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46 THE DAILY TIMES-GAZETTE, Wednesday, Mareh 7, 1958 'Say Vancouver Library = | Is "Shocking Firetrap' By ERWIN FRICKE , Canadian Press Staff Writer | VANCOUVER (CP)--It's a life- | time job, E. 8S. Robinson can tell | you, to get a new public library | built" in a city of 400,000. | Vancouver today uses the same | ery for its central library as it did in 1903 when a $40,500 struc- | ture was built with funds supplied | by philanthropist Andrew Carnegie. | Vancouver then had a population (of 27,000. | "It is one of the poorest library | buildings in Canada," says Mr ! Robinson, chief librarian of the Vancouver public library for the last 32 years. "There must worse but I don't know where they | :| dangerous, overcrowded, unpainted brary facilities for the city in 1949 and called them "deplorable." "The library's situation here is shocking because it is in China- town, a decadent part of the city," |said Dr. John Adams Lowe of | Rochester, (N.Y.) public library. "A central library should cater to the entire city, with the building | in the centre of the business sec- tion.' | apap. in editorials and col- ave long denounced the | building | "It is the most dilapidated, dirty: old firetrap that a civic adminis- tration ever foisted on a tax-paying public," wrote columnist Jean How- Hbrary he wrote that "the exact! antithsis of either beauty or util- ity of design prevail throughout he buildings. next farmer's market later to serve as the city hall, was made available to relieve crowded library condi- tions. It now houses the children's department and a reading room In 1937 the chief librarian com- Dlained in a newspaper article that ancouver "has the poorest li-| brary facilities of any large city America have poorer libraries.' "It wasn't until 1945, after three, previous library by-laws were re- Jected, that voters passed a $1,- Sees Nuclear Power Soon Big Factor | power ySheaply the estimated ini will require in 1980. | velopers annual Energy of Canada Ltd., said pres- 5000 more people in the ent sources cannot hope to provide since noon today 19.000,000 power is liowatt hours of electrical energy clear fission i , and the need Fortunately £2 greal. jin time to He told the prospectors and de-| Canadian scientists and engin' convention herelare not only providing the 2 only British Columbia and Ontario|for. our own use but assistant, Hydro plant and projects Jossess available sources of che 2 numanity in the peaceful dev ydro-electric power. Even with : ! addition under way to the Niagara con- « ment of nuclear energy.' TORONTO (CP) -- A scientist nected with the St. Lawrence sea- {said today nuclear generators will way, Ontario will not have suf- in Canada and few cities in North provide one-third of Canada's ficient ,hydro power to meet its by 1980 needs in 1962. David A- Keyes, scientific ad- "Population growth in the world viser to the president of Atomic requires power. There are at least 000,000 by-law for a new buildi In the same year Vancouver spent only $100,000 on library mainten- ance, the least of all the major cities in Canada In 1949 Canada's third largest city made its first expenditure from capital for a library building, MOVIE MAKERS THIS IS TOO GOOD TO KEEP TO OURSELVES The British TEN BEST amateur films will be shown ot 8:00 P.M. WEDNESDAY, MARCH 7th For soothing first-aid, apply a t! paste of baking soda and { Keepin place with a sterile band And here's a safety tip: ba soda extinguishes small instantly. Pour contents of pac! arth of The Province a few years| a $30,000 branch. Four other ago. | branches have since been built. | POOR LOCATION LONG CAMPAIGN ARGUMENT OVER SITE He isn't alone in condemning Almost from the day he and his, But the central library project the three-storey antique at the cor-| bride came here in 1924 from Cal- was still hogged down in argu- ner of Main and Hastings streets, gary, where he was head of cir- ment between the library board once the city's centre but now no- culation for the Calgary public| and the city council over a site orious as a thoroughfare where library, Mr. Robinson campaigned! and what aldermen called "extra- riffraff congregate. for a better place for the public's vagant" plans. Meanwhile cost of Two American librarians con- books. construction went up and $1,000,000 duc ted a survey of Vancouver hi-' In 1926 in an appeal for a new was considered inadequate. 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