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AND
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Prt-"Prinre
Rupert
the
Key
to
the
Great
Northwest."
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HCJVEMBER
17
1949
PRirw
vtuip
ri-MTa
yCABS
lansion
In
'Immediate
Future
-
7'
New
Daily
News
Home
Contract
Awarded
For
Modern
Building
McKay
in
Field
Candidate
For
Mayor
Feels?
Water
Must
Pmsinc
nned
By
N.B.C.
Power
Co.
.
MITCHELL
&
CURRIE
TO
COMPLETE
STRUCTURE
IN
FIVE
MONTHS;
FIRST
PHASE
OF
EXPANSION
PROGRAM
The
Daily
News
is
to
have
a
new
home.
Announcement
of
the
awarding
of
a
contract
for
themes
the
construction
of
a
new
I
,
:
back
in
Montreal
do
want
to
keep
ahead
of
the
game
out
here."
There
arc
several
ways
which
the
company
could
cxpard
its
power
output,
Mr.
Wurlele
point-
I'd
out.
One
in
by
completing
the
Falls
River
dam
to
its
originally
planned
site.
Another
might
be
jt6
construct
a
fuel-burning
plant
in
or
near
the
city.
"However,
Just
what
the
pro-cram
will
be
I
am
nnt.
in
.
ni.
mediately
adjoining
the
present
building
to
the
east
is
made
today
by
G.
A.
Hunter,
managing
editor
of
Prince
Rupert
Daily
News
Ltd.,
on
au-
OFFICERS
OF
RATEPAYERS
Officers
East
End
Body
Plan
to
Extend
Scope
Plans
to
expand
the
Community
Ratepayer's
Association
beyond
its
east-end
origin
to
Include
property
owners
in
all
parts
of
the
city
were
laid
at1
"Lt'J,
in.
'
East
End
Hall
Tuesday
nirfit
when
the
first
slate
of
officers,
was
elected.
Response
to
the
initial
mem-
bpn.hln
ririvei
In
iUa
c.
was
good,
membership
chairman
Dudley
Pearson
told
the
meetine'
Tn
fh
list
frrt.iiv,t
221
memhers
have
ho
:
U(in
to
say
Acllon
h
planned
fcr
.
.
ihe
near
h
1
wwi.MHVHlrt,U
Back
in
Montreal
Ihou
think
,hat
PrincC
Rupert
18
ginning
to
come
into
its
day
day
and
and
thev
they
want
tn
ho
In
a
nndii
vide
service
suitable
to
Its
grow-
thority
of
H.
G.
T.
Perry,.
president
and
managing
director.
The
contract
has
V.een
teen
aw
mny
aided
to
to
Mitchell
Mitchell
&
Turvip
nf
Pr-inno
Pimo.-t
1
.
who
will
be
starting
the
work
almost
immediately.
Com
pletion
is
called
for
in
five
"lor"'ns
The
architects
are
Mc-
Third
Avenue
wit
rty
foot
depth.
It
will
contain
general
office
and
composing
room
on
the
ground
floor
and
is
the
first
phase
of
a
building
pro-
gram
which
will
later
include
Carter
&
Nairne
of
Vancouver-Ing.
led.
Seventy
attended
the
meet-
The
new
building,
or
frame
First
slate
of
permanent
of-
an1
concrete
construction
with
full
concrete
basement
ficers
was:
1
walls,
President-Robert
Fereuson
!
v
iU
measure
25
feet
frontage
on
Problem
Espouses
City
Managership
Ex-Aid.
Robert
-
McKay
has
joined
he
field
of
mayoralty
can-
jdiclatef
for
the
December
civic
eiectiop.
He
make
the
third
can-I
didateiOthers
are
Aid.
H.
M.
Daggett
ad
Aid.
Harold
Whalcn.
AnnCiunririp
hie
A
'come
fc
candidate,.
Mr.
