HMlIr JAH lI'Mll? nwiswu. lx." Our I Wows (tides foe Quota $5500 ; . PROUDLY 17.8 feet 16.0 feet 107 feet 61 feet 18." "" " 22:01 15:25 1:58 Local Headquarters N.B.C. POWER CO. LTD. Phone 210 P.O. Box 333 NORTHERN AND CENTRAL BRITISH COLUMBIA'S NEWSPAPER Published of Canada's Mosr Strategic Pacific Port-"Prince Rupert, the Key to the Great Northwest" VOL. XLIII, No. 60 PRINCE RUPERT, B.C., FRIDAY, MARCH 12, 1954 PRICE FIVE CENTS Sptesi ir"w rr. 'Lot Exchange Equipment Canadians CJ To Be Put in Soon Outside work on the new $675,000 automatic telephone system being installed in Prince Rupert is 85 per cent complete, it was announced today by Eric Janes., superintendent of the municipally - owned To Aid Asia In Problems St. La u rant Asks Co-Operation service. XI rk J TOKYO (CP) Prime Minister St. Laurent has of the most modern in America and is expected to go Into operation late this year or early In 1955. Ratepayers in Rupert authorized installation of the automatic system In a plebiscite, Sept. 11, 1952, to replace the present obsolete exchange. The 6ld Gov Splicing of cables, an intricate and exacting Job, Is 50 per cent finished, he said, adding that Automatic Electric Company workers will arrive shortly to begin erecting equipment in the new exchange building at the corner of Second and Third. Meanwhile, a crew from the city works department moved told Japan that the Dem- eratic processes of the , 11f J WWII. o( two new 23,000-ton stream-lined ships now on order by the Canadian amships for transatantlc service is shown above making a realistic trial run In a j The 21-knot liners with rakish lines and echelon decks will bring a "new look" j l.DOO-mile inland portion of the transatlantic route when they go Into service j 1957. Contract for constructing the second ship was let In Great Britain recently Msi'Dunald uf Montreal, managing-director of Canadian Pacific Steamships, to mtrongs Limited, while the first, w.iieh will be named Empress of Britain, has i construction since last fall by Fairficlds, Ltd. Specially designed for the Canada-fiom service the liners will have accommodation for 900 tourist passengers and 150 passengers as well as 380.650 cu. feet of cargo space. The sister ships will be 635 feet J5 cot in breadth and will draw 29 feet fully loaded. Name of the second ship has en chosen. .''' ernment Liquor store was pur west oiler more oppor ine thP TvomlaM fnrmerlv i cuasea tor ,;uu ana iu,uuu tunities than the "empty ni.H h tv, i in.mr rnntnii was set aside for alterations. Board and began blasting op Various instruments, switchboards and equipment will cost about $400,000. promises of communism." The visiting Canadian leader, In a speech last night before the Canada-Japan society, recommended "collective measures erations in the basement yester day prior to excavating and lay ing a concrete floor. THE REFLECTION on business is provided by 17-year-old Janet Smith, a budding English ballerina, who lends her art and charm to call attention to a mirror to be displayed with thousands of other products of Britain at this year's British Industries Fair, to be held simultaneously In London and Birmingham, May 3-14. to repel aggression." v Report Accuses McCarthy Group "The United Nations reaction U.K. Writ er Here to Find Book Material to aggression In Korea under the great leadership of the TO STORE EQUIPMENT The basement will be used to store telephone equipment, thereby centralizing the entire system. " City council in December, 1952 , at a special meeting endorsed a recommendation of its utilities ; Pulling Strings For Consultant United States of America has' provided an example of what j can be achieved by peace-lov-1 ing nations working together tot Oil Drillers Stranded As Storms Lash Prairies An English writer who arrived committee that the city do the TON An army overseas after he completed hig McCarthy and Stevens over an- ite Thursday night basic training. Schlne now Is at j other issue. or McCarthy of ap- Camp Oordon, Ga. I This was McCarthy's question- it u.d chief coun- The rpnort Mid that before ing of Brlg.