development in 1959-63. -This program however was de- | A hee Steep ee ees "ye By ERWIN: ‘FRICKE “*Cxtiadian Press Staff Writer «VANCOUVER ( ®—Industry in Vancouver is flaunting great new. -bulldings and steel girders are “rising continually against thie altering skyline, ~The dramatic face-lift largely represents the record. expansion in ‘business and industry, but civic development is far from dragging Its feet, The civic administration now is. finishing off its 1954-58 fiye- year plan at a cost of -$36,500,000. This. has provided a $4,000,000 auditorium, a $2,000,000 library, a new police station and new fire headquarters along with street and sewer projects. PLAN, BIGGER PROJECTS , Xn July, elty council received an interim report from its tech- nical.planning board on what is needed for the next five- ~year perfod, The board presented 2 $107,500,000 program for civic seribed as the “show window,” RE EW pee Mae abe - Industri oe . we i ot gh ee ee we t lect what is most needed, and at) a price the city can pay, Best indication. are that) the firtal program to be preserited to voty’ ers in the civic elections next 000,000: and $60,000,000. The interim basic plan calls for $74,000,000 to be. spent on overpasses, streets, sewers and other essential services, . But it isthe second section, the $33,- most reflects the part the city councll wants to play in shaping Vancouver’s growth, : The board describes some’ of _ these projects ak “of.a type. not heretofore ‘carried out by the} city,” which would require a council, ‘WOULD CLEAR SLUMS One such project is Clearance, ~ “The first cycle of develop- ment of the city of Vancouver is rapidly reaching its comple- tion and a fringe of decay now is spreading outwards from the slum from, Which city council will se- "WEATHER today; ° day: Winds northerly 15. Inter- dag North Coast Region: Variable . cloudiness with a few showers’ ..- ‘Cloudy: with: intermit-) |. tent rain Sunday. Cooler Sun. mitent rain’ Sunday. Cooler Sun, inner core. Surrounding False a ee me Oe ee PE a a i December may be between $50, oJ. 500,000 for public projects, which |. : special policy ruling fron city]: CHANGING SKYLINE— The last three years have seen the - biggest burst of downtown building in Vancouver history. The building splurge has revamped the ‘city skyline. ‘No longer are the 25-storey Marine Building - (center foreground) and the Hotel Vancouver (right background) starkly promin- ent.. “heéad office, 285 feet high and built. ‘ata cost ‘of $8, 000, 000. In front of it is the 21-store ‘major building to be comple ed. -this -yeat is the $13,000,000- “post office, biggest’ in Canada. fast below the Connaught, bridge. in lett background. Burrard Building, The third ‘The: block-long building is «(CP Photo) | Published a The tall buildings at extreme. right. is the B.C, Electric -, 3 at Conade’ s Most Strategic Pacific Port | — And Key to the Great Northivest | istrict,” the board said,. nearly, complete. some ww ny shies ha Cr eck and the central: snes A study of the slum: areas, be- gun in July, 1956 with a $12, 000 grant from the Central Mortgage and Housing Corporation, is “Plans for a 20-year program of. redevelopment are being drawn up and will be presented to the: council . . . within. the next few months,” the technical planners reported, oo, Total cost of slum clearance during the first five years would | be $10,620,000 with the federal government bearing half. Van- couver and: the B.C. government would split the other half. REDEVELOPMENT o@ But. the planners also believe the. city should do something about’ the “progressive renewal” of downtown areas even though no federal or pr rovincial grants are available for this sort of re- development. a ' “In. Vancouver we “have the chance to-assemble sizes of site attractive to substantial private investment,” the board said. “property,” a ? ry ty 5 BOG" ° bes aif {oc ‘The board’ posarankeiidea $4; 000,000 be. spent: to buy. and, re- develop . downtown : areas | and. . “costS should be. “largely :. couped from the. resale’ of :. Another $5,000,000 was men tioned for the buying of. iand. to “8 be known as “public use: zones,” This would prevent commer-. cial building in,areds.marked: for. governmental or municipal, pure poses. . aL FUTURE PROJECTS en A downtown civic square ! n oe amenity which Vancouver “is at: :)..°- present completely lacking.” The wee remedying.” this by buying for $3,000,000.a:. | corner at Georgia and Granville. : streets “which is’ unquestionabi Yee. the prime location in downtown na planners. suggested Vancouver..” Other suggested “public © pro=. - i jects are a $1,250,000 ‘museum .