@ \ x - PROVINGI LIBRA -- ee hh ee erect PROVINCIAL LIBRARY, : | gregh —- | (' “ie. Il ee ae A DRUGS 5 | , NORTHERN AND CENTRAL BRITISH COLUMBIA'S NEWSPAPER DAILY DELIVERY STAR Me Published at Canada’s Most Strategic Pacific Port—Prince Rupert, the Key to the Great Northwest” Phone 81 nD) Ol VOL. XLI, No 155 Part Board Members Question Spending of Money at Centre Chairman Pat Forman has been directed to iate meeting with the Civic Centre executive to ; of that organization ided last night after commissioners criticized R ey budgeted by the Park Board to the Centre { the Park Board members are leaving for | Mayor Whalen Receives Petition 4 ‘Asking Resumption of Sunday Boat Terrace Citizens lred By Threats to Workers Group Formed To Protec Rights of Working Ma PRINCE RUPERT, B.C.,, THURSDAY, JULY 3, 1952 a ; és y Ls bie Z j | Petition asking resumption of the Sunday boat arrival here ni ennis our ae , si | eee, "presented to Mayor Harold Whalen this morning for endorsation by the city council. A delegation representing wholesale and retail grocers in . Works Department Criticized for ‘Lack of Co-Operation” Reports of unlawful procedure in a drive for union membership at Terrace have culminated in formation there of an association known as the Civil Prince Rupert, all of whom have signed the petition, presented it to the mayor. His worship will forward the petition to Gerald C. McBean, managing director of Union Steamships Limited in Vancouver Copies of the petition will be forwarded by the grocers to E. T. Applewhaite, MP for Skeena and other government | Officials tights League. A spokesman for the group said here today that a number of loggers and millworkers in that community, 95 miles east of Prince Rupert, have been told [tupert Parks Board, at a special meeting emanded city works department speed ‘ing of tennis courts on Second Avenue. aCity Works In a lively session at the City Hall, commissioners stressed that the courts should be made ready quickly and on motion of Charles Balagno decided to send } a letter immediately to the | Eight Killed, 20 Injured | dustry. that if they did NOT join the IWA they would not be able to get or hold a position in the in- | “Some of the men threatened n rey oun us ras jare working in mills that have ‘no union contracts and others are those now out of work be- cause of the IWA strike,” said the informant. In a statement, he said: “there has occurred to an alarming de- gree an obvious attempt by representatives of an organized ,body to infringe on the civil rights of the individual by use chairman of the boards of, ;}works stressing the importance | of completing the courts The Parks Board also de- cided to operate the courts | themselves if satisfactory ar- rangements have not been concluded with the Prince | Rupert Tennis Club and City Council by the time black- topping is finished. Department Critiazed | Failed to Move Debris in Park Smashed Rear of Standing Truck WINNIPEG (CP)—A hurtling Greyhound bus slashed into a parked truck near here early today, killing eight persons and injuring about 20 others. “i Riipenne een eee RCMP at press time inseam c were of threats and intimidation. | still working at the morgue to) Ail the commissioners crit- Statements have been made} NEW bertson cies Vite ear 4 : ‘ ST—K. L. Ro ; sy peed ic ined delays and buck-pass- Russ Vet [aoe the dead. All the dead) threatening the livelihood of the} former city ticket agent at i the works | ing in connection with the j were passengers in the bus. Six| working man in Terrace with 4) winnipeg, has taken over here | courts * lof the injured | view to forcing him to join an 5 rs \0 e injured were released} o g Jom | as general agent, passenger ight, called| Chairman Pat Forman told Inquiry trom ‘Thonbithel afta Me beeinbii organization against his ‘will.” pte ee = peration of j af attending, with Commissioner mn Second | Murray, a meeting on Tuesday Moat ee Killed were five women and|NOT AFFECTED : He succeeds jthree men. Their names were | William ‘Crutckshank, who. tis Bécause of the situation, he ne after the! with Helgi Holkestad, tennis} P : la 7 f : . ’ ae ; “ ; been transferred to Vancou- la k _ co club president, and three mem- roposa | withheld pending notification of | Cennnees, & group if ciisens, ver as district passenger agent works de-|bers of the Rotary Club at . | next-of-kin many not in any way affected) 7° p, the best of|which it was stressed that a