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Be Heard 31 Below the Hill 30 Births, Duths J4 Classified Ads J5-4t Comic 31 Crossword 31 Editorials Entertainment II, 14 Financial HO Flashback on Canada 30 Goren on Bridge 31 Horoscope ji Letters to the Editors Living Pages as-je People In the News ll Radto Highlights 31 ScramLets 37 SPor li-M Tell Me Why Sunny 15to35 Details: Page 4 Squash: A nrriwinn rnrniiPt See Page 20 89th Year-74 Phone 563-3731 365 taurier Ave. West K1G 3K6 Friday, March 8, 1974 Home Delivery, 70c Weekly 10c 50 On tario won 't oppose southern oil pipeline TORONTO (Staff) The provincial government says it will not oppose the federal plan to put a western crude oil pipeline through Southern Ontario but will try to ensure that farmers are well compensated and the environment is protected as much as possible. Man surrenders in murder charge A man wanted by police in connection with the shooting-murder of John Michael St Pierre Wednesday surrendered to Ottawa police Thursday night. David "Skippy" Meikle, 33, and his lawyer, James Chadwick, called police at 6 p.m. from the Prince of Wales Apartments on Prince of Wales Drive.

Two detectives drove down to pick him up. Meikle was to appear in Provincial Court today to answer a charge of non-capital murder. Mr. St Pierre was shot through the chest in his estranged wife's Tillbury. Avenue apartment during an argument with a man.

THE NATION Beef price may soar SASKATOON (CP) Consumers may face the highest beef prices in history within six months unless steps are taken to restore cattlemen's faith in their industry, the president of the Saskatchewan Livestock Exchange said Thursday. Pat Todurian said farm feedlots are. going out -of business because of depressed cattle prices in Western Canada. If the present situation persists, beef supplies will be reduced and prices will reach record levels, he said. Starts new life MONTREAL (CP) The woman faho says she is known as nothing but "Marc Carbonneau's wife" said Thursday she will seek a new life on her own as Huguette Briere.

Mrs. Carbonneau, 36, said she is seeking to divorce her husband, living in exile in Cuba as one of four members of the Front de Liberation du Qubec who kidnapped British Trade Commissioner James Jasper Cross Oct. 5, 1970, precipitating the October Crisis. American heads study ST. CATHARINES, Ont.

(CP) A United States citizen has been appointed head of a $50,000 Ontario government study of the Canadian content in the province's school curriculum, the national chairman of the Committee for en Independent Canada charged Thursday. Mel Hur-tig told the committee's Niagara chapter that Mel Robbins, whom he identified only as an American citizen educated in the U.S., was chosen over 100 Canadian applicants. Credit union bill TORONTO (CP) John Clement, Ontario minister of consumer and commercial relations, said Thursday new legislation will be introduced in the current session of the legislature to regulate the province's 1,340 credit unions. "It would seem to me, because as public confidence grows in credit unions as depositories for public savings, there is a correspondng growth in the need to ensure that the public's confidence will never be tested," Mr. Clement said.

Where to find it The' province's stand on. whether the line should, go through the north or the south was announced in highly, political language The Davis government, i which had deliberated a month before the announcement, said it was impressed mainly by the facts a southern pipeline would be cheaper and in operation a year earlier. Queen's Park has been under strong pressure from southern Ontario farmers to oppose a southern route. Its statement Thursday appeared to be designed to avoid both opposing a southern line and annoying the fanners. Allan Grossman, provincial secretary for development of resources policy, said "several ministers have expressed legitimate concerns- over the possible adverse effects construction of the (southern) pipeline would have, particularly on the high quality agri- cultural lands that would be in its path." Tunjto Page 2-ONTARIO Israelis, Syrians in By the Associated Press Israelis end Syrians clashed with tanks, cannons and mis- siles today on the tense Golan Heights front amid Israeli reports that.

