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Fears of potential

disasters facing~ the North Shore came within. a hair of

materializing Tuesday morning when a truck carrying highly plosive oxyacetylene cannisters tipped over and crashed on East 29th. Sereet in North Vancouver. .

Families in the 400 block East 29th. were evacuated and the RCMP cordoned off the area as fire fighters hosed down the truck with foam and righted the can- nisters that had spilled all over the street.

“They were lucky, they were really lucky,” an RCMP spokesman said, referring to the fact that everybody involved in the incident escaped injury.

The accident occured shortly before 11 a.m. Tuesday when the

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mergency was for real!

after West Vancouver Mayor Derrick Hum- phreys emergency evacuation exercise, North Vancouver had an actual

explosive cylinders overturned. Here, firefighters carefully move cylinders from the truck. On a larger scale, ~

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North Van District council Monday, gave tentative approval to updating their emergency procedure plans. For this story see page Al5. (Terry

vebec man held for Park Royal holdup

By CHRIS LLOYD

A Quebec man has been charged for the $10,000 robbery at the Park Royal South branch of the Royal Bank two weeks ago.

Three men were arrested Saturday in a Vancouver Hotel and charges of armed robbery were laid as a result of various holdups in the Vancouver area, as well as the West Vancouver rob- bery

The arrests were the result of a joint” investigation

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between Vancouver and West Vancouver police forces, which led detectives to a room in the Century

Plaza Hotel. on Burrard Street About $7,000 cash was

recovered and though police say they feel confident it ts money stolen from banks they have no way of telling whether any of it was from the West Van holdup. No guns were seized tn the raid

Arrested were 20-year-old

Enc Oswald alias Yves LaPohce. Steven Brown, also. 20, and Normand

Charpentier, Quebec.

Oswald has been charged with armed robbery and with using a firearm during the commission of an offence. He was due to appear in provincial court in West Vancouver yesterday (Tuesday) afternoon.

West Van Police are laying no charges against Charpentier or Brown at this

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time, pending further in vestigation.

Oswald and Charpentier have been charged by

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WEDNESDAY: Main-

ly cloudy, isolated showers with steadier rain later in the day; milder.

THURSDAY: Cloudy with showers.