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Published at Canada’s Most Strategic Pacific Port—"P /ince Rupert, the Key to the Great Northwest”

VOL. XLI, No. 261

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Rupert Elevator Plays Big
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record is believed to have been
when 406,000 bushels of barley Aluminum Company of Canada
holds of the Lake Minnewanka

leafs Tie
First Place
With Hawks

TORONTO «<P> — Toronto
Maple Leafs moved into first-
place tie in the National Hockey
League last night by plunking
fopr goals past shaky Chuck
Rayner for a 4-1 decision over
last-place Rangers

and Pte. J. J. Julian, Shuben-
(CP from National Defence)

 

CBC PRESENTATION

Kitimat Story
To be Aired
Friday. Night

The story of Kitimat, its his-
tory and the development of the

will be toid on the air tomorrow
night when CBC trans-Canada
(network presents “The Kitimat
Story” at 9 p.m

The three-quarter hour feat-
ure marks the beginning of a
series of documentary broadcasts
of British Columbia industrial
development

This show is being carried by
| CBC's Bill Herbert. The story of
Prince Rupert is scheduled to be
broadcast soon on the Same
series. CBC's Bob Harlow recent-
ly visited the city to write the
show

PRICE FIVE CENTS

PRINCE RUPERT, B.C., THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 6, 1952

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| Report Made Public
After 4-Year Probe

OTTAWA Virtually the en-
tire $50,000,000 fine paper induts-
j try in Canada is accused of op-
; erating an Illegal price-fixing
combine, in a report made public
today by Justice Minister Garsén.
Forty-four companies — seven
paper-making mills and 37 mer-
chant companies spread from! fie
Vancouver to Halifax are named
in the report by Combines Com-
missioner T. D. MacDonald pre-/
pared after four years of inves- |
tigation.
MacDonald alleged the com-
panies used “loyalty” discounts

 

    

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and other means to restrict !

competition and combined in | 7
ohe or more groups to main- | 7 ”

tain prices at fixed levels | TAME SEAGULL—A two-year-old gull, named Old Dick, is playing
ee to the public in- | it smart on the Halifax waterfront. Tossing fear to the winds,

he gets fed by fishcutters and young anglers. Billy Brewster
offers a small fish to the bird whose brown feathers will turn to
the grey-white plumage of a mature gull] next year. (CP Photo)

He suggested tariffs on imports |
be cut as one way of infusing}
new competition into the in-}
dustry, which allegediy hadi?

 

 

or another for the last 17 years. |

DAILY DELIVERY

Phone 81

  
   

inister Lashes Liberals
smuir Park-Alcan Deal

-‘Eyesore Monument
Caused by Flooding

- Socreds to Estimate Clearing
Cost ‘Before It's Too Late’

Removal of the merchantable timber from the
Tweedsmuir Park area now being flooded by the
Aluminum Company of Canada “would never elim-
inate an eyesore that will stand as a monument to
the callousness and thoughtlessness of the former

B.C. Government.” ee bd a
; Robert Muir Park area wo about
ee oma wh rsd 25 million dollars and it will be
and forests in the Social Credit UP to the government to decide
Government, who arrived here Whether to spend that kind of
yesterday from an inspection Money thgre or use it for seme
tour of the area which will be | °ther benefit to the .
under water in four years. | He pointed out, however,
However, said Mr. Sommers, that whatever the cost the
the government hopes to send present government is not in
“competent engineers to the site) a position now to spend money
to try to estimate cost of clear-| on any new project.

_ the timber before it is toO; pe will make a report to the
ate.” | Legislature when it convenes in
TIME FACTOR | February and, it will be

He admitted that time is his recommendations that
against the government in any government acts. ®
ene to semere. 2 eer ee > coon his govern-
cause water ment reduced the stumpage a
from the Nechako River by the royalties to the statutory Ao

 

 

 

muons ornent oe Republicans Gain Congress

Garson said he will seek legal |
advice before deciding whether |
to launch court prosecutions!
against the accused 4

Fine papers include paper us . ss cai ’ . onda '® ot -
in publishing books, magazines; WASHINGTON (CP)—The United States Con-
wr adil aes . ‘ : ‘ 6
It dove not lachide noaeeint | gress has returned to Republican control by a margin

Those dleged having been it |< thin that president-elect Dwight D. Eisenhower

volved infclide Barherertite or ° ~ r

Vancouver Ltd.. Coast Paper Lid ; probably will depend upon bipartisan: support “to
Columbia Paper Co. Ltd. and} nyt throug r¢ is icies

Smith, Davidson and Wright | P ugh eer af hi policies.

