I 1 PROVINCIAL j UBWARY ?R0VI"CIAL LI' UORROW'S ! 1M ORMES DRUGS -TIDES wy Frlnuary 13, 1953 , ill.- H'and-rd Tlmo i m 20 2 feel 12:54 22 8 feet 9 .02 6 1 feet IU.23 0 8 feet DAILY DELIVERY Phone 81 NORTHERN AND CENTRAL BRITISH COLUMBIA'S NEWSPAPER Published ot Conodo'i Most Srroregic Pacific Port "Print. Rupert, the Key to the Great Northwest" VOL. XLII, No. 3(1 PRINCE RUPERT .B.C.. THURKDAV nnmiiDv n ' '" PRICE FIVE CENTS 1 . ! 1 issia li) calls ra n m voy l Commissioners Want! V. I K ? (o r ks Relations i Israel COW (CP J The I'nion broke off itic relations with Wednesday night .dult.-i anil one child Israeli legation bc-u'kiny: at once to If WOW. i :..!,- aclrd. a gov-r,..ii tn 1 .rai l said, be- t j - liomb IXploMoll To Develop Algoma Prince Iiupert parks board definitely will ask that a referendum he placed before the people this year requesting transfer of the Roosevelt Park Peautificati'on Fund for the development of Aliroma Park. t we v L - ... All park comniLwiioners agreed 1 ds planted, and picnic tables to such a move at last night's j and chair, erected, regular meeting. t Tne plaza Park development The board also will request anjln section 7 (in the Seal Cove Penny a Pitch interim Budget ian advance! so."re' 18 piannea to be corn- pleted by summer. The interim J "MKNT MASSEY lo.r coin, into a penny pitch at Ottawa. May Court Court Ball. HmM Mr m Maey. of one 1.100 attending the Coronation year version of the ball played every game waltzed and did the samba. Mrs. Melville Roger., president of the club, and Mr. Ma.ss.-y aide-de-camp, Fit. Lt. Arthur Titus, co-ch the governor-general In the game It can continue work on Plaza Park Immediately. The 1953 estimates, which run into five figures thisyear, already have been presented to the city council finance budget asked for last night Is to cover immediate expenditure there. ' Park commissioners have been assured by the Gyro Club that it will provide playground ,il thi Soviet legation j v I.,r.icl capital. I v an iiM-d Israeli gov- ! leader . of Inciting 1 ',:nri against the Soil , , ,; t government, the; intled. ' recall the i the Soviet Union and ; il the Soviet legation I .iv . . breaks off re- j :th the Israeli govern- states that further i '52 Salmon Catch 50 Million Pounds Below Previous Year At the end of this year, there i iuipment this year lor Plaza, will be approximately $25,000 in! ine Koosevelt Park fund, ob-t Curfew tained by setting aside one mill a year since 1949. This special fund was authorized by refer !Mt-riMB-6-33fcd endum. . M, of the Israeli . " mu or the 1952 i Total salmon cakh of 151.13 Even at five cenu a pound, itnimwrnie. and de- trlke-.ldden flying season In million pounds was down 50 mil- lowest price offered to ui personnel of the . BrllUh Columbia show up in i lion pound, from the 1951 catoh, iermen laU season -hif-sh. for full , the Soviet union h 'UUsUej, releujied today by j due to the fall strike which cut salmon, low to BC fishermen lay" tha department of fisheries of sharply the take of Dinks and alone tnt.ii.-rt t.innnnni The parks board has decided that Roosevelt Park is not suit ed for much further develoD- Canada, Pacific area. i chum. Lifting Protested turned a.iide sub.se- In Prince Rupert, the proctor ment and will now concentrate tionate loss was somewhat aile-J on the development of Algoma, Bordering McBnde Street near Ninth Avenue, as a recreational park. :.intlns and apolog-! , Israeli government j-d It of falsehood.. 1 (lii.B and "systematic! ( hitnd and enmity: if Soviet Union and i t to hostile aetlotw: if So let Union." i NELSON W A warning that any future raids on railway AT AN EMERGENCY CLOTHING supply centre at Rotterdam. Margaret Wilson of Toronto, executive secretary of the Canadian Red Cross Society, speaks with a serious-faced flood refugee and her young mother. Miss Wilson Hew from Canada a week ago with a plane-load of supplies for flood victims. More than 300,000 persons in the Netherlands lost all their possessions in the recent disastrous floods. Prince Rupert's flood relief cam-paig begins tonight Flood Relief Drive Begins Here Tonight hPECIFlC PROJECT viated by the large aockeye ran which was f lhed under threat of continual strikes but with only three day. stoppage. With more than twice the sock-eye catch of 1951, last season's take of more than 10 million pounds in the Prince Rupert area was a third of the xpauum'- Last vear nark rnmmi,;...i- tracks by Doukhobor terrorists sought to have the fund trans-' mlnt lead 10 Btrike ction terred to a e-eneral nark iiseimen '"0 run the trains Was EVERYONE USES 18 TONS OF MATERIALS EACH YEAR U life a burden? Sure lt Is, because each of us uses 18 tms-16.000 pounds of mateIals every year. Accordlag to the N Y. Jownai of Commerce, the man who retires at 65 will have neeied 1,170 tons, or 2440.000 pounds, of material things. Annual requirements Include 14,000 pound of fuel. 800 pound of metals reduced from 5.000 pounds of ore. 1,600 pound, of food. 4,100 pounds of cotton, wool, pulpwood. and other agricultural products. 