A6-Sunday News, July 20; 1980 editorial page | Community clout Eight months ago in an interview with the North Shore News, West Vancouver-Howe Sound MLA Allan Williams dismissed any idea of moving North Vancouver’s Hooker chlorine. manufacturing plant as “an im- possibility.” “Where else would you locate them?” he asked. “At that same time, North Vancouver district Mayor Don Bell spoke of tax bases and the need to consider the greater good of the whole community. ese’ earliest News reports on Hooker, © Maplewood residents concerned about possible chemical spills have organized : ‘themselves into a group pressing for action over a problem .that nobody previously appeared to have considered. Meanwhile the News has continued to ask questions. which have sometimes ‘made us less than popular with the authorities. Today, .a, community hazards task force ppointed: by. District:council is studying in ‘depth’ the entire North Shore chemical situation and is expected to make major récommendations by September. - District council Monday authorized a $10,000 study for a cost-benefit analysis of relocating’ the Hooker plant, on the recommendation of Mayor Bell. And . Hooker vice-president L.H. Schurstein has since said Hooker is prepared to discuss with any level of government tlhe question of relocating its North Van plant. It appears that,-with determined community persistence, -even local government and U.S.-operated industries can be persuaded to reconsider doing something about “im- possibilities”. Some sweat! Pacific Western Airlines’ engineering director is reported to be worrying over a government order to inspect the engines in over half of the PWA fleet. The same model of engine recently exploded on an Hawaiian jet. The PWA executive is concerned over the effect of grounding so many planes at the same time. “We are sweating,” he says. One wonders what the passengers are doing! sunday news north shore news 1139 Lonsdale Ave North Vancouver, B C V7M 2H4 (604) 985-2131 NEWS ADVERTISING CLASSIFIED CIRCULATION 985-2131 980-0511 986-6222 986-1337 Publisher Peter Speck Associate Publisher Editor-in-Chief Advertising Director Robert Graham Noel Wright Enric Cardwell Classified Manager & Office Administrator Berni Hilhard Production Tim Francis F aye McCrae Managing Editor Andy Fraser News Editor Photography Chris Uoyd Ellsworth Dickson Accounting Supervisor Barbara Keen North Ghore News, founded tn 1969 as an indapendent commun ty newapaper and qualified under Schedute I, Pan I) Paragraph 10 of the Excise Tax Act, is publisned each Wednesday and Sunday by North Shore Free Press Lid and distributed to every door on the North Shore Second Class Mail Registration Number 3866 Subscriptions $20 per year Entire contents © 1980 North Shore Free Presa Ltd. All rights reserved No responsibility accepted for unsohuited maternal including manuscripta and pictures which showd be accompanied by 4 stamped, addressed return anvotope VERIFIED CIRCULATION: 60,870 Wednesday 49,913 Sunday Pe ~~ * “ae GQu a “a1 “ THIS PAPER IS RECYCLABLE By PAT RICH The anxiety was obvious, even in their life-ravaged faces. As they strolled, tensely nonchalant back and forth on one stretch of sidewalk, or drove late into the night from store to store, the enormity of the crisis numbed their minds and their souls. An out-and-out beer strike they could comprehend, unbelievable though the situation might be. But this uncertainty,the news reports, statements and rumours speaking of strikes and lock-outs and tlements brought the body to the verge of nervous collapse. The arrival of a_ beer shipment from one brewery to a single liquor store brought on aé surge of adrenalin which died quickly when a confirmed Labatt's drinker (nay, not only confirmed, but baptized and raised as well) discovered that the truck was only bringing Molson's. For, with the air of un- LIFE SAVING WEEK starts today and it has a special meaning for two North Van residents, Susan Kennedy and Ted Cruise. On a Saturday morning early in October two years ago a couple of Port Coquit- lam sports fisherman were thrown into the water near the First Narrows when their 10-foot' car-top boat cap- sized. Minutes later a pleasure craft skippered by Cruise was on the scene. He radioed the Coast Guard and succeeded 1n pulling one of the fishermen to safety from the top of the overturned boat to which he was clinging ~ only to learn that a second fisherman was still in the water, possibly under the boat. Cruise's passenger, Susan Keanedy, promptly yumped into the cold, choppy water found the unconscious man floaung face downward and aflcr a struggic during which she lost) her own breath control af one point ~ managed to pull him to the surface After getting his shoulders on top. of | the capsized boal she alempted artificial respiration, but the waves beat her Cruise him self then went into the wate: to her amd and shortly a police marine squad rescuc boat arrived on the scence The unconscious victim was