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yyiK Tulips are I friendly AHsUPPORT i 1I1THE festival The Ottawa Journal I iicuza inwicrs filed up. Sc I'jioc 88lh Year 130 365 Lourier Ave. West KIG 3K6 Phone 563-3731 May 1973 Home Delivery, 70c Weekly 10c 56 Pcges St. inc'iil do i'anl lreak-ont mm looks at ittf township's n- Ik i lo Find il Re low thp Mill Brldq" Classified M-. Crossword Fdltorials Fnfertiiinmpnt family News Financial fllto TORONTO 1CP1 A man who lell to-revs trom the roo! of Rochdale College and landed on a car Friday night died in hospital today, Police identif lej the man as Philip Hunter, 21, oi suburban Scarborough On the inside WATKRGAIE FAM.OLT Jailed eonspirator I.iddv has heroine a jailhousv lawyer and co-conspira-(or Hunt is (Icti'iinraioi ni' iilallv and physically Page 7 KINGS C'OMK BACK Pembroke beats Portage fi -1 in slay alive in rol.

niu.il ('up finals. Now its games for hr vve-t Page 15 BLASTED OFF HURT Bohhv Riggs, r.r. beats Margaret Court. in inns battle of the sexes. And how- Page 15 PEOPLE'S PLAYGROl NDS (ilnm M- croup I'agr .1 1 1 t'17 THIS IS TULIP FESTIVAL WEEK The IMst annual Canadian Tulip Festival kicks off this Friday with the announcement of the Festival Queen at noon on the Sparks Street Mall and the crowning of the queen at the Festival Ball in the evening at the Skyline.

The festival runs to June 2 and includes dozens of events sponsored hy the festival committee and other organizations in the city. The photo was taken last year at the Dow's Lake display bed the largest display hed in Hie world with more than If.n.OOO blooms. 'Color Pho'o Mai.i.l THE NATION Children lrut doii TORONTO (CP) A small dog, apparently drugged by children staggered into a drug-crisis centre this week and passed out, Paul Smith, a counsellor at the clinic, said Friday. "He just crawled into the place and fell asleep on the floor," Mr. Smith "We had to keep waking him to make sure he was all right." He said he was outraged by the "thoughtlessness and stupidity" ot people who give drugs to animals.

Children told him they saw youths laughing while they fed the dug pMK Prisoner flees from laxi KINGSTON, Out. (CP A 2X-year-nld premier from the prison for women escaped Saturday by jumping out of a taxicab which taking her to hospital. Police said Pamela Ilnmel, alias Carolyn Johnson, of Kingston, hopped out of the taxi at a downtown intersection. She was being escorted to the Canadian hospital at near-In Barrietield losl prisoners return TORONTO CP Only M)7 of 11,287 prisoners allowed freedom from Ontario institutions under the temporary absence program have failed to return, says Sylvannus Apps, correctional services minister. Mr.

Apps told I he Ontario Movers" Association at a meeting in Kingston that the two-percent failure rate 'Shows we are en the right track in regard to the majority oi those in our cae." The temporary absence program, started in fsvw, allows prisoners freedom fur educational and compassionate reasons Koeltdale falaliu Cabin in the sky t.S. Skvlal) sol for launching API-. KENNEDY, i la (AP The countdown advanced on schedule today tor the launching of Skylab, the first Fnited States space station, which is to i serve as a giant "cabin in the sky" for nine astronauts in the next eight months. More than 7IXVMX) gallons ol liquid oxygen and liquid hydrogen fuel were pumped into the Saturn boster as the count en- See Page 25) tetvd the final hours tor the planned p.m. KDT hftolf.

If the laboratory orbits successfully, the three-man Skylab I crew will rocket into space Tuesday and link up with the siatii.n tor a record 2K-day mission. The astronauts Charles Conrad, Dr. Kcruin and Paul Weitz were to watch the aiea three in i 1 lioni the launch pad. The rocket is to drill the station into a 20-mtlc-high orbil Then the will make preparations for their own launch aboard a smaller 22- storey Saturn I li rocket at I p.m. Tuesday.

Also here are members of the Skylab 2 and crews who later in the year arc to visit the same laboratory, each for 5f days. Turn to Page 2 A CABIN HOW ABOUT THAT "That'll teach you to dawdle in the bathroom!" 5 'dangerous' cons hunted A three-man inquiry commission will be established this week to investigate penitentiary security in Quebec, a spokesman for Solicitor-General Allniaml said today. MONTREAL (CP) Police continued their eearch early today for five prisoners who escaped Sunday from the maximum-security, special correctional unit of St. Vincent de Paul penitentiary in nearby Gold price soars Tops inair of KM) an miner lor llir fir-1 time LO DO (I'Pli Cold -oared above Sioo an ounce on some European money markets today the highest price in history. The dollar dropped sharp- ly, reviving talk of a possible international monetary crisis.

