we 4 e WR et Le - B.C. CENTENNTAr, “Cok . ours . mo . . . mo, # ARCHIVES of gp. Ceo. mee, . PARLIAMENT BLDGS. VICTORTA, B.C, OV. 24/4572 °° | "TIDES? 4 Thursday, September 26,1957 =} ee (Pacific Standard Time) WEATHER Mostly: cloudy Thursday with otvasional light rain. A ttle ' cooler, Winds occasionally in- a creasing to southeast 25 in ex- iN posed areas, Low tonight and HIBD sssecsceeee 2:45 21.7 feet i High Thursday at Port Hardy, 14:51 23.0 feet qe Sindspit and Prince’ Rupert 52 LOW srsssunnnee 8246. 3.7 feet. we and 60. Published at Canada’s Most Strotegic Pacific. Port ~—— And Key to the Great Northwest 2L2b 7 feet ‘No. 225 freee ernment mein me Vol. XLVI, i. PRINCE RUPERT, B.C., WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 25, 1957 Says Bennett © | Constituents: | Said Unfair VICTORIA (CP)—Pre- i) micr Bennett said Tuesday ' most vital nours in history. said Mr. Bennett. that constituents in Ross- Jland-Trail have been un- fair to their MLA Mr. Bennett was commenting “na weekend report from Trail that Mayor Leslic Read said he would: seck an official expres- sion, of his aldermen’s view on the disappearance of Robert Sommers, MLA for the interior yTiding. : The mayor said Trail was now without representation in the legislature during one of the the city’s .M¥. Sommers is believed to be under the care of a doctor. “J don’t Know where he’ is,” “I only: know me that he’s a very sick man.” \ ‘Hansen . son “ Prince Rupert Fishermen ' Operative association “Mr. Sommers’ constituents ; arc adopting a very unfair atti- tude,” he said. ; Meanwhile preliminary proces- ses in the 21-month-old slander suit of Robert E. Sommers, form- er’B.C. lands and forests minis- ter, against a Vancouver lawyer Sewere set Wednesday for Oct. 7. Mr. Justice H. W. McInnes sect the date for examination for discovery at the request of Wil- liam J. Trainor, counse! for de- fendant David Sturdy, and set Oct. 21 as the new trial date for the three- times adjourned ac- f tion. The judge rejected a medical certificate entered by © counsel for the former minister which said he was suffering from a heart condition’ and nervous strain and should avoid all con- troversial matters). "Mrv Sommers failed“ to* ‘appear for the pre-trial examination Monday and his lawyer, Lorne H. Jackson, said he was unwell. Mrs. Sommers earlier told news- paper men her husband is rest- ing artd his whereabouts are! known only to herself. After Wednesday’s hearing Mr. | Trainor said failure of the form-i er minister to appear on the new: date would entitle the defence to apply for dismissal of ‘his suit. Fisherman A. A. Johansen Dies Aged 62 A resident here for 33 years, ' Anton Axeleus Johansen, died: aboard his fishing vessel Allons, - yesterday at the age of 62. A fisherman most of his life, Mr. in 1923 and to Prince Rupert a year later, on his troller, berthed floats at: Fairview around noon yesterday. : He js survived by a brother! Bert Charstad of Saskatoon, Funeral services for Mr, Will be held Jo- nh 2 p.m. Home with the Rev, Arthur Ol- of St, ‘aus’ Lutheran chureh offielating. Interment Will be at Fairview cemetery, y FPDP PODS OP PPP IPE PIPL ODPDOUOECOODS _ Three Dentists Now Operating In Prince Rupert Prince Rupert today had three dentists working on the public's teeth ino an effort to cateh up ona large back-log of appointments, Joining the two overworked reshlen( dentists, Dr, H.W, “MeDonald and Dr. Alexander hattle was Dr, Airy, Ine the fvoth decay Waddell of North Prior to Dre Waddell's ay. rival, the eify ban had) only two dentista singe Dr, AL AY Miller Jeft a year and a half Wri, nels Nonald Vuaneouver, COOOOOO LOPLI PEE OTIIVOD OIL EVOTOOS ORMES——— Baily Delivery e DIAL 215] -.