I PROVINCIAL SORROW'S tfjBRARY. 4 TIP" ,,Ocl"V'' . 1953 ... oi.i.rfard Timet ' W Dnilv 1 htuic IS (III 17 8 feet i j 10.7 ff-t left Vpiwryj Phone 81 I NORTHERN AND CENTRAL BRITISH COLUMBIA'S NEWSPAPER Published at Canada' Most Strategic Pacific Port "Prince Rupert, the Key to the Great Northwest" VOL. XLIII, No. 239 PRINCE RUPERT, B.C., WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 14, 1953 PRICE FIVE CENTS , i i H w !? I CHnoose lH BecBBolbi? 2 S(LWP mm litw mm I 1 I At Gomez el .j ua,,,,,; Aid. Casey, rge Referendum Cane Field Set Afire in Protest 1 ?HC"' .J, fit - I oters wui nave trie opportunity at the Decern- f ' ' ; ' ' 'I tf.i- civic elections of stating whether they prefer to have Prince Rupert policed by the RCMP or by a city police force. City council last night voted ' He wanted to know morn about the cost of a city police r ; i , v - . - ! I ? ... , f t y i t. ;;-.;;.. ' . .' 1 1 " iV . i - - . fo place a referendum on the Bv The ';.tIiB'!l in Pr?1. GEORGETOWN, Guiana. Smoke from HV.scw 'iiioirai'd Inlands bridge, openxl In 1938, forms an elplit-mlle highway over a i jur iii' ;i )opii!itr with Canadian and United States tourists. The two main spans are atu'vr- tlu- snippliiR fhiiimol.. The brid;e connects Ivy Lea In Ontario and Collin's ,Bj Ul Nt Vnlk stlOf. polite question before the peo-', fcrce and he thought that the pie following endorsation of a i PUce committee should find resolution moved by Alderman ! out and tel1 council so that the people would know. Ceorse Casey and seconded by j burning nine-fiel'l? hung over Georgetown today, i pointing up a threat of bmmunities ToBenefitc4 After council voted to give' the people the chance to make a choice, the city clerk was instructed to write to cities main taining their own police forces to ascertain costs of upkeep, salaries and other costs. In the vote on Aid. Casey's resolution only Aid. Bill Brem-ner cast a dissenting vote. New Socred Liquor Bill Alderman Darrow Gomez. Alderman Casey, rising - to make the motion, pointed out that, undf.r the Municipal Act the responsibility of maintaining law and orcier in Prince Rupert lay with the municipality For that reason, he said, the city had the choice of setting up its own police force under the direction of a police com-mlsc-lon elected by the voters, or of entering into an annual vote although a majority of th uteinltcrs criticized some part;. of It. ...... URIA Kf- Mn'i h Co-drinkers will in'it'ii' vpnurs (it liii' provlive i' cjn i ti i i 1 1 1 i t in wliiiM -ink undi'i hills now be-t leflijatiire. nicllilxl ' wen- (it ! -approval in principal to the new li'ptoi'-by-tile-Rlrt.sij legi.,la-llon the government Introduced more legislation that would levy a Hl-per-cent tax on drinks sold ly the glass. The liquor act passed second economic distress to this troubled British colony. , Flrps blazed-on at lra;t two nearby sunar plantations aflor workers walked out In prot.vt against thr British oustT of government ministers from the colony's lrtt-wlng People's Progressive party. With strikes paralyzing m slowing most, of the sugar IndustryBritish Guiana's principal source of income observers predicted the pinch would come soon. Business men already complain of a drastic drop In trade Britain kicked out PPP Prime Minister Cheddl Jagan ,?nd five Motilities' contract with the RCMP. ACCORDING TO 20-year-old Margaret Coltman, since she started, j taking naps on IVi-ton ice cubes wearing only a Bikini, she's j Aid Casey said; "The experts' of giwig m'coikI tradliw leading without a dissenting Under an amendment, to the Social Security Jand Municipal Aid Tax Act now to be called the Social Services Tax the present t hree-per-cent tax would be Increased to 10 pei cent on all drinks sold In licenced premises, apparently with the exception of beer, and the communities in which the drinks are served would receive 50 per cent of the collections. never had a cold. Margaret, who practices Yogi, and loves her bed on ice, will attempt to stay in it for five hours at the ancient Onion Fair in Birmingham, England. m FIELD WELD MADE Increases Approved dH 718-MILE PIPELINE - ence of the past three months has left policing of the city an open question that could only , j be settled by the people in a ! referendum vote." ! Alderman Mike Krueeer ask : ed if the matter could be refer-i red to the police and licencing committee so that a comparison between the cost of a city po- Yugoslavs Step Up Tcnif SNHiUVII! i 'iiif final field. wld on 111 718-mlle -Muuiiiiiin oil i.;p line Irf.i-i Edmonton to Vancouver was Of Protests Against Wes other ministers from