McKay
'
said
he
had
been
approached
by
many
eitlzens
in
"all
walks
of
life,
and.
after
due
consideration,
had
consented
to
throw
his
hat
in
the
ring.
'
Early
refunding
ot
the
city's
indebtedness
in
order
to
simplify
the
financial
position
of
the
City
with
a
View
to
meeting
the
need
for
renovation
and
expansion
of
services)
will
be
'2
one
of
Mr.
McKay's
jelection
proposals.
Arrangements,
he
felt,
could
be
made
to
pay
off
indebtedness
of
$250,000
by
next
year.
If
proper
approach
is
made
to
the
authori
ties
and
a
real
case
made
out,
adequate
financial
arrangements
could
be
made,
Aid.
McKay
felt.
Best
possible
engineering
ad-
Ivicc
should
also
be
secured
by
the
city,
Mr.
McKay
suggests,
In
regard
to
pressing
water
and
sewer
problmes
and
he
suggested
that
the
services
of
Former
City
Engineer
Breckenrldge
of
Vancouver
might
be
obtained.
''We
should
find
out
just
where
we
stand,
what
faces
ua
and
then
proceed
with
the
most
complete
and
best
possible
plan,"
lw
de
-
clared.
ing
needs.
The
prospects
here
are
very
bright
indeed."
URGES
ACTION
UPON
SEAWAY
Marine
Reminiscences-
Skipper
Gives
Capt.
Caldwell
I.uih
heon
Speaker
Tribute
to
Harry
Nedden
A
"seafaring
slant"
was
give
a
the
Prince
Rupert
Gyro
Club
at
its
weekly
luncheon
yesterday
when
the
speaker
was
Capt.
Ernest
Caldwell,
master
of
the
coastal
liner
Prince
George
and
commodore
of
the
Canadian
National
Steamships
Pacific
fleet.
It
was
an
informal
talk
in
interesting
reminiscent
vein
m
the
course
of
which
the
skipper
recalled
some
incidents
on
a
variety
of
subjects
including
encounters
"with
tourists,
some
observations
about
marine
life
including
adventures
with
whales
and
basking
sharks
and
observa
tions
about
the
effectiveness
of
radar
in
fog
navigation.
The
skipper
"had
high
praise
for
his
ship,
the
Prince
George,
which
he
said
had
been
taxed
to
meet
the
demands
of
tlia
sum-
mcr
tourists.
He
expressd
con-
fidence
that
another
ner
ship
would
soon
be
added
Us
the
coast
.service.
Capt.
Caldwell
described
a
bat-
'e
to
the
death
between
thrash-
ers
and
a
whale,
also
the
ram-
mlng
of
a
whale
by
om
of
his
ships.
The
captain
admitted
that
ra-
dar
had
proven
a
great,
bonn
in
coastal
navigation
but
it
still
had
Its
limitations.
The
whistle
ec
ho
was
still
a
valuabla
guide,
par-
I
Seafaring
Slant
!
i
Capt.
E.
Caldwell
ticularly
in
narrow
cannei3.
Then
there
was
always
the
hu-nan
clement
in
spite
of
r.ll
the
scien-
tific
devices
for
safo
navigation.
Capt.
Caldwell
cited
Capt.
Harry
Nedden,
veteran
coastal
master,
now
73
years
of
age,
as
an
officer
after
whom
he
had
tried
to
pattern
his
own
career.
"All
out
for
efficiency,
Capt.
Nedden
was
a
man
from
whom
I
learned
a
lot,"
Caldwell
admitted.
Past
President
O.
G.
Stucrt
presided
over
the
luncheon
and
the
speaker
was
tnanhed
by
Frank
Skinner.
A
lunceon
guost
was
Owen
Gilpin
of
Victoria,
...
i
OTTAWA
Sf
In
a
statement
pointed
straight
at
Washington,
External
Affairs
Minister
L
B
Pearson
said
yesterday
that
Can-!
ada's
government
hopes
there
i
will
not
be
"too
much
delay"
in
reconstruction
of
the
existing
man
for
another
term
was
an-building
from
which
it
has
been
nounced
Wednesday
by
Alder-found
necessary
to
expand.
man
George
B.
