CABS pisPATCHED PROVINCIAL NORTHERN AND CENTRAL BRITISH COLUMBIA’s NEWSPAPER Published at Canada’s Most Strategic Pacific Port—'’Prince Rupert, the Key to the Great Northwest” VOL, XILI, No, 195 PRINCE RUPERT, B.C., WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 20, 1952 PRICE FIVE CENTS ester PROVINCIAL LIBRARY, VICTORIA, B. Ce. = - eet ne meme ORMES ‘DRIIGS DAILY DELIVERY Phone 81 118 service during the ths hat air travel med in wilderness which roams |over tens of thousands of square | miles. They didn’t find the out-| | break until last Sunday. a 187,189,000-bushel carryover in the previous crop year. But it is some 43,000,000 bushels below the 10-year average annual carryover in the 1941-50 period. - __WEATHER— Synopsis 4% million dollafs for packages. Dr. Dakin was advised of the purchase of pork by telegram from CARE executive offices in port ‘ e it paste owe iquor ro em 0 aS Endor se 6 p Rupert 0 e Oommi ee tion : : SANDEKER Labor Asks "gi 1G tToM a_i | overnmentToMake sine ee sesive industry For Nation D B sail canta Health Pl ecision on bars ‘lun hia must ea an By The Canadian Press bases not only WINNIPEG (CP) — VANCOUVER.—A Vancouver newspaper said ymical but Though Britain’s nation- Tuesday in a dispatch from Victoria that a “widely p point of view. al health scheme came in representative” committee will be appointed soon to - gee for some criticism, the investigate the liquor problem in British Columbia. "ted Boards of Trades an “ The newspaper said Attorney- pi : -~ ” ad Labor Con * General Bonner is expected to + ie a gress of Canada Tuesday ussia 0 make announcement within a ay ; eo few days. const tion ren ; "a eae | y ewed its demand for . The report says a committee the 2ist | . a Canadian health insur- Reor anize will be made up of laymen, of the as-! , a i sili lance plan churchmen, medical men and » today, he was one STRIKE FRACAS—Trouble flares at the strikebound Sunshine Waterloo Company, Ltd., plant The aiid Canadian labor : : ae rele at us — I ielegates who at Waterloo, Ont., when six foremen try to pass a picket line. One gained entry but five were party at its annual«convention ; ommunism and the ‘eiunete ended sed the re- forced seen Police charged 14 employees with besetting in connection with picketing. About | askéd the federal government to i “The committee,” says the pe _300 employees have been on strike since July 3. (CP PHOTO) set up legislation for a health MOSCOW @ — The Soviet! report, “will specifically exam- Lt deans - serokaal ‘ ‘ ‘ ‘ cc aoe on a contributory basis, i ncn Communist a an-|ine whether liquor should be ‘gee . og 9 eclaring labor men are ready 'jnounced today it will hold its|sold in cocktail bars only, in at ee Rain Gives Slight Relief to Blazing Mi aaeuate thelr “Fair” sage of first party congress in 13 years| hotel cocktail bars, in restau- 2 Trane the cost. on Oct. 5 to give the party 4|rants with meals; whether cock- pee OF See ° . . j _| sweeping reorganization and set| tail bars or beer parlors should oe! Forest Front While Men Keep Fighting | “ser.’ssirsn |g ne ea cca Bente to sere food, and Isl near Rupert Before adopting that declara- i|. The new plan would increase|a host of other related ques- wation did not : . tion, the convention heard' two ‘| Soviet industrial output by 70/ tions.” ch room for exten-| A half-hour rain last night on! Every able-bodied man was shorter route. Gordon’s body | former United Kingdom men say per cent by the end of 1955 a inway in later years|the west and north boundaries | questioned. Most went willing-| was found later. There has | there have been mistakes in the : , : NO DECISION ‘ A decree of party’s central Mproposed airport onjof the 40,000-acre Tintagel fire|ly and they needed a good ex-| been no tface ef Hunter and | British setup but Canada should committee, published in all Mos-| In Victoria, the Attorney- c has been|near Burns Lake brought fresh | cuse if they said otherwise. Po-| he is feared dead. study these and profit from | COW papers said the party’s top|General would neither confirm f the prox-|hopes to dog-tired firefighters lice said the number of funerals} riday, the some 200 firefight- them. control body—its politburo—will|nor deny the report. tains as they re ted 41th day ee o — were scheduled | 2, got a partial break from the The Labor Congress also de- be replaced by a “Praesidium” “The liquor question is cer- . the province's worst pe bag u hn numbered Burns). .other. There was no rain but| ¢ided to continue pressing the which will have the function of| tain to be given an earnest ls now are | forest fire in JO years. = cramded wtenucess the humidity increased and the, Federal government for pro- “guiding the work of the (party) | consideration by this govern- likelihood of| The fire has simmered down| But there was real tragedy) nights grew cooler. The wind| stams of fow-rental housing central committee between ses-| ment,” Mr. Bonner said. “It is Digby Island.