--DRUGS ‘the German people in both east : opposed to the Communiss pup- ‘pet government.” feratic republic” had nowhing to! ‘do with democracy at all and, “| present regime was protected by ‘NEED FREE ELECTIONS ‘nist domination would be swept Johansen came to Canada | He was found dead} at the | n's Co. | tomorrow | ‘trade balance with Canada was- from Ferguson Puneral» ee See SOMEONE TO LOOK UPTO — Busy keeping things moving during the 39th Annual Hip Sing Chinese Merchants Associa- tion Convention parade in Was hington D.C., poli¢eman M. J. Cullinane takes time out to pay attention to Allan Weaver, 2, who seems quizzical about something. Allan has someone else to look up to, too, his father. The latter is serving with the Marines and is stationed in Japan. RECEPTION FOR CONSUL. Canadian-German Ties Growing Closer Ali Time | The ties between West growing closer all the time, Germany and Canada are Dr. H. F. Liebrecht, Ger-| man consul for British Columbia told 21 guests at- tending a reception and din banquet. room, Dr. Liebrecht said the Chan- {cellor, Conrad Adenauer’s, over- whelming victory in the. recent|. West German elections showed that hih tcountry was right with the western powers and wanted to stay in the North Atlantic i Treaty Organization. He said that the main goal of land west Germany wanter unification of their country. “Ninety per cent of the popu- ,lation east of the Elbe River, : ‘some 80,000,000 Germans, were. re- The so called “German Demo- | } ‘was only in power because the! : Soviet tanks and arms. t “Geftmany wants reunification | ‘but not by foree. If we could ‘have free elections the Commu- away,’ Dr. Liebrecht said. He said that for the thme be- Ing Germany is flourishing. “There is no unemployment, we have a balanced budget, a sound hard and more or less free currency and an active trade ; balnnee. “Most Germans are happy, in! ‘fact Wappler than at any other | ‘time in its history." Ne*regretted that Germany's nL pre@er, although it was good with British Columbin. The consul Jauded his listen- ors for promoting friendship and mutual understanding Ger- man Immigrants and visitors, “You have made this task of ours simple.” Ve also thanked Hugo Kraup- ner, German consul for northern B.C. who with Mrs. Kraupner, were hosts for the reception rnd dinner, Dr. Liebreeht sald that Mr, Kraupner had done an “out- standing job... that he was a good German and good Canad- jan eltizen,” : TWO 'TOASTS Two tousts were drunk during the dinner, one to the Queen and one to Chancellor Adenauer, At Dr, Liebrecht's requost 1 short silonee was observed for the 80 German seamen belleved: Jont. at sen dn the sinking of the famous four = masted — barque amir, Wotcome ta Dr, Ulebreeht from the City of Prince Rupert was oxtended by Alderman Rn. a, Large on behalf of Mayor George WIT. Ald. Large sid that he wad pleased to Janrn- that there are 400 Germans in the elty who Wore Onnadian eltivens in the maleing. LOCAL CONSUL PRAISED "Canada needs good elilnens," ho sald, “and thore are Gornans who have been outstanding cltd- “ONK bi the Industrial Meld. Ald, Lurge opradsed consul Huge ner for him at the Club 27 Kraupnet Tor the inp he had . Also welcoming ‘Dr, “Liebréent ¢ was A, Bruce Brown, legal aide to the consulate here. Mr. Brown said that he would’ do al! he could do to promote the welfare of German citizens who come to: Prince Rupert. . Host, Hugo Kraupner said that it was not unusual for a loyal Canadian such as he, who had lived in Canada 30 years, and learned the ways and customs of the adopted country, to be ap-4 pointed a representative of West Germany. In that way, he said, a long- time resident of Canada could be of greater assistance to new- comers. During his Hfe in Can- ada, Mr. Kraupner satd, he had enjoyed the many privlieges af- iforded newcomers, enjoyed the democratic way of life, the hos- pitality and the friendships. “It makes me feel good from the -bottom of my heart to work ‘for the good of my homeland jand for the good of Canada.” He thanked all those In Prince Rupert for help given the Ger- man consulate here and for the co-operation he had received on . many cases in this city and other localities in the area he serves. Tonight Dr, Wiebrecht will meet members of the cGerman ' community In this city, Flu Ep idlemic Sweeps Village BARROW, Alaska (W-—-An ope domle of jnfluonza has broken out in this viltnge on the north. ormmost tip of Alaska and so far one doath, an infant, has oceur- rod, Rev, Wiliam C, Wartos, Pres. bytoriin ehureh misstonary, satd more thaw 200 patients were