fF TIDES BB ci Standard Time) 7 pele tel May 25, 1055 BMORROW'S 1:50 23,2 feet 14:51 20,3 feet. 4:30 0.1 feot 20:82 6.2 feet YOL XLIV, No, 120. : Published at Canado’s Most Strategic Pacific Port — And Key to PRINCE RUPERT, B.C. TUESDAY, MAY 24, 1955 tho Great Northwost no Mo PRICE FIVE CENTS ° Aen §, WEDSON mhiel Rabban Rane. here, The ceremont Biter, a sistant rabban: Brut vide. Weleom Rein advised this morn- meiurday, $100,000 pounds ee. bid been taken from meee May 12 a8 compar- es) 000 for a comparable ep: 1651 Be a Saturday, 1.378.300 Bee! fh had been brought Beier sold on the ex. mecoy the Prince Rupert Ben's Co-Operative Ag- m2 check of figures of BS ompiled by the Dom- BBB lisnevies department | ms from United States Be tian halbutters at the ABU Halibut Exchange me atid Loday totalled 669... while four-day tand. Me Co-On yotadled) 2 Sa f prlee pald on the exe Beonediin halibat waa Ss athough top. price IRVIN MILLER Assistant Rabban | JUAN 350 MEMBERS of the Shrine will Bion when the Gizeh Temple of Vancon re dammataries headed by Mustrlous Potenta‘e Jack Bvt fin Forman, president of the Prince Ruy Bnd Ai Burnip, secretary, A. J, Dominato fs general id oresentation of the keys of the city ta M ahs the Shrine band, Shriners Ball, and r sceptions and dinners, ba 2 Halibut Landi ap P ath Catch For Same Period in ‘54 Bizs of hidibut from Area, U.S, prices for mediums yester- Beeeping pace this year'day were 12 cents, large, 105 meee of last year, accord-'cents and chicken 9.5 cents. Ca- Behe Tuternational Pactfie nadian prices yesterday for med. mm comastion, Vie Whit-ilums averaged 114 cents while. By Rupert agent on the (large sold at 10 cents and chick. fd: ‘he arriving on ver holds nl cast Is topped by Mr, Norval Mackay Smith, Ing the boat Shriners and also en at 9 cents, YESTERDAY'S LANDINGS NORVAL MACKAY SMITH HARPER igh Pricst and Prophet pert Shrine Club; W. D. Snilth, vice-presi. chalrman for the céremoniat, Celebrations r. Streight, an Inau ngs Keep Pace. Individual landings at the Ex- B, BATKIE Oriental Guide the CNSS Prince George Friday Its Spring Ceremonial in Prince Rupert. M. Strelght will take Strelght, Walter S, Mudson,. chle{ rabban:.. high priest and prophet and Harper P. part in the two-day about 50 Shrin crs from. district gural parade, a band with prices for mediums in ‘brackets and 10.5 and 9:5 cents pald for large and chicken are as follows: Jo-Jo, 10,000 (12.2) sold to At- ‘lin; Tiny Boy, 38,000 (12.2) sold ito B.C. Packers; Rebekah, 26,- 50 (12.1) sold to Atlin: Reliance 1, 38,000 (12.2) sold to B.C. Pack- ere, F ) g r \Traffic, Dr Sixty-nine dead was ¢ {9-4 Canadian Press sur «| 6 pn, Priday and midnigh tha lives and that fire claimed Nine persons died from mls- ~ fcellaheous causes and one child {dlediof a beating. © |The toll was 15 higher than for the game weekend last year, The worst holiday weekend was No- minth day 1642 wien 100 persong lost: {hetr tives, TIEFAREAKDOWN weekend toll, by proy- JACK M. STREIGINT » «+ Hudstrious Potentate. TON ates eran manele att: amt oat etna ote, ta Rains Boost. lood Threat The el . British Columbia six, Newfound- Ne JaBatchewan two each. ' 4 Wotorla Day this year was a le celebration. By statute it At Portage affic, Drownings Take 28 Lives Eac By The Canadian Press da’s first long week-end of the Ontarlo 35, Quebee 16,: change yesterday with prices of : Canadian landings with priees hallbut from five U.S, boats were: Tatoosh, 14,000 pounds sold to Allln Fisherles, Presho, 24,000 pounds sold to Atlin, Curlew, 20,. 