Se TL Se el ee a ee ee i Cr er Py eee ee ek nO Kitimat foursome: to re tera VOL. 53, No. 64. we A “FIRST” RACKED UP IN Skip Jean Billing and other members of her rink, second Arene Bellamy, lead Yuri Ezaki Prince Rupe Published at Cana Business, Classified 3203 . Advertising 3201 eee and third May Clouthier, scor- ea first eight-ender in the his- tory of the Women’s Bonspiel in the 11th annual ’spiel which ended today. They scored the curling feat in competition . KODIAK, Alaska ((#%) — More than 150 Russian fishing vessels’ are operating in the frigid Bering: Sea and some 70 Japanese hali-; but boats are in the East Bering} area, a Seattle Times writer re- ported Friday. aries ee i * Stanton H. Patty? on assign-! nent wiith the United States; halibut fleet, said he saw about! 100 Russian vessels—whalers and | modern super - trawlers with; broods of catcher boats—on a: flight with a Navy vatro] plane. , In one concentration about 50: miles north of Unimak Pass, he’ wrote, 75 Soviet ships were ‘ar- | ranged in a circle 75 miles across. , “The contingent included: trawlers of all sizes,” he said,, “cargo vessels, smaller catcher: boats and hefty whalers. Some: boats were tied alongside tankers | taking fuel. Others were unload- | ing catches at giant, ice-scearred. factory ships.” Sanadian and American hali-! but boats sighted later were toys. Inaugural run | schedule set — Proposed schedule for the in-- angural voyage oof Malaspina, hes been unnounced by officials! of the Marine Highway ferry sys- tem. She will leave Prince Rupert af 9 aam., April 287, a Saturday, arriving at Ketchikan at 3 pam: that day, She will leave Ketchikan at 6 am. Aprif 28, arriving ut Wrangell at noon, leaving there uf 3 pam. and arriving at Peters- burg at @ pam. that day. On Monday, April 20, she will leave Petersburg at & acm. «und arrive ub Sitka oat 6:30 0 pam, April 380 she is scheduled to leave Sitki al 8380 aan, arriving: at Shiugway at &@ pam. On May | she WHI leave Skagway at 4 pam, arriving at Taines at 6 pam, On May 2 she will leave Halnes at Ho aan, for Janeauo where she is scheduled toe doek at 3:30 pam. PHIVOLI IPEDS LO CLO LPIELOLI PIE FIVE LE PV GEOG EVO DOOR OL LV OPOPOOOOCUOVEVEOH Rupert Rambles rwbVooee PEPE LPPIP LOD ODIO ELI P IPD OVD OD ODL DE PLO OLOLOPOLO OVO COOL OVOOOO boat yWwoo af the most active indl- vidas at the Women's Bonsplel werd Joe Metay and “Bet-a- vey” Lambie, Rumor has ft that Lambie won the fabulous amount of 28 cents from Mektay, ORMES “DRUGS LTD. DIAL 2.151 eo, ew ee SA at | ~ Canadian halibut boats look like toys against Russians’ WIM 8 te | ee tte vee een ' . compared to the Russian and day for the Canadians and Japanese craft, he said, | Americans. Japan recently re- “Sapanese mother ships and | ceived approval ina three-nation' catcher boats intermingled on | agreement to extend its halibut the halibut grounds with the i operating into the Eastern Ber- American - Canadian halibut , ing, ' fleet of 80 ships,” wrote Patty. | Canada, however, has not yet! “This three-nation mixup was: strung cut beyond the plane’s | received approval in the United! long-range radar.” | States. Russia is not a party to: The halibut season began Mon-' the North Pacific fishing pacts. ' Ticket holder hopeful — of $1,100 for starter — Althcugh the horse on which, his Trish Sweepstakes ticket was drawn failed tg place in Satur-- day's running Of the Grand Na-- joray steeplechase at Aintrec, England, Ncrman Cronk of; Pilot sought after plane wreck found ALBERNI, B.C. -(h — A Pilot Pe nee ee es te wpparently far off course on a 1 flight from Vancouver to Prince Quake kills 4 Rupert, erashed into Sproat! TENRAN, Iran (Reuters) — | Lake near this west-coast Van- Four persons were killed and two couver Island city. Jothers were injured Sunday His plane, a Mooney direraf, When an earthquake struck the with the identifying letters CFM Village of Hendo Jan, northeast XM, wits found by wn RCAF heli- (Pan, it was announced today, copter late Friday, | poKiey PATS A ground party found no §& 7 trace of Vancouver pilot Riehard & Hanson, who was alone in the craft, Remains af the plane were not far from nearby Doge Mountain F where residents said they had | seen it po into a sereaming dive. Thursday, It was raining abt the Lime, with strong winds, Prince Rupert Is northwest of 2, Prince