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2' Morofay, April 8. Navan County Magistrate Harry -Williams today dismissed charge of criminal oegtigntce against Victor Cleroux. 23, of RR 2. Navan. Cleroux was charged in the traffic death of Diane Lemieux, 13, of Navan Road "in Harcd.

1967. Magistrate waUams discharged Cleroux after reserving de-' cision March IS on whether to commit the accused for trial after a preliminary bearing. Magistrate Williams felt there was insufficient evidence to commit the accused to trial even on the lesser charge of! dangerous driving. Cleroux of failing to remain at British The plane made a left turn attempting to reach a cross runway. On impact the port wing fell off.

Black smoke' poured from plane as it lurched in. Air--port emergency services rushed out alongside it. An eyewitness said: ri There was a terrific pall of black smoke and flames coming tmn the aircraft. Two-thirds jof the plane appear to be in-rtact with the tail end still sticking up. "It lies almost in the centre I of the airport, 500 or 600 yards from the main in the i central area." It crashed within sight of Queen's Building.

the main passenger terminal building. The building's roof usually is crowded with spectators. UK Title Offered As Prize LONDON (AP) Dorothy Bushby's brother auctioned off the family title, but when she heard it was being offered a prize by an American soft drink company, that was too much. She has offered to buy it back for 1,001 pounds (S2.6O0). The title is Lord of the Manor of Hertfcffw-shire.

It carries few privileges. But the snob appeal of such titles is such that Dudley Bushby. 13th lord of the manor, managed to sell it at auction to a private individual last year before be emigrated to Australia. Eventually it was reported resold to the American company, Seven-Up. for $1,920 and offered as a contest prize.

Miss Bushby. who is retired, said Sunday: "I am shocked and horrified at such vulgar use of this ancient title. I bad no idea the American company had bought it" Floor Shows Soon Allowed Again in Hull Hull Mayor Marcel Amour bnne. to Tnorfifv rit hvtaw in permit floor shows in night spots for the first time in many years. said todv law will vl' Mayor D' Amour he hopes the changed this summer to allow "decent shows." He characterized the present law as "obsolete." The mayor says the existing bylaw is so strict it even for- jbids singers from leaving the stage to circulate among tables.

City hotel owners have been lighting for a change. Ottawa Girls Win Highland Dance Ribbons Two Ottawa girls won awards gien ucse eht aiton ddnreh mi in the eight and under section of Quebec Highland Dancers and Pipers Association competitions held at Montreal Saturday. Cathy 'Wilson, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Jack Wilson, of Skipton Road, was best competitor in three Highland dance.

sailor' hornpipe and Irish Jig. Kim Stewart, daughter of Mr. andMn. J. Sterling Stewart of M81 Cresthill.

was runner-up in the-Irish jig. it a 1968 The Ottawa Journal Man Cleared the scene of an accident was adjourned one week for further consideration by the Crown. The Lemieux girl died in stantly when she was struck from behind by a car on the Navan Road while walking with ber 15-year-old sister. Second MONTREAL (CP) Pierre Elliott Trudeau was bom the second of three children, the son of Charles-Em ile Trudeau, a lawyer and businessman who died in 1935. Mr.

Trudeau has an elder Suzette, who a married" to Dr. Pierre Rouleau, a real dentist. They have three children, Anne, 20, Jocelyne, 18, and Philippe. 16. Conventions are generally wet affairs but delegates and hangers-on at last week'aJ Liberal convention were Give Artist Chance to Fix Airport Mural (By The CP) Transport de partment officials said today artist Greg Curnoe has been given a chance to replace parts of his commissioned mural ordered removed last week from Montreal International Airport An official said some sec tions of the S1200 mural had been contrary to original pro posals for the work submitted by the 32-year-old artist from London.

OnU when he was awarded the contract Four of the 26 wooden panels used in the'mural were removed last week by RCMP officers and airport acting on transport department instruc tions. "Some of the work was aim ed provocatively at the United States and was not in keeping with Canadian government in tentions for the mural, the official said. One panel showed a blood- covered man lying on his back "who bore a good resemblance to President Johnson, he said. "If Mr, Curnoe can show us how he will replace the panels that have been removed in a way that will satisfy, the gov ernment-appointed commission on this matter, he win be al lowed to complete the mural," the department official said. Demonstrators Remanded Five persons who were ar rested by city police during Saturday afternoon's anti-Vietnam war demonstration at Lansdowne Park had their cases adjourned to May 6 without plea in Ottawa Magistrate's Court this morning.

