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THE VOICE OF NORTH AND WEST VANCOUVER

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March 3, 1982,

Tel. 988-2131

Classified 986-6222

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CITY SPLITS NV ON

ANTI-NUKE PROTEST

THE BOMB has no place in the ballot boxes of

the burg,

North Vancouver

City aldermen

decided Monday night. As a result, City residents
— unlike their neighbors in North Van District —
will be denied a chance to protest the spread of

nuclear weapons.

City council turned
thumbs down to a request to
put the issue of world disar-
mament to City voters in a
referendum in the next
municipal election.

The request is part of a
campaign to hold a global

teferendum on the issue of
disarmament. It is being
distributed to Canadian
cities by Operation

Dismantle, an Ottawa-based
organizauon.

“It's like asking. are you in
favor of motherhood,”

FIREFIGHTERS BRING IN FANS to clear smoke from the psychiatric
ward activation wing of Lions Gate Hospital after a small fire was brought
ander control last Friday evening. The fire broke out in the Employce

By AVIS HOPKINS

complained Aiderman Ralph
Hall, in voting against the
proposal.

“Tm opposed to a
referendum that ts national
or international in scope
being heid in
municipalities.”

“It 1s well intended but
very naive.” Alderman Biil
Sorensenson told council.

“The best guarantee
against war is for each side

to feel that the other ts
sufficiently strong.”

The decision is the reverse
of the stand taken by North
Vancouver District fast
week, in which all but one
alderman, Peter Powell,
endorsed the idea.

That means Distnct voters
will be asked “Do you
support the goal of general
disarmament and mandate
your government to
negotiate and implement,
with other governments. the
balanced steps that would

lead to the earliest possible
achievement of this goal?”
when the next municipal
election rolls around = in
November, 1983.

But that question ts one
that should be asked of City
voters as well, contended
Alderman Gary Payne. He
and Alderman Frank
Marcino were the only two
City council members to
support the idea.

“Its the little person's
protest against the nuclear

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Health Services dvpartment, damaging office equipment and records, but
no injuries were reported. (Eric Eggertson photo)

Pay hike
divides
trustees
- but you
mustn't
be told!

By NOEL WRIGHT

OFFICIALLY, West
Vancouver taxpayers
are not allowed to
know that pay hikes as
high as 16.79 per cent
for senior school of-
ficials were approved
by only three of West
Van's’ five school
trustees at a hurried in-
camera meeting just
hours before Premier
Bennett introduced 10-

12 per cent public
sector pay curbs.

The News has learned,
however, from an
authoritative source that
school board chairman Mark
Sager, one of the four
trustees present at the
meeting, voted against the
increases

Pinance committee
chairman Margot Purk —
who was not present at the
hastily convened mecting

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