A4 - Wednesday, April 21, 1982 - North Shore News the world outside... By UNITED PRESS CANADA Ocean Ranger hearing begins BOSTON - The Coast Guard and the Natonal Transportation Safety Board Tuesday began a hearing into the sinking of the world’s largest oil drilling platform in the stormy North Atlanac with a loss of 84 hives. An effort will be made during the 10-day heanngs to reconstruct the events of Feb. 15, when the 14,913-ton Ocean Ranger capsized in 50-foot seas 175 miles off the coast of Newfoun- dland. “We'll try to interview all available witnesses to the event by talking to members of nearby vessels and people from St. Johns who can contnbute to formulatng a hypothesis.” Rear Adm. Henry Bell told a news conference Monday. The investigators intend to establish the cause and determine who, if anyone, was responsible for the ac- cident. They will also examine whether there is any evidence suggesting incompetence. muscon- duct or nolation of off- shore dnilling laws. Equal rights for space shuttle SPACE CENTER, Houston - American's first black and first woman astronauts will hurtle mto space next year aboard the shuttle Challenger, the space agency says. Dr. Sally K. Ride will be launched aboard the Challenger for the seventh shuttle mission, the National Aeronautics aod Space Ad- ministration announced Monday. Air Force Lt. Col. Guion S. Bluford Jr., scheduled for the eighth mission, will be the first black astronaut. Dr. Ride was a capsule communicator on the flight of the Columbia last month and made it clear in her conversafions with astronauts Jack Lousma and Gordon that she envied their experiences of weightlessness. Neither she nor Bluford was available for com- ment Monday. U.S. to abstain on 0.A WASHINGTON Argentina Tuesday expressed its readiness to go to war af Bntish warships enter its terntomal waters and asked to set into Motion a treaty that could require other Amencan nations to provide military aid Argentine Ambassador Raul Quyano asked the Organization ol American States to convene a special foreign ministers “meeting ol consultation” as the first step in invoking Che 14! .5. vote Treaty of Rio to deal with the Falkland Islands cnsi US Ambassador Wilham Middendorf said the United States op posed invoking the Rio Treaty because it would put the OAS “ino an unhelpful confrontation light” in the standolf Li So alles scnsitive between two Ble Saad othe States U mited would abstain on the formal vote to cal a spocial hemisphe rac moe tia Embassy probing Army massacre SAN SAL NADOR | Salsadent Spokesmen for the FOS Banbassy sand they are Hse egal sharpes Salvadoran soobdiens ceeecuted al unarmed peasants ats sot Peardl col thre cr woostee ty aul ctabdbeen We ic Dem Rbreg tees ie as were toquired tod. aspokcaman for the f Ponteassy satel Miasntas rreeoth rag a Ctl sabergval rule oreaguseteng EON al fietals ter rmouttor human righty ce bl Sade ade Asbigp for any rnity the spokosxman saad the missin hac tewcied pouretralists reproety of the alleged army Massacre and walk tey ters beech the validity of the charges with peasants wher wet nwesscd the slay vagy Previdleunt Kewpan warty tee aed Vhie a Nalsvacheove te pian aparast Matraist bea rebedy tout Paws opr e ssicrnal vpeprernt tae en be teas hap oa Cs ae uve in tryavatee Pivestr an rap hits Assessment battle resuming FROM PAGE A1 Jones’ had that the Assessor maintained examples given by the District) were not truly representative as they were not valid examples as they were distress sales and divorce setthements rather than open market sales. The court of revision attempted a compromise so it could proceed = with hearing individual assessment appeals and lowered the values on all residential properties in the Distnct by 15 per cent. The municipality decided it would be content with the decision but Jones insisted the overall rollback was not a fair indication of what had actually occurred in the market and was therefore less accurate than having had some homes being over assessed and then corrected by individual! appeals. He has since prepared a breakdown of the cases presented by District to support their case and will present this if he needs to substantiate his point about which examplé were or were not valid sales. District's Director of Financial Services Mel Palmer says his case that a reduction is in order will be presented much as it was before the coun of revision but will be “beefed up”. He says: “We are going to defend their (the court of revision) decision to reduce Grouse stretches its skiing season THE SKIING con- ditions are still ex- cellent but this weekend 1s likely to see the last skiung of the season at Grouse Mountain. It's only the weather which prevented the mountain from shutting off the ski hfts nght after Easter, as happens, in usual years. Conditions are still superb, says Grouse Manager Gary Keifer, but for the past week the slopes have only been open at nights. Keifer will see what kind of turnout there 1s this weekend but he's not banking on the season going on much longer The fact is, once Easter has gone people out here on the west coast Start thinking of the beach rather than skung “The interest level for mid week skiing really dwindles at thas Qme of year. tegardless of — the ditions” con says Keifer As for next week. Keifer will make that decision after looking athow things go this weekend Allin all this past season has seen the best ski con ditons he can remember and hes pleased with the culinary -enee(Cene ce 926 -S8o22 4s ~a3tht Street West Lancouver customer volume in light of competition at Whistler and Blackcomb. But though Grouse has paid its own way through this season, its longer term problems remain and the mountain is still in receivership, with its huge capital debt. The future of Grouse is still uncertain. the values but there is The appeal will be heard nothing to prevent us from in North Vancouver Cen- reiterating Our original case tennial Theatre Monday at for 81 values.” 10a.m. The Keg Experience BREAK LOOSE! Early-week unwind? Keg it tonight! At the Keg, early week can make it feel like a weekend. Gets you going. Our energy. Our great food. And YOUR good times. Don’t wait for the weekend to Keg it. Try us ona Monday. Or a Tuesday. Or any day. 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