»MORROW'S -TIDES— rime 1952 19.7 feet 22.5 feet } 8.1 feet 2.0 feet VOL, XI, No, 281 The i300 MIGRATE Barren Lands caribou once thundered ir reat herd cro tt ; i aghtag ‘6 : ee ind GO if gre; 11 a 1e ‘ow they are a staple of Exskmos and Indians ai Duck Lake just south of the ; ake just south of t 640 miles north of Winniveg The Duck Lake Indiar a nomadic t d \ oak AAS “ jwOmMmaci« imitive have fa eapons aughtered an estimated 600 « aribou during the fall CP PHOTO) orating Contest For Stores, Homes imals np” os ‘ ' p wine | Cor i ' 1 ah Ciy display of merchandise a CONn~ | mere ones 4 Indow display A ize will be given to store | with a Christmas theme wil] be me ae makir g up the lecorated | judged On Dec. 20 and a seroll displas ; : launched | certificate will be awarded to the The t f corating contest Junior | winner l et Pope : ls ope >a ,ouseholders who In charge of the campaign and will fill in a form Which appears in this! contests are Jaycees Jack Breen in the News tomorrow eate a and Bill Gordor Entry blank should be turned amor : Windows will be judged on. the into the Daily News office not alike.| basis of originality, effort and. later than Dec. 17 to be eligible Prize a turkey donated by} ‘ fAND ‘OUTS’ END CONVENTIONS Canada Packers Lid. and will be| tiven to the householder with | : the best decorated exterior of his home judged on originality and . lores oose Leader effort The Jaycees also will take part! in decorating the city. They plan le Socreds ‘Whoop it up’ : to erect 5.foot the grounds of Christmas tree the post office vi A builds hg, complete with .coloued VER (OP )Phe “ins” and some” oftights and a huge War Tor ae red here Saturday at separate con-| The, tree is planned to rr Canadian falls Tled, but it’s only part of the plan over British Columbia's political round the world Unfortunately for the honey- mooners and others who flock to the holiday centre each Dec. 14 erected by . il Credit (to succeed Herbert Anscomb, fi Sister Kenney triumph in| Dance minister in BC's coali election | tion government ’ two by-elec- While the Social Crediters Of Polio Fame rressive GON-| wheeped it up with cries of | conven- | “On to Ottawa,” Mr. Finlay- e . aWAY, son exhorted his followers to es at ome “look to the future of rebuild- rape Oo Ane) ing this party, united and POOWOOMBA Australia id Nanaimo | dedicated to the principles in- | Sister Elizabeth Ken wy 66 the : Se ears, herent in Conservatism.” Australias famed for her oe -| Mr. Finlayson’s only opponent ™*" of polio treatment died ifor leadership was Les Bewley a “her he me here Sunday d Hi (35-year-old Vancouver lawye Sister Kenny will be buried Ma 0 | $ The vote was not announced today in the heart of a or and bush-country area where e John Perdu liwack, she worked out her methods for / th African was elected president of the B.C. tro, nfantile paralysis Social Credit League, succeeding IM irred after a week- ’ fugh Shants, member of the jong battle against cerebral atiy T ilegisiature for north Okanagan thromb For two days she c own jand former Alberta cabinet had b in a coma.‘rom the iminister. Mr, Perdue has been) pr blood clot, Pneumonia th Africa) 4 Social Crediter since the p: ‘ er enc eTOCs | was founded in Alberta in The determined and courag- than 400 eous woma who was credited : “7 by a with > many from dreaded the fiimay | . cripp of poliomyelitis spent en setue-| Winnie Spends sna ct atone ent ade on the i 78 h Bi paralyzed’ and‘ unable to walk th Birthday Wling Wind suburb of Th itomic blast Reading Cards e and = = =buried wu eeu. Loox winston chore WEATHERMAN ere bowled | ij] went back to wits toda tte flying debris. his 78th birthday dinner with his Says trict racial family and a 40-pound cake was forgotten shaped like the doughty Prime Forecast help Minister’s well-known square Cloudy with a few showers to- | oaching with black: hat day. Cloudy Tuesday with rain be heard 15. Churchill. spent his birthday|beginning in the afternoon torm skimmed morning in slippers and loung-| Continuing mild. Winds south-| heart of Jo- ing robe at 10 Downing Street erly 20. Low tonight and high | sea Gamage reading cards and cables from | tomorrow at Port Hardy, Sand-; spit and Prince Rupe! rt, 38 and 44 ara to be Altered for Future Beauty neymooners to Find N ° LLS, “Ont. @ They will excavate certain sec- by the two peg <4 ir i Falls are due tions to produce an even distri No work will be done = 1 in the next bution of flow around the horse- American side of the falls shoe providing an unbroken proposed control dam 1,500 feet { the seenie curtain of falling water long about a mile upstream will guarantee an even flow. In the end, sightseers will get a better look at the mighty cat- i ‘ational joint year, this