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Fisheries Council asks

i e s e . e ®
subsidies investigation
HALIFAX (CP)—The Fisheries Council of Can-
la passed a resolution Wednesday asking the feder-

government to investigate subsidies paid by foreign

countries: to their fishing industy ics, ‘
The coune i) said it could not) aD -

ne stand how foreign trawlers
fish: waters adjacent to

Canada and still compete with

this country on the world fish

market,

~The resolution was one of nine

passed in the last day of the

organization's 13th annual mect-

Inge.

. Others:

Requested the government to
amend regulations to allow Ca-
nadjan boats over 65 feet the
same privileges as foreign ves-
sels were mace, At present Cann-
dian boats are not allowed to
fish inca nine-mile wide band
of water between the three and
ta. mile limts, Foreign boats

Toastmasters told

 

 

are alowed to fish within three!
nules of the const.

Suggested greater consolida-
tlon of RCMP, navy and depart- |
ment of fisheries for greater
cificienry in rescue work, The
resolution called for a search
and rescue unit under one com-
mand,

Asked the government to con-
tinue the present 50 per cent
subsidy of salt, and if possible
to Increase it.

Requested the government to
cnend customs regulations to
allow a refund on sales tax on
betroleum produets and Jubri-
cants used ino commercial fish~
Ing, regardless of voyage dura:
tion.

 

* continues

‘J war’.which the Communist-dom-

- POSING FOR THEIR pictures

in an old fashioned setting are
Civic Centre business manager
Gatherine Laurie and Centre
craft director Fred Owen, The
two were sampling the old-
time photography: stall, one of
the many features of the Cen-
tennial Potpourri which got
underway this afternoon and
tonight, tomorrow
and Saturday. Photo stall is
project of the Clvic Centre
Photography club.

Stalf photo by Grace Brown.

UBC starts
rebuilding

VANCOUVER (The Univer-
sity of B.C.. which sinee the end
of the Second World War has
been faced with serious over-
crowding, has announced mas-
sive re-building plans.

The cost of elght major bulld-
Ing projects to -be begun this
year is about $10,000,000. Money
is from the university's develop-
ment func.

Construction of the first
dence has already started,

A new medical building will
be started later this year, The
arts building, begun almost two
/years ago, wil be officially op-
“ened this fall.

resl-

4

Public speech natural matter

Would-be orators showd = re-
member that making a speech
Is no different to having an
earnest conversation with oa
friend, a regular meeting of the
Kuajen Tornstmasters club et the
Club 27 was told last night,

General evalduator W, a,
Not avnuk, commenting on talks

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given by 34 members, sald that
a speaker's delivery suffers ifoa
porson tries to memorize or re-
elle a speech, because there was
danger of experlencing: a apse
of memory,

Purpose of the
meeting was to give 20 gucsty
an Insight into Tonstinasters
International practices with oa
view to forming a elty chapter,
LARGE MEMBERSHTT

There are 2,700 Toastmasters
clubs dn North Amerien, David
MoDougnld sald, after bolng In-
troduced by Toplemnastor Glon
Stanford, The clubs are dedient-
ed to self-improvement tnd solf-
eriticlam while training to be-
come proficlent In public Kponke |
ing, conducting meetings and
leadership. David Bown poloted j

22-member

 

out the pitfalls of re-elocting en-
tlre executives,

Giving 11 - minute assigned
“anles talks" were William Dib-
ben, Werner Jensen, Aage Rude,
Harold Webber, Jan Van Ier-
land, Arne Lien, Denls Rowse,
W. J, Gordon and Riehard Pat-
terson,

Personal history was the topic
of Dennis Burnip's No, 1 or “lee-
bronker" speech while No, 2
speeches wore given by Richard
Rodman on the “Dangers of
Atomle Fallout” and Robert Me-
Bride who spoke on “Highways
and by-waya.”

Oritics wore Harry Scholten,
Hd, Jukes and rie Barton,

a 8, McGill was chairman: a,

i Millor, Jokemnaster and timer:
i KE, Werth, toagshmastes,

(Spreads Commission last

“lark cTocke :

By IAN MacNEIL
Canadian Press Correspondent
SYDNEY, N:S. (CP) —A masked gunman held up

the mail car on the CNR’s Sydney night express today,
looted the car and escaped after locking ‘two mail

clerks in a washroom.
Packers

“RCMP and postal authorities

said they don’t ‘know yet what

was stulen.

