EDMONTON (cP) —A r old’ boy who says he was locked up “likes dog” in a government-run juvenile treatment centre in Ed- monton wants to tell hig story to an inquiry. The boy, one of 10 former Westfield residenta in- terviewed by The Journal, 1, y8 he spent 20 days locked up in a small “thinking room" as punishment for away. He said many children at the Westfield institution Page 8 The Herald, Tuesday, July 24, 1970 IN TREATMENT CENTRE, | Youth says he was | - were locked up for up to four weeks In the Fooms. Some of them lost their minds and tried to commit suicide, he claimed. However, Westfleld. director August Fraunfeld ssys a week was the longest. . be could remember any child | spending in a thinking room. Provineclel NDP Leader Grant Notley, who has toured the institution, has called for an independent Westfield, He sald a da- Partmental investigation promised by the government hot enough, The president and a for- Associati Westfield staff — say moat child-care workers at Westfield do not abuse the use of thinking rooms, President Garth Thomp- ab Son says the association is inquiry into the conditions at working on a code of ethics which will probably include the proper use of thinking Tooms. ‘ aa Bob Arsenault, a former association president, said the intention is to put children who ara having temper tantrums into the & rooms only long enough to calm them down, for perhaps five to 20 minutes. But he admitted Some staff have probably used the use of thinking rooms. . “In any organization there ocked are people who misuse tech: niques," he raid, “We have to try to make sure as much as possible that doesn't happen.” ; . The 15-year-old boy, released from. Westfield ‘a ago, said “I felt I was Ing treated Jike an animal.,”* : "Once I got so mad [ ripped the ecreen of metal ars Hight om the window. stuck my fingers in there and -tore. up all my knuckles Then I sat up and pat back against ihe clonet ani yoshed the rest off with my multitating: hershelf whil she wasin the thinking room, “Tt was lke being | Everybady'd get a hyper in there. It was windows to open. My throat Unhappy consumers and gloating Liberala agreed . Monday that Minister John Crosbie sounded like an echo of his Liberal predecessors when he announced Sunday that LIBERALSGLOAT = Consumers hurt OTTAWA (CP) — go up, “Nothing's changed — the new government sounds just : like the old one," said one disenchanted bank customer, about to negotlate a loan, Finance Pa Interest rates would have to -. Crosble's decision to raise ‘the Bank of Canada’s lending rate was his first move as finance minister. ’. Before that, he had confined his comments to off-the-cuff analysia -.Poutine extensions of basic . BUSINESS DIRECTORY | Liberal measures or unof- ficial statements about what his October budget could contain, , Several economists and bankers said the much- heralded . Progressive Conservative economic policy of the economy, Gray, on the other hand, found it amusing that ago criticized the Liberals for raiaing’ interest ‘rates, how seems ty be borrowing Liberal rhetoric to defend his own action, os Most chartered banks sing, th - week by an- noun ey were ralaing their minimum | annual agram seems, 80 far, to be P neere extension of Liberal thinking, . Liberal finance critic Herb Crosbie, who several months VAN’S CONTRACTING . Furniture Repair 1. Restorations, Hope Chests. 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I thought 1 was “pounded my’ knuckles against the wall for half an hour. and made "én ‘bleed cried. [ threw eve over, But they didn’t let ma out... 7 - “T'was even going to stab myself if they hadn't brought 8 plastic esis tang breaking the a piece nd slashing my arms? The girl said a friend of. lending rate to 12.5 per cent in response to a government decision Sunday to raise the Bank of Canada lending rate to 11,75 per ceat— Its highest level_ever. Like Chretien, Crosbie ac- knowledged: that he was i ding “ othe Righert it en rate to the at it _ had ever been, But he denied that this will serlously harm the economy, — By increasing the central bank's lending rate to 11.75 per cent, Crosble broke the previous rcord of 11,25 per sent set by Chretien in anuary = Chartered banks were pre- Viowly lending ‘to, their most credit-worthy customers at . 