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1 hdsor Markets Final 15 Cents Windsor Wednesday July 12 1972 60 Pages Massive manhunt Off-track Police stateme nt hunting off-base "I 1 IT hv A If I if I h' if 1 escapees .1 police and 80 prison guards spread their search in Canada's largest prison break with a field-by-field and tree-by-tree hunt in the area. Police investigated at least five reports of men seen running in the area, using five tracking dogs in the hunt fcr the convicts, some of whom were described as "extremely dangerous." Five of the escapers, including one of three convicted killers were in solitary confinement cells at the prison Tuesday night, less than 24 hours after they made their bid for freedom following a softball game in the prison compound. Police strategy during the early hours of today was to tighten their dragnet for the men who pulled off the biggest mass escape in Canadian history. Residents of this eastern Ontario city and those in nearby rural towns made sure their doors were locked. None of the convicts that were recaptured made it any farther than seven miles from the institution.

Edward Woods, 26, of Burlington, serving a life term for non-capital murder, covered the most ground of those captured, but the See 9 ESCAPEES Page 2 KINGSTON, Ont. (CP) An escaped prisoner from Collins Bay penitentiary was captured today when he walked into an intense search area 15 miles west of here where police were looking for nine of 14 prisoners who escaped from the maximum-security Millhaven prison Monday night. Police said John Singleton, 30, left a labor gang Tuesday morning, but was caught today when he was spotted walking along CNR tracks two miles north of Millhaven. There was a mixup in identification. Earlier reports said the prisoner captured was Sreto Dezemba.

25, of Toronto, serving life for noncapital murder, one of the nine prisoners still at large at that time. Singleton was serving three years for fraud and parole revocation. Meanwhile, a small army of police and prison officials, armed with shotguns, high-powered rifles and using airplanes and tracking dogs, were scouring dense bush within a 10-mile radius of the maximum-security prison for the remaining nine of the 14 prisoners who cut through a chain-link fence to freedom after a baseball game. Five already have been captured, all within seven miles of the prison as 120 provincial I i I 4 By BILL PRAGER Of Star's Queen's Park Bureau TORONTO Ontario Justice Secretary Allan Lawrence said Tuesday he is flabbergasted" by the latest turn of events in Ottawa over off-track betting. Mr.

Lawrence called a press conference here to say federal Justice Minister Otto Lang made an "absolutely incorrect" statement in saying proposed amenr'-nents to the federal criminal code were exactly what Ontario has requested. The proposed amendments, Mr. Lawrence said, fail to give Ontario exclusive control over horserace betting, on or off the track, arid fail to wipe out the existing off-track betting services operated by the messenger services. Lawrence said Ontario specifically asked for those two changes. The justice secretary distributed copies of correspondence between Queen's Park and Ottawa to support his point.

Mr. Lang's statement was contained in a news story carried by The Toronto Star last Friday. The story quoted Mr. Lang as saying, "he (Lawrence) at no time asked us to do anything with regard to messenger services." Mr. Lawrence said his officirls contacted Ottawa and ascertained the Toronto Star story as accurate.

Us said he held off making his response until that was done and also to give him time to cool the anger aroused by Lang's comments. The copies of documents distributed by Mr. Lawrence include a letter from him to then Justice Minister John Turner dated June 8. 1971 in which Ontario asks for authority "to operate or to licence the operation of off-track and on-track betting facilities." The letter adds that if this is done "the jurisdiction of federal authorities would thereby cease." The correspondence shows that Mr. Law rence met with Mr.

Lang. Ontario's efforts to make known its views even included a personal telegram to Prime Minister Trudeau from Premier William Davis on June 19. The Davis telegram pleaded with Mr. Trudeau to amend the code to enable each province to deal with off-track betting "in our own There were 15 letters exchanged between Ontario and Ottawa officials in that period, plus a meeting in Toronto April 11 between officials of both governments. Mr.

Lawrence said Ontario's position was again reiterated at the April 11 meeting. "The facts are self-evident," Mr. Lawrence said. "We have not only been persistent, we have been consistent. I don't know how blunter in the English language one can be in making a report to another government." According to the explanatory notes contained in the federal bill, the proposed amendments would authorize the provinces to licence off-track betting using the parimutuel system, but under federal regulations.

