PAGE 2 TERRACE HERALD, TERRACE, B.C. Professional Mountaineers Lortie smiles through guilty verdict — angered by accident rate _PARIS (Reuter) — Anger is rising among professional mountaineers over the increas- ing number of climbing acci- dents on French Alpine slopes —77 killed and 120 injured so far this season. The professionals fear the toll will go even higher before the season ends. _The anxiety of the profes- sional climbers at the Chamonix resort by the 15,771- foot Mont Blane centres on young and inexperienced climbers and holidaymakers. They attack treacherous peaks with poor equipment and in- sufficient planning, the professionals say. One of the latest Alpine trage- dies in which two teen-age boys died and seven other youngs- ters, including two girls, were taken to hospital with frostbite, made the professionals particu- larly annoyed. Only two boys in a group of 11 French teen-agers from a holi- day camp escaped unhurt in the accident. The group had been forced to spend a whole night on &9,800-foot glacier near Chamo- nix caught in a sudden storm. WAS AVOIDABLE Professional alpinists insisted the tragedy would not have oc- curred had the group observed elementary precautions, A record number of tourists this year have poured into Cha- monix, a picturesque resort at the foot of Mont Blanc. Almost everyone wanted to try his luck on the surrounding slopes. MONTREAL (CP) — Ber- nard Lortie, looking tired but calm, at one point smiled Wednesday night when he was told that he had been found guilty of kidnapping Pierre Laporte, Quebec labor minister strangled last October. ~ The unanimous guilty verdict was made at midnight after Ji¢ hours of deliberations by the 12- man jury hearing his case. The 19-year-old trade school dropout is to be sentenced Noy, 22. He faces a possible sentence of life imprisonment. _ Mr. Justice Jean-Paul Berge- ron told the accused after the verdict was rendered that his actions during the trial were “execrable.” Lortie also was charged with contempt of court for throwing a small paper ball at the judge at the start of last Friday’s ‘Hope and belief’ of no riot in Gastown VANCOUVER (CP) — Free- lanee writer Eric Sommer, 24, a landed immigrant from the United States, told'the inquiry into the Aug. 7 Gastown riot Wednesday that he had nothing to do with trying to promote crowd violence. Sommer, along with Kenneth Lester, had been named Tues- day by a police intelligence det- Celibacy for priests? EDMONTON (CP) — A re- vised attitude to celibacy in the priesthood will be one of the Ca- nadian proposals at the synod of the Roman Catholic Church in Rome later this month, it was announced Sunday night. The statement was made at a briefing for reporters covering the biannual Canadian Catholic Conference in Edmonton this week—a meeting of cardinals, archbishop? and bishops of Can- 7 ‘ada. | ; Rev. Edmund Roche of Char- lottetown, a conference spokes- man, said many of the priests and bishops who prepared Can- ada's submission to the synod, which begins Sept. 29, support the entry of married men into the priesthood. “The Canadian church, it seems, is strongly in favor of ordaining men who are already married.” There isa feeling “they would bring a new dimension to the church"’—not only older men who have raised a family but also young men, newly- married, said Father Roche. The question of celibacy is in- cluded in one of the two main topics of discussion scheduled for the synod—the ministerial priesthood. The other main topic is justice in the world. Rev. Patrick Kerans of Ot- tawa, a Jesuit who is a director of the conferencte’s social action committee, defined justice as “not what happens in a law court” but rather ‘‘a moral de- cision affecting society and the nation’s economy.” Grant Maxwell, a Jayman who is the other social action director, said the third subject for synod discussion is the fundamental law of the church. This will cover such things as the dress of priests, whether they live in rectories, whether they should be involved in social action programs or part-time jobs in industry: and whether they can enter politics, Clarification of the roke of the priest also is scheduled for dis- cussion this week in an attempt to help many in the ministry catch up with the church. *.“Many of us were trained for a ministry in a non-changing church,” said Father Roche. ‘here have been a great many changes but most of us are not prepared to.cope with them.” FIRST OPEN CONFERENCE This conference is the first. - open to the news media al- though, said Sister Ella Zink of Ottawa, a public relations spokesman, “it has been in the wind for some time.” " She said the final decision. was , made by - the conference. . president, Archbishop J.A. Plourde of Ottawa, with the support of. the ‘board and the executive, - Mr, Maxwell sald other topics 7 scheduled for discussion include, ° the policy of financlal openness “from the Vatican right down to " the parish,” the:role of, women.’ inthe church and multi-national ' corporations. which’ affect Can: . _ada’s economy. . More’than 60 bishops from" serosa ‘Canada: are attending "! “the ectives as being a participant in several other demonstrations and as having taken an active part in the Gastown distur- bance. He told the inquiry that he went to a so-called “smoke-in” in the spruced-up former skid road area with the ‘hope and belief” that there would be no violence, And replying to a ‘question from a lawyer for the Police- man’s Union, he said the Van- couver police department was ‘solely responsible’ for violence which ensued. Sommer refused when asked to give sources of information on who organized the smoke-in, which was held to protest a drug crackdown in the area. He also refused to name members of the Youth in- ternational Party. He had said in pre-riot articles in an alternative press newspaper that the party would co-operate in staging the smokein. Mr. Justice Thomas Dohm of the British Columbia Supreme Court permitted Sommers to withhold the information. Sommer said after violence broke out he ‘managed to stay out of reach of the police.” He saw no objects being thrown at police, despite earlier testimony from police. The second stage of the in- quiry, the hearing of civilian testimony, began Wednesday. Police first gave evidence about events leading up to the riot and later will describe what hap- pened during the melee itself. Religious Instruction Classes SACRED HE ART PARISH Classes will be held at Veritas School For All Students cits) Rindergarten to Grade 7*- Sun. at ve:0ber (Registrations...Sun Grade 8 Students - Grade 9 Students - . Sept. 26th at 10 A.M.. Tuesday at 3:45 Thursday at & P.M. No Students Registrations Wil! 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Ave, Oye morning sitting of the trial held in Court of Queen's. Bench. No date has been set for pro- ceedings with the contempt charge. DISRUPTS TRIAL The ball-throwing incident was one of a number of disrup- tive outbursts by Lortie during the trial, which began last Mon- iy. The accused, who seemed in- different and ‘appeared to be sleeping throughout mast of his trial, was expelled twice for continued interruptions. His last expulsion came Tues- day after he was denied a re- quest for a week to further pre- pare his defence. White with anger and crying, Lortie was ordered out after calling the judge a. “swine’? and screaming, ‘We will win.” Lortie was granted a 24-hour adjournment later Tuesday to prepare his address to the court. He told the jury then that he was not preparing a defence. Inhissummation Wednesday, Lortie said it was not important whether the jury found him guilty or not guilty of kidnap- ping the 49-year-old Mr. La- porte. What was important was whether the jury favored Quebec liberation, At the outset of his trial Lortie refused to appoint a defence lawyer and said he would not dered him to be conducting his own defence, Lortie was prov- ided with transcripts of proceedings and copies of the evidence daily. Each time he either tore them up or threw them back. The courtraom, almost empty Lortie’s address dealt with what he considered to be injus- tices towards French- speaking Quebecers He concluded his address by raising his clenched fist and saying: “Vive le FLQ. Vive le Quebec Libre,” HOWARD WORRIED ON 'SNOW JOB Frank Howard, M.P. for Skeena today requested that the Minister of National Defence, The Honourable Donald Macdonald review the possibility of permitting con- trolled snow slides in the mountain areas of B.C, hetween Terrace and Prince Rupert. Mr, Howard stated in his letter to Mr. Macdonald “It is my, understanding that your Department uses artillery shells to dislodge accumulated snowfall in some of the _ mountain areas of B.C, in order to have a controlled snow slide in a volume and at a time that doesn’t cause damage to the travelling public. “Between Terrace and Prince Rupert in B.C. there is a par- ticularly hazardous stretch that sees snow slides occur every winter, and on occasion trains ‘ have been derailed as a result. In the area in question the C.N, Railway .and the provincial Highway 16 are in close proximity one to the other and to the Skeena River on one side and the mountains on the other which compounds the snow . slide question for the snow has no way to fall but upon the railway and the highway.” FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER wy, 197% A little rumor. at UN: to Geneva. 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