112 CABS p10 pIsPATCH HE D ea lled MGs Patrol GTO [wo ited were ured two the re- aval today, mn a area tack US was limp in @ fight- pianes to head Lal of ning A ets NORTHERN AND CENTRAL BRITISH COLUMBIA’s NEWSPAPER Published at Canada’s Most Strategic Pacific Port—"Prince Rupert, the Key to the Great Northwest” VOL. KILI, No, 182 at SMELTER SITE—Machines are clearing, stripping and reinforcing with gravel fill a site of 7 more than 50 acres for the biggest aluminum smelter in the world at Kitimat, BC. The i Aluminum Company of Canada, a subsidiary of Aluminium Limited, started the $550,000,000 e preject--which includes a dam, powerhouse, transmission lines and other components of the 4) development——in 1948. The smelter is. expected to start operati ‘ ede po ; SS bullaings pected to start operation in 1954. In background are Ali eader UNCes ination Daily News STEWART.—A man unced of extreme hardship and mountain area 22 miles n Sheer de termination and ‘ luck” helped the man, eader of ttered party juld bei of ‘a lot 7 ity So-| known as Zorosky, of 5932°Sher- nmenf Premier | brooke Street: Vancouver, reach peninet d his first' ed civilizatiom late last Friday pee! alte abinet | night after going without food imphantly | for six days. into the; But, his hunger Victoria.| minor coneern to ecision | trudged out of the thick forest ® quar-| area. He was worried about his Provincial | partner, Art Cameron, 47-year- tive execu-| old prospector and farmer of Langley, B.C., who lay “played | cut” beside a creek where he left him 12 hours previously Rowe staggered into this min- | ing and logging town 120 miles north of Prince Rupert just be- was only of him as he ignation next the trength tnree mem- 1 in Oak A. Gibbs IDES— 52 Time 12.0 feet 19.8 feet 08 feet o.4 feet) dous territory in B.C Although unshaven, hungry and tired, he told of their battle against extreme hard- ship. He didn’t go into detail on his | tumble down the glacier last fall only to say he suffered multiple cuts and bruises, “but I didn’t break any bones and was able ‘| Can’ t Go On'— Says Weakened Pal By ERIC SANDERSON year-old W. T. (Bill) Rowe, also | trip south of here. fore 9 p.m. Friday after trekking | through some of the most hazar- | (CP PHOTO) Sea Cadets Prepare For | Summer Camp one enna | Stafl Writer le who last year survived a| ready for a two-week | cadets lenve Thursday in com- pany of a senior cadet officer es- wort starvation in the rugged) orth of this mining town. “Art just played out,” he told a group at the King Edward Hotel “He was in poor condition, | but we had no food and so I | decided to head for town. When 1 left him he had a small campfire and I told him to keep it going so Searchers would be able to spot him.” | for a complete | Ogilvie, ing, sailing, swimming variety of sports. \Dérdéeux Jail ‘eit cxtlaran siya tow Riot Calmed |his arms and face as he trudged MONTREAL (CP)—The riot at| through the dense underbrush | |Montreal’s Bordeaux jail is “of-| and forest atea | ficially over,” a high police offi- | SEARCH FOR METALS jcial said late today. Sitting on an old kitchen chair | Clean-up and mop-up squads in his cabin here, he recalled the ‘are at work in the rambling jail trip and hardship suffered by|just north of here where some the men since they entered the | 500 prisoners ran loose Friday) area in search of a mixed base | night after smashing a cell block | jmetal deposit j}and master locks. “We left here on June 30 for| Most of the prisoners, who set} a prospecting trip south of Bow-/a score of fires and clashed with PRINCE RUPERT, B.C., MONDAY, AUGUST 4, 1952 Sea Cadets of Prince Rupert’s Captain Cook Corps are getting training - 600-foot fall down a glacier today told a grim story|°ourse at Camp Comox. Twenty The boys who have been cnosen are al] over 14 and have qualified | 35- | to get out.” That happened on a|for their Able Cadet rating. Tonight, all cadets will mus- ter at the Navy Drill Halil at_7:30 kit inspection, | said Commanding Officer Arthur | At Comox, the ‘cadets wil) take part in gunnery drill, rifle shoot- and a PRICE FIVE CENTS 50 Thought Lumbermen Fly to Britain; Hope To Extend Shipping Deadline VANCOUVER Two Vancouver lumbermen are flying to Great Britain in a last ditch attempt to extend the Sept. 15 deadline of 600,000,000-board-foot contract between the British Timber Control and B.C. lumber exporters. Lumbermen were warned: Friday that Britain may not : accept lumber shipped after the deadline. 