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Nanaimo Daily News from Nanaimo, British Columbia, Canada • 14

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14 I "4" WALT'S jMany Swim Assaults On Strait jSet For Saturday And Sunday Squamish Forest Management Issue VICTORIA CP High winds in, His navigator, Air Webb, said a the Strait of Juan de Fuca con-; jPCOnd try by deaf-mute Douglas Further Delayed VICTORIA CP Government action on the controversial forest Rlvette may, be made Monday, ments of last-ditch attempts to SHARPENING SERVICE, FOR RENT Skill Saws Belt Sanders Disc Sandtrt OarillattB- Sander Paint Spray Guns. Sawa Filed Lawnmoweri Sharpn4 Shears and KmvM etc. 15S com6x rd. phone (By the Arena) 480 management licence application of Publicity shunner Mrs. Anna Burian, a Vancouver hospital employee who has been In swim training here several weeks, may Empire Mills Ltd.

in the Squamish area will wait until the completion swim between here and Port Angeles, Wash. Six swims are slated for the weekend. The weather forecast is for continued 15 to 20 mile-an-hour sea breezes with only a slight possibility of cloudy calm Saturday and Sunday. of the Sloan inquiry into the forest industry. also majce an attempt on Juan del Premier Bennett made the announcement Thursday but gave no Fuca thin weekend.

A 1 T1, HanaTmo PaTly Fr Pren. Stuf Jay, Auqu.f 27. 1955 I 'I i ip I l.tlu 'Ml i. i 7- in il Til -a 'If .1 I. iv ''ft 4 VVv i 5 tfti reason for the delay of the hotly-debated application.

The application has gone past the advertising stage. The govern SPECIAL SALE ment -announced when Chief Justice Gordon Sloan was appointed to conduct his royal commission X- that licences may be granted where Nineteen-year-old Pat Russell of Vancouver, who was set to go Thursday and again today, postponed her second try at -the strait till Saturday at 2:30 p.m. Bill Muir of Saanich planned to go at 4 a.m. Saturday on his fourth attempt. Third try by Janice White, 19-year-old Torontonian, is also slated for Saturday afternoon, and BATTERIES $0.95 CANADA DEMONSTRATES ATOM THERAPY applications have passed that stage.

The a 1 heard appeals against the application some time ago. Liberal Gordon Gibson was forced to withdraw a charge that it was 1,1 fraudulent." The application was bitterly op The Canadian exhibit at the Geneva atom conference was thi cobalt 60 therapy unit, shipped and assembled there to demonstrate Victorian Bob Bowden, 23. wants 12-MONTH GUARANTEE With Your Old Battery Rear View Mirrors erMountit $3.95 how it operates. The unit has proved its value in the treatment of to make his third attempt some cancer and other malignant giowths. posed by several members of the time during daylight hours Sat-; urday.

His plans depend on whe B.C. Truck Loggers Association. The premier also commented on Mr; Gibson's charge that the Sloan ther he is able to line up a boat' $13.95 Safety Seat Belts commission should quit in view of Company for Pearson On His Russian Visit the fact that several licences hatje been granted since the commission and crew. Saturday night between 10.30 and 11:30 one-time Olympic trials swimmer. Johnny Flower, 35, of Vancouver, intends to make his first swim try, "leaving from Mc-Caulay Point.

Island Motors Supply Co. Ltd. was appointed. "We expect the Sloan inquiry to continue even though Gibson has completed his testimony before PARTS DEPARTMENT VICTORIA (CP) External Af- pel some of the false ideas created fairs VMirtister Lester B. Pearson through reading," said Mr.

Pear it, the premier said. "The commission didnt get all the information it needed from Mr. Gibson." IIIIUWlll Teachers Welcome son. He said the average Russian's knowledge of Canada is "inadequate," and that their views would undergo a major change "if they could see the automobiles lined up outside of our factories, the cars the workers go to their jobs in." "Or, if the Russians could see the "enslaved workers' as they call them, and the way they live the amenities they enjoy, it would be a very good thing." r- A announced here Friday he will leave Ottawa on board an RCAF aircraft Sept. 30 for a week-long visit to Russia.

