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Great Crash stories cited in market drops TORONTO CP Canadas two largest stock markets suffered steep drops Monday and some analysts put the blame partly on articles published about the Great Crash of 1929 At Toronto the TSE 300 index the main indicator of price levels fell 6022 points to 153725 the secondlargest daily loss iv ecords dating from the beginning of 1976 The record dropI was on Oct vhen the index fell 6437 points Toronto Stock Exchange said stock values tell by about $376 billion on paper At Montreal the composite index was down 950 to 26835 and the industrial index 960 to 28175 Market analysts said many investors feared return of the Great Crash the most disastrous event in North Ameri can financial history after reading articles about it par ticularly in the Weekend Magazine on Saturday Neil Wickham of Bell Gouinlock Ltd in Toronto said guess lot of people read the articles in the Weekend Maga zine and number of people were scared by them Toronto analyst who asked not to be identified said People have called here all day and cited those articles Individual investors have literally gotten panicstricken and want to sell everything Concerned over school financial cuts OTTAWA CP The Federation of Catholic Parent Teacher Associations of Ontario says it is concerned that separate schools are suffering from financial cuts and plans to discuss financing with provincial education ministry officials During the federations recent annual meeting in Ottawa chairman Jack MacKinnon said We have to rely heavily on provincial grants that often seem to be in doubt Fullday kindergarten grants have been cut to halt day Were also hoping to receive more funds for the education of the trainable retarded in separate schools Queries identity of chickens TORONTO CP Opposition member Colin lsaacs conducted showandtell lesson Monday by pulling freshlybought dead chicken out of shopping bag in the legislature lsaacs NDPWentworth told Agriculture Minister Lorne Henderson that consumers have no way of knowing whether chickens are from Canada or the US Last week the federal government authorized the import of 48 million pounds of chickens for 1980 and 52 million pounds in 1981 Henderson quoted figures showing that imported chickens represented 68 per cent of the Canadian market in 1978 and less than six per cent in 1979 Three teenage victims honored HAMILTON CP Three teenaged boys who lost their lives in plunge down conservation gorge last week were honored Monday by special mass at Bishop Ryan high school with more than 1100 students in attendance Separate funeral services were held for students Peter Shkimba and Michael Slywka both 17 who were given honor guards chosen from their home room classmates The other victim of Thursdays tragedy 16yearold Emil Jerman former student at Bishop Ryan also was buried in separate service at Holy Sepulchre Cemetery Dieppe dead remembered LONDON Ont CP The names of 27 members of the he Royal Canadian Engineers who were killed in the Dieppe Raid in the Second World War have been engraved on recentlyerected monument in New Haven on the south coast of England Wastell of London comradein arms learned of the memorial in letter he received this week from niece in the English community It was over IOyear period TORONTO CP The Canadian Press distributed an er roneous report Sunday that scientists believe the amount of pollution from the lnco Ltd smelter in Sudbury Ont in the last 10 years equals that emitted by all volcanoes in the history of the world In fact both emit the same amount on the average over the same 10year period Welfare funds recovered TORONTO CP The introduction last year of pro gram that cost $1 million to operate has allowed Ontario to recover more than $45 million in improperlypaid welfare funds Keith Norton minister of community and social services said Monday The eligibility review program outlined as legislature committee began studying the ministrys 197980 estimates is geared to catching welfare recipients no longer eligible for an allowance or husbands of recipients in arrears of courtordered payments Few incidents in police strikes TRURO NS CP Down town traffic was heavier than usual and there were few ar rests for minor offences but Monday was relatively quiet night in the three northern Nova Scotia towns whose police forces are on strike As has been the case since the strike began here last Friday the night brought the sound of squealing tires and the sight of joy riders primarily along few blocks of the old central business district Policemen walking the picket line outside the police station are within sight of whatever happens in these blocks RCMP said there was no overt drinking here although there were reports of few disturbances few fights but no special activities in New Glasgow In Amherst on the NSNew Brunswick border RCMP offi cers arrested three persons in connection with and rock throwing incidents uring Mon days first night of