oMORROW'S -TIDES— {| Time) 18.4 feet 20.0 feet 9.1 feet 4.4 feet TS 1952 Che VOL, XLI, No. 273 Jian Plan | fis , HULA WELOOME — Canadians on the destroyer Athabaskan receive a traditional Hawaiian weleome at Pearl Harbor as the ship was returning for her third tour of duty in Korean waters be Mula dancer Luana Gunderson exchanges a le Cord 1 with AB. Jim er of Edmonton for an Athasbaskan life buoy (CP from National Defence = Flying Vikings Blaze New Air Trail Over Polar Ice Press ho By The Canadian COPENHAGEN, Denmark—Twentieth century Vikings, winging their American-built plane across the Polar icecap, blazed a dramatic new era of com- merce in their California- “Europe flight ending here last night, ? hoped oe ticlud- slates Thirteen. crewmen of the iene talietanditin ot Church ibis passengers to landing in a soft Implementation Of Liquor Vote Danish drizzle at Kastrup air- port ust 28 hours and seven after leaving Los An-/} VANCOUVER @ | Shurch The United of Canada in a brief be- fore B.C. Liquor Inquiry Board Thursday the ernmbnt should hold liquor sales to a minimum by limiting the They had spent 23 hours, Aus 38-minutes in flying 5,852 : miles. Four hours, 29 minutes was spent on the ground at Edmonton and at the U.S. air force base at Thule, Greenland, the Saig gov- ation getting gas for thelr DC-6B. | umber of licences issued The fight is intended to blaze The government is not bound a direct air trail from sunny/to act on the June 12 liquor-by- er California to Burope, with the! the-glass plebiscite, which was| bleak and frigid Polar regions asi“the largely uninformed expres- the gateway sion of public opinion,” the brief erence It is 1,000 miles shorter than | said The church opposed granting jo Of retail liquor licences to res by way of New York M Kay A acheduled service will ave Ol) started by spring if hoth United taurants cafes, dining we 7 OUvET | os. hee nani yublic eating places of any des- abroad” | Stes and ARERR GONE cription, on the principle that recent | Ment approve presence of minors in such lost places would tend to promote SPEEDS DELIVERY | Setinauency ~ ed Mr VANCOUVER (Radio tele 0 long.| phones are being used experi G id not| mentally on pick-up and delly o ee roup ery tracks of the Canadiai route , Pacific Express bere. The com band, alpany announced the equipment rges - @al t yaper|has been installed on eight sce con-/trucks and the experiment is proving successful Road Project ‘ VANCOUVER ©The provin- : cial governnient will be asked to embark on a five-year highway construction program and to ex- Pacific Great Eastern to Vancouver tend the Railway approved at the closing session of the British Columbia Chamber jcompletion of main routes first, then continued improvement of | |secondary roads. | It also requests early consider- jation of major bridge construc- | tion on a toll basis, under a “toll | }bridge authority.” | In labor, the Chamber urged | retention of the government supervised strike yote; opposed | sympathy strikes, jurisdictional | strikes and “mass picketing” but | "s » | recognized labor's right to strike, | 2 & and urged full enforcement of | ee the law in case of violation of Mia jabor-management agreements. Early completion of the Squa- mish-Vancouver link of the PGE was requested, Nh Yhen Edmonton Eskimos upset Winnipeg Blue Western football championship the victory of Edmonton but not to “Smoky” Lane. He Nd had to roll an egg with his nose down two Ks. The streets were covered with snow and is troubles (CP PHOTO) Th BEY ment action to counter a “poten- tially explosive situation” among Doukhobors. These requests and others were | of Commerce annual meeting * | here | The five-year highway con- struction request is aimed at Delegaies also urged govern-| IN PROV Li DB RAY CIAL | A els NORTHERN AND CENTRAL BRITISH COLUMBLA’s NEWSPAPER Published at Canada’s Most Strategic Pacific Port—"P tince Rupert, the Key to the Great Northwest” PRINCE RUPERT, B.C., FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 21, i963 PRICE FIVE CENTS Near Alaska JUNEAU «P) — A 3,500-ton| | freighter, the Alaska Spruce, | drifted aground Thursday on! | Hinchinbrook Island at the en- | trance to Prince William Sound | but was refloated four hours! later, the U.S. Coast Guard re-j{ | ported | A crew Ocean Seattle was done of 29 is aboard the! Van Line vessel from! No apparent damage} to the ship : : j Lt.