Not
their
week
KELLY
ROAD
GYM
ACCIDENT
Photo
by
Tim
Swanky
Citizen
photo
by
Dou
Weller
It
hasn't
been
a
trucker's
week.
Chip
truck
(top
photo)
lies
overturned
after
rolling
on
Highway
16
about
15
miles
east
of
here
today.
Driver
Gilles
Leguat
escaped
injury.
On
Thursday,
a
sod
truck
(bottom
photo)
rolled
down
a
30-foot
embankment
on
North
Nechako
Road.
The
driver
escaped
injury.
Steve
James
packs
up
scattered
sod.
And
on
Wednesday
a
Rolling
Mix
Concrete
truck
rolled
on
Otway
Road,
causing
back
injuries
to
driver
Allan
Lockhart
and
about
$18,000
damage
to
the
truck.
Student's
injury
award
reduced
Citizen
staff
reporter
VANCOUVER
-
A
$1.5
million
injury
award
granted
a
former
Prince
George
student
was
reduced
by
half
Thursday
by
the
B.C.
Court
of
Appeal.
The
new
award
is
$659,628.
Gary
Edmund
Thornton,
now
20,
was
paralysed
for
life
when
he
broke
his
neck
at
Kelly
Road
Secondary
School
five
years
ago.
Thornton
was
injured
while
catapulting
from
a
spring
board
and,
according
to
a
1975
Supreme
Court
judgment,
turned
into
"a
living
head
attached
to
a
metabolic
machine
that
provides
nutrition".
At
the
time
of
Thornton's
accident,
the
school
district
carried
only
$1
million
liability
insurance
and
would
have
been
liable
for
the
rest
of
the
debt,
The
$1.5
million
awarded
Thornton
in
January,
1975,
was
the
largest
personal
injury
award
ever
granted
by
Canadian
courts.
"No
amount
of
money
will
ever
restore
to
Thornton
what
he
has
lost,
but
that
does
not
mean
that
.the
school
district
must
be
fixed
with
the
burden
of
providing
the
funds
to
care
for
him
at
the
ideal
level
indicated
by
the
evidence,"
the
Appeal
Court
judges
said.
The
original
award
provided
living
expenses
for
home
care
with
a
registered
orderly
on
duty,
Reductions
were'
also
made
in
the
amounts
awarded
for
capital
expenses
the
purchase
of
a
home,
a
motor
vehicle
and
medical
supplies
and
equipment
and
in
the
loss
of
income.
15
Copy
Friday,
July
23,
1976
Vol.
20;
No.
143
Prince
George,
British
Columbia
HOUSED
'NON-ACCREDITED'
FRIEND
Impostor
story
prompts
probe
MONTREAL
(CP)
Robert
Martin
of
Paris,
Ont.,
a
member
of
Canada's
track,
team,
was
expelled
from
the
Olympics
today
for
allowing
a
non-accredited
athlete
friend
to
occupy
quarters
in
the
athletes'
village,
Maurice
Allan,
chef
de
mission'for
the
Canadian
team,
announced.
Martin
had
been
scheduled
to
take
part
in
the
men's
100-metre
heats
to
celebrate
his
26th
birthday
today
and
also
was
a
member
of
the
4xl00-metre
relay
team.
The
incident
began
Thursday
when
the
Toronto
Star
reported
that
an
impostor
named
Paul
Wilkinson,
an
athlete
from
Oregon
had
been
living
with
members
of
the
Canadian
track
team
for
almost
two
weeks
without
being
accredited
to
the
Games.
A
subsequent
investigation
by
members
of
the
Canadian
delegation
and
by
security
forces
in
the
village
led
to
a
Thursday
night
statement
that
the
whole
affair
was
a
hoax
perpetrated
by
an
athlete
from
another
country.
The
members
of
the
delgation
and
security
forces
said
they
had
arrived
at
this
conclusion
after
interrogating
the
Canadian
athletes
at
a
team
meeting,
with
special
emphasis
placed
on
the
12
members
of
the
two
relay
teams.
'Thought
we
were
wrong'
"Up
to
6
p.m.
yesterday
(Thursday)
the
information
we
had
following
our
enquiries
gave
us
reason
to
believe
the
story
(of
an
impostor)
was
MARTIN
wrong,"
Sgt..
J.
L,.
Gagnon
of
the
Montreal
police
said.
But
he
said
new
information
later
became,
available
when
the
athletes
again
were
questioned.
"We
now
confirm
that
the
person
involved
(Wilkinson)
was
in
the
Olympic
village
without
accreditation,"
he
said.
