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THE 27,500-TON Canadian Pacific Liner Empress of Canada,
- biggest: to be built at Newcastle-on-Tyne for 53 years, was
launched here today by Mrs.. John G. Diefenbaker, wife of the:
Canadian prime minister. Designed for the dual-role of trans-
atlantic liner in summer and for cruising to warm climates in
winter, the new Empress is being built by the Vickers.Armstrongs
Company at a cost. of about £8,500,000. The third Canadian
Pacific ship to bearsthe name, it will enter service . between
Britain and Canada carly in 1961. —CP photo.

HUMPH REY OUT:

Senator Kennedy sweeps
West. Virginia. primary |

CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP)—Senator John: FI
Kennedy took a giant stride today toward the Demo-
-eratic nomination for president of the United States
- with a . smashing: victory in’ he West Virginia primary.

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also knocked him: out?)
‘presidential. race onictely.
At: 2:08 a.m, Humphrey con-
ceded. «Minutes later he issued a
statement in which he: said:

“I ‘am.ono longer a* candidate
for the Democratic presidential
nomination.” .

Kennedy jumped ahead at the
start and steadily increased his

   
  

  

slo wly y

Sumnier | is slowly sneaking
{Into the Prince Rupert district.

According to Digby Island
radio statistics, the tempera-
ture during April rose to an in-

Lowest temperature last month
was 32' degrees on April 6 while
March had a low of 24 degrees.

The Kennedy victory wasn’t
entirely unexpected, but the size
of it certainly was. .

Scout association would. have
‘reached its quota of $2,300, a
spokesman for. the ‘group report-

| paign to help’ district .Scouting
had_received,. in® ‘its

 
   
 
 

not only rolled over. Senator Hu- |
bert Humphrey of. Minnesota but}
~ the}:

credible high .of .71 degrees onj margin.

April. 28. With 1,296 of the 2,750 polls re-
The high in. March was 53/porting, Kennedy had 104,801|'

degrees. votes and Humphrey 69,288.

shine

-April
While the hours of bright sun-

pared to March,
rainfall
precipitation,

April iad a total of 114.8 hours
of sunshine as against 66 hours

mean was 45.6 degrees.
April jumped com-
the amount of
half the March

in

Was

‘With 54 of West Virginia's 5B
Lcounties showing reports, Ken-
nedy was ahead in 45 and Hum-
phrey, a Congregationalist, was
leading in only nine.

 

in March. and, according to
guages at Digby Ishind, only
5,67 incheg of raim (only a trace
of snow fell in, April) while
March hada total of 12.89 inches

Halibutters
land, sell

 

of rain,
Last month the amount of 299 000 lbs
rainfall ‘recorded ‘by three city © > e e

guages was surprisingly close to
Digby Island figures, Roosevelt.
Park guage showed 7.48 Inches,
Montreal Circle gunge 6.54 Inches
and Fern Pass 5,61.

omen otape parE

Driver urged
to go faster

= PRINCE GHORCHE @ — An 18-
“ yenr-old tyouth spoke the words
"1 Hive for speed" minutes before
he died in a car aceldont April
17, two witnesses testified todny,

The testimony cama al aw pre~
Uminary hearing Into a charge
of eriminal nogiigence against
Harvey ‘Howard Burkhardt,
driver of the. car In which Rich-
ard Ctoorge Torgerson moti his
dnath,

Two otlor youths who wora
pnasongers In the car told the
court that Torgerson mada tho
atatomont throd or four tines
and had bean urging Burkhardt
to driva (nator just before the

Nine boats fanded a total .of
299,000 pounds of halibut in
Prince Rupert today with. six
selling on the halibut exchange
and three golng to the Prince
Rupert Fishermen's Co- operative
Association,

Selling on the exchange were;

Irisco—(U.8.): 7,000 med. at
17.2: 6,000 Jurge at 18; 200 Ibs, of
chix ab (8, to Nelson Brothers,

Munroe—(U,8,): 20,000 med, at
17.2; 20,000 largo al 18.5: 200 chix
at 13 sold to Babcock,

Canadian:

Atli: 15,000 med at 16; 1,000
large nb 16,1; 2,000 ehix ab 12;
to Atlin,

» Toony Milly; 28,000 med.
16,1; 2,000 Inrge at 17; -16,000
ehix nt 12; to Nolson Bros,”

Aretie T!
2,000 Inve ai 16,6 and 300 Iba,
ohix nti 123 to Nelson Bros.

