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Tilt Wednesday January 1I7 Page 15 Proposed Milton hydro line part of commissions evidence Ontario Hydros Bruce to Milton transmission corridor was among proposed elect facilities under discuss Ion earlier this month before the Porter Royal Commission on Power Planning Commissioners a I hearings heard Hydro claim thai huge areas of and eastern Onl ano will hove power cuts or blackouts nine years if new lines are approved Immediately and even one existing line breaks down Hydro claims thai four ear generating plants near Kincardine may suffer mill Ion a day outages if all the electric power produce cannot be distributed through the new lines Commissioners DIXON ON DEANS LIST HALTON PEEL REGIONAL SAFETY CHAMPS A team of Georgetown high school students recently defeated a learn from May field High school to become the Peel- Halloo regional high school safety champs In a competition dealing with Industrial home and boating safety They will now fly to Thunder Bay lor competition with an tin named team from trial not finished By TAYLOR Herald stall writer Testimony is expected to conclude today In the trial of two Regional Police constables on charges of discreditable conduct and neglect of duty in connection with an alleged swcalbox Incident but it could be two weeks or more before the court hears the summations of Ihe two layers and the verdict Is handed down Defence lawyer told Chief County Court Judge William Colter last week that he expects to conclude his evidence today but that he would like to hove transcripts of the proceedings before he begins his sum ming up Preparation of the transcripts by the court reporter could take two weeks In the meantime the court has heard testimony alleging that the Iwo officers Constable Raj and Constable Arnold Von acting as escorts lor prisoners being transported from the Milton provincial courthouse to Metro West Detention Centre drove the police van the windows rolled up and in spite of temperatures in excess of degrees outside that day TOO TIGHT The prisoners also allege their handcuffs were fastened too lightly and that the trip was excessively long rough with the van con accelerating stopping abruptly In the first five days of the trial the court heard testimony from prisoners who had been in the van the doctor nurse at Metro West Detention Centre both of whom examined the prisoners after the trip officers from Metro West police officers who were at Ihe detention centre the afternoon of August 14 and mechanics and mechanical experts who testified about the van itself Professor Alexander Allan associate professor of mechanical engineering at the University Toronto testified that even If the heater were not on taking into consideration such factors as the size of the rear compartment of the van the lack of ventilation or In and the number of men Inside the van the tern would probably have been over 100 degrees that afternoon If von had been standing still and closed up conditions would be very bad Professor Allan testified With the number of men inside the conditions would have been very comfortable Even had the window between front and rear and the venl In the roof been open conditions would still have been extreme If the van was standing still and motor was running conditions would get bad very quickly because there would be very little ventilation Professor He added that the only ventilation from thevenl in thereof would come when the van was moving because fresh air would be caught In the vent due to the forward motion of the van Professor Allan estimated that with twelve men in the van their bodies would be Hiving off about British Thermal Units of heal per hour and with the ventilation system in the van only one- third of that would be taken away The- humidity in the von would also be a factor in the way in which the heat affected the prisoners because once the became too saturated for the perspiration on their bodies to evaporate the effect of the heat would become greater Professor Allan said Alexander Crombie a mechanic Johnsons Brothers Garage said that prior to August 14 the day on which the incident occurred he had done some work on the van which included shutting off the heater in the rear part of the van Following August 14 he also Installed a valve In heating system to guarantee that no heat would get through to ihe rear of the John lloekzela Holton Region fleet supervisor said lhat without the valve which had been Installed later some heat get Into the rear of the van because heated water flowed through the healing system all the time and this would contribute a certain amount of heat The prisoners testified that they kicked at the rear doors In the van while they were travelling along Highway 401 in an attempt to get some air Into the back of the van At various limes two of the prisoners tried to open the sliding window In the front of the van but one of the officers slammed shut ogam One prisoner testified that the handcuffs were pretty snug and pretty well everyone asked to have them loosened The same prisoner said that when the driver of the van applied the brakes abruptly We were just flying all over the place Dr Abe the doctor at the Metro West Detention Centre said Griff Branch the prisoner who fainted complained of pains In his chest and while Mr Branch could have fainted as the result any extreme heat he showed no propensity to WHIST PAIN Schedletiky who saw seven of the twelve prisoners In the van after incident said a number of them com plained of pains In their wrists and several complained of back pains which they at Inbuied to being thrown about in back of Ihe van during the trip Two Peel Regional Police officers who were also escorting prisoners to Metro West thai day testified that Constables Van and were both feeling the effects of the high temperatures and appeared to be sweating profusely themselves Constable Don Baker said the prisoners In the Hal ton van were yelling Ihe officers and threatening them In my opinion thats why Ihcy never went near the van Constable Barker said Constable Neils of Metro Toronto Police said that because the prisoners appeared to be so hostile the officers from Peel Hallon he and another officer from Metro stood at the back of the van while prisoners wore being taken into the centre Constable Christensen said he climbed into back of the van to help the unconscious prisoner out of the van and within three or four minutes in the back of ihe von he began Constable said he dido t think Constable Van should gel in the van was afraid for his per safety Constable said The Hal ton officers were trying to be calm collected They acted in a professional manner and thev handled a hostile situation properly j north western Ontario In Ontario Quarter Finals on Feb and from the ltd Sieve Rye Hob In team captain Ross Henderson and Troy Osborne Standing behind learn is coach Al Rye Herald photo by Bill Humphreys Georgetown Mike Dixon is one of students to make the Deans or the 1978 Tall quarter East Tennessee Slate University Students on the Dean s list have achieve at least A grades in all their subjects except one in which a grade must have been Dixon who is on on ic scholarship is the only student from the Unit ed boundaries to have made the Deans List Aside from being on the Deans List Dixon who must carry a minimum load of quarter nun during the fall quarter qualify for the acad emic award and his cross country mates arc having a very successful year heard Ihe testimony somewhat reluctantly having previously rejected similar Hydro claims which cited the urgency of the situation PRESENT DEMANDS The Commission had dec id that Hydro vastly and present dem ands for in Ontario its final report due next year may call for major changes in power production and lion Hydro was furl her criticized recently members of the Ontario legislatures Select Committee dealing with Hydro plans and expenditures of which Burlington MPP Julian Reed is a member Progressive Conservative MPP Mickey called Hydro a monster need laming when he complained about the crown corporation failure keep the committee informed of its recent decision freeze indefinitely construe lion on second half of a heavy facility for ihe Bruce generating station on Lake Huron Halting the construction had been recommended by the sel ect commit lee six months earl ier after updated statistics established Hydros past predictions of energy needs and demands were overesti mated The entire plant was to have cos K75 million and sec ond half Is approximately U per cent complete The unftn ished section will be sealed in such a way that work can be resumed if required Hydro officials told the Ont ario Municipal Board at hearings into Bruce to Milton corridor in Georgetown two weeks ago that with the of four planned generators operational Bruce as of last year serious problems arc anticipated over up of power If bottling continues Hydros Alan testified it could cost Ontario taxpayers more 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