the party last Thursday, charging tlvy were plotting to turn British Ouiana Into a Communist state City Council last night agreed to sign the contract for 1953 be- p Tw.l.iy ill l.r ifluiT, lr) miles ea..t of here. NEW TAX The amendment Imtlipr status that the 10-per-crnt t.ix wnuP-. apply to all purchases made in vstablishments that provide entertainment or dancing facilities irate Yugo-I grade's streets, the Yugoslav , ".'Vo.,, 1 rrmce Kupen ana me BELGRADE I AP) The PPF retaliated by calling a ciu innprt lin their anti- I chief assembled his too htray n 'iniulli;' la t. i, H," lio.dtfO circumferential Hold welds, Willi Hip t.f'-Hi ;il fii ;it!iier, Off trial opening oT the line hcdule'd lui Time ,day at the tank farm terminal In .'tan Biiin.iliy of the voters. Police. general strike, but so far onlylWPBtern demonstrations over ants for a conference last night the suEar worker.. have re-i.i o tt ru iu i .hnriio ofiar wa arnni'ivtii nb.. UOmeZ SalQ It, wag HOT, a TV. cn-ntraet. tuhlrVi has hpen ,Iii-JoejKliaut'ibiLLj(as .oiie.iitv.Diit ,, C . d1tk... , v, ti-n .mniJm-.f'.t ..miiier'ol costs "hanging fire since tact spring. 8 i aiiowa. tor an increase in -the of the several flint went tlu ouyhf .., r ..... ,;,,.. , tHn - 7- . i Britain, t.h . ii is 8tlrt ,nDff ,' we' j-iv4e. policing would confer Friday in the Brit- lvw LU1 1UU al nl6a t-ot"' "e ' city's share towards paying for lr:,w.r.,. Qi.- if,.rf 'Qo,rft With thousands of shouting me Relief Promised stormy passage t'i secondi reni. Ing. The house did not rise un 111 12 45 a.m. today, . ' .aiU. The policing -and how it the policing of the city of JS03 ish capital. invoked his emergency powers- It was thought Tito misht bs is none is me main rmng. Aid Casey said the resolution The new Uiuor blU piovHi s j Tuesday per man. It was referred to city solicitor T. W. Brown. QC. who advised. night from Woatli and to - keep the ' .npreading. . He; -hy. trnmptttt,' ::;v:?.-r;:"T... t :: near insinuation wrman's Report for drinks by the glass in cock-i banned strike slavia's viewpoint on the minis- ; !'ljt the choice as. now up to council that the contract wa tall lounges, chinks by the kU- ...HI, ,..,i, 1,. ,i..liwi l,,,u,D,.u ' SJ1IOHM1H, IlilllJOl. ClUUIIlUllICi-, . ' Rtjwrt iM.r.v r..iii iinieil It. stopped abruptly Monday Irom Mir kitk' in! -.totm nmi iilng t-o give the city a Gyro Apple Day Here Saturday ters. Tito previously had cailed , W. people, ma agreeu, for a fpur-power conference oi tne PPle Pnncf Ru" the United States, Britain, Italy pert knew the policing here, and Yugoslavia. , . , . ' "We had those dealings a ,, 4,, . . .' ; short while ago, he said, "and Willi mirii in niiii.if, j ... - night clubs, wine and beer with j '. po.lal , and ..... public utility meals in restaurants and beei i w"' krrH- , J caiietield fnea weie set in taverns j iremWthnriiv vulhi.ns brealhrr for Thansglving IJy, of rain in a 2 hour nnd thi n started in again Tues rlav. with winds increasing iuo nielli on til? , .ii.viui anu Leonaio plantations, about 14 miles west of Georgetown. The melit H'nu it ri'. ifit'iits throughout the day,' reaching at The new tax would mean th it municipalities that st ly di y under the local option clause in lin wliid, if ii ii.ni? neiir- Ira-it, () miles tier liour late last fairly drawn and there waa little about which to argue. ; Prior to this year the city pa i $1,400 per man per year towards the salary of policemen, but the federal government sought an Increase of $800 per man to meet rising costs. All cities in British Columbia, at the bidding of the Union of British Columbia Municipalities, held back the signing of the contract ur;U all facets of the matter had been investigated. The new contract is retroactive to last April and expires "iiwrlioii:,, hir iilriHisti lilcht, and ram lulling on aim fh llaunr MCt woum ise a Sl,b stantlal revenue. nun in lam I r-' i . oi'iiig- 1 "II uirougiiuui vie uj " bital iii this inniith to! night, lor a total of .94 inches In Beer drinkers are still appar ;a to HPIS inrhrs nlniusl the 24 lioms ending at 4 am. ently safe with the 10-cent ernment is asking the United ; States and Britain for a Trieste , solution that would enable Italy , to take over zone A In a dispatch from its correspondent in Belgrade, The Times said Tito is demanding that this, solution include a British-Am-' erican guarantee against further - glass. mwrtlian fell in I hern- today. wh of Oi Iniiei- lust ye;ir ! A g;iie warning issued by the thr npnihermaii could j Dominion meteorological bureau ' hi Hi- relief .ii. KMiri I yesterday was continued today. as I saw it with