Timothy Gadban, 22. and Yossie Weiss. 21. both of Montreal, and Lloyd Stone. 40.

of Baddock. NS, are all charged with causing a dis turbance by shouting. Alastair Gordon. 20. of Mai-1 ton.

and Alvin Cader, 18, of Montreal, are accused of caus-j oisiuroance oy using obscene language. Ottawa lawyer George Bleakeney told Magistrate, Strike most of men were students and he requested a trial date closer to the end of their examinations. Ottawa, Area Deaths 'v, WILLIAM PETER ARMSTRONG. 87, HammondV MRS. EMILE A.

DIOTTE. Metcalfe. CLIFFORD W. COCHRANE, 76. of 215 Gladstone Avenue.

JAMES J. W. DARWIN. 575 Cole Avenue. MRS.

ELLEN McGANN. 83, widow of Patrick McGinn, Ottawa. MRS. JOHN H. NESBfTT, 85, of 900 Byron Avenue, formerly of Hazeldean.

MRS. JULIETTE ROBIL-LARD, Ottawa. REV. DR. FRANK W1L-LARD MacLEAN.

62. of 103 Cobum Avenue. Glen Cairn. PERCY C. DOBIE, 85, of 480 Gilmour Street Vandals Blamed In Grass Fires Vandalism has been blamed for a dozen separate grass fires in Lucerne and Aylmer over the weekend.

Some 24 members of the Aylmer Volunteer Fire Department fought' eight grass fires Sunday and four Saturday. The fires scorched about two If Was acres of land all told. There was. however, no damage to build'ngs. In Negligence Charge Magistrate Williams said evidence showed Cleroux passed another vehicle at the time of the accident, felt a bump on the left side of his car, but believed it was snow.

Cleroux then went home and discovering damage to his car Of Three Children The Liberal leader's younger brother Charles is an archi tect. He is married to the former Andree Layigne and lives in St. Sauveur des Moots, in the Lauren tians. about 30 miles north of! Montreal. "They have no chlldri Mr.

Trudeau mother, tne former Grace Elliott, has been ill and confined to her Montr real home for several years. A 'Wet' Week tively camel-like in their thirst Myles Craston, manager of the Chateau Laurier, and Rudy Prins, manager of the Skyline Hotel, are still stoking their heads in disbelief at the amount of liquor consumed In their establishments during the three-day extravaganza. "Grey Cup was nothing Motorcycle, Car Smashed By Stolen Auto Aylmer police are searching for three men who abandoned a stolen car Iter it was involved in two accidents in Ayl mer Sunday. The vehicle was taken in Hull and police report it was driven west to Aylmer. On the way back the car re portedly struck, a motorcyclist on the Eardley Road, was driven on- front there and smashed into a car on the cor ner of Eardley and Main.

Motorcyclist Denis Jubinville, 17. of 68 Blackburn Avenue Ot tawa, is in good condition in St Louis de Marie de Mont fort Jean-Guy Auger, also hurt when the motorcycle was struck was treated hospital ar.d then released. Driver of the car hit on the corner of Main and Eardley was Michael Tremblay, 18, of 48 Springfield Road, Ottawa who was not injured. Police report only minor dam age to Mr. TremMays car as a result of the mishap.

Moderator Gets Pacemaker In Heart i WINNIPEG (CP) Rt Rev. W. C. Lockhart, moderator of the United Church of Canada, is expected to be released soon from the intensive care division at Winnipeg General Hospital. A medical report today said Dr.

Lockhart, 61-year-old president of the University of Winnipeg, underwent surgery Saturday to have a pacemaker implanted in his heart The pacemaker became necessary when complications developed after a kidney opera- uon last montn. me device electrically stimulates or regu- laiej heartbeat Dr. Lockhart entered hospi tal 'our days ago. man said today's "hoDeful." A spokes- report is hopeful. Boy Wants OddCatch Identified PEMBROKE (Staff) Rob ert Pinnce spent a.

restless weekend waiting for Monday's opening of the lands and for ests department's Pemb office after hooking a mini monster 'in the Indian River near his Moffat Street home. The 15 year otd fisherman wanted positive identification of the salamander-like animal said to be the first its kind caugni nere. The creature is almost a foot one, incudinz its five inch tail. Soft skinned, it is mud- co 6 red and spotted back four small legs are used in swimming and work indifferent- ly on land. The broad, fat head is tuft ed on either side by feathery.

blood-red appendages and has two small eyes. Robert's bait was a worm FEARED DEAD DUBAI (Reuters) Moie than 90 Pakistanis, including 70 women and children, were fear- ed dead Sunday after a carrying them home from a pi: grhnage to Mecca sank outside this Persian -Gulf port. The; were 250 survivors. 1 and. hearing of the accident on the radio, telephoned Ottawa police, the magistrate said.

