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Page IS, The Citizen, Ottawa, Thursday, January 22, 976 IMillhaven design spells tension and trouble, says prisoner KINGSTON, Ont. (CP) Millhaven penitentiary, its structural design and the ominous feeling of armed supervision, creates a tension there that is bound to spell trouble, a prisoner testified Wednesday. I The prisoner, who said he has spent more than 20 "years in Canadian penal institutions, told a federal inquiry that Millhaven is the worst he has seen because prisoners there "live under the gun." He said that because the guards carry guns in open bolsters, "a man has a feeling right away that he's under be gun that if he makes a wrong move he'll be shot right there." "Tension is the main pioblem and the layout and design of the penitentiary contribute to this," he testified. "If the prisoners are tense, the guards are tense. And where there's tension there's trouble." The inquiry is investigating an incident in which tear gas and force were allegedly used on the Following the incident last November, a number of prisoners were transferred to Kingston peniteniary.

"It was like going from a frying pan into a nice cool lake," one prisoner testified. "Before, we were alt so tense paranoid would be the word." "But now they let us out into the corridor, let us see TV and don't bother us," another said. "On the whole, it's very difficult to adjust to." Conditions also got better at Millhaven after they left, the inquiry was told. "Things have improved 100 per cent," one said. "Now we have three showers a week and we have TV and card-playing privileges that was unheard of before." prisoners last November.

Names of prisoners testifying are being withheld at the direction of inquiry chairman Inger Hansen, Canadian Penitentiary Services ombudsman. Another prisoner testified that he volunteered to go Into segregation at Millhaven so that he could keep to himself and stay out of trouble. Even then, he said, he couldn't escape the guards' jibes. "For example," he said, "one guy told me a joke and a guard said I'd be taken to the bole if I didn't stop laughing." The hole was described as an area of bare, single cells containing only a bed and toilet bole. ,1 i Housing corporation slapped r'j i 'V -CP photo leased to the press in January, 1973.

Even after the purchasers were revealed, the agents never used the threat of expropriation in their negotiations with land owners, he said. Mr. McKeown said there was no doubt that land prices rose considerably when people found out the government was buying. "It was easier when nobody knew who the purchaser was." He did not fault OHC for failing to use expropriation. "It leaves a lot Broadbent requests release By Th Prm New Democratic Party 'leader Ed Broadbent called Wednesday on the government to immediately release Dr.

Henry whose jury acquittal on a charge of "performing an illegal abortion was upheld Tuesday the Quebec Court of Appeal. Mr. Broadbent said in a statement that it was "clearly the responsibility the federal government ensure that justice is done." No other person in the country remains in prison jury acquittals, the statement said. The government should grant a pardon and put Ian end to the "unjust of Dr. Mor-gentaler, he said.

"Only by such a course action can the fun damental democratic prin of trial by one peers be preserved. Mr. Justice Addy re- called several examples of "greatly inflated prices" which were provided by the witnesses: 211.3 acres purchased in uctooer, ivu, tor $285.37 per acre, sold eight months later to OHC for $1,606 per acre. 37.5 acres purchased in October 1972 for $347 an acre sold nine months later to OHC for $1,692 per acre. 24 acres purchased in April 1971 for $384 per acre sold to OHC 27 months later for $1,611 per acre.

36 acres purchased in August 1972 for $775.84 an acre and sold to OHC six months later for $1,593 an acre. Mr. Justice Addy pointed out that the Karams Parents sit-in MONTREAL Francoisc Lamy and J.B. Genest, parents of students at Paul Gerin-Lajoie School in the suburb of Outremont, explain their presence in a class Wednesday after they and about 100 other parents occupied the school. The parents are supporting teachers in their contract negotiations with the Quebec government.

bought the 79 acres in question only one day be- fore the NCC gave notice of expropriation, although he found no evidence that mis was inyining morc than a coincidence. The judge said "the agents for Ontario Housing Corporation in the majority of cases must have paid a much higher price per acre than the actual value at the time when one compares their purchases to other land purchases in the imme diate vicinity." OHC used the A. E. Lepage realty company to purchase the property. Hugh McKeown, man- ager of the Lepage office in Ottawa, said agents of his office did not know who they were buying for until the news was re- Cross Medal of Bravery, a National Defense spokesman said today.

