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A. NanaJmo Dairy Fres Press, Thursday, April 6, 1972 J- CIO 13. 01 3 JL U.J. H. i Court Studies Bid 3.0 Spit that he will consider action not 7 usually thought appropriate for teachers.

moves to limit school operating budgets and to require referen-dums on -salary increases for teachers above a ceiling of 6.5 per cent a year in which the government will share. "Our actions here have spelled out to the people of this province that we are determined in this stand we have taken," said Mr. Robertson, who defeated Frank Roemer, the federation's second vice-president, 483 to 116 in the election. "I have made known my stand, not for Adam Robertson because his days are numbered, not for the teachers of this province, but for the children, so they have a future in this land. "I will pursue -that to the bitter end to achieve that pro VANCOUVER (CP) The British Columbia Teachers Federation refused Wednesday to establish a strike fund proposed as a wetpon in its continued battle against the provincial government.

The strike fund was proposed by the Burnaby Teachers Association in a resolution calling for one of at least $500,000. An amendment from the floor at the annual convention raised this to $3 million, with one delegate, saying, "If we are going into battle let's put on the armour, put our money where our mouth is." But delegates then voted down the whole idea of a strike fund, 349-to-22I. Earlier at the convention, the teachers voted to raise $1.25 million through salary levies for a political action Meanwhile, incumbent BCTF president Adam Robertson was re-elected Wednesday to a second term. Mr. Robertson pledged a fight to the finish against government VANCOUVER (CP)-Mr.

Jus-lire Peter Seaton of British Supreme Court reserved decision Wednesday on a Jiove by an Esquimalt private ospital to require the district Jf Esquimalt to pay the difference between the governmental maximum rate for welfare patients and a higher amount jEt claims should be paid, i' West Bay Private Hospital is $n'e of 17 such institutions in the evince which sued various claiming they were entitled to an amount greater than the government Jimit in order to gain "reasonable remuneration" for care of jh welfare patients sent to them. Earlier, Parklane Private Hos-ifal of Vancouver was awarded $57,524 judgment against the jrity by Mr; Justice Thomas fefgerMn a test case of the rate As a result of agreements to fettle based on the test case, ACROSS THE PROVINCE RECORD MEETING 'r I Opposition Suspicious I Of Government Motives Alert Officer Prevents Attempted Bridge Leap 1- BEFORE THE WATERS after the vast 15 million-gal- Ion storage basin had been drained, flushed by fire hoses Mom Wins Tug-o'-war With Hungry Crocodile fessional objective, even if I have to use union tactics to achieve it." NOT TALKING STRIKE Mr. Robertson said later that his acceptance speech should not be construed to mean he would lead teachers in a strike, but PARK-RIDE PLAN URGED NORTH VANCOUVER (CP) City council voted unanimously Tuesday to ask B.C. Hydro to implement a park-and-ride bus system from the North Shore into downtown Vancouver at the earliest possible date. TUNNEL TO START WEST VANCOUVER (CP)-Construction of a tunnel to replace a two-mile stretch of twisting track on the B.C.

Railway line will start May 15, a railway spokesman said Wednesday. The tunnel will cut out that section of track above Fishermen's Cove where a number, of boxcars derailed in plunging down a cliff and causing extensive damage to one house. PARK-AND-BUS VANCOUVER (CP) More runs have been added to the city's experimental park-and-ride bus system because of its increasing popularity, a spokesman for B.C. Hydro said Wednesday. A total of 538 passengers were carried Wednesday the highest number since the system began March 7.

The service operates between the Pacific National Exhibition and downtown Vancouver. GEMMA GALLERIES Buys Antiques Silver, China, Glass, Furniture, Brass and Copper. Are you curious about your old possessions? Show them to us. You might want to sell them we might want to buy them. GEMMA GALLERIES Island Hall Hotel, PirlsvllI J4J-J225 OPEN SUNDAT pecialiu In CHANDELIERS imported directly from EUROPE.

