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Weiiet SGOd Baa N PA. Stectis GORDON McOUAT (X), NPA Bibel Bentley... 375s. AH Agnes Kripps . : Aabert Harragin _ Sse Settee relelelelelecele: eS ater et a’ ioe ae ed "ae! seeceesebebetete a8: $20. © 29 e Rees . Alberta Socred premier ~ Complete city election results MAYOR = WILLIAM RATHIE (X), NPA.. cS Marianne Linnell ,........ BS Total votes cast, 96,139 (936 rejects): 39.8 2 ent ci CITY COUNCIL (Five elected for two-year term) (One elected for one-year term) PARK BOARD (Four elected for two-year term) EBBIE BOWERING (X), NPA. SCHOOL BOARD (Five elected for two-year period) CONSTANGE SPRING. (X%),. NPA voi. co cs Kee incumbent) Pe 41,319 28,435 23,984 1,465 ow" » we pte © 6 6-00 6 < ee ed Se ee ks es, 928 WS cc. 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The reports coming from Ott- — awa suggest that the new organ- _ ization could be called the “Union Party” or Confederation Party”, ‘dedicated to the preservation of Canadian Confederation and the free-enterprise system, The suggestion is that Al- berta’s Premier E.C, Manning, is calling for the new party, From Alberta comes the report that Social Credit Premier Man- ning is once again calling for a new ultra-Right party in Canada and that this time he has found the man and cause to model it on—Barry Goldwater, Speaking to the annual conven- tino of the Alberta Social Credit League, Manning sounded off a campaign against ”national con- fusion,” “national instability” and “national decay.” He proposed a new party to be ‘based on unmistakeable “free enterprise principles” — now ‘abandoned by such “collectivist” and “socialist” parties as the ‘Liberals and Conservatives, Anyone, said the premier, who. supports even the status quo these days is supporting the trend towards “collectivism”, That according to Premier Manning, was the challenge of the Gold- water campaign in the United States, “Few. causes were more del- iberately misrepresented than Goldwater’s,’’ bewailed the pre- mier. Democracy in Canada has broken down because the old line parties no longer offer people a clear choice between “creeping socialism” and rugged individ- ualism, The country is suffering from financial and moral ills, Crime and immorality are in- creasing because of a “rejection of eternal absolutes”, The premier’s cabinet lieut- enants followed him on the con- vention rostrum to deplore trends from “welfare statism” to “moral corruption in our schools”, : ‘ coliseum, Voters crack NPA control but domination continues You voters zippered their wallets and went to the polls last Wednesday. Knocked over in the anti-tax increase demonstration by the voters was the proposed $48 million five- year-plan, the Stafford Smythe the proposed new museum and the Kitsilano Com- ‘munity Centre by-law. Also caught in the economy drive was a proposal to increase council to twelve members which the voters connected with in- creased costs, By the same token support was given to a proposal for biennial elections on the as- sumption that it would save mon- ey. Celebrations by the NPA over the re-election of Mayor Rathie were tempered by the election of labor-NDP backed R.A. Williams as Alderman, and the runner-up position of Ratepayer candidate Harry Rankin who was just 1,500 votes short of election, The election of Williams rep- resents the first crack in the NPA armour by labor since Laura Jamieson was defeated some years ago. Other labor represen- tatives on council such as Ted Jamieson, R. K. Gervin and Birt Showler have been there by vir- tue of NPA support, Williams is a leading member of the NDP; a town planner by Municipal election results show money bylaws carry L ast Saturday (Dec. 11) was el- ection day for 124 cities, towns -and villages in B,C, Most out- standing feature of the annual local elections was the wholesale endorsation voters gave a wide variety of bylaws for civic un- dertakings, Over $19.8 million worth of money bylaws got approval, in- cluding $9.9 million for schools, $3.2 million for hospitals, $1.08 million for sewers, $1,3 million for streets and $3.7 million for other projects. Only $904,000 worth of money bylaws failed to win approval. A second important feature of this year’s elections was the en- dorsation given 12 proposals for extension of local roualelpa boundaries, Surprisingly few changes were recorded, however, when final results were tabulated for mu- nicipal offices, While labor and ratepayers participation doubled - over the previous year, it re- mained relatively weak, In the suburban municipalities of the Lower Mainland only nine new councillors