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VOLUME 72 No. 104 20° TUESDAY, MAY 30, 1978
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- Province Turns Down Children’s Centre

NEWS RELEASE:

The Terrace Children's
Centre Association’ has
learned that its request for a
long-term, low-cost lease on
an acre of land at the back of
Kalum and Olson, has been
turned down by

provincial government.
The association, which

" began meeting last October

when housing shortages of

‘the Lazeile Pre-School, The

Terrace Day Care Society,
and the Childminding Centre‘
became critical, had
requested a 09 year leaseata
token rent, similar to that of

Cyclist
in
WHITEHORSE, Yukon —

A cycilat was clawed, bitten
and dragged by a black bear

* * inte bushes along the Alaska
an Highway - south of here

Saturday before a motorist
killed the animal with a rifle,
Wolf Seidler, 39, of Ed-
mentoh, and his wife Ula
were the first ones on the
scene and were credited. for
helping save the man’s lite.
After they approached the
bear another motorist came
up and shot the animal.
The victim, Giorgio
Mazza, 37, of Lecco, Italy, is
in serious condition in Fort
eens hospital, ‘“‘but it
pears he will recover,”
Constable Lou Bates, of Fort
Nelson, B.C., sald Sunday

night.

: “He's pretty well chewed
up,” Constable Bates said of

Mazza.

head and

another 150 to the back area

and arms. But no bones were

broken.

“We have no idea when

he'll be able to leave hospital
though, “It'll“be «a wille

because they have to watch

out for iInfectlon com-

Plications. Hears aren't too

Italy to. Whitehorse a few
weeks ago and was planning
to cycle from there to
The
year before,. he had cycled
from Anchorage, Alaska, to
Whitehorse.

Top Mounties to

“He received “150 °
_ stitches to his

the Child Development
Centre which pays $1 per
year for its and, a
request was
MLA Cyril Shelford, council
and the Regional District.
In a letter from the B.C.
Building Corporation the
association has been advised

that while the goyernmentis ,

prepared to negotiate a lease
on the uncleared property at
the back of the new proposed .
Court House and Health
Services Building, for a
combined children's centre,
the cost will be $2,600 ‘Per
year plus. taxes.

The letter stated that it
was “the mandate of the
Corporation to operate in a
market value context” and
that therefore the cor-
poration, formerly Public.
Works, could no longer lease
property at a “nominal

The letter also went on to
suggest that it would be in
order for the association to
“approach various govern-
ment ministries for grants in
lieu of the rent in recognition

‘of the services provided to

the community’’ by the
group. It advised that “the

mauled by bear
Whitehorse

The incident occurred in
British Columbia about 190
kilometres. northwest of Fort
Nelson, .
CHASES VICTIM.

“He told me he was
cycling down the road and
8 came. upon this
bear on the shoulder," said
Constable Bates. “He wasn't
too familiar ‘with wild
animals but had seen
another. bear earlier on his
trip and it had run from the
road into the bushes; *

“When he stopped his bike,
the bear started towards him

. 80 he threw some luggage

down or the road to distract
him, It mulled over-this a bit
and he in the meantime
threw his bike down and
started ruming. . -
“The bear chased him and
grabbed him by the back of
the neck before dragging
him 3 metres into the
bushes, and through a two-
strand barbed wire fence to
boot,” the constable paid.
_ "Bears are fast, for a short
distance-—they can even

“Belleve me, it was a

the scene Seldler thought; *
‘Here's a nutty guy playing
with a cub! Bul thea 4
realized the bear was
dra him and he waa

was half sitting up and the
bear was behind him. it had

just like a rag doll. The guy -

,

his right forearm in. its
mouth and was trying to
drag him farther inte the
bash,” 7

The victim called out, ‘He
didn’t shout, he didn’t
scream, He sounded weak
and just asked me jo help
him. Otherwise, there was
silence.” ;
SHOOTS BEAR —

Seldier said he jumped
from the roadside across a
smal], shallow ditch and

started shouting and
swearing to get the animal's
attention,

-WAnd he dropped the guy.

and. started taking a few
steps towards me.” ¢

A man and a woman in a
pickup truck approached
and Seldler flagged them
down. The driver took a
30.06-calibre rifle from the
truck, loaded it and took aim
at. the animal.

