si to fcrfncc Rupert Daflp I3cto3 Wednesday, June 5, 1946 An Independent dally newspaper devoted to the upbuilding ol. Prince Rupert and all the communities comprising Northern and. central British Columbia. Published every afternoon ejcceDt Sun- lay by. Prince Rupert Dally News Limited! Third Avenue, Prince Rupert. J British Columbia. n. A. I HUNTER, Managing Editor. H. G.j PERRY, Managing Director. OBSCRIPTION RATES! By Cltw Carrier, per week 15 Per Month . 65 Per Tear iim By Mafll per month .40 Per Tir i2r t4.00 i im FRffi PORT AT RUPERT n The.estahli$hment of Prince Rupert, as free port would be of benefit to Canada from a na-tionahistandpolnt and would be of great help to Alaska, in facilitating, the use of this port as an oujlet for thousands of tons of products' which are. now moved for unnecessarily long distances through other less for tunately situated ports, the Prince Rupert Chamber of Commerces was advised Monday night in a report from a committee headed by A. D. Ritchie which) is studying the, free, port idea. The report made particular reference tp the availability of Prince; Rupert to Alaska, which wouldjresult from the establishment pi the free port. It would mean thousands of tons of traffic for the Canadian National Railways, providing heavy employment in the port. Traffic could e handled in, large volume both to and fro between Alaska and tjie United States. A free port, would bring a, flow of vessels from every part of thej world bringing and load-, ing goods. The(report suggested that one of thej requisites to the successful operation of a free port, would; be to have -it. brought, underi the conirol of National Harboj- Board rather than Canar dlan National Railways. in Vhe-sepreme court op ; british columbia : in probate in the matter of the -administration act" and IN THE MATTER OP THE ESTATE OP SADIE BEAUDIN. DECEASED t INTESTATE TAKE I NOTICE that bj Order of His Honor, W. E. Fisher made on the 30th day of May, AJ. 1946. I was appointed Admlnl"f r of the Estate .-of Sadie Be&udin, deceased, and all 'parties having claims against the said estate are hereby required to furijlsh same, properly verified, to me pn or before the lath day of -Tnlr. A'D Hrirt nil " nnrt 1a In. debted to the Estate are required to pay tne amount 01 tneir inaeDteoness to me forthwith. DATED at Prince Rupert, B.C., this 20th day of May. A D. 1646. rfORDON P. FORBES, Acting Official Administrator, Prince Rupert, B.C. June 30 MEMBER ABO. (Authorized as Second Class Mall, Post Office I. Department, Ottawa). NEW BANK HEAD ELECTION of Sydney G. Dobson yesterday as president of the Royajl Bank , of Canada brings to the top position of a great financial institution another man who started at the lowest desk. From junior clerk to president m forty-six year's is his record. f' Following in the distinguished footsteps of the late Morris W. Wilson, ivho travelled in the same patli-way,;and was president of the Bank fromj! 1934 .until his death in May, Mr. E)obson how becomes the Bank's fifthjpreside'nt, the second man within tlje Bank to have attained the presidency. Aj measure of the progress of the Banli in these years and of Canadian (business generally, is provided" by -the Bank's asset figures. In 1900, when Mr. Dobson joined the Merchants Bank of Halifax (later to become; theRoyal Bank of Canada) assets amounted to less than $18,000,-000. In' the momentous years between 1934' and 1945 when he was genei-al manager, expansion in all phases of the. Bank's business was notable. Deposits rose from $637,-000,(00 to $1,888,000,000, while assets moved up from $78,000,000 to over two billion, figures which place the Royal Bank of Canada among the first!;13 banks in the world. Mh Dobson and the late Morris W. iWilsoh began their banking careers in the Maritime Provinces withjji three years of each other. At various times in their early banking ' days;their paths came together, first at Truro in 1904 where Mr. Wilson was"accbu'ht!aht and young Dobson a leclgerkeeper under him. Even in thati&arly day Mr. Wilson foresaw thatthe hardworking and conscientious youngster was marked for CFPR future distinction. In 191G their paths again converged when Mr. Dobson succeeded Mr. Wilson as manager of Vancouver branch. Mr. Dobson's appointment three years later as general inspector at head office, Montreal, again brought these two men together and together they worked as a team until Mr. Wilson's untimely death last month. The new head of Royal Bank of Canada is not the traditional banker type. He is easy to meet, affable keenly aware of- his responsibility as head of an institution serving the general public. His approach to problems is direct