ir. GroncE J. Brown, R - ithe -Royal Canadian SeaCade . ifhe-. Prine Dawes retires. ‘has been .comman _ Winnipeg: in 1924, Lt.’ Dawes. From an. ordinary: cadet ° Officer. in 1943. when=he. 1951"he' helped. reorganize’ ‘officer, the: post-.he hel ‘ye ae Foyer 5h t 4 eR! - GENTRE PACKED” wee mos ‘election. A. standing-room:. only’ crowd’ Of more than” 1,000:jammed the: Civic Centre ‘auditorium for the _ Junior Chamber“ 6f "Co symposium to. hear. candidates debate everything from: the con- troversial . walter... bylaw=t0:° 9 , Jaycee -'national » vice- . PR: Woodside’. as rmanic:candi- dates were allowed to’ speak for. seven minutes, mayoralty candi < dates for 20 minutes’and a ques-— _. lion and answer period reserved _ for thelast, 9 ge Se ONE QUARTER) - Since one-quarter of the clig- ible voters attended the meet- ing and there is no count.on the number of words spoken, a re- port of the meeting, will be re- ~ diced, to ‘a summary of cach Speakers main points.” Alderman Norman Bellis said that he had. seryed on City Council for six years and was trying. for his seventh and cighth years. He ‘sald he had worked with a lot: of aldermen and believed they all -had worked Inthe Interests of ‘the city. He belleved originally that the gravity system. of water supply wits the best but had been con- vinced that pumping was cheap- er and best. for the city, , - As chalrman of the board of works, he was pleased. that the first stage of the sewer recon- struction was underway. and hoped to get on with the second stage, Darrow Gomez, a resident of the city for 44 years with the exception of the Second World War years, said he was a Rupert booster first and last. After six years on council he wanted to geb back on. He sald he was born near Shawatlan Lake and over tho past 10 yenrs had heard that the pipeline from the dam was in poor condition, . ON TOES . . "A good counell would have re- placed the pipe ns it wore out if it hnd been on its, toes," he said, | He snid he would vote “No” on the water bylnw and tf leat od would work to have the wator IWkUe Placed before the voters tn Vv referondum, He wanted vn com mittea formed to inveytigate the machinery tax, a _Miohael Krovger said that ‘in the yes he had spent on coune au the water issue had nlways hon on the ngenda, Roports nd avevoys ‘had made It clon, he snd, thnt the gravity syatony wia nat the MOKL .easonomlant, Alidox Nad also made tt aloar bhat the water in Shawatinn Lake wos anfo. The capital costs commanding officer of the. Ca ‘in’ 1936*he worked u **Commerce: | wil :| John West claimed that: the ptain ‘Cook Sea Cadet Corps of ea. ts, succeeding ‘Lt.. EB. Al L, Dawes": ight,’ itwas ‘announced today by W. E. Halliwell, presidént: of. ce Rupért ‘branch of the Navy League of Canada. Lt.: January 1,after 23 years of Sea. Cadet work. He ~ manding . Officer. since. September':1955. ‘Born’ in ~ came. to. Prince: Rupert in) 1928, x ( Ret) . a eft) “H as “been: appointed : p'to an executive .|° brow. Prince. "| by. gale: force. winds accompanied “| by heavy. rains with considerable |: Po eS poe can : l a ates. : jand ‘reported that winds yester- _The. biggest election meeting in. the memory of. t campaigners Jast nig host. ners last night sat for two and a half|With. gusts up hours while three mayoral Hours while thyee mayoralty eandidates and five ean. _didates for City. Council seats made’ their bids » for. Me the International Pacific he second. weekend in a ince: Rupert ‘was battered minor damage caused through- out the city 0 | . The. Department of - Trans- port's radio ‘station on Digby Is- day, averaged a steady 50 miles ‘per hour for:one one-hour period ip to.65 miles per hour: or-better..