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The GAZETTE, Montreal, July 16, 1573 V. Dredging procedures readied for bomb found in Richelieu I -hk wv il At. 'a, TV i f. I mH Vf Ass I By STEVE KOWCH of The Gazette The Canadian Armed Forces will decide today on the best method to retrieve a bomb discovered Saturday in 15 feet of water in the Richelieu River near Lake Champlain. Although CAF spokesman could not say if the bomb is dangerous, they are treating the device with extreme caution and with the belief that it could still explode.

Sgt. Charles Sarrazin, of the Quebec Police Force (QPF) diving squad described the bomb as 56 inches long and 20 inches in diameter. The police officer made several dives Saturday to examine the device believed to have been in the water for more than two years. The bomb was first spotted three weeks ago by Paul Laderoute, a member of the Explorers Diving Club of Montreal. "They (the Army) thought I was playing a joke on them so I decided to return to the spot and take a picture of it," said Laderoute.

It is believed that bomb was dropped in the Richelieu River after a collision between a U.S. Air Force bomber and another aircraft about two years ago. said CAF Chief Warrant Officer Ron Broderick. TWO MILES A cording to Broderick, there had been a report the pilot had dropped the device (Gazette, Garth Prltchard) Quebec Police Force and Canadian Armed Forces officers examine a diagram of a bomb found in the Richelieu River on Saturday. The warrant officer said it was unlikely the CAF would detonate the bomb in the area where it was found because of the nearby homes.

"We could either float it up or use a crane. This will be up to the head of operations at mobile command in St. Hubert," Broderick said. Diver Laderoute said: "I didn't leave a mark on the water (where the bomb was found) because there are too many divers who come to this area. We wanted to keep the bomb for ourselves for a souvenir back at the club." With the help of 10 other divers from the club he located the bomb within two hours.

Laderoute snapped some underwater pictures of the bomb and removed part of the fins to use as proof for the armed forces. The picture wasn't very clear but he said the fin was enough to convince the CAF the river bottom should be investigated. Irked Drapeau, MP tangle over Olympic Games costs before he crashed New York State about two miles from where the bomb was found. "I don't think it is one of ours," said Broderick. Sgt.

Sarrazin made a diagram of the bomb as he examined it underwater and then showed the sketch to Broderick and Warrant Officer Geoff Adcock. "It looks like a general purpose bomb used by the Americans, Adcock said. "Part of the fuse is broken off on one end but the mechanism that explodes the bomb is apparently still in place," Adcock said. Broderick said there were several ways of removing the bomb from the rocky bottom of the river. "But, we have no intentions of dragging it to shore, this could be too dangerous," he said.

Mayor Jean Drapeau, irked by pointed questioning about Olympic Games costs by Liberal MP Pierre De Bane, criticized him last night as "always being against the Games." The two men, a Parti Quebecois member of the national assembly and Louis Chantigny, vice-president for communications on the Olympic Games Organizing Committee, appeared on a television talk show. Drapeau added quickly, in reference to De Bane, that the MP for Matane had a "right" to oppose the Games. But the mayor flared again a few moments later when De Bane asked if the average Montreaier will have to cover any deficit incurred by the Games. "He won't have to pay. Do I have to repeat myself 20 He won't pay." Earlier in the debate.

Drapeau asked himself if it was possible to make the 1976 Games pay their own way. "Certainly" was his instant and enthusiastic response. "The Games will be paid for by revenue generated by the Games." De Bane, who said the "hidden cost" of the Games bothers him most, used statistics to question whether Montreal can afford the Games since a deficit could result. He said many smaller Quebec municipalities have a better per capita record over the past three years than Montreal in the fields of low income housing and recreation. Marcel Leger of the Parti Quebecois said "uncertainty" exists among people due to a lack of detailed financial information on the Games, and stressed: "We can't build the Games at any cost." He said the Games "should be the affair of all Quebecers but unfortunately seem to be the affair of one man." Leger urged that control over the Games be withdrawn from Montreal's Olympic committee and placed under the jurisdiction of a permanent Quebec legislative committee.

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"We need this project," he told reporters. "We need it for our children when they finish school. We need the energy." Blacksmith was eating supper when Premier Bourassa visited the cafeteria at Camp LG-2, the main construction site at the complex on La Grande River. He shook the premier's hand and told him warmly: "The working conditions here are real good. I like working here.

