\° CASTLEGAR NEWS, Septomber 9, 1981 Demons in house cause family to flee LEE, MASS. (AP) — Lui Passetto says he decided the demons had the upper hand after he was chased by a stuffed dog, his wife was clawed by a hump-backed apparition and furniture started flying all over the place. The 29-year-old paper fac- Personality traits begin in the womb TORONTO (CP) — Preg- nant mothers who talk lov- ingly and often to their un- born children will positively affect the personality of their child throughout its life, says a Toronto psychiatrist. tory worker and his wife and two children, ages 11 and 14, have abandoned their two- storey yellow frame house for the fourth time in six months, They say they are not going back until an ex- orcist gets rid of its spooky tenants. * Passetto described attacks on his wife, Dale, 36, by a “demonic spirit" and told of decapitated religious statues, smashed furniture, levitating beds, and a butcher knife stuck ominously in a kitchen table. The Roman Catholic family had lived for two years in the house Passetto’s grandpar- ents built 58 years ago in this quiet little town. Then, on March 19, Passetto says, the “white image” showed up, a boy about eight years old dressed in white, So, on June 3, he called in a priest, a friend who per- formed a mass in the house to exorcise the unwanted guest. “After that, things started to happen in the house,” Passetto said. "They got a lot worse.” The “black image” came cailing, a shadowy hooded figure six feet tall, hunched over, with what appeared to be a big bubble on its back. ‘The apparition also has very big feet, Passetto says. “Since that time, my wife's been thrown out of bed, thrown across the room, the bed was levitated two feet off the floor. It threw a thou- sand-pound bookcase with books and all across the room.” Provincial winner The Sept. 4 Provincial winning ticket number is 6000044. This ticket, with its complete $500,000. Additional prizes are $50,000 for the last six digits; number, wins $1,000 for the last five digits; $100 for the last four digits; $25 for the last three digits and $10 for the last two digits. The next draw takes place this Friday. < A. butcher's knife was stuck in the middle of the kitchen table, the refriger- ator moved, heads were cut off religious statues, a cruci- fix was hurled down a stair- case and Passetto was con- ked on the head by a levita- ting coffee pot. “My daughter had’ a big stuffed dog that chased both my wife and I through my daughter's bedroom.” Psychic researchers Ed- ward and Lorraine Warren began investigating the go- ings-on at the Passetto home. They had worked on the case of a supposedly haunted house on New York's Long Island, a case that became the subject of the late Jay Anson's best seller, The Amityville Horror. Warren said “ail hell broke ~ loose” at the Passetto house when he and‘ his wife con- fronted the “spirit” with holy water, incense and a relic of a saint, ' “The room became icy cold, and luminescent lights, the size of a half dollar, took on a ghostly form near the stairs,” Warren said. Warren said he felt a hot burning sensation on his arm and Mrs. Passetto's face felt hot and two claw marks ap- peared on her right cheek. Warren said an exorcism could free the Passetto home of whatever spirit is there. “But if someone should have a seance or play with a Ouiji board in the house it will open the door to demonic forces and it could come back in,” he said. In a new book called The Secret Life of the Unborn Child, Dr. Thomas, Verny says “what happens in the nine months between con- ception and birth moulds and shapes personality, drives and ambitions in very impor- tant ways.” The book, co-written by freelancer John Kelly, was sold to Simon and Schuster Inc. in New York for an ad- vance against ies of Beaumark brings you meais in minutes’ $150,000 — a possible record for a Canadian author. Verny, a former lecturer at Harvard who now has a pri- vate practice in Toronto, supports his arguments with European and North Amer- ican studies familiar in med- ical circles but largely un- known to the public. Verny says self-confident secure children are formed in the womb out of warmth and love from the mother. “Similarly if unhappy, de- pressed or ambivalent moth- ers bear a higher rate of neurotic children, it is be- cause their offspring’s egos were moulded in moments of dread and anguish,” con- cludes Verny. But negative affects in- cured in pregnancy can be counteracted if the child is reared in a happy home, says Verny. 2 Verny is quick to reassure expectant mothers that their occasional doubts and uncer- tainty will not harm the child. * “It is what you want and feel and communicate to the child that matters.” BEGIN IN WOMB Likes, dislikes, fears and phobias begin in the womb because it is the first place of conditioned learning, he says. He gives the example of a child learning anxiety every- time its mother's anxiety re- sults in her smoking a cig- arette. Verny does not neglect the important role of the father in the emotional development of the fetus. One study found that a newborn whose father had talked to it in the womb using soothing words, picked out its father’s voice shortly after birth and ceased to cry when it heard the familiar sound. The relationship between a pregnant woman and her partner also influences the well being of the fetus. “Few things are more dangerous to achild emotionally and physi- cally than a father who abuses or neglects his preg- nant wife.” Verny also argues that the actual birth experience af- fects who we become and our perception of the world. Children born by caesar- ean section may have an in- tense craving for physical contact throughout their life, he says. And studies show that breech babies run a slightly higher risk of de- veloping learning problems in childhood, he adds. Fitness trail to bear name of runner Terry Fox WINNIPEG (CP) — A new fitness trail in Assiniboine Park. with special adaptations for the disabled, is to be named after Marathon-of- Hope runner Terry Fox. A spokesman for the city’s recreation and social services committee says the trail will , likely be named officially on Sunday. Terry Fox Day across the country. 