Rupert looked forward to caliceting about $1,100 for a starter, Mr. and Mrs. Cronk, who live at 1446 Second Avenue West, lis-' tened to the race on radio. Mr. Cronk’s ticket was on Dandy Tim which trailed in the} ‘field. Ayala won the 122nd run-, ning of the Grand National, Car- | tickbers came second and Hawa's! (Sone third, | » "We're poing to pay off some bills with) the winnings,” Mrs. Cronk aid. Vancouver, Porl Albernt due west, : Local skin cdlverg planned to} ko Into Sproat Lake early today in a search for Hanson, Joe Sheppard's canteen crow |: : at the bonspiel deserve a “well |: done" for their efforts, Only one | complaint was heard from the many customers, That one cume fromoan irate customer who ob- served Cook Jimmy Little using i oplekle dish for an ash tray, + The Dally Nows was happy to learn today that it even has some steady readers in North Nollywood and Sania Ana, Calle fornin, Loeal Clothier WHE Stone tes Ws dna post enrd from California where he ta holidvy- ON TRIP Governor William Egan of Aluska, above, will head Al- naki'a dologation aboard Mal- aspinn for the Inaugural voy- age from Prince Rupert April 27. Promlor W, A, C, Bonnett and members of his enbinet, wnd the Yukon Commissloner have been invited, along with Ing, that there are many ex] representatives of low dha Rupertites residing in the two] magnanes and nowapapoars tn cles, the United Stutos aud Crud, 1 hh re | | ratified the “agreement. It hadj - da’s Most Strategic Potitid Port — And Key to the Great Northwest aeweieny a x Se SN SS S WOMEN'S BONSPIEL against Tona Armstrong’s rink. See also stories page 4. (Harrington photo) FLECTED President Dave Bannister of the Prince Rupert Jaycees has been elected president of the North Coast Skeena Junior Chamber of Commerce. Named to the post of vice-president at the annual district meeting in Kitimat Saturday and Sun- day was Nat Zasso of Kitimat. Mr ZAasso also won the publie speaking contest, district fin- ws, beating out Mr. Bannister for the right to attend the pro- vineial finals in Prince George. A delegation of 14 Prince Ru- pert Jayeees attended the an- nau affair. PRINCE RUPERT, B.C., M 7 imported gogds worth an esti- News Desk 3204, Sports 3207, Social 320 NDAY, APRIL 1, 1963 rob PPLOOPCDO DOPOD POPC OOCOOOOPOOE PP PLP PLO OEP OL ODL OO DEO DOO EDOOOCOCE OOO ALL FOUR CANDIDATES - TO APPEAR ON TV FORUM All four Skeena candidates in next Monday’s elec- | _ tion will take part in a television forum 11:20 tonight and tomorrow night on TV station CFTK. . , Candidates Frank Howard of the New Democratic _: Party, Ronald Jephson of the Progressive Conservatives, _ John Magor of the Liberals and Lewis Madley of the Social Credit Party will participate in the Jaycee-spon- sored meeting. | Questions: pertaining to current election issues will , be put to the four candidates. PODOPDPDC CPOE ODOPO “111 hours of sunshine -at Digby last month ' March, which came in like a lion and went out like a lamb, was the sunniest month for Prince Rupert so far this year. A total of 111.8 hours of sun- shine was reported for the month from Digby Island today, less than the 136.3 hours record- ed in March of last year but still : making it one of the sunniest | Marches in recent years. Reports of possibly last week. Police today are searching for Heinz Carl Schnober, 31, em- ;Ployee at Jedway mining opera- tions, who set out in qa kayak Thursday morning. The craft was found beached in the area Saturdav at noon. Meanwhile, officials of the De- partment of Transport were re- ported to be investigating re- Ports of damage to installations on the Queen Charlotte Islands, Precipitation at Digby Island from a tidal wave that rolled in station last month consisted of from the Pacific. 5.61 inches of rain, compared OIL TANKS HIT with 12.87 inches in February , Crab fishermen reported that and 7:57 inches in January, ‘oil tanks mounted on solid con- , Hours of sunshine in January crete bases at Weah Point off ‘totalled 27.9 and those of Fe ruary, 31.6. was 36.7 with a high of 48 and _ water. a low of 25. | The tanks are owned by Im- t e | The January mean was 34.7, perial Oi! and serve t Govt lifts and that of . February, 43.2. ; : (52 and 11, and February, 64 and | Association.’ | surcharges 21. A tidai wave 35 Langara Island, Sad ate ~ OTTAW. Advance poil i continues today | whether this was the same tida @ — Surcharges on lands, recently. mated -$1,00Q000,000 a year in- cluding suchfconsumer goods as | cars, furnif re and clothing, were removed today by the fed- eral government, ” Elimination of the last of the for eligible voters who will bejat Masset. out of town or otherwise unable ltne federal! election. PROVINCIAL LIERARY VICTURIA, - Masset had been ripped from | {their posts by the force of the | Mean temperature last month ‘wave, and were floating in the summer fishing operations of Prince Ru- Highs and lows were: January; pert Fishermen’s - Co-Operative feet high hit narthernmost | point of thé Queen Charlotte Is-/rescued three’ people’ who hung from windows of the sixth floor It was not immediately known |screaming for help. 1 Damage to the hotel, badly urned inside, but left standing and almost unchanged on the The tidal wave is believed to ‘outside, was estimated at $100,- :to. cast ballots next Monday in!have originated from disturb- ‘000. Advance polls continue today!wave which caused the damage |b ~ Sra ert aaege 24 tx C Cc . DEC 31/€3 ORLA ETL 5 PRICE TEN CENTS one man having drown- ed and damage in the area of the Queen Char- totte Islands came into Prince Rupert today, following a tidal wave which struck the region ‘ances which brought heavy damage and loss of life in vol- -cano eruptions on the island of Bali. Three men die in hotel fire VANCOUVER (0) Three men died and 137 guests fled in their pyjamas when fire raced through a part of the downtown Austin Hotel early Sunday. Two of the dead were identi- ‘tied as Maurice Bernstein, and William Brender, both about 60. Their bodies were found in {hallways on the hotel's sixth. floor. The third victim was in a |bea where the fire is presumed to have started from a ciga- rette. Seven and later released. Firemen on erial surcharges imposed last June 24, | | Six days after the 1962 general |, he at Bb pou tee en Eliminated today were 10-per day. ; ‘cent surcharges on imported cars, clothing, refrigerators, most : iplastic manufactures, carpets, [chocolate and sugar candy or |confectionery, cut flowers, cigars and cigarettes, ale and beer, most liquor, wine, perfume and |toilet preparations, silverware, ;cameras of a kind not made in (Canada, motion picture projec- | tors, skis and ski fittings, dolls, | toys and toy electric trains; Five per cent surcharges on ‘most textile fabries, most pa- jpers, domestic washing and dry- ing machines, some radios, fur- jniture, some photographic films, iunmanufactured tobacco, bath- tubs, sinks and laundry tubs. Daily smile A successful man is one who: Sponsorship of a contest for ‘makes more :money than his |;Miss Alaska Ferry Queen has wife can spend. A successful wo-: been announced by Chris Palzer, man is one who can find such concessionaire of the Alaska a man. ‘State Ferries. PHOPO POP LOOP COD OF PLP LPG DP DPDPAL ADLER OP OOD OOOH Today’s News Briefs PO PLI PLE FIL DL DID LE PPP OP LPODO PDO ID D DO CDOP DOOD OLO OUP OEP LOG CPOE LEV OCROOOE Strikes cripple Paris bus system PARIS (Reuters) —~ A series of lightning strikes almost paralyzed the Paris bus system today. The traffic chaos that resulted had a sharper impact on the public than the strike Plane crash survivors want their WHITEHORSE, Yukon (() -— Wilderness survivors Trelen Kla- ben and Ralpn Flores both are reported seeking: possession of a diary found in the rugped nor- thern British Columbian area where they spent 49 days after their plane ernshed, Flores, reeovering in) White- horse hospital from injuries suf- fered In the crash, said he has asked for the diary. Miss Klaben, in telephone cntls to Whitehorse RCMP from her Brooklyn home and earlier from Fairbanks, Alaska, and Seattle, also requested the diary. The diary, contained ino a brigtease, was reported taken from the plane by ROMP from Watson Lake to Whiteborse Saturday but potice declined to say what they planned to tlo with it. WATSON LAKE, Y.T. CQ) =~ A hetleopter pilot who visited the rugged spot in northern Bri- (sh Columbia where a plane crashed Fob. 4 says it's a wonder Helen Klaben and Ralph Flores survived the crash, Mot Chureh Ford suid Sat- Urday: “It's ao miracle that they ved at all, I took lots of grit ane determination,” Ford sald the Plores-Klaben Phew single-engined Howard arerafl. was wu complete write. of 