_ Not guilty
pleas in
kidnapping

SHERBROOKE, Que.
(CP) —A man and a woman
were charged loday with the
82-day kidnapping last year
of credit union employee
Charles Marion. ~

Michel Devarenne, 38, and
Louise Beaubien, 28, pleaded
not guilty to charges of con-
spiracy, kidnapping, and
illegal sequestration
Beaubien was also charged
with illegal possession of a
fire-arm.

Devarenne will be tried by
judge and jury. Sessions
Court Judge Jacques Page
set a preliminary hearing for
July 4,

A married couple was due
to appear later in the day to
face similar charges.

Beaubien’s lawyer
requested that she be kept in
jail and no date for her
preliminary hearing was set.

Devarenne was ordered
held after the court was told
there was a warrant for his
arrest, since his escape from
a jail at St, Hyacinthe, Que.,
in 1975.

Gilles Dostie, a Quebec
provincial police officer,
testified Devarenne was
arrested last Thursday
night.

Unconfirmed reports said
a fifth person has been
arrested in connection with
the case.

Marion, 53-year-old loans .

manager at a local credit
union, was abducted from
his cottage on Aug. 6, 1977,
and held for 82 days before
being released for $50,000. It
was the longest kidnapping
for ransom in Canadian
history.

His kidnappers originally

demanded $1 million from -

his employers, but after a
lengthy series of exchanges
and a number of aborted
ransom dropofis, they set-
tled for $50,000 from his
family.

. B.C. Briefs

INQUEST CALLED

KAMLOOPS (CP) — An
inquest has been called into
the death of Cameron
Roberts, 9, of Kamloops, who
drowned Monday during an
elementary school swim-
ming class. RCMP Sgt. Ted
Jones sald the boy drowned
despite supervision by two
lifeguards, two teachers and
three parents of the 51 stu-
dents in a 25-metre outdoor
pool, The Grade 3 student
was with classmates at a
local community centre pool
when the incident occurred.

GETS LIFE

VANCOUVER (CP)
Paul Jin Choy Chow, 27, of
Vancouver, was sentenced
Monday to life imprisonment
after being found guilty by a
British Columbia Supreme
Court jury of second-degree
murder in the death of his
wife. Chow originally was
charged with first-degree
murder after. Chi Yin Mo, 21,
died from knife wounds Feb.
25. Chow told the court that
his wife took a knife from the
glove compartment of his
car and slashed her throat

VICTORIA (CP)
Canadian Three, a 30-
passenger vessel, will run
twice weekly between Prince
Rupert, Port Simpson and
Kincolith, Sam Bawif,
chairman of the British
Columbia Ferry Corp., said
Monday. Bawlf said in a
news release the vessel,
leased from a Kitimat, B.C.
marina firm, was built
specifically for north coast
waters.

WOMAN DIES
PRINCE GEORGE, (CP)
— Maureen Eleanor Fowler,
24, died Tuesday in hospital
of injuries suffered when her
car went out of control and
overturned in a ditch.

MAN SHOT

CENTRAL SAANICH
(CP) — One man was dead
and another in custody
following a fight in a potato
fleld here Monday, police
said Tuesday. Joe Pelkey,
65, of the West Saanich In-
dian Reserve, died in
hospital of a stab wound in
the cheat after an altercation
with another man earlier in
the day. A 35-year-old Vic-
toria man was to appear in
provincial court charged
with second-degree murder,
Police said a fight broke out
as two men were weeding
potatoes and caulifiowers.

PROJECTS NOTED

VICTORIA (CP) — In
dustrial expansion worth
$1.750 billion occurred in

DAUGHTER IN COURT

Marion was not in court to-
day, but his daughter
Roseline attended.

Hehas been on leave of ab-
sence from the credit union
since his release last Oct. 27,
and undergone psychiatric
care, His daughter said
Marion's psychiatrist was
present when police in-
formed him this week of the
arrests,

A book, My 82 Days in Cap-
livity, has been published
describing Marion's ordeal
and he has occasionally
appeared on television and
radio shows.

