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ets hi miracle A pilo m. when a lands and forests department official phoned her to say Syme had crashed while making a water-bombing run over the fire. "I thought, 'My God, what a hopeless said Mrs. Syme. "Somehow we kept on hoping.

He'd always bad a fair share of luck." At p.m. the lands and forests man called her again. The luck had held out. By KEITH BONSHAW For more than eight hours pilot Clarence Syme lay trapped in the wreckage of his plane after it had crashed in the middle of a raging forest fire. Two thousand miles away, in Abbotsford, his schoolteacher wife Ruth sat by the phone praying tor a miracle.

Syme survived. Ontario forest rangers called it the most astounding escape in the history of Canadian forest fire fighting. "What can I say?" Mrs. It took two more hours to get him out, as the rescuers gingerly moved in on the precariously-balanced wreck with block and tackle equipment and cutting torches. "He told us he'd hardly felt the heat," said chief ranger Paul Endress.

"We'd never seen a wreck like it. And to survive that pered by smoke and flame, battled to reach him. Finally a helicopter crew spotted him. Syme signalled with a feeble wave of his arm. He'd crashed at 4:15 p.m.

Tuesday and the rescue team got to him around midnight. But still his ordeal wasn't over. fire. It was almost eerie to see him alive." Wednesday night, Syme lay in Dryden Hospital badly shaken and under sedation. "He keeps saying he's the luckiest man alive," said his doctor.

For Syme's wife and the family, the ordeal began at 6 The plane, its wings and tail smashed off, was a write-off. But Syme, strapped in the pilot's seat, escaped with hardly a scratch. Then the real miracle began. Flames roared around the battered, blackened fuselage of the aircraft as it dangled at a crazy angle from the trees. Rangers said Syme was probably saved only by the fire fighting chemicals in the wreck and the chemical he'd sprayed just befure the crash.

For more than eight hours Syme sat trapped in the wreck as searchers, ham Syme asked Wednesday night. "It was a miracle." Syme, 53, father of seven, a Second World War flyer, was one of a team of three water bomber pilots. His Avenger aircraft crashed at the head of the fire 20 miles north of Dryden in northwestern Ontario. (See story on Page 7). I WEATHER I I Cloudy, becoming tunny OVMOE daHHEl 15 CENTS I in late afternoon.

Canada's high-low Wednesday: Fort Smith, NWT, 88, Resolute 7. Phone 732-2222 Circulation 732 2331 Classified 732-2032 VANCOUVER, B.C., THURSDAY, JUNE 3, 1971 111 Hydro faces more the best' strikes- By PALL AUGUST U.S. grandmaster Bobby 4i.ss: hd fit jCI i ml By MAURICE HEMER Province Labor Reporter B.C. r'o's electrical union plans to strike an unnamed construction site outside the Vancouver area today in an escalation of its contract dispute with the provincial government operation. "We had about 130 men out for 24 hours at the Kitchener Street line headquarters they'll report back to work in the morning and we plan to continue our 24-hour action," union spokesman Doug Cronk said Wednesday night.

'Maybe this time it will he a construction site outside Vancouver not a big one," he said. Cronk said rotating strike action against Hydro will continue and will probably escalate until the corporation agrees to bargain directly with the union or to submit the dispute to an independent arbitrator. "I can't say more than that," he said. "There is nothing further planned for Vancouver today." BILL 33 THREAT Cronk said Hydro could lock out the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers and force the government to use the compulsory section of Bill 33 to. order the company back to work.

