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46
PRINCE
RUPERT,
B.C.,
WEDNESDAY,
FEBRUARY
24,
1954
,
the
Greot
Northwest"
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News
SMITH
ERS
Work
crews
from
Prince
George
.
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,
....
.......
.
K"'
If
1
and
Smithers
today
completed
repairs
to
300
feet
of
track
ripped
up
when
a
CNR
freight
train
was
de
11.3
i-v
feet
7.9
feet
7
a
(XOSK-l'P
VIEW
ptor
which
hovered
x
and
ice
covering
us
sight.
Uphill
For
9
Contracts
let
rial
Credit
governor
cent
lower
than
sir
the
previous
re-Works
Minister
P.
Mid
Tuesday.
,
I.
f'Vj;'
Ice
Bridge
at
Falls
of
the
Ice
brid
;e
at
Niagara
Falls
was
taken
by
a
photographer
near
the
brink
of
the
Horseshoe
Falls.
The
Ice
cap
is
40
feet
rocks
at
the
fo
it
of
the
falls
add
an
artistic
touch
to
the
CAREFVt
MAINTENANCE
by
RCAF
crews
at
lonely
posts
in
Alaska
and
along
the
Aleutian
chain
keeps
the
planes
of
426
Squadron
flying
in
the
United
Nations
airlift
between
North
America
and
the
Far
East.
The
squadron
began
flying
the
Pacific
In
1950
as
part
of
Canada's
contribution
to
the
Korean
war.
Here
two
members
of
the
squadron's
maintenance
crews
walk
along
the
bleak
and
rocky
shoreline
of
Shemya
in
the
Aleutians.
They
are
LAC,
W.
D.
Fiddler
(left)
Mont
Nebo,
Sask.,
and
LAC.
J.
B.
Barton,
Noranda,
Que.
.
Renews
Traditional
i
Hospital
Sweepstakes
i
t
1
:
r3
4
f
3
members
who
spoke
in
the
continuing
inroiaj
speech
oebate.
lie
was
followed
by
Leo
Nimsick
iiCr'-crunDrouK),
A.
S.
Matthews
(Sc-Vancouver
Centre)
and
Thomas
Uphill
Unci.
Lab-fernie)..
.
ivir.
Nimsick
asked
for
the
completion
of
the
southern
uai...
provincial
hinway
and
a
legislative
comnuuee
to
study
iuu
turns
cil
.1
rtcoum
Duukbolxjr
'
question.
I
Mr.
iviiitthcw
suguested
construction
ol
a
chronic
hospital
on
Hie
grounds
01
the
Uriiversity
oi
untisn
coiurnbia
and
Mr.
Up-
hill
repeated
his
traditional
piea
ior'
nospiiai
swcepslaKes
and
spoke
on
the
liquor
question.
Air.
Gagiarcu
also
said
the
government
planned
to
introduce
legislation
that
will
set
stand-aius
lor
gas
installations.
He
said
ihe
legislation
Would
save
many
lives.
Mr.
Nimsick
said
the
legislative
committee
on
the
Sons
of
Freedom
problem
would
remove
the
wnole
question
from
politics.
Mr.
Uphill
said
public
houses,
which
cio.se
from
6:30
p.m.
to
7:30
p.m.
are
at
a
disadvantage
to
restaurants
and
cocktail
bars
which
may
sell
draft
beer
during
that
period.
Mr.
Gaglardi
said
Premier
Ben
nett
was
not
imputing
anything
.hn
he
revasi-d
fmuros.
which
Mr.
Gaglardl
said,
in
the
legislature
the
reductioif
started
with
the
first
contracts!
awarded
by
the
government
affer
It
came
to
power.
-
The
minister
was
one
of
four
"Slump;
Not
Depression'
Forecast
By
U.S.
Senator
WASHINGTON
(
Senator,
to
be
any
recession
but
I
HlfY
BASKETBALL
524,000
Jobless
In
Canada
OTTAWA
(CP)
The
Commons
defeated
a
CCF
demand
for
immediate;
government
steps
to
meut
unemployment
problems
The
vote
was
12!
to
68.
The
CCF
motion,
technically
want
of
confidence
In
the
gov-tiriMciu,
called
for
action
to
"prevent
further
economic
distress."
It
drew
support
from
all
oppo
sition
parties
and
three
independent
members
in
the
vote
Tuesday
closing
the
fifth
day
of
Commons
debate
on
unemployment.
