ee, wae ee ere ee RE ee SS See ict eee RECT WEATHER ¢ Mostly cloudy Wednesday. Not in temperature. Winds Hght increasing to south- Low tonight at Port ‘much change crly 15 overnight. end high Wednesday Hardy 45 and 55, Sandspit and Prince Rupert 50 and 58, « Oe eee oe VOL. XLVI, /|, No, 224 a 2 UNION | FILES 5 PROTEST Report Dela *Stalli ing Tactics Ciry WRITING OTTAWA lling tactics” by two members of | Charges of ‘sta a conciliation board and a LO: Ah < fats A easter ey ek oh 4 ay ts $38 on Se eG i f ENO ye Ray tages Ce: fe ee i: ay Said a Vigorous protest against a further delay in handing in a report of the recent, hearings on a dispute between pulp mill operators and | the pulpworkers unions; were leveled yesterday by the’ executive board of Local 708 of the International Un-! ion of Pulp, Sulphite and Paper Mill Wor kers. Angus Macphee. president of : Local. 708 said yesterday that he: had wired Labor Minister Lyle’ Wicks protesting what he called | “the fourth extension since the: beginning of the hearings Sep- tember 9." He said that two other pulp-i workers. locals “in the south"! had also protested the delay. - Mr. Macphee said that the La-. bor Department had granted the |! conciliation wage dizpute between the pulp mill operators and members of the International Brotherhood of Pulp, Suiphite end Paper Workers makers extension Pulp Workers, time ino which and of hearings ato which both presented their briess, The wire sent Mr, Mr. Maecphee’s stanature was as follows: “Vigorously protest further ex- tension to chairman in Man Drowned, | Four Rescued At Kitimat Kithinat restdent Frank Deam, whout 75 yeors of ape, Wo boating mishap Baturday when a stan crag earryhnig Mr Deam vend four others capsized on Withmat river near the elty, RUMP at subdivision reported today, ; Four oeeupests of the boat were oreseued: white Mr. Denn drowned. THis body wis reeover: ed dater in the day. He ds known to leuve i wile a etimat, ys vt me om Accept Arms CATRO WwW) Vrestelunt — us offered arms to Tunisia and White pro-Western Worth Afiienn onion annonneed tadsty th ds ae, t 4 4 ; opti, om ORMES—— Daily Delivery e DIAL 215] eee een ‘DRUGS board hearing the: Mill : and the United Paper- | an: to, hand in its report of the reeent: sides | Wirks over: coast | ArOwnET | Noaser | r | 1 | ‘pulp and paper dispute. Urge: that board be instructed to file. immediate decision. Recent ex-: , tension flagrant misuse of Icgis- ' lation and abuse of union rights: 'in view of earler arbitrary de- cisions of this chairman who re-: - fused to hear local at first meet.’ ‘ing September 9, forcing second ‘hearing September 16.” Mr. Macphee said that a notice outlining the union stand had, »been posted up in the Watson Is-: ,land mill of Columbia Cellulose . yesterday. The notice quoted a night let-- ter from union representative on conciliation board Halford Wilko: “Cancilialion board report nat: available until October 3... We contirny October 3 as date oan’ which delegates assemble Van-: ,couver, Delay created by board rsecking through minister the absent from city during next week. We are nota. Pparty to appleation for CXLON- | sion, " The Local 708 executive board phone conversation with ee ‘national representative Li Hansen informs 9° hat the! ‘board chidrman lBquested this | additional delay to allow com- | puny representative, Mh Robson, to be absent from Vancouver, We have insisted that our ine ternational protest this exten- ‘sion and Local 708 Is doing Uke- The notlee added that “we; consider (he repeated stalling of the chatimnan and company rep- resentative on the bourd of cone CHintion as a deliberate attempt toad the companies in holding Off the posstbility of a strike vote to hack up reasonable de- minds of the Pulp and Paper Workers on this const.” "Waving no valid reasons to dony the mill workers the wage Inereases requosted, they hope,” the notlee continued, “to wear you oul by running bargaining Into the winter montiy," The notlee posted throughout tho nillesald that the union de- mands made last June “are Just Qa necessary today." “Th