1 PROVINCIAL LI3RARY SORROW'S f:l.:'-'A- B. C PROVINCIAL LlC-Ln, 113 TIDES VIC 3IA. 8. C. MAY! ,y, January 27. 1954 . standard Time) 6 30 180 feet Daily 19 33 14.5 fect NORTHERN AND CENTRAL BRITISH COLUMBIA'S NEWSPAPER 0:00 8.6 -3 feet feet Published at Canada's Most Strategic Pacific Port "Prince Rupert, the Key to the Great Northwest" Delivery 13:30 VOL. XLIII, No. 21 PRINCE RUPERT, B.C., TUESDAY, JANUARY 28, 1954 , PRICE FIVE CENTS Phon 81 A I drid ! ! r re Mottoes 10 need (M W on Protest I Methods i . , ; Taxi Driver' s Aooeal - - ':" ,?''-'.' 'a Riot Injur seized !adri', icflv today an-! off the air for fhour. Kkewherc .. . Qef used in 5-1 Vote ,The new city council served notice last night that convicted bootleggers aren't going to drive taxis iffain in Prince Rupert. Cr . This action was taken whea Aldermen Norman Bell'.:-, he 1854 body voted down a mo- Wl1 Bremner, Darrow Oomez, ion -to grant a new chauffeur's phu Lyon and Mike Krueer. errrtit to one taxi driver and; lne man whose appeal was eferred another's appeal to the ! 'hunted to the police unu i.-ollc and licencing committee ":in8 committee was Anthmv -,r aiudy. jKlamut, co-owner of 99 Taxi. InUhe Klamut wno Pleaded guilty to case of Jamea Dal il appeal V2& W anish capital the clashed with po-ie second time in riots were sparked raer over police The Bird Who Refused To Die methods Monday in THE MOBE THAN TWO-FOOT-LONG ARROW that pierces this sea gulls body has neither killed H nor noticeably hampered Ha activities. The photographer stalked the bird with 15-inch te lephoto lens at an upstate New York lake where he obtained the picture of the bird on the ground Uefti and In flight (right). It was believed that the bird flew within range of archers at a nearby range. Ip their antl-Brltisn ;cins demanding inn fcibraltar to Spain. !: n I - 4 innstrators today de-t resignation of Ma- eenr before council since last ecember, council with a - 5-1 rote defeated a motion to reinstate Dale's chauffeur's permit which had been cancelled after liquor conviction. , '; Only vote "for" the . motion was that of Alderman George Casey, who with former Aid- K F. Olassey moved late '. in December that council grant Dale a new permit. ... vwcuiuct niiu 11 a 1 1 uu viwui Jeur's permit cancelled by Chief of Police Sgt. H, L. Norman, Ja. 6, did not appear be fo- council. Instead, his legal counsel, B." i Pettenuzzo. - made a ' unique proposition to council which called for Klamut to post a bond or security sufficient In size "thai it would be Idiocy If he bootlegged" providing he could have his permit back to operate the limousine which belor.es t.i Chinook Gives Foothills Town Brief Respite From Cold Wave ic security director-ly clash Monday was fritlsh embassy, where jhorseback and afoot Till. ei.nftrtlbfi Pn... Ik...u .. at.- . . ... . . o the students wiin ( .., .... iiiwmn . uwicy, uta., near me omy one degree warmer and by nriff -vi warm cmnooK wmas rracKea east entrance or the Crow's Nest noon Cowley was to be back be- UOfei-J ; thf. Pro trim' ta r-u,'..lr rrr uuu. I Pa.. An mlla n-n. T ... v, i ated 10,000 arched today on the voting against, the motion 89 Taxi. ; , Prevented From Driving Taxi n to broadcast their Station personnel y assembled police n keeping the dem- for the first time today, but only bridge. Meanwhile, blizzard conditions In one locality for, a matter of! Cowley was 22 below zero at'-'- .. i central and southern i hours. j 1 :30 a.m. and two hours later It Saskatchewan, bringing drifting I The Chinook, on offshoot of was 17 above, first time any point snow In 15 to 25-below tempera-i the storm which brought heavy on the Prairies managed to tures. Biting southeast winds Under Section 26 of the Motor' proposal It would be disastrous If the air by sus- for the taxi firm.' snow to tne wesi coast, snot tnei struggle above the zero mark ln'"",eed from 20 to 30 miles an adcastlng. Vehlrle Act, Mr. Pettenuzzo told council, Klamut was prevented City clerk R. W. Long, also nts' ire also was mercury up 39 degrees in two j two weeks. But at 7 a.m. it was hour In the Saskatoon. Moose Jaw and Maple Creek regions. Linst the Falange' i s only legal ponu-1 armed with law books, und Pettenuzzo that the city had no power to make conditions on a chauffeur's permit. In the opin from driving any vehicle for hire, a taxi, a bus or llmou-since. However; he said Sgt Norman had no objection t Klamut having his- permit if ASKED TO "BABY-SIT" with a flight passenger, air-line employee Barbara Musgrove brought along a baby bottle, but learned that-the "Infant" was a six-month-old moose. At a Seattle airfield Bill Kennedy, however, took the situation In hand and fed the youngster with a bucket of milk and oats. The moose Is. being shipped from the Calgary (Canada) Zoological Boclety to the San Diego (Calif.) Zoo. which was believd t rganled Monday's j .ns. They demand-1 .Apart from this the weather was fairly static over the Prairie. 