Papers, magazines taken

Maagazines and some medical pills.
‘ A familiar figure on downtown

No other means of livelihood.

; Yat Chu alleges that Mah Sing

_ took these articles from him while
he was selling papers and maga-
zines on Pender Street last Satur-
day, October 16.

The case was scheduled to be
hear in Vancouver Police Court
E.On Wednesday this week, but was
put over for one week.

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Eddy Yat Chu, a paper salesman who handles the Pacific Tribt

‘and a number of progressive magazines, this week charged Mah Seek
702 Bast Pender Street, with theft of his paper bag, papers, severa

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PORT ALBERNI, B.C.

“A good road opening up the
west side of Vancouver Island in
time would result in industries be-
ing established that could provide
work for 4,000 people,” said Frank
Bottner, at a meeting here Sunday,
when he accepted the Labor-Pro-
gressive nomination for the Alber-
ni constituency in the next pro-
vincial election.

Such a road, running from Port
Alberni to the west coast of the
Island, should have been built a
long time ago, said Bottner.

“But instead of building this
road and making timber available
to the smaller logging contractors,
the government has given away in
perpetuity, vast tracts of timber
through, a forest-management lic-
ense, for which B.C. Forest Pro-
ducts Limited has recently ap-
plied,” he continued. ,

Giving. away of timber to B.C.
Forest Products will mean about
400 jobs instead of the 4,000 that

| could have been created by a

different policy, Bottner conclud-
ed.

Rush will speak on
Town Meeting program

“Can a good Canadian be a Com-
munist?” fai :

That is the topic Town Meeting
in Canada will discuss this Friday
night at CJOR Radio Theatre, 841
Howe Street, at 8 p.m. The pro-
gram will be broadcast over CJOR
Saturday, October 23, from 9 to
10 p.m.

Maurice Rush, Vancouver LPP
secretary, will speak for his party.
Other speakers are Reverend R.
Layzell of Glad Tidings Temple;
Frank Lewis, local barrister, and

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Flood tragedy laid |
to gov't neglect

By MARK FRANK and VIC HOPWOOD

We looked into the flooded Valley of Death in Toronto’s Humber suburbs where
men and machinery tugged and strained to lift a house top, searching for more bodies.

It was Marion and Bud Irwin's place on Fairglen Crescent — the first heavily
populated riverside area in West Toronto to feel the rain-swollen fury of the Humber

River.

Whipped into a frenzy by Hurricane Hazel and torrential

rains, the gentle Humber broke its banks to savagely sweep into
its cold muddy depths.scores of men, women and children from

its twisting shoreline.

Warning of impending disaster came too late; the years
of despoliation of the river valley, the criminal lack of planned
housing that forced hundreds into riverside shacks because the
land was cheap, the total lack of foresight’ by authorities of all
government levels — all this came to tragic fruition on that}:

awful night of October 15.

In the Toronto area alone the
dead may reach 100 when the full
toll is taken. Some 1,500 are home-
less here. Over $100 million in
property damage was a first esti-
mate in Toronto... and only an
infinitesimal part of it covered by
insurance. :

The hurricane caused more death
and destruction in the Toronto
area than in its entire course
through the Caribbean and the U.S.
A record 7.2 inches of rain fell in
Southern Ontario, ‘turning creeks
and quiet rivers into raging tor-
rents that washed out dozens of
bridges, and devastated Holland
Marshes near Bradford, one of
Canada’s richest farming areas.

Thousands of homeowners suf-

fered flooding of basements in

North Toronto where lack of

storm sewers have loaded resi-
dents with heavy repair and
- damage expenses.

Just south of Fairglen at Ray-
more Drive, we saw where 14
houses had been torn off their
foundations as by a giant hand and
36 people went to their deaths in
the icy waters.

Cpl. Robert Pitt, member of the
Toronto Scottish on duty all the
previous night at Fairglen, told us
that nine bodies had been found
by search parties in his sector that
day.

He pointed to the empty shore-
jine: “Over there was a line of
houses, and you can see the road-
way there coming out from under
the shale. I figure 31 people lost
their lives here alone. This street
should be called Death Crescent,
not Fairglen.” .

Neighbors told us of their night
of helpless horror listening to the
screams for help from _ those
marooned on housetops, waiting
rescue.

Red Cross workers and walkie-
talkie Army Service Corps men
labored at their grim tasks while
we talked to numbed residents of
the area searching through the
scene of desolation for some small
Possession in the few battered
ruins that remained.

“There’s where my house used

TORONTO

‘They wouldn’t give us flood
insurance down here,“ he told
us. Insurance officials said they
had denied flood insurance ever
since the Mississippi floods of a
few years ago. Most homeown-
ers were told by the companies
they would not get flood damage
compensation. This would leave
the Irwin family homeless, with-

Rescue workers extricate the body of a man from a car smashed
by the fury of the. Humber’s flood waters.

to be,” Mrs, Peggy McDonagh, a
waitress, told us. She pointed to a
group. of mud-spattered trees.

John McDonagh held up a tar-
nished golf club. “This is all I’ve
got left,” he said.

His wife detailed their losses.

Every stick of furniture had dis-
appeared when the waters swept
away the house thy rntd — kitchen
and bedroom set, TV, electric stove,
all their clothes.

Their three children were being
looked after by relatives. ©

Asked what they would con-
sider just compensation for their
losses, the McDonaghs’ estimat-
ed $2,000 would help meet their
problem. All agreed full com-
pensation was the only way out
for the flood victims.

Others interviewed were less
fortunate. Bud Irwin,  stand-
ing close to a shattered upper
storey of his house told us of his
$4,200 mortgage. He doubted
whether the insurance clauses cov-

ered flood damage.

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gage to pay up.

Mr. and Mrs. Wakeman who
had escaped through an attic win-
dow and were lifted off by helicop-
ter said they would need at least
$10,000 to cover their losses and
theirs was one of the few houses
to remain standing: on the flood-
swept river-front. ’

North of Toronto 35 miles, Hol-
land Marshes, 7,000 acres of rich
agricultural land, was a muddy sea
on both sides of Highway 11.

We talked to many of the “vic-
tims at Bradford’s town hall serv-
ing as an emergency kitchen and
dormitory. Miss Gloria Duncan
told us the women in charge were
serving 1,500 meals a day.

“The government should step
in at once,” Charlies Nydam, an
East Side farmer told us. “They
should provide full compensa-
tion, If they don’t, how are we
going to get started next spring?
Our whole crop is ruined.”

This is but a glimpse of the
terrible disaster — which should
never: have happened. We have
told nothing of the heroism and
self-sacrifice of thousands of peo-
ple. Nor of the now nerve-wrack-
ing uncertainty about the future.
Nor of the awful toll of death. We
say only this, having seen what
we have seen — it must never,
never happen again.

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