ee ea a . ea As me Me WOOT Nt ted SPE EER U EL e PEe pe et REDE WEATHER Scattered showers. Cooler, Winds south 25. Low tonight and high Friday at Port Hardy 58 and 62 Sandspit 55 and 60, Prince Rup- ert 55 and 60, EN AE IS See ee ELE Sey E TS COE BR ee ye wo ree Nd eR OS PONE AR AP ae Nee, GE ET Fe ' ve Pe CE ee me vi BRARY, Ton ee ht ieee mo re Friday, September 6, 197. oS VT ten ae AE re NEE AF in ees ees Tne ae pie VOL. XLVI, No, 208 (Pacific Standard Time) |". | B High seangveveonaeese . : a . o 12:01 ‘ 18.1 feet- e ; roo 7 . an ene atte é LOW ses 5250. 4.9 feet iy Published at Canada’s Most Strategic Pacific - Port — And Key to the Great Northwest 18:03 7.1 feet: f . ve us ’ . , “, -~ « von we : i PRINCE RUPERT, B.C., THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 5, 1957 PRICE FIVE CENTS. | ¥ SITUATION EXPLOSIVE a 200 Guardsmen Ready To Repulse 9 Negroes ~ LEPTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP)—In an atmosphere cleetric. with tension, more than 200 Arkansas nation- ‘al guardsmen stood guard at Little Rock Central High The situation, in the words of pn . WaS | reliable Governor Orval -Faubus, “explosive.” i .. School. tHis morning. undex orders. to, repulse. Negro students if they tried to.entera sy second time. — information that “fed- eral authorities in Liltlc Rock The state governor Wednesday have this day been discussing night sent a long telegram to pians to take into custody by President Eisenhower, saying he: force the head of -a that federal state.” agents. might be planning to ar- had information rest. him and appealing for the‘ gram, ' { sovereign Asked to comment on the tele- dnitec States attorney president’s help in resolving the .Osro Cobb said he knew of “ne integration crisis. 4 such conference.” Cobb also re~ Faubus had defied the order! marked about the wire-tapping of federal judge Ronald N. Dav- ios for integration of the nine Negroes among 2.000 awhite stu- dents at the high school. When the Negroes tried to get in Wed- nesday morning, the state inil- itia refused them admittance. No federal agents took part in the incident. SUSPECTS WIRE, TAPPING Eisenhower, now on vacation al. Newport, RI, had no com- ment on Faubus’s telegram. The governor lso said In the mes- sage that he suspected federal agents of tapping telephone lines to the governor’s mansion here. A small force of guardsmen was placed around the mansion Wednesday and another group was stationed abt the elly's other white high school—-Hall High, which so far has had no Negro enrollments, Faubus’ telegram sald he had Gity Uses - Emergency Power Prinee Rupert is using ener gency power today while a repair crew Is Investigating, lines none Powell River to (nd the cnuse of a power fale that left all of the city dark for 26 minutes Tast night. Location of the peen determined, Illish Columbia Power Com: pany spatccsman sald, bat ta ts sinned to be near Powoll River, morgeney machines were put into operation after, olactrlalty went off at He pm. In some ‘party of tho city Mahts Mekerad agin for several ahort porlods pocnuse of tho complicated pro- cons of switching to emergency nAchines. ORMES ‘Daily Delivery @ ' “ DIAL 2157 DRUGS brenk has net = Northern Sy Eabakeiteenbeeasiadeiaineetond these istatement: “Such a belief is wholly unwarranted,” Faubus also told Efjsenhower that the situation in Little Rock was growing more critical be- cause of “impending unwarrant- ed interference = of federal agents.” He told the president that if “actions” continue, or it his executive authority as gov- ernor to maintain the peace is breached, he can no longer be responsible for the results. Injury to persons and property would be caused and “the blood that muy be shed will be on the hands of the federal government. and its agents.” Fanbus said the question at Issue In Little Rock is not In- tegration versus segregation, It now “is whether or not the head of a sovercign state ean exercise his constitutional po- wers and diseretion ino main- tnining peace and good order within his Jurisdiction, being aceguntable to” his own eon- sctenee and to his own people.” Faubus said Wednesday he had ordered his National