The Leader-Post from Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada • 62

The Leader-Post Regina, Saskatchewan Wednesday, January 25, 1 62 General Janslaughter verdict er waiting Not gyil for proof of charge jot reviewed by court women in death OTTAWA (CP) THe Supreme Court of Canada decided Tuesday not to review the manslaughter conviction of John Edward Kenney, a Saint John, N.B., man found guilty of starting a fire last June which killed 21 men in a prison block. A three member high court panel headed by Mr. Justice Ronald Martland said it found no reason why the decision of the New Brunswick courts should not stand. The panel dismissed arguments by Kenney's lawyer, Anthony Allman, that the trial judge did not properly put the defence theory before the jury. Allman also argues there was evidence from the prosecution itself that Kenney did not have the means to start the fire which caused the deaths.

Mr. Justice Willlard Estey, one of the three judges hearing the motion, said the defence theory consisted of Kenney testifying that he did not have matches when he entered his cell and of evidence both from the defence and prosecution that a search of Kenney's pockets before he entered the cell found no matches. All of this had been placed properly before the jury by the trial judge, Estey said. He also turned aside Allman 's argument that the trial judge did not differentiate between what Allman termed important and unimportant evidence. Judge Estey said Allman seemed to suggest the trial judge should install a neon light in his courtroom and flash it on and off to alert jurors as to the importance of his summing up.

Evidence was that Kenney was arrested for causing a disturbance in a Saint John hotel and taken to a detention area outside the police department's cell blocks. He was searched and cigarettes and matches were found before he was placed in a cell. Kenney continued "loud abusive behavior" disturbing other prisoners. So he was placed in a padded cell. At the time he carried an unlit cigarette.

posed new federal advisory board on Indian economic development. The minister said he is satisfied that progress is being made toward viable economic development on Alberta reserves. While sophisticated accounting systems create difficulties in managing some projects, that does not indicate dishonesty. "To be perfectly honest, it is an immense task to promote viable economic development on the reserves," he said. "I think if we are really serious about (economic development) we have to recognize that some businesses fail and others succeed." Meanwhile, Cardinal told a local service club that he had been just exercising his prerogative as regional Indian affairs director when he witheld funds from bands whose books were not given clear audits by accountants.

Officials who had previously held the position were afraid to tackle administrative problems which included mismanagement of funds and kickbacks to government officials, he said. "They were afraid if they took a hard line the Indians involved would mount a lobby to take their case to Ottawa and Ottawa would overthrow their decision. "In retrospect, it now seems that those officials who were afraid for their jobs were right." EDMONTON (CP) Federal Indian Affairs Minister Hugh Faulkner said Tuesday he is still waiting for Harold Cardinal to substantiate allegations of corruption in the Alberta regional office of the department of Indian affairs. Cardinal, who was fired as regional director of the department by Faulkner last November after representatives of the Indian Association of Alberta had requested his dismissal, had charged that Indian Affairs officials were taking kickbacks, Faulkner said at a news conference. "If a case is to be made for the existence of kickbacks, all he has to do is name names," the minister said.

"I told him (Cardinal) the moment he gives me the names, I will investigate. When he makes these allegations without names, I think that's irresponsible." The minister, in Edmonton to meet department staff and Indians band representatives, said he expects to receive Jack Beaver's report into the Alberta department on Thursday. Beaver, a retired Ontario businessman, has been conducting an investigation into further allegations made by Cardinal that millions of dollars of department money has been mismanaged. Faulkner said he hopes to persuade Beaver to take on directorship of a pro LONDON, Ont. (CP) Russell Maurice Johnson of London pleaded not guilty Tuesday in Ontario Supreme Court to charges of first-degree murder in the deaths of three Ontario women during the last three years.

Johnson, 30, is charged with the murders of Diane Beitz, 23, of Guelph, in December, 1974; Luella Jeanne George, 23, of London, in April, 1977; and Donna Veldboom, 22, also of London, in July, 1977. Each of the women lived alone in apartments and were strangled anci sexually assaulted. In his opening statement, Crown Attorney Michael Martin said he would produce evidence to show how Johnson killed the women by slipping into their apartments as they slept. Body was bound Miss Beitz's body was found by her fiance. Her hands were bound behind her back with panty hose.