-Governor | : May Reappoint HA. Members ;} Any member of the Prince Rupert Housing Authority estab- | lished to administer the 50 homes being pbullt agreement between the Federal and Provincial governments and | the city is eligible for re-appoint- ‘ment at the expiration of his term of office The order-in-council naming Orme Stwart chairman of they Authority for the next three years also says: 1, On expiration of the term of office of each member, and at intervals of three years there- after, the Lieutenant-Governor in Council may appoint a mem- ber to hold office for a term of three years 2. Where the office of a mem- ber becomes vacant during the term of the member appointed, the Lieutenant-Goevernor in Council may appoint a member for the remainder of the said term 3...No member of the city, council or city employee can hold) office ' 4. Members may make bylaws subject to the approval of the Lieutenant-Governor in Council governing the conduct of the business of the Authority Members of the Authority who will serve two-year terms are Norman Bellis and M. Willa Ray: R, G. Moore and Hugh A. Mac- Kenzie will serve for one year In Telephone Booth Triggerman Arrested by | LA. Police | LOS ANGELES (CP)—Leonard (The Lip) Moceri, tabbed as the tint wanted triggerman in the United States, was in custody | today because he tried to use in a telephone although had $1,800 in his wallet and ja Cadillac waiting outside |} With his arrest, police | country over sought answers jfrom the deadpan mobster to unsolved gangland executions dating ffom the liquor bootleg | ging days to the modern Mafia | Mocerl was arrested by tele- phone company officers after he | dropped slugs into a phone for a long-distance call. Police found papers on him | with names, addresses and tele- | phone numbers reading like an underworld “Who's Who.” USEFUL PRODUCT COBBLE HILL, B.C. ®—On the j hill slopes above this Vancouver Island village a 33-year-old RCAF veteran is blasting chunks of rock to serve island agriculture Norman Bonner harvests high- grade limestone which he grinds into lime to treat soil acidity, He runs the crusher mill by himself. | slugs i he the ‘Ship Grounds | here under a joint |" ‘pect for aids to shipping on the} ‘ by-Election Ordered to Fill Victoria Constituency Seat OTTAWA @%—Speaker Ross MacDonald Thursday told Commons he has issued a warrant ordering the chief electoral officer to issue a writ for a by-election in the constituency of Victoria The seat became vacant with appointment. of Hon. R. W Mayhew, former Fisheries Minister, as Canadian ambassador lo Japan Issue of the warrant means the government, has six months in which to fix a date for the by-election. TURBINE AIRLINER—The Vickers Viscount, the world’s first propeller-trbine ‘airliner, service for designed as has started a regular London-Paris the British European Airways. The Viscount is a medium civil transport carrying 32 to 43 passen- gers at high altitude in air-conditioned and pressurized cabins. | The plane is powered by four Rolls-Royce Dart propeller-turbine Pngines mounted on the wings. Trans-Canada Air @nnounces it will purchase 15 of the new craft. Ripple Rock Shipping Menace May be Removed Speech Hints By The Canadian Press OTTAWA—Removal of Ripple Rock, menace to coastwise shipping and dreaded by mariners since the discovery of B.C., may be undertaken by the Pederal government, ' Alaska Ferry ci tea ie Dock Nears Completion Speech at the opening of Par-| Special to The Dally News liament Thursday, it was indi-| cated improvements are in pros- KETCHIKAN An 800-foot | wharf is about half finished at Ward’s Cove, six miles from this icity, site of the $46,000,000 Ket- | chikan Pulp and Paper Company. | Blasting operations on the | shore and road also are wel] ad- vanced and company officials | hope to complete the major job | before heavy snows hamper | winter work. Pacific Coast and informed) quarters said the huge rock in Seymour Narrows, about 350) miles south of Prince Rupert, | was being considered. The rock, 100 feet in diam- | eter, lies just below the sur- face and is in the path of thousands of ships and small i eraft that ply te and from nerthern B.C. and Alaskan ports. The Ripple is understood Rock prpposal, it has been under study by the National Research Council and scientists at the | A. terty slip will be started University of B.C. for some time shortly. b6 Aabeenmeedate rails The Council is reported to be wack barges which will lead trying to work out the type of 7 explosive that may be used to Sadete tata toe | blast out the dangerous rock the sansa. 7 Tides of 10 to 12 knots race through the channel, churning the water at the reck into a cauldron of whirlpools that have sucked several small boats under with loss of life and dashed big ships against the rock. *Between 1934 and Federal government spent sev- eral million dollars attempting to blast 30 feet off the top of the rock. Nine men lost their lives in 1945 working on the) project wherf a whirlpool over- | turned their work boat. 72 YEARS MARRIED EDMONTON (-—Mrs. H. Wor- | den has celebrated her 90th| birthday and her husband is 98. | They were ville, Ont., ing on the site at the present | time A cannery and reduction plant of the cove to the pulp plant site. | Ocean-going freighters will be able to dock at the wharf and} while present plans call for ship- ment of much of the company’s products by barge through Prince Rupert, it bringing material here for the plant will load lumber and other | supplies for export. The plant will have an initial 1945 the and later the output will be in-| creased to 550 tons. A ferry slip alse will be built at Prince Rupert. Work on a | temporary four-car slip is ex- married at. Brock-| pected to start shortly and a 72 years ago. | permanent eight~car slip will -be Third Period Scoring Spree Nets Black Hawks Fourth Win CHICAGO @-—With all scor third period, Chicago Black Hawks increased their National Hockey League lead with a 3- before 6,870 fans last night. The victory was the fourth straight for the surprising Black Hawks who increased their hol period. Boston's league-leading goalie, Jim Sugar Henry, worked excellently behind a fine defence until 12:28 of the third | completed later. ‘AFL leader ‘Dies at 8] WASHINGTON @® — William Green, 81, president of the AFL, died today at his home in Con- shocton, O., the AFL announced here. It was thé second death of a lee labor leader this month. ing packed into an hysterical 1 victory over Boston Bruins d on first place to 14% games. Philip Murray, head of the CIO, died in San Prancisco Nov. 9. os PROVINCIAL LIB2AR7 lid VICTORIA, B. c. | Nineteen other carloads will | be shipped to prairie points as Lines | are located on the opposite shore | is expected ships | ; capacity of 325 tons of pulp daily | | contribu |sharp drop in minimum tem- }40 and 47. DAILY DELIVERY Phone 81 rient-Rupert Shipping Heralded By First Carg ' Japanese Freighter from the Orient since the of lucrative trading. The 10,000-ton K Line freight- | er Taigen Maru, is due about 7| p.m. with 46,000 bundles of Jap-| anese oranges for discharge at) this port. Last time any traffic was) brought here from the Orient) was before the First World War| when steel rails were shipped) in for construction’ of the rail- road. z From the shipment on the! Taigen Maru, about 12,000 bun- dies will be distributed in the Prince Rupert territory and three carloads will be trans- ported over Canadian National Railways lines to other B.C. centres. * | far as Winnipeg. The ship, under charter to North Pacific Shipping Com- pany, left Shimizu, Japan, en Nov. 12 and after discharging the oranges here will head for Tacoma, Seattle, Portland and Vancouver with general cargo. Unipading is not expected to get under way until Sunday. | Prior to her arrival, the Ocean} Venus is scheduled to leave with} ; amether 400,000 bushels of bar- ley for Japan, and the Tatsuhi! | Maru, which is also loading bar- | ley, is scheduled to sail