ech cram vga ee riage. a Ta Sas ag tay ea Oe Bilt dew TTS ac ave wanna PRUVINCIAL LIERARY ng al “ee raeek- og ae VICiERLs, & C Aa DEC 32/62 be arent soonate ents ee pte aero EN Te, we Me, ’ upert Daily News | Published at Canada’s Most Strategic Pacific Port — And Key to the Great Northwest Business, Classified 3203. Advertising 3201 PRINCE RUPERT, B.C., THURSDAY, MARCH 8, 1962 News Desk 3204, Sports 3205, Social 3206 RCMP reinforced in Kooten Bonner offers $10,000 reward Wrecking of power Monopoly = said work of sect deattingd NELSON (AP) _ A reinforced RCMP detach- said setting . ment is searching the troubled British Columbia Koot-| aiid wre VOL. 52, No. 48 Wow eran. PRICE TEN’ CENTS ger PTh AE van be NORMAL TEMPERATURES |. FOR THIS PERIOD VANCOUVER 44 - Negligence e _ 2 Ate (7 Ox +DMONTON 25 st “ A UY REGINA 19 C r A : ea WINNIPEG 19 ’ ABOVE TORONTO 32 MONTREAL 28 wee HALIFAX 3] in car death A Kitamaat man has been charged with crimi- nal negligence in the death of a Kitamaat girl last Friday, RCMP reported today. A&A pretiminary hearing Into the charge facing Manuel Batista of Kitimat will start March 15. Balista, whem police allege was the driver of a car which x Bont te MUCH BE aint ltt NORMAL. PRECIPITATION FOR THIS PERIOD VANCOUVER 5.3 EDMONTON 09 enays fur terrorists who bombed a giant power tower lefL the Cemetery road and flip- REGINA 08 : ; Bete ped over crushing 16-year-old WINPHPEG 1 here, causing severe power cuts that put 1,000 men VICTORIA (CP) ch Cecilia Grant of Kitamaat ‘Vil- MONTREAL 3.3 out of work. 4 pee ras lage, was charged later Friday BAHALIFAX 43 ‘Sons of Freedom Doukhobor monopoly is setting®! the in Prince Rupert General Hos- , Attorney-General Robert Bon} cect. blamed for more than 30 prices of gasoline through- _ trate’s court Monday to be for- | *matly charged and was released | “ics on two sureties totaling $5,000. : ‘Pwo other persons in the car, | ~ Russell Wilson, 23 and = Ellen: “ Norah Amos, 19, also of Kita- | “s maat Village, who were taken: to hospital with Batista after the accident, were released from hospital earlier this week. t pital. ner posted a $10,000-a-head re-} eo. toy terroris ~ 2 thr 1- On advice from the ‘attorney- ron reading to the for informa thay, planted. the igh oxplon out British Columbia,’ Leo . test, begun Salarday, has been those responsible. ; . octnree powerful blasts felled} Nimsick (NDP . Cer — ms 7 gancelled., i ‘or four ane ey oe the radieal | te 366-foot, 300-ton ‘Consolid- Cranbrook) charged * in | Batista appeared in magis- ; “(ated Mining and Smelting Com- the legislature . Wednes- : a Sf day. . oes He said no relationship could be found between the’ prices:paid _ for bulk gasoline and. .those charged by service stations, —":- ‘t certainly think -the’ -prices are fixed,” said Mr. Nimslieck. “I think that bulk users should :be treated better than the general public.” Ces Speaking in the debate of esti- mates of the department. of trade and industry, he said he hoped the goverriment: : would soon release a report of a study it made of gasoline: pricés.” = “"* Attorney-General, Bonner . last year announced that an. inquiry was being made into retail gas- oline prices in the provinee.: . Mr. Nimsick suggested. that lower gasoline prices would -be more beneficial than: the. $50 os provincial homeowners’ grant.. - 3 | | PRECIPITATION NEAR NORMAL temperatures and light precipitation are pre- dicted for Prince Rupert and district in the United States weather bureau forecast for March. Heavy precipitation is ex- pected In most areas except the west coast. Normal precipitation _ is given in inches of rain, with one inch of rain equalling 10 inches of snow. — CP Newsmap Sampson voted |s.c. rounour Simpson chief No lack of investors ' Election of Reginald Sampson. as ehiet of Port Simpson, has wk been confirmed, G. D. Ewen, of- “3 fieer in charge of the Skeena 2” Jndian. Agency reported today. In the village elections Febru- ary 23, Mr. Sampson edged out Charles Dudoward 69 votes to 68. A recount was held and Mr. Sampcon-dcclarcd the winner. | “Others elected to the village council were James Bryant, Wil- liam Kelly. James