OE 8 TELE AE RT A as me alk ay nn em ram AG6-Sunday News, February 17, 1980 Heritage break It may turn out to be something more than a coincidence that Mr. Clark hit upon Monday, February 18, as polling day in our 32nd election since Confederation. Though quite a few people may still be unaware of the fact, the third Monday in February also happens to be Heritage Day. Initiated only a few years ago by the Heritage Canada Foundation, whose chairman is Pierre Berton, Heritage Day has yet to-capture the imagination and affection . of Canadians as a whole, despite the fact that it has been embraced enthusiastically by numerous local bodies across the country. The aim of the Foundation is to make Heritage Day into a nationwide focus and inspiration for pride in Canada’s heritage and that of our province and community -- enriching our perception of both our history and our environment. The Foundation believes the surest way to achieve this aim is to have Heritage Day declared a national holiday. It’s a long, dismal haul from Christmas to Easter and the idea of an extended weekend during the last, most dreary weeks of winter is an enticing one -- particularly as Canada still lags behind numerous western countries in the number of national holidays we allow ourselves each year. Disciples of the bottom line, of course, bemoan the thousands of man-hours that would be lost, but that doesn’ seem to have done our more fortunate western neighbours anyharm. - Come to think of it, we wonder why none of the parties included such a sure-fire vote- winner in their election platforms. Ask your MP on Tuesday what he'll do to give our heritage a break. "Open’ season District Alderman Ernie Crist writes an angry “open letter” to Mayor Bell about a secret report on chlorine spills. Two fellow “aldermen walk out on him in disgust. Ex- alderman Marilyn Baker writes an even angrier “open letter” denouncing Ernie. We can hardly wait for our next mail. Meanwhile, Your Worship, we have only a simple open question to contribute. When ARE you going to release that chlorine report? sunday news north shore news NEWS - ADVERTISING 980-0511 1139 Lonsdale Ave . North Vancouver. B.C V7M 2H4 (604) 980-0511 CLASSIFIED 986-6222 Publisher Peter Speck CIRCULATION 986-1337 Associate Publisher Editorin-Chiet Advertising Director Robert Graham Noel Wright Eric Cardwell Classified Manager & Office Administrator Berni Hillard Production Tim Francis Faye McCrae Managing Editor News Editor Fraser Photography Chris Uoyd Ellsworth Dickson Accounting Supervisor Barbara Keen North Ghore News, founded in 1969 as an independent communi Hd newspaper and qualified under Schedute Ill, Part (tl, Paragraph Ill of the Excise Tax Act, Is published each Wednesday and Sunday, by North Shore Free Preas Lid. and distributed to every door on the North Shore Second Class Mail Registration Number 3885 Subscriptions $20 per yeas Ente contents © 1079 North Shore Free Press Ltd Ali rights reserved No responaibility accepted tor unsolicited maternal inctuding manuscripts and pictures which should be accompanied by a stamped. addressed return envelope 49,503 naa are GgQu SN a Wednesday THIS PAPER IS RECYCLABLE erm “SOLVING THE ENERGY CRISIS ‘The answer could be lemons By ROGER WORTH There is a clock maker in Worcestershire, in the West of England, who is con- vinced he has found the solution to the present energy crisis: fresh lemons! Recalling his high school lab experiments, he used the acetic acid contained in the lemon to react with a copper penny inserted at one end of the lemon and a small zinc plate at the other end. Wired to a small electric motor, the same lemon has generated enough electricity to run the motor continuously since last August to this day. If there is a practical lesson in this story, it is probably the fact that the reality of the energy crisis has finally sunk into our collective consciousness and that we are now ready to face the situation. So what are the facts and what do we do about it? First, the world’s known reserves of petroleum are estimated at 600 _ billion barrels which we are con- suming at a rate of 50 million POSITIVELY the last election joke, courtesy of Peter Speck: Clark, Trudeau and Broadbent were together in a canoe when it capsized. Who was saved? (Answer follows in 90 seconds). BOOKIES handling bets on tomorrow night’s North Shore election results are having thin pickings in Capilano riding where Tory Ron Huntington walked away tast May with a 13,000-vote lead ahead of his Grit opponent. Business is much brisker, however, over in North Van-Burnaby aS punters get their pocket calculators to work on fellow-Tory Chack Cook's considerably more modest 2,000-vote victory nine months ago. Political mathematicians describe any majonity of less than 3,000 as “marginal,” and for good reason. The way the numbers work out locally means Ron would have to lose not too far short of one out of every three of his May 1979 supporters — with all of them going to the Liberal candidate — in order to be defeated. Stranger things have possibly hap- pened, but not very often, and there's no sign to date of their happening this ume. East of St. George's and 1n the wild NDP country of North Burnaby Chuck is in a more interesting situation from the bookies’ viewpoint. He nceds to lose only about one in every 15 of his backers last time to his Liberal arch-enemy and 1t's curtains for the Conserva- tives in North Van-Burnaby until a new Tory day dawns. barrels a day. Without any increase