The Kingston Whig-Standard from Kingston, Ontario, Canada (2024)

July 28, 1970

Publication:

The Kingston Whig-Standardi

Location:

Kingston, Ontario, Canada

Issue Date:

Tuesday, July 28, 1970

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1

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Weather Final Gty EDITION Wednesday: Warm humid Triirt tocal tmftmi I am Hi mm 1 (Sat Pag 1) YEAR 44 NO 201 KINGSTON ONTARIO TUESDAY JULY 28 1970 10 CENTS 36 PAGES 1 Mercury study: Ontario results similar to those of US unlikely that Ontario would ban sport fishing in the headwaters id the St Lawrence River because of mercury contamination but catches might be declared inedible according to Charles Clarke of the department of lands and forests Dr Clarke said Monday that a current Ontario study of fish taken from the northeastern shores of Lske Ontario is expected to corroborate findings id United Statep researchers Private tests commissioned by a US congressman indicated that Osh from the area may contain levels of mercury contamination up to 12 part per million The maximum safe level as set by the US Food and Drug administration is 5 parts per million Dr Clarke said it is improbable that sport fishing would be banned In the area but fishermen may be advised not to eat what they batch He said of the results have been received from an Ontario Water Resources Commission study of 300 pounds of fish taken from five collection points between Amherst Island and Cornwall "I can tell you quite honestly they are not too different from what New York State is getting" he said Government officials are still trying to work out the limits of restrictions he said Dr Clarke said commercial fishing in the tested area is 'limited but such operations particularly in Prince Edward County would be monitored and "may have to be shut down" The' provincial testing is not yet finished When it is the minister of lands and forests Rene Brunelle will decide Just what action should be taken he said Ontario has already banned commercial fishing In the St Lawrence River downstream from Cornwall because of the mercury contamination in those waters Anglers in the United States hsve been warned against eating fish taken from the affected areas 1 Dr Clarke said the Ontario testing hss indicated so far that the larger fish such as pike and bass are affected more by the contamination The recent US tests of fish in St Lawrence headwaters was commissioned from a Michigan' laboratory by Congressman Richard Ottinger of New York State Six fish gathered by a commercial fisherman were used and the levels of mercury in samples of their tissue were determined -t Dr II Johansen of Queen's department of biology said mercury affecta the nervous system of any animal but he could not say just what the results would be Studies conducted some time ago by British researchers indicated that rainbow trout swimming in a concentration of 01 parts per million of mercury chloride for 200 hours would die A concentration of 008 parts per million of the same salt of mercury would kill a freshwater stickleback in 10 days an Balks at Ceasefire Grande Vallcc Trawlers fired on in anger -CP Wtopketo FOOT Premier John Robarta will enter hospital Wednesday to undergo "minor surgery" on his right foot The premier seen here wearing sandals during his trip to the Far East will be unable to attend the two-day provincial premiers' conference which begins in Winnipeg Monday Foreign firms urges OTTAWA (CP) The Commons external affairs committee has finally permitted an official peek at an already-publicized report that proposes a national policy to assure 51-per-cent Canadian ownership of foreign firms operating in Canada A committee news release is sued Monday confirmed these and other published leaks about the contents of the report based on a committee study of Csn-ada-US relations Hie fun report will be made public later when the usual French translation can be done The committee which ap-proved the report Monday wants government guidelines on Canadian equity participation in foreign firms extended to clearly demonstrate that the 51-per-cent rule should be the eventual result In the words pol- icy should demonstrate "that all companies operating in Canada shall over a reasonable period of time and with due regard to (See Canadians Page 2) Briefly noted A TORONTO (CP) The Toronto Building and Construction Trades Council has rented Maple Leaf Gardens for Aug 18 and issued invitations to 27000 construction workers to hear union views about Ontario's proposed amendments to the Labor Relations Act MADELEINE CENTRE Que The fight by enraged Gaspe fishermen against trawlers escalated into more gunfire Monday night About 30 rounds were fired from among 200 residents gathered on the shore at Grande Vallce 11 miles farther east along the Gaspe Peninsula The trawlers fired at were anchored 500 to 1000 feet from shore "At that range there was little damage that we could see" said Doug Moore a vacationing Montrealer Cause of the dispute has been the off-shore fishing in the Gulf of St Lswrence by thp trawlers which residents claim have been depleting normal cod catches and fouling the beaches Earlier Monday night more than 1000 residents of the about 300 miles northwest of Quebec held a strategy meeting at a church hall They decided to map out a plan of actioa to drive off the 18 trawlers that have been operating in the area "A small segment of the crowd decided to take matters into their own hands and took off for Grande Mr Moore said At Grande Vallce the residents spotted the trawlers and immediately started shooting in their direction in the dark Mayor Omcr Boucher said in a telephone interview earlier Monday that the boats came from Nova Scotia New Brunswick British Columbia and Alberta a province with no sea-coast The residents of the area Mr Boucher said depend upon the sea or the tourist trade for their living supposed that the trawler fishermen have a five-year permit to fish for herring but they are fishing hot only the herring