Compiled from CP Despatches | i by this particular issue, have or BL. hak heel adiner wat 0) duce Me > i Russia today vetoed | The Northland Greyhound | formed an association the aims { the works|jneluded on the tennis club FIRE BY NIGHT—This aged woman, her face a mask of misery, os ’ 'bus, northbound from Minneap-| and objects of which are to pre+ * hould Co-Op-} executive walks barefoot, a blanket covering her night attire, as fire United States proposal | otis to Winnipeg, smashed into| Vent such venturesome atte: {one member | forced her and some 700 other residents of a home for elderly for an impartial, inquiry. the rear of huge semi-trailer to undermine the rights of aie ts ioe “truck at- att kerkek Ht. 29“ rate : ma =e ta AE ae greed t “the | potinnijak Meera ys mine ae EN NEE NS aggre gat int C ist He said a “well-attet dea" tr ce < ind we need) estad agreed to the \ Sei ann tiie 10 i . Into Communis € Yr Mj south of Winnipeg. - < aie.” wala tae Forman ot tt No one was injured. Cause of the fire in the building, the former £ peg meeting was held in Terrace last Commissioner rite the board | i that last | this year’s: ed to remove the site of buildings at ich has not submitted a letter from the club stating members were agreeable. Another letter was read to members from the Rotary Club in which that organization of- ficially turned over the tennis courts to the Park Board It was following Mr. Forman’s ind if it is not; resume of developments that it is the in-!members got into lively and «t Park Board to)|timeés heated discussion on oper- ntractor clearfation of the courts and the e Same to the | “continued delays in black- | topping.” is see | B eee he | TO BUY NETS salag and en- y | It was stressed by Mr. Mur- Lien hardly|"@y that the club must operate he wording of paper before moved that ty Council and Park Board is In eek their ad- m if they have recting the works pots where we our park devel- vas seconded by lurray and was La dissenting vote. Low Fare Set to iEdmonton Show (i —Low rail fares to Exhibition, July nuinced today by ce-chairman of Passenger Associa- Of one way fare for the return will lasses of aceom- be 2 10 18 on sale here f) a, i redicted by (CP) Rulers of the Territories Wednesday _ the on bolster Can- j Om and that its ts could easily Population there thwest tions came from A. Young, com- of the Territories, erritories council gether in Ottawa Parliament is com- civil servants “lected representa- \the courts efficiently and to the jsatisfaction of the Park Board “or else we'll take them over jand operate them ourselves.” | Commissioner Bob Eby urged |that the Parks Board purchase inets and paint lines as soon as | blacktopping is completed “if | the club is not ready to go into operation.” | “When the club is ready to take over, we can make arrange |}ments for them to refund the money we spent,” said Mr. Eby “The main thing at the moment jis to get these courts finished land let the istart playing.” | Blacktopping will be paid for by the Rotary Club. COUNCIL ACTS It was pointed out by Com- missioner Murray that the Park | Board recently asked City Coun- cil the procedure necessary to |hand over the.courts to the ten- |nis club and “they said hey | were going to pass a by-law au- |thorizing us to turn them over.” | “ft doesn’t appear they've | (Continued on Page 2) « Oi! and Mining Boom in North Country Commissioner Territories ‘Economic growth has been tremendous in the last 20 years,” Gen Young said. “The north’s economy. 1s dynamic and surprisingly versatile” with mining, fur-trapping and the fishing industries all ex- porting their goods out of the Territories. Before too long, he said, it is hoped the petroleum in dustry would be exporting oil The search for oil “now 1s the most spectacular of all ex plorations in the Territories Oil and natural gas permits granted or applied for during tennis enthusiasts | Christie Street Military HoSpital in northwest Toronto, was not immediately determined. Many of the elderly persons were asleep at the time of the fire and were roused by nurses (CP PHOTO) High Food Prices Expected To Raise Living Cost Index OTTAWA CP)—The big plunge in the cost of living index may be about High sea- sonal prices for some foodstuffs plus the stiff ending in the cost of rent may push the = prices barometer higher for the first time since last December. Latest showing price changes during May, is likely to be published by te