work can only be aract The —_ he ter the flow over done during the summer possible new ae ae ; Ss hes A ls to keep the months, Until it's es eac pte the Sla a noe, W 3 } on an unt ‘ hie 0 en ee % a ans chee eo Most of the research on wae By ream for hydro The job, if it gets the go-ahead conditions on a od a mC) from the Canadian and US done >> a OF ie + ‘on plan calls for governments, will be started in @ — uv) =~" Boys ae kins off portions of 1958, It will take four years to a Toronto suburb, - an hs. ° ‘Hat crews ean work finish at an estimated cost of represents every es °o nous ibove the falls, $16,000,000, to be shared equally falls and the river for abov PROVINCIAL mt WY NORTHERN AND CENTRAL BRITISH COLUMBI4’s NEWSPAPER Via Yellowhead Pass Road Group Calls For New Highway | meeting of the Trans-Canada Highway System Association (Yellowhead Route) passed two resolutions urging construction of a highway through the Yellowhead Pass as quickly as possible One resolution asks the fed- eral government to “take such action as may be necessary to bring about as speedily as pos- sible military and civilian traffic from Winnipeg to Vancouver via Saskatoon, Edmonton, Jasper and Kamloops.” The resolution asks that the highway be financed “either from federal resources or in co- operation with the provincial governments” and that the pro- vincial governments concerned be petitioned to co-operate with the federal government in con- struction of such a highway to any extent that the federal gov- ernment may require.” The second resolution dealt with a statement by Works Min- ister P. A. Gaglardi of British |Columbia that B.C. may be pre- jpared to construct a highway connecting Kamioops with Jas- | per Park as a toll road. | The association approved the i project and asked that work be | taxted at the earliest possibile |moment and be carried to com- a | ee as speedily as possible Newfoundland Paper Town Hit by Fire } CORNER BROOK, Nfid. (CP) large part of west Corner | Brook's business section lay in| ruins today, swept by fire which | struck while work on the town’s water system ieft firemen with- out sufficient pressure to con- trol the flames Apparently starting from the furnace in the basement of a radio and electrical store in this lA paper-making town of 20,000, flames Sunday destroyed at least 15 shops. Thousands of/ dollars worth of stock, much of it just arriving for the Christ- mas rush, was lost Unofficial stimates place loss at about pebes ames More Waters Open to B.C. Salmon Fishing G. 8, Reade, supervisor of fish eries here, announced today that under special authority of the department, B.C. waters from Cape Caution to Alaska are open to commercial salmon troilers during December and January Authority was granted as an aid to trollers who wish to fish for winter spring salmon. There is no closed season fo sport salmon fishing in northern B.C. streams or tidal waters for spring, coho or steelhead sal- mon, It is, however, forbidden to catch sockeye, pink or chum ‘salmon in non- ~tidal waters the ew Things at Famous Falls two miles upstream. To obtain data on the contour of the river bottom engineers developed novel solutions. It was impossible to trace the river bottom near the falls by the conventional method of a boat With a sounding line. So they used a _ helicopter, which hovered over the river and lowered a line with a marker attached, Surveyors on shore sighted their transits on the marker. Later, searchlights were used for night work. The lights il- luminated the water and the depths of the beam were meas- ured by transit. EDMONTON (P)—The annual | Saturday} construction of a highway) capable of accommodating both’ A ets Published at Canada’s Most Strategic Pacific Port—"P since Rupert, the Key to the Great Northwest” PRINCE RUPERT, BC, MONDAY, DECEMBER 1, 1952 ee _ DETERMINED LITTLE HUNTER BRINGS HOME TROPHY ALIVE Special to The Dally News FRANCOIS LAKE Bul) terriér is a determined hu After cornering a packrat honey pail and pouncing on it, oned the rodent but was unable to get it out for the “kill.” she carried the pail and her prize home : Not to be outdone, and excitedly placed it action : at the VANCOUVER. — Th Tax on Beer Proposed by City Socreds A three per cent tax on draught beer was one of three resolutions presented at the Social Credit ¢eonvention by the Prince Rupert branch of the S6ocial Credit League. “Other resolutions Mmeluded en- dorsation of compensation to fishermen under the Workmen's Compensation Act, and a request that the three per cent saies tax be removed from all goods solid Lon Indian reserves. og» Resolutions were presented at the convention by Tom Watérs, delegate Prince Rupert that to compensate for the pro- posed removal of