— Ault 21, 1055,
- Standard Thme)

3:22 2NA feat
15:42 20.9 fect.
0:50 3.8 feet

4.1 feet

_ One Dead

Blicapler, missing
lkequah since Au-
was located yes-
Hoar the Stikine
done of the two
members is alive,
Prince Rupert
today,

vd recelved from the
Creek ROMP detach-
‘ites the survivor ts
alition while his eom-
missing and belleved
Me police Gere sald,
mmmeo! the two crew mem-
@epecing withheld by police
Beepotfication of the next

BAT SCENE

Ram sild that further
Pthe mishap could not
eiued as detachment
me «( Telegraph Creek
fhe scene of the crash,
pees cescribed as having
we bclow"” = Telegraph

One Hurt
mishboat
Aground

at “Mande 8” went
Mees Metlakatla Passage
me cvening, but none of
me win anjured; nor yas
Bunce required, police
ted tarday,

wits reeelved — fast
fee 0 pim. that the ves-
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ert

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a)
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Peed far beyond the
SB cOvClOpMNeNt: Ereal As
oe provinghil Liberal
Metis Laing sald atoa
me convention — here
Hr tit
fae told delegates from
ep oconstiiueney that
See hes inevensed fram

et $774.000,000 rey,
meet CO months Me,
me! been horrawhig it
PE 599.000 a manth,”
ee! leader sate,
meee ts pet thrawn
eevee stream akon
e tranrdlnarily high
mee Hen, We nist not
meet Elnanetal patley
fon uneontrolted fue
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Oe ey. but that further]

“reports that some. 10 persons
ian ene eae beater emme eee oe mee oe + on sta te of emergency,

ation Exceeds Boom

ee) ET nel $47,000,- |

NEW YORK W) — Raln-swol-
Jen rivers in the northeastern
United States Kept on rantnag.
ing over their banks today, rol-
Ung up a heavy toll in life and
iproperty in the worst flood of
‘the area's history,

 

' With the peak still to come in:

‘yomd sections, the number of
‘known
‘mounted by this morning ta 92,
iMany others are missing, .

' The known dead: listed. by
states were: Pennsylyania 41;

Virginin 2; Rhode Mt 1,

11; New Jersey-5:

| Damage ‘estimates’ ran Into
| Dillions.
140 CAMPERS MISSING

| From Stroudsburg: Pa, canie

|

ral Leader

rontive Uinber reraurces will pro-
vince's Umber resourees will uro-
vide only 87,000,0000 In revenne,
“The car owner by wiv of gas
‘tax and Heenees will pay. J28,+
000,000, and the jmpositten of
sales tux will vield: $58,000,000,

. “Bxachly opposite ta hla patiey,

Mr. Bennett lity vielted tayae

thon with oa erushing burden
“upon the ‘Httle peoples New, by
ronsressinent, Hie munleipattiles
Re having shifted ta dhemt the
burden of provinedal respon
islbility,." i

| Beauty Contest
‘To Be Staged

|

‘At Civic Centre

| Judging of entrants In thes

Princo Ruport Trades and Laber
-Counell-sponaored "Miss Prince
Rupert" contest on Tabor Day
Wil) he held separntely ta (he
dance, whieh will wind up tie
TLC's Labor Day eclehrations, it
waa mnnaineod by d. 8. utes,
TLO xeorelary today.

Judges will plek tho, winner of
the contest at the Clyle Centre
at Oo pan. Labor Day, Mr Pur
ness sald, ‘The dance tx bein
held eleowhero,

Pour qrls have been ehosen by
onganiantions in the district and
two other unions have Indleated
they will enter a contestant,

Audrey Lowls, 21, will repre.

Trane tho Miller Ray Reareation

Arsoelntion: ‘Thofina Wales, 20,

“Twill roprekent tho Amalgamated

Civil Sorvico, Miller Tiny Coun.
cil: Alborta Ronwiek, 16, will
ropresent Lact 460 of the Titer.
yatlonnl Axsortlation of Flr

will reprosont Local O10 of the
Voto) and Rewtaurant Employ:
cod and Bartondora Uniop.

