- P' r :IC . Utides- Borrows -1T: OH DRUGS , January 17, 1003 . :;:jiiiard Time DAILY DELIVERY 2 45 21 3 feet NORTHERN AND CENTRAL BRITISH COLUMBIA'S NEWSPAPER 14 34 22 9 feel Phone 81 8 34 5 8 feet Published ot Canada's Most Strotegic Pacific Port "Prince Rupert, the Key to the Greot Northwest" 21.03 09 feet VOL. XLII No 13 PRINCE RUPERT. B.C. FRIDAY, JANUARY 18. 1953 PRICE FIVE CENTS Ami rtetek IF!? ill m Co i By Lip!? ,illll3SSQn! m J. Scrapping of Present Liquor Laws Proposed By Tltt Canadian Prtss VICTORIA Cocktail lounges, drinks with t.ir.i'-V"' meals, and pubs with pickles ond pretzels were ' recommended today for British Columbia by the three-man Liquor Inquiry Commission. ! The Commission proposed complete scrapping j of the province's present liquor distribution system. JJaWtrto3Sscaa . . . cancellation of oil current licences, a variety of new drinking cutlets and a government-directed audit and i h s ft f'Z t investigation of B C breweries. The Social Credit government i ' 1 , has wild It will introduce legis- j pmii js operating in B.C. and lation at the House session open-Wher connections with licenced lug Feb. 3 bawd on the commls-! hoter and beer parlor operations." it r -i Ulon report. However, the report j closing times suggested: pubs I la not binding on ihe goem-j n p.m ; cocktail lounges. II pjn.; ment. " , restaurant. midniKht: n'ght .... .v . . ir,f, m.A .ft.a-rv wj clubs, 12:30 am.; one downtown liquor store. 11 pjn. iff I BC. newspapers have already ' forecast that the CommLssion ! main recommendation will have Flood Hits Calgary been Implemented by July 1. A three-man board should re-: place the present one-man liquor I board. i The three commissioners were DKXOlNtES LAWS j The report denounced the 'present provincial Liquor Con- (Chairman H. H. Stevens, presi THE BOW RIVER churned over the banks on Calvary's west outskirts yesterday, spilling three feet of water over land and roads and driving residents from homes as temperatures dropped to" 18 below zero. Workmen tolled around the clock building new dikes and strengthening old one as the flood approached. (CP PHOTO) itrot Board for what Is said was j the Board's laxity In enforcing i liquor laws and it fashioned a 1 new set of sharp teeth for en-I foreement of any new liquor act. Storm Hits Ontario dent of the Vancouver Board of ( Trade and former Conservative: federal cabinet minister; George ; Home, secretary of the B.C. Fed- j eration of Labor (CCD; andj Dean'C'xll Swanson of Christ. Church i Anglican) Cathedral, Vancouver. Native Fishermen Object to Late Halibut Season Opening r l( t. SIOKM In 10 year knifed through a 50-mtle belt In central and eastern section of ('. em Ontario and communication and power line were- heavily damaged. Three traffic .re attributed to the weartier and mother man died while working with a highway n.iit landing- detail. Hundreds of horn" were without light and heat and telephone Substance of report is as follows: Hotel ber parlors would be done away with. Beer would be sold in "public houws" similar to those in Britain and not neces of storm the reason why the late open-(stood the Native Brotherhood of The. l(T hf!hed poles and wires down near Orangevtlle were typical iCP PHOTOi uig is Dcing proposeu py uw ahum a"" "-": vjhiau iuuh-commission. I men and Allied Worker Union More than 1.000 small boat j fishermen in Prince Rupert , could lose as much as $730,000 ' this yew if - the - International " i Halibut Commission goes Exotic Type ICocktail Bars Not Favored I am going to sit In on the; have voiced sinular protests. sarily connected with hotels. The ; commission stressed that the ; workingman needed f plaee-where he could have a quiet beer, and sandwiches, pickles, pea-j Among others leaving here foe- convention to find out what the lio May Strike Anywhere; the"v Seattle conference ' are . real reason is and to voice the opinion of our people," said Mr. Calder. . hsmen Fund Helps Victims nut, pretzels, potato chips ana liKht music if he wanted them,! too. i Other organisations and some George Nickerson, chairman; Harold Thorn, manager ol Atlin Fisheries, and Doug Souter, manager of B.C. Packers Ltd., and Bill Brett, representing the deep sea fishermen. individual companies also are reported to be in opposition to the June 1 opening. It is under- n Uie history of BrltUh Many need financial help. That: One young man In particular. . have so many victims U why the Kluwrun B.C. Polio, Frank Sktdmore of the parts de- nartmnt of First-class hotels and restaur- j ants could sell liquor and wine by the glass with meals. Hotels and resorts, but not auto courts, could have cocktail j lounges -gelling liquor, wine and needed help from those Fund exist to supply help. The, jiiKii g'xxi health, arc Kinsmen are able to carry on ij.iy freedom ol all their because ot the support of ttioe jho contribute to the annual' houl tin- province last appeal. j persons were struck j While no one so far h been Hie dr.