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Doug Collins

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LAST WEEK I did a piece on Ray Munro, probably the
greatest reporter who ever operated in these parts. He was
the one who blew the whistle on corruption in the Van-

couver police force in the niid-1950s,
Ray could find big news

plosive results.

with literally ex-
where other

newshounds couldn’t even smell in.

i wondered whether Munro or
anyone connected with him would
pop up, and sure enough f have
had a letter from Don McClean,
the reporter who dressed up as a
beautiful redhead and snuggled
into Ray’s arms in Stanley Park in
what came to be known as the
Stanley Park Caper. A gang of
particularly disgusting rapists was
on the loose, and when they took
the bait Munro and McClean
caught their leader.

It turns out that Don lives on
the North Shore, and he adds a
postcript that will show you how
things in the newspaper gaine in
those days involved more than
taking down what someone said.

After booking the rapist into
the city jail they decided that their
newspaper, the Vancouver Daily
Province, wouldn’t run the story
until charges were laid. But they
thought a little celebration was in
order, and joined a policeman
friend who ‘disappeared into a
house in the East End and came

f out with iwo jugs’’.

The booze went down the
hatch, after which they went to
another cop’s house and had
breakfast. Finally the Province
caught up with them and told
them tc get back :o the newsroom

the oldest

Mulberry tree

and witte up thar adventures.

McClean couldn't, being too
tired and also suffering somewhat
from the effects of the jugs, and
Munro was getting his pictures
together. (They had one of the
beautiful redhead with an
armlock on the rapist.) So Don
gave the details to Assistant City
Editor Gordon Purver, and a uni-
que news story hit the streets in
the day’s first edition. It also
made Time magazine.

Quite a few people made money
out of the incident. McClean
didn't, though. What he got was a
big 15 buck bonus from Managing
Editor Bill Forst. But not until the
man they had caught was found
guilty. ‘‘It was about then,”
writes Don, ‘‘that | decided I'd
never get rich working for the
Province.

Munro had a kind of antenna
built into his head where crime
stories were concerned. One day,
McClean and he were sitting
around the newsroom listening to
the police radio when Munro leapt
to his feet, yelling: ‘‘Let’s go!
There’s going to be a bank job!"””
They raced out to their car and
McClean asked him how he knew
that.

“Because a maroon Ford has
been stolen and the last five bank

GUIDED TOUR SUNDAY

Village walk strolls
through WV history

in the Lower

Mainland? When was Dundarave Picr built and for what
purpose? Who was Joseph Bentley Leyland and what role

These and other intriguing ques-
tions will be answered Sept. 28
when the Ambicside and Dun-
darave Ratepayers Association
hosts the village walk, a guided
stroll through West Vancouver's
history.

Association director Eddy
McKay said Tuesday that the pur-
pose of the specially guided walk is
to give interested citizens an op-
portunity to familiarize themselves
with the recently created village
walks in the community.

“There are a lot of people who
don’t know about their
municipality,” MeKay said of the
walk, which wil! have experts on
hand to point out various histori-
cal and botanical areas of interest.

WALK AVOIDS HILLS

The walk, specially designed so
as to avoid steep hills, starts at II
a.m. at West Vancouver’s War
Memorial Archway. At about
12:30 p.m., the participants will
arrive at Park Royal where they
will break for lunch.

After eating, the assembly will
meet at 1:30 p.m. at the east end
of Ambleside Park to continue
along the foreshore to Dundarave
Pier. From there, the walkers wiil
move into Dundarave village be-
fore returning to the starting point.

Walkers will travel through

Cedardale, Ambleside, Park Royal

did he play in the development of West Vancouver?

By STEPHEN BARRINGTON
Contributing Writer

and Dundarave.

McKay estimates the walk
should be finished about 3 p.m.
But quicker walkers will be able to
cover the route in less time.

“Tf they’re brisk walkers they
could do it in three hours easy,’’
he said.

