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6 Journal and Courier Tues May 24 1971 60 buildings burn children suspected COBALT Ont (AP) Authorities are In vestigating arson as the cause of a wind whipped fire that jumped from house to house and de stroyed 60 buildings Monday Nearly one fifth of the silver mining town was destroyed 140 per sons left homeless and several slightly injured The six hour fire wiped out the north end of the town of 2200 residents and destroyed about one fifth of the buildings Mayor Bruce Lonsdale whose house was engulfed by flames said he will ask the provincial government today to de clare Cobalt a disaster area Sam Hughes fire chief in nearby Haileybury said arson may have been the cause and a fire marshal was flown in to investigate Hughes said several children about 10 years old were seen running from a furniture store where the fire started about noon Monday Police CpI Richard Purdon said investigations into possible arson and looting during the fire were continued but no charges were filed He said his 13 officer force was working overtime today keeping sightseers out of the area and preventing theft Authorities said several television sets were taken from piles of property hauled from homes during the fire Salvaged property now is being guarded in the town arena and at other sites Hughes who was in charge of about 150 volun teer firemen from Cobalt and neighboring com munities said winds up to 60 miles per hour blew sparks from building to building and made it impossible to save much of the rundown resi dential area Many of the frame homes were covered with tar paper In the center of the fire zone a Catholic church stood untouched while everything around it burned to the ground Nearby a white picket fence stood but the house was destroyed Lonsdale said many senior citizens in the burned out area refused to leave their homes during the fire and had to be dragged out by firemen ire officials said 10 persons were taken to hospital suffering from shock and smoke in halation but none was seriously injured When jail guard Lucien Charprand who had lived in his home for 30 years saw flames threatening their home he took his wife to stay with friends in Haileybury I came back it was he said nothing (AP Wirephoto) SMOKE BILLOWS ROM DOWNTOWN AREA COBALT ONT Windy wire destroys nearly one filth of silver mines town I a a 'A i AV ''VJTV V' 'V 1 S'' i 7 tiiillililiiOW 'I PW': '4 WwNKlfc' mzzv A ZV Lonsdale said campsites and trailer parks will likely be used as summer housing for the home less but added that an emergency housing pro gram would be needed before winter The three schools were closed today ive I water bombers were pulled from forest fires by the provincial environment ministry and sent into Cobalt to keep the fire from spreading to surrounding bush and forest areas The north end of the town dates back to the early 1900s when the discovery of silver created a mining boom The town about 40 miles south of Sudbury quickly grew to 30000 residents with 50 mines shipping cobalt and silver until the eco nomic slump during the Great Depression of the 1930s In 1922 a forest fire broke out killing 44 per sons and destroying nearby towns and villages Jet demanded for flight by Wednesday IT COSTS SO LITTLE ONLY $720 OR A 3 LINE AD OR 10 DAYS ond even less when you get QUICK RESULTS A S0Le 0 ordcr vow Action Ad on me economical ten day rate When It gets results sooner you will be charged only for the number of days the aa actually runs Above rates apply to non business family ads only I PLEASE NOTE! 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fire echoed from the village school in nearby Bovens milde Six terrorists were believed inside About 10 miles away just north of this northern Dutch city a second band of seven South Moluccans held hostages aboard a train Police sharpshooters had the train and school surrounded' but a govern ment official said risk was too to storm either location Tension heightened among the parents and other villagers in Bo vensmilde 'The terrorists in the school set a deadline of 2 pm local (8 am EDT) Wednesday and threatened to kill their hostages if the government attempted mediation Dutch radio reported It was believed that among the prisoners whose freedom they sought were 14 South Moluccans jailed after a similar twin terrorist strike in December 1975 At that time two gangs command eered a train and occupied the In donesia consulate demanding that the Dutch government help them win independence from Indonesia for their homeland our hostages were killed The extremists did not specify where they wanted to be flown in the jumbo jet which has a range of more than 6000 miles A medical official reported that medicines accepted by the gunmen at the school Monday night included a special prescription for a girl suf fering from a heart condition she does not have this her life will be in he said adding she needed five doses a day A special package of toys and candy was sent to the school build ing and accepted by the gunmen Police said the South Moluccan hi jackers were holding between 50 and 80 persons on the four car train stopped in rolling pastureland near the village of Onnen Some