The Vancouver Sun from Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada • 3

VANCOUVER A3 'ChrVancourcrSun dec. 5, 1979 -J 71 1 PUBLIC MEETING PLANNED City council rejects partial ward report 'i 3 it1 irT 1 TOflffi ifflflmniii mi in 1 rr 3 I Harcourt, who supports a full ward system, said Ford had a lot of nerve advocating immediate implementation of partial wards when only 4.5 per cent of the 139 witnesses to the commission wanted it. Ford had asked that city staff begin work on amendments to the city charter as con as possible. "We have had a plebiscite, which cost quite a lot of money, we have had a commission, which cost another $90,000 or so. They examined all aspects.

They heard everybody who wanted to be heard," she said. "Unless we move right away there is no possibility of having anything happen before the next election," she warned. "There isn't a better alternative that has been presented and I think we should press ontoit. "The idea of having more public meetings is just a delaying tactic so it cannot possibly happen," Aid. Doug Little warned that the report would disfranchise voters who live outside Vancouver but own property in the city.

I ft KEN COPELAND 4 ViVS5- A- 1 By ANDREA MAITLAND Vancouver city council voted 9-2 Tuesday against implementing a report calling for a partial ward system, and voted instead to hold a public meeting in the new year to hear more delegations. The governmental review commission recommended last week that Vancouver move to a partial ward system, but Mayor Jack Volrich, the commission's creator, and its strongest opponents joined forces against immediate implementation of partial wards. Several aldermen agreed when Aid. Mike Harcourt predicted a new round of meetings would result in a report calling for another plebiscite on wards in the 1980 Vancouver election. Volrich has already said he wants a new plebiscite to include the new partial ward option.

With support from Aid. Helen Boyce, Aid. Marguerite Ford warned that unless work starts soon, Vancouver voters will have to vote under the present at-large system in 1980. Pre-Christmas Special crashed in as he and wife slept in adjoi DRIVER KILLED IN FREAK ACCIDENT Transport truck caroms off car into apartment WINTER COATS Vs OFF OUR ENTIRE STOCK OF WOOL FABRIC COATS IN WINTER WEIGHTS Regularly $115 to $385 Sale 622 Granville and Park Royal A truck driver was killed today when his transport crashed into an apartment build-; ing after colliding with a car at Clark and -Broadway. Name of the dead driver, who had to be cut free of his flattened cab, has not been released.

Singer's daughter dies in car crash Wendv Lvnn Glass. 18. of 4348 West nth. was killed earlv today when the car in which she was a passenger was in collision with a truck at Sixth and Fir. The dead woman was the daughter ot Vancouver concert and opera singer Audrey Glass.

Kathleen Kenny, 18, of 4180 Crown, daughter of University of B.C. president Douglas Kenny, is in satisfactory condition in Vancouver General Hospital with multiple injuries. City police identified her as the driver of the car. The truck driver, Garry McLean, of 5135 57th. Delta, was treated for head injuries at VGH.

He is in satisfac-, tory condition. 'No foul play' in death City police have decided there was no foul play involved in the death of a 56-year old woman who was found outside the Bilt-more Motor Hotel, 395 Kingsway, suffering from a skull fracture. Irene Mabel Wyllie, of 622 West Pender, died Nov. 28 in St. Paul's Hospital of injuries suffered two days earlier when she landed on her head in a fall down carpeted stairs in the hotel.

SURVEYS WRECKAGE Truck The transport caromed off a small car into the living room of Ken and Cheryl Copeland of 1290 East Broadway. They were asleep in an adjoining bedroom when the truck smashed through the wall of their suite at 4. 40 a.m. The Copelands were not injured, but the driver of the truck was dead when an emer SMASHED SEMI-TRAILER THEY CAME WITHIN A EULOGY or two of making Jack Diamond history's first Jewish saint last night in his testimonial dinner at the Four Seasons Hotel. The platitudes rolled across the room like enormous marshmallows, an avalanche of sincere sweetness.

Through it all, Diamond fidgeted and fretted, shuffling his feet and closing his eyes. Henry Bell-Irving spoke about Diamond's rise from poverty. Mayor Jack Volrich recalled Diamond being made a freeman of the city, "the highest honor the city can bestow, apart from rezoning your property." Simon Fraser University president George Pedersen outlined Diamond's contributions to the school and deputy premier Grace McCarthy lauded Diamond's unceasing concern for disadvantaged children. When the final complimentary broadside had been fired, Diamond rose and said it quickly for himself and wife Sadie. He said, "The hour is late and the seats are hard.

It is nice to sit here, to pinch myself and say to myself, 'My God, they're saying all these nice things about me and I'm not dead If I said any more I'd be bragging, ii I contradicted you I'd be 8 fool. Thank you." Of such simplicity are great men made. WHEN WE SPEAK OF Vancouver-based chains, we tend to ijjh Don Scon photo ning room were not seriously injured, police said. Their names have not been released. A third-floor resident said police ordered tenants to leave the eight-suite building for 1H hours until the truck was removed and the threat of gasoline explosion was over.

