Pye ee ee Chamber sets goodwill trip to Charlottes Several members of the Prince Rupert chamber of commierce will ‘leave the city next Wednes- _— Queen Charlotte Islands. + said’. today the tour would ‘be i limited to nine members of the organization. E Mr. t would leave Prince Rupert by Canadian Pacific Airlines . for Sandspit and would be. driven i from there to Juskatla, where they’ will spend the night in Northern Pulp’s camp. “Thursday, . the touring. cham- ber, members will. be: taken ‘to Massett, where they hope. to hold * bers of the Masset board . . trade, Thursday afternoon, they will £0 ‘to Queen Charlotte City. Plans for that visit’ also include a.no-host dinner meeting with the ‘board of trade. . . : Friday the group will tour Northern Pulp operations at Sandspit and they will fly Sat- urday to Jedway by" BEC. Air- lings.’ ;The group will return ‘to Prince Rupert via B.C. Airlines Saturday af ternoon. roecorevecseresneeoens LICENCES APPROVED Four applications for trades licences in the. City. of Prince | ‘Rupert were approved at Mon- day night’s regular meeting of city council. ‘Richard Bury and Gerry Le- ‘mire were authorized to oper- ate Marine Barber Shop: Sid Sutton and Ken Souter of Vancouver was licenced as a peddiler for Regal Distributors; arid Merrill R. Meuse was. li- cenced as a building contrac- Peeters rata ere enn rare eT eercers tor. . re sescccccrrecserercoceeonaseeeens “Halibut Exchange There was one Canadian boat load of halibut. on the Halibut Exehange today. She was the White Hope, 25,000 pounds, sold toyAtlin, 15,000 pounds medium at“226 cents a pound; 8,500 pounds large at 23.5, and 500 popnds.. chix at 17. day: on a goodwill tour of the! # Chamber member J. D. Scott |/ Scott said “the ‘metabers a np-host luncheon with’ meq: , ftajor Peter North ‘(second from left)"son of Mrs. L. J. among 65 student officers and 95...officials .of the Kingston ‘army, college who spent. ten days with the RCN, RCAF, the North of..Prince Rupert.’ was _ U.S. Marines and the _ Navy. Purpose of the tour wae to familiarize future staff offi- cers of the army with new warfare developments. In photo, Major North, is shown with, left to right, Capt. A. C. ~ PRINC E RUPERT OFFICER JOINS T OUR Moffat, Capt: Ronald ‘Michaud, Major N. Puri and’ ‘Capt. -An- |° drew Maxwell on board the: helicopter carrier USS ‘Thetis Bay in Norfolk, ‘Virginia. : (National Defence photo’ : ‘eae at ol ot el ot ot tat at et atin FG at ot a® Telephone Department completes — early phase of expansion program The initial stages of expan-, sion in a $65,000 program under-| | The Daily News | CITY PAGE taken by the Prince Rupert Tele- phone Department wil, be com- pleted today. Telephone department super- JOrince Rupert Daily Mews Ltd. 3 Wednesday, June 12, 1963 on driving tined $10. and $3.50 court costs, or three days in default of pay- “ment, this. morning when he ap- speared. before Magistrate E. T. Applewhaite, ‘ Phillip.-Bartholomew Gurney ‘pleaded ‘guilty to a charge of ‘driving without a driver's li- ‘cence. RCMP told court Gurney had been atrested after he had been By SCOTT HONEYMAN After a 26-year absence, a na- tive-made Indian dugout canoe has returned to the British Co- lumbia coast, ’ And so has its passenger, Mrs. Annette. Lowman Kerry, who made: a ‘trip from Prince Rupert to Clo-oose on Vancouver Island in the canoe when she was still in.“university. ' Mrs. Kerry left Prince Rupert May 31 to retrace her voyage of 26 years ago. Her. canoe is now waiting ‘for her in Butedale, about 96 miles south of Prince Rupert. »Mrs. Kerry said she had to re- turn to Prince Rupert because She was running short of film. .She said the purpose of her trip - is. to take photographs to supplement a thesis She. . wrote LEC ig ag RE ee Francois Lake News | ‘| By AGNES H.. NEAVE f , Daily News Correspondent : FRANCOIS LAKE — Several round and are becoming very ; weeks ago there was a splendid'fond of her. So they seem to cartoon in The Daily News show- ing Sir Winston Churchill going 4 over a hill in the distance with alittle bulldog at his heels and y the butler and a maid@watching from his home doorway. It was euch a delightful picture that I eut it out and sent it to Sir Winston, explaining that I had cut: it from the Prince Rupert a: Dally News and that it seemed a i pity if he should miss seeing it. / Last week I received a letter ' from his secretary saying that Sir. Winston asked her to write | and thank me for my Ictter and asald how he appreciated the car- togn and