Lawson, Lyle Ke sents ot ‘1 ay 4 3 : Crown prosecutor Harvey Jes-; ~~ ~~ world at this moment.” Speaking during consideration ‘in the house of spending esti- ‘mates of the trade department for 1962-63, Mr. Bonner said Can- e e ‘| pany tower Tuesday night drop- R t t . “; ping it into Kootenay Lake. egis ta jon “ 1.3, Jobless as a result of the , power cuts are men employed in t t f i. vi Various sections of the Cominco , S$ Ui y O an -*complex, the economic base of : . l the area, : in north slated 'TOPPLE BASE SUPPORTS i : | Inspector Fred Joinson, of fi- ! WICTORIA v — A two-manj;cer commanding the Nelson ‘committee representing land and | RCMP. subdivision, said it ap- ‘forests and attorney-general’s;Peared the explosive was drag- We " —_— — i departments will study land re-| sed through heavy bushland to} prInCESS MARGARET is shown dancing with an employce of gistration in isolated areas, At-| the foot of the tower. the Sunday Times, her husband Lord Snowdon, the former torney-Gencral Bonner told the! Explosives were apparently at-; Antony Armstrong-Jones, one of Britain's leading society pho- legislature Tuesday. ‘tached to the four base supports: tcgraphers. They were out together at the annual ball of the | He said no early answer isjof the structure. Only three of Canadian Universities Society of Great Britain, in London. It jexpected and no solution can be: four charges detonated. i was their first public engagement since their return from a e e ‘expected during the present! The mayors of Kimberley., Caribbean holiday. — British Information Services photo in province Bonner [session replying to Dudle “Trail, Nelson and Creston and , , Ses ~ oe 2 Wa 5 ¥Y;the associated chambers of com-. Tittle ee en tts or} coms merce of the area Wednesday COUNSELS WIND UP CASES “TOR “a j ‘ ps ta, plained of high costs of having» called for troops to end the ter-: . vicl ORIA (CP)—There 1s no lack of investor ilegal surveys carried out in iso- |, rorism. p ° ° ' interest in British Columbia, Trade and Industry Min-|tated areas where farmers are|" sreanwhile, Cominco says it Ca time ig ac or Government arguments in -fa- ister Bonner told the legislature Wednesday. Orit Little said residents break-{ 88 @bandoned hope of rapic: | . : FOr oe new date cetey National: trade polictes;~how? fo aa ing “new ‘land i such “areas “BS fy eputding the valor des Bye ft aa ne " which sought-the séburnteCan- ever, were nol encouraging in-|Wednesday, Filipponi sald the |the northern parts of BC. should ° potween ‘two and three months. | as mur er rla en S ada of downstream . benefits dustrial expansion. typewriter was given to him as ‘Pe Permitted to stake their lands , i . : - lfrom the Columbia River hydro “I believe ‘tl try is in| security for a loan ‘in a fashion similar to the stak- | Assistant manager D. D. Mor-, In an assertion by the defence al i "Iproject.. me, Reece, Robert Sampson, Donald! , Yast state outta ay Se y ‘ing of mining claims. ris said the huge Sullivan mine, nan assertion by the defence about the time of |P He said if the government al- Sankey toner wate Robert our national “rade policy » he Union to prosecute ' Later, when neighbors moved al Feimpericy must wer ae death of a city woman is-"WOrT e Clast spebiier Soptevieebibnatiemamee ee ve eis Smith, Thomas White. said. ° . Te > ‘into the area so that boundaries ber cent capacity untli repune-’ etth ¢h : nf Towa ily thee (en _. sald. ‘nis u > PRINCE GEORGE @ x The |, Dd to be more firmly defined, | ing is complete. -kora, charged with the non-capital murder of en ee ots er ! “Canada is the most isolation- | Prine eorge local 0 ne AN- |, ; - ai ' The Bluebell mine at Riondel; Ayal was ; \ Wling : - ; a iq pe ei ist minded international trader ternational Woodworkers of Am-. ne oes share in the ! is completely without power. Azak, Was not Mn the building at the time she died. | re Our ed er of all international traders in the |erica (CLC) has applied to the. ( - “0 cea. He said the 1,000 out of work, me veeerh ane} . . ; Mr. Bonner said there now are ’ spay . . was " . . provincial labor relations board problems in this approach