Three Vancouver students have cancelled their plans to visit the Soviet Union with a proposed school tour this nervous West CONVERSION. To. COMMUNISM DISCOUNTED receive a report on the tour from the two organizers but instead they heard a report from Superintendent of Schools Ed Carlin. summer. The three are part of a group of 33 students from Hillside and West Van- couver Secondary Schools who were scheduled to go on the trip, organized by two teachers. es Concern about the tour was expressed at the last | board meeting by Trustee Mark Sager who felt the board should take into consideration national feciing and reconsider approval of the tour. At Monday's meeting the board was scheduled to Carlin told the board that alternative arrangements are being considered for the tour but as yet no changes have been made. “He said there was a continuing problem’ with tours which go into potential world “hot spots.” Three students have decided not to go on the trip to the Soviet Union because they were a bit nervous, he said, and added that the board can expect a further report on the situation. Trustee Mark Sager said he received a number of phone calls from concerned parents and others after he raised questions concérning - thetour atthe last meeting. _ Trustee Norm Alban told the board he had to assure one worried West Van resident that the “pampered youth of West Vancouver won't come home dedicated Communists” after seeing “the better parts of Russia.” Chairman Audrey Sojonky pointed out that if plans for the tour are altered “they (the organizers) shouldn't assume a second country will automatically receive the approval of the board. NV City won’t reject GVRD transit deal Loucks in favor of agreement A move by some North Vancouver City council members to reject” the Greater Vancouver Regional Distnct’s (GVRD) proposed transit agreement with the province was narrowly defeated = at Monday night's meeting. A vole to reject” the operating agreement, which is scheduled for discussion by the GVRD today, was tied and therefore defeated, as Mayor Jack Loucks opposed the rejection. Mayor Loucks ts the only member of City council who will be voting on the GVRD decision concerning the agreement and he indicated he would support it. Under the five year operating agreement the GVRD and the province will share any deficit and financing will be done by using a gasoline tax and a surcharge on electricity “Lthink iis aboultdime we grew up.” Loucks told council. He said it was a Momentous step thal transit would be controlled locally. While approval of the five year operating agreement did not mean the GVRD was completely satisfied with it, Loucks said the agreement was a long overdue step. Aldermen Stella Jo Dean, Frank Marcino and Gary Payne all expressed disapproval of the proposed agreement. Alderman Elko Kroon and Bill Sorensen voted in against rejecting the agreement. 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