The Vancouver Sun from Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada • 21

it Sunday MUtual 4-7141 VANCOUVER, SATURDAY, AUGUST 2, 1958 21 Freeway Network Iplanned for City i i 1 1 $200 Million System Unveiled at Council Parley POWER OFF ON TUESDAY By DORY THACKER Vancouver Sun Staff Reporter A $200,000,000 freeway network to carry major B.C. highways through the heart of Vancouver has been Shore, and the municipalities east and south of the city. It will enable free traffic movement between the city and Deas island tunnel, and a proposed new Fraser river bridge at Port Mann. Efficient Setup Efficient distribution of traffic in all parts of the downtown area will result. Access to the ordinary street system will be provided at a limited number of intersections, strategically located to feed traffic on and off key roads.

Engineers also plan to recommend to Mr. Gaglardi a new Lions Gate crossing. But at present they still are undecided whether a tunnel or a bridge is best. A bridge located about 200 feet east or west of the present Lions Gate span is considered the most likely choice. One bridge then would carry northbound traffic and the other southbound.

Chief argument against a tunnel is the fact entrances would have to be built through extremely long approaches due to high shores, and the high cost of installing and maintaining a ventilating system. Whichever is selected, a new access road from Alberni Street must either bridge or cut through Lost Lagoon and travel across Stanley Park. City council, on the advice of city engineers, recently paid $110,000 for a key property on Alberni to prevent it from being developed privately. A big building on the site would have cost considerably more to expropriate than the vacant lot. 1 I Ml llltHW'ifOlfllUnllJMlllllf Ml 14,1 ImHIOMMMH I III ffl 1' 1 IW ing house at fought blaze 2162 York.

One fireman was overcome. Firefighters for more than an hour. Don Timbrell photo. TWO-ALARM FIRE ripped through" an almost-completed $100,000 apartment building (left) early today and set fire to roof of adjoin-. NEW APARTMENT BURNS REPORT Gould Dog Bites Fireman Trying To Revive Its Mistress Firemen battled a two-alarm Kitsilano apartment fire for more than an hour early today.

Heavily damaged was an Van West Councillors Row Over Electricians Proposals to scrap the city's electrical department erupted into a bitter aldermanic squabble at a secret meeting of city council this week. Will Stay Open WEST VANCOUVER No closure of West Vancouver beaches due to contamination is contemplated by the North Shore medical health officer. Electrical service will be interrupted Tuesday In two sections of Vancouver west of Central Park. Area bounded by Kerr, Road, Doman Road, East Forty-ninth and East Sixty-second will be affected from 9 to 10:30 a.m. Area bounded by Doman Road, Tyne, East Fifty-fourth and East Forty, ninth wUl be without power from 9 a.m.

to noon. IN ROYAL CITY Park Seen As Home For Tram From Sun Bureau New Westminster NEW WESTMINSTER A park in the Royal City may provide a home for the last of the B.C. Electric interurban trams. The tram has been offered to Vancouver, but so far there have been no takers, and BCE officials have warned it will have to be moved soon from the company's yards or be destroyed. Members of New Westminster recreation commission are exploring possibility of bringing the old unit to this former tram centre.

They point out it could be used as a piece of play equipment, for a shelter in case of or as a hobby place for children. Dune Russell, recreation commission chairman, said Grimston Park would provide a natural site as it is near the Central Park tramline. Only reasons the recreation commission would have to not acquire the tram would be if the transit company wants tt preserved for its historic value or high moving cost. Aid. Wilson's right to move such a motion, or even to vote on the question.

He said Aid. Wilson had represented the International Brotherhood Electrical Workers, Local 213, to which the city electricians belong, on conciliation board hearings and therefore was an employee of the union. Aid. Wilson admitted he had served as union nominee on two conciliation boards last year, but said he had never been a member or employee of the union. Decision on whether to abolish the department was deferred until Corporation Counsel Russell Baker brings down his ruling.

Faker Gets $5 A man posing as an agent for a wood company collected $5 from rooming house operator Mrs. Ethel Stokes, 2124 Franklin. She phoned police whpn a sppnnd man. the real agent, came to collect the same' bill. Committee is mad.

