Te eae, AOC ar ae eer Grab sei elee a Slee eg ot bie een ano Fact t : EF cuddly pooches. had just .en- , Bo-Me-Hi pupils ‘of. probation: and. .that “he “ymbia School Act. 2°. *. t * Me Le PUP CONTENT—With the. weather outside so frightful and..the fireside so delightful, Telephone 6767. - - .F pups bed down: for the after- noon alongside the cozy hearth at their home in London. The. Jjoyed a fine dinner. Board expels . | unsatisfactory — : Four ‘of six Booth Memorial High school students who were placed on probation .at school have shown sufficient ‘improve- ment that they have been placed back in good standing, principal L.F. Lucas told District 52 school; - board last night. jHe.said that two. other: stud-!. effort to. comply with’ the -terms|. md pelled under’ thé.” appropriate section of the new British Col- “Mr. Lucas said that probation | followed unsatisfactory. results on November reports and that a review of results of the.Jan-. uary’ examinations and of effort} and attitude. during. the period |. of probation was made with the staff concerned. ’ DISTINCT IMPROVEMENT “Two of the pupils concerned have improved distinctly in both attitude and results,” Mr. Lucas said, adding that “we are pre- in: good standing, with the re- quirement in one case that ex- tra practice at school be devoted to a weak subject and with the understanding in the other that progress will be reviewed at Easter.” ° ATTITUDE BETTER He said In the other cases where progress had in some res~ pects been unsatisfactory but| 79 in a chartered Maritime Cen- application appeared to have| tral Airways DC-4 returning from England. been good and attitude acccp- table, “we feel that internal ad- justment in program will offer na suitable solution and allow iMfting of the probationary sta- tus if the students concur with the changes proposed.” He said that the two remain- ing students would be wasting thelr tinie in school and that “thelr negligent attitude has a detrimental effect on the tone of their classes and the school. “Our recommendation in cach case is that the provisions of Section 326 WW) of the Schoul Act regarding prohibition of at- tendance be implemented.” The school board concurred. Jamon anmvervmnenaea erioeeaneracaterh ett mie snake tude et falls slightly OTTAWA @ -- Living costs were shaved durtag December for the second consecutive month, redyciye the CONSUME? price index by one-tentn of a 4 point to 26.) on Jan. 1 from 1262 on Dee. §, the bureau of statlsies reported today 2.0.9.9 estetatatetantatatetetetatetere’erony | 'ruesday night recatied ‘high’ tolls ‘in’ crashes in - years’ past... which involved a military plane; —occurred June - 18,1953, when {i29 US. servicemen perished in an air’ force C-124 Globemaster near Tokyo. | ” disaster occurred over the Grand Canyon June 30, 1956. A United} Airlines DC-7 and a Trans World Super-Constellation collided and crashed. to the rocks below with 128° killed. pared to place these pupils back Pane oreial. in the history of Aug. 14, 1958, when a KIM Royal Dutch Air Lines plane disap- peared over the Atlantic with 99 aboard. death tolls: 1950, 80 soccer fans returning from a Dublin game. ‘GRIM TOLL IN SKIES. ‘on tragic Death took a heavy toll Tuesday. Shortly before midnight, an American Air- lines plane with 73 persons aboard crashed into the East River at New York City. -The dead may total 65. } ; “Aviation’s highest death toli— The worst commercial airline The most disastrous single air- aviation occurred Other big crashes and the Cardiff, Wales — March 1, Issoudin, Que.—Aug. 11, 1957, Off New Jersey—June 20, 1956, 14 In a Venezuelan Air LINES Super-Constellation bound for New York. PRIA LODO ROL ES OOP REO EDO DO CIOVIOPOON Liberal warns against wide power for labor VICTORIA 0—Oak Bay Lib- eral Archie Gibbs warned the Legislature Tuesday that It might be too fate to control the enormous power which labor has gathered for itself. We said the ferry strikes last sunmmer “gave the people a new concept of the power whieh can be wielded by a small number of men.” “People are beginning to question that right to so much power,” he added, Mr. Gibbs sald the power of unions had enabled them to “pressure” wage agreements which. he felt, had been Injur- jous ta the nation’s economy, That was never intended by the electorate when it voted for labor jegislation,” he sald. POPOPOPPOSI OPP OOCPOOE DOD OOOODOOS ! By Fhe Associated Press - . : ; ne 1 M on #0 t i anks AMONG 22. SL ed into a snow-covered field. Helly, 22.