forth - “Vancouver
City Fire. Department

‘while driving to work |
with his car. radio on.

An emergency crew
| rushed to the scene at Lynn %
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dichloride - had occurred.

Bae

CN Rail spokesman Al

Menard commented: “We
considered it a minor
derailment and didn’t tell
anybody.”

CONTINUED ON PAGE Al

SUNDAY: Cloudy with
sunny periods.

MONDAY: Continuing
much the same.

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SIZING UP “THE DANGERS. North Vancouver City Fire chiefs check " Brisdon, who raised the alert : ‘after hi

-one of the 56 ft. tank cars containing 16,400 gallons of ethylene

dichloride which was derailed. In the foreground is training officer Sam _right. (Terry Peters photo)

W.Van council

atching up
(just a littie)
with Joneses

ing Every Door on the North Shore

SPRING 8-5

radio while driving to work, with fire chief Dick Hallaway pictured on the

Pay hike for mayor, aldermen

By NOEL WRIGHT

West Vancouver
aldermen decided last
week it was time to
catch up a little with
the Joneses after
languishing for some
time past as the fourth
lowest paid council in
the Greater Vancouver
Regional District.

Council members moved
to raise the mayor's annual
remuneration by 12 per cent,

to $18,500 from the present
$16,428, and the aldermen’s
pay by seven and a half per
cent, to $5,886 from $5,475.

Alderman Don Lanskail
pointed out that council was
in an invidious position in
having to decide its own
compensation.

He noted, however, that if
council did not give itseff an
increase now, it would
eventually have to catch up
with a larger jump at some
future date.

Municipal Manager Terry
Lester told council members

that their present in-
demnities were fourth from
the bottom among the 14
municipalities in the Greater
Vancouver Regional
District.

The only municipalities
paying their elected officials
less than West Vancouver,
he said, were White Rock,
North Vancouver City and
Lions Bay.

The proposed new pay
scales would raise Mayor
Derrick Humphreys to the
fifth lowest paid mayor in

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