PROVINCIAL OMORROW'S TIDES December 15, 1953 day, 4 trifle Standard Time) Daily 8 26 20.2 feet 21:16 17.0 feet NORTHERN AND CENTRAL BRITISH COLUMBIA'S NEWSPAPER Delivery 7.5 feet 15:13 1:56 6.2 feet Published at Canada's Most Strategic Pacific Port "Prince Rupert, the Key to the Great Northwest" Phone VOL. XLII, No. 290 PRINCE RUPERT, B.C., MONDAY, DECEMBER 14, 1953 PRICE FIVE CENTS ailway ks " FodlsGTSD 1 , km trike aces U.K. 1 wbseA E mm Vistmas Eve .... . .. . ; . ..A . lit For Tie-Up j, JAMES F. KINO ON' DON (AP) - C'laus today found If a key issue in i ; t $150 Millions For Road Program By Th Canadian Press OTTAWA. British (Columbia today proposed that the federal government help it launch a multimillion-dollar economic expansion program enlarging B.C. rail, highway and forest conservation 3,n.S Dlggest humc ;at since tne general 1 of 1!K26. mediate issue is tim r the railway men are facilities. The brief said develoDment oi tt to a pay raise dui an ,ant factor is the old man iM whiskers. e ' X v - i National Union of Rail- The proposal was placed be- j the province's resources was of for? Prime Minister St. Laurent major Importance to Canadian in a 44-page brief submitted by j economy. a three-man B.C. cabinet dele- Whooping Cranes in Flight DESCRIBED AS A "one In a million" chance, this photograph shows three of the rare whooping cranes in flight ln the Herbert district, 125 miles west of Regina. The birds were flying In the full migration to winter grounds at Aransas NaUonal Wildlife Refuge In Texas. The known world population of whooping cranes Js only 24 according to United States ornithologists. n ha called on 1U 400,-ii:bcrs to strike next Sim-siirught on the eve of the gatlon headed by Premier Bennett. Provincial projects are esti- Lir.as holiday. itiilw on the slate-owned would pjirniy.p mu ; Cn of cio.se to 50,000.000 per- j Wrap Parcels Carefully; Mail Early ; mated to cost about $238,000,000 over a period of years. Mr. Ben-j nett proposed that the cost be borne equally by B.C. and the lederal government. I The proposals are: Adding 311 mliej to the U.S. Envoy, Arthur Dean Leaving Korea' For Washington Consultation looking forward to tnelr ; Christmas holiday since t the war with plenty 'of ; Hid drink and unrutloned i to buy. . j jiiway Scrooges, shouted , Pacific Great Eastern Railway, I Careful wrapping, clear ad-extendine its southern end byltressa. inri eariv mailinff are People. Labor parj.y mouth- 1 i. in a front-page headline : acing union leaders. j i Reds have Insisted. This was the ; 40 miles and Its northern end j tne three cardinal rules of big stumbling block in the talks, i by 271 miles. This would bring ) Christmas gift mailing, and per-The preliminary Panmunjom : the southern end into Vancou- wh0 haven't already ob- talks were aimed at fixing the i ver from Squamish and push nred that third rule may time, date and composition of , the northern railhead 'roin i disappoint tneir riends and ini almost think the lead- !Uip NUR had no children : mi own and never believed : By STAN CARTER It l "the definite policy of the PANMUNJOM i U. S. special j United States of America that envoy Arthur H. Dean leavoi every reasonable attempt should ! tomorrow for consultations in , be nmde to work out the dlffl-Washington, leaving his chief cultles and to convene the pu-nlde In Korea "to see If 'the j "Weal (peace) conference, but Communists wish to resume" j It could not compromise a slur the ruptured negotiations to set !" integrity." -up a Korean peace conference. Bl'SSIA CHIEF OBSTACLE r. T.. ,,i - .n! Dean i' i n reneated the families" In other parts of Can m Claus," said the Sun-. aispaper which claims a .ation of almost 5 000,000. ; ! ada. Mailing deadlines for parcels and two-cent Christmas cards are Sunday Pictorial cried past, for all provinces except - v. c t : i at iscttu luauc uiaiia i " . , . . .. . ... ,. . rt must stop Christmas , united Nations stand that Rus- ; dp ti Cmna and