Se ee ee et we ee hw we OR ae OP ee ee CVV OK KF OK Tw vw www ee . ee P . ves , eee eee nee Kuper de En ed we . Maine datiad fonda Vaslaen 3.0. CENTENNZAL co - % ARCHIVES oF B.C TOES : . . "" ‘ ' 1 re oe! we , a 297 : vrevaenet Bbdiitday, December BBV1998/S7 | MV Fc1oRza, B.C «Pacitie Mtandgr Tepey Any WEATHER Gale warning in effect. Cloudy with showers of mixed snow and rain tonight and Saturday, Lit- tle change in temperature. Winds westerly 30 late this afternoon. Low tonight and high Saturday at Prince Rupert 30 and 40. High’ wou: 6208 18.4 feet : 18:14 16.1 feet LOW evsenene a Most Strategic Pacific Port — And Key to the Great Northwest 12:26 a ate 9.1 feet | PRINCE RUPERT, B.C., FRIDAY, DECEMBER 27, 1957 a OF PRICE FIVE CENTS . MAcyor Urges Town hy SANDC CAMPBELL | Canadian Press Staff. Writer SPRINGHILL, N.S. (CP)--Mayor Ralph Gilroy rallied his townspeople today with.fighting words as rain fell softly on the blackened ruins of a million- dcllar Boxing Day fire that scuttled the town’s busi- | ness ‘district. ee “We'll carry on if only half the | e main ‘street jis left,” the mayor ‘In Traffic QO Ht | d On Holiday said: He said the town will ask federal and provincial emergen- | - U.S. Road Toll Set at 225 Dead ey aid immediately. “We'll never By The Canadian Press gs reer say die.” The mayor’s chins-up message was ‘tempered.slightly. He reit- erated a previous gloomy fore- cast made at the height of the fire Thursday. \ “I'm afraid the majority of business houses will not be. re-~ built.” Ee added discouragingly: “This is just another blow to the town's economy.” Ten businesses and six homes were burned as flames brought disaster to this coal mining town for the second time in little more than a year. In November, 1956, 39 miners died in a mine explo- sion -of the Cumberland Rail- way and Coal Company. Another. 88 were rescued after 5% days. underground. ‘BURNS FIVE HOURS This time the mine was un- 1 , {touched by the .wind-blown | This accounted for 70 per cent; flames but Mayor Gilroy esti- ‘of the 53 traffic fatalities pre- - ‘dicted for both Christmas and | jie te ae 0000 mark least ‘New Year’s by the Canadian | s wae j |. Highway, Safety, Council. | Nine families were, left, home- : ree : : Hesse chere* were no“Known:in- | : — "Traffic accidents “accounted | Mars | ‘for 10 of Ontario’s i7 fatalities, | Juries. « : 4 . Many of the 75 dirt-stained ‘all but one of Quebec’s 14 andi Holid Auto accidents marred Canada’s Christmas cele- brations, swelling the holi- day death toll to at least Thirty-eight were traffie vic- tims, a Canadian Press survey from noon Jocal time Tuesday to midnight Thursday showed. BEAUTY OF WHITE CHRISTMAS, one of the few experienced in Canada, is shown above after big snowfall. Monday when snow turned park by City Hall into winter wonderland. Even. ° WINNERS IN THE Jaycees' annual “Light-Up” competition are : pictured above receiving their prizes from judge William Tode- ras, In the top picture are Mr. and Mrs, L. C. Youngman, 321 \ . Sixth. Avenue. kast. first..prize winers and below are runners- | { i { totem . pole beside .cHy.-ball. have-.white-Christmas-~icing for » bye ot: Itiawa-C os S. ‘ festive season. Motorists whose. cars are shown: parked on f: ff eiaht Ra cee DB ’ Fulton Street took different.view of big snowfall. | ° TElg. t tate hoe to -dncrease-— up Mr’ “and Mrs..Thomas McMeckan, 1939 Atlin’ Avenues In the business section the Jaycee plaque for the best display will go to Mitchell's Flower and Gift Shop, it was announced today by judges Toderas, Wilbur Dorash and Robert Whitely. (Photos by Howard. Phillips) half of Nova Scotia’s eight. firemen who had fought the British - Columbia had five! blaze for more than five hours started leaving the scene at ‘deaths, four in traffic. AN of| : -Alberta’s four victims died in! daybreak as heavy rain began | Christmas night in Prince Ru- crashes. New Brunswick had; to fall. (Staff photo by Dick Ayres) TR Te a a er ey Bye ap ey SNOW MISSIN TIT ry ¥ a ery Few Places .C. NEWS ROUNDUP OTTAWA © — A freight rate getter Sea teint en heii AS * ; . e pert was marred for Michael M. two traffics deaths, Saskatche-| They left behind a dismal Cit One ot what’ S15 000,000 a cone worth hi H Dean, Vancouver Province cor~. wan one. | scene, Slightly subdued 40-mile- . railways, was authorized today orm n ou | § j respondent