TWO TO TW NAMED

Lonal 700 of Vie International
Vrothorhood of; Pulp, filphite
nnd Papor Mill Workers and tho
United Mahornton and Allied

Hane a candidgte for thie eon.

tout, ;

 

PRESIDENT EISENHOWER gets
Gettysburg, Pa., farm, President or no President, the animal
and turned tall to run ag Mr, Elsenhower approached, The heifer,
Peay, was the gift of the Galthersburg, Md., 4-H Club.

Death Toll 92, Damage in Billions :
As East U.S. Rivers Go on Rampage

dead in seven states had

Sichubsttsaihyding down’. tho Bla
w York’ 2; ‘river toward >

Fightors and Ruby hoster, 1% situation tx alll good, offlctala

Workora Uniong havo yet to eine although ehiltron on both

 

 

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VOL. XLLV, No, 195,

 
  

   

snubbed by a Holstein helfer w

were missing from a private
suminer camp. An intensive
geareh of the low-lylng camp
and possible qeape areas wiete
started ut dawn after state po--
Ilee whe reached the site re-
ported “no sien of anything.”
New reports. of dans crumb. |
‘ling under the force of swollen;
streams added to the swelling‘
total of property damage,
' The collapge of the Rice City;
dam in North Uxbridge, Mass.,|
‘serit a. five-foot wall of water:

ackstone’.

Woonsocket} te, 1,

‘Niready devastated by ‘earlier
‘floods, , i

J STATE OF EMERGENCY, |

The governor of Pennsylvania, |
Massactiusetts, Rhode Island:
and Connecticut declared a:

Troops and army facilities |
were ordered to sive all ald pos-:
sible to flaod-ravaged areas.

Ilelleopters fluttered overhead, :
dropping supplies and rescuing |
people from rooftops and dio-!
luted scraps of high ground.

Flood waters apparently hit
the hardest at Stroudsburg, Pa.
with ab lenst 20 known dead, and |
Waterbury, Cann, where at least |
1h persons were reparted dead.

The Nougatuek river reared
through Waterbury, fearing out!
power lines and sweoplyg away
buildings. :

Stroudsburg, ao resort entre
In the Pocana mountains, was
left with nll ty bridges and

Unemployment
To Take Effect

CPTAWA Ge Chanres In une
covmeont Insiranve bonefits, ;
epproved by Pardiviment in duly, |
WHE Cake effect in Novembor ati
the onset of the cold weather
censor Whieh brings Canada tts
annil peak of unemployment.

The government plana lo have
Mie now fewtelation formally
Hpractnined Orb 3 bul Ht will be
ahoul edght weeks Jater before
jobless workers will feel the
“chee I terms of dhe amount
(Of dnsurance they dvaw,

The legislation, wihteh gener.
lly overhauls tho [-yonr-old!
‘Unemployment Tnaurance Act,
iwiil valve to $30 1 week from the
present $i (he amount of in.
sities a unemployed marries
_pepaon in the top wage catomory
tiny draw, Mor aingle mnemploy-
ved the cotling will rao to $23
jtrom $1710, |
Another piajor ohange will be
reduction oof tho mnntinntinn

‘Polio Situation
In BC, "Good"

| VICTORIA (h - I,0K pollo

and Weiday night, There have
been (4 eases reported so far
this yory compared with 10d at
jis tine Tnat your avd adh tn
1059, Doputy health mintator Dr.
C1, Amyol anid there have
hoon no casos repprted among
the 40,000 fivo-nntdenix-yonr-alds
treated with Salk antl-pallo vace

aides of the nage grou
boon atriekon,

 

) have

ee

hich.was presented to hint ab his
wasn

 

   

  

Liiva

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't In the mood to be patted,
named Irvington Roamiss

main roads washed away. There
was no drinkink water or house-
hold gas for heating and cook-
ing,
RECORD RAINFALLS

The storm swept through
Pennsylvanin and New York
and on Into New England, Rec-
ord ralnfalls all along the storm
belt soon raised streams. and
crecks to dam-breaking propor-
tlons, .