past months, the notlee sald, “union after union have xobtlod with that amployer, The companios use every triek in the hook and every loophole in the hw to prevent pranting your dee mands, The notlee conauded by rtat- lng that “We may have only one recourse feft and we will not lhositiute to use dp UP necessary.” * ge wus a “disgrace to which is one of fhe most beauti- | addi- tional time as two board mem- - bers will be stated in dts notice that “a tele-: Logger Dies © wise to the Minister of Labor," ee PRINCE RUPERT, B.C., TUESDAY; SEPTEMBER 24, 1957 HIMCS SKEENA, shown above sailing under Lions Gate bridge at Vancouver and HMCS Fraser, Royal Canadian Navy’s most modern destroyer escort vessels will arrive in Prince Rupert Friday October 11 for a three-day visit. HMCS Skeena is com- manded by Cmdr. Fraser is skippered by Cmdr. J. P. T. Dawson, CD, RCN, and HMCS R. Phillips, CD, RCN, A full social program: for the 24 officers and 395 men will include spors events, a ‘smoker” a tour of Columbia Cellulose plant. oth ships will be open to the public Saturday afternocn Oc- tober 12 from 2 until 5 (RCN Photo) RCMP Duplex Described As “Disgrace To Area” The federal government may be making a move to provide quarters for its structed duplex built as RCMP quarters Alderman A. Donald Ritchie; described the two-storey duplex: + -on the north side of Graham Av-j ;enue as ‘the worst example of: rarchitecture it had ever been his! misfortune to see and said it! the area” | ful parts of the city. He urged council to write ta; | the federal government asking | .it to refrain from building any: more such “architectural mon-. strosities’ which, he said, were j ¢ a blot on the area and would re- sult in depreciation of the value | of surrounding properties.” Council passed a motion that, ‘a letter be written to the Justice | » Department objecting to the: type of architecture used for the | RCMP duplex and asking what! no more such types of building : be erected, | “That wasn't the type of build- /Ing for which we saw plans and ! “approved,” Ald. Ritchie said, | ' | AR ae een ORY BITRE REN cme et te meetin ro ' | i 1 | After Mishap At Sandspit | Olaf Tarsen, about 697, dled, ‘Sunday dn Queen Charlotte ne | | pital, Queen Charlotte City, | Sunday from injuries received | Inn logging mishap aceident September 3, ROMP here re- ported today. Larsen, suffered the Injures While working at the Narthern Pulpwood Company camp at Sandspit, No other detalla were avallable, FPP P DIP OHLIGEOIOPPUOOPOOOOECOLOE Deadline For Tiny Tots Civile Centre “Try Tot" class Mreclar Mra, FR. Peagram today reminded all parents of children between the ages of sand 6 who wish to enter thely youngsters in the class have them registered at the Civie ?wetre no dater than tomer. row, / Classes stare Ubursdiay af ternoon, Chisses tre hetd ance a week, Tharsday aflernoonsn from 2380 to 3380 In the Clvie Centre gy naanlim, be i ereater j trouble to repdster OP POPE OSIDGOPIVOELIVIOPVODOLOOUUO ot py aw hala i¢ RCMP officers but city ‘council last night took a dim view of the newly-con- in Section 2. Acting-Mayor, Alderman Laud Citizens Citizens of Prince Rupert were complimented at last night's City Council meeting for show- Ng a more active interest in the fortheomire civic cleetiens. Copumeriiae an the foet that OTT tent mectors had slready registered to vate, seven days before the Se pteiber 20 dead- line, acting mayor Alderman P, J, Lester said tank excelent pro- gress had been made over the past few vears in getting house- helders interested in the fran- chise, We said that the people should commended oon taking oa interest in civie alfalrs. Alderman A. Donald Ritehle said that he was glad to see that So MAY peopie were Caking the so that they their right to eould excreise ; vote and he agreed with the act- ing mayor thai they should be conmmended, . Th answer to Alderman 'P. Nor- ton Younes as to whether most at those who were registered were Heenee-sholders, Mrs, Char- los Pearce, acting city elerk, sad thict the majorly of thase repisterng had) been — tenant