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ister ‘George: ‘Hees,

4 the terminal building are. expect-
Jed tobe ‘completed by the. end. of

{ pleted,’ ‘the possibility exists,.that

Will be “no: “Mecessity, for: Prince

port.“ Se gr Oe, ay
; However, he ‘Said, as: Cana-..

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According’ to: ‘a: letter to Mayor
P::J.. Lester”, from Transport. Min-
all... airport)
projects with’ the exception ~ of

September this year..
If- the: various Jobs are ‘com:

Canadidn. Pacific Airlines - might
-wish, to. Start. operation. © of *.its
triangular: “service between
Prince Rupert,. -the Queen. Char-|.
lottes and Vancouver,:and :Prince
Rupert; ‘Terrace. ‘and: Vancouver,
: airport ‘is. fully: com -

   

_ Should ‘this | transpire, - there

Rupert *:air<travellers...to- “use
flight, ut:of Terrace. “airport,
109° miles* yocand the’. city
should -be se ved: iby, CPA’ s DC- -6B
aircraft. .

—Mre. “Hees - 's id. that che could
understand. the. city’s | reluctance
tox,accept. the: uncompleted air-

    

  
 

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sf jobs: Hees

_ Inauguration’ of. air service: from Prince Rupert's
| néw $10,000, 000: airport. on Digby Island to Vancouver
before the end of summer appeared much closer today.

 

choose | to start: ‘operation in’:
advance of. completion | of,” any,
or all the. facilities, he thought =!

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with: ‘being “slanted and

filed: a majority report released
Tuesday which binds the firemen
loin 10 per cent wage increase
‘over.a. three-year period,

- nea minority report Med with

the -provinclal: department of
labor, the New Westminster man
charged that “tieing. the union
.down to, a three-year contract so}
they éannot carry. a dispute to
board js in direct: contraven-
tion. of-the spirit of the act, and
denies * them. thoir’ democratic
right,-and it outside the power

and, Jurisdiction of this board,"
: ranecagsessesec res egege rege rere

Spring looms
as crocus blooms

“There mary he ‘other signs
of spring throughout the clty .
hut. to: Mrs, Howard Lalorgo
of. “M08: Hleventh: Avenue Bist
goes the honor of reporting tho.
Firat crocus, this morning,
Tn Mrs, Laborge's. front gure
den, enjoying the morning sun
‘and defying tho. crisp . frosty
wonther, Is a golden crocus
In Pull bloom, Tn addition there
“are half. a dovqn ‘more cro:
cunes In hud, ready to hernid
nthe arrival of spring, '
Hawover, Merasclikprge told .
the! Dally News ‘she cannot’
fake ‘avodlt fore Me annual.
gardening. phenomena, Tes
hor: other-in-liw Mrs, Lottie
TnForzoe who talon citre of tho’
‘garden and who is the. proud
owner: of the. Hien ‘yoportai

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oard “for prejudice”
L, J. ‘Wisheart, Local: 559 Fire Fighters Associa-

tion’ s chosen representative. to the conciliation board

hearing a wage dispute between the union and the.

City of Prince Rupert has charged board chairman 8,

D, Johnston and city representative R.A. McLean

the ‘Labor Relations Branch of

 

pro-Prince Rupert” and

showing “definite prejudice” against the union,
Mr. Johnston and Mr. McLean: - :

Mr. Wisheart added, “I feel
these men should have evory.
right of appeal,under the act
and in view of the - prejudiced:
board, that the: findings of the
board. be set aside and a neutral
chairman be appointed on a new
board of conciliation to concil-
late. this dispute.”

' Ho recommended:

@ That the agreement be for
one year as neither party asked
for any change in this regard.

@ Statutory holidays .sbe in-
eroused: from four working days
to clght working days consecu-
tively, »

@ That. the firemen's: Dnale
rate be incrensed from $401 to
$451 for 1060, the same as Van-
couver rites, and all other rates
Increased accordingly,”

@ As they. operate a full time] \
‘winbulance werviee, that: holders
of fndustrind flret-ald tickets re-
celvo $7,600 - por month ‘Above

Jrogular ratos of pay, , .