_The weather bureau reported :
that H.91.inches of rain ieil on
Boston’ fn 40 hour's: The 24-hour,
fall wis 8.24, breaking the rec-
ord of 6.04 inches kot July II,
1021. ,

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PRINCE RUPERT, B.C., SATURDAY, AUGUST 20, 1955,

 

  

"PRICE FIVE CENTS

 

w

below.

land,

current.

the,
baat

 

 

e :

Girl Burned,

Roof Lifted
In Explosion

PRINCE GEORGE (» — Light-
cen-year-old Berna Wallon was
severely burned here Friday
when a gas stove exploded, litt-
Ing the roof from het home, Miss
Wallon received secon€-dogree
burns to the arms, hands and
legs when the exploding stove
set fre ta her clothes,:

Firemen said windows in the
three-room hase were shiat-
tered and the roof twas lifted:
six Inches by the foree of the
last,

Pay Revisions
in November

length of benefit t
from the present 61.

 

'

Present plans are fiat workers | |
I start to collect Higher bene. |;

W
fits Wf they become ‘nomployed
eleht weeks after making pay.
ments Into the $889,000,000 w-
employment Insurgnes fund
from Oc dons

A school to tonal. regional Ine
stiranee chiefs the new rotup is
wing held tn Ottawa, Whon It

‘ 30 woeks ~

shore.

first ald

He deseribed the CNR man ag{She was pulled from’ the water
avout 25 yeors old and welghing With about five miles to go.
about 160 pounds, CNR offleinls |
in Prince Rupert couldn't tden- swim Friday bub ware unsuccess
ify the min, they sald, beenuse ‘ful,
the painting crew was abitloned

From Rapid

: CCC Man Makes
|. |Speedy Rescue

“A Columbia’ Cellulose}:
Company employee risked! 3
his life shooting ‘Zenardi| |
Rapids bridge ‘yesterday | !
afternoon and saved the
‘life of a Canadian Nation-
al: Railways worker who
had toppled off. the: rail-
way bridge at Watson Is-
land into the boiling water

‘1 Ronald Gilfoy, 32, of 633 Her-
nan, Street and mechanic with
‘the boom department at the:
Watson Island mill, was fn his;
{4-foot speed boat by the CCC
dock when told that a CNR
workman had fallen off the:
Zenardi Rapids bridge which
joins Kalen Island to the main-

The workman, still -unidenti-
fled since he belongs to a Win-
nigeg-based CNR crew engaged
In*-painting the bridge, was
swept under water by the raging

Mr. Gilfoy poured the gas to
and shot, bounelng through

thecraplds ‘to"whete the. strig-
Gling workman was being swirl-
ed ‘about. ’
Workers on the bridge sald jt
that the accident-victim was 80. ' Many w
ing down for the third tlne ‘ig erect
when Mr, Gilfoy reached him.|
The CCC mechanic pulled the!
nan aboard and brought him to

: “He was more frightened and; ;
suffering from shock than any.

thing,” Mr, Gllfoy said, adding
that he wanted to take him to!
the nearest Columbia Cellulose |

post.

  
 
 
  

   

    
 

. KATHIE MoINTOSH
Another. Swim First

Stenographer
Conquers —

L | , Sar 8 :
axe Winnipeg
WINNIPEG Wi = Victory came
to Swimmer Kathie McIntosh on
her second attempt to cross. 18
niles of rugged Lake Winnipeg.
The plucky 20-year-o}d . Win-
nifeg stenographer reached the
shores of Winnipeg beach at

 

 

 

" 8:40 p.m, PST. Friday night, .16 |:
company’s 14--foot speed hours and 48 minutes after. she
hadeontored:thé.water.at Grand. :

|[Matats on:
lake,

the ‘eastieide. of the
“h t . : '
{ About 10,000 s

pectators along
he shoreline’ saw her finish:
aded out in. thelr clothes
her.
As the first person tocross the
tricky body of water, Kathie
recelyes $1,100 in’ cash from a
‘radio station, “as free airplane
jUrip to New York, lifetime sup-
ply of nylon isfdékings and a
iwrist watch, | a
i In her first attentpt to cross
Lake Winnipeg ast Sunday,

Fipe men aiso attempted the

 

As Kathie, using both the

af Kalen about stx miles up the crawl and: the breast strokes, :

milway Hine and didn't. come neared the end of the swim
Inte town at nleht,
Danger ts no stranger lo Ron ning the shore, Car horns, fog |

}

‘theers rose fram the thousands !