"We had to walt a few sec-

-onds before he could get a
clear shot because the bear's
-head was down,” said

“Seidler, “But he dropped. it.
outta hasse:”” ood SWS one-shot to the left side}?

of the head."'
Mrs. Seidler then drove

” thelr car to.a nearby lodge,
When they first arrived on:

where police and. an am-

_ bulance were called.

‘Constable Bates said the
bear weighed about ro

- pounds and appeared to be

mature four to five-year-ld
in excellent health: The
animal will be tested for
rabies.

testify in Sept.

. By GERARD McNEIL

OTTAWA (CP) -
Politicians and” senior of-
ficials, including two former
RCMP. commissioners, will
be called ‘before a royal
commission inte RCMP
wrongdoing for seven weeks
of questlons beginning Sept.
il, it was announced Mon-

v.

The issues will be
ministerial and official
responsibility for . acts
ranging: frmm arson to
having post office employees
risk their jobs by handing
firstelass mail to Mounties
for examination. .

The central questions will
be whether the ministers
were informed of these acts
and did nothing to halt them,
or whether their senior of-
ficlals covered up.

An example came in the
Commons last November
when Jean-Jacques Blais,
then postmaster-general.

denied that Mounties were
tampering with the mall only
to have Francia Fox,
solicitor-general, admit ¢
few moments later that they
were,

Blais now is solicitor-
general but the focus will be
on his predecessora—Jean-
Pierre Goyer, Warren
Alimand and Fex— and on
what they knew and what
they were told by the RCMP
officers’ who reported to
them.

Did Goyer cover up RCMP
participation in a 1972 police
rald without. warrant on
cffices of left-wing agencies
in Montreal? He says lie
wasn’t told the RCMP took
part. But former com-
missioner W.L. Higgitt and
retired Security Service di-

* pector-general.John Starnes

say they would be surprised
if they hadn't told him.
HAD DONE WORSE

The illegal break-in waen't

investigated until 1976, when

an RCMP constable an trial
oa another matter in Mon-
trea! blurted that he had
“done worse things" a5 a
Mountie and mentioned
participation: in the raid.
That led to a guilty plea by
RCMP Chief Supt. Donald
Cobb, then head of the

. RCMP Security Service in

Montreal, for authorizing a
raid without a warrant, and.
it led to creation of the royal
commission last July as
other such acts surfaced.

‘rms week government
lawyers before the com-
mission were trying to keep
privatethe1976
correspondence hetween
Bud Cullen, then revenue
minister, and Allmand ‘about
the legality of a 1972

ent with the revenue

department that gave the
Mounties access to personal
income tax files for in-
vestigations,

"The runner Js out on first’ during Sunday's Reds vs Houston Bulkley Valley play in
ee Houston dumped the Reds in a Poubleheader, More on page 4, “Reds Dum-

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district of Terrace should be
requested to provide a grant
in lieu of property taxes’.

A meeting of the Terrace
Children’s Centra
Askociation has decided to
appeal the decision and
reiterate a request for a
token lease on the grounds
- that a starting rent of over
‘$200 a month, plus taxes, on
the property, would make it
financially impossible’ to
mortgage the necessary
buildings for the combined
Children’s facility.

