t “ err | sirens Wraestvaionee Pre pa te Pam stigtyyai2 0g oP hg i RETO OR ORO OR eg THCTAL, . AS a result, junior and senior classes will share’ the - present Booth Memorial. High School - building on.a shift basis.) 9 <> .. Seniors will use the building mornings, from 7:50 a.m. to 12:30 p.m., juniors, afternoons. from (12:50 to 5:30, with 15-minute breaks in mid-morning and mid- aftérnoon. es . "SEAL COVE AFFECTED ‘The new Seal Cove building is also not expected to be completed _ Will after school opening. - *'Consequently. some elementary . | School si as new opening c The new Prince Rupert Senior High School: will _ likely not be completed until two months after school opening, it was reported last night at the monthly gen- eral meeting of school trustees... rn ‘| only last one month at ‘most, wilding — elayed oo Pte! ere basement room at. the Conrad ‘Street. school. Grades 5 and 6 will alternate in quarters in a temporarily walled-off : portion of the Conrad basement. cen SHORT PERIOD. The arrangement will probably School, Superintendent. J. Phillipson‘told the board. 2. .0- He said the building would probably be ready for occupancy Oct..1, adding that the contract- .M. students in the Seal Cove area Sept sul hoping to will also attend school on.a shift!” Building superin as teeter timak - be uilding superintendent: John _basls; - times have not. yet been) Currie estimated completion of ve ‘ the senior high building would ing classrooms at the old Seal Cove school building. Grades 3 and 4*will alternate in a spare Mr. Phillipson said later he was not counting on completion -be- fore Nov. 1... ae * The Junior High School will take over the office at Booth, Mr: Phliilipson said. A tempor- ary office will be set up for the Senior High School. OPPOSITE VIEWS Da “The schedules were: submitted to the board in a report from Mr. Phillipson. 9 es The school superintendent said he had ‘conflicting thoughts on ‘whether seniors or juniors should take the morning shift. On the Pedestrian a more advantageous morning per- ‘finish. by § one hand, he said,:it was impor-| ~ tant that the seniors. have. the). iod in view of their heavier -pro-j -y The* superintendent's ,srecom> we ca, ! A 89-year-old: city, man is'in {hg struck by. a: motor vehicle Hans © Loken of. 331 First q g.m.today,shortly: after, \? @f1208 “Eighth, Avenue . East. without opposition. Trustee. Mrs. / Avenue. West. between Second |” — ''Yoken. has two broken legs and ate hes “ROMP are still investigating. | SEATTLE (p—Sockeye catches : . e e.- for drivi ng by the International Pacific Sal- catch by the United States fish- son, 19, of 253 Third Avenuc 910 on the same date In 1955 vas found guilty by Judge W. only 33,232 fish before it went vehicle without due care and for the gsharp decline In the tice court March 19 before Mag- salmon catch was slightly be- missed. The U.S. cateh through Thurs- son went through two stop signs same date two yenrs ago, 13,074 A, Bruce Brown was defonce { » * + {when the strike began. ‘gram. On.the other, the after-|- noon shift would. mean. juniors} .. would. get. home. late in the: day. | mendation: that-the seniors take! the morning period was: adopted} ‘speaker at. a series: of summer versity of B.C physicist said Tuesday. BR (CP)—Radio-active fallout rom nuclear bomb: tests affects British Columbia: coastal regions more than any, other part of Canada, a Uni- Dr. G."M. Griffiths, guest, lectures, blamed the condition on the area’s relatively -heavy: rain- fall. : However,.. he. added,’ the rainfall can ‘be ; credited’ with making the situation not as bad as it looks at first sight. He said coastal ‘résiderits would breathe. more radioactive dirt if rainstorms didn't wash the pol- lution out of the-air, Dr. Griffiths said the -relation- ship between periods of high ac- tivity and the occurrence of nu- clear tests showed that most Rus- sian tests are ‘easily detected here. . To “The prevailing winds often carry clouds of fission products at high altituudes from Russia to the B.C. coast where they are readily noted in rainwater for about a week,” he sald. He said fallout from nuclear tests In the United States show up anich weaker: and more dif- fuse.’ British tests in the south- ern hemisphere have also shown in the studies made at the Uni- versity. So He said that, albhought it may appear that fallout Is less harm- ful on the ground than in a per- son's Jungs, such. isotopes as strontium 90:can be absorbed by hit by car “reported fait fair condition in. Prince» Rup- vert: General Hospital after be- --. on. Second. Avenue ‘West. early “this ‘morning. | en os Avenue West was rushed to hos- o {Pita by-city. ambulance ‘at about ‘dn acéident’tnvolvitig a car driv~ oo. @neby George Ambrose .Eaton “ROMP sald the accident hap-| A: L. Bell noted ‘that “they have joned about 12:10 on Second }the more difficult. row to hoe.” Street and Third Street. U S ee Doctors said today that Mr.|_ J.2. catc is suffering from shock as well! — ps as other minor lacerations. Q soc eye _ ff sharply — Youth fined ort sharply | “ . far below the cycle years of 1955 and 1951 were reported today mon Fisheries Commission. throu h sto S The commission estimated the - © g! p ing flect through Thursday al. ’ A city youth, Eric Ray Johan- | 127,991 fish, compared with 248,- West was fined $75 in County| and 502,224 In 1951. court last Wednesday after he The Canadian fleet had caught ‘A. Schultz of driving a motor] on strike July 27. Late salmon runs were blamed jttention. ' Johanson appeared in clty po- sockeye haul, The commission said the pink, istrate EB, T., Applewhalte at which time the case was dis- hind the 1957 cycle ‘year, but better than 1955 or 1053, | Crown prosecutor W. N. Poole told Judge Schultz that Johan-|day was placed at 57,930 pinks, compared with 58,1135 on the while being followed by ROMP for a distance of about a mile, | in 1065 and 36,008 In 1063... The Canadian take was 30,371 counsel, oo . HIGH PASS RATE- Results of the taal graduat- ing class ab Booth Memorial High School show “marked Im- provement" ovar those of 1058, School Suporintendent a. OM Phillipson reported jaat night. or Petter than tho provincial courses there had been marked agornage, In seven oul of 10 Improvement over 1088. “ln Tf out of 19 cours ihere wT genera pattern ig one| has been an oqual or dmprove TORERAR and fmprovement,” rating over 1067, In five coursos ' tlthis yoar all students passed," Commonted Mr, Philiipaons “Mr, Luens (R. 3. Lucas, principal of Booth), his ataff and the pupila may onjoy a pride of achiovo- mont In this accomplishmont, of i oMp. Phillipson told the Board 0 ‘ Bchool Trustces, . . Blahty-threa percent of Lhe ‘ final year sludents passed, he anid, In 1068 tho percontaga wis , 4, “School results show mar percent piss rates are equal to matriculation oxaminations; In > ORY i alt}y 1 out of 16 ‘courses tho “T will mako sure this Informa. tion ja recorded for the Informa. = ORMES , . DRUGS LTD. DIAL. * 215 tlon of the Provincinl Accrodit- Ing Committee,” WORD EXPECTED So, Mr, Phillipson added that word concerning poralble acoraditn- tlon of tho senior high achoa} would probably. be, avaliable onrly in tho Now Yonr — In non-neoredited schools nl! finnl-year students are roquire lerass and eaten by cows, ed gain necrodited schools bhottor stud- donts .may be “recommended” and aro’ thus not required to write the finala: ' Oulstanding subjoats, with numbor In class bracketed, were: Law (6), Blology (14), Physles (14), Gorman (1) and Commorce (1), In which all atudonta pase sod; and Social Studies’ (06), In which 04 por cont. prasod, The weakost showing wis in English Language (387 students), In which only G8 per cont pas- sod, Mr. -Phillipson. sald this waa nintehed, by good results In two Bnellsh Wtoroture courses Ino which 6&4 and 87 por cont poasod, ae oo Mr, Phillipson, stressed: that his commonts wero bared sololy on tho number of students pas- sing, Ho anid that a bronk-down showing atandards above the New strike — threatens VANCOUVER . «@)--The | labor department sad Tuesday it ex- pects to hold a supervised strike vote among electricians next week, raising the possibility of another strike in British Colum- bia’s strife-torn labor