The federal amending bill would not outlaw the messenger shops. In the Friday news story Mr. Lang said an Ontario government off-track Belfast's 'Glorious Twelfth "9f three killings 1 bv marrec 5 sounded Monday night when fourteen inmates at Millhaven Penitentiary escaped five miles from Paul's home. SITTING GUARD Paul Battersby, 14. mounts guard on his front-porch in Bath with his shotgun in arm Tuesday.

The alarm was mi. i jacketed club-carrying young men could be seen on the fringes of the procession. They described themselves as UDA commandos. In Portadown, cheers greeted masked UDA commandos, wearing combat jackets and armed with wooden clubs, when they joined the Orange Day march. The rain doused some of the excitement customary on the Orange Day parades which are held to celebrate a triumph of Protestant arms in 1960 when Roman Catholic King James II was beaten by William of Orange at the Battle of Boyne.

As the marchers trudged through town, plastic raincoats obscured the dark coats and orange flashes which are a uniform of the Orange order. Rain dripped off bowler hats another uniform requirement and sodden banners hung heavy on their poles. Girl marchers pumped gamely at accordions while rain soaked through their white blouses. But the bandsmen pounded out Protestant tunes with gusto all along the five-mile march to a rallying point at Endenderry just outside Belfast. BELFAST (Reuter) Protestants paraded with banging drums and flapping banners in the traditional Orange Day marches throughout Northern Ireland today amid lively fears of communal conflict.

The marches set off In an atmosphere charged by three more killings during the night. One of the victims was a Protestant youth shot down on a street in Portadown, 25 miles outside Belfast, and there was apprehension of a revenge blow by the Protestant para-military Ulster Defence Association UD A As the marches streamed through the heart of Belfast under a steady rain, most of the city's Roman Catholic minority remained in their own district. Some 17,000 British soldiers backed by 8.000 police and militiamen stood guard in case of an assault on the marchers by the Roman Catholic-based Irish Republican Army. In the present high state of tension authorities believed such an assault could blow up into full-scale communal conflict. At several points in Belfast, groups of blue- i lie poii ucs oi peace PARIS The Paris conference on Vietnam resumes here Thursday in dramatic succession to the democratic nomination of a presidential candidate Wednesday night at Miami Beach.

President Richard Nixon planned it that way, ordering his negotiators back to the bargaining See OFF-TRACK Page 2 Women's Lib gone to the dogs! table on Avenue Kleber after keeping them away for two months. Mr. Nixon's own re-election hopes, in opposition to a Democratic "peace candidate," are largely riding on the outcome of the talks, which have been dragging on for four years. Here in Paris he will find out whether his great global scheme of restored relations with China and cooperation with the Soviet Union can be brought to bear on the problem of halting the carnage in Vietnam. According to former prime minister Pierre Mendes-France, who negotiated the French out of Indochina years ago, Hanoi has been advised by both its giant mentors to go along with a face saving scenario allowing the Americans to withdraw.

In the few days leading up to the resumption of talks, the Communist forces have again been showing superior strength, pushing the South Vietnamese back from Quang Tri, for example. The key to a successful resumption of the talks could well be some kind of concession on the political issue by President Nixon. This would be particularly well received by Peking where, according to reports. Prime Minister Chou En Lai dwelt in his talks with French Foreign Minister Maurice Schumann on the importance of forming a coalition government in the south. It may be recalled that in proposing a See POLITICS-Page 2 $4 1 Illi011 Strike now total (See also page 26) Ontario Hydro employees across the province were on a total strike by 11 a.m.

today, following a series of rotating strikes against the public utility by the Canadian Union of Public Employees. The strike which started more than two weeks ago, has resulted in supervisors and management personnel being used to fill in for missing employees. Jack Boitson, Hydro public relations man in London, said the utility is optimistic it will be able to continue to supply power with supervisors and management manning the plants. He said the only time a real problem could arise would be in the case of a storm or major equipment failure. But the union has assured management the employees would return to work for an emergency.

sale of sas By BILL KICKEY It should have been referred, perhaps, to Women's Lib. Canine Division. In the Town of Tecumseh and in general, across Ontario it appears there is a $9 tariff for a dog tag for the female of the species but it is just $5 for a tag for the man of the (dog) house. That, claimed Bernhard Harder of 12746 Riverside Drive, amounted to discrimination, with no rationale that he could discover. "I have a female" he told a slightly taken aback town council, "and it seems it's the males running free and coming to my place, not the He wanted council to change the fee to make it equitable.

