ORROW'S 0 rr provincial tis.r, 1 ! 1 ORMES vicrj;:iA, s. c . 16 J TIDES Doil Delivery standard Timet my I', ism I .42 16.1 feet Phone 81 NORTHERN AND CENTRAL BRITISH COLUMBIA'S NEWSPAPER I ,:tn s.7 feet Published or Canada's Most Strategic Pacific Port "Prince Rupert, the Key to the Great Northwest" f u':59 7.1 feet -DRUGS VOL. XL1H, No. I0'J PRINCE RUPERT, B.C. MONDAY, MAY 10, 1954 . PRICE FIVE CENTS (h b lldDoiicoif mteGl Ufa IFip ssfffaiis Roads s Harass & ti "i'fci xy LA , Radio Crevs Work As Station Burns NEW WESTMINSTER, B.C. (CP) Fire war J Convoys I indo - China French fighters frs today heav Wage Talks At Kitimat Break Down dens sought the' cause of Sunday's $1,000,000 blaze ed key roads northeastward ihich wrecked a five-story business block in the heart of this Fraser river centre. illun fortress of I'hu. The roads Stanley Wright, owner of the ; ' '' 8r,-i if . 1 v ' Conciliator 3wan-Wright building, said he ed with thous- relieved the fire started in the Waters Funeral Held in Terrace omniuni.Ht - led roops and truck oremlses occupied by Hobbs Glass. The glass company, ra- 31o station CKNW and seven other firms were burned out in 1 ono-pound hlfc"l - the four-hour blaze. TERRACE Funeral services were held here Thursday for Dennis Waters, 20-year-old son $h and heavily straf- Fire captain Gordon Hardman To Hold folks VANCOUVER '(CI') Wutfe talks that will eventually affect more than 1,000 workers at the vast Alcan project at Kitimat and Kemano in northern B.C. have broken down, a union official said here Saturday. was the only casualty. He was m.inrl in fair frmrliHnn In TWO OF CANADA'S oldest "choir boys," Dr. P. O. C. Campbell left) of Kingston, Out., and Norman Holland of Montreal Isecond from right) meet outside the Cathedral Church of St. George at Kingston. They attended a .service conducted by Archbi.shop Walter F. Bitrfoot, (right I Primate of the Church of England in Canada. The cathedral choir has been invited to sing daily services In Westminster Abbey in August and the Kingston Whig-Standard Is sponsoring a financial appeal for the trip. Dr. Campbell has sung at St. George's for 70 years; .Mr. Holland In Montreal choirs for 64 years. Second from left Is George N. Maybee, choirmaster and organist at St. George's cathedral. (CP Photol of Mr. and Mrs. M. 8. Waters of 1 Kr'rYTiii jn's centred Uipir a-tjtiic road from Tuun s northeast o( Dlcn f ,,nd rnnnin? east- hospital suffering from smoke j Prince Rupert, who died aftw a i car accident on Highway 16 near poisoning. .... V.OCA Vf ! 9 San. 117 mucs wesi troops and convoys d moving two ways A radio announced and ms control engineer stood by in the Born December 10, 1933, at burning building here Sunday, Transcona, Manitoba, Dennis broadcasting a running account came to Prince Rupert as a child, of the blaze until they were and received his education there, urned off the air graduating from Booth Memorial "We kept broadcasting until High School three years ago. 'he flames ate throueh our main 0r completion of his school- nd out of the Thai Conciliation officer Bob Forg- northwestern Indo- ie is scheduled to leave for Kiti c going in may 'be mat today to meet with officials positions in Thai ing, he was employed by Mor- Rupert Fishing Fleet Poised To Start Season C'hHU, 200 miles i of the Aluminum Company of 1 Canada and the Aluminum wires and the fire chief ordered us out of the building." said Bill rison-Knudsen at West Tahtsa Hanoi, which the " the Alcan dam Project, a ad control Duncan, chief operator cupied after the id out Dec. 11. 1953. for the past year, he had been employed at the Home for the it the station. He and announcer Sid Lancaster were alone In the station when the blaze broke out. Lancaster turned in the Workers of America, AFL. Less than 300 workers arc Involved at present but both labor and management are handling negotiations as "top priority" as they will set the pay pattern for all workers in the production end of the big smelter now under construction. ( nay be intended to I 15y GKOFF AVKKS . SO trailers up in the Skidcgate (.jcupaiion of Dlcn ( Activity along the waterfront , aia. Along with boats in the lor from the battle- reaching fever pitch as fi.sh-; north they .should have between who spearheaded inK companies and fishermen , 200 und 300 boats operating be- Aged. Dennis was a great sports en alarm. 