three years and nearly 100 are signed up for the 2 Prince Rupe August 20, 1952 ne an independent daily nev paper devoted to the upbuilding of Prince Rupen and Northern and Centra tish Columbia, Member of Canadian Press Auuit Bureau of Circulations Canadian Daily Newspaper Association Published by "he Prince Rupert Daily News Limited J. FP. MAGOR, Presxient H. G. PERRY, Vice-President Subscription Rates By carrier—Per week, 25c; per month $1.00; per year, $10.00 y 1— per year, $8.00 zea as second class mail by the Post Offiee Department, Ottawa. Careless With That Match? “T HE worst yeal for forest fires in British Colum- bia in 10 years should weigh heavily on every thinking person. Many of these fires, say forestry officials, have their start in human negligenee. This means just plain carelessness with instru- ments of ignition: matches, fires, friction machines. cigarets, pipes; camp- It seems a grim reflection on Canadian shrewd- ness that we should tolerate the human depletion of one of our greatest natural assets through human negligence, Authorities that throughout Canada, the nation pays an annual penalty of more than two million acres of devastated countryside and 400,000 aeres of forest growth, claim No dramatic expansion of oil wells or mining —Wwhich, are expendible—can compensate for the depletion of our forests, Some means must be found whereby our forests are rescued from fire waste and turned to full ae- count for the upkeep of industry and employment. One of the first steps in this direetion is for a more intensified program of education of the pub- lié in all rural districts, keeping before them well ahead of the “fire season” the tragic and devastat- ing results left in the wake of a red tide, A Contribution To Fishermen VALUABLE service which receives too little public attention is being carried out on the west coast by a veteran sailor who, before his re- titement from aetive duty at sea rose to the top of hig profession as skipper of CPR Empress ships on the Atlantie. rt Daily News | As | See It | / ; | | | i | Revenge on FDR Statesman high in ja violent newspaper at- tack on the late President | | Roosevelt. | The President “lured” Japan |into the war, he reasons. By a |weird and wonderful system of roundabout reasoning he pretty | | well coneludes that it was FDR, |not Japan, whe was guilty of |the sneak attack on Pear! Har- bor! In fact, he comes right out and ealls Franklin Roosevelt a “war eriminal.” + + + | WE LIVE in strange times. The fact is that imstead of getting boiling mad at this cheeky Jap- anese’s slanders of their late, great President, many Ameri- cans will agree with their sub- stance. I have never seen anything in my lifetime quite as obscene as the hatred of FDR by some of his fellow citizens. Even while travelling them do not hesitate to give forth in public places with ti- rades against the: great states- man which make you wonder how so many lunatics keep out of mental hospital. To hear them tell it, FDR sold out the country to the trade unions, to the Negroes, the Jews, the Communists—not to mention Joe Stalin. He net only got them (the Americans) into the war. But he was personally responsible for the fact that Uncle Joe now controls half of Europe. + + + He is Capt. James F. Patrick who has become a One-man educational system in giving a course in navigation for fishermen under the sponsorship of the Fisheries Co-operative Service, With. reports that the Department of Transport may eventyally require masters of, at least the larger fishing craft to have a seaman’s ticket Capt. Patrick’s work takes on added importance, Called an “Introduction to Navigation,” his course is made up of 10 two-hour lectures and prac- | tical demonstrations covering the fields of the. | mariner’s compass, rules of the road at sea, meteor- | ology, seamanship, chart work and astronomy, Although stiffer requirements for fishermen by the Department of Transport are still in the rumor stage, Capt. Patrick’s experience has been that fishboat captains are eager to take the eourse for the simple sake of improving their own knowledge and so reducing the chances of getting into diffi- culty. More than 300 have taken the course in the past | ledture this fall. While the accident ratio among west coast fish- ermen is remarkably low, there is work in which an element of danger is always present. In making available the kind of protection which greater knowledge gives, Capt. Patrick is making a great contribution to the province’s fishing industry. BUSINESS SPOTLIGHT Boom Predicted in Sale Of TV Sets in Canada By FORBES RHUDE Canadian Press Business Editor ® ITEMS FROM HERE AND THERE ... ' The television industry, according to spokesmen, expects to sell 91,000 TV sets in the Ontario and Quebec areas between now and the end of the year. Canadian Westinghouse Co., Ltck, reports that TV orders pro- ‘ouemes or. us for sales! erumpled fenders and doors. 