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yjjECITY The GAZETTE. Montreal, fri June 10. 1977 3 Commission to probe charges of police brutality or vehicles through picket lines. Picketers, in both cases, he said, were violating articles of the criminal code and city bylaws. Pierre Cloutier of the Human Rights League, also condemned senior police department officials yesterday for allowing riot-squad members to remove their badges, bearing their service number.

The present police disciplinary code contains no ruling on badges, but under a new code expected before the end of summer, uniformed policemen will be required to wear the insignia. club and, when he grabbed it, was thrown to the ground by police, he continued. Fellow picketer, Maurice Amram, president of the Federation Nationale des Communications, also charged that he was struck by a policeman's nightstick, causing a small bruise near his right eye. MUC police official Sgt. Andre Laurendeau reiterated the department's position that, during the demonstrations, officers used only the force necessary to disperse picketers who had ignored requests to let employees Unions who claimed he was beaten by police during the labor demonstration at 'La Presse' said: "What we were doing was purely legal." About 100 people, supporting strikers at a 'La Presse' subsidiary, took part in the demonstration, which blocked distribution of Wednesday's newspaper for several hours.

"Unless there's a change in the police's attitude, we will organize future demonstrations in a way so that we won't be injured," L'Heureux said. He was threatened with a police billy Several people, she said, were hit on the head by police clubs, while two others were hit on the side so badly they had difficulty breathing One picketer, Michel Bissonnette, said he was clubbed and then kicked when he fell to the ground, finally losing consciousness. Belizaire said that during the demonstration by about 50 people, picketers circulated normally and allowed hospital workers to pass through their lines. Andre L'Heureux, vice-president of the Confederation of National Trade By KEN ERNHOFER of The Gazette Justice Minister Marc Andre Bedard said yesterday he has asked the Quebec Police Commission to investigate charges of police brutality at Santa Ca-brini Hospital during a labor demonstration last Friday. "The request does not mean that we recognize there was police brutality, we're just investigating the charge," Jean Nadon, Bedard's press attache, specified.

The Justice Ministry announcement coincided with a call yesterday by the Quebec Human Rights League and four union leaders for an inquiry into charges of police brutality at two demonstrations Santa Cabrini and at the 'La Presse' newspaper Wednesday. Nadon explained that Bedard has asked MUC police for a full report on the circumstances of the 'La Presse' demonstration, in which police allegedly injured two people. Jacqueline Belizaire, president of the union representing about 25 striking laboratory workers at Santa Cabrini, said yesterday that riot-equipped police charged about 50 pickets without warning. Six persons were injured. It's enough to make bandits turn purple jOHr ROBERTSON QC Try to bite education ballot by casting a vote Monday By STEVE KOWCH of The Gazette If some Montreal-area banks have their way bandits who run out the door with their money will turn a bright shade of purple.

About 25 banks here this week have become the first in Canada to load their tills with "bandit packs." The $200 inch-thick device when stuffed in a money packet will detonate outside the bank, spraying the loot and bandit with an unwashable purple dye. The "bandit pack" is activated by a control box in the door of the bank, which sets the timer anywhere from 25 seconds to four minutes. The first victim of the "bandit pack" was a young man who held up the Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce Wednesday at 9490 L'Acadie Blvd. He escaped in a car with $1,000 but a few blocks from the bank, the pack exploded. Police said the bandit who has still not been captured, threw most of the purple-stained money out the car window, but they suspect his hands will still be purple from the dye.

Bank officials say money stained by the device will not be accepted, and that anyone trying to pass such tinted cash will run the chance of being ar Masked 'psychic' Elchonen Truck owners reject cuts in autoroutes Magician unmasks 'psychic' fraud About 1.2 million Montreal Island residents are eligible to vote in school board elections Monday. Most of you won't bother You moan and groan about school taxes. You carp and complain about teach-. er salaries, their working hours and all those professional days. Yuu turn out in the hundreds of thousands to sign a petition clamoring for freedom of choice in language of instruction.

You raise hell at home and school association and parents committee meetings if you ever bother going to one about teacher-pupil ratio, bus service, vandalism in schools, immersion courses, extra-curricular activities, or about the way Little Johnny's teacher is being mean to him. You clamor for all your neighbors to "stand up and be counted" against Bill One education regulations, and quote all sorts of doomsday statistics about the eventual extinction of English schools in Quebec, as we know them. But on the one day in the last four years that you actually have a voice in the shaping of the future of the school system; on the one day you can actually determine the calibre of person who will represent your interests and your children's interests in the most sensitive and controversial area in Quebec today, odds are you will just yawn 2nd say: "Election? What election?" Or maybe you'll just throw up your hands in disgust and say: "Yeah. I know all about it. But what's the use of voting in some crummy school board election when the PQ government is calling all the shots on education in Bill One anyway." That makes about as much sense as saying: "Why bother voting when the referendum on federalism is called? The francophone vote is going to decide it anyway." Space doesn't permit me going into all the things that are at stake in this school board election, but for starters the full-scale clash between PQ militants and the Catholic Church over the future of confessional boards has taken the heat of the campaign right up into the church pulpits.