Crystal, Brasa, Ceramis, Wrought Iron, Bronze. V. Justice Seaton Tuesday granted 12 judgments totalling more than $400,000 to private hospitals in Vancouver tuid Surrey. MORE TO COME The remaining suits now are being heard and more are still' in the writ stage. Among those cases being heard is a suit brought by Aberdeen Private Hospital against the city of Victoria.

Victoria lawyer Terence O'Grady, representing the city, contended Wednesday that Victoria is not liable for extra payment claimed by the hospital. He said that should any award be made, it must be limited under Supreme Court rules fo a one-year period, prior to Feb. 28, 1959. Mr. O'Grady contended that the hospital, under these ru'es, was required to file a writ after that one-year period, but failed to do so.

about 20 cabinet ministers briefing the businessmen, should assure the public that the international businessmen will get no information ahead of Canadians. The meeting should be open to press and public, he said. New Democrat Ed Broadbent (Oshawa-Whitby) referred to re-ports that foreign-ownership policy will be a prime topic at the brietmgs, ana saio uanaai nn shniilri he tnld first. He also referred to reported rules that would exclude from the briefings any independent Canadian businessmen or heads of Canadian subsidiaries unless accompanied by their seniors frnm tho United States. Prime Minister Trudeau should meet first with Canadian business and labor leaders on foreign-ownership policy, Mr.

Broadbent said, because otherwise "a further competitive advantage will be given to the foreign-based corporations operating ir Canada." fJovernment sDokesmen said the meetings between cabinet ministers and about 50 international business executives, representing mainly a companies, had been arranged several months ago and was unconnected with the preceding visit of President Nixon April 13-15. Officials Old Terms The location and date for the match, due to start June 22, were fixed by an agreement in Amstersam March 20, but Fischer rejected it, the organizers noted. The president of the Interna-tonal Chess Federation, Dr. Max Euwe, threatened Fischer with disqualification from the match unless his national federation guaranteed he would play. Theoranizershere said that while Fischer agreed to play in Belgrade June 22, he had still left open whether or not he agreed to the financial conditions, the main issue in dispute.

Under the original agreement, Belgrade and Reykjavik offered $138,500 total prize money, of which 62.5 per cent would go to the winner and 37.5 per cent to the loser. But Fischer, who defeated the former champion, Russian Ti-gran Petrosian in Buenos Aires for the right to challenge Spas-sky, also of the Soviet Union, is reported want a larger share guaranteed him, including a proportion of television and other rights. 245-31 41 Gates, 7:30 Cartoon, 8 p.m. 7:00 and 9:00 p.m. Nanaimo water district Wed- nesday completed its three- day annual spring cleanup of No.

1 reservoir at Harewood, WEATHERMAN MIXED UP MONTREAL (CP) -Montrealers trudging through blowing snow in the downtown area Wednesday could take heart the weather office said it wasn't in the forecast. Asked how much snow was likely to fall, the office, at the international airport in suburban Dorval said there would be no accumulation. Told that blizzard -dike conditions were being experienced in the downtown area, the weather office spokesman replied: "I know. It's the same way out- here." "Well, then how much snow are we going to "None," was the reply. "And it will end by tonight." Bankers Unhappy Over Inflation VANCOUVER (CP) The Canadian Bankers' "Association is not optimistic, about the fight against inflation in Canada.

CBA president F. H. McNeil -S OTTAWA (CP) Plans for off-the-record meeting this rfnonth between federal cabinet ministers and heads of international c6rporations have provoked a political uproar. Announcement of the April 7il9 Ottawa session, arranged Business International Executive Services, a New York jfcBnpany, prompted expressions suspicion from Opposition spokesmen about just what the government is up to. Promotional material issued.

