e ~ PROVINGTAI, LIBRARY nated he errs were teagronst aah ‘ 27 VICTORIA, B.C. a ae DEC 31/59. Published ¢ at Canada’s - Most Strategic Pacitic Port — ‘And Key to the Great. Northwest ! : i VOL. XLViIl, No. 114 Telephone 6767 PRINCE RUPERT, B.C., "FRIDAY, ‘JUNE 12,1959 ' Night Calls—Business 6768, Editorial 6769 PRICE TEN CENTS _NEWS. BRIEFS — Coast rescue services. under study by Ottawa wocmmoncees IN DEMAND OTTAWA (CP)—Transport Minister Hees said “Thursday: night that-he and Defence Minister Pearkes are working” out: a better system, for | among coastal rescue servicés. ~~ _He said in the Commons: in. re- vo yee oe TEN was . discovered hy ral-f"* oply to Harold Wigich | ’CCF—Vani., “couver East}? that the ‘services ‘provided by the -ravy, - RCMP and transport: and: fisher- les departments have been “pretty good” bul that there is room for improvement. Improvements could be made: in co-ordination: among these government agencies and dn special training and equipment for seca rescue. He hoped that in the next few weeks an improved system would be worked out, .NELSON . @..--Thirty-two-year- old. Alex Stroloe!f af Glade, B.C., was given a two-year term = in B.C. Penitentiary Thursday on a charge of iNlegally shipping dy- namite by rail. “He was accused of shipping dynamite | ina suil- Wich Point contract awarded OTTAWA (Two ‘totalling $576,250 contracts have been , awkarded by the federal works department for dredging at Campbell River and Winh Paint, B.C. JC was announced today. The British Columbia Bridge and = Dredging Company was awarded a $126,000 contract for dredging at Campbell River and Tide Bay Dredging Compnrny re- eelved a $450, 50 econtraet for similar work at Wiah Polnt. , Whah Polnt js 80 miles west of Prince Rupert on the north- orn coust: of Graham Island, largest af the Queen Charlottes. | “RCAE, | the | arrests brought the total to about cO- or dination | wR ee vei pean cat Cage Ta Hg Setennnam gant yatta te casé> way “employees after sitting in Kelowna station for a lengthy period. Strel!aeff admit- ted to a list of previous convic-; British,Columbia is impr oving. tions which covered 1! pages. SEOUL, South Korea (Reuters) South Korea has decided to sever all trade relations with Japan. Vice Foreign Minister Kim Dong Jon announced Thursday, The! a i 4 followed the reported agreement | in Geneva between Communist: ‘North Korea and Japan on the! repatriation of thousands of! Koreans living in Japan. | NAPLES, Italy (Reuters) ---Po- lice arrested five more farmers in the trorbled Naples area Thursday as the rebelling farm workers staged a 24-hour strike to protest low potato prices. The 135, * NORTH VANCOUVER (h--~Ra- diag news editor Pat Burns was elected distulet alderman Thurs - day night in a North Vancouver municipal by-election, Mr. Burns received 517 af a total of 2,063 votes to win the nine-cornered me RCN ‘ship attends 350th anniversary NEW YORK Wm Modern-day navy vessels, Including the Cann- dian adreraft carrier Bansaven- ture, sailed up the Hudson River Thursday to launch an anniver- sary observance of Henry Hud- son’s discovery voyage in a tiny sailing craft 350 years ago. voy Cy y an § Liberals inroads. Premicr Leslie Frost, a small- ‘town lawyer whose folksy. cam- paigning has led the party to three resounding election vic- S}tories in his 10 years as leader, = said in.a victory speech: We lost a few to the fortunes “of war, but I am pleased with the a4 results.”’ SPRING BABY—Vancouver’s Stanley Park Zoo boasts a new: : attraction in the form of a newly arrived baby sea lion. It- is’: the first ever born at the zoo. Mother sea lion and her offspring} live near Monkey Island..A 15- used to shoot the picture as Mom isn't allowing anyone near’; her. inch telephoto lens had to be s —oP photo. ¢ nde BC unemplo yment falls er cent — Lowes LoS Oe “VANCOUVER « (CP)—The ‘Unemployment, ~“ surance Commission says the employ ment situation in “While it gave no figures, 4! statement Thursday from the Pacific region of the UIC said the : number of persons registered for : jobs at the end of May declined | Tories win added seat in Manitoba WINNIPEG ()--The Progres- sive Conservative government elected last month won another seat in the Manitoba legislature Thursday in a deferred election, thus averting a hassle about whether the Liberal-Progressives or the CCF showd share the job of being their official op- position. Joseph Jenannotte easily re- tafned his ‘Rupertsland seat while the result of a second de- ferred vote, in Churchill, was held up by shaky nothern com- munications, When the Manitoba egencral election was held May 14, voting was deferred in the two north- ern ridings because spring travel Was hampered by the breakup. nee ween Seen ORY me 2 8 ete Drivers meet The Roud Satety Club will hold nm MmMeheon rally on Dominion Daye July i. Organiaers for the event are Garth Deeker and Donks Winslow, ' about 15 per ‘cent from the » total ‘reported in April. A total of $3,551,648 was paid in unemployment insurance benefits in May, $1,794, 257 less than in April. The statement said there is a decline or a shortage of skilled workers in the mining, logging and construction industries. There was an mand for farm labor—a-maxi- mum demand for seasonal fruit pickers was expected about the middle of June. Opportunities for executive and professional personnel, par- ticularly in the field of design engineering, were gradually im- proving and there was a brisk demand for women, ta work as office workers, comptometer operators, specialty salespeople, qualified hairdress- ers and power-sewing machine operators, SHORPAGE OF COOKS There was a growing shortage of restaurant cooks and wailres- ses. Industrial disputes, the employ- ment situation should continue to Improve throughout the sum- mer. Unemployment’ payments May included: Vancouver $1 421,- 288: Vietorin $244,281; Prince Ru- pert $105,117; Nelson $77,422 | Knintoaps $110,589; Kelowna $73,422; Nanaimo $84,500; Pen- tieton $00,257; Prince George $948,884; Trail $60,289, In - Obscenity, confessions, air arrest, hit-run covered by new amendments to Criminal Code OTTAWA (h-~Publeation — or brondenst of any admission or confession by an recused per- KON during a preliminary hear Ing would bo minde iWegal by Criminal Code proposed to Partiament body by the government, “The object of the proposed fimondment, says an oxplaunatory note In the bil Introduced by ORMES | DRUGS LTD, DIAL 2151 amendments’ Justices Minister Tulton, ts lo avold prejudice to the accused.” The bill provides a number of athor important changes Mm Canada's eviming) laws Inelud- ne: 1, A definition of obscenity for lepnl purposes—“any publica- tlon a dondnant eharactoartstia of wileh tis the undue exploltin- tion of sex, or of sex nnd nny one ory more of the following subjects, namely, erlne, horrar, cruelly and violence, shall be doomed Lo be abscens.” 2, Courts would be ompower- act to order selved and destroyed nny obscene publlention ar erimea coma, % Tho courts would bo om- powerod to prohibit from driv. inp any pation convicted of luaving bin scene of an nealdont, 4, All fines would bo payable in jnstalmonts, if the convicted person requested it and the court was satisfied ho couldn't afford to pay Immediately, In this case, aominimium of 14 days would havo to ho allowed by the court, ARREST IN ATRCRAET 5. Alriine pilots would be ome powored (oO arrest nw offenders In Mlght and such persons would be subfeet to prosceution In Ca- nadlan courts, G, TL would be made a erlme Inn) offence to envry vn tniita- tien wenpon for the purpose of committing aw oarhye, Maximum penalty would be fivo yenrs ine prisonmont. The now provision on coverage of protiminary nex reads; JVOKS hear. “Rveryone who, publishes 1 ANY Newspaper, or brondecnsts, a report that any admission or confession was tendered In evi- dence at a preliminary inquiry ora report of the nature of such rdimission or confession unless (A) the avensed hag been dis- charged or (BR) Uf the accused his been committed for tri, the trial has ondod, is guilty of nn offonce punishable on sum- mary conviction.” Princo Rupert has now gone 148 days without a futal traffic necident, “1 FINAL STANDING Wiha Fae increasing de-. bookkeepers, “Provided there are no major “The final standing, with slanding after the last elec- tion: . 1959 1955 Pro. Con. wc. TE 83 4 Liberal 22 ili CCF . . 8 8 Independent—PC . OO} FL. Totals 20.00.00 ue. ee 98 98 Thirteen ridings held by the Conservatives during the’. last legislature fell to the’ Liberals and CCF, almost doubling oppo- sition strength in the House.