Newsstand Price 50¢ October 2, 1983 Newsroom 985-2131 et ps’ Classified 986-6222 os What's ‘in’ with youths: Al0 THE VOICE OF NORTH AND WEST VANCOUVER SUNDAY mostly cloudy MONDAY mostly cloudy 2 Pt. Atkinson Sunday Burrard Yarrows, Bel-Aire win contrads TWO NORTH Vancouver shipyards are celebrating after the award Friday of federal government contracts for new vessels. By NEWS STAFF Burrard Yartows is the big winner, coming up with a $108.5 million contract for the construction of two ice- breakers for the Canadian Coast Guard. Work on the vessels is ex- pected to start late in 1983 and employ about 200 people over a two-year period. They come just about three months after the award of a major frigate building pro- gram for shipyards in On. tario, Quebec, and the Maritimes raised howls of protest on the West Coast The second, smaller con tract goes to Bel Aire Shipyards of North Van- couver which will be paid $23,785,836 to construct a 69-metre hydrographic survey vessel for the Depart- ment of Fisheries and Oceans. That project is expected to employ 125 people for 15 months. The two contracts were among a number of ship- building projects announced Friday in Vancouver by Sen. Jack Austin. Don Challinor, president of Burrard Yarrows, said earlier this year that if the- company was suceessful in winning the contracts for the vessel, one of them would be built in the North Vancouver yards The projects are part of the federal government’s Special Recovery Capital Projects program, announced with the April 19 budget, under which capital project are being ac- celerated to stimulate Cana- dian industry. The 83-metre ice-breakers that will be built by Burrard Yarrows will be used to supp- ly and maintain navigational aids and to assist in search and rescue operations. Bel-Aire’s hydrographic survey vessel will be.used in the continuing mapping pro- gram of the coast. In all, contracts awarded to shipyards in Vancouver and Victoria will amount to $158 million. Spokesmen for the two North Shore companies which were awarded the con- tracts were not available to press time \ Ree says ‘intimidation’ Claims radicals spread threat rumor ANGUS REE, North Vancouver-Capilano MLA, has backed away from charges he made in the legislature last week that the B.C. Teachers Federa- tion is threatening teachers who don’t support Operation Solidarity. By MARK HAMILTON But Ree says teachers who are either not political or who support the provincial government's restraint pro- gram are being intimated by ‘*more radical’ members of the teachers’ association Ree had charged that jhe BCTFE was threatening to toss teachers out of the associa tion if they did aot par ticipate in Operation Solidarity petition drives ““My information was a lit- tle bit in error,’’ Ree told the News Monday ‘‘Those statements have not been made by any officials of the North Vancouver Teachers’ Association or the BC Teachers Federanon it's a rumor being spread by what | would term radicals *’ Ree said the rumor that ac tion would be taken against teachers ts an attempt to silence ‘‘a lot of good, small ‘co’ Conservative teachers who don't want to. be politcal °° “hts an unofficial method of inumidation,’’ Ree said The MLA added that he had spoken to a director of the BCTEF who assured him that no action would be taken against teachers ANGUS REE blames radicals