prtOV" iCSAL PROVINCIAL LI2SA3T, MORROW'S 113 .ORMES JTIDES- :jV j-clJiUiiiy 24. IM 5 MSS CTC3IA, B. C. CT RUGS sti,n:,r(l Time DAILY DELIVERY 18 3 fo:t 17.1 feet NORTHERN AND CENTRAL BRITISH COLUMBIA'S NEWSPAPER 17:31 4 42 10 5 8 4 feet feet Published ot Canada's Most Strategic Pacific Port "Prince Rupert, the Key to the Great Northwest" Phone 81 ' VOL. XLII. No. 45 PRINCE RUPERT, B.C., MONDAY. FEBRUARY 23, 1953 PRICE FIVE CENTS " irVf L "" 1 " s If A' f'StHU !' j limn::!. poirsiiJiiiiiD "V Jk :t . , ( IT i Price Changes Take Effect Immediately Increased wages and (funeral costs have forced directors of Prince Rupert General Hospital to increase daily rates for private and semi-private beds. 4 j iur u?w raws rueewve to day are: Private ward. $18 per Secret Order day; semi-private, $16. There is r.o change in the public ward rate of $13 a day. Previously a private room cost J 18 per day and semi -private ward was $15. Scouts Build Camp Passed ; Directors said that . because (4ie government has refused to increase its 1953 erant, the hos OTTAWA (CI') A se HI Fl Kl ItOY SCOI'TH prepare a lunch after helping construction of their Scout Lodt;e .. u .y in fern passage near Seal Cove. The 18 by 32-foot lodge building which in waring ). ., ti.i.i !x "'u put up by voluntary laxr and materials have been donated by city in (!, background, faring away from the camera are Martin Saunders and two helpers .!,;! on tin- loilce Ut week-end- In ths forcttround, from len are Billy Watmough, Billy A t N,rt;. rv,ii i kneelinu . Un Galbral'.h and Ronnie Eby. all member of the United JhUl finds it necessary to seek cret order whose nature wttra revenue from room rates In order to avoid cutting down on services. has not been disclosed because it involves the security of Canada has lx;en The provincial minister of health. Eric Martin, announced are collected are a health menace bi the flooded Netherlands DEAD LIVESTOCK, which last December that government grants to hospitals this year ain Workers Accept Offer by Canadian sappers of the 58th Independent F.eld Squadron, Royal Canadian Engineers. They have been working from dawn to dusk in the district around Middlcharnis. Holland. They anchor dead cat,Ue to posts where Dutch laborers later take them away. would be held at the 1952 level. following tills a meeting of passed by the government u n d e r the Emergency Towers Act. This was disclosed In Com hospital administrators and of- ' Mediate Week-Old Dispute ficials was held at Vancouver where it was suggested private Newspaper Publishers Waiting UK iCPi MilkitiK coriuiit nt on the mediation plan, per hour. mons durlnft a day-long debate and semi-private rates be in- ..T in V;ii;(MUVir aim The 150 workers who went on j Grain dlvr rted to elevators In offset in- on proposca leuisiauon 10 ex- !crPased to partially tend the act for another year lrrpatpli Fori Decision by Paper Maker until May 31. 1954 -vrixc ai lour elevator in van- .ether BilUMi Columbia ports Oliver and one in New WeM- may be brand, d "hoi" by trik-mnviter a week aco are neekinR jng nmln handlers, a unmn Persons not belonging to the !n,ji.st r ii.ivr accepted fl'im !M!:i!' fj.-m or-lo nii'dutc Uii ir ri'.f. uiiiuii olliriaU un- r (i-r;itoi,H drclint-fl approximately 380,000 tnns of The Proeres-sive Conwrvative and other opposition parties have described the move as an vaee Ikj.jkI.4 of 12' , eenU an upokeMnan said Saturday, hour. Elevator operator want to ln lrw, commomt Tuesday B.C. Hospital Insurance Scheme now will py $13 a day for public wards. $16 for semi-private and $18 for a private room. Bt FORBES Rttl'DE lnated the 10 per cent sales tax OTTAWA Canadian news- ' which they had regarded as paper publishers havfe something !; somewhat unfair, and ordinarily newsprint they use yearly. But last fall at least two big Canadian producers said they ruu inr yirm-m