ail aE ee eta TS 139 Telephone 6767 | Published at Canada’ ‘s "Most Strategic. Pacific Port — And Key to the Great Northwest PRINCE RUPERT, Bea: TUESDAY, ‘JULY 19, 1960 Night Calls—-Business 6768, Editorial 6769 ADL ethabbareen rs Bae nia map rtsing tog ccc re 212 pee Sa t ae meng Shae va cattnaeanunt tng vie, a ber te kN ee PRICE TEN CENTS the year ending | Mareh 3l, year historys 0." Es “The commissioners «- sald their. report, released _Monday defici lies in fixed. charges. m ‘ This -is money. ‘porrowed ‘for “plant expansion, and* the com- ‘mission says that Increasing: use ‘of the. new facilities: will soon offset the fixed charges. » Total of reserves at’ $4,525,000. is'down from $4,951,272 the year before, . The number of customers went Up: during the year by 4,400 to 84,300 and revenue was $19,100,- 000 including a 15 per cent in- crease in the total from retail sales, guilty SO, ete nt teat areca Pleads “KITIMAT, B.C, @-=The former secratary-marnger of the Kit- Imat Credit, Union, who was ar- rested last week in Calgary, pleaded guilty Monday to five ehpraes of theft, totaling $6, Aas. “Ho ward. seeks ‘to. repeal - ‘part of Act + Bpeclul to The Dally News : OTTAWA Frank, Howard, i MP.(Skeena) gave: notice in tlie ’ Wouse of Commons lasi week that, he intends to Introduce a Bin in Pariiament. to repeal . Section 112 provides that the Minister of Citizenship and Im- migration may, XY compulsion, enfranchiso any, Indinn or Indian Band- whathor or not the Lidian: or: Indian’ Band -has appliod for anfranchisement, Mr. Howard said; “This Saction is: ona of the most obnoxious ond. objactian- able, sections In the. entire Act and has beon opposid: by prac- : "enely every Indian. in’ Canada, ‘In fact the Joint Committoo ‘on /cAIndian Affoatra’ tinanimously raidpmonded .on July 6, 1060 ‘thabent the frat opportunity tha Gdygrnment ‘Introduce Jogisha- Wolo. remove. tho! vompulsory oirfranchisoment . proyjaton from WR eAndian Aci". eo meat ae 1 a-en ene rere meenarns-eateranrs nsptet |ORMES | ate “DRUGS. Lr, arab! 2151. ‘in! : the 1839-59 period.” Section 112 of the Indian Act. J. hown: pt power commission) i VICTORIA. (CP)—The British Columbia Power Commission, a publicly-owned utility, lost $218,930 in the first deficit’in its 15- T. A. Vv. Evans, 31, admitted in ‘police ‘court: he ‘took the money vera period of two years, from -y' “JICPORIA” OIA “mystery” ean in Sidney” Inlet has ‘been|. ‘| 'definitely identified - as a sailing vessel built more.than'a century ago, the. navy, announced Mon- day. | A spokesman for Pacific Com- mand headquarters said the Jat- est development in the saga of Sidney Inlet, on the west coast of Vancouver’ Island, is based on findings by the Smithsonian In- stitution of Washington, D.C. Officials of tne United States museum told the navy a badly corroded coin found in the mast step of the wrecked vessel was a “British large copper penny of Man elected. PRINCE GEORGE (pity al- derman and clothicr Holger Bne- mark, 44, Monday was clected Liberal provincial candidate for Fort George, The seat is: held. now by Lands and Forests Min- ister Ray Williston, Station robbed NORTH VANCOUVER ( -—— A husky, lone gunman. robbed) a service sbation here of $125 Inte Monday. The owner, Peter Uh- neh, sald the man carried a long- barralled revolver, and: foreed him and his wife into ao back room: . No more fires KAMLOOPS (—-Outside burn- ing permits hore have been can- celled by firo chiof Tom Slater, Yo said the flro hazard was so sevore he was taking no chanecs, Bridge out... ‘PORT COQUITLAM () —.A power failure cut off tho Pitt River bridge near hora Monday and halted . Vancouver-bound ‘Lattice, Some residents mado a 112-milo trip Instond of the usual 90 by backtracking over another crossing during the shour-long outage, | Froak