welcome to new Iju.ih there was no lack of snow and people. . . . uauii- . ,,. . Prince Rupert Daily News April 9. 1914. The time was early afternoon and the weather beau- tiful and warm. and wnat hav vnn ... .. . -'. ;ii As I See It 7 happy surprises a vast newt Tuesday, June 3. 1952 Xr Having ' an h.... STIIJ. WlMtUVINU Linked UP at last, and great the rejoicing. In ;few more months farewell to 1914, and u.i.m.-i.uiirmai system would surely bring. There was beyond question one surprise. It occurred that autumn, was a world WHAT "HO. FOR F,AST, Not until 1911 was it passible for a traia to travel any distance from Prince Rupert. On the four '"Press or .,. Reflects and Reminisces An Independent dally newspaper devoted to the upbuilding of Prince Rupert and Northern and Central British Columbia, i Member of Canadian Press Audit Bureau of Cir'culatloua Canadian Daily Newspaper Association. Published by The Prince Rupert Dallv News Limited i J. P. MAOOR, President H. O. PERRY, Vice-President t life teenth of June of that year, one a, tmon Subscription Rates: By carrier Per week, 26c; per month 1100; per year, flOOO j$y mall Per month, 75c; per year. 18 00 pi4n hi La managed to reach Mil 45. Pas-Theu thore was the physician senger cltrs totalled perhaps ; who gently broke the news to a tnree or four- t()Betner WUr a 92 year old spinster that her 98 strU1? ot 'freights. There was no lyeai old sister had passed away siB of the Skeena, though near. 'And now" remarked the former 'A mile or more ba(; from I "I'll have my coffee the way I've rallf;. t-Jv.;d mouuUUs wit(i .a i always wanted it." . i waterfall ;f warning frum top ito I i bottom. iOn the plaMorm uf tUe I Education is the ahilltu tn W car sat. a ouuple uf mm, t cut-' a .beautllul &iv without using your hands Brandon Sun. with legs comfortably tautd One's hat, so far ai .color Vwiit, could have been from Panama. Beaverbrook Blunder I AM usually an .admirer of that tough old war-horse, Lord Beaverbrook.' Although I cannot go along with iii in in some of his diehard ideas mi domestic politics ! in Britain, it seems to me he ,is ; about the last .big public man j in Britain who realizes Unit ; '-A FINAL .CONTAC T When i, come, o looking after FIXT SO PLEASANT ' Must of us, this lyng ago, feel fl .bit embarrassed if asked what dale it was the .fu.it throutfh train ai rived in Prince Rm.wt our tiau off i a , , ' Vou're , be finander, who ,how ' in spending and saving .he u nT It was near J-'oRt iKraser .In .Central British Columbia on 4pi'il 7, 1914, Uiat the -track Jayer made the ,lat uoiiuJi'tioii. tl-'ort Fraser is hundreds uji nules from Prince Rupert and on this day uf days, the sky was clear, and what we used to call the Brit-1 'ihe casual at ruuger .or new rom-ish Empire is still big enough toler thinks a sourdough oupht to knew. He should, for that mat ter. Well, it's 38 years ago save itself. It is certainly one of the Ironies of history that, .while the British world .kingdom outnum Authorized as second class mail by the Post Office Department, Ottawt How Bright Our Future? BRITISH COLUMBIA today stands in the doorway of a golden era. Of all the provinces in Canada, statistics show that B.C., since 19.'.9, has had the greatest growth. Its population has increased from 792,000 to i,200;000 today. The average .hourly earnings of B.C. w orkers, for instance, have increased from 50 cents in 19I.9 to .$1.5.7 today. Eight major projects in industrial expansion of our province are headed by the Aluminum Company of Canada development 'the greatest undertaking in Canada today. Jn the coming three yean-there is due to he spent throughout B.C. on industrial development more than one and a half billion dollars. ; All this could not have happened without the confidence of investors in our province. And investors will ,oniy risk their capital jn a sound, free enterprise .province which does not frighten them away with talk of nationalization, high taxation, unfriendly government attitude. .w,ii..,cre, we ve prepared a Ka a , your day to day tonkin.. I-'. -... $$m& v mttz. Stan Simple When Vou Know Ho"and,ff variety uf Mpful ,ipS un 7b- bers i-iU.t.i iltc or .Russia by ,nioie than tluee to ,oue, we are 4iow caught in ,the j.utcrauk-ers ,of their -two-pronged world squeeze. Sume say Uncle Sam will save us from .Uncle Joe. But soiue ask, who will save us from .uncle Sam'-' IP YOU include India in the Commonwealth you see that one quaiter of the people of the world are still in it. in fact, our new .Queen Elizabeth will .relgn ove,r .more .human beings than have .ever baen subjeot to any monarch in all human .history. True, she will "reign but not rule." But the legal lact ,is that 4 J S I 10 DAYS iSUS tiAHU Ask for your copy ot your local branch, or write to Froncei Terry, Head Office. The Cpncdion Bank of Commerce, B 1 W V Torofito. OMN AN0 Ht liw-v Hawaii Tours fROM $331.10 iFrca Vancouver) tliutlutles MolcJ, Air titiMmrtitiun ud Mu& XmiM-s) for (Reser.vatiuas and ilnforniatiun Crawford Moore Travel Agencies Phone Block 637 No. 1 Wolloce Blocks Prince Rupert B.C. The Canadian Bar When, .we go to the polls June 12, let's vote thoughtfully, for our future pay cheques. Each and every one of us has a pretty Jarge stake ,in our province. We want it's future progress. There is no land of brighter promise