noK DISPATCHED PROVINtlAL LIBRAST, 113 , ox:es C3C23 VICI3XIA. B. C. m 3150; Daily Delivery NORTHERN AND CENTRAL BRITISH COLUMBIA'S NEWSPAPER PHOHE 81 Published at Canada's Most Strategic Pacific Port "Prince Rupert, the Key to the Great Northwest" VOL. XXXIX, NO. 138. PRINCE RUPERT, B. C, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 14, 1950 . t PRICE FIVE CENTS n Tool F ay mite ivcr. DSDInl O dety Expressed As Wants fo Know About Accounts Usk People Hurry To Higher Ground; Hazelton Is Alarmed Vancouver Board Of Trade Backs Airport s VANCOUVER (CP) The Vancouver Board of Trade Tuesday urged the construction of an airport Aid. H. F. Olassey, at Monday night's'meetlng 0f city council, took exception to the manner In which requests (or payment of accounts wag made. The ater Rises Suddenly Railway authorities here today were expressing ,ty following a quick rise of one foot since yes-lf in the level of the Skeena River. It is developing fast," said Divisional Super-!(jent C. A. Berncr who to date, had been opthn-and hopeful that no flood condition would at Tufwell Island, entrance to Prince Rupert harbor, mauer arose when the follow ! S 1 ing terse report of the pionpprs' j to serve the Northern B.C. coastal city. The Skeena Valley from Hazelton westward was girding itself today for another flood crisis. Residents of Hazelton, Usk and Terrace were hoping against another inundation such as those of iyi6 and 1948. The Skeena River is rising rapidly from 12 to 24 inches in twenty-four hours. . Citizens and public works em Home committee was read At present flights are made to Sandspit, where j this year. "Your committee has received and conslderec. the report of the superintendent for the month of May and recommends that the accounts be paid." had thought we might wched the crest but It passengers and freight are transferred to sea planes. The board is advocating an air strip of at least 4,000 feet and, if necessary for defence purposes, at least 7,000 feet be established on the island. pears that we have not," ployees were out all night at 1 Hazelton trying to stem the water of the Skeena which was Cyclone Taylor i Aid. Ulassey asked what the amount of the accounts was. He thought the committee should produce a statement of account? washing away the north side of i:ner said mis morning. , ha been exceptionally weather In the Interior .aday or so 85 above at George and Smlthers al- EX-MEMBER DIES VICTORIA Richard R. Burns, "6 - year - old former member of the B.C. legislature for Rossland -Trail, died in hospital today after a brief illness. He was elected in 1933 and sat until 1939. ; $16,600,008 PROJECT THESS ALTON. Ontario -'-A the bank. The Bulkley this morning was two feet below flood level and the Protest To Government though It has cooled off to 44 by night. So far water ha not yet reached the tracks and at last riport it was 7 feet six Inches below the rails at Shames and Salvus, customary trouble points In the lower Skeena Valley. Public works department offices also reported rapidly rising water but H. W. Stevens, district engineer, said It had not reached highway level yet. Motorists re-ported water on the highway at Kwlnitsa early In the week but this was probably on account of Airport Here Is "Natural" Everybody Sliould Back It, . Urges C.P.A. Official Up "What Is being done about in the city?" Aid. X. B. black Giving Up Post - VANCOUVER Q Frederick W. (Cyclone) Taylor, 65, often regarded as the greatest hockey player Canada ever produced, will retire from his federal government post here next week. Twenty-eight years ago he played his last professional game with Vancouver Millionaires. Taylor has been district superintendent of the immigration service for B. C. and the Yukon since 1931. lousing. payable so that council would know how much the home was costing. Aid. Douglas Frlzzell agreed and said that all accounts put up for ratification should be enlarged upon and broken down In statement form. Mayor George Rudderham satf the