It's sponsoring several FREE band concerts and no one is attending Several months ago several inches of this space were devoted to a blast at Toronto. Leading the screams of protest was Ann Ryan, a former Torontomato and the wife of insurance exec Pat Ryan. Now' she's protesting again. Husband Pat has switched his headquarters to Toronto and they move Monday. Ann doesn't want to go Little old lady wandered -in the Dunbar' branch of the Bank of Commerce earlier this week clutching sixty $10 bills issued by the Bank of Montreal in the thirties and since replaced by Bank of Canada notes.

She explained she wanted to trade them in before they went out of style. Money never goes out of style, dearie CBC brass looking very askance at the activities of a local radio outlet which has switched over to become a juke box. Wassermanla Thought for the LCB: It's easier to sit down after drinking standing up than it is to stand up after drinking sitting down. proposed to city council. The complex system' to speed traffic flow would be implemented in stages over the next 20 to 30 years and slice through scores of exist ing blocks.

City council got a hush-hush preview of the long-range plan at a closed-doors meeting the 28th barred to the press in 1958 this week. Shown was an interim report of proposed "limited access" freeway routes prepared over the last two years by the Metropolitan Highways Planning Committee and B.C. government engineers. The Vancouver Sun learned exclusively that the plan envisions: Main Routes 1 Existing roads will not be generally trsed. Freeways will take the most direct routes, eliminating curves, cutting through dozens of built-up blocks.

2 A north-south route from Oak Street bridge, running "somewhere west of Granville," to Burrard and Granville bridges. 3 Burrard and Lions Gate bridges would be connected by a freeway cutting through the west end and approaching Stanley Park along Alberni. 4 Barnet Highway to be linked with the downtown area by a freeway "somewhere north of False Creek." It likely will cross the CPR False Creek yards on a new viaduct to Dunsmuir, and run through to Lions Gate bridge via Melville, overpassing Georgia at Cardero, and along Alberni. 5 Lougheed Highway exten-' sion into Vancouver would be split near Boundary. One arm would run directly west to Granville bridge "somewhere between Broadway and King Edward.

The other would run west as far as Granville in the vicinity of Forty-first, 5 The three east-west freeways would be linked by a cross-highway leading to the new Second Narrows bridge. Routes are only "generally" located. Final report pin pointing suggested locations is expected to be given to Highways Minister Gaglardi in December. Gov't Funds No money has been allocated for the scheme. Aldermen ex pect the city to put up a share, but the bulk would be paid by the provincial government out of gasoline tax revenue.

The proposed freeways are extensions of provincial highways which now end officially at the Vancouver boundary. (At present, the city gets only $23,000 a year from Vic toria for highway maintenance, nothing for construction, although Vancouver produces more than one-third of the provincial total. Other municipalities, however, have their entire highway system built and maintained by the government.) Engineers predict this sys tem will provide adequately for the fast flow of traffic be tween Vancouver, the North I tee and he can't tell anyone THAT Memo to certain pop disk jockey: the featured artists in Sunday's Verdi Requiem are Lois Marshall and Maureen Forrester, NOT "Louis Marshall" and "Morrie Forrester." Dig, man, dig Speaking of the Festival, it isn't bad enough that potential customers must spend long periods in line at the box office to buy tickets for the. long-hair events. Throughout their wait all they hear is rock 'n roll music blasting out of a record player in Kelly's pop record department.

Granville Gamblts--After his opening night performance famed mime Marcel Marceau just couldn't wind down. He was still performing at 4 a.m. Friday in the Sylvia Hotel lobby where he gave fellow festival artist Jan Rubes a complete Mar- lapsed from smoke exposure during mopping up operations but was released after hospital treatment. BITE FOR EFFORTS Inhalator crewman David Ross was bitten on a finger by a dog when he attempted to revive its mistress, Mrs. Robert Finch, of 2168 York, who collapsed during the fire.

She had fainted from excitement while watching the spectacular blaze, and the growling animal menaced anyone who approached her until she revived. Flames shooting from windows on the top floor of the three-storey building set fire to the roof of an adjoining home at 2162 York. A. E. Williams and his family, who occupy the home, turned in the first alarm.

WET OTHER HOMES Firemen quickly snuffed out the roof fire and wetted down several other homes to prevent any further outbreak. Cause of the fire has not been determined. It apparently began on the main floor of the 10-suite apartment. Hundreds of spectators, drawn by the pillar of smoke and fire, gathered to watch. Firemen ordered a third alarm when for a time the fire threatened to get out of hand, but cancelled it before off-duty men were called in.

