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A3 (The Ibnamwr Sun sat, nov. 21. LOWER MAINLAND B.C. PLACE Pier B.C. money expected 'hourly' on the site without permits.

Project officials voluntarily stopped work, ut said the project would soon be placed; in the hands of a Crown corporation, which would make it exempt from city bylaws. On Nov. 6, city manager Frjtz Bowers wrote Human Resources Minister Grace McCarthy, the minister jfe-sponsible for the project, saying cfty staff would treat the project as if it already were in the hands of a Crown agency, since McCarthy assured hfra the necessary legislation would made retroactive to at least November, 1981. However, city planning director Spaxman told Bowers in a memo Nov. 10 that the manager, council and majjbr are as constrained by city bylaws "as anyone else.

fmtxi pMMm rrt XZI3M VS. Work on the Pier B-C trade and convention centre has resumed without city permits and project manager Gordon Shrum says he is optimistic the financial problems plaguing the project will end soon. However, Aid. Bruce Eriksen is upset that the city is allowing project officials to ignore its bylaws by working without permits. He plans to seek a court order to have work shut down again.

Shrum said Friday he expects word from Ottawa "any hour, any day" that the federal and provincial governments have come to an agreement on the financing for the centre and the cruise ship terminal. B.C. Senator Ray Perrault told reporters Friday that the federal-provincial financing problems over Pier B-C will be resolved by the middle of next week. Perrault said he expected meetings "at the highest ministerial level" would produce guarantees of money to complete the project. The last stumbling block on the project has been the estimated cost of a new ships' passenger terminal to be built in conjunction with the tourist centre.

Estimates have risen to $30 million from $6 million. Work had stopped Nov. 5 after a construction company was found working Kris jnw mms, i7 j(ti irf mi as? ROBSON STREET PROPOSAL glass roof would keep Ralph Bowar photo out rain but let the sun shine in eyes 'glass fop' THE GREAT FLOORS OF Robson By MARY McALPINE Vancouver architect Bing Thorn wants to cover a block of Robson Street in glass. He has plans to raise, on each side of the street, two block-long buildings with glassed-in, terraced gardens; glass-walled bridges and an immense glass vault to span the street between the buildings. This, Thorn says, would keep rain and sleet but not light away from the pedestrians and vehicles below.

"We don't need underground malls as they do in Eastern Canada. We need simple protection from our rain and we need all the light we can get," he said. Thorn has been fighting for his idea at city hall since last summer. This week, he was told by council to find out if the Robson merchants are behind him. "They are," he said.

"But we'll go back to council in January with signatures." The Sun telephoned three merchants at random. Jose Barrintos, manager of South American Way, said "I like it. The arm in China! They're right here at Shindler Co. (of course). We've devoted a whole section of our store to the gorgeous rugs of China.

In elegant wools or shimmering silks. With delicately sculpted patterns or soft, smooth designs. So, if you want to see the Great Floors of China, just stop by andseeus. Oh, and by the way, if your imperial tastes aren't matched by an imperial budget, you'll really like our special sale prices! glass over the street will bring in the tourists. It rains here 80 per cent of the year and so with a glass cover people will come here." He said he wants to buy his store (strata title) if the development goes ahead.

Pierre Weideli who owns Silver-sun Jewelers said he likes the concentration of stores and the whole concept, but he hopes that the use of concrete is minimal. Mary Maassen of Prinz Delicatessen said she is "entirely behind" the project, adding that "it should have been done long ago." The Robson block is between Burrard and Thurlow. City hall has firmly stated that the small shops and international flavor it now has must not be disturbed. "I absolutely agree," Thorn said. "In fact we are encouraging that intimate, international atmosphere." 4 On street-level and the second floor, Thorn's plans call for the small, individual shops that have always attracted pedestrians and tourists to Robson.

lying there. "The person who found the money was extremely honest." Rostill saw the money strewn across the freeway and picked up as much of it as be could. An RCMP check on the bills' serial numbers showed that the money wasn't "hot." A few other commuters also managed to pick up some of the loose bills but an RCMP spokesman said no one else came in to report those finds. Rostill, of 629 East 13th, said he always returns wallets and other lost items that he finds. Road fight entering round two By KARENN KRANGLE Son City Hall Reporter Round two in the battle of the B.C.

