6 - Sunday, September 15, 1985 - North Shore News Editorial Page Not their job ome odd ideas about the role of local government in a free enterprise economy are being kicked around North Van City council chamber in the debate over the shopping mall complex proposed for Park & Tilford Gardens. In vigorously opposing the project, director of development Frank Morris and his two council allies, Aldermen Rod Clark and Jehn Braithwaite, claim the planned P&T complex would steal business from other new retail developments in the City, including Lonsdale Quay, Capilano Village and the Capilano Mall expansion. In the same breath, and with curious logic, Ald. Clark also argues that there isn't an ade- quate market for another shopping centre on the P&T site. Unless Ald. Clark knows something the developers don’t, that judgement is best left to the people prepared to put their own money behind the project. Even Jimmy Pattison is said to he interested in building another Save-On Foods at the site, and Mr. Pattison didn’t get where he is by backing losers. The disturbing feature of the debate, however, is the contention by opponents of the scheme that council’s duty is to protect existing retail complexes. In short, to curb free competition. Whenever this happens, the losers are the public. For them, competition means lower prices, better values and wider choices. Smart merchants respond to the challenge and pro- sper. Merchants who don’t respond suffer the consequences. That’s how a free economy works. Without a mandate from the voters for socialist plann- ing it’s not the job of aldermen to rewrite the laws of the marketplace. Board and bed! Fe for thought comes from a U.S. magazine poll of 1,128 career women which found over 40% would ideally like to make love twice a day — though only half managed it even once or twice a week. They like to start and finish the day in ‘‘a warm, emotional way’’ said the pollsters. With boar- droom and bedroom equally important, there’s hope for the world yet, once the ladies get to run it. red FORCE OF Pom tN Ay WEEE SAMCOUVED north shore” *” Cisplay Advertising 980-0511 Classified Advertising 986-6222 Newsroam 985-2131 Circulation 986-1337 : Subscriptions 986-1337 1139 Lonsdale Ave., North Vancouver, B.C. V7M 2H4 Publisher Peter Speck General Manager Roger McAlee Operations Manager Berni Hilliard Marketing Director Bob Graham Cireutation Director Bill McGown Production Director Chris Johnson Photography Manager Terry Peters news AUNDAY + WEDMEBDAY +” MOAY Advertising Director - Sales Linda Stewart Advertising Director - Admin. Mike Goodsell Editor-in-Chief Noel Wright Classitied Manager Val Stephenson North Shore News, founded in 1969 as an independent suburban newspaper and qualified under Schedute IM, Part Ill, Paragraph MI of the Excise Tax Act. is published each Wednesday, Friday and Sunday by North Shore Free Press Lid. and distriguled to every door on the Noun Shore. Second Class Matt Registration Number 3885. Entire contents © 1985 North Shore Free Press Ltd. Alt rights reserved. Subscriptions, North and West Vancouver. $25. per year. Maihng rates available on request, No responsibility accepted for unsolicited matenat including manuscupts and pictures which should be accompanied by a slamped, addressed envelope. Member of the B.C. Press Council iccab. | 56,245 (average, Wednesday SDA DIVISION Friday & Sunday) AS MEMORIALS GQ, there's nothing mare pernia- nent than a mountain, especially one of the highest in B.C. That's the memorial Phytlis Munday, B.C.'s legendary woman mountaineer, will leave on behalf of herself and her late husband Don, with whom she discovered Mount Munday in the towering Wad- dington range which they climbed in 1928. Born in Ceylon, she came to B.C. with her parents inthe early 1900s, met Don through the B.C. Mountaineering Club and liv- ed in North Van for the bet- ter part of 70 years. Together, she and her husband climbed innumerable local and more distant peaks with adventures galore — from rip-tides and rapids to grizzlies and crevasses. in 1924 she became the first woman to scale Mount Robson, the highest in the B.C. Rockies. And half a century later, in 1975, she was honored with the Order of Canada. After Don's death in 1950 she lived on in North Van until Jast year when —- ata lively 89 years of age — she retired to Nanaimo. : Don was a freelance writer who told the Waddington story in his book ‘‘The Unknown Mountain’? and both of them were avid photographers. This