PROVINCIAL SORROW'S TIDES UK u ANNUAL MEETING '-Canadian RED CROSS Society Civic Centre Wed., Feb. 10 -8 p.m. Reports and Elections Everyone Welcome NORTHERN ANli CENTRAL BRITISH COLUMBIA'S NEWSPAPER Published or Canoda's Most Strategic Pacific Port "Prince Rupert, the Key to VOL. XLIII, No. 34 PRINCE RUPERT, B.C., WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 1954 the Great Northwest" PRICE FIVE CENTS .TL M 'S3 IFi mm City's Tax Share Boosted by $14,000 i District 52 School Board today announced a budget for estimated expenditures in 1954, which is $27,-000 greater than that of last year. The budget $445,6U8 brought down by the school board now goes to city council for approval. ' The $445,633 E0 estimate, ex- 3- d:v;.,aLJ '1 I I i ; ! I ; I ! Mr. Holland and Hans Peter. 1 sen, secretary of the association, al-o Joined the special commit-1 ec et, up by the Chamber of Commerce a week ago. ! At a meeting last night the Kroup decided lo .send telegram-to the ministers of transport, fisheries, trade and commerce. national defence and th as-ux-i tn.ii,..i ,i..f........ advbilng them thut Bruce Browr; - who arrived In Ottawa shortly urirr n')nn tiHlay has 'full au thority to cak on our behalf and courtesies extended him will i be appreciated." i n ni I J mm mm a I ME i? a and members of the federal ! cabinet, met the plane at the airport . , The prime minister under - scored Canada's close collaboration with Europe by saying he hopes there will be fruitful cooperation with West Germany toward lasting peace. Besides Adenauer and the! German delegation. Canadian ; bers of the Bonn dlniomaUe corps an(i representatives of the Rhee Set To Resume Korea War By RrXMAN MUKIN SEOUL (AP) I'resi-I (1 e n t Kyngman U h e e warned today that he U determined to reopen the war against the Chinese lieds occupying North Korea, and that if necessary he will go ahead without U.S. support. . "I am not bluffing," he said. The. president of the Republic of Korea made the statement in jan interview with this corrca-i pondent,. Except in ftneral terms, he 'did not snci-ifv uhpn hi- order his armkr to attack but he said "Time is rapidly running j out. We shall have lo act soon I or perish." In both manner and speech, Rhee gave everty evidence that he means what he says. He repeated several times: "I am not utuuing. I can't Diuu' now.'' He criticized US. policy as "mistaken" in discussing peac with the Chinese and said: "Unification through a political conference is ridiculous." Jungle foliage near Leopoldville. Belgian Congo. Two-storey sidewalks eov r dirt paths as progress rears Its cement and rolling hllU of Af lea. And look at the apartments. The seven-fl'lintri by tlie Bel ;ian government to house government personnel Oyners Inform Ottawa 'Essential7 Here ipml -" -; kl - t'f r - ' . ' V y ' . - ' . . .... ii r. j t. v.,. elusive of grants from the provincial government and a surplus from last year of $8,235.05 Includes only $25,000 for new construction. The new building project included in this year's estimate Is two-room addition for Conrad JStreet school. Total tax requirements for 1954 to be divided between the city taxpayers and those In the rural area amount to $358,-982.84. Prince Rupert's share Is 47.21 per cent or $169,475.80 compared to last year's requirement of 46.81 per cent or J155.368.02. The rural area's share of P2.79 per cent amounts to $189,507.04 compared to 53.19 per cent or $178,544.01 last year. Last year's total tax requirement was $331,912. 1954 ESTIMATES Estimated In the 1954 budget NO JET PROPULSION needed! Seppl Wmterhalter, Austrian tourist, does it the hard way, travelling over 1,000 miles from his home in Innsbruck, Austria, to Rome on his grandfather's bike. Here we see Seppl as he views Rome's 2.000-year-old Colosseum. shipyard here. Harold Holland, president of the Vessel Owners Association, and also a member of the International Pacific Halibut Commission, said his association clad to join In the united effort to save the drydock." The telegram said the association strongly protester! the sa with no guarantee of adequate . services being maintained, add-1 inn that approximately 4.0(H) . PM Warmly Greeted Is $240,000 for teachers' salar- nad been received from the gov-ies; $57229.80 for the sinking mment of either B.C. or the. fund, and payments on deben- Utliled States to call a confer-tures for Kinir F.rtwarrt ,nrt ence with a view to obtaining a By German President Teachers The telegrams Dare thestgna-j.TO BEAT CHINESE lures of the Trades and Labor; ue gave these reasons (or Uw Council. Fishing Vessel Owners i uosiiion he U taking- February H. 164 Standard Time' 7 09 19.3 feet "' 20:46 153 feet 0:41 9.3 feet 14:22 6.2 feet 6t- ST HOrSES displace i ice huts, and cement I wit far from the were constructed jii Leopoldville. pi X Drydock it, Hal for the wc'.l-I northern B C. fish- ;t services tl lh" rtryii.rk be imiii- mickI in a telegram X ni'M by !he " Vcvscl Owners A.