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the examiner Monday0ct 24 1977 extra US dollar drops in hectic trading UONDON Reuter The US dollar dropped sharply on foreigncxchange markets in hectic trading today as con cern reemerged over the US economy Dealers fled toward the Swiss franc traditional haven at times of anxiety The Japanese yen was also strong reflec ting Japans huge trade surplus The dollar sank to record low of 22362 Swiss francs in ac tive trading in Zurich It closed there on Friday at 22530 Swiss francs and opened today at 22437 In London the US currency edged up slightly later to 22181 Swiss francs People were also buying gold today as safety measure and the metals price rose by $1 above last Fridays closing rate on the Swiss bullion market It reached $16263 US an ounce dealers in Zurich said The drop in the US currencv reversed modest recovery at the end of last week when dealers were encouraged by reassuring remark from Treasury Secretary Michael Blumenthal Ford appeals judgment TORONTO CP Ford Motor Co of Canada Ltd has be gun Division Court appeal of smallclaims judgment that awarded Toronto man $400 for prematurelyrusted car Alex Traill said he was notified Saturday that the com pany will appeal the decision made by Judge John Roberts of county court last week Ford has agreed to pay about 700000 owners of 197073 ve hicles up to $300 each compensation for prematurelyrusting vehicles Bongo leaves Canada MONTREAL CP After fourday visit to Canada Gabon President Omar Bongo left Sunday having suc cessfully completed negotiations for Slsomillion credit line with the Canadian government In weekend interview Bongo said the deal could only enhance political relations between the central African country and Canada and that Canadian businessmen could be assured of warm welcome in his country During his Ottawa stay Bongo met with GovGen Jules Leger and held conversations with Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau The $150 million credit line was obtained from the Canadian Export and Development Corporation Rides the range ARMSTRONG Tex AP Prince Charles donned cowboy gear chars and all to ride the Texas range But he sat on an English saddle Prince Charles was on horseback Sunday riding through herd of cattle with his hosts Tobin and Anne Amrstrong who was ambassador to the Court of St Jamess when Gerlt ald Ford was US president It was the start of threeday tour of the Lone Star State The prince was scheduled to visit Houston today for tour of the US Space Centre On Tuesday he travels to San An tonio for tour of the Alamo No promise says Vorster PRETORIA AP Prime Minister John Vorster said in an interview broadcast Sunday that he never promised US President Carter that South Africa would not develop nuclear weapons He had simply repeated previous statement that we are only interested in peaceful development of nuclear fa crlities television network ABC Vorster said in the interview with the US Carter told Washington news conference last August that South Africa had informed US officials it does not have and is not planning to develop either peaceful or military nuclear devices The question of South Africas nuclear intentions arose last summer amid series of reports from the Saviet Union and France that South Africa was planning to set off nuclear test explosion l000 protest raid MONTREAL CPI About 1000 Montreal homosexuals sympathizers and onlookers jammed downtown Ste Cath erine Street early Sunday to protest police raid on drink ing establishment described as gay bar Demonstrators shouted fascist dogs and gestapo as policemen on motorcycles equipped with sidecars cleared the street At least two persons in the crowd were knocked down by the unoccupied sidecars The demonstration followed morality squad raid at the downtown Trux Cruising Bar early Saturday 45 die in accidents in Canada on weekend By THE CANADIAN PRESS mother and her 16month old son killed Sunday in house fire at Sturgeon Falls Ont were among at least 45 persons who died accidentally in Can ada during the weekend survey by The Canadian Press from pm Friday until midnight Sunday night local times also showed ax traffic fagt talitrcs three drowmngs Itl other fire death and boy kilnl when struck by train Besides three fire deaths in cluding the two in Sturgeon Falls Ontario had 10 traffic fa talities and the boy struck by train In Quebec 11 traffic deaths and one drowning were re ported Seven persons were killed in traffic accidents and one person drowned in British Columbia Three traffic deaths were re ported in Saskatchewan and two in Newfoundland In Nova Scotia one person drowned and one person died in traffic accident New Bruns Saudi buys luxury liner for use as floating resort PARIS AP The France the worlds largest luxury liner has been bought by Saudi Arabian busintsstnan for use as floating resort the owners an nounced today Jacques liriedmann president of the French governmentowned shipping combine that held title to the France said the sale price fell