BCA CANDIDATES. Putting up a strong fight for new civic policies centering on anti-pollution action, the candidates of the Burnaby civic group are widely representative of community, ratepayer, labor and other groups in the strongly labor municipality. : ~ :

Above photos show BCA aldermanic candidates filing their Nomination papers last week for the election on Dec. 12. Top photo, Council candidates from left, are John Motiuk, Tom Constable, Mayor Robert Prittie of the BCA who is not up for election this year, Hazel UEstrange and Fraser Wilson. Lower photo: shows School Board candi- dates, from left, Orest Moysiuk, Beth Chobotuck, Mayor Robert Prittie,

Gnd Maurits Mann.

BCA outlines pollution stand

Speaking at a SPEC sponsored election meeting last week, Burnaby Citizens Association, (BCA). aldermanic candidates dealt in a\practical way with Pollution problems which are of Serious. concern, to Burnaby People.

Fraser Wilson advocated the Use of electric rail trans- Portation for rapid transit; Tom Constable stressed the need to extend work’ on Burnaby Lake and keep it intact as a park for the pleasure of the people.

~ He said BCA would require oil refineries that do not have adequate sulphur extraction apparatus to install such

equipment or improve what they have. He promised they would bring in controls with which industry must comply or risk being closed.

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Hazel L’Estrange_ said pollution of the air and water and from noise had been around Burnaby longer than some of the present aldermen on council. BCA is pledged to action, and a beginning would be a city- financed independent survey of all facets of the problem.

John Motiuk stated BCA was committed to proper planning to ensure that no more industry is zoned near residential areas. He said secondary and tertiary

Interest runs high in civic

High taxes and general dissatisfaction with municipal planning and big business favor- atism has stimulated public interest in municipal elections and brought a significant drop in acclamations for mayor and council.

This year only 11 of 28 mayoral vacancies went by acclamation; 31 out of 290 aldermanic posts, although 80 of our 170 school trusteeships were still returned unopposed.

In sharp contrast to previous years, in only two positions (where no nominations were received) will the Provincial government be able to name its man.

In addition to the 12 COPE and 18 NDP candidates in Van couver (both of which have the official endorsation of the Van- couver Labor Council) there are some twenty-one nominations filed in other cities and towns with ratepayer and labor and progressive backing.

Among those being supported by ratepayer, labor and pro-— grssive groups are: Alberni: Mark Ivacich, runner-up in last years aldermanic contest, and accountant Goerge Dunbar, former alderman who lose out last year in a tight fight for

- mayor:

In Ashcroft, Charles Winslow,

and in Chase Omar Paquette and

Coquitlam school board, Eunice Parker. In Kamloops, union leader. Bill Ferguson is running for school board, and in Kent, Bloyd “‘Bert’’ Nisson is running for. council.

sewage treatment plants, with federal and provincial financial help, must be initiated.

The BCA candidate include in

their program more equitable tax distribution. Education,

hospital, rapid transit and welfare must be financed from general revenues of Ottawa and Victoria.

The school board candidates advocate the community use of schools; improved programs for children with learning diffi- culties;. more money for education from the provincial government and that Douglas College be financed by the pro- vincial government.

Labor Council calls for support of COPE-NDP slate

The Vancouver and District Labor Council is taking an active part in the December 9 civic election by mailing out a slate card to every home in the City of Vancouver, of which there .

are 144,000.

The slate cards say: ‘For a properly planned city, low cost housing, rapid transit, equitable tax structure, strong pollution controls . . Vancouver and District Labor Council urges every citizen to support the following progres-

Sive candidates. / .”’

’ For Mayor: Anthony Gargrave (NDP).

For Aldermen: Robert Douglas (NDP); Ronald Gomez (COPE): Norman Levi (NDP), Muriel Pandia (COPE); Harry Rankin (COPE): John Stanton (NDP): Paul Sabatino (COPE): Hilda Thomas (NDP): Dr. Harry Win- rob (NDR4wBruce Yorke (CORE). -»

For School Board: Margaret Chunn (COPE); Roger Howard (NDP): Kenneth McAllister

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pel (NDP).