Place roadways takes place at city hall Tuesday, with city staff in one corner, B.C. Place officials in the other, and city council acting as referee, trying to decide the winner. Before council, which met with both sides Thursday, are a number of roadway options to service the massive development on the north side of False Creek, including a proposal for an east-west "spine" road, which B.C. Place officials favor. This will be the second go-around on the issue.

The last debate took up almost two months and ended when council approved only the realignment of the north side of the Cambie bridge with Smithe and Nelson and access to the new stadium. Council wanted until Feb. 1 to come up with alternative road designs west of the Cambie bridge, but gave itself a deadline of Tuesday to decide if it wants something different from the B.C. Place plan. This plan consists of a full "spine" road running from the stadium to the Burrard bridge, intersecting with Traffic tangles, A10 extensions of Beatty, Cambie, Davie, Drake, Homer and Richards (all of which would "loop" into the development) on the west, around the stadium, to Abbott and Carrall on the east.

City engineering staff are suggesting other options, including: Continuation of the existing street system, with a westbound road connecting Cambie with Pacific, an east-bound street connecting Beach with Beatty, a two-way street along the waterfront, leading to the stadium, breaking around it and branching in three different directions. A "discontinuous" street system with existing parallel streets (such as Pacific and Beach) ending in a loop on the B.C. Place site. Local access would be from an extension of Drake Street and the stadium. A system based on the extensions of the existing downtown grid system with a couplet of two major one-way roads east and west.

The couplet would lead into Cambie and Beatty instead of the stadium. A separate couplet would straddle the stadium leading under the Georgia viaduct. A couplet system leading to, then straddling, the stadium. The east- bound street would lead to Columbia Street, the west-bound from it. A couplet connecting Cambie and Beatty with the Granville bridge.

Helmcken would lead to the stadium, then east to Main. Davie and Drake would form a loop into the development. A pair of two-way roads, one from Beach along the waterfront, around the south side of the stadium, connecting with Abbott, the other from Main, around the north side of the stadium, into the site then connecting with Pacific. A "maximum transit" alternative, with no roadway at all. Instead, a "people mover system" with a number of lines: One starting at Nelson Park in the West End, leading down Bute to Robson on to the stadium, then west again along the waterfront, down Hornby to Drake; another along the Granville bridge to Dunsmuir to connect with the Advanced Light Rapid Transit line to New Westminster.

The UBC LEARNED JAWS DROPPED into the soup du jour at the Faculty Club Thursday as University of B.C. professors read and tried to digest the story under the blazing black headline at the bottom of the front page of the Ubyssey, the campus daily. "Records Destroyed In Freak Accident," it said. The story explained that during an overhaul of the IBM 370148-2 registration computer system, a massive power glitch had wiped out all the stored data, including all the academic records of current students as well as permanent records of graduates with degrees granted after 1972. It was suggested that, with their records wiped out, graduate students might not receive their permanent degrees until December, 1982, at the earliest.

A registration coordinator was quoted as saying, "We don't even know what we are missing. We will have to reconstruct and recomputerize records from hundreds of thousands of pieces of paper." All along Chancellor Boulevard, grad students were trying to throw themselves under the wheels of passing cars. But as we all know, traffic never moves fast enough on campus to accommodate suicide requirements. Telephone lines smoked in the offices of the president, the registrar, the dean of arts and the Alma Mater Society (whose numbers were included in the story for the benefit of students and grads seeking advice). It was, of course, a hoax; more THE GREAT FLOORS OF CHINA ONSALEAT SHINDLER CO 'EXTREMELY HONEST' MAN TURNS IN MONEY Importer of Persian and Oriental Rugs 2415 Granville St.

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1 "I just try to live by the golden rule it has something to do with my religion," Rostill said in an interview today. RCMP SSgt. Neil McKay said, "It was just simply a case where somebody had come to a stop in rush hour traffic, looked down and the money was computer On the third floor, which would have glass walls and roofs, people would shop for cheeses, fruits and breads, and some would sit there, in the gardens, to eat what they've bought. Thorn points out that today more and more of the small merchants in the area are disappearing because of rising rents. He said his clients, Bestland Development are suggesting to the merchants that they buy their way back into Robson Street.

They could have strata title or they could rent. The lots along the block are currently in a variety of private hands. City planner Ray Spaxman is worried that in these days of tight money, stores might remain empty, bringing a desolate rather than a lively look to the street. "But," said Thorn, "we're doing the opposite. Strata title is the surest way of maintaining stability." On the top of each building, raised on stilts above the glass-roofed gardens, would be 380 condominiums spread over a further eight stories.