Bureau of Statistics tomorrow It may things just over Salvage Firm Gets $27,500 For Services VANCOUVER (CP) Salvage on survey Limited $27,500 of services awarded in settlement $75,000 the steamship Nootka when that vessel stranded March 15, 1950 other WS show among its claim 1. Seasonal increase in the for price of potatoes and other veg- ; which usually are scarce i t : off Walkem Island 2 ghe yrices or rent, : ere f ass 3 Defendants showing in a survey made every three months of The index, based on the 1935- Westminste1 139 prices equalling 100, have Limited, and been fturabling regularly every Corporation, month for the past four months, etable during C were the owners the Nootka Paper American Company Viscose owners of ldropping, two points during tvs {April to 187.7 from 188.7 dur- put : : The case was heard in Ad- ing March ce » 2 Meni ; miralty Court here. 7 was the biggest monthly Sar pomt drop in 20 years and, to- gether with previous monthly f declines, made the total four- month drop 4.8 points—biggest since 1931—reducing the index ifrom its peak of 191.5 last De- | cember ee —_—_— jj | | - the past 19 months cover | } 19,000,000 acres Discovery of oil or gas in sufficient quantities and in | favorable locations could greatly stimulate the econ- omic development of the Mac- kenzie district.” Uranium, radium and gold are the only minerals now in production but “important minine prospects may develop at any time almost anywhere between the Hudson Bay on the east, Great Slave and Great Bear Lakes on the west and from the 60th parallel te the Arctic Ocean.” | NEW PRESIDENT—J. H (Harry) Black, popular theatre manager here, tonight will be installed president of the Prince Rupert Rotary Club at a ceremony in the Canadian Legion hall. He succeeds Fred Scadden. |the falsity Pacific Wednesday and costs of rendered PE) and the | $200,000 cargo of processed wood warfare charges. Thea Security Council voted 10 to 1 for an investigation in Red China and North Korea by the International Red Cross. Soviet delegate Malik warned in advance that ne would veto the U.S. proposal because Chin- ese and Korean communists had not been invited to take part in the debate U.S. delegate Ernest Gross said Malik’s action definitely proved of the Communist charges NEW PLAN Meanwhile at Munsan, Com- munist negotiators offered a new plan- for breaking the Korean truce talks deadlock, but Allied pokesmen said the proposal contains a “lot of gimmicks and potential gimmicks.” Major-General Harrison, Jr., said the red plan “may be an important one and it may not.” The reds have indicated that they may ease their demand for the return of all military pris- oners in United Nations stock- ades, provided the 20,000 Chinese | captives are returned They asked ‘for secret sessions to discuss the proposal. Gen Harrison immediately called for an adjournment until Friday to study it. He did not reply to the Communist demand for secret, sessions. VAN FLEET AGREES Van Fleet, Eighth mander, said this morning he fully agreed with British Defence Minister Karl Alexander's state- ment in London that greater military reserves are needed in Korea. The General, in a telephone interview with a Reuters News Agency correspondent in Tokyo, said; “There is no commander in the world who does not like to have more troops. I fwlly concur with Earl Alexander’s remarks.” The Righth Army ‘commander said he has enough manpower to hold off a Communist attack. His reply was to a statement by the former Governor-General of Canada at a Dominion Day luncheon in Canada House, Dies in Calgary Word was received here Wed- inesday of the death in Calgary of Mrs, William McRae, sister-in- law of George Cress, well-known | Prince Rupert builder. Mrs. Mc- |Rae had been in poor health for jsome time. From the war front, General | Army Com-| | The force ripped the bus open \like a giant sardine can. | Nose of the bus shredded, the i } lroof was pried up and half of| lone side crumpled. The truck, owned by Royal Transportation Company, Win- nipeg, was badly damaged. Ap- | parently there was no one in it at tne time ‘of the crash. | Driver of the bus, Robert! Stavos, of Crockston, Minn., es-| caped with a broken arm. “This is the worst accident | Greyhound Bus Lines has ever | had in Western Canada,” said} Grant Smith, Winnipeg Grey-| hound superintendent \— WEATHER — Synopsis A weak disturbance will move | inland across the coast late this| afternoon