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Prisoners-Staff Looked Alike

VANCOUVER (CP) — A
stnior officer at the Lower
Mainland Regional
C o -rrectlonal

iry into
women's prisons in the
vince @ have already been

. Ann Powers told inquiry
commissioner Just:
Patricia Proudfoot that she
bas already ordered a return

to uniforms for Centre
staff.n

She told the judge that this
and other chdnges are taking
place as a-result of the
inquiry conducted. by the
commission during the past
six weeks tholigh no report:
has been made,

During the hearings,
Justice Proudfoot appeared
to favor uniforms over: the
street clothes worn, by the

_ staff at the prison for the last

few years. Staff had been
offered a choice of either

- distinguish

keeping uniforms or wearing
street clothes and receiving
a clothing allowance, and
they chose the latter,

There was testimony that
on one occasion when the
RCMP were called into the
‘prison, they could not

staff from
prisoners.
Ms. Powers told the
inquiry that the prison
rhas ordered a return
to uniforms as of January,
1978.

She also said that coples of
the old jail rules are now
available to staff. Staff
members have complained -
to the commission that
because new rules are being
drawn uP the old ones are.
net available, even though
they are still-in effect.

Prison director Marle
Peacock now is a member of
the panel which approves
temporary absences for
prisoners, Powers sald. In
the past the director was not
allowed to sit on the panel.

-’ Media- Police-Family
Helped Solve. Kidnap

MONTREAL (CP) - — The
safe return of a Kidnapped

- 1&year-old schoolgirl] and

recovery of a $50,000 ransom
Tuesday shows that co
operation between

authorities, the media and
relatives of abducted per-
sons can help such incidents
end withokt violence, police

say.
Alana Abracen, daughter
of fyel oil company owner
Saul Abracen, was bound,
ami blindfolded, but
not harmed during the
Police say this supports ther
ice say this supports their
theory that kidnap victims
should do what their ab-
ductors demand.
A 26-year-old Montreal

-man with no previous

criminal record was to
appear in court én kid-
napping and extortion
charges today.
Police repeatedly thanked
the girl's parents and
reporters at a news con-
ference held to announce
Alana’s safe return.
Although the media was
aware Tuesday afternoon
that. Alana had been kid-
napped from her suburban
Montreal West home in the
morning, they observed
police requests for a news
bldckout.
PRAISES CALMNESS
Lt.-Det. Carlo Rossi and
Capt.-Det. Douglas Stone,
who handlednthe case,

praised Alana’s parents for
remaining calm during the
tense hours of waiting until
her release,

Police gave this account of
the case:

Aman posing as a jewelry
store delivery man rang the
doorbell of the Abracen
home around 10.30 a.m.

home from

high school for the Easter

holidays, found ‘herself

looking down the barre] of a
45—calibre revolver,

‘The man bound her wrists
with rope, blindfolded and
gagged her, then hustled her
into his car. She was later
transferred into a late-model
van, where she remained
lying on the floor until her

ree “father arrived home
for lunch around noon and
received the first of several
telephone calls, in which the
callerndemanded $50,000
cash.

Aman picked up a suitcase
with the money at a west-end
shopping plaza shortly
before 5 pm. Shortly af-
terwards, Alana was
released at another shopping

centre nearby and minutes
later police arrested a man
carrying a suitcase full of
Money.
“I jearned two things: co-
operate with the, kidnapper

and never open the door to a
stranger, Alana told
reporters.

3-¥r. Old Hostage Freed

HAMILTON (CP) — Ham-
ilton-Wentworth regiona!
‘police broke into an apari-
ment today and disarmed a
man who had been holding a
three-year-old boy at
knifepoint for 2% hours and
demanding an airplane to fly
them both to Hungary.

Three senior police of-
ficers broke the door down
and overpowered the man
after negotlations between
the man and Sat. Don Crath

through the mailbox slot
“reached a stand-off,

‘The incident began when Mrs,

the mannbroke through the
patio doors of the first-floor

apartment of Rita Kozdrony,
30, and threatened to kill her.

The woman fled
screaming to the nearby
apartment andnpolice were
called.

When police arrived the
man, who said he had a

knife, a gun and plastic

explosives,ndemanded that self

Kozdrony return to the
apartment or he would kill
the boy.
wee vorath told the man
fire, Koedrony b had left the ma
building.

