6 - Sunday, September 1, 1985:'- North Shore News

Editorial Page

vs Viewpoint

Heads vs. lungs

he self-righteous champions of punitive

T economic and political sanctions

against South Africa need to think a lit-

tle more with their heads and a little less with their lungs.

Apartheid and ‘the savage tactics being used

by the South African authorities against their

domestic opponents, both black and white, are

_ rightly condemned by all civilized onlookers.

But in Canada’s case the moral outrage is mix- ed with some lack of logic and more than. a lit- tle blatant hypocrisy.

Nobody is demanding a similar boycott of our extensive trade with Communist Russia and China, whose human rights records are con- siderably worse. than . South Africa’s.. And ’ Canada’s treatment of its own native Indians,. though. non-violent, leaves much to be desired.

Government-imposed sanctions in a situation

> that poses no threat to Canada itself would rum. - |-

~ counter. ‘to the whole concept of a free society. ~ Moreover, there is much past evidence (e.g.; ‘the foriner British: colony of. Rhodesia) to in-::. dicate that formal economic sanctions are rare-' “ly, if ever, effective. Even if. ‘they were, the most.

“immediate sufferers would inevitably be. black: 7

outh. ‘African. workers theraselyes..

“Meanwhile, natural” market’. forces" are. an

already exerting their own strong pressures on.

:Pretoria. Western banks are calling their loans”

d restricting credit. The value of the Kruger-

rand has nosedived.. The: whole: vital South we

‘rican mining industry, is endangered. ‘The free marketplace is. likely tobea much

ore effective instrument'of protest than of... : ‘ficial attempts, almost certainly futile, to coerce:

nother, country’ Ss. elected government.’

ove: “avery. ‘Steve Fonyo. and Riek. Hansen, great .as you. are. Last Thursday, almost. unnoticed by the .

‘media; 56-year-old B.C. graidmothier entered “Charlottetown, - P.E. LL, ‘after walking. across *.

Canada from Yofino since March 20 to ‘aise ’ money for the blind. Hildegard Buschhaus aims ‘to'reach Newfoundland by the énd of. this ~month.- The gallant lady deserves a big cheer — and some big dollars for her cause. —

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NEARLY 70 YEARS of West Van history were relived earlier this month by two high school sweethearts who don’t believe in growing old. They met during World War One at venerable Britan- nia High in Vancouver. Separated after that for the better part of 10 years, they never forgot each other. The

_ latest chapter in. their. love

story was written August 4, at a festive dinner in West Van’s

. Masonic hall, when 130 fami-

ly members and. friends honored Charles and Marjorie

. Brotherton on their 60th wed-

ding anniversary.

. Their local ! "«pioneer”? credentials are | impeccable.

Born in County Cork, ireland, 82 years ago, Marjoxie Porter came to Canada at the tender

~- age of 10 months. After a year

‘in Toronto her parents head: _ed for: Calgary and thence on - ‘to. Vancouver (which is how - Britannia High comes into the

picture). In. 1918 the family moved to West Van where —

- with a couple of short'breaks, *.-one due to a fire that burned ,down the family home at 1274 ‘Gordon’ _ she has lived ever . since.’

She finished high school at

‘ ” Queen Mary... in North: Van, » commuting there daily on the

old PGE,: earned her Royal

*. Academy diploma for. piano

playing and gave her first recital at the old Hotel Van-

. eouver, And for over 40 years,

.

