ae ae a te mene vO. XLVI, No. 99 n bottom : ee G—Mayor Peter J. Laster’ is shown in top pi eason at Algoma. Park sast night. Player picture, P keround. “Mned- ~ CPR geil holiday b from mainland to Vainoinier Island VPS O'Neal, chairman‘of the! isp “public ap- , Goi $36" has been. warded | Terrace and Kitimat an Labor Day if. volunteer - In making this” prediction;. celal committee: to solicit “volun: feer labor, lauded :the increased enthusiasm Shown ‘in the Past days. : = “We had. 16 worke Tuesday night” E; Po: chairman: of the’ Special cons ‘|mittee: to solicit voluntee labor; enthusiastically — morning, “The: response. = colisid: derably. he: bi 8. ary--- for; making concrete “forms. <.He - said’ that this work did ne quire - - spec=' Malized skill‘ and. was: not- heavyy work. ; ” eDhirty-six ‘people: have» now ‘a the. amount of $428,- - Peter Kiewit. Sons Com- “pany Limited for. pavingya 24-rnile. stretch between ithe Terrace air port road, . fo ; it was. reported in a ae am to the Daily News ton, : ” Civie Centre. swimming spool « ean be completed by 5 subsidiary, the work K pledge, ", he reported. - charges: are pending. 4 enue East was fined $10,. costs pledges; n many. of- which are. close to the..100-nour’ mark: and. still |& many ‘More .close’ to‘the 50-hour Police - ‘reported today. * murtnee - Lloyd Mooney, 526 Eighth Av- “ dustry had: itsjup. with good ) nstall in-additional diesel un Northern } ing. returns OL see those: -fundg' be- | completed thelr 50-hour. ‘work: of ‘in default of. payment. ‘sen- 7: “Experience has: shown: Fenente| position: sot: iters | VANCOUVER ({f—Holiday boat, The union also, plans to hold‘ the public” in calling. the strike! ore —— tenced “to serve: seven days in ly that. even: economies baseli on would issue. securities... ‘We could |: traffic between the B.C. main- | a strike vote on Black Ball Fer- ‘for Friday. Victoria Day week- No word © jail. when he pleaded Bully to aluminum. are not entirely proceed with the, diesel. installa- | land and Vancouver Island,; ries Ltd. next week. Black Ball , end sces the CPR’s biggest holi- | r AA driving while his driver’s cence stable.” 9", Revert: Pa An Mae en taney 0 Mi Mat dy Mae a . y which last year was 27,006 per-| operates from Seattle to Horse-: day triffic to the island. sons, Was canceHed Wednesday | night when the Canadian Paci- fic Railway announced it wil! lay up all vessels in the face of a threatened strike. Union Wednesday told the CPR | | it will strike midnight Friday unless agreement is reached on a new contract before then. shoe Bay and Nanaimo: ‘Ball are munication between struck all ship com- } The ° 3 i He also accused the union of. Wf both the CPR and Black : ey further company. ading negotiations. ; had ‘proposed | the B.C.! fresh talks May .12 but the SIU mainland and Vancouver Island | ,had not replied, he said. The . The Seafarers International | Will cease. J. N. Fraine, OPAPI PG DD ODI PED POLE LODE PDO LIED DEO CLEVE PROVO LODOO POP OUOCEREOEBDOOS ‘AIRPORT PROJECT INSPECTED BY DEPARTMENT OF. TRANSPORT Department of Transport officials from Vancouver Tucs- day, made wn inspeetion tour ~ Digby Island. of Prince Rupert Airport on Gulded by N. A. Beketov, District Marine Agent, and HW. N. McLary, resident engineer, the “Vancouver dignitarios in- apeeted work on the airport project as well as Digby Island radio station. The visitors were Dr. T. G. How, district controller of alr services, and O. H. Queally, head of Vancouver radio division. POPPI OOO SATO CE AEALLE RILEY OODLE EL EEE OED EDEN PHY OOOTOVEROOUENCEUED towed tuto Pr ince Rupert Impressive: array of quests to. visit schools Empire Day An impressiva lish of sperkors and singers