ORROW'S IDES— 4, 1952 Time) 20.1 feet 223 feet 74 feet 24 feet Be i States 1, Canada NORTHERN AND CENTRAL BRITISH COLUMB14’s NEWSPAPER Published at Canada’s Most Strategic Pacific Port—"Prince Rupert, the Key to the Great Northwest” PRINCE RUPERT, B.C., MONDAY, NOVEMBER 3, 1952 VOL. XLL No. 258 - =A Y PL ee a y APPROVED--Gen, A. G. L. McNaughton, (seated left) signs for Canada and A. O Joint Commission untries to launch ® $450,900,008 St. Lawrence river hydro project, The two he Commission, which met. ik Montreal Webber, U.S.; George Spence, Canada; Robert B. McWhorter, US., and as the Internationa) » Celebration Welcomes Inaugural Train Standing, | | approves an order left to right, are: (CP PHOTO) .' Prince George—Grand PGE Opening — , for this part of British Columbia, ) River country to the north “holds| yicts were wounded earlier to- |Out greater promise of expansion day. A fourth was shot yester- A celebra- tory of climaxed of the com- George Eastern | he 1a- Premier ers of his} many Cariboo, at Abhau e home! Ue-long | ceearahoen, Today | ia new era) Pledges ort to Allies Soviet g @ third Yugo- with the ; hin ixUh con mmunist view of ai 1 eoun heavy aince led 4ULIOUB party easy pros- able AO national ice of war mimediate never- increas ements of ldex but both will be issued sim- which is an empire in itself.” i Development in this north- | central district and in the Peace UP OR DOWN? Living Costs | Measured | | In Two Ways} OTTAWA ®—Within the next few days two yardsticks of meas- }uring September's living costs) will be issued simultaneously. At least one is expected to show a ~ [sharp drop are the new consumer) They price index, measuring prices) changes since 1949, and the old} cost-of-living index, showing changes since 1935-39 The new CPI is the official in- mext six old one bb ultaneously for the months before the dropped Trade Minister Howe, in 4 re- cent Toronto speech, forecast a sharp drop” in the September cost-of-living index, but made no mention of what will happen the new In announcing the sumer price index Oct. 23, the Bureau of B6tatistics, working. CPL figures back through months, found that sometimes the new index and the old did not} reflect the same changes. Simi-/| jar result may show during) September new con-{ | Football Scores | WIFU Final: Winnipeg 28, Ed- monton 12, (First game of best- of-three series.) Hamilton 25, Ottawa 23; Toronto 29, Mont-) real 18; Sarnia 14, Toronto 10, | Western 25, Queens 5 | B.C.” than any other part of the North American continent.” More than 5,000 persons jam- ed the railway station here as the government-owned train with a giant banner reading “We are here at last” chugged into the city. Cheers rang up and following a brief welcome, a five-block long parade marched through! downtown streets. An estimated | 1,000 children, dressed in Hallo-| the prison guards, state police} William Janush, 21; Jack Hor- we'en costumes, took part color by cowboys from the Wil- liams Lake cattle country At a barbecue, where Cariboo) beef was served 3,600 people, Premier Bennett said: “Construction of the Quesnei- Prince George extension clearly | indicates the confidence the gov- | ernment of B.C., as well as that; of the directors of the PGE, have | /im the present and future devel- opment of central and northern | Among pioneers at the cele- bration was Mrs, George Mur- ray of Fort St. John, who with her husband publishes a news- | paper in that centre, who told a cheering crowd as she called. for the Peace River extension: “We have everything the ‘making of an inland empire. The natural resources of our great ‘territory would pay back every cent invested in the railway.” BC. Publisher Dies at Home VANCOUVER (CP) Archibald Patterson Moore, 61, publisher of the B.C. Lumberman, died Wed- nesday at his home Mr. Moore resided here for 40 years, and published the trade 'yournal for the last 20 years Police Kill | killed one of 1,000 rioting con- |victs in the Ohio penitentiary |today and a few minutes later | the jarmed with rifles and machine- ; ; PRICE FIVE CENTS B.C. Author Condemns Policy DAILY DELIVERY Phone 81 Of Tweedsmuir Park Flooding 1 Prisoner | In Mad Riot Guards Hold Convicts | At Boy With Shotguns | COLUMBUS (P)-State police National Guard company, guns, marched inside the walls. About 100 guardsmen _rein- férced 21 state patrolmen who had been holding the convicts at bay with a criss-cross shot- gun barrage from the corridors of four battered cell blocks. The guardsmen had been standing by outside the prison since Friday night. Three con- day RIOT GUNS } Police riot guns spewed fire | in a giant “X" down corridors | of cell blocks. G, H, I and K. Only this line of pelting lead kept 1,600 screaming con- viets