4 Hunt Continues For Starved Prospector STEWART.—No word has been received froin two ground parties searching the rugged mountain area 22 miles north of here for a prospector who has | been without food since July 27. | Awaiting rescue is 47-year-old, Art Cameron, prospector and} | Schwinghammer and, four men farmer of Langley, B.C., who was| were flown to Bowser Lake last too sick to continue to civiliza-| Thursday to begin a trip inland. tion with his partner, Bill Rowe,| They have not bee heard from also known as Zorosky, of Van- | since. couyer. | One of the men, known only ern as Angelo, elected to stay with The search party which left |@ tadfo at the lake and the oth- Stewart Saturday found Art |ers—Art Brown, John McNeil Cameron, starving prospector, | 20d T. H. Retvedt, all employees alive and safe. jof Western Wood Products—ac- Ian McLeod, hotel keeper, | companied the constable. said at 3 o'clock this afterncon | Following Rowe's tale of hard- “Cameron is safe, but very | ship and the plight of his part- weak, Two other men went in |ner, Ian McLeod, hotelkeeper this afternoon and are going | here, and a friend loft on Satur- to carry him out. day morning for the place where anes | OW! said he left. Cameron. Meanwhile early Rowe staggered into this town tthe head-of Portland Cankl,{or*;,Norm Jermyn. QCA pilot.) 120 mules north of Prince Ru- pert, late Friday night after a trip through the wilderness. The two men went into the area on June 30 and Cameron lost his food pack two weeks ago while ascending a cliff, and the | j | } the largest logging outfits in Stewart, flew over the area with supplies but were unable to spot the sick man. Jermyn returned to Rupert in the afternoon. Prince it eee necenet PROVINCIAL eee RM BS i WICTORIA, 8. C. DAILY DELIVERY Phone 81 Dead After Two Buses Hit Head-On Flaming Death Trap Holds Identity of Passengers By The Canadian Press WACO, Texas.—Two Greyhound buses crashed head-on near here just before dawn today and burst into flaming death traps. At ant 34 sehen ange up to 50—were } killed. It was difficult to count the dead because many bodies were. so badly burned they fell to pieces on being moved. The buses themselves were burned almost to rubbish. The collision occurred about seven miles south of here on the heavily-travelled Highway 81, popular Dallas-Austin route. Hours later, burned shoes, parts of purses and their scorch- ed contents, luggage tags and other clues. to the identity of victims still were being carefully eombed from the blackened wreckage. Twenty bodies were brought to a funeral home here and 14 to a funeral home in Waco. “One of the buses was burned down to a rubbish pile,” said Sam Wood of Waco Times-Her- ald. “The other was almost as bad. When they pulled the smashed buses apart, the wreck- DONALD LEIGHTON, son of Mr. and Mrs. M. D. Leighton, 719 Claude Street, recently Saturday, and Tom Wallace, manager of} Western Wood Products, one of men lived on half rations until their food was exhausted. Not in good health even_at the Start of the trip, Cameron weak- Veteran prospectors here said they did not expect either ground party to come out be- fore today, but others said they also may have become lost in the heavily-wooded country. Cameron is a veteran prospec- tor in this country but because he is without food may not be ened on the return journey and finally told his partner to go ahead for help when he “played ; out.” The grim tale of starvation was related by Rowe here Sat- urday. able to move or keep a camp- The men flew in to Bowser fire burning. Lake, 55 miles north of here,on Rowe and Cameron have been | June 30 and asked Queen Char-;on other trips and two years lotte Airlines to pick them up| ago discovered the Marmot lead jon July 20. When they were not}and zinc mine on the Marmot ser Lake and planned to come} police and guards in a series’ of|at the lake on that date, QCA/ River, six miles south of Stew- out on July 29 “After looking over some veins, (C Continued on page 6) skirmishes after breaking out, ‘are back in cells behind repaired ‘and reinforced locks. Prince Rupert's Doorstep Project Opens Up New Frontier st Aluminum num industry is being built in central British the doorstep of Prince Rupert. Because of the . °900,000,000 project in this immediate aréa and ° The Daily News presents this opening of a new : tories written by Dave Stockand, Canadian making a thorough survey of Kitimat and e first of a series.