trented at the U8, publle health sorvice hospital last wool. “Some of the hoapltal staff have been on the slekiist. bhemaolves," he uddoad, | National Guard — -| stationed along the streets High; | by. President: Hisenhower through. Paratroops. High School “Federalized” LITTLE (AP)— About, 350 armed paratroopers, with bay- onets on their rifles, were bounding Central School today poised to erush any attempt to mo- lest the nine , Negro stu-|. dents attending the school. Twenty-four troopers were stationed inside the sprawling 2,000-pupil school. The schacl ground looked like a military fortress with tele- phone wires strung about the trees and light posts. Men with walkie-talkies were stationed at intervals to provide communica- tion. : A small cluster of people stood before a drugstore near the school. A lieutenant walked up and told them to “break “it up.” . e The military action, ordered ‘the army, was the most drastic ‘ever taken to back up federal court: racial integration orders. The first troops rolled through Little Rock at dusk after flying from Fort Campbell, Ky. They }. were units of the 101st Airborne | Division. Their convoy headlights prob- ed days. Big carrier planes kept bring- ing paratroopers into the Little Rock area until 1,000 had ar- rived. From army camps throughout this area, convoys began rolling — apparently with supplics to feed and support the troops, The callup of regulars and fed- eralization of the guard was or- dered by the president Tuesday. In placing the National Guard under federal army command, Eisenhower, took it from the con- trol of Governor Orval Faubus, ; who had used guardsmen to: stop Negros from entering* the school September 2, The president, saying he acted with sadness but expressing de- termination td be firm, ad- dressed the country by radio and! television Tuesday night shortly after taking military action, Beats | ee Tho tedoral VLU VACOINE health department has re- ported that Asian flu has been dlscovored in Ontario, Que- hee, Brillah Columbia and Al- bertn, Wealth Minister Mon- tolth sald) the first supplies of vacelne — for. protection agninst the disease will be dls- tributed next month, Tere workors oat the Connaught Taboratories In Toronto In- traduce tho flu virus Into ones where {tls grown to forn: antl Ty vaccine, Tho teehnielans are Celt to right: Betty Wil- Kony Nadia Romine, Valorie Wildesk nnd Joan wtherldgo, Guarding ROCK, Ark. -~ the darkening streets tof ibring back memories of war SWEATER QUEENS — Carol Conw ray of New York City, voted — . “Miss Sweater Girl, 1957", and Vicki Jo Nixon of South Am- | boy, N.J.,. voted ‘Miss Sweater Girl, 1977’, hold tr ophies they received in the annual sweater girl contest sponsored by The Wool Bureau and the Knitted Outerwear Foundation. Miss Conway received a complete wool sweater wardrobe, a wool coat, and a year’s Supply of Woolite, a $50 gilt certificate, plus a. $100 U.S. Savings Bond. .- “UNREALISTIC” School Finance Pian Failure Says UBCM CP) Ne d NELSON ( -——The school finance committee of the Union of B.C. Municipalities says the provin- cial government’s cost sharing formula has failed. In a report to the UBCM an- nual conference opening here to- day the special committee will ask for an expression of “deep concern" over “fallure of the education finance formula in- troduced by the government in 1955 to produce the results claimed for it.” This failure was “demonstrat- ed beyond doubt” by the tn- creased demands on taxpayers made in the 1957 school budgets Catch Value For August Up Over 6 VANCOUVIER (CP)— British Columbia fisher men caught $8,141,000 worth of fish in August, an increase of 11 per ¢ eent compared with | August, 1956, The department of fisherles monthly statistical report, Issued Tuesday, shows the value of sale mon Jandings was better than $1,000,000 more than last yorr’s August figure. Heavy pink sal- mon runs to the Bkeenna and In Johnson straits provided the bulk of the salmon catch, Value of August hallbut land- Ines was down in comparison with the 1966 August fishery. The tatal of 2,619,000 pounda, valued at $466,000, was 10°) por cent lower in