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SECOND SECTION

Flood waters rising
in the Ontario towns

FIELD, OXNT. (CP) —

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rising Monday in this town
about 40 kilometres nor-
thwest of North Bay and the
township clerk estimated
damage worth millions of
doliars had been done.

Roger Lafond said water
from the Sturgeon River was
rising by about four cen-
timetres an hour and part of
the town was under about
five metres of water.

About 300 of the 500
residents have left their
homes, he said. Most are
living with relatives in the
area.

James Auld, Ontario

- mninister of natural
resources and energy,
toured the town and declared

it a disaster area, :

In Iron Bridge, provincial
Police said water from the
Mississagi River had fallen
by about 15 cm. At least 15
families were forced to leave
the town, about 109 km east
of Sault Ste. Marie.

And flood waters have sur-
rounded the village of
Crystal Falls, isolating the
200 residents.

Lafond said a. dam at

Crystal Falls has not been”

damaged,.:as had been
reported, and will remain

logs had broken free from a
boom -at a lumber yard in
Field and had run into a

Navy
man
dies

NANAIMO, B.C, (CP) —
Vice-Admiral Edmond Rollo
Mainguy, a former Royal
Canadian Navy chief of staff,
died in this Vancouver Island
city Sunday. He was 77.

Mainguy was awarded the
Order of the British Empire
(OBE) during the Second
World War for gallantry and
distinguished service as
senior officer of convoy
escort groups. He also
earned two mentions in
dispatches.

He was appointed chief of
naval personnel in
November, 1942, and a
member of the Naval Board.

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bridge at Crystal Falls,

OPP have told tourists to
stay out of the town but the
flooding has attracted
hundreds of persons, some of
whom brought cameres to
photograph the damage,
Some also brought boats and
police said charges will be
laid if the boats are not
removed,

Food and other supplies
were brought into the town
by boat, and a mobile
telephone exchange was
being put into operation
Monday .to try to resume
service, cut off Saturday.

OPP said melting snow in
the bush near the town will
add to the flooding.

In Timmins, ‘cold weather
has slowed the snow melt,
lowering the level of Por-
cupine Lake and allowing the
reopening of four roads,
closed since Thursday.

Spokesmen for the natural
resources ministry said a lot
of snow remains near the
city and more flooding is
feared. .

The ministry has issued a
flood warning for the Ottawa

” River, saying the highest
point of the river will be in. °

the area ‘of Ottawa and
Arnprior, The level of . the
river was. dropping neat
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in Elk Lake, about 80 Hlo-
metres southwest of
Kirkland Lake, water from
the Montreal and Makobe
fell Monday.

A bridge had been washed
out and some businesses in
the town were flooded.

The 40 residents of Search-
mont have returned to clean
mud and debris from their
homes, about 40 kilometres
northeast of Sault Ste.:
Marie,

Meanwhile, Ontario
Liberal leader Stuart Smith
said Monday in the

legislature that communities
hit. by flooding should
receive more money than set
aside in the province's
disaster relief fund, The fund
matches dollar-for-dollar ali

‘money raised by affected

communities.

Smith said the government
should contribute three
times thal much.

Liberal MPP Mike Bolan
of Nipissing .suggested the
government consider
moving the townsite of Field,
as it promised after the town
was hit by a severe flood in
is.

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NDP leader Michael
Cassidy called for a special
Northern Ontario disaster
fund because he said it is
impossible for small nor:
thern communities to raise
the money needed for ade-
quate provincial assistance.

Rene Brunelle, Ontario
secretary for resources
development, said the

suggestions would be taken
up at Wednesday’s cabinet
meeting.

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The Herald, Tuesday, May 1, 1779, Page 13

_ This wave is of relief

WINNIPEG (CP) — A
lowerthan-expected fload
trest has arrived on
Manitoba's doorstep and
sent a wave of optimism
flowing through beleaguered

_ Red River communities.

“This is a happy day for
people in the Red River val:
ley," Premier Sterling Lyon
declared Monday while
reporting that Emerson,
where the Red enters
Manitoba from the United
States, received peak flows
Sunday about three-tenths of
a metre below earlier pre-
dictions.

