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Local News Women's Pages iSQ Second Section ages 17-28 VICTORIA, B.C., TUESDAY, APRIL 18, 19G7 PAGE 17 PARK BEAUTY i .1 Th harged ree Arthur Mayse Beatins 'O W( I i Store erk 1 .1 V-' i. ASPHALT CREWS began at 6:30 a.m. today to remove the rollercoaster thrill of a drive down Douglas Street. Month-long paving job through business section follows build-up around manhole covers and underground engineering job to reinforce an old watermain, requiring excavations about every 12 feet. Asphalt was laid today between Fisgard and Yates along west lanes of the street.

(Times photo.) AFTER COLLISION with car, city police cruiser swerved over sidewalk into wall of building. POLICE SERGEANT FAIR AFTER CRUISER CRASH Officials Shaken By 20 Increase In School Costs A veteran city police sergeant is in hospital after his cruiser ran into a wall after colliding with another car early today. Sgt. Donald Buie. 51.

of 1310 Burleith is in fair condition in the intensive care unit of St Joseph's Hospital. He suf fered head injuries in the accident He was southbound on Government shortly after 1 a.m. WORTH $2.3 MILLION B.C. Hydro Must Meet City Terms B.C. Hydro is balking at removing stumps from the right of way granted to erect a power line through Thetis Lake Park.

But the Victoria parks com mittee remained adamant this morning In its Insistence that the stumps of all trees removed be cut off four inches below the surface of the earth and then covered with top soil. UNREASONABLE Protesting what it termed an unreasonable and unrealistic demand Hydro asked permis sion to cut the trees off at ground level or as low as a chain saw will work. Parks administrator Herb Warren said the request to trim the stumps below ground level was neither unreasonable nor unrealistic. He said a special machine was available to grind the stumps down and that covering with top soil would be relatively easy. He also suggested that the revenue Hydro will obtain from marketable timber scheduled for removal would more than pay the estimated $1,200 cost of the stump removal operation.

SPECIAL CIRCUMSTANCE "Hydro can't view this job as it would another operation," he said. "After all they are going through a park." City manager Dennis Young said he was sympathetic to Hydro's claim. 'It does appear to be a costly job," he said. "I feel their claim that aalal and other brush would soon cover the stumps is valid." But Aldermen Robert Baird and Cecil Parrott didn't agree. They Insisted that all stumDs be removed to the four inches below the surface level recom mended by Mr.

Warren. OTHER TERMS Hydro and the city have already agreed on six other points In the agreement being drawn up lor the right-of-way project. Access to the right-of-way will be limited to an existing rough road, all slash will be burned on the right of way, all trees must constitute a hazard before they are removed. In addition only tall trees flanking the right of way and constituting a hazard will be removed and each one must be checked by the city engineer and the parks superintendent before falling is permitted. Alex Straith Dies at 70 In California Alexander Donald Straith, prominent Victoria clothier for 50 years, died Monday while on vacation in Palm Springs, California.

He was 70. He joined George Straith Ltd. clothiers at 921 Government Street in 1917, becoming a director and then in 1955 general manager until the firm was sold to two nephews in 1966. Born in Woodstock, Ontario, he came to Victoria in 1913 and attended Viotoria High School. He was prominent in sports, especially baseball, hockey and golf.

During the First World War he was a member of the Canadian artillery. SERVICE FRIDAY Memorial service will be held Friday at McCall Bros. Floral Chapel at time to be announced later. Cremation will be held at Palm Springs. He is survived by the widow Jean; one daughter Mrs.

