arid Dartmouth, N.S, The river. turned at 1,000 were ‘homeless as. ale swollen, by thaws. and drenching rains, sweeps through ¢ a washed: “out 6 Prince Rupert Dally News Tuesday, January 17, 1956, Lack of Help, Materials Hit: By CCA Head By FORBES RIUDE Canadian Press Business Editor WINNIPEG, ) — Canada is building ab such-a ‘pace that there aren't. enough materials /and trained people to do the work, W..G, Malcoim of ‘Winni- peg, president of the Canadian Construction Association said at the association’s annual mecting, being held here. “The ability of the construc- tion industry to exnand its capa- city has been _ proven on several occasions dur- “tng the’ last 15 years but the increased demands for the in- dusiry's serviecs have been such that construction schedules are a being held up by delays in the delivery of a number of mater- jals, Mr Malcolm. sald, “Similarly, our’ training pro- pram. for practically ail perepn- into. a-raging torrent after it Nova Scotia rivers. rolled: on to (CP Photo) : Travel 0 on. PGE a ICTORIA. (CP). —Tr Railways Minister Ralph Chet-| ‘wynd ‘annotinced he has plans to ‘put into effect.when the govern- 'ment-owned line’s southern ex- tension ‘is completed to mike it one of the fastest railways in the world. °° | “We. intend cutting the time between North Vancouver and Prince. George ‘to: 164 hours,’ said. Mr. Chetwynd. The. present journcy—40, miles by boat from Vancouver. to. Squamish at the southern terminal of the. rail- ‘road and about 420. miles by train to Prince. Georg e-—takes: 26 hours. For the speedier service; the 1 PGE: will order five new. stainless! steel: passenger | coaches ‘valued at a total of $1,000,000. ° When they are in: operation the present ancient ‘Pilllman ‘cars will | be serapped . Official opening ‘of the south’ ern: "50- mile extension from i Sq amish to North Vancouver is; set for June Me foes | cee detente et ane Free. KE, Dowdie Optometrist Ph sone 5548 | an "303 8rd Ave WV. ~ MAKE SURE I's ar ‘ SONS. Je wellers t oe: {ho Witla Tn the pela thi arb as oe delivered. to you quickly and) ane the i ‘agreed-upon dita... Wh stirprisingly Wee nigdost- cont, ha autre to consull with us te fay your next prinung order, ¥ age cubhera $4 No vhligation, Jusb phone 4125 for Pe il engine “count on us! “kya Et : As World's Best Railways ty the Pacific Gr eat Eastern Railway. , the department, of ur ade ee, = . : Tite keep up with the nace of the industry’s expanded volume, The munber receiving apprenticeship training should. be at least doub- led and there is a chronic shert- age of engineers, superintend- ents, estimators and other skilled men,” ‘ (BIG INCREASK Never before, “Mr, © Matcolm said, had a CCA president: heen. Jable to report the completion of $5,000,000,000 worth of construe tion in‘'a year, © ° . This was about twice in vol- unite. and more than three times in-dollar value the amount that had been reported when the association ‘last met. in Winn i- peg in 1946. Nearly one- -third ‘lof the record 1955 volume was in western Canada. MATERIAL SHORTAGES “Tt, would seem, however, that increases in the volume ef con- struction will likely he limited " more by shortare of certain ma- commerce, terials, such as structural steel, “In London, first ¢ on the wat than by shortage ‘of investment time prices board and later as! capital, commercial counsellor, Bower Looking firther ahead ‘than created a friendly reputation tor|j95@° Mr, Malcolm’ said «the in- himself and Canada. He played'g ;dustry should establish a greater a key part in convincing British | sense of direction and purpose, businessmen to. invest in. Can- ada, at a rate now’ reaching $100, 000,000 a year. Use Want Ads—They Pay Hare ee ie ee Seen as Fast. avel is’ going to be faster nemo smanonivenre® VEN Sa Nererenee * Ambassador lAssumes Duties in. March LONDON — R. Pp. (Dick). Bower,.Canada’s trade envoy in ‘| Britain for 11 years’ leaves this month for a diplomatic Appoint- ment in South America, ’, .He expects to start as Cana- dian ambassador — in - March, joining Canada’s éxternal affairs’. ‘department after 26 vears with’ and TH SENSATION IN SWEDEN Uhese days is a reduelng powder - ‘that works by taking away the uree to ent. Called Minus, the powder went on sale in Stoekhohn this week and storks were completely solcl out within a few hours, Chemist Ula