"We
held
a
special
meet
ing
with
Robert
,
Martin
and
must
now
confirm
what
was
in
The
Star
is
correct."
Asked
if
the
discovery
of
the
impostor
would
mean
a
further
tighteningof
security
in
the
village
for
both
the
athletes
and
visitors,
Gagnon
said
it
was
"quite
logical
to
conclude"
this.
"Security
measures
were
set
up
to
protect
the
athletes.
The
athletes
know
where
the
weaknesses
are,"
he
added,
noting
that
one
of
the
athletes
had
now
breached
this
security
measure
and
a
check
of
identification
cards
will
be
stricter.
Gagnon
said
the
police
had
talked
to
Wilkinson,
but
he
would
provide
no
further
details
as
to
the
whereabouts
of
the
intruder
or
whether
charges
would
be
laid
in
connection
with
the
case.
He
said
it
had
been
determined
that
Martin
and
Wilkinson
had
attended
university
together
and
had
been
friends
for
some
time.
He
said
that
Wilkinson
was
able
to
carry
out
the
ruse
because
he
also
knew
other
members
of
the
team.
Ford
wiretaps
outdo
Nixon's
WASHINGTON
(AP)
The
chairman
of
the
House
of
Representatives
investigations
subcommittee
said
today
the
Ford
administration
has
asked
American
Telephone
and
Telegraph
Co.
(ATT)
to
install
many
more
wiretaps
than
the
Nixon
administration
did.
"We've
seen
a
marked,
BRIG,
Switzerland
(AP)
-Six
persons
were
killed
and
34
injured
when
the
Riviera
Express
jumped
the
tracks
at
high
speed
early
today
just
after
leaving
the
Simplon
Tunnel
in
the
Alps.
Problems
plague
Viking
PASADENA,
Calif.
(AP)
-Special
teams
of
scientists
and
engineers
attacked
a
barrage
of
problems
in
the
Viking
probe
of
Mars
late
Thursday,
including
a
problem
that
might
delay
the
gathering
of
Martian
soil
samples.
.
Viking
project
manager
James
Martin
said
a
series
of
commands
were
sent
to
the
Viking
lander's
soil
sampler
,
the
instrument
designed
to
reach
out
and
scoop
up
a
piece
of
Mars
to
search
for
living
organisms.
But
he
said
some
of
those
commands
have
riot
been
executed
properly,
"Seventeen
commands
were
sent
to
the
Viking
lander
ordering
the
scoop
to
shed
its
protective
shroud,
lift
and
place
itseli
on
a
stand
atop
the
lander,"
Martin
said.
He
said
the
sampler
emerged
from
its
protective
shroud
but
in
repositioning
itself
became
stuck.
Earlier,
Martin
said
that
other
teams
had
come
together
to
confront
problems
Involving
the
lander,
including
a
weakened
radio
signal
and
a
malfunctioning
seismometer
that
records
quakes.
dramatic
increase
under
Ford,"
said
Representative
John
Moss
(
Dem.
Calif.
)
"Who
is
he
tapping?
Why
the
escalation?"
Moss
made
the
statements
as
ATT
officials
refused
to
give
the
subcommittee
their
records
of
the
government's
national
security
wiretap
requests.
They
acted
in
accordance
with
an
order
by
a
U.S.
District
Court
judge.
The
judge's
temporary
restraining
order
Thursday
represented
a
victory
for
President
Ford,
who
had
asked
the
justice
department
to
take
court
action
"to
prevent
the
disclosure
of
this
sensitive
information."
Moss
said
a
justice
department
affidavit
outlining
its
wiretap
requests
to
ATT
shows
76
in
1972;
95
in
1973;
141
in
1974,
with
115
of
them
after
Ford
became
president
in
August;
141
again
in
1975
and
58
for
the
first
six
months
of
this
year.
There
was
no
indication
whether
the'
requests
came
from
Ford
himself
or
from
others
in
his
administration.
In
refusing
to
turn
over
company
records,
John
Fox,
vicep-resident
of
ATT,
told
the
investigations
subcommittee
that
the
firm
would
not
risk
being
held
in
contempt
of
court
by
complying
with
the
panel's
subpoena.
Moss
temporarily
excused
the
company
from
complying
with
the
subpoena
but
added
that
this
"in
no
way
absolves
ATT
from
its
ultimate
responsibility."
The
congressman
said
Congress
will
resist
any
attempt
to
make
Gasch's
order
permanent.
A
hearing
has
been
set
for
July
28
to
consider
issuing
a
permanent
injunction
banning
ATT
from
turning
over
its
wiretap
records.