and circulation agent: wewfoundland had two drown-!an-hour winds were whipping : ° by the ‘board of transport com- e for northern B.C., when ©wW9: ings. No fatalities were reported’ up embers that glowed eerily ° *« missioners Q ¥ ° icamgras and invaluable personal) in Manitoba or Prince Edward in the gray morning light. it ite ristmas Board ffi ial timat h " " Te ep one Service pelongings were soren ont oF Island. | An untouched Christmas tree inorense ‘vould S we the CNR Oe i Lo is ‘locked car in front of a city, qhere were 73 accidental, on a wide intersection, 30 yards . “4s : ile i f 7 rn . gp hotel. ‘deaths—51 in traffic—last year, from the devastated area, stood Prince Rupert, traditionally the butt of southern ort $6400.00. a year and the ue i VANCOUVER (CP)—1 elephone communication! The theft hit Mr. Dean cspe~ when the holiday extended over forebodingly. © British Columbia jokes about the remoured heavy TI " ‘Is . . us ‘ from Vancouver to the Prairies and Eastern Canada‘ ally hard since, along with five days. Charred bricks, wood planks 1e railways had’ been seck- 0 jy Ag { r . - | photographic was severed Thursday by breaks in B.C. Telephone; Company lines on the Hope-Princeton highway, 100, miles cast of here, poo eee eee Trees, uprooted by high winds, - rainfall here, had the laugh over most of the world this Christmas. While city residents struggled around in snow-rutted streets either by car or on foot most to As-'and other debris cluttered the street in the ravaged, blocked- off area, Fire trucks lumbered through slowly. There was nobody on the street at daybreak, Many of the equipment and’ In Chicago, according private papers, notes for a ser-; sociated Press the National ial on which he hag been work-' Safety Council estimated today , _ ~~ jing for eight years were taken.' that 130 Americans will die in: — ' ROMP. reports the theft oc-! tratfic accidents during the New : VANCOUVER @---Indians on! curred sometime between 10:45 Year celebration, ing a boost of 10 per cent that would have produced around $35,000,000 a year for them. The increase application was a carryover from last year, when Estimates oi city residents, es- pecially those who had to dig out cars, ranged from 12 to 16 inches of snow. crashed across the Hnes Christ-, the Musqueam Reserve at near-| pm, December 25 and 10:30 a.m; The council predicted 180 fa- | town’s 7,000 residents ~— had skating ang eae or Even though a white Christ-| the railways originally asked ane vtalit. ortbine ven ; rey sal sdays mecambe . ‘Cony | i mt ‘ ‘ate silent . skating, skung, sledding mas was missing elsewhere in| gor a 15-per-cent holst t oy mas night, eutting communica-!by Point Grey said Thursday; neeember 26 In front of the Sa-| talities on the streets and ‘watched silently through the !puiding snowmen, spent Christ-| Ganada, Canadians celebrated in or a To-per-cent holst oO cover , tion cast and to Interlor B.C, Oa One a i ee oreneh to | ey Hotel where Mr, Dean's cary highways during the Christ- lone meh oy said 20 pj mas in the sun, And even ih! traditional manner. The Cirst nner nn ne treme labor : ) Two eireults, to Toronto and Metall hydrants on the reserve | “8 Pa rkeet. | mas hellday, ‘The total reach- | he town's van rovenue came those areas where the sun didn't] Christmas of the Rocket Age had Tee os & from wage | ; ave sol up, bub ealls Swere de. ta prevent repetition of a fire!, Pollee say the car was entered; ed #85. ‘from the 16 burned-out busi-| same out, children asked thelits turkey dinners, carols and) “ig poard's new jutigment Hp Were, sob up, but calls were de) csday which killed sis thild.; PY breaking open a_no-dratt rns — | nesses same question: the | decorated trees. the final one one fr 1950-87 ? on 6 tre it from Vancouver tolren there. ventilation window, Total loot’ Adding to the tragedy, a three-| « What happened, to the] Gpnadians overseas, including |b ma one one the G~ Grieary Ww sot Up through Ca- Firemen were mnabie to reach | Consisted of Ewo cameras, vied’ Burke To CBC ‘ear crash on the Sein nill| > According ‘ vty proce | lose celebrating under a scar~ applicavons 7, Save the carrers oie Shnatie Telegraph lines, {the fire with 2,000 feet of fire] Rt $850 and $100 each, a TAA) A ong ¢ car tion Tiighway sent {lve peo- | gurweye naults wondered L00.