- Sastamnish remains 2a “killer” ‘highway, -ac- sto the. fh _of the coroner's h raises the question of y.” ans ever have neem prometion the inves nent _in the ‘Worth trying? concept of a Dundarave pub to” which Hank’s idea is right. on. and ‘his. thinking deserves encouragement for that - reason alone. Maybe. adventurous Tiddleycove should give it a whirl. sunday inews north shore news 1139 Lonsdale Ave., - Display Advertising Classified Advertising Newsroom —~ Circulation © 980-0511 986-6222 985-2131 986-1 337 North Vancouver, B.C. V7M 2Ha Publisher Peter Speck Associate Publisher Editor-in-Chief Advertising Director Robert Graham Noe! Wright Tim Francis Genoral Manager, Administration & Personne! Mrs. Berni Hilliard Circulation Director Brian A. Ellis North Shore News, founded in 1969 as an independent community nowspaper and qualitiad under Schedule fii, Part tt, Paragraph { of the. Excise Tax Act, is published each Wednesday and Sunday by North Shore Free Preas Lid. and distributed to every door on the North Shore. Second Clasa Mail Registration Number 3885 Entire contents “ 1982 North Shore Free Press Ltd. All rights reserved. Subscriptions, North and Weat Vancouver. $26 por year Mailing rates available on request No responsibility accepted for unsolicited maternal including manuscripte and pictures which should be accompanied by a stamped, addressed envelope, VERIFIED CIRCULATION 64,543 Wedneaday; Lon y THIS PAPER IS RECYCLABLE - 54,093 Gunday SIN" (Ae ne we mrs By W. ROGER WORTH . reaction to the * Gagne St into the nine deaths last fall.when the M ae bridge w was washed out by a raging Nobody - knows- whether Hank. . Sager’s Canadian and U:S. political recession: are astounding, ' to ~ say the least. = =: Consider what’ Ss hap- 3 pening. — i the ‘United States, ~ The differences ‘between current - neighborhood imbibers would WALK: for: lack of parking is practical in North America. a -- though it’s worked for centuries in Europe; .. |. But in view of the drunken driving statistics — the month. It revealed that North Vancouver's superintendent of schools, Dr. Rod Wickstrom, makes $89,900 a year, while his three assistant superintendents — Dr. Leo Marshall, Pat Bell and Don McEown —~ and his secretary-treasurer. Len Berg each pullin $74,700. Another 51 North Van School. District employees each earn more than $50, 000 ayear., | In West Vancouver school district (less than one-third the sizeof North Van) Superintendent Ed Carlin and his‘two side-kicks have , 9 get by on respective / stipends ‘of approximately $72,000 and $64, North Shore municipal manegers and senior municipal staff members are paid in similar salary ranges, though they still have to watch the pennies more carefully than top Lower Mainland mandarins _ like Greater Vancouver Regional District. manager Doug MacKay ($92,554) and Vancouver city manager Fritz Bowers ($98,724). $70,000 SPREAD Meanwhile, ‘the average Canadian. male's salary today is under $20,000 — while the ' . summit. ‘hamburger at taxpayer Joe = NEXT ‘to their - neighbors’: “love lives’ nothing | fascinates people as:much as their. neighbors’ ~ | “incomes. That fact undoubtedly made a recent | | _ N€wspaper report onthe salaries of senior local , government servants one of the best read items of average Canadian female earns approximately $10,000. Food for thought. Filet mignon at the bureaucratic Warmed-over Doakes’ end of the scale. What justifies the $50,000- $70,000 spread between Joc, the “employer”, and the municipal manager. or schools superintendent, his “servant”? Partly, in fairness, ability and experience. Senior _ public servants are normally pretty bright types, though whether all of them are 300- ' 400 per cent brighter than Joe is open to question. But the main argument of the top bureaucrats is a comparative one. They contend they are the equivalent of presidents of private companies with similar responsibility for multi-million dollar budgets — despite which, they stress, they are paid less than comparable exccutives in the private sector. If we're talking value for money, it’s not being unkind to suggest they should be paid considerably Jess than their private sector coun- arts, he basic difference is that the private company’s i --- federal. . “government's 6%- are out: ‘promoting the % wage restraint program, all our economic ills. Liberal “Party bigwig Keith Davey produces a public relations Red Book (the hard sell) on "how the scheme can be used _ convin e--—s§' : uppos: Canadians - the by Noel Wright | president is entrusted with a . multi-million dollar’ budget - in order to produce a profit from it. Senior public ser- vants don’t have to make any profit at all, On the contrary, { they overspend their multi- million dollar budgets, they simply go back to the tax- payer -— via his elected representatives — for more money. JOB SECURITY If the company president loses money instead of making it, he'll soon be looking for another job. The municipal manager, the schools superintendent and. as-if that alone would solve’ ‘are’: jobless, . 2 inflation. in _double. digits continues, and -bankruptcies sare: so ‘prevalent: ‘the © ancial | in- stitutions can't “find the expertise to handle the cases: - But to. | premanently - appointee ‘captains of. munic -and school boards with the ‘captains’ of industry who necessary. Bur. Ottawa should “face. reality and understand that many ‘other ~ policy. changes are needed if. . we'are to’ ‘Stop | our. economic - -slide and create:the jobs our . cotintry-so badly ‘needs, | (W. : ‘Worth is ‘a virtu job security for life, no matey how many of, the ayers’ hard-earned dol ars they dispose of. . That security alone is worth a good” “Many thousands a year in salary compared to’ the hazards faced by a ‘company president at . shareholder meetings.. And in theory, as opposed to practice, senior bureaucrats are not even responsible for the way the . tax dollars are spent, The buck.’ for formal spending decisions is passed to the elected aldermen and school trustees #—-who are paid a tine fraction of the mandarins’ salaries and can be fired by the voters every two years. All in all, it’s a neat and probably inevitable system. compare the alities ultimately keep them in the style: to which they are accustomed is — to put it charitably —- plain non- sense. In these hard times Joe Doakes, even if he’s lucky ‘enough to have a job at all, can be excused for looking at these exalted pay packets and wondering just what he's getting for his money. _ More specifically, perhaps, what the recipients would command if they had to sell their services on the open market. Rough questions. But it's a rough year.