HY CABS PATCHED (0 DISES VOL. XLI, No. 199 J te me LIBRA iY The Dui NORTHERN AND CENTRAL BRITISH COLUMBIA’s NEWSPAPER : Published at Canada’s Most Strategic Pacific Port—Prince Rupert, the Key to the Great Northwest” i a *, i a Q PRINCE RUPERT, B.C., MONDAY, AUGUST 25, 1952 ews : Bhaiie ingests oan Relat ie erent. PROVINCIAL LIBRARY, 118 VICTORIA, B. Cc. PRICE FIVE CENTS ORR DRUGS DAILY DELIVERY Phone 81 SKEENA AWAY 3 “Train Schedule Pro VANCOUVER © She hours the was the second woma Four more cases were ad hospital today, Plane By The Can TRAPANI, Sicily—A tish airliner plunged into covered three bodies in a d Forest Closure To Be Lifted At Midnight VANCOUVER (CP)—Closure of | _|the Vancouver forest district j will be lifted at midnight to- | jnight, it was announced today | | By R. E. Sommers, minister of | \ an C jlands and forests. j | Rain which fell in many for- | jest fire areas has brought under | | control or has completely doused | (CP Photo) launched by a British Columbia | Second World War slid down the | Company's North Vancouver plant | champagne had been broken over | Wallace, wife of the Lieutenant The new ship, HMCS Skeena, is | nadian Navy to bear that name. | War Just beforse she Ca sHup became | POLIO CLAIMS 15th VICTIM Polio claimed its 15th victim in British Columbia today when a 37-year-old suburban West Vancouver woman died at her home before the arrival of a doctor. n to die from polio within 24 A 35-year-old Kimberley mother died Friday, bringing toll for the disease-ridden mining town to eight. mitted to Vancouver General bringing the province’s 1952 total to 129 7 Perish In Crash British Airliner Plunges into Mediterranean Sea adian Press crippled four-engine Bri- the Mediterranean early today off this west Sicilian port, but a fishing boat saved 50 of the 57 persons reported aboard and re- ramatic night-time rescue. The plane carried 51 passen- gers, including four babies, and a crew of six. All were Britons. All dead and missing are passengers except for the miss- ing hostess. The airliner was bound for Khartoum, the capital of Anglo- Egyptian Sudan. All passengers were British civil servants, employed by the Sudanese government, and their wives and children, enroute to Sudan after being home on leave in Britain. The 50 survivors were treated at Trapani’s San Antonio Hos- pital for shock and exposure. Re normal take-off run. The CF-1 of Toronto, Likely if Test Shipping of frozen fish from, CANADA’S LONG RANGE all-weather |. during a jet assisted takeoff (JATO) at RCAF Station, Uplands, Ont., where it is being tested by the RCAF. Designed to enable heavy aircraft to take off on small landing strips, the six LJATO bottles under the Canuck’s fuselage give its two Orenda jet engines an added thrust -of 1000 pounds each. In the test shown above, the CF-100 took off with a full load of fuel and ‘Armament plus two one-thousand pound bombs, visible under the wings, in bess than half the New Method of Frozen Fish Shipping UP SHE GOES! ee ee hae intercep‘or jet fighter, the CF-100 Canuck, is shown 00 is designed and built in Canada by A. V Roe (Canada) Ltld. (National Defence Photo) Proves Successful The latter is an entirely new} Engineers said they were of abide bed By Railway Back to 3 Weekly If Not Paying Passenger train service into Prince Rupert will revert to the former three-day-a-week schted- ule if investigation proves the present operation not economically sound. This was announced here this morning by John Pullen of Montreal, vice-president of the Canadian National Railways, who is making his annual in- spection trip throughout the west. But at the same time he said he is “deeply impressed” with the great improvement “all along the line” and expressed the opinion that the current boom in industrial expansion will continue for a long time. “Developments like the Al- uminum Company of Canada and Columbia Cellulose are go- ing to attract supporting indus- tries that will mean further ex- pansion of our services.” “What interests me greatly is the attraction of other industry and the great advance in trade it will mean to our line.” Mr. Pullen said that while he had not checked the amount of passenger and express business on the Jasper-Prince Rupert rua “if we find the six-day op- eration unsound we will have to / e e { i the ” ;}most of the fires which shut! ge the west céast may be revolu-|and