500 pounds sold to B.C. Packers, Teddy J, 28,000 pounds sold to BC. Packers and Arlice, 51,500 pounds sold to Booth Fisheries. 12 cents, 10.5 cents and 0.3 centy | for mediums, large and chicken chicken are as follows; 45,000 (11.9) sold to Atlin’ =. « (CO-OP LANDINGS ‘ for mediums In brackets and 10.2 and 9.2 cents paid for-large and Lots N, 25,000 112) sold to-Bab- cock; Twinkle, 38,000 11.0) ‘sold to Booth Fisheries; Techy Milly, | PORTAGE LA PRAIRIE, Man. @ — Intermittent heavy, ralng added a, new, threat to hundreds of elvilians and soldiers packing up dikes along the shores of tho muddy Assiniboine river about 13-miles east of here, The earthen walls, shielding thousands of acres of valuable farmland, were. being softened by the rain and sweeping north. ls gelebrated the Monday before May* 24 unless that date is a Monday. By Order-in-Council the?Queen’s birthday — April 21) — Wits celebrated May 23, oy f most of the weekend the weather was ideal for holidaying butsrain moved into parts of Qualec and Ontarlo in the after- nooiand forced cancellation or stponemeni of several sport- Canadian landings yesterday | with prices for mediums - fn brackets and 10 cents and 9 cents pald for large and chicken are as | follows; ant, $0,000. Capel “1, 24,000 1011.6) sold | 4. -AblIn,.. Springhinnt..Wy..20,000: SIL3) sold to Atlin! Iris 8, 26,: 500 (21.7) sold to B.C. Packers; ‘Mona H, 50,000 (114) sold to Babcock Fisherles; “MW, 16,000! 30,000; Kyriell ay enhs was pal by te fom the US. bent me pice. for large and mesh were 108 and: i Bay Fist Bp” Years pout Rain Kaa iE eijoved fy, “ate Day weekend | “EOC to reports 8 The distriet, The! oi day Swturday,! 1 Monday and reals | HT Of the, et ta enyoy OULIN ES, Madea, op Just oat! 1 11 Is beable went an ti | Nahonal Hallways exe | mnt Sunday, Phe! Mted by the Priest Uist Senloy Base, | Ue nine Cone es | ts leave Pring Rue | Me aatlidonl four | ; “Terrace with 200 nit Ma the smeitertown Myra hotweon PU AI Stars and the Mn took fame whieh wh team wan handily ‘all te Wye | WHS Clee Foe tan white ' iv OH commuoredinl ' " towisite and ad WIR enue 180 pov. The onshine fot Nerja Leade baste itt Rooneyelt Work, Ma mrt Wiplre pay ni There wore vo eillons but flugs “VROVCUIMONE battle ne MMe hougen, rls of the Royal Gn. te ‘eaHOC OVO. ve MK the LOL TT Hs bt, Pg wi rock vite 4 ope for pub. Mh aad lly iy iN hy whieh 4 uM + form the Mralutny aqua. i h wn Lt ep WY ta i OMOrroW, " Nhuy \ Mt \ MEIN faring mere for 6.000 pounds, hoforo noon after treatment for shock and exposure, owned by Alnawortl, Whon the nonrelragedy acourred, s0N Brothers (ating bout All Alton, Hon, the couple wi dragged ohoard tha Aliford Nay, wrapped "ond of Uw | porlul Cannory, Atevortan. nal, 43,000; Sonle, 13,000; R, 10,000; Gustav, 25,000; ithern Breeze, 000, ‘1L2) sold to Atlin: Unimak, 45,.' 000, Island Queen 45,000 (11.6) sold to Attiny Dyina, 3,000 (1) told to Babcock; Neekls, 35,000 yy ay gs ' May 24—MRB 30,000; Parma, 11,3), sold Lo Booth; Snowfall, ce ‘evacuated mide orleas were (3 Ul (114) aold lo B.C, Packers, 40,000; Gony, 24,000; Aretle, 30,- 'eveeun “detent. far turge and; Individual U.S. hindhigs today 000; Viking, 27,000. K itimat Junior Chamber Misses Getting Charter t Kitimat Juntor Chamber of Conunerce may have to walt another year far Its charter, tt was reported here today, after Monte Aldous, president of the Canadian duntor Chanibor of Commerce made a trip to the smettor town in valn, A grotiy of 12 Prince dupert Jayeees and 15 Terrace Jayeces nol Mr Aldous Th Kitimat Sunday to altend tho charter night for the