ers Saturday. Little change in Prince Rup wre Ta ee ee ey Osi, iC. SOTO ST ETT TS SSW CUT IN a Rotunda, December:ai) 1057" 1.7 feet VOL. XLVI, No. 297 PRINCE RUPERT, B.C., FRIDAY, DECEMBER 20, 1957 SHOWN AFTER FORMATION Vancouver are icft to right acting director E, F. Allistone; president Dr. Carl J. Reich and acting secretary-treasurer Arthur Thompson, Society was February. planned for February 28, 1958. Rupert Night held for ex-city residents in Vancouver last Another Prince Rupert Night dinner-dance BIG NIGHT IN FEBRUARY Ex-Rupertites Form of Prince Rupert Society in formed after successful Prince ° is —Photo by E. F. Allistone. “| PWA, B.C. Announce y Ship Suspension Air Lines) New Plan VANCOUVER (CP)—Two Vancouver air line companies said Thursday they will provide passenger service to all B.C. coast points served up to now by Union Steamships Limited, which has announced it will suspend passenger service Jan. 2. Jury Commends Searchers Deaths of seven Prince Rupert residents in the Noyember 22 landslide that swept three the “result oi crushing injuries caused by the slide,” an eight- man coroner’s jury ruled. last night. In its verdict, reached after 18 minutes of deliberation, the jury also commended all per- sons who helped in the search, ' Pacific Western Airlines and ,B.C. Alr Lines said in a joint ‘statement amphibious planes of |’ , ‘B.C. Air Lines will provide scer- vice to Beila Bella, Namu and -Bella Coola, -the only Union Steamships ports of call not al- ‘ready served by the air lines. Passengers will be flown to Port Hardy ‘planes to join PWA flights to ‘ Vancouver. | The companies said they will the federal government for a subsidy to guarantee frequent year-round permitting — for points. ‘ A PWA spokesman said traffic and weather conditions allow a profitable operation on the coast during the summer months, but in the winter schedules are dras- all. coastal in BCAL Beaver}. : ;make immediate application to]. houses down a mountain were, ; service —- weather |. 8 & CHRISTMAS CAROLS greeted passers-by yesterday as 13 girls from the Salvation Army's Girls Lodge turned out in front of a downtown department store under the direction of Captain Janet Ferguson (left), Captain T. H. Smith, and Brigadier Cyril Clitheroe. Among other performances, the girls will sing carols at The Prince Rupert General Hospital, ’ Miller Bay. Indian hospital and the Picneer Home. PRICE FIVE CENTS B.C. NEWS ROUNDUP Trees, TV Antennas Topple = re i eS ee temperature. Winds vari . (Pacific Standard Time) caslonally reaching 15. tee to. oo | ' night and high Saturday < FEN oesesssseeee . 1:28 20.3 feet Lo H sae day at Port . . 13:12 22.9 feet i pert 40 Sandspit and Prinee Ru- ! Low 7:12 71 feet ort 30 and 40, . ; ‘ ew th mc EE : : ; 0 Published at Canado’s Most Strategic Pacific Port — And Key to the Great Northwest 19:51 ys on ved coe Mine éQ | . : : Seer rebate rissuttiite eh Rater inten ss ORY Rebs ee biG re Pate ’ : B.C. CENTENNIAL COMMITTEE, WEATHER % ANCHLVES OF B.C., TIDE 97 , ¥ Pegi TaMeur GLOUS., Casut *Cloudy with occasional show- i LOuS., Ov Bafa were re ‘especially C. J. Gustafson, city ‘works superintendent, the RC- i MP and the Fire Department. tically reduced because of poor Staff Photo by Howard Phillips flying weather and few passen- As High Winds Hit Victoria wee 1958 at the Gai Parec in Vancou- ver, ; At last February's Prince Ru- pert Night, Dr. Carl J. Reich and Arthur Thompson were named president and seerctary-treasur- er respectively. organization meeting the follow- Grant Hollingworth, John Mac- cy, Alex MaecDonald, Jack Un- Ellen MacKay, 66, | Dies In Hospital ternoon at the age of 66, “Puneral arrangemonts will be Barton in Cleveland, Ohlo, and 9 brother, Witllam Barton, In Organized Society A Prince Rupert Society of Vancouver has been noon November 22 after several organized and incorporated under of British Columbia, it was learned here today. | chosen to act as a board of di-. the first general election is held | after the Second Annual Dinner , Dance be held Febr 28, : ance to be ne ebruary By Ship will be granted all those out membership before | should | -be made payable to “The Prince | | taking i { i the Societies Act: pose of the society is to promote | be of great service to those peo-! op -p- B-Smith wh social'events. for ex-residents of !ple from the north and it js to: DrR: B.Smith who perfor Prince Rupert and their friends. ; ‘ executive full support by becom- for $1 will be available shortly, rectors for ex-Rupertities until | to write for their complimentary membership. ‘June 30, 1958. Cheques ” Rupert Society. | Memberships may be only | obtained by writing “Mr. Art { Thompson In a letter to the Dally News | gig, Mo eet ming Sa Dr. Reich said that at the recent; Street, New Westminster, B.C, ' Non-residents W9 St. are invited to, the February, 1958 gathering and nominations made from the floor, He said the aeting directors are already working hard on pluns far 1958 entertainment. BiG FROGRAM January 15, Nekets should be obtained carly or “you will be inelude a tea, an annual plenic and possibly a “Cavalenade to nl fo trike ona prowter alia of ‘Tnamployment reo couts from the provinces. Cabinet ministers pave indie mitions the Progressive Conser- naually-high level of wnemploy- ment this winter. A good part of the Commons’ clay WH ocenpled On We MEAHUTD vrai ror federal splitting of Higher Federal Share loader, Jed his party's followers In eritdalsing the government's proposal for not tabling ever full renpanslbiilty for unemployment rollat, ployment levela. ‘Therefore the roderal government should take ful) responalbility for mnemploy~ ment, Tlo won a mensure of support all provingiul unemployment te- a gat end hte Eee be hoped that they will give the: 5 Dr. Reich said. Former Prince | Rupert pensioners are requested | Charter member- ; Patrick | from J. We Mekersygill Gu-Monae bog hoe fe Victims of the slide that roar- ed down Mount’ Oldsfield at days of heavy rainfall were John Vandal, 28; Thomas Perry, m- ed autopsies on all bodies, gave skull and bone fractures and RCMP sergeant J. E, Ruttan who alternated with Mr. Gus- tafson in supervising search op- erations and witnessed uncarth- ing of five bodics and saw the other two shortly after they were discovered, said in his opin- ion all seven of the victims died instantaneously. Mr. Gustafson, in describing location of the. slide, broke loose 900 to 1,000 fect up Mount Oldsficld, not Mount Hays as it has been referred to pre- pit at Wantage Rond when shortly before noon he heard a "thunderous rumbling’ and looking up saw a silde of trees, water and mud roll down the mountain, growing bigger with every foot and finally wiping away the three houses at Want. ployees, the ROMP and all those who helped in the search, Asheroft, John Bartagzuol, C. B. Bingham, 8. HW. Savile and G. M. Ularvey. said it gers, Canadian Pacific Airlines, which operates on flight to and from Sandspit in the Queen Charlottes each day, said it is prepared to increase this service o coast shipping companies for provision of passenger service to communities along the Bri- fed by Union Steamships Com- ‘pany of Vancouver but Mr.:Hees {said continuation of the $562,000 ‘annual federal subsidy to the | company would not be justified. Replying in the Commons to | George Hahn SC-New Westmin- ister and Thomas Barnett (CCF- Comox-Alberni), Mr. Hees said the situation has been under study for some time as a result of complaints from unsubsidized shipping companies in competi- expected soon, Union Steamships announced Wednesday it will discontinue Its passenger service Jan, 2 because of “inereasing losses," The cargo ‘service would be maintained, nie ete en CA SANTA BARBARA, Calif. (> —Women walking by the Bal- Hetoe wreath on its tower atop the building, ‘The stiilon's Planned For Jobless: federn) contribution, If they did, it would total more than $20,- 000,000 n yeur, he sald, SIN WAVE SIGNED DP Bo far slx provinces have en Talnnd, Now runawiek, Muani- tobn, Bnakatehowan and Britian Columbian, Mr Montalth sald Ottawa puld outs to them about $5,112,000 for the flaand year that ended lust Mureh 3 suel as cutting and cloaring of highways and trails, construc. tlon of bungalow camps and ree pur to buildings and — equip. mont to provide some 1,500 new VWIGHUWAY JOS Another 200 Jobs would be provided on the Mackenaloe high- way running north tram rine shaw, Alta, to Grew. Slave Take in bho Northwoat 'orrilories, ment is negotiating with west. 1 strike have resumed. 