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Harriet Bay

 

Fisherman

Found Safe On Island

CAMPBELL RIVER,

B.C. (CP)—A 68-year-old

fisherman missing 12 hours when his storm battered
troller sank was found unhurt on a rocky island 10

Westcoast
Gas Line

‘Solid’

~COQUILHALLA, B.C.
(CP) — The 110.- mile
southernmost section of
Westcoast Transmission’s
$170,000,000 natural gas
pipeline became a_ solid

stretch of pipe Friday
with the final weld being

performed 4,500 fee t

above sea level.

The entire 650- mile - long
pipeline, divided into four sec-
tions for construction purposes,
is..expected to be completed in
August. Still to be finished are
about a dozen miles in central
B.C.

The pipeline, which was start-
ed carly in 1955, will transmit

-., Watural gas from the fleld at Ft,

St. John, B.C. to the lower B.C.
mainiand and by a= subsidiary
line to 40 Interlor B.C. centres.

The gas will also be exported
to the United States to serve the
Pacific Northwest States.

Friday’s tic-In near. hére join-
ed pipe sections which originat-
ed at Huntington on the inter-
national border and at Portia,
120 miles northeast of Vancou-
ver. .

‘This leg is through the most
difficult pipe-laying stretch of
the line, skirting the slope of
snow-capped mountains of the
Cascade e Fange.

eevee a ene gence

Chambers Ask
Change Made
In U.S. Tax

“VANCOUVER Mme The British
Columbia and Yukon Chamber
of Mines has made a final at-
tempt to get the United States
to reconsider its proposed new
import tax on Iead and zine.

Chamber manager Tom Elltot
suld. he has sent an urgent wire
to prime minister Diefenbak-
er onsking that the govern-
ment make a stiong representa-
tion against the proposed tax.

‘The Chamber of Mines has
recelved acknowledgement of tts
telegram, he sntd.

Mr. Nillott sald the wire stated,
inc part, that the “base metal
nyinkig Industry fino thts section
of Canada is very concerned"
whout the proposed tax and that
‘many hnportant communities
in B.C. and the Yukon Territory
awe thelr existeneé to mining |!
these ores and are atroaady in
an unfavorable position owlng
to low world prices now prevall-
Ing and ublfiavorable exchange
riybe,”

aI = “11 coemasnegunenatimiaenesietaneaiatetmntmanenennn

To Visit Moscow

VANCOUVER ( -- Dr, . Oyril
Reid, professor of ehemlatry at
the University of 13.0., will vialt
Moxcow this summer to attend
wn Informational aYINpOs UM on
the ‘ogi of Wife, Dr, Reld will
rive a peper an blo-physles, We
Jonves Vancouver duly i) and
will return Mn Beptomboar,

 

VOTE YES

ON »

BOTH BY-LAWS

DRUGS

 

miles north of here.

Search officials had feared
Tom Wallbank of Harriet Bay,
Quadra Island, had drowned
after his 24- foot craft smash-
ed ashore on Red Island.

But he told RCMP Friday he
managed to leap ashore before
his boat was swept out by heavy
seas and sank in 30 feet of.
water. He sald he waved fran-|
tically from the beach to search|.
boats and aircraft, when finally.
he struck off on a ‘logging trail
where he was found by two is-
land residents.

Ferry, Road

Link Seen
With Alaska

JUNEAU (AP) — Gov-
ernor Michael A. Stepo-
vich of Alaska said Fri-
day he would confer later
this month with Canadian
officials in efforts to es-
tablish a ferry system
through southeastern Al-
aska with a road connec-
tion in British Columbia.
The conferences, sched-
uled at Prince Rupert,
will follow Stepovich’s at-
tendance at the American
Iisheries Advisory Board
meeting, scheduled to be-
gin at Ketchikan July 22.
The Governor said the
actual date of the Prince

 

 

Rupert meeting still was

g government came to .power

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white five-cent stamp, honor-
ing the mining industry in
Canada, will be issued by the
post office department Sept. 5.
Drawn by A. J. Casson of To-
ronto, the stamp shows a
miner underground with a
pneumatic. drill. ((CP Photo)

 

Sloan Probe
Holds Fate
Of Servants

By The Canadian Press

A new answer is to be given
soon in British Columbia to this
question:

Are provincial government
employees entitled to bargain
collectively? .

-'A survey by the Canadian
Press shows that in Canada up
to now the answer usually has

jcause of the close party

 

er May Make smi

Sloan Civil Service Probe

-|Government Ruling
Or Arbitration?

VICTORIA (CP) —

 

Wellington
By-election

Monday

GUELPH, Ont. (CP)—
A riding that has
voted Liberal in 16 of 22
previous elections, votes
Monday in a contest that
holds national interest be-

standing in the House of
Commons.

