sh¥ The Daily News NORTHERN AND CENTRAL BRITISH COLUMBIA’s NEWSPAPER CABS 0 DISPATE HI Be j — ee VOL. XLI, No. 186 PRINCE RUPERT, BC., i eet meet —_—___.. By wer rasan mrmmmmpeg epee seanetreeteeee coer, ye CMs, Z ER % ey herly Closes Playgrounds To J off Polio Threat; 1 Dead A wimming pools and playgrounds at | munity were ordered closed Thursday hospital of @ 12-year-old boy. Four e been taken to hospital for observation Columbia's fifth from polio this year 1 reported ealings ‘Above the Table’ i] ennett Plans 7 Ypen Policy’ | () (CP) —An open policy of dealing! purchasing Was announced Thurs-| er W. A. C, Bennett. ; Social Credit government pur-| Premier Bennett stressed he isn’t | ‘urchasing Commission, Here is the government's pol- icy e| Ship ; |. Preference to be given ‘a1 |all goods made in B.C by BC.| jlabor and using B.C. materials ? ht Lost ; 2. All firms will be given) # (more g | equal right to tender ” an SYMMETRY OF LOGS is this stockpile of pulpwood cut for Columbia Cellulose Company mill at Watson Island. Logs are from the Terrace districtwhich hag resumed operation following ; government supplies Here | 3. Any unsuccessful tender- | eS ers on any government pur- | chases will have the right to} the month and a half strike by woodworkers. Logs are shipped with inspect the successful tender; to Watson Island by rail veral| seven days after it has been|- / : , board | awarded | today} Premier Bennett did not go| into details of the policy but it} is expected the new government | is aiming at saving money on |}purchases by in effeet encour sShanty- | aging unsuccessful tenderers to| vir- | See successful ones It is expected that unsuccess- | ful bidders on seeing the suc cessful bid would cut down their wil future tenders accordingly in an ity effort to-get contracts ort to Final outcome would + Saving to the government Premier Bennett said all or- 19-foot Prince Worst Fire in Months Razes Home - $2,000 per Van nar jmore than $2000 to the home of Mr. and Mrs. 1| Lovin, 120 Seventh Avenue West. R. J. be ranspo! ontact uble |by his government will be open [to public. view. most of the damage was done. n ae 8 _ He-made this stat { after —~ * ‘The Tite was noted by felgh- ren asked te ‘ . erren | i : , pear es ae Attorney-General Robert Bon-|] SAYS CCF bors at 3:45 a.m. who immedi-| Prince Rupert saetiae ner had released an order-in-)j0 Ther : : eral k council approving liquor price ge ‘wes no one in the house increases which was passed by ocre S$ ee * . re time Kyu-|the outgoing Liberal govern- ates i blaze for f Van-;ment N Fi more than three hours | and Everything is going to be! ot ear Mr. Lovin had left his house} for her|done above the table,” said Pre- about 11 p.m. and was staying ment of|mier Bennett. to make | In the past, governments have | refrained from allowing the which | press to view all orders-in-coun Columbia | cil. Many were kept secret por pon 7 Legislature with friends. He and his family returned last week after a va- VICTORIA (€P)-—Social Credit | cation and Mr. Lovin was doing government needn't be afraid to| some remodelling and decorat | face the Legislature in the near | ing in his home before moving | future if its new legislation will! pack | benefit the people, Frank Snow-| Most of the damage was caus- | sell, Saanich MLA and provin-/eq by water. | cial CCF organizer, said Thurs- | i i sor- | lated | 1 logging off at 5) 18- Year Old | Fisherman —WEATHER— The CCF has never attacked | | legislation solely for political! } 2 a Mr. 5 se C . . ol ait Drowned Sad that wee econien Synopsis aadec la e sOR Ste re *, ) > ;: cCe f he Kootenay area 1 the rowne should be called into special Bxc pt a i i fa » coast Daisy B ann this vans and a few spots along the coas } PS. § Cf } : ‘ since} An 18-year-old fisherman is - : hk ; ithe province was almost, clear of t i {bell ; ‘ med early He assured Premier Bennett | woud last night.. There Was much iboare | believed to have drowned early that CCF members. would not! ‘ ‘ ‘ jless cloud. than usual along the | reported | today in the Skeena River |take advantage of his new cabi- | esday that} RCMP here said Ernest Davis, at : : coast although many coastal net ministers’ imexperience. li Se ik a ee ‘ ubmerged | 18, native of the Naas River In-| Cree localities reported early morn- Daisy | dians, is reported to have fallen ing fog at theloff his gillnet fishing boat be Island, | tween Carlyle Cannery