accounts were kept in the treasury department, that It would be difficult to have state j asked at the regular meeting of ; Skeena was rising at the rale of I two feet per day. Residents of the two valleys are preparing for higher water as the temperature remains high i over the whole watershed, melting the winter's accumulation or j ..now, which has not yet run off to any great extent. Weather forecasts are for con- ', tinuing warm weather. opting Co-operation of a combination of high tide and "I feel that an airport here is a natural development," remarked H. Hollick - Kenyon, : .. . . . c , i ! . 1 me iiiy council luonaay mgnt. i City Engineer Don Stewart said the plant would be ready this week, that there were ome paving materials on hand and mm Chamber and r Council rapidly rising river water. wntatlves of the Cham- lommerce and the Trades j operation with C.P.A. In Vancouver. He felt this morning that the Tugwell Island strip is a definite Lbor Council and.other In- project costing $16,600,000 opened today by Tremier Frost, will generate 56,500 horsepower of electricity from the turbulent Mississa;a River for nickel mines at Sudbury and gold mines in Northeastern Ontario. ANOTHER $100,000 WINNIPEG Manitoba's flood relief, fund last night moved another $100,000 closer to its $10,000 000 objective. The national total now stands at $4,600,000. MYSTERIOUS CLOUD organizatlons will be New Inspector j Here is Named After serving as school Inspector here for the past two years, Joseph Chell is being transferred ments placed before the council. Aid. Olassey said he thought ; the council jihould have some j j ' idea of what those accounts wen: before passing them. Aid. T. B. Black, chairman of the finance committee, said accounts were not mentioned In : to attend a meeting of that he hoped to get started; with the paving within a week. S&th Avenue west and the lower ; portion of Third Avenue were on tlje books, he continued, and he hoped to have Third Avenue completed by the end of July. The subject of resurfacing Mc-BrWe between Second and Seventh Avenues came up for dls- possibility provided everyone here backs the idea and supports it to the utmost. 5 Hunt For Missing ! Party Continues ) Search for Don Fraser, sf ., and jDon Fraser, jr., Terrace, and using committee of City ttuncll Monday night de-o ask the representatives Mr. Hollick-Kenyon, who arrived in the city by plane yes- In any case, the provincial police today received word that residents of Usk were preparing to move to higher ground. Usk was one of the most hard hit points in the big floods of 1936 and 1948. At Terrace the Skeena River has risen to the 14-foot mark, one foot b";!ow flood levch IIow ever .the situation there appeared to be fair, the police said this afternoon".. . . I v Inspector F. B. Woods-John-I ston today dispatched Constable Ted Brue from Terrace to Usk terday holds the rank of Air tin conjunction with the Commodore and, like many Can- j cusslon. (This portion of Mc adian airline officials, flew the Bride Street Is an arterial high William Gibb, Prince Rupert, council meetings, They wers approved by the committees and did not have to come before the council. The treasury department tried to keep the council Informed on how things were going by Issuing Interim in bringing to a success-.tiusion the drive to obtain housing for the city, presenting a preliminary :w the progress of the sparsely Inhabited sections of, way.) It was reported a letter Canada In the early days. They i had been reclved from the pro- and the automobile that is be-! lleved to have carried them to their deaths in the Skeena River, to an inspectorate In the Fraser Valley, effective In August. Between now and then Mr. and Mrs. Chell and family will be leaving for the south. Since arriving here from Nelson In 1948, Mr. and Mrs. Chell have Made many friends and their departure will be regretted. A prominent Gyro bsf ore -coming here, were bush pilots. Mr. Hollick-1 vincmi Department of public