eA a a a a ae EES A AIOE SN AER ABN MI SORE Hh Saree cecnaenye ree attics tatty he mae, em Se: te orotate Feng ged ecg TR PS “whose ‘singlchanded challenge to the assessment bureaucrats and big industry fs.reported on our front page, may not win the first battle in her crusade on hehalf of tax-burdened homeowners. But by sheer guts and hard ork she has raised a banner for ‘others’ tofollow. If sufficient homeowners respond to her leadership, she may yet win them a war they didn’t know had started. Betty ‘Griffin, 1139 Lonsdale Ave , North Vancouver, 8.C. V7M 2H4 (604) 985-2131 ADVERTISING CLASSIFIED CIRCULATION 980-0511 986-6222 986-1337 Publisher Peter Speck north shore — news| NEWS 985-2131 Associate Publisher Editor-in-Chiet Advertising Director - Robert Graham Noel Wright Eric Cardwell General Managor Creative Production Administration Director in Berni Hilfard Managing Editor Andy Fraser Tim Francis News Editor Photography Chris Lioyd Elisworth Dickson Circulation Director Brian A. Ellis North Shore News, founded in 1969 as an independent communi. ty newspaper and qualitied under Schedule Ill, Part tll, Paragraph Ill of the Excise Tax Act, is published each Wednesday and Sunday. by North Shore Freoa Preas Lid. end distributed to every door on the North Shore Second Cissa Mail Registration Number 3885 lone $20 per year. Entire contents « 1980 North Shore Free Preas Ltd. All rights reserved No responsibility accepted for unsolicited maternal inchiding manuscripta and pictures, which should be accompanied by a alamped, addrossed retum envelope Accounting Supervisor Barbara Keen VERIFIED CIRCULATION: 50, 870 Wednesday, 40,913 Sunday sm GG THIS PAPER IS RECYCLABLE “War. is hell” as far too many people are able to confirm:. It ‘is- maiiy’. other things “too, mone of which can be: commended. : Brock ‘Chisholm of .. the. World ‘Health Organization said “In the future, no one. wins a war. It is true there are degrees of loss,” but no.. ‘one wins.” This is precisely” ‘how we. feel about ;the current w ‘war push; ~ “every, “Jaw. “and regulation to its limit and to test the . = validity, of. ‘Labour Relations ‘Board’ ‘rulings as far as he: .could, ‘legally, to win the battle for his people. We: heard. him @eny the words ‘guerilla: warfare’. when Jack Webster asked. him: if those were. the tactics he proposed: ‘ta. use. The denial,.;:however, . was countered: with:the promise of ‘flying pickets’ and we suggest that the difference is ‘but one of semantics. War is a_ costly, devastating business. There “are always many. casualties. . ‘There are members of the Jabour force’“who ‘cannot WATER TABLE: B.C.’s brand-new... ‘Conservative leader, ' Brian Westwood of Langley, .almost wound up with wet pants when he carried the Tory. banner to the North Shore Wednesday at the monthly lunchmecting of the North Van Chamber of Commerce. Minutes before he rose to deliver his speech a head table waitress at the Canyon Candens neatly upset three tumblers — of iced water just in front of Mr. Westwood, who nimbly jumped back from his seat in the nick of timo to escape the deluge which soaked his briefcase ss it. cascaded to the floor. . “Obviously Socred water,” quipped introducer Craig Clark. But the audicnce, judging by its subsequent . apparently found nothing wet about Mr. Westwood’s address. Beginning with an ap- propriate tribute to small business (“the white knights of the Canadian economy”, employing 88% of the labor. - force, providing 60% of all new jobs and contributing $40 billion a year to the © national weal), he lashed out vigordusly at Social Credit and the NDP, both (he claimed) representing “fatigue” compared to the “vitality” offered by his own “cannot _ , payments on strike pay and, ‘and unwillingly, anonymous, told the press that his house is at stake. He meet mortgage * that rather than lose the roof ‘ over his. head, he would prefer to be working. The Yosers, unwittingly ngly, are also those individuals who have opted for independence and who operate their own businesses. Many in- dependent operators have been hampered by pickets; . _ the independent: garbage: ’ collectors, for example. It is not their fight, union pay hikes do not benefit