Are en artauery se All-Native basketball teams Soe ee we oN te AAS Gt eh gt tee PROVINCIAL LIBRARY 24 VICTORIA, BC DEC 31/€3 Prince Rupert Daily News VOL. 53, No. 44 Business, Classified 3203, Advertising 3 Published at Canada’s Most Strategic Pacif ic Port — And Key to the Great Northwest 201 oo A ‘grown into-a bi (See story ‘page’ 3.) roe eee An vestimated 600 of the 2,700 omployees abobesandale mental hospital and Woodlands sehoo) have asked for a stelke vote, A mecting last night protested the “inadequacy” of a fivesper- cont ware ierenke announeed hy Premier Vennett in his bud- Beh, Bpokesmien sata thelr wages Ay Boverninent employees wore 14 to 24 per cent below these pla dn other B.C, hospitals, The ssondale and Woodlands employees were iumonge 12,000 yavermnent employees who i.e -” ORMES wt DRUGS LTD, aw 2, DIAL 2151 IMPORTING of frozen octopus from the F 1g business in last. few years.. shown being unloaded’ Saturday off the Jan Railway dock. Beldw, men stack the carto Mental hospital worker appeal for strike vote NEW WESTMINSTER ©Q) —, Went on strike PRINCE RUPERT, B.C., MONDAY, MARCH 4, 1963 topus from East Ng oes Bcd SRT ar Evst as bait fur the h here 11,000 ane ms in: alibut fishing fleet has cartons cach weighing 50 pounds are se vessel] Yamakiku Maru at Canadian National Oo cars for storage until halibut season opens. DELON: S _ Fisherman’ fuck runs out, _dory upsets KODIAK, Alaska ca) — Two Men, Inelneddag a Cisherman eall- edo “Lueky" Eekenbery beenuse ihe had survived three shipwrecks (died when a 20-fool. dory over. tiirned Saturday, A woman was reseued, A third S In Mareh, 1959,. pir with those: ipald by private employers, The strike way ended after four hours by a court order, The Mssondale and Woodlands oMployees, Lareest Broup of qov- ernment Civil servants outside, ‘ye they tog Victorian, asked for support ny wes wisene nad Was still thelr strike from all members | Mn SOUR mn, of the WC, Government Em. | The perrty of four was headed ployees' Assoclation, north from Kodiak Islind to No dondline was sot for the {Part Vita, on Raspberry Island, for wares an volo, Kekenberg, whose real name weet ve nnintes ones cavmenion cana es reeves Olflelals here could not reeall, « : hud his most recent previous Ex-premier Barrette brush With doath Feb, 7 Ws jhont, the Barracuda, hit the named ambassador tor: aff Kodiak Island Vel, 7 OTTAWA ho The appointe | whe bwo of the passengers wore ment ofd, Antonio Barrette, for- drowned, Tle was the only sur Mer Union Natdonnate premier af vivor, Quehee, as Canadian ambassador to Chreece was mynouneed Spat urdiy by the offlee af External Affatrs Minister Qreen, Daily smile One oman to another at lune) “Dte counters “TE Cds isn restaurant chadn, TUE het we're aldo in Mr. Barretto, 63, stops Inte Mi (he Wevtheot Hanke.” diplomatic post belay vacated: by Y McChroer, Two men drowned in Landing Saturday when a Jack recovered the next day and ‘Big presses ' NEW YORK CP) The i presses rolled at the New York breaking the New ‘Post today, : York City newspaper blackout. . COOLLOLIELOLLLCELIDLOD LEP ODEDEO LOUD DLODEDE OT OEODOD OCR LOS DO DCCL, TWO MEN DROWN AS TRACTOR PLUNGES THROUGH ICE ON LAKE crawler t erating broke through ice on the lak Police at Prince Rupert today identified the two as Julius Glasser, 33, and Alex Palagain, 37. Glas- ser’s mother lives in Vancouver. The accident happened at 10 a.m. The bodies were ' at New York newspaper - All-native teams ready for toss up The fourth annual All Native Fulton Lake near Topley ractor they were op- e. Basketball Tournament: kicks off with the opening banquet tonight at the Civic Starting at 7:30. | Tournament play starts Tues- | ‘day at 9 am. at the Civic Cen- tre, All told there are eight teams competing in the senior di- vision, They are: Kitkatla, Kit- imaat, Prince Rupert Chiefs, Port Simpson, Massett, Beila Coola, Hartley Bay and Ai- ' A rescunding cheer went up! yansh, in the press room of The Post’ Eleven teams are entered in as Pressman Robert Lawton tye chase for the intermediate pushed the button that started crown. They are: Kitkatla, Kiti- taken to Burns Lake. GPP DDPOLEL DDO LE ODLO LOL YD OLOOCR DD ! roll again - Judge comes for assizes on tomorrow Mr. Justice J. E. Aikins will i ' | ! i ‘preside at the spring assize ses-! : Sesion opening tomorrow. | First on the docket will be trial , of two Vancouver men, Kenneth |Cowherd and Michael Collier, on charges of breakine, entering | iand theft, in connection with ‘Shop-Easy Stores (B.C.) Ltd., isupermarket saie - cracking in Prince Rupert on Labor Day last ,year, in which $21,000 was alleg- .edly stolen. prosecutor Crow: i will be M. R. Robertson of Ter- ‘race, and Hugh McGibern of Vancouver is defence counsel. | Three civil actions and 10 di- }vorce petitions will also be heard. Nine-pounder tops week in salmon derby Although many sport. fisher- men have been out lately trying their luck, catches recorded by Salmon