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Kitimat, Kemano Power Restored,

stop or somethin’ .. .

 

| Work Started on Frozen Potlines

VANCOUVER (CP)—The Aluminum Company of Canada said Wednes-|

day power has been restored at Kitimat and Kemano.

A spokesman for the company;
said work has started On pre-: Normal production at the smel-
paring the, frosen pot-lines for | ter is 500 tons a day.

sime:ting aluminum after 2 four) .
day halt, TAYLOR, B.C. 0) — Army En-

Production at. the: Kitimat! gineers gathered equipment
smelter, 400 miles northwest of | Wednesday and stood by the
here was interrupted éarly Sun-! washed out Pine River bridge,
day by a rodkslide which cut. waiting for swollen, ice-packed
power lines bringing electricity | | waters to calm before attempt-

 

ramotee
Works manager G. H. eI , : i
said that with restoration of full: The Alaska Highway link was ;

power, the smelters could be, demolished Tuesday when swept’
producing ingots in about two,away by waters eight to 10 feet
weeks. ,above normal levels and jammed

Mr, Gwyn estimated produc- | with ice.
tion loss at about $5,600,000.' About 310 feet of the jow 440-

GOOD CURLERS CAN'T AFFORD |
TO LEAVE TOWN FIVE MINUTES

A guy just ci an't afford to leave town for five minutes,
curler Nick Pavlikis told The Daily News this morning. Every
‘time he does the roof falls in.

Mr. Pavlikis who jyst arrived back in the city to recelve
some very bad news indeed, said he wished to issue a state-
ment Lo clear what he called his “good name,
eThis is to advise,” Mr. Paviikis said in his notarized
stalement, "That I, N. A. Pavilkis, am in no way responsible
“for the 18- 3 defeat of the Joc Scott rink by the Bob Rudder-
Jam crew?

The humiliating game featured the rink of W. J. Scott,
Art. Murray third; Doug Kerr substituting for regular
second Mr, Pavilkis, and Alek Bill lead.

The trhouphant curlers were Bob Rudderham, skip; David

Macphee, third, George Fowlle, second, and Leon Blain, lead.
Mr, Pavlik siuicl he did not wish to be eritlent at all of

Mr. Kerr as he knew “that Doug didn't get any support Crom

“those other three guys.

") just want to clear myself" he sobbed,

Strike Leader Boosts Hope
Of New York Straphangers

MEW YORK (i<rhe worst: ts over for New York City’s eme
battled siraphangers, says the ehalrman of the ‘Transit: Author-
joy. But striking motomuen, relentless: tn thelr demands for rep-
resentation in bargaining with the authority, today carrled the
stbway walkout tito ds fourth day as cold: wave settled over
tye city, ces mmenecatan a 9

“Some commiubers sw Ww Pay of
hope dna alntoment Wadnesdiry
night hy Mrnok ’eline, the mo-
Lonmon's sertke loader, Zeline
sald there isa ebnanee of a set.
tfomont of bhe entire dasue but
‘he cdld nat elahorate,

alips
ace §

 

Poreansting a substancial dine
provement In subway service to-
day, wutbority chairman Chartes
L. Patterson clalmed Wednhosdnay
night that a brek-to-work trend
bas started among the strikers,

Asked whether he would alt

The Motormen's Benevolent] down with MBA Jeadors and try
Association, of which Zelune ik} ta work oub a settioment, Put.
executive secratiry, 1s abrlidne) terson doehured:
inom united front with other} ey would not. If someanc
erath group, eee | WuIBed dn the door and shot

someone, would you slop and

ORMES———

Daily Delivery

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wk with them before you had
thom tn the eleetrle cha

He quiskly explained he didn't
nem to Then the atellcara te
murdara but dnatated he would
not barra with Onwbrenkers”
rnd diveuss “awbrenvelng.”

