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The Province from Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada • 2

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The Provincei
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Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
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2 TI1U l'KOVLNCE, Thursday, July 13, 1073 IWA charges 'blackmail' i im i ui vi ACTION (far1- LINE in CKIQ fire pied space in the same building, was remanded to today when he appeared in provincial court. The fire caused damage estimated at and put KlcJ off the air for five hours. The station now is operating out of a motel room. Arson chaise KELOWNA (CP) Gordon Dimsdale, 28, was charged with arsun Wednesday, following a Monday niulit fire that destroyed a building occupied by Kelowua radio station CK1Q. Dimsdale, an empluyee of another company that occu- appeared to find it (the settlement proposal) acceptable but they have merely postponed a ratification vote and instructed FIR negotiators to go to Ilia locals to try to get the operations back into the industry agreement," The settlement proposal, which has already been accepted by the IWA in a 53.2 per cent vote, afters a 73-cnt 'J'HIilMHilHIMti Action Line finds (lie solutions to readers' problems, cuts red tape and stands tip for readers' rights.

For help, write core of The Province at 2250 Granville Street, ancouver 8. I THINK there's a case of mistaken identity involved but I can't seem tu get the message across. About eight mouths ago I received a letter from a collection agency In Montreal slating that I owed a shoe store I wrote i lie in and explained I had been In Montreal only unce during the four years I have lived in Vancouver, llial was thinner 1971, and the bill they claim I owe was incurred in May 1D71. It didn't help and I recently received a biter from a Montreal lawyer saying if I didn't pay within three days he would begin a law suit. My biters haven't been acknowledged and i don't know what lo do now.

an Action ine straighten this one out? (Mrs, Denise I tlu, North Vancouver). IT DOESN'T SEEM to be a ra.se nf mistaken identity. But the luxations may have confused you. The vice president of The Village Shoe Shoppes Ltd. in Quebec said you gave a cheque to one of their stores in Vancouver last May.

But a slop payment was put on Hie cheque and it was apparently forwarded lo Montreal for collection. They sent us a copy of the cheque and Ihe bank slip. We'll send the information on lo you. If you had a good reason for slopping Ihe cheque, you should discuss it with the store here. hourly wage increase over two years on a $3 72 base rale, plus improvements tu health and welfare benefits, and ait industry paid pension plan.

Moore said in a telegram lo Billings that both the IWA and FIR negotiating committees had signed a document agreeing lo recommend acceptance of the two-year pact. "The IWA has lived up to its commitment and voted their membership by secret ballot," Moore said in his telegram. "FIR refused lo ahide by their commitment and have postponed voting until a handful of problems that have never been part of Ihe industry negotiations have been resolved," he said. "This outright effort to blackmail the woodworkers is keeping 28,000 people out of work and is detrimental not only to the workers involved but to the whole community of British Columbia." e's telegram came after the IWA negotiating committee met with FIR officials and Billings explained the companies' position. Billings said later: "There are meetings going on all over the place in the locals concerned I hope these local issues can be settled and I hope it won't take long." call an immediate vote by FIR member companies.

Billings taid Tuesday the ratification vote had been postponed because 10 companies slill had outstanding issues to settle with the union. "As far as the industry is concerned the terms of settlement have not heen Billings said. "The companies WORLD CHESS FlSCHf SPASSKY lluurd slums positioning First 8 at Our famous brand name comfort shoes In a good selection of heel heights colours and sizes. 619 DUNSMUIR ST. Vse yaw CHARGEX B.

I'M JUST IMK hY, i guess, ast November, car went out of control on Ihe Kami Overlamier bridge in Kamioops, struck the car in front of me and then smashed into mine. ittle did 1 know then that I wouldn't have the use of my car for the next three months. The insurance company assured me that I'd have use of another car until mine could be repaired, it would take a couple of weeks at least dial's what everyone assumed. The repairs were progressing nicely until the garage roof collapsed, causing a great deal of damage iu my car. Naturally, i had to use Ihe rent a tar for an extended period.

Ihe total charge was $526 and I've been receiving threatening letters staling I'll be taken to court unless I pay at least S25H of it. What gives? an you straighten this out? 1 can't. tide hard (iibb, Yerun). HELP IS ON THE WAY in the form of ihe adjuster. A spokesman for CIS l.ld.