| considerably,” was the official) ahead on the fire lines, | died. and slum clearance. f | sions.” one of eight or 10 pressing t is built, | eo voles! ape a ‘ity|, The threat to Tintagel never) As of today the fire was still| ‘Pe annual convention ex- The changes in party organi-| matterg and it stands high on he million = ae ee 7 “ ae ee became more than a threat. Aj uncontrolled by man. But, after| presseq itself as “greatly disap- g| sation are provided in a NeW) the lal idding that/of the air is helping a grea’) change in the wind was all that| hurtling over an estimated 35,-| poi ”» Me \ Statute to be taken up by the ‘ members | deal | peinted” by inaction on these congress Of the committee idea, he de- an ve tate : |gaved the town. The wind be-/|000 acres and possibly more, it int i i * 8 : ‘ . press for| Some 120 men are working in| , : p a ; points and said housing short-| URANIUM CLAIM — Bob Cal- clared: ru o we ean|eight-hour shifts always ‘on| = ee ee ie io no appreciable| ages are aggravated by ~~ - + der, veteran prospector and - “It may well*be that we will nH: Bigs oe aad nt : é ~ | headway, ee ermment’s “open immigration) sg; : ‘ oT} uable and neces} guard with’ bulldesers.| Dower itary “between Tintagel. Aand| Lightning caused this fice, the| pgiiey. st tmerseouniat ite MA Degadh. Bin. sor aout anein wn tg | ani ii lwinning fight against the red |. th Was still “wn “uncofitrolled| biggest’ in. B.C. this year. A| The Congress adopted a dec-|’ northland, marks his claim’ | age — or ee e cae wt hae BUOR ltide which already has devastat- | Taltapin Lake. carelessly-tossed cigaret butt or|jaration on housing among the} stake in the uranium staking T Jet vo sate. Smt Be eo ee 4 Vancouver,led thousands of feet” of mer.| ferme and Wednesday night/a spark fromdogging equipment series approved at its afternoon} rush in northwestern Saskat- wo net has made no decision on the nadian Pa-|chantable timber and claimed | 2 Thursday morning one and} would have had the same ef-/| convention sitting as it concur-| chewan. The geiger counter is matter.” eaking to the the ac of ut least one fire. | Probably two lives were lost|fect. In 1951, these and similar | red in reports from its legislative} carried by prospectors seeking Crashes it while he! fighter junder a deadly streamer ofjalmost unnoticed incidents | committee. uranium-bearing ore. A special liar with the press| ambien le premumed dend< | we named. es. NOMA: argh a| series of clicks tells the pros- | LONDON (CP) — Four R.AF. N rport ‘ ‘ ‘ ; a ae le 11 c J acres e prov- | ctor where the ground i ‘ ; f rt Ps & _ Here is how the fire started | TRAGEDY ince. ‘The toll hie yearts oxtl-| Prodan on tuaees men died in two jet crashes to- 0 ern per August 9. | Eight men were. hacking out) mated unefficially at about 50,- és ae anes : ; heres day bringing: the toll’ to: six , ipert Daily} From his Boer Mountain look-| 4 fire trail with bulldozers when) 999 acres go far. | . : : | erases’ aii $19 Weattia 1it! ted, W closed that| out Jack Mowat Saw a bolt of}, gudden gust of wind sent aj Saturday the situation was Hit Si hi $ CARE B | days ae 00 smen 4 fficlals and lightning slam into timber) curtain of flame racing through | greatly improved around Burns upp e uys Transport Crackling with thirst the treetops, surrounding them.