M.H. "Scot-ty" Lamb, senior administrative officer at the National Defense Medical Centre, said Capt. Connors is also being considered as a nominee for a Governor-General's Order of Bravery award. He said it appears likely Capt. Connors will be nominated for the Governor-General's Cross of Valor, Star Cline guilty on 7 Which award will not guilty of kidnapping better taste in the mouths of people who are able to negotiate a price for their property rather than be expropriated." He said A.

E. Lepage only did what it was told to do. he win? of Courage or Medal of Bravery following completion of police and fire department investigations of the blaze at 211 O'Connor St. A city hall spokesman said Capt. Connors would also qualify for a citation for bravery.

A second man, Robert Brunet, a tenant in the damaged building who helped in the rescue, may also be eligible for the city awards. was temporarily out of order and the main front elevator was being used Wednesday. Charges may be laid pending further investigation into the escape attempt. counts, marked the beginning of a 21 -hour armed siege of the famhouse. Murder suspect 'on drugs' LETHBRIDGE, Alta.

(CP) A man accused of murdering a 17-year-old Medicine Hat service station attendant took drugs the night before the youth died, an Alberta Supreme Court jury was told Wednesday. Charles Allan Parker, 20, of Pembroke, is charged with murder pun- ishable by life imprison- ment in connection with the death of Peter van Erde, who was found lying in a pool of blood Aug. 22, 1974. Richard Joseph Denom mee, 23, oi Brampton, who was convicted of the murder in April and sentenced to life lm- prisonment, testified that prior to coming to Medicine Hat, Parker purchased two capsules of heroin in Swift Current. Denommee said Parker took at least one of the slips out of 'cuffs By John Ward Csntditn Prm tuft writer LONDON, Ont.

An Ontario Supreme Court jury found Donald Wayne Cline guilty Wednesday on seven of eight counts but not guilty of kidnapping. The jury, seven men and five women, deliberated for more than 13 hours before finding Cline guilty of three charges of armed robbery, two of attempted murder and one each of extortion and possession of stolen goods. Cline was remanded to March 29 for sentencing. During his own testimony on the witness stand, Cline had admitted he was guilty of armed robbery and extortion but denied the other charges. The verdicts, marking the end of the nine-day trial, came exactly one year after the story began.

During the trial, the court was told Cline and four companions set out in a stolen car Jan. 21, 1975, to rob a bank in Thames-ford, just east of here. Evidence showed they arrived after the bank was closed and instead robbed An Armed Forces captain, who rescued four people from a burning apartment building Wednesday, is being considered for a military commendation. Capt. John Connors, 27, of 27 Kingsland Canadian Forces Base Ottawa-South, is being considered by a military committee for one of several awards for acts of valor in peacetime, the highest being the George Prisoner A prisoner being escorted to provincial court performed a brief magic act Wednesday when he slipped out of his handcuffs and attempted to escape.

Police were escorting to provincial court when the prisoner slipped off his handcuffs in the main lobby of the Waller Street police headquarters. He ran out the main door in his break for freedom, but was collared by police on the front steps. A police spokesman said (juinCS One LONDON (CP) John Floyd, chairman of Christies the auctioneers, has announced a break with a 200-year-old tradition. The firm will stop dealing in guineas and sell in pounds. today that although the prisoner had "small wrists," police handcuffs were going to be checked for defects.