Elinor Crisp and son, Robert, both of Victoria, and brothers Dr. Bal four Straith of Los Angeles and William G. Straith, Q.C., former B.C. minister of education and provincial secretary. He is also survived by nieces and nephews in the Victoria area.

fly the cross-Canada route in May but has disqualified himself from the contest as he is an official. He is vice-president of The Canadian Centennial Air Kaiiy Association, a Victoria organization established to co-sponsor the event with the Canadian Centennial Commission. ''AliPlorTrfsADl THE CATiANO THIS TIME IT WISHED QUITE LI Of Robbery Counts Laid City police this morning arrested three local men in connection with the brutal beating and robbery of a jewelry store clerk a week ago. Ronald May, 23, and Ger ald Harvey, 19, both of 46 South Turner, and James Erdman, 21, of 1156 May street, will appear In central court Wednesday, charged with robbery with violence. Their arrests mean that charges have been laid in each of four alleged major crimes city police have been faced with in the past 11 days.

Today's arrests follow an attack by three men last Tuesday evening on" Mrs. Queen Victoria Wilkins, 60, as she was alone in Hebden's Jewlery Store at 1006 Blanshard. HIT ON HEAD Mrs. Wilkins was slugged over the head as 6he was putting some watches away she had been showing the men. Blood was smeared on the floor and counter and spotted on the walls in the attack.

Taken to hospital with head wounds, she told police later that the assailants who stole two $150 watches and $50 in cash were in their late teens or early twenties and roughly dressed. The stitches were removed from her head cuts only Monday and one of Mrs. Wilkin's eyes is still badly discolored She also suffered a broken nose in the assault and has a large bump on the back of her head. Mrs. Wilkins called police when she regained conscious ness.

She was attacked shortly before the store's 5:30 closing. GOOD 'LEG WORK' Detective Inspector William Andrews said the latest developments In the case were the result of top-notch leg work" bv members of the force. In the past 11 days harried officers have investigated two violent deaths, an alleged rape and the jewelry store assault and robbery. As a result, one man is charged with capital murder, one with rape, another with assault causing bodily harm and now three with robbery with violence. Three New Cases Of Hepatitis At Craigflower Three new infectious hepatitis cases have been reported in the Craigflower district but health officials say thera is no cause for alarm.

The three children involved are from two families. A spokesman for the Greater Victoria public health department said precautionary measures were taken immediately and the children isolated. All attended Craig flower School and all were residing in the immediate area of the Craigflower bridge. BRIDGE RESULTS Winners of the weekly game of the Duplicate Birdge Club, held Monday at Broughton Building clubrooms, were: 1. Mabel Peek and Dorothy Mulcahy.

2. Florence Curran and Charlotte Do han. S. Gwen Graham and BUI Lamb. 4.

Howard Annn and George Morgan. 1 Bill Martell and Ken Magee. tion of trophies, and a banquet and a public barbecue. Prize money is limited to Canadians but non-Canadians are welcome to come along for the trip, Mr. Griffin-Warwicke said.

Prime Minister Peason has agreed to become honorary patron of Dhe event. Nine Projects Okayed For Senior Citizens Hi i mm -r--- rate, set last year at 39.3 mills, may be held on that line. SAANICH Urban residents south of Royal Oak paid $1.94 million for schools last year, must pay $2.5 million this year. Rural residents to the north, in another school district, paid $352,599 last year, will pay $432,230 this year. Comptroller-treasurer John Tribe said the urban increase "is the largest I can Municipal mill rate will be set next week, and is expected to be up one or 1.5 mills a total increase of six mills or 12 per cent.

OAK BAY School mill rate up 4.95, or 24 per cent more than last year. Costs up from $970,110 last year to $1.2 million this year. Reeve Allan Cox said "We are merely a collection agency for the schools. If the people find the schools increase excessive then we refer them to the school board or the provincial government." He opposed deferring essential general expenditures saying "all we do is defer the inevitable which in the long run costs us more." ESQUIMALT School costs up from $380,479 to $486,329. SCULPTURE STOLEN FROM STUDIO A six-foot abstract bronze sculpture valued at $1,000 has been stolen from the front of an Oak Bay art studio.

