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as ana FOUNDED 18SR VOL. LXXXV1I NO. 97 Irmatioii Imitation las.lfied 138-2311 733-3111 7S3-3371 VANCOUVER BRITISH COLUMBIA, FRIDAY, JAN. 26, 1973 i I L-Lr" nnirc IC rrklTC By Carrier ro.IV.t-lJ Vfc IN I per Month firms face cement Warrants allege competition curb 'sSmCTwYTS. FIGHTING RAGES ON SAIGON (AP) Two Americans and nearly 400 North and South Vietnamese were reported killed today and Thursday in a storm of attacks across South Vietnam matched by the heaviest U.S.

air strikes in eight months. "The war's still on," the commander of a U.S. marine air wing commented after the death of one of his young security guards during a rocket attack on the Bien Hoa air base 15 miles northeast of Saigon. By STAN SHILLINGTON Eight companies operating in B.C. have been accused of illegally lessening and preventing competition in the supply and sale of cement and ready-mix concrete.

1 The charges, under the federal Combines Investigation Act, cover a 14-year period between Jan. 1, 1958, and Dec. 31, 1971. They follow a year-long investigation by the federal government's consumer and corporate affairs FLAG CAUSES A FLUTTER It A I 3 Stage set for pact signing WASHINGTON (UPI) State Secretary William Rogers flew to Paris today to sign the agreement ending the Vietnam war and said he hoped the accord will usher in a generation of peace. Rogers is to sign the agreement Saturday at the heavily guarded Hotel Majestic with the foreign ministers of North and South Vietnam and of the Viet Cong's provisional revolutionary government.

The 12-year-old war is then to halt at 4 p.m. (Vancouver time). (NBC and CBS said they would carry live and taped television coverage of the ceremony, starting at 6 a.m. Vancouver time. ABC said its program would start 30 minutes later.) Said Rogers: "We hope and expect that shortly the ceasefire will be in effect in Laos and Cambodia too, and that finally this long and difficult war will come to an end." Defence Secretary Melvin Laird said inore than 100 U.S.

prisoners of war are expected to be in the first group released by Hanoi, and that some should be home before Feb. 11. The peace agreement calls for return of all of them 60 days after the ceasefire becomes effective. While the principals in the Vietnam peace drama gathered in Paris, a key figure slipped quietly out of that city today on the eve of the signing. Only a few dozen reporters and officials were on hand when Le Due Tho, the Hanoi "Peace" page 2 Students killed MEXICO CITY (Reuter) One student was killed when his own shotgun went off in a clash with police in Monterrey and another student died in an exchange of shots between rival student groups at Pue-bla, police reported here.

Weather Periods of rain Saturday, mixed with snow in the morning. Brisk easterly winds. Low: lower 30s; 40-45. department. D.

H. W. Henry, director of the department's investigation and research branch, headed the probe during part of 1971 and 1972. The investigation included closed hearings in Vancouver conducted by L. A.

Couture, acting chairman of the Restrictive Trade Practices Commission. Accused in two counts are Ocean Construction Supplies Lafarge Canada Canada Cement Lafarge Deeks Lafarge Lafarge Concrete Metro Concrete and British Columbia Cement Co. Ltd. Also named in the charges but not charged are Inland Cement Industries Ltd. and Construction Labor Relations Association.

Ocean Construction is also charged with a third count jointly with Butler Brothers Supplies Ltd. The charges against the seven firms state: did unlawfully conspire, combine, agree or arrange together and with one another and with Inland Cement Industries Limited and the Construction Labor Relations Association and the members thereof, unduly to prevent or lessen competition in the production, manufacture, purchase, sale, transportation or supply in the Province of British Columbia of an article or commodity which may be the subject of trade or commerce, to wit, cement, and did thereby commit an indictable offence contrary to the provisions of the Combines Investigation Act." The second charge has the same wording as the first, "Cement" page 2 Villages shaken MURCIA, Spain (AP) An earthquake shook the villages of Almoradi and Benejuzar for five seconds Wednesday night but authorities reported no casualties and slight damage to some buildings. AUSTRALIA GOD SAVE CANBERRA (Reuter) Australia will replace God Save the Queen as its national anthem, Prime Minister Gough Whitlam announced today. Whitlam, in a broadcast to mark Australia Day, said the public would be asked to submit words and music for a new anthem over a three-month period. A judging panel would se Hillyard began at about 9 a.m.

