e VOL" L, No. 201 ’ Jast year 100 city residents received a total of 812 treatments ind these’ are being brought back into: “action” as ‘He*was released the same. day. ‘The ‘fire was. caused by a furnace. time firemen. arrived. Boyd Cook.:<. sa f . ace blow-be ck: ‘Both: ‘t ese : “'swere: and -a’number - of “@larm a ad ony yer age git mea PODOLPPCIIG Co erenereeeeeees sees eressee sees esesbseeere Denes ones CDOs ya sere “"CANVASSERS FOR CARS BRANCH |. SEEK $4,000 QUOTA TONIGHT Volunteer - canvagssers. from service clubs and other city +,Organizations will be covering the city’s residential districts donight seeking donations for the Prince Rupert branch of the ‘Canadian Arthritis and Rheumatism Society. * The local CARS branch seeks $4,000 as its quota to keep the the clinic operating in Prince Rupert General hospital. » Rev. J. A, Roskam, campaign chairman pointed. out: that . from the local CARS clinic.: “Every donation -helps in the fight to alleviate suffering of «those crippled by-arthritic ailments,” Mr,’Roskam said. | too o OPERA LO LOLI OLE LOLI ADL IDS PEOPOLOD EDO DODIOLIOLIOID OTE A IED ILE SILA Two men hurt, alarms out in. wake of city storm: Two men were. injured fighting fires - in their homes over the weekend as the city: fire department answered five calls. _ Fire ‘alarm boxes ‘were also put out of action by the. gale which swept. the city Friday ee _ quickly as. possible, Se ’ The injured men. were Frank- lin’ ‘Debartolo ‘of. 1012 Third Av-. enue West wno ° “iaS ‘taken to hos-. pital suffering from minor burns. “On Friday, the: ‘department re-| sponded to three calls—at 10:12 a.m.; 7:16 p.m.; and 8:56 p.m. The second call’ was caused’ by burning. power-lines ‘in the: 6001. block Fulton. “Power. was ‘cut off for ‘a- short: period. and. no dam- age ‘resulted. whe Alarm * boxes near : “the Bo. Packer’ s plant at Seal Cave were ‘of knocked gut of: ‘commission by =| the winds: Rnd most. of the area blow-back: and: was: out by" the}, The’ ‘second “incident. involving “. and mos of the boxes are slowly being put. back. into, service. Yesterday firemen ‘were called department as five ca ‘boxes were ‘rendered: inactive due = Bt +Take-thissnerningy : “At Skeena Crossing . Mrs. Har- {ris, wife . of. Thomas : Harris’ “of to, Friday’ S gale-foree winds. about 9:30 a.m. but. it was only a smoke scare. to the 200 block Eighth East | Cm... - Fisherman — A. Bendiksen dies in south” The death occurted: Saturday at Bella Bella of: Arnt Bendik- sen, 66, of Namu., Born in "5 | ceeded. to the St. Elmo Hotel where a mattress fire had start- ed in one of the rooms. Firemen said they believed the blaze was started by a guest smoking in bed. Smoke was heavy but the room suffered no damage. The mat- tress was almost destroyed. way, he came to Canada. and the Prnice Rupert area about. 25 years ago. - ie was lately: ‘employed as a watchman py a. fishing com- pay ati Namu and. ‘had worked albehis Hfe!in that Industry.. Mr. Béendiksen was a:member of the United Fisherman's, cand Allied Workers Union. : He ‘Is survived :by, his wife, from Madrid said two persons injured, ge MEMPHIS, Tenn. (m—Elvis : Alice, of Princo Rupert; four a slgpdaughters: Mra... E, Camp-| high school chums. The rock to. Nail and Mrs. R..Whitely both} waod for a rest, snapped the li df! Princé Rupert; Mrs, M..di| ming hand Sunday, Gustini of Vancouver; and Mrs, G, Martinson of Ocean Lake, Oregon, U.S.A. and a stepson, Mr... H. Simonds of Prince Rupert; and 24° grandchildren and one grent-grandohild, Funeral arrangements not been finalized, — ee aE Credit Grantors meeting tonight Prines Ruport. Oradit Gra ntors