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Jonuary
9,
1954
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SORTHERN
AND
CENTRAL
BRITISH
COLUMBIA'S
NEWSPAPER
Published
ot
Canada's
Most
Strategic
Pacific
Port
"Prince
Rupert,
the
Key
te
the
Great
Northwest"
VOL.
XLIII,
No.
8
PRINCE
RUPERT,
B.C.,
FRIDAY,
JANUARY
8,
(954
PRICE
FIVE
CENTS
r
none
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d
mm
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ubi
!
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t
'
As
teres
$fiMlci
ecu
ro
is
Teams
Suck
Blizzard
M
io
Rescue
Villdqers
II
V
V
Slide
Blasts
Streamliner
Off
Tracks
j
'i
S
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Bv
TS"
Associated
Pre
LONDON.
Central
Europe
and
Italy
were
bc-
jing
buried
deeper
as
sno.v
storms
continued
today.
Winf
y
weather
was
worst
in
f
By
The
Cung-cUun
PrciiH
WHITE
ROCK,
B.C.
I
Italy,
where
In
northern
regions
transportation
was
paraiy&d
and
at
lea.st
one
hamlet,
thj
liUle
town
of
Montemezzano
near
Modcna,
was
isolated
for
NATION
MEDAL
Is
presented
to
Peter
Lei
:htrn
of
Metlakatla
for
outstanding
service
to
ople.
A
long-time
leader
of
h.
people.
M
r.
Lelshton
is
presented
with
the
medal
by
i
Superintendent,
F.
E.
Anfleld
centre!
In
his
Prince
Rupert
office.
Looking
oil
are
Ai
Brown,
(lefti
MLA
for
Prince
Rupert,
and
Inspector
W.
M.
Taylor
of
the
RCMP.
.'.
V
Rockets
Trim
Rupert
65-42
A
speeding
Great
North
VI
ii'.-.U
the
fourth
day.
ern
nail
way
passenger
train
was
bowled
off
the
Rp.rlip
tpflms
snnrrorl
hu
frar
that
tho
'v.iiao.
mov
tJ.
1
K"''hikan
Rockets
trounced
bman
Editor
Back
at
typewriter
tracks
by
a
giant
mud
J
suffering
from
want
of
food
and;fri"ce
RuPe't
Challengers
65-42
'X
slide
near
here
Thursday
fuel,
bucked
a
blizzard
in
tr
j-
,ugui
111
uie
unra
game
pi
a
r-w.
.
m
l
e
w
-
"
ing
to
reach,
the
community.
uu'.e-.ime
series.
but
the
more
than
90
pas
ek
After
Losing;
Legs
in
Crash
sengers
aboard
escaped
Since
the.
beginning
of
the
!
.
T
R
V
T
.
Vu
when
Rockets
estab-liveshave
storms
five
days
ago
at
least
10
!
,lr?t
,game
'h"a
lead
and
been
lost
In
northern
!
"
Kan
were
Italian
areas.
Extreme
cold
add-
i
R'x
hJ"aded-,
.
with
a
shaking
up.
'Becky",
has
a
HAVEN,
ter
the
Pa.
iff
One
i
Lork
Haven
Express
Is
looking
United
States
p's
accident
In
forward
to
learning
to
wall;
ready
answer:
'
..
ine
diesel
sutauniner
was
ed
to
the
difficulties.
"I'm
eolng
to
write
-a
lot
noruibouna
from
beanie
10I
lie
lost
bolh
legs,
Re-ross
is
planning
to
re-
with
the
aid
of
artificial
Hubs
at
th
first
step
In
her
return.
What
will
she
write
about?
iur
active
newspaper
about
highway
safety
"
-1'.
Vancouver
wncti
It
was
hitj
The
grim
statistics
of
high-
broadsiae
by
.tne
slide,
which
way
safety
will
not
be
a
ncw'
caniea
upiuoteu
ute
oeioie
.
topic
for
Becky.
