Spthkli.g of i,tt Ulll lie tll! thir.1. It. , Prince Rupert Daily News As I See It K All Aboard (nu mori I : n far, hammock. for a tight "w sqiie, nest p ,' Saturday, January 23, 1954 by in Independent dally newgpapt devoted to the upbuilding nf PrlncA Rupert and Northrn and Antral British Columbia. Member at Canadian Press Audit Bureau of Circulations Canadian Dally Newspaper Association. Published by The Prince Rupert Dailv Newu Limited. 3. F. UAGOR, President II. O. PERRY, Vice-President 4 YOU'U a mote !k V.J T Subscription Rates: 8y carrier Per week. 25c: Der month. il.Ofl: oer vear. 110.00. L iy mall Per month. 7fie; per year. $8.00. s authorized an second clan mall by the Post Office Department. Ottawa. .1 1347 Chrysler Windsor 4-Door Sedan l!)r.O Plymouth 4-Imir S, three .shoulders, and flic's away. The pushers .stand back, light cigarettes and grin with pleasure at a Job done. In town, cars p.if.i slowly with their chains clinking. Powdered snow whirls about the streets. People hail one another cheerily. ' How do you like this?" they ask. "Sure, feels like the prairies today." The cold has drawn them together into an army of friends battl-. lng the element. With their , collars turned up against a bitter wind, they exchange views on water-piies and antifreeze. As the air cools, per-, .sonal relations grow warmer. While our green winter lxst-ed, we' people of the coast lived In a little country of our own. Now we -are Canadians here. The stiowiall has tiveUil the last link of a white bridge connecting us with Calgary, Winnipeg, Toronto, Montreal and St. John's. "(wo. rtii new iires .... j. By G. K. MOItTlMORE The unfamiliar northeast wind drives across our lake in a whit rage, feeling Into unnoticed cracks of the house and spearing the flesh with sudden, pure cold. Everything looks clean and new. The smoking chimneys and white eaves of the far .shore lie half-concealed behind an opaque moving curtain of snowflakes. Waterfowl huddle in the bay. Only the water keeps its sullen blackness. And the snow whirl down in a 30-degree slant, covering trees and roofs and steps and garbage cans, and applying a soft white poultice to the raw earth.' The snow seems to bring Its own smell and sound. More correctly, It brings an nhsence of smell nnd an unexpected silence. Children and dogs plow Into the snow Joyfully. Some of them are seeing it for the (ir.st time In their lives. The snow muffles their shouts and barks. 1A19 Ford Tudor. very goou snapo Jjjjf LARGE SELECTION i. f Meyer (iocs Free THERE is only one possible explanation of the treatment of General Kurt Meyer, and that is that it is part of the price the German military caste is secretly exacting from the west for co-operation in lining up Germany ou the side of the NATO allies. Meyer was convicted by a Canadian military court of responsibility for the criminal killing of captured, disarmed Carta- OLDER CARS TO PH, EKOM SUPERiOR AUTO SERVICE 1 PRINCE RUPERT SHOREWORKERS U.F.A.W.U. 3eat the Crippler HIGH SCORE must be credited to the Kinsmen A Club for organizing the hockey game between withers and Prince Rupert at Lake Oliver tomor-ow. This is not only for the Kaien Island cham-lionship which, as the tickets say, is played once very 20 years. More important, it is also for the lub's polio fund, which goes into a contest that is n progress all the time. With the cost of arranging the game estimated 0. be $400, the Kinsmen are counting on a good ittendance for this major and unusual sports event, f the weatherman keeps his thumb on the mercury and it looks as if he will they should not be lisappointed. Last Sunday's turnout at the lake lemonstrated that Canada's national sport is just is" national here as it is anywhere else, when con-litions permit. The other contest in question is the' bitter one igainst the great crippler. At present the opposition s ahead because no sure way has been found to turn jack its offence. But the strategists are working on it and, with our support, are certain to learn rhe secret. ; So even if you cannot go to the hockey match, buy a ticket anyway. It will help to beat the crippler. A World Calendar HOW would you like to have a pocket calendar that would last a lifetime? No yearly models (every year would be the same). No wondering whether Christmas would fall on Tuesday or a week-end (it would always be Monday). No making Important Meeting ; diitn soldiers. There was no conclusive evidence that he him- I self had given the order for that mass