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FRIDAY, MAY 12, 1967

VOL. 28, NO. 19

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‘Gtiminal neglect from Victoria

| City tag day fo help
children of Vietnam

Vancouver city council Tues-
day gave approval for a tag day
to be held on city streets Friday,
June 23 for the purpose of raising
funds for medical aid for the
children of Vietnam.

City council’s action came in
response to an appeal by a large
delegation headed by Mrs. Ther-
esa Galloway, prominent com-
munity leader, former school
trustee and recipient of the Good
Citizen award; Jack Henderson,
Freeman of the City of Vancou-
ver and former B,C. President
of the Canadian Legion; Father
James Roberts, priest of Our
Lady of Mercy Church; and Rev.
R.S. Christie, associate secre-
tary of the United Church of
Canada board of evangelism and
social service.

The delegation was organized
at a conference held Tuesday,
May 2 at the Vancouver School of
Art where a committee was
formed calling itself the Vancou-
ver Centennial Tag Day for the
Children of Vietnam Committee,

Mrs, Galloway told council that
funds raised would go to the In-
ternational Committee of the Red
Cross in Geneva for distribution

See TAG DAY, pg. 12

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turist foreign policy of the U.S.”
Kashtan’s letter continues:

“The terrible results of that
policy are now revealed for all
mankind to see, They have led
to a war of aggression against
the small nation of Vietnam which
is unparalleled in its barbarity.
With every escalation, the United
States government draws the
world closer to the abyss of
thermonuclear war.

“Every treaty, every tie that
binds us to those policies im-
perils the very life of Canada,

“This is sufficient reason in
itself to compel Canada to with-

draw from NORAD, It is ob-
vious however that even those
who have up to now supported
our involvement in NORAD are
being compelled to re-think their
position, aS a result of the ap-
parent U.S. commitment to the
construction of an anti-ballistic
missile system, AS has been
widely pointed out if Canada were
to remain in NORAD, we would
be compelled to join in such.a
system.

«This would impose such econ-
omic burdens upon our country
as to put in jeopardy all those
social measures which are so
desperately needed to improve
the education, health and welfare
‘of our people, And for all this

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Tribune

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Flood danger rises

Cool spring weather with a record snow pack in
the mountains has led to widespread fears that a sud-
den change in the weather could lead to the most seri-
ous floods ever experienced in the Froser Valley, ex-

ceeding the disastrous flood of 1948.

‘ Some experts have predicted
that another flood on the scale
of 1948 would do more than $200
million damage. Meanwhile, the
provincial government has
thrown the major responsibility
for strengthening dikes on to
municipalities which are already
reeling under an impossible tax
load.

Municipal authorities have
been told by Recreation Minister
Kiernan that they are on their own
until they are “knee deep in water
and running for help” — as Delta
Reeve Clarence Taylor put it
this week.

A classical example of “better
late than never” was the an-
nouncement Monday by Water Re-
sources Minister Williston that
a tentative agreement had been
made with Ottawa last week on
an agreement for a federal-pro-
vincial plan for Fraser River
flood control for the next 10
years.

This plan, if it is ever im-
plemented, is many years too late
to meet the crisis shaping up in

the next few weeks onthe Fraser. '

This week the B,C, Communist
Party, in a letter to Premier
Bennett called for
emergency measures to protect
farmers and residents in the
Fraser delta.

we would have nothing but a wea-
pons system which could in no
way adequately protect us against
nuclear war, and a further vast
erosion of sovereignty.

«That profound reappraisal of
all Canadian foreign and defense
policy which is so long overdue
can no longer be delayed or
evaded, We see no alternative

put for Canada to break with the ©

United States alliance, and adopt
a policy of independence from
all alliances which would be in
effect a policy of neutrality.

«But in proposing such a new
course with the utmost urgency,
we do not suggest that it would
either be possible or desirable

immediate -

“Your government,” provincial
leader Nigel Morgan said in his
letter, “is spending tens of mil-
lions of dollars to provide flood
control storage and other bene-
fits on the Columbia for the U.S,
while the pressing need for de-
cisive action on the grave flood
threat in our own midst is ig-
nored.

“It is still not too late to take
action to implement the recom-
mendations of the Fraser River
Board which emphasized that the
present dikes will not withstand
another 1948 water flow. Steps
must be taken immediately not
only to strengthen weakened sec-
tions of the dikes, but to raise
the level above the height of
the 1948 crest.”

Morgan asked: “Why shouldn’t
water storage in hydro dams on
the upper reaches, such as the
Kenney Dam, be released immed-
iately to permit more withholding
capacity when the main snow melt
comes?

“These and other emergency
measures need to be combined
with a long term plan of flood
control and integrated resource
development to end dependence on
diking, dredging, and drainage,
This could eliminate the heavy
cost of seepage and erosion and
end the insecurity felt by people
every spring.”

for Canada to ‘opt out of the
world.”

“Rather we advocate, as: we
have done for many years, an
independent Canadian. foreign
policy based on positive actions
to serve the peace of the world.
We see.as the main features
of that policy the following:

e With withdrawal from NOR-
AD, the elimination of all
nuclear bases on our soil, and
the declaration that Canada is
a nuclear free zone which we
ask all countries to respect in-
cluding the leading nuclear pow-
ers — the United States and the
Soviet Union,
See FOREIGN POLICY, pg. 12