Mayor Donald Lappan chanced an answer. The females, he informed Mr. Harder, have the "little ones" and "perhaps it's to discourage that." "I know the male has something to do with that" he offered, "but the female is the producer." Town solicitor Kenneth Ouellette circumvented that aspect and dropped the issue in tne provincial government's kennel. Under Ontario statutes, he told council, there must be a higher fee for the female. There is no explanation in the statute books of the thinking behind that regulation.

Mr. Harder is considering taking the matter to a higher council. TORONTO (CP) Imperial Oil Ltd. has signed a 22-year contract worth about $4 billion for sale of Arctic natural gas to two United States companies. Don Lougheed.

vice-president and general manager, producing, confirmed today that a gas-purchase contract had been signed with Michigan Wisconsin Pipe Line, Detroit, and Natural Gas Pipeline, Chicago. The deai is subject to approval of regulatory authorities in Ottawa and Washington and a pipeline must be built from Imperial's natural gas reserves in the Mackenzie River delta. The contracts are for sale of five trillion cubic feet of natural gas to each company. The minimum price would be 32 cents per thousand cubic feet for the first two years. After the first two years of the contracts the minimum would jump to 34 cents for the next five years, to 39 cents for the next five years, to 44 cents for the next five years and to 49 cents for the last five years.

If everyone had a job Today in your Star Page Page Ann Landers 36 Letters to the Editor 15 Ask The Star 57 People and Things 59 Brian Vallec 15 Provincial Court 8 Classified Ads 49-56 Sports 30 33 Comics 56, 57 Stock Markets and Business 24, 25 Editorials 14 Theatres 58 Essex County 6, 7 Harold Greer 15 TV Listings and Radio 27 Jack Dulmage 30 Weather 2 Jim Cornett Who, When and Whatnot 12 Women's and Family Pages OTTAWA (CP) Canada fell nearly $5 billion behind what it could have produced last year if, in the view of international economists, it had had relatively full employment. The country's gross national product the total value of all goods and services produced in a year was S93.1 billion last year. If it hadn't been for unemployment and industrial slack, GNP should have been about $98 billion. The figures on the gap are given in a new publication of the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development, a 23-member international body based in Paris which makes frequent surveys of the economic performance. Japan had the lowest level of unemployment of the four countries surveyed, but for the second year experienced a big increase in unused industrial capacity.

Since Statistics Canada has been revising its figures on Canada's GNP for the past several years, officials here are unable to estimate the magnitude of the current gap between what this country is producing, and what it could be producing if it were not for the current high level of unemployment. It is estimated that, on the basis of long-term trends, the potential capacity of the Canadian economy grows by about five per cent a year. That is in terms of the physical volume of goods and services the country could produce quite apart from any increase in prices brought on by inflation. GNP rose by 8.7 per cent last year, but only 5.1 per cent in physical volume. Economists generally expect a greater increase in real output this year, with growth continuing in 1973.

To close the gap between actual and potential output, the country needs to grow by more than six per cent a year. Arthur J. R. Smith, former chairman of the Economic Council of Canada, now president of the Conference Board in Canada, has said it will take about three years of real expansion of output in the range of six to 6.5 per cent a year to bring the unemployment rate down to four or 4.5 per cent. Flashes REYKJAVIK.

Iceland American Bobby Fischer resigned in the 5Cth move today, conceding the first game of the world chess championship to Russia's Boris Spassky. (See also Page 28). MUIRFIELD. Scotland Tony Jacklin of Britain shot a 69 today and took the first-round lead in the British Open golf championship as favored Jack Nicklaus of the United States shot a one-over-par on the final hole and finished with a 70. (See also Page 30).

1 I. Continued humidity, possible slioivers 8 a.m. 73, noon 87, 3 p.m. 88. Low tonight 70, high Thurs.

85. Air pollution index 20.