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VALERIE COOKE of North Vancouver receives a sowln
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for heading the
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By David Wright

Some 200 Westlynn area
‘residents packed 4 public
hearing at Bastview elemen-
tary school Wednesday and
urzed North Van District
council] members present to
‘turn thumbs down on. a
roposed single-family hous:
ng development in Hidden
Valley,

Instead, they want Hidden
Valley to be bought by
counell for parkland, Falling
that, residents’ spokesmon
suld they were willing to
raluc §=opark = development
funds themselves through a
submission to the National
Second Contury Foundation,

Local rosidonts have con:

North Shore phones —Ss_—j

ome economics graduation list at UBC,
tart teaching homo economics this Septembor In

sistently opposed an
lopment of the valley be-
cause of Its allegedly un-
stable soll structure and past.
erosion problems caused by
Brownle Creed during the
spring run-off,

deve.

Spokesmen for the deve-
loper, Hidden “Valley
Estates, clalmed extensive
soll studies of the area had
shown It to be safe for house
construction, The company's
proposal is to build 18
single-family dwellings on

five acres of the property and |
leave the remaining 9.3 acres |

as parkland,

Jon Tollestrup, represent:
ing Westlynn Ratepayers,
feared that the proposed
development was ‘on ly the
thin edge of the wedge”’.

going electronic

Within the noxt two yours
most North Shore telephone
subscribors will bo notloing a
quiet now officloncy in thelr
phono service, *

In many cases they'll find
the distant phone = rings
instantly, as soon as they've
dlalod the laut digit. They'll
no longor hear tho famillar
click of tho mochanical
‘switching gear when thoy
dial a numbor,

The way will also bo paved
for thom to enjoy a varloty of
now optional plone services
such as three-way calling,
call forwarding and abbreyv-
lated dialing,

That's tho word from B.C,
Telephone Company's Dis
trict Manager Brian Bagley,
commonting on the conver:
sion of the North Vancouver
central offive to electronic
switching,

Work on this projdct, one
of the biggest over undor-
taken on tho North Shore by
B.C, Tol, has recently begun,

Mtr. Bagley sald the company
plans to have most subserib-
or Iines changed over to the
new and more efficient
electronle — control system

sometime in 1976—-with the .

balance of Iines scheduled
for switchover within three
yoars, Z

“The now equipment to

sorve North Vancouver sub-
serlbers will bo housed in a
building addition at B.C,
Tel's prowont exchange and
customer sorvice bull Ing at
150 Bust Eighth Street,” he

. explained," Work has comm:

enced on the new structure, a

second storey building add-
ithon.""

Mr. Bagley noted that in
moving to electronic switch:
Ing from the prosont mech
anion! ‘
switching B.C, Tel has
bypassed an Intermediate
type of switching, which
combines the two systems,

Three-wa calling-~one of
the optional services of the
future that will be made

4

_ Chamber stated:

~ He

step-by-step”.

BC,

North Vancouver Chamber
of Commerce belleves that
B.C. Ferries should be
regarded as part and parcel
of the provincial highway
system when It comes to
setting fares,

A resolution submitted to -
the recent annual meeting of
the B.C. Chamber of Comm:
erce by the North Van

B.C. Ferry operations ere
essential tranenartation aya.
tems for a maritime prov-
Ince. ,

“The Highways Depart-
ment maintelns highways
and bridges for the trans-.
portation of people, goods
and services to all areas of
British Columbia, financed
from general revenue.

“If revenues from use of
ferrles are Increased to ao
level necessary to cover
expenditures, severe hard-
ship will result in all areas
served by ferries,

‘*Recommended—that the
B.C. Ferry system is, in
every way, a true extension
of the B.C, highway sys-
em,’

felt that the area would be
over-developed in the future,
and that some land had to be
preserved for parks and
recreation,

He warned that counell
could be legally llable if the
development caused slides

from the rim of the valley toy...
yy

houses below.

Ald. Marilyn Baker sug-
ested that taxes could

‘Increase as much as five

percent if the district bought

the land. According to Mayor -
Ron Andrews the roperty is

worth around $500,000.

Council voted to refer the
developer's rezoning appil-
cation to the pol Y and
planning committee for fur-
ther discussion,

possible by computer-style

switching—allows an incom: -

ing call to be connected to a
call already in progress at the

discretion of the persdn
recelving the call, .
Call-forwarding, another

eventual option with the
electronic system, allows a
subscriber to “program’’ the
exchange to automatically
redirect incoming calls to
another number, ;

Abbreviated dialing, a
third future option, enables
frequently called numbers to
be coded, permitting them to
be dialod with only one or
‘two digits. =: oe

The ‘921° Whyteolltf
exchange and the Whistler
exchange will be converted
to electronic switching dur-
ing 1978, sald Me, Bagley, as
part of the company's overall
program to update and

mprove telephone services,

During the next five yours |
ol will Invest: more
than a ¢nitd of a billion
dollars in. the electronic

program,

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