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the law, this particular dodge could become a most profitable summer employment program for students in the province. The bizarre case centres around government regulations requiring the obligatory use of French inscriptions on all food prcducts sold in Quebec. The regulations also say that no other language can take precedence over French on the labels which, in effect, means 50 per cent of the label must be in French. Although the act and regulations were passed five years ago, the government has not initiated any actions against food stores and supermarket chains, realizing that considerable time is needed to conform. A few isolated court cases have resulted from the regulation, but until the last few months, they have been few and largely unsuccessful.

Then student Fournier took some time off his studies recently to checkout a local outlet of a supermarket chain near the University of Montreal with his girl friend. He found 14 different products with labels which did not conform to the law, and dug out an ancient law which permitted private persons to prosecute. Next he filed the action, with his girl friend claiming, by the same law, half the amount of the fines if the cunpany was convicted. Last week a judge of the Superior Court passed judgment setting fines to the total of $2,800 for the violations and Fournier had his $1,400 windfall. "It's an extremely important case," said the company counsel, Claude-Armand Sheppard, also one of the province's best constitutional law- "The Penal Actions Act allowing private prosecution in these cases is a medieval remedy.

But it's becoming a business. "It simply isn't acceptable that a private individual can make money by enforcing the law," Shcppard added. As for the labelling act itself, lawyer Sheppard pointed out that the government has not taken any action against any food stores since the law nd regulations were promulgated. "It's cbvious the government realizes that changing labelling is a costly business, and it was allowing time for the stores to adjust to the law. That is the fair way to proceed.

"The law is fairly rigid, but the government has chosen to keep it flexible in application," he said. There are questions of administrative law, perhaps constitutional law and myriad other legal remedies, but the problem also raises som consequences of any government policy on the whole area of the use of the French language. All of hich interests Sheppard because as well as act ing for the food -tores, he is also general counsel to the Gendron Commission on the Future of French language in the province which will be suggesting policy lines to be followed in promoting French i i Quebec very soon. "A law as rigid as this although it doesn't impose the use of French exclusively does create hardships. "Why should food products be regulated strictly, and not liquor or more importantly, home appliances? "It raises some ridiculous situations.

Why should food prepared in China to be sold exclusively to Chinese Canadians be labelled in The same goes for Italian food or Polish food," he added. One of the more ludicrous cases Sheppard heard about was the prosecution of a supermarket in Chicoutimi for a food product made in France, but with labels entirely in English. In the meantime, there is considerable scrurrying about among food product manufacturers around the country to read up on their law. By JAMES FKIiHABKK SoiiHmm News Services MONTREAL Law student Jacques Fournier took a $3 grocery order into court the other day, and came out with an award of $1,400. He did it by invoking what one lawyer calls "a medieval remedy" still i i in Quebec law, aided by the rigid interpretation of a statute requiring all food products sold in the province to ave labels in French as well as English.

Unless there is government action, or lawyers can find a way to successfully contest Ehnoubn Journal 52 PAGES EDMONTON, ALBERTA, TUESDAY, JULY 4, 1972 10c 15c FORECAST: SHOWERS with The Can-aeJ'n nd Color Comics Some changes sought 7 4 lockers will accept pay offer 1 MONTREAL (CP) The president of the International Longshoremen's Association says his Montreal members are willing to accept federal labor department return-to-work proposals providing certain conditions are met. However, labor department sources in Ottawa said there was little chance of any alterations being made as the proposals had been submitted as a package to be accepted or rejected in total. ILA President Jean-Marc St. Onge said about 1.500 longshoremen at a Montreal meeting this morning gave him a mandate to return the proposals with certain modifications. No details were available.

'MUM im "rii i inn inn Zxvnmmxmmm Dunked sailors and misting winds knots Saturday had died to breezes by the time of finals, but not before many a sailor had tasted the chillv water. Storv on Page 47. day at Seba Beach, on the west end of Lake Waba-mun. where 52 craft duelled for the Canadian Fireball Yacht Championship Winds gusting to 30 Few sights in sport provide such a spectacle as a floatilla of yachts racing under a strong wind. This was a common sight Saturday through Mon Race fans taken for ride a City hospital turned away el erly a ti eiils-i 11 quiry The Royal Alexandra and University Hospitals have turned some elderly citizens away without admitting them for treatment.

City Medical Health Officer Dr. George Ball said today. Dr. Ball, after investigating for the past two months reports that such instances were occurring, singled out the two large hospitals, but said the practice also occurred in other major city hospitals. Citv health nurses had re- The labor department sources said longshoremen in Trois-Rivieres had accepted the package.