Casey,
whose.
Construction
will
be
modern
ne-year
term
on
city
council
throughout
embodying
the
la-
expires
at
the
end
of
December,
test
features
in
newspaper
of-'
Alderman
Casey
would
not
spe-fice
planning
designed
for
the
cify
whether
he
intends
to
run
jested
,
I
1?ineer
Says
,cem
Want
to
.ceWith
I
Rupert
j
.,,
V.ver
Cc.rpir-,
la
puns
in
ex-
,
111,
,11.,
rficr
m
una
ut.ii-
nnuS
in
(lie
"mm
.
mi
today
by
J.
S.
-"''rP"rUun
who
left
by
air
-east
after
a
two-
n.pj
to
elaborate
jjr'i
plans,
other
:f
Is
"Riling
to
be
to
im-rea.se
the
X!
f'ir
this
disk
hii.g
more
than
;
have
nothing
to
I'm
an
engineer,"
d.
"However,
I
(
;tii
policy
makers
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"However,"
continued
Mr.
Mc-.
gratulated
the
group
on
Its
In-
well-lighted
and
conveniently
K2kr
Ma.
?!Mted
.that
tits
..te.rest
to.
civic
affairs.,
6n
,
of
designecj
.composhig;
roora.
-.
managership
is
the
best
system
Ule
weaknesses
of
democratic
(
The
existing
building,
con-but
that
is
something
that
will
government,
Alderman
Cassey
;
tinuing
to
house
the
pressroom
building
on
the
lot
im-
1907
y
e
ute
Jonn
Houston
Znot
5010
T5
t,
?
Vu
Wt0n
m
,nn
199-
n
d
of
Mr
Newton
in
1933,
a
syn-
wit
t
1.
w
t
t.
mond,
A
O.
Franks
and
the
late
S
D.
MacjDonald
took
over
selling-
out
to
the
Dally
News
in
1947
and
closing
down
February
28.
.
CASEY
JOINS
CONTEST
FOR
COUNCIL
SEAT
.
His
decision
to
run
for
Alder-
lor
one
of
the
four
two-year
terms
which
are
open
or
one
of
the
the
two
one-year,
terms.
"I'll
definitely
be
running,
although
I
have
not
yet
decided
which
term
I'll
seek,"
the
septuagenarian
Alderman
said.
One
-of
the
last
two
early
alderman
-
still
remaining
on
council..
AWerman
-Casey
-
hnrt-carlief
indicated
that
his
current
term
might
conclude
his
career
of
public
service
How-
ever,
his
announcement
indi-
cates
that
he
might
be
on
the
Alderman'
George
Rudder-council
for
a
year
or
two
yet..
member
who
had
served
in
the
ham,
the
other
current
council
'20's
and
"30's,
was
uncertain
as
to
whether
or
not
he'
would
run
again
when
last
contacted.
His
two-year
term
will
end.
in
December,
He
has
been
mtr.'
tioned
as
a
possible
Mayoralty
Candidate.
Two
by-elections
for
one
year
terms,
necessitated
by
the
de-cisions
of
Aldermen
H.
M.
Daggett
and
H.
S.
Whalen
to
seek
the
Mayor's
seat
which
is
being
vacated
by
the
retirement
of
Mayor
Nora
Arnold,
will
require
the
election
of
six
aldermen
to
fill
the
1950
council.
Aldermen
retiring
from
two-year
terms
are
Black,
Rudder-ham,
Stone
and
Casey.
Alderman
Stone
has
said
that
he
will
not
run
again.
Robert
McKay,
veteran
'
former
alderman,
has
joined
ta
tha
Mayoralty
race,
he
announced
Wednesday
afternoon.