"I'm almost sure that would trigger a compulsory arbitration," he said, "but that would prove what we've been saying all along. "We maintain Hydro hasn't bargained seriously so far because it depends on the eventual use of Bill 33." A Hydro spokesman Wednesday said the company is not depending on Bill 33 to solve the dispute and that the present situation is the union's fault because it has asked for See Page 2 HYDRO WEN 1 I km I Mi, 7 1 Kit it 'i 1 Grandmasters Mark Taimanov, left, and Hobby Fischer replay ami discuss one of their games Wednesday at end of their match here, Fischer won 6-0. Fischer has become one of four men left in the running to unseat world chess champion Boris Spassky of the Soviet Union. Mark Taimanov of the U.S.S.R. conceded the sixth consecutive game here Wednesday to give the 28-year-old native of Brooklyn, N.Y., the most one sided victory in a grandmaster competition in modern times.

Fischer, who has been a grandmaster since age 15, said he is confident that he will go on to win the world title. "The Soviets have been putting up road blocks for me for years, but I know I'm the best. I should have been world champion 10 years ago." He said if he wins the title he stands to make "easily $100,000 a year as a professional." He received $1,250 In prize money for the victory here and Taimanov $750. The world chess title is on the ljpe only once every three years. It takes that long for a challenger to wend his way through all the various competitions.

The quarter finalists were selected at last year's inter zonal competition at Palma dc Majorca, Spain. Fischer now advances against Denmark's Bent Larson in the semi finals, scheduled to start July 4 at an as yet undecided site. The other semi-final series, between Soviet grandmasters Viktor Kor-chnoi and Tigram Petrosian, is to be played in Moscow, also starting July 4. The two winners of the semi-finals are to meet in September with the overall winner going on to meet the world champion next year. Spassky is to play in Vancouver this August in the Canadian open championship.

Taimanov conceded the sixth game Wednesday before play could be resumed. It had been adjourned Tuesday with Fischer holding a two pawn advantage and threatening checkmate. The 46-y ear-old Soviet grandmaster said in an interview that Fischer undoubtedly is the best non-Soviet player he has met in his 19 years of international competition as a grandmaster. He blamed his poor record in Vancouver on ill health. One game in the scries had to he postponed on doctor's orders because of a high blood pressure condition Taimanov suffers from.

He said he was also fighting violent headache attacks during several games. "If it had not been for these circumstances I would have won games one and three and changed the complexion of the match," a i a said through an interpreter. "But as it was, I made mistakes that I never made before, even as a small hoy." U.S. general accused of 6 Vietnam murders Associated Press FORT MEADE, Md. John W- Donaldson, until recently a top planner for the U.S.

joint chiefs of staff, has been charged with murdering six Vietnamese civilians and assaulting two others. The U.S. Army announced Wednesday that the 47-ycar-old Donaldson is the highest-ranking officer accused of killing civilians in the Vietnam war and the first. U.S. general to be charged with a war crime in 70 years.

The army disclosed few details of the Donaldson case, but defence department sources said an investigation was started in November after a helicopter pilot alleged the general fired shots at Vietnamese civilians from his helicopter while flying over Infantry Brigade, the same one involved in the My Lai massacre for which Lt. William Calley has been sentenced to a life term for murdering 22 civilians. Donaldson's military lawyer, Robert Poydash-eff, said he has advised the general to make no statements at this time. McCloskey, 39, served as Donaldson's operations officer in the 11th Brigade. Donaldson, then a colonel, took over the brigade in October, 19U8, more than six months after the My Lai incident.

Col. Oran Henderson, 11th Brigade commander at the time of My Lai, has been accused of covering up the My Lai incident. Preliminary hearings in his trial at Fort Meade are in recess. Quang Ngai province was the scene of both the My Lai massacre and the alleged incidents involving Donaldson, which the army said occurred between November, 1908, and January, 19C9. It's no goj Margaret Trudcau STOP LIGHTS are for everyone including Margaret Trudcau, wife of the prime minister, who waits beside a bus in Ottawa Wednesday for green and go.

Mis. Trudcau cycles quite often in the morning to exercise. Behind her, and also mounted on a bicycle, is a protective RCMP officer in plain clothes. Man held in $560,000 hoax DONALDSON Quang Ngai province in South Vietnam during an operation in late 19G8. The army also said murder charges have been lodged against William J.