but also for he said' dr ft dr DEMONSTRATOR IS DRAGGED PAST OVERTURNED Cl( DURING ROCK CONCERT RIOT (AP) mounting Chicago Generation gap collapses CHICAGO (AP) More thanibaseball bats Monday in angeriby the city to "bridge the gencr 2000 young persons battled po-1 at the interruption of a free ation gap" lice with rocks bottles and rock music concert sponsored KEY WITNESS in Manson trial called insane Page 3 NEW DAM on Napinee River Page 8 KINGSTON GETS 1973 Judo Championships Page 13 TORONTO STOCK-listings Page 17 ALD GEORGE SPEAL defends planning board chairman Page 19 TALKING IT up at Couch-iching Page 21 The Inside Story column Pago 17 Brldga Comic Crossword Pago 27 ClaMlflad Pag 22 Clor Look Pago 7 District Pag a Editorial Pag a Entortalnmanl Financial Sport TV and rad la Woman' Pag Pag 17 Pag 11 Pag IS Pag 20 Mobs overturned automobiles set them ablaze and later streamed out uf Grant Park into the downtown district smashing windows and looting Three youths were shot snd 63 other persons were injured including 24 policemen One policeman was stabbed and another beaten seriously There were 148 srrests Outnumbered police and the rampaging youths battled back and forth over an athletic field for more than three hours in 90-degree late-afteraoon heat Soviet interference Patrol fishing areas: MP OTTAWA (CP) Canadian government ships should patrol overnight anchoring areas of British Columbia's west-coast fishing fleets to prevent interference from Soviet trawlers -Tom Barnett the New Democratic Party fisheries spokesmen said today "The real danger to the security id Canadian trawlers arises when they anchor at sea during Jhe night to the member of Parliament for Comox-AL bemi uid in a statement "Soviet boats continue work ing and have occasionally although inadvertently interfered with Canadian vessels" Fisheries Minister plan to spend a night aboard a fishing vessel fs termed by a trailer skipper See story 'Page 4 He called for the mobilization 1 of coast guard vessels to pslrol the anchoring regions to give the fishermen overnight rest with reasonable security He said Soviet vessels are ignoring normsl navigation practices The Canadian government ought to make strong represen- tations on 'the subjects to the Russian government Prime Minister Trudeau should discuss it 'during his upcoming Moscow visit with Russian leaders There wss no clear indication whether the government planned to send a protest note to Russia about the sidcswlping (See Area patrol Page 2) FISHERIES MINISTER Plans to visit boats Tesr gas failed to disperse the crowd One group of youths tried to calm others but to no avail One squad car was overturned and two other cars burned One of those on fire exploded filling the air with bllck smoke Rioters also set trash fires Cars passing' along Lake Shore apd Balboa drives were pelted with rocks After a police helleopter swooped low to broadcast the slate riot act by loudspeaker the police line made a final charge and mobs of youths retreated into the downtown area pulling down street lights in Grant Park as they went -Dozens of large display win- CRASII KILLS 4 NAHA Okinawa (AP) A Flying Tiger DC-8 cargo plane crashed Motaday on a coral jwf as it approached Naha airport for a landing killing its four crew members The plane owned by the Flying Tiger Line of Los Angeles was on a charter flight from Tokyo for the US Air Force It' carried mail and military cargo dows were shattered as the youths rampaged down State Street Several displays were looted The violence ended after about six hours Those shot were identified as Robert Johnson 16 listed in serious condition snd Kevin Pur-ett 13 and Edward Harms 18 both in fair condition All live in Chicago $oth blacks and white youths including girls in their early teens took part in the fray War spending cut in half: US SAN CLEMENTE Calif (Reuters) On the heels of a report that he has cut Vietnam war spending to half President Nixon will meet his advisers today to begin planning next defence budget 4 But despite the savings from the war Nixon haa indicated he holds little hope that defence expenditures can be cut much more Defence Secretary Melvin Laird met with Nixon Monday and said afterward the coat of the war has been cut to half of an annual figure of $29000000000 aince the' Nixon administration took office 18 months ago He alio told a news conference that -a 1 1 defence pending is down about (See War outlay Page 2) TODAY'S CHUCKLE The best way to lose a friend is to tell him something for hia own good MELVIN LAIRD Outlines cut In costs JERUSALEM Indications are that the Israeli government will agree reluctantly and with conditions to the 90-day ceasefire proposed by the United States to get Middle East peace talks under way again But press reports here said Defence Minister Moshe Dayan is considering resigning if the cabinet accepts the US proposal The reports said Dapan expressed misgivings because the US plan speaks of Israeli withdrawal from the Arab lands captured in the 1967 war Dayan believes that security depends on its retaining the Gaza Strip the Golan Heights taken from Syria and a coastal strip along the Sinai desert to the Strait of Tiran the key to southern water route to East Africa and Asia Premier Golds Meir and her cabinet had scheduled another meeting today to discuu their reply to the proposal but it was postponed for 24 hours to allow "further political clarifications" a government spokesman Mid The first cabinet debate on the plan was Sunday Mrs Meir may reply to Washington Wednesday night in a speech to the Knesset the Israeli parliament Deputy Premier Yigal Alton went on record Monday night'in favor of acceptance Israel's first ranking minister to do so publicly if there are differences of opinion between the US and Israel" Alton told a group of high school newspaper editors "when the government of the United Statea takes auch an initiative it appears to me that we should accept it even if wt are (See Dayan balks Page 2) pr.

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