after Hillyard had left his home for his office. Mrs. Hillyard said a man dressed in jeans with a nylon stocking pulled over his face came to the door. She said at first she thought it was a joke but that the man forced his way into the house. She said be was carrying a pistol.

Mrs. Hillyard said the man told her to get dressed and told her: "This is an official kidnapping." She said the man forced her to sit on the davenport while he called Hillyard at his office. Hillyard said the man spoke deliberately and "sounded like he had rehearsed" his statement. Hillyard said the man instructed him to get $15,000 in SlOs. S20s and S50s.

and to take it to the Reece Hill Road east of Sumas. about 35 miles northeast of Bellingham. Hillyard said the caller told him not to notify the police or Mrs. Hillyard would be shot. But be called police immediately anyway.

The caller also threatened to harm another member of the family. The LONDON (AP) Red-faced officials of the British Aircraft Corp. today are trying to find out who put the rebel flag on their supersonic Concorde when it landed in Portuguese Angola Thursday. Portuguese officials were staggered when they saw the guerrilla flag fluttering alongside the Union Jack as the Concorde arrived at Luanda airport. One witness said the officials "began jumping up and down" on the runway.

N.WJ. COUNCIL CBC radio flayed by northerners YEIXOWKNIFE, N.W.T. (CP) "It's men like you who start revolutions," CBC vice-president Marcel Ouimet was told Thursday in a bitter clash at the Northwest territorial council. Ouimet, Andrew Cowan, head of the CBC's northern service and Gordon Frederick, Yellowknife station manager, were under fire for what council members charged was inadequate service to norther-' ners. "The North is a young man's country," Nick Sibbes-ton (Mackenzie Liard) told Ouimet.

"If an old man like you can't do it and Mr. Cowan ean't do it and your station manager in Yellowknife can't do it, you'd better just shut her down." Sibbeston, who is part Indi-; an, was criticizing the amount of native broadcasting on the' CBC's Mackenzie network. TO DROP THE QUEEN lect several to be played on radio and television, and the public would then be asked to vote on them. The writer of the winning anthem would be awarded $5,000. Opinion polls have shown that many Australians, particularly younger people, favor a distinctively Australian anthem rather than the British one.

Hillyards have a married daughter living in Bellingham. Mrs. Hillyard said the man then forced her to drive her car to a point on a local roadway and took her into the woods. The car was spotted later by Whatcom County sheriffs deputies who set up a watch. When Hillyard drove to the rendezvous point ith the the man and Mrs.

Hillyard walked out of the woods. Hillyard said the man was holding a pistol to his wife's head. After the payoff, the man forced Mrs. Hillyard to drive her car while be sat in the front seat with a blanket over his head. Shortly after, the arrest was made.

Officers said the pitol turned out to be an air gun. Index Br Asr Comi Crossword Fir.arv Cantoris Himtpr t.pttprs Neshitt Suburb IS 2S Travel Weather 3 Ltvelv Art Uvmc 11 f. Xi. ft? ti Of The spill, estimated at gallons, is about the same as the spill from the freighter Vanlene which ran aground in Berkley Sound off the west coast of Vancouver Island last March. But the Vanlene carried bunker a lighter fuel oil and the spill was carried away by an outgoing tide.

The fuel oil spilled in the sound near here Thursday as the Irish Stardust managed to manoeuvre itself afloat in a storm. Then the oil trailed from the holding tanks apparently unknown to the ship's officers as the vessel continued its voyage from Kitimat south. At some stage the ship's officers became aware that the ship had sustained extensive damage. The local agent, Anglo Canadian Shipping Co. in Van- charged in that he did not take proper action to minimize the spill and that he failed to notify the ministry of transport within a reasonable time.