association will hold ita. regular fall meeting at 6: $0- tonight in the Venotian Roont. of La. Gon- doln Cafe. o_o . : + _ Prince Rupert has now gone G41 days Without re ‘fatal traffic have —" ducer Fernand Quirion, was taken at a meeting of th the neighboring Congo last W issued here today. thern Katanga province near Bwilas won, ‘campaign, ~ backers of the Nixon-Lodgo: tia : endorsomont.of Senator the talont for 281 he ge mt he a wee oH poe ie vs a nee ret ay t nN 4 a etighaa a woe At 2:49 a.m. today firemen pro- |- + +. ge TORONTO ()—The population of niotropollian Toronto now:-totals 1,527,105, an increase of 39,757 over the 1959 figure, tho metropolttan. smogront department said Triday. MONTREAL () —' Representatives of the CBC and the: French-Language Producers Association ‘will meet “unoffici- ally” next Friday to discuss the firing without notice of pro- association president, The. decision’ nated until the early hours of today. i oy + }. Konnody for prealdont,' It anid he has: now and crontive lendorahip. . doreribos itself aa. politically. indepondont, auipportod _ Adal. Stovenson’* for the: proaldonoy In, 1068 and 1080 a seh A WN ~ » manent Fag tegungdpee LR, erm 9 TY ely TIHe 7 voveorrve eres City following - Four persons.died, three of them violently, in the Prince Rupert area over the weekend, RCMP at. sub- division reported this morning. a city pioneer, collapsed and. died on Morse. Creek ‘pioneer dies eee wn ee ew vr toda wn tne e en collapse The fourth. person; bridge.. Dead are: os Albert Beaver, 26*.of South- bank, who- drowned near the ferry slip at Francois Lake late = Saturday. ° . Mrs, “Marion Victoria. Harris, 58 and Andrew Derrick, 30, both; of Hazelton, following: a high- way accident at Skeena Crossing. In-Prince Rupert, city pioneer Gillis Couture, 80, collapsed Sat- urday. afternoon on Morse Creek |. bridge and died before’ he could be taken to hospital. “RCMP at ‘subdivision said that the: ‘drowning of Albert Beaver in Francois Lake occurred about 11 p.m. Saturday. A report from ‘Daily News cor- respondent Agnes H. Neave at Francois Lake . ‘today said that Beaver, son. ‘of Southbank. store operator A. Beaver, was last seen|. walking onzo the ierry dock by ferry Capt. Peter Mathews at Northbank. "However, the cap-} tain missed him ‘when. the:.ferry. was ready to. leave at-1h p.m. t floating beside the dock and de- spite the dark, rainy night; found. Crew members ‘spotted . a hat| hand turn and plunged, off. ‘the road. into a ditch.. " Derrick, driver. of ‘the. ‘truck; suffered head: injuries broken leg and. died later” ‘Hazelton hospital: — “Two other persons in the truck are in hospital with minor. ‘ins. jurie’. yet to be set. Mr. ~ Couture “was zure. Passing . motorists: and’ a|' doctor stopped and. the City Am-| bulance was called: ~ ‘However, he] ‘died almost immediately. ~ Gillis Cou ture}: dies suddeniy | ‘slightly ‘more. than’ a: month}: since he led city. pioneers. in: sing- ing “Alouette”at the. Prince: Ru-. the body ‘about 45 minutes later. ‘Members of the crew. ‘applied . to revive: Beaver but.. were un- 4 Successful: es : An autopsy was ‘hel Hazelton was “killed: instantly Return to. ‘work | SCHENECTADY, NY. ww — Striking workers at the General Electric Company. plant here heeded instructions of their local leaders today and returned to their jobs. tween local and top leaders of! the International Union of Elec- | trical workers (IUE). World News Briefs | - LONDON (Reuters)—The: Union Castle ocean’ “liner Cape- town Castle was rocked by an engine room. explosion today off. the Canary Islands, the-shipping linc reported ‘here, A report