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OTTAWA JOURNAL SATURDAY, MAY 31. 1980 4No hope for Val dTOr fami WMWD IgOMH-TJOUimAI PAGE 2 son, ly told By Janet Cotton JOURNAL REPORTER VAL DOR After 11 days of frantic searching for eight men trapped in a mud-clogged collapsed minermlneDfficals have finally-told at least one family there's no chance their 24-year-old son and brother is alive. Bone-weary workers openly admitted they believe they're searching for corpses, not survivors. Officials from Belmoral's Mines yesterday visited the family of Marc Godbout, 24, the youngest man trapped in the mine and told them to be "realistic." "Outside of saying Marc is officially dead, because there is no body, the men from the mines told us there was no hope." said Godbout's 21-year-old sister Marie-Renee last night. "They came to our house last week to tell us to hold on-, but now even the slightest bit of hope is gone.

They made it clear and miners have told us too, that Marc isn't coming home." Marc Godbout, was driving a truck up the mine ramp when the collapse occured and rescuers hold the least hope of survival for him. Mine manager Donald Lavigne said rescuers are battling "almost impossible odds" of finding any one of the eight miners alive. Theironly chance orsurvl valrLav-vigne said, was if the men "somehow, some way" managed to escape the tidal-like wave of mud and water that engulfed the mine within minutes after it collapsed. For the first time, mine officials said the mud, traveling at an incredible speed of 50 kilometres an hour had filled the mine ramps where the missing men were working so quickly they would not likely have even heard it coming. Sad mistake "Nothing is impossible," said Lavigne.

"And we'll bring the men out dead or alive but hope is fading fast." Mine officials yesterday said the tapping sounds and cries that were heard Tuesday in a section of the mine where two young workers were trapped was "a sad mistake." Lavigne said it was almost certain Busy school yard sprayed parents By Rick Blanchard JOURNAL RCPOR1LR As scores of unsuspecting children stood nearby, a South Keys school playing yard was sprayed with the controversial herbicide Thursday evening, Ihen turned over to the youngsters for games of Tee-ball, witnesses said yesterday. The Ottawa board of education last night denied the accusations. But parent Janice Walker angrily charged that four-and five-year-old children playing at Dunlop School on Pebble Road were "just shoved aside" while a crew sprayed. Walker, of 3306 Kodiak said she and other adults weren't told the playing field should be vacated until after the spray had While the board has confirmed two licensed operators one wearing a gas mask carried out the spraying at 6 p.m. Thursday, operations manager Doug Coxon denied the presence of a crowd.

He did say there was an uncooperative parent who wouldn't leave the. field. '100 people "Those children were told to leave, I'm sure," Coxon said. He repeated a crew member's story that "there were no children playing in the school yard whatever" at the time of the spraying. Hendrik van Ossenbruggen, also a parent, who coached one of six teams playing Tee-ball (a simple form of baseball) moved from the field during the spraying, said upwards of 100 people were on hand at the time, including young children and some parents.

He said the spraying crew advised him the wet residue was harmless and that children could return to play im- mediately. Walker said children were "10 to 20 feet" away during the spraying operation. She said she didn't know what was being sprayed until her husband was told yesterday. Both Walker and van Ossenbruggen said they have noticed ho ill side effects in the children since the spraying. Coxon said spraying is usually done in the early morning to allow at least two hours for the spray to dry before children arrive for school.

He said the work should have been completed two or three weeks ago but was held up because "there was some question whether we'd be allowed to use it or not." The delay, he said, made evening work necessary Dunlop school was the last of. 57 sites to be sprayed. Coxon said the board checked across the province on the question of safety before the program began. "It was about a 50-50 split." The City of Ottawa has banned spraying of on its property, ana-regional council is to debate the matter June 11. Cloudy and windy possible showers Ottawa Mostly cloudy with sunny breaks and moderate winds today Possible showers with risk ol thunder showers later in the day and high ol Low overnight 12.

