g§UCCESS of the 1957 Pacific Tribune fin-

ancial. drive depends on the amount of
work done by our supporters in the next two
weeks and particularly on the efforts made by
press clubs in a number of Vancouver Island,
Fraser Valley and Interior centres,

With close to $11,000 of our $18,000
target turned in, Greater Vancouver press
clubs have reached about 75 percent of their
objective while provincial press clubs are just
past the 40 percent mark.

A heavy responsibility rests on several
big provincial centres — New Westminster,
Nanaimo, Victoria, Port Alberni — to guar-
antee the continued publication of the paper.

GREATER VANCOUVER

PRESS CLUBS “TARGET TURNED-IN SUBS PBs
Advance: 2s $ 500 $ 432.25 64 3
ActEs Smith oe = 225 28:50:18 1
Broadway= 22 425 355.60 50 5

Building Trades ._____ 275 139.00 8 2

Pry Doeks 2 275 251.10 19 3
HastoEnd: po et ase 325 133.65 13 2
Hlectrical 22 2S 350 290.50 11 5
Géorgin oo eee ae 200 218.00 15 6
Grandview —..-.../-... 550° 653.00 24 9
Hastings East .__._._- 500 327.57 36 8
Kensington ._______.____ 450 272.50 19 3
Kitsilano “__._______ ys Soh 17950 16 4

Mt. Pleasant ______.__- ~ 250 205.00 16 3
Niilo Makela ___.____- 150 1800 $2 <=
Norduay: 322-30 es AS 140.30 §=12 1
Olgin: 22 eh 200 15.90 5 2
PenysPalia ss aco 50 1500-2.)
i Point Grey _.......-- 325 277.50 22 6
j Strathcona ____________ 200 13986) $= 4
Students... 45 eee s ae
Victory Square ______-_- 1000 885.55 38 15
Waterfront _._.._..__.. 300 201.00 - 10 4

fees West End: os eo 200 57.00 18 1:
ie North Burnaby __>____- 400 448.04 38 9
South Burnaby -_---__- _ 400 292.25. 39 7
North Vancouver ____- 450 281.00 18 3
North Vancouver District 450 210.00 16 4
City Miscellaneous ___._ 1250 875.87 126 1
Tom McEwen --_-._____- 100 56.00 —__ 1
Unpledgéd> "so 550 127.00 _- 1
TOTAL $11,000 $7,661.38 654 110

|| CALLING*ALL
PROVINCIAL POINTS

All-out efforts must be made by smaller places
too — Fernie, Cranbrook, Ladner, Michel-
Natal, Nelson, Notch Hill, Prince George,
South Surrey, Courtenay, Parksville and
Sointula.

Some Greater Vancouver press clubs
will also have to make a “stretch drive” to
reach their targets — A. E. Smith, Building
Trades, East End, Hastings East, Kensing-
ton, Kitsilano, Olgin, West End, North Van-
couver and North Vancouver District.

Only two weeks to go! Let’s all put our
shoulders to the wheel and push our Pacific
Tribune drive over the top!

Standings of press clubs on May 12

PROVINCE
PRESS CLUBS TARGET TURNED-IN SUBS PBs
Alderrroye..---. $:°7b $3236 3 ae
Granbrook "2 eee 50 poe tatty 1 aes,
Bemie= Sr a 100 ce 3 --
Fort: Lanpiey. 3S 150 | 75.40 14 1
Hineys oe ee 150 73.00 5 et
Kamioons 28-2 100 107.00 16 2
SUN OT ee a 150 eee z --
Maple Ridge __._.____- 125 54.69 10 =
Michel-Natal ___________ 150 35.00 5 --
WSR ef ee 100 101.00 8 1
Nelson ____~_ eo tes Bee 100 2050-17 on
New Westminster _____ 475 114.00 22 2
Notch. Hilla. 22 sie 125 29.00 4 --
Powell River. 22 ~ os 52250 262.00 22 4
Prince George --__-__~- 75 ees * ee ere
Steveston 1= uc. 50 26.00 2 --
North Surrey «2.- 2-2. 175 122.11 16 2
South Surrey ____-____- 175 es 2 --
Trail-Rossland _______- 300 200.50 27 3
Wernen os pe eee 200 181.00 13 3
Correspondence ________ 125 58.50 10 1
: VANCOUVER ISLAND
Alhbetnise 25.3 eS $ 325. -$ 77.00  .32 1
Campbell River _______ 275 152.67 8 4
Courtenay <2. 200 vee 5 --
Cumberland —_-.-- 150 113.00 19 3
Cowithan <2 ie 350 283.85 18 6
Nanaimo: : 2c so Ss = 650 268.00 61 7
Parksville ss os 150 26.00 19 are
WiGlOvia eo 2S eee 500 231.82 48 5
Island Miscellaneous ___ 250 a ges : -—
PROVINCE MISCELLANEOUS
Britannigg se art ae $125 $ 65.00 3 2
Copper Mountain _____- 50 10.00 3 -
> Grassy Plains... - = 25- 2.00 2 --
Prince Rupert. 4.22 100 128.00 6 1
SalmoncArm. oo Sa 75 64.00 a 1
Sointula cose 75 Sees ft <<
Unpledyed: 22.25. 225 8.00 52 ae
Tom McEwen  ________. 200 155.00. 1

TOTAL $7,000 $3,076.20 506 50

GRAND TOTAL $18,000- $10,737.20 1160 160

Auto sales
practices
under fire

TORONTO

A scandal in the retail auto-
mobile business of Canada has
been spotlighted by a special
recent study made for the
Royal Commission on Canada’s
Economic Prospects by one of
the big insurance companies.

“Bootlegging of cars, pack-
ing of prices, over-allowance
on trade-ins, misleading adver-
tising, and unsound credit
terms” were some of the evils
cited by Sun Life Assurance
Company of Canada as “typify-
ing- automobile retailing to-
day.”

The “primary responsibility”
for this situation was placed on
the automobile manufacturers
whose pressure for volume
sales has “forced some: dealer
organizations to the wall.”

Figures cited by the report
show the average dealer’s
profit or mark-up in 1955 was
$436, and the average selling
price of the manufacturers was
$1,464, including taxes, com-
pared with $213 and $663, res-

pectively, 20 years ago. The

average retail price of a four-
door sedan in 1955 was $2,192,
compared with $914, 20 years
ago.

The report went on to pic-
ture a “banner future” for the
automobile, seeing $1.5 billion
or more put into expansion of
production, and the car popu-
lation almost tripling in the
next 25 years.

Also, it warned that indepen-
dent producers may become
extinct in the next 25 years
unless they receive major sup-
port. This would leave Ford,
General Motors and Chrysler
with a complete monopoly on
production of autos in Canada.

Washington
gag law out

OLYMPIA

The anti-Communist party
oath law adopted by Washing-
ton state legislature in 1955 has
been declared unconstitutional
by Judge Charles T. Wright
of the Thurston County Su-
perior Court. :

The case is expected to go
to the State Supreme Court
for a final decision. :

Judge-, Wright ruled on a
case brought by Howard L.
Nostrand and Max Savelle,
University of Washington pro-
fessors, and supported by the
Civil Liberties Union. The law
required all public employes
to sign an affidavit that they
are not members of the Com-
munist party or members of
any organization on the U.S.
attorney general’s ‘subversive”
list.

Judge Wright ruled the law
illegally designates state leg-
islative authority ‘to the U.S.
attorney general. Not affected
by the ruling was the 1951 law
which makes it illegal to be-
long to an organization advo-
cating overthrow of the goy-
ernment by force.

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