‘cloudy with scattered WEATHER North Coast Reglion— Mostly showers today and Sunday. Not much change in temperature, Low to-+ ose ee we oe al a at _ oe veer eee ee ee ee A Te NS yy ‘ oh ahs, vk TIDES | Sunday, September 8, 1957 -. (Pactfic Standard Time) oe HIGH ssccsscenee 0:39. 19.8 feet night and high Sunday at Port “04 Hardy, Sandspit and Prinee Ru- Oe - ~ 7 ar , | LOW cae MOS 106 eee per 52 and 62. Published oat Canada’s Most Strategic Pacific. Port — And Key to the 19:13 5.2 feet. Pet entne emetenrntee meters VOL. XLVI, No. 210 PRICE FIVE CENTS: s L Judge Orders Integration Little Rock. Must Accept Negro Pupils LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP)—A Federal judge ruled. today that Little Rock’s Central High School must accept negro students immediately, The decsion left unsettled the cold war between Arkansas and Federal authority. Judge Ron- ald N. Davies said the brief testi- mony of school superintendent Virgil Blossom was “as anaemic as the petition itself.” Blossom had asked for an in- definite postponement of racial mixing at the school, Davies said the plan for grad-~- ual integration in Little Rock was originated and conceived by the citivens of Little Rock | through their school-directors. oe + ’ By N ‘OTTAWA ter-—Rt. Hon. Louis 8. St.: Canadian Press New Chief | ext Election _ By JOHN LeBLANC oS (CP)—Canada’s 1948-57 prime minis- PRINCE RUPERT, B.C., SATURDA*, SEPTEMBER 7, 1957 mae \ n Office ‘Staff Writer J.aurent—is quitting the A new Liberal chie: will be in Conservative Prime Minister. John Diefenbaker calis a general. election—perhaps next May—~ and he probably will be Lester. Bowles (Mike). Pearson, former external affairs minister. . . _Mr. St. Laurent, tring at 75 after having swept the- Liberals through 1949 and 1953 general election wins and coming close. last June 10, announced Friday night he is about to resign the leadership for health reasons. His announcement—a__type-. written statement put cut by his, parliamentary office here in his absence-—-said he hopes there will “soon” be a Liberal conven- tion te choose his successor. as leader of the party that:headed Canada’s government for a Com- monwealth record -of 22 years from 1935 to this year. MAY BE THIS YEAR Speculation on the time of the convention, likely to be held in, Ottawa, is that it will be late saan te leadership of the Liberal party... office by the time Progressive pg i : ‘ woe, y . CWT PRON we . , 1 EIA NER \ : sey OUTLOOK VARIED — The temperature’ outlook is varied across the country for the 30-day period from mid-September to mid-October according to this map based on the long- range forecast of the United States weather bureau. Normal, temperatures are foreceast for southwestern Ontario to the Maritimes and from southern British Columbia through parts of the Prairie Provinces. Much of the remainder of Canada can expect below-normal read-__ ings with a band embracing northern sections of B.C., Al- Berta and Saskatchewan in the above-normal pattern. A sec-., tion around Hudson Bay has a forecast+ calling for much- (Map courtesy of Toronto Tele- below-normal temperatures. gram) a narrow belt ranging from . (CP Photo) B.C. NEWS ROUNDUP “Les as Byelections Test |Mondcy | [Political Climate VANCOUVER (CP)—Three provincial byelec- Seaway Tempest _ n Tolls — Issue : Aired | By ROBERT RICE Canadian Press Staff Writer _ MONTREAL (CP)— A: tempest over tolls on the. eee ee |tions next Monday will test the political climate’ in f the governor had any idea! GrRanpn CHAMPION ~— Dalton Bedford, seven months. and this year after the fall session of Moriday al Cevtrat-tifgirmterrce’ pote = ‘ ‘ ieve the men on duty this week. Rule of backing down it was not ap- parent this morning, because guardsmen, although reduced to to a token force, were ordered to} Canadian National Exhibition his mother, Mrs. Allan Bedford, show happy smiles after Dalton was named grand champion in the baby show at the Parliament or early in the new. “stay on duty at the nigh school | @uring the weekend. And a fresh mpany was called up. for duty Leta ge sms sng hea Matt GN Little Rock has held national Out , attention since Monday night when State Governor Orval Fau- bus. in a last-minute move to WILLISTON: COMMENT. Fall Session ne year. Mr. St. Laurent mention-° in Toronto. (CP Photo) jed no specific time. The ses-- i sion starts Oct. 14. Oe The sauve Mr. St. Laurent, who brought lwinning into Canada in fhe 1949 ‘election and won with it agin ‘four years later, said he intends itd keep leading the party until a ‘successor has been chosen.