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F9lt 731Wlt in well blowout By THE CANADIAN PRESS The Alberta energy resources board will probably hold public in uiry into blowout at natural gas exploratory well in West Pembina field board spokesman Rod Edgecombe said Tuesday There is usually public inquiry into the causes and ef fects of the blowout if the public has been involved or af fected in any way said Edgecombe assistant manager of development for the board At an inquiry Amoco Canada Petroleum Co Ltd operator of the well would be asked to outline the events leading up to the blowout along with measures taken to have it capped Say that abnormally highpressure shale in the area was the cause of the blowout he said Then we can warn other companies about the potential danger in the area In addition environment department officials are monitoring the area for evidence of any ecological damage from the blowout itself or capping efforts Red Adair Texas oil and gas well fighter who capped the well Monday after it had been out of control for 27 days flew home to Houston on Tuesday He was called in after the well blew wild on Dec spew ing about 20 million cubic feet of natural gas day into the atmosphere along with poisonous hydrogen sulphide On Christmas Eve the well 130 kilometres southwest of Edmonton ignited About 300 pounds of dynamite were ex ploded last Sunday snuffing out the fire and preparing the way for capping operations Flu blamed in deaths WOODSTOCK Ont CP Two elderly persons in Oxford County have died and two more are listed in critical con dition in hospital as the result of Texas flu Dr William Butt medical officer of health said Tuesday The disease has hit Oxford County harder than any other part of the province Dr Butt said Six hundred high school students 12 per cent of the secon dary school students in the county have been affected by the illness he said Woodstock General Hospital has been closed to visitors and Dr Butt warned visitors to stay away from the countys other two hospitals in Tillsonburg and Ingersoll as well as all nursing homes He said the disease strikes the elderly and those with lung problems the hardest Symptoms begin with coughing and sore throat and prog ness through chest pains to chills and fever Former police chief chairman BRACEBRIDGE Ont CP James Mackey former chief of Metropolitan Toronto police was acclaimed Tuesday as chairman for 1978 of the Muskoka board of education Mackey was elected to the board in December 1976 following his retirement to the Muskoka area GM action business move LONDON Ont CP The decision by General Motors of Canada Ltd to close its bus assembly operations here and consolidate them in Quebec was strictly matter of business city council was told Tuesday night GM has assurred development commissioner Douglas Herron that the principal reason for the shutdown was that it was cheaper to operate consolidated plant council was told GM announced last month it would close the London bus assembly line and consolidate its operations in Quebec where it was granted SSHmillion contract to supply 1200 buses The contract was granted on the condition that 40 per cent of the buses ordered were built with Quebec labor and materials the firm said at the time Another look at Northlander SAULT STE MARIE Ont 1CP The Ontario govem ment plans to investigate continuation of the Ontario Northland Railways Nor thlander train service bet ween Toronto and North Bay Leo Bernier minister of northern affairs said Tuesday He said decision will be made within the next two weeks Bernier madehis com ments following an an nouncement Saturday that the Northlander operation will receive federal subsidy to cover operating costs between June and Decem ber 1977 Bemier annnounced in De oember that the service be tween Toronto and North Bay would stop Jan IEBfflffl because of high costs dectsmn soon Four years for attempted rape PETERBOROUGH Ont CP 17yearold youth with history of sex offences against children was sentenced Tuesday to four years in jail for the attempted rape of fouryearold girl last June Duane Edwa1d Taylor of Vemonville Ont pleaded guilty to the charge in December He was also sentenced Tuesday to concurrent sixmonth term for attempting to escape from jail while awaiting trial Provincial Judge RB Batten recommended that Taylor accused in the past of sexually attacking boys and girls receive aversion therapy treatment designed to help child molesters The youth has spent the last eight years in training schools and foster homes He was attending baseball game in the village of Warsaw about 30 kilometres northeast of Peterborough with supervisor from Cobourg training school when he attacked the girl The child was not seriously injured Dr Larry