asec Youth Singers (top) and AUUC Kozbar Dancers (bottom) will tour the Island
this weekend and next for the national youth paper, Champion.

Vancouver Youth Singers plan
tour of five Island centres

“ ing is taking the songs of the people back to the people.” This is how
Gee eat we Be ae Be the Rencowver Youth Singers, describes his group’s forthcom-

Mg concert tour of Vancouver Island.

“When we sing in Cumberland, for instance, ;
miners’ songs which are part of our folk song heritage,

IS week, |

The tour is the most ambitious

€ Vancouver Folk Singers have;
embarked on since the group was!
°rmed some two years ago.

“And this year,” Friedman
adds, “we intend to include local

€nt on our program wherever
We ‘can,” g
tne Kozbar dance group of
he Association of United Uk-
Tainian Canadians, winners in
the B.C. Folk Festival, will ac-
company the Vancouver Folk

Ingers, and at various centres

© Program will include enter-
tainers from the Young Chinese

€nadian Association and Edna
ohn, Native Indian dancer from
anaimo.

“What are we raising money
for 2» asked Friedman, and an-
Swered his own question, “For
Champion. And,” he added, “if

eV. William Hills (Victoria
Colonist columnist) and his fel-
©wW book-burners are so concern-

about our influence on young
People, then they should support

1S national youth paper’s cam-
Paign for sports facilities and
recreation centres. They would
ave something worthwhile to
Write about then.”
ile ollowing is the group’s sched-

Victoria, Saturday, February
> 8 p.m., Legion Hall; Cowi-
chan, Sunday, February 5, 2
‘m., Community Hall; Nanai-
™mo, Sunday, February 5, 8 p.m.,
agles Auditorium.

Cumberland, Sunday, Febru-
ary 12, 2 p.m., Recreation Hall;
Port Alberni, Sunday, Febra-

ary 12, 8 p.m., Nordly Centre.

our program will include a number of
’ Friedman told the Pacific Tribunte

Continued from page I

STEWART ROAD

: comes to light and
ne nes is proved a liar, then
I say the minister should re-
sign.”

Sommers: (jumping to his
feet): “Mr. Speaker, let’s make
this clear. I said no report had
been received directed to me. We
get reports all the time, weekly
reports from engineers.

Calder: “Is the newspaper
lying?”

Sommers: “I just gave you my
reply, are you deaf? There are
always weekly construction re-
ports on all road work.’

Robert Strachan: (CCF, Cow-
ichan-Newcastle): “Bring them
out, file all of them.”

Sommers: “I don’t have to file
these reports.”

Tony Gargrave: (CCF, Mac-
kenzie): “Have you got some-
thing to hide?”

Premier Bennett:
that! Withdraw that!”

Gargrave: “Make me withdraw
ite?

Premier Bennett: “You're too
ignorant.”

“Withdraw

Sommers: ‘“What’s all this
mystery about?”

Calder: “You’re making the,
mystery.”

Premier Bennett: “Blah, blah,
blah.”

Calder: “If there is a falsehood
the minister will be known as a
liar and incompetent, and unfit
for his post.”

Attorney-General Robert Bon-
ner: “I object to such language.”

Premier Bennett: “Oh, let: it
ride.”

Then the premier and Som-
mers, for the second time that
day, rose together and left the
chamber.

(The disputed report was made
by E. A.’ Jamieson, sergeant-at-
arms in legislature. He refuses
comment. The job was done
under a cost-plus-10 percent con-
tract by Wade and Wells Ltd.
of Trail late in 1955. Jamieson
was commissioned to. examine
the road project by Sommer’s de-
partment during his absence.
Last year, Liberal leader Art
Laing raised a question on the
road, asking if someone named
Loeblich worked on _ project.
Highways Minister Philip Gag-
lardi answered that a C. M.
Loeblich was a timekeeper, Laing
wanted to know if he was the
same man who was campaign
manager for Sommers at Trail in
the 1953 general election. The
reply was “information not avail-
| able.”’)

Residents along the South

“Our home is gone and we're
beginning to wonder if we’ll ever
get. back any of the $8,000 we
paid for it,” Mrs. Hedy Warian- |
ko told a Pacific Tribune reporter |
this week.