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A team of specialists in the Snow Avalanche Section of the Transportation and High- ways Ministry is working hard to ensure it . : won’t. Faced with past remarks Analysis ©"by' John Ferguson ~ OTTAWA (CP) — At his weekly news conference on Nov. 18, 1977, after several days. of revelations about RCMP lawbreaking, Prime Minister Trudeau faced a barrage of questions focusing on ministerial responsibility for Mountie actions. Question: “What about cir- cumstances in which some activity exists but the min- ister doesn't know about it? Is there anything wrong with that or would you consider that cause for resignation?” Trudeau: “Well, if he were negligent to the point of not doing his work and there were all sorts of glaring il- headed by Mr. Justice David ~**MfeDonald™ of “the “Alberta Court of Queen's Bench, stepped away from offering an opinion on Trudeau's ap- parent lack of interest in the subject, saying it was a poli- tical question and the public would judge. But McDonald gave fascin- ating details of meetings by two cabinet committees headed by Trudeau in De- cember, 1970, where the topic of “illegal activities” surfaced. Trudeau told the McDon- ald commission he had no recollection of the discussion of “illegal things,” but notes of the meeting by a recording secretary were accepted by the as clear evi- ing and he either didn't know about them because he was too lazy or too stupid to know about them or he didn’t know about them because he was deliberately not trying to find out about them, then I. would say he is not dence the topic was raised. Trudeau said he couldn't dispute the accuracy of the notes. They showed Turner was concerned enough about Starnes’ statement that he dered al responsibly as minister. ‘Nearly four years after those. remarks, the final report of the McDonald royal commission on the RCMP came up with the startling information that Trudeau and his former justice min- ister, John Turner, both were told by a senior RCMP official at a cabinet com- mittee meeting Dec. 1, 1970, that the force had been doing “jllegal things” for 20 years. Yet neither bothered to ask what RCMP security service director John Starnes meant by the exnression. Trudean, inexplicably, even ignored a detailed memo from Starnes a few weeks later which spoke of the nec- essity of the force commit- ting “serious crimes” in order to penetrate the Front de Liberation du Quebec (FLQ). He says he never read it. GOING OUT OF CONTROL In the absence of clear guides, the security service got out of control, commit- ting break-ins, thefts, arsons, kidnapping and _ illegally opening private mail over the next few years — all in the name of national security. Was Trudeau, to use his own phrase, “negligent to the point of not doing his work .-. because he was too lazy or too stupid to know about them?” Or did he simply not want to know? The royal commission, bout, embarrassment to the force if members were caught. Trudeau, in cautious testi- mony held in secret before the McDonald commission a year ago and released last week, said that if Stranes had referred to “illegal things” at that 1970 meeting, he must not have said it in such a way as to suggest serious crimes. DESCRIBED THINGS Trudeau referred to Starnes’ testimony before the commission in which the former head Mountie spy catcher described the kinds -of “illegal thinge” he had been aware of at that time. Following is an excerpt from the transcript of Tru- deau’s testimony. Trudeau: Well, I don't even know if he (Starnes) used the word “illegal.” But if he did, I am certainly pre- pared to endorse what I am told he explained (in tes- timony before the commis- sion) by the word illegal be- cause, as I said, if it had meant more than that, there ~ would have been big ques- tions asked. And I would go further: I would say that if he had evidence of actual illegalities Iam sure he would have gone to his minister and minister would have come to me and said: ‘Geez, look’ — as they did when suddenly the whole thing broke out — I mean, was it in "76 — when we heard of (former RCMP member Robert), Samson's “testimony ‘and “everybody's attention was drawn to it. Commission counsel Wil- liam Kelly: He said what he meant was: false documents to establish false identities, someone being put at risk, on an operation, being put at risk to engage in something unlawful; entering without consent to install surveillance devices, entering to examine the trade of illegal agents’ documents, that sort of thing, false registration in a hotel; false documentation for