PAGE 12, THE HERALD, Friday, February 17, 1976

Families teach children Pets rated Premiers’ conference a
“The law of the bully”

OTTAWA (CP) — The
family is the arena for many
of the most atrocious crimes

abuse, and often it 1s the
perfect crime—becauze the
victim will not tell,

“Belind the closed doors
of North American domiciles
the child is taught the
rudimenta of crime in the
raw, often by the law of the

)* she sald Thursday in

_ (test y before a Senate

¢ om mitte
childhood experlences at
causes of criminal behavior.
Basause of fear, religious
beliefs, ignorance or Be
bringing, many people

not seck ottaide hdp In
domestic crimes, she sald.
And children cannot.

The medical profession,
the social services and the
law all were doing a poor job
of reporting and han
family violence. But police
could not be expected to
“enter the armed camp of
domestic violence’ if
governments did not provide
appropriate laws to punish
such family crimes.

But Ms. Van Stolle sald she
is optimistic, mainly due to
recent statistics exposing the
extent of child abuse, wife-
battering, incest and other
domestic crimes. WOULD
BE ASTOUNDED

Friendly bandit |
always apologized ©

DETROIT (AP) — She
apologized to clerks for
robbing their stores and
afterward called to make
gure everyone was all right.

Police called her the
Friendly Bandit, and the
woman they arrested says
she is glad she was caught.

Rosemarie Wojtaszek,
weeping while awaiting
arraignment, said she
resorted to robbing clothing
stores because a bookmaker
threatened her family over a
$4,000 gambling debt.

“Seo, I got these beautiful
Kids at home and a won-
derful husband and [ didn’t
want to hurt them," she said.

Police said Mrs, Wojtaszek
implicated herself in a series
of robberies beginning Feb,
2— three clothing stores in
Detroit and five in the
suburbs.

Mrs. Wojtaszek, 39, a
mother of five, was caught

pall g
: Gerk: “My baby died, I need

money."
TOOK #44
The woman took $46, then

police. Mrs. Wojtaszek was
arrested as she walked out
the front door. «

After t to police, she
was arraigned for the Feb. 2
‘robbery of a dress shop—the
fn of the Friendly Bandit
incidents. Police said they
may charge her in the other
robberies, and she was being
heldin Wayne County jail on
$150,000 bond.

Mrs, Wojtaszek sald her
gambling addiction started
ack few football bets pnd

lickly grew into ar up
to $1,000, placed with a
bookie she refused to identify

to. riers, ‘
‘Ob, it's such a relief that

it's over now,’ «Mra, Wi

Wojtaszek said. “My sister
told me this gambling was a
sickness with me, It was like
being an alcoholic. I kept

. saying to myself, ‘I’m. not

betting this week, I'm not
betting this week.’ But 1
couldn't helpit. Every game,
every week, I'd place
another bet,”

Her husband, Herman, an
auto worker, said the
gambling losses amounted to
$20,000 last year. He said he
helped pay the debt and tried
imsuccessfully to get his wife

to sek help for her ad-
diction. co

Pilot rescued — |

s
in Al
YAP) — Michael George,
whose wife and four children
were killed in the crash of a
small plane he was piloting,
igging

‘was tescued after fla
down 4 fishing boat from an
istand beach.

The boat, the How Can,
picked up the Anchorage
man Wednesday night, two
days after a search for
survivors was suspended,

U.S. Coast Guard officials
said George, 36, was sui-
fering from exposure but
otherwise was healthy, A

aska

cutter wag digpatched to
take him from the How Can,
which found him on Etolln

Island, 95 kllometres nor- gaid

thwest of Ketchikan,

George was Jast heard
from the night of Feb. 5,
when, on a t from An-
chorage ‘to Mexico, he
radioed that he had missed
the approach. to Ketchikan
Airport and was heading
south to Annette Ialand,

Moments later, he radioed
he was out of fuet and sald:
“Guess Tl put it in the
trees.”

SRE

Hera boa een

It starts In early July, with the world’s
biggest rodeo — the Calgary Stampede.
But it's more than a rodeo. Hang onto your
Stetson while you ride ferris wheels and
rocket rides, také in chuckwagon races,
| . Stage shows, casinos, comedians, singing © too.
and dancing acts, and carry on tillall hours
in nightspots. For ten days you can enjoy
pancake breakfasts served from a

_ through

Still, “if you worked in my
field,” she told the senators,
“you would be constantly as-
tounded by the ignorance of
even basic child biological
facte—parents who beat,
burn and even kili children
for weiting thelr pants or
touching themselves.”