pulled aboard and cardiopul monary) resuscitation = was immediately begun = After seven weeks in Vancouver General Hospital Lars Sohansom = cvcntually recovered set- certainty about the situation, one was not yet willing to abandon established tastes and switch to dark and unknown beer. That stage, in which one would sell wife and kiddies for just the taste of an A Kaiban American beer, would follow shortly. But for now one spurned those heinouly priced foreign beers with names like “Gluckwasser” and “Jolly Roger,” and chased the elusive “Blue,” “Fifty” or “Black Label” into’ the “The reason there are so many ‘L's’ fs because we get a lot of letters.” sunday brunch by Noel Wright Susan was subsequently awarded the Governor's Medal by the Royal Life Saving Society Canada for her brave deed. Yes, ma’am. we breed heroes and heroines, too. on the North Shore eee West Van Library has run into a few hte problems with its recent) announce ment of a six-week Hohday Book arrangement (books are normally due back in four weeks) Seems some delinquents whose books are already overdue have been claiming they shouldn't be fined because of the special six-week scheme. Not true, says the brary’ Lucfile Fisher. To take advantage ot the scheme you must tell the lady at the checkout that youre going to be away on holhhday and she'll extend the “duc back” date to sin weeks on the books taking youre then oul SPELLING, BEB: Our old fmnend the West Vancouver Electors Association has surfaced once again evidently boping to peta head start in the campaign ing for the November munt cipal clectons im Tiddly cove Theis press release calling on prospective candi dates to come forward Suggests that the associa tions PR people will have to take a few spelling lessons between now and clecton day “It as not me,” says” the “whether Mayor Humphries, Aldermen Tauskail, Hicks and Humphrey intend (o seek re- election. Oh well, give them 25% — at least they gol Hicks mght) But who on earthis this fellow Tauskail? known at this release. Derrik And speaking of Mayor Humphreys, thank you, Your Worship, for having the stones removed from the Seawalk dogpath following our recent bleat Also for the new sign at I9th Street making it legal for pooches to be on the Seawalk as far as the cntrance to the dog- path there's responsive government you! Now. for ooe Should) good dnvers be rewarded, as the Safety Councils are suggesting” George Scholes, past presi- dent of the North Van Legion. thinks not) Good dnvers don't need a reward, he argues. they're a very proud group) Instead. they Should be organized as “spotters” to report on bad drivers -—— with leenee numbers of offenders sent to the newspapers for pubh cation Its) a worthy and tempung idea The only problem ts how to stop such a system bering used to settle personal scores that have noting to do with driving Whose word do you take against whom? If the weeds ‘in omy neighbors yard ’ drinks. watery Vancouver sunset “But it's only going to b beer strike,” amused frie ‘say when one paws eager! at their refrigerator, as yet unsearched. It is as if they are talking about ‘food or gasoline and not one of the staffs of life. . As if the news that hotels. and bars’ only have one week's supply of beer and draft left meant as little as the news that the House of Commons had recessed for the summer. white wines and bitter thin spirits, who sip delicately upon tall coloured ladies The threat of no more little brown soldiers mar. ching stoutly. from case hand and back to case, holds no fear for them. But at least they can pit and try to understand th twilight wanderers w' move in a daze at the edge o the world’s collapse — an who will try to salvag something from the calamit by.being at 2nd Street and Chesterfield when that last shipntent comes through. threaten me. just get the number of his car and report him for running a red light! °. eon Talking of driving, beware of the new Lions Gate | Hospital pay park lot on the’ weekends, when they put it on automatic. To raise the exit barrier, you put 75 cents. in the box, but unfortunately | ut breaks down at regular intervals. It always returns your money politely, but the barner remains closed. Last weekend I sat for over 15 minutes vainly feeding the machine with coms and recovering the same amount (in other coins) until a com- missionaire came to the rescue with a bunch of keys and raised the barrier manually. But what when the commisstonatre’s gone off duty? Just ram the darned thing and charge the hospital with unlawful confinement 2 ose “ And finally a message for one-time North Shore News “Sunshine Girl” Kamillla Bejermi. Please call john Chesser at 689-3466. You passed the aptitude test for the job you were secking, * but they'd lost your address and phone number (Just to satisfy the curious, 689-3466 is the number of Sun Life of Canada’s downtown office') WRIGHT OR WRONG: What many of today’s way out artists necd ts a brush with reality | CleanUpYourRet _ Pitch-In'80