P : $ .) Janvory 6, 1988 ( ‘astlégar News A3 he. a2 Castlégar News Jonvory 6, 1960 Judge to look into breakout BURNABY, B.C. (CP) — Reporters got a glimpse of the cells in “the hole” at the Lower Mainland Regional Cor. rectional Centre on Tuesday, while the province named a Vancouver judge to look into last week's escape from by 13 prisoners from the antiquated jail. The maximum security area of the 76-year-old prison, known locally as Oakalla, was the scene of a riot last week, followed by the Ni Year's Day breakout from the segregation area which has renewed decades-old calls to close the jail. Attorney General Brian Smith appointed county court judge Ian Drost to conduct an inquiry into the escape. He said he expects to have Drost's report before the end of February. “It's obviously going to be a challenge,” Drost said in an interview Tuesday. “Obviously, the public has a right to be concerned about what has’ happened.” Drost, 56, was called to the bench in 1985 after 30 years of practising law. His inquiry will deal with the latest prison break as well as earlier escapes, and will make recommendations on informing the public about escapes. A Dec. 11 escape by three prisoners was kept under wraps until last Monday, when one of the escapers still at large spoke to CBC Radio. ’ HOLD HEARINGS Drost will be allowed to hold public hearings but can take evidence from guards, prisoners and others in private if necessary, and can ban publication of evidence temporarily. The final report will be made public, said Smith. Five prisoners from the most recent escape, all con sidered armed and dangerous, remain at large. The latest to be captured was Terry Hall, 23, nabbed Tuesday in a taxi in the Vancouver suburb of Surrey. Hall surrendered to RCMP after calling a TV reporter to say he was ready to give himself up. through on threats to lay charges against the station, Smith said he felt it was necessary to speak out about BCTV’s actions but he wasn't interested in dragging people into court. Meanwhile, reporters got a tour of “the hole,” the segregation area where prisoners sleep on concrete floors and urinate in plastic buckets. Even warden Rene .Gobillot admitted his jail doesn't meet United Nations’ standards. FESTERING SORE “It's draconian,” agreed guard Geordie Craig. “It's a festering sore. It should have been shut down and bulldozed years ago. It's a bad’ place for prisoners and it's a bad place for guards.” Oakalla covers 12 hectares of land in the middle of a large suburb just east of Vancouver. It holds prisoners Hall had given an interview last kend to about inhuman conditions at the prison. Smith condemned BCTV for broadcasting the interview and not tipping police to Hall's whereabouts. But the minister, in an interview Tuesday on CBC's The Journal, hinted he might not follow serving of Jéss than two years, but it's also a stopping point for criminals awaiting transfer to federal penitentiaries. Small barred windows are set in red brick walls that hold nearly 400 prisoners. High walls surround the main TRAIN CRASH... CP Rail crew (top) works on last of five cars that jumped track in downtown Castlegar, while (right) workers repair switch CosNews Photos by Ron Norman building and barbed-wire fences separate the jail from the surrounding hillside homes. Cells in the maximum security unit are a elaustrophobic four square metres, supplying only a bunk, toilet and small basin. Gobillot said UN standards require eight square metres for each prisoner. Prison officials said Tuesday the breakout probably came after a prisoner slung a peanut-filled sock attached to a strip of cloth over the cell's lever-like lock. The safety latch may have been left off. From a food portal on the cell door, he would have been able to simply pull the lever free, unlocking the cell. Two guards were tied up and all the cells were then opened. All but two of the 15 prisoners in the hole chose to flee. A prisoner who said he was involved in the breakout told The Province in an interview Tuesday that the second door on each cell was left open for warmth. “It was damn cold,” said the escaper, who identified himself only as “Butch.” “Some of these guys got bronchial pneumonia.” . Hi-tech systems oo News TREET TALK GEORGE CADY has been re-elected chairman of the Regional District of Central Kootenay. Cady outpolled fopmer RDCK chairman Ned MeNeill of Salmo 13-7. MeNeill had served several terms as chairman before Cady unseated him two years ago. Area J director Martin Vanderpol was returned as the board's vice-chairman and the chairman of the Central Kootenay Regional Hospital District. Castlegar Mayor Audrey Moore has been named to three regional district standing committees. Moore will be the sole member of the advisory fisheries, committee, and a member of the planning committee and water quality committee. She will also be the alternate on the resolutions committee. Area I director John Voykin will chair the planning committee and be the alternate to the Central Kootenay Health Unit. TRAIL LAWYER Donald Sperry is one of 39 notable B.C. lawyers appointed as Queen's Counsels. Attorney General Brian ‘Smith made the announcement after consulting with the chief justice of B.C., the chief justice of the Supreme Court of B.C. and the treasurer-elect