Ollfoy. He served with Ue RCAF horns on boats, whistles pleked

In 1082,

 

 

cada, they will ropurn to tholr
regtons to Inatruch thousands ef
cunployers, :

 

Singer Visits
Hospital Today

Ninger Will Kenny, sohed-
Wed For (eee shows hore tn
Wahl and tomorrow, (ly
afternoon wont nut to Miller
Itty Waxpital (oa vialt patlonds
ni stale,

+ Tomorrow morning (anor
Kenny and bly seconpanint
Kverote Marliadale will ha (ake
Choon a Cshing: trip by Jnck
A. (iiriok) Uthy, Mle, Kenny
(xpresned a donire to (ry Yn
hand at north coast (lvhing
yealorday, ,

The noted plier ant ole»
(imo tender of the Ink 8pots,
WW holng aponnored Neve hy the
Felnoa Wuport Rika, Lodge 349
and Loon! TON af tho Interna.
onal Wrathorhoad of Pulp
Fulphite and Paper MU Work=
ore (AML TO, '

ronto
lingital
World

aponks
main, }
garkin
of the

 

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boroa,

 

TOM 'TKGLABHY, 10, of

from 1041 to 1044 and with thelup the (home. Then as the at-
Canadian merchant navy from {tractive bronelte's. white swhi-
IM until after the end of the ming cap could be seen bobbing
Second World War, A dickel on-fup and down in the calm witer,
nlieor with the department of!the chant went up

fisherles for four years he joined
the Columbin Cellulose Company | Kathie,”

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To
Is ono of tho multl
Intorpro(ora at tho

Scout’ Jamboreo at

Ninunracon-thoelLako, Ont, Ie

flvo Inngungen — Core
Monch, Apanlsh, Hine
and English, Ho ly one
11,000 rcouta fron 86

countiieN vblending the Jam

(OP Photo)

Seat ee He

A hor boyfriend, Bd Sokol, In a

then waded amid the hundreds

    

"Como on Kathie, coma on

Porking up as thg cry echoed
neross fhe water and undor
words of oneouragement from
her fatter, Bruco McIntosh, and

“gulding boat, Kathio swung Into
jn powertil ‘overhand — crawl
stroke, WMnally, she reached
shallow wnter, atood up and

of fans who had walked fully
slothod Into walat-ehigh water to
greot er,

ITN ee eet

Flags

 

hy ILE HOSS
ACARA Proay Sta Wreilor

NIAGARA.« ON » THRLAKE,
Ont, —~"'J" day, for which more
(hin 10,000 Beonta havo gathor«
ed From 0. countrios, dawned
Anny and warn taday, '

The ‘S" Ja tor Jamboroo and
(hore was an alr of expeotancy
cvor the miloeaquare cumpatto af
the world Scout gathoring as
irona word tidied away for, tho
frat, vialtora, —

Goveriior-Gonoral Masaoy . as
Canndn's Chiof Scout opens tho
eluht-day Jamboreo at 2:30 pan,
after duapaoting a guard of
honor in tho flag plasn at tho
entranced to tha Jamboree arona,
Thore, Maga of, world taoiting’
f7 momber countries will be
knottod, ready to burgeon out ns
the Jnmboree ta declared open

 

 

and flreworks display explodes

hours.

‘Tson of tho Sonttle selne

in

at the opening, althot
66 countelos partiolpat

P PROVINCIAL LIBRARY, —

_- VISTORIA, Bice. -

|RCMP Finds Quart
Waiting For Train
PRINCE GHORGE, B.C. (CP)—Foir ec

i;from the new provincial jail in this central
la city were recaptured 20.miles ‘ec:

Columb.
Friday.
_ They had:

Six RCMP officers gpprehend-

ed the. men at Giscombe, after
"aq [the stationmaster at the Cana-;

, {dian National Railways station
there reported four men hanging.
around tho water tower.

The - men. were. apparently:

planning to board an ecast-bound
freight traln which passed
through the tiny community 10
minutes after their recapture.

Police said tme four surrend-

ered without Incident.

The men, who escaped Wednes-

day night, were Rene Couvellier,
39, Prince George, Nicholas Mar-
kin, 21, Lower Post, B.¢.;° and
Evan McGowan, 21, Lower Post,

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all charged: with breaking and
entering, and Lucien Auben,

alas Marcel ‘Tremblay, 33,). The granting ‘of-.four or
Prince. George, charged . with licences since the chict,justle
forgery. . Appointment made am

RCMP put 30 men into the

hunt after the fourséme ‘walked:

away from. thé week-old- fall
built at a cost of $500,000,

Warden W. S, Trant sald at
the tinte he couldn't understand

how the men, escaped -from: the:

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cell block. The men. escaped.

