library PROVINCIAL LI3r.2, 1(YJ Lbi '-.. - - t Doil SORROW'S f TIDES jay, November 28, 1953 If lc Standard Time) f 7:11 17.7 feet " ' 19:10 16.1 feet I .... 0:33 7.2 feet 1 13:26 9.9 feet Delivery NORTHERN AND CENTRAL BRITISH COLUMBIA'S NEWSPAPER Published ot Canada's Most Strategic Pacific Port ''Prince Rupert, the Key to the Great Northwest" VOL, XLII, No. 276 ' PRINCE RUPERT, B.C., FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 27, 1953 PRICE FIVE CENTS ,- Phone 81 I """""s,." " 'an. o. n nn o nnn n , . mm M) -iuii i xivmm mwm Hold Line Policy Management Stand Wage discussions between the Prince Rupert General Hospital board and the Civic Employees Federal Union No. 5 will be heard by a conciliation . -n - -;- ) viregory - j : '-if i'C-V-v v f n' Election - UfKrK"K J liJMiiilWli iJiWi Gonfirmed ' A. 1 fl. - ' ' 1 ' By The Canadian Pre 1 -V- CXi,'c" : Ul) VICTORIA. - British j ' , 1 rZ"sv."? ' 'V J .Columbia's Columbia's Social Social Credit Credit , J' . . 1 " .V-: .'..."-.'. " - s government government has has lost lost out! outl . , . "TTr ' ' - ,. ' " board. Grey Cup On Air Here The move was recommended last night by Labor Relations Foard conciliation -officer J. C. Sherlock who heard representations by both the board and the union during the week.. The union, which bargains for all the , non-professional in its attempt to obtain a legislature seat for Tomorrow Rooftop Airport , tNGER DOl'CLAS STOKER waves from a helicopter "after pilot Irv Zlfferblatt of Hjoro, N.J., landed the craft on the sun de :k of a nuga house trailer at Zahn's Airport at tville. N Y. The 'copter then took off without Incident. The massive trailer weighs 19 tons L valued at $75,000. ' avy November Rainfall Brings staff of the hospital except of-; fice workers and engineers, listed requested qhanges in , the, 1953 agreement in a , letter dis-' cussed at the last hospital board' meeting. In view of the BCHI3 policy of holding the line on hospital costs, the board took the attitude that a renewal of the 1953 contract was called for. As a ier,ult of this the conciliation officer decided that a conciliation board hearing was ln order. Eipht changes for the 1954 contract sought by the union Finance Minister Einar Glunderson. A re-check Thursday of all ballots, cast In Tuesday's by-election to fill the vacant Victoria seat In the legislature showed Liberal George Gregory defeated Mr. Ounderson by 90 votes. Government sources said following announcement of the re-check result that it was unlikely Mr. Gunderson would ask for a Judicial recount. The sources also said the gov , Announcement was made at press time totlay that the Grey Cup football final tomorrow between Winnipeg Blue Bombers and Hamilton Tigers will be carried over local station CFPR and stations at Terrace and points east. The broadcast will cover the game from its start at 9:45 a.m. to conclusion. It is not certain yet whether a broadcast of preliminaries starting at 9:15 a.m. also will be carried. In making the announcement, local station manager Bill Hankinson said the broadcast was made possible by special . arrangements of the CBC to transfer the. program from the Dominion network , on. -which it ar's Total Nearer Record High one month and three two dry 24-hour periods. - 'total, still short November 21. :i to no, Prince Rupert's Tli's month s dampness thin 29 and 30 figures, is only no- is well on the wiy to far boosted the year's total up proximately three Inches short ernment was not expected to attempt to find another seat a better than average to 87 08 inches, more than the of the 10 year average of 90 4 r 1953. 12-month's total in 1938. 1942,llnehes and the 15-year average' are (1) a reduction of the working week from 44 to 40 hours, i2) a 20-cent night shift dif k'iy this month 13 91 1944, 1950, 1961 and 1952. La it! of 91.05 Inches. ferential, (3) check-off of per uf rain have fallen dui- year's 12-month total was 74 38! The 25-days of rain thus fr nut of 27 days, wi'h No- Inches. ; In November is more than fell mit fees from the start of a worker s employment instead of . u carried to the rest of the Sand 6 being the oniy In fact, this year's ll-mon'.h; In both November and Dec-m-w ii jiii i bet. together. lust year, the total for him. Mr. Gunderson, who went to a motion picture during the re-check, was not immediately available for comment. When the ballots were first counted Tuesday, Mr. Gregory held a 93-vote lead. On the re-check Mr. Gregory lost one vote country. Prince Rupert la on the (A tionary period, -(4) addition of i for thfl last two 1952 months MILLIONAIRE PEN MANUFACTURER Milton