accident: VANCOUVER’ “(h'=~ William Whito sald Monday a polico dog yan into: tho side of hia cab and enused $100 damage, Whito sald VaMall spantol was bolng chnsod by the pollae dog which ran: in front.of hla car at a downtown ne Roction, :The Om was Ine red, . : e ‘ . Prince Rupert has now. ‘gone 662. ‘days ||| without.a: fatal traffic accident, . od oy MORE. ROOM’ ‘NOW: —_ The arc ‘the June, 1958' collapse may cut ‘Second. Narrows bridge. dwarfs this freighter and the adjacent, - outdated Second Narrows lift bridge. -will be officially opened ‘August 25 and one of the survivors-of . ‘when the. northern, incomplete span cracked off. “ gaing: in the job supply, Nee yea today. “Whe: mid-June estimate of the | riumbers of jobless persons seek-. Jing work was.66,000 higher than ‘| thye 234,000 tinemployed in. mid- __ bane, of. last. year. 124; 00 less than the But it was post-war thigh for June set in 1958. of Vancouver's new $23, 000 000° The six-lane. crossing © the ribbon. Eighteen men ‘died toria. tod: jernments; wh se prises more ‘th: North’ ‘America, pr a ‘Prince Rupert’ S. view: on. the: pr and also on. the Pacific. Northern Rail way., i ‘Also. attending. the. conference from north. central: ‘British. Co- himbia, is.E.. Donald ©: Forward, representing:.. the. Associated ‘Boards of Trades. of ‘North Cen- tral B.C, and Yukon. -today, Mr. Murray doesn't expect to submit Prince Rupert’s présen- tations on northern development: until sometime tomorrow. Conference. chairman is Lands and Forests Minister.R. G,. Wil- liston. Premier. Bennett heads the B.C.. delegation, " This morning Highways Min- ister P. A. Gaglardi was ched- uled to speak on British Colum- bia’s highway network with Gov- ernor Willlam A, Egan, who is heading the Alaskan delegation, giving his. views afterwards. Governor Egan will be followed by Yukon Commissloner Fr. H. Collins. ner was speaker at the luncheon today. This afternoon, the conference delegates were slated to Inspoct Motorist — fined ee loses licence... ‘Franklin John “Stowart, of 1034 Third Avenue wost, plondod guilty to two charges in police court this morning, ono of driv- ing while his Neonce was undor suaponsion and tha second of driving without | duo, -onro and attention, =. Stownrt. told’ ‘tho, “court his]: Heonce had, bean. suspended - for yours ago” On thig charge he wna fined $25 and #4 costs and his Weonce wha. suspended. for ft poriod of lx: months, : oy On the olinrgo | ‘of driving without duo onre and attention on: Sonl, Cove.Olrelo,’ he wns tinod:.880 or in default. of nay mont was aontoncod. to 28. days, |. Polico told: the court Stownyt way ona one-way, ‘atreot, «lind ditch and. the voliele anatalnad, somo W250" qambgo,” a City MiA in Victoria with two submissions — Prince Rupert MLA’ William H. Murray i is in Vic- LY ees two, submissions he hopes. to present posed :. ‘Alaska. Marine: ‘Highway | ; ‘dle-man “position. On’: “the vital | : question’ of. tr ansportation | With a full schedule : lined up| Attorney- -General Robert Bon-| throo months: two and: a-hole had: boon driving the: wrong, lost. control and. gone Into: tho. +-CP Photo. QUEBEC MAKES GAIN KALL of the. month's. decline in ‘unemployment, was among men, ‘the bureau of statistics said, re-. porting. ‘on’ its monthly labor force. Survey. of: 30,000: house- ‘Halt. of the decline took | Local jobless ‘total down during. June “A further ‘reduction in the number .of unemployed in the Prince Rupert area is reported by ‘the National Employment Service office to the end- of June, 1960..:.. ‘Manager of the. Unemployment Insurance Commission, :. CC. A. Pitt,» “reported today that. there are:713 applicants. for. positions. ‘|-was- 6,287,000. unemployment was 5.2 per “cent rs total _still above 1959 a OTTAWA. (CP)—Canada’s unemployment rolls} | weré'cut