WO ce : , VOL. XLVI, No. 163_ Telephone 6767 “Volume of home permits shows | increase in July — Value of building permits: issued in. Prince Ru- pert during the’ month of Joly for construction of _ homes showed a sharp increase over that of the same - period in 1958, J. C. Ewart, building inspector, re- “TORONTO. (@-_General Man- eager. J. R. White -of Canadian - National Telegraphs. said today the ‘communications network has all but concluded a multi- million dolar real with the Uni- ted" States defence’ department for a micro-wave system running up the Alaska Highway. The deal, expected to be worth about $25,000,000, would be the} biggest yet between Canadian= industry and United States de- fence. The 600-channel microwave system is designed especially for thé Ballistic Missile Early Warn- ¢ ing System base under construc- tlo. ih Alaska. Remoyty WORLD t NEWS BRIEFS. ~ ported today::.. “Mr. Ewart said. that during: ast: : ‘month * ‘he: issued” “auttotal. “Of pt ; building: permits (valued: at«$148'- -(926:Of these,$115,500 worth were : for ‘new residential homes. >: The $115,500 is $52,450 over last year’s residential permits which totalled “$63,050... |. However, the total value of permits sold by the city during July. this year is $47,884 less than in July of last year. So far in the seven months of 1959 there has been $1,125,342 worth of building permits issued. At ‘the end of the. seven-month period in 1958 the value of per- mits totalled $788,173. The in- crease this year is $337,169. VICTORIA ‘i~-The provincial education department, faced with an anticipated shortage of teachers, sent out a call Thurs- ~ back day to former teachers to go into the profession, i bition cut. the night . ee at . Vancouver. The- exhibition. “g underway tomorrow with. official,opening by Prime: Minis er: ’ Diefenbaker. A concert. by: massed armed - services: bands .wi highlight the evening program. The exhibition’ runs rieht through to September 7, four days longer than’: normal. : Oriental- Pasta PNE VANCOUVER (CP)—The Pacific ‘Nation’ fix: hibition. is. shooting for a million this year “with an "OF ( y that: ‘may: ‘bring’ fteinto™ “third “ptade among the conitinent’s agricultural fairs. og. Railway union. plans demands MONTREAL )—Ninety union leaders met. today to draft.new contract demands on Canada's major railways. The general.conference com- mittee of the 15-union “non-op” group was. discussing possible wage Increases for 30,000 rail- way employces across Canada. “We hope to finish today,” sald Frank Hall, chief negotia- tor for the big railway union term, 2 Harry Truman, comedian team up me NEW YORK (AP)—I ormer pr esident Harry ‘Truman and comedian Jack Benny will te am Up upe ain, this time onl sonny’ s television show Oct, 18 via the CBS network, The announcement Thursday aids part of the program featur We the pair will be video- taped athe Truman Memorial Library In Independance, Mo, There was no mention of what they will do, AL n benefit coneert of tho Kansas City Symphony in March, 1058, Truman conducted a por- Hon af the concert and Benny} played the violin, Cuban boycott. : .HWAVANA, Cuban (Reuters) ~ " he Cuban Workers Confeder- vgion Pharsday night ordered: doak workers not to handle ships fiving the flags of Nicar-: vgn, Paraguay and the Do- minioan Republic bocnuse these aptintviss have -“dletatorial governments.” The con todorne (tin alse banned the operation at; bie (elophone and cable sere vied hetweon Cohn and the Do- niintenn in Foun wr founders “MANIA | (Mmm 99 Philippine Wifer-island motorship Pilar HWisank in stormy wartorn off (he northarn const of Palawno Adland, and reporty today indl- outed 100 persons may jiave ars “ORMES | ' DRUGS. LTD. Ki DIAL Age i ni page atti Babs A EB i di OT Vas. 8a ee ES Nieto a died, The Phillppine navy and tir force faunched rescue oper- tions in what could be one of the country’s worst peacetime mitvitime disasters. Sculptor dies LONDON ‘apse Jacob Epstein, the noted sculptor, died at his London home Wednosday night. 