—Bditor.) By DAVE STOCKAND Canadian Press Staff Writer Permanent is replacing temporary on the ise British Columbia an aluminum industry ‘Impressive, costly and the reward of a year’s ne of the wildest country in North America. ' is just a preliminary to the job which ’ “0 winter gales quit pounding out of the “North sucked seven feet of snow from the ground. ‘ory. In 1948, the Aluminum Company of f Aluminum Limited, surveyed 12,000 square ‘ackle the project, which has been called the ‘ken by private enterprise. WORLD'S LARGEST At a Bi 450) “es north of Vancouver and 80 miles southeast ‘he twisting coast, was chosen as site of what '¢ World's largest aluminum smelter. Avorf part of a $550,000,000 project that starts “1 a dam across the Grand Canyon of the ic * the aluminum will be made. But it takes an ha oe to drive the industry. To create this “ched over the Coast Range to an untamed of 0 foot. his the ‘gh dam now being built on the Nechako will astward flow of the water of a huge £ a natural reservoir 350 square miles in area hormal e cre atine with its water surface 2,800 feet above sea level. With its eastern exit sealed the water will be backed up in the Oovtga-Tahtsa chain of lakes. From Tahtsa Lake—head of the entire system—these waters will be drawn off to the west through a 10-mile tunnel through solid rock of the coast range. ‘ HALF-MILE DROP. From there, the water will plunge in a half-mile drop through pipes and penstocks to the powerhouse deep inside the coastal flank of the mountains at Kemano. The power site is 125 miles west of the dam. * From Kemano powerhouse, capable of eventually developing 1,600,000 horsepower, transmission lines over the mountains will carry the power §0 miles northwest to the smelter here. A recent estimate placed expenditure so far at $84,509,000, including $13,500,000 by Kitimat Constructors, an alliance of eight major B.C. firms handling construction at Kitimat. The first workmen arrived here about 15 months ago, pitching tents at the base of the mountains which rise from the shores of Douglas Channel, Here they dug in. As Guy Davis, an Alcan engineer, explains: “A project like this must be done in stages. First, we bring in 20 nven to build a camp for 40 men, They build a camp for 200 men, who .. .” GROWTH OF VILLAGE At the start a wooden wharf was built so supplies and equip- ment could be landed. Workers had to thin the trees down to the ocean The camp grew to a village of 1,200 men and includes such conveniences as a dial telephone system for only 18 telephone numbers and one of Canada’s largest and most up-to-date cafeterias, Now workmen are dredging the harbor and construction is beginning on a permanent concrete wharf to serve freighters carrying alumina (processed from bauxite ore) through the Panama | Canal from the West Indies. notified police and began flights| ard. They sold out their inter- over the area, ests last year and decided to RCMP Constable _ Gerry!seek other base metal deposits. | There is no bauxite—primary source of aluminum—in British Columbia, But aluminum is refined by an electrolysis process. The cheapness of hydro-electric power makes it possible to ship ore to British Columbia for refining, despite the length of the sea haul. Machines are clearing, stripping and reinforcing with gravel fill a smelter site one-third of a mile by one-quarter of a mile. They are working two nine-hour shifts a day to have it ready by autumn. An access road is being driven to the Kitimat townsite, four miles up Kitimat Valley from the smelter, and clearing has started at the Kitimat City centre and in the area mapped out for storage facilities. PRODUCTION IN 1954 The smelter, or aluminum-reduction plant, is expected to be operating by mid-1954 with an output of 80,000 metric tons (88,000 short tons) of aluminum annually. Finishing touches are being put on a concrete-batching plant and a gravel-screening plant. A sawmill, cutting only timber which has been felled in the process of clearing, is handling 10,000 board feet a day. At the smelter site, some machines are so big they gulp four tons of dirt in a mouthful. The waste material is carted away in heavy-duty ore trucks, some of which weigh five tons and carry 25 tons. Dredging the harbor is necessary because the wharf must be near the smelter, which will be built partly on the delta of the Kitimat River. The wharf will take about a year to complete and be 800 feet long, six feet high and 45 feet wide. A conveyor-belt system will lead from the wharf to storage buildings near the smelter. The harbor will handle deep-sea freighters as large as 12,500 tons. Perhaps the most important thing to many of the men who live and work at Kitimat is the news that the first of 100 “married quarters” will be completed in a few weeks. | So far the female population has been about nil, age just fell to pieces.” 