PROVINCIAL LI2?.Ar.T, 113 163 Borrows 1L VICTORIA, E. C. r ORMES mm DRUGS ,.,y, March 3. I..3 . 8,dar(l Time DAILY DELIVERY Phone 01 20 8 feet feet 46 (eft 5 1 feet l 4'i 14 M :57 21:00 NORTHERN AND CENTRAL BRITISH COLUMBIA'S NEWSPAPER Published ot Canada's Most Strategic Pacific Port "Prince Rupert, the Key to the Great Northwest" VOL. XUI. No. P PRINCE RUPERT. B.C.. MONDAY. MARCH 2. 1953 PRICE FTVR rrnrs ' I V'Hmmmwm jnr- FI JI FIT -f ? m. J c r VWXsl ' ' H ;t '! r MARKET L on u U I i I J, .. W A ' n .T- Hungary's ; Offer Prospecting Party Nov in Victoria " By LARRY STAN WOOD . An adventurous claim-staking race on a northern B.C. glacier, reported to be the biggest copper deposit since the discovery of the Noranda mine, has ended with three-quarters of the mountain staked for the vast Toronto mining and development interests of Frobisher Ltd. A Refused W J W if'' -. . Mnvf.. IIMM.'U' . Prospector on Main Street UIIK l'KiM'KT(ll cherlu North Bar main utreet for uranium. He carries the whirr wtix'h lud "bwp" whe i the metal U encountered. A staking rush has j Can't Darter With Human Life j LONDON. . Britain j today rejected Commu-! nish Hungary's offer for o in ui uiMiiu iuuMnu wi iiuiwu-jii viiuftiiu civ iiu even uic cu aunip waa ataKeu. )hotirapriPrii were oui in jorce vo re ora tne prospector i search for trace of uranium, or niiumbiuin at the clty' bwient Inter iectlon. and 100 feet wide, running ' immediate exchange of through the hill at an unknown depth." Assays showed the deposit to run from two to five per cent copper per 100 feet. h Treaty Provides Additional Some gold and lead ores also are present. en Seasons For Halibuters an imprisoned British businessman and woman guerrilla condemned to death in Malaya. Prime Minister Churchill told the Hou.se of Commons: Frobisher Ltd. recently an nounced plans for a survey of the Yukon -B.C. Atlin Lake A total ot 72 claims on a 7.000-foot Ice covered peak known as Leduc Glacier have been filed by a prospecting party headed by Bill Richardson, Wendel Dawson, first discoverer, and Howard Fowler, ex-Alaska government , mining engineer. The copper deposit, known also as Dawson Copper Mountain, is located about 25 miles northwest of Premier where the largest zinc-lead mine in northern B.C. recently shut down because of high operating costs. Richardson, who Is promoting the development on behalf of Frobisher Ltd. and "an amalgamation of other large eastern mining interests." said $15,000,-000 was available immediately to develop the Leduc findings. He described the deposit as watershed for a proposed hydroelectric development which Pacific Halibut Commission to esUbll?ih more than one open season, adds two members to the present four-man commission, and permits it to limit or and the Bering fva. It is the third revision of the first halibut fuherlci convention betwet-n the two countries, sinned 30 year ago today. It empower the International 'CP' - l ',in.iu.i and , SUU-s t-Kiay i(lierl '.prr.iiiK tin way tor dju-n n . m'Hs for hal-.j ill Uir North Am- ol Hie P cltlc Ocean i "There can be no question of bartering human life or deflect would dwarf the Aluminum ing: the course of Justice or Company of Canada's Kitlmat project. proniou inciaental" catches of mercy ui Malaya for the sake mtnoui during ine open season of obtaining the release of a The commission now has the i British subject unjustly tm- WORT BAN ON CATTLE prisoned in Hungary.' Another mining company already holding considerable copper interests has claimed the other quarter ot the Leduc deposit. It is Granby Mining, Smelting & Power Consolidated Ltd., which operates the Copper Mountain mine near Princeton. IFIED BY US TODAY TORONTO POLICE and United States Immigration officials say they have uncovered what they allege Is a baby-selling ring operaUng on a large scale between Toronto and United States cities. Evidence so far uncovered In the Investigation is "fantastic." VS. Immigration officials said. Mrs. Jack Shlnder, 29. of Brooklyn, N.Y shown in police custody, and her husband have been remanded to Thursday on bail ot $2,000 on charges ot obtaining a birth certificate by false pretences. power to regulate the incidental catch of fish by vessels fishing for other species during the clowd season only. Provision for the additional open fceason was made, the Fisheries Department said, because commission scientists felt tome fishing grounds might be under-exploited during one concentrated short season. being a zone "4.000 feet long However, he added, the offer muM still be considered once the question of the death sentence has been settled. Edgar Sanders Is serving 13 years In a Hungarian prison on charges of spying and sabotage. Britain and the United States have branded the charges and convictions a travesty of Justice. Prospecting Started Last Fall ,M1N' i'l N Auiit-dlturo 5e-relafy Bciimmi today ii 'mi' i ojx niiig US Ix.