"It's sad to say but the percentage of people that are honest is very, very low." He said when he found the money he tried to imagine how the person who lost it must feel. "I know if I lost that money I would want to get it back," he said. RCMP will keep the money turned in by Rostill for 90 days, giving the owner a chance to claim it and explain how the money came to be dropped on the freeway. Failing that, Rostill will be entitled to keep the money. word is HELP! They're looking for relief from the financial crunch brought about by Finance Minister Allan MacEachen's humbug budget, which has wiped out the previous income averaging practice permitted short-career athletes.

It's hard to feel sorry for cozened athletes, but they have really been blind-sided by MacEachen. For instance, take the recent trade that sent Mel Bridge-man from Philadelphia to Calgary, in exchange for Brad Marsh. It has been estimated that the relocation from the U.S. to Canada will cost Bridgeman $50,000 in added taxes, and will benefit Marsh by $30,000 for being lucky enough to move to Philly Toronto Maple Leafs' captain Darryl Sittler, who has been thumbing his nose at team owner Harold Ballard for years, because he had a no-trade clause in his contract, is now begging to be traded to a U.S. team.

And now Ballard is thumbing his nose at Sittler. It all depends on whose bug is being hummed. YOU WANT THE BOTTOM LINE on cheap, chintzy humbug? The Ku Klux Han, still trying to recruit in B.C., has been distributing Canadian $2 bills, on the backs of which is typed "Join the Ku Klux Klan and Fight For Race and Nation. For More Information, Write followed by an American address that you don't need. If defacing Canadian currency is not an indictable offense, it does, at least, show just how cheap the KKK is, trying to buy souls at a deuce a pop.

CHRISTMAS AT A 30 SAVINGS 'fried' the records DENNY BOYD particularly The Hoax, the annual media event, designed to equip students for the Machiavellian duplicity of the real world they'll face when they graduate. Last year it was the impending campus visit by Ronald Reagan, before that the proposed chopping down of Endowment Land trees to build a new stadium and blah, blah, blah, back in history. One of the editors explained yesterday, "We wanted to prove something. The first part of the story, on the first page, was written in a serious vein. But the second half of the story, which we jumped to page two, was such pure gibberish that no-one with any sense could possibly believe it.

I think the reaction proved that people read superficially and don't bother turning the page." All of which scared the scholastic bejaziz out of the UBC gullible. And leaves me with second thoughts about life on page three. SINCE WE'RE UP TO OUR femurs in humbug, let's go with what we got. Let's take a look at your wide world of sports. Eskimos vs.

the Rough Riders. Big, hairy deal. Just one more Alberta-Ottawa energy fight. It's such a mismatch on the face of it that you can't even get a bet down in Vancouver, unless your neighbor happens to be a klutz. In Eastern Canada, the line is Edmonton, 22 points.

But out west, the line is Edmonton, 16 points. No-one is suggesting a fix is in, but the spread is so inconsistent that a couple of our town's most prominent bookies are laying off. They just won't accept bets on Canada's biggest sports event. And that has never happened before. Eastern writers are gnashing their breasts and beating their teeth, wondering if Ottawa's Tony Gabriel will be healthy enough to suit up.

Meanwhile, they're missing the real Gabriel story. It will come out early next week, after he announces his retirement, that Gabriel will join the eastern CTV football crew next year as jock-in-residence, replacing the numbingly boring Mike Wadsworth, who is taking an oil job in the U.S Grey Cup interest is so low in Vancouver that CKNW's Al Davidson has been on the air, begging someone to buy the 10 game tickets he bought for $33 each A major Vancouver accounting firm has been approached by a management group representing the six Canadian National Hockey League teams and the operative A) Sparkling diamond earrings in 14K gold accented with your choice of an EMERALD, RUBY OR SAPfHIRE centre stone. replacement CRASSIE value SPECIAL $475 $332.50 B) Highlight her face with an elegant diamond pendant set with vour choice of an EMERALD, RUBY OR SAPPHIRE centre stone. All in 14K gold; chain included. replacement CRASSIE value SPECIAL $385 $269.50 This Christmas surprise her with a dainty ring, sparkling earrings or pretty pendant all diamond set with your choice of an EMERALD, RUBY OR SAPPHIRE centre stone, all specially priced at a 30 savings.

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