Jack Wilkinson, proprietor of Wilkinson Art Studio, 2026 Oak Bay told police Monday evening that the art work, mounted at the front of his studio, weighed close to 150 pounds. He first noticed it was missing Monday, he told police. TO VICTORIA be awarded spread over three classes of pilots. Marks will be won for flight planning, log keeping and accuracy of estimated times of arrival. The planes will touch down at major airports on the way to Victoria.

Some of the $350,000 will be raised by a $100 entrance fee for each pilot but the remainder will be sought from industries and persons associated with the aviation industry. Aircraft can be either individually or commercially-sponsored. About $200,000 will be used to assist young amateur pilots to rent planes for the event, Mr. Griffin-Warwicke said. Planes rent at about $18 per hour.

Mr, Griffin-Warwicke will test! I (I II Now that peppery MP Frank Howard has demonstrated to a startled country how blackmailers should be treated, I hope most heartily that he will be permitted to get on with his work. This man is too useful to be tossed away because, many years ago, he committed three armed robberies and paid for them In prison. Apart from1 the fact that lie wai then 18 years old end is now a familied and respected 42, Mr. Howard is as adept a tcil-twister as our oft-torpid fed-: eral House possesses. 't At times his lanmiAcrp hag I I 1 esque; and in La uLJone brik a over Common's slowpoke processing of Quebec divorce actions, he replied thus to an opponent who had accused him of narrow mindedness: "When it comes to narrow-mindedness, you could look down the neck of any medicine bottle with two eyes at the same time!" His ability, however, is by no means confined to delivering well-winged shafts.

In the matter of the Quebec divorce actions, the NDP member for Skeena made his point so effectively that Parliament (soon to be free of such nonsense, I trust) no longer puts them through in job lots. He thinks large: witness his urging of a deal which would give British Columbia seaports on the Alaska Panhandle which we lost to the United States by what he considers a blundering boundary settlement. All in all, and allowing for his teen-age fall from grace, Frank Howard has done not too badly is his progress from foster home to Ottawa. I'm glad he has decided not to resign, and that his party approves his decision. We can but trust that the Common shares these sentiments, and thereby gives backing to what very many of us believe as individuals.

This is that the man who has cleaned hiss slate, and over a period of years demonstrated himself, to be i a responsible citizen, should not have his past held against him, In this connection, Ut JS( Interesting to note parole board chairman George Street'! suggestion that the reformed ex-convict be issued a "certificate of rehabilita-" tion" which would, for all practical purposes erase his record. For such a man, the finding and holding of employment would be easier than it is today. In any such system, the ychopathic criminal who belongs in a mental hospital rather than a standard prison would offer a specialized problem. But to the one-timer and the young offender with a long and potentially useful life before him, the humane pro-decure' advocated by Mr. Street would bring confidence and hope.

I i I am by no means sure whether officialdom, as opposed to the penologists and such rehabilitation services as we possess, is yet ready to accept a proposal of 6his sort. However, by slow degrees, we are growing less punitive 5n our outlook. A hundred years ago, the chances are that Frank Howard would have paid for those early robberies with his neck. Earlier still, a child in -England, "crying most pitifully," as grim record Informs us, could be and sometimes was banged for no more than the theft of a loaf to stay his hunger. All that has been changed.

Eventually we may even manage to reduce crime itself by removing certain existing evils. One of these is the Oakalla type of prison: an overcrowded, badly outdated structure wh'ch has hung up a dismal reputation as a haven for repeaters. We need more William Heads, and more sociologists who are willing to work with juveniles whose circumstances place them in crime-breeding actuations. Prevention, after all, is better than cure. Meanwhile, though Frank Howard made a new life for himself, and more power to hin, It's not enough to point to his example.

Not every young man fresh out of prison can work hi own salvation so hardily. TWICE A TITLE WINNER is Victoria girl Marilyn Poulton, 20, recently named Miss Cornwall is Cougar at CFB Corn-wallis, N.S. She won title of Miss Dockyard at Esquimalt last year and is a 19C3 graduate of Victoria Secondary school. She took nine-week basic training course at Cornwall! after joining RCAF in January, is now stationed at Winnipeg as airwoman second class. Marilyn is the daughter of Mrs.

