Our parklands
are-rapidly
disappearing

year ago the conservation committee of the Varsity Outdoor
Club undertook to study the problems of Provincial Parks,
hese are some of the more startling facts discovered.

* We have quietly lost almost 50% of our parkland over the
Past few years, and 71 percent of the remaining area has no
Protection against exploitation, None of the parks have legis-
lative protection and as such are subject to sudden extinction
by Order in Council.

* Hamber and Tweedsmuir were once our two largest
Parks, In 1961. Hamber was reduced by 97 percent of its total
area, leaving B,C,’s share of the Rocky Mountain parks negli-
sible and unprotected, Tweedsmuir Park lost 1,000,000 acres
to industry through flooding, leaving a drowned forest of snags,

looding is also being considered in our third largest park,
Wells Gray, i

* The Federal Government has expressed a desire to take
Over Garibaldi Park if the Whistler Mountain region specifi-
Cally was included, They have stated that ten million dollars
Would be spent immediately to develop the park for outdoor
Tecreation similar to the Rocky Mountain Parks,

Something less than one percent of the remains of our
Provincial Parks is claimed to be rigidly protected, The
absolute necessity of maintaining this parkland and reserving
wen More for future generations has become acutely evident
n all other countries where the population has become dense.

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“ Pointing out that it will be our children who will suffer
fe the present « short-sighted” policy of the government,
th Study Varsity Outdoor Club says in a press release that

© following points are needed ina realistic Parks Act for B,C,:

Bi 1, Legislative protection substituted for Order-in-Council
hority to manipulate or eliminate parks.

2. Protection against industrial exploitation,

3. A study of present and potential parkland to determine

enjo is best suited for tourist and sport facilities;

By oe of exceptional scenic beauty; wilderness recreation;
€servation of unique natural features.

Se

Noble character

The et VANCOUVER, writes:
me mini ’ i
Partisan inister’s listing of

, Politicians as featured
™ McEwen’s recent column,

nds me of a’story told of
Tesident F.D.R ‘

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ea, Politicians had argued
which y. for some time as to
was ‘ea of man in public life
fina € finest character, They

Y asked Roosevelt to give

Opinj is j
se ton and to accept his judg-

Without

FDR a moment’s thought

ae A it: “Undoubtedly there
lite vay ler character in public
depe ay than that man you can

nd upon to stay bought,” A
Stration of politics under
™ anywhere, although of
ans they “stay bought” longer

Me places than others,

Prosperity?

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Course,

yy

Writes: sow VANCOUVER,

My mind goes back to the

Hungry Thirties when old “Iron
Heel” Bennett got kicked out by
the voters lock stock and barrel,
In his place we got MacKenzie
King, That same summer King
went over to Germany to see what
was what and have a visit with
Hitler, When he got back to
Canada he made a speech in Par-
liament on his talk with Hitler
and praised the great “pros~-
perity” Germany was_ building
under Hitler,

Everyone in Germany had to
work and there was no “unem-
ployment,” a system which, in
King’s opinion, would also be a
plessing for Canada, Any PT
reader can get the whole King
speech in Hansard,

And so History repeats itself
today, with Pearson stocking
Canada with missiles and nuclear
warheads to keepour “ prosperity
secure,” e

(Warm ‘congratulations to H,
Vigor who has just passed his
85th milestone, We wish him
health and vigor to see many
more.)

. LATEST CASUALTY ON U.S. TV

-Les Crane TV show did not
please potentates of media

he latest casualty on U,S,

television was the Les Crane
show which many TV viewers in
Vancouver and B,C, saw every
night on Channel 4, Sponsored by
the American Broadcasting Cor-
poration, the Les Crane show put
on its last program last Friday
night and now has gone into obli-
vion,

His program will be replaced
by “Nightlife,” which promises to
be a non-controversial, strictly
entertainment sort of thing that
will not rub anyone the wrong
way. The program will continue
to be produced by former Cana-
dian TV talent Daryl Duke,

The future of the presentable
Les Crane is uncertain, How-
ever, it has been noticed for
some time that changes, not for
the better, were being introduced
in the program,

On February 6 the San Fran-
cisco progressive paper, “The
People’s World,” carried an
article by its TV writer Anne
Leslie dealing with the Les Crane
show, Some of the views ex-
pressed in that article will be of
interest to fans of the Les Crane
show in B,C, Here are some of
the more pertinent points:

“There are two types of Ameri-
can Cranes which are, depend-
ing upon your personal leanings,
worth noting, One is the great
gawky bird, the Whooping Crane,
being carefully nurtured away
from extinction, The other is Les
Crane, being deliberately forced
into mediocrity and perhaps obli-
vion by the ‘powers-that-be,’ who
we assume are, in this case, the

network (ABC) and the sponsors
(Murial Cigars, Clairol and
others),

“Rarlier in the season we ex-

pressed optimism for the Les
Crane Show, As of a month ago,
we were hooked, almost hung-up
on it, Oh, it was exciting, good
music, good, sometimes great
discussion, , . . Robert Vaughan
(star of ‘The Man from Uncle’)
relating wonderful aspects of his
trip through the Soviet Union
and simultaneously opening win-
dows in our propaganda curtain,

New book
by Burchett

RECENT newsletter from

International Publishers
(New York) reports that every
effort is being made to issue by
the middle of March Wilfred
Burchett’s new book, Vietnam:
Dark Tunnel to Disaster.

An intrepid reporter, with a
vast knowledge of Asian and
world politics, Burchett gives the
real inside story of the collapse
of General Maxwell Taylor’s
"special war” against the
Vietnamese,

An earlier book by Burchett,
The Furtive War, was published
in 1963,
the Diem regime. The new book
reveals that there is no ‘light
at the end of the dark tunnel,”
for the U.S. “special effort.”

Advance orders are being ac-
cepted by People’s Co-op Book-
store, 341 West Pender Street,
Vancouver.

It foretold the end of

(You could almost smell the fresh
air.)

“Or debates on socialized
medicine, civil rights, poverty,
recognition of China,,., and
Crane himself sitting in his area,
really listening, absorbing,

learning and coming to solid con-
clusions and saying so, often an
act of courage because most of

his valued judgments were not the
sort to be cherished by the po-

tentates of the mass media, those -

hallowed keepers of the public
morality.

“But a few weeks ago, the mar-
riage of intellect and entertain-
ment abruptly ended and ahoney-
moon of meaningless verbosity
and commercialism began, As of
this writing, a fortnight has
passed without one visceral or
even vitally interesting discus-

sion, but, still hoping, we faith-
fully turn on the set and wait... ,

“If he is playing politics until
the show is so secure that he can
Say anything, he’s making a tac-
tical error, ... All heneeddo is
remember what happened to Jack
Paar when he defended his friend-
ship with Dr, Castro and the
Cuban Revolution, The only smart
thing to do is say to the brass,
“Take me as I am, That’s what
the public wants,’

“By the time this gets into
print, Crane may have dumped
whoever is putting the kebosh on
him, and he may again be swing-
ing with vital debates. If any-
thing like that happens, please
let me know , , . for while there
are some things more important
than sleep, as it stands now the
Les Crane Show. isn’t one of
them , . . and it seems inevitable
that many thousands whom Crane.
turned on are going to give up
and simply tune him out,”

‘Scan’ for

young
quebec
today

COLLET TE
GATIEN

at
MONTREAL'S
CAFE

ST.
JACQUES

VOL.1. NO.1.
MARCH 1965
25 CENTS

he first issue of Scan,’

a new monthly publica-
tion, has the look of being
one of the brightest youth
magazines to appear onthe
Canadian scene in some
time,

An introductory note by
editor Rae Murphy says
“We have gone from Gold-
finger to The Deputy, from
coffee house to some view-
points on the new Quebec,
We must confess we feel a
little perplexed by it all.
There seems so much, to
write about and so many
things of interest happen-
Inga

A column called * Dis and
Data” quotes an editorial
from the Athenaeum, Aca-
dian University: “In the
United States it is a crime
to beat a dog; but Dr, Tel-

bright, easy to read

youth—

ler, who has worked to en-
sure the destruction of
millions, has been reward-
ed with honors and the high
regard of a grateful people”

Sparkling with photos and
lots of white breathing
space, large type that is
easy to read, the first issue
highlights articles on anew
youth peace organization;
two features on “Young
Quebec Today,” and
“Prowling Montreal;” a
movie and play review; and
two eye-witness vignettes
from Cuba, ?

The magazine sells for
25 cents or $2.50 per year
($3.50 foreign), The editor-
ial and subscription ad-
dress is Scan, Box 7, Sta-
tion “B,” Toronto 2B, Ont,
Also available at People’s
Co-op Bookstore, 341 W,
Pender St,

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