1 in B-mh Columbia. "There still Is no sign of any break In the cold wave," the weather office reported. "No ion ol the city solicitor- the art some "means could be found to stated, that the city's part in an liiatlntl of party see- ' J prevent him from driving e. eppeal against a cancellation of ISmundo Ferunind z 1 Ilio also Is minister! a licence, shall be the granting taxii Ills client was willing, 'Mr. centres are going to get above zero in the Immediate future." or refusal of It. folio in, Gencrali-1 - Aid. Casey,kald that if the Pettenuzzo said, to enter into a City Still Undecided On Machine Purchase n. toe British gov- A today it was pro- flrancoi government police chief was happy with this arrangement why -bother council with it. . ! . Aid. Oomez said' council should make up Its mind whether it was going to give bootleggers back their licences or not.. "If so let's do it here and now." - - . i .i ; elvif rwntract or port a bond with the city, that if he was found driving a taxi he would forfeit It to the city. The 99 Taxi, he said,, needed the revenue from the limousine, ln which it would be Impossible to bootleg," and if council didn't see its way clear to accept this .age done to British , anti-British demon-1 Spain Monday. 1 nta were Incensed ain last week ngul.i' CITY SEEKS EXTENSION: OF LIQUOR STORE HOURS ' City Council moved last night to stop bootlegging when It decided to petition the f Iquor Control Board to keep the Prince Rupwrt .liquor-store open, until' 11 p.m.. each dy. between, April I . and October 31. - . " ' " The resolutjon mofed by "Altier'man Norman Bellls said Trlnce Rupert was a te'rminus and stop-over point for personal travelling by land, sea and air and a large fishing fleet in the summer, and the times of arrivals and departures of such . persons occur In large numbers between 6 p.m. and 11 p.m. In the summer months. ; - ' Such a sit uation has made, the illegal sale of liquor a serious one for several year's. . '" ' ' The resolution will be sent to A. Bruce Brown, MLA, the Prince Rupert Chamber of Commerce and the Prince Rupert Trades and Labor Congress for endorse tiori.' , 1 ; ' ' Labor Union Hiring System 'An Imposition on Industry' Action on Prince Rupert's, which can be compared to black- City council last night failed to say whether It will authorize purchase of a machine suitable for sanitary landfill and other public works projects. . ., . Instead the board of works Spanish government inst the scheduli rl '. fcraltar next May of i from Finning Tractor for three weeks, completed operation last Thursday. The two aldermen contended that the public works department should acquire more cinders and do a "more complete job of covering the garbage." ' The mayor said the city had a stockpile of cinders and that the ;ity equipment was doing as good a job as it could. Cancellation Includes Everything acta, . - : Forecast far the North Coast j area and Prince Rupert gave j variable cloudiness and a few j snow flurries this afternoon and tomorrow, mainly over the j Charlottes. It will continue M with lirt winds. Low to-j night and high Wednesday at ; Port Hardy, 20 and 35; Sand-' spit, 15 and 20 and. Prince Rupert M nd 10. i , ! Snow continued to pile up orl ( the west coast and in Interior I B.C. Vancouver received another 5.8 Inches In -the .24 hours to 5 30 a.m., boosting the month's fall close to 40 Inches. But only ; 18 inches remains on the ground. ' Another 7.8 inches of snow fell at Crescent Valley, between Nel-son and penticton, where there ' Is 41 inches on the ground. I Overnight temper attires at other key western points: : Rivers -35, Churchill -32, Win-jnineg -30: Prince Albert -4a. rYorkton and Broadview -42, Sas- Workers ncrease committee will sit tonight to discuss recommendations and costs as outlined to council from six companies which submitted ten-tiers and descriptions of their ni aih i nes ' V "" City superintendent G. E. Beaton's report on five- of the machines was handed council last night but no discussion took place, i . ' ' ' ! VA sixth tender, received after the January 20 deadline, was accepted by council after it was , 'The council ; should -go ,oit record as opposing bootlegging snd refusing 16 grant-. permits to- anyon eonvxHed- of bootlegging."