Ratepayers parley asks natural gas for Island Vancouver Island Ratepayers and Tax to make cheap power and natural NANAIMO, B.C. payers have called on the provincial government gas available to develop secondary industries processing B.C. raw materials. Delegates to the quarterly meeting here on Saturday last week condemned the Socreds for continuing a policy of handing over B.C. natural resources to the United States which, they say, is restricting The meeting also called on the government to place a heavy tax on raw materials exported to be _ processed outside the province. Delegates asked Victoria to take immediate steps to build an -all-Canadian pipeline that would bring Peace River natural gas to the Island. Another resolution ‘adopted by the meeting asked that all school costs be financed from the con- solidated revenue of the province rather than from land taxes. The meeting proposed that the tax load be equalized by raising the taxes on Esquimalt and Nanai- mo land and mineral holdings from 1% cents an acre and those on timber stands under forest man- agement from one cent an acre to the same level as those of the small home and land owner. Woman runs in Nanaimo NANAIMO, B.C. Mrs. Beryl Wheeldon, Nanaimo housewife, who polled a_ sub- stantial vote in her bid for civic office in last summer’s aldermanic byelection, has announced her can- didacy for council in the coming civic elction. New industry for Nanaimo to meet a growing unemployment problem is one of the main planks in her platform. “T feel that the city council must get behind the movement to bring natural gas from the Peace River and to extend it to the Island as a public utility,” she said this week. “The resulting industrial develop- ments will keep our people in year- round employment.” Mrs. Wheeldon wants to see tax revision to even out the load equal- ly between business and home owners. She favors the construction of a modern sewage-disposal plant to end the dangerous pollution of Na- naimo’s beaches. Separate accommodation for police and fire departments with a new firehall on city-owned land is another demand she is advancing. Mrs. Wheeldon asks that money from the sale of the Central Sports Grounds be spent immediately in providing a new playing field for Nanaimo young people. job opportunities in this province. 4 Turner, Kutcher in field Independents contest Burnaby elections BURNABY, B.C. Two independent candidates have announced their intentions to challenge Non-partisan control in Burnaby in the December 12 municipal elections. William Turn- er, who ran last year, will stand again for alderman as an indepen- dent and a new aspirant, Alex Kucher, will be in the field as in: dependent candidate for schooi board. Turner called for the throwing out of “big business’-real estate candidates of the NPA and the elec- tion of independents pledged to policies in the people’s interests.” In Turner’s opinion, one of the most pressing issues in Burnaby is what he terms the “bargain basement taxes” enjoyed by big monopoly interests. He said that he would press for tax equaliza- tion. : Other planks in his program are the building of secondary indus tries to create more jobs, together with the planning of expansion so industry will not encroach on resi- dential property. Municipal ownership of trans- portation, adequate sewage and drainage, and elimination of the nuisance created by oil refineries are additional points raised by Turner. Kucher is campaigning for the building of a Vocational Train- ing School in the municipality to give Burnaby’s young people: the training required for mod- ern industry and so enlarge their opportunities for jobs. This would give the young peo- ple an alternative to the dead-end offered by militarism, according to Kucher, who is opposed to con- scription and the spending cf money on war preparations rather than trade schools, recreation centres and other facilities needed by a fast-growing municipality. OVALTINE CAFE 251 EAST HASTINGS Vancouver, B.C. QUALITY SERVICE S. H. BROWN PLUMBING & HEATING 371 Johnson Road R.R.1 White Rock - Phone 5661 “Everything in Flowers” - FROM... é EARL SYKES 56 E. Hastings St. PA, 3855 VANCOUVER, B.C. 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Buck also noted that Oakley in- dicated that he was getting infor- mation from either the FBI or the RCMP, or both. The LPP leader ahked for an investigation into whether the RCMP is supplying in- formation on the political activities of Canadian citizens to the U.S. government or whether the FBI is operating on Canadian territory. The letter expressed concern at the fact that no Canadian govern- ment official had publicly criticiz> ed Oakley and asked for a public statement from St. Laurent in’ re- ply to Oakley. CCW annual bazaar set for November 27 | Christmas shopping is with us again and the Congress of Cana- dian Women is doing its bit to make the annual ordeal easy for those who usually rush -around frantically to the corner drugstore on the evening of 'the 24th. The CCW annual bazaar with lots of Christmas gifts and home cook- ing is to be held at the Hastings Auditorium on Saturday, Novem- Defeat pact, Buck calls Tim Buck, national leader of the Labor-Progressive party, last week called upon the entire LPP to “sup- Port with all energy the fight to mobilize opposition to Canadian ratification” of the German rearm- ament treaty. The Nine-Power treaties will come before parlia- ment in January. Democratic public opinion throughout Canada, he said, must be aroused to defend the aim of © a unified, neutralized Germany. Buck continued: “The minister of external affairs admitted that such is the only cor- rect solution in a public address in Toronto on November 5. Then he said: ‘The best solution of all to the Franco-German problem would be to keep Germany dis- armed and neutral.’ To keep Gel- many neutral, it is necessary to prevent ratification of the Paris Agreement to rearm her and head her again to war. ' “Every section of the party © should be activized in this cam- paign. . . . All possible initiative should be developed in neighbor- hood activities. Members of pat- liament should be visited by depu- tations in their constituencies, the idea should be raised of a great » national delegation. to Ottawa at ber 27 from 2 to 5 p.m. the opening of parliament, if neces- sary.” ; f CLASSIFIED ADVERTISING | A charge of 50 cents for each insertion of five lines or less with 10 cents for each additional line is made for notices appearing in this column. No notices will be accepted later than Tuesday noon of the week of publication. NOTICES POSTAGE STAMPS wanted. Don- ate your used postage stamps, any country, including Canada, particularly values above 5c and perforated OHMS or overprinted OHMS or G. Stamps should not be torn or mutilated and are best left on paper, with perfor- ations not cut into in trimming. Resale proceeds go to Pacific Tribune sustaining fund. 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