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em TORONTO CP John Craigx Eaton testified Monday that pleadedwith amasked gunman not to harm his preg nant Wife or his daughter who was briefly kidna gunman ppe the Mr Eaton chairman of Ea tons of Canada Ltd also said the kidnapper threatened to shoot him at one point of the in cident if he did not obey orders to stand up Ernest Caron 47 is charged Wlth kidnapping Signy Eaton 14 and with intent to kidnap Mr Eaton or member of his family The accused has only spoken once to ask for glass pf water since his arrest June Judge L10yd Graburn ap pomted lawyer Nicholson McRae to assist the court on matters of law in the case but he cannot defend Caron unless the accused requests defence The judge also placed plea of not guilty in the court record for the accused 1r Eaton testified he and his wife were tied separately and left in their bedroom by the gunman who later reappeared vith Signy one of three chil dren of Mr Eatons earlier marriage INTERVIEWED CARQN The man threw what later turned out to be ransom note refer $600000 on the floor the board chairman said Dr Fred Jensen psy chiatrist testified he tried to in terView Caron twice in jail but got no response The doctor said he feels Caron is staying silent by choice Catherine Benedict government typist testified she typed manuscript for CarOn learlier this year She said she knew him as Rene Bernett when he brought her the l2llooword manuscript en titled Stolen Year by Ernest GrilletPaysan Dr Jensen said he had read manuscript attributed to Caron and said it showed no evidence that the man is suffering from meiital illness have no doubt his in telligellce is above average he said Parkland HATHAM Ont CP The cost of parkland is soaring at time when people are spending little leisure time iii parks Pro vinctal Treasurer Darcy McKeough said Monday In speech to conference of the onservation Authorities of Ontario Vlr McKeough said the province holds almost 1075 million acres of parkland com pared with371 million acres in 1967 Admittedly lot of this acreage was Crown land and therefore cost us nothing he said But that is still an awful lot of parkland He said the ministry of natu ral resource was able to pur chase parkland for an avera of $84 an acre in 196768 butt cost rose to $878 an acre in 1975 7o Dies at 100 SARNIA nt CP Louis Thibeault died in hospital Sun day at the age of 100 He is sur vived by his wife two sons six grandchildren and 14 great jflgrandchldren building con tractor he was former resi dent ofTimmins and Windsor money OTTAWA CP The local Pollution Probe office has no money left to pay its staff spokesman for the group has said Gordon Rugg along with two other Pollution Probe work ers became the offices last paid employees when they drew their final $125aweek pay aiheques FridayBut the three intend to stay on as volunteers and the money problems should not spell an end to the office in operation for seven years Mr filigg said nutmeg Pleaded with gunman Eaton DENNIS TIMBRELL campaign Energy Issue STRATFORD Ont CP Ontario Energy Minister Den nis Timbrell began province wide campaign Monday to enlist community groups to motivate Ontario homeowners to conserve energy Mr Timbrell told the Strat ford Kiwanis Club that home energy audit program is one way to move homeowners to in spect their premises for energy waste The program would provide the homeowner with free ad vice on how to conserve energy the minister said Mr Timbrell said community groups would be asked to publi cize provinciallyprepared checklist and distribute and collect information from home owners he said The checklists would be analysed by computer and re turned to homeowners with sug gestions for ways of eliminating energy waste he said Mr Timbrell told the club that energy conservation is es sential to stretch energy re serves in the short term and re duce dependence on foreign supplies arrested ZAGREB AP Yugoslav authorities placed under formal arrest Monday four air traffic controllers on duty when two jet airliners slammed into each other in the worst air c0llisi0n in history They also scheduled me morial service Wednesday in Zagreb for the 176 victims of the disaster and ordered mass grave for them constructed at Vrobovec the Croatian town beneath the spot where British Airways jet airliner and Yugoslav chartered aircraft collided at an altitude of 32800 feet last Friday There were no survivors Arson charge SUDBURY Ont CP Nina Shepherd of Sudbury has been charged with arson following series of fires at shopping centre Friday and Saturday About $2000 worth of merchandise was destroyed in 10 fires police said Sculptor dies NIAGARAONTHELAKE Ont CP Phyllis Jacobine Jones sculptor who has worked on many architectural commissions died Monday She was 79 Miss Jones born in London England and trained in Britain and Europe before immigrating to Canada in 1932 has many of her works dis played in Canadian banks and churches Four stages ST CATHARINES Ont CP Fort employees of ETF Tools Lt have ratified twoyear contract providing an AT PICNIC Stevc Morris of Orillia spent some time Sundayat the picnic for the Georgian College Amateur Radio Club the Orillia club Lake Smlcoe Repeater club and Newmar ket club held at Springwater Provincial park Steves father is member of the Orillia club Examiner Photo hourly increase of 