untried type of refrigeration|the opinion the mechanical|®° back to old schedule. Accompanied by his assistant fl ur |down logging operations 19 ° ti@nized and “much better and |": jmeans would prove most satis- H. W. Craig, Mr. Pullen met local |days ago. Bakersfield ilger markets” may be the re-|,, Pince Rupert was chosen as | factory, but said the eost of such CNR officials at the station and ae Some 12,000 loggers ‘were , Skee | tri é | the site for the test to begin be-|cats.was very. high. og ~ Tanned “if diy tong id] E ° thrown out of work only a week sult of a lest in reirigeration | cause it is the only fishing centre | Dry ice also was considered a of the line's opera og pl y xpanding Market after they ended the 45-day ounts Cost being carried out from this rail-/ with enough cold storage fish for | “very cold” method, but. expen- territory tion this strike road terminal. the program. | sive. . tAluminun, Says Alcan i Pres ‘ected $400,000,000 Al-| : have nO adverse éfféct 000,000 plant now in the construetion B.C., a spokesman for the Alum- \ ' 0 0 Past Enemy anada said heré Saturday, : Pilots Both | Bennett Seeks | Die. in Crash Cost of both, the strike and the forest closure is estimated tia at $75,000,000 in loss of revenue The proje and wages will { f Am- dat 4 j b with Likely Seats | TORONTO—Two pilots on op- | ; posite sides in the last war,| S jnose-dived their falling two-| inum For By-Election seater plane into a tiny back sas yard in the thickly-populated : VICTORIA (CP)—Premier W.A.| Toronto area Saturday and per- 4 C. Bennett, now on an unofficial ished in the flaming wreckage report-: tour of some parts of British} The small aircraft, about five i minutes out of the city’s down- Columbia, is making a personal). isiand airport, didn’t hit irvey to determine which seats}, house or a building and voi will be opened to permit by-|crashed only a mile from a } nnels Clections, it was indicated Sat-| crowd of some 200,000 who inges to Urday _ {jammed into the Canadian Na- Col Premier Bennett is planning) tional Exhibition grounds. to call two by-elections before} The two men, waving and umbia-| ‘he February session in an ef-| screaming for help, died seconds bodies of (Ort to gain seats for two non-| after their light aircraft burst cobalt| ected cabinet ministers, At-linto flames. eration torney-General Robert Bonner | Victims are Charles McKay, dnd: and Finance Minister Einar] 4g, pilot, and John Pretner, 30, P Gunderson both of Toronto. McKay flew | Social Crediters are expected) with the RCAF during the Sec- ind Pp to call the two by-elections at|ond World War. per | the same time and throw all] pretner, a native of Yugo- ‘ their weight behind Bonner and slavia, was a pilot with the Ger- pe n Talks | Gunderson man Luftwaffe NS veo Laks | Their defeat at by-elections, —~incinrinanemennenernitseninin fs the | of course, couldn’t unseat the U AL HOBBY IN be | S°Petmnent, PORT STANLEY, Ont. (P)— Donald Ward has developed an unusual hobby—exploring the harbor in his home-made, self- Western Inter-provincial jcontained diving equipment. Saskatchewan Roughriders 25,;With his air supply contained Edmonton Eskimos 5 jin pressure tanks on his bark, ted | | Football Scores nt be t em hind iV Libor 9 not | | nip 3 llapses in Final Cup Play "ty Bill] Haligonian, won the Canadian} over the Capilano nd had|Junior C ions ith a| West Vancouver. the 18 nn. ae | Big Bill was forced to with- ' 18th) nervy display of golf that would draw. from American Cup nelped| have done credit to a veteran.) matches nine days ago because hpione w@? | Windsor had a 36-hole total of | of a lame back. China ep 152. | He collapsed in the dressing Ning def | 4 2 Onta efend- John McClung of Edmonton|room at Capilano shortly after Calgary Stampeders 1 we he stays underwater as long as hipeg Blue Bombers 8. 10 minutes. f, i Co course in ef Ile I v Win t} ne SPovng after the} and Jerry Knechtel of Kit-|he limped from the last green. Ne 86-hole moe, Chener, Ont., tied for second at|He was taken to ‘hospital where Nent for yp. real | 155 doctors diagnosed a misplaced With a tos o Wil- Mawhinney, 23-year-old bond| spinal disk. 1 runner 7 OF 87, salesman, took a too-fat-for-| It is feared he would have to “T-Up On-) him—79 on his morning round.