Derby. officials during the past week were small. None of the most recent en- tries comes even close to topping Ken Bateman’s leading 22-pound, five-ounce salmon caught dur- ing the first week of the derby In February, Ned MeLead won the weekly first’ prize with a nine-pound, one-ounce fish and received a quick reel as his prize. Second price of a thermos jue went to Gus Leighton with an eight- pound, seven-ounce salmon, and W. G, Bishop's seven-pounder won him third prize, a case of outboard motor oil, Tt is expected that many more sports fishermen will soon be try- Ing their luek in the hopes of ltnking home some of the grand prizes offered in the Derby. ssteneintemeeemeentetnengeeeerean Chemicals used to douse fire Firemen were foreed to use carbon dtoxide and dry chemicals to extinguish an electrical fire atl the home of Frank IT. Collart, 400 Fifth Avenue West, on Sat- urday at 12:26 pan, Only slight damage was done to the home when an exhaust fin over the stove jammed und lynited the vent flumo and part of the Interior of the ceiling, Threo regular firemen and Chief Narl W. Becker answored the call to the Collart residence and prevented extensive damage to the home, GUERRILLAS BUSY TAIPEY (4 — Chinese natlon- Ast guerrillas carried out 32 Mids against the Communists In south Chinn from July 27 to the end of last year, the Tatao News Wkeney reported badiry, one of three presses rolling for maat, Port Simpson, Bella Coo- | the first time in 87 days. la, Hartley Bay ’Aiya nsh i The din of the presses soon UFAWU, Port Edward, United bye « — - ; Smothered the shouts of the 51. church Residence, Hazleton and workers in the press room. ‘Skidegate. “Well I'm glad we’re back to, ant : work,” said press room fore-! All games with the exception man Edward Peterson, who has Of the final two Playoffs Sa- served 18 years on the news- ‘Urday, March 9, will be held at paper. ithe Civic Centre. i The The fina} two games will be Post resumed publica-} at the Senior High jticn amid reports of headway Played 'in negotiations to get the other School. icight major dailies back on the , Streets. . , i\day and Saturda | ‘Printers ‘of Local 6 of the Civic Centre. ‘AFL-CIO International Typo-! Tickets and information are graphical Union went on strike available at the Civic Centre. at four of the dailies Dec. 8.' The other five, Post, shut down. | ' Mrs. Dorothy Schliff, Post: ;Owner and publisher. resigned, ‘from the Publishers Association | of New York City lest Thurs- , i;day and announced her paper ; was resuming publication. y night at the including The! run for GOP WASHINGTON i@— Governor ,George Romney of Michigan said $100,000 damage he 1s “not going to become . ‘Candidate” for the 1964 Repub- an Vancouver fire lican presidential nomination. VANCOUVER (0) An ex-| He made this statement to re- /plosion rocked the main plant Porters before presenting to the and office of Spotless Cleaners Republican party's site commit- here Sunday night, touching off | tee Detroit's bid for the 1964 Re- fire that swept through the publicam national convention. vlant. [| oo" _ + Sald beture the 1962 The fire, fed by clmiers, election I would not be a candi- Was out of control seconds after date for the presidential elec- the blast and became a three-‘tion in 1964 but would concen- alarm blaze before it was con- trate on Michigan's problems,” trolied 45 minutes later. ‘Romney said. “I have repeated Company officials later esti- that here this morning.” mated the loss at $100,000 but! Romney was the first Repub- said the premises was well cover. lican governor elected in Michi- ed by insurance. gan in 14 years. a « Romney won't. News Desk 3204, Sports 3207, Social 3205 PRICE TEN CENTS Pleasure drive ends in tragedy A Prince Rupert woman died last night and her 16-year-old when their car left Hi an Montgomery, idaughter, Molly, is in Terrac chest injuries. The mother and daughter are believed to have been cn a plea- sure ride when the tragedy oc- curred. The daughter. a student at Booth Memorial school, was driving. ' Mr, Montgomery, who is em- ployed as a scaleman at Colum- bia Cellulose Company’s Watson Island mill, was on shift at the , time. Mrs Montgomery was born in the Skeena Rver country and had lived in Prince Rupert most of her life. She had been active for 21 years in the Legion Auxiliary, was second vice-president of the organization this year, and was a past president. She was also on , the Co-Ordinating Council. ' Police at Terrace investigated .the accident. They said the Dances will be held both Fri- fatal crash occurred between | 7:30 and 8 p.m. |- ‘The. car, .a-1961... sedan, Was | damaged. | Beside her husband and | daughter, Mrs. Montgomery is | Survived by her mother, Mrs. |McDames at Cedarvale, a sister there, a brother in Terrace, and @ sister, Mrs. Ann Michael in Germany. Friends said Mrs. Montgomery was a guiet woman, always helping someone, and widely re- spected by all who knew her, Funeral