nN wate? TV Oe ee eee ew ee wee eats D Prince Kuper SNe RT ere TE TT Ver Ce ny nee e EEO \ _ PROVINCTAL Lyppany ‘® as —) Werorra, gg 7 Te BOBS sy ay | DEC-31 458 i VOL. XLVII, No. @ * K f + SE G . : ul wr, Grain exports hit peak Government Grain Eleva- tor in Prince Rupert last month hit a record high for any one-month period “ince the elevator resumed operation in 1951. February, highest mark in post- war records, an Elevator spokes- man said today. UP 40 PER CENT Exported bushels outnumber bushels taken in by 1,689,977 or close to 40 per cent, the syfokesman said. Cars un- pading last month numbered 364, . Largest shipment was taken on by the South African freight- er “MV President Kruger" that ealled February 26 with a Cargo Of 10,390 tons of No. 1 and No. 2 feed barley. Other ships loading here test month were hte “Cornish Vity,” the “SS Despino.” the “SS Wan- derer.” and the “SS Prodromos.” Boy saved after fall into water Nine-year-old Morley Pierce of Port Edward is home in bed today with nothing more than a cold to show for a fishing in- cident that nearly took his life Sunday afternoon. The boy was saved from parking is difficult even now COOP OTCES OTOL PEE EL EL ES drowning only by the quick ac-! Aldermen Ritchie, Smith and : 1 7 f tion of Port idward. skipper| Gomez voted against it. without the meters. ; Murray named ~ George McKee who dived into; Council later, however, favor- “I think,” he continued, “the the water after him and by Prince Rupert resident Gordon Brochu who pulled both of them from the water into a skiff. LINE TANGLED _ Port Edward RCMP report the near-fatal incident occurred at about 4:30 Sunday afternoon. Morley was fishing from a ramp leading from the dock to the floats when his fishing line en- > M the public without having the 4 tangled his legs. Morley tripped| diagonal parking on Second Alderman Youngs’ opinion was} dentist as middle man, it. was ‘ and fell Into the freezing cold} Avenue West. that “I think we should give] jearned here today. xe ye water. In discussion on the first mo-| the existing bylaw a try.” Other committee members’ are SRN tion, Alderman Darrow Gomez Another Port. Edward boy who had watched the mishap alarm- ed George MekKee, skipper of the Nelson Bros. crab boat “Perey W," who was working nearby ina sein loft. Mr, McKee grabbed Morley when he was coming up for the third time, unable to swim with his legs tied, ‘Grain exports from the posed a motion by Alde occasions”, on a little show, particu ies”, money.” ence shown between the citizen”, i I've got.” “Besides”, he added, Published at Canada’s Most Strategic Pacific Port — And Key to the Great Northwest No fancy robes for Mayor Lester Mayor Peter J. Lester last night strongly .op- rman R. G. Large that the city investigate and consider cost of a collar and robe for the chief magistrate “to be used on official “I think it’s time the city fell in line with other municipalities”, Alderman Large stated, “and put larly for visiting dignitar- Declaring that anyone would have a “tough Centennial year it would be an awful waste of “T don’t think there should be that much differ- mayor and an ordinary “I'm happy with the suit covering bylaw. his motion was passed he would then move for the Instigation of diagonal parking on Second Av- enue West. The six-man_ council was split in their decision, with Mayor Peter J. Lester casting the deciding vote against the delaying of the bylaw. Alder- men Bellis, Youngs and Large voted in favor of the move; ed a motion by Alderman Youngs that the council go on record as demanding the en- forcement of the existing park- ing bylaw, A third motion by the alder- man in connection with the parking situation was amend- ed and passed by council to allow it to be referred to the traffic committee. The motion requested the establishment of commented that on trips he had made to the south he had noted that parking meters were used successfiully in smavler centres