His son Pierre told
reporters his father was
happy with the news of the
arrests. ‘Maybe now people
will believe my father and
the entirefamily had nothing
to do with the kidnapping,”
he said,

Last spring Marion filed
defamatory libel suits
totalling $850,000 agains
Radio-Canada, the French-
language ser vice of the CBC,
and the tabloid PhotoPolice
as well as two of their
reporters for suggesting he
had helped to engineer his
own ‘abduction. The cases
are pending.

Police have refused to give
details of the arrests, but
said they had located the
hideout where Marion was
held.

Last December, provincial
police released composite
sketches of two male
suspects, both in their mid-
20s. A month earlier, they
offered what they described
as a substantial amount in
reward for information
leading to the solution of the
kidnapping, but never speci-
fied the exact sum.

By April, the investigation
had cost taxpayers $300,000,
Quebec Justice Minister
MarcAndre Bedard told the
national assembly.
praizged the police for the
way they handled the case.

British Columbia during
1977, the ministry of eco-
nomic development reported
Tuesday. A report, labled in
the legislature by Economic
Development Minister Don
Phillips, listed industrial and
commercial projects un-
dertaken in various sections
of the province last year.

WAGES HIGH

KAMLOOPS (CP) — This
southern Interior city leads
the country in starting
salaries paid Canadian
Union of Public Employees
outside workers, says 4
survey released by the
Public Sector Employees

Council of British Columbia. .

The random survey of 30
major Canadian centres
shows that Kamloops pays
clerical and outside workers
starting wages of $6.05 an
hour, compared with a
nationwide low of $5.47 an
hour in Barrie. Ont.

PRIVATE BILLS

VICTORIA (CP) — British
Columbia Hydro would pay
the ful] equivalent of
property taxes on all its
holdings to municipalities,
under a private member's
bill introduced Tuesday by
Chris D'Aarcy (NDP—Res-
sland-Trail. D'Arcy said
grants in lieu of taxes would
give school boards,
municipal councils, regional
districts and the provincial

government an additional .

$25 million a year. Private
members’ bills are rarely
given approval in the B.C.
legislature,

CONTRACT APPROVED
SURREY (CP) — Surrey
school board has ratified its
1978 contract with Canadian

- Union of Public Employees

workers just two months
before 1979 contract
negotiations are scheduled to
begin. Bob Bowman, district
employee relations officer,
said the contract is in effect
until Dec. 31 of this year and
provides a 4.45 per cent wage
incrense. Base rales were
unavailable.

SHAWNIGAN LAKE, B.C.
(CP) — Two Victoria-area
men drowned Tuesday in
Shawnigan Lake northwest
of Victoria, RCMP said

today.

Palice said Robin Lintott-
Dyck, 26, was swimming
about 12 metres from shore
when he began to struggle.
Dwayne Donald Forrest, 28,
swam out to Lintott-Dyck to
attempt a rescue, but both
men drowned.

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Harry the Harbour Seal greets some tiny tourists through

the underwater viewing windows of the Vancouver
Aquarium’s new seal pool. Harry and other seals large

and small ‘are among the most popular attractions for the
visitors whe fleck to the Aquarium in Stanley Park every
day of the week.

Constitution reform criticize

VANCOUVER § (CP)
Premier Bill Bennett said
Tuesday that constitutional
changes proposed by the
federal government should
not be pushed through ac-
cording to a federal
timetable.

“A country worth fighting
for deserves the very best
and it's worthwhile going
through all the proposals
before any lasting changes
are made,” he told a news
conference.

Bennett. said Canadians
should be prepared to con-
sider constitutional
proposals ‘‘as long as
necessary but not neces-
sarily a long time,”

He said he feared

unilateral action on the part
of the federal government in
pushing through con-
stitutional changes.

“Pm very concerned our
proposals be considered
equally with the federal
proposals,”’ he said.

In a letter to Prime
Minister Pierre Elliott
Trudeau, made public

Tuesday, Bennett said the -

federal government's ap-
proach to constitutional
reform does not reflect

provincial concerns and-

threatens co-operatior
between the federal gov-
ernment and the provinces.

He said Trudeau's
proposal to reorganize the
Senate into a new House of

Federation is ‘fraught with
difficulties.’’
WILL PROPOSE

Bennett said the provincial
government would be
making detailed proposals in
August or September for
constitutional changes, the
cornerstone of which would
be the five-region concept.