murder; but the court did I find that he was responsible for j the action of his troops. The death .sentence was first j commuted to life imprisonment; then Meyer's life term In Canada was reduced to imprisonment in i Germany. Now the Canadian Grown-up people like the .snow too, when they first look out the window. It relieves the long tension nf rainy days. The real winter is here now," a man says. He remembers the happy winters of Ills boyhood. Then he goes outside, and the cold makes his flesh tingle. There are things to be done. Wood needs chopping. He pries wet chunks loose from the pile CENTRAL AMERICA is the strip of land that links North and South America. It is divided Into five small countries: Guatemala. El Salvador. Niearauua. Costa Rica and Honduras. The SUNDAY, JANUARY M 7:30 p.m. Metropole Hall ALL MEMBERS PLEASE ATTEND Isthmus Is an area of contrasts with centuries-old scenes blending In With modern constructions and improvements, as illustrated In government announces it has agreed to Meyer's release within a lew months. Meanwhile Meyer himself has been writing technical military articles criticizing the way the Canadians fought the battle of f'alaise. The Canadians were too timid, says Meyer. Had they the above photographs that show an old dirt road and a modern steel-concrete bridge In El Salvador. The five countries', small in size but rich in natural resources, are trying to bring about an economic integration of the five nations to pave the way for general Improvement In living conditions In all these countries. United Nations, technicians and experts are playing a key role In this task, which has started to yield fruit such as the adoption of a uniform customs tariff. and liucks them. smaller. The basket of tuel seems light us he pant up the stairs Inspired by a sense' of well-being and challenge. Leaving a big hot fire and a wife and baby who seem contented and snug, he takes to hU car. Along the , road there are cars to be dug out of snowbanks and helped up hills with .shovel after shovel of sand. Bad weather makes good neighbors. Alter the snow has lecn well peppered with gravel, the car charges up the hill, slithers, gets a grip and comes to a halt with wheels spinning. Another shot of gravel, a heave from SPECIALS IN USED RECONDITIONED RADIOS and PLAYERS been commanded by a "fanatic" they would have driven down the main road, regardless of cost, and the trap would have been -losed on a German army which in large part escaped. IN HIS latest book Sir Winston Churchill refers to the Nur ti t: roNSou:, aii-hw 5 -Tube. ItCA VICTOR OTTAWA DIARY By Norman M. MacLeod 00 10 tulies. P-B tuning 6S CONSOI.KTTE. Like new "45 emberg trials in words which i 'mMy, but do not state specifi- I M.INTKI, KAMA The sudden passing this week "Gentlemen," he said, "Your of Nova Scotian Senator W. H. spokesman (Dennis) has present- Kf'A 45 Kl Dennis revived Parliament Hill ed your case so thoroughly and i 6 tubes. All-wave '35 I'M I'l.AVfR A.95 at A snap ap cally, that he is now more than half ashamed of them. I There is no doubt that the j Nuremberg trials were only in j part based on justice. No doubt j all those accused of and convicted of war crimes at Nurem- LETTERBOX memories of perhaps the most so persuasively that I am almost unusual appointment ever made sorry that I ';cannot possibly to the coveted Red Chamber; (accede to.lt:---But j9stiy had It was during 1932 and almost marie up my.ntind. Triete Is one at the lowest point of the great i person whose suitability to i Vrg were guilty. But the victors, MAN V OTIII R I SI D AND RKCONIHTIONM) RAMI , AMI I'l.AV'KKS AT "CIVK-A WA Y" FRK'KS RUPERT RADIO & ELECU 'inn-tnnct depression. Dennis, who in those represent Nova Scotia in the who were applying the was a, celebrated Marine pnate is so unquestioned that I been aware that the- im- have nve 1 313 Third Avenue W. i PhoneM 'hose same laws would also have nisariing publisher of th$ Hall- tymUo appoint him. That person fnx Herald newspapers, headed is your spokesman, W. II. Dennis.", .... , i , , a Halifax delegation which wait ed upon then Prime Minister) Red-faced and embarrassed resulted in convictions for Russians, Britons and Americans, as well as Germans and Italians. For instance," was not the dropping of the atom bombs on Japan as direct a violation of the B. Bennett to plead the cttusa of ji well-known Halifax pollticjan NO INTEREST SHOWN ' ' ' The Editor, Daily News: , Regardless .of rates chawd by the B.C. Power