than Prince Rupert and that he thought they would be the most effective parking curb for this city. “We are in a different situn- tion here,” replled Alderman Alderman Youngs said that if Move to delay meters defeated by council Parking meters for the city of -Prince Rupert’ came one step closer to reality last night when’ city ir council defeated a motion by Alderman T. Norton: Youngs to delay for six months the preparation of a; PRINCE RUPERT, B.C., TUESDAY, MARCH 11, 1958 In Victoria an increase of al- most $1,500,000 for the province was announced in the legisla- ture Monday night by Highways Minister P. A. Gaglardi, a Cana- dian Press report stated. The increase of $1,412,000 af- fects all of the 41 road districts in B.C. from Alberni to Yale. Total estimated expenditure for the job now is 66,612,000. Kamloops, Mr. Gaglardi’s rid- showed a healthy increase, with previous amounts bracketed, in- clude: Alberni, $121,000 ($95,000); Comox, $270,000 ($212,000) ; Delta, $131,000 ($103,000) ; Dewdney, $208,000 ($163,000); Nelson-Creston, $275,000 ($216,000); Prince Ruper t, $110,000 (586,000); Rossland- Trail, $160,000 ($126,00); Rev- elstoke, $167,000 ($131,000). EARLIER CRITICISM Earlier in the evening sitting, which went for more than three hours, the minister came under a stream of criticism from the ean 3 now $110,000 | Provincial highways in the Prince Rupert area will benefit from an increase of mor in the estimated road maintenance expenditures for| - the coming year, it was learned here today. unds pert Estimated cost e than. 25 per cent as they really are. he makes.” notice the condition of things He said that because of some wrong statements made by the minister “we are a little dubious’ about almost every. statement “STEEL FRAMEWORK of Civic Centre's indoor swimming pool. . ’y ° e 1p . » . . Five ships took on a tota){ J00” getting him to wear the robes of office, Mayor a san hoosted viaines eet went up with miraculous speed cargo of 2,313,686 bushels in! Lester commented that he thought “in spite of the ved. Saturday and Sunday as vol-. unteers guided by Permasteel. Engineering Company Ltd., erected skeleton of building. shown above. Photo at top was taken from south end of: pool structure. Depression. is where actual pool will be. Photo at bottom shows how swimming pool building will abutt old Civic Centre build- ing. Access to the pool will be’ made in west side of Centre wall near end where Court House appears in picture. Men. on: top of steel network are drawing up cross beams ‘to bott in place. ~~. Do —Stafi photos by Dick Ayres. Opposition. ‘ Opposition leader Robert ‘Strachan said Mr. Gaglardi _| “believes that if he shouts loud enough” the Opposition ~ won't % POPPI PPL OF PPP IPLL PLL IOS Permits issued ing to install meters anywhere in the business district we've got to put them right through.” . “All we're doing,” he added, “is driving the “sleepers” Third Avenue and part of the side streets further down those streets and onto Second Avenue. We're going to get an awful lot of complaints from the mer- chants on Second Avenue wherc enforcement of our present parking bylaw, particularly in the one-hour zones, would be a more effective solution.” Alderman Kay Smith replied that she thought such an en- forcement “would have the same effect of simply moving the “sleepers” to another spot, with no gain whatsoever. I think we we should glve the meters a try.” Alderman A. D. Ritchie said he thought that the Installation of the meters was not a solu- tion to the problem but only a “stop-gap. “Our first mave,” he reflected, “was to paint Hnes along the used for parking. If we are go- | from: s . _? for bait fishing Fishing vessels seining in the ‘| harbor today despite the clo- Sure of the herring season last night, are doing so by special permit, the Fisheries Depart- ment announced. The boats are seining for herring bait for which several local fishing companies have been issued