SA PEE Ee eth NS a nag thee We a he oe! Pa PHN IE eg tok eben be ae ag ~ ORMES- ing “Mr. Long’s duties later on,!municlpal regulations and poll- _ to.cjty council Tuesday for final ‘ Daily Delivery J . e . \ DIAL 2151 | . anager Plan = ° Lester's Proposals Tabled; “Jo Hire. Assistant For Clerk "Another attempt to institute a city administrator for Prince Rupert was rejected by a special committee of city council last night, 9-7 » Agter much debate and con-| !strator. His duties included sideration, the plan advocated | city clerk, purchasing agent, soc- by Alderman P. J. Lester and | fal welfare oli.cer and others and submitted in a report outlining! the time available for overall the advantages of such a posi- , administration and co-ordination tion. was rejected in favor ofa; ¥as limited. : motion: by Alderman A. Donald! He proposed:that the duties of Ritchie that an assistant be hir- ‘the city clerk should,be to act as ed: for. Clerk-Comptroller R. W, | general-secretary to city council, Long and that he be trained tos prepare agendas, keep the min- relieve, Mr. Long of some of his} utes for council, have custody of duties. the official minutes and other _ Following a two-hour discus-| documents and be custodian of sion council members finally vot | the required security bonds. ed 8-2-to:give the city comptrol-; In addition he recommended ler-the authority to bire an in-, that the clty clerk supply gener- | telligent man, capable of assum-_| al information to the public ony Aldermen S. J, Domindto and icles; make initial drafts of. by- Kay Smith dissented. jlaws requested by council, coding The motion wl be submitted znd filing of by Jaws; preparation ‘of the municipal yoters’ list; and adoption. : i be responsible for negotiations > Ald, Lester said in his reportiand conveyance of elty land thatdf much of the detailed work ; transactions, , now carried out by the city clerk; Ald. Lester also suggested a comptroller was allocated to an- icity clerk be the liaison officer other official, a much better sys- ifor the chy with the Soclal Wel- ifare agency and approval of wel- Seeree a ata ate EEG SEE eR RTM Mae Be ie TUR Yee eat ae ot ant at of AP tem ‘of management would re- sult He further stated \ i the ‘equivalent of a civic admin- ‘These duties, he said, should be separated from that of thc civic administrator whose duties should be designed by by-law and include the following: @ To adminster the day to day business affairs of the city _, in-aecordaned, of the. plans, ap- “proved a council. @ To co-operate and direct the preparation of plans’ and programs (9 be submitted to council for the’ construction, re- habilitation and maintenance of eity property and facilltles also for the development, expansion and improvement of city servic- rm . get. (Sr - » ¢ To ‘co-ordinate, direct and broadly supervise the impieman- {ation of such programs upon approval of the council, @ 7 direct the preparation es fare claims; handle sales of cem- ‘that Mr. ‘etery lots and official reports re- Long In his present capacity was | quired by the agencics of the ‘provincial government, | Duties Should Be Separated “jon would geb away from the idea that people should govern | nd established:-by” the [ the citizens.” of, and to present to the council the annual estimates of reecipts and expendilures, @ To exercise general finan-! vin} conlvol, over all depart. | ments of elly government in terms of approved appropria- tions. @ To direct and supervise the normal aspects of personnel ad- uylnistration In recordanee with the approprinte statules of the Ald, Lester sid he diate, _ "Fime Hampers Adequate Job province and the established yolicy uf council, Alderman Michael. Krueger jaid he thought such an institu- themselves, | “It ds different “in... business, jere you're Out; to make tioney, But the tity is out to look “after, If a city admin- istrator was going Lo be a Haison officer between various commit- ices then we might as well call | him a‘elty manager, he added. - Replying, Alderman — Lester said It would be dividing routine | matter from administrative : policies set out by council, "Til is. not necessarily a city manag- er plan, But when council mak- | ; es authority there should b , someone to carry St out,” Alderman 'G, #. Wavaside tok emuneil that all the ftems listed , in Ald,’ Lester's report wer | within the scope of the city | clerk, “A opnsshe soiution Tes dp: giving the city clerk more time: to avail himself to these res | ponsibilities, But has he th time to do these things? If nat | then the problem lies with lay-! ing out proper procedure in the’ view of dolng the job properly.’ : clerical duties outlined by the: tiGik the clerk had the time, city clerk, “There are certain, tortlo every thing adequately in Clerleal dutles outlined by the! His'pasition of clerk, tAct and there are a lot of these ; ~City Comptroller Long told Md ike to get rid of," tlie necting he could carry out: Mr, Long sald tt would take all hig duties fully fo “an ox: two years to train a suitable}: - tent.” He sald if he had more, man, time he would be able to carry; Counell then agreed tt was tha out the. powers Usted In Alder; consensus that the elty clerk man ‘Lester's report, We sald he; should have sumeone wnder could do a better job of admin- ivtravion without all the rou tine work, "Do you feel we are pulling yer too much work for vou to honde adequately and if you had more assistance could you do n bolter job" enquired Ald, Ritehlo, crys" Mi Long replied, Ald, Woodside sald Mr, Long ying burdened with foo much njfention to details and he has ny ope else Lo turn Lo, Ald, Ritele slated the eller i thing ha wns eoncerned ahoul , wea thab If the elly hired a | ciforant type of ally elerk "you t 4 | (| Fan got on dletatar sel up at elty hell and we would: be Wn —gevery bad xpot." ; Roplylivr, Ald. Leaver greed rhev might. find someone overly } nagroasive, “but thon agin we 1 syteyh nat, Hts duties should be defined and an atlompl made ' ta amploy, sanveone anpubie of dain theso duties," Ald, Rileblo anid he would ho overy glad to see Mr. Long pat dome ivsistioned bibs T do pat, want to aa Olby Connell uraty off Abs Jol ani elty nadine fxtratars” Tn rentylng bo a queablon from ! Ald, Woorlside ita to what he » would do If ho had contral, Mt. Long suds ho would hire some- {epg todonrn all aanocty and tke Ae gyor aot responaldliitios af the | him, Mr, Long sald he could sumnly| list of the elyle duties thir proposed employee would have fo undertake and another Ist, that Mr, Long would undertake | so the would nov subordinate! counall In any ways Mayor Wills tole the’ counell they were In fact adopting a city manager in so far os the Inw Ja allowed, "We will be tn the same position os Vietorla, We must haye a eapable eltv clork and a far better mnpronel would be to Nive the title ast s and if you fnel the present Clork-Complroller is over craw. od with duties, then we should pass ‘on some of tha work to another enployec," "Tt we lid an assistant, and thls person was capable enough io fear, then we could dos Jat of the dotall we are nol doing now," Mayor Tilly stresnad Ald, Ritehia agreed to lye tha elly clork Uinb help and lett yooh thi “We will table the report for another your and wt the ond of Want perlod wil hear from the elty clerk ag to what progress has beon made hy hls narlabant.” A strong pen was mado by Ald, Tortor to defont tho motion, “TP you pada this motion, you are In fiat giving Mr. Long more roaponalbilily by hein another mi, Ege you to defo i" ow Pe de VOL, XLV. No, 260 THIS IS AN artist’s sketch of the underground workings .at Springhill, Nova Scotia, coal mine where. more-than 100 miners were trapped followirig an explosion in the mine. Rescue workers went down shaft at left, crossing by horizontal shaft, at centre, Safety door iri the-centre section of this shaft shut out deadly gas fumes, Both shaftg:have a common. entrance at surface | level.. A total of 88 miriers were rescued, Bodies of:24 men remain: ‘in the mine which was sealed off yesterday, Sketch courtesy of Toronto Telegram...’ 