of the B.C. Law Society. The number of laywers with QC’s totals 243 in B.C., of a total of 6,114 practising. The criteria used for the BANNERMAN’S LAWYER GRILLS DOUG CHRISTIE VANCOUVER (CP) Lawyer Doug Christie underwent cross-examination Tuesday, in his libel suit against Vancouver radio station CKNW and talk show host Gary Bannerman. Christie was forced to explain comments he made about the holocaust of the Jews during the Second World War, and his association with neo-Nazi propagandist Ernst Zundel, Christie claims he was libelled in a March 1, 1985, broadcast in which Bannerman criticized the Victoria lawyer for defending Ernst Zundel and Jim Keegstra against hate promotion charges. “Doug Christie has aligned himself so many times with these perverted monsters that he has to be viewed as one himself in my view,” said Bannerman, shortly after Zundel's trial in Toronto. “He has allied himself constantly with causes that that are just beyond imagination,” Bannerman said. “They are so close to racism that it's . . . it's very hard to understand his motive.” Zundel was convicted of distributing hate literature that questioned the massacre of Jews by Nazi Germany, but was granted a new trial after an appeal overturned the conviction. Keegstra was convicted of promoting hatred against Jews while teaching at a rural Alberta high school CITES STATEMENT Tom Braidwood, lawyer for CKNW and Bannerman, asked Christie about a statement made to a CBC reporter which was broadcast the day before the Bannerman show. The television reporter asked Christie about his views on the holocaust, which Zundel claims never took place “I have doubts about the way it is presented,” Christie said in the interview. “I think the gas chamber story — I just can't believe it. I'm sorry, I'm just an un believer, but that’s the way it is.” Braidwood asked Christie if he said the words as broadcast on CBC-TV. “Those words, were.obviously uttered by me in some context,” said Christie. Pushing the defence of stification and fair comment,” Braidwood asked Chiistie about where he stayed during Zundel’s two-mont& trial-in Toronto. % Christie said he lived at Zundel's house, with a group of people. He walked to the courthouse in a group every day so police could provide an escort, he said. Police made the suggestion, Christie said, because on the first day of the case Zundel and his supporters were pelted with eggs and ice. Christie was struck on the side of the head PEOPLE PUNCHED “I saw people kicked and punched to the ground,” he said. Braidwood suggested that to defend Zundel, Christie simply needed “to raise a reasonable doubt that your client held an honest belief that what he published was true. “Yet you and your client embarked on a trial to try to show that what he said was actually true.” “On instructions from my client,” answered Christie. Braidwood was barred from asking Christie about his defence of Keegstra, because the Eckville, Alta., teacher's trial took place after the Bannerman broadcast. But he was allowed to question Christie about the 1984 preliminary hearing. Braidwood, reminding Christie that as Keegstra's defence counsel he had a right to obtain a ban on publicity of a preliminary hearing, asked him if he sought such an order. “I followed my client's instructions and didn’t ask,” said Christie. Braidwood suggested the reason was publicity of Keegstra's anti-Semitic views. “You consented to take part in a spectacle trial that was a showpiece . . . by aligning yourself with your client's interest in making the preliminary a spectacle.” “I followed my client's instructions,” Christie repeated. to obtain Eagles in stable condition NANAIMO, B.C. (CP) — More than two dozen Van- couver Island eagles re. mained in critical but stable condition in area veterinary hospitals Tuesday after being accidently poisoned last week. They were among 31 bald eagles that fell ill Friday after feeding on the innards of a sick cow that was des- troyed using a heavy dose of barbiturates. Five of the eagles died, 25 are still being treated and one has been released into the wild, said Robin Camp- bell of the North Island Wildlife Recovery Associa tion. Nanoose veterinarian Ken Langelier, who is nursing the birds, said the eagles were the victims of a Good Samar. itan. Local farmer Fred Bexton tried to help feed starving eagles by leaving the carcass of a neighbor's cow out for the hungry birds three weeks ago. The eagles didn’t start falling ill until Bexton split open the cow's rib cage to expose its organs. “I was feeling depressed for the last few days,” Bexton, 77, said Tuesday. foil jail breaks OTTAWA (CP) — The number of escapes from federal prisons hit a seven year low in 1987, thanks in part to a high-technology de tection system, officials say Fred Mohimann, spokes man for Correctional Service Canada, said Tuesday the system would have’ pre vented last week's mass escape at the Oakalla jail in Burnaby, B.C. Thirteen pri soners fled the 76-year-old provincial institution on New Year's Day Officials say no ‘prisoners broke out of any maximum security penitentiary last year. There were an average of ‘four such escapes each year between 1981 and 1986. There were six escapes in volving nine prisoners from medium-security prisons last year. Over the