulations forbid any device which would catch more than one fish at a time ERIC NICOL JOINS US Canadas best known humorist joins The Citizen today Eric Nicol columnist and author will appear three times each week with his pungent com comments ¬ ments of BC life His first column for The Citizen appears today on Page 21 Williston The daily passenger car was first halted at Clinton The men have returned to work and the passenger service now goes no further north than Lillooet Hugh Armstrong PGE public relations director said today that no plans have been made as to what is going to hapjien to the Budd cars They are running on time and to Lillooet Mr Arm Armstrong ¬ strong said When the service was cut Margaret Ma Murray editor of the Bridge River News at Lillooet said she was informed the service would be cut per permanently ¬ manently The directors are meeting Wednesdaj Dec 22 a board member and Lands and Forest Minister Ray Williston said he assumes the matter will be brought up Mr Williston said the Budd car service is economically disastrous and presents a large deficit for the railway People in Prince George however want to keep the ser service vice Lloyd Hunter out -going president of the Chamber of Commerce said he will send a telegram requesting that the service be restored If they the PGE cut Prince George out it will be detri detrimental ¬ mental to tourism and residents alike Mr Hunter said Aid Ron Tweedle the only city offical available for com comment ¬ ment said the matter shouldbe brought before a public hearing If it is the city should make representation Mr Tweedle said Asked w hat should be done if there was no public hearing Mr Tweedie said a protest should be launched anywav Mr Armstrong saw irom Vancouver that Prince George will be informed as soon as a decision has been reached Sixth Child Succumbs VANCOUVER CP A 13-year-old girl Marianne Kosberg died Sunday of severe injuries inflicted ninedajs earlier when five members of here family were slain Her parents Osborne and Dorothy Kosberg and three other children were slain in their beds by a double bitted axe A 17-ear-old outh was charged with five counts of delinquency by committing mutder and subsequently com committed ¬ mitted to a mental hospital Majority Back On Job Here The Pacific Great Eastern Railway said today that 100 out of 112 employees are back at their jobs after two weeks of absence The 12 are said to be genuinely sick or off work for normal reasons TRAILER FEUD GOING TO COURT A dispute between trailer park owner Bert Filiatrault and tenant Herman Lodin will be settled in civil couit And while Mr Lodins law lawyer ¬ yer is arranging to have Mr Filiatrault brought to court Mr Lodin is replacing the wooden trailer encasement which caused the trouble Mr Lodin originally built a wooden encasement completely surrounding his 14 foot mobile home at the Spruce Capital Trailer Park on the pulp mill road Asked to leave According to building inspec inspector ¬ tor Leo Siller the encasement does not comply with provincial government rules Mr Filiatrault owner-manager of the trailer park said he told Mr Lodin on Nov 14 to tear down the encasement The encasement remained so on Dec 8 the Lodins re received ¬ ceived a registered letter in informing ¬ forming them that they were to evacuate the trailer park by Dec 12 They didnt budge and last Friday Mr Filiatrault hired a contracting firm to tear down the encasement and remove the trailer from the park They were three quarters finished the job when a court injunction stopped them Built it again A policeman who arrived at the scene Friday morning sug suggested ¬ gested that the trailer be left as it was partly dismantled until the matter was settled During the weekend Mr Lodin reconstructed the en encasement ¬ casement which he had built in the first place because we were cold His lawyer has begun action for damages against Mr Filia Filiatrault ¬ trault fcJSMLOW 25 HIGH 35 P Its Getting Late Now In Prince George the major majority ¬ ity of operating PGE employees are back at their jobs accord according ¬ ing to a railway spokesman Art Deptford PGE regional manager said today that most of the men who booked off work sick two weeks ago have re reported ¬ ported back to work and have passed the railways Investiga Investigation ¬ tion as to why they had booked off On Saturday more than 90 of the more than 100 employees who left their Jobs were still awaiting clearance to return to work Each man was to be Investi Investigated ¬ gated individually for this clearance The Investigations were conducted by the two as assistant ¬ sistant supervisors of the line RK RebagllatiofChetwyndled the Investigations in Prince George Mr Deptford said he did not know how many men had not reported back and he also did not comment as to how many men will lose their Jobs due to the unauthorized walk out The men booked off work sick over the firing of a Prince George yardforeman four days before his six months proba probation ¬ tion period was over The work stoppage spread down the line to North Van Vancouver ¬ couver In the course of the dispute which was termed Illegal by the Brotherhood of Railway Trainmen the men demanded an industrial Inquiry by the labor minister Leslie Peterson turned the request down and called for return to normal grievance actions HAMILTON Mr wiHl I K JtjS fl NO TRUST FOR FRENCH OTTAWA CP Western Conservative Alvin Hamil Hamilton ¬ ton said Friday night the cabinet shuffle means Prime Minister Pearson hasnt been able to get a Quebec lieutenant he can trust with a major portfolio Quebec must be bitterly disappointed that none of the prestige economic portfolios went to members from the province Mr Hamilton said in an interview The Saskatchewan MP was agriculture minister in the Diefenbaker administra administration ¬ tion He said two new portfolios resources and energy under Jean Luc Pepin and a stream lined Immigration department under JeanMar chand were needed of course But they went to Quebec ers only to hide the disap disappointment ¬ pointment tothelntelllgensia of Quebec who had hoped for better things from this re reorganization ¬ organization Jumped Barrier Second Look Led To Injured Man BOSTON BAR CP An un unknown ¬ known motorist doubled back to have a close look at car tracks In the slush His curiosity and concern led him to John Muleso 49 of Wil Williams ¬ liams Lake lying semi-conscious and seriously Injured in his car after a 200 foot plunge from the Fraser Canyon high highway ¬ way Police said no onesawMule sos car Jump a concrete bar barrier ¬ rier south of the China Bar tunnel Sunday afternoon The car rolled over several times In loose rock and was spared from the Fraser River by a single tree Many drivers went by the car tracks that led off the road and through the barrier but one driver turned around came back and made his way down the slope to find Muleso He climbed back to summon police and an ambulance and helped carry Muleso up When Muleso was safely aboard the ambulance the motorist left I talked to him for a few moments but before I could ask him his name he disappeared said RCMP Cpl Ken Watson Muleso was In satisfactory condition in hospital at Hope to today ¬ day with severe scalp cuts and possible ruptured kidney Mail Totals Reflect Growth The volume of Christmas mail being handled by Prince George post office has In Increased ¬ creased 20 to 30 per cent over 1905 Postmaster Joe Abear said today the cloudbui st of letters and parcels leflects the fact that Pi ince Georges lesldentlal and commercial mail - senders have giown rapidly duiing the pasteai lie had no figures for a conipaiison with the 9G4 volutin Those flguies will be available aftei Cluistmas said Mr Abeai About CO people have been added to the post offices noimal complement ot 04 employees Mr Abeai bald esldents weje fali when It came to obseiving mailing dead deadlines ¬ lines Tlie post office earlier sugges ted local letters and paicels be mailed befote Dec 17 if theii sendeis expected them to be dell- veied befoieChiistmaiDay The post office is using the aimouiUs on IiiM Ave to t01 1 iiu oiuin pan el PaueU oilglnattiu fiom Dove looy photo Pi luce Geoige are handled fiom the mall post office oi any oftheMibpotofficeu