C _ YOUR COWMUNITY SINCE 9 one, Classified 986-62 69 22 Distribution 986-133 7 40 pages 25¢ News t THE NORTH Shore News is now pablishing local and Vancouver movie listing advertisements from Cineplex Odeon and Famous Players, You can check the movie ads every Friday in the Ve on page 10, Nt dt fee as 7 ah EE A s° Entertainment section far easy acce latest feature films playing at theatres in the community, Look for today's Ruemcaee ce to the af FERIA ERS SBF A IC Te leebreaker contract will not be announced this weekend A VANCOUVER Transport Casyada spokesmaa says that deputy prime minister Don Mazankowski will not announce the awarding of the Polar Class 8 shipbuilding the icebreaker Tienry when he helps launch weekend. “E know it's not going to hap- pen oon Saturday,’? spokesman Stephen Rybak said Wednesday of Mazankowski’s Jan. 3 visit to the Versatile Pacific Shipyards. “Phaven’t had anything coming down the pipe about it,” said Rybak. ‘think it's pretry certain that there’s not going to be an an- nouncement.”’ But other federal government spokesmen are keeping quiet on the rumour Mazankowski will an- nounce the award of the $350- million contract to the local com- pany. “T can't confirm or deny anything,”’ prime minister's office official Bill Badets said Tuesday. “dt will come out in January as Mazankowski has said.”’ Prime minister's office spokesman Sunni Locatelli con- firmed the decision wiii have. to be approved by cabinet, which has its next scheduled meeting Jan. 15. “But that’s not to say the deci- Champagne cauntract faursen this sion has not already been made,‘ she said. At the deputy prime minister's office, official John Fisher gave no details. “TAIL PE ocan say that it is a rumor," said Fisher. ‘‘As far as 1 know, Mr. Mazankowski is going to be out there to dedicate the new icebreaker."* Fisher would not say if the con- tract has already been approved by cabinet. Versatile vice-president of mar- keting Quintin Watt said he did not think there is more than a 50 per cent chance the contract will be awarded on the weekend. “My own personal feeling is there isn’t going to be an an- nouncement,’’ said Watt. ‘*Our view is that we won’t hold out breath — there’s lots of rumors.”’ to smash on last Versatile ship THE LAST major ship currently contracted to be built by Versatile Pacific Shipyards Inc. will be launched Saturday by the wife of the man after whom the vessel is named. Work on the $92-million Henry Larsen, a 100-metre icebreaker named after RCMP Supt. Henry Larsen, will continue at the local shipyard after the launch. Versatile Pacific vice-president of marketing Quintin Watt said Tuesday the Class 4 icebreaker is due to be delivered to the Cana- dian Coast Guard this June. When the 72-man vessel is com- pleted next summer, about 450 workers will have labored 18 mon- ths on the ship that can plow its way through four feet of ice. Company president Dave Alsop said the shipyard’s workforce is not expected to decline once the ship is finished. ‘‘It might go down but not significantly. The new vessel will be used primarily to provide icebreaking suppost in the Arctic in summer and in the Great Lakes and the St. Lawrence River in winter. RCMP officer Henry Larsen was assigned to the patrol ship St. Roch as a first mate on the schoo- ner’s maiden voyage to the western Arctic in 1928. Later that year, Larsen was made skipper of the boat, a position he retained until 1948. Under Larsen, the RCMP ship patrolled the Arctic and was the first ship to travel the Northwest Passage from west to east in the years 1940 to 1942.