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NUR ROOF py JOHN STURDY | id uld keep my big} | hut. | rhe other day I was ng a news story} i, scientist in the| States who had| hovered conclusively | lobsters suffered ain when they) red into boiling: T hich is one meth-) woking the delec-| Luceans, o horrible detail of the lobsters ee NORTHERN AND CENTRAL BRITISH COLUMBIA’S NEWSPAPER Published at Canada’s Most Strategic Pacific Port—"’Prince Rupert, the Key to the Great Northwest” VOL, XLI, No. 169 PRINCE RUPERT, B.C., SATURD AY, JULY 19, 1952 Nets TEN CENTS (including comic section) 4 VICTORIA, B Fishermen Vote Today On New Salmon Price Offer ve Largest Sockeye Run in Ten | Police Arrest Clock For $1,000 Years Heads For West Coast Salmon fishermen all along the Pacifie coast today are voting on a new price offer or a strike! while reports indicate the largest sockeye run in 10) Theft from Court Office Money VANCOUVER—Police last night arrested and chafged 23-year-old Vancouver police court clerk with theft of $1,000. Charge against Robert M. Nicholson followed discovery July 2 of $1,000 shortage of court clerk’s office accounts. DAILY DELIVERY Phone 81 Tendermen To Hold Strike Vote Government supervised strike vote of tendermen employed by B.C. Packers, Canadian Fishing Company, Limited, Nelson Bros. Fisheries, Limited, and Anglo- B.C. Packing Company, Limit- ed, will be held here Saturday and Sunday. A Bruce Brown, district su- pervisor of the vote. said today workers in the same firms also will vote at Butedale and Klemtu on the same days and same hours. Voting hours will be from 9 a.m. till noon and from 1 p.m. ; e years is on its way. : till 5 p.m. each day. " yrs water |i In the fishermen’s‘-hands rests|'U0 got under way last Sunday. Ballots will NOT be counted sb a 7 | ff ‘wh, the fate of the 1952 fishing sea-| Fishermen also report the when polls close. They will be tnose [ew sec- o Skeena Highway Work son. If they reject the offer—-| heavy run. up the Skeena is now sent to the Labor Relations was snuffed ey, made last Thursday by the| in progress. One fisherman aver- | Board office in Vancouver and the reader ash- companies—a strike will take|#eed 80 on Thursday and said | e counted there. ’ ad ever eaten | im | place immediately. the more than 700 boats Sur- | ‘ Tendermen are members of a this same selen- | Homer Stevens, secretary- | Pounding the mouth and up- river | n erru ion branch of the United Fishermen explain a more | treasurer of the United Fisher- | Poifts are all getting big catches. | and Allied Workers Union. | : is pele ness 99 men and Allied Workers Union,| A cannery official said that The vote was requested by the urned on and re lulled to sleep vater so that when boiling point they | Rupert local. i Greatest run of sockeye sal- is meeting here today with Tom! |Parkin, secretary of the Prince} at the rate sockeye are coming in, there should be “close to 300,000" cases packed from the catch in northern rivers. He avity An important road bridge has been repaired and, unless something unforeseen develops, work on the ‘Trans-Provincial Highway out of Prince Rupert union after a conciliation board award had been rejected. The union requested wage increases and other working conditions. MSIE OED GO | ; . lenee | «c% : They sought time off in lieu of hat meee mon in more than 10 years is | *stimated about 100,000 cases | will he completed before winter. lean Ga. t ; roperted heading for se | (ie Skeens eatihs “There has been no interrup-, Those voting are workers em- gave the im-| HISTORIC SITE--Dr. F. J. Alcock, curator of the National spawning grounds and unless | |tion of work and the 1952 pro-|icheq fro ee ployed on vessels used by the : a strike cuts short their season | Last year re than 2.6 i ” | d m Tyee to Terrace, a was a revo-| Museum of Canada, Ottawa, examines post marks of ancient pe ; ha : or ee ds Aa year more t tan 2,000,000 | gram is well advanced, .. E.