world. Bill Fraser, chicf conciliation officer for the department, said the vote of 1,200 inside wiremen will probably be taken August 12 to 14, The union is asking for & 35- hour week with no reduction in take-home pay. Employers have offered a 10-cent increase in Lhe hourly rate of $3.10. . Plumbers, also asking for a 35-hour week with no reduction in take-home.pay, vote Saturday on the majority award of a con- ciation board which rejected thelr proposal. Elsewhere on the labor scene, the situation was statis with no sign of developments leading bo settlement of the major strikes which ‘involve 27,000 woadwork- crs, 9,000 fishermen and fishing industry workers and 650 fton- workors, eonmarererene nese rgassesassesst egie¢ q Half-bikinis outrage os gente California law NEWPORT BEACH, Calf (M—Acoused of wearing only tho bottom halves of their bikinis, two French-born wo- ‘men: go on trint today. The specific chayge: Oul- raging publica docency, Aurolin la Mar, 34, and Tent Rovira, 8%, both of Los An- poles, wero arrested on tho hench, whore they had heen camping. They told arresting officors tint women frequently wont without bathing sult tops at Fronch bonchos and weren't arrostad.. | sentative of the UFAWU, told ' 5 eh, WECTORTA, B. ne ? ae BSA ed at Canada’s Most Strategic acifiic Port — And Key to the-Great Northwest we _ VOL. XLVI, Noo 151 Palak pep a eae —— eeu ee ba nc enn Telephone 6767 Teac eye ee PRINCE RUPERT, B:C.,. WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 5, 1959, Night Calls—Business 6768, Editorial 6769, 31 is to be tried by his uni cording to'‘a-report from Vancouver. ° ‘ A noon radio broadcast said] leaders. of the United Fishermen and Allied Workers’ union. at Vancouver ‘have: branded Paul Ducharme, vice-president of the local, as a “strike-breaker and red-baiter.” a ~R., L. Gardner, northern repre- the Daily News he would have no comment until he has checked union leadership A Prince Rupert official of. Shoreworker's” Local cn on for strike-breaking,‘ac- p meeting’ of the-local: - . tivities by the union.. ‘BOATS SAILING: ~ Vancouver, that: fishing. boats’ of. _ He said he had resigned since Las che did not want. to be associated. ‘Meanwhile, it’ is reported: from’. a the Pacific ‘Trollers Association will g6 fishing despite. the-strike. .: DPOPOREFOSEOODPEROLOCEEDIIDIOTSFE _ Prince’ Rupert has now gone 202 days without a fatal traffic aceldent, org bese ’ wy ‘ 5 v , s ‘ * to write lhe provincial Junior a . rs \ ona cenidatr bak Mit Ee HRY NEN MOAR AM RLS PTE care we ares Sunde d passing grado have .not boon ro- Jonsod, " : avis ad is ee drive “THE MERICKELS—Dad; Mom;: Mike, “.10;-Sally, 9; Terry, 8; i 4; Debbie, 11; Cathy, Melissa; 6; twins. Peggy. and- Polly, 4 and 1, Giordano. us here . By GRACE BROWN Daily News Staff Writer te The more the merrier is the motto of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Merickel of Wadena, Minnesota, especially when you travel in your own bus and have 10 happy healthy children. However. only nine youngsters aged from three to 14 are with their parents on a summer vaca- tion which has taken them across United States up the Fraser Canyon and brought them into Prince Rupert Monday after- noon, ' Their youngest, a one-year-old boy, will have to wait until next summer to join the family cara- van, TWO PLANE LOADS Leaving today for a two-day visit in Ketchikan, it was neces- sary for Ellis Air Lincs manager Karl Lundstrom to put the Mer- ickles on two scparate plane loads. mo “This is beautiful country and we sure do like this city,” Mr. Merickel said yesterday. “What a friendly place.” “ Staying at the Parkside Motel, and receiving lots of -attention, they thought their accommoda~ tions were just fine. _In the lumbering business, Mr. Mericke! has always had a yen to visit the Cariboo country where he has bought spruce lumber, Thoy will go home by way of Jasper and Banff, to sce what they term as “more of this won- derful country” with plenty of Pretty Mrs. Merickel, who be- lies her 38 years and 10 children has utilized every space in their house-bus. — Drawers fit, under seats, three