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THE VOICE OF NORTH AND WEST VANCOUVER

Hooker late again with accident report

QUESTIONS over the latest accident at North

Vancouver's Canadian Occidental

(Hooker

Chemicals) are being accompanied by demands to
know why the local fire department was not

immediately informed.

North Vancouver District
Fire Chief Bob McDonald
has written to the
Maplewood chlorine
manufacturers for their
account of an April 28 in-
cident in which two men
working near the plant were
“felled” as a result of an
emission of the gas.

McDonald wants to know
why his department was not
informed immediately the

By CHRIS LLOYD

incident occurred, as
required under a bylaw
change which was made as a
result of Hooker failing to
inform the department of a
previous accident at the
plant.

In his letter he states that
the incident occurred at 11
p-m. and that his department

was not notified until the
following day at 9 a.m.

He intends making his
investigation of the incident
and Hooker’s failure to
comply with the bylaw his
first priority when he returns
Monday from a conference
he is attending this week.

Meanwhile, Chief Fire
Prevention Officer Leo Ius
has told the News he will be
contacting Hooker if he does
not receive a written report
from them concerning the
incident by today (Wed-
nesday).

But contacted by the News

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ADVOCATING INDEPENDENT NATION

Western separatists’
message comes to NV

SEPARATISM in the shape of the Westerm
Canada Concept party made its North Shore
debut Monday evening when about 175 people
turned out to the Coach House Motor Inn to hear
the party's case against Ottawa and its promises
for an ir 'ependent western nation.

Wednesday
Sunny, warm
Thanday
Sunny.
increasing cloud

Organizers of the meeting
made it clear that the
primary aim of the party is
independence of the four
western provinces from the
rest of Canada and from
what it believes to be a
totalitarian fedcral govern-
ment.

Don Munro, WCC
president in B.C., told the
audience that Canadians are
too apathetic and are letting
their heritage bo taken away
from them

“The federal government's
dealing with conergy and
constitutional problems
alone would be cnough to

create a revolt in most
countries.” he declared.

The meat of the WCC's
message was delivered
the chairman of the party's
constitution committee,
Nicholas Dykes, a business
writer and muscum con-
sultant.

The bottom line, he
emphasized, was that
government power is
growing and has to be
stopped.

As a movement of reform,
the WCC sces the ecsscntial
problem as being = con-
stitutional, Dykes said, “The
system is/ wrong. It is a
system which there is no
control on government.”

Dykes appealed to his
subdued but intent listeners
not to be afraid of the
prospect of separation He
saw it as a reluctant though

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BALLOT CAMPAIGN protesting projected staff cutbacks at Capilano College look-
ed official enough when facalty members David Jones (left) and Jerry Blitstein set ap
outside the Lonsdale office of North Van Capilano MLA Angas Reo last week. Bu
passers-by who stopped to vote found that the ballot did not require them to identily
themselves and only to check a box stating whether they “agree” or “disagree” with
the campaign. (lan Smith photo!)