The
Express
of
A
baggage
car
came
to
rest
on
-
ine
smmng,
Brunette
woman
3-year-old
editor
of
the
known
-
to
editors
across
the
liUu
allu
SwUv4m;iU
Oeitiiu.ij.
s-orers
with
14
points,
followed
by
Mickey
Webster
with
9,
Glen
Carlson
with
8,
Danny
Bill
5.
Sid
S-
5.
Harold
Marshall
3.
The
Challengers
lost
the
first
game
with
Ketchikan
65-47
nd
defeated
Metlakatla,
Alaska
Vets
55-51
on
the
second
night,
the
first
time
a
Prince
Rupert
te.im
has
scored
a
win
on
the
Metlakatla
home
floor.
last
Thursday
published
her
LOW
TEMPERATURES
lucie
vvi.u
iii.Mjr
aiiowfuils
in
SUdblUi
AliU
IJcUM
Ul
iJWKC'l-
liiCie
WuS
ItM
tfiluirf
111
Ublitl
vuii,s
oi
iluope,
uubr
beutpci
uucd
Wcie
luw
miiu
uiuit;
w.tiu
WlUDUCU
OVtl
lullLlI
ill
lllti
L.OH-UUUlil..
moo.
of
Britain
faced
at
least
VUND-ROBIN
BASKETBALL
SMILES
ON
BEHALF
of
Prince
Rupert's
coffers
are
given
here
byex-mayor
Harold
Whalen
(left)
and
Mayor
George
E.
Hills,
when
the
former
performed
his
last
official
act.
The
former
mayor
Is
shown
handing
over
a
Provincial
government
cheque
for
$54,660
which
constitutes
the
city's
most
recent
share
of
the
B.C.
three
per
cent
sales
tax.
.
URNEY
BEGINS
TONIGHT
lis
siut?
uu
a
oeucn
at
uie
euje
ui
Oeoigia
blrait.
lue
uiisnap
occurred
two
nines
norm
ui
this
ooruer
resort
town,
3u
runes
suuta
ol
Vancouvci.
ihe
engineer,
Leo
Clark
of
Seattle,
saia
mi-re
was
no
au-vaiice
warning
ol
the
sliuc.
"About
two
unles
out,
oi
the
station
there
was
a
thud,
i
looKeu
in
uiy
mirror
aim
saw
lead
editorial-:
"How
Not
To
Start
a
New
Year."
'
"No
one-,
needs
to
be
one
of
those
New
Year
accident
victims,"
she
wrote.
"Who
wants
to
start
the
New
Year
in
a.
hospital
or
a
morgue?"
'
'
"
At
5:1s
p.m.,
while
the
newspaper
was
being
delivered,
Mlsi
Gross
was
driving
through
an
Intersection.
Her
car
and
an
anuuitf
uy
u
snur,
tain,
iv:
unu
netting
winas.
oui
l,ouuoii
HrfU
uwuu
w
a
muiiuiy
Sun
uiier
a
uiitci
nigut
oi
siumi
cltement
for
basketball
fans
and
players
alike
Is
In
store
t
at
the
Civic
Centre
as
the
Parker
Round-Robin
tourna-
gets
underway
at
7:30.
'
Una
snow.
Former
McGill
Principal
Dies
CHICHESTER,
Er;j.
(Reuters)
Lord
Geddes,
British
ambassador
to
the
United
States
from
1920
and
1924
and
a
former
Drin-
.
Man
Facing
Theft
Charge
Asks
Trial
by
Higher
Court
other
collided.