CoitunUsimui the sour note that strikes this writer- is thisr-the downright unsatisfactory manner in which they have dealt with this city. Correct me if I'm wrong, but '. it not In the vicinity of a year since they have been invited in? What satisfaction or, guarantee of any kind have we had In that time? NONE-and time marches on. Is there hope, then, that they will be any more considerate of the people in general, once they are established here? There his been no inttest whatever sl)W.i, adjustments (if you are a business statistician) for the fact thai,, a month mav have anywhere from 21 toi27 WkttuVs in it;' they yould all have 2fi. .These arV some of 'the advantages that are put forward for the world calendar, which will be proposed at the next session of the United Nations Economic and Social Council in a resolution by the delegate f r(om India. The proposition is not a new and sudden one. It has been urged by the World Calendar Association for several years, and is backed notably now by Sir Harold Spencer Jones, astrononjer royal of Britain, -- In factSir Harold' notes that 1956 would be a particularly'cGnvement year to make the change iVom the present Gregorian calendar, since in that year January 1 will fall on Sunday, a controlling feature of 'the new plan. Thereafter, if the revision were accepted, the . first month of each quarter u;ould have 31 days, all other months 30 days, and the 365th day be observed as a world holiday at the did of each year, with another holiday inserted at the middle of leap year. By the way, what did we do with all those nice wno was a canuiuuie -tor ap-i pointment to the Senate, bentnis so-called "rules of war" as wa "Billie ' Dennis a few hours laterj lifetime officially a member ofj the Upper House. In ' n sense the appointment j come too late. For shortly after- j winds he sustained serious in-1 Juries in a motor car accident oH ftnm tViot tivvto nn Viic ho-ilth i . cnnla frMiuinMiiD-!u nf thii finllij av the murder or prisoners or, j Prime Minister listened attenU iveiy. 10 tne delegation 11 loonea IT PTTFMED to me that once the I atipnui-afflnolv nc IVimiflrh thpli their ! ' 1 western allies beean to let off y' jV. .t .... w uncertain. Nevertheless, he A arowina family neq mnn wfiu i n i-tn.:tui ill I'rL I mk th top notch war criminals, like ri Hcse Schucht and the other big. Bnt the Prime Minister suns in the Nazi war machine,! , d e was b , f ,0 ,he there was no point in wreaking nolnt further vengeance on the smaller ! .' . plenty of fresh milk. T' best way to obtain tt milk is to phone 18 ! home d e I i v e r y of tt form-fresh V' 'A - . fry like Meyer. Imnnnged between his physical j nps and downs to make a record I in Parliament for positive con-I tribution. He was the father of j , the Federal Government's Travel j Huiefiu. Founded in the depression, that agency set out to , promote Canadian toorist at-; tractions In the United States t land In foreign countries. In one ; year of the depression it was ; credited -with turning panada's I previously adverse .tourist') cade i balance into a favorable one of ray... Reflects and ! But 1 would hate to think that ! ; the western allies had so blinded ! their ryes to moral considera-i lions that they would make an 1 actual deal with convicted Nazis Northland Dairy! jut:iL- calendars for 1953? u is , . Reminisces Temporarily suspended; , cold mofriiilg'showerbaths. and converted criminals to serve in a new German force. ' 3. j Even if Kurt Meyer were the best youngish tank warfare ex-; pert in west Germany it seems ; to me he would be, to say the end I think with this altitude they hive proved their point "We mav come in if we have to. but you'll pay for it!" RUPERTITE. ICity council at a meeting on March 23, 1953. endorsed a motion of Alderman George Casey to ask the B.C.. Power Commission to expropriate holdings of the Northern B.C. Power Company and become the future supplier foi 'electricity here. The decision followed hearing of a result by M. A Thomas, electrical consultant engineer hired by the city to investigate proposals by the NBCPC and the Power Commission. 