a Hepes rig a uPAR am gentle tre BN coMyrRL a SOE Mra I pie a eget EL ARN ET ene MR RAD IND Sealy peel njons insir “D>pepmegenrgueg yy neve anger eeP PTD US ER AST ey He eh VOL, XLVI, No, 220 — ‘Telephone 6767 GRIM: FACED AND -HARASSED are Robert Sommers, right, and ’ H. Wilson Gray, as they ride through rainy Vancouver to the. Assize Court. Both Sommers and H. W. Gray were | convicted of: conspiracy and. accepting bribes in connection. ‘with forest. management licences. Sentences were scheduled to be handed out. by. Mr, Justice J. O. - Wilson this afternoon. —CP Photo. Sommers, Gray - pect sentence By L. JONES Canadian, Press. Staff Writer: - VANCOUVER: (CP)—Robert E. Sommers, 47, “garner B.C. lands and forests minister, and H. Wilson Gray, 46, timber firm executive, today awaited. sen- tence for conspiracy and and bribery. = Rh a Also for sentence before Mr. Justice J. O, Wilson this af- ternoon were Gray's firms, Pa-' cific Coast Services Limited and Evergreen Lumber Sales, also convicted on the same charges. For the firms it will probably mean a fine and for the men jail terms—just how much is subject to legal interpretation between the old and the new Criminal Codes of Canada. The indictment which brought their conviction was switched from the new to the old code halfway through the trial. Mr. Justice Wilson was to hear argument from counsel! on the question. LONGEST TRIAL This fs the 60th day of Can- ada’s Jongest criminal trial, one that has seen a record number of legal tangles and other com- Plications, and one that could have politheal repercussions in Social Credit) British Columbia. Politieal Opponents already are calling for the resignation of Prenjer Bennett's government. But it is not to be the Jast of the case. Appeals are expected, Yor others-—--64-yenr-old Charles D. Schultz, his timber engineer- ye firm of the same name, and for John Cray, brother of Wil- PE PLIGIPOP VIVRE VDVERDDODOICODAVIOCD VANCOUVER ‘(P—Sentences on Robert Sommers and W, W, Gray and the firms involved in the bribery and conspiracy charges have been put off nnd next Thursday, Mr. Justice GO. Wilson suld the arguments heard toe day were so complex Chiat a quick decision could not) he given. POPPIFTLOLEESOREECOOLOVEVCIEEPVILEO: sonoand a Pacific offfetal, there will be new trinds, The jury was not able to agree iy some cases, The fury of nine men and three women who pondered ml. lions of words of testimony fram witnesses nnd ow omountiatia of documentary evidence, brought Woits Mal verdlets Wednesday and won discharge from the cise ft took on May ot. Tt Draught fy ita final deaf. son in the form of 67 vercdlets ee In the bribery of the /ORMES | DRUGS LTD. DIAL F ,case. It convicted Sommers of five of seven counts, disagreeing in two; convicted Wilson Gray on eight of 10, disagreeing in two; found Schultz and his firm not guilty on four of nine brib- ery counts, disagreeing on five, and acquitted John Gray on two of four counts disagrecing on twa, OTHER VERDICTS To a crowded, hushed court, jury foreman Eric Miller also announced these verdicts: Pa- cific Coast, guilty on eight of nine bribery counts with a dis- agreement on one; Evergreen Lumber Sales guilty on two of three counts with disagreement on the other; B.C. Forest Prod- ucts not guilty on five of six (Continued on page 7) See SOMMERS oA. SPRAGGE, execullve age alstant of the British Colum- blu Tonchers Federation will be no guest at the Northorn Distrieh Teachers convention which starts tonight ab & pan. At Booth Memorlal Wyh school and continues until noon Bat- urday. Other foenture (ests fro Dy, Brock Chisholm, for- Mor director of the UNWITO, Professor ¥. 