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through ap unlocked door.

VANCOUVER @—An Amerl-
can fisherman hag: been {ined
$350 and his $1,000 cargo of fish
erinfiscated for fléhing. tnside
Canadian waters, a spokesman
for the federal fisheries depart
ment sald here Friday,

The spokesman sald radar was
used to spot tho yossel and to
plupoint {ts position,
“Fined was Capt, Hang Mikel-
fishboat

oe
vy

Trado Wind,

The spokesme + antd. the fish-
cries patrol boal. Howey, under
Capt. J. W. Isnore, had spotted
the American bont off the West
ennat of Vaneouvor Island
Wednesday, There wad dense foy
nb the time and radar was used
to both focnto the veasel and to
pinpoint its position more than
i mile inside Canndian waters.

The Trade Wind was escorted
to Port Ronfrow, B.C,, whore the
Amorlean: skippor wis charged
before Magistrate UH. J. Waltors,

The ovidence showed thal tho

cae A He

~ WEATHER -

FORECAST :
North Cont Reglon—Inoyenk.
ing cloud northern acollons overs.
night, becoming cloudy ‘and ‘a
litte cooler agaln Sunday, Light
winds, Low tonight and high
Sunday nt Port Mardy 45 and
62, Bandaplt and Prince Rupert
48 and 59,

js From 57 Countries To Unfurl:
As Governor-General Opens Jambore

‘

ovorhend,
Friday, 1,000 arrivals swollod
can rogistraticn to the 10,000
mark and an final 600 are expeut.
ed thls ‘niorning:” :
NOT RNOUGH NOOM
Today's coromony will be brlof,
Elght thousand Scouts will
throng the opon area before tha
aronn atiige, More than 2,000
Conadiars have boon withdrawn
from that part of tho coramony
to Iino tho route for the parade
ab which Mr, Mnasoy will take
tho anlute, At Cour-nquarasfeots
H-Goout -thore wasn't room for
All tho Beoutw Inalde,
The Canadian government,
pour sat a hollovest hore to
in Mealindoratandthg of the
roalng of official Invilations
sauied, will not be represents

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Amérlenn vessdl was engage
fishing operations ‘when: s
and that it had:made a‘
siderable haul" of salmon*

Canadian. waters, °°

 

 

Packers
VANCOUVER: — The Mi
lah Columbia : fishing -Indd
‘ls nob worried shout, Brita
“LW prinolplo” agreement to.
more Japanese panned dant
Tndustry ‘ottlolals sald Peleay
that B.C, will soll abgut:-$8,0000"
000 worth of-snlmon to the) Ki: a
tho Kamo amount ns’ nat ‘ya a
and they soo tho Brittaly i co,
ral with Jnpaw ay a. wove
balance trade Helwoon the:
countries, Do ap
B.C. gels moo than progebane:
now, anid offiolals, ented
tho flahing Industry's “Buy Bee '
Ish" campaign. Purchnsd by FO,
fikhormen af o-Inege AMOUNTAOE » |
oquipment, machinery and ‘otAde
goods, hind diven the UK. dallaty °°
to buy 2.0. salmon and 6 her :
woods, = aA

   

 

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anounced — tholr govern
Wilt bo ropreaanted, offiatn

    
 

 

   
     
  
  

  

   
  
      
     

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known Friday that Caria a's *
cobingt all Nad deelined Invites n
tlons extended dniividually, ree: tf
onlled that whet tho. alsb)e ie

Was bronchocd onrilor in the yout.
with Prine Mintater 8t. Liaurekt} \"
his*ronotlon had been thot i :
coremony spotlight aliould &
be upon Mr. nancy ia
Quoon'’s yoprosontative - aye
Canndn's ohlef Beout,
“Tealdon a-cnah grant of $6
towards oubrof-pocket jar
exponaar, officinis anld, the’
orn) governniont had hol 4 oly
onlewlably. through having hoa,
troope'do the canip enginee Cae
lend equipmant i oo

       
   

        
   
 
  
 
  
  

  
 
        
 

     
    

  
 
 
  

  
  

 

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