CANADA’S PROTEST IGNORED BY U.S.

i

CLEAR

pose a grave threat to B.C.

In a recent story Washing-
|ton correspondent Knowlton
'Nash (see right) reports that the
U.S. intends to carry through
the blasts sometime in 1962.

According to the story, pur-
pose of the project is to clear

Alaska. Nash says that “Canada
‘has made it clear it opposes
any such nuclear explosions,”
but the U.S. intends to go
ahead.

| These plans are seen as
part of the aim of the AEC to
continue nuclear explosions re-
gardless of world opinion. It is
known that powerful forces
headed by AEC favor resump-
tion of nuclear blasts.
this week Democratic national
chairman Henry M. Jackson
called or the U.S. “not to wait
too long” before resuming
tests.

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VOL. 19, NO. 33 VANCOUVER, B.C.
FRIDAY, AUGUST 19, 1960

Will Columbia power
he sold down river?

_ Speaking in Victoria last week Lands and Forests |
Minister Ray Williston indicated the report on Colum- |

ia Ri ;

a River talks may be released at any~time. which sudenuere one Gea

Greatest danger is that the| Building of the High Arrow | There is strong reason for be-
Scial Credit government may |Dam would store water for the lieving the site was chosen as
ave won the day by forcing U.S. and open the way for the |g deliberate provocation.

t Tough the High Arrow Dam ,U.S. to divert the Kootenay. It
&s the first stage. This scheme | could hold up action on Mica
Would favor U.S. interests. Creek for a long time.

TeeettSotiny]

Three strong reasons why
the blasts should not be al-
lowed are:

1. A series of nuclear blasts
practically within sight of
Soviet territory is a hostile act

2. Underwater tests in the
|South Pacific a few years ago
proved that plankton and fish

|

idangerously contamin-
| ated. These blasts would do
much harm to Pacific fisheries
} and create a great health haz-

‘ard.

| 3. The nuclear blasts will
‘take place where the Arctic
;current flows southward into
| the North Pacific. It is also

See |

| here where, as a result of tur-

NEXT WEEK

the Pacific Tribune
Communist Party provincial election campaign was kick-
off Sunday with two large picnic rallies on Vancouver
‘and and lower mainland. Photo shows provincial leader
el Morgan speaking to 2,000 people at Bear Creek
atk in the Fraser Valley. He is reading from a circular
'Stributed in B.C. by the American Nazi Party advising
E. W to set up a nazi organization in B.C. and organize
ae troopers. The PT will carry a full exposure of this
"cular. (See editorial page 4.)

will appear in a

Special 12-Page
ELECTION ISSUE

BLAST

The U.S. Atomic Energy Commission
|lear explosions on the Alaska coast. This

a harbor on the Arctic side of |

Only |

: |
thousands of miles away were

intends to set off five underwater nue«
was announced recently. These explosions

bulence, storms occur which !abandon this mad scheme. Pubs

blow southward during the jlic protest forced abandon-

winter months. Contamination }ment of the Alberta tar sands

from. tests in this area can /blasts. It must also stop the

spread far and wide. |Alaska blasts from taking
The U.S. must be made to! place.

The VANCOUVER SUN: Thur., July 21, 1960 |

\U.S. to Go Ahead
With Atom Blasts

i Canadian Protests Ignored in
Alaskan Port-Building Plans

By KNOWLTON NASH =

WASHINGTON (Correspondent) — United States
is going ahead with plans for exploding nuclear bombs
in Alaska to carve out a new harbor, despite Canadian
objections.
~ Present plans call for five
underwater nuclear explosions.
It is figured this would clear
a harbor 750 feet by 2,000 feet,
y the atomic blast would
occur on the Arctic Ocean side
{of Alaska near Cape Thomp-
son and not too far from
Siberia,
| Target date is sometime in
| 1962,

Pe ee

summer by the research sci-
entists, however, will be used
to double-check these esti-
mates. The surveys will be
the most comprehensive ever
taken by United States on site
before a nuclear blast,

The surveys will be concen-
trated in the Alaskan area
above the Arctic Circle near

|

|

Canada has made it clear

the mouth of Ogoturk Creek,

‘that it opposes any such |
nuclear explosions.

The US, |

|‘Atomic Energy Comission
ec

Vote Communist Sent. 12
urges Morgan at rally

A strong appeal to B.C. electors to use their vote on
September 12 “to strengthen the Communist voice for
peace, jobs and people’s welfare,” was made by Nigel
Morgan, B.C. Communist leader before 2,000 people at
the Labor-Farmer Picnic at Bear Creek Park in Surrey
Sunday.

Lashing out at Social Credit
| policy, Morgan charged “the
| Bennett government has re-
placed the Liberals and Tories
as the main agency of big
| business domination in pro-
vincial politics.

“They are the accomplices
of the Ottawa Tories in a cons-
piracy that is impoverishing
the people, creating mass un-
employment, denying tax re-
lief and needed school, hospi-
tal and other services, by
squandering our wealth on

suicidal preparations for nu-<
clear war,” he said.

“Canadian neutrality, world
disarmament and peace are the
answer, not fallout shelters
and U.S. atomic bases which
can’t defend B.C. and will only
make a nuclear crematorium
of B.C. if war should come.”

He denounced the Bennett
giveaways of forest and other
natural resources.

Homer Stevens, secretary of
the UFAWU, told the rally of
the progress he saw in the
Soviet Union on his recent trip,