MR. HISTORIAN, could you step over here

for a moment? I’d like to add a footnote, if I

may.

It concerns West Van-
couver. I¢ also concerns
this business of French nu-
clear testing, which has
become an actual global
cause celebre, although I’m
sure the French gov-
ernment has other choice
words for the Greenpeace
protests that have
mushroomed just like Le
Bombe itself used to over
Mururoa Atoll.

Amazingly, none of the
countries in the line of
fallout declared war on
France. New Zealand,
Australia, Peru, Chile. kk
was left to the tiny ar-
chipelagoes of Micronesia

but none of them got close.
They ail nearly drowned
and were forced back.

In the face of French
control and French deter-
mination to remain in the
macho high-stakes nuclear
power game, the smaller
and basically conservative
regional powers grumbled
and whimpered, but did
nothing.

Now from the unlikeliest
corner of the world —
nearly half a globe away —
there sounded a trumpet
blast. For the record, it
was issued from West
Vancouver, specifically
3941 Westridge.

Bob Hunter

strictly personal ®

first elected leader. Met-
calfe was a Winnipeg-born
newspaperman who went
into p.r. on the Coast,
helping Ray Perrault to
crush Tommy Douglas in
Burnaby.

Ben doesn't want to be
remembered for that.
That's why I mention it,

Ben’s true place in the
history books should be
that he is the guy who
launched the idea of sen-
ding a Greenpeace ship in-
to Mururoa, just like we'd
tried to do at Amchitka.

But it was Ben who put
out 2 press release announ-
cing the new campaign —
without bothering to con-
sult the quarrelsome gang
of Amchitka veterans who
considered themselves by

to scream ‘‘Foul!’’ In
1971, three little boats ~
one a tug whose engine
died and her crew drifted
for weeks — did flounder
out from Auckland, New
Zealand, in an attempt to
sail to Mururoa in protest,

Wood stove
a burning
issue

NORTH VANCOUVER Ci-
ty Council has authorized its
staff to seek a Supreme
Court injunction against
Trevor Warrington, to pro-

_ hibit the North Vancouver
“resident’s continued use of

an incorrect chimney - in-
stallation for his wood burn-
ing stove.

| By BARRETT FISHER |

The city has advised War-
rington, who lives at 2009
Mahon Avenue, by letter on
two occasions about the im-
proper chimney installation,
but he has failed to coo-
perate, director Frank, Mor-
ris of development and
licensing.

As a neighbor of Warr-
ington’s, Ald. Rod. Clark
said he has been aware of
the substandard installation,

‘and the resulting soot and

pollution the stove has caus-
ed.

‘Is there anything
stronger we can do than seek
a wishy washy injunction?’’
Clark asked council. ‘We've
identified the situation, and
yet we’re shackled. We can’t
say clean it up. And also,
that domicile is inhabited. by
four unrelated persons.
That’s a contraban on the
housing regulations.’’

Said Ald. Ralph Halli: ‘1
can sympathize with what
Ald. Clark is saying. If we
don’t impose, the liability is
on the city if there was a
fire.””

Ald. Stella Jo Dean asked
Morris how the. situation
could be rectified, and
whether wood burning
stoves are prohibited.

Morris answered that the
situation is rectifiable, *‘but
it depends on how many
dollars he’s willing to pay.”’

Council unanimously
agreed to have city staff take
action through seeking 4
court injunction.

Mururoa was happening
and asking for a skipper to
come forth with a boat for
this sacred mission. Viola,

David McTaggart happen-

ed to spot the ad.

Metcalfe did get the ball
rolling. And for a few
months there in '72, he sat
at the end of his telephone
in his den on Westridge
and played a giant game of
global media manipulation,
while McTaggart sailed
bravely on and on and on.

The truth is, if someone
hadn’t been humping the
phone, McTaggart’s
voyage might have gone as
unnoticed as the ones the
year before,

But credit should be
given where credit is due.
To their everlasting glory,

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It was West Van_ then to be the de facto

iconoclast E. Bennett Met-
calfe who blew the media
horn in mid-April, 1972.
He was known then as
“Chairman Ben,’’ and he
was later newly-formed
Greenpeace Foundation’s

oy

elders.

And it was Ben — or,
Dorothy, his wife, proba-
bly Dorothy — who placed
the ad in a New Zealand
newSpaper, announcing
that a protest voyage to

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