and incisive, his decisions quickly made. Few bankers are known by sight to so many men as Mr. Dobson, who served his bank with distinction in Canada's farthest east, farthest west, and in the prairies. Nor has his entire life been built around banking affairs. He is a lover of the simple pleasures of life, his own fireside, books, a pipe and children. It is a significant fact that, as he likes kids, they too like him. In the affairs of the community in which he lives Mr. Dobson has always taken a keen' and active part. Close to his heart is the welfare of' the less fortunate, and, in Montreal particularly, he has been closely identified for some years with the work of the Welfare Federation, whose campaign in 1940 he directed as chairman. A true son of the Maritimes, Mr. Dobson has, an ingrained love of the sea and of sailing ships. In his office on St. James Street hangs a picture of his own two-master uhder sail and the top of; his bookcase is adorned with a carved: replica, of the Blue-nose. When in summer he leaves the bank for a few weeks' recreation, it is to the wheel of his sailing ship he goes and to the waters off the Atlantic Coast. He is a virile man, active and endowed with an abundance of energy. He is an enthusiastic walker, and through the years his is a familiar figure striding from his home on Sherbrooke Street to his office in St. James Street. He likes motoring long distances and his itch for golf is pronounced as the leaves turn green in May. But his first love is the sea and the ships that ply upon it, and the greatest hobby banking. Radio Dial 1240 Kilocycle (Subject to change) WEDNESDAY PM. 4:00 Your Music 4:30 Our Singing Land, 4:45 The Frasers 5:00 Let There Be Music 5:30 Hawaiian Echoes 5:45 Supper Serenade 6:00 CBC News 6:15 CBC News Roundup 6:30 Fashions In Music 6:45 To be announced; 7:00 Let's Play Charades 7:30 Invitation to Music 8:00 Sports Commentary 8:15 Juliette 8:30 Treasure Island 9:00 CBC News 9:10 B.C. News 9:15 Midweek Review Talk 9:30 Paul Waltl Show 10:00 Speaking of Records 10:15 Benny Carter's Orch. 10:30 Sammy Kay's Orch. 10:55 CBC News and Int. 11:00 Weather and Fishing News 11:03 Silent THURSDAY A.M. 7:30 Musical Clock 8:00 CBC News 8:15 Morning Song 8:30 Music For Moderns 8:45 Medley Time 8:59 Time Signal 9:00 Little Concert 9:15 Morning Devotions 9:30 Claude . Sweeten's Orch. 9:45 Transcribed Varieties 10:00 CBR Presents 10:15 Thoughts for Today 10:30 Roundup Time 10:45 Paul Whlteman's Orch. 11:00 B.C. Farm Broadcast 11:15 Thoughts For Today 11:30 Weather Forecast 11:31 Recorded Interlude NEW ROYAL HOTEL A Home Away From Home, Rates 75c up 50 Rooms, Hot and Cold i water PRINCE RUPERT, B.C. Phone 281 P.O. Box 198 INTERIOR PRICES OFFICE CLOSES PRINCE QEORQE The local office of the Wartime Prices and Trade. Board closed at the weekend and, the business formerly done, here is now centred at the Prince Hupert office. Kverett MacEachern has been Prices Board representative here since the, office opened in June, 1942 11:33 Recorded Interlude 11:45 Personal Albffm P.M. 12:00 Tunes for Today 1: 15 Henry King's Orch. 12:25 Pxpgram Resume 12;30 Musical Program 12:45 Thursday Recital 1:00 Frpm the Classics 1:15 Women's News Commentary and Talk 1:30 Music Makers 1:45 Downbeat 2:00 Western Five, 2:15-Echoes From the Tropics 2; 30 Serenade 2:45 BBC News and Commentary 3:00 Jack. Allison Show 3:15 Miniatures by. Green 3:30 To be announced 3:45 Stock Quotations CFPR TONIGHT 6:30 p-m. HEAR Lt.Col. C.C.I. Merritt V.C., Member of Parliament for Vancouver-Burrard - J. L. CURRY CHIROPRACTOR If pain -. Chiropractic I If nerves doubly sol Smith Block Green 995 Royal Bank Head I S. O. DOBSON Announcement is made of the election of Mr. Dobson to be president of the Royal 3ank of Canada, succeeding the late Morris W. Wilson who died recently. Formerly general manager of the bank, Mr. Dobson has more recently been executive vlce.-presldent. HELP POLIO SUFFERERS CAPETOWN P) A 200,000 $90,000) health resort is planned at thermal springs on the shores of the Brandvlel Dam in Cape Province. The resort will include a large' modern hota and a sanatorium, and use. will be made of the springs to aid cases of poliomyelities. LETTERBOX RE BUS FRANCHISE Editor, Daily News: All my life I have striven to attain what is known as local autonomy, that is to say, the people affected locally should have th right to' decide for themselves on Issues that only concern themselves and Is no business of outsiders. Therefore I decided to take issue with the report of ,the Utility Commission of Victoria on the arbitrary interference on the proposed bus franchise. The city council, quite properly, in trying to deal with