A6 - Sunday, May 9, 1982 - North Shore News Good times talk The proclamation by a Vancouver business group of May 28 as‘‘B-Day” — “B” standing for “bottom out” — may be more than just a cute gimmick. The idea is that if everyone goes around believing the recession will finally bottom out 19 days from now, that’s exactly what will happen and thereafter the economy will be firmly on the upswing once more. It would be naive to pretend the current deep downturn plaguing Canada and most industrialized western countries is solely a psychological phenomenon. Quite a few moving parts in the international economic machine have obviously become worn, damaged or out of kilter in recent years. And skilled mechanics to fix them are hard to find in either government or industry. That said, however, it’s also obvious that psychological factors play a major or even dominant role in PROLONGING the recession which started over a year ago. The explanation repeatedly given for lagging investment, drooping sales and job layoffs is loss of faith in the future. Often, it’s not so much that money is lacking, but rather that people fear parting with it in case they become the next victims. The dramatic slump in the housing market shows how fast expectations become self- fulfilling prophecies — just as, in reverse, they fuel inflation elsewhere. Marshal Foch said there are no hopeless situations, only men who have grown hopeless about them. All we have to fear, Roosevelt told our fathers, is fear itself. Maybe we should all get behind “B-Day” with heart and soul, and start talking good times. The result might be sensational. Chip shrinks? It’s intriguing to learn that a computer can blow its mind. That happened when a Buffalo, N.Y. man recently played the video game Pac-Man for eight hours and ran up a score of 2,935,590 points -- at which stage the machine overloaded its chips and split its screen. 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THIS PAPER IS RECYCLABLE TRAFFIC VISIBILITY at intersections can be dramatically improved -- bringing increased safety -- by cutting down EES editorial page Se or replacing overgrown trees and bushes, as shown in these before-and-after pictures of Caddy Road at Glenhaven Crescent. A NEIGHBORLY PROJECT ut down on blind corners! By HARRY HAMPER Consultant Director, North Shore Safety Council The North Shore from Horseshoe Bay to Deep Cove, from the Inlet to the mountains is justly proud of its greenery: well-tended lawns and gardens, flowering shrubs, ornamental and natural trees. Just beautiful. However, as time goes on and as nature intended. those lovely looking shrubs and trees that once seemed just nght for their location at the time, will now have grown. IN THE DOGHOUSE this weekend, the News and our faithful Inquiring Reporter Ellsworth Dickson -- con- signed there by quecnmaker Gertie Todd, impresano (for the 30th year) of the Miss North Shore Pageant, and her head judge in next month's brains-plus-option- al-beauty contest, Lorl Brock. The ladies are stcaming over Ellsworth’s column last Wednesday which asked “What do you think of the Miss North Shore Beauty Pageant?” It's not a beauty competition, they ecm phasize The purpose of the event ts to choose the most all round attractive female betweend 17 and 21 to represent the North Shore a kind of “ambassadress’ Lon suggests As a past judge myscil (and once again this year if I'm released from the doghouse in time). I have to assure you Gertie and Lon are dead mght) For starters we don't have any of chat bikini stuff And the forms on which the cumulate thet scores for individual cntrants make an income tax return hook like a fun thing by the ime they re gudgen ac completed whet with percentage columns and boacs for things 9 like deportment apeech making and personality to be filled in and cross checked over four scparate judging scasions Ob yes there oso Column for ‘beauty too but the per centage allowance is) very modest If they had to The North Shore Safety Council ts addressing this note particularly to those who have corner lots. Perhaps now that the foliage is appearing, it might be a good moment to take a look to see whether, over ume, these bushes, trees or vines now present a visual barrier to motorists and pedestrians at intersections by obscuring a reasonable “sight line” of oncoming vehicles up or down the road we wish to enter or cross, or perhaps by obscuring traffic signs. For the purpose of the Safety Council comment, bylaws or enforcement are not the issue. However, as an example, North Vancouver District trafic enginners carried out some specific studies, the results of which showed: 1. That there was a Significant reduction of incidents when corner visibility was improved: 2. The driver approaching such an intersection has a much better opportunity. as the prime “decision maker”, of avoiding a _ potential accident. The council is suggesting that right now it might well be a neighborly good turn to take a look at the shrubs and trees that are leafing out and sunday brunch by Noel Wright depend on those points alone, the most cye-catching dumb blondes and dim- witted brunettes between here and Fort Lauderdale wouldn't get to first base on Lori's scoresheet. Depend on it, Miss North Shore 1982 isn't going to be just a good- looker, she’s also going to be one of the very nicest and most intelligent young ladics between Deep Cove and Lions Bay. Can we come out Gertie ..... ? now, PAMELA DAVIS alr traveller's triend at ( asthegar Castlegar airport isn everyone's favonte when it comes to landings and take offs. but North Shore au travellers to that intenor city can now take comfort tn the fact there's an = altractivc neighbor looking after (hem there Pamets Petzmfh, who graduated from Windsor in 1978, was always fascinated by the highflying life. She won her pilot's licence at 18 and for the past two years has been with the Ministry of Transport at Langley air- port. Last Sunday 22-year- old Pamela Davis (as she has meanwhile become) delighted her proud parents, Armen and Joyce Petznik of North Van, with the news that she'd just received her final licence as a_ fully ficdged air traffic controller and was posted to Castlegar. Come to think of it, I guess she’s exactly the breed of young lady the North Shore Pageant looks for . . Ask Cora Gray, who runs the business services firm of that name in West Van. about the recession and she ll reply “What recession?” Her business ts doing so well, she says. that she's just opened a second office on West Esplanade tn North Van Not only that but Positive Thinker Cora has also taken under her wing a group of like thinking young North Shore people who are creating there own employment by domg bargain rate cleaning gardening and painung jobs Where there's a wall FOLK STORIES: Burrard Yarrows’ David Alsop vill be installed June I) as 1982 83 president of the North Van Chamber of Com merce New musical director of the West Van Band Association ts Stephen to re-assess the possibility of a corner visual hazard. It is important, of course, to remember that some appropriate pruning need not denude one’s lot. Even if removal of some trees is decided upon, there are many low bushes and “prostrate” shrubs (e.g. cottoneasters) that can still provide a very graceful corner planter landscape. To repeat, the council is proposing only a _ joint project where, if corner visual problems exist. changes could be decided upon in a friendly. neigh- borhoo dway. How about it, neighbor? Toren, well known locally on the stage band, brass group and VSO circuits. He'll be conducting the band’s public concerts at Park Royal next Saturday and at West Van Secondary May 20..... Good news for the carriage trade — Richard Hughes is adding three more Caddies and a couple of Lincolns to his fleet of prestige Sunshine Cabs (they cost a dime a kilometre more than the cconomy-class competition).... West Van's Arthar Kaight invites any former Seaforth Cadess from 1912 onward who've not yet heard about the unit's grand 70th anniversary reunion bash ncxt Saturday to call him at 922-7686.... Welcome to P. Lawson Travel’s new Park Royal branch manager Ross Ireland.... Four-time president of the North Shore Optimists, Bob Robinson, is now eagerty looking for a successor. Salute Marjorie Menzies, honored with the Red Cross service badge for her 16 years of volunteer work with the blood donor clinics the next of which. by the way. nceds you Tuesday, May 11. between 2 and & pm _= at Windsor Secondary, 931 Broadview Dnve, North Van WRIGHT OR WRONG, To paraphrase Voltaire’s remark about God if mothers didn’t exist, 1 would be necessary to invent them Happy Day to all Moms! BC. FESTIVAL OF THE ARTS we 2 to dane 5 WB