- and a $1,400,000 theatre to': be.» ‘added to ‘the civic auditorium... The board also asked council. to consider ‘spending $7,500,000on | - By Vancouver General Hospital. im- i! provements and $3,000,000. On | the purchase of a Bot course. TIDES: = ‘Sunday, August 11, 1957. oe (Pacific. Standard. Time) . “20.5. ‘fect High ven - 13347 te 14: 08 =: 19.6 :feet LOW crccccenenrees 39359.. 3.0 feet, OS “20: Me “5. er fect VOL. XLVi, No. 187 2 NEW. ‘MINISTERS-< P, after thelr appointment in “10. In Nicolet-Yamaska. “previously minister . of northern affairs. enter the Diefenbaker cabi will be announcéd soon. B.C. NEWS ROUNDUR | wud ae rime “Minister. ‘Diefeibaker: ‘poses With: two new ca binet ‘ministers : is’ Mines Minister ‘Paul Comtois, elected June Right ‘is Resourges ‘Minister Douglas Harkness of Calgary North, Mr. Comtois is the third member from @uebec to The prime minister said a new northern affairs minister Ottawa. At left net, a PRINCE RUPERT, B.C., SATURDAY. AUGUST 10, 1957 PRICE. FIVE CENTS (CP Photo) unday ‘Baseball ‘Wasn't For Gain’ * VANCOUVER ( (CP)—The Vancouver Mounties never expected to make. a ‘profit playing Sunddy baseball and: so three charges of violating the Lord’s' Day Act, for gain do not apply, Senator J. W. i alris s aid Fy iday. This was Senator Farris’ de- fence In Vancouver polHee court to three of the five charges brought against the Pacific Coast League club. Magistrate James Bartman remanded the case for a week to prepare a decision. The senator criticized Attor- ney-General Robert Bonner for issuing fiats permitting prose- cution, - “PE don't think he has-quite ap- preciated the force of legal au- tharitics In- Canada as to what his ‘duties regarding flats, Is- Suance of which Is purely dis- cretionary.” “There was no hope or expec- tation of gain. The 1,700 Van- couver families bought shares ‘not for gain or dividend, but simply to-give Vancouver high- class ball.” Prosecutor Stewart MeMorran said the club was plainly engag- ed in business when playing on Sunday. nae NEWTON, B.C. @—Swift fre destroyed a Jarge section of the B.C. Metals Protection Ltd. plant “Four Alpi Trappe inists On Peak | GRINDELWALD, Switzerland (M—-Rescue columns from five ‘countrios started up 13,0386-foot Elger mountain today with only slim. hope of “helping four alpinists trapped on tbe mountain's treneherous north wall, ' Three of the four mountajfn- eors could be seen through fel- escapes 1,200 feel below the suminit. The sourth man could not bo secon, Hoavy snow fell on the moun- tain. heights during the night, and a howling gale lashed tho almost. vertienl rock freq on which the men have been trap~ ped since Monday, MAY BE ALIVE The faeb that the threa men were not covered ny snow was helleved hy wilder here nat the fool of the mountain to mean that (hey were all] able to move, Friday they ellmbed up aibout 1200 feot after romaining motlon loss 9,600 feot from. the muamnalt for four days, Rotary ~ _KITIMAT » EXCURSION , Vii ONW Angst 2h SOM T aM, roy Fares &6 Retain: Ohlildran: YW Mare JProcnads to Ohiidron's Ward hth: Toapltal, -Hokotn ‘Now On Sala! em ‘ fot wee + ree ae er area anant yee on a . Verner one eee eget ret opens re ape Ot The fourth man remalned be- hind Friday, lashed upright to the sheer rocks, WHI Balmer, chief of the Grindelwald res- cue service, today sald he Is cer- tin that the man is dead. Wis body went Wimp after he. waved to Balmer and a pilot who elrdl- ed the wall, The plight of the four--two Germans and two, Itallans— launched the Invgest rascue op- oration over Koen an the Waer, wo mountain in’ the Jungfrau Maasif of south central Switzer- land, Noarly 100 men set out with ropes, pulloya, alods, med. cn) supplies nnd food, Tho group of oxperloneed wuldos from Switzerland, Italy, Franco and Germany, plus ww 20- mind teany oof expert Pollsh climbers $n tive area for train. ‘ig, t& taklfg ‘an onaler route than the north face to rench the aumnit, They wil try to help the mon from abdve, Tho north fea was flrat embed fy 1088, Th all, only nhout 20 alpiniata have made tho dlffionlt asvent, The perpondicawar wall, whieh Toate outward Ino many placos, has alnimed 38 Wvoa, te haa never been climbod downward, here Friday, causing. damage estimated at $200,000. The plants wraps metal pipe with coal tar enamel and was handling two-inch pipe for B.C, Electric’s natural. pas network when the flames started, VANCOUVER ‘Q—Chief Con- stable George Archer says there has been 