lee tars, Ao nate Re een nee Four Boa ts Land 126,000 Pounds Four Canndian looats inuded W total of 126,000 pounds af hall- but In Prince Rupert yesterday and this morning. Tho Prince Rupert Mashermen's Co-Operitive orssoclitlon had 10,000 pounds deiiverad by the Taplow yosterday afternoon, nd this mornbyy recelved tha eatehos of the Blue Ocean, 66,000 pounds and the Oslo, 1,000 pounds, ‘The Oslo alka Inuded H,000 pounds of blak cad, The WA this morning sold 30,- 000 pounds of halibut ta Atlin Misherles through the Prince Rupert Mallbut Exchange, Prices were 18 eonts for medi, 1 COOL for Targa ane 1 eante for ‘chicken salve halibut, / . Ae OO oe IRA ad ge pratt oF tee Published at Canada’s Most Strategic Pacific: Port — And Key to the Great Northwest | “ralso of Kitimat. age Assize Jury Sworn In Trial of Werner Hansel of Kitimat for the May 25 {slaying of Franz Lechner, opened this morning as the Fall: esizes of the B.C. Su. preme Court began before Mr. Justice J. C. Clyne. Charged with murder, Hensel pleaded not guilty. A. Bruce Brown is conducting the defence, W. N. Poole appears for the Crown. Appearing as interpreter for Hensel, who is a German immi- grant, is Otto Kniepkamp. Also on hand for the accused is West German consul for Northern British Columbia, Hugo Kraup- ner, Sworn in as foreman of the 12.man jury was Norman Percy|n Baker. Other purors are: John Desmond Fitzgerald, Norman Fisher, Hugh McLaren Fergu- son, Howard Reginald Gale, An- thony’ John, Bussanich, William -) Baton; Michael’ ‘Colussi, Gordon Hubert’ Fraser, David William Bassel, Girard Nole Lemira and Vernon Parker Dexter. The case was adjourned short- ly before 1 p.m. when the selec- tion of the jury from a panel of 48 persons was”*completed. The |! murder trial began again later this afternoon. Anotner criminal case was ad- ded to the schedule of the As- sizes this morning. . Alsu up for trial is Ronald Partington of Kitimat who is charged with being in a dwelling with intent to commit an indic- table offence. Defence counsel for Partington is A. A. W. Mac- Donell. Trail Schools Closed Down TRAIL @ — Trail’s two high}. schools were closed. Monday by an epidemic of Influenza which medical authorities fear may strike the adult population of this southeastern British Colum- bia city, The J. LL, Crowe senior high school and the Trail junior high school were closed after it was found 50 per cent of the puplls had influenza, Som 375 students of the 735 Crowe school were sticken while 200 of the 689 at the junior school were absent, The schools will remain closed for at least 10 days. Dr, C. J. G. Mackenazle, med- ical Noalth offteer of the West Kootenay health unit, said the influenza has not been diagnosed as Asian fluor type A-57 flu. He snicl 12 wlll be some weoks before the type is dotermined, 8 ge es eremgee UY es P. A. GAGLARDI . 85 miles per hour. Gaglardi May Lose Licence VICTORIA (CP)—The education committee of the British Columbia Su; preme Court may inthe next few weeks consider whether Highways Minis- ter P. A. Gaglardi’s driv- er’s licence should be sus- ‘pended. They- will have no way of knowing whose licence is at stake. Mr. Gaglardi forfeited a $10 fine Monday in police court at Kamloops in his home constitu- ency, on a charge of speeding, RCMP said the minister was clocked by a “ghost car” at speeds in excess of 85 miles an hour on the highway between Kamloops and Savonna, 26 miles to the west. Police said that when stopped Gaglardi claimed he was merely testing curves in the highway. It was the highways minister’s second fine for speeding. March 5 he was fined $25 for speeding across Vancouver's Granville bridge. In Victoria, motor vehicles branch director George Lindsay said he had not been advised of the minister’s conviction. But he outlined the procedure taken in second offences. The speeding conviction nota- tion comes to Victorin. A clerk notes jt is the second speeding conviction within a few months, He sends the record to the edu- cedtion committee—without a name so as to avoid any possi- bility of favoritism, The committee