-@ Tho sano sick leave plan uN
Js enjoyed dn the lower: man
land,

@ Group inaurafieo plan ho

{ncronsecd from $6,000 to $9,000
with tho elty paying hat tho
promlum, -
_ @ As two or three mon wre
taking courses with tho Institute
of fire. angineoring at, n cost’.of
over $100 per man, that any
mn who passos the oxamination
bo granted an, Additonal $20 por
month, |

"TH conelusion, may I polnt
out that in making these recom-
mondiations, T am making. them
almply to soo that the fro fight-
ara of Prince Ruport recaive tho
sumo consideration. as mambors
of tho outside staft, inside staff,
‘Lelephone omplayoos hired by the
Glty, and the school tenchors In
this avon” tho raport stated,

‘Tn hls roport, Mr. Wishonrt roe
forred to n mandatory award
clauso of =the Muntolpal Act

which binds the firomen'to ac-

copt: tha pward | of the conol]-

 

fatioh, _

i" ‘operations.’ fy
. Hugh shirreff- (Skeena)

tax set-up was
“We don't need. taxation,
He suggested a one-cent

Mr. Shirref! said:

If it were not for that we'd

$140 from $53, ke said.
up* as “consumer taxes”: a
passed . to consumers, '

He was spokesman for
companies In the area, |

CHA’ ('TANOOGA,

ruvietyestore in the latest

iued his ontire 260-man force and
enlled in: 40 -auxillary officers
after what started as a peaceful
domonatration exploded. Into
hand-toshand combat Tuesday,

Swarms of Nogro and white
youths boiled out Into one of the
elty ‘a main Intersections, Police
quicted the melea 30
Jator and arrestod 11 white por
sons ANd ono Nogro,

QUARD SCHOOLS | Co
— Brown posted guards at. aly
achooln todivy, Negra and white,
Minngers-of four varloty. stores, |
possible trouble spots, agrocd tol:
Gloxol nb 8380: Pima gally Glowtng |
tine for sohools, | J
Pollce’ coutt' hearings: woro

schedulod today for the 12"por~

H}SONs AIVONLOd.

It was tho third Nogro lunch
counter .domonstitlon ino a
Chattinnooga viarloty storo in the
Inat flyo daya,."The finest ‘two wor'g

ponoofwl, «ov

Monnwhile, Nogro atudonta. Y0-
sumed non-violent rosistanco to
sogrogated ‘lunch counters. In
‘Virginia and North Carolina, -
Paliao arrosatad. a6 domonstrn~

 

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‘and Cyril 7 She fo

we need ‘help: ” a _
gasoline tax inerease and. He

little hike in. licence ‘fees to make up the difference.
‘ Commissioner William Veitch,

said terms of reference excluded raising of the gasoline tax.

deputy finance minister,

“My whole area is based. on logging and Jogging - trucks,

be dead In a week.”

New regulations had ralsed payments. in some cases to

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‘He ‘predicted that. the tax boosts would eventually end
as, in the long run they would be

. A brief to the commission . ‘presented. by Jack Strathern
on behalf of the Skeen Timbermen’'s Assoclation sald licence
_ fee increases “will have the almost immediate effect’ of ruling
many trucks for logging and lumber companies off the road.”

five logging | and elght. pole

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Segregated cafe. seats
result in wild battle

‘Tenn, " (AP)—Negro. and

white youths battled in a wild slugtest ata. downtown

demonstration over sores |

gated lunch counter seating,
Polica chief Hd Brown mobil-|:

 

tors~—-both white: and Nogro—in |
North Carolina, | -

In’ Richmond, Vil, plekets |-
marched against © dopartment
storo Jn dafiance of the arrest of
34 Nogro studonts, thore Monday, |:
Thyoo . ‘Nogrocs wore frosted |,
outside tho storo, :

