‘mayor thata high-ranking pro- WEATHER North coast reglon—Sunny day, Cloudy tonight and Batur day. Little change in tempera ture. Winds westerly 15, tonight and high Saturday Por . HIGH ascescetee 6152 15.1 feet Hardy 50 and 65, Sandspit 55 | oe — - 19:15 17.8 feet and 62, Prince Rupert $2 and 62, . ‘Published at Canada’s Most Strategic Pacific Port — And Key to the Gre at. Northwest TOW wveuomne 0:58 1.7 feet VOL. XLVI, No. 168 Low - o t ef ee ee ew Ow me up sow my ce ew wa yn ainwe Dailey CU FT Pe ge ge i een eer wae ewer W hear ew ne amp ae Poe oC EAL VICJORIA, B.C, LIEDARY, weft erever vr trvvewnnwyuvewe Se ee 3d DES a Walaa Tay 2, toon (Pacific Staridard Time) 12:44 ' 8.3°feet PRINCE RUPERT, B,C.,' FRIDAY, JULY 19, 1957 Gaglardi Pledges Attendance _Realizes Need Of Road Project Highways Minister P, A. Gaglardi or a deputy minister will definitely be here for the conference with Alaska Governor Michael A, Stepovich next Wednesday, Mayor George E. Hills said to- day. | ‘Mayor Hills said that he had recelved information that unless Mr. Gaglardi or someone of British Columbia cabinet rank was going to be present at the conference on the Canadian-Al- askan marine highway project, the Alaska governor was not in- terested in coming. The mayor said he immediate- ly tried to get in touch with the highways minister jn Victoria and . finally reached him in Kamloops, He informed mr. Gaglardi of the situation and Stressed the importance of the marine highway to B.C. and to Prince Rupert. Mr. Gaglardi agreed with the vincial government ~ official should attend the talks set for 5 p.m. Wednesday In the Canad- jan Legion Committee Room, and said he would do his utmost to attend personally. Failing that he would sce that his deputy minister attended. The B.C. Highways ‘depart- ment Is vitally interested in the $4,000,000 project which would Join Prince Rupert with the Ju- neau-Haines highway, Mayor Hills quoted Mr. Gaglardi as saying. , oo A te COMELY 18-year-old Gloria Noakes, who is representing Canada at the Miss Universe pageant at Long Beach, Calif., will vie for the title tonight in the finals against 14 other girls from all over the world. She reached the finals last night. Miss Noakes, a radio and television performer from Toronto, was Miss Byline of’ ‘1957 and presided voer =the Canadian newspapermen’s an- nual Byline Ball in Toronto. . Royal City Nurses To Strike NEW WESTMINSTER (CP)—Nurses at Royal Columbian hospital here have set July 30 as a strike date, the Register- ed Nurses Association of British Columbia an- nounced Thursday: _ The nurses” here* voted 167 to 2 for a strike after the hospital board turned down a unanimous concil- iation board report ree- ommending salarly in- creases, The boards of two other lower mainland hospitals, St. Mary’s here, and St. Paul’s in Vancouver, have also rejected conciliation awards which nurses have accepted. Strike. votes have not been taken at + the two. ‘Nurses .at, ” Penticton “4 to start. my. ec Rowdy Youths | Scored — VICTORIA (CP) — A woman teacher told Wed- | jnesday night of abuse she and another teacher suf- fered at the hands of four. teenagers following ment it will use two beaver air- craft for the job, one stationed ab Prinee Rupert, the other at Alert Bay. The alr patrol was established in 1926 to help fisheries: inspec- tors patrol the many fjords and fishing areas on the B.C, coast. SHEMYA, Alaska (4 -- Two adventurers who sailed an am- phiblous jeep across the North Pacific from Japan headed ecast- ward Thursday on the next leg of land-sea trip that hos carried one of the pate better than two- thirds of the way around tho world, a Bon Carlin, 45, of Perth, Aus- Walia, who started the adven- ture ine Canada at Montreal seven yenrs ‘nga, and Boyd De- mente, 28, Phoenix, Artz, who Joined Carlin in Japan, boarded fhely Jeop the Half Safe ane sled toward Adak Island, the next seheduled stop 3850 miles to the Hast. They estimated tt would trike flve days to roach Adak dn thoir closed) Amphibian, KIMBERLEY, Bi, awe Cone solldated Mining and Smelting Company of Cannda Limited an nounced Thursday tb has sua pended aporations at two of tts $22,000,000 VIMIIT CINICOUTIMI, Que, () — A bullding poarmit to the amount of $23,000,000 was issued to Baste enn Mining and Smelting, Ltd., for conatruction of 2 copper ree flnory, Ib js the Jargeat in amount over granted by the efty, The company hopes ta completo the roflnory In dune, 1068, was Shining on the top of the ‘tree, framing the view, was bathed ‘—Daily News photo by Jim Peters s British Columbla- Mines, laying off 250 workers, Besides