ei Be ah See ssciteraeteeteer Tes aoa Sei Sree eon ee ay eo Ea SS CESS O INE NN eee! Ea ROS Be Oat ene TE ES Ea i ge ar aS a ‘losing his children. _ other's activities. ya os hind hw iP wt pe? ‘eB WEATHER Cloudy Friday. Little ohange in temperature. Winds light except northwest 15 in exposed areas. Low tonight and high Friday at Port ,Hardy 35 and 65, Sandspit and Prince Rupert 45 and 65. re eS a a Pe a Tal Pd dey t er SPO a tha a dw ad Oe TB Pon at ee ng gle eee a eee rince Rupert ' ¢ Published at Canada’s Most Strategic Pacific Port — And Key to the Great Northwest one ee ove = pee eee Be Maen VICTORIA, B, ¢, Daily News DSRS T ngs ae PROVINCIAL LIBRARY, MN steele yids wpe | ' . ss | E5 Ng Friday, september 20, 1967 (Pacific Standard Time) High acccsseuee 10: 36 18.3. fect 22:42 19.8 feet LOW scene 4516 . . 4.8 feet 16:38 6.9 ‘feet co me VoL, XLVI, No, 220 PRINCE RUPERT, B.C., THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 19, 1957 ne “KILLED WIFE” Hater Of D Aids In Dru ~ VANCOUVER (CP)—An informer who “hates” dope peddlers says he is r Wednesday of 12 of the 21 suspected narcotic traffick- ers rounded up in Vancouver’s drug handlers in six months, He told a reporter that dope “pushers’—the men and women who peddie drugs—killed his wife and were responsible for his ‘He said the RCMP pays him $50 for each! pusher convicted. He nceds the money to get his coat from a pawn shop and to pay his back; rent. The informer chiims to have: worked in Calgary and Edmon- ton turning in pushers_ since 1948 when he returned from the air force and found his wife an addict.’ She died two years later. | His children have been adopted in-Winnipeg. The roundup resulted from an investigation so secret that two police undercover men on the case were unaware of each Last March! RCMP. and- city: - police “raided! known underworld” haunts ‘and | put 24 suspected pushers behind ; bars. The latest purge found two RCMP constables, Gene Beatty; and Harry Oosthoeck, both from | Eastern Canada, working’ inde- - pendently in Vancouver's under- world haunts. . Bail for one of the suspects, who appear in police court here PORT ALBERNI, B.C. @— Mayor Loran Jordon says resent- ment is felt against the RCMP when its officers not only in- vestigate and arrest but act,as prosecutors, Port Alberni council decided to retain &. A. Dinsmore as pro- secuting officer in the hope of improving relations between the public and the police. RCMP Set. T. W. West told councll there has been strong rug Pushers g Roundup esponsible for the arrest second major purge of today was set a $12,0G0. Three others will have to post $10,000. The informer said he was not an addict himself though he had ;to take dope to win the confi- dence of the traffickers. He took only smal! amounts, He said a pusher tried to “get him” last June when he posed.as an addict. He took the needle lana the next thing he knew he was in hospital. The shot con- {tained not heroin but chlorale- ; hydrate, a powerful sedative. He ‘was found unconscious in a washroom. The informer—short, pale, and although only 30, looking 50— said-he “got the guy” who taught [nis wife the habit. \ “He got five years. Vli get a lotsmore. yét.” .. tee obec ee - Another informer, from ‘Nova Scotia, works in Vancouver too: | the man said. He uses medicine to make the pupils of his eyes! icontract. Small pupils are one: 'of the tell-tale effects of dope. | The first™HYWYonwWw not difficult to buy wholesale in Vancouver. ANYONE CAN “PUSH" | “Anyone can push. If you | j want 50 caps {capsules of her-} oin) you can get them for $2 each. Under that it is $3. Any- one can push if he has enough money to buy 50 caps.” He said caps cost $5 each from pushers but he had scen them as high as $18 in Edmonton. “Don’t get me wrong. do this myself. They friends of mine.” Because of his wife and chil- dren he informs. “And I'll keep doing it. All my life.” narco i 1 IT don't are no feeling against the police. -SEATO Conferenice Program Held Despite Thailand Coup BANGKOK, Thailand (n—iili- tary advisers of the Southeast Asia , Treaty Oranglaation met todiy despite this week's coup that toppled pro-Western Pre- mier PY Pibulsonggeram, "The conference program will be the same, only the hosts will be different,” said a spokesman for Marshal Sarit Thanarat, armed forees chief who seized power Monday, Although rumored to be anti- SHATO, Sarit: had sald lhe would continue Thathind's close co-ap- eration with the nnitl- Conmmu- Driver Found Not Guilty Raymond Charles dotter wie nequitted of a eharge of Impalr- ed driving when he appenred be- fore Migistrate oi I Apple- whalte In police court this ner. nH. Jotter pleaded not puilty to the alleged offence whon the ease opened yoslorday and Mur strate Applewhalte found hing not