-Trn.Kjit Mini-4"r rrlcs MmlsU r Sm- T. A)Ulewhaltc, Mf another of a wave nt to rabiti'-t mln-,f CNR announcer) the drydock and rt District ted Salary -ease In the mini- s puid secondary! w i) granted mem- , Prince Rupert Uls- i Association, it d today by school t"d nilnlmums were ' negotiations be- i bodies after the 1 'iciation requested ; lo the 1953 salary I I'ir teachers having "mdiUonnl Cert1fi-i M.sted from .$'.025. ondary Basic from 0 f"0: Secondary r nd- I $2,950 to $3,150. '' "d was the mil ilary basic froin 1 $1,650. However. 8l 'maximum re. mid secondary ud- P'im $5,100. 11 's In the mlnlmums P'rds annual salary II . M se Hot fd Tests 1 f IMNKK .IIT lNr:k.A1m 400 Ciina- 'MtBi.,p,.r.s ari rc under- lhe fa sub-a rctle. war- Is n X'Trise Hot Dog J slio 'it Khmne lake in Ir'U'y 1.400 mile Edmonton, ""lM';'s. some of k from Korea, ar; !' 1'rlnrc.s.s Patri-" '.'alii Infaiit.ru .p1 lo Silver r'r,.i.t ') ''ke hv IriK-lru ...,.) Hiey have done no 'caving Calgary's Ks, more coneerned In 1,1 what hap(cn t0 llf' eniintrv' nmiiitn I 'Jee it, (;;.ts on the f'H'J them lr .1 evcrvt.hln,, r- n wiivii. ....11.. be ,. .... . In h hover-. I i''''ro 1,1 tlie ; l it 11 1 uLstrlet. Dur-1 I '," uf February, ! f mercury mercury selllnni seldom ! 'ero miri . !" above last wcek- equlpment under are rifles -nrf '"Huns. Hnvrve- 1 ;'an rifle recently! nadian armed b,eved to be in- aniy spokesman; Increases estimate by about two per cent j BONN CP) Prime Minister 1 St. Laurent today conveyed the "cordial and friendly greetings" lot the Canadian people to West ! wlra foreign stop In his 23.000 muc wunu wur wnicn Firstly, he is convinced t h e : Germany's president Theodor Chinese themselves will reopen : Heuss. the war whenever they are! Hc wcnt straight to a recep-ready, j Won by the West German head "They have not given up their i ?.stat? after arriving here, the There were no chances made in elementary teachers' salaries. An additional clause was writers' tf n into the 1954 agreement W'eiiniln,hiCrfr t n novioc mom. whereby the board agreed to Rive an additional increment to any teacher" .with a degree or qualification amounting to 15 Allied high commission in West j Germany met the prime minis-last I t.rr'S pane at Wahn airport 1 near here. credits of university or summer j representations concerning con- Thirdly, the build-up is in pro-school, in excess of the minimum j tinned operation". the a )o ''press: "This Communist army reaulremenls for his position ' here He said he has received I ll:,s new weapons from the So- booth Memorial schools; $25,000 j tor the Conrad school addition. j The remainder of the budget 1 is taken up with operation and maintenance of the districts nine schools. Of the $25,000 estimated for the Conrad school addition 50 per cent will be repaid by the dePartment of education in th govern mem s grant 01 an es timated $78,000. Atantic Cafe Sinks Ships, Takes 3 Lives HALIFAX im A fishing boat carried three men to their deaths Tuesday night, another sank without loss of life and a third limped Into Sydney, N.8.. today with rigging limp and twisted after a 24-hour battle against the seas. The Liberator was heading for her home port of Glace Bay when the storm caught up with her. She went down in heaving seas that hissed with snow driven before 50-mile-an-hour gales. The 159-ton auxiliary schoou-er Keith V. Collins out of Lunenburg, N.S., had her seams opened by pounding waves and sank about 60 miles east of ; Industrial Sites Still Available' Satisfactory industrial site .......... . .. ...ll.ul. ( n 1 1. Columbia immediately adjacent to the Alaskan Panhandle, Minister of Northern Affairs Jean Lesage said in the House of Commons. Mr. Lesage was replying to a series of questions asked in the house by E. T. Applewhaite, MP, . Skeena. The minister pointed to the operations at Arvida as an example of an industrial plant working many miles from tidewater and he implied that a similar development could occur in Northern British Columbia. Mr- Lesa8e said no request corridor through Alaska. Dennett Again SaysPGE 4 To Be Extended ! y VANCOUVER Premier Bennett Monday nJght reiterated the government's intentlotfT)f extending the government-owned Pacific Great ' Eastern Railway from Squamish to Van couver, saying the project "can mean more to B.C. and Vancouver than any other enterprise." His statement followed an nouncement of the appointment of David A. Livingstone of Vancouver as construction engineer for the extension, which would run southward through West Vancouver. WEATHER Forecast North Coast Region: Vrihb cloudiness with a few snowflur-ries over the Charlottes, otherwise mostly clear today and Thursy. Colder, win no-!