said that your problem has now been investigated and instructions have been sent lo the adjuster to get in touch with you immediately. The meeting will be "to resolve this outstanding prub-iem," we were told. game Downstairs CLEARANCE SALE Here is Ihe move by-move Fischer opening chess game in Hi.her 19 NB RxHi'h 38 Bt ti 11)1 -tu 111 US f. KM 21 111 til -II K3 KJ K3 42 RS Hi I ii iilil -13 K3 K5 I N5 34 B.nII Bi 44 Hi 0 25 N-R5 03 45 K4 K4 hi 03 QI 46 B-NS K5 Bi 27 BI H3 4J K3 R3 R4 NN 48 Nl K4 P.Of)P 39 BnKRP 49 NJ Q4 N3 30 FKR4 E0 B5 R4 31 115 51 Hi N4 -P 32KB3 K3 52 B5 K2 33 K-NJ PP S3 B4 N5 02 34 KR KxP KR01 35 KB 43 53 Q5 K-N4 CJ4 N--N 3S R4 01 66 -Qt ReHrfi.S 115 37 R3 BaB 38 B3 R3 Coast forest companies were accused Wednesday of blackmailing 28,000 wood -workers by delaying formal ratification of the proposed settlement iu their contract dispute. Jack Moore, International Woodworkers of America regional president, challenged John Billings, Forest Industrial Relations president, to Glorious Twelfth loll six Canadian Press BELFAST Thousands of Orangemen some of them from Toronto marched Wednesday to commemorate the 17lh Century battle that established Protestant power in Northern Ireland.

British troops kept the marchers and Roman Catholics apart, but two civilians and a soldier died in renewed violence after the parade. The death toll stood at six for the "Glorious Twelfth," which marked the anniversary of the Daltle. At least 423 persons have died in Ulster's three years of sectarian violence. hile British troops concentrated on a huge security operation to keep the Protestant display from starting trouhle, gunmen and bombers worked in the background across the six counties. Gunmen shot a British soldier dead late Wednesday in the Catholic Fails district of Belfast.

In Portadown, County Armagh, two men were shot dead in a bar. Police said one was Protestant, the other Catholic. Sporadic shooting continued in Belfast, maintaining a pattern established since the Catholic-based Irish Republican Army called off its two-week ceasefire Sunday night and launched a new offensive. A Ml-pmind gelignite bomb exploded in Londonderry. Army headquarters said no troops were involved in several of the gun fights.

It appeared Protestant and Catholic i 1 1 a i were skirmishing. The Protestants ignored a persistent downpour lo parade on the day marking the anniversary of the Ballle of Ihe Boyne where William of Orange defeated the Catholic legions of King James II in 1690. The British army sealed off the centres of Belfast, Londonderry and Portadown. In Belfast, a cix -mile long procession of Orangemen ranks swollen by contingent of Protestants from Scotland, Liverpool and Toronto snaked through the city. The march skirted Roman Catholic enclaves.

The column included military-style vehicles manned by masked members of the extremist Ulster Defence Association. In Belfast, as in other areas, speeches at the Orange rallies crilicited Britain'! Northern Ireland administrator, William Whilelaw, for negotiating directly with the ill A as he did last week before the truce breakdown. Most of the speakers, including militant leader William Craig, urged the crowd to ballle relentlessly against the. 1HA. WIiiic i 'H a ow 3 KM 4 5 KJ 6 7 8 MR3 9 10 B.

Bell eP 12 RU 13 OM 1) is oh 1S N-K'J) 17 Nx IS N3 MARIMEKKO FABRICS: Croft Pieces 10 each IT WAS a short move and my damage claim Is small 1 hut I still want to get it settled. On April 1 I hired a mover to take my household goods to my new apartment three I blocks away. During the move a lamp shade was blown into the street and squashed by a truik and a television 1 stand was broken. The mover told me they'd allow $18 fur I CHAMPIONSHIP lllackl ItkiWj end of first chess match moves of the Boris Spassky-Bobby the world championship match. 'OCT side of the board, thus turning it into a queen, the most powerful piece in the game.

Fischer stood up, made a helpless gesture to the audience and walked olf. The match may go for 24 games. Spassky as champion must get 12 points to win. Fischer as challenger must get 12' la. Each win counts for one point and a draw 'a point The two masters have played each other five times in the past.

won three of the games and two were draws. Meanwhile in London, British financier and chess fanatic Jim Slater has been cheek-maled in his elforls to get the $120,000 priie he put up for Ihe championship between Bibhy Fischer and Spatsky. ntf Via Cameras htiHifiiiir MARIMEKKO CLOTHES GREATLY REDUCED these mishaps and a cheque would be sent to me. I I Every time I phone I'm toid either that the cheque is in the mail or that the cheque will be put in the mail. It 1 I sounds good but the cheque never comes.

Can Action Line gel me something more concrete than a piomise? (Mrs. I Watson, Vancouver). A CHEQUE has now been sent to you and we've con- 1 firmed you received it. 1 I The company changed hands since you moved, the for- 1 I mer owner told us. Hem the mixup and delay in settle- Intent.