ASKED FOR AIRCRAFT
The man dropped
demand to see Mra. Koz-
dcony but said unless the
alreraft was supplied he

| Psychic “Sees” Twice ©
tei fT wiee; Bodies Found... «.

Allison had a vision
aidahe shared it with police.
Theydound the body of a
missing teen-ager. She had

- another vesion, and once
fea the police found a

“I would stake my life on
her,” sald the mother of a
Lodi teen-ager whose body

was found Tuesday in a
shallow grave in Moonachie,
almost exactly where Mra.
Allison said it would be.

‘Nancy Locascio’s son,
Ronald Stica, 17, had been
missing since Sept. 22, she
said. in a telephone in-
terview. Mra. Allison

_ “pointed out the exact

e said.
David Menteola, 19, of

Lodi, was arrested and
charged with the murder
Tuesday, after Stica’s body
was found.

Two years ago Mrs.
Allison told police from the
New York City borough of
Staten Island that the body of
14-year-old Susan: Jacobson
was located inna - marshy
area, in sight of two bridges
and an abandoned car, and
near the letters M, A and R,

DESCRIFTION FCTS

The girl’s skeleton was
found Saturday by three
boys who were. muskrat
hunting in a marsh ata
Ftaten Island shipyard, The
body was found ina $5-gallon
cil: drum at the bottom of a
shaft in'an area that fit the

psychic's description. About
100 metres from the shaft,
higa ona rock, were the red-
painted letters MAR.

Mrs. Allison, 53, who has
worked with police ‘for 10:
years and says she has
located 20 bodies, said she
had been aware of her

psychic since
dhiood,

“When I was little, I would
tell people different net
and and they called me a witch

powers

a psychic power is “like
Lanta on a television set in
‘mind,” she sald. “E
really don't know how it
comes to me, but it’s
spontaneous, I don't go inte a
iene or any nonsense like.

2 Priests On Trial For
_ Exorcised Girl’s Death

-. Gecmany (Reuter) —
‘WEST : German Catholic

® the fair-haired student
teacher weighedrionly 63

* pecests go on trial Thursday pounds.

on charges of causing -the °

_ death of an epileptic woman
student during a long

~ exorcism.

Anneliese Michel, 23, died
at her parents’ home after 11
months: of semi-starvation
and submission to church

“ritual in an attem
out evil spirits. She
belieyednshe was possessed

“py the aplrits of Nero, Hitler,
Judas, Satan and other

“Her parents and the

" pelests are charged with

causing her death by
negligence in eat sum-

‘> ‘The public oa eto has
‘said her vilfe could have been
saved had a doctor been

- ‘called even one week before

her dea
"hen the died July 1, 1976,

to drive -

Lawyers said the bizarre
details of the case have
Seldom been. heard in a law

court since the Middle Ages..
REQUESTED BY
PARENTS

Father Arnold Renz, 67, a
member of the Salvatorian
religious order, and parish
priest Ernst Alt, 40, carried

.out the exorcism at the

request of the woman's
parents, sawmill ownern-
Josef Michel, 69,nand his
wife Anna.

A formal investigation of
the bishop of Wuerzburg,
Josef Stang], whongave the

, priests permission to carry

out .. the 350-year- -old
ritual,nwas closed without
any charge being brought
agalnst him or the theologian
who advised that. exorclam
should be tried.

-The- exorcism sessiot

took place in her bedroom in -
the family home in the small .

town of Klingenberg: A

medical autopsy found that.

she died from. chronic un-.
dernourishment.
After her death, a-

- superstition aroge that her

body had not decomposed
and hundreds of people
visitednthe grave site,

At her parents’ r est,
the body was exhum: last
month and reburied in a

metal container enclosed in

an oak coffin,

Authorities later an-
nounced that the body was in
an advanced. state of
decomposition when the
coffin was opened.

Her parents apparently
believed that if the body was
in the devil’f possession it
would have showed nosign of
decomposition, ;

“Good To Last Drop”

Coffee Down i in U.S.