-rders to tmports of Canadian iiirp a i.1 other d'jnu'.stic animals and their products, Immediately -rU had been tarred for a year because of the outbreak ai.d -mouth (tixa.se in Sa.skatchean. Benson said the to't ''tut !ll.C4;sd4. . began," said Richardson. Prospecting for copper in the area was begun by Richardson, Fowler and Dawson last fall. Fowler and Richardson were led The woman, Lee Meng. U 1 BrwUr 'dth aentenct In Malaya for being caught with a hand-grenade. . op-the Chickamin tnd Leduc "Only way in was by plane. We chartered one from Ketchikan and flew in, landing on the ice 'Pith a txmtooa pi.ne. 3k t we could only stay a tew days. We hired a helicopter, deciding that was the only way we could get at the area we wanted. So Sorden Street School Holding 'Open House' rivers to Its headwaters by Dawson who originally discovered copper float in the area In 1931 when prospecting for gold. Results of the party's first Pmciit Canadian members of the rommlviion are Oeorge R. Clark, assistant deputy mlniikter of fUherlen. and (ieorce W. Nirkerson of Prince Rupert. CH. members arc Milton C. James of Wsshlnf-ton and ldsrd W. Allen of Seattle. Enlargement of the comnils- unci I Rejects 1953 nool Bd. Estimates we waited for it at Stewart." Observance of EducaUon Week in Prince Rupert got underway trip into the rugged Alaska-B.C.H Meanwhile, the rival outfit Churchill 'Quite Ready' To Meet Stalin borderland territory were en was located at Burns Lake wait couraging, they said, and they ci' Kupert and District School Board has ;this afternoon with Borden Street iSchool'8 "open house" Invitation I to the public. Other schools will follow a ing to take off in a ski-equip alr.n tt-sim murlf &L TTnltiH RlfltKt returned, making further finds ped Beaver aircraft but was ri'.,., i t- ...: . ..r mo n . . held back by weather. done by city pupils have been arranged In various store windows including those at McRae Bros., F. W. Woolworth. Kaien Hardware and at Gordon Si Anderson. At the latter store, a special display by high school students shows work done In industrial arts classes. ".-i n huil us i.'oo fMiiuakVit vi &hti,;j tequesi. w give represeniauon jwtiil 1-v the city council. . ' !to Alu-S,ca- J similar practice through the O Prime Minister i weeit eriding with a public meet- LONDON "Our helicopter was bn its way of House told the Ing, panel discussion and a pro- tfr M-n.-d by Mayor ' H.tLTKD HI.PLKTION 'Churchill lialen. rea.vm for th ' ri.. i,.. f,.,..! "I hp nrlulnul trpatv. aimed at I House of he Commons today which led them to the glacier itself. Meanwhile, they knew that Granby men were prospecting the same general district but approaching it from Inland, instead of from the coast. "Somehow, word leaked out that we were ready to Jump on something hot. Then the race tan 'halting serious deplcUon of the would be "quite ready" to Join ; j, at Kln Edward school Is rsted as the new'cniltlUfd RriHre m u-s north. We figured we had the race won. but when we again heard that the "copter was down in Prince Rupert and couldn't get away because ot weather we didn't know what would lirunnr.K policy of revenue minnirmented hv a new Pacific, halibut fisheries, pro- President Elsenhower in a meet- aUditorium Friday night. imrnt, and says that government grant. !vided for a closed season during ,ing with Premier Stalin. j Tomorrow nigntt B pallei dis. hrther clarification.; u .ndurM.a the governments ,he 'ntfr spawning season and j However .the talks would have cusgion wlll broadcast over uumate cannot be nroDosal for financing newi"1 "P tour-man commission , to be on the "basis outlined by CFPR and will present pupils Returned Because of Storm school construction but opposed!1" .-. . ........... ........... --- ----- uurern yuasi anu uu wsiiauu Bennett the bill which wlll be introduced j fisheries. I Eisenhower told l a press c on- 0, King Edward: George Den- Child Stoned By Playmates Dies Saturday if. Premier RKii1t rtf the '" a refluent hV the In ,,ll ..i. nmnli thrnnnlv co.iimlsslons ,r,r",c iJ "c " nlng and Lauretta uesauieis ot work was seen in the marked i Conrad: Michael Greene and Increase In halibut landings. ; reasonable place between Wash- 0eraldlne snidal ot Borden, and "And here tin Stewart) thei The weather wis mild, he said sun was shining, not a cloud in only about zero all tne time, the sky." The prospecting party, which Between 1932 and 1952 Cana- thought V-" " , would "rr." "7: Alelt Breoner oi Annunc.auon. Little The Granby