Tomorrow, mostly cloudy with some sunny breaks and high near 22. Looking ahead Monday, continuing cloudy with possible showers. For the record Yesterday high 20.7C; low8 4C: Record high: 3t.7C, .1978 low. 0.6C. 1961 Humidity (noon): 77 Precipitation: 12.8 mm rain Today's sunset: 8.43 Tomorrow's sunrise: 5:17 Barometer at 10 m.

101 3 kPa. and rising. WEATHER NATIONAL Calgary 4 15 Charlottetown 5 14 Edmonton 2 Fredericton Haitian 7 Montreal 1 1 Peterborough II 13 20 18 20 21 Quebec City 6 21 Regina 4 20 St John s. Ntld 4 12 Toronto 13 19 Vancouver 9 17 Victoria 8 16 Whttehorse ...4 17 Winnipeg 6 27 Yellowknile 0 2 INTERNATIONAL Yesterdays high Acapulco 35 Amsterdam 18 Athens 28 Barbados 31 Bermuda 24 Bonn 12 Boston 22 Brussels Chicago Copenhagen Dallas Dublin Geneva Honolulu Hong Kong Jerusalem Lisbon London Los Angeles Madrid Mexico City Miami Moscow Nassau New Delhi New York Oslo Paris Home San Francisco San Juan Stockholm Sydney Tampa Tokyo Washington jf'! Soli lok. City ''JZSA on 22 3Ct vKvx-r High Pratwr I fN low Prmf Yj Nl jS! VIA "TCoWFrooi VfiCO VjA ak.Worm Front Forecast weather tystem for- noon today 17 27 14 34 14- 11 29 27 34 20 16' 20 20 28 29 22 23 38 23 14 17 18 19 32 18 14 29 27 29 that the noises came from two separate rescue crews working in different areas of the mine.

The tapping, a traditional call for help among miners, raised false hopes "that the workers might be alive. "We haven 't had a single sign of life since day one," said Lavigne. Rescue efforts are being concentrat-' ed in three separate parts of the gold mine where groups of workers were believed to be situated when the cave-in occured. But, Lavigne admitted yesterday that the search areas are only based on an educated guess. "I believe all eight are gone," said Andre St.

Jean, a miner of 30 years, who has headed a rescue crew working to pump water from the flooded 350-foot level. "There's nothing down there but a wall of mud and water," he said. "My only hope is that they died instantly." Drilling halted Yesterday, all drilling was halted when a drill bit cracked. A fourth probe into the area at the 30-metre level where two young miners are believed trapped was begun late yesterday, but rescuers admit they have little chance of finding a sign of life in the mud-filled cavern. Water is the main problem hampering two separate searches in an area below a tunnel 110 metres below the surface.

The area is a virtual sea of slime and mud which must be pumped out before workers can get to an air shaft where five other men have sought refuge during the cave-in. Search will continue Lavigne said the search operation will continue on a round-the-clock basis until the men are found but he refused to predict when any breakthrough might come. "I just don't know," Lavigne said. "It could be an hour, it could be a day, there's no fVay to predict." I 5,000 Lions roar in Ottawa By Ghulam Nanji JOURNAL REPORTER Ottawa will reverberate to the roar of the Lions for the next four days. About 5,000 members of the international service club will be celebrating their diamond jubilee, representing clubs from Ontario, Quebec and Labrador or Multiple District A and it will be one of the" biggest shows to hit town in recent years.

Only the two major political parties drew more people to the city for the leadership conventions of the Conservatives in 1976 and the Liberals in 1968. Jake Goneau; general chairman of the conventiorfxommittee, said the gathering was the "second biggest Lionsv convention in the world." It is "more like a mini-national convention." He added that the biggest convention of the group which has a global membership of 1,332,000 was the international convention held in Montreal last year. Some 55,000 Lions poured into the city from all over the world. This year's international covention is to be held in Chicago. The 1981 gathering will be held in Hawaii.

