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1 T'y'r VVf TT i i 1 i WOMEN'S NEWS CLASSIFIED THE THIRD SECTION section PAGES 37 to 54 C37 MU 4-7141 VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA, THURSDAY, APRIL 18, 1963 ft 1 i UX. r--V Joe: SGOTT A regularly recurring sequel to the yearly hoopla of the Red Feather campaign is the issuance, usually in tones of muted despair, of the annual reports of the various agencies that feed from it. These reports get perfunctory notice in the public press or upon what passei for the public conscience, perhaps because they make such downright miserable reading. People are understandably weary of all the agony that's distilled to pry them loose from a buck In the first place. Having been pried loose from the buck they like to think that the Red Feather idea works in t.t least a kind of half-baked way.

When they've made their contribution they're inclined to shrug aside the accusing reminders that it hasn't been enough and to console themselves with the notion that the agencies will get by, will make do. It will be collection time soon enough again, God knows. Meantime it's more comforting to hope or pretend that sweet charity is doing its job. Unhappily, these annual agency reports, buried though they may.be in the papers back with the auction advertisements, almost always demonstrate with sledgehammer impact, that sweet charity can be sour beyond belief. Many of them are a cry for.

help. Many are a lament that the job of trying to soften hu Action Taken to Speed Multi-Million-Dollar Jobs By CLIFF MacKAY i Action to speed multi-million-dollar projects in Vancouver is breaking fast on four separate fronts at city hall today. They are: Selection of April 27 as wrap-up date for negotiation of Webb and Knapp's $55 million apartment scheme In Coal Harbor. Completion of the first phase of a downtown redevelopment survey ordered by city council from Larry Smith and Company, International consultants. Submission of an official request that B.C.

Research Coun cil seek to share in a $500,000 Ford Foundation grant for studying urban problems. Announcement that Mayor Bill Rathie Intends to push the establishment here of limited-dividend housing 'liar Afir i-t yj 21 1 1 Not Many Difficulties H-JksX mfTmj0C It Dan Scott Photo by helicopter. From left are Lloyd Williams, 26, Heinz Rostek, 22, and Don Hoover, 22. All are in good health. TRAPPED BY BLIZZARD three Vancouver skiers for four days on Mount Garibaldi, these were brought out ol the area Wednesday NOT LOST OR IN TROUBLE 3 Trapped Mountaineers Sorry They Caused Search 2 Americans Forced Down Spotted Alive FORT ST.

JOHN (Staff) Two Americans whose light plane crash-landed after running out of fuel Wednesday were spotted alive today. The pair were spotted by a search plane pilot who dropped a radio transmitter. They reported they were uninjured in the forced landing. 22, of 46C9 West Eleventh, and Three mountaineers trapped four days by blizzards on Mount Garibaldi say they're sorry for the trouble they caused rescuers. They weren't lost, just delayed by blizzards, zero temperatures and 60 m.p.h.

winds, they said. Their big worry was that a search would be launched for them. They had mountain survival POLE PLUNGE INJURES 2 LILLOOET (Correspondent) Two men were injured, one of them seriously, when a power pole on which I they were working snapped at the base. Seriously injured was Toby Lea, 48, of 129 West Sixteenth Street, North Vancouver. John McClure, 48, of 2274 Kitchener Street, Vancouver, received an injured shoulder but his condition is good.

Lea was given emergency treatment and taken by ambulance to St. Paul's Hospital, Vancouver. His condition is fair. Housing Group Elects Officers Vancouver Housing Associa tion has named officers for They are: E. Dudley, president; Dr.

Wallace Wilson, vice-president; P. R. U. Strat-ton, honorary treasurer; Mrs. V.

Davison, executive secretary. New directors are: K. Bell, Mrs. A. Chisholm, E.

Jansen, Mrs. W. T. Lane and Mrs. M.