° © 00 ee »'-The:wind blew over. wind trees, tore shingles of roofs, battered ‘signs and «played havoc with lumber erably: less..than’ those for Stalling -a gravity. plan: + you Woodworth: Lake: He aid thous- ranid of “salmon goxu watlan Lake. to spawn and: die. He. said .the gravity.” system could be installed bit by. bit. “You don't have to do it all at once,” he said. He urged a “no” vote against the. water bylaw, — BUSINESS MEN City Hall.was in’ the “clutches the business group’ and the cof- fee: clubbers.” He said -their motto was “what’s good enough for us Is good enough for Prince Rupert.” He attacked the: City Councht for building a museum program only provided a “nct- work of sidewalks leading down- town to the business He said the aldermen on City Council detoured around. Sev- enth, Elghth > and Ninth Ave- nues because of the “poor light- ing and poor roads,” , : Mr, West also accused coun- ci] of driving Central Mortgage and Housing Corporation away by encouraging speculative bullders to come into the city, He said the “housing deal was not for the people of Prince Rupert but for the coffee club- bers," Lo . Alderman BR, G, Large, who Is not running for office but Who spoke on the water sup- Ply and distribution bylaw, ‘sald that the basle difference between the pumping system and the gravity system was that the former would mean a Water bill of $3 Instead of $3.25 for the gravity system. - ~ He sald Connell has never en- tertained the thought of ro- Inquishing its water rights and had been assured by the proyin- clal water controller that the alty would not lose its rights at oodworth Lake, in recommending the pumplng system and urging you to vote “yos" for the water bylaw," Ald, Large said, . Alderman George KE, Witty snid that the crowd, “the biggest T.have xeon tn 17 yoars of muni- cipal Wfe,” was caused by ine torest in the controversial water bylnw nd alao by, the Inst. Minuto ontry of Aldormanie can- dicate Arthur Murray, CHIDES MAYOR of tho pumping syalom ns ro. commended by the alty's con. Beha nab ent ge taf craic tn nae, 1nuH8 (00) @ “ven ereneomonewemem mene ~ORMES DRUGS LTD, Maco tho alork-comptraiior “dity ‘Ho chided Mayor, Lestor for hla pre-oloction claims in 1057 whon the mayor attacked the parka board, Uriticlzed, the nde nilnistrativo. staff and” claimed that clty hall staff had too much wuthority, Hos “What has ho'donoe " Alderman Hilla asked and thon anawored Nia own: questions “Nothing,” Me anid that the mayor had (Continued on page 7) sultant: engineers; were “consid. in- _ James: Prusky said. that. “if vote for the water bylaw you relinquish - your “rights. to ptoSha< of “the “Third Avenue crowd, and claimed that the. sidewalk |: section,” |’ ““T have no qualm of conselones around incompleted houses...” “-T.-B.- Black, general. manager of: .Northern: B.C. “Power. Com- pany blamed Ornamental trees in the power: failures ‘that occurred over the weekend. 2.00 00s. + ~. Longest. break. d.our blackout ‘in trees. blown.from a: garden in the 1000 block Second. Avenue West. He. said the trees were blown off the. bluff. straight..through ‘he NBCPC power lines. | In another u.cident the power was cut off'when the lid of a work box blew off and smashed two power pole. guy wires and slacked off.the wires so that they met and short circuited.: Another ornamental tree at Taylor Street: and Fulton caused trouble and another tree had to be removed at the end of Gra- ham Avenue. , . “Hf people’ would allow us to cut down to the ornamental trees that are close to the power lines, outages such as those yesterday would not oc- cur,” Mr. Black said. Despite citizens’ private thoughts on. the amount of water that soaked the city Fri- day and Saturday nights, Digby Island radio station reported that only 2.09 inches fell from 10 a.m. Friday to 10 a.m. today. Heavily hit by the gales’ was the Philpott and Evitt building on Second Avenue West which Jost roofing even as crews strug- gled to repair the wind-battered roof. Shell Sunset Service sta- tion sign was badly damaged when hit by flying debris. Throughout the downtown area, pieces of good, tarpaper and shingles flew across the streets as residents sought shel- ter from the. wind and rain, Canadian National Telegraph's and radio station. CFPR’s Ines “stayed In” most of the day, with oS : Published at Ganado’s Most Strategi oh PRINCE. RUPERT, B.C | Big drop reported | In pink escapement ») BELLINGHAM, Wash. (CP)—A 3 ser River sockeye catch next year of 2,000.000:fish- divided’ equally between Canadian and American fish-| ermen—has been forecast. Friday by the director‘i Salmon Fis as ific Port — And Key, BAY, DECEMBER’ .14; 1959- he Great: Northwest a Night Calls——B usiness: 6768; Editorial 6769 . aa S wi a a ae ge Rs oa dai ledly 7 WIOTORTA, Be CP)—A minimum Fr heries Commis- sion, .