0 160; at its recent| ,, three-day display in Toronto for | “To test its strength, it was Ontario dealers. | driven into a tree at 25 miles an Naugatuck Chemical Division jae The test resulted in a of Dominion Rubber Company | crack approximately 14 inches in announces that it will exhibit a|/méth at the point of impact. plastic automobile body at the 7me crack was repaired with a Canadian National Exhibition in — ot omg fibre and vibrin Toronte Aug. 22-Sept. 13. |p oe nm an hour. The material used is a com-|_ The body to be shown is on a bination of vibrin polyester re- ag car which recently made sins and glass fibre and now brea aaa ae os being produced at Naugatuck’s | $605 in the United States, iam plant at Elmira, Ont. Naugatuk he ia i féhal pusdectd says of the new car body: £ 16 in COmMMEFGA pr on. “It is molded in one piece, is approximately one-fifth of an inch thick and weighs 185 pounds, It will not dent under tional bodies new result in other designs. Trade, published by the Depart- ment of Trade and Commerce, It has not yet been made in The Aug. 2 issue of Foreign THIS KIND of talk rubs most of us Canadians the wrong way, apart altogether from the fact that over 90 per cent of us |regarded FDR as the best friend| |that Canada ever had in the| PLANNED CITY | White House. I figure, too, that the old British publie school tradition still applies, here, “Of the dead speak nothing but good.” But what interests me is that Roosevelt is still hated the most by the very classes and inter-| vision for every house and street tion of Canada’s ais | Prhitpott ‘A TERSE little eable in Canada some of! Chinese-Russian TAIPEH —The Central I government newspaper, today axis will 'auneh an unpreeede for Korea attending the Me@seow conferen Nationalist Newspaper after the Chinese-Russian conference in Moscow Communist China’s premier Predicts Peace’ Offensive Jaily News, Chinese Nationalist predicted the “Peiping-Moscow ited large-scale peace offensive Editor, The Daily News: Deseendents of North Indians,” Thor nesians and loreign minister are ce |bia took to the ocean in canoes |Company of Canada and problem. Beeause children make up more than 55 per cent of the population, civic leaders and in dustrialists are concerned with 4 probabie shortage of employ- ment for young men and women The Aluminum Company, de | | Spite many openings and exce!- jlent prospects, cannot absorb) leverybody. The population of! Arvida, now about 11,000, is growing rapidly. Most families jhave five to seven children, but |juniess some solution is found for the future employment |problem, young men and women will move to Quebee City and to |Montreal. Many are ready now jto embark on careers. Their in jitial concern is work in their jown area |MORE INDUSTRIES Everts, superintendent of properties for the Alumi-' num Company, said that only through small industries can the Saguenay region retain a strong, growing and _ healthy population. Woodwork, building and similar industries would make “a vast difference.” Canon Joseph Levesque said there are opportunities for engi- neers and docters but not be yond what is required for the community's “happy future.” Other civie leaders said they i = = 1 hope outsiders, especially Can- adian industrialists, will bring more business to the distriet One man said that, given a few j}more industries, Arvida could reach a population of 30,000 in 10 years The party of 60 Canadian and American newspaper men wha jvisited the Saguenay distriet jthis week were amazed at the excellent planning that went) into Arvida’s construction. The} Aluminum Company made pro-/ ests which his bold, experi-|in the town. Most homes are of mental policies saved. frame construction, with six When FDR came into power! the U.S. banks were closed—afid wise Americans had nest eggs! hidden away in our banks. Had he simply “let nature take its course,’ the whole American economy would simply have} “gone through the wringer,” to! use an expression which was} very familiar in the early