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Vancouver, British Columbia, November 19,

Here Maurice Rush, independent candidate for alderman in Vancouver, is seen on East Hastings
Street adding another signature to his petition.

Rush seeks natural gas for city

A campaign to bring Peace
River natural gas to Vancouver
was begun this week by Maurice
Rush, independent candidate for
alderman in the coming civic
elections.

In a leaflet being distributed
widely throughouth the city, Rush
States:

“Cheap fuel and power pro-
vided by natural gas would bring
new industries to Vancouver and

open a new era of economic de-

velopment. It would create tens
of thousands of new jobs and
lead to a vast expansion of Our
city.”

Comparing cost of gas now be-
ing manufactured by the B.C.
Electric with natural gas, Rush
said:

“The cost of gathering and!
transporting gas through a pipe-
line from Edmonton to Vancou-
ver would be 29.2 cents per thou-
sand cubic feet as compared to

the manufactured gas now in use
in Vancouver which costs about
$1.34 per thousand cubic feet, and

has only one-third the energy con--

tent. Natural gas is the cheapest
and most economical fuel and
would mean big savings for all.”

Rush said a B.C. natural gas
pipeline would be economically
feasible if it were linked to the
trans-Canada line serving Cana-

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T REARM GERMANY
TO THREATEN US AGAIN

TORONTO

The Canadian Peace Congress has launched a ten-
week national campaign to persuade Canada’s parliament
to refuse to agree to German militarists “‘being given a
fresh army with which to take another crach at us.”

The decision was made at a special meeting convened
here by Dr. James G. Endicott, Peace Congress chairman.
It was the first reaction in the country to External Affairs

Minister Lester B. Pearson’s an-
nouncement that the applicable
portions of the Paris agreements
on Germany may be submitted to
the House of Commons as a first
order of business when parlia-
ment assembles in January.

However, Prime Minister Louis
St. Laurent had already referred
to the “apprehension” felt by
Canadians over these agreements
and offered his personal assur-
ances as the reliability of West
German Chancellor Konrad Aden-
auer. :

Regarding these assurances as
inadequate for Canadian security,
the Peace Congress noted in its
statement that even if the Cana-
dian people were to believe that
St. Laurent and Adenauer “are

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Koofenays_ .
need jobs

TRAIL, B.C.

“We must bring industry to
the Kootenays, instead of ex-
porting water power and jobs to
the United States. This is the
stand the LPP took more than
two years ago and today its cor-
rectness is apparent,” Nigel Mor-
gan, Labro-Progressive party pro-
vincial leader, stated here this
week. Morgan is now in Trail
heading up a campaign to block
the Kaiser Dam plan.

Morgan strongly disagreed

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