Hostage'taker Gets Bank Apology, Then Jail
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LEGISLATIVE LISRA~Y, ~, COMP. 77/79 o. 1 pARLY,AllIF~T b~LL~Lh~5, vlc~r~t, B,C., tbL ..., - VSV-IX4 4 .." _.~ i.._ : . ,' .~," ~-::: ,...'L .. " -' ,. i ' ~., - . ~'~.~,;. ",,. ~, /-.. ";, . : . -• . Dead boy Wa s pushed in drainage channel • ,- . By GAIL DOTINGA Thursday after two nights of hearing ~o~dbility that two small boys had been at tke scene were qu~tionod~ JuUotteGo(tus, Her~M Staff Writer stateme,ts from 15 witnesses. Those ta~ into the water. • a 12-year, old student at Kildah School, told • Jurors at the inquest into ~e death of three- the stand were questioned by Crown Counsel The "condition of the fence on the School jurors she hod beon waUdng hame frem sebeol year-old Jason Weins. ruled that the boy was Carlie Trueman; legal representative ha- the grounds was brought up throughout the two that day when she heard boys yelling timt pushed into a drainage ditck in Kitimat. parents, Jeff Arndt; and lawyer Carl D~s, • mlghts of the inquest. Most .witnesses said it someone was in the creek and saw a child in •, The Person or persons responsible for hired, by .the District d Kitimat. : hadbeles in it and in some places panels of.the the water. She ran to a nearby soccer fleldand pushing the boy remains unlmown at this chela-link fence were missing. Kipp Guadry, alerted ~aebers Bill HUbern and Donald Mah. lime, said Coroner Bob Milmine, Jason was Although none of the wit ne~ses had seen the municipal engineer far K/t/mat, told the five The t~o menwent into ~ wat~',to look for pulled from a weir in the drainage channel • •boys actually enter the water, evidence was justs 150 man hours a year were spent on the boys, with Elilbom-finding both ~ them. Sept. I0, 1980 and was pronounced dead on brought out that they had been fenced hi. repairing the fence. minutes later. ~Artificial respiraflun wu. arrival at Kitimat General Hospital. Anpther Rosemary Simard, mother of S~me, leslLqed fence appears to be the constant violin applied until the police arrived slmrtly after.. boy, Shone Simard, w~s abo found in the •that when he woke up in the hospital after the of vandals. Mah was able lb get Shone consciom~ but : water but he survived. "incident, he told ber~ he had been pushed in. " It was also pointed out that the ditch area "Kdbem had difficulties with Jas~.,~. ~ I had become aplayground for children in the In its statement, the jury recommended the John Weins, father ~ Jas~, said his older municipality maintain fences on the concrete area:As one juror pointed out, water is l/ke a • There were several incidents ~~ sen Jonathan had told him that be had been • magnet for children, they can't seem in stay testimony On the exact details ~ w _hat hap, •' weirs regularly and thata footbridge be built pushed hi the ditch the same day his brother across the ditch near the site where the two away from it. - _ period win the boys unUl tha~ were phtoecl ~' drowned. Jonathan had come home SepL t0, the mntxi~ce. Although some members of boys were foand~ It was also recommended a Both mothers of the boys who fell in felt that soaking wet but bad not seen Jason at ~the ~ sd~ethidg should be done to make the area the jury U-~d to e~u'~ ~in=, wito~m could hole be left in the fence on the w~t side of the ditch. ditci3 so that children from Kfldala School " safer. Jaequeline Weiss said the whale thing not remember, every action or where not'. aware of other evenl~ going on at thesame have access to the walkway. During his investigation, ConsOle Wallace slu~ld be covered. The inquest ended in the early hours of Scott concluded that there was a good On the first night of the inquest, those first time. " ~ ":. Westend Food Mart Open 7 days 6:30am-l.]pm 635-5274 a week : ~' "Complete Office : . ' / XL . Co~Servmce't "J' Westend C~ Service . Open ~ 635-7228 ood sc 24hours -° dally •hzra/d ' 638-1825 "We Satisty Tummy & Tank • Volume 75 NO. 12. Monday, January 19, 1981 - " " 4~8 HWy. 16 W. TERRACE . 