| distance of about 75 miles. companies for packing, tending iy of cooking| ‘buildings on what is believed to be the site of the Jesuit Mission oe pagan a a i ee Be ~ orl ee pecker. but | (Al) Smith, divisional engineer | Widening of the highway be-|and collecting fish and for sub- That's an old|. village of 8. Louis near Penetaneuishene Ont i da ees ea ord catch. | officials predict that with 4/for the Provincial Public Works | +. o.n ee and Skeen: be | Sidiary work customarily done pesca , , Ont, Here the Jesui record sockeye catch looming, } De said tod | =F practised by| martyrs, Brebeuf and Lalemant, were captured by the Iroquois | A, Strike originally had TO vack wae he svar Gest : for | epartment, said: today. |completed this week and gravel|by such vessels, except skippers round Peggy's | and killed. University of Western Ontario archeology students, | 5°! ff June 22-—-opening date of i eee Sr ema ee ((It was reported from Victoria | surfacing will be applied shortly.| and gillnet collectors not paid for centuries at left, study the s-mains of the buildings ice Gee | the sockeye season on the Naas “ a week ago that the Publie Works | The government gravel crusher |Cn a wage basis. . if the Nova and Skeena but was postponed | | Department had been hard hit | located between, Tyee and Kwin-| The ballot an: Are you in ight very much until today after the membership | ‘by the lack of effective govern-| itso, is operating “full tilt” andj favor of striking? feelings. The | accepted the companies offer of | wo omers |ment and was being forced to|continues to produce close to he lobsters in rme u S Oo | 25 cents a pound lstand by. and watqn its 1952/1000 tons a day. Surfacing is is tak oe Other prices last year were: . | plans crumble progressing at the rate of two- St laurent mopletely re- « e cohoe, 13; pinks, 744 and chums B Y k (T . ‘ 4))| thirds of a mile each day. e eport, indicate at all “uo Winnipeg Bank FING VAMKS msn, easel anal Al gash tm ia geal Ie Vee tender and |. Details of the offer on which . hbecause of the cloud of political|h@ve been repaired, with the To Visit : . | they are soe ao week-end Victor | uncertainty, but it is. believed oo eae of three at. Aymesbury, { this yester- W m | were not disclosed, but it is ex- y thc any | anedl eles miles west. of Terrace, but Wi C : and’ Little Escape ith Unknown A ount | pected the result will be an- ts thet ion Deiteacae aie they will be repaired as soon as est oast Skeffington- ° | nounced late tomorrow: NEW YORK © New York)... ait runoff conditions permit. rned from sti Of Cash; Trip Constable Also voting today are tender-} yankees collected only six hits ~~ ae an aaa Works budget for the province} VANCOUVER (—Prime Min- had bee tA rn ‘ . mon |men, who seek increased wages.| Friday but, two of them were|, MI Smith, who has just Te-| this year totalled about $26 mil-| ister St. Laurent will visit Van- been WINNIPE GP T ar . >| turned from another. inspection ; These. Pacific iN Oe )— ‘Two armed men Friday LA strike by either ‘group: would} how + runs. by. Hank Bauer and nt vie toa Hane me Se lion and included a large appro- |couver, Sept. 4. it was, reported t best thing to} held up a suburban branch of the Imperial Bank of | Setiously hit the fishing industry./Gere Woodling and that was sh ns 7h a rf. ‘ priation for major highway con-| here y. ie. * and = myi~ : reas _— The sockeye price was agreed/ enough to hand Chicago White closed that Wood c a ave) struction. He will address the .annual 1 saw the, Canada and made a clear getaway with an undis-| upon after fishermen were told) Sox their sixth straight Ameri- eae af windiog teat Game convention of the Canadian Bar . . Ss f I re fishermer ‘f ague setbs * stretcn of windH 7 Association and it is understood heavy sac plikctin : a as * i ; most of the native fishermen 0n| can League setback 6-3 a ee veavy sack closed amount of cash after tripping a suburban! the gkeena and Naas depend Bauer who also had a single | #/0way Rapids bridge GROWING INDUSTRY he will attend the meeting of police chief in the doorway as he strode in to investi-| almost entirely on sockeye fish- nq q double for a perfeet day, _,72¢ Work includes elimination) Lead production in Canada|B.C. Liberals called to review - ECT WAY bi Aeiaeela la al ae: ling for their livelihood slammed a three-run homer inf Some of the many curves.;amounted to 55,727 tong from| the party’s provincial position. ate a burglar alarm, =n srews slearing sections a it the door of yi : £ ats " i * | SOCKEYE GOOD the third inning off loser Chuck ee Se oar oe sean ‘Seale uae or eat ee ¥; tg = a. = i and I are wigs entered 1c Eas i 5 aie ne ual Stobbs f fay $ yee} LM ’ e 2} La a new account of |donian bank at 2:23 p.m. Both Freighter More than 2,200 gillnetters are | 910908: Ee : whole job is expected to be com- | period of 1951. building at University of B.C. 4 house, But| wore large sunglasses, one cat Se ae a. oe a = a en ee. cee pleted in about three months. the sight ried a sawed off shotgun, the itween Smith Inlet anc le | Sewed up she game wit ha two- , s at re wn other . pistol a heaeeine how Burns: Four Alaska border run blast. also off Stobbs Phong oe op 0-0 vce wan eeu: ish to enter Covering the bank staff and , In Rivers Inlet, where an Boston Red Sox extended their River suspension bridge three 4 ; 4 ermission was|three customers, gney ordered ° ° estimated 1100 boats are fish- | S€°0nd (place lead oe Cleveland miles east of Terrace, has been : all to lie on the floor. A ledger issin ing, the average this week has by blasting Indians 9-2 with 4 repaired and will now handle iter boiling,” | Keeper tripped the burglar alarm | heen 100,000 a day, The fish ag — ee e i in- ‘ . . ined sow} S20) oud idveatente the alerts Tee hip. Black | 42°, that area has been 60/Cat) Brecheen to coast to his eee eet completed in-| jn, Pittsburgh Sunday in another peace effort. , f Nova Scotia vids mosienn telinied int : vf Jorwegian ship lack} q day this week fifth straight victory as St. Louis Stalling stiffening tresses and : s scientist, fel ' son - a Lo cad aimekl Gull, sent its passengers diving] The season opehed June 29 in| Cardinals trimmed Boston Braves | construction of a new deck, said * * * broke down in on : Dah ceadieie fet oh verboard after its volatile cargo} those two areas and the heavy! 7-9 in the National League Mr. Smith. “There is a little more . ‘ he } j}the sawed 0 OE ; Siow ne lene ce , > § DF coianteemcintaniisen ‘i - , re i sha ie "ae gee face,” he said ae ae ve. a h Brooklyn Dodgers defeated ha oath nade dain Rain Douses Forest Fire ng waver was)! j el aaah ng : | Pittsburgh Pirates 6-2 to run : 2; I must have The 40 crew meinbers and} Manslau ter | hs dae cutive w ig stres over.’ . because the!that night I heard Anastasia| nine passengers drifted through | gf ae ine Setdee tein an Meanwhile the public works} DIGBY: N.S.—Rain poured down today = uge "kettle of | scream four-foot swells for hours ve- Charge Laid enders to ii games. ve ~~ | department’g remaining highway | forest fire endangering two nearby farming com- ew a wb @niled in the darkness of the} fore two ocean liners and Coast | tere bag ‘ ie ; iti Ades Nall ° in ee aa ‘- 7 aid to coe planes saved most of VICTORIA @ Police said Fri-| New York Giants and Chicago ene ced Sees ad Ga munities. , ‘ . a ae i cn, Wolae ates fei day William Green, steamfitter,|Cubs rained out ee aud, ethene 8 It is believed the fire, which burned a three- my wife, “and five to go them. Four still are missing ~ an vi ukn cath Other results: at lightning,speed. | ; ; big crabs and very A little later I turned to } eo will be charged with manslaugh Atos St na uk & cuduaiad eyithin a month” ala be | mile, 1,000-acre swath, will be under control before a bit annoyedlangrily, “What are you pinch ter in connection with the gas-| American: Detfolt 2 Philadel-| | “Within a month,” sald Mr. |. 