«The. -wire sent by. a steering committee of J..R. Ayres, Morris @f-:tickets\ in the amount. of i * ’ peepee ess any h- is sch pe hetlpet . rn 1% a: Jyh 1959. Wayman, William Homenuk and Dr.L. M: Greene listed the 21 groups which have pledged sup- port of the symphony: concert and. undertaken the “gross sale $3,000." 0 on ‘*, The wire:.concluded with “We Hope that our request, will be pecelved by. your so~ ete ey : Now. pledged to - support. the symphony concerts. ticket”. sale arp the Canadian Legion ‘Branch IODE, District:52 School VOL..XLVII, No. 241+, Telephone. 6 YM '—The Vancouver Symphony. orchestra: vis duled to‘include Prince Rupert in its flying. tour’ the north in 1959, The: 68-to-70-piece, orchestra. plans to take - ‘ he air sometime in-March and make flying: stopovers . in - five. north-central B.C. centres. playing two-children’s:-concerts : : one ‘evening ‘performance for the general: public at each “town. Last year. the orchestra ‘played to total . audience of . "92,000, including 46 concerts for children. Musical: director and: ‘conductor Irwin Hoffman’ stands on the podium in centre. - Vancouver. symphony sent official bid in A night telegram (collect) has’ been sent to the Vancouver Symphony: Society requesting that its or-| éhéstr'a include Prince Rupert in jits itinerary during ‘tour of north ‘central British Columbia in’ March, Jf 1 oF 17 IT toe f Com- A Prince Rupert firm which wants to beat CBC to the punch in providing television for the city by using co-axial cable still thinks it should be allow- ed: to go. ahead. In a statement today, A. L. Flatcher, hend of A. Fietcher nnd: Assochites, says CBC can- not ‘provide Hve television until 1965, and that his firm's method could provide — television next your, , Quoting CBC Regional Super- visor Kenneth Capie, Mr. Fletch. er snys cities within 100 miles of Fisherman C:Johnson — dies suddenly Wianoral soryvlee for Charles Jolffson, 69, of 620 Beventh Ave one West will bo held from Ferguson Funeral Wome tomor- row afternoon nb 2 o'clock, A wall-known flahermin and logger, Mr. Johnson collapsod In Hynriae Grocery ab 10 pam. Suturday, We was rushed to hoa- pital hy eity ambulance — but died abortly after, Born iy Winnipes. he had lived in Prince Rupert about Jb yqnrn.* We haa yo dimediata family bids ‘belloved to have brothars and sistors ty Winniper: Intormont, will be at Vatrview * Cometory. “Sh inquiry ke holng conducged by Coroner Cearge J, Dirwes, wie bee ROME TE CO ORIG cep ON 1) 0 Ut RO RY TD we ro , DRUGS LTD, _ ~ Rupert firm still to provide canned TV — sociation, the Chinese Associa- tion, the Shrine club, the Order. of’ the Royal: Purple, the Kins~- men chib, the. Miller Bay Rec- reation association, Local .708 of: the. Pulpworkers. union: and its ‘Women’s ‘auxiliary, the Interna-. tional Union, of Operating. En-. giheers, the Sons of Norway, the Canadian “Arthritis -and: Rheu-| - matism Society,.the Elks Lodge,| . dag the: Gyro club; the. Rotary club,;|"": ‘the, Civle Gentre ‘association, the!. {Prince Rupert: Teachers: associa ~{-* | thon. eee Pe Vancouver Symphony orchestra: symphony visited the . city if, ta enioy twa ehildren'’s co -| ““Yan-H. Dobbin, manager of thet a es oa £ ‘Court this morning before Judge.’ coy UFREDS |” WASHINGTON we sg " Defence counsel Jin the trial Cassiar: this: morning told~ to consider _, Pb lent, nae Sette fo _ not notified in case an RCMP constable. that he ‘falléd the. defence in. preparation of his: case against. the PRINCE RUPERT, “B.C. MOND hile, DUE yi. gaje miles an“hour an ster traps were h southwestern } jeratures inlan of Joseph. Benedict; Gerand: of. accused, - Ati ‘the opening © of: County, W. A. Schultz, -Gerand entered | a plea of not guilty through counsel James L. King of White- |. horse’ on'three charges of..in- décent assault upon a male...” - In cross examination of RCMP constable’ D. H, -Peterson’. Mr. King said “You didn’t. consider the defence at all in preparing your “evidence.” = 8 ~ When asked. by Mr. King if he had notified the defence in-re- a With a second space shot ahead, | U.S. n eS Oyievd avn keen the United States. border would be given live television first, and it would take three or four years to do this. » “B.C. would require three main circuits: one from Victoria to service Vancouver Island, one for the coastline and one for the inJand route. . “Circuits across Canada would total from 26 to 25 to service ‘as far north as this city. Cost of transmitters and stopoff sta- jons would be in the region of $120,000 each, “To Prince Rupert would re- quire 12 stations at a cost of $1,440,000 and for all of Canada gs fir north as this clty would mean a cost of 28 to 35 million dollars.” Mr. Caple thought, sald the statement, that Prince George could got ive TV by 1902—but city residents there still allow- ed enabled TV to be Installed last your, The statement added that CBC and the Departinent — of Transport had stated that the constiine route will not be ap- proved. Reforring to wmilero-wave sta tions, Mr. Pletcher says: These stations are owned by the tele- phone companies in Canada. nid thoy