were elected with’ 41 seats up for grabs, but 12 out of 23 school trustees were re- placed. . Incumbent Mrs, Dorothy Lynas, starting her eighth year on North Vancouver School Board, was re- elected with a tidy majority of 844 over her nearest opponent, And in Ioco’s first ballot con- test in 26 years, Don R, Downton ran with labor and NDP backing against Imperial Oil’s chief en- gineer, Samuel Kilbert, only to lose by three meagre votes. occupation who centred his cam- paign against the real estate domination of City Hall and the need to come to grips with the C.P.R. in Vancouver, In the school board and parks board race,..as was expected, the NPA swept the polls. Sur- prising, however was the showing . of Mrs. Ethel Bentley, running for the first time, who was only de- feated by the final poll to report. Donald (Dusty) Greenwell rolled up 29,000 votes for Parks Board running on” what he himself ter- med a shoestring campaign. William Stewart, Vancouver Secretary of the Communist Par- ty, making his second try for of- fice, polled 10,000 votes increas- ing his percentage vote from 6.5 last year to 11% this year, The big issue in the election was the proposed Stafford Smythe coliseum to be built in downtown In Burnaby, veteran trade union: » and ratepayer candidate Willia'1 Turner polled 1,034 votes, Joe Corsbie, former CCF- MLA running with Vancouver Labor Council backing, succeed- ed in breaking through. His run- ning mate, Arne Hansen, fell short by only 542 votes. In Surrey, ratepayer candidates endorsed by theSurrey Municipal Reform Committee polled sub- stantial votes: Harry Ball, 958; Floyd Hamilton, 825; and Fred Bianco, 686 on his first try for office. In Kamloops Mrs. McInnes, secretary of the labor council, fell short of election but labor- backed M,P, Grant was re-elect- ed alderman. Maple Ridge School Board will have labor representation as a result of election with labor and NCP support of R, Franklin (IWA). “Trade unionist George Mc- Knight, with 518 votes was only DOROTHY LYNAS, school board member in North Van- couver, December 18, RO Os nA GIElE ee oP _their hat on this issue and it to the future of the city. one out of five electors going to veteran labor Vancouver on land to be given by the city to the promoter for $1. Rathie, and the NPA hung appears that while the proposal itself, which required a sixty per cent majority to pass, was defeated, the mayor and council rode baci: into office on the 43 per cent of the electorate who supported the coliseum, It is revealing that 42.77 per cent of the people voted for the coliseum, 438 per cent of the voters supported Rathie, and the average vote for NPA aldermen was 43 per cent, A much more serious problem is created by the defeat of the five year plan. While there were som roposals in the five year plan around which some differ- ence of opinion are evident, such as the proposed downtown re- development in Block 42, and the inference that the Georgia Via- duct was to be part of a super ~ freeway, most of the proposals were and remain quite important Seasoned observers feel thatif they can squeak through this year, which is still covered under the previous five year plan, (the defeated plan was due to go into effect from 1966-1970), voters — would approve a basically sim- ilar plan next year with the col- iseum issue out of the way. 291 short of election in Port Alberni, George Slater polled: 177 votes for school board and veteran longshoreman Mark Mosher needed only 71 votes to gain election to Alberni’s rural school board. In Victoria, labor council sec- retary A, W, Toone was re- elected to city council, while trade unionist Harry Fanthorpe got 1026 votes with fewer than the polls, In a hotly-contested election in Nanaimo, Walter Tickson, who — led the fight to stop a land grab of the former Kennedy St. Hos- — pital, polled 978 votes—31 per — cent of those cast. And Jack Parker, endorsed by Nanaimo Labor Council, topped the poll — while running mate George Bryce (for 12 years an alderman) lost his seat. ; In the small Trail suburb of — Warfield, Mine Mill shop stew- ard Al Warrington was consid- erably short of election, In Courtenay, peace activist: Harry Harris received 468 votes ~ against incumbent Mayor George - Hobson’s 588. Local IWA presi dent Max Salter, running for alderman for the first time, polled 288 votes, In Lake Cowichan, Nels La- Farge and Archie Greenwell were re-elected tovillage council, with Greenwell also being re-elected to the post of Chairman of th District School Board. _ Pes. _All in all, a number of positive results were achieved— which bodes well for next year.