She
was
thrown
oaggage
car
bounding
in
tno
fie
two-night
tournament,
first
ot
Its
kind
to
be
presented
fs
city,
by
the
Prince
Rupert
Basketball
Commission,
sees
Senior
B
teams
tangle
with
two
Inter
A
entries.
pnight's
schedule
sees
Senior
B
league
leaders
Manson's
m
eiance,
the
Paris
region
flai
all
i
nc
ii
oi
snow.
rutst
SNOW
twiiaiiu
c.vperienccd
its
fiisi.
to
the
street
and
pinned
against
fc"'
We
were
bounced
around
pole.
ancl
taun
pusheu
rigiu
on
uie
i
John
Wesley
Donovan
was.
taken
his
money
and
Donovan
uacx.
ine
passeiigti-
is
meeting
Watls
it
Nlckerson,
who
are
currently
trailing
liter
A,
loop.
Second
game
.brings
together
Columbia
e
S00
club
and
the
speedy
Booth
Memorial
Hieh
school'
Mima
ul
l
ii
;
1
isuiuutitru
bi
itu
uius
uiuiiiiti
wa
arresLeu.
hanging,
t.vci
-
tne
uit
LUIH.11MIUII
ui
a
piratiuui-
ivivia
lu.
wawuuii
uescrioea
auuw
oi
uiu
m;asuu.,
ul
tfa:u.
tipa.i
0f
McoUl
University,
Monona
Kepk
lama
anu
wmuiui
tieal,
died
today
after
a
lorg
-"
lun
,
"uS
'u
!
-
illness.
He1
was
74.
,
,
-OUUu"
uuuutu
cut
wiu,i(
Lord
Geddes,
born
Auckbnd
uits
tliiuugu
aweuen's
io.-Carnpr)ell
Geddes,
was
principal
u"
tiuiva't"!,,
u
mree
yeais
1
of
Mcfiill
in
1919-20.
Dunn
ana
people
weie
scream
tnakers.'
Third
encounter
matches
Oordoh
4c
Anderson
aiy
hearing
in
city
police
court
Griffith's
first
complaint
and
ing.
Bui
it
wusii
i
too
Odj.
'
Constable
Irving
described
the
second
complaint
and
the
arrest.
t
Manson's.
Watts
St
Nlckerson's
then
try
their
wares
t
CCC
nrk
the
evening
winds
up
with
a
battle
between
:pcrlcnced
Gordon
Si
Andersons
and
the
fleet
hieh
ol
lloiitial
lUiuOe-iUlg.
Lord
Geddes
was
created
a
baron
in
1842.
He
Is
succeeded
by
his
son,
Ross
Campbell
."IS.
ooutuetil
ueiiuany
had
one
iu
wu
luoie
incuts
ul
suuw.
minutes
later
anouiui
slide
!
s-
"
"-
llmnueied
across
tne
ti
atKs
I
Oonovan,
charged
with
the
Huoui,
a
mile
lui
tiler
along
uie
i
theft
of
a
sum
over
$25
from
17-Uwcks.
!
year-old
Roland
Dale
Griffiths,
ine
passcngtrs
were
re-rout-'
December
13,
elected
trial
by
ed.
to
Vancouver
by
bus.
j
higher
court.
He
was
not
repre-
Bolh
snues
were
cleared
away
j
scntcd
by
counsel,
and
the
line
opened
lor
trainci
Griffiths
tcsUfied
that
on
fiporte
fans
are
Invited
to
match
Choices
with
Sports
Dirk
Ayres,
see
story
Page
4.)
Mrs.
Monteith,
Longtime
City
Resident
Dies
later
tnis
morning.
ne
Firms
Asked
To
Tender
AMPCTATION
NECESSARY
-
At
th
-
hospital,'.,
doctors
decided
that
Amputation
of
the
right
leg
below
the
knee
and
the
Irft
above
the
knee
was
unavoidable.
Becky
was
told
of
the
operation
next
day.
-
Her
publisher,
Frank
D.
O'Relliy,
said
later
the
surgeon
told
him
Becky
"winced
but
Immediately
asked
that
a
radio,
typewriter
arid
fountain
pen
be
sent
to
her
room."
With
them
she
began
the
rehabilitation
that
Is
her
unwavering
aim
today.
"A
little
later.
