Nearly 100 members of the Vancouver Heights Residents Association and the Hastings Sunrise Action Council demonstrated Monday and Wednesday this week, blocking side streets off Cassiar St. bet- ween the Second Narrows Bridge and Hastings St. to commuter traffic. Demonstrations will be step- ped up in anticipation of provincial approval for the PNE Multiplex which threatens to bring an addi- tional 60,000 cars to the traffic weary area. Yorke raps slur on Erikson Bring in ward report now— COPE The Committee. of Progressive Electors has demanded that Van- couver city council instruct Judge Lawrence Eckhardt’s Governmen- tal Review Commission on the ward system to bring in its recommenda- tions by the end of October at the latest. Last month council voted to give Eckhardt additional finances and time, supposedly to allow for private consultation with unnamed “‘expert withesses’’. But COPE president Bruce Yorke said in a letter to council this week that the decision was ‘“‘playing ‘games with the ward system’’ and would likely result in delay which would make it impossible to imple- ment any recommendations for change by the 1980 elections. “*Everyone knows that 95 percent of the delegations that appeared before it (the Review Commission) favoured the full ward system,”’ Yorke said, ‘‘On behalf of the ma- jority of this city’s citizens we in COPE demand that you instruct the Commission to make its report before the end of October, 1979. necessary Charter amendments in Victoria to take effect for the 1980 civic elections.”’ Another COPE action this week blasted city council for its “transparent attempt to deny the right of civic employment to “‘citizens’’ council does not like — namely a well known COPE alder- manic candidate, Bruce Eriksen.”’ Yorke reminded council that they had pledged last year that the abolishment of the equal oppor- tunities program would not result in discrimination in employment by the city. In the debate over the Carnegie community centre (see Harry Rankin’s column), however, alder-. man George Puil argued against community representation on the centre’s advisory board because “‘we could end up with a certain well known individual (Eriksen) who has applied for every job that has become available in this city, becoming director of the communi- ty centre.”’ Eriksen responded by threatening _ representatives —Fred Wilson photo — political discrimination in employ- ment. He is obliged to apply for available jobs by the unemployment insurance regulations, he said, and he intends to apply for the position at the Centre when it opens. Carnegie ‘indecent By ALD. HARRY RANKIN The NPA majority on city coun- cil committed two more politically indecent acts against the poor peo- ple of the Downtown Eastside area on September 11. One was to cut the hours at the new Carnegie Community Centre (the old Carnegie Library at the cor- ner of Hastings and Main) from 84 to 48 hours per week. The second was to throw out the advisory committee (composed of of community groups which had put in hundreds Such a deadline is essential to give time action against the sufficient to process — hroughout all the years of the Cold War, when successive U.S. administrations have sought to create an atmosphere of tension and fear, there have been few newspapers who have done as much to main- tain that atmosphere as has Time magazine. If Washington conjured up some anti-Communist bogeyman, Time strove to give it real-life existence, often citing sources that were as shadowy as the story itself. In fact, where sources hadn’t been available, Time, undaunted, has done without — making in- credible statements as if they were accepted fact — or has ‘‘found’’ an unnamed source. In the latest blooper, Time has taken the latter course — and if a picture is worth a thousand words, this one speaks volumes about Time’s ‘‘objective’’ journalism. The photograph in question appears in the September 17 issue and accompanies a lengthy cover story about the latest U.S. bogeyman: the presence of Soviet troops in Cuba. It alleges to be a photo of a “‘Soviet-built intelligence station in Cuba’’ above which appears the following caption: ‘‘This exclusive photograph, obtained by Time, shows a section of an advanced electronics monitoring complex, atop a limestone hill east of Havana. Facing north and east, the large antennas eavesdrop on U.S. and international civilian, military and space satellite electronic voice messages and picture relays.” Unluckily for Time’s editors, these aren’t the bad old days when Time made the news with or without the facts. This time, it was just a little too incredible. And last week, the magazine was compelled to admit — although without much fanfare — that it wasn’t an in- telligence station in their photo’and it certainly wasn’t built by the Soviet Union. Puil human rights act which prohibits “PEOPLE AND ISSUES ‘resident in of voluntary hours of work helping to renovate the centre) and to place under the In fact, as Time’s announcement, carried over local radio stations Friday, conceded, the photo showed a communications installation — which forms the main telephone link between Cuba and the United States. And it was built by ITT. Journalism may never be the same. * * * he work load being what it is, the staff on the Tribune are often called upon to spend long hours at the office, but the extra hours that our newest staff member, Janice Harris, spent here last Friday weren’t exactly part of the job. But it was her reporter’s resourcefulness that saved the day. As she left the office, she later related, and pulled the locked door closed behind her, she suddenly remembered that she didn’t have her keys — and the door to the street had already been locked by another the building. Panic. But then she remembered that all reporters carry a notepad and pen. Taking hers, she scribbled down a name and telephone number of a friend and included instruc- tions for someone to call in at the barber shop next door and contact her friend. Hailing a passerby (we presume she shouted through the letter slot), she bran- dished the note — and waited. Moments later, her friend received a phone call from an incredulous barber who reported that a ‘‘very agitated woman’’ wanted her to contact Fred Wilson to come down and let her out. That call made, the scenario was complete as Wilson, who lives nearby, came down with his key. After the episode, Janice acknowledged that the thought of spending the weekend in the hallway out- side the Tribune office wasn’t particularly inspiring — especially since she didn’t even have a typewriter. PACIFIC TRIBUNE— SEPTEMBER 21, 1979—Page 2 | BCA slate opens. 