“WEATHER , North Coast Region, - Cloudy with a few showers today and tonight, Cloudy with frequent - sunny periods Wednesday, Light northwest winds. Low tonight and high tomorrow at Port Hardy, Sandspit and Prince Ru- Pert. 55 and 68, - Tee qmerue7 ng rer por et TT a Ca inne ' VOW pte ge ‘ ‘ . : red. We Ne eg ye BE ae ew Be Published at Canada’s Most Strotegic Pacific Port — And : he Aer a MR «ont weiPeniews a eg Behe “ewe CR ee EE OY Ree Ee OE, ~~ re RT IO ee Key to the Great Northwest | LOW siessssecccesccte Wednesday, August 14, 195%" “3 (Pacific, Standard. Time) °.: 5°.» HIGH csnne 3513 15:34 19.6 feet 21:50. 5.6. feet nae VOL, XLVI, No. 189. a BIG BERG—HMCS Labrador, RCN Arctic patrol ship, investi- gates a 13% million. ton iceberg aground off the Labrador ' coast, The iceberg is 600 yards long; 300 yards wide and over . 100 ‘feet high. A. E, Collins, senior scientist in the ship, has estimated that it displaces 2,000 times the ’ Labrador and 160 times that weight of the . of the liner Queen Elizabeth. of ice daily for 25° years, It is encountered: during the last’ two years of Arctic operations. She is on her fourth annual voyage of exploration in the Far _ North and her third successive period in support of the sea-. borne supply of DEW Line sites in the Canadian Arctic. the largest. berg the ship has * It could supply each family in a city of 120,000 with 100 pounds : B.C. NEWS ROUNDUP ~ hee. Nake »Hungry’ Pe ‘ Latah Mey ¥, 4 fees meget ie rae REN tom ee AES tae . ; ° ue 'y “ y Printhead, gid oy tte, ue Up For PNEWo: (National Defence Photo): * - PRINCE RUPERT, B.C.,, TUESDAY, AUGUST 13, 1957 nid enges EL es . . . acute housing shorta ovided for by. CMHC. ® ¢ individual units.:\- - Government “VANCOUVER (CP)— The B.C. Government was A subsidized low rental housing plan involvy- Whe ee tl bee et a ieegy '@ Subsidized apartm <4 housing; is working successfully a told City Council last night. ‘economic , housing and. subsi- -\'dized housing. “Economic hous- challenged Monday night to declare a united policy with the Federal. govern- ment on approaching the United States regarding dae Saag gh . 4 : ea ee ay die Ai we ek: VAN COUVER (CP)—More than 1,600 job-hungry men and women stood ‘in line at-the Pacific N a- tional Exhibition grounds here Monday following a weekend ahrouncement thattemporary work would be | available. a. | Four hundred were standing | in,-pouring rain when National Employment Service fficials Opened the doors at 9 a.m. Some had been waiting since 7 a.m. _ During the first five hours 1400 Were registered at the tem-. porary office and re-directed to exhibitors and concessionaires for possible employment. Those still standing in line late in the afternoon. did not know that PNE officials had car- Her estimated there would be work only for 1,000 during the exhibition’s run, August 21-Sep- Mud Conceals Bodies “As Air Wreck Probed - - By GUY RONDEAU ngs eG wee. aan Canadian Press Stall Writer ISSOUDUN, Que (CP)—Mud and murky water today.concealed the bodies of 9 air crash victims and Rampered invéstigators trying to find what caused their DC-4 to dive earthward Sunday. ‘ Provincial policemen plodded: through ankle-deep nid Mon-! day collceling bits of clothing and personal effects and parts! of the badles of the 73 passen- gors sitid six crew members, Only a few hands and feet were. visible in the sodden aAwamp.afler the Marithnoe Cen- tral Airways pine, bound from England to Toronto, crashed nears this community 15 miles southwest of Quebec. Tollece plaead the Winbs in Gardbourd boxes and took them to Quebac. Polfee awalted on pump to drain the crater dredgad by the Plane before continuing — their soareh, ; ; A theory Unat thie plane wes sbruck oby lightning was dire counted by veloran alriine offle | ground Sinla; One polnted out there ho #onelusive evidenco that lightniag has ever caused a Mane’ to crash. The DO-d was nat xeon flying inte the thick cloudasaf a thunderstorm, “Gordon Rayner of Moncton, NU.,,.ehlel Inapector for MOA, Inspected the wregkaga and mele “tyre murat have been a terrifle toyes i. ~~ Rotary _KITIMAT | EXCURSION omVIAONR Avrignd 84 ALT AM PRT: Paros $8 Rotiwien — OMlldrons Ww Mare Proseads to Ohildren's Ward . wt Woapltal, “'Mohels Now On Salo! ¢ explosion when the plane hit the Both Rayne and Man- aging Director C, Burke of Charlottepown sald they had no Idea what caused the crash, PRAYS FOR DEAD Msgr. Maurice Roy, archbishop of uebee, Qdonned long rubber boots and made