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lt MO Fami ies ardhit in GI COLUMBIA Tenn AP Eight black hearses were lined up in muddy construction field to carry off the bodies of 34 jail inmates and eight of their visitors from makeshift morgue in the basement of Maury County Hospital As teams of attendants wheeled the bodies down the hall on stretchers and carted them out to the waiting cortege Melvin Mashburn of Bodenham Tenn escorted his grieving wife to their car They had been to the county jail to visit their son Johnnie Sunday afternoon but were turned away They were too late for visiting hours We were about five minutes too late So we turned around and headed for home Mashbum said Then they heard on the car radio about the jail fire and swung back to find out what had happened to their boy who had been held for driving without licence They didnt tell me anything Mashbum said They seen his body yet inmate set fire to cell authorities sai st was the Golden Shirley and Calvin Calvin and Jan ire tragedy Quebec GM told me they had identified my son Johnnie but we havent Johnnie and the others were asphyxiated after juvenile Nearly dozen funeral homes received bodies Stunned relatives came in to make arrangements Some families were harder hit than others One of the wor inmates died along with his visiting parents Ralph and months said Janices aunt Rachel Ketchum She said her niece was friendly and outgoing pretty young woman ser ving drunken driving sentence She couldnt remember why Calvin was behind bars By ESTELLE DORAIS THE CANADIAN PRESS the onestorey county jails only padded The General Motors of Can ada Ltd GM assembly plant in Ste Therese 15 miles north of Montreal is the only automo bile plant in the province and ranks at the top of GMs 27 Nor th American plants Nick Hall spokesman at company headquarters in Osh awa Ont says car quality measurement shows the plant consistently ranks in the top 10 and ranked eighth when the last family in which Calvin and Janice both sister Dorothy Wright ice had only been married two or three measurement was made June 20 Hall said this was particu larly good rating because the plant makes six models with hundreds of trim and option variations Ste Therese has been making several models since it opened in 1965 and is currently under going its third conversion to produce different cars The plant has also been ex panded to 1295000 square feet double its original area Kenmore features Then come to Sears for price too 37998 2speed 5program auto matic Kenmore washer Normal Delicate or knit Permapress Prewash and Presoak programs washrinse temperature combinations Variable water level control Rotaswirl agitator for thorough wash action Selfcleaning lint filter Rinse agent dispenser Pump guard Lid safety switch With Suds Saver $25 more Available in Harvest Gold $10 more See it today 4998 Matching Kenmore Fabric Master automatic dryer Automatically shuts off when clothes reach the amount of dryness you select lndial knit setting Noheat air cycle fluffs blankets Dries plastics Airs out draperies Pushtostart button Easy to reach topmounted lint screen Safety switch stops tumbling action if door is opened Available in Harvest Gold $10 more 26998 118cu ft chest freezer with foam insulation When the plant opened it as sembled the big Pontiac mod els It was then converted to produce Vegas and Astres then again to make the Buick Sky hawk the Chevrolet Monza the Pontiac Sunbird and the Olds mobile Starfire WORKERS PREPARE The plant is currently produc ing 4000 of these sporty sub compacts week while 600 con struction workers proceed with the conversion for production of the 1978 Buick Cutlass and Olds pushbutton Includes Pots and able spacing pins Fanforced air dryi With interchangab Decorator Colors forced air drying tingboard top VWw the examiner Tuesday June 28 1977 15 mobile Century family of inter mediate cars and station wag ons beginning Nov Paulette Charbonneau company official at the Ste Therese plant said getting the new cars means things are looking great for Ste Therese The plant will be closed from August to November for the last stages of the conversion but the 3700 workers will get 95 per cent of their regular pay during the layoff Assembling the new cars will 33998 Buittin dishwasher choices Pans cycle 2level washing action 155° Saniwash Front load Square upper rack with adjust ng with Power Miser option Fits space 24 24l2 3412 Easytofollow in stallation instructions le color panels Portable model with Woodgrain laminate top $3 6998 $10 more 43998 Sears best builtin Heavyduty dishwasher separate washes and rinses for hardtoclean pots pans 3level washing action 155° Sanirinse option for all cycles Rinse agent injector Water temp indicator lights Cancel Drain option Fan Power Miser option Portable model with Walnut cut 546998 Colors $10 more Nosag moisturefree foam one of best kinds of insulations Holds 395 lb Two easyreach baskets Counterbalanced lid trees both hands Epoxy onepiece food line Interior work light and Power Inter ruption light Protective lockkey 22 998 Spacesaving min chest holds 280 lb 80cu ft freezer with foam insulation Adjustable cold control Counterbalanced lid Easyreach storage basket Power Interruption light ideal freezer for apartment or cottage plant tops on the continent not produce any new jobs said Miss Charbonneau The plant will continue to work two shifts but the workers will make 45 cars an hour instead of the cur rent 50 because the new models carry more options and have such features as electric win dows An operatoran unskilled workerwmakes about $8 an hour at Ste Therese $15 an hour when fringe benefits are included she says The average age of the work force which includes 200 women is 25 and 95 per cent are Frenchspeaking GO ON STRIKE The only serious labor prob lems at the plant occurred in the early 19705 when workers went on strike over the lan guage issue The only strike since then was sixhour walkout in Sep tember 1976 just before the latest collective agreement was signed Miss harbonneau said The plant manager has working knowledge of French 90 per cent of production fore men 75 per cent of general foremen and 55 per cent of the superintendents are French or bilingual she said Collective agreements and negotiations are in French and employees are asked their lan guage preference for forms and other documents We had all the requirements under Bill 22 the Official Lan guagc Act and now we are waiting for the new require ments when Bill the French Language harterl is enacted but we are not expecting any thingterrible When youre working with French people on the line you have to pick up some French Miss Charbonneau added Of the guys who joined in 1965 some learned French and some English ANDRE LELIET loss for row houses Insulation $500 extra per house llAWA lil New fed eral home insulation standards announced Monday will add about $500 to the cost of building bungalow and somewhat less for row and apartment units says Urban Affairs Minister Andre luellet But uellct said in state ment that the costs will be quickly recouped through energy savings An energy department of ficial estimated the extra in sulation Costs would be recovered through fuel savings in about five years The buyer of new house will not qualify for federal grants under the anadian home in sulation program announced jointly by Oucllet and Energy Minister Alastair Gillespie The grants apply only to older homes Owners of older homes will be able to get federal grants of up to $350 to cover twothirds of the insulation cost under the $1 billion program The rest will have to come out of the home owncrs pocket uellct said that the new re quircments will add $250 to the cost of row house and $75 to the cost of an apartment unit Less insulation is needed per unit in nuiltipleunit housing MORE WORK NEEDED Residents in some cities may have to do more to bring their homes up to the new standards than people in other centres cntral Mortgage and Housing Corp TMHW figures indicate that cities such as Victoria and Vancouver in moderate cli mates aie further below the new federal standards The new standards will ap ply effective Sept to all new federallyassisted housing Atid it will apply to all new and existing housing in qualifying provinces FOR BETTER PRlNlING SEE JOHN COCKBURN lIMITED gt6 MORROW ROAD BARRIE 728 28 Printers SlllCC l960