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SECOND SECTION

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THE VRE UPSE T

ee Kitna teachers vow t

to fight the cutback

~ Kitlmat teachers are upset
hy a ‘recent schoo] board

‘decision to cutback three
positions in the elementary -
- | schools.

_ No teachers will be fired
bur jobs vacated through
attrition at Alexandra, Roy
Wilcox.:.and Cormorant

| schools will not be filled.

Jackie Worboys, president.
of the’ Kitimat District
Teachers Association said
Wednesday that. teachers
protest the unilateral action
taken by -the board: without .

in-put from teachers,
parents or students,

Worboya told ‘the board
teachers are concerned that
cutbacks will involve the loss
of special programs, For
example, school] counsellors
in elementary. schools, and
programs for children who
con't speak English and
Identification of Potentlal
drop-outs.

‘I don‘t think the people of
Kitimat want a drop in the

quality — of edveation®
Worboys sald,

She: asked “for tlme to

‘research student needs and a

meeting with the education
committee and the full

. The KDTA request was
referred to —- District
Superintendent Dale Fiddick
for action.

The system of bussing
students from the Kildala
area to Mount Elizabeth
Senior Secondary and
elementary schools in. the
Nechako area will change
next September. see

story page 9.

Reporter recounts prisoners tale

(Editor's note: When three
prisoners selzed 10 hostages
Wednesday night at the
‘State °
Penitentiary, they
demanded an hour with
reporters to voice their
grievances. Michael Prager

’ . of the Walla Walla Union-

Bulietin was one of two
teporters who met. with the

o to satisfy thelr demand.
This is:his account.) -

By MICHAEL PRAGER

WALLA WALLA, Wash.
(AP) —- All prisoner Robert
(Shane) Green wanted was a
chance. to talk. ..

To get that, he and two of

prisoners ‘took 10. persons

hostage: in & daring attempt

to air thelr gripes.
I got caught in the middle.
Green offered to surrender
under; one condition. He
wanted” an hour with

representatives of the news
media,

I was chosen.. Potentially,
‘the ‘lives of the hostages
rested on my ability to listen,
an easy job for any reporter,

Prison is a miserable
place. Every con’s got his

et. if it's not a bum rap,
then it's cruel treatment.

What Green had to say
isn’t new. Prisoners here

. have complained for years,

and for the most part, few
have listened.

Ina gutsy move, Green got
the attention he wanted, He
sald his intentions were not
to harm anyone, but rather a
fair hearing in the preag.

About 10'p.m., I was called
to the superintendent's of-
fice, where top prison ‘of-
licials were planning
strategy. It was a nervous,

tense scene. |
Larry Kincheloe, associate
superintendent, asked me
low felt about golng inside.
I said 1 wasn’t scared, if
that’s what he meant.
Kincheloe ‘had me fitted

with a flak ‘vest. It fitted
“snugly under my cotten shirt

but it made me nervous as
the danger of the hostile
situation suddenly came
home to me. It was nearly
midnight before I was taken
inside prison walls.

As Iwalkedin, Thada fae}, “couns
ing of confidence. Somehow I"
‘knew * the hostages would:
soon be free,

oe we told by prison guards
to stand behind a fence,
about 50 metres feet from the,
building where the prisoners
were holding out.
Green shouted through his

bullhorn that he wanted mea
to come closer, I did.

A few seconds later, he
emerged. His two cohorts
stayed behind to keep an eye
on the hostages.

Green sat on the sidewalk
in front of the classlfication
and parole building, his
shadow visible from the light
of a nearly full moon.

In his hand was a list of
grievances, They included
overcrowding In prison cells,
poor medical care, a lack of

counselors, mistreatment by
prison staff, and others:

“Pm here as. punishment, -

not for punishment,” he said.
He talked. I listened. He
talked some more. I listened
some more,
*Tt's been an hour,” said
Lt. Wayne

ditions for surrender.

He should have taken some

lessons before he stole it

DEER LAKE, “Nfld: (CP)

— Clayton. Hutchings, 47, a

veteran’ pilot of 25. :years, ”

received an urgetit call from’ -
the airport tower in . this
Humber: Valley * town, . 50. :
kilometres upriver from”
» Nild..

citing the area and at the
controls.was a person who
had never hac a flying
lesson,”

Nobody at:the tower was
qualified to handle the
situation because they knew
littte about the plane.

The Cessna 185 single
engined float plane had been
stolen a few mimutes earlier
Wednesday at Pasadena,
site of a seaplane base
between Deer Lake and
Corner Brook.