Beaver took off calls itself the Dawson Copper VANCOUVER (CP) Sponsored by the International dian fisheries Increased the an once then had to return due, Syndicate, will make its report peace. to its financial backers in To nual yield nearly four times from 8.500000 pounds to 24,- BC Municipalities to out the province In both organ-! xpiementation of the uCd and unorganized territory. formula Intro- Tbe n,w ,yst,m 0, RranU a u last prfipoM.d 0y the government. """n "'"'"-ler Mrs. ralll for , ration from 28 mills taxation for school pur-t h Sang of Cran- poies to nine mills. But by re- ol the t'BCM dele- moval of the sales tax grant, " saw the premier which In Prlnre Rupert' case 1(1 "We Iwve been last year was 1101.000. balance ilernative. We have to of school cosU would have to ' plan because n s come from general revenue of 'ltll the blldcet wnH munlltmlltlna 500,000 pounds. Last year Canada and the Two Injured In Car Crash Botherhood of Pulp, Paper and jGlenda Bedford whose guardians Sulphite Workers Union local claimed she had been stoned by here, the discussion will take the sadistic playmates, died Satur-form of questions to the students ; ay to hospital here, concerning their opinions on in- The 2i --year-old daughter of dustry in the area and what kind Mrs. Clara Bedford was taken to of a future they think Prince , hospital unconscious and covered Rupert can offer Its pupils of j with bruises three days age. today. , United 8tatcs together landed 62.282.000 pounds from areas under regulation largest catch in 37 years. Canada's share was worth $4,200,00020 Umes the to a storm. But the weather cleared on the coast and the Okanagan Air Services helicopter piloted by Pete Cornwall reached Stewart. "Then we had the edge in the race." Richardson told of spending 10 days on the wind-swept glacier after the party of five was flown in by the 'copter. Surveyors Thorn Forrest and Thomas Williams were the hanced - i .... ' . .. ..... The pupils appearing on the program were guests Saturday. ii we accept me iao scuoui board estimates now, It means Off Highway The driver and a girl passenger of a car which careened off the Port Edward highway yesterday afternoon are In the Prince Rupert General Hospital ''utlon for postpone-fiwlorsed at anemerg-'f munlcinalitv ronto In a few days. The party left here for Victoria for an interview with Mines Minister R. E. Sommers before heading east. Initial development will mean flying excavation crews to tho peak which Richardson described as a natural landing strip of solid ice. Diamond drilling wo-uld begin almost immediately. When the mine becomes a producer, a road could be built up the 40-mile gradual slope along the Chickamin and Leduc rivers, he said. The Chickamin empties into the Behm Canal, part of the north Pacific navigation route on the coast ot the Alaska Panhandle. afternoon of Columbia Cellulose Company. 'council will have to raise the ! taxes or will be powerless to do Court Adopts Revised Assessments other members of the first min- u"iay which was at- anything this year In public k Prillre RllOei ..It , . un-L ... IH Ulholan MODEL FARM j ing group to scale the glacier. 1932 value. BEGAN IN Msg West coast commercial halibut fishing began In 1888 with completion of the transcontinental railroads which opened eastern markets. Annual catch grew to 50.000,000 pounds In 1905 but became uncertain and erratic after that as areas were fished out. At the Borden Street School "nis ana Aid. Kay "I ve been in that country be open house event today, more than 100 parents and friends fore." said Forrest. "I know the kind of weather that can come awfullv Kllddpn Tt'n ft irrwl t.hintr in good condition. Lloyd Jessie, driver, suffered laceration of his leg and facial bruises and Miss Carman Caw-dell suffered Injured ribs. Second passenger In the car, complimented the various dis Fire Ruins Powerhouse OTTAWA O Millions of dol a-.ked that no mane In financing m,,il t:,e ubcm. Ilp "Pixirtunllv of iro- The Prince Rupert court ot re- jt dldnit get 30 below or wc vision Saturday aaopiea miWouldnt nave made lt out plays of chlldrens work, especially the display of a model farm. Mrs. A. Logan, president of lnU the matter with! principle suggested assessments again." on land and improvements as "ineni, .lal neetum was railed lars damuge was caused today when fire swept through the huge Chats Falls power house on the Ottawa River, 30 miles west Since 1923 the commission has regulated areas to be fished, setting quotas to meet changing needs. Nursery areas have been established, where fishing is completely forbidden. It also seta a quota for the entire fishery, which at present averages Donald Smith, escaped