Nanaimo Daily News from Nanaimo, British Columbia, Canada • 2

2 Ngnoimo Ddly FrePres, Tuesday, Mcy 18, 1971 Forest Fire Picture Improves Sicilian Villagers Make Plea To Saints VICTORIA 'CP The British as tne 15-minute ceremony Columbia forest service reported By ANDREW TARNOWSKI males directly above SANTALFIO, Sicilv (Reuter) appears to be losmg mo- About 2 000 S.ci'uan villagers, mentum. but the villagers be- led bv a parish pnest carrying lv miracle caa save ended and the crod then began chanting the rosary again, led improved conditions Monday in the fight against several major fires in the northern and central relics of their patron homes. interior of the province. The "west fire," which had manned today procession up covered 20.000 acres near Ques-1 nuge. moving lnsiae me srr.au reuquary were tiny pieces of bone from the fourth century martyrs Saints Alfio, Girino and three brothers put to death nel by the end of last week, had i laJa lo en by another priest.

Father Parisi, led the procession today after the villagers obtained permission for it from the local bishop, hoping to repeat what they believe was a miracle when a threat to Sant'AUio was averted during a similar eruption in 19C8. gulf their homes. been completely contained, a spokesman said. Barring toe re- The cries of wailing women drowned the rumbling of the black mass of volcanic rock as near here by decapitation, roasting on a spit and immersion in boiling asphalt. Standing sweating in the ra turn of last week's 40-60 mile-per-hour winds, the fire should be extinguished this week.

Rev. Francesco Parisi held up the reliquary and called on the sants to halt the lava in its There were 96 fires burning in diated heat of the lava 25 yards tracks. the Prince George area, but only two of these, covering 7,500 acres north of Dawson Creek, were con me mufti, A away. Father Parisi told the villagers: "We sinners must promise a better life as we ask saints to destroy this monster." The villagers, chanting the ro sidered serious. sary, wound their way through terraced vineyards about two miles from this prosperous There were 479 men, six air arming village until they craft and eight water bombers battling the fires, most of which were reported to small and under control.

reached the smoking column of advancing lava. As they left the village, a new CALLS FOR FAITH Huge chunks of blazing rock slid forward, rumbling into the grass and setting it ablaze, as the priest shouted out: "Lord, look at this faith and bless this land of ours, our villagers, our souls." Shouts of "You who were burned alive pray for us," and "Long live Sant'Alfio" burst out explosion roared out from high on the mountain peak, sending a thick black column of smoke CAN TAKE ALL KINDS OF WEATHER East Vancouver Island regions Small craft warning in and ashes pouring 4.500 feet into the air. Pioneer, Life Member Of WI Dies The lava is still about two effect for adjacent waters. Wednesday: morning cloud, other wise sunny. High Wednesday 62, low tonight 40.

A woman who had lived in Brothers Switch Places In Vietnam Duty Tour Nanaimo and district since 1890, Mrs. Harry (Violet Maude) Fid- dick of 21 Fourth Street. Nan aimo, died in Ladysmith Hospi tal Monday. brother Glenn, 21, after the Mrs. Fiddick was 85 years of radio operator-rifleman came home to Yarmouth April 9 for a age.

Born in England, she began her long residence in Nanaimo -w leave after five district when she came here as a months in Vietnam. PRETTY GIRLS TO GREET TOURISTS young girl. Storer said Glenn was shipped She was a life member of the cut of Fort Devens, late Cedar District Women's Insti Monday. tute. YARMOUTH, Me.

(API -The father of a U.S. soldier whose older brother went to Vietnam to finish out his tour of duty says the younger brother now is en route back to Vietnam. Carleton R. Storer said Monday night that the older brother, Wesley, 22, is being held by military authorities in Vietnam and could be sentenced to five years in a South Vietnamese prison for illegal entry. Storer said Wesley, himself kept out of the war by a bad starting her second season; Bev Feather, starting her fifth, and Janis Zboyovsky, her fourth.

The group spent some time in Nanaimo recently learning of the tourist attractions of the area. Threa N'anaimo girls are among the 43 girls who will be aboard B.C. Ferries and at Vancouver airport this summer' to assist visitors to this province. With Ed Norman of the Department of Travel and Industry are, left, Joanne Her husband died in 1961. Sur He said that a few weeks after Glenn's leave ended federal officials notified him that Yesterday's Temperature! Max.

Min. Prec Thunder Bay 51 38 Winnipeg 54 32 Regina 55 24 .15 Pr. Albert 56 20 i- Swift Current 48 28 Medicine Hat ,51 S3 7 Calgary 51 34 .07 Penticton 67 37 Castlegar 65 41 Pr. Rupert 54 44 Pr. George 59 29 Mackenzie 59 24 Victoria 55 44 Nanaimo 57 43 Revelstoke 68 38 Fort Nelson 64 32 Peace River 67 34 Whitehorse 53 29 Ft.