VANCOUVER (CP) —
British Columbia Packers
Limited Wednesday _is-
sued a lengthy denial of
claims made at the Price}

 

mail car while the express was
at Port Hawkesbury about 330

Breton Side of . the Strait of
Canso.

:A mail carrier who met the
train-at Little Bas d@’Or about
6310 a.m. discovered the robbery.
He found the car doors closed
and heard the clerks hammering
on the washroom door.

The express reacned Sydney at
7:40 a.m., 25 minutes late.

SAWED- OFF SHOTGUN

-The clerks, Gordon Moarsh
and Lester MacKay of Truro,
N.S,, said they believe the robber
left the train at Orangedale,
about 30 miles from Port
Hawkesbury. This was the train’s
anly stop before Little Bras d’Or,
about 20 miles’ from Sydney. :

*They said the bandit -

 

week that it has a mon-
opoly of the B.C. fishpack-
ing industry.

A statement by company presi-
dent Robert E, Walker said the

United Fishermen and’ Allied’
Workers’. Union attacked fishing | Shotgun.

 

“He told them:

 

particular, by a-“combination of |#' the washroom ‘or Th.
| distortion, : misstatement and | 4our brains out.”

) Slurring: mplication * : "| Phe. robberdocked th em nt
fod pe union, * spokesnian’ used  Sésiroom and ‘they:
4 this: platform to’ fire ae nothoe
broadside in the continuing ‘coid |S?

“The lone gunman boarded the .

a.m., the first stop on the: Cape -

‘lace anda diamond: brooch. .

PRINCESS MARGARET" ‘is one of the most. publicized and most Le
photographed women, inthe world:: In this- photo; taken- 18.
“months ago in the’ drawing- room of‘Clarence House, her home -
in London; *she poses for photographer Cecil . Beaton. The. -
princess wears a dress of apricat s silk, a five- strand pearl neck-.

‘Diefen:
baker, urging a new. and.
imaginative ‘approach. in

«

Western: diplomacy, has.

-|spoken: strongly in’favor -

of an end to’ nuclear 3 awea-.

Canada as ‘the site fora

! Ir East-West. summit a =

{he ‘ald Wednesday night to.
tlshers and. editors at the ann
f! dinners. of. The Canadian

(CR from APY.

 

B.C. INDIANS. DECIDE

 

 

was
masked and carried a sawed-off
“This is
companies and. B.C, Packers in a stick-up.. ‘Turn around ‘and. Ee
yw

‘him |, dia
{ransacking the ‘car, the Clerks |

The car's “baterior was a litter |

inated’ fishermen's union is:cat-|of ripped mailbags. and .strewn senting

rying on...

‘monopoly’, ‘profi- | mail’ when the train reache
| teering’,

‘robbing the fishermen’, ?
‘gouging the consumer’ are all! Sydney. “At least 10 bags

familiar words and phrases in Hocked mail had been torn open,
the union vocabulary. j apparently Slashed with a knife,

| “The submission: to the price ; ;and the contents dumped on the |

 

Quesnel
in fear
of rain

QUESNEL, B.C, (-~—Residents
of this Cariboo town turned an-
xlous eyes toward the sky yes-
terday as the weatherman fore-
cast more rain that could accel-
jerate the movement of Red Bluff

Movement of the great
mound of mud and debris had
slowed considerably but oa

ruinstorm could Increase the
threat to Quesnel's only road
fink with the south.

The hill began sliding several
(lays ngo and so far tho move-
ment has destroyed three homes
and others are threatened,

An alternate highway route
was expected to be completed by

“B.C, Packers Ltd. docs not | The mail included a normal}
} 1 -
of salmon and double this num RCMP set up roadblocks at the
1 »Mcarsh and $43 from MacKay
\
© MY almost suffocated in there,”
125-pound cases of stamps are
ing of a well-known city sales.)
the Killas and Christopher .
with her husband Harold in:
stare.
Brown's Clonernl Store from 1947
arriving from Hamilton, Ontario
John Parsons and her brother
this weekond,
morrow at 7:30 pan, Remains

Spreads hearing provided no; : floor.
‘change. } ROADBLOCKS

| monopotize the B.C. industry.’ amount of registered matter but
‘There are at least a dozen com- iwas not known to include any
i panics engaged in the canning ! moncy.

| ber participating in the fresh i , - nea
| and frozen section of the indus-. Strait of Canso and other exits
' try.” fr om the island.

