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in mote CAMBRIDGE Ohio AP Fire swept through crowded twostorey Holiday Inn in this eastern Ohio city today killing at least 10 persons authorities said Others escaped by smashing windows and leaping to the ground Six adults and four children died in the pre dawn blaze including one man who appar ently suffered heart attack while trying to escape authorities said Hospital officials said 61 persons were treated for injuries and 11 of them remained in hospital suffering from cuts and broken bones baby was found safe in the arms of his unconscious mother lying in pool of blood Trapped guests were seen banging on windows and screaming after the fire roke out about am One youth picked up an iron bar and began smashing windows Passersby found an old scaffold and rescued some guests Only four of the motels 104 rooms were unoccupied but the exact number of guests in the motel was not immediately known Most of the dead were found in hallways of the 10yearold brick and wood structure Fire officials said the blaze apparently started somewhere in the rear of the building The building was badly damaged but not destroyed lLLCambridge Ohio At least 10 die ble Retired Army Gen Fred Allen of Alexandria Va clutches blanket around him to ward off the early morning chill after being rescued from burning Holiday inn in Cambridge Ohio AP Photo in report on economy PARIS CP bleak forecast of con tinuing high jobless rates and strong in flationary pressures is contained in report Demeter found unconscious TORONTO CP Peter Demeter probably would live longer if he were moved from the maximumsecurity Millhaven In stitution near Kingston Ont his lawyer said Monday Demeter is in satisfactory condition in Kingston hospital after being found un conscious in his cell Saturday with bruises about the head Lawyer Richard Sommers said in an in terview that he would like to have Demeter transferred to another penitentiary preferably Warkworth Institution medium security prison near Peterborough Ont on Canadas economic prospects published today by the Organization for Economic Co operation and Development In its annual economic survey of Canada the 24member OECD made up of the worlds major nonCommunist countries also warns that skilful manoeuvering will be needed to prevent the dollar from slipping However on brighter note the report says the shortterm impact of oil price in creases is likely to be felt less in Canada than in other Western industrialized countries Ironically the report suggests that Ottawa consider broadening the powers of the Na tional Commission on Inflation in bid to tackle the countrys economic problems Last week Finance Minister John Crosbie an nounced that the board is to be disbanded but by then the report was already with the printers The report says the commission will undoubtedly play useful role in improving general public understanding of the in flationary process Abducted girl rescued teenager faces charges DAYTONA BEACH Fla AP As tears streamed from her parents eyes little Caroline Thompson hugged playmate and smiled at reporters after her rescue from the teenager who allegedly abducted her from hotel parking lot The blonde fiveyearold clung to her father as she left the Myrtle Beach SC police sta tion where she had munched contentedly on hot dog and asked for chocolate milkshake followmg the ordeal that ended in that resort city Monday Shes fine said Rachel Thompson her voice cracking and her eyes red from crying who along with her husband Russell was flown by chartered jet to Myrtle Beach where they were reunited with their daughter and met some neighbors who had been on vacation there She wanted to have her picture in the newspaper while back but we didnt know it would be like this See photo Page James Keith Tucker an 18yearold High Point NC man whom officials said was on parole for an earlier autotheft conviction was arrested Monday evening and charged with kidnapping and car theft Tucker was to be arraigned in Florence SC today before US magistrate FBI special agent David Brumble of Jacksonville Fla said before the rescue that inside story Course revisions over Simcoe County Board of Education of ficials have finished revising the controver sral human relations course and are now seeking comments from various local groups The course was the subject of heated debate at the end of the school year and parents are still concerned about its content Read about this latest development on the Today Page Bus tender here awarded Barrie council has awarded the citys bus service contract to Penetang Midland Coach Lines The company says the changeover will not affect the jobs of drivers already employed by the transit ser vice Read about it on the Today Page Insley in finals Julie lnsley member of the Barrie Optimist Track and Field Club is headed for St Johns Nfld where she will compete in the Royal Canadian Legion championlt ships Aug 512 The Orillia native won place in the final of the 800m winning her event in Oakville Saturday at the Ontario championships In local softball action veteran pitcher Don McFadden pitched perfect game and batted 1000 for Church Homes Monday beating Mr Transmission 90 See stories and pictures on todays Sports Page index authorities believed the man only meant to steal the car and did not plan to abduct the gir The Thornpsons returned