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BY OUR

VICTORY BANQUET

JUNE 13

By ERNIE CRIST Drive Manager

- We have now arrived at the last leg of our Financial Drive nd we still need $4,000 to reach our target of $17,000.

___ The majority of the clubs have put on an outstanding effort 'n the Drive so far.

. As the countdown to our Victory Banquet on June 13 begins : Bevecdy have 13 Press Clubs which have reached their target Nd many more within shooting distance.

re: The performance by the majority of the clubs so far plus eir pledge to maintain the Drive tempo right up to the Victory ‘cnquet holds out a great promise for success.

4 Whether or not our success will be complete however, still pepends on those clubs which are still lagging at this point and n their ability to catch up within the next few days.

pe It is to these clubs that we now make special appeal to put eir shoulders to the wheel and to make a last great effort.

__ Theirs is a special responsibility; for it is their efforts which will determine the future of this paper. —

fulfi As for those clubs and individuals which have already

ulfilled their pledge, or as in some cases gone over it, we appeal to them to maintain their fine work and continue their

Competition for top honors — the winning of the shield for the est club in the Drive.

This year special arrangements have been made to present peel engraved pens to all Press Builders, ($25) Premium ress Builders, ($50) and Honor Press Builders, ($100).

ve EXAMPLES TO FOLLOW

Many Press Clubs and individuals have distinguished themselves in the Drive so far.

* We salute the White Rock-Delta, Mission, Vernon, Cowichan, pe Michel, Powell River, Tom McEwen's Column, Sointula, ° Besar, Niilo Makela, Point Grey, Edmonds Press and Orrespondence Clubs for either reaching their target or going over it.

We also extend .a very special vote of thanks and our Radi clviotions to Rita Tanche, Nigel Morgan, Ed. Skeeles, Lil 5 neman, Wass Turple, Maurice Rush, Tom McEwen, Peggy Chunn, ; unc McLean, Mike Stevens, John Tanche, Frank Rudge, John Senkiw, -A. Thomson, J. Maister, and E. Erickson for joinging the list of Honor

Press Builders as well as to all those who have pledged to join this list by June 13th, .

Just as the PT went to Press we received a check of $100, from Panish Civil War Veteran GERRY DELANEY who asked us to credit this amount to the PT Drive in the name of the Mackenzie Papinea Battallion,

PACIFIC TRIBUNE

VICTORY BANQUET

FRIDAY - JUNE 13th - 6:30 p.m. Sharp YEN LOCK RESTAURANT

67 East Pender St.

« 10 COURSE CHINESE BANQUET

e Special Entertainment

. Presentation of Awards to Top

Press Builders

Buy your ticket before JUNE 7th at the Pacific Tribune Office or Co- Op Book-store — $2.50 each.

QUEBEC TEACHERS MARCH ON GOVERNMENT. 20,000 Quebec

demonstration in front of Quebec’s Par months of negotiations without winning a new con all Quebec teachers. The massive demonstration united Frenc Protestant teachers. A black coffin symbolizing the death of educ

teachers’ resignations.

school teachers staged a mass

liament buildings to express their frustration and bitterness after 23 tract. The demonstrators represented almost one-third of h-Canadian and English-speaking Catholic and ational reform contained 20,000 pledges of

Powell River teachers’ strike

hits Socred educ

POWELL RIVER — 220 teachers in this pulp and paper city have declared their intention to stage a one-day ‘‘withdrawal of services’ Thursday of this week in protest against the Socred government’s education finance formula.

The teachers have announced they intend to take the day to visit homes in Powell River and District to explain how the’ province’s financing formula is harming the quality of education.

SLIDE SHOWING © Of Trip To SIBERIA, AZERBIJAN & UKRAINE in SOVIET UNION by DOROTHY LYNAS SAT. MAY 31 at 8:30 p.m. 832 CALVERHALL - NORTH VAN.