the mine at Tulsequah in’Northernm B.C., shutdown of which was forcenst previously, the company says it has sus- pended open plt operations at the Sullivan Mine here, Company officials say the shutdowns result from a recent price reduction in zine, The Tulsequah shutdown has put 200 men out of work. VICTORIA Qe Chie! Justiee Gordon Sloan's report on his royal commission inquiry into the British Columbin forest tn- dustry Js finished, The manuseript has gone to the Queen's printer, he snid, and should be printed in about a month, The Inquiry opened in Febru- ary of 1056 followtne charges in tho logisinture of irregularities In tho tssulny ef forest manage- mont Heenees, The hearings wore completed Inst August, COURTIINAY, B.C, (h-A Vice torln resident was missing and presumed crowned following a sudden storm whieh caught him In hls frail boat five miles off the resorl community of Miracle Beach, Cleorgo 1, Slade, 44, loft the rosort don 1W-foot canvas boat, poworod by aw threo-horsepowar onthoard, at noon Tuesday on a dlightescolng try to nearby Save ity Yaland, His bout wis found drifting in hoavy sons faur hours Inter by the departinont of fisheries patrol vossel Stuart Post, out of Alort Bay. dispersed. the hoodlums. . “They were rough and surly They talked back and-you could tell from the way they spoke that.they had been drinking.” A male teacher met two car- loads of teenage boys inside the school grounds while leaving a basketball game in March. The boys were drinking beer openly in the ears. “As far as I am concerned they did not abuse me but they had a lot to say to the teacher with me—pure filth, cctually ... it would appear they wanted the other teacher to staré .a fight.” Patrick Thomas, a, teacher threatened by an 18-year-old suspended student at graduation ceremonies May 31, charged that Esquimalt police and the Esqui- malt police prosecutor falled to do thelr duty in the Incident. A special meeting of the Es- quimalt police commission will be held next week to consider laying charges in’ the broken- bottle assault of a high schvol teacher, Police commissioner Elvan Walters said ho will recommend police take actlon against the 18-year-old former Esquimolt who Crisis. Seen major problem in Van- day. The community chest’s stand- ing committee on unemployment is “gravely concerned” about the care of jobless transients, said G. F. Watson, executive secre- tary of the organization's family and child welfare division, | ...,° LOOKS BAD ey A recent study, he sald jn -an interview, revealed “a potentials. ly more serious problem than at any time since the depression.” ‘Harter, the annual meeting. of the central city mission was told of “a very serious shortage, of accomodation.” Loe, Dr. Howard T. James, presls dent of the mission, sald the city could find a difficult situation on Its hands “if some plans are not made ahead of time.” |. “Idle and hungry men will go to almost any lengths to got high school student. food and shelter” Police Nab Suspect — In ‘Funny’ Holdups NEW WESTMINSTER WA | by two bank tellers Thursday, Imld holdup man was out-stared ono of whom thought he was “trying to bo funny,” The 45-yonr-old suspect ts slnted for psychiatric examinna- tion aflor making unsuccessful attempts on two banks within two blocks of each other here, Tho man wis arrosted two minites after his attempt on the Toronto-Dominton bank anc sovon minutos after an attempt on tho Royal Bank of Canada, Polica anid thoy are. still sonrching for an Italian Borotta nutomatie whieh the suspect suld he threw tn tho back of a truck, Thoy sald the nature of charges will dopond on whoethor they find tho gun, Tho suspect walked Into tho Royal Bank nt 10:08 am, and told tollor Shirley Gundoraon, 23; “this is a oatickup.” STATUES Miss Cundorson, who was training a now tallor, atared at hin, No ono spoke, Then tho slrolled out, poticg caught tho suspoct w Wyat man, who had kept his hand in his jacket pockot, turned and, Police sald he walked ovor to the Toronto-Dominion bank and nppronched tellor Mra, Hazel Wyatt, 34, von “This ls a holdup, l want some money," ” "Don't bo ‘tunny," roplled Mra, Wyatt, | § “This Isa holdup, f want sonie monoy,” the ninn porsisted, - “Oh, go away," sold Mra, Wye att, more sharply, “Don't . try bolng funny," wer Tho mon wont away, But some ono had tripped tho alarm and Nye ho mada . Einployaos anid that whon Mra, He, , found the man hadn't boon fooling, “she just abouy n minutow Thoy sal no fuss, collmpsod,” ~ Employment “VANCOUVER (CP)—~. Unemployment may be a couver next winter, a 30-1. cial worker said Thurs: