~ WEATHER

Gale warning continued. Cloudy
with showers Saturday, Little
change in temperature, South-
easterly winds 30, occasionally
40 in exposed arcas. Low tonight
and high tomorrow at Prince
Rupert 42 and 48,

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VOL. XLVI, No. 279

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peed |

 

 

‘PRIME MINISTER DIEFENBAKER holds an animated con-
~versation with Premier Duplessis of Quebec as the federal-
provincial fiscal conference opens in Ottawa. Mr. Diefenbaker

invited the provincial premiers to. state what increased aid
they want from the federal treasury. (CP Photo)

 

 

GAS POISONING

More Than 20 Collapse
At Millworkers Meeting

 

NEW WESTMINSTER, B.C.-(CP)—Moré thari
20 persons collapsed from carbon dioxide poisoning
Thursday night, during a millworkers meeting at a'

 

union. hal] here. = —
Ambulances ahd inhalator Firemen said it appeared a

equipment were called to the: faulty vent of a natural gas fur-
arnontore’ eo ne sini . “nace caused the ¢ hie

  

     

SA yet

bers began to faint one by

Biggest
Sockeye
Run Seen.

“VANCOUVER

 

OCRT 2

 

«

he and the 37 others present
were unaware that anything
was wrong until chairman Lee
Regier collapsed us he addressed
the meeting from a raised plat-
form,
OTHERS FEEL WEAK

“We got up to help him and
then we started to feel it too. It
seemed like about half the men

@ — Fisheries

research officials predict there bly.” . ,
may be the biggest sockeye Mr. Sowden said several mam-
gulmon run ino modern his- © bers opened the door and called

the fire department.

Officials at Royal Columbia
‘Hospital said all 38 men present
were treated; 13 were stretcher
hemuses, and seven required zon-
siderable oxyeen,

Doctors said it would be sev-
‘eral days before the more ser-
fously atfected men would feel
well, but all responded to treat-
ment,

Most were revived by the in-

-dury on the Fraser River next
yer, B.C’s centennial year,
-Bdeyd Royal, director of the
“International Pacifie Salmon
Fisheries Commission, said it
Is impossible to “tell how big
@ sulmon run is geing to be
until the fish are in the can.”
“But,” he added, “F feel sure
the run next year will be at
“Yeast equal to the one in 1954,"

Gaglardi
Two Con

KITIMAT (CP)—Hig

 

Eisenhower
Making

Progress

WASHINGTON (7—The White
House reported further excellent
recovery progress by President
Eisenhower today and made firm
his plan to go to his Gettysburg
farm.

The ~° president’s physician
agreed that “it is perfectly all
right” for him to make the 80-
mile drive to Pennsylvania later
in the morning.

Hisennower, who suffered a
mild stroke the first of the week,
had an exceptionally long night’s

 

sleep, from 8 p.m. until 6 a.m.
this morning, the, White House
said in its latest Tredical bulle-
tin.

Press secretary James C. Hag-
erty told reporters that no, it
wasn’t because he was over-
tired.

ACTIVE DAY .

Eisenhower, had had a busy
U.S. Thanksgiving, going to
church and presiding. over a/
family: dinner: - Hagerty -~-said
there was no. particular reason
-why the president retired so

 

 

  
  
        

early.

: How long Eisenhower and his
| wife will remain at their country
‘estate is questionable, but Hag-:
erty Said it will be at least:

 

|

“it would into

next:
week.”

Every Effort

extend

To Restore CNS Service .

collapsed, and I felt pretty WOid- |

HALIFAX () — Donald Gor-}
don, president of Canadlan Na-
tional West Indies Steamships, :
‘sald Thursday night “every cf-!
fort’ Is being made to restore:
the Caribbean service of the!
strikebound CNS fleet at any
carly date, .

He announced hls determina. =
ton to resume operation in a;
telegram sent to the captains of}
the eight freighters, now tied:
up in Halifax harbor, |

Mr. Gordon's wire was prompt- |

slapped a 30 mile an hour speed limit on the new $3%
million Kitimat-Terrace highway Thursday and told]
onlookers “I’d sooner have the RCMP chasing you

PRINCE RUPERT, B.C., FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 29, 1957

 

Lauds
tractors

hways Minister Gaglardi

than chasing me.”

