who:-wants to ‘b da. 151 ft. long ona 20 ft. service lot i in elegant Gleneagles. The neighbors, as you might guess, are unhappy. Is their opposition justified? - It’s:penerally agreed that the future trend will: be -towards smaller lots. and higher densities. Given today’ s. soaring land prices and serious shortages in numerous types of housing, there seems no other way to go over the long haul. So is it fair, even today, to deny the use of a lot for home-building merely because it is undersized by yester- day's more lavish standards? On the other hand, how fair is it for an avenue of good-looking traditional homes to be visually scarred by a single intruding structure that resembles a string of boxcars just:two feet away from the folk next door — with its obvious potential for detracting from surrounding property values? ‘ The’ practical‘answer, we suggest, lies in the word ‘intruding’. An eiitire: subdivision of ‘thin houses’ could conceivably assume a peculiar beauty all its - own.. But on ‘the North Shore 17-20 ft. lots are“few and-widely scattered. The boxcar homes that might be. built on them would do virtually“ nothing for the housing shortage. On those grounds alone the arguments for inflicting .an isolated prototype on an at- tractive: residential neighborhood begin to wear as thin as the house itself. The famous -MG_ — toug | the romantic epitome of the British sports car — is finally dead. A U.K.-consortium formed.to rescue the MG from its chronic financial losses has failed to raise the needed cash. So the MG plant is to be closed and its 820 workers fired. . The Brits are tough. In North America the MG might easily have beaten Chrysler and Ford to the head of the queue for a govern- ment handout. Meanwhile, if you own an MG, look after it. In a couple of years it may be worth more than your home. sunday news: north shore news NEWS 985-2131 1139 Lonsdale Ave North Vancouver, B C V7M 2H4 (604) 985-2131 ADVERTISING CLASSIFIED CIRCULATION 980-0511 886-6222 986-1337 Publisher Peter Speck Associate Publisher Editor-in-Chief Advertising Director Robert Graham Noel Wright Eric Cardwell Classified Manager & Office Administrator Berni Hillard Production Tim Francis Faye McCrae Mane im Andy 9 Editor News Editor Photography Chris Uoyd Eltsworth Dickson Accounting Supervisor Barbara North Shore News, founded in 1969 as an independent commun ty Newspaper and qualitied under Schedule tl, Part Il, Paragraph fll of the Excise Tax Act, ia published each Wednesday and Sunday by North Shore Free Preas Lid and distributed to every door on the North Shore Second Class Mall Registration Number 3685 Subscriptiona $20 per year Entre contents © 1980 North Shore Free Press Lid Ali rights reserved No responsibility accepted tor manuscripts and pictures. which stamped, addrasaed retum enveione unsolicited maternal inchuding should be accompanted by 4 VERIFIED CIRCULATION - 60,870 49,013 Go S BY a IN” (R) Wednesday Sunday een” THIS PAPER IS RECYCLABLE . ‘pusinesses;as they * Say in the -- advertising business, is out _of whack with reality. The image is that big firms represent industrial salvation for the country. Indeed, a lot of Canadians still believe the major companies — many of them foreign-owned — are creating a majority of our newjobs. The reality is somewhat different. “Here’s what the 55,000- member Canadian Federation of Independent Business found in a recent study: eIn the period 1970-1976, Canadian-controlled manu- facturing firms (most of them small and medium- sized enterprises) -increased employment in Canada by 111,000 jobs. Meanwhile, overall employment by subsidiaries of U.S. -firms declined by 9,500 jobs and other foreign- controlled employed people. companies 1,200 fewer DOG'S LIFE: A letter to Mayor Derrick Humphreys from reader L.A. Richard- son (a dog-lover after our own heart) pomts out the idiotic signage at the 19th Street entry to West Van’s Seawalk warning “no dogs allowed.” Thirty feet along the Seawalk you come to the sign permitting dogs to go along the dog path on the railway side of the fence. Mr. Richardson's reasonable question: how do the city hall bureaucrats propose you get your dog from the “forbidden” sign at the entry to the legal dog run 30 ft. away? We have a further beef for His Worship on this topic. The dog run on the railway side of the fence is in deplorable condition, being a trail of large, sharp stones for most of its entire length. The dogs hate it, which is a burden for owners who enjoy the brisk walk from 19th to 23rd — it takes hours for their reproachful pooches to forgive them. Won't this year’s 11% tax hike cover the cost of a dump truck spreading a layer of soft carth along the run? Meanwhile, Canada Post's retail and delivery manager Bob Pearson warns that thc letter carrier-biting scason ts approaching its peak again, with 40 carriers bitten to dato this year. Owners are lable and damages won by the post office average $300 per bite The solution. says Pearson, is (o keep Fido tied up or indoors during the time the mail is normally dtlivered. However did Man's Best © Thé major. source