Lieutenant-Governor coming icial visit btoua ay oh Prince Kuper fe a Published at Canada’s Most Strategic Pacific Port — And Key to the Great Northwest VOL. 53, No, 87 Daily News PROVINCIAL LIRPARY 24 VICTURIA, EC CE ee Uap otmgetem DEC 31/€3. Business, Classified 3203, Advertising 3201 PRINCE RUPERT, B.C., FRIDAY, MAY 3, 1963 There’s something fascinating at every Malaspina port of call By CHARLES E. GIORDANO ‘ON BOARD THE MALASPINA ~~There’s something special and fascinating about each port of call of this Alaska state flag- ship Malaspina, and the further north one goes the more excit- ing it gets. Though it’s a hectic pace for the newsmen and guests on this Inaugural voyage, there’s every indication that a lasting image is‘ being created, and that this will undoubtedly bring a vast amount of publicity to all com- munities on the route between Prince Rupert and Juneau. ~If the travel writers are print. ing what they say in candid re- marks, Alaska and northwestern British Columbia can expect to/| ;piano player pounded out the was entertaining spect. A chorus of can-can girls started the show rolling as a in every re- music in old bar room style. The shooting of Dangerous Dan brought the house down with ap- Plause as did the can-can and vocal numbers by local women. Thrilling trip on railway Next morning guests boarded the White Pass train for their | trip to the interior under scenic , high peaks covered with snow. | The words of Kermit Holt, | travel editor of the Chicago Tri- ; bune, expressed the feelings of all who made the trip. He said | desire to leave Skagway. Nei- remnants of the days when the notorious gambler Soapy Smith terrorized the town, and when tens of thousands came north to search for gold. The people have preserved the old U.S. district court including the judge’s bench and been preserved under glass. This small town of 600 reminds one of a town in the days of the Old West—in fact it would he a, perfect setting for a western movie. One old gentleman who claims to be 82 said he has no ther has a younger man who eer chair. |! Many of the displays date back)’ ~ . to the days of the Russian oc-! cupation. Old court records have |.4 contrac News Desk 3204, Social 3205, Editor 3206, Sports 3207 _ MDPOL PPP LIE PLL PLO POPP OL LODO LODO LO CDDP OOOD ELE FPO PPPOE DOLD IO COCULOP LD OLD _ EMPHASIS ON INFORMALITY | DURING PEARKES’ VISIT Their first officras visit to Prince Rupert will be paid Monday and Tuesday by Lieutenant-Governor George Pearkes, VC, and Mrs. Pearkes. At their request, the visit will be as informal as possible. The vice-regal couple will arrive Monday morning at Digby Island by Canadian Pacific Airlines plane, and after a funch will attend a reception and tea at the Legion under auspices of Imperial Order Daughters of the Empire. All residents will have an opportunity to meet the couple there. dt for jobs ever VANCOUVER (CP) — The British Co- lumbia Hydro and Power Authority today announced the letting of a $73,558,648 con- tract for construction o f a mammoth dam on the northern Peace River — believed to be ene of the largest, if not the largest, single "PRICE -TEN- CEN FS—-— —- see the greatest boost they've |the rail tour was the “most; drives a taxi, putting on less , After a city-sponsored dinner at night, His Honor and -|egontract ever let in Canada. i ever received. | Spectacular and exciting’ he has | than ‘a thousand miles a year | Mrs. Pearkes will meet veterans at a Legion reception. | work on the 600-foot-high ; | Roaring days that newspaper years with | on his big new vehicle. I After visits to senior schools and Miller Bay Hos- jone and a quarter mile long an hour of power will be flowing jo ~ recalled Mr. Holt said he has travelled | Curio shops pital Tuesday morning, they will leave for Kitimat. learth-filled dam at Portage into the populous lower main- P The little town of Skagway; the world over and has not seen, dime a dozen ( o ~~ NEL ee ee aot ee tet oct land area of the province. 7 E with its many memories of the!anything to compare with the’ Curio shops are a dime a dozen.’ ; vi: ° jf Prince George. we s oork on By 1977 hydro officials esti- ; gold rush days of ’98 and the jscenery on the White Pass route. There is one on almost every | : ore rotection Sou t year bu pre iminary wor on mate that 10 generating units ! dilapidated buildings that went| Starting at Skagway, the icorner of the town and their| A T CONTEST ' erection i fated for thie sam will be producing 2,300,000 kilo- ; with it, is in itself worth a trip| train makes a steady climb to ‘prices are within reason, com-| iSeruonon is sla oreais sum= watts, _ a to this growing state of Alaska.| a point 17 miles inland known ‘pared with those of some of the! Ccach Ron Gilchrist, above, | Or Gordon Shrum, co-chair-: other towns. ) : “A carbon copy skit of the shooting of Dan McGrew put on by local citizens in full attire of | the old days, followed by a trip | as Inspiration Point, some 2,400 feet up. Here is a panoramic view of mountains, glaciers, the town of Skagway and Lynn and 29 members of the Prince Rupert Swimming Club, are in Vancouver attending the Van-. - ccuver invitational swim meet 'man of B.C. Hydro, announced after prison guard slain <& 2se.eeee"s OTTAWA (© -~- The Civil down by bullets. Marcel Mar-’ i i , ati . : . to the low bidder, Peter Kiewit Servants’ Association of Canada coux. 34, was killed and his cou- Sons Company of Canada Limit- { ; Another colorful part of the! colorful voyage was at Haines | “where passengers were greeted! on the White Pass Railway's} Canal. There is nothing quite by numerous residents and: and are expected to win their (Said today it wants a meeting sin Claude, 21, hit on the arm $4 of vancouver with Al John- narrow gauge track to Lake Ben- | like it. treated to a varied fish and! share of honors. Races are be- | With the new justice minister to by a bullet. ‘son Company of Windsor, Ont.,| nett, B.C., were a highlight of | The museum at Skagway is game dinner. ing held today and tomorrow, |45sure more adequate protec- the tour, that will never be for- located on the second floor of} The most enoyable part of the! and the group will return on {tion for prison guards following gotten. ‘the first granite building con- Haines program was an hour-: Tuesday. , yesterday’s deatn of a guard at “The skit was staged in one of structed in Alaska. In this old‘lon performance by members of | ; St. Vincent de Paul Penitentiary the town’s oldest saloons, and structure there are thousands of , ° f iI j in. Montreal. Four in family | and Dawson Company of ver | . | -couver. 375 folks flee | The Kiewit bid, opened April | 4 by a smiling Premier Ben- nett, was the lowest of four the Alaska Youth Group dress- | ; led in multi-colored Indian robes, ; Guards stormed the cell of It compared with tlooded towns 4 submitted. e e e e i : . : ; ‘two rebelling convicts with pis-_ : : ‘blankets, jackets, masks and! . roe: : 7 an estimate submitted to the ‘headgear. The dancers went! | tol-fire Thursday in a desperate | government in 1961 of $99,178,- | Fisher ies minister notes through Chilkat numbers. shot to death but unsuccessful. attempt to: YELLOWKNIFE, N.W.T. @ —| 600. - 1 ee e The ship continued from! . ae _ ae 8 fellow guard's life. viaaq Fhe 3,500 residents of this gold: The letting of the contract for “ oo . _ ° . Haines to Juneau where she was; BELLEVILLE, “Ont--@ — ay “One-of the convicts was killed. mining community have joined the dam is the second major accor on -Mm I e imit [met by 1,000 people including a Other, her two daughters and;#nd_ the other, his cousin, pands to provide shelter for eva- step toward a hydro-electric big band. ‘a sister-in-law were blasted to wounded. the third time within: °%% being airlifted to safety project the eventual cost of . i sa 3 ew . - ; : : ‘VANCOUVER © -— Federal Pacific Fisheries Commission! Last night there was a ban- aay Pre D eng e TRUS | two weeks Canadian conviets 207 two flood beleaguered which | has been estimated at Fisheries Minister Robichaud which governs a fishing treaty/Quet and a trip to the old go wounded near Castleton, a rural]; ave tried to get transferred to | This summer work will start said Thursday there seems to be general agreement among fish- eries interests on the position taken by Canada on establish- ment