! pwov.no.al PRC'IHCIAL LIB2AM, I NX j . 4 . . . 113 QRMES rCTlCTOHIA. B. C. WW '""DRUGS DAILY DELIVERY v "ADC NORTHERN AND CENTRAL BRITISH COLUMBIA'S NEWSPAPER jlllSP.W i HID Published at Canada's M )st Strategic Pecif e Port' Prince Rupert, He Key to the Greot NortKwesf Phone 81 I VOL. XLI, No. 84 PRINCE RUPERT, B.C., TUESDAY, APRIL 8, 1952 price FIVE CENTS 12) 0, WW ige Rental of $75 Required Untinn Protect Hp.rp. Fulk Telephone Eyes Turned on Ottawa Pronouncements Tonight i I'rince Rupert homeseekers can give Financing Possible Issuiance that more than 50 families are pay an average rent of $75 a month for k the proposed 50-unil housing project is federal budget, with the fiscal year holds for the ha Kvniin-lit Anti-n !n tliU v ' . V 1 Department of munlclpaliUes : V -""6..v 114 w.c has ruled Prince Ruperts bor-i House of Commons tonight (5 p.m. Pacific Standard rSKJSSS Minister Douglas Abbott. law of some $600,000. A money' Indications of any tax relief . bylaw o this extent has been ; ar "eagre. for the wlde margjn between prepared for presentation to Botn Mr- Abbott and Prime the oHnai oreCast of $30,000,-electors, a city, delegate to Vic-. Minister St LaOrent have warn- 000 surpug and actua experi-toria reported to council last ' ed taxpayers not to expect much ence nlKht. , WpanwhilA rrttirtril Is r o I f i it foi further information on pos- sibility of selling bonds at re- i OTTAWA (CP)-The ! story of what the 1952-51 ; Canadian tavnavor will renei wnuc me rvorean war and other international alterca- tl0"8 contln,uev .lnree maln P058101""08 exsl- schedules which would lncor- porate into basic tax rates the 20 per cent defence surcharge played on personal and corpora- Uon incomes in the last budget, l'kol v to b shelved. 1 City council last night refused a Central Mortgage ti Housing Corporation proposal to further underwrite the housing scheme by a scale reduction of assessments. A city delegation of City Clerk 11. W. Long and Aid. H. M. Dag-:tt learned in Vancouver last .veck thot, according to bids re-! ntal units, rents would range ' f I'rcni a minimum of $60 to $85 a ' Donth. 1 f "The federal government feels , 4 the.-.e rents arc too high and that 1 hi piojcct would lose money! .10111 the bcelnning," reported I City Clerk Long. Federal govern- Minn Housing omciais were a r little dubious" as to whether j i ' houses could be rented for an 1 average of $75 a month In Prince ; :lupert. "The federal government wants substantial assurance (hat $75 a month is obtainable here. We have to be sure enough of this to underwrite the project," said Mr. Long. Council agreed that it would live up to its original agreement of sharing in losses and profits duced interest to American in- Easing 01 the excise tax on vestors. Present information ls'c'sarcttes which was boosted that monoy is available In the 13' year. Preliminary govern- U.S. at about" one percent less ment statistics have already interest than in Canada. shown that the government lost lnoney 00 excise duties on to- Delegates City Clerk R W. Lonfe and Aid. H. M. Dagget t also bacco last vear Decuse of re" ; in i armed council that all but duced s&lea. i $100,000 of the city's borrowing 2- Realignment of Income tax Ban B.C. Projects (Suffer (CP) Several In-,ts in British Collected to be ser-Jcd by the United on steel for li.tjor projects such Ronton - Vancouver e Aluminum Com-ia at Kitimat, the J; Mining and Smelt-it . expansion of Its liiemical plants at ijiiiberley and the (Jliydro development p'i to be hampered J j Stop IlldllUIIIU I kidc Amendments Parliament J ' 1 MOPPNO-UP STARTS-Officials damaging floods to Msdlcine Hat Personal Income tax yielded an estimated $980,000,000 in J)51-52, an Increase of $327,700,- 000 or 50.2 per cent over the previous year, The corporation income tax, again the largest single source of government revenue, yielded $1,134,000,000, an increase of $.J34 ,800,000 or 42 per cent over the previous year. Tne revenue from taxes on cigars, cigarettes and tobacco products and alcoholic bever ages was $19,000,000 lower, due to reduced sales. , inHationary pressures