and Lam Today will be sunny and no- ticeably warmer except in the Britain's Manners showers are ve been} bert Point about 4 a.m | “ 2 southeastern former of ys — of the| He was fishing with his bro-| vince where the cloud will not | ther. ee 0 is ing: clear until evening. Afternoon ‘ expected in that LONDON A tew unvarnish-| area as well about reeeiving visitors ied facts The warm sunny weather will jfor the coronation are beingicontinue throughout B.C. on| | dished-out, to the British public Saturday although there will be Sir Alexander Maxwell, ghair-' an increase in low cloud along | : jman of the British Travel and| the co ast during the morning. | Holidays Association, says Brit- lain’s tourist industry is at the Forecast leross-roads, A tourist plan is} Most clear today and Saturday | needed, he adds, if the industry except for fog and low cloud lis to be developed as it should) along the shoreline tomorrow lhe and new money attracted to|morning. Continuing warm. can Escapes Czech Jail TON (CP)—A young American jail- Communist Czechoslovakia was rec ) . the country Wind northwest 25 in exposed ad Pigs. to oe Sener a He emphasizes that if the areas, otherwise light. Low to ig van is John Hvasta, , OT |home population must go with-j| night and high tomorrow at Port "le was under a 10-year sentence on | out in order to provide visitors) Hardy and Prince Rupert 53 and F espior age with the best available, that is 68; Sandspit 57 and 70, the Way it must be. | $j * * * Sir*Harry Brittain, a member | of the council, was even more! I Si vt Start A 8 outspoken. He said that in his op entence : 5 ugust 1 opinion, the United Kingdom is one of the world’s most untidy | levied on nations | ‘“ Communists COUVER (CP)—There will be at least 10 ' “certainty before British Columbia's Talks are being held already) ene ; : : ‘eral election finally is settled. Recount with hote| and restaurant asso- DUVer. . : ciations by Sir Alexander who is A Burrard, where Social Credit now | (au0ns Oy ee niticism about LOS ANGELES (P)—Califor- nr 246 votes, has been set to start on | service. He says Britons who go hia’s 14 leading Communists— o *count will probably take three days ib} of "'Y O85 many as 10, |by boosting their own country. ing member Last year Britain’s tourist in- Russia, today | dustry brought £73,000,000 in for- maximum sentence of five years * * * | eign currency into the eountry— in prison and $10,000 fine for 1 | ¢93.900,000 of whieh was in| conspiracy against the United | old-up Nets $2 000 dollars. | States. TREA ; , ee tinh | The heaviest judgment pos- CAL (CP)—-Brovincial police reported | FORMER GREATNESS /sible under the Smith Act of Only about 10,000 descendants | 1940 was levied yesterday by lof the ancient Mayan civilization Judge William C. Mathers after |remain in the British colony of|he upheld the jury’s guilty ver- t a held up a branch of the Canadian _. \< at Point Fortune, on Ontario-Quebec Mire early today caused damage estimated at The blaze, worst in the city in several months, ind that |ders-in-council properly passed|is believed to have started in the basement, where|°!,10 oF 12 men—were on the | abroad for vacations do not help | including the self-styled found-| the party in| came under 4) FRIDAY, AUGUST 8, 1952 Reduc Hold Bulgars — Off Border ATHENS @—Acting Premeir Sophocles Venizelos told a pack- }ed conference today that Greek | forces have been ordered to keep | Bulgarian troops off the border \island of Gamma, from which Communist Bulgars were driven by Greek fire yesterday. Venizelso said Greek troops at f| the river border between Greece and the Soviet satellite neighbor on the northwest had been gr- ,derd to stand by on th alert Ba until the United Nations backs Greek demands for unquestion- Fied sovereignity over the tiny island. Meanwhile, Bulgaria has sent a letter to the United Nations secretariat protesting against the number of frontier incidents which are said to have occurred on the Greek-Bulgarian border between July 26 and August 7, a Bulgarian news agency said in a report broadcast from Sofia today. UN NOT WORRIED At. United Nations neadquar- ters in New York yesterday, the Greek firing on the Bulgarian patrol on the island was gener- ally considered just another one of the border incidents which | have been a common feature of | Greek-Bulgar relations in recent | years. | \the Bulgarian patrol—probably jisland and ordered them off