bt IE. inion ARATE SW ra ag oh 2 Citizens’ groups want city site for BEG pool By BERT WHYTE Demands from numerous citizens’ groups to have the British Empire Games swimming pool located on a city site had Vancouver City Council members on the defensive Tuesday afternoon this week. Unable to answer the arguments the BEG decision to build the pool at UBC,-council finally passed the buck on the issue by throwing it back to the park board and the BEG committee. After Ald. Halford D. Wilson, council’s member on the Games committee, had failed to impress the delegations with a list of vague reasons why UBC was the “logical” site, Ald. Birt Showler stepped into the breech with a mumbled motion that Park Board and BEG committee get together “and see if some agreement on the pool and its operation and maintenance after the Games can be reached.” It was an unsatisfactory solu- tion, even to Mayor 'Fred Hume, who had arrived late. Rising un- certainly to his feet, Hume voiced. the opinion that spokesmen for delegations be allowed tosanswer Ald. Wilson. “They’ve all spoken already,” protested chairman Ald. J. Cor- nett. “Pq like to say a few more words,” said a citizen who had’ not been heard from. “No, no, we can’t go on all day. We'll take a vote on the motion,” ruled the chairman. “We'll be back again with our protests,” said the angry citizen. When the meeting opened Effie Jones, on behalf of Associated Council of Vancouver South, urg- ed that the BEG pool go to the heavily - populated eastern or southern sections of Vancouver. B.C. Trade Union Recreation Council pointed out that a site near Exhibition Park would be Municipal transit urged ‘ in Burnaby ; . BURNABY, B.C. Burnaby municipal council has been receiving protests from sev- eral organizations regarding the ’ BCElectric’s proposed plan to re- place Burnaby Lake and Central Park trams with buses. It is felt the change would create trans- portation difficulties for many in- terurban commuters. A Labor-Progressive party dele- gation headed by Alex Kucher and William Turner submitted a brief to council Monday night this week. “The only solution to this prob- Jem is municipal ownership of transportation,” said Kucher. “In 1946 the people of Burnaby vated by almost three to one in favor of municipally-owned transporta- tion. The Non-Partisan council at that time stalled and delayed on implementing the wishes of the people, and chose to do business as usual with the BCER. This, despite the fact that at the same time. the people voted down a by- law to give the company an ex- clusive 20-year franchise. “Now with a majority of CCF members on the council who are pledged as part of their party’s election platform to public owner- ship of transportation, is the time to act against this new proposal of the BCER. “The LPP pledges its fullest co- : operation and support in the fight against this company scheme.” of numerous spokesmen opposing handy for swimmers’ from North Vancouver, Burnaby and New Westminster as well as local users. Maurice Rush, speaking for the Labor-Progressive party, urged a “central site’ for the pool and predicted that if the committee persisted in building it at UBC. it would become a “white elephant” after the 195 Games were over. 4, N. A. Allish of Henry Hudso PTA stressed that he wasn’t sug- gesting exactly where the pool should be built, but felt strongly that it should be inside city limits. “The money comes from Vancou- ver ratepayers, . taxpayers, from the people — therefore why not have the pool in the city? Why give extra profits to the BCElec- tric by having the pool away out Urges statement by St. Laurent Buck calls on federal gov't to welcome Malenkov’s offer — “The loss of export markets as a result of cold war policies and the war in Korea is rapidly paralyzing the economy of Brit- ish Columbia and is responsible for the current heavy layoffs, 1,700 in the. Nanaimo area alone,” said Ernie Knott (above), LPP federal candidate for Na- naimo. in the UBC grounds?” - Ernie Lawrie, National Federa- tion of Labor Youth, contended that the main value of the pool “will lie in its use following the British Empire Games.” It should be centrally located, he said. J. T. Kelley, Canadian Ama- teur Swimming Association, claimed the UBC site would serve only one swimming club adequately. “You have a cer- tain moral obligation to sports and to the people,” he told the aldermen, recalling that back in 1945 city council promised to build two swimming pools “but nothing was done.” Percy Norman, well - known swim coach, spoke for Vancouver Amateur drew a round of applause from the packed committee room when he declared local swim groups are prepared to operate a pool in the city and make it pay, * * * Vancouver Labor Council -(CCL) on Tuesday. night ap- plauded an executive resolution to protest BEG Society decision to build the pool at UBC, and reaffirmed a previous stand to have the pool located in the Swimming Club and}, W. S. E. Morrison (above), LPP candidate for Comox-Alber- ni, this week replied to official statements that the U.S. is in- terested not so much in words as in deeds by pointing out that the deed which will most inter- est the Canadian people is a meeting of the leaders of the Five Great Powers. city’s east end. ; Strong opposition to the UBC site also came from Vancouver Building Trades Council (TLC) the same night, coupled with a de- mand that the pool should be lo- cated centrally in Vancouver. “Everything in Flowers” FROM. 3. EARL SYKES 56 E. Hastings St. PA. 8855 Vancouver, B.C. 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 Tim Buck, national leader of the Labor-Progressive party and its — candidate in Toronto-Trinity, is calling on the St. Laurent government to take steps to initiate moves to end the present cold war by publicly welcoming the offer of Soviet Premier Georgi Malenkov to solve the present world crisis. “Premier Malenkov, at. the ses- ' | sion of the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union on March 15, made a clear and welcome offer to the countries of the West, and par- ticularly to the USA,” said Buck. “Premier Malenkov said: “ ‘At the present time there is not one disputed or undecided question that cannot be decided by peaceful means on the basis of the mutual understanding of interested countries. This is our attitude \toward all states, among them the United States of Am- erica.’ “The press reports that the dip- | lomats from the West who were present at the session of the Su- preme Soviet, applauded this statement,” said Buck. “Tt will be recalled that not long before his death, Joseph Stalin declared his readiness to meet with President Eisenhower to come to an agreement to end ‘the cold war. “T say that if the government of Canada publicly welcomed the. statement of Premier Malenkov, the governments of the U.S. and aa TORONTO of Britain would be compelled to pay heed. It could well be that such a statement by Prime Minis- ter St. Laurent would lead to neée- gotiations to end the cold war, stop the arms race, bring about East-West trade and open the path to a constructive solution of the world crisis. “No country more than Canada; a great trading country, needs such a constructive solution. 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