-' east IS today, increasing after midnight to northeast 25. ni down mainland inlets northeast 40 after noon Thursday. Low tonight and high Thursday at Port Hardy 25 and 35; Sandsoit 25 and 35: Prince Ru- nert 20 and 30. French said they appear only to be lining up supplies for the bulk of the Communist-let forces threatening the royal capital of Laos. Mr. Walker believes the ......... .. ....... ...... 1 f I. U .J 1 1 1. owtu " IK auuiiu-uuunu I iwi r. to nurse an injured left leg. Appearance of the breed here is not unusual, he said, noting that about this time annually a flock pays a brief visit to Shawatlan Lakes. He expressed no fears for the safety of the bird, saying it was big enough and capable enough to look after itself. ' The bird seems compara tively tame, allowing visitors to come within four or five feet. Cold weather won't bother it, according to Mr. Walker, who says the bird was sitting In the pond, surrounded with ice early this morning. However, when he tossed a rock on the lee nearby, the bird rose out of the water and walked away on the ice. , . , and which do not qualify him for higher certificate category on the basic scale and if the credit is recognized by the department j of education. The board also agreed that teachers contracting communi ! cable diseases which are epi riemic in school shall not have' the numbrr of days absent de. ducted from allowed days for sick leave. Negotiating for the teachers were Miss Jean Burns. R. H. Davidson and Harry Johnson. Thursday, in the special Royal Canadian Air Force C-5 piane from Paris. Chancellor Konrad Adenauer, who visited Ottawa year, " UK To Boost Salmon Buys In Canada OTTAWA (CP) The United Kingdom Is boosting its 1954 purchases of Canadian canned salmon, spurred by a dollar-producing "buy British" campaign among British Columbia industrialists. Fisheries Minister Sinclair announced in the Commons Tuesday the U.K. government has decided to make a bulk purchase "considerably larger" than the 205.000 cases Britain bought last year. He did not Indicate the j amount, but he said that in ; 1953 Britain bought $14,250,000 : worth of Canadian salmon. In ambition for the whole of Ko - rca. They will attack again." Secondly, he believes the prns-ent armistice, like the talks in 1951, is merely to gain time fn-the military build-up. viets, Including a strong an arm an(l many giant tanks." Fourthly, even assuming the Chinese do not attack in the neir future, which he does not assume, a vivisected Korea could not live. Had hc any fear that South Korean attack on the Chinese mhht touch off a third world war? WHY START IT NOW? "If Soviet Russia was not ready to start the third world war when we went to the Yalu River in 1050, Why should it start now?" The president conceded that from a standpoint of supplies and materials the South Korean armies have "a hard time." Hc hoped that the least he could expect was support In the form of ammunition, gasoline and like. Most competent U.S. military observers in Korea do not be- Urve thr South Koreans could press an offensive for long with- out both supplies and air cover from the United States. I The prime minister will stay j in Germany for two days. I The four-englned C-5 came out of a cold, wet sky for a perfect landing. Adenauer, smiling broadly, gripped the Canadian leader's hand heartily as he met him. His daughter. 29-year-old Dr. Lotte Adenauer, had brought a bouquet of pink carnations fori Mrs. Hugh O'Donnell, his daugh ter. After a few words from the prime minister the Canadian party drove to Bonn. Heuss met his guests at the entrance and warmly shook hands with the prime minister. CORDIAL GREETINGS , The prime minister sid t the airport that he brought "most cordial and tneuuiy greetings" from the people of Canada. "We are not forgetful of the i a future eo-oDeratlon to hrimr all our Deoole a better wav of living. j 1 "I know that your aim is as our aim a lastine twace." M. Jnn liivpc sJrintrnnnpr; in Sub-Arctic Warfare Halifax. The trawler Cape! ' . Smoky picked up her crew and I SAIGON. Indo-Chlna i Is bringing them to Halifax. - Some 1500 Vietmlnh rebels to-The Jena H. of Port Morien, day were reported six to 12 miles N.S., slipped Into Sydney after ! from Luanem-abanB. but the Assoclatlon. Native