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First casualty firefighters In slowdown KANSAS CITY Mo AP An eightday work slowdown by city firefighters claimed its first casualty when newly completed unoccupied Sismillion retirement home was destroyed by fire hours after National Guard soldiers were called in to help man fire stations The blaze Thursday night forced temporary evacuation of about 100 residents of nearby nursing home but no one was injured Among the 75 persons who fought the fire were police some regular firefighters and guards mobilized under an emergency order by Gov Joseph Teasdale Teasdale declared state of emergency earlier Thursday as firefighter ranks were thinned by dismissals suspensions and sickouts in contract dispute over salaries He called on firefighters to stop this illegal strike and said city officials could no longer guarantee public safety By noon Thursday 33 of the citys 900 firefighters had been dismissed more than 200 were given threeday suspensions to be served after the emergency is over and 212 firefighters had joined the sickout which began Wednesday ity of ficials said the dismissals and suspensions were for refusal to work overtime Comforts relatives Lancaster $C minister partially concealed comforts left to right Woddell JB and Walter Stinson after they learned that their brother Sammy Ray Stinson 51 was one of IO inmates killed during fire in the Lancaster County jail Thursday The identity of the minister was not Detection hIIS Syrian government immediately available AP Laserphoto DAMASCUS Reuter The Syrian government stung by the surprise detection of its ambassador to the United Nations said Thursday night he resigned after being recalled for supporting the peace pact between Egypt and Israel In first reaction to the resignation Thursday of llam mound eIChoufi an official government source said the ambassador had been ordered home after adopting stand contradictory to Syrian policy during the latest UN debate on the Middle East Gold continues advance LONDON AP Gold bullion soared to $5lt50 US troy ounce in London and Zurich today But unlike Thursday when golds advance sent the US dollar reeling the US currency was steady to slightly higher on most European foreign exchanges Gold had surged $119 in Zurich Thursday from pre holiday prices closing at $51400 an ounce and touching record $51850 in trading Grandmother wins $220000 WEST COVINA Calif AP California grand mother won more than $220000 in the annual running of the Irish Sweepstakes near Dublin when horse with the potentially controversial name Irian finished in the win ners circle Lucy Jane Moore who will only admit to be ing past her 40th birthday was informed that her $420 ticket made her one of three top money winners from Thursdays race With name like Irian Mrs Moore pronounces it Iranian was afraid somebody would shoot the horse as it left the starting gate she said Soldiers clear Rhodesmn roads SALISBLRY AP Rhodesian soldiers cleared roads of land mines today and escorted about 1300 Com monwealth soldiers and 80 guerrilla leaders to assembly camps throughout Rhodesia in preparation for midnight ceasefire Truce preparations were marred by the deaths Thurs day of guerrilla general and three members of the peacekeeping force At 1201a Saturday Rhodesias whiteled armed forces are to let about 16000 guerrillas come out of the bush and gather at 10 assembly points Soldiers from Britain Australia New Zealand Kenya and Fiji will watch over the guerrillas and the govern ment soldiers who will be confined in about 40 bases until Rhodesias new government is elected in February and Britain grants its colony independence The success of the ceasefire now depends on the forces themselves and on the cooperation of the people as whole Lord Soames the British governor guiding Rhodesia through the transition said in broadcast NODELAYSIIEN British officials said the ceasefire will be implemented on time despite the deaths Thursday of Josiah Tongogara military commander of Robert Mugabes wing of the Patriotic Front guerrilla alliance and the three soldiers Iongogara was killed in car crash in Mozambique and the soldiers died in helicopter that crashed in Rhodesia EyeIens man in hospital ed his sight last month after surgical team inserted tiny telescope into one of his eyes has been readmitted to Park Ridge Hospital here There is no problem with the sightrestoring lens in the right eye of Martin Ramsay 30 nor with the eye itself Dr James Aquavella said Thursday However he said that Ramsay had suffered severe headaches and pain in his blind left eye and was placed in hospital Wednesday for thorough examination blem Aquavella said He still sees all right through the good eye Its nothing that would require surgery Taxes take back burner NIAGARA FALLS Ont CP Payment of municipal taxes seems to take back burner to other financial treasurer It seems they pay their mortgage payments but are not prepared to pay their tth bills on time Gerry Farrell said Thursday referring to 1070 tax arrears of nearly $4 million Bandits were security guards MONTREAL CP At 415 pm Thursday citizen phoned Montreal Urban Community Police to report two men armed with shotguns standing in front of an east end bank The report was relayed to all available cars on the police radio network and 22 police vehicles sirens wailing converged on the intersection The police officers most with drawn pistols or sub maehine guns found themselves holding two surprised security guards at bay The guards were there to escort two bank inspectors during routine transfer of cash from the branch of the Montreal City and District Savings Bank It looked like police convention one local resident said Baby stillborn parents file suit HARRISBURG Pa AP Edward and Perri Kiick the parents of stillborn daughter have filed suit to prove that the Three Mile Island nuclear accident killed their babv My physician was always concerned about the radia tion Mrs Kiick said Ihursilay after her lawyer Joseph Sheiii filed the suit in US