his way to the wreckage to pray for the cen, Police stood by as the arehbish- op recited prayers in both French and Enelish. ' Among the personab effects, pollee found the, diary of Buarb- ata TWrebner of Talington, Ont, who died in the wreek, She had recorded the first days of her holiday in Britain, . | » Sonrchers also found a wrist wateh with the hands stopped nt 3:16, The plane had Inst roport- od py radia toa the Quebec City control towor at 2:07 pan, BD'P, Roxidonts of this argn saw it Vy- Ing low and “naking w lot of nolao"” Just before tho crash, Bevonty-one of the 73 passon. gord abonrd tho plane wore from Ontaria, many fram the Hamil. ton-Torohto datriet, The only two from outside Ontario were a Charlottetown man and his gon. In Ottawa, it was yeportad a | pubiia Inquiry Wkoely will bo held, randport Miniator Joon talkod with, aden py telaphono ‘fram Jaspor, Alta, Wo tk due wt hla Otlawn offles Thursday, The pldne was piloted by Nore wn Ramsey of Montreal, de- sorlbod nsx “a good, well-fralnod pilot" by MCA, ‘a Wool, fal tember 2. ; With coat collars turned up and work clothes sodden, with the early morning rain, Hungar- lans, Dutch, English and a sprinkling of Canadians waited patiently as the queue moved slowly into a dance hall. Work was available for cooks, kitchen helpers, ride attendants, demonstrators and waitresses. “I have never seen anything like it in seven years here,” said an employment service spokes- nian. “There are nearly double the number of appilcants we handl- ed last year.” A PNE official sald: “Most of them aren't, standing In Nine to carn a few extra bucks. They're here because they're hungry,” * VICTORIA @-—A pré-employ- ment training program in avin- tlon mechanics will bo establish- ed oat Vancouver Voeational School by the provinelal gov- ernment, . Cost will be borne by the gove ernment. The Vancouver school honrd will provide the space, and wriines companies will lend ine structors and equipment. Education Minister Leslie Pet~ erson sald that orders of new and larger atreratt for the Von- couver aren will cause a stil grenter shortage ef airlines me- chanics handling engines and EIGHT CLIMBERS MAROONED : ‘ electrical control and communi- catipns equipment. In the past, he said, many young men from British Coluin- bia have gone east to get prelim- inary training in these trades, and then have been drawn into jobs there instead of returning to the coast. ‘¢ BAMBERTON, B.C. (-—Pro- duction at the B.C. ‘Cement Company plant here, halted Sa- turday when lightning blew out two transformers, is expected to resume Thursday. The lightning struck a high tension wire leading into the plant and knocked ott two 3,000 KVA transformers. yo The plant, sole B.C. producer of cement at this time, has an. output of 10,000 barrels a day, renner aes VICTORIA (Cabinet order- In-council Monday approved $12,000 as authorized payment for costs Involved in conducting i strike vote among 32,000 B.C, const lumber workers in June. labor relations branch of Depnrtment of Labor, Members of the International Woodworkers of America voted Almost unanimously for nection, A walkout was averted through the last-minute Inter. vention of Premier Bennett, the The vote was conducted by the| 2 striko. Columbia_power develop- Liberal leader Arthur Laing as {he accepted nomination for the Burnaby byelection. -Cheap power through the Co- lumbia development is B.C.'s prime requirement to attract new industries needing low capi- tal costs, said Mr. Laing. ‘He praised Fedéral proposals to require American power in- terests to pay for Canadian water storage in power, not cash, at a rate of 50 per cent of the extra power from downstream benefits. “ He criticized Premier Bennett for the late proposed “Kaiser deal” reported to allow an Am- erican firm to build “Ww dam at Castlegar and keep for itself 80 per cent of the downstream benefits.’ logging = Shutdown’ VANCOUVER ()—~B, C. Forest Products said Monday jt has clused down two Vancouver Is- land logging operations for a month, | Four hundred and eighty men have been laid off. All but 100 af these would be re-employed when production resumes Sept, The other will be dropped be- euse production is belng cure tvilecdl in view of current unfay- orable market conditions, a company spokesman sald, The month-long Jayoff jn. vides the notmal three-week sunmer holiday for loggers. v roth iQ Winds Hamper Alpine Rescue Drama | CHAMONIX, Pranec (Routers) ——-Roseue teams today wore held wp by strong winds and cloudy skies from starting a search for Wb least olaht elintbora missing Wround 19,.767~fool Mont Blane, Wuropo's highoat ponte. Tho search could be tho sec- ond large nine roscue drain in owlni tho - rescue Sunday of one of a fouremian party trapped on Eiger ponk in Switzerland, Threo groups of limber have aIneo boon reported in trouble In the Mont Wane avon,” One party of three Polos left Wut Sunday to ollmb tho 19,451 Thoth Alenia ponk | adjoining Mont Blane, A violont storm broke during the wight, and thoy Have nob haan soon shee, Two young: Yugoslava lod by N,Pollsh gulde dlanppoarad after lonving Chamontx Jat Wotlnons day to climb on Mont: Blane, Two other unidentified ellmb- ers have not been soon alneo they loft Chamonix three days ago to eclmb the Alguille duo Pru pork, Beurch opembtions on Mont Wiger wore also stalled today hy bad weathor, HMorman Golger, Swiss resene pilob, had plan- Ned to fly over the ponk today In the hope of finding some trace of two missing Gormana, Guenther Nothdurft and Goatz Molar, but was balked by thick mlat, ; Thore tx Mitle hope that they on Bttll be alive, Local and fore olgn guides who rescued Olnudla Corti, W-your-ala ItaWan, have already started ta Jenve, Through occasional broaks Jn the mlat it ls possible for ob- xorvors. ta aee the body of Stef. ane Longhi, ddeyour-old Itallan, cangling from the rope to which he was ittached to a rock by Na conyrades tn on ‘valn hope. thit he might bo saved Inter, Tho local rule ts that a body exposod to publie view must be retrieved ab public exponso, Bub exporta think the rule may be witlyed because of the risk from storms and avalanches to any- che making the attempl, , Escanee Captured A wan who had just heen nontencad ta two years loxx one Hy for theft, excaped from tho Terrace tnckup at Tam, Monday but wan re-oaptured lown than 24 hours inter hy ROMY at Wasellon, Whe Charlee Kasson way wpprohonded nt F aan. ity movelng, ROMP at Terrace are Invewtlvating the oxcune, The challenge was ma e by \ lation to the type of accommo- , come of a family and how great ‘blocks were easiest to, maintain. . 4 ot, 1 1, . : . ogee “alas e | d : ‘ : . y PRICE FIVE CENTS. ‘Deputy Minister | Mffers Alternatives € City of ‘Prince Rupert, currently trying to end its ge, could choose between the fol- owing alternatives: . : @ More economic low*rental housing units as ent blocks, _ Subsidized low. rental housing, which takes into,account the in- ° the family’s need is for such in Vancouver, J. E. Brown, depu- ty ‘Minister of Municipal Affairs Mr. ‘Brown, who happened” to be. in ‘this’ neighborhood when housing, was in the mews, ex- plained there was a “different. philosophy” between: low. rental ing. only. increases the stock of houses,” Mr. Brown said. ““‘Sub- sidized housing determines “how | many. need” the. accommodation and if.they can afford it. ONLY PLACE ~— Prince Rupert-is the only place. in B.C. with economic low rental housing. Varfcouver has the only subsidized rental project in the province—the Little Mountain area—which includes apartment |: blocks. — Le. ’ Mr.. Brown said that whereas in the economic units—such as are provided by CMHC, the rents|_ oes j oe ga ss Baeet eee Lf GENT ees res ; ie oe s oa ae 7 t yr ae A Us . A HAIR-RAISING. TIE!—Vying’ for the “Girl With the Longest neat 48 inches. C without splitting hairs! ding :taxes, in bear all costs inclu ub heme cost not ‘Differences on the’ .rents 5. shared ‘by- the. three govern-. ments, Federal.'75 per cent, pro- vincial 12144 per cent and city, 12% per cent.. The city share works out to about one eighth. Rentals are “geared” to in- comes and the rents bear. no re- dation Mr. Brown said.. A few years ago, he said, the govern- ment would not accept welfare people as tenants but this has been changed. . - Old age pensioners are also acceptable under _ sibsidized housing. - y “It’s not where they. get their income but what js the income that determines -the rents,” Mr. Brown said. , CONSIDER KIDDIES | ; Mr. Brown said ,apartment Arrangements are made for children when the site,is con- sidered—play space. . ' “But with this .type of subsi- dized housing the Federal gov- ernment doesn’t like to confine it to one category of person, Mr. Brown sald, “so jt is hadly like- ly you would get a single project for old age pensioners.” As an alternative for housing for pensioners, Mr. Brown cited the servite club scheme whereby 10 per cent of the capital cost is provided