The voters of Welling-
ton South name their
member late because of
the death during the cam-
paign forthe June 10 Fed-

 

Attorney-General Robert

Bonner said today it was “quite likely” his  depart-
ment would prepare a submission to the Sloan civil

service inquiry.

“The -commission will need
facts before it on procedures
used ‘clsewhere,” the Attorney-
‘| General said.

At the same time, Mr. Bonner
said it was not true to say that
British civil servants have a

with: ‘the government.

Findings ofa special board to
rule on civil servants’ demands
in Britain. usually. are accepted
by the government, but only by

ney-General said.

FINAL WORD |

“Under our contitutional SYS-
tem the Legislature or Parlia-
ment must be the final author-
ity and can’t hand over its
pewer to another body such as
an arbitration board,” said Mr.

Bonner.

‘It is this contsitutional ques-
tion and the relation of the
Crown and the civil service that
Chief Justice Gordon Sloan will
be most concerned with when he
sits as a board of reference. °

 

eral election of Liberal

 

been a firm “No.”

When the.11,000 members of
the B.C. Civil: Servants Associa—
tion” threatened to ..strike | this
week for full bargaining rights, |
‘they were striving for sométhing
enjoyed only by provincial gov-
ernment workers in Saskatche-
wan.

In other provinces, civil ser-
vants can submit. briefs to
their employers, and that’s all,
Whether that will remain all

in B.c. is up to Chief Justice
Gordon Sloan, whose appoint-
ment to a royal commission on
the matter helped avert the
strike.

Both Premier Bennett and civil
leader George Horridge have
agreed to abide by his recom-
mendations.

Government workers in Sas-
katchewan received their bar-
gaining rights when the oo
n
1945. They have the right to

 

 

 

to be deter mined, |

 

 

 

CHICAGO «r-—Torrential rai

tore Into Chiecngo and suburbs Friday night, flooding thousands

of homes, blocking roads and rip}

Some residents of at least one
suburb were forced to evacuate
thelr homes as the storm, de-
serlbed ns one of the worst in
revent years, dumped more than
five Inches of rain in some arens
within.an eclght-hour perlod.

At Jeast one death was re-
ported when a man was elec
(rocuted as he pumped out his
flooded basement,

More thi 30 persons were In-
jured, none serlously, when
guaty winds knocked down a

CORR NNER Seer OF mee Cee e OTe

Bob Bedard
Davis Cup
Hopeful —

MONTREAL Crunadn's
Davis Cup chances depend on
the strong right arm of Bob Be-
dard and his doubles partner, as
you unnamed, the exports agreed
todny.

Wodard,  2h- youreold  shigner
from Shaerbr ooke, Que, qoos with
Don Fontana, 26, of Toranto and
Paul silldy, 26, of Vancouver,
wralnabl a three man Bravilian
tenm In the frat reund of the
north Amerlonn Zone Davis Cup
pluy here duly 10-21,

INNUTUE 3 MOUSTACHE

BAN DINGO ( — Roataurant
owner Coorge Pernicano sald
Thurrday he was dnauing hls
Mouatnale, mronaurtnnn V8 inehes
from ip to tl p with Yloydsa of
London for $50,000, ;

 

Violent Chicago Storm
Floods Homes, Roads

istrike, but never have used it,

ns, violent winds-and Ughtoing

ping down power lines and trees,

tent theatre on the “southwest
side during an evening per:
formance. About 250 persons
were watching a play when the
canvas roof and supparts came

candidate Henry. Hosk-

ing. He‘had held. the: seat
since. 1949. : :

 

|. In 22 “elections since,
confederation, Wellington |

South has voted Liberal
16- times, Conservative
five, and, during the First
World War, for a Union-.
ist,

To Flood
Cheakamus

VICTORIA —The provincial
parks department has clearrd
the way for the BC. Electric
Company to dam and = flood
“(Cheakamus Lake, which fs in-
side the boundarics of Garibaldi
Park, .
At) the same time, Deputy
Lands Minister &, W. Barrett has
given notice that he intends to
lift restrictions placed on the
BCE's use of water from the
Cheakamus and Squamish rivers
watersheds,
This is being done at the re-
quest of the Electric company
and is the first step towards
using Cheakamus Lake and tts
headwaters for power purposes,
Ii is understood BCE will ap-
ply soon to the Public Utilities
Commission for permission to go

 

 

crashing down,

ON THE RIVER—Crulaing down tho river would ba an ap-

proprivte tile for thts phato
Mehmond non Ottawa,

Hahend with | the project,

 

Sn Ramee et FA HS MRO PEE ON yen mene ne poeta

inkon oon the Jook River at

vice “Act does not give
quate bargaining rights.

some court of.

the’ government.

binding arbitration.

Hamilton
Bludgeoning
Mystery

ST. CATHARINES, Ont, .@—A
Hamilton man has been found
knifed, strangled and bludgeon-
ed on a country road ‘six miles
south of here.