permits, Supervis- or of Fisheries R. C. Edwards Said today, to committee in dental query Prince Rupert MLA W. H. | Murray has been appointed to a nine-man committee to hear different viewpoints over . the proposed measure to establish a five-member board to decide whether dental technicians should be allowed to deal with Mrs. Buda Brown (SC, Vancou- ver-Point Grey), Pert Price (SC, Vancouver-Burrard), Cyril Shel- ford (SC, Omineca}, Donald Smith (SC, Victoria), Randolph Harding (CCF, Kaslo-Slocan), curbs to Imlt the amount of space cach motorist could use, That worked for awhile but now {t has proven inadequate. Cedric Cox (CCF, Burnaby), and George Gregory (L, Victoria), earring, mes ase From a wood-encased foun- dation surrounding what looked Nke an oblong hole in the ground END IN SIGHT AS STEEL UP PRICE TEN CENTS ie tt Se ee pleted building and men: were well ahead in Installing the cross Major milestone reached in tion of the steel work has now almost been reached, 92 hours; Sunday 19 men, 44 hours; Monday, 17 men 61 hours, . i: beams. Supervising the work under These peures represent the, oat . : wry: \ He 40 , he steel girders of the Civic The weekend's work marks aj direction from Mr, Zukewiteh|number of hours worke ya Both were picked up moments] Youngs, “in that we have no That next logical step of B nd re the steel gir . he : : marks penn : wee . . ’ Inter by Mr. Mrochu. tributary streets that can be} course is parking meters,” he @ p ojec Centre swimming pool rose al-! major milestone in the history| as been swimming pool chair-|men, Mrs, Gordon said, HUSBAND COMMITTED City woman FOR TRIAL given year asserted, “but the only real so- Jution will be off-street purk- Ing”. Alderman Ritchie envisioned the possibility of using the prop- erty now taken up with the fire hall and elty hall as eventual solved, underway for Centennial A move is underway to form formation are asked to attend a most overnight during the week- end, The steel framework of the volunteer-bullt ‘structure was in place In less than 12 working hours. Less than 48 elapsed hours passed from the time that of the proposed indoor swim- ming pool. Work on the swimming pool began early in July last year, after passage of the $104,000 swimming pool bylaw. A drive weather conditions, small groups man Donald Gaitens and Robert Hele, Mrs. W. J. Gordon, project timekeeper sald today that 11 men worked on the steel Thurs- day putting in a total of 24 hours; Friday 15 Mr. Zukewltch sald that the volunteers had done a “terrific Job.” He sald that even with trained and experienced steel men, it would take five days to complete the erection of the steel framework, such a hindrance to workerg, men with 66 aoe de rver,| & band for the Centennial cele-| volunteers starting erecting steel} for volunteers saw the ground hours; Saturday 14 men amassed] As soon as tho cross beams . , wre ne Nheashnt: ena een: brations in Prince Rupert, Friday morning until they quit] work started and foundation seeste een ony tena neeen wll in place the roof will be put or rea Ing, entering meters should be used until the | All interested tn joining the|late Sunday afternoon. By that| begun before the rains came. ° e on and the weather will not be problem of off-street parking Is] 2@nd or in helping with itsitime the arched steel girders} All winter long under adverse Cit accidents Gise against a city couple for breaking and entering a grocery y store hus been taken out of the police court stage with sentencing of one reeused and committal fe other, Sentenced to one-year in jul woday was Lorettns Wilson who pleaded putity lust Monday to the Mareh 2 brenking and enter. © SELON 2 oe tm wo eres crertnemetntte NOW... in 1 tablet daily 9 Vitomins +12 Minercls -— REXALL _ yw trind In Oounty Court of the caren an ee ome Nee e amd eer ee be amen ee te ome tomer Me of Quilty Grocery store, 52 Fulton Street, Yer husband, Loyd Saunders Wilson entered a plea of not