a as es Mpa WR oe te ee tat A ~ WEATHER fs aitte “warning - i” clonay with frequent showers @ and not much change in tem- perature. Winds southeast 35 tonight shifting to southerly 25 early Thursday morning. Low Prine Rupert 43 and 47° VOL, XLVI, No. 12 days are still ahead, The retiring leader, in his fare- well, speech to the national Lib- gral convention, told his party sday night to look forward, backward to post-mortems f its’ clection defeat last June wAnd he gave the Liberals a Bost dn their coming election ttle by aiming a few shafts at ci Progressive Conservative ernment, he new - administration, he mid, has created . uneasiness nd uncertainty among Can- ians by Jack of. clear and irm policies. The .Conservative party. which ded his cight years as prime Inister had In most fields thing to substitute for Liberal ieies. Only in the trade field ad it tried to create the im- Hression it was offering: some- hing new, « “No one can tind cut’ what Js 0 be expected from the confer- neces, and rumors of still, more sonferences about trade,” he esaid, “Meanwhile there is grow- Ing lneasiness in the country. “There is growing uncasiness about defence, about trade, about ‘investment, abdut unem- Ployment,.-about the state of the Attional budget and the lack i of clear and. firm policies for the j fature” ' © The apeech of the Th-yea old f Mr, Str sLaurent—qi et } disna asslonsts—. aS © to ‘the ringing iributes td Trual “bie: ‘curvedtj j _ will chovse his successor, i Just before his “address the § packed Coliseum hall gaye. him a drawn-out standing. ovation when Lionel Chevrier referred to words of former trade minister C. D. Howe that Mr. St. Laurent 2 “stands in the shade of no man, living or dead.” * An even greater demonstra- ‘ion broke out when the old meader rose (ao speak, aThere wus a roll of applause, mnctuated by cheers. Mr. St. rent smiled at first, then his set more firmly as he ap- Shortly Befo ‘Wndidates filed theiy nom iginutes before the 11 a.m. Liberals Mark Centennial Day OTTAWA —British Colum. ipibittulze thelr centenary "this AV CAT, The IC, delegation to the amational Liberal convention announced Tuesday night that may" aut this gathering of “Some 2,500 Liberals, 1 DC, delegates are to dis Mtrlbute centennlal folders, 41 stickers, buttons, posters and -banners out today's opening ‘session, along with Okanagan Valley apptes, ‘ Change in the conyentlon Jrestaurant will be in aliver dollars struek speclally for the a eeanilg 2 ge LTRs ‘continued. : tonight and high Thursday at’ | © Retiring Liberal Leader Hits A ‘Government’ s “Lack of Policies” By ALAN DONNELLY Canadian Press Staff Writer ‘OT TAWA (CP)—Louis St. Laurent, cheered to the rafters by the Liberals, says the party’s greatest _ st and French, emp SE] al unit; thy said: one -o. “€ {factions was that he had con- tributed to the growth of. that, B U, centenary, \ Oe ee Vo ween owe a RT I is SED . eon peared to be holding buck his emotions while the cheers went on. The crowd sang “For He's a Jolly Good Fellow” «und that song's French cquivalent: “Il a Gagne ses Epaullettes.” After two, long minutes the demonstration subsided and Mr. St. Laurent moved into his speech: As expected, he gave no indi- cation of special approval to any of the Jeadership candidates. He said only that he gives up the leadership “with regret but with- out anxicty ...for 1am assured it will be in capable hands.” Nor did he say whether he will be a‘ candidate in his Quebec ast constituency at the. next zeneral clection, He will reach his 76th birthday inamonth. « He drew one lesson from the Liberal election defeat last June. He said he belleves the people’ really had no fault to find with! Liberal policies, though at some points the application of those policies had not been too well understood. “That was @ fault we should try to avoid in future.” Liberals’ should’ “hold fast to the Liberal faith; to plan for a larger future, to promise only what we believe we can perform and benefit Canada by perform- ing; to trust the people. and, ‘to ‘deserve their trust’ © His speech, in both - hasized nat: unity. Mr. St. Laurent said national unity is more than the absence of. friction between different races and religions. “Liberal policies have created @ positive unity based upon soc- jal security and social justice which have brought us closer to the ideal of equality of oppor- tunity and have made Canadians realize more than ever before that it is good for us and our familes that we are Canadians.” Vomination Papers Filed re Deadline OTTAWA (CP)—All three Liberal leadership ination papers just a few deadline today. The candidates—Lester B. Pearson, Paul Martin and Mayor H. Lloyd Henderson of Portage La Pralric, Man.