Criminal investigation. bureau
Inspector David Adatr called the
death a brutal murder, There
were 21 knife wounds In the
back. A cloth cord was wound
loosely around the neck and the
man's skull was crushed. A
blood-stained sledge hammer
was found nearby,

Police identified the victim as
Edwin Jones, 29, father of four
children, They said they be-
lieved: the savage attack oc-
curred Wednesday night.

A relatively sald Jones, a
stecplejack, was deeply religious
and active in work for the Je-
hovah's Witnesses sect.

 

i sion

binding arbitrati - ~
8 itration agreement} - iin, TRAMPLLED—Fred Banks of Stafford shire, England, is trampled by his bronco. ‘in!
bareback event at the Calgary Stampede.

custom and tradition, the Attor- ;

The main brief will come from
the B.C. Government Employ-
ees’ Association, which will ar-
gue “that the existing Civil Ser-
it ade-

The civil servants have. said
they would be willing to agree
not to strike in exchange for

 

 

 

 

 

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good condition later the’ same

 

Commission
On Firemen

Winds Up -

He was taken to
day.

As Stampede H Hits Home Stretch

CALGARY (CP)—The wildest race of the Cal:
gary Stampede—the chuckwagon race—rumbles into
the homestreatch today with 16\wagons competing

for the championship. In

Two outrider ponies broke legs
in separate accidents Friday and
another horse had to be killed
when it broke two legs in a two-

 

 

 
  

tigatin

ae

|taking across Canada.

The commission, which has
heard
mony since its hearings opened
four months ago, will stop-brief-
ly at Nelson, B.C., to examine
payment of differentials to CPR
crews On mountain and valley
runs, another subject it is in-
vestigating.

It is also studying the basis
of payment to firemen for loco-
motive inspection bdéfore and af-
ter runs. .

The commission, set up Jan.
17 after a nine day CPR strike
across Canada is expected to re-
port its findings at the end of
the year.

entre enen meri:

 

DINARD, France (@— Actor
Tony Curtis was struck in the
eye by an arrow yesterday dur-
ing a movie scene depicting 150
men storming the English coast.

An ecye specialist said he
thinks the eye can be saved,

Part of the film, The Vikings,
Is belng shot at a castle-on the
French Channel const because a

suitable castle could nat be

 

en|Nuclear
on Canadian Pacific Rail-|. °
-way diesel locomotives: in
freight and yard work
leaves here Sunday after

completion of its evidence-|admitted _foulups,
States .civil defence forces of
Operation Alert 1957 struggled
today against a make-believe
2,500,000 words of testi-;nuclear holocaust. Its enormity

wagon smashup Wednesday...

 

VANCOUVER (CP)—

. Thies association: will, also’ ‘Seek ae
appeal. to which. Roya Commission.

it” an: Stake» grievances: when |'¢ a

\agreiment:: is. not reached swith:

 

OPERATION | A L E RT oO

|

grew by the hour.

The presumed “enemy” who

swept across the North Pole
Friday with H bombs to spare
and supersonic bombers to de-
liver them had “smashed” at
Icast 153 vital U.S. targets.

An early-morning bulletin
said “countless lives were saved
by civil defence measures . .
but tens of millions were lost,
hypothetically speaking, and the
ravages of airborne contamin-
ation were yet to be felt, “It is
too early:.to tell whether .the
exercise is’ a success or flop,”
one official said. “The results
will be trickling in for days.
“We've had painful delays in
communications, But the real
thing would be a lot, slower.”

DIES AT 106
LEWES, Eneland (Reuters) —
Belleved to have been the oldest
woman in Britain, 106-year-old
Mrs, Elizabeth Etheridge, died at

 

found in England.

three horses had to be destroyed.

iHampered by hitches, delays and
the United

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hospital but was reported in’?
(CP Photo): ”

the: five days . of racing

 

 

The hectic pace , of the week-
long stampede began to ease to-
day and Prime Minister Diefen-

\ baker, who arrived: “An. Calga:
Friday, is sch duled to. present:
. Shampi

 

y
stampede: “AY total of 93,698 per-.
‘sons. crowded through ‘the gates .

‘| Friday, more than 12,000 better.
than on the same. day “in.'1956,
to put overall attendance. 5,8:
ahead of ‘last year’s 425,0
tal for five ‘days..

Four Day yo
Fish Limit
Proposed —

BELLINGHAM, : Wash, W—The
Pacific Salmore:

Fisheries Commission proposed
a four-day~-a-week limit on fish-
ing during August and Septem-
ber at a meeting with industry
representatives here “Friday.

The industry asked for a
five-day period, The commis:
sion will meet again July 26 in
Vancouver to make a final des
cision, the chairman sald,

 

 

Regulations now cover both
sockeye and pink salmon fishing.
The inclusion of pink salmon
was approved by tho United
States-and Canada In a treaty

 

her home Thursday.