I
expect
to
write
again
for
the
j&pcr.
perhaps
on
an'Mrregulur
schedule
at
firt.
When
I
have
learned
to
walk
again
I
expect
to
go
bark
to
The
Express
on
a
full-time
permanent
basis."
Miss
Gross
joined
The
Express
staff
as
a
reporter
in
1925,
was
made
managing
editor
hi
1931
and"
editor
ft
few
years
later.
She
was
one
of
the
first
two
U.S.
-newspaper
women
selected
for
a
Nelman
Fellowship
j
'
Dec.
13
he
went
to
the
West
End
Chop
Suey
House,
Third
Avenue,
I
with
Donovan
for
a
meal.
After
the
meal,
he
said,
when
he
pull-
erl
out
his
wallet
to
pay
lor
the
i
meal
Donovan
asked
him
is
he
MONTREAL
(CP)
Work
crejvs
liiupcu
up
illuisuay
uiu.-i'
ine
wu.av
sturu
oi
me
season
iuiupeu
auuost
iu
inciit-s
ui
snow
on
j,ue
city
anu
uis'hct
aim
causeu
tne
ucaul
oi
ohj
1A.1SOI1.
uincials
at
the
Dominion
weauier
oifice
at
uearoy
uuni
aupuiL
saiu
me
touu
snowian
ui.iuuiueu
to
v.t
incites,
wua
a
steauy
lO-miie-aii-nour
wniu
WEATHER
...
-
forecast
-North
coast
region
f
Gale
warning.
Winds
southerly
15,
Increasing
to
southeast
40
in
exposed
areas
late
this
afternoon
and
shifting
to
southerly
25
before
daybreak
Saturday.
Low
tonleht
and
hiEh
Satur-
p
Machine
For
Use
in
City
Ex-Rupert
Man
Injured
Mrs.
Emma
Elizabeth
Mon-teith.
a
resident
of
Prince
Rupert
for
the
past
24
years,
died
yes-
'
had
any
pictures
in
it.
He
said
"iiiicil
has
Invited
tend-
in
In
the
process
of
preparing
a
a
bulldozer
and
amim.
hv.iuu,
mith,.riin.
..,.j,
Jhniiiy
Sneddon,
well-known
1
he
nad
and
handed
his
wallet
to
terday
ln
Prince
Rupert
General
w.
...
HUIU,IIIE
lAIKIIUIkUIC
Hospital.
She
was
67
years
of
X
I
,
.
r
uPer'
the
accused
to
examine
the
1
I
basketball
player
here,
was
tures
age.
Wife
of
Karnie
L.
Monteith,
oeiiina
it,
ine
snow
cloggtu
day
at
Port
Hardy,
34
and
42:
of
Tax
Sale
Trust
funds
for
purchase
of
a
machine
and
attachments
for
handling
the
garbage
problem.
lie
said
that
while
Donovan
138
Ninth
Avenue
West,
she
was
streets
anu
disiupted
trauic
inlsandspit
and
Prince
Rupert,
35
anu
around
tne
city.
i
and
40.
had
the
wallet
and
was
looking
seriousiy
injured
ln
a
traffic
accident
in
Vancouver
on
New
Year's
Eve,
it
was
learned
here
today.
ju.
Sheddon,
member
of
a
at
the
pictures
the
accused
slip-
i
born
in
Winnipeg
and
lived
for
iwd
rmney
totalling
$98
out
of
several
years
In
Rossland.
B.C.,
Uv
billfold.
Donovan
then
told,'s
young
woman.
Her
first
home
in
northern
British
Co
lumbia
was
at
Fraser
Lake,
pioneer
rnnce
nupert
lamny,
uin,
tn.lt
he
would
back
ln
left
here
about
a
year
ago.
Re-lBh,mt
t(,n
minutes,
the
witness
ports
stale
thai,
although
he
niH
rj,irfith
tiri
thP
ponrt.