Refreshments Ausp: North Shore Press Club

The teachers have invited Education Minister Brothers, Premier W.A.C. Bennett, NDP leader Berger and Liberal leader McGeer to meet with them on, the morning of their strike. Attempting to head off the action of the teachers, Education Minister Brothers called a meeting last Saturday with representatives of the Powell River teachers.

However, Tom Young, president of the Powell River and District Teachers Assoc., said the strike is still scheduled. He said the purpose of the withdrawal of services is to acquaint the public with the seriousness of the threat to education, not just to meet with education officials.

Young said that defeat of the district’s $475,000 referendum for operating costs will result in drastic staff cuts. Slated to be let

ation formula

go are a minimum of 27 full time teachers, and several part time teachers ‘might have to go as” well.

He said that the staff cuts plus a predicted five percent rise in the number of students will undermine the quality of education in the Powell River’ district. ‘‘We cannot go on like this. It’s an impossible situation,’ Young said.

The crisis in Powell River faces many school districts throughout B.C. In many other centres the crisis was narrowly averted by last minute handouts by the provincial government.

The action of the Powell River teachers points up the crisis in the B.C. educational system brought about by the present education formula which has’ been widely condemned by labor, teachers, school boards and PTAs.

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BUSINESS PERSONALS ©

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REGENT TAILORS LTD. —, Custom Tailors and Ready-

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MU 1-8456 or 4441 E. Hastings

— CY 82030. See. Henry Rankin for personal service.

REMEMBER — YOUR HAIR- CUT DOLLAR$ go to the PRESS, DRIVE at 6ll SMITHE ST. (near Seymour)

_- ORPHEUM BARBERS.

~~ HALLS FOR RENT

RUSSIAN PEOPLE'S HOME— Available for meetings, ban- quets and weddings at rea- sonable rates. 600 Campbell Ave. 254-3430.

UKRAINIAN CANADIAN CULTURAL CENTRE — 805 East Pender St., Vancou- ver 4, Available for Banquets, Weddings, Meetings. Phone: 254-3436 or 876-9693.

CLINTON HALL, 2605 E. Pender. Available for ban- quets, meetings, weddings, etc. Phone 253-7414.

* COMING EVENTS

MAY 31— Gala WINE & CHEESE PARTY will be held on SAT- URDAY MAY 31st at 8:30 p.m. at 3365 VICTORIA DRIVE. 2 Decker Entertainment. Every- one welcome. Proceeds: Pac- ific Tribune.

JUNE 6 — .EAST GERMANY 1949-1969 — A Socialist success story. EYE-WITNESS REPORT & SLIDE SHOWING by E. CRIST, PT Circulation Mer. FRIDAY JUNE 6th at 8 p.m. RUSSIAN PEOPLE’S HOME - 600 CAMPBELL AVE. Re- freshments. Collection. Ausp: Vancouver East Press Club.

JUNE 7th — SOCIAL EVEN- ING. Come and hear KE. CRIST, PT Circulation Mgr. report & show SLIDES. on EAST GERMANY. SATUR- DAY MAY 7th at 8:30 p.m. at GIDORA’S - 13463 BOLIVAR CRESC. in SURREY. Re- freshments. SPAGHETTI SUPPER at 11 p.m. Adm. at

door. EVERYONE WEL- COME. Ausp: Surrey Press Club.

JUNE 8 — Come to the TRIBUNE’S BEST BARBE- QUE. For every reader and their families and all their friends on SUNDAY. JUNE 8th from 1 p.m. on at TROUT LAKE, East 19th Ave. Enter- tainment the best. DON’T MISS IT. In case of rain Picnic will be held at GREENWELL’S - 3467 Oxford St.

NOTICES

FOR RENT — TENT TRAILER Phone 299-2788.

DURING THE PACIFIC TRIBUNE FINANCIAL CAMPAIGN THE OFFICE WILL BE OPEN ON SAT- ress FROM 10 A.M. to 1

.M.

PENDER Auditorium

(Marine Workers)

339 West Pender Phone MU 1-9481

Large and Small Halls for Rentals

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