t V iJ pROVlNCMl PROVINCIAL LI23A3T, VICTORIA, B. C. 113 TOMORROW'S TIDES life 1 1 iihiy. July 3. 1953 Stardard Time) iparilic 3 4,-l nigh 5:48 1 77 feet, NORTHERN AND CENTRAL BRITISH COLUMBIA'S NEWSPAPER VDeliyery I 18:30 19 S feet . - - feet Published ot Conoda's Most Strategic Pacific Port "Prince Rupert, the Key to the Great Northwest" Low 12:00 5.0 feet Phona 81 V VOL. XLII, No. 151 PRINCE RUPERT, B.C., THURSDAY, JULY 2, 1953 PRICE FIVE CENTS n n n n n n n rN n EI?(!L ILk to Hip LBCj n no n n o o.. o n n ' v T; i ' nllTnr- -i I W lcn Armunn nr"" I I " nniA UUVUW-liMUUV" UUW9J pUuW UUU U UV!!AIiJ2VS f w '.ma. -i ini - j 'wmw.'.? . . 'i "wsfl .'A'w.'r Tpw; , 19 Elected So Far As Count Continues Brown Wins ' ' .,7 ( it . .-, , V. ' i a - By DAVE STOCKAND Canadian Press, Staff Writer , fir- , y 1 1 u i - V Rupert 1 VANCOUVER. Social Credit appeared today to be marching toward majority government in British Columbia with final success hinging on continued strength in the multiple-seat ridings. 9 Retaining or leading in tnei interior seats it captured in Liberal candidate Bruce j Brown, 43-year-old city j lawyer, is the member-; elect of the provincial; Legislature for Princej Rupert. i 1952, and making inroads for the first time on Vancouver Island, the nartv now looks to the big r a city ridings for a working ma jority in the 48-seat legislature. Tuesday, tne io-De-conunuea provincial election picked up where it left off three weeks ago and there was no change in the A school trustee since 1946, j he esed out George Hills, CCF j iiieuioer for this constituency In j the last Legislature, by 33 votes i In the second count. j Result of the second count, was announced late Tuesday nicht by returning officer Scott ! trend which showed ltseu voting day. , The latest standing showed: Elected: Social Credit 19; CCF 12; Liberals 3; Labor 1 and Pro- Cement Ship is Tombstone made with cement, lies on Its side If! Till- lll l.K OF AN KXPF.RIMENTAI. First World War ship, - tlie .shallow surf off Cape May, N.J. An enterprising boat Insurance salesman has managed to use the side a a billboard to advertise his wares. The ship was being tested vrtien it proved too much to handle and was beached. TWO EMPLOYEES of the Kapok Research Laboratories in Itami City, Japan, demonstrate the effectiveness of a pair of overcoats that will support a man In the water. The material in the coats is the result of 40 years of research by one Shunji Adachi. It took a long time to develop a material that would make a "life saver coat." and now that it Is developed the question arises: Who needs an overcoat when he goes for a swim? uressive Consevative 1: Leading: McLaren after a day-long ses-, sion at which the ballots were rcchecked at the request of So- Social Credit 10; CCF 2. Total 48. With 19 seats in the bag the clal Credit candidate Bill Mur-( ray and absentee votes were ' same number with which It formed a minority government In 1952 Social Credit Is six seats added. i In the recheck the result was: , Federal Fisheries Patrol Boats Seek Forked-Tail Albacore Tuna short of a working majority. ELECTION TABLE The Vancouver riding, still a riddle in the counting confusion, Murray. 1.559; Hills, 1,834; Brown, 1,721. ' After absentee votes were added, the totals were: Murray, Vancouver Centre. A Alex Matthew. could provide, this strength, lack of which toppled Premier W. A. A. BRUCE BROWN , . . new MLA i.rtf,hil-'l,.rrl "hula iirl" lures nf the run. Members elected and leading in the British Columbia election: Social Credit Elected Cariboox: W. T. T. Chet- Vancouver Centre B George C. Bennett's minority govern that British Columbia fishermen I Such a find would be the bl(? ment after seven stormy months Moxham. Vancouver Point Grey A Tom use for tuna trolltnK Woman Hit wynd, unchanged. In office. ' The CCF, it appeared, would 1.731; Hills, 2.074. and Brown, I 1.864. In the transfer of Murray's second choices. Mr. Brown got 1747 votes and Mr. Hills 504, to leive Brown 2.611 and Hills 2.573. I There were 480 exhausted bal gest fishing news here since July 19. 