then whether the offender's should be suspended. Sonera tenet —niter tree ng emeea tae Atte MER Ser orem Miners Killed’ WASHINGTON, Pa, (4—Five of 11 miners trapped by an explo- sion 564 feet down in’ a mine they wore trying to make snfe for fellow diggers were — killed Monday near this southwestern Ponnsylvania town, One of the ‘six rescued by crews using a makashift holst is report in poor condition in hos- decides licence a re ae CITY ASKED FOR MONEY pital, He ts Jamos Wright, af, currences tn Arkansas... he + \ PROVE NOTAL ronan I TORTA, B Cy. Wesnesday, BEpeethds BS, 105 _ (Pacific. Standard. Time).. High cnewee 2500 22.3 tect - 14:11 23.5 feet: LOW wsssscee 8204 °° 2.8 feet, 20:37. Ld teet Police, Troopers PRICE FIVE CENTS Busy With Fahts By REIMAN MORIN: LITTLE ROCK (AP)—Fear and anxiety" rode’ the streets of Little Rock today despite President Eis- | enhower’s “cease-and-desist” order and the. possibility that federal troops may be brought. in to handle the dangerously inflamed racial crisis. The city was trigger-tense. were busy Monday night answer- ing calls reporting fights be- tween whites and Negroes. Most of them turned out to be of min- or importance. A gang fight between about 50 Negro and white teen.agers touched off what may have been the most serious incident.. State trooper Louis Cone said that when he told a car occupied by two Negro men and three wom- en to “move on” the driver at-; tempted to run him down. Cone, who was knocked down by the automobile, said he jump-. jed up, fired two shots at the fleeing car and then gave chase in his ‘own automobile. A city policeman also. fired a shot, he said, and two ‘city police cars joined in the chase. Pursuit ended at a dead-end street about 12 blocks away when the Negroes’ car bounced into a yard ahd smashed into a fence. City police booked Curtis Pat- rick, 22, of Little Rock for dis- turbing the peace. They also | City police and ‘state troopers; booked Clarence R. Saunders, 29, of Bunkie, La., an airman. ‘sta- tioned at Little Rock, for dis-" turbing the peace, carrying .a- ' concealed weapon—officers said he had a-“metal club’— and as_ sault with a deadly weapon. The “pe latter charge..resulted:from” the:: attempt to run’ ?down' }4rooper- Cone, who suffered a bruised’ leg. No one was. injured | by: ‘the’ gunfire. in the main street gang fight but apparently no one was hurt seri- ously. The incident occurred at. a drive-in cafe—a hangout for ~ white teen- ~agers. . One white man, Dan Dinkins, . 47, was tréated for lacerations of the face and a depressed skull fracture after being hit-on the head by a hurtling rock. His. condition was not serious. - Reports that.a 50-car. : caval. . cade was forming in downtown Little Rock were described by of- ficers as “just a bunch of kids.” . They broke it up. _ Armed Negroes Attack Whites. Between eight and 10 Negroes: ‘were arrested, police said! They | reported no’ arrests. of white'men. “Negroes, armed with all types of weapons, including pistols and razor blades, are attackirig whites throwing rocks, breaking car windshields, and sent into Arkansas to take over beleaguered — Littles - from the Rock’ police and state troopers Presidential ‘press throwing bottles “Ite Pors-mNep trie order is obeyed. houses,” an officer said. Reporters who drove by car through Negro districts found them uniformly dark and silent. ‘The picture today, following Monday’s flareups of fighting in front of Central High School, was this: @ President Eisenhower took a drastic and rarely used execu_ tive action, signing a proclama- tion entitled “obstruction of jus- tice in the state of Arkansas,” commanding “all persons engag- ed in such obstruction of justice to cease and desist therefrom and to disperse forthwith.” @ That raised the question of @ In Sea Island, Ga., however, Governor Orval Faubus said the constitution prescribes that fed- eral forces cannot be sent into a. State “except on the request of the governor of a_ sovercign state.” “T don’t plan to make ; any such request,” Faubus said. “ASK MORE PROTECTION @ Will the. Negro