Nanaimo Daily News from Nanaimo, British Columbia, Canada • 13

Nanaimo Daily Free Press, Monday, April 7, 1986 13 AROUND CANADA Fwo passengers impaled World's te I a i I i a By the time the bus came to a halt, it had flattened 25 metal fence poles and about 25 metres of heavy-guage pipe, used for the top rail of the fence, had crashed through the windshield, impaling David Roberts and John Healy, both of Buff alo. They were pinned in their 'seats. The pipe travelled the length of the bus, skewering every bench on the right-hand side. "People must have had about 30 feet of pipe running through them," said an attendant from the Halton District Ambulance Service. "If I hadn't seen it, I'd never have believed it." TORONTO (CP) Two men were impaled in their seats by a 25-metre-lohg steel rail when a bus carrying about 40 Americans to the Metro Toronto Zoo veered off the highway Sunday and smashed into a chain-link fence.

At least 20 other people on the bus, chartered by Erie Community College for adult students and their families, were injured in the noon-hour crash on the Queen Elizabeth Way just west of Toronto. The bus was cut off by a black van, police said. It careered to the right and into the steel fence separating the highway and a parallel service road. lit in Crash kills volunl jl Daily Free Press Photo Members of the NanaimolConcert Band performed for a full house on Saturday at Beban Park during the annual concert and dance sponsored by the band, BAND IN CONCERT constable Supreme Court will rule on blood tests 3 i i man dies at age 118 BELLEVILLE, Ont. (CP) -David Trumble, unofficially the world's oldest person, died Saturday at the reputed age of 118.

Trumble, who died In hospital, had lived in. a nursing home in nearby Cannifton for a number.of years. He was not recognized as the world's oldest person by the Guinness Book of Records that honor has been held by a 112-year-old British woman since the death of a 120-year-old Japanese man but a government citizenship card lists his year of birth as 1867. Stephen Watts, a spokesman for the nursing home, said there is no birth certificate in Trumble's file but he believed the citizenship card is authentic. "I've never seen such a card before," Watts said in a recent interview.

"None of the other people here have such a thing but it's certainly official, signed by the Citizenship Ministry and with his signature (an X). Watts said Guinness officials called him several years ago to find" proof of Trumble's age and he told them about the citizenship card. "I guess Guinness doesn't believe our government." Trumble was asked to meet the Queen during her visit to Canada when he and the country were celebrating their 100th birthday in 1967, and scores of years earlier he had shaken the hand of Sir John A. Macdonald, Canada's first prime minister. Before Trumble entered hospital recently, Watts said he "has been a delight to us" at the nursing home, spending his days in a chair and having good and bad days.

"Sometimes he recognizes me and then sometimes he doesn't," Watts said at the time. "Basically he's still big physically, a strong man over six feet tall. Trumble, who said he quit smoking when he was 104 and fathered the last of his 18 children when he was 75, was bom in Haliburton, Ont. He worked as a lumberjack, miner and farmer and outlived four wives and many of his children. Jtfr.WJit- jfaWaumt dir.

WiKi-lfc VShliTiGliv iV and handed if to an RCMP officer. The appeal court. ruled that Dy-ment's guaranteed right under the charter to protection against' unreasonable search and seizure had been infringed. This is the first decision of its kind invoking the charter to come from an appeal court, said Darrell Coombs, the Crown attorney in the case. Judgments in other courts have come to differing conclusions, he said.

In a similar case, the Manitoba Court 6T Appeal convicted a man accused of impaired driving despite finding that his charter rights had been violated. The Supreme Court of Canada agreed to hear the appeals of both the Prince Edward Island and Manitoba cases together, probably next fall, Coombs said. TORONTO (CP) The Supreme Court of Canada has agreed to decide whether a blood sample taken from an accused person without his consent can be used to 'show that he was a drunk driver. The decision is in response to a court ruling that police seizure of a blood sample was unconstitutional a violation of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms. The Prince Edward Island Court of Appeal acquitted Brandon Roy Dyment of drunk driving after Eolice obtained a blood sample front im without a warrant and without his consent.

The sample showed that his blood-alcohol level exceeded the legal limit of 80 milligrams per 100 millilitres. Dyment had suffered a concussion when the car he was driving went off the highway. A doctor took a blood sample his consent 2 eH NN ESTA(J rC LETHBRIDGE, Alta. (CP) A young volunteer constable killed in a head-on collision Friday night between a police cruisetnd a pickup truck had always dreamed of being an RCMP officer. Auxiliary Const.