| forego the Canadian amateur "itd with sa9 Limping in pain, he blazed a| championships scheduled to Of Earthquake BAKERSFIELD, Calif. ®—The quake-battered Bakersfield com- munity swept up its rubble: today and counted damage estimatied at $20,000,000 from Friday's sharp shock, Two lives were lost and 32 persons were injured, Meanwhile, the epicentre of the tremor which shook Los An- geles early today was placed at only 25 miles northeast of Pasa- dena. It caused no damage but} startled thousands of persons in | the middle of the night. City Manager 1 Leland Gunn said the damage from Friday’s | shock will be greater than the! July 21 quake. He placed Bak- at $15,000,000 All stores and offices in a six- tion are closed ’ Merchants Seck Closer Markets VANCOUVER - west trade channels in Canada —how under the burden of in- creasing railway shipping costs may be diverted to nearer mar- kets. Traders from especially California, are seek- ing Canadian outlets for goods. Freight charges will be boosted on 51 commodity rates Oct. 1 and some merchants here Satur- day said they are seeking “closer markets,” Presbyterians Honor Woman WRANGELL, Alaska ()—Pres- byterians of Alaska paid homage herve Saturday to Mrs, William Tamaree, for nearly 75 years a missionary of the Presbyterian Church. She died Wednesday at the age of 90. Mrs. Tamaree was born in Vic- toria but had been in Alaska since the age of three. She went through the Indian uprising of 1869 when the guns of old Fort Wrangell turned on the Indians after killing of a white man by Scutdoo, an Indian of high rank. NEW PLAN SASKATOON (CP)— A re-or- ganization plan under which Saskatchewan Co-operative Pro- ducers Limited will be the sole operating company for all Sas- katchewan Wheat Pool activi- ties went into effect this month. | !wo under par 70 on his final 18}open here today. resfield’s loss in the earlier shock | block area in the downtown sec- | Historic east- | United States, | Under the auspices of the Na- tional Research Council, the Pacific Fisheries Experimental | Station, Vancouver, the Cana- dian National and Canadian Pacific Railways,and, top manu- facturers in the field of regrig- eration agents, a “test of all tests” got underway here last week, Spokesman for a group of 15 railway supervisors, engineers and research scientists here said this Was the first such complete test in refrigeration in America. Every known refrigeration agent is being used in this test. Five railway cars are especially equipped with electronic ther- |mometers whose readings are taken off a metre on a control | panel in a “tourist” car in which |the experimental party is being |housed and travels with the | train. | The object of the test is to find | which of three new methods—if | any—is better than the common- |ly-used salt-and-ice method of | shipping frozen. foods—especial- |” Big problem in shipping frozen |fish is to keep them at a zero | temperature, said the spokesman, “Very seldom is this degree }ever attained over cross-country | shipping with the present meth- od. “The result is that when fish get to Chicago or New York they may be slightly off-color and (not as fresh as they should be. If by one of these new types of refrigeration we can econ- omically attain the desired tem- perature it may mean a com- plete revolution in railroad ship- ping of frozen foods and will no doubt greatly increase the mar- ket for frozen (fresh) fish.” OVERSEAS SHIPPING The spokesman said that not only could new North American markets be opened for fish but overseas markets as well. “If a new-type refrigeration car can successfully keep a low temperature across the contin- ent, we are satisfied it can keep jto a satisfactory degree across |the Atlantic.” The new types of refrigeration are actually well-known in many refrigeration circles but have never been offered to the public |by railways, explained the | spokesman | The agents used in the test /here are ammonium nitrate and salt method; the dry ice method, and the mechanical refrigera- tion car with diesel-electric power, using the new Freon-1 | | Adoption of any new method | FIVE-CAR TEST | which may prove more saitsfac- Five cars in all were loaded | tory than the present oné.: will with frozen fish destined for depend ‘mainly on its econe al eastern markets. Comapnies who features. It was likely, said éne supplied the fish are Atlin Fish | engineer, that-if new. mazkets Co: itd. ahd Prince Rupert Fish~/weuld warrant it, fishing com- ermen’s Co-operative — Associd-. panies would pay more for. re- tion. frigeration. Refrigeration, ordinarily paid| Among those engaged in the for by the fish dealers, will be| special test here were Claude borne by, the experiment, Eyen'/Lentz, National Research Council the car Swith the ice-and-salt | engineer and Ted Rooke, techni- method. will cost nothing to the | cian; P. E. B. Smith, engineer for shippers for refrigeration, al- | Frigidaire, subsidiary of General though both companies are pay- | Motors Ltd.; W. H. Gilbert, rep- ing the regular freight charges. resenting Liquid Carbonic Cor- The “ordinary” car is used for|Poration (dry ice manufactur- comparison. Enroute to Toronto, |€ts); George Baker, Pacific Ex- a constant watch will be kept of }/Perimental Fisheries Station, the car temperatures by means | Vancouver; D. C. McVeigh, sup- of the electric thermometers and | €TVisor of perishable shipping, readings will be compared at the | Fred Kesseler, inspector and Alex end of the test. Olynyk, research engineer, all of CNR; P. E. Brougham, chief su- DIESEL METHOD COLDEST pervisor of perishable traffic, G. When the train left Saturday F. Morrison, supervisor and Ed at 5 p.m., the various tempera- | Ratcliffe, engineer, all of CPR. tures were as follows: Ice and| The experiment is part of the Salt, 10 above; ammonium ni- | Dominion government program trate, 8 above; dry ice, zero, and to increase and improve ship- mechanical, eight below zero, ping of perishable foods by rail. BULLETINS Burning Wreck on East Coast ST. JOHN’S, Nfld. (CP)—Burning wreck of what is believed to be a 500-ton vessel was sighted east of Cape Bonavista, on the east coast of New- foundland, by a search plane today. Flares were seen last night. The plane spotted the wreckage at dawn and said there was no sign of life. x (2 2 Trapped Scouts Found Alive ABERDARE, Wales—Two Boy Scouts and their injured Scoutmaster, trapped in a mountain lime- stone cave, were dragged alive to safety by rescuers who hacked their way through a nine-foot wall of boulders. Welsh coal miners worked through the night to free the trio entombed 20 hours. a. Alcoa Plant ‘Most Important’ ANCHORAGE (CP)—Aluminum Company of America’s proposed $400,000,000 aluminum pro- ject at Skagway was hailed today by Alaska’s governor as the “most important’ event in the Territory since its purchase from Russia in 1867. Governor Ernest Gruening told reporters it forecast [gas as a refrigerant. He will visit the Columbia Cellulose plant and also visit fish plants and the Canadian Fishing Company, Limited, can- nery. a , Speaking of business generally on ‘the line, the: vice-president said there has Heer such an in- crease that the CNR has ap- pointed a travelling freight agent to handle the volume... “We've been paying a lot of attention to this line,” said . Mr. Pullen, “and we are goirg to pay a lot more. I have noticed a great improvement in service and I believe there is a tremendous opportunity for continued prosperity in this part of the country.” Mr. Pullen could not say when actual construction of the line from Terrace to Kitimat will begin. TERRACE-KITIMAT “Our engineers are still on the job in that area and we expect a report from them shortly. “As soon as we get that, ten- ders will be called.” (George Vincent, public rela- tions officer for Alcan, told dele- gates to the annual convention of Associated Boards of Trade of Central B.C. at Smithers last Thursday that the rail line will be completed by September, 1954.) Mr. Pullen indicated that construction of the rail line will also bring additional busi- ness to this city and in par- ticular to northern and cen- tral British Columbia. “The contract will be let as soon as possible and if there's any choice after bids are in, B.C. people will be favored.” Noting that the Dominion Government Grain Elevator here has been in operation since last spring after being idle for many years, he said, “I think you'll find it will be pretty well used to capacity all year hbe- cause of the record grain har- vest forecast on the prairies.” While he did not single out any particular development on the CNR line from Jasper, he said he noticed “a great im- provement in service and traffic all the way through.” -~TIDES— Tuesday, August 26, 1952 (Pacific Standard Time) new industrial developments. Wen se 4:23 17.0 feet 16:33 19.1 feet BOW cic 10:19 7.0 feet 4 23:12 6.1 feet