world outside... Arson suspected in CUPW fire OTTAWA (UPC) - Or tawa Police said Tuesday they belicve arson may have been the cause of a sman said. Union president Jean- Claude Parrot was away on business and could not be reached. However, union treasurer Roy Hitz said he believed most of the organization's records headquarters Monday night. were destroyed, cither through fire of: from “The fire started in the water damage. third floor offices after all “I had about a month's the files and desk drawers = worth of work piled up on on the second, third, the floor in there. That’sa fourth and fifth foorshad hell of a lot of work. I been opened and ran- sacked,” a police spoke- Fears Etna will erupt again voicano experts kept away from the moontain for fear it would begin blasting lava and boulders The plumes of smoke into the sky again without rising into the sky also warning. ash The eruption, which Sicily. especially the town began Monday afternoon, reached ti peak of m- early today, Catania Institute of Third blowout on Gulf coast CATUNA, La. (UPI) - A O'Connor, Texas. Less natural gas well that bicw than 24 hours later, five out in a raral pinc forest belched flames 100 fect into the ai Tuocsday. in the third such mcident in Galf-area gas ficlds m three days. No injurics were reported, bat four workers had to scrambic to safety moments before the fire began. Five workers dicd and seven werc hurt Saturday in a blowout and fire on a Cities Service nig m the Gulf of Mexico off Port Floods wash away Mexican homes MEXICO CITY (UPI) Plash floods washed away at ficass SO houses Tuceday m a small town northwest) of Measzico City. killang at beast four poopie and scores more arc misung = authowiics 1 peceetmge PAORE WORLD NEWS BEGINS P. A13 men were imjured in a hasty cvacuation of a Tenneco ng that bicw out of Sabie Pass, Texas. Two other major ng accidents have occurred during the past two weeks, and of} company officials saad the rash of mcidents pomts up in creased drilling activity both m the Gulf and onshore. Drilling has reachcd ocar-record levels during the past fcw months. sand A pohce spohkcsman at Arandas. a small town 230 northwest of Memeo City. saad torrential rains swelled acarty overs and aQcstruyed at icast ‘SO homes. Teenie ti FROM PAGE A1 Overall results were Living standard redweced ......... 41% Living standard improved ........ 22% Living standard wee enee 17% Don't kmow .....-. 20% In other words, out of the 80 per cent of positive respondents, a total of 39 per cent said their living stan- dard was unchanged -— or bad actually improved — as against 41 per cent who said their living standard had dropped. There was some marked difference between the results for North Vancouver and West Vancouver. In North Vancouver the number of respondents who said their living standard had been reduced was Significantly larger than the combined total of those whose living standard had improved of remained unchanged. In West Vancouver the reverse was true. Those whose living standard had improved or remained unchanged comfortably outnambered those whose living standard had declined. At the same time, the affected was more than onc third greater than the percentage “don't knows” in West Vancouver. The individual breakdown for the two North Shore communities were as follows: NORTH VANCOUVER orgate-Pemberton Heigh hardest hit by cost of living Living standard unchanged .....-- 18% Don'tknow ....-.- 23% WEST VANCOUVER Living standard reduced .........- 38% improved .....--- 26% Living standard anchanged ......- 21% Don't know .....-- 15% The two North Vancouver neighborhoods whose residents appeared to be hardest hit by inflaton were Upper Lonsdale East and Norgate Park-Pemberton Heights. In the former, 65 per cent said their living standard had declined as against only 15 per cent who said it had improved or remained the same. In the latter, the corresponding figures were 65 per cent and 35 per cent. In West Vancouver, Dundarave was the only area where a majonty of residents said their living standard had been reduced — 57 per cent is against 43 per cent who reported an improved standard or no change. 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