tanks occupy the best part of Bur ee Oe naby’s Burrard Inlet waterfront. Over the past decade the big oil companies have expanded until now their refineries and storage Editor charges Burnaby Council ‘never intended to give park’ BURNABY, B.C. Charge that the present Burnaby Municipal Council has no intention of keeping the promises it has been making “tongue in cheek” to the people of Burnaby was made by Val J. Roche, editor of the Burnaby Advertiser, last week. “Right here and now we will say that it is not, and never has been, the intention of the present couhcil to give the people of Bifrnab “Big Business’ and ‘Industry’ loom far too large on their horizon, and the poor working class voters who put their legislators (so-called) in office should see to it that they either change their ways—or else.” Roche was commenting on an is- sue which is certain to be widely debated in the present municipal election campaign. Over the past year the demand for establishment of a park board (parks are now administered by the council) has won wide support throughout the municipality. The fact that the big oil compan- ies, with the ready assent of a CCF- dominated council, already occupy the greater part of Burnaby’s Bur- rard Inlet waterfront and that the Trans-Mountain pipeline terminus is now established on Burnaby Mountain, has aroused people to the need for action to safeguard re- maining park sites against encroach- ment by industry. “Unless we act now, while there is still time, to preserve our park sites and develop them, we shall find in a few years that most of our best park sites are gone — sacrificed by a short- sighted council to what it con- tends is the people’s interest in encouraging industry,” William Turner, Independent candidate. for council, said last week. “Certainly we need industry in Burnaby. But we don’t have to be dominated by industry, as the pre- sent council is. We need to de- velop Burnaby for its people, as a municipality we can be proud of, by intelligent, far-sighted planning. That means making adequate pro- vision for parks and beaches now.” y a small park on the waterfront,” Roche wrote in his signed column. WILLIAM TURNER “Develop Burnaby for its people” The park board issue has already come before the courts in a case to test the validity of a resolution to set up a park board adopted by the council but never acted on before Burnaby was taken over by a prov- incial government commissioner in the thirties. Last week, a motion to submit the issue to a plebiscite in the forthcoming election was turned down by a majority of the coun- cil. Submitted by Non-Partisan Councillor W. P. Philps, the mo- tion was defeated when Council- voting against it. “What about the federal govern- ment wharf we were to have on Burrard Inlet, adjoining what was to be a recreational strip for the tired mothers of Burnaby and their kiddies in the good old spring and summer time? lor C. W. MacSorley, Non-Parti- san candidate for reeve, joined the four CCF councillors, George Isherwood, Mrs. P. Wilks, D. Drummond and F. 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Also, if our council committees think they can rid themselves of their re- sponsibility to those who elected them to do a straightforward job in a business-like manner, simply by imitating the ostrich and burying what passes for their Although the demand for a park | Brady demands | Surrey hospital — WHITE ROCK, B.C. Building of a hospital, construction of new schools, improvements | | oi parks and roads and a new tax deal are some of the key points | advanced by Leo Brady, candidate for Surrey Municipality Council ™ | Ward. Five, in a nine-point program announced this week. ie | Pointing out that a hospital in the area is “an urgent necessity, / in the near future. New schools willeliminate the “double shift” system, said Brady: Other civic improvements urgently |required include a second Fraser |erossing and adequate highway ifacilities to New Westminster and Vancouver; recreational facilities in. parks; hard-surfacing of all main roads; installation of traffic lights at all busy intersections. “The threat of depression hangs over our homes in Surrey,” Brady warns. ‘Workers are being laid off and markets are being lost. Prices for farm products are down. Our municipality faces the bleak prospect of drastically reduced tax collections, forced sales, heavy re- lief costs and municipal stagna- tion.” Solution to these economic prob- lems can only be found on a prov- incial and national scale, but a pro- gressive municipal council has a role to play in putting pressure on the senior governments. “Thousands of jobs depend on Canada accepting sterling payment for exports to Briitsh Common- wealth countries instead of dol- | lars,” said Brady. “Jobs mean |markets for farm products. Surrey |farmers can sell eggs, dairy, pork board has the endorsation of Bur-!} naby Central Ratepayers, Council. lor Isherwood maintained that only | “a few residents” supported it. Commenting on the council’s re-| luctance to act and to resort to) glib promises it had no intention of | fulfilling, Val J. Roche wrote: “We notice that the Metropolitan Park Board, commission or what- ever they call the organization we have in mind, met recently and de- livered itself of some ponderous findings as to the development of Burnaby Lake as a sort of Lower Mainland show place. “We don’t ‘know if the board keeps minutes but, if so, we would like to point out that about three years ago or more, this same outfit waxed: more than enthusiastic re- garding the development of a park on scenic Burnaby Mountain.. “Has somebody or other put the damper on this proposal? And if so, why? “As a matter of fact, far too many promises are made to Bur- naby people by supposedly respons- ible organizations and individuals. We can think of plenty such right off the bat. " S. H. BROWN PLUMBING & HEATING 371 Johnson Road R.R.1 White Rock - Phone 5661 ZENITH CAFE 105 E. Hastings Street Vancouver, B.C. UNION HOUSE ie : g a SB S = Use Our Xmas Lay- away P/eu" A deposit will how articles. 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