will lake part in the Kmpire Day ceremonies to be conducted in Prince Rupert wad Port Bawards school Fri- diy by the Imperial Order Danghters of the Empire. JODIE Munietpal ehapter rege eat Mrs. Joe Ridydale will pre- sldevab all sessions along with Mtaudard bearers. and mombers, representing all-ehapters Muni- Wpal, Queen Mary, Cambral and Duehess eof dinbur gh. "On the theme of "Cithenship," County Court ¢ Judge W. A, Sehulb. wil) address students at Booth Momorlal Mh aehool at NOW. eoint tablet daily $ Vitamins +12 tAlnorals REXALL ° ‘SUPER PLENAMINS AN vitamins with known require eens plus vital eninorals! My S2Su TZ SOT 1, ST ORMES DRUGS LTD, $ a "Sa 4 ' a 4 titted se attuntath MATa ty 315 nav. Vorolist will be Mrs. W. C. Wakinson and planist Mrs. J, Smith. Tho Vary Rev. A. . Hendy, Dean of Caledonia will address pupils of King Edward school at 10 a.m. assisted by Mrs. Wankin- son and Mra, Smith. Annunelation sehool will be Visited nt 10:50 aan. when the Prince Rupert Canndlan Gitizen- ship council's councillor Mrs, D. W. Burnip will speak. Mrs. Burnip will also addross students at Roosevelt Park at 11:30 am, taststed nt both ses« slons by Mrs, Hankinson and Mra. Binith, Lioutenant Jan Inglis, RCN, wlll address students at Conrad Streot school ati 1:80 pan. and pupils at Porl Edward school at 2:30 p.m. Denis A, Winslow will be vocalist accompanied by Mrs, Hankinson at the plano, Mombers of the IODE will Vialt Beal Cove school during the afternoon, . Presontations of the B.C, Con- tonnial anthology books will also be made to school Nbrarivs. previous contract expired last, Pacifie region ‘ October. vice-president of the CPR, ac- | euscd the union of “utter dis- ; rope ud for the conve The strike involves 350 mem- bers of the SIU and would put nience of | another 1,150 CPR cmployces out :0f work, a company official | said. CPR ships sail (0 Vancou- ver Ishind, Seattle, upcoast B.C, and Alaska, carrying cargo and passengers, cones ee net ranean ote enianterrettnien te, | Halibut boat loses rudder: towed to port ; A erlppled halibut boat was har- i bor early Tuesday morning after i she lust her rudder and shoe in aodny Water around Heeate Strat . The T-lool . “Sea Ranger” owned hy J. M. Curtop of Vane couver and skippered by John Decker wenb under her own : power lo Tple Ishind where she was pleked up by the Arm- our Salvage tug “The Phippen", If way reported today, Yesterday because of txisting tides she was taken across the hurbor and benched for neces- Sury Beur measuraments, The "Sea Ranger” was brougit biek to Pelnee Rupert thls morn. Wigs and Wi Be laid up with re} piirs for about a week, the skip« per sald, Nhe bout snlvagod. n onteh of 40,000 pounds of hulibut but had to leave part of her fishing gear on the fishing grounds. Mr. Decker said the "Sen Rane ger" lost her ruddor and shoe in 36 miles per hour ewinds, and stormy writer around Heento Stralt, Monday. . re meneenpeenreemeeneenenmnmes VANCOUVER, (m-An avcount- ant and two timber executives WII be culled ag witnesses today In the §8-count bribery-conaplr= ney Indletment involving former lands and forests minister Ro- 'B,” which’ battled its way into [next of kin, the RCMP said . 5 i ! from ill-fated | fish boat | The RCMP today reported that they were unable to com- municate with the ‘Vancouver registered hallbutter “Robert White Rocks harboy '- during a gale which through Hecate Strait. Name of one of the three {ish- ;ermen washed overboard, pre- sumed drowned js still being withheld, pending notification of Tuesday, whipped The vessel, under Captain ‘st R. Nordhus, fought her way through 40 miles-per-hour gales lo the shelter of the harbor Tuesday night. 