= Credit party in his he promised the gram if re-elected. lionaire insurance companies. are one of. the 35 fewer, fit into these categories, ments. which isn’t exactly hay. Quite a difference, isn’t it! People to pay plenty for Alberta medicare When Alberta’s Premier E. C. Manning sent the Social province to the polls a few months ago, people of the province a new medicare pro- The Alberta medicare plan, recently unveiled, has been hailed as a “model” by the medical profession and by the mil- “If the people it was designed for sign up, gleefully exclaimed Dr. Lloyd C. Grisdale, vice-president of Alberta's College of Physiciaris and Surgeoris. Who is the plan “designed for?” : You can take advantage of Alberta’s medicare plan if you percent of the population, perhaps even who don’t earn enough money to pay income tax, or if your taxable income is $500 or less. But this doesn’t mean you don’t pay. If you are in the non-taxable group, the provincial government pays 50 percent jof your premium to the- private insurance companies. If you are in the group with a taxable income under $500, the prov- Ince pays 25 percent of your premiums. Even after you undergo the means test and prove you it still leaves you with sizeable pay- __A family of four with an income of $2,500 a year is left with payments of $6.75 per month, while the same family with -@ $3,000 yearly income will have to pay about $10 a month — Labor, the railroad workers’ trade union paper, says that. on a comparative basis, the Saskatchewan medicare plan costs a single person only $1 a month, and Alberta’s plan goes into operation Ochi, —From The Commonwealth we're away,” $2 a month for families. Valley picnic hears peace fightappeal | Cars from~- many Fraser Valley centres brought fami- lies to a basket picnic in Bear Creek Park last Sunday spon- sored by the Delta-New West- minster Regional Committee © of the Communist Party. The crowd heard folk-sing- ers from Vancouver and the ' Fraser Valley and listened to speakers urge greater efforts in the fight for peace. _ An essay contest on, “Why ‘No Nuclear Arms.For Can- ada,” open to youngsters, brought, many submissions. The winning letters were read out and indicated the think- ing of young people on this vital issue. The essay by Irene Person, won first recognition. Other - winner in the older’ group was Karin Hadvick. In the ME SS A Nu i BR 7-6722 0 10-14 year-old age group, the outstanding letters were by Lester MacDonald, age 14; Susan Zander, age 10 and Karen Brady, age 14. _ Pacific Tribune associate editor Maurice Rush spoke on the test ban agreement and the fight for peace. He pointed out the treaty. was signed almost 18 years to the day since the first bomb drop- ped on Hiroshima which launched the nuclear age. He said the treaty, al- though not everything the people want to ensure peace, was a first step toward estab- lishing control over nuclear arms, and a step away from the danger of thermonuclear war. It came about, he said, as a result of world-wide pro- test against nuclear weapons, and was a victory for the peace forces. The job now, he urged, was to press on the fight to win additional agreements to. set-. tle international disputes through negotiation. PRIOR GARAGE & SERVICE 219 Prior St, MU 3-2926 COMPLETE AUTO SERVICK & REPAIRS Auto Body Work LEE Proprietor ‘Gilman power plan would benefit B.C.’ WILLIAM STEWART Vancouver daily papers, while supporting the B.C. El- ectric attempt to gouge an additional $25 to $50 million out of the people of this pro- vince, have advised the Pre- mier that he should have in- voked the ‘Hart proposals”. With this two word gener- ality they have gone on to sharpen their attack on the public purse. Indeed one would believe that ex-Prem- ier John Hart had forseen this situation and would -has cast his ballot for an extra $50 odd million for the B.C.E. What was the “Hart propo- sal” which is now so readily being handled about by the advocates of slipping the poor old B.C.E. another $50 million? The Government of John Hart, in 1946, set up a Royal Commission to bring in re- commendations concerning the development and _ distri- bubution of power in the Pro- vince of B.C. : This Commission was head- ed by Gilman, and the report handed down became known as the Gilman Report. The recommendations of the Gilman Report, after a full study of the _ situation were: (1) The Provincial Govern- ment