ate use and she has her refrig- erator, stove, cupboard and: sink all neat and tidy in one unit. Not the slightest bit disturbed by his large family, is joy Mr. Merickel,, who controls his chil- dren like a Sergeant major, al- though he did have mixed feel- Today he proudly uses the slo- ings about seven girls in a row. gan “We are now an even dozen.” Fire suspect put to work VICTORIA (P--A man suspect- ed of starting forest fires in a spareely settled part of the province will be above suspicion for the rest of the fire sea- son, . A forest official sald Tuesday the suspect has been put to work on the fire Hne “and they'll keep him busy there.” The official said the man was suspected of setting some of 26 fires burning in the Alexis Crook area of the Kamloops forest dis trict. Seven of tho blazes are time for stop-overs, not return- ing homo until September, -TUGBOAT MEN clinia.and back, drivers will bo. available for clinic, tho’ afternoon, yO AN ES Layee ad Ub abt birt x Wat, et ab ae Ug p alt 7: ON " i * a ey TROIS i hd Ua dh PPOORGPPEDPOLOOSOOIDODEODIOLEATEIOD In tho words of first malo T. R, “Thore is not a groag doal wo on tho in the 2,000-to-10,000 acre class, PPO POPP OPPODIDPILADEODD OO DD FED TO TRANSPORT BLOOD DONORS TO RED CROSS —. The Red Cross Blood donor clinic will receive a big boost fomorrow whon sailors from the Alaska—B.C, Tug and Bargo Company tako to the streets and avenues of Prince Rupert — in thelr cars to transport donors from thelr homes to the (Duko) Dolalunt .. . “Comot” can do in the ‘Mno of public service in tho city of Prince Rupert, but this * Ja-somothing that we can dal" According to Mr. DoLaHunt, a total of seven cars and donors desiring transportation. on Thuraday evyoning from 6:30 to 9:40, evening hours of tha Since the "Comat" crow mombors will bo “Mod up' during mombors of tho Prince Rupert Juntor Chambor ‘of Commorco' will fill in from 1:80 to 5 p.m, ,. ML those requiring the free transportation sarvice are “Invited to tolophone d760 at any time when tho olinis Js open on Thursday, “ PIDDOOHS: ANN PEIODET ANIA EN TING ILIODLISIIIIISG LAG ELIAS ) l t ' \ doubt some action. is to . be taken.” . : ms oe ~Lence, to publicity given to Mr. '|Ducharme’s denunciation of un- ion leadership: “A. lot is: being of. crossing: picket lines. - | fistiermen, tendermen and shore- workers in: thé’north‘are against}: huge beds are ready for immedi- |}. nto the report.) ~ He conceded that “there-is no Mr. Garaner added in a refer- c made of a zero.” The. Vancouver report says the union has accused Mr, Ducharme’ c “Last night, in'a telephone in- terview with the Daily News. Mr. Ducharme denounced union. leadership together with the.cur- rent fishing strike and claimed|. that a majority of northern fish- ‘eries workers.are opposed to the strike. eee ' He-said the slight. margin ob- tained in favor of a strike had been obtained here only as a re-/ sult of spell-binding ‘talks from men’. trained ..in- “Communist methods. nN ee ‘EAR BLACKBALLING > “Mr, Dycharme.claimed that in realit boute-75. per.céntof the %, the present strike. (0° re". © “He said a large ntumber of un- ion members ‘are afraid to. state their views for fear of blackball- ‘ing. SEE gp ee Tuesday.in a letter published in the Daily" News. Mr. Ducharme said: 'There‘are no doubts in my -mind that the UFAWU is com- pletely controlled and dominated ‘by Communists... | ” “Any semblance of democratic principles has been wiped out: by Communist «dictatorship ruth- very active members of the Com- we ‘ . : munist Party. CONCERNED : Mr. Ducharme said in the phone conversation that he felt compelled to submit his opinions for publication adding that he is now concerned.over possible re~ prisals. os He said he had brought his letter to the attention of the RCMP although he had not asked for police protection. .ROMP here confirmed this, adding no police action: is planned. Mr. Ducharme said that he ts the only union official here that is overtly opposed to the strike. He described other officers of the shoreworkers’ local as Brotherhood into.” tw : branches within the brotherhood. © °” “One branch would. represent. ~~ ‘Indians of the: north and:-would - be completely responsible for:the . : affairs of the. northern’ popula- _ Association secretary Frederick «:. : _E. Robinson is quoted as saying — ‘the fish caught: will be unloaded in Seattle by the Teamsters, who: oe he says have agreed to: : alled “hot fish.” ,.