"The building really shook," said the woman. "But I felt I knew what had happened." Dan Scott photo flattened cab of vehicle last Saturday, I kept hearing an announcement requesting "Vancouver passenger Orvllle Wright, please report to the Western Airlines departure desk," so naturally I looked around for Hugh Watson. But the former journalist and king of practical jokers was otherwise engaged. Hugh is still driving cab three days a week, sailing his yacht two days a week and he and his business partner, Clare Anderson, have just bought 2,000 lime trees. Typically, Watson is vague on details.

He couldn't remember if Anderson said they were in the Okanagan or in Costa Rica The recent death of Grahame Budge brought old rugby players out of the woodwork to contemplate who might succeed the durable Budge as rugby's iron man. There are a lot of votes for Victoria's Ray Ramsay, with whom I once shared quarterbacking chores on a long-forgotten football team. Just turned 50, and now playing for the Ebb Tide, Ramsay hasn't missed a weekend game in 35 years More power to the minorities was created Saturday when the multi-lingual CJVB-AM boosted its variety of radio voices from 10,000 watts to 50,000 watts. Part of the power-boost promotion involved a prize for the listener receiving the CJVB signal at the greatest distance from Vancouver. The winner was a listener in Coolum Beach Resort, Brisbane, Queensland, almost 12,000 kilometres away.

Other listeners called in from Papua New Guinea and Karesuando on the Swedish-Finnish border. BOYD SEED There is something worse than being at home and having people tell you to "have a nice day." It is being in California, where they tell you to "have a rill nass day." gency crew, after working for an hour, pulled him from the wreckage, Police said the loaded semi-trailer had glanced cff an AMC Hornet before ploughing into the apartment. Police said the truck was removed from the apartment building with the help of a second semi-trailer truck using a chain. The three female occupants of the car PULLED FROM BUILDING Impact think of White Spot, Mr. Mike's, The Keg Cleaver, and then it gets tough.

And because he's such an off-the-wall guy, we tend to forget about Norm Babb, unless we're counting his marriages. But yesterday, at a brief sod turning in the lovely Richmond sunshine, the one-man Babb empire began its 65th Kits Cameras outlet. It's a chain that now covers B.C. and Alberta (Babb refuses to expand to Saskatchewan because he says that province is too cold for him to visit in the winter), the Yukon, Washington state, Oregon, Idaho and California, and he figures on moving into Alaska in 1980. It all started as an afterthought in 1951.

Babb had graduated as a pharmacist and joined his father's Kitsilano Drug Co. At Norm's urging his father added a small counter for camera supplies. And things just developed from there. MARGARET TRUDEAU continues to live her life in the fast lane and it doesn't always work. Last Friday the former PM's estranged wife was ticketed by West Vancouver police for exceeding the limit in the 900 block Cros-screek Rd.

in a rented Chev. It will cost her three points When I was sitting in Los Angeles International Airport Beaumont's trip to the end of the worl DENNY. BOYD Beautiful Imported Lingerie i for gift giving. Sketched here are just two of many, many 4 gorgeous selections. Gowns ls, Sensuous styling colours Ml with elegant lace trims.

pfy Jo WnA Black, red delicate pastels. Panties, slips Mj," camisoles in yif matching colours. Ijfer 622 Granville and yPftrt Park Royal. 111110 'ill pMlili iiif mm liil iiil Jpriiil, ii li il it i THERE WAS A LAMENTABLE irony in the death a week ago of Earl Beaumont in the Air New Zealand DC-10 crash in Antarctica that took 257 lives. It is an irony that goes beyond sudden, senseless death.

Earl Beaumont, 60, lived alone in North Vancouver, and until last May, when he retired, he was the custodian at Handsworth secondary school. When I was a kid, we called them school janitors and we thought them to be mean-tempered men who were always chasing us out of the basement and telling us not to waste the paper towels. But Beaumont was a different sort, a man warm- ly and deeply loved by the students he met in the 18 years he worked at the school. His retirement last May created an emotional wrench. The 1,200 students arranged a surprise assembly for him, to say goodbye and to wish him a happy 60th birthday.

The kids, many of them in tears, sang to him. Last Christmas, an art class created a huge mural, depicting Beaumont's place in the activities In the school. When he retired last May, the students took up a collection for a fitting going-away gift. They bought him a handsome luggage set, because he had always talked about the travelling he planned to do when he had the time. That luggage was with him when the DC-10 crashed into Mount Erebus, so many thousands of miles from his home and from his student friends, The further irony is that Beaumont almost missed the flight.

He was on standby. He sat in the waiting room in Auckland, with his new luggage. Just before flight time they called for him and said there bad been a cancellation and there was a seat for him on the trip that the airline advertised as "The trip to the end of the world." I.