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THE VOICE OF NORTH AND W

Newsstand Price 25¢ March 2, 1980 Tel. 980-0511 Classified 986-6222

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By CHRIS LLOYD

An agile bank robber
who leaped across two
counters to the central
teller’s desk Wed-
nesday stole about
$10,000 cash from the
Royal Bank at Park
Royal South.

False fire alarm calls
arising from a com-
bination of students’
pranks, accidents and
faulty equipment, at
schools. throughout
North Vancouver,
appear to be just as
frequent as before the
local school board

| . And though police arrived
stepped in fo ary to 4 if : Zs en ¢ | we eee — : at the Dek within one
overcome the problem. a > ae ~ ee tainute of receiving the
alarm - about three minutes
after the lunch-hour holdup
began - the robber managed
togetaway.

It was West Vancouver's
first bank robbery of the
year. Last year saw three
holdups in West Van - all at
banks in the Park Royal
malls.

Once again, the robbery
on Wednesday was carmed
out by an athletic man who
leaped over the bank
counter.

But instead of mnfling
through various bank teller
drawers, aS was the pattern
me Heeger sh ; last year, this robber con-
—_ tinued past the front counter
area and made a second leap
across an inside counter into
the central teller's cash area.

The man, armed with a
short-barrelled revolver and
wearing a wig, scooped up
about $10,000 and left the
area by leaping over the two
counters as he went.

He left by the front door,
out to the east side of the
bank, and was last scen
running around the south
side of the bank.

It is thought he made his

_ On the basis of incident
figures for January, it seems
unlikely that fire chiefs will
be satisfied to sit back until
May - the experimental data
gathering period set at the
school board meeting -
before pooling their findings |
and deciding on _ further
action.

Most outspoken of the
people frustrated with the
frequency of the false alarms
in North Van schools which
are attended by both City
and District fire departments
is District Fire Chef Bob
McDonald.

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weather |

SUNDAY: Cloudy with
occasional rain. Con-
tinuing mid.

Nat inate : ; Es ee M getaway in a brown, late
. — ~~ odel Chevrolet which
MONDAY: Little DISTINGUISHED NEWS CARRIER Gordon Gibson, Liberal candidate in North Van-Burnaby at the Feb. 18 had no side windows but had
election, delivers last Wednesday's News to householder Roy Booth. Gordon was keeping a promise he made to The windows in the back doors.
News during the election campaign — see BRUNCH (p.A6) for story. (lan Smith photo)

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