The Province from Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada • 3

OS'1 mconver irrovmce i enne It i03 I I neai feii'i bread I he VH Sccojid Front Paste VANCOUVER, B.C., THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 4, l'jjj r- IK i. tar I 1 if-, I V. I I I 1 1) I Vi i I 1 i 1)11IJUL rJ I Bill Cunningham MANY CARRIED CAMERAS to record the historic opening, including 77-year-old J. G. Lyon of 3518 West Twenty-second.

The okltimer attended opening day ceremonies for the old Granville Bridge in 1909. Bob OUen MAN OF DISTINCTION was taxi driver Andy Hipner of Steveston. His was the first "private" car to cross the main hump in mad scramble of cars as thousands crowded bridge to watch official opening. his speech. Huge crowds literally tore the ribbon to pieces in efforts to grab souvenirs.

Police estimated that 6000 cars and 2000 pedestrians had passed over the $16,500,000 bridge in first hour. STEEL WORKER Charlie Cesser snips four-inch purple and gold ribbon to officially open the new Granville Street Bridge while Mayor Fred Hume looks on. In the excitement, Geisser forgot parts of BRIDGE INVOCATION Vast I Ship $Jwte By Norman Hacking There used to be plenty of old jokes ebout the Swiss marine, but they don't hold true any more, for the little land-locked republic has quite a thriving merchant marine, with their ships to be seen on all the seven seas. The Swiss flag is flyinpr from a freighter in Vancouver harbor today, the 5752-ton MS. Baden, here to load a full cargo of barley for Japan.

Scores Faint, Man Dies In Aussie Mob Scene SYDNEY, Australia (CP) A police inspector died and hundreds of persons fainted today as Queen Elizabeth rode through Sydney at the height of a summer heat wave. 'This Noble Structure Long May It Endure! Here is the text of the invocation made bv Rev. J. W. Melvin, the city's chaplain, at opening of new Granville Bridge today: Thou, who art the Creator and Preserver of all things, the Inspirer of men, We thank Thee that Thou has made us men with minds to explore the secrets of nature, with hearts to love Thee end wills to serve Thee.

"We thank Thee for all who have had a part in the erection of this noble structure for those who cherished it as a dream that might come true, for City Fathers who saw the need of it and said that it must be and planned for its erection, for those who designed it and for all who assisted them, and for all workmen who joined mind and heart in their toil. "We rejoice in its completion. "May its approaches ever give happy welcome to all who may find it useful for their purposes; may its abuttments ever laugh at the loads they may have to carry, may its noble arches rejoice in their beauty and their strength; may its lanes ever. carry only men of good will and implements for peaceful service. "And now to the Glory of God and to the service of all who will find homes in this city, of all who will visit it to rejoice in it and in the beauty of its surroundings, and of all who enter it to do business or to engage in its pursuits, we dedicate it Long may it endure! "May it remind us of that Bridge by which Thou has spanned the gulf between heaven and earth, between Divinity and Humanity, between God and man Even Thy everlasting love Amen." Some 60.000 tightly-packed spectators saw the Queen the Duke of Edinburgh drive from Government and Meetings T0I1AV Astnrlation of Broadcantf ri Hotel Vancouver.

Junior Chamber of Commerce 6 p.m., Stanley 1'ark Pavilion. South Vancouver Hln-anli 6:30 p.m., Sunset Community Centre. Vtt 1'oint Klwanln 6:30 p.m., 442i West Tenth. Centre, Voting Liberals 7:45 p.m., 734 West llflstinKS. Kenfrew Community Association 8 p.m..

Renfrew community ilall. Elections. Ilumanfties Association 8:15 Brock Hall, I HC. FRIDAY B.C. Association of Broadcaster Hotel Vancouver, liurrard J.lons zone meeting 15 p.

Kitsllnno Centre. It.C. Jellies' Kennel Club Siinc-tion Mmw i 30 p.m. Horticultural Hail. Clark ririve.

Delta ltldinir Liberals pm, Rektville Libera! Hall. Klecticrs. Pioneers' Association -8 p.m.. Castle Hotel. Town 8 p.m., CJOR Central eiecutlve committee, rolnt Crcy I'rorresslve tmserv- atives a p.m., 2041 West Jforty- B.C.

Alcan Workers Go AFL One of the biggest labor union "catches" in B.C. has gone to the AFL. The Aluminum Workers International Union and 10 other AFL organizations have been awarded certification for workers in the smelter and hydro plants at the big Alcan projects. TOTAL 6000 The labor force there is ex pected to total 6000 when the multi-million dollar project is, completed. The force will number 500 by: this April and is expected to' total about 1200 by next July! when two potlines in the smelter are scheduled to go into operation.

