_ VANCOUVER (UPC) -
If attendance figures are
an accurate barometer of

. appeal, the Wester

' Federation Association is
about twice as popular in
Vancouver as it was when
it held its first meeting in
the city last July..

About 1,000 persons
packed the balirooni of a
downtown hotel to. near
capacity Thursday, to
Fisten as West-Fed
president Elmer Knutson
and Calgary oilman Carl

Nickle lambasted the
federal government in
general and Prime
Minister Pierre Trudeau
in particular.

Of 33 previous West-

back to last June, only a
few in Alberta have
attracted more than the
group’s latest in Van-
couver.

A West-Fed meeting in
Vancouver last summer
attracted about 400.

Begin resignation
predicted

JERUSALEM (UPI) --
Cabinet officials -and
‘government ‘aides Friday
predicted Prime Minister
Menachem Begin will
resign Tuesday unless he
resolves a teachers’ wage ~
dispute. that has caused
the defection of a key
minister and his vital
votes in parliament.

Hurvitz is expected to
hand in his resignation.

Cabinet officials said
there appeared to be no
way out for Begin since
Hurvitz, who heads a
three-man Rafi faction
bloc in the Israeli Knesset
or parliament, was intent
on’ leaving the govern-
ment.

The defection of
Hurvitz’s faction would
diminish Begin's

Begin, described by a
close aide as “isolated
and disappointed”, met
with coalition partners

Friday — only two days 57 of the 120 votes,
before a decisive Cabinet putting him at the head of
meeting Sunday when a minority government.

Winter storms
blanket Europe

(UPI) .-

LONDON Arlberg region of Austria
Heavy snowfalls, high during the week and
winds and avalanches some 60,000 people were
swept across Europe, stranded in ski resorts.
stranding a prime Continual snowfall
minister, grounding a brought 10 feet of fresh

|, princess and causing snow, and skiers were

numerous deaths.

warned not to leave their
In Greece, snowstorms

ges.

and icy winds prevent Palermo, Sicily, had its
Princess Margaret first snowfall since the
Britain from taking a “ winter of 1962 and it

helicopter trip Thursday

knocked out electricity in
_to the ancient theatre of

the city for three hours

Epidavros. Thursday, caused traffic
Greeks shivered in jams and forced closure

freezing temperatures of the airport.

and snow blocked a Six days of some of the

national highway. worst snow since 1968
Avalanches killed four have blanketed Swit-

German tourists in the zerland

230 people die in
Amazon tragedy

BELEN, Brazil (UPI) -
A double-decker launch
overloaded

said

Survivors said scores of

with drowned passengers were
passengers returning trapped beneath the hull
from Christmas holidays of the 80-foot river
capsized in the launch “Novo Amapo”
treacherous Amazon after i hit cither a
River and at least 230 whirlpool or a sandbank
people many of them in the river and rotled
children — drowned, over in turbulent waters
officials and survivors Tuesday.

caught

Fed: meetings stretching ©

Finance Minister Yigal

parliamentary support to.

Vancouver District resident
after a pan of cooking oil
at his home
Monday evening has
prompted the local fire
department to issue a
warning on how such fires
should be dealt with.

Chief fire prevention
officer for the District,
Captain Leo Ius, says such
incidents are a major cause
of home fires and have
dangerous potential if not

A preliminary hearing
date has been set for the man
charged with last October's
rape of an 11-year-old girl in
Deep Cove.

Randolph Rewega, aged
21, appeared Wednesday in
North Vancouver Provincial
Court and at that time

“A close call by ‘a Norih

A common error, he says,
is to do what the resident at
2328 Kirkstone Avenue did
Monday in removing the
flaming pot from the stove,
which has the effect of
spreading the fire.

When he lifted the pot,
some of the burning oil
spilled, setting fire to the
floor and the curtains and
burning his hands and
forehead.

~

March 23 was set aside for a
hearing.

Although the represen-
tative for Rewega’s lawyer
said she did not know
whether a_ preliminary
hearing or a trial would take
place on that date, the
Crown Counsel said it is

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many years. But it’s no
longer a bargain, so we
should get a force with some
measure of local control.”

The best solution would be
a regional police force, he
said.

But the initiative would
have to come from the
provincial government, he
added.

Payne said community
police forces may actually be
more cost effective than
relying on a national force
like the RCMP.

“The RCMP provides
consistency in police from
coast to coast, but with this

increase in costs, maybe we |

should look at community
policing.”

Council was considering a
protest letter to the
provincial Attorney-General
and the RCMP over an
increase in the cost of the
RCMP to North Vancouver.

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Mayor Jack Loucks, warns
that North Vancouver may
have to reduce the size of the
police force.

However, Payne disagreed
with the threat to decrease
the number of police, adding
that such a cutback would be
counter-productive.

“We would not be

. protecting the community

that way,” he maintained.

Council also voted to send
a request to the federal
Solicitar-General for in-
formation on the status of
auxiliary police in RCMP-
served communities.

Alderman Stella Jo Dean
said North Vancouver. may
have to employ more
auxiliary police because the
RCMP will cost so much in
the future.

If more auxiliary police
are used, she said, there was
more chance of them being
injured or killed

“We should know what
their status is if they're shot
in the line of duty,” she
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