According to this concept,
members of the Supreme
Court and the Senate—or its
successor House of the
Federation, if the proposed
federal changes take place—
would be selected on the
basis of five equal regions,
one of which would be B.C.

By balancing the
representation by population
arrangement of the House of

Lawyer talked fugitive

VANCOUVER (CP) — A
former fugitive testified
Tuesday that a woman
lawyer charged with aiding
his escape was relentless in

... demands that he give

himself up.

Russell C. (Rusty) Elliott

was testifying before county
court Judge J. C. Cowan at
the trial of Patricia Colleen
Connor, 27, charged with
being an accessory to
Elliott's escape from
custody in July last year and
possession of a ‘restricted
weapon, 4 9mm Luger pistol.

Elliott told the court that
while Ms, Connor had the
registration slip for the
weapon she did not know he
had: the pistol in his
possession.

Cranbrook contributes

The Luger with a loaded
clip fell from Elliott's
clothing after he was shot by
police outside a cily home
last Sept. 9. .

Elliott said that..a com-.

monlaw relationship he. had..

formed with Ms. Connor
ended with his escape and
that, while he shared a
bedroom with her at his
sister’s home in Penticton,
B.C, at the beginning of last
September, there were no
sexual relations between

them.

Elliott testified that he es-
caped from an escort who
had taken him to Vancouver
General Hospital because he
was having problems in the
Lower Mainland Regional
Correctional Centre due to

to victim’s fund —

CRANBROOK, B.C. (CP)
—The City of Cranbrook will
join an insurance pool sel up
to compensate victims of the
erash of a Pacific Western
Airlines jet here in
February. Forty-three
persons died in the crash.

The federal government,
the Boeing Co., manufac-
turers of the 737 fet, and the
Rohr Corp., manufacturers
of an engine component, also
are participating in the fund.

Mayor Ty Colgur said
Tuesday the decision to
participate in the pool is not
an admission of liability on
the part of the city.

Colgur said the city has
agreed to abide by the
decision of the courts in the
matter of assessing Hability
in the air disaster and to
contribute to a fund before
such a ruling is’ made.

He said the money paid in
by the city will be returned to
the city if it is not found
liable in the jet crash.

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IN DANGER _

Elliott told Judge Cowan
that he hoped to rectify what

because lie éxpected to
sentenced to a lengthy
penitentiary term and that
his life there would be in
jeopardy if people viewed
him as a police informer.

He also told the court that
he contacted Ms. Connor the
week following his escape
and again on July 21.

"She advised me it would
be in my hest interest to
surrender myself to a police
officer she knew rather than
be arrested,” he said.

Eliott said the officer in
question was Detective
George Barclay of the
Vancouver police,

Under cross-examination
by Crown counsel Sam
Hanson, Elliott said he felt it
would be safe in surren-

-dering to Barclay but didn’t

have the same confidence in
other policemen or the

most of the crash victims RCMP

were city residents, Colgur
said.

Meanwhile, writs have
been filed in British
Columbia Supreme Court for
seven estates which claim
unspecified damages against
the City of Cranbrook and
PWA in connection with the
crash.

Mayor Colgur said if the
city is not found liable the
estates of the viclims will
have to bear the costs of the
legal action.

Elliott told defence counsel
James Hogan, —_ under
protection of the Canada

Evidence Act, that the Luger.

belonged to Lawrence
Westphal, who Is living ina
commor-law __ relationship
with Ellictt’s sister, Rhonda
Hewitt, in Penticton.

Ms, Connor, who had been
doing some legal work ior
Hewitt, went to Penticton
with Elliott, who said the gun
was produced by Westphal at
a family dinner.

Commons, the five-region
concept in the House of the
Federation would ‘ensure
regional inputt” in creating
national policy, Bennett
said.

The current Senate is set
up on the basis of four
regions, he said, but the
fourth region covers the
entire western half of the

country.
Referring to the federal
government’s an-

nouncement Monday that it
will reimpose antidumping
duties on imported wide-
flange construction steel,
Bennett said ‘‘federally-
imposed legislation is nat
good enough.” :

He said he planned to
appeal the decision to re-
impose the duties because
they hurt B.C.’s_ steel
fabricating industry.