'after talks had broken down and ‘in dispute are continuing now.” Titanic Survivor. Dies in Vancouver A survivor of the most famous gunk on the night between April 14 and April 15, 1912, after hit- ting an iceberg in the North At- lantie. Death toll In the sinking was 1,517, Mr. Ramsay, who has been working In Prinee Rupert since many friends here, He died while on a short vistt prenticed as pluanber. He often told his frends here aboard tho sinking ship with a mun in hor hand enforeing the old marine Inw of “women and outs, Housing Design Counell compe. titlon, Son of TC. Eby, plonecr elly vontmator, Mr. Jiby was one of five British Columbia bullders to houses built with economle plan- mine, sensible design and good taste, . Mr, Thy will be flawn to Tor- onte to recolve the award Jone ury La ithe discussions on the questions | 1946 us cook in a fishing camp, children frst" dn filling the Hfe’ “Principals Refute Knowledge Of Strike Talks Resumption : ! | | Paper W. R. Ramsay, 65, ending..British,.Columbia’s...costly _.pulp...and . paper. The premier made the an-|€&ts Union, said late Thursday he ies involved, said: “No further meetings have been scheduled that I know of.” But H. L. Hansen, internation- UNION CHIEFS AWAY al representative of the Pulp,|_ Sulphite and Paper Mill Work-j John Sherman of the pulp and - a sulphite union and Hal Brown Two chief union negotiators, ef the United Papermakers and Mill Workers, were re- ported to have left Vancouver for Tacoma, Wash. The strike, in its sixth week, had cost the province more than $23,000,000 in lost production and increase and the companies’ re- fusal to negotiate except on the basis of a 7le-per-cent Increase recommended by a concilation board, eeeeeee risen eae tmmmentees ences cette SI eo RRS mem Crash Victim Not Identified down Jate Thursday from the scene of a plane crash on rug body here following an all-day trek after a serles of ansuccess< ful attempts to reach the spot ay the 6,400-foot level of the mounted, 110 miles east of Van- ite pauelh and plnced in it crev- ngse tn the mountalnside, whore ib will remain until spring. erate meen reecenamermnine @art-weqenmnes eierine serteny enan cont wed baker wilh make oa national delevision and radto hroudeast Sunday, Dacember 28, It was lenrnad here today, The broadest wilt be heard locally at 2300 pan. VICTORIA (GP)—Tree branches, telephone poles and television antennas crashed down as winds which gusted as high as 76 Greater Victoria area Thursday. ,, Weatherman Bill Mackie. said the storm was the latest in a series which have been borne along a track in the northern Alaska and the Aleutians. Peak of Thursday’s windstorm came shortly after 2:30 p.m. when a gust of 76 miles an hour shook the city. The average wind speed at that time was 60 miles an hour. 32nd FATALITY VANCOUVER «-— George 8. Harsh was killed in a shattering head-on collision early Thurs- day, Vancouver's 32nd traffic fa~ tality of 1957. Injured in the same crash was 28 year old Mrs. Isobel Halliday, VANCOUVER (—Police sald Thursday Vancouver has sct a record for hit and run accidents, with 248 such incidents in the lust 48 days, One person has been killed and 27 persons have becn severe- ly injured in these Incidents, Po- will be charged with iinpaired or drunken driving. vehicle plunged 600 [cet. down av mountainside as Arthur his the Hope-Prineaton highway. NEW APPEAL SLATED VANCOUVER «—-Brilish Co- lumbin oye specialists will ap- pont the deelsion of the income Plolry Orlowski, 40, was found dead at the bottom of a slx-foot underground shoot at tho Bri- tannin Copper Mine Thursday. A compuny official sald the companion were working, RETIRES FROM BOARD VANCOUVER ©—Tho ratlra« ment of B, M, Hoffmolster as chahman of the bonrd of Mne- Millan and moudel Limited was miles an hour swept the Mr. Hoffmeister, who will con- of directors, joined the sales de- partment of H: R. MacMillan ex- : ! i lot “orps ‘ 5s” as! er Lenew of - iy n - ba . ort Company Limited i . ACHING honed at the recent | /28 a member. jouner ene ey ia | tish Columbia coast. nouncement Thursday morning. thor, One aren Pacific. He said the track was P ACCUSED ee eD 1930 eta . ° smbershi ickots | 7 se cary} i > sai otin s held inj fer . _ . : riginating in the . organizational meeting were Annual membership — tickets "stance. i This service has been provid- re saee eee eas moon | Febresenting the seven compan- a strong flow originating in the VANCOUVER —An account- ant charged with forgery and theft of nearly $80,000 from the British Columbia Electric Com- pany was linked to the firm.