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DISARMAMENT

Defiant peace group re-erects sign

The sign stands again at the Langdale
ferry terminal, a defiant assertion of a
Tegion’s overwhelming desire for peace.

While members of the Sunshine Coast
Peace Committee — including among them
local politicians — looked on and cheered,
Others packed the earth around the sup-
Ports of the wooden sign proclaiming, to
Passengers disembarking from the Horse-

Shoe Bay-Langdale ferry, “Welcome to the®

Sunshine Coast — a Nuclear-Free zone.”

What makes this declaration — which
has been made by other municipalities in
B.C. and around Canada — unique, is that
1S contravenes a directive from Highways
Minister Alex Fraser.

And, it exposes the hypocrisy of a pro-
Vincial government that on one hand has
declared its support for peace initiatives —
as did Premier Bennett in sending greetings

_ to Vancouver’s Walk for peace rally Apr.

28 — while working actively to prevent the
expression of peace sentiments elsewhere.

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Fraser has denied the regional district the
right to erect the sign, which was planned
more than one year ago after the district
board had unanimously agreed on the
nuclear-free declaration. Fraser has claimed
the sign “is not applicable to the driving

task. ”

The peace committee, represented by
some 50 people during the second sign-
raising June 29, states otherwise. In a release
announcing their intention to erect the sign
for the second time, the group noted it
would “inform carriers that this is a nuclear-
free zone within which the transportation of
nuclear weapons or any component thereof
is prohibited.

“This sign is symbolic,” added regional
director Brett McGillivray in an interview.
“We want this whole province to be a
nuclear-free zone.”

Calling the action “an act of civil disobe-
dience,” McGillivray declared, “The cause
is right. We'll win this one.’

Peace committee spokesman Carol

Nanoose peace camp open

Kicking off the event with a “nuclear-free
Canada Day” July 1, the Vancouver Island
Network for Disarmament (VIND) re-

opened the summer peace camp at Nanoose -

Bay, site of the U.S. underwater weapons
testing range.

More than 3,000 people visited the peace
camp during the five weeks it was up last
summer and VIND organizers hope this

year to discuss peace issues with many more

than that number.

The camp itself is in the Nanoose flats
area while those taking part will be at the
highway rest stop, distributing leaflets,
gathering signatures for the Peace Petition
Caravan and outlining the issues surround-
ing the Nanoose weapons range:

Although official government circles”

have downplayed Canada’s role in weapons
development, the development of the

McGillivray also pointed out Fraser has
allowed local signs promoting tourism “at
his discretion. Yet none of these can be said
to be applicable to the driving task.”

She also noted that, according to a sec-
tion of the Highways Act, all signs within
300 metres of a provincial highway must be
personally authorized by Fraser — meaning
thousands of signs around B.C. are techni-
cally illegal.

“It is obvious,” the committee’s release
stated, “that the decision to go against the
wishes of 80 per cent of the coast residents,
who voted in the ’82 and °83 referenda in
favor of bilateral nuclear disarmament, and

to reject the unanimous decision of the Sun-_

shine Coast regional board is discretionary
and political.”

The original sign, erected days before the
1984 Walk for Peace — following a frus-
trating year of rejections by the highways
ministry of the district directors’ application
— was taken down the Monday following
the Saturday, Apr. 28 event.

Nanoose Bay facility as a highly sophisti-
cated submarine weapons testing range has
underscored Canadian complicity in the
arms race generally, and in the development
of U.S. nuclear submarine weaponry
specifically.

In addition to the Peace Petition Caravan
Campaign, organizers will be gathering sig-
natures on a petition against weapons test-
ing at Nanoose. Several special events are
also planned through the summer.

VIND, a coalition of some 27 peace
groups on Vancouver Island and the Gulf
Islands is also asking for volunteers to take
part in the peace camp during July. Those
interested can call Laurie McBride in
Parksville at (112) 248-3872 or write
Nanoose Peace. Camp, Box 1885, Parks-
ville, B.C.

GVRD backs peace motions

The drive for a nuclear-weapons free
British Columbia and a cruise-missile free
Canada were given an added and important
boost June 27 in a doubled-headed peace

-vote by the directors of the Greater Van-

couver Regional District.

The GVRD board, which governs rela-
tions among municipalities in the district,
voted narrowly but significantly in favor of
two disarmament initiatives tabled by Van-
couver alderman and GVRD director
Bruce Yorke.

Following by one day the vote of the
municipality of Maple Ridge council to
declare itself nuclear-weapons free, the
GVRD directors adopted 13-10 Yorke’s

motion calling on Victoria to declare B.C. °

free of nuclear weaponry. Vancouver coun-
cil passed the same motion two weeks ago.
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directors also decided to urge Ottawa to
cancel further testing of the cruise missile in
Canada.

Yorke, an alderman with the civic reform

group, the Committee of Progressive Elec- °

tors, was jubilant: “It’s a good thing when a
municipality passes these resolutions; it’s
great when the entire district does. It’ll be
much harder for Victoria and Ottawa to to
ignore these requests.”

JULIUS STELP

Sitelp legacy
aids Tribune

A supporter of the Tribune ever
since its founding in 1935, Julius Stelp
also wanted to make sure the paper
had his support even after he was
gone.

Julius passed away on Apr. 2 at the
age of 102. And, together with the
legacy of struggle he left after a life
that spanned five generations, he
bequeathed the Tribune nearly $9,500.

Some of the money was earmarked
for the financial drive as had been
Julius’ wish, making him — as he
had been for virtually every year since
the tradition was started at the Trib-
une’s 40th anniversary financial drive
in 1975 — a member of the 500 Club.

It was not money accumulated
over a lifetime but savings taken each
month from his pension cheque and
put aside in the care of his son, Bill.
And Bill and his wife brought it to the
Tribune, carefully arranged in enve-
lopes, the results of months and years
of saving.

In his later years, afflicted by near
blindness, Julius could not read the
Tribune. But his support for the paper
was never diminished. In fact, the
bequest was the second donation
beyond his regular contributions
made during the financial drive. In
1980 when his name was drawn for
the first prize in the Tribune financial
drive contest, he asked that the $4,500
cash prize be donated back to the

~ paper, the first time that any winner

had done so.

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