from charging the 21 | patrolmen tocked inside the cell blocks with them. There was no indiction when} end to the 60 hour $1,000,000 riot | that began Friday. ' _ THE FIRST JUDGE WAS RIGHT ? NEWPORT, Wash. (AP) A man.who won his freedom only three weeks ago after spending 27 years in the state prison as an habitual criminal is back in jail. The man, Wallace Ketterman, 57, was held for questioning in connection with the burglary of a summer cabin at nearby Supports Burns Lake Diamond Lake. Ketterman was sent to the Washington State Penitentiary in the spring of 1925 after being convicted of stealing harness. Later that year he was charged with being an habitual ¢riminal and was sentenced to life. Ketterman fought 27 years and made 20 separate appeals in an effort to gain his freedom. Finally on Oct. 7 of this year, Judge Dolph Burnett ruled there was an error in the habitual criminal judgment and Ketterman was freed. Fleet-Footed Robbers Foiled by Flying Tackle $13,000 Saved by Employees In Department Store Tussle By The Canedian Press VANCOUVER.—A football style robbery on the) | fifth floor of Hudson’s Bay Company department | Store Saturday was foiled when employees captured ‘one of four holdup men with a flying tackle and re- covered nearly $13,000. ¢ Police Sunday charged three} men with robbery with violence, and the other two were picked ; (up Saturday night in a rooming) iné@se, The fourth man -is still) Heavy Rain Only Showers. The weatherman peered | through his station window, charts and came up with the announcement that weather will continue. He also looked over the fig-j| ures to find that only haif an) inch of rain fell yesterday and actually it wasn't so wet because on Oct. 7 there were 2.46 inches of rain and on Oct. 21, 1.14) inches of rain dropped on, the | city. | The weatherman hasn't re- corded any sunshine so far for November and said the last time Old Sol peeked through the rain clouds was for a half- hour period last Thursday. Yesterday's rain was “more on the showery. side” and that’s why everyone thought it poured all day, said the weatherman, but his version was disputed all along Third Avenue by citizens) who said they were “sure” that more than half an inch of rain- fall drenched them during the afternoon | ) OF OPPORTUNITY FOR THOUSAND FARMERS, RANCHERS Rocky Mountain Trench Drains Series of Valleys & series MP. Cariboo, urvey of , of the per Peace | . article } 1,000,000 awalted region «and On oppor- ding and lirst named} tain Trench q Unk Of a trench p excavation of a deep fur- southern B. C, very narrow, ght up, So nething like vyhen anyone Mountain eatly surprised the Fifty- ) the Sixtieth, i untaln “Trench” . m of valleys which “SNCS On elther pte Parsnip and Fin- , the most part, NE Rock, I y As ual Taille} { the country. | extend throughout the area, and jback of the benches are millions exist jof acres of land. Up to the Des-| this land can get exact informa- erters' Canyon, the mountains jare rounded on top for the most part, and are low enough to oe their right to have a chance to} crowned with timber, There are, of course, jagged peaks in the distance. From Alaska Highway between |Dawson Creek and Fort Nelson, 300 miles, we can look westward and see a series of peaks of ine Rockies. There must be fairly level land between these peaks all the way from the Finlay River to the Highway, It may not al. be land suitable for the plow but there are great areas of grazing land, | To the west of the Finlay, the lecountry rolls and undulates back into the great Rocky Mountain ‘barrier which looks down on the Pacific ocean, GOOD FOR CATTLE The Upper Peace between Gold Bar and the Finlay should make excellent livestock country. For Miles of benchlands many miles the mountains look Ite thosé¢ fn south Cariboo, conditions ; to purchase} where good grazing Applicants tion at any B.C. provincial land office, and they should press; file. As long as we have valleys like these unoccupied, we are bound to be a fair target for criticism in other countries where there is a shortage of land and food, Magnificent ranches exist along the Peace River from Goldbar, thirty miles west of Hudson's Hope down river and there are scores of sites for farms and ranches above the Hope on Peace River. | ‘The work of the late Nick Ig- i natieff, of Hart House, Univer- | sity of Toronto, in experimenting | with the growing of grasses at | wicked River should be studied \by those who would seek new | farm homes in this great wilder- pees. NATURAL FEED There is natural horse feed all }the way to the Sifton Pass as lwas reported by Col. Moodie of | the Mounted Police, who made the journey into the Klondike that way in 1897, I recently dis- cussed this country