800 pounds of non-metallic materials, and 10,000 pounds of building materials. but later rescinded the motion, here Wednesday night. The warning came at a union eatch and nearly 8.000.000 pounds i on K"nds that the money j Tig Man' In Eas t more than caught here hould represent a capital In- in i951. ; thTniht curTew f "L 0' hA nl.Kht. cle on on Meanwhile.-th herrin i.srtn- tment and should , be used Canvassing in one part of the downtown section yesterday by i.cni . Division. drastically hit by the complete! "We have now decided The onj CPR Monday gave noUce me rnnce Rupert European Relief Committee netted $218.50 to make a total of $344.53 so far .vT ,'" " 'Zl r " ; to engine and train aerrice men. Friday night. Headquarters for the drive are located at the former Bulkley Market store on Third Avenue. Saturday, a sale of Dutch homecooking will be held there. The public will be served by women dressed in Netherlands lunt-iimirai 1HUUU.MUU penuu tuc .uuii w aupijurv us ui "'- Restricted hours of work In ef- ui mwui-i, roveniwr ana ue- lowing ine vransier oi mis iwt .,npf Jm mil him hn collected. cember. j fund," said Pat Forman, ehair- ndles Loot il.VLR 9 Convict-')ursi..r" Roland I)e-ji g "big man" in di;xiw d of thousands -orth of loot, -il you who he is you at me," Desrorhes Returns from the entire busi cancelled. USHERMEN LOSE mal o tne board. ness section were not available The 1952 catch of 189.2 million! Primary plans for Algoma in- at press time. pounds was only slightly more elude filling, levelling off. and This morning, the door-to- than half of the 1951 take of . turfing a playing field, formerly door residential canvass eot under way and continues until 36S.5 million pounds and repre- j cleared with the Canadian army sented a lass of some $550,000 to for a sof tball field. Grandstand North Vancouver Decides To Operate Own Hospital VANCOUVER 9 Suburban week and wage Increases, which North Vancouver will continue to would raise the hospital budget operate lu own 110-bed hospital, by $72,000 annually. There are Mayor Frank Gfildsworthy an- f 10 workers, nounced the decision Wednesday Hospltil administrators la.st when he returned from a meet-i week announced no patients ing with government official In 'would be admitted after Wednes-Vlctorla. He said the North Van-; day and that the hospital would couver delegation have been as-; close February 27. sured of a $14 05 fixed dally ; Tsn re....... .r. -in t fishermen alone. A major slice and bleachers are to be built C.J. Lundquist lives ho visited him : Wedne.vrluy while In-l! rot.lerirH ' knows him," said 'id-ston-y man whd ' least m Vanrouver'1 ' 14(1 (Km In -..I. i ' Under the curfew, which followed track bombings and Incendiarism blamed on fanatic of the Sons of Freedom sect, no traffic moved over Kootenay rails between the hours of 9 p.m. and 3 a.m. The meeting was called by the Brotherhood of Railway Trainmen and the Brotherhood of locomotive Firemen and Engine-men. A resolution was passed authorizing local representatives to contact representatives of the brotherhoods to "protest this ar of this amount would ordinarily j and when the field Is ready, the have been gained by Prince P.u-j board intends to further develop pert, fishermen for practically no the 40-acre tract which borders herring were taken from the! Hays Creek. Retired City highly productive adjacent areas. two-year period be- I FIRST ATTEMPT This will be the first concrete attempt In Prince Rupert to develop a recreational park. But Losses to fishermen in both the salmon and herring fisheries do not take into consideration f ? cauht Monday and Ji to 10 yparg. j Carpenter Dies payment for each patient this budget-freeze order from Health I hscs to shoreworkers in can- the board sees one major ob- year as in 1952. Minuter Prie M.m- v,ihi , nerles and process plants, which ....... .. . Funeral will be held In Van ocf Signed national costume. All funds collected