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BtST COPt ftVAILABlE province FRIDAY, JUNE 24, 1983 See Page B3 top a ranvi life. o) iO) (Li store entrances along the 180-metre (600-foot) corridor. The store will have promotional display windows along the corridor and there'll also be a street-level entrance through the Seymour Street side of The Bay. The Granville Station has been a problem for B.C. Transit for some time.

Negotiations for entrance rights-of-way with Cadillac -Fairview and Block both of whom have property near the line, broke down. "We've been agonizing for a year and a half on just where Granville Station should go," said O'Connor. B.C. Transit brought several Granville Station designs to the planning parkades they have a total of 1,793 stalls patrons can travel from there to events at B.C. Place Stadium.

There'll be some traffic disruption on Seymour Street during construction, which starts in April, 1984, and is expected to be completed by January, 1986, but the street will not be closed to traffic. Transit officials expect more than 5,500 exiting and entering patrons during the daily morning rush hour and estimate a total of 10 million people using Granville Station annually. O'Connor said there would be no changes to the exterior of The Bay, which is a heritage building. committee but each time was sent back to the drawing board. City engineer Bill Curtis said the latest plan "has much better pedestrian access than the previous plans." The Transit plan met with the committee's approval Thursday.

From the lower Granville Street entrance to The Bay access is provided by an escalator to the sub-basement level. A passageway connects to the ticket concourse level under Seymour Street and escalators then carry passengers down to the platform level. There'll also be access to the Pacific Centre Mall. O'Connor says that with access through The Bay and Pacific Centre By BRIAN LEWIS An llth-hour agreement between B.C. Transit and the Hudson's Bay Co.

has squashed the possibility that the Greater Vancouver rapid transit system would open in 1986 without an operating underground Granville Street station. Under an agreement reached only last week, the major entrance to the Granville Street Station will be through The Bay's sub-basement off Granville Mall. While the station will cost $15 million to build, B.C. Transit gets to use an entrance corridor through The Bay for $1. "It's a Bay bargain basement deal for both of us," B.C.

Transit project administrator Mike O'Connor said Thursday as he presented the proposal to Vancouver city's planning and development committee. Granville is one of three downtown stations on the 21.4-kilometre Vancouver-to-New Westminster line. The others are the Burrard Street Station, which is underground, and the Waterfront Station at the Seabus Terminal. The downtown section of the line is underground through the Dunsmuir Tunnel and surfaces near Stadium Station at B.C. Place.

B.C. Transit gets improved access to the station and The Bay will get increased foot traffic since there will be Place can earn its keep' TICKET 'm SEYMOUR C. H. 1 I I1 DUNSMUIR ENTRY Nts' TUNNEL A SK OTHE A.L.RT. "HV GRANVILLE GRANVILLE STREET MALL STATION CONCEPTUAL DESIGN B.C.

Place achieving the level of density it wants, not the lower density proposed by the city, and getting the development under way on schedule. According to Chilton's report, the city would collect about $19.6 million in property and business taxes but spend only between $6 million and $8 million per year servicing the development. The school board would collect about $17.4 million in property taxes Fish war looms as talks Spetifore project moves step closer stall over salmon B.C. Place will put about $25 million a year into city and school board coffers if the north shore of False Creek is fully developed according to its plans. But that figure is based on high density, and the total could be lower if the city gets its way for a lower-density development, the city's planning committee was told Thursday.

B.C. Place consultant Roger Chilton said the local tax revenue depends on Fired official sues for lack of concern5 Lack of neighborly concern will be the basis of a precedent-setting civil, suit launched in B.C. Supreme Court against Richmond council by a former municipal solicitor fired last year. A writ filed on behalf of Terrance Nicholl, who was notified of his dismissal in March, 1982, after almost seven years with the municipality, alleges "carelessness" by the entire council including Mayor Gil Blair "for their part in a failure to observe reasonable care of the plaintiff," said his lawyer Bob Guile. No reason was given for Nicholl's dismissal.