‘ ore the. easy-foing. - “Uncle Louie"-type-of-campaign-_ halt integration, sent a company of national guardsmen to the school, and they prevented Ne- groes from entering. He said his reason was to head off vio- lence. Crowds varying from handfuls to an estimated 700—all white and predominantly pro-segre- pation—have showed up at the) schoo) grounds daily, but no vio- | lence has resulted. PEACE, ORDER PLEA The governor's contention is that he did not technically move to prevent integration but to preserve peace and order. He admitted freely that his action had the effect of denying the negro studnts adinittance to the, kehool. Mayor Woodrow Mann suid, the wovernor’s excuse — for the drastic action was a subterfuge for political reasons. Over. Sloan Proposals — i But he said, in these words, that it will have to be before an election: - . : VICTORIA (CP)—The possibility of a fall Ses~'! eT know, from the experience sion of the legislature to implement recommendations , of Prpwous elections, how great e the demands which they of the Sloan forestry report was virtually ruled out, make on one’s strength and phy- Friday by Lands and forest Minister Ray Williston, | In a limited comment on the: report Mr. Williston said there is “very little’ In it that will re-, quire special legislation. Most changes, if the govern- : ment decides to enact them, can be brought about under existing. statues in the Forest Act. Recommendations that would require special legislation, such ‘as the abolition of the one per, cent on forest land outside muil- : agement licences areas, are not utgent enough to require a spec- jul session, ‘Disarm Talks Halt, Delegates Fly Home LONDON Reuters) --Delegates to the five-power, disarmament conference here wound up thelr pusiness today and prepared to fly home after more than five Months of negothitions trying to work out a workable disarma- ment plan. Harold Stassen, American del- egate to the talks, met with other members of the United stutes delegation for tuiks be- fore reurning bo Washington sunday. Jules Moreh, chief French del- eqnie, nade plas to return lo ars today to give Nis govern Probe Floodlights Parks Conantisslooner WA. Gordon was requested) Thurs: day night to investignie flood J dighting fuetlides in eily parks i and submit a report, Request wan made hecnuse of the recent outbreaks af vandalinth in the parks, “ORMES—— Daily Dolivery & : DIAL 215 ment a Mul accouat of why the talks broke down, The chief British delegate, Cmdr, Allan Noble, conferred with his government before fly- tne to New York Monday to join Britain's delegation to the General Assembly, whieh wil take up where the London talks left off. The talks here, which were condueted as a UN disarmite Ment sub-committee, ended Fri day night when the five men: bers-—the U.S. Russin, Great Britain, Canada and France ~ agreed to adjourn indefinitely, EACH BLAMES OTT Bach side blamed the other for the fullura to reach accord. Stassen sald the most fmport- wnt obstacle was Soviet unwill- Inghess ta aceeph a cut in the production of nuclear materi for mitary purposes. ee ee emer nem eaee mrmanemne nomen eo Te Finish Pool Parts Board bas reported Wxey Park witding pool lias heen completed at a cost. of $1,790 and will now be official ly turned over to the Gyro Club and named “Gyro Wad- in Poot,” ‘ Bourd wil also ask Gyros for additional finaneial sup: port to defray rising costs of construction. Gyros orlginat- Premier Bennett‘nas said a: UN | - session would be called this fall: if any urgent, changes wore! ; needed. At the same time, Mr.