have hpen brought nnripr rnnrrnl hut increaSed output occurring In tne defence supported sections of lne economy. t: Sr This does not necessarily mean international events could bring way tnls summer to provide there will be alterations in the about a renewal of direct infla- factual data in considering th: mconie tax although some ad- tlonary pressures that might requirements of this highway for justments are possible. seriously test our economic de- : tne improveme nt of which dur- 3. . A better break lor the tax- fences. jng the coming year $2,000,000 ayer who has medical" bills to Prospects for 1952 Indicate has been appropriated. The deduct from his income for tax continued high levels of em- Chamber of Commerce was so purposes. The Commons recent- pi0yment and general business advised last night by L. E. Smith, iy adopted, apparently with gov- actiVity without any renewal ot divisional engineer for the pv-ernment agreement, a private overt inflation and with most He works department. Pcrsons Crtek has passed. A porUon of the Alberta city wlvere W extent of 12'i percent. 1,000 pcrsons were flooded out earlier this week Is shown. Clean Plt.V Will nlsn malfp on imma. up work is in progrisg but the flood area, embracing some 255 homer has been. declared a health menace. Fumigation of many 1 tiiate survey through news-jpiiper questionnaires, asking for applications to rent the nrr- IPi-A'ojiltion of the nnsirt units for rape and of This information must be in (sentence for all the hands nf thp fpri..rai em. wmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm location, resurtaemg and gravel-. j . ling between Prince Rupert and 1 Terrace. ommended by the mcnt almost immediatelv." said homes Will be necessary before return- British Columbia Facing Lean Days VANCOUVER' (CP) :,1., r..;:,n r-i...u:... uay unit, ui uiMi vuiuiiiuia s I its hardest times in more i ..n , Ision on revision of Mr. Long. Deadline to award jCode contracts for the housing pro- Uord report, tabled Ject Is April 18. : power will have been used If the .telephone bylaw Is passed. Killed on Roadside ! HANEY Oh An accident in-i volving an automobile and truck killed two pedjstrla-is Monday and injured a third as they stood :rhat.tinir hv thp lrii nf the mart ' Neither of the motorists was Injured. The killed were Albert Joseph Derosla, 68. of nearby Albion and a 35-year-old man from Alberta, whose identity la withheld pending notification of next-of-kin. Tlie RCMP aav tlw o-1Wyp th ;car. ln attempting to pass a municipal truck, apparently made a sideswipe and in start- I1"6'0, mae a urn thf VT101 pushed it into three pedestrians. Mousing Concern Chamber of Commerce Going niri t tn Minister and " " " . R,cmber at otta OUaw Housing and the reversal whlch It seems Is being met by rentaI . housing project here through B; in the House of '"But that Is as Tar as t would want to go," said Aid. George (CoiHlliuou on jdL "I Might Avert Steel Strike ; oeen practically no new Dusiness witn sterling area countries which for years have been taking 40 ei , ; r , cent Q output 1 f MAN OF HOl'R . . . Douelas Abbott, presenting budget tonight To Check Highway Traffic Chamber of Commerce Hears of Big Program On Highway Sixteen A traffic count will be taken at various stations along Hie Northern Trans-Provincial high- J. D. McRae, ML A, predicted that a goodly portion of the $2,000,000 would be spent on v- Hugo Kraupner said that ten- ders would be called soon for re- - construction and . i.location, of the road" between Galloway Rapids and Diana Lake. Question of Phone Site Chamber of Commerce Not Satisfied That Liquor Store Purchase Wise Move Wisdom of the city council in deciding to purchase the former liquor store building at the corner of Third Avenue and Second Street for use as a telephone exchange was questioned at the meeting of the Prince Rupert Chamber of Commerce with the result that the municipal," committee was requested to investigate the whole question and re port back to the chamber. . v A motion to this effect by Dr. R. G. Large was approved; after being given priority by the chair