~ ! ap independent Member of Published by J. PF. MAGOR Subscript By carrier—Per By il—Per m Auth rized as Claas m [ JS a certainty that Columbia polities, with tion prospects, perhaps apprehen financis » have hund nal oine on » outcome, The reference is 1 6) America which is Waiting the B.C government for t U VPUWEL it ALCOA Awaits B.C Electio of Prince Rupers ia of Circulations Association ully News Limited PERRY, Vice-President 1.00; per year, $10.00 Mey ES ae Department, Ottawa, st Office the see-saw of British its on-again off-again elee- being watehed with interest, and ion. hy group of American red f millions af dollars he Aluminum Company of to start negotiations with he use of Canadian water proposed huge project near Skagway. While the negotiations will also have to be taken up on a federal level, the provinee will have an em- pi atic voice in the proceedings as it eontains the akes fram which the flow will be directed to pro- vide the required hydro-electric power. rhe public project presents in power when discus the tremendous area of importance to what iOTLS a responsibility of great ever party is fated to be get underway. Besides natural resources to be considered, there is the operation of our own alum- inum industry at Kitimat. While safeguards are pein mereenary eye must be ig erected in the bargaining to protect these, a maintained on possible fruitful revenue for the province. In addition to provincial significance the deal may have national concern of towering importance f, as speculated upon in s offered in exchange for lorse trade develops in which Canadian water is ome quarters, a gigantie American assistanee in construction of the St. Lawrenee seawavy. In the face of such large considerations the present provincial government would no doubt be inclined to await more convincing evidence of its opularity before committing itself. It, therefore, ippears that Skagway will see little action on its uminum venture until ejeetion, BUSINESS SPOTLIGHT after another B.C. general Canadian Chemical Plant Adds New Industrial Era to Alberta By JIM PEACOCK Canadian Pre Staff Writer A new industrial era, based on Alberta’s natural gas, will begin for Edmonton early in 1953 unless steel shortages and strike tion delays Completion f the Canadiar al Company $55,000,600 t on Edmo1 itskirts wil) mark the ning western Canad ale chemitca: industry Utilizing the t Alberta ] resource 40,000 001 ‘ i Edmonton and the to rea ip Leg) 10) il and gas fl Besides Canadian Chemical, Canadian Industries Ltd. and Sherritt-Gordon Mines Ltd. are eonstrueting plants in the Edmonton area, and when in operation the three will con- sume 57,000,000 cubic feet of natural gas daily. The CIL. plant, costing $13,- 000,000 and to use 10,000,000 cuble feet of gas daily, will pro- duee polythene, a plastic widely used In electrical and pharma- eutical industries. Sherritt- Gordon’s $12,000,000 plant, at Fort Saskatchewan 11 miles east of Edmonton, will produce 17,- 006,000 pounds of refined nickel s cause further construc-| reach 25,000,000 pounds of eellu- lose acetate, a flaky material similar to eorn flakes. Of this, 10,000,000 pounds will be sold for export Fhe Edmonton plant will turn 10,000,000 pound into staple fi and 5,000,600 pounds into icetate [dament yarn EY -PRODUCTS Ali ih t ialdeny ce will methan- glycol, pentaery- isobutanol, N-propy! ace- | diproylene glycol, N-but- taldehyde pylene a) | Nd ace Formaldehyde is used prim- arily in manufacture of plywood glue and the others are used in making anti-freeze, brake fluids, solvents, resins and various other products by Cif Clmore Flying Saueers Real? (This is the last of a sertes of six articles.) LOS ANGELES. — In previous articles in this series | tried to that there is an overwhelming amount of evidence to prove that the mystery aircraft which have been reported in the special have show past few years are real. Readers who want further de tailed information on this sub- ject might read Gerald Heard’s IS ANOTHER WORLD WATCH- ING? or Donald Keyhoe’s THE FLYING SAUCERS ARE REAL (published by Fawcett Publica tions 1950.) I have further tried to that these mystery be one of two thing: another developed earth Snow erait could hips from planet or ecret cratit might here ol + + + I HAVE carefully what evidence I could get and I am by no means convinced that the mystery ships g@re from Mar Venus or any place else than tnis earth itself—in fagijiany place else than the USA itself According to the evidence I have gathered,” observers like Gerald Heard, Stott Nearing and Major Donald Keyhoe