-Willis-, ton said the government will have to hear the opinions of in-' ‘dustry before new legislation can ; ~be drafted. ‘ The minister stressed that) igtudy and implementation of the | 888-page report will take time. | ' Initial comment—from both /lubor and Industry—-solidly sup- - ported the chief justice’s general ' findings. | Political opponents. of the gov- Fernment charged there had been ia deliberate attempt to keep the lreport under wraps until after ithe three provincial byclections | Monday. | They also claimed Chief Jus- itice Sloan had vindicated the (policies of thelr parties, . Mr, Williston emphatically de- ‘nied claims by Liberal Leader ‘Arthur Laing and CCF Provin- iclal Secretary Harold Thayer ‘that the government had ate ‘tempted to suppress the report intl) after the byelections. | “That's an absolute incorrect ;statement," the minister sald, | reine e meinen mevemtenes pment seamremrreomer 1 Flu Bug Hits 70 0 At Mill Employees of Columbia Colluy lose Company are working over thine for complete shift coverage following aw sudden rush oof flu cases ut the nil, MII) superintendent W. 1. Wal- liwel] today cstimated at 70 tho humber of employees off work because of the sleknoss, —. "Wull shift covernge has been made diffleult by the flu," Halliwell sald, “The oxtra proa- sure has foreed many to put dn falny Jong hours," Dr, W, B. Laing, elly medieal henlth officer, returned from Vietorla today, He anid he was not wunduly alarmed about the present fl onutbronk ns tt da a nilld {Mnoxs, We suid no plans My } sical resources, and I am con-, vinced that, as leader, I could no longer do full justice to those demands. There have been recurrent re- ports in recent weeks that Mr. St. Laurent, partly on the phy- sical ground, was getting nudges from some of the party brass to! step down. However, just a few. days ago he denied having given the party notice that he was go- ing to quit before the end of the year. HIS TURN TO NEEDLE His announcement seemed to. leave it clear that he would serve | as Opposition leader through the: fall parwamentary session, where | he could throw darts at Conser- ; vative government members who picked on him for years during his tenure as boss of the govern- ment, Mr. St, Laurent himself was unavatlable immediately for di- rect comment on his resignation announcement, which was drop- ped unexpectedly into an al- most - desterted parliamentary press gallery Friday evening. But at Cacouna, Que., his son Jean Paul—member of the Com- mons for Quebec's Temiscounta riding—said the former prime minister followed the pleas of his family as well ag tho advice of his doctor in giving up the leadership. FAMILY PRESSED HIM It has been known In Ottawa for a Jong time that members of the St, Laurent family have been pressing the former prime min- istor to quit politics and relax after a Jong and distinguished career at the bar and In public life, but that he had been push- od to lead the parby through the 1057 general election campaign ns 0 sure winner, He came out only xocond best, although he led the Liberals into what amounted almost to a photo fish, . All of Mr. St. Lauront’s pros- snecessors are much younger than the ratiring lende or who was plucked out of Nighly lucrative and relatively tranquil corporation Iawyor's po- altion In 1041 to bocomoe a cib- Inet minister, The front-running Mr, Pear: xon fe 60, and with his youthful wilen and bow tle, looks consid- ofably younger than that, The yectiva ay Wor eked -_ St. Laurent ... Steps Down. in Northern Ont=rio against the Conservative tide on June 10, is generally conceded the -. best chance of carrying the leader- ship convention. ~ 7 which British Columbia. Voters will go to the polis in Burnaby, Delta and Cariboo rid- ings following a lacklustre cam- ‘| paign which never really got off 4 the “ground. ‘ , campaign of a year ago, which was marked by name calling and invetive, ‘the byelection cam- paign has generated little heat. Attendance at political rallies, even those at which the party leaders Spoke, tKtas-- been