-a(i.'d. crloDlina stricken while living In UiU city,. JL Bob PaTker Y 1 . Ltd.. said today " words cannot t , I fully reveal this J appreciation. j m. His sister. through with Its proposal not lo open the halibut season until June 1. And more than half of these fishermen are district Indians. That is why Frank Calder, Atlin MLA and spokesman for the Native Brotherhood of B.C. here. Is leaving tonight to attend the IHC convention in Seattle Jan. 21-23. "If the season doesn't open until June, the Indian fishermen here are going to take a beating." said Mr. Calder today in an interview. Most of the small-boat fishermen here including gillnetters, some t rollers and small seiners h.,t lu, l,.ft iirfnii and ihcro are ee.sldents here whose Lorna, came to DEEP SNOW IN CANYON HALTS CPR TRAINS VANCOUVER ? A storm which dumped 18 inches of snow in. the rrascr Canyon in five hours delayed departure of the Canadian Pacific Railway passenger trains from Vancouver' Thursday night. CPR line was blocked temporarily when the eastbound 48-car freight train bogged down in snow. hilpless. nmny for the' relatives today are more than ' Br.ti.vh Columbia as a baby and hfir lives SratcTuI to the Kinsmen polio' was for the most Vrt raised in - Is Immune to polio ' fund. 1 Vancouver, completing her high VICTORIA (CP) The exotic, dimly lighted type of cocktail bar is not favored by the Liquor Commission in its report to the government today. The commission said: -We do not look with favor on and very definitely recommend against the exotic, dimly lighted, voluptuous type of cocktail bar which creates delusive impressions of opulence and social distinction. "Rather, we would recommend a beverage lounge licence. "A small but vocal minority have urged a wide-open system of distribution trusting to competition as an adequate controlling factor. This naive proposal does not appeal to the judgment of your commission. "There is no reason in our opinion why a liquor store should be open all night any more than a dairy." beer and beer parlors in separate quarters. Class B hotels could have beer parlors but no cocktail lounges. Liquor by the glass, wine, and beer also would be sold in veterans clubs, private clubs and other clubs where an annual membership fee would be at least S10. cabarets and night clubs, trains, boats and planes. In big cities like Vancouver, the number of liquor outlets, not counting clubs and restaurants, would actually be less than at present. MINATO RINK SCRAPES ; school in nanaimo. i Apurt from her high school activities, she look up tsp clanc-j lug and adgio. She also was j competent at sewing and made many ot her own clothes. ROUGH IN BONSPIEL take part In the halibut which usually opens around May 15, which provides them Alter graduation she worked for the BC. Government In Vic- Liquor Lav Changes; Give Indians Drink with the first income of the lurtn and while there met and 'I 'I'M hits The Domlnilo rink ol Prince Rupert was the Most of the fishermen can get married Keith Vindcn. a student ALCOHOL RESEARCH at Royal Roads. ! Establishment of an alcohol If the recommendations of the Liquor Inquiry Commission are Just two years uko wlren they ; research foundaton is sucucsted. were looking forward to a happy j The CommLssion noted there are in some three to four weeks of halibut, fishing before they prepare their boats for the summer sockeyc run. 10.000 of event, Lorna was stricken wlthj3U.uuu aiconoucs in o.o. adopted, Indians in B.C. legal closely to see how we adjust ourselves to this new legislation. "First we got the vote, tlien the beer parlors now maybe hard liquor as well. While J don't hold with excess drinking at all, I consider the commis polio and admitted to Nanaimo mem in Vancouver But if the