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Available A3 t-Jhe Vancouver Sun. Friday, April 8, 1988 Memorial album spins the story of a short but happy life Every time I start despairing of what is carpingly referred to as "the younger generation" and I can despair of them as tediously and pretentiously as any member of what is smugly referred to as "the older gen-'eration" one fact keeps snap-l ping me back to objectivity. Oh, sure, they don't pay atten- tion, their eating thing in a nice blue serge, and blah-blah-blah. But they know about loyalty and loving friendships. In fact, they may know and practise loyalty and loving friendships better than any generation since man come out of the trees.

Maybe it's a siege thing, an us-a-gainst-them bonding being that critical mass over the age of 30) but it is there, open and free, and it is to be envied. I see it in the way my own kids run up long-distance telephone bills, keeping in touch with friends from their fourth-grade days, now living in other provinces, other countries. I see it in the openly fond way the young ones greet each other in the places where they hang out. And I see it and hear it in a record album I Something had happened. Brown, an experienced hiker, had fallen to his death.

His friends were shattered, none more so than 24-year old Peter Cocking, who had met Brown in a Ladner comic-book trading store when Cocking was 12. There was an emotional memorial service at the Western Front, the non-profit performing arts centre at Eighth and Scotia, where Brown had been a video and audio technician and involved in music with Cocking. Dale Wiese, the young co-owner of Track Records, recalls, "The idea of doing something for Doug began the day of the memorial service. Everyone contributed money to a fund instead of sending flowers. Peter Cocking mentioned doing a received this week, an album that is as much about friendship as it is about music The album is called Doug J.

Brown 1962-1987. That's all the life that Doug Brown got, just 25 years and 2 months. Last September he was vacationing with friends in the Whistler area. He went for an afternoon hike and disappeared. There was a massive search involving deployment of 15 trained members of the RCMP and mountain rescue teams, tracking dogs and a helicopter.

Five days after Brown vanished, his friends walked into the woods. None of them knew search techniques, they were dressed in all the wrong clothes and street shoes. But they found their pal's body in dense bush at the foot of Sproatt Mountain. memorial album and I said I'd like to help." The result is the Doug J. Brown album, a collection of nine of the songs Brown and Cocking wrote and performed with bands like The White Lies, Red Harvest and Light in August.

This is no black-bordered dirge album. It's a high-spirited, low-rent romp through folk-rock, pop and surfing send-ups, featuring Brown's singing in what Cocking describes as "a voice that was, well, distinctive." Cocking's witty liner notes could supply material for half-a-dozen standup routines at any comedy club. "The Cocking says, "fit Doug's personality." The album is being distributed this week in the less snooty record outlets and the proceeds will finance a per manent Doug J. Brown apprentice scholarship in audio-video engineering at Western Front From what his friends say, Brown was something of a young Renaissance man, skilled in writing, composing and playing, possessed of a soaring intellect, witty, inquisitive, cynically civil libertarian (he used to tell his friends, "If voting could change anything, it would be avant-garde yet paradoxically worshipful of the piano of Thelonius Monk, the character of Humphrey Bogart, the writing of Nathaniel West and the taste of good Scotch whisky. Doug Brown had just 25 years arid 2 months of life and probably never owned an uncommitted $5 bill.

But he left enough loyal friends to match the longest fife. DENNY BOYD habits are appalling, their music is wretched, their values are shallow, they smoke bad stuff, you couldn't threaten them into wearing some- 'V Explosives tfracM city fannies iiviti' tr By GARY ENGLER Trucks loaded with explosives and other dangerous goods regularly travel east Vancouver residential streets and. least two city aldermen want to know why. According to both a trucking company and city of Vancouver fire department officials, hazardous goods moving by truck from the inner harbor J1A UMjT DUNDAS 1 HASTINGS i TDI IfW travel across the Main Street overpass to Powell Street, along Powell to Dundas, along Dundas to Renfrew Street, up Renfrew to Hastings and along to Cas-siar. (Ji A 1 RQT 1 Av iRisk cited -incase of child i molester By PHIL NEEDHAM -An indeterminate sentence for a dangerous offender is designed to lessen the future risk of releasing the type of men who raped a teen- aged girl in Ontario and threw her 1 off a bridge, Crown counsel Jim Tay-ldr said Thursday.

2 a closing submission, Taylor asked B.C. Supreme Court Justice Josiah Wood to impose such a sen- tence on Wayne Armstrong who pleaded guilty in December 1986 to sexually assault- ing two seven-year-old girls. J'We have only to read our to see those awful events reported in last night's (Vancouver) Sun (Wednesday) where two men I found not guilty by reason of insan-; ity attacked a girl after psychiatrists had let those people out," said Tay- lor. "In that awful situation one sees I the uncertainty (of psychiatric assessments)." Pf e4i ee- 1 jc a MacLeod told Wood there is no about McConnell, 57, being a dangerous offender. History ot abuse cited "The isstfe is only whether he should receive a determinate or indeterminate sentence." The maximum fixed term the I judge can impose for the offence is 10 years.

