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-SPORTLIGHT

By BERT WHYTE

BACK IN 1950 Tillie Rolston was guest of honor at a Pro-Rec
display in Vancouver. Tillie beamed at all those present and in
gushing terms praised the work of Pro-Rec and its benefits to the
people of B.C.

Now Pro-Rec members, young and old, are finding out the hard
way that Tillie Rolston, Social Credit politician and minister of
education, isn’t genuinely interested in the development of physical
education and recreation. She goes along with the Socred govérn-

‘ ment in advocating curtailment of the financial grant for Pro-Rec.

The proposed reduction, if carried out, will mean the closure of
many centres.

For the past week or more citizens of all ages have been bom-
barding the newspapers with letters-to-the-editor denouncing the gov-
ernment‘s proposal and demanding that the Socreds reconsider the
matter.

More than letters are needed. If every organization opposed to
the slash in Pro-Rec funds sent a delegation to Victoria to see
Premier W. A. C. Bennett, Tillie Rolston and other members. of the
cabinet, and told them bluntly how the people of this province feel
about the issue, I am quite sure that action to revoke the previous
decision would result. | j

* * * ‘

WHEN IT COMES to booting those big babies home, Eddie Arcaro
is in a class by himself. Old Banana Nose isn’t the most popular
jockey—perhaps because too many punters figure he should win
even riding’a pig—but his record proves that he is racing’s all-time
money rider. ~

Last Saturday. little Eddie put on a Sa pentative show at Sunes
Anita when he brought Mark-Ye-Well home by a head in the Santa
Anita Handicap, the oldest $100,000 feature on the racing calendar.

Mark-Ye-Well was well back to win, but found the 130 pounds’
he was carrying quite a load. Rounding the stretch turn Intent
made his bid but Mark-Ye-Well stood it off and began to move .-irito
the clear. Arcaro took a tight grip on the reins and made ‘the
horse ease up slightly, so that when Trusting, with Willie Shoemaker
up. came with a rush. Mark-Ye-Well had enough Horsepamen left
to keep in front under furious whipping.

Boss booter Arcaro has finished first on more than 3,000 ‘mounts
during the ‘past 421 years. |He has won the Kentucky Derby five
times, and captured these $100,000 stakes: the Derby, Belmont, Santa
Anita Maturity. Arlington Classic. American Derby and Washington
Park Futurity. ‘ ’

- Yet Arcaro is no favorite with the fans, who expect him to win

almost every time out, and jeer and boo when he finishes far back on
' an inferior horse.

This makes Eddie a little bitter at times.

On one occasion a trainer had Arcaro up on some crowbait
and gave him explicit instructions before the race began. | “Break
fast, lay in fourth place past the clubhouse, move up to third on the
backstretch, be second at the far turn and come on to win in the

stretch,” he said as Banana Nose mounted the horse in the paddock. |.

The horse finished seventh in a field of seven and the trainer
“I told you how to win!” he yelled. “Break fast,

Eddie looked at him coldly and commented: “What, and leave
your horse?” :

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VANCOUVER’S ENTRY in the Western Interprovincial Foot-
ball Union won‘t play a league game until 1954, but I'd like to -
toss a bouquet at this time to local football moguls who resisted
the blandishments of high-powered American gabsters and hired
a Canadian, Annis Stukus, to coach the focal team.

Stukus will return here March 21 and begin a search for
local football talent. He‘Il probably have to ‘import some grid-
iron stars from the United States, but he also wants to develop
players. Had an American coach been hired, you can bet your
boots that a different policy would have eh followed. ©

5 GR eonan. Cam
EDDIE’S BOY, top Vancouver horse last season, is sure aiming
high these days. He’s been entered in the $100,000 added San Juan
Capistrano Handicap at Santa Anita this Saturday against such horses
as Trusting, Intent and Don Rebele who raced against Mark-Ye-Well
in the Santa Anita Handicap. If Eddie’s Boy finishes anywhere “in
the money he'll pay a bundle. :

VICTORIA, B.C.
‘Flooding of the Tweedsmuir
Park area for the Alcan: project
was termed “a terrible tragedy”
by Cyril Shelford (Socred, Omin-
eca) in his maiden speech to the
legislature last week. He placed
the blame for thé situation at the
door of the last Liberal adminis-
tration.

“The mighty Nechako River is
no more,” said the Social Credit
back bencher. “Not only the river
died but thousands of fish and
countless numbers of beaver and
muskrat. To see beaver sitting on
a sandbar crying like babies be-
cause all the water had gone was
really heart-breaking.”’

Shelford told of the catastro-

phic effect on game and wild life
of the flooding of the lakes which
were their feeding ground and
the drying up of the river.

The result of the Alcan Dam
has been to lower the water table
in the Nechako valley, to dry up
wells, ground the ferry across
Fraser’ Lake, and prevent bush
planes from bringing in patients’
to the Burns Lake ‘Hospital..

“The Nechako valley needs irri-
gation. Where will the water
come from now that the river ‘is
dead?” Shelford asked.

“We have lost Tweedsmuir
Park,” he declaréd. “Ootsa
Lake is a terrible mess filled
with standing trees, floating -

trees, sticks and branches. Un-
less the shoreline is cleared this
park can be struck off the map.”

Shelford scored the. agreement
made with Alcan by the late gov-
ernment. He said it made no men-
tion. of the people in the area
affected by flooding.