of a 12-mile limit off her cousts. The minister, reporting in a statement on two days of talks with fisherics interests here about Japanese Northeast Paci- Signed by Canada, the United States and Japan. | , ANNOUNCEMENT SOON | On this he said he should be in a position to make a definite announcement “within the next few days.” He was also ‘‘prepared to look ‘mine. Ferry queen is selected Miss Wrangell, Terry MacCor- mick, won the Miss Alaska Ferry Queen contest over five other. girls. Disappointment was ex-' village 38 miles west of here. One of the men, a young schoolteacher, have had his hand shot away by the same shotgun that killed Mrs. Florence Killins, her eight- month pregnant daughter Mrs. Pearl Campbell, 19, Patsy Killins, was believed to: another penitentiary by holding a guard hostage. : Guard Raymond Tellier, 35,- iwas forced into a cell at knife- ‘point after supper hour by two. convicts, who demanded they be. given transfers to Manitoba's Stony Mountain Penitentiary. More than 375 persons have been airlifted here from the flooded towns of Hay River, 117 miles to the south, and Fort Simpson, 225 miles to the east. The refugees are being quar- tered in homes, schools and business offices. ‘pressed that Prince Rupert did int have an entry ,7, and Gladys Killins, 40-year- old spinster. fic fishing rights, said: jinto the matter of adequate | “fr was pleased to hear that '@nd more practical supervision : representations on this most Of fishing operations on the high important question were in S¢as in areas controlled by pro- line with the policy outlined (Visions of existing treaties.” by the present government on And on his return to Ottawa this vital issue.” ~ Friday he said he would make. The minister also said he pre- plans to convene the Commons , pared to favorably consider es- standjng committee on: marine | tablishment of an advisory com- and fisheries during the first mittee to the International North session of the new Parliament. ~ Alabama city’s jails — jammed with negroes BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (M Police said a few rocks were Blymingham jails were filled te-} thrown, but there was no other | wind up the official inaugural; ‘cruise, A party at the Governor's| mansion was slated for today to: Malaspina, meanwhile, contin- ued south to resume her regular dutics. 150 homeless after fire in Cordova CORDOVA, Alaska (% —- About 150 persons --- more than one- tenth of the population of this fishing port town —- were home- day with hundreds of Negroes violence. arrested in what integration; “We are definitely starting a leaders described as the initial stepped-up campalen to lay our thrust of a massive renewal of! grievances before the conscience protesL demonstrations. of the community,” said Dr. The number arrested in Thurs- | Martin Luther King Jr. leader day's waves of marches and pice keting was estimated at 700 by eity jaller Chester Austin, He said more than 300 were booked nab edty jail, A matron estimated 300 to 400 were lodged nt the juvenile de- tention home and the eountry jaf] reported about 100 prisoners were taken there, POCPLO GEOL PELE COD VHP GOP LODE POPUL ORY Rambles pds Rupert of the southern Integration fight. WE WILL CONTINUE “We will have continued de- monstrations,” King sald. The obviously well - planned wives of marches and picketing, mostly by children who skipped school classes, erupted without warning. Ten groups converged on city hall from all directions, POPC POOS OOPS IOD IPDS IFEOEPOPIOVIGPELIODIIDOIP DED BLVV GLO OVOV DLO POOP OLE PLO ED “One RUMP member of the lo- en detachment is in high spirits ‘today. Const, BR, Ve Aleook (known to his friends os Al) Was notified today of his. pro- motion to the rank of corporal, Al has 168 yenrs service with the roree and was recently trnns- forred here from Oranbrook, |’ ORMES 2151 A speelal charter flight of Al- axka Coastal Bs alriines out of Juneau vin Ketehtkan to Rupert was schoduled today for some of the guests from the Mal- asplnn's formal Inaugural erulse, Malaspina herself was late lenv- Ing Ketchikan today, She is due to dock here at 7 tonight PDT With 40 prasengers and 10 