over a previous motion by L. M. Felsenthal that the city council be asked to reconsider its decision to purchase the liquor store and select a different site for the telephone exchnngr which site would also alio Mi the erection of other city buildings such as City Hall and F:rc Hall. .... The matter of the liquof StorV building purchase came up duin ing a general discussion of mtr' nicipal affairs in which th? chamber was urged by the presiw dent, T. Norton Youngs, to take a more active interest. View appeared to be general that the liquor store property was too valuable to be kept o.f the tax list and that a new tele phone building could be built on a less central site at a cost comparable with the expense that will be entailed in purchasing and rehabilitating the liquor store. When the urgent necessity of a new City Hall and new Fire Hall was injected into the discussion, Dr. L. M. Greene took the view that these wre secondary considerations to the need of water and sewer improvements, better streets to say nothing of housing. Costello To Prison NEW YORK (CP) Gambler Frank Costello was fined $5000 and sentenced to 18 months in prison today for refusing to testify before a Senate crime Investigating committee. PITTSBURGH (CP) Outlook ,or tne thicatenca steel strike being averted looked brighter today when Nathan Fclnslnger, Wage Stabilization Board chair- man, said that he had "some confidence the strike may be scltl,d by deadline time at mid- n'gbt tonight. He said he had presented suggestions to both companies and unions. .111 HUvautC Ui VilC uumkck oucr;vi. ..... ,. tenders for the construction sub- fiI.RP.I. fpi aim d Meanwhile the American steel Industry rushed toward a complete shutdown today. Earlier government, industry and labor leadership held out scant hope of averting a defence-crippling strike at midnight. Mill shutdowns have already made Idle more than 100,000 of 650.000 United Steel Workers CIO) who have been ordered to strike against some 98 steel producing companies. Allied industries, such as rail- if the minister of ibiuarl uarson, the ftecommended that ft only maximum ftTlmcs. This would trie court to fit the fcj the crime. I. the coot liiis Sil minimum penal- . -endations of the ill accepted by the ui be offered to r approval. ion suggested the tn.lt, for rape be f h is suggested In the code providing for 'ver, the commis- ll'it ;uch penalties ft V under . .,ftU,iH,ui regulation 1 federal cabinet. i' ermit Export rmmfnt P f Approval .? -The Alberta on Monday put its 'r,JVal on the export fs fl'om the Peace J the .Pacific Coast. ,c- Manning gave Hf glslature that he W'jrrow a resolution U.Se tft nntrr.rt l " 'ar export pcr- l' Coast Trans- U OOKin hv thn " - i- tllU I unit of export SeU nut U- a, ,u , : ' "lay he PX- lllcn 't-rnay iiw rnr rtz rv,c! to commi.nl. face Rtvp uioniUL. I resolution asking that limits on the. amount of deductable medi- cal expenses be widened. WHITE PAPER A budgetary surplus of $355,-737,000 for 1951-52 fiscal year was reported Monday by Mr. Abbott. ; . The surplus, sixth In a row for the federal government since the end of the Second World War. compares with $211,204,000 ln the previous year. f Revenues for the year ended , March 31 last, setting' an all-time record, totalled $4,003,111.-; 000. Expenditures totalled $3,-: 647,374,000. j in the previous year, revenues were $3,112,536,000 and expend!-; tures $2,901,242,000. Surplus reduced the country's! net debt to $11,077,600,000, a de-l crease of $2,343,800,000 from Its peak of $13,421,400,000 In 1946. The figures included in the i government's annual white naner " " contained an economic review Of the last fiscal year, Mr AbboU Mt a precedent by tahllnir n his white naDer a davi weK.Pap" dhy A detailed explanation Is given CPA Steps Up Service The old-type Canso aircraft has been removed from local Canadian Pacific Airlines servlca and. to replace it, a modernized version another Landseaire landed here yesterday to take clt.de a touchdown at Terrace airP"- tmen T Transm.rt j J -i Wl g1 fnchte . R0UfPfclals v said It likely Xerrace runs will be made