“heen
|: d against having —

provincial |
candidates.‘ for
‘ ‘Socred-’
support. in his bid for a-
House — ‘of Commons
seat.

wat “Cook, who was replying t to.
allegations by: Stephens. last.
. week, of a non-aggression
“plot”. between federal

. ‘Tories and B.C., Socreds,
also: claimed that the matter

~ had “been blown completely
out of Proportion.”

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WEDNESDAY

Sunny with ai few
cloudy periods. High 10-
Ml. -

Point Atkinson tudes:
low 1545 hrs; high 2325
hrs.

THURSDAY
OUTLOOK

Sunny with increasing
cloud later in the day. A
little warmer.

© Point Atkinson tides:
lows 0500 hrs and 1645
highs 0930 hrs and

JOCKEYING FOR POSITION at the start of the annual Straits Race, a total of 117 boats set off In the 128 mile
event, the only international yacht race in the Greater Vancouver. area. Defending champion Warrior, out of
Seattle, was the overall winner, For more photos of the race, see pages 15 and 30. (Peter Waugh photo)

firefighi ers kept

minimum. Chief:

“mercial premise | to: the next”
and “at one. stage blazes

"started simultaneously at a
a resturant and a pet store. .

Chief fire. prevention
officer for the City, George
Tyson: says it is the worst
- incident of . muiti-arson the
» Cityhas known.

ate ae

“We've had two or, three
on the go before now,” he
‘said, “but not this many.”

In each of the cases the

' garbage container which was

lit was against a wall of a
building.

The first one started
shortly before 4 a.m. behind
an apartment at 211 West
3rd Street. About 25 minutes
later, two more were started
simultaneously, at the Delo
Restaurant at the foot of
Lonsdale and at the Fin and
Feather Pet Shop at 113
Lonsdale.

Within another 20
minutes, a fire had been set
in a waste paper basket in
the foyer of the Post Office
at 100 East Ist Street and
then another one was set in

the same spot four hours
later.

Three fire trucks were
responding to the blazes and
Chief Tyson sdys: “We were

just going from one to the
other.”

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