|; axe, commenting: “We believe oO t Ai ; Shoe eer. ot go ' ting possibility of} The forester pinpointed thet |. [ mene, Cou ig: “We believe’ SEOUL @—United States Air M t FE one of Britain's newest and fast- t on Digby| location and grabbed his bi Their only avenue of escape | we are going to check it now.” | Force said about 200 Air Force ea rom ics, plunged into a. field. near ee I e nee from the|hoculars. Soon they trapped a| W@S to dash through the fire Monday the wind rose again ang Navy planes today hit Com- : : Royston, Hertfordshire, killing finger of smoke which announc-| t@ @ burned-over spot. Six and the red tide began sweep-| munist ammunition-supply and Government all three aboard. VANCOUVER (CP)— discussions of{ed the birth of a forest fire got through, But Howard Gor- | ing through the trees. troop-billeting area on the Kor- A Twin-jet Meteor fighter} Northern and southern 1 which asked| Mowat lunged across the don and J. H. Hunter took Only rain can give complete} ean west coast about 25 miles Special to The Daily News plummeted near the Stockton-|. . ee ‘ ervice be-|Cramped cubicle where he| What ‘they believed to be a (relief. ‘northwest of the Red capital of On-Tees, Yorkshire, killing the interior British Columbia nce and Prinee spends the summer months on, | Pyongyang. higgins oe woo _ t : lumberworkers have re- fause Central B.C,|) constant alert and radioed the r | There are eight separate tar- sentative f “CARE . thiewgh get neon ay it d ili i unable to cope with| news into forestry headquarters C, di. Wh t C vets in the area, the Air Force 4° a A -_ ~~ ep ooh proaching 50 this year—brought queste conciliation , Mr. Barber said| here. ana a S €a arryover said. Four were smashed by sy ay the organisation Bas pur an anxiqus comment from cor boards in their wage dis- of CBCA had ap-| There were no delays. Crack Navy pilots and four by Air, "sed 46,000 pounds of pork/oners and newspapers but the a s company regard-| woodsmen were ordered into the : : Force fliers. from the Canadian government. | Air Ministry contends that jet putes with operators. tr the route, |bush, to locate the fire, study iggest In evel Cals Returning pilots reported early . ee ae ee we La a saggy agen ae & take Stewart Alsbury, B.C. president ; the terrain and blaze a route lclaims that 58 buildings were|°U ane se brings to of jets) of the International Woodwork- er said j ; bwill be Bag eee for the firefighters who would OTTAWA—-Canada’s wheat carryover from last crop year |demolished and five damaged.|™0ore than five million dollars | in the air has doubled since last|ers of America (CIO-CCL) said service nau a follow. totalled 212,974,000 bushels, biggest in seven years, the Bureau | Big explosions rocked the area a ee ee for i: > oc aaa increased Tuesday the union.has requested onstruction = . That was Saturday, 11 days! of Statistics reported Tuesday. The crop year ended July 31. |S bombs smacked into ammu- wg a a ee ~ a — esc on a conciliation board for the st Terwans i 4 ‘ago. But even the beacon of a This ance, which will increase the strain on Canada’s | D!t#on stores. ages. Canadians, he added, in- Northern Interior Workers after Terrace is es- : This balance, which will increase the strain on Canada’s dividually have invested about tiati ees mre the airtine ean | @Y8Be parent, Eee can be, Cin grain storage facilities, is a gain of 25,785,000 bushels from C negotiations broke down. -TIDES— * Thursday, August 21, 1952 (Pacific Standard Time) Earlier, the board was requesi- ed for Southern Interior Wood- workers. ' The 5,000 I.W.A. members are “ine weather was| ‘The fire held all the cards as'| An extensive area of low pres- Ottawa. High ............. 1:35 20.0 feet | asking a 35-cent-hourly “pacx- cnet adio range|it nursed on i dry scars of| \ e ' ae lies in the Gulf of Ainake CARE, a non-profit public ser- 14:08 19.5 feet | age” pay boost and a “fringe” of Tuction must be] old logging operations, treach ‘and extends southward. along,Vice, began as an American en- | 4993 9¢ 0:02 benefits, Alsbury said. . any airline|erous ancient burns and a for-| 0 asy on ri eS ithe B.C. coast. From this storm |terprise but is now on an inter- 399} OF Sth ae Moyi Their contract expires Sept. 1. o r of Terrace] tune of spruce and pine sucked area a series of weak disturb- | ational basis. After an organi- ich year. |of protective moisture by days ances’ has developed, the latest|2@tional meeting in Prince iid the De-|of shimmering heat. now across northern B.C. and|George, Dr. Dakin is returning "Transport willl The first firefighters, carting Vv e there is evidence of another de- | t0 Ottawa. He began his Canada ") between now and| portable pumps, found creeks veloping in the vicinity of the| Wide tour in Halifax last Janu- Stal the radio|and sloughs which showed »n| — +; WINNIPEG (CP) Canadian labor | Weather ship. Each storm