Jpy the New York firm is reported to have billed it as "an inparallelled opportunity to uggestr modifications" in -the government's legislative proposals on controlling foreign ownership, which it says will be published just before the meeting. A government spokesman Said the cabinet-businessmen ipetinffs are "not particularly" itended to deal wiin loreign imprshin addine that no date fas been set for publication of fee policy. i However, Opposition Leader lobert Stanfield said that when arliament reopens next week will be pressing questions on Government aDOUti U11S peculiar operation." SSTTRANfR SOUGHT aaliT Prima Minister Tni- ifcau, scheduled to be among iWdrld Chess Stand Pat On BELGRADE (Reuter) The fielgrade organizers of the Boris passky-Bobby Fischer world fee chess match made it clear Jfednesday they do not intend to Negotiate new terms with Fis-Jier as -the price of ending the i tfspute- oyer arrangements for thematch. i 5iPaul Marshall, representing hth -Fischer and the American Chess Federation, is expected hpra next week to try to per-' auade the Yugoslavs to change their minds over, withdrawing their offer of Belgrade as the location for the first half of the championship encounter, But the organizers here say there can be no question of fur-i ther negotiations. Park Jlti PARKSVTLLE WALT DISNEY'S "THE BAREFOOT EXECUTIVE" Shows: Friday, 7 and 9 p.m.

8 p.m. He did not elaborate, saying he would not want to tip the federation's hand once tactics are decided. "You are going to pay, you are going to have to bleed. If we stumble and fall, we. will have truggle to our feet and keep on until we achieve Norttn Goble, secretary general oft', the Canadian Tea.chers Federation, said B.C.

teachers face problems with the' government similar to difficulties confronting teachers in other parts of tht country. He said nation-wide problems are beginning to require nationwide responses, and urged delegates to seek a consensus principles they are not prepared1 to compromise, come what may. IT'S TIME TO GO SEAMLESS The Aluminum Gutter that's guaranteed for 20 years. Ca'J Now and Save 758-2336 IIOEWELL SERVICE Total Engine Performance WEATHER East Vancouver Island regions Gale' warning reduced to small craft warning for Georgia Strait. Friday Cloudy with, a few showers.

A few sunnV in tervals. Winds locally strong and gusty in showers. High irmaj 48. Low tonight Z5. Yesterday's Temperatures Max.

Min. Precip Thunder Bay .29 4 Winnipeg 28 16 Regina 55 33 .03 Prince Albert 30 19 .02 Swift Current 70 39 Medicine Hat 73 45 Calgary 61 S4 Penticton fiO 46 .08 Castlegar 45 40 Prince Rupert 36 32 .57 Prince George 37 .02 Mackenzie 53 35 .31 Victoria 58 40 .17 Nanaimo fiO 35 .14 Revelstoke 38 33 .66 Pease Lake 31 17 .05 Peace River 50 26 Whitehorse 29 18 .04 Fort St. John 39 17 .01 Los Anceles 66 57 St. Johns 30 25 Halifax 36 29 Montreal 33 21 Ottawa 32 16 .04 Toronto 32 23 North "ay 23 2 Churchill 0 B10 The Pas 5 Official Fnslne Tune-Up Service Pickup and Delivery Ph. 758-9431 Open 7 Days a Week 2700 Norwell and Island Highway North Canada's Carpet Specialists urvirr Easy Terms Nanaimo eaturing Russ Malpass Quintet p.m.

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Jim Greer, one of those on the job, is shown here. (Photo by Mack Wilson) But other vacationers formed a human chain, pulling Mrs. Bad-ley, Mark and the crocodile to the bahk where( the boy's father, David jumped astride it and tried to pry open its jaws. The reptile released the boy when helpers slashed at it with a knife. Helpers drove 10 miles' to radio for Kenya's flying doctor service, while Mark was given first aid by a trained nurse who was on the.

spot. Mark, not seriously hurt, is recovering in hospital, and his father, who: is doing veterinary research here, is nursing hand lacerations. Injured Explosion and -diesel oil and authorities feared others would explode. Womack identified the dead man as Eugene Smith, about 30, a loading' clerk. Police said the four persons known to be injured were residents of the subdivision around ihetank farm.

