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find ‘rolling on its expensive way tHese days,

. it is.“The Old Man and the
Sea.” one ‘of those jinxed epics
that come along to plague movie
» Makers now'and then. Last year,

-hroducer ‘Leland Hayward and!

‘director Fred Zinneman shot for

three months on the Hemingway |

elassic in Cuba. The project blew
up;amid’ mutterings between tne
two. a
‘x After new locations in Hawaii,
_The Old Man and.the Sea js fin-
ishing up at Warner Brothers
With a new dixector, John Stur-
ges. The old man is the same:
‘ Spencer ‘Tracy.
. @ The:..amiable. grouch wos
- Spending a brief rest from: the
tessing. fishing boat. in his
dressing room. He surely looked

- the part—white hair, ‘sunburned

face and a white
: Sa aah ”
SAME SCRIPT
-:%What-caused all the trouble in
Guba? “The script? . ;
“¥“No; -there was nothing wrong
“with the:script. It’s the same one
We're using now. It's all: Heming-
Way’s words; we haven't chang-
.edia thing: People may hate the
‘Ricture, but they can’t claim it
isn't Hemingway.” Te
“Then ‘what was the -problem
“Don’tiask. me. It- was a.mat-

br, between Hayward and_ Zin-
- Ieman.« Maybe Zinneman could-
“itt; standto see my face every
- morhing—I don’t know. Anyway,
he ‘finally quit.”

« Tracy said the picture will
cost ,$5,000,000. Three ~ million

stubble of

   

 

Prionce Rupert Daily News
Fuasday,-August 13, 1957 ‘

‘Movie Column.
by Bob Thomas

ted “trouble picture” is ‘rocking.

 

ca, After looking at what had
been filmed, he suggested a six-
month recess to assemble the
usable foojage and prepare for
additional shooting. .

“Luckily, they. had an actor
who was stupid,” Tracy re-
marked, referring to himself. “I
put off other pictures to remain
available for this one, I’ve got

Fox, and “The Last. Hurrah” ‘at
Columbia, and I didn’t know if
they would wait for me,. Fortun-
ately, both schedules have. been
pushed back. «‘ .

_“T really wanted to do The
O]d Man and the Sea. But if I
had known what trouble it was.
{going to be, I never would have
agreed to jt.
birds.”

Secret
Treaty
Denied

LONDON (i—The Foreign Of-
fice denied. today that a-secret
treaty signed 37 years ‘ago gave
the rebel Imam of Oman any
right to set up an independent
State on the Persian Gulf. ~

A spokesman said the treaty
had been broken by the Imam

 

 

 

weht to the Cuba location: whith
will"produce only 20 per cent of
$hé ‘film. :
$1X:MONTH RECESS

‘# When Zinneman left the pic-

himself end therefore “the so-
calied agreement of Sib signed
in 1920 is no longer valid.”

The treaty never has been
published. .The ‘Foreign Office
says Britain was only a media-

 

ture, both John Ford and John
‘Huston offered to take over the,

‘teins, Tracy added. But it was

tor in the signing of the treaty
and cannot publish its terms.
The Imam of Oman, spiritual

“Ten North Fréderick”: to do at| |

This is for the|,

‘| Mr. ‘and .Mrs. Erling Pederson

.{tents-and having a good time
.{ fishing. .

‘years ago when he came with a

‘farm behind Snodgrass Lake not

ranch is. now.

men have made out a cheque,

Bank of Commerce
Lake- for safekeeping.

 

 

LADIES OF THE LAKE—Ten
exotic background during the

Canada and western United States, A Hawaiian theme was

contestants for the title of
international regatta at
on Lake Okanagan featured swimming and diving events with contestants from all parts of ~

 

“Lady of the Lake” pose before an
Kelowna, B.C. The: four-day regatta

planned for this year’s celebration,

 

(CP Photo)

 

‘By. AGNES H, NEAVE
-_ Dally. News Correspondent -
Mr: and Mrs. Cliff Bartlett and

are spending a-week in this dis-
trict:- They are camping with

They left their child-
ren home in Prince Rupert. Mr.
Bartlett lived here thirty seven

wagon and team with his par-
ents.as a small child to live on a

far from where the Van Zanten

Here is a new way to stop
smoking—just copy Dave Fehr
and Jake Dyck and you will pro-
bably make the grade. These

value $100, payable to the other,
and have placed them in the
in Burns
If one of

routine, he wasn’t a bit interest-
ed when I asked him if he would
help out with the mail, which
has just come in. .

He brought his boat with him
on a trailer behind’ the car. It
is a beautifully made fourteen
foot round bottomed Carvel buiit
boat of varnished cedar which
he built himself. .

Mr. and Mrs. J. Denning and
their children, George, Fred and
Beverley, stopped here for. a

 

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to exist as an independent state.

