Page 6, The Herald, Thursday, May 17, 1970 2 THE __ PRESS! juanmaay iaweunne Tritt + Tht sort peat ti Sut ‘¥ Work continues on the Eby Street drainage system _ |ICBC gives discount - yl . 7 e . be ie \l\-. | to driver not vehicle eu. cranes TT driving discount eligibility emphasis from the vehicle to the driver’s claim record, corporation president’ Robbie Sherrell -announced today. Sherrell told a news performance of the driver rather than the vehicle and '. become effective Sept. 1. He. said discounts will increase by $10 million to $100 milllon this year. Sherell said the change concerns the recently- q = = . | ' i lit . - VANCOUVER (CP)—The conference that the planned announcedelimination of the “Ss _ . Insurance Corp. of British changes to the discount requirement that vehicle ~ i . Columbia will shift safe- program will recognize the owners must pay a minimum six-month Autoplan premium before claiming a discount: .. 6 oa Drivers will now | be eligible for one, two and three-year discounts when making new and renewal ‘insurance purchases, ac- cording to their claim e , record. , ! ' b ! Sherrell said the change e 1r £ ot means new residents in B.C. : will be eligible for discounts according to their claim-free Get it all ... In the daily herald | News of your community...your country...domestic and foreign affairs. Everybody from the housewife to the tycoon has found the pages of their newspaper affecting their daily tives. Reports on shifts and trends in the business and financial world. Money sa“ing advertisements covering every aspect uf our daily needs. Classified sections that find you employment, a home, an automobile or sell anything you wish. Entertainment in special features, comics, and sport pages that enlighten a dull day. News as it happens, firsthand in your community, province, nation, or global affairs. Your newspaper is your best source of information. TERRACE daily herald TERR ACE-KEPIVAT postman’s goat fe CAMPBELL RIVER, B.C. (CP) — Postman Chris Lundquist got tired of getting the bird every time he tried to deliver mail to the Van- couver Island home ‘of Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Hupka. Tired of trying to avoid a discriminating © dive- bombing starling, Lundquist stopped delivering mail to the home. Then the post office had problems, because it didn’t have a form to explain such action. Lundquist said that about two weeks ago, the starling made a nest in an opening te the house’s attic, right above the front door. “Every time I'd come to Police. harass hookers VANCOUVER (CP) — City police continued a crackdown on prostitutes working a fiveblock down- town area as they charged: five women with soliciting Tuesday night. — One of those arrested also was charged with breach of . bail. . She was among eight women. who appeared in provineial court earlier Tuesday charged with soliciting. The eight were released on bail, but a condition of bail was that they stay out of an area known to be a frequent gathering place fer prostitutes before they go to trial May 24. The roundup is the first’ largescale police operation against Vancouver prostitutes this year. Police had laid just one soliciting charge since the Supreme Court of Canada ed last year that to con- viet, the Crown must prove aggression or persistence by the accused. the front door to deliver the mail, the thing would attack me, “It happened about a dozen times, It never hit me, but I was ducking all the time.”’ Particularly galling to Lundquist was that the bird never bothered anyone else who approached the door. _ “I don’t like being crapped on or having a bird fluttering in my eyes, So 1 stopped delivering the mail,” “ "The Hupkas then received a memo from the post office stating: : “Qur letter carrier. is ex- periencing difficulty with the “ black bird that has taken up residence above your mail receptacle, It would be appreciated If you could relocate the bird or mail receptacle.” They would have received a form letter if the ob- struction had been more conventional, such as a vicious dog, however, “‘we have a dog-impeding form, but we don’t have a bird- impeding form.” The Hupkas are famillar . with dog-impeding forms — the bird incident was the third time in a year their mail service has been discontinued. The fitet two times were because of dogs. Mr. Hupka said his dogs wouldn't hurt a fly — ‘and neither would the bird. “It seems like (the post of- fice) is almost picking on our biock,"’ he said. “The neigh- bors get these warnings all the time. “We've lived in that house for five years, and that bird has been there longer than we have, There's always been a nest up there, and the bird never bothered me.” Lundquist has a different version. Hupka's “Oh yes. Hupka’s dogs, There were three of them. They used to chase cars all the time.”' The situation has rectified Itaelf, The bird has disappeared, and mail service has resumed — until next spring. He said that British - Columbians returning to the province after an absence also will be eligible for discounts, depending upon their clalm-freé record, while vehicle owners whose ~ discounta were restricted because of the current six- month criterion will be eligible for a greater discount at their next renewal, again based on their claim record. Sherreli said the Crown corporation is making the change after prolonged studies. . He aiso said that néwly-li- cenced drivers, buying and insuring a vehicle for the first time, must earn the discount year by year, with one year of claim-free driving earning a one-year discount. . The discount on a newly- acquired second or third vehicle is not affected by the claims record of the first vehicle, he said, meaning that each claim is applied ta only the vehicle involved. The vehicle owner is pe- nalized only once for each claim. Sherrell also said that each vehicle owner still is reapon- sible for the claim record of his insured vehicle. If an owner loans his car to someone who has an ac- cident while driving it, he said, the vehicle owner’s discount is affected on that vehicle. - The corporation president sald Autoplan is in good financlal shape, with an income surplus of $6.1 million In 1978 compared with an $8.6 million defifict the previous year. Sherreil said the eurplus is just under 1.5 per cent of the total Income of $410 million, calling it a “corporate bull- seye.” TCBC’s annual report shows $856 million pald in vehicle premiums and $11. millilon in driver premiums, Investments earned $43 million. highes ar million total bs the corporation's five-year history.