They were taken to hospitaTwhere7fwo were re" ported in critical condition and the other two in fair condition. Womack said the explosion occurred when a gasoline tanker, was being loaded. Two schools in the area were ordered closed by city officials. CONFERENCE. SITE 'MONTREAL (CP) Montreal will be the site of a large-scale international conference on children'r-theatre June 14-18.

It will be-the first such conference held in North America, There will be four visiting European companies the Moscow Central Children's Theatre, the Ion Creange Theatre from Bucharest, the Lalka Puppet Theatre of Warsaw and the Young Vic from London. Four Canadian groups, two French and two English, also will be reaicrWednesday-at-tr-news-con1 VANCOUVER (CP)-A patrol officer on Lions Gate Bridge prevented a woman who said she was on an "acid trip" from jumping off the span Tuesday night. The officer struggled with the woman who had been seen standing at the bridge rail for 20 minutes. She was taken to hospital for treatment and observation. FIRE DAMAGES SCHOOL WILLIAMS LAKE (CP) -Damage has been estimated at $30,000 in a fire that broke out Wednesday at the Poplar Grove elementary school, destroying one classroom and damaging another.

NEW STUDIES SHELVED NORTH VANCOUVER (CP) North Vancouver city and district councils voted Tuesday night to shelve separate resolutions asking for new studies on the proposed third crossing of Burrard CENTRE APPROVED NEW WESTMINSTER (CP)-City Council has, approved the establishment of a receiving home in New Westminster for children with social problems. The centre will be in the Loyal Protestant Home and will take children from 10 to 16 years who have emotional difficulties. GRANT APPROVED VICTORIA (CP) A $2,800 grant to the Songhpcs recreation commission to hire a co ordinator for the all-Indian B.C, Games has been approved by Fund Committee, Esquimalt MLA Herb Bruch said Tuesday. CONTRACT LET PRINCE GEORGE (CP)-The law firm of Wilson King and Co. has been- given a one-year contract to provide a city prosecutor for $2,200 a month.

The new contract, retroactive to Jan. 1, brings the price to about $22 an hour based' on 100 hours a month of work. The firm had last summer when former prosecutor Ross Simpson left the job. SHOT IN SPINE VANCOUVER (CP) Gordon Andrews, 18, of Vancouver was reported in fair condition in hospital Wednesday night following the removal of a bullet from the spinal area. Police found the wounded man in his apartment.

Andrews was said to have told friends that "someone Jid it some time ago." RAIN DELAYS PLOWING CHILLIWACK (CP) The annual Chilliwack plowing match originally scheduled to start Wednesday was postponed until today because of heavy rains in the. Fraser Valley. Some 35 men and women from throughout B.C. and Washington State are to take part in the matcn. PORT ALBERNI 2:1,4 a.m.

2.1ft 8:30 a.m. 7.7 ft 1:35 p.m. 4.8 ft 8:05 p.m. 11.0 ft APRIL 7, 1972 PORT ALBERNI 3:20 a.m. 1.4 ft 8.0 ft 2:50 p.m.

ft 9:05 p.m. 11.2 ft add five minutes and subtract VOLKSWAGEN SALES PARTS. SERVICE -A hucr STRFRTX, XAKATMO) II ill NAIROBI, Kenya (Reuter) A British mother told Wednesday how she played a nightmare game of tug-of-war with a crocodile which was holding her seven-year-old son in its jaws. Mark Radley, screaming with arms outstretched, was dragged by a crocodile through reeds beside a pool at Buffalo Springs, a picnic spot 180 miles northeast of Nairobi. "I will never forget the look of absolute terror on his face," said Carole Radley of Hudders-field, Yorkshire, who splashed through the water and grabbed her son by the shoulders.

The crocodile, which had interrupted an Easter picnic, let go, then pounced again. One Dead, Four In Tank Farm DORAYILLE, Ga. (AP) An explosion rocked a refinery tank farm in this northeast Atlanta suburb today, killing one man and injuring at least four oth-ersi Flames quickly spread to a small housing subdivision. Wit- lesses said- one houseXPloded and showered two others with flames, setting them ablaze. Police evacuated the area around the Triangle Refinery, owned by Kerry McGee Oil Co.