the town po lice forces strike But the situ ation was uneventful except for heavier downtown traffic and the squealing of tires STRATEGY PLANNED Shortly after the Amherst po Iicemeo walked off the job Mon day afternoon merchants met to plan strateg spokesman said later that some had de cided to stay in their stores overnight RCMP officers have taken over police duties in the three towns ad so far there have been incidents of vandalism 3such as occurred in Bathurst NB earlier in the year when the RCMP was not called in during the towns police strike Joe Ross executive director of the Police Association of Nova Scotia said in an inter view Monday that the three strikes will either make or break the association For the last 12 years weve been attempting to upgrade the municipal police officers in this province and get reasonable living wage for them and we havent been too successful Each year the association went to the bargaining table and got tiny increases but this time he said the members felt weve got to either have rea sonable salary to do our jobs or they can turn the whole towns over to the RCMP on per manent basis Attorney General Harry How said Monday the government will have to consider having the police forces designated essen tial services it such strikes pro literate and if they are particu larly disruptive Wages are the major issue in all three strikes The union is seeking top 1979 salary of $15400 for Amherst members $16000 or New Glasgow police men and $16500 for the Truro force police constable in Amherst currently earns 313000 year constable in New Glasgow earns about $13500 annually while Truro constable earns little under $14000 year FIRST AERIAL PICTLRE Gaspard Felix Toumachon took the worlds first aerial pgtograph while ballooning over Paris in the late 18505 Hit by tornado Edward Herbert his head bleeding sifts through the wreckage of his service station destroyed by tornado that hit coastal Cameron Parish south of Lake Charles Monday Herbert was inside the station when the twister hit AP Photo Raps Ottawa an act changes OTTAWA CPI Stanley Knowles New Democratic Party House leader criticized the government Monday for what he called degrading treatment of women in proposed amendments to the Old Age Security Act He was debating bill that provides that pensioners spouses between ages 60 and 65 will not be cut off oldage pension benefits after their husbands or wives die Some 2200 people most of them women are expected to benefit each year from the bill the first the new government has brought to the Commons for second reading approval in principle Knowles longtime crusader for pension improvements promised support for the bill But he complained that the legislation treats women as less than persons because it applies only to widows and not to women who have never been married Average income up but OTTAWA CPI Average family income rose last year by six per cent but the actual buying power of an average family dropped by three per cent Statistics Canada said Monday Last year the average family had becometax income of 321346 compared with $20101 the previous year Since the cost of living rose by nine per cent during the same period the dollar increase was not enough to keep up with the rate of inflation The average income of an unattached individual last year was $8861 an increase of seven per cent from the previous year For men the figure was $13522 and for women $6312 Family incomes by region were Atlantic provinces $17 064 Quebec $20261 Ontario $22628 Prairie provinces $21 242 and British Columbia $23327 Fund established for family ACTON Ont CP The dedication of physician who spent seven years in this community before moving to the US in August has not been forgotten by his friends and for mer patients Town residents have established trust fund for Dr Vukovich and his family after hearing that police in Cedar Rapids Iowa have charged his wife Mary Abigail with the stabbing death of their son Michael Mrs Vukovich 36 also is charged with the attempted murder of her other sens Matthew and Jonathan four months Vukovich was to start job at hospital in Waterloo Iowa on OcL the day his eldest child died Gary Barton an Acton pharmacist said the fund was established mainly for the doctors two surviving sons and will remain open until the end of December BARRIE FLOOR WA Remnants and I2 ft wide cushion vinyls Ceramic and mosaic tile for floor wall We carry complete line of doit yourself accessory products INSTALLATIONS By our own in store proficient factory trained mechanics available BARRIE FLOOR WA Bill FARM no 7285862 Serving Barrie and area since I958 Haw Conspiring to defraud public case Testifies about axing reen meat TORONTO CPI Quebec butcher said Monday he would drive to deadstock meat plant near Smiths Falls Ont buy tons of meat packaged for pet food and resell it to brokers and large food stores for human consumption Gerald Mallette 55 of Pointe Gatineau just north of Ottawa testified in county court that sometimes