Brotherhood, Senior and Junior Chambers of Corumerce and Mayor George Hills on behalf of the city. ; The Rupert fishing vessel own- , crs association also wired the Vancouver association askiuj : support of the protest. A brief report received today , from Ottawa said Transport ! Minister Chevrlr'- i "Mudylni?; requests from many oiganiza- lions and persons for keeping ! the yard In operation. i Ali-'0 added to the pcclal cm- niittee last nlnht were two alder-1 men Mike Krueger and George B. Casey who, with Mayor Hii;s represent city council. Members .stressed that coast- wise shipping must be prolrctcb by Imvlng a drydock here. Mr. Brown carried with hl't; a list of all ships that have gone through here lo Vancouver for work during the past two years. i In Canada. Th const mountains' to the riLst arc about 5.000 1 leet higher than the glacler-ftd , Kluana. The valley forms a virtual trap j lor llie com an wiuni iu.mii's jii r land from the Beaufort sea and across the mountains from northern Ala.iku. In February, 1917, tile Snag weather station. about 100 miles north In the same valley, recorded an official 81 below r.cro. To test clothing and weapons rn the march, the army has Included several long hikes through 'I he valley and into thu mountains. One pf the first of these was almost a flop. The parachutists Inking purl had to call off the 50-milc hike when they met up Willi n bitter "wllllwa a strong local wind that rushes off the western mountain peaks like a waterfall. The troops made only five miles In one day, and called off the hike utter the first 17 miles. Another of the treks Is planned later this week. The objective will be the radio base and weather station at Alshihik, a 60-mile walk eastward through the coast mountains. The army is supervising survival tests of the Canadian Rangers, a largely obscure force of civilians recruited on a reserve status In the northland maln- I land and the arctic Islands. ; 1952, it bought none because of!nast but are lookimr forward to , shortage of dollars. i British authorities here said . the new order is expected to run ; around $4,900,000 or a little ; more. riding out the storm 20 miles at sea. The weather office here says that skies will clear today in the western Atlantic provinces. fc- , ... v. . M , i i ., j , liMt J. Ak indicated the Belgian rifles haw not yet arrived In western Canada. Silver Creek Is a cluster of five wooden structures built In 1942 for the official oening ccre-mniues for the. Alaska highway which kirUt the western shore of 40-mlle-long Kluano lake. The sanle mountainous region I ali;o served as a base camp fi;r rxeiel.se Kaner Beavi'r, a six-month Joint Canadhui-Uulled States exercise In l.r2 which experimented with airfield construction at the 2,500-foot level of the lake shore. About 40 miles to the west arc the towering St. Ellas mountains, which Include Hie 19.850-loot mount Logan, highest pea!v No Damage Done In 4-w Cirae ' ' Swan Visiting Morse Creek Believed To Be Trumpeter r'-i .1, ifJnP .. I . "fwrs . . w a . City firemen were called out v,-sterday afternoon and this morning to minor fires, but no damage resulted In cither rase. , i in .,, ..,,hu flm..v A young swan, believed to be of the rare trumpeter variety, has set up housekeeping in Morse Creek pond here, much to the delight of city youngsters who treat the pond and Its beautiful occupant as their own private zoo. The graceful bird, believed to have stopped over here for a rest, due to an Injured leg, is being treated like visiting royalty by residents of the Morse Creek area, off Second Avenue West, who feed it on bread crumbs, and by the game department, which has added grain to the swan's diet. C. J. Walker, assistant game warden, said the swan arrived Saturday. The size of the bird indicates It is a" trumpeter swan ,a bird protected by game laws due to Its rarity. and smoke spouted from the 555 taxi service station at Third and Seventh Street, when a tank of cleaning solvent Caught fire. The blaze was confined to the tank. The alarm at 9:30 a.m. today sent firemen to 402 Sixth Avenue East where a flooded oil stove had flared up. THE MINING COMMUNITY OF URANIUM CITY In northern Saskatchewan has shown remarkable progress since the provincial department of natural resources began carving the townsite out of the wilderness in June, 1952. Vhen Uie hunt for uranium started, incoming prospectors threw up haphazard rows of flimsy shack-tents and one-room shanties. These have been replaced by well-planned business sections and modern homes and schools. Pictured is part of Uranium road showing gar Ages, taxi stand, general store, lumber yard.