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Cops declare
war on booze

By CHRIS LLOYD

Gangs of drunken
louts who roam
through West Van-
couver looking for
fights and causing
mayhem every summer
have had war declared
on them by the local
police force.

Officers were out in force
last weekend checking for
liquor infractions and by
Sunday night their tally of
confiscated booze totalled
an unprecedented 4,150
bottles of beer, 17 bottles of
wine and 12 bottles of liquor.

The police acknowledge
that even that total is just a
fraction of the amount of
booze being swigged in
public on beaches and in
parks and that the problem is
probably worse now than it's
ever been.

But deputy police chief
Bob Brolly promises that it's
going to get better as he says
the police are prepared to do
whatever it takes to get to
grips with the problem.

He says he's had enough of

drunken louts terromzing
people on beaches and
parks.

Among the activities that
have plagued Vancouver
and which Brolley says will
not be tolerated are:

® Brawling youths having
fist fights.

® Loud == music,screaming
and foul language.

© Citizens sitting in) their
cars and being dragged from
therr vehicles which are
vadahzed while the 9 oc-
Cupants are assaulted
outside,

® Famihes with = children
getting sand kicked in their
food by gangs of 25 of more
drunken youths trying to

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L114 HOUR MOVE

NV City
jumps on
lower
mill rate
wagon

In an eleventh-hour
move North Vancouver
City dropped. its~:mill-
rate for 1980 by 5.5'per™
cent in response to the
lower mill rates. an-
nounced in ~- North

Vancouver District and -

West Vancouver, -:

However, this drop in the
mill has been more than
balanced by a 12 per cent
increase in the provincial
assessment rate and a 22 per

cent increasé: in’ “total
municipal budget ex-
penditureS. a

It was necessary for the
City’s finance*committee to
hold “a special meeting on
Monday morning in order fo
arrange the drop in the mill
rate from 7.25.mills in 1979
to 6.846 for 1980.

Alderman Gordon Cross
told council Monday night,
when the budget wads tabled,
that the move was
“predicated on the fact,”
that both the District of
North Van, and West Van
had dropped their mill rates.

At the finance meeting, he
said, the finance committee
tried to maintain some

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