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By V. VICTOR

PORT POLLUTION: One hor-
ticulturist in Alberni Valley is
having a difficult time in obtain-
ing an admission from company
officials that fall-out from the
pulp mill is killing most garden
shrubbery, An admission would
add impetus to the movement to
have the company install equip-
ment to eliminate disagreeable
odor and harmful fall-out from
the pulp mill stacks,

The four year company study
of the problem has another three
years to go before completion
and then it will cost about a mil-
lion dollars to install the equip-
ment which is 10 percent of a
year’s profit and shareholders
are known to dislike added in-
cidental expenses,

In the meantime all natural
vegetation East, North-East of
the mill within a distance of 10
miles where fall-out is most
dense, is slowly but certainly
dying. This doesn’t include the
ill-effect on the populace who
suffer the highest rate of res-
piratory ailments of any area in
Canada,

* * *

PARKSVILLE PARTY: An in-
teresting banquet and meeting of
the V,I, Real Estate Board was
held at the Island Hall Hotel in
Parksville, Theme of speeches
seemed to be the considered
necessity of holding down the
cost of home construction by
convincing labor to hold the line
on wage rates, Nothing was men=
tioned about lowering realty com-
missions: that would have de-=
feated the theme of things,

Also interesting, the verbal
back-slapping in which all at-
tending participated. Various
members and functions of the
C, of C, received their full share
of praise, There seems to be a
strong liaison between these two
groups, which doesn’t seem to
benefit the common man,

* * *

MUNICIPAL MURMURINGS:
Outlying districts of Nanaimo are
being pressured into voting in
favor of forming a municipality.,
So called experts from the Mu-
nicipal Affairs Department ad-
dress all Ratepayers meetings
in the various districts concerned
extolling the potential benefits
in amalgamation,

The fly in the ointment, North
Cedar which has the advantage of
a huge tax in their coffers from
Harmac pulp mill do not wish to
subsidize other districts with
their gravy. North Cedar has a
fine water system and an excel-

lent firehall and equipment with
no cost to the Municipal Affairs
Department, To create a muni-
cipality with North Cedar includ-
ed would relieve the Department
of a lot of responsibility to create
services which must be installed
in the near future,

It seems the government of
this dynamic society finds it un-
necessary to do the installations
where there are so few votes to
be gleaned, And ward-heelers
must have some use, so the
speeches from the god of muni-
cipalities are a part of all Rate-
Payers meetings, It’s a new way

of life,
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HUSTLING THE HUSTINGS:
Liberal candidate hopeless for
Naniamo, Cowichan and the Is-
lands, has returned from an ex-
tended tour of Saltspring and
Ganges Islands where he shook
hands door to door. He reports
the reception was most cordial,
Little does Greer realize these

people are most polite and friend- »

ly even to a Liberal, but on Elec-
tion Day they become Conserva=
tive. This is the same fellow
whose slogan is, “Get on the
wagon,” and not realising the
wheel of the wagon is broken when
it comes to Ganges and Salt-
spring.

There are only a couple hun-
dred voters anyway and they will
have very little effect on the out-
come on Nov, 8th, Colin Cameron
received double the amount of
votes last federal election than
all right-wing parties combined,
so the outcome isn’t hard topre-
dict this time either,

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By WILLIAM STEWART

Vancouver property owners
voted two to one last week in
favor of a Five-Year Plan and:
a new Georgia viaduct and Mayor
Rathie is already attempting to
interpret the result as a vote of
confidence in the Non-Partisan
Association council,

Nothing could be further from
the truth, Taken as a whole the
vote shows the pride Vancouver
people have in their city and

OBITUARY

Theodore Habernicht

The progressive movement in
Vancouver lost another friend and
supporter on September 28 when
Theodore Habernicht passed
to his rest in St. Vincents’ Hos-
pital,

Born in Indiana, U,S., in 1879,
his family moved to North Battle-
ford, where he lived for 19 years
before moving to Vancouver in
1924. He was a member of the
old Socialist Party of Canada
but when the Communist Party
was formed he was one of the
first to join,

During the depression years
he worked to build the Block Com-
mittees, In recent years, despite
sickness and age, he gave fin-
ancial and moral support to the
progressive movement,

His views and work were
shared by his wife Emma, who
was a member of the Women’s
Labor League and later of the
Housewives League, Besideshis
wife he is survived by two sons
and two daughters,

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The resistance to the Plan,
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every two voters east of Main
Street voting against it, re-
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lack of confidence that the money
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promises to build new library
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suspicions when Mayor Rathie
announced, two days after the
Plan was carried, that Council
was already interpreting the ap-
proval of the Georgia viaduct as
a mandate for council to con-
struct a freeway system which
would dump an endless stream of
automobiles into downtown Van-
couver with no place to park or
move,

The Communist Party in giving
support to the Five-Year Plan
put forward the slogan, “Vote
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September 29 and Vote Nofor the
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and West areas of the city can

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the East End for 30 years, The |
mayor now hopes to overcome —
this resistance, not by improving ”
facilities and services in the |
eastern parts of the city, but by —
pressing for provincial legis- q
lation which will permit cities |
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the Union of B.C, Municipalities
convention, invited cities to as
for approving legislation for suc
authority, 4

Campbell is mindful of the fact”
that voters in cities are becoming
more and more fed up with muni-
cipal - provincial - federal cost
sharing programs and are Te
belling against costs being piled
on the homeowner which shoul
be borne by senior governments:

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Mayor Rathie, is to take out of
the hands of the ratepayer the
right to vote on major capita
works,

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December we must go to
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