PAGE Alt, THE HERALD, Wednesday, May 4, 1977

AETER ESCAPES

‘Sheppard tells officers
to sharpen their wits

VANCOUVER (CP) — Dennis
Sheppard, assaclate deputy at-
torney-general in charge of
court services, said Tuesday he
has ordered regional sheriffs to
be more alert In: Abele handling

Sheppard said his order is the
resultof In-house reports on two
recent escapes by prisoners in
the custody of sheriff's depu-
ties,

He sald the-report, will not be. .

made public because ‘it is not
regular. ministry procedure. _

The "report; prepared * ‘by
Frank Hodgson, a sheriff's
service consultant, says sher-

PREMIER-WESTERN

iff’s deputies were not taking
standard precautions to prevent
two recent escapes, Sheppard
said.

One man escaped from 4
sheriff's van at the New West-

. mifster courthouse early last

month atier unlocking his hand-
cuffs.

ESCAPES FROM BAY

A prisoner at the British Co-
lumbia Penitentiary, escaped
from a loading bay at the court-
house In fate March:
. Sheppard : sald the report on

‘ onevescap# Showed the deputy

did not properly close the elec-
tronically-locking door to the

loading bay and as a result, the
prisoner pushed him aside and
ran down the street. He was re-
captured the same day.

in the oiher case, a deputy
was not able to notify police of
the escape because the key jo
the van and the radlo, was with
his partner, whe was chasing
the prisoner down the street. *

Sheppard sald even If the dep-
uty had been able to use the ra-
dio, he probably would not have
heen able to get through to po-
lice on the crowded alr waves.

The report concludes that the
sheriff’s service should use a
separate radio band for emer-
gency transmissions. ,

Cable merger sought

VANCOUVER (CP) — West-
ern Broadcasting Co. Ltd. said
Tuesday it would set up 2 $1
million television development
fund to finance new Canadian
programs If It wins approval far
a$19.4 million merger with Pre-
mier Cablevision Ltd.

Western president Frank
Griffiths told a Canadian Radio-
Television and _ Tele-
communications Com-
mission
hearing into the merger pro-
posal that amalgamation of the
two firms would strengthen
Premier without creating undue
concentration of media own-
ership.

Under the terms of the pro-
pasal, Western would acquire
control of Premier through the
purchase of Premier shares
hald by Sydney H. Welsh, the
company president, and
number
of his associates. The Welsh
group. in turn, would acquire a
1é-per-cent interest in
Western.

Welsh told the commission he
favors the deal because ‘‘the

shares we take up In Western
will allow us to continve our
work.”

Premier was the subject of an
attempted takeover bid last fall
by Rogers Cable of Toronto.

CRTC approval of the deal
would give Western contral of
Premier’s cable networks in
Vancouver, Victoria, the Fraser
Valley, Toronto, Oakville and
Quebec:!

HAS SHARE OF CANUCKS

Western already awns radio
stations in Vancouver, New
Westminster, B.C.,

Calgary,

Winnipeg and Hamilton, Ont. It
also has a 45-per-cent interest
in British Columbia Television,
which owns two television sta-
tions, and a 45-per-cent interest
in Vancouver Canucks of the
National Hockey League.

Welsh, who wauld become a
director of Western as part of
the merger, sald the deal would
allow his group “to remain in
control of the business wea
founded and developed.”

Welsh sald Premier would
benefit from Western's substan-

Major firing
only answer

OTTAWA (CP) ~— A special
Commons subcommittee
recom-
mends the dismissal of Warren
Richardson and the retir-
emement or dismissal of 53
other “principal offenders”
among the guards at Millhaven,

Ont, penitentiary.

’ Richardson, a guard, Is prest-
dent of the prison local of the
Public Service Alliance of Can-
ada.

The recommendation {s con-

tained in a confidential copy of
adraftt report still being worked
on by the subcommittee.
Members said Tuesday they
expected ta complete the report

by the end of the week.

The report says Richardson.

should be dismissed for in-
subordination for refusing to
recognize an administrative in-
quiry into last fall’s riot at Mii-
Ihaven.
LISTS BRUTALITIES

The report also singles out a
guard as the cause of the riot
and catalogues brutality by
guards since the prison east of
Kingston opened In 1971.

it says the main danger at
the maximum-
security
penitentiary now js that the
staff will provoke prisoners to
riot again. .

News paper

ARRIERS

tlal borrowing ability and finan-
clalstrength without risking the
exodus of staff that could result
from the outside takeover. Both
firms are Vancouver-based.

Griffiths sald the size of the
audiences attracted to his radio
stations shows that Western
knows ‘Vancouver and its in-
farmational needs.’’

“We are deeply committed to
serving those needs.”

Griffiths said that despite
Western’s large share-holding
in
BCTV, Western does not control
the television operation. West-
ern’s other subsidiaries are
given “general managerial!
guidelines” but each company
has local management and is
lacally-orlented.

NOFEE INCREASE

The merger of the two com-
panles would not create a large
concentration of ownership, he
said; and Western’s strong fi-
nancial position would allow
purchase of Premier without in-
creasing charges fo Premier
subscribers.