wutlty thts morning. ORMES Daily Delivery ® DIAL 2151 —~—DRUGS ee Wee pho ot lg, nist allance and said he wanted to . Keep SEATO's permanent headquarters in Bangkok. PJans for the advisers’ mect- Ing had been drawn up long be- fore the bloodless coup that put Sarit Ip power, Conference delegates included Admiral Fellx Stump, Pacifle fleet commander, for the United States, SEATO members in ad- dition to Thajland and the Unit- ed States are Austrailia, France, New Zenland, Pakistan, the Phil- Ipplnes and Britaln, KING'S APPROVAL King Phumiphon Aduldet Wednesday night put oa legal okny on Saritv’s agsumption of contral, naming the marshal military custodian of Bangkok. The order sald Sarit would serve In that position until ao new cnbinet ia named. Tho king also dlksolved the old purlament and appointed — iW new represontatives, They will sorve wnt) new elections are hold within three months, Sarit, moanwhilo, sought, — to porsuade Plbulsongamm, pre. infer for 10 years, to return to Brnekok, verre. ot myn sneneesannsenterennreene Ake Win Cadet OTTAWA "The ROAW sociation trophy awarded annie Wly to the most profielant Alt Gucot aquadron jn Canada, hon boon won bhla year by 68b (Onan. ndaln) Squadron, Montreal, the Aly Gndet Teague announeod Wadnoxday, Tho traphy will he preaontod at the annual dinner of the Quobee provinedal aasocla- flon af Aly Gadet Lenges in Montreal Oot, 1% ached PAPAL be Sd gre eet t FEBRUARY 15, 1958 has t been set for a completion date of the new $450,000 Prince Rupert Fishermen’s Co-operative associ- ation department store, it was reported today. Architect's sketch above shows half- block long building which will grace Prince Rupert business section on the corner of Third Avenue and First Street. In corner at left will be offices of Prince Ru- pert Fishermen's Credit Union, Kaien Credit Union and Celco Credit Union. At rear of credit unlon offices will be Prince Ru- pert Fishermen's Settlement office. To right of front door along Third Avenue, Iet to right, will be hardware section, coffee bar and drug department. One floor below sidewalk level will be grocery department which, with consumer division offices, will occupy almost the entire floor. Consumer divisior, will be ‘under direction of manager Richard North and assistant man- ager D, A. Bowen. At right is shelter for escalator which’ will bring up grocery parcels from checkout station to spacious parking lot. NEW MINISTER OF FISHERIES COMING TO CITY NEXT WEEK Canada’s new Minister of Fisheries J. Angus McLean will make his first official visit to Prince Rupert September 26 and 27, it was announced here today in a telegram reccived by K. F. Harding, general manager and secretary of the Prince Rupert Fishermen’s Co-operative association, from .Deputy Minister George Clark. Mr. Harding was informed that “unless anything unforeseen develops” in Mr. McLean’s itinerary, he will definitely make a two-day visit here next Thursday and Friday. The minister wishes to acquaint himself with west coast fisheries and fish plants and mect with the board of cirectors of the PRFCA, Mr. Harding was informed. Today Gordon S. Reade, fisheries supervisor for Canadian Government Department of Fisheries here, is attending a confer- ence with Mr. McLean in Vancouver. Clean House Or Get Out WASHIN GTON (AP)—An AFL-CIO. committee .in effect gave the International Union of Teamsters choice today of getting rid of James R. Hoffa and other leaders it labelled as corr rrupt or | being ousted from the federation. poe That is the gist of an AFL-CIO ethical practices committee re-| bloody and port which says the teamsters; many years. union is corruptly dominated. What effect this will have on The report named Hoffa, Dave: the 44-year-old Hoffa’s ampi- Beck, Frank Brewster and others| tions to take over the teamsters as being responsible. presidency from Dave Beck will The AFL-CIO executive coun- | depend on how delegates react to cil, which meets in New York! the teamsters convention. It next week, still must act on the | Starts Sept. 30 at Miami Beach, report and prescribe the terms i Fla. Hoffa, like Brewster, now is of any penalty. But that is re- | a union vice-president. Three garded as a formality. The de-, other union officlals are oppos- cision is up to the teamsters: A; ine Hoffa for the presidency. thorough clean-up, or seemingly Hoffa, meanwhile, faces furth- certain ouster from the AFL-/ cr disclosures about his checker- ClO famlly of unions. ied labor career here next Tues- ‘ ‘ y i + re - HEAVY PENALTY day al new hearings by the Sen ate rackets committee, This ts no meaningless penal- an ona : , ty, It would mean teamsters of- MUST LEAVE UNION felals everywhere would have to The committee's findings im- forfelt positions of prominence! plied that