Guard troops to prevent mixing of races In any Little Rock school, but insisted that he was nob dofying federal authority, We sald “the governor of a sinte Is the proservator of the pence, nob a foderal Judge.” (percent pecarnaenn ver arvecransmmms mete NO SWIN VANCOUVER @® — The 8un in Its report on the slo com- mission findings says chief June tlee Gordon slonn made no ree commonsntion for an upward or downward reviston tn slumpage ribes, Ho suggorted, however, aiid the Sun, the abolition of the olght separate stumpage Zones on the const. Abumpnage should be set to one courage more cubling sald tho report, in such “sorloualy undare out" roglons as Prince Rupert and to take the pressure off the avorent lower maininnd and onal const of Vancouver Taland, Tho Stumpago praplean was one of the most controversial aubjoata befare the comnilaston, “No other sibjoat disclosed ko meme a esters + BRIS rst! Many witnesses Jnboring under ko Many milaconcoptions,” anid the report, 4 tavern keeper Eric Pohlmann. ager of local theatres. (Rank ha Z “Ee : Beets oy ? fc 2 Ea : : es , ad , McGUIRE AIR FORCE BASE. N. wy -— American and British airmen have expressed unstint- ed admiration for the Soviet jet transport which | Wednésday made an historic trip from Moscow. The TU-104, silvery, big-bodied and powerful, set down at this base Wednesday night, the first Russian passenger airliner ever to land In the United tSates, Promptly, a high Soviet offi- vial read a prepared statement from the steps of the ramp: “Ket this flight be the begin- ning of regular flights between the Soviet Union and the United States. Hail to the friendship of the Soviet and American peoples.” By specia: agreement, the TU- 104 brought 40 passengers mainly members of the Russian delegation to the United Na- tions — across the 5,570-mile route from Moscow to this base in New Jersey, with stops inj — B.C. NEWS ROUNDUP Following September, , Epvind Nielsen, Milton Kles- Man and Rodney Sundin, all of Prince Rupert, and Roger Sune din, Fort Ste John, claim thelr vessel, the Strafen, was badly damaged and washed onto the shore after a larger ship, the White Swan, collided with dt dn atbemptling to pass in the gorge of the Bnst Narrows, The elainy ws agains) B.C, Packers bid. whieh charter the pont and the master, Reghiald Edward Climie of Riehmond, MOBERLUWY LAKE, B.C. Co. GQne undrod searchors found fresh tracks Wednesday and think they have ellminated all put three square miles Ino tholy sonreh for womissing Amorican broek driver hore, Robort Worsley, 46, of Wall Olty, Wash,, has boon the object of wserrch by aly and lund after he dlanppeared inba the bush August 223 to place a clalm on soln Innd, Horsey is bolloved last on Logan Pyata, narth of here and W0 mniilos northanst of Prince Georgo, an almost wnlnhabited avon of buah, mualer and in Haota, Wo da balieved toa have beon carrying more thin $500 BREAKING STAGE BREAD with characters in “Tale of Two ; Cities” is Charlic Adams, manager of Tillicuim Theatre ~ in- ‘Terrace, while visiting J. Arthur Rank’s Pinewood studios in London, where Charles Dickens’ classic is being filmed, Mr. Adams was in London as part of holiday trip through middie ~ Europe. Other’ persons in picture are Duncan Lamont as_ Defarge, Pat Finn, Winnipeg United Press correspondent and “Tale of Two Cities” will run in Prince Rupert this winter, according to Harry Black, man- Film special photo to The Daily. News) British, U.S. Pilots — VANCOUVER «() -— A claini for fied In Supreme Court as a result of a collision between two ships In the Skidegute Narrows of the Queen Charlolte Islands Jast Emad “Preview “Given |On Sloan Report | “| change its‘policies for ad- _jaministering the provinces | vast forest industry.” -) timber sales; os ‘ 4 wy ‘tice. Gordon. ‘Sloan has fecommended the British Golumbia government . These are the, main recom- nendations. of the report, the newspaper said: oo f @- Set a 21-year limit on any new, forest management li- ‘cences; a *. @Discourage new licence ap- plications for five years; tions; =. mo @ Eliminate “blackmail” in » @ Set up permanent forestry advisory commission. ;the report has not