 

foot wooden span. ‘collapsed: ‘after |
a 50-foot section. end. washed:
away earliet. “Traffic was.haltéd
on the bridge Monday.

 

POWELL RIVER (-—A pulp
and paper workers strike bere
is all gummed-up for one
picketer.

The union’s strike bulletin
reports that Bob Maud  ieft
his work shirt in the Powell
River Company plant when
the strike began.

He can't get into the plant.
Nobody can bring his shirt out.

In the pocket of the shirt
are his only set of false teeth.

KELOWNA (@—A contract be-
tween local 1870 of the United
Brotherhood of Carpenters and
Joiners and the Kelowna Buil-
der’s Association signed has en-
ded a month-long strike by car-
penters here,
A new wage scale for car pen-
ters calls for $2.40 an hour, The
contract runs until April 1, 1058.
The union had earlier called for
$2.51 an hour.
Prince George @:—Two RCMP
constables Wednesday led 20
searchers into the hunt for a
lost trapper northwest of here.
Harry Claryton, 65, left his
home at Chief Lake, 16, miles
north of Prince George, Dec. 2,
to travel his 28-mile trapline.
Ton searchers camped over-
night on the northern end of the
line,

ver wireraft dnto the hunt today.

VANG OUVER (hy w= A four
‘year old givt died in’ flames
that firemen believe may have
heen enused by her obsession
with fire.

Dead ts Beverley Edgerton,
who loved to Jight mitehes
from the pilot Ught of — the

kitchon stove,

 

= Heav

alty race.so keen that it could go either way, a record
vote was expected in Prince Raper civic election

as | term as alderman is up this year

‘District 52 School Board seeking
j approval of the electors to bor-,

Police probably will bring |
their Prince George-bused Ben-!

PRINCE RUPERT, B.C., THURSDAY, DECEMBER 12, 1957

      
 
   

PRICE FIVE. aS :

 

‘Weatherman Aids
in Early Turnout

With the weatherman co-operating and a mayor-

 

today.

Nearly twice the number of
voters had cast their ballots at
12:30 p.m, today than had voted
at the same time in last year’s
election.

By 12:30 today 530 electors had
voted whereas at that time last
year only 284 had cast their bal-
ots.

FLOPS COODS OBOE PF PPPDPOOPOPDPOPE OPPO OOE
At 3 p.m. 1,262 persens had

voted compared 1o 661 persons .

at 3 p.m. December 13, 1956

when last year’s civie election

was held.

 

Veterans
obilize:

JAKARTA, Indonesia (Reu-
ters)—Indonesian student and
veteran groups today were
‘ reported mobilizing through-
out this 3,000-island nation in
preparation — fer a military

campaign to oust the Neth-
erlands from West Irian
“(Dutch New Guinea).

In the capital, student clubs

‘agreed to set up a “supreme
command of student fighters
of Jakarta.”

‘In Bandjarmasin, South

Borneo 1,000 veterans were

reported to have registered

for a velunteer brigade to
fight in Dutch New Guinea.:

 

MMB OD- PDPDOPP DO.

Anticipated if the rate of vot-
ing is maintained, is a vote of.
nearly 2,000 out of the 3.956 eli-|.
gible voters.

Last year 1,604 persons out. of |:
a possible 3,300 voted while in
1955 a total of 1,675 voted out of
an eligible 3,249.

First person to vote when
the polls opened in the Civic
Centre at 8 o’elock this morn-
ing was Mrs. George E. Hills,
wife of the mayor.

Most of the candidates had
cast their ballots by press time.

In the mayoralty race are
Mayor George E. Hills, seeking

re-election to a third term and
. Alderman Peter J. Lester, whose |!

