1 . ’ is Northwest PROVINCIAL LISRARY VICTORIA, & C oy ee yt AS DEC 31/62 Ue emer St Ine ee OE RN IN ey ee ah N HARTWI go most votes ‘in’ yesterday's of: he: day at the polls i ‘ + G,. youngest. of. five candidates and one gather- ‘civic election, gets victory kiss |. om wife Jacqueline. Hartwig and. wife spent a good portion — and ‘were on hand during counting of Early trends" which’ showed H ined the same pace through » the evening, artwig, well out front, lH. 1 Scholten = Ald. Gordon. Carlson _.. 753 ; | polis in: yesterday’s five - man t|race.for three aldermanic seats. Flin Prince Rupert’s civic election. . Hartwig polled : nearly 300 votes; 'leran of -Council. service, p | HL J. ‘Scholten, an’ unsuccessful made it this time. News Desk 3 Ald. T. ‘Norton: Youngs .. 778 LA 30- year-old production en- gineer, . Alan Hartwig, led the Youngest. ofall the candidates more than his. nearest rival, Ald. ‘A.D, Ritchie, an eight-year vet- who goes back for. a. two-year term. candidate in. last year’s election, The election saw. the defeat of two aldermen, one of senior | service. Ald. T. Norton Youngs, | — “Giordano Photo . Ratepayers. turned ‘out in. less | in their usual’ numbers. to: - “in British Columbia’s. an- Nal’ divie “elections Thursday, } Put those who.did: were gener- _ Olis. with their money... a ‘With’ only three top. municipal ‘executives to elect and few con- “troversial issues to stir home- owners from their firesides. to ‘a wintry trip to the polls, yot- a ing was the lightest in years. LG But. with an estimated. $17,- Pe ‘000 000: in civic projects at stake those,;who made the trip ap- “ groved 10 of 14 referendums, 19 Of 21 bylaws and. six of. 10 pleb- scltes.: a -oridation of water supplies Was considered -by ratepayers in three municipalities, It was ap- proved: in the town of Fort’ St, Jolin ‘and rejected in the dis- Jtriet “of Delta and the lly of : Revelstoke, | ~The ‘ district of Burnaby. ront | jasted; p- proposed change to “ olty -status.and Saanich district ratepayers turned thumbs down as-expecled, on a proposal to The: ‘pererinial ‘dulestion: of fla=| In’ Fort. St. John, ‘ratepayers Yelected* one of two “competing ing the: incumbent. candidate. Ralph Pomeroy won the election ‘from former mayor Frank Spi-: | two. ‘hours’ ‘aft brothers'as. town. mayor, ‘displac- |: 14 years, ‘failed | in his bid for re-election, as did Ald. Gor- don..Carlson who was seeking a third term. ‘Said Alderman - “elect Hart- | ol wig, at. the conclusion of bal-| “I'm very ‘happy: and: grateful for the support: I. received. 1; shall endeavor to.do. my best.” Mr. Hartwig, born’ and brought up in Prince Rupert, is senior production engineer for Colum- bia «Cellulose Company. The who has been on ‘Council for | cer with Pomeroy’s brother Dan in third place. — , North Vancouver district: -vot- ers switched reeves again, giving former Reeve Murdo Frazer a narrow victory over Reeve Rich- ard Hanneson. Sawmill operator Harold Thor- lakson, 28, became the youngest alderman in the history of the city of Vernon. More results: Kamloops (three seats)—- (x) %. H. Bertrand, 1,284; (x) A. C, Andreéw, 1,280; (x) M. P. Grant, 1,271, eclected; Roy Cummings, 1,012; Cecilia E, McInnes 505. ’ By law—-$500,000 for city hall and public safety building: Yes, 1,225; No, 566 (carried), Aldermen Prince George School trustees (two scats)— Dr, J. W. Aitken, 733; (x) Har- old Moffat, 615, elected; (x) Jack Rhodes, 494. Bylow —- $150,000 for storm aginigamnate with” the city of vi ictorin, , : wey a. dite ; tert tear. ; vt ee ake } ahd © fe Bs , en 7 py UPele. Lester oaic today. that Phillip: M, Rays most definitely “not. retiring” but. rather .will remain native, as: formerly, as pigsident of the newly. formed company. Laster, will ‘Agt ns acc. rabary-tronsurer, a we , ee * Safe , “Roturning alficer Scott, Moe Laren wis chasing about ‘for. a 2 Waeksaw until, ho Cinally. ‘foul & «fH@ keys for iho ballot ox tuck- oe i ad between POs | 12-73 sof thot — Nntelpal | Ack." donting with os glaction procedure: a uch in- NNO, hey ofr: oie Sos ' wee el Sy MPO | yesoivecd savern) “congratulations : i having. wor, In. yoatorday's action. Markos orig. Ahink, that _ ORAMES _ DRUGS LTD. pale ‘Wartwies brothore of ale |). cBiimania® dandidwtor