page 2 - December 28, 1977 - North Shore News A fire of undetermined | origin heavily damaged the. basement of a vacant home _ - at 208 E. 18th Street in North © Vancouver, according to a fire department spokesman. The home, owned by Ed. Oliver, was detected -on fire at about 1:45 am Dec. 19, the spokesman said. Two pump- ers and 11 firemen attended ‘and were able to prevent — further damage. There were no injuries and. no damage > estimates were available. Investigations. into a stal- led vehicle on railway tracks. in the 4400: block North: oe eee i iy -Picadilly.in West Vancouver ALL . ‘DRESSED UP and appropriately equipped, have resulted in two charges ‘‘Seymour”’ is patiently awaiting ‘the start of the New against a North Vancouver - Year’s festivities Saturday evening. The big, lovable ™@?- - one-year-old St. Bernard belongs to Mike Deodson of the North Shore News photographic department. Note to roadblock officers—*‘Seymour’’ will be WALKING home Sunday morning! [Mike, Deodson photo]. — Charged with care and control of a vehicle | and driving with a blood-alcohol reading of over .08 is Bruce” T homas Webbe, 27, of Suite | 406, 2024 Fullerton, N.V. Police. said this week that no other details were avail- | - able on how the driver was ‘traced. oy The Brunswick - Bowling. Lanes at Park Royal was robbed of a total of $5, 500 by a lone; about 12:19. am Dec. 19, The RCMP. guard dog was -called in but: Failed to track — the offerider. | ok masked assailant _ | a according to a West Van-" couver police spokesman. At press time, police said rete : ai. ., they had. only a vague | -Former North Shore ‘MLA - description of the masked ~ Colin Gabelmann. has. been - Police said the bandit, carrying a snub-nosed rev- olver, threatened. two emp- loyees in the back room of the premises and stole two Bank of Commerce night deposit. boxes containing the cash. robber who was described -only as in his mid twenties’ and between 5-foot six inches and five-foot nine. - Investigations ‘are contin- uing. . chosen as NDP. candidate to. contest the new riding of © North: -Vancouver-Burnaby at the next federal election. He was elected MLA for North _Vancouver-Seymour i in 1972, but lost his seat in the 1975 — provincial election. ‘*‘He (Emerson) could be subjected to a number of further allegations arising from his testimony,’’ Hart warned. . Emerson had been char- ged along with Walker and seven others on _ similar charges. In September, Emerson was sentenced to a jail term of two years plus a day after pleading guilty. to the charges. The first RCMP member to testify was Cpl. R. Novak. who spearheaded the lengthy investigation which included wiretaps that netted what is ‘Said to be the largest single cocaine seizure in Western Canada... — Novak and six other drug squad members swooped on VERIFIED CIRCULATION 47,001 1139 Lonsdale Avenue, North Vancouver, B.C. V7M 2H4 OFFICE/NEWS: (604) 980-0511 CLASSIFIED: 980-3464 CIRCULATION: 986-1337 Publleher Peter Speck Associate Publisher Bob Graham/Editor-in-Chiof Noel Wright/News Guillermo Lam/Photos Ells- ‘worth Dickson/Production Marna Leiren/Advertis- Ing Kristi Vidler/Classified Berni Hilliard/Circula- tion ‘Yvonne Chapman/Administration Barbara Haywood/Accounts Sylvia Sorensen. North Shore News, founded in 1969 as an independent community ewspaper. and qualified under Schedule 111, Part 111, Paragraph 111 of the Excise Tax Act, is published each Wednesday by the North Shore Free Press Ltd. and distributed to every door on the North Shore. Second Class Mall Registration Number 3885. ENTIRE CONTENTS COPYRIGHT © 1977 NORTH _ SHORE FREE PRESS UTD. All rights reserved. — ‘amount Walker’s residence ‘at 2229 _ Kings Avenue where they allegedly scized 10 grams of | the drug and a considerable of cash. At a subsequent search at 631 Montroyal they. found app- roximately 11 pounds of cocaine in a crawl space. _ Both the. alleged. cocaine» and cash. were entered as part of at least 48 pieces of exhibits i in the Crown’ S case. Drug squad member R.. Winslow testified that the total cash of more than $32,000 in Canadian and U.S. currencies, which did not include a number of foreign currencies, seized from different brief cases in Walker’s residence. Several bank passbooks, check books and bank safety entered as exhibits. . A second trial, involving Walker and several others on charges ' ‘of ‘conspiracy to traffic in cocaine, is schedul- ‘ed for Jan. 5:in Vancouver — over which North Van prov- | incia] court Judge Nancy © Morrison will preside. rarer y atatete aye should determine the cost | first,’’ she said. Aldermen Bob Hicks and result was a 4-3 defeat of Lanskail’s ~— motion—which was’ supported by Mayor Jones and Alderman Ann Arnott. were’ deposit box keys also were . Don McAlister agreed, The | ( a - Cat Litter | Dog & Cat Beds - from i 2 9 10 1b. 90. 59 5 b.99% - ‘| t - Small Animal. Litter - | TO CLEAN THAT NEW TANK | | Maxi - Flo Filters [up to 33 gal. capacity] Filter Floss " : 2 o1. e Carbon __ 140. . imigny more unadvertised specials 113 Lonsdale Ave. North Vancouver ~ Mon. -Sat. 10-6 pm. NOW OPEN SUNDAYS 12: 00 - 3 00” 28 ox. S177 7 oy. , $2.79 -| | 5 bb. «$22 95 : a AD | | 1 987-871 r FRI. Til 9:00.