She said a system is
needed in which a child can
be represented in court by
his own lawyer.

Ms. Van Stolk, an
A merica nbor
fashion model, is a Canadian
Hving in Montreal where she
ls head ofnthe Tree Foun-
dation for family life, ,

She says the bond between
mother and child has been
disrupted by . medical
practices, hospital routine
and commercial interests.

That: bonding . comes
handling, cuddling
and breastfeeding, ‘but
hospitals conspire to
Beparate mother and child
and business seeks to “cash
inon a lucrative market" by
promoting baby formula and
foods, cribe, playpens and
restraints.

Without this bonding the
child becomes a loner and
tends toward crime and
violence.

| Cafeteria
boycotted

VANCOUVER {CP) —
Some Telecommunicatlons
Workers Union members
innVictoria and . New
estminster are boycotting
British Columbia Telephone
Co. cafeterla operations be-
cause they remained open
during a 8l-day strike-
lockout..

The situation invoives con-
tracting out, oneofthe major
jasues in the dispute. The
cafeterias are run by’ the
non-union Canadian National
Institute for the Blind.

. “We were just meeting the-
conditions of the contrac,”
CNIB executive director
Robert Mercer said Wed-
nesda :

y.
_ TWU buslness agent Chris
Anderson said the boycott is
the action of individuals and
is not the result of union
policy,

“Our people were quite un-
happy that these people
crossed the picket lines,” he

A few years ago the
cafeteria staff belonged to
the TWU and the altuation
would have been averted, he

eo.
+

Mercer sald. the CNIB
would like the TWU to in-
form. its membera that the
Union has had a good
relationship with the
organization: . :

“T'ye got all kinds of prob-
lemson my hands and I can’t
get excited abot where
people are drinkin r
oO ee," said ‘Andersen. .

pais

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BALTIMORE (AP) — An
overwhelming majority of
pet owners admit they find it
easier to focus their at-
tention and affection on their
animals rather than other
family members, a recent
survey shows.

Dr; Ann Cain, a family
therapist at a University of
Maryland campus here,
conducted survey of pet
owners after she noticed that

people talk about their pets ph

as family members,
“Some of my patients have
told me that the person they

are closest to in their family ©

is their pet,” she said.

She
survey to tell her who got the
most strokes, She described
atrokes as “any -form of
recognition such as physical

_ touch, alook, a word, a smile

or gesture that conveys |

‘know you're there.”

_ “Forty-four per cent of
those surveyed said their
pets got the most strokes, 14
per cent said their children
and 18 per. cent- sald family
members got equal strokes,”
she sald.

The questionnaire focused
on whal position the pet holdf
in the family unit and how

-important the pet is, -

’ The therapist said 55 per
cent of those surveyed
thought their pets were

“very important,” while .

seven per cent viewed their
pet as “extremely impor-
tant."

“The rest of the par-
tleijpants used words suchas
fairly, quite, and pretty
when describing the im-
portance of the pet,” she

. after

ed 62 persons in the |

said,
IMPORTANCE VARIES —
Asked what period of their
lives they found their pets to
be espectally important,
more than one-fourth sald it
was when they were sad,
lonely or- depressed; 15 per
cent said during an illness or
the death of a
significant person; and 1I
per cent said their pets were
equally important during all
ases of their lives.
“It's interesting to see how
pets affect the family unit,”
she said. "In the survey, 81

‘per cent felt that their pets:

were tuned into the feelings
of thefamily, They said their
dogs reacted to illness,
depression, tension, turmoil
and happiness.”

_ “One interesting result of
the survey is that 36 per cent
of the people viewed their
pets as people, while eight
per cent saw their pets as
somewhere between an
animal and a person,” she
said. .

Many of the pets, ranging
from a 2h-year-old cat to a
goat, had “people names'’
like Joshua, Stephanie and
Ethel... - ee
the survey wil help ote
family therapists realize just

success, says Trudeau

By VIC PARSONS

OTTAWA (CP) — Prime
Minister Trudeau has
declared his. three-day
meeting with provincial
premiers a success despite
its failure to reach specific
conclusions on how to
manage the economy and the
abrupt and stormy depar-
ture of Quebec Premier
Rene Levesque.

