Su: Castlegar News Jonvory 16, 1985 Child gets $9.5 million CHICAGO (REUTER) — An eight-year-old boy who suffered head injuries when he fell from the top step of a playground slid- ing board has been award- ed $9.5 million U.S. in damages. Frank Nelson, who in curred brain damage and paralysis of his left side in the fall, will receive more than $9,500 a month for medical care and therapy. The award came in an out-of-court settlement of a suit brought by the boy's parents against the Chi cago Park District, the manufacturer of the slide and the company that in- stalled it. The boy was two years old when he fell from the top step of the slide. His mother, who was behind him on the steps, had in. tended to slide down with him between her legs. Designed for fast cutting and easy main- tenance. Al Stihl saw chains feature the Oilmatic Drive link which channels oil to the critical friction and wear points. Stihl, the saw chain for pros that non-pros appreciate. 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VICTORIA (CP) — Prison. ers awa eral ponsible for a riot at the Vancouver Island Regional Correctional Centre in which the jail’s west wing was trashed, a Salvation Army corrections officer said Tues day. Alexander MacMillan, a jail chaplain who also helps with legal aid applications, said west wing prisoners told him the violence was started by federal prisoners “who just wanted to get something going.” “The anger over the food was just a side issue,” Mac- Millan said. “These guys wil do anything to cause some- thing because they know they aren't going to be there for long.” Prison officials have said the violence was sparked by dissatisfaction with the jail food. Prison warden John Gil lingham confirmed there were prisoners in the west wing awaiting federal trans. fers when the violence erup ted. “But putting the blame on them, I think, is just a con venient way to ft respon sibility,” he said. Gillingham said prisoners in the west wing still are un der a lockdown and have been denied any privileges outside their cells. However, small groups of prisoners have begun to clean up the mess left after the rampage and guards are going into the wing. The prison had refused to allow its guards to enter the wing until there were assur. ances the prisoners had handed over any weapons fashioned from tables, chairs Saturday in the west wing, which was holding 88 pris oners. Chunks of tile and cement were ripped from the floors and walls and windows were smashed. Prisoners also lit fires, prompting guards to turn hoses on the cells. Gillingham said 10 prison ers have been transferred out of the wing since the vio lence ended. Eight of those were moved to the Nanaimo Regional Correctional Centre as a “reward” for not taking part in the disturbance. “They are ig to a place that is not drafty, not wet and not dirty and where regular programs are in ef. fect,” he said. He said the other two pris- oners were transferred to the Lower Mainland Regional Correctional Centre in Bur. naby because “they have been long agitated about Beaver Foods,” the privately run Vancouver firm which caters the jail’s food. Gillingham said about 30 of the 88 prisoners did not take part in the riot. He said that was determined by checking cell damage and through re. ports of officers who wit nessed the rampage. “We could only move 10 prisoners because that's all the room that was lable,” he said. “The selection of who went among those who didn’t participate was purely ran dom.” Gillingham said the jail now holds 145 prisoners, 15 over capacity. But he said he didn't Mhink overcrowding was an issue in the riot. Fred Hunt, assistant to the commissioner of correc. tions, said there is a proposal to give prisoners working in kitchens of provincial insti Ethiopian Jews aided sseamoyy Ayeinjosqy “MOGVEW OONVW OL*FI “8120 9 “000'6Z$ — “000'rS$ OF $4940 “JOtsssnpur 4461) peuoz ods jO1IIOWIWO? 4O *14°DS 000'¥ ¥3A0 06 jueje2xe puo sqnuys Auous seine; Aysedoig UMOP YIDG PUc UeYD4 sew WINS “JUOIPOAIs JO $0120 BO'L vo ewoy wupq £¢ ejqo22edu M33M 3HL ‘enjon 40015 “Jood punosBu, “ewou SANNIOX® YIM yUoQeAIs 4 YO — saad — OCL*XOLL one "000'C1$ $107 10483 AOA 1u828015 Z "00s" et 40 1WI03dS 006'658 — sospenty “swore OnuSn Man OTTAWA (CP) — Starving Ethiopian Jews clung to an Ottawa optometrist on a recent aid mission, begging for medicine and care as he tried to make rapidly dwindling medical supplies last. “They grabbed at me and pulled when they heard I was there to help them,” said Harry Prizant, one of seven members of the mission sponsored by the Canadian Association for Ethiopian Jews. “As soon as they saw us walking along with a suitease full of medicine, they were all over us.” The group visited four villages, treating as many as 1,500 people daily. Prizant, who has an Ottawa practice, said some towns hadn't been visited by anyone but Ethiopians for as long as 10 years. Prizant spent most of his 20 days there cleansing badly infected eyes and giving out eye drops-and vitamin A to offset the blindness often caused by malnutrition. “Most of the time while I was helping someone, there woulds be another person hanging on to my leg.” He said the group ran-low on medicine and he was forced to distribute it by the drop instead of the