The Ottawa Journal from Ottawa, Ontario, Canada • Page 13

MONTREAL (CP) Hydro-Quebec president Roland Giroux said Wednesday the Royal Commission on Construction Union Freedoms was responsible for restoring labor stability to the James Bay hydroelectric power project 'in northwestern Quebec. "Now it's stable, thanks to the Cliche Commission," he told chairman Judge Robert Cliche. In testimony before the commission, Mr. Giroux said labor' stability on the $12-billion project was essential to maintain Hydro-Quebec's credit with Canadian and foreign investors. In view of the need for stability and the magnitude of the project, Mr.

Giroux said he had thought it advisable -from the outset to explore the possibility of drafting a 10-year, no-strike labor contract. The agreement would have covered all unions and employers on the project, elimin-. atingTnultlple contracr TiegtK-tiations and the possibility that a small group of workers could paralyse the entire operation. Mr fiirrtiir mAmittmA broaching the subject of suck an "ideal" contract with officials of the Quebec Federa RESCUE Hamilton fire department investigators said Wednesday that a rooming house where three persons died in a blaze earlier that day met all fire-safety regulations although it had no outside fire escape. The early-morning fire burned through the 21'i-storey duplex, trapping tenants on the upper floor.

Firemen rescued them via ladders (above). Margaret Hilda Schenk, 26, George Kenneth Edwards, 58, and Jessie Colliery, 61, died in the fire and eight of the 19 other tenants were Injured. 4P "jm wir; 2Jy A I 111 Till i jailed three years VANCOUVER (CP) A 23-year-old woman was sentenced Wednesday to three years in prison for the beating death of her six-year-old stepson. Mr. Justice A.

B. Macfarlane of tin British Columbia Supreme Court said in imposing the sentence on Cecilia Deborah Kerr that he hoped "never again to have to preside over such a case." Miss Kerr was tried by jury on a charge of murder punishable by life imprisonment in the death of Michael Taylor last Aug. 19. She was convicted of the lesser crime of manslaughter. Mr.

Justice Macfarlane noted that the bruises on the child's body were "almost unbelievable" and- mat the child was beaten so severly that he was almost unrecognizable to his father, when he saw the boy in hospital Medical evidence showed there were more than 50 bruises on the boy's arms, 23 areas of bruising on the lower back and one solid bruise extending down the left leg. The judge also said the bruises were not all of recent origin and that the woman had pursued a pattern of increasing violence towards this No evidence against lead' TORONTO (CP) A provincial inquiry into lead pollution suffered a set-back Wednesday when two Toronto lead smelt-, ing firms being investigated pulled out of the hearings. In a' letter to David Caverly, inquiry chairman, Ian Outerbridge, counsel for Canada Metals Co. and Toronto. Refiners and Smelters said no evidence has been given to show that lead presents a health hazard.

"We do not see any point in continuing in matters which have no relevance to our compa nies," he said. i Blass won't get bail J. MONTREAL (CP) "Montrealers will be able to sleep better for at least a couple of days," Judge Redmond Roche of sessions court said Wednesday after refusing a bail request by Michel Blass. Blass, 30, is a brother of Richard Blass, the prison escapee shot and killed by police during a raid on a ski chalet hideout. Both brothers were named in an indictment for armed robbery of a jewelry store Jan.

17. $5,000 reward in murder GUELPH (CP) The Guelph Police Commission Wednesday offered a $5,000 reward for information leading to an arrest and conviction in connection with the Dec. 31 strangling murder of Diane Beitz, 23. Miss Beitz was found strangled with a brassiere and her hands tied behind her back with a nylon stocking. Police continue their search for a four-door, dark-coloured Buick observed parked at the rear of the apartment building with its motor running between 4 a.m.

and 9 a.m. Dec. 31. Belleville drug BELLEVILLE (CP) An area has resulted in eight persons being charged with trafficking in cocaine, marijuana, LSD and MDA. They are: Philip Vince, 18, Randy Demorest, 21, Wilbert Kemp and Larry Watson, all of Trenton, Jed Byreiter, 19, Charles Byreiter, 24, and Steve Baker, 17, all of the Belleville area, and Ralph Sloam, 20, of Carrying Place, Ont.

You must go through Eaton's MONTREAL (CP) About 200,000 ticket requests already received by the organizing committee for the 1976 Summer Olympics will get no special consideration, said a committee spokesman Wednesday. He said all ticket purchases in Canada must be through the 80 retail outlets of T. Eaton Co. Distribution agencies are still to be selected in the other 131 countries involved in the Games. Suspect must have witness tells police TORONTO (CP) A build-i superintendent who watched an alleged police beating through binoculars last July' told a royal commission hearing Wednesday that the supposed victim resisted arrest.