2 marked Increase this year in attacks on” policemen and called jt “an Indication of our times.” "There continues to bea wil- lingniess in some quarters to de- cide differences with the police by violence," he told the police conneission, The thief woted there have been 31 assaults on officors%ince the beginning of the year, com- pared with 18 In the same perlod of 1056 and sald such attacks will be “met with force within the law." Ne said a yallee “commando squad" and plainclothes patrol have done useful work in broak- ing up downtown gatherings of hoodiiuns, Shooting Victinn Fair’ WEST VANCOUVER (h——Mra, Virginia Wosnny, wounded tn the bnote by a shotgun blast In her Waost ‘Vaneouvey homo on Thursday, was reported in faty condition In Vangouver Geanernl Hoapltal Friday, - Hospital agenedanty said ashe Was “restIng more comfortably” after an operation, Michnel Mahonin, 48, arrested at the Wost vancouver munial- pu polles atation, haa boon charged with attempted mur. dor, We waa remanded in ewe tady until next Wednesday whon he apponrad In pollae court, ‘ Diefenbal kersa ds: ma 3 ‘The prime minister made the statement in an interview in Saskatoon while en route to his home constituency of Prince Al<-} bert from Ottawa by air. | In Prince Albert later he of- ficially opened the Prince Albert Exhibition and.tried his hand on the tennis court. At the exhibition opéning, where he was made a life mem- ber of the Agriculture Society, ‘Mr. Diefenbaker said farmers ‘make a major contribution to ; world peace by “providing ram- parts in other parts of the world against communism.” EQUALITY RECOGNIZED Talking witt: reporters at the stop over in Saskatoon, he said that in the past there wasn’t the equality: of official recognition of cqual partnership in conncc- tion with the defence of the con- tinent, He referred to the integrution of North American air defence under the. joint command = of Canadian and U.S, officers. Air Marshal C, R, Slemon will, be second in command to General Earle Partridge of the United Statgs Air Force, The prime minister said the achievement of this recognition brings Canada and the U.S. “in- to line with the course followed by the North Atlantic Treaty Or- ganization jn Europe." Turning to agriculture, he told reporters "U.S, officialdom” has shown a realization of the ef- fects on Canndn of the U.S. ag- Neultural disposal program,” SEES IMPROVEMENT “Definite advances" had been made In discussions between Canada and the U.S, on the farm produce export problem, Con- Wnuing negotiations were going on concerning the effeets of the U.S. “giveaways” on Crannda’'s whent export business. As soon as he arrived hore, Mr. Diefenbaker was whisked to the official opening of a now tennis court at the elty's recreation rontbra. Ae ehorler: member of the sponsoring Kinsmon's Club, Mr. Diefonbaker opened the court by playing a brief game with Mayor D, G. Btouart, Ho falled to make his polnt whon he cowdn't get on solid whack ut a cross-court lob by the mayor, seremvepranein we ond Blame Kiddies NIOW WHATMINSTIR, C0, —WMre dopartment afflelnla hee Weve that tho blage whieh block- od tho Pattutlo Bridge neroay the Fraser River fer twa hours Thuraday was started by ahild- ren, ’ Prime Minister ‘Tries Tennis? Arm onfinental Oar stance’ Ww re . last week, was “one of the very: good things.” Record . Vote - OTTAWA (CP)— A record ~ 6,608,482 Canagl- ians voted in the federal election © June 10, Chief Electoral Officer Nelson Castonguay announced to- day in* statement. This compared with the pre- vious record vote of 5,848,766 in the 1949 election and 5,640,256 in 1953, Between 8,900,000 and 9,000,- 000 persons out of the Canadian population of 16, 500,000 were oll-- gible to vote. The Progressive Conservative party, which formed the govern- ment, received 216,113 fewer votes than the Liberals. ’ Totals by parties: Liberal, including independant. Liberals, 2,796,164; Progressive conservative, including = inde- spendent. Progressive Conserva- tivo, 2,58,051; CCF, 707,833; So- cial Credit, including Indepen- dent Social Credit, 437,190; Lab- or Progressive (Communist), vi 772; othors, 79,472. ‘ Several Groups Doetalls of vole Hsted under “athors''s Indepondent, 70,114; Candidat des Blectours, 8119; Candlan Democrat, 628; Liberal-Conser- vatlve conlition, “22; Capital Vamilial, 937; Natlonal Crodit Control, 122. Mr, Casténguay xald the pre- liminary total of 6,608,482 votes cast will be higher once spolled ballots are counted. The exact numbor af oligiblo voters also has not yet boon compiled, Tho 