-Oen. Ralph W. outside plant work at an esti-at KiUmat last fall, to have a ansirs,iiou una io restore i quick look at the big aluminum peace," he said. mated cost of $145,113.84. te of McCarthy's Schlne was inducted, both Mc- : Zwlcker at a closed hearing Feb. ! rcace ana trade were thei So far. $55,000 has been ex- project and tayed there three months is in Prince Rupert on a two-day visit. He is Ken Johnstone, of the Kemsley newspaper main Interests of Canada In', EDMONTON 0 Winter slash-northeast of ,Regina near the i pended for labor and more than world affairs, and "these aimsied at three widely-separated ! Manitoba border, northwest to ! $14,000 for equipment and mat-apply not just to Japan but to , sections of Saskatchewan and Saskatoon. I erials. fljatir.g sub-corn- earthy and Cohn urged the army i IB. Stevens said Zwlcker was 4.11 threats, in an t0 Kive Schine a direct commis-! humiliated and abused. In the . special treatment 'sion. i ensuing uproar President Elsen- : Scrii rie, a former However the report, continued, : hower denounced "disregard for I chain, whose employers have every country with which Can-j Alberta and edged Into north-1 Snow started falling about Aid. Ray McLean, chairman., given him a year's leave ot ab- nun nas ueanngs. eastern British Columbia Thurs- j noon Wednesday and continued j of the utilities committee, said gence wrtte a book on Canada. i fair play," In congressional probes. i . Beore the army report on the s&'ant now an Schine was rejected as unquall-f find bv the chieT of transporta- .rrt. made pub- ion. the provost marshal-gen- on ; dy while normal weather con until early Thursday. The snow-1 total cost may be less than the i ' , Big and gemal Mr JoUnstone "In developing our views a ir.n . w l i 1 nlVior tw.ir.ti' ! full wtb nnt crrpot. hut. .rinrl(: ; rtficrinol ctitinat m nut. ortrtitlonal 1 he dltlniMi dl'ions nrAwoilari prevailed o at c . Schtn"tn8tr was rnnrte avail ' JOiirtPS.-Ma.S Shot -,,r ,,rl IV.a ,,mmanHinifpn. it into drifts. . be to the benefit of whipped high , jnonle wUl if in1, thR? hB 't 1ob tiler. (cVantagf of iTie closr consul-1 Kironghit, the Wet U1C lLJf. .islmnces to Cohn crul of the 1st Army. 1 able by benale sources I nursaay J ' tHtlon which Is a feature of I Heavy snowfall was reported j Temperatures remained near ray offic ials with . ' j night. Republican spokesmen. Cimtnnnwealth relations. We I" Saskatcliewan and in north- normal. Coldest point was Prince and noon found himself an active member of the community. One of his special Interests was the First Kitimat Boy Scout at the 20-yi ur-old 1 asking not to be quoted, had suid jKIVC b,.on (Urthrr influenced by i western and southern Alberta. Albert where the mercury dip- Andy Peterson, construction foreman for the B.C. Telephone Company for many years until his retirement, directed work tas drafted last. Although McCarthy was quoi- they hoped to induce McCarthy iln ,.vinnt tn whirh mr orw.H I East-central Saskatchewan ncd to zero. fim preferential ed as telling officials repeatedly to rase Cohn out before Demo- fl.1nd Bna neighbor, the United caught most of the fury of the Troop. A Scout of long exper- from January, 1953, until lastiiPr,Ce himself, he said he was 10 ireat ocniiie bj n wuuiu unjr cratic mcmoers oi mc investiKa- states, ha.s become interested in wniiry Diasi wnere a surprise j Cohn. who also is other private, he was also pic- i tions sub-committee could make) tne problems of Asia in recent i storm reached near-blizard con-i frtimla flJIflr inning that Army , tured as trying to have the army i 8n issue of the disclosures. I vears i ditions and left high drifts and ' ,UUUIC LcaVCi spring when ill-health forced tort T Stevens assign 8ehine, a wealthy New j McCarthy, however, said Cohn I blocked roads. I- M I -mien" and the army , Yorker, to the New York area. ', was "pretty niuch indispensable" j nntnn ir.n.nnun j Nille mPmbprs of' an oil-drill-1 rQf JICtiQTBQQ sent The Wisconsin Republican sena-, to the sub-rommlttet. And he, "What I have said is intended , lne crew were stranded without Schine were tor was quoted as suggesting that said, before the contents or the j to show the Increasing aware-; food for 24 hours near the townj Mr. and Mrs. uentry Bliuster Srhlne bp assigned to check West report became available, that he j ness on the part of Canadians ! of Lanlgan. 100 miles north of! took off this morning in their Point textbooks for subversive had suggest' d in vain to Defence I of this part of the world: of Regina. Seven and eight-foot ! Grumman-Wlrigeon plane for material. Secretary Charles E. Wilson and j Asia's needs, of Asia's asplra- i drifts, the highest ever seen in ' Annette Island, first stop in their Sales Tax very Impressed by the type of boy to be found in families taking part in pioneer projects like that at Kitimat. After a visit to the Queen Charlottes, Mr. Johnstone will head north to the Yukon. He has already had a down-to-earth view of the rest of Canada, having made . a 9.000-mile trip from the Ma ri times in an Enelish car. His