Kitimat Junlor Chamber, The charter had been Mrmatted from Montreal to Prinee Rupert to bo ln Kluniat on time but there wero no Kithmat Jaycees presenb.to receive the charter or hold a charter night \ OF the 1 prospective members, from which to choose an executive for Mr, Aldous fo install, 1 were ott of down tor the weekend and three of lhe remaining four were ab work, The other member was never found. Mr. Aldana How up to Kitimat from Vancouver at his own oxpense Co presont the charter, The charter was taken (o the amolter tawn by tho Rupert Jacees who travelled by the apecdal Canadian Nattonal Railways excurslon sponsored by the Princo Rupert and Distelet Baseball League. Aliford Bay Rescues Couple After New Fishboat Wrecked VANCOUVER (CP) --A five-hour ordeal xpont ellnging to a wrocked flah boat ended torn Viotorin couple early today when (hoy were plucked from the gen at tho mouth of the Fraser river. Noy Alnaworth and Milas Glia Harrod, hoth of Vitoria, wore relonsed fram hospital ghorlly tall, “Thank Gud you saw us," Alnaworth told skippor Allon. Liter, when thoy had been warnod with hot drinks and binnkets and dry clothes, thoy and thoy had no warning of tho nilahap. They anid tho boat suddoniy lurehod and amort rallod as she abruck rocks, ‘The bottom wae Wimoat torn ont and the boat (lod with water, \ "IL waa Juab the grace of Cod sho didn't wo down tinder then," n orew tnomber of the reanne veanel sild, “Thoy wouldn't have Inatad a hale Tone to thet abel. They had clung to the §3-fout {lah bont Buburl fer flye Hours Alter Whe bottom of the bout tnd boon rippodt oul on rocks, Tho boat wow now and was Tho couple told rescuers the flat bok waa on tor malden rin Fen es mom MEM HHR NINE HIE 9 Islond Tug Wins AGATE d—Cnninida'a Nae iidae Chlot won the elnea Havent In Sontho'y Kovonth un. Hui) tg bon rien Baburday, An arny tug, tho “Lt. Cal, Ale hort UL, Barkloy" won tte olnax A rice and the “Wade 19" wan the Niue Oo cna Tho reaone veasol waa the Nel. ford Ray, aaptalnod by Charles Nuambod from the chill of the I Wankets, and taken to Im Netevor eonld give mich due May 21—Helen 11, 15,000, Nep- tune 1, 30,000; Northforland 14,.' 000; Nor Cap, 15,000; Advance 11, ¢, 13,000; Coven-: May 22 Charlotte 8,: 9,000; a low. ae ia! tt RTE Tre alae bi Devre B 68,0007 Bonet 17,000, May 23-—Peetiess; 22,000; Bal- bic, 28,000; Reward I, 9,000; Sig- Sable }000 acres and holds a possibl Nor- 45,000; Tor 11, 63,- ‘H-mile road connectin i Polnt with Oakville, | the dike, Point. Sunday —. ii 200 fee, wide ~ ifarms today. 1 {$2,000,000 losg for farmers, — About elght familles near the farm of Alex’ Ross, hardest hit by the break-through, have their homes and moved livestock mul grain stock lo safer ground, ‘ONLY ONE BREAK » 4A. Gylffiths, chatrman of (he drainage matitendice boned and dralnage engiaeer in the Mani- i Loba department of public works, jan Monday (he only break in iUhe dike was at the Ross farm, Ho sald if the rains continue, ‘eurvent flooding muy prove worse thn the 146 disaster. ‘The Werther office has forecast rain ‘for lonight. i Meanwhile the Lasalte river, | WILD Ils headw i Into the reglong Lhh Assiniboine und draining ithe high) flood waters there, Hptshied, over fle banks Monday, rulldng off transportation an the south of eae: a CEA 5 is il iba vlatty, "Angol'y Nonio. chirman easterly winds billowing. small Waves on the winding river which continued to earaway at A break southwest of Poplar _ Sunday —, estim: b ne Of tilts “t Oe MOR La Fond was still spilling ood waters over surrounding’ ays t threatens 