Prince Rupert Daily News Vednesday, August 13, 1952 | Wedr delicate billion-doll: and pernap ir industries—meat and wheat, Mens Shop— critical stage in two important |‘ Fire Destroys Log Dwelling ‘TM i i -| Meat, Wheat Present Main | 4¢ £; | , ese N | At Francoise ‘| Probl E ic § | Special to The Daily News | Problem on Economic Stage | tse Take’ 2% oe | bea jranch house was “completely | By HAROLD MORRISON destroyed here Saturday after-| ! Hono Pre € Writer noon when a raging fire burned} : soscpieemeady nee |down the home of’Mr. and Mrs. | ! Canada’s economy is currently throbbing with| |P. J. Gatacre. if , ane : Little of the contents was| unprece dented activit y ai IS g) radu: ally reaching a saved. The Gatacres and five) thildren were not at home. The fire ate quickly 4 |the tinder- dry building The meat et, in spit | believed to have started in 1 the| the United States embargo ON} But under the agreement, | attic as peaeen export peen | Britair take from Canada comparately stron istered DY ee . | figure now has been trimmed to | Rederal vernment price sup nly il amount New Zealand | | 60,000,000 port and ie t artite Can-jcan dive to the United States} The Canadian government al-| ada-United Kingdom-New Zea- At one time, it was|ready has bought 45,000,000 jand agreement to move some , New Zealand might| Pounds and that leaves only an- Surplus Can n beef to Brit-j} 80,000,000 pounds for the other 15,000,000 it can purchase : ; _..|for shipment to the U.K ss : 2 . oh Normally, the heaviest mar-? |ketings of Canadian beef are in Bt ot ee aggre te sale ate a uc the fall months when summer | = Bi aseo- fed cattle are ready for 3 @ithe dinner table. Unless the} @)\American market is opened, Mi there likely will be a lot more ‘than 15,000,000 pounds of beef g (surplus to Canadian demands. | a Just how the government will} @\ handle this surplus will be WwW A [ L A C ‘ S matter for some skilful plan-j ning. It already has committed| © g itself to maintain a price- sup-| @}port program until the Ameri-| @ “an market opens and_ that @/ means it likely will buy up all} A 1—-1947 Ford ta-ten pickup 1—1949 Studebaker Sedan 1—1949 StudebaBer }2-ton 1—1949 Austin Pickup 1—-1949 Morris 1—1939 Chevrolet Sedan TRUCKS 11916 Dodge 2-ton Truck i Austin 5-ton Truck iN4h international *,-ton Panel Superior Auto Service It's New! It's Smart! = surplus beef offered by the pro- g| ducers. \ m™| Other countries besides the| It's Reasonable! SUK. Save indicated a desire oa ; "| Canadian meat, but it is psy | stood the ices they have 0 Ww A L u A Cc E 5 D E rt. ST Oo R E 4 fered a ‘- Salve cost and} BERBEC NORA R ERROR mean sharp losses to the | | federal treasury if taken up. | . | earl ning of the Ameri- — CLEAN: COW MILEAGE’ ‘coat’ weaatial, Saou because of foot-and-mouth disease in Can- ada, are growing more and more days after the federal govern- ment officially declares Canada free of the disease on Aug. 19. Now there is a feeling that the |}doors will remain closed per- | haps until early next spring. | and weather. Canada may have a record crop this year, higher 566,000,000-bushel rec- j than the | last crop year 3rd Ave WwW LIMITED Phone Green 217 nuc 13 Tee eee 4 Lad ard { Te eC eR Oe TTT ra) ogcasions, serve rau tort Cr ae 4 papel . pis Tie oe "Py q : Busters Ld | Terrie This advertisement is not published or displayed by the Liquor Control Board or by the Government of British Columbia a For Those mOT DAYS $6.25 $42.45 $40.55 $9.95 $5.95 ee eee Single Burner Hot Plates Two Burner Hot Plates Two Burner Hot Plates (one switch) Baby Bottic Warmers Egg Cookers ® Northern B.C. Power Co. Ltd. Besner Block — Phone 210 Prince Rupert, B.C Stewart, B.C eer errerwes TN Ouate Pete ee an a aa a ee ee ee ee eae” ee eee ee ee ee ee ee ee ee ee ee ee were \this year and farmers will be ready to move their grain ear- jlier than usual. But the Great Lakes shipping leet is striving to make up for the lag in iron ore shipments aused by the American steel trike. The ships are trying to get enough ore to the Canadian teel mills before the freeze-up to keep them going through the winter months, Both ore and wheat will be bidding against each other for shipping. The Canadian Feder- ition of Agriculture, for one, feels this may cause a shipping bottleneck such as developed last year. It feels the longer it akes to move the grain from the fields, the more opportunity here will be for fickle weather o change suddenly and. threat- en a harvest which otherwise would spell prosperity for a big segment of the Canadian popu- lation a) | services, is a ve remote. There had been some |hope it