Tuesday. FUTURE CARGOES The Japanese oranges were ordered brought through this , Port by the Mandarin Orange | Company and Dave McNair & | Company, Limited, general im-_ porters in Vancouver. ' Shipping officials said there! are no other orders on hand for direct shipments from the Orient but indicated future trade de-' pends to a great extent an the) time saved and clearance of) cargo The Taigen Matu is the first) freighter to come here loaded. | All ships which have entered the port for grain since the Domin-/ ion Government Grain Elevator) resumed operations last Novem- | ber 28 have come here empty. The Tatsuhi Maru is the 28th | grain ship to load here. | | One veteran shipping man | said appointment of Hon. R. W. Mayhew as Canadian Am- bassador to Japan a few weeks | ago will probably belster Ru- pert’s chances of developing | into. a great port. Prince Rupert is 500 miles icloser to the Orient than any | other port on the Pacific coast, | | | | States. Recognized as Canada’s most} | Strategic Pacific port, it has di-' | rect rail connection with eastern Canada and the United States )and during the past year has The : WEATHERMAN | Says | Clear skies and light winds ted conditions for a peratures in almost all regions of British Columbia. Coldest spot in the province was the Kootenay Valley where the mercury fell to eleven above—lowest record this year and 16 degrees below the read- ing 24 hours ago. Temperatures near the coast varied between 30 and 35 above. : Southern half of the province will enjoy ‘sunny skies~ today and Saturday. It will be clear and cold at night. Moist air from the Pacific is causing cloudy skies over the Queen Charlottes and along the northern mainland. Forecast Northern area cloudy today and Saturday. Winds light. Low tonight and high Saturday at Sandspit and Prince Rupert next! | January, 1951. To Land Oranges Here First Trans-Ocean Shipment Since Before First World War By ERIC SANDERSON First shipment of merchandise to Prince Rupert frontier days will arrive here Saturday night, heralding what may be the start received much praise for . the | efficient handling of grain. Mr. Mayhew visited this city with Prime Minister Louis Bt. Laurent last September and at | that time made a brief inspec- tion of docking facilities. “GOING TO PARIS — Group Capt. Lawson H. Randall, DFC, 37, of Saint John, NB., = been chosen to attend third course of the NATO - fence college in Paris early next year. A veteran of anti- ~ Warfare | he commanded. Can- oceans, | ada’s first squdron to operate in the Par East. He was air attache to Moscow from May, 1948, until his appointment as commanding officer of the RCAF station at Winnipeg in (CP from National Defence) Throne Speech Starts Tax Speculation OTTAWA @®—Parliament Hill )speculated today that Prime Min- | ister Louis St. Laurent has liber- ated himself from a condition which precludes substantia] tax 'cuts before @ possible 1953 gen- (eral election. The case rests on two quotes. In the Commons last March 6, |Mr. St. Laurent said there may very well be some tax adjust- ments, “but so long as the world | situation continues as it is, I | cannot hold out any hope to the | Canadian people of any substan- More than 400 men ate work-| either in Canada or the United | tial reduction in the scale of the | rate of taxation in this country.” Yesterday, the Prime Minis- ter’s cabinet, through the speech from the Throne, said in refer- ence ‘to the world situation “there are signs of a lessening of the danger of an outbreak of war on a global scale.” ‘ Helicopters In War Front SOUTHAMPTON, Eng. (Rev- ters)—Ten United States heli- copters arrived here on their way to help in Britain’s war against terrorists in Malaya. -The ‘helicopters, capable of carrying 10 men each, came by ship under the American mutual defence assistance program. Skipper Drowns In Fast Rapids VANCOUVER Richard Robson 23-year-old tugboat skipper of Vancouver, was drown- ed Wednesday when a rowboat he was using to check the pro- gress of a boom of logs over- turned. The mishap occurred in the turbulent at the mouth of Bute Inlet, 100 miles north of here. :