arrangements have not yet been announced. daughter was injured ghway 16 near Exstew d crashed into a stump. Dead is Mrs. Emily Centre (Molly) Montgomery, 65, wife of Robert W. 1529 Piggott Avenue. The e hospital with | SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL, I above, -has accepted proposals - to confer honorary United | States citizenship on him, a U.S. congressional aide says. But the 88-year-old Churchill could not undertake any trip overseas for participation in ceremonies, it was learned. He weuld be the second fo- reigner so to be honored by the United States, the first | being the Frenchman Lafay- cette. Stewart may act on own In power issue—Calder Stewart may “go it alone” if it wishes to apply for a hearing On power rates, Frank Calder, MLA for Atlin, told The Daily News by telephone today, The northern village, which is Served by Northern B.C. Power rates of which many feel are too PODDO PREDPPOV OPPO ODL OL OPODOPOEORDODIO OO OOO Today's News Briefs PP PPPS ODP OE LOD PD OLO POP OPOOS Tension mounts on French coal mine scene MERLEBACH, France (Reuters) Union officials today claimed almost 100) per cent support from miners in a na- tion-wide coal mine strike, despite a government order to re- turn to work or face fines and jail sentences, Tension mounted in the Lorraine coal basin. ' + + + No casualties in Peruvian landslide LIMA, Per (Reuters) — Delayed roports reaching here toduy sald there were no casualties in a landslide at the Village of Pampallacta in the central Highlands of southern Peru. The slide destroyed 15 houses but the village's 300 in- habitants fled to safety, te + + + Fires claim five lives in Ottawa OTTAWA ( — Five persons died in tavo fires here Sun- high, may act, independently of Prince Rupert, served by the same company. Mr. Calder said that, in talks With Dr. Hugh Keenlyside, chairman or B.C, Hydro and Power Authority, he had been in- formed that whenever the Villnge of Stewart decides to aet sep- arately from Prince Rupert tt may do so simply by correspond- ing with the Authority, “By this it is definite then that Stewart may take independ. ent action and that the Board of Trade and local people do not have to walt for any Prince Rue pert referendum decision on whe- ther or not to retain the serviee of Northern B.C. Power," Mr. Calder said, In the Throne speech debate Mr, Calder had said: “rt is quite diy night and early today -— three adults and a ehild in one and a woman in another, Gaglardi declin ballot. following Mr, Gaglardi's refusal of the nomination, “L would love to be Involved In av federal election battle,” the 60-year-old hlghwaya mini- stor sald after belng nominated on the first vate, But he ald it would be a “tremendous undertaking,” In- volving w great deal of proprra- fory work witch he had not been ablo to da, We satd he also felt KAMLOOPS ((h) — Highways Minister Gaplarddi deedined to mun Saturday night when nom- Innted as Social Credit enndl- date for Kamloops ino the April 8 federal election but satd he likely would necept next time, Clarence Wrleht of Chase, who carried the party banner nthe vidday iy the last federal election but lost to Works Mint- ster Fulton, was nonunated to clear to me that the indecision of the Prince Rupert City Couneil es nomination federally—may accept next time mont to continue in his present position, Ie told the meeting he haped Ib wouldn't be too lone before Ms namo appeared vain as a federal candidate und that he probably would accept nominn- ton at that time, Mr. Wright, a former Baptist nunister now omiagdstrate and Juvenile court Judge at Chase, Was noninnted without oppast- that, he owed it to his depart. | Nght the seat ama tao second tlon, has created;a barrier that will /Prevent the village of Stewart from taking any further action :to fulfil its desire to bring in the Services of B.C Hydro.” He urg- jed the government to request |Northern B.C. Power, the Public | Utilities Commission and the _B.C. Hydro and Power Authority ,to consider “very seriously” the Stewart desire for independent action, Syrian army units mutiny CAIRO (h —- The Middle East hews agency reported from Bel- tut today that certain Syrian Harmy units on the Israeli fron- tier have mutinied, demanding Syria reunite with Egypt, The report said Information on the mutiny came from Da- huwscus but gave no sources. The report said the mutiny was led by Col, Ziad EL Hariri, identified as commander of “front-line forces.” WEATHER Mostly cloudy with — oren- slonal showers in northern sections after mid-day. Little Change in tensperature, Winds southerly 15 oeeasion- wily 25 shifting to Heht west- erly this afternoon, tnereas- ing again to southerly 20 by Mud Thesday, Low tonletet vnd Nigh Tuesday at Prince Ruperl sO and 4h. Daily News Readings Temperature at noon Barometer, steady TIDES Tuesday, Mareh §, 1068 (Vucihie Stiundard THme a 15 dL Wigh 00:50 18.8 feet 20:07 17.3 feet Tow cae O8D OH feet 16:20 f.0 feet