88 MEN RESCUED © As Safety SPRINGHILL, N.S. me Le . or “MRS, CLARA CASGY, wife of former alderman George B, Casey, died carly this morning al home at 1192 Eleventh Avenue Bast after a lengthy ' finess, She was 75, Born Clara: Fneland, » Wen Hadfield In Mrs, Casey came to Canada at the turn of the century and married her miner husband tn Rossland, B.C. In July, 1903 during the booming gold rush doys af the West Kootennys. | She followed her husband to Prince Rupert In 1010, he Is - survived by two sons, Darrow and Qeoree in Trail: three dauehters, Mrs, Prank Warne, Vancouver, Wits, Albert Tacos Nanalmo and Mrs, George FE, Hills of Prince Rupert: cleht grandehlldren and elght great grandchildren, Girls Found Not Guilty ALBERNT @ — Two (eenoge givls charged with offering an indignity fo a body were found nob guilty in County Court here Monday, They were Jean Gibson, 7 and Doreen Lochner, 10, eharged along with two youths following a ghoullsh midnight assault an Greenwood cemetery herd Seplomber 2a, The hody of an elderly Indig- ant burled last August wos dynge ed fram dts grave with logging Mhalns, Plowers, shrubs and privestones wero uprooted, County Court dudge A. J, Uh Hwomeoslky sald thera was Noe Inne In the evidence to Indleate Wnt the gles had “alded, abote ted ar encouraged" the erlne, Lochner told the cout she thought the two youths “wero kidding" whet they sald they Plannod to dy up a grave [ole lowing wv drinking howl, Cibson hoatified that “nellher Dereon Hor mo went Into tho hole," Jonvieted af the affence wis Willan) Hnrold Nelson, 18, Te was sonteneed to two yours def Inito and two yours Indoflitte aftar pleading fly In mags. trate’s courts Algo -elargod 1A David Windsor Ferguson, 0), who chose tla) by Judgo and fury, He will appear at the Ase slaew th Naudia, @ The sad decision to block the -fundergroundsblast. t: | Somewhere in‘ the mihe’s‘spid- \erwork of clammy passageways’ | \ Of Series {Rupert General Hospital, will be Arthur Rutherford, administra- | CFPR tonight at 6:30 pam, ene (CP Photo). heasure ) (CP )—Cumberland No.. 4 pit’and throttle ils passages was made by Harold Gordon, coal chief of the Dominion Stecl,and Coal Corporation, a “few hours A after a stretcher bearing the 88th and last;'suryivor of: Thursday's “takensti 4 . a nearby emergency hospital, » are the bodies of 24 men, Visibly shaken as he made the ; announcement, the usually abrupt former dragzerman,:said the lives of the other miners could not be icopardized to bring out the dead. The mine was seal- PRINCE RUPERT, B.C, TUESDAY,,NOVEMBER 6, 1959 REN aa ME bhi oA, ‘4 ee ae ewig ale 1 “AS: the coritinuing fighting in¢: she Middlé Kast’ brought new In- ternational tension, .Switzerland proposed ‘thatthe ‘Big ‘Four and idia hold a “summit” confer- gto avert.a third world war. “The: Queen opened the new sessjon-of ‘Parliament today in the shadow.of the most threat- ening events under which: the Houle had met since Hitler threw his'Morces Into: Poland in 1939) - and/set.off. the. Second. World ja. Tlie young: monarch read a specch-from the throne prepared by. Sir Anthony Eden's Conserva- tive; government calling for co-. operation from ‘the ‘Common- wealth:and ‘the rest of: the. free world: in -settling the danger- packed-Middle East, situation. | SANOw. “AY<"AG the United “Nations, secre- mine, ravaged by explosion and permeated by poison- ous gas four days ago, will be ‘sealed: off for. two months’as a safety precaution tary: general ‘Dag Hammarskjold announced that -six” countries)”: have offered troops for an inter-, natioiial UN police force to watch over a: Middle East ‘ceasefire. “The: American election-was ov- ershadowed by the new Soviet). thréat in which Premier Bulgan- in’ Warned Britain. and. France “ah Winners: of Series 4 of the Daily News:Scrambled Names" tunest were announced today by A two-time lucky winner: was the Lippett family of 935 Sixth ed off to eliminate the danger of ‘fire. and explosion, | | Purther attempts to search the’ ‘ower levels for bodics would re- Iquire the pumping in of abnor- , smal quantities of air, A greater: ‘flow of air would tend to fan! ‘still smouldering fires into cx- -plosive proportions. \ In Montreal, yesterday, Lionel : ‘A. Forsyth, DOSCO president, sald an inquiry Into the Spring- hill, disaster would be started .soon by the federal department! ‘of mines, Radio Program To Launch ‘Donor Drive | ; Sparking a one-week drive to fobtain urgently required blood donors to contribute to the blood j transfusion service In the Prince tor of the hospital who will be ‘interviewed on Radio Station Mr, Rutherford, to be inter- viewed by Rod Faulkner, will stress the importanee of blood donors @ compete with the de- mands an the blood transfusion service, Mombers of the Kinsmen Club and thelr wives nro taking care of the clerienl part of the pros Joc by offoring to take the phone calls