- OE TAS Lioyd Royal of New Westmin- ster, said the figure compares| with a total catch of. 3,390,000 | sockeye in 1959, He Was making} his ‘annual: report to’ the fishing]: industry, attended: here by moré|. residents:.gardens for:several of’ as. the..four-. ( "Section’2, which: was. caused, -Mr.: Black said, by. than 300 icans, \ listed. recommendations *" f opening and closing ‘dates ini ternational..waters. 2 i226? ee a healthy one for the cyc} In Canadian purse seiners | wilk-t ters * three weekly. ;14 and three days. w Aug. 14 to October 2... {amounting to 56. per ce the cycle year-19570005...¢. for the 1961 run,” he warned. He ]:"f°" "tp @a@ E- 1 building. blamed the poor escapement on into its new. $99,511 building j Sxeally increased efficiency of }over the weekend | gear, ' LAD « : Jail term for theft — Denny Herbert Dixon, 19, was sentenced to four months in jail this morning when he pleaded guilty In city police court be- fore Magistrate E, T. Apole- whaite to a-charge:of theft un- der $50. ' Police told the court the city’ youth had been found stealing a radio and electric shaver in the Green Rooms last Thurs- day... Also’ in police court this morn. ing was Richard Devison, 21, who was fined $10 after he pleaded guilty to driving a mo- tor vehicle December 12, while not In possession of a valid driver's licence, of Saturday morning before De- puty Police Magistrate R. A. Me- Lean, Willard George Anderson, was fined $25 after he pleaded guilty to boing a minor in pos- session of Nquor and $10 for driving a motor vehicle con. trary to restrictions on his driv- only minor breaks occurring, Two men Nold in eity jail on trial by judge. without Jury this mor In city police court on an additional c Marcel Dube, 32 and Joseph MoeInnis, 84, wore: remanded for preliminary hoarlng by Mngis- trate ET. Applewhnlte until Thursday. 0 Lo Tho pair, who. appeared’ ih court wong with Alon MoTavish ahirged with theft under $80, plonded not guilty, Tho three mon wore remanded for trial whe tl Wednosdny on tho shoplifting charga, mo Police sald that Dubo and Me- Innis were discovered missing at 10:15 Saturday night and wore roaaptured by two ROMP officers ut 2 nm, Sinday, Polleo snid Pair elects. trial by jud on charge of escaping er's lHeence, ge e e jail we of shop. lifting, cleated Ning when they appeared harge of oscaping custody, the ally lockup and. urged city rosidents to lock .tholr cars, a char Three candidates on air tonight. Tho (hree mayoralty. candi. dates, Mayor Py, Lester, Al- dormuin George Ve Willy and Arthur Murray, will he hoard tonight inv broadcast over radio station CFP: starting at 780 It was reported. todny, the pair wns found walking ong. tho ravirond tracks nonr Barrott Rock at the south ond of Princo Ruport harbor, . Tarllor Saturday ovoning, the ROMP had brondcast a warning Seo BIGGEST CROWN . Prince. Rupert’ has now gone 332. days Without a fatal traffic accident, . Canadians and’ Amer- A.report from the commission J * Royal said the’ four-year cycle: which includes: 1960 is. normally. very light, with the Chilko ‘River: the only main’ spawning area, A catch of 2,000,000 fish would. be- e-year, convention: waters west of .;William ‘Head,}:* ee permitted |. * ; three days fishing .weekly, from]: July 17 to August 7, aiid gill net=" ‘Nights. of fishing: [ie eee East. of William Head, ‘tour |2TARTED-AS. VOLUNTEERS days of fishing will be permitted |= ni ee ae weekly from June 27 to August eekly - from. In his review of the 1959 sal- t mon _season,:Royal reported that {'3 there.) was" as heayycrd¢elimes-irr pink .. salmon’ ° escapement, nt below 7’ “Phis: could’ be .a catastrophe |: . Move: _. Phe move-of th Tae 47 years. | Forty-seven yea which now sits empty. {ALSO CITY HALL | - hall and our