bottle. “It was the most frustrating thing to see something you know you can cure and know you can't because you can't follow it up.” The team of four Canadians and three Americans travelled in the Gondar region of northwest Ethiopia and visited refugee camps in neighboring Sudan from Nov. 18 to Dec. 6, bringing food and medical supplies to the isolated Falasha people, also known as the Black Jews. Like most Ethiopians, Falashas are suffering from drought and famine, but they are forced to live away from Christians in isolated areas where little aid filters through. They trace their heritage back 2,000 years to the time of King Solomon. There now are over 13,000 Falashas in Israel, but 8,000 — mostly women, children and the elderly — remain in Ethiopia, group organizer Susan Schechtman said. Schechtman, the association's executive director, said its goal is to get the Falashas to Israel “They are a historic and ancient community, now divided between two countries: Ethiopia and Israel.” She was angry that Israel's project to airlift thousands of Ethiopian Jews to Israel last month was halted after it became public, stranding thousands. “Had the airlift been organized by any other country than Israel, there would not have been any problems, nor any reason for the airlifts to have been kept secret,” she said. Ethiopian government charges that the airlift was a “gross intervention” in its affairs were unfounded, she said, because the people brought to Israel were refugees from Sudan. The Falashas also suffer under anti-Semitism. The teaching of Hebrew is banned in Ethiopia and Schechtman said she witnessed soldiers harassing Falasha villagers. *000°8$ — 80:20 ¢"| “OAcSe2y AIO ONY? 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However, Romanow said CP Rails plan is to retire the caboose and temporarily move the conductor up to the front of the train, and then remove him, too. He referred to a copy of an internal CP Rail memoran dum, dated March 22, 1984, which stated that the way to avoid manning becoming an issue with the committee was to seek approval only for the deletion of cabooses. “A later step is to nego- tiate a reduction in crew size Long contracts with the UTU (United Trans. portation Union),” Romanow quoted from the memoran dum. Romanow did not identify the source of the memor. andum or how he obtained a copy. CP Rail counsel John Bowles said the form of the memorandum was irregular, as there was no name given for the person to whom it was sent. He told the committee he would secure the original, if there was one. J.K. Leslie, CP Rail’s chief of transportation, said it was not the railway'’s goal to cut the size of its freight train crews to two men from three Currently, CP Rail freight trains are manned by an engineer and _ front-end brakeman, riding in the lead locomotive, and a conductor travelling in the caboose. The railway wants to move the conductor to the head-end lo comotive when it drops the caboose. bad for loggers 2:08 @ FANTASY ISLAND Three single lite and a c tege! assist ‘Happily Ever areer at THE SUPER GUYS WILL NOT BE KNOWINGLY Phone 368-5302 VANCOUVER (CP) — Coastal loggers may have been shafted recently by the big integrated forest companies, but establishing long-term contracts would be a retrograde step, says a former director of the Truck Loggers Association. George Patterson, who manages a small timber operation on the Queen Charlotte Islands, told the association's annual convention Tuesday that efficiency will suffer if a government proposal to create self-perpetuating contracts is enacted The truck loggers have been complaining for some time that recession-tacked forest corporations have been slashing contractors’ rates and reducing their volume of work. The 160 assot¢iation members carry out all aspects of logging and transporting timber to mills. Under B.C. law, 50 per cent of the cutting in tree farm licence areas must be done by contractors, who traditionally have signed five-year agreements with the forest companies. The truck loggers’ association is officially supporting forest. ena ace "von the government proposal to automatically extend the ro 3 five-year contracts by 12 months at the end of each year. Association president Pat Martin ° said existing contracts are “written in such a way that the majors can and do change them,” and create difficulties for the contractors when it comes to financing. “It's difficult to go into a bank and try to get money for a new piece of equipment when you've only got one year left on your contract. A perpetual five-year deal gives you more 5 And let's talk continuity.” « ) insurance! However, Patterson, who as a former director hel CASTLEGAR ’ qoliet cela SAVINGS INSURANCE develop the association's guidelines on contracts with forest companies, challenged the proposal in s morning nddrcec ey nd ol 365-3368 and other objects destroyed tutions a raise to between $4 in the riot and $6 for a six-hour day, The violence broke out starting April 1 MICROCOMPUTER COURSES AVAILABLE AT SELKIRK COLLEGE Register early to toke port in the following microcomputer courses offered at the Castlegar Compus KEYBOARDING: This 8 hour progrom teaches touch-typing skills. 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