Board to discuss bid
for more govt aid

NORTH VANCOUVER, B.C.

A resolution urging the provincial government to give
greater assistance to school.boards and also to pay full taxes to
municipalities on government property will be discussed at the
next meeting of North Vancouver School Board. Introduced by
school trustee Dorothy Lynas at the January 23 meeting of the

Remove fuel oil
tax, says CCF

Arthur Turner, CCF MLA
for Vancouver-East, announced
this week that his party will
demand the remeval of the
fuel oil tax of on half cent
on the gallon at the February
session of the legislature.

This statement followed the
announcement by fuel oil deal-
ers that they were preparing
to increase their prices by one
cent a gallon. Between one
third and one half of B.C.
householders use oil for cook-
ing or heating, or both.

Turner branded the tax as
“a downright hardship on
homeowners in the lower in-
come groups. Fuel is a neces-
sity and the government is
basking in revenues.”

Wood, coal and sawdust are
exempted from the five per-
cent sales tax because they
are considered as essentials ‘on
the same basis as foods,

Householders who use fuel
oil have always considered this
tax as discriminatory.

Youth paper stages
annual fund drive

A drive to raise funds for
the progressive youth paper
Champion, published twice-
monthly in Toronto for nation-
al distribution, has reached
the halfway mark.

In B.C. where the young
people hope to collect $700 to-
wards the national objective,
more than $200 has been turn-
ed in to date, it is announced
by Champion drive committee
director Les Szakal.

Donations can be sent to 2605
East Pender Street, Vancou-
ver, addressed to the Champ-
ion committee.

TED HARRIS

Painters’ and Paperhangers’
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ROOFING

Duroid, Tar and Gravel
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Reasonable

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board, it was agreed that the
resolution should be typed
and distributed with the min-
utes, so that members would
have an opportunity to study
it prior to the next board meet-
ing :

In a long preamble, the re-
solution outlines the mounting
tax burdens faced by home-
Owners, of which education
costs are a major portion.

“School costs are rising each
year, confronting us with the
prospect of continuously plac-
ing bylaws before taxpayers
for more funds for education
needs,” the resolution says.

“The benefits which School
District 44 derived from the
new provincial education fin-
ance formula are being steadi-
ly eliminated as a result of
higher assessments as is shown
by the following approximate
figures:

“School costs to District 44
in 1954, before the new for-
mula, were $903,128. In 1955
as a result of the formula they

‘dropped to $707,897, rising in

1956 to $859,400. And if the
present mill rate remains for
1957 it will be $1,047,103 bas-
ed on this year’s assessments.

“Teachers’ salaries will have
to be raised in the current ne-
gotiations, which additional
costs will have to be borne
exclusively by the city and
district.”

The resolution askd that
North Vancouvr School Board
go on record urging North
Vancouver MLAs to:

@ Urge the provincial gov-
ernment at the coming session
of the legislature to take steps
to give greater assistance ‘to
the school boards for educa-
tion costs. “We particularly
ask that in view of the need
to raise wages for teachers,
that the provincial government
up the wage levels of basic
teachers’ salaries, thus absorb-

ing a greater share of salary
costs.”

@ That the provincial gov-
ernment be requested to fol-
low the recent example of the
federal government and pay
full taxes to the municipali-
ties, thus helping municipali-
ties finance their services with-
out placing extraordinary bur-
dens on homeowners,

DEAVES TRANSFER

Moving & General Cartage
Reasonable Rates

TERRY BA. 3024

* Hearing of the appeal of

R. E. Sommers, former
minister of lands and forests.
and Socred MLA for Rossland-
Trail, against a court order
giving Vancouver lawyer David

Sturdy access to Sommers’
bank accounts has been put off
until March. The Sturdy-Som-
mers case rocked the legisla-

ture during its 1956 session,
and Sommers resigned his

cabinet posts. Now it is un-
likely that the case will go
before the courts during the
1957 session of the legislature.

Growers going bro
in middle of boon

The royal commission inquring into British Colul
fruit growing industry under direction of Prof. E. D. M ;
opened here on Wednesday this week. ca

First’ to present a brief to the commission was Her)*
bishley, prominent Penticton fruit. grower. Corbishley:

took a leading part in the
growers’ campaign for the in-
quiry, told Prof, MacPhee that
“the B.C. fruit growér is going
broke in the midst of a boom-
ing economy.”

Discussing the Okanagan
fruit growers’ selling agency,
Corbishley said that “hither-
to the growers have looked
upon their industry as a model
agency. Now they are viewing
it with a critical eye.”

During the past few years
production costs in the fruit

Campaign brings in
153 subs in month

The Pacific Tribune’s drive
-tor 1,000 new subs and renew-
als by May Day is beginning
to show results. To date 153
subs have come in.

Top press clubs in Greater
Vancouver are Broadway and
Advance, while in the prov-
ince Trail and Nanaimo lead
the parade.

KELOWN.

industry have been Ss]
growing, while returns rt
growers “have just as 5¥%t;
been diminishing. O8
other hand, retail coms
prices have increased
all proportion to the P)
made to growers. uf

The problem before the™E
commission is twofold: 1™
close the gap between
production costs and 1@)8
and how to close the still Wt
gap between what the P
producer receives an

pay for a box of OkaM™
fruit.

four briefs were presenlt!
the commission setting ff
the . economic plight @7F
growers and suggesting Vy
solutions. It is expected ig
similar hearings will b@ ©
in most Interior fruit-g!%e

sessions, the commiss!
scheduled to sit in .
Arm, p

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February 2. Good music —
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FEB SOVIET FILM —

se “Bogdan Khmel-
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