PROVINCIAL j r?.cvi::-:iAL lh . f 1 V O T 0 Dec. 13 th a 4 NORTHERN AND CENTRAL BRITISH COLUMBIA'S NEWSPAPER CIVIC CENTRE JAR 7 7 CABS Published at Canada's Most Strategic Pacific Port "Prince Rupert, the Key to the Great Northwest" Courtesy Urmn Drug SulilO DISPATCHED VOL. XL, No. 285 PRINCE RUPERT, B.C., THURSDAY, DECEMBER 8, 1951 PRICE FiVE CENTS 'AN PROGRESS I Fyi IN Fill FOR ; "Ml"1 Lrv v .f 1 -... , I Other Civic Offices Just Barely Filled Not Enough Candidates To Fill l'arks Board . Voting Next Week Surplus of mayoralty and dearth of aldermanic, school board and parks board candidates marked the closing this morning of nomination for the forthcom Canada's 1951 Population Nearly Fourteen Million OTTAWA h Canada's population is more than 100.000 short of the 14,000,000 maik, the Bureau of Statistics disclosed Wednesday in u preliminary report of the J951 census. Making its fi'st, compilation of the total population five months after the census was taken, the Bureau estimated the total population at 13893,?f8 whkh is 2,385,553 higher than 1I.50C655 in 1941 ' All provinces made gains with the exception of Saskatchewan which dropped 66.817 to 829,175 from 895,992. British Columbia population' Is 1,153,05!) compared with 817.861. 1 'i .... -Jfr "mm- I : - ' J Fish Packer Goes Down VANCOUVER Qi Tll3 fish packer Marmae foundered Wcd-nesday and her four-man crew took to lifeboats In which they fobbed around for an hour be-13 e being picked up by the pack-Western Cruiser. The Marmae struck a floating object in' Active Pass, 25 miles .nun Vancouver. Future Bright But Bank Head Fears Inflation and W. J. Scott, re-elected by IAT dealing of the campsite preparatory to the starting rent a'umlnum smelter. Survivors of Beached Coastal Freighter Here And Glad to Be Alive Ship Lying Ashore in Iwe Inlet With Decks Awash KverylHKly Safe Nine crew nienilxTs eight men and one woman of a lieached coastal freighter arrived here last 4 p- . NO IiAY Powur hOuSr site, !l .hit house access tunnels. acclamation. There were but two nominations for three parks board seats. They were C. P. B-alagno and R. L. Eby. Voting will take plMt oext Thursday. The retiring two-year aldermen were Aid. T. B. Black, Aid. M. H. W. Krucger, Aid. O. B. Casey and Aid. Don Fitch. Aid. Black and Aid. Fitch did not seek re-election. Darrow Gomez and George Hills are continuing: aldermen. The one-year aldermanic election is made necessarythroush Aid. Daggett and Aid. Whalen having resigned to run for mayor. The continuing meiubwa of the school board are Dr. R. O. Large, A. B. Brown and Mrs. Earl Becker. Trustees Domfrmtfl and Scott succeed themselves. - The continuing members of the parki board was Arthur Murray and P. O. Forman who are now joined by Mr. Balagn and Mr. Eby. Aid. G. B. Casey did not seek re-election and the board will now have to select J fiftli member. DETAILS OF NOMINATIONS Tlic details of today's nominations were: For Mayor li. M. Daggett, proiioscd by A. ht I'auste.l uiu without rfeep for more than 24 . , w"' ,.1 KRIZZEIX-He made the mayoralty contest a foursome by filing nomination pap'.?ru today shoitly before the uradlinp. The 46-year-old Port Essington-born man. who lived in Prince Rupert over 40 years and has served for three years as an alderman, opposes Mayor H. F. Glasscy, Aid. H. M. Dagget t and Aid. H. S. Whalen. Mine Strike Settlement Torbrit Silver and Union Agree on $11.68 Per Day VANCOUVER Bargaining committee of Ihe International Union of Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers Undi yesterday accepted a rate of $11.68 per day for more than 125 miners at the lorbnt Silver Mines, 115 miles north ot Prince Rupert at Alice Ann ' j Harvey lurpliy, regional direc- tor of the union, said the com- iiiuUee would recommend ecen- i , lance of thj ofter by the workers who have been on strike since I November 1 for higher pay. . Muiphy said the agreement; would mean a pay increase of ! 