to Daytona Beach several hours after Caroline was found and were whisked by police to the Holiday Inn where the incident began Saturday hoping finally to begin their vacation The parents had remained at the hotel in Daytona Beach until word came that their daughter was safe The Dunwoody Ga familys twoday ordeal ended when Donald and Edith Howell of Goldsboro NC told FBI agents they noticed man and Caroline as they checked into Myrtle Beach motel Sunday SUSPECT ON TV But it wasnt until the couple saw pictures of suspect and Caroline on television Monday that they realized she was the missing girl The Howells notified police who spotted man driving the Thompsons latemodel Oldsmobile station wagon near the motel The car zoomed away officials said One patrolman took two shots at the tires police said but was unable to stop the car The high speed chase through Myrtle Beach ended 11 kilometres later when Patrolman David Smith used his cruiser to block the speeding station wagon The little girl and the familys two dogs were safe in the back of the car Was it Mesrine An 82yearold French millionaire who was kidnapped and held for 39 days says he ls certain one of his captors was Jacques Mesrine Frances Public Enemy No Mesrine is seen here In W78 photo AP Photo Police charge two TWO men have been charged by Barrie police with mischief to private property after the window of boat moored at the ci tys marina was broken Monday Joseph Diamond 19 of Penetang St Bar rie and Daniel Parker 21 of Phelpston are scheduled to appear in provincial court Aug 21 Damage to the boat was assessed at $100 Car tractortrailer collide Six die in flaming Hwy 401 crsh TORONTO CP Six persons were killed early today when their car burst into flames after colliding with tractortrailer truck which had jumped its lane on Highway 401 in the west end of the city Provincial police said the six were Michael Saliba 38 of Burlington Ont and five Hamilton residents Elias Azar 40 Musa Nazi 36 Malky Nazi 38 Gaby Nazi 35 and David Anz 35 Police said all six men were retur ning from church service at Ser bian Orthodox Church in Toronto when the accident occurred at am The truck carrying load of television antennas was rounding curve in the eastbound lane of the rainslicked highway when it cross ed the median into the westbound lane and jackknifed Truck driver Wayne Rolfe 25 of Hagersville Ont has been charged with criminal negligence Staff inspector William Snelling of HamiltonWentworth Regional Police said all six bodies were badly burned after the car exploded on im pact and police were unable to remove the bodies from the car because of the twisted wreckage The car was towed to the Toronto morgue All six were married and have several children each Snelling said 115th year No 180 Tuesday July 31 1979 Per COPY Firefighter checks wreckage of charred car Carrier Home Delivery 95 Weekly the examiner serving barrie and simcoecounty Council move termed disgusting Secret session on contract attacked by two aldermen By DENNIS LANTHIER Of The Examiner Barrie city council was accused Monday of shameful and disgusting action by two aldermen who objected to an incamera meeting last week awarding contract Last week council gave Environmental Technical Services Inc of Hamilton the con tract to complete improvement work on the pollution control centre site rather than local company that had bid lower But Monday council reversed that decision and has now asked bonding company to decide who should get the contract The incamera session was the most shameful thing thats ever happened said Ald Bill Knowles If we have to govern that way cant see democracy he said They do that in Nazi Germany or Com munist China We should have found another way Ald Dorian Parker said she was disgusted by the closed session She said discussion on public tendering must be done harms sit It KS You missed the news More fighting somewhere Gold ls ug Carter tired osalynn Warns about drug OTTAWA CP There have been enough deaths caused by accidental misuse of the painkiller Darvon that the public should be warned Dr Ian Henderson director of the federal governments drug bureau said Monday Eli Lilly and Co of Indianapolis the largest manufacturer of the widely prescribed drug has announced it will be gin immediately to issue consumer war nings about the potentially lethal dangers of taking the drug in greater than prescribed doses with alcoholic beflerages or with other drugs Dr Henderson said statistics compiled by the health protection branch are in complete but indicate that at least half of Darvonrelated deaths in Canada in recent years have been suicides Now its frozen waste OIIAWA CP After Skylabs plunge to earth the latest menace from the skies is the danger of being hit by slabs of frozen wastes ejected from highflying aircraft Chunks of the bluegreen ice have fallen on three Canadian cities recently and transport department officials are exam ining the possibility of imposing fines on airlines and private aircraft that drop the stuff Chunks have damaged an automobile in Toronto narrowlymissed farm boy in field near Mirabel Airport in Montreal and crashed through the roof of Calgary home The ice forms when liquid seeps through fauity seals on aircraft septic tanks and fall off when the planes descend into warmer air Price cuts predicted TORONTO CP Ontano supermarkets reduced the prices