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Vancouver Island
Quota Achieved

By LES McDONALD

Garibaldi Park as the site
for the 1968 Winter Olympics
is a hot topic among skiers
these days. Last year a group
of financiers weighed the pros
and cons of developing the
area as a pure money-making
project. The government ob-
ligingly provided them with
the area.

However, it all fell flat. My
guess being that they came to
the conclusion that there
were more lucrative returns
to be made in other fields for
their “hard earned” capital.
Judging by the recent finan-
cial statements of B.C. Tele-

phone, C.M. and §S., Inco, B.C.
Electric, ad infinitum, they’re.

probably right!

Now, the Socreds, with an
election in the offing, sudden-
ly become interested in winter
sports, and offer to pay half,
if Dief pays the other. “It’ll
never pay off,” some snigger.
Personally, I don’t see why
not. If we look back on past
sites of Winter Olympics — St.
Moritz, Cortina — we can see
how they attracted thousands
of skiers and tourists, and still
do, repaying a hundredfold the
original investment.

Squaw Valley, scene of the
last Olympics, now provides
pleasure and jobs for thous-
ands of Californians. During
the winter months thousands
of Vancouverites drive 200
miles to ski on alpine slopes
at Mt. Baker, taking their
money with them. With the
development cf Garibaldi,
whose slopes are reckoned
superior to Squaw, let alone
Mt. Baker, the area would be
thronged with skiers from the
Lower Mainland and _ the

| States.

It would provide the prov-
ince with a glittering gem,
and draw many newcomers to
the outdoors, to a sport which
boasts of no spectators, only
participants. Then we'll begin
to collect the real “pay-off,”
in terms of better health and

SPORTLIGHT

all-round fitness, and’ well be-
ing for the people, something-
impossible to count in dollars”
and cents!

The lack of developed al--
pine ski resorts also shows:
itself when we see the gener-:
ally poor showing of our ski-.
ers in international competi-
tions. With the exception of,
Lucille Wheeler and Anne.
Heggteveit, who can both af-
ford to train in Europe. It’s
just not possible to develop
champions without long alpine
slopes to practice on, fed by
chairlifts and cable-cars. Its
not that we haven’t got the
snow or the mountains. We
have both in abundance, right
on the doorstep. We have po-
tentially good athletes too, ev-
en though the ski clubs in
Vancouver had to sell peanuts
from door to door to raise the
fares to send them to Squaw
Valley. for the Olympics.

Our best alpine man, Verne
Anderson, a_ Rossland’ fire-
fighter, stated after the games
that the European aces were

not unbeatable, and that even

if it meant holding down two
jobs this summer, he was go-
ing to train in Europe next
winter. This is a very sad com-
mentary on what our govern-
ments have done and are do-
ing both for sportsmen and in
the way of developing first
class ski resorts.

However, Bennett is now of-
fering to go 50-50 with the
Federal government to devel-
op Garibaldi. Regardless of
the obvious electioneering in-
tention behind the offer, we
should all grasp this opportun-
ity to pressure the Federal
government to funnel some of
our taxes from the pockets of

the arms manufacturers into a
genuine,

positive project of
this nature.

It would continue to pay
real dividends to the Canadian
people for years to come, un-
like the negative manufacture
of weapons of war, which can.
only lead and indeed is lead-
ing to a depressed economy,

Machinery Plant.

Mass sports activities are expanding in People’s China.
Above is the motorcycle sports team of the Peking

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