- dozers

»., winding up as manaz: ress, she

worked ‘for ‘Dall’s, the: fine

:.- china and linen store, at 615 ‘* Granville which’ finally suc-

combed in 1969 to,the bull- ‘building . Pacific: Centre:

Charles, now 84, ‘was born

* dn Regina and’migrated with

his family.to Vancouver. in

1911. After; Britannia, where

he excelled ‘at sports, came a two-year stint as a cowboy in Alberta. |

But he and Marjorie re- mained in constant touch and on his return to’ Vancouver the wooing that was to lead to their 1925 marriage at West Poin’ Grey United Church

hogan in' earnest. One rumor -

DELAYED—ACTION Deborah Wardell

Py \

by Noel Wright

has i it that Charles became fed

HONEYMOON

sunday brunch

HIGH SCHOOL ROMANCE sixty years later oo. Charles

and Marjorie Brotherton.

up with the lengthy journey and the nickel fare on the ferry from Vancouver Harbour to

the foot of 14th, and figured

that tying the knot might be cheaper. i

By this time he was in the construction business, even- tually to become a partner in a construction firm, and for the first few years they lived over town. But by the early 1930s they were back in West Van — homie to them now for over. half a century.

Today, the neat house at 1124 Haywood that Charles built for them‘ in 1954. brims over with scores of photos and mementos of their life and family — son and daughter, five grandchildren and three great grandchildren. For a couple well’ into their ninth decade they’re the picture of fitness. Charles still mows the jawn. They travel frequently.

“Oh yes,”? says Marjorie with : , HITHER AND YON: Mad-

an Irish twinkle in her eye, ree wags seem Cer than heli is Gordon Gib- .

NEWS photo Noel Wright Peter and

_Wardell Agencies);. their

_ He's right ... , Gwen Skakum, longtime.

“twe still have all our.

marbles!"’.

You'd better believe it. Never knock high ‘school romances. Sixty year later the - results can be most impressive.

kok ke. a 4UST STARTING. OUT. along the marital path, North Van's Peter and: Deborah Wardell (nee Sharp) were back at work the day following. their glamorous Aug. 18 wed-: ding at The Mansion. Part-. ners, also, in the fashion in- dustry (Peter is president of

busiest: season of the. year began this month, so the.’ honeymoon had to be post- poned, Rumored to be Europe © and the Greek islands early in 1986, it should be’ worth: waiting for.

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son Sr., B.C.’s woodsman emeritus, over those unpre- Posessing metal boxes being erected by Expo. as’ display < halls. ‘‘In a province that lives :

from its forests,”’ he thunders, *.

**can you believe they'd make the things from aluminum?’’ Congrats to

righthand woman to former Capilano MP Ron Hun- tington, who , was - uncere-

. Justice, 1886'

moniously chopped by his suc- cessor, Mary Collins, Gwen has just been appointed to the Nationa! Parole Board, prov- ' ing that friends don’t forget a decade of good deeds ... Still with female political dynamos, . North Van—Seymour Socreds — named Constituency Association of the Year'at the party’s 1984 convention. —

. have honored their president

Roberta Kelley by presenting her with an album of portraits and tributes ..,-1985-86 North Shore members of the Real Estate Council of B.C. are West Van’s. Maurice Butler and. Fred Russell, . together with North Van’s Peter Williamson ... Dressing. the part will be B.C. whodunit - novelist Marion Crook when ~

she lectures at Lynn ‘Valley: Library at 7° p.m. Tuesday week (Sept. 10). She'll appear in the 19th century costume of the. schoolmarm ~ detec- tive-heroine..in - her. latest mystery, “AS Question, of.

Arts. Co

2 Wyck,” features the unique :, Canadian craft of rughooking o:

by award-winning fibre artist Fursiko . Yamamoto... © Nominees for the ‘prestigious

1985 Manning ‘Awards, estab- <>

‘lished to encourage Canadian innovators ‘in’ ali disciplines,

‘include two-:North. Van

residents — .C. Haynes. (an

- electronic drafting « machine

concept) and E.S. Richardson. . (a. Society of independent communicators concept). Winners among the 87 en- trants will be announced fate September.

WRIGHT. ‘OR “WRONG: Funny how many people are never too busy to tell you how busy they are. Enjoy a very

: un-busy abor. D:

"NEWS photo Nest Wright

ALUMINUM EXPO maddens Gordon Gibson Sr. :