them. It © ; is ‘not their war but if they enter. the picket zones in. the pursuit of their own lawful ' business they can become casualties of the cross-fire. We are all casualties and not -just because garbage ‘collection has stopped and because city hall service is denied us. The labour ‘Situation in B.C. is grim. There is every indication that it will become worse before it becomes better. British Columbia is a pro- vince dependent on foreign, trade and a great amount of out-of-province capital for its industry to survive and grow. Trade contracts depend on the purchasers’ assurance that we can supply: . the contracted material. -: investment © Fimancial depends on confidence in the stability of our economy. We may have an edge in pos- sessing natural resources which are so much in .demand that would-be born-again party. He ripped the northeast coal deal to shreds (we must get away from 30 years of a “dig-it-up- ship-it-out” mentality); compared Premier Bill Bennett unfavorably to his late father “Wacky” Ben- mett, a former Conservative: and contended the Socreds’ present troubles come from Oo too many cx- Liberals in the cabinet. The rubber-chicken lunchers appeared to lap it up. According to Mr. Westwood, a former Langley school trustee, B.C. Tory membership has soared to 10,000 from a mere 3,500 last April. A five-foot bundle of energy with considerable personal charm, his style inevitably reminds one of that federal Tory starict Dave Crombie, the former “tiny perfect mayor” of Toronto. If he has staying power, the comparison may not be wasted ... one . Some four years ago Arda Froese, later:to be known as “the Mad -Mom' of North Vancouver”, threw’ ‘the book ‘at North Van superintendent .Rod Wickstrom and his ad- ministration after her nine- year-old daughter was psycho-analyzed in _ by Noel Wright schools | that labour worest ne affect delivery:: Money for investment... much more careful. ‘There. are plenty. of other equally. : attractive areas for invest- ment without the volatile * labour risk of B.C. Even the union workers themselves will be losers in this war. If industry is closed down, it cannot make the sales which produce the ' Whelan elementary school. The ensuing confrontation led her to launch Parents In- terested in Education (PIE), an organization which has since spread across the country. Its primary aim is to eliminate shrinks from the Classroom and get back to educational basics. Meanwhile, Mrs. Froese has transplanted herself to Toronto, but PIE lives on energetically in the Lower Mainiand. Tonight (Sunday) at 8 p.m. the group is holding a public mecting at North Van's Plaza In- ternational Hotel to ask “Why Aren't Your children Learning Their ABCs? Psychiatry and Education”. The evening includes a musical comedy revue, “Bducation: The Crime of the Century”. The $12.50 admission to support PIE’s 1981 campaign includes refreshments. Just thought you'd like to know, Mom and Dad, if you're doing nothing else ... oee The Liberal heavies in Ottawa have apparently decided that rebellious B.C. is ripe for the big snow job. Starting last week with PM Plerre'a descent to woo the ds however, well ‘local credit unions we're promised personal ap- pearances during the next couple of months by Agriculture Minister Eugene ‘(March = 13), Solicitor General Robert Kaplan (March 15), Labor Minister Gerald ‘Regan, Communicatibns Minister Francis Fox, Health Minister Monique Begin and En- vironment Minister John . Roberts. Who was it said, “Beware of the Greeks when they come bearing gifts”? HITHER AND YON: Best of luck to Neighbourhood House's new exec. director Helem Jones, charged with sanitizing the air around NH after the abrupt dumping last fall of her popular predecessor, John Braith- watte ... However did we miss MP Rom Huntington's birthday? Maybe because it fell this year on Friday tho 13th ... while on the subject, many happy returns to Hank van Winide (yesterday) and Jeannette Morris (Feb. 27) . And don't forget the Red Cross blood donor clinic tomorrow (Monday) from 2 to 8 p.m. at Lions Gate Hospital. ont WRIGHT OR WRONG: There are, .people who devote their entire lives to making up their’ minds —- and even thén they don’t.