thir-| ties. Indeed the believers in violent revolution in the USA. never Deal, for they figured that it forestalled a which might have made THEIR desired revolution possible. + + + WHAT the rich and privileged | of the US. really hate FDR} for is because he deliberately | put himself at the head of the} underprivileged third of the na-)| tion. To paraphrase Churchill's! great saying, he gave them the! tools with which they can fin- ish the job. He threw open the gates tn real future political and econ- omic power in the U.S.A. The poor, the ignorant, the half-fed- | in-a-land-of-plenty have not | yet realized their own full strength. But in the end they will and the Roosevelt-haters | know it—fear it. + + ¢ THE SILLIEST lie about FDR is! that he let Uncle Joe Stalin get the better of him, and of Churchill. Had there been no FDR and no Big Three agreements, either Hitler would have been running the world or the Red Flag would already fly over all Europe, Asia and Africa. For Uncle Joe was not helped forward but actually held back by those FDR bar- gains. Likewise in China. The Rus- sians could and would have come into the war against Ja- pan, in their own interest, and not just because FDR and Churchill wanted them to do so. | | certified seed potatoes—the in- dustry, the markets, and assist- ance to exporters. ' Prince Edward Island and New Bruswick are the big producers, but British Columbia and Nova Scotia also are active in some markets. Last year, exports tot- alled 4,237,397 bushels, of which nearly three-quarters went to the United States, but with many other countries taking substan- tial quantities. Exports to April 30, this year, totalled 1,818,633 accidents which in conyen- !contains a study of Canadian ray... Reflects and Reminisces ; j | Top flight diplomats and mil- | did forgive FDR’s so-called New| itary men are included among} cniydren's clothing ttems and | the delegates from China to} terrible crisis—|Meseow. Korea will be discussed | pp ore privately, It won’t be set music No more f60t amd mouth dis- ease in Canada, it was officially deciared yesterday. ‘Sometimes | he foot can be non-essential | when feeling the effects of trouble. OUT JUNCTION WAY Blacktop is working around to what is known as “the junction” where Bill Lyneh built the first sizeable store in that part of | Prince Rupert. It helped develop whatever westerly trend there was, just then. And in time, Second Avenue had bridged Morse Creek, and one fine even- ing a car crashed through the railing, hitting the tracks be- low. Believe it or not, no one was seriously hurt. The wasted body of Eva Peron will remain on view in Buenos Aires, perhaps permanently, should science permit. Visitors in Moscow, behold what they think is all that’s mortal of Viadimir Lenin. But others de- clare he’s someone with a strong resemblance to the Soviet dic- tator, Such things can happen. The British Columbia herring is no longer humble. It’s exclu- sive. Not so long ago a net cost $5,000 or $6,000. Today, the bill is $25,000 or $30,000. There are, however, a few signs of decline, but nothing to be alarmed over just yet. EAST BOUND Prophets, who tried to foresee which way Prince Rupert would grow, were not so far out if there was to be such a thing as expan- sion. For a while, the dividing line was at or near Sixth Street. Then ,in slow but steady fashion, more easterly lots were built on. And right here is the place to say the townsite has plenty of room. And it will be equally bushels. true, fifty years hence. Arvida Needs More Industry from Japan says that i To Hold Grow: the | Foreign Ministry till just before the war has made) gion, where most people and eventually wound up in | Hawaii, Here is another inter- esting historie note In the year 1901, I landed in ng Population old native mother. She asked me my mame and I told her that it ARVIDA, Que, (CP)—This Saguenay River re-| was Pierre LeClaire. ‘To my sur- prise she exclaimed: “Mais vous parlez francais.” “Ow, Madame,’ I said. In her conversation she told ot a legend which claimed that work for the Aluminum related industries, has a ‘Indian Legend Upholds Historian’s | so much salt water that she had turned into a mermaid. Her boy | and had turned tall for the Poly- |nesians and Pacific Islands. in digging close to elif very low tide one the boys brushed against the walls of the cliff and in doing so rubbed off | Markings were , | the chief 4 The article published in the) friend had done