Reynolds doesn't complain of sore feet when he finishes 18 holes at the Club de Golf course in Mexico City. The air-minded golfer covers the fairway in a helicopter which waits in background (top) while he tees off and then takes off (bottom) for next shot and hole. the. Queen's birthday to statu OCAL TALENT LINED UP Trans-Canada - network. iThis is the first time the game has been carried over local and Interior stations. beinfj 12.93, 7.46 inches in November and 5.47 Inches in De tory 'and any other provincial holidays, (5) three, weeks' holi day with pay after five years W ELKS' CHARITY SHOW cember. ' With 34 days go until the i and Mr. Gunderson 10. How- !ever, Mr. Gunderson received 76 employment, (6) inclusion of hospital workers In the federal !ome town talent will toe tm parade again thi$ Sunday unemployment Insurance" serV proach a 16-year record, the ' i"!.?0! vokf West Skeptical , of Soviet Offer To Meet Big Three not counted Tuesday compared ice scheme, (7) rates of pay of orderlies to be brought into line the Benevolent Protective Order of Elks stage a variety at the Capitol theatre. . ; ' ' t ' "r 1939 total of 118.94 inches be to 64 for Mr. Gregory. fflie show, proceeds of which will go to an Elks Lodge Operators Offer to Meet Loggers ' VANCOUVER CP Souther's ; The final count is: Gregory. 'y. will feature Hugo Kruupter and his Electric organ. DeWitt, Mel Thompson; Yvonne Schaeffer, the Elks kr Shop quartet and the WesternaUes. Dennis Lipsln nd interior lumber operators yes n Jensen are directing the show -and Harley Lewis, will be Shuw time is 9 p.m. ' ' 8.456; Gunderson, 8,366; Alfred Matthews, CCF, 2.495: Deane Finlayson, B C. Progressive Conservative leader, 981, and Mrs. Doris Blakey, Labor-Progressive, 161. The lection of Mr. Gregory leaves the standing in the legislature: Social Credit 27, CCF 14, Liberal 5. Progressive Conservative 1, Independent Labor 1. Total 48. In any case, the Russian note was under intensive study today by State Secretary Dulles and his principal policy advisers' to determine whether it is a serious step toward easing world ten-, sions or a clever stab at the unity of the West. ? 1 Available Information in Washington and Paris was that the note laid down no pre-conditions terday offered to meet union-officials in an effort to. .find. Absolution to the crippling two month-old woodworkers strike. - Ing the one to beat. Other higher yearly totals that mtiy fall by the wayside are 1940's 91.78 inches, 1941's 93.50, 1943 s 9076. 1945 s 90.48, 1946'S 103.32, 1947 s 107.95 and 1949'S 99.11 Inches. Sunshine for the month of November so far hit a new low with only 21'2 hours being recorded. Lowest 1953 month previous for sunshine was January when the sun shone for only 31.8 hours. Down in the dry belt, Vancouver is complaining that November has been the wettest No By JOHN M. HIGHTOWER WASHINGTON (API Russia has offered to meet with the Western Big Three to discuss critical European problems, abandoning its earlier insistence that Red China first be accepted by the West in the councils of great powers. . But officials here today said it is by no means certain that the Red China issue will not still block any profitable discussions between East and West.' A digest of the note Russia sent Thursday night to the The offer was made through nee Flies to Formosa ) Meet Chiang Kai-Shek : wuh that of Vancouver Oen-ral; Hospital orderlies, (8) an anrpjss the board increase of 15 (jpnts per hour. in A hospital board spokesman said this morning that the board would recommend that with some .slight word changing the third and fourth items be included in next year's contract. However, he said, as all the other items mean increased costs the board cannot go along with them. The board took a dim view of the union's request that probationers pay union dues before their three month's trial period is up, asserting that it amounts to a closed shop and removes from the hospital the right of hiring whom it likes. On the unemployment insur the B.C. Labor Relations Bourd and came as the International Woodworkers of America (CIO-CCL) announced plans to set for a Big Four meeting but gave clear evidence of Russia's con fSPKMT.R MOOSA i hands warmly at the door of EH, Formosa (API ; Rhee's borrowed transport, which Former Resident Of Rupert Dies up a labor blockade throughout the interior to discourage workers from accepting employment in struck mills. vember In Vancouver since 194J and yesterday the Dominion (an Rhee and Chiang Kai- i belongs to Gen. John Hull, po Asian leaders bonded ' United Nations Far East com- tinuing preoccupation