0. Boyer, diree- tor of elementary oedueation a the College of Wduention, Mra. YU. Hanney, member of the BCT curneutind come miltee: J, I Sutherland, of Mangeo With school, Vaneau- vers JT, N. Parrott, president of the NOTE; Dr OG. TW. Cone way, director of the dividon of toate ind mensures for the depurtment of edusation, : Jand., interested . bystanders. . ela leaned,against a. door. 4 .pufisswon-a-cigar -andewajde———~- Accused -Gasigned to fate VANCOUVER ‘@—A potpourri of people shuffled - expectantly outside a third-floor room at the Vancouver court - house. There { were’ lawyers, ‘men .accused of _| bribing ‘a minister of ‘the Crown, ‘Charles*: “Schultz, - “one of - the jam" smoking : avomgarette: “Weil, they say when you: face death you always ‘feel. pretty calm,” he said. “I guess I’ m that way right now.” = His lawyer... ‘Walter Owen, “Never mind, Charlie, you still have a great number of friends. Always remember that.” t 2:20 p.m. as the jury filed into the court room to deliver its verdict, Mr. Owen laid his half-smoked cigar aside and went in also. Five minutes later the cigar had burned an oblong scar in a wooden sign. John Gray, another of the ac- cused, lounged in a room directly across from the court room. He too smoked a cigarette, At 2:30 p.m., in the court room, Sheriff's officer Bob Drummond shouted: “Gentle- men!” “Well, here we go, John,” said Schultz to Gary. “Yes, here we go," echoed Gray. They moved off to mect thelr fate, Moments Inter Schultz and Gray learned that they had been nequitted on a total of six counts alleging they bribed Robert E. Sommers while he was minister of lands and forests. Schultz won nequittal on four counts nnd Gruy on two. The jury disagreed ANGH iORAGS, Twenty-one men,. when a violent storm broke thei in. two, awaited rescue toda: polar winds tore at. thei ° exposed floe. . The Alaskan Air. Comma ready to make its rescue: as soon asthe storm. aba said the 21 men: who:made..up the complement . of. the: national Geophysical . Year: pounding, of. an oy ne ne polar storm. The island was 9 miles northeast of Barrow, aska,-and 600 .miles” northw of. .Thule, Greenland. 4 aboard, the DC- 3 that. Gisappear- Hed . ‘Wednesday: night: * “were ~ 10 d wees ‘on.. the: “southeast coast, women and an: American. ‘believ- ed: to. be: a sailor or’ marine: ‘fly- |} ing to the U.S. “naval” “pase : at] and Holguin. . All the stops: were ‘jin Oriente Provirice;: the ‘strong- ‘The. plane’. left active throughout the area.” ‘Castro: has embarked upon a systematic: campaign to disrupt transportation in» an’ effort. to overthrow President Fulgencio ;{Batista’s: regime. - J opposes: President-Elect “Andres who. is to take office Feb. 24. - ‘The. first plane! ‘to- “disappear, hold of activity by rebels led: by | | Fidel Castro... Manzanillo: but never. arrived: atl. Holguin, abou 70: miles, to- the northeast: : ‘Although. “government; “soldiers hold: Holguin, ‘rebel bands_ are Castro :“ also} Rivero. “Aguero,- a’ Batista. choice]: a’ Cubana. DC-3° seized:-on a Bay. from. Cayo Mambi:to Mao, The 21. men were on. : ‘campsite—half - of the - ‘island |s was * omniplicated -. because '2,000=f00t* airerait ranwa: on the. other Half. of the: ‘mile- ong,’ mile-wide-fioe.. a Before ..the ’ rescue ‘could. be completed, the 11 air force men, nine scientists and. Rev. Tom ;Cupynebam.- 2, Barrow.¢ expert! on the polar regions, “had to! make a dash by small boat across 115 miles of open water from their half of the island. to the runway half, where rescue planes éould pick them up. GPOOPOP POPC POLO POD OP DOOD today. Mr. Williamson said that on city residents between 7 sold about 7,000 100-watt and He said the drive would h had the boys not run out of only 60 watt bulbs. The 100 demand, he said, Mr. Williamson sald that Bay, In helping the boys with the watt lamps,” he said. on five other counts agatnst Schultza and on two ogalnst Gray. A delegution of British Col- umbla and Yukon Junior Cham. ber of Commerce representatives is slated to meet with Premier W. A.C. Bennott and the BC. Cabinet tomorrow in Victoria it was announced here today, The delegation will present eight resolutions for the con- stderation of the