by | Wednesday morning. -o NNesterday the-Greeks said the Bulgars were still on the island ately called the fire department, | 4d they fired on them for sev- hours with mortars and j}machine-guns. Greeks said the Communists withdrew after the | firing. Coal Strike Looms Greece Will Published at Canada’s Most Strategic Pacific Port—’Prince Rupert, the Key to the Great Northwest” PRICE FIVE CENTS ed by | PROVINCIAL LIBRARY, 118 VICTORIA, B. Cc. DAILY DELIVERY Phone 81 Hospital Insurance Rate Government “Britain To | Set Off Atom Biast MELBOURNE, Australia © Shipping and planes today were Warned off an area of 23,500 square miles encircling the un- inhabited _Monte Bello islands, | 12 miles off western Australia, | where Britain's first atomic ex- plosion is to be staged. No official date has been set for the explosion beyond the fact it will take place “sometime this year.” Today's announcement indicates a stage for the test. Exploding Jet Kills 9 Seamen WASHINGTON—A jet airplane exploded between decks on the carrier Boxer off Korea Tuesday night, killing nine seamen and injuring 75 and destroying 12 other aircraft. Sixty-three crew members leaped overboard to escape the | flames which raged through the | hanger deck. They were rescued | by lifeboats and helicopters. The | Navy reported the accident on | Thursday and said it occurred 50 miles off Korea. No enenmy action was in- Domne the Navy said. Cause of the explosion is still undeter- mined though there 'was unoffi- | Greeks earlier reported that | gig) speculation here that ac- cumulation of aircraft gases led | to the blast. ' Grain, Fruit | Crops Ripen; | No Damage WINNIPEG. — Further rains | occurred in most sections of the | prairie provinces during the |Past week. Temperatures were As New Setback | slightly below normal in Mani- toba and eastern Saskatchewan | WASHINGTON (AP) — The |spectre of another industry- | throttling strike before the steel | mills of the United States have | had a chance to get back to full |production arose as .John L. | Lewis served notice that his | United Mine Workers’ contracts jare ending next month. | Lewis, president of the Mine Workers’ Union, wrote Joseph | E. Moody, president of the South- jern Coal Producers’ Association, |that his work contract will ex- [pire Sept. 30. | That's 60 days from the date }on Lewis’ letter. Terms of the |existing contract provide ter- |mination upon 60 days’ notice | by either side. | The notice to Moody, following |by 10 days’ similar word to the | Bitu-minous Coal Operators’ As- | sociation, is certain to mean a shutdown of all but a small por- jtion of soft coal mining by the ;end of next month unless Lewis, | Moody and Harry M. Moses agree jon mew contract terms. Moses heads the Bituminous Operator's | Association, representing an €s- {timated 240,000,000 tons of an- jnual production, much of it owned by the steel industry. The Moody group produces about 100,000,000 tons a year. Lewis, it was also learned yes- terday, has served contract-ter- mination notice on the anthra- cite (hard coal) industry, which employs 100,000 miners. Bitum- inous diggers number 450,000. Still not a party to the series of recent Lewis letters are oper- ators in Indiana and the far west, With an estimated 40,000,- 000 odd tons a year. | —TIDES— Saturday, August 9, 1952 (Pacific Standard Time) i Wigh 3:31 21.1 feet 16:03 21.2 feet LOW ais iced 9:45 2.5 feet 22:16 3.5 feet WELL-KNOWN LABELS The American party symbols— the Democratic donkey and the republican elephant—were cre- “SCaped with about $2,000. | Britsh Honduras | dict, ated by cartoonist Thomas Nast. and above norma! in western Saskatchewan and Alberta, ac- cording to the weekly crop re- port of the Canadian National Railways. Harvesting of early sown crops is under way in southern Manitoba and in some sections of southern Saskatchewan. Leaf rust is prevalent in some dis- tricts but stem rust, which has been reported in southern areas, will probably be largely offset by the advanced state of matur- ity of crops affected. IN OKANAGAN In the Okanagan Valley, the weather has been very hot, with no rain. Fruit is maturing rap- idly and the movement of apri- cots is past the peak but will continue for another week in lesser amounts. Peaches are moving in small quantities from southegn sec- tions and will commence over the entire valley early next week. Crabapples will also com- mence to move next week and Bartlett