Captain Caird was to appear in provincial court in Victoria later today. The. charges follow allegations by environmentalists that there was delay of np to 10 hours in reporting that oil had been spilled when the Ray Allan Phnto SAVE-THE-BEACH struggle keeps Alert Bay school students busy manfully to skim off gooey bunker oil washed ashore after with wheelbarrows and shovels Thursday. Young task force tried freighter Irish Stardust struck reef in Blackfish Sound. Giant oil spill defies cleanup S3 AREA OF SPILL oil spill ship grounded on rocks in Blackfish Sound overnight Wednesday and that the captain was vrrong in continuing down the coast instead of st.ying in one spot where the oil may have been contained.

Agents for the vessel claim most of the oil estimated at 4.tO ton was lost when the ship hit and little was "Docked- page I Bellingham woman freed in $15,000 kidnapping bid VANCOUVER couver, was notified by radiophone and the ship was diverted from Vancouver to Yarrows shipyard in Victoria. The ship gave no distress call and details of the accident are still not know here. It is not known how it got on the rocks or how it got off. The environment team members, who raced here without stopping to pack toothbrushes or shaving gear, say they do not know why no report was given of the incident at the time. If an alarm had been given the spill could have been contained in a relatively small area before it was dispersed by wind and tide, said Dr.

Lome March, a biologist with the environmental protection service. "The irony of it all is that "Officials" page IS forthcoming, Trudeau told the Commons, the government will not consider allowing Montreal to have a special issue of stamps and coins as part of its plan for financing the games. He said, however, his government had no objection to Montreal using money which would normally be spent in Quebec by such aeencies as the Central Mortgage and Housing Corp. By RON ROSE Sun Staff Reporter ALERT BAY Oil from B. worst spill is sweeping through the waters of the Inside Passage and nothing can be done to stop it.

A team of government investigators flew over the channels and inlets between northern Vancouver Island Spill in pictures, P. 16 and the mainland Thursday and concluded there is no way of containing the oil smear that is fouling the shoreline. The oil 450 tons of bunker the lilthiest of them all had spread for about 50 miles, 18 hours after the freighter Irish Stardust ran on to rocks about midnight Wednesday in Blackfish Sound about 10 miles east and south of here. Captain By JACK BROOKS The captain of the freighter which spilled oil on Vancouver Island beaches was charged today for leaving the scene and failing to report immediately. Capt.

J. Caird. of Ireland, master of the Irish Stardust, faces up to $100,000 in fines. The charges. laid by the federal government under the Canada Shipping Act, allege at Alert Bay SUMAS, Wash.

(AP) A 67-year-old Bellingham woman was rescued by police Thursday after being held prisoner for nearly seven hours by a man who had told her she was the victim of "an official kidnapping." Officers freed Mrs. Varian Hillyard and took the man with her into custody at about 4 p.m., minutes after the women's husband, Bellingham businessman Reg Hillyard, had handed $15,000 to the man. The sheriffs office said "Mrs. Hillyard was not harmed. They said Paul Dal-too, 24.

was taken into custody and held for investigation of kidnapping. They said Dal-ton told them he was from Chicago and Portland, Ore. Whatcom County Sheriff Ber-nie Reynolds said officers in a plane kept others on the ground advised of the movements of Mrs. Hillyard car after the payoff was made. He said a roadblock was set up and that the man offered no resistance when he was captured.

The day-long ordeal for Mrs. 'NO AID FOR GAMES' Sun Ottawa Bureau OTTAWA Prime Minister Pierre Elliott Trudeau said Thursday the government would make no "special contribution'' to the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal. And he said he will insist on a guarantee that Canadian taxpayers will not be required to make up any deficit at the conclusion of the games. If no such guarantee is.