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THE BALANCE OF POWER

British report published

Health scheme
bogey killed

By SHEILA LYND
: LONDON
The bogy of a vast, rampantly
éstowing Health Service, de-
Youring an alarming proportion
of Britain’s income and sucking

UP more and more of her re-

Sources, died last week.

It was killed by a committee
Set up by the government to
find ways of cutting the cost
of the Health Service, which
Published its report last week
and insists that: more money,
Not less, must be spent.

The committee has told the
Eden government: There has

been no extravagance in the,

Tunning of the service and no
Suggestions ‘for further econ-
Omies can he entertained; hos-
Ditals are reaching the danger
line of neglect and $90 million

‘capital investment

ust be allocated for

pete instead of
the $33 million spent at present.
“Tt may come as a surprise to
many to find that the National
Health Service has absorbed a
decreasing proportion of the
country’s resources since the
year 1949-50 — the first full
year of the service,” says the

Tt:
reerhe widespread popular be-
lief: that there has been an in-
crease of vast proportions in
both the money cost and the
real cost... is not borne out by
igures.”

ers figures show that “ex-
pressed as a proportion of total
national resources, the net cost
of the -service fell from 3%

Continued on back page
See HEALTH ©

Legislature may

get peace motion

VICTORIA, B.C.

A resolution urging the federal government to intensify its efforts to achieve an
international disarmament convention — to include the abolition of nuclear weapons —
will be introduced in the provincial legislature during the present session.

‘Judging from the reception given us by all parties, I feel certain that a ban-the-
bomb resolution will bé placed before the House by one group or another,’’ Ray Gardner,

What Tupper
didn't answer

By TOM McEWEN

B.C. Peace Council chairman,
said in a press statement here
this week.

“And we have assurances that
if such a resolution is intro-
duced it will be supported by a
number of Social Credit mem-
bers, by the CCF Opposition,
by the Liberals and both inde-
pendents,” he said.

These assurances were given
to a peace delegation of 40 men
and women who came to Vic-
toria on Monday this week to
urge MLAs to adopt a dis-
armament resolution similar to
that endorsed last spring by the
Saskatchewan legislature.

“We were given ‘a splendid
welcome by a majority of the
members,” Gardner said.

“Whether or not a resolution
will be adopted depends now
largely upon the people of the
province. It depends on whether
the people take the trouble to
write their MLAs, urging them
to pledge their support to a
peace resolution.”

_.“It is noteworthy that Bert
Continued on back page
See PEACE

Sommers stalks out
over highway report

- Ifa report on the ,Cassiar- Stewart road ever
Robert Sommers “‘is proved a liar,’
(CCF, Atlin) in the House on

(Earlier in the day Arthur Brown
Sommers file the ‘‘secret’’ report and the m

times in a bitter across-the-floor
Verbal clash.)

Calder, only Native Indian
member of the legislature, minc_
€d no words in dealing with

€ issue. He opened up on
Sommers by quoting a column

_€@ Vancouver paper which
Said:

“MLAs pondering progress of
& 300-mile mine access road be-
tween Stewart and Cassiar could
learn some revealing facts and
figures from an integral report
Now in the hands of the gov-
ernment. It was authorized by

€ department of mines an
“has never been released. . . -”

Sommers: “What report? Re-
Port by whom?”

Calder: “If there is such a
Teport, and if in a few months

Continued on page 7
See STEWART —

VICTORIA, B.C.

comes to light and Mines Minister
’ then the minister should resign, declared Frank Calder
Monday night this week.

(Liberal, Prince n
inister had repeated ‘“What report?’’ several

Rupert) had demanded that

‘

Last weekend the Tupper Commission, inquiring into
charges of police corruption and maladministration in Van-
couver, ended its labors of seven months of intermittent

sessions, packed its bags containing one million words or
more of assorted “‘evidence,’’ and issued an interim report

Labor second

in byelection

Vic Forster, labor candidate
in the Vancouver civic byelec-
tion on Wednesday this week,
lost his bid for a council seat
to former NPA alderman Hal-
ford Wilson running as an in-
dependent in a field of six can-
didates. —

Only 10 percent of eligible
voters went to the polls.

The vote was:

Halford Wilson -_--- 9,001
Victor Forster ___-. 6,172
Sydney Bowman ____ 3,190
Archie Procter ____-- 2,277
Albert Dunn’ ==--—--- 227
Peter McAllister -___ 131

Long-deferred boost for OAP’s
in Socred vote-getting budget

VICTORIA, B.C.
idi confidently along on
ne Layee of an economic boom,
Premier W. A. OF Bennett in
his budget speech ‘delivered to
the legislature Wednesday _af-
ternoon this week predicted that
the decade which ended last
year “precedes the greatest
economic forward movement in
B.C.’s age of destiny.’

The time has come, said the

premier, :
will be called upon to open Its
vast storehouse of natural riches

for the penefit of our. nation ©

“vhen this province

and the world at large.”

He made no mention of the
sellout of these rich natural re-
sources to U.S. trusts, which
his government has accelerated
during its three years in office.

Rising revenues and fat sur-
pluses made it possible for Pre-
mier Bennett to introduce some
vote-catching measures. Among
these were: ~

@ A reduction in the Amuse-
ments Tax of one-third and
a proposal to earmark all
revenues from this tax to
hospital construction.

@ An increase in grants-in-
aid of local government of
more than $2 million dur-
‘ing the current year.

® The province to pay an ad-

ditional $5 per head of fami-

lies and $2 to each of their

_ dependents in allowances

for old age pensioners, per-

sons in receipe of social as-

sistance, the blind, the dis-

abled and mothers depend-
ent on allowances.

Continued on back page
See BUDGET

pending completion of its final
report within the next six weeks.
Its findings and recommenda-
tions are now the responsibility
of Attorney-General Robert
Bonner under whose authority
the commission was instituted.

For the $50,000 or more which
the Tupper Commission will
cost B.C. taxpayers, a few points
should be elaborated by Attor-
ney-General Bonner, since the
public is entitled to a good deal
more for that money than is con-
tained in the interim recom-
mendations. .

Among some of the questions
being asked by the public but
not yet answered by the Tup-

_ per Commission are these:

Since the commission pro-
vided a bountiful harvest for
the legal fraternity, how much
was paid and to whom?

Was Attorney-General Bon-
ner aware of ex-Police Chief
Walter Mulligan’s application
for the various documents he
required to enter the U.S. as a
landed immigrant while a hear-
ing involving his possible cul-
pability for police corruption
was in process? If so, why
was Mulligan permitted to leave
Canada?

w If such permission was not
given by the attorney-general’s
department, why weren’t pre-
cautions taken to ensure that
Mulligan would be available to
appear before the commission
when required?

The evidence of notorious
bootleggers and bookies, some
with almost 20 years business
standing in the community
without police interference, in-
dicates that these questionable
citizens can return to “business
as usual” without hindrance.
What action does the attorney-

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