Pilot leaps lo freedom in one of two hijacks Province News Services Clogs I now pries All other Items DESIGN PLUS OIO (01 WHITE CROSS GOLD CROSS AIR STEP 14 95 tn finiiiville 6816811 Open Fridays 'til p.m. Bolt Ends Short sleeve Sweaters 3 0n Greatly Reduced! W. fEHDER HawMiis "ranihrian" The liuhtweivht boots. 00' 32'88 bi l)E BOOTS Made in 1'oland Were Jlbta. NOW AD I'Uii'i' model! and prlit i.iniii'1, boot 10 I llUIlM' fl Ulll, Klbl Hh' FA( Pack and frame slceidng bag, man 0l lent, (umplrle WO in xi; ot aim All purpose Vinyl I'ancbo, 100'.

ttalcrjiroof ONLY Of fAUHlHi WHATEVER YOU NEED FOR YOUR OUTDOOR PLEASURE Neither Billings nor Moore would predict when the workers would return to work but one IWA spokesman said he expected the industry to start returning tu normal by Monday. Meanwhile, progress was reported Wednesday in talks for a new contract for 4. Sot) IWA members in Hie southern Interior. About 1,200 IWA members employed at six Kamioops area mills agreed to end their five day wildcat walkout pending the outcome of this week's negotiations. Interior Forest Labor Relations Association has offered the Interior IWA members just about the same package as has heen accepted by the union's cuast members.

Fischer Under Brilain's tough foreign exchange conlrol regulations, be cannot get the money out of Ihe country until the Bank of England says so lie cannot transfer the money from his worldwide banking and investment empire to foreigners or open bank accounts for either Fischer or Spassky in Britain without the bank's approval. The most he can do is pay Ihe winner $720 a year. Thai's the maximum gift payment permitted to go to non sterling areas from Briiain. The extra prize enticed Fischer to do bailie with his archrival, Spassky. Now they may have lo join forces in the formidable task of squeezing the money out of the Bank of England.

"vieV Ik a and Mortuary Hoyal ()k Ave. 2M 7 11 fme today's game in an effort tu resolve differences. Income for the rights were vital to the Icelandic organu-ers who said they could lose nearly $100,000 if the match were called off. They are bound by agreement to pay Spassky five-eighths of $12V ooo even if the match is not completed. Fischer gave up Wednesday when he saw he could not prevent Spassky moving his only surviving pawn lo Fischers Victoria ress talks resume today VICTORIA (CP) After a two-week pause, negotiations between Victoria Press Lid.

and the Victoria Newspaper Council of Unions were set lo resume biday. The company, which publishes I he Times and The Colonist, told the council Wednesday that it was prepared to meet in Ihe light of improved production conditions. The council, which bargains for Ihe five unions involved, replied that it would meet at 10 a in. Indoy. RADO 41 home the radio wherever you go Ampltticr iwlfth Csmlttt tar llathmant Maim urn i unit Car bftnltat vaHablt 1 I WE HAVE If I TANDBERG PORTABLE The plane lost its electrical power while silling on the runway, Ihe cunliol tower aid, and the hijackers asked tor another plane.

The jut. Flight 4W). was on lis way into Kennedy Airport in New York win-n ihe hijackers took ner and directed Ihe pilot back to Philadelphia, police closed Ihe 1 iiUuiielphia airport. At Oklahoma Cily, Ihe American Airlines plane lauded at Will lingers World Airport shortly before midnight, but lonk off acain about an hour Ialer and circled Ihe cily. The hijacker said he would allow Ihe plane to land Main once Ihe was available.

Officials said Ihe late hour delayed procurement ot Ihe money. In San Francisco Wednesday, a 2'J year old Bulgarian airline pilot was arretted as the third conspirator in the July 5 $Mj hoo attempt to hi-jaik a Pacilic Southwest Airlines plane. His alleged conspirators, also from Bulgaria, were killed by FBI ageuls as Ihe plane sal at San rramisco International Aiipoi'l. They are believed to have been beading for a remote aiistnp in IS C. The FBI Wednesday arrested l.uhniuir Pcicbev iu Oakland He was brought before a (, S.

ate bo set no Imil and set July 21 for a preliminary hearing. mmm mm PHILADELPHIA A jetliner pilot iuude a dtspcrate leap from his cockpit onto the runway Wednesday night in one of two hijack -extortion attempts in Die (. oiled Stales. Two men hijacked Ihe National Airlines jet Willi 113 passengers aboard and diverted it lo Philadelphia, demanding in ii.S, currency, in Mexican pesos and parachutes, Uncials said. Meanwhile a man demanding $.100,000.

and parachuies seized an American Airlines Jet will) 67 persons aboard near iJecalur, norlh of Dallas, oidered the plane to fly to Al-huquerque, N.M thin changed his mind and instead had Ihe plane flown back to Oklahoma City which it had left a few minutes before the hijacking. In the first hijacking, an hour and a half alter Ihe National Airlines Hoeing Til landed at Philadelphia, pilot Elliott Adams dived out of the cockpit and was picked up olf the runway by police. A doctor who liealcd him said Adams lold him be jumped because he only had enough fuel for about five miles and be wouldii sub)eet his passengers to a crash. Adams lold the doctor that the hijackers had gnus and a package winch they said was a bointi and that they were desperate. 3 New mm 'V, 7'i Big valva Euiopa, twin cimi Land Sprint Elan i 2S Clarke Sfmpklns GurrariJ at 7th 736-4282 One cull makes all arrangements.

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