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By. V. VICTOR

CIVIC COUNCIL COMMENTS:
With Civic Elections tucked away
for another year and a few .
changes for the better in the
Alberni Valley and Nanaimo it
will be interesting to see how
much attention the longtime
councillors will pay to progres-
sive newcomers who had sug-
gested some important moves
for progress in both cities,

One progressive campaigner
in Alberni, George McKnight,
had a double campaign going,
one for an aldermanic seat and
the other a petition signed by
thousands of local residents to
have a provincial government
program to correct Valley polu-
tion, whieh is caused by refuse
from the pulp: mill stacks, ‘

It was an excellent idea even
if the Comox-Alberni Member of
the Legislative Assembly didn’t
agree, He stated the program
was going to the wrong body to
have any action taken concerning
pollution. It’s very hard to go
along with that idea when five
thousand people sign sheets of
paper all in accord,

* * *

SOCRED SHAKE-UP; After the
federal farce of November 8,
three small town Socred clubs
had a job to elect new officers
due to resignations and in-club
disagreements, The party made
such a poor showing federally
they had a bit of soul-searching,

Now word comes out of Vic-
toria, from a usually reliable
source, that the parent organiza=
tion of the province will not hold
an election next year for the
same reason,

This is in spite of a recent
announcement by the Attorney-
General that Socred organiza-
tions should be prepared for a
federal and possibly a provincial
election next year, He said his
party traditionally calls an elec-
tion before its last year of office,
Rather a vague declaration, but
typically Socred,

* * *

MORE POLLUTION: The Is-
lands ‘south of Harmac and
Crofton pulp mills maintain the
tourists are staying away in
droves due to the odors from

these mills, This has occurred
when national tourism is in-
creasing steadily,

One disaster of pollution which
doesn’t get the attention it de-
serves is the direct effect it
has on salmon spawning migra-=
tions up the rivers and streams
in the Fall of the year, Accord-
ing to an officer at Nanaimo

* Biological Station the poor

catches of the past few years
were caused by polluted fresh
water streams,

Accordingly, when hundreds of
tons of young fingerlings from
the rivers were found dead on
the ocean floor in Puget Sound
it was found many had pulp mill
residue in their system, which
could have caused their death,
At the time of the discovery it
wasn’t ‘possible to determine the
exact cause due to the time fac-
tor.

* * *

.PARKADE PLEASURE: Na-
naimo’s half-million dollar white
elephant had one day of capacity
business because two large de=-
partment stores held a $1.49
Day sale on the same day, The
first good day in six months
since it opened,

The local rag made book on
the one day of big business for
the parkade, That media used

much space in propaganda when |

the project was in the planning
stage for reasons which should
be too obvious to mention: Big
Business caressing the hand that
feeds it.

The parkade was a progres-
Sive project and it shouldn’t be
considered otherwise, but to
charge the people who built it
ten cents an hour to park in
order to conduct necessary busi-
ness seems a bit thick,

City Council could take a sug-
gestion from a Socialist paper
and allow the parking public the
privilege of the first hour free,
People then might use the lot
more than at present,

By rapid calculation it will
take just under five hundred
years to pay for the project
at the present rate of gains.
And that’s a long time to have
‘so little gain,

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The people of France prepar-
ed to vote in this Sunday’s (Dec.
19) runoff election amidst ru-
mours and public opinion pol]
samplings that the contest for
president could be a real close
one,

Reports early in the week in-
dicated that Francois Mitterrand,
candidate of the united Left, was
virtually neck and neck with
President Charles de Gaulle, The
widest progressive coalition
since the Popular Front days of
1936-39 is backing Mitterand, It
includes the following forces:

The powerful Communist Party
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Union of Teachers, the Socialist
Party, the Radical Socialists,
and Mitterrand’s own Demo-
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Mitterrand’s platform includes
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