Usually a back elevator is used when escorting prisoners but the elevator By Orland French Cltlm mT vriitr Mr, Justice George Addy chastised the Ontario Housing Corporation in a decision Wednesday for paying too much for land in Carlsbad Springs. He was ruling on an appeal against an expropriation offer from the National Capital Commis--fon, taking into account land prices paid in the vicinity. In 1974, the NCC expropriated 4,000 acres of land around the OHC parcel to create a buffer zone between the "new city" slated for Carlsbad Springs and continuing expansion of the present urban area of Ottawa. Property owners Philip and Norma Karam wound up dealing with both the NCC and OHC, their- parcel of land straddled the boundary between the two land assembly areas. Without expropriation, they sold 89.9 acres to OHC for $2,000 an acre.

Through expropriation, they were offered $900 an acre by the NCC. They appealed, claiming that prices paid by OHC in the area indicated their property was worth far more. Mr. Justice Addy agreed it was worth slightly more, and set a price of ,035 for each of the .3 acres involved. There was a great deal of money involved, for the Karams's real estate eva-luators thought their land was worth between $330, 000 and $335,000, while the NCC's evaluators thought the value was between $125,600 and $148, 500.

Mr. Justice AriHv ruled that the priccl paid by 0HC should not deter. mine other land vaIues An artifical market within the area of south-east city during the assembly of lands and that the land-banking operation became knowni reSulting in greatly acceerated and innated and prices wkhin the lim. nr anA.hanV area he said. He noted that witnesses for the NCC testified that the rapid acceleration of nriPAS uofl ahnnrmal anH that the high prices paid by OHC should be used accnctfti hv fwn men in the washroom of the Clarence Street establishment about 10 p.m.

He had the $400 in loose $20 bills in his pants pockets. Mr. Strauss suffered bruises but refused medical treatment. 777-5711 There is now no on, in the light of the 'decision of the court of appeal, for the government to permit the continuing undermining of our system of justice," he said. 'dampens' i Canada spirit EDMONTON (CP) I Premier Peter Lougheed Alberta says Prime I- Minister Trudeau is dam-I pening the spirit of Cana- by suggesting that more government regulation of the economy is inevitable.

In a CTV interview for broadcast today on Cana-da AM, Mr. Lougheed said the prime minister is i stretching his luck if he thinks he can change the economy without agree-; ment from the provinces. "I think Trudeau knows that," the premier said. "I wonder therefore why he enters into such unilateral rules as export taxes. "I think he's getting himself into a difficult position because Canada is federal state and I don't think the prime minister '-Can operate on an eco- nomic basis without the general support of the provinces," Mr.

Lougheed r-said. He said Trudeau never I emphasizes the need for personal initiative, personal incentive and personal res-; ponsibility. I-! "What's disturbing it is that he is I talking about a much controlled society in Canada than in the U.S. in many of the other democracies that we see. "I think that the nature 1 of Canadians is to want to be enterprisers.

Wagner defends $300,000 fund FREDERICTON (CP) Claude Wagner, head of the Quebec wing of the federal Progressive Conser Manager can 't quit CFVO's general manager Gilles Poulin said today he won't be quitting his job at Hull's co-operative television station because the board of directors won't accept his resignation. At a meeting this week, the board refused to accept a Jan. 9 letter of resignation on the grounds Mr. Poulin was needed to negotiate a $300,000 loan for the station. The general manager tendered his resignation after announcing that 11 employees would be cut from staff and local programming reduced to help offset a $150, 000 deficit.

Mr. Poulin said at the time he was resigning because he was finally sure of the station's financial stability. He denied that a union request for his resignation had precipitated his resignation. a grocery store, getting $789.30. The group then drove to the nearby farmhouse of George and Marie Field.

Cline told the court he had known the family for years Eventually, the jury heard, two police officers London detective Fred Schell and Constable Paul Valliere of the Ontario Provincial Police arrived at the house searching for the robbery suspects. Testimony showed Cline surprised the officers and disarmed them at gunpoint. He fired at the officers before releasing Det. Schell, who said he would clear the area of police and arrange for a getaway. The detective flashed a warning instead.

