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n his. Vancouver ‘sheech last Monday’

Education Minister Jack Heinrich threw

~ down the gauntlet. to, rebellious school
boards. fighting his school budget cutbacks.

oP le ‘maintains that school’ districts have
been piven enough funds,if properly used,

ide one: elementary ‘teacher for.every.

he:

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are are classrooms with, up te. 40 stu

ting mv és mated 150: squat-
ter: who

ed the

‘Then: bean the: -comic-

Dreams’?
‘The “Battle: of: Deadman’ 5

grudgingly, complaining that

it: chad. -taken:

day, he landed with two ac-::
complices and tonk the three-:

man police guard by surprise.

-. Armed with ~ cudgels, they: ,
fully subdued the. Police-,.

“and the Sighting: -

In: 191.1:Ludgate wis final-
ty: able to’ reclaim. the island ;
with’ the sanction . of the’.
courts He cleared. the’‘re-

Y maining trees. and evicted the |

tenacious ‘squatters, burning
their homes ithe following
year, _

The approach of World’.

War | ended his plans for the -

isiaad and a short time later,
on ‘his death,’ the _island
reverted to,
government:

“the federal“.

Md pate

government: leas

FAS

ss Islatidst 0

Depression, did A yothing

the: island,: eventually losing

control’ when - its

‘fancelled by the governmeni
“the 1940s, : Deadman’s

Island's current tenant,

HMCS Discover), was at
in 1943 ‘as “part of the war:
“effort.

The base has added its owi *

ghost story to the legends of
Deadman’s ‘Island. There

have been. frequent reports of.

a spectral ‘glow that appears

in-the‘island’s trees, coalesc-:
‘ing into human form. Sup:

Mainland

687-7523,

SCORES: OF SQUATTERS occupied the.shacks (background) on Deadm

“couver City Park Board.

(Vancouver City. Archives photo)

Island ‘up to”
1930. Mostly fishermen and Jongshoremen, they were Finally evicted in that | year by van oa