soe Ne ee CITY LAWYER AL A. Dee Ye BS swearing-in ceremony as newly elected Chamber of Commerce President Neil MacQonalu «nd Vice-President J. H. Jefferies take oath of cffice. Bive athers elected to the executive council a es tee iy : Po 7 7 : ‘eat n . oe a $ : W. MACDONELL Ueft) conducts official fur two-year torms Monday night were: A. S. Bill, N. R. Chrs- ewer t wwe tensen, O. 1. Fidsvik, Robert Margetson and J. D. McRae. Named to one-year terms were: Arthur Beliveau, Will Hankinson and W.G_) McGruther., ALASKA FERRIES TO BRING EXPANSION ~~ Traffic problems looming large . for aty, Mayor Lester indicates Prince Rupert faces many ma- 7 for problems in 1963. Many of these will be aggra- vated by immediate economic expansion expected to come with the. start of the Alaska ferry system, for which the city will be the southern terminus. This was pointed out by Mayor P. J. Lester at the outset of his New Year message delivered at last night's statutory meeting of City Council. Traffic problems and the need for more housing bulked large in the matters which the Mayor saw as reavirine review and policy makitys, He said, however, there were other fmoortant niatters, “any of Which are budeet considera- tions.” including: i @ A review of the police force estabishnicnt: @ A recreational and civie im- | be to supervise to a greater ex- itent than has been possible up to now, all moving traffic, pay- ing particular attention on a two Shift basis to impaired and drunken driving, speeding, care- less and reckless driving in order to make our roads safer. Street Use—Cost of develop- ment and maintenance of roads in Prince Rupert is the largest single annual expenditure made by the city. The high cost of con- Struction makes it mandatory that they be used as efficiently as possible as thoroughfares.” Details which will have to be considered Mayor sald, are, t tina Pea, Ue city-oper- Establishment of ated parking areas, Developemnt of trailer park areas, tequirement that operators of commercial vehicles develop off street storage. ready made a start in building trental housing units and I am ‘pleased to be able to say that ‘there is active interest by re- sponsible groups in housing. The new government policy which permits Central Mortgage and Housing Corporation to lend di- rect to builders will also be help- ful. “Consideration will have to be given to: Development by the city or pri- vate developers of residential areas with particular reference to the Seal Cove and i Section 4. 4 A chanve in the method of ap- plication for ‘land which will prevent specula- | tion by requiring an option de- { posit.” additional i By-laws covering developers, and utility and road extensions. the sale of city — Staff Photo Civil servants’ pay being distributed OTTAWA ‘(i~-Distribution of retroactive cheques for more than 50,000 civil servants begins today the government’s central pay office said Monday. A pay office spokesman said the total value of the cheques, which bring the civil servants Pay increases dating back to Oc- tober, 1961, will be about $14,- 000,000. He said there was no basis for earlier estimates of $40,000,000. ye ed Prince Rupert Daily: News 4 Tuesday, January 8, 1963 ° DIPPDDS: SURVIVAL KIT ON: ROAD LIST BELLA COOLA, B.C: iQ) —~.- Things can get: tough on some: remote B.C. highways in win- ter. The provincial hig. vays de- partment, reporting Monday. on condition of the 60-mile Bella CoolarAnahim Lake road running inland from the north coast said: “Road open, winter condi- tions, plowed, use snow tiresy. carry. chains, shovel. and axe, food and-clothing.” . Salmon research said lacking co-ordination SEATTLE (—Salmon research has been stepped up in the past two years but lacks co-ordina- tion, a tisheries: authority said’ Monday. Richard S. Croker of Portland, @ ‘executive director of the Paci- ,sion, commented in an interview: Royal Roads should stay, officers sav VICTORIA @ A mendation by the Glassco Royal Commission to close Royal Roads service college drew on- position Monday night from re- :tired senior officers of the navy .and army, but support from a recom- | tic Marine Fisheries Commis~ Committee for 1963 appoint at City Council statutory meet: , Committees: for 1963 were cs- tablished'at last night’s statutory meeting of City Council. Only major difference in desig- nation from 1962 committees {is splitting of police and traffic safety into two separate com- mittees, in view of greater cm- phasis to.be placed by the city on traffie problems. Ald. Norman Bellis heads the finance committee, which was chaired’ last year by Ald. A. D. Ritchie. All members of council belong to this key committee. Other committees set wp are: Board of works, Ald. Ritchie, chairman, and all members of council; utilities, Ald Darrow Gomez, chairman, and all mem- bers of council; health and li- cencing, Ald. H. J. Scholten, chairman, and all