So
far,
the
contest
will
be
a
threerway
one
but
it
is
Indicated
that
at
least
one
more
candidate
may
join
in.
,
;
,
,
,
Eric
Faure,
who
announced
his
candidature
a
fortnight
ago,
was
the
first
to
publicly
declare
his
intention
to
run.
tor
Alderman.
It
is
his
first
attempt
to
gain
a
council
seat.
Nomination
day
will
be
December
1
and
names
of
all
candidates,
properly
seconded,
must
be
turned
In
to
Returning
Officer
"H.
D.
Thaln
by
noon
on
tha
day.
Election
Day
will
be
December
8.
Symphony
Concert
CIVIC
CENTRE
Friday,
November
18,
8.15
p.m.
it
GREATEST
AIR
SEARCH
HAMILTON,
Bermuda
The
biggest
peacetime
air
search
in
history
is
under
way
today
for
a
lost
;
B-29
which
ran
out
of
fuel
and
crash
landed
in
the
j
sea
somewhere
near
Bermuda
yesterday.
Twenty
United
States
airmen
were
aboard.
Nearly
100
planes
from
bases
all
along
tlie
Atlantic
seaboard
are
engaged
in
search.
B29's
COLLIDE
STOCKTON,
Cal.
Two
United
States
Air
Force
B-21
super
fortresses
collided
26,000
feet
above
Stockton
at
midnight
last
night.
One
fell
in
flames.
The
tail
of
the
other
fell
off
and
it
crashed
in
mud.
Seven
were
found
dead
in
the
wreckage.
Eleven
are
missing.
CANADA
AND
CHINA
OTTAWA
Two
members
one
a
Liberal
and
the
other
a
C.C.F.
yesterday
urged
the
govern
Vice-President
Robert'
Cameron
Secretary
H.
R.
Thorstein-son.
Treasurer
J.
W.
Prusky.
Council
D.
F.
Baldwin,
Mrs.
Elizabeth
Blair,
George
Mc-Whlnney,
Dudley
Pearson,
W.
J.
Griffiths,
L.
F.
Hopkins.
P.
J.
Lester,
B.
E.
Eyolfson.
In
pursuit
of
the
plan
to
cen
tralize
the
organisation,
the
executive
plans
to
ask
permis
sion
to
hold
the
next
meeting
in
the
city
hall
council
chamber
and
Invite
ratepayers
from
every
part
of
.the
city.
Commendation
for
the
nr.
ganlzation
of
a
rateoavers'
as
1
sociation
was
expressed
by
Aid
-
j
ciaiu
vreuige
casey
wio
con
-
1
-
1
cv
of
tno
PC0Pe
to
forget
their
!?prCSentatlve8
between
ciec
.,
rf
l'
Th
,Tu
toe-
Part,Of,the,Pe0ple
C0Uld
be
of
ficult
ti
he
dedared
A
bylaw
of
the
deslgned
to
keep
the
group
out
0f
individual
politics,
riirceted
that
no
officers
of
the
Corn-
munity
Ratepayers
Association
could
hold
office
in
the
organ-
ikation
and
on
the
city
council
at
the
same
time.
Alderman
Wilfrid
McLean
and
ex-Alderman
Robert
McKay
assisted
as
scrutineers
in
the
balloting
for
officers.
THE
WEATHER
Synopsis
Exceptionally
,
mild
weather
continues
in
B.
C.
today.
Light
rain
Is
falling
along
the
coast
and
as
far
Inland
as
Prince
George.
Akmg
with
the
ram
a
lhun
der
storms
are
being
reported
from
Southern
Vancouver
Island.
The
gale
warning
of
southerly
winds
up
to
40
miles
per
hour
over
exposed
coastal
waters
will
remain
in
effect
until
this
evening.
The
weather
will
remain
cloudy
and
mild
with
a
few
showers
over
most
of
B.
C
tomorrow.
Forecast
North
Coast
Region
Gale
warning
continued.