-to which the money was paid, «a witness said Thursday. - The accused, William F. Blair, 37, of North Vancouver was iden- tified by Cloverdale postmaster Kenneth A. Patterson as the man who rented a post offi¢e box Dec. 3, 1956, in the name of Hallmark and Associates. Posi Office vice will be suspended on Christ- mas Day and New Year’s day, but normal service will be main- tained December 24 as well fs on Bosing Day, Postmaster R, §. Scherk sald today, co He added that despite Stat Secretary Ellen Falrelough’s an- ces he has not been notified of pny change in office hours, announced Jater, disappointed,” Dr, Releh sid, wn boa Building this holiday sea- [to Vancouver. PRINCETON, B.C. (P?-—-RCMP DRIVER IDENTIFIED In additlon to extended store Mrs, Mackay ds survived by| "Admission will be by — ticket Phe jury, headed by foreman) son will be taking their Born Jn Scotland, Mr. Ramsay} here are attempting today to} PRINCETON @ — Police} closing hours announced yester- two sisters, Mrs, Emily Morann | only.” . J.T. Morran, constated of J, J.) chances, A radio Nation has lat one tine was boxing cham-|establish the Identity of a wom-| Thursday identified a truck dri-|day, Wallace's Department store in. Kincalith and Miss Esther! Other events planned in 1958 Stack, gd. G. Anderson, D. W.| hoisted a five-foot-high mise | pion of the Royal Navy. He ap-|an whose body was brought | ver killed early Wednesday when will remaln open Friday and Monclay, until 9 pam. ete eaten Kincollth, Rupert." iM, UWarveyy eal letters: KIS, of tho sinking of the “Titanle."| pod Mount Thynne, 40 miles) Gerry Curtis of Vancouver. Lo ae ae oe teermrenrennm ovement Ha aspocllly Uke to describe} northwost of here. RCMP said the accident oc- Jaycees Urge UNEMPLOYMENT RELIEF how ho saw on woman stand) Aq genreh party brought the }eurred near Sunday Summit on Wns ” Home “Light-Up" City stores are co-operating well with the Junior Chambor af Commerce annual Christmas Light-Up contest but the rest: ners wil be announced Dac, 27, Te yale 9 ee ewreed pmamnee: ORMES——~ DIAL 2151 DRUGS tinue -as.a-member ofthe board. ...° =: fillen Jane Mackay, from Win- | Pirst event’ will be the annual) page Road. p and oon the Department — of Hee said the main cause of the ;Houncement of. two half-day collth, died in Prince Rupert! dinner-danee Mebruary 23, 1058. ‘Coroner Dawes in his charge USS Op: Transport boats “Alberni” and offenees is the fear of drivers holidays December 24 and De- General Hospital yesterday af-| Tickets will be available afters ig the jury nuded city om- “Alexander Mackenzie,” leaves involved in aecidents that they |cember 31 for Federal employ- ' The group was organized Teo) —_ re Crore Henderson, “ys John . vee eae : VANCOUVER (CP )—Neither management nor curred When parts of huge oak announced Thursday by R M. cenely following net _cucccastal | win. John Robertson, Cascy; Murray, 40; Mrs, John Murray, Cees Seo ee al ist labor were able Thursday night to confirm a state- tree crashed into the legislative| shaw, the. lumber company's o “Prince Ruper ght” he ni Vinck. ° '36, and James Murray, five n wa Transpor inister : vat ats . satiati eal “ uilding parking lot and damag- st Vancouver last February. Pur- | “We feel that the society will months. y Hees said Thursday his depart- ment by Py emiler Bennett that negotiations aimed at ed several cars. . og president. ink were named to act as a ijoin. Their applications must be | viously. At its base, the slide|tion with Union Steamships,| marine disaster in modern ‘Nis- the employees more than $5,000,- Mosh cas dieser of the Fra- \ Kh . te , S ® ponsored by an ex-resident and; measured about 900 feet in which had requested an in-|tory, and a resident of Prince | 999 in lost wages. The nine ars as Gi : board of directors until the first | SI . jo wrt for the past lL years died 0 in lost wages. 