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the examiner Tuscany May 29 1979 for the first time in Canada OTTAWA CP The Queen Mothers sevenday visit to Canada in June will include the usual formal ii dinners an evening at the International Gathering of the Scottish Clans in Nova Scotia and an afternoon at the horse races in Toronto An itinerary for her visit released Monday by the June 26 and spend four days there before taking three to Toronto The highlight of her stay in Halifax is the opening cerer mony for the International Gathering of the Clans held day trip and the Nova Scotia Tattoo 1979 at Centre June In Toronto the 78yearold Queen Mother an en thusiastic racing fan atid familiar figure at steeplechases in England at tends the 120th running of the Queens Plate Stakes at Woodbine Race Track June 30 She will receive an official welcome when she lands at the Canadian Forces base Shearwater across the harbor from Halifax June 26 but there are no official Study cites electrical fire risk WASHINGTON AP government says the risk of house with aluminum wiring than in one with copper wiring Results of the study wh news roundu Queen Mother to officiate at clan gathering secretary of state office said gt she will arrive in Halifax the Halifax Metro tb Whig Mas gt THE QUEEN MOTHER formal dinners activities scheduled for her firstday On the second day she is to present the Queens Color to the Maritime Command and attend federal government dinner at Hotel Nova Scotia ew study sponsored by the US electrical fire is far higher in ich cost the US Consumer Product Safety Commission almost $1 million are the most damaging indictment yet of the wiring used in an estimated 15 million homes built in the United States between the mid I960$ and 1973 Aluminum wiring used since 1973 in the US is considered safe officials sa The statistical results significant said the report prepared by the Franklin Research Centre of Philadelphia For an aluminumwired of the survey were highly home the risk of having at least one electrical receptacle reach fire hazard condition was 55 times as great as for copperwired home An Ontario royal commissi March disclosed that an estimated 450000 homes have been wired with aluminum in Ca with cost of $44 million to be shared between both TORONTO CP Explor Steelworkers of America company spokesman declined to comment further Provincial mediators arra OTTAWA CF Eugene thing fore his 75th birthday the 1920s have been no problems in the majority of them lnco talks continue today Alfred Statham Incos vicepresident of said the talks which started Monday will continue He members rejected tentative agreement earlier this month The strike by 11700 workers began Sept 15 Senator Forsey sorry to go ment age Monday and the countrys ranking constitutional expert says all things considered its probably good on report made public in early nada since 1948 It said there atory talks aimed at reopening bargaining between Inco Metals Co and Local 6500 United will continue today says public affairs nged the talks after the union Forsey reached Senate retire Ill be sorry to go but would rather go while the signs that am going downhill are not as visible to other people as they are to me he said in an interview Monday day be Forseys career spanned the political spectrum as he be came known as leading authority on the British North America Act which serves as the countrys underlying law Forsey was appointed to the Up Prime Minister Trudeau Ironically his political affiliation had begun with the Conservatives under Arthur Meighen in Ontario Quebec sign transit pact TORONTO CP Ont arios fledgling urban tran sportation industry received its first formal commitment from another province Monday as Quebec signed contract to help develop jointed elongated streetcar Ontario Transportation Minister James Snow and his Quebec counterpart Lucien Lessard signed the contract provinces and Ontarios Urban Transportation Development Corp The joint venture was agreed on in principle last Sepr tember when the corporatio officially opened its 480acrt transit development centre near Kingston Ont Polepercher fights loneliness PORT COLBORN Ont CP father of three has been perched atop 26metre pole since Saturday to raise gt money for cystic fibrosis research Ambulance driver Dave Twecdie 38 chairman of fund raising drive by the Kinsman Club is scheduled to descend after 177 hours of having birdscye view of the area The pole sitter who lives in this town 24 kilometres east of Cobourg has telephone on his eightfootsquare platform Pledges to the research fund are being phoned in to hitii He said he has been fighting loneliness by answering the phone and catching up on son RON STEWART to reading THANK YOU per Chamber in 1970 by wishes to sincerely thank the voters of gtSimcoe County who supported him during the recent Federal Election Clark cautious an arena promise OTTAWA iCP Prime min isterselect Joe lark must cau tiously stickhandle Liberal romise to pump Slit million in ederal futids into National Hockey League arenas in Que bec City Winnipeg and Edmon ton Opposit ion liackrbcnchers in clult ing Conservative sport critic Bruce llalliday have de notiiiced the promise which is mainly directed at professional tennis Our policy is on amateur sport not professional said llillllll from the Ontario rid ing of Oxford dont think were com mitted to that pledge Hut tlark with only two Con servative Quebec MPs elected May 22 in 73 ridings wants to score goals with voters Jim Ernst Winnipeg city coun cillor said in an interview Its politically tough time to turn it down now Ernst said It would be real slap in the face for Quebecers And if Quebec City gets the money so will everbody else Ernst added IAGNOI PLEDGE The promise was made in the Commons by Sport Minister Iona Campagnolo prior to the NHLs recent merger with the World Hockey Association Merger talks had been spo radic during the last three years and it appeared last fall to be in doordie situation Campagnolo an ardent sup porter of Canadian division in the NHL promised the funds in lastminute attempt to ensure success Campagnolo argued that the arenas were owned by the mu nicipalities and would be used by amateur organizations throughout those areas The ad mission of Canadian teams into the NHL would also stimulate participation in amateur sport Marcel Aubut president of Quebec Nordiques said enlarglt ment of the Coliseum to 15500 seats from 10500 is already un der way Apprenticeship plan rapped TORONTO CP Statistics which show an increase of only 12002 persons in apprenticeship programs over nineyear pe riod gave Ontario opposition legislature members the open ing to renew attacks Monday on the governments skilledtrain ing courses Although Bette Stephenson minister of education colleges and universities told the legis lature the statistics showed steady growth opposition members said they could not call the increase progess Liberal Leader Stuart Smith said the government had prom ised to spend $7 or $8 million of federal funds in 19781979 on ap prenticeship programs but took advantage of only $1 million for total federal provincial expenditure of $15 million Ted Bounsall NDPvWind sorSandwich said Stephen sons statistics revealed an increase in active apprentices of less than two per cent bet ween this year and last Stephensons statistics showed that 30148 persons were taking apprenticeships in 1978 79 compared with 18146 during 197071 In fiscal 197778 29615 ap prentices had been registered in programs The government has come under continued attack in the past month over apprenticeship programs because several Ontario companies have ad vertised in Great Britain and Europe for skilled tradesmen Opposition parties have said the governments lack of fore sight was appalling con sidering the large number of unemployed young persons in the province But Stephenson repeated Monday that her government is attempting to interest more young people in the skilled trades and to get communities and industries to help traiti apprentices Gold Prices arc174009 59 Gold bullion prices con tinued their spiral up ward in Europe Monday with Zurich ending days trading of the metal with quote of 3275875 an ounce AP Laserphoto Gold hits $275875 LONDON AP Gold continued to trade at record high prices today as the US dollar firmed on the worlds money markets Gold was quoted in Zurich at 3275875 an ounce equal to the alltime high for the metal hit Monday at the Zurich close In London the metal was trading at $27525 record for that market London gold and foreign currency markets were closed Monday for the spring bank holiday But gold had closed in London on Friday at $27025 The US dollar continued to advance in Tokyo in what dealers called nervous trading It closed at 221375 Japanese yen up from 22030 yen Monday Action sought on whaling OTTAWA CP Wildlife protection groups want the Pro gressive Conservative govern ment to live up to pledge to work for worldwide morator ium on whaling The groups said Monday they have letters from Prime Minis terelect Joe Clark and other Tory spokesmen saying the party favors moratorium on whaling Canada banned com mercial whaling in 1972 The groups Greenpeace the Canadian Wildlife Feder ation the Canadian Nature Federation the World Wildlife Fund the Ontario Federation of Naturalists were meeting whaling commissioner Mac Mercer as part of government preparations for the annual meeting of the International Whaling Commission in London in July That meeting will debate an Australian request for world wide ban on whaling the United States wants the commission to prohibit whaling on any species whose survival is in question And Dr Ian McTaggart Cowan chairman of the com mittee on whales and whaling which advises Fisheries Minis ter Romeo LeBlanc said he wants total protection of large whales from killing for com mercial purposes He said there is no reason for killinglargerwhales Whaling countries which dont belong to the in ternational commission would feel considerable pressure to halt their operations if com mission members backed moratorium McTaggartCowan said Major opponents of mora torium have been the Soviet Union and Japan The Soviets have said they plan to end whaling by 1985 McTaggartCowan said Inuit should be allowed to continue killing whales except possi bly bowheads when the whales are needed for food ADVERTISEMENT Dont Blame Your Age For Poor Hearing Chicago IllA free offer of special interest to those who hear but do not understand words has been announced by Beltone nonoperating model of the smallest Beltane aid of its kind will be given ab solutely free to anyone answer ing this advertisement Send for this model put it on and wear it in the privacy of your own home While many people with hearing loss will not receive any significant benefit from any hearing aid this free model will show you how tiny hearing help can be It is not real hearing aid and its yours to keep free The ac tual aid 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kill ing of innocent people They were shot at dawn in Qasr prison Tehrans mainjail The executions raised to 233 the number of persons executed since Khomeinis forces toppled Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi in February The latest criticism of Kho meinis Islamic blueprint for Iran came from Hassan Nazih Co and confidant of the ayatollah REMBRANTS DISPLAYED NEW YORK AP dis play of more than 50 Rem brandt etchings and drawings will be on display at the Metro politan Museum of Art through June 10 museum spokesman says the exhibit contains the artists illustrations of scenes from the Bible Home Auto Life Business sarjeant insurance lOO Bell Farm Rd Barrie Ont THERES N0 REAL head of the National Iranian Oil Defective ngclegr boilers Liberals force review of contract decide when to place the matter on its agenda The contract awarded in 1974 has been criticized by the opposition after it was revealed that Hydro gave it to Babcock and Wilcox without calling ten ders from other manufacturers Late in 1978 when the boilers were installed at Hydros Pick ering nuclear station east of To ronto it was discovered that they had hundreds of dents and bends in the tubing Shahs soldiers shot If we think we can put all political economic and judicial affairs into an Islamic mold even our religious leaders realize that such thing is neither possible nor beneficial under present conditions Nazih told the Iranian Bar Association on Sunday His speech published Mon day by several newspapers was the most outspoken criticism so far by Khomeini confidant of the Shiite Moslem patriarchs plan for Iran The boilers now are at the Babcock and Wilcox plant in Cambridge Ont for repair The corrective action may cost as much as $35 million and Hydro and the company are embroiled in dispute over who will ay the bill Li ral Leader Stuart Smith told reporters his party felt the contract must be reviewed by legislature committee because the $35million price tag may end up in the publics domain He said the contract nonnain would have been referred to the legislatures select committee on Hydro affairs but it will not sit again until July and already has full agenda reviewing nu clear plant safety in Ontario NEED ANSWERS The Babcock and Wilcox matter is clearly most serious one and requires early answers on many questions Smith said Meanwhile the opposition benches continued during the question period Monday to hammer at Energy Minister James Auld about the contract Auld said he would check into the questions asked but he did OPENING SOON 10 BELL FARM RD not have immediate answers Smith wanted to know why Hydro had tendered for con tracts for boilers in 1965 and 1970 but not in 1974 Auld has said that Babcock and Wilcox subsidiary of Babcock and Wilcox Co of New York was given the contract because no other manufacturer would make the boilers But that answer has not satis fied Smith What suppliers so dis appeared from the Canadian scene that they were able to tender in 1965 and 1970 but ap 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