Suffice to say, no matter what ward or sector you are in. the most important reason for voting is sitting right beside you at the breakfast table. Your school-age child. Three out of four eligible voters stayed home in 1973. Only 23 per cent of the 558,000 Montreal Catholic School Commission voters made it to the polls.

The PSBGM tour-nout was little better 27 per cent. Verdun was 22.9, Lakeshore 25.5, North Centre 26.6, East Montreal 30 per cent. What is even more disgraceful, 25 of the 100 commissioners won by default, or to put it more politely, by acclamation. This time round, in the Lakeshore Protestant School Board election, nine of 15 wards aren't even being contested. In Baldwin Cartier, where Ward 3 was won by only one vote when just 20 per cent of the electorate turned out, five of nine wards are going by default this time.

It puzzles and infuriates me how we can get so militant about the preservation of the English school system; go to Save Canada committee meetings and political rallies and blaspheme at the government for interfering with the educational rights of our children but when it comes time for us actually to participate in determining what calibre of educational institution our children will be attending for the next few years, most of us can't be bothered. A little experiment I'd like you to try a little experiment. If you don't bother to vote on Monday and all people 18 years and over can. whether or not you are a parent or a porperty owner sit down and try to explain your reason for not voting to the rest of the family. You are perfectly happy with the school commissioner you have now? Fine.

Go vote for him or her again. Is there ONE aspect of Little Johnny's education that can be improved? Then vote for the person best suited to represent your concern. After the countless educational debates I've been involved in since 1973, it's hard to believe that it is actually necessary even to write this column, pleading with you to get out and vote on Monday. For the pitiful amount of money they are paid, the people you elect could earn more baby sitting. They're in it because they care about your child's education.

And how do you think they'll feel even if they win, if they know that three out of four of their neighbors didn't care enough even to bother to vote for or against them. If ever our school commissioners needed your support, it is now. If you don't, vote on Monday, don't ever complain. 1 1 By DAVID CAMP of The Gazette A provincial study which favors mass transport, instead of autoroute development in Montreal, was dismissed yesterday as unrealistic by Quebec truck owners. Robert Goyette.

president of the Association du Camionnage du Quebec, said the study released Wednesday by Municipal Affairs Minister Guy Tar-dif reflect the government's taste for "social policies at the expense of economic policies." "Toronto is going to surpass Montreal as the first city of this country because it understands the vital impor-tance of a good network of autoroutes," he said. The study says development of Autoroute 13 should be stopped and only $100 million allotted up to 1986 to improve the existing road system in the Montreal Urban Community and outlying areas. And it wants a halt called to: Autoroute 19 to St. Jerome, which at present runs 4.5 miles from Metropolitan Boulevard to Laval. Autoroute 13 to Mirabel, which is rested.

"We don't lose stained money that is recovered. We send it to the Bank of Canada as damaged currency and they reimburse us," said a bank official. Montreal was picked by the Canadian Banker's Association as the first city in the country to try out the device because of the high number of robberies here. Last year MUC Police recorded 600 bank robberies, and 328 bank holdups already have been reported this year. U.S.

banks have been using a similar device for years, but as well as a dye it emits a tear gas.Canadian law prevents this additional effect. It costs the banks about $1,000 a branch to set up the system. This includes magnetic plates in the bottom of cash drawers to prevent the device from detonating prematurely, and a control box at the door to activates the timer. Banks in shopping centres or indoor malls likely will set the timer for a longer delay than those in branches on street corners. "We don't want the device to explode inside a crowded area where the bandit might panic and shoot someone," said one bank official.

Most of the "bandit packs" have been installed in branches considered to be high risks for holdups. intended to carry airport traffic. Autoroute 30 to Valleyfield, which so far runs from St. Hubert to Sorel. Autoroute 440 to He Bizard.

The Trans-Canada highway. Highway 640 and the Laurentian Autoroute also are deemed long enough. Lawrence Hanigan, chairman of the Montreal Urban Community, said yesterday he is satisfied with the study's general orientation. He agrees in general with a recommendation to extend the Metro, but said there should be further examination of specific extensions. The study proposes spending $500 million on expanding the Metro to Laval; a new connection to the South Shore via Champlain Bridge; and an eastward extension of the Longueuil link.