MacLeod said McConnell has never been violent, that his age is likely to create a diminution of sex drive, and that the effect of treat-; ment is not known because he has never had treatment in the past. McConnell has been diagnosed as a pedophile, predominantly hetero-; sexual, who feels no guilt, remorse or anxiety about his actions with children which, according to his own I diaries, have continued for 35 "What would be the consequences he serves a lengthy (fixed) term gets out?" MacLeod asked. "What's the worst he is likely to do? That he would offend in the same way a non-violent way. "A long determinate sentence would take him well into his next decade. He would be in his 60s.

"The things he did with little girls were certainly unacceptable but Fraud trial set for former deputy minister. Ifltil Former B.C. deputy agricul The section of Dundas from Nan-aimo to Renfrew is not even a designated truck route. On Highway 1, the trucks become a provincial government responsibility. Early Thursday', six CP Transport semi-trailer trucks carrying 51,000 pounds of explosive materials travelled the route lined with apartment buildings and homes.

"The whole house was shaking," said Mariken Van Nimwegen, who lives in the 2400-block of Dundas. "I practically fell out of bed." She said six trucks passed her house between 1 a.m. and 2 a.m. When Van Nimwegen phoned CP Transport later Thursday to complain about their trucks travelling a non-truck-route designated street, she was told by a dispatcher that all trucks carrying dangerous goods ture minister Gordon MacEar, Hi chern will face five fraud-re lated charges and one breach 6 trust charge when he stands trial in provincial court in July. MacEachern, who appeared in Vancouver court Thursday; originally faced just three charges, but now is charged KEN OAKES 12, in 3800-block Osier Thursday.

He chipped knee bones skiing Tuesday. CRUTCHES and a knee brace don't slow down skateboarder Nick Muller, with: defrauding Canadian Air; lines International Ltd. of more than $1,000 in bonus points by making duplicate claims; obtain- ing more than $1,000 in airline bonus points by false pretence breach of trust in connection Judge retires to ponder ffine points of stock trial with the duties of his office' attempting to deiraud the air line of award certificates; attempting to obtain award cet tificates by false pretences: and uttering forged documents' iii i ii miiMPi I namely airline ticKeis. MacEachern, fired from his job Feb. 17 after' allegations arose that he had misused airline bonus points'1 By LARRY STILL After four weeks of total immersion in the manipulative machinations of Vancouver Stock Exchange trading, B.C.

Supreme Court Justice Mary Southin reserved judgment Thursday in the $22 million Carter-Ward suit. The judge, who is expected to take at least a month to render judgment, frequently expressed her displeasure during the trial at the buccaneering ways of VSE traders. But she noted a key issue she must rule on is whether the questionable business practices of tf Just because (someone) says it was 'manipulation of the stock market' doesn't necessarily mean it was wrong in law.SP Justice Mary Southin accumulated on government business, is scheduled to stand trial July 13, 14 and 15. Abduction suspected Police are investigating a pos-'; they were not violent rapes or things which usually attract indefinite sentences." Wood said he will give his decision May 13. McConnell committed the offences in Port Alberni after he moved there in 1984.

This was after he was visited by the RCMP and told they would be checking on him as a known offender because of a 1978 conviction in Vancouver. Port Alberni RCMP Cpl. Gerry Steele said search warrants were obtained after one of the girls told 'her mother and a social worker in Uanuary 1986 what had been going Jon with McConnell. sible abduction Thursday in Surrey after two witnessed some of the defendants in the reported that a girl, about 11,, a 1 LI 1. 1 l.

years oia, wiin Jong uiacs nair and wearing a blue skirt, was' pushed into a car near Bear Creek Park about 10 a.m. The man was described as in his; early 20s, wearing a Mac! Then, by means of bribes, they got Lazzell to buy the overblown stock for United. Colin Carter was the broker through whom Lazzell made United's stock purchases. Although Powell argued that the fraudulent scheme. Ward, who still faces criminal charges laid in Toronto in connection with the VSE scheme, wasn't represented in the civil trial and didn't put forward a defence.

Carter, who faces similar criminal had to travel that route because of city regulations. A CP Transport official from Toronto later told The Vancouver Sun that his company regularly sends trucks carrying a variety of dangerous cargoes along the route. "We have an ongoing permit which stipulates where we go," said John Klassen, director of corporate affairs. "We have to use that route." Klassen said the city of Vancouver fire department designated the route. He also said Thursday's cargo consisted of 1,020 artillery shells destined for use in avalanche control along the Coquihalla Highway.

City fire warden Bill Woodhall and assistant chief Charles Esplen confirmed the route. They said city regulations ensured hazardous good were not transported during rush hour. Esplen said another route for south Vancouver went from Boundary Road along Marine Drive to Argyle Street, then along Kent to a dock on the Fraser River. Chief warden Kevin Fox added as far as he knew, the route had been established "some years ago." Neither Aid. Don Bellamy nor Aid.