poor, lranging-as low as half a dozen Voting in advance polls, opened Thursday and closed today, has been light. Candidates for the ruling Soc- ial Credit party have campaign- ed largely on the government's record, which they contended has been one:of steady accom- plishment and “getting things done.” people. KNOWN AROUND WORLD | Opposition candidates have Baseball-loving Mr. Pearson is concentrated their attack on the perhaps better known around government's ‘fiscal policies, world capitals: than in Algoma, as a former president .of the United Nations General Assem- bly, an architect of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization and in other ways. But these functions have built for him im- pressive prestige in the party. | Former finance minister Wal- ‘er Harris, 53, could be a con- tender for the leadership, but his personal defeat in Ontario's Grey-Bruce weakened him, Also, he is said to be in disfavor with Quebee Liberals—and since June 10 Quebee has appeared to be the hist major stronghold of Liberal- ism currently. James Sinclair of British Co- lumbia's Coast-Capilano, former fisheries minister, looked like a good dark horse for a time but the 48-year-old Westerner now appears to have thrown hth sup- port to Mr. Pearson. ' A possibility is Paul Martin, health minister and a canny po- liticlan. But Mr. Martin, 54, has the political disadvantage of being Wke Mr. St. Laurent a French-Canadian and a Roman Cutholfe, I, has been traditional that the Liberal leadership. switthes between French Catholies and English Protestants, AWATTING 'TUUN This same tradition also puts wv couple of strikes for the mo- ment on Lionel Chevricr, Mr. St, Laurent's former transport min- ister” fram Ontario's Stormont nding, a Mr. Chovrior took over the $20,000-n-your presidency of tho St. Lawrence Seaway Authority three. yonurs ago but as Mr, Bt, Liront's bohost returned to the cabinet Just before the ection in the Insecure Job of presidont a the Privy Counell, He Was suppoxed to get a mite jor portfollo after the olection, amd Specuinkgion was that he was bang groomed as prospoctive Quebec ‘strong man ef the party Premier make clear its position on the claiming that British Colum- bians are being overtaxcd. CCF and Liberal speakers have ¢hallenged the government of Ww. A. C. Bennett to question of whether Columbia River hydro development should be carricd out publicly or by private interests, A possible factor in the voting will be the report of Chief Jus- tice Gordon Sloan on an investi- gation he mace into British Co- 0.C. Football LONDON (Reuters) Rosults of soccer matches played in the Unite ted Kingdom today; Eoglish League, tiv. t Birmingham 1, Newenstlo 4 Blackpool 1, Arsonal 0 Everton 3, Chelsen 0 Leleester 2, Bolton § Luton 3, Wolverhampton | Man. United &, Leeds 0 Natts F. 3, Man. City 1 Portsmouth 8, Sheffiold Ws Sunderlund J, Aston Villu J Tottenham 3, Burnicy 1 Wost Brom | Preston 1 Divahn UF Barnstey 1, Bwanren 0 Rinekurn 0, Lincoln 1 Uristal O 3, Leyton O 2 Cardiff 0, Middlesbrough 32 Pulham 3, Glverpoot 3 Grimsby 3, Doncaster 1 Hudersflold 1, Rotherham J Tprwirh 3, Natty O 4 “ Shefield Ua, Bristol 0 Stoke 2, Oluriton wv West Ham 3, Dorby | Sealtints Leogue Vivinton Aberdeen 0, Hibernian ft Clyde 3, Kast Wife Lt Valkirk 0, Coltlo 3 Hearts 6, Diunedea 0 Kilmarnook &, Alrdricantans | Motherwol) 4, 8b. Mirron a 1 Queens Pk, 0, Partie 6 alth 4, Third Lanark 2 Teangera 4, Queen of HY VWivielion Ul Alblon 2, Breohtn 3 Allow 2, Arbroath a Herwick 0, Cowdenhonth & Dundeo UO, Ayr United 4 Duntermine 8, Stirling f varfar 4, Htonhonusonulr 2 Montroso 1, Hamilton 0 SET SIT a ee eT “Tn “contrast “to the “provincial St. Lawrence Seaway -is.. lumbia’s $60,000,000 a'year for-| Shaping in. Canada. and est industry. The report, made Tni Stag Ow E public Thursday, criticized the the United States. wo Be 8 government's handling of. forest |": The toll issue will be aired...» management licences. : Monday in Washington, Wednes- -' Fourteen sahididates*are“ton= eee ane Sept aa aa Sei ‘testing the three seats. The] ~~ 2 he Lorecasy- Is stormy. : Social Credit, Liberal, CCF,and|. Seaway interests in both coun- Py Progressive Conservative parties | ‘Ties will fight it out for, no'tolls,. . are represented in each byelec-|/0ow tolls, or high tolls. Their ‘tion while in Delta, an indepen- ‘dent “and Labor~-Progressive Communist candidate are run- ning. - . : Liberal leader Arthur Laing is among those contesting the Burnaby seat, made vacant by the death last winter of veteran CCF MLA Ernie Winch. The Cariboo byelection was made necessary by the death sev- eral months ago of Agriculture Minister Ralph Chetwynd. Del- ta has been without representa- tion since the resignation of House Speaker Tom Irwin to. contest*the federal constituency of Burnaby-Richmond for Social Credit. He was elected. Polls will be open from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m, PDT. Present standing in the 52- member legislature is Social Credit 37, CCF opposition, 9, Lib- eral 2, Independent Labor 1, Va- cant 3. -POWELL RIVVER @-—Charles Haycroft of Nelson was killed and four other persons were in- jured Friday night ina head-on Taken to hospital with unde- termined Injuries were his wife and Ralph Ivans, Geln Steinbach and Mrs. Walter Wright, all of nearby: Westview. PRINCE GSORGE, B.C, @ — Two RCMP constables,struck out with 75 searchers today in an attempt to find Robert Horsely, 45-yoar-old U.S. truck driver missing in the Moberly Lake aren of central British Columbia since Aug, 23. SURREY, B.C. -@-—Police sela- ed n .22 eulibre rifle in a house- to-house search Fridny of tho district. where Eric Hanson, 14, was shot in the chest Thursday night. ‘ Tho boy, helped by a compin- jon, Meyear-old Lawrence Carl- son, staggered Into his home and qaspod “get a doctor quickly mum shat The two boys were wulking homo past bushland when Erie fell to the ground following a sorlos of gunshots, “Tho boy was reported in satlse factory condition tn hospital Friday following tn operation to remove the bullot. VANCOUVER ‘@—-Twin broth. ors, 17, were committed for trial Friday ona charge of rapo, Nobort und George Mycock, of Vancouver wore committed by Managistrate Oscar Orr, customerS on the seaway, rival transport agencies, industrial, grain and mining groups in At- lantic and southern U.S. ports that may lose business to the in- land channel. Cs Shipping and business inter- ests from New York to the Mexi- can Gulf have joined forces to oppose low tolls. They féar the seaway, set td open for ocean shipping in 1959, will be a “bar- gain -basement” rival route to North America's industrial heart. . ad OPPOSE ALL TOLLS ae The Dominion Marine Assoc- iation, representing most of the 221° Canadian inland freighters confined to the Great Lakes be- cause they’re too big for present St. Lawrence canals, wants no tolls whatsoever. Great Lakes ports, ecagerly awaiting a trade boom when most world-roaming cargo ves- sels can sail from the Atlantic to Lake Superior, favor low tolls as Incentives, The outcome rests chiefly with 5 eon two cars 15 six men on a Canada-United cen ith of here. States toll committee, Their job tee is to draft a toll scale low enough to attract business and yet high enough to pay off the $425,000,000 cost of building the seaway, plus the estimated year- ly sum of $26,000,000 needed to operate the waterway. Both Cannda and the United States have legislation saying tolls must pay back the seaway cost in 60 years, SEE DUAL STRUCTURE So far, the only clue they've given to the toll structure ts that It will be a distinietive dual tar- iff—worked on a basis of so much per ton of cargo, plus so much on the vessel's registered tonnage. Present estimates of Urst-year traffle indicate that about 35,- 000,000 tons of cargo will mova through the scaway, increasing over the years to about 62,000,- 000 tons by 1964, Grain Is oxe pocted to be the largest single commodity — about 12,100,000 tons recording to U.S. ostimates ~-followed by Iron ore, conl, and petroloum. : : een eerees rea ranean Driving Fine | Arthur E. 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