Still
before
members
is
a
Pro
gressive
Conservative
motion
asking
establishment
of
a
parlia
mentary
committee
to
study
unemployment
conditions
and
recommend
a
remedy.
Acting
Prime
Minister
Howe
said
the
situation
is
caused
by
a
temporary
slowdown
in
business
which
coincided
with
the
winter
slack.
SUGGEST
PLANS
However,
opposition
speakers
Tuesday
said
the
situation
Is
serious
and
suggested
various
measures,
Including
increased
unemployment
insurance,
an
expanded
public
works
program
and
extension
of
defence
con
"
tivu
ts
to
depressed
arras
Unemployment
figures
Issued
'last
week
by
the
National
Em-i
ployment
Service
showed
524,000
nirnn:
Irwik
na
fr
nr,plr
ai.
.Ian
U.
.
a
txist-war
hiuh
mrlr
1BG.000
more
than
at
Dec.
JO.
The
I
bureau
of
statistics
estimated
'
280.000
jobless
at
Jan.
23.
90,000
I
more
than
in
early,
December.
Stanley
Knowles
(CCF-Winnipeg
North
Centre)
said
payments
from
the
$000,000,000
unemployment
Insurance
fund
should
be
boosted
and
the
period
In
which
benefits
are
paid
lengthened.
"The
time
has
come
for
this
present
generation
of
workers
to
get
the
benefit
of
the
huge
fund
that
has
been
built
up."
he
said.
The
fund
was
not
intended
for
the
next
generation.
FOOTBALL
OI,l
I'Ol'NTRV
LONDON
Toduy'a
British
noc-cw
results:
KIOTIIMI.
SMXITIOV
IIP
Klflll
KiiuiiiI
Krplaa
,
Portsmouth
1,
Bulton
w
1.
Tottenham
H
9.
Hull
C
0.
RcvtBC'd
34
round
tics
on
March
13:
Sheffield
W
vs.
Boltou
W;
W.
Brumwtch
A
vs.
Tottenham
H.
KMil.lMI
I.CAIilf
lllllull
I
Manchester
C
1,
Blackpool
4.
Middlesbrough
1,
W
Bromwlck
A
1.
Preston
N
E
0.
Arsenal
1.
Sheffield
W
1.
Liverpool
1.
th
Moil
II
Everton
6,
Brentford
1.
Track
1
say
the
propaganda
lor
It
is
much
more
effective
than
I
had
anticipated
It
would
be,"
Ferguson
said
in
an
interview.
.
"All
this
talk
Is
persuading
some
people
not
to
buy.
And
when
they
don't
buy
an
article
somebody
who
is
making
it
loses
his
Job."
Hoover
told
the
American
Good
Government
Society
here
Monday
night
that
as
a
man
who
had
had
one
depression
named
for
him
he
thought
he
could
speak
with
good
authority
that
there
are
no
signs
on
the
U.S.
landscape
of
any
big
depression
now.
riKIOIHC
DIPS
Observing
that
economic
dips
occur
about
every
five
or
seven
years
in
free-enterprise
systems,
Hoover
said:
"You
can
have
high
confidence
that
this
is
only
a
passing
dip,
a
slump,
a
readjustment
or
a
recession,
not
a
great
depression."
The
"combustible
materials
are
not
hereabouts
to
construct
another
conflagration
like
that
of
the
decade
of
the
'30s."
Then,
he
said,
a
total
financial
collapse
in
Europe
combined
with
public
over-optimism
and
a
weak
banking
system
in
the
U.S.
to
bring
about
world-wide
depression.
Still
No
Comics
Daily
News
readers
today
again
will
miss
out
on
their
favorite
comic
strip
characters.
Due
to
mail
delays,
the
comics
failed
to
arrive
In
time
for
Inclusion
in
today's
paper.
It
is
hoped
publication
of
the
three
comic
strips
will
be
resumed
tomorrow.
.....
:
.
JP
k
CENTRE
TONIGHT
1
d
i
j
.
g
game
In
the
two-game
international
high
etboll
scries
will
be
played
at
8
o'clock
tonight
In
pntre
gymnasium.
lemorial
High
School
Rainmakers
took
last
night's
the
visiting
JCetchikan
High
School
Polar
Bears
story
page
4.)
railed
21
miles
east
of
here
The
unexplained
derailment
which
held
up
traffic
on
the
Rupert-Jasper
line
for
more
than
24
hours,
tilted
14
cars
at
crazy
angles
on
and
off
the
tracks,
scattering
a
load
poles.