last six years, there were an annual aver. age of 23 escapes each in. volving an average of 35 prisoners from medium-se curity institutions. Accused believed victim criminal VANCOUVER (CP) — A man accused of murdering a lone picket outside a Van couver grocery wholesaler testified Tuesday he believed the victim was a “dangerous criminal” guarding a ware house filled with drugs Gary Thomson, 34, an un employed truck driver and police informant who used cocaine, told a B.C. Supreme Court jury he killed Ronald Pankowski the morning of Dec. 19, 1986 after seeing a picture of Pankowski in a newspaper. In the picture he saw “a very mean, threatening in. dividual” he supposed to be a guard for illegal activities in the eastside warehouse. Pankowski, 54, the last picket outside Slade. and Ste. wart Ltd. after a two-year labor dispute, died after being stabbed in the chest and_upper—baek. Thomson said he was “wasted” on cocaine and had surrendered his black belt in kung fu shortly before the incident Thomson said he had never met Pankowski before and “found it hard to believe anyone could stand in front of a warehouse for two years.” He believed Pankowski was “a lookout for an illegal drug-venture” and capturing him single-handedly would “be advantageous to me in my quest for getting involved with police work,” he testi fied. He said he had acted “for three or four years” as in formant and agent for the RCMP and capturing Pan. kowski would impress officer Robert Serena. “The act-I committed was totally out of character for me,” he said. “It wasn't part of my involvement with Mr. Serena.” Defence lawyer Ken Con neF-teld_the court Thomson does not deny le killed Pan. kowski and the question is why did “this motive-less killing occur?” Mohlmann said a slight de cline in the size of the entire prison population last year may have contributed to the marked icduction in the number of escapes. He said the new detection system was a key factor. The Perimeter Intrusion Detection System, or PIDS, has been installed in 16 of the country’s 30 maximum. and medium-security prisons over the past 10 years and there have only been two escapes in penitentiaries with the new system. USES FENCES PIDS uses two fences, each equipped with sensors that sound an alarm if they are being climbed, cut or dis turbed. The area between the fences also has sensors to detect once the any movement and alarm goes off, close-circuit television cameras film the area. The perimeter of the pri son is also patrolled 24 hours a day by car_and the system. does away with the need to staff most guard towers. It is also billed as weather-proof. Six more penitentiaries are scheduled to get the detec tion system over the next few years “But nothing is escape proof,” Mohimann said “It's the old story where somebody invents a system and somebody, given enough time — and that’s one thing inmates do have plenty of — we realize that the possibility exists that the system could be defeated College faculty poised to strike VANCOUVER (CP) With 336 faculty members at Douglas College poised to strike, a hearing at the In dustrial Relations Council was scheduled for today to determine whether a strike vote last month was valid Members of the Douglas College Student Society plan to attend the meeting be. cause the Faculty Associa tioh is abiding by the B.C. Federation of Labor's boy cott of the council. Student representatives say they're worried administration offi cials might not present all the pertinent facts to the council The Faculty Association didn’t conduct its strike vote under the council's auspices, as required by the new In dustrial Relations Act, or give strike notice to the council. But faculty and student representatives said Tuesday the college board was in formed prior to the strike vote and invited to oversee it. The association said it informed the college of the vote results but college offi Atlantic cials say they weren't noti fied. “The fact that the college is doing that is infuriating,” said Len Millis, president of the association. “It’s going to get in the way of a settle ment. Faculty are going to be very angry.” Millis said it is unlikely faculty will strike today Anena Johnston, president of the 6,000-member student society, said she attended a Dec. 19 college board meet ing where the faculty's 88 per-cent approval of a strike was announced. Students circulated notices of support for the Faculty Association on campus Tues. day. They said the union's determination to keep clauses in its contract that give faculty some say in selecting instructors is in the interest of students. “The primary thing in the negotiations is faculty want instructors to be chosen on the basis of quality edu cation, not cost,” said John ston shellfish now safe to eat OTTAWA (CP) — Shellfish from most parts of Atlantic Canada are safe to eat and will soon return to grocery shelves and restaurants, the federal government an nounced today But the Dec. 11 ban on the sale of’ oysters, mussels, clams, guahogs and cockles will remain for shellfish from Prince Edward Island, the New Brunswick coast in the Gulf of St. Lawrence and areas along both sides of the Bay of Fundy, government officials said at a news con. ference. Many of those areas could be opened in the next day or two. Additional