Union members in Quebec were reported still meeting about three hours after they began consideration of the proposals. In an attempt to settle the dispute, last-ditch talks were held during weekend between two top federal trouble-shooters, the union and the Maritime Employers Association. Directors of the employers association were scheduled to meet later today to consider the proposals. Meanwhile, the employers were awaiting complete vote results before meeting later today to discuss further action including the filing of a S3 million damage suit against the ILA. Today's meetings follow separate talks during the weekend and Monday by the two federal labor trouble-shooters and representatives of the union and the Maritime Employers' Association.

Bernard Wilson, deputy labor minister, talked to reporters Monday before returning to Ottawa where Parliament's summer recess has been delayed because of the strike. Korean lalks could lead to reunification Where to find it For almost a year, Cakler residents have fumed a a sleepless nights over the noise coming from C.Ys yards along 127th Avenue mainly the nerve-grating screeches produced by these, master retainers at the 103rd Street humpyard. More pictures and storv on Page 9. Art Evans 15 Ann Landers 18 Barry Westgate Births, Deaths. Marriages 24 Bridge 29 Business.

Stocks 10-13 Charles Lynch -4 Classified ads 25-41 Comics, Features 50 Comment 4 Entertainment 20. 21 Family Section 17-19 Focus on People 23 June Sheppard 17 Letters to The Journal 4 News Digest 6 Sport 46-49 TV. Radio 51 Wayne Overland 46 Wvathvr Showers in a few areas: high 65-70. low 40-50. Mostly sunny Wednesday with a high of 70-75.

Details on Page 2. Armv halt? Protestant barricades BELFAST (AP! The British army prevented Protestant militants frcm barricading one of their Belfast strongholds Monday night, but the Protestants claimed a "great victory." After a four-hour confrontation between S.000 masked men of the Ulster Defence and 600 armed troops, the UDA the answer to the Roman Catholics' Irish Republican Army its plans to throw a steel barricade across Ainsucrth Avenue in West But the army agreed to set up checkpoints on the avenue and search anyone entering the district for weapons. And it said the army not the policewould maintain law and order in the area, assisted by unarmed UDA patrols. "No members of the police will be allowed in," said a UDA leader. "We feel that if the Queen's Writ does not run in the Creggan and Bogside, then it will not run here." He was referring to the IRA's strongholds in Londonderry, the barricaded "no-go" districts which effect are autonomous IRA-Catholic areas from which the army and the police are barred.

It was to protest this area known as Free Derry that the UDA began throwing up bar-ncades during the weekend to create no-go districts of its own. i I --TJis. ZZ V2 i I tJ jl A aT! II i fftj BALTIMORE fAP) Two armed men commandeered a busload of race track fans Monday and forced the driver to circle the city while they robbed the passengers. The two men. one armed with a shotgun, fled the bus with S3.413 an hour later in Halethorpe, a small suburban community 10 miles south of here, police said.

No one was hurt. Thomas M. Manning, manager of the Baltimore Motor Co.ich said the bus carried 46 passengers and was cn route to Delaware Park Race Course at Stanton. Del. Manning said the gunmen, who boarded the bus at the downtown Baltimore Civic Centre at about 11 a.m., pulled guns on the driver as the bus ncared the Baltimore Beltway on Pulaski Highway north of the city.

He said the driver was forced to enter the Beltway and drive completely around the city while the gunmen went from passenger to passenger, taking valuables. Forty-three of the 46 passengers told police they had been robbed. Bv JOHN It. WALKKK Sunt ham News Services TOKYO Comrade Kim 11 Sung and ex-general Park Chung Hec have made an unexpected breakthrough in the long and bitter stalemate over the future of the two Koreas. Twenty-two years after the North Korean divisions rolled across the border towards Seoul, the two hostile regimes who have never signed a peace treaty have suddenly agreed on certain principles for negotiating future reunification of Korea, as well as improving present relations.

These secret negotiations. which have been going on in Pyongyang and Seoul in May and June hen most observers thought the only contact was in the well publicized Red Cross talks at Panmun-jom. have created quite a stir in Japan, where this week a new administration will take office pledged to review and even change its policies with China and Korea. The agreement announced by North and South Korea today is st-cn here as another example of the repercussions of the visit of President Nixon to Peking. Ten offei criminals to free ported that some patients they sent to hospitals for admittance had been refused entry by doctors in emergency wards.

Following meetings with city nurses, hospital administrators and doctors. Dr. Ball said he found the number of persons turned away "relatively small" and there had been no new cases during the past two months, following a Journal news story. The Royal Alexandra and University Hospitals have turned some elderly citizens away without admitting them for treatment. City Medical Health Officer Dr.