Kenyon did many flights in the! works stating there were no V HONOLULU A vast cloud of mysterious origin blanketed 1,206,000 square miles of the Pacific today, and the U.S. weather bureau said it might last a day or week and might bu to date, City Cler H. statements every three months. eight miles east of Kwlnitsa, con-j tinues today. t Constables Ed. Anderson and funds available this year for sur til said there had been 35 bush country around the Pas and northwestern Ontario with facing of roads within cities. That was the best they could do at present." '.',' ' '- -'- ir.aires received at city L.bsie he"B tw' bv,?!!yM',rnic. After considerable discii'sslofr. "Mr. Chell took an active part in of which failed to 1a e the amount of down the subject was dropped. explosion, desert sands drifting or an eruption in the New Guinea Islands. - Fred Gibson left early this morn- , to look at the situation there. 1MB" to tackle- jance-mort? the tap-'VtJSW EVACWATISQ-, idly rising river. This time they I Charles Donaldson,, general are equipped with a power barge j store proprietor at Usk, tele-trom which they hope to be able phoned to the Dally News at to do a more thorough Job of 12:45 noon today that he was it that could be. made. the affairs of the local club of which he is now a member of the executive. , Mr. Chell's successor here will the now defunct Western Canada I Aid. Black moved that a strong Airlines and Its successor Cana-letter of protest be sent, to the dlan Airways Minister of Public Works on, the In 1936 he flew to the Ant- Government's failure to live up arctic with Lincoln Ellsworth, to last year's agreement, and famous explorer who had chalked that a copy be sent to the Cham-up many trips across both the j of Commerce asking the north and south poles. Mr. : chamber to back up the council. LOCAL FIRM GETS others had shown less 11.000 as the maximum wmcnt. Mr. Thaln said ilions were still coming In probing the river bottom. The , moving his store to higher OCEAN FALLS JOB be O. W. Graham, principal of the Chllllwack Junior-Senior accident is believed to have occurred June 4. . it the interim report did Hollick-Kenyon journeyed to the lne motion was passed Nine Missing In Native Boat - NOM'E, Alaska Nine per ground. The level of the river was almost up to his back door. Across the road there was water in front of the Usk Hotel and it Arctic In 1937 to aid In the search High School, one of three new school inspectors for the province whose appointments have Just been announced. t i true picture of the "i He thought that some tn applicants could put Went clown payment, ir George Rudderham said been suggested that the Aluminum Man Here Train Tonight sons, eight natives and an Alas-! ka airlines pilot, Tex Ziegler, i was still rising. A few Inches more and the townsite would be I flooded. Mr. Donaldson confirmed that for missing Russian fivers. ' The search was world news at that time. Followlns that, he VA Joined Trans-Canada Airlinps and then went to Canadian Pacific Airlines. Mr. Hollick-Kenyon knnws B.C. Northwest Construction Co. of Prince Rupert has been awarded a big contract by the , Pacific Mills Ltd. for the construction of a 45-sulte apartment block at Ocean Falls. The project, which is to cost in excess of $310,000, will be started Immediately. It will be a four-storey structure. LOCAL TIDES fw ol Commerce and are missing on a hunting trip in Arctic waters in a native boat. The group, overdue a week, is believed 'to have ventured into The train from the East, which was delayed by a rocksllde near Mount Robson, has been further nd Labor Council, who Engineer of the Aluminuru Co. of Canada, E. A. Clark, who has been visitlns rjower and ocher lively boosting the hous- other residents were also hastening to move to higher grounci. Two years ago Mr. Donaldson was flooded out. "Twice in two years Is too much for me," he grimly remarked. THE WEATHLR Synopsis Thunderstorm activity continued throughout the night over the coastal mountains, while