12 per cent annually and the central bank was lending money-to the banks al 11,25 per cent, Moat other interest rates are also expected to go up , by. about half a per- Sealage polnt in the next few “ike ne osbl rrr oY, e had. virtually no choice. He accepted reluctantly the advice of Bank of Canada governor Gerald Bouey that it was necessary to increase the central bank’s lending rate following a similar, move by the United States : Federal: Reserve Board (its ieentneal bank), two: days eariler, Canada could not let the Gap between its interest rates and those of the United Statea shrink, Crosbie said, or f n investors would Canadian bonds, up like a dog hers tried to’ choke herself with a pillow: case. A Weatfleld worker confirmed that this attempted suicide. Bleed took place lant year. every time I was in there. I obs, gall © Another former resident, a 17-year-old Metis youth, saya he wos locked up ‘in a thinking room for two weeks, and sometimes pounded the - door for two hours to ataff member to let milk carton. ‘ by bank rate increases © Without these much-needed! capital inflows; the dollar: would drop and the economy’ would weaken, . ; Crosble could have: c the words Chretien used half a year earller:. “We have no choice but. to make sure that the. bank prime rate in Canada is higher than that in the United States.'* 7 "Itisa problem we have to face because of high interest rates in the United States and a balance-of-payments deficit in Canada, These are — the facts we have > to live with,” By Increasing the central bank's landing rate to 11.75 per cent, Crosbie broke the previous record of 11.25 per cent set by Chretien in Jan measuro,*' Crosbie sald, “In fact, 1 would call it anti. infla! . aor "y am satisifed. the alternatives would be worse. and more dangerous to us. If the Canadian dollar appreciably, then we'll really have inflation.” The words could have been borrowed from Chretien, who defended his last bank rate Increase this way; "TI recognize that in the short term: (there: are disail-- vantages to ince the bank rate. The best advice I have received is to the effect that it (the increase) will havea marginal effect on the performance of Canadian economy EARNINGS © “Alcan Aluminium Lid., six months ended June 30: 1976, $162,800,000, U.S. funds, $4.51 a share; 1978, $136,900,000, Canada Packers Lid., 13 weeks ended June 30: 1879, $6,393,000, $1.15 a share; ended. June 24, 1978, $4,266,000, 70 centa, Eastern Provincial Air waya Ltd., six months ended June 80: 1979, $195,000, alx cents a share; 1978, $113,000, four cents. Global = Communications Ltd., nine months ended May 31: 197D, $439,000, foes, 64 cents a share; 1978, $876,400, $1.32, . : Southam Inc., six months ended June 30: 10979, $15,724,000, $1.28 a share; 1978, $14,957,000, $1.20. STOCKS _ VANCOUVER (CP) — - Prices were down in active trading Monday on the Vancouver Stock Exchange. Volume to close was 3,915,772 shares, In the industrials, Mac- Millan Blocdel was off 54 at $28 on 6,-200 shares, Potter Distilleries A was unchanged at $1.75 on 2,46, Daon was off % at $1644 on 1,900 and . Northway Gestalt was up 05 at $1.55 on 1,600, Computrex was un ed at .28 and Great National Land was un- changed at .80, On the resource and development board, SNA Resources waa up .01 at .35 on 494,600 shares, Comm Min Warrants was unchanged at 10 on 75,000, Silver Standard was down .04 at .96 on 69,200 and Dora Explorations waa ' down 02 at $1.58 on 54,100, | Dora Exploration Warrants was down .01 at 27 and Lorcan Resources was down 02 at .67. Qn the curb exchange, Hesca Resources was up .06 at .50 on 66,000 shares, Cherokee Developments was down 4 at .45% on 41,500, * Poney Explorations was up 43 at .74 on 26,839 and Sunatco Developments jumped .25 at $1.15 on 23,600, Westley Mines was un- changed at $1.06 at Neptune . Resources was down .10 at TORONTO (CP) — The Toronto stock market was sharply lower at the close of moderate trading Monday, The TSE 300 index fell 11.48 to 1,645.98, Analysts sald the market reacted to prospects for a slower economy because of increased bank interest rate, Volume was 4.01 million compared with 4.1 million Friday. : _ Among industrials, Falconbridge Nickel A fell 1% to $56%, MacMillan ogy ka ly and Home Oil A % to $404, Hudson’s Bay Oil and Gas rose 1% fo §71, Pancana fn- dustries 22 cents to $2.15, NB, Cook 42% cents to St4 Tonecraft % to $94 and Dome Pate %4 to $45, McIntyre Mines lost 2 to $45, Roman Corp. 1% to $33% and Rio Algom 1% to $3044. Afton Mines gained 1 ro $16¥4 and Dome Mines % to $45, | Numae 1] and Gas, declined % 10 $38%, Oak- wood Pete 54 to $11% and Total Pete NA % to $24%, Chieftain Developments advanced 1% to $%7% and Quasar Pete 1% to $131, “T do not eee this as an in- * flationary | “the URL tee