would take over the B.C. Electric generation and long distance transmissiva lines. ; (2) A Lower Mainland Util- ity District should be organiz- ed to include Vancouver, New Westminster, Burnaby, Fras- er Mills, North Vancouver, West Vancouver, University Endowment Lands and D.L. 172. This district should ac- quire the electric, gas, street - railway, bus and interurban properties in the area. (3) A greater Victoria Util- ity District should be organ- ized to include the City -of Victoria and the Districts of Saanich, Esquimalt, and Oak Bay. This should acquire the corresponding properties in its area. : _ (4) The Provincial Govern- ment would guarantee the bonds of the utility districts. This proposal was blocked by the Vancouver City Coun-° cil, the majority of whose representatives were support- ers of the B.C. Electric. Are we to take it that the Vancouver Sun, the Vancou- ver Province and those other mediums of public opinion which have suggesteq that Premier Bennett should have followed the advice of Pre- mier Hart, are in favour of these proposals at this time? If this is the case it would be nice to hear from them a little more specifically. The Vancouver Communist Party presented a brief to the Vancouver City Council shortly after the Bennett takeover of the B.C.E. in which we reminded the City Council of the Gilman report and suggested they ask for the establishment of such a utility district in the greater Vancouver area. We pointed out that it would bring an _ additional revenue to the City of Van- couver of $7 million while al- lowing for a cut in electric rates of $1.28 per 300 K.W.H. based on the operation of a similar arrangement in New Westminster. Or a revenue of $5 million based on the aver- HELGE ANDERSON, well- known among loggers, min- _ ers and longshoremen on the Pacific coast, passed away July 16 at the age of 69. He was a life-long supporter of the Pacific Tribune and labor press. Old timers will recall his contributions to many conceris and socials on be- half of the press. The Pacific Tribune joins his many friends and family in express- ing sorrcw at his passing, Labor fair planned for September The Vancouver Labor Fest-] - ival Committee announces plans for an outstanding Fall Fair, which will be held on Saturday, September 14th, from 12 noon to 12 midnight, in two halls, the Russian Peo- ple’s Home at 600 Campbell Ave., and the A.U.U.C. Hall, 805 E. Pender St. The daytime activities will be followed by a dance in the evening, at the Russian Hall. The activities will be many and varied, with a carnival, dancing, country store, hot and cold meals, sale of goods, art display; some lucky per- son will win a door prize of a Home Movie Kit, and one oi the outstanding events will be the crowning of the ‘Harvest Queen’”’ of the fair. Set this date aside now — don’t miss the Fair; Watch the PT for further information. age of other major Canadian cities where power franchises _ are in operation. There was at that time, and continues to be on the part of these public informa- tion centres, a strange silence on this aspect of the Hart Proposal, although they pre- tend at tax time a tender sympathy for the poor home- owner. ss It would be well for labor and ratepayers organizations + to take advantage of this af- finity expressed so widely for the Hart report and call for its full implimentation. | S. Africa hit e by arms bar The United Nations Security Council, meeting this week in — New York, is expected to call on all U.N. members to halt sales © to South Africa of arms and military equipment that might be used to enforce apartheid. The. U.S. ‘decision, announced recently, to ban arms sales to — South Africa at the end of this — year, has sent shock waves ~ through the South African regime. The Johannesburg Sunday .. Times declared: ‘“‘No nation in South Africa’s position, however determined, could permanently withstand the collective force of world opinion.” : Notices LUCRATIVE ACTIVITY for nurses, teachers, business . women in need of some- thing to do in their spare time. Phone BEAUTY COUNSELLORS, RE 3- 8684. ee WORKING MOTHER with 2 children would like unfur- nished suite in Hastings East area by September 1. Phone WE 9-1818. Coming events — ,AUG. 10—Edmonds invites you all to come to an old-fashioned hay. ride _ followed by good food and an indoor rodeo. 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