95 cents dentist from Borden Ont said spokesman for Local 4469 of the vaccines special mouthwashes United Steelworkers of America said Monday The in creases boosting the hourly base rate to $462 from $365 will be implemented in four steps Granted bail SARNIA Ont CP Ten persons charged with drugre lated offences following an RC MP raid on number of local residences Friday were gran ted bail Monday The 10 ac cused will appear in provincial courtSept 21 Gives advice POINT EDWARD Ont CP The provincial government should 100k into abuses of the hospital system in order to re duce costs and not make reduc tions in service Len Weldon chairman of the board of direc tors of St Josephs Hospital in nearby Sarnia said Monday Mr Weldon tOId service club meeting the hospital system is being overused and abused Woman shot WHITEFISH Ont CP hospital spokesman said Nancy Keranen 21 of Whitefish was in satisfactory condition Mon day with wounds suffered Saturday when she was shot with 3030calibre rifle Police said thewomen was struck by one shot in the right arm and right thigh Whitefish is about 10 miles southwest of Sudbury Two killed UXBRIDGE Ont CP Thomas Scott 32 and Scott An thony 17 both of T0ronto were killed in threecar accident Sanday near this community 30 miles northwest of Toronto Mr Scott and Mr Anthony were drivers of two of the cars The driver of the third car Brian Etter 16 of Toronto has been charged with criminal negligence causing death Mr Et er who was not injured is scheduled to appear in provin cial court in Ajax on Sept 28 Leadership TORONTO CP An On tario government official says Western countries must provide leadership in the treatment of the aged and provide guidelines that could be applied around the world Lawrence Crawford director 0f the Ontario office for aging said Synday that if Western countries do not provide this leadership deveIOping countries struggling to feed and house younger persons might make the choice on how to treat another burdensome group UIC call OTTAWA CP Tom COS sitt has called for changes in unemployment insurance ad ministrative procedures so claimants are not kept waiting for hours to file claim or in quire about missing cheque In written statement pre pared for release tOday Mr Cossitt PCLeeds said he had information which in dicated that two Ottawa em ployees of the unemployment insurance commission UIC had received threatening telephone calls apparently from disgruntled claimants Mr Cossitt said UIC em pl0yee had told him that on some days as many as 50 or 60 peo le are kept waiting in line for woorthreehours He repeated call for par liamentary investigation into UIC operations Our ketchup MONT CASCADES Que CP Bilingualism has be come Canadas national ket chup because everyone seems to be using the issue to cover their real problems says Hull MP Dr Gaston Isabelle And no one appears to be sat isfied with the results the Lib eral MP said during weekend miniconvention of young Liberals from Quebec Some Englishspeaking Ca nadians complain that they cant get ahead because of bili ngualism while some French speaking Canadians complain that there is not enough of it he said But the situation at least in the national capital region isnt as bleak as some say because we halve made tremen dous progress in the Ottawa Hull region especially in the public service Tooth battle EDMONTON CP Regular brushing and using dental floss remains the best way to combat tooth decay the Canadian Dental Association was told Monday LtCol PR McQueen SHERRY SAVES YOU MONEY Ladies Wear 125 Dunlop St and other formulas are only in the experimental stage There is an everincreasing possibility of vaccine against dental cavitiesH he said vaccine has been found to reduce and almost eliminate cavities in monkeys for two years But it may be several years before the vaccine is tried on humans number of experimental mouthwashes have been shown to contrOI tooth decay when used in place of brushing but not enough is known about side effects LtCol McQueen said d0nt think there will be magic mouthwash that youd use once week There doesnt seem to be one on the research horizon° In court NORTH BAY ont CP Donald James Kelly of North Bay was remanded Monday when the he appeared at the opening session of Ontario Su preme Court Kelly 38 faces 29 charges which include escaping lawful custody car theft kidnapping forcible seizure of persons and possession of weapon for purpose dangerous to the ublic peace The charges were aid in inAu st 1975 Kel was remanded to Oct 26 because his lawyer Richard Donnelly was absent from court due to illness ALEX CAMPBELL PM Tighter Prophecy CHARLOITETOWN CP Premier Alex Campbell of Prince Edward Island said Monday Prime Minister Trudeau probably will resign before the next federal election if there is not material im provement in the public stand ing of the Liberal party within the nextyear The Liberal premier dis cussing in an interview the prime ministers Sept 21 visit to the province said Mr Trudeau is fighter Most leaders would be dis couraged by the results of re cent polls and the antagonistic attitude of the media but Pierre Trudeau does not give in easily to opposition and will do his best to improve situ ation which is bad to say the least Premier Campbell said Mr Trudeau wants to meet groups of islanders to discuss problems without the presence of the