month many of their photographs are on display at the Lynn Valley Library to mark the National Parks Centenary. They’re well worth a visit for all lovers of B.C.’s unmatched mountain splendor and as a tribute to one of this province’s most remarkable ladies. see THE ‘6/49"’ ODDS against winning the jackpot are 14 million-to-one. But these days you’ve an infinitely healthier one-in-2000 chance (maybe sunday brunch by Noel Wright HER MEMORIAL THE MOUNTAINS Sun photo Dan Scott «- legendary climber Phyllis Munday in her eighties looks back over the peaks she conquered. even better) of winning a handsome jackpot much closer to home — plus the cer- tainty of winning something. It’s ‘‘Anna’s Lottery’’, laun- ched 10 weeks ago by the North Shore’s first lady of dance, Anna Wyman, as a fundraising project to make up for expected cuts in Canada Council grants. NEWS photo Stuart Davis A GIFT TO FORT SIMPSON ... North Van fabric srtist Daphne Triggs with the liturgical banner she created for the Pope's visit. She's aow donating it to the NWT community which was badly disappointed when fog stopped His Holi- ness from tanding there, Total value of the prize kit: ty is almost $100,000. Heading the prize list are a Ford Merkur XR 4T] and five other prestige cars, and it's on these that the organizers calculate your one-in-2000 winning odds even if the sales target of 14,000 tickets is reached. Lots of other prizes, too, and the prize everyone wins is the free ticket to a major Anna Wyman Dance Theatre per- formance that comes with every $25 lottery ticket. They’re on sale until November. Over town you've been able to buy them at Oakridge, among other loca- tions. But similar facilities were reportedly refused by Park Royal, whose manage- ment’ must be oblivious to West Van's many dance-lovers who are also voters in the up- coming Sunday opening teferendum. You want something, you give something.... Not to worry, however. Bypass Park Royal and drive west for three or four minutes “to Anna's dance studio, 1705 Marine Drive, West Van, to pick up those ‘can't-lose’ tickets. kkk HITHER AND YON: I hope West Van's firefighters jotted down Joe Callegari’s home phone number after the party they gave him to celebrate his August 28 retire- ment after 31 years with the Department. A senior Captain at No. | Fire Hall aud a col- orful character who served in the U.S. Army Air Foree in World War Two, Joe is credited with saving the municipality many thousands of dollars through his outstan- ding skills in electronics and an all-round Mr, Fix-It... Salute 15-year-old West Van gymnast Sandra Botnen who's made the Canadian team for next month's World Gym- nastics Championships in Montreal — finishing third all- round in the recent four-day team trials. Over 30 countries, including all the star Eastern Biock gymnasts, will be com- peting ... Re-elected president of the Boy Scouts Seymour District Council, which looks after some 800 Beavers, Cubs, Scouts, Venturers and Rovers between Lonsdale and Deep Cove, is North Van's Alan Mann .,. Two North Van schools share high honors in this year’s provincial scholar- ship exams — silver medal winner (95.3% average) with a Gordon Shrum entrance scholarship to SFU is Peter McCorquodale of Hand- sworth, while Ian Culling of Carson Graham (95% average) took the third-place bronze medal ... Still with the winners, Joy Wee of North Van has been awarded one of the first $500 scholarships to be offered by the Health Sciences Association ... Elec- tion countdown? — lawyer David Marley, a North Van native, has been named ex- ecutive director of the B.C. Social Credit Party, a hot seat vacant since his predecessor, Jerry Lampert, departed after the 1983 Socred victory ... Congrats to West Van ar- chitect Richard Hulbert, presi- dent of the Architectural {n- stitute of B.C., who’s added to his long list of other awards the design contract for a $100 million luxury hotel complex in Australia ... And to close, an appropriate little poem for the day sent to us by Father Ron Barnes, rector of St. Cle- ment’s, North Van, who cull- ie Rees e : RICHARD HULBERT ... a $100 million plum. ALAN MANN ... a North Van “‘family’’ of 800. ed it from a parish newsletter in Cornwall, England: On Sunday, whether wet or Jine, My church | always visit; So when at last I’m carried tt, The Lord won't say, ‘Who is it?” kok * WRIGHT OR WRONG, Will Rogers put it in a nut- shell: ‘‘We can’t all be heroes because someone has to sit on the curb and clap as they go by.”