Frankfurt bankers described trading as hectic" and said new rumors of a possible (See Page 8) dollar devaluation and mark revaluation persisted in the market in spite of denials by the llonn government Cold topped $100 in Zurich while in London dealers asked prices over the $100 mark during the morning, but none would confirm any sales at or over that figure. Tins was more than double the price of gold a year ago. Thcv quokd a "spread" ol buying and selling prices from $99,511 to $100.50 an ounce. Hut the dealers said the morning rush of "buy" orders fell off alter the official price fixing, and there were signs of profit-taking "sell" orders. 1 Frankfurt the dollar dropped to its lowest price in nearly a month opening at 2.K.V),50 marks median and by mid-morning it weakened to 2.K250 marks median, its lowest i performance since April 1H.

In Zurich gold touched the record $100 an ounce with a quo- tation of S99.5-S100.S against Fri- close of S.5-97.0. 1 (w'ir. srl afirr lv I (i-yrar-nM DETROIT (AP) Detroit po- lice have petitioned Wayne County juvenile court to waive jurisdiction over a 16-year-old youth accused of pouring gast-line oer a three-year-old girl and setting her afire so he can be tried as an adult. The victim, Michelle Test, is in critical condition with third-degree burns over 70 per cent of her body. Doctors give her a 50-50 chance of surviving.

A Quebec Provincial Police spokesman said 100 QPP officers, together with prison guards and Laval policemen, were searching several square miles ot woods, fields and homes around the penitentiary. Tracking dogs and a helicopter were being used, he said. Sought in the manhunt are: 1 Mercier, 2H; Andre 1 OueUette, 33; Robert Imbeault, 24; Cilles Gingras, 2fi; and Michel Lafleur, 2X All were described as dangerous but unarmed. Police said the men pre- viously had broken out of peni- I teutiaries or jails. Mercier was serving two concurrent life sentences for non-capital murder.

The other men had been sentenced for armed robbery A general alert was issued after the escape to all police forces in the area and all QPP units in the province. A QPP spokesman said they were not i alerted until one hour after the escape and the men could have left the area by that time. Turn to Page 2 5 DANGEROUS Coifing pill on MD fees TORONTO (CP i Ontario family doctors have been told that the Ontario Health Insurance Plan lOHIP) will not pay them more than $1,620 a week, or $6,480 a month, for patients treated after May 1. The medical review committee of the Ontario College of Physicians and Surgeons told the doctors in a statement dated May 1 that they cannot maintain high-quality care if they see too many patients. Almost immediately the plan drew criticism.

Dr. IiOiiis R. Harnick, president of the Ontario Medical Association (OMA), said Sunday night that although the college's intent apparently is to promote standards and not necessarily to restrict money, many OMA members do not believe that. Meanwhile, published reports here Saturday that the province's 14,000 doctors will ap accept a two-year lee freeze have been denied "There is really little basis for drawing that sort of conclusion," said Dr. Carl Moore, president of the Hamilton Academy of Medicine.

Turn to Page 2 CEILING Me- if fi OUKI.LETTE No report prove a request by the OMA to nientary From Reuter-AP WASHINGTON (CP) Former White House counsel John Dean III has challenged President Nixon's version of the Watergate affair by saying that he never made any report, orally or in writing, exonerating White House officials from a cover-up. In an i rv ie with Newsweek magazine, Dean said he was "flabbergasted" when President Nixon said on television last Aug. 29 that the so-called Dean report had absolved all past and present White House aides of involvement in the scandal. Dean's latest version of events seemed iikely to in crease congressional alcratc hrarin opening on M5C-TV NEW YORK (AP) The NBC television network said Friday it will televise the first day of hearings by the Senate select committee investigating the Watergate affair. The hear- ings are scheduled to start May 17.

Lchaiion quirt BEIRUT (AP) Lebanese authorities reported countrywide calm today for the second Fit for a Queen 'iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiMiiiiiiiitiiiuiiiiiiuiiiiiiiiiiitmiiiiiiiiiiii' (JINCiKAS exoiieralinji aides consecutive day. But a parlia- i cole Blanchette, 19, of 149 iiiiiimiitiNiiiiiitiiiiiiiimiiiiiimif debate on the state of emergency was cancelled and the measure apparently remained in effect. Chance of Showers 40 55 Sunset lodoy B.25 p.m. EDT Sunrise lomorrow 5.32 o.m. EDT IM breaks in liis new Caddie By RICHARD JACKSON Journal Parliamentary Staff Prime Minister Trudeau today is breaking in a new 197.1 Fleetwood Cadillac limousine and a new executive assistant, Torrance Wylie, a recently retired national Liberal organizer.