 

 

 

| e -
‘and is contesting the Pos t ar . nvestigat! on
| chief magistrate. - Ly
1 "Four men.are seeking “the ‘two ©
i vacant ‘seats on city council, |
: They are Aldermen Michael; I H, ld
. Krueger, Norman Bellis and R.| f 0 jup
/G. Large who are seeking re-el- Investi

gation into the | at-
‘ection and Gordon E. Carlson tem
pted armed robbery of a
:who is making his first bid for| prince Ruperi store owner Tues-

- civic office.
; For property owners there is ot GaN. Ra cores Staff oes =

: r r ? vz geant
‘money bylaw to be voted on with of RCMP city detachment, said

today.

The holdup occurred shortly
after 6 o'clock Tuesday night
when two masked men threat-
ened Ernest Cavenaile in his
general store at 7 Seal Cove
Road and beat him up when
they found the till empty.

Giske Named
Co-Op Head

Carl Giske last night was
elected president of the Prince
Rupert Co-Operative association
at the first board meeting of the
Co-Op board of directors follow-
ing the annual meeting.

Perry York was elected first
vice- president and Foster Husoy
second vice-president. KEK. F.
Harding was re-appointed as
secretary,

Directors elected for a three-
year term at the annual meeting
were Mr. Giske, Jacob Strand,
Foster Husoy, and T. R, Lioyd.

Directors still in offiee for
two more years are John Fred-
heim, Arne Paulsen, David
Moore, Peter Husoy.

Directors wilh still one year bo
serve are Raymond Haugen,
George Olutson, Norman Hebb
and Perry York.

 

row $729,000 to build a new sen-|
ior high school to help relieve!
crowded conditions at Booth
Memoria] High school.

Returning officer R. W. Long
said that the tempo of voting
would increase after the stores
close but not as much as in pre-
vious years when there was a
day shift to come off work at
Columbia Cellulose Company
Ltd., plant at Watson Island,
since the pulpworkers are on
strike,

Polls close at 8 p.m.

Transportation is available
through the courtesy of the Jun-
jor Chamber of Commerce 6094
and 9005.

 

Court Suspends
One Year Sentence,

Garry Harry Van Wicklin,
formerly of Prince Rupert and
lutely of Armstrong, was given
a suspended sentence of one
year in jall by Magistrate ik, T.
Applewhnite in city police court
Tuesday when he pleaded
guilty toa enurge of being in
possesion of stolen goods.

RCMP told the court Van
Wicklin was arrested Ino Arm-
strong last month when found
in possession of two car. tires
stolen from uu Jocal garage.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Bingo Numbers

The Wks Lodge House Bingo
for Crippled Children's hos-
pital went into its Ith day to-
duy ous two more numbers
were drawn to make a total of
41 drawn to dite,

In any case there has been
any confusion due ta typo-
araphionl errors, the ninmbers
drawn Deeember 10 wore 26
nnd 0-70, nol Tee or O-TG.  -

Today's MuNbera wre
und W-10,

Numbers previously drawn
ares Wells Gefily Nady Vets
O-0; GebO; PeR; Nedds N-44;
O-74: Weds Ge ia N-Gthy NoAlls
ets OWT Nota G-iMy O-f2;
Newhs O-Thy 188; Gahhy G-ld|
es Veh: Neds Oeutlhy Onis
O78; Welds PeRdy Ved TIT:
G4; Pes OM; Neth and

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eo minal oor gevere pennitdes on
me DRUGS aivil service workers who strike
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MISSING JN John Kennet Moore, 80, of Minerva,
Ohio, Is shawn ata hunting eamp on the Ottawa River, news
Pembroke, Ont, from whieh he and two other Ameriean deer
huntors disappeared Nev, 10, Phe plete waa developed fom
film daa enmern found near the cump, Investigntors belleve
(he omen drowned and expressed doubts that they met with
foul play, Mra. 3. 1. Bower of Miverva, wife of one of tre
Missing men, belleves the hunters were robbed wad shitn,

 

 

 

 

 

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WINDBREAK — Cpl. Stan Carr (left) and Sgt. Ernie Austin
are not bringing home a Christmas tree, but it appears that
way. The soldiers, members of the Royal Canadian Regiment
of London, Ont., used the tree as a windbreak during Arctic

indoctrination exercises near Fort Churchill, Man.