74 og mene ners aeensanmereetion Fire put out The Clty Fire Department was called out at 7:30 this morning to put ‘out a fire caused from an over-heated oven in Van's Bak- ery Ltd., on Third Avenue West. | after he pleaded guilty to driv- Of the firm pleaded guilty to fined $25, costs or in default was Suspended: ' * Tommy Laurence Bigue, 1437 | Piggott Place was fined $10, costs or in default seven ‘days, ing as a chauffeur without be- ing the holder of ‘a chauffeur's licence. In connection with the same case Northwest Refriger- ation Food Ltd, was fined $15 and costs after a representative employecing a chauffeur with-. out a chauffeur’s licence. | _In a separate case Harry -Ben- nett Wilson was warned by the magistrate that he would be in dangcr of Iqsing his driver's li- cence if Me'didn't observe the |' restrictions’ on it. Wilson was seven days, when he pleaded guilty to driving contrary to the destrictions on his licence by not wearlng cyeglasses. It was his second offence on the same charge, Also pleading guilty to driv- Ing without cycglasses though his Neence called for it was Joseph Steger, 619 Seventh Av- enue West, who was fined $10, Little damage was roported. costs or seven days, hero's welcome, President, Wlaenhower, . meme bers of the cibinet and Cone. gress, government workers and plain citlzens greeted him at National alrport, ‘Thousands more had a chance to extend thelr. welcome along: i Matorcade route from the alre: port to the White House to the man who was stoned in Peru and attacked in Venezuela dur- ing -the course of an offielul’ goodwill tour, The Sonate Domocratic lend- or, Lyndon B, Johnson of Texas, gave the arrangomonts a ble: partladn flavor: by. announelng. that he would bo on hang to. greet the vice-president, And... Intor {) was announced that are. ' Yangomonts ‘had beon made for 10 buses to take mombora of bert 8. Sonumors; ' ‘9 Congross to the alrport, t * * fastest othe Nixon greeted on return from riotous tour WASITING'TON. (M—VicorPresident Nixon flow homeward to- day from his rlot-racked tour of South America to reeelvo a Asm Grier iha naar siete te heed Aide dp debe lds de by thousands l RICHARD NIXON ‘] present, 4 tho prst,” he sald, Present loud ‘is eatimiated’ at 46,000,000 KWH. He said the ‘Pr ince Rupert area Had nat developed as rapidly as other British: where there was greater diver- sification, of: industries that sup- port a utility. Loe “In 1929; 1 believe even the} City of: Prince “Rupert had its financial difficulties.” He. said that “all these factors enter into the mind of an in- vestor and are definitely taken into consideration.” Columbia areas} . some’ chance. or showing fingn- |. cial security, .. See 3 . “If we could be. financed by. the public then the parest ‘company would: advance the $350,000° to the. NBOPC.”. He then went, onto say that if the demand load for power reached 50,000,000 kilowatt hours then a second hydro unit would be installed on Falls River. “If the load grows we will: go- | tibn, if “the: compariy ‘was: given |! “ “Earliet AS engineer for the Power. tion: ‘of! Canada Ltd., we » Under’ questioning | by Mr, Far- ey Under questioning by John L. Outlining the NBC Power Company's proposed expansion he said that an additional diesel unit’ was required immediately. Estimated cost of installation was $350,000, He sald that for the time be- Ing it was ‘more econdmical ‘to operate the diesel in conjunc- tion with the hydro plants until such tlme'as the load grows and diesel production of power be- came too costly, To save on dic- sel production costs a second hydro unit would then be in- stalled at. Falla River, Mr. Finlayson said it would be difficult’ to say when addl- tlonal hydro’ power would be- come