 

July 5,

 

 

Praise for a “job well done
over the past 17 years’ and
tributes for having carriod out
his Judicial duties without fear
or favor, highlighted a civic
dinner held last night to honor
retlring Police Magistrate Wal-
ter D, Vanee,

More than 60 persons, counte
ing the hosts Mayor George ¥,
His and City Counell members
ntended the dinner at the Cpna-
Man Legion: club 87, The gueets
reprasonted the provinelal and
munielpal governments, meme
bers of tho Bar association, Clty
and subdiviston ROMP detach-
menta, koy elty officials and Mr,
and Mrs, Vanco's son and daugh-
tor ALD. Vanco and Mra, Mur-
ry Rhodes (nee Muriel Vanco),
FAMILY APEAIH

It was, ns Mayor Hills sald in
his opening remarks, “a family
dinner" glong Informal ines,

The mayor sald that NCO In
chitge of City ROMP dotach-
ment A/Bat. J Ww. Todd, had ov
tinted that in Mr Vince's 17
You'd WA oagiatrate approxl-
mutoly 35,000 vases had come
before him.

“Aud yot," the mayor sald, "1
have never hoard an unkind

 

(OP Photo)

word said about Waller Vaneo,"”

‘Job well dono,” He extended best

 

"That is a great achlevement
for any person," he said.

Willlam H, Murray, MLA for
Prineo Rupert conveyed |. the
gratitude of the eltizgens of Brit-
ish Columbian for “a faithful

wishes for a happy retirement
to-sMre Vance from Premier
W. A, C, Bennott, Attorney-den-
oral Robert Bonner and the pron
vinelal government,

"Mr, Vanco has had a tour!

Job over the past 17 yours, has
probably spent many sleepless
nights while he pondorod his
clecisions,” Mr. Murray said,
. Tnspector W. M, Taylor, officer
connanding sald that as oa
magistrate Walter Vaneo “was
Incorruptible ... he was not to
be influenced oy wny outside
pressuros,

"Yo ald his fob withoul fear
or favor."

Inanoctor Taylor  oxpressed
“the tremendous appreciation of
the pollee for the wondortul
way he handled cases for the
pollee,”

"Wo haven't alway ogreed
with Mr. Vance's decision but
wo wore gind ho was always
roudy to soo all aldes of the
casos,”

 

Former Magistrate Lauded for “Job Well Done”

Bruce Brown, as president of
the Prince Rupert County Bar
assoctation sald that Mr, Vance’s
conduct as uu magistrate “had
Inspired in the membars of the
bar association a tremendous
respoct.” He sald his brother, Mr,
Justice T, W. Brown, presently
In Vancouver, had asked that
his respects also bo passed on
to Mr. Vaneo,

Ho snid that former Magis-
trate Vanee had seen tho 'saumy'
side of life but had retained his
faith dv human nature, Ha
hoped that in the future Mr,
Vanee would continue to make
i usefal contribution to the Hra
of Prince Ruport, Ho presented
Mr, Vunee with oa large travel-
ling case on behalf of  elty
luwyors,

Alderman Kay Smith on bo-
half of tho city, puld tribute to
Mrs. Vane,

She said that tho wife of the
former magistrate had “done
her bit... she owned and opr
eratod her own buatnoss and a
yrent doal of Mr, Vanco's sue~
cosa was duo to the fret that ho
had Mrs, Vaneo beside hin all
those yenrs,”

As a token of the clty's apelg
prociation, Ald, Smith presontod

 

  
 
  
 
  
 
 
  
 
 
   
  
 
 
 
  
  
 
  
  
 
 
 
  
 
   
 

Mrs, Vance with a bouquet of
flowors.

Also on behalf of the efty, with
which he had been associated
so long, (Mt. Vance was the
vity’s first accountant in 1010),
Mayor George Hilly presonted
the guest of honor with o bald
wrist wateh. | \

In expressing his own and his
wife's appreciation for the gifts,
the dinner and the honor bo-
slowed upon him, Mr. Vanco
sald that he had retired from
the bench with rogrot, 7
MOST INTERESTING

Of elty Jobs, he sald, he found
the mogistrate's one tho “mort
Interesting, ospecinily as no one
could toll mo what to do,"

Mr, Vance sald that he had
urged hls stccossor Magistrate
BT. Applewhnalto to dovolop bis
sono of humor, In reviewing
some of tho snd and somo of tho
Numorous casos that had come’
before him, Mr. Vanco! sald that
he found that ho miasod his Joh,
Howovoer, ha sald, “God willing
wo Intond to atay In Prinog
Ruport.”

Mra. Vance also oxprossed hor
gratitude for the kindnogs shown
OT,

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