’ The colorful and controversial
minister snipped a red ribbon on
the south end of a Bailey bridge
over the Kitimat River to offi-
cially open the 37 mile long
highway. More than 450 watch-
ed the simple ceremony includ-
ing Hugh Shirreff, MLA for
Skeena and members of Kiti-
mat and Terrace chambers of
commerce who led motorcades
from their respective districts.

Scariet-coated Royal Canad-
ian Mounted Police officers held
the ribbon.

Opening of the highway means
Kitimat is joined by road with
the rest of British Columbia. For
six years the growing population
has had only 45 miles of road on
which to drive. Autos were
brought into Kitimat by boat or
train.

Mr. Gaglardi said he put the
speed limit at 30 because “we
must have some restrictions on
this road now as parts are still
under construction.”

Contractors Bill Dale and Ray
Skoglund came in for special
praise.

“They did a tremendous job,”
the minister said.

Mr. Gaglardi was guest of ho-
nor at a dinner later in Kitimat

imit Of 30 MPH

Placed On Kitimat Road.

 

attended by representatives -of

‘ies. and local organizations.

army spokesman
and Israeli units

Thursday along the demarcation |
line in the Shamir area.

Being Made

@ A mecting was scheduled!
for Monday between Canadian
Labor Congress President Claude
Jodoin and Prime Minister!
Diefenbaker. The CLC secks the
prime minister's personal inter-
vention in the dispute,

@ Labor Minister Starr told
tre Commons he is willing to try
again to mediate in the strike
if both partics give assurances
they will try to reach a satis-
factory settlement,

@ From Brussels the Interna-

‘provincial and municipal gov-jcountry has got behind” Russia}
i Pasha “ woe + omen Sihht eg, san
fernments, construction compan- jin cettain
‘fields:
Kefauver refused to go into
; detail.

Border Fight |

!who sat in on a closed-door in-
DAMASCUS WP -- A Syrian: telligence

“IT would think.” Hagerty saidi automatic fire for 30 minutes: military-scientific progress. The

jsuch missile equipment.

wee Mk ee

MI orem

a Me:

BACK HOME AFTER an all-night session of ef

 

monkey business that turned the neighbor-
* hood upside down, Little Bit rests on the shoulder of Johnny Davis in Winston-Salem, N.C

The squirrel monkey had clambered into the top-most branches of a 75-foot maple tree the

night before and resisted all efforts,

including those of the Winston-Salem Rescue Squad,

_ to get it down. Johnny’s mother, Mrs. A. E. Davis, whose family owns the pet, finally coaxed
it-to earth with a special treat — a breakfast of bacon and eggs.

 

“SHOCKING EVIDENCE”

U.S. Missile Program

 

Status _

Described Far Behind Russia

WASHINGTON (AP)—Senator Estes Kefauver (Dem. Tenn) said today

three days of testimony on the status of the United States missiles

shows the situation “is worse than I thought it was.”

‘program

 

Kefauver, a member of the
Senate preparedness subcom-
mittee conducting the missiles-
satellite investigation, said in an
intervew the testimony by de-
fence officials, intelligence spec-
ialists and scientists added up to
“shocking evidence of how the

nuclear warhead up to about 800
miles.

In addition, the navy is devel-
oping the Polaris, an intermedi-

missile capable of carrying a|the surface of the ocean. How-
ever, development of the Polaris
has been described’ as being’ be-
hind that of the army’s Jupiter
IRBM and the air force’s Thor.
ate range ballistic missile de-|IRBMs have a pla
signed to be fired from beneath: up.to 1,500 miles*

[Remande

Crown Seeking:

nned range of

 

scientific + military

Other subcommittee members

SUGGESTED FOR

briefing Wednesday

briefing was given by Allen Dul-
les, chief of the Central Intelli-
gence Agency.

These senators, too, declined
to say just what they learned
from the CIA chief. But it was
reported Thursday night that
the subcommittee was told Rus-
sia now has a few submarines,
possibly four, capable of firing a

Thursday night.

age home ownership.

carrying charges.”