FIRST TIME This is the first time the-Aluminum Workers Interna-; tional Union has been certified; in Canada. Previously it has! acted as bargaining agent in! Aluminum Co. of plants in the U.S. America MWS Jf i i House for the opening of the New South Wales state Parliament. Police reinforcements were called out later when a crowd of 70,000 broke through barriers to see the Queen arrive for a women's luncheon.

deliver needed raw materials to Swiss industries. Since there are so few Swiss with maritime experience most Swiss ships hav Italian or Belgian crews. Swiss companies have about 40 deep-ships now in operation, and several new ones are en order in British and continental yards. Ships Chartered The Canadian Maritime Commission has recently made arrangements for the charter of four Canadian cargo ships to serve transports in United Nations' operations in the Far East. This brings to nine the number of Canadian merchant ships which the Canadian government has furnished for use In connection with the action In Korea.

The vessels currently on charter to the Department of National Defence are the Lake Minnewanka of Vancouver, owned by Western Canada Steamship Co. Angus-glen of Monxreal, owned by Lunham and Moore Steamships Federal Voyager, owned by Federal Commerce Navigation Co. Montreal, and Walton, owned by Dingwall Shipping Co. Halifax. The ships come under the operational control of the U.S.

Military Sea Transportation Service for the duration of their charters, which will be about four months. The Baden is regtsteied in the upper Rhine port of Basle, but by the nature of geography, she will never tee her ha i ort. Instead, ihn Italian Genoa is her base, although she is owned in the Swiss city of Lugano. In command of the vessel is an Italian, Captain Aehino Marco, and there are actually only two Swiss sailors in her complement. They are Fritz Munger of Basle, a junior engineer, and Pino Giambonini of Lugano, the mess boy.

Italian is the common language aboard the thip. British Built The Baden, which is named after a town in Switzerland, Is a modern 13', knot freighter, built in 1950 by Short Bros, of Sunderland for Greek owners as the Victoria. She has comfortable accommodation for 12 passengers. This is her second visit to British Columbia. She called at Campbell River last December to load a cargo of iron ore for Japan.

She is owned bv the Nautilus Navigation Co. of Lugano, which operates a fleet of five vessels. The line has a regular service to West Africa, but als-j runs ships in world-wide tramping The Swiss merchant marine began to develop during the war, when the necessity arose for shins under neutral registry which could run through German and Allied blockades In order to IT WAS JUST flotorinana Firs hrongs ueen Europe's Cold Wave Kills 300 LONDON (AP) Europe's bitterest cold wave in leven years showed signs of thawing out today, but death and misery still stalked the frozen plains and snowbound mountains of Yugoslavia and Romania. Fierce blizzards, the worst in 24 years, killed at least 14 in Yugoslavia. Most of the victims were buried in snowdrifts and frozen.

Unofficial estimates of the continent's weather death toll rose to more than 300. Communist Rumania ordered emergency measures to meet transport, communication and power breakdowns. Bucharest radio reported acute shortages of coal, food and water. Slightly warmer weather rpread slowly southward in Britain and Germany. 1 I Sl i MAYOR SAYS: We Are Entitled To Crow' Vancouver got a hearty slap on the back today for finishing the biggest single job it has ever attempted and without help from senior governments.

There are other bridge controversies still to be settled, but today with the opening of the $15,500,000 Granvilie span, Mayor Hume commented: "We're celebrating the official opening of the largest single project ever attempted by the city. "As citizens of Vancouver we are entitled to crow a bit because we have accomplished this feat single-handed." He told the special luncheon in Hotel Vancouver there has been "no formal assistance given by any other government body." The mayor said Vancouver's traffic requirements are increasing "more rapidly even than our population and we feel we are meeting this challenge and even anticipating it in some regards. RECEIVES TRIBUTE Mayor Hume introduced Major J. Grant, veteran engineer who designed the giant bridge and who, it was recalled, had designed Burrard Bridge. Major Grant was followed by W.

G. Mackenzie, president of B.C. Bridge Dredging whose organization joined with Dawson, Wade Co. in the bridge contract. GIVEN SHEARS City Engineer John Oliver paid tribute to those who had participated in the planning and erection of the new structure Canada's second largest.

