A lathe operator narrowly

escaped serious injury Monday afternoon when the concrete wali of a North

Vancouver machine shop exploded around his machine.

Paul Radoslovich had just turned around to walk away from his lathe at the Mega Company shop at Dominion when the walk of the building burst in, showering his back with concrete chips.

The blast left a hole of about 12 feet by four feet and fire inspectors from

North Van District Fire ‘Department are still won-

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It is suspected there might somehow have been a buildup of gas in the con- crete blocks of the wall, even though there is no natural gas in that area. Both

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used in the building.

The lathe operator received only minor injuries and returned to work after treatment at Lions Gate Hospital. ,

The reason for the blast provided the fire dapartment with quite a

machinist Paul Radoslovich

holds ap one of the concrete block pleces which blasted toward him when the wall exploded, thankful that he was walking away from his lathe machine at the

time (Terry Peters photo).

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By CHRIS LLOYD

Many local businessmen are already laying off staff and find their threatened by outstanding accounts being left unpaid because of the mail strike.

And a group of them are so mad that they are organizing their own Mad As Hell Mail Pro.est to travel across the country to Ot- tawa.

The protest is the idea of North Vancouver en- trepreneur David Ingram, who contacted reporters for ideas and then rounded up other local businessmen and asked for their input of ideas

businesses —

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Marlborough Mall,

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and $100 cheques to help put his plan into action.

Ingram held a council of war at his Lonsdale Avenue office Monday afternoon, which was crammed with businessmen directly af- fected by the strike, such as direct mail service operator Gordon Schottlaner and others not directly affected, such as restaurant owner Frank Baker.

All agreed the mail service

was having a crippling effect

and all were -enthusiastic about Ingram’s proposal to have the post office declared an essential service and for strikes by postal workers to be declared illegal.

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The plan Ingram outlined to them was for two “mobile mailboxes” — red and white painted trailers, — to leave opposite ends of the country and meet on Parliament Hill, crammed with demanding an end to the strike.

Ingram is advertising for people to respond by delivering their signed protests to be driven off from Robson Square in a trailer Friday. At the same time he hopes to have an identical trailer with mail leaving Halifax.

However, the Mad As

Hell mail will take even longer to reach Ottawa than

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B.C. TELEPHONE CUSTOMERS IN THE GREATER VANCOUVER AREA

Upon receipt of your telephone bill, payment may be made at any BC Tel Customer Service Office, Phone Mart or authorized payment agency, including all chartered banks

lf you wish to question your bill before making payment, please call our Customer Service Office at the number shown on your bill.

{ff you have not received your bill, payment can still be made at one of the B.C. Tel Customer Service Offices or Phone Marts shown below

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in times when the national post office is operating.

Ingram plans for the trucks to meander across the country, stopping off at dozens of cities on the way, where he anticipates more protest mail will be picked up at each stop.

By the time the trucks reach Ottawa — scheduled for Friday, July 31 — he hopes there will be about 200,000 pieces of mail to dump on the government.

And if the mail strike is over by then? “We'll con- tinue to keep it going, to tell them we don’t want any more (mail strikes).”