° 0) 0205 “Harold Sinclair, a couné or.of the Kitwanga Indian: band : alled ‘for division ofthe Native wo distinct tion. :Theother..would be con- ~ cerned with those of Indians:in southern. B.C. 800 . He said also that the Brother-. 9" - hood. should: not. be “controlled: ..: and led by any other organiza-..: - ‘tion.”. eae _ The proposals. were. suomitted — to the Daily News in a statement - over. the signatures of Mr,:’Sin- coun Kitwanga and Kitsegukla Inc bands submitted suggestions co cerning their bands: to. the: dian ‘Affairs. office here. William B. Bailey of Hazelton, . =. Indian Superintendent’ for ‘the Babine Agency ‘travelled. to Prince Rupert specially “for the. . meeting. It was also aftended by R. H, 8. Sampson, superintendent ‘of thé ‘Lower. Skeena. district. Mr. Bailey said today by tele- lessly administered - by. certain ‘phone that 65 per cent of the 2500 Indians in his-.district.are — complete . dependent | on“+=the . 3 Skeena-Nass salmon runs..’°... Some 1090 Indians from his area migrate each year to Prince Rupert specially for the salmon fishing, he added. — : Teaching positions almost filled’ Teaching staff for the 1959- “pawns to be used” by the Com- munist leadership. He said pattern of Communist domination of the UFAWU Is ex- actly the samo as that in the: Canadian Seamen's Union a few years ago. LABOR SOLUTION In his letter Mr. Ducharme says the solution to tho broader labor problems besetting B.C. is compulsory arbitration and, in- corporation of all untons, "| If this is not brought in he foresces that “this country could find itself with the possibility of having its economy destroyed,” Robort A. Jones, treasuror of Shoreworkers Local 31, In a lettor recelved too late for publication today comments: « ,, May I oxpress some sure prise at tho rather second-hand attack he follows. Had Ducharme not signed it, one would attribute it to the venomous pen of a James Sinclair .-. SABOTAGE CHARGED “Brother Ducharmo wis tt dologate, elected by the mom- bors, to our genoral wago con- forenco; whore ho had notively and loudly helped formulate our final domands, ‘ “S}noo that thne ho has com- pletely reversed his position and ed formulate, . .” recretary~) has done all in his power to sab- otage the very domands ho holp- 1960 school year is almost. com- plote, District School Superin- tendent J. M. Phillipson reported last night. “ All positions but one have al- veady been filled, he told school trustoes. The one vacancy results from a last-minute resignation. Mr. Phillipson said that while recrullmont has been difficult in some parts of B.C, this was not the case locally this year, He attributed this to the school board's policies regarding salar- fos,’ travel allowances, modern building and other offorts dir- ected to making teaching attrac- tive in this aren, 0 - The number of staff has been boosted from 7 last year to 86, Mr. Phillipson noted that only 25 appolntmonts this, yorr were made necessnry by resigna- tions, compared with 31 In 1958. Ovorcast with rain changing to cloudy with widely scat« torod’ showers: this ‘evening and Thursday, Little change - Intemporaturo, Low tonight and, high tomorrow 80:and ' Mogren : mags DES— bythe (Poolfic Standard Time) a | f 4, . . AERO Sat dcted Aa bebe t ge: \. pn sQoinen A Ba Myths the sid Nene Aig Bat 8 sth Maly ath aka hz bach) a Lh abaya stactug dig Dyrttapall td ta ‘eabotly | Ha tap de Bend. Baa bobbi eine Mies Wi a was rh ae AE peg MAR ar aha che dehy! ARNE We Mr, Ducharme said last night he had submitted his resignation n week ago although this would not bo offective until a general High vse 02:06 = § 21,0 feat 7. 1448 20,2 feat 08:28 Low weneectees ‘ inten ty Kah b potty ainda anitaunesh dearer: RN jandie‘so= Thursday, August 6, 1050 9,1 foot 20;417" "4.0 foot RON