Levin: (above) Is showlng how the powder works, T's stirred In water (heaker ab Mehl and tiken before a mend The solution mixes with hydrochloric acid in the body and forms o jelly theaker al deft) whieh fills the stomach and reduees hunger, The Jelly. reverts to Nuld in (he intestine’ and passes off, Doctors sry {he redueer ts harmless and useful, Or Ot TE EH REE RINT Ie Etre Hearmrm free Re: A notorist told pollee Wednes duy ment of a horse that ree sented Ais horseless carnage, j alinnte Martine, sald he was driving along when uw hurse ran: out of a fleld and leaped on the “hand of Ils eat, smushad the whidshield and danuged — the hood, a fender and the rudlo fleld, VISIT THE COMMODORE "WHET GOOD FOOD CONTH LNSH” We Cater to Banquets of all Types PR barr a ren PARE MEANY WHEN MEA This advertisement is not pubs Jished or diaplayed hy the Liquor Control Hoard or by the Govern FOR ORDERS TO TAKE ODT fas ment of British Columbia, dramatically | nel classifications has failed to: lag the winter months. SANTA BAR DARA, Cult, Me poten, then rin baek inte the ey I ONS | | PPB PROD PIN Ff Ta tagen . . . , ; BLACKWOOD onff RIDG By EASLEY BLACKWOOD Mrs. Fusty’s Own Magic Involves Hand Counting ©‘ Mrs, Fusty does not make every contract shd plays, but when she is defeated it is never because sh¢ has failed to try to get acount on her opponents’ hands, She worked her own peculiar brand of magio to win 12 tricks in today’s deal. The king of spades was led and she won with dutumy’s ace. Ay casttal look al the hand indl- | 1 ‘ ' Kast dealer, Nelther side cule 4 cates that she has to lose a spade | nerable. NORTH a and a diamond. But Mrs, usty | (Mr. Dale) , never looks ala hand casually, a A 7 ‘i , She looks at it intensely. She} yud53a2 i lost no spades and no diamonds, qk 655 3 Instead, she lost a trump trick. i west wv 4 AST i aye ’ a Meade & And that w as her only loser. | Me Meek) (Mn Abel) * SPADE DISCARD i AKQIOISGL aS : | . ick iwo she led a heart to} ¥ None Vigan | ONCE A FREE-WHRELING band of ralding, hunting and fight- |yae4nine ama noticed the spade} $488 RE ing Indians, the Bloods of southwestern Alborta now are rated tdiseard on her left. Wow she re- | hs te RY 5 14 as Canada’s wealthiest Indians, THe Bloods relain many ef |eonnoitered by cashing the ace SOUTH mT their dneient traditions but they carn large sums of money Jand king of clubs. Mr, ‘Meek dis- | (Mrs, Pasty) 4 leasing oul reservation Jand Lo white farmers and ranchers, 'cearded another spade on the! bok! , selling petroleum and natural-gas rights, Here Horace Gladstone ‘second elub. YON KAT SG | (lefl), 2 Blood farm instructor, and Harry Mathews, white farm ; At this point Mrs, Fusty knew: 4A Qis : headquarters supervisor, stand before a seed-cleaning plant on {for certain that Mr. Abel had; - & KT ’ the reservation near Cardston, Nearby almost 1,000,000 bushels ‘started with eight clubs, three; ,. 1h oe t North of wheat and coarse gr alns are’ stored, (CP Phutu) jhearts and two other cards, one; ty ny 4 a e ¥ 3 of which was a spade. Was the! Vass lass Pass Ok umanwn card anather spade or | . : Blood Band Richest Indians iwas ita diamond? She decided | 4 it was a diamond In view of Mr: é i | Meck's unusually bold bid of tt was Mr. Meck’s play from a four spades. ‘holding of the queen of spades Accordingly she took one more and the Jack and ten of dla- ‘high trump, leaving Myr. ,ped some traditions and planned, with the ten, and then fo the future. the ace of diamonds. was a painful evolution that. SQUEEZE PLAY By Leasing Land, Ranching ', By DAVID OANCIA Canadian Press Staff Writer ‘CARDSTON, Alta. ?0—Canada’ 3. “mond, If he discarded thg spade, obyiously dummy’s severi ; vould be soud., So he parted trashed Blood Indians, who live on the arene the pend to fis present When the diamond was not sith oa diamond and Mrs, country’s largest reservation in san S of ralding, huntin yee ot ruffed she knew Mr. Meek was’ Fusty played the spade from thé southwestern Alberta, no longer! fightlne. i WNUNG ane’ soing to be squeezed. She led a poard and took the last 4wo ee her wealth by ine see ot Sixly-one-year-old Chief Jim low heart, played low from dum- | “tricks in the diamond suit. ’ deir ° Hoe ly lL was veewe eir herds of horses owly, | Hind Bull, a band councillor, re-. my and Mr, Abel was in. 5 at en cn tie Y aeetiek