base their conclusion that these ships must be from outer space on these observations They appear to be “manned” by crews inside them, because they reaet away from other con- ventional aircraft approaching them. But they could not be “manned” by human beings be eause their speeds and rate of swerves would kill any Rhuman being tudied + wl + BUT suppose these mrystery craft are not manned Suppose they are not managed by crews inside them but run by remote control. It ts by no means certain that the U.S. is not pro- ducing pilotless aireraft which eould do most, or all, of the things that the mystery aireraft have been reported as doing So my own verdiet on the mystery, for what isi worth, is the good old Scottish Fury phrase of “Not Prover 3 Obviously the sips are real Obviously, too. they have not come over the U:8.A: in the spirft of hostility, When they have come almost into collision with planes of the airlinés* they have taken frantic stépfS"tS get away But this may .we}l #e—not as Heard speculates, ‘béeause they are benign bee-like creatures! from Mars—buf because the ground station in U.S.A. which controls them has seen, on some- |thing like a ratlay, sereen, the danger of collision Jy. I am_ impressed /pby the’ fact that not for over tworyears has there been a case Of a mystery Ship flyimg on, Or near, airline Or very rear airperts e ¢:.¢. BUT thousands of yéats ago the prophet Ezekiel, rdidy see the first flying saucer li ts re ported in the tenth chapter. of his book in the Bible. Or if more simply reported in the beautiful negro folk song “Eze kiel saw a wheel, right in the middle of the aif, @ wheel within a wheel, right in the middle of tthe air.” Construction of the manufac- | turing centre, covering 200 acres of a 430-acre site, was begun in June, 1951. Steel shertages and strikes have set back completion and thrown out company offt- cials’ hopes that some of the equipment would be in operation late this year However, work is progressing steadily. More than 4,000 tons of steel] have been erected and 30,000 cubic yards of cement poured. Complete waterworks) annually and its daily gas con-'and sewage systems and elec- sumption cubie feet Canadian Chemical, using bu- tame and propane gases, by- products ef oi] refining, will pro- duce acetic acid, acetone and 10 other chemicals, several of them not yet being made in Canada, Acetic acid, combined with purified weoedpuip to be hrought in from Prince Rupert, B.C., makes eellulose acetate. This is the basic ingredient in making acetate filament yarn, staple fibre and acetate plas- ties. will 7,000,000 reacn trical lines have already been | laid underground with intricate piping networks between storage tanks and processing butldings. The Canadian Chemical plant will employ some 800 persons when completed. It will have its| own administration building and | a large cafeteria. Railway spurlines are being built into the site and where steel is erected, huge cement- block walls are being placed. office and never missed a day | More than 1,700 persons are em- ployed in construction. | able Maybe the time has come ior \interplanetary travel to begm in a big way. Already our own/| scientists are talking of trips the moon, or even further For earth men to imagine that our earth is the only planet which has living creatres cap of such flight is the arro ganee of ignoranee. Sooner or later there will be communica- | tion between the planets; and it} is by no means sure we will get to Mars, for instance, before the Mars men get here But I think we are a bit ahead of ourselves to conclude it has already fiappened. Maybe—but not certainly Healthy Post CAPETOWN, CP)—-Miss D. E. R. Harris, a municipal employee at | Krugersdorp in the -Transvaai, jhas worked 32 years in the same |through illness. She works in jthe health department, PEACEPUL AIMS ; election FISH BREEDING in Asia is on: the @ E li Thailand an zation af the technicians to expert United N improve a t his Javanese scene. show Tjinindi yractices in pond | neral lack of proteig in th f the best ways ef overcoming e diet of the people of the Far of the Food and Agriculture tions is training and assisting develop their country’s fish time-honored fish-breed ocal fishermen Political Fever Quickens At Ottawa; Leaders Travel OTTAWA as a result of Prime Minist that the next eleetion prob til after the coronation, The statement sinyply con firmed what we have been think along,” aid George ident of the Pro ive Conser Association ing right Nowlan, pre gres vative ef Canada Lorne Ingle, national secretary ef the C.C¥. said