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Ron Brunelle, | owner-
operator of North Van’s
newest service centre, 20th
Street and Lonsdale,. simply
calls. his’ outfit ‘‘The little
station with the big service.”’
His . advertisement in the
News, the first he has placed
since opening up a week ago, »
was so effective - that some

‘‘customers”” are literally.
breaking his: doors down to
get in.

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~*Business
Brunelle confides,

great,’”

North Vancouver City
counci] split Monday on a
bylaw that would have
restricted the profits
income-tax refund buyers to
15 per cent. Instead, council
decided to urge the provin-
cial consumer affairs dep-
artment to investigate the
whole matter.

The proposed bylaw was
similar to those already
passed by Vancouver, Bur-
naby, New Westminster and
Port Coquitlam.

Council was told by Greg
Holden, president of the
B.C. Tax Discounters As-
sociation that it would be
overstepping its rights and
discriminating against one
business by regulating tax-
buyers’ profits. He claimed
their cost of doing business
was about 30 per cent.

Mayor Tom Reid rejected
Holden’ Ss arguments and
angrily accused tax-buyers of
living off ‘‘the misfortune of
others.’” He was joined by
Ald. Marc Howard and Ald.
Jack Loucks in voting in favor
of the bylaw.

Ald. Stella Jo Dean, Ald.
Ralph Hall and Ald. Jim
Warne voted against, main-
taining that responsibility for
regulating discounters. rests
with the provifGial govern-

ment. The seventh council
member, Ald. Frank
Marcino, was absent. The

3-3 vote meant that the bylaw
was defeated.

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UNWANTED “CUSTOMERS”...Ron Brunelle points to windows through which burglars
entered his discount service station on Lonsdale [Ellsworth Dickson photo] _ as

but. such ““late-night cus-
tomers’’ he’d like less of.
Around 1 a.m. Thursday, two
hours after employees left the
premises, a person or. per-
sons broke into his gas

station by entering two
windows

building.

Loss in. cash and damage
32, e orment has been set at

The cash register was torn

Around the Councils

. tidiculous,”’
ocated near the
ceiling .at the ‘rear of the

| apart, and $140 i in cash were

stolen. Several. cans of oil
also were punctured in the
centre. Also vandalized were.
a scope for analysing cars
and a battery charger. ‘‘It’s:
he sai

RCMP. members obtained.
two clear shoe footprints on. a
black chair. located. next to-
the damaged cash register
which will ‘cost 5. to
repair,’ the 38-year-old

‘proprietor said. There were

no suspects at press time. _

‘Accounts smail

“Fhe Canadian Bankers’ As-
sociation says 70 per cent of
personal savings accounts at

the chartered banks contain.

less than $1,000, and 40 per
cent less than $100.

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chemical
container, usually of card-’

easily detonated

‘Twenty two packs ‘of high

explosives,’ discovered hid- |

den in some bushes. two -
weeks ago on the east side of -
Mosquito. Creek near Fell _
and 16th Street, N.V., ‘have.
been identified and placed
under police custody.

The explosives, known. as
Water Gel, and made up of a
mixture of water, alcohol,

aluminum and ammonium

nitrate, were found under a
green car hood by George
Kaleks, an employee of ‘the

City Board of Works Dep-~
artment.

Members of the “Loives
Mainland RCMP Protection

or - Propert Ly section were
called to the scene, and
removed the silver gray

substance without incident.

They are now in police hands.
in Vancouver.

Andy Horne, a represen-
tative of a local explosives
firm, told the News that the
wares gel, commonly. known

s ‘‘Slurry,’’ is a safer type
of explosives compared with

_ dynamite. ‘‘Slurry is a stable ©

type of explosives, and does
not become dangerous with
age as is the case with

. nitrogylcerine .

“‘Nitroglycerine absorbs
moisture with © and
eventually crystalizes. As the
seeps -out the

board sticks, it becomes

friction,’’ Horne said.

Kaleks made the discovery
-as he was searching for lost.
tools, apparently stolen while
workers departed for their
lunch break. ‘‘I was looking |
in the bushes, and all of a
sudden the car hood caught
my eye. When I lifted it up,
there they. were,’ "he said.

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