The pay is good and I'm getting my vacation soon." Giilman Capissil, a 32-year-old Indian from the Was-winipi Reserve, agreed working conditions were good and that the dam was necessary. Blacksmith said after the premier left that he had been a trapper and hunter most of his life. FORCE "That's good for me but the young fellows can't take it. They need some other kind of life." "I think Giilman and I are the only two Indians left here. Used to be that nearly all the workers here were Indians but they all quit.

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Michel, Jean Francois Valade, 14, of 36th Rosemount, and Jean Marc Guenette, 15, of 5861 1st Rosemount. Driver Gerard Cloutier, 36, of 64 Somerville and Francois Lafleur, 13, of 3915 St. Zotique were able to get out of the car. Police said Cloutier was attempting to board the ferry that crosses the St. Lawrence to Trois-Pistoles.

The victims were among seven persons to drown on the weekend and 30 persons to be killed in Quebec accidents. Five persons were killed and three injured seriously-when two cars collided at La Pocaterie, 60 miles downriver from Quebec City. The victims are Vincent ffobncon, age unknown, of Edmonton, Lynn Melancon, age unknown, of Petawawa, OnL, Loma-Joan Erkfcson, 63, of Winnipeg. Francois Pepin, 65, of Quebec Gty, and Diane Soucy, 60, of Quebec City. Police said Vincent Melancon was driving a Volkswagen containing Lynn Melancon and Erickson when it struck a sedan driven by Pepin on Highway 132.

Other drowning victims include: Robert Fournier, 21, and Claude Lafreniere, 19, both of Gatineau, near Hull, when their car overturned yesterday and skidded into the Gatineau River at Maniwaki, 80 miles north of their home. Adelard Labrecque, 46, of Lauzon, a Quebec City suburb, while swimming Saturday in a pool at Coleraine, 10 miles south of Thetford Mines. Harold Ruggles, 40, of 4661 Barclay while on a fishing trip Saturday in the Ottawa River at Poinle Fortune, 40 miles east of Montreal. Michel Cournoyer, 18, of St. Pierre de Sorel.

40 miles northeast of Montreal, while swimming Saturday in Lac Methot. Two persons were killed and another was seriously injured in a fiery twoar collision last night on the Merrier Bridge. Dead are David Crawford, 13, of 81 St. Eugene Cha-teauguay, and an unidentified hitchhiker. Mario Montagano, 19, of 285 McLeod Chateau-guay.

is in Queen Elizabeth Hospital in critical condition. Others to die in traffic accidents were: Claude Janvier, 26, of Quebec City, when the car he was in overturned yesterday on Highway 172 at Fulgence, near Chicoutimi. Christian Boucher, 18, of Manche north Gaspe, when the car he was driving rturned yesterday on Highway 6 at Marsoule, 25 miles from his home. Hugh Green, 23, of 760 Tait Dorval, when his motorcycle hit a telephone pole Saturday on Lakeshore Blvd. Rosaire Desrochers, 40, of Richmond, 80 miles east of Montreal, when the car he was in Saturday hit a tractor near Richmond.

Marcel Lussier, 25, 1730 Darling Montreal North, when the car he was in overturned Saturday at Ste. Rosalie, 40 miles" west of Montreal. Carole Car ig nan, 14, of Gentilly, 10 miles east of Trois-Rivieres, when she was hit by a car Saturday near her home. Fabienne Vallee, 21, and Maxime Vallee, eight months, of St Gervais, 20 miles east of Quebec City, when the car they were in hit another Saturday on Highway 279 si St Lazarre, near St Gervais. Francis Lavallee, 18, of St Magloire.

50 miles east of Quebec City, when his motor cycle hit a car Saturday on Highway 24 at St. Juste de Monlaiagny, five miles east of his home. Gaston Lague, 32, of 50 miles southeast of Montreal, when the car he was in went out of control Saturday at L'Ange Gardien, Rouville County. Gilles Lemay, of St. Edouard, 40 miles east of Trois Rivieres, when the car he was in hit a tree Saturday near his home.

Charles Poliquin, 48, of Brockville, Ont, when he lost control of his car Saturday on Highway 23 at St. Joseph de Beauce, 60 miles south of Quebec City. Carol Rodrigue, 13, of Sept lies, when she was hit Friday night by a bus at Ste. Luce. 10 miles northeast of Rimouski.

Normand Mongrain, 34. of Shawinigan, when his truck hit a freight train at Yama-chiche. Carl Page, 73, of Grenville, 50 miles northwest of Montreal, when his car was hit Friday night by a train rear Grenville. A 70 -year -old man from Cote St. Luc and his wife were killed Saturday in a two-car collision at Hatchett Lake, near Halifax, N.S.

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