will be receipted and amounts donated may be deducted from income tax returns, Harry Scholten, secretary-treasurer, has an- nounced. ENDS SATURDAY When the drive ends Saturday, total receipts will be forwarded to the Red Cross for transfer to the European Flood Relief Committee overseas and distribution among the three countries of England, Belgium and Holland 'where floods have created damages In the billions of dollars. . A message received today by Stan Simile, president of the Red Cross Society here, from W. S. Stanbury, national commissioner on the European flood situation, now in Holland, s!d In part: ". . . The Dutch people are very grateful for Canadian assistance." In the cable addressed to all branches of the Red Cross, Mr. "This guarantees us a revenue operating expenses to the 1952 , dolIttrs. corLsUtutei several more million ( mostly old-age pensioners bitrary action . . . and further in event of track bombing, they be asked to take strike action if couver Monday for a retired city carpenter who came to Prince t' 'd frre'?in Rorre ,or tne Par hlrh e "" count level and staff demands for pay s who have taken up residences in NSI'RAM E shacks alone the bank of Hays COLLECT necessary to enforce safe work- RuPf " 4 year! a0' h , . , , ing conditions . , Londqulst; the British and , Hon to negotiate with labor.' Under normal ne' The decision to remain open circumstances. Creek and Wantage Road which aiee merit n ,il . . , followed conferences In Victoria. fr Instance, the Port Fc.ward also runs through the park. hos- 'he Sudan w...w ..VH'"' "- witn rremier Bennett and " u uvrci Hrp iwr no t .nnnr ; Nelson Bros, herring plant would be operating at full capacity at , this time. Today, only a few pital authorities. "The park board can"t see any other way out but that the squatters must go when we begin further development of that park." said Mr. Forman. Commissioners will make a erwwlul -urvav rtf the "snilfll. died Tuesday. He Is survived by his wife Marie; two sons, Barney of Prince Rupert and Harry of Westvicw; three daughters, Mrs. Anna Barnes, Newport Beach. California: Mrs. Hjordes Gordon and Mrs. Clara Nielson, both of Vancouver; and seven ; wheels are turning. Where normally, several hundred persona would be employed there, today they number less Labor Brief Scores B.C. Hospital Plan VICTORIA O. Government ti V;" than 20 Among the 100 families ,,.. ...... irt h. the resident in the Port Edward ; lnspecU)r and medi- community normally depending 1(.al heaUri offlcer l0 tave,tlga,e on the fishery for their I veil-1 clalms thBt squatters are po. stanbury said Canadian repre- Before hiK refiremAnt Mr Lundquist ?f ntave M'ss Wilson Is touring was employed at the f -I ' t. iiuw rjsi.s., oil! ulln, K. creek tne flooded areas with the drydock. His remains will be v ... v. j ... .. niauiRiitf I FLOWS THROUGH PARK cheques The creek flows through ad EXPLORE IIIEAS V Fk jacent McClymont Park which Is the main children's play While several good Income years In Prince Ruicrt some have called them boom , years-preceded 1952 and are cushioning ground in the city, equipped by the Gyro Club and also holds Blizzard Continues In England LONDON (CP)-A blizzard raged over northern England and Wales today for the third successive day, cutttlng off more villages and bringing the worst traffic pile-up In years. The blizzard also hit the continent hard. In north England, hundreds of cars and trucks lay buried under the snow. Farm workers struggled Uiigh-dcrp in drifts to rescue sheep. Hastily repaired sea walls along the coast held during the night. An excessively high tide is expected tonight and 24.000 British servicemen and volunteers are working to bolster the levees still more. , tne shock, lt would not take more than another year of a like drop in fisheries production to the Gyro swimming pool. Bulk of the estimated expenditures for 1953 is earmarked for development of this park where close to an acre of clearing along the stream bank was done last year. Grass is to be sown along the banks, flower- shipped to Vancouver tonight. Rosenbergs Must Die WASHINGTON (CP) President Eisenhower Wednesday refused to spare the lives of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, sentenced to death In the electric chair for conspiring to pass atomic secrets to Russia. "Their crime," he said, "far exceeds that of taking the life of another citizen. It Involves the deliberate betrayal of the entire nation and could very well result in the death