by such an organiza- tion, The B.C, government gives one third and the remaining money is borrowed from CMHC at 4%-per cent, “What would be the Umitation on .incomes?” asked - Mayor George. Hills. “In Vancouver the minimum Is $100 and the maximum ts $200 per month Mr, Brown. said. “That's ty Little Mountain, Thosd {guros are for a working family, SET RUNTAL | Ne sald the housing wubhority Vener eremagryer en eee (Continued on Page §) See — HOUSING ohida ty bh Discounts Alcohol -. VANCOUVER (iA pitholog- ist Monday oxoaluded alcahotia {mpalrmont.as a factor in the private pool drowning in| West, Vancduvoer ladt Friday, Olty pathologiat.Dr, TR. Hare mon told an Inqnost Jury that Philippe IDolosallo, a Vanco vor lumber oxovutivo, had an ale cohallc content of 16 por cont iy hls blood shortly after the aceldont, Dr. Harmon antes "his docs Not Indlanto a very high dogree of Impalrmont, This young nian was quite capable of looking after himuolg in the pool,” y council is considé: West -near the waterfront fire hall, providing the fire chief is in agreement and the price is suitable.” Council accepted report . of Planning assistant °P. D. Me- Govern that this was the most Suitable of three locations. It provides. easy and fast access to all downtown area via cross Streets, the land is relatively cheap and could be cleared at low cost and the site is relatively unattractive for industry or * tresses and Sunriy Chappel’s raven black hair; both mea . Consequently, :the award was: split in -half— : | commerce. forthe Helene Cur . Hair,” Malia Phill ; as the locatio Other Seventh Street and the corner of Sixth Avenue - Street. 7 ae : The First: Avenue location is opposite Lindsays Cartage prem- ises. A motion that Council accept — the report and recommendations 193 feet Coe 9:26 45 féeh n for-d'new ~~ locations. considered” were Second Avenue West and and McBride ‘rential weekend rain storms here ‘Storms Threaten Crops “PRINCE GEORGE () — Tor- have threatened with destruction, Heavy stands of wheat and Gabs were knocked to the ground when 1,54 Inches of rain fell in 24 hours Sunday, It was the coldest, wettest weekend in Prince George this yer, If the weather doesn't clear and there is no sunshine within the next week agriculturists fear crops won't ripen before the carly September frosts. Rain kept weekend travellers kway from Jakasicde resorts and ntaca some district roads ini- passabla, Tho weather offlee reported Monday that 3.33 inchos of rain have fallen so far in August, This is a record in any month, an oftlelal said, farm crops was carried, Alderman T, Norton. Youngs dissenting. Ald. Youngs felt the site was not the most suitable, Council following . recommenda- tion of Fire Chief Earl Becker. Utilities Committee ts meeting to work out’ détails, Hydro Project Okayed VICTORIA (O—T'he B.C. Wléee- tric Company has boon given the go-ahead by the Publie Util-’ sles Commission for a new hy- dro development in connection with its Cheakamus River. pro« ‘fect north of Squamish, The company has been grant-. ed a certificate of public con- venience and necessity for the “Brandywlno ae ps opment” in volving a nine-mile unnel from the Choakamus Rivor, and two. high-powered turbines at the Poworhouse on Dalsy Lake Reg~. ervolr. Floorlayers Strike, ‘Construction Halts VANCOUVER ‘W—Work on 16 ‘construction projocta came to wt standstill Monday whon 140 flooplayors wont on strike over the date on which an agreod pay inerense Work on the projects, which t--~ Involve contrnets ostimated to bo worlly $5,000,000 and Inalude additions to schools and an Army houslng schome, was stop- ped by refusal of 600 other aon- struction workers to oross pickot nos sot up by the floorlayors' union, Union officlus anid the Bettor Moors Bureau, which representa tho 16 contractors Involved, has Inalstod that a td-sent Ine aronse In the hourly wage ahould bo offective whon the new contract ts slgned. The unlon hag domanded that months retronctive yey and won't hive any more of tt,” Bruce Robson,: doserihed the “unroguonablo" should became affective, | the Increase be made rotronae. tivo to April 1 whon tho old cone tract oxplrod, The Proposed cones tract brings tho prosont hourly WARO of $2.42 to $2.54, ther Incrensoy to $208 Oct, 1 with fure: nel $2.80 April 1, 1060, 3 “Tho men lost out on tive‘ pay = Inat anid union business agont , We A spokesman for thio’, bureny unton's ublitude ye “ oe we \ is also considering: purchase of a La France fire. truck |