book Is 'to be published next fall. him to quit, and Ronald Robey of Vernon, assistant plant superintendent of the Okanagan Telephone System took over until the end of December. " Mr. Janes took over direction of work, besides his other duties, at the first of the year. He said this morning that only a few of the 200 new poles needed to install the system remain to be hoisted. The new system will be one journey home from here to An The armv reuort. a sort of . Assistant Secretary Fred A. Sea- tlons and Asia's friendship, and , the district, were reported at kin t C Lanigan and cars were aban diary, covered the period from ton that they "get both sides , of Jauunese needs, Jupanrse as hhnso n mid-July of last year to Feb. 6, 1 and not take only tho version of 1954. thus coming up to the eve Jolui G. Adams, counsel to the of the fierce conflict between j army, on the Schlne case. pirations ana Japanese irlcna-shlp, for Japan is Canada's closest Asian neighbor." Canadians hoped that Asian peoples, through their own el- doned by motorists. A second disturbance was reported in Atberta's Peace River ; block and a third in the south-! ern part of the province. ! Eleven Inches of snow fell at tK (CP) FcilUKT chorage. . The couple spent Wednesday night on a .sandy beach about 50 miles southeast of Rupert after being forced down by bad weather. They left Los Angeles March 3 and were delayed in Seattle for six days by bad flying weather before, taking off Wednesday morning. forts and with the help of such More Leeway in Paying Fines programs as the Colombo plim j Whltecourt. northwest of Ed- Johnson sulci n'?M thai the fiv planned hy t'Nit (,'rivi rninent, IHUr-i;Ll IU1II Id Ili i- ind UN assistHive. would be nionton, in the last 36 hours, and seven inches at Grande Prairie, May Be Fixed in New "Code" B.C CONSTRUCTION FIRMS TO HOLD LINE ON WAGES VANCX UVF.R ft Construction firms in B.C. served notice yesterday tin. will hold the line on wane increases throughout the industry in 1954. Colonel Macgregor Macintosh, newly appointed industrial relations representative for almost 300 B.C. construction firms, told a press conference B.C. construction activity is levelling off and the "building boom in B.C. is over." system as "a relic of the past" OTTAWA 9 Canadians may be given more leeway in paying fines. and urged adoption of the united Kingdom system of paying further northwest. Eleven inches was reported to have fallen at Fort St. John, in northeastern British Columbia. MEDICINE HAT HIT The weather office said n disturbance moved in over the international boundary late Wed-nesdav and earlv Thursdav. tible to live fuller and more sat-j isfylng lives. "And We hope tooitlnit under these plans they will prove for themselves that the democratic processes which characterize the non - Communist world offer more substantial opportunities for material and cultural advancement than the empty promises, of communism." Today the prime minister vis Justice Minister Garson said in British Project To Start Soon NEW WESTMINSTER. B.C. (CP) British interests plan to spend $4,000,000 near here this the Commons yesterday he is ""'Use "is the be-! ""1 for ImsDitul l Mr. Jnhnsmi in t before ll. loth' ra,"-'til! of tiie lee-! "fan rhurrh. ' said the tax was ' "Mry" and a.. " many concerns " ' by-pass lh,..l :."!" I'deral i;CJV,.ni. ! willing to accept a suggested change ln the Criminal Code to extend the elbow room a little fines on the instalment plan. The discussion centred around, a section in the revised Criminal Code covering "summary conviction" of fences the minor crimes under the code. Maximum penalty for such offences is a $500 fine or six months in jail or both. IMMEDIATE PAYMENT Mr. Garson noted that the bit." j along a line extending from ' summer In the first stage of Lethbridgc. through Medicine: B''"t industrial development. Spokesmen for the CCF und Auto Dealers Assert Budget ited three Canadian destroyers The money, for road and sev Social Credit parties agreed with serving three Cunadiun destroy vice-line construction, will be lawyer John Diefenbaker (PC- 'ers serving in the Far East. He spent on 1,200-acre Annacls Is Hat, and reaching to Swift Current., Sask. Heaviest snowfall, more than 10 Inches, was reported at Medicine Hat ' The storm In Saskatchewan vtlett5r re.sid,,;.. f'. described the destroyers, the land. Development of the island Prince Albert) that the present system of giving jail terms in will be ai to! Socred's "April Fools Joke" VANCOUVER (CP) Automo- I was cut from $10 to $1. All car bile dealers have a name for j purchasers pay the registration into, an industrial site is plan Haida, Crusader and Cayuga, as part of Canada's contribution to the late default of payment of fines is unfair to the poor. , " "'"'i nospiii,! 