have stated It would be un- ocononien!, to serve (ha north effort to-hurl a tiny nsiruments into ‘ ECE Te eT ‘their’. first they rated the experiment a success in measuring the depth of man- poisoning radiation around the earth. The space-probe Pioneer IILy, —first of two assigned to the army—met its Qaming end over North Africa at 12:51 p.m. MST Sunday. Fired aloft by a four-stage rocket carly Saturday, the 13- pound cone reached an = an- nounced peak altitude of 66,654 miles before falling back and burning in the heat generated by atmospheric friction. All told, it was 388 hours and six minutes in. flight. The army's Ploneer IL didn't get as far into space as did the US. Alr Force’s best effart Oct. 1]. Revised figures showed thet alr force's Pioneer I renched 17,-, 300 miles. Two other alr force moon rockets falled soon after takeoff from Cape Canaveral, Mn, also the site of the army launching. gece crenieeet ne emegete 148 eebtnee Hie semen mma maras mee se House bingo draws Three more numbers were drawn today in the Elks Lodere Ilouse Bingo for the Crippled Children’s hospital, bringing to nine the total now clreled on the master-envd at The Daily News editorial offlee. Today's nivbers are: 0-63; N-42 and 0-65, Numbers previously drawn wore O68; Neolds P28; 1-6; thip way wat! the populations ave nt least doubled”: IN NATIONAL Myo ncoldents occurred i Traffia Bufoty wook, Olly Two wowon, Mra Gortrud Widloy Watson of Port Ndwir Tand aocar driven by Wald 8a Invalved dn an. avaldant att Aarap appeared hovore M elty police court thik morning ned waa yenyinded without pl “ 278] Wwe" cates ba set OER hte aoe feta v4 ‘ ap reat toe en | [md ronided until) Doaenbar 1 CDP OOODEDOEOOSOO OP LODO EIOUPLIOOIDLOEDED PPOFOP OOOO PROPOPIP FL OSOH TWO MISHAPS WITHIN CITY dolachmont ROMP reported today. Ant J. i Ruttan, NCO In charge of the detachment, atlal no Hives were Jost and no, property damaged to mar the elty's record of 985 days without Atraot and Mra, Molly Olson of bib Joffrey Strent wore -Jenacked dow on Third Avenue by a car drivan by John Clrelo and Seventh Aventoe That Bundy. Watson was charged Tuesaday with tnypatred driving. and PUPOISO ODE DEI E LIPO OEIIDOIDUIGOUPOEOEO I OEE ETELOTTVETE COLT CEPLETE Wes and O+7, SAFETY WEEK Prince Rupert during Natlonal n. fatality, go Mary Turnor of $10 MeBride don Monday night, December rip, of 087 Ambrose Avenue was We Inberanetion. of Ways Cove alatrate WT, Applewhalte ty charged with Inprured driving on Unt Decombear 16. ‘gards to a trial the. constable} replied “Yes” .he ; had-.notified Gerand and. it was up to bi to: notify ‘his:counsel. ... almost 10. months: without’: trial. He was jailed without bai: | 5; January 18,. 1958,. released ‘on |’ -bail March 15, re-arrested three days later: and held in Prince George provincial. jail until-No- | vember 7 when he was. released on .his..own | recognizance “DY | va Judge W. C..Morrow of. Prince |: George, youth who is .alleged to ‘have been indecently. assaulted: byt Gerand appeared on. the. witness} stand: only a. short while. after} considerable argument. arose. be-}. tween Mr, King and Crown-pros- | (54: ecutor. Frank.S. Perr int | prosecutor: rmy” scientists “set .out:. today}. troubles that thwarted him Gerand was held in. jail, for} was tite be rom, 25° George... - “Mr. King day by Fire Chief E: to take care when. burning | B C rubbish near dry grass during | oe the current cold spell. i “The grass is tinder dry. All | moisture is gone out of it,” the chief said. . | _ City firemen were called out at 2:30 a.m. Sunday to exting- | uish a grass fire at Tony's | | \ } | DID YOU KNOW? ... That no persoi shall drive a motor-vehicle at sluch a slow speed ag to Impede or block the normal and reasonable move- ment of traffic, except when re- duced speed is necessary for safe operation or in compliance with Inw. Where the driver of nu motor-vehicle at such a slow speed a peace officer may re- quire him to increase his speed. to midnight Gunday. berta an Ontario cach _bec—-a death by fire. The survey covered ean nl nT a OAT , ne Tey, Tontor with a antoty ward lt te Ok ge ee eC Se \ : ate eee wa ee the ‘eastcoast: d‘scores of: lob-: inled ashore on ova “Scotia. Tem- d Sunday were in s in Nova. Scotia and be- romised:' drops miperature and: niore snow. . ist: measurable . leads He by i © pyone Catiadlan Pres ub-zero cold gripped the vast stretch fi ies to Northern Quebec Sunday. night, and. the armnest place inthe country appeared to be British lumbia; having its own troubles. witha 10-inch | grees’ above at: Montreal “| the night but’ was supposed ’.to ‘/returh: to ‘about 14° durin “|.day: iIt-was‘e : N | zero’ at: Quebec City, ‘rapidly. reat Northw Night Calls—B: nda. 1 office -Co r as today’s high was:'10 “below.::.-The : clear, .cold weather.. extended across:. Mani- toba, ‘and’ into the ‘Lakehead re gion of northwestern Ontario. °": 20-BELOW: PROMISED: ie. nto:: weather. office had: the “Northern: Ontario: rail]. town of White ‘River down for an overnight: temperature. f. 20 below zero; © Toronto itself, scath | ofthe cold: belt; shivered in an