We don't intend to be caught unprepared and we plan to work vigoreusly at organization.” Solon Low, Sacial Credit lead- er, said his party will work to line up enough candidates to be able to form the hRext govern ment Dering his reeent tour of west ern Canada, Mr. St. Laurent said during an imterview that there won't be any election before the coronation of Queen Elizabeth June 2 There is always the possibil- ity of an election, but the prob ability is another thing,” said Mr St. Laurent next The 70-year-old Prime Minis- ter indicated that if his health will again lead the Party in the election. eampaign In recent months peculation that tion will be .called in of 1953, possibly 6. Life of the present parliament expires Aug. 25, 1954 Commons for the Nova Seotia eanstituency of Annapoli Kings, noted that Mr. St. Laur- ent mentioned the “possibility of an election at amy time We don’t inte nawares he permits he Liberal there has the elee the fe Monday, Oct been a} ALi nd to be caught said PORTES PREPARE The Progressive Conservatives hope to have candidates con- testing all 265 seats in the next already have been nominated and nomination onventions. are arly Some being heid reg Mr. Ingle said his party wilf more than 200 candidates in the field, with 100 of them nominated by Christmas.’ Organizers now are working in various parts of the country, seleeting candidates and mend4 ing political fences have Mr. Lowe said his party now has organizations in all prov- inees west of the Maritimes. In- vitations have been received toe establish organizations in the Maritimes and they will be act- ed upon by the party | Mr. St. Laurent will be fol-| by George Drew, Progressive Sound Body | Reason For | Long Life LONDON (Reuters)—Dr. Henry} | Bottrell, who made a fortune! | treating Indian Rajahs during ay.| | outbreak of the Blaek Plague in |Caleutta in 1878, celebrated his} }100th birthday yesterday by! | treatg his patients “as usual.” | “lL eat amd drink what I like! and do what I like,” he said in| an interview | | “All this talk about dieting is} |piffle. A sound constitution 4s| |; what makes for long life and | that is something you have to be porn with.” (CP)—Indic: this no slaekening of activity in the federal political field |duce dangerous air er St. Laurent’s statement ably will not be ealled un- and M. J ieade! nservative leader idwell, C.C.F Mr. Drew, whe recently tour part ef Quebec, plans to weeks in October visiting the west, partieularly British Columbia Mr. Coldwell will leave within the next few weeks on a tour of Manitoba, Saskatehewan and British Columbia. He will speak nominating conven- pend two mainly at tion H-Bomb Test Likely in Near Future By ELTON ©, FAY WASHINGTON | (AP)—A of the world’s first hydregen “hell” bomb may be made dur- ing the next two months at the Unted States’ carefully guarded nuelear-weapons proving ground in mid-Paeific A joint Atomie Energy Com- mission-Defenee Department an- nouneement says a task force will “conduct tests in the autumn months this year looking toward development of atomic Weap- ons.” The announcement left open the question of the specific types} of atomic weapons, but official statements had pointed to progress in developing test ; ray... Reflects and Throughout World, Says J Reminisces It’s money that does the talk- ing in every silerit partnership! NOT SO UNLIKELY Now that the Pensions Act for members of parliament is law, electors need net be astounded to hear of suggestions for larger sessional indemnities. Look into it, and you may discover possi- bilities. After all, a vacation im Sep- teraber can delight! And Octo ber has oftem been known to excel. EASY ENOUGH! A Stratford ‘Ont.) unable te understand a medical repert from the Workmen's Compensation Board, is urging that deeters use more simple English. Tell the alderman to have a good, hot argument with the first physician he sees. He'th understand every single, solitary word Fali assize to open at Prinee Rupert Om; Monday. If, im the past forty years, all of the sworn sLories heard there could be con |new “best seller” might appear THAT SEIMELARITY Kisenhower is a greenhern in polities but so were those fel laws out in British Columbia who ave new lermliugg a goverment Kitehener-Waterloo Record Scaree believing our trustworthy ears, We heard the radio softly playing “Sweet Marie" the other evening. “Sweet Marie?” Can be possible? And it's net so far back the lilting strains of “After the Ball” came along to also be recognized, There Was money in musie then, as well as now. Some thought it big. But that “the nineties.” Vicar Perplexed Was dit By Grave Problem CARLISEER, England «CP vicar of 30-year-old Chris Church and the town council would like to know what to do with 100 tombstones Here is the | problem The ehurch, closed since 1938 because of small attendance, is being de- molished, The ground Is to be ed for new houses, to be built with material from the dis /mantled ehureh But there are 100 tombstone jand 100 graves. The vicar has ladvertised but no one will claim nor a grave. The law Says that alt dead must be ex- humed and buried -elsewhers¢ Deputy Town Clerk William | Hirst says the cost of reburial | would be enormous The a stone, earlier | the | hydrogen bomb, which may be a 1,000 times rae A-bomb more powerful than There were indications of usually-tight secrecy avound the forthcoming experiments at Eni- wetok, in the Marshall group The that the U.S. government and mem- bers of the task foree” would be present. This suggested that quasi-offielal observers, such as civilian defenee experts, might not be invited. It definitely ex- announcement specified une | Island | “only official observers of | cludes foreign observers and the | press. At. least some preliminary steps towards producing a full- | scale hydrogen explosion already have been taken In the spring of 1951 seientists conducted experi- | ments which apparently includ- | ed studies of the method of det- | onating a hydrogen bomb ‘0 | jowed im the western provinees| EXPLOSION FORCE The foree of an exploding hy- | drogen bomb will be a matter of | estimates and calculation scientists ean measure an actual blast, A first test of a hydrogen bomb probably will’ be made from a tower nstead of an air-drop. 'Among other reasons is the size of any test device, for too big and perhaps too heavy for present aircraft. It is doubtful if observers of an H-bemb explesion would remain on other islands of the Eniwetok atell, even though some of them are more than 2 miles from the “shot’ is- nds, Im addition to the vastly in- creased area of blast and heat, other factors might have to be eonsidered. Some scientists think that the terrifie explosion and the crea- tion of intense heat might pro turbulence until | uv alderman, | Death Toll From Canc, GENEVA—The past marked increase in the nu Cer according to statistics gath 50 years have mbers of deaths fq ered by the Nations World Health Organization, The WHO vrepert cautions, however, that many factors in- fluence the statisties, indluding better diagnosis of the disease and the fact that peeple now live longer thus mereasing the chances of getting cancer. Dr. Marcelino Paseua, direc- |tor of WHO's health statistics division, says that at the begin- ning of this century many coun- tries showed less than five per jeent of all deaths attributable to cancer and malignant tum- V's | By 1947, however, most of the eountries studied showed that one in every seven to nine deaths was- due to the disease, with more than 10 per cent in some eases EUROPE HIGHEST Cancer deaths in Denmark ,and the Netherlands were more than 16. per cent, Dr. Pascua jfound in researeh. England Scotland, Norway and Switzer- | } land | fou were eancer among the deaths, highest while Chile, | the lowest One clearly shown trend was . < ' |} the recorded rise of cancer in tthe older jin those groups, particularly over 70. Men seem to |be more affected than women. | Dr. Pascua says that cancer |of the mouth, pharynx and kin has not increased, cancer of the breast in women has imereased considerably, al- |though this form ts compara- jtively easy te diagnose and } treat in its early stages. Cancer fof the uterus had diminished somewhat, but cancer of the }genitals has risen significantly Cancer of the hungs, partiew larly in men, has shown one of the greatest inereases, The largest merease has been in the past 20 years Dr. Paseua has found that smokime was an important fac- tor in the cause of eancer of age of 45, the pis the disease iners proportion smoked Tt may be about y great AMON those 7 25 or more Cigarets among non mokers Britain Deve} Jet-Poweres k of 4 rakes | With ne LONDON «cp tanks are being dev; British Arm '@ report to t) | Seleet Commi The work oi } BUN about fow port says, but }chance that ye }gines may be jet-driven tant The chief ¢ fightine veh) itions are there W ill be | densed inte one readable tale & } Portugal, Spain and Japan were |‘ishment } said pregre tandardixati: wheeled and | } while | | | | } | the hung and that above the, NO! IN $10 GEAR-SHIFT CONTROL POWERF!IL 12 H.P. 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