'The company's 25-year franchise, granted in 029. is due to expire March 31 this year. The power question has Northland Dairy St. Lawrence Seaway Bill Passes By Small Majority in U.S. Senate Phone 18 M NOKTHKKN PRODUCE I OR NORTHERN CONSI'Wl $1SO.OOO.OOO. " Being a Senator was a ' tradition In the Dennis family, as his uncle had been one before him. H started in his Eenator Uncle's Halifax Herald as an elevator operator and wound up years later as publisher and Senator bimself. From his uncle he In least, a most dubious ally in any cause really based on protection of freedom and democracy. There is nothing quite so comfortable as an old pair of house slippers or shoes after trying to break in the Christmas gift for quite a while. I would also think that no body would imagine for a mo .WASHINGTON WV-The Senate, after slapping down St. Iwrence seaway legislation for two decades, has finally taken a hjg step towards authorizing the United Stales to Join Canada in ment that the release of Meyer at a loss to predict its chances. Canada is going to push for an all-Canadian seaway on the St. Lawrence river, government informants at Ottawa say, regardless of what tha United States Congress does about the deep waterway. While this view clashes with U.S. administration thinking, Be Thrifty . . . s an idea which originated with he government of Canada. herited the Herald's mast-head We never sec pictures of an-: sin..nn: "Dedicated to the service gelei wit h whiskers. Maybe that's of tne pPOpie that no good cause because so many men get there ! Khall lack a chainpion and that by u close shave. ; wrong shall not thrive unop- v .loosed." Dennis took the slogan the project. , But alter the seaway bill passed the Senate Wednesday night Oy a 51-33 vote, Canadian government Informants questioned Spend Wisely . HALF AND HALF literally and became a crusading Wreck Kills 60 KARACHI, Pakistan (Reuters! --Unofficial estimates said at least 60 presons were killed Thursday when a crack Paki- the government is understood to be prepared to press it as far as it can without knocking out the been the subject of heated discussion at council meetings for the past three years. In a referendum in 1952, the electorate voted In fuvor of the B.C. Power Commission, taking over, although the difference was less thun 50 votes. Editor. 1 Some people go to a lot of trouble for pleasure. Others get pleasure out of making a lot of trouble. whether their country is still interested In U.S. participation. After repeated failure of seaway legislation in the U.S. con whole seaway project. figure for Maritime rights and for the economic rights of the under-privileged. He is one of the people whom Parliament will really miss. "We're going to hold out for a iu.i tnpton via... uu, ilu J i fl rlpt-Hilpd nil t,nlr cur ftnrf hurst. seaway built on the Canadian side of the river," a .cabinet He may have a greasy hat and source said today. BUY THE BES o INSIST ON HUNTING INSTRUMENT Into flames on the main line between Lahore and Karachi. Many passengers aboard the six-car Pakistan Mail were burned alive as the gasoline-filled tank cars exploded and sent flames shooting half the length of the express. gress, Canada undertook to go it alone. In Ottawa Wednesday night, government sources said Cunada still will push for an all-Canadian seaway on her side, of the boundary river. The Canadian government was represented as feeling that the VS. spending $105,000,000 would be getting too much of a bargain In. Joint TWO The French horn originally his trousers may be shiny, but If his children have theU- noses flattened against the window-pane a half-hour before he Is ciue home for supper, you cun trust him with anything you have. was employed in, hunting but was used In orchestras In the early 18th century. FOR control of navigation and shipping lolls. Canada already has spent that much on locks, and is prepared to put up $300,000,000 for navigation facilities. "The bill approved by the Sen Ul A ONE SALE OF LADIES SHOES BALLOT BALLOT THE ALEX HUNTER AWARD FOR GOOD CITIZENSHIP Pleose consider my nomination of: x : : x for the outstanding citizen of Prince Rupert for the year 1953 My NAME .... ate would permit the U.S. to Join with Canada In building the 27-foot-deep St. Lawrence river channel linking the Oreat Lakes POTATOES AND with the Atlantic. GOES TO HOCSE I The bill, strongly supported by Large selection of styles, colors and sizes. . All or popular prices. BE SURE TO SHOP EARLY VEGETABL HOUSTON CO-OP 1 My ADDRESS. President Elsenhower and the U.S. Joint chiefs of itatf because of the project's claimed importance to national defence, now goes to the House of Representatives. Because the House has never considered the bill, observers are ballot "tu-10 tb daily news ballot E l FASH ION FOOTWEAR ' 1 1 l I 'WW I ' 1, not later than FEBRUARY 4. 1954 ' W I MARKET ASiww-