RENT PLAN FOR CMHC'HOUSES

COUPLES

| jan ; tel TORONTO @ — A plan which would let young couples

Said _Svrian said afterward thoy heard a Head emir vannilics buy homes witit Fent money as 7
exchallgeer ane Chew Cw epee sassetl has been suggested to Central Morigage and Housing Corpora-

tion, a Progessive Conservative member of Parliament said

William Beech told his constituents in York South a group
of his colleagues in the House suggested the scheme to encour-

“At the end of five years young people who had proved
to be good tenants would be allowed to purchase. All rental
money paid in would be considered a down payment. From
then on regular mortgage payments would include the usual

 

missile with a nuclear warhead
up to 700-900 miles. Other ves-
sels in Russia's sub fleet, esti-
mated at about 450 boats, were
reported being made ready for

DOMINANT POSTTION

One informant said the re-
ported Soviet sub-missile capa-
bility “means they are practi-! qrawn at 4 p.m, yesterday from
cally In a position to wipe out Columbia Cellulose Company's
any major city on the eastern: watson Island Mill, leaving staff
seaboard.” He did not say, how- | ;

. imembers only at the plant.
ever, that any of the Russian | The move was ordered by the
subs now are stationed within; C e Wits PEG DY

 

Emergency workers were with-

when there were = 12,000,000
sockeye,

Crippled Ship

Taken in Tow

COOS BAY, Ore. wth ~The Cost
Guard cutter Avoyel took the
crippled fridghter Olygaple Plon-
eer under tow today and headed
for Iureka, Calif,

The frelghbter with a crew oof
37 Jost its propeller” Mhursday
and was drif_lne helplessly 72
miles off Che southern Orepon
const,

With the weather pood and
only ight winds foreast for to-
day, C. BE. Stevens, president of
the Olymple Stemmship Com-
puny at Seattle, sald tbs tins

freighter was not regarded dia}

danger.

Strong winds Thursday even-
jog broke woiibe the Bonham
shot aboard (he '7216-ton Olym-
po. Ploneer,

ORMES

| Daily Delivery
7 e
DIAL 215]

 

'__- DRUGS

 

halator crew from oa flrehall,
only 200 yards from the hall.

Some of the men were able to
walk out of the building, but col-
lapsed as they reached fresh air.

A couple of the men who left.
the meeting carly were taken il)
while driving home and went te
the hospital on thelr own,

Nearby resident said men had
been working on natural gas
lines on the street Jn front of the
building for the Inst week and
Mnished their fob Thursday
morning,

Civic Centre Swim Pool
Slowly Becaming Reality

By GLADYS

Whether working behind the seenes doa drafting room

or pourtog cement dia howling gale, volunteer Inbor on the
Civie Centre swhiming Pool is slowly but surely bringing a

Vision to fe,

Working through good weather and bad, three of the
volunteers have already completed their pledged thine, Al-
thounh they have completed 50 how's each, dU Proelstor,
K. Dolan and WW. Sorge are stil turning: out: regularly,

Sekers and gumbuets were the order of the day last
Thursday, when, working the whole duy through storny driven
Wind and rain, 1Oomen poured cement to complete the west
will foundation ine preparation for the prefabricated wall

wha roof,

Behind the seenes fron the very beginning, engineers of

the Columbia Collulose, under

Wednesday event, keeplig ahend of construction, Mngineers
tone have totaled up 804 hours in the drafting reom,

With Inst woek's 192 hours, volunteer Inbor on the pool
Itself haa reached the total of 868% hours,

ed by a telegram sent to him! tlenal Confederation of Free
Wednesday by 73 offleers, who! Trade Unions sent a telegram to
called for an Immediate restora- | Mr. Starr protesting the transfer
tion of service and said they , of registry, and threatened to

are prepared to serve under)
Trinidad registry,

The more followed rejection |
by the Seamen's International |
Union (CLC), representing 220 |
CNS sallors, of a company offer,
of a 15-per-cent wage inerenase. |
The SIU culled the strike July 4
to back demands for a 30-per-
cent Inercuase,

 

Other developments Thursday:

 

WALDWIN

Adoll Stelyhleder work every

 