365 DAYS A YEAR" ONE- YEAR PACT , Ci-ty,, strike averted Final hours for hostages • i-. o . The Canadian Union of Public Employees Past settlements were for ~VO years but this has voted 89 per cent in favor of accepting the one will expire next Dee. 31. " HERALD The United States and From Sunday afterooou " '~ Iran signed an agreement on into the night, an- made hy Carter. municipality's latest contract offer. "It's hard to get any union to agree to today to free the 52 nouncements were awaited :~AtmmofS0U-%-~ The new contract will give the 60 workers anything more," said Mayor l)ave Mareney. - . ~ ~ Americans held hostage in in Washington and in and doctors, led by framer employed by the District of Terrace a 13.5 per "With inflation there are very few two'year : . cent increase, effective Jannary I, 1981 and Iranferl4½ months, butit A~iers, site of~bo main U.S,~teI~C~'us contracts now.", • ' " ' was not known game- asgntiafions, that the erisis Vance, was pth~'i~-in another 3.5 per cent next July. The mayor added that with the new Other benefits in the setflemmt include diately when the hostaSas Imdmded. But tbere were Washington ,to fly to agreement, e o~ would be taking a dose ~~ will leave Iron. helddd~e-seenes dehys Wimbaden and greet the increase in sick leave and a Imp-term look at the budget to cut spending. , ~~ The agreement was whichU.S.officialablamnd freedAmerienns. disability plan. signed by Deputy State on the proee~ of Iron- The state department The m~'on had rejected an e~rlier offer.of • CUPE mere .berg with the" district voted in ~!~ favor last week et talflng strike aefio~ if.an Secretary Warren slatin~ the doeummts into asked relatives of the I~.S per cent because it did,not give them Christopher, the I chief- throelangmges.~, .~to, stsyawayfmm, - 1p ~ ;<' ~"parity with .CUPE members is~/'.:lfi't~mat. agreement could not be ~ .1'' ~ } "J ~~ ~:~.,~,:.J~u~tbe.new eontnet stlp'r!U./bel~w~ = the .,Algerian:-.,..f0~ign -~ ~, m~d.X~i, :'.,~y=,whi~,, m~. ~ = : "--, ~:~'~'~.~'~'::~.'~mges" i~'Kltimati "th~liffereueelt~s beeu ,-, narrowed. The white House an- Carter cut short his" MesmWhiin, the families nouncnd in Washington wenkmd at Camp David. were guardedly optimistic that the Iranians had Md., and xeturned to- after many months of it in Tchran earlier wash~qou 'on' Sl~lay to re~tnd dlu~ents. and then the document was be .ready to .mldrms ~l~-----~,We try not to ~et UP, be- flown to Algiers for Christ- . country ..aster (:e~an" ~-".............. : ,..~..-!" PCleaderJ. Clark Indians claiming the sea opher's signatm'e, nouncemenc. .... ...os a x~ sec- • con oo. an~l~mg- at tha last feels the heat amid Two Algerian planes ..ucmem m sq~q~em. \ . , ",-,,- nut we can't h,ln Vancouver Island and 1"he offshore claims also occupation," Woodward Anything that affecm the cold, Page Z- arrived at Tebran airport,. Hissuecos~',Prasidi~t- :..... " " said Jdm queen Charlotte Indians c~ a wrangle hatween said. "The Indians want to •fmbery, such as ~rshore ml prest~nably to pick up the-'~ elect ]Ronald'~_eN~_."_.~d , ~e~e.luP~',~ Sun Ind., be involved in logging, with and gas drilling, seabed are claimtog the ssa as federal and provincial Am.ericans held captivefdr reportem ~y ~ " "~ " 1 " well as land ~racts in the gevcrnments over contr~ separate tree.farm li- mining, or' oil tanker 14½" months, Iranian . .... ~ Den Sharer.. : . '-test native land claims of offshore resources, .eencca or at least can- movemmt, .would have to Six people die in ' authorities sealed off both . submiUed to the federal which has been claimed by pensation." recieve pm?mimion ;from panic-ridden hotel fire, 'the domestic and in- I,, __ , . \ The agreement as ~vemment. both B.C. and the federal the NuuChah-Nulth and Page ternatimal terminals at I~O~JS start " ' r~N~rted by U~. ~dab government in recent T1~e sea claim evolved as Haida ¢ounciin. - rek~mtede b~ roduemm ;The Nuu-Chah-Nulth a natural outgrowth of the ¢ " • cmstitutional talks. The claims are-being . INootka) Council, - claim, he mid. house fir fi.t ,.n,-, ropr~seaUng ~5 bands, is studied- by the federal Vancouver Lawyer Jack _ Both Indian groups are The Magnificent noumee~ Terrace firemen Tn~Idd one had been almost half of Ministy of Indian and Eyewitnesses said or- Wm)dwar~ representing traditional salmon and Swede, Bjorn Borg, responded to a call Vancouv~ Island and the Northern Affairs. med Iranian soldiers and that the•u~, de.sit m ocean fishers and have rec- wins the Masters, reporl~g the h0me of Rick billion in'an escrow ae- adjacent waters. both naUve Kroups, said the Robert Exert, la~Vtm~al Revolutionary Guards that logging affects Page 10. m~aw as So~h Kalum on Haida bands in the claims were submitted not coordinator of native land wwe de~oyed at the two couut in the Algerian .Two ssllzO~ streams. fire Thursday st 11:10 a,m. Queen Charlottes have so ~quch for ownership as " claims, said he douhind the terminals. cemtrnl bank. $14 bilIinn as '"lhere's no questien.that Firemen extinguished the made a similar," although to protect the Indians' B.C. government" would Behead Nabevi, Iran's a ~mrantm; for the return _ these were seafaring In- There's a new are.