Dr. Collins explains why AIDS sffects mostly homosexuals. Page 8 Mailbox . . Miss Manners Pet Corner Cloudy with sunny periods Sunday. Sunny with clouds Monday, showers predicted for Tuesday. ouch dial phones a North TELEPHONE technology has taken a detour around North Vancouver, Leyden. The North Vancouver res- ident boils with exasperation at the mention of wrong numbers and busy signals: ““We have touch-tone tele- phones here, which we pay according to Gail By TIM RENSHAW extra for, but we don’t have the digital switching system to go with them. And I don’t LOTTO 6/49 Split causes mix-up A LOTTERY 6/49 ticket mix-up arose from the split of British Columbia from the Western lottery foundation. A customer came to the News when his winning Alberta-bought ticket show- ed up as a non-winner on a . B.C. machine. Lotto officials admit cus- tomers buying tickets in Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba can no longer cash the tickets in B.C., and vice versa, because the ticket machine will record it as ‘Not a winner’. Although vice-president Vic Poleschuk said the pro- blem is Canada-wide, since there are five regions with By BARRETT FISHER independent computer systems, the B.C. split from the Western Canada Lottery Foundation is a more recent change, taking place in April, 1985. Lotto 6/49’s director of marketing Michelle McBride said it was the provincial government’s decision to form a B.C. Lottery Foun- dation, operating the crown corporation independently from other provinces. think a lot of people know that, or, if they do, they don’t seem to care."’ Leyden, who moved to North Vancouver from Ot- tawa eight years ago, says she’s fed up with the com- paratively poor telephone service she says results from running touch-tone tele- NEWS photo Teny Peters NORTH Vancouver residents have recently been hammering B.C. Tel with complaints that the technology of computerized telephone switching systems, recently installed in West Van- couver, has passed the municipality by. “The largest market place is in the West,’ she said. “The main office was set up in Kamploops and it created jobs.” James Chabot, provincial secretary and minister of government services, who was involved in the decision to form the B.C. Lottery Foundation, said B.C. sold 51 per cent of Western Canada lottery tickets, and therefore he wanted the head office to be located in B.C. ‘*Based on the tremendous support in this’ province,"’ Chabot said, “I thought it was our turn to have the headquarters.”" As a result of the move, Van rip- off | phones into the old elec- tro-mechanical step by step telephone switching system that services North Van- couver. And she is surprised at the complacent acceptance of the situation by North Vancouverites. “Iu'’s like paying for a toll bridge when you don’t have a bridge,”’ she says. A former employee of Bell Northern Research, the research wing of Bell Canada Lid., Leyden says touch telephone technology has been in B.C. for at least 15 years. ‘‘Why is North Vancouver still without the modern technology that a community of its size so close to a city the size of Vancouver should have?”’ Leyden says she is con- stantly plagued with wrong numbers, heavy line inter- ference, and extremely slow connection time, all of which she attributes to a switching system hopelessly overloaded by incompatible telephones. Wally Donaldson, man- ager of Public Affairs for B.C. Tel, admits North Vancouver is still serviced by electro-magnetic switching systems, but says the municipality is scheduled to See Telephone Page 9 161 jobs were created in the Kamloops central office, Chabot said. Public relations officer Brant Handel from Lotto'’s Richmond office said 90 per cent of Kamloops employees are from that area, with 70 per cent of those having been previously unemployed. Handel said to his knowl- edge only three employees were taken from the Win- nipeg headquarters after the switch, “We had to create our own data centres with com- puters and hire our own See Lotto Page 10 to the A B.C. FERRY. steamed to. the rescue of a pleasure : : boat -earl iy: Friday morn-., ing in.’Howe Sound waters _ just ‘off Bowen island.” : : oe The Queen. ‘of ‘pia 20 made gallant response to - “a distress flare at. approx- -imately.-.8:30 :a.m.,: but, i conjunction with College’ s Sechelt campus. ‘A $100,000. B.C. :-gov: ernment: ‘grant announced Minister: Jack Heinrich stitute. ‘trial. - = Court in’ BC. . Supre ‘and. ‘unlawful ment. © in connection charges incident: that with an 20 involving a 16-year-old self-confessed prostitute. peared for trial on the charges in North Van- FOUR THIEVES backed themselves into a corner Thursday. when they at- tempted: to burglarize a North Vancouver home. North Vancouver RCMP... responded to a complaint of a break and entry in the 2800 block of Crestlynn Drive at about 9:30 p.m. When RCMP arrived, the culprits were standing in front of the residence, waiting for the police's arrival. The suspects had ap- parently parked their vehicle in the \_Weniete in the driveway of nanan OREO 3 - Sunday, August 4, 1985 - North Shore News Nev SHORE S Good ferry _ manager of operations » ,- ‘CAPILANO. College” in. Malaspina’. College .‘on’~ Vancouver Issand will set: ¢ up a new Pacific’ Institute. : of Aquaculture: at: “Cap “ “Wednesday by Education will ‘help launch . the “ine "Se Dean of Career Voea- = tions for Cap ‘College,.: Greg'Lee, says the plann-:. . ed institute will provide'a combined ‘pool of. ‘knowk: ” January: :20-"on “ “ charges .of. sexual assault.” “conti ine: J ju o after details “which ‘ arose” 7 defence. lawyer: Neil. The 42-year-old North - Vancouver man faces the’ allegedly “occurred * April: Forbes, who first ap-° Pa rking choice traps” thieves rescue | upon arrival at the. stranded . pleasure boat, the ferry found: it ‘already - in tow by another-vessel.- Capt. Thomas: Whelan for, B.C. Ferries: Jat: Horseshoe Bay,: said” the . Queen of Surrey. was. five © minutes. late.” after $0 practical expertise with it | -aquacultur : “FORBES will, appear: fo! - the ‘original: “pro, ceedings. prompted. Fleishman to request’ the (rial be declared a hear- ing. At ‘the ‘conclusion of the Forbes hearing July 45° provincial. court “Judge J.D. Layton’ said” he was satisfied Forbes should be put over for»: Supreme Court trial. the - residence, while the homeowners were out..A relative of.-the residents pulled in the driveway. behind the. thieves’ automobile, blocking their escape. : Police recovered sever- al stolen items in the bushes nearby, with the help of a police dog. Items included video and stereo equipment. Three juveniles and one adult male, not from North Vancouver, were arrested and are presently in custody pending a court appearance.