'The death was announced today, ‘Mpstein, one of the most cone troversial figuros in tho world of art, was 78. Born on New York's oast side to poar Russian-Pollsh most of his adult) Wifo and was a naturalized British subject, Ho was knighted tn 1054, — Chinese warning TORYO (1—Conununist China warned today that “serious con- soquonces” will follow if United Nations observers are sont to Laos, whore Red insurgonts have been battling government troops, Chinn ehallenged Britain to vecept the Soviet. Union's pro- posal to re-establish the Intorna- Wonal armistica commilssion for Tinos, and Britain already lave re Jectod tho Rod proposal, Rockecfoller weddin NEW YORK (—Governor Nol- kon A, Roackofellor of Now York loft nbonrd a Kh-LeM Royal Dutch urlinor for Norway Thuraday niaht to attend tho wedding Snt- wrday of his son, Steven, to Anno Mario Rasmussen, formor Not worian mald tn the. Roakefellor household, it See tek eb fete tae Rabe oil Re ie be, Immigrants, he lived abrond for! Tho Laotian governmont| vos \ Steel layoff WINDSOR, Ont. (v—The 32- day-old steol strike In the US.,, pleture Thursday, as Canadian, Bridge and Engincoring Com-] pany Llmited, Iaid off 85 men oul of a total staff of 842, Tests for nurses WINNIPEG (OP)—~Intensive personality and aptiude tests are being given for the first time to girls entering the Vic-’ torin Hospital Sehool of Nurs: ing hore, Tho oximination. for the po- Lontial- class of ursos starting in September Involves tests of 20 girls on psychology, apti- tude, reading - ‘comprehension and personality traits, «Labor rally: at Terrace The Kitimat-Terrace Labor Counell will hold an “open Inbor faruny" at 8:30 pm, today In tho Terrace Clyic Contro, Prank Howard, MP for Skeonn, And I, P, O'Nonl, sectatary of tho B.C, Fedorntion of Labor, will bo prosont, Council Beorctinry Monty Alton sald. today, The purposo of the mooting, ho sold, 44 to Inform tho public of the local atrike altuntion and of labor probloms lu 3.0. in gonoral, {tract more than 100,000 through reached Into Windsor's industrial MW Princo is aurtoatod, . | “PRINCE, ‘RUPERT, BC FRIDAY, AUGUST 21, Be, . A. far-eastern village, ‘depict- ing architecture of and contain- ing representative exhibits from 955 oS ‘vic ry..since, leading Newfound- Smallwood put, new life. into the Japan, China, Indonesia, Burma, Ceylon. and India, - is the ‘fair’s | centrepiece. . Focal point for its theme—. “Salute to the Orient’—is a 110-' foot-high Cambodian pagoda, which towers over the 174~acre' exhibition grounds with an au- thentic oriental splendor, | On Saturday, PNE authorities hope a shortened but improved calibre parade and the presence of: Prime Minister Diefenbaker in opening ceremonies will at- the gate of the exhibition grounds on. Hastings Street. in Vancouver’s east end. HOPE FOR MILLION By the time the l4-day fair ends on Labor Day, Sept. 7, they hope 1,000,000 persons will have pald their 50-cent fee to enter, the grounds — an entry that: would rank the PNE third among | North American agricultural, fairs, behind: the Canadian ‘Na- tlonal Exhibition in Toronto and that in Dallas, Tex, This year's PNE is the longest since the falr began here in 1910, one day longer than last year’s speclal centennial program ‘aud four days longer than it had been in