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undécided about: the ’ party
\ they: would: vote for in the
\..” February 18 federal election.

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. to The News ‘Gibson said: “T
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-* your Wednesday front page,

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EMERGENCY RESCUE crew of North and West Van Emergency
Program members took off by special hel opter Slown in from Canadian
Forces Base Comox in search of a plane whic im

' having seen in difficulties..near ‘Mount Seymour. Thursday. In

7 “purporting. to‘be.a scientific spite of flares also having been sighted in that area; an all-day search
opinion survey, of North failed to locate any person or plane onthe mountain and by fate Friday
‘Shore voting intentions.” . - es ae

PAGE A14"”’

By PAT RICH
Sex crimes in West
Vancouver have

dropped by more than
71 per cent in the last
year according to the
West Vancouver Police

by Fe . sen ~asemneeuanet ee ene ea department statistics
_ SUNDAY: Sunny : prion SON RCo a ss . for 1979.
 “Dpertods, gradually  in-
E q ‘creasing high cloud, And while this is the most
At below = mormal = tem- drastic change, the most
he's peratures, striking point) about the
_ MONDAY: Little statistics in general is the

Ce eee ane CIDR Shag lack of change from 1978 to
ps 1979,

e

1

the rescuers were be

Reaching Every Door on the Nort

_‘Nothing-to-alarm’ in police stats

“There is nothing really
alarming at all in the
statistics,” a West Van-
couver Police spokesman
said.

While there were 94
morality incidents (sex-
related offenses) reported in
1978 this figure dropped
dramatically to ?7 in 1979.

The police spokesman
said he did not know why the
figure decreased by so
much

The number of persons
arrested, charges laid, and

g to wonder if there ever had been a plane at
all, Pictured left to right are emergency team members Dave Brewer,
numerous people reported Dave Hudak and Greig Bjornason about to board the chopper which
| came to pick them up at Grand Boulevard in North Van, See Page Al2
for story. (Ellsworth Dickson photo)

h Shore

robberies and drug related
offenses reported, all
decreased slightly in 1979, ;

The number of incidents
of breaking and entering,
thefts and automobiles
stolen remained almost
identical in 1979 to 1978,

There was a 12 per cent
increase in the number of
frauds reported (from 207 to
235) and just over a five per
cent increase in the number
of assaults (from 118 to 124),

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