Hanigan said he is pleased with a proposal to increase the population density in the city with 300,000 new housing units, rather than allow further urban sprawl. The study prepared by the province's municipal and planning departments, will be considered with other reports by an inter-ministerial committee. "The average bank robber today may have to pull five times as many jobs as the bank robber 10 years ago to come out with the same amount of money." He concludes that the risks involved in committing a holdup, coupled with exceedingly low returns, has made it an extremely poor investment. "The Canadian bank robber may shortly become a victim of the law of diminishing returns." In Montreal which accounts for 65-70 per cent of the country's robberies the returns are slightly higher, averaging from $2,000 to $3,000 each. But Stone is optimistic that this figure too will decline in the future.

"We're fighting a losing battle our apprehension rate is 35-40 per cent but maybe we're finally getting the edge on bank robbers." Stone attributes his optimism to rapidly improving security systems on the part of banks, especially in terms of photographing the robbers. "What better evidence can you have but a photograph of the criminal?" Only about 40 per cent of Montreal's banks have installed the cameras and the average apprehension rate for those banks is estimated at around 80 per cent. i "But Montreal is a big city, with lots of places to hide," notes Stone. "We're still fighting an uphill Gantta. Garth "rilchard didn't fool Henry Gordon.

by these fakes that's why I pulled this hoax," he said. Gordon, who has been campaigning against psychics for five years, appearing on numerous radio and television shows, described himself as a "roving ambassador" for the Committee for the Scientific Investigation of the Claims of the Paranormal. Established last year in the United States by such notables as Isaac A ji-mov, B.F. Skinner and Sidney Hcok, the committee challenges "any person with claims to possessing paranormal powers to come forward and be tested under strict controls." "As far as I know, the committee has not had one taker yet," said Gordon. "And you know why they're afraid? Because they're all fakes." When several members of the audience demanded their $3 back, complaining "they came to see a demonstration of the paranormal, not to hear a lecture," Gordon conceded, but proceeded to perform some psychic tricks bending keys and "reading" minds.

"I'm a magician, and so are they (psychics)," he claimed. I g) LES TERRASSES 701 It CatkariM tl i I 1 1 Win. iii Teenage bank robbers business is booming Ml Jteqij HAMMQWD By CRAIG TOOMEY of The Gazette Henry Gordon, the veteran Montreal magician and anti-occultist, was up to his old tricks this week. But he didn't amuse many in his audience. During a performance of the newly-emerged Canadian psychic Elchonen, at the Saidye Bronfman Centre on Wednesday nigh, Gordon exposed him as a fraud.

But Elchonen, his identity hidden by a mask to protect his "reputation as a scientist," didn't seem to mind. He had advertised himself as a veteran psychic, specialising in telepathy, psychokinesis, precognition and clairvoyance, who, until now, had been participating in numerous experiments "in the strictest of secrecy" in the United States. For about 30 minutes he appeared to live up to his claims, "reading" some of the 200 minds in the audience, moving a rocking chair from a distance of 10 feet among other things. But when he re-emerged from a five minute break to prepare for his "most difficult feat," Elchonen was exposed as a fake, by Henry Gordon. Because Elchonen was Henry Gordon.

Audience confused "How many of you people believed that fraud who was here before you?" Gordon asked the confused and somewhat disgruntled audience. When a third raised their hands he expressed no surprise. "Hundreds of thousands of people are being taken in Eight held in police drug raids RCMP and MUC police arrested eight persons and seized more than $200,000 worth of drugs during a series of raids in Montreal in the past two days. The raids were made during a two-day meeting here of police narcotics agents from three countries, amid mounting speculation that the "French Connection" an underground network for smuggling heroin from France to the United States may be revived. A four-month undercover operation by RCMP and MUC police resulted early yesterday in the arrest of four men and two women and the seizure of cocaine and morphine which, police said, has a street value of $50,000.

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"Unfortunately, most probation offices are too overworked and understaffed to make that possible." Another problem, says Stone, is that juveniles in Quebec cannot be photographed or fingerprinted. "This makes investigation and apprehension extremely difficult. When you have a society which has lost the fear of apprehension, you're bound to find more people taking a chance." Michael Ballard, chief of security for the Canadian Bank Association, attributes the increase in juveniles repeating a bank robbery to. the fact that they're getting away with less and less money for each job. average Canadian bank robber had a gross annual income of $2,319,37 in 1976." Ballard says the average loss per robbery fell last year to the lowest point in 10 years.

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