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NORTH VANCOUVER CITY
PRESS CLUB, North Vancou-
ver, B.C.: Our press club has
thorough and critical
discussion of the content of
the Pacific Tribune. As a re~
sult we have decided to send
in a resolution. Our press
club- members began this dis-
cussion because quite a num-
ber of readérs declined to re-
new, saying that they felt the
paper was not worth $4 a year.
Qthers readers take the paper
out of loyalty and do not read
it at all. The club took a criti-
eal look at the paper to try
and find out why this should
be so.

We are proud of the role
cur paper has played in the
past and in most difficult
times. We realize the many
difficulties and problems in-
velved in publishing the Paci-
tic Tribune. We are well
aware of the importance of a
provincial paper such as ours.
We seek by this resolution to
assist in improving the paper
so that it will appeal to more
workers and its circulation be-
come greatly expanded, enabl-
ing it to play its important
role for the people of this pro-
vince. To ease the financial
burden on press club mem-
bers and subscribers is of great
importance.

Because of this we submit
the following resolution:

™ Our paper should have
its front page devoted to head-
lining B.C. news.

™ Our paper should con-
tain more B.C. and local news.

™ More coverage of job
conditions and workers’ prob-
lems.

™ Less prominence given
to world news, especially
USSR, or at least a better bal-
ance of news from all countries

had a

and this news to be carried
inside.
m Fewer rewrites from

ether papers. Rewrites from
capitalist journals and news-
pepers could be done more
cften as commentary to point
up the effects of capitalist
policies and action on the
working class.

™ The editorial page is
most popular with readers. We
suggest it could have greater
punch if the editor dealt with
several prominent matters in
ench issue, each captioned to
be eye-catching, as is done in
the Vancouver Sun.

The sports page is well
liked. However, we suggest
it is most important that more
coverage be given amateur
sports.

™ Our paper should have
a page for letters to the editor,
in which discussion on many
subjects is encouraged. To
encourage letters it is neces-
sary to print all letters wheth-
er or not they may be compli-
mentary. This is a popular
feature of all newspapers and
could be so of ours, where sub-
jects not touched by capital-
ist papers could be discussed.
Our paper needs to encourage
greater reader participation

and this is one of the best ways
to do it.

/ Regular columns on TV,
radio, movies and books should
be written in informal style,
for easy reading rather than
a heavy, learned style, which
often discourages readers.

™ A women’s page or col-
umn with the same writer
from week to week dealing
with ‘subjects of special inter-
est to women.

™ Supporters and readers
should be encouraged to act
as reporters for the paper.
This way we could have regu-
lar news from different locali-
ties, and news from the job in
different part of the province.

Progressive political can-
didates should write articles
for the paper from time to
time dealing with issues in

their constituencies, in this way °

keeping their names before the
public.

w More farm news would
be a welcome feature, so that
city workers may gain a bet-
fer understanding of rural life
and the crisis in agriculture.

“ A change in the layout
cf the paper might help its
1eadability. B.C. and _ local
news on the first two pages,
the editorial page as the third
page, followed by letters to
the editor, world news inside,
sports page at the back.

~ It is the job of our paper
io enlighten and influence the
workers of this province, but
they must read the paper if
it is to do this job. We must
try to make it so interesting
that they will look forward to
it each week, because it is
bright, alive, easy to read and
assimilate, - containing the
truths the workers’ should
know. We may deplore the
reading habits of people but
we cannot change them over-
night. However, we can make
some changes in the paper.

ww We submit that unless
our paper is greatly changed
and subscriptions greatly ex-
tended as well as sales, the
only alternative will be a
Canada-wide paper with reg-
wiar correspondents from each
province, because financing
our paper with a dwindling
list of subscribers will become
too big a job.

Appeal for aid

BETTY AMBATIELOS, 12
Michelham. Gardens, Twicken-
ham, Middlesex, England: It
is now eight and a half years
since my husband, Tony Am-
batielos, was arrested and im-
prisoned in Greece. During
these years, Tony has been
dragged before a special court
martial on two occasions —
and before a revisionary court
martial on another.

During the same period, his
younger brother, Nikos — who
kas been imprisoned, apart
from a few months ever since
early 1944 when he was seized
by the Nazis — has been
brought before a court mar-
tial, has appeared for revis-
iunary proceedings and early
this year he was again brought
for trial together with the
Greek poet, Menlaos Lounde-
mis.

Furthermore, during the
same period, their mother,
Asimina, was imprisoned for
three months in 1951 when she
was 73 years of age and she
was also brought before a
special court martial.