of new employment. in the six year period’ “was as -by firms below 199 S ceaployee size class. e An additional 136,000 jobs would have been créated if foreign-owned companies had matched formance of Canadian- controlled firms. ¢ Canadian manufacturing companies increased output 112% in the period, com- pared to 85% for American controlled establishments. the per-. higher i in 1976 if the foreign- controlled companies’ had e Manufacturing shipments - would have been $9.2 billion duplicated the success‘of the ; Canadian-controlled firms.. While the thousands of smaller companies that innovate more readily and grow more rapidly do not attract much notice, they are the key to providing more jobs in the country. It’s high time everyone —=~— including the bureaucrats and politicians in Ottawa and the provinces — took:a long hard look at what's “All those opposed, signify by saying ‘I quit’”. sunday brunch by Noel Wright Friend manage to wind up as everybody else’s bad guy? Actively involved with the North Van Community Arts Council in the bid to save the Stoker Farm property at 29th and Lonsdale in North Van as a heritage site is Art Davies’ North Shore Heritage Advisory Com- mittee, formed a year ago with representatives from all three North, Shore municipalities. The arts and heritage people have been given until July 16 by North Van City council to come up with a feasibility study showing how up to $2 milhon (the price the owners are said to be asking) might be raised {© preserve the property for future generations. The Stoker Farm dates back to the turn of the century and, after St. Paul's church on the Mission In- dian Reserve, is just about the most mstomc thing remaining on the North Shore. Howard Stoker, incidentally, was aie City alderman back in 1923 Among other things he kept a prize-winning herd of Jerseys and Dearne Danries. as he called his operation, served the community for many ycars Multiple housing developers. for whom two milhon bucks pose no real problem. are reported to be tooking hungnly at the sue The defenders of our heruage have just 10 days left to provide a better answer eee The Thieves Phantom may have Flag struck twice in the night hours early las’ Monday morning. In addition to the 26 Canadian flags pinched from Park Royal a Czech and a Swiss flag were snitched around the same time from the Capilano Motel near Capilano and Marine in North Van. Motel Spokesman Haneef Esmail reports three other flags — the Stars and Stripes, the Union Jack and B.C.'s Rising Sun — have likewise disappeared from flagpoles over the roof of the front office dunng the past two or three months, although the Mapleleaf wasn't taken. With thew haul from Park Royal the baddies may have figured they had enough Canadiana for one night . eee Cap College is in urgent need of accommodatuon for students cnrolled for the fall semester, says Gale Kozal of the Student Housing Staff. They're looking for rooms in private homes, room and board, basement suites and anything on up to houses and townhouses — with many students willing to share Preferably on the North Shore. of course Hf you can help or have ideas. they'll be grateful to hear from you at the Student Housing Department, 986-1911 local 277, Monday through Friday between 9a m and? p m PEOPLE-SCOPE: Con. gratulatons to North Van's Gordy Phillips, just clected president: of Lions Gate Council of BC Chapter 53. Telephone Proneers of Amenca — he's marketing man with BC Tel Federation. ys “Independ Business. | Oil—three fimes daily after meals. From aspirins and ant Canadians combat dise and even prolong their lives. According to the Canad: ian -Chemical Producers’ Association, the majority. pharmaceutical produ 8 manufactured today . produced from four ° petrochemical feedstock Benzene, toluene, prop lene and ethlyene. These building blocks, in turn, derived primarily — from crude oil and natural gas. Hanging out another shingle- is West Van insurance man Norman Redcliffe, president . : of Redcliffe Insurance. Consultants Ltd.; his ne company (Redcliffe, Barl Group. Benefits Lt specializes in employee. benefits services... Would. you believe that four UBC. professors who taught’ the’ last graduating class on_ the. old Fairview campus — years ago are still aroun and in good shape? Drs. Fred Soward, Harry Warren, Henry Angus and Malcolm Knapp were among ~ the participants in the late June reunion of the UBC class of 1925 which wound up with a. picnic at the Eddie Eades’: summer home on Bowen * Island... And for all you red-. blooded North Shore types, : how about a certain Perehudofi mount, North Van? She's." just received an award from. the Canadian Red Cross for donating blood 35 thirty-five) Which: reminds _us blood donor clinics are coming up in three weeks time: Monday, July 28, 2to8 — p.m. at Lions Gate Hospital. and Tuesday, July 29, at the West Van Legion Hall, 580- 18th Street, times... right now. In red... oor ‘ West Van st mark them in your diary of 4255 Cliff - : at two local | oo 4 WRIGHT OR WRONG: — Today is the tomorrow you. worried about yesterday — and you were so right.