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Two men right work to help an inlured woman on board the twisted wreckage of pontoon raft that overturned Sunday in the swollen Fraser River near Boston Bar 8C killing three men and inluring two others The raft operated by Cascade River Holidays Ltd of Yale BC reportedly hit rock deflating one of four pontoons CP Photo Three men killed Tour ends in tragedy when raft overturns BOSTON BAR BC CP Three men died Sunday when raft carrying 11 persons overturned in turbulent section of the Fraser River about 140 kilometres nor theast of Vancouver The raft operated by Cascade River Holidays Ltd of Yale BC was on the last leg of threeday tour which started on the Thompson River and was to have wound up at Yale about 35 kilometres south of here RCMP said three bodies were recovered about three kilometres downstream from where the raft overturned Wally Kreke of Hope search and rescue said one of the victims was an employee of the rafting company Ten men and one woman were aboard the raft The woman is one of two persons treated at hospital in nearby Hope Both are reported in stable condition Kreke said he believed the raft hit rock and flipped because when he arrived at the scene it was hung up on rock and one of its four pontoons was deflated He said most of the survivors had been picked up by other rafts before he arrived An RCMP spokesman said the river has been running high and fast because of spring runoff RMCP are withholding names All per sons aboard the raft were Canadians Longest iUry trial over weary jurors head home TORONTO tCPl Eleven jurors some shaking with emotion walked away from courtroom Saturday as undefeated cham pions of the longest jury trial in Canadian history Thats what they were called by Associate Chief Justice William Parker judge in the 14 month dredging conspiracyfraud trial But when the jurors went home from which they had been denied all communica tion since April they were simply return ing husbands and wives fathers and mothers wanting to end an enforced separation and to resume normal lives Dredging case Page Ill Dennis and Mary Eason suffered the first separation of their marriage because of the trial When youve been married for 24 years its quite an experience to sleep alone for month said juror Eason 53 an engineer The jury was sequestered for days Their days were spend deliberating in room next to the Ontario Supreme Court courtroom where they heard evidence their nights in hotel behind the courthouse It was very very blah said juror Mon crieft Young 47 an industrial engineer You inside story King Tut tickets on sale The Art Gallery of Ontano has announced that mail order tickets for the King Tutankhamen exhibition coming to the AGO in November go on sale in Barrie Aug hckets will be available locally at the Sean store See story Pagers Spectacular Bid wins Jockey Robin Franklin rode Spectacular Bid to victory at the ttbth running of the Kentucky Derby Saturday despite detrac tors claims he would lose The ltlyeanold jockey 15 new setting his sites on the Preakness Stakts See story picture Page College symphony in news Georgian College of Applet Arts and Technologg has approx ed the buzldtng of $4 million anl at the Barrie campus The centre wtll house anety of sports facdittes and the colleges audio visual departments SeestoryPage9 The arts students at Georgian put on another sumesful arts show Sunday 56 pagesfor complete details and plClult can eat Tbone steaks forever and they can taste like sawdust It was like being in the army Youre glad to be out and get reorganized LONELINESS PROBLEM Eason said loneliness was his greatest hardship Even the telephone couldnt bring the fami ly closer because all conversations were transmitted through sheriffs officer It was very strange he said You couldnt say the things youd like to say to your wife and daughters Over the phone The jurors were told at the beginning of the trial they could expect to be away from work for four to six months And Eason said he was annoyed when that stretched to 14 months as the defence had predicted Despite the upset in his family life and work this missed his daughters 215i birthday celebration by one dayl Eason still believes in the system of trial by jury Im more firmly convinced he said Although it puts 12 people through con siderable stress dont think you could devise better system It was trying at the time but when the verdict was read had feeling wed done good job Officer hit by car TORONTO tCPl Metropolitan Toronto police officer was recovering in hospital Sunday after he was struck and carried TS metres by car he stopped early Friday morning Police said that when Constable Norman Smart approached the car it accelerated and struck him The car was found aban doned few hours later Russell Joseph Pigeau 16 of Toronto was charged with dangerous drinng and failing to remain at the scene of an accident Dollar drops six yen TOKYO iAPl The US dollar plunged almost six yen on the Tot market today following report the Jap covernment had asked for US cooperation to help stem the decline of the yen After hectic trading the dollar closed at 2169 yen and tourists were getting 21470 at leading hotels The dollar closed Friday at 775 yen in Tokyo and 21 53 in New York and hit 258 in the middle of the week It was the biggest fluctuation since Nov when the dollar jumped more than seven yen following President Carters an nouncement of his dollardefence program Jury recall Wednesday TORONTO Staffi The jury is not ex pected to be recalled to the courtroom until Wednesday for the seconddegree murder trial of Brian Gerald Laurier and Gwen dolyn Judith Wilson An Ontario Supreme Court office mesman said today Crawn Attomey Prank Armstrong and the two defence lawyers continue to discuss the legality of introducing certain evidence Laurier 21 of Barrie and Wilson 19 of Ora Station pleaded not guilty to the Dhember 197 murder of 15gton thlzam Hughfi of Toronto The jury was dismissed Monday morning after being selected The coun offrcral said the crown arguing with Lauriers lawye Harold Linden and Wilsons lawya Ronald Manes over the means reed to obtain evidence for the case Hughes