the transportation problem, advertised for tenders for a bus service on a franchise basis. The outcome was that two' concerns tendered. The council, acting on behalf of ,the public, had no alternative but to accept what it considered the best offer and prepare a bylaw to be submitted to the ratepayers. Now the Utility Commission comes along, reviews the case and says we must put up and be satisfied with what we have got whether we like the treatment and service or not, as long as we get a seven per cent cut in the revenue. GEORGE B. CASEY. in my future?" security, pcrnaps you would say? You have won the right to plan your future! Plan it with life insurance . . . the strongest force to assure continuation of your present security ... for yourself ... for your loved ones ... in the years aheadj. "Does it matter WHICH life insurance company I choose?" Yes! Life insurance companies are much alike as to policies and rates, but actual long-term results vary widely. We invite you to compare The Mutual Life of Canada's record with Ketchikan Pulp Mill Bcttlenrck for Industry at "First City" is Lack of Power KETCHIKAN Tyler W. Sprake, of the Cellouse Engineers, Inc., headquarters at Seattle, representing the Weo: Taccma Newsprint Co., has made a bid for Ketchikan to furnish him with 3000 horsepower electricity for a pulp mill near Ketchikan, But the city council and the planning board at a special meeting with members of the Board of Control of the Utilities sitting in, were unable to give him a definite answer. He wants to start the mill rolling so that he can bpgln grinding out pulp by October and fill commitments, but the Immediate bottleneck proved the lack of sufficient power. Different newspapers along the coast formed a million dollar corporation to produce paper for 'their members. The proposed plant here was to furnish the pulpto be turned Into paper by the West Tacoma Newsprint Co., the first unit here would represent an Investment of about .V.V.V.'.V.V.V.W.'.V.WA TODAY'S STOCKS Courtesy S. D. Johnston Co. Ltd. Vancouver Bralorne 13.25 B. R. Con 14 1$. R. X. 14 Cariboo Gold 3.45 Dentonia 40 Vt Grull VVjhksne 144 He dley .Mascot 1.65 Minto 05M, Reeves McDonald 1.50 Reno mi Privateer .55Vi Premier Border 09 JV Premier Gold 2.05 Pioneer 5.50. Sheep Creek 1.35 I n "lor Bridge 68 Whitewater 032 Vananda 39 Congress 13 2 Pacific Eastern 15 Hedley Amalgamated.. .13 Spud Valley 20 Central Zeballos ....(a) .14 Oils A. P. Con 12 Calmont 33 C. & E 2.10 Foothills 1.60 Home-.. ...... 3.30 ..s Toronto Aumaque 86 Beattle 1.21 Bob J a 20 Buffalo Canadian .25-. Cons. Smelters 98.15 Eldona 68. Elder 85 Olant Yellowknlfe 7,30. Hardrpck 80 Jackknife 18r .Toliet Quebec 78 Little Long Lac 2.3.7 Madsen Rpd take 3.75 Madeod Cockshutt 2 30 Moneta 66 ..should answer "What is MOST important these questions: EviJence of the satisfaction of Mutual Life policyholders is furnished by the fact that whole families and succeeding generations have entrusted their life insurance programs exclusively to The Mutual Life, and each year approxi. mately 3596 of its new business comes from policyholders. Ask your Mutual Life, representative to explain the, special features of this! Company. Low Coat Life Insurance Since 1869 tnat ot any other company. HEAD Ot HCE WATKHLOO, O.NTAHIO Richard Sephton, Prince Rupert, Coastal and Interior District Agent R. K. Mortimer, Representative Prince Rupert, B.C. K. T; Kenney, Ltd., Representative Terrace, B.C. L. II. Kenney, Representative Smlthers, B.C. Hoops & Macllgan, Representatives Telkwa, B.C. E. U. Condon, Representative Ocean Falls, B.C. $150,000 for 25. tons per day and needing about; 40 employees and planned on at least five years operation, All Arrangements Made For, Timber Engineer Sprake said all arrangements had been made for securing the Umber and a location near town surveyed, and asked for 3000 horspower. He was Informed by utility officials that this request was Impossible.. Finally he agreed that for the time being he could get along with a vmall unit of about 1000 horsepower, but another bottleneck developed when. It was stated that the Beaver Falls project at the present rate of progress could not possibly be completed In tlm,e to give hinv power by October. It wa. stated that the tunnel is not yet finished, that it would require ten months to finish the pipe line unless greatly speeded: up and that many poles remain to be set for the transmission line. In the round table, discussion every phase of power, past, present and future and pusslb ill ties were touched upon, how to speed up wprk, about adding another unit and how 'to finance a plan for making use of the. full capacity of the Beaver Falls