’ 7 nl. —

August 3,1980 °

OVER PERIOD
OF FIVE YEARS

AFSONS,
break-ins
linked to

ver -
been “arrested by .
RCMP ‘and. linked with §
various. break-ins and

| aFSOns of local homes By CHRIS LLOYD

and. an elementary Safety options open
— “ayer th e past ‘to railways to reduce
noe past . @ the number of derail-
“ments in North Van-
“couver of trains

The ‘poy was arrested in ...
:. connection with a recent
Mh

loaded with hazardous
“break-in and police say their
investigations--have. tied him...

magerials ap 4 oe to
with several other incidents.- “Nave: ybeen | usted,

He has been released in - according
the custody of his parents .
while recommendations that
he should be charged with
break and entry and arson
. are considered, by the Crown .
counsel's office. ‘
_ Police’say that several of
a. the break-ins they. are in-
~  vestigating, which appear to
involve “comparatively |
minor” * “thefts, were
disguised by arson after
gasoline had been poured
“over the premises.
7 One ifistance, = in
,, December 1975, involved a
$100,000 ‘house fire at 2577
Belloc Street..
In April last year a $40,000 .

CONTINUED ON PAGE A8

munity. Hazards Task
_Force appointed by
North Van District
Council.

SUNDAY
Cloudy, showers with
sunny intervals.

LATEST

MONDAY
Little change.

Tel. 985-2131

‘member of She Com.

Garth Evans,
looking’ into the rail and
transportation aspect for
the task force, spoke to the
News last week while CN
workers were still

removing: sulphur: that had
spilled as a result of a four-
car derailment in. Lonsdale
tunnel which closed the
line for 36 hours.
The derailment,
occurred at

_ which
1:20 a.m.

‘DERAILMENT sent three of the four cars off the tracks

G Eve ry Door

‘MOVE THE!

who is

Wednesday

second. on” North” Fain’

waterfront in five days.
The previous Friday five
cars of caustic soda ‘had left
the rails in Lynntern yard.
Asked about the number
of derailments which have
occurred there recently,
CN spokesman Al Menard
told the News: “There’s not
that many, in relation to
the volume of traffic being

,

handled. ;
-“In the total run, our
ratio of accidents is. going
down. There seems to be
more accidents when we
are handling that much
tonnage but the number of
accidents per tonnage had
been decreasing for a
couple of years now.”

Task force member
Evans confirms: “I don't

be eliminated. After
spending some time with
the manager of main-
tenance and operations for
B.C. Rail, I honestly don't
know what else the railway
can do.

“I am quife satisfied they «
are doing éverything-they
can do but--we are stil]
having - all these derail-
ments.’

Evans feels there are no
more derailments than
there ever were, but that _

think these derailments can CONTINUED ON PAGE A4.

by laying new track. By the thne the tunnel'was clear and sulphur which
beneath the tunnel at the foot of St. George's Avenue. CN Rall blamed had spilled from one of the cars was cleaned up, the line to Vancouver

the Incident on a broken ling and had to remove the cars from the tannel ~Wharves had been closed 36 hours, (Elsworth Dickson pharo)