tee on Ts et CY PT ERTS REE TE PETE SE ET EE ah es A4-Wednesday, March '12, 1980 - North Shore News outside... Budget stresses resource growth VICTORIA (UPC) - Main theme of the Resource development, buddet was energy tax exemptions on a wide Conservation and_ the range of energy con- development of the serving consumer items pProvince’s energy and- expanded social sources. . programs were an- The government will nounced in the British Columbia government's spend $388 million on forest management in the $5.8 billion budget first stage of a $1.4 billion released by Finance five-year program, $10 Minister Hugh Curtis million for research and Tuesday. development by a Energy Development Agency, $1.5 million on a pilot , The budget called for . government expenditure project to investigate of $5,549.6 million ways of increasing oil supplemented by yield from _ existing statutory appropriations resources and $1.8 of $250 million in the 1980-1981 fiscal year which begins April 1. million building roads to northeastern natural gas . fields. ~ Seal hunters move onto the ice ST. JOHN’S, Nfld. (UPC) - Shipboard hunters dodged their way through the Northwest Atlantic ice floes today “There are several patches (herds), but for some reason they have been late pupping this year and the actual killing ~ on their way to the will not begin for a few “Front” where 180,000 days,” spokesman Ed harp seal pups will be Quigley said Monday, the taken in the annual hunt. opening day of the hunt. No actual killing will. take place for a few days Six Canadian and three Norwegian sealing vessels because the herds off the were in the hunting Newfoundland coast grounds off the provincial appeared to have bred coast known as_ the late this year, said a federal fisheries department spokesman. “Front”, ready to begin the hunt for the white- coated harp seal pups. Treasury bills auction awaited OTTAWA (UPC) - The Bank of Canada Finance Minister Allan announced Monday it MacEachen Tuesday was cutting the interest refused to speculate rate loose to float at 0.25 whether interest rates - now pegged at a record 14 percent - will go higher when federal treasury bills are auctioned in the per cent above the latest average rate established in the weekly sale of Canadian government 91- day treasury bills. market Tuesday. “Obviously, the government must take “We are going to have the ultimate respon- to wait until Thursday to sibility for formulating see how the market momentary policy and responds. There are the Bank of Canada has obviously pressures but it ou responsibility to exercise is difficult to gauge the U their indepéndent pressures, MacEachen responsibility.” MacEa- said. chen sard Pakistan crushes attempted coup Pakistan President There was con Mohammed 71a ul Hag tradichon among — the has crushed an attempted = FEPEFTS as lo precisely ; who was detained and coup and arrested 26 top how strong the challenge army officers: involved ; was to Zia, but different reports reaching the West sources agreed that said today “something did happen” ch ER cece Mma a es eter ie 1: ca ong naman Rte es Ta EB TTS « __ FROM PAGE A1_ brakes apparently failed on a service truck carrying about 50 cannisters of oxyacetylene, oxygen, and CO2 to a construction site, as it reached the intersection of Regent Street and East 29th. The truck turned east and rolled onto its side before smashing into a half ton truck parked on the side of the road. ‘BOOM’ Many of the cannisters were dislodged from the truck and rolled onto the road, into a garden, and FROM PAGE At1 Vancouver Police for bank robbery. Wesi detectives Vancouver Vancouver joined the investigation because of the similarities between the robber's method of operation § at the Park Royal holdup and other robberies in the Vancouver area. The most noticeable thing about the man was his agility. In the Park Royal holdup. the gunman, who under a new car parked in a driveway. Police and fire department spokesmen agree that had any of the cannisters cracked or broken, a serious explosion could have taken place. “They can just go up like a rocket,” one firefighter said and another one commented that the result of a cracked cannister would have been “boom!” The driver of the truck was uninjured in the ac- cident, but a passenger suffered slight injuries as h fell out of the truck onto the road. Mr and Mrs W. Harold McLean, outside whose Similarities in methods was hidden by a wig and sunglasses, leaped across the customer counter and then over an inside teller’s counter into the central teller’s cash area, where he scooped up about $10,000 in cash. Police received numerous calls concerning a brown Chevrolet van with no side windows, thought to be the robber’s getaway vehicle, and though the van was not what led detectives to the three, they found that sucha van belongs to Brown. Two charged with parking lot mugging Two North Vancouver youths, aged 15 and 16, have been charged with robbery with violence as a result of an altack on a woman in the Lonsdale Super Valu parking lot February 5. The woman, who was 64, was knocked to the ground and her purse, containing $20, was snatched from her She managed to make her way back to her home on the 1500 block St. George's Avenue and then had to wait 30 minutes for an ambulance from Burnaby to take her to Lions Gate Hospital just two blocks away because all the local ambulances were busy on calls. When she finally got to hospital the woman found have fractured pelvis was to suffered a School fund raising OK'd The student council at Sentinel Secondary School in West Vancouver hopes to raise $2250 through a magazine subscription campaign for their 1980 fund raising project o> 2S 3s & ~® D> bBD> DP BD West Board School Monday lo approve Vancouver voted = at mght's meeting plans to go ahead with the fund raising programme sd D> Bw Remember! Recycters do it more than once! A reminder trom New Lite Recycting > ® oS _> 2s 8 p> DBD > > DP RCMP on scene in minu house the truck came to rest, said the RCMP and North Vancouver City Fire Department arrived on the scene within minutes. Police evacuated all houses in the immediate vicinity of the truck and diverted traffic around the area. Foam was used on the truck and fire fighters successfully carried out the delicate task of setting all the cannisters upright. BUSINESS 4. 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