.. Opposition — should kee ps he: ‘unorganized. ‘majority of the public, _ ‘numerous of*whom have already d. penne and. financial loss as citizens “are: depend meinaky into - see t ruthless fights reflects badly on the collective bargail ‘system: as. presently. practised by ~ both manage! ents: and unions. It suggests * growil ibility: ‘by. both parties to the rights of society as a : whole. The News. takes:no. sides in the disputes themselves. We: “merely | speak for the in- nocent, suffering majority. SOMEBODY has to. Hard pressed? The provincial registrar of companies threatened last month: to dissolve the B.C. Social Credit Party | for failing to file official statements of its activities over the past three years. The Socreds delivered papers by last Thursday's deadline but “they're still not in ‘good standing”, according to a companies branch spokesman. Did they try to get by with press clippings? Tha VINCE OF HORT AND WEST VANCOUVER sunday north shore news NEWS 985-2131 1139 Lonsdale Ave | North Vancouver, 6 C V7M 2H4 (604) 985-2131 ADVERTISING CLASSIFIED CIRCULATION 980-0511 * 986-6222 986-1337 Publisher Peter Speck Associate Publisher Editor-in-Chief Advertising Director Robert Graham Noei Wright Eric Cardwell General Manager Creative Production Administration Director Rick Stonehouse Berni Hilliard Tim Francis Faye McCrae Managing Editor Nows Editor Photography Andy Fraser Chris Loyd Ellsworth Dickson Accounting Supervisor Circulation Director Barbara Keen Brian A. Ellis North Shore News, tounded in 1068 as an independent communt ty newspaper and qualified under Schedule tl, Part Il, Paragraph Ill of the Excise Tax Act. is published each Wednesday and Sunday. by North Shore Free Preas Ltd and distributed to every door on the North Snore Second Class Mail Registratien Number 3686 Subacriptions $20 per year Entire contents © 1981 North Shore Free Presa Lid All rights reserved No responsibitity accepted tor unsohcitod maternal including manuscnipts and pictures which shoutd be accompanmed Dy 4 SlAMped addressed return envelope VERIFIED = 60,8670 Wednesday 489,913 Sunday fey smi G THIS PAPER IS RECYCLABLE ” “Prudeau’s sortie into Africa, |: Brazil, and- Mexico early this * year. was one of the most devastating exercises of the PM's Political. career. ” When. he ‘had troubles getting stiowed into Lech, that . avalanche-prone , ‘Austrian village, the radio, TV,: and . print reporters around Ottawa began asking “themselves. what :wouldhave been: written:’-had such " disruptions happened. to Joe Clark. It pricked the con- sciences - of more than one _ reporter, giving rise to some pretty:tough: stuff in media. _ Clark, .as-the. record shows, was. hammered. - ‘into the _ ground | for lesser mistakes — mistakes which were not of his own making. Mr. Trudeau was warned before he went to Lech to ski that the resort was prone to becoming isolated at that time of year. It’s.one of the reasons that the Austrian chancellor no longer _ holidays there in winter. ~ Trudeau, however, chose to: go,,-and> that was a selfish decision. It meant that he flew to Europe at government expense, because the skiing holiday was merely a sidetrip to ‘something . which- -was official business. It also meant that he missed the offered meeting with in- ‘coming United States President: “Ronald” Reagan. on FOREIGN AID: West Van council staggered back in amazement last month on receiving an invitation for a brief to the Royal Com- mission on Conditions of Foreign Service. After consultation, Mayor Derrick Humphreys replied with six good questions on behalf of West Van taxpayers: ® Why had thé govern- ment gone to the expense of circularizing every municipality “and doubtless many, many other areas” with such an invitation? ® Why did it consider a municipal council had some expertise in running the nation’ 3 foreign service? ® Why, after being in the foreign service business for so long, had it to go outside to discover whether it was doing it right? Wouldn't beneficiaries of Canada’s forcign service (c.g., trading companies) be better cquipped to judge its value? ® Wouldn't the thousands of personnel who've passed through the foreign service over long years be the people with the answers, if Ottawa “would only listen’? After requesting an estimate of the cost of the commission in time and _ important to Canada as.good © Canadian Comment BY PETER WARD There are few things as. relations, with the USS., yet here was a Canadian prime. * snub _ who'came'to power 12 years minister, offering an obvious to a brand new president. Even before the. Algerians by Noel Wright money, Mayor Humphreys delivered his parting broadside: “Perhaps we are to assume that the foreign service is presently in some disarray. Please advise us.” Somehow, I don't think there’ be any further correspondence with West Van on the subject. But it was well worth spending 17¢ of our taxes on the stamp, Your Worship. Lin Ardington of North Van's Twin Towers reports the strange story of its two sets of mailboxes which are located about three feet apart, separated only by the door leading into the foyer. The one in the foyer gets its mail delivered around 9 a.m. by Postic No. 1. The letters for the other, behind the unlocked door, arrive any time from 3:30 p.m. onward via Postic No. 2 -- just in time to prevent the seniors from cashing their pension cheques until the following day. But then, what's a day (a week, 8 month or a year) in the life of Canada Post? Restoring one's faith in human nature, however, comes a happy story from Deborah Miller of North Van. The other weck she picked up her dry cleaning from North West Cleaners on Lonsdale to find a five dollar bill pinned to a jacket - evidently discovered in a pocket before cleaning. “I would never have missed it and obviously didn’t know it was there,” said Deborah. “It's really nice to know that some businesses still maintain such a high level of integrity.” Amen. MONEY, MONEY... West Van's elegant new $1.2 million seniors’ centre will be finished by the month end, reports Alderman Bob Hicks who has master- minded the project for the past four years. The official opening is slated for late April or the beginning of May. Now the drive is on to furnish the place at an estimated cost of cighty grand, towards which the seniors themselves have already contributed $10,000. Last week Jim Humphries, father of Alderman John H., was named chairman of the fundraising committee which reportedly already has $4.000 in the bag from the Francescan tadles and support promised from the Lions and Kiwanis. The committee is now casting a told Mr." Trudeau opposition: “has been. making “bette never than: late", there wer Africa about-his trip. Mor than one African source: talked about as: “yesterday's. man” — the guy. ago“with so much promise and ‘has’ ‘delivered: virtually nothing. That “yesterday's man” tag is being -worked over by the ‘opposition, . ‘and it may just stick, Not good political news: for Mr. Trudeau. The * than - fa “patie exercise. . oe what Mr. Trudeau is doin The situation for the PM is. jikely to get worse. hopeful eye on loca businesses... Which reminds me of Ed Cariin's interesti theory that the ‘output. Vancouver lawyers woul drop 20 per cent if ever th Taylor Way light were climinated. West Van’ superintendent of schools, bases his calculations on the number of legal beagles from: the Properties seen using the: long wait at the signal each morning to dictate into the pocket tape recorders. Where there’s muck there money, too, and who knows: that better than Joe Halley? His 3rd W, Van Venturer (Scout) Company is gearing up for its sixth annu Manure Sale next Saturday and Sunday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. behind the SPCA pound in Ambleside Park ' To date’ they've handled around ' 945,000 pounds (about 470 tons) of the stuff and expect, this year, to shovel their millionth pound They'll be bringing in abou 14 dump truck loads nex weekend and at $2.50 per 50 Ib bag it will make your’ garden bloom like Eden... *o @ WRIGHT OR WRONG Simply because you stand uy) for your rights, why does the: other fellow always cngage; in confrontation tactics? “ Fimess fits in.