The new Caddie, says the prime minister's office, has been provided with what it calls "the appropriate security" for the safety of the Queen when comes to Ottawa this summer to ride through the streets of the capital and other Canadian cities. This "appropriate security" includes such features as an armor-plated steel body and floor and bullet-proof glass. The new luxury job, which comes with vinyl over the armor top, has just about everything but television and a mobile bar. "It would be the vehicle provided for the United States president should he come to Can-ala," says the PM's office. For their presidents, the Ameri can Secret Service insists on ar-m r-plating and bullet-proof glass.

The prime minister's office declines to say whether the purchase of the new Caddie had been put out to tender, or what price tag it carries. Hut it is long and black and regal and carries among other things the PM's hotline phone. He turned in the old Caddie, a 17 model, because on a couple of colder mornings last winter the aging limousine was more than ordinarily slow in starting. road a Gatineau, drowned when their car left Highway and plunged into the Petite Blanche River at Angers late Friday or early Saturday. Richard Rochnn, .17, Lucien Dicaire, 26, and Jean Claude Joly, 2.1, all of Havvkesbury, drowned when their fishing boat and jjels a And there has been some difficulty in securing parts for the six-year-old job.

The prime minister's aides were worried if they kept the old Caddie for another year, one frigid morning next winter he might have to use the hot line to call a tow truck on the way to the Centre Block from 21 Sussex Dr. The aging Caddie was not armor-plated nor was il equipped with bullet-proof glass. For, during the terrorist crisis of the Quebec Liberation Front St. WHU fcnllMrl LAFLEUR MERCIER Dean 'flabbergasted' by Nixon statement A HI NGTON U'Pl) -Judge John Sirica ruled today that both government prosecutors and the senate's special Watergate committee were entitled to see secret papers that ousted White House aide John Dean locked in a bank safety deposit box. lo have him testily public at the Senate select committee's Watergate heat ings opening next Thursday.

Thj Senate committee, mi the ha sis of such testimony from Dean, presumably would ask the president or White House to produce a Dean report on the Watergate investigation rf it exists. Turn to Page 2 DEAN Truce team site By KEVIN DOYLE SAIGON (CP) A team site of the international peace supervisory force, about 25 miles north of Saigon, was hit by artillery fire Sunday sources said today. They said that nobody was injured although the compound was damaged when it received a direct hit. Personnel with the International Commission of Control and Supervision (ICCS) occupy the compound during the1 day but spend the night some distance away at permanent living quarters. I CCS sources said at least three rounds were fired into the pressure compound but there was no indication where the lire origi- 1(1 area inishai shelled The four countries of the I CCS.

Canada, Hungary, Indonesia and Poland, have personnel serving at the Ben Cat team site but names were not available. Meanwhile, the 1CCS unanimously agreed today to investigate charges from the Viet Cong's Provisional Revolutionary Government (PRG) that Fnited States bombers have recently struck targets in South Vietnam near the Cambodian border in violation of the Paris peace agreement. Turn to Page 2 TRUCE Eight drowned over weekend Drowning mishaps accounted for eight of 10 persons who lost their lives accidentally in the Ottawa area during the weekend. Richard Rehlau, 25, his sister Christel, 20, and brother Irwin, 19, all of RR 1, Angers and Ni- capsized Saturday in Lac Vert eight miles north of Duhamel. Duncan Roderick Dewar, of RR 2, Alexandria, died in a fire which swept through his parent's home early Sunday.

Gary Ward, l.S. of M0 Spring land Ottawa, died in Riverside Hospital Saturday from injuries suffered a two-car crash Friday. George Mellish, of North Bay, died when his car left Highway 17 Saturday 17 miles east ot Rolphton and plunged into the Mackey Creek. His body was recovered by scuba divers in 15 feet of water. (See Page 4) new in October 1170.

the prime minister abandoned the old limousine and took to i'iding in an even older Caddilac which had been used by the Queen and other top VIPs and had the "appropriate security." Mr. WylL the new executive assistant. replaces Kim Por-teous who recently left the prime minister's office to become director of the Canada Council. salary for his new "exec," ways Mr. TrudeatTs of-lice.

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