Monday Wednesday and Friday ,,'.u.. ,,-. " NEW SCHEDULE Under the new schedule of flights the flight via Sandspit (Port Hardy is now eliminated) will leave here at 1:50 and ar- rive Vancouver 6:30 p.m. The direct flight will arrive report the threat of. further from run-off waters of RevPn i ! ! thp vvanulpri families oon CP PHOTO I i . : ! Lumber Market 1 Orders Down i , A lumberman said Mon - i.:.u-.. . uinuer muusiry is lacing than a decade. There has i . . ,. i North American market is be-i cause of curbs on housing cred- Its in Canada a sharp reduction " construction in United States, and growing competition , -. . f u i nu... ......-.. - P1"6 market- Bulk buying by tne united tf rrlnm anrl tilt! V-.il f nnnr Ml"kl mainstay oi the big export , ml ,m Is m o.v. cnucu wiui i..c ...u... to private .. buying under Britain's , Conservative government. coast mills still are working on United Kingdom bulk orders f0T somc 680'000'000 board feet niaf.,,,4 iact vpar "But when we piu deliveries t SeptenV ber thcre ,g nothlng more in sighti a spokesman for export- ... ,ri . ,nmiti Nnrth American sales this year to date . . at 30 per cent of what they were last vear . - : j Not m many years has the in- dustry faced a situation as ser- jous as the present brought about by such a combination of adverse factors, said a director o( one jorest industry. i ( I i Ship Inspector "Not Justified' . I Establishment of a resident' ; steamboat Inspector, requested ; by the Canadian Halibut Vessel Owners' Association and endors- ' ed by the Prince Rupert Cham-! ber of Commerce, is considered not justified at the present time, according to communication re- ; ment, it will be considered, the department has advised. Frank Kaftel on ISfSei Ull f)'l f)noct IfUeSl ' Frank Kaftel, who a couple of years ago interested himself in an ambitious hotel project here. is now promoting another pro- ject. He is the moving spirit be- hind a proposition to explore for oil in Israel. A company Is being stantially exceeding tne estimate came ln for considerable discus- sion at the meeting of the Prince . RuPcrt Chambcr of Cmmerce last night. Taking a serious view of the lack of housine here.! the cham- ber decided to take the matter up immediately with E. T. Ap- piewnalte, Mr tor BKeena, sua Hon. R. H. Winters, minister of rcsourccs and development (un- der whom nouslng Comesl, with a vlew tQ obtainlng the latest inrnnnv,inn r,n on r,r,!ihip as. sistance in expediting the pro- VV LAAI I IUI : Svnonsis Almost all regions of British Columbia will enjoy another j... sunny uay uunuuB.i ain.-r.iuuu . temperatures ratu Ves will will be be a little tower than h the normal orml for early , April. Cloudiness . which lingers A t IM..1.. over tne nortnern coasv is ime.y to decrease during the day but Will form again in tne late aucr- noon or evenimr as weak dis- ------ turbance moved Into that area. it is aouotiui ii any appreciate precipitation will follow this TlTTZlloutZ storm which is still well out in the North Pacific should bring rain to the Queen Charlottes by tomorrow night., There is little likelihood of any very marked change over the remainder of the province. Fnrnruxt ""C17 North .w Coast Region Variable cloudiness today, becoming over- cast toward evening. Cloudy Wednesday with light rain at night. A little warmer Wednes- day. Winds Light, Increasing to southerly, nines per nour, tonight. Lows tonight and highs Wednesday At Port Hardy and Sandspit. 38 and 48; at Prince Rupert, 35 and 45. Y s Protest Rome Edict ROME 0" The national secrc- (1 mirtr- K. II. JullH-lmi fa. l.t.1. VANCOUVER American Standard 22 Bralorne 6-30 B R X 04 Cariboo Quartz 1.50 Congress 06 Cronin Bablne 48 Giant Mascot T 99 Indian Mines 19 ' Pend Oreille 7.00 Pioneer .2.65 Premier Border 31 Privateer 08 Reeves MacDonald 5.25 Reno 03 Sheep Creek 1.69 Silbak Premier .58 Vananda 18 Salmon Gold 03 Spud Valley 10 Silver Standard 2.30 ' Western "c" Uranium 4.40 Oils A P Con .62 Calmont 190 C & E i5.00 Central Leduc .3 90 Home Oil 16.00 Mercury 35 Okalta 4.15 Pacific Pete .1 13.25 Royal Canadian- 27 TORONTO Aumaque .20 . Beattie DuQuesne "... 