was stabbed after he and friend accepted ride from the couple they met on downtown Yonge Street 1151byoor No 108 Monday May 1979 Per Copy Carrier Homo Dollvory 00 Wookly the examiner and simcoe county Tentativesettlem ent reached in eightmonth lnco strike TORONTO CP tentative settlement of an eightmonth strike by 11700 mining and smelter workers at lnco Metals Co in Sud bury 0nt was reached Sunday The strikers are to vote within the next seven days on the proposed contract which would give them an increase of $350 an hour in wages and benefits over three years union spokesmen told news conference Representatives of the company and Local 6500 United Steelworkers of America which represents the workers signed memorandum of agreement after weekend of roundtheclock bargaining at Toronto Stewart Cooke union director said the memorandum was agreed to by 14 of the unions 16member negotiating team and the other two members are considering it He said there is no doubt the contract will be ratified Cooke said one of the keys to the settlement was the retention of grievance procedure in which the final stages are handled at one central office The company wanted the system decentralized he said Nuclear protest buoy$ critics WASHINGTON AP Buoyed by the largest antinuclear rally in US history nuclear power critics say the questions they raise have become national issue that may play key roll in deciding whether President Carter is reelected While previous nuclear protests have been local and aimed at single plants the demonstration Sunday by at least 70000 per sons at the foot of the Capitol took direct aim at the White House Has Jimmy Carter deceived you shouted consumer activist Ralph Nader The crowd roared back Yes Benjamin Spock pediatrician and former antiwar activist said Today the anti nuclear power movement has gone national Police estimated at least 70000 persons marched under sunny skies from the Ellipse near the White House to the Capitol steps Protest leaders put the number at more than 100000 Auto sought in hitandrun Police are searching for light blue car that may have been involved in fatal hit andrun accident Saturday morning on Highway 90 about 10 km east of here Katharine Elizabeth Fox 24 of no fixed ad dress was hitchhiking along the road when she was struck and killed by vehicle about am said police Police are looking for light blue car that may have damage to its front right fender or hood Anyone who may have seen Ms Fox earlier that night is asked to contact Barrie OPP She is described as five feet four inches in height weighing 115 pounds She wore blue jacket and blue jeans and was carrying white Dominion store shopping bag provincial police spokesman said large number of officers have been detailed to the investigation and they hope to have more information on it later today Khomeini forms corps TEHRAN tAPi Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini has ordered the formation of special military arm for his secret Islamic Revolutionary Council Radio Tehran announced the creation of the Guardian Corps of the Islamic Revolution during the weekend and said it will help the councils revolutionary courts carry out their verdicts and defend the revolution and its leaders against counter revolutionary elements The creation of the new militia an swerable to the Revolutionary Council represents change in mrlier plans to in corporate armed guerrillas who supported the revolution into the regular army and police These are arswerable to the pmyisional government of Premier Mehdi Bazargan whose authority is secondary to that of thecouncil Student at 86 MUNCIE Ind iAPi Things that happened in 1910 seem like yaterday to says Ball State Universitys oldest student At 86 Cleo Mills believes she still needs to improve her education So shes studying Byzantine Greek and Russian history as doctoral candidate The Portland reSident earned bachelors degreezsyears ago at theageofsa Shere ceived her masters degree in 1949 She turned down job offer after graduation because wanted to go ahead with my studying She said she learns more slowly than she did in her younger days but that her memory still works fairly well Everything you learn is there sane place she says touching her head Gasoline stocks shrink DOS ANGELES AP Gasoline stockpiles are shnnktng in many parts of the United States especrally when hit by the demantb of weekend motorists but the tightest supplies are in California where drivers tempers are begiruung to flare There wane reports this weekaid of some Califomra drivers wazung hours sometimes ovanight just to top ofi their tanks The grievance procedure was cited by union members as major factor when the strike started last September lnco negotiator Bill Correll said in an in terview the company would not comment on the grievance procedure or any other part of the contract until after ratification If they union negotiators want to make lot of inflammatory statements am not going to respond Correll said That community Sudbury has suffered enough Victor Pathe an Ontario government mediator said there was no single issue that resulted in the breakthrough think there was conclusion by both sides that there had to be real compromise if there was to be settlement Pathe said He called the dispute classic struggle between management and labor Gilbert Gilchrist head Of the unions bargaining committee said about 2000 of the employees who went on strike Sept 15 have found other jobs But he said he expects most of them to return to lnco HIGHER BASE RATE Under the new contract the base rate including costofliving allowance is to in crease to $730 an hour from $679 an hour upon ratification The workers are to receive IGCentanhour increases in the base rate during the second and third years of the contract as well as cost ofliving allowances that the union contended would give workers an additional $165 an hour by the time the contract expires Also pension plan was approved that would allow workers to retire after 35 years service regardless of age and provide top pension of $908 month Inco workers with at least three years service would receive $270 month in long term disability benefits from the company Union