et ee ee Good mountain tops getting __ harder to find in province ” VANCOUVER (p... There ig a,;with an uninterrupted view of|jbut not all meet the require- strong market for mountain tops in British Columbia. They are wanted by the com- munications industry for micro- wave systems and for television reception and transmission sites. E. W. Bassett. B.C.’s deputy minister of lands, Says a nice, strategic mountain top is becom- the surrounding countryside. | Most mountain tops are Crown land, and can’t be leased | for frivolous purposes. Crown | peaks can be leased for 21 years | | at prices ranging from $1,000 | to $3,000 an acre. | There is one drawback. It can cost $50,000 or more to build a ments of communications towers fand antenna. The rapidly devel- oping maze of communication systems have been competing for available sites in recent years. At one time the B.C. forest service was the lone occupant of the high-in-the-sky sites, us- ‘ing them for lookout posts to ing harder to acquire and usually roadway to the high-rise real {spot forest fires. has a high price tag. A mountain ! top is usually near centres of population and ighw ays estate. | B.C. is more than adequately Mechanic gets life term in death of _} “VANCOUVER William English, 24, an unem- ploved auto mechanic charged with capital murder in the death “Socred leader “denies violating picket line '., GALGARY (@— Social Credit Leader Robert Thompson denied Thursday night that he violated a picket line Tuesday at Vancou- , ver International Airport. He was commenting on a statement in Montreal by Mar- ierRl Penin. seeretary-general of the Confederation * 'Frdde Unions, who accused Mr. i James ~Tilumpson of crossing a picket! maintained by employees | line of Pacific Western Airlines. The accusation concerned a flight the Social Credit leader made to Vancouver Island and _,back on a chartered PWA air- Yoratt. Mr. Thompson made a one- : * *day election campaign trip to the island. Wolfe column pulled down .~ «QUEBEC ‘(—A 25-foot col- “umn, marking the victory of Gen. ‘James Wolfe at the Plains of | -~Abrakam, was pulled down and: “shattered early today. riWitnesses at the nearby Que- " bec prison said the granite col- umn was pulled down by three men and two women. The monument, put up in 1849 »sment. of National. vee | missing girl of a girl whose body ‘has net: been found, Thursday was found ; guilty on a reduced charge of non-capital murder. | He was given a life sentence [for the death of Sandra Ann Mc- i'Laren, whose body police al- ‘leged was thrown over Burrard Street Bridge. The girl vanished from a box- iing day party and her body “never was found. The case was only the second in Canadian his- tory in which a capital murder charge was laid in the absence of a body. ' Police testified that English had admitted bludgeoning the girl and throwing her from a bridge into False creek. When sentence was passed, he choked and began sobbing quietly. When asked whether he had anything to say,Eng- | | lish replied: “No, my lord.” Defence counsel Hugh McGi- ,vern had accused detectives of getting his young client to ra- tionalize himself into the posi- tion of being the killer. Fulton to quit cabinet April 9 KITCHENER, Ont. @— Works . ‘Minister Fulton said Thursday : night he will resign his cabinet : position April 9, the day after | ‘the federal election. “At that time I will take up: | the full-time job as leader of the : Conservative | party,” he said at a party raily. | Mr. Fulton, who earlier |head the party earlier this year. : SAT AAA HORN ai Te AT t | ull PLAY the GAME in the C : cua WIAA isa MAA MTT Me gM Ng, “a Available of t held | Some of the mountain sites have more than one occupant. and supplied with mountain peaks, | The forest service, RCMP, B.C. Telephones, the CNR and the 'B. C. highways department share ‘Elephant Mountain at Nelson -with a net of communication ser- “vices. Royal couple anti back in England ' LONDON (Reuters) -—- Queen— ‘plincbeth and Prince Philip re- turned to Windsor Castle Thurs- day after a gruelling two-month royal tour of Australia, New Zealand and Fiji that reports say may be the last such “royal , prand tour.” Princess Anne and her grandmother, the Queen Mother Elizabeth. were at Lon- don's Heathrow Airport to greet them The Queen looked a little pale after the 14,600-mile flight from Perth. Ausralia, but Philip was tanned and smiling. ee 4 Prince Rupert Daily ews Ltd. | Friday, March 29, 1963 | BILLIE SOL ESTES GuiLTY ~~ IN $24 MILLION MAIL FRAUD EL PASO, Tex. (AP). — A jury today convicted Billie Sol Estes of mail fraud involving swindling of a dozen major finance companies in mortgage deals in- volving $24,000,000. . The federal government claimed the ex-promoter defrauded the finance companies by selling them mort- gages listing fertilizer tanks which never existed as security. Bomarcs but for cost Secretary McNamara says one;tases and Canada has two — at. of the uses of Bomarc anti-air- \North Bay, Ont., and La Macaza, are tied into the Semi - ‘eraft weapons is to draw enemy Que. These i ballistic missile fire in the event , electronic of war, He said he would remove the Bomares altogether but for the | fact that the annual mainten-! ance costs are no more than ' $20,000,000 and “I think we are getting our money’s worth.” “If there were any real’ amount of money to be saved, iL would propose taking them | out, ” he told the congressional : appropriations committee in closed-door hearings. A censor- ; ed transcript of his February 13 testimony was made public to- day. The U.S. has eight Bomarc tem made up of 22 centres in ithe U.S. and one in Canada, de- Signed to detect and locate ap- ‘proaching encmy bombers and direct Bomarcs and interceptors in response to attack. 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