AL, Hartwig, sewers: Yes, 832; No, 76 (car- ried), Meorcrrverre re $00 eve re eOLOT EEO OLD EERE DOLL ELTIOTODILIIL OLED OD ~ Rupert Rambles “ sarsegarecee ad FOP OPOOS CIE PEDO DCLILIT LORI TOL OOL~O ESTE LODE TOOT OM other candidates were at n dis- advantage because of running agninst two poople. e tf Deputy returning officer John Lambie was a busy boy at the ‘| polls. Jnst night, that Is between vokda. , emote If “Patieranalo Ferraro had. a dollar for every time people say “hello” to him: he'd be ono of (9). Rupert's millonairos, He's woathor, + + night was Magistrate KT. Ape plewhaite, who, in extending a handshake, said: "That's what comos of having a father from Nolson, Actually, both Mr. Hart- wig's parents, Mra, and Mrs, 1, lin, hall. from the Nelson aron, Tho‘ aslgnificance of tho ningis- trato’s-romnark 18, of course, that ho himself was born In Nolson, non ‘of the Inte Capt, and Mra u. M. Wh. Applowhalte, - os J driving cliy's popular street cleaner, out), with) broom and barrow In ally, “Ono of (he first to congratue ; lnte:A, V, Hartwig at Civic Con-|) tre after counting bad placed”. him at tho head of the poll Inst) ys TL Martwigs who ive nt 1720 Ate ” OTTAWA (CP) °—- The Jour- nal says the civil service pay freeze, imposed. after the gov- ernment’s June 24 program to cut costs and handle foreign exchange difficulties, will end this month. About 50,000 cler- ica] workers have been due for pay increases for more than a year, as well as. some 15,000 hourly paid, werkers due for increases last September. The Journal says the in- creases will be. retroactive, cevered in one cheque. Driver fined $250 for negligence Today in police court, Thomas Melvyn Pearson of Prince Ru- pert was found guilty of crim- inal negligence in the operation of 1 motor vehicle. He was fined $250 and costs or In default three months. He was also prohibited from i motor vehicle any- where in Canada for six months. He appeared before Magistrate E, T. Applewhalte, WEST Konrad Adenauer, will rotire from office next fall, tho pare Hamentary. floor: londor’ of his: GERMAN Chancollor Christian Democratic party . bo 87 tn January, : His, ‘por probably. will.” bo: chancellor snd écoriom! (ster. Ludwig: a acne man, died in Shaughnessy Hospital’ in Vancouver yesterday at the. “age of 83. | fix mo.” has announced. Adonauor will | to ten, is a project engineer with the. same company. Ald. Ritchie, who has’, _ been’ Council's finance com mittee chairman latterly, had~ ‘this to say: “I am very pleased to con- tinue to be a representative at. city hall, and shall do the best I can for the benefit -of the | city.” Ratepayers were also asked far confirmation of a bylaw exempt- ing Friendship House from, mu-j" nicipa] taxation over the next other new. alderman, Mr. Scho - "| 5 Ss. This) was approved 1,073 to 239. i Alderman-elect Scholten said: “I am very pleased at the re- turns, I feel that the vote shows the city definitely wanted. some new blood, and also that. they preferred local blood, I hope to prove that as .a relative new- comer I can be of great help to the improvement of the city.” Voting, which had been ex- tremely light to the early aft- ernocn, picked up later in the ‘day. A tetal of 1803 electors east balicts, less than half of Experts put seal of approval on Peace River: power plans worth about! Thursday ' canned saimon of all species | VICTORIA ‘(@.— An interna- tional panel of experts has put. ‘its stamp of approval on de-| tailed plans for the Peace River. power project, Water Resources Minister Williston said today. He said.a tender call for the main dam at Portage Mountain, (near Hudson Hope, is plamned {next week. | HUGE, CONTRACT “This contract, to be - “awarded J | xL spring, will be $ 00,000,000. 1Mr. Williston said the interna- tional panel suggested some technical changes but these will long + election fight picte their terms on Council are: Mayor P. J. Lester, men Norman Bellis, Darrow Go-- the $3883 eligible. However, | there was larger turnout than | at the 1961 civic election, when just over 1,600 persons showed | up at the polls. AS in last year’s election, too, | the trend in results established | in throughout. Hartwig jumped in-: to an early Ritchie and. Scholten. early counting ¢ ontinued | lead, trailed by Still with a year to go te com-~- and Alder-. mez and J. W. Prusky. POPOL OPPOPAP AOD OL OOH D SS PEOPLE OLED OVE CANNED SALMON, ot affect the overall plans. “One change apparently in- volves a slight shift in location : of penstocks controlling the flow ; of water through the. power , House. An] later stages - of the _BEOD.