alarm circuits by cutting
into the rear of a drug
Store’s cash box and drug
locker Tuesday night.

They made off with
about $100 in cash and
$400 in drugs after gain-
ing entry to the store by
cutting through the floor
of the building.

The theft follows a str-
ing of weekend breaking
and enterings that kept
police busy in the area of
Lonsdale and West Third.

Four businesses in that
area were entered, most
suffering damage but very
little loss.

Buildings in the 100
block of WestThird were

THE SIMPLE act of put-
ting on a jacket has led to
a court date for a 20-year-
old West Vancouver
man. :

Charges were laid after
an alert West Van police-
man spotted the man put-
ting on a jacket while
leaving police head-
quarters. The jacket
belonged to the Emer-

it by burglers

THIEVES BYPASSED.

entered by forcing a
ground-level window and
by forcing the lock on a
rear door and then pun-

ching through a wall.
Two Lonsdale
businesses were also

entered, the first through
a rear basement door and
the second by someone

who cut into. the
building’s air-condition-
ing system and then

broke through a wall. Six
screwdrivers were stolen
from the first place while
thieves got $100 from a
cash box and another
$100 from a safe in the se-
cond.

Police investigation in-
to all five break-ins con-
tinues.

gency Health Services —
the provincial ambulance
service.

The man was leaving
the station after being
fingerprinted and photo-
graphed in’ connection
with another charge.

Charged with posses-
sion of stolen property is
Jay William Allen, 20, of
2317 Lawson Ave., West
Vancouver.

Barking canines

top complaint list

BARKING DOGS aren't
man’s best friend — at
least not in North Van-
couver District where the
canines’ howling ranked
tops in residents’ noise
complaints to municipal
officials, council was told
Monday.

And, to make sure all
barking dogs in the future
are muzzled, District
agreed to amend its noise
control bylaw so every
resident can enjoy peace

and quict.
District) receives, on
average, 106 complaints

about baying dogs a year.
A close second on the

noise complaint” list 1s
rowdy. loud parties spill-
ing music into
neighborhoods, The
municipality gets about
24 such grievances every
year

Those people who do
not comply with nose
control bylaws after being
warned, could face court
acaon by District.

Even so, the law is
rarcly brought in to settle
noise problems explained

District Development
Director Fred Sigur
yohsson. “The great ma

jority of complaints are
settled by discussion.”

Drinking drivers

DRINKING DRIVING
charges by North Shore
police have resulted in
the following recent con.
victions (mandatory
hicense suspension isin
addition to

penalues
shown) Donald Jcfirey
McRac. 74608 Canada
Way. Burnaby (3900)
Wayne Harold Orpin.
1404-151) West Kerth

Road, North Van ($350)
Geoffrey Hubert Watson

1443 Betievue, West Van
($400), Gordon Hartley.
5021 Inman Ave... Bur
naby ($350), Randolph
Drever, 46835 Wallow
Creek Road, West Van
($450), Damel Devlin
900 Clarke Road, Co
quitlam ($500). Ross
Donaldson, 1271) Nepal
Crescent, West Van
($350); Russell Pollack
1020 West 13 Ave
couver ($400)

Van

mural. The wall-sized mural is in the library's activity room.

WITH PLANE
ir investigators

can’t find fault
THE INVESTIGATION into
the crash of a light plane that
claimed the lives of two
North Vancouver residents
has found no indication of
mechanical defects in the
plane.

According to Al Clarke,

ESTATE ADMINISTRATIO:
WILL PLANNING
Royal Trust since 1899
5 Burrard Street phone 668-

Shore and Sonny Phillipoff
of Richmond.

Clarke told the News this
week that the plane crashed
at the 1,400 foot level on the
island and that most ceilings
- the height of clouds above .
the ground - were lower than ~

an investigator with that at the time.
Transport Canada, the “There was an indication
regional investigation into’ that the plane might have

the crash has revealed that

been flying in cloud (at the
the plane was fully fueled

time of the accident).”

and in good flying conditions Clarke said. .
at the time of the crash. The regional report on the
The Cessna 172 slammed accident, which is almost

into Texeda Island on July
12, killing Elliot Yehia and
Cathy Blood of the North

complete, will be forwarded
to Transport Canada’s head
office when finished.

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