40 ty thin ott we ei f y ? T j Dp E Ss sing death Wednesday of Mrs. Phia 1; St. Louis 5, Washington 6 | Smith, “gravelling should be fin- nig ai. f ig "he y o for? demanded.« j 7 ‘ een 2 a. in 7 (4 $$$ $_______ F Oo much that Den be silly she said. “Tn a ce | Mizabess Birch, 78 ee rr ° es o } oY Sunday ly 20, 1952 | A coroner's jury returned a/cinnati 5 . }not pinching you: Go fo sleep Sunday, July : : : ; : ar ee ee Se | t this is the] “Something's pinching me,” I High 7 88 | an - naga negle a : iS a ¢ ry or upe es se eS; Colonel asked | ye Somethine’s You! 13:08 17.5 feet. | against Green, 1e jury saic sa hmesmey yelled. non ' ree y big Low 6:41 3.4 feet | Green installed a pipe leading to| ™ WEATHER = Why don't I keep my ig Low ? d " fee Tas § > Said. “Just | mouth shut?” 18:41 ? 8 i feet t np gas stove. eat and let the When it’s boil- e cooked.” nothing to do ® water to boil, so ind sat in the} an hour later, | , Colonel's wife, : ‘ t the door and | annual Soap Box Derby to i ow the power | staged here Labor Day and three a Three Boys Apply To Enter Soap Box Derby, ‘Seven : More May File; Nine Sponsors Will Help Racers / / re e1resentatives Three boys have entered the} resenta c mat : be | Motors Products, and The Daily said today material donated by here. of General! committee in charge of the race, News Northwest Com- 739 Construction Ten sets of special wheels for; pany will be at his place Forecast Cloudy today. Widely scattered showers this morning cloudiness tonight and Sunday. Little change in temperature. | Wind northwest (25) in exposed }areaS today otherwise light, Low jtonight and high tomorrow at | Port Hardy, 48 and 65; Sandspit jand Prince Rupett, 52 and 63. Variable | | Prince Rupert area lakes are not highly productive of game fish and a hatchery would not improve the situation. This is the verdict given to sportsmen and anglers last night by the head of the provincial game commission’s fisheries di- vision over the group as Dr. Larkin explained that a hatchery here —or that stocking lacks in this area—would be useless. “It would do more harm than good to stock these lakes be- cause there.isn’t enough food in them to sustain a heavy fish population.” Water Will Not Sustain Heavy Population But the biologist had two sug- gestions for local anglers: 1. Instead of utilizing some $15,000 necessary for even a small hatchery, he advised the club to campaign for opening of roads or trails to other near- by lakes, now inaccessible. This more organizations have an cr bigs Gilad Goud Wak: ob teh: Werk “But your lakes are by no| He outlined simply that two peo pe riyecagrcane +s wae k EAR nounced they wif sponsor boys cars have @ — eae yl GANS ie OE . sa . . means the worst on the coast,”| basic factors déntinate the pro- i : lin the race Frizzell Motors. Boys wishing; Sponsors can advise the boys | W. D t id Dr. Pet 7 auie’ dd ductivity of @ lake light and sustained fish population. course, thal ane. » «.... | advice on how to build their cars! but the racers must build their | age ispu e Oe Oe ee eee, ee ore) ©. i cae cee plate was not working Firat boy to enter was 13 YORE | i cuaia come forward. The cars own cars ne © Rod and Gun club special| minerals. - should investigate the possibil- Tabs were still ore old Billy Watmough, who was) + be built by the boys them-| First thing, though, is to get) dinner meeting. Prince Rupert area lacks ity of going to the salt wate hr sul crawl-| r the six competitors in last | Must be