1 thusiast as a youngster, and while still attending school, or The station returned to the air, broadcasting from its transmitter, after an hour of silence. ganized and coached his own Ihc 57 days of as- 1 alike make last minute prepar-1 tween the islands and the main-the French Union jotion), for the halibut season land as well as 10 camps on the which opens at 12:01 Sunday mainland. SOPHY ORLICK of St. Catharines, Ont., is framed in blossoms of fruit trees on the Niagara peninsula, Canada's orchard gar-' den. The orchards are ready for the thousands of sightseers expected for Blossom Week starting Sunday. Blossoms ranging from white to deep pink decorate nearly 50,000 acres of trees In the Niagara district. (CP Photo) baseball team in Prince Rupert. Companies burned out were H. wa8 a member of the First The unions are asking a base Phu. on a road lead-' morning. I Approximately 60 boats will be Wrights Ltd., wholesale xurm- uaDtist Church in Prince Ru d to the royal Lao- I Upwards of 600 large and small, operating in area two for th hourly rate of S1.B8 plus 40-hour week, full union shop and fringe benefits. lure; ChadwlcK. Beacon, cnaner- Dert ed accountants; Food of the of Luang Prabang. i boats, connected with puckin;;, Prince Rupert Fishermen's Co-np d as a take off base ! plants In Prince Rupert will lie and up to 100 all told in Aria 2 Many friends of Terrace and Month Club, deep-freeze firm Alcan at present pays $1.53 touoh for a fresh In- J engaged in reaping the halibut: and V ;' rv ' "i Hobbs Glass and four finance plus an extra five tents classi fication rates on a 42-hour week. lliit little mountain j harvest before the quota is tak- Bacon Fisheries . reports I en. Quota for area two is 26,-1 steady stream of boats In a for companies. First estimates of damage were set at $750,000 but were later revised upwards. i of Husslan-mado 500.000 pounds and for area 3-A bait and they should b ready Speed Curbs For Youths Asked by Terrace Board tc clear when the 48-hnur pre- Allied Aluminum Workers Council secretary Herb Flesher said the company offered "a slight pay increase" but refused other Prince Rupert flUed 8t. Matthew's Anglican Church here' for the service conducted by the Rev. Fred Antrobus of First Baptist Church Prince Rupert. Mrs. J. C. Oilker was organist. R. Sklllicorn, superintendent of the Home for the Aged rep- , resented the home at the ser-r vice, and some members of the f S along the roads In 28,000,000 pounds. ,mi '"try were heavily i with 96 hours traveling time sexson period rolls around. J. Clausen Slid Son already have two iunips out and expect. I nil fi;hl iSlu with rockets j ahead of them, some larger requests. liters and again to- boats will cleur tonight for area Hpeclil lo The Dally News rs. Pilot reported 3. a. laws and vigorous enforcement of against traffic violations, TKRRACE Last week's tragic big explosions and 1 any of the convoys. BOATS BAITING IT car accident near Terrace, which ,7 ... V ........ ... hour speed limit signs through Frontier Clashes Fatal to Four JERUSALEM ( Three Israeli soldiers and a Jordan farmer were reported killed In clashes along the Israel-Jordan frontier on Sunday. Two Israeli policemen were reported missing and x believed dead. four lives, has brought a Eisenhower "Threatened" JVictnilnh broadcast. took staff were pallbearers. Hymns sung were "My Hooe Is Built On Jesus" and "Rock Of Ages' Pallbearers were Doual McDougall, Joe Nallia, Jackie Burton, Larrv Mathews, John Duncan and Bob Baxter. pig Kong today, said taken in the defeat. move for more rigid enforcement of traffic laws and suggested speed restrictions on licences1 ot to have lour' opera ting by the weekend. They will have about ! 10O boats fishing Area 2 waters. i HUATIItlt rKSTIONAIU.Ii Biggest factor facing the fishermen is t hat of the weather. ! The Prince Rupert Fishermen's I Co-np reports that salmon trol-i lers have already been out, but I I he results were termed ' noth-j log wonderful." Catches of 4. 