Arnold psychologist with the Mental Health Centre in Penetanguishene Ont said tests showed that Taylor has marked interest in female children and that he is on the borderline of mental retardation Leaks probe longer TORONTO CP Mr Jus tice Horace Krever of the On tario Supreme Court said Tues day that the magnitude of his uiry into leaks of con fi ntial medical records will not make it possible for him to ADD TO TOTAL LOOK NEW YORK CP Studio 54 one of New Yorks leading discotheques boasts night glit ter in the accessories of its pa trons At recent party some of the interesting looks ranged from wooden forks in frizzed hair to sleek and classic low slung leather bags from Morro can souks have his report finished by the end of March Mr Justice Krever ap pointed after allegations that the RCMP and the Ontario Provincial Police had obtained confidential Ontario Health Insurance information illegally said public hearings probably would not get un derway until March The magnitude of the under taking is considerably larger tlnn think anybody had thought Health Minister Dennis Tim bnell had ho the report would be comp eted by the end of March MEILUN DT DENTURE THERAPIST Complete Denture Service Hours am pm Mon thru Sat 280 Dunlop St Barrie 7286810 Member Denturist Somer Seeks second wife Sayed Abbas foreground boatman poses near the ferry he operates on the Nile near Aswan The 62yearold Nubian says he hopes President Carter can help work out Mideast peace so that Abbas can buy refrigerator television set and take second wife AP Photo Faces extortion charge TORONTO CP James David Lillie an unlicensed Metropolitan Toronto private investigator was charged Tuesday with extorting confidential income tax information from an employee of Revenue Canada Supt Randolf Schramm of the RCMP commercial crime division said that Lillie 46 was charged with extorting the information from woman who worked in the tax rolls department of the Torontodistrict income tax office in 1975 He said the charge involved one incident in 1975 Lillie said in published reports last month that he provided Toronto broadcasters Charles Templeton and Pierre Berton with income tax information used as the subject of radio program Nov 17 He said he provided the broadcasters with details of position Leader Joe Clarks personal income returns as well as information on three other people Lillie released on bail after his arrest is scheduled to ap pear in court Jan Editor flies into Botswana GABORONE Botswana AP liberal editor who escaped to Lesotho from South Africa on the weekend flew here with his family Tuesday crossing wide stretch of the country he had just fled The more than twohour flight most of it across South African territory was without incident am relieved and feel safe for the first time Woods told reporters in the capital of this former British protec torate A11 official from Lesotho an independent black kingdom surrounded by South Africa flew with the Woods family to ensure their safety The kingdom has an agreement with South Africa guaranteeing overflight rights Observers feared that if the 10passengcr Lesotho Airways plane were forced by weather or other circumstances to land in South Africa officials there would try to arrest Woods The editor who was under fiveayear banning order when he escaped has almost completed the manuscript of book on his friend Steve Biko the black leader who died in police detention last September The wave of racial protest over Bikos death prompted the crackdown under which Woods was banned 275 will be out of work MARMORA Ont CP News that the major emplo er in this village of 140 will close its ironore mine has merchants and officials mirroring concerns expressed earlier in Sudbury Ont The Marmoraton Mining 70 Ltd announced Tuesday it will close its minc March 31 putting about 27 employees out work Officials in Sudbury where about 4000 jobs will be elimi nated at lnco Ltd and Falconbridgc Nickel Mines Ltd have said job losses there will be disastrous for the economy of the area Wouldnt get fair trial say two MONTREAL CP Two former members of the terrorist Front dc Liberation du Quebec say they wouldnt get fair tijal if they returned to Canada to face charges in gire kidnapping of former British trade commissioner James oss Louise Lanctot and her husband Jacques ossettcTrudel write in letter published Tuesday by Le Dcvoir that they have already been convicted by politicians and the news media for their participation in the October 1970 kid napping of Cross We have already been tried one hundred times since Dec 1970 when the federal executive expelled us the couple write Charged one hundred times judged summarily one lundred times and convicted one hundred times without recourse by the political