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"Prince
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Key
to
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Great
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VOL.
XLIII,
No.
82
PRINCE
RUPERT,
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THURSDAY,
APRIL
1954
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Tragedy
Said
Worst
For
Scheduled
Lines
MOOSE
JAW
(CP)
Thirty-seven
persons
were
killed
today
when
a
westbound
Tran3-Canada
Air
Lines
North
Star
and
an
RCAF
training
plane
collided
over
northeastern
Moose
Jaw
and
crashed
in
flames.
i
To
Include
Fishermen
In
New
Act
VICTORIA
.
(CP)
Labor
Minister
Lyle
Wicks
said
last
night
the
govern
Eye-witnesses
said
the
Harvard
trainer,
carrying
one
man.
iwuiker
in
a
Seattle
taxidermist's
firm,
puts
false
teeth,
complete
with
tongue,
Into
I
bear
before
putting
the
skin
on.
Papier-mache,
fashioned
from
a
plaster
cast
of
fi.ll.
is
used
instead
of
real
bone
because
It
lasts
longer.
False
teeth
are
used
Instead
smashed
into
the
right
wing
of
the
same
reason.
Prince
George
Up
in
Arms
Over
Extension
PRINCE
GEORGE,
B.C.
-iffi
ment
is
prepared
totake
the
lead
in
getting
British
or
Council
Urges
Contest
Columbia's
13,500
fisher
men
under
the
Workmen's
Compensation
Act.
The
Vancouver
board
of
trade
has
been
bitterly
criticized
by
With
no
one
opposing,
the
s
the
four-engine
passenger
aircraft
with
31
passengers
and
a
crew
of
four
aboard.
Names
of
the
crew,
announced
by
TCA,
are:
Capt.
I.
H.
Bell,
Vancouver.
First
Officer
D.
W.
Guthrie,
Vancouver.
Steward
Lou
Penncr,
Vancouver.
'
Stewardess
M.
L.
Quinney,
Vancouver,
Early
reports
indicated
there
were
no
survivors
in
the
worst
accident
ever
involving
scheduled
airliners
in
Lanada.
WEATHER
CLEAR
The
crash
occurred
In
clear,
mild
weather.
The
North
Star,
businessman
in
Prince
Oeorge
school
by
extending
and
filling!
members
appeared
slightly
ner
IIIATIMAX
legislature
gave
second
reading-
i
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Vv
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7
I
,
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,
f
Si
fnn-i
iVin
n
--'--
niirn
iin
-riiTW'l8iiinl
for
its
opposition
to
the
proposed
southern
extension
of
the
Paci
i:is'
Day
Editor
j
the
present
grounds.
J
contest
to
have
:
street
lights
and
traffic
lights
i,
their
yards
and
.
-
rcttardPd
as
beine
inade
approval
in
principal
to
the
Workmen's
Compensation
Act
amendments
proposed
by
the
government.
Opposition
members
gave
notice,
however,
they
intended
to
submit
some
quate
In
some
locations,
and
11
the
appear-imes
was
urged
lie
junior
c:lty
vous
at
the
beginning
of
the
meeting,
It
went
over
very
effectively
except,
perhaps,
when
mayor
MacDonald
failed
to
ask
if
there
was
any
further
discussion
to
the
dismay
of
some
eager
members
who
wanted
to
Investigate
further.
The
meeting
was
adjourned
after
a
vote
of
than
lis
was
ex
they
were
recommended
for
im-'
j
provement.
A
motion
was
passed
;
that
parking
meters
be
installed
fic
Great
Eastern
Railway.
Alex
Bowie,
president
of
the
Prince
George
Board
of
Trade,
said
the
Vancouver
board
has
prepared
"an
anti-PGE
brief
and
has
supplied
copies
of
it
to
every
member
of
the
provincial
legislature."
He
said
the
Vancouver
board
ivor
John
Muc-
Mr.
Wicks
said
the
am
nd-
on
Third
Avenue
to
relieve
some
idents
endorsed
ments
included
sections
thht
are
:
traffic
congestion.
olutions
criticiz-
specifically
designed
to
allow
its
wing
torn
off
by
the
collision,
tumbled
to
earth,
turning
A
motion
was
made
that
the
ope
ration
and
'
tended
to
the
Junior
Chamber
of
Commerce
and
to
Mayor
Hills
and
City
Cler
Bill
Long
for
,
,
traffic
laws
be
looked
Into
and
lat
pn))ei
ty
on
into
a
great
ball
of
flames
as
it
lip
released
from
;
amended.
fell,
their
assistance.
ir
(or
Die
purpose;
Although
some
of
the
council
fishermen
to
come
under
the
act.