6,668,482 votes cast ine cludes the ‘service volo which totalled 74,437, Only the Liberals and Gongor- vitlves rooolvod votes in nll proe vineos, the Yukon and Maakon- zlo Rivor, The COV rocelyed no vot%s In the Yukon or Mackongle. River, the Bodin! Credit party no votos In Newfoundland, Prince Edward Ishind, the Yukon or Mackonale Rivor, and thy Labor Progrosstve nO votos in ovir Seating New Brunawiek, Nowfoundand Mringe Wdward Taland, the Yu- kon, and Muaelkenale River, | “, Breliminary. the plant the other machine! They were ut . VANCOUVER to Vancoyver, T AWFUL. - It was the wettest July ever recorded nt the weather burenu and August already seems hend- ed down the same dreary poad, There are compensations. Fower forest flres or drowning accidents, And some of the farmers Hke the rain, Last month 2.1 Inches of rain logging Strike Starts CAMPBULL: RIVER @— An IWA. strike against Bondlekson Logging Company nepr here ‘barted at 8 aim, Pridhy. The dispyte tnvolves 2h men and apparent rofusal of tho firm to pay wige Increases agroad on In recent negotintions between tha dumber tndustry and the union, ; Juke Epp, IWA — spaleosman, gsalcl nogotintors. met hurscay Warht ob the company's nenrby Hardwicke Tsland base, bit ne ngroomenl was rovghod, ’ Sheila 3, and. ‘Mi¢hael 4, children of Daily News compositor Mev Wells, came down with their mother to visit Daddy at day and discovered in the strange jungle of mechanical equipment—wonder of wonders—an adding soon learning all about automation, Ticker tape and the machine age intrigued Sheila but Michacl gouldn't t. quite make up his mind, “"OH' thé floor instead of the desk. —Dally News Photo by Jim Peters, He’ chose q vantage point Vancouver's Weather Awful With Capital A! (CP)—Sunburnt? The Weather out here in July was were recorded compared with a totul many years of less than awn ineh.: So far this month tt hag rain. ed .68 Inches and if lt goes on Hike that for the rest of the month, lt would bring. three inehes, The normal weather condition for this time of yonr, a weathor forecaster explained, Is a ridge of high pressure extending over most of B.O., southern Alaska, Wash{ngton State and Oregon. It nets as a shield, keoping storms out of the way, This year the ridge has a big dont In-lt extonding from tho northern tip of BG, to the southorn Washington bordor and several hundred miles ‘out to sen, Nestled snugaly fn tho middle of the dont is an aren of Jow prossure, This area attracts mindrops from hundreds of ales pround, Pees memennpenn Hit Oman Again MANAMA, Bahroln (4 — RAP bombers today hit rebol strong points In Oman with more than 100 20*pound fragmontation bombs, ‘ 4 Then come dina, Alaska (AP) tmen abdard the-hoatt the ship Friday. wage vertson, a crew member. heard _ Morrison and Ole Dyervik about 40, both of Vancouver were sleeping forward when Morrison awoke to find the’small oil heat~ ing stove was afire. : Both men ran through’ “the flames to the deck, with .Sic- vertson aiding them. moned help. They were taken to Sitka Community Hospital for emer- gency treatment and later transferred to Mt. Edgecumbe | Hospital, Morrison was the more 80r= condition was? not mupediate available. =” Damage to the boat was cons fined to the foig’s'lo, 4 beeen Election Clarification Prince Rupert Labor couet will ask Clty Council to clarify for the public amendments to the Municipal Act pertaining to qualifications of ‘electors. for Municipal elections, Meotings Thursday urgod jin- ’ tor, hours of business make {tt oxe register, ‘It was suggested some method of registration at more convenlont hours be found, Amendments to the Munioipal Act provide that any Cnnadian oitizen or British subject avor the age of 21 who haa resldad in ak municipality for over “glx Months and who roglaterg in August, or Soptombor will be titled to voto In muntolpal old Oe Ona, Gounell appointed a committon to study. tho Worlmon's Came hongation Act, tho Unbor Rela- fons Act and other loglalation affecting labor, Rocutuntod wnendmonta « wilt be submitted to the Dritiah Col- to the noxt aoxslon of tho. pros vinelal Leglulature. ‘| Two- ‘Vancouver — fisher” ; ara II suffered serious - burns about the face, arms and back in a fire aboard © Other crew members said they: tied up at the dock about 6. amon Shortly afterward K. A.’ Ste- © John Morrison, 31. call “fire.” He sum- lously burned but report of thelr , mediate attention on tho mabe core ne ee ree It was ulso folt that elty hall tromely clifficult for citizens to Ne ! umbin Pedoration of Unborand | ee ee Te a Wee