McCloskcy, accusing him of the death of two Vietnamese civilians in March, 1969. The army said the two cases are not connected. Both officers were members of the Amcrical Division, 11th Budget day confirmed as June IR OTTAWA (CP) Finance Minister Benson confirmed in the House Wednesday that he will present his 1071 spring budget and long-awaited revision of the Income Tax Act on Friday, June 18, at 2 p.m., PUT. This will be 'one day after new figures on unemployment are scheduled to be announced and four days after release of monthly price index figures. Hie April index showed an increase of only 1.9 per cent over 1970.

In announcing the budget, Benson reiterated his expectation that unemployment will show a continuing decline in the months ahead. The unidentified man was siezed when he stepped off a plane from Sydney. Six police, acting on a tip from Sydney, questioned him at Melbourne airport. Police said the man was wearing a false beard and wig Rculcr MELBOURNE Australian police detained a man today in connection with a case in which a man was paid $560,000 May 26 in an airline bomb hoax. and was carrying an overseas airline bag.

Qantas Airline paid to a man in Sydney May 26 who warned that there was a bomb aboard a Hong Kong-bound airliner with 128 persons aboard. The plane returned to Sydney but no bomb was found. I jiijity bull lost TACOMA, Wash. (AP) A submarine hulk under tow from U.S. navy testing operations in the Pacific sprang a leak and sank as it entered the Strait of Juan de Fuca Tuesday.

INSIDE Sadat hails Kremlin aid Heart of Manhattan for sale Page 3 rwtii ITU II II II 11 Ifa I CINUJki ill MANHATTAN I i If I eJ MPs approve own pay hike Page 6 More trouble for golfer Dave Hill Page 23 Fire-ravaged cruise ship to be told Page 29 Smashing good show. Page 40 New York Times NEW YORK The trustees of the bankrupt Pcnn Central Transportation company are offering for sale 23 parcels of land and several buildings in the heart of Manhattan that could result in the largest real estate deal by a single owner. Seventeen of the properties include land parcels upon which are built such New York City landmarks as the Waldorf-Astoria, the Yale Club, the Pan American building and the Graybar building. The remaining properties, which are being offered for sale outright, include four hotels the Barclay, the Bill-more, Commodore and Roose the offering, noted that the now "extremely valuable real estate complex" was once an open cut along Park Avenue for. the old New York Central and New Haven railroads' tracks and the station and train yards, Development of the property began in the early 1890s.

Many of the office buildings along Park Avenue today in the Grand Central area arc less than 10 years old and replaced a score of former six-and eight storey apartment houses, which the railroad built in the years immediately before and aflcr the First World War. velt and the office buildings at 406 Lexington and C2 Vandcrbilt Ave. The entire package is estimated to have a value of more than $1.2 billion, with the land values alone put as high as $450 million. No values have been affixed by I lie railroad's trustees, nor have Ihey indicated how much they expect to raise. The properties cover 10 blocks between Madison and Lexington avenues and 42nd and 52nd streets.

Grand Central terminal, long a crossroads in the heart and centre of Manhattan, is not for sale, but the trustees arc offering to sell the approximately 17 million square feet of prime air rights above the building. The sale of non-transportation assets of the Pcnn Central was a condition imposed on the trustees earlier this year when the U.S. government guaranteed a $100 million boiowing by the railroad for payrolls. The decision to sell the so-called Grand Central properties apparently was a sudden one. Only a week ago trustees said the $21 million a year in rentals Ihcy received from the Grand Central properties "was of greater benefit lo the railroad than would a massive sale of these properties." The trustees, in announcing Bridge 46 Racing 24 Business 25-28 Shipping 28 Classified 30-36 Snort 21-24 Comics 46 Theatres 42-43 Crossword 46 TV 47 Entertainment 46-47 Weather 29 Garden 31 Women 37-48 Pcnn Cnifrul property in midlimii Manhallati..