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Newsstand Price 50¢ ‘July 11, 1982 Tel. 985-2131 Classified 936-6222

VICTIMS LEFT
FOR DEAD

an held
for rape,

attempted
murder
tiacks

RAPE and attempted
murder charges have
been laid in North
Vancouver provincial
court as a result of
attacks last month on
two women who were
raped and left for dead.

The charges, against'a30-

year-old man formerly from
North Vancouver, relate to
an.attack on a young woman

hitchhiking on the Squamish |

highway. June 3 and a:similar
attack on a Vancouver’
prostitute who was, taken to
Mount Seymour June 29.

Ronald Richard Mc-
Cauley, a self-employed
roofer, has been charged
with two counts.of rape, two
of attempted murder and
five counts of related of-
fences.

The charges follow an in-
vestigation by RCMP
members from North Van-
couver and Squamish
detachments. A local RCMP
detective spokesman says a
press release on the case was
withheld unl last Thursday
“to prevent jeopardizing a
complex investigation,”

The Squamish  in-
volvement relates to a rape
attack on a 22-year-old

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GIVE US A KISS. One of the two dogs recently introduced to start off West Vancouver police's dog squad, Kyc, has
a playful kiss for handler Constable Andy Keres. Off duty, the 14-month-old German Shepherd is one of the Keres

family, living at the constable's home. Two more dogs will be added to the police department in September to bring
the dog squad ap to a full force of four. (lan Smith photo)

By CHRIS LLOYD

TAXPAYERS in North
Vancouver District will
know exactly who to
point the finger at for
any inequities over the

_ sharing of next year's

property tax burden -
Mayor Don Bell.

Bell will be taking per-
sonal responsibility for
deciding how the
municipality's operating
costs for 1983 will be split
between residential,
commercial and business
taxpayers.

He has taken on the
unenviable role of being a
one-man committee to
ptepare a report for council
to make its decision over
which taxation system to
choose to raise municipal
revenues.

Initial indications are that.
if permitted by Victoria, Bell
will be coming up with a
formula of his own. It would
likely be something of a
compromise between the
options of this ycar and
previous years 30 that
neither residential nor
business taxpayers could
complain of being overtarcd
while the other group gets a
break.

Basiness owners have
been hit harder this ycar
than ever before. with taa
bills (twice as high as last ycar
- at a time when business is
generally down and the
economy looks gloomier
than anyone can remomber.

At the same time, home-
owners don’t exactly feel
they've had any == special
break merely that their
taxes haven't mscn at the

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