te PET THE

clocks
back

PREPARE YOURSELF for an ex-
tra hour’s sleep this weekend.
Clocks should be set back one
hour Saturday night in preparation
for the return to Pacific standard
time from Daylight savings time.
Pacific standard time officially
begins at 2. a.m. Sunday, Oct. 30.

October 28, 1988 News 985-2131

Chassitied 986-6222

Distribution YX6-1337

96 puges 25¢

| BUS CRASHES, BURNS
j -IN A BIZARRE accident at Lonsdale Avenue and Queens Road Thursday afternoon,
a ranaway, driverless BC Transit bus sheared 2 power pule and burst into flames after

three power transformers crashed through the bus’ roof and ignited. Shortly after the
driver left his vehicle at about 4 p.m., the bus careered backwards down Lonsdale,

snapped the power pole, ploughed inte a car and came to a rest just feet away from §}

the. Queens Cross Pub, Witnesses at the scene said the driver left his bus at a bus stop
. in the 3000-block Lonsdale:to aid an 18-year-old male who had been struck by a car at
.- West: Kings and Lonsdale. Passengers managed to escape from the. bus, but. three

people were sent to hospital.

NORTH VANCOUVER RCMP arrested and charged two

Lower Mainland men Wednesday with the

1981 North

Vancouver murder of a 23-year-old native Indian woman.

The body of Mary Ann Costin,
who also went by the name Med-
wayosh, was recovered froay Lyan
Creek waters nevr Bridgman Park
on the morning of Feb. 18. 1981.

The Hamilton, Ontario woman's
body had been spotted caught on at
rock in the creek near the park by
bus passengers and = motorists
crossing the East Keith Road
bridge.

By MICHALI

ws Keporter

The victim was found wearing
only jeans and clogs. A pathologist
determined Costin had drowned,
but that blows to her head by an
assailant were so sevete that she
would otherwise have died from a
skull fracture.

The pathologist's report also
showed the dead woman had had
sexual intercourse before she died.

Charged with first degree
murder are 29-year-old Jean Victor
Beaulac of Delta and 25-year-old
John Eldon Norris of Vancouver.

While police investigation has
been ongoing since TY8l, a five-
month investigation by the local
ROMP detachment and the ROMP
Homicide Task Force culminated
in the charges. Costin'’s identity
remained a mystery until police
managed to identify her during the

past month. Norris was arrested
early Wednesday in Vancouver and
Beaulac was arrested in’ North
Vancouver later in the day.

Police are seeking public
assistance in their effort to collect
information regarding Costin.
She is believed to have arrived in
the Vancouver area in October
1980. She is also known to have
frequented the Hastings Street area
of Vancouver prior to her death.

Information may be forwarded
to the North Vancouver RCMP at
985-1311.

MURDER
Castin.

victim

Mary

Aim