members of council; police, Ald. Bellis, chair- man, Mayor P. J. Lester and Ald. Ritchie; traffic and traffic safe- ty, with special reference to a ‘traffic safety program, Ald. A. F. Hartwig, chairman. and — all as fisheries experts for the second governors’ salm-+ on conference, : The meeting is a follow-up to a salmon rehabilitation meeting in Juneau, Alaska, two years ago, “There must be more pulling together,” said Craker, “instead of so much competition for funds and manpower. We have to find ways to bring all groups toge- |- ther if we are to save the re- source.” Representatives of fish and}: game agencies of Washington,] Oregon, California, Alaska and Idaho attended the There also are participants from Canada, federal agencies ‘and commercial and sports fishing interests. Mistletoe, the yule log and- the wassail bow! are relics of . mide |: winter celebrations from pre- meeting. }- Christian times. ‘ 4 i { members of council; housing, assembled ‘Mayor Lester, chairman, and all ! members of council. rey eS OY ee Ye 8 et ewe TTYL Eh rE KR EAH DY VV Pee ee ee ee chairman, and all members of. council; Pioneer Home, Ald. Go- mez, chairman, G, E, Carlson, J. D. Mulroney, and J. C. Lam- bic; wage and personnel, Ald: Bellis, chairman, Mayor Lester and Ald. Ritchle; purchasing, Ald. Ritchie, chairman, Ald Hartwig and Ald. Bellis; court of revision, Mayor Lester, Ald. Rit- chie and Ald. Bellis; industrial development, Mayor Lester and all members of, council. A new power committee to study present and future power jnecds of the city, has yet to be appointed, The Library Board. will’ con- sist of Ald. Ritchie, chairman, T. B. Black, W. C. Hankinson, Mrs. B. J. Fortune, Mrs. M: Scott, Ro- land Smith and Mrs. R. G, Large. The Parks Commission — will consist of H. S. Harrison, re- appointed, and Graham. Alexan- der and Bob Graham, for 1963- 64, with K. H. Andren, Robert: Giordano and Jack Lem contin- ulng their terms during, 1963. . NEW CHAIRMAN . A port committee to make an, iover-all study of present port Airport, Ald. J. W.. Prusky, | facilities, and to recommend to COOL OP LOLI BDC CDOOE DOD OLD DLDPL ED DOC LOD VO OE DOVI DO DODO LOD DOOCORDOOD $3,000 OBJECTIVE LOCALLY WHEN HUNDRED MOTHERS MARCH FEB. Ray Billing will direct the annual Mothers’ March in Prince Rupert February 2. Funds raised will go to the Poliomyelitis and Fehabilitation Foundation of B.C. to Kinsmen president, caicl, at 6:30 p.m. They will be mothers taking pert in B.C, is $275,000. help disabled people to walk and work again. The drive's objective locally is $3,000, Don Cameron, A hundred mothers will march February 2, starting part of an army of 20,000 Their goal for the province Donations through this Kinsmen-sponsored venture “have built up a fine service for the disabled. Fifty per- sons in this district haw: benefitted directly from the directly. x POOPLO ODL OP IO DD OLED LP D OL ODPL OP DOLL DODODOVVCODODVOOCDD DO services: provided hy the Mothers’ March and: others in- coccccccooe all of. a blood vessel, the council: immediate and: long.. term “plans: for, improvement: of: these port facilities, will. have. Jack: Lindsay,. chairman. , Other members :are R. A, McLean; J:.W. | Scott, Earl Gordon: and Magis-. trate. E. T. Applewhaite,; secre- tary.. os City representatives: to: other- boards: and. organizations: are:: Civic Centre Association; Ald: Hartwig: and Derrick: Ratcliffe; a Prince: Rupert General Hospital: ' Association; Ald. Prusky;: Mus- eum of Northern. British Colum. bia, Ald. Prusky; Citizenship Council; Ald. Scholten; Skeena. Union. Board! of Health; Q:,E, Carlson and Ald. Scholten; Sen- lor Citizens’ Housing Association, Ald. Ritchle, and’ Port: Commit- tee, Ald. Ritchie. . Japanese. youth: . discovers. comet | COPENHAGEN: (# — The cen- tral bureau of the International: Astronomical Union confirmed | today that a 19-year-old Jap-- anese hds-found'a new. cometi The bureau was advised" by cable from Tokyo Saturday that Kaoru Iketani, 4 factory worker. in central Japan, had found a. comet 27 degrees south. of the celestial equator. | -" All major observatories .in. the world have been advised by the bureau to watch. the. course: of the comet, which, according to a bureau spokesman, is. moving. south slowly. sete f Webb improves: HOUSTON, Tex, ~~. Actar: Clifton Webb, 69, was reported, resting: well following. m&jor surgery. Monday, The. operation. was to correct an abdominal. an-. eurism — a bubble. that. forms. when there is.a weakness in, the. : . : . : cs j 2 , + id: . : Limitation of excessively Sumniine up, the Mayor said: retired air marshal. provement policy: @ Development of the new city hal, he city offiees wil! move! into the post offiee building on | Third Avenue when the postal | department occupies i*S quarters | in the new federal buildine be- ing constructed on Second Av- enuel: @ A campaign for industrial and!