Most B.C. municipalities will vote in civic elections Thursday, Dec. 7. Vancouver yoters will cast their ballots on Wednesday, Dec. 13. Because of the important issues involved in these elections the Pacific Tribune will each week carry election news in this space. | é Rankin urges three point plan, of tax relief for homeowners A three-point plan for tax| His three-point plan for tax relief. for~small homeowners; relief urges: . was put forward this week by .* A basic exemption on all Harry Rankin, independent; residential property. candidate for Vancouver city) '®@ Additional: grants from council in the December 13! senior governments to hold the election. | tax line on property. > Rankin, who is president. of; the Central Council of Rate-| in assessments. payers, A veteran of World War 2,| ‘the number» one item in co een ected Te ae i Vancouver since 1950 and is ‘election platform released gne of the city’s most promin-. ‘Tuesday. (ent community workers. : es es Greenwell fights for city park Donald “Dusty” Greenwall,! parkland the area bounded by ‘independent candidate for Van-| Adanac and First and Boun-| ‘eouver. Parks Board told a! dary Road and Cassiar Street.’ “meeting called by the Hastings | Greenwell was chairman of ‘East Community Association! the meeting which was attend- last Sunday that all groups,ed by representatives from should unite to force the Van-' most of the Organizations in, couver city council to zone as| Vancouver East affected. Turner asks united vote William Turner, independ- up fuur candidates fur council ent candidate for Burnaby! for four seats to be filled. Tur- “eouncil in the Dec. 7 election, | ner’s proposal is aimed at pre- this week urged electors to venting a split in the labor “give three votes to the trade! vote. union candidates and one to! Turner and Marie Godfrey, Turner.” | independent school board can- Recently a group in Bur-' didate, will publish their pro- naby, with the support of the} grams in ads in Burnaby news- Vancouver Labor Council, put! papers. Cold war hit by Selmar Bean SURREY—Council candidate| “As long as governments Selmar Bean told a social gath-; continue to pour millions into ering Saturday night that the| the arms race there will not be ,present crisis rocking Surréy Hike available for resolving placed tax relief as has its roots in the cold war}the crisis facing. Surrey,” he policies of the government. ‘Said. Civic Reform Association— SATURDAY, NOV. 25, 1 p.m. to Sm. St. Railwaymen’s Hall, 125 E. 8th Ave. HOME COOKING NOVELTIES - NEEDLE-WORK APRONS - WHITE ELEPHANT COUNTRY-STORE | } — GOOD USED CLOTHING AFTERNOON TEA — BOOR PRIZE BARGAINS GALORE ~ ® Abolish special privileges ’ : tions dealing with various so- | cial problems. She is a gradu- the Ontario. Hospital. Cont'd from pg. 1 These blows, the paper sug- gested, would open the road to settlement around’ the confer- ence table. The, plans for “controlled atomic war’’ were analyzed by the Soviet paper Pravda, which said: “The Wall Street mag- nates would like to conduct ne- gotiatioins with the USSR only from positions of strength, to be more _ precise—to dictate their terms. But, gentlemen, your reach - is too short for that!”’ Pravda’ warned against the use of nuclear forces to pre- vent the signing of a German } peace treaty. NEW FUERHER? , Major General. Walker, a member of the subversive John Birch — Society, - in resigning from the army, made a bid-to become the fuerher of ultra-re- actionary forces for a possible march to power. Walker called for a military- civilian coalition to rute the U.S. in an all-out world war. He attacked both the © Eisen- COUNCILLOR CARL LIDEN, of Delta, announced this week his intention to seek re-election for a third term. Liden is an ¢erganizer for United Fisher- men and Allied Worker's Union. Delegation of f to S.U. Six members of the Canada- USSR Association left Malton airport last Friday for a two- week visit to the Soviet Union. While there, they will be the guests of the USSR-Canada So- ciety. The six intend to investi-| _ | gate the various fields of activ- ity with which they are con: nected in Canada. Miss Ethel Ostry, a social worker with a Toronto private agency, hopes to visit institu- ate of the Un:versity of Mani- toba. Mrs. Ruth Doehler, journal- ist and artist, is actively con- nected with the Ontario Asso- ciation -for Emotionally Dis- turbed Children. Miss Mora Skelton, M.A., is a psychriatric social worker at Mrs. Jeannette Urbas, principal of Hillcrest Progressive Nursery School, is also on leave of ab- sence and will devote her visit to studying the care of-pre- school , children in~ nursery schools. Other members of the-group are Mr. and Mrs. Carl Warder, from Thornhill, Ontario. ‘by. the: enlistment | Luce and:his: magazine empire, which: includes Life and Time, Fascist threat grows in US hower and Kennedy adminis- trations in al] but name-as a “fifth column conspiracy” that was keeping him and many like him from doing their duty s “patriots.” Using the excuse of his res- ignation, Walker issued a long manifesto calling on. the ultra- reactionaries, the ‘white su- premacists and the other hate- groups to unit with him in this crusade. When Walker achieved no- toriety earlier this year through revelations of his at- tempts to brainwash soldiers under his command, he was seized upon by white-suprema- cist senators like Strom Thur- mond of South Carolina and Herman. Talmadge of Georgia and such right-wing Republi- cans -as -Barry Goldwater of | Arizona and Karl Mundt of South-Dakota. They saw in him a possible martyr for their cause, Apparently the ultra-reac- tionaries, assessing the indeci- sior. of the .Kennedy