Constable Valliere waited until Cline was distracted and then ran downstairs and dived through a screen door to safety. The house was surrounded by police and Cline sent Mrs. Field out to tell then he was holding the children hostage. That James Johnston, a former national director of the party and a publisher in Cobourg and Port Hope will head the Ottawa office for the campaign. Mr.

Johnston wrote a book, tie Party's Over, about how party insurgents led by Dalton Camp unseated Mr. Diefenbaker. Sean O'Sullivan, former executive assistant to Mr. Diefenbaker and now MP. for Hamilton-Wentworth, will assist Mr.

Johnston. capsules before he left as a comparison for other Swift Current and took a in the areai capsule of LSD shortly after arriving in Medicine Hat the morning of the 1 murder. Man robbed Denommee testified that the two approached the in WaSlirOOni service station attendant A man who had been and asked to use the drinking at the Raceway washroom. Denommee said Tavern in Lower Town when he came out of the was up and robbcd washroom he saw Parker of S400 in the washroom standing behind the cash of the tavern Wednesday Denommee said when he Ervin Frederick Strauss, approached the accused, of 2s Glenmanor Ne-Parker picked up a ham- pean Township, was mm anH coin hr malr Strike at B.C. Rail NORTH VANCOUVER, B.C.

(CP) The Teamsters Union struck the Crown-owned British Columbia Railway on Wednesday, citing lack of progress in negotiations with the Social Credit government. B.C. Rail spokesman Hugh Armstrong said the Teamsters' action effectively shuts down the railway. The union, representing 270 warehousemen, truck-drivers and office workers at the railway, put up picket lines Wednesday at the North Vancouver terminus of B.C. Rail.

Early today work crews were off the job in Prince George. Ed Zimmerman, a union spokesman, blamed the provincial government for the strike. He said that before the Dec. 11 election, New Democratic Party government was offering a fairly substantial package to the workers. But the the new Social Credit government will only bargain within the federal anti-inflation guidelines, even though it is not bound by them, Mr.

Zimmerman said. A meeting between the union, B.C. Rail and Labor Minister Allan Williams is scheduled for this afternoon in Victoria. MP Baker to chair Hellyer convention Wide- 'J body I "vv, sure he doesn't move." At that moment, Denommee said he saw the body of the attendant lying behind the counter. The two then took money from the station and fled, he said.

The trial continues. 5 free stereo entertainment, comfort, and non-stop service. i vative party and a candidate for the party's leaders-ship, defended Wednesday establishment of a $300,000 fund to supple- Tment his income as an I MP. Mr. Wagner was speak- ing to delegates to the '-'party's national convention --'scheduled for Feb.

19-22 in Ottawa, where a new fT "leader is to be chosen to replace Robert Stanfield. Mr. Wagner said the fund seems to bother some By The CtntdUa Prea Walter Baker, Progressive Conservative deputy House leader, was named Wednesday as convention chairman for leadership candidate Paul Hellyer. Mr. Baker, MP for Grenville-Carleton, will be responsible for convention arrangements for Mr.

Hellyer. Mr. Hellyer's supporters aho announced the appointment to campaign offices of two party figures closely identified with former prime minister John Diefenbaker. 'people but is not bother- CONSTRUCTION (75) CUSTOM HOME BUILDERS TIME FOR HOME IMPROVEMENT NOW WTERKDR AND EXTERIOR HOME RENOVATIONS OUR SPECIALTY AUMNRJM SIDING, DOORS. WINDOWS EAVESTROUGHS i jng Conservatives nor the delegates.

fX He said other MPs, in-f eluding former prime min-ijster Lester Pearson, have had similar funds but wer-f- en't criticized as harshly he has been. We've got more L-lOll's, 747s, and in-flight entertainment than anybody in Canada has. We've also made great improvements in our economy meal service. So even if your next wide-body isn a non-stop, its service will be. AIR CANADA for a ran i en mati.