Divorce Granted A divorce decree was granted by Chief Justice Sherwood Lett to Branislava Birsa, Edmonton, who was married in 1950 to Saba Birsa, 3510 Kingsway. If the premier can make it through the next election without falling flat on his face, more power to him, although he should be warned that no one in Ottawa is betting on Social Credit the next time out. In the meantime, there's work to be done, and the federal government, though all of its reasons are not entirely virtuous, wants to get at it. The premier's attitude is making it difficult, and tempers in the capital are starting to rise. A typical example is the Sons of Freedom Doukhobor problem.

Ottawa is sincerely trying to work out something to halt terrorism in the Koot-enays, The premier asked Justice Minister Davie Fulton out to Victoria to discuss it, and Mr. Fulton agreed to go. It has been years since a federal cabinet minister went to B.C. at B.C's request to discuss anything. Mr.

Fulton isn't saying what happened during the meeting, but it's no secret in Ottawa that he almost walked out the premier's door five minutes after he walked in. Instead of a let's-get-our-heads-together discussion that was anticipated, he was presented with an ultimatum: Take the entire Sons of Freedom problem off B.C's hands. Reason prevailed, and the two governments appear- to have agreed on some joint action that will be finalized through continuing correspondence. Thursday, the premier yelled his way into print' again, demanding that Mr. Fulton apologize for something he hadn't said about the Sons of Freedom, demanding that Mr.

Fulton table correspondence in the Commons that Premier. Bennett himself labelled confidential. Ottawa wishes he would call a truce, and eel the 1ob over with. If he's still spoil- ing for a fight two years from now, the Tories won't be found lacking. OTTAWA By Tom gin ihe Gov't OTTAWA A lot of pliticians have a theory loUt- their ancient and jnorable profession.

It not enough to be for rnething," they say. "You've bt to'bi against something." tin the past, the federal.gov-. lent, that 1 strange ana complex mon-; squat- Km ting on the banks of the, ta a River, with I tentacles every distant "A corner ef the land, was the big y- man or Pr0' vincial poli- 'fhh ticmns. '( They- could point a shak- inir finper to the east, or to the west, and foam at the mouth with righteous indignation. "There lies the fault," they would scream.

"Blame Ot-tawa!" Suddenly, these provincial politicos found that a new regime, an extremely popular regime, if the latest Gallup poll results are any criterion, had taken over from those dreaded Liberals. They quickly realized that ho good could come from damning the hale-wearing Tories who had moved into the East Centre Block, West Block, Confederation Building and every other government institution. The thunder and the fury died away to a whisper al-tnosf overnight. A few angry bleats can still be heard from Newfoundland's Joey Small-wood, and Saskatchewan's Tommy Douglas' voice can be iaintly detected from across the prairies, Even British Columbia's vociferous Premier Bennett paught the vision for a while, knd solemnly pledged his "co-Operation" with the new fed eral government. For a while, peace reigned bn the battleground of fed- tral-provincial relations.

But only for a while, because Ottawa is once again hearing enguished roars of outrage irom' the evergreen play-ground. Premier Bennett has, apparently, decided that to fight his way out of the mess his government appears to be in, be has to be "agin" something, and that the biggest and best target is the federal government. The Liberals no longer Worry him, and he obviously believes the Tories are going to- be his biggest foes in the jiext provincial election, in-jBtead of the, CCF, and that if he plas his. cards 'right he tan ride in on a split CCF-Tory opposition vote. like a man on a tight-'rope, trying to hold his' balancing pole dead level, vhile a Tory! jumps up and fi'own on one end, and on the other.

almost completed, $100,000 structure being built by Seymour Construction Ltd. at 2146 York. Fireman David Forsyth col- Beaches "I think it would be a very arbitrary decision to close West Vancouver beaches purely because of a potential danger to health," health officer Dr. George Mott told The Vancouver Sun. He made.it clear that his remarks were directed only to the situation on West Vancouver beaches and were in no way connected with the controversy over the beach situa tion in the city of Vancouver.

