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FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 1963
VOL. 24, NO. 45

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REMEMBRANCE DAY
MARCH ON MONDAY

As in past years, the U.B.C.
Nuclear Disarmament Club, with
the co - operation of Canadian
Committee for Nuclear Disarm-
ament and Canadian Youth for
Nuclear Disarmament, is spon-
Soring a November 11 march to
commemorate Remembrance
Day, and to bring to public at-
tention the need for positive steps
to preserve peace.

Theme of the November 11
March will be ‘*No Nuclear Arms
for Canada’’,

The march will assemble at
the University gates at 10:00
Monday morning, and follow the
route of past years: Across
Broadway to the City Hall for
lunch, (bring your own), and then
to the Cenotaph where a wreath
Will be laid.

_The march, which will be the

start of a week of peace act-
ivities on Campus, will be a
demonstration of our determina-
tion to keep Canada free of
nuclear weapons,

An urgent appeal is made for
everyone to turn out.

Living
costs up

OTTAWA—The Dom-
inion Bureau of Statistics
reported this week that
living costs rose in Sep-
tember by two-tenths of
a point to 133.6. The con -
sumer price index is based
on 1949 prices equalling
100.

Voters list scandal
forces Gov’t probe

The scandal over the B.C,
Provincial voters’ list usedinthe
September 30 election has forced

TOM BERGER, NDP candidate who
S narrowly defeated in Burrard,
Said this week he and his running
mate, Paddy Neale, will seek to
4 Ave the Supreme Court set aside
he election in their riding.
eed

Chief Electoral Officer Fred
Hurley in Victoria to order
a complete investigation of
charges of irregularities.

Most opposition political par-
ties have complained that large
numbers of people were disen-
franchised. It was revealed this
week that there are about 10,000
unopened ballot envelopes in the
Lower Mainland alone.

Many candidates have charged
that these envelopes contained
votes of people who were taken
off the voters’ list by mistake
and forced to vote under Section
80 of the Elections Act.

Under. this section votes are
put in envelopes then checked
against a master file. If they are
not on that list their vote is.not
counted,

PAGE ONE COMMENT

The recurring crisis at Berlin points up the need for the
Major powers to reach an early agreement to normalize the

Situation at this trouble spot.
More than once the Soviet

Union has pointed to the

Berlin and German problem as one of the most dangerous
reats to world peace. It has urged that this problem,

Which is a carry-over from

World War 2, should be ended

y agreement among the great powers.
rhe Soviet proposal calls for West Berlin to be made

a
UN

and major powers.

If the West can’t come up with a

‘free city” with its independence guaranteed by the

better plan they

Should start negotiations on the Soviet proposal to end the
erlin “crisis” once and for all.

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NET $6 MILLION

As anew round of price increases faced consumers, resulting.
from skyrocketing sugar prices, Vancouver consumer groups demand-
ed that the B.C. government intervene to protect the public. Meanwhile,.
in Ottawa last week Opposition Leader John Diefenbaker charged
that certain wholesalers or refinery operators made a minimum of $6
million in windfall profits from 400 million pounds of sugar in storage
when prices began fo rise.

Also hitting out against sugar
profiteers and speculators, NDP
National Leader Tommy Douglas
told Parliament that not only was
the price of imported sugar go-
ing up, but domestically-produc-
ed sugar was also being sold at
a higher price.

He said that fines levied on
sugar companies after success-
ful combines prosecutions were
only a fraction of the profit
from price increases.

In Vancouver the price of sugar
has gone up to ten pounds for
$1.95. One year ago sugar in
Vancouver was selling for seven
and a half cents a pound. The

current price is nineteen and a
half cents a pound - or twelve

cents more than a year ago.’

The same high prices are be-
ing charged all across Canada,
Toronto supermarkets last week
were selling sugar for 99 cents
for five pounds, which is the
highest price since 1920. Mean-
while, it was disclosed this week
that in the.state of Oregon ten

pounds of sugar is selling for
89¢.
* * *

Manufacturers of products
containing sugar are increasing
prices or are considering price
boosts for a wide range of con-
sumer goods. This week soft
drink companies, cafes and res-
taurants announced that drinks
will go up two cents a bottle to 12¢.

Since sugar is used in a very
wide range of products it is
expected that attempts. will
be made to pass the exhorbitant
sugar prices on to consumers
through increases on various
foodstuffs.

Acutely aware of this serious
situation the Vancouver Consum-
ers Committee on Prices is re-
ported this week to be preparing
a submission to Attorney General
Bonner asking what action the
provincial government is plan-
ning to take in light of recent
statements by the Prime Minis-
ter that jurisdiction of prices
in peacetime lies with the prov-
ince,

The Consumers Committee
points out that the new round
of sugar price increases makes it
apparent that consumers are once
again being victimized by buyers
and speculators.

The committee demands that
the government intervene to pro-
tect the consuming public by
passing legislation to stabilize
sugar prices.

The Consumers Committee re-
calls last year’s round of price
increases for sugar, and points
out that studies made by the
committee at that time showed
that widespread manipulation,
hoarding and speculation on the
world raw sugar market were
the main causes of the high
prices,

However, said the committee,
if sugar refineries and raw sugar
producers, which are often one
and the. same, cannot stop this
kind of manipulation, then it be-
comes apparent that some gov-
ernment intervention to protect
the consuming public is inorder.

See SUGAR, pg. 8

Soviet Union marks anniversary
with new space achievements

By PETER TEMPEST
MOSCOW: Jubilant over the

successful launching of the first
highly manoeuverable spaceship,
Soviet Premier Khrushchev last
Friday revealed that the Soviet
Union is studying President Ken-
nedy’s proposal for a joint moon
project.

‘What could be better than
to send a Russian and an Amer-
ican together, or better still, a
Russian man and an American
woman?’’ he asked.

Speaking at a government re-
ception for Laotian Premier Sou-
vanna Phouma, Khrushchev said

MOSCOW AT NIGHT. Brightly lit up for the festive celebrations

this year in the Soviet capital to mark the 46th anniversary of the
Socialist Revolution. New space achievements added spice to the

happy occasion.

that the ship Polyot - 1 is
really new. ‘‘Man is no longer a
prisoner of his ship, but can
make the ship obey his will.’’

After being put in orbit last
Friday, Polyot - 1 — the word
means Flight — made ‘‘consid-
erable sideways manoeuvres’’
and also changed its height, ac-
cording to the official Tass an-
nouncement. News of the ‘wander
at will’? sputnik added space’
spice to the eve-of-holiday mood
here,

The city is already reddening
with street banners and decor-
ations for the October Revolu-
tion anniversary celebrations,

For the first time, Soviet sci-
entists have tossed a satellite
into orbit and then successfully
juggled it up, down and sideways
round the earth,

Launched in an orbit with max-
imum altitudes of 367 and 210
miles, it changed altitude and
inclination and was_ stabilized
*‘‘many times,’’ said Tass, be-
fore finally swinging into an egg-
shaped orbit with maximum and
minimum altitudes of 892 and
213 miles at an angle of 58,55
degrees to the equator.

Tass described this fresh tri-
umph of Soviet science as ‘‘an
important step necessary for fur-
ther study and conquest of

space.’’ Research work already
carried out, said Tass, ‘*makes
See SOVIET, pg. 3