machine in power The former FLQ members now living in France wrote to Premier Rene Levesque last September asking that all charges against them be dropped so they and their two children could return to Quebec The appeal was rejected by Levesque and Justice Minister MarcAndre Bedard Approve site for penitentiary LONDON Ont CP City council approved 15acre property on Tuesday as the site of mediumsecurity federal penitentiary ending almost year of debate Opponents of the prison said they would take their fight to the federal solicitorgeneral after council voted 11 to to al low the $13million prison to be built in the southeast section of the city RuskinRobbins much thc licst icc cream in thc whole world Wc rcally bclicvc this And you could own onc of thc wonderful stores that sclls this grcut icc CTLlIIIl If youd likc to makc cry good liting making people happy all us At 4111771145 Ask for the franchise manager Donald Woods the white Iniured child dies CHESTER Pa AP critically injured threeyear old whose parents wanted to have her removed from respirator suffered heart failure and died Tuesday night while still on life support machinery spokesman for Crozer Chester Medical Centre said Karen Miller suffered two cardiac arrests Earlier Tuesday the state Superior Court had stayed lower court order that would have allowed doctors to dsconnect the life support system today Officials would not say imme diately what effect the girls death will have on charges against William McCloskey 23 the boyfriend of the childs di vorced mother He was accused of hurling the child to the kitchen floor when she refused toeat McCloskey has been charged with aggravated assault and jailed in lieu of $35000 bail BRAIN DIDNT FUNCTION Karen was unconscious when she was admitted to the hospi tal Dec 16 She had been kept alive with the help of respira tor since Dec 23 when her brain stopped functioning and she was declared clinically dead Her parents Geralyn and Mi chael Miller joined by Crozer Chester asked Delaware County Judge Robert Wright to authorize them to remove Ka ren from the respirator Wright ruled Friday that the court could not make such de cision and said it was up to the parents and doctors He said tley could not be prevented from turning off the respirator Jan4 The Superior Court however stayed the lower courts dead line in order to give itself more time tostud the case The stay ad been requested by the childs courtappointed lawyer Miracle for Jerry FAYETTEVILLE NC AP US paratrooper plum meting to earth when both his parachutes failed to open was saved when he fell on top of an opened parachute and slid down the lines into another sddiers arms He hollcred at me to get off but by the time slid off the top holding on to his lines he knew what had happened recalled tnmpcherry Tindal The other trooper Nelson Pe ters of Fayetteville grabbed Tindal and the two men landed safely Tindal escaped with sprained leg muscle was all right until hit the ground and then it came to me what had happened Tindal said know there had to be somebody up there watching over me or wouldnt be here now The incident happened at the cm of December Tindal told his story to his hometown newspaper in Florence SC but he declined an interview with the Fayettoville Times be cause he said his commanding officer upbraided him for publi cizing the near tragedy The captain told me it looks bad for the anny to have stories in the newspapers about how chute didnt open he said He said it might hurt the ttznds recruiting Two remanded for hearing OWEN SOUND Ont CP Two men charged with firstde gnee murder in the September 1975 beating death of an Ayton Ont woman were remanded in custody Tuesday in provincial court to Jan 11 for prelimi nary hearing Eugene Lawrence Morgan 34 of Big River Sask and Wil liam Joseph Albert 18 of Har riston Ont were arrested and charged with the murder during the weekend Ontario provincial police said Morgan was arrested Sunday by RCMP in Saskatchewan at the request of provincial police aml returned to Ontario Albert was arrtsted Monday at his home COMING SOON BASKINROBBINS ICE CREAM STORE IN BARRIE It could be yours an Nvlfifiirh 35 Wv we 14 SC Preparing for Carter visit The American flag is raised Tuesday as it is every day at the American Cemetery near Omaha Beach France where the Allies landed on 0Day June 1944 President arter Lawyers say of acquitted man will visit the cemetery on Thursday as part of his current overseas trip AP Photo Might be known as murderer instead of innocent victim KITCHENER Ont CP lawyers for Kenneth Roberts acquitted after serving more than three years in prison on charge of noncapital murder and sexual assault say he might always be known as convicted murderer instead of an innocent victim The