Terrence Andrew Finn, 26, told the royal commission on Metropolitan Toronto police practices that he saw police arrest Delroy Tomlinson, 29, a former Jamaican resident, who was charged with criminal negligence after a chase which ended when his vehicle struck a stop sign. tion of Labor (QFL) but denied having offered them a union monopoly on the site. He said, however, that he never discussed the subject with officials of the Confeder- a. a i of National Trade Unions (CNTU) and the Cen-trale des Syndicates Demo-cratiques. The QFL and CNTU have often come to blows in their rivalry over recruitment of construction workers.

Inquiry evidence has shown this to be a factor in the explosion of labor violence on the James Bay construction site last' March. Mr. Finn testified that when the driver was taken out of the vehicle, he appeared to be struggling and trying to get away. During cross-examination byTomlinson's lawyer Charles Roach, Mr. Finn said "that if there was brutality, there must have been resistance," adding he had been certain Tomlinson did some- thing wrong.

"The police wouldn't have arrested him, otherwise." TESTIMONY DIFFERED Mr. Finn said his testimony differed from a statement he Five office and dormitory buildings were set on fire at LG-2, the main construction site, March The watennain was cut and electricity and fuel supplies were sabotaged, forcing the evacuation of almost 1,000 men in 25-below-zero weather. Damage to the project, including interruption of work for several weeks, is estimated at about $35 million. The inquiry has revealed that corrupt officers of Local 791 of the International Union' of Operating Engineers were largely responsible for the rampage. arrests overnight raid in the Belleville resisted, hearing gave a commission investigator on Dec.

5 because he gave the matter more thought. He said he started to remember details of the incident after receiving a subpoena to testify at the inquiry. Most witnesses Wednesday testified that they saw one or more policemen strike Tomlinson. Telford Malcolm, 32, said one officer struck Tomlinson, then hit him twice while he lay on the ground. He added that the policeman had something in his hand "it could be a bat, could be a gun." The hearing continues.

calling all TATr AmATVC? i V4r.juvrjrxj.u.r.x a CALGARY (CP) More than 25,000 former residents of Calgary have been invited to "come home" for Calgary's centennial celebrations this year. The names of the former Cal-garians, now scattered around the world, have been pouring into the office of the Calgary Tourist and Convention As sod a- 'Uoq at the rate of more man 3,000 a week. The association is not paying for the visit by the former residents just issuing Invitations and program Information about centennial activities. -j. i-.

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-Variety cheeses include colby, brick, mozzarella, Danish and Swiss. The variety-cheese samples 1 to mk OUJflQEillOUSS 3'3" Jik r. 1 IL it 0U Hi Contemporary 3-PIECE Thursday, Feb. 13,1975 Snowstorm leaves Victoria VICTORIA (CP) i- Elderly patients at Vancouver Island's Saanich Peninsula Hospital shivered throughout the night as a power failure in a snowstorm Tuesday left about 20,000 persons on the peninsula without beat and light John Stevens, hospital administrator, said Wednesday, the hospital, 12 miles norm of Victoria, has a full complement of 75 patients whose average age is 82. The temperature dipped to 62 degrees, leaving the old people "complaining bitterly," he said.

The 14-hour power failure also caused the closing of eight schools on the north end of the Saanich Peninsula. A total of eight inches of snow and rain plugged roads and stalled traffic. B.C. Ferries cancelled Its 8 a.m. sailing from Swam Bay but service Wednesday was otherwise normal.

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Peter, Mason, retiring chairman of Rubber Association of Canada (RAC), told its annual meeting today that two-thirds of its members predict raw material prices will increase between three and 10 per cent this year, meaning increased product prices. RAC members produce tires, belting, hose, mechanical goods, clothing and. footwear and account for. about 90 per cent of, rubber consumed in Canada. Queen Size MATCHING NIGHT TABLES ALSO AVAILABLE SPECIAL 81 MONTREAL RD.

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The Trans-Canada was also closed in the Fraser Canyon -by slides in the Sailor) Bar tunnel. Police reported blow; ing snow between Sailor Bar and Hope- with patches of black ice -in places. The, Rogers Pass was reported barely passable. The storm dropped as much as 29 inches of snow in some areas of northern Vancouver" Island, the Lower Mainland and the southern interior, of British Columbia, leaving the road system in chaos. lllnnrihmmp 0 IMUHUIIHHMl ACCOUNT $57(0.

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