1 ser Arms Hotel at Marpole. Ap- ; general election in February, |Pe approved by the membership | width, Mr, Gustafson sald. creased subsidy. Rupert for the past 1 years licd sirike-bound milly produce 10] parently both Harsh 7 Mee Ci . S, t . 1958: KF, Allistone, Frank An- }commiltce, | An cye witness to the tragedy,| Mr. Hees — sald j diternative earned here today, ys 85 yer cent of the world’s news-|fajliday were alone in Oar Osing eC field, Edward Antonell, Marlo) pypy ELECTION ‘elty shovel operator John Walt- means to provide shipping serv He was W. R. Ramsay, 65, a print supply. a _ fears when the two vehicles met sect offing ne Bussanich, Joe Antonelli, Fred Reich suid thi ae or Krug, told the jury he was| lee to B.C. coastal communities) |. ay| The dispute centres on union | yead-on at 12:30 a.m Post office will be closed and JUSSATCH, ‘ ia Dr. Reich said Chat the acting; * B. ( is being sought and a solution ts seaman on the White Star aa ®-norecont wae i at 12:30 a.m. air mail and letter carr a Ciuldcroni, Roth Gordon, Rev.! qgirecturs wil ve withdrawn at loading gravel at the elty gravel | |S Ing SOUBAL an solution IS} toumship ‘Titanic’ when it demands fur a 12-per-cent wage UNENVIABLE RECORD ‘ c carrier sers . \ . eo My tp \ : , ' sain : smngeiontangereememmereray \ ae where roy «| tax appent board on alloged pro- aan ' PON PEACOCK Hef costs, Third reading was) vista-Twillingate), formor Imml-} Meantime, Resources Minister conver, Where pilol Roger Sullr, | Hs ' ‘ ay, {Cents are lagging behind, q Jay- catthian Pro Hiath Writer passed, | eration ministor, Ho sald he] Alvin Hamilton and Justice Min- Earl Eb Wins 80, of Calgary crashed the light sertption flolshacks to ane EX-looo spokesman said today. y an Id speetre Until the measive becomes | would rather lave seon the fed=| ister, Davie Multon, acting extor- . y * pling Sunday. Vancouver lnwyer J L Law- We expressed the hope that ONrAWA An on ae ‘Tiaw, the federal ,government feral administration teke over All| nal affairs mintster, announced National Award Sonrehers, who tolled for neo siuld Thursda th Dp 1 residonts would decorate thoir unomployment. keeps CreeP MB) shapes with nccepting provinces relief costs for those over the} government.plins pointing to an how's In terrifie winds to re- Will We lot! by Sen ior 1G On homes us soon as possible and Into the Commons, Wel costs of unemployment res | .5-por-eent threshold than re- over-all fecdernt sehome to help For House Design leover the bodies, were unublo Parrls srobably when ‘Who Hx | &'Y for Lwo prizas offered by tha I dominated Thursday's: de>} iof to those withant Jobs num. | move that minimum, combat unemployment, higher ‘ to get Suji's body to thely snow hoc ae Court site here ‘in Junior Chumber, The merehants Date asx all apposition parties | hering more than 45 per eent of | Moantime, Welfare Minister J.| this winter than usta, ul Why, Victovla building} truetor befora darinoss fell M rh stand to win the Jnyeoo placque. abjoeting On vaTdous prinedples fi province's total population, Waldo Monteith, sponsor of the} Mr. Mamilton disclosed the}contrmotor and deslgner, forme) over the scenv, Wren, MINK DIES Homes and window displays will ’ but not with vated. Rave Lhel | KNOWLES TO FORE mensnre, expressed hopo all pro-| government's Intention of apeod- | erly of this alty has won the top] ROMP Cpl, N. D, Gibbon sud] preraNNt A Be ACH Qo be judyed Christmas ve. Wine AUppart to A BovErHMeaNt PLOPOR Blunloy Knowles, deputy CCH] vinces will neeept tho addition | ine Wp National parks projects award ih a national Canadian the body was wrapped in a plas: | poy B ‘ ‘ jo + s vative government is publing tor] Mr, Knowlos sald the vontinl | tered agreomonts with Ottawa |Jobs, THe hoped these would be- | win | previnelal housing dosign PM To Speak Polls born ee Wi na ante Daily Delivery yother a brand xenon) program [government's general oconone | for this fedori) rollet nastabanes: | ain by dan, 16 nnd last through | award last month, , Which win tear where he and , mimod ab conmbatline the une} pollay affects the nation’s em- Nowfoundinnd, Princa Hdward | out tho wintor, Tho wards were mada for Prime Minkter Joho Dielone pwc il @