UN
Envoy
To
Seek
Release
On
$1
Million
Russo
Grant
Urgency
In
the
matter
results
from
the
fact
that
if
a
machine
is
not
acquired
within
a
very
wliort
time,
lty
garbage
will
again
have
to
be
dumped
at
the
city
limits'
dump
and
the
rat
menace
will
return.
Mr.
Beaton
will
make
an
interim
report
on
the
work
accomplished
by
the
machine
at
Monday
night's
council
meeting.
where
she
lived
before
the
rail-
f
road
was
built.
Later
she
resided
in
Idaho
and
then
came
to
'suffered
a
broken
pelvis,
broken
...i
h.
,uiH
f,,r
mnnvn
fnr
at
Harvard.
Last
year
she
was
attachments,
similar
to
rpillur
and
dragline
ma-iMt
has
been
operating
-unitary
land
till
at
Al-trk.
superintendent
O.
E.
-aid
today
lc
had
writ-mr
equipment
and
.iup-iianies
asking
for
a
ue-i
and
prices
on
machines
(or
use
In
land-tln
'gar-poial
and
also
lor
other
k.
ciion
on
the
machine
lunzed
at
the
December
council
meeting.
'""ing
council
Instruc-ihat
ineeling
on
a
mo-Alderman
Mike
Kruegcr,
1
by
AJuerman
H
F.
City
Clerk
R.
W.
Long
one
of
seven
U.8.
editors
who;
hip
and
concussion,
Mr.
Shed-
n
hnllt
,
,'
minutes
and
when
the
made
an
unprecedented
trip
to
i
don
Is
expected
to
recover,
!
nri-iispH
riirin't
rpt.urn
hft
went
Prince
Rupert.
UNITED
NATIONS,
N.Y.
(CP)
In
Rossland
she
was
a
mem-!
Dr.
Hugh
Keenlevside.
director-
was
treated
by
Dr.
Alan
Kergin,
to
the
RCMP
and
reDorted
his
Russia,
and
later
reported
extensively
on
the
trip
for
The
Associated
Press.
.
loss.
berof
the
Rebekah
lodge
and
the
general
cf
the
UN
technical
as-
who
attended
school
here
with
Mr.
Sheddon.
Maccabees.
The
offer
was
unexpected
in
that
Ruiisia
had
previously
,
remained
uloof
from
the
specialized
blanches
of
the
UN.
The
string
attached
to
the
ofter
was
that
the
money
must
oe
iiseu
by
only
one
UN
agency
technical
assistance.
However,
since
tins
program
is
a
closc.'y-co-0!-j!imted
one,
technical
rs-sistance
projects
usually
Involve
one
or
more
other
organizations
such
us
food
and
agriculture
or
world
health.
Kcenlcyside's
job
will
be
to
nt-'
tempt
tii
persuade
tho
(Soviet.
Union
to
drop
the
condition
sistancc
administration,
is
going
to
Moscow
to
try
to
cut
the
strings
from
a
Russian
offer
oi
4,000,000
rubles.
A
UN
announcement
Thursday
said
Keenieyslde,
former
.Canadian
deputy
minister
of
mines,
will
leave
Jan.
14.
1
His
trip
involves
an
61ir
made
by
the
Soviet
government
last
July
of
4,000.000
rubies
11,000.000
at
the
ofiiclal
rate
to
the
UN
program
for
helping
underdeveloped
countries
of
the
world.
j
A
week
later.
Griffiths
said,
on
j
Sunday,
December
20,
he
saw
i
Donovan
in
another
cafe.
He
I
went
into
the
cafe
and
asked
I
Donovan
for
his
money
and
the
ja
-cufed
denied
having
it.
Grif-!
fiths
then
reported
to
the
pollen
that
the
man
he
claimed
had
Noted
Chinese
In
City
Dies
Seto
Wah
Bo.
a
longtime
resi
Besides
her
husband,
she
is
survived
by
two
daughters.
Mrs.
Leslie
Brain
and
Mrs.
