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_ ONE FINAL PUSH!

We are nearing our goal of $15,000. One final big push
by all our supporters and we'll go over the top. Take a look at
the figures below, see how your press club is doing—and then

© something about it in the remaining few days of the drive.
Good fuck!

| SMORGASBORD— DANCE

Hastings Auditorium

828 Fast Hastings Street
FRIDAY, MAY 22, 7p.m.

Come and Enjoy this Victory Celebration

DRIVE TARGET: $15,000

CASH RECEIVED: 14,073

WE STILL NEED: 927
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Drive standings May 12

GREATER VANCOUVER

COMmIpmAN 350 319
A SANS 560 560
Beg ANCE AS SOR OEE $ 300 344s PARESVILLE __ 100 25
DRy Bay Bott 500, 768 VICTORIA: -¢-2 450 301
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a 150 135 ALDERGROVE —______ 50 50
mwDview 500 781 FORT LANGLEY 125 150
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Moy NGTON a eae 400 300 KAMLOOPS _____________ 125 136
Ag PLEASANT “_ 225 234 LADNER -_..-_-.________ 100 52
None MAKELA .___. 150 138 MAPLE RIDGE __________ 150 56
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Por < SS Cer ee 200 211 MISSION Fics toe oe igctna eons 100 134
om OT Bee aie 350 383 NELSON nan = -- 50 43
MottTHCONA 200 297 NEW WESTMINSTER ___ 475 412
Waree® SQUARE ______ 1000 855 NOTCH HILL... .--__-. 125 87
WegeRFRONT 350-=Ss289-«Ss NORTH SURREY. 200 202
Nose ne ano 991 STEVESTON --..-.____. 50 52
Stk BURNABY 400 og POWERED RIVER 150 250
Noure BURNABY -. a00 415 SOUTH SURREY __ 0 100
Ngee VANCOUVER ... 450 465 TRAIL . ROSSLAND ___ 300 269
(my VAN. DISTRICT. 450 323 +VERNON 175 sid
MISCELLANEOUS 1250 1,255 |. CORRESPONDENCE -___ sh oe

4 VANCOUVER ISLAND PROVINCE MISCELLANEOUS

“CayeeNIs en 250 250. PRINCE RUPERT ____ 100104
. COUR EE RIVERS 250 152 SALMON ARM _____ so 77
CU NAY pce yi sn et 100 20 NOINDUT AS ae 50 52
. REAND 227055 150 142 TOM McEWEN COLUMN _ 100 87

— RS

SPORTLIGHT

By BRUCE YORKE

SHOULD know better but

but anyway here goes. The
Mounties will win the Pacific
Coast League pennant by at
least 10 games. Yes, I know
that they have just managed
to struggle out of the cellar;
but there’s not a fan in Van-
couver who won’t tell you
that this team is loaded.

They have the pitching,
some classy fielding and at
long last some power. The
pitching has been phenomenal
to say the very least. In their
recent home stand’ of 13 games
they gave up 23 runs. Just
about every starter has gone
the distance — Besana, Wat-
kins, Johnson, Palica, Fitz-
gerald, Hatten. There are so
many good pitchers it’s going
to be quite a task to pick the
regular starters: And the best
pitcher in the league last year,
George Bamberger, has just
rejoined the club!

In the infield two of the
finest major league prospects
in baseball are playing third
base and _ shortstop. Brooks
Robinson and Ronnie Hanson
are exceptionally © brilliant
fielders with marvelous re-

flexes. Ray Barker at first
base has improved tremend-
ous over last year. Marv
Breeding at second is still
quite green on the double play
pivot’ but he has been hitting
well and getting on base more
than any other Mountie.

The real change is in the
power, and the one who is sup-
plying this is Joe Taylor. He
has been leading the league in
RBI’s and is among the lead-
ers in home runs. “This last
weekkend he was joined by
Joe Durham who got five for
seven in his last debut against
Phoenix. When Jim Dyck re-
turns to the lineup this will
give the Mounties a _ 1-2-3
punch unequalled in the lea-
gue. And to add to this Ray
Barker is hitting the ball hard,
about 49 points over last year's
average,

One “note of interest. The
Mounties -have five Negroes on
the team this year: Taylor,
Durham, White, Beamon and
Connie Johnson. To my knowl-
edge this represents the larg-
est number of players of this
race ever to play ona Pacific
Coast League team. It’s a very
good omen.

Fighting for the PT

You can help produce
hetter, brighter paper

How can we increase Pacific
Tribune sales by 10 percent
this year?

It would seem to be a two-
way proposition: the PT staff
to provide a better, more live-
ly newspaper, and sellers to
sell more papers.

That seems simple enough
but unfortunately life is not
just that simple.

We WANT to produce a bet-
ter paper, with definite prin-
ciple aims, but a small staff
cannot do it alone and the pur-
pose of this story is to ac-
quaint readers with some edi-
torial problems and to seek
their aid.

In brief, we want you to
help us make the Pacific Tri-
bune a better paper.

YOU, our readers, are our
ears and eyes. That means that
our readers who are on the
job, who are active in their
communities, are the best
equipped to tell the PT what
is. happening.

The Pacific Tribune can and
does cover a wide range of
fields with a limited staff and
some correspondents — federal
and provincia’ politics, trade

“union and ‘industrial news:

foreign affairs and some of the
major everyday issues as they
arise.

But that-is only half the
battle.

The stories that will really
bring the PT to life are the
stories from men and women
who are in the thick of the
fight, whether it be a strike, a
housing issue, pensioners’ bat-
tle to live, peace work and so
on.

For that reason we need an
army of correspondents.

“The same old story,” you
say. Yes, it is.

But look at it this way: how
much easier it is to sell a PT
when there is a story involv-
ing you and your friends and
fellow workers.

Besides, vital stories about
life make the paper much
more acceptable to all people.

One final word: if you write
(and we hope you will) please
write plainly and print names.

Every story may not be
used — we only have eight
pages. But every story will be
read and considered on its
merits, and as many as _ pos-
sible will be used.

May 15, 1959 — PACIFIC TRIBUNE—PAGE 7