Newsstand Price 50¢ July 14, 1982 Tel. 988-2131 ce SIGN OF THE ECONOMY and the struggle for survival among local businesses bs evident as motorists’ dreams come truc and gasoline prices are dropping all over the North Shore. North Van Shell owner Derek Waters is shown marking the price down to 41.7 cents a Iitre and as the gas war really starts hotting up, some stations have marked down their prices more than once this week to keep undercatting. Best price spotted on Marine Drive by News presstime was 39.7. Here's hoping the trend con- tinnes. (Eric Eggertson photo) g Every Door on t d up two rescues in one evening: THE VOICE OF NORTH AND WEST VANCOUVER S Se fe j eee Local unemployment worst since 30's CLAIMANTS in receipt of UIC unemployment benefits from the North Shore Canada Em- ployment Centre have increased by a whopping 159 per cent over the corresponding figure a year ago — and applicants filing new or renewal claims were up last month by 138 per cent. Statistics supplied by Employment Centre manager Carolyn Lawson show a total of 6,363_peopie receiving UIC payments during June, compared to 2,461 in June 1981. Meanwhile, 2,438 new or renewal claims were filed CHESTNUTS ON 17th STREET ‘Save the trees’ is message in By NANCY WEATHERLEY SAVE THE TREES was the overwhelming cry of a large and emotional § audience which crowded the gallery at West Van- couver council chambers Monday. They were there to protest the removal of beautiful and historic chestnut trees which line 17th Street And council found ttself the mato vilhan of the piece as speaker after speaker at the public hearnng blamed the municipahty for not looking after the = trees properly Phihp Tattersfield, of the West Vancouver Com munity Arts Council, set the tone for the evening by saying he was ‘pleading for Le fs B 4 e least month, compared to 1,023 in June 1981. These figures account for the bulk of the North Shore’s official unemployment rate -—— estimated in May at 8.5 the lives” of 73 pioneer residents of the community who have lived on 17th for 47 years. He decried the loss of about one third the number orginally planted because of poor maintenance and “butchering” by B.C. Hydro. Tattersfield estimated the value of the trees to be about $184,000, requiring an upkeep cost of $20,000 annually which he called a geod investment, much better than the $71,000 he said would be needed to replace the trees Some of the pleas to save the trees concerned their beauty and uscfulness, and one person cven stood up for their rights Kathy Robertson wrote “trees are our friends’ what about a tree's nght to hfe?” And some were more concerned with their North Shore per cent by Statistics Canada and certainly higher by now. Even the May figure could actually have been as high as 10 per cent, according to a StatsCan spokesman, because the Canada em- ployment figures are ad- justed to allow for seasonal labor fluctuations. As well, the official records do not take into account “disappointed job- seekers" — unemployed pessons who have simply given up on the search for CONTINUED ON PAGE A2 VY | historical significance. Doreen Blackburn told the mecting that some of the Boy Scouts who had CONTINUED ON PAGE A9 WEDNESDAY cloudy with possible showers THURSDAY some clearing ‘ +