The
way
was
cleared
for
traffic
shortly
before
noon
today
but
crews
were
still
at
work
this
afternoon,
working
with
an
auxiliary
engine
to
haul
the
toppled
cars
out
of
the
cut.
The
wreckage
held
up
the
westbound
passenger
train,
due
in
Rupert
last
night
and
it
is
not
expected
to
arrive
until
about
8:45
tonight.
Twelve
Prince
Rupert
women
curlers
in
Smithers
for
a
bon-splel,
are
passengers
aboard
the
train.
Also
affected
were
the
east-
bound
passerger
train
which
left
here
last
night
and
a
west
bound
freight,
also
expected
to
arrive
late
tonight.
The
derailed
cars
carried
fish
bound
from
Rupert
to
New
York,
lumber
and
poles.
Foul-cars
were
empty.
The
locomotive
and
caboose
remained
on
me
iracus
aim
crewmen
escaped
injury
irv
the
upset
Les
Oulton
was
conductor
and
George
Thrift,
engineer.
I
Location
.oL.
the
wrecks.
in
a
narrow
cutting
on
a
curve,
hampered
workmen
who
expected
the
clean-up
job
would
take
several
days.
The
westbo.und
train
was
held
up
yesterday
at
Houston
and
passengers
bound
for
Telka
and
Smithers
were
brought
In
by
taxi.
Mail
and
baggage
was
transferred
by
truck.
Other
passen
gers
waited
out.
me
aciay
aboard
the
train.
library
Board
Faces
Crisis
j
VICTORIA
CP)
Greater
Victoria
library
board
faced
an
other
crisis
Tuesday
night
with
word
that
two
municipalities,
representing
a
third
of
its
fin
ancial
backing,
might
pull
out
of
the
organization.
The
library
has
been
a
storm
centre
in
recent
weeks
because
of
a
controversy
among
members
over
types
of
books
carried
and
Its
firing
without
a
hearing
of
librarian
John
Mar
shall
on
the
grounds
he
had
leftist
sympathies.
Reeve
Joseph
Casey
of
Saa-
nich
said
he
would
recommend
that
his
municipality
sever
connections
and
build
a
library
of
Its
own.
Reeve
F.
E.
Norrls
of
Oak
Bay
said
his
municipality
has
been
considering
withdrawing
or
possibly
organizing
branches
of
a
"better
organized"
library
for
that
district.
Outside
municipalities
have
chafed
under
library
act
regu
lations
that
give
their
representatives
a
non-voting
seat
on
such
boards.
In
this
case
almost
half
of
the
operating
capital
funds
come
from
the
non-voting
districts.
Dredging
at
Skidegate
jt
by
Fishermen's
Union
the
annuul
meeting
here
of
the
Skidegate
Loral,
United
Fisherman
and
Allied
Workers
Union.
The
resolutions,
for
submis
sion
to
the
UFAWU
convention
Tuesday
morning.
Man
Killed
In
Crush
ToSeeQueen
MELBOURNE
Iff)
A
man
was
crushed
to
death
when
10,000
ex
cited
Australians
burst
through
a
barrier
of
police
and
troops
near
Melbourne
town
hall
to
see
Queen
Elizabeth
today.
The
Queen
and
the
Duke
of
Edinburgh
had
just
passed
the
spot
when
the
crowd
surged
forward.
Otherwise
the
behaviour
of
the
Melbourne
crowds
was
orderly,
but
they
gave
the
Queen
a
riotous
reception
on
her
arrival
from
Tasmania.
(See
story
page
3)
Woman
t
Needs
No
Jelescope
LONDON
(Reuters)
A
keen-
eyed
British
housewife
who
can
see
five
moons
with
the
naked
eye
makes
her
debut
on
television
tonight.
Clifford
Pavis,
TV
editor
oi
tlw
London
Dnuy
Mlrrorr
salif
today
that
Mrs.
Janet
Hitchman
"can
probably
see
farther
and
clearer
than
any
other
white
person."
Without
spectacles
or
a
telescope
she
can
spot
the
four
major
moons
of
the
planet
Jupiter,
more
than
390,000,000
miles
awr.y
he
said.
Counting
the
earth's
moon,
that
makes
five
she
can
see.
Davis
reported"
that
Mrs.
Hitchman
was
discovered
by
the
British
Broadcasting
Corporation,
which
has
applied
for
someone
who
could
see
Jupiter's
moons
to
appear
on
a
scientifls
program
tonight.