students make another attempt te enter? Mrs. L. C. Bates, president of the Arkansas division of the Na- tional Association for the Ad. vancement of Colored People, said they would not come back without assurances of adequate whether federal troops might be protection from the president. “Little Rock Disgraced City” After his statement in New-; port, calling the occurrenees jn Little Rock “disgraceful,” and warning that he “will use the full power of the U.S.” to carry out the orders of the federal court, Mrs, Bates said she was “oratified.” The aftermath of Monday's violence stirred a storm of biting statements, “We are a disgraced city be- cause of a handful of people,” sald) Mayor Woodrow Wilson Mann of little Rock. At Sea Island, Governor Theo- core MckKeoldin of Maryland, a Republican, fred a blast at Faue bus, “Governor Faubus wrote the book, sot the stage ,and directed tho play for today’s unhappy oc- gave the cues to his players in screaming headlines predicting violence." Faubus, from the governors' conference issued a statement to the people of Little Rock. “Do not under any circum- stances attempt'to take the law into your hands or use any methods excopt lawful means,” , MINOR SCUFFLING Virgil Blossom, superintendent of schools, gave a description of evonts inside the high school Monday after the nine Nogro students entered which coincld- ed with reports by the Negrocs themselves—minor scuffing, Terrande Roborts, 15, one. ‘of the Negroes, sald he was “pushed wround" but not white girl anid thore was “very Nttle trouble at all.” , Old Bill Returns To Haunt arks Prince Rupert Parks board |s scheduled to ho handed a ploce of business It thought It had hean disposed of several yoors veo, Wmattor of a bil from con- trnctor M, a, Baundors for work done at Casey Park tn 1963, Clty counell dast night waa in receipt of a detter fron, My. Suuneders Ino whieh he sought payment of a bull for $460.07 for moving equipment and “keoping men walting on the Job as ar: dered by the Parka board.” VOUTE VEATS AGO Tho lottor atated that In April, 1083, Mr. Snundera had. a cone urnoh with the Gyro Olub of Pringo Rupert to install swings, ‘ \ te BA Bw Dae ia ce te mw eb tande be bein on ee SHdo and soo-saw, . "Mr. O. P.'Balagno, ehalrman for the Parks Bonrd and = Mr. William Lambte for the Gyro club, accompnniad mo to the site and marked the ground where Lhe oqulpmont was to be sob in eemont,"” Mr, Saunders wrote councll, ORDERED MOVED Wo snld that after dhe job was completed, four othor members of tho Parks Bonrd ordered wil equipmont taken down and moved to anothor piri of thro Mold. “In all," Mr. Saundors ante, "theo oquilpment wna moved four timed In ten diya and 1 was ase 1 ' » att aR ER wm ge AD eS mw kw sured by all of those mambors of the bonrd that Y would be paid fur thne spony “The tinal 4 cor was for all equipment to be set up in tho original place!" The contractor told counell that he bad submitted soveral bills ta the Parks board and so attended a bourd mooting whore all mombors ncinitted having ardered tho aquipment moved but "felt tha Clty ar the Gyro club should pay tho uce out.” Tho letter sald that “Mr. Lan. blo of the Cyro club could not nxstine responsibility as he had nob given the ordors for moving tty EO Ns wt hg ae ot Board tho oquipment go the original in titallation only was puld for by the Gyro Olub," “My bill for $450.07 Ja for mov- Ing equipment and keeping men walting on the job as ordered by Parks board mombers oO. P, Ralngno, Pat Foroman, Robert Why and Robert Armatrong and Arthur Murray, "T would appreciate your cone aideration In this niatter” On a motion by Alderman 1 Norton Youngs tho lotter was toforred to tho Parks board, “Mombora of the council could Nover seo fit to pay tho bill un- loss nakod by the Parks board,” Ald. Youngs sald. Be Ge mie tape Pa i eK ae oe GANG FIGHT ins Police said. blows were struck. secretary . James C.: Hagerty ‘said the presi-..- dent’s. proclamation clears the’ way for such action—and_. that the next step is to wait and See harmed, A. age Re eae Rt te kh ne Seis at RE -