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VANCOUVER (UPC) -
An “error in judgement”
.by ferry master Albert
Bahry caused the giant
truck ferry Queen of
Alberni to run. aground in
Active Pass on her way to
Vancouver Island last
month, the transport
department has found:

Ao Canadian Coast
Guard report released
Thursday said Capt.
Albert Bahry, master of
the B.C.’ Ferries Corp.

ge.

A criminal investigation
of Elvis Presley’s doctor
was ordered Friday amid
reports the rock ‘n’ roll
star died of drug-induced
. death.

District Attorney Hugh
Stanton - said the in-
vestigation was prompted
by a complaint brought
against Dr.. George
Nichopaulos by state
health officials, ‘who
claim the doctor
prescribed more than

months immediately

BELGRADE (UPI)
freight train sped through
a stop signal and slammed
into a crowded passenger
liner in a crash that killed
more than.60 people and
injured about 100 others,
Yugoslav officials say.

The freight train's
engineer, who was
seriously injured, ap-
parently was being
blamed for the crash.

“Once again the human
factor is to be blamed for
a major accident in
Yugoslavia,’ railway
offical Dragislav Adzic
said of the crash between

TEL AVIV, Israel (UPI) -
Soldiers forcibly evicted
more than two dozen
radical Jewish squatters
from the West Bank
Friday in one of the most
violent confrontations
between Jews in the
occupied lerritories,

Male and female troops
moved in at dawn, about

5,000 uppers, downers:
and painkillers for.
Presley during the seven“

a

ed by error

Engineer blamec
for train crash

Army, squatters
clash on W. Bank

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- "vessel for just two days

before the August 9
incident, erred in going

too close to Collinson .

Reef at: the south en-
trance to the narrow pass.
in order to make room for

the oncoming Queen of |

Tsawwassen.

“He just went a little bit
too far,” a transport
department spokesman.
said. “And by the time he
saw his mistake, it was
too late.”

Presley’: Ss doctor
faces inquiry .

MEMPHIS, Tenn. (UPI) -. preceding his death two: -

years ago.

“We have been in-

.vestigating the same

allegations made by the

Department of Health but' -

the main part of the
investigation will be made

‘by the Metro Narcotics
Squad,” Stantonsaid.

Stanton said in-
vestigators will examine
the files of more than 400

‘Memphis area phar

macies. “Each store:

..be .contacted - and.
- prescriptions pulled, “he

said.

the freight train and the
Belgrade-to-Skopje exp-
ress early Thursday.

The freight train
slammed diagonally into
the first cars of the
overnight liner as the
passenger train was
slowing down to stop at
Stalac station.

The freight train
engineer, Sinisa Alcksic,
apparently ignored the
red stop signal for his
train, prompting un-
confirmed speculation he
was dozing at the con-
trols.

12 hours after settlers
from Kiryat’ Arba,
protesting the govern-
ment’s refusal to permit
expansion of their set-
Uement, broke down the
chain-link fence
surrounding their town to
squat on nearby Arab
land, near the Arab town
of Hebron.

The spending goes on
and North Vancouver
property owners can look
forward to average
property tax increases of
$200. per property next

‘year.

This was the
- at Tuesday's school board
meeting which approved
new _ guidelines for

Capilano

prospects: :
“$2003 increase

preparation of the 1980-
81 budget by the admin-
istration.

The guidelines allow
the present budget to
increase by about cight
per cent, or $3 million,
causing an average
property tax increase of
about $200 per family.

registration up

Registration at Capilano
College is up about two or
three per cent this year,
continuing a trend which has
been in progress since the
college opened.

- A total of 3396 students,
1459 full time and 1682 part
time were registered at the
end of the formal
registration period, but
Allan Smith, the director of
planning, said more people
may still be registering.

Smith said that
registration, at the college
has been going up ¢con-

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that this year’s jump may not
be as high as other years.

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