public, ui oo '. Premier Bennett has said ‘ it ‘will be released officially next week. Oy been. made London, Iceland.and Goose Bay, Labrador. mo 7 To The American and RAF air- men who guided the TU-104 through British, Canadian and American air space ve praise for its performance. “It's an excellent ship,” .said Capt. Boris N. Dubson, 37, of senior U.S. air force navigator. “It’s smooth in flight and has very good performance at both high and low specds.” Sqdn. Ldr. Lawrence Dale of the RAF said: “It’s an extremely |- good airplane. We all lke it a lot.” Dale added, however, that the new version of the British Comet jet passenger airliner “is much more lively.” Two Canadian navigators also participated in the ‘flight, on the leg between Iceland and Goose Bay. They were Fit. Lt. W. D. Stewart of Almonte, Ont. and Fit, Lt, Robert B. Edwards of Lucky Lake, Sask, Damage Claim Filed | C ll iC pid, 113 damages has been with which to buy farm land, VICTORIA () — A search for petroleum and natural gas now is inking place, over 1,000,000 neros of Innd on the lower consts of B.C., Including Vancouver 1s- land, mines mintator Kenneth Kiernan said Tuesday. le sald 34 oxploration permits had been Issued by his depart- ment alnea a reserve on the west, const was lifted by the government in duly, Tho exploration permits cover arens on Vancouver Island, Gra- ham Jaland In the Queen Chit- lottes, the Gulf Islands and the west count of the mainland, —menememeen tn ff money VANCOUVER — WC'S Tahor Day weekend death doll wasn nino, Ve wan reported Inte Tuesday that John M. Robinson, 3h, wax. drowned Sunday at Knglowood any Virtte conver Falond, Rohlnann, whone pirents lve ln Nova Seotht, wan employed ab oa logging cuniy. Vancouver pollen released tho name of traffic vietin Jamon MoAliiatay, 5%, who was knooked down by w car Mote diy night. ! eed Daa nia) : bse Ld at te A The Sun did not’say. how. it ob- W.N. Poole Crown Counsel For Assizes W. N. Poole, Prince Rupert barrister, has been named crown counsel for the Prince. Rupert Fall Assises, opening September 24, it was reported, today. First case scheduled is that of Werner Hansel, 34 year old Kiti- mat smelter worker, charged with murder in connection with the fatal shooting May 25 this year of Franz Lechner 36, an employee of Kitimat Cement Works. . Namie of the presiding justice / has not yet been announced. | Strikers | Complain ‘To Pastor MURDOCHVILLE, Que. (i — The striking local of the United Given” | Ve VANCOUVER (CP)—| | ‘The Sun says Chief Jus-|" '. @ Grant 21 existing applica-| RETURNS TO SHOW BUSI- NESS — Lovely Gene Tierney, away from the. show business ‘scene for more than three years, returned to. the enter-* tainment world when she made.-her first “live” television appearance on NBC-TV’s “The Arthur Murray Party,” Mon- _day, Sept. 1. Miss Tierney’s ap- pearance: on the show once. again marked the return to ‘her active. career in: the field of entertainment. Miss America - Pageant | the Miss America pageant. states}. Canada, Hawaii, Puerto Rico, Chicago, New York City and Washington have been split into three groups of 17 so that the 10 judges can see every entrant in all forms of compe- tition. , Two blondes, Miss Arizona and Miss Missouri, won the bath- ing suit and talent champion- ships in the first of three pre- liminary competitions. The latter, Sara Ann Cooper, 18, is the daughter of Walker Cooper, catcher-coach for the St, Louis Cardinals. — Point totals in preliminary judging will be used to select 10 semi-finalists Saturday night. The field will then be narrowed ‘\to five for the selection of the nw beauty queen. The girls may garner additional points for personality through breakfast interviews with judges, Only the winners of cach night's talent and swim sult competitions are announced. Eveninggown winners are kept seeret to keep up the spirits of the girls who fail to win points in the other competition. Representing Canada is Joan Fitzpatrick of Windsor, Ont., Stoelworkers of America (CLC). in a letter to the Roman Cath- ole pastor of this Gaspe copper ‘mining town says strikers . are “distressed” because of the neu- tral and sometimes hostile