MORROW’S A TIDES yay, duly 9, 1055, fie Standard ‘Timo 4:90 10.5 feet 16:17 HLO fect 1:55 a4 feet od 6.6 feet A aL CNSR OA VOL, XLIV, No. 180, ° : Tee arate be - ... PHINCE-RUPERT, B.C, : yee Published at Canada’s Most Stratogic Pacific Po ‘ ce weed, fibay, JULY 8, 1956, tt —- And Koy to the Great North ” ny wast PRICE FIVE CkN'B f PROVINCIAL LIBRARY , : ’ . me © MIGTORIA; @: @y ad ys ° ! 1 ' Pie ede big. *UTowta, 2. Gee U.S. Marine Completes Swim bm Port Angeles to Victoria BA leat of United States Marine conquered cold, bad-tempered metaday, swimming the 18.3 miles AA\\'ash., in LL hours, 10 minutes, tocier marine frogman eR a Bee@lucky Las he sidestrok- | Wash., it way the fifth atten Bi oxeuey, The Huy at- fond, Me. the strait, which be-, Thomas, who sald the south- Bre hours jater when Mrs, way” across the stralt, started {n Bi distance swimmer of! Thursday—and ended ja day- Bis puiled out. iUight, at 6:06 a.m. today, BD yot known immediately! Mrs, Meraw's atlenpt was on Baie her For Thomas, athe — Victoria-te-Port Angeles hd lo,ger out of Tacoma, route, ae ho Bohter Encourages Father his plot boat, Thomas’ Mold daughter Sharon “Go, Daddy, go!” A Vie- | iy station played battle | Sat uitervals, which wero ! tothe lone figure In the land of Hotland the swimmer dead on course, Victoria's — colorful Claude Harrison, walted clad tn ; his crimson-lined cloak to be ep: Angeles walted $1,800 {among the first giect Thomas mm by public subseription [as he dragged ashore... ‘ e's! person to make the’ Thore were more than 1,500 Mescorth crossing: ahead . , Bias the tances $1,000 walling on the Vietarta shore. the Victoria Dally Times; Thoinas, who nda waited im- plirst person to swim the patiently at Port Angeles for Beither direction, hiore thai a week for favorable Story appeared certain; weather, reeelyed an ovation me aid firms of Victoria | from hundreds of spectators who Bin additional $700 and {lined ‘the beach off lonely Ediz Heok to walsh him start. | Faster Clio Than Before Poa faster pace than ab; The traffig-in juan de Puen Mecviows thine. the water at neariy two August 9, when the swirling, eold, hour, Three hours snd ‘Udertorn-water bested U.8,.chyn: fes alter he plunged In‘ nel swimmer Florence Chadwick. F-degrer water he passed! She accepted a Victoria Dally P inte Canadian waters,! Times offer of $7,500 to swim, BX this from his starts, $10,000 if she made it, She last. 4 fed five hours, 12 minutes and pet across the Internas| mude less than five miles. mieundy, the King) Miss Chadwick, who has swum nf Seattle, offtelal es-)the Catalina strait, and the ML noke out the Red! sie had ever encountered. ; ‘Dardanelles, termed Juan @ farkness felt and again! Fuca the meanest body of water mung. scheduled rings she had ever encountered, piped low to give DAS" Tho 20-year-old Thomas chime # look at the sw , oils The peer ext He trted It April 14 and lls ferry touted good ria four: hours’ and 10 minutes, ‘ewan exnelly six mites, Hic in Strait Heavy Wy a doubleheader RoC Aten Pat Russell, geld Cversity of Meitish {student and) ‘Thomus me MbS Russell, a swim Pistiuctiens, was pulled er tours, 18 minutes h she nade hearly 10 Bons tasted 10 hours Bvt inaking 12 miles, mer! apt on June MW les taabne hours . Tana terla, made the first of his two swims lwo days later, crawl: Atvoking to a swift oine miles dn three hours, 48 minutes. Thomns went hyain the next day, this me covering nearly keven miles In five hours, four minutes, Then came Rey, John Donelan of Toronto, a Roman Catholic Priost who swam June 27 to gain prominence for a fund-ridsiny drive tn ald of an eastern Cn- Hida youth projech He insted two hours, 27 minutes and eve ered Jess Vhan threo miles, Janico White, 1-yenr-old Tor. onto schoolgirl, daughter of an Iiidustrilallst, turned dna aur prising flvo-mile attempt the same day, Bho lasted «lx hour 1D minutes and covered roughly nino miles, DUT Muir went aguin duly. 2 lasting four hours, 48 nibiutes and four mites, Mra, Meraw Insled one hour, one mile on duly 6 Thomas, who says ho hoa po hinbltlons to try the English Ohannol, comes from tho derlost Kate in tae U.8.