 

support an embargo on CNS ves-
sels entering foreign ports if the
transfer is not eancelled,

Chimney Kills
Four Persons

MAIDSTONE, Eng, (Reuters)
At Joust four persons were
killed today when a 60-foot
chininey collapsed during a fire
cb a omental hospltal here,
Resevers lunnenied through 250
tons of fallen masonry trying to
geb ab two or three persons be-

Heved stil trapped under the
debris,

Wifteen persons were tuken to
hospltuls,

The eurly morning roof bhize
wis nenrly over when the ehim-
ney fell through no wenkened
eeding, trapping the men inside,

i Oink ORE BERNE ED RUINS «6 SEINE CON

Bingo Numbers

Three more numbers drawn
In the Elks Lodge 348 Mareh of
Dimes “Wouse Pingo" to ald
the Crippled Ohildren's hos

pital today were Bebs O-Gdy
rnd Gehl,
Numbors drawn previously

were Te2b: Neds Nedds 74;
Wels Clefds Neds Neds Welt

missile range of the U.S. east, central strike committee in Van-
voust. j | couver Wednesday as part of a

The CIA was quoted by one:
source as reporting the Russian
subs could launch missiles while |
still submerged. The weapons |
were described as the “erulse’:
type-—prestunably a guided mis-
se slower than a ballistic mis-
ile,

The U.S, Navy has aoosmall
number of submarines equipped
with the Regulus, a subsonic

Mrs. A. Brown
Dies Aged 52

Mra, Augustus Brown, a lfe-
lang resident of Kineollth and
Hiwelton, dled In Prince Rupert
Goneral Hospital Wednesday
marning ab the are of 63.

Mrs, Brown has been active
for the Balvation Army in Green.
ville and earlier for the Chureh
of Mngland in Kincolith,

She is survived by her husband
Jonuthan when she married in
Uaaelton 30 years age, and by
numorous rolatives in Pelnee
Rupert and Kineollth,

Remains whl be farwarded to
Hhivelton where finer) services
are to be held,

oom

    

r a et ae
be

ALDERMAN BR, G, LARGE this
morning filed hls papers with
Clty Clerk-Comptroller Ry W,
“Long to enter the Deeember 12
municipal eleetlon as cundi-
date seeking reselection ons
derman, Ald. Liuge has been
on City Counell alnee July
this yeur when he was elected
to complete the term of the
then alderman 8, J, Dominato
wha moved away from. the
ety, Ald, Lares was nonin
ated by dames Henry Reld and
Wiltrld J. MeLoan, Also entut
Ing the mice dy Ald, Mlehnoel
WIL Krueger, nominated this

 

 

SUPREME SOVIET MERTS

LONDON  (4—Moxvow radio
announced Thursday night that
the Suprome Soviet, the puriin-

0 ean apna mare

 

ment of the ULB.SUR wilh meet} morming by Anton Marthinusen

 

OQeTI; Nelh and Gedo,

 

Dec. 19 No details wero given, | and dart Robert Gordon,

Only Salaried Personnel,
Pickets Remain at Mill

“tightening-up” policy by the
unions and affects four of Brit-
ish Columbla’s nine strikebound
pulp and paper plants.

H. ~L, Hansen, Internatlonal
vice-president of the Pulp, Sul-
phite and Paper Mill Workers
Union, sald in Vancouver only
those mills whieh did not supply
heat or power to company towns

Nea are affected,

It was learned here that Co-
lumbla Cellulose salaried stalf is
operating the power plant dur-
ing the daytime and js maln-
taining a small fire to keep up
temperatures in fuel storage
tanks. An auxiliary unit. pro-
vided partial Hght last night.