About 300 families were evacuated and Police Chief F. D. Hand said he had been advised that the City of Doraville has declared a state of emergency. Witnesses said flames were shooting hundreds of feet into the air due to the blast. MORE MAY EXPLODE Refinery foreman Kenneth Womack said the tank farm has seven tanks each holding a millior gallons and that three oi them hive burned.

The tanks contained gasoline, kerosene Packing Plant Ends Business PENTICTON (CP) The Pen-ticton Co-Operative Growers' Association has Bone Into volun tary liquidation, rblaming insufficient fruit tonnage to support its packinghouse facilities. The association said in a statement Wednesday that tree losses suffered through freezes during the winters of 19frMS5 and 19fiR-fi9 reduced fruit shipments to the packinghouse. The building, including con trolled atmosphere storage facilities, is valued at $775,000 and equipment has book value of $150,000. A spokesman said that to operate successfully the pack-inchouse must have at least. 7.SO0 tons of fruit but tonnage received over the last two years has been less than 5,000 tons.

MOBILE CARPET STORE Serving Northern Vancouver Island "A Call Brings Our Store To Your Door" ference prior to the association quarterly meeting: "Interest rates have gone dramatically higher since the first of the year, and the increase in the last couple of months has been faster than we would have forecast. "I don't think anybody knows the answer about how to fight inflation." Mr. McNeil said monetary and fiscal policies aren't working the urav ha ni V. .) ti. oaiu LIICJ UIILC (IKK iliJU discounting wage and price onr trois as a solution.

Mr. McNeil is executive vice-president and general manager of the Bank of Montreal. He said although the governor of the Bank of Canada with the CBA executive council and with the chartered banks' chief executive officers four times a year. "I don't think we have much Influence with the Bank of Canada." Former ilctor Dead At 69 HOLLYWOOD TAP) Brian Donlevy, Hollywood's movie tough guy of the died of cancer Wednesday night in the Motion Picture Hospital. He was 69.

Donlevy wm takpn to hospital last June and released a week ago after surgery. He was readmitted Wednesday night. His first screen role wm an a prize fighter in The Milky Way. Later he played the black-shirted killer in Barhary Coast. TIDES THURSDAY, APRIL 1972 Thundoy Friday Saturday "Little Big Man" Listin Hoffman Chief Dan Gorge ADULT Warning: Vicious Wutality and some sex "Blue Water, White Death" Warning: Some killing of whales PT.

ATKINSON 5:20 a.m. 11.4 ft 8:10 a.m. 11.7 ft 4:35 p.m. 4.5 ft FRIDAY, PT. ATKINSON 12:55 a.m.

1.1.4 ft 7:10 a.m. 11.0 ft 9:20 a.m. 11.2 ft 7:45 p.m. 4.7 ft I rnvrtE Free Estimates 753-4222 9:30 8:30 1 -bWVUJJXrZr If w. NOW SHOWING or Show it ind p.m.

Box Office Openi it 0:4.1 p.m. To'cslculate Nanaimo Harbour tides from Pt. Atkinson, add nine mlnutei to time and subtract 0.5 feet from level SATURDAY MATINEE AT 1:30 P.M. Ajboy and a girl fac the challenge of the world's last frontier dangers they had never known a people they had never seen. "WALKABOUT" Stirrlnf Jenny Arnttr.

I.nclen John nd David Gnmpllll pill 6 "SHARK HUNT" Fimlly Kntrriilnrrfpnt for high tide, for low tide, 0.1 feet from level. HARBISON inn I mnNKB OF" ITAi mmRTOTT a a ('HACK ST. VI 5" -f 1 PfeTTp ALPHA OMICRON'S ANNUAL HAWAIIAN NIGHT Saturday, April 8, 1972 CREDIT UNION HALL Buffet, 8 p.m. Dancing, 9 p.m. 1 a.m.

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