Gdvernment ut that thine. The rosolutions, adopted at the June 1088 cone vention of the Junior chambor, urge: Enforcement of existing laws regulating the disposal of Miter on BC. Wighwaya, @ The printing of verbatim reports of lJoglslative yprococd. VE @ The Jnstituiion of 60 mph speed Units on 0, highways where feasthle. @ Jncrendng the present one-ynan Liquor Control Board to on three-man board, @ Governmont — reconalderpe tion of Sretion 23 af the “day. ernment Liquor Act 1068" with PEPPPOPDIDO DOP VOVOLODOVPODIODOF a view to permitting Hve music in iMeonsed promises. @ Tho Inatitutton of five-year “permanent” Heence plates for motor vehicles In the province together with a form of tden- tficintion to be validated ane nunily, @ Tho umendment of Sce- tion 62, Chapter 42, Artlcle 3 of tho Munietpnl Act to read "The advaneed poll shall be opened by the Returning Offl- cor at the Munteipal Wall and kept open during such hours ak aro appointed in the bylaw on tho Vriday and Saturday immediately preceeding polling day." @ Tho provision of ndequaty m4 fooliithes In the more pop: Watod avons in the interlor and had places dn British Colum- pha One further rexolution deal- Ing with the extension of ral sorvico to Pine Point, NWT, whieh was to have been pres- onted to the government at thls The conuulssioner expressed his who supported the drive and persons who donated thelr time 1] Mr, janded at Cananove © and when. it- broke apart,. The: rescue alo ed still. ee ‘held. : Viscount turbo-prop “plane on its 45-minute flight.from Miami |. ‘oY ‘Havana. — All but three of the 20 persons aboard were killed when the gunmen forced the pilot to at- tempt a landing on a small air- strip near Preston. SCOUTS LIGHT BULB CAMPAIGN SUCCESS SAYS COMMISSIONER Light bulb drive staged by city Boy Scouts and Cubs Monday turned out to be most successful as ‘about 90 per ‘ cent of the total bulbs on hand were sold to Prince Rupert householders, Scout Commissioner Arthur Williamson reported “ the Scouts and Cubs called p.m, and 9 p.m. Monday and 60-watt bulbs. ave been even more successful 100 watt lamps, leaving them . watt lamps were in greater the Scouts made about $450 profit on the drive which will be distributed among the five groups in the district including Port Edward and Miller thanks to the people sale. “Next year we'll make Sure we don't run short of 100 Junior Chamber groups to present resolutions to premier tomorrow tine has already been acted upon by the provincial Jayceos. The provincial Inyeee exccutive ratified a proposal made by the B.O. government to the federal authorities and voleed thelr sup- port of the proposal, Following the meeting with the é¢dbinet, Junior Chamber of Commerce oxecutives from all purls.af the province will as- somble jn Vancouver for thelr falt bonrd meatlng, The meect- Ingx, scheduled for November @ ane O will bo attended by tho following membors from Prince Rupert: J. 8 Burns, provincial pirat prosidont; a. Woodside, provincial presidont; 8. RR. a. Macleod, socrotary-troasprer ind N, R. Whiteloy, Princo Rup- ort prasidont and district rep. resontiutive for tho North Const. Skeenn nron, Mr. Macleod and Woodalde left today for Victoria, Mr. urns and Myr. Whiteley are scheduled to leave on Snturdiy, 1 ee |e, ‘Last. Saturday night four. reb- s él gunmen seized a four-engined |, f t,| to Varadero. ‘Beach, 8 87 miles east} _ nor EET INS eT - Trustee Lo. involved and that instead Cove Cirele. East, corners of widened. 