46 Bevcourt 1.15 Buffalo Canadian 22 H Consol. Smeltars 35.25 Conwest 4.00 Donalda 41 Eldona 27 East Sullivan 8.70 Giant Yellowknlfe 11.00 God's Lake 38 Hardrock 14 Heva iu'4 Little Long Lac .73 Lynx 14 Madsen Red Lake 2.10 McKenzie Red Lake 48 McLeod Cockshutt 2 98 Moneta , 43 Negus .66 Noranda 79 00 Louvlcourt 35. Fickte Crow 1.85 San Antonio 2.60 Sherrit Gordon 4.55 Steep Rock 6.90 Silver Miller .. 1.60 Upper Canada 189 Golden Manitou 6.35 Two Nanaimo Lads Drowned NANAIMO 0 Two 12-year-old roads, are laying off workers in tne expectation of losing busi- npss- President Philip Murray of the steelworkers declared over a ra- dio network : "At midnight the nation's production of steel will fnvtA in n Knit ' ject. over the Prince Kupert-sanaspu Already the matter had been run- Air Lines o ficials also an-iwith taken up by J. D. McRae, MLA. nounced that the direct Land- Johnson, Premier Byron seaire flight to Vancouver would who has been taking an active interest in the subject, and a Pate daily except Sunday, be-telegram received during last ginning April 28 and that three Inmhf. mpptin f,-nm thp nro-: times weekly the flight will in- Murray asxprted that the steel Industry could grant his union's rr-w.o .ct1rt llfnfii- orru a I pilHO a OlllilJ OtlivOI jynnj ton." Industry sources maintained n a r,..i.tll nicy cannot, meet wage owum- 7.ntinn Rnop rpftrninionHllt.innS i for a 17 '2-cenU hourly wage lncrease- ' ' ' tary of the Young Women s ceived from the Department of $660,000. Therefore a revision of viewing with disappoint- Christlan Association of Italy Transport. When shipping here the proposed rental scale Is be- t a coman8v m6 vetodiscon-protested yesterday against an has increased to such an extent ing suggested and the city has ttewardes slewarQts,il strv,Le ,011 u" hat Italian Catholic Union dlrectlve'as to Justify such an ' appoint-j been asked, according to lnfor- i'"ue B.C Retail Sales Down vincial premier said he was un- able to give any definite infor- mation because of lack of Infor- mation available at Ottawa. Whereas the sum of $535,000 was originally allocated for the 50-house project, the lowest ten- der is understood to have been mation received at the chamber meeting, to review the rent pay- ing possibilities here on the ba- sis of a minimum of $60 and up- ward or reduce the taxes. (Elsewhere in today's paper the city council deliberation on housing is reported. TIDES Wednesday, April 9, 1952 High 0:40 20.1 feet fldnnPri : VICTORIA P Retail sales in I vw : nritioK rnh,mMn In lunimrv 1 (fP m, ' tiAfnllnl Ml flonrinn TVilc urns fcent T.. e Provin- ,,,'''" t f;,v, 7orm. vle'r aPP0intedinnfitr'' 7--f ; , ' "losi . ... -warn T.f ori ; . - The Minister of Trade. Hon. V. D. Tun.bull. said in a statj - nent eni Monday Monaay the ine January January de ue- - warning members against both Young Men and Young Women's Christian Associations. in a letter to the Rome Daily; American, English language i newspaper, Mary Rossi said the ' Catholic Action pronouncement, !"". only brln a sens , of dis-, i , 'av ' .lo ,vw - 1 "il0 . ha : been In itusiuus .v President of the Catholic group on March 25 told members they '"must regard" the YMCA and j YWCA as "forbidden organiza- I t.ions" under Romnii Catholic - average unri. ....!" 'utce Di m V i Hn.PAUnD i- c.lnesshowny in the folding from Vancouver 12:30 noon and(boys Iast seen saumg a dug-out leave at 3 p.m., arriving Vancou- canoe lnto wind-SWept waters ver 7:30 p.m. outside Nanaimo harbor are both The late plane (via Sandspit) believed t0 nave drowned, will carry the mail. ; Body of Raymond Lillcombe ""Qav n,. . bus nessps- arcl has horma" Motor vehicle dealers 23 per t Ln ln"n: cent dealers w"h the 1 "PPHance and radio "lade . recom- ii2 nenTPnt. 13:02 Low 6:55 19.5 feet 4.2 feel 4.9 feet The Monaay, weanesaay ana Friday flights for Terrace will leave at 1 p.m. and return at ' ' 2:30 p.m. was found washed ashore and search Is being continued by po'iee Tor the ot.hvr, Leo He.n- jdriekson. 8 f i..f mp h"s- I.n.nhpr ,,H huiwinu- mntprinl j formed. 19:02 canon law. dealers 24.4 percent.