A lengthy communique
issued after the conference
ended Wednesday se out

some specific programs,
sald the governments were
in favor of co-operation,
listed a number of proposed
studies on various issues and
pledged -that goveraments
would try to stop increasing
their share of the national
economy.

The early departure of Le-
vesque, who accused federal
officials of lies and de-
stortions, held much of the
spotlight. The separatist
Parti Quebecols premier had

_ Satelitte
safeguards

By AL COLLETTI

UNITED NATIONS (CP)
— Creation of international
safeguards for nuclear-
powered satellites in outer
spaceis going to be a drawn-
out .process in the United
Nations that might take

years.
"Te will be a long drawn-
out affair,” says Canadian

"Ms. Guin says she hopes. Am

Barton, referring to the issue
of space’nuclear safety he
raised in the UN Monday..

thé family. structures 7.04) 7F 7"This will-be an issue in

“as a family” therapist,
you find out all you can about
family members and how
they interact with each
other,’ she said. ‘‘The
therapist can then include
the pet when dealing with the
family."

National search
for B.C. rapist

- KAMLOOPS, B.C. (CP) —
A Canada-wide warrant has
e@ arrest of
Ajab Singh Sahota, 22, of
Clearwater, B.C., who was

convicted in absentia of rape .

and sentenced Wednesday to

. seven years in prison. n

Justice JnH. Macdonald
said Wednesday that
fecent amendment io the
Criminal Code allowed the
trial to proceed after Sahota

’ failed to appear for the third

day of his trial Wednesday.

‘Sahota was free on bail of
8-000 «in hiss own
recognicanze with one
surety. RCMP said they
believe Sahota was still in
the area. ;

The 12-man
deliberated for an hour
before finding Sahota guilty
of raping a 20-yearold
oman at knifepoint Sept. 9,

The woman. testified that

while driving on ‘the
Yellowhead Highway near

here, she pulled off the

roadway when the car
behing her flashed its lights.
She said Sahota, who she did
know know, got okt, then

forced her at knifepoint into -
bushed bealde the highway,’

where he raped her,

~_chuckwagon, square dance in the streets,
and songs like Home on the Range become visitors alike dress up in-silk vests, top hats,
cutaway coats, spats, or ostrich plumes,
bustles, parasols. Overnight the city

_Singalong hits again.

it's wild. It's carefree. Anda million -
people get caught up in the fun, You will:

‘But that’s only the beginning. Takea
couple of days to catch your breath, then —
head to Edmonton for Kiondike
Days—achancetorelivethe . C)

‘has as

‘Sahota testified that he
and the woman had had a
relationship of several
months and that during the
summer the woman initiated
a sexual relationship, He
said they went Into “the
bushes Sept. 9 as they had on
several other occasions.

Jail has
new crew

TORONTO (CP)'— The
recently closed Toronto jail
new crew of
prisoners—the cast of Fast
Company, a film about
small-time bank robbers

Who want to turn big time.

The production, with -a
$100,000 budget, is
ceernieg, Faster Films,
opera’ on a grant from
the Ontarlo Arts Council
coupled with private in-
vestment,.

It is produced by Paul
ElchgrunnSteve Kiys and
Peter Wronski, who - also
directs. The cast includes
Sandra Scoville, a former
Miss, Canada, Rolf Kempf,
Clay Borris,..and. Leisha
Wagner. Ces

“: one Way or another for three
or four years to come."
--In ‘giving the Canadian
Government's report on the
Soviet Cosmos satellite that
disintegrated over the
Northwest. Territories or
Jan: 24, Barton cited

“disturbing _implicatlonf”:

from the accident. .

The satellite .scattered
radioactive debris on
Canadian soll as it fell from
near-earth orbit, Cost of the
cleanup has passed §2
million will grow as the
search for debris goes on
past the spring thaw. -

‘As a precaution against
such accidents, Barton told
the UN scientific and
technical. committee on
outer space that there may
be a need, for example, to
establish the equivalent of a
nuclear-free zone in near-

earth orbit.

Canada wants a working
group of experts to go over
the entire question of the use
of nuclear power in space
and its implications. Barton
said there might be parallel
discussions by the legal
subcommittee on outer
space, based in Geneva,non
shat new space,laws, if any,

‘are needed: td protect the
environment.