(CP Photo)

 

British Newspapers Urge
Negotiations With Reds -

LONDON (Reuters)—Some British newspapers
today urge the West to negotiate with Russia on some

eager

Continues. |

-of the pr ‘oposals: tmade by Premier Bulganin in “letters
to the Western Big Three leaders and Chancellor Kon-

rad Adenauer of West Germany.

French political commenta-
tors. however, treat the Soviet

 

that they will be any more frail

premier’s diplomatic offensive as
an _attemnt tn exnioit cracks in
Pee SY, POV OUT eee TT ETN
The London Times "pelieves he!
letters are designed to back up
the Russian thesis that NATO is
obsolete and aggressive.

After drawing attention to
Bulganin’s idea of a zone in
Central Europe free of nuclear
weapons, The Times adds:
“Nothing would do more to,
cast doubts on the West's sincer- |
ity than to give the impression |
that it fights shy of an idea sim-/|
ply because it is echoed in Rus-
sia.”

The Daily Herald (Labor)
comments: “It will be — tragic
folly if the West dismisses Rus-
sia’s move as propaganda.
“There is danger of rival H-
rocket bases being established in
the two halves of Germany,”
“The most urgent talks of the
alliance is to agree — quicker
than rockels—-on a common pol-
icy for negotiutions. The West
must be ready for talks with
Russia.”

The Manchester Suara
(Liberal) believes that with the
Russians renewing the warning
to the Germans and others that
to become a base for the new
U.S. ballistic missiles ts to tavite
the worst devastation dn ware
time, the nerves of NA'TO are

 

       
     
    
  
   
 
   
      
 
 
  
   
    
  
 
  
     
   
   
 
 
  
   
 
   
  
  
   

than those of the Norwegians
and the Turks were during the

Tee
The “diplomatic corresp Srident
of the Conservative Paris news-
paper Figaro writes:

“Soviet diplomacy is quite nat-
urally exploiting the hesitations
of the European partners of the
alliance before the perspectives
opening for them from the nec-
‘essary reorganization of the de-
;fensive system of NATO notably
by the installation of platforms
for intermediate range rockets.”

Norman Freeman
Dies in Seattle

Norman L. Freeman, about 50,
died Monday morning, in Se-
attle following brief iliness, it
was lenrned here today.

Mr. Freeman was biologist for
the International Pacifie Hall-
but commission during the sec-
ond world war.

He is survived by his widaw
Kathleen, daughter of the late
Prederick Stork, first mayor of
Prince Ruperty two sons, Rob-
ert und Donald at home in Se-
abttle, and his mother i Van-
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VANCOUVER @ -- A heavy)
turnout of voters gave éonuner-
chal Sunday spart va estiniated
two-thirds mafority approval dn
elvie eleettons here Wednesday,

A plebiscite soaking support of
fluoridntion for the elty’s water
supply seemead destlnod for only
token majority,

A monopoly on elly eounell
seats by a group ening itself
the Non} Partiyan  Assochitlon
seemed broken as two ecandi-
dates fram oa rival orpuntaation
Jod voting far six aldemniante
Konda, The NonePurtlsnyy  Asso-
clition has controllad efly hil
Wn Canada's third largest elly
for 20 yours,

Becwuse of the complexity of
the voting vosults were betiy
counted slowly,

With 70 of the 04 pulls caunt-
od, Sunday apork was fivored
by 48,040 volors wid opposed by

 

 

Funeral services are schedul-

(CP)—The pinch. of an
economic slump resulting
from closure of ..the

 

mill is being felt. at.

town.

The mill, operated. by. the’ Pow.
ell River Company ; cand’ employ
ing 1,800 of the town’s 10,00
residents, has been ‘idle for
month through a strike - )
pulp and paper workers...
the drying-up of the. compa

be forced to ‘close.
Estimates - of the

cent, depending - on the type: of
business.