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‘Britain is engagéd in military
operations to help the. Sultan
quell the rebellion launched last
month by the Imam. The Sul-
tan told newspaper men in Mus-
cat Sunday that he considered
valid
because it had. been. breached
by the other. signatories...
The agreement of Sib is at-the
core of. the dispute between the
Sultan and the Imam. -It. was
signed by the father of the pre-
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of the interior, -inciodings th
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The Anglican Sunday School
Mission. van has been in this vi-
week, with
Miss Sally Dawson of Montreal
and. Miss Doris Woolley of Mea-
cham, Saskatchewan, in charge.
They left Smithers on July 1,
and will keep travelling until the

gary. They expect to be away
from home in Prince Rupert for
about three weeks in all,

Mr. Dennis Rouse and Mr.
Charles Balagno and Greg Lund-
quist (Mr. Balagno’s grandson)
Stayed in the Log Cottage on
Saturday night. They ‘caught
some trout, and left for Prince
Rupert on Sunday afternoon ©

 

Word has been received telling
of the death of Mr. Jack Newton
in Port Townsend. He died sud-
denly of a heart attack at 85
years of age. His wife died seven
years ago, after they left their
home which is now known as
“Paradise Lodge” at Noralee.
They came here in 1933. Mr.
Newton was living with his sister
Margaret who kept house for

 

end of September.

 

' We have heard several com-",

ments about how good the road
is. between “Burns Lake and
Francois Lake Landing, and

many have said that it is as
good as any on the highway, ex-
ception of course the black top-
ped parts. The road has been
straightened and a lot of work
done.on. it last year. We expected
“poor roads where it was newly
built, but it is good all the way,
for which we are grateful.

Mat Nobles is back again on
the ferry. after being off all
summer owing to ill health. Al-
bert. Beaver took his place.

 

- Abe Weins has a badly cut

working on the Short Mill at
Colleymount. .

 

Mr, and Mrs, Douglas Kerr and
sons Ron and Bruce of Prince
Rupert stayed one night in the
Ferry Cottage here this weck.
They have been camping and
fishing for a week, and visiting
friends at Wistaria and with
Gordon Lawson here, Gordon
Is Mr. Kerr's cousin,

Mr. Kerr left Wistaria, where
he and his family used to live,
in 1929 when he went away to
school. - '

They once owned a pony nam-
ed Pet, and when he read In my
column that we have a pony af
that name he wondered if it
nueht possibly have been his old

 

him after Mrs. Newton died. Mrs.
Ralph Johnson who is still liv-
ing at Noralee is their adopted
daughter. . -

Herman Fehr of! Marilla lost
the first finger of his right hand
when he caught it in the fan of

in to Burns Lake for medical
care.

 

Mr, James Hickey passed away
late on Tuesday afternoon in the
Burns Lake hospital. He would
soon have ‘been eighty seven
years old, and has been very ac-
tive around his home and farm.
He was walking past Larry’s Ser-
vice Station in Burns Lake with
Clarence Corliss when he became
dizzy and fell down on the side-
walk. Although he was in tne
hospital in a few minutes and
was given immediate attention

and he passed quietly away.
Mr. Hickey was one of the old
timers of this district, and his

tended school here at Francis
Lake, Mrs. Hickey diced many
years apo. In February this year
veread Hickey died after a few
day's illness, leaving ai young
wife and: four small children,
The loss of his apn was a great
shock, ,

Staying ate the Partington
farm are old friends af the fam-
ily Marion and THI Sanford and
small ten months old son Greg.
Their home is in Vancouver, but
they are now in Prince George
where J3iH is sub-foreman in-
stalling the new dial phone sys-
tem there, They expect to be in
Prince George until the end of
January,

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lovely sunny periods between,
This has been most discouraging
for those trying to get on with
the haying as the dry. periods
are too short to allow the hay to
dry sufficiently ‘to handle. The
hay seems to be green and still
growing, so it is not taking harm
from not being cut

It has been’ so wet this: last
week that we have not been out
fishing once, and it , happens
that our cottages are all empty.
Although the rains have been
heavy there are lovely periods
during part of the day when it
is warm and pleasant, so that
holidaymakers can take advan-
tage and be out of doors. But
when one is working a@nd has
only one afternoon off and the
eyenings, it isn’t easy to catch
up ona nice “period. Several
families will.be moving in dur-
ing the week-end, and things
will liven up again. We have

 

| BLACKWOOD on

BRID

_|I.°-. By EASLEY BLACKWOOD ;
‘Tentative’ Double By Mr. Champion

According to Muzzy
“What a lousy double,” complained Mr.- Muzzy

after Mr. Dale had racked up his two’ diamond con-
tract with two overtricks, : _ :

Is “A Lousy Double’

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The play had gone as jollows.
Mr. Champion opened his single-
ton spade. Mr. Muzzy won with
ihe King and the ace-and led a
third spade. . .

Mr. Dale ruffed with the ‘king
of diamonds and then took the
marked finesse against Mr.
Champion’s jack. He picked up
the last trump, conceded a club
and claimed four-odd. «| ~

Mr. Champion held his head
in his hands. “How could you
decide to leave me in my tenta-
tive double ” he screamed, “Here
we have a cold slam in hearts
and.you let them play a doubled
contract where they can make
two extra tricks.” __

“What kind of a double did
you say it was?” Mr. Muzzy
asked.