194S, when one of the vessels found the water alive with tuna. Fnr two vears. more than VANCOUVER (f Three federal fisheries put nil boats are fLshiiiR fr a million-dollar Industry which disappeared, three jeiirs aw into the vast blue depths of Die Pacific. The motor vessels Laurier. Ho-way aiiri KiUmat are taking aboard assortments of the odd, On their reKular off-shore patrols, they will be constantly on the lookout for signs of the forked-tnll albacore tuna. If Bate. Vancouver Point Grey B R. W. Bonner. aeain form the official Opposi Chilliwack x: W. K. Kiernan, unchanged. Columbia R. P. Newton, tion under school principal Ar Twice by Vancouver Point Grey C x: Mrs. Tilly Rolston. nold Webster who. like Premier they find any, . fishermen must ! 2.000.000 pounds of the fish were ...... irbiv in tako arlvantaifc ! landed annually until, in the Rpnnett was one of the first to I early mimmer of 1!)M, they van- t be declared elected in the June 9 Lightning ballotine. rr!t x: Thomas Trwin. -" Nelson-Creston x: Wesley D. Black. North Vancouver George Tomlinson. Ished as mysteriously ax mey I first appeared. Since then, the lots. Mr. Iirr.wn, who la en route to Aflln where he Is prosceutinn attorney In a county court theft case, was advised by telegram that he had won the seat. When the result was an Defeated by Social Credit In TkiWdiiey -x; Lylf vV'vcl;s, uii changed. Esquimau Herbert J. Bruch, gain from CCF. Fort George Ray Williston, RUPERT ALL-STARS PLAY last vear's June 12 voting, the CORONACH, Sask. (CP) Mrs. Ken Elder was knocked uncon i iherals went into the new elec- only tuna landed here have been caught off the California and Oregon coasts. 1 scious twice in her farm homo Tuesday ' by heavy lightning While the tuna run, canneries tion with six members and salvaged three In counting Tuesday and Wednesday. Sitting member Dr. Lorenzo Giovando has been that struck this southwestern did a flourishing business and counted on the crop to keep CCF Elected Alberni x: Stanley J. Squire, unchanged. Burnaby x: E. E. Winch, unchanged. Comox x: W. C. Moore, unchanged..' . Saskatchewan area 130 miles nounced, Mr. Hills thanked Mr. I McLaren for the efficient way he had handled the Job and j ssld he would not ask for a re- I 'count. j unchanged. Kamloops-x: P. A. Oaglardl, unchanged. North Okanagan x; Lome H. Shantz, unchanged. Omineca x: Cvril M. Shel- south of Moose Jaw. A lightning-caused fire de the only Progressive Conservative elected. Standing at dissolution In the KETCHIKAN ON WEEK-END Viuvp Rupert's all-star baseball team, thwarted in its efforts to take on Ketchikan over the Dominion Day holiday, travel to the Alaskan centre this coming week-end and play panics there Saturday and Sunday. The Prince Rupert Baseball Association said today that the league games scheduled for tonie.ht and Sunday here have been cancelled due to tiir imiicnillng series. , Windy and damp weather Wednesday saw cancellation of the holiday flume when Ketchikan phoned down and found out the ucuthnr nnrt smimrl rnnrtiLions were unfavorable. stroyed the Elder home three Mr. n.us nao neio a ' -v..le ' ford, unchanged. Cowichan - Newcastle x : uo- miles southwest of Coronach bert M. Strachan, unchanged. nd liehtnine killed the Elder spring was: Social Credit 19; CCF 18; Liberals 6; Conservatives 2: Labor 1; vacant 2. Total 48. them busy after the salmon pack was finished. The B.C. tuna are a smaller type than the blucfin "horse mackerel" tuna that visit the Nova cicotia coast, sometimes weighing 800 pounds. Scientific research has shown that tuna follow ocean currents of certain temperatures, which Cranbrook x: Leo Nlmslck, :eaa over Mr. Brown uniii wer c-ra w I Fere Charles W' June 30 recheck and count. Riv,Pr .x' .It. is Mr. Brown's first bid in Prkcr; u"cS.an.fdv. I Rosdand-TryU-x. R. E. Som-' politics, ' but he is well known .... ers. unchaneed. doe and injured several persons unchanged. In Coronach. My i if h '.1 ! , W i'1 I'. .'mi, u f V-Vv All: f 1 L - K i1 i 'P. It" ' ' ' V . ' v 3 ! t I . .'I j it !. jit)' Social Credit stormed into the Liberal stronghold of Victoria In After beine knocked uncon Grand Forks-Oreenwooa x. Rupert W. Haggen, unchanged. Kalso-Slocan x: Randolph counting completed Wednesday scious the first time, Mrs. Eldrr nieht and captured all three rushed her voune children to a as H conimumiy wurser. i ... - . Dii,t-, Frank Richter, I Siinilkameen - Mr. Brown came to Prince Puncrt 13 years ago as a law i u"rnl,"B' South Okanagan-x. .. w W. A. a r C. ! student and In 1944 was called tn the bar , n