The bandit stole $16 from
| . before locking them in the tiny
: Inquiry called —waskvoom
i ° t
: into death | MacKay said. The room is about

three fect square.
f | | Postal officials said at least 38
0 Sa es woman i pieces of registercd mail and two
An inquiry is being conducted | missing.
by City Coroner George J. Dawes ,
Into the death carly this morn- |
woman, {
Kathicen Isabel Behm, 43, |
died bh her slecp at her home in’
Apartments.
Born in St. John's, Newfound-
land, Mrs. Behm came to live |
Prince Rupert in 1951. For the
past three years ,she was a
saleswoman in Rupert Cigar
Prior to taking up residents
in the elty, they lived In Port
Essington, where they operated
to 1081.
Mr. and Mrs. Behm lived in
Vancouver for one year after
in 1046,
Besides her husband, Mrs.
Behm 1s survived by her father
Eric, both in Newfoundland,
‘Memorial service will be held
ab Forguson Funeral Home to-
willbe forwarded to Vancouver
Saturday for cremation,

emma seme geumeiys = i

London elects
Labor party

LONDON (Reuters)~-The Lae
hor purty Inftileted a crushing
dafent on the Conservatives in
Wednosday's London municipal
deetions, quadrupling {ts pre-
Viouk mujority by the enpture of
101 of the total 126 sonts, The
Koclallsts have controlled the
London County Counell tor 24
yours,

objective,

' $1,000," Mr. Perley sid.
A Rod Cross booth In tha

 

 

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a agreed th

4 possible. . Oday. tn
tadded- that: if Russia indicates
4d real, -willingness to achie

opening today oy
Moscow he

sults, Canada is. prepared

{take any step short of: appease:

iat

t in which would. be. conéeiv-
“to. reducing: world’. tensi

a fe g
Uy ess Canada has. no objectio:

Sn fact would welcome the ‘Hold
ring Jof. : that. summits. eth

-\nere.”

He saggested the 2

.\ing “the major’

 

cause..of the: current
“intercontizental aay

 

commissioner: ‘should decide how.

| to spend the | money, on the’ a

 

to head -

cancer drive

The Very Rev. A. E. Hendy,
Dean’ of. ‘Caledonia. has been
named campaign chairman for
the annual fund drive to be
staged. May .5.by the:Prince Ru-
pert unit of the ‘Canadian: Can-
cer Socicty.

Dean Handy was nominated
at oan organizational mecting
Monday night in the Canadian
Legion.

Quota for the one- night drive
is set at $3,000.

Directly assisting Dean Hendy
will be T. C. Melvilic, Mrs. T. B.
Black, Miss G. V. Waterman
and Mrs. William Rothwell.

Publicity .committee consisted
of W. C. Hankinson, C. E. Ritch-
ie, Dean Hendy, Thomas Barber
and Mrs. F. J. Hicks,

Miss Helene Bochme, Mrs.
Black and Mrs. Will Murdoch
were named to head the Welfare
commitice.

During the business session,
‘it was stressed (hat canvassers
are urgently needed “to make
‘the drive a= suceessful one-
Night stand.”

Persons wishing. to donate
their time, are asked to leave
names abt the Caneer Society
booth in the Civic Centre Cen-
tenniat Potpourri or by phoning
any of the mombers named
above, ;

ree ceremeree 0

WASHINGTON (f— Goyern~
ment dfficials estimate that
United States produetion has
fallen by a rate of about $1i,-
000,000,000.a year bolow the
boon level of six months age.