Magistrate Williams said there was no evidence the ac cused had been speeding at the time of the accident or that his car had left the road Charles-Emile Trudeau, the Liberal leader's father, was born in SL Michel de Napier-, ville, 15 miles south of here, where his father was a farmer. He came to study law in Montreal and in 1925 found- Autumobi! Association. He seldom prac tised law and devoted most of bis time to his business in terests. compared to this. Over $100,000 worth of liquor was sold 'here then and, the Liberal convention was way over that'' said Mr.

Craslon. At the Skyline. Mr. Prins 'estimated the convention was three times wetter "than Grey Cup. One of my senior staff members has done two presidential elections in the States and he hadn't seen anything to equal that until last week," said Mr.

Prins. Says Trudeau 'Hippie on Edges' MONTREAL (CP) Rene Levesque says Pierre Elliott Trudeau is a "political virgin' who is "a hippie on ihe yfjff Peoples Credit Jewellers 'W DIAMOND RINGS jf wjbmbwmb Inspired by the world's leading fashions that's bow we jfj' I created these new Fashion Award rings. The styling 2 evident in these elegant new looks has been expressed in Si3 'f (3SSn the design of our new diamond ring creations. See them. 1 11 I VSo1" They're beautiful, livery, lovely, and everlasting.

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The French, state-run televi sion network warmly presented Trudeau to its 30.000,000 viewers as representing both French and English cultures in Canada. Prevost New Chief of Police In Gatineau Pt. For the first time in more than a year, Gatineau Point police go to work today under the direction of a full-time police chief. The new chief, appointed by council, is Leo-Paul Prevost. a former member of Rockland police force.

Mr. Prevost replaces Chief Henri Ferland who was si pended and subsequently fired by Gatineau Point council. Peoples Ail-Pitch-In Spirit Makes Scottish Show Traditional Scottish music is akin to good whiskey the older it gets the better it sounds. Watching the Scottish White Heather concert tour, which has become famous on Scottish television, from backstage it is easy to understand why the Scots have become world famous for their folk ballads. The concert group, which played before a near-capacity crowd at the Ottawa Technical Reds Back MOSCOW (UPH) A major Hanoi communist front group today announced it "fully ap proves and supports" talks with the United States, a Soviet news agency dispatch from the North Vietnam capital said.

The announcement came from the centra committee of the Vietnam Fatherland Front Tass said. The front coupled its support for talks with a call on the peo ple of Vietnam to be fully resolved to, press for final vic tory," against South Vietnamese and American forces. Hanoi's, almost total, silence on talks since the Wednesday response to Johnson's bid bad caused some concern in western capitals that the North Viet namese possibly had lost inter est in any negotiations. Credit Jewellers THE MOST jMOMOWNCD NAME powHtowM: irms mirr m.u DOWNTOWN: 190 SPARKS STREET MAIL Oem Ooltv tt ftuon KM rrow MS4IM am. LAURENT SHOPPING CENTRE: 1236 St.

High School Friday, takes pride in its musk even to its stagehands. While one group is performing the stage bands hum or whistle the songs to them selves, never tiring from the ballads they hear so often dur-in a seven-week tour. And, when the curtain is lowered for another group to take its place on stage, even the performers help move trie piano and arrange the mikes. Even the stars of Friday night's performance, the Alex mfrr iimihtw tmn i n.rk shire. Scotland, pitched in.

The brothers, both dressed in traditional kilts and Prince Charles tunics, know how to hold an audience spellbound. While brother Jack sits down at the piano and sings the bal lad of a Scottish soldier who has gone off to fight in the war. leaving behind his loved ones, brother Thomas keeps their timing perfect while playing the accordion. The show also featured mas ter of ceremonies Billy Rusk, accordion player Lawrie Adam, Scotland's newest singing star Colin Stuart and vocalist Rae Gordon. UJ.

TREE THIEVERY LEIGH-ON-SEA, England (CP) A phantom lumberjack is plaguing this Essex resort community. Dozens of trees have vanished from public ground without a trace in recent c3' iths. "It's amazing that be ap. cut down the trees, strip them, load them and drive -off without anybody becoming suspicious." commented an official. IN A M.

Laurent Blvd. Fewer Flying ToUeS. Canadian airline officials have reported a slight drop-off in passenger traffic to Ameri- can cities which have been torn with riots during the past week. Eastern Airlines ha bad a significant number of cancellations on its flights to Baltimore and Washington. Officials sty most of the cancellations have come from families who had 1 booked reservations over the Easter weekend.

Air Canada says, however. that its flights to New York and Chicago are still heavily booked, and that Detroit flights are now open to Canadians. Spokesmen for both airlines say it appears only vacationers, not businessmen, have been cancelling out because of the situation in the VS. Both airlines have been re- ceiving numerous calls fiom anxious passengers, but fciv say they are not officially advising passengers of the danger that may- be involved. HIGH LANDMARK Japan's Mount Fuji is 12.388.

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