Necessary and when It would be economically sound. “Tho tino ia not ripe now,” he added stating that diesel pro- ducllon was more economical at "Due to the low water supply during Decembor, January, Feb- ruary and March, there is no neod for a second hydro unit on Falla River at present.” ‘When asked by a member of the PUG “lo be a Httle less vaguo,” Mr. BIinlayson sald the bronk-off point would come whon the olty’s demand load renohed 60,000 KWH. Ho estl- mated roughly. that that would bo about 1003 or 1063, "It dopends on a more rapid’ growth than had been shown Jn Othor factors, Mr. Finlayson aud was the prudent provision of these Initallations, The pres- ent plant had been running for “eee Change In rovoption if dns Delta drs oh Bodied tedosthth dnt 28 yours nonestop without be- ‘would bo left with its present overcome by riext winter. ° to the ‘public, flout a bond ke New diesel required immediately’ ing thoroughly overhauled, ~ . Meanwhile, he said, there was sufficient power for what was necded right now ‘but not: en-|° ough for a peak load if a break- down occurred at Falls River, “We just got by last winter,” he sald. He estimated thatelf a new diesel unit’ was ordered . “right now” it. would be between nine and 10 months before it was In operation. Under questioning he sald that there would not be any power to spare at capacity load next winter, ; If Falls River “went out,” Mr. Finlayson said that the city diesol =plant producing 4,400 horse + power and Sshawatlans with an additional 1,400 horse- power for a total of 5,800 hp. . No admitted ‘that the power supply situation would not ha Under cross-examination by My. Harvey, Mr. Finlayson: said that normally with the wintor runoff problem there waa in- sufficient water to operate the present Falls River plant fully the year round, . Asked !f “we are faced with that for ever?” tho engineer) suld “No, the dam could be raised to boost storage capacity for uso during tho winter months," He ostimated tho: total power potontinl at Falls River ob $2,000 horge-power, , No anid that ratsing the dam nt the present time would not bo in the bost: {ntorests of. the communjty ot the moment, ‘than a climbing straight Ur When the demand ‘reaches. 000-000 KWH then it could. be " raised 30 feet...) - grabay | yyy - He sald. ‘the long-range: pro- gram of the NBCPO was @ Install an additional ‘Immediately;, at Falls River when. economic. ally sound and the demand mada: it economically sound «in - the. foresceable future, tives Or’ Bx yenrs; River, - 7 “Would it be falr.to say that. there would be insufficient pow er in Prince Rupert next Wine ter?” Mr. Harvoy asked, “There: will be no. margin," Ss Mr. Finlayson said, Asked whether it would: have. been prudent to have dinatalled a the additional diesel ” ready’ for. next winter, the engincor’ sald’ ut would have been, 2... be ~Birst. person to testify. ‘this. . (Continued on’ Page. mys Sco'— NEW DIESEL: wth ay ae WEATHER— ey A dew showora’ ¥riday, Littlo chango in temperature, Winds ight... Low: tonight and high Priday ot, Prince Tupart 45 and: $0.- TIDES— a Wylday, May is, et, recite Stand Blandard ttn en eeenease a “Yarl8 18 “Ta feet Low : vue’ QL + 4,0 feat 18 00 13 toab HG : an t had: ‘testi- ‘fied that he. took an active: ‘par fe in” designing’ the: Falls River hy ee | @ro-plany. wo Ww.’ ‘Finlayson chiet ts, Mr, Finlayson.said that.the. °°: growth of the demand load for ire power: over the past ten |years - Was . represented | on a graph: by a ‘slowly. * ‘Tsing - curve,’ yather "diesel @ Inbtall a second “hydto inl a @ Raise the dam at Falls A bits Stubsdadedsd dhBeah ted bun dase Ddrate Dede Deedee: hee Rochas te Ae ate hts bo Avctuah chaebol Yo haces