the meat had turned green and large chunks had to be pared off with axes to get rid of the smell Mallette is an unindicted co conspirator and one of the chief Crown witnesses at the trial of six men charged with con spiring to defraud the public by selling deadstock meat for hu man consumption between 1967 and 1975 Judge Lloyd Graburn and the jury have been told that dead stock meat comes from animals that have not been butchered according to law The animals have often died from accidents or disease and are not fit for human con sumption Shooting latest incident in harassment say Indians MONTREAL CP Indians at nearby Caughnawaga re serve enraged at the shooting of an Indian last weekend by provincial police say the in cident was just the latest ex ample of harassment by the provincial force An autopsy performed on the body of David Cross 28 showed three bullet wounds all within three inches of each other said Paul Deer chief of the re serves native police force at news conference Monday Deer and other Indian leaders want to lay charges against the provincial police for what they call an unnecessary and un justified killing They say the whole affair could have been avoided if only two provincial constables had waited for native police to arrest Cross who had smashed the wind shield of provincial police car with pool cue Cross was shot within view of several persons including chil dren Our lives and safety are in the hands of police who have proven record of hostility to ward our people said Andrew Delisle chief of the Caughna waga band Provincial police wont be allowed on the reserve from now on Deer added They will be arrested for trespassmg for their protection Weve had to spend lot of our time calming down people The reserve band council says it will ask Quebec Justice Minister MarcAndre Bedard to lay charges gainst the two provincial police officers in volved in the Cross shooting they say they dont trust the results of an internal in vestigation by the provincial force The two constables Robert Lessard and Gervais Ouellet remain on duty pending an in vestigation and police will not discussthe matter The Quebec justice depart ment has ordered the usual coroners inquest which follows virtually all cases of violent death No date has been set Provincial police say the shooting occurred after con stables Lessard and Ouellet chased David Cross and his brother Matthew at high speed on to the reserve They were suspected of speeding The car they were chasing Home Auto Lite Business garjeant Insurance lOO Bell Farm Rd Barrio Ont stopped in front of Crosss home The constables hand cuffed Matthew Cross and got into their cruiser with him when David Cross came out brandishing the pool cue He didnt come out with one of the highpowered rifles he kept on rack in his home Delisle said Monday Mr Cross was wellknown hunter It killing was his game he could have done it without leaving his living room He said the cue had broken and Cross had nothing in his hand when the shooting oc curred Mallette is the first of three unindicted coconspirators prosecutor Howard Morton has told the jury will testifv at the trial STARTED IN 1968 Mallette said he started buy ing and selling deadstock meat for human consumption about 1968 at St Albert Ont about 40 kilometres southeast of Ot tawa from man who is now dead He said he drove to St Albert bought the meat by the ton for about 20 cents pound and got fraudulent bills for his pur chases to show inspectors if they stopped him Mallette said he would buy up to 10 tons of the meat at time drive back to Pointe Gatineau make the meat look fit for hu man consumption and sell it other butchers meat brokers and large supermarket groups The meat was resold as ham burger minute steaks and boneless beet Mallette testified He said eventually the man he was buying the meat from in St Albert started selling it to people from Montreal at price Mallette could not afford At this point Mallette said he started dealing with Gordon El son Smiths Falls butcher and one of the men on trial Smiths Falls is 65 kilometres southwest of Ottawa PRICE RAISED Elson sold him meat the first time for 10 to 12 cents pound but raised the price to 20 to 25 cents pound because he knew what was being done with It Mallette said The cartons in which Elson sold him the meat were clearly stamped not for human con sumption Mallette said Be fore selling the meat he would either cut the stamp out of the cartons or repackage the meat The meat was picked up at night so nobody would see what was going on Mallette said Despite the price at which he was buying and reselling the meat Mallette said he could not make money from the operation because of the amount of waste Mallette said Elson could not sell him enough meat to meet demands in Quebec so Elson put him in touch with Arthur Lorenz 55 of Durham Ont one of the men on trial Mal lette said he started buying from Lorenz as well The other Ontario men on 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