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8fST com tVAlLABtJ (JllC A19 'fepfofheir iequoffiedl in reftrical for inmuirdleir BRANTFORD, Ont. (CP) John Wildman, convicted seven years ago of the hatchet murder of his eight-year-old stepdaughter, was found not guilty Wednesday in a retrial. Loud applause and cheers from a dozen of Wildman's relatives and Wildman received the verdict impassively, but before leaving rose to tell Justice W.R. Dupont: "Your honor, I made a statement in the stand that I did not hold this court in respect. With the decision today, I no longer feel that way and would like to thank the court for myself and for Tricia." The battered and frozen body of Tricia Paquette was found Feb.

19, 1978, near the Grand River, four days after she had disappeared. She had been struck 19 times in the back of the head with the blunt end of a hatchet. Wildman told reporters outside the courtroom "it's much too late" to find the child's killer. "The police started out with me in mind and didn't look anywhere else." Wildman said it was bitterness that kept him going during his long stay in prison, and he even refused a Crown offer that would have seen him plead guilty to second-degree murder with eligibility for parole in 15 years. courtroom spectators greeted the announcement of the verdict, which came after only about 2Vz hours of jury deliberation.

Wildman has been in jail since his conviction in tWMfl shite i It AP photo LOS ANGELES youth walks past burned cars on Wednesday HRS. 10 AM 5:30 PM A V.NOPEN 8UN0Y 11 AM 4 PM 000 SENSATIONAL WINE COOLER SPARKLING REFRESHING JL All ingredients to make Jk Hk doz. I iJ-1201' Bott" ARSON CLAIMS 3 LIVES Wildfires rage in U.S. THE IDEAL FILTER SYSTEM VINAMAT w5 Gal. PRESSURE TANK .00 65 1978, but a series WILDMAN of appeals finally saw the Supreme Court of Canada order a new trial on the grounds that evidence was excluded from the original trial which might have led to an acquittal.

Assistant Crown Attorney Don An-gevine wouldn't comment on the possibility of an appeal. Walking out of court Wednesday a free man, the 33-year-old Wildman told reporters: "I have a grave to visit." Keegstra trial pauses RED DEER, Alta. (CP) Court of Queen's Bench Justice John MacKen-zie Wednesday adjourned the trial of Jim Keegstra until today while he considered a legal argument. Counsel "put on my plate a little problem to resolve," MacKenzie told the jurors before dismissing them for the day. On Tuesday, Keegstra said he discounted contradictory material related to an international Jewish conspiracy if it didn't jibe with what be believed to be true.

The former teacher, fired from Eckville high school in December 1982 and charged a year later with wilfully promoting hatred against Jews, has pleaded not guilty. Keegstra has been in the witness box 23 days so far. The trial is in its 13th week. 112 Gal. s27'i Also available in 5 7 Gal.

sizes search for arsonists who set fires that destroyed more than 140 homes in three days and killed three persons, causing $31 million damage. Three incendiary devices were found Wednesday in burned brush near Baldwin Hills in Los Angeles, city fire spokesman Vince Marzo said. The body of an unidentified woman was found in a bathtub Wednesday, the third person to die in the Are. Gov. George Deukmejian has declared a state of emergency in Los Angeles County.

"It's just like a nuclear holocaust," said Stanley Talley, 38, pointing to a stark row of 13 chimneys in Baldwin Hills. LOS ANGELES (AP) Dozens of wildfires raged today in six Western states after a week of blazes, many of them arson, charred more than 52,000 hectares, leaving three persons dead, hundreds homeless and one area looking "like a nuclear holocaust." Fires burned in Arizona, Washington, Oregon, Idaho, Montana and California, where the state's biggest blaze raged out of control for a second morning near the town of 0 jai after consuming 15,600 hectares of dry brush. Firefighters successfully fended off a wall of 30-metre flames that approached the resort and artists' colony Wednesday morning, but a pincer-like pair of fires surrounding the town could burn another hectares, Ventura County Sher iff John Gillespie said. Fires licked at the limits of Ojai, which lies in a valley 105 kilometres northwest of Los Angeles and was the backdrop for the mythical kingdom of Shangri La in the 1937 film Lost Horizon. Residents hosed their homes and moved livestock, but an order to evacuate the town of 10,000 did not appear imminent.

"The fire is moving through sparsely populated area that has ranches and orange groves," U.S. Forest Service spokesman Jean Hawthorne said. Officials asked the public to attend professional Fourth of July displays and turn in anyone who uses fireworks recklessly. Authorities in Los Angeles, Palo Alto and San Diego continued their Wa have everything for wine beer making at very reasonable prlcee. PACIFIC WINEMAKERS SUPPLY SHOP I Tn 3419 Klngaway, Vane.

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AECL had revenues from commercial operations of $309 million in the fiscal year ended March 31, down from $370 million in 1983-84. Expenses related to commercial operations fell to $301.5 million from $355.4 million the year before. Profit from commercial activities fell to $7.6 million from $14.7 million. But as the company cut costs and laid off staff to match the fall in business, net income rose to $9.8 million from $8.9 million. A drop in income related to sales of Candu reactors was responsible for the over-all reduction in revenues.

Revenues from the supply and servicing of Candu reactors fell 25 per cent to $146.3 million. Because of the shutdown of two Ontario Hydro reactors at Pickering, in which AECL holds an interest, it received no income from that source. Donnelly has said previously the industry will have to change the way it does business if it is to survive. One proposal would see the formation of a new National Nuclear Corporation to handle all aspects of designing, selling and building Candu reactors. ted HoIIoware Eaton's! at Steak knife set by Oneida 8.

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