were killed ‘and. 77: ‘Injured, But. in London, a Union Castite spokesman said. 13: persons were ny . ce ; Presley was in a “Hospital today with a finger broken ina football game with. a crowd of old 'n’ roll king, home. from Holly- ttle finger on his. Bultar strum- oe é 80-member association which, * LUSAKA, Northorn Rhodesia (Routors)—Some 49 Africans . wore killed in a battle between Baluba and Bwila tribesmen In. ednesday, according to a report A letter from a missionary doctor In Nore. thot Rhodoalan border, said ‘the, 7 ¥ a + a | WASHINGTON in—Prosldent Eisonhower loayos: today, on. a nine-day const-to-const speaking. tour into some of the major battleground stites of the prosidontial | With the olection only three wocks oft, the White. - Ffouse is calling tho 6,728-mile trip’ non-political, Bub many = which will take hin. kot, obviously, hope the tour will” tho Ropublio standardbonrors, + ¥ oxplodod ontly today at dite. ; . Tho binats cated somo dam- a 1045 march onthe olty that to powort for 10 yours, © York Post today ‘anriounced \ta accident, at /ronp dividends for ~ eeocnenea BUDNOS: AIRES —Fivo bombs a ee ““feront points: jn. Buenos. Alres - fae but no injury, A police spokcaman sald-tha: explasjnos were | N connected with tho obsorvation, by dichard Paronjats of Loy« — ; ally Day,. the anniversary of a“ DRUGS. trp. ovontually brought. dlotator Juan Poron | : ° DIAL NEW YORK mne Now Tho Post, which - hit s pert’. Golden Jubilee ‘Pioneers: banquet, 80-year- -old Gillis: ‘Cou "¥ artificial ‘respiration. in an effort! ture’. died suddenly” “over. “the "| veckend. a7 — Ton = when the truck in which she was is riding failed to make'a_ Tight- ve and a}... mje “An inquest it into: the two ‘high: a way .deaths will be held at a date. “ “walking On across the Morse. ‘Creek. bridge |. from his :home: at1401: Second... | Avenue, when he’suffered a. sei-~ " in. ‘St. ‘Bernard, Quebec, in: 1300! had Published at Canada’ $ Most Strategic Pacific Port — And Key t to the Great Northwest PRINCE RUPERT, B. Cir. MONDAY, OCTOBER. 17, 1960 . Night | Calls— Business. 6768, ’ od . , , 4 where eee edo senor won vo rer 4aeee pevrvy ere yew oe Tew ee ee yr day ey eo” wove uudtuud yy eager wdr PEERY views boon wetemne “Ne ~ for charge” CA motion: to dismiss a ‘sory after the: fact® ‘against Peter Roth-by Defence Counsel. W. H. Poole was. refused. by: Judge W. A. Schultz in County Court Friday. oie . Mr. Poole had made his sub- ‘mission after =the - -erown had- @losed its. case onthe grounds ‘that’ ‘the. Cfown-has. ‘introduced | - no evidence. to show: that: ‘Roth || een a ne ty ‘to the an "Bozok Jud dge ‘refuses. request | dismissal — Hunt building on the ‘waterfront between Babcock ‘Northern Fishermen’s Cold: Storage. A total wre ‘ihe broke across. the middle, the ( ture afloat'on the storm- tossed waters of the har later .. blocked off. by. harbor officials . to. prevent. floating © ‘out. and. becoming . a. photo, by Jonn Pain). Editoriol 6769 - PRICE TEN: portion to the: ‘le menace to navigat on charge of. being an’ acces- | to. BO. to’ the Yukon: He mined: sion’ ofa theft of jewellery, he r there for - eight: years: ‘and after did assist’ the’ said John Bozoki |. a trip back east, came to Prince for the™ purpose of. enabling: him} “The return follows a split, be- Rupert in April, 1909. ‘From 1910 until 1925 Mr.. Cou- ture was in the transfer business and then worked at the Prince Rupert. shipyard and drydock until 1945 when he retired. He is survived by his wife Alice; at home at 1401 Second Avenue West; a son Edgar in San Fran- cisco; two daughters, Mrs. Jean || MeDermid in Vancouver and