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"Second-elms ml, registration number 01J9" The VANCOUVER SUN: Mon May 31. 1971 City closes youth hostel Instant park made at project site regularly overcrowded, he said. Aid. Harry Rankin, deputy chairman of city council's social welfare committee, promised an immediate investigation. Beck believes city authorities bowed to pressure from STRIKE-FREE 1972 FORECAST The head of Construction Labor Relations Association predicted today that the industry will get through 1972 negotiations without a work stoppage.

CLRA president Charles Connaghan based his prediction on what he called the immense improvement in the temper of collective bargaining with unions in the construction industry. CLRA is the main negotiating body for the contractors in the province. Connaghan told a meeting of the New Westminster Chamber of Commerce that "there has been a recent noticeable swing away from the irresponsible behavior among the building trades (union) leaders that marked the bargaining of the 1960s." High-diving driver survives TOULOUSE, France (AP) French stunt driver Frank Valverde, drove his car at 86 m.p.h. off a 45-foot-high cliff into the Garonne River on Sunday despite a ban by local authorities. Valverde, 32, had oxygen bottles and a diver's helmet in his car and floated safely to the surface 10 minutes after the vehicle plunged into the river.

WORLD MATCHES Finale nears in chess The three remaining matches in the world chess championship quarter-final round are nearing completion. In Vancouver, Bobby Fischer of the U.S. is expected Tuesday to wrap up his match with Mark Taimanov in the minimum six games when they meet at the University of B.C. Fischer leads, 5-0. In Moscow Saturday, Viktor Korchroi of the Soviet Union defeated countryman Yefim Geller in their seventh game to take a 4V4-2V4 lead.

Denmark's Bent Larsen and East Germany's Wolfgang 1 a adjourned their ninth game in the Canary Islands on the 43rd move Sunday. Larsen leads, 4V4-3V4. The fourth quarter-final match has already been awarded to ex-world champion Tigran Petrosian of the Soviet Union. He was leading his match with West Germany's Robert Huebner, 4-3, when Huebner withdrew because of frayed nerves. Those first scoring ZV points or more in the 10-game matches advance to the semifinals of the elimination series to pick a challenger for world champion Boris Spassky of Imoaina the thrill cf seeing Sun if he regarded the attempt to build a park on the site as a creative act "No, I think it's vandalism," he said.

"I they want to be creative, I'll give them lots of bushland they can go out and be creative with." He also suggested the young people could have turned their energies to improving city parks, particularly in the East End. Campbell said the young people had taken over the site as an attempt to provoke a confrontation with authority. "Their causes aren't parks," he said. "Looking at their flags, I wonder." Campbell was referring to the North Vietnamese and Viet Cong flags which, with a Canadian flag, flew over the site. A spokesman for the occupiers said Sunday construction of the "All Seasons Park" had been planned for about two weeks.

About $100 had been raised to purchase saplings and flowers to add to donated tools, shrubs and peat moss. "There is probably only about a 50-50 chance this will be a park permanently," she said. "But we believe the majority of people are opposed to any type of commercial development. "This is a symbolic attempt to inspire people and give them the confidence to take back the earth." Continued from page 1 to bring plants and topsoil to the rocky site. A Softball game went on in one corner of the site while a vegetable garden, planted with potatoes and onions, was created in another corner.

On Sunday afternoon food was handed out and a rock band entertained. Visitors to the park included two Vancouver city policemen, who chatted and ate hot dogs with the young people, and about 30 delegates from the New Democratic Party convention held at the University of B.C. during the weekend. The delegates unanimously approved a resolution supporting the creation of the park. But Mayor Tom Campbell was not pleased with the takeover of the site.

"It's a sad weekend in Vancouver's history," he said Sunday. "It's appeasement. It just proves that might makes right. If any individual had gone in there he would have been arrested on the spot." The young people "showed a complete disregard for authority," Campbell said. "This is a breakdown of society.

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Georgia Street i I Van. B.C. MU 3-7207 I I I Sots I Address I Fhene VG 3 I IN B.C. to go alone on job training The Inner City Hostel at 199 West Sixth, which has been housing more than 50 transient youths, has been ordered closed tonight. Notification of the closure was served today on hostel director Max Beck by city welfare director Walter Boyd.

