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44 mm era neared hqhlxfih lNEWS ROUNDUP Fire kills ac LOS ANGELES AP smouldering cigarette may have caused fire that killed actorsm er Jack Cassidy sweeping is penthouse apart ment after party and charring his body beyond recognition fire official says The body was discovered early Sunday in the West Holly wood apartment belonging to the dimpled silverhaired per former It was several hours before the coroners office said that dental charts had con firmed the victim was Cassidy 4t father of onetime teenage Singing idol David Cassidy and former husband of actress singer Shirley ones An autopsy was scheduled for today but the spokesman said there is no evidence to indicate anything but an accidental death Investigators said his fourth floor apartment was littered wrth cigarette butts apparently left from Saturday night par Man charged TORONTO CP Cana dian Imperial Bank of Com merce branch manager will ap pear in court Jan 11 charged with defrauding the bank of $750000 Alexander Pellizzari 46 of Toronto was charged fol lowing an audit of dealings of Mississauga branch of the bank where he worked Police Said number of loans were obtained by various companies and indi viduals on the basis of fraudu lent applications Hit on head NEWCASTLE Ont CP Two Oshawa youths were charged with robbery with vio lence Saturday after taxi driver Ron Heffernan who works for an Oshawa company was hit over the head with hammer Guy Edward Prince 19 and Terry William Dennis 18 were arrested and charged few hourslatcr Church gone SI PETERS NS CP St Annes Mission Church historic Indian shrine on an island in the Bras dOr Lakes in Cape Breton was destroyed by fire Saturday The church was located on Chapel Island part of the Chapel Island Micmac Reserve Sign fiiiiict NEW GLASGOW NS CP Workers atxthe Maritime Steel and Foundries Ltd plant voted 90 per cent in favor of ac cepting new twoyear con tract offer during the weekend The contract will raise to $580 from $540 the average hourly wage of about 73 members of Local 3071 Inited Steelworkers of America retroactive to July They will receive anad ditional 10 cents hourly next Julyl Skier saved BANFF Alta CP Two ski instructors saved the life of skier Sean Staplin 17 of Cal gary who was buried Saturday in about five feet of snow fol lowing an avalanche in closed area at Sunshine Village in Banff National Park Dave Donnelly area manager for Parks Canada said the skier was buried for seven minutes and had stopped breathing when rescued by the in structors They dug him out and started his breathing with mouthtomouth rcscusitation New plans WINNIPEC CPJ The new leader of the Social Credit par ty of Canada said Saturday that if his party forms federal gov ernment the provinces will be given more powers Andre For tin told news conference dur ing partybuilding visit to Manitoba the provinces need more control over their affairs He said Social Credit govern ment would make the federal role that of Hirdinatorf Pardoned NAIROBI AP President Jomo Kenyatta said Sunday he is pardoning 10600 criminals held in Kenyan jails He an nounced the pardons at gar den party held as part of Kenyas commemoration of its l3th anniversary of independ ence from Britain Kenyatta did not specify what types of criminals will be freed but or dered their release as from today Painter dies IBIZA Balearic Islands AP Elmyr dc Hory 65 Hun garian aintcr known as mas ter art orger and the subject of Clifford Irvings book Fakel died Saturday Authorities said de Hory was taken to clinic where he died after being found unconscious at his home in San Jose about 15 miles from the capital of Ibiza Ships sold ROME Renter Italys stateowntxlltalia shi pingline sold its two former fag ships the luxury liners ichaelangelo and Raffaello to Iran on Sun day for almost $18 million each The two liners will be used as floating hotels for the Iranian navy and will be delivered in about six months officials said KURT WALDIIEIM Major fund TORONTO CP Kurt Waldheim United Nations secretarygeneral said Sunday he will announce this week the establishment of $lbillion agricultural fund for Third World countries Reduce terms WARSAW Reuter Three Poles convicted of collective violence during last Junes food price riots had their sentences reduced on appeal Saturday af ter defence lawyers spoke of police beatings and legal mal practice Their sentences of five to eight years im prisonment were reduced to two to six years retrial was ordered in fourth case and the court upheld sentences on two others The convictions were the result of riots in Radom where 75 police were injured and the Communist party headquarters were set on fire Use tear gas TEL AVIV AP Police used clubs and tear gas Satur day to disperse Arab youths de monstrating in the occupied West Bank town of Nablus against new Israeli tax sim ilar to sales tax Stonethrouu ing protests began six days ago and Nablus merchants contin ued business strike against the eight per cent tax Unopposed ALGIERS AP Houari Boumedienne was formally elected president on an unop posed ballot Friday by 9523 per cent of Algerias 78 million vot ers Interior Minister Mohamed ben Ahmed Abdelghani said Saturday He said 9582 per cent of Algerian voters turned out for the election It was the first presidential vote since Boume dienne took power in 1965 Find heroin ROME AP Airport police found about pounds of pure heroin worth $12 million in se cret compartments of two suit cases Malaysian tried