8 per day for the miners. i three of them were up for breakfast after a, "much needed sleep." Becond Mate George Hodges said the night was dark, but it had not been snowing. He had little further comment. PERSONAL EXPERIENCES Second Engineer Harry Brock-bank, 3593 West Thirty-second Avenue, Vancouver, and of Victoria, and Cook Miss Nelly Hot-ley of iNcLson Street, Vancouver. were playing cribbage at time of: the collision. ?T had come off watch hull an hour before and we were playing crib. Suddenly we felt .ijminu. H shook the -ship a liuie, and we though we hit a log or a pile of driftwood," said Engineer Brockbunk here this morning. "I took a look over the side, B. Brown, .seconded by . p. XI, . Miizcy. H. F. Glassey, proposod by Jack Mussallem. seconded by Mrs. Mary MacLarcn. C. D. Frizaell, proposed by W. O. Siieardown. seconded by Dr. but saw nothing, and we went'j. I. .- 4 - . jf- . . , i J i j Alt; 1UNNEL which will bring walor ten miles through in in Keinano power house. Tunnel measures 38 feet Great Expansion of Atomic Weapons Due NKW YORK (CP) Chairman GoRlon Dean of the Atomic Energy Commission said . Wednesday night that tentative plans are now being developed for a vast new expansion of America's atomic weapons output the third since 1949. J Dean said that the proposed ? i u showing entrunce uj tail race a ! J ! other narts ot western coujile of weeks ago. ' ft)Kl living accommodation elsewhere. The men are mostly skilled ttready In sonic line of work. All arc members of the Bap- tLst faith. fnc group consists of four .married men, two with adult brothers their wives and six children: Mr. and Mrs. Walter Sctifr. Mr. and Mrs. Siegrrietl Maron alMi Xlfred Muron. , Mr mwi Mrs. Eric Krieg. Mr. and Mrs. Walilemar Wlltie and Oltomar Wilde. Mr. Wilde, in addition to be ing an engineer and bricklayer In the Old Country, conduciea an orchestra. Mr. Krieg was a bookkeeper and school teacher. Mr. Scnff is a baker. Six Bidding On Seaplane Base i Hans and specifications lve! heen taken by x contnirtiiiR firms, who are iobnble bidders for construction of a seaplane landing at Ken I Cove for the federal repartment of public works. These concerns are: Horie Latimer Construction Co. Ltd.; Wood & MeClav Ltd., Vancouver; Skeena River Pile Driving, and Armour Salvage fc Towing Co.. of Piince Rupert; Holland & Phil-Hps, Massett: and Finrilay White, ing civic election. Four candidates entered the field for mayoralty Mayor H. O. Glassey. Aid. H. M. Daggett, Aid. H. S. Whalen and ex-Aid. G. D. Frizzell. For four two-year aldcrmanis seats, there four candidates who were all elected by acclamation. They were Aid. George B. Casey, Aid. Martin Krucger. ex-Aid. John Curric and ex-Aid. T. N. Youngs. Three candidates seek election to two one-year aldermanic vacancies W. A. Armstrong, Hugo P. Kraupncr and John W. Prusky. Two school board seats are again filled by A. J. Dominate CANDIDATES MAYOR Aid. H. M. Daggett. George Douglas Frizzell Mayor H. F. Glassey Aid. H. S. Whalen ALDERMEN (1 year term) (Two to be elected W. A. Armstrong li. P. Kraupncr Jani3s W. Prusky ALDERMEN (2 year term) i Four to be elected) Aid. George B. Casey John Curric W. U. Krucger T. N. Youngs (acclamation I SCHOOL BOARD i Twri to bejplnctwH A. J.' Dominate and W. J. Scott (acclamation i. PARKS BOARD (Three to be elected) C. F. Balagno R. L. Eby i acclamation i expansion, spurred by the threat of a "communst colossus" towering over the free nations of the world, was made feasible, at least in part, by fresh discover Ies of uranium deposits In Can ada and Colorado. "There has recently been a very decided Improvement in the uranium supply outlook," Dean said in a speech prepared frr (.he nnnnul ninhlli7.ut.inn ritn- ner of the American Ordnance Association. ' , Dean said that one of the major reasons "why further expansion of atomic energy is now being .considered" Is the fact that recent technological de-velopmenLs "have made possible consideration of atomic weapons for tactical as well as' strategic employment." Atlin Develops Tungsten Mine ATLIN P A new tungsten mine is being developed ten miles from this far north hamlet with an exploration program aimed at blocking out enough ore to start production next spring. Black Diamond Tungsten Ltd. said Wednesday that preliminary has been moved into the area. TIDES - a Friday, December 7, 1951 High 8:38 19.2 feet 1 21:10 17.0 feet Low' ;....' 