with the status of Red China: That it proposed a meeting of foreign ministers without previous conciliation on agenda, suggested Berlin as the meeting place and '.eft the date open. Put there was immediate f'd of communism, today mander. VICTORIA 0 Funeral servl- j United States, Britain and ces will be held here Saturday France became available this for Thorstein Jonatansson Day- j morning in Paris. It indicated public weather office promised that more rain was on the way. To date this month, 5.56 inches p series of talks apparent-; Rhee said his trip was a M at tightening their ! frPnrilv visit but added "some- has, fallen, compared with 658 ecorded in November 194!). Rec sal alliance against the! thing may be brought up for i discussion." ; South Korean president t . m,,-.;lrriH stnrtprt im ance issue, the hospital would ldson, 83, of Cordova Bay, who that if a Big Four meeting 01 was active in the CCF movement : foreign ministers is held, the for 20 years both on Vancouver Russians would immediately Island and in the Fraser Valley. I press for a broader, follow-up ord November rainfall was the S"!n precedent, if it petitioned sewhere that the Russians 964 which fell ln 1948. pretly to this Nationalist! the federal .government to grant mediate speculation they may Born in MartharnuDi. Iecland. meeting including Communist be This year's November rain the union UIS. coverage. Only No date for a meeting has been set and there was no immediate comment from the IWA. Both northern and southern Interior operators met with , Premier Bennett Wednesday at Victoria ln the latest of a seru: . of meetings aimed at seeking, s, ... break in the deadlock oven" union demands for an 18-cent.:, hourly, wage boost. Present bask wage is $1.29'2. Another meeting is scheduled in Victoria next Wednesday. r .uiuess oniy vwo o.iys ,, ln . Bnt.Recbloc. he moved to Prince Rupert in China. fall in Prince Rupert is the one hospital in British Colum- werences with top Unit-1. , , .u. hlahest since 1941 when weath ties n-ervers nere ep:u officials in Korea. gia gives its 1 employees this IU1KS WOUIO lUUCIl upuu Ub ictwv er statistics record that there pig and Rhee clasped two key points: 1908 where he was a photographer for 12 years. He then farmed in the Fraser Valley near Snrdis and moved to Cordova Bay in 1950. was 1807 inches of precipitation. This undoubtedly included considerable snow. The possibility 01 Nation- ilist Chinese troops being sent el Waiters might be trying to manoeuvre the downfall of French Premier Lanlel's government and cripple the Western Big Three conference opening in Bermuda a week from today. CRITICAL DEBATE Lanlel fights for his government's life today during the debate on support of the proposed European Defence Community treaty. Russia is bitterly hostile to this oact. Lanlel, who supports EDC, will Liberals Win No Confidence Vote in House to South Korea if that war is resumed. privilege, the others claim that if employees stay with the hospital there is no need to draw benefits and if they are let out they are sufficiently well-trained to gain employment in other hospitals. Addition of the hospital's share of unemployment insurance for its employees, would be an additional expense to the public, the board said. 'fife Dispute The problem of what to do with some 14,600 anti-Red Chinese Drlsoners-of-war in Korea mocked WEATHER Forecast North coast region: Cloudy with a few showers and Saturday. A little cold- who are due to be freed as civil OTTAWA The government has won its first test of strength inns In late January unless they ft negotiations between be France's representative at the choose to return to communism wl operators and the i il : Bermuda meeting with President voted 156 to 36, The Commons "phower andBprlme Mlnistel w Dispensers Uni"n are The meeting undoubtedly will draw a stream ,of attack from f'ked and will go before a the Chinese Reds. inursaay nignt 10 uejeai, 1 . ... Tf " ,.,, thfi motion of non-confidence in the ; .c.h"rch"L teL,J his EDMONTON Oi A truck carry-. er tonight. Winds westerly II ing 400 quarts of nitro-glycerine ! today, becoming southerly If passed through here Wednesday Saturday. under police ecort en route from Low tonight and high Satur-Odessa, Tex., to Fort St. John, day at Port Hardy, Sandspit an, B.C. Prince Rupert 35 and 45. '"on board next month. govern- vote of confidence, The plans were a well-kept I' P Runni-t t ncnl Rtd m government. Liberals, Progres (See earlier ment must resign. sive Conservatives and two in- a 25 cent per hour the board wace Increase secret in both Korea and For mosa. FIRST REPORTS