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By V. VICTOR

THE POTATO PRICE PLUG:
From Victoria comes much news
about a parasite, (Golden Nema-
tode), which has been attacking
one farmer’s fields; so it has
been decided to destroy the crop,
With many excuses and some
reason, the Agricultural Depart-
ment explain the necessity to the
public, It has been suggested
potatoes will most likely cost
Islanders more this year,

There is no explanation why
Island farmers are only per-
mitted to grow 50% of the spuds
consumed by the citizenry, There
is no limit to the amount our
Southern neighbours are per-
mitted to dump here during the
early Spring and Summer at fan-

tastic prices.
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NANAIMO NOTES OF NON—
SENSE: At the campaign head-
quarters of Doug Greer, Lib-
eral candidate for Nanaimo, the
sign in the window reads, “Join
The Wagon, vote Doug Greer,
Liberal, Seems Mr, Greer be-
lieves like the present govern-
ment, in a backward step, He
should be informed of modern

mechanized transports. ;
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CITY COUNCIL will ask the
voters for $1} million for city
improvements to be borrowed
at 53%, It’s to be hoped the
taxpayer has not forgotten the
half million wasted on Gordon
Street Parkade. The Council
also wants over three millionfor
school improvements, These are
worthy causes, but a crew that
can’t manage anything better than
the above mentioned Parkade
should be held down somewhat by
the people who pay the piper,

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UNITED APPEAL is off to a
flying start, as worthy as the
causes might be which make it
necessary to appeal to the public

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for funds to assist the unfort-
unate, There seems little un-
fortunate in the amount paid to
Nanaimo’s campaign chairman,
Upon questioning, he admitted
his salary was $250 per month
year around, or three thousand,
plus an expense account in ex-
cess of twice that: amount,

To start a pupil in first year
High School here costs in ex-
cess of $35 for supplies, Prior
to 1952 and the start of this
dynamic society, it cost about
$5, Peterson is the Education
Minister; he has educated more
adults than pupils and without
the parents -having to attend
school daily for ten months, Dy-

namic is quite right,
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CAPITAL CITY COMMENT:
A Victoria resident with a bit of
knowledge of SOCRED manoeu-
vring maintains the Party is
anxiously waiting the results of
the coming federal election, It
will be the barometer that will
determine whether and when the
Socreds will hold the next Pro-
vincial election,

It can easily be.predicted the
Social Creditors will lose seats
November 8th, Such being the
case, British Columbians will
not have to vote for some con-
siderable time to come, Wacie
and his boys will spend much
energy and time to convince the
voters of the advantages of their

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COMOX QUIETUDE: Not much
excitement at the Air Base these
days. Police from Courtenay
and Campbell River are concen-
trating on errant motorists
rather than peace demonstrators,
A good idea for the highway be-
tween the two cities is much
abused by speeding drivers, That
stretch of road holds the record
for its high rate of accidents,
The condition of the road is not
up to Provincial standards des-
pite Flying Phil’s claim of all
Island roads being better than the
remainder of the Province,

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Gang-up on Five Year Plan|

By WILLIAM STEWART.

A group of Vancouver real
estate operators, with ex-Alder-
man Bill Orras their spokesman,
are conducting a public campaign

_to defeat the Five Year Plan on

September 29,

While this group cloaks its
opposition to the Plan with pre-
tentions of concern for the rate-
payer, its actual opposition
springs from much different mo-
tives, :

Orr represents that group of
slum landlords who are starkly
opposed to even the most min-
imum slum clearance low rental
housing program, ‘and absentee
landlords who object to any civic
improvements on the grounds
that they have to bear part of the
costs from their profits,

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Vancouver is one of the more
backward major Canadian cities
in the field of low rental housing
and slum clearance, Figures re-
leased recently by a group
commissioned to do a national
survey on housing indicated that
one person in four in Vancouver
was underhoused and paying
more for accommodation than
their income permitted,

This condition prevailsin spite
of the fact that Federal pro-
visions for low rental housing
and slum clearance are equal to
75 percent of the capital cost
of construction and 75 percent of
operating losses,

This is testimony to the power
that these callous real estate
groups wield in Vancouver which
has enabled them to block any
effective public housing program,

The proposals in the Five Year
Plan for public housing are no-
where near what is needed to
solve Vancouver’s housing prob-
lem, But at leastitis something,
Together with the completing of
the last Five Year Plan this plan
would create somewhere in the
neighborhood of 1,300 additional
low rental units, doubling the
present low rent housing in the
city,

ADVANCE NOTICE

Officials estimate that inaddi-
tion to this the $3.5 million
earmarked for urban rene
the new Five Year Plan will
generate between $50 to $70 mil
lion in industrial, commer¢l
and residential building in t?
city,

This is why the labor movement |
is actively backing the Five Ye3"
Plan and reactionary interes
are bucking it,

Progressive people should get
out and plug for a “yes” vote
September 29 and leave their un-
finished business with the NP
until the December election.

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OCT, 2— THE CELEBRATION
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East Pender St. at 6 p.m, on
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SATURDAY, OCT, 2, 8:30 P.M,
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