shower activity was widespread In the southern regions. The northern sections of the province remain relatively clear. Considerable cloudiness will ieme, might be asked to Bering Strait In an attempt delayed by high water conditions to reach Diomede Island. Search-I and Is now reported due at 8:05 ers fear an early spring storm I tonight. and heavy ice may have crushed! .. negates to work with the for he grew un In the Okanagan projpcted Installation sites be-Vallev. Whe n he First World , tween Tweedsmuir Park and War broke the peace of the world. Kltlmnat for t.h nrnnn.d n imlttoe In promoting It. -'urge Casey proposed that multi-million dollar Industry, ar me ski Doac. insinuations that might rested be asked to send es. J. McLean said that nnrslst over the southern half he Joined the RAF. He remained in the air force until 1923 when he took a crack at hush flying and made quite a name for himself. Mr. Holllck-Kenyo returns to Vancouver today. Thursday, June 15, 1950 High 0:41 20.2 feet 13:50 ' 17.5 feet Low. 7:31 3.1 feet 19:18 8.7 feet rived In the city last night by chartered Q.C.A. Falrchlld Hus-kie seaplane piloted by Capt. Norman Jermyn. He proceeded to Vancouver by regular C.P.A. flight today. of the province today, although Last Minute Offer In Log Strike Considered I VANCOUVER (CP) The union policy commit thunderstorm activity should be Murder Charge In Guay Case 4 QUEBEC Crippled Genereaux ;s the reason some were confined to the southeastern cor ner of the province during the !!ing questionnaires was were afraid that some-night occur within the Roust, who admitted that he un evening Skies are expected to clear over the greater pait of the province tonight but there " repayment period to I : TODAY'S STOCKS : : (Courtrsj 8. D. Johnston Co. l td.) Acheson Says War Hot Inevitable tee guiding 32,000 coastal loggers is meeting today to decide if union shop principles are worth a $1,000-000 a day strike. Hopes are high that the strike may be settled on the basis of a new offer by the companies. The strike was scheduled for the province's lead- . : - , ing industry at midnight to will be considerable cloudiness in the southern interior again tomorrow. Afternoon temperatures will remain somewhat lower Payment impossible and he Investment would be He suggested the city t up an agency to help rH their homes in a e that. Aid. H. F. Olas-1 that was a matter for wittingly helped in the construction of a time-bomb that sent 23 airline passengers to their death, was scheduled to appear in court here today for preliminary hearing on a chargo bi murder. The 51-year-old watchmaker will be specifically charg Vancouver Bobjo v .I2y2 DALLAS. T?x. War is not In -1 Halibut Sales evitable, State Secretary Dean Acheson says. "It is our responsibility to find ways of giving our problems without resort night. More than 160 coastal operators last night made their final "offer." Buffalo Canadian 30 Consol. Smelters ..... .. 105.50 Conwest 1.50 Donalda 62 ft senln.. American ed with the murder of Mrs. .Rita f than those of the last few days. Forecast North Coast Region-Cloudy In vicinity of northern Vancouver Island clearing about midday today. Clear elsewhere. Sunny tomorrow except for brief cloudi !'?"neof the housing com- lne to war and to exhaust everv i Guav. whose husband. J. Albert wn delegates from other Eldona 3 Vi , nnssihtntv in that offnrt. ' hp sairi louav. was convicted of the mur- Reglna, 26.1c, 25.7c and 22.5c, 3ooth. Arrow, 33,000. 26.7c, 25.7c and 22.5c, Atlln. 