pee ee es nage terrane caceatting a tna ae RN nase emma OnE on eet ade ane Cae unmet ah € re ons Atma Ms TI 9g teen at : province “purchase * West- Vancouver resident ; Cyril Keetch may be charged - under: the criminal code for allegedly accepting kick- backs while he was a.vice- president with Woodward's exec. The raids were made by the RCMP'*s commercial crime squad in Vancouver as the result of an investigation which began. in mid-1978 after a complaint jorged Keetch resigned his job when his. office «at Wood- ward's main downtown store was searched January 10, along with his home at 4212 . Evergreen. “Premiet_ Bill Bennett's of Macmillan . Bloedel * has forced the B.C. Chamber: ‘of Commerce to. gét down off. the fence and redefine its ideas of Canadianism. Q So says R. Gordon Hutchison, president of.the North Vancouver chamber, who maintains the desire of, CPI Chairman Ian Sinclair to go ahead with the takeover - - forced-a choice. between ‘the country and the Province. _ “If we're going to ‘stop Canadians who are not B.C. people you. must -say’ there are two types of Canadians.” -This is a decision he feels the B.C. chamber must make - whether © their ‘ward's top management. - primary with the = s understood It. is ‘that Keetch resigned within minutes of ihe -police arriving in his office. interest -is. the... The Mae Blo takeover bid: merely raised a question that. would. have-.to be - faced: _ eventually anyway, he says. ; “flere, suddenly, we found ‘ourselves in the position where the godfather of all. “companies in B.C. was to be _ taken over by: 2 ‘company in ‘the.east and. ithe. reaction was _ ‘a3 almost the » same. as a Quebecker. sae . on you. are going to be~ ‘honest about: this you've. got to'say ‘let's change | our views on Canadian unity’.” a He regrets the B.C. chamber rushed forward so quickly to support Bennett without considering _ the The raids the Lower Mainland, involved 26 members of the squad in 25 searches in 16 or 17 areas of in- cluding North Vancouver. ~ 4 West Vancouver, a senior executive of Woodward's Stores.” Keetch, who earned about - e investigation, .says Staff Sergeant Dave Roseberry, “was undertaken into an apparent situation . where secret commissions were being paid by suppliers of Woodward's Stores Ltd. -to a company beneficially owned ‘by Cyril Keetch of Moc Blo issue creates ‘two types of Conadions’ situation with members and Says: “ticklish problem. mer From this and other recent ‘events, ‘Hutchison ‘feels - Canadians - vare . becoming ‘more = provincial; in all provinces between here and . Quebec. He. says: “] don’t care which: government it’s done under - such aS extreme — Conservatism like Alberta or extreme Socialism as in Saskatchewan - but they're all doing i it.” Hutchison describes B c as being at the crossroads in -its relationship with the social and economic forces of Canada and sympathizes with Bennett over the touchy decision or priorities he feels the premier has had to make. Where are all the engravers? — West Vancouver Police's | crime protection program of Neighborhood Watch, in . which people engrave their valuables with their social insurance number, has run into a snag. They're clean out of engraving tools. All 165 of the engraving tools are out on loan and they've been having to take the names of further people needing to use them. Food co-op meet set for Thurs. The next meeting of the North Shore Food Co-op will be on Thursday, January 25, at 7:30 p.m. in St. Andrew's Church Hall, t 1th Strect and St. George’s, in North Vancouver, and not Wednesday as was stated in «? the News. Members are hoping they will be able to open a storefront food co-op by this spring. IN CONCERT © DAN AMOS BAND from HOLLYWOOD SAT., JAN 27-8 PM, Trinity Western College, Langley $6 AT DOOR (Such a Dealt!) Meanwhile, the police are having to waste time callire people, to return the tools some of which have been ov for a long time and should - 987-3431 DRAPERY CLEANING Let the specialists at Roy's handle your valuable — draperies. Our large volume tets us charge com- petitively low prices and we guarantee no shrinkage. We take the ‘warry’ out of drapery cleaning, ROY’S DRY CLEANING 648 Queensbury Ave., North Vancouver have been returned already. They ask anyone who has finished with the tools to retum them as soon as possible. 987-3233 ’ know for decades whether he is right Page S, January 21, 1979,- Sunday News dickbacks’ raic is was raided. He says this firm was not a supplier but is thought to be a store Keetch had a financial interest in. Roseberry says. Keetch's home was searched only for dociments relating to the . allegations. $75,000 a year had contro! of ___1t—is unlikely thatthe more. than $100 million annually in food purchases for Woodward. s 20 stores. - No other Woodward's employeés: are suspected in the investigation and Roseberry says only one store in North Vancouver another or wrong!” Code two North Van question of charges against been | Keetch will have decided before the end of the month and Roseberry says that if a charge was laid it would be done so under section 383 of the Criminal relating to commissions. — anadianism crunch has come - - Hutc sé€cret _Contacted by the News, Keetch said: “I could do one of two things and I choose at this time. to say it would not be appropriate for me to say. anything.” He addéd he hopes to make a statement very soon. ry ec h amber president’s own views are concerned, he says: “When I see other provinces. going off - on their own way I am left wondering if we're doing the right thing not doing so.”