with Col. Harry S. Tobin, 0.B.E., Vancou- ver industrialist, who, as a youth, was with Moodie on that famous overland trip. Col, Tobin recalls a country of vast distances, wide valleys, wide rivers and peaks, Vetch and pea- vine existed most of the way. The horses finished in good shape. Another man who knew that country well was Norman Lee, of the Chilcotin, who drove 300 head of cattle to the headwaters of the Lewes River in 1898. He went by way of Hazelton, and as he continued north he found feed for his beef stock all the way. The great Cataline, th? packer, used to take his mule train to the Yukon sometimes by way of Fort Graham. This coun. try was much better known to the oldtimers than to the pres- ent generation, At the old Innis cabins on the Finlay, above Deserters’ Canyon, where “Hamburger” Joe Bergen- the rainy!” iat large. | One of the thugs held up al pretty, ‘blonde cashier in the’ store’s credit office while an} accomplice scooped $12,900 into a | bag.and two others acted as) lookouts. The four sped from| the office weaving in and out} like a football team’s backfield, | checked a maze of figures and | and landed in the carpet depart- | ment Huge Fire Razes Boston Waterfront | ; BOSTON (CP) — One of the) biggest waterfront fires in Bos-| ton’s history was subdued today after a 10-hour battle which! saw 80 police and firefighters | felled by smoke or injuries. ‘ Streams of water were still! poured as precautionary meas-/ ure in the ruins of a 1,000 foot storage warehouse on Union wharf which collapsed into the water at midnight. Fire Chief John Stapleton) said the Union warehouse would cost about $2,000,000 to replace. He estimated the actual dam- | age to the structure at $250,000. | heim had his trap line until he | sold it to the Department of In- |dian Affairs, the presence of | various grasses was noted. Fescue had taken charge and an acre or so around the cabins was thick with it, which in late September “was in seed. I was told that the seed was brought nto the country by the late Bill Innis, whose suicide there was recorded many years ago. Bunch grass occurs there, as in the Cariboo, on the hillsides, Vetch and peavine are encountered in the lowlands. GROWS POTATOES Below Fort Graham, Dick Corke, the trader, a veteran of World War I, grows quantities of potatoes for his own use, Pota- ‘toes are grown at most of the trading posts, very often produc- ing in spite of apparent neglect of garden patches, (Continued on Page 4) In Clearing Demand. BURNS LAKE.—A B.C. author and executive "member of the National Resources Conference is condemning the way the Alcan project has been handled by the former B. In a letter to Waiter Wilson, | isecretary to the surns Lake! | Board of Trade, Roderick Haig- |Brown says he believes “the |former provincial cabinet, es- pecially Mr. Kenney, completely |evaded its proper responsibili- | ties in the whole Alcan deal.” | Mr. Haig-Brown referred. spe- leifically to the flooding of | Tweedsmuir Park and promised | his aid in anything he could do. | The Burns Lake Board of | Trade recently demanded in a | brief that immediate action be |taken by the B.C. government 'and Alcan to take out timber |and clear shorelines in the area to be flooded by a huge lake in | Ray McFee tackled the bandit | who tried to throw the bagful of ; : j|money to a companion. But it and 400 Ohio National Guard) lick’ 24, and Donald Swan, 19.| was fumbled see metal grab- The parade was given added soldiers will be able to bring an) yanush was arrested in the store| bed it. Employees held Janush | Junior Chamber of Commerce en Employees George Kidd and | for the police. The other three disappeared into heavy crowds of shoppers. RUPERT-BORN Monty Aldous, 1952 regional] president of the arrives here from North Van- couver Wednesday night to begin a cross-country tour of Jaycee clubs in B.C. He will be guest speaker at a special meeting of Prince Rupert Jaycees. Thursday night. Former City Man to Speak To Jaycees Born and raised in Prince Ru- pert and now an alderman of North Vancouver, Monty Aldous returns to his native city Wed- nesday night as the provincial head of a well-known group of young Canadians. Elected regional president of the Junior Chamber of Com- merce at the regional convention in Trail last June, Mr. Aldous is making his first tour of Jaycee clubs throughout the province He will speak to Prince Rupert Jaycees Thursday night at 8 in the Civic Centre. At 36, Mr. Aldous has been al- derman of North Vancouver since 1950. He is married, with three children and is employed by B. C. Packers Ltd. He won the Jaycee B.C. orator- ical contest in 1951. Mr, Aldous will Le met at the dock when he disembarks from the Coquitlam Westoae