vo- hielos. ¥ + Two local sports Clshormon are becoming quite famous for thelr grehos, That's right — eaches, —- not catches. If would seem Wat they enche more Hquid stuf In thelr cars than they eateh live stare, less todvy after ai fire which destroyed 4 buildings In one downtown block, The structures destroyed In- cluded two apartment houses and severnl which contained apartments upstalrs over busi- ness establishments, The state civil defence department = ar- ranged to feed and shelter the tenants, Damnge was estimated at be- tween $1,000,000 and $2,000,000 by State Sen, Harold Hansen, No one was hurt, Buslnosses dostroyed included the only drug store sorving Cor- dova's 1,200 residents, The flre stared at 3 am. (6 am, PDT) from an undetor- mined cause. By noon, firemen had tt largely contained to the offices of the Cordova Times, no weekly newspaper, The alr foree sont planes with fire truck and crow and a 12- man medileal team abonrd from Anchorage, about 150 milos west of hore. ees ee gn eam AMEE EI 9 . Engine recovered PENTICTON (h— Dopartment of transport investigators have recovered one of the two ane mines from an Aero-Cammander plane that plunged Into Skaha Like following ao mid-alr colli. sion Inat Saturday, Might pooplo —~ dneluding flve mombers of a Pentieton tamily — dled tn the collision, Robert Killins, 50, Florence’s husband and father of the two dead girls, was found lying on a road a mile from the scene of the shooting. He was under po- lice guard in hospital. PPPS. PPODO South Africa’s ‘no trial’ bill becomes law CAPE TOWN (Reuters) —- South Africa’s drastic “no trial” bill aimed at suppressing Negro sabotage and terrorism be- came law today wilh assent of act gives the justice minister power to detain a political pri- soner indefinitely when his prison sentence expires, + + Pearson has final round of talks Prime Minister Pearson today began a LONDON (ph final round of conferences wit to Windsor Castle to visit the Queen and Prince Philip. + » Mutiny by Co LEOPOLDVILLE (a) -— mutiny this morning by Leopo Co thelr superior officers in a bid for higher pay. + + Former Liberal MP named to Senate ! OTTAWA ‘°) — Maurice has been appointed to the Senate ‘and named as speaker of | the upper chamber, it was ler Liberal MP for Levis, Que., from 1040 until 1062, PPPPDPPOLOL PLP DIPLO PPE LL DODL DLO PUP L EO VDLEOVDEDD Today's News Briefs ngolese police crushed Warden Michel Lecorre OPCder— "COOP P OOP IOSE SOP L EPIL IPOS IDLO FON ed a charge on the cell five min- CANDIDATE utes later when he «aw _ blood | on diverting the river into three 2,500-foot-long tunnels now be- ing constructed through tock of Portage Mountain at a ‘cost of almost $17,000,000. ' Work on the powerhouse and penstocks will start in 1965 and by 1968 some 535,000 | Daily smile oozing into the corridor from: Housewife to friend: “I’m the cell, He said he knew it, TO BE CHOSEN glad George isn't perfect —- I must be Tellier’s, as he was un- The Liberal party proposed love to nag!” ot armed. to hold a provincial nominat- The convicts were mowed, ing convention in Prince Ru- pert later this year. This was announced follow- ing a meeting of the Skeena Liberal Assocation executive in the Civic Centre common lounge last night. Officers of the Liberal Associations of Prince Rupert, Terrace and Kitimat will mect in Terrace shortly. Plans for a picnie next month were discussed. PRPC HS. Federal nurses qet salary hikes } : | OTTAWA © --- Salary inereas- les ranging from $270 to $300 a i;venr for two grades of federal PPDDOP POPU GP VLD President Charles Swart. The + + PPPDOIPILOL DL OLS h British lenders before going | + ngolese paratroops crushed 2 PORT AU PRINCE, Haiti (m7— U.S. relations with Haiti are de-! teriorating rapidly. In the last five days the U.S.. embassy has fired off five pro-: tests to President Francois Du- | valier’s government, complain- | ing about different incidents. : All have been ignored, The incidents were: A bitterly anti-American ad-_ dress April 2b by Jacques Four- cand, pistol - carrying head of HWaiths Red Cross, at a ceremony the} U.S. relations with Haiti sliding rapidfy Idville elty police who arrested | { * Bourget, 55-year-old engineer, | rrned today. Mr. Bourget was HE SPENDS $40 EACH DAY Here’s picture of average American tourist VANCOUVER ( — Compos- ile pleture of an American tourist visiting Canada: He is 36 or oldor, He ts trav- eng with his wife, but — chances aro the ehildren have stayed home. He's prob- ubly a professtonal man, earn- Ing between $7,500 and $12,- 000 a yeur, He will spend about $40 a day while he's here. No might be coming to camp, Msh oor apend time at fm resort, bub the odds are beat- tor that he Is headed for a city. It is unlikely that he has boon here before, but t's al- most. certaln he will be back. Last, and just as Important, he will probably be on hia way heme within two cis, This, at least, is the pleture drawn in a survey by Regional Marketing Surveys Limited for British Columbia, INTERVIEWED TOURISTS Unique in Canada, it) fon- tured Interviews during the 1962 tourtst season at ports af entry and on ferries to Van ecouver and Vancouver Ishind, This year, the tentative plan is to extend the survey to vis- itors from elsewhere in Can- ndn, But the province Is not yet Miishod examining this com- poalte. American, His nffluence encourages the hatfuirs, government nurses were ane nounced today by Finance Min- ister Walter Gordon, The iIn- eroases ure retroactive to Jan. 1, 1968, and apply to the first two prades of nurses employed mainly by the departments of health and welfare and veterans tourist industry, And the Ca- nadhur Tourist Assoclation, for one hes concluded that he can be perstnded to stay long- er and spend more. One stop is Project Hospl- tility, designed to persuade the services industry to im- prove its approuch to tours ists, CTA wants 100 “hospitality schools” held dn communities weress| Canada this spring. Students will be people who meet the publle -- waltresses, cnshlers and elerks; bell boys, cab drivers and cops, The UBC. Tourlst Assoeliu- tion meeting has also heard some dowts" ohout tourist launching a government - spon- sored “month of pratefulness” to Duvaliar. Pourcand called the United States a false democracy and sald Woiti would not be a “tool of Washington.” The wife of a U.S. marine serreant was held in jail for 344 hours and a noise bomb explod- promotion: Don't remind them of home by flying the stars and stripes; Don't tale the adventure out oof thelr trip with oa “welcome — tourtsta” signin your window. And above all, said manager Roy Corbett of the B.C. Hotels Assoclation, don't risk a repl- tition of his experience on a Visit to a community in the B.C. intertor. “What's doing here these days?” Mr, Corbett recalls ask- Ing wv hotel clerk, “Buddy,” the elerk said, leaning conftidentilly across the desk, ‘nothing ever hap- pens dn this town.” es. Hn ty ee wy Ce a UBC HONORS University of British Colum- bia will confer an honorary de- gree on American UN ambas- sador Adlai Stevenson, it was announced today. Mr. Steven- ; SOn will receive the degree at the end of May, ed in the yard of another ma- rine sergeant, Police arrested a Haitian sec- retary employed by the U.S. em- bassy and are still holding her, A second Haitian secretary was marched off at gunpoint by a Haitian soldicr as she was about to report her work. She was de- itaihect briefly. A slowdown on. exit) permits for U.S, citizens living in Haiti, The issuance of visas was speed- edo up kiter, About 1,000 Ameri- cans reside here, but there has been no sien of an exodus, STOP FIRST SECRETARY The first secretary of the US, embassy was stopped at a road- block at 2am, when driving to work and made to stand in front. ‘of Che headlights with his hands up before he was released, Yuvialier’s “regime demanded last week that the United States withdraw the 60-member marine corps mission which has been training the Haitian army, WEATHER. A few clouds done the Mainland. = Mostly — eloudy over the water and the Queen Charlottes, Continu- Ing coal Winds light. Low tonight and high Saturday 32 and 50. Dally News Readings Temperature at noon i. Ge Baromler vise wae Gt TIDES (Packie Standard Timed Saturday, Muay -f, 1063 THiph .. 11:08 17.7 feet M530 10.0 feet Low oo... 08:07 4.0 feet Wild 6.0 fcat