voluma and §177,- 000 lawor {th value than tho 1066 comparative period, remmerr8000 ms somne mae manenane © vetemeenenee BymENtNR heen Me enter mR Sentence Actor BISVURLY VTLS, Calif, (a Ronnie Burns, actar son of George Burns and Gracto Allon, his boon sentenced to spend two Saturdaya doing “manual lubor" for the Rovorly Wiha po- live ehieft, Burns, 22, was given the sentonee tn munielpal court Tuoaday for apoeding 85 miles an hour fy ‘a aporta car ina (CP Photo) “oemilla vone Wore. = of most municipalities, the re- port notes. The report charges the govern- ment formula was “nntealistic regarding teachers’ salaries, which make up 6) to 70 per cent of ordinary expenditures,” and says it called for “large hidden contributions from municipal- ities." ‘ When the formula was intro- duced, it proposed that the municipalities pay the first 10 mills, the government the rest. Bilt as assessments rose, the gov- ernment’s share dropped an- nually, In additioon, Victoria set an arbitrary [eure for teachers sal- aries and refuse to pay its share on any amount exceeding this scale, regardless of the fact most teachers now get far more than they did in 1055. Therefore, the report charges, the formula “works entirely to the advantage of the govern- ment,” Education Minister Lestte Peterson has promised to meet with the special committee and a similar committee of the B.C. School Trustees Assoaiation be- fore his department drafts pro- posed changes to the Public Schools Act, the report notes. Ttsyproposed resolution asks that any new formula take Into necount actual, and not hypo: thetical, toachers salaries. Three Vessels Sell Catches Three fshing vessels g soll thaly catches In Prince Rupert this morning. . Tho Kodiak landed . 65,000 pounds of Hallbut, sald to Atlin Fisheries for 104 eonts — for modium, 18.7 conts for large and 10 cents for chicken slze, The Zodiak Light sold 15,000 pounds to Trelfie Fishories for 18 conts for modu, 17 cents for large and 10 cent for chic- ken hallbut, The B.O, Lady sold) medium and large alive for tho same prico — 10 cents — and chteles for 10 conta, Hor catch of 40,000 pounds went to British Columbia Packers, v | “Rifle For PRICE FIVE CENTS Hunting” Entered as Exhibit | Four years of happy marriage between Werner and Erika Hensel preceded five weeks of quarreling just before the fatai shooting of Franz Lechner ‘in Kitimat May 25, an Assize Court jury was told this morning. Helmut Jordan, brother- -in-law of Hensel who ‘is charged with Lechner’s murder, told the court that he had known the dccused since his marriage four years ago and found them. still “very happy” when’ he moved into the Hensel’s home in: ‘Kitimat April 20 this year. Jordan’ was “phe: ‘eixth: cwitness to testify: ‘before: Mr:'Justice. J.C. Clyne in ‘the: trial that: ‘opened yesterday. | Jordan said that Mrs. Hensal treated Franz Lechner, a board- er, in an “overfriendly manner” and paid more attention to him than to her husband. -Listing: several incidents elab- orating .on this statement,. Mr. Jordan said that Hensel became aware: of,the . relationship © be- tween his wife and the boarder. about two wecks. after, Jordan moved into the nouse. _-On May 23, the Hansels’ fourth wedding anniversary, Lechner and Hensel went for a drive-to talk about sepatation — of Mts. : Hensel from her busband, Jor-’ dan told the jury... . “He said that on. the: afternoon, of May. 24 he saw. Hensel “run up” and. down the* room’ oaths and swearing: my “The last time’ he saw Hensel before the shooting was at’:-9° o’clock on the night of May: 24, Jordan said. In. yesterday’s session, - the story was told of how’a .303 rifle was -borrowed for bear hunting. A .303 rifie, broken in. two pieces was introduced as” evi- dence. Went Out To Buy Ammunition Arnold Brendel, friend of the. accused, told prosecutor W. N. Poole that. Hensel came to his home—a, 30-minute. walk—twice on the night of May 24. Hensel had asked Brendel if he could borrow his rifle to hunt. bears and Brendel agreed but: said he had no ammunition. . oe Hensel;;,who,.ha two glasses of wine’: del home, went to a sporting goods store just before 9 