Damascus Is preparing for a new round of fighting. The Israeli military command said the Syrians fired ami-tank missiles at an Israeli patrol in the Tel Marai central sector, and the fire was returned. The United States has warned Israel that Syria is considering renewing the battle on the heights, the newspaper Maariv says. The Syrian army is on a "high state of readiness" and armed with ground-to-ground missives, the paper says. Israel's new minister of information, Shimon Peres, is quoted telling the paper that the "same informants that warned us on the eve of the Yom Kip-pur war" tipped Israel to the new Syrian move.

It was not clear if Peres meant the U.S. warned Israel on both these ocasions. Israeli civilians on the Golan Heights were ordered to stand by to take to their shelters on an instant's notice Former principal ofMcGiUdies TUCSON (AP) Lewis Douglas, former U.S. congressman and ambassador to Great Britain, died at his home here yestOtey. He ws 79.

From 1938 to 1940 he was prin cipal and vice-chancellor of fv McGill University in Montreal, the first American to bold the position. By BRIAN CHADDERTON Journal Reporter A drastically under-powered and overloaded boat may have caused the drowning deaths of three men working desperately against time to free an Ice jam on the Rideau River Thursday Five workers of a Vanier crew set out in their 16-foot aluminum boat after dusk in an attempt to free the river jam. Their boat was powered by a 9.8 horse power outboard motor. A marine expert and the man who sold Vanier the craft, said today the boat, with five crew-members, was over-loaded and that the 9.8 horsepower engine was far too weak to fight the rushing current. The crew were pitched into the surging, icy river minutes after they had launched thelri boat.

As it was swept downstream the men ducked down to squeeze under the Cummlngs Bridge. It struck a bridge abutment, however, and capsized. Although two of the crew es- No contract contract Davis man gets $1.2 miUion ad job By DERIK HODGSON TORONTO (CP) An advertising firm headed by one of Prgmier William Davis's top advisers received a fee from the province without signing a contract, the provincial auditor revealed Thursday. The auditor's report, tabled In the legislature by Government Services Minister James. Snow, indicated that Camp Associates Advertising Ltd.

took over tourism advertising in April, 1972. The firm, headed by Norman Atkins, who engi- 5 3 swept to Faces mirror shock Const. McGuire, left, Det. Brian Wise, Staff Sgt. A.

D. McConnell and Controller Greenberg. Boat crowded, underpowered, says expert neered Premier'. Davis' 1971, election advertising campaign, had not signed a contract or written agreement at the time of the audit Mr. Atkins, brother-in-law, Dalton Camp, former national Progressive Conservative party president, owns the advertising agency.

i Claude Bennett, minister of industry and tourism, said In an interview he did not know whether an agreement had been signed with the company yet Turn to Page 2 NO A caped, three clung to the boat but eventually drowned. One man, still clinging to the vessel, went over the Rideau Falls to front of horrified rescuers. The marine expert said the recommended horsepower for any lonfoot aluminum boats sold at bis marina is 35 horse power. Maximum horse power motors for the 16-footers go up to 110 horse power. The "all-weight" maximum for the largest and heaviest of the 16-foot aluminum craft is 1,500 pounds, said the expert.

The Gty of Ottawa doesn't use aluminum craft for ice-control duties but has a 16-foot wooden boat with a 6teel exterior. It is powered by a 30-horse power engfne. The boat, nick-named "The Scow' carries a maximum of three crew members, including the motor operator, a city official said. Turn to Page 5 BOAT Cold snap slows raging Rideau Today's sudden cold snap slowed the fast-melting ice on the Rideau River and reduced the water flow to 13,000 feet-epr-second down from Thursday afternoon when water speed was timed at 16,600 feet per second. Al Johns, the city's director of roads and sanitation, said there is still street flooding in the Brewer Park area as a result of the high river levels.

Crews are continuing blasting operations on the river today to alleviate the problem, he said. death By G. A. NANJI and DAVE MCKAY "Help me, I'm frozen to the boat," screamed Sylvio Des-jardins before he was swept i 'over Rideau Falls to a thunderous death Thursday night. Mr.