St. John 63 40 Los Angeles 88 58 St. John'i 57 42 Halifax 50 48 St. John 47 43 Montreal 67" 46 .07 Ottawa 73 50 Toronto 74 50 North Bay 68 54 Churchill 37 23 The Pas 50 27 viving are three sons, Leslie Blue River; Oswald, Nanaimo someone was impersonating Glenn in Vietnam and asked and Lewis, Victoria; two daugh ACROSS THE PROVINCE him to verify identification. ters, Mrs.

Chris (Bess) Southin "It was then he learned that U.S. Player Chess Winner Saltair, Mrs. Frank (Violet) Wilcox, Castlegar, 19 grandchildren all this switching they'd been and 32 great-grandchildren. kicking around had become reality," Storer said. leg, agreed to impersonate his Funeral will be held Friday at 1 p.m.

in St. Philip's Anglican VANCOUVER (CP) Bobby Church, Cedar, with Rev. Bob SPCA Orders Eggs Buried Fischer of New York won the opening game of his 10-game FIESTA EL PATIO Invites You to Go BOWLING SPRING HOURS: match against Mark Taimanov Crawley officiating. Interment will be in Cedar Valley Memorial Gardens. Westwood Chapel of Flowers (Sands) is in charge of of the Soviet Union Monday Of Protests N-Blast Plan MASSET.

B.C. (CP) The Queen Charlotte Islands Chamber of Commerce has protested to President Nixon about an underground nuclear blast scheduled for the fall on Amchitka Island, 8bout 1,200 miles northwest of the Queen Charlottes. The chamber of commerce sent a letter registering their protest against this blast 'with its ensuing devastating effects." They said that because of their proximity to the bomb blast area, they will be "in an extremely hazardous position with regards to personal health, safety and the welfare of our commercial fishing industry." when the Russian grandmaster resigned without further play. SHOTS FIRED NORTH VANCOUVER (CP) Brought to you by The game had been adjourned At least six shots were fired Monday by a lone gunman who Sunday night with the U.S. escaped with $7,941 from branch of the Canadian Impe rial Bank of Commerce.

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KILLED ON TRACK Spassky of Russia. WEST VANCOUVER (CP) Northbrook Mall Telephone 758-9533 Taismanov, who had fallen behind after exerting pressure on Fischer by attacking the An employee of the provincially owned Pacific Great Eastern Railway was killed Monday king side early in the game sealed his 41st move Sunday MAPLE RIDGE (CP) -Thousands of turkey eggs dumped illegally at the municipal dump in this Fraser Valley community were buried last week at the orders of the Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. An SPCA spokesman said about 100 of the eggs had begun to hatch in the sun. It was not known where they came from. CENTRE AIDED POWELL RIVER (CP) A crisis centre here, known as LIME for Life Is Meaning Enough, has been given $11,500 under the federal aid to youth program.

The centre will use a municipally-owned house and municipal council has agreed to accept no rent for the dwelling if it feels a worthwhile job is being done after a 120-day trial period. 600 HIRED VICTORIA (CP)-The provincial parks branch said Monday it has hired 600 persons and hopes to hire 1,000 mostly jtu-dents under a program of ex night, signalling the adjournment, but before play was to re when the speeder he was riding plunged off the tracks into Howe Sound. His name was withheld. POLICE TALKS SET WEST VANCOUVER (CP) sume Monday, he announced he FESTIVAL OPENS VICTORIA (CP) Premier Bennett will officially open the second annual B.C. Festival of Sports Thursday in front of the Legislature Building here by lighting a flame on a cairn.

Penny May of Victoria, Canadian women's hurdling champion, will carry a torch to the Premier. OUR SPACE was resigning. Fischer now leads the match 1-0 with the second game scheduled to be played today. SUSPECT ARSON Pari, 3L arn jnealre LONDON (Reuter) Scotland Yard said Monday arson was the cause of a London hotel fire last week in which eight persons died. The statement Problems ranging from policy on 10-speed bicycles to.

capital punishment will be aired here at the annual convention of the Western Canadian Chiefs of Police Association June 2-3. BODY IDENTIFIED SURREY (CP)-RCMP Monday identified a body found in a water-filled ditch here Sunday as that of Joseph Andre Doiron, 40, of Vancouver. An autopsy has been ordered. PARKSVILLE ENDS TONIGHT 'NAKED UNDER LEATHER" came after fire chiefs and detectives re-examined the charred remains of Hills Hotel in Lon pansions and improvement of don's Bayswater district, where NO AOMITTAMCI TO PtfflONt UMIXR IS provincial parks. CtV't" dozens of small hotels attract thousands of tourists every Showtime 8:00 p.m year.

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