PAGE 2, THE HERALD, Wednesday, April 5, 1978

Briefs

THREE KILLED
OTTAWA (CP)
Three area youths were
killed and two others
injured Monday when
their parked van ex-
ploded, apparently after
gasoline they were usin
to fill a chain saw ignited,
dlice said Tuesday.
dare: Robert Hobbs,
1?, of Munster, an Ottawa
suburb, Thomas Albert
Cathcart, 18, and Laurie
Ann Carter.n14, of Stitt-
sville, Ont., about 16
kilometres west of Ot-
‘tawa. Injured were
James Leary,nl7, of
Ashton, Ont.,- about 30
kilometres west of Ot-
tawa, and his sister Anne,
1

_ AGREE ON TERMS
_ THETFORD MINES,
Que, (CP) .
- Management and union
hegotiators at Asbestos
Corp. reached a tentative
contract settlement
Monday, narrowly
ayerting a strike by 1,500
-hourly-paid = workers.
Union president Oliva
-Lemay announced that he
would recommend ac-
ceptance of the proposed
‘contract during a mem-
bership vote. He refused
to reveal its terms
publicly.
RETURNS TO SPAIN
MADRID (AP) — After
nine years of exile from
her husband’s country,
Dutch Princess Irene has
returned to in and
rejoined ber husband,
Prince Carlos Hugo de

BourbonParma,
leader of the Carlist
party. Dictator Francisco
anco expelled the
couple in 1968 because of
their campaign to put the
on the thenvacant
anish throne.
CHILDREN
POISONED .
MEXICO CITY (AP)
An infected gelatin
dessert caused the focd
poisoning that made 4,-
000 schoolemildren sick
last Thursday, the
government reports. The
children got sick after
eating breakfasts which
the government supplies.
There were no deaths, but
1,598 of the children were
kept in the hospital
evernight.

LIFE SAVED n
BIRMINGHAM nEng
land (AP) — A heart
pacemaker saidnto be the
smallest in the world has
been fitted in a nine-
month-old girl here and
her mother says it has
ies ite. The

Australian-desig

device fitted to Natalie
Wild at Birmingham
Children’s Hospital is 1%
inches long, an inch wide,
a quarter-inch thick
wel two ounces and
cost $1,600. The lithium-
powered pacemaker, :de-
Signed by the ‘Sydney-
based firm of Teletronics,
was fitted in Natalie’s

chest last Wednesday but .

the operation was not
announced until this

week.

Rosedale murder
suspect on trial

A pathologist testifying
Monday at the trial of
Walter Murray Madsen
said the-body of one of
four Fraser Valley teen-

agers killed last July had:

scratch marks that in-
dicated it may have been
cragged over a
surtace,

Pathologist Dr. 7
Fredereck Sturrock said
the body of Evert. Den
Hertog, 19, had five shal-
low scratches on the left
shoulder as well as sixn-
stab wounds in the chest
and a bullet wound in the
right shoulder. ;

The main part of the
bullet went ugh the
spinal column and
fragments entered the
right lung, causing Den
Hertog to die of massive
bleeding and shock,
Sturrock said.in

Madsen, 24, is charged
with the murders of Den
Hertog,. his brother
Jan,ni6, Bert Menger, 19,
and Leola Guliker, 16, the
only one of the four whose

ly has not yet been
recovered.

They were killed in an
attack last July. 19 as they
sat drinki beer and
listening toa tape deck by
the Fraser River near
Rosedale, B.C. n

‘The opening of the trial
was delayed briefly after
defence lawyer Gerald
Young advised Justice J.
G.-Gould that he intended
to challenge and question
all prospective jurors.

DENIES. CHALLENGE

- When he admitted that
he had no specific in-
formationnon any
member of the jury panel
and was attumpidng to
find if any had been in-
fluenced’ by pre-trial

Lightening —

explosion

(CP) — “I heard a
rumbling noise and then I
saw a big bali of fire,”
Carol O'Brien said
Monday in describing a
blast that shook parts of
this Conception Bay
iskind community 25
kilumetres north of St.
John’s Sunday, — _

The blast, said by
RCMP to have been
caused by balled light-
ning, shook houses in St.
John’s and led some
ped le to believe a plane

crashed at St. John's
airport, « _

Three chickens and a
rat were killed in a small
outhouse attached to’ a
barn on property owned
by James ickford,

elghbors said Bickford
could not be reached
from St. John's because
‘the blast had blown the
phone off his wall.-

rough this

Justice Gould
against the

challenge.