the same and held Daily News of August 15 “Poly- | had turned into a Basking Shark | cyssi; ts at | » he and at the mn the chieg his Wisdom thos.” ight : Years went bys ngs were for ott pedition wes ca Port Simpson, BC., and there |S0me moss. He notieed strange Forty cance, . taet an old Indian lady. { chat- | figures carved on the rock. Not| fashion of in! ied for over two hours with this| knowing what those strange LONDON (AP) — Winston described the |g Goat hunt on the g (Cont inued wa Edward Vil Wanted Chy Father To Duel Over A \y . id Pe American by | been the Heyerdahl, claims that some nine) Years after this drowning, one | caryeq those Maiq centuries ago members of In- evening two boys of the village’ the caryj; R dian tribes from British Colum-| set out to dig clams along the | and that), cliffs in Metiakatla Passage, and done them Other tf rooms. They are built on lots i \Churehill’s father, Lorg au- : me dy in a larger than those in most cities. 4 8'0Up of men with long beards dolph Churehill, was onee cha)- hg won Equally Home-grown vegetables and | @nd very white skin came to this lenged to a duel by the Prince | elder ect» Long flowers are plentiful in Arvida,|P@rt of British Columbia, two! o¢ Wales who later became King} “Lord Rosas, About one-third of the inhabi thousand three hundred and fifty Edward Vil. ; purely ite i's tants own their homes. There | Years ago, and that those men| ne incident is related by Sir | able” caan t and ya are 16 modern schools and a| had carved Heiroglyphs on the | shane Leslie, author. and godson | never sen Bald, “gi well-planned reereation centre cliffs along rivers and one the of Lord Randolph. lady hitenealt eh sty Arvida houses the largest sea shore. In an article in the Roman | Prince in ¥ eel aluminum smelter in the world,, But of course, no one could | Catholic periodical, The Month, | be considered aa what the carvings with a eapacity of 2,000,000, make out Leslie says Lord Randolph’s re- | as insulting” pounds of ingot a day. Canada| meant ply to the ehallenge was “su-| Leslie omitted tp second only to the United! But she told me that her great | perb—that of a Christian and grandfather had told her: that |those men were sailors and had come Out of the Persian Gulf, States in tonnage of aluminum production, More than a quar- ter of the world’s supply of al uminum ingot is produeed at | Salled past the Indias, and across | deputed by the Prince and figist| ill has written about Arvida "| the Pacifie to the Americas, and| him anywhere on the continent,| Another ineiaeny This has been made possible | “@t those sailors brought to the! put that nothing would induce Churchill] fighting g because the area has hydro American Indians their most ad-| him to lift a hand against his led to a duel was mo electric power, a stable and in-|*#need art whieh led to the| future sovereign.” eribed in Leslie's iustrious working population |*™4zing Aztec, Inea and Maya! yogis gaia little to elaborate | This time Lord Ry and a deep-water port tu handle | ©VHizations. large quantities éf raw material| One fleet navigated the north brought in from overseas | Pacific and reached British Co- New Price Index sm ivuic ont resem ts Uses More Items In Broader List }On the coast of Peru By HAROLD MORKISON jtold to me not far from Port Canadian Press Staff Writer | Simpson, long ago, on the shores OTTAWA—-A rising Canadian |of Wark Canal. standard of living, now the} The Hierogiphs carved on the second-highest in the world, ‘S| cliffs in Metlakatla were carved giving federal] statisticians plenty |}py a mermaid, the legend goes. of work. The new | price index is an example When it’s finally completed|{he shores of Metlakatla Straits and brought into use this fall,| went out into Chatam Sound it will contain 65 more items with her boy friend ,in a frail than the old cost-of-living index |¢anoe built after the fashion which is to disappear completely |of the canoes that those white early next year. The mew index | skinned sailors had come to the | Here is another legend, hard to believe perhaps, but very in- teresting, nevertheless, and co- jineident with the first one told |to me fifty years ago, This was at will cover 225 items. coast in. But the pair never.re- / é RUPERT ° Bureau of Statistics men who} turned. . dt awas surmised at | have been working on the new |\they must have peris & E E 8 shed in ‘the retail price barometer say the - ' SPEEDSTER L waters of Chatam Sound and that