expulsion of the team- | in key state and local habor eche- -| sters would follow not only elec- jlons. It also would mean ostra-' tion of Hoffa as the unton's ized labor—-a fight that could be could endure for eism and all-out warfare with | ‘president but even his retention ; included i ORES, practically a the rest of organ. | in the union in any ta ay: velty. emeernerctce mene sete Rta at ae Pr , : a er Re in aa, r ‘ rn : ri av mu ; mn era ee a mA BAST MEBTS WEST — Countvlos from boty sides of the tron Curtily will oxhibst thotr pro- diet ab the Vienna Autumn Fale, Workmen are puttlag final touches on tho pavillons of the United States Cforeground) and .tho Soviet Union Cleft, rear), Tells Teamsters. ' _able smell of cyanide in the air -said it was not in dangerous pro- ~ Declared THAMESVILLE, Ont. Ontario community of 1,100 ter today after a speeding port truck and dumped 25 t ide on its door-step. An army of workers, many of them volunteers and aware of possible danger to themselves, sought to get rid of the mess be- fore wind or rain could’ spread its fumes throughout the town. At daylight, Police Chief Rob- ert Letts said the picture was improving. There was a nptice- but*chemical advisers on hand at the barricaded level crossing portion. Cyanide at full strength Residents Help can: kill at a sniff. Provincial police, civil defence workers and residents pitched in to picket off the area after a state of emergency was declared. The deadly blanket was spread shortly before midnight when a tractor-trailer owned by the Truck Transport Company Lim- ited of Dearborn, Mich, was sliced in two at the crossing by John Mulroney Dies Suddenly. -A.Prince, Rupert resident since ws :who during. the: war’ was business agent for the Interna- tional Union of .Operating En- gineers, Local 510, died suddenty yesterday afternoon en route to the Prince Rupert General Hos- OFT eee eee ee” . John Mulroney, 1057 Ninth Av- enue East, aged 65, suffered a) fatal heart attack while working ! for Canadian Comstock Com- pany Ltd. Born in Moncton, New Bruns- wick, He came to British Colum- | bia in 1919 later moving with his family to Prince Rupert in 1943. Surviving him are his wife, Esme; two sons, Dennis of Prince Rupert and David of Vancouver and three grandchildren, Funeral arrangements, in the hands of Ferguson Funeral Home will be announced later. Inquest Set Tomorrow Night It is hoped that the inquest into the deaths of three Skide- gate women who died suddenly in Prince Rupert August 27 and 28, will be resumed tomorrow at & pam, in the City Hall, RCMP sald today. The three women, Mrs, Nina Lund, 60 and her two daughters Miss Lucinda Wesley, 36 and - Mrs, Anne Boser, 34, died after Heating a meal, reported to have home-canned salmon ad + WAGNER I eet ye epattnneemonens 9464 eapernednpine ts peeneH Ht WHely symbollvesy the cooxly- toned and ttade competition at what ta desert bed asthe “most taternational’ fate tn the world, This is the flrat yenr that the U8, has Ww pavitlon at the Vienna exhibit, eh Ae Sy UR gh at eh Aaa ete woe L ruck-CNR Cras yanide State Of Emergency By Police (CP)—This southwestern mobilized to avert a disas- train knifed into a trans- ons of death-dealing cyan-|, train No. 105, bound from Tor- onto to Windsor. Pieces of the truck and cargo of cyanide pellets were scattered over a quarter-mile area. Truck-driver J. C. Sluder of Wayne, Mich., was taken to hospital at Chatham, 17 miles southeast of here, for treatment to slight shoulder cuts. Nobody else was injured. Chief Letts said the: police de- partment, acting on the advice of a chemist from the Dow Chemical Company at Sarnia, ordered the poisonous debris— two and three feet deep in spots —shovelied into barrels and trucked away to be buried in a remote area. Mist Could Kill The operation began overnight and was still going on this morn- ing. rain could turn the cyanide dust in the atmosphere into a lethal mist. - The weather office in Toronto PRICE FIVE CENTS ‘ its | There were warnings that i early today forecast Hight rain for the area this. afternoon. Winds would be about 15 miles an hour. Late today some residents were complaining that the wind had blow some. of:.the®. fumes their of eyes and noses. Lime was spread over Thames- ville streets near the crossing to help neutralize the effects of the cyanide. §, . Anv‘early proposal to hose down the littered tracks was ve- toed on the grounds the poison might find its way through sew- ers to the Thames River, con- taminating the water supply of Chatham 17 miles to the south- west. After removal and burial was decreed the only safe disposal method, the volunteer crews went to work. Crews Warned “They were warned of the pos- sible danger,” Chief Letts said, “but they went right at it. We've got