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KING KONG, or a near
- pelative, made a short visit
to North Vancouver this
week when a 50-foot, in
flatible gorilla was erected

ship. The ape foundered

tempts made it upright.
' The ape, ated to promate
used car Triex sales, is
there until today.

March 25, 1984 ____Newsroom 985-2131

at Dick Irwin's car dealer-
at first but after a few at-

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SUNDAY
showers, highs near 10°
MONDAY
, Showers, highs near 10°.

Point Atkinson.
SUNDAY

25° fare Monday

RK HAMILTO :

THE LATEST battle in the transit union’s war
against the Metro Transit Operating Company
comes Monday — with some benefits for the riding

public.

Colin Kelly, president of
local one of the Independent
Canadian Transit Union, an-
nounced Friday that bus
drivers will let passengers ride
for 25 cents starting Monday,
if they promise to pay the re-
maining 50 cents of the fare
to Metro Transit once the
dispute between the umon
and the company 1s settled.

The announcement ts the
latest move in the umon’s
battle to win a new contract
with the company, which
operates buses in North Van-
couver and most other areas
of Greater Vancouver

Kelly said the plan to allow
riders to board the bus for a
quarter 1s aimed at putting
pressure on the company
without disurpting bus
service

A proposal to let bus users

ride free was rejected. Kelly
said, because that would have
been illegal.

The unton has been
without a contract since
March, 1983, and claims the
company is not interested in
serious negotiations.

Other moves made so far
by the union include the
refusal of drivers to wear
uniforms, a ban on more
than 10 hours overtime a

- week and a refusal to carry

out what the union calls
management tasks.

Wednesday, drivers shut
down the bus system for half
an hour in an attempt to br
ing their situavion to public
attention

There was no immediate
reaction from Metro Transit
to the latest move by the
umon

NO ONE FOUND

Cap search

called off

THE SEARCH for a young man who fell or
jumped from the Capilano Suspension Bridge a
week ago has been officially called off by North

Vancouver RCMP.

Butt will be resumed if the
level of the raver drops of at
the detachment receives more
information on the pussling
ease ua spokesman said

Tht man, identified only as
a male somewhere between
the age of 18 and 25, was scen
to fall from the bridge mid-
afternoon Saturday,

touching off an extensive
search of the fiver by polmwe
fire department reseuc of
fioals members of the North
Shore Emergency Program
and others.

The river has been search
ed by divers, kayakers and
people walking along the
banks without turning up a4
trace of the man