A mere extension of the
fourmonth suspension of the
duties would not be enough,
he said.

“We need an exemption
not an extension.”

Bennett said the premiers’
conference and the first
ministers’ conference
scheduled for later this year

consultation between the
provinces and the federal
governient on the question
of constiitianal change.

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Inquest into
Canoe mishap

By JOHN FERGUSON

VILLE MARIE, Que. (CP)
—- A longtime resident of the
Lake Timiskaming area said
today that canoeing con-
ditions were ideal a few
hours before three canoes
overturned on the lake June
11, drowning 12 students and
an instructor.

Dave Radway, 64, told the
first day of a coroner's
inquest into ihe deaths thal
he was at the shoreline
fetching a pail of water near
his cottage shortly after noon
when he saw three of four
canoes. =, °

The 12 students who died
were among 27 boys, aged 10
to 15, from St. John’s School
in Claremont, Ont.

“Tt was ideal conditions for
moving at that time,”
Radway told the inquest. He.
said the canoes were
travelling north, helped
along by a steady wind at
their backs.

“They were making good
time,” he said. “The boys
were paddling extremely
well. They seemed to be in
goad order. They were riding

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The wind rose quickly,
however, at about 3 p.m. He
said these -winds in
springtime, when the water
is still extremely cold, can
result in sudden downdratts
sweeping across the lake
from the west. He saidhe has
known the lake all his life

_and that the downdralts are
“difficult to foresee...
especially if you have never
been on the lake before.”

BECAME ROUGH

The canceists have said
their boats overturned at
about 3 p.m. when the lake
became extremely rough.

Four adult instructors
from the school, located 55
kilometres northeast of
Torito, accompanied the 27

ys, :

They had set out in four 22-
foot cedar canoes for a
‘wilderness trip that was to
take them to Moosonee, Ont.,
on James Hay.

Earlier, the inquest heard
Camille Gagnon, of the Ville
Marie detachment of Quebec
Provincial Police, say that

the victims were. all found .

floating in life. jackets with
their heads well above the
water.

Police were alerted to the
tragedy on the lake, 375 kilo-
metres northwest of Ottawa,
by helicopter pilot Gary
Smith, 28, whowas making a
routine flight across the lake
the next day, June 12.

Smith told the inquest he

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was high over the lake when
he noticed two red objects
afloat in the water. He
brought his helicopter to
within 10 feet of the stili-
turbulent waters and saw
one man and a boy floating in
red jackets, attached by
nylon lines to their canoes.
He flew to a nearby far-
mhouse and notified police.
BOATS SENT

Police dispatched two
boats which were joined by a
third boat driven by the
operator of a nearby fishing
lodge on the Quebec side of
the lake which straddles the
Ontario-Quebee border.

Smith picked up police and
helped in the search for
survivors who were finally
spotted about one mile away

_on the Ontario side of the

lake.

Seott Sorenson, 26,
proprietor of the fishing
lodge, said police asked him
to help rescue the 18 sur-
vivors on the opposite shore.
Sorenson told the inquest he
made two trips with his boat,
ferrying the cold, hungry
survivors to the lodge.

Meanwhile, police were
retrieving bodies from the
lake and Sorenson said seven
were Laid out on the dock at
the lodge. He said that
Sunday afternoon, June 1i,
there had been a steady |
south wind blowing all day,
estimated at 60 kilometres
an hour, and the waves on

the lake were twoto three-
feet high with some
whitecaps.

Tornado
emergency

BUCKINGHAM, Que.
(CP) — Mayor Reginald
Scullion has declared a state
of emergency for the
Buckingham-Masson area
hit by a tornado that injured
36 people and left more than
150 homeless Tuesday.

Scullion said he will seek
federal and provincial aid -
for residents for what some
have estimated is $2 million
in damage. .

“This is an. emergency, »;
there’s no doubt about it," he -;;
said::*The ares hasbeen -hitury
by the -worst disaster we've
ever seen.’

Scullion said he is con-
cerned that insurance may
not cover “an act of God like
this,”
The injuries were minor—
ranging from broken bones

to cuts and shock.

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