be- May be joined by more soon be-, Sop of Kitimat and defence coun-\ of a big fight" until about 6 p.m. torm rea S 8 for permission to prosecute 4 cause of the legal requirements | Cause of the shortage of concen-' sel Murdoch Robertson of Ter-; Szabo said that he and Sikora’ rom VI ages lumber COMIpPUDyY, the second such! roy land registration. However. ‘trates from the mines. This will, race summarized their cases be- later discovered the woman was | ee ° , application m three weeks. ‘the committee had been set up ‘require cutbacks in other opera- fore Mr, Justice T. B. Brown in; dead. British shi yo, Local president Jacob Holst: 144 would seek a solution to the itions at. Kimberley, Tadanac and Supreme Court this morning, Mr. Robertson said that the: Wilfred at conference Two representatives from Kit- katha and two from. Kincolith are attending the current Jead- ership conferenec nt the Univer- sity of British Columbia, G. D. Ewen, officer in charge of the Skeena Indian Agency, said to- “day. Atlending the eourse are Chicf Jackson and councillor Khner Ridley from KitKatla gnd Chief! Jeffrey Benson and counellor Rennle BE. Chayton of Mineolth, The course is to help ehiets and councillors lo understand more clearly their responsibill- ties nnd authority ino carrying out couned) government ino the Villages, The course is sponsored — by the Indian Affairs Department. pee eernaewevasmarnmine Ht enaegreste Ex-resident Charles Lemon dies in south Charles Lemon, a resident of Prince Rupert from 101 until 1084, dled an Vancouver Febru- ary 20 nb ‘the age of 65 years, It has been lonrned here. Born in Kirkella, Man, Mr. Lemon came to the eity to join bis mother Mrs, after serving with the 68nd Bat- talion In the Firat World War. Wille here, he was employed by Wyde ‘Transfor and Tranagfor. Ho Js survived by hla widow, vn son, two danghtors and three yrandehiidre. iw Vancouver, and nw osister, Ruth, wy Hope, Funeral services, followed by cremation, took plaice In Vane couver February 2s. John Lemon City frada has failed to take advantage of Britain's ‘negatlations with the European Common Murket trading group to bring this coun- try into assoclation with that market. Canada had also failed to im- prove its trading position with the United States. Miners lucky TRALL -@ -- Only luck saved Qonumber of miners from drown- lng when bombs felled a ginnt power pylon in the Kootennys Tuesday, night. Presidbnt Marvey Murphy of the western distilel Mine, MII and Smelter Workers Union tInd }sald Wednesday the pow- er stoppage knocked out many of the eleetria pumps keeplnge the Bluebell ming at Riondel free of water. “Tf il had not bauppened at the ehange of shifts, many pen and drowned,” he satd in an tn- ,tLerview. | 1 “By pure luek ne one was in the mine when the power stop- ped.” e s Service station hours PRINCI) GHORGE dh) -- Coun- ait here las jolned the chamber of commerce in opposition to any proposed legislation which would sol the operating hours of BC. service stations. Charge dismissed VANCOUVER @ — A charge of possession of a stolen type- writor ngalnat night elub host Food price ket operator sald yoatorday that ~ORMES . DRUGS LTD, $y me DIAL 2151 roports of food prices Incronsing since the introduction of trading xlamp promotions are “eyewash,” On tho contrary, said Honry Woodruff, operntar of a Super Valu store, food prices will In- crendo tho moment the Jegtala- Lure bans trading stamp achamos, Mr, Woodruff was appearing before the legialnture's spect) committes studying trading t charged Wednesday Fraser Lake | Sawmills Limited at Fort Fraser, matter, 80 miles west of here, with in-,; likely would have been trapped | Limidation and said there ap- pears to be a definite pattern of intimidation taeties in the Northern Interior, None injured in collision No one wes injured when a half-ton truck driven by Lloyd Evans of Terrace, ran into the back of a oenr driven by Nickoll Negralftl of O81 Seventh Avenue Enst at 8:10 pm. yesterday ROMP reported loday, Police estimated that the to- tal damage to both cars was $600. cee a rere sone mete nt pr ete st ee ap meme gH geste Envoy named PARIS @ Jneques