would be reopened 60| oa In the case of wheat, the griti- | ical questions are transportation jord crop of 1928. In addition,| , she likely will have a carry-over of wheat from the} The crop is early} t {in such places as a sofa, | | x = 3 % § s| i Se ae & MILITARY COLLEGE—This is tended primarily for French-sp on the banks of the Se aa MONTREAL (? Capt. Bert Trerice, recently appointed appointed check pilot for Trans- Canada Air Lines’ international teran of Antarctic | flying | He Ellsworth | joined Lingoln j and Sir Hubert Wilkins in 1938 |when the two explorers decided | Meanwhile, the chances of an} that Canadian bush pilots were the men to guide their party through the icefields during an expedition into the Antarctic The 19-man party, on board the schooner Wyatt Earp, was'led by two aircraft flown by Trerice and another Canadian pilot, J H, Lymburner, wei Wi, oman 3 Richelieux Rive i ne ge | an aerial photo of Canada’s third officer-training school, in- eaking officers in the three armed forces, at St. John's, Que The Col'‘ege Militaire Royal de St. Jean will open in sworth and Wilkins planned explore the southern polar region to determine the location of the shore line beneath the ielf of ice. The schooner was the base of operations while the two planes scouted ahead to find safe lanes through the treacher- | us icebergs A native of Amhert, N.S., Capt Trerice merely hrugs at the ingers involved in Antarctic flying The chiel inger was ice- bergs,” he said, recalling aa in cident when the crew decided to refill the schooner’s water tanks with ice water “corset Siok _orsel ~ 7) ds 4 ' Dead Keck ~/freasure oO Cac Nectuse SOMERSET, Pa ated home occupied by a | (AP) —The search of an iso- wealthy man—who even large|in death was armed with a gun and a fierce pack of dogs—is almost completed today but unsolved are he questions: Why did Samuel Jackson King live in such conditions while worth at least $68,000? And how did he save so much? hunters who have the debris-littered mountain farmhouse where King lived have come up with nearly $18,000 ‘in negotiable bonds, old currency, gold and silvet coins, in addition to bank books, safe deposit vault keys and rea] estate deeds indicating an estate worth approximately $50,000. These were tucked away cookie Treasure probed jar and a woman’s corset. The &hole thing started 10 days ago when 73-year-old King was found dead in a field, on his farm about 20 miles from this southwestern Pennslyvania community. Nearby, dog, Israel favorite shotgun King’s loaded lay A Vancouver Man To Inspect Repair Work at Reservoir | King I’. C. Stewart, consulting engineer of Vancouver, will be brought to this city to inspect repair work being done on the reservoir before final cementing is done. . ; This was decided by city brought here before the new ouncil over the objections of Coat of cement is aopned. Alderman George Casey who. Don Stewart said the works aid he believes there are n this city “quite conpetent” lo the job. Alderman George Hills Mr. Stewart was brought here ¢ io the designing and he should be the man to over- see the repair work.” Mr |to be paid Mr. Stewart for services ‘and said, ithe idea of having to run dow to Vancouver every need a job done here.” Pattee teen" Mr local he is the vise the work. Workmen began job at the beginnin, and the | | | j | | plete preparation for néw material. SeMeMaMeha ae Me tae a aaa aaa eae aaa! | Schedule” ing favorably | The : : ae! Ahh Vancouver t énginee: ‘ bab? ¥ said to ‘the refore | Casey questioned the fee his | n't like ae n| Will be driven into the sides of | time we| Alderman J. W. Prusky backed Casey’s contention that a man should be employed to inspect the work, but Alder- man Darrow Gomez said Mr. Stewart had the experience and logical mdn to super- the $27,500 of the week expect to ‘fake from six weeks to two months to com- job. All’ old cement and paint is being taken off in City Works Superintendent Don Stewart told neil the contractor is ~“*Wwef!