“Business is bad,’ ” says Jim
Mavis, president of the board:of

distributing firm.
was depéndent:on the, mill.’
strike could break us.”

‘HOTEL LAYS OFF 40°

‘which produces five per cent:
the world’s newsprint supply,,“i

‘| mess-—the Hotel -Rodmay. «A :
Charlie “Mantoani” is’ slinging

to lay-off 40 of his 70 émployees.

tough.”
“ ‘Chyck W. Harrison, owner ‘of
a furniture store,..looks ‘ruefully .

— Th ow, 3 O.

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y ere yee
eer vron Li n wwe

Herb Entress, owner of Cran -
berry Motors, had six employees
a year ago. Now only he is left.
His brother, a part owner, is
pulling out.. :
FEW LEAVE TOWN ek
Murray Mouat, president of
Local 76 of the pulp-sulphite
workers. says the morale of the
strikers is good. Only 30 or 49
men have left town and “we are
quite satisfied with the situation
at the present time.”

But the union fs apparently
taking no chances. A strike bul-
letin admonished “a number of
dissenters within our ranks” and
one businessman sald:

“T have to watch what I say.
If I criticised the union I would-
n't have any business.”

Many merchants, however, are
helping the strikers. A bakery
supplies doughnuts to a canteen
set up for pickets outside: the

mill, A barber gives free hair-
cuts. A taxi firm offers to take
expectant mothers to hospital

free of charge.

The welfare committee of Lo-
eal 76 is planning a Christmas
party for the children of {ts 1,-
500 members, AS usual, there'll
be Suntu Craus, a tree, and eandy
for the youngsters. But this

 

x ‘ad In Seattle.

Sunday Sport Gets Good

couver Civic

od003. Fluoridation had ¢ the
aupport of 46,066 und the oppo-
sition of $0,014,

LOUREEE PLERISCTER

the Sunday sporb issie was
belny subniltted for dts fourth
plebiselte dr recent yours, Yre-
viously ib had been narrowly
npproved du two of the three
plobtveltes, '

The proyinelal government,
which has the fina) say in one
forcemont of the Gord's Diy
Act, has tidtented I may still
hot allow Vancouver to hive
sports between TO pan, and €
pan, Sundays despite wa muajority
wpproved,

Vaters also pave mbout 70 per
cond upproval to bylaws foro
fiveeyenr, $72,000,000 plun for
ally construetion mid improves
moni, und av thres-yenr, sith
H00,000 nehool-bulleling: progriun,

At stake dn the uldurmiunie

 

Tyewt, there’ UW ba ‘no gifts,

Majority
Elections

race were six sents on city coun-
el} whose numbor wis inerensed
to 10 from elyht in Wednesday's
vate. "The seats of four alder.
men were nal wt stake. Of the
other four, three incumbents
were seeking re-cleetion., All
olpbt seats du the last counsill
were held by the NPA,

A total of 10 porsons contest.
od the council) seats, Loadig
the polls with substantial mo.
Jorities wore ‘Tom Alsybury and
UWolyn Cauldwell of the nowly-
formed Civile Volors Amsochitlon,
whith expiuyned ta dust the
long-powerful NPA, Mr. Alsbury,
whigh school teacher, ty prom.
nont da daha elyelas hore while
Mra. Chulldwoll writds wo column
for the Vancouver Sun under
tho pen name of Penny Wie,

Yhroe lnewmmnbenta, Mra Annie
Sprott, Jack Cornett and Vrank
Uuker wore runing bebind.

Stee eton meteee

 

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$800,000 monthly payroll, smaller
businesses fear they also may.

business :
slump range. from 20 to 75 ‘per .

trade and part owner ‘of an ‘oil.
“Bvyerything
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“T’'ve never known anything » 50 a

at the stdck he laid:in for Christ-