Desjardins, 48, of 288 Columbus Ave. and two fellow workers who were 'clearing the Rideau River of ice jams, met similar fates. A swift current carried them through the crashing Rideau Falls into the swirling water of the Ottawa River. Victims were Remi Hotte, 35, of 147 Granville St and Gaston Joly, 20 of 195 Glad-view Ave. Bernard Beau dry, 37 o'f 462 Evered St.

and Thomas Al-lain, 33 of 287 Columbus Ave. survived the horror. The sequence of events leading to the tragedy began at 9 p.m. when the five men all employees of the City of Vanier put their 16-foot aluminum boat into the waters of the Rideau River beneath Cum-mings Bridge. "The river's strong current struck the boat on the right side and the men, apparently all jumped to its left side, with the result that the boat overturned," said Yvon Paul, Vanier detective.

The five men were dumped into the icy 34-degree water Mr. Beaudry, foreman of the crew, swam to shore because he could not hold onto the boat. Thomas Allain also struck out for shore, but the strong current swept him under an ice-flow. Mr. Beaudry went back into the water and pulled him ashore.

Turn to Page 2 THREE Owners of private stables in Greater Ottawa are making a new bid to block the Green Belt horse park. This time they're offering their own land and facilities for public use. In co-operation with the City of Ottawa parks and recreation department, the stable owners are willing to work out a program where the public could take part in boating, nature walks and picnics on the land of the riding academies. The only expense would be charged to those people who choose to rent horses. The value of the facilities, including land and buildings, is said to be more than $3.5 million.

The association members see use of their assets in cooperation with the city as a viable alternative to spending more than $200,000 in city river mmm Gty policeman inches over heaving river ice jam in Thursday night rescue attempt: (CP-Staff Photos by Bob Cooper and Russ Mant) 'Help me, I'm frozen to the boat' Pages i I I Abortive life lines UK rents frozen LONDON (CP) Britain's new Labor government froze all rents today and told shopkeepers to reduce their profits as part of a drive to cut skyrocketing inflation. LONDON (UPI) Militant mineworkers, with a record $230 million pay boost a bare 36 hours in their pockets, today drafted demands for new pay hikes of up to 44 per cent. They demanded up to $46 a week more for miners who had only just won an additional $33.80 in an agreement with the state-run National Coal Board Wednesday night, ending a crippling 3Vj week strike. After barely three days in of funds to help finance creation of a National Capital Equestrian Centre in Nepean Township. The proposal offering the acres of land came after a week of private talks with acting mayor Lorry Greenberg and community development committee chairman 'Aid Gale Kerwin.

Pooling the association's varied facilities could see development of farm-type vacation and day-camp program with emphasis on reaching city children from poor families who seldom get the chance to leave their "concrete environment" to spend a little time in the country. Mr. Greenberg, who was instrumental in bringing about formation of the association, said expanded use of the riding centres will create a new i wUl i fice the new government Thursday ordered the lifting of industry's three-day work week and put it back on a full five-d a week from midnight tonight. Union leaders representing 65,000 workers in Yorkshire, Britain's largest coalfield, drew up the new demands for submission to the union's annual conference in July. The settlement Wednesday night was for one year from March 1.

But union officials said the demands for additional pay boosts would be pressed before the year expires. Turn to Page 2 UK Stable owners offer facilities to public dimension in recreation that will be the envy of all Canadian cities. "And the fantastic part about the whole proposal is that there isn't a cent of capital expense for the taxpayers," he said. Children will be given a chance to see and handle a nvide variety of farm animals', wander nature trails and enjoy boating and fishing. There will even be opportunities for families and the elderly to gather sap from maple trees in the spring, have picnics, and hay rides and weiner roasts and take up riding.

All these attractions would be provided to the public through organized city programs at no cost except In the case of horse rental. Turn to Page 2-SjABLE.