Fred Abel, 22, of Stirling, and Lethbridge RCMP Cpl. Budd Maurice Johan-son, 49, died when the police cruiser they were in and a truck collided near Lethbridge in southern Alberta. The truck was travelling east in the west-bound lanes of a four-lane highway; It is not known why the vehicle was in the wrong lane. The occupants of the truck, Mark David Karl, 28, and Gerry "Ugg6u824, both of Vulcan, also died. Abel began serving as an auxiliary constable, who is a volunteer in training and may patrol with the RCMP, last December.

Richard-Abel, the young man's father, said his son wanted to be a police officer from the time he was in high school. He had completed a two-year law enforcement diploma at a local community college and was in his first year in law enforcement at the University of Lethbridge. Johanson, a 26-year veteran of the RCMP, was respected by all those he worked with, said Cpl. Jim Duncan of the Lethbridge detachment. "It's going to be hard to accept he's not going to be here," Duncan said Saturday.

"He was one of the most dedicated policemen I ever met." Staff Sgt. L.J. Doree said Johansson and Abel were dispatched to respond to a complaint about a vehicle driving erratically down the highway. But he said it isn't known whether that vehicle was the same one involved in the accident. COMBINATION DINNER SPECIAL Newfoundland gov't workers end walkout Chicken Fried Rice $00 Deep Fried Prawns Beef Chop $I00 Boneless Almond Chicken S7.95...NOW Chicken Chow Mein tOtfl 1.

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JOHN'S, Nfld. (CP) The provincial government and 5,500 members of the Newfoundland" Association of Public Employees made compromises Sunday to bring -an end to an illegal strike that had lasted more than a month. The end came fairly suddenly Chicken Fried He had no formal education but two books were published in his name, both, written by a Toronto author some years ago. MONDAY-THURSDAY (Eat In) ONLY Chinese Smorgasbord Dinner SUN. ONLY COME TRY OUR NEW MANDARIN HOT SPICY FOOD MENU 758-2733 MfoMngtonHoMS OPEN 7 DAYS A WEEK 3901 VICTORIA AVE about 24 hours after talks between the two sides broke down Saturday.

However, on Sunday a union offer was accepted by the government, opening the way for contract talks to get underway. In effect, the Progressive Conservative government of Premier Peckford porary workers whose services government said were no longer needed. Mr. Peckford complained that government had already- given -away the shop and the union was being unreasonable. Union president Fraser March then came up with a final proposal in which government agreed to the principle of parity with other bargaining units in contract language affecting job definitions, security, promotions and other benefits.

Under the terms of the deal, temporary workers for whom jobs still exist will be guaranteed work until a contract is signed and some will, under a new contract be "granted permanent status. "I don't think anybody's caved in," said Treasury Board president Neil Windsor. "All we've done is establish principles under which we will be negotiating." Mr. March was more than pleased with the progress made on the legislation over which he could go to jail he was among 123 arrested on charges of contempt after a court injunction ordering the pickets down was defied. The legislation requires public-sector unions to designate up to 49 per cent of their membership essential and therefore ineligible to strike.

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The preliminary talks ended Saturday when the union introduced new demands on non-monetary issues and the fate of 1,100 tem- PLUS no GOUER Colors Set $2000 Will Onon' Doon GimnGE 1 Salmon fight in the East SAINT JOHN, N.B. (CP) Maritime fishermen's groups are preparing a court challenge to Ottawa's decision to keep the commercial salmon fishery closed this year without offering compensation. The East Coast Salmon Fishermen's Association, which represents all six salmon fishing groups in the region, will file suit in a federal court, said Allrfh Billard, executive director of the Eastern Fishermen's Federation. Federal Fisheries Minister Tom Siddon announced last week the commercial salmon fishery will remain closed again this year in the Maritimes but will be open in Newfoundland. Mr.

Siddon said the federal government will introduce a voluntary commercial licence buy-back program instead of paying compensation as it did last year. There are 260 licence holders in New Brunswick and 240 in Nova Scotia. In a conference call Sunday night with Halifax lawyer Michael Power, representatives of the six salmon fishing groups instructed Power to proceed with the case, Mr. Billard said. "The minister's decision is.

foolhardy our case is so strong" in both constitutional and biological arguments, Mr. Billard said, adding that the fishermen will also be seeking court costs and damages. Meanwhile, at White Point Beach, N.S., Fisheries Minister John Leefe of Nova Scotia said while commercial salmon fishermen are "getting the short end of the stick," he nevertheless supports the ban. More suing after firing CraX fs Courtesy of uiulu, iiiulii in vie JVV STEVVr I 1 mi LADIES ONLY Call 754-7422 or Drop In! 38 Front St. CABARET TILL 10 p.m.

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