Kuoh Moukoury, ambassador of the Cameroons to France, has been baumed envoy lo Canada and the United States. He announced the appolnt- ment while attending a lunch- eon given by Plerre Dupuy, the Canadinn ambassador here. cree ones am eRe RAGS REND eT Aree wee Oppose change VICTORIA () -- Opposition to any legisintion restricting hours of operation for service stations in B.C, was expressed Wednes- Mickey Milippent was dismissed SUPER MARKET OPERATOR CLAIMS VICTORIA « — A sHpErnr-| tourlst organizations and sopiurate major all companios, day night by spokeamen for two four ~ Howard motion downed in vote OTTAWA () —- The Commons defeated by a vote of 189 to 6 a motion by Frank Howard (CCF- Skeenn) for tubling of a study by an interdepartmental com- Inittee nto recommendations by 1 1959 commission of inquiry in- to matters affeeting Indians in the Mackenzie district. An inquest inte the denth of 36-yeur-old Roland Edward Le- Blane of 760 Alfred Street. lst night at Ferguson Funeral Home, was ndjourned wntil 730 pm. March 286 for Coroner George J. Dawes, LeBlane was killed about. 2:15 wo, Friday when the car dn which he and three companions were riding failed to negotiate nturm at Bleventh and Frederick Street, went through the guard rail, rolled over and burned, A seven - man jury viewed the body which was identified by Wonry Montesano of 210 Sixth Avenue Bast, Walter Wright was chosen farenan of the jury after i was sworn in, Other members L cietee vee net ene Inquest into car death adjourned to March 26 | Trail, : WARNS SAWMILLS Al) power to the area now bs ‘being provided by the light eauge lines of the West Koot- lenay Light and Power Company ‘which has warned sawmills to ;reduce power consumption, ‘threatening other job losses. More than 5,000 residents were blueked out by the blast and | face power shortages. Mr. Bonner evidenee” has been located nnd reinforcements have been rushed to the area, of the panel are John Connor, George Ferguson, Robert Arm- sald “interesting, © Sikara is ehareged in connee-; evidence of Dr, W. J. D. Arnold tion with the death of Miss Azak, and Dr, G. W. J. Fiddes indicated /who was found dead last No-! that the woman had been dead vember 2. in a room she sharedi for approximately nine hours be- with Sikora at, 54) Ninth Avenue! fore a body temperature was West. taken at bs30 am, November 3. | Mr. Jessup said that the Crown! Mr. Robertson told the submits that beyond any ren-: that “this would place the time sonable doubt, Sikora is respon-/@f death at about, 3:80 in the caible for the death of Lena Azak,: afternoon, We have evidence Nvidenee presented by Crown | vel only Baabo ard the womim iwithesses indicated that Sikore, | VOT homie at W380, wai , Miss Avak, Lasto Szabo and Kal- If you measure the evidence fenrefully, there can be only one nan Zalbon were drinking, wine; ooo whe no co ' f verdict in thi, case and that is in Svabo'’s room until about 5 " . . nn M0 yo Chen a i. hot guilty.” Mr. Robertson suid, min, Novetnber 2. Seacba’s room we « was on the same floor as 5t Mr. Justice Brown wis sched- aty ‘ . ave a. . yee 1. - ‘ . vled to give his eharrne to the kora's, vary this after Witnesses testified Ghat during | Suey bis atbernoon, Lhe time the proup was drink- hy in Avahe'’s roam, Sikora “kieked and slapped” the wom- ano uround and “dragged her out of the room) by ber hair” Sikora diter left the house and returned hame about 6 pan. Syubo testified that he heard Charge withdrawn A charge of failing to obtain a cliy trades Heence luid wpeadnst North West Builders and Awn- ing Company Limited, was with- drawn by eity prosecutor James strong, Frederick Viger, Willlam Melntyre and Arthur Lacroix, | The three other persons tn the car, Mrs. Nora Gray, 24, Miss; Pauline MeKay and Kenneth | Gibrandsen, were taken to hos- | pital as a result of the aocldent ind are reported in “satisfactory condition” today. Prince Rupert has now pone 0 days without a futal traffie accident and 341 days without a fire fatality. increases du slump promotions in the retall- Ing of consumer goods, CUUAPER GOODS Ho presented as evidence gra- cery Dis for 26 Idontient! Items