of nll persons volun poring to have tholr names pul on the Ists for future appolnt- ments to be bloodtyped nt the hospttal, Te any volunteer has ulyondy been “typed and grouped ha should advise tho Kinsnien when making hls eall, pret ewer er remeywenneg teegruNt cmv bee ay Boy Shot, Killed In Accident QUUSNET) (tight yonr-ald Loyd Ben Lavally waa aceld: ontally shot and killed ab ts home 86 miles southwest of hero Sunday, Oo Mis brother Wayno, 14, could not alve any dotatls of tho fatal feuldant whon quostloned by po» Meo Monday, hoy anid the aurviving boy ivked Ineghorently and wis Avenue Enst.: This week,. Miss Hilda Lippett was placed second, with a coffee table prize while ‘lash week her mother, Mrs, D.! J. Lippett won first prize of a two-piece luggage set, First prize of a mixing ma- chine this week goes to Mrs, Flovd Eby of 2008 Atlin Avenue with Mrs, Andrew Dybhayn of Q71 Mehth Avenue Bast winning third prize of a decp fryer, ‘ Many persons “unseramblad" the names successfully but on ithe basis of neatness, originality and correctness, the above win-' ners were sclected, The firm names unseramblod were: Shop Ensy Stores Ltd, Ruth’s Work. Basket, Snevo's ‘Food Market, Cook's Jewellers, Dan's Service. Station, Letour- neav, Plumbing and. Heating, Singer Sewlng Centre, MeRac Motors Ltd,, Love Electric Ltd. Torvace Co-op Ass'n, Howe and MeNulty, Eric's Grocary, Bach woek there are new prize es In the serambled names con- test, Co - Porgong can, enter ench con- test, 80 thoy have an onportimily of winning the Grand Prive, This winner will bo chosen from all entries recelved up to the closing of the Inst contest in the sorles, WASITINGTON (A mene ing shadow of war lay ncross the United States polliieal scone today ax the American poople olectod n prosident and a LONgTCHS, An olealion eyo trade from Moxcow, ralsing the starling Middlo Bash might spark a third prospect thab the inflammable world war, helghtoned — the drama, tha tenslon and the suspense surrounding the 1066 prosidontliy contest, Vxooph for wartlnve years, nover hing an American elostion boon run off against xo dlamnl an Intemational background, Two bly politlenl priya wore placed before an estimated 00, 000,000 votors, Pho prosidontint cholde la bo- (wean Dwight 1, Wlxenhower, (ho 6d-your-old Nopublienn prosl- Buffering shouk, dont now seoking Ix sovond none . AEE PE OMe BPN dea et Summit a “By The Associated Press. 2 ‘British and French ground units swept ashore . {On both: sides of the northern: end. of the. Suez Canal today ds the two western 's defied Soviet | |mands=backed by. anonymous. reference’ to, rocket}. 5. warfare—that they end hostilities against Egypt... -lup! their’ parachute’.troop contest judges. J | Domoarnlle attacks on the ade Ki CS TS TaN Be Nh AN AE Peg ey ie é : , rere a ~ PRICE FIVE CENTS «. ; India Proposes | -powei's defied Soviet de- > that Russia was ‘prepared to. use force to end:the action In, Egypt.: He asked the two Western pow- ers what.position they. would:find themselves... in’ if. cattacked ; by: “four powerful states: possessing. avery kind-of modern destructive. weapon.” He: referred: without elaboration to -“rocket= tech- “Down With Wa she, embassy. 4.07: BACK PARATR ~ Britain and France thret ground forces into action { had opened. the. land:.op from the Canal area early Mo ‘a halt to't ' SPEEDY - REJECTION ! The proposal - for. ‘Soviet intervention drew. a-speedy rejection from the. U.S-: govern-,| iment'as “unthinkable” aid later |, . ithe UN Security Counell-réfused. jeven to debate It. aS “In Catro, the Arabic afternoon: paper Al Kahira-said today that, according to.an. Ankara radlo: broadcast “The Russian fleet .Js moving across the Bastern Medl- terrancan heading. toward Egypt.” Sp Said the newspaper: “Russia ‘acts alone to check aggression.” Four Charged With Theft — As Steer Shot “PRINCE GEORGE @—~Threc American=y ‘Tsonts a source. of potential rove “lonue to Prince Rupert ‘and that): apgeomarresrmiren 8: © URES 7 PROVENCTAL LIBRARY) righ’ Published at Canada's Most Strategie Pacific Port — And Key to the Great Northwest Mpa ‘VICTORIA, B.C,” ber. of: Commerce. n: “Tn: the -vesolution “that adopted, It was explained the director’s:dutles would. be. to dustry. tom pert,” “ “ Cf SA ‘The mecting. recommended that City, Council find: menns to ove ‘to 