A4-Sunday News, November 9, 1980 |

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Western envoys
boycott parade

MOSCOW (UPI) -
Western ambassadors
boycotted the Soviet
Union's annual Revolu-
tion Day display of
military might in Red
Square Friday in a new
protest against the in-
vasion of Afghanistan.

President Leonid
Brezhnev stood smiling
and waving to the crowds
lining Red Squre as 220
tanks, missiles and
howitzers rumbled past,

oC ee more than
7,000 oose-stepping
troops from all branches
of the Soviet armed
forces.

More than a dozen

ambassadors from _ the
United States and its
Western allies stayed
away from the annual
parade. Diplomatic
sources said they planned
their mass boycott in
advance as part of their
protest against the Soviet
invasion of Afghanistan
last December.

This year’s Revolution
Day celebration, marking
the 63rd anniversary of
the Bolshevik uprising
that created the world’s
first socialist state, also

recorded the final
departure from Com-
munist public life of

former Premier Alexei
Kosygin.

Canada faces
grain shortage

WINNIPEG (UPC) -
Grain stocks have been
so depleted due to two
poor growing seasons that
Canada may run out of
grain before next sum-
mer’s harvest, according

to the Canadian Wheat
Board.
“We're now in a

position to clean out the
system in terms of wheat,
oats and barley,” board
Spokesman John Morris

said Thursday. “The
transportation system is
more than adequate to
take the grain available.
Exports are now
dependent on the supplies
available.”

The Bank of Montreal
Thursday reported grain
prices were firm and that
farm crops and Canadian
agriculture in general
were in good shape.

More killings
in El Salvador

SAN SALVADOR, El
Salvador (UPT) - At least
30 political slayings were
reported in San Salvador
Friday and several leftist
bombs were exploded in
an apparent bid by leftist
guerrillas to disrupt an
international tradc fat.

Among the 30 dead was
Geraldo Linares, 43, a
Salvadoran industrialist
who dicd of gunshot
wounds in a San Salvador
hospital late Thursday.
officials said

Several government
Sites were bomed over
night, including the
Monument of the Revo
lution near the location of
the international trade
fear which was scheduled
to open iater Friday,
authorities said.

The Ieftist attackers
had vowed to disrupt the
trade fair and apparently
were challenging claims
by the US -backed ruling
punta that Icfust guermilas
are losing power in the
Central Amencan nation

Israelis raid
Palestinian bases

THE AVIV. Isracl (UPD
Issach
tacked
guerilla positrons in
southern Lebanon Finday
in apparent retahavion for
the frst rocket (are on the
Israch

warplanes al

five Palestinian

town of = Kairyat
Shmona tn 1S months, the
military command said
Phe command said that
all the = Israch

returned

planes

safcly “The

Pilots reported accurate
strikes on planacd
targets the ano

noun cement said

Ihe last such strike on
Palestinian
Odet 2 2
plancs hito military camp
south of

largets was

when Israch
Beirut Iseach
reports said at least cight
gucrnllas were billed in

that attach

Double the buyers despite soaring prices

FROM PAGE Ai

house used as the example,
jumped 36 per cent between
February and October, while
in West Van price of the
house increased by one third
in that time period.

In the case of the three
bedroom house, the price
hike since February was 20
and 26 per cent respectively.

These figures are sup-
ported by the latest statistics

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immersion
FROM PAGE A1

would be a public meeting.
“It’s a numbers situation,”
she said.

“If we don't get the
numbers, it’s absolutely
impossible.”

“There are groups, of

people that are very keen on
the program,” Markham
went on to say.

She explained that these
are people in the Parents for
French group that have not
had a chance to enroll their

children in the current
immersion program.
This » Operating

at Hollyburn school, consists
of one kindergarten, one
Grade 1 and one Grade 2
class in which the students
are instructed using the
French language.

This early immersion
program is “working out
extremely well,” Markham

the continuing
education for

to the taxpayers

Sager has served

brngs the very

RE-ELECT
Mark W.S

Mark Sager is dedicated to maintaining
high
our students and com-
mitted to a policy of fiscal responsibility

Community boards and Commissions. He
necessary
background, energy and commitment to
the board. He 1s an essential member of
the West Van School Board

of the Real Estate Board of
Greater Vancouver.

The statistics, dealing with
property listed under the
Multiple Listing Service
(MLS) cover the period from
July 1 to September 30, for
both 1979 and 1980, and
show general increases of up
to 25 per cent.

The board report divides
sales in each area into four
equal groups, depending on
price.

If support for the
secondary program is found

and approval from the
school board is forthcoming,
it would be the most ex-
tensive in the Lower
Mainland.

Although four other
boards offer French im-

mersion at the secondary
level, the most extensive
program, in Coquitlam, only
continues instruction
through Grade 10. ,

“This is an extremely big
step, there is no question
about it,” Markham said.

Apart from giving per-
mission for the survey at
their October 20 meeting,
the school board does not
yet have any involvement
with the proposed program.

it should be known by the
middle of November
whether there is enough
interest to warrant a public
meeting.

ager

standard = of

on over aie dozen

financial

SAGER

Mark
Wiilliann

While the median sale.
price in the lowest of the
four groups in the second
quarter of this year was
$82,500 in North Vancouver,
this price jumped to $97,800
in the third quarter.

This is compared to a
lowest median price of
$61,500 in the same period
last year.

In West Vancouver, the
lowest median price has
jumped from $120,000 in the
second quarter, to $139,000.

Despite these prices, sales
of houses listed by the MLS
remain consistent.

Correction Notice

“Vancouver's Annual Best” Ad.

Which was run Wed., November 5 issue,
e A-13. Where it reads “YOU WILL
RECEIVE: for $100,000 ... ” Should read,
for $100. The NEWS apologizes for any in-
convenience this error may have caused.
See page A-13 this issue.

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In North Vancouver 509
single family dwellings were
sold from July to the end of
September, while in West
Vancouver the figure was
147.

In both cases these figures
were higher than over the
same period in 1979, and in |
North Vancouver the
number of house sales had
almost doubled.

Although the statistical
figures are representative of
housing trends on the North |
Shore, neither study claims
to present a total picture of
the current housing market.

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