50,. i) hursday with the crowning of "| wters fanning oub porlods Wednesday, & Poplar splt and 86, : AS ee 3 AKNOWS THE HOPES = Mint Bedlnl, nine, ing? dvents. . VARIED FESTIVITIES =, Infaddition: to the traditional fireworks displays, several Cana- dian: cltles had “patriolic and militury cercmonies, jwas' the centre of a ‘five-day leclebration which, began Inst f May queen, a Montreal's ceremony .was a 2legun salute from the top of Mount Royal, Most Quebec stores | and offites remained open and French + language newspapers published 1 Halifax had a ceremonial pars ride embracing the three armed ‘Services. The salute wag takdn by ‘Lieutenant - Governor Alistair Wrage The House of Commons worked 4 rogular day. WEATHER North Const Region: Sunny in ‘the southern part today, else. ; Where mostly cloudy with a few light showors this evening. Sunny with oceaslonal cloudy h Not much change hy temperature. Winds light except westorly 20 over the exposed northern waters to- {marrow, Low tonight and high Weilnesduy ab Port Hardy, Sand- prince Rupert 42 and ( NN ey y b M0, rohearion hor apos Promenade,” Ina otro lob on the oulakirta of he wollshulanove young tady Ws a fonturod purforior tit a OlrnuA ENG currently ty tem Ing p V yn Moediterranonn urea, ves eB tigh, CalumbinsNenaimo; Saturday, * | Robbing of Loon was killed when the car tn whieh |! he wav riding plunged 45 {cat down the side of 4 cliff at Came- ron’s Polnt, 10 miles enst of Creston, Pykstra, Went, ploucted gullty to a charge of driving to the common dang: cr.and was {inod $35 and costs, ed to 10 days-in jail, when ho ‘|ounonred Maglatrato 1. FP. Qlassoy In po- Hea court this morning, ) Mont Sunday in whieh Van Pyke } Atra's ony wlcdoawlpod a car drive | on by Charles & Love, 041, Firat Avenue wost on Sixth Avenue Went, morning waa Charlox Goodwin, 1620 Atlin Avonuo, who pleaded: Bullty to a charge of driving Sat. ! wrday while Inpalted and was fined $50 and costa, Wau fined $50 and costs whon he pleaded gullly to a churgo of UBC Professor 1To Speak Here profosnor of Hadian Club tomorrow night at (he Civile Contra, - "The the Cad ne anbject Mrotésor Rend will ( : aly with both. Baohaer and Maator of Arle dogroexs Profoy. sor Rond ta the author of sovoral on Molding's Misov" ar Auulyata ot Nenuty. i ae h unt today from. Cana-| summer season, vey for the period between he co t Monday local-time showed drownings and traffie’a ecidents each claimed 28 three more, © eee trim ttt me gy teem Ae Fs ‘ B.C. Deaths | On Holiday Number 6°. ' By The Canadian Press land/and Manitoba three, and; Six persons died wiolent- New, Brunswick, Alberta andi] y in’ British Columbia over the long Victoria Day holiday. «. me, “Three lost their lives in: traf- fic mishaps, two were drowned and one man died when crushed iby a car, : oe Two Dutch Immigrants, Mary Van ‘Egstrom, 19, of Ocean View Tirive, Victoria, and Ralph Nu-|' man, about 23, an employee of the -Bydney experimental farm, were drowned at Thetis lake near| ® Esquimait. i Witiam Mugulre. of Cherry Creek tn the Kootenay distitct was crushed to death. when hig truck slipped from-a: jack. while| - he was working. underneath the - vehicle | 0 te ey Westrom, 70-year-old KB Yandouvce’ ca ei rom “injuries Stored when’ collided with a: car at the Inter- section of Clark drive and Powell | street In. Vancouver, His death brought to seyen the number of traffic fitalltles'-in’ Vancouver this year, . Pater Ebb:-Canavan, 39-year- old Victorla insurance salesman, was killed when his car crashed Into a cement bridgo abutment on the