 

'Packors, ;
Co-op Inndings wore!

 

 

 

 

nccldent, mod; 20,000 Invaa; 10,000 chicks,
woes | Taplow! 70,000 — 66,000. mod.;
16,000 elix,
Gony:24, 000-~12,000 mad; 10,
N00 Inrge; 2,000 chix,
| DRUGS LTD. Prince Rupert has
‘DIAL now gone 483 days
| 21 51 without a fatal traffic

 

 

  

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‘ty
13,000 mod. ab 16.15]

Vampy! 12,000 mad, at 16; 3,000
large 16,1/ 300 chix nl 123 to 3, 0,

Wredolin Tit: 66,000 — 36,000

 

Published at + Canada’ 3s Most Strategi¢ Pacific Port — And Key to the Great Northwest

  

 

 

 

 

"Boy, Scout |
— fund drive
now $2, 200

‘Another $100 in donations and
the Prince Rupert District .Boy

 

ed today. «
He said that” ‘the fund cam-

canvass, a total’ ‘of $2,200: ...

OW. D. Smith, _president. ‘of the
local Boy Scout ‘association - ex-.
pressed. appreciation’ for the gen-
erosity of city residents and also

extended his gratitude, to the
group ‘committees, Boy, Scouts

   
 
   
 
  
    
         
      
     
  
   
       
  
    

}three types of polio. -.
Mr. Bogstad, who was to have}

drive. and].

had, ‘assisted in};

31-year old carpenter who. lived
at 843 Ninth Avenue West. died:
shortly before . midnight last
night: in Prince., -Rupert General
Hospital. cos

Death was caused by pulbar-.
spinal. poliomyelitis, one of the

been: flown to. Vancouver this’:

| morning was. admitted to hos~ \Backe- Bogstad of Kitimat.
“° pital
“rangements had been.made with
“Air-Sea Rescue to fly the strick- |" :

Monday afternoon.

en man south. .

“This is the first fatality from|’
poliomyelitis in Prince Rupert: as |}
far as we know,” a spokesman |’
from Skeena Hea!th Unit said. —
‘Dr. Wilfred Sinclair, director. of}.
the Skeena Health uni and: the|’
city’s medical health officer}.
said that this was the first case};

were eight cases.

“This is a relatively uncommon
form of the disease,” Dr.. Sin-.
clair said. “The other two forms,

usually more common.” |
-“There is no cause for alarm,

‘to people. who have. not, had
their immunization | jnnocula-*
tion,” Dr. Sinclair. said.

there's

no. ‘Stopping “it,
warned. . SR

 

 

PRINCE RUPERT, B.C., WEDNESDAY, MAY 11,

Case uncommon,
‘no need. for alarm

Prince Rupert’s first polio case in two and a half

years resulted in death yesterday.
‘John Monrad Backe-Bogstad_ a}

‘causes paralysis of arms or legs.”

: immunization shot.

Ar=f[5 :
mot yet been made:

of polio since 1957 when: there |: "

pure spinal and pure’ ‘bulbar are}:

Ito a shed. and contents owned by

because of this isolated. case * ‘J. H, Ewald of 1531 Atlin Av-|

but it does: serve as. ‘a warning: [4 n

 
  
     

j ments.
«“ ed: *

Once ‘the ciséase: has start Vincluded seven bush ~or
_ Hires; two overheated oil burn-
gH ers; one boat fire; and ‘five ‘mis-

 
  
 
 
 

 

  

in "oak

Building Inspector J. S. Ewart
reported that 34 building permits
were issued in April to a total
value of $79,350 a drop of $40,680
from March’s $120,030 and a re-
duction of $66,570 from April,
1959's $145, 920.

