Gomez at
top of poll
in Rupert

When ballots cast by Prince. Rup-
ert voters in last week’s civic and
municipal elections were counted,
the name of a labor candidate head-
ed the list. Ald. Darrow Gomez
more than doubled his previous
vote to win re-election to council.

_ A member of the United Fishermen
and Allied Workers Union, he was
first elected to council in 1950,
when he placed fourth among ten
candidates contesting four council
seats. This year he led a field of

- eight candidates.

His victory was tempered by the
defeat of a sitting alderman, Jim
Pruskey, running for re-election
with labor support..

Two other labor-supported can-

- didates, Ray Gardiner, secretary of
Prince Rupert UFAWU local, and
Percy Downing, a member of the
Pulp and Sulphite Workers Union,
were also defeated.

- Results of the vote were:

Council (first four elected); Ald.
Darrow Gomez, 1020; Mrs. Kay
Smith, 936; Ald. Ray McLean, 927;
William Bremner, 708; Ald. J. W.
Pruskey, 425; Hugo Kraupner,; 465;
Ray Gardiner, 436; Percy Downing,
428. :

Referendum: Milk pasteurization:

_ For, 1232; against, 131. Carried.

Bylaw: Port Edward School: For
1177; against 147. Carried.

In Burnaby, William Turner, run-
ning as a labor independent for
council on a program of tax and

_ other reforms, largely held the pro-
_ gressive vote of the past two years,
his 1205 votes comparing with the
_ 1455 votes polled by his wife, Mrs.
Ruth Turner, in 1951, and the 1387
votes he polled as a candidate in
1950, cs ;

‘Protest against eae, of the CCF
majority on Burnaby Municipal
Council to relieve home-owners of
steadily increasng taxes by compell-
ing the oil companies and other in-
dustrial concerns to pay a more
equitable share found its reflection
at the polls. Two Neon-Partisan
councillors won re-election at the

top of the poll and the CCF’s Coun-
cillor Patricia Wilks held her seat
by a secant majority over a Non-
Partisan newcomer.

The controversial bylaw to auth-
_ orize construction of a new muni-
cipal hall, which was given a
straight majority but failed to win
_ the required three-fifths vote when
it was submitted some weeks ago,
was decisively rejected.

Results of the vote were:

‘Council (first three elected):

Councillor W. P. Philps (NPA),
4889; Councillor Gerald Charlton
(NPA), 4332; Councillor Mrs. Pat-
Yicia Wilks (CCF), 3979; H. F.
Salisbury (NPA), 3879; Charles F.
_ Curran (CCF), 2567; Archie Brown-
- John (CCF), 2494; William Turner
_ (Labor Independent), 1205; James
‘Ryan (Independent), 887; Morris
Perrett (Independent), 885.

___ School Board (first three elected):
- Trustee Mrs. Edith McDonald
(NPA), 5269; Trustee S. N. Noble
(NPA),

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oe $825,000 new .municipal
hall: For, 3387; against, 5582. Re-

_ Elsewhere in the province, pro-
gressives polled fair votes but fail-
ed to win election.

In Surrey’s Ward 7, Sid Brown
of White Rock, with 162 votes,
third of four candidates for
council. In North Vancouver Dis-
Ivan Birchard was seventh in
field of eight candidates contest-

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