Miss George was attacked when someone broke into her fourth-floor apartment. Martin said evidence would be produced to show the attacker reached the apartment by climbing from balcony to balcony. Miss Veldboom was found in her second-floor apartment. Johnson was living in a downstairs apartment in Miss Veld-boom's building at the time of the attack. Martin said Johnson, a divorced father of one child, began associating after his divorce with a woman who lived in Miss Beitz's apartment building in Guelph.

He said evidence would show that Miss Beitz was killed at the time Johnson was in Guelph visiting his father. Dr. John Hillsdon-Smith, director of forensic pathology for Ontario, said Miss Beitz's death was caused by strangulation and there were signs a sexual attack had occurred after death. He said there were no signs of bruises indicating her Fungicide available soon Russell Johnson hands had been tied after death occurred. In an earlier proceeding to determine Johnson's mental fitness to stand trial.

Dr. Douglas Wickware, a psychiatist at the University of Western Ontario, testified that Johnson has a mental disorder that manifests itself in constant repetition of hand washing. However, the disorder would not interfere with his capacity to take part in the trial. Dr. Russell Fleming, a psychiatrist at the Mental Health Centre in Penetangui-shene, where Johnson has been under observation since his arrest last July 28, said Johnson suffers acute episodes of a psychotic nature in which he loses touch with reality.

However, there were extended periods of stability between episodes. The trial continues. A new fungicide known as benolin, used to control the spread of the fungus blackleg in rapeseed, should be available to farmers by mid-February, according to a spokesman for Saskatchewan Wheat Pool, which is marketing the product. Blackleg has been found in 17 per cent of rapeseed land Saskatchewan. The fungicide combines benolate, now used to control blackleg, with the chemical lindane, used to treat flea beetles.

The two must be used together to be effective. Powdered lindane, when applied separately, tends to neutralize the benolate. George Stretton, district director of Agriculture Canada's plant products division, said Monday. "We've found that most farmers want the seed as completely treated as possible before planting," he said. The Pool spokesman said the fungicide "will control blackleg spores on the seed, not on the thatch or on the residue in the soil." The chemical cannot destroy the fungus once it has infected the rapeseed crop, but it can prevent it from spreading to uncontaminated land.

Leasing policy said softening The committee met Agriculture Minister Edgar Kaeding Monday afternoon and Linthicum said Kaeding wants SSGA suggestions on how they would like to see the lease policy changed. there a difference The provincial government has apparently softened its stance on amending its controversial new Crown land leasing policy. Under new lease regulations which came into effect about a year ago. Crown land can only be transferred if the new owner is a member of the previous owner's family. Cattlemen in the southwest, where it is not uncommon for producers to own only a small part of their total ranch, strongly protested the changes.

They said viable ecnomic ranching units were being destroyed and the whole ranching way of life was threatened by the restrictions because few persons will buy a ranch without a guarantee of pasture land for grazing. Their objections had fallen on deaf ears but Frank Linthicum, chairman of the Saskatchewan Stock Growers' Association lease committee, told the SSGA semi-annual meeting things have changed. Schumacher may quit stween fireplaces? The letter is the latest move in a dispute over the party nomination in the new Alberta riding of Bow River. In it, Schumacher complains of irregularties during an October nominating meeting that chose a former Alberta Social Credit cabinet minister, Gordon Taylor, over him as party candidate for the next federal election. The Conservative party executive, after investigating the incident, reported that it could find nothing amiss.

But Schumacher says he is unsatisfied. He argues that there were fewer Conservative party members in the riding than the number of ballots cast. OTTAWA (CP) MP Stan Schumacher says he'll quit the Progressive Conservative party if something isn't done to stop "gross interference in local affairs" by the national party organization. In a tough letter to fellow Conservative MPs, Schumacher describes; the federal organization as an overbearing, over-centralized machine run by "ex-Liberal executive assistants," a reference to Opposition leader Joe Clark's two top advisers chief of staff Bill Neville and head policy adviser Duncan Edmonds. Both are former aides to Liberal cabinet ministers.

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