of the 100 passengers had escaped after the train was commandeered A state rail official said 160 lunch packs were delivered to the train at today in a rail trolley The gunmen had refused food in the morning because it delivered the official said The two bands of extremists seized the school and the train about 9 am Monday in an apparently coordinated attack two days before the Dutch general elections The extremists fired shots at both locations Monday No casualties were reported The unsigned letter received by Dutch radio demanded release of Moluccan brothers who are being held in prison for political rea It warned that they (mediators) come then people will be A separate list of demands the contents of which were not dis closed were given to two policemen by gunmen aboard the train on Mon day A number of South Moluccans have been jailed in Holland since 1970 when extremists began a cam paign for independence from In donesia for the South Moluccas formerly the Spice Islands in the Pacific They were once part of the Dutch East Indies colonies Dutch Justice Minister Andries Van Agt said in an interview that are behind the kidnap ing It looks like it has been per School siege sets Dutch town seething fectly time their demands were drafted in a sort of childish lan said Van Agt referring to the 1975 tandem raid The minister said the latest demands were writ ten in almost perfect Dutch He said authorities assume other Moluccans are involved in the at tacks but he declined to elaborate must understand that the kid napers are listening to every word I he said Police and army sharpshooters ringed both locations authorities at siege headquarers in Assen said A special squad of anti terrorist police and a crack squad of Royal Marines were called up The Justice Ministry said there were no plans to storm either en clave risk is too high and we are still in the dark about too many said Mrs: Toos aber a Justice Ministry spokeswoman The Moluccans struck with almost military precision two days before Dutch parliamentary elections Most parties broke off campaigning Mon day After an emergency cabinet meeting Monday night Prime Min ister Joop den Uyl said the Wednes day elections would not be blbcked by the act of Un der Dutch law the elections cannot be canceled Dutch radio said the letter included these derpands: buses stripped of seats and with windows covered to take them to Eelde airport six miles north of Assen ourteen jailed South Moluc cans were to join the hijackers at Eelde and another seven were to be at Schiphol airport planes capable of carrying 40 passengers each are to fly the Moluccans and their hostages to Amsterdam Police and anti terrorist squads must stay away from the airport Boeing 747 with a full load of fuel food and a crew must then fly the Moluccans the to a destination that officials did not disclose BOVENSMILDE The Netherlands (AP) This neat little village in northern Hol land seethed with anger and fear today as South Moluccan terrorists held 106 of its children hostage in a schoolhouse help them if they kill any of those poor said taxi driver Pieter Kan will mean civil war around here The people here are ready to lynch Anxious villagers wearing clogs gath ered in murmuring knots at street cor ners casting worried glances at the two story brick school house where the chil dren aged 6 to 12 were held at gunpoint along with six teachers angry very said Betty Mulder a young housewife anything happens to those kids in there go ing to be trouble I can tell The terrorists and seven compatriots holding at least 50 hostages aboard a hi jacked train 15 miles from Bovensmilde have demanded the release of 21 coun trymen held in Dutch jails and a jumbo jet flight out of the country They have threatened to kill hostages if the government does not comply with the demands by 8 am EDT Wednesday Some villagers who asked not to be named threatened to form vigilante groups and grab one child from the local community of Moluccan exiles for every one of their own held in the school Mrs Ina Smit 58 said sharp ening the knives These people will accept a lot of nonsense but when you touch their children like putting a knife in their Ripples of the burning anger were felt in The Hague the Dutch capital 110 miles south of here Prime Minister Joop den Uyl appealed calm and ordered police guards on the tight knit Moluccan commu nities across the country Holland we have built up a tradi tion where we conquer the brute force of hijackings with patience Let us contain ourselves in this difficult situation with honor dignity and the prime min ister told a news conference There are some 40000 Moluccan exiles in The Netherlands refugees who came here from their home islands in the In donesian archipelago in 1949 after Dutch colonial rule ended and Indonesia took over They have long clamored for indepen dence from Indonesia Moluccan sources said the young terrorists holding the chil dren were bom here and have never seen the islands they call home want to live apart in their own said Mrs Mulder how we want it too To be truthful after this we want them here at all nothing but Bovensmilde is a farming village with a population of 3100 The children were held in a ground