"Last
week
Mrs.
Hitchman's
sight
was
tested
by
the
British
Optical
Association
in
London,"
he
said.
"She
astounded
every-
-one
by
picking
out
two
of
Jupiter's
moons
straight
off."
WEATHER
Forecast
North
Coast
Region
:
Gale
warning
continued.
Cloudy
today
and
Thursday.
Intermittent
rain
spreading
from
the
north
over
the
whole
region
by
evening
and
continuing
through
Thursday.
Little
change
in
temperature.
Winds
southerly
20
frequently
reaching
35
In
exposed
locations.
Low
tonight
and
high
Thur-day
at
Port
Hardy,
Sandspit
and
Prince
Rupert
37
and
45.
Roy
Evans
Hurt
at
Plant
Roy
Evans,
production
superintendent
at
the
Columbia
Cellulose
Company
on
Watson
Island,
suffered
a
badly
crushed
right
foot
and
bruises
to,
both
legs
yesterday
when
a
steel
roller
fell
on
him.
This
is
where
Dobbin
comes
in.
Pulling
ladder
sleighs,
hose
sleighs
and
pump
sleighs,
horses
can
get
to
a
fire
through
snow
quicker
than
any
vehicle
and
most
winters
they
get
a
chance
to
show
their
stuff.
So
far
this
year,
trucks
have
been
able
to
take
all
calls,
but
last,
year
the
horses
were
a
factor
in
saving
two
buildings
during
heavy
snowstorms.
Until
the
climate
changes
a
'lot,
horses
are
here
to
stay.
Homer
Ferguson
(Rcp.-Mich.),!
says
Democratic
talk
of
a
business
recession
is
hurting
the
United
States
and
ought
to
be
stopped.
Ferguson,
who
heads
the
Senate
Republican
policy
cornmltee,
spoke
out
today
J
.
after
.
former
'president
Hoover
had
discounted
the
possibility
of
a
depression
and
Stephen
A.
Mitchell,
Demo
-
1
jcratic
national
chairman,
nad
i
said
reaction
of
the
"pocketbook
nerve"
Is
likely
to
determine
control
of
Congress
In
Novem
-
j
ber's
elections.
"I
don't
think
there
is
going
RCAFMaking
Mercy
Flight
To
Arctic
EDMONTON
An
RCAF
Dakota
aircraft
is
making
a
,mercy
flight
to
Arctic
Bay,
a
small
Arctic
-settlement
on
Baffin
island,
where
an
Eskimo
girl
identified
only
as
"Elizabeth"
lies
seriously
111
with
tubercular
meningitis.
The
Dakota,
carrying
two
crews,
long-range
fuel
tanks
and
I
extra
rations
for
the
3,800-miIc!
i
return
flight,
left
here
at
11:30
p.m.
(MST)
Tuesday.
The
call
for
aid
was
received,
I
by
radio
from
Arctic
Bay,
on
i
Admiralty
Inlet,
1,900
miles
northeast
of
Edmonton.
!
The
Dakota,
based
at
Yellow-
knife,
N.W.T.,
was
at
Fort
Nel-I
son,
B.C.,
when
the
call
was
re
ceived.
It
was
diverted
to
Edmonton
where
extra
supplies
and
a
second
crew
were
put
aboard.
in
Vancouver
next
month,
urg-ed
the
federal
government
to
stloweci
tnat
put,;),,
works
con-,,or'
tracts
let
under
the
Social
Credit
make
an
early
start
on
draining
of
the
narrows,
already
sur
veyed
and
budgetted
for.
and'
stressed
the
need
of
a
land
link
between
Mu&sett
and
Clement.
The
only
means
s
WI
travel
between
the
two
points
at
,
present
is
by
water
The
meeting
named
Paul
Kraft
local
delegate
to
the
convention,
which
opens
March
22.
The
session
saw
members
express
concern
at
the
proposed
sale
of
the
Prince
Rupert
dry-dock
and
endorse
protests
made
by
Prince
Rupert
bodies.
The
union
will
also
urge
pro-
vLslon
of
fresh
running
water
at
one
of
the
several
docks
in
ten
parliament
there
are
dun-the
area.
At
present,
fishermen
ger
spots"
in
the
economy
and
of
the
Skidegate
local
have
no
j
to
outline
a
program
for
full
em-
S
fARLOTTE
CITY
early
dredging
of
jparrows
and
con-fa
road
linking
Mas-
f'lt
uemcnts
high
I
"ons
approved
at:
in
Buys
Salmon
Alaska
1-A
British
gov-'Chase
of
J300.000
flaska
canned
red
Pacific
northwest
f
firms,
was
report-iay.