to carr through customs of ficia said Saturday Police said Tan Ah Tee 26 and an unidentified second Malaysian were arrested after the seizure of the drug Friday Will return BANGKOK Reuter Thai lands new military govern ment has agreed to allow the countrys former military rulers still in exile to return torsinger We in home Prime Minister Thanin Kraivichien said former de uty premier Praphas Charusa ien and Col Narong Kittikachorn have right to return because they are Thai citizens Praphas and Narong together with Thanon Kittikachorn Narongs father went into selfexile after they were overthrown in studentled rebellion in 1973 The military overthrew the sub sequent democraticallyelected government Oct May resign PITTSBURGH AP United Steelworkers USW President Abel who plans to retire in June says hell resign early if union dissident Edward Sadlowski is chosen to succeed him in the unions elec tion this Feb Abel said vic tory for Sadlowski will be vote of no confidence in his administration Sadlowski head of the USWs Chicago district and longtime critic of Abel is opposed in the presidential election by Lloyd McBride director of the the un ions St Louis district Abel has declined to formally endorse McBride lLIiS Llitililt Hold party OTTAWA CP GovGen Jules Leger and his wife staged Christmas party Sunday for handful of boys and girls at their official residence Government House The children members of three units of the Ottawa Boys Club presented the viceregal couple with handmade git ts New program TORONTO Pl new carinsurance program is being considered to replace the industryoperated pooling plan for insuring substandard claimprone drivers car in surance spokesmen say Liza qty nrwwmta An intensive course in the study of municipal govern ment is part of the training received by students at Georgian College enrolled in the Law and Security Ad ministration Program In cluded are visits to several departments of the City of Barrie to receive briefings and learn the workings of municipal government in HANGING IN FUN HOUSE Body oftTam robber found LOS ANGICLIIS AP EL mer cCurdy swore hed never be taken alivc so he died with his boots on shot to death by an Oklahoma sheriffs posse in 1911 Hed be mortified to know that he ended up mummified as fun house dummy The body tentatively identilt fied as that of the train robber was used as carnival side show attraction and as security against $500 loan It gathered dust in wax museums ware house and painted to glow in the larkrmhung from gallows in an amusement park fun house The body was found Thur sday when television crew was filming segment of The Six Million Dollar Man in the fun house at Long Beach Calif One of the mummys arms fell off and when technician tried to glue it back on he discovered the arm bone of human cor pse The discovery started scar ch into the mummys origin and an autopsy was conducted During the incdical ex amination an oldstyle copper jacketed bullet was extracted from the corpscs stomach Identification of the mummy as McCurdy was traced through salts and purchases by carnivlandexhibitors nun141911 Vlcturdy and three of his outlaw gang held up train in Oklahoma News paper accounts say the robbers took $46 from mail clerk and considerable merchandise SURROUND BARN Western historian Glen Shir ley of Stillwatcr Okla said sherrifts posse surrounded the ragga Minnelli Bergman of 24 IlG IIAIUII 460UNLOP ST 347 SCOREi with gaoxv 458 tauti silicaA Les uoYER LAST DAYS TOTHECRMIKMSCHAMPTOHISFAM1LYAQUTTTUI nonrandom twtlfllfkltlwl Complete Show at 700 Matter of Time at 700 Goldenrod at 900 wWuOomnm Here it is again Back By Papular Demand Bayfield St Barrie 7280941 barn whch McCurdy had holed up and challenged him to sur render or die McCurdy refused says an account of the incident in the Pawhuska Okla Journal saying he would not be taken alive and opened fire on the posse that surrounded the barn 30minute gunbattle raged ending when Elmer was picked off by bullet The sheriff apparently sold the outlaws body to carnival owner who had the body mum mified Displaying mummified bodies was common practice among carnivals in the 19205 and 1930s Thcn carnival owner Louis Sonney obtained McCurdys body in 1921 as security on $500 loan that was never repaid He used the it in his trav elling freak show until about the Second World War when such attractions lost their ap peat McCurdys mummy was retired to dusty warehouse where it remained until 1968 The Hollywood Wax Museum bought the body and later sold it to NirPike Amusement Park where it was painted fluor an st mt +iJg aila cr CITY OFFICES VISITED BY STUDENTS respect to bylaws which relate to law enforcement group of firstyear students were briefed recently on city planning by Rick Jones of the City Development Depart escent red and hung from makeshift gallows There it re mained until the discovery on Thursday Officials here say Elmer Mc Curdy will finally find his peace after 65 years in freak shows and dusty warehouses ment From left back row Barrie students Neil Gibson Chris McCurley Steve Knapp and Mr Jones front row Gord Campbell and Marie Deane also of Barrie Makes denial ZURICH Reuter mil lionaire Dutch art dealer wan ted in the Netherlands for questioning about Nazi killing of Polish Jews during the Second World War denied Sun day any involvement in the mass executions Pieter Men ten 77 was arrested on an in ternational warrant last week by Swiss police for great entertainment 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