Prince Rupert toe Tuesday, September 23, 1958 SPV TERE TATUVBALE RVG yee , + ccamey ea t Daily News NO. MARKET FOR REST Canners not buying added sockeye run “VANCOUVER (CP)—British Columbia cannery operators announced Friday that they will ‘ buy no more’sockeye salmon from That: left the fishing industry with the problem of dis- posing of more than 1,000,000 sockeye. More ‘than 1,000,000 cases ‘from the salmon bonanza have already been’ packed and the Fisheries Association of B.C. said there is no market for the rest of the run, Which it described as of in- ferior grade. Association President James Sinclaiz, announcing the deci- sion, said it definitely was not just a gambit, to re-negotiate for lower prices for the poorer qual- ity sockeye. “We don’t want those. fish under any circumstances,” he said. “There is no market. for them. We've already got more than 1,000,000 cases of top quality sockeye and there is no need. this year to buy inferior grade salmon.” SURPRISING NEWS Both the International Pacific Salmon: Fisheries Commission and the United Fishermen and Allied Workers Union were sur- prised by the announcement. Commission chairman Senator Thomas Reid said he would have to study the situation for sever al aye before commenting. -the estimated 1,000, 000 salmon remaining in the Adams River: run were allowed to reach the:river spawning grounds, they could create havoc. Available spawning gravel will be fully. oc- cupied by the 1,500,000 top qual- ity >salmon in the international commission’s planned _escape- ment. The tail-end fish would pre- sent: huge’ “overcrowding and - drop, spawn that would have littie chance of survival. @ne scientists said: “The reserved for the domestic mar- ket, the paper said. packing firm here described the British order reaction.” said. “This is the first freedom the English buyers have had in 2 years, and they are taking fuil advantage of it.” LARGEST CATCH EVER no hint in advance that Britain would again market. This year's on record, and packers the rich Adams River run. U.K. orders surplus salmon pack VANCOUVER \P— Lifting of British currency restrictiins may have brought about the biggest windfall for the British salmon- canning industry in 20 years. A. Vancouver newspaper says that 24 hours after. the an- nouncement the entire surplus of this year’s record-breaking pack, amounting to 700.000 cases of sockeye, has been gobbled up by British buyers. Prices ranged from $37 to $40 a case, a total of more than $26,000-000. . Approximately 300,000 cases from this year’s catch are being The sales manager of one big as ‘a staggering “It came as a miracle,” he The B.C. salmon industry had become a major 1,000,000- case sockeye pack is the largest feared EE hing industry need not ex- pect: a repeat of this year’s tun) four years from now if those — that disposal might take several years. Credit resources were strained to the utmost. but now umbia’s total school budget will jump to $153,000,000 from $88.- 300,000 in the next five years. over the same period. COUPLE OF. DOLLS—Wearing | RRA T ANU UUTTTRUEVEENV ERAT EVV EHR UL PV ELLE ETN GETS ES EN NN yoy identical " expressions “and ponytails, Toni Kay ‘Brougher,. 5, and her rag doll Annie stop off: at a street fountain - in Great Bend, Kan. While. Toni quenches her thirst, ‘Annie ‘can’t seem to wait for’. her turn at the water. * Schaol budget to jump to $153 million by 1963 VICTORIA “)— British Col- The number of pupils will in- crease to 383.000 from 274,900 The province, which now pays $45,200,000 towards district’ school. costs will be paying $76,- 500,000 by 1963. The figures were drawn frora a report released Friday by a special government committee on education finance. The commision was set up at the request of Premier. Bennctt May 6, to anaylze the school tax burden in the provinces of B.C.. cent: Alberta 34.80 per cent; Manitoba 44.48 “per cent; Sas- katchewan 49.04 per cent; On- tario 76.38 per cent... ~ oo The commission said a com- [parison of school costs charged to taxpayers in ‘the five prov- inces showed B.C. again was in the best position. Woman cued by actress LOS ANGELES (if — “Actress Terry Moore and her mother are suing for $151,520 damages over son said Friday. He told the 17th annual con-. vention of the Canadian School, Trustees’ Association in Victoria. “tT mention that lest you,should think we spend money like drunken sailors in British Co-. lumbia.” - He said that during the last 20 years legislative grants. for edu- cation in B.C. have risen from $3,630,670 to $44,100, 000—an in- crease of more than 1,000 per cent. The total expenditure for education had risen from $57,- 750,000 in 1951-52 to $88,250,000 in 1957- 58. Six years ago the amount of, per pupil, ‘year this has’ ‘increased to” $142- per pupil, Mr. Pederson told: “the 250 delegates. _ | The minister said. “assessments have been, equalized: throuthout B.C. so that bE DP hk RDS ED