| City pioneer dies aed 83 A well-known pioneer, fisher- Capt. Jack Christensen, Born in Denmark, Mr. Chris- | tensen came here in 1908. He ; operated his own fishboat, Mar- : galice, until he retired to West | Vancouver owing to ill health. He was a member of Tyee Lodge No. 66 AF & AM, and the Shrine Club. He served with the Fishermen's Reserve during the Second World War, his wife Jennie, a son, John, and two grandchildren, all in West Vancouver. be held at the Chapel of Chimes in West Vancouver, Rev. J. Gor- don Jones officiating and cre- mation following. The ashes will be scattered in Hecate Strait. Man guilty in threat case Metro Ratzoy, 731) Fraser Street, was found guilty of at- tempting to defeat the course of justice Thursday and was re- manded t0 Monday for sen- tenecing. A telephone call entered inte evidence pertaining to Ratzoy allegedly having attempted to induce Chester Elmer Prescott (o drop charges against Wallace Wolllngton. Forsythe, thereby al- tempting to defeat the course at justice, Prescott tostified in court that Ratzoy had said that if he didn’t drop the -charges, per- taining to alleged theft of clothes and money, “he would council Tho dafence, whose ne Iwas Gilbert Hogg, Q.0,, cantend- _ ted (hat Ratzoy was attemptins » | to regain nionoy loaned to Pres- cott, 7, Kk, Shaw aonducted the cr for the Crown. Magistrate # Applewhaltoe presided. MILES, BUILDERS ACTIVE VANCOUVER, uD. —. Almost all tonal Employment Ser- vice: say ‘expected The panel, appointed by international commission ory body, consisted of Geoffrey | Morse Binnie of London, Tor Nil- sson of Stockholm and J. Barry Cooke of San Rafael, ‘Calif. ‘bleached kraft, a newsprint mill | deputy lands minister E.. W, with an annual capacity of 140,- Bassett to allow applicants "ta joo tons and a lumber mill with argue their cases. DR. Sawmills also bids — cilities in the area are largely limited to Minette Bay, north- east of the town and Clio. Bay, about six miles south. PACK WAY UP VANCOUVER « -—- The fisheries department said 3,615,609 cases of was packed this year in BC. The department said this com- pares favorably with the bum- per 1,900,025 case pack in 1958. PP OE ELL EL PRL LP LLL AOD B.C. Briefs REJECT MINE-MILL 206, Sports 3204, Social 3205 paper complex a an informal hearing on compe i tions for foreshore rights i in the area that con- struction would-begin in 1964 and production the following year. ” The scheme depends on- ac- | : ceptance of Alean’s bid for the | ‘ rights. The complex would include , pulp mill with a daily capacity of 500 tons of bleached and uns | Mr. Bassett indicated, how. : ever, he would recommend to . Lands Minister Williston that an application by Pine Lake a of Sawmills, subsidiary | " Prince Rupert Sawmills be , considered first, Pine Lake. sought rights in ‘Clio Bay for 4 sawmill with aj | capacity of 50,000 board feet a .. MERRITT @)—-A group of mine | sniry. A spokesman for the com- | the workers at nearby Craigniont has; € applied for ‘decertification of the} ON Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers | construction, of the m ‘llarge dams,.a world-wide advis- Union (Ind.) as their bargain-| ing agent. An official of the La-| bor Relations ‘Board confirmed the bid is.up for decision. The’ workers are “understood to be: — employees of Craigmont Mines: Mr. Christensen is survived by | Masonic funeral services will: JT, - abrication | | ‘compan |" wero working at | uring: November, Tho a. Q| rt alninsnoe. during the Limited. Kidd appointed — BUILDING SURGES VANCOUVER @ -- Gordon} KAMLOOPS © — Construc-: tion here is running at a much. faster clip in 1962 than in 1961, according to the value of build-: ing permits for Kamloops, North | Kamloops and the community planning area. They - ‘J. A. Kidd of Victoria has been appointed deputy comptroller of water rights for British Colum- | ‘bia, it was announced