guilty Inst Monday and elected trtal by Judge without fury, Pre- Imnary hearing was completed ast night. Wilson will probably appear belure County Court Alderman R, G. Large stated that he was in favor of meters being used but that he wondered why there was no diagonal park- Ing used on Second and Third Avenves asi partial solution. Alderman Ritchie replied that. he thought the police had felt there was not enough room on Third Avenue for diagonal park- Ing and that it should be used only on the north side of Second Avenue, meeting at 2 pam, Sunday in the Cunadian Legion Hall, The meeting is enlled to elect: un executive and give the plan- Ned organization a name, One of the suggestions js “Prinee Ry pert. Civile Band Association,” City Council tn its provisional budget last November set aside $3,000 for the band. (or mncereme een crmemuemaier tet meena nin jane semen greene men, Housing plan set outlined the shape of the com- CPA plans five transcontinental passenger routes VANCOUVER «h) — Canadian Pacific Alylnes sald today it will estublish five cast-west mane line passenger routes if {ls ape plication for transcontinental of volunteers have worked day and night in advancing the project unt! actual moving of the steel into pluce began Thuradny. Actual oraetion of the steel, under the guldanee of Frank Zukowiltch, of Pormastee! En- gincerIng Company Ltd, of Van- couver began Friday, Comple- PRINCE WANTS JOR cut by half Prince Rupert's aceldent rata Just week was down 50 per cent from the previous week while on Ww province-wlde basis a sharp Inerense was recorded, Only two round mishaps were reported to RCMP elly dotach. mont during tho week ending Murch 8 ono of which was fol- WEATHER— Mosuly cloudy tonight and. Weduasday with a few sine ny perjods, Little change In temperature, Light northere ly winds reaching 18 {nh axe posed areas, Low tonight nnd high tomorrow 38 and + right ts approved by the alr lowed by prosecution, In tho ) SUPER PLENAMINS Judgo W. A, Schultz next month. | with the defeat of Alderman OTTAWA (0) — A $22,000,000] transport hoard, y LONDON (f—An unidentified | province, statistics released to TIDES— aN In handing down the sentence | Young's motion for tabling tho! program of housing and school] A statement Issued here by! prince advertised for a job in diy show a else of 234 from 162 AN vitamins with known require bylaw, Olty Clerk-Coniptroller FR, ments plus vilal minerals? ‘36's, S25 72's, STH 44's, $7.05 on Mr, Wilson, Maulstmite 2.) Applewhualte said he belleved hor W. Long rents Instructed by the previous counell meeting to construction on national defence sites throughout Canada Was ane nounced today by Central Mort- CPA Vresident Grant MeCon- achie said cnch of the routes will The Times today in an ad reading: “Young Enuropoan the woek before, 84x persons were killed in five separate ace Wednesday, March 12, 1958 (Pacifla Atundard The) have dafly sorvieo, CPA plans] prince, woll edusated, travel- | cidents. WARN vee 0:00 10.2 feeb | best chance Iny Inn “complete] prepare, tor! furthor considera-| aage and Housing Corporation| three round-trip Mghts a day} led, four languages, with abil- Port Edward ROMP reports Wek = BL foot ~ ORMES DRUGS LTD break from your present come tion by eounell, a bylaw to allow| Tenders are oxpected to be com-| linking Vancouver with eastern ity and oxcellent connections, | four aceldents as compared to LOW viccsece me tome £005 ¢ pany.” ; Institution of the meters, pleted by noxt Oxtuber, centres, seols occupation,” hone the provious week, 13305 6.2 foot SMe Nae Rs * t 4 tN oh Ne aie wtier SAE ken Py ad , et : boy Bea le te teal Mt bk ee ge " ' h w ete {re eh SRO tee ate St ; soto ke bh “ey A a Oe NN att ate wheat mba a aa Be ea eh et ewe + eo eee ah het 1 FNP Re wm ee ee Ge Tat eh ; . at at MEER De Se EE TTL TT : Lk Cha. olay 1 ih ’ qa ne a APA AL ABA Shit, nt A a aga 2p j we eatin & rie Re ty eh hn BO Oe ee kk CPE RIA MHA ttc ‘ A“)