aiaie ui i m . Trad(. MinL.ter Howe ivnnU-d to fret about. ' would save them sometmng De- abrogation of the rights of parliament. The act. first established in Those holding BCHIS cards 1 Last Thursday's budget clim-'tween $10 and $11 a ton on the I were increasing prices by $10 a out that North Vancouver. Victoria and Prlnire Rupert could be used, for export outlets. pay $1140. $14 40 and sis.40. I ton, ellecuve January l, al 'KRET RESEARCH PLANT 1851 and extended to 1952. gives Previously semi-private wards I the government wide powers to i for lho! wllh lnsurance cards The kpokemn for the 250 act without reference to parlia t .it in 40 a dav and nrlvate 'MODES KILLING 2 MEN ruembT nf the Orn Klevalor Of : - i ... . o a an 1 ment In almost all pha.scs though, so tar as can be learned, they have not yet put the increase into ellcct. . . So the big questions for Canadian newspapers are: - . Do we save about $10 a ton, the antra naiw tinin imvaH 1 1 n Worker' t'Rion. 'CIt)) said : " " We'll emM tin bridge 'when we come to It. We will have to Canada's economic life. It also gives the power of'ar-ref-t where regulations under the act are contravened. V.'AHK. N J l A mi. all plant diliiK sec ret United States 'tjvinh b:' up In a Uiunderous explumon Saturday Uu airrrall fuel experts and injuring at least five other decide whether our union n.cm- amount of the sales tax decrease? Or will an increase In price off BUS DRIVER SETS RULES ON SMOKING IN ' VEHICLE VICTORIA 0 Bus drivers now have the legal right to put people off their buses if they insist on smoking. An order-ln-council to this effect was passed by the Cabinet last week on recommendation of the Public Utilities Commission. The order amends the Public Utilities Act by declaring: "The operator may remove from any vehicle or car any passenger who persists in smoking therein . . after being requested by the operator or conductor to desist." set the benefit? Whatever the answer, the other plants , in the packed industrial block i climated tl 000.000 damage In the blast. question is likely to be a live one in coming days or weeks. Mrs, Munthe's Father Dies On Visit Here cost, the patient paying the balance. When the health minister announced that hospitals throughout the province must operate on the same daily rate as they did in 1952, Doug Stevenson, hospital administrator here, said it would not be possible without reducing service or increasing room costs. Wages at the hospital here are $50,000 greater than they were last year. This represents about 60 per cent of the total operating costs of the hospital. Take-off for newsprint prices bcrs In North Vancouver, for In-l stance, would hitndle diverted 'cargoes." i Picket lines are on a 24-hour basis. Slwcks have been located at picket lines to shelter restim: . plcketers and coffee stands i opened. "We are dinning in fur a long 'strike If necessary," said a union ! spokesman. i At Ottawa. P. E. Cote, parlia is New York, for nearly 90 per mage to Telephone Cable cent of Canadian newsprint is sold in the United States. Smed on Youths With .22 The present New York price is $126 a ton and, traditionally, the Olav Thorsen, 70. of Tenure, basic Canadian price would be $122 a ton, or four dollars lower. mentary assistant to Labor Min Lava, Smoke Still Pouring From Volcanoes in Alaska However, the $126 at New York includes a $10 increase put into effect last year because of the 'tele- tendent. said Uxtay bullet holes , Kitid the federal i . st(.r 0rPM. here. Dr. and Mrs. Jens Munthe. ' ' thanjhBd perforate sections of will no effort ;RVeinment spare 431 Fourth Avenue West. , , " lf-Vble strung behind Eleventh to brtn)f tno Rrain handlers' Born in Norway, Mr. Thorsen i'W-pa.r telephone! Avenue East. Electricians tils- strlK(, to a sahsfactory conc.lu- came to Canada 25 years Bgo V"1" when the!ilon . and farmed