The four-month total for 1960
is 121 permits for a total value
of $326,370, while in the same
period in 1959, 138 permits were
taken out for a total value of
$567,981, a decrease of $241,611,
Last , month’s . fees covered:
residential—new. (5) $50,500; ad-
ditions (6) $5,800; alterations
and repairs (16) $9, 925; commer-
clal—new (1) $2,000;

(5) $11,525, a
Permits issued for April in-
eluded: building (34) $187;

plumbing (2) $15; wrecking (2)
(2) $10; blasting (1) $2.

frimilles were being housed in

had hit more than half a sq
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LONDON @ j——The Guard

possibility of
newspnper says:

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OLYMPIA, Wash, (Ne~A §
commercial flahing disagreom

who doveloped the proposal,
in offoct the three-milo tor
flahing industry and dovolo

¥

applications to aot wh) a now ta
B,0, Sookiny tha now
OKPAa Toloviaion Limited, Bo

on channel 8:

 

additions
(1) $300; alterations and repairs

$5; moving (1). $2.50; septic tank

ministers during thely confor
‘4 Commonwealth passport.
the question was raised outside the conference
by Chana, which is interested in discussing some kind of
“Inlasoy passer” for South Afr
would bo recognized by Rhodesian authorities,

and Canada ‘was unveiled Tuesday. by . Governor Alber
Rosollint of Washington, Stato fishorlos director Milo Mooro,

tho wa countrios on flashing problems,

Torn year

Value of construction i in: Prince Rupert last month
showed a marked decrease from March and a drop of
almost 45 per cent from April of last year. .

 

births for the month of Apri

Government Registrar.
Harding.
There were 37 births,

tered for March.
April,

tered,

births, . deaths and

 

weeks after they happen.

World News Briefs

TIMMINS, Ont, )—More than 1,000 residents of Mountjoy
Township were out of thelr homes and in emergency shelters
today as the rampnging Mattagami River continued its
relentless rise‘ in the suburban township aren, About 300

social halls and homes of friends

in Timming to escape the flood crest, which by early today

unre mile of residential streets.
+ +

lan says Commonwealth prime
once hero may, discuss the
The Manchester

loan political refugees that

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tato
ents between the

+
“sponsored plan to tron out

United | Bate

said {it is dosigned to continue
ritorial Himit aa it affocts tho
Pp cloxor eo-operation hotweon

+ +

RDMONTON ‘M—Tho Bonrd of Brondenat Govornors loclay
bogan Ita four-day Edmonton altting by honring opposing

lavision atation In Prince Goorge,

TV outlot aro Aurora TV Limited and

th ‘groups propane to brondenat

jn Prince Rupert is up according
lo vital statistics released. by
Howard

three

deaths, and six marriages regis-
tered compared to 33 births, 11]
deaths and 10 marriages regis-

The totals from January to
1960 are: 189- births, 27
deaths and 29 marriages regls-

Statistics ‘tor March are not

final due. to the fact that many
marriages

are not registered until a few

1960.

Night Calls—-Business 6768, Editorial 6769

 

 

system and the base of the skull
and brain and makes breathing
and swallowing difficult and

: Dr. Sinclair reported that Mr.
‘Bogstad had not been out of the
area and had not received -his

Mr. Bogstad. has only * one.
‘known living: relative, Kristian |.

Funeral have

ret

arrangements

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“Fire damage’
only $935 —
during April

April was a much less costly
month for fire damage - than
March, Fire Chief Earl Becker
‘said in his monthly report today,
The fire department answered
“47 calls with $900 damage done

E: Amadio of the Louise Apart-

Besides: these two, ‘other calls
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the month:

at the Pioneer “Home; Prince,
Rupert - General ‘Hospital, three |}

|-schools, nine hotels, 19 business

and - industrial : establishments,
and’ five private’ dwellings. : OE
Chief Becker along with G. W.
Keefe, superintendent of. the
Canadian ‘National Railways in
Prince Rupert, and A, W. Hugh-
son, special investigator of the
CNR inspected the grain elevator.
A total of 110 ofl burners were
inspected and permits were is-

a e :
Marriages sued for 81. Changes were. or-
® dered for 28 while 53 were deem-
on. increase ed satisfactory. Eleven chim-
The number of registered neys were inspected and ordered

brought up to standard.

