A6 - Sunday News, November 29, 1981 Reds under beds Numerous readers have expressed concern over an alleged drive to win Communist beachheads on North Vancouver councils in the recent municipal elections. Specifically named have been candidates Ernie Crist, Betty: Griffin, Richard Blackburn and Greg Richmond. Mr. Crist’s political background has long been a subject of common gossip on the North Shore -- which did not, however, stop him from topping the District aldermanic poll in 1979 and being re-elected this time with an increased vote. Mrs. Griffin was a Communist candidate in the 1979 provincial election. Messrs. Blackburn and Richmond -- who surfaced only recently as champions of tenants’ rights have not revealed their party political affiliations, if any. However, they were enthusiastically endersed during the election campaign by the Communist Party newspaper, Pacific Tribune. The Communists, of course, are a lawful political party, but that isn’t the point. The Canadian tradition is that municipal can- didates run as individuals. If they are dedicated supporters of any strongly ideological party, there will always be the suspicion that they might put party aims _ ahead of the interests of the community. Such suspicions may be groundless in the case of the four candidates in question. But municipal voters are always entitled to know where any binding loyalties lie, whether of the left or the right, and to judge ac- cordingly. Neither reds under beds nor fascists under floorboards belong in the council] chamber. How about that? North Vancouver a booming resort? You'd better believe it. Between May 15 and September 7 this year almost 36,000 tourists checked in at the Chamber of Commerce information booths and only 28% were British Columbians. Of the remainder, 29% were Americans, 22% from other parts of Canada and 21% from overseas. Now, just wait ‘til they get that Lonsdale park! tourist % nuniay” news narth shore news 1139 Lonsdale Ave. North Vancouver, B.C. 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Het tae MME ETE Em EFFI Orbe oy re Va Le nya ot, 93 340 Wednenday %/ 5460 Sunday rere, ces SN" THIS PAPE RIS FE Yo LABLE a a ——— we as RON 8 A, ~ : ANN \ po a \\ KM \" Serving time in outer space Criminals could well be the first colonists im outer space says a criminologist from Simon Fraser University. Dr. Ezzat Fattah, an authority on penal tran- sportation, says both the past and future of mankind makes a return to penal transport seem likely. “Since the time of the ancient Romans man has been exiling undesirables. I see HORROR STORY to beat all computer horror stortes was recalled last week by Chief Opposition Whip Bill Kempling, Tory MP for Burlington, Ont. here briefly as guest of North Van Burnaby MP Chuck Cook. It concerns a blameless citizen who had his wallet stolen — containing credit cards. dnvers’ licence and social insurance card The thief had an inital spree with the credit cards but there was much worse to come With the hcoence and the SIN card he adopted the wallet owner's identity cven for the purpose of filing an imoome fax return Pinally he committed oa further crime was caught and served a yan the letm still under wallet owners name Some tine afterwards the latter copyleft Had cre aston te the pole oon oa separate matics wre wars shattered to learn tbe had a communal record Has ocd forty for soot the matter oat proved trutthe ss thre evidence was all there i the computer they teobel trem By the trae the took wis story te KReomphlogp he contessed te. tee verg bose tor supe rhe VE yeou otterek thre Taggers Coe tap Then came quack ty Yooh again After Keanphong society today becoming less tolerant of habitual and violent criminals. This fact combined with overcrowding on earth, the need for “guinea pigs” and workers in experimental space programs and the high cost of maintaining bricks and mortar penal institutions convinces me we will one day see prisoners in space.” Before too long a prison sentence may give you a big lift. CHRISTIAN ANGLE You alone can pick up the pieces By JAMES A. TAYLOR Joan had been saying she wanted a new set of coffee mugs. The old ones were getting too chipped, and battered, and stained, to put out any more. So Stephen, our nineteen- — year-old son, decided that was what he would give her. It took him some time to find a nice set. They cost more than he had planned, too. But he brought them home proudly, and went down to the basement to wrap them. I was upstairs in the kitchen. I heard a muffled crash. Then Stephen called, in a strangled gasp: “Dad?” The mugs were on the floor, spewing their fragments out of the package that had been split open by the impact. He had been putting on the last ribbon when his hands slipped “and his gift fell off the table. 