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Seven year, sentence in hoax ‘case

EDMONTON (CP) —
The man who almost
convinced Alberta Court of
Queen's Bench that he
robbed five banks to fi-
nance treatments for his
cancerstricken son was

‘sentenced Monday to seven

years in prison.

Andrew MeWhinnie, 31,
was given a three-year
sentence on one count of
robbery, and one year each
on four other counts.

Justice John Decore said
McWhinnie's attempt to

deceive the court 4 was not a
factor in the. sentencing.
“His attempt to mislead
court is not a crime with
which he has, if it were
possible to do, been
charged and convicted,”
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_ Builty in November to

‘robbing five banks, ‘but
said he did it‘to. finance

> expensive Laetrile’ treat-

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Since then died of

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Buthis defense crumbled
when Crown prosecutor
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provincial caurt Monday
with two counts. of sec-
ond-degree rhurder in
connection with the
death of his parents,
Archie Killips, 73, and
Eunice, 70.

Killips entered no plea

to the charges, and was |

remanded in custody
until Wednesday.
Killips was returned
to Kelowna late
Saturday after sur-
rendering to police in
Salt Lake City, Utah,
The battered bodies of
the elder Killips’ were
found in their Kelowna
home New Year's Eve,

but RCMP believe they -

died the day before.
Police said the elderly

* |. eouple had been beaten

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When they weren't outside

watching the cows, hauling.
water or chopping wood, *
North America's children’:
used to be inside ‘cooking,

. Spinning and cleaning. °

Their domestic con:
tributions were taken for
, ranted almost from the.
cradle and when they-
progressed -from ‘the
homestead to factories and
mines, their meagre
salaries bypassed their
own pocketbooks and were’
funnelled directly into the
family kitty.

Today's adolescent.
workforce may not have.
diminished in numbers, but
the priorities of young
laborers have taken on a
whole new dimension, Most
are working. not because
they have to, but because
they want to.

Instead of toiling in

Dickensian § sweatshops,
they hustle behind the.
registers at local fast food
outlete’ and retail shops.
Wages have gone up‘ to
dollars an hour from-
penniesa.day. .
Statistics Canada reports, .
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and 19 were employed in

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cent of the ‘province's

population in that age
bracket and represents the
third largest youth labor
foree in the country.

‘Anna Rosberg of Canada
Manpower" 8 Career Action
for Youth program, said
most of the 40-to 50 job
placements she makes
every month are youths
between 15 and 18 who want

part-time work to sup _
plement their ‘allowances.

The applicants are
placed in warehousing,
food preparation,
cashiering, clerical and
factory work where they'll

_ bara about $4 an hour.

The legal minimum

| Working age in B.C. is 15

and anyone between 15 and
17 receives the minimum
‘wage of $2.85 an hour ($3.40,

~ an hour for those 18 and

over).

Fast food. outlets

- currently provide the most

jobs for young workers, but
Rosberg said those
dpenings often go begging
while students look for
work thal: provides higher
wages and better hours.

““The’ kids don't want
those jobs," she said.
“When we do have
vacancies at MacDonald's
or Wendy's, for instance,
we have trouble filling
them.”

Peggy Tingley, a
secondaryschool coun-
sellor for 16 years, said
rising inflation and the
quest for independence
have many teenagers
looking for work.

“It used to be a rather

. unusual thing to have a

student working. Now we
have upwards of $0 10 55
per cent of our ‘senior
students working part
time. It’s partly economic,
but it’s also the need to be
an individual.”

Secondary school
principal Nim Sugimoto
said something has to give
when a student starts
putting in 20 to 30 hours @
week at an after-school or
weekend job.

He said schools tend to be
lenient when il comes to
late assignments and no-
shows for the track team,
mainly because the
students are developing
outside experience and
friendships and helping to
alleviate their parents’
financial burden,

One of the biggest blows
being dealt tradition can be
found at the corner paper
shack where the once time-
honored experience of a
paper routeis fast losing its
prestige.

Rick Saunier of The Yan-
couver Sun's circulation
department said it's next to
impossible to find carriers
these days, He blames the
lure of fast-food chains and
over-indulgent parents,

“The average age of a
carrier today is 11,
whereas five years ago
carriers would take on a
route and stick to it until
they were 17."

_ Recently he’s had to pay
carriers in low-income
districis extra to service
the higher-income areas
where there is a dearth of
paper carriers.

Heavy work load
gets to Chretien

OTTAWA \cp) — Justice
Minister Jean Chretien,
Prime Minister Trudeau's
chief negotiator in the
constitutional talks, is in
hospital suffering from
what is believed to be ex-
haustion. °

‘Sources said Monday
that Chretien awoke
Sunday with stomach
pains, entered the National
Defence Medical Centre
and, was ordered by his
Goctor.to rest for a few
days.and undergo tests.

He is not expected to
return to work unti] next

Chretien, 47, was the star

witness at Parliament's"

constitution committee last

, week and was to’ have

continued his testimony
this week:

In arare moment of non-
partisanship, © committee
members were full of
praise for Chretien on
Monday night. Progressive
Conservative Senator

‘Arthur Tremblay of
Quebec called Chretien “a

~ man of honor" and Lorne

Nystrom (NDP-Yorkton-
Melville) called him “a
very hard worker,”

Bryce Mackasey (Lib-

Lincoln) said Chretien was
suffering.“‘nothing serious,
except exhaustion, which is
serious in itself."
Solicitor-General Robert
Kaplan, acting justice
minister, and Ron Irwin,
Chretien’s parliamentary
secretary, served as stand-
ins for Chretien but did not
engagein the gruff rhetoric
or arm-\waving theatrics of
their missing colleague.
“T want my old seat
back," Irwin (Lib-Sault

- St. Marie) said after a

two-hour grilling by op-
position MPs and senators,
Irwin is a regular com-
mittee member and,
therefore, normally asks
questions rather than tries
to defend government
policy,

Opposition questions
were generally repetitions
of those asked Chretien. If
the MPs and senators were
hoping for different an-
swers with which to em-
barrass the government,
they seem to have failed,

Jim Hawkes (PC-
Calgary West) said the
Bovernment's proposed
Constitutional amending
formula discriminates

against certain provinces.

Bill introduced
to transfer act

: ~ LONDON (CP) — Con-
servative MP Robin
MaxwellHyslop introduced

& private members bil] in
the British Parliament on
Monday that would tran-
" sfer to Canada the power to
amend the BNA Act. = -

‘The one-clause bill
stipulates: “Her Majesty
may by and with the advice
and . consent of © the
Parliament of Canada in
Parliament assembted, by
authority of the same,
enact without restricHons
amendments to the British
North Arerica Act 1867.

. and any public general acts

amending its provisions.”
' Second reading of the bill
is planned for Feb. 27,
MaxwellHyslop said.
While the | Canadian
government is working on

its own — patriation
proposals, - which include
an amending formula and a
bill of rights to be inserted
by Britain before the power
of amendment is tran-
Sferred to Canada, Max-

well-Hyslop suggested his.

simple bill may hold at-
tractions for the Canadian
authorities,

“The Canadian govern-
ment and the province of
Ontarig believed up until
eight. days ago, quite
erroneously, that it (the
Canadian proposed dill)
could not be amended by
the Rouse of Commons and
the House of Lords,” he
said.

The truth is that “it can |

attract hundreds of amend.
ments," he sald,