4 ge ge tip lap ee EE i a Sr ey SURED te as > a OR PR RH EE ED ORE OOO E i Business, Classified 3203. Advertising 3201 rince Kuper Daily News 4 Official opening of the Mc- --Cracken Memorial high school : bonspiel will take place Mon- day at 2 p.m. Honor of throw- .ing the first rock will go to ,Mrs. Darrow Gomez, president ‘of the Women’s Curling Club. Senior high school vice-prin- os cipal Frank Sutton will extend greetings from teachers and school district. Curlers will be piped around the rink by Rod- dy McLean, festivities will be handled by Harley Lewis as master of ceremonies. Curling starts at 8 am. Monday. In SET UP DRAWS FOR STUDENTS’ BONSPIEL t | picture above, setting up draws, are, left to right, draw- master Iain Cullen, chairman Phillip Lloyd, draw supervisor Doug Kerr and assistant draw- master Brian Lewis. For com- plete draw for Monday’s play see page 6. - Tough defence boss wanted by Liberals , i | { - OTTAWA (& — The Liberals tolerate again such public dis-. are looking for a hardrock de- agreements by the military with | “> genera] ment they form. fence department and Steps out of Jine on policy. Somé Liberals say . recent” ‘histury shows a defence min- military. 4 fence minister for any govern-. government policy. t 1 1 Graft charge - i probe called — witch hunt” | t VICTORIA @—The legisiative | board inquiring into charges of j \ Some miliary officers say the 8raft within the British Colum- | down” any senior officer who'and that it needs one. Many Liberals want a tough' defence department hasn’t had: bia highways department ‘cookie to “shake out” the de-!a shaking up since the post-war Journed Wednesday in an uproar | “shoot defence buildup started in 1950 OVer costs. - | ad- ; | When if rose until today the | They add that the department board still was undecided whe- sometimes gets bogged down in‘ther to call Hi almost endless committee meet-.P. A. Gaglardi as a witness. - Waldo Skillings, Social Cre- |day countrywide strike within quo. The former Libera] adminis-i NEEDS BACKING tration was embarrassed b public statements by Lt. - Gen. . Guy Simonds, then chief of the staff, advocating na- * tional selective service, but nev- 2 @tfired him. * The Liberals say they won't: Dolly Varden. may increase share issue VANCOUVER @ --- Dr. F.C, Buckland, president of Dolly Varden Mines Ltd., says a special general meeting of shareholders has been called for April 23 to discuss a proposed increase in capitalization to 4,000,000 from 3,000,000 shares, Most of the $750,000 to be raised would be used to bring the firm's properties near Alice Arm into) full) production, he sald. . Dolly Varden Mines, made up of several silver properties in northwestern B.C, $s to start production this summer. The firm announced oariter that $600,000 would be spent to tune up the company's 400-ton-a-day mill and resume drilling opera- tions halted by winter weather. “Dr Buckland sald initial re- sults of the spring drilling pro- gram would be announced at the coming meeting, Yj Some Liberals say a new de-| ister must lay down the law in (ings and that often new, bright ; the department in his first 19 | ideas are rejected by officers; days or be “captured” by the |interested mainly in the status, ‘fence minister should have the | ‘unqualified backing of the prime | t | rovernment in the minister to achieve reforms the department, including power to fire senior officers. Liberal Leader Pearson has al-: ‘ready publicly advocated what massive ; would amount to a shakeup in the defence depart- ment: Integration of the armed forces under “single control.” HERE'S MAN The man Mr. Pearson may pick for the job, if he forms a government, is Charles Mills (Bud) Drury, 50, MP for Mont- real St. Antoine-Westmount. He was deputy defence minis- ter under the late Brooke Clax- ton jn the busiest. years of the defence buildup and knows the department inside out. Moreover, he’s a hardrock. Guerrillas slain SAIGON (a) Vietnamesrn troops killed oN Communist guerrillas in a Me- kong River delta operation Wed- nesday, but lost seven killed in an ambush elsewhere, authori- ties reported today. Daily smile If money grew on trees, chan- ces are the government would tax the seedlings, GPOPLGPIDODOPOPREPESLOCLE COL CETVOL FIPOPDOPV IIE POOPOOP OP OOODOCVOOOU TE - Rupert Rambles SOOOPOLLOIIO PIII LOVELAEPIIV IDE DIDO PO DEL ODP OODODODUPIOCUDOCUO OCOD The recent warm weather has for the start of the Tlks Bon- brought summer oulfits ont of the mothballs for many Ruport residents, One woman was .ob- served shopping on Third Av. enue ino a paly of shorts. Sho