Whitehorse Daily Star from Whitehorse, Yukon, Canada • 11

Tine Whitehorse Star September 22 I860 i Find Driver Negligent in Crash 1 Regional Yukon Network Planned Newlandfines will carry CBC A highway truck' driver Stanley Gordon Running of Charlie Lake? was1 charged last week with criminal negligence The charge was laid following i inquest here in connection with a collision near Tcslin which took the life of Fort St John resident Charles Walter Thomas The accident occurred at 5:15 am August 29 at Mile 827 Running was driving north in a Lake End Service truck loaded with cement when he was involved in a collision with a si ulhbound Northern Freight-ways truck driven by John Klasscn a Dawson Creek resident Mr Thomas was a passenger in the northbound vehicle The jury last Thursday stated no blame attached to driver Klasscn in the accident Mr Ronning has been released on bail and wilL be in Whitehorse October Tt for preliminary hearing on the charge i grams for the Yukon A start was made on this local service in July with the inauguration of a daily Yukon news bulletin prepared in co-operation with Whitehorse CFYT at Dawson City which broadasts its CBC programs from tape recordings will receive live programming from Outside At the same time the station will become an unattended relay transmitter with its present two matf staff transferred Applications have been made to the Department of Transport for authority to establish low-power relay transmitters at Mayo and Elsa to bring live radio coverage to about 1000 people who live in an important mining area of the central Yukon The present Network service to Whitehorse and Watson Lake is of sub-standard broadcast quality travelling along telephone lines built during World War II With the completion of now facilities the circuits will be brought up to full Network quality (5000 cycles by November Under the new Network the Watson Lake transmitter which is now fed from Edmonton will receive manv of its programs from Whitehorse thus improving the local A regional radio in the Yukon Territory is planned for the comjing winter The new network will bring Canadian radio service to three-quarters of the population of the Territory The present network which runs north from Edmonton a-long the Alaska Highway now stops at Whitehorse Canadian National Telegraphs are presently building new landlines in the Yukon and it is expected radio programs will be travelling along them by the coming winter The Northern Service of the CBC set up two years ago to extend Canadian radio into the Northland took over community broadcasting stations at Whitehorse and Dawson City in December 1958 Tlie Network extension announced now will mean five substantial improvements in this CBC service in the Yukon CFWH at Whitehorse will become a regional programming centre feeding a distinctive Yukon service to four satellite transmitters covering close to 10000 people Because the Yukon has its own time zone (1 hour behind Pacific Standard Time) Whitehorse will tape record many features from( the Network for delayed broadcast at more convenient local listening times CFWH will also produce special pro Councillors Consider Trailer Park As Property Deeded To Territoy Device Designed For Arctic Use Arthur Zimmerman is seeking a patent for a life-saving device he though up while dug into snow in the Arctic waiting to be rescued after a plane crash It is a balloon to be carried in a survival kit and Inflated by a helium gas cylinder The balloon with SOS paihted on each side rises to 2000 feet on the end of a nylon fishing line Painted bright orange the eight-foot-long sausagfe could be spotted from the air or the ground When packed the equipment fills a package one foot square It includes a long-life battery and light to illuminate the balloon at night The balloon coating contains aluminum dust so it can be picked up on a radar screen Mr Zimmerman who says the kit could be sold for about $18 is thinking of further refinements including a water-soluble container in which the balloon would be stored In the event of a sinking or crash over water the balloon would be freed and inflated automatically to rise into theair and mark the spot The device which Mr Zimmerman calls has been sent to the patent office in Ottawa for registration Got Start In North Dies Outside ABC logging executive who got his start in the Yukon gold fields has been buried in Vancouver Thomas A Lamb of 1937 Hosmer died Sept 9 at home He was 78 Mr Lamb was born in Shemogue NB He came west in 1903 and travelled to Skag-way Alaska with his two brothers For years they worked a mine near Dawson City They returned to Vancouver in 1910 with their savings in gold nuggets which they used to buy a lumber business Mr Lamb and his brothers began logging operations in 1911 near Squamish and later operated at Lang Bay Union' Bay Menzies Bay and Sechelt Mr Lamb was a past presi dent of the Vancouver Yukon Association the Interna tional Associa tion and the Vancouver Pro gressive Conservative Asso ciation- Joseph Haydn the peat Austrian composer who died in 1809 at age 77 was a chorister in Vienna at age 12 1 PEA CATCH LOWESTOFT England Fishermen from this Suffolk seaport have been hauling in catches of peas The peas were bagged throw-outs from local canning factories dumped into the sea The Country Parson fellow could steal most anything I have without much harm so long as he take my 4s i v(y 1 a1 4 MUNICIPALITY OF THE CITY OF WHITEHORSE LIST OF ELECTORS I960 1961 Copies of the preliminary list of electors are posted in the following places in the municipality: Municipal Hall Post Office Tourists Services Taylor and Drury Department Store Northern Commercial Department Store 238 Every person resident within a municipality who is a Canadian citizen or other British subject and has attained the age of twenty-one years and who (a) is a ratepayer or spouse of a ratepayer or is a householder or spouse of i householder who (i has resided within the municipality for not less than six months immediately prior to the date of election and (ii) is liable for payment directly or indirectly of a yearly rental of not less then one hundred and eighty dollars i of his occupation of real property within the municipality is eligible to vote at an election Any person who is eligible to vote at an election may apply to the Board of Revision to have the -preliminary list of electors revised on the ground that the name of (a) an eligible voter is omitted 'therefrom! an eligible voter is incorrectly set out therein or a person not eligible to vote is included therein (1) Any person eligible to vote at an election may apply to the Board of Revision to-preliminary list ot electors under section 258 shall before the last Wednesday of October leave with the clerk notice in writing of his intention to make such application (2) The notice of application for revision of the preliminary list of electors shall fully set out (a) the name of the person in respect of whom the application is made (b) the nature of the revision that is sought (c) the grounds upon which the application is made and (d) the name residence and post office address and occupation of the person making the application Further particulars may be obtained from the office of the undersigned Thompson City Clerk Telephone 3041 PO Box 790 Whitehorse Yukon 33-3 A Liter from an Ottawa oi-iiciai regarding mo application lor lanu ior a trailer park brought pi vsnnistic comments at the Ovpicmber 13 council session The city na-applLu lor' property on ht: csl bank of iho river for use as a park Northern Affairs Department lands director Sivertz wrote to council: yuu will recall it is not our intention to' alienate this land from legitimate use and we have had it surveyed by the Survi vor General with the view to its ultimate Capital Plans The letter continued understand from Commissioner Collins that the territorial government may have some future purpose for this area as part of its capital plans for Whitehorse In light jof this possible alternative use we have deemed it advisable to transfer the land to the territorial government for its disposal advising the Commissioner that the city does wish to develop it now a trailer campsite No doubt you will be able to work out with the Commissioner' and Council a mutually satisfactory arrangement covering the immediate use of the Mr Sivertz added this may appear a somewhat indirect way of releasing federal property to the city I am sun: you will appreciate our interest in meeting the wishes of local officials both territorial and city in the matter of community and land use snorted Alderman Jim Ho watt goes the trailer park the Commissioner in favor of Mayor Vic Wylie commented in favor of it but still willing to let us have Alderman Clarence Allen remarked if the city obtained the property for a trailer park they could probably get a winter works program going on it Alderman Howatt muttered gloomily there probably going to be a trailer park now islit 37-2 First Game of Season Friday Sept 23rd The Best in Prfzes The Box 20 Games The Special Inn Ballroom 8 PM i.