halibut season General Hospital. doesn't open as usual, small- ly will be able to drink liquor in public places for the first time in history. "And this is another step In boat fishermen won't be able to sions report as a very gooa The WEATHERMAN Says Cold air is lingering in the valleys of the Cariboo today and temperatures there are near aero. get out at all. because It would Interfere with salmon fishing which usually opens after the middle of June," Mr. Calder said. The Commission said that not only were drunks being served in beer parlors, but they were also being served in government liquor stores. Method of inspection was "grossly incompetent," Some licence holders in Vancouver had police records and some beer parlors were no better than "slums." It looked a very black picture for these two people." Frank recalled. "Thry had very little lime to accumulate anything lo meet this heavy financial burden suddenly thrust upon them. the right direction," 1'r.ink ' move, ana ine inuians on ute Calder, only Indian MLA (and j whole will adjust themselves." th- first, nnn in the B.C. Leeis-1 Mr. Calder said the commls- e i... scrape through without defeat hwc yesterday when : curlers moved Into action in the 2Hh annuul Smlthers : Club bonsplel. :j' ui of 28 rinks from various north-central BC. towts en-d in the spiel. The visitors each played three games re'.irliig early today. Malison's quartelte lust two games. Neely Moore. Oene n and Roy Colllnson had one win and one loss; Jack r had two win and a loss and Jim Stewart lost all three s. h the exception of the Dominuto rink, composed of Bert 'them. Art Krlstmanson, Bill McLean and Dom Domln-" Prince Rupert sportsmen all arrived by train Thursday e Domlnato rink came here by car and were the toast town before entering competition, being given the keys town hall, led moose steaks and christened with Bulklcy spirits. players are in good spirits and skips report everyone In in except Emll Blaln, who Is suffering from a Charley Blaine Is a member of Neely Moore's rink. ' lature. said today. ! and the public which en Commenting on the coramis-j "Lorna's father was confronted with spending his life savings in The remainder of the province Is quite mild with temperatures In The Commission suggested The spokesman for some teuo natives in this area said that there are about 350 small boats on Prince Rupert's waterfront involving about 1,00V fishermen who last year caught more than 4.000,600 pounds of halibut which sold for about $730,000. therefore, that all existing llcen-; the 35 to 45 degree range. West- Uorsed the liquor plebiscite last June election, "should be congratulated." "We liavc sorely needed a change in our liquor laws," he said, adding that he would support any move In the legislature in adopting the report tes be cancelled six months after erly winds blowing from the oruer 10 go ui im- 'u i ' ! married daughter when a tele-i phone call was received from the ! Kinsmen asking If they could the new legislation became law! pacific Ocean will keep the and that licence-holders re-apply weather mild today and Satur day. In accordance with requirements of the new act. There will be a few snow More than $170,000 worth of halibut gear used on small boats flurries in the central and north A law-enforcement branch for sion's report, released for the-first time today, Mr. Calder. who Is also official spokesman for the Native Brotherhood of B.C. in this area, said: , "I have discussed this with the Department of Citizenship and Immigration. I am told that it the B.C. government opens liquor drinking In public places, the Indians who have the vote and voted on the plebiscite last June will get the right to drink as well as the white population. I Under the Indian Act. consumption of liquor In public by Indians is left at discretion of provincial governmcnts.1 ern Interior and fairly frequent the inspection department of the also is involved, said Mr. Calder. rainshowers along the coast and Laurent Brands Curric NOT CONSERVATION in the valleys of the southern assume the financial load. "It was through the Kinsmen that Lorna received treatment In hospital at Vancouver, additional treatment In the Rehabilitation Centre at Shaugh-nessy; and an up-to-date wheel chair, whereby she can look after herself and keep house for her husband. "Further to that, It was the Concerning conservation, the Interior. 