‘ > PRICES STAY SAME
“TORONTO (CP) —
General Foods says although
its: coffee prices are being.
reduced In the. U.S., there

~ are no plans to reduce prices

in Canada. General: Foods

Corp., the biggest roaster in

* the K. 5., sald ‘Tuesday that

cuts af between t two and four

‘cents an ounce on whoksala
prices of instant coffee
should be reflected in stores
inthe United States within 40

ys,
STEEL PRICE RAISED

PITTSBURGH (AP) —~

U.S, Steel, largest steel
produter - in the United
States, Tuesday announced a

$10.60 a ton price increase on
its basic product lines to
récover the cost of the new
U.S. soft coal'contract, The
increase effective with April
1. shipments ; will boost
revenues 2,2
effect on individual: products

will vary according ie ‘their.

base * price,

_ Journal sa

cent: but the -

would kill the boy and him-

Later,. Sgt. Crath told the
man the plane was waiting at
a nearbx airport. and all
arrangements had been

made. mo,
neemen refused to believe
the police officer and said he
was going to kill. the baby

his and himself in two minutes,

At that point, police
decided they had no alter-
native but to break in, Sgt.
Crath said.

“We broke the door down
and had the man in second-
8,” said S.Sgt. Vern Cum-

mins, ha n charge of the police. --.

operat

He sald he and Sgt’ Crath
‘Went dfter’ the ‘man ‘and a
third ‘officer, . Sgt. David
McCulloch, "grabbed - “the
child.”

The only weapon found: in
the apartment was a knife.

William Kozdrony, 89, of
Hamilton has been charged
with threatening, possession
of a dangerous weapon,
forcible confinement and
breaking and entering with
intent to commit an in-
dictable offence.

WOLF SAVES GIRL-

MOSCOW (Reuter) — A
three-year-old girl lost over-
night apparently was saved
from freezing by a wolf who
kept her warm with its body,
a Soviet newspaper said
Tuesday. Mekhril
Ibragimoy, daughter of a
farm worker in the Cauca-
slan republic of Azerbaijan, °
told her mother: ‘‘There was
a dog there with me. He-

Heked my face.” Villagers .

found wolf tracks in the
ravine and an adult wolf
sitting nearby.

FRENCH TROOPER HIT
UNITED NATIONS
(Reuter) — A French

paratrooper serving with the
United Natlons force in
southern Lebanon was
wounded slightly in the
cheek Tuesday by a mortar
fragment, UN sources
reported. The soldier, who
was not identified, is the first
casualty since the UN in-
terim force in Lebanon

~ began arriving in the ‘area

last week. The sources said
the incident occurred east of
the port of Tyre.

IRISH TERRORIST SHOT

BELFAST (AP) — Polica
officers shot and wounded a
terrorist in Belfast early
Wednesday to foil an ap
parent bombing mission by
Irish Republican Army

Grim Aftermath To
Blizard Ordeal

; Two months after a blizzard

trapped her outside, Teresa
Kimble is still in hospital,

Undergoing physical and
psychological therapy. 1

cold killed her infant son and
forced amputation of her
feat, fingers, thumbs and
part of her buttocks.

Doctors say Mrs, Kimble,
23, will be in the hospital at
least four more weeks to be
fitted with artificial limbs.
All that is left of her hands
are stubs.

On Jan. 26, a blizzard had
stranded Michael Kimble at
work.nHis wife awoke at 3
am. in thelr rural Shirley
mobile home and notleed the
trailer was cold. The wind
had blown out the heater’s
pilot light. Mrs. Kimble
‘could not relight it.

She decided to take her 20-
month-old con Timothy and
iry to make It to the safety of
her husband’s grand-
mother's - house—located

. only 50 metres away.n

But the snow and wind
drove them back.
BABY SCARED .
~ “The baby was 80 scared,”

Mrs, Kimble said in @ recent .

interview. “He cried: and
screamed and wouldn’t hold

They tried to get back in

the trailer, but the door was
stuck. Sme had kicked it shut
tobe sure the wind would not
Blow it ope n,
at on the porch with
the he mara raging around
them. Mrs. Kimble
estimates they sat there two
or three hours,

Finally, she began to beat
the metal door with her
hands: and feet, kicking a
bole large prokgh to crawl
through with Timothv.,

Rescuers would not vil
her, but her son apparen tly
was dead when they arri
When the coroner came, he
confirmed the boy's death.

Mrs, Kimble was taken to
New Castle Hospital, where
her frostbitten skin began to
turn black, Last month, she
‘was transferred here.

