112 AR CABS 110 DISPATCHED ce yy umes race through the main Shortly before i Pink—t ton 300 persor ballroom of luxurious Jasper Park Lodge had been dancing in what was reputed to Che PROVINCIAL LIBRA ale. + i } C) L lq | y en NORTHERN AND CENTRAL BRITISH COLUMBIA’S NEWSPAPER Published at Canada’s Most Strategic Pacific Port—"Prince Rupert, the Key fo the Great Northwest” PRINCE RUPERT, B.C., MONDAY, JULY 21, 1952 VOL. XLI, No. 170 225 committee ibla’s, giant announced | fishermen Skeena—wa postponed until July 19 after fishermen accept- ed the 1951 price for that spec- ies and agreed to bargain in the undisclosed! meantime fore other prices pinks and Last Thursday the companies have been|'made a new offer for pinks al- their nets|though the offer was not made public cesman for The strike comes at a time 5 I nen and Al-| when the sockeye run is at its acd the| height and only last Saturday if B.C. said) fishermen reported some of the far > * was effective heaviest catches in many years from various points between Packie ecrerary of | Smith Inlet and the north. e Rupert local of the While the tie-up will not affect 1 ti no boats left | thic city immediately, it is beliey T morning and that ome to a stand- om the Fraser River to Aska border, uuumber who nor was made re ermen Reject Company Price Offer; g Up Nets While Awaiting Orders (CP PHOTO) ed that within-a very short time | merchants and other businesses will feel the pinch | Thousands of cans of sockeye have been packed here since the season opened and other hund- | reds of cases have been trans- ported daily from Nelson Broth- ers cannery at Port Edward to} this city from Port Edward Canadian Fisheries man ) Fraser | drowned truck careened off the road into t A fifth man, Donald A Leod, who with his mother op- , building in the world. Damage is estimated at about $1,000,000 by the erates the King Edward Hotel Railways, which owns the summer resort. The three-storey lodge, built in at that village, was the lone The fire is believed'to have started near the check-room in‘the admin- | SU!Vivor In another traffic mishap, a believed to be from the Valley, was presumably on Sunday when his he Kemano River. Because next-of-kin have not RCMP here, however, were advised this morning that John Brockbank, whose moth- er lives at Ave., Vancouver, was one of those who died in the Stewart crash, Full details of the . Former Rupert Telephone Superintendent Killed The man who installed the telephone system in| Mc-; 4 Prince Rupert doctor was flown been notified, names of all the| Nanaimo, where he was married victims have not been released. | and had one son, who now is an | electrical engineer in California | ployed by Prince Rupert as sup- 3728 West 29th | ¢Tintendent of power and tele- | on Mondays, so they were not|jage when their new model ecar| affected this morning. But if NO| went out of control fish arrive tonight or tomorrow, | as they would normally, the plant will be forced to close. Meet to Launch Air Service tendermen , oints on Sat-| Prince Rupert Queen Chat lotte | Airlines and Ellis Air Lines of|and Ketchikan “are good con- i here that tess | Ketchikan were joint hosts on oe ; ‘ ; ers of the Gal Saturday afternoon to a lunch The seven months I spent i | voted in this | on to welcome the inauguration | here during the war has also bs he two days, The | 0f @ new air service between the given me a very friendly feeling ked only: “Are you | WO cible for yout city triking?” Attendance at the dinner at The luncheon was cited as an which Prince Rupert Chamber |‘ xample of international rela- F ermen’s| of Commerce President Norton | #onships to be fostered f tions bring’ youngs presided, included Ket E. T. Applewhaite, MP, wel- 0 the number chikan mayor’ Georve Beck comed the new air service. He B.C. An esti-) ana princes Rupert Mayor Harold said that “we in this part have of the) whaten more in common with south- dworkers of eastern Alaska than with other idle since} Mayor Beck said parts of Canada, or even} nters are out The two cities have a similar | Vancouver.” n B.C. cities, economy, a similar people and a Bob Ellis, president of the air | of contract-| Similar industry—-fshing lines which made its first flight e because of We can learn much from each of the new service today, ‘said other in solving some of our/}he was proud that he and his originally de-' difficulties of isolation men had started as bush pilots 1 pound more Prince Rupert should appre-| Which had grown to be an air-| on, half a cent) ejate its highway and railroad. | line because “we are still grown) t year's prices} you are the envy of the people | Up bush pilots at heart Because of this new air serv- im of Ketchikan ice, we can now truly say that ountered with Mayor Beck outlined the mu { tion of prices nicipal program now underway we can fly anywhere. in the| ties but later|jn his city. A budget of 13 mil world from either Prince aun! he same prices|jjon dollars is now drawn up, pert or Ketchikan | ents for sock-| he said, which includes 24% mil William Priest, manager af | 2 for pinks,|jions for schools, 3% millions QCA who has worked with Mr. | for utilities and eight millions Ellis for several years In promot- | ‘inally set for for streets ing the service, sald the | date of the Mayor Beck said that the ath Transport, Board of Canada had made a forward step for aviation in the north by granting permis- sion for Ellis Air Lines to fly into Prince Rupert. He said that the new service, | which he hoped would lead to a| daily service worked by QCA and | Ellis on a “reciprocal basis, will mean a lot to both of these cities in years to come | Other Prince Rupert dignator- ies present at the luncheon were: George Hills, MLA-elect; Jack | McRae, Mr. McNaughton, inspec- | letic ULLETINS h's Brother Wounded ON (CP)—Unconfirmed reports reached rnment officials today that rioting mobs \ the Naas and contests between Rupert seriously wounded Prince Ali Reza, (tor in charge of immigration, ' Iran's Shah. The Prince, 29, was set on aie. Qeoree Garey. Set. won? 2ar parliament buildings. RCMP. Alaska visitors were Mrs. Beck, Herb Heatherington, president, Ketchikan Chamber of Com- | merce, and Mrs. Heatherington; Jack Serman, vice-president of Ellis Air Lines; Frank Markowski, of the First National Bank; Sid |Charles, publisher of the Ket- chikan Daily News and Mrs. Vir- ginia Storey, women’s editor of the Ketchikan Alaska Chronicle. o £4 thquake Death Toll Mounts tEHACHI, Caliti—Death toll from the dawn ‘uake here today placed at 11 persons. May ‘gher when rubble, brick and coment cleared Py From wrecked buldings. x 2 * tle in Democrat Convention 'CAGO (CP)—The Democrat National con- at which presidential candidate will be today was threatened at opening with th battle over ‘‘civil rights.’’ Some south- Jations threatened to walk out if they don’t |PAYS OUTSIDE BILLS VICTORIA ())—British Colum- bla Hospital Insurance Service paid. a total of $452,000 for 7,202 out-of-province hospital ac- counts under the provisions of | the Hospital Insurance Act since | 1949, it was announced here. Of the 7,202 accounts, 600 were del le| | robbery death, jed murder wounded in the foot, | ‘and an RCMP constable shot in }out when police flushec vil rights’’ plank in party platform. | maternity cases. It is reported to have scraped| Harry, who operated the Imper- | the side of a cliff for about 80|ial Machine Shop here; Bruce, feet before careening into Port-| telephone feet | until and Canal into about 20 Ketchikan, Rupert Officials sic. s00 1 i exe x pert General | ing from |shock, managed to get out of |the car and scrambled to the Hospital recover- a badly cut eye shore He was noticed by a passing motorist as he climbed to the roadside. Three of the victims the tide went out RCMP at Stewart notified di visional headquarters here and Suspect Killed In Gun Battle arid | were trapped in the ear and Mr. | Love's body was recovered Sun- day morning on the beach after | Mews PRICE FIVE CENTS Four Dead In Stewart As Car Crashes Off Road - ee PROVINCIAL LIBRAR 1 cs. ORMES VICTORIA, B.C. DRUGS DAILY DELIVERY Phone 81 | | | | j to the scene | Of the total distribution, sales tax funds amounted to i7 and motor vehicle %2,280,397 Prince George receives $56,907 sales tax and $11,752 motor vehicle; Prince Rupert $99,537 and $21,355. $10,363,0 Prince Rupert Gets $120,892 From Sales Tax, Auto Revenue VICTORIA—B.C’s 105 municipalities will share a total of $12,643,475 in the provincial government’s annua! distribution Prince Rupert, Ernest B. Love and three other men} ° Sales tax and motor vehicle :evenue, died in an automobile accident near Stewart late! Saturday. , é r ae was B.C. MEMBER—Mrs. Tilly Rol- ; ston, who left the Progressive Conservative party, was elect- ' ed Social Credit member for Point Grey in British Colum- pia’s provincial election. Men- tioned as a possible cabinet member, she previously waged a successful fight for the sale of colored margarine in B.C. (CP Photo) Liner Rescues Mr. Love, besides owning the + telephone system in Stewart was e for many. years interested in prospecting and mining around i0 en ar Stewart INSTALLED LOCAL TELEPHONES He installed the telephones here in 1910 and three years e e later he resigned his position as superintendent and went to In the 1920's he was re-em- phones, then acquired the fran- chise for the Stewart area and again resigned his post here Besides his:widow and son, he is survived by three brothers: superintendent here retirement two years his witnesses filtered out by slide-blocked roads. 