100 'and 3 .W0 pounds Were landed by i two boats, but both tides and On the waterfront, an evr changing number of smaller vessels is arriving and plants are hard pressed to estimate the exact number which will be oier-ating. At every wharf freshly painted boats arc baiting up and out grpater Terrace. Members urged the general public to assist irr traffic law enforcement by reporting violations to the police. Another highlight of the board meeting was discussion of the ! WASHINGTON Wi President young drivers. The accident, in which two cars crashed head on about a fin rim Friday "in-krniral, the French I of Oii n Bien Phu." t apparent reference . Chrioilun de Chk-th the broadcast did Eisenhower didn't know it, but secret service agents spent a Inn i niaal H iti OAi-ftaa Hm w tl '" half west of Ter- j "p reported threat to assassinate taking on ice. I Allin Fisheries expects to have I IS packers und seiners out and All Gibraltar Greets Queen First Royalty in 40 Years hi, race May t, was one oi vne inuiu proposed new waterworks system, with Commissioner Harry Phillips reporting latest He noted that several parties j weather were against, the fisiier-! men. ! Officials at the Fisheries jLV-I partiiieiit loreeasl a season of ' nljoiit a month's duration. The ireumtl. halihlit wason will start ln Aiea 2 at 12:01 August I and The Queen stood on the bridge with the captain of the Britarr''" r.ia. Prince Charles, 5, and Princess Anne, 3, waved to the crowd as the yacht came In. The Queen stepned ashore tn start a day hi which she will cross and recross the tiny colony for 10 events in 13 hours. ' Gibraltar's narrow streets were Secret service chief U. K.'t0Pics at the - May meeting of Baughman says of the report Terrace and District Board that he Is "satisfied there was of Trade. nothing to It." Board members discussed the The report Baughman got was, possibility that swirling dust on that there would be an attempt the road had been partially to on Kisenhowers life Sunday af- blame, and planned enquiries ternoon at Fredericksburg, Va., J into availability of calcium where the president drove to chloride for road dust control, place a wreath at the grave of , Dlck Lawrence won the sup-Mary Ball Washington, mother ' prt 0f the board In suggesting of the United States' first presi- a reqU(-st be sent to the attor- clf'nt I ney-general for assistance In The Mother's Day ceremony onJunctton w)th local p0ice went off without incident. ftnd iawyeri, in formulating a It wasn't until after the presi- 1 scheme 0j spPed restriction en- GIBRALTAR (Reutersi A royal salute of 21 guns and the pealing of cathedral bells greeted Queen Elizabeth as the royal yacht Britannia tied up in Gibraltar harbor today for the first royal visit to "the Rock" In more than 40 years. All Gibraltar's 28,000 people seemed to be at. the harbor to greet the Queen and her family. had surveyed the route to Deep Creek, long advocated by Terrace founder George Little, and had found that route would cut the main line distance In half, from seven to about three and a half miles. He also noted that many residents In the greater Terrace area had applied for Inclusion In the village, with regard to the proposed extension of village limits. n Talking With Molotov rlalt East-West Split I Foreign Secre- 1 lerlor areas of the two liulu-"y Kden of BrlUln Chinese kingdoms, 'itoclay with Russia's Plmiu Van Dong's demand was '! 'otv In an effort backed by Molotov and Commu- tast-West split over lst china's Chou En-lai. The I or l,le Indo-Chlna debate following snarled the J J opening meeting on Indo-Chlna I 'r the West, Eden for almost three hours. ' f t Molotov to with- j A highly-placed U.S. source ' demands for the In- said the next three days will tell f two newly-created whether there will be peace In Red Indo-Chinese lmlo-China. end at 1 1; 5!) August l.'i. For An a 3-A I he starting Mine is thi same for An a 2 ami ends, at 11:50 August 10. Reports Indicate that most ol the potential halibut catch has already been sold, but prices will not be known until the first aent ana mis. tisennower naa rf,.0(o ho nnnos nf boats me back in with their hauls. ? w ' - :': - if . started back to Washington that d.,vers He sald Ulat Fredericksburg police chief A. G. rlvers were not crlminals Kenda l told of the - threat." b t ded ne, in ..a(.auiring Kendall told reporters a mart . roaa sen e' he termed "reliable" told police , , . , Saturday he had been approach- The board also will write the ed with a plan to "knock the attorney-general and local RC president off." Kendall declined MP. with a copy to Prince Ru-to name the man. I pert RCMP, requesting more in the parley. 