Young. Lloyd Williams, 26, of 886 Westminster Highway, Rich- mond, were hiking to safety! when they were found by a helicopter Wednesday. The three men set out late Thursday from Diamond Head chalet on a 12-mile skiing hike around Mount Garibaldi to Garibaldi Lake where they were to meet another group of skiers Sunday. But they were trapped by the blizzard late Saturday on the level of the mountain, so set up camp until Wednesday when the weather cleared. RATIONED FOOD Rostek said they rationed their food so it would last seven da vs.

keDt the tent Lowest Tunnel Bid Could Be Rejected training, food for seven days, a naphtha stove, tent and tar paulin for shelter, sleeping bags and warm clothes. "We weren't in any trouble we were embarrassed to find so many people were searching for us," said Heinz Rostek, 22, of 66 West King Edward. HEADING TO SAFETY Rostek said he, Don Hoover, this figure may not be as acceptable as the $3,158,310 figure quoted by Gilpin Construction lor the work as specified. Initial estimates were approximately $6.5 million. The Eighth Avenue tunnel will run between Clark Drive and Highbury where It will connect with Highbury tunnel.

Highbury tunnel is linked with Iona Island Sewage Treatment plant which will be opened officially Friday. man misery through individual generosity is seldom anything more than a token or rearguard action. Many are a confession that in terms of keeping up with the continuing, growing rot of the capitalist system of society the voluntary effort is just an elaborate evasion of society's responsibility. Some of these depressing agency reports can be read without excessive anger or guilt because they deal with facets of life that do not involve the immediacy or urgency of human suffering. The majority of them do, however, and reading them year after year it seems a miracle of impenetrable public obtuseness that the Red Feather idea, as a substitute for positive government welfare services, can survive.

None demonstrate this more dramatically than the annual reports of the Family Service Agency of Greater Vancouver, the latest of which is on my desk. It Is a remarkable document, a searing indictment of our rotten callous free-enterprise system. Perhaps more than any other Red Feather agency this voluntary organization which relies almost entirely on charity, deals most directly with the victims of our savage way of life, particularly the victims of poverty who number conservatively, one in every four citizens. What capitalism does to its losers in this jungle struggle of the survival of the fittest emerges in all its misery before this agency. The breakdown of family life through separation, delinquency, mental and emotional illness, crime, alcoholism and despair is the No.

1 social problem in this so-called land of affluence. It is the measure of our way of life, that, In the words of Deryck Thomson, the agency's executive director, "one quarter of our fellow citizens are living In or on the very ragged edge of poverty or economic distress" and that they are constantly exposed to futility and disaster. What the Family Serv-ice Agency's annual report demonstrates once more is that capitalism puts a crushing burden on at least a third of the population and that the capitalist method of trying to cope with its own damage, through voluntary charity, is only a make-believe answer. To put it bluntly, this particular agency doesn't work, and the same could be said in varying degrees of every Red Feather member organization that deals with human welfare. The Family Agency Is a spectacular example because it doesn't even attempt what it ought to be doing and what it has reluctantly limited Itself to is a compromise.

Mr. Thomson says all they can do is try to pick up the pieces of broken homes and shattered lives, "often In a vain effort to stick them to-gether," because the funds they have to work with are completely inadequate. In fact he says that, along with other community groups Involved in family life, this agency "continues to hover precariously on the edge of lis own poverty." "Support the Red Feather appeal," this report says, in effect, "and pretend that everything Is dandy." fThla is the first of two columns on subject.) AENEAS BELL IBVING progress The company was retained to investigate best uses for a $2 million fund voted by ratepayers in 1958 for downtown redevelopment. Results of the Friday con-ference may be taken Tuesday to city council. Aldermen would then decide whether the consultants should carry their work into its second stage.

Interest in the $500,000 Ford Foundation grant was stimu- lated here recently by George Mooney, executive-director of the Canadian Federation of Mayors and Municipalities. The money backs a newly-created Canadian Council on Urban and Rural Research. It is proposed that the council spend the money on solving community problems of national importance. Projects The mayor also said he believes that private charitable groups should be encouraged in their efforts to house elderly pensioners. "I should like to know how they are able to do it so much cheaper than public housing authorities working through Central Mortgage and Housing Corporation," the mayor said.