10 Dead, Many Injured As Top of Mountain Crashes LOS ANGEL?S.—A violent earthquake, strik- ‘ing before dawn in the sparsely-settled mountains | During the 1930's he sought|north of here, killed at least Stewart | election as Conservative candi- ae Get : crash, one of the worst in the|date for Atlin constituency in There were no deliveries today village in many years, were not| the B.C. Legislature but was de- javailable, although it is report-| feated. He was for a number of ‘ cannery |ed the men were en route from| years a member of the village here normally does not operate|the dock at Stewart to the vil-| council in Stewart. As the first reports of eye-| of earth rocked con- Electric at Cow Bay, who now|vyulsively, debris tumbling into lives in Victoria, vat the Premier Mine. Children* and parents rushed) ern California in nearly a half- into streets, crouched, stunned | century, left a mounting toll of damage and injuries. | the travelled route between here and little town of Tehachapi, they| Bakersfield, the Ridge Route of painted a picture of a shattered business district, streets and a wrecked hotel. Doctors and nurses were flown | seems like the top of a mountain in when ambulances were met) siiq off,” burying the busy, four- Fcoe . a | lane freeway route under 25 feet mateur radio operators re-| of dirt at one point. ago, and Ray, founder of Love|ported the . pout . U.S. 99 brick-littered| near Gorman. the main street in thunderous) Tehachapi. Mr. Brockbank was employed |erashes. . : | 4 Passengers of Burning Ship NEW YORK—The luxury liner Gripsholm turned mercy ship Saturday and snatched from death 45 of 49 persons fleeing from a freighter afire 65 miles off the eastern tip of Long Island. The 50,000-ton freighter, Black Gull, valued at $1,000,000 to $1,500,000, carried nine passen- gers, a crew of 40 and a rich cargo, including volatile chemi- cals, A Gripsholm lifeboat, churn- ing through tossing waters of the Atlantic before dawn, pluck- ed 21 officers and crew members , was blocked by a slid@) from the bow of the flaming freighter. They clustered together, ready to leap into the sea as crew members and passengers, six of them women, had jammed into Black Gull’s lifeboat and pulled At least 10 persons were in hos- away from burning vessel. pital at Majave, 20 miles east of Four missing crew members leaped 35 feet off stern of Black Gull. Coast guard-found-no-iece 10 persons today and A highway patrolman said “it The strongest quake in South- by the giant shaking. A large water tank. collapsed, | flooding the area. i Two thirds of the city’s build-) ings collapsed, with one house | caved in and a family probably | Egypt Premier | | | Hands in | Resignation | we nachent with a oeabihien | |of about 3000, is between Bakers- | hem. the thinly-populated ee area in which it hit kept death toll from being much higher. aa WE ATHER ak Its force was felt, mostly in a rolling motion, from San Fran- cisco on the north to the Mexi- can border on the south, and eastward into Nevada. Bakesrsfield, itself a city of 35,000 was hard hit. A refinery CAIRO—Premier Hussein Sirry field and Mojave, a littlé moun-| was afire, the downtown business tain town 4000 feet high. Synopsis Cool moist air that spread over B.C. yesterday in the wake of a weak Pacific disturbance has brought cloudy skies to most parts of the province this morn- ing. Pasha today submitted his resig- | nation to King Farouk, but after | a four-hour conference with his} | district, was littered with rubble It also is the site of the state| and dozens were treated for women’s prison, which was re-|shock and minor There will be gradual clearing in southern sections but a shal- cuts and)iow depression off the north advisors, the monarch refused to| accept it. a . jits cluster of two-storey build-| Harez Afifi Pasha, chief of the | ing were unuseable. Cells went) Royal cabinet, told reporters) oyt for tents in which to house | after the conference that a solu-|397 inmates, including all of) VIVIAN, Man. (P)——A_ bank| on to the government crisis still| Galifornia’s women convicted of | suspect was shot a suspect in an attempt- the face Sunday in a gun battle which erupted when police at- tempted to arrest the pair RCMP said the shooting broke from a bush hideout near here About $2000, believed to be bank loot, was