p.m. He returned at 11:15, Brendel said, and he snowed the accused how to load and secure the rifle. The new model gun’s magazine was loaded with 10 shells when Hensel left at approximately 11:30 p.m., Brendel said. Under cross examination Brendel! told defence counsel A. Bruce. Brown that later Hensel told him he had ‘a seven day holiday when asked why he had- n't*been at work on the midnight to 8 a.m. shift of May 25. Harold Johansen, shift fore- man of the furnace room of the Aluminum Company of Canada Ltd., plant where Hensel worked, said that the accused had been a quiet, even timid man, Under cross examination he Dr, Murray sald that during his examination of the body, at about 1:45 on the morning of May 25, and the autopsy later In the day, he found three punc- ture holos, in the right and left side of the chest and ‘on the in- side of the right elbow. “The body was lying face down In a poo! of blood, and the head and face were smashed In," Dr. Murray said, “But I belleve that the death jvas caused by the shot through ‘he heart.” J. M. Davios, construction foreman,, Identified a floor plan of the Hense] home and estab- Not Chairman Of 1953 Board Says Balagno Cc, P, Balagno, chairman’ o (he parks board last year, sald today that he was not chalr- man of the parks board, in April, 1953, ns stated in a letter 1) City Council from contractor M. J. Baundors. Mr, Balugno was named as chairman ino a letter from Mr. Saunders asking for payment of 0. $460.67 bill to Parks Board for work done on Casey Park in Mr, Balngno, sald. that Pat Yoremun was the chajrman of the Parks Board at that Hino, aD rely Heads Trustees VICTORIA, (h — Lorne G, Ag- Rett Of Vancouver Tuesdny waa olectod prosident of the B.C, School ‘Trustees Association, To succocdsa A, W. Morcor of Now Woatininster, Plrst viee-prosident ts P, M, Hopkins, Kitimat, said he knew no reason: why Hensel should have been absent - from work on the May 25 shift. On the previous Braveyard shift, Hensel’ had appeared quite happy, Johansen said.-. - munition and Hensel did not ap- pear to know the exact calibre of rifle ammunition he needed... - When 2 box of ammunition” son said that it “was the kind of ammunition he sold Hensel that night.” Hensel appeared to be sober at the time, Knutson said under cross examination by defense counsel. He described Hensel as “not very dressy,” with’ untidy, hair and wearing rubber boots. clothes,” Knutson said, Testimony of Dr. H. L. Murray, attending physician, indicated Or that Lechner had been shot through the side of the chest. Boarder Shot, Clubbed lished the height of the bedroom windows in the Hensel home at five fect six inches from, the ground and able to he opened 16 to 17 Inches from, top or bottom. Foreman of the 12-man jury is Norman Percy Baker, Otto Knicpkamp is acting as Intorpre- ter during the case. Also on hand is Dr, BH. F. Liebrecht, West German consul for Britlsh Co- lumbia and Hugo Kraupner, German consul for northern British Columbla, Trial proceedings were resum- ed later this afternoon. Gangland Revenge | Bomb Motive VANCOUVER () — Police ara Investigating the possibiitty of gangland revenge as the motive for planting of a bomb tn tha engine of a car here Tuosday, Police sald John Kopell, own« of the small sedan, had holped them in drug Invostiga- (ions, , Tho two-elneh practica mortar, wired to tho ongine block, was romoved by elty palloo, At first thought to bo alive, It was later pronounaedt harmless by army axperty, Traffic was diverted from the area while the bomb was romoved, Polico are not sure whothor tho bomb was placed as a throat or $f It was bolleved to be live, If the Inttor, hont or engine vibration would havo sot it off, Polloo anid a lve bomb could have killod within a radius of 5O yards and would have blown tho car lo bita, . ‘ uttering Vernon Russell. Knutson, Kiti- mat: sporting goods | store clerk: » jsaid. that he- ‘had: ‘seen: the: .d.| cused buying ‘ammuntion: ju. “after: 9 “put May“25.*? He gone over to where a junior clerk and Hensel were ‘discussing™ am-. was produced as evidence Knut- . “IT would say he was in working - OFF we rate enti eters oe!