2-a-Day Mail Delivery Likely - OTTAWA t Postmaster-Ch.D-eral Cote indicated Thursday In Commons that two-a-day deliveries may soon be reinstated in Canadian cities. The government cut postal de Atlin MLA said "the Indian poo port as 'Stolen Goods' Forecast Cloudy with rainshowers today pie have always co-operated with conservation of fish and it is our wish to do so now. and Saturday. Some snow mixed liquor board should be set up. RAPS I.IQl OR BOARD The Commission also rapped the Liquor Board for Its "cumbersome" method of selling liquor. (A person now has to give his order to a clerk, pay the cashier and collect his purchase from a third clerk). , The report dealt at length with the testimony of a brewery A (f -prime Minister j attention away from government "t has branded the con- "embarrassment" at being caught In with rainshowers in the Prince Rupert area. Becoming a little , advance copy of . in the act of pressuring" the "But we have reason to believe that conservation Is not milder. Light winds. Kinsmen who helped to obtain emnlovment for her husband, lie Hnimr , Bt,a.. Currle firm Into handing another MAJOR STEP liveries to one a day as an economy measure last year. Low tonight and hljli tomorrow at Port Hardy, 32 and 45;. advance copy to the Defence Department to be examined. where he could be close to Lorna. "These are Just a few of the Sandspit, 32 and 40; Prince Rupert, 28 and 38. John Dlefenbakcr (PC-Lake ihinir. tin. Kinsmen oreanlzatlon spokesman that breweries had Man Committed In Son-Slaying t Centre) suggested the RCMP are has done for my sister and I feel I lent nearly $1,000,000 to hotel it not only my duty but an honor j beer parlors, that they had to to aive to this fund which pro-1 stock certain selling areas, and B . . . . i . V-1 !..... I. . .1 1 ... being used for "political purposes'" because security of the Lib "I also believe that this is a major step in the right direction and the near future will see the Indian take his place in social drinking among other citisens. "The reason that liquor ha caused so much trouble among Indians in the past Is because laws prevented him from taking it," Mr. Calder declared. SAVE ON SNOW PETERBOROUGH, Ont. (CP) i niuiuii 'nd thinks he will soon ' Identify the person " It. . j 1 "called Thursday by F mid Progressive Con-" spokesmen for asslgn-HLMP to track down the rio delivered the copy Coldwell, CCF leader, He final version of the 1 as given to the Defence cut. IIRRINU" V Kiiowlea (CCF-Winnl- Railroader Kills Self KELOWNA Cr Join H. McLean, 72-year-old retired railroader, committed suicide by strangling himself with a tourniquet. Coroner J. A. Urquhart decided Thursday. McLean was found in his shed with a three-quarter-inch rope twisted around his neck. Pressure vldes care ana ireaimeni 10 'uibi, ukj muu ui Ba. v.. nonnie in this Drovlnce stricken I certain quotas. Snow removal and sanding cost eral government is In Jeopardy. He scoffed at the Liberal members who Interjected the suggestion that the police Inquiry pro with nnlio I The Commission recommended NANAIMO Robert T. Adufiis Thursday was committed for trial on a charge' of murdering his 22-year-old son. The youth, Robert F. Adams Jr., was found stabbed through the city of Peterborough only mv istpp is alive today, be- that financial connections be $2,260 in the last two months of tects national interest, and said 1952, compared to $16,755 In the cause the Kinsmen wanted to dojtween breweries and beer parlors a Job. They have helped to save be severed and tflat "complete nnih victim." . .government-directed audit slnd The Atlin MLA also said that the heart and lung at t he family's last two months of 1951. The wwfn!l for November and De- Rpnri contributions to the Kins- investigation be made of opera the government has no right to use the RCMP in this way without a charge or Information being laid first, and without co-opera-llon of provincial authorities. the "eyes of the natives in other home in nelghboruig LanUvlUe, provinces are watching us very1 Dec. 30. men B.C. Polio Fund, Box 1612 or tlons and Inter-relations of licen- cember was five Inches, against I was applied with a piece of wood 45 Inches the year previously, similar to a hammer handle. "' -enire) called this 1 red herring'' t0 aruw Box 801, Prince Rupert. t icea brewery ana aisuuery couv