All these proceedings have
involved the family in heavy
expenses. Yet the payment of
defense counsel is only one
aspect of the financial prob-
lems faced by Tony’s family.
His mother receives only a
small widow’s pension on
which she can barely keep

herself. Nevertheless, she has
never failed during these eight
end a half years to send par-
cels of food as well as some
money to Tony (now in the
Corfu prison) and to Nikos
(now in the Agios Efstratios
concentration camp.) And on
every. occasion_such as Christ-
mas, Easter, birthdays, wed-
ding anniversary etc., Tony’s
nother has sent a_ special
hamper or parcel to Tony and
another to Nikos.

In addition to food, injec-
tions and drugs’ had to be
bought a year ago when Tony
was seriously ill and through-
out these years, clothes have
had to be renewed.

All donations sent to me
for this fund are credited to
an account (PA 54) with the
Co-operative Wholesale So-
ciety Ltd., Bankers, 116 St.
Mary Street, Cardif, Glam.,
Gt. Britain. No monies are
withdrawn from this account
other than those transferred
to Asimina Ambatielos or to
defense counsel in Greece, I
have a treasury permit allow-
ng me to send five pounds
per month to my mother-in-
law.

The money received when
I issued an appeal two years
ago has now come to an end
and only three pounds remains
in the account.

I am _therefd
to all our friends
to do so, to
again with final
to enable the
fer of five poun®
ther-in-law to
I know that you
ale what real
constitutes for
more importaml
fort and pride }
her 79th year,
her imprison
the respect al

eople in. m
You will readil
the gratitude”
hose who by th
give not only f ;
but also recog!
struggles and
by Tony, his

many other G!
cause of trade
democracy.

@ The above_
a brave
who has taken
for many yeals
of the League !
in Greece, n0'
freedom of her
and family, bu
of Greek patriot
languishing , 2 |
concentration 64”
actionary U9"
Greek governme

try.

a PGE flat-car and up the
mountain from Shalath, al-
though that too is changing,
but around by the little-
travelled Moha road.

rapidly becoming the old
days, it was the kind of road
that B.C. drivers take for
granted and people

got
mountain goat trail.
Starting at
follows the Fraser

Hal Griffin

F YOU want to see the changing face
i of British Columbia you can find no
better place than the Bridge iRver coun-
Not the better known approach over
the Lillooet road, around Seton Lake on

I have been going up The
Moha, as they call it local-
ly, every so often for the
past 20 years. In what are

from _
other provinces remember
for years as the time they
sidetracked on to a

Lillooet, it
River
northward to the mouth of
the Bridge River and then
winds high above the Bridge

& :

River to Minto and Bra-
lorne.

Twenty years ago few
used it except prospectors
and the Native Indians
whose tiny farms dot the
benches, bright patches of
green wherever there is
water to sustain more than
sagebrush and rabbit brush.

In those days even the
most experienced driver
hesitated at the bluffs be-
fore Antoine Creek. There
falling rock banked the
road on the wrong side so
that your car tilted toward
the river hundreds of feet
below and the wheels slith-
ered in loose gravel inches
from the -edge.-

But the road never fazed
old man Bishop. Without
fail he used to drive his
rattletrap °24 Chey up to
the old Moha post office
every Saturday and back
again to Lillooet on the Sun-
day.

20 eo ee 0!

All this is changing now.
For one thing, the Bridge
River no longer flows
through’ canyons dotted with
the abandoned flumes and
rusted pipes of a bygone
generation of miners. The
Bridge River itself has
been dammed and only the
milky green waters of the
Yalakom follow the ancient
course.

And the road that the
Lillooet-Bridge River High-
way Association campaign-
ed for in vain back in 1938
(a campaign supported by
the old People’s Advocate)
1s now linked up although
far from being finished.

As the road superinten-
dent said to me while I
waited for the bulldozer to
clear blasted rock from the
road around the bluffs, “We

could never havé
with picks and 5
or fifteen years an
we have the ma

inconvenience”

quate
tires and split aa
but at last the Brlé

country has a &
way link with th
everyone is gla

one oldtimer wh?
has suddenly ?
up to the world:
several times I
ed at his door
met him, but I h@

Behind his cab
is cool on the

he has built a b&
he can sit, lift ®
beer from the ic¥ 7
waters at his fee™
ly reach above *—
the bottle openet
from a_ branch.

Gaglardi’s “sop

somewhat less
apology

Everyone, that

appreciated his

rire

August 17, 1956 —PACIFIC TRIBU™