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Bigger hospital program
essential, says Rankin

By ALD. HARRY RANKIN

When the Fraser-Burrard Re-
gional Hospital District Board
suggested to voters last week that
a “yes” vote would guarantee a
hospital bed for everyone need-
ing it in the next four years,
voters responded with an un-
precedented and overwhelming
affirmative vote.

The 94 percent vote in favor
of the $51 million hospital by-
law demonstrated dramatically
and conclusively that our people
are practically unanimous in their
desire for adequate hospital fa-
cilities,

Unfortunately this enthusiastic
“yes” vote is still no guarantee
that there will be a hospital bed
for you or your family. The
Regional Hospital Board has been
considerably less than frank with
you, They didn’t tell you that when
the $51 million is spent over a
four year period at the rate of
$12.5 million a year and spread
over 16 municipalities and dis-
tricts, there won’t be very much
for any one area.

The $51 million will hardly
begin to provide the 2,101 new
beds and other services detailed
in Schedule “A” of the Board’s
plans, and contained in the green

RAE MURPHY, editor of the Cana-
dian Tribune, will visit North Viet-
nam this October to interview lead-

' ers in North Vietnam and of the Na-

tional Liberation Front. He will tour
the country to view first hand the ef-

. fects of American bombing. Murphy

visited North Vietnam in December
1965 along with Tim Buck and Mau-

‘tice Rush. His articles will appear in

the Pacific Tribune.

information sheet handed out to
all voters at the polling booths
on October 4th,

The Regional Hospital Board
failed to inform voters that com-
petent hospital authorities esti-
mate that $300 million must be
spent in the next few years just
to provide essential hospital ser-
vices to our expanding population,
At the present rate of expendi-
tures — $12.5 million a year —
it would take us 24 years before
we reach the needed $300 million
mark, And long before that our
population would have doubled
and we would be no further ahead,

What should be frankly and
honestly stated to all citizens
is that the $51 million is entirely
inadequate, It is a start in the
right direction — nothing more,
If it isn’t added to almost at
once, the overcrowding in our
hospitals, the shortage of beds
and the months long waiting period
for elective surgery cases will
continue with us,

What you should also be aware
of is that the Fraser Burrard
Regional Hospital Board is com-

pletely under the thumb of the
provin

provincial government, Through
the B.C. Hospital Insurance
Scheme and control over provin-
cial grants, Premier Bennett and
his cabinet will make all final
decisions on just how much will
be spent on hospitals in this area
and exactly where it will be spent,

Homeowners, who provide 40

‘percent of the funds directly

through additional taxes, will have
no say at all, This also needs
correction if the word democracy
means anything.

My proposals are:

(1) Get the $300 million hos-
pital facility expansion program
under way at once withincreased
Provincial and Federal grants
and with another money bylaw if
necessary.

(2) Give the hospital board,
equal authority with Provincial
government bodies such as the
B.C. Hospital Insurance Scheme
in all decisions on hospital finan-
ces and expansion,

VOW PRESIDENT

Should quit NATO

The only defence for Canadais
peace and the best contribution to
stability would be for Canada to
get out of NATO and NORAD,
This was the view expressed by

: the national president of the Voice
of Women, Mrs. Muriel Duck-

worth, who spoke at an upper
Vancouver Island meeting re-
cently.

She said that many thinking
Canadians in all political parties
agree with that point of view,
Mrs, Duckworth added that Can-
ada should be a neutral country,
An open letter initiated by the
Victoria VOW, calling for with-
drawal from NORAD, is being
circulated for signatures at
meetings,

Mrs. Duckworth, now on a
national speaking tour, said
there must be a fresh approach
for we are getting deeper and
deeper under U.S. control,

Referring to the Vietnam war,

Mrs, Duckworth said that Can-
ada has shipped arms tothe value
of $300 million to the U.S, and
received in return obsolete arms
to the same value. We are also
manufacturing parts for use in
the Vietnam war, she said,

The VOW national president
pointed out that there is a U.N,
convention against shipments of
arms across boundaries, The
Danish government has asked that
such figures be published, Mrs,
Duckworth said that there are
several offices in the U.S, man-
ned by Canadians and paid for
by Canadians to do business in
arms, An example of what we
do not like, she said, is the
coming of an American sub to
Nanoose to do torpedo testing.

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