'ions was called for next 1 In a major United States foreign East Sullivan 7.00 Giant Yellowknife 8.35 der of Mrs. Guay and senteaced to hang. . t policy review at Southern Methodist University here last night ness In the vicinity of northern Vancouver Island about daybreak. Little change lntempera-ture. Light winds. Lows tonight U.K. CONSIDERS on Subsidy God's Lake Hardrock .. Harrleana . Heva Hosco Jacknlfe ... .32 .47 .11 08 Vi .08 Va .083,4 Bralorne 7.85 B. R. (Con 04 V B. R. X 05V4 Cariboo Quarts 1.1 5 Hedley Mascot 29 Pacific Eastern 04 Pend Oreille 6.50 Pioneer 3.15 Premier Border .03 Privateer .16 Reeves McDonald 3.25 Sheep Creek 11 5 Sllbak Premier :.. .36 Vananda .Vi Silver Standard 166 Western Uranium .77 Oils-Anglo Canadian 5.55 A .P. Con .53 Atlantic 3 05 Calmont '0 Central Leduc 1 93 The union shop, paramount demand of the International Woodworkers of America, was not included. A 17 cent an hour wage increase was another detmnd. What operators offered In the eleventh hour negotiations called by the Labor Relations Board was a boost of 12 Vi cents an hour, greiter union security than previously offered and a five day. 40 hour week. Stewart Alsbury, representative of the International Wood workers Association, said that the new offer of he companies seemed "pretty good." James 'Fadling of Portlan 1. and highs tomorrow at Port Hardy 58 and 65, Sandspit 50 and 62, Prince Rupert 45 and 60. ams Same ISnpHnl tn riollu IMMIGRATION LONDON The Government is considering whether , it should take steps to discourage persons who want to migrate to non-Commonwealth countries. It is also studying the question of continuing to allow non-British migrants to enter Britain to balance British emigrants to Com T' Applewhalte, mem-Swena. sUtH trtu h lvisod there would be no 'n In the amount provld- Alone In The Blue Yonder FIRST SOLO FOR AERO CLUB MEMBER Ten minutes may not seem a great deal but to BUI Scherk, 1324 Overlook, It meant a great deal. Bill, an employee at Pioneer Laundry, took to the air alone Friday evening in the Prince Rupert Aero Club's blue and silver Taylorcraft. The occasion was the first solo by an Aero Club member and it took only seven hours and fifty-five minutes of dual training by Instructor Bob Kelsey to get Bill into the air for those first 600 seconds. Instructor Kelsey said today that all students are progressing rapidly in dual instruction and about five should be able to manipulate the small craft single handed In the very near future. Members total 16, Mr. Kelsey said, of whom one is a woman, Miss Elizabeth Holmes, dietician at the General Hospital. The avlatrlx Is due for solo in a few days. Instruction continues to proceed during Saturdays and Sundays and, with the fine weather prevailing here, the club has been able to buzz around during a few week days.' As far as a new aircraft is concerned, Mr. Kelsey said, the club expects to make a purchase next year. But there is nothing rieN nite, he added. monwealth countries. These Joliet Quebec 68 Lake Rowan 17 Lapaska 06 Little Long Lac .45 Lynx 26 Madsen Red Lake ........ 2.70 Moneta .31 Vi McLeod Cockshutt 3.05 Negus , 1.40 Noranda 70.00 Louvicourt 19 Pickle Crow 2.20 San Antonio 3.10 Senator Rouyn ,31 Sherrit Gordon 2.11 Steep Rock 3.20 Sturgeon River ,....., .23 ,l main estimates for a 10 Union Steamships for 1rthern run. ' points emerged Tuesday night in .' 16.00 .21 Home Oil Mercury president of I.W.A., arrived In the city by air last night to take part in negotiations. , a House of Commons debate on I emigraUon. Baseball Scores American Washington 3-1, St. Louis 8-6 Boston 8, Cleveland 1 New York 5, Chicago 6 Philadelphia 5, Detroit 6 " . National St. Louis 6, Philadelphia 3 Pittsburgh 0," New York 7 Chicago 6, Brooklyn 3 Cincinnati 3, Boston 5 Western International Trl-Clty 8, Spokane 4 Yakima 7, Tacoma 2 Wenatchee 12, Victoria 10 Vancouver 7, Salem 2. - APPlewnalte said, "I am 'iisfled there will be no "cut of any of the north-v'"s of Union Steamships Norman Nelson, president of j Nelson Brothers Fisheries at. Pacific Pete 7 00 67 Princess Royal Canadian - -H'a 13 75 Royalite Toronto 09 Athona 30 Aumaque Seattle - Bevcourt . 42 Manitoba Flood Relief Canvassers are requested to turn in books and receipts by June 15 to CITY HALL (139) ,c ahead." subsidies were the sub- Vancouver, after a business trip here and at Port Edward, re Canadian Maritime sion Silver Miller .99 vi, turned to' Vancouver by plant Upper Canada 2.96 today. hearing few a