If late risers miss the I! a.m.
start, they are welcome to join the
walk as it proceeds from its after-
noon start at Ambleside, said
McKay.

HISTORY AND NATURE

Back in 1985, the association
came up with the idea of a village
walk to help local residents ap-
preciate the history and natural
beauty of the municipality. After
some appearances before West
Vancouver Council, a budget of
$8,000 was allocated for signs to
mark the route, McKay recalled.

“The main thing was to have a
trail set up that was a Jasting
legacy for the citizens of the
municipality.’> The Sept. 28 walk,
he said, is to give people an ‘‘op-
portunity to appreciate some of
their tax dollars.”

But, like most outdoor events in
the Lower Mainland, the turn-out
will depend on the weather.

boldups have been in maroon
bords.” said Munro. This guy
has a pattern.”

The next message was that there
had been a holdup at Second and
Commercial. “We hit 90 miles aa
hour and were there before the
cop-squad or any other media,”
says Don. ‘tlt was the Cecil Paul
job.""

Paul, a motor-cycle cop, had
been riding down the street when
he saw the bandit run out of the
bank. The robber grabbed a boy
and held him as a shield, but Paul
‘Neapt from his bike like a
cowboy from his horse in a
western movie, rolled over a cou-
ple of times, and plugged the guy
between the eyes’’.

The two reporters arrive! a
couple of minutes later and got
pictures of everyone involved, in-
cluding a shot of the bandit lying
dead in the gutter.

“So badly was the Sun
beaten,’’ says Don, ‘‘that they
copied Munro’s picture from the
Province. He was incensed, sued,

and settled for $150."’ (The papers |

were separately owned then.)

Don says that Himie Koshevoy, {

another North Shore man and at
that time the Surt’s city editor,
swore that Munro would never get
a job on his paper. But that was
the Sun’s loss.

“Munro was a brilliant man |

with a very big ego,’ Don stated
in his letter. ‘We got along well,
but no one ever got really close to
him. When he was around,
though, things happened.””
Those were the days, children.

Mckay, however, says the first
stage of the walk will go ahead
even if it rains.

“But if nobody shows up at the
second part because it’s raining we
might stop,”’ he said.

As to the future of the specially
guided walk, McKay said it would
depend on the number of people
who showed up, ‘‘But there is a lot
of variation (for possible future
walks),"’ he observed.

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TUBS DAYS: $2.50"

Now thru Oct. tst
Daily at 3:30, 5:30, 7:30, 9:30
Fri. & Sat.

wae at Midnite
2) All Ages/$5.50

~ DOWNTOWN

9 - Friday, September 26

. 1986 - North Shore News

N. Shore companies
show forestry wares

SIX NORTH Shore companies will
be displaying their wares at North
America’s largest forest industry
trade show Sept. 29-27,

Dubbed Wood Expo 86, the
show directs international atten-
tion to the province and brings
B.C. technology and expertise into
focus during the three-day event,

And part of that international
attention will be focused on the
companies from North and West
Vancouver,

Ted Bergen, owner of the North
Vancouver-based Sharp Industries
Lid., says his company will be
showing light to heavy woodwork-
ing and metalworking tools.

“There is nothing you could
physically pick up,’’ he says to give

an idea of the size of the equip-
ment.

Bergen, who has lived on the
North Shore all his life, says the
company dovs not usually exhibit
at Wood Expo, ‘Its a bit of a
gamble," he adinits. “But all of
the trade shows we have been at
have paid off for us.

The other North Shore com-
panies in the show are: Carroli-
Hatch (International) Ltd., Rees
Enterprise Ltd., United Industrial
Products, Valon Kone Canada
Ltd. West Vancouver’s MWC will
also be participating in the show.

Bergen predicts the show will
result in more business for his
company. ‘‘This is the whole idea
isn’t it,”? he says. “‘I think it will.”’

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