purchased ina Super-Value atoro Jssuing stamps and In a supers market not iasuing stamps. The atamp-store bil was g17.04¢ and the non-stamp store bil was A101, : Mr, Woodruff sald merchants on oever the cost of stamp e to stamps promotions In two ways—by ine crensed volume of business and by reduclng other promotional oxponditurea, The conuuittees also heard trom Loblaw's, which uses stamp pro- motion schemes, and from the B.C, Co-operntive Union, 1.C. Wholesnle Society and the Co- operative Women's Guilds of B.C,, who opposed stamps. The latter threa groups prosented tl Joint submission, “eyewash W, A. Jarmson, grocery mii: ayer of the Co-op Wholesalers, said he belleves the stumps now being offered Jn three supermiv- ket chains In B.C. are vl belng printed outside the province and not by the stores thomsclyos, Yresont B.C. Inw prohbbits third oprrty participation in stamp plans but does not pro- hibit each individual merehant from operating hls own stamp Sikora seremm at the woman tof ik. Shaw today in magistrate's open the door to their ream and] court before Magistrate EB. T, later sald he “heard the sounds! Applewhaite. N B. f CASTIL, BOLOGNESE, Italy (=. An express train crowded With immigrants from impoverished southern Ltaly reed into wv detour and jumped the tracks near this north Italinn village before dawn today, king 1) persons ind injuring P20, v te + + BVIAN, France -- Renewed peace talks between France und the Algerian rebels were reported going well here toduy but in Algeria itself a fresh outbreak of fighting belween the two sides was reported, v % + + WASHINGTON i — President Kennedy is reported to have propused to Premier Khrushehev a series of conerete steps for folnt aetlon by the United States and Russla to ex- plore and develop euler space for pencefml purposes, + + ¥ + MOSCOW (4) -— Lenin's Lomb was opened to the public ayn today and a stream of Russhins dmmediately Wied up In the snow Jn Red Square to see what had happened, The principal change was that the big bronze and glass coffin now is squarely In the centre of the tomb, which for nearly eight years tt shared with Stalin, And over the outside door to the tomb ts the one word in Muasinn lobterIng “Lenin” where before the tnserlptlon was “Lonin-staltn”, + + ¥ SAIGON Un -- Souths Vietonmese forces reported 84 Conti munist guerrillas were killed today dn one operation near the southern tip of Viet Nam, Bub quthoritios feared another cone centration of wuerriiias had evaded 1,800 governmont troops schon, chasing them in the Mekong River deltu, PORTSMOUTH, Va, (2 — Rag- ing seas broke the back of the jury: British merchant ship Gem in ‘the Atlantic Ocean off the coast fof) North Carolina, the US. ‘Coust Guard said today. Reports received by the coast wnard here from the Danish ship idyttes Kou, which was standing iby the strieken freighter, said ‘the Gem “was broken after of ‘ainidships.” The Jyttes Kou sald three of the Gem's crew could be seen on the bridge, but reported no other iuformation on the eondi- tion of the ship or its crew... cere eet eee Mag Te Cer ae nen reer ents U.S. launches test satellite POINT ARGUEBLLO, Calif, -- The US Air Force success- fully launched a satellite from this West Coust missile faeility Wednesdiiy, but officlals deelin- ed to discuss ils nusston, . The announcement sald only that the satellite employed an Athus-Agena B booster comblia- lon and that it carried a num- ber of classified test components. VICTORIA :(@— New hospital facilities wb Ornkulla Prison Fearim will be opened April 1, Attorney - Ceneral Bonner told the logis- lature Tuesday. Later, Mr. Bonner told the House that the government's long-term Intention ts to close ont the present Oakalle facilt- fey, wee we WEATHER _ Gale warning continued. Moslly sunny Friday, Colder tonight, Northwest winds 20 reneliing Jb In exposed areas, Low tonight and btgh Fri- day 26 and 42, Dally News Readings: Tomporature ab noon. —. 48 Barometer, rising oo... d00t TIDES Mriduy, Muareh 9, 1083 (Prelfle Standard eine) pre et eee ee emt meme en: Wagh oo... TK BEL 09.0 fret, 18:46 21.4 feot how cone. OOO 2.1 feet 1:63 3.0 foot