50 DEAD Waco police officer Sam John- son, one of those earliest at the scene, estimated thé dead at 5@. He said only one man from one of the burning buses. Both buses remained upright, enrolled in the RCAF at Ed- monton as an aero-engine technician, LAC] Le ighton leaves for No. 2 Manning De- pot, St. Johns, Quebec, Aug. 26 and from there.complete his training in a southern Ontario Station. U.S. News: Australians Discuss Pact HONOLULU (AP) — The For- ag ign Ministers of Australia, New " sign Ministers of Australis. Ne/Board to are meeting here today in closed , s Award Rail ® Wage Bid sessions to discuss Pacific prob- OTTAWA.—Appointment of @ lems. U.S. Secretary of State, Dean Acheson, said “every single prob- lém in the Pacific” will come under discussion. He, Richard G. Casey, Australian Minister of|conciliation board will be rec- ommended as the next step in attempts to settle the multi- million-dollar wage-labor nego- tiations affecting 125,000 non- operating railway workers, Ar- External Affairs, and New Zea- iand’s Foreign Minister, T. Clif- thur Macnamara, deputy minis- ter of labor, announced today. ton Webb, will all make public Macnamara, government-ap- addresses. Two newspapers in Taipeh, Formosa, editorially attacked the Security Pact signed last Sep- tember as too regional. .In the Philippines, Senator p,|P0imted conciliator in the labor- Laurel, leader of the Nationalists | USpute, expressed optimism over the trend of negotiations and said he believed a “compromise agreement” will be reached on “remaining differences.” Negotiations opened July 22 Party, criticized the conference as the “modern version of pre- on the workers’ demands for a 45-cent-hour increase. were forcibly separated by wreckers. Uniforms of soldiers, airmen and some sailors marked many of the dead and injured as servicemen. Police Chief Jesse Gunterman said officers had not been able to determine the cause of the accident. war colonialism.” He said mutual security deei- sions in the Pacific should not be made by western powers alone. The United States has separate security agreements with the Philippines and Japan. — WEATHER —- Synopsis Cooler air is flowing over the northern sections of the -prov- ince. Cloudy skies will be gen- eral in those regions and there will probably be scattered thun- derstorms this afternoon in the Prince George area. Across the southern half of the province skies are clear but cloudiness is expected to increase in the Kootenays this afternoon. Temperatures will be slightly lower in all regions tomorrow. Forecast Variable cloudiness today and Tuesday. Not much change in temperature. Light winds except northwest 25 in exposed areas. Low tonight and high tomor- row at Port Hardy 50 and 68, Sandspit and Prince Rupert 52 and 68. New Zealand Cuts Imports WELLINGTON, N.Z. — New Zealand’s government, facing financial deficit overseas, today ordered imports cut to the bone. The order particularly affected woolen goods, hosiery and Unit- Fire Razes Parliament Buildings OTTAWA @-—Firemen battled for five hours early Sunday be- fore stamping out a stubborn fire which broke out in the dome of Parliament's historic library. Water damage to the valuable 500,000-beok collection is expect- ed to total hundreds of thous- ands of dollars. Two firemen were overcome by smoke and @ third suffered a deep scalp wound when struck by a falling brick as they fought to quell the fire in the stone- and-glass dome of the 140-foot greystone building. They worked feverishly to prevent a disaster such as the one which struck 36 years ago when seven lives were lost fight- ing a blaze in Parliament's centre block. At that time, only the library was left standing intact. MOLASSES PRICE The average price per pound in 1951 of Canadian cane molasses was three cents, and of beet led States automobiles. molasses two cents, le , rg ‘e Ye yo on ST = hg 4 eh i i es wae : e a » - A \ , Bi c