3 ~- Sunday, March 24, 1985 - North Shore News Business..........23 Entertainment ..... 26 Food.............38 Open Sunday......17 Trovel............37 TV cc cece ese eee BO WGO............ 28 zs GOOD SOUND: 26 Novelty record sounds good to minor hockey players who will receive proceeds. TINY HOME: 35 This builder has made his dream home in miniature. FENCING: 20 Twelve-year-old boy captures provincial fencing title. WEATHER: Cloudy with showers: $5,000 reward offered AN OUTRAGED friend of robbery victim Bo Mortil has put up a $5,000 reward for in- formation about the beating and $100 robbery PINKUS VS COLLINS Arguing apples and oranges the column in question, to check the facts alleged in the controversy had been initi- .umnist. PR Reyes: an FEE eeiee ascent Be GENES oat finish about wer APR From Page 1 talking. about apples, while Dr.. Pinkus insisted on talk- ing about oranges. 1 pointed out that Collins, in his original column about — “The Hoax’? had made it perfectly clear that he didn’t know whether the book's author, A, R. Butz, ar _, American professor, was - right or wrong--but that was immaterial. Collins’ one aim. was to condemn the banning of the book by Canada Customs. Pinkus persisted, I said, in talking about ti:2 book. Col- lins was talking from start to censorship. There was no question, therefore, of Collins “disseminating false infor- mation without checking’’. The ban on the book was an established fact. 1 noted that the entire ated by Pinkus himself in his first, personally abusive let- DOUG COLLINS «» disputes claiins ter about Collins, and had been fueled by further strong personal abuse of the col- ON MARINE DRIVE Cyclist hit by car AN_ 11-YEAR-OLD North Vancouver boy was shaken but not seriously injured when he was struck by an automobile while cycling on busy Marine Drive Thursday. The youth was taken to Lions Gate Hospital by am- bulance after the ~collision but released after it .was discovered that he had not sustained injuries. The youth, a student on his lunch hour, was crossing Marine Drive at MacGowan Avenue when he was hit. According. reports, the vehicle that struck ‘the youngster was headed eastbound in the left-hand fane on Marine Drive at the time of the ac- cident and that .second car, in the outside lune, had already stopped ta let the youth cross. _ To deadline for this issue of the News police had not released the names of any of to police: By JOANNE MacDONALD | those involved in the inci- dent, which occured at 12:30 m. They did say, however, that a Vancouver man, believed to be in his 20s, would face Motor Vehicte Act charges of failing to yield the right-of-way to a pedestrian and failing to produce a drivers licence as a result of the collision’ be- tween bike and car. The incident was the latest in a series of automobile- bicycle’ mishaps along Marine Drive. Most of the accidents have occured in the early afternoon, during periods when traffic along the corridor is heavy. I explained that the letter in which Pinkus eventually denied he was a book banner had been received only after we had finally decided to close off the three-week argument in columns and correspondence, and had published a notice to that ef- fect on the Letters to the Editor page. This, 1 told the Council, was because we had a large backlog of readers’ letters on other subjects of wide inter- est waiting to be printed. Collins was next on the stand. Interlarding his testi- mony with some vigorous comments on Dr. Pinkus’ presentation, he emphasized once again that he had never” taken any position on the content of ‘The Hoax"’, be- ing concerned purely with the censorship aspect. For this reason, he said, it was clearly not his job, in book. Supporting him came retired provincial judge Les Bewley, now a columnist for a Vancouver daily. Bewley gave the Council copies of a recent column of his own on exactly the same subject--the banning of “The Hoax’’. If Collins was guilty, he told them, then he (Bewley) should be equally censured, Two and a quarter hours after the door had closed, it was finally over. The Coun- cil reserved its judgement. The combattants emerged into the glare of the waiting TV lights to offer their indi- vidual off-the-cuff com- ments to the inkstained wretches in the corridor. And the machinery for sustaining the freedom of the press ground to a halt for lunch. . of the West Vancouver millionaire. Stockbroker Brian McAlister, a close friend of Mortil’s, is putting up the reward. McAlister went to visit’ Mortii at his West Van- couver home Tuesday night after Mortil had been brutally beaten and tied up by two masked bandits. The thugs made off with Mortil’s wallet, containing about $100 and all his credit cards and identification. “Bo. is a _ long-time friend of mine,’’ McAlister said, ‘‘and he’s an excellent client. I wanted to put up the money .to see if we could catch these guys. I’m a stockbroker and I make a very good living. I think five grand is going to make someone think.” By BARRETT FISH Says Mortil: ‘‘He (McAlister) was very in- dignant about what hap- pened to me. We feel that exposure to things can help. And maybe some- one will see my credit cards lying around.’’ Mortii says he is not afraid of any repercus- sions by publicizing the event. ‘| think FH be better prepared next . time,”’ Mortil ‘said. ‘I’m not go- ing to-tell you how I'll be prepared. I can’t talk about the mine field in my front yard, the Ger- man- troops in. the backyard and the dogs. But needless to say, I'm more prepared ~- mental- ly as well.” NEWS photo Terry Paters AMBULANCE CREWS tend to an Pl-year-old North Vancouver boy who escaped unscathed but shaken when he was hit by a car while cycling on Marine Drive Thursday.