wasn't carrying &@ eamera so she couldn't have been a tourist, + te cy “rt you haven't had enough curling, visil the club tonight ORMES DRUGS LTD, DIAL 2151 on spiel, Curling begins at 6:30. +e & Application by WC. Airlines Ltd, for w protected Class IL xervico hetween Prince Rupert, Masset and Sandspit has boen deferred by the Alr Transport Board, However the firm was Branted permission Wednesday fo operate protected Class IT sorvices on three other B.C, const routes to the south, IL MeLNE planes must operate under Ww rogwar schodule with w fixed son rate, The route cannot be paralloled by w charter service without permission. All routes we ab present served by B.O, Aly Lines under Class ID Heen- ton pormitting frregular sched - wes, 1 { 1 1 $ dit member for Victoria, said the inquiry had been going on | for five weeks as a Roman ho!- | iday and was a waste of mon- ey. He said it was a witch hunt and had found out nothing. The 13 members of the board ' are receiving $25 a day and, said | Mr. Skillings, ‘“we’re wasting public money right now = and_ everybody in this comunittee | knows it.” Opposition leader Ropert Stra- chan of the New Democratic Party called the remarks “scur- -rilous.” i | ’ f ‘Shared jn payoffs fron. gamb- Walter Mulligan back in B.C. | VICTORIA 10-—-Walter Mulli- gan, the Vancouver police chief | fired at his own request during a 1956 graft investigation, has Ex-police chief returned from the United States costs or in default. two months. for two months. to retire in suburban Oak Bay. Jafter pleading guilty to an im- took place March 30. Tn an interview Wednesday he: declined to discuss the — royal commission investigation which | resulted in the Tupper report. ; The report, brought down by R.: H. Tupper on his six-month tn- quiry into the affairs of the, Vancouver police department, said Mr. Mulligan, while chief, lers, @ Hil heart attinel his forced Governor-Qoaneral Van- ler, above, to eanecel his off{. al engngemonts for the next atx weeks, Ao medical bulletin A mild Ixsned daday by Governmont House said he ts “making sate Isfactory progress.” : Diefenbaker and most Atomic with submarine ragic | PD POP OPPO. Diefenbaker silent after ca OTTAWA (@—Prime: Minister | of his cabinet met today for their first meeting since Monday’s election defeat. Mr. Diefenbaker told report- PIP PROP OC PP PPLIO POLL DEDUCE OO CP COOH D. E. GUYATT | FUNERAL SET Funeral service for D. Rk. Guyatt will be held 2 p.m. Wednesday at Ferguson Fu-: neral Home, it was announced today. Mr. Guyatt, well-known city electrical contractor, died last Friday in Mexico City while on a business trip. He was 42. — The remains are scheduled to leave Mexico Sunday by plane and be in Prince Rupert early Monday. FPP P OP OP LOL EOP OOD PLP POPE PE POOL CH Rail workers strike looms LONDON (Reuters) — Leaders lof Britain’s.317,000-member rail- | ghwWays Minister road workers union decided to- >. | day to stage an official three- ; the next four weeks as a protest against a government Plan .to Streamline the rail system. . The strike is in protest against a plan by transport commission Chairma Richard Beeching to. make the railroads pay by clos-'| ing about half the country’s! railway stations and abandon- ing hundreds of miles of track. | ‘The strike would involve most of the 500,000 workers employed in main line and London sub-. way systems as well as railroad- |; owned docks, canals and hotels. | Inet meets ' FULTON ENCOURAGED | | Credit had lost ground NEXT PAPER ON MONDAY The Daily News will not publish tomorrow in order to give its staff members an opportunity to partake in the Good Friday holiday. Next publication of The oy erg: “I have nothing for you. Nothing.” . . . : Daily News will be Monda ff any announcements were to: when a full resume of local, be made, he said “we'll let you, international and sports news know in advance.” : , 1 ‘. Diefenbaker and 21 min- for the whole weekend will be isfers were present. Only ab- sentee was Postmaster-General | i t Fairclough, whu was reported to! ter holiday. have left her Hamilton, Ont., | pececcrecce on ‘Steel price hike comes Five other defeated ministers | were on hand—Defence Produc- ' tion Minister O’Hurley, Immi- : gration Mimister Bell, Forestry “Works Minister Fulton, who before J K earlier was elected provincial; WASHINGTON W — The pos- Progressive Conservative leader sibility of a general wave of in British Columiba and did not steel price increases delayed stand for re-election, told re- President Kennedy’s vacation porters he expects to be back Wednesday and sent him into in B.C. in 10 days—“to stay.” hurried -, We said he was encouraged iwith his advisers. hy the election results in B.C., o~ carried, The Daily News wishes its readers a sincere happy Eas- Minister Asselin, External Af- fairs Minister Green and Frank | McGee, minister without port- folio. late-hour conferences i i of Kelowna. 