     

While the General was win-

Ltd., all of Vancouver
ning with a landslide vote Tues-/|

recently-constructed Kenney imum a few weeks ago to try

'Dam is rising daily and by the|/to induce milimen to cut the

e . *
jend of J , Ootsa Lake, | timbe oe Iso. endea
Control With Thin Ma rgin lot fe iar lanes in Sip aree,|t0 mieiion ~ ade oe

|is expected to have risen at) mills so they could expand their

| least 10 feet. |operations but there is no stat-

| Eventually Eutsuk, Ootsa,|ute which will permit the gov

| Thatsa, and Whitesail lakes will|ermment to do this.” ‘
become one body of water flow-| The minister said that when

ing westward to. a. multi fon|the estimated 350,000 acres of
|dollar tunnel now being con-/ Tweedsmuir Pat loge, We
| structed out of Kemano to take/of trees will protrude

the water to the coast to power|water “forming an e |

Alcan’s giant power plant. a monument to the Liberal gov-

 

The B.C. Cabinet

day, his supporters fought bit-
terly for seats in the 83rd Con-
gress

Catch 100 Daily

   

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000 buahe
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bushels
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ember

from

The victory Leafs ‘15
points and a with Chicago
Biack Hawks on top of the six-
team league, The defeat left
Rangers with only one victory
in 12 games

The
vice
;enson

started

gave
tie

oLner

the

 

re-

Rangers also lost the ser
after

of left-winger Herb Dick-
before the. game even
Dickenson was caught
sum~jin the left eye with a puck dur-
28,\ing the pre-game warm up and
was taken to hospital

r Many years.

thet
nber

Russ Objects
To U.S. Naval

“Defence Zone

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Wed
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MOSCOW (CP) Russia

WEATHERMAN
Says

Changes

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Synopsis
Skies were clear over most of eC ion ¢
B.C. last night and many local

ities reported the lowest tem-

peratures so far this fall. Among

VICTORIA © The cabinet
has passed an order-in-council

}

Smelt Fishing
Autumn Sport
For Quebecers

By BERTRAND THIBAULT
Complete Senate returns gave | Canadren Freea Reere. Weir
the Republicans 48 seats and} QUEBEC—Windows of homes
the Democrats 47 |in Quebec's Lower Town light up
| before dawn at this time of year.

Eight congressional races |
went into the vete-by-vote |
counting, with at least three |
of them dependent upon ab- |
sentee ballots, ;

  
       

In some close races defeated |
candidates have indicated they
may contest the outconie

Mr. Sommers told of visiting
the Kenney Dam and of a trip
to, Ootsa Lake where home
owners are being advised to
leave. Houses now vacant
have been marked with a huge
white “A” to indicate they
have béen abandoned. They
will be ‘destroyed before the
| water reaches them.

 

He criticized the last govern-
ment for “failing, at any time
jto discuss the timber situation
{with ‘any of the technical ad-
| visers in the forestry department

ernment.”

He admitted time is against
the government now in making
a survey of the exact amount of
merchantable timber or its re-
moval before the water rises-to
the 140-foot level estima’ hy
Alcan engineers. rae

“Everyone realizes a certain
price must be paid for progress,
but as far as this t
is concerned there will never be
as tragic an error commi as
has been done at Tweedsmuir
Park.