the watcher service vehicles, That's the sort of thing he said he was ing about. E' i) Trudeau: That's right. But the point that I am making is that if he had been wanting to convey more than this type of thing, I don’t think he front of 17 people. This last remark from’ Trudeau leaves. the impres- sion that he wasn’t d whether you call them tres- ‘pass or break and entry when I first knew of this in the spring of '76 I had the then (RCMP) The cafe of the Northroute service station-motel complex nestled at the base of the mountains which loom over Highway 16, about 48 kilo- metres west of Terrace, was a cosy place that raw morning of January 23, 1974. Outside, thick wet snow from the latest in a series o! storms which had di d Freer, who heads the Minis- try’s Snow Avalanche Section, created as a result of a task force study conducted in the wake of the Northroute trag? edy, says the SAS mandate is two-fold. The section identi and CASTLEGAR NEWS, September 9,-1981 Cc 1 Snow avalanche section Born from killer slide training sessions ure held for highways staff on a rotating basis. Disaster plans—-blueprints for rescue operations—exist for each of the province's ava- lanche areas and the SAS used frequently in high-hazard areas, is to use explosives to release avalanches under con- trolled conditions before they build to unmanageable proportions. Freer says specially-trained evaluates avalanche hazards throughout the province, and diy,’ devel more than 80 inches of snow on the north coast over an 11- day period, swirled down from the leaden sky. Nobody could recall a win- ter as bad. Area schools from Terrace to Kitimat were closed, air- ports were shut down and the drifting snow, five feet deep in places, had made travel on Highway 16 and other roads a nightmare. For the few lers forced to ensure the safety of high- way users in these ‘areas, in- cluding highways ministry rsonnel, “The risk in winter to our staff i: considerably higher because they're out.in exposed areas all day. In some cases, they may travel a stretch of highway in an avalanche haz- ard area 10 to 12 times a day,” Freer poifts out. British Columbia has 37 i d lanche areas to brave the treacherous condi- tions, the Northroute cafe with its hot coffee and casual and the SAS—which con- ducts a considerable amount of its work during the summer ths—h: i ‘i depots the province equipped with a full range of medical and first aid kits as well as snow * probes, radio gear, snow’ shov- els and winter gear, such as snow shoes. Highways personnel who have to work in avalanche areas are required to wear transceivers, signal devices which can be monitored even when buried beneath snow ‘or avalanche debris. The easiest and most cer~ tain method of avoiding ava- lanches, of course, is to build roads and highways away from danger areas. But this isn’t always possi- use a type of compressed air gun which fires a one kilo charge of a TNT-type explosive for this kind of work in British Columbia. Charges are sometimes dropped from a helicopter or by trained personnel who ski into known avalanche starting areas. Freer and his colleagues ° within the SAS recognize that. avalanches can never’ be “en- tirely eliminated as a danger to highway users. But by studying the prob- lem, developing preventive programs and by continually itoring the hazard, the ° banter was a resting place, a snug and safe haven from the elements. But tragedy was only min- utes away. For high above the highway in a huge, natural bowl, mil- lions of tons of heavy, wet snow, had almost impercepti- bly at first, started to: move. Within seconds, feeding on its own volume and velocity, the snow mass gained momen- tum and tumed into a virtually silent torrent of white smother- ing death as it raced down the 21-degree slope of a gully to- wards the Northroute. complex on the highway below. Less than 90 seconds later, the complex’ lay buried ‘and seven persons were dead. .. One person miraculously survived, a truck driver who was found by rescuers after being buried in an air pocket beneath the snow for seven ter- tifying hours. Could a similar tragedy oc- cur today? 3 ie Much of British Columbia _ is mountain. country and’ -mountairis and snow. breed av-'. alanches: Yet highways ‘have to traverse the base of these pains ly identified and mupped each of them. Map may not be the right word. The SAS has a series of snow avalanche directories with photographs and the pre- cise location of known ava- lanche paths. The directories contain up-to-date statistical material showing the fre- quency of avalanches, the dis- tances they travel, their effect on the highway below and the number of injuries and acci- dents they cause. The SAS also works closely with other government ble and in , preven- tive closures—brought int, force when the danger reaches crisis proportions—is the log- ical answer. Yet another technique, one branches in evaluating the hazard to proposed subdivi- sions or developments in ava- lanche prone areas, including ski resorts and industrial pro- & jects. It also checks out align. ments for aerial and ski lifts and the p ial in with the then director of security saying, you know, ‘if this is the way you operate, we better name a royal com- mission to make sure that there are no further ille- galities committed on which we know nothing or, alter- natively, if you need to use : certain means in order to