our thought of him, + + & We have a brand new | little granddaughter, Lori Lynn, born to:our son Peter and Beulah in! Hope, where he is minister of: thé Pentecostal church. They | have already a gir] and a boy, ' thén they took into their hearts ond home a little Chinese girl, A few weeks ago they also took ina little part native girl who had been deserted and starved and who it was feared, dib, They have’ brought Newer eee seat nee eee sie her After a plunge from 1062 totals two weeks ago, red spring salmon landing Ngures at Prince Rupert Inorensed five-fold lust week to 4,000 pouncs, five times the 1062 figure, “White spring Meures were also wy considerably, with 20,000 pnynds reported tandad Inst week foye, T Whink the elvarge Is Justl- tin wock before, The figures are shown In the regular wookly report of — the Departinont of Pishertos. Prices on the Prince Ruport mitrket for rad spring averaged 70-conts for large, 62 cents for modiim and 38 conts for sna, reprodenting no large fluctua- Won from the previous week's pileos, Pricos for white wore 60 cents for largo and 32 cents for amie, S, total of 1,720,000 pounds of halibut were taker in the Prince RYpert area, 26 porcent less than the previous wook but 40 per cent oe ie a. nme” pi tsi eg 18 5 Bod oot Bahk do bel Reb els sib. mi. sone tee ce have. gathered themselves quite a family. Fb bt ~The trout have got this far now and on Saturday morn- ing our grandson’ Richard, came that he had caught right here in front of the farmhouse. + & & j dried: up. We were afraid even! for the hay crop. Lots of sceds | ngo have not even germinated yet, but they will soon be up with the moisture. + + fh Americans in our store bought some salmon which sells at 68 ‘cents, In the States a simular van sells for 98 cents, they said. The ce@gs we sell in our store are often really fresh. Last week we Yan out, so phoned for a few dozon to a farm, They didn't have enough but sald if we could walt for an hour they would gather them and bring them would down, as the hens were still on tween mainiand. the nests laying. . ~ Spring salmon landings recoup — : - earlier week's big plunge up from the same time in 1962. CUIX UP ‘TOO Some 66,000 pounds weye takon, comparing with 37,- 0n0 pounds in the Inst year, 7 cent-per-pound range, The Javgest landings were ‘agen of median bulibut, lnyt week showlng 079,000 pounds. Thin Merure dompuares with Gn,- 00 pounds In the samo week of 1962, Prices for medium ranged from 20.3 cents por pound to $2.2 conta, "A total of 629,000 od In Prince Rupert, a figure comparing to 450,000 pounds In the same period Inst yerr, Large halibut prices ranged | from 21.4 conty to 23.9 conts per pound, Bomoe .56,000 pounds of No. Hellbut were reported year ourlier, ged aN Bee ee rete tbh in with nine beauties | ‘to have dropped to 8,000 pounds of ehixilnst week from 60,000 pounds in sane period ING NEAR DOUBLE Pitee for chix was in the 14 to | bled lust yorr's figure, f cents por pound, pannds of 'than free halibut were reported Innd- | figure, taken, VAR OVER bee ER ADE FEN ED a ¥ Wy fl tt . ce Californian traveller — paddles her own canoe in the University of Washington. . ROWS SEVEN DAYS In her trip so far, she has had \ about seven full days of rowing and estimates she has made 130 miles of her trip. Her best day, she said, was a 40-mile jaunt. “I'm doing just about as well as I did 26 years ago,” she said. “That’s really surprising to me.” Her only travelling companion on the trip is Ivan, a Samoyed dog. “I have found that in many, cases I’m visiting places that | meant a great deal to me on: my trip many years ago,” she | said. . MAY MOVE NORTH | Mrs. Kerry lives in southern : California, but says she would | like to leave that area and move, | “with her husband, to the Queen Charlotte Islands. ! She had left her dugout on: the Islands last winter, after she! and her husband came north’ to scout for home locations. i The canoe, now fibreglassed, ' was brought over to Prince Ru-: pert in preparation for her trip... “I have no deadline to end. this trip,’’ she said. “But I do have to get back to California} soon, I guess. “We're going to try in earnest: to sel) our home and move to' the Queen Charlottes.” | Mrs, Kerry said she has pub-! i lished several .stories in maga- | ; zines At last there is rain which was iher badly needed as everything wasi“The Inside Passage in Native taken from! ' thesis, entitled on material univerity Canoe.” t “Part of my trouble I’ve al-. planted in the gardens wecks.ways