It
was
up
to
industry
and
the
fishermen
to
iron
out
the
details.
If
they
could
not
agree
on
these,
the
government
was
prepared
to
step
In
and.
through
conferences
with
all
concerned,
arrive
at
a
solution.
must
be
dominated
by
"the
influential
moneyed
interests
in
West
Vancouver."
West
Vancouver
residents
have
opposed
extension
of
the
PGE
homes.
I
One
gas
tank
crashed
into
a
house
and
Bet
it
afire.
Twa
other
houses
also
were
set
ablaze
fruit
into
session
TWO
FRENCH
SOLDIERS
head
for
a
trench
as
the
Communists
surrounding
Dienbienphu,
Indo-China,
begin
an
artillery
barrage.
The
Reds
were
dealt
a
one-two
blow
by
the
defending
French.
Rebel
forces
suffered
"appreciable
losses"
when
French
bombers
launched
their
biggest
fire-bomb
attack,
of
the
war.
At
the
same
time
the
Communists
were
hit
hard
by
a
ground
attack
that
smashed
their
attempt
to
cut
a
road
leading
to
a
southern
outpost
of
Dienbienphu.
The
defence
of
the
French
In
this
area
has
been
likened
to
the
Allied
stand
at
Anzlo
In
World
War
IL
and
while
there
were
no
firm
reports
of
casualties
among
resi-
through
their
exclusive
reslden-
FURTHER
REGISTRATION
ALLOWED
LITTLE
LEAGUERS
Idermnn
report-
j
tour
of
the
city
!
e
morning
and
ilf
session
ad-iken
on
an
in-
dents,
a
cleaning
woman
in
one
"
n
viv
Fishermen
have
long
sought
amendments
to
the
act
that
house
IS
believed
missing.
tenaum
woum
run
uirouKu
wcsi
Today's
collision
was
TCA's
Vancouver
Into
North
Vancou-thlrd
serious
accident
involving;
ver-
.
,
nasseneers
in
13
years.
'
Mr.
Bowie
also
attacked
the
would
bring
them
under
ltd
pro
visions.
f
tfy
projects
by
endent
O.
E.
i
Mr.
Wicks
said
one
section
provides
for
payments
to
the
compensation
fund
on
a
unit
of
t
the
group
were
February
6,
1941.
12
were
kill-
Vf"cur4
board's
"reactionary
a""ue"
toward
the
northern
,
ed
when
a
TCA
plane
crashed
at
Armstrong
in
northwestern
On-
and
central
interior
parts
of
the
tario.
April
29.
1947,
15
were
province.
I
Jay
Burns,
Jun-;
Kit.
mat
Firm
in
Stand
On
Prospective
Taximen
production
basis.
This
was
de
signed
for
fishermen.
'ommerce
exeeu-
killed
when
a
TCA
plane
pre
paring
to
land
at
Vancouver's
Bruce
Brown,
L-Prince
Rupert
said
it
should
be
compulsory
for
Ij
came
to
a
rlose
;
KITIMAT
No
taxi
licence
will
,
qulrements"
clause
Is
also
pro-
vlded
by
the
bylaw
"uertainiy,
ne
sam.
ine
members
of
the
Vancouver
Board
must
be
ignorant
of
the
undeveloped
resources
and
the
development
which
has
already
taken
place
in
this
part
of
the
province."
be
granted
to
anyone
who
in
the
i
commercial
fishermen
to
be
i
under
the
act.
All
that
was
re
Boy's
between,
the
ages
pf
elsbt.and
12
who
didn't
have
the
;
"
opportunity
to
register
for
Little
League
play
last
Saturday
will
have
the
chance
again
tomorrow
afternoon.
Little
League
otficials
said
today.
Saturday
afternoon,
104
boys
registered
for
the
four
teams
that
will
make
up
the
league
this
year,
plus
four
farm
teams.
Tomorrow,
prospective
Little
Leaguers
will
be
able
to
pick
up
registration
forms
at
4
p.m.
In
the
main
lobby
of
the
Civic
Centre
where
player
agent
Art
Williamson
will
be
present
to
hand
them
out.
'
All
forms,
those
picked
up
Saturday
and
those
picked
up
tomorrow,
must
be
returned
to
the
Civic
Centre
Saturday,.