“A tentative
Champion barked.

double,” Mr.

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vince. “I still think lousy’ is a
better name than ‘tentative’ for
that double of yours,” he growl-

Talks |

 

 

In Poland

co “4 ook
WARSAW (h—~Poland's Com-
munist party has ended a coun-
try-wide series of, pep’ meetings
to prod members to. action in
the face of mounting ‘economic
troubles. , aS
Reports Indicate many ‘of the
party’s 1,400,000 members have
withdrawn frony all: political
work. Only the party leadership
knows what proportion .remains
active: after. the shocks of de-
Stalinization, the -Poznan up-

rising and the tHungarian ‘revol-|

ution, Estiniales here in the
capital’run from 250,000 to 750,-
000. .
The -party’s insistence that
only a Communist-led produc-
tion drive can ‘improve living
standards and bring real free-
dom has run into renewed trou-
ble with the workers it was de-
signed to impress.

Industrial production, ‘up to
plan during the first five months
of the year, slumped during the

Canadian —
Contracts

Drop

TORONTO (CP) —
Canadian construction
contract awards in the
first seven months of this
year totalled $1,640,215,-
500 down $353,376,660 :
from the record figure in
the corresponding period
last year, says Hugh Cc.
MacLean Building Re-
ports, ee,

Seven-month figures by“cate-
gories, with the “corresponding
figures for last year were:

' Residential $435,424,600, down
$272,367,500; business $161,196,-
000, up $17,837,600; Industrial
$276,539,900, down $21,764,200:

engineering $467,055,000, down
$79,082,500.

ALL AREAS DOWN

Seven-month figures by re-
gions were: *

Atlantic $92,920,600, down $11,-
900,200; Quebec , $299,469 800,
down $252,279,600; Ontario $758,-
887,400, down $32,213,000: West-
ern $488,937,900, down $58,983,-.
800. oe ”
Awards In July totalled |
100,500, down $131,961,900-"

July figures. ‘by categories
Were? ee

Residential - $78,598,000, down
$21,208,100;. business _ $74;561,100,
down $2,080,000; Industrial $25,-
203,900, down $41,403,300; engin-
cering $69,638,100, down $67,270,-
Fo] (] | ee :

July figures by regions were:

Atlantic $24,700,000, up $7,200,-
000 reflecting gains in residen-
tial and engineering; . Quebec
$64,100,000, down = $25,700,000;
Ontario $95,200,000,-down $32,-
100.000; Western | ~ $63,900,000
down $81,300.000, reflecting drops
in industrial and engineering.

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missed the children and _ the
ponies will be getting fat and
lazy with nothing to do. , The
little lane leading to the new
cottage has been gravelled SO ,
that cars can get up and down
easily. : .

“Never heard of it,” Mr. Muz-
zy stated. “And don’t make up

shift the blame onto me. I had
no diamonds at all so I figured
you have a million of them.”

Mr. Muzzy’s argument. sounds
good—but Mr. Champion was
right. If you never-doubled un-
less you held five or six trumps
behind the overcaller, you would
lose thousands of points. Profi-
table doubling for penalties re-
quires co-operation from your
partner. -

When partner. doubles and you
have none of the enemy’s suit, it
is far from sound to believe that
your partner is loaded - with
trumps. In these cases it is much
more likely that a good trump
holding will show up in dummy
and that one or both of the op-
veqnents—will--be- short in your
long suit or suits, Lo

With a minimum opening in
high cards and no diamonds,
Mr. Muzzy should have said
two hearts on the’ second
round of bidding. Even if he
failed to get the heart. slam
(which incidentally could have
been defeated on the unlikely
opening of a club), he would
have got a substantial plus
score.

 

Aluminium
Limited Profits

MONTREAL ©—’'. Aluminum
Limited and its consolidated sub-
Sidiaries report a net income
Of $26,547,813 for the six months
ended June 30 compare with
$24,797,657 in the corresponding
period of 1956. :

The profit for. the first half
share against 83 cents.

Sales amounted to $202,335 this
year against $198,447,753 a year
ago while cost of sales was $114,-
406.079 this year against $119,-
675,542.

Net income for the subsidiary,
Aluminum Company -of Canada
Ltd., was $19,861,224 for the first
six. months of this year compar-
cd with $16,618,599,

 

 

 

  
    

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summer and the party headed
by Wladysldw Gomulka is alarm-
ed. * S ' .

The pep meetings discussed a
letter. from the leadership which
spoke frankly’ about the econ-
omic” problem. It said workers
can expect no wage hikes this
‘year and strikes would hamper
chances of improvement.

..The official party newspaper
Trybuna Ludu said the Iectter
aroused great interest.

Big July jobs in the West in-
cluded:

Paving, Northwest Territories,
$2,400,000; steel foundry, Port
Coquitlam, B.C., $1,700,000; hos-

j pital, Chilliwack, B.C., $1,500,000.

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