Mrs. Rose Alexander on Salt Spring Island; -two sisters, Mrs. Alice Blain in Prince Rupert and a Mrs. Letourneau in Quebec City and numerous grandchildren. Prayers will be said at Fergu- son Funeral Home at 7:30 to- night and Rev. James Tracey will sing :requiem- mass at ‘the Churc® of annunciation at 10 am. tomorrow. Interment ‘will be at Faly view cemetery, - Failed to stop, fined $35 Dennis Charles Morven of Port, Edward pleaded guilly to a charge of failing to remain at the scene of ah accident and was fined $35 when he appeared be- fore Magistrate , gE, TT. Apple- | whaite today in police court... ROMF told the court that Mor- ven. had struck a car owned by | Bjorn Wick of 2104 Atlin Avenue at 0:35 p.m, Saturday in the 900 block McBride Strect,. Damage to Wick's car was oS- timated to be undor $50 and that sto" § Vehicle a more than poe deeemeeee | Also if court tdoay were Roy Ewing Harris and Walter Bryan Cooper, both of Prince Goorgo, who wore, fined $60. whon thoy pleaded guilty to charges . of trospassing on Canadian Nation- nl Railway's property, lald under the Rallwny’s Act... .. Both mon woro arrested nt 0:20 p.m. October. 15 whon thoy were found 18 ‘ho altting - ‘On a tallwny, ent,” of hon ‘George 'D, A, Taton of Princo Rupert plondod guilty Saturday (o, w chargo-of assault -before Magistrate B..T, ‘Applowhnite. m The Inoidont: ocaurred outside a olty hotel Saturday night | Baton .was placod . on - $100 good bohaviour bond | and givon to escape”. . Mr.: Poole added to. his sub- ‘mission ‘that the charge reads “well knowing” and that. Roth did not’ know. that Bozoki had stolen any jewels. ‘ ‘The ‘charge was laid in con- ‘nection’ ‘with the June 13, 1959 robbery of Bulger’s.. Jewellery store for which Bozoki and John Toth. are serving sentences in Haney | Correctional Institute. Both men’ were brought here for the trial. Judge Schultz said: “I must decide whether or not there is reasonable evidence on which a properly instructed jury could bring about a conviction.” . He stated that due to earlier precedents and because he felt -| that. there was: sufficient evi-! i dence to continue the trial, he would quash ihe motion. ; On Friday the cross-examina- tfon ‘of. Toth was concluded: and! EMPLOYEE ELIGIBILITY. A lvely “meeting is in storo for the.Princo Rupert General hospital -association Thursday, October. 27, since It has been an- bo elected: at the meeting and memberships are now on sale, In. a ‘hospital board yeleaso October: 3, it was announced that tho .trustoos had called .a special’ meeting of the. nssocl- ation to consider two changos to the associntion : bylaws, | A letter signed by Edward H, Knight, a socrotary of the hoa- pital. board, and distributed to}! the. association's 95 prosont mombers, states that.in addition to considering tho. two. bylaw changes, the meoting. will also elect now mombers, = | ‘In the past now. moniber's wore elected at tho associntion’s an- nual meoting in March. Accord« ing to the 1048° constitution, under which tho nsaodintion \g currently « opernting, fA alx months. auaponded Rontonce. a SAN at “4 y ‘wi ego Seno nth we limited, the ‘Crown, * cepresented by A. Bruce ~Brown, called ‘Bozoki.. After. Bozoki's - -testimony,. which he changed his story. sev “The: case | or. the. gan. today. wet ln Dog ce: be- Ri. accident ‘CGQUSE “No one “was “injured. Saturday when a car. driven by Franklin Bennett of 309 Fourth Avenue East was in collision with ® car driven by. John. Bussanich of 1723 Eleventh Avenue ‘Bast on Eleventh. at 9:55 a.m: ‘RCMP said that Bennett was proceeding west on Eleventh while “Bussanich was proceeding east when