April
10
between
the
hours
of
9
a.m.
and
4
p.m.
Six
Jailed
as
New
Riots
Hit
Tense
British
Guiana
Similar
rules
apply
to
drivers
who
have
been
issued
permits.
I'rty
in
the
high
"ek.
1
166
students
took
fture
Citizens'
Day
J
ired
annually
by
iliiieil
meeting
was
if
by
mayor
Mac-
Licences
will
be
issued
only
to
registered
owners
of
motor
quired
of
the
legislature
was
amendments
to
definitions
of
"workman"
and
"employer"
and
addition
of
a
definition
for
"commercial
fishermen."
At
present,
Mr.
Brown
said,
some
fishermen
were
covered
by
compensation
and
some
were
not.
past
three
years
has
been
convicted
of
an
offence
under
the
Criminal
Code,
of
selling
liquor
under
the
Indian
and
Government
Liquor
Acts,
or
under
Section
57
of
the
Motor
Vehicle
Act.
This
regulation
is
one
of
the
clauses
set
out
in
a
taxi
bylaw
passed
here
In
last
night's
municipal
council
meeting,
following
several
recent
applications
for
licences.
n
waster
no
time
,
chances.
City
'apR
drew
up
an
Sea
Island
airport,
disappeared,
possibly
by
crashing
into
the
Gulf
of
Georgia.
Mac
McKay,
a
Moose'
Jaw
car
dealer,
said
he
saw
the
North
Star
in
trouble
over
the
golf
course
shortly
after
11
a.m.
(MST).
"I
didn't
see
the
collision
but
I
saw
a
big
plane
in
trouble,"
he
said.
"It
was
smoking
and
while
I
watched,
a
wing
dropped.
SAW
EXPLOSION
"There
was
an
explosion
at
about
3,000
or
5.000
feet
but
the
plane
didn't
disintegrate.
We
heard
another
explosion
after
the
plane
had
fallen
out
of
sight.
I
didn't
see
the
Harvard
at
all."
Hundreds
of
men
and
women
the
meeting.
risMs
He
warned
the
Vancouver
board:
"People
of
the
interior,
both
north
and
south
can
swing
a
lot
of
business
to-wards
Edmonton
and
can
work
toward
seaport
development
of
Prince
Rupert
if
they
become
sufficiently
angered
at
businessmen
who
are
trading
with
this
country
with
one
hand
and
retarding
its
development
with
the
other.
In
opposing
extension
of
the
PGE,
he
said,
the
Vancouver
board
of
trade
is
turning
its
back
on
a
natural
channel
of
trade.
GEORGETOWN,
British
quarters
and
threw
a
cordon
of
many
criticisms1
NOT
COVERED
the
committee
Guiana
(Re
utersl
P
o
1
1
c
e
'
sentries
with
fixed
bayonets
The
bylaw
Is
the
first
major
No
halibut
fishermen
or
troll-
barked
up
with
strengthened
their
patrols
in
an
:
around
it
ers
were
covered,
gill-nctters
who
I
policy
move
by
council
concern
pe
evidence
rent
boats
were
covered
but
Ing
new
business
establishments
The
bylaw
also
orders
all
taxis
to
be
equipped
with
meters
to
register
charge
for
hire
of
a
taxi.
The
following
rates
have
been
established
by
council:
'
For
first
one-quarter
mile
or
less,
35
cents.
For
each
adoitional
one-quarter
mile,
10
cents.
For
any
stopping
or
waiting
time,
for
each
two
minutes,
10
cents.
In
speaKing
to
the
bylaw.
Reeve
W.
H.
Sparks
said
it
was
designed
"to
keep
undesirables
out
of
the
taxi
business
by
exercising
certain
measures
of
control.
"In
a
new
community
such
as
ours
with
still
only
limited
facilities,
the
public
could
be
victimized
by
unscrupulous
per
''
Barllett,
thair-
In
British
Columbia's
newest
ublic
Works
Com-
community.
M
on
"deplorable
Automatic
cancellation
of
atmosphere
of
mounting
tension;
....
.ni-Tivr
in
this
British
colony
today
i
,LI-;UAU
-""".hinu
after
300
demonstrators
met!
Fifteen
other
persons
were
police
tear
gas
with
a
barrage
arrested
Wednesday
for
holding
of
stones
and
bottles
In
a
riot;
an
Illegal
mass
meeting
near
Wednesday
night.
!
Government
House.
