Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - June 21, 1968, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg free press Friday june 21, 1968 boy 3, taken hostage and killed Graceville Fla. A a Dairy worker aiding a wounded policeman paid what a police chief thursday called the supreme Price for getting involved his three year old son taken hostage by a mental patient and shot to death. The patient Joseph e. My cants 29, was tracked Down in an Alabama Forest just across the nearby state line three hours after he wrestled a gun from patrolman Horace Patter son and shot the officer in the head. Police chief Clyde Pel Ham of Gradoville . Between the first shooting and his capture police my cants wrecked four motor vehicles stole another gun and robbed two persons. The dead boy Francis Lee Fortune was found by police at the Edge of the Woods where Mccants was captured. Officers Mccants carried the Chile under his and then tossed the body aside As he ducked into the Trees. Mccants was wounded and surrendered moments later. Mccants was charged late thursday with first degree Mur Der of the Fortune child two counts of armed robbery and Harold a Black optometrist 323 Donald St. 943-9038 eyes examined Contact lenses cars available to be driven to Vancouver apply Jim Rempel Dominion a drive Ltd. We 2-8441 carry and Graham ave. Free outdoor parking special Farnoly shield dining lounge and excellent Coffee shop two counts of assault to murder William g. Baxley District attorney in Houston county Ala. Virgil Fortune 33, was pass ing Mccants Home in a truck when he saw Mccants Strug gling with Patterson who had come to arrest him on a disorderly conduct warrant. Pelham he left the children in the truck telling them to Lay on the floor boards. He did All he could. He risked his life and suffered los ing a child and two others in that s the supreme Price to help a police leaving his children in the truck in care of a woman by Stander police . Fortune 1 drove Patterson to a Hospital in the squad car. Mccants took the truck. Fortune s truck was wrecked one Quarter mile away and Mccants abandoned it. The old water storage to macs new never used heavily welded capacity 250 Cal. Ship. Weight 200 lbs. Dimant ions 73" l., 16 w., 23 d. Reg. Special j. Werier a co. Ltd. 238 Princess Street 2-0831 rent a new Pontiac Parisienne Dodge or Galaxy for a Day plus Gas and mileage Black and White films developed same Day service. In at 10 ., out at 4 . 8 exp. Film Dev. 92c 12 exp. Film Dev.si.28 with free film. Your Choice of free film with 35mm Dev. Kodak trix plus a anatomic x. Lowest prices in town on free film Deal. Photo co. 321 Carlton St. Opp. Free press free parking at rear Regina up if you Are a two bottle a month Drinker you Aren t in much danger of becoming an alcoholic. But if you put away 20 bottles a month look out. That was the warning of or. Saul Cohen medical director of Saskatchewan s Bureau on alcoholism at the Canadian medical association convention wednesday. Or. Cohen who classes himself As. A two bottle a month or Light social Drinker White Collar and the wealthier members of society Are the heaviest drinkers. He figures lawyers have a slight Edge Over doctors with newspaper men not far behind. The stress of Urban life and their jobs Are chief causes of the flight to the bottle. Stresses Are becoming greater All the time., alcoholism is Here to stay and it s snowballing All the commonest kind of alcoholic has a genuine drug dependence on alcohol and is always one drink away from a drunk unless he Breaks the habit and stays forever totally but up to 10 per cent of the population have no physical or psychological dependence and become alcoholism by conforming to heavy drinking customs of their social groups. While most Public Atten Tion has been directed at Road this group totals less than five per cent of the alcoholism picture. Or. Cohen the prob Lem can be improved in two directions educating school children at the Grade 9 or 10 level and proper medical care for alcoholics. Education should be directed at illustrating the dangers of drinking without planting guilty fears about occasional drinking. Children should be told that its dangers include removal of inhibitions that can Lead to sex problems that it slows reflexes and thus impairs driving and that drinkers can become drug he most school pamphlets on drinking that he has seen Are outdated As to the information available about alcohol. In the Field of care for the alcoholic it should be provided initially in the Community general Hospital followed by counselling and to get on the Wagon and stay there. 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