Beck termed it an astounding decision when more transients are coming, here, A spokesman for the city welfare department said the closure was ordered because an interim licence granted by a provincial board was not extended for June. Cecil Gorby, chief inspector for the community care facilities licensing board in Victoria, said lifting of the licence was recommended by city health and fire inspectors. Gorby said a new licence could be issued today if application is made by the hostel operators giving assurances acceptable to the city inspectors. Beck said directors of the hostel were to meet in an emergency session this afternoon. The hostel has been receiving grants through the city welfare department of $4.80 per transient, giving it a monthly operating budget of about $8,000, Beck said.

Gorby said city authorities have not been satisfied with conditions in the hostel. The hostel is licensed to accommodate only 31 persons, and is Value 20 off, Monog rammed Drinkware ill if I Sun Victoria Bureau VICTORIA Rehabilitation Minister Phil Gaglardi said today that he is abandoning a joint federal-provincial program to give in-industrv training to unemployed people in B.C. He said in an interview that the plan, which was to have found employment for 10,000 persons this year, had to be dropped because of inflexibility in Canada Manpower regulations. But he said that B.C. now is prepared to go it alone, and will establish a program to give three months' training to welfire recipients in industrial plants on condition that the companies employ the trainees at the end of the period.

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The Fischer-Taimanov game Tuesday starts at 4 p.m. in the Student Union Building theatre. Northern B.C. fire controlled Sun Staff Reporter FORT ST. JOHN Rain in the Prince George fire district brought relief today to firefighters at a blaze 110 miles north of here.

A forest service spokesman said the fire, probably started by a lightning storm Thursday night, was controlled about 8 p.m. with the aid of overcast skies and low winds. A 45-man crew arrived at the site, 40 miles off the Alaska Highway, early Sunday. Two helicopters and three planes dropping chemical fire retardent ahead of the fire had been used to contain the blaze. Fires elsewhere in the province over the weekend were reported under control, with the fire hazard rated low to moderate.

Meanwhile, forest service figures released in Victoria showed that up to Friday it has cost a total of $823,000 to fight 609 fires in the province so far this year, compared with $204,000 to fight 414 fires for the same period last year. The worst area for fires has been the Prince George fire district, where it has cost $704,400 to fight 202 fires, compared with $89,400 for 42 fires last year. A spokesman said the district, which includes Fort St. John, has been plagued by dry weather and high winds. He said most fires started from "hangover" fires, still smouldering from brush -clearing fires set by farmers in the spring.

Normally the rains extinguish these but there has been no such rain this year, he said. HOME and APARTMENT OWNERS Protect and beautify your building with Kenitex textured Eliminates exterior painting. Over 2 million world wide applications since 1946. There are no substitutes. WRITE IN PHONE IN COME STORE BURNS IN KAMLOOPS KAMLOOPS Arson is suspected in a $200,000 fire late Friday night that destroyed the Furniture Village store downtown.

Stores on either side of the building were saved by firemen. About a thousand persons watched the blaze on Kamloops main street and RCMP reported "considerable interference" from the crowd in fighting the blaze. Witnesses who turned in the alarm said they hiard an explosion inside the store. Lathers wait for early trial over dispute Members of the Lathers Union Local 207 remained on strike at four construction sites today while their leaders made plans to go to an early trial in their work jurisdiction dispute with the Carpenters' Union. Parties involved in the dispute have been advised that the Supreme Court trial will begin Monday.

The lathers had previously lost a bid for an injunction to stop the carpeners from taking their work on studding and wallboard in a new contract with Construction Labor Relations Association. Mr. Justice Kirke Smith refused the injunction but recommended an early trial. The lathers expressed fear that their union local could be put out of business in B.C. before a trial decision has been brought down.

They launched a selective form of strike action after refusing to sign an agreement with CLRA unless work assigned to them is restored. The lathers are on strike at the Pacific Centre tower projects in downtown Vancouver, two office buildings, and a medical centre under construction at Tenth and Commercial. Information to CLRA from these sites indicate carpenters-specialist on ceiling work were crossing the picket line at the Pacific Carpenters, laborers and electricians were going to work despite the picket lines at one office building while carpenters, electricians and sheet metal workers were working at the other. None of the trades reported for work at the medical centre project, according to information. AIRPORTS Continued from page 1 the six-month figures, and claim shifts have been worked out for 12 months.

The new shifts. were to start at Edmonton Sunday morning but the men ignored them and arrived for work under the old system. When they arrived for work they found supervisors doing their jobs. Tho department says the supervisors are all qualified firemen and air traffic at Edmonton has not been cut in any way. Firemen at Canada's five major airports and some smaller ones have sent telegrams of support to the Edmonton men and have promised a national protest if any disciplinary action is taken against them.