lawyers who worked to get Roberts second trial which ended in acquittal say suspicion about the oung man might not die and he may be forced to leave the city found strangled and nude on her bed in her apartment directly below the one Roberts shared with friend Roberts iclcased from jail Roberts 21 was granted an last month was sentenced to appal after Toronto lawyer lite imprisom 11 111 11171 after Iayton Ruby told the Ontario being found 111 lll murdcring Apr al ourt there was new and sexually izlllllllg Joanne Anstettof Kitcmrcr The 24yearoid nurse was 11 tiical evidence The new in 11 ation convinced an Ontario cnic ourt jury there was Shots fired as US miners expand their protest efforts By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Gunfire vandalism and threats are the tools in what ap gears to be an expanding effort striking US coal miners to ose nonunion mines in five states The most recent use 01 gun fire in the fourweek strike by 160000 members of the United Mine Workers came in southern Indiana on Tuesday caravan of about 75 vehicles called at two mints t0 vandalire equip mentand fire guns Police said no one was hit by the shots But about $15000 in damage was done at the DS mine and the Three State Trucking Co mine Larry Reynolds spokesman for UMW District 11 said mine operators have been warned Its my personal opinion that anyone trying to mine coal now is fool But many nonunion mines and coal haulers are still oper ating In recent days there have been attempts to shut down these operations in Tennessee Kentucky Virginia and Ohio Miners hope that by cutting off the nonunion coal supply their negotiators in Washington Leverage urged on oil WASHINGTON AP The United States should apply eco nomic leverage if necessary to maintain its access to foreign oil says the investigative arm of the US Congress The General Accounting of fice GAO made the suggestion Tuesday in review of the relationship between USowned multinational oil companies and member countries of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Coun tries awmm BaskinRobbins Regional Office 1205 Airport Road Mztlton Ontario l4VI Fl Phone 411 177 145 1111111111111 111 emu swans 17 BukinRobbim 1977 Opening creryultcrc will have more leverage with the Bituminous Coal Operators Association That strategy can where from 75 to 100 outofstate cars in the mining area So far its been peaceful but theres have no immediate impact not anybody going to work however because contract said Sheriff Dennis Trotter of talks have broken off Anderson County The coal operators have strategy of theirown get court orders against pickets But Gary Bradshaw union lawyer in southwestern Vir ginia warned that this strategy may backfire by frustrating strikers and forcing them off the roads and into the woods Its potentially incendiary sit nation In east Tennessee roving bands of pickets kept at least six nonunion mines closed Ive been told theres any caravan of miners also ap peared in Kentucky About 200 vehicles followed triangular route around Tri City Coal Co mine in Butler County police said Fire destroyed tipple at the mine and state police called for an arson investi gation In the same area five non union coal truck drivers were forced to dump their loads along the road similar tactic was used against at least three nonunion haulers in eastern Ohio police said sout reasonable doubt that Roberts committed the murder ANALYSIS DIFFERS At the first trial hair found near the womans body was identified as that of Roberts Two University of Toronto sci entists testified at the second trial that their analysis proved itwas not his Lawyer Morris Manning said he intends to submit claim to the Ontario Criminal Injuries Compensation Board for the time Roberts spent in prison even though the attomeygen eials office has said there is no basis for compensating the man In the very broad sense of the act he is victim of crime Manning said He is victim of murder as much as Joanne Anstett was victim because he has spent years injail because of what someone else did The lawyers said that being imprisoned at 18 for murder he always denied committing has drained Roberts of his abil ity to show emotion except to his family But Roberts said in recent interview that when the acquit tal was announced Dec 22 be doubled over and sobbed He said he considers the time spent in prison waste al though it didnt hurt me WINNERS OF THE CASH FOR LIFE $1000000 EARLY BIRD BONUS DRAW SOME BIG WINNERS FROM PREVIOUS DRAWS $500000 Latrambmse PteGat1neau 5100000 Gunning ngsvulle $27500 DiMeco Hamilton lst Prize $500000 3464844 2nd Prize 100000 3871883 THIS WEEKS WINNERS JANUARY 1978 3rd Prize 50000 3664688 4th Prize 27500 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