11 lh"'r taxable apparently took in an areajned by the estate of reaching from Yorkton, 110 miles I Dnkc of Westminster. halting aggression. Mr. Diefenbaker described the Minis-,,,, u r I British Columbia's new budget. Meiannloldj Along automobile row it has .jktart ,", Y '" j become known as "Social Cred- . Sl)VlTUmn, "'"-' us April Fools Joke." '- present law permits magistrates to fix a time for payment of fines. He agreed, however, that few magistrates depart from tho practice of requiring Immediate payment. Wallace Ncsbltt (PC-Oxford), a former crown attorney, proposed an amendmtnit which Mr. Garson said he Is prepared to accept. It would provide for payment, if the guilty person is unable to pay immediately, at a time and under conditions fixed by the court. fee. The licence fee was reduced front $25 to $23 50 for average-size passenger ears at tho beginning of the new licence year March 1. New car sales dropped off here by 6L'5 units for the first two months of the year from 2,453 to 1.828. Has Thn t'...vw. ti,.f ' ot .11, t,0111. UlflllC c, ""'"'O . ,Sf t ! Illanni'rf fne pnr riarnf,rM . a rp- 101 the hp T hospital cure Cl Hintltii In pi,lL.r,itinn fnnu hilt i the sales tax was boosted to five , yrr ceiiv, eiiecuve nprn i. SASSIIPC i It will mean higher car Wife Finds Trapper Dead Special to The Doily Hews MOBERLY LAKE, B.C. A 38-year-old auto court and lodge operator was found shot to death in his bed early yesterday at this isolated stopoft 85 miles from Dawson Creek on the Hart highway. Dead is H.- (Slim) Garbltt, well known big game hunter and trapper ln the Peace River district. Garbitt was found dead, with STMlNSTLti ; prices. The tax on a $3,000 car -JihR (CP) i will be lnrrpa.irri from $!)0 to 1 0 Mr A herli. I SlSfl Hi. ,...,...l..i. i,.ii.iM-r.ii Strike Vote Asked by IWA itoh.., . u me i inoni;is the lump will be lrom PORTLAND i.fi International on Hie. around $57 to $95. ''''Kedwiti!1;',''0' 'Thls m'w tax 18 Going to ! 01 l"liRra ii ' hBVe a Klowln8 effeet ln the ,l,hnson on the a , ! ' cur buf'ncKS." said Charles E. lllJ,llt last Dec ii Tno"1l)iitm' prominent dealer mobile Association. ER Woodworkers Of America CIO culled for a strike vote and asked the federal mediation service t) enter negotiations, which have just started. The strike ballots, which must be returned by April 10. ask the workers to give the northwest regional union committee authority to call a strike, if necessary, to enforce contract Plywood Prices Show Big Drop PORTLAND Ufi Major firms have made known new Douglas fir plywood price lists, showing a drop of $5 a thousand square feet. A price of $80 a thousand feet at the factory Is listed for the index grade, quarter-inch, good on one side. This price is $10 below the figure a year ago and is the same price at which plywood, levelled off last November following a severe early fall slump. l"rtonw Uf!y wlth I '- -mC f" 1 4 8 ! . ; . . . ..;'.v Federal taxes already take a big bite. There is a 15 per cent excise tax. 10 per cent sales tax, and $275 freight costs for a car delivered here. Dealers who advocate a reduction in the federal excise tax huvn maH. .nn.a,nnlnHnna In Issnmu M'mper- a bullet hole ln his head, by his 22-year-old wife after she heard a shot. Garbltt's rifle lay nearby, she told neighbors and several tourists staying at the auto camp. RCMP at Fort St. John were notified by radio telephone from a nearby oil company drilling for gas and were enroute to the scene. . Besides his wife, Barbitt Is survived by three children. ti. 'v. 'K'easiun- "S M) Kni.M... nine. Winds w.'west 20 Low west 15 wnitht 't Prt d,,u high ! Ottawa AI ROKA, the polar bear at the Cincinnati Zoo. and her three-month-old cub soak up some Riinshine In their special "confinement" area. John Hensser, no director, made this photo of the cub with his box camera. No photographers are permitted near the bear and her young one. Only once before have American zoo men been able to keep a polar bear cub alive. Now that this cub has survived a third month, zoo officials feel confident the little fellow will live. The union has asked for pay increases of 12 's cents an hour a pay adjustment ln job classifications and three weeks vacation u 35 and 'y Snd i A,ltomoblle drivers had hoped c- 6and-1 for an additional reduction in , licence fees. The registration fee I after five years of service.