present City: Ha was completed. who belonged to the carl teer brigade, fires were fought by a bucket Row and the first cart to carry the hose which was operated by manpower, m A box on a cart carried about 500 fect of hose. Ropes ‘at- tached to the cart were pulled by the flremen to get where they were golng, , i The Volunteer Fire Brigade'’s first meeting to discuss the fire« fighting needs of Prince Rupert was held November 20, 1908, As n result of that meeting H, D, Mektellar was appointed the first five chief, According to Mr, Parks the volunteers wore pald the princely sum Of $25 aw month and were given i place to sleep, ve “We were all young men in thase days and most of us single so having a pince to sleop was a ron] assot, ospecially as a bed was hard to come by in the mushrooming town.” ‘a In 1013, during Noll MeGinnis' tenure as fire chief, the fre fighters had the thrill of adding to their: equipmont: tho first: “aubomobile hose wagon’, It had Nard rubber lires and was powered by an alr cooled Seve grave engine, a TWO representatives of the company from which the “fire auto" was purchased camo to the elty to domonstrate, the new ecquisition, —: While loudod wi . aidermon, fire chiof and ‘sundry obhor dfflolais for its: preliminary run, Which ‘took thom: out to the ond of tho:bourd road overlook- ing Son) Covo", tho auto ran too ih the muyor, one wheel ovor, It didn't that. two men had escaped from hy a toe ’ t, . ” uw . é PR a EN, : ‘ ‘ rn ' rs ago, in 1912, the..fire department. moved into the :building on ' Fulton ° Street deserted and Spanking new then, it was oc- bu cupled, not only by. the firemen and their apparatus, but, on the top floor the business of the ‘up- coming city was conducted by the city fathers. This continued until the building then. under construction, opposite the he . The history of firefighting in Prince Rupert began before 1912 though, and many of the earlier fires are, remembered by a man y volun- J.J. Parks remembers when brigade from a shack on Rupert nearthe edge and hung with complotely and was soon rightods! a oe “We sa ; ‘ r . ,{ mishaps and accidents caused by the ‘narrow. plank roads: Mr. Parks, recalled one time it fell off the road and was balanced on an exposed root, with a man underneath it. He was rescued, t another. time one of the fire- men. was killed. oo, . Mr. Parks said the largest fire he. remembers was the one that destroyed, the Seal Cove lumber mill. The damage was about $90,000. . Rumors flew thick and fast in the early days as they do now. ‘Among the clippings at the fire hall is one dated 1912, just about the time the new building was ready for occupancy. Rumor had it the new fire hall was sinking, The acting city | engineer’ was called in for an inspection. Aftei inspecting the building he de- nied the rumours’ but .added for safety sake. he “recommended additional supports In the base- ment” 0 4 It wasn’t all work and no play for the early firefighters, On December 18, 1908 the vol- unteer fire brigade held its first annual ball, B, J. Bacon, who still makes ‘his’ home in Prince Rupert, was in charge of tho decorating, Ho and his helpers transformed the bare walls of the now post office. with ovor- greens and bunting, and every- ono had a wonderful time dane- Ing to the muste of a 20-plece orchostra from Motlakatin, OLOPIOODETEPAVONOIODOEDDENOP OOF Bingo draw Numbors N-42 und Gil wero drawn ‘today in the Elks “March of Dimes” house bingo: for tho B.C, Children's hospt- ta, . Other numbers drawn to dito wore Be18; Be; Belly G- HM; Gadhy P88; OGL) Nedd; O- W4; T2105. 8s NoSl; Neds Ge 82; Nol3; 1-19; No87; Geil and +27, : : Two new nimbers will be published tomorrow in the: Datly Nows, PPPPIOPS OPE LO HPF IOIPPRIOPDIE OOOH : ‘ Motorists driving on UWigh- way 16 hotween Prince Rupert wd Prings Goorge are urged to drive with cautlon and use chains or snow tires. ax U6 Inohos of new snow has fallen it Salvus, Between the, hours Of 8 aim, and & pin, tomorrow the highway will be closed. 