floor classroom The gunmen pasted newspapers over the windows and drew curtains The school was ringed by 200 troops and police including a special 50 man unit the equivalent of the special weap ons and tactics SWAT teams used in the United States The members of the special unit dressed in blue combat uniforms and hel mets manned strategic positions but did not point their short barreled carbines at the school want them to think go ing to one young officer said Check Humane Society's Animal Shelter for lost pets 1705 South 2nd Street LOST BEAGLE male black white tan No collar name Skip per 742 6793 CC man drops stock holdings WASHINGTON (AP) A member of the eder al Communications Commission denying any con flict of interest says he will dispose of stock in firms in which CC employes are prohibited from having an interest Commissioner James Quello said Monday he wanted avoid all possibilities or appearances of future Quello made the statement while being questioned by a House commerce sub committee Subcommittee investigators charged that Quello owns $23500 worth of stock in three companies in violation of the rules Quello backed by CC Chairman Richard Wiley said he has been disclosing the stock regularly and know until last riday that It was on the prohibited list The list includes the names of com panies that are subject to the CC regulation Wiley said the companies were added to the list after Quello joined the commission adding" think he can be personally Ronald Cormier a General Accounting Office auditor had told the subcommittee that Quello owns stock in Martin Marietta Corp the Pennzoil Producing Co and the Gladding Corp US Dirt Band' rocks em in Russia LOST Block male puppy white on chest and paws WL Call 743 5961 LOST Bunch of keys near Green Street Call 429 8541 LOST Gray tiger cat Hanover Pork area off of Brady Lane Re ward 474 2602 or 448 2640 MOSCOW (AP) The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band the first American rock group to tour the Soviet Union ended their visit with a con cert that had a Moscow audience cheering whistling and yelling for more the end we had them bouncing in their seats which made us feel really pia nist guitarist Jackie Robinson Clark said after concert have anything like this a teen aged girl said are all about the spring or the snow or patriotic The Dirt Band played a bright foot stom ping blend of country blue grass and rock for 80000 Soviets during a three week tour under a US Soviet cultural program sponsored' by the US State Department Group members said audience reactions varied throughout the tour from Riga to Tbi lisi to Yerevan to Leningrad In Riga the audience sat respectfully' throughout the concert thought we had said Hanna' But at the end the au ditorium exploded in 20 minutes of applause In Yerevan 6000 fans clapped and danced inside while 15000 without tickets surged against the gates outside where a teargas grenade was thrown In Leningrad police ringed the stage to keep away the fans Bearded banjo player John McEuen said when people rose from their seats they were told to sit down In Moscow several young men and women ran "on stage with flowers in the Russian tra dition embarrassing bandsmen with kisses Tickets sold for up to $8 a pay for many Russians and reportedly went for up to six times that amount on the black mar ket Many Russians who have plenty of rubles but little to spend them on were glad to pay A large share of seats went to families of of ficials and audiences were composed of many middle aged people wish had the opportunity to play to more young said lead guitarist Jef frey Hanna know a big rock roll audience out was definitely worthwhile to come here and put a dent in the door for American mu McEuen said It is a door that has been opening grad ually since the 1960s when the first carefully controlled Soviet groups were allowed to per form kids know all about American one Soviet said Many have learned about American rock from foreign broadcasts and there has long been a lively black market in rock records and tapes Approved rock music is now common at restaurants and dances the media occasion ally reports on Western rock and East Eu ropean groups tour the Soviet Union A decade ago rock was denounced The Communist party daily Pravda once de scribed it as flood of cacophony yells gig gles and God knows what (which) plays a major role in turning men into LOST: Large male Irish setter wearing black collar and flea collar Answers to "Cosev" RE WARD 474 4391 LOST: MALE Welmaraner sil ver gray with black nylon collar Campus area Reward 743 9704 or 749 2239 LOST One wheel manual garden plough between Lafayette and Romney on May 9th Urgently needed Reward 447 3625 LOST 12" WHITE Poodle area Elsners Main 474 1664 or 589 8096 MISSING: Black and tan male doberman reward for Informa tion or return 523 2415 REWARD LOST toy black Poodle wearing black collar In vicinity of Miami School 474 3213 On Monday the Tass news agency praised the Dirt Band originality of the en creative style the striving to inter pret traditional folk music in contemporary forms aroused a lively Interest among the Tass said Though few people here had 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