North Korea 'KC. . ,iJ i v. ni.i ii- a h Invlt.pii to th rtfAC rnn- lug ivjiifi-vjtiajtu cttu i-uiuvi- rniiLc urui fee iiiiaj viic rcttuc ence. River country at Dawson Creek.' Dean walked out after the j cost is estimated unofficially at Reds accused the U.S. govern- j about $75,000,000. . ment of deliberately conniving i construction ot a new., in the release of 27.000 anti-Red ; networlt of provincial highways North Korean prisoners June' to tap new resources and pro-17-18. The Koreans were re-ote tourist traffic. Esimated leased by order of President . cost of tne "essentiai mini. Syngman Rhee of South Korea, j mum.. h(ghway program would be i $150,000,000 excluding the British Columbia, and that's to morrow! ii iij i ucuiuiiuca biuuuKii rciunig iauui - n i Pictorial . told the govern- .n.I ,.,!. ference as a full voting oartlcl- Postmaster Jack Burgess, whose staff already Is snowed under J the talks "or take tuU responai-' Pa"1 on ' the Communist side rgtt for the moment: the and not as a neutral as the blljty or destr0ying" peace with extra Christmas mail, told Prince Rupert residents today that If they mailed their parcels ,in u: iuw, mnia kj i (.(mference r ' . "i a?twA w n,ot;L"! "The North orean and Chlo-L rfrTIIUr Tn I El it ICCfC Mij .jzrKi FORTUNE TELLER MISSES Trans-Canada Highway plan. The provincial road program LOVELY BETTIE HARBIN, who relgrw as "Miss Fort Worth," shows off the rabbit business to good advantage. She's modelling rabbit furs which were exhibited at the Southwest Rabbit Breeders Association show In the Will Rogers stock barns In Fort Worth. Ex-Prime Minister's Wife Arrested in British Guiana "GEORGETOWN, British Guiana Police said Mrs. Jagan, secret on Police Sunday arrested Mrs. j tary of the PPP and her asso-Janet Rosenberg Jagan, United j elates were using a loudspeaker States-born wife of B r 1 1 1 s h to address a crowd of 300 at a Guiana's ousted prime minister sugar estate village about 15 and nine other leaders of the miles from Georgetown. and cards tomorrow or Wednesday, for anywhere In Canada, would take several years to complete. they 'probably' would reach their IN TALK WITH POLICEMAN ' tY Tevelopment xt a. forest I destinations, bv Christmas, but jch short notice at this C(muT1Hhique aitnbuted to - - " - Re(i deiegates. ." ,r "f ",u3tK be( Dean, who ...et for eight ... uu uuimi) t.nH" Red ef- !-,P-k. with tho In an . me uruiecuuu sjsicm uuu he doubted If they'd be so lucky 1 would cost $13,000,000 Initially lf they postponed mailing any land an additional $1,750,000 an- ionger i nually for maintenance. Forest, . .t.j (u. The office started , post taking , , . K ,( in the national protection was . 1 ,.,,...,, 3 1 on extra staff on Saturday and 1 interest. 1.,. ,x,t r Premier i. Bennett !,,, said, ,j . 1 ..... .t. ' , ju t, s expects a total iwn of about 20 ex- ut on the Communiit diplo- j I Ontrilii afa thau an- , M V.harged icused the Allies of "perfidy." j mm D . I. Im He told reporters today that'T BUFFALO if Warren O. Lehman walked Into Rose ,- Yanko's fortune telling parlor Sunday and sat down. The conversation went like this: " Fortune teller over a crystal ball: You will be married and , have a .nice family. . Lehman: I have been happily married for two years. .Fortuneteller: In that case, you will take a partner Into your televisiort'buslness, f. ,j " c 'Lehman -t 'I'm hot -In the1 television business. I am on the police vice and liquor squad, and you- are. under arrest. ! sufficient funds for an adequate j tr,af Wednesday, six service of whom and i his aide, Kenneth Young of the 1 will be on delivery system. pre Paquln, 36. of Mont- U.S. state department, will have 1 the remainder sorting. Progressive People's Party. They were charged with holding an illegal meeting. All 10 were released on bail of 75 ($44.25 U.S.) each. Hearings were for Tuesday. m remanded for sentence ; tun auinomy 10 resume incj liter pleading guilty to talks ... 