“We are :flexible on
specific proposals, while
strongly committed, witt

other states, to the need for a’

regime governing the use of
nuclear power sources in
outer space Which will rule
out the risk of any incident
which could have tragic and
far-reaching consequences,"
Barton said. ‘DUTY
BOUND, >

The Soviet Untfon has ac:
knowledged in the UN that
the ill-fated Cosmos satellite
was its and that under’ in-
ternational law the laun-
ching country Is ‘‘duty
bound"nto pay for damages.
But it did not say specifically

_ that it would pay for cleanup
costs. .

The Soviets are opposed to
the Canadian proposal for a
working group, insisting that
there already are space laws
on the books to cover the
situation.

ee re owe

_ Ransom paid,

‘teens

MONTREAL (CP) — The
teen-aged eon and daughter
of a credit union manager
were released unharmed
today by. a
thelr father paid. a $51,000
ransom, police said...

‘Raymond Proulz,
manager of the. Atlas
Asbestos Co. employees
credit union, arrived ‘home
with his wife Wednesday to
find their daughter Louise,
18, being held by four hooded
men armed with revolvers, a
police spokesman.said. n

Their son, Rejean, 17, was
captured when he arrived
later, and the two were taken

cy

3 after -

freed |

away by two of the mm
while the other twa spent the
night at the Proulx home in
north-east Ville d’Anjou.

‘In the morning, . the
parents left for the northend
credit union with the bandits,
who forced Proulx to hand
over $51,000 from the vault.

Later annanonymous tele-
phone call to police led them
to & brown van in a parking
lot in the south-shore suburb
of Greenfield Park, where
the two teen-agers were
found unharmed. | -

No suspects have been de-
tained, ;

en fat WEA Reef

_ becomes populated with Klondike Kates,
_ . sourdoughs and riverboat gamblers.
Crowds form around roulette tables in the

Oo. raft a
2

3

cele

=a excitement

© — midway,
of Stars, carnival and cabaret

— even a promenade
~ to show off yourfinery.
It’s another mammoth party.

- enjoyment packed into July. You
| can make it your entire vacation,
or part of your holiday. Plan to

casinos. Others take their chances atthe - |
, horse races, Andyou canenjoy  «
every part of It— the infamous

nd bathtub races, the _
the nightly Coliseum —

And you're invited.
There isn’t another.
bration like itin North

America. Three weeks of

, action and non-stop

ast

And remember, there’s no sales tax in

Alberta, ,
See you at the party.

earlier engaged in an o
quarrel wih federal Urban
Affairs Minister Andre
Quellet, also a Quebecer,
over housing..

Despite the dispute,
Trudeau said he was “very
satisfied" with the con-
ference.

Before the meeting began
it had been described
federal spokesmen o8 4

‘confidencebooster for the

economy.
INSPIRE CONFIDENCE

But in the face of a decline
in the value of the dollar toa
40-year low in New York on
Wednesday, Trudeau said it
was too early to tell if the
meeting would inspire new
confidence.

“tt should create con-
fidence in the fulure of the
country,” he said. ‘Whether
it will or not depends a great
deal on how that news will be
interpreted and received.”

But critics said the open
meeting would do little to re-
solve economic problems
auch as unemployment and
eoould help
separatism in Quebec.

However, the premiers did
agree to:

—Hold another meeting on
the economy next Novem-
ber, preceded in September
by a conference to try to
resolve complex
stitutional issues;

up an may
energy proposals, the §2.4-
billion © Gull Island
hydroelectric project on the
Churchill River in Labrador
and a plant near Lloyd-
minster, Sask., to process
molasses-like heavy oil into
useable crude oil. The
federal government, Sas-
katchewan and oil com-
panies will participate in the
L loyd minster
estimated to cost $750

con-

million;

CREATE JOBS
Encourage a “Buy
Canadian" policy to create

Economic
Council of Canada, a federal
advisory agency headed by
Trudeau’s friend Sylvia
Oatry, if it cowd monitor
we “anidswiige increasté
after antl-inflation contrdls

are removed beginning April |

14;
—Reduce the burden of
government regulations on

the private sector and

review taxation of petroleum
and mineral industries;

—Look into adjustment
assistance for industry to
help weaker sectors mee
cumpetition arising from
moves ‘toward freer world
trade;

—Give priority to 13
capital projects, ranging
from natural gas pipelines in
the East go grain facilities in
the West.

The communique also said
the premiers decided to try
to foster investment,
promote responsible price
and wage increases and
facilitate the setting of
economic objectives,

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