of most cuts of beef by as much as 20 cents pound Monday and even more reductions were predicted But Charles Gracey general manager of the Canadian Cattlemens Association said prices should rise later in the year Beef farmers are losing money on their cattle right now he said in the open The whole matter she said had been decided on personalities The work which involved new ad ministrative building and construction of new sewer and inlet works was started by Preston Ltd The company completed about $43000 of the estimated $500000 con tract before going bankrupt David Wetmore solicitor representing ETR of Barrie said councils incamera ses sion was close to slanderous thought incamera courts stopped when they stopped torturing witches he said Besides having lower bid of some $18000 the bonding company US Fidelity and Guaranty Company advised Barrie to go with ETR said Wetmore But the bonding company had apparently changed its mind Ald Alex Arthur told coun cil At later meeting representatives of the company said it wouldnt matter which of the two companies were chosen Ald Arthur said the city was told however it better have reasons why company with the higher bid would be selected Why are we selecting the company now when we had the bonding company inquired Ald Fred Ruemper Werent they told to complete their obligation to complete the contract The administration recommended hiring the bonding company so the city would have control over the way the work was done said Aid Arthur Following lengthy debate council by 76 vote decided not to award the contract to the Hamilton group Voting against the company were aldermen Fred Ruemper Jim Shirley Dorian Parker Gord Mills Doug Jagges Bill Knowles and Meg ODonal Bell operators in vote to join another union By LORI COHEN Of The Examiner Bell Canadas 7400 operators in Ontario and Quebec including 64 in Barrie rejected the union that represented them for the past 35 years and joined the union that represents 15000 Bell technicians The operators voted 5618 per cent Monday to switch to the Communications Workers of Canada from the Communications Union of Canada after an almost yearlong battle in which each union tried to woo operators to its side Of the 7408 eligible voters 6366 return ed ballots Although the CUC had reached the second stage of conciliation before talks were halted for results of the vote the CWC will have to start contract negotiations from scratch The operators have been without contract since December Fred Pomeroy CWC president emphasiz ed the seriousness of the new contract negotiations between the operators and Bell Canada Were not going to fool around he said Bells going to have to give or else The top weekly wage for Bell operator across the two provinces is $194 one of the lowest for operators in the country The highest paid Barrie operator earns $17990 with starting salary of $12981 The CWC plans bargaining caucus Aug 13 to 17 to decide upon its demands The operators wont be able to strike legally until at least October Jury calls for death penalty Theodore Bundy assumes prayerful position as judge Edward Cowart read the verdict of the lury of the Theodore Bundy murder trial Monday The ury asked for the death penalty for Bundy who was ccnvlctedlast week for the murder of two sorority sisters in Tallahassee Fla in l978 AP Photo Cane home to The Exarniner Call 726653Tfor home delivery Rescue at sea His scanty belongings secured betwen his teeth Vietnamese refugee clambers aboard this US 7th Fleet supply ship Monday shortly after he and 28 other boat people were rescued from leaky boat on the South China Sea 250 miles west of Subic Naval Base in the Philippines Monday AP Photo Kidnap victim slain PEABODY Kan AP Abductors of young bank vicepresident apparently shot him in the head and dumped the body in tall weeds after they learned they could not get into his bank vault authorities say Marion County Sheriff June Jost found the body of Grant Avery 25 Monday night after hunch led him to search an area along railroad tracks about three kilometres north of this southcentral Kansas town He was vicepresident of his fathers Peabody State Bank The search began after Averys father Bill Avery was called to his sons house trailer Sunday where he found his son held at gunpoint He told an armed man there that he could not get money from the vault until morning because of time lock and was told to leave The elder Avery called police but the trailer was empty when authorities arrived Swept into sewer CALGARY CP 12yearold boy was swept off his feet and carried on perilous onekilometre trip through city storm sewer Sunday during furious downpour didnt panic or nothing battered and bniised Mike Dedyluk said Monday The water was up to Mikes neck when he managed to ush open manhole cover and save himse just as rescue workers were beginning search fire rtment spokesmen said fire and ambu ance crews figured there wouldnt be much chance for him How the heck do you measure the odds in something like that asked Larry An derson It was probably the fact that he IS stocky and good swimmer that saved him The boy was swept into the unprotected opening of storm sewer about 24 metres high and 15 metres wide weather Warm and humid with occasional showers and thunderstorms today Highs 25 to 28 Lows overnight 14 to 17 Partly cloudy Wednesday with chance of shower Highs 25 to 27