“We never dreamt when we
bought our lovely home a year
ago that we would see it such a
shambles,” she said.

“The neighbors had told us
that the river never came any
higher than the retaining wall
at the end of our lawn.

“Now, when I look back, I
realize how lucky my daughter
Kathy and I were to escape with
our lives.

“When the rescue boat arrived,
I tied a rope around her waist
and helped her out of the win-)
dow. Then, as they pulled her |
toward the boat, she went under |
and for what seemed an end-
less time they fished around for
her under a pile of brush. At
last they got her into the boat.

“Tt nearly went under myself
several times when they were
pulling me into the boat.

“Then the boat capsized and
all four of us fell in and were
carried downstream. Somehow,
I don’t know how, we managed
to keep together and finally we
were able to get to a log jam
and climb up. We sat there for
18 hours shivering before rescue
workers got us out.

“Now our lovely home is smash-
ed, my washing machine and my
husband’s power tools are buried
under eight feet of sand and
gravel in the basement, and
many of our possessions are ruin-
ed.

“We did save some of our fur-
niture and by washing and more
washing I've finally got the mud
out of my linens. But that doesn’t
give us our home back.

“We're hunting for a job now
where my husband — he’s a log-
ging camp cook — can work and
I can help.”

* x
The plight of flooded-out resi-

*

dents like the Wariankos. was
discussed on Friday last week
at a meeting of the Yennadon
Ratepayers Association to which
representatives of service organ-
izations were invited as delegates.

The meeting, held at Yen-
nadon School, heard Walter
Scribbins report for the execu-
tive that responsibility for the
damages rested with the pro-
vincial government because the
terms of its agreement with
the B.C. Electric failed to pro-
vide for adequate controls.

(In a letter to the Maple Ridge-
Pitt Meadows Gazette, W. D.
MacKay of Haney wrote:

“. .. The situation I had pre-
dicted to the Water Rights Con-
troller in 1951 has happened. The
BCE failed to provide a suffi-
cient factor of safety during the
high precipitation period; and
the installation was breached.
AEC)

Noting that Reeve Peter Jene-
wein of Maple Ridge and Reeve
Harold Sutton of Pitt Meadows
had met with the provincial cab-
inet in November and were still
waiting for an answer, Scrib-
bins advocated stronger action
by Maple Ridge and Pitt Mead-

Ows councils to compel the gov-
FEBRUARY 3, 1956 —

Gov’t ignores
flood victims

MISSION, B.C.
Alouette River whose homes

were destroyed or damaged in the floods last November when
the B.C. Electric dam broke are still awaiting a reply to their
representations from the Bennett government.
time, they have not received a cent of compensation.

In the mean-

ernment to accept its responsi-
bility.

Reeve Jenewein told the meet-
ing that Labor Minister Lyle
Wicks had taken him to task for
not having appealed to him for
help when the flood occurred.
But, he said, Wicks had not press-
ed the cabinet to reply to their
representations.

He reported that at a later
meeting, when Reeve Christmas
of Coquitlam asked Wicks what
he was going to do about flood

compensation, Wicks replied that
it was “a cabinet secret.”

Jenewein also reported to the
meeting that when he asked for
financial aid from the Fraser
Valley Flood Relief, which has
approximately $500,000.in funds,
he was informed that he must
first apply for extensive Red
Cross aid before any money could
be released.

It was common knowledge at
the meeting that Wicks had
been in the constitueney since
the previous Wednesday but
had failed to get in teuch with
the Yennadon Ratepayers’ ex-
ecutive, which had sent him
an invitation toe attend the
meeting.

The meeting set up a commit-
tee of five to organize a cam-
paign for raising an $83,000
Alouette Valley Flood Relief
fund. :

Writes from India

Well known in B. C. Jabor and
progressive circles, Darshan
Singh Sangha, (above), now
living in India, writes a friend
in Victoria on the recent visit
of Soviet Premier Bulganin
and Soviet Communist party
secretary N. K. Krushchev:
“India has seen nothing like
the welcome accorded to these
two guests. In Delhi a million
people turned out to hear Bul-
ganin. Three million people
jammed the streets of Cal-
cutta. Everywhere they went
the festive mood prevailed. I
myself went to the Delhi re-

ception. It was a great day for
India.”

ee

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