“There has been
massive publicity and, if
I were to give effect to

blicity,
ruled

challenges because of -

publicity, you couldn't try
is man anywhere in
B.C,” he said. .

been here from
New Westminster
because. of, lieity .<-:

the firdt-day’ of
the trial, the jury, made
up of 10 men and two
women, also heard that
Bert Menger had been
shot in the back of the left
angling through ‘ls lett
angling throug
lung and heart, and that a
et entering Jan Den
Hertog’s t arm had
penetrated nis brain.
Jan Neels, brother-in-
law of the Den Hertog
brothers, told the jury
that he identified the
three bodies at the
morgue in
Chilliwack, B.C., where
they were taken after
being found near the
shooting site.
The trial continues.

the

The trial venue had
shifted

prize was $100.

re eee kl ee
enny Hane, a 14 year old student at the Seventh
Day Adventist School was the first place winner of
the Herald’s Easter colouring contest. Lenny’s
hobbies are fishing and sketching and painting. His

Roger Fehr,
winner of $50

Iz years old, was the second p
in the colouring contest. A herald
paper boy for the past year, Roger's hobbies are

Group claims |
inquiry bias |

of biag—we think ‘they
would be forced to agree
with as :

The Law Union, innits
February argument-
s,nnoted that Mr, Justice
David C. McDonald, the
commission chairman, 1s
former president of the
Liberal Party of Alberta.
Itadded that Guy Gilbert
of Montreal had acted as _
lawyer for Mare Lalonde
when Lalonde was minis-
ter of health and welfare
and Donald Rickerd of
Toronto was reported to
be a close personal friend
of former solicitor-gen-
eral Francis Fox. .... -

OTTAWA (CP) — The
Law Union of Ontario
said today it will go
before the Federal: Court
of Canada to get a writ to
stop the work of a federal
royal commission into
RCMP wrongdoing.

The Law Union, &a
group of about 150
socialist legal workers,
says close connections
between the three royal
commissioners and the
Liberal party give rise to
a “reasonable: ap-
prehension’ that the
commission will be
biased in its operations.

The Law Union in
February asked the

12 year old Debbie Brown was the third prize winner
of the contest, taking home $25. Debbie has been
delivering papers for three years and also babysits
and collects stamps. .

Eleven year old S

colouring contest.

skiing and skateboarding.

student at Thornhill elementary is $15 richer after
winning fourth prize. Susan is alse the proud winner
of an Easter bunny in the Shoppers Drug Mart

ASSESSRESPON-
SIBILITY. oe
The .. three
missioners, _ in _in-
vestigating acts of RCMP
wrongdoing, would have
to. assess political
responsibility for RCMP

behavior.

“It | is simply not

commissioners them-
selves to resign on such

‘ounds. The commission
rejected the motion,
saying it is not the kind of
administrative bedy
required by law to be un-

jased.
“It was the only
argument they could
make, and we think it was

Michael Mandel, credible that you will

wrong. Mrofessor at pursue your investigation

Osgoode Hall; Toronto, the highest levels if it

said in a news release, appears that wn -

“If they had faced the vestigation Ps th

ie pe real question—whether 7, ican amage tt ie
nbury, a grate or not there = was Te

reasonable apprehension

On the job drug abuse a problem

TORONTO (CP) — An
‘authority on drug abuse
says drug abuse on the
job is increasing but
companies are failing to
deal with the problem.

“We're a drug-oriented
society and we couldn’t
do without them (drugs),
but the biggest group of
abusers are the fully-
employed,” Dr. John
Caldwell told 5,500
delegates Monday: at the
61st annual conference of
the Industrial Accident
Prevention Assoccation.

He said at least six per

eent of:-employees now.
Suffer “visible formg of. Ontal
drugabuse but only about: Hi will require workers-
one per cent of them doso-

because of job conditions.
Dr. Caldwell, who has
worked for industry and
the Addiction Research
Foundation, said many
companies set up drug-
abuse ograms but
opera em poorly...

~ In an intervew later, he
said many companies
have such programs but

treat only the obvious.

physical addiction, then
send the worker back to

work, ;
Dr...Caldwell said
alcohol abuse is the No.n1
roblem, followed by
anquillizers, sleeping
pills and marijuana, but
marijuana: use is in-

creasing among workers
and management.

In another spech; J.H.-
Brace, president of Mon-
eywell Ltd., told the
conference that tough
industrial health and
safety laws are inevitable
and even’ tougher
measures will follow if
industry does not clean
up its act. |

“We get legislation like
this because we deserve
it’? Brace said in
reference to Bill 70, which

sets stringent safety

Measures and now is
‘nearing approval in the

‘Ontario legislature. The

management safety com-
mittees at all plants of
more than 20 employees

and. the labor minister

may designate © ‘com-
mittees for firms with
less than 20 workers.
COSTS INCREASING
Brace said the cost of
occupational and | en-

vironmental: bealth has 7

hit nearly 25 per cent. of
the annkal growth rate of
ducing goods.in the
ast 20 years and industry
cannot. avoid ‘facing its
responsibilities. -

. Brace also warned that —

indirect costs of en-
vironmental disease now.
run five times greater

than the easily-visible

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STATUES
MOSCOW (CP)
Geologists say a gallery of
natural sculptures in rose-
pink sandstone has been
discovered in a. remote part
of the Kara Kum Desert in
West Turkmenia. The
figures, stretching for
hundreds. of metres, are
believed to have been
brought ta the surface by
mud volcanoes and: geysers
and to have existed for @.

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