He cited the opening last week of the United Church's Fairhaven centre at Forty-ninth and Wales. Board and room is supplied at $70 a month and single suites rent (A Fairhaven official said today that costs are held down by private contributions, lack of mortgage interest and dona-tion of one-third of the capital cost by the provincial government.) "The city's chief Interest is In housing people decently at reasonable cost," the mayor said. "We don't care whether the people wear a red tie or green tie just as long as the job is done." 1 est dispersal sale ever seen in these parts, Peter Gra-hum, one of F.R.'s sons will be first In line among the bidders. It's his hope to personally contlnuethe family tradition The Glasgow Sunday Mall's editor is due In here next week to do a series of stories on B.C. for the Scottish weekly.

The stories will undoubtedly be calm, rational, dispassionate accounts of life In the col-onies because the editor is Alex a WcbMter, brother local radlorator Jack Webster. Oh heck, yes. B.C. Telephone company officials switched from an original oil painting to a photo on the cover of the upcoming phone book because local artists had turn ed the competition Into a free for all and it became "Just too much trouble" to pick a painting. As much trouble as getting an answer from Information? Fin Anthony's boost for Mr.

Lucky, the magician head-ling the Western Sportsmen's Show starting at Ker-rlsdalo Arena next Monday. "Ho must be a great magician he's already made the profit disappear." WASSEIOIAMA This Is the month a young man graduates from college, Is told Ihe world belongs to him, gets married and hands It over to his wife. warm with the stove "Considerable progress has been made with Webb and Knapp," said Aid. Aeneas Bell-Irving. "I don't expect too much difficulty.

I think we can go along with them pretty well." He is chairman of city coun cil's standing committee on development. It is striving to reconcile the company's plans for high-density use of the 28-acre Coal Harbor site with more modest standards advocated by city planners. Bell-Irving said the Intention is to reach a compromise before Mayor Bill Rathie leaves for Europe April 28. Meanwhile, the Larry Smith firm is ready to meet privately at 9:30 a.m. Friday with city officials to review first findings in Its survey.

Study Toronto City planning director Harry Pickstone is a member of the council. As a result of discussions between Rathie and commissioner Gerald Brown, Pickstone is proposing to the B.C. Research Council that it choose a sphere of local study that could qualify for founda tion help. While he Is In Toronto next month for the convention of the mayors' federation, Rathie will also get particulars of Toronto's experience with limited-divided housing projects. Ho understands that the city itself has undertaken such projects under the National Housing Act.

Under the act, up to 90 per cent of construction costs may be advanced from public funds. The private developer who puts up the remaining 10 per cent is guaranteed a five per cent annual return and owns the property when the loan Is paid off. Rathie said today that pools of European capital seeking safe long term Investment should be Interested in such a plan here. 1 this week In horn rim glasses. THE WHEE! PEOPLE Following the McGuIre Sisters' opening night perform-a nee at the Cave Wednesday It took five waiters to carry the baskets of flowers on stage.

The floral offerings which came from out of town prompted rhyllis the one in the middle to crack, "Mlgawd, I don't know vhether we opened or died." The sisters are accompanied by the largest orchestra to fill a nightclub stage In my memory. The usual 12man Chris Guge orchestra Is augmented by six Vancouver Symphony fiddlers. And when the script called for them to play out of tune for a gag our boys just couldn't cut It. For a change the Cave booking policy has Included an opening act that Is In keeping with the classy, well designed presentation of the headllners, Jny Neincth, with his "talking has a unique pitch which departs from all the usual cliches of ventriloquism. His appeal Is based on timing and delivery rather than off color Jokes, I like It.

IP 'N ITEM-Whcn the late F. Ronald Graham Doo Darhyahlre Montrose Stable of 43 horses Is put up for auction April 27 In the larg a Jack WASSERMAN Grads Introduce The aircraft was piloted by L. M. Peterson, and the passenger was identified as Mer-ton J. Attwood, the plane owner.

Both are from Sand Point, Idaho. They were on a 200-mile trip to Fort Nelson from Fort St. John Wednesday afternoon when Peterson reported his compass was broken and they were lost. In a series of radio conversations with Fort Nelson airport he described a river he was following, said he was running out of gas, and would have to make a crash landing on snow. The plane was located about 80 miles southeast of Fort Nelson between the Hay and Kotcho Rivers.