™ahead of and work’ is progress- will‘ been men department slowed the intake to last Saturday to allow all water to be used from the yefore work started. “There were about three coats of cement on there,” he said. ! |“They will all be scraped off,| | after which workers will wash! ‘down the reservoir with water It will then be sandblasted ;and the hundreds of steel pins! reservoir {the wall and floor anda steel mesh placed over before new cement is applied. The company hopes‘ to put two shifts on the job, working from sunrise to sunset. DRY MIXTURE The new coating to be applied is called Gunite. It is a mix- ture of sand and cement mixed in a dry state and placed under pneumatic pressure by a ma- chine manufactured for that purpose. Water is then intro- duced through the nozzle and the mixture is blown into the mesh, The new coating will be a minimum of two inches thick. Mr. Stewart said the reservoir has been leaking badly for sev- eral years and this work has long overdue, was at his side parently caused tack Then Sheriff Karl I. Hare his deputies went to the I thought there some money there,” explained FALSE BOTTOM Inside the house sofa where | Israel slept. .When ‘it -was moved, ont dropped a false bottom revéal- ing a sheaf of $1000 bonds, with not-a-coupon clipped: sinee 1934 Death was ap- by a heart at- and house might be the sheriff was an old apparently Some $430 in $20 and $10 gold coins were iound in a canvas sack A rumpled roll of old large-sized currency contained hundreds of dellars in bilis ranging up to $50 Throughout the nouse offi- cers found tin cans and glass jars filled with coins Other searchers came upon similar situations. One man found a woman's corset and was about to throw it away when a wallet dropped from a_ secret pocket stitched in the lining. It contained $130 in bills The corset is believed to have been the property of King’s sis ter. Amanda, who lived with until her death 18 years ago. Two wills, the most recent of which gives the farm and every- | thing on it to a neighbor, Earl! Gray, were discovered. Gray worked for years as a part- time | | hired hand for King. HUGE CATCH For the tirst five months of .1952 the Bay of Fundy sardine ‘catch was 21,488,000 worth $365,000 to fishermen. : | SALT LAKE FERRY SCHEDULE Mondoy Through Saturday Leave Cow Bay Floats 2 p.m., 3 p.m., 5 p.m., 6 p.m. and 7 p.m, SUNDAY: Continuous Service Starting 10:30 a.m. All Schedules Weather Permitting PHONE BLACK 926 a (CP from National Pres: TCA Check Pilot Flew in Aniltictie The schooner was tied to an iceberg while the men chipped away at the ice. iceberg rolled, sel high in the air, it Suddenly the lifting the ves- However, escaped slipped clear and without damage. The .party spent six months |mapping and exploring a vast expanse of shelf ice called En derbyland, 1,000 miles from the South Pole Shortly after returning from the expedition, Capt. Trerice joined TCA and has since flown nearly 3,000,000 miles in the, Maritimes and over the North ‘Atlantic, ment Telegraph operations, which have served dhe nort) country for more tnan 50 years,} TERRACE- are radio communication set L here to is operations Stewart in the and Telegraph Gives Way to Wireless Special to the Dally New gradually making way -ups loyd Huntley, who relieve George Gr vacation, said at Dawson River and Fort Selkirk Yukon, have been replaced by modern ant on Creek closed communication Mr operator Huntley has been teleg at Stewart River for the. past,four years. K MacDonald, DFC Cg pounds of freight and mail, and 8°Hish, N's :« more than 10,000 passengers, in-| Since the quadron's cluding many wounded brought, moved back to Dor base | back from the Far East. Cmdr. 0. w Lepten The squadron was at its Dor- | has taken charge _ of R val home base when it received; ing officer of No. ms orders to move to McChord and! Cmdr. MacDon ald | A begin the Trans-Pacific opera-| Over new duties With the tions : ider command of Wing} 0M the continen t of B Cmdr. Campbell Mussells, OBE, | Ur OpR DSO, DFC, of Montreal, the squadron flew its own North TODAY and THURS) |Stars to the Pacific Coast, tak- Dominion Govern. for arrived who telegrapna radio rapn CANUCK FLIES | headquarters Lachine (Continued from Page 2) was replaced by Wins Wg, ing ground crew, administrative THE INSIDE STppe staff and servicing equipment with it OF A GREAT HECTIC AT START U: At first the squadron went} S. CRIMINAL through a hectic period, keeping | INVES to a one-flight daily schedule | TION with only six aircraft on strength, During the critical period when} ee the Korea campaign demanded feast ay maximum effort air crew were logging as much as 160 hours a} Mt // month through some of the worst* LLY Tay flying weather to be found any where In recent months the squad- ron has been flying e tent round trip : a t from Dorval instead a ‘McC hord Wing Cmdr. Mussells left the} Thunderbirds last year to be-|| come senior personne! staff offi cer at Air Transport Command Asia, including Asiatic Russia, extends over nearly one-third of the entire land surface of the earth TODAY ONLY 7: - 9: p.m, GEORGE MURPHY ir “WALK EAST ON BEACON 2 Pat and Mike” ‘a \A( Is a film you'll like! 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