2:04 . 7.2 feet erman Immigrants Find MONTREAL While forecast-! Jig a 'brilliant long-rang'e fu- j .urc" for Canada, B. C. Gardner,! president of the Bank of Montreal, sees a continuance of difficult economic problems facing the nation and emphasizes that "it would be very dangerous to coiiciMde that, the butt:.- against: inflation has been won." : ers sanum.S'J.ere; M.. Gardner lound encouragement In Canada's current monetary policies which w?re result-irif, in a "healthier and moiy ealistic interest-rate structure, with the price of money once the again beginning to exercise its arc iradiiioiial stabilizing function as the stimulus to saving and a brake mi ext. 'ssive expansion." j Warning that the iiossibility of furl her Inflation was still "very real" the president traced both the the slvirt and long-term factors which Uireal.cn Canada's monc-ai stability. M. Gardner saw an Immediate inflationary Uveal in the nvces- ity of pulling an increasing ) cpiol iimi of Cumula's nalioi-uil I unlpiit. into defence and industrial expansion with a consequent dreiea.se of production for civilian consumption. A widening of 'he disparity between spending P"wcr and available consumer to goods might result. The long-term forces tending to undermine the value of the i dollar were more deeply rooted, he slated. Among them he Included; the political unpopularity of anti-inflationary policies; severe taxation which riiighl cncouiage the wage-price spiral; and shorter working hours at a at tune of heavy demand on the collect iv-o efforts of the population. in Found Dead in Committed For Murder I ! at I'RINCE GEORGE - Alfred m Cunningham, aged 64, was com initt-ed for trial Wednesday to stand trial for murder in September In the rifle slaying of Albert Thorsen at his Isolated I cabin near Savory. A police witness testified at the preliminary hearing that, when Cunningham gave himself up, h- told them: "I've come to give myself up. I've committed murder. I beat a murder rap In 1941 but this one bothers me." The crown contended that Cunningham killed an elderly trapper for $40 he had. Thousands Killed in a Volcano MANILA P The Philippines news service last night said that more than 500 bodies had been recovered from ash-Btrcwn slopes of Ilibok-Hihok volcano on Caml- gum isianu in me soumktu i hlllppines. The volcano erupted twice on Tuesday. It. still spouted flames today Governor Pucienco Ysalina of R. O. Large. Harold S. Whallen, proposod by C. G. Ham, seconded by E. D. Forward. For Aldermen, Two Yearn George B. Casey, proposed by lack McNnlty, seconded by G. W. Nickerson. John Curric. proposed by J. H. . Thompson, seconded by J. Mc; ' Rae. Michael W. H. Krucger, pro- posed by A. M. Martinusen, seconded by A. S. Nickerson. T. N. Youngs, proposed by E. D. Forward, seconded by G. A. ' " Hunter. For Aldermen, One Year W. A. Armstrong, proposed by O. D. Frizzell, seconded by Q. A. Hunter. Hugo P. Kraupner, proposed by H. S. Whalen, seconded by E. D. Manson. James W. Prusky. proposed by Bartel Hedstrom, seconae4 by Fred M. Hill. FOR SCHOOL BOARD A. J. Dominate, proposed by ork and Happiness Here ! ' i n u 1 1 L here under the direct sponsorship of l''iitlist Church as part of a migration under aspires of the Baptist World Alliance which has 'lit similar irrouns to m i - In. a iM'oun of 1(i (Jernian iinmiurants arrived nours, out guui to he alive. Their, ship, the Lsland Prince, collided with a fish packer Tuesday night and is lying 60 miles south of here with water, up to lifeboats. All crew members safe, including four men on Chilco Lake, the packer. Capt. William Owen, Fir.it Mate James Galbraith and the chief engineer unidentified) arc standing by. They remained on beach awaiting an Armour SaJvage vessel, which was due there last night. The collision took place at Lowe Inlet, southern part of Urenvillf Channel, at 0:40 p.m. Tuesday. 