In Groonsboro, N.C,, whore tho].

| sitdown domonstrations begun].
| Fob. 1, varioty., storo Junch coune |:

tens Woro oy Yon on tho customary
Sogrognted basis,’ No Nogro dome.
onatrations Worg | ere

Sn rremeeeneeemrmaenacain

Fino, ‘for. driver

Povey R,. Camaron of ato Sou- |’
one Avenue Woast was fined $10]:
or In dofault flvo days whon hol.
plendod guilty before Maglatreto |"
HT Applowhalte in palive court}:
this morning ona charge of op-

Q rod tall Hight, |

“Camoron stated’ that ho had}
ropalrod: tho ight on many oo-
cnalons but it: had burned ont on

 

Tobruary: WW: when! no was |:
ahargod, poy

(Othineea)
» in reports to the royal: commission on road. user, charges, ‘said :
~ almost everyone. in their. constituencies: “Was suffering” by” the .
higher fees—now under review by :the commission. *. os
Mr. Shirreff said there was “Inability . to “pay”, and the
“an injustice,”

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“rescues
wo. sons

A Porcher “Island, “fisherman
assisted © his two sons to- safety
yesterday when thelr: gillnetter| .
exploded. and burned while tak-
ing on fuel at Kitkatla, about 25
miles southwest of: Prince Rupert
Rupert, RCMP reported today..
Henry Vickers, the boat owner,
and his sons, Clarence and Terry,
both in their carly .20’s-’ were
flown here by Pacific Western
Alrlines and were treated for
superficial burns to face, neck
and arm, They were reported in
“good condition” in Prince Ru-
pert General Hospital: today, °
- Mr, Vickers told police his boat
the Rupert 64, was taking on fuel
when one of his sons accidentally
turned over the engine and a

  
   
  

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‘ed. stage of. preparation

be called. in’ the ‘spring.

‘However, he said; “while every :
effort. will be: -made to expedite mo
“construction my
period for this type of. building]...
was dengthy. and might well be!

the: -work, ”- the:

in’ excess of: 12 months from the}
time’ of. the award of the. con-
tract.

On: the | ‘ristrument. landing’
signals, radio: buildings - ‘and
emergency | power. ‘unit; Mr. Hees

said “tenders «. would: ibe. ‘Called |

within the. “next: two or. three
‘weeks’ ‘with ‘a ‘target’ ‘date : for}

commission. of” September: 30,;

 

1960.

 

Other projects still: to be com-|

pleted: with - ‘proposed © tender
dates: and-exp cted: Aareet dates
are ‘as. ‘follows

Power. service. oO airport—Ten-

    
 

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‘by. 2:mid-March;

    
 
 
 

ing—Tenders~

CPA: Canso. service “now ‘can-:
celled regardless. Of. our: ‘prox
tests of an arbitrary ‘decision
‘of the Air Transport. ‘Board in
“allowing | the’ cancellation, the,
travelling public being serious-
ly inconvenienced by . having.
to ‘travel 109 miles over rough
highway ‘toy Terrace, With no _
assurace of air service at Ter-.
race, Had understood: terminal
facilities would be under con-..
Struction’ this winter, Would
appreciate. recalving. report.
referred to’ in’ your letter of
January 20 and an opportunity
to meet you and your depart-
ment officials to discuss. this
important ‘Problem, oe
, Pwd LESTER
Mayor.

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spark caused an explosion. “He
pulled -both boys from the cabin,
“The burning vessel was cut
adrift and Inter baached..