gives ro = has visited every city 8 “caitional mon-| their maps had been drained today had before it an appeal cloudy skies with some light rain |!2 the Dominion, 4 ‘the Terrace|by nearly three weeks of sum- Govt Plans Prams the ¢ to the northern coastal points. sheen nenartne ee oneness ompleted, mer drought, ° rom the federal government to|, few clouds and showers to : ; Tt : i. go easy on strikes that could| northern and eastern interior Blaze Rips Bu t Bel oe More Revenue slow defence production. points but little if anything to : ‘f Smithers,| wind as inconsistent as a : i th : organization,| teen-ager, which changed the Labor Minister Gregg, in put-| the Southeastern section of Se Throu h : and after| course of the fire dozens of From Resoursces ting it up to the convention of a og little change in the g inean Kerr read| times in a 24-hour period. It the big Trades and Labor Con-| weather is ‘anticipated in the L b om ud telegrams| carried sparks which put VICTORIA @)—The provincial | gress of Canada yesterday, urg-| next two days with little sign of um er Bu lose unable to| them in constant danger by . Said would be better if Yould send them- , of their regrets, bion of eee ete ~ OF the needs of y ount ttendiy a0 ‘g the meet- Bird and §, Automobile vancouver and oe Chamber Frank the BC rom \ j a yutions were dis- “* hoon recess and 1 anding establish- ~ “he customs and staff at Terrace lef Fated setting spot fires behind their lines. Tuesday the wind grew more | constant but still more danger- ous, sending the flames bull- dozing toward the settlement, of Tintagel, eight miles east of) here on the highway to Prince Rupert. The call went out for more firefighters. | RECRUITING ! Recruiting was done under; the Forestry Act. Mounties pa- trolled the streets of Burns Lake. “Can you handle a pick and shovel?” they asked. “Do you know how to work a pump” j tion | approval of the legislature. government has under considera- a plan to inerease its revenue from forest industries and large mining concerns, it was learned Tuesday. The plan involves changes in basic legislation, and will require The new proposal will be one of the major pieces of legislation presented to the new house. Details of the plan have not been worked out, but. general plan calls, for changes in*B.C.’s controversial forest management plan, designed mainly to boost revenue for provincial coffers: Also under study is the possi- bility of institution of a sliding stale of mineral royalties ed “mutual concessions” before labor and management to keep industrial harmony. “In these critical times,” he said, “when free nations of the world are striving to hold their lead in the production race over those who would destroy all freedoms, our production should not be interrupted, impeded or interfered with for even a short time.” Gregg called particularly on the 502,000-member TLC — the country’s biggest labor body— to help “ensure this necessary industrial harmony” and pre- vent “potentially-dangerous de- lays” to Canada’s production machinery. ; rain to alleviate the forest fire hazard, Forecast Thursday. Occasional light rain or drizzle. Little change in tem- perature, Winds southely 15 to- 60. LEGAL TERM j state, A few sunny intervals today, otherwise cloudy today and on day and southerly 20 tomorrow. Low tonight and high tomorrow at Port Hardy, 50 and 61; Sand- spit and Prince Rupert, 54 and “High seas” ‘is a term of in- ternational law denoting the whole extent of sea which is not under the sovereignty of any VANCOUVER @ — A three- alarm fire Tuesday night des- troyed between 30,000 and 50,000 board feet of lumber as it ripped through a storage shed here. The blaze was declared struck violently at. Albion Lumber and Millwork Co. Ltd. possibly $500,000. Black smoke which billowed drew an estimated 8,000 onlook- downtown Vancouver. out 214 hours after it flared. up|f The damage was placed’ at hundreds. of feet into the air/f ers to the scene, 1% miles from Cause of the fire was not de- termined officially, but firemen on the scene said it might have been caused in the shed’s wiring. | GUARDS PUP—Three-year-old Donald MacIntosh grimly hugs his pup to make sure no harm comes as a result of the wave of | dog poisoning in Winnipeg’s suburban St. James. Fifteen dogs have been killed by poison recently. The pup’s mother, Lassie, also stands yuard over the pup. (CP PHOTO) ,