1 s I n d - rriner, nf !lilxmii4 with general cargo for Primre Rupert, was struck In the forward hold and began sinking immediately, according to crew's reports, who abandoned the ship board the Chilco Lake. The packer's damage was con fined to splintered planks in the bow of her hull. Water entered. but pumps kept her afloat. Capt. Owen and the two officers deckled to remain at tin; scene and were taken to the oearh. When the crew finally arrived Prince Rupert mure than a day later, they were fed and put hotel rooms by agents W. G. l Nickerson St Co. This morning, Hotel Room YiiEO.stav l,lirrr Had Succumbed ' Some Hours Previous Obred Kovachvi, 50-year-okl Yugoslav laborer, was found (lend 8:45 lust evening In his room ( ie Havvlew Hotel. Ieuth, presumably from natural causes, had tuken place several hours earlier, 11 is be- Ilevcd. Deceased had last been srt'n In apparently good health and spirits Tuesday evening. He left the holel lobby about 10 p.m.. fupposedly to retire.. Yesterday morning when the hotel attendant went to make up the room. the door was found locked. Last evening tlw proprietor, John FurnloUs, decided to force the door. Body was found partly dressed lying on the bed. The light was on. Deceased had resided at the Bayvlew about two years and for tiiiTj was at Ocean Falls. He returned here and worked for a while on the demolition of the former United States army warehouse on the waterfront, A widow survives In Yugosla- via. More Casualties In Korean War OTTAWA The Army Wed nesday Issued its sixtieth casu- alty list of the Korean war, re - I ber of casualties so far suffered by Canadian troops including ! 117 ll7 dead, dead, 401 401 wounded, wounded, 50 50 injur- injur- 1 eri and five missing. DUCK 10 our game. "In a few minutes the captain came into the mess and said, Everybody up top and abandon ship. Were .sinking.' That was a, I we needed." 'And 1 had suclf a good hand,' loo," MLs.s Holley jokingly lamented this morning. Must of ttie crew members saved their belongings, but Miss Holicy lost all of hers. Water entered her cabin . and sub merged it. "But I don't mind," she smiled. "I'm glad to be here and alive. "And I'd like to say something about the people who looked after us. They were so good to us, we couldn't have been more important. Everything they had was ours." The party, was transferred Horn the Chilco Lake to the North Isle, then to the Nahmint and finally to die "43," a small native-owned boat which brought them into port here at 11:30 last night. Chilco Lake, which suffered tplit decks after she holed the wooden hull of the freighter, was towed in and arrived after the rescue vessel last night with Capt. -Sam Hunt and three crew I i members. Mate Pete Valjacic of 2703 Vanablc.s, Vancouver, and James inrig, cook, of Quutliiaski Cove, both were .sleeping at time of collision. Inrig was sleeping in the bow, near where the ship was struck. "It was a heavy blow. It sent me to the deck and woke me up In a hurry. I got to the ship's .side and saw the freighter." Capt. Hunt and the engineer were on a'eck". Then all pitched in to take on board the crew of the sinking freighter. QUICK TRANSFER Tliiiro uiern uitvprul linri'lim i srin.r!1 ,,., ,WI.kpl, ... and a transfer was made soon after the Chief Tapeat, another B.C. Packers vessel began tow- lug the Chilco Lake. The company's W. R Lord arrived later, to take over the towing. The crew of Island Prince will leave for Vancouver on CNS Prince George, which sails southbound tonight. They are W. 