sampling and analysis of the shellfish from those areas will continue. Certain areas in the rest of the Atlantic provinces, the Iles-de-la-Madeleine and the Quebec coast in the Gulf which have historically been closed, to shellfish harvesting because of pollution or other problems will remain closed. Government officials said growers in the safe areas will tag their shellfish so buyers will know the source and harvest dates. Shellfish from the Atlantic Coast areas of the United States have been checked and approved for sale using the same tests applied to Canadian shellfish. Ottawa banned the sale of Atlantic oysters, mussels, quahogs, clams, and épckels on Dec. 11 as it tried to find out why more than 100 people became ill after exting mussels from Prince Edward Island. At least two died. Since then scientists have discovered the mussels were contaminated by domoic acid, a poison linked to a rare type of seaweed. The Health Department has developed testing pro cedures for detecting domoic acid and will start a moni toring program for shellfish nts includes prof integrity’ and good character, along with outstanding excellence in the practice of the legal profession. Sperry was one of the two defence lawyers in last year's trial of four “brokers” connected to the Dixie Dee Powers's pyramid scheme. RALPH Hargrave has been appointed president of Cominco Alaska, replacing Hank Giegerich. Hargrave will be responsible for Cominco's huge Red Dog project Giegerich will retire this spring-and has been appointed a consultant on the Red Dog project. . Lee , vice-president, of project develop- ment, will assume responsibility for the engineering and construction of Red Dog. MEANWHILE, a Vancouver Sun year-end business survey has included Cominco president and chief executive officer Robert Hallbauer among its list of the province's top 10 executives for 1987. Hallbaver, a native of Nakusp, “slashed the company’s debt to $375 million from $900 million” since he was installed in his present positions in October 1986, the Sun said. Hallbauer assumed the positions when Teck Corp. bought control of Cominco from Canadian Pacific. “The new board also moved quickly to rationalize Cominco's widely diversified mineral property holdings around the world by rolling them into Cominco Resources International Ltd. and selling a chunk to the public,” the Sun said. “This removed the cost of future exploration from Cominco.” -The article said Cominco’s biggest move in 1987 was the decision to develop the $1 billiion Red Dog lead-zine mine, “a decision that assures the future of the company and its new lead and zine smelters at Trail.” STRIKE Farmers lose millions WINNIPEG {€P) — The four-week-old grainhandlers’ strike at Prince Rupert, B.C., is costing western farmers about $50 million monthly, the president of United Grain Growers Ltd. said Tuesday. “I don't think Western Canada can afford that sort of shock right ~now,” Lorne Hehn said. The labor dispute between the Grainworkers’ Union and Prince Rupert Grain Ltd. has shut down the west coast port since Dee. 9. Hehn said Prince Rupert was exporting more than 300,000 tonnes of grain per month at an average price of $150 per tonne. Ministry discusses Grainhandlers strike VANCOUVER (CP) — Federal Labor Minister Pierre Cadieux will hold a special meeting with his ad visers Thursday to discuss the dispute beteen Prince Rupert Grain Ltd. and the Grainworkers’ Union. The strike which has closed the $275-million ele. vator on the northern B.C. coast began Dec. 9, and fed. eral mediator Mike Collins informed Cadieux he was withdrawing from the talks following a meeting with both sides Monday. “The minister is studying that, he is well aware of that dossier,” said Cadieux's spokesman Maryse Pesant. “He will be meeting with his officials Thursday in Ottawa about this, to study that dossier,” said Pesant. Pesant said the minister has several options but would not necessarily legislate the parties back to work when the parliamentgry session resumes Jan. 18. “At @&he moment that is only speculation,” she said Michael Thompson, chief executive officer of Prince Rupert Grain, said he is not calling for such legislation, but said the ministry still has a role to play in the dispute. “Unfortunately, |Labor Canada involvement con- timues to be necessary,” said Thompson. Thompson said the union is holding out for 25-per-cent increase in union jobs, an additional 17 positions. But the union said it merely wants nine jobs re. stored to its members that the company has given to nongnion supervisors since the new facility opened in 1985. “We're just asking for our jobs back,” said Bud Mac- Innes, president of local 333 “Those were always our jobs, working in the panel control room as panel control oper ators and as charge hands or head cleanerman.” “It’s a case of philosophy,” said Thompson. “The union is coming from the 1950s and the elevator is in the 1980s.” “It’s the lost short-term opportunities and the lost reputation that concerns us,” he said. Hehen is one of many farm leaders calling on Ottawa to legislate an end to the strike. United Grain Growers is a 15 per cent shareholder in Prince Rupert Grain and Hehn is a member of the board of directors. 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