1 wished I could have taken him in my arms and comforted him. But he was too big for that, now. 1 wished I could have made it right, by going out and getting some more for him. But I couldn't do that, either. I wished I could even have said I would pay the price for the replacements, that he had done the best he could . sunday brunch by Noel Wright had twasted the arm of every federal minister involved, they eventually confirmed the false identity through RCMP fingerprints But no, they stall couldn't issue the wallet-owner a second SIN card because the Act: for bade that The only solution, the bureaucrats insisted, would be for wallet-owner to change his name legally and apply for a card under his new name! After pinching himself to make sure he was Kemplhing fought on end it awake In the look a total of 18 get the Act the computers te months — to amended programmed and as acw card issucd to the inno ceat theft vactim Wath J984 pus! JS mooths away dont say you havent been warned And by the way did) you Know phones can die of old age’ A short while age Montca Nelson, wre 1s Chuck Comk sy Comstiftucoey secretary had the cae tn bes offvee gre con the thik Phe treaean Prestme BY 4 Pel arrived caawminmedd the patient and Aelyveted Say Dragons Jus Wootty crn toe anbowne ed LT tren wlan hiierw ee tp tay Morte a thowevet are lt cde dd te suspect a ae ol pobre ctv stag lites A world “first” was scored recently by the Troller pub in’ Horseshoe Bay whose regulars took on players at an Enghsh pub in Brixham, Devon, in the first ever long darts match = by phone Organizing genius was Labatts man on the North Shore Welsh born Mike Pickering, himself a Bay resident Lo bring ut stall closer to home, the manager distance of the Fnglish pub which, incidentally, won is the brothers of the Whitecaps president Tony Walters. “It may make = the Book of Records | Troller Patrick Csuinness beamed pubkeeper Dave Dreaming sume & Symons, already of weeks afloat’ Tom PR oof the Norvan Power Squadron reminds me that thea crusade to teach boating to all resumes sate ana sundry January 4 open to the No bre ve ol North Van on Basi Boating and Scamanship Power Call Pom Perry (oO) (O24 eon Cant Coulter (O%N 457) And aprobogies betore Stsembarking to Arts Jack Watts for short Hanging Chat bastante Maptc take with chaise s putohe at Baliye foor We tatts Counedl president satling ship leaf whrve ty mays hea _ Until he got enough nerve to and it wouldn't be fair to expect more from him. But | couldn't do that. All I could do was sit there on the bottom step with him, staring at the remains of his dream, sharing his anguish. sort through the pieces, and find one cup still unbroken. Finally, holding the cup, he stood up and said: “Well, I guess I'd better see if I can find some more to match this one. May I have the car?” There are times when our lives are like those coffee cups. When our marriages turn into a mess, our jobs terminate, our kids rebel against our values. Or when the world we live in seems threatened by assassinations, violence, repression, pollution, and whatever other disaster hits today’s headlines. At times, like that, we wish God could comfort us, could fix things for us, or could offer to pay the price instead of us. And sometimes we get angry when God doesn't do these things for us. I wonder if we don't realize that God may be sitting there on the bottom step with us, waiting for us to pick up the pieces ourselves. (Jim Taylor is a syndicated columnist for the United Church Observer, published in Toronto). permanent home at Lon sdale Quay. Seems her deck length 1s an impressive 75 ft. not 59 ft. as we reported las week. With bowsprit added she’s 91 ft. overall _.. “ee TALENT SHOW: and fielder Donaldson, figure = skater Robert} Macdonald = and soccer player Mike Watson, all of North Van, have won the provincial government's BC Athlete Award with $750 scholarships attached Another North Vanner. Susan Elizabeth Benton, 15 Track Heather celebrating her B Sc) degree from the Uo of Vic Congrats to North Van students Peter Chan, Andrea Muchichen, Shaun Cathcart, Brian Degusseme, Andrew Kadler, Kathleen Brett, Emily Claspell, Barbara Anne Perks -- and to Wes! Van's Geoffrey Croll on winning UBC Alumn scholarships Then theres West Vans Angela Morflu (daughter of retiring Ald. G,eorge Morfit) and Tracy Stone, Plo year old) essay winners an the proving ial contest for the International Year of the Disabled And a closing osatute to Holly Marcino, daughter of City Ald) frank Mascino. loops feor hres Studie nt aware front Boll wh Creede a lbeons brome ast cm WRIGHE OR WRONG: Sam Croldwyon sated oc tiest whe anyone a te a povebuatrist strould have Nas head cramined