“It is excellent news and
we are all delighted with it,”
Lyon sald. ‘We're not out of
the woods yet, but the
situation certainly is op-
timistic,"

The ring dike at Emerson
has a comfortable edge on
the crest, which will
gradually move north past
other diked communities
over the next week, arriving
at the floodway inlet at
Winnipeg on the weekend.

“The water resouces
people have recalculated the
peak stages for downstream
points and now indicate. they
will be lower by about a half-
foot to a foot,” said Lyon. °

“At no time — contrary to
some reports from the East
in particular — was the city
of Winnipeg in any danger

whatsover.”*
Lyon said the levels stil
will in excess of 1950

levels when communities
along the valley were
flooded, But that was before
the ring dikes and the Red
River flocdway around
Winnipeg. designed to
prolect the city fram flows
far in excess of 1950.

While most of the commu-
nitles are expected to remain
dry, thousands of acres of
lowlying farmiand have been
flooded.

Boris Hryhorezuk. deputy
minister of fovernment
services, said Monday up-to-
date figures show 5,165
residents of flood-threatened
communities had evacuated
their homes, plus some 2,000
from rural areas.

‘Hundreds of volunteers,
aided by Canadian Forces
personnel and Emergency
Measures Organizatior
officials, have stayed behind

to maintain dikes, co-or- |

dinate rescue missions if
hecessary and provide
security,

Hryhorezuk said that while
there is confidence in. the
dikes, a contingency
evacuation plan has been
worked out for those
remaining in the towns,

He said if total evacuation
became necessary, it
wouldn’t happen suddenly,
There would be at least four
to.five hours’ warning and
evacuation could be handled
by road or boat,

Tom Weber, a senior of-
ficial of the water resources

May 4, 5, _
Friday, Seturday & Sunday

branch, sald there is little
danger of a second crest on
the river, at least ‘not on the
basis of predicted rainfall.”

Weber said people who
have evacuated their homes
won't be allawed to return at.
least until there is good road -
access. He said that may not
happen for between 10 and 12
days after communities
receive the flood crest.

In Emerson, the mood was
one of relief,

“Everybody is all smiles
loday." said an Emerson
resident, relaxing in a local
hotel after a shift on the dike.

“There's about six of us
here. We're just gelting off,
duty. We're going to have a
couple and go home fer a
sleep.”

Ivan Mault, an emergency
measures co-ordinator in
Emerson, said in a telephone
interview dike conditions are
“first rate, no problem
whatsoever.”

But Mauit said it will be

some time before residents
can return to their homes,

“There's no way people
can come back until we get
the utilities functioning
again. There's no way we

would want anybody here for
quile a few days."

Erhard - Schultz, a
volunteer fireman, said
diking activity has subsided,

“Everything is at a
standstill. We're sitting still
and holding our breath, Th
don't have to fill sandbags
any more, They're pretty

Most attention now will be
directed towards the
weather, The area forecast
was for cloudy skies over-
hight and some showers
today, but only a heavy,
sustained rainfall could
dampen spirits in the valley.

Most. hoping for a
break in the weather

FREDERICTON (cP) —
Flocd watchers along the
bulging St. John River are
keeping their fingers crossed
in the hope forecasts for
lower water Jevels and
improved weather hold true
and the- worst of their
troubles are over.

_ The river is stable now at
approximately 26 feet- (7.8
metres above sea level) and
the information we have is
‘that it will start to decline,"
J.A, Murray, deputy director
of the provincia’ Emergency

Measures Organization, said
Monday.

However. the river is ex-
pected to rise another foot in
farming communities
southeast of here before
beginning to decline there.

Several thousand acres of
rich farmland are under
water at spots up to 1.5
melres deep and the Trans
Canada Highway is closed in
sections. Homes and barns‘in
the area, viewed from a
helicopter Monday, looked
like small islands in the

we AE

middle of a large lake.

In Fredericton, where
Mayor Elbridge Wilkins
declared a state of
emergency early Monday
morning, the most serious
damage was confined to a
few dozen homes i inl low: lying

areas near the r
An estimated “100 Tamuhes

were evacuated, some. of
them to residences al the
University of New Brun-
swick where they were given
rooms and food by the
provincial government.

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