10 miles wort of Torrage, opens, os holds a “everything upert Fire Department} ding. on First Avenue West} , is the department’s first -move. in _ ‘This. was-a. preview of several |. of. equipmen in the ceiling.» of 20 hours, on and off, pum a collapsed drain. Lag after ship VANCOUVER: @—-An Alaskan seaman. Friday. told the story of riding a halibut boat to her death on the rocks on Dundas Island, 20 miles north of Prince ‘Rupert. Art Blantchford, 26, of Pet- ersburgh, sald in a telephone interview life preservers prob- ably saved the Hves of the three-man crew of the Tellicum, ‘First we used them to get ashore, then we burned ‘them to keep warm,” Blantchford and Earl Backen of Senttle, the skipper, and Chris Lando'of Petersburg were delivering the boat to Its owner in Seattle. | oF Blantchford sald they left Pe- tersburgh Thursday aftemoon and had just entered Canadian waters ab about 11:30 pm. when the engine stopped because of a broken fuol line, high winds so we dropped an- chor right away, but we kept drifting toward: tho, rocks, The skipper told mo to send a distress call to. tha American Const Guard, while ho and Chris tried to got tho engine running, “T guess: thoy worked on the fuel Ino for about an hour, but couldn't fx It, so we decided lo Just walt It out. - “Those two hours wo spent walting for her to hit: the rocks was tho worst purt of the whole thing, 7 “T think tho thing we worried about most was.the chance that the bont ‘may hit shore under i cliff and wo wouldn't be able to get off, . “Wo finally hit—but in aknost 0 porfoot spot—on a kind of roof, Ing for 10 minute intervals overy hour, , oa Hbout 30 feeb from shore, \ | GLEAMING’ NEW. ‘FIREHALL, built at a cost of. $99,541: city’s firefighting equipment.. Fire’ Chief, Earl Beck _ city fire crew:started’ moving: Thursday and. complet nt over the weekend. Chief. Becker: said“ tod ds’ practically” shipshape -in new. : ui had since 1912. Pictures: of old Members -of. Prince: Rupert’s ‘fire a chance. to get settled into their new. |. West, when the first-major fire eall‘ca . Firemen were called.out at 1:05 p.m: Sunda home ‘of D. J. Wick,"became a casualty of yeste aa gale, :-The wind, ‘blowing down the’ chimney, blew flame out - of ‘the stove’with such intensity that the floor caught. fire, = burned a hole in the floor, raced up a wall amd burned: Fire Chief Earl Becker, estimated dama sudden blaze at between $300 and $400. . While fire calls have been few, the ‘the weekend has kept firemen pumping of the ‘building at the corner of Second Street, Fire Chief Becker said the crews “We wore in rough seas and. . department: me ing: a rday’s fierce s ‘hole. ~ me UE EY ge “caused .by the steady, rain. OVer + out the basement. « Avenue and’ Sixth’ had put in a ‘total ~ ping out water backed up‘ from — PILIOLSETOOPISLSSTSOOLIDLOOIIDOCEOODOLOLDS Three-man crew safe Ste Mag, we a OR oe Vols breaks up. “We each grabbed’ a: 1ifé"pte- server and alr mattress and one by one we went. over:the’ Bide. “We scrambled along thé reef to the shore and found a ravine and we all crawled under“a, ‘big log. AE ai: “We tried to start a fire bit couldn’t find any dry wood: so we, decided to bum our life preservers, ek ea “Through the night. w@" took turns going to the shore to. Jook for rescuers and finally ‘nbout - 8:30 p.m, we saw the Howay. (a - Canadian department . of? fish~ erles vessel dispatched ...from Prince Rupert by Search.-and Rescue) Just off shore, | si: The men were pleked up about fu. hour later by the Cltryg,: an American Coast Guard ‘utter from Ketchikan, whon thé:\Ho- Way found it Impossible to: got close Lo shore, Blantchtord' sald. Soarch and Roseve hoadqiiar- ters al Vancouver snid: Telday night the Tellleumhad broken Upon the rocks and was aacom- plete fogs, ae WEATHER— Cloudy with frequent show- crs ‘Tuesday, A ttle cooler: Southwest winds 20° and southorly winds 26 Tudsday. Low tonight and high Tues~ ‘Cay 38 and 46, ehh TIDES— . »ovteany ent ‘ ' Seg Tuesday, Dov, 15, 1980 (Pacific Standard Thiie) Weim. High. wu. 01598 10,8sfeot 13:18 21.4 feot LOW ways OTB * BL foot ~ 10384 * 8.8) £00b ee colpper ahah rey PF firehall:on First ‘Avenue iy . . y wien the.