A helicopter was on Its way to pick up the men. the bathing costumes still didn't meet with Ryan's approval. The sign company, which Is dependent on the city department for day to day approvals will say nothing to me. But Beck says he has been told he can't get the sign until he agrees to have the figures altered by allowing the highlights to be removed so that there is no accent upon the woman's bosom. Beck says he can't see what all the shouting Is about but he'll go along with the city because he needs the sign.

City officials are making molehills out of mountulns and it's ridiculous. HAT Nirs Four page color picture spread on Malaysia In the current Time mag was snapped by photographer Harry Keril. So what's the local angle? Harry practiced his photography on the scenic areas In Stanley Park between shifts as a waiter at the Ferguson Point Tea House Darling, we are growing old, dear. Billy EckMine has two aons In the U.S. Army and Joe riillllpone blossomed Crcater Vancouver Sewer age and Drainage District engineers are studying six tenders on the Eighth Avenue interceptor tunnel.

A board spokesman said some of the bids submitted were based on specifications which differed from requirements. Lowest figure, offering alternate specifications, came from Bedford Construction Company, at $4,592,862. But, the spokesman explained that Two UBC Changes By SIMMA HOLT The mud hut in Ghana Is underdoing many Innovations as a result of a 20-month visit by two university of home economics graduates. The changes they Introduced were described today by Judith Foote on her return to Van couver after 20 months In the new West African state. The money for the trip and the work of Miss Foote and her teammate, Jocelyn King, was raised by Sun Columnist Penny Wise and former Sun sports writer Dick Beddoes on behalf of Canadian University Service Overseas.

Miss Foote came back with respect for the freedom of the women of Ghana, the business acumen of the women, and the extent to which parents will sacrifice for the education of their children. She also came back engaged lo an American agricultural engineer, now transferred from Ghana to Korea. Miss King was married in Ghana and Is now living In Ottava. I Not only did the UBC gil ls Influence a change In the decor I (of waited for the storm to abate. "We felt very badly because we knew they would start looking for us," Hoover said.

The trio broke camp with clearing skies Wednesday and continued on their way to Garibaldi Lake. The ground searchers spotted fresh ski marks left by the three hikers Wednesday morning and at noon an RCAF helicopter found them. Mud Huts home economics to the home-makers. But they also went into the homes and showed women how to raise their beds from the ground to blocks, to Improve makeshift plastering and make shelves and cupboards. Miss Foote said the family meal consisted primarily of a dough like starch called "Fu Fu." There would be stew with this meal but the father and mother would get most of the meat while the toddlers would be left with the gravy.

The home economists showed the parents that since they were full grown and the chil dren not yet grown, the meat: should be given to the children. Vintage Coins Stolen About $300 in cash and cheques was stolen from the It. A. Roberts Ltd. real eslaic office, 5063 West Boulevard, police said.

They said the haul Included vintage, coins worth $125, the property of a salesman at the firm. I 5 it in Ghana the mud hut, but they also taught women of the villages new ways oi preparing iooa. Their classrooms were usually under a big tree In the villages. Their students were primarily the 29 young Chan- ian women who taught basic JUDY FOOTE Inuk from Olmiia LfL THE TOWN AROUND US The city sign censor has struck again. On Wednesday we reported that the Mermaid Coffee Shop sign has been approved with the mermaid's bosom covered.

Now city electrician Lome Ryan's department has ruled that an Illuminated sign showing a girl in a buthing suit must be repainted because the girl's bust line is too prominent. The sign, which will eventually go In front of the Surfslde Health Club on Denman, shows a woman In a two piece suit and a man In swim trunks running along the beach. Mr. Ryan told me he originally held up approval of the sign because the artist's sketch was unclear. But Surfslde proprietor Kay Deck Insists that one of Ryan's underlings wanted the bathing suits changed to a tennis costume for the girl and bcrmuda shorts for the man.

The city backed down on that ruling. The sign was finally made at Diamond Neon but when Beck phoned and asked why It hadn't been delivered he was told 1 rt il i i -1 jt.