“ Page 2, The Herald, Wednesday, December 13, 1978 Money brought him heartache CHICAGO (AP) — Willie Spears says he has been forced to hide from his friends and relatives since he was awarded $200,000 a year ago in a falsearrest case, “I stay in my apartment all the time,” said Spears, who lives on Chicago's South Side. “I don’t trust many people now. I trust only my lawyer, my lawyer's sister, my former probation officer, and a lawyer my lawyer intreduced me to.” Spears has not yet received the money, which a federal judge ordered the city to pay him after Spears was jailed illegally for eight months on false charges of resisting arrest, battery against a police officer and unlawful possession of a weapon. Spears, 39, says he tried unsuccessfully living with friends and relatives after the court triumph. 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Plans to bulld nine new prisons and to modify a number of others at a cost of about $500 milllon were announced a year ago. ’ However federal spending cutbacks slashed more than #0 million from building plans for the coming year and forced another look at the total plan, Blais said a Canadian ‘Correctional Service study had found no appreciable difference in effectiveness between a new medium: security prison at Mission, B.C., that holds 200 prisoners and an older one at Wark- worth, Ont, that holds 450, The study concluded that the most effective size for a prison is one holding 450 men, This runs contrary, however, to a recom- mendation by a special parliamentary sub- committee 18 months ago. The subcommittee said new prisons should be small and hold 200 to 250 prisoners. The revised program provides for construction of five new prisons at a cost of $154 million. They are: Dungarvon, a $24-million maximum to be opened at Renous, N.B., by 1985 to hold 204 ~=soprisaners: Drum- mondville, a $26-million medium to be opened at Drummondyville-Sud, Que., Many show mercury traces _ OTTAWA (CP) — About onequarter of 322 persons tested in Quebec and Saskatchewan in August had higher-than-normal levels of methyl mercury in their bloodstreams, the federal health department reported Tuesday. -| The figures show that 26 persons in 10 Quebec com- Munities and 47 persons In five Saskatchewan com- munities had levels of 20 parts per billion (ppb) of mercury or higher. Zero to 19 ppb is con- sidered normal, The health department says persons vith levels above 100 are at The National Indian Brotherhood research program considers con- tinuing levels of 50 ppb or higher to be dangerous and 100 or higher critical. In Ontario, 20 of 253 per- sons tested had levels over 20 ppb. One person from the Grassy Narrows Indian reserve, 110kilometres north of Kenora, Ont., had a mercury level exceeding 150 parts per billion. In the N.W.T., one of three persons tested had a level wall exceeding 20 ppb. Mercury in the blood can cause Minamata Disease, irreversible poisoning that altacks the brain and ner- yous system. The disease can cause horrible crippling and death. The communities where the mercury levela were higher than 50 ppb included Mistassini, Fort George, and Inoudjouac in Quebec, Southhend in Saskatchewan, ICBC AUTO OPEN 6 A.M. - 9 i Mon.-Thur. 6AM. -3 A.M. Friday & Sat. Insurance Sun. 10 A.M. «9 P.M. Take Out Orders 4617 Greig 635-5232 4042 Lazelle 635-5992 fa Satellite Vinyl =" atellite Viny s = Custom Furniture - Auto & Marine Upholstery - Vinyl 9 Repair . Van Conversion Accessories - R.V. Supplies - VISITORS ORDE. RD Boattopping & Hardware - Vinyl Car Tops - WELCOME > : Headliners - Tonneao Covers - Auto Carpat - V.W. 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Another $20 million would be spent to enlarge Bowden In- stitution, Innisfail, Alta, to hold 330 men by 1994 instead of 152. The medium would be expandable to 450 if needed. In British Columbia, Kent Institution, @ maximum recently opened at Agassiz, B.C., to hold 192 men, wuld be expanded to hold 290 by 1982, Matsqui Institution, Ab- botsford, B.C., originally opened in the 19605 a5 a treatment prison for drug addicts, would be converted by 1984 from medium to maximum at a cost of $3 mil- lion, It wauld hold 320 men. British Columbia Penitentiary, New West- minster, would be ‘phased out as a maximum." Its fate otherwise wasn't spelled out. A medium-security prison opened at Mission, B.C., in 1977 as a showplace for the system would be expanded by 1980 to hold 215 men in- Stead of 180. Cost would be $2 million. Mountain, a medium at... Agassiz, B.C., would be , expanded {hold 255 men by 1994 and 350 later if needed. Cost would be $18 million. Mountain currently can hold 186 men and has been used as a ‘‘retirement”’ prison for clder men and a Place to hold sex offenders and others whe might be atlacked by prisoners in a normal institution. May rae WHY TELL THEM? ULTAWA = (CP) Health Minister Monique Begin said Tuesday there was no reason to consult the provinces before can- celling a program to provide them funds for health research and training facilities. Miss Begin told the ‘Commons health com- mittee that the $500 milion initially set aside for the progfam was federal money. The government had the right at any time to decide it could no longer afford the program. She was responding to Progressive Conservative committee members who accused the government of not consulting the provinces before the fund was cut off. The program was cancelled two years early as part of the govern- menl’s spending restraint program announced in late summer. “Wewere like a bank of money available to the provinces to use if they wanted,’’ the minister said, “We cancelled the bank after years of good operations.” The program—costs were shared with the provinces on a 50-50 basis—was started in 1966 as a one-shot affair to help provinces develop health research and training facilities. This had been achieved in most provinces. Miss Begin said about % per cent of the funds had been utilized and that the fund ‘was coming toa natural death by December, 1980, n af The federal govern- ment had discussed the economy with the provinces earlier this year and they agreed reductions in government spending were necessary. Paul Yewchuck (PC- Athabaska) said his party was not questioning the need for restraint. It could not understand why the federal government had not consulted the — provinces NEWS IN BRIEF GEORGETOWN, Guyana {AP) — A preliminary, hearing for # Peoples Temple cultist elie: sed with five counts of mut er in the airstrip ambush of «1.5. congressman Leo Ryan asd his party scheduled far tossy was postponed unti) ‘ed- nesday. : Larry Layton, 32, of San Francisco, is accused in the slayings of Ryan, three journalists and one cult member attempting to flee the sect, They died at Port Kaituma, where Peoples Temple members gunned them down on an airstrip 13 _kilometrés from the cult’s jungle settlement of Jo- nestown, None of the survivors of the ambush has accused Layton of shooting any of those who died, but he allegedly wounded at least two defecting cult members. Nanandram Kissoon, who will be prosecuting the Layton case, said under Guyanese law an accomplice is charged with the same crime as the principal who committed it. In this case, the crime is murder and it carries a possiblesentence of death by hanging, Kisscon said, The last such execution occurred before the Cooperative Republic of Guyana was declared in 1970, he said. Both Kissoon and Rex McKay, Layton’s chief defence lawyer, said teday's postponement caught them by surprise. Kissoon said he had arranged his witnesses and was ready to proceed, but ‘ the magistrate assigned to the Layton case did not appear. Called hucksters trick VICTORIA (CP) -- Deputy Premier Grace McCarthy is trying to apply her tourist huckstering to auto in- surance, MLA Dennis Cocke said Tuesday. Cocke, the New Democratic Party critic on the Insurance Corp. of British Columbia, was commenting on a statement Monday by Mrs. McCarthy when ICBC rates for 1979 were announced in Van- couver, She is the minister responsible for the Crown corporation. The minister said her pra- posal to eliminate age, sex and marital status discrimination in, auto. in- surance premiums is an insurance “‘first'' in North America and possibly world- wide. Cocke said the, minister's statement is an “incredible He said that basic com- pulsory premiums under the NDP in Saskatchewan have not discriminated on age, sex or marital status for years. In fact, he said, they don't discriminate on geography either-there is a . single rate posted for the same type of vehicle throughout that province. Cocke said Mrs. Me- Carthy, former minister of tourism and now human resources minister, may try tourist-type huckstering in ICBC, but she'll find she can't “con” the B.C. public. Pay cut voted down BURNABY, B.C. (UP) — City council has defeated a proposal to reduce the 22- per-cent increase in wages which council approved for themselves a week earlier. Former Alderman Vic Stusiak told Monday night’s meeting that council was not aware of the impact of its decision and that council should re-consider and make a “new decision more in ‘keeping with your = re- sponsibility and the needs of the times.” Council voted Dec. 4 to in- crease their yearly in- deminity to $9,000 from the present $7,380. Ald. Brian Gunn, who wrote the report, said it was time for Burnaby council to catch up with other municipalities in council indemnities. Council passed the mation 6-2. Council, however, was supported by MLA Walter Davidson (SC—Delta), who said in a letter to Constable that municipal politicians are underpaid. Hesaidit was ridiculous that Constable, mayor of the second largest + municipality-in the province, should have to justify his salary. Municipal Affairs Minister Bill Vander Zalm, disagreed, saying the increases were substantial and the B.C. government may have to set pay guidelines for municipal councils. Pesticide traces found traces WASHINGTON (AP) — Reports that U.S. En- vironmental Protection Agency studies have found traces of the pesticide DBCP in oranges, lemons, peaches and grapes have prompted one organization to call for further bans on the use of the dangerous chemical. The Public Citizen Health Research Group, a Ralph Nadersponsored organization, has asked EPA administrator Douglas Costle to invoke his emergency authority to ban further use of the pesticide on citrus crops. _ The chemical has been linked to sterility in workers where the pesticide is manufactured and to cancer in laboratory animals. The health organization said “new evidence from EPA” indicates that dangerously high levels of the pesticide found in the citrus crops “constitute a substantial and unacceptble risk to public health which should be eliminated im- mediately," The agency declined to confirm the findings, saying only that it is investigating California State findings that DBCP residues are being found on crops where the' previously were undetected, DBCP is widely used to combat nematodes, microscopic bugs that attack vine and tree roots. . Ambassador not guilty WASHINGTON (Reuter) —The U.S. state department said Tuesday its former consul at the U.S. Embassy in Guyana has been cleared ‘of all charges that he was sexually compromised by members of the Peoples Temple cult, Some survivors of the mass suicide and murder at the cult’s commune in Jonestown, Guyana, alleged that former consul Richard McCoy had overlooked - problems at the settlement in return for sexual favors by women cult members. McCoy, who returned to the U.S. before the miass deaths last month in Jonestown, now ip head of the Guyana desk at the state’ department, Department spokesman Nodding Carter said McCoy had signed an affidavit denying all the charges and also had been cleared in an investigation by the department's security office. Smoke device banned SURREY, B.C. (CP) — Council will ask the provincial government to consider banning ionization- type smoke detectors which contain a highly-toxic material, Fire chief Al Cleaver * stated Monday in a report the dangers associated with improper handling of the detectors. “Disguise before disposal is recommended in order that scavengers cannot salvage parts,”’ Cleaver sai He said the radiation protection branch of the health ministry had advised him that ionization-type detectors can ‘be dangerous “if taken apart and the source is ingested, inhaled or handied with bare hands." They are not to be in- cinerated in a backyard burner,” Cleaver said, - Americium 241, 50 times more radioactive than Plutonium,’ is a known carcinogen and is contained in an oxide form within the ionization chamber of smoke detectors. .Photo-electrie types, praven to be adequate detectors, also are available, but most stores sell the ionization types.