District Court The York County couple is asking for more than 320000 iii compensatory and punitive damages from the plant operator Metropolitan Edison the plant owner General Public Utilities and the plant designed Babcock and Wilcox More storms predicted for UK LONDON AP Forecasters are predicting more rough weather for the British Isles after killer storm drenched parts of the island country in torrent of flood waters and left at least seven lead aan three missing in stormrelated incidents South Wales where flooding Ihursday claimed at least three lives was declared disaster area Hundreds were evacuated from the region many of them by RAF helicopters in the face of the worst storm in decade Rivers burst their banks and flood waters ran two metres deep through number of Welsh towns and villages Welles delivers eulogy Actor Orson Welles left shakes hands pausing in the doorway of the United Methodist Church in Weslwood section of Los Angeles Thursday Welles was attending funeral services of motion picture pioneer Darryl Zonuck Welles delivered the eulogy AP Photo ROCHESTER NY AP Toronto man who regain Theres no evidence of anyserious significant pro obligations Niagara Falls residents have says the citys Outsider victor in Sweeps LEOPARDSTOWN Ireland AP Irian 251 outsider led from start to finish Thurs day and won the twomile Irish Sweeps handicap hurdle Irian ridden by Anne Ferris the only woman jockey in the race held off late challenge from Twinburn to win by head The winner earned about $41000 US for owner Keogh and made about $22000 US for three holders of Irish Sweeps tickets Secondplaced Twinburn rid den by Tommy Quinn was 61 cofavorite and finished well clear of thirdplace finisher Chinrullah 81 and Deep Gale cofavorite who was fourth Twinburn earned three Sweeps ticket holders about $64000 each Ferris was the first woman to ride Sweeps Hurdle winner and the first woman to win such valuable race in Europe Twinburn and Irian came to the last hurdle together but Ferriss mount landed first and held off determined challenge in the closing stages Chinrullah winnner of last years race rallied to take third place from the fading Deep Gale The Frenchbred winner was trained by ALMoorc $300 000 house for Trudeau MONTREAL CP The president of Montreal real es tate company says Liberal Leader Pierre Trudeau is in volved in deal to buy house high on the southern slope of Mount Royal and valued at more than $300000 But if the deal goes ahead Trudeau wont move in until 1903 The house built by archi tect Ernest Cormier in 1931 and considered masterpiece of Art Deco style would be rented out to somebody else while it awaits the Liberal leaders ar rival Frank Norman head of Frank Norman Co Ltd said Thursday Ive checked with Mr Trudeau and he has en tered into conditional agree ment to buy the house We are undertaking to place tenant in it for three years Just one tenant Its private home To be accurate it will be leased for three years The agreement is subject to the ar chitects approval Cormier now in his 905 is the architect who designed the Su preme Court of Canada building in Ottawa the main building of the University of Montreal and the hasreliefs on seven silverplated nickel doors donated by Canada for the United Nations building in New York City The Art Deco home is the only house in the province clas sified complete with certain furnishings as historic monu ment by the Quebec depart ment of cultural affairs Error stirs up storm HAMILTON CP The compilers of southern Ontario travel book say there are only two errors in the books 200 pages but one of those two has stirred up an angry storm among the congregation of church in nearby Grimsby Margaret Sharkey an editor and general manager of the Festive Country Travel Associ ation has sent St Marys Uk rainian Church letter of apology for reference in the book Circle Tours Festival Country that confused its faith with Russian Orthodox The authors of the tour book referred to St Marys as piece of Russia on the Niagara Escarpment with the characteristic domes of Russian Orthodox church architecture The domes of Russian Ortho dox churches are onionshaped while those of the Ukrainian May lodge protest Management Seminar In Cooperotion with the Barrie TORONTO tP The resi dent of one of Canadas laprgest Chamber Of commerce development companies said Thursday he may lodge pro test with the federal govern ment because of Mayor John Sewells support for citizens group which opposes Port land rc slioppingrniall projr ttl Neil Wood head of the giant Cadillac Fairntw Corp Ltd said Sew ell had no business Ill tcrvciiiiig in an issue Ill Ptlll land Sewell has rittcn to mem ber ot group trying to block the development and in that let ter he said Torontos failure to stem tadillac Fairview developments in this city has hurt small business wish you every success in protecting your city from large Canadian developer Se well said in the letter apologize 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heavy seas sought to Magazine will get papers back TORONTO CP The Body Politic controversial maga zine aimed at homosexuals will get back documents seized from its offices last year that led to trial of its publisher for using the mail to transmit obscene material The material was single magazine article titled Men Loving Boys Loving Men that dealt with homosexual relea tionships between men and young boys However the documents sei7ed from the magazine of fices which included financial statements and gay oriented books was not used and provincial court udge ruled Thursday that it must be returned The Crrown is appealing the acquittal last Feb 14 of Pink Triangle Press and three of its officers but Judge Sydney Har ris said the documents would have no more relevance in fu ture trials than they had in the first Harris reminded Body Politic workers that his decision to re turn the material to them also can be appealed If not he said it will be made available at the end of30days In making 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