George Ball said today. Dr. Ba'l. after investigating for the past two months reports that such instances were occurring singled out the two large hospitals, but the practice also occurred in other major city hospitals. City health nurses had reported that some patients they sent to hospitals for admittance had been refused entry by doctors in emergency wards.

Following meetings with city nurses, hospital administrators and doctors. Dr. Ball said he found die number of persons turned away "relatively small" and there had been ro new cases during the past two monthsrfoiloving a Journal news story. "However. I am.

taking the problem even higher the provincial government." Dr. Ball said. The city's health officer More EIDKUI.Y Pc.ye 8 initiative had impact iper predicts Russian protest cancels chess championship opening woodworkers" agreement wiiv prisoners RAIFORD. Fla. (AP) The U.S.

defence department has turned down a request by 10 convicts in Florida state prison to change places with American prisoners of war in Southeast Asia. "I am sorry this reply cannot be more avorabl wrote Le" Benade in a letter to Mic'ael E. Stoudf. 31, one of tin prisoners. The general said the convicts, most of them serving lengthy sentences for crimes ranging from forgery to murder, could not be accepted for enlistment or induction be-cau3 they were "persons who have been convie'ed of certain crimes." Even' South Korean embassy officials here agree that the Nixon initiative undoubtedly had its impact in hastening the elevation of the past year 's "diplomatic soundings'', through the Red Cross talks about reuniting families, to the level of government-to-government contacts.

The first principle of the seven-point agreement, it is pointed out here, is aimed at making it clear that any negotiations over unification must be "through independent Korean efforts without being subjected to external imposition or interference." This, it is said, is aimed as much at Chinese or Soviet interference as at America, and of course it does not clear up the question raised by President Kim in his recent talks with foreign newsmen, that American forces must be removed from South Korea before talks could begin. President Park of South Korea made the first overtures in this first effort to normalize relations back in August. 1970, urging talks if the North renounced its aggressive intentions, but President Kim rejected this. More KOREA Piute. American grandmaster later conferred with Spassky and his aides in search of some compromise to what the organizers termed "complications." The Soviet news agency Tass said Spassky accused Fischer of violating rules and wanted him REYKJAVIK (AP) The opening game of the world chess championship was postponed again today after Russia's loris Spassky protested American challenger Bobby Fischer's behavior and walked out of a meeting with the organizers.

Representatives of the Less than two hours before the match was to begin, Spassky and his second. Yefim Geller. drove to the Soviet embassy to consult with authorities in Moscow. This supported the sentiment that Spas--kv's belated ore CUES Fischer Page 51 VANCOUVER (CP) The Sun says an agreement will be signed later today between the International Woodworkers of America and representatives of forest companies ending the 12-day strike by 28.000 woodworkers in the British Columbia coast forest industry. Slain Edmonton man was children's 'best friend ry DOUG McCONACIlIE Of The Journal Roman Fermaniuk was the type of old-timer everybody on a street watches over.

He was 70. and had been sick in his later years. This spring he tried living in a nursing home for two weeks, but Jie just didn't feel at home. He wanted to return to his brown stucco bungalow at 10949 82nd St. which had been his home for more years than anyone on the street could remember.

When he was found lying in a pool of blood, apparently bludgeoned to death by a burglar Saturday, the entire street registered shock. lie was a legend in the Norwood neighborhood. In his younger years there wasn't a child on the street who didn't know he always carried a piece of candy in his pocket, or a nickel or dime, and who always gave freely. When mothers became worried because their young son or daughter was missing, it was better than even odds they would find their child in the Fermaniuk home, having ice cream, a glass of milk, or cookies, candies and cake. His neighborhood Is a good one according to neighbors.

It is a busy street and many unknown people walk the streets, "but there was never any serious problems." according to next door neighbors Neil and Alice McGuggan of 10H45 82nd St. The McGuggans. whose bedroom is located only 15 feet awav from Mr. Fermaniuk's back door here the burglar broke in. knew Mr.

Fermaniuk for four and a half years. They are particularly upset over the murder, because their part poodle, part terrier dog Gi Gi "usually barks anytime a pin is dropped outside." Unfortunately, Gi Gi slept soundly Saturday. "It was the second break-in in the house in just a couple of months." Mr. McGuggan said. In early April someone stole some money, some traveller's cheques and three blankets.

"I think it was somebody who knew him." Mr. McGuggan said of the murderer. "Anyone watching the house well there was very little activity. It was not unusual to not see him for days on end." Mr. Fermaniuk used to leave on a bathroom light all night.

Mrs. McGuggan said, and sometimes a light in the living room as well. "I don't know if either light was on Saturday 1 don't think so though." More, SLAY'XG Pane.