—sent thelr nominatign papers In almost simultaneously about 20 minutes before the deadline. Speeches of the candidates to convention delegates are sched- uled to start at 7:30 p.m, tonight. Balloting will start at 7 p.m. Thursday. The three candidates’ nomina- tlon papers, cach bearing the re- quired signatures of 10 delegates, were accented by convention of- fleers, Mr, Henderson. a Presbyterian minister had trouble = finding enough backers to meet the re- quirement of 10 delegates’ signa. tures, But with Just 30 minutes to go, he walked into a Manitoba caucus and got elght signatures, These, together with two he had collected Tuesday night, gave him tho roquired 10, Oe en ee ee ie i hee once ne eae amew ik hs ¥ fy 08 w i Wye REGISTRATI using this form, Dox, a0, Olly. NAME i eed scene VADIIREBS sissies russes PRINCE RUPERT B,C, CENTENNIAL Prince Rupert B.C, Centennial econmittee roquesta any resident Uving In the elty prior ta December 31, alll vestdont of tho alty to register with the commitites by amt CORED TIEEE COREE smTIIN Om AGH CURTIS GORNOD Gt GID GUND GORD GEA GENE OUR OUD GEER CEE Ge Mi Meme cmt dent PRINCE RUPERT ORNTENNIAL COMMITTIOE FUPEEDE Meer eeeee OPPO DED Ree peter red Hoetentteragersiberyereerese ARRIVED IN PRINCI RUPERT ON FORM 1908 und - CU UETD ROUTER OERUD ODE HHO OTF CURE ae UhE OHO MONEE tee ’ M p . fp, sett ton Magbeath cap tte English . Published at Canada’ $ Most Strategic Pacific’ Port —— “And Key to the Great Northwest. “Old “Lynn” Sharleen Third Avenue: 3 sa a la mt Raa eA RINE LS fe he Ne IS, a t PRINCE RUPERT, B.C, WEDNESDAY, , JANUARY 15, 1958 rathall’ plunged through the railing, on. t.. yesterday morning is shown being lifted mere it crashed 20: fest, below. : is reported today to be in “good 3209" ‘Third Avena West fies stree opased | areas throughout. BC, has: Swen proposed by the pro- vincialy government. Half: ‘the money would. be put up bythe federal .government under, terms of-an offer made last week by Resources Minister Alvin “Hamilton to help combat uneniployment, Prdvincial recreation minister Barlé Westwood said. Tuesday he has: forwarded details of the B.C. ‘proposal to Ottawa for ap- provaj. RESPONSE EXCELLENT ~ In ‘Ottawa, Resources Minister ~ 2 Hamilton’ said’ Tuesday there ATYE ED, “the small English car in which 16- ~year- oo has been . an: “excellent -re+ sponge” from the provinces to . re — federal proposal. of HYDRO SPOKESMAN ASSERTS Market Lack Delays: Nass River Project VANCOUVER (@i—-Work on a $50,000,000 hydro-electric met- allurgical project in northern British Columbia is unlikely to start for some time, Allan J, Anderson, president of Frobisher Limited, said Tuesday, , He said survey work in the Naas River area has reached an advance stage but development will not begin until a market can be found for the power. Last year the company re- duced its planned Investment from a sum exceeding $200,- 000,000 for development of the Yukon Taku river head waters to the $50,000,00 Nass river de- velopment further downconst.. Mr. Anderson said although there is a lot of‘power in B.C. it is proving expensive to de- velop and development work in northern areas is hampered by a lack of population, J.C. Benson Named As Vice-President To. Brotherhood Appointment ofe Jeffrey C. Benson of Kincollth as District vice-president of the Native Brotherhood of British Colum- bia has been approved by the brotherhood's head office in Vancouver it was learned here today, Mr. Benson has been acting district viee-president since the danth of Johnson Rusa of Green- ville. He is now ning up Nass River representatives to attend the Skeenn River Salmon commis- sion moeting schediwed In Prince Rupert January -30. Mah Funeral Held Vuneral services for Mrg. Wong She Muah, Princo Rupert rest. dont sinee 19417 who dled in hos- pla Wriday at the age of 82, wore held at 3 olalock this