o @ © By UNITED PRESS CANADA prices for ' food and housing boosted the cost of. living i in Canada by:0.7 percent. in. August, bringing the annual rate of inflation to 12.7 percent, Statistics Canada reported Friday. The government statistics agency said that although prices went up last month, the growth in the rate of inflation over the last 12 months ac- tually slowed from the annual rate of 13 percent recorded between July 1980 and July 1 1981. Polish students. armed with gasoline bombs hijacked a Polish airliner with 37 other people aboard and forced it to fly toa U.S. air base in West Berlin despite a challenge from a Soviet-made jet interceptor. The jet fighter from ‘ either the Soviet or East German air force flew over.the U.S. Air Force’s Tempelhof Air Base twice. in pursuit of the passenger plane but left BURNABY - A con- struction worker charged with the murders of nine children across south- western British Columbia Friday was remanded to another hearing § date Sept. 25. Clifford Robert Olson, 41, stood expressionicss in the prisoners’ dock in an appearance before Provincial Court Judge Selwyn Romilly which lasted about a minute. Olson, the father of an infant child, was rulcd fit to stand trial Tucsday CHICAGO - The of- ficial newspaper of the Roman Catholic Ar- chdiocese of Chicago countered = allcgations concerning the misusc of church funds by Cardinal John P. Cody in its first edition since the charges were published. In cditions dated for Friday, the wechkly Chicago Catholic, widcly xead in the = nation’s largest Catholic ar chdiocese, blasted the - Chicago Sun-Times in a Higher housing prices for both rented. and owned accommodation accounted for half the increase in the cost of. living. Food, which had increased by 1.3 percent in July, rose by only 0.3 percent in reflecting the influx of. domestic vegetables onto the market. In terms of “puying power, the latest in- flationary rise meant that what a shopper..paid $1 for in 1971 now cost about $2.40. West Berlin airspace when two American military helicopters took off and escorted the LOT airplanes plane to a landing. The 12 hijackers, nine men and three women, surrendered to American authorities after the plane touched down. “The hijackers used Molotov cocktails to force the pilot to fly to the West,” an American spokesman said, adding the air pirates were all students. Olson remanded a week after evaluation reports from two psychiatrists. Romilly granted the remand after special prosecutor John Hall said he was not yet ready for the setting of a trial date. Hall told reporters outside the court room he expected Olson would be transferred to the Lower Maintand Regional Correctional Centre in Burnaby from the Bur- naby RCMP lock-up where he has been held since Tucsday. Chicago Catholics hit back seven-page spread of mews analysis, cditortals and commentary articles. Cody was the subject of a series of copyright articles published in the last week by the Sun Times. The paper said Cody may have illegally diverted church moncy to ennch a lifclong {nend, Helen Dotan Wilson, and also paid her a salary out of one of two) church accounts under his cx- clusive control. Augiist, . “Such- @ move, = says “4 Richmond; would open the ‘door to rent increases of 100 and 200 per.cent and tenants would be forced to go to the courts to settle disputes. ‘Fhe North Shore Tenants Association (NSTA), has, announted it is applying for funding to establish a Renters’ Aid office on the : North Shore. awe. group is applying to pear before North Vancouver City. council next week for endorsement by the municipality. The association is ap plying to establish an office “with five full time employees to act as an information centre and registry for tenants and as a headquarters for tenant advocacy on the North Shore. Funding for the office is being sought from the Canada Community Development Projects And he adds: “How many tenants can afford to go into the courts?” Richmond says that to abolish the Rentalsman ; would mean “anarchy in thé“ rental market.” “This type of resolution i is proof positive that there is a. desperate need for some . kind of protection for tenants on the North Shore,” division. of the federal department of employment - and i immigration. North Vancouver ° City. records.and statistics on the 4‘ council is being approached. for official endorsment and . “a commitment in priciple to. ° positively consider funding for our project after the one*: year Federal grant expires.” The NSTA is. also aiming © to try and obtain additional ° funds from all three North © Shore municipalities! “to -- upgrade the minimum wage . salaries being applied for and to upgrade the allowable - operating expenses.” Plans for the office in- clude seeking to involve volunteers to support the Staff. If such an. office is established the NSTA will Meeting to be held Residents of the Lower Lonsdale area in North Vancouver City will be getting some input into the kind of recreational facilities the City will build in the area. City council voted last week to hold a_ public meeting at North Shore Neighbourhood House sometime around October 1S to “find out what the people want,” in the words of Alderman Ralph Hall. 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