Aldergrove Star
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is part of: BC Historical Newspapers
contributor: [Langmann, Rudy]
issued: 2022-09-21
issued: 1974-06-19
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note: BtrWOTLjm • THE ICONOCLAST VOL.17 N0.24 THE STAR, WEDNESDAY,. JUNE 19, 1974 ^7 PHONE 856-8303 »".i^ AS CANDIDATES UNDERBID ONE ANOTHER Dutch auction on interest rates Five candidates and a non- candidate. • Heavy rhetoric and promises from all sides of low, low, low. housing mortgage interests. More suppressed hostility between adherents of close idea- logies than between the far left and the ultimate right. It all adds up to the start of .a political campaign in the year of our Lord 1974 in what obviously is going to be a non- election. The five candidates who visit- ed County Line school Monday night, from left to right (politically speaking, thai is) were Homer Stevens (standing in for communist candidate Harold Pritchett), incumbent NDP-MP Mark Rose, . independent Ron ' Jackson, and the right shared by Edward Hibbs(JSocialCredit) and Bob Wenman (Progressive Conservative and himself a former^ Socred). ■ The non-candidate?... Ralph Baizley of the Fraser Valley West Liberal non-political party who should have acted as a buffer zone between Rose and Wenman but who didnt have time to show up, being away on a business, trip to Washington. And upon whose party most of the candidates vested their wrath.. Social Credit (what is social about it?) offering assistance in the Commons - if elected - to the Tories, and the Commies the same for theSocialists. But the representatives for the larger parties not taking it quite seriously, and besides, being the one and only true breed, bearing nothing but disdain for the smaller pretenders. 7 Little hints and gentle words that those whose ideologies most closely approach (me another hate each others guts far more than they do the opponents at the other end of the spectrum. "He's gonna steal ;MY votes." Politics is sure an interesting party game. ' Well, of the candidates invited fcy the Aldergrove Community Association to address the membership on land development policies, most seemed to have grasped the fact that a campaign - if…
note: Title changes in chronological order: Aldergrove Herald (1957-10-16 to 1958-02-20), Aldergrove News (1958-02-27 to 1964-04-30), Central Fraser Valley Echo (1964-05-06 to 1964-12-23), Central Fraser Valley Star (1967-01-17 to 1969-02-05), and Aldergrove Star (1969-02-12 to 1991-12-31). Presented to the Alder Grove Heritage Society by Kurt Langmann and Family, July 1, 2021.
has type: Newspapers
spatial: Aldergrove (B.C.)
is shown at: 10.14288/1.0420355
language: English
lat: 49.0851
long: -122.4707
provider: Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library
publisher: [Aldergrove : Central Fraser Valley Star Publications]
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source: Original Format: Alder Grove Heritage Society
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