nf. ternoon from Wivat United Chureh, Rev, Vernon Mi, Mo- Wachern offeluted, Hymna sung were "My Falth Looks up to 'Thoe" and “Jesus, Lover of my Soul," Boforo Interment at Faleview cometory, Chineso funeral rites wore porformed, Pallbonrers were Hol-Min Wong, Dung Sing, Alfred Chow, Jack Tim, Mah Ton and Mah Moon. ‘ John McNaughton Inquest Adjourned Inquest into the death of John MeNaughton, 74, who Monday night became Prince Rupert's first traffic fatality In 4035 days, was begun at Ferguson Funeral Nome last night and adjourned after viewing the body, until 7:30 pum. Friday. The inquest was conducted by city coroner George J. Duwes, W. A. Gordon .was chosen foreman of the six-man jury, Other jur- ors are Jd. R. Finlayson, FLL. Derry, A. aie _ Meyer, Alexander Clhnubetla, C. is, Giordano and BD. W. Bodger. a eight provinces—all | ‘but. Mani- -toba and. ‘Quebec — have: -indi- land and Nova Scotia—had in- dicated interest in the plan for developing camp grounds and picnic sites, ‘ The federal government plans to earmark $1,000,000 for each plan. as a 50-per-cent share Of provincial expenditures. One condition is that shareable out- lays for forest roads must be made before June 30 and for camp grounds before May 31, Mr. Hamilton said that some provinces have indicated the amounts they plan to spend on the forest roads and camp grounds programs. These totals would be shared with the federal government. For forest roads, Saskatche- wan planned to spend $325,000 and Alberta $180,000, while Brit- ish Columbia had Indicated it would “participate in a large way.” For camp grounds, B.C. had Indicated it would spend $760,- 000 and Alberta $150,000. More information from ‘the provinces was expected soon. City To Decide Frida y On. Sewer Tender Choice City council Monday night were confronted with the task of choosing their. preference from Beach Vlice sewars, City Clerk-Comptroller R, .W. ‘Long opened .the tenders at the meeting and read ta the council the subnittting ffrnis’ names and the total tendered amount. Because of the complexity of the detailed tenders, however, they wore referred for further study to ® speelal board of works tenders submitted for work on meeting to be held Friday uf- ternoon, Firms submitting tenders and the amounts Involved are: Neal Evans Ltd., $114,608.20; Allen BE, Burr, $50,000.55; und Granby Construction and Equipment Lid., $64,120.40, CITY CONGRATULATES KETCHIKAN ON RECEIVING TOP U.S. AWARD An advortisomoent of congratulations from the Olly of Prince Rupert is scheduled to appear January 21 In a special edition of Kotehikun Dilly Nows. The oceasion ts the report of this olly’s Alaska nolghbor belong chosen among 10 other U.S. oltfos for the All America Olldos Award of 1057, Notlde of thoir belng selected for the honor came in a lollor to the Prinee Ruport elty counell, who voted to advor« tise thely congratulations In the Ketchikan paper, Speaking for tho council], Alderman R, G, Large oxpressed the view that “This ls ono ocension whon we should recognize this honor bestowed on our closest nelghbor across the. ine." re Pee a nt oe RP ne oS ae CPS ARI lB nem Ap WEAR OES ‘Stewart, Alice Arm Flights. Resumed Pacific Western Airlines will continue its services at Prines Rupert until further notice, it was learned here today. | Capt. John: Anderson, ‘PwA base manager. told. The’ Daily News. this morning that-he had received word from the head of- fice of PWA in Vancouver not to suspend service from the: Seal Cove base. |” _ Dast Thursday Capt. Anderson was informed that the base was to suspend service effective yes- terday. . However, he said, :the head office told him yesterday to continue operating the- regular}. schedules to Stewart and Alice Arm. an& also make the PWA Norseman available for other charters. | As of the weekend, Capt. “An- derson and PWA engineer Barry Simpson and his. wife and fam- ily, had expected to fly south to- day, as PWA suspended its serv- ices’ for the remainder of the. winter. Flights to Stewart \and ‘Alice. g Arm will be resumed on -Mondays . ‘and Fridays. Meanwhile, the city. which has been trying to: persuade ‘the fed- eral. government td provide a subsidy for PWA so-that.it could continue ‘providing: a necessary we . ig ss 7 ~ 5 mE Qn OR Re GPE TNE Re ey ep eye but: uneconomical :