about 100 men on the scene now and the situation, as far as it can be, seems under control.” The danger was lessed by the fact that the men were working in open air and the wind was negligible. No gas masks were used, Police reinforcements, medical aid and ambulances were either on the scene or within immed- jate call should the situation take a turn for the worse, the chief said, A spokesman for Du Pont of Canada said in Toronto today the shipment of copper cyanide dumped over the countryside near Thamesville in southwest- em Ontario Wednesday night after a rail-truck collision, was en route from the American Du Pont Company's plant in Buffalo to Detroit, We said Due Pont chemists here confirmed | that copper cyanide must be handled with respect but said it was nat really dangerous unless re- acted with acid, The chemists sitid water did not affeet (he ‘way and. it was’ causing stinging |:. yeas ‘her: ‘Coronation: ‘gown when she opens the’ Ganadian Be -Hament next month. This pHoto, taken on the eve of the cor nation in 1953, shows the Queen in the Normian~Hartnell- designed gown of white satin. It bears the ‘Commonwealth emblems in jewels and pastel silks. - {CP Photo) B.C. NEWS’ ROUNDUP ©Then general increase applied for may appear large but we have shown it would do no more than establish a base rate gen- erally similar to that prevailing in the industry in the U.S.,", a uion spokesman sald, Quoting lengthy lists of ALCAN's assets and net profits, the union asserted there is “no question of ability to pay,” ere ses teense es emcee VICTORIA @—The choice of a speaker for the legislature tics between A. S. Matthew, MLA for Vancouver “Centre, and Tom Bate the member for Vancouver- Point Grey, a povernment source said Wednesday, ot een eet VANCOUVER @--A British enbinet minister said Wednesday Britain has made an outstanding post-war economic recovery but he held Htgle hope of Increasing British purchases from British Columbia, Derick Weathcont Amory, Brit- Ish minister of agriculture, told chemlent. Tt wis, however, poisonous in drinking water, reporters surviving dollar ra- nC, form together, JO, 1058. The world-famous RCMP Musleal Ride and which will perform for five weeks jn B.C, at centennial colebra~ tons next yenr, Wil both appear in Prince Rupert, Contennial committee and RCMP west const division announced Wednesday that from July 28 to August a0 next year the ride and band will visit almost every section of tho province, AL 10 engagements the ride and the 46-plece band will pore RCMP'S MUSICAL RIDE, BAND Will COME HERE SEPARATELY RCMF band According oa schedule recelved here the hand will perform In Princes Rupert duly 4 26, W058 and the ride wilh appear Angust Tho ride will make 17 seharate appearances In 13 centres and the band will give 30 concerts ab 28 places, Wrst concerh will be at Vernlo July contonninl debub at Oranbrook July 23. Mombors of the rldo have Just returned from Britaln after WV atmer tour, They will spend the winter In Regina before sprig training: for the Gc, tour, WW. The ride will make Its Steelworkers Lower Pay Request 5 Cents KITIMAT, B.C. (CP)—The Steelworkers union Tuesday low ered its pay raise request by five cents to 35 cents an hour in conciliation negotiations with the Aluminum Company of Canada. Strictions on overseas purchases still include B.C. salmon and apples. He said canned salmon pur- chases this year will amount to 3,500,000 pounds, up only. 200,000 over 1956. Future purchases would depend primarily on Brit- ish dollar earnings in Canada. terrence eens KAMLOOPS § ()—City Council here endorsed a resolution. to send the Queen a local delicacy when she is in) Ottawa next month. Ald. Campbell Carroll said a gift of trout, a justly-famed trent, Will bo forwarded to Otta- wa from the cltizens of Kam- loops. Counell will write Kam- loops MP Davie Fulton to clear tne matter with Ottawa muthor- Os, hg enney seam ieee OCEAN FALLS @-—'Two young boys died Tuesday night ins flames swept through the frame house of Mr. and Mrs, John An- drows' on Novin Street here, * Nertle Andrews, 6, and his brother Tommy, 3, apparently were trapped on a stalrway ‘as thoy tried to escape from their bedroom on the upper floor, i ee cae teen OREGON MEIN rere Co-Op Boats Land Halibut, Cod Three Prince Rupert Misher~ mon's Co-Oporative assoclation boats landed tholr cutches at Palrview toduy, The Signal brought In ai 003 pounds of halibut and the Ired- olla 3 brought in 2 hallbut. Neptuno 2, brought In a mined cateh of 501 pounds of hallbut wnd 3,098 pounds of black cod. There wore no anies at the Princes Rupert Mallbut exchange, vithor yesterday or today, ade tf dh Ie TA foci ba Dt 4 ts, we ‘ J ey 1” pres, 3,400 pounda of - pe EF HUN ta aka rt ae Mati tethl ta aUI ty , Ce Pipi se $ ba