(NDP): Paul Mitchell (COPE); Nigel Nixon (NDP): Russell. Pedersen (COPE); Jake Rem-

For Parks Board: James Atkins (NDP);

Stephen Brown (NDP); Donald Greenwell

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(COPE); Edward Leong (COPE); Roy Lowther (NDP): Sidney Shelton (COPE); Karl Zuker

When nominations closed Wednesday, Nov. 25,

a record 105 candidates had filed nominations to _ fill 27 positions. To be elected are the mayor, 10 aldermen, nine school trustees and seven park board members. | $ :

A record 267,116 persons are registered to vote. This includes both homeowners and tenants. This is the first election in which 19-year- _ olds -have-the-right to vote, ‘whith partly accounts ” for about 10,000 more registered voters than two

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In Burnaby, which also comes under the provincial municipal charter, voting will be, as with all other municipalities (outside of Vancouver) on Saturday, Dec. 12. ;

Candidates in Burnaby receiv- ing wide labor, ratepayer and progressive support are: Tom Constable, Hazel L’Estrange, John Motiuk (young lawyer and Tenant’s Council activist), and veteran Fraser Wilson, for council. Burnaby school board candidates are Beth Chebituck (a PTA leader), incumbent Maurits Mann and teacher Orest Moysiuk.

In Lake Cowichan, Archie Greenwell is running for council, and Robert Godfrey for school board. In North Vancouver District, veteran school trustee Dorothy Lynas is up for re- election, and in. Prince George, Mrs. Lettie Omerod is running for civic office.

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WILF LENNOX, independent aldermanic candidate in Surrey was given support by the New Westminster and District Labor Council last week. HARRY BALL, who is given a good chance of election in Surrey as an inde- pendent for council, was also endorsed by the labor body. Both candidates have been life-long trade unionists.

elections all over B.C.

Considerable interest on the lower mainland is centred on a sharp contest in Surrey, where retired railroader and Old Age Pension leader Harry Ball and telegrapher Wilf Lennox, who together with John Smith, candi- date for Surrey school board, were endorsed by the New West- minster Labor Council recently.

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that this action was in direct contravention to the Landlord and Tenant Act.

The Act states: ‘‘No landlord, his servant or agent shall impose any special restrictions on access to the rented premises by candidates or their authorized representatives for election to the House of Commons, the legis-

lative assembly, any office in a municipal government or school board, for the purpose of canvassing or distributing election material.”

Yorke said he will make a test case through courts, for the sake not only of the organization he represents, but on behalf of their civic groups taking part in the election. He made it clear that tenants are not. second-class - citizens, but are entitled to every right enjoyed by property owners.

The obstacles put in the way to winning of tenants’ democratic rights by the big-business NPA and the landlords points up the falsehood of the mayor’s ‘“‘law and order” cry. The landlords are breaking the law because they are afraid of the tenants vote.

The people of Vancouver will have an opportunity this coming Wednesday, when they go to the ~ polls, to clean out the big business and real estate gang who have controlled city hall for too many years.

School finance formula

key issue in - Eunice Parker, 39, and mother to three boys, is taking up the cudgels for a better deal for education by running for a school board seat in Coquitlam. She has been involved for many years in parent-teacher associations, and is now serving her third term as president of Alderson Parents Auxiliary.

Her program is based on the needs of a community where shift classes have long been the order of the day. She states the new school finance formula (Bill 86) has tightened the financial strait-jacket on school con- struction with the result that overcrowding exists.

Centennial High school, designed to hold 1800 students has over 2,000 enrolled, and plans to build a new high school in Port Moody -have been halted by the provincial government.

Her program calls for more money allocated from the pro- vincial government to keep local taxes down; gymnasiums and libraries in every school; the reduction of class size and

. provision for safety for children

on busy streets to include cross-

walk lights and adult patrols..;,

where necessary. : Mrs. Parker is carrying on the

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Coquitlam

Coquitlam elections will be held on December 12. Anyone who wishes to assist in Eunice Parker’s campaign should call 936-4467 or 939-0245.

teaching aids, and special: consideration for special classes as well as the involve- ment of the public with the school board for a better deal for education. :

EUNICE“PARKER. “fonnifig’ for

school board in Coquitlam.

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