to 300,000 on June 18, a drop of 99,000 from 7 mid= “May, a as construction and forestr 'y provided large} | the government reported lace in Quebec, where. there|& in|’ was. an above- normal. gain. employment. ¢ The bureau estimated that the number of. persons, with jobs in-}/ creased - between’ mid-May. and}. mid-June by 162,000 to: 6,154, 000 : —a record for the month. It said that almost all: the ‘gain in. job-holders was. among men, . CONGOLESE. ‘Ptémier Patrice’ Lumumba -: United Nations | until midnight. “to. make. all: “Belgian ; troops. - withdraw: ‘from: the former Bel-! ‘glan colony. ‘and: threatened “to call: on- Russta ‘ for aid. if, with’ non-farm. activities ‘ ac- counting for virtually: all of the Tise. The number of job- -holders 1 was 101 000 higher than in mid-June of last year, with, about three- quarters of the gain being. among women: to 5,472,000. Farm employment declined by 49 000 ‘over _the year to 682,000. — - The year-to-year gain|. in employment was entirely in|. . non-farm - activities, ‘up. 150,000 'NES FIGURES Unemployment « on June 18 rep- resented 4.6 per cent of a. labor force of 6,454, 000. as: compared with the year-earlier level of 3.7 per cent when the labor force -Two years: ago of the labor force. ‘today: * “gave: the | they. did: not -move out. ee ” ” —CP photo. ” Bisenion wer meets: "advisors: ‘NEWPORT, RL im — President . Eisenhower ; confers today. with key-advisers on how to deal.with the Soviet. Union’s increasingly. ‘bitter propaganda - -attacks® ‘on : huge grey pall ‘of: “sntoke ‘\hung over the easterfi-rim | of this interior: British Go- * KAMLOOPS (cP oy ate a lumbia city: today: as: dog ey ‘| tired: firefighters” prepar- Boe ed to sweat’ through - other | day” ‘of: néar-record el temperatures. -The first: visible signs -of,-the oS 13 day. fire.. Joutbreak . reached ees Kamloops Monday night. SES The fire;13 miles. east. of ‘Bob. ton” Bar. in the Fraser Canyon, : | doubled | ‘in size" ‘Monday: and “js" oS | raging across 8,000 acres ‘of. valu-. : {able timber.” Firefighting.’ \of the outbreak,’ where the. Blaze is reported | escaping: ‘MAY. USE WATER. ‘BOMBER: rived B-17 Flying Fortress water ‘bomber will also: be employed: The government. also reported the United States. The president ‘to spend Sunday. night. in:alshel- today that 401,196 persons were called : “to - the Summer. “White ter at Peddy Creek, near Blue ‘This shows: a drop of 454 over |régistered. for “jobs:.at. National House for an’ afternoon meet- {victoria -this ‘morning. said. that | ‘transportation - is:.No.~ J topic on J -be- tween Alaska and the U.S: main- land. The ‘only major. land route to Alaska ‘at present-is the war- time Alaska. Highway, running from northeastern B.C, through. the Yukon to Fairbanks. There has been; talk in the past, more. exploratory than firm of alternate land routes through B.C, Even a combination of land and ferry’ links up the: west side of B.C, has been, mentioned. Although not.on the agenda, the question: of’ m Alaska pan- handle and’ its implications for B.C, is likely to receive at least passing mention, Flying fireman douses foresters. KAMLOOPS, ; B.C, (Pm OA weary waterboamber flying far- est Sire patrol spotted a wisp of smoke and ao fHeker of flames In the hush below. The lrigger-happy plot let loose 100° gallons of water, drenching four British Colum- hin forest service employces who ‘were cooking breakfast. balance. paid- by mail.. Tag day: nets mere than $500 to aid school A record- breaking total of more than $500 was realized ‘by the Prince Rupert. Associa- tion. for Retarded. Children . from. its tag day Saturday, William F,.. Stone, president i said today. . ‘Mr. Stone said that the as- sociation, which sponsors. the Jack and Jill school, received “terrific... response from the