'Bayko, N. Sherst, G. Hodgson, Is Investigating possibility of patching and refloating the freighter freighter for for sailing sailing to to Vancou- Vancou- ver. Weather Varied-Wires Go Down An eight-inch snowfall overnight brought trees crashing through communication wires 15 miles east of here this morning, isolating Prince Rupert except lor Digby Island wireless communication. Canadian Broadcasting ''Cor- poration lines, long distance tele- phones and telegraph systems would be out since 7 a.m. Meanwhile, linemen are work ing in the vicinity of Sockeye and Phelan to restore the service, and report pnow laden trees from the mountain side broke through all wires. Service had not been restored up to noon. Telegraphs and telephone offi ces are trallic-jammed. Digoy Island wireless station is passing messages via radio, but radio telephone is not operating. Canadian Press dispatches to T he Daily News were held up. Meantime, Prince Rupert experienced its first, snowfall In the last, two days with T5 Inches reported fallen last night. Radio and long distance, telephone land connections were also affected. A complete variety of eatlier fly in Prince liiipert a I '"lull men in the group I iliT.idy landed Jobs and .iiiiiUe.s arc being estab- in liuiiie life here. I muniuiunts came from n, Kiel and Kwenigsberg uicncd by the fact that hp been obtained and at niiiiiry living quarters 1. ihey arc looking for- Ui keen anticipation to l-"aua. "I Hie families arc re-1 the time being In the i in ot the First BaDtist I lie other two have j Kolment ill Gains ' nupert school enrol-HTivvnl another boost last ' Much added seven more lolal of 1450. Tilts is 'i increase over the same year of more than 1(10 Pupils, however, were r r"' "V' l'iill total In School W iii November October j, (iL HH iiiiu, no- 1 s li;il was 1637. ""'Uislasl month's break-f. "'Ported by the school f ''i'-day ni(.ht; . Enrolment Av. At I Mnimnai .... 516 481.2 f " K:' ''!. 289 264 n sir reel. .279 264.16 Mlward 3U6 343 39 f kland .. . 15 14.5 I Ew-ngtun 34 3349 . 6 5. Richard Long, seconded by W. F. st"ne', W. J. Scott, proposed by O. G. Stuart, seconded by W. G. Murray. FOP. PARKS BOARD Charles P. Balagno. proposed by G. B. Casey, seconded by. W. A Armstrong. Robert L. Eby, proposed by Dr. Duncan Black, seconded - by Duncan McRae. REFERENDA AND MONEY BYLAW Three referenda and a money bylaw will also be presented on the polling clay. . The referenda are: ... t Asking for a tax levy of one mill each year for five years to be spent solely for imprave-ments to Falrview Cemetery. , 2 Requesting people's authority for the city to enter negotiations to obtain a new municipal-owned automatic tel-"uhone system. 3 Asking approval that the B.C. power Commission suo-oly power for this area. (Northern B. C. Power Company's franchise expires March, 1954 The money bylaws asks the people to approve soendlne $100,000 for reconstruction of existing . water mains and for repairs to the city reservoir. 1 Mr and Mrs. S. Snldal and family pre sailing tonight oh the Prince George for a trip to lias visited the city within the exploration indicated more than last twenty-four hours includ-' 58.000 tons of high grade ore. lug blight sunshine, snow, rain' A camp for twenty men has and even a bright flash of light-iuee" built and machinery and ning and two loud thunder claps supplies for a start of operations eastern Mlsamis Province esti-1 porting three men killed in action B. Lasko, W. C. Archer, J. Flem-mated that 2000 may have died i and one officer end three men ming, H. Brocktrand, P. Sernan-in Tuesday's first eruption which wounded. j del and N. Holley. witnesses called an atomic-like Xne llsl brlnRS lo 573 tne num. 1 Armour Salvage & Towing Co. about 8:30 last evening. Low misty fog covered slush-laden streets this afternoon, making motor traffic hazardous and foot-slogging difficult. There was even a brief Inter ruction of power service for about five minutes at noon due to a snow flip six miles or so up .. 40 blast. Some 10.000 of Camlguln's 4f ,000 residents idents have have been been evacu evacu - - aled to safer areas, the Ecstall River. , 15:09 feet 30.82 1 Nanaimo. If