sales tax on certain items such as children’s clothes, a tax should be imposed on draught beer, paid by the ; consumer, It, was estimated that 50 cents a barrel could be ob- | tained in this manner Social Crediters also believed | | that reserve Indians should not | | be forced to pay the lcent sales tax because they drew ve benefit from the tax ‘Cheaper Plane Fares Seen by CPA VANCOUVER (CP) jon the street 1ir_in greater numbers than at present. The reason? Air fares in Canada may } with rail fares. That is the prediction by Hugh | |Main, general traffic manager of Canadian Pacific Air Lines. Mn Main has just returned | from a meeting of the Interna-| tional Air Transportation Asso- ciation in France. IATA international passenger cargo air rates Mr. Main said that, just as an example, if rates were reduced 25 per cent on a Canadian trans-continental haul, the number of passengers could probably be increased 40 cent. That is why airlines today are buying bigger and faster planes which can haul a big- ger payload and get it there faster. CPA, for instance, next spring Orient run and the Comet jet to Australia. With the DC-6B, it will be! able to fly from Hong Kong to Rio de Janeiro in five jumps, Tokyo, Vancouver, San Fran-| cisco, Mexico City and Lima,) Peru. This new run will start in| June. It also will be able to) carry a much bigger payload. CPA will be the first line to use jets commercially in the western hemisphere. They cruise at 500 miles an hour. Mr. Main says they are so quiet the crew can hear the instruments ticking on the panel, CPA foresees a boom in Pa- cific air travel similar to that which has taken place on the Atlantic run. members said three per ~The man} may take to the! soon be down) sets | and! will be using new DC-6Bs on its, Mrs. Jack MacDougall’s little Boston nter in a shed, chasing it into an old the dog found she had impris- feet of her mistress for further Mrs. MacDougall obliged. interior Lumber Camps to Close If Workers Don't Accept Terms By The Canadian Press e Interior Lumber Manu- facturers’ Association said Sunday interior British Columbia operations where workers do not agree to continuation of the 1951-52 wages and hours contract will close down indefinitely. 9 Thre association set noon Wed- | nesday as the deadline for sign- jing. An estimated 5000 workers are involved. They are negotiat- ing through the Internationai Woodworkers of America. A statement, signed by L. J.) | association, said in part: At 12 noon Saturday the of- ficial negotiator, F. B. Coles, notified the union that nego- tiations were officially termi- nated. “Several operators have al- ready taken steps to determine the wishes of their employees votes. in favor of the present contract and continuation of the present contract rather than strike ac- tion. “Any operations where the 1951-52 contract has not been signed by noon of Dec. 3 will close down indefinitely.” Convicts Flee Jail, Threaten Prison Guards PITTSBURGH @-—-Eight con- victs, described as “armed and dangerous,” used razor-sharp knives to overpower four guards and a deputy warden at Western Rees, secretary manager of the! “In every case they have been | PROVINCIAL LIzRaARy, i138 VICTORIA, B. Cc. New Rate DAILY DELIVERY Phone 81 Bus Fare Boost Wins Approval Effective -Tomorrow—I3 Cents Effective tomorrow morning, the bus fare on | city lines will be 13 cents cash or two tickets for 25 cents instead of the present 10-cent cash fare. Mel Forbes, manager of Arrow | Bus Lines, said today the Public | Utilities Commission advised him on Saturday that the com- pany’s application to increase fares had been approved and the new price would be insti- tuted on Dec. 2. Fares for children six to 12 years of age will be five cents at all times, and children over 12 and holding student cards will pay five cents on school days between 6 a.m. and 6 p.m. but will pay 10 cents at other hours and on non-school days. All children under six years of age travel free. The increase does not affect bus fares to Port Edward. The bus lines originally re- quested an increase of from 10 to 15 cents for adult fares and | five to 10 cents for children. | THIRD PROPOSAL The approved- application was | the third proposal submitted by | .am 'the company and was approved |by city council at a _ special ;meeting on Nov. 15. The com- | pany said imcreased operating | costs forced it to seek the, boost. The increase will be. the first advance im fares in Prince Ru- pert since Arrow Bus Lines. took through employer mapereient over the system in 1942. Little Boys Of Carpenter Body of William Watson Nicoll 68-year-old carpenter here for the past 12 years, was found Sun. day under a car ramp opposite the Masonic Temple. It is believed he feil on the