my own two eyes." . '. (Aid. Gomet 6id not say what he saw with his own two eyes, but presumably was referring to the 'disturbances here last July and August ) Mayor Hauold Whalen suggested that council look Into the pros and cons of the two methods of policing and Alderman John Currie said . that Prince Rupert in the past had had INCREASE EXEMPTIONS Uitvlugt mill closed after its workers walked out, but the Leonora mill was grinding with makeshift crews replacing its regular workmen. The largest -crowd ever seen In Georgetown far larger than any ever drawn by a PPP rally stood at respectful attention last night as the Royal Welsh Fusiliers played "Olid Save the Queen." The Guianese flocked to a program of band music by the Entertainment provisions in December 31. Total rainfall In September iliid shift from siiiilheasl clude live and recorded dance Cost to Prince Rupert for this. vis onlv 8 87 inches, and for II. and a in I music and any kind of paid per- s! tutit Iv thit ex i ire I it to year Is $32,000, with the city October of 1!52. 9.79 inches. (H. Rilll ;i. foimance. Italian expansion, along the Adriatic toward Yugoslavia In Belgrade, , however. , the! Saturday Is Apple Day in Prince Rupert. That's when members of the Gyro Club will set up stands In the downtown area and sell apples to raise funds for playground improvements. They'll tag shoppers with sales of Individual apples, as well as take orders for boxes of apples, which will be delivered before Hallowe'en. Throughout this week. Gyros have been 'phoning residents soliciting orders for the boxes of apples. Proceeds of the annual Gyro Apple Day are earmarked for purchase of equipment and maintenance of present facilities at the Ovro olaygrounds throughout the city. The Gyros maintain plnv-grounds in Section Two, the ball ground at Sixth and Mc-Brlde and at McClymont Park. getting an average of 18 men for three months at $1,400 and nine The bill alio Increases the months at the new rate of $2,000. ponce exemption on meals from Ik cents to $1. tugucmv- urpuiy miowi u,- . .-. c0,lce ce'- DrCvincial la tary, Ales Bebler, flatly, denied pi. the The city only pays 40 per cent British troops. and now ROMP, and "the public should kaow the differ- Bills receiving second readlnp I the Times report. "It is not cor rect," he said. "There1 are no of the policing costs, total of St.,l in. e; h!l,c lal SimrtHv xlvu a.fift 1)1 "in fell in six hours null rivers luiih,,. rlown Ws, ovri'llijuofl a creek " tavmenlx, causing "I ilnll:,,-,; wv)ll ,)f ' UinuiKhniit the city. Included the bill to establish . City to Ask Duke to Visit Here Next Year ence by nowi?' . i which Is In the vicinity of crown corporation with author new moves and there are no new proposals by Yugoslavia." A!c. Krueger said he wasn't igainst-the referendum but, he said, tht city draws up a bud Ada Crump Heads Trustees ity to build toll bridges ant highways; the one-per-cent tax DEFY MEETING BAN $80,000 exclusive of mileage rates, barracks for unmarried policemen and other Items. The other 30 per cent is paid by the senior governments. on timber leases and licence:! In Trieste port, meanwhile, get every year and knows tlw the government supply bill for cost of its policing NELSON, B.C. M Mrs. Ada Crump of Vancouver, veteran fe Flies Prince Rupert City Council Is going to see If the Duke of Edln-burah will visit here when he school board trustee, Tuesday comes to Kitlmat next year since Uercnce ie will be so close. the almost $79,000,000 which will maintain It until the end of t'v fiscal year March 31, 1954; and the bill providing for equal pay for women for the same work as men. All the opposition voted Ground Party Fails to Reach Scone of Crashed Bomber 'Drunks' Spoil became president of the BC. School Trustees Association, fifth woman to occupy that post In the 4.9-year history of the association. She succeeds H. A. Moffat of Prince George. Aid. George Casey said last uiRht that he thought it was a "shabby trick of the CBC to antl-Itallan parties angrily protested an Allied ban on public meetings and called a giant rally later today in defiance. The territory's 4.400-man police force was put on the alert for possible trouble. There also was no official reaction to Russia's surprise demand at the United Nations that the Security Council quickly name' an international governor for the entire Trieste territory and make it independent . Tens of thousands of howling angry ' citizens Tuesday night Skating Session against the toll road and bridges mention Kitlmat which Is almost WNGTON IAP,Kt.ata SI .OTHERS An arduous 19- bill in our own bark yard as If it was DU"fs fli,,. t, I.,,,,. day trek through the rugged ter a suburb of Vancouver. 