Aldergrove Star
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is part of: BC Historical Newspapers
contributor: Langmann, Rudy
issued: 2022-09-22
issued: 1980-06-18
aggregated CHO: https://open.library.ubc.ca/collections/alderstar/items/1.0420840/source.json
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note: W^^TO ^■TO-WTTSTTT'T, . , __. ..... j .. Xaginlattro libraryt ' Parltanont BaLWinga TI4rtciriA,WlX/+ J«i80 Will Langley council let itself be bulldozed? By RUDY LANGMANN and RICK McILWAIN MURRAYVILLE - Early this spring a very irate Langley property owner clashed with municipal council here because he didn't get his way. It was not for the lack of trying. Vancouver import-merchant John Murchie was raging when the newly elected council refused to sell him two acres of water front property which he said he needed to complete his 80-acre subdivision. He had earlier, last year, negotiated a purchase price of $33,400 with a previous council. Mayor George Preston and two aldermen were all in favor of selling out to Murchie, but rookie alderpcrsons Muriel Arnason, Don MacTavish and Ian Strachan, supported by veteran Bill Blair, said the deal was off. In an outburst in council chambers the Vancouver businessman referred to council members as "a little red hen" (Arnason). and' "red communist SOBs (taking in the rest of council, possibly excepting Preston and aldermen Stan Fraser and Elford Nundal). Murchie expressed concern lhat socialism, if not communism, was on the march in Langley, and it did not alter his mind when several of the aldermen assured him that Ihey were not only conservative of body and mind but also card-carrying party members. The delegate left, with the promise that he would fill in the portion of Livingstone Lake extending onto the public land and also that he would build a high fence around same. Murchie then submitted a new application to the B.C. agricultural land commission for permission to subdivide into 13 five-acre lots. His application was approved. Theoretically everything should have been fine, but wait; Murchie had another go at council and the result was pretty much the same. He wasn't going to get the two acres, simple as that. Name- calling continued. ; Within the past two weeks the first part of Murchie's prophesy came true, the municipal…
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: 10.14288/1.0420840
language: English
lat: 49.0851
long: -122.4707
provider: Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library
publisher: Aldergrove : Central Fraser Valley Star Publishing Ltd.
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source: Original Format: Alder Grove Heritage Society
type: Text