9 foreign ministers met advance of the ape. FAIRBANKS, Alaska ue planes were balked again by bad weather Sunday morning from reaching a pilot and his wife wlui have been stranded high on Mount McKinley since last Thursday. alive with people, cheering and waving flags. The Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh will spend two days here on the last call of thrir six-month tour. Beneath today's merriment there was a grim side. Unprecedented security precautions were In force to guard against a fanatic attempt on the Queen's lift-In the name of Spain, which long has sought control of Gibraltar. The border between the Rock end the Spanish mainland ts closed. Spanish authorities have ordered Spanish citizens to stav out of Gibraltar until after the the talks on Indo- Traffic Decline Prevents Payment Queen leaves Tuesday. Of Fringe Benefits Assert Railways ( sources said Red in-eiiit leaders of rebel f , n Laos and Cam-'''ylted to the talks the Indo-Chlna ne- the Far Eastern Minister Pham Van Communist-led Viet-d the question at the J'Wo-Chinese session, the two groups as iee governments of wmbodla) and Pathet ;l.wnce officers said and earnings was continuing lo worsen. li;iiiiiiiiinn t -ikf . - tjf- I W s 1 I Si I f . , l - . ' " S I ItfUf -ni n I MONTREAL Canada's two ' Two members of a conciliation major railways today told the board named to hear the dispute federal labor department they recommended April 29 that the are unable to grant requests railways grant only two of the "The comparable net position of the two railways for the first from unions representing 145 X? 80Vernments had early n April for i stalling the Gen-ence. French sources m as scattered gangs roamin8 remote in- 000 non-operating employees for fringe benefits and additional overtime pay. Railway spokesmen blamed a continuing decline in traffic for their inability to meet the demands. The railways outlined their position in a letter to the labor department signed by D. I. Mc rJi '" M :r. : quarter of 1954 shows a deterioration of practically $5,000,000 as compared with the first quarter of 1953," the letter said. As Interpreted by the department the conciliation reports recommended: Rejection of the union proposal for 18 days a year sick leave with pay, which would be cumulative from year-to-year. Rejection- of extra penalty overtime pay for Sunday work. Approval of three paid four requests made by the workers. The company representative on the board said all the demands should be turn down outright. MAY CALL VOTE Frank Hall, head of the union's negotiating committee, said however that the board did not file a proper report with the labor department and Intimated a strike vote might be called. Clausen Rites Set Tomorrow Funeral services for the lute John Arnt Clausen will be held tomorrow afternoon at 2 p.m. at the Lutheran Church, with the Rev. H. O. Olson officiating. Mr. Clausen, who was 67 years old, died when his fish packer Rap 1 foundered off Holiday Island March 10-12. Well known In Prince Rupert, he came here from Norway 40 years ago, and for many years was a buyer for Atlln Fisheries. . Surviving are his son, Elmer in -Prince Rupert, three brothers and four sisters in Norway. His wife, Anna, predeceased him In 1952. EATHER THE TRADITIONAL BOTTLE of champagne bursts at the launching of a new navy minesweeper at the Saint John Dry Dock Co., Ltd. at Saint John, N.B. Lady Dunn wife of Canadian Industrialist Sir James Dunn, released the bottle after naming the new vessel HMCS Miramichl. Sir James also attended the ceremony. In the background of this picture are Rear Admiral R. E. S. Mldwell, Halifax, Atlantic coast flag officer, and Brig. T. Eric Snow, Fredericton, New Brunswick area army commander. (CP Photo) In today's letter the railways statutory holldavs a year, com THE 100TII BIRTHDAY of Mrs. Amelia Anderson of Chicago was Just another day In her life. The centenarian, 'who came to Chicago 74 years ago from Sweden, Is shown on her birthday preparing a meal for an unmarried grandson, one of eight grandchildren. Mrs. Anderson has one son living and 11 great-grandchildren. I forecast Rcgion: Cloudy ' tches and occasional Z y and Tuesday. w'th light winds. Iht ?nt and hiirh to said operations showed a drop pared with eight asked by the Neill, vice-president of personnel for the CPR and W. H. Hobbs. who holds the same position for the CNR.' Railway officials estimated earlier that the fringe benefits would cost approximately $60,-000,000 a year. of more than $32,000,000 in their , unions. combined gross revenues for the Extension of paid vacations to three weeks yearly for workers with 25 years' service. first four months of the year. The trend of both carloadlngs r I8 and 55' Sa"d- "ihth3 ana 55.