by members of the Rupert Jaycee executive. He will meet with ex- ecutive members Thursday eve- ning before the general meet- ing. He leaves here Friday for the Alean power development. Some action already has been Mr. Haig-Brown, well known Campbell River author and con- servationists, fought for and succeeded in having the B.C. Power Commission clear lower Campbell Lake in its power de- velopment there. EVADED PRINCIPLES . He says, in his letter to- Mr: Wilson : “. . , Many principles were completely. abandoned during that disgraceful year of under- cover negotiation. I should like to list a few of them: * “The sanctity of parks—sure- ly there is no use in setting City Hearing On Liquor Cancelled The Liquor Inquiry Commis- sion hearings scheduled for 3 p.m. in the Court House here to- day have been cancelled until further notice. E. W. C.. Sharpe, secretary solicitor of the commission, noti- fied Gordon Forbes, Government Agent here, shortly after 2 p.m. that the members would not be here today. Mr. Sharpe said all those who intended submitting briefs should forward them to him at the Court House in Vancouver. The Commission had been ex- pected here by plane this after- noon. Bad weather forced cancella- tion of the direct flight from Vancouver by Canadian Pacific Airlines, but the company’s other flight is expected here late this afternoon. Red Chinese Stop South Korean Push SEOUL ® — Deadly Chinese mortar fire today cut to bits and stopped cold a series of South Korean attacks on bloody Triangle Hill. At least four times ROKS stormed the crest. -in Chin- fire and hand grenades. the valley to the i : Fu 1 ge ae HY | Terrace and Prince George. i ese stood them off with mortar Big United Nations guns liter- ally blew the top off Triangle and saturated Red positions. In north, the bar- C.. government, them aside if they can be. re- leased to the first bidder at the whim of an order-in-counell. “The value of parkland—the US. sets an average value “of $70 pér acre on its park lands. I understand Tweedsmuir land has been sold for as little as 50 cents an acre. “The failure to make ade- - quate provision for commercial and game fish in the agreement and the original plans. .I have heard MeNeely Dubose (Alcan vice-president) say that he was told there were no fishing interests at all in- volved in the Nechako project.’ “The failure to make provi- sion for game and wildlife gen- taken by the Social Credit gov-|erally in the area and to teke ernment. Today, R. E. Sommers, minister of lands and forests, was scheduled to arrive here for a personal investigation. into account the losses that would result. “The failure of a government in an immensely strong bar- gaining position to protect the interests of the people of the province in the excess power that will be developed—or in any other way at all.” But, said Mr. Haig-Brown, “it’s no use flogging a dead government, but if we can guide a yor oe eS the damage—and sation for it—I'm all for it.” DESTROY PARK The Burns Lake brief, to which Mr. Haig-Brown wrote this letter, said flooding of the Tweedsmuir Park area without further attention would a loss to the district of $35,000,-. 000 in trade and wages due to° loss of timber, and would mean a loss of a tourist dttraction that could become one of. the greatest on the continent. “To allow the flooding with- out prior clearing means that all the potential resources. (of the park) will be lost,” the brief argues. Tweedsmuir Park other- wise, as a public park, just as well as marked map for the remainder century. Flooding of this area, an estimated 350 square miles, is already under way with the closing off last month of the Nechako River, main drainage system of the numerous lakes and streams within the boundaries Tweedsmuir Park. The Nechako, which has been blocked off by a huge eatth dam, will be backed .into the lake and against the coastal range to form the lake. On this side of the mountains, at Ke- mano Bay, 10 miles of tunnels will pour a column of water 2600 feet down hill to. power the $550,000,000 aluminum smelter now being erected by the Alum- inum Company of Canada. The WEATHERMAN A southwesterly current of warm moist air has brought cloudy mild weather to nearly all sections of B.C. Considerable rain has fallen along the south coast with over two inches re- ported in the last 24 hours from stations on the west coast of Vancouver Island. Cloudy weather will continue tomorrow and a low pressure centre off the northern Cali- fornia coast will bring mere rain to coastal areas. Forecast ’ Cloudy and mild with inter- mittent rain today and tomor- row; not much change in tem- perature; winds southeast 25, southern section; light north- ern section. Low and of Synopsis