‘Many feared lost

in capsized rig

STAVANGER, Norway
(UPI) - A massive fleet’of
ships, planes and _ heli-
copters criss-crossed the
freezing North Sea Friday
in a search for more than
100 oil workers missing in
the worst oil rig disaster
in history.

Hopes faded for any
more survivors of the
giant “hotel” platform
that capsized in near-
hurricane winds and
heavy seas Thursday.
Rescue officials reported
38 bodies recovered and

89 people rescued, but
101 of the 228 people on
the Alexander Kielland
platform were missing.

No Americans were
reported involved.

Thus far no one has
been able to explain why
the rig, now floating
upside-down in the frigid
water, collapsed. About
235 persons are estimated
to have been aboard the
rig at the time.

The platform was used
to accOmmodate oil rig
workers who lived on it
for weeks at a time.

Wash. volcano
eruption threat

SPIRIT LAKE, Wash.
(UPI) - Sulfur gas and
ashes from’ erupting
Mount St. Helens plumed
2 miles into the sky today
and spread over a wide
area while observers,
fearful of a full-scale
volcanic eruption, moved
back farther down the
mountain.

The 9,677-foot-high
volcano, 50 miles nor-
theast of Portland, Ore.;
which has been dormant
since — 1857, exploded
Thursday with a loud
boom in the first volcanic

eruption in the’ con-
tinental United States
since California’s Mount
Lassen erupted in 1914.

Although no lava had
yet been sighted on the
mountain, observers were
moved beyond a 5-mile
radius. The intense heat
from two crescent-shaped
fissures across the top of
the. mountain — one 3
miles long, the other !
mile long — melted the
volcano's snow pack and
sent water cascading
down the slopes.

Shah's flight
bad for hostages

UPI — A member of the
U.N. commission that
visited Iran earlier this
month said Thursday the
shah’s flight to Egypt will
have “adverse effects” on
the fate of the 50
American hostages in
Tehran.

Adib Daoudi, the
Syrian member of the
five-man commission
established as part of a
U.N. effort to win the

hostages’ release, told ghe~

Lebanese newspaper Ash
Sharq that his pane} still
hoped to return to Ifan to

complete its work and see
the hostages, held captive
in the U.S. Embassy for a
145th day.

But he said Iran's anger |

over the shah's flight from
Panama to Egypt, from
which Iramian authorities
cannot hope to extradite
the gravely il! monarch,
had set back the U.N.
effort.

“The departure of the
deposed shah to Egypt
will have adverse effects

on the fate of the
Amencan hostages in
Tehran.” Daoudi said

Killing rages
on in Salvador

SAN SALVADOR, El
Salvador (UPI)
Thousands of mourners

filed past the body of
assassinated archbishop
Oscar A. Romero

Thursday and 20 more
people were killed in the
political violence grip-
ping the Central
American republic
Police said the latest
death toll included 11 in
the = slain archbishop’s
hometown of Ciudad
Barrios, 86 miles cast of

San Salvador. They said
soldiers searching — for
weapons were fired on as
they approached a
pnvate home, and nine
people inside the house
and the soldiers died in
the ensuing gunbattle

Romero, 63, a 1979
Nobel Peace Prize
nominee and a champion
of peace and human
nghts, was cut down by
an assassin’s bullet on
Monday. as he said mass

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the GVRD — between Port
Coquitlam ($17,325) and
Port Moody ($19,431).

West Van aldermen,
despite their $411 hike,
would still remain the fourth
lowest paid in the GVRD.

In North Vancouver City
— with a population of
almost 32,000 to West Van's
37,000 — Mayor Jack

Loucks’ 1979-80 indemnity is_

$14,973, while City aldermen
are paid $4,991.

aldermen still get less

The mayor of North
Vancouver District
(population 63,500)

currently receives $23,000,
with his aldermen drawing

$7,000 each.
Understandably, the
ultimate “Joneses” in the

GVRD pecking order of
council salaries are Mayor
Jack Volrich and_ his
aldermen in the City of
Vancouver (population
410,000). Volrich is paid
$40,000. Each of his
aldermen gets $15,571.

$390,000 alarm
update in schools

Almost $390,000 is to be
spent on the provision of fire
and intrusion alarm systems
in various North Vancouver
schools.

During the past year both
North Vancouver fire
departments have been
provided with continuous
headaches because of the
amount of calls they are
making to schools because
of false alarms, largely due
to malfunctioning equip-
ment.

North Van School Board
approved the $389,951
expenditure at its meeting
last week.

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Standguard Electronic
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of $43,896.00. The same
company was also awarded
the fire alarm contract for
Argyle and Windsor
secondary, and Upper Lynn
elementary schools with a
low bid of $86,500.00.

Canem Systems Ltd. was
awarded the = sprinkler
system contracts for Wind-
sor ($67,657.00) and Argyle
($124,898.00) secondary
schools.

Automatic Sprinkler Ltd.
will install the = sprinkler
system at Upper Lynn
elementary school with a low
bid of $67,000.00.

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