previous years, The program is tho biggest in the history of the exhibition, in- cluding a battery of fashion shows and a sports schedule ranging fram track and fold to darts, Tt matntains its agricultural Navor with beef and dairy cattle, swink, gonts, sheep and poultry vying for championship honors iiithe show rings; a falr-long horse show that has. attracted ontrics from tho Prairios and as fny away os Mexico; and a dally horse-racing praegram, Oe] ‘Guitar stolen from funfair Robert Austin. Brown of no ftxod address was romandod un- tl] August 28 when ho appeared In elty pollco court: this morn- Ing on a charge of theft. « ROMP sald that Brown stolo a guitar from Coleman Fluet of the Gayland Showa, Auguat 19. Brown ploaded guilty, Arrest ordered VATICAN..OITY (M—~ A high Vatican source today anid Mal- tinn govornmont londors might Inour automatic ‘oxcommunian- tion from the Roman Onthollt Church if the archbishop of Port n "easy victory { for: the gressive — Conservatives “failed ial premier who scored| Completely.” The party still h. - successive -election| formed the ‘ovposition. “Actually lero party?” A second Conservative member of the. last house, Rex Renouf, “was defeated by John O’Dea of the United. " Newofundland | party. | The UN. party, making: its first election try, ‘elected, three mem- bers but. lost its founder, ‘James D. Higgins. Mr. Higgins, who with A. M.. Duffy quit, the Conserva- tive party, to back Premier Sniall~ .wood’s resolution. condemning! Ottawa’s decision to end the spe-| cial” financial aid ‘to the: prov- ince in 1982; was beaten by Con- servative™ James Greene. in St. John’s East. : LABOR UNSUCCESSFUL A drop in the popular vote of the Liberal. and * Conservative ‘parties went to- the splinter. UN and . Newfoundland: Democratic ‘parties...The 'UN, ‘created’ by .the|. Newfoundland ' Federation of La- bor and backed by the CLC, fail- led. to elect any of. its 19 candid- ates. In labor union areas Lib- eral candidates received big ma- land into Confederation 10, ‘years ago... . PARTY STANDINGS | CE Here are the party standings: : 1959 1956 | Jorities..-. Liberals .. 30 32 Ed ‘Finn, jr., ND. ‘party leader, PCS vec ccccccec cet eeeeece 3 4 |was beaten in western Newfound- United. Nfld. party ™. 720 0 land’s Humber West by. Labor. Doubtful oo... 1 _ 0 | Minister Charles. Ballam. ' Total. datas estes eee tees caren ete ees 36 36 ND candidates, pledged to re- . | present’. resolutions on highway (only poll in which Mr, : PROVINCE “BETRAYED” “Canadians are noted for their tradition of fair play,” the jubi- lant premier said in a victory statement. “It is very strong in Canada and we want to arouse the people of Canada to the fact that Newfoundland has been be- trayed.” The voters “answered Mr. Smallwood’s plea to wipe out the. “present” Progressive Conserva- tive opposition in the legislature by defeating the two members sitting as PCs at dissolution. Mr, Smallwood, who left the Bonavista North seat he- held since 1949 to challenge Conserva- tlve Leader Malcolm. Hollett in St. John's West, won easily and | was the first In the cabinet to be re-elected. He outpolled the PC leader 4,347 to 2,298, District returning ofticer Erie Seymour said the Small- wood did not get a majority was a home for aged. Hollett’ sald the premier’s attempt to eliminate the Pro- scind controversial legislation passed during the IWA strike against the Anglo-Newfoundland Development: Company, lost by wide margins. even in areas where the: labor vote was con- sidered strongest. Supporters of the premicr in the strike won handily. Mr. Hollett urged Premier Smallwood in an after-election statement to try “to co-operate more fully with the Diefenbaker government.” He said both pol- Itical leaders should “bury the hatchet and fight for Newfound- land,” OP PPDI DS OPP ED OPOPOLIVODROPDOOOHEO: Vote comparison . The local delegates to the’ con- ‘yention, at which Prime Minister | Diefenbaker and Governor W- A. Egan- of Alaska will speak, will construction and the’ proposed ceived. a personal. invitation ito: attend. the ‘convention, will: ‘Tep- resent the city- ; “An exhibition ‘of 16 displays will. be among.the many attractions at the convention.. This has. been © arranged: in: the Kitimat: YMCA: The City of Prince Rupert and the- Chamber of. Commerce here: are jointly entering a commercial. and natural resources show. °* This will include items from. the Prince’. Rupert. Fishermen’s Co-Operative Association and the’ Watson sland Mill of the Colum : bia. Cellulose. Company Limited.. The Prime Minister. will’ give | : a luncheon address Monday. * ‘He and Mrs. Diefenbaker are due“to arrive in Terrace’ by air at 11 a.m. Monday and ‘proceed ‘|. to: Kitimat ‘by: ground transpor:, tation: ‘They are due to: ‘leave Kitimat at 4 p,m. the same day: for-Ter- ‘race, where the Prime Minister’). --. will speak. at’: ‘the: annual: meet- ing“of -the: ‘Progressive-Conserva~"|: tives Skeena. Federal Riding as, sociation. Ottawa Thursday. He was sched- uled to speak in Lethbridge: to-. ‘day and open the Pacific Na- tional Exhibition in Vancouver tomorrow. | Special guests include five con- suls: Austria, John R.. Hecht; Federal Republic’ of Germany, H. F. Liebrecht; Japan, M. Tan- lipines, G. F. Bisnar; and United States Consul- General, Hayden Raynor. J. E, Winston: Mayor of Kale chikan; Mayor L. N. Williams Jr., Petersburg Alaska; Harry Pedrini, Chairman of the Vil- lage Council, Terrace; Reeve M. E. Gooding, Kitimat; L. Reid, United Kingdom Trade Com- missioner, George McKinnon, Western Divisional Manager, Shell Ol Company of Canada Limited; J. S. Kendrick, Aluminum Comp- any of Canada, Limited; R. F. Ellis, ENis Airlines; J. M, Jack- son, Assistant General Manager, Bank of Montreal, W. J. Wind- rum, Supt. B.C, District, Director of Northern Affairs; -H. Keetch, Regional. Director, Pacific Re- gion, Unemployment Insurance Commission. | Others to speak at the con- vention include R. W. Bonner, Canadian Press Copyright 1959 1956 Lib 71,048 58 75,883 66 PC 81,705 26 35,375 31 ND 8209 7 — UN 10,587 8 —_ Others 1720 1 3,/80 3 Totals 123,288 114,438 PIPPPP DOP PPPL ODE LI DPS LODODPE OPPO: a PEAKS OF SOCKEYE, PINKS RUNS OVER Skeena, Nass catches ° ‘tapering off” Fishing on the Nags and Skeona rivers Is “tapering off,” the Dopartmont of Fisherlos ro- ported hera today. An official sald peaks of the sockeye and pinks ‘runs have both passed although the cohoo wwe chum runs are still to como n, Ho anid it Is still too enrly 10 make an assessment of tho sonson's fishing, CATCH AVERAGES | : Catch averages Thuraday. for various fishing aroas were ra- ported as follows: Aron 3%, Nass (average brsod on olght soiners—-) sockoyo, 2) cohoo, 234 pinks, 44 chums, Aron 4, Skeona, North Bound- ry (nvornga based on aoven gillnottors)—-11 sockoyo, 18 co- We inf Prince :' Rupert has how gone 218. days hoe, 43 pinks, 2 chums. | Area §, Principe Channel sec- (ion (Ot gillnetters)—-0 sockeye, 33 cohoe, 61 pinks, 7 chums. | Area 8 Ogden Channel soc~ tion (5 glilnetters)—10 sockeye, 10 cohoo, 66 pinks, 3 chums, (10 seinors)—404 fish, approximately in samo proportions, Aron 6, Butodalo, Whale Chan- noleWright Sound section (70 pillnottorg)—-12 sovckoyo, 22 co- hoo, 4 Opinks, 5 chum; - (4 saline Crs)—J0 sockoyo, 49‘ cohoo, 606 pinks, 20 chums, Aron 7, Bolla Bolla, Mathoson Ohannel section (1 gillnotter).