11 tne tommumsis nsanri pntKrim, and sti-al- withdraw the perfidy charges ; j . , . .. . .1 cnH trlvA Annie ltfn thpV ftrfi ' MARK CLEARLY . Mr. Burgess once more reminded residents to address parcels and letters clearly, with the street and number as well as HELP MARKETS Extension of the Pacific Great Eastern would tap more of the Feace River products for Asiatic trade, particularly to expand trade with Japan. It also would help bring the big Vancouver mm vaiuea ai less inii 1 ' .7 . V i Guiana's colonial governor. Sir Alfred Savage, eany in .October banned public meetings unless -they had police permission at the same time he ousted Mrs. Jagan's husband, Cheddl, and five other PPP government ministers and suspended the constitution. The PPP was charged with leading a plot to turn the South American colony into a Communist state. ram Williams Oro(rv. at 1 reaoy 10 negouawe u. , Buuu New U.S, Hydrogen Bomb uraer of Second and Third ' ., name and city. He said the local market In closer touch with the post office already had received Woman Charged With Murder Put in Oakalla Ml :sin was arrested about lut night, less than 12 Dwarf Atom Blasts northern producers. However, in case the federal dozens of cards addressed merely to a name, sometimes without even Initials, and Prince Rupert. M sfter the theft was re- DLA.nca V.3. However, the Communists' Pelplng radio already had reasserted the perfidy charges and laid the blame for the breakdown on the "contemptible cold war policy of the United States." t to police. 'break-In occurred Just be-mtlnlght Saturday when By ELTON C. FAY WASHINGTON The weapon blast the United ... . .... government did not favor the vessels. Neither burst left any granting of funQS for B.C. rail mark on the Islands fringing the extension. Mr. Bennett suggest-lagoon. ' j ed alternative measures for fed- But some time next spring, ! eral consideration, when the seasonal change comes j The federal government might UfeG MMI n 4Ka M it c- - t-nitrl Pelplng said Dean s walkout Those cards, he said, would have to stay In the post office until after the Christmas rush. Just as Important, he said, was careful wrapping. Every year hundreds of Christmas parcels fell apart in the mall. VANCOUVE(CP) Mrs. Alberta Brown, 25-year-old mother of three children, was transferred to Oakalla prison farm at suburban Burnaby Sunday, charged with the rifle-slaying of a Can- nriinn Pnpifir Pnilunv linfamnn prtore by removal of the 1 was "an ominous sign that the o teat this ma -exc dttw hand beaverboard making U.S. government might commit spring in the direction ot the trade . consider the outright purchase, walls. Stolen was nearly ; further perfidies of graver con- total power 01 an TOmr aroppeo wlnds whicn can carry radio-! turning over the provincial line horth of cigarettes and i sequence.'' .JSX" Best plan Is to double-wrap That figure was slightly more than 2,000,000 tons of TNT. Pre active contamination long dis-; to the publicly-owned Canadian tances, the face of the atoll may I National Railways. The line change In an instant. ! would be sold at its "present ' lslr and reasonable value" on rnnnnRtTPiivKiiviK COILD DESTROY ISLANDS , tne underelanding that the fed-Release of a force equalling ; trftl government would add two or more millions of tons of ; northern and southern exten- the gift. Gift wrap your parcel at her Misslon, BC-i home Sat-and place It In a corrugated ur(jay ' container. Don't count on sticky I , ... , ,s 0!1' f tape to hold It. Tie it with'. ,Dead - Vancouver. Police said Mrs strong cord. 11 1 k . T Missing Girl Reported Seen In Orillia TORONTO CP) An elderly woman today looked at a picture of Marion McDowell, kidnapped eight days ago, and told police: "That's her. That girl came to my door Saturday." The woman, whose name was not given by police, said the gir: and a man stopped at her loneb farmhouse near Orillia and asked for coffee. The man told the woman hit "girl friend" had been In an accident. 