Assemblies
Waves
of
gas
finally
broke
up
;
of
more
than
five
persons
are
the
demonstration
outside
the
'banned
under
emergency
regu-headnuarters
of
the
left-wing)
lations
in
lorce
since
Jagan's
I
the
cemetery
the
those
who
own
or
were
buying
thei'
own
boats
were
not,
salmon
and
herring
seiners
were
practically
all
covered.
He
said
In
the
period
from
1948
to
1952
if
the
compensation
.assessment
had
been
based
on
licences
by
holders
convicted
of
"s
and
expansion.
who
searched
the
golf
course
where
the
TCA
plane
struck
any
offence
set
out
in
the
"re
'he
poor
condl-
found
no
survivors.
'''t
Park,
saying
it
The
Harvard
Trainer
was
bas
P"M
distraction"
ed
at
a
North
Atlantic
Treaty
People's
Progressive
Party
and
;
government
was
deposed
by
Bri-1
per
pound
,
of
fish
landed
it
'action.
He
nro-
Amusement
Tax
May
Be
Reduced
would
have
required
only
one-
p
be
done
on
the
drove
Mrs.
Janet
Jagan,
wife
of;
tain
last
year
ior
anegeaiy
wy-the
colony's
deposed
premier,
out
j
ing
to
set
up
a
Communist
state
J
"I
Park,
and
that
in
the
South
American
colony.
1
1
the
late
presi-
WEATHER
Forecast
North
coast
region
Gale
warning
over.
Cloudy
with
occasional
showers
or
rain,
occasionally
mixed
with
snow.
Continuing
cool.
Winds
westerly
25
today
and
southwesterly
20
Friday.
Low
tonight
and
high
Friday
at
Port
Hardy
35
and
45,
Sandspit
and
Prince
Rupert
30
and
42.
of
the
building
VICTORIA
A
bill
which
wnnlrl
reduce
the
nmusement
tax
sons.
I'm
referring
specifically
Organization
field
near
Moose
Jaw.
Among
the
North
Star
passengers
killed:
Mr.
and
Mrs.
George
Sweeney,
Vancouver.
Mr.
Sweeney
is
president
of
Vancouver
Iron
Works.
w
reconditioned.
twentieth
of
a
cent
per
pound.
If
coverage
was
extended
to
all
fishermen,
the
assessments
would
be
increased
to.
approximately
2-25th
of
a
cent
a
pound
of
fish
landed.
'is
not
all
crttl-
from
17
ft
per
cent
to
15
per
cent
;
to
bootlegging
was
introduced
in
the
B.C.
lcgis-J
The
bylaw
also
requires
that:
lature
yesterday.
'
(See
KITIMAT
Page
S)
f
ported
fnvurable
Park,
the
wall
Six
persons
were
arrested
fori
attacking
police
in
the
bottle-
j
throwing
fracas,
which
began
as!
a
protest
rally
against
the
arrest
,
of
ex-premior
Dr.
Chcddi
Jagan."
They
Included
Rudy
Luck,
law-
I
yer
who
unsuccessfully
defended
,
Mrs.
Jagan
last
December
when!
P'ni'"K
pool,
the
Alan
Craig,
TCA
employee
at
Vancouver.
Totem
nnli.g
Ai-
m
r
kf
'us
ret
wns
council
and
there
fr
questions
'll'lrley
Hiercc,
"'
police,
licensure
ami
h(,aUh
Houston
Logger
Faces
Trial
For
Manslaughter
!
Six
Airmen
Saved
at
Sea
TOKYO
(Reuters)
Six
of
the
crew
of
12
of
a
United
States
tanker
plane
which
caught
fire
In
a
refueling
operation
were
rescued
today
after
bailing
out
of
the
blazing
machine
over
central
Jnpan.
The
U.S.
Air
Force
said
a
fuel
leak
was
discovered
while
the
tanker,
on
a
training
mission,
was
refueling
a
fighter
In
midair.
The
fighter
was
immediat
she
was
charged
and
round
guilty
of
holding
an
Illegal
political
meeting.
Police
closed
the
party
head-
Georgina
Mitchell
Wins
Contest
'
lu'r
report
to
the
""'n
that
pro-'
'"""
'run,
the
Parks
Hill
to
build
u'"d
have
a
mag-
the
reported
on
I
"
U""P
as
being
f!'
e'
She
also
men-F"
committee
had
rrll;eniii)pcd
CPA
f
al
Cove.