ablti- tude of thelr clergy. The 600-word Ietler to Rev. Roland Allard, signed by Roger Redard, USWA reprosentative here, and by Theo Gagne, local president, says it can understind the “rensons of prudence” that cause the clergy to hesitate fe- fore taking a stand in the long, violence - punctuated conflict win CGaspe Copper Mines Limit- cc It ndds; “, .. tho cruelly-folt decoption of the workers In the fuce af Indifference or hostility of those who should be tho first to undoraland them mary leave wounds which will take a long time to heal.” COPOOPIOOLE ODO DDODIOIEUEOEIIDOOD Test Piles Driven In Kitimat Harbor Vout pillow will he driven in Kitinat Worhor until apprext- mately Oetohor 1, N, A. Woke- lov, Wintrlet marine agent for the Department of Transport nul ddivy, The lnading platform for the Wiiew Iw 25 feat wite by 75 fent long wid is albunted O50 fant woth of the present whare wd te Wve whee It . COPVOPIT DOPOD DOIOIU DIO E1900 008 ' Se badhi eh te. Lay ma if pol pudes: 4 penile 4 ioe hte) rr baie ees mea ou " sti te in July, She hag since made teler vision appearances billed as “Canada's ambassadress, af fashion and travel,” arasset <=; | Port Edward Area Affected Most "The epidemic of ’flu that has hit between 300 to 400 residents of Prince Rupert and Port Edward is: . | NOT the Asiatic variety, city doctors and health of- - ‘residents who won the Miss Canada crown } sed Doctors — ficials said today. Ig, is * plain. “srippe” or 48 hour flu. Whilé drug stores are doing a landslide business in aspirin and 222's, harassed doctors, beseiged with phone calls, are. cautioning not to be unduly alarmed. : The flu is relatively mild and is best treated by climbing into a warm bed, staying. there, and drinking plenty’of liquids. Hardest hit is the Port Edward district with an estimated 100 cases. Port Edward school is staying open -for:the time being despite half of the .106 pupils and one teacher being away with the bug Nelson Brothers Fisheries at old: fashioned |: Milier Bay Indian Hospital.re- ..:- ports about 12 cases in hospital, * . 3) mostly among the very young . . and very old. There are about. .. 100 cases reported on the Skeena | at Port Edward and about half. that number on the Nass and. at. Port Simpson. ne Most people can treat them-=" selves the doctors say. The ‘bug - is the same old bug that comes’ around. every. once in . while: about this time of year. oe Gang Kingpin. S In Montreal Port Edward has been forced to curtail cannery operations be- cause one third of the regular staff of 66 is off. Yesterday there were 66.employees on the job. Today there are 33. _ Nelson Brothers. Manager Richard L Nelson said a number of the women employees are forced to stay at home because their children are sick. No shutdown is contemplated as yet. Daily News this morning. en ,day. ali naire _| As director of Skeena Health tioning. — The 51 girls representing 45 Iagnit Dr. Laing: is the only per- son who could order closure of District 52 schools. Edward. Comments from city doctors on the situation have been var- ied. One physician said he is treating 20 cases a day. Symp- toms are sore throat and aching joints. ‘ “It’s a rat race day and night,” another doctor reported. Still another said every other person in the city’s population of 10,400 has come down with the ’flu. Further symptoms of the bug are chest pains, sore throats. aching bones, All the doctors say there is nothing unusual about the discase. DPOEPPPPPOPPOPHCPP ODI IODEITIOVOOS Inquest Postponed — Inquest into the death fast. week of three Prince Rupert women has been postponed for nbout two weeks, pending ar- rival of findings by the RCMY laboratory in Regina, Staff Sat. J. W. Todd, NCO in charge of RCMP city detachment, said today. The women died from whit ing. “But we can’t operare | of with much less than the staff we 5 og ce torht have today,” Mr Nelson told the oo -g ptchpockels and night: City Medical. Health | Officer, | - 4 | Dr. JW. B.. Laing-is presently in|: 2°). pec Pr amtiG CIRM Y. wpm [Victoria attending>~the “Healthy er ee ag .