MR. HISTORIAN, could you step over here

for a moment? I’d like to add a footnote, if I

may.

It concerns West Van- couver. I¢ also concerns this business of French nu- clear testing, which has become an actual global cause celebre, although I’m sure the French gov- ernment has other choice words for the Greenpeace protests that have mushroomed just like Le Bombe itself used to over Mururoa Atoll.

Amazingly, none of the countries in the line of fallout declared war on France. New Zealand, Australia, Peru, Chile. kk was left to the tiny ar- chipelagoes of Micronesia

but none of them got close. They ail nearly drowned and were forced back.

In the face of French control and French deter- mination to remain in the macho high-stakes nuclear power game, the smaller and basically conservative regional powers grumbled and whimpered, but did nothing.

Now from the unlikeliest corner of the world — nearly half a globe away — there sounded a trumpet blast. For the record, it was issued from West Vancouver, specifically 3941 Westridge.

Bob Hunter

strictly personal ®

first elected leader. Met- calfe was a Winnipeg-born newspaperman who went into p.r. on the Coast, helping Ray Perrault to crush Tommy Douglas in Burnaby.

Ben doesn't want to be remembered for that. That's why I mention it,

Ben’s true place in the history books should be that he is the guy who launched the idea of sen- ding a Greenpeace ship in- to Mururoa, just like we'd tried to do at Amchitka.

But it was Ben who put out 2 press release announ- cing the new campaign — without bothering to con- sult the quarrelsome gang of Amchitka veterans who considered themselves by

to scream ‘‘Foul!’’ In 1971, three little boats ~ one a tug whose engine died and her crew drifted for weeks — did flounder out from Auckland, New Zealand, in an attempt to sail to Mururoa in protest,

Wood stove a burning issue

NORTH VANCOUVER Ci- ty Council has authorized its staff to seek a Supreme Court injunction against Trevor Warrington, to pro-

_ hibit the North Vancouver “resident’s continued use of

an incorrect chimney - in- stallation for his wood burn- ing stove.

| By BARRETT FISHER |

The city has advised War- rington, who lives at 2009 Mahon Avenue, by letter on two occasions about the im- proper chimney installation, but he has failed to coo- perate, director Frank, Mor- ris of development and licensing.

As a neighbor of Warr- ington’s, Ald. Rod. Clark said he has been aware of the substandard installation,

‘and the resulting soot and

pollution the stove has caus- ed.

‘Is there anything stronger we can do than seek a wishy washy injunction?’’ Clark asked council. ‘We've identified the situation, and yet we’re shackled. We can’t say clean it up. And also, that domicile is inhabited. by four unrelated persons. That’s a contraban on the housing regulations.’’

Said Ald. Ralph Halli: ‘1 can sympathize with what Ald. Clark is saying. If we don’t impose, the liability is on the city if there was a fire.””

Ald. Stella Jo Dean asked Morris how the. situation could be rectified, and whether wood burning stoves are prohibited.

Morris answered that the situation is rectifiable, *‘but it depends on how many dollars he’s willing to pay.”’

Council unanimously agreed to have city staff take action through seeking 4 court injunction.

Mururoa was happening and asking for a skipper to come forth with a boat for this sacred mission. Viola,

David McTaggart happen-

ed to spot the ad.

Metcalfe did get the ball rolling. And for a few months there in '72, he sat at the end of his telephone in his den on Westridge and played a giant game of global media manipulation, while McTaggart sailed bravely on and on and on.

The truth is, if someone hadn’t been humping the phone, McTaggart’s voyage might have gone as unnoticed as the ones the year before,

But credit should be given where credit is due. To their everlasting glory,

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It was West Van_ then to be the de facto

iconoclast E. Bennett Met- calfe who blew the media horn in mid-April, 1972. He was known then as “Chairman Ben,’’ and he was later newly-formed Greenpeace Foundation’s

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elders.

And it was Ben — or, Dorothy, his wife, proba- bly Dorothy — who placed the ad in a New Zealand newSpaper, announcing that a protest voyage to

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