The - association .also
criticized a government
policy that attempted to
make a profit out ~- of
provincial land that was

‘Siow single lane

Kitimat River Bridge Hill are prepared and awaiting

third lane paving,

..It might be a good lea to heware of the sine lane

traffic at ihe site.

ce
affic on highway 25, here at Onion Lake
Hil, is caused by repairs toa “frost boll” under the road,
according to district department of highways officials.
..Distriet technician Harmen Delyea explained that this
| is only one project to help make highway 25 a better
roadway. He also mentionied that the Onlon Lake HH and

required by community
based and supported groups
trying to upgrade needed
services. —

Meanwhile the faia of the

old house on the Kalum and

Olson site is undecided.
Originally slated for
demolition to make way for
the new provinclal buildings, ©

’ the house was donated to the

Children’s Center
Association for removal to
the land requested

for removal to a foundation
run at over $12,000. The
house is currently being used
by the Terrace Childminding
Centre.

weer gad on re Cae

Motorcyclist i in |

Mills Hospital

A motorcycle accident
Sunday sent a Terrace youth
to hospital as a. result of
suspected back injuries.

According to Terrace

‘ RCMP, the youth driving the

cycle was blinded: by high
beam headlights of an.on-
coming car and sub-
sequently drove into the

teh,
A fire at Lakelse Lake

totally destroyed a trailer
* belonging to Roy Chapplow.

Cause of the fire has not yet
been determined.

Two persons were picked
up by police after stealing
hubeaps off a truck at the
McEwan Motors lot Sunday.

Three, Terrace persons
were charged with impaired
driving.

- Federal-provincial
prosecution battle

By JIM POLING

OTTAWA (CP) — The
federal government begins
an all-out attempt today to
convince the Supreme Court
of Canada that Ottawa has
the authority to prosecute
crimes under special federal
statutes, without provincial
permission,

Ottawa is appealing an-Al-
berta Appeal Court ruling
that a‘ federal Criminal Code
aection, authorizing the
federal attorney-general to
undertake prosecutions, is
unconstitutional. ,

What it boils down to is an-
other mammoth struggle
over division of federal and
.provincial powers. At stake
is the long-standing federal
practice of prosecuting such
crimes as trafficking in
liclt drugs,

Under the British North
America Act, the country’s
constitution, Parliament has

' the exclusive right to make

criminal laws while the
provinces have jurisdiction
over. administration of
justice.

However, Ottawa always
has prosecuted crimes under
federal statutes such as the
Narcotics Control Act, and
the provinces have handled

‘several crimes under the
Criminal Code.

‘The provinces are saying
the BNA Act glves their
attorneysgeneral the ex-
_Clusive right to prosecute in
all crimes, This overruled
the Criminal Code section

ving prosecution power to

gi
the federal attorneygeneral.

CAME TO HEAD
The arguments have been
floating in and out of courts
far some time, but came to a
head two years ago when
Patrick Hauser waa arrested

- by RCMP near Red Deer,

Alta., and charged with
possession of marijuana for
the purpose of trafficking,
*Hauser's lawyer, Milt
Harradence of Calgary,

- immediately challenged the -

validity of the Criminal Code
section. His contentions were -
accepted in a 3-to-2 ruling by
the Alberta Appeal Court.

All provinces except’
Manitoba have intervened in
the case and will throw their
legal weight behind
Harradence during the two
or. three days the appeal is
expected to last. No reasons
have - been given ior
Manitoba’s decision net to
jou in the appeal.

The court completed
hearing a similar con-
stitutional struggle Friday
when it reserved its decision
in Quebec's Keable Com-
mission appeal. The com-
mission, investigating
alleged RCMP illegal ac-
tivities In Quebec, was slut
down Feb, 21 when the
Quebec Court of Appeal
ruled that Keable infringed
upon federal authority by
trying to subpoena
documents from -a federal
cabinet minister,

_ Tn that case the provinces
argued Ottawa was trying to
undermine provincial
powers to keep a watch on
police. Ottawa argued that
Keable exceeded provindal
jurisdiction by trying to
investigate the RCMP secur-
ity service, which it said is
strictiy a federal affair,