240,000 coal miners, r - + | ye Bomb explodes in Montreal federal building, MONTREAL @ -- A bomb exploded today in a federal government building Ino Montreal housing internal revenue offices, but no one was injured. A newspaper was tipped off that the explosion would occur, by a caller who said the in- cident was planned by the Quebee Liberation Front. v + Ld t New York newspaper strike ends diary back | off. He said both wines were torn off, and one could not be found, The engine was twisted Under the body of the plane. “The forward gas tank was NEW YORK (% — New York's tl4d-day newspaper strike erushed in the Impact and Ij) has ended with the roar of high-speed presses. A series of ‘can’t understand why it didn't cateh fire," Ford added, COMES TOO LATE Sweepstakes winners sadly say ‘it makes no difference now” Jabor disputes had shut down the papers and cost the city’s economy an estimated $250,000,000, VANCOUVER (0) — The Mrs.) Fritsch, 71, widowed } hard-earned by myself. I've got big, eaay money came too late | nurse: wll 1 need." for Mrs. Eda Tmler, Mrs. Lena “I don't want to travel, I did Both women plan to give Fritech and Adam Johnston, that when J] was younger. I | some awny to people in need, Confronted wlth $150,000 | come from yich people--my There may be one departure Wins each In the Irish Sweep- | prandtather had a big hotel ab | from routine for Mrs. Umer, stakes, thoy surveyed their | St, Morita—and when I was | She said she might visit a nlece on Vancouver Island 30 miles away, PAY OTUERS' PILES Mrs, Fritsch, a doctor's wWi- dow who works for a Vaneotte ver doctor, sid “1 pay the bills for people who need help quiet dives Sunday and de- clded the money wilh make no real difference now. Mrs. Imler, 78, housewife: “We have a house and there's no room for any more furni- ture in the four rooms, My younger I had Jots of money, I rave dt al) away to the poor, “This time VI keep some for myself, but Vl go on works ing.” Mr. Johnston, 68, a $00-0- week nuetioneer's rssistant: . . "T feel wonderful but it's not | with doctor's bills." 8s his longshore- husband a his I nashor . | going to make a bit of dit- She suid she will continue mons pension and we have Ou | ference, Pin going to let the | working, “because it's my. life old age pensions, so we're | money punt sit in the bank, to look after the siek and pretty well off." ‘T've had money before this, | needy.” 1 neta aL a BE A ROM Ih Erte et OM et bey te ciel thee Bret y Paes Wanye Pepe meg Sad ary age a Ny Fae Pine be. week before the Apell 6 slectinn ‘Centre. It was also open Satur- | Fi er, f Yy G C €efi Con { eS t ~ _ sponsored in Alaska ; The contest, under rules of ; the Miss Universe contest, seeks icontestants from all cities and , Lowns served by the Alaska State ferrics. The announcement did not jstate whether this ineludes | Prince Rupert, southern termin- ‘us of the Marine Highway ferry i system. The winner will be chosen dur- jing the official inaugural voyage ‘of Malaspina, first of the Marine ‘Highway ships to go into ser- | vice, April 27 through May 2, Winning contestant will be awarded a trip to the 1964-65 New York's World Falr and will represent the Marine Highway ‘system there. She wil) be eligiblo as a contestant in Miss Alaska state finals in Fairbanks in March, 1964. Entrants must be betwoen 18 and 28 years of age, James G. Pinkerton, in charge of the Ketchikan contest, - said he would make available rules and regulations shortly. Under the proposal put for- ward hy Palzer, town and city councils will be asked to subnit their winning contestant not later than April 24. Candidates will be guests of honor on the inaugural voyage. WEATHER A Fneific weather system threatens the north coast for Tuesday. Variable cloudiness today, becoming overenst to- night. Rain Tuesday, Not much change tn tempera- Lure, Light winds today, be- coming southeast 15 tonteht and southeast 26 Tuesday, Low tonight and high Tues diy 368 and 46. Daily News Readings Temperature ut noon... 40 Barometer, steady 20.033 TIDES Tuesday, April 2, 1969 {(Paeitle Standard Time) Wigh ... O8L04 $7.6 feel 21:42 16.6 feot Low 02:01 1.8 fort 15:06 6.0 feot dem tie et a te ee wt a shots qeewa Sw MAG wg, injured persons were taken tc hospital for treatment ladders . . dae otte Is. Vian missing in Jedway area 1 ‘ oo we BL wy TH a