6 — Sunday, May 3, 1992 - North Shore News FROM 1959 TO 1968 , THE RCMP HUNTED FoR AND IDENTIFIED OVER 8000 HomMOoSEXUAL MALES ,IN THE INTEREST OF... NATIONAL SECURITY A PSYCHOLOGIST DREW UPA LIST OF WORDS THAT “ONLY GAY PERSONS FIND STIMULATING” TO HELP IDENTIFY THEM. MYGOD...ITS THe = J ENTIRE. MUSICAL RUDE SquaD... RIDING BARE-BACK! oO OFFICIAL RE. NAUGHTY PICTURE MACHINE So... BEEN TO THE CIRCUS LATELY ? SEE. ANY FISH THERE ¢ ‘ BAGPIPE I... is Tiere b A RESTAURANT NEAR OW youR HOUSE ? YS 7 ps4) Guns should go HE LONGSTANDING practice of allowing gunshops to operate within areas of North Van- reviewed by residential couver District must be municipal officials. Regardless of the safety meszsures im- plemented by gunshop opersté:s, they cannoi control all situations. The man who recently chose to end his life with decisive violence in a gunshop operated for years from a home basement on East 14th Street showed just how vul- ‘nerable gunshop operators are to danger. Potentially tragic consequences could easily extend to neighbors living near such an operation. In the case of the East 14th Street guashop, a school is located in the same block. Gunshops are favored targets of thieves who are often armed themselves. It is not good enough to classify a home-based gunshop as no different from any other home-based business. Guushops have their piace, but it is not in a residential neighborhood. They belong in business areas, and they must be operated with fortress-like security. Residents have the right to the enjoy- ment of a home as a place of peace and refuge in an increasingly tumultuous world. “She sicked him out of my ‘Without pants.** a caretaker, next, somebody coming in at night IMlustrator and author Michael Kluckner, on the rush to build characterless suburban housing what's Linda Filzwieser, after she gave birth while waiting for an elevator at Lions Gate Hospital, on how her baby came into the world. “I often work on the triage desk in emergency, and [I’ve always wondered that one of these days a woman would pop right here.”’ Registered nurse Lisa Seaberly, after delivering Linda Filzwieser’s baby. Publisher........ Managing Editor Associate Editor Advertising Director Comptroller North Shore News, tounded in 1969 as an _....Peter Speck Timothy Renshaw Noel Wright Linda Stewart .Doug Foot and digging up the graves, a satanic group?”* Peter Leggett, on the vandaliza- tion of his wife’s grave and other gravesites at the North Vancouver City cemetery. ‘And then decision-makers say, ‘well, people want to live this way.’ That's like saying people really want to smoke two packs of cigarettes a day.”’ , Display Advertising 980-0511 Real Estate Advertising 985-6982 Classified Advertising 986-6222 Newsroom 985-2131 ‘Teet VORCE OF WORTH AND wrt ET VErEC OLVEN independent suburban newspaper and qualified under Schedule 111, Paragraph if of the Excise Tax Act, is published each Wednesday. Friday ang 1 Distribution Subscriptions Fax Administration further and further from town centres. “4t’s just like any other business except when you put the bullets in — then you've got a problem.” North Vanco: ver District chief building inspector David Pawson, on the licensing of gunshops in district residential areas, after a man shot himself in a_ district gunshop. 986-1337 Ge North Shore 986-1337 managed 985-3227 985-2131 Smartening up the watchword | this weekend! THE FREE lunch is cancelled indefinitely. That was the message from around the globe and from Ottawa to Van- couver last week. Japan Inc. is facing cardiac ar- rest from over-rich living — its banks foundering, stock market in chaos, property values nosediving and bankruptcies soaring. Mean- while, the world’s other economic Titan is battling a life-threatening condition of its own. Germany, paralyzed by a public sector strike of greedy ostrich- headed unions, is deep into the giue because of the astronomic cost of trying to resuscitate its economic basket case, former Communist East Germany — plus a prodigal US345 billion loan to Russia which may never be repaid. Today it’s pulling most of Europe into a recession. . The bottom line: debt-ridden North America is on its own. These two sick giants now have little spare cash for overseas gambling. A MILLION more young Cana- dians too illiterate for any jobs but the lowest-paid will emerge from our public schools by 1999, This column talked about it recently. So hear now the Eco- nomic Council of Canada. Efforts to offer all students the same education have backfired, it says. The 30% headed for university Jack academic challenges and the other 70% fail to learn the skills they need to find good work. Standard Grade 8 test scores from 1966 to 1991 show a decline in all skills, the Council reports, but most marked in reading com- prehension and language skills. The bottdin line: a dismal future for Canada in a tough world if our day-dreaming educators don’t smarten up and start concentrating on little Johnny's grades instead of little Johnny’s ‘‘self-esteem.”’ B.C. DOCTORS, rumbling about a walkout over pay, are spending big advertising bucks appealing to their patients ~ with one omis- sion. Doctors deserve good pay. But publicly funded health care (one- third of B.C.’s $18 billion budget) is facing huge money problems everywhere — due to structural inefficiencies and over-servicing at the GP level, for which doctors themselves are partly to blame. As it is, they’re free to earn up to $200,000 p.a. or more AFTER HITHER AND YON overhead -—- hardly penury in these hard times. Rether than threaten, the docs would be smarter to help everyone, in- cluding themselves, by using their. mental talents to streamline the system — which could automatically ensure their per- sonal remuneration kept pace. The bottom line: doc’s income — however you slice it — comes solely from his taxpaying patients. That's what he’s left out of his ads. Have a happy, healthy Sunday! WRAP-UP: Criminal Justice is the topic Thursday, May 7, when just-retired police Inspector Don Keith talks to the 7 p.m. meeting of Citizens United for Safety & Justice in the Chamber of Com- merce building, 131 East 2nd — everyone welcome ... Salute noted artist and Bowen Islander Sara Black for donating a watercolor seascape to the Bowen Legion, © which is raffling it to raise funds for beautifying the grounds of the Island's 55-year-old cenotapli ... A $3,000 PNE scholarship could- be won by an entrant in Gertie Todd's North Shore Youth Pag- eant, open to local residents of both sexes aged 1614 to 21 — en- try furms from The Perfect Set- ting, 124 West 16th (985-0555) ... And happy birthday tomorrow, May 4, to West Van’s Sean Wardell. WRIGHT OR WRONG: A good friend’s eye is your best mirror of HS Sunday by North Shore Free Press Lid and gistributed to every door on the North Shore Second Class Mail Registration Numoe'_ 3885 Subscriptions North and West Vancouver, $25 pe: vear Maving rates avaitable on request Submissions are welcome Dut we cannot acces’ fasponsinility tor unsoheten matenat in Manu chet. ane pictures veto med Py a Ghar eed, sure i NEWS photo Cindy Goodman $10,000 CHEQUE from Lynn Valtiey Lions wiil buy Lions Gate Hospital two motorized beds... participating in the handover (left toright) are Allan McDougall, Pierre Lebel. 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