ob- tain certain information es- sential to the security of the state then that you get legal authority for it’. ..” SAYS HE ASSURED Trudeau said he was as- sured it wasn't part of a pattern and only created the royal commission a year later. when other revelations about lawbreaking showed it was a pattern. The McDonald commission deseribed the kinds of things referred to in the Starnes list about the kinds of things mentioned in that list, in- cluding the reference to “en- tering without consent to in- stall surveillance devices. Yet Trudeau gave a dif- ferent answer at an Oct. 28, 1977, news conference when reporters asked him a similar question. He suggested that he would have set up a royal commission if he had known even about petty trespass- ing. - Question: “Surely it is ac- curate and factually true that all along in the security sec- tion of the Privy Council office some, although not all, of the ministers responsible for the RCMP and at least two of your predecessors in your office have know that the security service does, from time to time, trespass, and rather less frequently actually break and enter. Is that not a correct state- ment?” 3 Trudeau: “To my know- ledge, it is not a correct statement.” : Question: “You have been prime minister for nine years. Have you been un- aware during these nine years that it is not an un- common practice for the sec- urity service to commit tres- pass and occasionally break and enter?” “That is right. When I dis- covered that some illegalities had been committed — the first time I knew of this as ing” and urged that the law be changed if necessary to ensure police did not break it. But Trudeau hired a law firm and a retired Supreme Court justice, Wishart Spence, to give an opinion on the legality of such things as entering. premises to plant bugs and collect evidence — the so-called “surreptitious entry.” They disagreed with the McDonald commission and ‘concluded it was not illegal because the RCMP was not entering with intent to com- mit a crime, Although he said at the October, 1977, news confer- ence that knowledge of tres- passing and break and entry by the force would have prompted him to set up a royal commission or change laws to ensure police stayed within the law, Trudeau now says the outside legal opin- ions disposed of the issue. Although the goverment says it plans to set up a new. civilian security agency and put tighter controls on its operations, police won't be req to stay strictly within the law. This is in spite of the con- for. te ‘ially in se- vere winters—is ever present, A major saving grace, however, is the fact that strict tules now exist against locat- ing developments in high haz- ard avalanche areas. Geoff Freer, Senior Ava- lanche Co-ordinator for the Transportation and Highways Ministry, says there’s no way an! velocity and other data. “By evaluating these fig- Ures, we can create a picture of conditions in the avalanche areas which allow us to assess the hazard pretty closely,” Freer says. Training of highways per- sonnel is a key part of SAS operations. Courses are conducted in i like the would with the N ever be allowed to locate today in a known avalanche track. B.C. Institute of Council and the « RK, BY Trained. b risk factor can be substantially. reduced. ) “‘When you know your en- emuy,”’ says Freer, “the battle _ is halfway won.” and “in-house” seminars and t 1a\ blast down snow: SAS use \ build-ups before they reach dangerous proportions: 3 Closing roads is obvious way to avoid danger to travellers but this isn't always practical for lengthy periods of tinte. Anti-terrorist driving school | GIMLI, MAN. (CP) — Vis- itors to a new anti-terrorist driving school in this ‘Lake Winnipeg fishing town may be taken aback by the air of secrecy. The school, located in a former Gimli air base, is identified only by a sign on a clusions of the McDonald 's four-y $10- million study of the force, which warned that allowing police to transgress little laws can be “the edge of the wedge” toward breaking big- ger ones. board on the lawn which says “Scotti.” The sign refers to Tony Scotti, of Somerville, Mass., the founder and owner of the course, taught around the world for the last 12 years. Although nine students have already graduated from the school, instructors are still reluctant to discuss the training, which focusses on avoiding the traps terrorists set for business executives and others. ‘ Bob Smith, senior Cana- dian driving instructor with the school, said he has six years’ experience in driving designed to foil even a question about his own age was turned aside. “My background is basi- cally security-oriented,” the Ottawa native told a reporter after the school had just wrapped up its first course. Sith said the students used three rented cars and spent two days in classrooms and two days learning driving kidnappers or terrorists. But Smith would not give much specific information, and on the town's old airstrip. Tuition for the week-long course is $1,550 in U.S. funds. NOSTUNTS Smith stressed that; the, course, which has several instructors, doesn't teach a James Bond-type of dri‘ving with crashes, jumps or | sim- ilar stunts. “We teach them to kriow their capabilities and ithe capabilities of the car.” Smith said the same course has been taught in the Unite d States, Europe, the Middh> East and South America, to government and business of- ficials.