| LAS Sua Kept to ie lca with ine nt but tnvew out tho further A heavy snowfall slowed crews hose beeause of a lack of hy- wnt, 35 rolls of unexposed flim, TORONTO (h---Stanley Burke, | . survey, ¢ s re 00.) tions and = trees sparkled with | § £ W oe furthe trying to repalr the Wnes, Rain and heavy wind, reach- ing hurricane velocity in plea pattered parts of tha Paclffe norbhwest Christmas night, emising some dumage and black- Outs. A ?2emileenn-hour gush was reported by the U8, Alr Force radar station in southwestern Washington, The storm waa ventred in (he Queen Charlotte Jstands, novth of Vaneouver Wsland, where winds reached a) miles per houe and eusts up to HK mph were recorded, VANCOUVER Ge -AN east end home was demolished Thursday when oo fruity water henter ox oded, tipplig olf the roof and Diewinw down lwo MATH, Mr, and Med Ronald Merrit oxenped Uninfared a the wally oposhed aronnd the bedroom, The henter bursting because peeumeiated — sbeany, bore through the cael of thea home pnd dimeded minost. two locks AVERY, DEP ROWLY missing & eur atapped aban vaberseetton, ORMES— Daily Dolivory ®@ DIAL 2151 L_DRUGS at a a Re eg drants and beenuse of marshy; ronds Which bogred down a pum) truck, Musquem Chief Id Sparrow snid he had asked Indian Affalrs offielals three weeks ago for hy- drvants but was “not given a de- clsfon,” Music teacher Miss Way Dies Ploneer omuste teacher in Prince Rupert, Miss Mary Anne Way, 428 Fifth Avenue West died yesterday morning jn Princa Rue pert Goneral Hospital at the age of a, Born In Abarenrre, Wales, Miss Way como to Caunnda Ino il living dno Weyburn, Saskateho- wih until TTB when she nioeved Lo Prince Rupert, Musical all ber diffe Miss Way Immediately opened the frst sehool for plana students here nnd wx soon as possible affillated with the Royal Toronto Conser- vatory of Musie so that the stu. donts could abba the blghest Poxkle wands, Mor a period in her Hle ashe waa organist ab the Wiest United Ohureh und alsa oat the Wrst Obureh of Christ Betentists here, Ho faring ds known sho had no Living rolatives, Wineral services will be held at Forauson Vuneral Wome at 2 pay. Monday with Rev, Vernon HW, Maldenchorn offlalating, Rae mann Will be forwarded to Vane gouver for cromation. n large bag, two club bags with | photographs and correspendence | ‘pondent for the CBC beginning Jun, 1. with The Provinee, and a brief cnse dnithalled MMD, contiulning correspondence with the Federal Clovernment, a bank bouk and personal notes, ' Mr, Dean cmphasized the value of Als hook material “It s no use to anyone else, bub priceless to me," Do sald, Stal’ Sergeant J. W. Todd, NCO {In charge of RCMP elly detuehment, sald this was the only erlme reported — ta police during the holidays, Despite ox- ceptionally slippery roads, no seeldents were reported, 34, of Vancouver has been ap- polnted United Nations corres- Since 1953 he has been parila. mentary correspondent in Obtla- wa for the Vancouver Sun, He suceeeds Charles Lyneh who lenves the CBC. to become chief of the Ottawa bureau of Southain News Services, LANGLEY GA Ti-eyenyeold man killed early Christmas cmorning when struck hy a ear here was identified Thursday aus Archibald Taylor of Langs, dey. A inquest wil be held: Vriday, BONNER SAYS "READJUSTMENT” IN B.C. ECONOMY FROM 1956 VICTORIA @ — = Titish Columbia's economy In 1987 ox~ perteneed. a “substantial readjustment from the boom cons diiions of 1986," Robert Bonner says ina year-end review, Ms, Bonner was reporting tn his eapactly as Minister of Lndustela) Development, He ds qlxo Attorney-General, White the level of activity has been high through most of the year the shortages of labor and material ane the prods sures on prlees whieh were apparent In 1056 have to come ex~ bent abated, he sald. He quoted a report from the buren of ceonomies and stitisttes that foresteindustry produetion fell to an estimated #H29,000,000 this year from the $682,000,000 tn 1086. ‘The drop in CCN biggest Industvy was blamed on deerarsed domestic home-bullding and a redneed demand from the United States, Wish landings in tho first nine months of the your ware clown about 17 per cent at $36,000,000, Mr. Boner aiid exports from B.C, customs ports ara ox- Peeted to total §860,000,000, compared with $770,000,000, while Imports are Hkely to fall to $610,000,000 trom 1060's $20,000,000. ple to hospital In Amherst where they are on the “serious” list. They