YOUR COMMUNITY NEWSPAPER SINCE 1969 ioe oe Rae. YOU COULD be a lucky winner in the North Shore News’ Win Your Way Across the Pacific contest, which starts today. Winners will have the choice of picking an exciting, adventure-filled trip to Hong Kong or New Zealand. All you have to do is 34 fill out an entry form at one of the many businesses participating in the News con- oa test. No purchases necessary. Details in today's paper on pages 20 and 21. leas September 14, 1986 News 985-2131 Classified 986-6222 Distribution 986-1337 52 papes 25¢ peshe wi enememe NEWS photo Terry Pators THE BOUNTY OF Expo 86 is amply iftustrated by this line of recreational vehicles parked between steel girders beneath the Lions Gate Bridge. The imaginative use of bridge real estate results from limited available parking space at the nearby Capilano Mobile Park. Sid ene pate chee aT EE Contracts produced SIGNATURES CLOUD ALLEGATI SALON ONS AN INTERNATIONAL PROMOTION company claims that evidence it has produced shows allegations against it by two North Vancouver beauty salons in connection with a coupon promotion have no legal foundation. The allegations, published Sept. 3 in a North Shore News story, were made by Donald James McRae of Donald) James Hair Design and Norma Berrington of Salon 713 against Promotional In- dustries Ltd., which operates 12 offices in the U.S. and Canada. Both MeRae and Berrington ac- cused the company’s Burnaby branca—with which their stores had entered into promotion con- tracts—ol printing too many coupons entitling purchasers to free services at those stores. Copies of the written contracts now made available to the News show that store representatives gave their signed agreement to printing the quantity of coupons they fater complained of—2,000 for McRae's salon and 1,000 for Berrington’s. Both store operators subse- quently claimed that they were given verbally to understand that only 500 coupons would, in fact, be printed and/or sold by Promo- tional Industries. In McRae's case the contract had actually been signed on behalf of the former owner of the salon, Alex McMurtrie, whose assets were MORE THAN one weapon was used in the shooting spree that ended in the deaths of North Vancouver fa- ther Ronald Pryce and his four young childrci wed- nesday. North Vancouver RCMP Staff Sgt. Tom Hill said a .38 found near Pryce's body as well as a Snecial handgun was .44 calibre handgun. News Reporter suicide after shooting his children. Hill said Pryce had six han- dguns, two shotguns, four rifles and a ijarge quantity of am- munition in his home at 317 West Fourth Street. He said all of the guns were registered in the past few years to Pryce, an unemployed mechanic, who committed “Obviously he liked firearms, but I don't know why he had them,'’ said Hill. “He's not known to be a member of a gun club.” Friends said Pryce was an ex-hiker from Montreal, who moved to Vancouver in 1967. But Hill said peltice do not purchased by McRae after the promotion had been launched. Lawyer Barry Gibson, repre- senting Promotional Industries, says McRue was therefore under no legal obligation to honor the coupons. Gibson also states that Promo- tional Industries has been forced io refund the cost of fumerous coupons which Berrington of Salon 713 had stopped honoring or fo issue replacement coupons for those distributed on behalf of the salon. The Total Look and Salon 713 contracts bear, respectively, the signatures *‘Barbara Walker’? (ac- knowledged by MeMurtrie to have been his assistant at Total Look and authorized to sign for him) and ‘*Norma Berrington’’. Promotional Industries takes the position that the signatures make the documents binding agreements for the specified quantities of coupons. Gibson describes Promotional Industries as an established and well respected business which has run thousands of promotions, more than 200 on behalf of hair salons. recognize Pryce as a current memper of any biker group. Metro Regional Coroner Geraid Tilley said Friday autopsies on the five have been completed. He said the preliminary report states cause of death as multiple gun shot wounds, and an inquest will be held some- time in Jate November. “We'll be looking at all areas of the incident, including police reaction to it,”’ said Tilley. “There may be human fac- tors involved, so we'll be look- ing at family history, lifestyle — the purpose of the inquest is to bring forth all these points?’