'Rht f,. ,.., ., He urucd that City Clerk Bill At Civic Centre Moonlight skating sessions on 1 ""S dotcrinlnn 1 hn nnvl Long "get busy and see about l;"H"il Kl.alj. ...ifl the Duke coming here since ne u in in II, Saturday nights at the Civic be so close. M with v i... Centre are to be discontinued The Duke, according to a Burk- 2 said there Is because of drinking. staged Belgrade s biggest mass "'lira' fi Incham Palace announcement, will visit Kitlmat during the s,,i k u dinlo- rain north of here ended in failure for a group of American servicemen who attempted to reach the wreckage of a bomber, jome 90 miles north of Smithers. The plane, an American B-36 strategic bomber, lost three years .go. was sighted early this fall by a plane engaged in the Fills Hall plane search, The ground party hoped to find the body of one of the mem "Fred Jones, general secretary, said today the centre has not orotest so far p. gainst the Went ern decision. DlUlk ",,n of the SSue in also hoped to salvage parts of the plane and personal effects of the rew, all but one of whom sur-vlvei the crash. Guided by Jack Lee of Hazel-ton, the party travelled up the Kisplox Valley by horses as f ir as possible. When the trail er I ed, weather conditions and tht rugged terrain prevented tar group from travelling further. Much of the trip, expected t' take only eight days, was mad on short rations although addi tional supplies were dropped fo both men and horses from t plane. The party returned to Smith ers at the week-end to await fur ther instructions. It is expectec W Warlike i . .. time he is In Vancouver next vcur for the British Empire sufficient staff to handle Earlier .Tuesday crowds had drunkards" who turn up at the attacked the British reading Games. 1,1 ii i.u us :avia Us t it V oy . MisUli Tlll) i, lhre is Ik, t,,,cl-, "l of about 7,000 room and manhandled an Ameri late sessions, and that he "suspected" there was drinking going can student and a Yugoslav who entered the U.S. information on- at the sessions. In future. Saturday roller service headquarters. The USIS iiu their reulace- bers of the crew, thought to have been killed in the crash. They llV II ,: skating will be from 1:30 to 5 T Hi. I J director was beaten up Monday I, ""Wlls, cmihi . . ,mi s.uu p.m.. and from 7 to 10:30 p.m. The moonlight skate' had been held every Saturday from 9:30 '"' shift 111 r-S t r will, "ftiENt'Y Apartment insisted p.m. to midnight. Money Stolen From School Two more In a series of break-ins which have taken place In Prince Rupert within the last week occurred last night when Booth Memorial High School and the North Star Bottling Works were entered and small amounts of money stolen. Prior to the Thanksgiving, week, money was stolen from Borden Street School when a door to an office was forced ' fctrtnT "ltl,m f,)r Dig another attempt will be made t reach the wreckage, possibly no until next spring. An RCAF plane discovered th-wreckage during the exhaustiv search for the lost plane of Elll ill It ..I """'''ei'S' talks, ""t the ,i,asfa l (s Cnnf . Xlmse Hubby Out' Says Curling Club Proxy An appeal went out 'at noon today from Curling Club President Jack Laurie to the wives of mrde members to "chase hubby out tcthe work bee" starting at 7.30 p m. tonight. "There's still iwuc work to be completed," raid the Jr.vtal president, "and ve want to pet it done so new curlers, especially tl.e ladies, enn gi t in so,re games next Monday. Tuesday and Wednesday." It is hoped to put the "rings" in touitit .Work bees will ne hold each, nii.l.t for tmlumv oi the mH. I'lay officially nets umiciwuv (k-LkLci ''4 ' Vugusia, Forel Metlakatla Woman Dies Word was received here today of the death at Vancouver yesterday of Susan Leighton, 49, formerly of Metlakata. Born at Metlakatia. she had been residing in Vancouver for many years. She is survived by her mother, Mrs. Christine Leig'htoii, at Metlakatla. W hi. 1 rPovic who ii , a Hall, New Mexico oil magnat who was killed when his plan, crashed 35 miles east of Ketch! kan last Aug. 17. The bomber was abandoned b its crew over Princess Rot, Island on the B.C. coast thre yeuis ago, due to icing pond! tions, combined with ine in t of its motors. " - ' vfcuitiii1." pro- open and the Shell Oil station office at the dock was also entered and looted of a small amount of change. In the case SHAPED LIKE A DUCK this potato was grown In the garden of ' iifm lie .I. . of the bottling works the dial .wo -urman Mrs. Herman Ientn. Wetaskiwin Aita , was knnckpd off the safe.