today. ‘Mr. Kidd, a senior member of the B.C. Hydro engineering staff, | was formerly with the provincial |total $5, 800,000 to date in 1962, water rights branch which he, more than $2,200,000 higher than | left in March last year. ‘last year. Today's News. Brieis ay Ss NEWS: BIC! Crews try to reach 36 trapped miners CARMICHAELS, Pa, 42% — Rescue crews crept. “within less than 4,000 feet todey of 36 men trapped deep underground by a gigantic mine blnst. There has been no contact with them since Thursday afternoon, + } * oe Death toll rises in London smog LONDON ‘) — The worst killer smog. in 10 years loosened its lethal four-day grip on London today, leaving 106 known dead and more than 1,000 in hospitals, many of whom Will die. + of +t - Commons to adjourn Dec. 20 OTTAWA @ --- Prime Minister Diefenbaker has wnnounced Parliament will recess from December 20 to January 21 for the Christmas and New Year holiday, i immediate PRED PPL EPL OP OLY | pany, Robert .E. Duggan, said begin in 30 days, Log booming an Mr. Bonney said in answer to} 'a question that the project hing- -ed on acquiring a tree farm li- cence and — or a pulpwood har- ‘vesting area in the district. “Otherwise it’s mo deal,” he ‘said. The timber consultant asked ‘Mr. Bassett to hold a decision on the applications for at least ‘six months, pending engineering studies. Also secking ‘are! . Crown Zellerbach Canada ‘Limited; Cliff Tugboat Company ‘Limited; the Skeena Valley Tim- ‘-bermen's Association, which ‘wants facilities for common ‘hoaming and sorting grounds sand = MacMillan, Bloedel and Powell River Company . Mr. Bonney said Alcan had /spent $500,00 on-market and fea- 'sibility studies. "For many rea- ‘sons beyond our control, mainly foreshore rights over production and lack _of ° _ Daily Smile “There you are, daring,” suid the little woman as she | put a plate betore her hus- eae “egaked just the way you'd better like MW." Production seen in '65 VICTORIA (CP)—The Aluminum Com- - ‘pany of Canada Limited Thursday night un- veiled plans for an $80,000,000 pulp and + Kitimat. Alcan officials told an annual capacity of 33,000,000 board feet. | 405 air miles northwest of Van~ a 'couver, now is heavily dependent on Alcan’s aluminum smelter works. sultant for Alcan said early es- tablishment of a mill at Kitimat was feasible and necessary. ill could| interest in building a pulp mill d storage fa-!plans was shelved. Depends on licence markets, we have been delayed 'in making our plans. improved conditions, particularly “ in the Orient, indicate an early decision in starting our project. ” and European PRICE TEN CENTS ting applica- Kitimat, on Douglas Channel,” The meeting was called “py Parker Bonney, a timber con- “We now have sound reasons for be- ' lieving that development can ‘take place in. the near future,” Alcan previously. announced its: at Kitimat but decision on the However, in recent months He said Canadian, Japanese interests would participate in the proposed mill. Brig. Jackson takes up post Brigadier Stanley J. Jackson, ecently appointed divisional commander of the Salvation Army for the Northern British Columbin division, has arrived from Newfoundland with. his wife and 18-year-old son: Doue- las. Brig. Jackson has served “AS youth secretary for the Londof- Windsor, Ontario division, and as corps officer at Edmonit n, Saskatoon, Vancouver and » ronto, He also spent five years: in Juneau, Alaska, Ue is interested in youtl"ic- tivities and Scouting and has served as. district commisstoner in Vancouver. Mrs, Jackson, a_ registered nurse, is also divisional Hame League secretary and gencral overseer of League of Mercy work. They succeed Major and Mrs. Aubrey Rideout who left far To- ronto last month. A married daughter ives In Toronto. The couple will be wal- comed at the Salvation. Army Citadel Sunday. WEATHER Mainly cloudy with otea- sional light rain, Little change in tomperature, Winds WUght becoming oc- casionally south to south- const 20. Low tonight -and high tomorrow 36 and Ab. .. Daily Nows Readings ' Temporature at noon’. 38 Fee, Baromter, rising secon Sel TIDES ‘Saturday, December 8, 1062 (Pacifig Standard Ti ie) Hn Jquiesone 10; 45 2 A. fect 23:31: 10,0 feet 6.4 feet 87 foot an PAE re ae RENE DIE OOD