Cloudy
with
showers
today
and
tomorrow.
Re-
maining
mild.
Southerly
gaies
(3a'
mph)
decreasing
to
southwest
i
winds
(25
mph)
this
evening.
:
'Lows
tonight
and
highs
tomorrow
'
at
Port
Hardv.
Sanrisnit
.Prince
Rupert,
42
and
52.
'
HOCKEY
SCORES
N.
H.
L.
j
Toronto
1,
Montreal
0
I
'
Boston
1,
New
York
2
Chicago
1,
Detroit
4
efficiency
and
congeniality
of
business
transaction
and
mech-
anical
operation.
.
There
will
be
an
attractive
public
lobby
facing
into
a
com
modious
business
office
with
'manager's
private
of
fice
ad
loming.
ai
me
rear
will
De
a
ana
stereotyping
departments,
will
also
remain
the
site
of
the
editorial
department.
With
the
removal
of
composing
and
general
office
from
the
ground
Uoor
of
the
old
building
space
will
be
made
for
the
distribu
tion
department
as
well
as
for
storage
of
paper
and
other
stocks.
The
current
contract
calls
for
demolition
and
reconstruc
tion
of
the
front
wall
of
the
existing
building.
Brick
facing
will
make
an
attractive
fiftv-
foot
frontage
for
the
new
and
existing
buildings.
Commencement
of
the
new
building
program
effects
an
Intention
which
was
announced
two
years
ago
when
another
important
event
took
place
In
Prince
Rupert
newspaper
history
as
the
Daily
News
acquired
the
pioneer
Evening
Empire
newspaper
and
merged
it
Into
this
daily.
In
its
new
home,
by
the
time
of
completion
of
w'hich,
If
not
sooner,
the
mech-
i
anical
staff
will
have
been
sufficiently
augmented
in
numbers,
the
management
of
the
Dally
News
hopes
to
consumate
anotlier
ambition
of
increasing
the
site
of
the
paper
to
permanent
eight
pages
with
introduction
of
new
articles
and
features.
Incidentally
this
is
the
fortieth"
anniversary
year
of
the
founding
of
the
Daily
News.
Except
for
the
first
few
years,
the
paper
has
been
housed
in
the
present
building.
The
Daily
News,
founded
as
the
Optimist,
published
its
first
edition
in
July
1909.
Its
first
publisher
was
G-
R-
T.
Sawle
now
of
St.
Cath-
erines,
umano.
in
vm
,w
was
Passed
int0
tne
nands
ot
a
syn"
te
of
which
T.
D.
Pattullo,
.later
Premier
of
British
Columbia,
was
a
member.
It
was
ac-
quired
by
the
late
H.
F.
Pullen
in
1919
and
in
1943
H.
G.
T
Perry
acquired
control
through
purchase
of
the
Pullen
inter-
ests.
The
Empire
was
founded
in
having
the
St.
Lawrence
Seaway
1
project
considered
by
the
United
States
Congress.
Mr.
Pearson
was
initiating
House
of
Commons
debate
on
foreign
affairs.
He
said,
that
once
legislation
approval
was
given
In
v
ashing
ton,,
the
giguntic
project
can
swing
quickly
under
way.
Local
Union,
;
,
;.
Is
Praised
E.
Waik,
lntcrnHt.cnal
representative
of
the
Union
of
O;
rating
Engineers,
from
Vancotivei
lauded
Prince
Rupert
local
as
"a
wonderful
organization
that
is
rapidly
advancing."
Principal
speaker
at
the
local's
meeting
in
the
Civic
Centre
Wednesday
night,
he
was
heard
by
approxi
mately
40
members.
Mr.
Waik
will
leave
for
Edmonton
Friday.
W.
ANDERSON
DIES
AT
89
William
Anderson,
Uu
cam?
from
his
native
Scotland
and
set
tled
in
Prince
Rupert
in
1920
died
in
Prince
Rupert.
