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Edmonton Journal from Edmonton, Alberta, Canada • 33

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THE EDMONTON' JOURNAL, Thursday, June 1:71 33 t- Focus on PEOPLE John Fairfax of England and a woman companion have arrived in Ensenada, Mexico, five weeks after setting out in a 35-foot rowboat for Sydney, Australia, the coast guard reported, in Long BeadC Calif. Fairfax, 33, who previously had rowed across the Atlantic, and Sylvia Cook, 31, left San Francisco April 26 for Sydney aboard Britannia II. Emilio Menez, Ensenada's director of tourism said the couple's boat lost its rudder and finally ran aground 35 miles south of Ensenada. The two hope to restart their voyage after repairs are made, Menez said. 8 fJ' Former New Vork City mayor Robert F.

Wagner and his wife were divorced Wednesday in New York. Mrs. Barbara Cavanagh Wagner obtained an uncontested degree on grounds of abandonment. "I'm not for the divorce," Mrs. Wagner told newsmen before she entered the courtroom.

"It's Mr. Wagner's fling, not mine. I'm against it because I'm a Catholic. But you can't fight city hall." Conductor Sam Humphries, 57, of Medicine Hat, is recovering in Bassano from an accident Monday in which he fell off a moving box car, landed between the rails and bad eight other box cars roll ever him. He was setting the brakes on a box car when he fell.

He said he managed to l'e flat until the train, which had been moving at only a few miles per hour, stopped. He was treated in hospital for a few cuts and given two weeks off to recover from the shock. A 21-year-old former Green Beret who said he squandered his $2,400 Vietnam savings for heroin has been sentenced in Miami, to two years in prison for the $22 robbery of a curbside market. "This is an absolute tragedy," Criminal Court Judge Ellen Morphinios said in sentencing John Gerald Jennings 0." Hialeah. She recommended that Jennings, who served two years in Vietnam, be sent to prison hospital until cured, but denied a plea by Assistant Public Defender Thomas Morgan, that Jennings be sent to a live-in rehabilitation centre.

"We're participating in a travesty of justice," Morgan said. "Combat soldiers who become addicted in Southeast Asia are just being turned loose in the community. There are no facilities at the Veterans Administration Hospital not even a methadone clinic." J) I wwiAs y-VJ'W Chess grandmasters Bobby Fischer of the U.S. and Mark Taimanov of the Soviet Union contemplate the board during their world championship series in Vancouver. Fischer (white on overhead board) won the best-of-10 series Wednesday 6-0, and said he is confident he will go on to win the world chess title.

I Finch, one of Nixon's top political advisors, knocked down reports that the president had decided to send stand-ins into 1972 presidential primaries. "There are at least six he has to be in." Finch said, referring to states in which candidates are put on the ballot whether or not they file. Finch said no decision has been made yet on how actively Nixon will campaign in those states where his name will go on the ballots Attorney-General John N. Mitchell definitely will leave the cabinet to run President Nixon's re-election campaign, a high administration source said Wednesday in Washington. Presidential counsellor Robert H.

Finch Wednesday ruled out White House aide John D. Erlichman as Mit-chel's successor, appearing to firm up reports that Deputy Attorney-General Piichard G. Kleindienst will take over the top justice department spot by 1972. Mitchell was Nixon's campaign manager in 1968. Happiness is knowing you're in good came separated from mother on Toron- hands when you lose your mother.

For to's Yonge Street mall and while police Karen Rcimcnn, 6, the good hands be- located mom, Karen was treated to a long to Constable Sid Levangie. She be- milkshake. 1 Foreign correspondent Michael Maclcar, 41, currently stationed in London, will leave CBC television this fall to join the rival CTV network. Mr. Maclear is expected to remain in London with CTV.

30mMmf The Senate may use girls as pages through an extension of political science courses in Ontario, Senator A. II. Macdonald (L-Saskatche-wan) said Wednesday. He was replying in the Senate to Senator Muriel Fergus-sou (L-N'ew Brunswick) who asked he; her the move is being considered to lessen discrimination against women. Senate pages traditionally been boys in their mid-teens.

An 13-year-old Saskatoon youth has won the 1971 Lea-cock medal for humorous high school writing, organizers of the Canada-wide contest announced today in Oril-lia, Ont. Larry Fitzgerald, a student at Holy Cross high school, receives first prize of $1,000, becoming the second Saskatoon student lo win the contest in its two-year history. FURNITURE 3 ROOM GROUPS FROM $299.95 No Money Down. Eesy Terms Free Delivery ALBERTA FACTORY SALES 10166 108 St. 4224730 Wanted Experienced CABINET MAKERS Steady Employment Apply in Person 12060 75 Street Edmonton, Alberta 8 a.m.

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Please call Dick Clausen at 484-8163 or 489-5109. BRITANNIA REALTY (Edmonton) LTD. A i Hoffman, leader of the Youth International Party (Yippie), pleaded not guilty Wednesday to federal charges that he incited and took part in a riot during the May Day week demonstrations in the United States Hoffmann appeared before U.S. District Judge John Lewis Smilh who scheduled a hearing for July 21 to hear motions by lawyers for the government and the defendant. Hoffman is charged with cossing state lines April 29 "with intent to organize, promote, encourage, participate in and carry on a riot," and "participating in a riot by erecting a barricade to block traffic He is free cn a $10,000 bond.

Hvman Enscl, co-ordinator of the Canadian Jewish Defence League, sa'd in Mantreal the JDL wai "Not protesting Mr. Trudeau's fiendlness with the Russians" as reported by the Canadian Press May 25. "The Jewish ce League has no quarrel w'th Trudeau," Mr. Engel said. "He has never done anything to harm us." "Our protest is against the Russians, not against Trudeau," he said.

In a Toronto story May 23. The Canadian Press said members of the Jewish Defence League planned to protest Mr. Trudeau's tcur of the Soviet Union and his friendliness with the Russians when he returned. BINGO LAUDERDALE HALL 12937 107 Street THURSDAY 8 P.M. Admission 3 cards $1.

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Lloyd, has been suspended from his job as a community development officer with the federal Indian affairs department in Regina. Fred Clarke, regional director of the department, said Wednesday the suspension was in accordance with the federal Public Employment Act which stipulates that a federal civil servant must apply for leave of absence before accepting nomination. Mr. Lloyd failed to apply for leave until after he had accepted the NDP nomination for the June 23 provincial general election. He may apply for reinstatement after the election.

Ily Gardner's Glad you ashed that! That lovely film actress, Dolores Hart, who quit movies to dedicate herself to God where is she now? R. 0. The beauteous onetime star still glows as Mother Dolores of the Regina Laudis Monastery, Conn. "Hollywood was good to me," she says. was a gift.

I had not been given so much, perhaps it would have been harder for me to enter the monastery. I was given a dream on one level which enabled me to dream even higher. Do you have a aueslion about vour favorite personality? Send to "Glad You Asked That," Promotion Department. The Edmonton Journal. BINGO THURSDAY, 7:45 P.M.

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