A4 - Sunday News, December 7, 1980

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LONDON (UPI) - Britain has informed Canada it may not be possible to pass legislation on the Canadian constitution during the present parha- mentary session due to lack of tme for debate, British government of-

ficials said today. The message was conveyed to Canadian

Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau by Norman St. John-Stevas, leader of the British House of Com- mons.

St. John-Stevas, of- ficials said, told Trudeau an address from _ the

ALGIERS, Algeria (UPI) - A high Iranian offical says the American hostages are split up and are being held “in dif- ferent places,” deepening the mystery of their whereabouts.

In the diplomatic go- between aimed at freeing the captives, Algeria delivered another U.S. letter to Iran, and a diplo- matic source said the intense negotiations were “narrowing the dif- ferences.

OTTAWA (UPC) The Federal Cabinet has con sidered offenng moncy and food to help the country maintain ws independence agatnst a possible Soviet Affairs MacGuigan said

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Patriation may run out of time

Canadian federal parlia- ment requesting action

on the Bntish North America Act, the Canadian constitution,

must be received here not later than mid-January if the British parliament is to act on it during the present parliamentary session ending next fall.

Trudeau asked a joint Senate-Commons comm- ittee in Ottawa to report back by next Wednesday on Canadian provincial objections to his consti- tutional emendment pro- posals. But this week the deadline was extended to Feb. 7.

U.S. hostage riddle deepens

As for the hostages themselves, Swedish Radio, in a report from

Tehran, quoted official lranian sources as saying the Amenicans, who have been held 398) days, finally have been turned over to the government.

The Swedish = report appeared to back up a Similar statement by an unidentified Iranian government official a day before the Thanksgiving holiday that the hostages were in government hands.

Canada offers food, aid to Poles

troubled nation

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LYNN VALLEY SLAYINGS

Murder case goes fo trial

A North Vancouver man will stand trial for murder in connection with the slaying August 12 of a young couple in a North Van home.

Robert Bruce Barker, aged 23, will appear in County Court in Vancouver charged with second degree murder of Wendy Bourne of North Van and David Van Wilde Rode of Surrey, both aged 20.

Barker was committed for trial Monday at the con- elusion of a: preliminary hearing in North Vancouver Provincial Court.

The bodies of Bourne and Rode were discovered in the bedroom of a Lynn Valley condominium’ which had

been set on fire. In another preliminary hearing which concluded

Wednesday in provincial

court, Lorraine Theresa Degerness was committed to stand trial for manslaugher in the August 22 stabbing

death of her husband. Degerness, aged 48, of North Vancouver was

charged with murder but after hearing the evidence in the preliminary hearing Judge Nancy Morrison committed her on the lesser charge of manslaughter.

RCMP investigators believed the death of Clifton Degerness, a 46-year-old North Vancouver City employee, to have ansen from “an alcohol-related domestic dispute.”

Degerness will be tned in Supreme Court and is scheduled to appear in North Van court next Monday to deal with the question of ball.

Doubts over

revitalizing of Edgemont

By CAROLE STAFFORD

Do residents and mer- chants in Edgemont Village want their area revitalized? Or will they duplicate the reacuions of people in the Deep Cove area who recently told North Vaao- couver District council to stay away and leave them alone.

Distnct council decided at their meeting last week that they better find out before proceeding with a recom mendation from the plan. ning department to retain consultants “at a cost of not more than $15,000" to prepare ao revitalization scheme for the village and make apphcation under the Provincial Downtown Revitahzaabhon Program for financial assistance

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mercial retail development on the north west corner of Queens Road and tedgemont Boulevard The site aos presently occupied by a aon operational service station Ihe planning department noted that while the proposal met all the soning requirements Edgemont Village itself (is poorly laid oubloto terms of Ccommerctal space

Circulation patterns

(rave bucks ing parking) and

amenity arcas |

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the

market (Csbpowne

development and

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present tread of Converting

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“Design guidelines are therefore needed for the whole Village to provide improved circulation pat- terns, redevelopment standards, architectural and landscape themes, amenity and community facilities.”

But Alderman Jim Ball said council might face the same reaction they got in Deep Cove. “I'm not sure the people in Edgemont Village want it. I think they love it the way itis.”

He said he couldn't support hinng consultants to come up with a revitalization scheme input ”

“without a lot more

Council decaded to refer the matter back to staff for further aunformation consultation with

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