recovered RCMP said they identified the vietim John R. Zahara, Penticton, B.C Other suspect is Zakopiac, 33, Winnipeg about 1 the pair from personal papers as 42, of tal is being sought Alexander Police said he is wanted in Vancouver on a charge of attempted mur- der Const. John Frederick Friend 45, was wounded in with a slug from a 45 revolver the cheek The two men are suspected of robbing a bank in donan in suburban Winnipeg. Water System For Northern BC. Village Special to The Daily News TELEGRAPH CREEK northern B.C. village modern. Work is almost pleted on putting a, water mai to the school and homes are ex- | East. Kil- ome “THM is going com- n| control. pected to be connected this sum- mer, The water project work has given employment to many here during the slow summer months Activity is picking up, however as hunting parties are getting ready to move. Several use service of local guides. The Telegraph Creek school) next Feb, 6-14. was built in 1949 by the depart- | introduced to Canada by immi- ment of Indian affairs. large | and growing of miniature trees parties from the States are ex-| Will be among unusual hobbies} laughed, “and then I stay on up) pected here this fall, and will/at the Canadian | felonies. | Afifi Pasha said the Premier! was insisting that the King &C- | stricken but unhurt. cept his resignation, but Farouk} gnheriff Capt. F. D. Jones said had so far had not been asked) he understood most of the dead | by any other statesmen to try tO| were in the old brick hotel. form a new cabinet | The town’s residential district | He said that reasons for the}was damaged, but no deaths| resignation Would be made pub-| were reported there. The main-| lic only if the King finally de- | - _ | cides to accept it Sirry Pasha’s non-party cab- 1et had been in office only 18 days. Sirry Pasha, Independent, suc- Girl Steer- ceeded Amhed Naguib Hilaly * |e |Pasha, another Independent Riding Boy | | ¥ | CALGARY (CP)—A little Indian, girl with pigtails got into the boys’ steer riding contest at the) Calgary Stampede’s opening day | this year by the simple expedient | Young Indian New Iran Premier Resigns TEHRAN ())—-Premier Ahmed Qavam resigned tonight after violent hour-long rioting in Te- |hran and other cities subsided. He gave up, after two days, his attempt to form a government }pledged to solving Iran’s oil | deadlock, Before Qavam gave up, Near- revolutionary violence flared, with Communists strengthening the Nationalists mobs. Govern- ment forces, with gun shots, tear | gas and bayonets fought to keep a Spot, daughter of Eddie One Spot, a leader among the Sarcee Indians, said «she would rather ride a steer than a horse. Why? “Oh I just like cattle.” | With the typical shyness of an | Indian child, she said she started steer riding at home when her brother got some cattle. “First time I fall right off.” she she got into the boys’ contest. “The people think I’m a boy but I keep it a secret all to my- self,” she said, A Grade three student at the been riding horses since she was six years of age. and it was also the first time At least three ipersons and |perhaps more were killed when | government forces fired into a | crowd of 2,000 trying to storm the Meciwrms buildings. UNUSUAL EXHIBITS TORONTO (CP)—Sand painting International | Hobby and Homecraft Show here | Many hobbies to five times before I fall off once, stampede I stay on four times. I like it. I can’t do more than five bucks.” {grants will be included. Prisoners were reported panic-|High _ of not saying she was a girl. | Shifting a wad of gum to the | other side of her mouth and of-| |g fering a shy grin, 11-year-old | Linder One Spot explained how | Sarcee Reserve School, she has|; This was the}}, first year she tried steer riding | J she had made a ring appearance | ported so hard hit that most of} pruises, -—-TIDES— Tuesday, July 22, 1952 (Pacific Standard Time) 1:20 20.0 feet | 14:14 18.5 feet | Low .... 7:58 2.5 feet 19:56 74 feet J Be 7. A a b [ ty { * At the frst day of the! | coast will cause continued cloud and showers in northern areas. Forecast Cloudy today and tomorrow with occasional rain. Not much change in temperature. Light winds. Low tonight and high to- morrow, at Port Hardy, 48 and 60; Sandspit, 50 and 62; Prince Rupert, 50 and 60. ae QUITE A GAL—Pigtails flying in the breeze, eleven-year-old Linder Oive Spot rides a mean-acting steer in the Calgary Stampede. Linder, a shy Indian miss, entered the boys’ steer-~ riding contest and neglected to mention she wasn’t a boy. She has been riding horses since she was six but this was her first try at riding steers in exhibition. (CP PHOTO)