~ removing one of the main ob
them were Vancouver with 32;| wacies jn British Columbia's
Kimberley and Prince George! much-criticized Elections Act
with 14 and Kamloops and The obstacle. one which caused
Revelstoke with 23 two applications for judicial re
Clouds and showers are fore-|counts in  Vancouver-Burrard
east for the north coast today) and Vancouver-Point Grey to be
a weak disturbance moves disallowed after the June elec
in from the Pacific. It is ex-| tion, required returning officer
pected that clouds from this) to return ballots to their original
system will blanket the northern | envelopes and seal them after
interior tonight and hold tem-/| completion of counting
peratures above those of last Under the alternative voting
night system, this Was found to be im
In the south, some increase in practical so the government has

now ruled that ballots do not
cloudiness is looked for but gen- . :

have to go back in their original

CONTROL HOUSE |The smelt fishing season is in|®"4 I'd say the biame should

The Democrats held a 49-47) tui) swing | fall entirely on the shoulders

edge in the 82nd Congress One has to get up early for a of the former minister of lands
Republicans Tuesday won 220] place on the old damp wharves, #"d forests (E. T. Kenney) who

seats in the House of Represen-| where hundreds line up for hours| "Ow is the House Leader of the

tatives, two more than neces-| to fill their wicker baskets with| Liberal Party.”

sary for control. Democrats took | a g00d catch INIQUITOUS

206 | Early-morning travellers, ae “The contract that was ex-
Meanwhile Gen. Dwight Eisen-|ers with lunch boxes, and the) ecuted with Alcan was an in-:

hower began a .0-day vacation|smelt fishermen carrying their|iquitous thing as far as B.C.

today with a date for golf. }gear crowd downtown buses. was concerned and the flooding
The president-elect put aside| Smelt fishing hasn't the sports-|of parts of Tweedsmulr Park

 

“My trip was to see if we can
do something reasonable and
economically sound before it is
too late.”

Socred Lands
Minister Visits
Cellulose Mill —

 

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in the
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perational

Rupert indl-

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the crop

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0-bushel li-

busy

nesday night gave notice
refuses to recognize as legal the
United States naval defensive |
in Korean waters

She said the. U.S. naval orde:
of Sept. 27 was an extension of
the 1950 blockade which violated
freedom of seas

The announcement was in a
note delivered in Washington
and broadcast by Moscow radio

The note called the order a
‘new agressive act” and said
{Russia put full responsibility for
the “consequences” on the U.S.)
government :

The order objected to was ap-!
parently a routine announce-~|
iment by Gen. Mark Clark, UN
commander, on Sept. 27, that
the “sea defence zone” was be-
jing established in South Korean

zone

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e that time] lands

een

finished | waters, particularly around is-
on which war prisoners
loading | are held, to “eliminate infiltra-
‘tion of enemy agents.”

RAL LABORATORY LAUN

 

edsmuir Floodin

Flooding of tire situation now is being con-|

  

ismuir Park,
Alcan devel-
‘e a breeding
‘iM DAK}

weakened

into the en-

ducted by the Federal forest
insect laboratory on behalf of
the Provincial government,

Officials fear that the bark-|
beetles will be attracted to the
flood-weakened trees in the
park, as they are to timber !

erally the weather will continue |.) velopes for the moment numerous, ™&n’s thrill of trout fishing in| and adjacent lands will remain

unny with quite chilly tem- oie aie returning officer | Pressing problems | the nearby Laurentian mountain|as a monument to the former

peratures overnight | simply has to seal ail ballots! Eisenhower flew to Agusta, | WKes camel cs eseeeaee pratt tartan laa

y ; seal =: Sigg en s S : years.

Forecast Te oe ee Ga., oe ~ York yesterday. every year “The people of this province

Cloudy. today and Friday. A eae all rejected ballots in . - On their way to the wharves, | who still think in terms of Lib-

few showers in the northern)” $ fishermen meet enthusiasts Of|eralism should remind them-

mrt tones. Chet derteda te ucation night fishing, equipped with lan-| selves of the tragedy that is
night and tomorrow. Little House Dean ar we — my after! happening to Ootsa Lake.”

change in temperature. Wind r rg t Se 2 roy —_ Mr. Sommers, principal of four

southeast 15 in the worthem Dies at Home eet nas ines Se: i € siX-/ elementary, schools in Castlegar

part this morning, otherwise : : i i : , for 17 years until his election

light. Low tonight and high to-| , WASHINGTON ™ —— Adoipl'| VICTORIA —No new formula| eight hooks on one line ‘The| 2st June, sald that as far as

‘ an? Sabath, ' 0 j od - ! a
morrow at Port Hardy 42 and - oa for sharing education costs re-| little fish are so plentiful that this government can gather,

48; Sandspit 38 and 52; Prince

Rupert 35 and 50

Airlines
Men Strike

NEW YORK @—Three hund-
red United Airlines flight engin-
eers struck late today in the
United States, Hawaii and Eur-
ope

CHES INVESTIGATION

weakened by other causes.