officials said workers received no such company benefits under the old contract Union spokesmen also said the contract inludes $40aweek supplementary unem ployment benefit for employees who are laid off an increase in the vacation bonus to $75 week from $60 week and cooperative unionmanagement wage study which the union said will eventually result in higher wages Workers are to receive $300 settlement pay whgn they return to work union officials sai We achieved the things people said were not possible said David Patterson president of Local 6500 Patterson said the strikers including those who have found other work will have 14 days following ratification to return to work or risk losing their jobs suites was We applrueciate your interest Mrs deau but frankly Heres Maggie doesnt have the same ring as Heres Johnie City literally on the move Moscows buildings are on the move Using l5th Century ltalian method the Russians are reorganizing the city centre by rolling their historic buildings to and fro Shown is the offices of the newspaper Trud which is being moved on rollers 34 meters along Gorki Street in Moscow AP Photo Hostagetakers reject offer of safe conduct SAN SALVADOR AP Leftists holding nine hostages in two embassies rejected Salvadorean government offer Of safe con duct to Costa Rica and demanded freedom for five of their leaders and assurances of safety We want to stay in El Salvador spokesman for the raiders Popular Revolutionary Bloc said by telephone Sunday from the French embassy where 16 leftists have been holding six hostages including Parrot in court for sentencing OTTAWA CP Postal union leader Jean Claude Parrot appears in court today to be sentenced for defying an act of Parliament As Parrot prepared to enter the court members the Canadian Union of Postal Workers iCLPWr held demonstrations to support their leader Demonstrators arrived at the courthouse before Parrots sentencing and distributed pamphlets that said Parrot is guilty of nothing more than trying to preserve the legal collective bargaining rights of the postal workers he represents in line with our democraCallyexpressed wishes and to punish him for this would constitute gross miscarriage of justice extra Elsewhere around the CS however some stations relaxed slightly now that they have received this months allocations of fuel Many of them had closed early and imposed sale limits week ago when week end traffic couicided with the bottom of Aprils supplies Wiggle for help pays off Body found in river MIDLAND Staff The body of £9 yearold Midland man was found floating in the Wye River about 12 km south of here Sunday afternoon Midland OPP said Francrs Joseph Mc human hand wiggling for help from the trunk of car led newspaper reporter and photographer on 30minute chase in Birmingham Ala Saturday The two eventually stopped the cor long enough for police to close in and arrest woman and two men who were later booked on kid napping and robbery charges Above one of the suspects is led away At bottom left of photo the fingers of man allegedly abducted can be seen pro truding from the cars trunk Later Gary Collier 35 the man waving from the trunk told police he spent more than 72 hours locked in the trunk after being kidnapped and robbed of 5350 AP Photo lnghom News photo copyright Birm COInenorne toTfie Examiner CHI 7266539 for hornedelivery Ambassador Michel Georges Paul Dondenne since Friday afternoon Three other bloc members are holding three hostages in the Costa Rican embassy including Ambassador Julio Esquivcl Valverde and still another bloc group is occupying the Metropolitan Cathedral de manding freedom for political prisoners but holding no hostages We want to denounce the negotiations because they are between the governments of El Salvador France and Costa Rica without the participation of our negotiating com mittee said the blocs spokesman who asked not to be identified He said the El Salvador government has not met the blocs demand to free five of its leaders despite the governments claim only two of them were held for minor offences and the whereabouts of the three others is not known That is not true the blocs spokesman said They are still detained by security forces at an unknown location We will not leave the embassies until we are given assurances that all our members in the em bassies and the cathedral can return safely to our homes Foreign Minister Jose Antonio Rodriguez Porth said the safeconduct offer has the full support of special emissaries from the French and Costa Rican governmean who arrived early Sunday to help the Salvadorean government solve the situation peacefully Currys body was found by lOhour search of the area McCurry was reported missing about 240 Sunday when he did not return home from trip to his riverfront property where he was working said police When an initial search failed to turn up the missing man police organized search party of 10 men That search began about Had engine trouble MIDLAND Staff Provincial police searched nine hours Friday night for four boaters reported missing on Georgian Bay Charles Blondin 31 Bernard Desperance as Remi Maurice 42 all of Tiny Township and David Dorian 22 of Penctanguishenc were found on Tully Island about three quarters of the way to their destination The four men left Penetangmshene about 30 Friday afternoon for Moon Island about 40 miles north of here When they did not arrive at cottage there as expected Blondins wife called police about search turned up the men on Tully Island where they were staying in cottage POllCfi said their boat had engine trouble and they were forced to shelter on the island Barrie man dies PEMBROKE Ont CP Pronncral police said today the bodies of Mark Gregory Klemensowicz of Barrie Ont and Richard Smkot of Toronto were found Saturday in van near the Sherwood River at Barrys Bay Ont It appeared the men had died of carbon mommde pomoning but police could no be certain until tests were dam in Toronto Barrys Bay is about 65 kilometres southwest of Pembroke police followrng weather Mostly sunny with brisk southeasterly winds today Highs to to 18 Tuesday mostly sunny and mm with brisk southerly winds Lows tonight near Highs Tuesday 2010 22