'inerease in 72 hours. ‘AS*Mr. Green entered’ the! j;his defeat by a Liberal in Van- couver-Quadra. , : “I’ve thousht it over and an-; plied, then paused and added: CIO). “You know I think the real rea-' Wheeling’s price increases av- : . «(from as it plunged in a steep son was that I just didn’t get eraged about $6 a ton on six |!F° s Dp ~'the Pentagon! no Polaris missiles. enough votes.” selected products. The 11th- Mines Muntister Martineau, 'anked U.S. producer said the locked in a close contest with Increases were made necessary Liberal candidae Paul O. Goulet; PY steady increases in the cost in Pontiac-Temiscamingue, said Of materials, services and labor. the last repurt he had was that; The announcement came ex- he was still leading “but the actly a year after U.S. Steel, the service vote might change it.”;No 1 U.S. producer, raised prices. Another motorist fined $150 for impaired driving Another heavy fine for impair- ed driving was levied by Magis-' trate E. T. Applewhaite in court this morning. George Francis Brunelle, Al-_ fred Strect, was fined $150 and paired driving charge. He was | also prohibited from driving any- Where in Conada for a period of | three months. On a charge of failing to stop | for @ pedestrian, Alfred Harvey | Basso of 111 Eighth Avenue Trast | was fined $15 and costs or in de- fault five drys. REMAND ISSUED Lucky David Meyer, 1183 Am- | brose Street, appeared in court! on a charge of not having a driver's Heenee and pleaded not guilty. He was remanded until Tuesday. PREIPIOOLIIPVOEPOVLOPORCEOOUD PEEOP DIESE LE DIDO CVEVE LOLI OOOO POC OC OLOCE Today's News Briefs POI POPOPOLE ILO ID ORL OOEOO DL OSOLOEPOT PRPS P PI PPPIL PL OOEDOP EEO LDIDIOUD New United Arab Republic formed CAIRO (®) — The rulers o agreed to unite their 38,000,000 Republtc with Cairo as tie eap of the detalls secret. The new U.AR, will have a single flag, t central military command and y } + + UBC may have to change policy VANCOUVER © — The le vershty of B.C, announced that pollcies on tuition fees and adm ened $1,060,370 shortage In rev your, \ + to Unified nuclear command set up PARIS i — The Western i creation next month of a unifiec Dilional ay and U.S. sea strike on wv Himited basis. hoe plane the NATO foreign ministers mest dn Ottawa May 29 - ‘next Tory chief i minister ‘The increases were rescinded ‘three days later after Kennedy ;mounted ai strong offensive /against steelmakers. None of the other U.S. firms lad any comnient to make im- . . i increase. Ferdinand Jense of Vancouver ; uppeared in court yesterday on | 3 in impaired driving charge and: ‘ ‘was fined $100 and costs after pleading guilty. He was pro- | hikited from driving in Canada: The offence er eeenne a e Harkness touted as TORONTO ((—John Bassett. publisher of The Telegram, says he would support former defence Douglas Harkness as the next leader of the Progres- isive Conservative purty, The Telegram, — traditionally iConservative, supported the Lib- erals in’ Monday's election. f Baypt, Syria and Iraq have people In nm new United Arab ital, but they are keeping most one nationality for al, a wi Newly arrived in’ Canada from New Zoaland where she trained, Miss Dinna Moore, eft), has been appolntec Physlothorapist for this dls- ret by Canadian Arthritis and Rheumatism Society, One of 22 physlotheraplats for CARS in the province, Miss Moore will have hor hendquarters — at Prince Rupert General Hospi- anil uurd of governors of the Unl- it many hive to modify present issions div the Hght of a throat- enues for he 1003-44 academic + + ies have cleared the way for tnuelenr command with multl- forees, France will participate md trke conereto shape when 24, loss of PROVINCIAL LIBRARY } 24 . oe VICTURIA, EC | Published at Canada’s Most Strategic Pacific | Port -— And Key to the Great Northwest DEC 31/63 PRINCE RUPERT, B.C., THURSDAY, APRIL 11, 1963 News Desk 3204, Sports 3207, Social 3205--- ~~ -PRIGE-TEN-CENT*.