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Students give Bennett rough time Ledger

over government grants to UBC

Students at University of British Columbia gave Premier W. A. C. Bennett one of
the roughest rides of his political career when he attempted to defend Social Credit policies

in a noon-hour speech Monday in the campus auditorium.

Not too good a rough and
tumble politician, the prem-
ier first tried his campaign
smile, then lost his aplomb
under a barrage of boos and
shouted, “You: don’t want to
hear the truth, my friends.”
This retort brought a shower

of apple cores and more
jeers.

UBC president Dr. Nor-
man Mackenzie flew from

Ottawa to chair the meeting,
and also handled the chair
during a hectic question per-
iod, as it was obvious that
campus Socred leader Mel
Smith would be unable to
cope with the situation.

Anger of the students had
a solid basis. The govern-
ment grant to UBC for the
1958-59 fiscal year jis only
$4,334,000, which is $1,000,-
000 less than the university
asked.

“This Social Credit govern-
ment will last 50 years,”
shouted Bennett, throwing
Socred pamphlets into the
crowd. Paper lunchbags came
sailing back at him, as some
1,500 students roared their
disapproval.

When the premier lauded
Attorney - General Robert
Bonner, (who was _ hooted
down by students at a cam-
pus. meeting February 6)
there were. cries of, “What
about the Sommers case?”

* and “Why did Mel Bryan
cross the floor?”

One student wanted to
know. why the Socreds were
running a federal candidate
in Comox-Alberni who had a
criminal record. The prem-
ier replied that “the choice
rested with the people in the
constituency.”

(Later, William S. Mullet,
the Socred candidate in ques-
tion admitted to the press
that he had a criminal record
for two bank holdups and an

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UBC students burst into roars of laughter when Pre-
mier Bennett gave them his oft-voiced boast, “This Social
Credit government will last 50 years.”

attempted bank holdup. Van-
couver police records show
he served three concurrent
five-year jail terms in the
B.C. Penitentiary.)

“Continued Social Credit
government in B.C. will give
you jobs when you graduate”
proclaimed JBennett. This
brought more boos and cat-
calls.

Students relented somewhat
when the premier, very much
on the defensive, said the
government was raising its
matching grant to the UBC
development fund up to $10,-
000,000 (from a previous $7,-
500,000) and promised that
he would return for another
campus meeting.

When Bennett returns, he
will be faced with more ques-
tions. The students know
that the government cut in
its grant to UBC means some
good instructors will be shift-
ing to better-paying posts,
and that an increase in stu-
dent fees is likely in the near
future.

Rate probe urged

VICTORIA, B.C. — A leg-
islative probe of B.C. Tele-
phone and B.C. Electric rates
was urged in the House this
week by J. D. Smith (SC,
Victoria), who said B.C. rates
were “very high” in compar-
ison with other provinces,

Diet, Pearson

‘dishonest’
on China trade

Both Pearson and Diefen-
baker are trying to capitalize
on public sentiment for rec-
ognition and trade with China
without really intending to
do anything about it for fear
of antagonizing the United
Rush, LPP
Vancouver
charged this week._

It’s time they stopped play-
ing ducks and drakes with
this issue,. said
Rush. Diefenbaker was. dis-
in the “mission” he
China.
“qualified proposals” on Chi-

Maurice
candidate for
Centre,

States,

important

honest
sent to Pearson’s
na were aimed at
BGe
equally dishonest.

winning
votes. in. and. were

Rush said mass unemploy-
ment demands that immediate
action be taken to recognize
China and that the doors be
trade be-
tween our two countries with-

opened wide for

out delay.

entries
‘altered.

-Kight entries in a ledger of
C. D. Schultz Ltd., entered as
an exhibit in the Sommers
bribery-conspiracy case, have
been “obliterated or altered,”
a former accountant for the
accused firm testified this
week at the hearing in Van-
couver Police Court.

Richard* George Davenport,
one-time accountant for C.D.
Shultz, Ltd., testified that he
was instructed to ‘change’
entries in the account book,
but he did not say whether he
had done so.

Prosecutor Stewart McMor-
ran pointed out several en-
tries and asked Davenport
whether “any obliterations or
alterations had been made to
the entry.” The witness
answered in the affirmative.

“How come the changes
were made?” asked McMor-
ran.

“Mr. Schultz called in audi-
tors for the company and
discussed the dealings he had
had with Pacific Coast Ser-
vices,” answered Davenport.

Shown a statement of four
columns of figures, made on
October 25, 1954, Davenport
said that the heading over
the fourth column, “Other,”
referred to Robert Sommers,

then minister of lands and
forests.

Charged in the conspiracy
ere Sommers, B.C. Forest
Products Ltd. Evergreen
Lumber Sales Ltd., Pacific
Coast Services Ltd., GC,

Shultz, H. Wilson Gray and
John M. Gray.

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