built by the. boys egg, | wetted DY “Your lakes are mediocre—| both, although the mineral | +) ©° Soine ee end in cold water | one of the six compe om ‘| selves and Granby (Red) Wat-| your entry in so officials will ade a the =e re re cata " . Pe ° for sport fishing. + 9 build a wood | Years derby George a rh ;| mough, chairman of the TLC | know how many will be racing : ed better than those in the Van-| content of Prudhomme take, Other members of the survey “t the Colonel 113, of 1340 First ono oat al, ngineers —) oe - good as| for ante — parts natty Gil Ee. inthis, are ie B.Who had ‘aes {racing under the colors 0 those in the interior.” per million higher nm aver- : : kiteh: aheaa ane back 300, and David Lande, 14, who | Th 5 Fish in Them Thar’ lakes | MONTREAL — A joint state-| Dr. Larkin gave a verbal re-| age Vancouver area lakes. R. V. Bangham, Ohio University “Did you take’ wy | lives in the Belmont Apartments, | ere |ment was issued here Friday by|Port of several days investiga-| The basic factors, said Dr. biologist and expert on para- lonel?” he asked *© | will be sponsored by 99 Taxi saul A dominant Prince Rupert anglers’ belief was debunked | the Brotherhood of Locomotive|tion of Prudhomme and Rain-| Larkin, are responsible for plant on ee ee eee. YOU mean, boy?” Deadline for entries is drawing} ere when a Provineial game commission biological game fish | Engineers and the Canadian Na-| ow lakes by a biological survey) growth. . nf Be. » iS empty, that's all,”|near and boys wishing to enter ‘S. Not a crab in| Should get: their names in to the Daily News office by Monday Was an oppor-| So far, nine Leo, we to disappear, | have announced they will spon- to bu. See the fire be-|sor boys, Latest spnsors are the n the Colonel’s; Elks, Kinsmen and the United | Fishermen Allied. Workers’ could hear | Union, " Hamish and| The derby is being sponsored ) through the | by the Trades and Labor Coun- = crabs, And | cil, Frizzell Motors Limited, rep- and * organizations | survey party showed tangible proof that Prudhomme lake has good-sized cut throat, trout, Headed by Tom Northcote, lake survey director, the party with nets turned up a mess of nice trout yesterday any angler would be proud to show off—including several 14-inchers and down to 10-inchers, The-trout and other species of lake fish were caught to be tested for parasites. Dr. Peter Larkin, head of the survey, laughingly remarked: “] think you fellows should improve your fishing technique.” | tional Railways announcing the | Signing of. a new wage agree- ;ment effective in Atlantic and | central regions, | Excluding the Newfoundland district, it calls for an 11 percent increase in‘ basic rates of pay with no rule changes. The agreement is effective Oc- | tober 1, 1952, and covers more |than 2,100 engineers on the CNR for a period of one year. group. ~ The survey party had been {requested by Prince Rupert. an- glers for seyeral years in an ef- fort to determine why, nearby lakes, once productive of trout, are less so now. ‘ Main demand of the Rod and Gun club, however, was for a trout hatchery, which the club felt weuld cure the ills. A hush of disappointment fell “Little animal life feeds on plants, larger animal life feeds on little animals, and the fish feed on the larger animals. So, we have a complete cycle. And if there is a deficiency in the basic requirements, there will be a decided effect on the number of fish a lake—or size of fish— ean be produced. “And there is nothing that R. Adams, University of B.C. parasitologist, also on summer employment with the commis- sion, and Tom Northcote, biolo- gist and lake survey director. Dr. Bangham said fish in nearby lakes he examined were generally free from parasites and none harmful to human beings. Mr. Northcote explained how can be done about it.” a lake survey was done. \