on :the face of the earth today than Western Canada ... of which B.C. is the most favored province. of Commerc her world-wide kingdom is the most populous in ail history-by far -the most numerous of any international organization in -the world today. Within -the British world kingdom we iiave evtjry resource to make us Upmost prosperous, best ifed, be.t educated, mast cultural people on earth. The fact that we .have not done so is a reflection only on bars In the East, and that of UNDER . . . OUR ROOF courrc made it impossible for him ourselves. we have all the "mak-to make an honest living. That ings" but one. Our political was why he came to B.C., where ' theory and self-help was ob.vi- 1 AT "buy: WMl SEAUTY SZSZ 1 the laws concerning liquid re- j ously inadequate for the times ncBhments were better for a man ln wmcn we live. .Otherwise .wo in his line of business or, as he j would .not, have had to bow down called it, "purveying portable. to ' to American leadership, as we Uie underprivileged." have done, even in the face of Well, nobody could agree about tne gigantic challenge of Rus-the bedroom," and in the mean- s;an-led Communism. Stalin has time theia were four perfectly 190 mulion subjects. Elizabeth good walls and a floor going to nas over 500 million fellow citi-waste. Hamish and the Colonel zens wno cal1 n;r Queen, and By JOHN STURDY Tlvere has been a certain amount of confusion about the re-allocation of rooms in our house since Col. S. Skeffington-Smuttr i Ret. i, one of our apparently permanent guests, married Aanaslasia Wiggs-Wiggs. who SEE Co5t ! and Anastasia were watching one wno feel as friends. I Hnnlhw- ,li-. Vt..i.L'c i !-,. . . i.ici H W V . . t0 II" ' k m viii . ari .1 H.. gave me a brilliant idea. If they BUT how could Lord Beaver-were fo busy watching one an-! brw)k, so great a be.liever in otiie; , they might not notice me. ; tne British world kingdom, bf - fso unwise as to re-open the old So the other evening I snaked ! W0linc)s tnat d;'te from the ab- - FLOOR paTERNS . - 1 deans "-e,.:;ot.TU' ...i.tr. -" vr 'x .. Into the disuuted -room .hist in ! dication oration or of -tne the present Duke -of th STR"" -atim ,0" roSTS so Windsor? scout the situation. The interior also seems permanent. The idea was that the Colonel and Anastasia. would take up residence in the Colonel's quarters and that would leave a spare bedroom; a situation which has been unknown In cur house since .some time in 1951. Of course, I had the silly Idea that, seeing as I owned the house, I might conceivably gr-t the bedroom for my family. Not. I that I mind living in the Shed, j but as my wife says, it's no place to bring up a child. So I timidly put, forward the suggestion that . the family and I might move 1 back into the house, and, of j course, I got absolutely nowhere. This would have been bad i enough at any time. But it was j mast mischievous at this par- I ticular period, between the: death of the late .King and the ! Coronation of the young Queen ! Elizabeth. j Lord Beaverbrook rather bit- 1 terly attacks a former editor of 1 Continued on page 3i SO &CAUTIFUI in unf ium SO PftACTICAl-tv.ilj ileontd with a broom 01 dorap cloth ltf i 3 V 1 5,', WW I ' r.i f 1 . 1 t Jusr nsn ro rwf wau tASUY CLIANtD . '. . Snwt kitchen, kiirtiiHcn, hill v CAY COLOURS . . . Htm mvltti fit MlUim ... r 1 1 : surprised me. For one thing, the bed and most of the furniture was gonj. I was scratching my head in peiplexity when I heard a knock on the door. I answered It and there stood a little man J had never seen in my life be.ore. "Joe sent me," he said, nervously. "Joe who?" I demanded. He looked confused. "Just-Joe,'- he said, taking off his hat and sitting a. one of the card tables. I took a seat .at a.iother table and we looked at each CONGOLEUM CANADA LIMIIID, Montreal Anastasia wanted the extra room as a store-place for her collection of stuffed animal heads, which she had brougnt with her from India, and -the rV Colonel wanted it lor a study j other. where he could write his mem Nice weather." he suecfested una oirs, while muiish, who -has the gardening bug, planned to turn the space into a gree .house. The only one who stayed aloof from this heated controversy was Lit tle Augie. Eva.' since he arrived on the island Little Augie has been very quiet and subdued a strange state of affairs for a man who once was the biggest blind pig operator Back iiast. Life has not, been too kind to Little . Augie. You see, he was doing ay right in his trade until they opened up all those cocktail I was about to reply when there was another knock on the door. Again 1 answered, and a stout man entered. "Frank sent me," he said. With this he headed for a table and, seating himself, began to read a newspaper. ' Not so chilly tonight," I heard the little man say. Suddenly the stout individual snorted and put down his newspaper with a loud slap. "Just been reading that colum 1 'Under (Continued on page 3 VOTERS LIST mmh fit mm Now ov&iloLle at J, 0. McRae's Committee Rooms (Next to Royal Bank) Check to see if your name is Hi on ! ! 4 ' i Vote. i'liiiVrTt ,ii ji A Special! Lamp Shades New Shipment Just Arrived. All new designs all new sizei . TKI-LIT.ES. BRIDGE LAMPS, TAM E AN1 BOLUOIR SHADES AT SPECIAL PRICES InMrtM) by lh B.C. Liberal Auocl.ti . Rupert Radio & Electric 4. if