The invitation to visit Russia was tendered Mr. Pearson by Foreign Minister V. M. Molqtov at the United Nations anniversary conference at San "The Russians have Deen very Mr. Pearson said.

"They told me to let them know where I want to go, and what I want to see." He will visit Moscow, Leningrad New Homework and I DOG PACK KILLS SIX-YEAR-OLD BOY Bitten by a pack of dogs, Wayne Baker, six, of Agincqurt, left with hia brother Walter, died in hospital at Bracebridfie. Discipline Rules i Ont. His body was found in a field at Matthiasviile, seveif miles from VANCOUVER fCP British Bracebridge, and it is believed he tried to stop a fiht between his Jpet Mickey, and several other dogs belonging to Mrs. Vera Mac-, Donald, who found him bleeding' and barely alive. The dogs, 14 of them, have geen rounded up and will likely be destroyed.

Columbia teachers here welcomed and Stalingrad, during the tour, Strike that they will be permitted and visit parts of southern Russia. for the first time to assign home "I am anxious to see the country Island Would Be Hit work to elementary school children in grades 4 to 6. They will also be able to give more homework to high school students. Also starting next term is a new "spare-the-rod" rule that protects children from corporal punishment in schools except when it is con If Milk Drivers Strike and the Rpople," he said. He will take with him "two or three people" from the External Affairs department, "people who are particularly interested in Russian affairs." Asked to confirm reports he would take a red-coated RCMP officer on the trip to assist with security measures, Mr.

Pearson replied: "That's a good idea." "We will probably have a few Threatens Coal Fields In Wales SWANSEA, Wales '(Reuters) general strike threatened the Wales coalfields today following a decision by state coal authorities to shut down one mine permanently because of "persistent go-slow i VANCOUVER (CP) The num-. Dairy Employees Union fAFL- sidered "imperatively necessary." TLO voted 763 to 91 in favor of These were the mam points in a strike in a government-super i A of our Russian friends" aboard the the new Regulations for schools and teachers issued today by I'ber of British Columbia workers tjidle through labor disputes threat-I ened to jump past the 4,000 mark it Friday as Vancouver milk drivers 'jl'voted overwhelmingly in favor of vised vote announced here Friday. British Columbia's education min Union officials said a strike dead The miners denied the charge, line would not be set until after Are located on the Main Floor. You'll find a large selection of needed school supplies at the right prices. another last-ditch bargaining ses sion Monday between the union and representatives of nine major dair claiming the trouble is due to difficult geological conditions and the use of unsuitable machinery.

They assert that more men are needed to look after machinery than to mine coal. As a result production has suffered. ies in the Vancouver area. (itrike action. The strike vote, involving more "than 1,000 milk drivers in Van-, and Victoria, came on the i second day of a walkout by 3,000 'fruit packers in the Okanagan Val- Jley and the 54th day of a strike 350 seamen employed by Union RCAF aircraft, to dispel fears of a border incident." Mr.

Pearson said Russian "tactics definitely have changed." "Things are much easier," he said. "It gives us some opportunities Which we should exploit." Mr, Pearson expressed enthusiasm for Russian-Western world exchange of ideas through such arrangements as the tour "of a group of Russian farmers through the U.S. and Canada. "It is all to the good that this is being done," he said. "F.ven a short visit helps to dis- ister Ray Williston.

Teachers throughout the province welcomed the new regulations, admitting "that they were behind the move that permits them to give a half hour homework to Grade 4 to 6 students. 'Charles Ov.ans, general secretary for' the JB.CLJeachers'-Federation said that members have felt for some time that they should have discretion to decide whether or not elementary students should be Science Notebooks The dispute over wages and number of delivery days involves) 900 Vancouver workers and- another 49c 9c Steamships Limited; 180 finvefx- in- Victoria Victoria milk drivers announced earl The Vancouver Milk Drivers and ier they would follow the lead of Practise Typing Pods Union representatives of the workers in the area met today to discuss the movf and similar warnings delivered to- four other mines in the area, threatening the livelihood of more than 2,500 men. Vancouver drivers in the dispute FAMINE IN PROSPECT PAPPY The strike, if called," could produce a virtual fresh milk famine for more than 500,000 persons in COAL! the lower B.C. mainland and Vic toria areas. But union and government negotiators said they were confident the dispute w'ould be settled without a strike.