— 2 sockeyo, 4 pinks, 103 chums; (8 solners)—-14 cohoo, 235 pinks, 63 chums. Area, 17, Seaforth and spillor channels (8 “gllinottors)—14 | cohoo, 17 pinks, 42 chums, Aron 8, Bolla.’ ““Coaln, Vishor and Fitzhugh sdlinds (160 gill- chums (figures: unavailable for nattorg) Il cohoo, 30. pinks, 12 solnor catches), without a fatal tratti accident, “s y oh 1 Ah Aron 0, Rivors Inlot (47 gill. notiora) ~~". ‘Hoakoya, 10 ‘eohoo, | ~ y Awe poke NAS, A gb bi hed A, be provinctal minister of Industrial ‘ ' 17 pinks, 1 chum. Area 10, Smiths Inlet (12 gill- netters)—25 chums, 20 pinks. The department sald that, In the Queen Charlottes, only Cop- per Bay is boing fished at pres- on Seven solners pogan ishing the area Wodnesday, Total catch for tho boats was only 300 fish, Thursday, four solnors that re- mained at Copper Bay caught a total of 1,400 fish, all in the morning, One sot ylolded O75 pinks, The official sald fishing at adding that the salmon run {s probably late. AREA CLOSURES ment on area closuros: | Aren 84, Nass! closed from 6 aa soe 30 until 6pm. Auge us under Skeona Salmon Mannge- mont Committes and therefore will oloso at 6 p.m, Wednesday next: week until other ‘notion La AbahdabahANch Vdd Pd Vw het, abe; - Belgium, J. Davaux; Phil-. prot OvINCTAT, 1 LIBRARY. VICTORIA, Be Cc. ; Editorial 6769 /_ PM to address. ‘Trade Boards raily A strong. delegation. headed by President. Le M. || Greene and Past-Presidéent J.T. Harvey.will represent’ ‘|| the Prince Rupert: Chambei: of Commerce.at the 28th’ annual convention of the: Associated Boar ds of. Trade ae || of Central B.C., due‘to open. Sunday at Kitimat. } Marine Highway ferry to Alaska. .& Mayor P. J.. Lester, who has re-.§ Mr. and Mrs. Diefenbaker. left: a ne. PRICE TEN ‘CEN rs EAR e ae Development, ‘Trade: and: Corti? -merce;. Fraser W. Bruce,: ‘presi- dent .of the’ Aluminum. Comp- any of Canada; Governor Egan, ewes: Minister P., AL Gagiar- di.” ‘to 12 ‘p.m. Company officials: “said those. planning ‘to’. visit the .smelter : should not: - take their watches with ‘them as these -might’ be-— come magnetized. Cameras will : not. be permitted, within” the plant fence... * Arthur Ogilvie, . “the. city’s Chamber of Commeice industrial ‘committee - chairman, ‘left this” be distributed by the Prince Rup- ert. Tourist Bureau.. PM to address Terrace meet Prime Minister . Diefenbaker will visit Terrace Monday,.after . a luncheon address earlier in the day at the Boards of Trade con~ vention in Kitimat. The prime. minister will be guest speaker at the annual meeting of the Progressive Con- servatives’ Skeena Federal Rid- ing Association. The meeting will be held at ‘4. p.m. In the Terrace Civic Audi- torium, A spokesman. for the as- verbs 4 Copper Bay is “very scratchy,” | Ho gavo tha. following slates}: Arona 3X and ay, Naga: ati} Aigh cece 03333 10,0 feat ose" TEBE 20,2 “foot Low suesouerey 09: a0 ’ 4,2: faat ‘ | ‘ee vo ,22300 49. feo, bE RE AMAA ah soclation said all will be wel- come to attend the meeting, - i is considered necessary. Skeena: Still under Skeone Salmon Management Committee and will closo at 6 p.m, next Wednesday unless other action ig considered necessary, Decisions on closures in Areas 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 and 10 are dependent upon ‘assessment of tho fishing situation in thoso, areas . early next week, Cloudy with occasional show: ers Saturday, -Not much change In . Lemporature. Winds northwesterly 20, O¢+ | _ casionally 30 over the South- | orn Charlottes, Low tonlghi and high Saturday 42, Are TIDE o"'Sattiedny, Augusl 23, 080, C4 CPaoitic ‘Standard Time).