“Frostbite is much like a
burn but {t progresses," said
Dr. David Larson, a plastic
Hise. treating Mrs.

ble. “‘It freezes the
fissue and vessels. It’s dif-
ficult to tal whether they're
dead or alive.”

Friends have started a
fund to help. pay medical
bills. She has medical
coverage that pays ap-
proximately 80 per cant, but
the medical "ee
running at least $200 a day.

_ Arson Suspected In.

.. Edmonton

Hotel Fire

“Antonis: sudpectednity: fire “desk ‘clerk in” the” ‘hotel’s
“ently today at the'l¢-storey © Tonquin Ballroom on the
Maedonald Hotel which + main floor,. -

“caused an estimated $200,000

The ‘ballroom was

bear Age fire department destroyed and smoke caused

clals said.

All ‘guests staying in an
older section of the hotel
were evacuated and a fire
department spokesman sald
one guest was taken .to

‘hospital suffering from

smoke inhalation.
- The spokesman said the .
fire was discovered bx a

Gov't May Cut
6G Ss. Pensions

EDMONTON (CP) —
1 the federal gav-
ernment plans to reduce the
pensions of thousands of civil

. Service pensioners by 10 per

- Sent or more because they

‘failed to properly report ,
‘pension,

their ‘retirement incomes.

About 19,500 pensioners
across’ Canada: recelved a
letter last:month teliing s
them they had --been
receiving more penslon than
they were entitled to, the
newspaper says,

The Journal says “the fi

pensioners were: told to
repay the total accumulated
overpayment within 90 days
or the government would
deduct it from their pension
cheques. In some cases, the
deductions would ‘be for a
evar Period:

The ”

“The newspal says: One
68-year-old Edmtnton man
owed more than’ $1,600 and-
nhe was advised that he

could pay the full amountor ,

accept a deduction of-about
-$85 per month from hls $5

The newspaper quotes
van Rolstone,na federal

upply and services of-
ficialnas saying . the
government is entitled to the
money because the over-
payment was the pensioners’
t.
Although most provinces
have a law - preventing
pension income from being

selzed to py debts, he said -

no such law applies to the
federal government. &‘What
‘the Lord giveth, the Lord

taketh away,” Rolstone said.

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damage to all 14 floors of the
hotel,na ccty I lendmark.

THE HERALO, Thursday, March 3, 1978, PAGE 3

Wolf Saves 3-Yr. Old’s Life

guerrillas, Police said the
man, arrested and in
hospital, was one of three
men spotted by a patrol inna
pa car in Roman
Catholic West Belfast. The
mennignored a challenge to
halt. The patrol opened fire,
wounding one man in the leg,
A bomb was found in the car.

PUBLISH MORO BOOK

ROME (AP) — An Itallan
television reporter has put
out a quickle paperback on
the kidnapping of former
Premier Moro, entitled
Objective Moro: NAn Attack
to the Heart of the State. The

- 126-page book in Italian went
on sale Thesday, 12 days .

after Moro was abducted by
gunmen who killed his five
bodyguards. It waa written
by Gino Pallotta of the lef-
tist-run second channel of
the state television. .

BOMB LADY STRIKES
NEWTON, Mass, (AP) —
For-the second time in two
weeks, a matronly wornan
described as between 55 and
60, has robbed the Baybank
Newton Waltham Trust Co.
branch here. Police say the
woman calls herself the
bomb lady in the notes she
has handed tellers, Tuesday,
she escaped with $200. A
lesser amount of money was

handed over March 17.

$8 Million Plus
In NRG BC Grants

More than $8 million in
National Research Council
grants mave been awarded
to scientists at the Univer-
sity of British Columbia,
Simon Fraser University
and the University af Vic-
toria.

The grants, up an average
of seven per cent from last
year, cover oper operating costs,
equipment purchases an
travel: expenses, and are in
adaaicao $408,000 in special}
NRC appliedresearch grants
announced last year

A news releaso. from

Simon Fraser University,
where grants are up 10 per
cent, expressed some
disappointment over the
level of funding. Inflation in
cosis of scientific research
was about 15 per cent Last
year, so researchers have
lost ground, SFU said. .

John Dewey, dean of
graduate studies at UVic,
sald the increase in his in-
-stitution’s grants “doesn't
gover the cost of inflation,
but our over-all increase of
14 per cent in funds will as-
‘sist us greatly."

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