General
Hospital
here
at
1
o'clock
this
morning
at
the
age
of
89.
He
en
tered
hospital
last
Friday.
A
cheerful,
popular
figure
in
tho
city,
Mr.
Anderson
had
b.'rn
employed
at
Kelly
Douglas
and
Malkins
wholesale
houses
prior
to
his
retirement
a
few
years
ago.
Following
his
retirement,
h?
pursued
his
hobby
of
rock
gardening
at
the
home
of
his
daughter,
Mrs.
James
Hadden,
making
it
one
of
the
finest
in
the
city.
He
was
a
keen
bowler
in
his
younger
days
Jn
the
Old
Country
and
had
been
an
enthusiast:
member
of
St.
Andrew's
Society.
Mr.
Anderson
was
pre-decea:;':d
by
his
wife
four
years
ago.
He
is
his
dauehter.
Mrs.
Haclden,
with
whom-
he
resided
during
his
latter
years,
two
sons.
Dr.
William
Anderson
of
Mkp.-
rhncler
Em'lnnri
Blld
G.
J.
S.
Anderson,
manager
of
the
Bank
of
Montreal
at
Stewart,
and
one
grandson,
James
Hadden,
Prince
Rucert.
His
elder
son
was
killed
,ln
the
first
World
War
and
his
elder
grandson
in
the
seei.no.
World
War.
Funeral
rites
will
be
held
at
First
Presbyterian
Church
with
former
fellow
workers
acting
as
pallbearers
at
a
date
to
ue
announced.
idition
ublished
bv
w"
Meantime
me
citys
house
should
be
put
in
order.
.Mr.
McKay
expressed
confid-
encc
that,
after
forty
years
here,
'
I
and-his
five
years'
aldermanic
experience,
he
had
a
good
insight
Water,
Mr
McKay
felt,
was
the
biggest
problem
fac
tag
the
city.'
He
expressed
the
opinion
thaV
it
would
be
necessary
to
raise
the
rates.
Sewers.
Mr.
McKay
felt,
could
oe
laKen
care
of
by
local
Im-
j
provement
financing
while
street
Improvements
could
be
taken
in
the
stride
of
the
present
program.
This
will
not
be
Mr.
McKay
s
iiiaii
i-uuuiuabuic
im
wc
mayoralty.
In
1943
he
ran
against
H.
M.
Daggett
and
was
defeated
by
a
narrow
margin
of
thirty
votes.
Premier
Mine
In
Operation
STEWART
Silbak
Premier
Mine
Mill
went
into
operation
last
week
and
shipments
of
ore
may
oe
expected
snoruy.
me
staff
at
this
mine
have
been
doing
an
excellent
job
of
getting
this
mine
back
into
production
under
the
direction
of
Manager
Jim
McCutcheon.
LOCAL
TIDES
Friday,
November
18,
1949
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who
served
for
two
years
in
China
with
UNRKA,
and
Alistair
Stewart
(Winnipeg
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LEGACY
REDUCED
VANCOUVER
Gilbert
Campbell
found
today
that
a
$600,000
inheritance
which
descended
from
the
blue
sky
yesterday
had
dwindled
to
$300,000.
The
city
fireman
is
the
beneficiary
of
a
will
believed
to
have
been
non-exislent
but
unexpectedly
found,
of
Elmore
Meredith,
a
former
Yukoner.
JOHNSON
AND
OTTAWA
OTTAWA
Premier
Johnson
of
British
Columbia,
in
Ottawa
for
cabinet
talks
with
federal
of
f
ic-ials,
and
a
member
of
his
staff
.said
there
was
no
truth
to
reports
that
Mr.
Johnson
was
slated
for
a
federal
cabinet
post.
A
Vancouver
report
had
said,
that
Mr.
Johnson
may
be
offered
a
post
in
the
federal
cabinet.
"There's
nothing
to
it
as
far
as
we
know,"
a
member
of
his
staff
said.
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