in consumption, these reserves are sufficient for the next 32% years. And that’s it. New oil is being discovered, but not at the rate of 50 million barrels a day. So we are going (to run out eventually. Of the known 600 billion barrels reserves in the world, Canada has about 5 billion, plus the possibility of another 100 billion barrels in tar sands if they can ever be fully exploited, which is financially and technologically impossible at the present. We are however one of the few countries of the world which has_ the potential for developing substitute sources of energy from other resources. In this respect, Government has the already sunday brunch by Noel Wright Nevertheless, there's still some solid hope for the Cook camp. It’s rare that all the previous votes you lose go neatly packaged to a single opponent. Given the NDP strength in his riding, Chuck could drop appreciably more that one in 15 of his former devotees, with a proportion of them going to the New Democrats, and still wind up on top of the heap. Then again, the bookies have to take into account the possibility that he might gain rather than lose some voters. For what it’s worth, this column’s modest five bucks is on North Van-Burnaby staying Tory — by a squeak. - All this, mark you, hasn't stopped Grit candidate Gordon Gibson from an- nouncing a “victory party” to be heid at* his campaign headquarters, starting at 7:45 p.m. Monday (a quarter of an hour before the polls close). He doesn't mention whose victory. And just before we leave the subject, a toast to a couple of dedicated lady slaves who've toiled, unsung. for endless hours during the past nine weeks nonsense to ensure democracy works on the North Shore: our two Returning Officers — June Carter in North = Van- Burnaby and Diana Hat- chinson in Capilano. Diana has, al the same ume, been coping very effectively with her new job as West Van alderman “I've just had to neglect the home,” she says tn @ masterpiece of under statcmcnt Oh, and the answer to that clection joke: Canada! eee In lighter vein comes the story of that flashing flood- light some of you may have noticed on the bell tower of St. Clement’s Anglican Church in North Van. At a recent vestry meeting Bill Scudamore explained it was all due to an = accentric photo-electric cell which couldn't make up its mind whether it was supposed to be turning the light on or off. Father Ron Barnes, sup ported in the debate by Bill Dyke, thought — whatever the cause — that it was rather a good way of ad- vertising the church. But in the final vote the pro- flashers were defeated and a committee was instructed to restore steady floodlighting by taking a screwdriver or hammer to the tempera- mental gadget. St. Clement's, in- cidentally, is also secking help for its nice refugee family, the W ongs, who have to vacate their temporary home on West 15th in the next three months because the site is being redeveloped. They need a three-bedroom small house or duplex at a rent of around $400 a month. If you know of any possi- bilities, Colin Hoath (985- 2895) would be dehghted to hear from you Did you hear about the record in overduc library books handed in at North Van City Library during the recent fine-free week? According to chief libranan Helen Moore, they were “The World of Plants” and “The World of Microbes” — both taken out in 1967 = drawn up plans to invest some $200 billion in the next decade for major energy projects in this country. The money is coming from a gradual increase of our enefgy prices to world levels and higher energy-related taxes. The real Canadians have to ask themselves and _ their political leaders at this time is how this massive in- vestment - $200 billion is a lot of money - can be used to (1) increase Canadian control of our own economy, (2) strengthen our manufacturing sector by replacying imports and creating new jobs, (3) alleviate regional! disparities, and (4) provide’ the necessary domestic capital and skilled manpower this country will need in the future. If we don't develop ap- propriate policies, the next generation may well have to have to run its electric motors on lemon juice and its television sets on a few sticks of rhubarb! question Wimzlib can obviously be overdone, however well- meaning one is. Dianne Dashwood-Jones, newly elected chairman (sic) of the North Van City Library Board slaps us_ sharply across the wrist for a recent news item on her appoint- ment in which we respect- fully called her “Chairlady.” If Mrs. Stella Jo Dean can be called Alderman, she writes, “can I be called Chairman, please.” eee HITHER AND YON: All the best to perfect West Van Kiwani Bi Watts who has sold his long-established Watts Marketing company to take a crack at real estate . Robert Orr (if you hadn't heard) has replaced Geoff Snowhall as manager of the Avalon Motor Hotel ... West Van Mayor Derrick Humphreys and wife Margaret cntertained over 100 of the North Shore establishment at their two- day housewarming last weekend for their new 18th- storey waterfront pad over- looking the lights of Nanaimo ... Welcome back to Dorothy Hancock after a three-month vacation § in Olde England ... Get well cards to West Van Legion- naircs Mitzi Eadie, Him Irvine, Sandy Morrison and Nan Welr ... And if you'd like to do something nice with your spare hours, Ed Barrett, chairman of the Cancer Society in West Van, is secking volunteers for their April fund drive — call 922-6312. WRIGHT OR WRONG: Climbing the ladder = isn't nearly as casy as falling off the top