break faith in pipeline OTTAWA )When the pipeline issue was f Sting out all over the coun- ¥, opponents of the giveaway he financial interests were id the $80 million loan to —— hinged on two i nts: The western leg of the the would be built by the end f 1956. The money would be re- by April 2, 1957. Now the first of these condi- ONS appears to be going up 1 smoke. It’s the familiar ttern of broken pledges that © characterized Trans-Can- ea €ver since it offered to jiild the line. “An official of two compan- WE to distribute the gas in stern Canada, Frank J. Sim- ngton of Edmonton, report- (# August 2 that the gas would t be available in Brandon (9° “points east” till the sum- pier of 1957. ‘He said the information | € from Sanford Reis, presi- Waid nt of the Great Northern as Utilities of Edmonton. At € time he heard it by tele- ne, Reis was in the Toronto pice of Bernard Lowe, sales- anager for Trans-Canada. - Canada’s president jo because of the unclear (eel Picture, the company was able to make any com- of gatments on when gas would d available, if gD. A. Golden, president of fle Crown Company adminis- ing the federal $80 million F Said he was “surprised” the reported delay. (Trade and Commefce Min- Her C. D. Howe in effect, told feestioning MPs to keep their Sh €s out of the affairs of fns-Canada Pipelines. He a rare member Walter msdale of Brandon-Souris t Vy 1 suggest that it might be i helpful . . . if my hon. ae would just leave it ae €,” he replied testily. Wt was recalled that during ibe €at of the pipeline debate, op cnment had used ex- if Pi ia. measures to ram ae Ul through on the grounds fe eency and the fact that i ans-Canada had an option m.the 34-inch pj ALi Pipe needed to te the 575-mile Western 4 ; i CAFE ib OVALTINE a 251 EAST HASTINGS ei Vanco A uver, B.C. , W{ QUALITY SERVICE Ke | OPEN DAY and NIGHT | mastings Steam Baths i? Pert Masseurs in attend- ance A. 0644, 766 k. Hastings St. Vancouver, B.C, * This dramatic photo shows Marilyn Bell, completely exhausted and only semi-conscious, floating on her back supported by pacer Cliff Lumsden, camera is second pacer Pat Russel of Vancouver. de Fuca turn to page 15.) Morgan calls for new forest who had grabbed her seconds earlier when she appeared in danger of drowning. Nearest the (For an eye-witness account of Marilyn’s battle against the Strait of Juan policy: hits Socred sellout to Yankee gas trust PRINCE GEORGE, B.C. A call for a new forest poli- cy was combined with a bitter denunciation of the Socred sell- out to the powerful Oklahoma gas trust, in a special message broadcast over station CKPG list week by Nigel Morgan, B.C. leader of the Labor-Pro- gressive party. “Why should some Yankee corporation be allowed to come in here, get a monopoly over a vital utility like natural gas, and then dictate to a group cf local businessmen like the Prince George Gas Company that they have got to boost their rate to $1.30 per thous- end cubic feet, when they say tney could provide natural gas for as little as 90 cents?” he asked. “There is no reason why this community should be compelled to pay approximate- ly 50 percent more for their fuel than U.S. companies pay at the border. “Why should Prince George be compelled to pay a double profit simply because the peo- ple voted for a local company in preference to a U.S. com- pany? What justice is there in a government which permits its Public Utilities Commission to order a company-to sell to its cwn subsidiary in order to reap a double profit?” Mor- gan continued, quoting govern- ment sources to prove that In- Jand Natural Gas Co. is noth- ing more than a subsidiary of Westcoast Transmission. “Instead of giving in to the greedy demands of the U.S. gas trust for a double profit, the ennett government should be seeing that domestic users and Frince George industry get their natural gas, like their electricity, at cost,’ Morgan declared. “B.C. needs a new policy of public ownership of all power utlities to provide electricity and gas at the low- est possible price, attract new industries and develop B.C. re- sources for the benefit of our ewn people. “B.C.’s needs require a rapid. expansion of the authority and financial resources of the gov- ernment-owned B.C. Power Commission,” Morgan _ said. “That agency has done a good job of providing power at cost in the outlying areas. But, imagine what is could do if it were allowed to absorb the vrefitable operations of the B.C. Electric in the densely- populated Greater Vancouver area. And imagine what it could do if it had the chance te distribute natural gas at cost, develop the mighty power sources on the Columbia and establish a great central power-pool to serve B.C. as a whole.” Denouncing the _ govern- ment’s big lumber giveaways, ‘the export of unprocessed pulp and pulp chips, and the 70 per- cent increase in the export of unmanufactured logs in the last. decade, the LPP leader cnarged the Socred administra- tion with being “the govern- ment of the big giveaway to the foreign trusts.” He ap- realed to listeners to support the demand of the LPP for re- placement of private Forest Management Licenses by a public ~ Forest Management Plan. “Tf you don’t insist on a change, the day is not far off when one or two lumber ty- coons will monopolize the great forest resources to this north country just like they do on ine coast. The little fellow in the industry will be driven to the wall. This will hit all businesses because those little fellows buy locally while the big companies deal with the wholesalers in the bigger centres. We’ve got to stop these Forest Management Lic- enses or the monopolies will gobble up the whole province, plecing not only our resources Lut our jobs and our future completely under U.S. con- trol,’ Morgan said. Morgan returned to Vancou- ver this week after a five- weeks tour of northern and interior points, just prior to fhe announcement of a pro- vincial election in September. A series of executive sessions and membership meetings are being scheduled to complete nominations and round out a battle-plan for the whirlwind campaign. General claims U.S. bosses our defense TORONTO “Wild Washington airmen” have adopted a mania for air supremacy that is “plunging (Canada’s) armed forces to ruin,” Maj.-Gen. W. H. S. ‘Macklin, retired Canadian army general, charged August & in an address at the Lake Couchiching conference on public affairs. These same U.S. military leaders were now Seeking to command the RCAF “and the rest of our defense system,” he declared. General Macklin said Can- ada, dragged along by this U.S. obsession is “crucifying” her other services. The fed- eral government was, pouring billion after billion of dollars into the “quicksand” of the August 17, 1956 — defense department because it was following the “powerful quack strategists of Washing- ton.” : Gen.. Macklin charged that the U.S. Air Force enjoyed “a degree of interference in our national sovereignty” greater than the Canadian government would have conceded to Great Britain even in time of war in the past 50 years. 410 Main St. Operated By GEORGE & WINNIFRED GIBBONS PACIFIC TRIBUNE — PAGE 8