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he give-and-take element in Canada’s

i gy a Giant's price broadly based partnership with the U.S.

T is facing a fresh challenge.

Depending on how the situation is handled in the next month or two, the effects on our own country, and particularly on B.C., could be serious in the extreme.

One side of the equation is the strong pro- tectionist move afoot in the U.S. for tariffs to restrict Canadian lumber imports. Canada cur- rently has a 31% share of the American soft- wood market and any reduction would be a savage blow to B.C.’s ailing economy.

A comprehensive trade agreement between the two countries covering many other export products on both sides of the border — a kind of halfway house towards full free trade -— wou!d offer hope of averting the threat. But progress here is presently stalled by the opposi- tion of Ontario manufacturing indus‘ries, which fear U.S. competition in their home markets.

Meanwhile, it’s naive to suppose there is no connection between looming U.S. trade barriers and Ottawa’s continuing reluctance to par- ticipate in the Star Wars research program, even though both sides deny any such link.

Mr. Reagan wields a powerful clout with Congress and could be the deciding factor in

‘restraining its protectionist hotheads. But whether he’ll bother if Canada finally rejects arole in his own pet defence project is anyone’s guess. :

National independence is fine. But sooner or later Canada must recognize it can never avoid the price of sharing a continent with a giant 10 times its size without forfeiting the benefits as well.

Taxi victory

unshine Cabs victory in winning MCC authority to run a regular as well as a luxury taxi service is a victory for the vir- tues of free competition. Since Sunshine’s original luxury cabs appeared in 1982, the ser- vice standard of its rival, North Shore Taxi — once a virtual monopoly — has also improved beyond measure. Now the two can compete head-on, ALL North Shore cab-users stand to gain.

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MADE FOR EACH OTHER ... Tiddlycove inventor Len Norris (left) and real-life Tid- dlycovians, including (right) Mayor Derrick Humphreys, at Tuesday's garden party.

‘““AMBLESNIDE and Tiddlycove’’ sent some 200 of their authentic characters Tuesday to fete the man who made a career out of poking gentle fun at their way of life.

The occasion was a Tid- dlycove Garden Party at the West Van Seniors Centre with cartoonist Ten Norris as guest of honor — com- plete with a croquet tour- nament, cucumber-sandwich tea, chamber music and fish-and-chip barbecue. A film of his life was shown every half hour in the music room. Norris cartoons were displayed on the grounds outside. And there was a prize for the best dressed live “Norris’’ character among the guests.

Born in London, England, 71 years ago, Len Norris ar- rived in Canada early enough to complete his for- mal education in Port Ar- thur and at the Ontario Col- lege of Art, Toronto. Five years service as a wartime army captain brought him an M.B.E. (Military). Back in civilian life, he became an art director with the Maciean-Hunter Publishing

Company for a further five

years before joining the staff of the Vancouver Sun in 1950. There, for the past 29 years, the man who’s been dubbed a ‘‘Leonardo of Whimsey’* has been creating the lighthearted graphic sat- ires of his West Van neighbors that have brought fame to both artist and sub- jects. Along the way he’s received the National News- paper Award tor Cartoon- ing, serveral Art Directors’ Club awards, an honorary LL.D. from Windsor Uni- versity, membership of the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts and election to the News Hall of Fame.

If Tiddlycove didn’t exist, I} suspect Len Norris (his funnybone working the way it does) would have had to invent the place. That we saved him the trouble has done wonders for both of us,

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ROTARY’S highest honor, a Paul Harris Fellowship, is also a very practical one. Clubs wishing to bestow it on a member must, among other things, donate $1,000 U.S. to the Rotary Founda- tion’s work in sponsoring 1,200 international student exchanges each year and its drive to eradicate polio worldwide by the year 2000. Latest local PH Fellow is

HELPING GOOD WORKS worldwide ... West Yan Rotary slate (1 to r) Dieter Rommell, Mark Rutledge (president), Harvey Hill, Crawford Laing (past-president), Thomas Ert-

ing-Tyrell, visiting District Johnston,

John Williams (vice-president), Governor Ralph

Ken Barker,

Crawford and Hugh

former West Van Secondary principal Bernard Hoit who received the honor at the re- cent a.g.m. of the West Van Rotary Club, where District Governor Ralph Crawford also had high praise for the Club's nature hut project for Girl Guides in Lighthouse Park. Inducted at the meeting were incoming president Mark Rutledge and his 1985-86 slate.

SCRATCHPAD: North Van Mountie on the way to the top is Inspector Rovert Bell. He leaves September 15, promoted to Superintendent and accompanied by wife Anne, on a four-year posting to Washington D.C. as RCMP liaison officer ... A warm get-well card to ‘‘Mr, Theatre Row"’, Ivan Ackery of oldtime Orpheum fame, presently a temporary resi- dent of LGH. Ivan’s in good spirits at a hard-to-believe 85 and happy to see visitors ... If you’ve been wondering where talented North Shore guitarist Craig Wood is right now, the answer is Fort

Steele in remote southeastern B.C. (so remote that they’re even on Mountain Time). He’s performing at its big annual tourist attraction, the “Fort Steele Wingding” in the community’s Wild Hotse

Theatre ... In memory of well-loved lady golf pro Rena Edward, who died in April at 76, the Ladies Wednesday group at Murdo Frazer Golf Club are install- ing a plaque this Wednesday (August 7) at a 10 a.m. cer- emony ... And while we're on the green, congrats to the North Shore’s Susan Hildreth, for the second year tunning the only Canadian to qualify for the U.S. Amateur which starts tomorrow ... Another cur- rent North Van_ resident chosen for this year’s Canada World Youth pro- gram is Claudine Rouleau from Quebec City who's been living here since last year as a family au pair. She’ll be working fcr the next six months in Quebec and the Dominican Republic with a group of other young Canadians and Dominicans

-- Budding pro photographers are the win- ners in the five categories of the recent photo contest sponsored by the Japan Camera at Lynn Valley Cen- tre — Sharon Richardson (babes and tots), Beryl Blackman (nature), Shirley Stackhouse (North Shore scenics), Murray Platt (humer), and Ann Barber (summer). Tough judges were North Shore News photographers Terry Peters and fan Staith ... a plea from Dianne Dashwood- Jones, Thrift Shop chairman of the LGH Auxiliary, for good used articles of many kinds — from clothes and jewelry to kitchenware, toys and luggage. The 25-year-old Thrift Shop, with its 43 vol- unteers, has raised $24,000 for the hospital both this year and last year, but hard times are now forcing more. people to sell items rather than donate them ... A salute to Scoutmaster Tom Wotton and his newspaper- collecting Sth Seymour Scouts, recipients of one of this year’s nine GVRD awards for outstanding con- tribution to recycling Please make a note of the special extra blood donor clinic a week Thursday (August 15) from 2 to 8 p.m. at Highlands United Church, 3255 Edgemont Soulevard, North Van ... Off for a week or two’s lazing tomorrow but will be serving BRUNCH again later in the month. Enjoy your August dieting!

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WRIGHT OR WRONG: The quickest way to lose your shirt is to put too much on the cuff.

WINGDINGING IT at Fort Steele ...

members of the cast

with (extreme right) North Shore guitarist Craig Wood.