- -.':; . If the penalty was made sufficient, be said, it would protect the few taxi drivers who are honest enough to try and confine their business to taxi driving. However, Aid. Lyons nt acrosi-the-board : for telephone op- j a 12 per cent boast iployees bit among ; the International U.S. Rejects Red Proposal of Electrical Work- I power question, an alleged union , lnB'l Since cancellation;" of a lidencr Ineluded everything,; whether It was for driving - taxi, bus or limousine, Aid. Krueger suggested that Mr. Pettenuzzo take the natter up with the attorney-general and get the act amended. . . Aid. Bcllis said the licencing committee should discuss it with the chief of police. Aid. Gomez said that the chlei had attended council meetings and Ills stand was that once "(mvicted. bootleggers didn't get their licences back. "Let's bring this to a head. Are we going to licence bootleggers or aren't we?" Newly-elected Aid. Lyons said: "The Impression has arisen that a licence' to drive taxi was a licence to bootleg." 1 said, the case of Klamut was r.i. in thetr ins He said that under the present slightly different, ! learned that it delayed ti. h rf m "', was by setup a man laid off a Job has to go tu Vancouver to apply for the same job liere If It re-opened.. BERLIN CPU.S. Secretary of Slate Dulles today flatly rejected Moscow's proposal for tnded a motion that the appeal I ""J1" T" Into Prince flight Rupert. i knbvin .37 RpcHi-ia .3 Unnu ir city, . monopoly ana tne low oay oeking rhaugi's In floats will be sought from the . contract was read provincial government If count's council meeting ell's wishes are carried out. j 1 to the nage com-1 a letter from A. Bruce Brown, I MIA, asking if there was any- 1 also asked a five. Ihlnw Hint -.,inwil uishoH tulienl be referred to the police and llcencine committee. The mo- AMormnn George Casey said I B1? Flve conference on wo problems, but Soviet Fore: tion carried wlth Aldermen purcnase oi sucn a macnine was "I see no logic, no reason and jB, Mediclne Hat .3i no fairness In It." he said. "It's Lethbrldge -30, Calgary -29; just a monopoly for Vancouver. lGrandp Prttlrie .28, Edmonton The condition In B.C. at the 26; Smith River -39, Prince (-? v m-er nd should re Goraea voting Krueger and against It. ifor telephone present time, he continued, Is a George -9. Kamloops -3, Van- UilV lncifjkur fif Tt' ,.i tt.. i i. U I t Un. ""S r ruic , 7nr oi LI. ,OUB"' um W,,CTS , barrier against all Industrial couver and Victoria 30 above: JIM per requests. points except Vancouver. Snag -39, Whitehorse -24; Yel- He also asked If Mr. Brown lowknlfe -38. Aklavlk -25. ceive the full attention of the board of works committee. Mayor George Hills disagreed with the delay, saying that he had held a special meeting of the committee of the whole last week to expedite matters after the tenders arrived. In answer to Aldermen Bill Bremner and Darrow Gomez, '"1 oi ilio. and an; Alderman Ocorgc Casey said tw in pay after the ' Uie labor union system of hiring i mths i of employment out from Vancouver and "no-iter the first six I where else In British Columbia On the Dale appeal, lifted from the table after nearly a month. Aid. Casey made a strong plea that council not divorce the convicted taxi driver from his business. Aid. Gomez, however, made just as strong a plea, saying that If the council grants a permit after the chief of police i i would Interest himself in the power question and find out from the B.C. Power Commission what progress Is being made by It regarding taking over from the Terrace Club Gutted by Fire Is an Imposition oil Industry A' I 1 Overheated Stove, Bonfire Bring Firemen Running Prince Rupert firemen were Northern B.C. Power Company, ; M'vnr Hills said the city's front- Special to The Dally News as asked by council in Decern- j called out on two alarms last hs refused it, then the city n TERRACE The Interior of the . just giving be' '95"!. ' ' nieht. but found no work to do a man back his li Minister Molotov struck b" ', with a concrete demand to h : such a parley In May or Ju- Dulles told the second, d session of the Big Four that t United States will not join R 1 China "convicted aggressor" in any meeting in order to deal with the peace of the world. Nevertheless, the secre said, the western powers w!'". along with Molotov's agenda for the Berlin conference w'r calls for discussion of R? China first, German unity w; end and the Austrian pe u-treaty last, so as to avoid f ther delay in conference v. When Dulles finished 2 500-word speech outlinln; : American position, Molotov t x ' the floor and said he w. ' . bring up the five-power Issue i the first order of business W. 1 nesday, - The Soviet diplomat dechi"-he would propose "May or Juno', as the time for America, France Britain, the USSR and Commu- Alderman Darrow Gomez ask- cence to bootleg. Northern Pioneer Club here was i almost