Chief Justice Bora Laskin,
confinetl to the cardiac unit
of a Toronto hospital with an
undisclosed allment, missed
the Keable appeal and is not
expected back for Hauser,

by the |
- group. The estimated costs

Te tie aggregate winners at las weekend's, 20
* held in Houston, Top row, left to right; Dennis Szydlik of Houston won the aggregate
midget boys. Brenda Abbot of ihe Queen Charlottes won the midget girls.
Palahicky of Skeena Jr. Secondary in Terrace won the bantam boys.
. Bottom row, Robert Kawinaky of Caledonia Sr. Secondary in Terrace won the bantam

girls. Audrie Mceuwissen of Houston won the juvenile girls, More on page 6. ‘

track and field championship

Glen

Frances’s no. 1 crook
visits Police Station

BERNAY, France {AP) —
Police began a massive
manhunt Sunday for
France's prime fugitive,
Jacques: Mesrine, who is
believed to have held up a
casino Friday night after
boldly visiting the local
police station.

' Mesrine made a spec-
tacular escape from the
Sante prison in central Paris
on May 3 with another long-
term criminal, Francois
Besse. A third prisoner was
shot dead by police.. ~

Mesrine also is wanted in
Canada on charges of
escaping from Quebec's
maximum security Laval
" Institute,

‘Armed police and gen-
darmes reinforced by
France's top police sharp-
shooters surrounded woods
near the western town of
Bernay after two men were
seen walking along a railway
line. A helicopter search was

* launched,’ and police posted

men in all houses in the area.
to prevent the wanted men
taking hostages.

Officials -said Mesrine,
carrying a justice ministry
identity card stolen’ during

his escapée, walked: into .

Deauville police. station

Friday, said he was a police -
rand asking for’

commissione|
"the “duty inspector.

FLAUNTS HIS INFAMY
Told that the inspector was
out, Mesrine said he would
call back, then left. The two
men went to a nearby
Casino, where Mearine used
the card tomeet the director,
then forced him to hand over

* 90,000 franes ($14,000 U.S.), ~

saying as he left: “I'm
Mesrine. I guess. you've
heard of me.”’ An employee
sounded an alarm. which

rang in the police station.

There was a gunbattle be-
tween police and the convicts
as they fled the casino,
during which a 26-year-old
woman was shot in the chest
and a British tourist was shot
twice in the leg.

Police said witnesses
identified Mesrine from
photographs, and added the
second man may have been

Terrorists
-- Captured

BONN (AP) — Four of
West Germany's most
wanted terrorist suspects
have been captured in
Yugoslavia, the Bonn
government said today.

Justice ministry
spokesman Sepp Binder told
anews conference they were
among -20 alleged hard-core
terrorists sought in a series :
of slayings last year, in-
cluding the kidnapkilling of
industrialist . HannsMartin
Schleyer.

He said the government
has asked Yugoslavia te
extradite the four. But
Yugoslavia -has asked Bonn

“to arrést’ and” deport an

undisclosed umber of un-
idéntified persons wanted by

the Belgrade government,

Binder said,

He denied, however, that
Yugoslavia was linking
extradition of the four Weat
Germans to its request. A
1974 extradition agreement
between the two countries
rules out such an exchange,
Binder said. |

He identified the terrorist
suspects aa- Brigitte
Mohnhaupt, 28, Rolf
Clemens Wagner, 38, Peter
Boock, 26, and Sieglinde
Gutrun Hoffmann, 33. +

Details of the capture were
not immiédigtely ‘available.

11 shots exchanged in
Vancouver gun battle

WEST VANCOUVER (CP)

. —A police detective shot ina

gunfight with a bank robber
paid Sunday the shootout
began after a customer
threw an ashtray at the
robber.

Det,. Laurence Mortimer,
56, was hit three times in the
Saturday gun battle~once
on each hand and once
through the neck.

. The. gunman, possibly

’ wounded, escaped from the

Bank of Montreal branch in
the south mall of the Park
Royal shopping centre, ‘

In satisfactory condition in
Lions Gate Hospital, Mor-
timer said he and the robber
stood five feet. apart and
exchanged 11 shots,

Mortimer said he had been
showing the bank’s assistant
manager a picture of a fraud
suspect when he saw the rob-
‘ber, who was a
“longbarrelled  ,22- ‘calibre
pistol.