thought was my lack of. pictures,” she declared. “Now, at long last, I’m getting my chance | to get some pictures. | “Thad to wait, until, my chil- dren grew up and got through school before I could get away.” She says she especially wants’ to wind up her voyage at Clo- | oose, on the west coast of Van-| couver Island, because her dug- | out, the Bija Bo Ji was made' there some 30 years ago, The entire trip is about 1,300 | ‘miles by dugout, including stops | ‘ab many of the small ports be- | here and the southern! ge sole cateh was reported the sume week n year ago, Ling cad landings nearly dou- with 9,- O00 pounds reported Janded last week compared to 6,000 pounds ia year carlier, | Average ling cod price sLood at The fisherios departnvent re- | ports 8.000 pounds of shrimp tnt halibut shell taken last week ino Prince | Rupert. Landing of crabs in shell more | doubled thelr Inst year's | List woek some 60,000 pounds were reported landed, as come Hpared with 32,000 pounds in the some week in 1068, The eral landings, up fram 1062 although » Were down to half 2 thare taken two weeks ago, | Orah prices on the Prince Rue comparing with 46,000 pounds a perl markot averaged 14 conts a pound. Hb 4 warned not to drive a 1957 model vehicle June 8. . Phey said he had originally been seen in the vehicle in an alley between Second and Third Avenues, at 5:50 a.m. Saturday. Police said they later saw the ‘vehicle in another part of the city, with Gurney at the wheel. Gurney was refused time to Rupert man fined oA. Prince Rupert man was raise his fine by Magistrate Ap-- charge plewhaite. “You were apparently given every opportunity to not get into this jam in the first place,’’ he told Gurney. FRANCOIS LAKE NEWS ITEMS A colossa] cattle truck stop- ped here before going on to the ferry with 20 brown Highland cattle aboard. They are for the Telkamp ranch across the lake, and were bought in Chilliwack./ time this week are Mr. and Mrs. They seemed very small after our Herefords, but are very’ Ted Capstick and family, former hardy. They have enormous | fesidents of Prince Rupert. They horns and their coats are shag- | are visiting Mr. and Mrs. H. J. gy. Haugan. DELAYS VISIT Originally scheduled to visit Prince Rupert next Friday, J Percy Ross, executive commis- sioner of the Boy Scouts of Canada, is not now expected in the area until October. His visit at that time maybe to Prince Rupert or Terrace. Pur- pose of the visit will be to dis- cuss long - range plans for Scouting in the northern B.C. area. Visitors to the city for a short Be ee ea eat Mee ON Mee OR eM a oh re intendent Eric Janes said today he expects stringing of some 53,-~ 000 feet of cable to be completed today. Upon completion of stringing of the cable, he said, crews would begin splicing the cable to connect the new lines to the existing service. . Mr. Janes said the cable exe. tension was all part of a large expansion program,. which. will involve purchase of new line- finding equipment in the down- town office and new equipment throughout the service. “We have set a completion date of Dec. 1 for the entire program,” Mr. Janes said. “That digit dialing system. ” DIRECT DIALING , Mr. Janes said the change té the seven - digit system would of direct long distance dialing. “There are just a few odds and ends to be cleared up on cable placing,” he said. ‘Mr. Janes said the new ‘cable department to provide service in able now. should be able to service some not been limited to any special. ‘part of the city, he declared,: well all over _the city.” with CRAZY prices SALE STARTS THURS., 9 A.M. ANNETTE'S annual CAT ann DOG sae Once again we offer you high quality merchandise at lowest prices ever. 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PLAN TO ATTEND THIS DOG FIGHT EARLY ~ANNETTE MAN No Rofunds —- No Exchanges SELL Every Pair P- U-R-R - FECT — Sizes 9 -11 3 pr. $1. 88 They're DOG - ON - NICE — % Sleeve — Ass’t Sizes 14 -:20 BANLON PULLOVERS 93.88 SLIMS Wool plaids, corduroy, denim, vow $2. 88 Gy 616 ~ 3rd Ave, West — All Salos Final eee a eseane seve ‘ee 5 x includes switching to a seven>’ “ultimately” be for the purpose. Placing of the 10-odd. miles’ of cable has taken approxim- ately 214 months, Mr. Janes said: connections would enable the. some areas where it is not avail-. | “There are some areas in thd city where we just didn’t have any room for expansion,” he said. . As “With this new cable. we new applications for service.” . - The new cable extension has but has been “spread° pretty.