the collision’ occurred, nounced that new. members will, ‘momber-. Police stated that subsequent investigation. revealed that. Bus- sanich’s vehicle had crossed over the . centre line to avoid hitting. a dog, just before. the eral, times, Judge: Schultz rapped , f B. Ce. ROU NDUP appearance’ today, was” found | chard. a The house fire ¥ was extingtish- |, ed after it-had blackened ‘the walls and charred‘ the: furniture: Police said all. the ‘windows were blown. out and ‘that the fire had been: started’ by a “home- made bomb, © ° Fifteen . minutes: ‘pefore : ‘the carly- morning shooting, a neigh- bor told police she had seen.a man walking “up’ a’ nearby lane “hollering: like a‘ dog.” “She sald he vanished into. the drakness. .. Lower gas rate asked, PRINCE. GEORGE ° (A: de- mand from ‘the: City: of Prince George that it receive lower. na- tural gas rates is expected to ba collision occurred. BIG ISSUE ., te hospital group meeting et as few memberships now available)’ For the present drive: amem- herships are’ ‘obtainable at the -hospital or: from members of the hospital board for: $1. Sparking’ . NOW dntorest = in mombeorship - ‘Inthe hospital: as- sociation {s the board's dealre, to” rovise. the: constitution so that it will:deny membership in: the association: to employees of Prince Rupert Gonoral hospital, One of, the bylaws to bd 'am- ended ig: one. which. currently |: atatos that’ “Membership In ‘this socloty stiall be unlimited,” - Tho board has. approved:a “bye Inw commpittce recommendation that. 1b; .bo-.changed ; to, road "Tha momborship, of, } thls 0 dloty, shall bo unlimited, except, no employee of the Prince Rup- ort. Gonoral. Hospital shall bo oligible’ for. ‘momborship.”” ce Dotinition:of:."an. employee of tho: hoapttalroters’ to -mombors of. tho .nuraing © ‘staff, : ‘of... the Civic . Employees ‘Union “and lBritish, “that ]) a: highlight: today : as, the Public], i 7 it oobi oe bt a and ‘clerical, staff, De Reason for ‘wanting: employéed out of the association. is:..that Columbia : Ingyrance Sorvico" will “not: approve ' the association's constitution ° until the membership, bylaw. 4s ams ended, = °°" Is considered a, step, toward eventual accreditation |. of" ‘the concorns: “appointment... Of, . modical:: staff ‘membor- ‘to ‘the |: hoard: ‘by the Prince Rupert Medical ‘Association; such’ ‘ape Uho'medical state, Aes ‘ he 1B). 38-yonr-old minor from ‘Hed« whon. n.car loaded with: ore tip. nod ovor onto him at the Canam Coppor mine! 20 milos,; onab:: of ship in the nagocla tion ° ball une | eg Maton 08: _Qperating: Tingineors ear Ser ee Area aan Seeqraers re orca a \Shoo a victin bombed = me Molatey : cocktail | wandering in. an adjacent: or-. a ““BOHIS-upproved » “constitution e Prince Rupert, General hospital; i Othor bylaw to bo, amended |, pointment’: to’ -be’ ‘approved ° by ot abet at a ee “HOPH (-—-Monno simon: Rois . B,.Q., ‘was. killod : Saturday |: hore. . He:and’ thrao othor.. mon : Sh Belik,: 76, with murder: in* Mrs: i at 7 oe Strepchuk’s ‘death.’. The elderly. . ' 4 man, being held here for a court’ “An army: “t Alta., led, off..one,.of © the: worst highway : weekend : tolls | “dnt province, showed'15 ‘persons: were: Friday ‘and. ‘midnight ‘Sunday. : Or: roads. in other: ‘provinces: 12 persons ‘died. in Ontario,’ ‘six in Quebec, ‘four in ‘Saskatchewan, two in British Columbia and: in: “Manitoba. The natlo al was 40.) nn : Act: is:. declinivie® annually; the, ssoptclty, of: suitable: land;at Yeasonable cost .within reason- ‘Able. distance... There - now, are more than} 100: VLA smallvheld- ings inthis districts ® "5: ‘Teen “conference”: : OLE ER. @—