TWISTED NFWS A Reader, Vancouver, writes: * The Vancouver Sun boasts a rea- Sonably well-paid staff, with Correspondents in many of the Major countries of the world. Yet they serve up the most twisted news data it is possible to find in a daily newspaper. WO examples: i he issue of June 15 carried _ 'Wo small items — small, but Vicious. One, a United Press International story datelined Moscow, stated that the 1,517 Candidates elected in Sunday’s upreme Soviet elections were ~ all Communists and all were Unopposed. Had the Soviet Union been a Country in the capitalist orbit, : they would have added a few lines to make note of the fact that candidates to ‘the highest _ Parliamentary body in the land are chosen, elected, if you wish, at the factory, farm, trade union, Cultural group, or village level. And they are “opposed.” Quite often a non-Communist delegate Will be chosen by the workers Sver a Communist Party Member. Issues involved, the Capabilities of candidates, the™ Needs of the constituents are Iscussed with greater interest and knowledgeability at the Nomination level than is ever true in our so-called democratic. System. The people of the Soviet ion choose their represen- latives to the Supreme Soviet With the most minute care. The Sun would have us believe ie the Communist Party a pints these representatives, tt d the people like sheep en- “Tse them. That is a lie. faite second story involved a oa item regarding COPE’s - .,Mination convention last mereay: I have been reliably ormed that the Vancouver ae as well as other news- i feos in the city, received €ntical news releases from YPE’s executive. Yet the June 15 edition of the TED HARRIS 757 East Hastings St. Vancouver 4, B.C. ainters and Paperhangers Supplies 4 : Sunworthy Wallpaper Sty. 45¢ — Now 19¢ a Roll pee j Qecr FORU Sun managed to completely misquote a clearly-typed, double spaced, written-in-King’s Eng- lish missive which every other newspaper which printed it managed to publish correctly. The Sun announced that COPE planned to nominate a candidate for mayor, and a full slate of candidates for aldermen, parks and school board. Why did the Sun editorialists see fit to emasculate and twist this news story? Obviously, to make trouble. The idea that the NDP and COPE have agreed to cooperate in the civic elections on candidates and program is unbearable to the Establishment. Anything they can do to sabotage and create ill- feeling between the two groups — they'll do! Always read anything they write about a _ progressive country or a _ progressive movement in our country with a grain of salt. It pays to beware! —U.S. Daily World Beaver Transfer * Moving * Packing * Storage 373 East Hastings St. It Pays to Sell the ‘PT’ Contact: E. CRIST, Circulation Mgr. - at 685-5288 L Phone 254-3711 253.1991 The Trip of a Lifetime! EXPO 70 & Trans-Siberian Railway Contact: GLOBE TOURS 2679 E. Hastings St., Vancouver 6, B.C. 254-2313 ee a Youth onb seek full-ti Paul Tate is a 20 year old student- worker who is familiar with unemploy ment and low paid jobs. Resenting the inference that long-haired youth. don't want. to work, he made a survey of the young people who do not receive welfare but depend on the free meals at Alexandria House to stay alive. By PAUL TATE It’s a common saying — “‘those darned hippies don’t want to work; they just want to bum around.” Unfortunately for those who want to believe that the only youth on the breadlines today are ‘‘hippies’’, it is just not true. Speaking to some forty kids, (most of them long-haired, and all unemployed) who stand around Fourth Avenue, crash at Cool-Aid, and line up for a meal at Alexandria House, I found that more than half of them desperately want and need work. They are awfully bloody tired of the ‘“‘bum’s life’ that so many. stalwart members of the com- munity say they want to live. They are not unemployed because they are all school drop- outs. They say it is because there is just not work available and the “‘straight’’-looking kids who have influence will get first chance at any job going. The small survey I made indicated that many of them are really searching for full-time permanent work; others are just travelling across the ‘country and would like seasonal” jobs. Of those seeking full time jobs, about half have no_ specific training. Others have consider- able job’ experience, (anywhere from 6 months to 3 years at one job) and others are tradesmen or have either university degrees or a few years at university. No matter what their qualifi- cations, none of them are having any luck finding employment. Perhaps that is not correct; one girl I met, a 23 year old sociology graduate with landed immi- grant status, has found work as a waitress. ’ Here are examples, typical of the kids who in all probability _ are standing today in a line with 450 others, waiting for the 5 o’clock free meal at Alexandria House: : eevececosesocevesesessser SOVALTINE : : CAFE : : 251 EASTHASTINGS Vancouver, B.C. QUALITY SERVICE ——— Workers Benevolent Assn. 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He visits Manpower 2 or 3 times a week but now that the strawberry season has arrived, feels he will go out to the fields. With few exceptions, the young people I spoke to didn’t like the way they were forced to live, but they had no idea how they could change the situation, and there, I think, lies the trouble. I could not help but think that all this is a terrible waste of young Cana- dians and the talents they possess. U.S. PEACE WORKER silence barrier Last week tens of thousands of residents on the Lower Mainland experienced a frightening noise which shook buildings and windows. There was no explanation what caused the unusual noise, except one newspaper reported in a small item that it may have been due toa U.S. pilot having broken the sound barrier somewhere over Vancouver. Not a word came from any government or civilian authority. It was passed off as an everyday occurance that nobody should bother about. But the incident immediately poses ” the question: What is going on in the sky over Vancouver? Are U.S. military planes engaged in maneouvres or military flights over our territory about which citizens are not informed? It’s time somebody in Ottawa, preferably the Prime Minister, broke the silence barrier and told us what activities the U.S. military are carrying on over Cana- dian skies. SPEAKS: Indochina: The Peace Action League is sponsoring a public meeting to be addressed by Martin Hall of Los Angeles. on the subject “What Next in Indochina?”’ The meeting will be held in the Unitarian Church, West 49th Ave., on Monday, June 29 at 8 p.m. Co-sponsor of the affair is the Social Responsibility Com- mittee of the Unitarian Church. Martin Hall is a trustee of the First Unitarian Church in Los Angeles and is an executive member of the Peace Action Council in that city. He was born in Germany, and has a long history of humani- tarian work and struggle against opporession beginning with his work in the anti-Nazi under- ground -movement in the What next?» thirties. He fled to France in 1935 and a year later came to the United States where he became an American citizen. He is a lecturer and journalist who has contributed to the Nation, the Christian Century, the New Stateman and other journals. Chairman will be Mrs. Norma Elrod. The. Peace Action League is comprised of the Voice of Women, Fellowship of Recon- ciliation, Religious Society of Friends (Quakers), B.C. Peace Council, Women’s International League forPeace and Freedom, Canadian Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament, and the Social Action Committee of the North Shore Unitarian Church. Classified advertising — COMING EVENTS JULY 5— ANNUAL FRASER VALLEY © CLUB PICNIC on SUNDAY, JULY © Sth from 2 p.m. till?? at OTTO & VIVIAN SKIBA’S — 6195 Ryder Lake Rd. in SARDIS. (Ph. 858-6469)... 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