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ey Reports current here indicate that the Bennett government instructed its repre:
fative at the recent Board of Transport Commmissioners hearing at Ottawa to with-
PPosition to Westcoast Transmission’s Peace Rivér gas pipeline application after

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“Sure had been brought to bear by the B.C. Electric.

Gas highlights

ling B.C, Power Commission must build the gas pipe-
Ub] ‘mn Huntingdon to Vancouver; the discredited
'C Utilities Commission must be fired!” will be the
Tune 2° brought to Fraser Valley towns this Saturday,
iL, by a car cavalcade organized by the Labor-Pro-
© party.
Cony. cavalcade assembles at the CNR station in Van-
=f at 10 a.m. and will visit New Westminster, Clov-

Stessiy,

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mene » “angley, Abbotsford, Mission (where a park

Mi 8 is planned), Haney, Hammond, Port Moody,
“tdville and Sapperton,

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You a Ublicly-owned natural gas means lower rates for

Van Says a leaflet being prepared for distribution in
souver by the LPP.

Sent ec: Electric will buy gas from Westcoast for 20

1009 Per 1,000 cubic feet. They will charge you $1 per

have Subic feet. That’s a spread of 80 cents. You can

Unde Sas 20 percent to 25 percent cheaper if distributed
wpublic ownership. sae

&tn Tite Premier Bennett and urge the provincial gov-

the Bot to take over distribution of natural gas through

“™: © ower Commission.”

Mong tal ae gas distribution be under private
Ques LY ownership, or under public ownership?” is the

Ne ‘On that will be discussed at a conference to be held
Broag 8, at 9:30 a.m., in the Labor Temple, 307 West

ea Way, here. The conference has been called by

Ci] (Cer) ancouver and Lower Mainland Labor Coun-

ee Hng of Westcoast Transmission’s application to change the pipeline terminus

from Vancouver to Huntingdon
was essential to the B.C. Elec-
tric’s scheme to obtain a mono-
poly of natural gas distribution
in the lower mainland, the most
densely populated and profitable
area of operations in the prov-
ince.

At the same time, transferring
of the terminus from Vancouver
to Huntingdon on the interna-
tional border makes it easier for
U.S. interests to obtain the great-
er part of the gas and conse-
\quently restrict -industrial de-
velopment in and around Van-
couver.

If the Bennett government
hoped to head off the gathering
demand for public distribution
of natural gas by facilitating the
saw-off between Westcoast Trans-
mission and the B.C. Electric, it
has been disappointed by devel-
opments of the past few days.

On Wednesday Percy E. George
quit his post as chairman of the
Public Utilities Commission but
announced he would continue
as a member, along with another
ex-chairman, D. K. Penfold. His

announcement was followed by .

appointment of Dean Henry
Forbes Angus, head of the de-
partment of economics, political
science and sociology at UBC, as
the commission’s new chairman.
Purpose ofthe shuffle — to
attempt restoration of confidence
Continued on back page
See GAS

s PUC unch

GENERAL GUY SIMONDS
Retired

anged

AVM J. L. PLANT
Demoted

Plant’s speech stirs storm

Protest forces gov’t
disciplinary action

Nation-wide protest has compelled the federal govern-

ment to take disciplinary action against Air Vice-Marshal
J. L. Plant and Lieut.General Guy Simonds, army chief

of staff.

Plant this week was demoted by his transfer from chief

of RCAF technical services to
air material commander. Sim-
onds, who is 52, announced his
retirement “after a normal four-
year term as chief of staff,” his

suecessor being 56-year-old Major

General Howard Graham.
Disciplinary action

Continued on page 6
See PROTEST

against

For reports of Krushchev’s speech and

Soviet-Yugoslav pact turn to page 2