Prince Rupert Daily News Rail Rales Held Down j Col. C. W. Peck, V.C., D.S.O., has been invited to the weekly .' luncheon of the Prince Rupr-n Gyro Club this week as guest ; speaker. He is coming to the Monday. March 27, 1950 UN'lEf An in i-pendent daily newspaper devoted to the upbuilding of Prince j ! !MEVS DRP.S8 , Sn,.,;., "':,sm PORT OF PACIFIC that 48 hours wouid put tians-Pacnic and' trans-Canada trpf- Rupert and northern and central British Columbia I Published every afternoon except Sunday by i PTOte Rupert Daily News Ltd., 3rd Avenue, Prince Rupert, i British Columbia j ! G. A. HUNTER, Managing Editor. H. G. PERRY. Managing Director , VANCOUVER - Business fofiheek's vslt -', , .... ... Hon with the opening of the new M,vles w here said today that com- Canadlan Leglon headqilartm;. petition from United States ncis and inter-coastal ship- Having driven here from Van-plng services are keeping down couver, W. Buchanan and R. Gra-iieiht rates on many products ham arrived ln the city last week, teing moved across Canada by They are joining the Dominion rail. .Bridge Co. crew at Watson 1s- Member of C anadian Press Audit Bureau of Circulations Ml 'Canadian Daily Newspaper Association ; MEN'S DRFsc :dkess'ant J' Eidtor, Daily News: Iic in Winnipeg by the time the j W. M .Mott, the member for other boat docjced In the Fraser New Westminster, speaking in our And. were it possible to piucuro 'parliament on March I, had this standard railway between the to say, as recorded on page 373 city of Prince George and Van-jof Hansard of that date: couver, a train could take on trie I "I should like to say a few passenger, mail and express SUBSCRIPTION RATES Rallway officials report that, land to work on the erection of By Carrier, Per Week, 20c; Per Month, 75c; Per Year, S800; By Mail, Per Month 50c; Per Year $5.00. ah hough their lines have been 'en the digesters at the Columbia j j p5N'S " W'0tl" My ln Cellulose pulp mill. It allowed a 7.4 percent boost Or - - X vV Li rates, effective March J3, this' .words about another problem trainc at boat side at Rupert and I that I believe faces us on the make tne triP by way of Haael- ' Pacific coast. It is something ton- Prince George and the new - ' that should be planned for and rail line to Vancouver. Now, let that is our exDort-Imoort trade, someone use a pencil again and MEN'S nftrc. I Blessed Spring Rains with r"2.a ( will not be applied to commodity j or ccmpetitlve rates in force ' since September 1, 1949. This i means that the majority of manufactured good moving by i a 'I from To. onto to Vancouver will continue to go under the old freight ra'es. BOYS' LoSc tJ, of color, . ?MI ENJOY ' H0T A m WATER U COMFORT ARE GLAD that the spring rains are here .What are we doing or what are out just how many hours WE . do for the or?tne two days extra sailing T ,1 .1 i u we going to necessary again.; Particularly after our Winter drought, ;facltitieS U, handle these cargoes? uld be saved. they are something to be appreciated. Long may ' j For instance in the port of New ' And yet this vry thing is done thev continue to fall! (Westminster we have nine docks. on tne st- Lawrence river when LEADING PIANIST Barbara Custance of Vancouver now is recognized as one of the foremost Canadian pianists. She returns March 22 to New York's T . Unll .. 1. I. , .1 n Very,. 'Before ueiore the me war war the ine largest largest num- num- "5"' lralIls me v mail ooats uuom at man half prlca Blessed rii i u be j.i the rams - as their i vibrant -v t strains i. rise l " mine an- umuc a , Father Point and rush th mon ,ofi rfpht. m iq wr LCI VI ucrpara uuata uiat tame , anc;Sall ill sweeping crescendoes across the awaken - into our port was 550 a year. in to' Montreal. But they hold training included study in Van- lnguceuntryside, as thev Strum their Catchy tunes .We're now faced with this prob- trans-Pacific maU on board boat i . lem of trade that we expect will two days e.xtra ln order to put u i. l j 4. on the windowpanes and beat heir drums on the rooi ;rTse wi7h 7he Far Eastltriat is that traffic on cpr. train t "st quality D. C. Stevenson, administrator of ttre Prince Rupert General Hospital, left by plane for Vancouver Saturday on hospital business. He will attend a meeting of the executive of the British Columbia Hospital Association In Vancouver this ! week. 1 rr pair couver, London and New York. In 1948 Miss Custance was elected an Associate of the Royal Academy of Music, London, England, AR AM. (Causa Honoris i. (CP Photo) Why let a faulty boiler rob you ot hot water comfort? Call us for Immediate repair. Phone 108' Prince Rupert Plumbing & Heating BUD 8CHUMAN . (Old Post Office Bldg.) top?.