-Colorida, Building Figures Drop - First Time This: Year Rupert's building for tho (rab alx months of 1686 Dory ttad construction totale for nv ylllar poriad im Y $10,000, a chock of bullding pormita taued by Hn 8 Ate parlad shows, ne pernitty Viliodd wb $200,090 have hoon laxied from 1 Jun this your aq compared to Inib your'a wly= ntl Valin of $421,095, inn it Permits Laaniod inv tye month Juab pial Wan $44,7h0,' be gi nS the 1088 manthly average of Hina tower, 7 The permit for the $200,000 provincial foroatry y "Tune of last your, taco dawb June's pormtt, value ee tandedval survey Snel WE, near View Dute Ends eV Weg A dla- me vrrtine rates be. members, yy toon) aad, Mn! Arotherhood of is Wd Joiners of Ame. eTLGy, and tho Sarue- Mt Company tas bean Wilon OCHA onthe hove Thursday, Winton INAMNeament Hereemenk had bean Y the unten und com. Bt! gave ayy detatls, an une, MONtHIY bullding averaqo haa hoon $81,290 mir © $27,900 averngod (in tho flrat five months ef write, valued at $19,000 and $8,002 make up the "Of the elty'y conatruction value Inat month « 5 | eats Str ait FF }eTORIA (CP)—Bert Thomas, stroking to thel . Corps battle Juan de Fuca from Port An- ‘pb. y to more than $3,000! For Mrs, Meraw It was the Sec. Beda PDT, falled lessito-north swim was “the “easy Bb dicel Meraw, 36, ‘noted daylight — at 6:55 Dm, PDT Throughout the night a huge Sigaal fire burned atop the head? point and kept mayor, cutting has been heavy,evervéince -last | de} Yalta DM here mae THE LAW SUITS BIA — oid Roger Hutchison! Malne E.ate Trooper grandmother copled Pope, Peron Exchange Telegram Greetings | VATICAN CTTY for him right dota to the la t button. if Peron of Argenuna inat prays that God wall “aliumine communication. and move your hears so that the ‘had followed freely live Shel Catholic trad- cand state there, ton,” fi & personal cable to the Ar- gentine president, ~ | It. Was in reply. tg one that. Peron had fent tothe pontiff on - his government, the occasion of the frwt-duyeot 3 StePever adel Painhtastinpels bad ! ered” Hhntgeld aK pleaded: ignores of arty suet; ivatore Romano, - f On June 16 the Vatican's tle congress July 17-24 isislory announced that ali per- ctompt to re Bennett Shrugs Off Figures wnnoticed a firther reduction iacthe province's net debt. Hremlor Bennett was saying the debt wag wander $155,000,000, Ioans nepotlated by the the BCS 4 Rovernnient, premier, Cred Day" in Ae, Al March St this year, he sild, the debt wns Ww reduction of SULIB1LN00 In four ent ha, Information ay oR Xe reds e tehased, Planes Wil be Rupert-Ketchikan cavll defenes ‘quiring immediate oxorelie Lo be stapgd July 2b will while “hemelosy" bo uvallable to the public Mone 'te be day, when the Glyi Defence tne | formation Contre opens ato Becond Avera, neross fram the tee ius Depot, Rober MeKay, Prince ail today, The operation, chosen by Jaca CD officials hy preference to the “nuelear bomb" typo of ebvit de. fenee scheme, eats for Pringe Rupert to bothe reeoplion centre for 000) Ketehikan residents wfter the Alngka elty ty levelled Dy wn earthquake, TOCTESE EACTLUIUES Th was sugested orlginally by proving elvil detence head. quartic lo fest omergency hag. enre, feeding, dlothing, (rnnaporiatiinrogisteatlon, communtention, polles wud hous. {ny faaiiitios in. tha ovent of a naval disnalon, Under the plain, evaciees will bo brought in to Mines Rupert hy Unitod Staley Const Guard ahlps and planes and any other meanw of water and ade trans. portation avallable, Top Alaskan elvie defence pors sonnel aw woll ay Ketchikan 6D and clvle offielala wilt bo among those persons coming down for the oxerolae, The Kotehikan civil defeneo organtatlon hoa prapared LON) earday’ rovering the (2 categories into whteh the brought tn hy heat, leurrying out the geheme Cully teat tts proparerineas, ea Namie Hone Adireny widvanen of oKorelye, CO, OPTION, oh som es ater y beg pens. Ten, Women nt abilleran will be Poe ee No Davy Cioekett outfit for four-yenr- The frontiersman may be'O.K, for a dead hero, but young Rogor's live, Nesh-and-blosd hera-is his dad, | i John Hutchison, whose uniform the boy's ~ ‘Phe sons responsible for the expul- | Pope his told President Juan ‘sion of Bishop Manuel Tato of; ue Buenos Aires had incurred ex- The exprislon a leng period of loved peaple of Azgranlina may growing tension between church . . While the congregation's de- { The Pope's wish was expressed