CAVC chairman Dr. Alan Inglis, and wife Kay, shown here on their visit

to Hanoi in February to discuss aid to Vietnam. Photo was taken on Ba

inh Square and Ho Chi Minh Memorial is seen in background. Photo

below, taken at Viet Duc Hospital in Hanoi shows Prof. Ton That Tung

onan beside a photocopy machine sent previously as a gift from Cc.

CAVC drive seeks $50,000 for hospital in Vietnam

A Canada-wide campaign to equip a 100-bed hospital near Hanoi to be known as the ‘“‘Canada- Vietnam Hospital” was announced by Canadian Aid for Vietnam Civilians in a bulletin mailed out to hundreds of supporters this week.

In February, Dr. Alan Inglis, chairman of CAVC, and his wife Kay, visited Vietnam and took with them a bank draft for $8,000 which they presented to the Ministry of Health as the first contribution to the new hospital.

The plan to completely equip the 100-bed hospital by Canadian supporters replaces the earlier planannounced by CAVC to build a Canadian paediatric ward of a British hospital to be built shortly.

In talks with Nguyen Van Trong, of the Ministry of Health, it was discovered that plans for the British hospital had~been changed and that the most important medical need at present is for 500 district hospitals each of which costs about $150,000 to equip.

The Vietnamese representative proposed that CAVC use its funds to purchase equipment for the 100- bed district hospital at Tien-Son, Ha-Bac Province, near Hanoi and that it will be known as the Canada- Vietnam Hospital. This plan was approved by CAVC at a meeting on February 12.

The major financial effort will be directed towards raising $50,000. CAVC has also decided to make

| Increases for the handicapped announced last week by human resources minister Bill Vander Zalm were called ‘‘inadequate”’ by the Downtown Eastside Residents Association in a press release |

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which said they apply to only about 5,000 of 109,000 GAIN recipients.

DERA’s statement charged that “the minister has chosen to ignore the plight of half the people who fit his definition of handicapped as well as all who depend on his government for their income but do not fit his definition of disabled.”

“The $57 per month rental overage which some handicapped people can receive after July 1 means this: If your rent is $150 per month you will now have to use a mere $24 of your food and trans-

portation for shelter. In the -

downtown eastside, where there is no rent control, Vander Zalm’s

announcement will probably cause ”

rents to increase,” said DERA. When the handicapped and other concerned groups met with Vander Zalm on March 2 they asked for 100 per cent shelter and _ utility overages; and immediate increase in the basic handicapped rate to a minimum of $284; automatic in-

League.

‘SOUTH AFRICA: TWO WOMEN SPEAK OUT

MARCH 19 —8 P.M. CHRISTMAS SEAL AUDITORIUM 10th & Willow Vancouver

KATE MOLALE: Secretariat member of ANC Women’s

MPHO THOEAEBALE: 16 year old Soweto student sponsored by ANC (South Africa), CUSO and SAAC.

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creases based on the cost of living; and a loosening of the definition of handicapped. to. include..many people who are in fact han- dicapped, so they may receive handicapped benefits.

DERA said that it was obvious the GAIN increases announced by Vander Zalm were “nothing but a political ploy.’

“Now it looks like Vander Zalm is throwing $6.3 million of this $35 million ‘profit? back to the han- dicapped with the newly an- nounced ‘increases’,’”’ charged the DERA statement.

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Cont'd from pg. 2 special fund to be used to help

cover the costs incurred by the |

victims of alcoholism. ‘

Another is to contain and if possible reduce the use of alcohol. No liquor advertising of any kind should be permitted. Promotion “sifts’’ by distillers and brewers should be banned. Police road blocks, which have proven to be so effective at Christmas and New Years, should become a_ year- round thing. A _ serious public education campaign should be undertaken extending from the schools into every home and community.

One of the measures desperately needed for those who have become alcoholics is more detoxification centres. I’ve been battling for these for a long time and this government is harder to budge than any previous one. Rehabilitation centres for long- term treatment are also needed.

My list of remedies is by no means complete. The main thing is that more should be done along these lines and that will require a great deal of public pressure. The liquor people have a well organized and financed lobby to press their demands. An even more powerful lobby is needed to represent and protect the people’s interest.

application to the Canadian In- ternational Development Agency for a doubling grant of $100,000 to make. up the $150,000 required. CIDA has already matched CAVC funds witha grant of $10,000 for the handicapped veterans of the war and for the Institute for the Protection of Mothers and Newborn, and $20,000 for the treatment and rehabilitation of ex- prostitutes in Saigon.

While in Vietnam Dr. and Mrs. Inglis presented a bank draft to the Vietnam..Women’s Union for $15,000 for the treatment and rehabilitation of the ex-prostitutes in Saigon. They also reported in the CAVC bulletin that the visit to Vietnam has confirmed the great need for warm clothing and medicines, especially penicillin and quinine. : :

Apart from the financial cam- paign for the Canada-Vietnam Hospital, the CAVC bulletin ap-

Frank Jackson, London, Eng. Writing in response to a card of greetings sent from the PT staff, he says in part: Many thanks for your good wishes and card. I see from the PT that my old comrade Tom McEwen is 86 on Feb. 11. Please convey my congratulations to him, and tellhim I’m four years in the lead. On March9 I shall be 90 years old, a long time which I’ve spent in the socialist movement.

My father made me a member of the Social Democratic Federation in 1902, at 15 years of age, and I’m proud to say since that date I have been a proud member of the Social Democratic Federation, the Social Democratic Party, the British Socialist Party, and the Com- munisty Party, in which I have a paid up card for the year 1977.

My first acquaintance with

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peals for money to purchase essential drugs and warm clothing for people in mountain regions.

The Vancouver-based committee has sent 46 shipments to Vietnam since shipments began in August, 1966. The value of these shipments, which contained articles from across Canada, totalled $272,000. CAVC announced that the 47th shipment consisting of 14 crates, including three cartons of long- acting penicillin, is presently being crated and will be on its way soon via Soviet freighters to Vietnam. This latest shipment will bring the total value of 47 shipments to $280,650.

Anyone wishing to help in the CAVC campaign is urged to con- tact the CAVC, Box 2543, Van- couver, Canada V6B 3W8. Con- tributions for the Canada-Vietnam Hospital can be sent to, the above address. :

Canada was in 1945 when I met Tim Buck at the Communist Party Congress, and then on two oc- casions when he was in England he stayed with me in my home. I became more knowledgeable when

my daughter went to live in Canada in 1938. Since then I have been visited by many friends from B.C. So you see, comrades, I have been able to follow the tremendous hard fight you have had to keep the “Red Flag’? high in the air i Canada.

I would like to congratulate you on the very high tone you have achieved in the PT, and it speaks well of your fight in developing the real socialist objective in your part of the world. The tide of revolution is sweeping across the wide, wide world and you can take pride in the fact that your efforts are being crowned with success.

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TEMPLETON SECONDARY SCHOOL is celebrating its Golden Anniversary in 1977. In honor of this occasion a reunion is being held at the school on April 6 from 6:30 p.m. to 11:00 p.m. Former students and staff are cordially invited to attend.

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