The city and waterfront fire
alarm’ systems were tested and
pronounced satisfactory.

Chief Becker said that one
hydrant was hit by a car but
damage was minor.

Firemen have begun their lec-
tures at schools in Prince Rupert
and to date, six one-hour lec-
tures and demonstrations have
been given to students of Booth
Memorial High school. —

Study slated

‘on police costs

orratyn (—A  federal-pro-
vinelal committee has been set
up to study the cost of operating
the RCMP in the provinces,
This was announced Monday
In a communique dealing with a
meeting here May'5 and 6 of pro-
vincial attorneys-general and
Justice Minister Fulton...

The conference was called to
discuss contracts under which
the RCMP carry out police work
In all provinces except Quebee

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Inspections ;; were. cartied — out'|" me

ed to 19 ambulance calls during | Saat amen

“1 iia

- Halibut’ landings were

nounced today.

The halibut landings last week
totaled 264,900 pounds, compared
to the previous week's 245,200.
The week's overall fish total was
292,400 pounds, a drop of 63,800
pounds from the previous week’ s
356,200 pounds.

Of last week’s halibut total;
64,800 pounds were chickens
which sold. at 13 ‘cents a pound;

168,700 pounds were medium
which ,sold in. a. price range. of
16 to 17.7 cents a pound; 17,400
pounds were large which sold in
a prince range of.17 to 17.6 cents

g@ pound; and 14,000 were No. 2
which sold at 12, 3 cents a pound,

Six halibut boats delivered to
the Hallbut Exchange and the
Prince Rupert Fishermen's Co-
Operative Association plant at
Fairview while the remainder
came from-fish camps.

There were 10,400 pounds of
bottom fish landed including 200
pounds of ling cod which sold at
4 cents a pound; 8,200 pounds of
mink feed, which sold at 2 cents
a pound; and 2,100 pounds . of
green shrimp which sold at 14
cents a pound, The bottom fish
was landed by one dragger from
area four.

A total of 17,000 pounds of
antmon wore also landed here

 

and Ontario,

PARENTS’

VANCOUVER (CP) woe oy ia
Dad?" {sg .the question boys'
organizations throughout Brit-
lah) Columbia nro: asking. —

Ho's not showing: up — to
wnpire ball games; he’s missing
from Acout troks through the
woods; ho’s skipping handicraft
clnasos. ab the corner club,

And tho orgingations say -na
apathy Is bronking the honrta
of thousands of B.C, boys,

Rough checks Indiente the

of the Vancouver’ community

 

 

chast haa © committee Invostl-

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total poundage:for fish landed in Prince. Rupert was
down considerably, the department of ‘fisheries an-

Pit
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of a sudden he ‘became: ar!
~-Cartoon by Len. Knutson;

show drop|=*:

stage‘a press conferen e todas
show reporters’ the: escape: -kit, -
the poisoned . needle
silencer; maps. and. other
they say: the pilot carrie

up last. week while’ the

 

700 pounds of red salmon (higher
grade) which-sold at 40 to: 50
cents a pound for large; 33 to 38
cents a pound for medium. and
23 to 28 cents a pound for small.
Gill netters caught 1,400 pounds
of red salmon. (poorer grade)
which sold at between 38 and 40
cents a pound for large; 45 cents
a pound for medium and 33 cents
a pound for small,
Troliers landed 2 900 pounds
of white salmon which sold at.20
to 30 cents a “pound for large; 25
cents a pound for medium and 20
cents a pound for small.