While national headquarters of the union has not backed the Edmonton action, it is trying to mediate the dispute with the government. Vancouver spokesman Low-den said today the union's "national officers" had asked for the meeting with the government. "We are hoping the minister will step in and order the old shift back," Lowden said. Asked what would happen if Jamieson does not, Lowden replied: "That will be up to the 4 p.m. meeting to decide.

I suppose it could mean that we will go our separate ways. Booking off sick would be one way of handling it, I suppose." "Just think of the suffering they are undergoing," Father Bishop said. Sheriff Whiteakcr said he plans to ask the justice court Tuesday for five more search warrants. When asked what he wants to search, he replied: "No comment on the search warrants at all." Whiteaker disclosed that Roy Delong, 52, was being held as a material witness. Delong arrested In Marysville Saturday night.

He had been picked up Friday but released shortly thereafter. At that time he told police ho had seen one of tho victims, Sigurd Bcierman, also known as Pete Petersen, get into a vehicle driven by Corona. In two curlier searches of Corona's $22,000 tract horn and van, deputies said they found an 18-inch machete; a crowbar and wooden club, both possibly blood-stained; a meat cleaver; a 12-inch kitchen knife; and a post-hole digger with hair and possibly blood on 11. Ship 'passed test' Factory Clearance doors Deluxe Rustproof Heavy-Duty if sure that Ottawa would allow this program either, since the federal government pays 50 per cent of the welfare budget. He expressed surprise that Manpower has decided that it cannot go along with the joint scheme.

Gaglardi explained that Ottawa to the possibility that industries could make profit from using unemployment trainees in their plants while the trainees are receiving government assistance. The province, he said, will "go it alone, and do it under the rules and regulations w6 set up ourselves." He said that a company would have to pay union rates to the trainees during the three-month period and guarantee them jobs afterwards. Morner said he made a complete inspection of the ship with one of his officers at least once a week. The skipper said he was specially trained in fire-fighting because he had attended an eight-day course on the subject in Norway four years ago. Asked by Volrich to comment on the adequacy of the crew's sleeping accommodation, Morner said he had been at sea for 39 years and when he first began his career he could recall 14 men sleeping in one room.

"It (the accommodation) has got better and better all the time," said the captain. "Everything (on the Meteor) is much better than I have ever seen it before." Morner said various materials, including wood and linoleum, were used in the crew's cabins. He said there was an automatic sprinkling system in part of the ship which spread water "like a fog," and there were notices in passenger and crew quarters describing the location of firefighting equipment. He said there was no malfunction of the fire equipment during the blaze except for the breaking of one hose, which was quickly replaced. lis Storing .95 STORM SCREEN and odd sizes! Easy to install.

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"I realized then I had a much better crew than what I saw." Morner told Volrich he and his crew were seriously afraid that the fire would spread from the crew's quarters to the passengers' area. Said Morner: "I have met passengers after the fire and they said to me 'We are alive, thanks to you and your crew'." He said that while the Meteor was in port in Vancouver May 12 and 13, all the fire-fighting apparatus, including the extinguishers, was checked and found to be in working order. LYNCH Continued from page 1 named his colleague as Hu-seyin Chehavir. The gunmen moved in Sunday morning when a group of four persons, including a woman, were challenged by nightwatchmen and asked for their identification papers. Istanbul has been under martial law for some time now, with tension running high following a series of left-wing kidnappings and robberies.

One of the group drew a pistol and wounded one of the watchmen. One of the men and the woman escaped but the other two burst into the house where Erkan has an Sevim Erkan, 33, the mother, and Sibel's 10-year-old brother, Tanar, were also in the house when Sayhan and Chehavir moved in but were freed a few hours later. Elrom was kidnapped May 17 by the Turkish Liberation Army, and was killed five days later after the government refused the group's demand to free all political prisoners. Police said a bag found In the street outside the Erkan apartment contained the Israeli consul's passport and identity card. In southeastern Turkey today, three of six youths believed to be members of the extreme left student group, Revolutionary Youth, were shot and killed by police In Adiyamcn.

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The Coro- nas often attended services 1 there. Asked why Corona was include! In the mass, Rev. Joseph Bishop said: "He still needs our prayers. And the poor victims, they're still part of the human race." Corona's family a second wife and four girls aged four through eight need all the spiritual help they can get, he added. shape: Executive (upper) or Roly Poly (lower).

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