Citing a 1930s case, Guile said: "The court held that people have a duty not to do acts which will injure your neighbor." The firing "caused harm" to his client, said Guile. If Nicholl wins, "there is a whole new cause for action for wrongful dismissal." The Supreme Court of Canada earlier turned down an application for appeal on behalf of the mayor and council asking that their names be dropped from the suit for damages. and pay only $3.7 million per year to provide school services. Chilton expects that about $2 billion will be spent to service and construct the site, including the $125 million spent on the stadium and construction of a new Cambie Street bridge if one is The economic impact study is one of a series of reports B.C. Place will be presenting to city council over the next few weeks.

The centre of the controversy is whether the property is suitable for farming and whether Tsawwassen can handle a large increase in popula-. tion. "As far as I'm concerned it's not vi-" able farmland," said Swenson, "andt I'm a farmer." He said the development would have a positive tax benefit but in-1 creased traffic, especially commuter traffic at the Massey Tunnel, "will be headache." "But you have to remember that this will happen over a 10-year peri- od," he added, "And that gives us time to plan. We're also short of building lots in the area." 'ZZZ Vancouver Aid. May Brown, who heads the GVRD planning committee and voted against approval, said the minority opinion was that the GVRD was being propositioned.

"We've got this carrot dangling in front of us in the form of a regional park," she said. As for Wednesday's meeting by the full GVRD board cf directors, Brown said: "It'll be a very important -vote and it'll be close. I think most people have made up their minds on this issue, now they want to vote ancf get it over with." catc treaty talks to permit the U.S. to boost its harvest to 65 per cent of the salmon in trans-boundary rivers the Sti-kine, Yukon and Taku rivers. "People could get hurt, boats rammed and damaged and nets cut it could get really ugly and, in the end, the salmon stocks will be the loser," said fisherman David Gregor.

Gregor, 30, will head north from Vancover to the July 3 fisheries opening in the Nass River. He fears the American fishermen will wipe out the sockeye stocks in the brief opening. Meanwhile, George Hewison, secretary-treasurer of the United Fishermen and Allied Workers Union, said the federal government is doing "too little, too late." Negotiations between the UFAWU and the Fisheries Association of B.C. broke off at noon Thursday, with no significant movement on either side. The companies have offered 88 cents per pound for sockeye salmon, the same price they paid in 1978.

The price in 1982 was $1.06. In 1982, fishermen got at least 35 cents per pound for pink salmon. The industry is offering 21.5 cents per pound this year. By SUZANNE FOURNIER B.C. fishermen and industry spokesmen are predicting an all-out fish war within a week, following the breakdown of salmon treaty talks between Canada and the U.S.

U.S. fishermen plan to fire the first shots by moving in close to Canadian waters off Prince Rupert on July 1. The American fishermen could scoop up to 85 per cent of the 1 .2 million sockeye salmon headed for the rich Canadian fisheries in the Skeena and Nass Rivers, Fisheries Association of B.C. spokesman Mike Burgess said Thursday. "We're talking about an all-out fish war, but the problem is we could win the battle and lose the war because the stocks just won't recover," said Burgess.

Prince Rupert Mayor Peter Lester sent a tough telegram Thursday to federal Fisheries Minister Pierre De-Bane to protest the "severe economic stress" area fishermen will face because of the "Alaskan fishermen's intention to intercept salmon while fish are in passage to spawn in rivers in Canada." "The whole community will suffer, and that's why I'm demanding government action," Lester said in an interview. The US. has rejected provisions of the draft treaty that would have restricted as a conservation means their chinook salmon catch to 263,000. American fishermen took 300,000 Chinook in 1982. Talks between the U.S.

state department and Canadian external affairs in Washington, D.C., have broken off completely, federal fisheries officials said Thursday. De Bane is expected to issue a statement on the talks today, but prospects for peace "look pretty hopeless," said Rob Morley, international and governmental affairs adviser for federal fisheries. "It's reasonably evident there will be no treaty in place in 1983. We don't want to provoke a confrontation with the U.S., but we will permit aggressive fishing of Canadian stocks before they can reach international waters, where they have to be shared 50-50 with the Americans," Morley said. Alaskan fishermen fishing Skeena and' Nass sockeye next week will be protesting the Canadians' refusal in Identification muddle ends salmon charge By BRIAN LEWIS A private development company is a small step closer toward building a large housing project on the controversial Spetifore property in Tsaw-wassen but the 12-year battle is far from over.