Dr. Mott said there was contamination on West Vancouver beaches and anyone who goes swimming here "takes a calculated risk" but he stressed this risk has existed for the past five years. He explained the situation was different here than in the city of Vancouver for two reasons municipal swim areas are further removed from city effluent, and beaches are not as crowded. Mott also expressed the opinion that all the cases of upper respiratory infection reported in this area should not be attributed to the water. He suggested much of the blame could be laid on dust in the air.

Kelowna By-passes City's PNE Parade KELOWNA The Kelowna Regatta committee has decided to forego Vancouver's Pacific National Exhibition parade in favor of Pioneer Days parade. When it was found the two celebrations conflicted in dates, the regatta committee endorsed taking part in Vernon's parade to help make the neighboring community's celebration a success. The committee decided to enter the Grey Cup parade in Vancouver later in the year. Gin, Beer, Pals Leave 2 Poorer Drinking companions robbed two Vancouver men in separate incidents Friday. Wilfred Labine, Victory Rooms, complained to police that a man he invited up to his room for a drink made off with his wallet, containing $50, and a bottle of gin.

1 Ronald Campbell, 58, of 656 Seymour, reported being strong-armed and robbed of $30 by a man he had been in a beer parlor with earlier. Hotel Clerk, Wife Beaten An elderly hotel clerk and his wife were beaten when they refused three young men a room Friday night. Wong Jor, 67, told police the three, all about 23, forced their way into the office of the May6 Hotel, 545 Main, and assaulted him and his 66-year-old wife. He said when he tried to call police one of the men threatened to kill him with a knife, although no knife was produced. The attackers left by a back door and drove away in a car.

Keys Establish Body's Identity A ring of keys gave police the identity of a man whose body was taken from Vancouver harbor this week. The keys were found, to be of the type used in an The missing persons files listed Orlando W. Hobbs, 59, of 3839 West Second, as an elevator operator for Canadian Pacific Railway. The keys fitted the elevator Mr. Hobbs operated and the doors to his home.

Mr. Hobbs disappeared' from the CPR pier April 9. Dine to Music by HUGO SARTORELLO IN THE CHALET VIEW ROOM The city legal department I has been asked to rule on whether one alderman should be deprived of his right to vote on the question on the grounds that he has "worked" for the electricians' union. RESOLUTION PASSED Following last year's seven-week strike of city electricians, council passed a resolution that it would "consider" abolishing the electrical depart ment and hiring the work out to contractors. Some weeks ago council told the administration board to report on what this would involve and how it would affect the city.

The board at a closed-doors council meeting this week recommended the department should be kept. VOTE CHALLENGED The board's report noted it would cost "considerably" more to contract the work out. Aid. Hal Wilson moved a motion that the board's recommendations be adopted and the department maintained. Aid.

Earle Adams challenged ceaudition of "Don Giovanni" Jazz pianist Andre Prevln's one-line critique of long hair pianist Glenn Gould: "He's a great pianist but disconcerting to watch." One-line critique of one-line critique. Gould has played to 5,000 people here so far. Previn played to 500 Good Joe's place, with a twist. Earlier this week two policeman snatched a pair of toughs for molesting at Yew and Cornwall. One of the suspects escaped and was nailed by a private citizen.

Then- the private citizen got away. The police don't know who he was but they'd like to thank him Alaska will have to go some to surpass1 Tourist L. Zichner, of Fort Worth, pulled into town this- week with an eight-door, 14-seat Cadillac. When he parked it on Howe Street Friday he had to drop dimes in two meters. "It takes a lot of car when you travel with six children," he told me.

And that's the stuff of which legends are made. Weekend Wind-up Everybody was mad at the Centennial Committee because it was charging for attractions. Now the Centennial ABOUT NOW Ah, C'mon, Girls, B.C. Is Pretty Nice, Too By JACK WASSERMAN Travel Logs At a meeting of the Women's Canadian Club, a group noted for its ultra-nationalism, several speakers made a great point of the joys of being Canadian in general, and British Columbian in particular, this Centennial year. The speeches were followed by a group of singers who, for their first number chose, "Nothing Could Be Finer Than To Be In Carolina." Oh yeah! Here 'n After Stripper Tempest Storm lived up to both her names back stage at the Cave Friday night but then, the new management planned to replace those old chairs anyhow Saddest story of the week involves BCE's Art Bolton who scored a hole-in-one on the sixth at Gleneagles the other afternoon.

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