1Prince: Ru- ongage such.a, director and. that): it also find means “to promote and maintain .theé tourist, Indus- try -and tho,/ operation, of . the museum,” Tt) was :-polnted out that the tourist iudusivy repre- a well-run museum 4s ong. effec: [tive inethod , of Ampressing “on. tourists. the attraction of the. men and'a, woman have .been charged with theft as a result of the shooting of a year-old steor near hore recently, Charged 1 connection with the shooting and: theft-of the meat are Thomas Edward Caw- Joy, 47, of Princo George, John Duckworth, 36,‘and: James, Ste- phenson, 36 both formorly of Kitimat, dnd Mra, Agnes Stoele, 90 of Prinoe George, | Tho men are bolng hold In jall $18,000 NEEDED) 9 8S As chairman of the committee that drafted the resolutions, A. 8, Nickotson estimated thidt the total amount: needed ‘to Implo- ment this work would ve: $15, 000 to $17,000, Ho bolloved that in: general my .encourage new ‘tine with or Tatei’ Prine a busines case wes {his , particular. purpo: ALB, Crawley. wiltited. to, vin how ‘the city. could’ support at industrial developmont. direct bysitiess tax’ will be: th yonerliting from Ibi. ms Tourists: and now. Industty: will come. to: Pritico; Rupert age result’ of: this; effort and’ dir rosuits will be felt by-local,b inegs fring" he sald. We: untary «contributions , suiceoss,., This’ scams. to. bo: the trod raising’ the ‘money, by vole without an appropriate salary for an ine development director 2 MARINE ” would be $0,000 to $7,000 a-yéor,| We. should bo propared todo MWo think If we had a: tulle dustrial time director he would have while Mrs, Stoola is free on $100 1 oo " term and Adlnt 1, Stevenson, 66, the Domoeratie — presidential nominee, Control of Congroxs has reat- od until thiy olection day with tha Democrats, who hold a 40- 47 majority tn the Bonate and ph Q99-to-203 margin In the House of Reprosontativer,, Tho ble Ixsue’ of tls oloatton, its ramiflentions sharponod ancl ‘dofined Wy tho suddon Middle Bash (ghting and the Bovlot on- sliught on Hungary a tho tilkonhowar administration's conduct of Amorloan forelgn policy, So Tho awiftlysmoying oventa tn the Moditorranean and Contra) Huropo touchod off a biirat of niintateation’s handing of for- olgn affatrs, The polltlolans wore utirervod, particularly on. the Midlo Bnet dasie by a spite of Shadow of War Hangs Over U.S. As 60,000,000 Choose Pr nowspapor comment blaming tho arlals there on tho yacilln~ tong of U.S, forolgn polley. Th a windup campalgn spacch last. night Stevenson told» tho Amorienn people thate “Ag distastofil ag Uva mattlor 1g, J must, aay bluntly that overy pleco’ of ‘soiontitio ovidoyco wo havo, ovory lossoiy of hlatory and oxporionce Indicates that the Ropublleans trlumph TWehard M, Nixon will probably ho prosl- dont of thls country within the noxt, four yours, "T any frankly adv olllven, moro than av a onndtdate tht T revolt nt the, pronpect of Mr ay oustadlan oF Vil natlon’s future and guaedlin: of the hydrogen bourh an reps. vexentative of Amorlon in. the Nixon world > and. commander-in ohlof of the Unitad : States. wrined forced,” ‘ peat only, reasonable. alternative, “If we are making money in-town, gomothing whout de! eae “-Fxplaintig that he was giving © only hiy.own. porsonal views, :Al- °. derman, T,. Norton’ Youngs, ‘to marked : tht ‘the ality counell: cannot go ta’ Victorin for addl~ tonal’. rovenua, auch’ as conten plated by tho ‘bhalnoss tax whi Gul: flral having explored {ts own FOKOUTODH, er es uate “Tho tax.would not hiL.tho ave orngo bualnessman.vory.hard bes enuse trade Heaney would be,de-. fl ‘ for vovonno frony n, bax from thls: ‘ [gort wos, shown -rocontly whiqn © Ing Ib. done nbn cor) of about . $9,000 bub with: the undorstands, lng” Unb tho. -survoyor, Mark ’ pore a ey Tho gpoolfle quaation of whol. or the A) yb ahould® gan. vonord Hy ‘avorlng a bualnosd bax was volerrod to committee, for. contortion sa ~ KAMLOOPS, BO, (he-Dr, Wore nore Maha, deyonr-old dente.’ trom Tirngsoly, Bolglum Ing lett » {hore to walk 200 miley to: Vane « couvor, part of walking. jaunt novoss tho continonty oes . {. ‘ 1 a i i we Lt Serpe op Cormloy, will.do tb ny Wl tno’. dnotod first, he sald, “Te.nioed 2 Wo undortook to.havo'a forestry. aurvoy diuide of the, arane: TW. hind Lo bo! curtailed :boontse of. os Inok of funda, :Wo.aro now Hive 3