Libby Davies, both east Vancouver residents, had heard of hazardous cargo route as the route is known. "I'm surprised and bloody disturbed," said find it strange that a hazardous cargo route would go through the middle of a residential area." "It's a big surprise to me," said Davies. "I'll certainly raise it at council." After years of concern by residents and city officials, stricter guidelines controlling hazardous rail traffic were introduced by the Canadian Transport Commission in 1985. A Vancouver Sun story from March of that year quoted a Council of Forest Industries spokesman as saying that more hazardous goods would be moved by truck if the stricter rail regulations were passed. Klassen, from CP Transport, confirmed truck traffic in hazardous goods hi grown in recent years.

leather jacket and jeans. People sisters were unaware of the bribery with information are asked to vintonf Cnrror T5iTliD '4 charges in Toronto, also failed to aspect of the scheme, Justice VVUUI.V AVVlUi Southin said she found it difficult to believe they didn't know what their enter a defence, his Vancouver lawyer, Henry Reiner, telling the judge: Dead Surrey men named 'i-fr RCMP have identified the Surrey men killed in a suicide Wednesday as David Ernest Swartz and Lynn Neil, civil law suit were illegal. 'Manipulation' is a nice phrase, but there is no tort (civil wrong) known as 'manipulation of the judge said during the lawyers' closing arguments. "Just because (someone) says it was 'manipulation of the stock market' doesn't necessarily mean it was wrong in law." In short, the judge said, although she and the claimants' lawyers frown upon such market machinations, they are an acceptable way of doing business for many of the participants. The trial concerned an action in which United Services Fund of San Antonio, sued Toronto lawyer Ed Carter, his daughters, Vancouver stock promoter David Ward and others to recover $22 million paid for junk stocks.

United's lawyer, Howard Shapray, alleged the defendants fraudulently conspired to manipulate share prices on the VSE. He said the conspirators then bribed the Texas company's fund manager, Carl Lazzell, to buy the stock at inflated prices. When the dust settled at the end of the trial, only Carter's daughters, Cheryl Hennessey and Marsh Scott Lundy, had put forward defences, their lawyer saying they were not awae of their father and Ward's Eddington, both 32. Police said the men had been drinking heavily at a party at 15771 96th; where they got into a fight' Eddington left, and returning, with a rifle, shot Swartz then, himself, police said. Sex assault trial ordered Frederick Lane, 37, of New Westminster, was ordered -in Vancouver provincial court File on child-killer noted Steele said he seized magazines, books, documents, photographs and drawers of file cards from residence and from a storage locker.

Much of the material, including files on "The Missing Kids Murders, 1981," and a file on child-killer Robert Olson, dated Jan. 28, 1982, dated from times when he was investigated by the Vancouver police, but it went undiscovered until the Port Alberni charges. Psychiatrist Dr. Robert Pos, who reviewed the material seized, said "usually, from the information available, we say this is only the tip of the iceberg. Also among the exhibits are photographs developed from a roll of film seized by Steele and intended to be used to prove the charges at his trial if he had not pleaded guilty.

The photos were taken in July 1985. They are individual shots of four different girls, aged 7, 6, 5 and 23 months, lyjmg nude. father and brother were up to. And even if they weren't aware of the bribery arrangement, they may have been parties to a scheme which contributed to the losses United suffered, the judge suggested. When Powell said the sisters, in not filing insider reports, were "incompetent and negligent" but not fraudulently conspiratorial, Southin suggested they failed as directors of the Carter-Ward companies.

"If you have a duty to see that certain information is made public and you fail and you benefit, you may be part of the fraud," she noted. Following his comment on Ed Carter's non-defence, Reiner assisted Powell in arguing the defence case for the sisters. Reiner suggested the sisters, to be liable for Carter and Ward's sins, would have to know the essential elements of the dishonest design (including bribery), not just know of the existence of the design. "What more can I say, other than to ask for a blindfold and a cigarette." Only Clayton Powell, a Toronto lawyer representing Carter's daughters, put forward a defence, saying his clients may have "failed miserably in their responsibilities as directors" but they weren't part of a fraudulent conspiracy. "It may be immoral, it may be highly speculative and it may be foolish, but a lot do it," said Powell, alluding to the questionable business practices of his clients.

Shapray, in the case for United, suggested the scam was largely a family affair, with Ed Carter, in league with Ward, enlisting the services of his son, Colin Carter, and his daughters. The evidence indicated Ed Carter and Ward bought shaky companies and boosted the share prices with phoney news releases and by trading stock through numerous accounts at different brokerage houses. STCOPY JtYAJ UBL'' Thursday to stand trial on five- A sexually-related offences and one robbery offence. Lane, who is in custody, was charged with, one count of sexual assault, four counts of committing a sexual assault while carrying a weapon and one count of robbery..