new island highway carly Twenty-two-vear-old * Charles Lake, Wash, Motorist Fined After Accident A elty driver, Latirones Van “41 Beventh Avenue or Indofault of paymont, sontenc. before, « Btlpondinry Charge arose out of an acl Also appoarlug in court this Potor Bkorle, of Prince Ruport, upplylng an Indian with an in Blantoy M. &, Rend, navoclate Tngliah at the Un}. orally of British Colombia wit O ho quent apenkor at the On. English Language and dian Horltuge" will bo RONAN, - A graduate of McGill, Univer. Wblleatlons, Ineluding “A Note atlona on win eens "PROVINCIAL Lia: “iteToatA,. B,'¢ WHAT'S A POOR'work attitude.of this spademan as of campaign post 5 some digging to get ab the botta Luborite (eft) an British general elect! se rls tre dull general elec The < Conservative 1 Dally Sketch days ‘tt:h ered. a “conspiracy within the {pi ly which will rook Soclallst, par the nation,” 2° i ! Tn the event of a Labor. victory |’ et the polls Thursday, it. says, |. More than’ :half, the: : candidates’ are ‘roady. ‘ly. d ng firebrand,” Anouy OME Attlee’ fda Buch aii ovent would make thip arty ly beyond: wild Welshman prime minister ‘Big Four Talks Going Sour rts tho Las broadcast added.» Will: riok al atlan merely On the Socialist sido, howspaper Dally Herald: do- claros the fortheomin pence talks aro “golr advance and can by Britain clecth this Inlk of nogats bo. followed hy tha sb In Negotiations’ ‘bnd.:n j tame tho UBER, ¢ i | eM 1 i me j OF the me CAMPAIGN DULD 0 het Desplto tho: tthelour ouubes bursts, apathy sitll hung oy, y compalgn Uko'n Lond Winston Churepttl,: Jf grond old man, warned a carte. | pulgn rally lngh hight: "Bo fart have 15 genoral: clesplor Hover soon o}) quiat than thi ‘on Jullod into.n falge curity, © Apathy, Idlonoss, the 'ohat enco may. often bo faults, ah ho snved only MW 0 Bociniiat The VWorald sa ys lho Russlang already are pr opurlng world op- (aon tor @ talluve of the parte bocause they think the West Just to holy Bir Ans his Consorvire taken part li’ WW bul Ihave: @ moro‘ calm: a lives. win the oleot In lino, with th | Moscow raclo sald Washington Is con Aorvatlve vielory in Britain will give the United State olny parinerin conducting an Aggresslye polloy In Europo,” “This prompts one to.glve sor. lous thought to tho motives. of the Conyorvative tou aponking at olectlon tne of thelr doula for negotlntlons" the Ab argument, Monday night fidont Cons “HONKO OF ude. complacetioy, lor of Ind|ftars loatled With beta on tho co Va tives at odes qi shor . t aw (tn ‘bi Olovod up sho elgotion toh see ed Vy lee oman " - iN " Tawei ut Town | ects of Rain, Slim’ at Clre been “roportod: | have loon tra Hina bron folt burned and tho ods at fishing: PInoy, Forest Fire Thre As Prosp HALIFAX Go Foroat prowled today ad tho odgo of ¢ nial roaldortin! distros at tho Atlantty const communtly of Liverpool, A wrong-way wind, nate, could dr tho fionrt of : 78 intlon Hoth of here, Firomen went without reat, There was no prow woneral raln. y dovona.of fafa}. ones. have; Ivo Uo flames Into farming equi he town of 3,800,]° sans re Moqnwhilo ab-oha In the wonther olr war agditial® waging Ontakiy: Ono fire hing done more Age than the “Woreatora an pool of n heavy Already tho Llvorpool dtutrict COUN Me loses at Including & hones, vores of tinhor binok, D the thor “Obnor. jlast ADrUCe, help thom inth 80 have boen burrer! Amago to other arong of Hrovinied ruts. Into. untotd Collars. The tinbdr " accondegrowth of . 80 for no surtolw Injury “has er. 19 combined, havo & ani rhea ayo. boon | mien Inko cllatriot 40 mitea fh