Union pickets are still on duty,

Mr, Wansen declined to say
whether the withdrawal] of un-
jon men would lead to damage
to the equipment or cause any
ndditional delay in starting up
proaduetion at the end of the
strike,

NO PROULEMS

D, R. Blair, manager of the
pulp and paper industrial rela.
tlons bureau, which represents
the seven compunles affected by
the strike, sald yesterday's move
“creates no problems at the
presen thy”

Other mills affected are the
Warne and Albornt plants of
MaeMillan and Bloedel Limited
on Vancouver Islind and the Blk
Falls plant of Crown Zollerbach
Cannda Limited,

Tho Wooker Chemlenl Cam-
pany announced Wednesday it
will close {ts nowly-bullt $12,
000,000 North Vancouver plant
Monday as a result of the strike,
putting 120 men out of work,
Plant manager R, i Noble sutd
IG is Inipossiblo for tho firm to
continue unless thore ave oubleta
for the chomleals used In paper
manufacttre,

rey

PRICE FIVE CENTS

Sommers
Case

Talk With A-G
VANCOUVER ‘(CP)—=
The Sommers bribery con-
Spiracy case was remand-
ed again Thursday until
Friday, Dec. 6. | co
Prosecutor Stewart McMorran
said that if he was to take.

charge of the case, alleging con-
spiracy to bribe Robert Sommers,

lumber firms and their officials,
he would need the time to con-
sult with Attorney-General Bon-
ner. ag ty
Alfred Bull, lawyer for Charles
David Schultz and the C::D..

Crown is not ready.” Newspaper.
reports, Mr. Bull said, were that
the government has had: infor-
mation on the Sommers case for
nearly two years. =

- Nicholas Mussallem, Mr.'S
mers’ counsel, said. “we d
agree to any adjournment” and:
added that he wished to‘empha-
size delay in beginning the case
‘wasn’t the result of any. action
by the Social Credit member of
the y
Trail. Jk
“In plain language,” Mr. Mus-
sallem said, “the Crown should
either put up or shut up.” . ,

week on the bribery charge. . .{
Also arraigned are Schultz?
the company which bears his
name; H. Wilson Gray and the
two firms of which he is presi-

John M. Gray, sales. manager of

Pacific Coast Services. ae
The conspiracy is. alleged: :to
have been made between Janu-

Sturdy, Vancouver lawyer.

Action on the allegations were
delave r. Onmer bac aid
use’-a stander Suit Was start-
ed by Sommers against Sturdy.
This case was thrown out of
court a month ago when Som-
mers failed to prosecute.

 

 

Pensioners _
Get $9 Boost °
This Week

OTTAWA (i — Recipients of
federal old age security pensions
are $9 richer today.

The morning mail brought
them cheques valued at $55, up
from {he $46-pension proposed
‘to Parliament by the former Lib-
eral government.

The $55 pension was approved
at the present session in Octo-
ber and became effective for
November pensions, It is paid to
persons 70 years of age and
over, ’ :

November cheques were mailed
Wednesday by regional offices
of the welfare department in
provincial capitals. All cheques
whl be in the hands of pension-
ers by Friday,

The welfare department said
Sts latest figure places pension-
crs at 816,051,

On this basls November cheq-
ucs have a total value of
of $44,915,804,

eevener om ws memo

Mother, Children
Drown in Mishap

LIVINGSTON, Mont. (—Mrs.
Churles Woods, 26, and her four
children apprrantly were drowne
ed Thursday when tholr ear
went out of control and plunged
Into the Yellowstone River,

At first it was belioved the 28-
year-old husband and fathor
tlso was in the car, but Woods
notified the Livingston Shorlff's
office late Thursday night he
had gone to Luther, Mont. to
seok omploymuent,

 

 

 

oom eae

LONDON (Reuters) —Russlu
claimed today to have the
world’s most powerful radtotelow
scope ind to be working on ane
other 60 times more poworful,

The Soviet nows agency Tass
quoted Dr. Bomyon Khatkin, Gos
viet physicist and mathomatic-
jan nH saying the now toloasone
1¥ 130 motros (ubout 426 foot)
long and thot the aron of fs ro-
flovting bow! Is 400 square mus

 

 

tres (about 4,300 squuro foot).

ND

former forests minister, by three |

Schultz Company, said it was’)
“most amazing thing: that. the _

legislature “for Rossland- —

Mr. Sommers was arrested last.

dent, Pacific Coast Services and.
Evergreen. Lumber ‘Sales; and.

Sry, 1953, and September, .1955.:.
Accusations that there had been
graft in Sommers’ forestry de- .
partment were made before a.
royal commission by David

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