4 Burnaby By KAREN DEAN The Burnaby Citizens’ Associa- tion (BCA) prepared for the up- coming civic elections with a renew- ed policy and a unity slate of coun- cil and school board: candidates at its nominating meeting last week. The school board candidates, in- cumbents Elsie Dean and Barry Jones with Liz Dill, Ginger Bell, Hans Holst, Maurst Mann and Anne Bailey, reflect an involvement in the community level of educa- tion, raising the strong possibility of a BCA majority on school board. The council slate, incumbents mayor Tom Constable, aldermen Gunn, Ast, Drummond and Ran- dall joined by Paul Bjarnason, Derek Corrigan, Celeste Redman and Russ Hicks, all pointed to the crucial issues facing Burnaby during this upcoming election. Transportation, housing and the direction of future development in Burnaby received a commitment from candidates as priority issues. The BCA has renewed its policy to call for: a reinstitution of a pro- gressive business tax to finance municipal services like Light Rapid Transit; a priority for transit development over road develop- ment; opposition to the multiplex at the PNE with a call for a study of decisions acts against poor’ control of the centre directly in the hands of the NPA. City council has already spent about $2 million to renovate the Carnegie Library. It will provide a variety of services including library, day care and recreational. Its clientele will be mainly old age pen- sioners, the disabled, the poor. Many or most are single, and among them are single parents. More often than not they live in cheap and over crowded rooming houses with few facilities. For want. of a better place they spend their_ time on the street. They badly need a centre such as this. And they need one that is open every day and every evening. Alderman Puil, who led the move to cut the hours, said this cut would save the city $50,000 per year. Yet it was also Puil and his NPA that passed a motion to exempt two. millionaire corporations at the PNE from paying the business tax, and this cost the city $250,000 per year. Maurice Egan, the city’s social planner, pointed out to council that if the hours were being cut to save money, ‘‘the financial saving resulting from the reduced hours carries with it an_ incalculable human and social cost.’’ But the NPA was in no mood to listen to talk about human or social values. Its class dislike for the poor left no room for sympathy or understan- ding. Alderman Puil lives in Shaughnessy, and aldermen Bellamy, Boyce, Little and mayor Volrich all live in comfortable homes. They shed tears in council for the so-called ‘‘boat people’’ and voted funds to help them come to Canada. But for our own people in need, for the victims of the slum landlords in the skid row area, they have no concern or pity. The advisory committee which has been working with city council and city staff to renovate the centre is supported by many groups in- cluding the Downtown Eastside Residents Association (DERA), the Strathcona Property Owners and Tenants Association, the Chinese “travened BCA policy. election appropriate sites throughoull t Lower Mainland, and a com ment to change the Comm Plan of Development for Hastings Corridor. The Community Plan, fo mulated in 1966, called for # development of highrises along tf Hastings corridor in strateg points, in anticipation of a route. Developers have been ex by the prospect of highrise deve ment along the corridor fo number of years, but were st by a zoning by-law which perm only three-storey developments With mayor Constable and al man Ast voting this Monday to prove the zoning change which allow the building of 19 and storey highrises on the corner! Hastings and Boundary, BCA unl around this issue has been challef ed. By -joining the right-wi minority, the Burnaby Vote? Association (BVA), in approvil the proposal, Constable and Ast 4 nored the overwhelming oppositl? of the community and directly ¢0 coh The committment by other didates to uphold BCA policy b0 in terms of council and sch board business, provides the ba of unity with which the BCA @ proaches this election. Kintiok’e Benevolent Society, the Japan® . community and the Vancouver !” dian Centre. It is only natural this advisory committee should 4 involved in the control and 4! ministration of the centre. know their community and ha! been working hard on the centre q two years. But the NPA doesn’t like ™ politics of some of these groups 4 of some members of the committ® They don’t look on life in quite samé way that the NPA does. Sif they come from the poor area of # city, and since the NPA is contr!) ed by developer and business ™) terests, this difference in outlook! natural. But is this any reason Wi the people who are supposed to % the services should be exclud from all voice in the administral?] of these services? Apparantly the NPA thinks 0 should. Alderman Little, who mé the motion, and aldermen F Boyce, Bellamy and mayor Vol seem afraid of these comm groups. They want to set up a c® mittee of NPA cronies, under control of the NPA, that will % what the NPA wants, regardless whether it is good for the peop! the area. The NPA have never been h about the decision to tum Carnegie Library into a comm centre. Among its backers monied interests who want to ¥ or lease the Carnegie Library ff the city to turn it into a night or other private profit business: . I would predict that the NPA ® do all it can to drive this commu! centre into the ground as quickly’ possible, so that it can be tut over to private enterprise, to supporters, of course. As I said at the outset, thes? ° tions by the NPA were ind political acts against poor peOP: Mayor Volrich, and aldermen F Little, Boyce and Bellamy m@! very pleased with themselves ¢ ol they successfully pushed thes¢ me tions through council. But I hit most Vancouver citizens will re what they did as acts of shame