Wayne
MacDonald,
both
ln
Prince
Rupert,
four
grandchildren,
Mrs.
Verne
Cicconc.
Victor
and
Gordon
Brain
and
Heather
MacDonald,
and
,one
great-grandchild,
Jimmy
Ciccone.
Funeral
service
will
be
held
tomorrow
afternoon
from
Gren-villc
Court
Chapel
with
the
Rev.
Canon,
Basil
S.
Prockter-
officiating.
.
en,
Duke
wue
Rail
Tour
dent
of
Prince
Rupert
and
pro-!
mlnent
In
the
Chinese
commun-
J
ity
here,
died
at
the
age
of
61.
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In
China,
Mr.
Seto
came)
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jy
to
this
city
30
years
ago,
and
opened
the
Pacific
Cafe.
Later
he
moved
to
Port
Edward
where
'HUSTON
NORTH,
N.Z.
"--Queen
Elizabeth
and
,;c
of
Edinburgh
started
'i
here
today
on
their
day's
"whistle
stop"
rail
New
Zealand's
north
is-'"1
interior.
n
a
white
costume
with
"ry-colcred
straw
bon-Qucen
waved
to
several
(1
persons
iiom
the
ob-"i
car
as
the
gleaming
i-whitc
royal
train
pulled
uwds
also
had
gathered
"iilsulc
the
Grand
hotel,
'ie
rovul
couple
hud
stay-'iiKht.
to
watch
them
join
the
royal
train.
he
operated
the
Panama
Cafe
and
more
recently
was
proprietor
of
the
Commodore
Rooms
in
Prince
Rupert.
Ie
was
a
member
of
the
Chinese
Freemasons.
Surviving
him
are
his
wife,
Seto
Wong
Moy
and
a
son.
Funeral
service
will
be
held
January
24
from
Grenvlile
Court
Chapel,
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3
Thursday's
100-mile
'
Hastinaa.
Is
throuich
Legislature
Opens
Late
Next
Month
(1
and
atiileullural
coun-
VICTORIA
(CP)
The
second
session
of
B.C.'s
24th
legislature
Is
expected
to
open
Feb.
16
or
23.
Last
year
the
session
started
Ncw
Plymouth,
coastal
"I
Taranaki
province,
nlen
of
New
Zealand."
a.y
the
royal
couple
fly
(iiiRton,
the
capital,
for
s
stay
before
beginning
'ur
of
Uie
south
island.
eb.
3.
THIS
DRAMATIC
PHOTO
was
taken
from
the
bally
of
a
U.S.
Air
Force
tanker
plane
and
shows
for
the
first
time
the
Air
Force's
new
swept-wlhg
Republic
F-84F
Thunderstreak
fighter-bomber
getting
gassed
up
in
full
flight.
The
unique
ability
of
this
fighter-bomber
to
refuel
ln
.
midair
enables
It
to
fly
thousands
cf
miles
nonstop
to
meet
possible
international
emergencies.
Thunderstreaks
are
slated
...
for
delivery
to
Amerl
ca's
allies
throughout
the
world,
as
well
as
to
the
U.S.A.F.
THE
CANADIAN
NAVY'S
anti-submarine
air
sqadrons
will
be
rearmed
with
Orurmnun
S2F
aircraft,
a
twin-engined,
hluh-wing
monoplane,
designed
specifically
for
carrier-borne
operations
against
submarines.
The
new
plane,
designed
hi
the
United
States,
will
be
built
at
the
Toronto
plant
of
de
Havilland
Aircraft
of
Canada,
Ltd.
First
deliveries
are
expected
in
1955
and
will
replace
the
Grumman
Avenger,
a
Second
World
War
torpedo
bomber
converted
for
sub-chasing
operations.
Cabinet
ministers
now
are
busy
preparing
legislation,
revising
and
'
trimming
estimates
and
hearing
delegations.
ay
the
Queen
will
open
I
'1
session
of
Parliament.
1