Western
Hughes
sald his company had 2? per
cent of the Vancouver radio av-
dience in terms of total listener
hours a week, a share that
would not be increased by the
Premler merger.

NOW’S
THE
TIME

TO BUCKLE

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ACT AMENDMENTS
UNDERMINE CITIES

PRINCE GEORGE, B.C.
CP} — City leaders Monday
sald If proposed changes to the
Municipal Act are made the
city will lose control of develop-
ment and community planning
will be put in.chaos.

City selleiter Bob Dick told
council the proposed amend-
ments would mean that land
use contracts, which the city
uses to control subdivision de-
velopment, are to be repealed
in June of 1978 at the latest and

replaced by a complete zoning

plan and use of development
permits.

, City manager Chester Jeffery
sald the planning necessary to

Horner

OTTAWA (CP) — Jack Hor-
ner joined his new Liberal cot-
leagues Tuesday night in de-
feating a Progressive Con-
servative Motion identical to
one he had Introduced Nov. 1,
1973 when he sat on the Con-
servative benches.

Alded by Horner, the Liberals
outvoted the three opposition
parties 114 to 91 fo defeat the
non-contidence motion against
Liberal agriculture policies.

An alde of Conservative
Leader Joe Clark pointed out to
reporters that ihe two motions
were Identical and even dis-
tributed copies of Horner’s 1973
motion.

Horner's vote against the re-
cycled Conservative motion and
an accompanying amend-
ment
by the New Democratic Party
was the first time he had voted
in the Commons since becoming

get a community plan ready
and the rewriting of bylaws can
not be done in time.

Aldermen criticized sections
in the amendments which give
the municipal affairs minister a
90-day veto power over city de-
velopment. .

Moffat called it “real fas-
clsm" and sald the minister
should have to appear before
council before .he reverses a
council decision to discuss the
disagreement.

“This whole lot has been
drafted by influence," he sald,
“and these Influences should
have to come out in a hearing.”

ate, ideale

letete

reverses

4 Liberal minister without por-
tlolio,
MP LAUGHS

As his old mation was read by
Speaker James Jerome, Walter
Baker, Conservative House
leader, laughed heartily in the
direction of Horner.

As Horner rose to vate on the
motion and amendment, his
Libera! colleagues loudly
thumped their desks in support
of the Alberta rancher and for-
mer harsh critic of Libera!
farm policies.

Serge Joyal, Liberal member
for the Montreal-area riding of
Maissoneuve-Rosemont, did not
join the traditional desk-thump-
ing, but continued to read a
book.

Joyal has expressed some
doubts about being in the same
party as Horner, who was an-
ardent critic of some federal
government bilingualsim pol-

Uso in
Coe kt ails
* or

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Administrative nightmare

OTTAWA {CP} — The gov-
ernment’s proposed new unem-
ployment Insurance scheme
will

increase administrative diffl-
culties for government officials,
the Commons manpower com-
mittee was told Tuesday.

“Assuredly it will be more
difficult to administer,” Cec:
Tuck, chairman of the Uner
ployment Insurance Con. 3
sion told MPs.

However, despite protien
cited by Conservative ard ou
celal Credit Party MPs «ring
the meating, Tuck sala he
didn’t think It would be “‘Impos-
sible io administer it.’

The new scheme would estab-
lish varlable entrance require-
ments for unemployment insur-
ance benefits. They range fram
a W-week qualifying perlod
where the unemployment rafe
exceeds nine per cent fo a max.
imum 14-week qualifying perled

himself *

icies as a Conservative.

The motion which Horner in-
troduced in 1973 and was moved
again by John Wise, Con:
servative member for the On-
tario riding of Elgin, read:

“That this House deplores the
government's inability to give
leadership in develaping and
implementing com-
prehensive
and co-ordinated agricultural
policies and programs and re-
grets that by ill-advised and ad
hoc remedies the government
has weakened the over-all agri-
cultural ecanomy.”

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in regions where the unemploy-
ment rate is six per cent or
less. .

The
ministration
problem the government has
yet to solve Is whether benefits
should be based on the entrance
requirement In the person‘s
place of wark or place of resl-
ar ce.
tid DECISION

Marry Hodder, assistant dep-
47 minister, sald the govern-
want would prefer to base the
erefit on the person's place of
werk. But the decision has not
2n made and “this is some-
sing that’s preaccupying us
1 ght now.”

Jake (Pc—
F ovencher)
ested the case of a nurse who
moves from an‘urban area with
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rural area with a high unem-

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going to put all that together
and come up with an equitable
plan?” Epp asked, after Hodder
said unemptoyment — in-
surance
officials would also have to take
aperson’s intentions and behav-
ior Into account.

Hodder sald that officials
woutd endorse the behaviour of
an unemployed person from the
Gaspe region of Quebec or New-
foundland, two of the hardest-
fit areas, who leaves home and
family behind to seek work In
Toronto, where the unemploy-
ment rate Is lower.

The Gaspe or Newfoundland
entrance requirement of 10
weeks of work out of 52 would
apply and the person would be
entitled to benefits since offf-
cials would have an Indication
that the applicant was serlausly
searching for work, he sald.

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