--' ' '- jwith Japan and China- from tneir Port at Vancouver. And j Spring rains release the patches of winter Snow (which most of the trade to that tne Canadian people seem quite , ... ' content to have all of our na- xn 4i i j i i v i i i p port came before the war. anifciUl the creeks and brooks with wholesome laugh-, ..x cealn th;t "wesent tion indefinitely tied down to ter. Thev do their part in scrubbing the landscape dock facilities in New Westmin- one overseas port on the Pacific., Stanley Bligh and James Mc- evojaJf thev do show Up our own collective and lndi- fter will never be able to handle and that one port as far south as Grath, music and drama adjudi- : that trade and I am certain that -i j.c il. inmuir qufs-.., -' - - i-h ii u i 1 1 iy ni i.m ' ii i it i ;idual . grime and , neglectfulness. , , , Vancouver has not the faculties tion sure'y . arises, How can we JJllt in Spite of Our spoliation of the Scene, the either. I mention this matter be- build Canada up to be a great spiT rains will soon bring charm, reaching be- ! cause it is something that should Poweramong the nations of the Shtppinc in d PAGE RIDEOUT, Peace Elver. Drama Festival here for the past three days, returned to Vancouver aboard the Prince.'S Korah Saturday afternoon. Both were very pleased w-ith performances given during theevent and hoped they would be both Invited next .year. Mr McGrath will continue to Victoria from Vancouvsr. neatU'the surtace of the earth to coax early now- 7".' 7" J 1 loaned and we would know just ers-mo bloom, sprout the seed, turn the dead brown wnere we are going." grass to green and the trees into wavy, scintillating i while Mr. Mott and all trie m. ieaP.Eventually ' our own shame is at least partially p:s from Bc; are 1 ing over their poi-ts and their Complt Reliable lent ServlM. , Canadian Liquid t ICWEST .,., . PRICES 'iMwii...nt I TOO MICH PRAISE? Editor, Daily News: To learn to play the piano is a for Oxygen. AcetiJ monopoly on trains and Pacific welding luppiid sailings, Prirtce Rupert, which is slow Process and the standard located up the coast a?d 500 miles reached today is very high. It is Lindsay 1 Cari 5 an exquisite art and it is injur v. nearer Japan-China than is Van Storage Li Cor. 2nd and Pari ious to talk about young students as if they were at the top. Many of them are a long way LAST STRAWS couver, has been a huge blank in so far as -overseas sailings are concerned. While Prince Rupert Est 1910 PliMn by Stetena recovered by the nonnern veraure, 'Meantime the rains linger on like a new melody anJ a lyric promising that soon from u refreshed antH-ejuvenated earth there will flower all the wondrous glories of another season. 'fyho are we to complainabout the spring rains even if they gang up the odd time with a boister-ouilale? Let us all be thankful for their fresh and invigorating presence. They are one of our greatest natural assets. has one of the three number one irom nowhere, but more than a long way from somewhere. Art harbors of the world, it has a large terminal elevator which is always empty. It has a large is long, life is short-Does the road wind up hill all JOHN I BULG shipbuilding plant that was to lneway xes, io me very ena. build Hays' boats which were to ' Mr- B1'Bh praised some of the 1 ply between the OTP. railway students hre more than he did 71oiiltirsrin residential properties! Dwelling Fire ' Jnturance ts inexpensive ARE YOU INSURED TO PRESENT-DAY VALUES? Prince Rupert Realty Co. p. 11. L1NZEY Oreen 687 OPTOMETf. and the Siberian railway. But an "Barbara Custance. and Marie : ocean liner has never slid down Balagno never had the praise ' the wavs. Rupert has a huge tnat some of lhese children had. floating dry dock which has never They re only touching the hem , CHIA DIFFICULT 1 tf I I j hn Bulger I FEs 5 UTiL. jh ATlllUDrJ Ot the Chinese govern- had its lifting capacity tested 01 tne garment, even the best of them. It is better for them to '4 1 mpnr ?c nil iha mm-p rliffir-nlt in understand ill ;RuP"t also has a standard rail i h4 k ? , way and the U.S.A. government spent sixteen million dollars or realize this and go on patiently plodding. ' Mr. Bligh told me he meant o the port and rail terminal, all of thiH-ecent-raports from that country indicate the new conquerors are experiencing trouble in handl-in4T$eir responsibilities the Victoria Time's ob which was of no use to our people honest. Honesty does not cbn- i when the U.S. boys folded rheir slst trying, it consists in Demg. MANUFACTURERS' AGENT seifves. 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