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Thieves take gold jewelry

GOLD JEWELRY worth over $2,000 was stolen “from a: ‘Cliffwood : Road “residence over. weekend.

Sometime. between Qc-.:

tober 11 and. 14, "thieves" .. made off with gold-rings, chains and medaltions but

‘Remote

“The. remote. ‘control

Amit. worth - over-; $1,500. >and a’ radio - -controlled Cale. “worth $500,.were the

aid C

‘ “Skateboards present a,

“serious -hazard.. i lic;

. The. use of. skateboards,

as skates. or.tricycles, is

7 prohibited on: the: streets;

‘holiday ;

gained: entrance: | house. :

stems: lifted. when tion ‘of the thief:

skateboards | can be seized: = : ss aa

. the. ial- fences: Thi

rother play vehicles such : :

left other valuables, said North Vancouver RCMP Cst. Alison Irons. : Police are continuing. to, investigate..but don’t. . | ‘know:: how “the. thieves tothe: There.’ are nt Suspects at this time.

contro!

: ‘youth when had been ask- “ing: about the’ chopper.

which hung in the store. window .since .. Striichen::

_received the gift'from his: ‘ . wife three years ago. He. -

is , offering $100. reward? or:the, arrest:and convic=*"

and, if, charged, offenders .; ‘face a court ‘ape: pearance ‘as there is: ie) traffic ‘ticket .for this of- :

“One youth: has -alteady been’ charged.- “In addition ss, ‘a, motorist .was~chal'ged = - with: driving .with: undue. care .and: attention “for: towing six skateboarders. .

Doorlock pitch | _a scam

_ bearing locks for ‘exorbi- , tant fees. «.. So Says the West .Van- _eouver. police. after an “elderly women was ding- ..¢d $300 for the installa- “tion of, a $3 patio door [lock in her 2,000 block .. Bellevue apartment. oA man knocked on the “woman's door. Saying he

Dogs. rescued. o from. fire

> guishi ‘basement ; entry into the house,

“-rescued. safely .from a. “house fire ‘Tuesday morn-" cing The dogs | were pulled --from a, burning house at 770 Seymour Boulevard... Fire officials say. no “one. else was in-the house ‘at the time. : District of North. Van- ; ‘ couver firefighters extin-

ad” permission from. the

“management, he installed

the $3 lock then proceed- ed to charge the woman $300,

West Vancouver police warn residents to be aware of this activity, ;

if a resident. has- doubts, they should con- tact management or police. ,

in“ the forcing

er fire’ after

'The house had - fire” damage tothe basement. * only but there was exten-

. Sive smoke: damage ‘throughout the house. ~

_ Cause of the fire. is under investigation, but a~ fire official has tuled out a suspicious cause...”

5 = Friday, October 18 1985 - North Shore News

Petro-Can takeover a ‘socialist nightmare’

NOVELIST Richard Rohmer shook the conser- vative timbers of the Hote! Vancouver’s British Room recently with a scathing speech questioning Petro-Canada’s acquisition of Gulf Canada.

Appearing at a dinner sponsored by the Vancouver chapter of the Society of Management Accountants of B.C., Rohmer berated the Mulroney government for the apparent abandonment of its pledge to privatize crown corporations such as Petro-Canada.

“Instead, the cabinet recently authorized its Petro-Canada hired hands to spend up to $1.8 billion to acquire those bits and pieces of Gulf Canada’s assets,” Rohmer said.

According to Rohmer, Petro-Can paid $611 million September 30 for approx- imately 1,800 Gulf Canada stations, which, added to its 2,485 existing stations, mak- ing Petro-Can, with 4,200 outlets, the country’s largest retailer of petroleum pro- ducts. The crown corpora- tion also paid $275 million for Gulf Canada’s 120,000 barrel per day Edmonton oil refinery, Rohmer added.

POTENTIAL MONSTER

Dubbing Petro-Can the Mulroney government's favorite corporate child and a potential monster, Rohmer told an audience of approx- imately 150 that the Conser- vatives gave Gulf a $111 mil- lion tax break as part of Petro-Can’s deal to acquire its Edmonton refinery.

Rohmer accused Mulroney of turning Petro-Can into a

By TIMOTHY RENSHAW

department of the Conser- vative government, ‘‘mas- querading as a private free enterprise corporation.”

The prospect of competing against more government- owned corporations, Rohmer said was an ‘‘unex- pected, unwarranted socialist nightmare."’ He estimated some 900 Gulf employees across Canada could be out of work as a result of the Petro-Can takeover, victims of side-by-side Petro-Can/ Gulf Canada stations and overlapping administration.

INSECURE POSITIONS

Some of the North Shore’s 10 Gulf station managers feel their positions are less than secure as a result of the Petro-Can takeover.

Bud Hirjee, manager of West Vancouver’s 22nd and Marine Gulf station, says he is upset: *‘I don’t know what is happening. I haven't been told anything. You could say I’m in limbo.’’

But Steve Dubay, manager of the Lonsdale Gulf Service

Centre at 13th and Lonsdale,

is not so pessimistic. The take over, he says, will make little difference to his opera- tion,

“I think it will be better in two ways. First we will be the largest in Canada; se- cond Petro-Can has picked management from all the

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operation to be that much stronger."*

In summing up Rohmer said the ‘socialist nightmare’

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