Dawn Development Corp. was "very encouraged" after the Greater Vancouver Regional District's planning committee supported a Delta municipality application to change the Official Regional Plan so the project can begin. The committee supported the" application by a 5-4 vote despite the fact its own technical committee and other planning groups hadrecom-mended rejection. It now will recommend that the GVRD board of directors approve the application at its meeting next Wednesday. Delta Aid.

Paul Swenson, who voted in favor of the application, said his council backs the development, in which Dawn will build housing for about 10,000 people over 10 years on the 214-hectare (528-acre) parcel near Boundary Bay. In return for GVRD approval it will donate 89 hectares for a regional park. NO REASONABLE OFFER REFUSED in HITECH VIDEO MONITOR 105 Channel Stereo Capable Best Picture Ever From RCA Limited Quantities at $1149 iwiwmiw REMOTE CONTROL 1 RCA CONVERTIBLE The VCR that does it Features include 6 hours Infrared remote control; Tourism 2 must repay expenses ByELISOPOW Province Victoria Bureau VICTORIA Two tourism ministry officials suspended after financial irregularities were discovered in the department must pay the money back to the government, Tourism Minister Claude Richmond said Thursday. A routine audit of the ministry's 1981-82 accounts revealed widespread financial problems in the ministry. The problems centred on the personal expense accounts of two middle-management employees.

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That was not enough to stand against Point's and his wife's denials. The remaining Musqueam Indians charged will appear in provincial court next month to set trial dates. The charges were among nearly 100 laid in communities along the Fraser River. Prosecutor Cliffe said one person in Lytton was found guilty of illegal fish sales and another in Chilliwack of illegally buying salmon. Sixty other cases are pending, Cliffe said.

By BOB HENDRICKSON The first of 23 Musqueam Indians charged with selling salmon illegally was acquitted Thursday on the question of identification. However, prosecutor John Cliffe said after the verdict that the remaining charges against other band members won't be dropped. While this was seen as a test case, defence lawyer Marvin Storrow said "we have 24 defences." The charges were laid Jan. 11 when fisheries officers raided the Musqueam reserve and seized vehicles alleged to have been used in the offences. The Indians later won a court appeal for the return of the vehicles.

Fisheries guardian Gary Kirkpatrick picked out the accused, Lawrence Point, from among the spectators in the courtroom as the man to whom he paid $2,247 for 306 salmon and two steelhead on Sept. 19 last year. Kirkpatrick testified that during a two-month undercover operation he drove a rented truck to a home on the Musqueam reserve located on the Fraser River in southern Vancouver. He said Point was one of three men who loaded the fish from a pickup I FOR USE IN BEDROOM DEN OR I GVRD to review attendance fee payments 26" MONITOR WITH REMOTE CONTROL 687-5277 NUMITGD The excutive committee of the Greater Vancouver Regional District has agreed there is a need for a review of payments to directors for attending meetings. And at least one member of the executive committee is pushing for the elimination of the job of deputy director who now makes a flat rate of $10,000 per year.

The subject came up following disclosures that several directors have either billed or been paid for more than two meetings in a day at $73 a crack. Surrey Aid. Bob Bose admitted earlier he billed for interviews he conducted with the media on four different occasions while he was chairman of the GVRD transit committee in 1982. Bose collected about $11,700 by billing for about 168 meetings. On one occasion, he billed the GVRD for representing the district at a bus rodeo.

Bose defended the bill, saying he was chairman of the busiest committee on the GVRD and was also on nine committees. Don Ross, Surrey mayor and deputy chairman of the GVRD, confirmed directors Wednesday discussed the possibility of giving chairmen of various committees a flat rate on an annual basis and allowing for only two meetings maximum per day. MOR THAN JUST GftflT MOVI6S 536 HORNBY ST..