and in its wake cloudy | skies and a few light showers} are expected for coastal areas. The north coast will begin to clear by Friday evening. The southern interior will en- joy’ warm sunshine today but {some cloudiness is expected in western sections Friday . Forecast North coast region, cloudy with showers today. Cloudy Fri- rday, clearing in the evening. A litthe warmer Friday. Light winds. Low tonight and high Friday at Port Hardy 52 and 68; Sandspit 50 and 65; Prince Rupert 50 and | port any justifiable action con- |sidered necessary to maintain to fight this threat.” |own rights and be in a position | 60. Friday at which a temporary executive was established and empowered to draw up a consti- tution to be submitted to the membership for ratification with a view to registration under the Societies Act for incorporation. “The Civil Rights League,” he continued, “is prepared to fur- nish legal aid to any individual or group of individuals, to sup- Called The 10-week-old strike of trawler fishermen was called off late Wednesday by union offi- cials. The strike involved 100 men— aboard 30 trawlers here and in Victoria and Vancouver. Fisher- menmen sought a minimum price agreement on cod and sole. Homer Stevens, secretary of the United Fishermen and. Al- lied Workers Union, said the strike was called off because more than half of the 30 boats have gone into other types of fishing. ’ “We will renew efforts *for minimum price agreements in the fall,” Stevens said. New Air Bases BELGRADE (AP) —Yugopress, semi-official government mews agency, is circulating reports that neighboring Hungary. has been rushing constructjon of for- tifications and air bases along Yugoslavia’s border, —TIDES— Friday, July 4, 1952 their constitutional rights. “Our contention is that this law of. civil rights is the only legal weapon we have with which “Both the operator and the individual should have the op- portunity to stand up for his to prevent anyone dictating to him what union he should join.” Sole purpose of the meeting last Friday, he stated, was to discuss means of protecting the rights of individuals. More than 500 pamphlets out- lining the aims and ultimate ob- jects of the league have been printed and are being distributed to citizens in Terrace. All major logging operations in the Terrace area have been at a standstill since the IWA- called strike began June 14. A Terrace grocer visiting here} today said merchants already are “feeling the affects” of the | High cise eee 16.0 feet strike and the “town generally 22:48 201 fert has been hatd hit by the lack|Low ..0..0... 4:53 4.7 feet of spending power.” 16:36 9.8 feet Checking of first choice votes for candidates in Prince Rupert riding was completed in the Common Lounge at the Civic Centre this morning. Final totals, snow Jack McRae, Liberal seeking re-election, gain- ed seven votes and George Hills, CCF, who led the polls on June 12, picked up four. Here are final complete first count totals for the 27 polling divisions: McRae (L) 1808; Christie (PC) 633: Hills (CCF) 2056; Murray (SC) 1030. Checking of first count votes was completed shortly after 11:30 a.m, sand Returning Officer A. Bruce Brown immediately be- It is expected sorting and dis- tributing of the absentee votes and possibly part of tomorrow. First Count Completed: McRae Gains Three Votes gan to distribute absentee votes. | will take up the rest of the day | in Re-check or daylight saving plebiscites. Mr. McRae, who won the séat as a Coalition representative in the 1949 election, and Mr, Hilts, seeking election as an MLA for the first time, were both im-at- tendance today for the vote counting. " It is reported there are more than 600 absentees to be distri- buted. They all have to be checked with the voters list be- fore they are distributed to the various divisions and opened. There will be no further count made of votes cast in the liquor NHL Rejects Cleveland Bid to Enter Major Circuit For at Least a Year TORONTO @—Cleveland Barons, top-ranking American Hockey League team for many years and one of the wealthiest. clubs in any circuit, has been refused a berth in the NHL for at least a year. Their bid for entry was rejected yesterday when the two parties failed to agree on what constitutes working capital, NHL governors agreed they wanted the Barons in the big league, but only on a workable basis and left the door open for the club to apply again in the 1953-54 season, ie Off: