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any died Wednesday at 54 Hospital hospital last June for leukemia Quebecer Martial Asselin Development Agency Senate said Asselin unity enigmatic and controversial politicians LOST TI CLARK at the Progressive fourth ballot to Joe Clark by 65 votes premier of Quebec tending the University of Ottawa his son through school Senator Claude Wagner Great Cana ian MONTREAL CP Senator Claude Wagner who aspired to be premier of Quebec and prime minister of Canada family friend at Wagners Montreal home said the senator died at pm EDT at the eastend MaisonneuveRosemont He had been admitted to She did not know the cause of death but two years ago reports the family declined to confirm said Wagner was being treated He was great Canadian and great commented fellowSenator minister of state in charge of the Canadian International Claude Wagner had the stature to accomplish something valuable in the He showed in some of his speeches that he was truly haunted by the question of natitlnal Wagner was one of Canadas more He became best known outside Quebec Conservative leadership convention in 1976 where even though he was backed by former prime minister John Diefenbaker lost on the In 1970 the urbane handsome Wagner had tried to capture the leadership of the Quebec Liberal party but lost to Robert Bourassa Bourassa went on to become native of Shawinigan Que Wagner became interested in politics while at An official biography of Wagner said his father Jewish immigrant from Bavaria worked as professional musician to put we CLAUDE WAGNER aspired to be PM At least 50 guests die in Spanish hotel blaze ZARAGOZA Spain AP Fire swept through luxury hotel in Zaragoza today killing at least 50 persons and injuring 80 others including the 79yearold widow of dic tator Francisco Franco officials said Most of the victims were believed to be Spaniards The earlymorning blaze trapped guests in their rooms and sent others plunging to their deaths from windows in the eightstorey Cor ona de Aragon Hotel police said Firemen rescued scores among the 300 guests in the 237room hotel helping them down fire ladders or leading them off escalators as was the case with Mrs Franco Spanish air force helicopters plucked three or four persons to safety from the hotel roof Some guests rescued themselves by tying bedsheets together and climing down them from windows One man survived by submerging himself in the hotel swimming pool on the eighth floor Hours after the blaze was contained rescue workers still were Searching the hotel ruins for victims Civil Gov Francisco Laina said the fire started about am from boiling oil in crullermaking machine in coffee shop on the first floor He said there was no evidence the fire had been set Six aldermen seek meeting about commission inquiry By DENNIS LANTIIIER The Examiner Six Barrie aldermen annoyed at continu ing delays of an inquiry into Barrie Police Commission want to meet with the minister of intergovernmental affairs Ald Gord Mills will attempt to set up meeting with Tom Wells he told The Ex aminer Wednesday The unanimous decision by the aldermen followed meeting with Ossie Rowe city solicitor The aldermen said letter was sent to Rowe by John Ililton deputy solicitor general of which they were not made aware The letter pertained to the inquiry however its contents are personal and it would be inappropriate to discuss them said Ald Mills The aldermen will go to Wells through the advice of Rowe said Ald Mills Wells was the inside story Vandalism worsening here WP and village officials in Simcoe Coun ty are becoming more concerned with the increasing vandalism occurring in the area Gangs of teentigers are hanging around many village streets looking for something to do said one reeve and the situation is worsening the Ttxiay page Richard Thomas Examiner reporter provides the full story Hustlers lose 60 omplete Mobile Wash Hustlers proved no match for the Barrie and District Ladies Softball League division allstars Wednes day losing the Shear Park spectacle 60 Queens Hotel edged the division allstars 372 in the nightcap At the PanAiriericaii Games the US track and field team set three records and picked up six more gold medals See stories pictures on todays Sports page The 2154 Simcoe County schoolchildren who participated in this springs reada than for multiple sclerosis research raised $25669 through pledges by reading 22981 books For story see todays Lifestyle Page County readathon success ndex today 13 Illuster entertainment 10 sports background comicshr guide 14 classified 151 mpploments Radio Shack 12 page minister involved when the original letter was sent about three months ago The letter surfaced during Mondays regular meeting of city council The inquiry was asked for in midApril Eldon Greer Barrie Police Commission chairman owned stock in Georgian Protec tion Services Ltd his sons alarm company The company operates about 100 alarms out of the Barrie police station Greer later disposed of his holdings in the company Council members were asked if they wanted to forego the inquiry since Greer no longer had financial interest in the company It was determined Wednesday that the let ter sent by Hilton came before that request The aldermen involved are Mills Alex Ar thur Fred Ruemper Bill Knowles Dorian Parker and Meg ODonal The inquiry request has been referred to Toronto lawyer It is expected to take several more days before final decision is reached Green goop mystery OTTAWA CP The Skylab space station may have missed Canada in its blazing plunge from orbit but mysterious blobs of green goop havent An RCMP spokesman said Wednesday the force is waiting for laboratory analysis of green blob which fell from the sky near 16 yearold Richard Charlebois as he drove tractor on his fathers farm near Lachute Que July Charlebois and his family examined the object which they said looked like piece of green ice metres square and six cen timet res thick This is definitely no joke said Quebec police officer who saw the blob before it melted The RCMP is investigating the possibility that the blob may be congealed waste ejected from passing airplane Somoza gets planes MANAGUA AP President Anastasio Somoza of Nicaragua is reported to have received six new planes to bolster his de fence against the Sandinista guerrillas and apparently is drafting women Meanwhile lull continued in the revolution against his family dictatorship An intercepted rebel radio conversation re vealed that the guerrillas of the Sandinista National Liberation Front have suspended plans for major new offensives while they consolidated what they have control of all the major cities and towns in western Nicaragua except Managua reporter saw two T28 attack bombers at Managua airport Wednesday and reliable source said four more of the propeller planes already have been delivered to Somoza The source of the planes was not known but it was suspected that they came from neighboring El Salvador It too is ruled by military dictatorship which is known to have TZBS AIR FORCE SMALL The T285 have bomb racks under the wings and six of them would greatly in crease Somozas airpower The i1tional guard his combined army and police force has had only two operational T33 jets used for strafing and rocket attacks 1150 your No 164 Thursday July 12 1979 the examiner serving barrie and simcoe county East of Perth Australia 15° Poi Copv Carrier Horne Delivery 95 Wookly Cylinder found in desert believed section Of PERTH Australia CP large cylin drical object believed to be part of Skylabs docking mechanism was found in desert coun try about 1000 kilometres east of Perth to day US consul spokesman said The object measuring two metres long and one metre in diameter was found at the township of Rawlinna which has population of about 50 people Postmaster Bill Norton found the cylinder surrounded by three smaller pieces of debris about 10 kilometres outside the town near craters gouged out by the impact The US space station fell to earth early today after sixyear odyssey Norton and two companions loaded the cylinder onto truck and started sixhour drive along bush road following the Indian Pacific Railroad line to Kalgoorlie Western Australias State Emergency Ser vice will take charge of the cylinder in Kalgoorlie and then it will be flown to Perth for positive identification MAY BE FIRST US consulate spokesman Chuck McG ingley said the cylinder and smaller debris were believed to be among the first pieces of Skylab found The spokesman said the consul has been in undated with calls from people who claim to have found piece of the spacecraft The claims range to people who say they have actual pieces of metal with Skylab writ ten upon it he said Most of the claims are considered suspicious he said except for the parts of cylinders thought to be authenic Australians chartered planes and piled into Jeeps and Land Rovers to search for the space debris that showered down on southwest Australia like train on fire The US space station tumbled to earth in spectacular fireworks show in the night sky More than 12 hours after Skylabs fiery re entry there were no reports of casualties or property damage METAL HITS EARTH US officials estimated 20 to 25 tons of metal survived Skylabs disintegration when it plunged into the earths atmosphere about am today 1237 pm EDT Wednesday Tony Boult operations officer of the Western Autralian Emergency Service said he believes all of it came down in western Australia It came down like rainstorm said Ray Smith who was camping with his wife at Balladonia There were bits to the east to the north to the west all around us wrists Move against whaling LONDON Reuter The worlds whaling authority has taken some steps towards appeasing conservationists by im posing partial ban on whale hunting The International Whaling Commission IWC voted overwhelmingly Wednesday night to outlaw the use of factory ships and catcher vessels attached to them excluding the minke whale But whaling from coastal stations is not affected The vote carried against Soviet and Japanese opposition was seen by delegates at the IWC annual meeting as compromise between the whaling countries and ecologists who have campaigned for total ban Begin reports to Carter TEL AVIV AP Prime Minister Menachem Begin returned today from three days of talks with President Anwar Sadat in Alexandria saying the peace process has reached stage of friendship common understanding and cooperation Israel radio reported Begin said his visit produced positive results the radio said Begin told reporters in Alexandria he will telephone President Carter and send him full report on his talks with Sadat Tourniquet saves life TORONTO CP wouldbe killer who tried to be sure his victim was dead actually saved her life police say man tied Carrie Cochrane 24 on bed and slashed her throat in two places with butcher knife cutting her jugular vein Inspector Roy Soplet said Her attacker then twisted length of electrical cord from radio around the womans neck to be certain she was dead not realizing the tightness of the cord acted as tourniquet cutting off the flow of blood Gerald Kane who lives in the apartment discovered Miss Cochrane when he returned from work police said She had laced an advertisement for boarder an admitted man who called in response to the ad Miss Cochrane is in satisfactory condition in hospital rI mi at Darwin Grant Sandy Desert Dolby 5A For Skylab in its final plunge sprayed firey debris over cen tral Australia Wednesday Witnesses to Skylabs end lwlt II Gibson Dom Dmr Kalgoorlie described it as looking like hundreds of shining Bell dispute talks break off By LORI COHEN Of The Examiner Newlyreopened talks between Bell Canada and the Communication Workers of Canada broke off Wednesday afternoon and no fur ther meetings have been scheduled The company held fast to its offer of 30 month contract with wage increases totalling 265 per cent Mel James Bell Canadas in formation officer for Ontario said the com pany still considers the offer fair and generous settlement of differences and will honor it The union has several courses of action in the wake of the companys refusal to reopen negotiations said Duncan Beattie president of CWC Local 40 which includes Barrie Orillia Newmarket Collingwood and Midland We can either accept the companys offer go to the federal government and ask for mediator or step up our walkouts he said We wont know until Monday Beattie says the company has put the ball in the unions court asking them to make the next move The union already made its move by asking for Wednesdays meeting he said Artendsu TORONTO CP Major oil companies have raised gasoline prices in Ontario in an effort to end competitive price war they say has cut dealer profits The increases as much as eight cents gallon are designed to bring the price of regular leaded gasoline to 22 cents litre or 999 cents gallon at companyowned outlets These outlets represent small percentage of the total number operating in the province Competition has driven the price of gasoline down to the point where there is not an acceptable margin left for the distributors said Maurice Crompton of Imperial Oil Ltd Somebody has to make move and guess we were the ones who have made the big move Imperial has raisedprices by one cent gallon in Toronto and between seven and eight cents gallon in some rural areas Artist Keith McHottie wearing catcher to catch your attention takes look at the Guelph dump city work crew mistook an art exhibit in city park for pile of lunk and hauled it to the dump McHattie and nine other artists are looking for compensation from the city CP Wirephoto Come home to The Examiner Call 7266539 for home delivery Gasoline prices up inprovince in effort to end price war Skylab tavfsalgi n3fllgq3 1233 31 Sydny Mottonu AUSTRALlA Pori Augusto VII Grant Victorian lights and bright orange ball trailing sparks Graphic by AP staffartist Carl Fox AP Photo Map Gulf Oil Ltd has raised its prices bet ween three and four cents gallon depen ding on location Competition will establish the final price Crompton said Competition might decide that it cant live with the higher price and we might have to make another adjustment If no one follows us then the price will have to go down Robert Vallance of Gulf said prices have been depressed for longtime Crompton said the wholesale price of gas sold by Imperial is about 60 cents gallon Added to that is fivecentsa gallon federal excise tax 202centsa gallon provincial sales tax and federal sales tax of 68 cents gallon That brings the cost of gallon to about 92 cents for the dealer Crompton said an acceptable profit for the dealer is about 82 cents gallon Capada in tariff move OTTAWA CP Canada will lower or eliminate many of its trade barriers in return for better access to foreign markets under wideranging international trade agreements announced Wednesday The new General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade GATT concluded in negotiations in Geneva provides for reductions in protective tariffs averaging 40 per cent by Canada and its major trading partners It also provides for an easing of rules and regulations now in place in many countries the socalled nontariff barriers that have made it difficult for exporters The tariff cuts to be brought in over eight years beginning Jan 1980 will mean tougher competition from abroad for in dustries farmers and fishermen But in return the more competitive among them will find it easier to sell their products in foreign markets Specifically excluded from major tariff cuts will be the textile clothing shoe ship building and railcar industries which traditionally have been insulated from import competition May relieve chest pain BOSTON AP simple procedure that uses balloon to reo clogged coronary arteries might help ut 15 per cent of the patients who now require openheart surgery to relieve chest pain study re leased today shows Doctors who worked on the new technique hope it will become an alternative to coronary bypass surgery now the most common form of major surgery in the United States So far the researchers have tried the experimental method on 50 persons and 32 have been helped by it The treatment called percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty was used by doctors at University Hospital in Zurich Switzerland weather Mainly sunny hazy and humid today and Friday Highs both days near 30