“T was going to walt until
he got out and tackle him
outside,” said Mortimer
explaining that he did not
want to endanger the 30
customers in the bank.
GUNMAN HIT

Then a 65-year-old
customer standing at the

counter threw the ashtray, -

said Mortimer,’ hitting the
gunman on the temple.

“He swung around with

the gun,” Mortimer said. “I
thought he was going to blow
the guy away."
’ Mortimer, who was in
plain clothes, sald he
identified himself aa a police
afficer, hoping the robber
would give himself’ up
without a fight. Instead, he
turned his gun on Mortimer,
the detective said,

The first shot hit the 1+
year veteran of the
municipal force on his right
hand and “that's the hand I
bold my gun in, so I had to
friteh the gun to my other

iit bad

“He was just standing
there blowing the shells off.”

‘After making sure there
were no customers behind

the robber, Mortimer began .
. firing back— just “a reflex

action,” he asid,
The robber fired six shots,
Mortimer five, police said
ef,

Mortimer said he thinks he

hit the robber in the chest—
“from that range it would

have been hard to miss''—
but isn’t sure.
CUSTGMER RAN

In the panic, a bank
customer ran from the bank
into the path of a car, but
was ‘not seriously injured.

Details from police
regarding the robber’s
getaway are sketchy,

A police spokesman said
some witnesses reported the
bandit stumbled to the door
of the bank before driving off
in a stolen car, while others

y the gunman appeared

. uninjured and escaped

easily.

-He made off with an un-

determined amount of
foreign traveller's cheques,
police said.

North Vancouver RCMP
later found the getaway car,
which belongs to an
unidentified mall worker and
had been stolen from the
south parking lot.

’ ‘The robber is identified as
awhitemale, between 40 and

50, about five-feat-five inches

tall with a receding hair

wearing a brown Lotorry
white rubber surgical gloves
and plastic halloween. mask.

Following the shooting,
two women ran from the
bank into a nearby drug
store, took a roll of bandages
and gave them to police, who
had just arrived at the scene.
Mortimer waa lying: on the
bank floor, bleeding heavily.

The unidentified customer”
who threw the ashtray sald
Sunday that he hid behind
the counter when the gun-
man turned on him.

One of the bullets’ passed
through his unzippered

jacket which police later ©

confiscated.

“I was goddam lucky it
(the bullet) didn’t go into my
liver," he said.

Rules for Lawyer's 7

ads still

VANCOUVER (CP) — An
inquiry by the Restrictive
Trade Practices Com-
mission into the British
Columbia Law Saciety
regulation of advertising by
lawyers has been adjourned
indefinitely.

The inquiry was called to

‘determine if the society was
quilty of reatraint of trade
under the Combines In-

. vestigation Act through its
restrictions against ad-

vertising by lawyers.

Douglas Rae, iawyer for
the society and its secretary,
Victor’ McCallum, said
Sunday he was advised
Thursday that the inquiry
was adjourned, with the
provision that the com-
mission can resume it with
two weeks notice.

The Inquiry was adjourned
as a courtesy while the
society seeks a B.C,
Supreme Court declaration
that the Combines In-
vestigation Act does: not
apply to its members, Rae

* Douglas McK. Brown,

another lawyer for the
society, said it now does not

unkown

have to comply with a
subpoena which ordered the
sociely to surrender internal
documents today at the Van-
couver office of the federal
ministry of consumer and
corporate affairs,

The subpoena demanded
all letters, memoranda,
notices and citations Issued
by the society to lawyers vic
Stephens of Victoria, the
provincial Progreasive
Conservative leader, and
Don Jabour of North Van-
couver,

Both lawyers wore cited by
the society for conduct unbe-
coming a member of the
society.

Stephens waa cited for

public interviews he gave -

soon after he opened a store-

front law practice in 1977...

Jabour has been granted
an B.C. Supreme:Court in-
junction stopping law soctety
benchers from ruling on a
recommendation that he be
suspended for violating the
advertising rules, Jabour's
dispute is acheduled for B.C,
Supreme Court in
vember,

No-