extensively for sev- fall in value of the American dollar. This is the $10 increase which may be applied to Canada canie carrying long-a i s v a n c e , H. SJlid t DrDartment of-ieral vears ln Alberta. Durlne the The pilot, Lieut. James Ingram, was flying over the Strait, between Kodiak Island and the mainland, when radio-telephone was Interrupted j f,rial . k,.rmnB in risC touch Sreond World War he was in- for other reasons. J Fund suddenly. In both Canada and the Unit with the situation and had been structor In Toronto for Norwe- Soviet Attacks 'Enemy Agents' MOSCOW Russian military leaders marked the 5th anniversary of the Red army today with new calls for preparedness and vigilance against "all enemy agents" and a new attack on the United States. Chief attack on the U.S. came from Marshall Vassily Soklovsky In telephone conversation witn gian forces in the RCAF exchange Upon examination, nine holes ere found In the heavy lead a. huge black ball of smoke was i vonsc Vancouver j, cubic casing Kmall-bore slugs.! Meawhile, grain shipments presumably .22 calibre, were dug from AlH.rU l0 the west coast ed States prices go up in accord with distance from producing points. Removing the sales tax on newsprint was part of a move which wiped out the sales tax on books. Finance Minister Abbott said that concurrently with re Waging ; oui oi me noies wnicn nua cut hlV, dronwc to a trickle. plan. lie came to Terrace seven years ago and was well-known here. He is survived by his wife and five other children. A memorial service will be held tonight at Grenvlllc Chape! be- through wires ANCHORAGE, Alaska CP A half-mile-wide flow of lava sizzled down the snowy sides of still erupUng Mount Triden on Sunday. , The active volcano, which first belched a layer of orange-brown ash a week ago, is emitting sulphurous smoke and gas fumes from vents in the side of the mountain. Clouds billowing 18.000 feet into the air could be seen for 100 miles. Mounts Megeik and Martin are active also but Novarupta is quiet. Katmal. which blew its top spectacularly back in 1912. is obscured by 'smoke which hid The railways have Imposed an H whtise appointment as chief of ' i)ii;,c to the: hesidenU ln yie district told if fund drive! Mr. Janes they often heard eiu oiiiiiging. ; sounds of rifle shots ln the East reuny-tieas-i Elcvejilh Avenue neighborhood. embargo on export wheat sliip-ments to the five strikebound coa.st elevators. About 90 per cent of Alberta's export wheat seen rising 15.000 feet into the air some 20 miles from the tiir-craft. Ingram said he circled to the left of the eruption and two minutes later a second cloud of smoke boiled up eight miles northeast of the first plume and moved close to it. "Streams of ash poured out of the smoke," Ingram said, "like rain falling from a thundercloud." The co-pilot, Lieut. Robert 4 'Klav fore remains are shipped to Ter-j staff of Soviet armed forces was race where the funeral will be! disclosed Saturday. He wrote an held tomorrow from the United article in Pravda, Communist Church. i party newspaper. The Game Act outlaws the dis- siUpmd by rail to the west -"'I'.t i.u!,er so far is coast u im several more the sum moval of the sales tax on books, the tax would be withdrawn "from materials used in the production of magazines, books and newspapers." He added: "This will eliminate the difficult task we have had to wrestlt with in recent years of drawing a clear and acceptable line between newspapers and itu(KTi or anywnere on tvairn Island, excepting on authorized ranges, "e rei eived i $3 WKt whatever mischief might be brewing. Boiling, stuck his head from the window of the plane is an attempt to take a picture. He was struck by bits of volcanic ash. In Kodiak Saturday the crew of a U.S. navy patrol plane told how they flew through billowing ve isiifti.