bers of: his executive were - “most grateful for the. gener- osity of the public.” He said that -Saturday’s donations surpassed: those of. any tag day the. association has held. Mr. Stone also paid tribute to the Girl Guides and Brown- jes under the direction of Dis- trict Guide Commissioner Mrs. George Cook, who carried taK- ging dutics, - Pes fits: ‘paid: “out. “during: the 7 .. month. of May: totalled.. :$42;135 |: with: $11,647... being - paid out} | through the local: office. and the. public and that he and: mem- Employment Service : offices: “on : American: .BtOUup.. ISTAN BUL public and will be: built,” at all.’ . - a pret ‘MERRILL, Wis. wm— A. violent. explosiort turned. the. I ae C. Penney ‘Company department store: ‘into a -pile’of: twisted; * |": charred - ‘debris’ Monday, killed eight Persons and, injured 13.. Cy + (Reuters). — Some" 450° ‘cabinet’. ministers, . ‘Officials ‘and National Assembly ‘deputies. of .the former | Menderes regime: now under “protective custody”. on. charges .of violating the Turkish constitution await a “grand tribunal.” . General Cemal Gursel, the new: head of ° state, premier’ and . leader of the 28-man National Union: Committee which now rules the country, ‘has said that.the former government was ~ a “dictatorship of a clique’ which “violated the. constitution . and became a disaster for the nation.” =. — . * + . YELLOWKNIFE, NW.T.. () — An carly: ‘start on: ‘the proposed 400-milc railway from Northern Alberta to Pine. Point on Great Slave: Lake was urged by members: of: the Northwest Territories Territorial Council Sunday. Commenting © on the Manning Royal Commission report to. the: House of ° Comnions, commissioner of the Territories Gordon Robertson said, “I am. extremely glad that the report has been .made -- much 1 happier, when... the > rail - ne 2 ‘is + + a * LEOPOLDVILLE @ — Premier Tshombe announced. that ~ UN Secretary-General Dag. Hammarskjold: had accepted an | invitation to visit Katanga, but no date had been set, Swedish Maj.-Gon, Carl van Horn, commander of the UN military. force. in the Congo. sud today Lumumba’ Fr) threat, “docs not worry us - - a ~ ” “jiuaivee THEME THIS YEAR -, Soma’ 10 to” 12 eruisors of var- ‘tous sizos are heading north to- day to Holp‘ Prince Rupert cele- brat its Goldon. Jubilee yoar, “Tho boats avo ‘contestants in the biennial International Cap-' I{tal-to-CapltalCrulsor race -on the: second: log ‘of tho prodictod log contest, , * Pe “Thoy’ ‘ara “oxpoctod. nt the Pringa. Ruport Rowing and Yacht lub flonts at.2 pam, Saturday. ° “According to Dr, J, A, Macdon- ald, socrotary-trensuror of the Prince Ruport: Row!ng and Yacht club.tho yossols, mannod by both Canadians and. Amoricans, loft ‘Pondor ‘Harbor yestorday., The host club for thio first log of the race was” tho. Wost Vancouver Yaoht lub. - “Lnat log. of the race will be from Princo Ruport to Juneau, Alngka oo. Howovor, in: honor of Prince Ruport'a oth birthday, tho wlalt- a ¢ orialaoysy wal not leave on the custom: In the past. ‘Aftor the..2 pm, arrival ‘and grootings by. City and yacht club officials, customs clearance and race time computations the rac- ors will bo treated to a ‘special Goldon, Jubilee reception, equal if not: surpassing tho original one In. 1080, featuring a gigantic smorgnabord and danco,. ,Bunday: has. boon: declared ‘a day: of rest and relaxation in Prince Rupert in. honor ofthe city's 60th birthday: and the race will not resume. until early Mon- day. morning, July, 25. °, Tt’ was on Wednosday, June 26,' 1028, ‘that. tho first. Oapital- to-Cnplinl intornationnl .crulsor race first. started from: Olympin, Washington: bound : for. Juneau, Thirty-two -yenra. ago,“ Prince Ruport Was: 8. breathing. point Ane outfitting : harbor. for, the vossels, and wag ‘Inter to. play nn ‘over-Inoronsing