—ment'Private groups have al- ‘that lie before us.” port promotion. The Mayor foresaw council ae- “Doctor competition” in Canada hit by magazine tion in the followine: PRIVATE LINES Telephone-—“We will have to Hive some thought to providing private lines to those subscribers who are prepared to ‘pay the ex- tra cost. We will have to consider also the narrow spread between a four party line at $3.30 and a private residential line at $4.40. Fire The fire department will carry on its tire prevention program, inspections and all the other methods they have used to make 1962 one of Prince Ru- pert’s lowest fire loss years,” TWO TRAFFIC CONSTABLES Police & Traflie-——The increas- ed number of cars and commer- cial vehieles in the city as well as the antleipated inerease in traf- fic to and from Alaska, together With our narrow, congested roads, will present serious prob- Jems in traffie safety. Council should consider the advisnbillty of increasing the police estab- lishment to permit: two con- stables to devote ai their time to traffic safety only. The fune- tlon of the traffie patrol would Indians may be holding crash victims captive RIO DE JANEIRO Reuters) Savage Indians in GBragils Am-~ a4zon basin may be halding 24 af 47 persons still missing from a Panalr do Brazil urliner that erashed in the jungle lost month uceording to press reports from Manaus, in the heart of Ama- Zonda, Relatives of the missing per- sons aim to have received in- formation that savage Indiana were In the area where the plane crashed, neeording to the reports, Bragil’s Inciin Preteetion Ser. Viee plins to begin a serreh for elites to the whereabonte af the Wisse peas, The boches of the other 88 per. eons aboard the cirhner were ree covered, : | | large and heavy vehicles to eertain: areas, { “T Know that with the earnest co- operation of mernners of council Parking meters, | positive progress will be made Installation of additional j with these problems and others traffic lights, pwhich Will arise during the year. Establishment of traffic | Prince Rupert has entered a | lanes in some locations. iprowth stage and we must make Housing and Land Develop-;the most of the opportunities ; LONDON (4 -—— Medical service ih Canada and the United States. suffers .bacause of com- petition among doctors, says an article in the British mecical magazine The Lancet, “This competition, which — is inevitable In a system where the patient alone may decide whom to consult, is the main cause of one most unhappy feature of North American medieine,” say doctors Joan and Michael lLen- nard, The Bristel) general practition- hers write that their visits to Can- ida and the United States show doctors have a lack of interest iin the “traditional role of family ‘counsellor and social adviser,” inIthough they say the situation iis worse in the United States ‘than in Canada, The article suggests North American peneral practitioners ida more surgery than they are trained to do, beenuse they are In competition with specialists, “To hand mw patient over for surgery may result in the loss of that patient, and perhaps the whole family from the referring doctor's are." BAD SURGERY RESULTS The writers say “some bad surgery’ by general praetition- ers results from statns con. SCIOUSIIESS, “Some — fenernl may find it difficult to adimtt that they nore Jess competent than somebody elne to deal with Ww partiewiar problem, and feel that they will lose status, and the confidence of the patient, by referral." The artlele uso says surgery Has an immediate finaneial ad- vantage that leads ao few doc. tars to praetise it somewhat in- diserbininately, It also saya some universition In North America are trylng to eneourare more seciad and Jess spechuiat mediedne, The Univer- practitioners | sity of Alberta's program is es- pecially praised. The university's family-study method leads each student to {become “a firm believer in the concept of camprehensive medi- sal care,” says the article. Group to pay for Benneit's radio series VANCOUVER (@ --- A group of businessmen has agreed to un- derwrite a series of radio inter- views featuring: Premier W. A.C, Bennett, program producer Bob Bowman sald Monday, The unnamed men will pay costs of the weekly 15-minute show on station CKLG and CKNW without expecting any advertisingg time in return, Bow man said, "Th means the premier won't have to po commercial,” the freelance producer said. Bowman had announced ear- lier What he was looking for a commercial sponsor and until he found one he would pay the $80- n-week costs out of his) own pocket, re RR I ROR TERRY EET LTENE REE e ee cg COURT RESUMES QUESNEL () -—— Assize Court resumes today when Judge F, C, Monroe hears the case of Ross Darel Sproxton, charged with erimina, negligence in the death of Gunnar Lief Wasstrom last October. Oa Oem eae ETD ee Be tte Eg Ree nee HTS pion Ste Bw YOUTHS QUESTIONEN VANCOUVER