" RCMP. aboard the police boat
“Nanalmo",-who were. called to
the scene yesterday, are still in-

Prince ° “Rupqrt, has.
now: gone 406° days
without a fatal Watfie
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BONN; Germany—West Gormany probably will ‘abandon.
‘hor plan to sot up military supply dumps ‘in Spain’ hoenuso
Of opposition from some NATO ulliag,: diplomatic. HOUFCES

-The Bonn government has been warned | that somo flied’
countries would object to the plan inspired by Wort Germany's:
Jack of spaco for 3 ‘rear area dumps of war “atortal and:

oe NW DULWI—Prime Minister Nohiru, announced: loduy ho.
Will meet again with Nikita Khrushchoyv when the touring
» Bovict premier, now in Tndonosla,

Nohru also expressed doubt at Q: press -gonferonco : that’
roposed mooting with Premler Chou: En-lal would being
Vorder dispute botween India and, Red China nonror to...
“ft solution, Ho.sald Chou had not yet repliod ‘to his invitation *
fo" come to Now Dell} iy Ito. Marah, jon

‘“PERLIN—Roseuo workors groping through shattored shotta..
today found 281 bodies of the 107 men frapped In: a Dinwlng
oul mine at Zwickau, Hast CGormany, *

Wenry rosouors sald “thora ts still: Hope” for some: of. tho ys
0 othor mon trapped: by a raging fire in the Kar) Marx'mino -
for more ‘than 48 hours. ‘Twenty-one: doad Were: sbrouRh:

‘RIO ‘de JANDIRO, Bragll-Braulty ‘penutitul: “watertion

: more: talks with Prosidont iKubitschok. 0).
A good shave of Rio do Janolro'a 3 ,000,000 vosldonts,
~"pxpeotod. to fill tho streots of the fng-decked. alty to. great ©:

 tubure. Gapttal boing bullt ¢00 mille, to tho, northweut,

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prosident: Waenhiowor today
Including: threo ‘speoohos and
wore
from. Braulia, : the nation’s:

and‘ it}
was hoped. that’ tenders would |.

completion tareet date, August :

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up; these needs,”
The | ‘Red: ‘Cross. will ‘need $6,-

1350, 913 this--year; $600,000 more
than Was -Falsed | Jast” year, he .
‘| said. * ‘

"Biggest single: item “On * the
budget, + was salaries but “ey ‘do not
believe we can.“ eliminate. one
single. personfrom the’ payroll,
nor can we pay any person, 4 sal-

ing now,” he added.
‘My...

Baby bonds legal

- VICTORIA—Premicr * Bennett
told a press | conference ‘today
there js ‘no. doubt ‘about. the
legality of Pacific Great, Eastern
Railway “baby bonds,”

And he added. in’ & press con=
ference, Liberal. “House. Leader
George Gregory was. just belng
ridiculous when ho: questioned
them -in ‘the. loglalature . last
Wook, ; oan

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“conviotlo a8 dentod this:
| oonvlotion:.wag?, phéto,

SEO Te

‘at’ Oslo, Norway, and’ visiting .NATO exch
+ Canada: for 1960, was. scheduled: O- a

broad ‘an: ‘impression of:
*can;: vis): wi ing to: speak: to -city gro Pi

association representativés’. tomorrow: -afternoon
-Council,; ‘tomorrow night. ‘Friday, he. wall Speak’ at Prince’

cy:
&. rop: below ego, 000, now} 1h
‘is down: to: $383;000 after making

ary less than the one we are pay- :

‘Stearns was. addressing
the B.C. division of the: society,

CHILLIWAGK ‘ome A: ‘University

of British Columbia: professor.is| ~
stil] advocating, an ‘all-but® for!
gotten. suggestion: for. a dam. on)
tho Pinson ‘Rivor: at; Moran,’ 170

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“ VANCOUVER—-Wage:
ranging from nine’ to 12 “i n
hour have‘been accepted= by 25.
-employees'at’ MacMillan, Bloedél' . ..
and: Powell: River Lintited’s: ne
paper-making: plant: in woe
ver, The new. rates’ will.range:
trom $1:66/'to “$1. 84 an hours: A.
gltillar offer” wa's:
carlior -by:.400 employées:
Crown: Zellorbach plant;
mond and: Martin.. Pape :
duete in Now 7 Weateainstey

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