Bennett, unchanged. i- r, hJ Yale x: Irvin F. Corbett, un- Harding, unchanged. seats there for a total of four on barn and returned to the house with the presence of small surface fish and other marine life make conditions favorable to 1 to put out the fire. Mackenzie x: A. J. Gargrave, unchanged. Revelstoke x: Vincent Segur, Another bolt struck her un them. Vancouver Island. B.C. was voting for the second time under the alternative system of balloting. The three-week period before returning officers lm; ' eraduated from high schooi and changed. , But no one knows exactly why . ,90 f t nrnvincial Sannich J. D. Tisdalc, gain conscious again but she recov Pi ini e Rupert Esquires will play a doublcheader In Terrace oo Sunday. Construction Permits Down $100,000 in First Six Months unchanged. thpv deserted the B.C. coast. normal school, after which he irom w-r. J. Allen Reld, Salmon Arm-x: taueht school in Pentlcton un-l ered in time to escape from the burning dwelling. Mr. Elder wa? at work at Coronach when the-lightning struck. Notified tha' Skeena Frank Howard, gain from Liberals. Vancouver East B Arnold Webster, unchanged. V 1937. He had completed three 'incnangeu. started on' the count or alternative choices was to allow for transfer of absentee ballots to ... 1 lriitrtftn Victoria C. Percy Wright, Conditions In 1951 seemed ideal for them, with the great patches of blue water from the' Japan current swarming with tuna food, and temperatures right. years of university by 1939. his home was on lire, ne summoned help, but when the; reached the scene the housi the Const ruction In Prlnre Rupert mluht be picking up after their proper constituencies. FIVE MINISTERS is down more than $100,000 for April and May lull. ,u... CCF Leading Atlin x: Frank Caldcr. Vancouver East A x: Arthur For r0r the me next ncxi lew lew weeKs, weens, prac- prat and its contents had been de As of Wednesday night five of the first six months of 1953 com- i t ast year 's six month total was ttcally every fishing vessel along comparcu impared to w $171.830's ni,iwa tne tne coast COast wlli will be be listening listening tot for Riders Take Over Trams CALCUTTA IAP) Irate street-car riders, angered by a fare increase, took over the gain from Liberals. Victoria A: Mrs. Lydia Ar-sens. gain from Liberals. Victoria B: William N. Chant, gain from Liberals. Social Credit Leading Vancouver Burrard A x: Eric Martin. stroyed. Turner. Premier Bennett s cabinet ministers had been returned to office. Education Minister Mrs. iJ.vM-u io me same period lasi $iio.3ii year but June s total of building worth of permits taken out thus ; broadcasts from the patrol boats permit shows that building far this year. However two large , Tf a tuna snatches snatches one one of of thf the Eritish-owned Calcutta Tram-onvs I.tmitori t.nriav and forced Tttlv Rolston. meanwhile, was nro e:ts. The Koyai nsn coin- feathered lures skipping over the fiehtine It out in Vancouver Vancouver Burrard B x: Bert free rides to all. Police watched j surface, the race ror tne on Liberals Elected Oak Bay x: Philip A. Clbbs, unchanged. Prince Rupert A. B. Brown, gain from CCF. Lillooet-Gordon Gibson, gain from Pro Cons. Point Grey with Liberal leader Dynamite Blast Kills Farmer At Sm it hers Price. helplessly shore grounds will be on. Arthn Ijilnff. while Health Min . 1 Iste Eric Martin and Provincial Terrace Bridge To Be Closed Next Monday spe.retarv Weslev Black were leadinir in their respective rid pany warehouse valued at $23,000 and the F. W. Woolworth building $120,000 made up the majority of the first half of last year's construction. Monthly totals this yecr are: January, $16,900; February, $10,-1 875; March. $62,450; April, $11.-950; May. $29,625; June. $40,030. The March total of building permits, largest for the year to date, included four dwellings lngs. Attorney-General Bonner Special to The Dally Nowa SMITHERS Fortunat L'Or5B Progressive Conservative Elected Nanaimo x: Lorenzo X. Gio-vando, unchanged. Labor Elected was in the lead In three-seat Point Grey with Mrs. Rolston One disappointment for Social e(j Dominion Day as a result c The bridge over the Skeena River at Terrace will be closed all traffic for a 48-hour Fernie x: Tom Uphill, un a aeiayea aynamiw wasi. C-edit was the defeat of Finance Minister Einar Gunderson in Oak In conwany with his son, Tom changed. period beginning at 6 a.m. he was blasting past holes on th Monday. Juiv t, in iu 0 r " whose value amounted to $27,-500 and renovation of the Royal Bank of Canada at a cost of B.C. Power extension to the "iuj uuow cuii-ctors u, shift the highway Oritl'tp nufir t Driftwood farm area about, five miles from Smlthers. t 1 Bay, where Progressive Conservative leader Deane Flnlayson also suffered personal defeat. The seat was won by Phillip Glbbs, a Liberal and sitting member, trn to Wednesdav nieht. Social $18,000. 