the princess had swallowed eypansion in the number of items eovered is botn a general reflee ichivalrous gentleman.” “He sent Lord Falmouth to say he Was prepared to meet anyone in the 1880s. PRINCE REBUKED to some unidentified documents, | | | i ‘ i a rebuke to royalty tioned in, the bi this latest revelation about the | self was the chal fighting Churchills, but appar- | Lord Hartington th ently the trouble was way baek | Lord Randolph had ¢ (some remarks ‘Lord Hartington, it | the challenge op | Leslle, attributing his account | they were not inteyg ito hin, | CONTROL - » i | § consumer) On @ bright summer's evening a POWERFUL jyoung princess of the tribe on | from $16 lec to it, or Whether place. ‘The incident i GEAR-SHIFT 12 H.P. TWIN Other Modes | 2 | of higher living} standards and the bureau's drive | for a more comprehensive prices gauge FUEL OIL ADDED Fuel oi] for heating is just one of the many new items to be in- cluded in the batcheof goocs for monthly survey on price changes Liquor is another. Home owner- ship is a third, for Canadians are More aud more buying their own homes instead of paying rent, There will be an expanded list of fresh fruits and vegetables, | | | even pre-paid hospital plans will be greater coverage | recreatin. Although the cost | of night-clubbing will not be} included, the new item on liquor will be an indication of current spending habits. All in all, however, bureau men‘ find that today’s buying habits | are not much changed from pre- | war days. Higher living stand- | ards mean greater consumption | |of food, better home furnishings and less drudgery, but house wives for the most part are shopping at the same stores and investing heavily in the wswal | standard items. FAMILIES SURVEYED The expansion in the number | of_items covered by the new in- dex vesulted from a wide survey conducted by the bureau in 1948- 49. Families located in 27 citie¢s, each with more than 30,000 population, were questioned. These families ranged in size from two adults to parents with four children, and with annual incomes ranging from $1,650 tolf $4,050. Changes in the way the family doliar Was spent went into cal- eulating how the new index would be constructed, As a re- sult, the new index will show that the average family is spend- ing 32 cents of its dollar for food, up from 31 eents in the current cost-of-living index, About 11 cents of the spending dollar goes for clothing, down from 12 cents in the old gauge; 15 cents for shelter, down from 19 cents; 17 cents for household operation, such as fuel and light and home furnishings, up from 15; and 25 cents for miscellan- eous items such as transporta- tion and recreation( up from 23. In other words, the family is spending a little more Of each dollar on food, less on clothing and shelter; more for operating the house or apartment and more for medical and personal eare, recreation and transporta- tion, includingf greater use of air transport. NOTICE All Flat Rate Water Heater Consumers The following amendment to Schedule “B” and Schedule “D” of our Tull] for Electrie Service has been approved and authorized by the Pubtie Utilie Commission of the Province of British Columbia, to become {fective on elm Ist, 1952: AMENDMENT: i “All water heaters shall be thermostatically controlled with approved thermostatic devices. Suitable insulating coverings shall be installed on all water tanks serviced by said heaters. Thermostets and insulated tank coverings shall be provided, in place, by the Consumer. The Company reserves the right to withhold or suspend supply where the consumer does not comply with the above mentioned provisions.” All eonsumers having flat rate water heaters which are ¥\' a thermostatieally controted and tanks covered with an approved insulating J should apply to this Company prior to October Ist, 1952, if they wish ths a to be continued after that date. . The installation of these devices at the consumer's option may wal by any eleetrical contractor. This Company will, however, make the we change-over on a straight eost basis, for any consumer who applies !" before the above mentioned date. Blank application forms for this purpes be mailed to all water heater consumers within a short period. The monthly rate of $3.60 per 1,000 Watts for water heater service me unchanged. 1) be The kind co-operation of water heater consumers in this matter ™ . very much appreciated. Northern B.C. Power Company, [tl Per: T. 8. BLACK, General Manos"