|. must say. ‘it’s been a good : year for the-North
Shore News. The publishing business is volatile;
and ‘it feels. so’ sweet to have ,come through

thank each and every person
(and there are | thousands)
who has done their part to
make ‘the North ‘Shore News

‘the voice of North and West

Vancouver.

‘Special thanks to our
seven hundred newspaper
carriers. These | boys and

girls are the most important.

link between us and you, and

if “you. get a -chance. this:

tmas season Id like you
to thank'them - - for all of us -

dogs von the North’ Shore,
and they need your ap-
preciation of their efforts.

Yd also like to share a
prayer with you, which ap-
peared here last year. It’s
from Mary Strong’s book
“Letters from the Scattered
Brotherhood,” published by
Harper and Row.

FROM PAGE A1

And even after those
cutbacks: he commented:
“How long we can keep on
that much J don't know.”

Projecting the effects of a
striké which went on much
longer, he said:’’There
would probably be all kinds
of ships lining up in January
and ‘we'd Ye closing down
after existing stocks run out -
about Christmas time.

HANGING ON

Things haven't been much
better at Neptune Terminals
during the strike, where
Klinkow comments: “We
have been hanging on by the
seats of our pants.”

“By the end of the month
we would probably be out of
everything and there would
be nothing else to do but
close down,” he added.

Neptune has been feeling
the squeeze with various
commodities and Klinkow
says: “They're loading coal
at Roberts Bank as we don't
have enough.” He projected
that by the end of the year
Neptune would probably be
completely out of coat.

“We've lost the rapeseed
oil shipments as didn't get

* another year and ended up in the black.
This year, again, P'dliketo’ —

“Be like a child; look at

_thy two feet and say, Lord, .
‘walk these for me. Talk to

him as to thy friend and

‘purse: Be in sweet common
. friendship with him. Call him -

in thy bath, in- thy daily

tasks, in thy going from one |

room to another. Say, Nay, I
will not go alone.

“Come, be thou with me,
Jead thou the way. Behold,
“he -will answer then, and.
come running like laughter
and golden hope into thy
heart, and with understand-
ing love will he walk with
thee from room fo room.

“And, too, will he stand
beside thee when thou
faceth thy friends and
visitors, and he will place a

hand in thine and will watch

thy heart and _— issues
therefrom so that thou canst
talk in perfect safety know-
ing that thy word will be
food and drink and life to all
in thy presence.

“For thou hast him all to

thyself. He is thine - forever.

trike bring fears
of industry shutdown |

any cargo and the alphalfa
ships too and it is costing a
lot of money.

But Neptune has had just
the. opposite. problem with
other commodities. being so
over stocked with them that
there is nowhere to put
further shipments.

The terminal's phosphate
silos have been full to
overflowing while there have
been no trains running to
take shipments to
customers, with nowhere to
unload for ships arriving
with additional cargoes.

The result has been letting
down customers in Red-
water, Edmonton, who have
been subsequently running
out of phosphates with which
to make fertilizer.

Klinkow says things have
been bad ever since the
Second Narrows rail bridge
was knocked down and the
CN trains stopped
Qclivering. But the BC Rail
strike has been the final
blow.

TRUCKS HELP

Vancouver Wharves has
been operating at about 50
per cent of its normal
volume, thanks largely to the
trucking of pulp and paper,
which got them over their
initial hurdle of no ship-

Do- not puzzle ‘how he can

understanding. Enough: that:

_rest thee, to heal thy com-
‘plaints, and to fill thee with

see thy two feet when there
are millions. of feet.. that is
too.” “mich | for - thine.

it is. the truth that he -hath.
never failed to come when

called and that he will come .
as thou dost want him. He is:
‘to be sought through the .

refinements of the heart.

“Go, then, and ask him to,

the strong virtue required.
“He will manifest, he
never faileth. He is thy
saviour and sweet com-
forter. So go into thy im-

mediate and personal life

with him for thy very own,
with thy hand in his.

“Let him.
pillow, smooth thy blanket;
and-in deep, loosened sleep _

let him teach thee that the:
Life immortal, perfect divine

known in all its fullness by
such a simple way as this
child-like invitation to him —
the eternal Guest.”

ments at all during the first
week of the labor dispute.

Even so, it seemed
unlikely they would be able
to match their normal

tonnage of 30,000 tons a>

month if the strike was to
become prolonged.

Sales manager John
Mackay says the strike has
been causing the loss of "a
significant . amount of
money”, in spite of the
Wharves being the only
North Shore industry to have
its own barging ramp. which
has been used for ferrying
cargo around the clock,

Lynnterm had con-
siderable amounts of lumber
on its docks at the time the
strike came but director of
information for the Port of
Vancouver John Barren says
operations were hit by 50 per
cent in the pre-Christmas
penod.

“We would be in trouble
mainiaining our normal
shipping schedules with a
prolonged strike.” he said.
“and the place would be
cleared by mid-January.

As he comment): “The
whole thing has naturally
had a major effect on e¢x-
ports of all pouds.  par-
ticularly from othe North
Shore.”

smooth thy 7

_sonship with him, can be -

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