ramp and crawled underneath to rest, and dled. The body was found by three little boys, Robin Gilmore, Rob- ert Armstrong and Morris Alger, while they weré playing. An inquest will be held this afternoon after which the body State Penitentiary and escaped by sliding down a 70-foot wall on a long rope made of sheets and | towels. | A ninth convict also got “out- side” in Sunday’s break but his | freedom was only 30 minutes | long. He surrendered meekly in| front of the prison‘ gates. A tenth was caught on the roof be- | fore he could flee. caught early today in a restaur- jant in nearby McKeesport. ‘Police Probe Threatening Note to Socred VANCOUVER. — RCMP here are investigating a purported threat against the life of Tom Irwin, Social Credit member of the legislature for Delta. Mr. Irwin told the Social Credit convention here Satur- 'day that a letter had come to his house at nearby White Rock on Friday. As far as reporters could make out, the letter included the words: “This is youf last night. |The Liberals will get you.” Mr. Irwin said that his wife received a threatening tele- | phone call Saturday. RCMP de- clined to say whether they thought it was the work of a | crank. They said only that they had a man at the Irwin home | investigating. DEFIANT YOUNGSTERS SOUTHAMPTON, England (CP) —Ordered to be sent to a re- form school, a 14-year-old boy shook his fist at the judge in juvenile court and shouted: “I will kill you before I’m finish- ed.” The boy, accused of steal- ing a bicycle, 17 stamps and a fishing rod, was removed by two policemen. One of eight fugitives was) Babine Slide Removal Contract will be sent to Vancouver for burial, Mr. Nicoll, who has a son |Douglas F. Nicoll here, worked | for Mitchell and Currie and dur- ing the war was employed at the ‘drydock. He was born at Aberdeenshire, Fyvie, Scotland. TB Seal Campaign Nears $1,000 The annual campaign for funds by the B.C. Tuberculosis Society, sponsored in Prince Rupert by the Soroptimist Club is ap~ proaching the $1,000 mark. More than $915 so far has been collected in response to the popular Christmas Seals which have been mailed to every city householder, This is the only means the Club employs to obtain funds. Their objective this year is $2,800. Miss Elizabeth Clement, matron of the Prince Rupert General Hospital, is secretary of the rae lee that most of the people we sent these seals to will 3,009 persons in this country. Saar State Votes For ~ Independence SAARBRUECKEN Sarr @ — This disputed border state French-backed government re- turned to office today with a clear majority in the parliamen- tary elections and with only one- fourth of the voters casting blank or invalid ballots to show their desire to rejoin Germany. Complete official returns from Sunday's balloting gave the Christian People’s Party of Prime Minister Johannes Hoffman 55 per cent of the valid vote com- pared with 51.4 per cent at the last election in 1948. Party pro- bably will hold 29 of 50 seats in parliament. Awarded to West Coast Firm Special to The Daily News OTTAWA.—A contract of close to half a million dollars has been awarded Announcement that the con- tract was awarded to General Construction Co. Ltd. was made here Saturday. Work is to begin immediately to remove the several thousand tons of rock which caved into the river from its canyon side a year ago last summer, pre- venting several hundred thou- sand sockeye salmon from gain- ing their spawning grounds in Babine Lake. * ‘Since the disastrous slide, which will affect at least one fishing year in northern waters, according to the Fisheries De- partment, federal biologists and other experts have studied the river for a remedy. A road was hewn through more than 60 miles of rock and swamp land last winter, and last summer small fish ways were blasted out of the canyon sides to aid ascension of tae ing salmon. Removwal of the slide, which cut off most of the river and to a Vancouver construe- tion firm for removal of the huge Babine River slide which last year threatened the destruction of Skeena River salmon runs. . Mrs. Crocker, Yukon Pioneer Dies at 92 One of the few remaining links with the Trail of 98 was broken Saturday with the passing of one of its pioneers, Mrs. Alice Jane Crocker, 92, of the city. Born in Hudson, Ohio, Mrs. Crocker spent several years in ‘the Yukon and Skagway, Alaska where she met her husband, Dave Crocker, her only survivor here. The two were married in the Yukon. Both have lived in Prince Port Clements on Queen Char- lotte Islands 30 years before coming here. Funeral service will be held in nesday night, from where the created impassable rapids, will remedy the situation. remains Will be shipped to Tiell for burial. Rupert for 11 years, and lived at