OODPSPOIOO IDOI IIOLEDLOO ERO ODEO A OEOROOLELIOVELOEDEEOODEOOEDEOUOODD

RED CROSS DRIVE FALLS SHORT
RETURNS FROM CITY INDICATE

The Prince Rupert branch of Canadian Red Cross Soclety's
drive for funds shows signs of falling $1,000 short of its $4,500

Local crampalgn chairman A.D. Porloy said that to date
donations had been recelved to the amount of some $2,800,

“This does not Include the out-of-town canvassing returns,
, Which have yot to be heard from and usually brings in about

Clvle Centre Contennin! Pot='

“pourri today, tomorrow and Saturday, will onable persons still
wikhing to contribute, to leave donations, Mr, Perley sald.
IOORPOLOIG ODIO CLIO OSES OLIEEIELELEEYIIS ELI ONGIDDORVOTETEDEOIOUED,

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yVvice of @ committee of three. In.
er we,

This would. leave. the’ ‘situa

i virtually unchanged from: the} -

|.way it has been since 1927 when
(ee grants first were made. in
Heu of treaty rights. The Indians
| had been given the power af this
‘teonference for the first time to
‘| decide - themselves what: to do
with the money. |

The money will be spent in re-
habilitation of reserves, aid to
Indians engaged in: agriculture
and fishing and. other projects,
Part will also.be used to develop
irrigation and domestic water-
works on reserves. ,

The Indians also asked ‘for an
unspecified annual increase in
the grant, requested that all
chiefs, councilors and seeretar-
jes of band counclls be paid an
annual salary by Ottawa Instead
of present fixed amounts for
each meeting, and that the fed-
eral government make timber
stands available to Indians for
commercial logging.

. Special: to ‘The, “Datiy News : .
“MONTREAL ne The appolnt-

‘by M. W. MacKenzie,

rectors following: the’ annual
meeting of shareholders .yester-
day, saewriy
_ Mr. Mharshall, who continues
as secretary of the company. will
assume the additional responsi-
bilities of treasurer, following
the resignation of W. P. Walker
as vice-president and treasurer.
Mr. Walker will be leaving the
company towards the end of
May to assume an executive
post in another enterprise in
which he has acquired a finan-

‘clal interest... ey

 

 

IN MAY, JUNE

 

 

X-rays, tests scheduled here
in fight against tuberculosis

A donble-barrcalled attack against tuberculosis: in Prince Ru-

pert and other &
May and June, Dr. W. B..Lalng,
unit said today.

The anti-TB program will ine
clude free chest X-rays for all
adults: and tuberoulin tests for
school children. It ds hoped
every person in the area will
have a TV check-up,

The intensive survey is spon
sored by B.C, Tuberculosis’ So-
cloty, In co-operation with
Skoena Health Unit. and the
Division of TH Control, to find
netive cases of tuborcwosts while
they cin be most. casily trentod
and before they become a men-
ace to the whole community,

Tho society's rolo in free chest
X-ray and tuberculin test pro-
grams is mado possible through
the annual sale‘ of Ohristmas
Svals, a

The soclety's mobile X-ray
unit will start survey work in
the Skeenna aren at Topley May 6,

The unit will bo In Huston
May 6, at Quick Station and
Tolkwn on May 7, and in Sinith-
ord May 8,0, 10,

The van will spend the week
ol May 12 in the Hagelton tron,
the wook of May 20 In the Tor-

 

race aren and the Inst week of

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Skeena District communities will be made during

director of the Skeona Health

 

May. in iho Port Edward. ‘area,

An intonsive zone - by - zone
survey will be carried out,in
Prince Rupert from June 2 to 25,

A largo committee of voliin=

teer workars is now belng sot up
to carry out a house-to-hduse
canvass to alert restdonts to the
opportunity for a free chest: x
ray,

Wind warning continued,
Cloudy with sunny perloda
Friday,. Winds will incroaso
to southeasterly 15° Priday
evening, Low tonight, and
high tomorrow at Prince Rus
port 35 and 43,

TIDES-~ sy

Friday, April 18, 1988
(Paelfly: Standard Tima)
High ... 748) =—-AQ.4, foot

"49317 10.8 feet
LOW woven TH 4.1 foot
10:16 5,0 foob

 

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| TORONTO at
- Prime | ‘Minister

pons tests and has offered : |

ment of Paul M: ‘Marshall: “as:
secretary-treasurer. of: Canddian
Chemical and Cellulose: Com-° .
pany Ltd., was. announced today, a

The appointment was made at eS
the meeting of the board of di-~

 

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