—__.. : — ‘ G Fails te come out of steep piunge WASHINGTON (AP) — Admiral George W. Anderson, chief of United States naval op- erations, announced today that “very reluct- antly | have come to the conclusion that the (submarine) Thresher has indeed been lost.” Anderson spoke at a press conference more than 25 hours after the nuclear-powered sub- marine carrying !29 persons — was lost to contact some 220 miles east of Cape Cod in 8,480 feet of water. It is the United States Navy's worst peacetime submarine dis- aster—and perhaps the worst in history. Anderson his judgment: The salvage vessel Wednesda, cork used in- internal construc- tion of submarines. i they 4 said this influenced °! Recovery| followed an oil slick detected . and found bits of “¥ conclude with great regret; tion, and sadness that this fine ship new equipment, He disclosed at the same time that orders had gone out to twa other Tnresher ~ class subma- officers and men and civilians— yines_the Permit and the Plun- ger—to limit the depth to which may dive pending deter- mination whether there are metal faults in the hull or other weaknesses, | The naval chief said a court inquiry will investigate iamong other things, work done lon the Thresher during overhaul at the Portsmouth, N.H., navel yard since last July. He noted that in the course of this overhaul and moderniza- involving installation of cuts as much fe Bete ees with 129 souls aboard is lost,”'as a yard wide had been made Anderson said. lin the Thresher’s hull. However, the talks produced | Where he noted that Social |no word that he was ready to in roll up the government guns that Premier Bennett’s home town | flattened last year’s announced Some senators; heard a price [cabinet chamber, reporters ask-jincrease by Wheeling Steel Cor- fed him what he thought caused : poration Wednesday was linked ito the possibility of a round of wage increases for the United jalyzed it veiy carefully,” he re. | Steelworkers of America (AFL-/|to the bottom, the weight of it rine, ner is there any danger |mediately on Wheeling’s price | said: i “In my judgment, no.” ‘the sub’ might Have lived, the | admiral sain a “very, short time,” perhaps a matter | of minutes. If the ter at 8,400 feet would crush it. The test dive which very Asked how long the men in submarine plummeted Thresher was last heard Sub would be crushed Anderson, asked if any occu-jsaid was to have been “in ex- pants of the sub might be alive, |cess of 400 feet.” | The Thresher’s escort vessel, ‘the submarine rescue ship Sky- lark, lost contact and sent out ithe Riarm that triggéréd ‘the sea‘: jhunt, Anderson = said “absolutely no chance of nu- clear explosion in the subma- of radioactive contamination in the shipping lanes.” The attack submarine carried Undergoing trials The Thresher left Portsmouth, this probably has happened in N.H., the seaport town where some accidents. What probably she was launched in 1960, for sea trials Tuesday after an over- haul. She was due back this ‘morning. parts would be found. happens in most instances is that an intake valve or other fittings gives way suddenly, A ;compartment floods and _ the | Anderson said if the subma- pressure overwhelms the door rine did sink it was unlikely any and bulkheads into other com- partments. Suddenly the boat is The understanding is that a filled and the pressure equal- submarine hull usually doesn't izes. It goes on down and down, inwards, just) crush 4 PHYSIOTHERAPIS tal and will also serve arthyitds und rheumatism sufferers in Terrace, With her here is Miss Rachel Dageett, assistant sup- orvisor for CARS for the province, who will be return- ing to Vancouver Wednesdiy. The aren has been without ww ophysiothernpisl for six months, (Drew photo ‘volved, although until it rests on the bottom, The worst peacetime subma- rine clisaster in the world until now was the loss of 99 men when the British submarine Thetis sank in Liverpool Bay June 1, 1939, A eee 8 pee ee eeresneenne te eerie to atone pate nene moe No trace found of missing men Recently-conducted — searches have failed to produce any trace of two men missing since March 10, RUMP said today. Still missing are Perry Mork, of Prince Rupert and Bernie Matwichuk of Edmonton. ROMP patrol boat has conducted two searches for the missing men sinee the dragging operations were called off in late Mareh, Coroner Earl Gordon has not yet scheduled resumption of an Inquest Into the death of Karl Lindquist, the third man in- whose body was found March 20. WEATHER Sunny with cloudy pertods. Mainly cloudy with widely seattered showers, Little change in temperature, East- erly winds 15. Northeast. Winds 20 Friday. Low tonight. and high tomorrow 35 und 60, Duily News Readings Temperature nt noon . | 80 Biramoter, steady 20.82 TIDES rriday, April 12, 1963 (Pacttle Standard Mme) ne eae ent Wah oo... OsOL 20.2 feet 16:37 18.1 feet LOW oo, ON:26 4.0 feat 21:28 7.0 feel there was- eee