1 See earlier story, pagi sident Eisenhower said In his speech Tuesday to the United Nations General Assembly that ROAf CASTING j SYSTEM; And finally, be sure you have;"'""" ,u" 'hydrogen . weapons are In the expiocung int could erase all sjons within a "reasonable enough postage on It. range of millions of tons 01 1 irace 01 noi oniy one dui pos-. time." 1 s equivalent. uij.n..!,! uio.miiiu.5-; ur me ieaerai government. -l-j t..- D -A The test at Bikini will show ing ine mgoon. mere were re-imiEht consider ioint ownershio ! "a bothering me," She has Deen remanded to Dec. 21 for preliminary hearing. Police said Johnston died of a rifle bullet In the abdomen. The what could happen to the United porUs, never denied by the Atomic j with the provincial government. VANCOUVER CP S a 1 v a g e States as well as to Russia in a Energy Commission, that the The price of federal partnership ! crews Sunday raised the C. P, war with hydrogen weapons. 1952 test of a relatively small hy- j would be the cost of adding the j Yorke, 75-foot tug which crashed arogen device destroyed tne ! extensions. The CNR then could a reel and sank witn a loss 01 shot was fired through the door of Mrs. Brown's home. Don Pattison, Mission taxi dri The last atomic explosion at Island upon which the device ! take over operation of the line five lives 50 miles northwest ot the remote and quiet Blkin atoll 1 .) was mounted. on behalf of the "Joint owners." here Friday morning. probably will become, by comparison, a puny pop. The two test bombs used there in the 1946 tests had an energy " " -- - 111 1 11 . ' -y- -t f S'f ' ws.wwwii-g.. 111 "w ...... ver, said Johnston staggered up to his car and said: "Get me to hosnital quick. I've been shot." He died later in Mission Memorial Hospital. Chief Constable Sam Service of equivalent or about 20.000 tons of TNT. The air-burst bomb sank ships, crushed others with the shock wave, net others burn Mission said "the woman was very frank about the Incident." 9 He said Mrs. Brown told him ing. An underwater burst sank a carrier, a battleship and other the man bothered her repeatedly, mere knocking loudly at the door and asking to be let In. Shopping 1 II A V I 660 1 1 r He refused to leave and the Dm woman fired through the door, the chief said. 'tdCkmtmas Mrs. Brown's husband Is work r I i mm Wt - 1 " ' I ' ing at Kemano. t t ii " I it I I r M -WEATHER- Forecast North coast region: Gale warning continued. . : . Overcast with showers along the mainland, elsewhere mostly clear but with scattered showers today. A few clouds tonight and Tuesday morning, clouding over Junior Chamber of Commerce Home Light-up Contest Entry Form Name '. : : In the afternoon. Rain beginning late .Tuesday afternoon. Colder tonight Winds west 35 in exp- Address STRIKES HALTED publication of New York City's news- "the radio and TV people stepped into tne emn5-. posed areas, decreasing to 15 this afternoon and to light tonight, becoming south 20 Tuesday afternoon and to light tonight, becoming south 20 Tuesday after JJKster apparently walked up the wrons ." tho mD ..l.'ji,,. this renresentatlve of WNdU- Judging will commence December 20th. Mall your entry to: Jaycee Light-up, 642 East Fourth, no later than December 19. This contest is made possible by various local merchants In co-operation with the Jaycees. fi "P.rohi. o..i Potrni". the on-your-way routine. LT.-GEN. GUY SIMONDS, chief of the general staff, takes the salute from Canadian troops at Hohne, Germany, near Hannover. The troops, members of C squadron, Royal Canadian Engineers and the 79th Field Regiment, Royal Canadian Artillery, were on a final march at the old camp since replaced by a new one at So sst before being rotated to Canada. ?,!- of men armed with signs York stations had a group noon and 30 by evening - Low tonight and high Tuesday at Port Hardy,. Sandspit and Prince pprt 30 nnc! 42 "'''hie radios patrolling the streets to ur.." '"' Ppnhep wit,i intent. b'lleyn8. ..