Final feature of the luncheon was Aid Birt Showler's presentation to bridge worker Charles Geisser of the silver shears with which Mr. Geisser had cut the ribbon at the formal opening of me span a tew hours earlier lowances made for impact, wind, longitudinal forces, centrifugal force, temperature, shrinkage and torsional stresses." He mopped his brow. "After that, everything will be chicken feed, finishing the job off." When the mob of history-making city motorists drove home over the bridge today, they found it will be impossible to hit the curb and crash through the rails. The curbs are built specially high and shaped so 'hat they will repel anything short of a tank. But the railings themselves are easy to negotiate.

A quick test with i stopwatch and a nicke' showed that whoever achieves the unenviable record of being the first to jump off will take about five seconds to hit the water. Old EBi-idge Meet a man who drove 40 times around the world without leaving the city limits. He's Robert "Bob" Piper, a spry octogenarian now-retired after 45 years as a ECER motorman. Police on motorcycles roared their engines along the edge of the crowd to clear the road for the royal car. Women were forced to their knees in the crush and many fainted.

Toliee said they had never seen such crowds packed Into one area before. A police Inspector collapsed and died on MacQuarrie street while trying to control the mobs. The famous "Sydney cheer" lolled like thunder over the whole city as the royal couple drove from Government House. me Wueen, smiling ana tooKing cool despite the temperature, waved back, Brilliant sunshine emphasized her magnificent flowing frock, slashed with the bright blue sash of the rdef of the Garter. It was the first time a reigninp monarch had opened an Australian Parliament and the Queen said In brief personal speech that It was fitting that the first royal opening should be in the "mother of Australian parliaments." "I am pleased that I am able to speak to you in person, she said.

if f1 -Sfc I chased them away and then took my cap and knocked the wire out of the man's hand. Having touched that wire, the man was too paralyzed by the electricity to let go." The victim suffered burns, but he lived, said Bob. So the Royal Canadian Humane Association gave Bob a medal for bravery. We Tower -Above To wet4 "Bob," who lives tt 2167 East Sixth, was on hand today for the opening of the new Granville Bridge. "And why shouldn't he asked.

"I was there for the opening of the old one." He certainly was. In fact, under his control, the first streetcar crossed the bridge In the grand opening in 1909. Since that gala day. Bob crossed and recrossed the old bridge until the trips numbered in the tens of thousands. Bob wasn't planning to drive streetcars when he came to Vancouver in 1898 from railroading in his home town of Sarnia, and Calgary.

With the rest of a gold-crazed coast he headed to the Klondike. The fall of 1809 saw him back in Vancouver, as a fireman in the BCER powerhouse. He became a motorman in 1300 and didn't leave the "throttle" until he retiied in 1945. One day Bob recalls vividly is Oct CI, 1334. He was walking home in the calm following a violent rainstorm.

"At Fourth and Yew I saw one of the trolley wires down. A man was lying cn thti ground holding the end of it Sparks were shootirsg every which way, "Some children, juft out of Sunday School, were approaching the man to help him. LIME LOMIOX collect snippings to show to their children perhaps at the opening of a new Bridge. But the real dog on the bridge didn't have another to fight with. As between 3000 and 4000 persons hung on every word that Mayor Fred Hume read slowly, Wolf, a 5-year-old German shepherd owned by Alan Langley, of North Vancouver stretched out in the middle of the VIP enclosure and scratched luxuriously.

Near the dog stood Cameron McKenzie, who lost headache with every v.ord. McKcnric was resident engineer for the consulting engineers, Frttrson, Phillips St Barratt. His job, in charge of all the work done by cohtractors, was to ensure that the bridge conformed with: "An KO S-15-44 loadins. with approprite al By PADDY SHERMAN A bridge that cost four times as r.mch as the famed Tower Bridge of London opened here today. It might just as well have been in London.

Not one of Vancouver's landmarks could be through the fog that almost resembled one of the Commonwealth capital's roo-toi television lenses to capture the Ever-jrrei 'u iayground to show the rest Ji Canada. Even the paint seemed specially chosen for the occasion nearly 6000 gallons of couver's own fog-grey. But some of the clouds twirled and vanished as dapper, stocky Charlie Geisser clirped the 180 feet of purple and gold ribbon to declare the bridge open. Miniature sprang up as schoolboys struggled to FORTY-FIVE YEARS have p-nre cpenir.j of the old Granvilie Street Brkljre in The above scene was re-enacted today with changes, of courje. Bob Piper (at rijrht) wa conductor on fit streetcar acro5s Earl and Lady Grey officiated at ripening ceremonies.

Photo v.as taken" by Rosctti Studios. JK-,.