E. M. Poulton of 111 Beechwood. 7 Pay Hike For City Firefighters A 7 per cent wage increase across the board for Victoria city's 103 firefighters has been ordered by a conciliation board, it was announced today. The increase, retroactive to Jan.

1, follows the pattern set earlier this year when the Saanich Firemen's Union also won a 7 per cent boost in a one- year contract The Victoria union, Local 730 of the International Association of Firefighters, had asked for a 14.5 per cent boost and the city had countered with a 5 per cent offer. Toe decision of the three-man conciliation board headed by Victorian B. W. Dysart is binding on both sides under the no-stnke provisions covering municipal police and firemen. MINORITY REPORT A minority report is expected from city board nominee G.

A. Wilkinson of Vancouver, the labor department announcement said. Union board nominee was Vancouver lawyer P. B. Paine, Wages, service pay, annual vacations, statutory holidays and drivers pay were in dispute but the board's majority report recommended no change in all these clauses except for the wage increase and establishing a new one-year collective agree ment as of March 1.

Effect of the wage boost will be to raise the monthly basic pay of a first class fireman from $554 to $593. The lowest category, proba tioner, will move from $401 to $429 a month and the highest category under union jurisdic tion, assistant fire chief, will go up from $751 to $804 a month. Oak Bay firefighters are in the second year of a two-year agreement and their contract will not come up for negotiation until 1968. $2,000 Damage In Fire Sparked By Wall Heater An electric wall heater placed too close to a chesterfield started a fire shortly after noon Monday which caused an estimated $2,000 damage. The blaze, in the apartment of Mrs.

M. Hanlan, 1731 Cook, destroyed the chesterfield and a window frame. Firemen said there was also some smoke and waiter damage. President of the air rally is retired RCAF Squadron Leader John D. Shaw of Victoria.

The rally will end with a three-day celebration at Patricia Bay airport on Labor Day weekend. An air show with aerobatics, skydiving and displays will be part of the program along with presenta PE6INNINS WITH THE MP 0FTHE ENDING MTU THE em, fiWK-J PBUAlMPD 3fVH TiME AFTER THE REST OF IT HAD ONE" ill answering a call for police when his car collided with an auto headed east on Broughton and driven by Brian Ttavers-Smith, 420 Victoria. The police cruiser then mounted the sidewalk and hit a parking meter before running into the wall of a building. Investigating officers said both cars were heavily damaged. Mr.

Travers-Smith was not injured. programs would be approved during the year they are intitaated by local groups. Cause Death Still Mystery After Autopsy i Pathologists examining for the second time the body of a man found lying on a downtown sidewalk early Sunday have been unable to pinpoint the cause of his death. George Lennox, 38, of 1021 Government, was pronounced dead on arrival at hospital after what witnesses described as a fist fight outside the King's Hotel, 570 Yates. A 29-year-old miner and electrician, John George Auxi of 1354 Pandora, has been charged with assault causing bodily harm in connection with the death.

His case was remanded a week for plea when he appeared in central court Monday afternoon. He was later released on $500 bail. Both the post-portem exam on Lennox and the re-examination failed to show any marks on the body, Coroner Edmond St Jorre said Monday. Further topological tests will be conducted. Ask The Times Q.

What are the populations of Winnipeg and Manitoba? D.B. A. The 1961 census figures, the latest available give Winnipeg as 265,429 and Greater Winnipeg as 475,989. Population of Manitoba Is given as 921,868. Q.

How many people did the Times of last year say attended the events at the Oak Bay Tea Party in June? M.T. A. The Times of June 6 said there were 15,000 people estimated on Willows Beach by 4 p.m. on the Sunday of the party. Anyone wishing question Invited to temt the problem along to the Times, addreN4e4 to 4Ank the Tlme" Editor, ttiwotion and amnren will pulillflhed dally.