Ford's
claim
of
executive
privilege
was
only
the
second
time
a
U.S.
president
has
made
such
a
formal
assertion
in
an
attempt
to
keep
information
from
a
congressional
investigating
committee,
the
justice
department
said.
TODAY
(
CARnage
in
the1
K
Prince
U
.
George
U,
area
JV
Killed
this
week:
2
Killed
this
year:
14
To
same
date
1975:
20
Injured
this
week:
14
Injured
this
year:
199
To
same
date
1975:347
FEATURED
INSIDE)
If
the
B.C.
Lions
want
some
enjoyment
today,
they
should
watch
a
re-run
of
their
pre-season
wins,
because
Thursday's
season-opener
was
a
disaster.
Page
15.
The
Rhodesian
government
is
recruiting
'immigrants'
to
bolster
its
army.
Page
5.
Provincial
housing
ministers
are
meeting
with
Urban
Affairs
Minister
Barney
Danson
to
try
and
find
the
villains
in
high
land
costs.
Page
2.
Business,
8-9;
Classified,
29-43;
Comics,
21;
Editorial,
4;
International,
5;
Home
and
Family,
22-23;
Horoscopes,
17;
Local
and
Provincial,
3,
6-7;
25,
27;
National,
2
;
Sports,
13-16;
Television,
19-20;
Wenzel
column,
9.
Cw3
The
Olympics
i
Full
coverage
of
events
on
Day
6,
pages
13
and
14.
(
THE
WEATHER
)
Mainly
sunny
skies
and
scattered
afternoon
showers
are
predicted
for
today.
Rainfall,
recorded
for
Thursday
was
.5
mm.
Overnight
low
was
10.
Low
today,
8,
with
a
high
of
20
predicted.
On
July
23,
1975
the
high
was
22;
the
low,
6.
Unsettled
weather
with
some
sunshine,
cloudy
periods
and
afternoon
showers
are
predicted
for
the
next
few
days.
Temperatures
page
2
NOW
HEAR
THIS
1
Provincial
Court
Judge
R.
S.
Munro
asked
the
appropriate
question
this
morning
before
passing
sentence
on
a
17-year-old
motorcyclist
who
tried
to
evade
police
during
a
night-time
chase
by
passing
a
long
line
of
cars,
running
a
stop
sign
and
finally
driving
with
his
lights
off.
"Were
you
trying
to
kill
yourself?"
Judge
Munro
asked
before
fining
the
youth
$300
for
dangerous
driving.
If
you're
not
in
Montreal
watching
the
Olympics,
you
might
consider
yourself
lucky,
A
Prince
George
man
was
talking
with
a
relative
in
Ontario
who
attended
several
Olympic
events
in
Montreal.
Three
hotels
the
man
went
to
were
charging
single
room
rate
of
$54
to
$72.
TOURIST
ALERT)
VANCOUVER
(CP)
Friday's
tourist
alert
issued
by
the
RCMP,
The
following
persons
are
requested
to
contact
the
nearest
detachment
of
the
RCMP
for
an
urgent
personal
message:
Leo
Doiron,
Cranbrook,
B.C.
Olive
Holt,
Gunlock,
Utah
Oliver
Johnson,
Vancouver
Paul
Levppky,
Calgary
Winnie
Miller,
Dallas,
Texas
Mr,
and
Mrs.
Warren
Moon,
Calgary
Robert
T.
McCurdy,
Ottawa
Ray
Puttonen,
Fort
St,
John,
B.C.
Doug
Roberts,
Saskatoon
Bernice
Vasey,
Thessalon,
Ont.
CBC
APOLOGIZES
Film
clip
'dicey7
OTTAWA
(CP)
-
The
CBC
apologized
Thursday
evening
on
national
television
for
carrying
"an
offensive"
film
clip
of
"well-endowed"
female
Olympic
athletes
Monday
night,
a
corporation
official
said.
Tim
Knight,
English
radio
and
television
news
supervisor
for
the
Ottawa
area,
said
the
apology
was
issued
during
a
news
report
on
a
demonstration
by
about
40
persons,
who
peacefully
protested
their
objections
about
the
report
earlier
Thursday
at
CBC
headquarters
here,
The
offending
film
clip,
which
also
drew
immediate
protests
from
viewers,
was
called
the
"gluteus
maximum
awards"
and
concentrated
on
showing
the
chests
of
several
female
athletes
at
the
Olympic
village.
A
CBC
reporter,
covering
the
demonstration
Thursday,
said
during
her
report
that
"not
only
was
the
Latin
phrase
wrong,
b
ut
the
subject
matter
was
a
little
dicey
too,"
Gluteus
maximus
is
a
medical
terra
for
buttocks.