"itray,
head
of
the
representing
the
in
foods,
said
the
sal-JSht
from
six
can-niircw
Jones,
repre-I
e
ministry,
made
Thc
orders
toUl-VW
cases.
4Ht.ii
fi.
'
the
tnn.irr,,ri
salmon.
'
Andrew
had
lvmh(
!"rlh
of
British
Co-
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"
Vancouver
and
P-WtO
Dun-hu
-
Tuesday,
after
air
V
'rem
Seattle.
adian
,n9
in
-i
.pi
Prlmc
'iil
drove
lo-fral
out..,l5
of
what
is
'I""1'
India's
five-
p'l
who
live
ln
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'
VU-
eoui,l,'y-
fcuirh
,.
"-""
r
was
r."8h
"ie
little
n
'r
whose
200
street
Th
W"lk
"4
ovl.Ty
ok
"
usinp
00
of
iRttle
kept
source
of
fresh
wuler
for
their
boats.
Some
50
boats
are
affected.
They
will
ask
installation
of
a
water
line
at
the
government
dock
at
Queen
Charlotte
City
or
at
one
uf
the
other
docks.
Stan
Atkins
was
elected
secretary
of
the
local.
iriiuornini'llt.
uprp
fur
lnwpr
than
lh0fje
,et
undcf
lne
prevlous
regime.
Auto
Workers
To
Lobby
Ottawa
OTTAWA
The
big
United
Automobile
Workers
of
America
!
(CIO-CCLi
is
sending
a
110-man
I
lobby
to
Ottawa
Wednesday
to
I
ployment.
The
delegation
from
the
70,-
000-member
union,
Canada's
second
largest,
will
meet
a
cabinet
delegation
Wednesday
and
will
circulate
among
members
of
Parliament
for
the
next
two
or
three
days
with
the
union's
employment
program.
in
India
the
head
of
a
motorcade
of
14
automobiles.
.When
he
arrived,
the
villagers
were
digging
holes
for
tree
planting,
eventually
to
produce
wood
and
fuel.
The
villagers,
who
heaped
flower
wreaths
around
the
Canadian
prime
minister's
neck,
crowded
around
him
when
he
took
a
hoe
and
worked
at
a
hole,
offering
his
encouragement
to
the
project.
Later
the
villagers
squatted
ln
a
sunny
square
to
hear
his
brief
talk
about
the
goodwill
purpose
of
his
half-completed
six-week
world
tour.
Leader
Sees
Indians
Dobbin
Outstrips
Trucks
In
Winter
Fire-Fighting
Mud
Huts
ST.
JOHN'S,
Nfld.
CP)
This
is
.probably
the
only
city
in
Canada
where
the
fire
department
still
uses
horses.
Because
of
steep
hills
and
severe
blizzards,
seven
horses
are
hired
by
the
department
every
December
and
are
kept
standing
by
until
April.
Although
the
city's
three
fire
stations
have
modern
fire-fighting
esuipment,
the
only
vehicle
capable
of
bucking
heavy
snow
is
tfie
snowmobile
and
it
Is
too
light
to
carry
enough
equipment
for
big
fires.
just
outside
their
doors.
From
Zindlpur,
which
is
scarcely
100
yards
from
one
wall
to
unother,
the
prime
minister
went
half
a
mile
to
the
Improved
larger
village
of
Mukmelpur,
where
the
streets
huve
been
paved
with
bricks
and
mud
walls
of
homes
are
painted
with
white
or
colored
wash.
College
students
have
conic
from
the
city
to
teach
the
children
of
illiterate
parents.
The
prime,
minister,
accompanied
by
his
daughter,
Mrs.
Hugh
O'Donnel
of
Quebec,
rode
out
to
the
village
sites
at
T
--.-,k.sWs.'
J
'.'.
w
ViC-
-v
f
j'
'T
I'Ol.K
E
AND
LIFEGUARDS
combine
to
rescue
two
small
boys
adrift
on
an
Ice
raft
Inside
the
breakwater
on
Toronto's
waterfront.
A
policeman
poles
ice
out
of
the
way
as
the
lifeguards
approach
the
boys
in
a
boat.
The
boys
are
Oddmunn
Haugen,
10,
and
Ricky
Lynch,
9,
Toronto..