1 \ ' ‘ \ ground space ; si the board that he had made a detailed study of the traffic problem of making a cul-de-sac of Sixth Avenue East where it meets Hays Cove cir- cle, as was originally planned, it had been decided that there was so much traffic to the front of the high school that Seventh Avenue East entrance to Hays Cove Circle would have to be left open. As a result it was proposed to erect a fence cutting off Fifth Avenue East from Traffic would be able to come and go either from Sixth Avenue East or Seventh Avenue which stout Hays will be considerably He said the students “must have more play- and closing of the Fifth Avenue en- trance would provide this. set before Request from Roosevelt Park school principal J. MH. Steele and ulso the school's PTA for naddi- tion to tha school of a lunch room, was reluctantly rejected Monday night by the District 52 school board. However, Mr. Steele ancl Mrs. John Bateman, president of Roosevolt; Park PTA wlll be In- formed that while such a move cannot be considered at present the board will keep the project in mind. K. FY Harding. chidrman of tho board's building committee sald that addidion of ao hunch. room to Roosevelt Park school could not be considered whtle Conrad school was without an netlvity room which could serve as a luneh room. No sald that there was define itely a problem at Roosevelt Park school, where with a achool population ‘ol 451, between 240 and 860 pupils stayed for nneh. They were supervised by Mr. Stoel and tho vieo-prineipal but tho students had to sit on the activity room floor ay thera wus problem of setting up chairs and tables und taldny they down again. It had appeared ab first that ee Pr a SCHOOL’S BID REJECTED Other needed projects lunchroom a lunch room would have to be bult or a policy would have to be set regarding children taking thelr lunch. However, he sald It was a pro- blem, not of one school, but all the others and the prine!pals would have ta study It. Estimated -cast for a lunch room to be added would be ap- proximately $20,000 whieh could not be ingquded in’ tho forth- coming school referendum this Deconiber, Nor could the Roosevelt Park request be conasidercd before Sonrad school which had to wavy room or Junch roony at ai. “Looking ahead,” Mr, Mardlag sntd, “the board hopes, after the now Sent Cove school is bullt, to erect a two-room school in soo- tlon 2, an addition ot ofthor King Wdward or Roosovol’ Park schools, in whieh case it would probably bo two cliussrooms bullt ovey a lunch room, with the lunch room to be used for other purposes such as a brary, nue, dle yoony and projection room.” The bullding committee could hot recommend addition of a lunch room oat this time, Harding sald. Tho bourd agreed, Mr.. charge dismissed — impaired by alcohol or drugs against William Wonchuk, | of: 1225 Water street, Prince Rup- ert, was dismissed by Magistrate E. T. Applewhaite in city police court this morning, But he was convicted of. driv- ing while his driving licence-was suspended, and was fined ‘$25 or in default of payment, ordered to be jalled for 20 days, . ~.. He denied the first charge but pleaded gullty to the . second. His licence was suspended | inv 195}. He admitted he chad been drinking beer on Hallowe’en night, but denied that this. im~ paired his driving ability. . Answering police evidence that Wonchuk’s car swerved | and weaved across the road, defenre counsel A. Bruce Brown,’ said the rond in question was rutted en to avoid the holes. dn. the surface, There was no suggestlon: that Wonchuk had weaved. to: the wrong stde of the road, Mr. Brown added, Trem enn mereeeetng me oominineneene, PRINCE GEORGE @®—Inland Natural Gas Co, says it will be gin work on installing | °° gas distribution system hero Friday, City councll wns Informed of: tha company’s decision Tuesday af- ternoon. Three days’ notioe .of the start of work In the down town aren was piven, Cloudy. Friday with. vain NO~ winning about noon ‘Little chango in tomperature, Winds southeast 15° Friday morning, Incronalng: , to southenst 30 Friday ‘atter- noon. Low tonight and high Wriday at Princa Ru ort: and 0, i a TIDES- Iridny, Novembor 7 ‘J0N0 (Pacifig Standard Tinta) THY veccsees on: il He foot ' ot LOW wane 09520 4s foot 16:14 '@0. foot \ A charge of driving ‘while ont and Wonchuk had simply drive - . Loy hh weg ur yh fg oof mn i teang » a