ty | members the days aft ter the band: “The hero. of Indian youth to- Moved on to the reserve. ‘in dummy. She cashed duminy's day no longer is the skilled; MONTHLY RATIONS ‘Jast heart, the queen, then n=! horseman, expert buffalo hunter! “Times were really tough then: tered her hand with a_smail (or fearless warvior, He has been! for the Bloods, The government diamond to the queen, -replaced by the western cowpoke, | supported them — "Have them _ Now she led her bast wr ump and This band once roamed at will: monthly rations of meat, flour,: (across the Prairies in search of peans, rice, tea and avon There On the foreed club return she | discarded her spade and ruffed Chinese Dis AUNOCSE Sites CHOP SUEY . _ Ch OW METIN Open 6 - p.m_-3:30 a.m. aves tects sed coe and was some game, but not enough.” OCR c LANT ; ravols to. transport their house-| For decades the Blonds would LOCKER PLAN’ hold goods and frequently raid-isooner have starved than have Hollywood Cafe ed neighboring tribes to steal; parted with their horses. They | SELLS horses and women. Now they are! resented the suggestion that they a’peaceful group, rated as the! scl their horses and start rais- wealthiest in the country, ting cattle. LEASES LAND Teachers, missionaries and 1 uy wroV lobe The’ band earns large sums of (COUN sverne onal jmoney hy loasing out re eserve ‘ation tnen 18 ane {land to white farmers and ranch- suring tne aa ye mas vr vers, selling petroleum and natur- ‘still have. asm ny e100 finely all gas rights and selling gravel. “bred animals. any US mely it Spends this moncy on. pen- Although the Indians now are sions, housing, farming and ‘better off than ever before, many ranching progr ams and doles out: . serious problems still remal ;sinall monthly payments to ev-. ree orem Aa man ; ory man; wornan and child dur- UST, COUP avon i Kor Qotside Orders Ph, 6226 Red Brand Bect oe eI oa THUNDERING NEW TARLAN THRILLS! ~ ile RCL us Pe UL RLS ie ere (el 9 haw Aes Raa ae of {ins one-room shacks and tents on the outskirts of Cards- : Clash ‘ton, js a thern in the side of Be Night | Despite the chaneed outlook, ! feavernment -officials and wel-! Saaanpayad San are workers are concerned AbOUb, fare of the indiana the wel- ithe future of the Indians. Kasy ‘ — | jmoney. they are afraid will be BACKWARD STEP l detrimental and an encourage- The village was started lo pro- jnrent lo laziness, ‘Vide adequate housiny close ta _ Behind the old Blood's inserut-; own for older indians. But ‘able f uce the memory of the past whole femitles mayed in, ‘lives on, ‘The Bloods stil clings Rey, M, LaFrance, an Oblate “tonaciously: tLocustomes, traditions missionary and prineipal of a (and tribal rites, residential school, deseribe d the © This is manifested openly in building of “Moeeasin” ‘the sun dance held on the ree backward step, serve every sununer, This isan. As many as 1) persons sleep icight- hour prance in honor of in the tiny shacks, hy ery piel Pthe supernatural influence of m: ablresses are sirewa all over ithe mythical godhead of sun, the flour Men, women und Singon and morning shar, ehildren all sleep in ome pir (| The Bloods have alsa Deeowe heap. Hfomous for their Bainat ehief Liquor isa serious problent and dalnship, an honorary tribal fel- from tt springs the allied prob- Jowship designed “lo foster and lems of juvente delingueney iid ‘propatate oa polley of fulure degenerating mont standards. | Canadian clvenship” The situation wis described os ; MERWE “anes” ly Rev J.B DeWalfe, HONORED MIMBUIS . — prinelpoal of St. Pauls: Angiean | The membership of the Balnai, Residential Sehool Te sul Which Js Wanted lo 3h PERSONS, in “The govermmcut has ne polley Felides the Duke of Windsor, Gaye and (he ehurehes have ne poliey, epnor-General: Vincent: Massey, ‘phe jeaders and administrators Hurl Alexander, ‘Trade Minister jaye little knowledge of soclol- | Howe, Agriculture Minister Gaur- ayy and the social problems diner, Premle r Smallwood — of owhleh must be freed ty dealing Newfoundland, Premier Manvlog with the Indi situation.” of Alberta and even Tollywood Mp, peWolf sald he felt (he cowboy Rod Cameron, whole Indian question should be Despite the Bloods’ vcolortul studied by tralned soctolonists Past, nosh Cenehers and misslon~ who could make recommenda. 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