iy Labor Picnic on August 12 Vancouver’s colorful annual Labor Picnic will be held Sun- day, August 2 at Confedera- tion Park in Burnaby. There will be fun for every- one. A program of entertain- ment will be climaxed by crowning of the winner of the “Most Popular Girl’ contest. There will be sports for young and old alike, ranging from the 50-yard dash to the egg-and-spoon race. For the children, there will be a chance to ride a Shetland pony. All the food of the fair will be served: hot hey fish and chips, hamburgers, watermel- on, ice cream. U.S. Tunnel workers win OS ANGELES After a brief strike, approxi- mately 1,000 tunnel workers won a new Southern Californ- ia contract, retroactive to June 1 and bringing a pay increase of 20 cents an hour. Tunnel workers now get $2.85 an hour. They are mem- bers of various Laborers Un- ion locals throughout the state. TEENAGERS ses ON ‘CAPTAIN BLIGH’ * Rapid expansion of the cities and municipalities sur- rounding Vancouver confronts them with the need to reserve sufficient park lands now to provide for the future. Seventy years after its incorporation Vancouver is already short of parks in many districts. Burnaby, by a short-sighted policy of attracting industry at any cost, now finds most of its waterfront gone. One potential park site which could serve Vancole West Vancouver and North Vancouver alike is this undlc oped stretch of waterfront land to the north end of the bit Gate Bridge. The Capilano Indian band, which holds land as part of its reserve, has indicated its willingné lease the land provided it is assured of a just revenue. not acquired for park development, it is certain to be by industry with the completion of the PGE. Some 5,000 local teenagers were at Kerrisdale Arena By BERT WHYTE Veteran Vancouver Sun mu- sic critic Stanley Bligh really started something when he wrote, after enduring an even- ing of Bill Haley and his Comets, that rock ’n’ roll is “the ultimate in musical de- pravity . . . a cacaphonous noise that might easily cause permanent harm to not fully developed adolescent minds.” Stanley has become-Captain Bligh (in high button shoes) to indignant teen-agers. Typi- cal of their viewpoint is that expressed by young Carol Norlander in a letter to the Sun: “Tf this is Mr. Bligh’s first exposure to the rock ’n’ roll medium of expression, he should do it more often and he would soon enjoy it if he is still young at heart. “It does have social value, for where you find rock ’n’ roll you find people mixing with people, and that’s social life, isn’t it? True that adults may not do things we do to- day. They had the Charleston, which I-have witnessed, and is just as bad in my point of view.” One member of the older generation wrote with less passion and more _ tolerance than Bligh on the rock ’n’ roll craze. “T can remember how every- one was going to perdition with jazz (?'m not old enough to remember such prophecies about ragtime, but-don’t doubt Rock ’n’ Roll sparks hot deba for a minute they were solem- nly made), with swing, with jive and all those other funny styles that popped up along the way. “T just can’t get alarmed about rock ’n’ roll, darned hard as I try to denounce fool- ish and wicked years of youth now that it has fled me.” Case for the defensé could rest right here. From time immemorial, age has denounced the wickedness and depravity of youth. The bunnyhug generation deplored the red hot mammas of the twenties, who in turn threw up their hands at the swing and bebop of the Second World War period. And now we have the Charleston, Black Bottom and swing parents shocked by rock ’n’ roll and the antics of Elvis the Pelvis. A few years ago we. wit- nessed a magistrate in Nanai- mo blow his top over duck haircuts. In his younger days he undoubtedly wore pegtops, then bell béttoms — but youth had passed him by and he’d grcwn crochety with age and rheumatism of the brain. What is rock ’n’ roll? Well, It’s really nothing-new at all — just something the kids have rediscovered. Burl Ives, world famed bal- ladeer, gives the gen on the latest fad: “There’s nothing new about it. Why, it’s the sarhe kind of music I was dancing to when was in college in 1927. In July 6, 1956 — PACIFIC TRIBUNE — PA later years, the stuff out under the title records,’ “T’ve got a _ theor why rock ’n’ roll is lar with the kids. j “For years, vocalish been making record 4 musical background have gotten more aft refined. “The human qualill gone out of the recor therefore the young” lost identification wit? When rock ’n’ roll ca it appealed to them it wasn’t perfect.” Opponents of rock — are usually those peoP™ believe the youth of a delinquent generatio® have lost their faith © adults of tomorrow. It is true that the war atmosphere of decade has had its & youth, and helped to & restlessness of young | into destructive cha is also true that this u atraosphere affected gt too. ; Less money for ar and more for parks grounds, athletic ed and coaching — that demand of youth tod# youth cannot win the alone. Adults have 2 sibility to youth, m them by winning th against war and thus coming generations future in a world at ne)