pears will move about the middle of this month. Plums are now moving in val- ume and prunes will move in volume by the end of August. Tomato volume will be increas- ing considerably next week. No general damage to fruit crops from any source has been reported during the past week. Sockeye Pack Exceeds ‘51 By 46,000 VANCOUVER (€CP)—British Co- lumbia sockeye salmon pack for the week ending Aug. 2 was 46,- 963 cases more than for the same period last year, Depart- ment of. Fisheries announced Thursday. A total of 379,738 cases were packed this year compared with 332,775 last year. However, the department an- nounced bluebacks, coho and chums were down from last year. In 1951, 592,620 were packed against 560,923 this year. “ CCF, 18; - MacDougall ‘Re- Elected’ In Point Grey VANCOUVER (CP)—A. R. Mac- Dougall, Progressive Conserva- tive, was “re-elected” in Van- couver-Point Grey on Thursday when the British Columbia Ap- peal Court tossed out a recount of votes in the riding. Mr. MacDougall won the seat on the first tally of ballots cast in the June 12 provincial gen- eral election. Liberal T. R. Burnett was de- clared elected after he requested and obtained a recount. Mr. MacDougall then took the case to the Appeal Court and won his seat back again. The Appeal Court ruled that some ballots had not been prop- erly packaged and sealed and that Judge Bruce Boyd had erred in counting these ballots. The court based its decision on the Montreal Centre election appeal in 1878. The court's decision restores the original strength of the two parties in the B.C. Legislature: Liberals, six; Progressive Conser- vatives, four; Social Oredit, 19; Jasper Lodge To Be Rebuilt MONTREAL (P)—Donaild Gor- don, president of Canadian Na= tional Railways, said Thursday the central building of Jasper Park Lodge in Alberta, destroy- ed by fire last month;“wili rebuilt for the 1953 season open- ing in June. ‘ Rustic character of the for- mer building will be retained, although final design is not known. Work on the new build- ing is expected to begin before {2 when im Premiums Cut by $3 Now Family Pays $39 Special to The Daily News VICTORIA.—A reduction in hospital insurance premiums in British Columbia was announced today by the newly-appointed Social Credit government. In his first major move since taking over the reins of govern- ment iast Saturday, Premier W. A. C. Bennett announced the new rates will be retroactive to July 1. Families now will pay $39 a year, instead of $42 as at pres- ent, and single persons will pay $27, a reduction of $3 in both instances. The premier also announced that effective at midnight to- night, patients will be charged $1 a day during their stay in hospital, replacing the co-insur- ance clause in the scheme now which forces hospitalized pa- tients to pay $3.50 a day for the first 10 days of their stay. Premier Bennett estimated the new plan will save British Columbians $2,000,000 a year. The Social Credit party, dur- ing its campaign for election, said the B.C. hospital insurance scheme, introduced by the Co- alition government three years ago, would be put on a volun- tary basis instead of the com- pulsory plan if the party waz put in power. While there was no announce- ments from other departments of the gove: ent, it was learn- ed the $5,000, road construc- tion program proposed by the previous government would be ‘given the go-ahead signal shortly. The works program was held lefeated Liberal a halt to letting any contracts until the political picture was cleared up. Public Works Minister Philip Gaglardi said he is reviewing all scheduled work and “consider~ ing the various projects in their line of importance.” : The halt in road work, how- ever, did» not affect the 1952 progtam laid out for the Skéetia Highway as all contracts for clearing and gravelling were let before. the June .12-election:. Plane Crash SEATTLE (CP)—A light air- plane crashed and burned near Mount Baldy, 30 miles southeast of here, yesterday, killing the September 15. pilot and two passengers. — MO NSTER HALIBUT caught near Prince Rupert represents a vital part of this province’s industry. Halibut fishing for Prince Rupert fishermen is over for another season, but many of them are now engaged in salmon fisheries either at sea or ashore in camps and canneries. Some have made enough earnings to “take it easy” for a while and are on holidays with their families, | = = te 4, o : > Ye uae » be