media The plan is to have farm fisheries labor and tourism groups meet the prime minister with minimum of publicity Mr Campbell said Forest fires OTTAWA CP During July 1677 forest fires affecting 968000 acres of forest were re ported across Canada the envi ronment department an nounced Monday During July 1975 4341 fires affected 15 million acres to tal of 6386 fires in 23 million acres of forest were reported during the period between April and July 31 this year Highway toll TORONTO CP Health Minister Marc Lalonde said Monday efforts to get Cana dians to stop killing and in juring themselves on highways are showing signs of suecess eaking to an international au ience he said provincial laws such as those making seat belt use mandatory and those aimed at reducing drinking and driving are showing positive re sults The minister said some causes of death are diseases of choice affluence or neglect Individuals chooae con sciously or not to eat or drink unwisely to smoke excessively to drive too fast or to handle tools and guns carelessly he said The lifestyle of individ uals is frequently at fault VISITING THE STINSON HOUSE Inger Aarson hospital aux iliary volunteer left ex plains some of the finer points about the Stintson house in Barrie to June Melson and Judy Slinger The two women were taking as part in the Royal Victoria Hospital Auxiliary tour of area homes The Robert Stin son house on Theresa Street was formerly the Ardagh home It is considered an excellent example of what Broadbent raps inequities SAULT STE MARIE Ont CP Ed Broadbent turned his sights on the trust com panies Monday saying they ave managed significant in creases in profits this year de spite the federal antiinflation controls program The NDP national leader re leased figures that showed some trust companies with profits up more than 60 per cent over last year He said much of the trust companies profits came from mortgages major reason for the increase in the cost of h0us ing Mr Broadbent continued theme begun last week during tour of southern Ontario saying that these profit increases show that workers are being forced to sacrifice their wages to fight inflation There was little sacrifice evi dent on the corporate side he said It is this inequity this fail ure to hold down prices and rofits that the Liberals should explaining in their $12mil lion advertising campaign he told members of Local 2251 Ugited Steelworkers of Amer ic Mr Broadbent gave repor ters list of figures taken from company reports com ring trust company profits un rthe controls gerogram introduced last Octo with the period without controls The Metro litan Trust Co Toronto ha an increase in profits of 54 per cent to $104 million for thesimilar period Profits of Victoria and Grey Trust Co Lindsay Ont were up 33 per cent to $75 million for the nine months ended July 31 the list indicates In an interview later Bennett president of Victoria and Grey Trust Co said the profit figures quoted by Mr Broadbent are correct He said that most of the business from which the profit resulted was gnemted up to five years ago fore controls were imple mented Donald Neelands chairman of Canada Permanent Tmst C0 said in later interview that Mr Broadbents use of profit figures is misleading be cause 1974 and 1975 were gener ally p00r years for the trust in dustry Mr Broadbents list had Can ada Permanent rofits up 23 per cent at 874 lion Says bank chairman underestimates women TORONTO CP Anne Tomljenovic acting chairman of the Ontario Status of Women Council says the chairman of the Royal Bank of Canada un derestimates the capabilities of Canadian women Earle McLaughlin president and board chairman of the bank was quoted last week as saying no qualified women could be found to sit on the banks 48member board of di rectors It is obvious that Mr McLaughlin has not made thorough search nor consulted the available rosters of women qualified for the job she said in statement Monday Mrs Tomljenovic said such lists are compiled by the coun cil and the Canadian Federation of University Women She said the council will ask the board chairman for names and qualifications of the banks directors INEST FRENCH CUISINE Iiiic iii an elegant atmosphere enjoying the finest European special lies prepared 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Ford strike imminent states and paralyse the No US automaker If the UAW gon on strike and the walkout is prolonged one up to 170000 auto su ly em oyees might face layo fs WOULD HURT CANADA In addition spokesman for F0 Canada said that even though both sides agreed to ex tend the current contract for Ford workers in Canada strike in the United States would lead to the la offs of 14 000 employees in On rio within week due to parts shortages Ken Hallsworth vicepresi dent for industrial relations for Ford of Canada said the strike would close Fords truck and car plants in Oakville car plant in St Thomas two engine plants in Windsor an auto glass plant in Niagara Falls and arts depot in Brampton It wo also force the layoff of office workers in Windsor and Brampton Both sides said they would be available to resume talks today WHEELCHAIRS Removable log rests aluminium casters cushioned upholstery 3m Removable armrest $234 Lokomotic powerchoirs $625 Victorians called villa Five houses and the 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