Over 75 million feet of timber

hKlooding of Tweedsmuir Park
for Alcan ‘terrible tragedy’
Social Credit MLA charges

has been lost in the flooding and ~

contrary to reports much of it.
was of merchantable size.”

“The people ‘of Omineca gave
away. one of the best water-
power sites in ‘the world and not
one kilowatt was left in’ Omin-
eca,’ Shelford concluded. “If
we had some of this power, pulp
mills would soon be in the area
and also other. industries.”

The conference; which describes |
itself as “an organization repre-
senting industry, university and,
government,” heard papers on a
number of topics by spokesmen for
industry who stressed the need of
legislative action to protect their
interests. ,

During the discussion on forest-
Ty, company men showed plainly
their opposition to the Social
Credit government’s proposed
amendments to the Forest Act to
make reforestation by private in-
dustry compulsory. This point of
‘view was further elaborated by
Dr. Harry Giovando (PC, Nanaimo-
The Islands), in a speech to the
legislature. Giovando bitterly at-
tacked the new logging tax and
called for another Royal Commis-
sion to undo the work of Chief
Justice Sloan.

Support for the companies’ posi-
tion against any further extension
of the reforestation program was
expressed by Prof. George Allen
of UBC Forestry Department. He
favored “waiting,” saying that not
enough research had been done
and came out in favor of natural
reforestation by means of patch
logging.

Commenting on this stand con-
servationist H. H. Stevens said.
he was “appalled” by Allen‘s
attitude and charged that B.C.
had done “next to nothing” in,
the way of reforestation.

“I warn against the destruction
of natural resources for immedi-
ate commercial advantages,” said
Stevens.

A menace to. agriculture from
lowering of the water table by
large industrial users of under-
ground water was foreshadowed in
a paper by the engineer who de-
signed the big wells for the H. R.
Maemillan pulp mill at Cedar near
Nanaimo.

The threat, to sgrioultire was
contained in the suggestion for
amendments to the Water Act
to give underground water users
prior rights over established
surface users, even including
the right to expropriate neces-
sary land.

Already B.C. agriculture*faces a
threat to its future expansion. Ac-

lation favorable to the big éorporations.
B.C. Natural Resources Conference held here last week. t

cording to agricultural men at the
ae

Conference reveals attempts
of monopolies to strengthen
grip on province's resources

VICTORIA, B.C.

Monopoly is planning new ways of extending its hold on British Columbia’s heritage of natural
resources and guardians of the people’s interests must be on the alert against attempts to get new legis-
This is indicated by study of the proceedings of the sixth annual.

‘conference, present power dam
plants do not reserve sufficient!
water for the future irrigation
needs of agriculture.

The conference was told that
‘pollution in the North Arm of
the Fraser River is approaching
that in the Willamette River at
Portland and menaces the large
number of fish _ which — pass
through it on the way to the
spawning grounds. But the panel °
heard a proposal by Dr. Peter
Oberlander of UBC, a “planner,”
for legislation to relieve big
industrial concerns and munici-
pal corporations of any ‘res-
ponsibility for the safe disposal
of wastes.

“There is no such hints as pol-
lution,’ calmly announced Dr.
Oberlander. # “In certain circum-

stances, we are quite justified in,

using a river to carry, away waste
materials.” He failed to say what
his plan for so-called “multiple
use” on the North Arm would do
to the fishing industry.

Large mining interests are
likely to seek exclusive prospect-
ing concessions in northern B.C.
of the type which enabled U.S.
interests to grab Quebec iron
ore for a return to that prov-
ince of one cent a ton, accord-
ing to W. H. White, UBC geology
professor. White justified the
concession system as cheaper to
the company in staking claims
and better adapted to. freezing
out possible competitors for a
new mineral find.

Determination of the monopol-
ies to brook no interference in
their ruthless exploitation of Brit-
ish Columbia’s resources was clear-
ly shown by the fate of an out-
line advanced by the conference
executive for a proposed natural
resources policy. The outline, al-
though very general, does recog-
nize the need to conserve natural
resources and the right of the pub-

lie to participate in planning their

use,

Heart of the proposed policy is.

a five-man board of review which,
would advise the government on
the “desirability 6f proposed re-
source projects, where such inter-
ests have . . . important implica-

tions for the welfare of the prov-
ince as a whole.” ‘This board,
which would consist of five peo-

_|ple not connected with any gov-

ernment agency, would further —

have the power to make recom-
mendations about practices “alleg-
ed to be deleterious to the proper
use of resources.” Vek

While some members of the
executive undoubtedly subscribe
to the need for conservation in
the public interest, spokesmen
for the BCER and Fisheries As-

- sociation and similar concerns

are prone to regard it as a bit
of “window dressing,” or, per-
haps, as a weapon to protect
their privileged position against
an influx of powerful U.S. con-
cerns contending for the same
resources.

Last year a resolution which »

dealt only with the setting up of
the advisory board was hastily
tabled after top civil servants
bluntly threatened to Scuttle the
conference. i

The atmosphere at this year’s

conference. was so challenging —
_|that supporters of the plan did

not open it to discussion from the
floor, even though all five panel
speakers, representing industry,
provincial and municipal govern-
oe labor and education, favor-
ed it C

Had ines done so, it would un-
doubtedly have received a very
rough ride from those monopolists
and their spokesmen who see the
possibility that such a board, des-
pite all the proposed safeguards
might open the way for further
public control of their activities.

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