,'!i:n.)OWN
ely
disengaged
but
the
tanker
caught
fire
and
crashed
on
a
mountainside.
Georgina
Mitchell,
16-year-old
Miiues
Corn-
Jones
to
Pilot
Playgrounds
Civic
Centre
Association
directors
last
night
decided
that
It
Special
to
The
Dully
News
SMITHERS
Anton
Woloszuk,
23-year-old
Houston
logger,
was
committed
for
trial
in
a
higher
court
on
a
charge
of
manslaughter,
at
the
conclusion
of
a
preliminary
hearing
here
yesterday.
The
charge
was
laid
following
the
death
April
2
of
Alman
Or-vllle
Carlson,
22,
also
a
logger
in
the
Houston
area.
A
coroner's
inquest
into
the
death,
scheduled
for
Wednesday,
was
waived
by
the
attorney
general's
department,
to
allow
an
Immediate
preliminary
hearing
so
that
Woloszuk,
if
committed,
could
be
tried
at
the
spring
assizes
opening
in
Prince
Rupert
Monday.
The
Woloszuk
ease
brings
to
four
the
number
of
manslaughter
charge
to
be
heard
at
the
assizes.
The
three
other
charges
are
daughter
of
Mr.
and
Mrs.
George
Mitchell,
333
Fifth
Avenue
East,
today
won
the
Rotary
Club's
speaking
contest
and
an
expense-free
trip
to
Ottawa
next
month.
She
and
Patricia
Lcmmon,
two
finalists,
addressed
Rotary
Club
members
In
the
Broadway
ft
only
connection
with
a
car
crash
at
Flood
Bridge
near
Shames
last
Labor
Day,
in
which
Glen
Jackson
of
Terrace
was
fatally
injured;
Charles
Robinson,
Prince
Rupert
fisherman.
In
connection
with
the
death
in
Prince
Rupert
February
18
of
Violet
Sam-pare,
and
Sylvester
William.
Tel-kwa
Native,
in
the
death
of
Cecilia
Holland
after
a
truck
accident
near
Telkwa
March
8.
Testimony
at
the
Woloszuk
hearing
Included
evidence
that
Carlson
died
of
head
injuries
in
Bulkley
Valley
General
Hospital
here,
where
he
was
taken
after
a
fight
with
Woloszuk
in
Houston
April
1.
Witnesses
said
the
pair
hud
been
drinking
and
one
testified
that
Carlson
had
provoked
the
fight.
Stipendiary
Magistrate
W.
D.
Yorke-Hardy
presided
at
the
hearing.
Cpl.
S,
A.
McKim
was
crown
prosecutor
and
L.
W.
Perry
was
defence
counsel.
contempt
"
II
ft
in,,,
I
t:!iy.
h!l"
and
'I'"-'
'
.
-
V
t1
Jh
"In
een
i
a
mess"
He
would
co-operate
to
the
fullest
extent
with
the
Parks
Board
and
agreed
to
the
board's
request
for
general
secretary
Fred
Jonrs
to
,""n
wis
matter
to
mind
Cafe
this
afternoon.
Both
spoke
on
"The
History
of
Prince
Rupert."
The
judges,
Mrs.
H.
G.
Watts,
Rev.
Fred
Antrobus
and
Fred
I"15
Te'consiinrt
supervise
playground
progrems
and
directors.
Attending
the
meeting
were
T.
as
helm,
i
Aston,
were
unanimous
in
their
Norton
Youngs,
acting
for
as-
decision
MANUFACTURING
HAS
GROWN
in
Nova
Scotia
in
the
last
10
years
until
now
it
produces
more
of
the
province's
wealth
than
fishing,
mining,
agriculture
and
forestry
combined.
Most
of
the
manufacturing
Is
done
in
small
plants
but
the
Sydney
steel
mill,
shown
in
this
picture,
Is
one
of
the
province's
biggest
single
industries.
This
view
shows
Dominion
Steel
and
Coal
Corporation's
blast
furnaces
in
the
foreground.
Most
of
the
homes
in
the
background
house
steel
workers'
families.
'
Miss
Lemmon
was
nresented
!
soclatlon
president
Bill
Stone,
with
a
gift
by
Rotarlan
Peter
I
Tony
Crawley,
Dr.
R.
O.
Large,
Bird
after
Mrs.
Watts
announc-1
Fred
Conrad.
John
Magor
and
ed
the
winner.
'
Fred
Jones.
against
George
Robertson,
in