within the limits of $12 to $20 million set by the French government but declined to give specific figure The bu er identified as Ak ram Oj eh head of the Swrss based AGFinance Will take ession at Le Havre where mFrance has beenmoth bailed since it was retired In July 1974 because of mounting wick Prince Edward Island Alberta and Manitoba each re ported one traffic fatality The survey excludes indus trial deaths slayings and known suicides The Ontario dead Saturday Dennis Adams 13 New market when struck by train while riding his bicycle on railway crossing in Newmarkct III kilometres nor th of Toronto Bruce Clayton Cam bridge in singlecar crash in Oakville 16 kilometres south west of Toronto Annetta Cross 73 Wood stock after being struck by car in that city William Erven 72 Min nedosa Man in twocarcolli sion near Wawa 160 kilometres north of Sault Ste Marie Lorne Grieve 40 Mis sissauga in twocar collision on Highway 401 just west of Mil ton 32 kilometres southwest of Toronto Frank Hayes 24 Essex in deficits The owners Compagnie Gen erale Maritime said the deal was signed Friday Friedmann said the France BARRIE DENTURE CLINIC COLELIIA DJ Complete Denture Service 7264 72 I49A Dunlop St Barrie Member Dcnturist Society ofIOImIrio Terrorist killed In this copyright photo by Catherine LeroyTIME Magazine the body of an unidentified terrorist lies on the ground at Mogadishu Somalia early Oct 18 after West Ger man commandos stormed hijacked Lufthansa jetliner freeing 86 hostages Copyright 1977 Catherine LeroyTIME Magazine via AP Photo $8 million profit KITCHENER CPI The Record says Ontario Housing Corp OHC may make an $8million profit during the next five years on area farmland it bought to provide lowcost houses The newspaper says the corporation bought the land nine years ago for an average $3500 an acre and has since spent total of 530000 an acre including $26500 an acre for car rying c0sts and servicing It quotes Housing Minister John Rhodes as saying OHC is selling the serviced land to private developers for between $75000 and $90000 an acre OHC expects expenses of $9 million and an income of about $17 million from the land the newspaper says It also quotes Rhodts as saying he sees nothing wrong about the land sales because the money realized from the sales will be used on behalf of the people in this province Vandals derail train WINDSOR nt ICP Vandals were believed respon sible for the derailment of Canadian National Railways train Sunday that resulted in minor injuries to three passengers and caused an estimated $70000 damage CN spokesman said about 340 passengers were in the ninecar train shortly after pm when it hit spur switch that was believed to have been tampered with Most of the passengers were Americans takin advantage of weekend tour package between Windsor an Toronto The three injured persons were identified as Margaret Hussey 66 of Grosse Isle Michylxmise Carter 61 of Car leton Mich and Vivian Rayman 27 of Southgate Mich They were treated for minor injuries and released from hospital Joseph Letwin CN general yardmaster said the switch was believed to have been opened illegally Attitude must change CORNER BROOK Nfld CP Premier Frank Moores says Newfoundlanders are tired of being treated as second class citizens and Ottawas attitude toward the province must change Maybe it will take dramatic action to do this like pulling the switch on the Upper Churchill he said Saturday in speech to the annual convention of the Newfoundland Progressive Conservative Association If so pull the swit ch we will Moores told about 500 delegates that Canada is splin tered country breaking apart and economically unsound be cause Ottawa will not listen to the needs of provinces twocar accident in Windsor Oscar Huard 64 Ottawa in twocar collision in that city Isabel McCarroll 72 Toron to ina house fireinthatcity Mark Rock 17 Denfield and Brian Rollings 19 Komoka when their car hit parked truck on concession road near Strathroy 24 kilometres west of London Brian Hawkins 21 Thunder Bay when the car in which he was passenger plunged into Divide Lake about 55 kilometres west of that city BARRIE Sunday Allan Chapados 13 months Blind River when the car in which he was passenger left Highway 17 and rolled over near that community 115 kilo metres southeast of Sault Ste Marie Linda Mary Commanda 23 and her 16monthold son lal las Terrance Sturgeon Falls in house fire in that community 32 kilometres west of North Bay would be used as floating ho tel and leisure centre by the new owners He said that its fu ture location depended on stud ies still under wav PUPPIES SMALL DOGS MEDIUM DOGS LARGE DOGS KITTENS moms suoar HAIR Independence for survival PARIS CP Quebecers need political independence to assure their cultural survival Premier Rene Levesque told French television audience Sunday night But although the premier sees as irreversible the evolution toward independence which began with the elec tion of the Parti Quebecois last Nov 15 he says that does not mean Quebec wants to Isolate