-0f Lubbock, Tex. force base cracked: up in a low- lying area ‘near the field. its; three: crew members were be- lieved to have been killed. . And, high above the North At- : lantic.a Pan-American jet clip-'§ per with 124 persons aboard was! cruising serenely toward New) York when suddenly it plunged | toward the ocean. Almost 30,000; feet later, less than a minute from disaster, the. huge plane levelled off, and made its way safely to Gander, Nfid. Among the passengers was actor-dancer |: Gene Kelly. {$593,400 repair, improvement: inj og: ; , poe CIE. avalic ole ‘the company for: . and extension. program was well | ant a ne “ae ¥ for, Pee Way a fie deofnd : es | ik ling : un Orway. : . Oy 6 That << he OF < fi , z . _f crash day oo A from skies over the U.S. d Near. Mason Cliy, Iowa, a light . Killed were singers Buddy. Published at Canada’s Most Strat oo . | PRINCE RUPERT, \B.C., WEE ing unit for the Northern, British Columbia Power} Company’s drydock plant : : 13250,000 is expected invApril, T. B. Black, general! - l manager of NBCPC said today. | - I NBC Power Company’s promised. inean of | The Daily News, 2 query raised iat Monday night’s Chamber iCommerce meeting as to whal lgctivers se: Sa a a firm promises made by the ) gaa ns eapecied in April. inging stars killed “e-=%- | is 1g Gee . jer Company's “promises” wes. ; oe : raised by Hector 5S. Cobb, who ‘asked the chamber to learn if) “more power de availabie? whether there was any activity down ai the dry- dock where the be installed? and what was being power and if it goes out if az- fects me a lot.” Mir. Cobb said. vestigate. Dally News, bir. Black said: lic Utilities Commission handed ,down NBC Power an increase a egic Paci ESDAY, FEBRUARY 4, V9S9 de fic Port — And Key to the G veat Northwest “Might Colls—Business 67 ORR ene nme tg , ee ole f ¢ 7 ¥ . Be He tie tein Bak i wee al t ! _- YECTCOrs 4 eo nO A all a el cope bade , aml ow ¢ e . 4 mae eg oa : = no:supply problems - ‘Delivery of an additional diesel-electric generat- City should hav wk Bas J te ‘to be installed at a cost of}. Mr. Black also said that the: : a $500,000 was madei He was. answering, through lditional. diesel until was ‘placed. OF (Ex. wglamd in Movember: 1952 and! _@ That under an omer from the PUC the company could. mot Cismantle His two steam turbine} units until March, .sinmee they @ That installation of a sec-. end hydro unit. at. Feil River.i promised when in proved econ- omiceliy sound and when ihe!. gemand made. it “economically { eae fad e 39 aytor - ‘ one at the Falls River dam?” dered Geliniely VERE COD “T am z 4 éted opps ee , 3 a substantial user of; » That... $190,909 of the $323,408 five-year .pregram of : | and expansion bad already | The question of the NBC Pox~ had been made: extra diesel nit was when if was going’ to The Chamber agreed to in- -TABGEY. FOR. IRE E—A jet. drone, terest ioc Bike Hetentes Se a be fired Churchill, Man, dering the joiat [io wate US.Cansdian army exershe Ope! esation Srow-Jet rests onder thome go: the wimg of a Lancaster tember jest before. takeoff! The Far rissiies to be fired from PS - In an interview with The! n allotted and. was in the / : process of being spent. @ That shorily after the Pub- 1958, the sum of» its. decision granting . the |, ing + hie, Valens, 17, of Lo Ja B-a7 bomber: + y NEW YORK if—A new Anier- ican Airlines plane carrying 73 persons crashed into the fog- cloaked East River just before midnight. Sixty-five were fear- ed dead. . Police said. cight survivors were in hospitals, 19 bodies were recovered and 46 still were mbs- ing. The plane carried a crew of five. Nine survivors were plucked from the icy, rain-spattered water in the Cirst hours of rescue operations, but one died hours later in hospital. Swirling currents, winds up to 40 m.p.h. and the rain hampered searchers who hunted for bodies in water littered with luggage and chunks of