Soa eg tt nevertheless still rank as an hemi host for the Games -- no matter how non-political a individual contestants‘ may be. Even in sport of. you: can’t have it both ways. | sunday news| north shore 1139 Lonsdale Ave., North Vancouver, B.C. V7M 2H4 (604) 980-0511 ED CIRCULATION 222 986-1337 ‘NEWS ‘ADVERTISING °C 960-0511 98 - 4 Publisher Peter Speck Associate Publisher Edltorin-Chiet Advertising Director _ Robert Graham Noe! Wright Eric Cardwell 7 a cinnsitio’ Manager & Office Administrator Berni Hillard Managl y Eaiitor News Editor Photog Chia Uoyd Ellaworth Diekeon oO Administrator Accounting Supervisor North Shore News, ouinded in 1860.98 00 inderondern oonyn Bubeodptone. $20 year, car Ente contents © 1970 North Shore ’ y AN rghts te beserved. ’ 49,503 eee Gu SEG °. THIS PAPER IS RECYCLABLE . you might call it so far on the _....Despite_dit : fact . is, - ’ Carniada’s vernment has been. ra. have. = discriminatory | The Canadian Federation of Independent: ‘Business has- __ waged an eight-year. battle to “the inherently tax i. legislation.“ ‘changed. The ‘HE: NON \-ELECTION North ‘Shore. ‘With four of the six main local candidates mot even officially nominated until last week — © and ‘with only five. weeks left to polling day — there's been hardly a squeak out of them” to date. However, Chuck Cook, incumbent Tory MP for North Van-Burnaby, is now back in town (with co- campaigner wife Dale just recovered from pneumonia). His Tory brother-in-arms in Capilano, Ron Huntington, is springing some time loose for us from his chores in Ottawa as Minister for Small Business. Their respective Liberal and NDP opponents. are all in place — with the added threat, in Capilano, of Rhinoceros Party contender Richard The Troll Schaller (bless him). The action, we're assured, should be starting any moment now. about midwinter cam- paigning, North Shore candidates won't be able to use the elements as an ex- cuse for anything. Nearly 200 North and West Vanners braved an oncoming blizzard and slalom-slope sideroads Thursday to renominate Huntington by acclamation at the Canyon Gardens. The previols evening a healthy 10 or ‘so people ignored the snow and minus seven tem- ‘perature to choose socials teacher Andy Krawcryk as Capilano NDP _banner- bearer at West Van Rec Centre (also chipping in $1,864 for the canse). Whatever the weather, gentlemen, your North Shore public is raring to go. ene On the national honors circuit North Van has chalked up an_ cnviable “first” with the award of the ® bodings - “result: just ‘such a proposal in the. latest unpassed: ‘federal tinaing,- though, the “Gost “of t the ; phis: is ‘the aniwal price Nhat wwnincorporated. corner": . fakennen ; aad. “other en- trepreneurs have: paid to operate as independents. Hundreds of thousands of .. Other © more ‘sophisticated . Canadian ‘couples have been forced to pay: -useless ac- counting and. legal fees so they could incorporate to Order of Military’ Merit to “Lieutenant Brian Seward, MMM, CD, ofthe 6th Field ‘Engineer (Militia) Squadron. — It's the military equivalent of the Order of Canada, given for _ outstanding merit achievement and service in ‘the Canadian Armed Forces. It's also the first such award to any North Van military man. Brian has served with the 6th Field Engineers for the past 18 years and is currently kept busy as training officer for their cadets. Married with two sons and a step- daughter, he's lived in North “LT. BRIANSEWARD | Van since 1952. Come the spring, he'll be off to the investiture in Ottawa at which the Governor General will pin the coveted medal on uniform. North Van salutes you, Brian! een The provincial govern- ment disaster fund to aid victims of the North Van mudslides that occurred during December's torrential rains is fine as far as it goes, but for a number of stricken families it docan’t go nearly far enough. The provincial compensation won't always come anywhere near covering the rental of ce Department by Noel Wright — 4 The new name: “ “Bnough i is ; enough. Ey ery: candidate in the upcoming. federal: “election support the overthrow of this: "iniquitous .. tax: : -regulation: _“/lon ng* Those... candidates. :-who> ‘oppose ‘the change, - ‘should explain why. Canada’ s legislators spnoulc De DaCKITIp husband and wife teams that ‘ work long, -hard hours io™ ‘create a. viable — business.. sThey’re the backbone of the- om economy. temporary accommodation -. - in some Cases for months -on end — while -homes:aré .’ made -habitable again: And * there’s also that $500 “deductible”. clause for damage to cars, household . and personal effects. That's why NV District Mayor Don Bell has now launched his own appeal for thes: luckless fellow-citizens. Donations gratefully received at the District Municipal Hall, 355 West Queen’s. Remember -- when the next mudslide, thquake or tornado hits -- it could be your turn... Deep Cove stargazer Geof Gray-Cobb got a special kick from his daughter’s Christmas gift — a par- chment issued by the Inter- national Star Registry in Toronto which officially renames the star hitherto known to the trade as COMA BERENICES 4278. Beyond Reason.” It just happens, of © course, that Geof is resident astrologer on the CBC's “Beyond Reason” show ... Incidentally, the par- chment might make a nice ft for that other North hore stargazer, Margaret Tradeav, whose much- touted autobiography, pub- lished last year, was also entitled “Beyond Reason.” The British Columbia Boys and Girls Choirs are looking for recruits and they aren't as choosy about ages as the names suggest. If you enjoy singing and are anywhere between six and 24 ye ars old, give their director, on Forbes of West Van, a call at 684-0047 or 922-2968. Founded in 1968 and with five European tours already under its belt, the Boys Choir’s 1980 plans include a a ) wv Public: ear- | should*= past. *-Hundreds * of thousands: -of Canada’s ‘small time“ “job creators”. want _action, and ‘fast, fast relief — from the. discrimination that now y exists. ; - Roger Worth is Director, Affairs,’ Canadian Federation of Independent Business, ae _—— concert tour of Holland and another tour . of . eastern Canada with the Girls Choir, which joined them two years ago. Sing and the world is. yours ... , see , . THOSE WERE THE , DAYS: Kids: got ‘their first > Salk: polio:.:shots ‘'...:.. Elvis dominated ‘the: charts - with. “Love Me Tender” and “Hound © Dog”...... stereo made, its. debut .... movie fans flocked to “Around The World In 80 Days” and “The King And I” ... “Peyton - Place’ scandalized bourgeois novel readers ... actress Grace Kelly married Prince Rainier of Monaco in the wedding of the year ... Don Larson pitched the only perfect game in World Series history (Yankees beat Dodgers 2-0) ... and Dwight Elsenhower became the first U.S. Republican president to win re-election since 1900. . The year? 1956 — and thanks for the nostalgia to Seymour Lions Club bulletin editor Bill Harborne. Opening day take this month at loo and Gary - Troll’s new seafood restaurant in North Van's Esplanade Centre will be donated: to ‘the ‘Lions Gate Hospital Children’s Floor . Acupuncture is the topic at the Jan. 17 meeting of the Women's Canadian Club, 2 p-m. at the QE Playhouse, with spcaker Dr. Chan Gunn introduced by club president Mr. 31.G. Hatchinson of West Van ... And get-well- soon notes to West Van Legion stalwarts Marge Patton, Mitzi Eadie, Don Wilkinson and Dolly Cart- wright. WRIGHT OR WRONG; If you can keep your head when all around are. losing theirs, you'll obviously have a head start on them ... 10 to speak.