If this is the case, and the
beetle broods are able to sur-
vive under such wet conditions, |
there is a real danger of their |
eventual spread to the green
healthy timber at the peri-
meter of the flooded area,

 

States House of Representatives
died early today

The 86-year-old Illinois Con-
gressman Was re-elected Tuesday
ito the ‘house seat he had’ held
since March, 1907. Sabath was a
Democrat

sulted from a six-party confer-
ence held Wednesday in Premier
W. A.C. Bennett's office,

But delegates said they were
satisfied the government now
|“is fully appraised of ‘all angles
of the problem” and were hope-
ful that a solution would be
| worked out eventually.

| ssicaessea eats ssc
HOCKEY SCORES
Tacoma 4, New Westminster +
Saskatchewan 1, Seattle 6

The conference was called by|

OSHL
Penticton 2, Kelowna 3
Vernon 1, Kamloops 7.

| Education Minister Tilly Ralston
| who has been studying briefs on
{ the subject since she took office
Aug. 1.

 

* Plots have been established in; droctonus and

g May Breed Damaging Beetles

ips beetles is

/100 fish in a day or a night is
about average. Well stocked with
worms, enthusiasts spend usually
up to eight hours at a stretch

Smelts are more plentiful this
fall than last, say old timers
This is encouraging for the fish-
}ermen since the season lasts only
| through October and November.

Returning home, fishermen
stop at nearby grocery stores and
sell their “surplus” catch. They
get about 25 cents a dozen. Stores
Sell them at 30 cents a pound.

Back home the little siivery
fish are cleaned for deep butter
frying. Fresh smelts have a mild
flavor all their own,

Clergyman
Heads Synod

 

British Columbia’s minister of
mines, lands and forests, Hon.
R. E. Sommers, today paid a
visit to the Columbia Cellulose
Company mill on Watson Island.

On a fact-finding trip through
northern B.C., he leaves tonight
for Vancouver to take part in
the distribution of seedling trees
to school children and then will
head for the Columbia. and
Similkameen constituencies to
speak in support of the Social
there are approximately 30 mil-| Greait ciate in by-elec-
lion board feet of merchantable | tions.
timber in the area to be flooded.| He expressed confidence that

“Tt must be remembered) pis party standard-bearers will
though that while estimates| win handily
have ranged from 28 to 35 mil-| He said Premier Bennett, Edu-
lion feet, the figures were! cation Minister, Mrs. Tilly Rol-
| reached only after a CUrSOrYicton and Agriculture Minister

| Survey by Alcan, forestry ser-|Kiernan also will speak im the
vices and milling interests.” | ridings.

 

 

 

 

COSTLY METHOD

The 41-year-old minister, who
spent his vacations working for
the B.C. Forest Service in the
Kootenays, said that from facts

Mr. Sommers drove here from,
Prince George after attending
the PGE celebration and said he
thought the highway from Ter-
race to Prince Rupert was “reas-

se 4

the lodgepole pine-spruce stands | present,” an official said.
on the edge of Ootsa Lake, As the | said. :
flooding progresses, they will be} “If these potentially destruc-|ian Church, Chilliwack, Tuesday
re-examined periodically. | tive insects increase due to the|night was elected by acclama-

“It was determined from trap }fiooding, they will be capabie of; (ion as moderator of the British}
trees felled near the plots that causing great damage to! the | Columbia Synod of the Presby-
an epidemic population of den-| adjacent green timber.” terian Church.

VANCOUVER @ — Rev. J. E.
Beigelo, 35, of Cook's Presbyter-

 

 

he has gathered he estimates|onably good,” but that the road

chic timber tina Wh Teer te ee
Sabre Jets, MiGs in Air Battle

SEOUL @—United States Sabre jets and Commynist
MIG-15s clashed today in four air battles deep in northwest
Korea.

The Fifth Air Force said its airmen shot down one Red jet
and damaged four. ‘

The flare-up of air fighting came as-grould battles along
the 155-mile front tapered off to patrol skirmishes.’