the plane wreck- ange. The missing persons includ- ed Beulah Zachary, producer of the Kukla, Fran and Ollie television program, NEW AIRLINER The airliner. a Lockheed Elec- into service about a month ago, was relying on Instruments to land in the fog and ght drizale at La Guardia airport at the end of a no-stop flight from Chi- cago, The plane leit Chicago at 1 p.m. (MST) as Might 320 and was due at La Guardia in New York City two hours later. American Alriines aald the plane crashed at 9:54 (MBT), It plunged into the river about a wile north of the airport and a mile east of Rikers Idland, The inland was the scene of another major alr disaster a!- landing at Little Rock, Ark., air, tra four turbo-prop model, put; were fewer breaks and b: : Mithis winter was because of the fiimprovements already mace to ithe transmission Hme, Mr. Black: However, he said that af no approach a dangerous peak load} which plas transmission prod-. lems caused a major problem for} 10 days iast winter. Given good weather, the city should have no power probd- tems for the remainder of the time this winter did the City; i, Skeena River Pile Drivi Sie Company. RCAF is Providing erone SuppaTt. Mr Black” casi that during SIX MONTHS FOR, ASSAULT ilings, w. Applewhaite of stealing pilings: Lioyd Saunders Wilson. 34, was; i given six months in jai! after be ( was comvicied of ‘George Law of lon January 25. assaulinig + Lanse GER of the million dollar Playland at Exhibition Park is Jerry Craw- shaw, one of Canada’s best known carnival showmen. His appointment was announced by the President of Burrard Amusements Limited, opera- lors of Playtand. Mr. Craw- shaw, 36, was born and educa- ted in Vancouver and was onc time Manager of Royal Can- adian shows, which has play- ed cities and towns of BC. for several years. Socreds survive confidence vote winter, : spent improving thronghou; the city, of which. 317.00) nad been spel on the Eleventh Avenue subsiation, Mr. Black said. The new transform- er and switch house. to be con, creased capacity and lines. He said the Dodge Cove with electricity was lalso part of the company’s ex- pansion program. At least $20,000 had been spent, on new trucks and equipment to} improve facilities and expedite | Prepair work. “We are spending a lot of; q * a Sse money and have a lot more to spend to continue our program,” Mr, Black sald, adding: i VICTORIA (CPi—British Cole) “We are Keeping our prome~ umbia's Social Credit govern. | es. A total of ST0.000 has been of Steena River Pile Driving facilities Company told the court three low pilings aierat 2 feet long were strapped ta his pile- ‘driver on January 23 tur were ‘riissime the next day. nected up shortly, will mean in- l ehaite | ipdiings ffoating in the harbor power COMPAR yng was already working on & feed?T i grormers Fishertes at Port Ed-| ine to the airport and supplying | yard jing George Low with a whisky arthur Kristmanson, eo-oermer that McKay tole Magistrate Apatie- that he Rad feamd thee, wa them to Nelson Boh MeKay and Wino] pieaded mOF guilty 16 the : charges. Wilson pleaded inruagh counsel W. ON. Peale. Yesterday Wilson denied strc bottle, on January 15. He told the court that after he and Loretta Wesiey had easem in) ‘ the Grand Cafe ard were pay-) ing their ball, George Low ra che i charged wth an attempt ta strike the woman’ Low. month jail term yesterday on Walter McKay was sememoed ;-—— — — to two years in jail after he Wes yhite she was arguing abont the} Y permemner (rad oot I did sos Vurcle across the face with ot. i groamd Wien kicked hom bs the lew and the woenan was karking ) Lacrw. a. charge of Wissen said thai after he and he women sent outside, Loew t alowed him along other Chinese mer . on Boat: 3 |, Stwiects. whe. vzy7 forciasch wind ea% their immehes fe the — : 3 a ge i henlen ES —\at the ‘stm was handed 2 six-{ for 2 po ‘ With two! gsriving . days. are perunitied to came imo ee Reem % . there by choice, not became taey ‘fare locked oat of SOE DOO. aE sumient’s ee : a wey the : | arc te 2a af & = 5 were. thes oc rainy days a ° iemeh should te Oromeht te. seine... “Retmalhy, i practice, pets “They backed me up te the im-} ibe beeezewar. lessection of Seeond