-iiUiyover, said "n. but the books will d and auriiiPd until eek-end. Then the ?x w"l transferred "'""! K.nai Canadian . Relief Fund. e.s- m victims of dlsas-f ' Kncland. Holland ; earlier this month. RuiH-rt campaign (t ''V a group of black smoke and pelting ash spewed into the air in a mass eruption of volcanoes in the Padre Travels Many Miles Saying Farewell to Troops Katmal National Monument, area. f ;iy and was headed by IWA to Discuss 1953 Contract March 28-29 VANCOUVER (CP) Lumber and mill workers in British Columbia wUl set wage and other demands at a conference of union officials March 28 and 29. The conference date was set at the International Woodworkers of America regional convention here over the week-end. One hundred and fifty delegates, representing mill workers and loggers, divided their demands In "malor and minor" Trolley Crash ee Jets Kills 58 In Mexico MEXICO CITY (CP) Two sub ?sh Near pse Bav urban trolleys collided on Mexico ,N'S. Next f... City's outskirts Saturday night, ktlllnc at least 58 persons and """"IIVI Jes Air Force ..:.: j divisions following an early In- needs of the toys, but it didn't stop there. He made a business of making friends and continued to make them evtn while preparing for his return home. For a solid week before iiis departure by plane for Canada, Maj. Cardy's jeep with its familiar white cross on the hood, jolted over hundreds cf miles of frozen Korean roads while he revisited dugouts, bunkers and trenches, saying goodbye to Canadian fighting men. Then he toured the rear areas. After his 60-days leave, Maj. Cardy will take over as Area Chaplain (Protestant) at London, Ontario. His successor in Korea is Maj. O. S. Fraser of Sams John, N.B., formerly the United Church minister at Pictou, N.S. The man almost every Canadian soldier in Korea knew as "Joe" is back In Canada tn-joying some leave prior to taking over new duties. "Joe" Is MaJ. J. D. Cardy, of Port Credit. For the past year he has served as senior Protestant padre of the 25th Canadian Infantry Brigade. In Korea, every Canadian soldier knew "Joe" Cardy. It Is their boast that during his tour of duty In the Far East, Padre Cardy visited every dugout and every foot of trench along the Canadian front. He never forgot a face, a name or a hometown. A quiet-spoken yet dynamic man his forte was showing up when least expected at forward units when a "shootln' war" was going on. His Job officially was looking after the spiritual "i crashed nn dlcation that the union would injuring 82 others. Officials blamed a brake fail ure and overloading for the e , 5: attempt to confine issues to a few major points In negotiations this year. IWA officials said as the conference opened that the union head-on crash which occurred on a steep grade near a siding where cars usually wait while others pass on a single track. had carried too many demands Iai'7 Pilot was kmpd he fourth pilot. 0,ltV'rnd. is Into bargaining In 1952. One of the cars had 90 persons aboard so many the motorman was unable to close the doors. All passengers in the front of both cars were crushed. Both "nped serious Gtmurul changes wanted by workers ln contracts this year put more stress on "fringe" ben FOUR OF FIVE candidates named for the first award of the Alex Hunter Good Citizenship trophy were honored cuests of a banquet at which representatives of all major city groups attended. Dr. J. P. Cade, pioneer physician here, (third from left) was named the 1952 "Good Citizen' and stands behind the trophy with which he was presented. Other candidates (from left) are Peter Lit$1. city hall accountant; F. E. Anfleld, Indian Agent; Dr. Cade, and Mrs. T. J. Boulter. Dr. R. G! Large, fifth candidate, was out of town on his annual vacation. 'anes W(.re Part of a efits rather thnn wages, al 10 r-4s trolleys were smashed to " route to through a move for an across- the-board Increase will be made