rolo in. the raco over’. tho yonrs, Stnday morning. as has been the] ~ International cruiser race’ boats. here Saturday ‘First’ prize. Yor that. “tirat. taco In 1028 was nr bag of gold nuggets, which 12 boats from Seattle and other Puget Sound yachts com- boing presented with the kays to tho Olty of Juneau; : Others In tho ‘firat race were the Dolphin II, Bolindor,, Maidic, Yankee Bandpiper, Yacht club in 1980 when the race was. divided Into logs and Princo Ruport bocnme a major. port of oall for the ‘crulsora, port trophies came: Tirat prize is the City of Princo Runort. trophy while tho second prize ja the famous Princo Ru- port Rowing and Yacht club tro- a hn a magnificent ploco of yandiwork, dosigned and. pro» Auteod hy tho Into John Bulger, poted, The. Doll. won the gold. and. nine other prizes as woll as]: ainco taken - over PY. BO. Packers Limited. « Boy, Winnifred, Wanderer, Kite. tiwako, Argosy, Lootn, rly and. ,George Bushby was commodore : of the Prince Rupert Rowing and. Yacht club’ this; year will. be but the racers will be greoted |. ve | by :Yacht' club. director. Hugh That was whon tho Princo. Rue Into bolng, iM Banaue Saturday igh, co “Tho. trophy. fontires ‘a modol crutgor in sterling ailver, a replica of a-cruiser named “Alice” after Alico, Pillaburg, tho. firat. white |: child: in: Prinvo Raport,.... . Third .prize: is’ the. Canadian Mish. and Cold - Btorago | trophy “This year. thero. Will: algo « be. Princo Rupert. Golden, Jubilee trophios. to. gO with, ‘the, other prizea. Dr, W.:.8. Korgin, gontimedors of the Princo Rupert Rowing and away: whon’: tho: cruisers arrive Mulr.and other mombors of tho oxocutive, Mayor P, J, Lostor will be'on hand: to. extond grootings from tho’ olty, Dr,’ R, G, Large, |. chairman 0 momber of the yacht club will bo | WEATHER | | ‘the | olty’s Goldon| Tubllee ‘committes. and a senior | River - 120. miles” north: of’ ‘here, today Nations: ‘Security. Se ene ‘and: put. it: before. ‘the. ae A ~ - Organization’: Of. American®. States: because. it:can ‘exert’ ‘more. * pressure:on. the- “vulnerable”? “member. nations of; he ‘inter- of * BGs. ‘firefighting “¢ s Monday alone ‘was -sstlmated t ‘than... 1,000;.men,: 35. “bulldozers and ‘five: aircraft, were. pabtling forest. blazes:. se Fourteen : fires, including. a. 3,~ 500-acre blaze at Harrison, ‘were being. fought ‘by more than _-200 |men. in- the Vancouver. district [and 16 fires. were mostly under control in’ ‘the Prince. George . dis- trict, ae ce : ve SCOROHING WEATHER. aed ‘Temperatures - ‘reached | wel “101 ‘|Monday, ‘only a: .few degrees. lower than the. 16-year record for, this, area set Sunday... The forecasters ‘see little hope obre- Nef in tho next. four or five-ddis. -A.fire 10. milles ‘southeasinof Blue River, ‘blew up” -Monday afternoon and. another,. 40 ‘nilles south. of: Blue. River, also sprend \rapidly, : : Besides Splus Creek, ‘fites. at Spences Bridge valuable, morchantable timber. re Bose . Driver fined * _ for carelessness - EBilert - “Marlow. Olsen: of: 3472 | geventh ‘Avenue East was ‘fined $25 by Magistrate BE, T. Applo- whaite «in. police. court; ‘today, ; ne without due care and - atton- on, so Olson ° ‘had plonded “not dialtty to the charge which arose early Juno 25, Witnesses Clifford Dahl and I, R. Hanson told court Oe any tho accused, drive hig. ear into a: parking sign, | hoe 8: , mo mnstor-of-coremonies . at tho m ow SERS. to The forest’ service:planned to have. 330 men at. thigfire-today and. it is.expected: the newly-ar-. - Seven firefighters - were - ‘forced \untit. 2 forest: fire ‘that, rushed : and Douglas © {Lake are, also. burning through after being found guilty of. driv. “Mostly. sunny. | “wednesday. _ © Little change in temperature, .... > Winds Iight. The low tomtghy and high: Wednesday, 48:0nd Say ad wy ‘