Injury. RCMP said the accident took place a mile and a half east of the city limits when the rear end of the car began to sway on the slippery pavement causing the car to leave the road and crash Into a ditch. About $500 damage was uune to the car. " onounred govern- tolpeout themuni- Mobs Stone American Cars As Riots Continue in Iran of the capital. Unofficial estimates of dam Borden Street Parent-Teacher ; proposed by Acting Assessor W. Association, was in charge of . r. Long. the tea served to visitors. j The 1953 land values will thus Tomorrow, King Edward, be Increased by about 25 per cent School holds its open house, be- j over last year, and the tmprove-ginning at 1:45 p.m. Parents are ment values will remain about invited to tour the classrooms . the same, which will continue with regular With exception of a few "glar- I "'"- mrd share of the 'on bu ps T age ranged a high as $5,000,000. ?m of grants ,Fire broke out following an ex- 1'",n cost. I about 54.000,000 pounds a year. 1 plosion in a transformer. TEHRAN, Iran CP) Mobs cused them of inciting demonstrators against the seat work. At 2:30 p.m. a pro- ing aiscrepencies " 'shouting anti-American slogans gram by the students will be ' peals which numbered less -nan presented in the auditorium andi 12, revision court chairman wnea Unltea statf ca at 3:15 a "silver tea" will be Mayor Harold Whalen said the homes today as riots continued Mossadegh also fired his army chief-of -staff. Gen. M a h m u d served by the teachers. Proceeds proposed figures were adopted as in Iran's capital. Girls Protest Bill to Tax Bachelors of the tea will be donated to tne presented. Supporters of Premier Mossa- Baharmast, accusing him of not acting promptly to check anti-government rioters. The revised assessment were degh appeared to galning tne IllUit... . ... ''KAVIC8 prepared by Mr. Long after the upper hand in demonstrations Ark. (AP)H 1 " a RK and har- representutive Jim Assist 10 know vueen Alexander solarium in Victoria, said Principal R. G. Moore. SIMILAR PRACTICE On Wednesday, Conrad Street School opens its doors to the parents of its pupils, and on Thursday both Booth Memorial High School and Annunciation School will observe a similar practice. At Booth, tea will be served at ,3 p.m. by students of the biggest list of appeals in tne city's history against the assessments drawn up by Harry Daggett, city assessor, faced the court of revision. Last year's taxable land value In the city was $2,279,601. The value of improvements, of which 50 per cent la taxable, totalled $7,259,585. Total value ofland and improvements for taxation pur Constituents and fellow house members pestered Bruton with pleas of "Kill the bill, kill the bill." Newspaper editors wrote stinging editorials. Some bachelors threatened to leave the state for positions elsewhere. This further worried the Apasbbhauw. Hastily, Pruton declared the bill was "all a joke." He withdrew the measure and pleaded, "Let's drop the whole thing." A bachelor member of the name, confessed the whole thing was designed as a joke on htm. "They were all kidding me, bark in the rear rows of the house, about some marriage bill we were considering and telling me how much harder it was going to be for me to persuade some girl to take me on for life. "Then somebody thought up the bachelors' tax bill and the first thing I knew they were telling me how much it was going to cost me to stay single another year." Islutor, a happily married man with two sons, suddenly found himself besieged with a deluge of mall, telegrams, phone calls and harsh knocks on his door, A group of unmarried Little Rock girls quickly formed the Apasbbhauw short for the Association for the Prevention of Amnnlng and Stampeding Bachelors Beyond the Hopes of Arkansas' Unmarried Women and In radio Interviews and newspaper columns vigorously protested passage of the bill. which have alternately assailed and defended the Nationalist leader. Mossadegh, meanwhile, moved to re-establish his hold on the government's reins after a mob attack on his home Saturday which sent him dashing In pyjamas for traditional sanctuary ot the parliament building. The government arrested 70 army officers 65 retired and five on the active list and ac -WEATHER- Forecast North Coast Region Cloudiness today and Tuesday. Little change In temperature. Winds northwest (25) at exposed locations, elsewhere light. Low to night and high Tuesday, Port Hardy, Sandspit and Prince Rupert, 35 and 42. ,i-)n me state. bachelor as not not nrr' wh0 "vlng Tvitn hlg V"ar-ol 'rcslunan leg- Home Economics class. poses in 1953 will be presented Downtown displays of work to city council shortly. house, who declined use of ms