oy ‘g'= Sunday, duly 19, 1987 = North Shore Ne

Doug Collins |

@ Bel this, Straight e :

-viabler “Small «stations, ‘cannat’’
compete (with bigger competitive
service shops.) ;
We're not in competition with
Mac's’. or ..?-Eleven,’” |. Marklund

he said: “Tt is not a convenierice store a
we're putting ins?

. NORT H: VA NCOUVER. District: "|.Council : put the
redevelopment plans of..a/27-year-old North Shore gas -sta-

tion on hold-Monday .night. when aldermen. voted to: return :
“to council a proposed: amendment that would have given the

station a facelift.
“Phe: Texaco. station,

-ONE OF my accomplices in cynicism is Les Bewley, friend
_and former’provincial court judge. But he’s a much’better |

lam. And now he’s stuck it-to an academic ait the cor-.

who was peddling dreams about how good we would be if

ner-of Queens Road and Lonsdale. ©

we were not corrupted by the habits of Western society.
“Dr. “Jolyon West is the one who’

got.the Bewley needle. West is
Director ‘of. the’ Neuropsychiatric
Institute: of the University of
_ California‘ at.- ‘Los Augeles;- and
had told some.tall tales to a Cana-
idian. conference on violence ‘and
"aggression. May

His © speech was reported « in
“Liaison magazine, which ‘goes to
35,000.» ‘‘social: scientists”
other. gurus and is'put out at your
expense by the Solicitor General’s
Department. Bewley’s “inquiring

“and §

<-science circles,” etc., ‘the more

eye fell upon the piece, too, which 1

didn’t ring right... 9

‘West: had blamed’ the epidemic
of» violence in ‘the’.U.S. on
American failure to raise children

‘Teal world is like, but the“ ‘‘ex-
pers”? * don’ Lwant to admit what it

“lovingly. Have you: hugged your °

child today? sort of thing.:There
‘were societies. where violence .was
“unknown; he was reported as tell-’
‘ing -his “eager ‘and: gullible: au-
dience, none of whom’ challenged
this fascinating intelligence.

The". 50,000 - “Tarahumara® In~

~wecould

over, it is due in part to Margaret.
-Mead's ‘having.

dians who live i in the Sierra Madra >:

mountain range, he declared; had ©
‘dwelt there for thousands ‘of years °

“without coming into contact with
| Wester ivilization. -They knew
“no. violence,:no crime, no law en
forcement:and no prisons. Blam
‘and punishment were unknown

Enter the arrump ing Bewley
who from-his years wrestling with

human foibles knows what we are.
r without:

really. dike, with ©

“non-violence and all that jazz. But: | ®
. too:many academics’ never learn.”
“=They: are!s even

eat which “Caperession and sexuili

‘ how.the happy natives of Samioa

Avenue, -had :been ‘the subject’ of
controversy for the last: 18 months

“when the,oil company announced
“plans ‘to remodel the building. and
climinate the mechanical ‘services
at the stations:

ty?) are common.
_ They can be nice‘and quiet, but
so can‘anyone. (It occurs to me,
too, that'if they have no prisons it
is: probably because. they haven’t
learned how to build them.)
Bewley tookpen in: hand -to
report ali this to the magazine. He
rubbed ‘it, in, too, by pointing out
that the more the Utopian ‘views
of the Wests ‘prevail’. in’ social

for. the:s
proval Was Sought to start work on
“the redevelopment, :
“The building. has passed “its
“useful. life,’ EA. Marklund, a
Texaco representative, told -coun-
eed. —
He: presented atthe public hear-
. Ing on the: redevelopment, concep-
— tual drawings of- bow. the station
will -appear ‘when’ “complete: ‘and

citizens: triple-lock . their doors,
arm themselves ‘and avoid | the
Streets” ~ People know’ what “the

_ change trom our regular designs."

is like. ‘Plans call forthe inclusion of-a

The audience that didn’ t ques--| < —
tion: West's ‘version-‘of how much Jo: 0%) | Pa :
dd learn from the) in-. |: a
habitants of the Garden of Eden ;
were'not‘alone:in being’ naive: If P yi : has
the permissive : ‘society ‘has taken . o ice c ase
WE VANCOUVE Ri Police had

shoaxed “the

academic? world’ with’ stories ‘of J. Wednesday aus 12:15 a.m.

19-year-old West “Vancouver man

could teach: us about life, love,’ _, speeding ona. motorcycle refused

him over.,

worse. than,

: preachers.

‘loincloths.: ft seemed odd to him, «

too,: that. 50,000. souls: living : tess"
than’ a day’s: drive from ‘Arizona ;,

had! never ‘had any: contact: with .

athe, rest of us:

He = soon::: found: -out “from
‘University of "Arizona. “an-
thropologists that the allegedly in-

-nocent Tarahumaras: do: indeed ;

‘know what a white face looks like
“They -are .b
‘violence’ and
habits, either.

tribe i in'qu
about, the ; :
Kennedy. had? shown,.. for -in

‘penalty, *

». The story repeats itself in diverse.
ways. In the debate on the death
°for instance,. our
‘‘criminologists’’- put: out : more:
bull’ than. you : could: stack. in
Stanley Park. : ue

Reinstatement of “the “death
penalty,” they’ yelled, would mean.

“that minorities: would ‘be. the ones

to. suffer most.“All nonsense, of
course. If, minorities: did. suffer:
most,.it would only be because.
they murdered most, <

We heard ‘the same song. in the

ernard | Goetz affair, ‘in: New:
York. Goetz-had shot; four, black
thugs. on: the. subway! and. .the™

- liberal: claque ‘corps ‘raised”Ca

i

Blacks:

pa ne > about.his: acquittal, .which took
He discovered; in addition, that a '

Professor ry ‘G.. Kennedy : of

plave even. though there were two!

onthe. jur
Why ‘did -he get off? Because.

New Yorkers of every color know

What: life. in ‘the “subway is ‘really

ance, that boozing it up in'a way:

-that would put your average rub-.

by.to shame is de rigeur with those”,

* boys, who spend about, 100 days'a
-year in, alcoholic “ecstacy

hey 4

also’ fight like hell at their parties, :.’

ike;"as: distinct’ from’ what’ the:
high- minded think it is like.

They kiiow the reality: My bud
dy, Bewley. knows the reality, too
which is why,
to trash: We
. im Valve Stem
@ Instafanon *:
@ Rotabon

@ Road Hazard
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TANDOUT. SPECIAL

=" {thas sat vacant and boarded up
ix-weeks while council ap-,:

stid-the design was ‘‘a substantial ®

e motore yelist
ar high-speed chase’ on’ their hands. -

after sa. :

‘toistop when police. tried to: pull :

mini-mart: food store,
and -both -full-serve and self-serve

"gas pump islands.

fexaco’s planned chimination of
service bays: angered’ Joan: Hackett
of the North Lonsdale Ratepayers

o Associations: ©.

' She accused the éompaiiy. of ne:
glecting . the needs::of
neighborhood, saying “a: petition;

signed two years ago when: news
the Proposed

first: broke’ about
change, was still valid.

“We do-not need: another. ‘con-
venience store, what we need. is.a
full-service gas station,
Hackett.

’ Marklund: said ° full-service’ sta
tions are no Jonger: economically,
Elta! thi a :

list on ihe, ‘Upper Levels
way to Pulton’Avenue.:
he man: is! expected

a-car wash

‘said ©

to- be

He said’ the 370- esquare- fect of
sales area planned will be primarily
used: for selling items “usually
found at service station such as oil>

and soft drinks.

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