source, the cost bein? estimated from $500,000 to $1,000,000. Asked if he could not use diesel power, Sprake sad it was too costly. He said that If he, was allowed Juice for the first unit he might con sider developing his own power for, added units. It was stated that the Ketchikan, Spruce Mills would cooperate with the city for auxiliary power. Questions were asked and answered about the possible power supply from other lakes on the island and the cost and Forest Service' reports and the engineers' reports of Burns arid McDonald were quoted. No committment could be made to Engineer Sprake, However, following the statement that. Beaver Falls could be put In production In. side of 90 days under proper direction, a committee was named consisting: of Saunders, Brokke, Daly arid Men'denjiall to inspect the work and recommend what could )e clone If anything, to speed up the work, and also. If possllile, Inquire into the feasibility of developing another unit. In mentioning lils five year plan, Sprake said that he, would need the. entire capacity of Bpaver Falls. Ray Hall, commer-clay manager of the utilities said the city would need practically all of it for domestic purposes inside of five years. On cost of power Sprake said the co3i outside was 3 mills at the present time but lie was willing to pay as hh as five mills. "We are not looking for any handout.' However, he said that the rate might fluctuate; that news print was filing for $85 a ton and lt looked Uke it would soon go to $100 a ton. The reason certain newspapers banded together were to be assured of a steady-supply. Sprake has no connection with Engineer Hawthorne who recently went south on a plan to get the Puget Sound Pulp and Paoer Co. interested near Ketchikan. INCOME TAX Heturns Prepared See R. E. MORTIMER V 324 2nd Ave. Phone 88 ii ouggoooooooejofcuouoooooo 1 mmMm opehin Hon, Cofn Gflbjon, Minister Vancouver, B.C. )ervice Spells Security Low R3:i r KING'S BIRTHDAY Monday, JUne J e AU ntatio5in One Way Fare J nc Quarter FOR ROUND Trid Minimum rare n r. . fioinjf: June 7 lo 2 p.J 'IIMU I'J I "'turnine up to m June 11 I SUM; AXI) rAI!I,J m USl'AL itATp.j Full Informs .. F; A.. ft '- !t JOHN H. BULGER OPTOMETHICT John Bulger Lid. Third Avenue oocuoooooc s Sl.i: US I OK AM, KKQUIKOIKNTS IN Office Suppler Consult us for your needs In all types of printing v :t Everything in high class stationery Cards for every occasion Fountain Pe :i DIBB PRINTING COMPANY 3ESNER BLOCK THIRD AVT ! ODOaOOOOaaOOOIlllDDIlOlUUiaOAnnilnnnnnnnAK.... mi a Ju m Mute,... a. JiX..,.! .u''...it?i.,.. . ... 1, ? ... J ARfRr MC(,AN(;S m THE JOB: Trim fighters and great bombers and transports require constant, care of wings and fuselage. That, is the task of the airframe mechanics and those in the allied trades: carpenters, fabric workers and metal-worker-welders. Service or civilian experience in the trades can mean immediate higher "grouping" and hence higher pay. Previous trade experience is not essential, and valuable training is provided through special courses. Applicants should normally possess junior matriculation or its technical-school equivalent, but civilian qualifications and experience are considered in the case of certain trades. If they have no previous service experience, applicants must be over 18 and under 26. THE PAY; Basic pay plus living allowances for non-commissioned ranks runs from $95 monthly for Aircraftman Class 2 to $188 for Warrant Officer Class One ; extra pay for trade proficiency and increased pay after three years in any rank; marriage allowance-of $20 a month; free uniform clothing and medical and dental service. THE PENSION: A lifetime in come on discharge after 20 years' or more service; pensions or gratuities in the event of prior discharge on medical grounds, and pensions or gratuities to widows or children in the event of death while on service VETERANS' PREFERENCE: As among applicants, war veterans applying for reappointment will receive preference, and if accepted will be reappointed to the ranks they held at the time of their discharge, or to the nearest ranks which establishment permits; and their prior service will be a factor in promotion and pension. TERMS OF SERVICE: Accepted applicants enter Interim Force, which terminates on or before September 30, 1947; good conduct, satisfactory medical category and trade proficiency will enable airmen to enlist in Regular Air Force for five years and re-engage, thereafter for further five-year terms. WHERE TO APPLY: Applications should be made to Western Air Command, RCAF, Joint Services Headquarters, 4th Avenue West, ft. DEPARTMENT OF NATIONAL DEFENCE FOR AIR OTTAWA, CANADA H. F. Gordon, Deputy Minister n