Were THEE Ee a ei Te ‘New campaign to stop( H-bomb tests launched! A new peace publication — The B.C. Peace Times — came off the press in Vancouver this week as B.C. hydrogen bomb tests. ..“"The Ray Gardner, council chairman, toward general disarmament.’ hrst step A postcard, attached to each copy of The Times, is address- ed to Prime Minister St. Laur- ent and says, “I favor an in- ternational agreement to stop all hydrogen and atomic bomb tests.” Publication of The Times is but part of a province-wide campaign to be planned and launched at an all-day ing the council September. meet- of peace in Page one of The Times is devoted to the atomic and hy- drogen bomb tests while the back page tells in graphic man- of the fantastic cost of the arms race and the tremendous advantages that will result from ending it. net “Million Canadian Unionists Stop Hydrogen Bomb a banner headline de- clares. The accom ipanying story re- ports on the end-the-tests re- sclution adopted by the found- ing convention of the Canadian Labor Congress, representing the united opinion of a million Canadian workers. & tells of the great tidal save of protest that is sweep- ing the world and how govern- ment after government has endorsed the Japanese Diet’s appeal for an end to the tests. Canada’s largest daily, The Toronto Star, has urged the Canadian government to back the Japanese appeal, The Times reports, “A forthright request from the Canadian government to the three testing powers, ap- pealing to them to renounce all further tests could not be ig- nored,” The Times says. “At the Commonwealth prime ministers’ conference, Mr. St. Laurent signéd a pledge to work for disarmament. Let -~ pile i ci aa CONSTANTINE Fine Custom Tailoring Ladies’ and Gentlemen Rm. 118, 603 W. Hastings St. = PA. 5810, Vancouver 2, B.C. OC iminli i ROOFING | ! iaiaiiss HU SHMIEIIEL oe i REPAIRS Duroid, Tar and Gravel Gutters and Downpipes Reasonable NICK BITZ | AL. 4141 Pensioners Want Funds | Radar Wastes |«: The founder of B.C.’s Senior |*" Citizens’ Association char ged| Monday the federal government} is wasting millions of dollars|” on defence. be The money could be spent) ©! helping old age pensioners, he | P4 declared. | be In his president’s report,| -George F. Edwards told dele-| of gates to the association’s con- jth vention at Marpole Community} W centre Canada did nothing to help pensioners last year. co “The explanation of the gov-| ,! ernment’s inability to find the money is that our so-called de- fence expenditures are costing so much annually — approxi- th mately $2,000,000,000 a year,” (he said. * “Maj. Gen. W. S. Macklin of the Canadian Army said re- cently that the radar screen in the north, which is costing mil- lions of dollars, would be use- less in preventing an attack.” Mr. Edwards also quoted Field Marshal Viscount Mont- gomery as saying no radar screen could give warning of 7 guided missiles. “Surely, Canada could at f least reduce its -spending for defence enough to allow it to} find money to increase old age} tpensions by $20 a month.” ! The 48 delegates to the’ con- vention passed three sacl taaat calling on the government to} increase pensions to $60. i en, VANCOUVER SUN * News story, reproduced in The B.C. Peace Times, tells of Senior Citizens’ plea fer higher pensions. Pensions could be doubled by using fraction of money now spent on arms race, us help him fulfill this pledge by sending him a peace post- card today.” Another article details the dangers of Padio-active stron- DEAVES TRANSFER Moving & General Cartage Reasonable Rates TERRY BA. 3024 NEW ZENITH CAFE 105 E. Hastings St. For the Finest in Good Eating OLYMPIA CUSTOM TAILORS Also Ready-Made Clothes 2425 E. Hastings St. at Nanaimo St., Van. 6 Owner: Mr. Carl Pepe HA. 2923 Peace Council embarked on a,campaign to stop the Times is not intended. as a regular publication,”’ ‘but is an appeal to action to stop the tests as a said produced by the atomic tests. It “is poisoning the atmosphere,” says The Times, “and threatening to in- crease the world cancer rate.” tium 90, “Radio-active poisoning, pro- ducing bone cancer, could af- fiict children who drink milk of a cow that has grazed on grass dusted by strontium 90,” the story claims. It goes on to quote three Nobel scientists — Frederick Joliot-Curie, of France; Fred- erick Soddy, of England, and H. J. Muller, of the United States — on the dangers of long-range genetic damage to humans from the atomic fall- out. “It is time to stop this night- mare,” the article concludes. “Vancouver MP Says: Arms Cut Will Slash Taxes,’’.is the main headlineson the second page, and here Elmore Phil- pott, MP for Vancouver South, is quoted at length on the social welfare plans that could be paid for out of money, now spent on defense. “We could cut income taxes cne-third this year,’ Philpott is quoted as saying — if a world disarmament agreement were reached. able materials and atomic explos- i jions, safeguard and checks against radiation ‘“‘assume the’ highest importance.” The conference of the British Empire Cancer .Campaign re- ported that os eee “A disarmament agreement is the most important political goal in-the world,” the Van- couver MP wrote in his Van- couver Sun column, The Times reports. The defense budget of $1,- 755,000,000 costs every man, woman and child $100 a year, says a feature story. It asks the question, “How much money is $1,755,000,000 2?” and replies, “At the rate of $1 a minute, every minute of every day, it would take more than 3,200 years to spend.” Ottawa’s recent gift of $39 million’ worth of jet planes to the new West German air force is dealt with in a series of il- lustrations and an article. “This ($39 million) is more , than enough money to run Vancouver’s entire school Ssys- tem for two years,” it states. Vancouver’s Community Chest target of $2,283,000 could be | Radioactivity Lin re \ c) re bs | To Cancer Increat Be L of LONDON (Reuters) — One of - " fa | Britain’s leading cancer experts | Che Banconmets Mm |‘has linked the increase of cancer | Wednesday, July flite r i with rising world | eos Ae = 4 my | levels. R f Surgeon H. J. Atkins told a con- st Mi; lference on the disease Tuesday * Danger of + # |that with increased use of fission- from atom™ outlined in neW cation. Here J specialist, Suré® G kins is quoted 99th cancer rate in € level of radio-a® roet for 17 yé the same cost warplanes 10 | Yet, The Tim $39 million is Oy ij fiftieth of Ca : penditure on? l and other weal “An appeal Puan Canadian pat i : tu the hydrog as a first steP ament, can hel when we'll ha” spend on the a lite,” The Time Ft i Copies of rhe obtained at tht® = ma cr at $2 per 100 Peace Council, ~ § 4 ings, Vancouv’ lpe postcard is incl ‘copy. Extra P® trinable at one7 OV CLASSIFIED ADVERTIS A charge of 50 cents for each insertion of five lines or less with 10 cents for each ad- ditional line is made for no- tices appearing in this column. No notice will be accepted later than Tuesday .noon of the week of publication. 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