itself from English Canada Interviewed journalist JeanLouis ServanSchreiber on the TFl televisron network Levesque said Quebec wants new constitutional arrangement which will let us breathe easy in an association of equals with majority which until now has never accepted this equality PQ too narrow FREDERICTON CP Gordon Fairweather the new chief commissioner of the Canadian Human Rights Com mission described the focus of the Parti Quebecois govern ment Saturday as reactionary too narrow and too dangerously inward It is tragedy Fairweather said because many people had welcomed the chan to seemingly progressrve government that promis social reform But instead the Quebec government has concentrated on one arealangua eand is seriously challenging the rights of the Inuit peop in the North Fairweather former Progressive Conservative member of Parliament for Fundy Royal made the comments to graduates of St Thomas University and in an interview But he said he sees no role for himself in tackling Quebecs new language law Band opposes Hydro KENORA Ont CP The chief of Lac La Croix band says the band is opposed to an Ontario Hydro project for coalbuming plant to be built near Atikoken Ont about 225 kilometres northwest of Thunder Bay Chief Steve Jourdain said in statement Saturday that the proposed plant to be constructed near the band reserve will subject the band to acid rain and other pollutants Our experience has taught us to place little trust in either Ontario Hydro or the government of Ontario in matters of environmental rotection The chief sai many reserves have unusable tracts of land because hydro lines have needlessly criscrossed the reserve and other reserves have received no compensation for ex tensive flood damages caused by Hydro projects Workers ratify pact KITCHENER Ont CP About 800 employees at BF Goodrich Canada Ltd tire plant voted Sunday to ratify new threeyear contract with the compan The agreement affecting members Local 677 United Rubber Workers provides hourly wage increases of 35 cents for the first year 24 cents in the second year and 20 cents in the third year Shift premiums were also increased by five cents an hour Current average wage at the plant is $586 an hour The agreement retroactive to Oct includes family dental plan and an improved costofliving escalator clause Under improved pension arrrangements 62yearold employee with 30 years service may retire with $545 mon th Previously he would have received $47750 month Cant match MDs pay TORONTO CPI Dennis Timbrell Ontario health minister says he wishes Ontario doctors moving to the US to earn more mone well but the province cannot compete with higher medica salaries offered in the US The minister said in an interview he will announce early this week in the Ontario legislature the number of doctors who have moved to the US He said the figures gathered from the US immigration service and the College of Physicians and Surgeons of On tario do not indicate mass migration of doctors Doctors who are planning to leave or have left said more money can be earned for less work and bureaucratic harass ment in the US Timbrell said he is not trying to harass or control doctors Confidence lack blamed CORNER BROOK NFLd CP Progressive Con servative Leader Joe Clark said Saturday the decline of the Canadian dollar is due not to the Quebec issue but to lack of confidence in the Trudeau government Trudeau calls it floating dollar but its floating dollar that has sprung leak Clark said in speech to the annual meeting of the Newfoundland Progressive Con servative Association Clark said Finance Minister Jean Chretiens minibudget stole the Conservatives thunder We proposed tax cuts for Canadians with incomes less than $16000 months ago and were glad the minister finally listened BAYFIELD MALLS ANNUAL PET SHOW SATURDAY NOVEMBER 5th AT 1000 AM HERES HOW YOU CAN ENTER JUST FILL OUT THE BALLOT BELOW AND SEND IT OR BRING IT TO BAYFIELD 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stores are re fusing to give US customers full remium on theirmoney Windsor Chamber of Commerce has been trying to encourage merchants to pay the full discount rate but spokesman says only about half of them comply Some stores which cater to US trade report substantial increase in business Since the beginning of Octo ber said Eli Goldin of Lazares Furs the number of US cus tomers seeking bargains in mink coats and similar gar ments has more than doubled few blocks from the De troitWindsor Tunnel the owner of store specializing in jewelry and china said he ex pects tremendous increase in US business Some shoppers are finding however that their bargains are not such moneysavers af ter they are stopped at US Customs on the way back Sometimes they have to pay so much duty on their pur chases that they might have been better off shopping at home Toronto radar out of date says controllers official TORONTO CP The T0 says inefficient radar equip ronto chairman of the Canadian Air Traffic 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