dependents voted against ,the I stotypage f'cl operators to date have motion, supported by the cm and Social Credit parties. ! Rhee slipped from his capital Colorful Bomber Supporters 1 any Increase, claiming ne in beer sales here. The Social Credit party of Seoul. The government an nounced the departure two hours 'nt wase rate is $1.35 per W beveraee waiters nnd promptly presented Its own non-confidence motion. after he left, and the news re Arrive in Eastern Citadel Ff hour for tap men. The The two motions centred at ports from Seoul were the first jiff if yiz2 a'so asks one extra holi- tention on the Issue of free en wnrd here that nc was coming. anl (iirfirent.ini nnv fin- nesDlte all the hush-hush, the ''itt workers. its nhvtnuslv knew of the pro 'mh nnns onened Mnv I tected talks, since Hull loaneu One leather-lunged Winnipeg supporter bawled out "Boo Hamilton," and the Toronto wel-comers let out a roar of laughter. Out of the arriving crowc emerged two Bomber support annual west-east meeting that draws thousands more into the city than can possibly be shoe-horned in Varsity Stadium. . Bomber colors were everywhere. It seemed that every man, woman and child who stepped from the trains wore Rhee his private lour-engine f Wednesday, union and praent r e p r e s e ntativts fltn J. C Rhrrlnplr rnn. TORONTO (CP) Two Blue Bomber special trains rolled into ' Union "station today and turned loose on Toronto hordes of blue-and-gold-bedecked supporters. Operating on the platoon system, the Winnipeg fans paraded r from the Department of terprise in the throne speech debate, with indications the two-wek-old debate may end next week. The CCF motion criticized the government for giving no promise of a national health insurance scheme In its outline of legislation in the speech from the throne. However, it amended a Progressive Conservative non-confidence motion already before the House by deleting the but ers In comic dress, carrying a no agreement was N. transport for the flight. . The navy had disclosed earlier that Rhee conferred Wednesday with the four top U.S. military officials ln Korea aboard the battleship Wisconsin at Inchon, Korea. . Rhee was accompanied to Formosa by Foreign Minister Pyun Yung-tal and Ambassador Kim Hong 11. , . .. ti inmortancc of Rhee s visit famissioners ..v:; ,13 huge blanket. They spread it out, supplied their own smoke ln puffs and sent out smoke signals. The St. Andrews girls pipe band of Toronto was on hand to welcome the westerners. There were greetings of blue-and-gold ribbons or wore signs, letting everybody know where they were from and what they expected to happen Saturday afternoon. Some of the western fans, who were getting a running start on the celebration, wore straw hats. Here and there were !k Re-Election statement that Canadian welfare through the station in two huge groups, their trains arriving from the Manitoba capital 20 minutes apart. They were met in the lower concourse by about 250 Toron-tonians some there to shout a welcome, some out of pure curiosity and other former Win-nlpeggers themselves. depends on free competition, whose terms ex- JhU um omnha-sized by Chiang's year are all going to City Pair Attend Parley nerEnrta 1 creation the only City clerk R. W. Long and Bob NOT SO MUCH AS A GLANCE is offered by these Marine pilots being briefed below as a Panther Jet roars overhead at Kaneohe Bay, Hawaii. The plane is moving so rapidly that the sound of its engine has not reached the men on the ground yet. The photo was made by a Marine Corps photographer, who noticed that the same thing happened every time one of the squadron's Jets sped over the runway. Seconds later, as the sound reached them, the Leatherneck flyers would swing around to look at the empty sky. Fu torinv D! 1 ... friends and relatives, and football talk was everywhere. Other trains were crowded, the usual quotas increased by tlcketholders from out of town and those who still clung to t hope they can get tickets. The fans arrived less than 30 McKay, Prince Rupert Civil De '"minatinn . . wide-brimmed cowboy stetsons. The signs and buttons read: "The Indian sign is on Hamilton"; "Take off your hat to the Bombers"; "Ask us about our Blue Bombers." hours before Blue Bombers face fence officer, left this morning other persons he has met at the airport in four years on this island have been Gen. MacAr-thur and vice-president Nixon fck. iui liic rf 10 election in Terrace Tiger-Cats in the by plane to attend a civil defence I Hamilton lOrey Cup ftirthall spectacle, the HUH r," -""'J. ""J conference in Chtlliw-ack. -u " Little Oi me u o. I" j