completely gutted in a end loader is now being used at the Algoma Park site to bury gar-bngo. Cinders are used to cover the garbage. " A machine rented by the city on either call. At 6:30 pm. they were called V l'"."imw..ii TT 9 innumj lM hpwihiiiii ' ' A Wl - v( ht Mr. Brown go into the mutter of the Cow Bay floats to the home of H. J. Scholten five-hour blaze yesterday which h he provincial government wlvn on overheated stove threatened the entire building and find out whether the fed- u-nn-hed one wall. The fire a. n the Terrace hotel next door. "Two years ago," he said, "the kids were getting liquor so easy it was like a milk delivery.". .. Aid. Mike Krueger said be would Vote against Mr. Dale or anyone else getting their permit back If they had been convicted of bootlegging. Aid. Nor- Newsboy Hurt Another victim of the sudden -! government v as going to threat was over when firemen ' The blaze was discovered by take them over. "e ""' dmfe was confln- owner George Bowes when he re- "It's coming on to spring,'" ed to the blackened wall. turned, to the empty club rooms skating fad here Is Victor Mas- said Aid. Gomez, "and the fishing : The second call was at 10:3d at 2:30 a.m. yesterday. season will be on top of us before p.m. when a city woman reported Firemen battled the "blaze man Belns agreed. kulak, Dally News carrier boy in the First, Second and Third West Avenue area. ft hve anvthlng done about a fire near McClvmount Park. It until 7:45 ajn., saving the bulld- them." A covering letter will was a bonfire lit to thaw the Ing housing the club and pre- also be sent to E. T. Applewhalte, ground, to allow access to frozen vented spread of the fire to the MP, at Ottaw a. .. water pipes. hotel. Fourteen-year-old Victor suffered a broken leg In a fall while skating at Lake Oliver last Sat urday and was taken to Prince cist China to take up all thel: Fairy-Tale Pig Not So Dumb! Farmers Now Build Homes of Straw Pope "Fatigued," Cancels Audience VATICAN CrrV Pope Pius, 77. suffering from what, is officially described as a ' "slight indisposition," has cancelled Wednesday's general audience. In announcing the news of the Pone's Indisposition today, the Vatican press office, said It should cause "no preoccupation whatsoever." ,The cancellation of "the audience, it said, Is strlctly'a precautionary measure tot the Pontiff who recently showed some signs of fatigue., ' LONDON (Reuters Britain exported nearly $200,000,000 worth of refined petroleum products last year, the government aunouiiCL-d Sunday. Rupert General hospital for conflicting interests. He did not treatment. , ', 1 suggest a location. RCMP T0 POLICE CITY AGAIN AT SAME COST AS LAST YEAR City Council last night voted unanimously to again enter -Into an agreement with the RCMP for policing of the city on .the same basis as last year. . A letter from Assistant Commissioner C. E. Rivett-Carnac, "'officer, commanding E Division, said cost to the city would be " the same $2,000 per man per year with the contract running ' from January 1. 1954 to January 1, 1955. - - Cost td Prince Rupert will be $32,000 as the city hires 14 men' for six months and 18 men for the other six months, an average of 16 men. . . ' . $8 made at the Dominion experimental station here, Grevllle B. Harrison, construction superintendent, has blocks of baled hay and straw coated with stucco and plaster placed outside unprotected from the weather. They will remain , there until spring when results will be announced. ' . The most popular building built to date is a cattle shed. A roof suspended by cables which eliminate centre pillars SWIFT CURRENT, Sak. (CP) Farmers In southwestern Saskatchewan are finding new wes Tor buled straw or hay. They make strong buildings nt fractional cost. Within the next year, homes ure expected to be erected of straw bales. Walt will be stuccoed on the outside, plastered on the Inside. Cost Is nominal and so tar tests have proved construction to be excellent. ....... Preliminary tests are being Is suspended over baled straw walls. The job was finished quickly. Ranchers -.said It Is warm, one of the best cattle sheds they have seen. Another form of farm building being developed is a modern root cellar made of concrete. Construction entails use of a. form which can be used repeatedly. Burled underground, only the ventilators and the front entrance will be visible when the cellar Is completed next summer. ZSA 1." AI!()H rf.,..j ... eedlv ff,,t ""Ulu u" eye patch to nide a bluck M; O , n . " - a-V o-v 1IU1I1 1IU1U s out Huutii 0y fornno Kuoirosa, a lew Ldji v Th. f.rr Ve8as. Nev Way started a. natch-weariniz I , - 'uionable misses Ht.h r u... " 61 Aiyce Shaw, Judy Brent and Petle Weir.