JWe CAN get 1,000, Plan museum for Dear Reader: We're going after 1,000 subs ‘nd renewals by May Day. That’s our answer to the ques- Hon: “What’s to be done about circulation?” Greater Vancouver press Clubs are asked to turn in 500 €w subs and renewals in the next three months; pro- vincial press clubs are ask- ed to sign up an equal num- ber of read- ers. eve One worker by himself can’t build a dam. he efforts of individuals can € wonderful (and we have ay°0me =wonderful individual fy rkers) but it’s the aggregate at counts in the long run. _ Without the efforts of hund- Teds of Pacific Tribune sup- giPorters, we will never make geOur target. But if everyone es in, we can’t fail. te 1 subs by May Day © We try our best to make the PT a paper that reflects the needs and aspirations of the people of British Columbia. But the paper does not sell itself. Signing up new read- ers requires work. Could YOU find just one new reader? If you can, you will not only be taking the socialist message to new peo- ple; you will also help close the gap between production costs and income. Our paper is small, but it carries news that you cannot get elsewhere — the news of the working class struggles of Canada and the world; the so- cialist point of view that of- fers the hope of the world; the consistent advocacy of peace and higher living stand- ards; of sanity in relationships between nations. Let’s go out and get those 1,000 subs! Rita Whyte centennial project Vancouver City Council this week named a marine museum and a permanent haven for the famed vessel St. Roch at- Kitsilano Point’ as its first choice for a centennial monument. The centennial committee, now headed by Harold Merilees following the resig- nation of Jack Diamond, will discuss the scheme with the Native Sons, who first proposed the project, and re- turn to council in one month with a joint report on financ- ing the project. Tom Bate, Socred MLA for Point Grey, argued before council that the museum was a Native Sons project’ and should be handled by the lodge, but Mayor Fred Hume won support of council when he de- clared that the centennial ws “something for all of Vancou- ver, not just a group propect.” The museum will be located on Parks Board property at the foot of Chestnut Street, where the street end meets English Bay at Kitsilano Park. There is some doubt whether uLONG BLOCKED BY RAILROADS | d e shh af sit 4 | SEATTLE a The century old dream of uniting the two halves of ) Ww ° ° vill ashington state by piercing sofithe Tuggedly-beautiful Cas- Ith cade Mountain range with a Pighway tunnel appears once gain to be on the verge of gt fruition, By TERRY PETTUS fi Enabling legislation, to tap federa] funds, and place this yi Imittedly ambitious project on the highway program will 7 - introduced in the 1957 ses- aggsion of the legislature. 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The absence of an all-weath- er highway link between the vast inland empire and the port facilities and population centres of Puget Sound is a brake on development of the area even though it does mean more profits to the railroad corporations. % a os The idea of a tunnel is al- most as old as the settlement of this area. In 1855, General Isaac Stevens surveyed a pos- sible railroad route through the Cascades, In his report to President Franklin Pierce, he said that a°tunnel could and should be built at a site now known as Stevens Pass. But in the days of the Dred Scott decision the slave own- ers were powerful in Washing- ton D.C. As secretary of war, Jefferson Davis saw to it that General Stevens’ report gath- ered plenty of dust..A great Civil War was to be fought before a railroad was to trans- verse the nation over the nor- thern route. The Cascade tunnel idea was to slumber for 69 years before another army officer, General Chittenden, fanned the em- bers into a flame. In 1914, he began a campaign which captured the imagina- tion of John Stuffer Hudson, Seatile architect, builder, am- ateur musician and crusader. Hudson took hold of the idea and never let go until his death in 1945. Proving, once again that any cause needs dedicated support- ers, Hudson gave his time and his finances in sinking the con- cept of the tunnel deep among the people. Paying his own expenses, he travelled up and down the state. He pushed the issue un- der the noses of every candi- date for public office. He never once, let the main opponent, the railroads, get out of the line of fire. In 1928, the Cascade Tun- nel Association was formed with many a big “name” on its roster. Hudson, of course, was elected chairman. During ‘the bleak depression years, an unsuccessful attempt was made ‘to get it included among the the two acres available at this site will be sufficient. Speak- ing at the Men’s Canadian Club on Wednesday last week, Dr. William Kaye Lamb, Do- minion archivist and librarian, stressed that the museum “must be on a site where it will have room enough to breathe and grow.” He thought five acres would be necessary. Although the museum will be a major project to mark B.C.’s centennial in 1958, only $500,000 is available, of which the provincial government is providing half and the city half. Cost of a museum will run from $800,000 to a million dol- Cascades tunnel proposed federal Public Works Admin- istration projects, Then the Second World War came and it went on the shelf. In 1945 hopes again soared. Washington legislature, with only one dissenting vote, pass- ed a bill for a survey, Ole Singstad, New York engineer was hired. ‘ He proposed a couple of routes and frowned on others, including that of General Ste- vens which would require an 18-mile tunnel at the 2,500 foot level. But the engineer said a bore could be made at the 2,300 foot level of the Sno- qualmie Pass at an estimated cost of 22 million. Hopes ran high, and when Hudson died in October of that year he could go confident that his dream would soon be real. But the 1946 election saw re- action make some big gains and when the 1947 legislature convened it did a quick killing job on the Cascade Tunnel bill introduced at the request of Governor Mon C. Wallgreen. The railroads won again. Harry J. Martin succeeded Hudson as chairman of the Association; he has never ac- cepted the 1947 setback as per- manent. And after 10 years his, like Hudson’s hopes, ap- pear to be justified. It will be a tough battle, but the odds now favor a peo- ple’s victory in the long, long fight against railroad domina- tion of this bisected state. lars. Native Sons propose to raise the balance. : Regional Consultant: A. W. Thiessen, No. 729, 736 Gran- ville Street, Vancouver, B.C. S. E. 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