{| Preliminary talent. competitions! continue today and Friday in| ‘Officers Council meeting. --1ie ig] Police” said’ not expected back until Satur- The epidemic does not seem to have affected enrollments at city schools as -it has done at Port is suspected to be food poison- | POCPPOPOORL OTOL TOIOOHEDIOMNALODS MONTREAL @ — Jean Guy. St. Onge, denizen of Montreal's’. convulsive east end, was shot’. to death’ Wednesday night in a cheap restaurant on lower St. Lawrence Boulevard, the city's’ derelict’ haven, =. 6 OSE Police said the swarthy:29- —. : year-old was “king” of a gang + ms young punks that shook . oe NN along the bouie-" vard. Te, eos. One. ‘suspect |i companied’. by. his lawye rendered early today for % “e Nearly a dozen saw the killer,. described as being tall, dark and | young,-fire one. bullet into St. . Onge’s chest and another into kis back. No one mdved, and - the killer fled on foot. One bullet pierced St. Onge’s heart and th other his spine. , Area 3A To Close On September 22 Area 3A will close to halibut fishing at 6:00 am. September 22, regardless of the amount of fish caught in the area, the In- ternational Pacific Halibut Com- mission in Seattle reported to- day in a telegram to their local agent E. Victor Whiting. , Earlier closing dates mention- ed were September 16 and S¢ti- tember 21 to allow time to reach the quota of 30,000,000 pounds of halibut. . Last official report August 5 stated the amount of fish caught during the season as 23,562,000 pounds, According to unofficul estimates, the 26-million mark was reached a few days ago. The Canadian vessel “Tanza” this morning sold her catchof . 30,000 pounds to British Colum- bin Packers through the Prince Rupert Halibut Exchange. Medium size halibut sold at 18 cents per pound, large at 16.8 cents and chicks at 10 conts. - OTTAWA (G — A mighty ex- plosion to be aet off noxt year to destroy one of Canada's worst shipping hazards may unlock mystories. beneath the earth's crust, Tho Winat — tho biggest ar- ranged explosion In Canada — In expected to dostroy Ripple Rock {n Seymour Narrows, 100 mites north of Vancouver, The charge, 760 tons of nitrona, 18 poling placed under tho two- yonked rock by drilling a tunnel under the narrows from nourby Maud Yaland. The rock has long peon © monaco to B.C, conatal navigation, Whon tho chargo Is sob off by the federal works copart- mont, a chain of sclamograph stations in Beltish Columbin. and of tha man-made “oarthquake” on tho earth's aholl. . Dr. Patrick Willmore, 36, of Shar aaron ene ins So Ohads tho Dominion Obsarvatory's wold toy H yi He ig ae Neste 48 eee WIEN ‘pu tibnt Mee ey Fak he rep roe kW i Gk pa Se ae cal tee a a ati hak et Alborta will -yeoord tho affects B.C. Alberta Seismographs Slated — To Probe Ripple Rock Blast Mystery mology braneh, sald In-an inter- view here that the matin pur- pose of tho study or disprove the theory that mountatns are like Iccborgs, This theory holds that moun- tains “float” on ylolding rocks of tho onrth's mantio, with a re- Iatively small part of tho moun- inin extending above ground lovel, This view sees mountalns qs sopnrato masses, Hiko leeborga floating on the ocean. Tho shock waves of the Ripple Nock explosion will be recorded by five pormanont and 14 port- able solamology stations, Tho porminont atations nrvo at Victoria, Albory|, Horahwo Day near Vancouver and Lillooet, all in BO, and at, Banff, Alta, Thote will bo threa portable stin~ tlona wach at Kamloops; tho Shuswap Lake aren an Golden dlatrlct In BC, ‘onch nt. ‘ } Ahk js Lo support theo and ore Ashoroft, Rovolatoke, Clactor and Piold In-B.0, and at oun tadytarcala the! fachodp adage atin v8 Spot Baha : SETH AE ee NAMATH GO Be 16g VEN tl fas io al Lake Loutse, Alta, ‘ The artificial carthquake will bo recorded unctor what Dr, Will~ more doseribes as “almost por’ . fech Inboratory conditions.” For. study purposes the shock created . by the oxplosion will be mora effective than a real oarths quiuke,. 6. “procixa timing will result In more accurate readings “and: more complete Information of tho effects of the tremor,” Dr, Willmore sald, “Bach station’ on the network will know tho exact time of dotonation.”: moh, LINKED WITH IGY . 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