Shortly after takeoff, the
person: at. the controls

. Fadioed for help.

Thorpe used novel
seduction approach

LONDON (AP) —-
Politician Jeremy Thorpe
wed Giovanni’s Room, the
homosexual novel by U.S,
writer James Baldwin, in his
seduction of male model
Norman Seott, prosecutor
Peter Taylor said as he
opened his murder-
conspiracy case against the
former leader of Britain’s
Liberal party’ and three co-
defen

Taylor min his opening
statement Wednesday said
the seduction occurred on
Nov. 6, 1961, when Thorpe
was a 32-year-old member of
the House of Commons, Scott
was 21, and both were
bachelors.

He said Thorpe took the
younger man to his mother’s

me, gave him the Baldwin
novel and later returned to
Scott's room.

ie tatd zim nat to be
drigh! or worry,”
Taylor related, ‘“‘He said he
looked like a frightened
rabbit, Mr, Thorpe put his

Pigeons
poisoned

VANCOUVER (CP) ~ A
man who fed drain cleaner to
pigeons was sentenced In
provincial court Thursday to

three months in jail for’

cruelty to animals.

Duncan Johnson Barker,
39, of Vancouver, was also
put on probation for nine
months.

Barker's lawyer said there
was no indication any of the
birds died,

‘As he aped from his home
to. the -airport,. Hutchings
Fecognized the plane circling.
‘over the lake ag one he had
helped ferry . here ‘from
+ British’ Columbla- about :a
month ago.

He. asked how much fuel

authorities estimated.

“E wanted to get the plane
and the man down safely but
I .thought there would be
little chance of that," said
Hutchings. “But 1 didn't
want to convey that to
him....There was a grave
danger of a catastrophe.”

Hutchings, a ‘pilot with
Newfoundland and Labrador
Air Transit, the company
that owns the plane, decided

talking
in the middle of the 20-
kilometre lake. A tugboat
was waiting to assist In an
emergency,

arms around him, made
advances, and homosexual
relations took place between
them. il}

Thorpe, now 509, has
repeatedly denied
allegation of homesexualty,

and he and codefendants |

David Holmes, 48, John Le
Mesurier, 46, and George
Deakin, 35, all pleaded not
guilty to the charge that they
conspired have Scott mir-

But the prosecutor alleged
that early in 1969 Thorpe
incited Holmes, the deputy
treasurer of the Liberal
party, to kill ‘Scott. He said
Holmes made contact with
Le Mesurier, a carpet
dealer, and through him met
Deakin, a. slot machine
dealer,, “and a plot was
hatched to find someone who
would kill Scott for reward,”

Deakin then recruited
former airline pilot Andrew
Newton, Taylor continued.
He said after attempts to'
lure Scott to his death falled,
Newton drove him to the
Devon moors in October
1075, shot Scott's dog but did -
not shoot Scott,
tae lor oe Thorpe

resign as pa leader
three years ago and In the
general election last week he
lost the House of Commons
seat he had held for 20 years.

SPUDS TOP LIST
OTTAWA (CP)-— After
potatoes, which Canadians
consume at the rate of
almout 160 pounds per person
per hae the country’s
favorite freah vegetable is
lettuce, a recent report from
Agriculture Canada says.
Canadions alao consume
about 20 pounds of lettuce,

beard. Nat more: tha soe he ta
hdurs, °

the §

But the intended landing
point was so far from the
Deer Lake tower, Hutchings ..
was unable to: observe. the

'. plane,

“A helicopter was ordered” been burned,
an the plane's. side and — The: operator was for-
yes: for, Hut- tunate the radio had been left
to the*Mtuhed-tothe Deer Laketowar |
Gon “after its last trip, Hutchings:
iri Bagnell, base said, adding that the ptane
‘manager for Sealand was ‘much easier to gel into

helicopters, hovered beside
the Cessna as it came down,
telling Hutchings how tt
looked,

“It waa more of a con-

trolled crash; than: a. lan-'

ding,” Hutchings sald, ‘‘The
plane hit the water and took

the man down -. ‘

about four thumps before it
came to a stop.”

The man was not injured,

but Hutchings sald the

plane's | engine may have,

the air than to land, -.

Jordan Kettle, 28, of Port
Aux Basques, Nfld; was
charged today In court at
Corner Brook with Stealing

the Cessna, Hé". was.
remanded for a .fhed
examination.

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