4 9C 49c 25c 110c Ink Books 100 pages 3-Ring Refills Linedf 1 00 sheets 3-Ring Refills Lined and Plain 2-Ring Refills Lined and Plain Meanwhile no immediate break appeared in sight in the two exist ing strikes. At Kelowna, B'C, the Federa tion of Fruit and Vegetable Work given homework, and passed a resolution at their convention a year ago asking the government to consider the change. Homework for high school students may be increased by a half hour to a maximum of two hours. Mr. Willis.ton described it as a "relatively light increase to permit a scale of homework' increasing with the' maturity of the youngster concerned." He laid responsibility on teachers and principals to ensure that assignments are "educationally sound." His ruling on corporal punishment will mean no change in iancouver.

Dr. Robert F. Sharp, Vancouver schools superintendent, said that corporal punishment is used here Like Mr. Williston he said it must be practised to the 'same degree as would be used by a "kind, firm and judicious parent." ers Unions (AFL-TLCJ announced that it had applied to Labor Min AT ITS BEST SATISFACTION GUARANTEED SELECT FROM THREE DIFFERENT TYPES McLEOD RIVER (ALBERTA) TON 21.00 17.25 16.50 LUMP NUT PEA PER TON COBBLE COAL PEA COMOX-McLEOD STOKER MIX LOC A PER TON ister Lyle Wicks "or permission to prosecute employers on charge" of intimidation-." About 3,000 workers struck 28 fruit packing plants in the fertile A Large of Zipper Cases for School 4j-kaBagan--vaHey-Thursday tff back up demands for a 10-cent hourly Is the elderly gentleman (he won't like that), you see out frorrt in the store all of the time. He's the of the outfit and has been in the lower business for about twenty years.

He'i a Lao the person who spoils our young daughter Rose-line by giving her everything she wants, and then telling her, when she's naughty, that her daddy will spank her. When the day comes that he spanks her, we're quitting, because then the world will Pappy is the one who is responsible for the looking after the plants and the" tore, "that's why they always look so nice. He's the one who can tell you anything you want to know about growing stuff, and how to look after it once it's started to grow. He's been putting on a lot ot weight lately, but' that's not a sign of inactivity and old age. Mamma, it seems, ha i decided that we all need a little building up, so Pappy is showing the re- suits of her drive.

(oweri from Cjuldj'orJs Smooth, Grained and Embotsad Leathers wage increase to the present basic rate of 75 cents an for women and $1 for men. 19.00 nuT 16.00 LUMP rings, zipper 4.79 ZIPPER CASES, 2" pocket, bumper edge The union's intimidation charge was laid after A. R. Garrish, president of the B.C. Fruit Growers' Association, issued a prepared statement saying the situation was well in hand and that packing These Prices Delivered One Ton Or Over LUMP COAL, 100 lb.

sack, at the yard NUT COAL, 100 lb. sack 1.25 1.00 SPOKE TOO LONG PICTOU, N. S. (CP) Maxin Dwyer, 15, of nearby Seafoam, was knocked to the floor and her mother found the foot of a wooden bed broken and scattered on a bedroom floor. The explanation: Lightning followed the phone wire, felled the girl and entered a corner of the bedroom.

ZIPPER CASES, 2" rings, comb, "fQ I CENTRAL COAL COMPANY LIMITED PHONE 1500 325 FARQUHAR ST. 2" rings, zipper 6.44 ZIPPER CASES, pocket, bumper edge 1 ZIPPER CASES, 2" rings, zipper pocket, mirror, carrying this houses have "all the workers needed to handle the current fruit crop," No new development is expected in' the Seafarers' International Union AFL-TLO strike against Union Steamships until a newly-appointed federal mediator begins hearings here next week. The federal department Thursday announced the appointment of Erie G. Taylor, Toronto industrial relations consultant, as an "industrial inquiry commission" to attempt to bring the disputants together in a settlement. The seamen struck July 3 to back up.

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