Ail question should deal witb matteri of fart and be of general Interest. Tba Times does not nndertuke to intra conundrums or legal problems. Nor will it attemrt to put a value on eld cotns, stamps or antiques. These should he submitted to a dealer. School costs wiQ leap in all municipalities this year.

The bad news, expected for several weeks, was confirmed today when figures were made known. Municipal needs will be set by councils in the next few weeks, and will add to the school costs. The city of Victoria, Saanich south of Royal Oak, Oak Bay and Esquimau, will each have to add nearly five milles to last year's school mill rate. This is an increase of just over 20 per cent. The school mill rate is roughly half the total mill rate, when municipal needs are added in.

Here is the picture: VICTORIA School tax bill boosted by 5748,835, or a total of $3.73 million. City manager Dennis Young called the school mill rate increase ''staggering. In 1956, the total city budget including school costs was 53.72 million. One ray of light The word is the general (municipal) mill Esquimalt Youth Wins Jaycee Driving Road-e-o Dal Bryant, 18, 1134 Esquimalt Road, was winner of the Jaycee- sponsored Teen-Age Safe-Driving Road-e-o held at the weekend. Dal, a Grade 11 student at Es quimalt Senior Secondary, will compete in the provincial road- e-o contest in Vancouver next month.

Runner-up was Gary Strick land, 18, 1134 Bewdley, a Grade 12 student at Esquimalt Senior Secondary. The road-e-o included a writ ten exam on road safety rules and a practical driving test, Robert Peters, 3825 Tillicum, obtained top marks on the writ ten exam. NEWFOUNDLAND The provincial cabinet today approved nine senior citizen housing projects worth a total of $2.3 million which will accommodate more than 300 pensioners. The province will chip in $760,000 as its one-third share, various community groups will put up 10 per cent of the cost of the projects they sponsor and the federal government will provide the rest of the financ- on a long-term mortgage basis. One of the largest projects involved is Faiihaven Foundation at Tolmie and Lynwood in Saanich where the Plymouth Brethren plan a $312,000 pro gram of 32 single and five double units with the help of a $104,000 provincial grant.

Other projects on the list are located i Courtenay, Van couver, North Vancouver, Smithers, Burns Lake, Williams Lake, Merritt and Prince George. FIRST PHASE "We promised the legislature we were gearing up the public housing program and this is the first phase of this fiscal year's program (for senior "citizen accommodation)" commented Municipal Affairs Minister Dan Campbell. He said the government al ready has approved develop ment of two general public ousing programs, including Saanich municipality's trail- blazing plan of buying 50 existing home's scattered through its area, and more LOCAL SHIP MOVEMENTS NAVY HMCS Saskatchewan due In port this arternoon; endeavour leaves Esquimau at midnight. DEPT. OF TRANSPORT Cam sell northbound on west coast of Vancouver Island on monthly supply trip, due in Shusharte Bay tonight; Estevan servicing buoys in Georgia and Johnson Straits; Sir James Douglas in for refit; Racer due In Victoria this afternoon; Ready in Gulf Islands patrol area; Stonetown and St.

Catharines in port; Vancouver on Station Papa. Ve been able TO DO THAT FOR YEARS! $28,500 in Prizes for Bis Air Rally Latest thing in Centennial events is a cross- Canada air rally from New-i foundland to Victoria. Canada's Centennial Commis sion nas given the contest official sanction and a grant of $5,000. But a total of $350,000 will have to be raised to finance the venture, says Victoria com mercial pilot Michael Griffin- Warwicke, 28, vice-president of the Centennial air rally organi zation. More than 100 planes carrying two pilots each are expected to enter the.

five-day event. Take-off will be in Harbor Grace, Newfoundland, Aug. 26. a i -i iin irrtft mi i a total oi irj.auu in prizes wm 7( MM jj.