The trollers operated in Areas|
4 and 5 while the gill netters
concentrated mainly on the
mouth of the Nass River. ._

 

To pay damages

Frank Weisbeck of 229 First
Avenue West was fined $2.50 and
ordered to pay damages when
he pleaded guilty before Magis-
trate EB, T, Applewhaite today in
police court to a charge ol will-
ful damage under $650,
_ Weisbeck was.charged April 9
after he put his fist through two
windows at. the Old Empresas

 

Inst week, ‘Trollers landed 12,-

APATHY HEARTBREAKING

BC. boys ask “where's Dad?”

gating it.
' Scouts are reported short 500
lenders and assistants through-
out the province.

Tho result, says Bill
fleld commissioner — for,
Scouts’ ‘Vancouver region,

to take up. Rcouting but can't,
Some 1,200 adults now arb

 

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Gage,
me

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walting Ista, of hoys that want

helping out Jn ono capnelty or
anothor witly abnoat 10,000 Little
Lengo basobnilers In tho prove
province's organized boya neod | ince ,
double the presont numbor of
ndult volunteers, Tho problom ts
ao sorlona. the voluntoor bureau

"LT would Iko to seo wnobhor 600
adults,” snys “Los Drown, the
longuo's provincial diroator, “Tho
discournging thing is that many
parents haven't onough intorost

Hotel causing $35 damage. -

“4 i

in, thelr children to even turn
out as spectators.” —

program of our. 1,500 boys,

volunteor job

peeves

‘tOMOrrow. nt Algoma Park,

gaa pe anteuenryn oe

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VICTORIA 7

ts “MOSCOW (AP) =
sia lias charged the’ Uni
States government

and- indicated : that:

| may stand trial for egpion- -
age, - : |

A proadcast’ beamed’ to"North: oo
America recalled‘ that: “Washing-.

. planes: approaching - the: contin-

‘| would be’ ordere
return ‘blow. :

Bob Smith, executive director
of the Vancouver Boys' Club Aa-
sociation, says: “We could Wbsorb
another 100 men—or women for |.
that matter—to holp out the

“This is not a'mass indict-
mont of parents, We know
thoy're thore, But. the profes
slonals just aren't making the
5 palatable enough.”

" Princo: Rupert Little League | —
opona {ts 1960 ronson ab 7 pm).

TAT, LIBRARY
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|jup.the protest note to Way aphing- :

oy with a'strong hint. that fur-:
her flights over Russia mteht, °:
rigger a. Soviet. bomb - attack on.

    
   

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hat at the first sight:. of: ‘enemy -

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‘Foreign Minister. Andret; Grom-

ward L. Frears Tuesday,It said:
“Hostile acts of American avia-
tion which — have taken. place
numerous times in relation'to-the
Soviet Union are not simply the
result of the activity of the mil-
itary command:of the U-\S.A, in
various areas, but are an. expres-
sion ofa calculated Uz SA. Bolles,

 

City girl ©
wins: award..;

a NO Re ,

  

In nursing.:"

A city girl has won. ayie!
ency award for topping her class
in @ course of nursing at, Bt. Jo-
seph’s Hospital School of: Nuré-
ing in. Victoria,
She is Ellen Ann Roper, 2h,
daughter of Mrs, M. M. ‘Roper
and the Jute W. 8. Ropof, who
received an. efficiency award in
operating .room ‘technique . at
ceremonies for 43 graduating
nurses held at 8t, Joseph's hos-
pital in the capital Sunday.
Born jn Mirror, Alberta, Ellen
Roper came to Prince Rupert in
1940 and graduated from‘ Booth
Momorinl High school in, June,
Mrs, M. M. Rop or, sooretaty-
treasurer of District §2-..8¢)ool
board and her--other, daughtor
Mrs, A. d. Bussanich of 1000 Hays
Cove Avonue, attended the Wie
torin ceremonies, :

WEATHER

' Cloudy with scattered: show-
ors Thursday. Little change
in temperatures Min ndé
southeast 15, “tonight
and “high Thuradoy ‘4d-and

55. abs aa et

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