Goneau said his committee had booked 1,900 Ottawa hotel rooms and that 900 rooms had been reserved at Carleton University. "Others will live with their friends and relatives in the area." A lively, five-hour-long get-acquainted dance last night at the Civic Centre was the kick-off event of the huge gathering. Mammoth parade The public highlight of the convention will be a mammoth parade starting at 1 p.m. today from the Portage Bridge near the Western Parkway. Goneau said the parade, with 84 clubs participating, will be made up of 146 entries, including floats, bands and majorettes.

The parade will go up Wellington and Bank streets, reaching Lansdowne Park in 2V hours. The huge diamond jubilee convention float will be right in the middle. Goneau said 660 clubs, with a total membership of 22,500, will be represented at the convention. Profits from a dance and casino night at the Civic Centre are expected to enable the Lions to undertake at least one, but perhaps two, "leader dog" programs at a costs of more than $5,000 each. The program involves the purchase and training at a school in Rochester, NY of a seeing-eye dog for a blind person.

The business part of the convention will get under way tomorrow morning in the arena of the Civic Centre. Performing the opening ceremony will be Judge Brian Stevenson of Calgary, a past international director. Present for the occasion will be Mayor Marion Dewar, regional chairman Andy Haydon and the governors of the 15 Lions districts that comprise Multiple District A. Rain brings little relief to fire crews The first rain in 12 days means a lousy weekend for the rest of us but for firefighters and farmers let It pour. The battle against the worst forest fire In the country a blaze threatening the northern Ontario community of Kenora for the past week began turning In firefighters' favor yesterday.

"The rain lessened the smoke and allowed Us to map the fire and get crews around its perimeters," said Cor Dirkland of the ministry of natural resources. But the optimism is guarded because the situation is still out of control despite cooler temperatures, higher humidity And prevailing west winds over the past four. days which gave crews. their first chance to establish lines around most of the province's' 60 fires. Red Lake, the gold-mining town near the Manitoba border, Is beginning to stir with its first signs of life since last week when more than 3,000 residents were evacuated because of the fire threat.

Local businessmen opened stores for the first time In eight days yesterday to prepare for today's return of the main group of evacuees being air-lifted home from Manitoba. Although sporadic lightning streaked Ottawa area skies yesterday, as much as 12.8 millimetres of rain fell In some spots, easing timber-dry conditions in West Quebec woodlands. "With 60 to 70 per cent moisture in the air compared to the 25-30 per Cent we did have, the fire danger will ease a bit," said a spokesman for the Montreal weather office. i 1 Mine workers Andre Duguay, left, and Andre St. Jean discuss rescue operations yesterday at Val d'Or gold mine.

Jamieson may be U.S. envoy By Bob Reade JOURNAL REPORTER The federal government is planning to appoint Don Jamieson ambassador to Washington, former external affairs minister Flora MacDonald said yesterday. Jamieson, who resigned from federal politics last year after being elected leader of the Newfoundland Liberal Party, is now Opposition leader in the St. John's legislature. A former external affairs minister, Jamieson has announced his intention to resign as Liberal leader in External Affairs Minister Mark MacGuigan tojd- MacDonald in the House yesterday- "the government does not have under consideration any new appointment to Washington at this time." However, the four-year term of Peter Towe who was appointed ambassador' to Washington in 1977 expires in J.uly.

A Liberal. Party official told the Journal Jamieson Is being considered for the prestigious posting, but no decision has been made yet. MacDonald told reporters outside the House that London and Paris traditionally are political appointments but the Washington ambassador has been appointed from the ranks of career foreign service officers since the Second World War. MacDonald said the morale of foreign service officers would be further undermined by the appointment of Jamieson. They have been dis-guntled since Prime Minister Trudeau rushed through a plan to unify the foreign service operations of external affairs, industry trade and commerce and employment and immigration shortly after the past election.

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