had been en route to the fire. They Ineluded Emery LeBlanc, edilor — in —- chief of Monc- ton’s French dally L'Evangeline and his photographer Delphine Richard: J, J, (Bo) Haley, an Amherst restauratour, Taw: renee Webb, also of Amherst, und Weston Carmody of Char- lo-tetown, ree eepcrpapeomnrer: Holiday Proves Accident-Free Despite extremely snowy and slippery roads wo acol- dents were reported to police during the Christman holl- days, Slat Sergeant W, trodd, NCO in charge of OMT city detachment, snl today, While towing firms experl- enced thely biggest boom in business all wintor pulling cars out of ditches and snow dritts, no Kerious damage war roe ported, St. Sgt, Todd sald, me ceengy verona HOLBERG, BC, Q—An wn- idontified. man was missing and feared drownod after a Christ- mas Five bout trip fron this sot- tlement on the west const of yaneouver Island, A ground seareh along the coastline waa arganived when the man, an employee of Alniku Pine and Cellulone Llmvited, fall rd to rotin fram a orulse tn hls sult outhourd boat, : searchers found tho boat bad- iy haled on the rocks, j suulel Most of the snow for Christmas, 1957 came on Christmas cards only, expect In Prince Rupert, According to) Digby tsland radio station (in the Prince Rupert harbor banana — belt wren) 22 Inches of snow fell on the city between (he even- ing of December 28 (oa noon to- day, The major part of the snow fall was on the afternoon of December 23> when nearly elglt Inches fell, LABORER CHARGED ronto Actor Dies After Brawl I EW YORK @®--A Manhattan laborer today was charged with murder In the death of a Canu- dian actor who beenme the vie~ din of uw street brawl) a short distunee tram where he was Brovdway romantic Load. Monroe Gibson, 26, was picked yp Thursday night by pollee, who ho admitted felling a0 veareotd Corare Sarracini of Toronto with one punch outside rn tavern dong Broadway near 4th Btreet Chelstmaas morning. The vnetor died Thursday tn hos pital of a brain concussion, Sarracint was the ramnantie lend dy the current Browdway Show Romanoff and Jullet, whieh stars Petor Ustinay, hus- bund of Ottawa actress Susann Cloutier, His role was taken over by Ben danney, bis understudy, With Surracini, and also fell- ed by wh aasiilant, was former Jesus’ birth, decorations jn Indochina, along the Suez Canal and through the Middle Enst, Seven hundred Duteh refugees from Indonesia spent Christmas Lin translit camps at Singapore to the many while walting passage Netherlands—the home have never seen, In the Holy Land about 6,000 pilgrims visited Bethlehem for a re-enactment of the story of six per cent they asked for ‘last fall. EPEECT RISU JANUARY 15 The new goneral Increase rep- resents 3.6 per cent over exist- ing rates-and fourper cent over those of July 3, 1066, the date when the application was re- celvecd, The authorized Increases may be put into effect by the rall- ways January 16, - OO boxer Tommy Bell, 84. At flrs, Bell sald he and his friends wero nttackod by several men. Later, he suid he had been drink- Ing and that ho dishked acmit- ting that be and Sarracing had been bested by a single oppon- ent. Both Gibson and Bell aro Negroos, Police sald those events led up to the fabat bentioygs ‘ho 200-pound Glbson had trled to get Into a bar and grill Withough it waa pust the 4 dan, New York closing the, Wo wis refused entry. Just then air. clog and Boll came by, with the netor telling: Gibson: "You cunt el dn there.” Words were oxchanged and Gibson swing vt Barra, snoeckhig hind down with one blow. The aetor's head appar rently atruek the pavement, Cib- son wd Bell fought, and the former boxer, who onee lost a decision to Sugur Ray Robinson in a welterwoelght title bout, wus felled. Gibson took outs a gun--It later proved to bo a toy —Hibbed Bell over the houd and Sled, Thursday night detectives too Boll on a round of taverns inthe nolghhorhood of the slaying. Two unidentilled persons were found who sald they witnessed = the fight. Cilbson was pleked up at his home, and tho toy gun was found undoe hls mattress, Boll and Sarraelnt were frionda, but police records show the pair gob into a fight last Aug. 14 In the same Manhattan aren, Gast Nov, 24, Boll told authortttes, thoy wore arrested fn tho sine nelghborhoad and fined $10 oneh for ctsordorly conduct annoy~ ing passerby and using loud ane ubusive language,