11 - i Dick Ayres Joins Daily News nf the $29.625's worth of per mits In May four dwellings were Credit had gained two seats from valued at a total of $19 01X1. The June total Includes four riwolllnim valued at a total Of j. R. (Dick) Ayres, former He was Investigating one of three charges when the accident, occurred about 11 a.m. Rushed to Bulkley Vallev District Hospital here, 'he died of multiple Injuries shortly after arrival. An Inquest will be held. the CCF and three from tne ljd- editor of The Comox uisinci erals. The Liberals had gained $28,000 and a Pacific Breweries one from the CCF and one from ' T I ) 1 w ' warehouse valued at $8,000. Free Press, Courtenay, Vancouver Island, has joined the editorial department of the Prince .... i v,j in-w pit'is v can proceed with erection ef the new CNR railway bridge beside it. This is the second of three closures. The first closure was "wdc to shift the highway idc.e v,,r (0 a temporary 'rest le so the contractors could build (.llp pl,,rs Next closure will be later 'his summer or early fall. lower Taxes Forecast flip Conservatives. In turn, the Socialists gained one from the Rupert Daily News. Liberals. CNR Probe -WEATHER- Svnnnsls' Pjvniintinir was reduced to a He replaces Larry sianwooa, who has been with The Daily News since January, 1951. Mr. snail's pace today and returning officers said it may be days be m $ a nmist. air mass ' covers the Derailment Stanwood, a newsman for the fore the final outcome is known. northern half of the province pml weather. In The ridines of Vancouver-Bur- T. A. Milnprize, CNR superin rard, Vancouver Centre, Vancou tendent, who returned yester- For At!$si ver East and Vancouver-Point contrast southern sections are generally clear with temperatures J somcwhut warmer. past 16 years, will enter private business after a vacation. Mr. Ayres, a newspaperman since 1931, was formerly with The Dally Colonist, Victoria, for 4'i years and prior to that at The Trail Daily Times , and sies rfnv from JasDer after an exten Grey hold nine seats, seven of sive but routine inspection tour, Reuters) The them undecided after the first nrtm count. . . , ..,.,, Mimi.M.fr, armor ev . v . . m - w l-t-,.i. m.l' - lit - i.. ,i, , j. laiiBiiM Torcrast 1 North coast region Cloudy today and Friday. A few showers along the windward slopes today. Little change In temperature. Cranbrook Courier. A veteran of four years over-peas with the Canadian Army. Measurer, uia A,, i .Indians today they could ut S?rw-rd to furt"" tax I"!,. the country had was called out again today atia to the derailment of a Xrc'S"t train west of Pacific. No details of the derailment were obtainable by press time and it Is not known whether the Incident will delay train schedules. The CCF was elected In one and was leading In one, while first-count figures put Social Credit ahead in the other seven, more than enough for a majority if first-count strength can be continued. Winds w nns Ueht iiiciiu uiw Low tonigiu . nuu TWELVE BATHING SUIT MODELS, chosen for their form and photogenic qualities, competed for the title of "1953 Swim lor Health Queen." Contest was held at Palisades Park, N.J., Now, pick YOUR winner and see whether you agree with the Judges. From left to right: Joyce, Tanoy, Melody, Beverly, Peggy, Mae, Marlyn, Evans, Christine, oeraldine, Carol and Tine. Picked one? Well, the winner was Mae, sixth from the left. Full name, Mae Conley, of Jersey City, N.J. i Jan ,," mint ol . n-l.lUO.OOO X.1.V1UI i i tun iQhnitr (about Mr. Ayres Is married and has one daughter. He and his family drove up from Vancouver . . i n a, It.r Cnnri '-"u.oou nnn rianni- kj tk kinh VHnav nr. k n nmuri un" firing "nnciai i future " a. Moniuru io nic J.i. utfiw onrt Prince RuDert. - 50 and , J last week-end. ,ou.