Dear Editor:

My Jewish friend from Romania, Jack Chivo, is still on the Doug crail — sniffing hard for dirt. (Collins movie idea panned, Dee. 17 News letter tu the editor.)

As [ have pointed out before, he has a little doll called Doug into which he sticks Pins every night. He also has a copy oo my book POW. A Soldier’: Story Of His Ter Escapes From Nasi Prison Camps, which he studies daily in the vain hope of finding faule with it.

In his latest letter he seeks to show that the camps I was in were Club Med estab- lishments in which a merry time was had by all. And my first escape, he says, “was accomplished simply by walking away from a work prison ... where the guards began not to care.” See Page 10. he says. Page 10 contains no text. The first page of text is Page 15. And there was no walking away from that camp. It was surrounded by barbed wire and guarded by sentries who cared very much. Enough, at any rate, to shoot anyone they caught playing the wrong kind of game. For that part of the story, see the excerpt from the book carried in the North Shore News of Aug.

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MAIL Box Dear Jack: Animus is odious Anonymous auto

20, 1997.

Much che same applies to the second escape. 1 did write, truthfully, that ic was no Aleatraz. It was a coal mine in Silesia from which it was impossible to escape during the day because we were at the coal tace. But getting our necessitated nights of surreptitiously filing through bars.

It is also true that my encounters with the Gestapo and the sceret: police of Hungary and Romania were not bad. Perhaps I should have concocted seme torture stories, Hike Donald Watt of Australia, the self-aileged “stoker™ ar Auschwitz. ft may be recalled that 1 was the first to expose him asa phoney. Later, Jewish authorities did the same thing. But that didn't stop Chive from hinting that | too was a phoney. His animus is uncon- fined.

His most recent missive was fed by Charles Maclean’s suggestion that a movie be made of POW and by Charles” statement that [1 had escaped 10 times from the deadly Gestapo itself.

Charles was clearly referring to Germany’s having been largely controlled

by the Gestapo. He could equally well have stated that T escaped trom Hider.

The reason for Chivo’s animosity is obvious. He is one with the Canadian Jewish Congress, B°Nai Brith, Sol Littmann of the Simon Wiesenthal Institute, the Vancouver Sun's Paula Brook, also Jewish, who hopes that I “may vet hang by my heels,” Harry Abrans of Victoria, who has submitted more complaints to the wrongs artists of the Human Rights Commission, Lionel Keaner, the Jewish prof whose fine hand is seen again in Abrams’ complaints, and others too numerous to mention.

In the Jewish Western Bulletin of Mav 25, 1995, Chivo was listed as a director of the Har El synagogue, at a meeting of which it was announced thar the CJC “would ultimately like to see Collins off the North Shore News.” In short, that I should be fired. So much for their pious protestations about tree speech and a free press.

[am not vet an anti-Semite, but am thinking of becoming one.

Doug Collins West Vancouver

N. Van City dog facts clarified

Sunday, January 11, 1998 — North Shore News —9

aid appreciated

Dear Editor:

In vour newspaper | have read, trom time to time, a num- ber of cases of “road rage” and have also witnessed one or two myself in the course of many years of driving.

So it gives me much pleasure to report that there are still some super guys out there who are willing to overiook other drivers’ stupid errors and even lend more than a helping hand to get vou out of trouble.

The other day 1 drove down to South Park Roval and parked my car in a stall net far from the National Trust office. I must have been wandering around Park Royal for a couple of hours and when [ emerged FE found a fittle nore attached to my windshield

It read:*Your car rolled back completely our of the stall, blocking the way. I pushed it back in and blocked the tire. You’re welcome! Use vour emergency brake!”

Whoever vou are out there, thanks a million.

I'm sure | could, and probably should, have been charged with negligence, and P’'m really sorry that | must have put you and maybe some others to so much inconvenience.

I'm just lucky that [ didn't kill someone or damage some cars.

Ehope that in 1998 a stranger will do an especially good turn for you, too!

K.J, Gillies West Vancouver

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Dear Editor:

Re: “Dog Day Afternoon in North Van Court” by Leo Knight, Nov. 28 North Shore News.

I write in response to the above article.

After reviewing your arti- cle, I would like to point out the following:

: The. city only proceeded with the prosecution of Mr. Bittante after all avenues of compliance were exhausted. Mr. Bittante made it clear to the city’s staff, as he did in court, that he did not intend to take any steps to reduce the noise being made by his dogs.

Numerous neighbors of Mr. Bittante complained about the constant noise caused by his dogs over the past year. It was not an isolat- ed incident over a short peri- od of time. It was a constant nuisance to Mr. Bittante’s neighbors which Mr. Bitrante made no attempt to resolve and showed no consideration

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for cheir rights. The city responded to these complaints when citizens made it clear that the barking was disturb- ing the use and enjoyment of their properties.

The fact the closest neigh- bor may not have been dis- turbed is of limited relevance, because all neighbors are enti- tled not to be disturbed by constant barking.

For your information, the city is generally able to gain compliance for the vast major- ity of bylaw infractions, including barking dogs, with- out resorting to legal pro- ceedings. This is the first case we have had to take to court in many years wnich should be

‘indicative of Mr. Bittante’s

intransigence with regard to this problem.

Mr. Bittante was well aware before Nov. 19, 1997, thar this matter had been scheduled for a full trial and thar three or four witnesses would be called on behalf of

the city. In facr, it was Mr. Bittante who requested an extended period of time for the trial.

With respect to the judge's use of the word “arrogance,” you should be aware chat the judge was also referring to Mr. Bittante’s mistreatment of the Crown’s witnesses during his cross-examination of them.

The minimum fine under the noise bylaw is $50 for a first offence, $100 for a sec- ond offence, and $500 for each subsequent offence. In this regard, Mr. Bittante was, in fact, fined clase to the min- imum.

Your reference to Barbara Warrick, Bylaw Enforcement, is ireelevant since her role was to serve Mr. Bittante with a legal notice.

You also failed to mention that Mr. Bitrante tried to avoid being served with the legal notice but in the end our persistent staff member was able to serve notice, nor did

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you mention that Ms. Warrick was called as a witness for the defence. | wou'd chink that if a story is to be told, the whole story should be told, not just the facts which suit the pur- pose of the author.

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