of many thousands of Innocent citizens." s attempts to "sell" British Columbia's modified co-insurance plan are fraudulent, the B.C. Federation of Labor said Wednesday In a brief presented to the Social Cred.lt Cabinet. A four-man delegation met with Premier Bennett. Attorney-General Robert Bonner, Health Minister Martin and Labor Minister Lyle Wicks. The federation said the government's attempts to sell Its revised $l-a-day co-insurance plan as "$l-a day hospital Insurance plan" were "not correct and ... to a degree, fraudulent. When premiums and paid there should not be further payments for hospital treatment, the brief said. The federation also said premiums should be reduced to 1950 levels and co-insurance abolished. It urged the government to set up a crown corporation to sell low-cost car Insurance and opposed suggestions that; absentee-vote provisions be removed from the Elections Act. Dutch Red Cross and will cablp a complete situation report after consultation with the Duteh government and relief agencies. ENTIRE NETWORK While the Red Cross is employing its entire emergency network to aid flooded areas, it does not wish the public to construe the present campaign as part of the annual Red Cross appeal, Mr. Saville said. " " Of returns made yesterday following canvassing of the west end of the business section, the following list of donors was released by the local committee: Anonymous, $3: George Hill & Sons, $3; Prince Rupert Credit Unfon, $3; Miss Frances Partridge. $5: Fred Dowdie. tlbO; Fashion Footwear, $10; R. A. Williams, $1; K. L. Robertson. $1; Central Cafe, $5; Howe Ss McNulty. $10; Miller's Cigar Store, $5; P. R. Plumbing $3; Frizzell Motors, '$25; Family Shoe Store. $5; Acme Clothing, $5; Star Stylewear, $2; Yukon make this a poor" city. it Is the opinion of not one. but several businessmen and operators in the fishing Industry as well. Some operators have very definite opinions on what Is behind all the strife in their industry. They say there is a definite move afoot to create dissension and dissatisfaction among union members. "We can call it anything we want. It doesn't matter," said one operator. "There is no law In Canada against such tactics, even If they are dictated directly from Moscow." To Celebrate Jubilee INNISFAIL, Alta. (CP) This town 84 miles north of Calgary Is panning jubilee celebrations for the summer,, probably on July 1. It was called Poplar Grove until 1893, when it was named after Innisfail In , , Fire Doused On Freighter TOKYO (CPX-The U.S. navy today said crew members of the American freighter President Pierce late today put out a fire and escorting ships are bringing In nine American passengers and two Injured crew members. Navy headquarters said the ship Is proceeding slowly toward Yokohama. The explosion-kindled fire swept through two holds of the Pierce, 100 miles southeast of Yokohama. It was not reported what caused the explosion. -WEATHER- Forecast North coast region: Gale warning issued. Rain today, cloudy with showers tonight and Friday. Not much change in temperature. Southeast gales, 40, shifting to westerly gales, 35, this evening and decreasing to west British Freighter Evades Attacker HONO KONO 0 The 3.539-ton British freighter Incharran today steamed undamaged toward Hong Kong after being chased and attacked in Formosa Strait by a tank-landing ship believed here to have been a Chinese Nationalist. British naval authorities said the Incharran flashed a distress signal early today and 22 minutes later signalled she had successfully evaded her attacker. , Jewellers. $2; Kaien Hardware, $5; George Cook, $10; Lome McLaren Ltd., $5; Ormes Drugs, IS op THE NEW " "'u-,fi, . y' 1 Canadian Arwuery Dana , D ..:'rlr,mni-uovern -'""ii-uovernor Aiistair rraser arrives ne Nov. $50: Chandler's, $3; Pete Cra-vetto, $2; Nuithcrn Tire Co.. $5: Surprised Drillers CARLYLE, Sask. (CP) An oil drilling crew working near liens brought in a "gusher," but it wa-snt oil. The crew struck an artesian well which poured forth water that could not be checked. erly, 20, early Friday morning. "Pets 'CB's'ature in Halifax. Called "corona-Ke vr bee tKllli8e they were designed for the coronation of l' the . rour-fnn..ir.r.. i.... .v.. Anonymous, $5; London Shoe Shop, $1; Pacific Electric Co., $5; Variety Store, $5; E. Cnoa-sen, $35; Quality Grocery, $2. Low tonight and high tomorrow at Port Hardy, Sandspit and Prince Rupert, 38 and 45. tin nriv... wB mow utiic-iii-D nir iiir inj unco army bf"'d In Canada. J I '1